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33,570,943 | 33,569,981 | 1 | 2 | 33,545,349 | train | <story><title>Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician</title><url>https://the.scapegoat.dev/turning-music-into-a-chore-is-what-made-me-an-artist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fortran77</author><text>&gt; I just enjoy the relaxation involved.<p>I can&#x27;t understand this at all.<p>I&#x27;ve been playing piano for 50+ years. Still practice every day. Play in amateur recitals. It&#x27;s fun, but hardly relaxing. It&#x27;s a lot of work, concentration, and study. And as I get older it gets more challenging because of physical limitations (movement, eyesight, hearing) that I have to work around. My fingers don&#x27;t work like they used to, and sometimes I have to decide to leave out a note, or move something to a different hand, etc. Painstaking note-by-note and phrase-by-phrase analysis.<p>Memorization is also tough.</text></item><item><author>DoesntMatter22</author><text>I&#x27;ve been making music for 20 years, just noodling mostly. I&#x27;ve made some tracks that friends of mine love, but I don&#x27;t want to do it professionally. I just enjoy the relaxation involved.<p>In about 2003 I tried something very similar, except I time boxed a song. I had to spend an hour and a half and each song could only take 15 minutes. That ended up being incredibly fruitful.<p>You don&#x27;t have time to think, you just go stream of consciousness through whatever comes to mind. Drums are weird? Too bad, there is no time, go with it. Throw in a 8 bar synth or piano loop. It&#x27;s not good? Well, there isn&#x27;t much time so on to the next thing.<p>This ended doing a few things for me. For one, there was no second guessing anything. You just made what you made. For two there was no pressure to do a good job. You can&#x27;t do a good job you are just rushing through. That lets things just flow. Thirdly it allowed me to try a ton of things that I wouldn&#x27;t normally try. There was no wrong answer. All three are kinda related.<p>I made some of my favorite songs that way and they are songs I still love. I later applied this to writing a technical book. I forced myself to write for 5 minutes a day, everyday. Sometimes it&#x27;d be 2 hours and other times it&#x27;d be 5 minutes but I got the book done and it became pretty popular. (also had a monetary penalty if I couldn&#x27;t write on any particular day).<p>I really love this way of working. Just time box and go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nition</author><text>I&#x27;ve been playing piano for ~25 years. I pretty quickly gravitated away from learning existing pieces towards composition and improv. I&#x27;m slow at reading sheet music and can&#x27;t sight read, but for playing new songs I can generally just look at the chords and get something at least close enough to sing over right away. Just messing around making stuff up is a lot more relaxing than learning by rote I think. Of course I&#x27;m never going to play Piano Concerto No. 21 so it depends what you want out of life. :)<p>The best example of &quot;relaxed piano playing&quot; I can think of is actually the old Build Mode music from The Sims[0]. I&#x27;m 90% sure that all those piano tracks are just someone messing around improvising over a few simple chords, because it sounds so much like what comes out when I&#x27;m doing the same kind of thing.<p>Now, it&#x27;s always a little stressful to <i>record</i> that kind of playing because if you play something bad sounding then you&#x27;ll have to start over (or at least, splice multiple takes together), but if you&#x27;re just playing the piano for fun, I think it mostly is relaxing.<p>Have you ever tried just playing some chords in the left hand and kind of letting the right hand do what it feels like?<p>[0] Here&#x27;s Build 3 for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8gGHQicQUw4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8gGHQicQUw4</a><p>----<p>Edit: Looks like that YouTube video actually links to an article which confirms my old suspicion that it&#x27;s improv piano:<p>&gt; &quot;When Russo and Martin couldn&#x27;t quite capture that wistfulness themselves, they called Burr. A successful jazz pianist in his own right as well as a highly sought-after session musician, he was comfortable working off of Martin&#x27;s ideas (and, unlike Russo, he was a pianist by trade rather than a saxophonist). Burr says he loved the cut-and-paste style of recording that Martin employed. It was a case, he says, of &quot;just looking at Jerry and asking, &#x27;Does this sound like what you want?