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16,080,498 | 16,079,860 | 1 | 3 | 16,078,915 | train | <story><title>SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System</title><url>http://www.symbos.de/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddevault</author><text>Symbos is pretty cool but it&#x27;s a crying shame that it&#x27;s closed source. A lot of people in the z80 community don&#x27;t understand the value of open source, but will give away binaries for free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tluyben2</author><text>I have asked many times for the source from author, Podatron, but he doesn&#x27;t seem to like the idea. I use Symbos on the MSX-2 and with a disassembler under an emulator you get quite far without the sourecode, especially if you start by studying the source code to the apps on the system. Luckily the system is very small (as is the memory on these machines), so with a few weekends of tinkering you can find your way around in it.</text></comment> | <story><title>SymbOS: Graphical Z80 Multitasking Operating System</title><url>http://www.symbos.de/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddevault</author><text>Symbos is pretty cool but it&#x27;s a crying shame that it&#x27;s closed source. A lot of people in the z80 community don&#x27;t understand the value of open source, but will give away binaries for free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aidenn0</author><text>Indeed, and it makes it harder for me to port to a Kaypro II</text></comment> |
18,629,192 | 18,629,183 | 1 | 3 | 18,628,729 | train | <story><title>From macOS to Windows and WSL</title><url>https://blog.questionable.services/article/accidentally-macos-wsl-windows-development/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rbanffy</author><text>&gt; I respect those who’ve invested the time into maintaining &amp; automating a full Linux environment they can use daily<p>I can&#x27;t imagine what he means by that. All my Macs and Linux boxes (from a dozen of RPi-like ARM boxes, to laptops, to big Xeon server) and even the OpenIndiana and FreeBSD machines all work without much effort. A `yum update` here, a `pkg update` there and nothing ever breaks. It&#x27;s actually boring compared to 2004 or so, but we end up getting used to actually working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>larrik</author><text>Seriously, I spend WAY more time fussing with Windows than Linux on my dual boot machines. Windows has also destroyed the usability of their settings screens to the point that I find configuring Linux far far easier than Windows.</text></comment> | <story><title>From macOS to Windows and WSL</title><url>https://blog.questionable.services/article/accidentally-macos-wsl-windows-development/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rbanffy</author><text>&gt; I respect those who’ve invested the time into maintaining &amp; automating a full Linux environment they can use daily<p>I can&#x27;t imagine what he means by that. All my Macs and Linux boxes (from a dozen of RPi-like ARM boxes, to laptops, to big Xeon server) and even the OpenIndiana and FreeBSD machines all work without much effort. A `yum update` here, a `pkg update` there and nothing ever breaks. It&#x27;s actually boring compared to 2004 or so, but we end up getting used to actually working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danieldk</author><text>Indeed. And on my NixOS machines I can even boot into any version of the OS that I haven&#x27;t garbage collected.<p>Also, I have found it easier to make reproducible environments everywhere in Unices. Nowadays, I just check out a git repo, run <i>home-manager switch</i> and all my software and configuration is there.</text></comment> |
31,821,904 | 31,821,564 | 1 | 2 | 31,821,269 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online?</title><text>How does HN manage to be always online?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>5id</author><text>According to @dang (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28479595" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28479595</a>) via @sctb (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16076041" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16076041</a>)<p><pre><code> We’re recently running two machines (master and standby) at M5 Hosting. All of HN runs on a single box, nothing exotic:
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v4 @ 3.50GHz (3500.07-MHz K8-class CPU)
FreeBSD&#x2F;SMP: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 hardware threads
Mirrored SSDs for data, mirrored magnetic for logs (UFS)</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online?</title><text>How does HN manage to be always online?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nik736</author><text>A single bare metal server is more reliable than most people think it is. Complexity adds a lot of overhead and layer after layer that could possibly fail.</text></comment> |
13,313,925 | 13,312,660 | 1 | 2 | 13,312,219 | train | <story><title>DeepMind’s work in 2016: a round-up</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-round-up-2016/?href=</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rattray</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe this one passed under my radar:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepmind.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-centre-cooling-bill-40&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepmind.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-ce...</a><p>&gt; Our partnership with Google’s data centre team used AlphaGo-like techniques to discover creative new methods of managing cooling, leading to a remarkable 15% improvement in the buildings’ energy efficiency.<p>Which itself is an understatement of the achievement:<p>&gt; Our machine learning system was able to consistently achieve a 40 percent reduction in the amount of energy used for cooling, which equates to a 15 percent reduction in overall PUE overhead after accounting for electrical losses and other non-cooling inefficiencies. It also produced the lowest PUE the site had ever seen.<p>Basically, they built an AI that was able to tune the &quot;large industrial equipment such as pumps, chillers and cooling towers&quot; to react to the dynamic, nonlinear interactions that vary within and between datacenters (weather, utilization, etc).<p>They also describe this AI as &quot;General&quot;:<p>&gt; Because the algorithm is a general-purpose framework to understand complex dynamics, we plan to apply this to other challenges in the data centre environment and beyond in the coming months.<p>They seem to imply that this technique could make almost any industrial process more efficient with minimal oversight&#x2F;training&#x2F;customization.</text></comment> | <story><title>DeepMind’s work in 2016: a round-up</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-round-up-2016/?href=</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>conistonwater</author><text>&gt; <i>In its ability to identify and share new insights about one of the most contemplated games of all time, AlphaGo offers a promising sign of the value AI may one day provide, and we&#x27;re looking forward to playing more games in 2017.</i><p>What I find fascinating is how different AlphaGo&#x27;s impact was from the impact of early chess engines. Once chess engines became decent (not even good—before even Deep Blue), they identified tons of inaccuracies in published chess literature. These were missed tactics, hard-to-see moves, requiring only relatively shallow calculation but a computer&#x27;s precision. These inaccuracies were found even in classical annotations of well-known chess games, as well as standard books about openings. I believe John Nunn was known for this kind of work.<p>AlphaGo hasn&#x27;t achieved nearly the same impact. Have they even tried to identify the same types of inaccuracies in classical Go books? Can you imagine how absolutely cool it would be for a go engine to find errors in <i>Invincible</i>? Maybe they tried, but didn&#x27;t find any inaccuracies, so now this negative result is sitting in one of their file drawers? I really wish they were more active with this sort of thing.</text></comment> |
39,194,500 | 39,194,808 | 1 | 2 | 39,190,345 | train | <story><title>Crime rings trafficking sand</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sand-mafias-are-plundering-the-earth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>temp0826</author><text>I wonder if there is any r&amp;d around using cheaper&#x2F;abundant (finer desert sand) for construction. Or if the sand racket is preventing that (feels ridiculous to write that but all this about black market sand is new to me). Way outta my wheelhouse so I&#x27;m not even sure why it would be bad for construction in the first place.</text></item><item><author>ikesau</author><text>&gt; Luis Fernando Ramadon, a federal police specialist in Brazil who studies extractive industries, estimates that the global illegal sand trade ranges from $200 billion to $350 billion a year—more than illegal logging, gold mining and fishing combined. Buyers rarely check the provenance of sand; legal and black market sand look identical. Illegal mining rarely draws heat from law enforcement because it looks like legitimate mining—trucks, backhoes and shovels—there&#x27;s no property owner lodging complaints, and officials may be profiting. For crime syndicates, it&#x27;s easy money.<p>&gt; The environmental impacts are substantial. Dredging rivers destroys estuaries and habitats and exacerbates flooding. Scraping coastal ecosystems churns up vegetation, soil and seabeds and disrupts marine life. In some countries, illegal mining makes up a large portion of the total activity, and its environmental impacts are often worse than those of legitimate operators, Beiser says, all to build cities on the cheap.<p>this sounds like a really hard problem to fix. i see there are researchers trying to estimate mining levels by counting ships[1], but even if we&#x27;re able to get a heatmap of the problem, there&#x27;d need to be an enormous amount of cooperation between nations to certify sand provenance. damn.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eos.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;satellites-spy-on-sand-mining-in-the-mekong" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eos.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;satellites-spy-on-sand-mining-in-th...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philipkglass</author><text>Mechanically crushed rock can be used in concrete in place of river sand. There&#x27;s no danger of stripping the rivers bare of sand (or running out of materials to make concrete) in places that have a modicum of environmental laws and law enforcement. Sand theft operations plague places with weak rule of law, where there&#x27;s free money to be made by stealing from the commons even when responsible ways to make concrete are only modestly more expensive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Crime rings trafficking sand</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sand-mafias-are-plundering-the-earth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>temp0826</author><text>I wonder if there is any r&amp;d around using cheaper&#x2F;abundant (finer desert sand) for construction. Or if the sand racket is preventing that (feels ridiculous to write that but all this about black market sand is new to me). Way outta my wheelhouse so I&#x27;m not even sure why it would be bad for construction in the first place.</text></item><item><author>ikesau</author><text>&gt; Luis Fernando Ramadon, a federal police specialist in Brazil who studies extractive industries, estimates that the global illegal sand trade ranges from $200 billion to $350 billion a year—more than illegal logging, gold mining and fishing combined. Buyers rarely check the provenance of sand; legal and black market sand look identical. Illegal mining rarely draws heat from law enforcement because it looks like legitimate mining—trucks, backhoes and shovels—there&#x27;s no property owner lodging complaints, and officials may be profiting. For crime syndicates, it&#x27;s easy money.<p>&gt; The environmental impacts are substantial. Dredging rivers destroys estuaries and habitats and exacerbates flooding. Scraping coastal ecosystems churns up vegetation, soil and seabeds and disrupts marine life. In some countries, illegal mining makes up a large portion of the total activity, and its environmental impacts are often worse than those of legitimate operators, Beiser says, all to build cities on the cheap.<p>this sounds like a really hard problem to fix. i see there are researchers trying to estimate mining levels by counting ships[1], but even if we&#x27;re able to get a heatmap of the problem, there&#x27;d need to be an enormous amount of cooperation between nations to certify sand provenance. damn.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eos.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;satellites-spy-on-sand-mining-in-the-mekong" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eos.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;satellites-spy-on-sand-mining-in-th...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eszed</author><text>My understanding is that desert sand gets blown around by the wind, which (heh) sands it smooth. Smooth sand doesn&#x27;t grip the concrete (I think), so it&#x27;s not amenable for building.<p>When I first read that my question was whether a different concrete formula or amalgam could work with smooth(er) sand, or if that&#x27;s a hard limit that cannot be overcome. Does anyone know?</text></comment> |
14,967,822 | 14,967,839 | 1 | 2 | 14,966,545 | train | <story><title>Git: Using Advanced Rebase Features for a Clean Repository</title><url>https://mtyurt.net/2017/08/08/git-using-advanced-rebase-features-for-a-clean-repository/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekidd</author><text>Editing git history makes sense in several cases:<p>1. Projects like the Linux kernel which use frequently use &#x27;git bisect&#x27; to perform a binary search on the history of project (to find when a bug was introduced), or where the patch series tell a story to code reviewers.<p>2. Open source projects, where some contributors have terrible git habits that the maintainers don&#x27;t want to merge.<p>Editing git history makes <i>less</i> sense in other circumstances:<p>1. When dealing with less sophisticated git users who don&#x27;t understand git&#x27;s data model. About 90% of git nightmares begin when a novice git user tries to rebase something.<p>2. When it adds a whole layer of unnecessary process for zero payoff. If your developers all work in short-lived branches with clean histories, then just go ahead and merge normally without forcing everybody to jump through a bunch of hoops to beautify a history that nobody ever looks at anyway. Git was designed to handle branches.<p>I always twitch a bit when I see a 10-page blog post describing a &quot;git workflow&quot;, with all sorts of complicated branching rules and heavy use of rebasing. That can make sense in certain specialized situations, but it shouldn&#x27;t be considered a &quot;best practice&quot; that everybody needs to emulate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burntsushi</author><text>&gt; I always twitch a bit when I see a 10-page blog post describing a &quot;git workflow&quot;, with all sorts of complicated branching rules and heavy use of rebasing. That can make sense in certain specialized situations, but it shouldn&#x27;t be considered a &quot;best practice&quot; that everybody needs to emulate.<p>I tend to justify this based on a simple observation: writing clean code that is easy for others to understand is <i>also</i> hard. If you could write a document that teaches others how to write clean code, what would it contain? How long would it be? How complex would it be? I&#x27;m betting you&#x27;ve built up a repertoire of wisdom on writing easy to read code, and I&#x27;m betting that document would be quite long, especially if you furnished it with examples.<p>I think it&#x27;s the same for commit history. If you&#x27;re rebasing, then you&#x27;re probably trying to shoot for a clean history that other humans can understand. Maintaining a clean history can be just as hard (and just as rewarding) as maintaining clean code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Git: Using Advanced Rebase Features for a Clean Repository</title><url>https://mtyurt.net/2017/08/08/git-using-advanced-rebase-features-for-a-clean-repository/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekidd</author><text>Editing git history makes sense in several cases:<p>1. Projects like the Linux kernel which use frequently use &#x27;git bisect&#x27; to perform a binary search on the history of project (to find when a bug was introduced), or where the patch series tell a story to code reviewers.<p>2. Open source projects, where some contributors have terrible git habits that the maintainers don&#x27;t want to merge.<p>Editing git history makes <i>less</i> sense in other circumstances:<p>1. When dealing with less sophisticated git users who don&#x27;t understand git&#x27;s data model. About 90% of git nightmares begin when a novice git user tries to rebase something.<p>2. When it adds a whole layer of unnecessary process for zero payoff. If your developers all work in short-lived branches with clean histories, then just go ahead and merge normally without forcing everybody to jump through a bunch of hoops to beautify a history that nobody ever looks at anyway. Git was designed to handle branches.<p>I always twitch a bit when I see a 10-page blog post describing a &quot;git workflow&quot;, with all sorts of complicated branching rules and heavy use of rebasing. That can make sense in certain specialized situations, but it shouldn&#x27;t be considered a &quot;best practice&quot; that everybody needs to emulate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kobeya</author><text>&gt; 1. Projects like the Linux kernel which use frequently use &#x27;git bisect&#x27; to perform a binary search on the history of project (to find when a bug was introduced), or where the patch series tell a story to code reviewers.<p>This seems like an instance of adapting development practices to bad tooling, whereas we could be fixing the tool itself. Shouldn&#x27;t there simply be a &quot;tree aware&quot; git-bisect that can intelligently handle branches and merges? That would resolve this sticking point.<p>&gt; 2. Open source projects, where some contributors have terrible git habits that the maintainers don&#x27;t want to merge.<p>Then tell them to go away and come back with a cleaned up PR.</text></comment> |
8,802,184 | 8,802,188 | 1 | 2 | 8,801,997 | train | <story><title>Woo: Fast HTTP Server in Common Lisp</title><url>https://github.com/fukamachi/woo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dschiptsov</author><text>What is interesting here is to compare this one man&#x27;s effort with &quot;ancient tools&quot; well-researched by two generations of old-school programmers with that amateurish hype and nonsense about node (author publicly stated in his blog that he has no experience with server side development on a POSIX system) and golang - a minimalist approach, carefully crafted by a rigorously trained &quot;professionals&quot;. It is not just about KBs and milliseconds.<p>Btw, this &quot;Hello world&quot; example tells a little, basically, how efficiently memory allocation, and IO layer are implemented (that&#x27;s why no one still could beat nginx).<p>Much more interesting comparison would be of some &quot;real-world scenario&quot;, say, &quot;implement an http look up for some public data-set, imported into a <i>persistent</i> local storage, say, Postgresql&quot; and then compare not just throughput rates, but also resource usage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Woo: Fast HTTP Server in Common Lisp</title><url>https://github.com/fukamachi/woo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kjksf</author><text>It&#x27;s not really written in Common Lisp.<p>&quot;built on top of libev&quot;<p>The lisp part is a thin ffi wrapper on top of lots of C code.<p>Not than an ffi wrapper around C code isn&#x27;t useful, but it&#x27;s C code that does all the heavy lifting there.</text></comment> |
22,202,854 | 22,202,838 | 1 | 2 | 22,201,337 | train | <story><title>My Second Year as a Solo Developer</title><url>https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs02rm0</author><text><i>You could probably talk to business owners with problems, launch an (appropriately priced; hundreds to thousands of dollars per year) product against those problems, build contingent on getting 10 commits to buy</i><p>I don&#x27;t doubt that you&#x27;re absolutely right, but this bit strikes me as <i>hard</i>. I&#x27;ve struggled to find one business owner with a problem they perceive, let alone 10 with commitments to buying a solution for the same problem.<p>Ironically, it strikes me that there&#x27;s a gap here for a business to solve; connecting entrepreneurial devs with business owners aware of problems.</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>Two cents offered because this post really strikes a chord with me, and I also spent some time chasing down rabbit holes early in my software business:<p>These products do not appear obviously commercializable and multiple years invested into them without materially improving the businesses does not decrease my confidence in that snap judgment. You could probably talk to business owners with problems, launch an (appropriately priced; hundreds to thousands of dollars per year) product against those problems, build contingent on getting 10 commits to buy, and be at +&#x2F;- $100k in 12 to 18 months. Many people with less technical and writing ability have done this in e.g. the MicroConf community. If you want the best paint-by-numbers approach to it I&#x27;ve seen, c.f. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw&amp;t=2s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw&amp;t=2s</a><p>(I&#x27;ll note that What Got Done is probably a viable boutique SaaS business if you somehow figured out distribution for it, at price points between $50 and $200 per month. My confidence on this approaches total. HNers skeptical because it is technically trivial should probably reflect for a moment on how much time is spent on standups at a company with 20 or 200 engineers, what one hour of their time is worth, and how likely that company is to put an engineer on this project specifically.)<p>If you run an API-based business in the future: Usage-based billing is a really tricky business model for a solo developer. Note that you can say &quot;Usage-based billing but we have a minimum commitment&quot;, and probably should prior to doing speculative integration engineering work. Your minimum commitment should be north of $1,000 per month; practically nobody can integrate with your API for cheaper than a thousand dollars of engineering time, right.<p>This also counsels aiming at problems amenable to solutions with APIs which are trivially worth $1,000++ a month to many businesses which can hire engineers. Parsing recipe ingredients seems like a very constrained problem space. Consider e.g. parsing W-2s or bank statements or similar; many more businesses naturally care about intake of those documents, getting accurate data from them, and introducing that data into a lucrative business process that they have.<p>I would encourage you, to the maximum extent compatible with your sanity, to prioritize &quot;Will this get me more customers?&quot; over behind-the-scenes investments like CI&#x2F;CD which are very appropriate to Google but will under no circumstance show up in next year&#x27;s report as One Of The Most Important Things I Did This Year.<p>For similar reasons, I would suggest devoting approximately zero cycles to cost control. You don&#x27;t have a cost problem and no amount of cost control will bend the curve of your current businesses to sustainability. You have a revenue problem. Your desired state in the medium term will make it economically irrational for you to think for more than a minute about a $50 a month SaaS expense; marketing and sales gets you to that desired state, not cost control.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>Is the problem that you can’t identify owners, that you can’t successfully get in touch with business owners, that you can’t convince them to talk to you, that you can’t get signal from those conversations, or that you are accurately getting the signal “Actually literally nothing could be better about my life.”<p>Draw the funnel diagram, with numbers if necessary. Having talked to many devs who believe similar, I think the most actionable advice is likely “Organize your next N weeks to talk to many, many more business owners than your last N weeks.”</text></comment> | <story><title>My Second Year as a Solo Developer</title><url>https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs02rm0</author><text><i>You could probably talk to business owners with problems, launch an (appropriately priced; hundreds to thousands of dollars per year) product against those problems, build contingent on getting 10 commits to buy</i><p>I don&#x27;t doubt that you&#x27;re absolutely right, but this bit strikes me as <i>hard</i>. I&#x27;ve struggled to find one business owner with a problem they perceive, let alone 10 with commitments to buying a solution for the same problem.<p>Ironically, it strikes me that there&#x27;s a gap here for a business to solve; connecting entrepreneurial devs with business owners aware of problems.</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>Two cents offered because this post really strikes a chord with me, and I also spent some time chasing down rabbit holes early in my software business:<p>These products do not appear obviously commercializable and multiple years invested into them without materially improving the businesses does not decrease my confidence in that snap judgment. You could probably talk to business owners with problems, launch an (appropriately priced; hundreds to thousands of dollars per year) product against those problems, build contingent on getting 10 commits to buy, and be at +&#x2F;- $100k in 12 to 18 months. Many people with less technical and writing ability have done this in e.g. the MicroConf community. If you want the best paint-by-numbers approach to it I&#x27;ve seen, c.f. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw&amp;t=2s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw&amp;t=2s</a><p>(I&#x27;ll note that What Got Done is probably a viable boutique SaaS business if you somehow figured out distribution for it, at price points between $50 and $200 per month. My confidence on this approaches total. HNers skeptical because it is technically trivial should probably reflect for a moment on how much time is spent on standups at a company with 20 or 200 engineers, what one hour of their time is worth, and how likely that company is to put an engineer on this project specifically.)<p>If you run an API-based business in the future: Usage-based billing is a really tricky business model for a solo developer. Note that you can say &quot;Usage-based billing but we have a minimum commitment&quot;, and probably should prior to doing speculative integration engineering work. Your minimum commitment should be north of $1,000 per month; practically nobody can integrate with your API for cheaper than a thousand dollars of engineering time, right.<p>This also counsels aiming at problems amenable to solutions with APIs which are trivially worth $1,000++ a month to many businesses which can hire engineers. Parsing recipe ingredients seems like a very constrained problem space. Consider e.g. parsing W-2s or bank statements or similar; many more businesses naturally care about intake of those documents, getting accurate data from them, and introducing that data into a lucrative business process that they have.<p>I would encourage you, to the maximum extent compatible with your sanity, to prioritize &quot;Will this get me more customers?&quot; over behind-the-scenes investments like CI&#x2F;CD which are very appropriate to Google but will under no circumstance show up in next year&#x27;s report as One Of The Most Important Things I Did This Year.<p>For similar reasons, I would suggest devoting approximately zero cycles to cost control. You don&#x27;t have a cost problem and no amount of cost control will bend the curve of your current businesses to sustainability. You have a revenue problem. Your desired state in the medium term will make it economically irrational for you to think for more than a minute about a $50 a month SaaS expense; marketing and sales gets you to that desired state, not cost control.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agwa</author><text>Michael published an interesting post about his attempt to talk with owners of sheet metal shops: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mtlynch.io&#x2F;retrospectives&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;#sheet-metal-research" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mtlynch.io&#x2F;retrospectives&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;#sheet-metal-resea...</a></text></comment> |
33,585,010 | 33,585,063 | 1 | 3 | 33,584,407 | train | <story><title>Sam Bankman-Fried vs. the Match King</title><url>https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2022/11/sam-bankman-fried-vs-the-match-king/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cymrukicks</author><text>People will keep focusing on the individual here but surely they should be questioning the system? In particular the VC&#x27;s as most of this was actually institutional money.
How on earth did he get £16Billion? Well turns out he went to Stanford same class as Theranos and his Girlfriend whom he made head of the trading arm also went there. She&#x27;s the daughter of an MIT Econ Professor. It&#x27;s quite clear FTX only got started because of political connections and back door deals. Sadly this won&#x27;t be the wake up call that we need to bring back some sort of meritocracy to American society.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ldjkfkdsjnv</author><text>A lot of very wealthy people put money into the FTX financing. If there wasn&#x27;t a major downturn, probably FTX never would have gone under. Us plebeians get a rare view into how business success commonly happens (a network of people force it to happen). Its similar to the epstein scandal, a rare view into another world far removed from the common worker.<p>Meritocracy isn&#x27;t a full on illusion, but we also don&#x27;t have enough data and transparency into modern power structures.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sam Bankman-Fried vs. the Match King</title><url>https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2022/11/sam-bankman-fried-vs-the-match-king/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cymrukicks</author><text>People will keep focusing on the individual here but surely they should be questioning the system? In particular the VC&#x27;s as most of this was actually institutional money.
How on earth did he get £16Billion? Well turns out he went to Stanford same class as Theranos and his Girlfriend whom he made head of the trading arm also went there. She&#x27;s the daughter of an MIT Econ Professor. It&#x27;s quite clear FTX only got started because of political connections and back door deals. Sadly this won&#x27;t be the wake up call that we need to bring back some sort of meritocracy to American society.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akudha</author><text>In a financial services firm I worked for, I had to help this intern (maybe 19, 20 years old). She was well dressed, well spoken etc, but didn&#x27;t seem too keen on doing any <i>actual</i> work.<p>Later I found out that she was the kid of a VP who also worked there. Must be nice to have well-connected parents</text></comment> |
19,107,206 | 19,107,009 | 1 | 2 | 19,106,658 | train | <story><title>Crunching 200 years of stock, bond, currency and commodity data</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-07/eternal-market-patience-offers-eternal-rewards</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soared</author><text>&gt; the market is not as efficient as it is supposed to be<p>I have a recent business degree, but not finance or econ. In school we were strictly taught the market is efficient and I fully believed that. But I&#x27;ve seen online and discussed in person a (seemingly) growing idea that markets are not in fact efficient at all.<p>Are there any economists&#x2F;finance people that can shed light on this? Are these new ideas gaining traction, or old ideas just sticking around?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prewett</author><text>Check out the book &quot;How Markets Fail&quot; for a discussion on how the efficient market hypothesis gained popularity (part 1) and a discussion of the many ways that real markets do not maintain the preconditions for markets to be efficient.<p>In particular, the precondition that Adam Smith stated was that increasing production required linearly increased costs. However, this is frequently not the case (utilities, railroads, software, social media networks, etc.). Also, markets require a certain minimum number of producers (and consumers) in order to remain efficient. Consolidation can reduce the number of producers below the level that meets the precondition of efficiency, and then barriers to entry to prevent newcomers from joining the market.<p>As far as efficient market theory applied to the stock market, I&#x27;ve always thought that efficient market theory was trivially disprovable: did all companies in the US lose 20% of their value all at the same time this past Nov - Dec, in the same season that they are selling all their inventory during the holiday season? And then regain 10% of it all at the same time the next month? Did Apple lose 50% of its value from between July and December, despite the fact that its revenues, costs, dividends, assets, people-capital, know-how, brand, consumer sentiment, etc. remained roughly the same? Compare to, say, PG&amp;E during the same period.</text></comment> | <story><title>Crunching 200 years of stock, bond, currency and commodity data</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-07/eternal-market-patience-offers-eternal-rewards</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soared</author><text>&gt; the market is not as efficient as it is supposed to be<p>I have a recent business degree, but not finance or econ. In school we were strictly taught the market is efficient and I fully believed that. But I&#x27;ve seen online and discussed in person a (seemingly) growing idea that markets are not in fact efficient at all.<p>Are there any economists&#x2F;finance people that can shed light on this? Are these new ideas gaining traction, or old ideas just sticking around?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chollida1</author><text>I think there are a few good responses to the question of &quot;are markets efficient?&quot;.<p>1) Markets are efficient enough in that you generally don&#x27;t see any real big arbitrage opportunities. Small ones will always be present, and as is often pointed out its not worth the big players time to search them out and capitalize.<p>A trader also sees this as evidenced by the fact that we are using more and more data and ever increasingly complicated math to eek out smaller and smaller chunks of alpha.<p>2) different people have different ideas as to what the correct price actually is.<p>Consider a company that is continually losing money.<p>- Fundamental analysts will value this as a poor company due to its future cash flows dwindling. They may consider this a short opportunity<p>- Merger Arb folks may bid up this up as a potential merger target thus raising the price.<p>- ETF&#x27;s tracking an index just don&#x27;t care, they&#x27;ll buy the company in proportion to its index weight.<p>- Stat arb folks will be agnostic to price and only compare it to a peer that they feel it will trade in relation ship with, these people will be both long and short this company at different times, often unrelated to what its price currently is.<p>3) Physics often uses the simplifying assumption of no friction to make things easier. The efficient market hypothesis works under the assumption that everyone knows about news immediately and has time to react. Some investors react in micro seconds, some in weeks. Both affect the price</text></comment> |
13,329,252 | 13,328,995 | 1 | 2 | 13,328,549 | train | <story><title>Venture capital is going to murder Medium</title><url>https://m.signalvnoise.com/venture-capital-is-going-to-murder-medium-656cbccf4829#.tkfbmwfm4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>payne92</author><text>This, unfortunately, is the entrepreneurial version of the &quot;second system syndrome&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Second-system_effect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Second-system_effect</a><p>The pattern: an entrepreneur achieves some level of fame&#x2F;fortune.<p>Then, they overcapitalize their next company (to various degrees) from high-expectation investors. Next, they are reminded how fricking HARD startups are, and how much LUCK was really involved in their first success.<p>Some compound the pain by presuming the second will go like the first, and they run things fat and expensive from the start: high headcount, expensive office, high salaries, over the top perks, etc. And then when reality hits, the &quot;corporate lifestyle downgrade&quot; is especially painful.<p>(I&#x27;m speaking from hard-learned personal experience, and I see this pattern over and over...)</text></comment> | <story><title>Venture capital is going to murder Medium</title><url>https://m.signalvnoise.com/venture-capital-is-going-to-murder-medium-656cbccf4829#.tkfbmwfm4</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dexwiz</author><text>How long before SV reinvents the paid magazine subscription? Advertising seems to have an adverse effect on content quality, mostly because it puts focus on the wrong metrics. An alternative is needed.<p>Medium is in a perfect position to introduce a subscription service. They have a community of both publisher and consumers, a leading platform, and the backing of VC. Turn Medium into a Patreon for writers. This does not mean a paywall. This means things like locking comments to subscribers only, direct tips to authors, chat sessions with authors.<p>Twitch managed to take a primarily ad based platform and layer subscriptions and donations over the top of it. Their stroke of genius, is that any subscription locked content is left up the creator (streamer) such as emotes, sub-only chat, sub games, etc. It is possible. It also helped that Twitch Prime piggy backs on Amazon Prime, but Medium may be able to find another similar service to partner with.<p>Also all things are cyclic. We are seeing a low point for paid subscriptions (newspapers), but that doesn&#x27;t mean it won&#x27;t come back in another form. Enhancing the social experience, not the content, via subscriptions may be a viable path.</text></comment> |
9,159,976 | 9,159,886 | 1 | 2 | 9,159,804 | train | <story><title>Elsevier sold me a Creative Commons non-commercial licensed article</title><url>http://rossmounce.co.uk/2015/03/06/elsevier-illegally-sold-me-a-creative-commons-non-commercial-licensed-article/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mdbco</author><text>It looks like the corresponding author of this article (Didier Raoult) is also the Editor-in-Chief of the the journal (Clinical Microbiology and Infection), so it seems entirely possible that he might have relicensed the article to Elsevier when the journal moved over there from Wiley. This would be permitted, since Creative Commons does allow for dual licensing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elsevier sold me a Creative Commons non-commercial licensed article</title><url>http://rossmounce.co.uk/2015/03/06/elsevier-illegally-sold-me-a-creative-commons-non-commercial-licensed-article/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>legulere</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t need to be illegal. Creative Commons doesn&#x27;t forbid dual licensing (content also being offered under another licence)</text></comment> |
39,527,284 | 39,527,227 | 1 | 2 | 39,526,797 | train | <story><title>The /unblock API from Browserless: dodging bot detection as a service</title><url>https://www.browserless.io/blog/2024/02/26/unblock-api/?apcid=00620de59ffc742367908900&utm_campaign=unblock-api-announcement&utm_content=unblock-api-announcement&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ortto</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mmcclure</author><text>I can&#x27;t help but feel a little conflicted about things like this in the current climate. On one hand, as a developer trying to just get some updated stuff into a spreadsheet, this looks extremely useful.<p>On the other hand, there are a lot of people right now that want to keep stuff accessible to humans and not have it scraped for models. I know the lid&#x27;s completely off the box on that front so it&#x27;s probably useless to fight it, but seeing <i>products</i> explicitly designed to circumvent bot prevention feels kinda bad.</text></comment> | <story><title>The /unblock API from Browserless: dodging bot detection as a service</title><url>https://www.browserless.io/blog/2024/02/26/unblock-api/?apcid=00620de59ffc742367908900&utm_campaign=unblock-api-announcement&utm_content=unblock-api-announcement&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ortto</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adsthrowaway99</author><text>For a while I worked in ads, and the specific team I was in put us in a position of being on both sides of this. We were tasked with monitoring advertisements for fraud, which meant we both had to catch bot traffic, but also we had to check ads for scams&#x2F;phishing&#x2F;etc. So on the one hand we were trying to plug holes in our own bot detection for botnets trying to drive up impression numbers to get website operators paid more, but on the other hand we were trying to bypass bot detecting on the part of phishing page authors (who would do things like display a totally plausible e-commerce page if they think the ad viewer is a bot, but a bank of america phishing page if they think it&#x27;s a real user).</text></comment> |
21,882,017 | 21,881,431 | 1 | 2 | 21,879,882 | train | <story><title>Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $1.5M</title><url>https://www.wpri.com/news/call-12-for-action/counterfeits-on-amazon-cost-warren-bird-feeder-business-1-5m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ecommerceguy</author><text>&gt;&gt;In a statement on its website, Amazon also said its employees “work hard every day to help ensure all products offered in our store are safe and authentic.”<p>Bullshit. The front line employees that receive inbound product don&#x27;t enforce any policy and actually Amazon encourages to deal with disputes only after a product is sold, shipped and a customer complains. That&#x27;s the Bezos way. Fact. Let&#x27;s discuss grocery products in glass containers real quick if anyone wants to argue...<p>I admit, we&#x27;d sell counterfeit products if I didn&#x27;t have morals. We push all the AMZ limits we can. I could write a book on this subject.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>privateSFacct</author><text>This also makes me laugh out loud.<p>If Amazon gave two craps about some of this stuff it would be cut WAY back.<p>For a few years at least every Apple branded product on amazon I bought was 100% fake - lazy fakes too. I ended up having to buy from Apple directly to get something legit. You are telling me brands haven&#x27;t complained about this? I find that totally hard to believe.<p>The crap amazon sells is going to bring them down.<p>I&#x27;ve got used stuff sold as new (complete with debries from previous owner).<p>If they cared they would.<p>Have sellers post $1,000 bond to sell, scaled up based on sales volume.<p>Enforce clear fraud issues with account bans and forfeit the deposit (ie, the whole changed 5 star listing selling a totally different product).<p>Segregate inventory by seller, and enforce consequences on seller for product quality issues.<p>Have a QC team sample 1 in 10,000 or 1 in 100,000 items and 1 item per seller each year. If it claims USB 3- test to spec, claims waterproof test to spec, claims safe for kids - test for lead. Whoever does this will win in long run. Who wants lead in the product they give to their kids.<p>This reputation issue could bleed into AWS. Why trust a company that CANNOT get control over its marketplace. The fakes are horrible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $1.5M</title><url>https://www.wpri.com/news/call-12-for-action/counterfeits-on-amazon-cost-warren-bird-feeder-business-1-5m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ecommerceguy</author><text>&gt;&gt;In a statement on its website, Amazon also said its employees “work hard every day to help ensure all products offered in our store are safe and authentic.”<p>Bullshit. The front line employees that receive inbound product don&#x27;t enforce any policy and actually Amazon encourages to deal with disputes only after a product is sold, shipped and a customer complains. That&#x27;s the Bezos way. Fact. Let&#x27;s discuss grocery products in glass containers real quick if anyone wants to argue...<p>I admit, we&#x27;d sell counterfeit products if I didn&#x27;t have morals. We push all the AMZ limits we can. I could write a book on this subject.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ng12</author><text>I bought a product on Amazon this Christmas that was completely fake. It was &quot;sold by Amazon&quot; but didn&#x27;t even have the same label as the brand I had ordered. I complained to Amazon and they just gave me a refund without requiring that I return the product (I ended up just throwing it out).<p>I suspect that they knew the inventory was tainted but figured the cost of dealing with noisy customers like me is less than the amount of money they make selling a cheaply made ripoff of a $15 product.</text></comment> |
10,895,423 | 10,894,910 | 1 | 2 | 10,885,635 | train | <story><title>Why Would Anyone Use Perl 6?</title><url>http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/01/why-in-the-world-would-anyone-use-perl-6.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>muraiki</author><text>I think I&#x27;m just surprised and saddened that HN heaps so much hatred on P6. I mean, we&#x27;re a community of hackers: do we really need to ask &quot;why another programming language&quot;?<p>The hatred P6 receives here reminds me a lot of the hatred Go used to receive, where every article posted devolved into a discussion regarding the lack of generics. I bought into the &quot;Go is a regression&quot; meme for a long time until I started using it to solve real problems at work, and now I love it.<p>I hope that we programmers can learn to rejoice in each other&#x27;s creations rather than to heap scorn and criticism on anything not from our particular tribe. It reminds me of people who insist that you can only like a single video game console... heaven forbid you use more than one, or one with inferior graphics (but with more fun games!), etc.</text></item><item><author>MichaelBurge</author><text>Perl tends to be a practical language: Perl programmers are too busy working on their product to rebuke scathing criticisms from angry bloggers and the peanut gallery. But that angry blogger? He&#x27;ll get a mob together and start protesting outside your house if he catches you using the wrong Javascript library.<p>I say don&#x27;t worry about the criticism and popular opinion: The specific language you use is pretty far down the list of problems that a given software might have. You&#x27;ll build up some useful libraries in your niche and eventually other people will see that the most time-effective way to solve a problem in that niche is to use Perl 6 to get access your libraries.<p>Every other language I use derives from its specific purpose: Ruby because vendors like PayPal or AWS publish Ruby gems(and because of Rails); Haskell for writing parsers, interpreters, and compilers(ADTs and parsing monads); C if I&#x27;m trying to understand some code and need it to be portable or operationally simple; Perl 5 if it&#x27;s a quick prototype script. Just the other week I needed a Bayesian variant of Prolog and would&#x27;ve used Perl 6 if it had a library for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Frondo</author><text>Here&#x27;s my take on it:<p>Hackers or not, we&#x27;re all still human, and experience emotions like frustration and disappointment. Back when perl6 was first being discussed (what was it, 15 years ago now?), probably a lot of us were getting a ton of mileage out of the remarkable perl5 ecosystem.<p>When perl6 started getting promoted, it seemed like it took a lot of the wind out of the perl5 sails, like an Osborne effect for a programming language.<p>When the years ticked by and nothing came of it, and lots of moved onto other languages, I imagine a lot of people still remembered being disappointed at how the perl5-&gt;6 situation played out.<p>Probably some of the negativity is just remnants of that, because, like I said, we&#x27;re all still human.<p>And schadenfreude, I&#x27;m sure, plays into it, like when the overhyped disappointments Daikatana and Duke Nukem Forever were released...<p>Anyway, just one man&#x27;s opinion, of course...</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Would Anyone Use Perl 6?</title><url>http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/01/why-in-the-world-would-anyone-use-perl-6.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>muraiki</author><text>I think I&#x27;m just surprised and saddened that HN heaps so much hatred on P6. I mean, we&#x27;re a community of hackers: do we really need to ask &quot;why another programming language&quot;?<p>The hatred P6 receives here reminds me a lot of the hatred Go used to receive, where every article posted devolved into a discussion regarding the lack of generics. I bought into the &quot;Go is a regression&quot; meme for a long time until I started using it to solve real problems at work, and now I love it.<p>I hope that we programmers can learn to rejoice in each other&#x27;s creations rather than to heap scorn and criticism on anything not from our particular tribe. It reminds me of people who insist that you can only like a single video game console... heaven forbid you use more than one, or one with inferior graphics (but with more fun games!), etc.</text></item><item><author>MichaelBurge</author><text>Perl tends to be a practical language: Perl programmers are too busy working on their product to rebuke scathing criticisms from angry bloggers and the peanut gallery. But that angry blogger? He&#x27;ll get a mob together and start protesting outside your house if he catches you using the wrong Javascript library.<p>I say don&#x27;t worry about the criticism and popular opinion: The specific language you use is pretty far down the list of problems that a given software might have. You&#x27;ll build up some useful libraries in your niche and eventually other people will see that the most time-effective way to solve a problem in that niche is to use Perl 6 to get access your libraries.<p>Every other language I use derives from its specific purpose: Ruby because vendors like PayPal or AWS publish Ruby gems(and because of Rails); Haskell for writing parsers, interpreters, and compilers(ADTs and parsing monads); C if I&#x27;m trying to understand some code and need it to be portable or operationally simple; Perl 5 if it&#x27;s a quick prototype script. Just the other week I needed a Bayesian variant of Prolog and would&#x27;ve used Perl 6 if it had a library for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhaak</author><text>I don&#x27;t see hatred in this discussion. I see lots of puzzlement and confusion though. This might be because the article doesn&#x27;t really accomplish what the title promises as the features and examples given don&#x27;t feel compelling to most of the people in this discussion.<p>I don&#x27;t know if Perl programmers have been separated from the other scripting languages too much as not to understand that there are different mindsets out there.<p>Perl has always been quite a confusing language if you only skimmed it (lots of incoherent features and more than one way to do it), so I find it natural that Perl6 isn&#x27;t any better.<p>But if you don&#x27;t explain the confusing features of a language well enough, puzzlement and confusion is what you get.</text></comment> |
17,540,111 | 17,539,024 | 1 | 2 | 17,538,390 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypted SNI</title><url>https://twitter.com/grittygrease/status/1018566026320019457</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exikyut</author><text>Related&#x2F;relevant question.<p>A number of months ago I decided to finally begin researching a project I&#x27;ve had on the backburner for ages: a simple domain+IP bandwidth throughput counter for everything within my LAN. Basically I wanted to make a dashboard saying &quot;you exchanged this much data with this many IPs within the last 24h; here&#x27;s the per-IP and per-domain breakdown; here are the domains each IP served&quot;, that sort of thing.<p>Part of the motivation for this was to track down the headscratch-generating mysterious small amount of &quot;unmetered data&quot; my ISP reports each month (I don&#x27;t watch TV over the internet and cannot think of what else would be it), and the other part of the motivation was to satisfy idle curiosity and observe domain&lt;-&gt;IP cohesion&#x2F;fragmentation over time.<p>At the exact point I began my research TLS 1.3 had just been approved, and I rapidly realized my nice little idea was going to get majorly stomped on: the inspiration for the project, years ago, was the SNI field itself (hah).<p>5-10 years ago, I would have been able to route all my traffic through a gateway box, and passively watch&#x2F;trace (slightly behind realtime) everything via tcpdump or similar, catching DNS lookups and sniffing SNI fields. That would have handled everything.<p>Now, with encrypted SNI, and the upcoming DNS-over-HTTPS (seems I need to think ahead :&#x2F;), it looks like my (now irritatingly stupid-seeming) project will require me to generate a local cert, install it on all my devices, and get a machine beefy enough to keep line-rate speed while doing MITM cert-resigning.<p>And then, for the fraction of traffic my system reports as &quot;not signed by local cert&quot;, I&#x27;m just going to have to let that go, or I&#x27;ll break everything that uses cert pinning.<p>...which I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if some programs eventually use with DoH lookups (using pinned certs fished out of DNSSEC for DoH makes sense).<p>I&#x27;m very very interested to know if there are any alternatives I can use. I realize, for now, that I can sniff for and collect DNS lookup results and associate these with IPs, but when will this break?(!)<p>Honestly HTTPS and security in general just seems like a gigantic mess. I say this not as a disrespect of the architecture, but more as a &quot;wow, this is just so hard to get right&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypted SNI</title><url>https://twitter.com/grittygrease/status/1018566026320019457</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tscs37</author><text>This is amazing work, can&#x27;t wait for this to be finished and deployed on the internet. Together with encrypted DNS (DoT and DoH) we finally get fully confidential connections to a server without leaking anything other than Remote IP.</text></comment> |
6,645,565 | 6,644,064 | 1 | 2 | 6,641,431 | train | <story><title>Startup Idea: Solve Personal Analytics</title><url>http://blog.kirigin.com/personal-analytics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KrisJordan</author><text>I&#x27;m building a mobile app, called DidSum, that focuses on your #2 &quot;Avoid Data Entry, but Make it Easy&quot; (and putting an API around the data). It&#x27;s almost ready for broader use.<p>I use DidSum to track running, blogging, eating healthy, sex, coffee consumption, and more.<p>DidSum allows you to define the actions you want to improve at. You can track publicly with friends and family and encourage&#x2F;compare&#x2F;compete with each other. You can also track privately (some actions I only track with my wife). It has basic analytics, which will get more powerful with time.<p>We&#x27;re in a closed beta right now, if you&#x27;re interested in helping test I&#x27;d love anyone interested in this thread&#x27;s feedback: <a href="http://didsum.com/auth/register.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;didsum.com&#x2F;auth&#x2F;register.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sundeep</author><text>I&#x27;ll give it a go ... always been interested in personal analytics.</text></comment> | <story><title>Startup Idea: Solve Personal Analytics</title><url>http://blog.kirigin.com/personal-analytics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KrisJordan</author><text>I&#x27;m building a mobile app, called DidSum, that focuses on your #2 &quot;Avoid Data Entry, but Make it Easy&quot; (and putting an API around the data). It&#x27;s almost ready for broader use.<p>I use DidSum to track running, blogging, eating healthy, sex, coffee consumption, and more.<p>DidSum allows you to define the actions you want to improve at. You can track publicly with friends and family and encourage&#x2F;compare&#x2F;compete with each other. You can also track privately (some actions I only track with my wife). It has basic analytics, which will get more powerful with time.<p>We&#x27;re in a closed beta right now, if you&#x27;re interested in helping test I&#x27;d love anyone interested in this thread&#x27;s feedback: <a href="http://didsum.com/auth/register.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;didsum.com&#x2F;auth&#x2F;register.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TannerLD</author><text>Signed up for the invite list: tannerlawndart[at]gmail[dot]com</text></comment> |
29,458,390 | 29,458,383 | 1 | 2 | 29,457,579 | train | <story><title>Zig Performance Tracking Dashboard</title><url>https://ziglang.org/perf/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackhalford</author><text>This is great, visibility makes the zig developers accountable and gives a clear incentive not to regress.
Does anyone know of similar projects from other languages?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>I know of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;perf.rust-lang.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;perf.rust-lang.org</a><p>It&#x27;s integrated with the bors bot, so pull requests can be measured and prevented from merging if they regress. Additionally, this data is manually analyzed, and gets weekly reports like this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rustc-perf&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;triage&#x2F;2021-11-30.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rustc-perf&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;triage&#x2F;2...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Zig Performance Tracking Dashboard</title><url>https://ziglang.org/perf/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackhalford</author><text>This is great, visibility makes the zig developers accountable and gives a clear incentive not to regress.
Does anyone know of similar projects from other languages?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pazzaz</author><text>Rust has <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;perf.rust-lang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;perf.rust-lang.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
7,101,230 | 7,101,132 | 1 | 2 | 7,100,843 | train | <story><title>Docker Raises $15M</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/21/docker-raises-15m-for-popular-open-source-platform-designed-for-developers-to-build-apps-in-the-cloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>galenko</author><text>Not to take away from Docker&#x27;s achievements (seriously, well done), but it&#x27;s a funny world we live in, Docker gets 15M (or &quot;another startup casually gets $XXM), while OpenBSD foundation (which pays for stuff all of us rely on every day) have to beg for donations and 100k is a huge achievement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shykes</author><text>I&#x27;m really glad you brought this up! This topic is actually very relevant to what we&#x27;re trying to do with Docker.<p>Think of it this way: we (the creators of an open-source project) have built for our project an infrastructure capable of supporting its long-term development and success without falling victim to the &quot;openbsd effect&quot;. We hijacked for ourselves a venture-backed company and are experimenting with a symbiotic relationship where both the project and the business win without corrupting each other. We get financial, legal and marketing &quot;artillery&quot; in the form of a corporate structure which is dedicated to the success of the project without distorting it. We have large stakeholder (me) who is also the maintainer of the open-source project. We have a CEO (Ben Golub) with a track record of incredible success in general, of successfully managing an open-source company in particular and with a reputation of doing business in an honest and trustworthy way. We have investors with a track record of being patient, seeing the big picture and backing open-source companies and their creators in a sincere way. These guys could have fired me at any point of our transition to this model, and didn&#x27;t.<p>So, sure, we got money &quot;<i>casually</i>&quot; (I&#x27;ll leave that battle for another day), and OpenBSD struggled to get basic funding. And obviously, OpenBSD and Docker are not in the same league as open-source projects (although I hope one day they will be).<p>But, respectfully, I think this is more than &quot;another startup gets $XXM&quot;. We are experimenting with a new model for the funding of open-source. One where the original innovators get to capture some of the value they created, fueling even more innovation in a virtuous circle of &quot;innovation -&gt; better product -&gt; more money -&gt; more innovation&quot;.<p>To me personally, were we to succeed, that would be a welcome change from the current situation, where the initial inventors are trampled by savvier entrepreneurs, who race to the local maximum of the most profitable derivative business model with the highest barriers to entry, and proceed to <i>not</i> reinvest their profits in the original invention, thwarting the virtuous circle. For example, Xensource produced the open-source hypervisor and we got Amazon EC2. Linus produced Git and we got Github. I think these products are great and useful - but they are a local maximum. With the raw material of git, hypervisors and a commodity open-source operating system, we could have produced so much more aggregate wealth!<p>At Docker we want to be both git and github. We&#x27;re open-source people first, but we know how to sell a saas product and run it at scale. We know how to raise money and build a profitable business with that money. And that profit gets directly reinvested in the original innovation - Docker.<p>And I think that&#x27;s the future of open-source: if we as a community want to see less &quot;OpenBSD episodes&quot;, we&#x27;re going to have to roll up our sleeves and go about building real business value on top of our inventions. Otherwise others will, and we&#x27;ll only have ourselves to blame.</text></comment> | <story><title>Docker Raises $15M</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/21/docker-raises-15m-for-popular-open-source-platform-designed-for-developers-to-build-apps-in-the-cloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>galenko</author><text>Not to take away from Docker&#x27;s achievements (seriously, well done), but it&#x27;s a funny world we live in, Docker gets 15M (or &quot;another startup casually gets $XXM), while OpenBSD foundation (which pays for stuff all of us rely on every day) have to beg for donations and 100k is a huge achievement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epistasis</author><text>I feel similarly. Docker&#x27;s founders deserve only congratulations, they&#x27;re doing a cool thing and asking for money for it. And Linux&#x27;s terrible and primitive containerization technologies are finally growing up to be able to match Solaris and FreeBSD. But I don&#x27;t find &quot;funny&quot; strong enough a word when OpenBSD, which is IMHO a far more fundamental and important technology than containerization and should be easier to monetize than Docker, is struggling to survive.<p>I think it comes down to the personalities of the leadership, and where they want to take the projects. But it&#x27;s a crying shame that OpenBSD is struggling. Not related at all to Docker, but a shame none the less.</text></comment> |
17,405,981 | 17,405,007 | 1 | 2 | 17,404,517 | train | <story><title>A one-size-fits-all database doesn't fit anyone</title><url>https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2018/06/purpose-built-databases-in-aws.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>okket</author><text>A one-size-fits-all database like PostgreSQL fits most. Moving to a specialised solution is always an option, if necessary. Starting with specialised solutions is a bad idea that will limit flexibility needlessly.</text></comment> | <story><title>A one-size-fits-all database doesn't fit anyone</title><url>https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2018/06/purpose-built-databases-in-aws.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>niftich</author><text>This sort of post was most useful in the days when the term &#x27;NoSQL&#x27; was being thrown around as the silver bullet that would revolutionize one&#x27;s business, and there was a significant knowledge gap between the domain experts -- who quite often weren&#x27;t the promoters -- and everyone else. While it&#x27;s still plausible that someone obtains this information for the first time right now, today the mystique around the term &#x27;NoSQL&#x27; has more muted, the marketing has become more factual, and a fair number of people understand the different types of data paradigms (KV, document, graph, timeseries) that the newer offerings provide.<p>As it stands, this post is a brief comparison sheet of AWS&#x27;s datastore offerings, with bite-sized anecdotes that hint at a valuable usecase. It doesn&#x27;t make a particularly strong case for the necessities, justifications, and tradeoffs of each particular type of paradigm or concrete offering, but is instead a brief content marketing piece with just enough practicality to justify its existence and make its point.</text></comment> |
21,774,101 | 21,774,340 | 1 | 3 | 21,771,325 | train | <story><title>We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016)</title><url>http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway444010</author><text>&gt; When I&#x27;ve compared notes with folks who attended schools like Utah and Boise State, their education is basically the same as mine.<p>I work at one of the well-known tech companies, and what I’ve noticed among most software engineers and data scientists is that they don’t really care about your background as long as you can do the work. Which is really nice; whenever I interview candidates, I don’t notice much correlation between the school they attended and their interview performance.<p><i>However</i>, the pure research division at this company is totally different. There appears to be a very heavy emphasis placed on the school attended. I was a bit miffed one day because I overheard one of the AI researchers saying “everyone knows there is a huge difference in caliber between the students that attended Stanford and Berkeley for CS and those that attended Georgia Tech”. As someone who attended GT and has a research background, this rubbed me the wrong way. There were also a few disparaging comments about the South in general. Even if there is a difference between the schools (at the graduate level), I would imagine the Bell curves can’t be <i>that</i> far apart from each other. It’s not like 90% of the students that attended Stanford are brighter than 90% that attended CMU.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ritchiea</author><text>A professor in my social circle has taught at various schools across North America including Harvard, University of Toronto and a few prominent USA state schools. He says in his experience there&#x27;s no difference between the intellect and quality of work he sees at the schools he&#x27;s taught at but the Harvard students are more ambitious and more entitled.<p>In my own personal experience Harvard, Princeton, Stanford types often carry an elitism that they need to justify the work they put in to get to that school and the amount the school prestige means to their own self worth.<p>There&#x27;s also a classic OpEd from I believe the Harvard Crimson from a Harvard admin officer saying Harvard could admit sufficiently qualified students from it&#x27;s applicants several times over the actual count of its freshman class. So basically you have to have rich parents or be lucky not just be qualified. The elitism exists nonetheless and it&#x27;s a fraud.</text></comment> | <story><title>We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016)</title><url>http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway444010</author><text>&gt; When I&#x27;ve compared notes with folks who attended schools like Utah and Boise State, their education is basically the same as mine.<p>I work at one of the well-known tech companies, and what I’ve noticed among most software engineers and data scientists is that they don’t really care about your background as long as you can do the work. Which is really nice; whenever I interview candidates, I don’t notice much correlation between the school they attended and their interview performance.<p><i>However</i>, the pure research division at this company is totally different. There appears to be a very heavy emphasis placed on the school attended. I was a bit miffed one day because I overheard one of the AI researchers saying “everyone knows there is a huge difference in caliber between the students that attended Stanford and Berkeley for CS and those that attended Georgia Tech”. As someone who attended GT and has a research background, this rubbed me the wrong way. There were also a few disparaging comments about the South in general. Even if there is a difference between the schools (at the graduate level), I would imagine the Bell curves can’t be <i>that</i> far apart from each other. It’s not like 90% of the students that attended Stanford are brighter than 90% that attended CMU.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxk42</author><text>&gt; I don’t notice much correlation between the school they attended and their interview performance.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed one: About half the best engineers I&#x27;ve hired over the years have no degree at all. For the other half, there&#x27;s no correlation between school and performance.</text></comment> |
14,132,726 | 14,132,432 | 1 | 2 | 14,131,604 | train | <story><title>How the Airlines Became Cartels</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/opinion/how-the-airlines-became-abusive-cartels.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tvanantwerp</author><text>The trick here is defining &quot;smart&quot; versus &quot;needless&quot; regulations. It&#x27;s not always an obvious difference. For example: lots of excessive state-level occupational licensing which effectively just creates cartels was passed with sensible arguments about protecting consumers from harm and poor quality. It&#x27;s fairly easy to rationalize lots of regulations that don&#x27;t work very well in practice. So just saying &quot;it should be smart and not mindless&quot; isn&#x27;t really a solution to anything without a rigorous definition of what a &quot;smart&quot; regulation looks like.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>Markets are such an essential tool for our society, but they&#x27;re also easy to get wrong. Markets require regulation, whether it&#x27;s in the form of contract enforcement or setting standardized terms for communication in the market. Any time there&#x27;s a power differential, we need regulation.<p>That&#x27;s why I wish we could get past this mindless anti-regulation political trend into a &quot;smart regulation&quot; political trend. Whenever I see &quot;regulations are bad&quot; these days it&#x27;s always associated with mindless deregulation; deregulation is a difficult thing that must be done carefully, and it has to be adjusted later on to adjust for all the unforeseen consequences. Regulations are not bad, it&#x27;s needless regulations that are bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zeteo</author><text>Right on. The legislators who consult with lobbyists behind closed doors and then produce thousand page bills would argue that they also make &quot;smart&quot; regulation. Didn&#x27;t they talk at length to the people who knew most about the issue? Doesn&#x27;t the bill address lots of cases that would never occur to the &quot;dumb&quot; person?<p>Yes, but the bill is totally ineffective for the average person and only helps the big players.<p>What we arguably need is more &quot;stupid&quot; (as in &quot;keep it simple, stupid&quot;) regulation. Constitutional Amendments are written in this style; also some antitrust legislation [1]. Complex regulations are vulnerable to<p>a) hidden flaws - that tiny exception in article 57 paragraph 30 might turn out large enough to overturn all 56 previous articles.<p>b) regulatory capture - lobbyists will, of course, introduce as many exceptions as possible if the text is long enough.<p>c) the revolving door - if only a small group of people know the intricate details, they will soon be hired by the affected companies at a multiple of their previous salary.<p>d) compliance cost - only large companies might be able to afford the compliance cost, which ends up concentrating the market further at the cost of the consumer (Dodd-Frank, anyone?).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sherman_Antitrust_Act#Original_text" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sherman_Antitrust_Act#Original...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How the Airlines Became Cartels</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/opinion/how-the-airlines-became-abusive-cartels.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tvanantwerp</author><text>The trick here is defining &quot;smart&quot; versus &quot;needless&quot; regulations. It&#x27;s not always an obvious difference. For example: lots of excessive state-level occupational licensing which effectively just creates cartels was passed with sensible arguments about protecting consumers from harm and poor quality. It&#x27;s fairly easy to rationalize lots of regulations that don&#x27;t work very well in practice. So just saying &quot;it should be smart and not mindless&quot; isn&#x27;t really a solution to anything without a rigorous definition of what a &quot;smart&quot; regulation looks like.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>Markets are such an essential tool for our society, but they&#x27;re also easy to get wrong. Markets require regulation, whether it&#x27;s in the form of contract enforcement or setting standardized terms for communication in the market. Any time there&#x27;s a power differential, we need regulation.<p>That&#x27;s why I wish we could get past this mindless anti-regulation political trend into a &quot;smart regulation&quot; political trend. Whenever I see &quot;regulations are bad&quot; these days it&#x27;s always associated with mindless deregulation; deregulation is a difficult thing that must be done carefully, and it has to be adjusted later on to adjust for all the unforeseen consequences. Regulations are not bad, it&#x27;s needless regulations that are bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arwhatever</author><text>&quot;One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.&quot; - Milton Friedman</text></comment> |
18,139,344 | 18,138,891 | 1 | 2 | 18,128,456 | train | <story><title>Kubernetes for personal projects? No thanks</title><url>https://carlosrdrz.es/kubernetes-for-small-projects/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jypepin</author><text>I totally agree with this article. I&#x27;m giving a point of a view of a pure developer who knows nothing about DevOps things and managing servers.
I kind of know what NGINX is and barely know how to configure something like systemd.<p>I recently setup a digital ocean droplet and setup my blog there to actually understand how it works. It was great because I learned a ton and feel in control.
Pretty simple setup - single droplet, rails with postgres, capistrano to automate deploys and a very simply NGINX config.
It took me multiple days to setup everything, compared to the 5 minutes Heroku would have required - and it&#x27;s not as nice as what Heroku offers.<p>Still, I&#x27;d wait as long as I can to get out of something so simple as Heroku for _anything_.
I understand it gets expensive quickly, but I really want to see the cost difference of Heroku vs the time spent for the engineering team to manage all the complexities of devops, automated deploys, scaling, and I&#x27;m not even mentioning all the data&#x2F;logging&#x2F;monitoring things that Heroku allows to add with 1 click.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Draiken</author><text>&gt; I understand it gets expensive quickly, but I really want to see the cost difference of Heroku vs the time spent for the engineering team to manage all the complexities of devops, automated deploys, scaling, and I&#x27;m not even mentioning all the data&#x2F;logging&#x2F;monitoring things that Heroku allows to add with 1 click.<p>Well, if you use a k8s cluster on GKE for example, you will have literally all those things by default. Not even a click needed.<p>IMO running your own Kubernetes cluster for a company is insanity unless you have a very good reason to do so.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kubernetes for personal projects? No thanks</title><url>https://carlosrdrz.es/kubernetes-for-small-projects/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jypepin</author><text>I totally agree with this article. I&#x27;m giving a point of a view of a pure developer who knows nothing about DevOps things and managing servers.
I kind of know what NGINX is and barely know how to configure something like systemd.<p>I recently setup a digital ocean droplet and setup my blog there to actually understand how it works. It was great because I learned a ton and feel in control.
Pretty simple setup - single droplet, rails with postgres, capistrano to automate deploys and a very simply NGINX config.
It took me multiple days to setup everything, compared to the 5 minutes Heroku would have required - and it&#x27;s not as nice as what Heroku offers.<p>Still, I&#x27;d wait as long as I can to get out of something so simple as Heroku for _anything_.
I understand it gets expensive quickly, but I really want to see the cost difference of Heroku vs the time spent for the engineering team to manage all the complexities of devops, automated deploys, scaling, and I&#x27;m not even mentioning all the data&#x2F;logging&#x2F;monitoring things that Heroku allows to add with 1 click.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>de_watcher</author><text>&gt; giving a point of a view of a pure developer<p>Kubernetes really looks like designed by the software developers for the software developers: dump all configs of your services in one place, imagine that they run on the network. The uninteresting parts of the job (like managing nodes and ingress, fixing internal overlay network and DNS, adding services for centralized logging) aren&#x27;t mixed with the actual services. Obviously, the package management is solved by using containers (essentially OS images) as the package format.</text></comment> |
28,174,096 | 28,171,946 | 1 | 2 | 28,171,894 | train | <story><title>To make programming easier, first be conscious of what makes it hard (2014)</title><url>http://lighttable.com/2014/05/16/pain-we-forgot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamii</author><text>Hi. I&#x27;m the author. Such nostalgia. With tools like airtable and notion around today, we&#x27;re actually making substantial progress towards making simple tasks easy.<p>These days I&#x27;m writing at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scattered-thoughts.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scattered-thoughts.net&#x2F;</a> and working on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jamii&#x2F;dida" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jamii&#x2F;dida</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jamii&#x2F;imp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jamii&#x2F;imp</a>. Same ideals, but backed by many more years of ~~failure~~ experience.<p>Also still complaining about things <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scattered-thoughts.net&#x2F;writing&#x2F;against-sql" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scattered-thoughts.net&#x2F;writing&#x2F;against-sql</a> and breaking things <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scattered-thoughts.net&#x2F;writing&#x2F;internal-consistency-in-streaming-systems&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scattered-thoughts.net&#x2F;writing&#x2F;internal-consistency-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>To make programming easier, first be conscious of what makes it hard (2014)</title><url>http://lighttable.com/2014/05/16/pain-we-forgot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>b3morales</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why the article thinks it&#x27;s reasonable for someone with literally 0 experience to develop an application with multiple features and integrations with other systems from scratch, on their own. The point about space age machines notwithstanding, this is inherently complex and skilled work.<p>We don&#x27;t expect someone who&#x27;s never touched a chisel to be able to fabricate and install a full set of kitchen cabinets, either. And there&#x27;s no shame in that -- they just need to spend time learning. Or they can do the &quot;google -&gt; stack overflow -&gt; copy&#x2F;paste&quot; thing by going down to their local home goods store and buying some prefab particle board units and watching a YouTube video on how to hang them. (And again, no shame -- online video can be an excellent source of craft information.)</text></comment> |
7,213,071 | 7,209,861 | 1 | 2 | 7,209,149 | train | <story><title>Godot Engine open sourced</title><url>http://www.godotengine.org/wp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SomeCallMeTim</author><text>I get frustrated with people who think they can and should rewrite the scripting language.<p>&gt;I&#x27;m more interested in how those layers could be used with my own engine than theirs itself.<p>You and me both. Also looking at Proton [1] and Allegro [2] for similar reasons. And just came across a Blackberry-backed engine [3] which looks interesting (and also Lua-driven).<p>I actually have my OWN game engine (based on LuaJIT, thank you ;) that already targets Windows, Android, and iOS, but I&#x27;d like to rip out the platform layer and replace it with something that someone <i>else</i> is maintaining. I mean, it <i>works</i> now, but leveraging open source and other developers&#x27; efforts would be much better.<p>I&#x27;ve considered just using SDL 2.0 and calling it good, but I&#x27;m tempted to pick up some of the higher-level functionality some of these other engines offer.<p>None offer <i>all</i> the features I want, unfortunately. One of the big features they mostly miss is <i>really</i> good script&#x2F;C++ cross-functionality. Aside from that, there are typically one or two other things that make me want to avoid them.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.rtsoft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=proton" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rtsoft.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;doku.php?id=proton</a><p>[2] <a href="http://alleg.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alleg.sourceforge.net&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.gameplay3d.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gameplay3d.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>eropple</author><text>It looks pretty neat. I&#x27;m leery about their custom scripting language, but it at least sounds pretty bulletproofed. I&#x27;m interested in how much (if any) of the lower layers of their system are separated out from the higher ones; I&#x27;m more interested in how those layers could be used with my own engine than theirs itself.</text></item><item><author>chipsy</author><text>The site is totally hammered right now but I managed to grab a copy and get a feel for what&#x27;s in this. There&#x27;s some truly exciting stuff to comb through since it&#x27;s a well-used engine with a lot of history, not someone&#x27;s hobby hack.<p>What I&#x27;ve seen so far:<p>A custom scripting language(GDScript) which is roughly Python-esque. The wiki explains that after trying the other common choices(Lua, Squirrel, Angelscript) over a period of years, they rolled their own solution that could be more closely integrated to the engine.<p>An in-editor help, it has some API docs.<p>Classes for GUI controls, including layout containers.<p>A fairly rich audio API, including positional audio, streamed audio, common sample playback controls(pan, volume, pitch, looping), and some effects(reverb, chorus, frequency filter).<p>Some networking functionality, including HTTP, TCP, and UDP(unclear?) mechanisms.<p>Keyboard, joystick, mouse, and touchscreen input classes.<p>And of course lots of rendering and physics-related stuff, including various shapes, cameras, meshes, sprites, animation, tilemaps, texture atlasing, internationalized fonts, particle systems, and multiple viewports.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sitkack</author><text>I am no expert but, I&#x27;d retarget your platform specific stuff to SDL. AFAIK Emscripten has SDL1 support and SDL2 support is on the way. This would enable your engine to target HTML5 robustly with Emscripten via lua and sdl. Most of your graphics primitives should already be targeting OpenGL ES 2.<p><a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/05/lua-vm-javascript" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoq.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;lua-vm-javascript</a><p><a href="https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/issues/457" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kripken&#x2F;emscripten&#x2F;issues&#x2F;457</a><p><a href="https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Roadmap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kripken&#x2F;emscripten&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Roadmap</a><p>Is your engine open source? I anticipate a JS backend to LuaJIT in the not-too-far future.</text></comment> | <story><title>Godot Engine open sourced</title><url>http://www.godotengine.org/wp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SomeCallMeTim</author><text>I get frustrated with people who think they can and should rewrite the scripting language.<p>&gt;I&#x27;m more interested in how those layers could be used with my own engine than theirs itself.<p>You and me both. Also looking at Proton [1] and Allegro [2] for similar reasons. And just came across a Blackberry-backed engine [3] which looks interesting (and also Lua-driven).<p>I actually have my OWN game engine (based on LuaJIT, thank you ;) that already targets Windows, Android, and iOS, but I&#x27;d like to rip out the platform layer and replace it with something that someone <i>else</i> is maintaining. I mean, it <i>works</i> now, but leveraging open source and other developers&#x27; efforts would be much better.<p>I&#x27;ve considered just using SDL 2.0 and calling it good, but I&#x27;m tempted to pick up some of the higher-level functionality some of these other engines offer.<p>None offer <i>all</i> the features I want, unfortunately. One of the big features they mostly miss is <i>really</i> good script&#x2F;C++ cross-functionality. Aside from that, there are typically one or two other things that make me want to avoid them.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.rtsoft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=proton" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rtsoft.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;doku.php?id=proton</a><p>[2] <a href="http://alleg.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alleg.sourceforge.net&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.gameplay3d.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gameplay3d.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>eropple</author><text>It looks pretty neat. I&#x27;m leery about their custom scripting language, but it at least sounds pretty bulletproofed. I&#x27;m interested in how much (if any) of the lower layers of their system are separated out from the higher ones; I&#x27;m more interested in how those layers could be used with my own engine than theirs itself.</text></item><item><author>chipsy</author><text>The site is totally hammered right now but I managed to grab a copy and get a feel for what&#x27;s in this. There&#x27;s some truly exciting stuff to comb through since it&#x27;s a well-used engine with a lot of history, not someone&#x27;s hobby hack.<p>What I&#x27;ve seen so far:<p>A custom scripting language(GDScript) which is roughly Python-esque. The wiki explains that after trying the other common choices(Lua, Squirrel, Angelscript) over a period of years, they rolled their own solution that could be more closely integrated to the engine.<p>An in-editor help, it has some API docs.<p>Classes for GUI controls, including layout containers.<p>A fairly rich audio API, including positional audio, streamed audio, common sample playback controls(pan, volume, pitch, looping), and some effects(reverb, chorus, frequency filter).<p>Some networking functionality, including HTTP, TCP, and UDP(unclear?) mechanisms.<p>Keyboard, joystick, mouse, and touchscreen input classes.<p>And of course lots of rendering and physics-related stuff, including various shapes, cameras, meshes, sprites, animation, tilemaps, texture atlasing, internationalized fonts, particle systems, and multiple viewports.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eropple</author><text>Allegro is pretty janky, in my experience. I haven&#x27;t tried Proton, thanks for the pointer.<p>I use AngelScript, because the C++ interop is about as good as it gets. Chaiscript isn&#x27;t bad, but its lack of coherent community scared me off.</text></comment> |
9,285,235 | 9,285,283 | 1 | 2 | 9,285,095 | train | <story><title>U.S. Coding Website GitHub Hit with Cyberattack</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-coding-website-github-hit-with-cyberattack-1427638940</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>conradk</author><text>Interesting how this article came out at about the same time &quot;Ask HN: Why isn&#x27;t the GitHub attack being covered by the news?&quot; [1] was trending on HN.<p>I can&#x27;t read the article without going through a subscription process first.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9284688" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9284688</a></text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Coding Website GitHub Hit with Cyberattack</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-coding-website-github-hit-with-cyberattack-1427638940</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ikeboy</author><text>Anyone having problems viewing, click <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CB8QqQIwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fu-s-coding-website-github-hit-with-cyberattack-1427638940&amp;ei=0yAYVbTbNceoNqu6hJAL&amp;usg=AFQjCNEA_qnPu8LObRFwO5yE5oPzTQ4HhQ&amp;bvm=bv.89381419,d.eXY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;c...</a></text></comment> |
6,409,397 | 6,409,262 | 1 | 3 | 6,409,023 | train | <story><title>Open plan offices attract highest levels of worker dissatisfaction</title><url>http://theconversation.com/open-plan-offices-attract-highest-levels-of-worker-dissatisfaction-study-18246</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fishtoaster</author><text>I don&#x27;t think open offices are necessarily bad, but that they&#x27;re harder to get right. What you need is:<p>- A a decent cultural protocol around it. One place I worked had the very strong rule that you start all non-emergency communication asynchronously (usually text chat), even if the person is right next to you. Another place I worked at strongly respected headphones as the &quot;don&#x27;t bother me&quot; signal.