&#x27;&quot; So, while Russo went away and worked on his pieces only to see them chopped up by Martin, Burr was happy improvising.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician</title><url>https://the.scapegoat.dev/turning-music-into-a-chore-is-what-made-me-an-artist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fortran77</author><text>&gt; I just enjoy the relaxation involved.<p>I can&#x27;t understand this at all.<p>I&#x27;ve been playing piano for 50+ years. Still practice every day. Play in amateur recitals. It&#x27;s fun, but hardly relaxing. It&#x27;s a lot of work, concentration, and study. And as I get older it gets more challenging because of physical limitations (movement, eyesight, hearing) that I have to work around. My fingers don&#x27;t work like they used to, and sometimes I have to decide to leave out a note, or move something to a different hand, etc. Painstaking note-by-note and phrase-by-phrase analysis.<p>Memorization is also tough.</text></item><item><author>DoesntMatter22</author><text>I&#x27;ve been making music for 20 years, just noodling mostly. I&#x27;ve made some tracks that friends of mine love, but I don&#x27;t want to do it professionally. I just enjoy the relaxation involved.<p>In about 2003 I tried something very similar, except I time boxed a song. I had to spend an hour and a half and each song could only take 15 minutes. That ended up being incredibly fruitful.<p>You don&#x27;t have time to think, you just go stream of consciousness through whatever comes to mind. Drums are weird? Too bad, there is no time, go with it. Throw in a 8 bar synth or piano loop. It&#x27;s not good? Well, there isn&#x27;t much time so on to the next thing.<p>This ended doing a few things for me. For one, there was no second guessing anything. You just made what you made. For two there was no pressure to do a good job. You can&#x27;t do a good job you are just rushing through. That lets things just flow. Thirdly it allowed me to try a ton of things that I wouldn&#x27;t normally try. There was no wrong answer. All three are kinda related.<p>I made some of my favorite songs that way and they are songs I still love. I later applied this to writing a technical book. I forced myself to write for 5 minutes a day, everyday. Sometimes it&#x27;d be 2 hours and other times it&#x27;d be 5 minutes but I got the book done and it became pretty popular. (also had a monetary penalty if I couldn&#x27;t write on any particular day).<p>I really love this way of working. Just time box and go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsclough</author><text>Practicing piano and fooling around in a DAW are completely different realms of music related activities. The pianists all know have given me the impression the activity is many more parts stress if the goal is practicing to be able to play a challenging piece, while working in a DAW can be more like splattering paint on a canvas when done like the parent comment describes</text></comment> |
6,799,519 | 6,799,289 | 1 | 3 | 6,795,605 | train | <story><title>We wrote a CEO page and it works</title><url>http://rsync.net/products/ceopage.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RKearney</author><text>So the concept of this is to create a misleading page such that the CEO of a company would be tricked into signing off on an otherwise overpriced
service?<p>Towards the bottom it reads:<p>&gt;Depending on the size, this could be as low as 7 cents per GB, per month - which is cheaper than Amazon S3.<p>However, after looking at both the pricing and signup page, it appears as
though the lowest you can get is $0.08 per GB, and that&#x27;s only if you buy
10TB of space. That&#x27;s also for a SINGLE off-site location. This is the
equivalent of &quot;Reduced Redundancy Storage&quot; at Amazon, which starts at
$0.076 per GB. However, if you want to compare apples to apples, you would