- A reasonable number of walled-off rooms for anyone to use. Need to take a phone call? Have a quick 1-on-1? Debate something loudly with 3-5 people? You need to have rooms, of varying sizes, to handle these use cases near at hand.
- Minimal noise that&#x27;s not related to collaboration. Eg, no loud ringing phones. No phone-based customer support department in the same room as the devs. No kitchen (full of dishwashers, coffee grinders, etc) area facing the open workspace.<p>Open offices can work, but only if you go out of your way to make them work. Just throwing a few dozen devs in a warehouse is a recipe for dissatisfaction. I think that that happens more often than not, resulting in things like this study.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abalone</author><text>You mentioned headphones. Headphones seem to be an essential part of open plans. Not only do they send a don&#x27;t-bother-me signal, they also drown out the noise.<p>But that&#x27;s also a really annoying part of it. I don&#x27;t want to have to put on headphones all the time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Open plan offices attract highest levels of worker dissatisfaction</title><url>http://theconversation.com/open-plan-offices-attract-highest-levels-of-worker-dissatisfaction-study-18246</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fishtoaster</author><text>I don&#x27;t think open offices are necessarily bad, but that they&#x27;re harder to get right. What you need is:<p>- A a decent cultural protocol around it. One place I worked had the very strong rule that you start all non-emergency communication asynchronously (usually text chat), even if the person is right next to you. Another place I worked at strongly respected headphones as the &quot;don&#x27;t bother me&quot; signal.
- A reasonable number of walled-off rooms for anyone to use. Need to take a phone call? Have a quick 1-on-1? Debate something loudly with 3-5 people? You need to have rooms, of varying sizes, to handle these use cases near at hand.
- Minimal noise that&#x27;s not related to collaboration. Eg, no loud ringing phones. No phone-based customer support department in the same room as the devs. No kitchen (full of dishwashers, coffee grinders, etc) area facing the open workspace.<p>Open offices can work, but only if you go out of your way to make them work. Just throwing a few dozen devs in a warehouse is a recipe for dissatisfaction. I think that that happens more often than not, resulting in things like this study.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aimhb</author><text>&gt; One place I worked had the very strong rule that you start all non-emergency communication asynchronously (usually text chat), even if the person is right next to you.<p>A little bit off topic, but I too have experienced this, and I have to say, it&#x27;s awful for productivity, team building, and team assimilation. As a new hire, I would send my mentor a question and it might be ten minutes to fifty minutes before I would get a reply. By then, I&#x27;d all but forgotten what I was asking about in the first place, since I had moved on because of not knowing how long I&#x27;d have to wait. That led to wasted time and an overall loss of focus.<p>No matter the environment, text-based and asynchronous communication just aren&#x27;t very effective compared to spoken communication, even when considering the interrupted party momentarily losing their flow.</text></comment> |
35,515,762 | 35,516,082 | 1 | 3 | 35,514,623 | train | <story><title>Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?</title><url>https://denyslinkov.medium.com/why-is-gpt-3-15-77x-more-expensive-for-certain-languages-2b19a4adc4bc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FredPret</author><text>What an interesting aspect I haven&#x27;t considered before. All the AIs will be trained on the available media - most of which is English.<p>I sometimes wonder what it takes to unseat a lingua franca, but it looks like we won&#x27;t see that soon. English is set to dominate for a long time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>og_kalu</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t really matter. There&#x27;s lots of positive transfer in individual language learning. Competence in one language bleeds into competence in others.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2108.13349" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2108.13349</a><p>GPT-3 is fluent in many languages despite English taking up 93% of the corpus by word count. French is next with 1.8%<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openai&#x2F;gpt-3&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;dataset_statistics&#x2F;languages_by_word_count.csv">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openai&#x2F;gpt-3&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;dataset_statisti...</a><p>Dunno the statistics of language presence with GPT-4 but it takes it up another level in terms of its multilingual capabilities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?</title><url>https://denyslinkov.medium.com/why-is-gpt-3-15-77x-more-expensive-for-certain-languages-2b19a4adc4bc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FredPret</author><text>What an interesting aspect I haven&#x27;t considered before. All the AIs will be trained on the available media - most of which is English.<p>I sometimes wonder what it takes to unseat a lingua franca, but it looks like we won&#x27;t see that soon. English is set to dominate for a long time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hirundo</author><text>This may be backwards. When AI can cheaply, quickly and with nuance intact translate between languages, it becomes easier to use a preferred non-dominant language, which would make English less dominant. There&#x27;s less incentive to spend so much time learning this oddly irregular foreign tongue if the skill is embedded in your phone.</text></comment> |
10,166,481 | 10,166,076 | 1 | 2 | 10,165,716 | train | <story><title>Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming</title><url>http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-NN-Types-FP/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ericjang</author><text>I really liked the mention of the &quot;three narratives&quot; of neural networks: 1) human brain 2) nonlinear &quot;squashing and folding&quot; of the input space 3) probabilistic &#x2F; latent variables. Seeing different ways to look at something is always refreshing and opens up deep learning to rich analytical techniques developed in optimization, type theory, etc.<p>HN: how do YOU think about NNs? As a matter of pure preference, most of my daydreaming of NNs comes from my inductive biases of (1) and (2), with a few ideas from MCMC methods and optimization thrown in the mix.<p>&gt; Representation theory<p>One question I&#x27;ve always wondered is whether it is better to get a network to (1) learn representation transformations A-&gt;B-&gt;C-&gt;D via a series of layers, or (2) try to learn A-&gt;D via a single (highly nonlinear) transformation.<p>Obviously the former lends itself better to analytical understanding, and this seems to be what emerges when you train ImageNet. However, do researchers have any control over whether the learned net does (1) or (2)? I&#x27;m thinking that scattering &quot;skip arcs&quot; that pass gradients through layers (or an LSTM) would cause representations to mix more between layers.<p>&gt; Each layer is a function, acting on the output of a previous layer. As a whole, the network is a chain of composed functions. This chain of composed functions is optimized to perform a task.<p>This is certainly true for the majority of models in use today, but I wonder if this will remain true for future architectures. In practice, most layer types store some state, and implement &quot;forward&quot; and &quot;backward&quot; functions that may utilize that state.<p>One could argue that state is not necessary if we only consider the network to be defined by its feedforward passes (de-coupled from the optimization problem, which requires the &quot;backward&quot; functions). But the neuroscience narrative argues that function and learning cannot be decoupled.<p>In the case of a network that is supposed to update it&#x27;s own weights during normal operation (i.e. topic discovery), the functional narrative is less clear to me. Thoughts?</text></comment> | <story><title>Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming</title><url>http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-NN-Types-FP/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kailuowang</author><text>Interesting thoughts there.<p>I am writing a deep neural network lib in scala as part of my DQN implementation. It&#x27;s developed in the FP paradigm with some type safety. If anyone is interested, the code is here.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;A-Noctua&#x2F;glaux" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;A-Noctua&#x2F;glaux</a>
Right now only feedforward and convolution with Relu are implemented, no documentation either. But would love to collaborate with anyone also interested in the area.</text></comment> |
25,347,057 | 25,346,861 | 1 | 2 | 25,329,201 | train | <story><title>Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (2017)</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/22/philip-glass-80-interview-observer-new-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hypertele-Xii</author><text>I discovered Philip Glass&#x27; music through the movie Koyaanisqatsi, which I heartily recommend. If you haven&#x27;t seen it, go into it without expectations of what a movie is supposed to be like; it&#x27;s weird.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>IMHO Baraka and Samsara are much more realized versions of the idea behind Koyaanisqatsi.</text></comment> | <story><title>Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (2017)</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/22/philip-glass-80-interview-observer-new-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hypertele-Xii</author><text>I discovered Philip Glass&#x27; music through the movie Koyaanisqatsi, which I heartily recommend. If you haven&#x27;t seen it, go into it without expectations of what a movie is supposed to be like; it&#x27;s weird.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Bayart</author><text>I love the urban hell of Pruit Igoe [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nq_SpRBXRmE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nq_SpRBXRmE</a></text></comment> |
38,186,956 | 38,182,022 | 1 | 3 | 38,178,727 | train | <story><title>Toyota's new $10k pickup</title><url>https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2025-toyota-imv-0-pickup-truck-first-drive-review-japan-mobility-show/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MarkusWandel</author><text>In other words, a pickup truck! Not a giant SUV masquerading as one, with a 5ft bed and 5-passenger luxury car cab, with price to match. I&#x27;m old enough to remember normal pickup trucks, affordable for actual &quot;work&quot; use, with bench seating for three, full 8x4 bed with half ton cargo capacity and not much else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diogenescynic</author><text>Every year car models get bigger and heavier. If you compare the original Tacoma to a 2023 Tacoma they look like totally different trucks. A new Tacoma looks bigger than the original Tundra.<p>I think vehicles should be taxed by weight, length, width, and height. The bigger the vehicle the more likely to cause an accident and the heavier the more likely for the accident to be severe.</text></comment> | <story><title>Toyota's new $10k pickup</title><url>https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2025-toyota-imv-0-pickup-truck-first-drive-review-japan-mobility-show/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MarkusWandel</author><text>In other words, a pickup truck! Not a giant SUV masquerading as one, with a 5ft bed and 5-passenger luxury car cab, with price to match. I&#x27;m old enough to remember normal pickup trucks, affordable for actual &quot;work&quot; use, with bench seating for three, full 8x4 bed with half ton cargo capacity and not much else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tbihl</author><text>You can still buy those, typically ex-contractor vehicles at auction. Crank windows, cloth bench, long bed, crappy radio.</text></comment> |
38,567,188 | 38,558,143 | 1 | 2 | 38,556,188 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?</title><text>The year is coming to an end. Time to look back and reflect. What are the books you&#x27;ve read in 2023? Which books made you change your mind or you simply enjoyed? And which books would you recommend to others for 2024?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Semaphor</author><text>I re-read the 10 doorstopper long &quot;Malazan Book of the Fallen&quot; high fantasy series by Steven Erikson and enjoyed it just as much as I did originally, slightly over a decade ago. Still my favorite series of all time. This took up a pretty big chunk of the year, so most other books were rather light urban fantasy novels.<p>But one other mini-series stood out (potentially going to be a trilogy, but both #1 &amp; #2 can stand alone).<p>Teixcalaan #1 &amp; #2, &quot;A Memory Called Empire&quot; and &quot;A Desolation Called Peace&quot; by Arkady Martine for being very different feeling sci-fi books that are not your typical western-centric fare. Highlights are the language, and that the story feels both very small and contained, and also all-encompassing, at the same time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>disgruntledphd2</author><text>&gt; Teixcalaan #1 &amp; #2, &quot;A Memory Called Empire&quot; and &quot;A Desolation Called Peace&quot; by Arkady Martine for being very different feeling sci-fi books that are not your typical western-centric fare. Highlights are the language, and that the story feels both very small and contained, and also all-encompassing, at the same time.<p>These were marvellous, well worth reading for any fans of Malazan&#x2F;other fantasy or sci-fi.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?</title><text>The year is coming to an end. Time to look back and reflect. What are the books you&#x27;ve read in 2023? Which books made you change your mind or you simply enjoyed? And which books would you recommend to others for 2024?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Semaphor</author><text>I re-read the 10 doorstopper long &quot;Malazan Book of the Fallen&quot; high fantasy series by Steven Erikson and enjoyed it just as much as I did originally, slightly over a decade ago. Still my favorite series of all time. This took up a pretty big chunk of the year, so most other books were rather light urban fantasy novels.<p>But one other mini-series stood out (potentially going to be a trilogy, but both #1 &amp; #2 can stand alone).<p>Teixcalaan #1 &amp; #2, &quot;A Memory Called Empire&quot; and &quot;A Desolation Called Peace&quot; by Arkady Martine for being very different feeling sci-fi books that are not your typical western-centric fare. Highlights are the language, and that the story feels both very small and contained, and also all-encompassing, at the same time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bodantogat</author><text>I read Malazan for the first time this year after putting it off for decades. Loved it and will likely read it again</text></comment> |
30,234,006 | 30,233,958 | 1 | 2 | 30,232,615 | train | <story><title>J&J tried to get federal judge to block publication of Reuters story</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/jj-tried-get-federal-judge-block-publication-reuters-story-2022-02-04/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legalcorrection</author><text>So either 1) the lawyers ripped off J&amp;J by spending time on this or 2) J&amp;J management was so angry and irrational that they demanded the lawyers waste their time on this.<p>Every lawyer worth their salt in America knows that you can’t get an injunction to prevent someone from publishing something. That’s a prior restraint and is about as close as you can get to something absolutely forbidden under American law.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway09223</author><text>&quot;you can’t get an injunction to prevent someone from publishing something.&quot;<p>You can&#x27;t, in theory.<p>In practice this sort of thing happens all the time. I had a judge issue a clearly unconstitutional order limiting my speech (there was no action on my part leading up to this, it was a broad order applying to more than just me). My lawyer&#x27;s take was that while it was clearly not allowed, it wasn&#x27;t particularly important so best to just ignore it.<p>It&#x27;s really, really common.</text></comment> | <story><title>J&J tried to get federal judge to block publication of Reuters story</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/jj-tried-get-federal-judge-block-publication-reuters-story-2022-02-04/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legalcorrection</author><text>So either 1) the lawyers ripped off J&amp;J by spending time on this or 2) J&amp;J management was so angry and irrational that they demanded the lawyers waste their time on this.<p>Every lawyer worth their salt in America knows that you can’t get an injunction to prevent someone from publishing something. That’s a prior restraint and is about as close as you can get to something absolutely forbidden under American law.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text><i>the lawyers ripped off J&amp;J by spending time on this</i><p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised.<p>My mother worked for the VP a company that was involved in a lawsuit that went on for decades. It was commonly known in the company that the lawsuit was being deliberately dragged out for the benefit of the opposition&#x27;s lawyers, and that the case was even handed down as a kind of sick inheritance from father-to-son as people retired.<p>I&#x27;ve only been involved in a court case once. I was picked as a juror in a case where two divorce lawyers were suing each other over how to split the fee from a high-profile divorce.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are good lawyers out there, but they seem as rare as hen&#x27;s teeth and well-intentioned social media companies.</text></comment> |
38,800,770 | 38,800,413 | 1 | 3 | 38,798,383 | train | <story><title>BCHS software stack: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite</title><url>https://learnbchs.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bkallus</author><text>I&#x27;ve spent the better part of the year messing around with every HTTP server I could get my hands on. I would not recommend OpenBSD httpd.<p>It&#x27;s supposed to be simple, and it is simple compared to Apache, but it also has way fewer eyes on it. Ultimately, a big pile of string-handling C is likely to have some problems. There was a trivial-to-exploit server-crashing segfault in httpd&#x27;s FastCGI implementation that was only fixed in the last month or so. There were also recent issues related to null bytes and line feeds in headers causing strange, exploitable misinterpretations of incoming requests in relayd. Much of this is now fixed, but I wouldn&#x27;t be at all surprised if there were more low-hanging fruit remaining.<p>If you&#x27;re looking for a lightweight HTTP server written in C, I recommend Lighttpd. It&#x27;s older, more widely-used, and more standards-compliant. I&#x27;m not trying to dump on OpenBSD; I run it on my primary laptop. I just wouldn&#x27;t use their HTTP tools for anything mission-critical yet.</text></comment> | <story><title>BCHS software stack: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite</title><url>https://learnbchs.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related:<p><i>BCHS: OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite web stack</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29988951">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29988951</a> - Jan 2022 (149 comments)<p><i>BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28269399">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28269399</a> - Aug 2021 (58 comments)<p><i>BCHS: The BSD, C, httpd, SQLite stack for the web</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23148871">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23148871</a> - May 2020 (1 comment)<p><i>OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite – Web App stack</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17272225">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17272225</a> - June 2018 (174 comments)<p><i>BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14580746">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14580746</a> - June 2017 (75 comments)<p><i>Kwebapp: rapid BCHS web app development</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14454381">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14454381</a> - May 2017 (1 comment)<p><i>BCHS Stack - BSD, C, Httpd, SQLite</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11763888">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11763888</a> - May 2016 (68 comments)</text></comment> |
37,279,613 | 37,279,464 | 1 | 2 | 37,279,318 | train | <story><title>Firefox 1.0 New York Times ad (2004)</title><url>https://www.scribd.com/document/393519605/Firefox-1-0-New-York-Times-Ad</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisrhee</author><text>Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;2004&#x2F;12&#x2F;mozilla-foundation-places-two-page-advocacy-ad-in-the-new-york-times&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;2004&#x2F;12&#x2F;mozilla-foundation-pl...</a><p>New York Times runs Firefox ad
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;services-and-software&#x2F;new-york-times-runs-firefox-ad&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;services-and-software&#x2F;new-york-tim...</a><p>&gt; The first page of the two-page ad--which is twice as large as originally planned--features the Firefox symbol superimposed over the names of the 10,000 donors<p>My name is somewhere in that mix. I lost the physical newspaper copy at some point in the last 19 years. but it&#x27;s cool the PDF is still around.<p>Surprised the getfirefox.com domain from the ad still works!<p>In the Battle of the Browsers &#x27;04, Firefox Aims at Microsoft
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2004&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;technology&#x2F;in-the-battle-of-the-browsers-04-firefox-aims-at-microsoft.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2004&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;technology&#x2F;in-the-battle-...</a><p>&gt; the early enthusiasm for the preview version of Firefox is a big reason that Internet Explorer&#x27;s market share has slipped more than 2.5 percentage points in the last five months, to 92.9 percent at the end of October, its first decline since 1999</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox 1.0 New York Times ad (2004)</title><url>https://www.scribd.com/document/393519605/Firefox-1-0-New-York-Times-Ad</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gslin</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;files&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;nytimes-firefox-final.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;files&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;nytimes-firefox...</a></text></comment> |
17,507,502 | 17,506,512 | 1 | 2 | 17,504,650 | train | <story><title>Why Isn't Debugging Treated as a First-Class Activity?</title><url>https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/07/why-isnt-debugging-treated-as-first.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephv</author><text>The omission is interesting only in that it highlights that programming and debugging are one in the same.<p>Us old folks that have been programming for 20 years don&#x27;t even separate the two, there is no meaningful distinction. Programming is not a write-only operation (Perl excepted).<p>If it&#x27;s an existing project&#x2F;product, I get it running and find the entry point. If it&#x27;s new, I write and entry point and get it running. Then I change something, or write something, and debug it. Is it working as expected? Maybe the execution flow isn&#x27;t what I expected. Why do I always forget to initialize things right. Probably because every language thinks their version of native v. abstract references are fancier.<p>Blah, I need to get to work cod... debug.... what am I doing today? Ah yea, writing documentation. Fack</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kps</author><text><i>“By June 1949 people had begun to realize that it was not so easy to get programs right as at one time appeared. I well remember when this realization first came on me with full force.</i><p><i>The EDSAC was on the top floor of the building and the tape-punching and editing equipment one floor below. […] It was on one of my journeys between the EDSAC room and the punching equipment that ‘hesitating at the angles of stairs’ the realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs.”</i><p>— Sir Maurice Wilkes</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Isn't Debugging Treated as a First-Class Activity?</title><url>https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/07/why-isnt-debugging-treated-as-first.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephv</author><text>The omission is interesting only in that it highlights that programming and debugging are one in the same.<p>Us old folks that have been programming for 20 years don&#x27;t even separate the two, there is no meaningful distinction. Programming is not a write-only operation (Perl excepted).<p>If it&#x27;s an existing project&#x2F;product, I get it running and find the entry point. If it&#x27;s new, I write and entry point and get it running. Then I change something, or write something, and debug it. Is it working as expected? Maybe the execution flow isn&#x27;t what I expected. Why do I always forget to initialize things right. Probably because every language thinks their version of native v. abstract references are fancier.<p>Blah, I need to get to work cod... debug.... what am I doing today? Ah yea, writing documentation. Fack</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corey_moncure</author><text>Right. Reading through code is just executing it on a high level, and very fuzzy and forgetful, virtual machine in your own brain.</text></comment> |
26,182,359 | 26,182,696 | 1 | 3 | 26,181,766 | train | <story><title>Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/airbnb-new-tech-hub-atlanta</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pratik661</author><text>I grew up in metro Atlanta and studied at Georgia Tech. The state government subsidizes college education for grads with a certain GPA (HOPE Scholarship). However, I (and most CS grads I knew) left Atlanta for better paying jobs in NYC&#x2F;Bay Area&#x2F;Seattle&#x2F;Austin. I always wondered why the ATL tech scene was &#x27;underdeveloped&#x27; compared to comparable sized cities like Seattle and Austin, despite having major research institutions (Georgia Tech and Emory) to anchor it.<p>This is what I mean by &#x27;underdeveloped&#x27;:<p>- Most software dev job postings (as of May 2018) have SPECIFIC tech stack requirements. This to me is a red flag. Most recruiters in &#x27;developed&#x27; tech cities assume that software development skills are transferable and that technology stacks&#x2F;frameworks&#x2F;languages can be learned.<p>- The salaries offered were still very low compared to comparable COL locations like Austin<p>- No major FAANG presence to put upward pressure on local developer wages</text></comment> | <story><title>Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/airbnb-new-tech-hub-atlanta</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cletus</author><text>I think a couple of good things may come out of the pandemic:<p>1. Big companies being more amenable to remote work. I don&#x27;t see a total shift to remote to be likely or even desirable but a partial shift is good; and<p>2. An end to the ultimately unsustainable ultra-concentration of tech jobs in places like SF and NYC.<p>I see the likely winners here are Atlanta, Denver&#x2F;Boulder, Dallas&#x2F;Forth Worth, Austin and Tampa. This may well trickle-down to mid-sized regional centers too. Think Boise, Salt Lake City, Louisville, Nashville, Memphis, etc.<p>I support this decentralization.</text></comment> |
40,558,828 | 40,557,700 | 1 | 2 | 40,555,131 | train | <story><title>Here comes the Muybridge camera moment but for text</title><url>https://interconnected.org/home/2024/05/31/camera</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>Yes, yes, more explorations in this direction.<p>For a couple of years now, I&#x27;ve had this half-articulated sense that the uncanny ability of sufficiently-advanced language models to back into convincing simulations of conscious thought entirely via predicting language tokens <i>means something profound about the nature of language itself.</i><p>I&#x27;m sure there are much smarter people than I thinking about this (and probably quite a bit of background reading that would help; Chomsky, perhaps McLuhan?) but it feels like, in parallel to everything going on in the development of LLMs, there&#x27;s also something big about <i>us</i> waiting there under the surface.</text></comment> | <story><title>Here comes the Muybridge camera moment but for text</title><url>https://interconnected.org/home/2024/05/31/camera</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>szvsw</author><text>One thing I always find interesting but not discussed <i>all that much</i> at least in things I’ve read is - what happens in the spaces between the data? Obviously this is an incredibly high dimensional space which is only sparsely populated by the entirety of the English language; all tokens, etc. if the space is truly structured well enough, then there is a huge amount of interesting, implicit, almost platonic meaning occurring in the spaces between the data - synthetic? Dialectic? Idk. Anyways, I think those areas are a space that algorithmic intelligence will be able to develop its own notions of semantics and creativity in expression. Things that might typically be ineffable may find easy expression somewhere in embedding space. Heidegger’s thisness might be easily located somewhere in a latent representation… this is probably some linguistics 101 stuff but it’s still fascinating imo.</text></comment> |
29,222,057 | 29,222,082 | 1 | 2 | 29,221,536 | train | <story><title>Modern JavaScript has made the web worse (2020)</title><url>https://www.chaseaucoin.com/posts/why-npm-has-made-the-web-worse/?=ver=8e60f8174786794b7efe72ef69ff9ac2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afavour</author><text>IMO the biggest problem is that the industry became all about developer experience and neglected user experience.<p>Doing an analysis of the JS bundled with many major sites is an utter horror show: React is big and bloated, alternatives like Preact exist but no-one cares. React provides The Best Developer Experience so that is what we shall use. GraphQL is the cool thing to use these days so we’ll throw in a giant client library along with all our query text. Sure, browsers handle REST out of the box but that’s not what works best for our developers. We’ll use CSS in JS despite the performance being worse, it’s what our team likes. We’ll bundle a giant CoreJS shim to all browsers even though the vast majority won’t need it. Running two builds is too annoying to set up in our workflow. The site loads fine on my MacBook Pro so why stress what Lighthouse says?<p>So on and so forth. For years I’ve heard that this isn’t a problem because all the extra developer productivity means they can move so much faster. It’s been long enough now that I’m comfortable dismissing that argument as nonsense. And many users are essentially trapped: for example, I bank with Chase and their web site is absolutely atrocious. I talk to friends and they say the same. But the UX of online banking is very rarely a reason for anyone to change bank so the product folks aren’t going to push for performance. It’s something developers have to proactively care about and as an industry we just don’t.<p>I hope eventually we see the industry change but for now it really feels like no-one cares. We’re prioritising the speed of the shovelling while ignoring the quantity of shit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hermitian909</author><text>&gt; all about developer experience and neglected user experience<p>I think this is a mix of good old cargo culting and how hot the dev market is. Small companies don&#x27;t have the leverage to tell their engineers &quot;no&quot; when they do a bit of resume driven development.<p>React makes sense for many of sites at larger tech companies paying big salaries because many of them are delivering a richer &quot;application&quot; experience. Some engineers blindly follow what &quot;better&quot; (massive air quotes) companies are doing. Others who want to work at these companies want the skills that will make them more hireable and so choose React. Devs who are not in either of these other camps make a small enough group they don&#x27;t generally get their way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Modern JavaScript has made the web worse (2020)</title><url>https://www.chaseaucoin.com/posts/why-npm-has-made-the-web-worse/?=ver=8e60f8174786794b7efe72ef69ff9ac2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afavour</author><text>IMO the biggest problem is that the industry became all about developer experience and neglected user experience.<p>Doing an analysis of the JS bundled with many major sites is an utter horror show: React is big and bloated, alternatives like Preact exist but no-one cares. React provides The Best Developer Experience so that is what we shall use. GraphQL is the cool thing to use these days so we’ll throw in a giant client library along with all our query text. Sure, browsers handle REST out of the box but that’s not what works best for our developers. We’ll use CSS in JS despite the performance being worse, it’s what our team likes. We’ll bundle a giant CoreJS shim to all browsers even though the vast majority won’t need it. Running two builds is too annoying to set up in our workflow. The site loads fine on my MacBook Pro so why stress what Lighthouse says?<p>So on and so forth. For years I’ve heard that this isn’t a problem because all the extra developer productivity means they can move so much faster. It’s been long enough now that I’m comfortable dismissing that argument as nonsense. And many users are essentially trapped: for example, I bank with Chase and their web site is absolutely atrocious. I talk to friends and they say the same. But the UX of online banking is very rarely a reason for anyone to change bank so the product folks aren’t going to push for performance. It’s something developers have to proactively care about and as an industry we just don’t.<p>I hope eventually we see the industry change but for now it really feels like no-one cares. We’re prioritising the speed of the shovelling while ignoring the quantity of shit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>addicted</author><text>I’d agree with you except for the fact that it’s really hard to say that developer experience today is better than what it was before. Especially once you adjust for the fact that browsers are so much better and standardized.</text></comment> |
41,369,394 | 41,369,337 | 1 | 2 | 41,365,868 | train | <story><title>Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/26/zuckerberg-meta-white-house-pressure-00176399</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tracker1</author><text>I feel an exchange tax that included loans would probably be a much better approach. Taxing seated&#x2F;parked assets, especially on the very wealthy seems like a recipe for disaster. So you have to sell, or leverage the property to pay taxes. What would trying to sell billions in stock at once, or leverage hundreds of thousands of rental properties look like to the larger economy, and what would the effect be? Also, who is going to be able to even buy the stuff, if everyone with enough money&#x2F;credit is scrambling to make huge tax layouts. Will you be able to deduct the interest on loans taken out to pay these taxes?<p>It&#x27;s not like the money is just sitting, liquid in a vault like Scrooge McDuck.</text></item><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>I wonder if this is coming up just before the election because of the Harris campaign’s suggested policy of capital gains tax on unrealised gains for people who have over $100m in assets? I think this is a great idea personally given what these people are doing to avoid paying tax including taking out loans against their own share portfolios. Worth thinking about what people are willing to do to not pay billions of dollars worth of taxes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danans</author><text>&gt; Taxing seated&#x2F;parked assets, especially on the very wealthy seems like a recipe for disaster.<p>Idea: tax loans taken out using assets as collateral at regular income tax rates. After all, that money gets used like regular income (living expenses).<p>The taxed amount can then be added to the basis when the asset is sold. It would be like reverse of depreciation calculations.<p>Set an asset and loan value floor so it only affects people with assets $10M+.<p>After all, regular people pay taxes on annuities, which are similar in structure.<p>Disclaimer: IANA-Accountant, but I am a taxpayer who tries to <i>legally</i> minimize my taxes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/26/zuckerberg-meta-white-house-pressure-00176399</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tracker1</author><text>I feel an exchange tax that included loans would probably be a much better approach. Taxing seated&#x2F;parked assets, especially on the very wealthy seems like a recipe for disaster. So you have to sell, or leverage the property to pay taxes. What would trying to sell billions in stock at once, or leverage hundreds of thousands of rental properties look like to the larger economy, and what would the effect be? Also, who is going to be able to even buy the stuff, if everyone with enough money&#x2F;credit is scrambling to make huge tax layouts. Will you be able to deduct the interest on loans taken out to pay these taxes?<p>It&#x27;s not like the money is just sitting, liquid in a vault like Scrooge McDuck.</text></item><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>I wonder if this is coming up just before the election because of the Harris campaign’s suggested policy of capital gains tax on unrealised gains for people who have over $100m in assets? I think this is a great idea personally given what these people are doing to avoid paying tax including taking out loans against their own share portfolios. Worth thinking about what people are willing to do to not pay billions of dollars worth of taxes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andy_ppp</author><text>I love your consideration for the financial problems of some of the most privileged people in all of human history. I just don’t really care that much if they get a big tax bill (I’m sure they’ll find a way to pay) and for a variety of reasons it will be good for society.</text></comment> |
31,735,365 | 31,735,366 | 1 | 2 | 31,734,604 | train | <story><title>Show HN: The Coinbase FOMO Calculator</title><url>https://vidacode.github.io/CoinbaseFomoCalculator/</url><text>Made this using Power BI and the Crypto Watch API.
Started making this in November 2021, but never got around to publishing it, so that is the reason for the &#x27;FOMO&#x27; in the title - probably a good thing if you &#x27;missed out&#x27; on the crypto hype late last year. Now it serves as a way to see how much you &#x27;saved&#x27; by not putting in money.<p>Hope someone finds it fun!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>fishtoaster</author><text>A good counter to &quot;I could have made $X bazillion if I&#x27;d gotten into Y thing at Z time&quot; is to remember that you could have doubled your money at the horse track yesterday by betting on the right horse at the right time.<p>So the only question is: what&#x27;s different between Y thing and horse betting? Did you have enough information at Z time to know you should have invested? Or are you just wishing you could have predicted the future?<p>Anyway, that&#x27;s the framing I use to counter the regret of not getting into any given asset that&#x27;s appreciated a lot in a short period: BTC, tesla stock, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramraj07</author><text>The issue is that many of us WeRE present and actively monitoring crypto. Heck I even tried to mine bitcoin back when you had a chance to mine one in your own gpu. I even thought maybe I’ll buy a coin or two; it’s only 20 bucks each!<p>But “better judgement” said that it’s a currency it shouldn’t appreciate so why bother unless you want to actually use it?<p>So if there’s regret it’s because many of us feel almost penalized for applying better judgement. It’s like you’re rewarded for stupidity. Not a single person I know and actually respect invested in crypto, and half brained idiots I know have become millionaires. So yeah this is not like horse betting.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: The Coinbase FOMO Calculator</title><url>https://vidacode.github.io/CoinbaseFomoCalculator/</url><text>Made this using Power BI and the Crypto Watch API.
Started making this in November 2021, but never got around to publishing it, so that is the reason for the &#x27;FOMO&#x27; in the title - probably a good thing if you &#x27;missed out&#x27; on the crypto hype late last year. Now it serves as a way to see how much you &#x27;saved&#x27; by not putting in money.<p>Hope someone finds it fun!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>fishtoaster</author><text>A good counter to &quot;I could have made $X bazillion if I&#x27;d gotten into Y thing at Z time&quot; is to remember that you could have doubled your money at the horse track yesterday by betting on the right horse at the right time.<p>So the only question is: what&#x27;s different between Y thing and horse betting? Did you have enough information at Z time to know you should have invested? Or are you just wishing you could have predicted the future?<p>Anyway, that&#x27;s the framing I use to counter the regret of not getting into any given asset that&#x27;s appreciated a lot in a short period: BTC, tesla stock, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rplnt</author><text>With BTC especially, my argument (to myself) is that if I weren&#x27;t lazy and got BTC at $20 I would have definitely sold at $100.</text></comment> |
12,781,171 | 12,780,654 | 1 | 3 | 12,778,824 | train | <story><title>Anti-patterns and Malpractices in Modern Software Development (2015)</title><url>https://medium.com/@bryanedds/living-in-the-age-of-software-fuckery-8859f81ca877#.aq7d22evm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snockerton</author><text>This is the same CYA attitude that I have been assuming the last 2 years because it&#x27;s such a frequent occurrence.<p>The only issue is that I still get blamed. I don&#x27;t know how many times I&#x27;ve repeated this scenario:<p>1. I highlight gap &#x2F; issue in code.<p>2. Team says, &quot;Need to ship; we&#x27;ll accept the risk&quot;<p>3. During go-live, fecal matter hits fan because of aforementioned gap in code.<p>4. Everyone acts surprised.<p>5. I point out that I mentioned it 2 months ago.<p>6. Everyone makes excuses &#x2F; claims they don&#x27;t remember it that way &#x2F; moves on to burn down another project.<p>7. I&#x27;m left to clean up a mess &#x2F; have taken a hit to my reputation.<p>Not sure what I&#x27;m doing wrong...</text></item><item><author>mi100hael</author><text>I generally agree with the author, but as a software developer, I try to stay much less emotionally attached to the end-result. If I have concerns about the long-term stability and viability of a code base, I&#x27;ll raise my concerns with the project manager or whomever&#x27;s making the decisions on what to prioritize. But if they don&#x27;t want to, that&#x27;s their prerogative. They&#x27;re higher on the chain of command than I am. I&#x27;m certainly not going to lose sleep over it. When the house of cards does come crashing down and it takes two weeks to add a simple feature due to tech debt, or worse, some bug surfaces that takes down a production deployment and takes more than an hour to fix, my ass is covered. I have an email trail raising concerns that went ignored.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bpyne</author><text>Perhaps you&#x27;re doing what I&#x27;m about to recommend already, but I can&#x27;t be sure based on what you wrote. It&#x27;s in regard to &quot;2. Team says, &quot;Need to ship; we&#x27;ll accept the risk&quot;.<p>If the Business Unit, for whom the software is being written, has a representative on your team, then make sure you explain the risk in purely business terms, not technical ones. A BU rep&#x27;s ears are going to perk up with statements like &quot;invalid posts may get written to the general ledger&quot; or &quot;1 in every 20 orders may get dropped&quot; rather than &quot;universally scoped variables are being overwritten by invalid data in some cases&quot; or &quot;uncommitted nested transactions may cause a core dump.&quot;<p>If your team doesn&#x27;t include a BU rep, then you could always get friendly with one and explain the potential risks over coffee or lunch. Perhaps even suggest some questions the rep should ask the team before the mod goes live.<p>In my situation, a BU rep is always part of the team and I rarely have other developers on the team. The reps and I have lunch together regularly anyway, so they get my opinions and recommendations that way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Anti-patterns and Malpractices in Modern Software Development (2015)</title><url>https://medium.com/@bryanedds/living-in-the-age-of-software-fuckery-8859f81ca877#.aq7d22evm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snockerton</author><text>This is the same CYA attitude that I have been assuming the last 2 years because it&#x27;s such a frequent occurrence.<p>The only issue is that I still get blamed. I don&#x27;t know how many times I&#x27;ve repeated this scenario:<p>1. I highlight gap &#x2F; issue in code.<p>2. Team says, &quot;Need to ship; we&#x27;ll accept the risk&quot;<p>3. During go-live, fecal matter hits fan because of aforementioned gap in code.<p>4. Everyone acts surprised.<p>5. I point out that I mentioned it 2 months ago.<p>6. Everyone makes excuses &#x2F; claims they don&#x27;t remember it that way &#x2F; moves on to burn down another project.<p>7. I&#x27;m left to clean up a mess &#x2F; have taken a hit to my reputation.<p>Not sure what I&#x27;m doing wrong...</text></item><item><author>mi100hael</author><text>I generally agree with the author, but as a software developer, I try to stay much less emotionally attached to the end-result. If I have concerns about the long-term stability and viability of a code base, I&#x27;ll raise my concerns with the project manager or whomever&#x27;s making the decisions on what to prioritize. But if they don&#x27;t want to, that&#x27;s their prerogative. They&#x27;re higher on the chain of command than I am. I&#x27;m certainly not going to lose sleep over it. When the house of cards does come crashing down and it takes two weeks to add a simple feature due to tech debt, or worse, some bug surfaces that takes down a production deployment and takes more than an hour to fix, my ass is covered. I have an email trail raising concerns that went ignored.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sopooneo</author><text>You have to win people over by making their lives easier or by making them look good. This does not necessarily have to be related to code or technology in any way.<p>Then, after people have a visceral positive feeling about you, make some tiny suggestion for improvement. Make the improvement, and whoever approved it, do something to make sure they associate your suggestion with a positive experience.<p>Slowly repeat. It is a slight selling of your soul. It is effective.</text></comment> |
18,662,539 | 18,661,982 | 1 | 2 | 18,661,483 | train | <story><title>Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password?</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/does-australias-access-and-assistance-law-impact-1password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ux-app</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s just them trying to save face. By all means the bill is in and the damage shall begin immediately.<p>I&#x27;m sick of all this idealism. Life is not a Disney movie. Labor did what they could under the circumstances. I hate it as much as anyone else, but c&#x27;mon, You can&#x27;t expect an opposition, who are in a very strong position right now to die on their sword for what is, for the vast majority of Australians, a fringe issue.</text></item><item><author>ehnto</author><text>I don&#x27;t buy it sorry. They failed to protect Australias best interests. This was their opportunity to stop it, not next year. It&#x27;s not like they haven&#x27;t had time to examine it, they know exactly what is in the bill. If it is no good then don&#x27;t let it go on until it is. It&#x27;s just them trying to save face. By all means the bill is in and the damage shall begin immediately.</text></item><item><author>ux-app</author><text>it&#x27;s bipartisan in the interests of pragmatism. Labor were forced to collude because idiot Scomo and his buddies decided to go for the cheap &quot;keep Aussies safe over Christmas&quot; banter. Labor capitulated with the proviso that the bill be reexamined next year. Let&#x27;s reserve judgement until then.</text></item><item><author>aplummer</author><text>Insanely it is bipartisan, I think only the greens voted against it.</text></item><item><author>danieltillett</author><text><i>Would an Australian employee of 1Password be forced to lie to us and do something that we would definitely object to?</i><p><i>We do not, at this point, know whether it will be necessary or useful to place extra monitoring on people working for 1Password who may be subject to Australian laws.</i><p>So not only does this idiotic law destroy the Australian software industry, it could prevent Australians from being hired outside Australia. Someone or some group in the Liberal&#x2F;National Party (the current government here in Australia) really, really, really hates developers.<p>Edit. Time for some Aussie geek civil disobedience I think.<p>Edit 2. We have a huge number of Aussie developers here on HN. Let&#x27;s use this to organise some sort of protest. Either that or we will all be off to Centrelink.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nothrabannosir</author><text><i>&gt; You can&#x27;t expect an opposition, who are in a very strong position right now to die on their sword for what is, for the vast majority of Australians, a fringe issue.</i><p>I think you make an intuitive point here that warrants attention: you’re not wrong, someone is free to “pick their battles”, and be strategical. And that’s fine.<p>However, when they do, they should face the consequences.<p>Supposedly, this is a fringe issue, and only the people on HN will care. So we shouldn’t chastise them for being strategical.<p>But you <i>are</i> on HN! This is where those few people are, who care! So this is where they are held to account. If nobody else does, great, then you were right and it was a fringe issue. But that’s not up to you to decide.<p>It’s essentially like a market. If Apple decides to “piss off” developers by removing the F keys, do we tell people on HN not to be crybabies because “it’s a fringe issue”? “You know they were right from their perspective, so keep buying Apple products”? No. Those who liked F keys enough will stop, and the market will decide how important it really was and who was right.<p>Same with political issues.<p>This is not idealism. This is people choosing their battles. The Australian government did. The people here do. Just a market for votes. Nothing idealistic about it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Does Australia's access and assistance law impact 1Password?</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/does-australias-access-and-assistance-law-impact-1password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ux-app</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s just them trying to save face. By all means the bill is in and the damage shall begin immediately.<p>I&#x27;m sick of all this idealism. Life is not a Disney movie. Labor did what they could under the circumstances. I hate it as much as anyone else, but c&#x27;mon, You can&#x27;t expect an opposition, who are in a very strong position right now to die on their sword for what is, for the vast majority of Australians, a fringe issue.</text></item><item><author>ehnto</author><text>I don&#x27;t buy it sorry. They failed to protect Australias best interests. This was their opportunity to stop it, not next year. It&#x27;s not like they haven&#x27;t had time to examine it, they know exactly what is in the bill. If it is no good then don&#x27;t let it go on until it is. It&#x27;s just them trying to save face. By all means the bill is in and the damage shall begin immediately.</text></item><item><author>ux-app</author><text>it&#x27;s bipartisan in the interests of pragmatism. Labor were forced to collude because idiot Scomo and his buddies decided to go for the cheap &quot;keep Aussies safe over Christmas&quot; banter. Labor capitulated with the proviso that the bill be reexamined next year. Let&#x27;s reserve judgement until then.</text></item><item><author>aplummer</author><text>Insanely it is bipartisan, I think only the greens voted against it.</text></item><item><author>danieltillett</author><text><i>Would an Australian employee of 1Password be forced to lie to us and do something that we would definitely object to?</i><p><i>We do not, at this point, know whether it will be necessary or useful to place extra monitoring on people working for 1Password who may be subject to Australian laws.</i><p>So not only does this idiotic law destroy the Australian software industry, it could prevent Australians from being hired outside Australia. Someone or some group in the Liberal&#x2F;National Party (the current government here in Australia) really, really, really hates developers.<p>Edit. Time for some Aussie geek civil disobedience I think.<p>Edit 2. We have a huge number of Aussie developers here on HN. Let&#x27;s use this to organise some sort of protest. Either that or we will all be off to Centrelink.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thomasfoster96</author><text>Labor quite clearly did not do what they could under the circumstances. If the Opposition is incapable of actually opposing something they had serious reservations about they aren’t really trying.</text></comment> |
22,005,702 | 22,005,730 | 1 | 2 | 22,005,181 | train | <story><title>Linus: Don't Use ZFS</title><url>https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpostid=189841</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hamuko</author><text>That&#x27;s his reasoning for not merging ZFS code, not for generally avoiding ZFS.</text></item><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>Here&#x27;s his reasoning:<p>&quot;honestly, there is no way I can merge any of the ZFS efforts until I get an official letter from Oracle that is signed by their main legal counsel or preferably by Larry Ellison himself that says that yes, it&#x27;s ok to do so and treat the end result as GPL&#x27;d.<p>Other people think it can be ok to merge ZFS code into the kernel and that the module interface makes it ok, and that&#x27;s their decision. But considering Oracle&#x27;s litigious nature, and the questions over licensing, there&#x27;s no way I can feel safe in ever doing so.<p>And I&#x27;m not at all interested in some &quot;ZFS shim layer&quot; thing either that some people seem to think would isolate the two projects. That adds no value to our side, and given Oracle&#x27;s interface copyright suits (see Java), I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s any real licensing win either.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>Here are his reasons for generally avoiding ZFS from what I consider most important to least.<p>- The kernel team may break it at any time, and won&#x27;t care if they do.<p>- It doesn&#x27;t seem to be well-maintained.<p>- Performance is not that great compared to the alternatives.<p>- Using it opens you up to the threat of lawsuits from Oracle. Given history, this is a real threat. (This is one that should be high for Linus but not for me - there is no conceivable reason that Oracle would want to threaten me with a lawsuit.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Linus: Don't Use ZFS</title><url>https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpostid=189841</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hamuko</author><text>That&#x27;s his reasoning for not merging ZFS code, not for generally avoiding ZFS.</text></item><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>Here&#x27;s his reasoning:<p>&quot;honestly, there is no way I can merge any of the ZFS efforts until I get an official letter from Oracle that is signed by their main legal counsel or preferably by Larry Ellison himself that says that yes, it&#x27;s ok to do so and treat the end result as GPL&#x27;d.<p>Other people think it can be ok to merge ZFS code into the kernel and that the module interface makes it ok, and that&#x27;s their decision. But considering Oracle&#x27;s litigious nature, and the questions over licensing, there&#x27;s no way I can feel safe in ever doing so.<p>And I&#x27;m not at all interested in some &quot;ZFS shim layer&quot; thing either that some people seem to think would isolate the two projects. That adds no value to our side, and given Oracle&#x27;s interface copyright suits (see Java), I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s any real licensing win either.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmilcin</author><text>The problem with ZFS is that it isn&#x27;t part of Linux kernel.<p>Linux project maintains compatibility with userspace software but it does not maintain compatibility with 3rd party modules and for a good reason.<p>Since modules have access to any internal kernel API it is not possible to change anything within kernel without considering 3rd party code, if you want to keep that code working.<p>For this reason the decision was made that if you want your module to work you need to make it part of Linux kernel and then if anybody refactors anything they need to consider modules they would be affecting by the change.<p>Not allowing the module to be part of the kernel is a disservice to your user base. While there are modules like that that are maintained moderately successfully (Nvidia, vmware, etc.) this is all at the cost of the user and userspace maintainers who have to deal with it.</text></comment> |
41,400,127 | 41,399,573 | 1 | 2 | 41,398,925 | train | <story><title>Rearchiving 2M hours of digital radio, a comprehensive process</title><url>https://digitalpreservation-blog.nb.no/blog/2024-08-28-rearchiving-2-million-hours-of-digital-radio/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>foobar1962</author><text>I was involved with two projects to digitise 20,000 hours each of analog audio and video: I built the database to select the tapes to digitise and manage their destruction. One was in the late 2000s the other 2020s.<p>One of the challenges for the project was finding working 1-inch analog video machines. The team scoured the world for machines, working or not, and managed to get several running. There is one particular part that fails, Sony only has a handful left and the machinery to make them is no longer available. When they are gone the media will be unplayable.<p>The data complexity was due in part to there being multiple version of various quality, a program can be split across multiple tapes, and tapes can have multiple programs. So they need to ensure that all tapes of the best versions were selected, and also know what parts of other programs were on the tapes – bonus material. Finally, it was common to re-use video tapes to save money so it was possible that rare fragments of other material could be found at the end of the expected programs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rearchiving 2M hours of digital radio, a comprehensive process</title><url>https://digitalpreservation-blog.nb.no/blog/2024-08-28-rearchiving-2-million-hours-of-digital-radio/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atombender</author><text>For context, this is the Norwegian National Library [1], which is tasked with archiving and preserving everything that is publicly published or broadcast in Norway. Similar to the U.S. Library of Congress.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nb.no&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nb.no&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
27,196,424 | 27,196,574 | 1 | 3 | 27,195,009 | train | <story><title>Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence</title><url>https://www.nber.org/papers/w28542</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ucha</author><text>The public underestimates the huge efforts that have been accomplished to prevent tax evasion in the last few years.<p>FATCA forces all signatories to report US tax payer info to the IRS no matter the country in which they have a bank account.<p>CRS signatories do the same thing for pretty much every country in the world and automatically exchange bank account information with the tax office of one&#x27;s country of residence.<p>Pretty much every offshore center requires identification of the UBO - Ultimate Beneficial Owner - of any tax structure in place.<p>It&#x27;s so so so much harder to open a bank account in a country in which one is not resident because the US has a very long reaching arm and frequently punishes sanctions banks or entire countries for failing to have proper anti-money laundering controls in place. Yes, banks can be fined, not because money laundering took place but just because the regulator decided that the controls in place are not sufficient.<p>Where does that leave us? On one hand, tax evasion is much harder. On the other, money has become a system of control. The government knows by default who has how much in their bank account. Banks are deputised with government powers and can lock your account merely on suspicion of a fraudulent transaction. When they freeze your funds, they are legally prohibited from telling you why. You essentially don&#x27;t own your money and there is no due process to have it seized. Developing countries are pretty much excluded from the modern financial system. It&#x27;s close to impossible to process financial transactions if you&#x27;re a software developer trying to sell your products but have the misfortune of living in Nigeria or Cuba.<p>It&#x27;s a modern aberration that the internet is so free yet the financial system isn&#x27;t at all but most people in developed countries aren&#x27;t affected by this so they simply don&#x27;t care. What&#x27;s the point of crypto when I can use venmo, right?<p>[edit] typo</text></comment> | <story><title>Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence</title><url>https://www.nber.org/papers/w28542</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>omarhaneef</author><text>It would be interesting to see this alongside the amount of tax avoided through regulatory capture in various industries. I assume that illegal tax avoidance is dwarfed by perfectly legal tax avoidance.</text></comment> |
31,804,521 | 31,804,286 | 1 | 3 | 31,799,414 | train | <story><title>Playstation confirms chain of 5 vulnerabilities on PS4/PS5</title><url>https://hackerone.com/reports/1379975</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>The disclosure timeline is interesting:<p>- theflow0
submitted a report to PlayStation.
Oct 25th (8 months ago)<p>- PlayStation rewarded theflow0 with a $20,000 bounty.
Nov 12th (7 months ago)<p>- shoshin_cup
PlayStation staff closed the report and changed the status to Resolved.
Apr 4th (3 months ago)<p>- theflow0
requested to disclose this report.
Apr 4th (3 months ago)<p>- sazerac
HackerOne staff agreed to disclose this report.
Jun 10th (9 days ago)<p>I generally refuse to participate in Bug bounty programs through intermediaries like HackerOne, because they severely restrict and delay your ability to disclose. After having been denied a bug bounty for reporting a vulnerability directly, and often spent frustrating amounts of time just trying to get a response even from major companies, I&#x27;ve basically given up completely on bug bounty programs, and will likely go for full disclosure in the future (with a note to the corresponding security team for awareness).<p>For smaller issues, the bounties often don&#x27;t even fairly compensate the (usually significant) effort spent communicating with the security team if you value your time at a competitive hourly rate, and payment is hit or miss. Not worth giving up your right to talk about the issues in exchange.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mandatum</author><text>Friend just disclosed a 7 vuln chain RCE in a Fortune20 company. Affected all cloud and on-prem versions.<p>They denied it as it was under NDA during a &quot;scheduled&quot; pentest (their client paid them to pentest and they alerted the vendor letting them know they&#x27;d be doing it during a 2 week period like most cloud vendors).<p>For someone to spend weeks developing that many vulnerabilities to get an RCE and then get nothing from the vendor other than &quot;haha technically we don&#x27;t have to pay you&quot; - there is zero reason to not go through agencies that sell to governments (ZDI, Zerodium, etc).<p>You&#x27;ll get paid and now the bug won&#x27;t get patched.<p>Congratulations vendor, you played yourself.</text></comment> | <story><title>Playstation confirms chain of 5 vulnerabilities on PS4/PS5</title><url>https://hackerone.com/reports/1379975</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>The disclosure timeline is interesting:<p>- theflow0
submitted a report to PlayStation.
Oct 25th (8 months ago)<p>- PlayStation rewarded theflow0 with a $20,000 bounty.
Nov 12th (7 months ago)<p>- shoshin_cup
PlayStation staff closed the report and changed the status to Resolved.
Apr 4th (3 months ago)<p>- theflow0
requested to disclose this report.
Apr 4th (3 months ago)<p>- sazerac
HackerOne staff agreed to disclose this report.
Jun 10th (9 days ago)<p>I generally refuse to participate in Bug bounty programs through intermediaries like HackerOne, because they severely restrict and delay your ability to disclose. After having been denied a bug bounty for reporting a vulnerability directly, and often spent frustrating amounts of time just trying to get a response even from major companies, I&#x27;ve basically given up completely on bug bounty programs, and will likely go for full disclosure in the future (with a note to the corresponding security team for awareness).<p>For smaller issues, the bounties often don&#x27;t even fairly compensate the (usually significant) effort spent communicating with the security team if you value your time at a competitive hourly rate, and payment is hit or miss. Not worth giving up your right to talk about the issues in exchange.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robocat</author><text>From a $ perspective, most bug bounty programs look rather uneconomic to me, which I presume is by design.<p>Bounty programs require a hacker to reveal their secret. That cripples a hacker’s negotiation strength, and the hacker cedes nearly all control (as you point out).<p>Are there any organisations which can authenticate a vulnerability, without the hacker revealing the vulnerability itself?<p>Vulnerability authentication seems like a hard problem:<p>* powerful adversaries will wish to “steal” the vulnerability for themselves,<p>* the hacker will want to remain anonymous,<p>* the hacker needs to believe they will be safe and their vulnerability will not be stolen,<p>* legal, social, and financial incentives would be difficult to align for such an organisation to even exist. In a “safe jurisdiction” three-letter-agency and legal issues would probably be prohibitive (can’t aid extortion etcetera), and in other looser jurisdictions there would be powerful dark threats (far dominating over any legal issues).<p>* in most markets authentication is handled by organisations doing repeat transactions so that their incentive is to be trustworthy. However in this market government or blackhat organisations will want to create fronts or suborn organisations.<p>I guess on the dark markets there are authentication options for black hats. Any links to discussions about that?<p>Can vulnerability authentication be solved for white hats?</text></comment> |
20,938,298 | 20,938,394 | 1 | 2 | 20,937,555 | train | <story><title>How the UK Security Services neutralised The Guardian</title><url>https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-09-11-how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Angostura</author><text>As I understand it, the Guardian had previously always considered D-notice requests and had usually acquiesced. However, it decided that Snowden was so important that it took the pretty unprecedented step of ignoring them.<p>This made the intelligence services particularly dischuffed.<p>Post-Snowden the status-quo was re-established.<p>It remains to be seen whether the Guardian would ignore D-notices again, if something else of the magnitude of Snowden came along - I hope it would use its judgement and do so, if necessary. I&#x27;m not <i>necessarily</i> against newspapers considering requests from the intelligence service not to publish something for good reason - it can end up with people dying. It&#x27;s a tough decision an editor has to make.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the UK Security Services neutralised The Guardian</title><url>https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-09-11-how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guiriduro</author><text>The article clearly demonstrates that The Guardian has become a shadow of its former self - pro-Establishment, anti-Assange, anti-Corbyn&#x2F;Labour, all of its trustworthy intelligence reporters having left. Something of an open secret to be honest, how it now arrogates to pretend to still be &quot;Left&quot;-leaning but is nothing of the sort, under editorship veering from amateurish to clearly complicit.</text></comment> |
39,172,505 | 39,169,115 | 1 | 2 | 39,166,678 | train | <story><title>When the "R" goes missing from R&D (2021)</title><url>https://madned.substack.com/p/when-the-r-goes-missing-from-r-and</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>btbuildem</author><text>Tangential, but it seems to me that as organizations grow, more and more resources are poured into everything other than what made them successful in the first place. Bureaucracy grows, hierarchies increase, teams upon teams organize, things are envisioned and realized and KPId, volumes of messages and emails shift back and forth, endless hours are met in meetings...<p>At the same time, productivity is reduced, actual communication diminished, gatekeepers slow everything and everyone down, fiefdoms form with their territorial turf wars, naked emperors run amok fanned by yes-men. On average three people out of a hundred are doing something actually useful, while the company slowly loses its grip on whatever niche monopoly has allowed it to so grotesquely exist thus far.<p>Everyone else is gradually PTSD&#x27;d into a corpo version of Homo Sovieticus, filling out time sheets and RTO attendance records while duly marching towards V17 in the most recent two-year plan, aligned with the corporate values writ large on the HR site&#x27;s main banner.</text></comment> | <story><title>When the "R" goes missing from R&D (2021)</title><url>https://madned.substack.com/p/when-the-r-goes-missing-from-r-and</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>debacle</author><text>In my experience, this was likely entirely driven by one person, my guess would be two levels above the author in the org chart. It&#x27;s sometimes frighteningly easy to convince business leaders that the dev teams are wasting a ton of time, doing the wrong thing, etc. It&#x27;s even easier when that direction is coming from a consultant (might not be in this case, but I&#x27;ve seen it happen a few times).<p>Someone who was supposed to be advocating for their team (maybe the author&#x27;s boss) wasn&#x27;t, or was being out-advocated by others, and that led to breakdowns. As a manager, I keep a lot of KPIs and do a lot of postmortems (lean), because you need to be able to counter the gut feeling of &quot;development should be faster.&quot;</text></comment> |
31,452,576 | 31,451,472 | 1 | 2 | 31,450,713 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’</title><text>Over the past few years I&#x27;ve met people who are really good programmers when it comes to putting together a full back end system , creating a very nice front end or creating any kind of app for that matter.<p>Many of these people are fresh out of college and the ‘industry’ puts them through leetcode&#x2F;hackerrank style rounds that are needlessly hard. I’ve seen the kind of questions these rounds have and quite frankly, if I graduated this year, there’s no way I’m going to get a job.<p>Ever since &#x27;Cracking the coding interview&#x27; was released, every company&#x27;s interview process has become like Google&#x27;s and Google didn&#x27;t have a particularly great interview process to start with.[0][1]<p>Now, there are several GitHub repositories that prescribe 3-4 month grinds on leetcode questions to &quot;crack&quot; the interview. And people do go through this grind.<p>The people who do manage to crack these rounds are not necessarily good at programming either because the time they spent doing competitive programming stuff should have been spent learning to build actual things.<p>The no-whiteboard companies are very few, hardly ever seem to have openings and not hiring junior engineers.<p>What would be your advice be to fresh college graduates, or anybody for that matter, who are good at programming but not at leetcode? Surely there must be a way to demonstrate their understanding of algorithms without having to spend 3-4 months memorising riddles<p>[0] homebrew creator.. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mxcl&#x2F;status&#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en
[1] Zed Shaw gets offered a sys admin job
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=93984</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>colinmhayes</author><text>Here&#x27;s the thing, large tech companies aren&#x27;t looking to hire engineers, especially juniors, who are great at being an engineer because that&#x27;s incredibly hard to test for in an interview and almost impossible to scale fairly. They&#x27;re looking for people who will devote their life to the company and can quickly learn new skills. That&#x27;s exactly what leetcode tests for, so it really isn&#x27;t surprising at all that every tech company does leetcode interviews. Really the answer is either commit to the grind or go for a job at a non-tech company.</text></item><item><author>throwaway1777</author><text>I disagree with this take to an extent. Take it to the other extreme and you get folks who can’t even solve fizzbuzz. So some coding bar is good.<p>Leetcode is a very learnable skill, and I would argue any decent programmer can learn it well enough to pass an interview. I for years thought I wasn’t good at it, then I actually practiced and I got job offers at google and Facebook. I have also optimized code quite a few times using algorithm skills I picked up practicing for interviews so it’s not totally a waste.<p>There is a limit though, and some companies are pushing it with absurd questions that you couldn’t reasonably solve unless you had seen it before.<p>In summary, algorithms are useful and learnable, but some companies take it too far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hermitian909</author><text>&gt; They&#x27;re looking for people who will devote their life to the company and can quickly learn new skills<p>This doesn&#x27;t reflect my lived experience in SV. People I know who learned leetcode skills and got into big companies usually work less than people who passed more practical tests and get into smaller companies.<p>I&#x27;d say big companies are trying to hire employees who are a &quot;good&quot; mix of:<p>1. Smart<p>2. Conscientious &#x2F; willing to work hard on the right things<p>3. Existing CS knowledge you know well enough to explain and apply.<p>For some vague handwavy definition of &quot;good&quot;<p>(2) is probably worth expanding a bit. Many people are willing to work very hard on <i>the wrong thing</i>, this extends to engineering. As an example, a common failure pattern you might see is someone constantly struggling with how React works and what they really need to do is sit down and read the ~15 pages of documentation. But they never do, and just keep putting in 10 hour days with subpar output.<p>I&#x27;ve met some legit geniuses (think Putnam winner) for whom basically no studying was required to pass these interviews. Companies paying top dollar are happy to have them. For people like who are less smart and need to dedicate ~100-200 hours of focused studying and practice, companies paying top dollar are happy to take our mix of smarts and willingness to do that work. But once in the company I haven&#x27;t noticed any expectation to &quot;devote my life&quot; to it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’</title><text>Over the past few years I&#x27;ve met people who are really good programmers when it comes to putting together a full back end system , creating a very nice front end or creating any kind of app for that matter.<p>Many of these people are fresh out of college and the ‘industry’ puts them through leetcode&#x2F;hackerrank style rounds that are needlessly hard. I’ve seen the kind of questions these rounds have and quite frankly, if I graduated this year, there’s no way I’m going to get a job.<p>Ever since &#x27;Cracking the coding interview&#x27; was released, every company&#x27;s interview process has become like Google&#x27;s and Google didn&#x27;t have a particularly great interview process to start with.[0][1]<p>Now, there are several GitHub repositories that prescribe 3-4 month grinds on leetcode questions to &quot;crack&quot; the interview. And people do go through this grind.<p>The people who do manage to crack these rounds are not necessarily good at programming either because the time they spent doing competitive programming stuff should have been spent learning to build actual things.<p>The no-whiteboard companies are very few, hardly ever seem to have openings and not hiring junior engineers.<p>What would be your advice be to fresh college graduates, or anybody for that matter, who are good at programming but not at leetcode? Surely there must be a way to demonstrate their understanding of algorithms without having to spend 3-4 months memorising riddles<p>[0] homebrew creator.. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mxcl&#x2F;status&#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en
[1] Zed Shaw gets offered a sys admin job
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=93984</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>colinmhayes</author><text>Here&#x27;s the thing, large tech companies aren&#x27;t looking to hire engineers, especially juniors, who are great at being an engineer because that&#x27;s incredibly hard to test for in an interview and almost impossible to scale fairly. They&#x27;re looking for people who will devote their life to the company and can quickly learn new skills. That&#x27;s exactly what leetcode tests for, so it really isn&#x27;t surprising at all that every tech company does leetcode interviews. Really the answer is either commit to the grind or go for a job at a non-tech company.</text></item><item><author>throwaway1777</author><text>I disagree with this take to an extent. Take it to the other extreme and you get folks who can’t even solve fizzbuzz. So some coding bar is good.<p>Leetcode is a very learnable skill, and I would argue any decent programmer can learn it well enough to pass an interview. I for years thought I wasn’t good at it, then I actually practiced and I got job offers at google and Facebook. I have also optimized code quite a few times using algorithm skills I picked up practicing for interviews so it’s not totally a waste.<p>There is a limit though, and some companies are pushing it with absurd questions that you couldn’t reasonably solve unless you had seen it before.<p>In summary, algorithms are useful and learnable, but some companies take it too far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikymoothrowa</author><text>&gt; an quickly learn new skills. That&#x27;s exactly what leetcode tests for<p>I don’t know where people get this idea. Leetcode used to test programming proficiency<p>I feel the only reason companies continue to take leetcode to absurd levels is because (a) they think harder questions would get them better engineers and (b) other companies are doing it</text></comment> |
22,965,830 | 22,961,755 | 1 | 2 | 22,959,587 | train | <story><title>The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52394485</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>royletron</author><text>My partner is taking part in the trial in Oxford. So far there was a bit of an anomaly on her blood work so they&#x27;re bringing in her in for another round of tests but I&#x27;m happy to ask her to share (or allow me to share by proxy) her experience. Obviously she has no idea whether she is in the control group or not.</text></comment> | <story><title>The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52394485</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twic</author><text>The thing i like most about this vaccine is that it&#x27;s a T-cell vaccine.<p>Very broadly speaking, the adaptive immune system has two arms.<p>One arm, humoral immunity, is about detecting foreign substances in the spaces outside cells: B-cells make antibodies, antibodies inspect molecules floating around, a match triggers the B-cells to proliferate and make more antibodies, and then antibodies tell macrophages and various other brutal cells to destroy and eat everything in sight, resulting in inflammation, but hopefully killing the invader.<p>The other arm, cellular immunity, is about detecting foreign proteins inside cells: T-cells make T-cell receptors, T-cell receptors inspect peptides presented on the surface of cells through some amazing machinery culminating in the MHC I protein, a match triggers the T-cells to proliferate, and the T-cells themselves go round triggering self-destruction of cells presenting the foreign peptides.<p>(I&#x27;m leaving out MHC II and helper T cells here, let alone T-regulatory cells, gamma delta T cells and all sorts of other things i don&#x27;t know about)<p>Both wings are useful in response to a viral infection, but ultimately, the cellular immunity is key. Viruses commandeer and replicate inside cells, so to stop an infection, you need to find and kill those cells. Cellular immunity does that.<p>Vaccines based on injecting proteins or dead viruses can only develop humoral immunity. Vaccines based on modified viruses, like this one, can also develop cellular immunity.<p>In theory. So far, there are no T-cell vaccines.</text></comment> |
28,117,491 | 28,117,404 | 1 | 2 | 28,115,791 | train | <story><title>Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine</title><url>https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-next-with-a-virtual-machine?view=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codetrotter</author><text>&gt; Years ago I acquired and refurbished a NeXT cube. They were certainly a distinctive-looking computer for the day, but I don&#x27;t know that there was anything particularly special bout the hardware that was worth recreating. The software was the interesting bit.<p>A modern computer running the whole thing in emulation is not the same though.<p>Whereas for example an FPGA implementation, that’s in line with my idea of “build your own NeXT”. Even though someone might say, that’s emulation too. And they’d be correct in a way. But like, do you see what I mean?</text></item><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>In this particular case it seems reasonably fair, because this is recreating what NeXT had become by the end. While they did continue shipping units for a couple years after the pivot, NeXT&#x27;s focus on building hardware didn&#x27;t even last half the period between the company&#x27;s founding and its acquisition by Apple.<p>Years ago I acquired and refurbished a NeXT cube. They were certainly a distinctive-looking computer for the day, but I don&#x27;t know that there was anything particularly special bout the hardware that was worth recreating. The software was the interesting bit.</text></item><item><author>ragingrobot</author><text>While it&#x27;s neat to be able to run the actual OS, the title as provided from the blog is a bit misleading. Adafruit also did something similar a few days ago with Solaris.
I may be the only one as I see no one else has commented so, but when I read &quot;build your own...&quot; I&#x27;m thinking the actual hardware, or compatible. They should call these articles something like &quot;Run XXX OS and software on your existing machine.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tablespoon</author><text>&gt;&gt; Years ago I acquired and refurbished a NeXT cube....<p>&gt; A modern computer running the whole thing in emulation is not the same though.<p>&gt;&gt; Whereas for example an FPGA implementation, that’s in line with my idea of “build your own NeXT”.<p>But the OP is not that. IIRC, there were two distinct versions of NeXTSTEP: a 68k version for their custom hardware, and a x86 version for PCs. The OP is setting up VM for the latter (which given its age does not seem like a trivial thing, either).<p>So if you must have an FPGA version, it would be equally equivalent to have one that simulates a mid-90s IBM clone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine</title><url>https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-next-with-a-virtual-machine?view=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codetrotter</author><text>&gt; Years ago I acquired and refurbished a NeXT cube. They were certainly a distinctive-looking computer for the day, but I don&#x27;t know that there was anything particularly special bout the hardware that was worth recreating. The software was the interesting bit.<p>A modern computer running the whole thing in emulation is not the same though.<p>Whereas for example an FPGA implementation, that’s in line with my idea of “build your own NeXT”. Even though someone might say, that’s emulation too. And they’d be correct in a way. But like, do you see what I mean?</text></item><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>In this particular case it seems reasonably fair, because this is recreating what NeXT had become by the end. While they did continue shipping units for a couple years after the pivot, NeXT&#x27;s focus on building hardware didn&#x27;t even last half the period between the company&#x27;s founding and its acquisition by Apple.<p>Years ago I acquired and refurbished a NeXT cube. They were certainly a distinctive-looking computer for the day, but I don&#x27;t know that there was anything particularly special bout the hardware that was worth recreating. The software was the interesting bit.</text></item><item><author>ragingrobot</author><text>While it&#x27;s neat to be able to run the actual OS, the title as provided from the blog is a bit misleading. Adafruit also did something similar a few days ago with Solaris.
I may be the only one as I see no one else has commented so, but when I read &quot;build your own...&quot; I&#x27;m thinking the actual hardware, or compatible. They should call these articles something like &quot;Run XXX OS and software on your existing machine.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nuclearnice1</author><text>Maybe the next four words of the title provide the required clarification?<p>“Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine”</text></comment> |
3,845,220 | 3,845,122 | 1 | 2 | 3,844,965 | train | <story><title>Reed Hastings: Comcast no longer following net neutrality principles</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/reed1960/posts/10150706947044584</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wmf</author><text>There is some ambiguity about where bandwidth accounting should take place: on the last mile link between the customer and Comcast or the transit link(s) between Comcast and the Internet. Comcast claims that anything coming from a server inside Comcast itself (e.g. Xfinity) should not count against the cap because it causes no congestion; this assumes that the cap exists only to prevent congestion on the transit side. I suspect that this is all just post facto justification, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gst</author><text>Does this mean that I can just limit my Bittorrent client to only connect to peers in Comcast's network, if I don't want Bittorrent traffic to count against my quota?</text></comment> | <story><title>Reed Hastings: Comcast no longer following net neutrality principles</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/reed1960/posts/10150706947044584</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wmf</author><text>There is some ambiguity about where bandwidth accounting should take place: on the last mile link between the customer and Comcast or the transit link(s) between Comcast and the Internet. Comcast claims that anything coming from a server inside Comcast itself (e.g. Xfinity) should not count against the cap because it causes no congestion; this assumes that the cap exists only to prevent congestion on the transit side. I suspect that this is all just post facto justification, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonster</author><text>The obvious next step is for Comcast to start a CDN inside their network and start selling CDN services to other companies, so that material served from the CDN doesn't count against customers' caps. They can claim that this doesn't violate net neutrality principles, but the consequences would be the same: Comcast can use their ISP monopoly to keep their foothold in the content delivery business.<p>The real danger to the open internet will come when wireless carriers get in on this action. Since nearly all wireless data plans offer tiny amounts of bandwidth as compared to wired broadband, there's a much greater incentive for users to use services that won't count against their caps...</text></comment> |
33,682,961 | 33,682,601 | 1 | 3 | 33,680,852 | train | <story><title>10 KB Club: Curated list of websites whose home pages do not exceed 10 KB size</title><url>https://10kbclub.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>I don&#x27;t care about how big a page is. I care how fast it loads.<p>And some of these pages fail that test badly. For example, sdf.org takes a whopping 1.60 seconds for the home page GET request to return a single byte.<p>I&#x27;d like to see a new leaderboard of &#x27;instant&#x27; pages. An instant page is one where a typical user click has the result fully rendered inside 100 milliseconds (almost imperceptible latency).</text></comment> | <story><title>10 KB Club: Curated list of websites whose home pages do not exceed 10 KB size</title><url>https://10kbclub.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonsarris</author><text>It seems like every dev I know has the idea of making a minimalist website. I guess I would much rather see a curated list of beautiful (in some unique way) websites than another 1000 minimalist websites.</text></comment> |
2,397,339 | 2,397,344 | 1 | 2 | 2,396,936 | train | <story><title>Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions?</title><text>Every year the Internet goes through this lame ritual of making up stuff and trying to pretend it's real. Very little of it is believable. Even less of it, funny. I can through the submissions today and I see at least half, just by the title, are lame April Fool's submissions.<p>Can we just skip it?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedsmith</author><text>What do you think, 2.5/10? I didn't put a lot of effort into it.</text></item><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>you sly dog!</text></item><item><author>jedsmith</author><text>There's a SubHN for April Fool's submissions, /hn/aprilfools. Blame the community for not using it properly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ErrantX</author><text>More. See the reason I despise April Fools nowadays isn't because of the day itself... the problem is that the "pranks" aren't pranks any more, it is just people doing silly or stupid things for the lulz.<p><i>That</i> was a proper "prank", if a simple one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions?</title><text>Every year the Internet goes through this lame ritual of making up stuff and trying to pretend it's real. Very little of it is believable. Even less of it, funny. I can through the submissions today and I see at least half, just by the title, are lame April Fool's submissions.<p>Can we just skip it?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedsmith</author><text>What do you think, 2.5/10? I didn't put a lot of effort into it.</text></item><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>you sly dog!</text></item><item><author>jedsmith</author><text>There's a SubHN for April Fool's submissions, /hn/aprilfools. Blame the community for not using it properly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexyim</author><text>7/10. Got me for a split second as I was moving my cursor to highlight the text</text></comment> |
35,337,466 | 35,336,833 | 1 | 2 | 35,335,165 | train | <story><title>A brief history of APFS (2022)</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2022/04/01/a-brief-history-of-apfs-in-honour-of-its-fifth-birthday/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>risho</author><text>I never really used anything in the apple ecosystem until the m1 came out. It was such an interesting device that I wound up picking it up.<p>I was reading about macos&#x27; history with filesystems a while back and apparently they were considering switching to zfs at some point but instead decided to design apfs as their own in house next gen filesystem. In my experience with it it seems to lack almost all of the features that would have made zfs interesting. One of the most obvious usecases would be for something like time machine. I have a parallels virtual machine that is hundreds of gigabytes in size and as far as I can tell that each time you modify even a single byte in that vm it will need to backup the entire file all over again. not only is this infeasible in the amount of space it would require it&#x27;s also infeasible in that every time I do a backup i would need to spend the time transfering the whole thing all over again. this is also one of the biggest problems that next gen filesystems were designed to solve. is it really the case that apple&#x27;s next generation filesystem doesn&#x27;t support snapshots or block level replication when one of their most obvious usecases for it would be time machine backups?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ribit</author><text>APFS does have snapshots and at least the local TM backups heavily use them (it takes a fraction of a second to perform a local TM backup). TM backups to disk also seem to be organised as snapshots and have become much much faster in the recent macOS versions, so I don&#x27;t think it does only copy changed blocks (but I can&#x27;t be sure).<p>What I would love for APFS to have thought is block-level deduplication. Seems like an obvious fit for an SSD-optimized COW system anyway, surprised they haven&#x27;t implemented it.</text></comment> | <story><title>A brief history of APFS (2022)</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2022/04/01/a-brief-history-of-apfs-in-honour-of-its-fifth-birthday/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>risho</author><text>I never really used anything in the apple ecosystem until the m1 came out. It was such an interesting device that I wound up picking it up.<p>I was reading about macos&#x27; history with filesystems a while back and apparently they were considering switching to zfs at some point but instead decided to design apfs as their own in house next gen filesystem. In my experience with it it seems to lack almost all of the features that would have made zfs interesting. One of the most obvious usecases would be for something like time machine. I have a parallels virtual machine that is hundreds of gigabytes in size and as far as I can tell that each time you modify even a single byte in that vm it will need to backup the entire file all over again. not only is this infeasible in the amount of space it would require it&#x27;s also infeasible in that every time I do a backup i would need to spend the time transfering the whole thing all over again. this is also one of the biggest problems that next gen filesystems were designed to solve. is it really the case that apple&#x27;s next generation filesystem doesn&#x27;t support snapshots or block level replication when one of their most obvious usecases for it would be time machine backups?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kalleboo</author><text>It made a lot of sense for Apple to adopt ZFS back when they were shipping spinning rust hard disks and PowerMacs had room for multiple drives, but now that they&#x27;re shipping soldered-in integrated flash drives with their own storage controller in the SoC, it probably makes more sense to them to put features like encryption and error correction in their storage controller rather than the file system, and then have a file system which is far more lightweight (so they can ship the same FS on a wristwatch as on a 20-core Mac).<p>APFS does have snapshots but I don&#x27;t think it has replication.<p>Time Machine is so bad and has seen so little work, I feel like Apple really wants to drop it and move everyone to iCloud subscriptions instead. And yet they still don&#x27;t have a cloud backup product, which is even stranger.</text></comment> |
17,523,276 | 17,521,246 | 1 | 3 | 17,520,809 | train | <story><title>How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational database</title><url>http://blog.memsql.com/nosql/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stickfigure</author><text>Everyone seems to want to compare against MongoDB, but when I think NoSQL I think about Google Cloud Datastore and Amazon DynamoDB. Databases which are fully hosted, infinitely scalable, zero-maintenance, transactional, reliable, and - at least with Google&#x27;s offering - scales down to a free tier. They aren&#x27;t perfect or applicable in every situation, but they&#x27;re cheap and easy enough to allow a one- or two-programmer team to achieve massive scale without hiring devops.<p>MemSQL is so expensive you have to call for a quote.<p>If it&#x27;s just &quot;the ability to scale&quot; then sure, SQL is back on the menu. MemSQL, Spanner, CockroachDB are leading the charge and that&#x27;s great! But you have to pay a pretty penny for it (in TCO). There&#x27;s still a lot of value in a cheap fire-and-forget scalable database, and there are not currently any SQL options there.<p>Regarding schemaless: I think this is a divide between people who work in dynamic languages vs people who work in statically typed languages. Schemaless databases are just fine in languages like Java; your classes define the schema with enough rigidity to keep you out of trouble. They wouldn&#x27;t be my choice for Javascript though, that&#x27;s for sure.</text></comment> | <story><title>How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational database</title><url>http://blog.memsql.com/nosql/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antirez</author><text>Redis is not mentioned here at all so maybe the author is thinking mostly of other NoSQL software here, but well, in the case of Redis the whole point was not just the in-memory performance part, but the data model as well. My claim is that you can&#x27;t really exploit the advantage of using memory if you perpetuate in using the memory to represent the same data model that you were using with relational databases. For instance think at Redis sorted sets in the use case of leaderboards in popular games (the same pattern is used in a number of applications that have nothing to do with games). To use SQL, even an in memory one, in such use case is not going to work. So in the case of Redis the point was to remove the interface between the user and the way the data is actually fetched from data structures, to make the user do the choices in a very direct way. Thus this article does not apply to Redis in my opinion. I&#x27;ve the feeling that many other NoSQL products could argument like that, but in other areas of their research and difference. For instance I&#x27;ve issues to see how modern SQL systems can replace CRDTs based stores.</text></comment> |
18,663,793 | 18,663,281 | 1 | 2 | 18,661,890 | train | <story><title>Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionization Push</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-12/employees-at-amazon-s-new-nyc-warehouse-launch-unionization-push</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nimbius</author><text>to the employees at Amazon trying to unionize: good luck...this is a hard hard road in the US.<p>I worked for a large automotive repair chain briefly in 2007 that eventually unionized after 3 years. working conditions were absolutely miserable and unsafe. The garage pit for oil changes caught fire twice in a year due to lack of maintenance from management. At some point our oil heating system burst before christmas and we were all made to work with no heat over new years. we habitually hired anyone with a pulse and paid the price in OSHA violations until our insurance dropped us. the last straw was when someone lost half their foot under a jerry-rigged lift that management wouldnt fix for a year.<p>Once we did get a union, management closed the shop and chained the doors. six of our long-timers and a very nice local doctor got together and bought the property from the franchise owner out of bankruptcy. The Local 701 chipped in and helped re-brand the shop and even replaced the aging air compressors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionization Push</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-12/employees-at-amazon-s-new-nyc-warehouse-launch-unionization-push</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Rainymood</author><text>My gripe with the American unionization debacle is that it&#x27;s a self-fulfilling prophecy, you&#x27;re the pillars keeping the problem standing. It&#x27;s the same with tipping. If everyone suddenly stopped tipping, then people would not have enough wages to meet their obligations. This results in people not being able to pay rent etc., however, this also leads to a walk-out of the servers that don&#x27;t want to work for under minimum wage anymore. The problem is that people that are tipping and servers that are encouraging the tipping are keeping the problem alive.<p>It&#x27;s the same thing with unionization, unionization is beneficial for workers, yet everyone keeps undercutting each other to stay afloat and meet their obligations. Because people can not properly cooperate and work together you are stuck in this bad equilibrium where companies have so much power over you.<p>That being said, this exploitation of the working class has lead to a lot of technological innovation coming from the USA, let&#x27;s not forget that. Of course, this has lead to a huge inequality and divide in social class and wealth.<p>So that concludes my rant basically. Your attitude towards these kind of problems is complex, but completely human and understandable. No complex question has a simple answer ... but I think that this is a step in the right direction.<p>I want to conclude that I&#x27;m a European, so if you feel like I completely missed the mark, please feel free to open a dialogue with me!</text></comment> |
26,666,933 | 26,664,623 | 1 | 2 | 26,660,504 | train | <story><title>Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against South African variant</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2BO55Y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chmod600</author><text>Does anyone expect covid to be a significant cause of death in the US past, say, May 15? I guess if we get another wave very soon, maybe it could persist. But it just seems like this is on its way out between organic immunity and vaccine immunity (especially because the latter was focused on the vulnerable).<p>I&#x27;m not an expert, so don&#x27;t take this as advice to go coughing on everyone. But we all have to make some decisions based on imperfect information and it seems like covid is nearly knocked out.<p>There is some concern over another wave, but it might just be minor cases from unvaccinated young people. That hopefully won&#x27;t lead to a lot more deaths.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kmonsen</author><text>I think May 15 is a bit early, but if you say for example 4th of July I think you are correct. At least by that date everyone who wants a vaccine in the US should be able to get it. And they do work incredibly well, enough to lift all restrictions and even start traveling again. I fully expect to be able to go home to Europe to visit family and have some vacation by the end of the summer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pfizer 91% effective in updated data, protective against South African variant</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2BO55Y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chmod600</author><text>Does anyone expect covid to be a significant cause of death in the US past, say, May 15? I guess if we get another wave very soon, maybe it could persist. But it just seems like this is on its way out between organic immunity and vaccine immunity (especially because the latter was focused on the vulnerable).<p>I&#x27;m not an expert, so don&#x27;t take this as advice to go coughing on everyone. But we all have to make some decisions based on imperfect information and it seems like covid is nearly knocked out.<p>There is some concern over another wave, but it might just be minor cases from unvaccinated young people. That hopefully won&#x27;t lead to a lot more deaths.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roywiggins</author><text>We are already seeing the beginning of a new wave in Michigan.<p>&gt; But she said the most significant increase in hospitalizations in the state is in people in their 50s, a group still at risk of becoming severely ill or dying from Covid-19. Younger people have driven the rapid increase in cases recently, she said, including high school students who participate in sports and have contracted the virus through those activities.<p>&gt; “I do think this could be the beginning of a third surge,” Dr. Khaldun said, after an initial rush of cases in Michigan last March and April, followed by a surge in October and November. “I am concerned. But I also think there are things that we can do today that will start to turn that curve down.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;01&#x2F;us&#x2F;michigan-covid-outbreak.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;01&#x2F;us&#x2F;michigan-covid-outbrea...</a></text></comment> |
27,958,474 | 27,957,423 | 1 | 3 | 27,956,082 | train | <story><title>Japanese Typewriters</title><url>https://blog.gatunka.com/2009/09/30/japanese-typewriters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Normille</author><text>Interesting article. There&#x27;s also one on how typing Japanese is done on modern computers:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.gatunka.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;12&#x2F;using-a-japanese-ime&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.gatunka.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;12&#x2F;using-a-japanese-ime&#x2F;</a><p>It all sounds horribly complicated, although it may be one of those procedures that&#x27;s easier to do than to describe.<p>These kind of writing systems really don&#x27;t seem suited to being input via a conventional keyboard, even with software assistance.<p>I wonder if things will change [or have changed] with the advent of touch screens and styluses? [stylii?] which would allow the characters to be written manually, using finger or stylus and then have the software convert this to the appropriate typed character?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mratzloff</author><text>It&#x27;s very straightforward, and although typing speed is not quite the same as English (for me, at least, although I am not a native speaker), it&#x27;s not wildly different.<p>Typing a Japanese word or phrase is just like typing in English, with the exception of selecting the appropriate kanji from a list (no mouse or stylus required). An experienced typist can do this very quickly, on a physical keyboard or on a smartphone.<p>For a word like &quot;Japanese&quot; (language), i.e., Nihongo or 日本語, it&#x27;s actually fewer keystrokes than in English: 5 vs. 8, or 9 if you count the space afterward since Japanese doesn&#x27;t have the same spacing requirements.</text></comment> | <story><title>Japanese Typewriters</title><url>https://blog.gatunka.com/2009/09/30/japanese-typewriters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Normille</author><text>Interesting article. There&#x27;s also one on how typing Japanese is done on modern computers:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.gatunka.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;12&#x2F;using-a-japanese-ime&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.gatunka.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;09&#x2F;12&#x2F;using-a-japanese-ime&#x2F;</a><p>It all sounds horribly complicated, although it may be one of those procedures that&#x27;s easier to do than to describe.<p>These kind of writing systems really don&#x27;t seem suited to being input via a conventional keyboard, even with software assistance.<p>I wonder if things will change [or have changed] with the advent of touch screens and styluses? [stylii?] which would allow the characters to be written manually, using finger or stylus and then have the software convert this to the appropriate typed character?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>Technically it&#x27;s incredibly complicated, unreliable and crazy it even works at all. The upside is that mobile phones have the same problem space, and Japanese was ready from get go to deal with autocomplete on crammed touchscreens.<p>From a user point of view, you get used to it and it&#x27;s not so bad after a while. The irritating parts (e.g. having to get back to the middle of your sentence to fix a typo otherwise the surrounding characters are also messed up) are offset by the ease to input emoji, pictograms, or basically any unicode char. you remember the name is a godsend ♡</text></comment> |
11,558,465 | 11,558,378 | 1 | 2 | 11,558,007 | train | <story><title>GSL – a Universal Code Generator</title><url>https://github.com/imatix/gsl</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickpsecurity</author><text>A great write-up on his theory of model-driven development and the tech that underpinned most of iMatix:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjB6cDQq6bMAhUHxiYKHYd5COEQFgglMAE&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.imatix.com%2Fmop%2Fintroduction.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNGvrPkahZqX2MPIGZfJXWPEyiar7w&amp;bvm=bv.119745492,d.eWE&amp;cad=rja" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;c...</a><p>Their website is a slide-show demonstrating their amazing work:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imatix.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imatix.com&#x2F;</a><p>Generating servers from state machines and such:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hintjens.com&#x2F;blog:75" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hintjens.com&#x2F;blog:75</a><p>SMT kernel for portable, multi-threaded, fast code:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;legacy.imatix.com&#x2F;html&#x2F;smt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;legacy.imatix.com&#x2F;html&#x2F;smt&#x2F;</a><p>Web server (old and new)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xitami" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xitami</a>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xitami.wikidot.com&#x2F;main:start" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xitami.wikidot.com&#x2F;main:start</a><p>One of best middleware ever
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zeromq.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zeromq.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>GSL – a Universal Code Generator</title><url>https://github.com/imatix/gsl</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matt4077</author><text>Is there a fundamental difference to template systems such as erb? Because I&#x27;m having a hard time seeing it (except the academic prose and the subtle horror xml always causes me).</text></comment> |
26,617,872 | 26,617,803 | 1 | 2 | 26,616,454 | train | <story><title>Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work [pdf]</title><url>https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-data/pdf/0d556e45afc54afeb2eb6b51a9bc1827b9961ff4.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>Little crafty trick: grab the flickr dataset (yfcc100m) and snag photos tagged as whatever you want. It&#x27;s like a janky google image search. I&#x27;ve put together datasets of airplanes, bicycles, dogs, etc this way.<p>It&#x27;s not entirely accurate, but it&#x27;s good enough. Within a few hours you can have a pretty large dataset of whatever you want, really. (Yay for massive dataset plus user tags.)<p>You can snag a copy from my server, if you want. (Warning: It&#x27;s a direct link to a 54GB json file.) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;battle.shawwn.com&#x2F;sdc&#x2F;f100m&#x2F;yfcc100m_dataset.json" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;battle.shawwn.com&#x2F;sdc&#x2F;f100m&#x2F;yfcc100m_dataset.json</a><p>I have a script called &quot;janky-image-search&quot; that returns random results from searching this dataset. Here are a few random hits for `janky-image-search ceiling`:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;35981213@N00&#x2F;9374577304" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;35981213@N00&#x2F;9374577304</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;farm3.staticflickr.com&#x2F;2084&#x2F;2513539756_7a768de44c.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;farm3.staticflickr.com&#x2F;2084&#x2F;2513539756_7a768de44c.jp...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;96453841@N00&#x2F;7077625757&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;96453841@N00&#x2F;7077625757&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;28742299@N04&#x2F;4683245369&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;28742299@N04&#x2F;4683245369&#x2F;</a><p>etc.<p>The quality is hit or miss, but it seems better than 70%.<p>EDIT: Here&#x27;s a gallery of the first 100 hits for &quot;ceiling&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.gather.town&#x2F;storage.googleapis.com&#x2F;gather-town.appspot.com&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;&#x2F;8COCgBeMAjI2etwdmTEJSB?:id=ceiling.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.gather.town&#x2F;storage.googleapis.com&#x2F;gather-town.a...</a><p>But as you can see, it&#x27;s not effortless. Most of those ceilings are old. So it depends what you want. It&#x27;s why labeled data is worth billions of dollars (scale.ai et al).</text></item><item><author>sanxiyn</author><text>Real story. I worked on nudity detection for mobile realtime video chat app with on-device deep learning model. (It was successful.) Should be easy: label some data, start from a good network pretrained on ImageNet (we used SqueezeNet), fine tune. The problem was that ImageNet is photos, not video frames, and distribution of video frames from mobile video is somewhat different. Incredibly large proportion of frames are either blank (camera is blocked) or ceiling (camera is misdirected). We ended up adding lots of data for blank and ceiling explicitly labeled as blank and ceiling. It became an excellent ceiling detector, detecting ceilings it never have seen before.<p>Is there a mobile video frames dataset for labeling ceilings? Why not? I can&#x27;t believe I am the only one who experienced this. Why is not a ceiling dataset worthy of, say, CVPR? It will improve mobile video on-device deep learning more than most of CVPR papers. This is a serious problem.<p>Edit: I understand why niche datasets remain in industry and not academia. Public datasets are better if they are of general interest. But ceiling dataset is of general interest to anyone who wants to process video frames originating from blocked or misdirected camera aka smartphones, and it&#x27;s hard to imagine topics of more general interest once you have obvious things like face.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willvarfar</author><text>Super neat!<p>(Small detail: the first 100 hits for ceilings are all _interesting_ ceilings? Nothing like the kind of ceilings usually encountered on a video chat app?)</text></comment> | <story><title>Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work [pdf]</title><url>https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-data/pdf/0d556e45afc54afeb2eb6b51a9bc1827b9961ff4.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>Little crafty trick: grab the flickr dataset (yfcc100m) and snag photos tagged as whatever you want. It&#x27;s like a janky google image search. I&#x27;ve put together datasets of airplanes, bicycles, dogs, etc this way.<p>It&#x27;s not entirely accurate, but it&#x27;s good enough. Within a few hours you can have a pretty large dataset of whatever you want, really. (Yay for massive dataset plus user tags.)<p>You can snag a copy from my server, if you want. (Warning: It&#x27;s a direct link to a 54GB json file.) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;battle.shawwn.com&#x2F;sdc&#x2F;f100m&#x2F;yfcc100m_dataset.json" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;battle.shawwn.com&#x2F;sdc&#x2F;f100m&#x2F;yfcc100m_dataset.json</a><p>I have a script called &quot;janky-image-search&quot; that returns random results from searching this dataset. Here are a few random hits for `janky-image-search ceiling`:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;35981213@N00&#x2F;9374577304" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;35981213@N00&#x2F;9374577304</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;farm3.staticflickr.com&#x2F;2084&#x2F;2513539756_7a768de44c.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;farm3.staticflickr.com&#x2F;2084&#x2F;2513539756_7a768de44c.jp...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;96453841@N00&#x2F;7077625757&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;96453841@N00&#x2F;7077625757&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;28742299@N04&#x2F;4683245369&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;28742299@N04&#x2F;4683245369&#x2F;</a><p>etc.<p>The quality is hit or miss, but it seems better than 70%.<p>EDIT: Here&#x27;s a gallery of the first 100 hits for &quot;ceiling&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.gather.town&#x2F;storage.googleapis.com&#x2F;gather-town.appspot.com&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;&#x2F;8COCgBeMAjI2etwdmTEJSB?:id=ceiling.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.gather.town&#x2F;storage.googleapis.com&#x2F;gather-town.a...</a><p>But as you can see, it&#x27;s not effortless. Most of those ceilings are old. So it depends what you want. It&#x27;s why labeled data is worth billions of dollars (scale.ai et al).</text></item><item><author>sanxiyn</author><text>Real story. I worked on nudity detection for mobile realtime video chat app with on-device deep learning model. (It was successful.) Should be easy: label some data, start from a good network pretrained on ImageNet (we used SqueezeNet), fine tune. The problem was that ImageNet is photos, not video frames, and distribution of video frames from mobile video is somewhat different. Incredibly large proportion of frames are either blank (camera is blocked) or ceiling (camera is misdirected). We ended up adding lots of data for blank and ceiling explicitly labeled as blank and ceiling. It became an excellent ceiling detector, detecting ceilings it never have seen before.<p>Is there a mobile video frames dataset for labeling ceilings? Why not? I can&#x27;t believe I am the only one who experienced this. Why is not a ceiling dataset worthy of, say, CVPR? It will improve mobile video on-device deep learning more than most of CVPR papers. This is a serious problem.<p>Edit: I understand why niche datasets remain in industry and not academia. Public datasets are better if they are of general interest. But ceiling dataset is of general interest to anyone who wants to process video frames originating from blocked or misdirected camera aka smartphones, and it&#x27;s hard to imagine topics of more general interest once you have obvious things like face.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sanxiyn</author><text>I found that people don&#x27;t upload misdirected ceiling photos and videos to YouTube and Flickr. How unfortunate. Yes, it&#x27;s better than nothing.</text></comment> |
29,992,167 | 29,991,856 | 1 | 2 | 29,991,585 | train | <story><title>Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager</title><url>https://bitwarden.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>I just switched to it from LastPass which, well, has <i>even worse</i> UX in my opinion. It&#x27;s an extremely low bar to clear and I agree Bitwarden is quirky too, but for me it&#x27;s still firmly been an upgrade.<p>The only thing I miss is an &quot;add to bitwarden?&quot; dialog when I sign up somewhere. Their docs say it exists but I&#x27;ve never managed to get it to appear :-)</text></item><item><author>neon_me</author><text>Love Bitwarden, I personally onboarded dozen … but they must heavily invest in UI&#x2F;UX and fix their apps (+ extensions) It’s not easy and intuitive for non-techies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>That&#x27;s because web developers are not great at sticking to conventions and standards for this stuff. Product owners and UX designers seem to ignore aligning their signup and signin UX with obvious requirements for enabling people to use a password manager. If they&#x27;d make this a hard requirement, it would happen.<p>It&#x27;s not that hard even; we did that for our login form. Works great with Bitwarden. And on mobile too. But you have to know how to name things so that password managers can do their magic.<p>Frequent mistakes caused by essentially ignorance on this front:<p>- Splitting the email and password form across two screens. That somehow became fashionable. There are ways to do this and not break password managers. But why do this at all? Having to click the fill button twice is ugly and should be flagged as a bug if you ever see that. There&#x27;s no need for that regardless of the UX.<p>- Having a login form but then not using field names like &quot;email&quot; and &quot;password&quot; that a password manager would recognize as such. There are a few more things you need to think about: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hiddedevries.nl&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018-01-13-making-password-managers-play-ball-with-your-login-form" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hiddedevries.nl&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018-01-13-making-password-m...</a>. Just do it right.<p>- Not having password managers on the radar as a thing that the UX MUST support (not optional). Non technical people like designers and product owners tend to be a bit sloppy with their own security and they won&#x27;t necessarily even be aware this is a thing that they need to worry about. So, they don&#x27;t notice when it doesn&#x27;t work. They probably don&#x27;t even use a password manager themselves. And they certainly won&#x27;t test it.<p>- Developers not caring enough to do anything about this unprompted; by e.g. just raising the topic with their PMs or just implementing things correctly to begin with. I&#x27;ve actually brought up this topic and usually this is not controversial at all and simple to resolve.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager</title><url>https://bitwarden.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>I just switched to it from LastPass which, well, has <i>even worse</i> UX in my opinion. It&#x27;s an extremely low bar to clear and I agree Bitwarden is quirky too, but for me it&#x27;s still firmly been an upgrade.<p>The only thing I miss is an &quot;add to bitwarden?&quot; dialog when I sign up somewhere. Their docs say it exists but I&#x27;ve never managed to get it to appear :-)</text></item><item><author>neon_me</author><text>Love Bitwarden, I personally onboarded dozen … but they must heavily invest in UI&#x2F;UX and fix their apps (+ extensions) It’s not easy and intuitive for non-techies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NoboruWataya</author><text>&gt; The only thing I miss is an &quot;add to bitwarden?&quot; dialog when I sign up somewhere. Their docs say it exists but I&#x27;ve never managed to get it to appear :-)<p>I have seen this occasionally but it is fairly random and unreliable. And then sometimes it pops up for stuff I clearly don&#x27;t want to save, like OTP.</text></comment> |
33,311,715 | 33,311,557 | 1 | 2 | 33,309,969 | train | <story><title>Gamification affects software developers: Cautionary evidence from GitHub</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02371</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>c7DJTLrn</author><text>I really don&#x27;t like how GitHub has turned into a social network of sorts. The gamified elements are encouraging people to work for free and MS probably knows this. GitHub should just be a place to host and build code, not to flex your follower or star count. Some examples of gamified elements I find quite toxic:<p><pre><code> * Achievements on profiles
* Highlights on profiles
* &quot;Activity overview&quot; which shows an extremely flawed gauge of the work you&#x27;re doing (Code review, Issues, etc)</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>I saw it today in someone who announced a package and in their README had a gif of a mouse clicking to add a &quot;star&quot; to the repo. Like the youtube videos that ask you to &quot;like and subscribe&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gamification affects software developers: Cautionary evidence from GitHub</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02371</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>c7DJTLrn</author><text>I really don&#x27;t like how GitHub has turned into a social network of sorts. The gamified elements are encouraging people to work for free and MS probably knows this. GitHub should just be a place to host and build code, not to flex your follower or star count. Some examples of gamified elements I find quite toxic:<p><pre><code> * Achievements on profiles
* Highlights on profiles
* &quot;Activity overview&quot; which shows an extremely flawed gauge of the work you&#x27;re doing (Code review, Issues, etc)</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r3trohack3r</author><text>This is the social commentary where OSS and freedom respecting software intersect. It was called upfront when the split happened.<p>Don&#x27;t build FOSS for others. Build it for yourself and package it for others. Expect contributions. It&#x27;s okay to expect your users to contribute. It&#x27;s okay to push back and expect them to contribute. It&#x27;s okay to say no to PRS because you don&#x27;t have time to review them. It&#x27;s okay to not have the time to say you don&#x27;t have the time.<p>Personally, package management solutions fall short of the FOSS goal for me. Hard to start with a package and float my own changes. Hard to fork and maintain my own version. The whole push for staying on mainline and pushing that burden of the original author is a symptom IMO.</text></comment> |
20,410,358 | 20,409,967 | 1 | 2 | 20,409,558 | train | <story><title>Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-disables-walkie-talkie-app-due-to-vulnerability-that-could-allow-iphone-eavesdropping/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abalone</author><text>I&#x27;ve found that it&#x27;s pretty easy to get people to inadvertently accept FaceTime calls if you continuously spam them. (I was on the receiving end of this attack.) Here&#x27;s how it works.<p>1- It&#x27;s very easy and instantaneous to redial someone on FaceTime if they decline your call. You can just spam the call button and the target will get a continuous ring, basically.<p>2- Even if they turn on Do Not Disturb, many people have &quot;Repeated Calls&quot; enabled, which lets repeat FaceTime calls break through Do Not Disturb. Neat!<p>3- Now they are frustrated and want to throw their phone in a bucket of water to shut it up. The only way to block you is now to get your &quot;info&quot; in the recent callers list, scroll down and hit the &quot;Block this caller&quot; option. However the constant stream of incoming FaceTime calls takes over the UI every couple seconds.<p>As they fiddle with their phone trying to navigate to your info and&#x2F;or hit decline, eventually they inadvertently hit accept, and you see their face.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to eavesdropping vulnerability</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-disables-walkie-talkie-app-due-to-vulnerability-that-could-allow-iphone-eavesdropping/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>donkeyd</author><text>I have to say, I think it&#x27;s great that Apple doesn&#x27;t try to do damage control on their reputation, but instead does damage control toward the customer. They could&#x27;ve kept the service working, created a fix and silently pushed it, but they didn&#x27;t.</text></comment> |
19,051,678 | 19,051,680 | 1 | 2 | 19,051,541 | train | <story><title>Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/apple-ban-google-data-app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coder543</author><text>I hope all of the publicity this gets will somehow bring more attention to how much control Apple exerts over the iOS app ecosystem, and maybe bring change there.<p>I think developers should be able to distribute their apps outside of the App Store if they want, just like on macOS and Android, but Apple is allowed to have this much control because the iPhone doesn&#x27;t represent the majority of the market, so they aren&#x27;t as subject to monopoly&#x2F;antitrust stuff.<p>I can still hope that Apple will open up their mobile platform further, one day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marricks</author><text>They seem to be the only body capable (and willing) to enforce privacy measures, so god I hope your wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/apple-ban-google-data-app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coder543</author><text>I hope all of the publicity this gets will somehow bring more attention to how much control Apple exerts over the iOS app ecosystem, and maybe bring change there.<p>I think developers should be able to distribute their apps outside of the App Store if they want, just like on macOS and Android, but Apple is allowed to have this much control because the iPhone doesn&#x27;t represent the majority of the market, so they aren&#x27;t as subject to monopoly&#x2F;antitrust stuff.<p>I can still hope that Apple will open up their mobile platform further, one day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stuart78</author><text>Developers are able to distribute their apps outside of the App Store, on Android.<p>There is a lot about Apple&#x27;s restrictive approach I don&#x27;t care for, most notably forcing digital subscriptions to run through App Store billing, but being the single point of entry for apps onto the phone is a feature, not a bug. I trust the content on Apple devices far more than I would those on an Android device.</text></comment> |
15,336,369 | 15,335,992 | 1 | 3 | 15,334,207 | train | <story><title>Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking</title><url>https://notes.ayushsharma.in/2017/09/im-killing-disqus-comments-on-my-blog-heres-why</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ploggingdev</author><text>Shameless plug : As someone who was fed up with Disqus, I decided to build my own commenting platform ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hostedcomments.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hostedcomments.com&#x2F;</a> ) with a focus on privacy : no ads, no tracking scripts. Having come across numerous instances of people complaining about Disqus and some even willing to pay for an alternative, I realized that this could potentially be turned into a SaaS. You can see the commenting system in action here : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ploggingdev.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;building-a-disqus-alternative-part-1--research&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ploggingdev.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;08&#x2F;building-a-disqus-altern...</a><p>Any feedback is welcome.<p>Edit : If you&#x27;re interested, you can register and add comments to your website. Currently there are no limitations on user accounts and there is no payment processing built in to the signup flow, so no CC required.</text></comment> | <story><title>Disqus comments adding third-party ad-tracking</title><url>https://notes.ayushsharma.in/2017/09/im-killing-disqus-comments-on-my-blog-heres-why</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>greggman</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this article is correct.<p>As the blog owner you opt into ads on your blog in disqus. If you don&#x27;t want the ads go check the settings in the disqus control panel and all 3rd party requests disappear.<p>checking my own blogs using disqus I see no 3rd party requests at all with my ad blocks off</text></comment> |
35,108,099 | 35,106,165 | 1 | 2 | 35,105,528 | train | <story><title>“Clean Code, Horrible Performance” Discussion</title><url>https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/cleancodeqa.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nayuki</author><text>At some point in my programmer career I figured out that optimizing for human comprehension, a.k.a. &quot;clean code&quot;, is a valid goal.<p>I watched Casey&#x27;s video in full and agree with all the points he made. But as others pointed out, he focus on squeezing every bit of performance in the context of real-time video game logic, and this isn&#x27;t representative of every programming problem.<p>As an addendum to Casey&#x27;s video, another popular technique for squeezing more performance is to invert the normal array-of-structs to a struct of arrays, as it tremendously improves SIMD&#x2F;vectorization. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AoS_and_SoA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AoS_and_SoA</a><p>For a lot of things that I work on, simply having correct, complete, working code is most of the battle. Execution performance takes a backseat to development time, data acquisition time, human analysis of the problem space and generated output, etc. So by default, I follow Knuth&#x27;s advice that premature optimization is the root of all evil. I write clean code but go into Casey mode when the numbers justify it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>martinhath</author><text>&gt; At some point in my programmer career I figured out that optimizing for human comprehension, a.k.a. &quot;clean code&quot;, is a valid goal.<p>Nobody is arguing against comprehensible code. Caseys video is not about clean code in general, but &quot;Clean Code&quot; as presented e.g. in the book by Robert Martin, which contains a bunch of code I would not classify as &quot;clean&quot; by any metric.<p>&gt; But as others pointed out, he focus on squeezing every bit of performance in the context of real-time video game logic<p>He doesn&#x27;t, though. The &quot;Clean Code, Horrible Performance&quot; video is an excerpt from his course called &quot;Performance-Aware Programming&quot;, where he explicitly says many times that the course isn&#x27;t at all about &quot;optimization&quot;, but merely being &quot;performance aware&quot;. This isn&#x27;t highlighted in the video though, so getting the full context is difficult.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Clean Code, Horrible Performance” Discussion</title><url>https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/cleancodeqa.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nayuki</author><text>At some point in my programmer career I figured out that optimizing for human comprehension, a.k.a. &quot;clean code&quot;, is a valid goal.<p>I watched Casey&#x27;s video in full and agree with all the points he made. But as others pointed out, he focus on squeezing every bit of performance in the context of real-time video game logic, and this isn&#x27;t representative of every programming problem.<p>As an addendum to Casey&#x27;s video, another popular technique for squeezing more performance is to invert the normal array-of-structs to a struct of arrays, as it tremendously improves SIMD&#x2F;vectorization. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AoS_and_SoA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AoS_and_SoA</a><p>For a lot of things that I work on, simply having correct, complete, working code is most of the battle. Execution performance takes a backseat to development time, data acquisition time, human analysis of the problem space and generated output, etc. So by default, I follow Knuth&#x27;s advice that premature optimization is the root of all evil. I write clean code but go into Casey mode when the numbers justify it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thethirdone</author><text>I don&#x27;t think Casey would object to &quot;optimizing for human comprehension&quot;. If you are willing to give up an order of magnitude of performance, you can probably just do it without much care.<p>I agree that &quot;optimizing for human comprehension&quot; is a worthy goal, but it is very hard to actually know what is easiest for humans to understand. I don&#x27;t think that guidelines like &quot;clean code&quot; actually are particularly effective at making understandable code. My personal guideline is to prefer code which is &quot;simple&quot; for both humans and computers.<p>&gt; So by default, I follow Knuth&#x27;s advice that premature optimization is the root of all evil. I write clean code but go into Casey mode when the numbers justify it.<p>I hold the controversial opinion that Knuth&#x27;s advice is not relevant to most modern programmers. Most modern programmers have never done the &quot;optimization&quot; that Knuth was referring to in 1974. Optimizing only the hotspots of your program is very relevant technique, but if you write terribly performant code everywhere, there won&#x27;t be significant hotspots. Everything will be lukewarm.</text></comment> |
29,274,865 | 29,274,458 | 1 | 2 | 29,272,923 | train | <story><title>Google Play permitting alternative billing systems for users in South Korea</title><url>https://developers-kr.googleblog.com/2021/11/enabling-alternative-billing-in-korea-en.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xenadu02</author><text>Everyone keeps repeating this assumed idea that it&#x27;s &quot;just&quot; a payment processing fee which is simply not true and never has been.<p>The fee is for:
- access to install base and customer relationship
- funds development of the platform, SDK, and tools
- funds development of the store
- funds operation of the store
- profit for the company
- last and least: payment processing<p>Could those things be funded differently? Yes... but it would require a radical restructuring of the way mobile platforms work that would not be favorable to startups or independents. It would also lead to massive fracturing of the customer relationship, lower trust, and ultimately shrink the total dollars spent on software (though the big players would make more money). People trust Apple or Google with their credit card. They know the platform requires all subscriptions show up in one place and they don&#x27;t need to call and argue with a sales rep to cancel. Be prepared for all of that to disappear when it becomes a free-for-all. Stop pretending this kind of &quot;freedom&quot; is completely free of consequences even for those who don&#x27;t take advantage of that &quot;freedom&quot;.</text></item><item><author>forgotmyoldacc</author><text>Am I reading this correctly?<p>&gt; We recognize, however, that developers will incur costs to support their billing system, so when a user selects alternative billing, we will reduce the developer’s service fee by 4%. For example, for the vast majority of developers who pay 15% for transactions through Google Play&#x27;s billing system, their service fee for transactions through the alternate billing system would be 11%.<p>You have to pay a 11% fee for using someone else&#x27;s billing system when buying an in-app purchase, if that app was downloaded from the Play store?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greatgib</author><text>Each time someone use the straw man argument that they have costs to cover and that they still need to do a profit, just go back looking at facts:<p>&lt;&lt;Google Play Had a Profit of $8.5 Billion in 2019 With Margins of 62 Percent. According to court filings unsealed&gt;&gt;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thurrott.com&#x2F;mobile&#x2F;android&#x2F;254978&#x2F;google-play-had-a-profit-of-8-5-billion-in-2019-with-margins-of-62-percent" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thurrott.com&#x2F;mobile&#x2F;android&#x2F;254978&#x2F;google-play-h...</a><p>So, no, with indecent margins like that, you can&#x27;t justify them using their monopoly to racket app developers with fees that are unrelated to the usage of the service.<p>Imagine if everyone was doing the same in real life, that would look absurd:<p>- your power utility provider requiring that you pay to them 10% of your business income because you use electricity somehow and they have costs and need to do profit<p>- the postal service requiring you to pay 15% of the bills you send by email through their online service or 10% of the bills you send by any other provider just because you benefit from receiving standard letters in your home mailbox. Just because they have costs and they need to do fat profits.<p>- Ikea forcing you to give them 11% on your business incomes because you use a desk
and a chair that you bought there in your office. For the same reasons...</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Play permitting alternative billing systems for users in South Korea</title><url>https://developers-kr.googleblog.com/2021/11/enabling-alternative-billing-in-korea-en.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xenadu02</author><text>Everyone keeps repeating this assumed idea that it&#x27;s &quot;just&quot; a payment processing fee which is simply not true and never has been.<p>The fee is for:
- access to install base and customer relationship
- funds development of the platform, SDK, and tools
- funds development of the store
- funds operation of the store
- profit for the company
- last and least: payment processing<p>Could those things be funded differently? Yes... but it would require a radical restructuring of the way mobile platforms work that would not be favorable to startups or independents. It would also lead to massive fracturing of the customer relationship, lower trust, and ultimately shrink the total dollars spent on software (though the big players would make more money). People trust Apple or Google with their credit card. They know the platform requires all subscriptions show up in one place and they don&#x27;t need to call and argue with a sales rep to cancel. Be prepared for all of that to disappear when it becomes a free-for-all. Stop pretending this kind of &quot;freedom&quot; is completely free of consequences even for those who don&#x27;t take advantage of that &quot;freedom&quot;.</text></item><item><author>forgotmyoldacc</author><text>Am I reading this correctly?<p>&gt; We recognize, however, that developers will incur costs to support their billing system, so when a user selects alternative billing, we will reduce the developer’s service fee by 4%. For example, for the vast majority of developers who pay 15% for transactions through Google Play&#x27;s billing system, their service fee for transactions through the alternate billing system would be 11%.<p>You have to pay a 11% fee for using someone else&#x27;s billing system when buying an in-app purchase, if that app was downloaded from the Play store?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&gt; access to install base and customer relationship<p>This is the rent seeking that everybody is objecting to.<p>&gt; funds development of the platform, SDK, and tools<p>The platform is open source. So if you want to use someone else&#x27;s tools then you shouldn&#x27;t have to pay this part, right?<p>&gt; funds development of the store - funds operation of the store<p>The cost of providing this is negligible. Many alternative stores and repositories do it for free. It accounts for zero percent of the cost of anything.<p>&gt; profit for the company<p>Profit isn&#x27;t a separate thing. The cost of payment processing already includes the profit of the payment processor etc.<p>&gt; last and least: payment processing<p>Which is the only thing left, so if you&#x27;re using someone else as payment processor...<p>It&#x27;s the &quot;access to install base and customer relationship&quot; that they&#x27;re really sticking it to you for, and that&#x27;s the illegitimate one.</text></comment> |
11,273,634 | 11,273,150 | 1 | 3 | 11,272,678 | train | <story><title>Jo - JSON output from a shell</title><url>https://github.com/jpmens/jo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>networked</author><text>Neat. An ad hoc alternative to this if you have Python 2.7 handy and can&#x27;t or don&#x27;t want to compile C code could be something like<p><pre><code> $ python -c &#x27;import json, sys;\
kv = sys.argv[1::];\
v = [int(x) if x.isdigit() else eval(x.title()) if x in [&quot;false&quot;, &quot;true&quot;]\
else x for x in kv[1::2]];\
print json.dumps(dict(zip(kv[::2], v)), ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
&#x27; key1 value1 key2 &#x27;string value 2&#x27; number 5589 boolean1 true boolean2 false
</code></pre>
which produces the output<p><pre><code> {
&quot;key2&quot;: &quot;string value 2&quot;,
&quot;key1&quot;: &quot;value1&quot;,
&quot;number&quot;: 5589,
&quot;boolean2&quot;: false,
&quot;boolean1&quot;: true
}
</code></pre>
I, for one, am excited to hear that native JSON (and XML, and HTML) output is coming to FreeBSD&#x27;s userland courtesy of libxo (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.freebsd.org&#x2F;LibXo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.freebsd.org&#x2F;LibXo</a>). I hope GNU Core Utilities eventually go the same way or a full-featured alternative appears for Linux that does.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jo - JSON output from a shell</title><url>https://github.com/jpmens/jo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>techdragon</author><text>Awesome complimentary program to the `jq` tool.<p>However... I do wish the name was `json` not `jo`. In my case more for personal reasons regarding painful memories attached to the name &#x27;Jo&#x27;, but I also think the tool creates JSON, so why not call it `json` or `jp` short for &#x27;json print&#x27; ... but the matter appears settled. Oh well.</text></comment> |
41,605,406 | 41,605,158 | 1 | 3 | 41,604,262 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion</title><url>https://container-desktop.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moondowner</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using Rancher Desktop as an alternative to Docker Desktop, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rancherdesktop.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rancherdesktop.io&#x2F;</a> on macOS and Windows, it&#x27;s pretty solid.<p>It has some kinks to work out but I got it working with IDEs too (e.g. the Intellij IDEA Docker Compose integration to work with it).<p>What I also like is that existing scripts and etc that use the docker-compose cli work with Rancher Desktop too, as it uses nerdctl <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;containerd&#x2F;nerdctl">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;containerd&#x2F;nerdctl</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PufPufPuf</author><text>Rancher Desktop is great, because kubernetes just works. Not only that, you can &quot;docker build&quot; an image, and then immediately spin it up as a kubernetes pod, without spending ten minutes googling the correct commands to correctly &quot;load&quot; the image.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion</title><url>https://container-desktop.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moondowner</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using Rancher Desktop as an alternative to Docker Desktop, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rancherdesktop.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rancherdesktop.io&#x2F;</a> on macOS and Windows, it&#x27;s pretty solid.<p>It has some kinks to work out but I got it working with IDEs too (e.g. the Intellij IDEA Docker Compose integration to work with it).<p>What I also like is that existing scripts and etc that use the docker-compose cli work with Rancher Desktop too, as it uses nerdctl <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;containerd&#x2F;nerdctl">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;containerd&#x2F;nerdctl</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaqureshi</author><text>Been using Rancher Desktop for 2 years, can definitely recommend this as an alternative to Docker Desktop.</text></comment> |
14,571,898 | 14,570,551 | 1 | 3 | 14,568,468 | train | <story><title>Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-16/amazon-to-buy-whole-foods?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wooter</author><text>name a single commune as successful or operating at the scale of Whole Foods or Amazon. in history.</text></item><item><author>throwaway91111</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure if you can call this capitalistic, though. WF as a commune could likely share many of the benefits or exceed them even without requiring shareholders to satisfy. Instead, a devotion to profits will ensure they are given the minimum to execute their job well.<p>It&#x27;ll be interesting to see what bezos does with it for sure.</text></item><item><author>vnchr</author><text>Interesting comparison. In this case, people aren&#x27;t unionizing for essentially the opposite reason. Rather than state provided social welfare, their needs are satisfied through this capitalistic solution. Employees are empowered and rewarded through their work.</text></item><item><author>rmc</author><text>In the 1880s Bismarck increased the modern welfare state (it was called State Socialism <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;State_Socialism_(Germany)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;State_Socialism_(Germany)</a> ). The idea was that, if the poor people can get some form of social welfare from the existing state, they&#x27;re less likely to support a proper socialist&#x2F;communist revolution. Sounds like that. People won&#x27;t unionise when they don&#x27;t think they need to.</text></item><item><author>pc86</author><text>It&#x27;s nice to see non-union employees treated well and paid well, <i>not</i> because of any negative feelings toward unions or unionization, but because I think it shows that you can be a successful capitalist without trying to suck every ounce of productivity and profit out of your lowest-paid employees.</text></item><item><author>_7siz</author><text>Oof. I wonder what this means for Whole Foods culture and employees.<p>If you don&#x27;t know, John Mackey, the CEO &#x2F; founder, is a major believer in conscious capitalism and of empowering his employees.<p>Whole Food employees get paid pretty darn well with some crazy good benefits for their industry and line-of-work (UNION FREE most of the time too!).<p>WF banks on them being true believers and motivators of the cause - including dedicating a fair amount of paid time to trainings. I&#x27;ve heard mix stories about how Amazon treats employees. I wonder how that will mesh.<p>So I guess I&#x27;m asking:<p>* What is going to happen with employee culture?<p>* What is going to happen with all the &quot;Fair Trade&quot; deals WF has in place that might not be the most economical decision now?<p>* Here comes store automation and hefty lay-offs?<p>Source: Worked at WF for 3 years</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>polymeris</author><text>Switzerland&#x27;s 2 largest supermarket chains Migros[1] and Coop[2] are structured as cooperatives, generating yearly revenues of ~28 billion CHF, each.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Migros" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Migros</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Coop_(Switzerland)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Coop_(Switzerland)</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-16/amazon-to-buy-whole-foods?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wooter</author><text>name a single commune as successful or operating at the scale of Whole Foods or Amazon. in history.</text></item><item><author>throwaway91111</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure if you can call this capitalistic, though. WF as a commune could likely share many of the benefits or exceed them even without requiring shareholders to satisfy. Instead, a devotion to profits will ensure they are given the minimum to execute their job well.<p>It&#x27;ll be interesting to see what bezos does with it for sure.</text></item><item><author>vnchr</author><text>Interesting comparison. In this case, people aren&#x27;t unionizing for essentially the opposite reason. Rather than state provided social welfare, their needs are satisfied through this capitalistic solution. Employees are empowered and rewarded through their work.</text></item><item><author>rmc</author><text>In the 1880s Bismarck increased the modern welfare state (it was called State Socialism <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;State_Socialism_(Germany)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;State_Socialism_(Germany)</a> ). The idea was that, if the poor people can get some form of social welfare from the existing state, they&#x27;re less likely to support a proper socialist&#x2F;communist revolution. Sounds like that. People won&#x27;t unionise when they don&#x27;t think they need to.</text></item><item><author>pc86</author><text>It&#x27;s nice to see non-union employees treated well and paid well, <i>not</i> because of any negative feelings toward unions or unionization, but because I think it shows that you can be a successful capitalist without trying to suck every ounce of productivity and profit out of your lowest-paid employees.</text></item><item><author>_7siz</author><text>Oof. I wonder what this means for Whole Foods culture and employees.<p>If you don&#x27;t know, John Mackey, the CEO &#x2F; founder, is a major believer in conscious capitalism and of empowering his employees.<p>Whole Food employees get paid pretty darn well with some crazy good benefits for their industry and line-of-work (UNION FREE most of the time too!).<p>WF banks on them being true believers and motivators of the cause - including dedicating a fair amount of paid time to trainings. I&#x27;ve heard mix stories about how Amazon treats employees. I wonder how that will mesh.<p>So I guess I&#x27;m asking:<p>* What is going to happen with employee culture?<p>* What is going to happen with all the &quot;Fair Trade&quot; deals WF has in place that might not be the most economical decision now?<p>* Here comes store automation and hefty lay-offs?<p>Source: Worked at WF for 3 years</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ihnorton</author><text>Not exactly a commune, but interesting nonetheless and on the same scale as Whole Foods (12 bln Euro turnover):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mondragon_Corporation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mondragon_Corporation</a><p>Oneida is (was) the closest US analogy I can think of, though much smaller.<p>There are some very successful Kibbutzim spinoffs in Israel, into 100s of millions US$ (I don&#x27;t know how ownership was structured).</text></comment> |
31,785,320 | 31,785,280 | 1 | 3 | 31,784,602 | train | <story><title>Three Arrows Capital reportedly facing insolvency</title><url>https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/three-arrows-capitals-zhu-su-speaks-out-after-400-million-liquidation-due-to-celsius-and-terras-luna-fiasco-202206150841</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>I appreciate the feeling, but the problem is that Bitcoin just isn&#x27;t very useful for the original vision, &quot;a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash&quot;. [1] It&#x27;s fine for a little light crime, where people are willing to put up with slow transactions, high costs, inconvenience, and significant risks to e.g., buy some mail-order LSD. But when you compare it with things like debit cards, Venmo, and M-Pesa, it&#x27;s just not competitive.<p>I think Bitcoin was a really interesting idea in the pre-iPhone era, but for a variety of reasons it just didn&#x27;t pan out. Which is why the space was so readily colonized by scammers, grifters, criminals, fraudsters, speculators, and loons.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoin.org&#x2F;bitcoin.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoin.org&#x2F;bitcoin.pdf</a></text></item><item><author>nice_one</author><text>Is there any downside to this? Seems to me this is a positive outcome if it encourages speculators to leave the cryptocurrency space.<p>Crypto was never intended to be used (and abused) in such a way, and is a considerable deviation from Satoshi&#x27;s original vision regarding Bitcoin. Perhaps it&#x27;s time to get back to basics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kersplody</author><text>It was supposed to be cash without the burden of nation state oversight. Instead, it turned into a giant casino ecosystem of unregulated securities involving more and more layers of abstraction (exchanges, stable-coins, NFTs, bundled transactions, hedges, subchains, ...)</text></comment> | <story><title>Three Arrows Capital reportedly facing insolvency</title><url>https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/three-arrows-capitals-zhu-su-speaks-out-after-400-million-liquidation-due-to-celsius-and-terras-luna-fiasco-202206150841</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>I appreciate the feeling, but the problem is that Bitcoin just isn&#x27;t very useful for the original vision, &quot;a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash&quot;. [1] It&#x27;s fine for a little light crime, where people are willing to put up with slow transactions, high costs, inconvenience, and significant risks to e.g., buy some mail-order LSD. But when you compare it with things like debit cards, Venmo, and M-Pesa, it&#x27;s just not competitive.<p>I think Bitcoin was a really interesting idea in the pre-iPhone era, but for a variety of reasons it just didn&#x27;t pan out. Which is why the space was so readily colonized by scammers, grifters, criminals, fraudsters, speculators, and loons.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoin.org&#x2F;bitcoin.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoin.org&#x2F;bitcoin.pdf</a></text></item><item><author>nice_one</author><text>Is there any downside to this? Seems to me this is a positive outcome if it encourages speculators to leave the cryptocurrency space.<p>Crypto was never intended to be used (and abused) in such a way, and is a considerable deviation from Satoshi&#x27;s original vision regarding Bitcoin. Perhaps it&#x27;s time to get back to basics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fooey</author><text>Yeah, the original vision was never plausible. BTC has absolutely never been viable as a currency and never will be.</text></comment> |
2,541,663 | 2,541,012 | 1 | 3 | 2,540,847 | train | <story><title>Oops: Facebook caught planting anti-Google stories to press</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/12/facebook-anti-google-smear/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Typhon</author><text>First mistake : attacking Google, also known as the overlord of the internet (as far as the internet has one)
Second mistake : attacking a feature that was largely unknown. I just learned of its existence, thanks to this story !
Third mistake : getting caught
Fourth mistake : When you're Facebook, you should never ever complain that anything is a violation of privacy. It's like a fast-food company claiming something is low quality food and an insult to taste.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oops: Facebook caught planting anti-Google stories to press</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/12/facebook-anti-google-smear/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tokenadult</author><text>Submission of Daily Beast reporting:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2539932" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2539932</a></text></comment> |
17,128,348 | 17,128,405 | 1 | 3 | 17,127,486 | train | <story><title>Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available</title><url>https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/05/22/1510151/0/en/Computer-History-Museum-Makes-the-Eudora-Email-Client-Source-Code-Available-to-the-Public.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonjayr</author><text>&quot;Eudora was specifically designed with the idea that standards are a key to successful adoption.
Indeed, the rapid acceptance of the Internet is largely due to the standardization process.
Published standards are what allow applications from multiple sources to cooperate with each
other. Without standards organizations would only be able to use their own applications
together, and not those from outside. Also, by allowing diversity of implementations you
achieve a much more robust software ecosystem.&quot;<p>- From the &quot;Windows Eudora Architecture.pdf&quot; in the distribution</text></comment> | <story><title>Computer History Museum Makes Eudora Email Client Source Code Available</title><url>https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/05/22/1510151/0/en/Computer-History-Museum-Makes-the-Eudora-Email-Client-Source-Code-Available-to-the-Public.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eltoozero</author><text>In 1999-2001 when I was doing dialup tech support, running into a customer with Eudora was a dream compared to the nightmare of basically any other contemporary mail client around: Outlook and Outlook Express. EarthLink even made their own abomination of a mail client called Total Access, IIRC it could import and export Eudora dbs.</text></comment> |
7,688,730 | 7,688,529 | 1 | 3 | 7,687,174 | train | <story><title>How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/how-steve-wozniak-wrote-basic-for-the-original-apple-fr-1570573636/all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npongratz</author><text>&quot;<i>The other &#x27;bible&#x27; was a book &quot;101 Games in BASIC.&quot; I was a fan of computer games and knew that as soon as I had a computer of my own I would want to type in all these games to play.</i>&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know for sure, but I think Mr. Wozniak is referring to the book edited by David H. Ahl, <i>BASIC Computer Games</i>:<p><a href="http://atariarchives.org/basicgames/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;atariarchives.org&#x2F;basicgames&#x2F;</a><p>Notes on the page mention the book was &quot;[a]lso published as 101 BASIC Computer Games&quot;.<p>This book happened to be a great influence on me. Reading it in grade school gave me a small taste of what fun programming can be. I especially liked how some of the programs showed how simple rules can result in emergent and unexpected behavior. Not to mention how easy and fun it was to change the source (sometimes by accident... SYNTAX ERROR anyone?) and seeing what would happen.<p>Today, I have the distinct privilege to do effectively the same (different platforms, of course :)), and now it even pays the bills.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mncolinlee</author><text>This was how I learned to program BASIC at six years old.<p>Of course, I also figured out I could get my TRS-80 Model 1 to make sounds of various pitches by tuning an FM radio to its CPU and running loops with varying delays. I added sound to a pinball game this way back then.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/how-steve-wozniak-wrote-basic-for-the-original-apple-fr-1570573636/all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npongratz</author><text>&quot;<i>The other &#x27;bible&#x27; was a book &quot;101 Games in BASIC.&quot; I was a fan of computer games and knew that as soon as I had a computer of my own I would want to type in all these games to play.</i>&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know for sure, but I think Mr. Wozniak is referring to the book edited by David H. Ahl, <i>BASIC Computer Games</i>:<p><a href="http://atariarchives.org/basicgames/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;atariarchives.org&#x2F;basicgames&#x2F;</a><p>Notes on the page mention the book was &quot;[a]lso published as 101 BASIC Computer Games&quot;.<p>This book happened to be a great influence on me. Reading it in grade school gave me a small taste of what fun programming can be. I especially liked how some of the programs showed how simple rules can result in emergent and unexpected behavior. Not to mention how easy and fun it was to change the source (sometimes by accident... SYNTAX ERROR anyone?) and seeing what would happen.<p>Today, I have the distinct privilege to do effectively the same (different platforms, of course :)), and now it even pays the bills.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>Oh, wow, I haven&#x27;t seen that cover since I was a kid. I&#x27;m awash in delightful nostalgia now. I had that book and got it specifically to program games on my Apple IIe, so I guess Woz achieved his goal!</text></comment> |
22,705,299 | 22,705,372 | 1 | 2 | 22,704,051 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a case study for a class</title><text>Hello HN! My name is Sankalp. I’m taking a class called Fixing Social Media at MIT (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu</a>). We are examining problems with existing modes of social media and exploring affirmative visions for social media that are good for individuals and society.<p>At this point, the class is working on case studies of successful and healthy online communities, where we are seeking insights from online communities we are part of, inspired by, or find interesting. The goal of the assignment is to figure out whether an online community exemplifies or doesn’t exemplify ‘healthy’ behaviors, from the points of view of their own members, on their own terms. I’m here to understand HN from your perspectives and I’m interested in hearing from all of you.<p>What criteria do you use to determine &#x27;health&#x27; in online communities? How do these differ from those criteria you use to determine ‘health’ in offline communities you are in? How does HN exemplify or not exemplify &#x27;healthy&#x27; behaviors? What behaviors of your own would you acknowledge may or may not contribute to the overall ‘health’ of HN?<p>How did you get into HN? Who introduced you? What makes you stay?<p>I began using HN as a source for news, projects, ideas, etc. a couple years ago when a mentor referred me here, but I hadn’t made an account until this week for this Ask HN. I check HN once or twice daily and I actually stay for the discussion as much as the links shared by HN members.<p>In case this is helpful for our discussion, something that our class recently discussed is that communities with controversy aren&#x27;t necessarily &#x27;unhealthy&#x27; — as in, the ability of some communities to work through a controversy and maintain coherence, and to exist as multiple voices coming out of a controversy can be an indicator of being &#x27;healthy&#x27;.<p>I aim to share my findings as well. I hope these questions are interesting to you and that we can hear a variety of perspectives in the comments!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>M5x7wI3CmbEem10</author><text>is anger useless?</text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>My method of determining if a community is &quot;healthy&quot; (online or otherwise) is to evaluate it after I&#x27;ve (temporarily) left (e.g. for the day). Do I feel angry, upset, sad? Do I feel wiser? If somebody says something I disagree with, but afterwards I find that it has brought up lots of interesting insights in my own mind, then regardless of whether I agreed with them or not, I consider it healthy.<p>Conversely, even if I agree a lot with what is said, if afterwards I&#x27;m angry, sad, etc. then it wasn&#x27;t healthy. When younger, I used to think that more anger at what was wrong in the world, would help to fix it. Experience has taught me that actions taken out of anger, even if well-intentioned, are almost always unskillful. I want more insight, more understanding, and HN aids me in getting that far more often than, say, Facebook, which I now use only on Sundays, and not every Sunday, as a way of making sure I don&#x27;t let its toxic stew of opinions infect my emotions.<p>I cannot honestly remember how I discovered HN, but I return because, even when I disagree with most of what is said on a topic, it is typically the case that I find my own thinking to be more nuanced or more interesting afterwards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mixmastamyk</author><text>No, but constant anger is unhealthy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a case study for a class</title><text>Hello HN! My name is Sankalp. I’m taking a class called Fixing Social Media at MIT (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu</a>). We are examining problems with existing modes of social media and exploring affirmative visions for social media that are good for individuals and society.<p>At this point, the class is working on case studies of successful and healthy online communities, where we are seeking insights from online communities we are part of, inspired by, or find interesting. The goal of the assignment is to figure out whether an online community exemplifies or doesn’t exemplify ‘healthy’ behaviors, from the points of view of their own members, on their own terms. I’m here to understand HN from your perspectives and I’m interested in hearing from all of you.<p>What criteria do you use to determine &#x27;health&#x27; in online communities? How do these differ from those criteria you use to determine ‘health’ in offline communities you are in? How does HN exemplify or not exemplify &#x27;healthy&#x27; behaviors? What behaviors of your own would you acknowledge may or may not contribute to the overall ‘health’ of HN?<p>How did you get into HN? Who introduced you? What makes you stay?<p>I began using HN as a source for news, projects, ideas, etc. a couple years ago when a mentor referred me here, but I hadn’t made an account until this week for this Ask HN. I check HN once or twice daily and I actually stay for the discussion as much as the links shared by HN members.<p>In case this is helpful for our discussion, something that our class recently discussed is that communities with controversy aren&#x27;t necessarily &#x27;unhealthy&#x27; — as in, the ability of some communities to work through a controversy and maintain coherence, and to exist as multiple voices coming out of a controversy can be an indicator of being &#x27;healthy&#x27;.<p>I aim to share my findings as well. I hope these questions are interesting to you and that we can hear a variety of perspectives in the comments!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>M5x7wI3CmbEem10</author><text>is anger useless?</text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>My method of determining if a community is &quot;healthy&quot; (online or otherwise) is to evaluate it after I&#x27;ve (temporarily) left (e.g. for the day). Do I feel angry, upset, sad? Do I feel wiser? If somebody says something I disagree with, but afterwards I find that it has brought up lots of interesting insights in my own mind, then regardless of whether I agreed with them or not, I consider it healthy.<p>Conversely, even if I agree a lot with what is said, if afterwards I&#x27;m angry, sad, etc. then it wasn&#x27;t healthy. When younger, I used to think that more anger at what was wrong in the world, would help to fix it. Experience has taught me that actions taken out of anger, even if well-intentioned, are almost always unskillful. I want more insight, more understanding, and HN aids me in getting that far more often than, say, Facebook, which I now use only on Sundays, and not every Sunday, as a way of making sure I don&#x27;t let its toxic stew of opinions infect my emotions.<p>I cannot honestly remember how I discovered HN, but I return because, even when I disagree with most of what is said on a topic, it is typically the case that I find my own thinking to be more nuanced or more interesting afterwards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epakai</author><text>Not at all. Anger is a superb motivator, but difficult to manage. It&#x27;s true many situations aren&#x27;t well served by the brash actions we might take when angry, but with practice you can separate your action from the emotion. The anger becomes a trigger for thinking about and implementing solutions to all kinds of issues.</text></comment> |
15,353,466 | 15,352,796 | 1 | 3 | 15,351,519 | train | <story><title>With lax oversight, the FAA has enabled secrecy in the skies</title><url>https://apps.bostonglobe.com/spotlight/secrets-in-the-sky/series/part-one/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jpatokal</author><text>The FAA does, however, exercise very strict oversight in other areas...<p><i>The FAA inspector looked at my random drug testing program to make sure that everything was in place. I [a one-man helicopter charter company] am subject to the same drug testing requirements as United Airlines. I am the drug testing coordinator for our company, so I am responsible for scheduling drug tests and surprising employees when it is their turn to be tested. As it happens, I’m also the only “safety-sensitive employee” subject to drug testing, so basically I’m responsible for periodically surprising myself with a random drug test. As a supervisor, I need to take training so that I can recognize when an employee is on drugs. But I’m also the only employee, so really this is training so that I can figure out if I myself am on drugs. As an employee, I need to take a second training course so that I learn about all of the ways that my employer might surprise me with a random drug test and find out about drug use. But I’m also the employer so really I’m learning about how I might trap myself.</i><p><i>Five minutes after the FAA inspector left, I received a phone call. “I’m from the FAA and we’d like to schedule an audit of your drug testing program.” I remarked that a fully qualified FAA inspector was barely out of the driveway and had just gone through every document that I had on the subject. “He was from the FSDO (Flight Standards District Office)? That’s a completely different department. We’re going to send two inspectors up from Atlanta next month.” Why two? “We always send them in pairs.” What did they want? “We’re going to fax you a detailed list of all of the information that we need and you should immediately contact your drug testing provider (Lexis&#x2F;Nexis) to tell them that you’re being audited. There is a bunch of information that you can get only from them. As soon as you get the fax, you should re-fax it to Lexis&#x2F;Nexis.” I said that I didn’t have a fax machine, so he promised to send the information via U.S. mail. It could not be emailed.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.harvard.edu&#x2F;philg&#x2F;2011&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;revitalizing-the-u-s-economy-through-government-spending&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.harvard.edu&#x2F;philg&#x2F;2011&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;revitalizing-the-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>With lax oversight, the FAA has enabled secrecy in the skies</title><url>https://apps.bostonglobe.com/spotlight/secrets-in-the-sky/series/part-one/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>IncRnd</author><text>There is only a title page that I cannot scroll in chrome. I&#x27;m not willing to turn off ad blockers, debug this site, or use a different browser to read the story.</text></comment> |
19,300,430 | 19,298,784 | 1 | 2 | 19,296,031 | train | <story><title>Python Data Science Handbook: Full Text in Jupyter Notebooks</title><url>https://github.com/jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>killjoywashere</author><text>An acquaintance once advised me to keep a context file: all the little &quot;notes to self&quot;, code snippets, key config elements, etc, in a file. I&#x27;ve tried a few times in Vim but finally really got traction in Jupyter, through a combination of my org&#x27;s massive Windows dependencies, which is definitely not the Jupyter community&#x27;s default (needed to document lots of little idiosyncrasies), and actually having interesting data in that world. What I really like about Jupyter for this is that it&#x27;s trivial to mix it all together: a link to a handbook like this, how to decode and encode Windows environment variables, tips on Vim, python, pandas, plotting, etc.<p>And I was really struck how a number of the headings in this handbook mapped exactly to the headings in my context file. I suspect this will not be the last time I click that link.</text></comment> | <story><title>Python Data Science Handbook: Full Text in Jupyter Notebooks</title><url>https://github.com/jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fulafel</author><text>Is there a way to run notebooks automatically, so you could regenerate notebooks like this after some library code changes or dependency upgrades and check that everything stillw orks?</text></comment> |
10,391,350 | 10,390,137 | 1 | 3 | 10,389,870 | train | <story><title>Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/internet-companies-confusing-consumers-profit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>A few days ago, I posted &quot;Unicorns aren&#x27;t ad-supported&quot; on HN.[1] There, I pointed out that, of a list of the top 50 &quot;unicorns&quot;, non-public startups with &gt; $1bn valuations, only three (Snapchat, Pintrest, and Vice) are ad-supported. This dot-com boom isn&#x27;t driven by ads. It&#x27;s driven by companies that provide a product or service for which their customers pay them. The companies that make their money from ads are from the <i>previous</i> dot-com boom.<p>Ad-blocking and tracker-blocking thus won&#x27;t hurt the growth companies in Silicon Valley. YC could get behind ad-blocking without reducing the value of their portfolio. The concept that &quot;the user is the product, not the customer&quot; is now outdated. There are still companies which rely on it. They are vulnerable. Google still hasn&#x27;t come up with a major revenue-generating product other than ads.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10372789" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10372789</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/internet-companies-confusing-consumers-profit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>r0naa</author><text>I do have a Facebook account, primarily because I am studying abroad and I need to keep in touch with my family and close friends and Facebook is, thus far, the best way to share what is going on in my life. It kind of allow me to &quot;broadcast&quot; my life events.<p>Now, I really dislike what I just read.<p>I wonder if tech companies have a moral obligation to disclose to the user what are the terms of the contracts.<p>While ToS and Privacy Policy are public documents, I don&#x27;t think they are close to anything readable for the layman. They are mostly pile of legal garbage and it is virtually impossible to go through them everytime you sign-up for a service.<p>That is why I would like to put the emphasis on clarity here. What if?<p>What if technology companies were forced to disclose <i>clearly</i> what signing-up for their product entails with respect to user privacy. I am thinking of something alongside this:<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;
Hello r0naa,<p>Welcome on Facebook, we hope that you will have a great experience here.<p>Facebook will allow you to:
- easily communicate with your friends<p>- share photos, videos and play games with your friends<p>- keep in touch with distant relatives<p>On the other hand, we will:<p>- keep a record of the messages you send to your friends<p>- keep a permanent record of the photos you have shared on Facebook<p>- keep a log of all the websites you have visited that contain a &quot;like&quot; button.<p>Moreover, you should be aware that we will disclose all your personal data to the US government if we are issued a NS letter.<p>Hope you have a great day,<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>To be clear, I am not saying that this is the right solution. Only, I believe it is pretty obvious that there is a problem and that a lot of people who are not technically literate are not able to make a informed choice about whether or not they want to give up their privacy, even partially.<p>I hope it will spawn an interesting discussion, feel free to share your ideas and suggestions.</text></comment> |
30,366,298 | 30,366,468 | 1 | 3 | 30,364,337 | train | <story><title>A new wave of Linux applications</title><url>https://tuxphones.com/convergent-linux-phone-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>floren</author><text>I use the acme text editor <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Acme_(text_editor)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Acme_(text_editor)</a> for work every day. It makes heavy use of mouse chords, so I need 3 real buttons on the mouse, and it&#x27;s hard to find a mouse with 3 real buttons <i>and</i> a scrollwheel which doesn&#x27;t get in the way of the buttons. I&#x27;ve got a Kensington Expert Mouse trackball which works pretty well, but at the end of the day an old Logitech PS&#x2F;2 mouse plugged into a converter is my go-to.</text></item><item><author>ugjka</author><text>Why do you use a mouse without a scrollwheel?</text></item><item><author>floren</author><text>These applications look really pretty and all, but for my selfish purposes, I just really want real goddamn scrollbars back. I use a mouse that doesn&#x27;t have a scroll wheel, but for the life of me I&#x27;ve been unable to figure out how to make applications like Firefox just give me a real scroll bar on the side of the window that&#x27;s thick enough to grab without fiddly pixel-hunting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tormeh</author><text>Depends by what you mean by &quot;real buttons&quot; but my first thought was that 99% of gaming mice will have at least 3 buttons and a scrollwheel. Often it&#x27;s closer to 10 buttons.<p>This one has 20 buttons (including 3 big ones and a scrollwheel): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.logitechg.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;products&#x2F;gaming-mice&#x2F;g600-mmo-gaming-mouse.910-002864.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.logitechg.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;products&#x2F;gaming-mice&#x2F;g600-mm...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A new wave of Linux applications</title><url>https://tuxphones.com/convergent-linux-phone-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>floren</author><text>I use the acme text editor <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Acme_(text_editor)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Acme_(text_editor)</a> for work every day. It makes heavy use of mouse chords, so I need 3 real buttons on the mouse, and it&#x27;s hard to find a mouse with 3 real buttons <i>and</i> a scrollwheel which doesn&#x27;t get in the way of the buttons. I&#x27;ve got a Kensington Expert Mouse trackball which works pretty well, but at the end of the day an old Logitech PS&#x2F;2 mouse plugged into a converter is my go-to.</text></item><item><author>ugjka</author><text>Why do you use a mouse without a scrollwheel?</text></item><item><author>floren</author><text>These applications look really pretty and all, but for my selfish purposes, I just really want real goddamn scrollbars back. I use a mouse that doesn&#x27;t have a scroll wheel, but for the life of me I&#x27;ve been unable to figure out how to make applications like Firefox just give me a real scroll bar on the side of the window that&#x27;s thick enough to grab without fiddly pixel-hunting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>l30n4da5</author><text>&gt; I need 3 real buttons on the mouse, and it&#x27;s hard to find a mouse with 3 real buttons and a scrollwheel which doesn&#x27;t get in the way of the buttons<p>does a gaming mouse work? I&#x27;m currently using a $10 gaming mouse that has 4 buttons and a scroll wheel. Two of them are thumb-buttons that function very well and are not in the way at all.</text></comment> |
12,543,635 | 12,542,030 | 1 | 3 | 12,541,108 | train | <story><title>YC and Founders Pledge</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-and-founders-pledge</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cperciva</author><text>I&#x27;d like to encourage founders who are participating in this to consider directing at least some of their pledges to support open source software. I don&#x27;t think there are <i>any</i> YC companies which would have existed if it hadn&#x27;t been for a large amount of open source software; if you want to maximize the impact of your donations, helping the projects which build tools the next generation of startups will rely on is a pretty good way to go.<p>(At Tarsnap, I mostly fund the FreeBSD Foundation and other BSD-related organizations, but that&#x27;s primarily because those are the groups whose work I am most familiar with and can judge most effectively. There are plenty of other organizations doing great work with open source software which can benefit from funding; but of course I&#x27;d love to see everybody here supporting the FreeBSD Foundation too.)</text></comment> | <story><title>YC and Founders Pledge</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-and-founders-pledge</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>I understand giving to charity is great and all but what about employees 10, 35, 97? So someone works hard at a start-up but they weren&#x27;t among the first dozen or so to join then they likely get next to nothing from an exit. So how about, instead of a pledge to give to charity, founders pledge to give more equity to later employees so only a small handful are not the only ones to profit.<p>Everyone takes a risk joining a start-up. Many times employees use the equity as part of their compensation (right or wrong many do this). If you&#x27;re joining a start-up that has taken this pledge then you know going in you&#x27;re likely not going to get as much as another start-up.<p>I don&#x27;t know this just feels like a way to neuter the company making it less attractive to future employees. How about, instead of counting our chickens before they hatch, we get founders who had a big exit to donate money to charity?</text></comment> |
35,861,899 | 35,860,412 | 1 | 3 | 35,859,281 | train | <story><title>DJI drone flight log viewer</title><url>https://www.flightreader.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MrGilbert</author><text>That’s one of these programs where I&#x27;m thinking: &quot;Why didn’t I build it?&quot;. Well, obviously because I don’t have a drone. Kudos, nice tool!<p>I wonder if there are more such opportunities…</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobarbecue</author><text>I&#x27;m curious -- what about this strikes you as a novel &quot;opportunity?&quot; To me, reading your post is a bit like seeing someone say &quot;wow, a chair! Why didn&#x27;t I build that? I wonder if there are more opportunities?&quot; Like, yeah, build a table... or a different chair...?<p>I built an online flight log analyzer about 10 years ago ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8XBCBC2oJ70">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8XBCBC2oJ70</a> , <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;foobarbecue&#x2F;afterflight">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;foobarbecue&#x2F;afterflight</a> ) . When DJI hit the scene I used some a DJI log decoder someone else wrote to get my Phantom logs into the system, but never integrated the converter with the website.<p>Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It&#x27;s the execution and the follow-through that matters.</text></comment> | <story><title>DJI drone flight log viewer</title><url>https://www.flightreader.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MrGilbert</author><text>That’s one of these programs where I&#x27;m thinking: &quot;Why didn’t I build it?&quot;. Well, obviously because I don’t have a drone. Kudos, nice tool!<p>I wonder if there are more such opportunities…</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NKosmatos</author><text>This program should be part of the main DJI software suite or something that you could download from the drone manufacturer.
I, as a drone owner, should have full access to all the telemetry data for my own analysis and archiving purposes.</text></comment> |
16,118,843 | 16,117,089 | 1 | 2 | 16,112,126 | train | <story><title>SureFly – a personal helicopter designed for safe and easy flight</title><url>http://workhorse.com/surefly</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oliv__</author><text>A part of me thinks this is really cool tech and it would be amazing for anyone to be able to just hop aboard their personal helicopter and fly wherever they want, but then another part of me thinks of the future this would create, skies no longer clear, filled with objects buzzing around and what hell that would be, on top of the already stressful and crazy life we have now.<p>It&#x27;s the kind of situation where I think I&#x27;d actually rather the tech never exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bargl</author><text>This would have to fall into the ultralight classification for someone to fly this without training. The FAA could easily classify this otherwise if they perceived any problem.<p>Also, getting your pilots license is nothing like getting a car license, the training is much harder and requires a certain amount of hours in the car with a licensed flight instructor before they can fly on their own (I believe it&#x27;s 50 hours in the cockpit). It&#x27;s also prohibitively expensive as you have to pay for fuel and time. You won&#x27;t see a bunch of unmotivated teens flying these things any time soon. Having worked at the FAA on the regulation side of things, I can also tell you if that did become a problem airspace and licensing would change.</text></comment> | <story><title>SureFly – a personal helicopter designed for safe and easy flight</title><url>http://workhorse.com/surefly</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oliv__</author><text>A part of me thinks this is really cool tech and it would be amazing for anyone to be able to just hop aboard their personal helicopter and fly wherever they want, but then another part of me thinks of the future this would create, skies no longer clear, filled with objects buzzing around and what hell that would be, on top of the already stressful and crazy life we have now.<p>It&#x27;s the kind of situation where I think I&#x27;d actually rather the tech never exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigmonsays</author><text>I share this concern, and it will probably be awful in the beginning. However, that being said, I thought i&#x27;d hate living next to an airport, and I live by one right now. The sounds of planes over my head are often ignored and I enjoy looking up and seeing a plane coming in for a landing. So what I thought I would hate I actually grew to enjoy. People adapt, that&#x27;s actually what we&#x27;re really good at.</text></comment> |
35,421,731 | 35,421,385 | 1 | 2 | 35,421,034 | train | <story><title>The Mullvad Browser</title><url>https://mullvad.net/en/browser</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>controversial97</author><text>So ... it is a fork of Mozilla Firefox with privacy-friendly settings by default, some script blocking, and dns lookups done via Mullvads encrypted dns service<p>Sounds ok to me, I have a longish and probably out of date list of settings that I like to chance in a new instance of firefox. I trust mullvad to not log dns more than I trust my ISP and I live in the UK so unencrypted dns here is being logged and stored by order of the government.<p>Keeping a fork of firefox in sync with mainline firefox to get security fixes is a load of work, it is good that somebody is doing it, in this case I think the tor project is doing a lot of the work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dathinab</author><text>AFIK it&#x27;s a &quot;fork&quot; of the tor-browser (which is a fork of Firefox) but instead of connecting to the tor network you connect to a VPN.<p>So you get all the in-browser tracking protection Firefox has (e.g. against fingerprinting) + the ones only the Tor browser has but without the drawbacks of the tor network and in turn without onion security.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Mullvad Browser</title><url>https://mullvad.net/en/browser</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>controversial97</author><text>So ... it is a fork of Mozilla Firefox with privacy-friendly settings by default, some script blocking, and dns lookups done via Mullvads encrypted dns service<p>Sounds ok to me, I have a longish and probably out of date list of settings that I like to chance in a new instance of firefox. I trust mullvad to not log dns more than I trust my ISP and I live in the UK so unencrypted dns here is being logged and stored by order of the government.<p>Keeping a fork of firefox in sync with mainline firefox to get security fixes is a load of work, it is good that somebody is doing it, in this case I think the tor project is doing a lot of the work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomxor</author><text>&gt; I have a longish and probably out of date list of settings that I like to chance in a new instance of firefox<p>Not a user but part of the purpose of the TOR fork is settings, anything that is detectable via JS is supposed to remain default to prevent fingerprinting.<p>It&#x27;s partly why it&#x27;s not widely popular, I don&#x27;t know if this is still true but it used to be that it was supposed to be run at a specific viewport resolution regardless of your device. All in the name of making your fingerprint as close to the same as all other TOR browser users.</text></comment> |
16,040,011 | 16,039,423 | 1 | 2 | 16,035,790 | train | <story><title>How Taiwan transformed its health care system</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/upshot/the-leap-to-single-payer-what-taiwan-can-teach.html?referer=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterburkimsher</author><text>Culture helps - everyone here wants to be a doctor, lawyer, or engineer.<p>Taiwanese doctors don&#x27;t get paid in money.<p>They get paid &quot;credits&quot; which have to be exchanged for money based on a parallel financial system.<p>Foreigners here sometimes complain that there&#x27;s a focus on seeing more patients faster, so there might be a misdiagnosis or a less thorough examination.<p>The fact remains though - it&#x27;s cheaper to fly here to have a wisdom tooth removed (without insurance) than the same operation would cost in Switzerland or the US. There isn&#x27;t much resentment of medical tourism either - so, you&#x27;re all welcome to visit!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xwvvvvwx</author><text>&gt; <i>Taiwanese doctors don&#x27;t get paid in money.</i><p>&gt; <i>They get paid &quot;credits&quot; which have to be exchanged for money based on a parallel financial system.</i><p>This is really interesting. Had a quick google and couldn’t find anything. Do you have a link with more details?</text></comment> | <story><title>How Taiwan transformed its health care system</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/upshot/the-leap-to-single-payer-what-taiwan-can-teach.html?referer=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterburkimsher</author><text>Culture helps - everyone here wants to be a doctor, lawyer, or engineer.<p>Taiwanese doctors don&#x27;t get paid in money.<p>They get paid &quot;credits&quot; which have to be exchanged for money based on a parallel financial system.<p>Foreigners here sometimes complain that there&#x27;s a focus on seeing more patients faster, so there might be a misdiagnosis or a less thorough examination.<p>The fact remains though - it&#x27;s cheaper to fly here to have a wisdom tooth removed (without insurance) than the same operation would cost in Switzerland or the US. There isn&#x27;t much resentment of medical tourism either - so, you&#x27;re all welcome to visit!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ImaCake</author><text>I have encounted free general practice doctor places in Australia that operate on seeing as many patients as possible. Basically useless if you have a difficult to diagnose problem, but very useful for getting a referal, a script for a pill, or antibiotics.</text></comment> |
9,697,393 | 9,697,426 | 1 | 2 | 9,697,130 | train | <story><title>Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/10/reddit-bans-five-communities-in-new-anti-harassment-campaign/</url><text>Most notable is &#x2F;r&#x2F;fatpeoplehate, which had become an extremely popular &quot;fat-shaming&quot; community.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>teraflop</author><text>This article dramatically understates the magnitude of the shitstorm that is currently unfolding. Check out <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;all&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;all&#x2F;</a> if you feel like seeing all the ugliness.<p>(And if anyone has any doubts that this is ultimately about harassment, count how many of the posts on the front page (and their comments) are made up of personal attacks and&#x2F;or obscenities targeted at CEO Ellen Pao.)<p>I don&#x27;t fault the Reddit admins for trying to clean things up but I can&#x27;t see any good that will come of this. To paraphrase a comment that I saw earlier today and now can&#x27;t find, it&#x27;s like trying to get rid of an anthill with a leaf-blower; you just end up with pissed-off ants everywhere.<p>EDIT: Ah, found it. It was in the &quot;can I sue Reddit for violating my freedom of speech&quot; thread in &#x2F;r&#x2F;legaladvice. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;legaladvice&#x2F;comments&#x2F;39c58h&#x2F;could_someone_sue_reddit_for_banning_and&#x2F;cs2ch7d?context=4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;legaladvice&#x2F;comments&#x2F;39c58h&#x2F;could_so...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lnanek2</author><text>I think banning the fatpeoplehate subreddit wouldn&#x27;t have gone over so badly if it wasn&#x27;t for the fact that Ellen Pao was already kind of hated on the site for constantly banning and deleting anything disagreeing with her viewpoint about her law suit.<p>Even political cartoons with her driving the tank and the reddit alien with a down vote in front were getting deleted, which were quite funny and appropriate, since she was shadow banning and deleting people basically for down voting her law suit.<p>It&#x27;s tough to stand up and defend the fatpeoplehate group, but when someone abusing their power and deleting anything they don&#x27;t agree with in a lawsuit does it, well, in this case maybe a villain ruining the site on her managed to do something not terrible, but because she is a villain it comes across a lot worse.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/10/reddit-bans-five-communities-in-new-anti-harassment-campaign/</url><text>Most notable is &#x2F;r&#x2F;fatpeoplehate, which had become an extremely popular &quot;fat-shaming&quot; community.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>teraflop</author><text>This article dramatically understates the magnitude of the shitstorm that is currently unfolding. Check out <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;all&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;all&#x2F;</a> if you feel like seeing all the ugliness.<p>(And if anyone has any doubts that this is ultimately about harassment, count how many of the posts on the front page (and their comments) are made up of personal attacks and&#x2F;or obscenities targeted at CEO Ellen Pao.)<p>I don&#x27;t fault the Reddit admins for trying to clean things up but I can&#x27;t see any good that will come of this. To paraphrase a comment that I saw earlier today and now can&#x27;t find, it&#x27;s like trying to get rid of an anthill with a leaf-blower; you just end up with pissed-off ants everywhere.<p>EDIT: Ah, found it. It was in the &quot;can I sue Reddit for violating my freedom of speech&quot; thread in &#x2F;r&#x2F;legaladvice. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;legaladvice&#x2F;comments&#x2F;39c58h&#x2F;could_someone_sue_reddit_for_banning_and&#x2F;cs2ch7d?context=4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;legaladvice&#x2F;comments&#x2F;39c58h&#x2F;could_so...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baby</author><text>I never understood why reddit was so lenient with its community. There are so many racists and hateful subreddits, that attract more and more people like that, that makes the community as a whole worse.<p>I&#x27;m really glad that moderation actions like that are taken, and I&#x27;m sad that people reply to that by &quot;harassing&quot; the CEO...<p>Hopefully such people will get frustrated by such events and will eventually leave reddit.<p>Note that it&#x27;s mostly people posting to &#x2F;r&#x2F;punchablefaces that are reaching r&#x2F;all right. Another hateful reddit for you...<p>PS: FWIW, &#x2F;r&#x2F;all has always been pretty bad. If you want a good reddit experience do like me: unsubscribe from most subreddits and suscribe to smaller subreddits with active moderators.</text></comment> |
5,759,973 | 5,759,347 | 1 | 3 | 5,758,578 | train | <story><title>Wisp: a homoiconic JS dialect with Clojure syntax, s-expressions and macros</title><url>http://jeditoolkit.com/try-wisp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dhamidi</author><text>What is the benefit of having three ways to write strings?<p><pre><code> \a ;; compiles to "a"
:a ;; compiles to "a"
"a" ;; compiles to "a"
</code></pre>
This is not meant as destructive criticism; I'm genuinely interested in the motivation for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wging</author><text>To expand on others' answers: In Clojure, \a is a Java character, :a is a Clojure keyword, and "a" is a Java string.<p><pre><code> user=&#62; (type \a)
java.lang.Character
user=&#62; (type :a)
clojure.lang.Keyword
user=&#62; (type "a")
java.lang.String
</code></pre>
The only unusual thing is the keyword. Fogus and Houser say this: "Because keywords are self-evaluating and provide fast equality checks, they're almost always used in the context of map keys." But here you're back to checking equality of strings. Not sure if the same is true for ClojureScript.<p>You can also use them as functions to look up values in maps. For example:<p><pre><code> user=&#62; (:my-key {:other-key 1, :my-key 2})
2
</code></pre>
There are other places they're used--for example, list comprehensions with `for`:<p><pre><code> (for [x (range 10)
y (range 10)
:when (= x y)]
[x y])
=&#62; ([0 0] [1 1] [2 2] [3 3] [4 4] [5 5] [6 6] [7 7] [8 8] [9 9])
</code></pre>
In Clojure keywords are nice to have.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wisp: a homoiconic JS dialect with Clojure syntax, s-expressions and macros</title><url>http://jeditoolkit.com/try-wisp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dhamidi</author><text>What is the benefit of having three ways to write strings?<p><pre><code> \a ;; compiles to "a"
:a ;; compiles to "a"
"a" ;; compiles to "a"
</code></pre>
This is not meant as destructive criticism; I'm genuinely interested in the motivation for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chongli</author><text>Those are 3 distinct types in Clojure; unfortunately they have no equivalents in JavaScript, thus they become strings.</text></comment> |
16,889,474 | 16,888,513 | 1 | 3 | 16,885,000 | train | <story><title>The ‘Terms and Conditions’ Reckoning Is Coming</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-20/uber-paypal-face-reckoning-over-opaque-terms-and-conditions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grellas</author><text>The basic law relating to online terms and conditions has been stable for some years now and should remain so. It certainly is not headed for a &quot;reckoning.&quot;<p>When private parties transact business in a free society, the law of contracts steps in to provide rules enabling them to do so in a well-defined and orderly manner. Contract law has some fundamental principles that anchor it and, beyond those, has a vast number of intricacies that potentially can come into play in individual circumstances. Concerning fundamentals, for most executory contracts to be enforceable, you need to have mutual consent and some exchange of consideration. That is, a meeting of the minds on material terms and an exchange of value. When these elements exist, the law considers a contract to be binding and imposes legal consequences for any breach or failure to perform. In order to avoid chaos, it further stipulates that the core principle (meeting of the minds) is not based on purely subjective factors but on what a reasonable person would believe in the circumstances. This objective standard enables commercial transactions to proceed without endless second-guessing about what the parties might have desired or meant when they contracted in any given transaction. Because of this, while it can easily become messy in any given case, most contract situations can be legally evaluated with a fair degree of certainty and parties can plan their affairs and determine their rights accordingly.<p>The above describes what might be called a very high-level summary the central tenets of the common law of contracts in the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition. If someone reasonably can be said to have consented to a given transaction involving some exchange of value, legal rules applied to govern how that exchange took place and what would happen if some breached his or her agreement.<p>When it comes to terms and conditions in online commerce, the law generally applies this body of contract law but does so via what might be called the <i>fiction</i> of mutual consent between the contracting parties. It is well known that the vast majority of persons do not bother to read such terms and conditions when they click on the &quot;Agree&quot; button. Nonetheless, the terms and conditions are legally binding upon such persons. Why? Because it is <i>assumed</i> that the person read and understood them in clicking. And that assumption is what makes it a fiction. In effect, the law says, &quot;we will pretend that the person read through the terms and knowingly agreed to them.&quot; Given that this legal fiction effectively substitutes for a true consent, the law can proceed along its merry way and treat this contract as it would any other, i.e., treat it as binding and enforceable upon the &quot;contracting&quot; party. In effect, to preserve orderly rules of contract in such transactions, the law effectively says that the terms and conditions are legally binding if they are such that a reasonable person who had taken the time to read through them would have understood them to have a certain meaning (that is, the &quot;reasonable person&quot; meaning that the law will enforce upon the person doing the clicking).<p>This fundamental approach to terms and conditions in online transactions has not changed one bit in some years and is under no risk of being changed. Because, without it, you could not practically have any semblance of legal orderliness in online transactions.<p>Moreover, while it is often said that dense legalese is undesirable in such situations, courts generally enforce such legalese without hesitation, even if a complaining consumer says until he is blue in the face that it could have been put in easier-to-understand plain English. There is no legal rule that requires contractual language to be put into plain English and there are some types of contracts where an attempt to express the legal requirements in that way would cause a loss of precision or lead to other problems. Whether something is expressed in plain English or not, then, typically does not affect its enforceability in online transactions.<p>Again, nothing pervasive is happening in the law affecting online transactions so as to require use of plain English to make terms and conditions enforceable.<p>None of this is to say that there are no protections in existing law when people try to use weasel language to defraud others or use language that is so imprecise as to mislead consumers or use language that is so ill-defined or vague as to leave important matters uncertain to the other contracting party. In all such cases, existing common law has remedies of varying kinds to say that such contracts are unenforceable or that some remedy applies in favor or an aggrieved or defrauded consumer. But, in practice, these are edge cases, the ones that wind up in dispute or in court. The vast bulk (99%+) of the commerce that occurs is covered by the general contract rules and proceeds in an orderly way because the rules are known and predictable.<p>Against this background of the common law contract rules, it is possible for persons to want to modify the existing rules on grounds that such rules are unfair to the consumer and or are not based on true consent by that consumer or for some other public policy ground.<p>This is where special public-policy-driven enactments come in to modify the standard contract rules. Legislatures can adopt special laws dictating outer bounds to how businesses can use the private data of consumers as such data may entrusted to them. In this area, perhaps, a form of &quot;reckoning&quot; may occur if it is determined that companies such as Facebook ought not to be able to sell or misuse private data to the detriment of their users. This is an important development and serious changes may be afoot affecting such special areas. But this does not affect the general principles by which online contracting occurs.<p>There could also be proposals mandating that plain English be used in terms and conditions or requiring this or that form of mandated disclosure to help ensure greater consumer understanding but all such proposals come with decided trade-offs that typically make them impractical. The reason for the fiction of legal consent in the current system is the supreme utility that comes from allowing millions of online transactions to occur every day without incident based on orderly rules known to all. You can change all that through legislative enactments saying that public policy requires a different system that is more fair to consumers. But at what price? That is why the current system is and remains solidly in place.<p>To underscore the importance of utility, I have been legally trained and have years of experience such that I could easily read through and comprehend the legalese that is found in most online terms and conditions. Yet, with rare exceptions, I am just like everybody else and will click &quot;Accept&quot; or &quot;Agree&quot; without reading anything and without a second thought. As a lawyer, I can&#x27;t say that I am proud of this but I can say this is human nature. The issue is not primarily that legalese or plain English will make a difference in understandability. It is that we take the path of least resistance when not much is at stake and we don&#x27;t want to be bothered. Try as we might, no law will solve that problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lovich</author><text>Its beyond even being a legal fiction in many situations. There is no option for most people when it comes to certain terms and conditions.<p>Take phones for instance. You cannot live in modern society without a phone. You will not be able to get a phone, without agreeing to one of these long terms and conditions. They come from landline providers, they come from cell phone providers, they come packaged in the box in the cell phone from prepaid phone sellers.<p>How is saying, you&#x27;re cut off from society or you can agree to a contract designed in a way that you have no reasonable chance of actually understanding it, something we want for society?</text></comment> | <story><title>The ‘Terms and Conditions’ Reckoning Is Coming</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-20/uber-paypal-face-reckoning-over-opaque-terms-and-conditions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grellas</author><text>The basic law relating to online terms and conditions has been stable for some years now and should remain so. It certainly is not headed for a &quot;reckoning.&quot;<p>When private parties transact business in a free society, the law of contracts steps in to provide rules enabling them to do so in a well-defined and orderly manner. Contract law has some fundamental principles that anchor it and, beyond those, has a vast number of intricacies that potentially can come into play in individual circumstances. Concerning fundamentals, for most executory contracts to be enforceable, you need to have mutual consent and some exchange of consideration. That is, a meeting of the minds on material terms and an exchange of value. When these elements exist, the law considers a contract to be binding and imposes legal consequences for any breach or failure to perform. In order to avoid chaos, it further stipulates that the core principle (meeting of the minds) is not based on purely subjective factors but on what a reasonable person would believe in the circumstances. This objective standard enables commercial transactions to proceed without endless second-guessing about what the parties might have desired or meant when they contracted in any given transaction. Because of this, while it can easily become messy in any given case, most contract situations can be legally evaluated with a fair degree of certainty and parties can plan their affairs and determine their rights accordingly.<p>The above describes what might be called a very high-level summary the central tenets of the common law of contracts in the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition. If someone reasonably can be said to have consented to a given transaction involving some exchange of value, legal rules applied to govern how that exchange took place and what would happen if some breached his or her agreement.<p>When it comes to terms and conditions in online commerce, the law generally applies this body of contract law but does so via what might be called the <i>fiction</i> of mutual consent between the contracting parties. It is well known that the vast majority of persons do not bother to read such terms and conditions when they click on the &quot;Agree&quot; button. Nonetheless, the terms and conditions are legally binding upon such persons. Why? Because it is <i>assumed</i> that the person read and understood them in clicking. And that assumption is what makes it a fiction. In effect, the law says, &quot;we will pretend that the person read through the terms and knowingly agreed to them.&quot; Given that this legal fiction effectively substitutes for a true consent, the law can proceed along its merry way and treat this contract as it would any other, i.e., treat it as binding and enforceable upon the &quot;contracting&quot; party. In effect, to preserve orderly rules of contract in such transactions, the law effectively says that the terms and conditions are legally binding if they are such that a reasonable person who had taken the time to read through them would have understood them to have a certain meaning (that is, the &quot;reasonable person&quot; meaning that the law will enforce upon the person doing the clicking).<p>This fundamental approach to terms and conditions in online transactions has not changed one bit in some years and is under no risk of being changed. Because, without it, you could not practically have any semblance of legal orderliness in online transactions.<p>Moreover, while it is often said that dense legalese is undesirable in such situations, courts generally enforce such legalese without hesitation, even if a complaining consumer says until he is blue in the face that it could have been put in easier-to-understand plain English. There is no legal rule that requires contractual language to be put into plain English and there are some types of contracts where an attempt to express the legal requirements in that way would cause a loss of precision or lead to other problems. Whether something is expressed in plain English or not, then, typically does not affect its enforceability in online transactions.<p>Again, nothing pervasive is happening in the law affecting online transactions so as to require use of plain English to make terms and conditions enforceable.<p>None of this is to say that there are no protections in existing law when people try to use weasel language to defraud others or use language that is so imprecise as to mislead consumers or use language that is so ill-defined or vague as to leave important matters uncertain to the other contracting party. In all such cases, existing common law has remedies of varying kinds to say that such contracts are unenforceable or that some remedy applies in favor or an aggrieved or defrauded consumer. But, in practice, these are edge cases, the ones that wind up in dispute or in court. The vast bulk (99%+) of the commerce that occurs is covered by the general contract rules and proceeds in an orderly way because the rules are known and predictable.<p>Against this background of the common law contract rules, it is possible for persons to want to modify the existing rules on grounds that such rules are unfair to the consumer and or are not based on true consent by that consumer or for some other public policy ground.<p>This is where special public-policy-driven enactments come in to modify the standard contract rules. Legislatures can adopt special laws dictating outer bounds to how businesses can use the private data of consumers as such data may entrusted to them. In this area, perhaps, a form of &quot;reckoning&quot; may occur if it is determined that companies such as Facebook ought not to be able to sell or misuse private data to the detriment of their users. This is an important development and serious changes may be afoot affecting such special areas. But this does not affect the general principles by which online contracting occurs.<p>There could also be proposals mandating that plain English be used in terms and conditions or requiring this or that form of mandated disclosure to help ensure greater consumer understanding but all such proposals come with decided trade-offs that typically make them impractical. The reason for the fiction of legal consent in the current system is the supreme utility that comes from allowing millions of online transactions to occur every day without incident based on orderly rules known to all. You can change all that through legislative enactments saying that public policy requires a different system that is more fair to consumers. But at what price? That is why the current system is and remains solidly in place.<p>To underscore the importance of utility, I have been legally trained and have years of experience such that I could easily read through and comprehend the legalese that is found in most online terms and conditions. Yet, with rare exceptions, I am just like everybody else and will click &quot;Accept&quot; or &quot;Agree&quot; without reading anything and without a second thought. As a lawyer, I can&#x27;t say that I am proud of this but I can say this is human nature. The issue is not primarily that legalese or plain English will make a difference in understandability. It is that we take the path of least resistance when not much is at stake and we don&#x27;t want to be bothered. Try as we might, no law will solve that problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>microDude</author><text>No offense, the length of your comment reads like a Terms of Service Contract.</text></comment> |
11,305,661 | 11,305,763 | 1 | 2 | 11,305,387 | train | <story><title>NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so she used her own</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/nsa-refused-clinton-a-secure-blackberry-like-obama-so-she-used-her-own/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This makes Clinton seem petty.<p>She had a wired-computer she could check email on in the SCIF, but she refused and was only willing to read her email on a Blackberry, so her staff tried to get authorisation for one, failed, and then tried to get her a highly sensitive top level device just so she could check her unclassified email in the SCIF (she could use a standard Blackberry elsewhere).<p>I&#x27;m siding with the NSA here. She should just buck up and learn to check her email on a wired PC like everyone else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>res0nat0r</author><text>This is easy when you work in an office every day at the same location for your job. As Secretary of State travelling all of the time around the world this isn&#x27;t realistic.</text></comment> | <story><title>NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so she used her own</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/nsa-refused-clinton-a-secure-blackberry-like-obama-so-she-used-her-own/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This makes Clinton seem petty.<p>She had a wired-computer she could check email on in the SCIF, but she refused and was only willing to read her email on a Blackberry, so her staff tried to get authorisation for one, failed, and then tried to get her a highly sensitive top level device just so she could check her unclassified email in the SCIF (she could use a standard Blackberry elsewhere).<p>I&#x27;m siding with the NSA here. She should just buck up and learn to check her email on a wired PC like everyone else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>The subtext of some of these stories seem to be that there was a great deal of tension between the intelligence community and the state department. In particular, this whole business about retroactive classification seems to be part of a larger battle on the issue of overclassification.</text></comment> |
14,647,408 | 14,647,304 | 1 | 2 | 14,645,452 | train | <story><title>Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/06/27/ransomware-spreads-rapidly-hitting-power-companies-banks-airlines-metro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;Actually, every single Windows PC with an internet connection that has been used before March 14 should be considered irrevocably compromised.&quot;<p>March 14 of what year ?<p>I would say 2000 but I am open to discussion ...</text></item><item><author>jannes</author><text>This is even more proof how powerful a 0-day in the wrong hands can be.<p>All of the affected companies&#x27; should be considered compromised by the NSA.<p>Actually, every single Windows PC with an internet connection that has been used before March 14 should be considered irrevocably compromised. Ransomware is much more visible than spyware. Think about all the spyware-infected PCs&#x2F;networks that nobody knows about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>80211</author><text>People who don&#x27;t run Windows shouldn&#x27;t get cocky! There are many, many attacks on Linux:<p>Here&#x27;s one in the news from just last week. A ransomware where the victim agreed to pay the equivalent of US$1MM in bitcoin.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;security&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;web-host-agrees-to-pay-1m-after-its-hit-by-linux-targeting-ransomware&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;security&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;web-host-agrees-to-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/06/27/ransomware-spreads-rapidly-hitting-power-companies-banks-airlines-metro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;Actually, every single Windows PC with an internet connection that has been used before March 14 should be considered irrevocably compromised.&quot;<p>March 14 of what year ?<p>I would say 2000 but I am open to discussion ...</text></item><item><author>jannes</author><text>This is even more proof how powerful a 0-day in the wrong hands can be.<p>All of the affected companies&#x27; should be considered compromised by the NSA.<p>Actually, every single Windows PC with an internet connection that has been used before March 14 should be considered irrevocably compromised. Ransomware is much more visible than spyware. Think about all the spyware-infected PCs&#x2F;networks that nobody knows about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhaps0dy</author><text>You&#x27;re implying that from March 14, 2000, Windows was very secure.<p>I think you&#x27;re getting this backwards. If you say 2017, you and your children-comments&#x27; dates will be covered, because they are before March 14 2017.</text></comment> |
27,439,553 | 27,439,650 | 1 | 3 | 27,430,806 | train | <story><title>Bakeware: Compile any Elixir application into a single binary</title><url>https://github.com/bake-bake-bake/bakeware</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sergiomattei</author><text>I&#x27;m glad Bakeware is applying brainpower to the entry point problem for simple scripts.<p>I&#x27;m currently learning Elixir and the biggest initial hurdle was how to actually create an application. Most tutorials teach you through iex but rarely how to actually write a running program or library.<p>Things like &quot;mix run&quot; wouldn&#x27;t work until I created an app with mix new, then I had to visit the rabbit hole of genservers and supervisors, etc...<p>It&#x27;s a little complex for beginners and could use some polishing. I can&#x27;t say that I truly understand it still.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bakeware: Compile any Elixir application into a single binary</title><url>https://github.com/bake-bake-bake/bakeware</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jart</author><text>Can the cpio command extract the Erlang VM from these binaries? If not, then it shouldn&#x27;t be called cpio. Operating systems have been known to block binaries that have compressed binaries inside them using novel formats tools don&#x27;t understand. The design here is very similar to ZIP, which would be a good thing to consider, since that would grant the end user the flexibility to copy the app out of the bakeware shell into their existing Erlang install without having another Erlang get installed.</text></comment> |
8,657,541 | 8,657,365 | 1 | 2 | 8,655,580 | train | <story><title>Why YKK? The Japanese company behind the world’s best zippers</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/business/branded/2012/04/ykk_zippers_why_so_many_designers_use_them_.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ndespres</author><text>&quot;YKK isn’t the kind of brand that markets to consumers. (Or seeks any kind of publicity: They declined to speak to me for this story.) You don’t buy your jeans and jackets by looking for their letters on that pull. Likewise, you almost certainly wouldn’t nix a garment purchase because the zipper isn’t YKK.&quot;<p>I guess I&#x27;m an exception here. If I want to wear a garment more than a few times I always check to make sure the zippers are YKK. If they skimped on the zippers, who knows what else they skimped on.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why YKK? The Japanese company behind the world’s best zippers</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/business/branded/2012/04/ykk_zippers_why_so_many_designers_use_them_.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tudorw</author><text>&quot;The EU’s General Court backed the European Commission’s fines of 150 million euros ($187 million) for YKK, based in Tokyo, and 110 million euros for Coats in 2007 over cartels involving fasteners and related machinery, one of which ran for more than 21 years. The EU said at the time that the zipper market was worth about 400 million euros a year and the market for other metal fasteners was worth 200 million euros.&quot;<p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-27/coats-and-ykk-lose-eu-court-challenges-over-antitrust-fines.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2012-06-27&#x2F;coats-and-ykk-lose-...</a></text></comment> |
34,028,920 | 34,028,646 | 1 | 2 | 34,028,087 | train | <story><title>As unions decline, inequality rises</title><url>https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-decline-inequality-rises/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zeyka</author><text>I will never understand how some working class Americans can be against unions, maybe they just see themselves as embarrassed millionaires that would want to crush their workers to squeeze money out of them? It&#x27;s probably my European brain, but I cannot understand how someone, say Jerry, 60 year old factory worker from idaho, can be against unions...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wallawe</author><text>If this is your take, you&#x27;re not being honest about the downsides of unions.<p>Here is a list of reasons for not wanting a union[1]:<p>- I want my underperforming colleagues to be fired quickly. It&#x27;s unfair and annoying that laggards are protected and free riding off their colleagues&#x27; (my) effort, and it leads to ineffective orgs.<p>- I don&#x27;t want seniority or rank to be rewarded. It&#x27;s unfair to young people (me) who are more competent and ambitious, and it leads to ineffective orgs.<p>- I want to negotiate individually because I believe I will make more money as an outperformer. I don&#x27;t want a centralized handicapper to blunt my compensation.<p>- I don&#x27;t like that unions are rent seeking in nature.<p>- I don&#x27;t like that unions often are exploited by organized crime.<p>- I don&#x27;t like that unions interfere in the broader political process and democracy via activism and political pressure (e.g look at the fact that the new EV subsidies will be going to everyone except Tesla, it&#x27;s a perversion).<p>- I think people should be free to organize, but I don&#x27;t like that the state grants special asymmetric powers to unions.<p>- I don&#x27;t like especially public sector unions that I believe are doing significant damage to society broadly. For example police unions that shielded Chauvin after a large number of complaints.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28958674" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28958674</a></text></comment> | <story><title>As unions decline, inequality rises</title><url>https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-decline-inequality-rises/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zeyka</author><text>I will never understand how some working class Americans can be against unions, maybe they just see themselves as embarrassed millionaires that would want to crush their workers to squeeze money out of them? It&#x27;s probably my European brain, but I cannot understand how someone, say Jerry, 60 year old factory worker from idaho, can be against unions...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;It&#x27;s probably my European brain, but I cannot understand how someone [...] can be against unions...</i><p>America unions are structured differently from Europe and some can become as distrusted by the workers as the corporation.<p>Your viewpoint is common but it&#x27;s based on the mental model of <i>&quot;Unions are good. Period end of story.&quot;</i><p>But for voters like your proverbial Jerry against unions, the mental model is more about <i>tradeoffs</i> like this, <i>&quot;the proposed union by these particular set of organizers has made some promises and wants to charge me $$$ per year to negotiate with the company. Things may turn out better -- or they may turn out worse (e.g. no job).&quot;</i><p>As an example, the Amazon union vote in Alabama failed and many blamed Amazon propaganda. No doubt that Amazon crafted many negative messages about unions. But outsiders forget that many voters <i>had older relatives from Alabama coal mines</i> telling them that <i>&quot;the union just took our dues money and didn&#x27;t do shit for us&quot;</i>.<p>How can pro-union advocates counter those disillusioned union coal miners spreading negative information like that? These are the kinds of scenarios Europeans are unfamiliar with.</text></comment> |
33,899,586 | 33,899,263 | 1 | 3 | 33,897,793 | train | <story><title>Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303#advanced</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Andrew_nenakhov</author><text>One must understand that E2EE is used when you don&#x27;t trust your service provider to handle your data. In other words, the adversary in your threat model is the service provider - and in this case, Apple. And what good is that encryption, if Apple obviously can do almost anything with your device?<p>They can remotely wipe apps. They can force-install apps and force updates. It is not too far-fetched to think that they can just remotely copy anything stored on your device to their servers. So, with an adversary that capable, I&#x27;m not sure encrypted backups provide a meaningful improvement to security and privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tshaddox</author><text>&gt; In other words, the adversary in your threat model is the service provider - and in this case, Apple. And what good is that encryption, if Apple obviously can do almost anything with your device?<p>The adversary in this threat model isn&#x27;t the service provider. The adversary is someone attacking the service provider, like a hacker or a government with a warrant, and getting access to Apple&#x27;s storage of your data.<p>Now of course it&#x27;s not impossible for such an adversary to <i>also</i> defeat other systems at Apple and get your data another way, for example by controlling Apple&#x27;s ability to send over-the-air updates to Apple devices. But I think that is a sufficiently distinct threat that it&#x27;s not worth dismissing solutions to the first threat. That would be like dismissing the importance of a web server storing passwords salted and hashed, since attackers could just use a totally different attack to bypass the web server&#x27;s database access control. Another way to illustrate this might be to point out that attackers can physically coerce you to hand over data regardless of <i>any</i> security measures any service provider could possibly make, but that doesn&#x27;t mean we should dismiss all such security measures.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303#advanced</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Andrew_nenakhov</author><text>One must understand that E2EE is used when you don&#x27;t trust your service provider to handle your data. In other words, the adversary in your threat model is the service provider - and in this case, Apple. And what good is that encryption, if Apple obviously can do almost anything with your device?<p>They can remotely wipe apps. They can force-install apps and force updates. It is not too far-fetched to think that they can just remotely copy anything stored on your device to their servers. So, with an adversary that capable, I&#x27;m not sure encrypted backups provide a meaningful improvement to security and privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schrodinger</author><text>There are multiple meanings of trust in this scenario: belief in honesty, and confidence of ability. Eg I can trust you to tell me the truth but not trust you to protect me from a missile.<p>I trust Apple’s honesty. I don’t trust many attack vectors. Someone could gain access to their data center. E2EE protects that. A gov could legally compel them to provide data. I trust when they say they’ve engineered it in such a way that they can’t currently do it, and that they would publicly cause a scene and legal battle if attempted-as they have before. Accidental data leaks also happen. In all these scenarios I trust Apples intentions but know that nothing is perfect. E2EE adds a lot for me.</text></comment> |
6,581,699 | 6,581,780 | 1 | 2 | 6,580,333 | train | <story><title>Is Wikipedia for Sale?</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/is-wikipedia-for-sale</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>My experience as a Wikipedian suggests that Wikipedia&#x27;s administrators need to be much more alert than they have been to the possibility that the Wikipedians motivated by money (or by ideological bias) will stay with the project and persist in making edits contrary to Wikipedia policy. They edit more articles, and edit in greater numbers, than most admins guess or notice. And the point-of-view-pushing editors often inject so much wikidrama into discussions about how to improve articles that they drive away the participation of conscientious editors who know reliable sources about the article topics.<p>A current example is the article on Rupert Sheldrake,[1] which has recently been subjected to vigorous edit-warring, perhaps as part of a publicity campaign by followers of Sheldrake. (I just saw a new book by Sheldrake at a library yesterday, and perhaps that book&#x27;s publication set the timing for the editing push.) But there are examples like this all over Wikipedia, and, again, I think most casual users of Wikipedia massively underestimate the percentage of articles that are edited mostly in the interest of pushing a point of view for commercial or ideological reasons.<p>The article kindly submitted here says, &quot;Anyone can edit Wikipedia, but only a carefully vetted few are promoted to admin status on the site.&quot; And that is laughable. Describing the current group of Wikipedia as &quot;a carefully vetted few&quot; does violence to the English language. Nothing has ever been careful about the process for checking the background of administrator candidates or choosing which candidates become administrators. There are some very, very, very good administrators on Wikipedia (just as there are many very helpful everyday volunteer editors), but there are other administrators who are power trips to maintain conduct contrary to Wikipedia policies for building a good, free online encyclopedia. The Vice article submitted here does, at least, link to an Atlantic article[2] reporting that Wikipedia&#x27;s rate of bringing new administrators on board is slowing. At least some of the administrators have been caught taking payoffs for editing articles to publicize the persons making the payoffs, so it will take more than just the current administrators being more alert to fix this problem on Wikipedia.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rupert_Sheldrake</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/3-charts-that-show-how-wikipedia-is-running-out-of-admins/259829/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2012&#x2F;07&#x2F;3-char...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ta_24278</author><text>My experience as a Wikipedian:<p>- provide content until an admin revert said content without explanation.<p>- try to engage discussion with said admin and get referred to a wp policy that actually states this admin was wrong.<p>- point the admin to his error and engage in wikipedia conflict resolution.<p>- said admin sneakily changes said policy to confirm his views, and unleash a small army of followers to intervene to support him in conflict resolution and revert my edits. get banned<p>- circumvent ban to protest, get banned for circumventing the ban. repeat until other admins take notices and discuss my case in secret channels.<p>- find out that this has happened before quite a few times, escalate to head of wikipedia. get dismissed.<p>- do as others did before, replace a specific high profile page with your story, revert the replace. now your story is there in wikipedia history for future investigators to find.<p>- never contribute anything to wikipedia ever again, use wikipedia as a better than google search engine for official websites until duckduckgo.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Wikipedia for Sale?</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/is-wikipedia-for-sale</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>My experience as a Wikipedian suggests that Wikipedia&#x27;s administrators need to be much more alert than they have been to the possibility that the Wikipedians motivated by money (or by ideological bias) will stay with the project and persist in making edits contrary to Wikipedia policy. They edit more articles, and edit in greater numbers, than most admins guess or notice. And the point-of-view-pushing editors often inject so much wikidrama into discussions about how to improve articles that they drive away the participation of conscientious editors who know reliable sources about the article topics.<p>A current example is the article on Rupert Sheldrake,[1] which has recently been subjected to vigorous edit-warring, perhaps as part of a publicity campaign by followers of Sheldrake. (I just saw a new book by Sheldrake at a library yesterday, and perhaps that book&#x27;s publication set the timing for the editing push.) But there are examples like this all over Wikipedia, and, again, I think most casual users of Wikipedia massively underestimate the percentage of articles that are edited mostly in the interest of pushing a point of view for commercial or ideological reasons.<p>The article kindly submitted here says, &quot;Anyone can edit Wikipedia, but only a carefully vetted few are promoted to admin status on the site.&quot; And that is laughable. Describing the current group of Wikipedia as &quot;a carefully vetted few&quot; does violence to the English language. Nothing has ever been careful about the process for checking the background of administrator candidates or choosing which candidates become administrators. There are some very, very, very good administrators on Wikipedia (just as there are many very helpful everyday volunteer editors), but there are other administrators who are power trips to maintain conduct contrary to Wikipedia policies for building a good, free online encyclopedia. The Vice article submitted here does, at least, link to an Atlantic article[2] reporting that Wikipedia&#x27;s rate of bringing new administrators on board is slowing. At least some of the administrators have been caught taking payoffs for editing articles to publicize the persons making the payoffs, so it will take more than just the current administrators being more alert to fix this problem on Wikipedia.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rupert_Sheldrake</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/3-charts-that-show-how-wikipedia-is-running-out-of-admins/259829/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2012&#x2F;07&#x2F;3-char...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rodgerd</author><text>&gt; I think most casual users of Wikipedia massively underestimate the percentage of articles that are edited mostly in the interest of pushing a point of view for commercial or ideological reasons.<p>Yup. I read a dicsussion recently around an article about Piers Anthony&#x27;s obsession with pedophilia in his fiction, and a number of people were surprised none of the controversy around e.g. his scenes with 5 year olds havign sex with adults was mantioned on Wikipedia. It&#x27;s buried behind a couple of layers of Talk pages of course, likewise the whitewashing of Eric Raymond&#x27;s.<p>Wikipedia is easy for obsessive rule-lawyers to show the information they want to show.</text></comment> |
37,379,487 | 37,379,106 | 1 | 3 | 37,377,926 | train | <story><title>Huawei teardown shows chip breakthrough</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-04/look-inside-huawei-mate-60-pro-phone-powered-by-made-in-china-chip</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>There is so much hubris online about Chinese R&amp;D. Every conversation about Chinese research papers seems to devolve into accusations of scientific fraud, as if academics aren’t driven by the same incentives and companies can’t tell the difference between real and fake research.<p>The fact is, there are some extremely talented researchers in China, and cutting them off from a specific technology is frankly too little too late. Either the US needs to cool their jingoistic jets a bit or they need to seriously consider whether direct competition is sustainable.<p>Yes, the US has undoubtedly the best higher education system in the world now, but this is largely driven by immigration from China and India. Will this still be the case in 30 years when India and China’s economies have matured and high paying tech jobs can be found elsewhere?<p>Right now the immigration system for technically minded immigrants makes no sense. Rather than providing a path to citizenship, the US is sending some of the most talented individuals back to their old countries, where they’ll be developing the economy of those countries rather than that of the US. It’s a terrible strategy that any country not hindered by two year election cycle myopia would rectify.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>Hubris is the right word. There are two things here I think are worth noting:<p>1) The US just challenged the world&#x27;s leading manufacturing power to manufacture new things. That plan is not going to work. They&#x27;re up against a culture that builds, builds smart and builds quickly.<p>2) There is actual racism in the US that is tipping the research scales towards China [0]. Between that and the concerning trends in political destabilisation the states are relying on China making a lot of mistakes as a nation if they intend to keep ahead. The whole US model was importing the bright sparks from other cultures and supporting them with freedom and strong property rights.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.stanford.edu&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;18&#x2F;stanford-community-members-decry-racial-profiling-chinese-scientists&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.stanford.edu&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;18&#x2F;stanford-community-memb...</a> - just one in a disturbing number of articles I&#x27;ve been seeing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Huawei teardown shows chip breakthrough</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-04/look-inside-huawei-mate-60-pro-phone-powered-by-made-in-china-chip</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>There is so much hubris online about Chinese R&amp;D. Every conversation about Chinese research papers seems to devolve into accusations of scientific fraud, as if academics aren’t driven by the same incentives and companies can’t tell the difference between real and fake research.<p>The fact is, there are some extremely talented researchers in China, and cutting them off from a specific technology is frankly too little too late. Either the US needs to cool their jingoistic jets a bit or they need to seriously consider whether direct competition is sustainable.<p>Yes, the US has undoubtedly the best higher education system in the world now, but this is largely driven by immigration from China and India. Will this still be the case in 30 years when India and China’s economies have matured and high paying tech jobs can be found elsewhere?<p>Right now the immigration system for technically minded immigrants makes no sense. Rather than providing a path to citizenship, the US is sending some of the most talented individuals back to their old countries, where they’ll be developing the economy of those countries rather than that of the US. It’s a terrible strategy that any country not hindered by two year election cycle myopia would rectify.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>senttoschool</author><text>I find it funny how US nationalists keep bringing up that China can&#x27;t innovate and can only steal&#x2F;copy.<p>Have they looked inside a tech company office before? Have they seen how many Chinese immigrants&#x2F;second generation Chinese Americans power high-tech US tech companies? Do they think that only the Chinese people in the US can innovate? And that once they&#x27;re in China, they lose that ability?<p>Or have they read a science paper recently? China&#x27;s universities dominate the Nature Index for high quality science output: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;nature-index&#x2F;annual-tables&#x2F;2023&#x2F;institution&#x2F;all&#x2F;all&#x2F;global" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;nature-index&#x2F;annual-tables&#x2F;2023&#x2F;insti...</a><p>Heck, just read any science paper from top US universities. There&#x27;s a good chance that one or more Chinese names are on it.</text></comment> |
31,688,754 | 31,688,389 | 1 | 2 | 31,665,928 | train | <story><title>Nintendo's big piracy case is a sad story</title><url>https://kotaku.com/nintendo-piracy-case-bowser-xecuter-team-prison-pirate-1849026479</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghufran_syed</author><text>Any reason to think being creative in general is somehow easier for people than before? Whatever solution you offer should also apply to the base case which is writing a story or a song, both of which are “cheap” in terms of required tools and yet extremely difficult for most people to do well. So maybe we don’t want to discourage the creators just yet?</text></item><item><author>willcipriano</author><text>It isn&#x27;t 1900 anymore. With things with additive manufacturing and other innovations you can go from prototype to product faster than ever. A few year head start should be sufficient reward for most innovations. Perhaps you could handle the special cases (ie. somebody spends a billion dollars to invent a engine that runs on water) as one offs.<p>Same with movies, television shows and music. They just don&#x27;t have the impact they used to. You can do special effects for a few grand that cost a million dollars a few decades ago. As it is faster and easier than ever to make a movie, we don&#x27;t need to offer such a long period of time for exclusivity.</text></item><item><author>efitz</author><text>There is a very real cost to society to provide patent and copyright. We have to have additional law enforcement, court, and prison capacity. It’s not clear at all to me that society is getting its money worth in defending essentially rent seeking behavior from big business. It’s also not clear that either patent or copyright in their current form actually “promote progress in the useful arts”.<p>I hate the terms “intellectual property” and “piracy” because patent and copyright are not much like property at all, and because actual piracy is a crime of violence and nothing like infringement. And it’s not clear to me that the punishments inflicted are reasonable given the impact of the “crime”.<p>Given that, I believe that we would be better off without patent or copyright, or with only a very modest time period of a couple years.</text></item><item><author>if_by_whisky</author><text>I used to work for an expert witness who testified on valuations in IP infringement cases. I really lost faith in the way the US handles IP infringement in that job. I know patents are contentious in tech, but sometimes I think copyright is just as bad. I know it&#x27;s not a popular opinion, but seeing how things actually play out really made me feel for defendants in those cases.<p>Regardless of what you think of the effectiveness of IP protection, the way damages are calculated (and ultimately determined by courts) is just awful. I haven&#x27;t looked at the specifics of that $65M calculation, but if the real number were closer to $650k I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised-- 2 orders of magnitude was a pretty typical spread between plaintiff and defendant expert witnesses&#x27; valuations in the IP cases I worked on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>readbeard</author><text>In 1790, copyright term in the US was 14 years (if registered) plus 14 more years (if renewed), for a maximum total of 28 years. As of 1998, the copyright term is <i>95 years</i> after publication (or 75 years after the author&#x27;s death). So if creativity is equally as difficult now as it was in the past, I would ask why copyright terms have been so substantially expanded.<p>It&#x27;s also worth pointing out that, since the vast majority of works generate almost all their profits within the first few years of publication, such a lengthy copyright term primarily benefits rights holders of the extremely elite set of works that remain popular after decades of publication. In practice, this mostly winds up being companies like Disney, Sony, Universal, and so on. Meanwhile, the group that is most directly harmed is not the public in general, but everyday artists—who are less free than they were in the past to build on previous works, remix them, or use them as supporting elements in a larger project.<p>Consider that, whereas consumers wanting to enjoy an older (let&#x27;s say WWII-era) work usually face a choice between paying a small fee and getting an unauthorized copy somehow, creators face a choice between enduring a difficult and extremely costly licensing ordeal or opening themselves up to substantial legal risk. Creators often lose heart when faced with this dilemma—and many projects, at least a few of which would probably have been great, will never be made because of this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nintendo's big piracy case is a sad story</title><url>https://kotaku.com/nintendo-piracy-case-bowser-xecuter-team-prison-pirate-1849026479</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghufran_syed</author><text>Any reason to think being creative in general is somehow easier for people than before? Whatever solution you offer should also apply to the base case which is writing a story or a song, both of which are “cheap” in terms of required tools and yet extremely difficult for most people to do well. So maybe we don’t want to discourage the creators just yet?</text></item><item><author>willcipriano</author><text>It isn&#x27;t 1900 anymore. With things with additive manufacturing and other innovations you can go from prototype to product faster than ever. A few year head start should be sufficient reward for most innovations. Perhaps you could handle the special cases (ie. somebody spends a billion dollars to invent a engine that runs on water) as one offs.<p>Same with movies, television shows and music. They just don&#x27;t have the impact they used to. You can do special effects for a few grand that cost a million dollars a few decades ago. As it is faster and easier than ever to make a movie, we don&#x27;t need to offer such a long period of time for exclusivity.</text></item><item><author>efitz</author><text>There is a very real cost to society to provide patent and copyright. We have to have additional law enforcement, court, and prison capacity. It’s not clear at all to me that society is getting its money worth in defending essentially rent seeking behavior from big business. It’s also not clear that either patent or copyright in their current form actually “promote progress in the useful arts”.<p>I hate the terms “intellectual property” and “piracy” because patent and copyright are not much like property at all, and because actual piracy is a crime of violence and nothing like infringement. And it’s not clear to me that the punishments inflicted are reasonable given the impact of the “crime”.<p>Given that, I believe that we would be better off without patent or copyright, or with only a very modest time period of a couple years.</text></item><item><author>if_by_whisky</author><text>I used to work for an expert witness who testified on valuations in IP infringement cases. I really lost faith in the way the US handles IP infringement in that job. I know patents are contentious in tech, but sometimes I think copyright is just as bad. I know it&#x27;s not a popular opinion, but seeing how things actually play out really made me feel for defendants in those cases.<p>Regardless of what you think of the effectiveness of IP protection, the way damages are calculated (and ultimately determined by courts) is just awful. I haven&#x27;t looked at the specifics of that $65M calculation, but if the real number were closer to $650k I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised-- 2 orders of magnitude was a pretty typical spread between plaintiff and defendant expert witnesses&#x27; valuations in the IP cases I worked on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheDong</author><text>Do you think open source code is worse off for the fact that copyright has been removed (via the various licenses, all of which reduce copyright&#x27;s restrictions)?<p>In my mind, open source code has been an excellent experiment showing that eschewing copyright doesn&#x27;t mean people are less creative. Certainly, I&#x27;ve seen more creative open source code than I&#x27;ve seen creative proprietary code.<p>Similarly, there are huge swathes of fanfiction out there which are incredible pieces of creative writing which are not charged for, are not created for commercial interest, and while technically copyrighted, the author may not even realize that.<p>There are masses of people producing tiktok videos and spotify music for an audience, with no explicit expectation of copyright protection.<p>People clearly want attribution, not control to the point where they can say that their work cannot be remixed into a new tiktok video (a common thing), or used as fuel for a new creative endeavor.<p>On the other hand, copyright is largely used to stop such remixing, to prevent making creative derivative use of a work. If it were used just for &quot;you must attribute me&quot; (what open source licenses reduce it to), I would have no complaints.</text></comment> |
18,600,095 | 18,600,033 | 1 | 2 | 18,598,989 | train | <story><title>Leaving NYC for Nashville</title><url>http://wesmckinney.com/blog/leaving-nyc-for-nashville/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickdandakis</author><text>&gt; In 2011, while primarily working on pandas, I was paying $2000 per month for a ground-level &quot;1 bedroom&quot; apartment in the East Village. It was less than 500 square feet and had none of the above amenities.<p>You know, you can always tell when a non-native New Yorker lives in New York, because they all choose one of five neighborhoods to live in, and then complain about their poor living conditions.<p>My guy, you can live in one of the other boroughs, have an average commute to work, and have good living conditions that satisfy at least half of your list of requirements there for $2000 in 2011.<p>Like other commentators here have said, people of a certain class (and age) want to have their cake and eat it too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cribbles</author><text>I guess you could get a slightly larger apartment in Sunset Park or Jackson Heights or somewhere but you would still be paying a preposterous $2000 (realistically $2500+ in 2018) for that, and now you&#x27;ve added NYC&#x27;s cramped, unpleasant, &quot;state of emergency&quot; transportation infrastructure to your daily grind. For all that you get housing that is _still_ laughably austere in comparison to what you&#x27;d get nearly anywhere else in the country.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, I lived 7 or 8 places in about two years when I lived in NYC, in pretty much every Brooklyn neighborhood within a 20-40 minute radius from where I worked. Saved lots of money too - never lived alone, did social stuff in my neighborhood, took full advantage of the City to the best of my ability. After all that, I came to the following verdict: NYC is stupidly overpriced and has a substantial quality of life problem.<p>I am admittedly a non-native, so perhaps some of the finer charms of the City will always be lost on me. But I don&#x27;t know - I&#x27;m living in Berlin right now, which isn&#x27;t _too_ drastically different, and can&#x27;t say I find myself missing NYC at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Leaving NYC for Nashville</title><url>http://wesmckinney.com/blog/leaving-nyc-for-nashville/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickdandakis</author><text>&gt; In 2011, while primarily working on pandas, I was paying $2000 per month for a ground-level &quot;1 bedroom&quot; apartment in the East Village. It was less than 500 square feet and had none of the above amenities.<p>You know, you can always tell when a non-native New Yorker lives in New York, because they all choose one of five neighborhoods to live in, and then complain about their poor living conditions.<p>My guy, you can live in one of the other boroughs, have an average commute to work, and have good living conditions that satisfy at least half of your list of requirements there for $2000 in 2011.<p>Like other commentators here have said, people of a certain class (and age) want to have their cake and eat it too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voidbip</author><text>This. NYC is more than just Manhattan. My two children, my wife and I live in a 3 BR apt, with backyard access and laundry in the basement, in Ridgewood, Queens for 1750 a month. Its 30 minutes to Union Sq. by subway and 40 minutes by bicycle. I am amazed when new college grads at my job tell me they are renting a <i>room</i> in Manhattan for how much I am paying for a full floor apartment in Queens.</text></comment> |
21,616,487 | 21,616,330 | 1 | 3 | 21,604,449 | train | <story><title>Music is universal and used in strikingly similar ways across the globe: study</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-music-universal-globe-1473230</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>username90</author><text>People often say things like &quot;This culture doesn&#x27;t have a word for that color, how strange is that?&quot;, but isn&#x27;t it stranger that basically every culture has so many similarities, like words for the same very abstract things like love, marriage, colors, emotions and so on? Especially if you look at the typical persons of societies instead of the upper classes. I believe many greatly underestimate how much our culture is rooted in our genes, I see no other reason why human societies has so much in common.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben_w</author><text>We might all have a word that gets translated as “marriage”, but the concept attached to that word is not universal. It’s not even the same concept between all people within a single nation and who share a single language and are subject to a legal definition of the word regardless of how well it matches their own personal definition.<p>I suspect that the parts of our culture that are rooted in language are things most of us <i>don’t even</i> have words for, because they come too naturally for us to need to talk about.</text></comment> | <story><title>Music is universal and used in strikingly similar ways across the globe: study</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-music-universal-globe-1473230</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>username90</author><text>People often say things like &quot;This culture doesn&#x27;t have a word for that color, how strange is that?&quot;, but isn&#x27;t it stranger that basically every culture has so many similarities, like words for the same very abstract things like love, marriage, colors, emotions and so on? Especially if you look at the typical persons of societies instead of the upper classes. I believe many greatly underestimate how much our culture is rooted in our genes, I see no other reason why human societies has so much in common.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dgellow</author><text>You may be interested by Chomsky’s work on Universal Grammar theory <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Universal_grammar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Universal_grammar</a></text></comment> |
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