compare it to the 10TB pricing.<p>10TB Single off-site @ rsync - $9,500&#x2F;yr<p>10TB Single off-site @ AWSs3 - $8,011&#x2F;yr<p>10TB Multiple off-site @ rsync - $16,625&#x2F;yr<p>10TB Multiple off-site @ AWSs3 - $10,009&#x2F;yr<p>Every time rsync posts something on HN or Reddit, its always filled with FUD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>A few comments ...<p>First, our pricing almost exactly matching S3 is not a secret - it&#x27;s well understood, and by design.<p>Second, you&#x27;ll note that the following features of a 10TB account with us are not included with S3:<p>- Free integration engineering (as in, a unix engineer on the phone with you)<p>- 24&#x2F;7 hotline support - as in, xmas morning phonecalls<p>- two physical media shipments of any size per year<p>- We <i>will sign a BAA with you</i><p>Ask your contact at Amazon what those would cost next time you talk to them. Oh wait, you&#x27;ve <i>never ever talked to anyone at Amazon and you never will</i>[1]<p>So you&#x27;re right - it&#x27;s not apples to apples.<p>[1] Except, of course, at AWS summit and so on, where they are very available and helpful.</text></comment> | <story><title>We wrote a CEO page and it works</title><url>http://rsync.net/products/ceopage.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RKearney</author><text>So the concept of this is to create a misleading page such that the CEO of a company would be tricked into signing off on an otherwise overpriced
service?<p>Towards the bottom it reads:<p>&gt;Depending on the size, this could be as low as 7 cents per GB, per month - which is cheaper than Amazon S3.<p>However, after looking at both the pricing and signup page, it appears as
though the lowest you can get is $0.08 per GB, and that&#x27;s only if you buy
10TB of space. That&#x27;s also for a SINGLE off-site location. This is the
equivalent of &quot;Reduced Redundancy Storage&quot; at Amazon, which starts at
$0.076 per GB. However, if you want to compare apples to apples, you would
compare it to the 10TB pricing.<p>10TB Single off-site @ rsync - $9,500&#x2F;yr<p>10TB Single off-site @ AWSs3 - $8,011&#x2F;yr<p>10TB Multiple off-site @ rsync - $16,625&#x2F;yr<p>10TB Multiple off-site @ AWSs3 - $10,009&#x2F;yr<p>Every time rsync posts something on HN or Reddit, its always filled with FUD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asperous</author><text>Correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, but wouldn&#x27;t offline backups be more like Glacier, which is 0.01GB&#x2F;Month?<p><a href="http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;glacier&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
8,457,796 | 8,457,645 | 1 | 2 | 8,457,522 | train | <story><title>Cryptic genetic variation in software: hunting a buffered 41-year-old bug</title><url>https://cryptogenomicon.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/cryptic-genetic-variation-in-software-hunting-a-buffered-41-year-old-bug/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matthewcanty</author><text>That was a really interesting read, and very well written. I wonder if anyone can clear this up though...<p>I find the terminology of open and closed intervals contradictory to their meaning. Does anyone know why they are described like this?<p>`Closed` makes me think shut or not-including - however it includes its endpoints. `Open` makes me think inclusive - yet does not include its endpoints.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdpage</author><text>From a real analysis standpoint... the definition of a &#x27;closed set&#x27; in an N-dimensional metric space (of which Euclidean space, i.e. normal space, is an example) is as follows: a set C is &#x27;closed&#x27; if and only if, given any sequence of elements (x_n) converging on x, such that (x_n) is a subset of C, it follows that x is also in C.<p>Under this definition, &#x27;closed&#x27; makes sense in the larger context, since in mathematics, if an operation is &#x27;closed&#x27; on a set, that means that applying the operation to elements of the set always yields another element of the same set.<p>Open is a bit more awkward. A set O is &#x27;open&#x27; if and only if the complement of O (i.e. the set of all points not in O) is closed. So open is kind of the opposite of closed, hence the convention. Of course, it isn&#x27;t really the opposite of closed, since there are sets which are neither closed nor open.<p>tt;dr (too technical; didn&#x27;t read) in maths, &#x27;closed&#x27; usually means &#x27;I can do stuff inside this set without falling out of it&#x27;. In the case of intervals, the &#x27;stuff&#x27; in question is taking a limit of a convergent sequence.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cryptic genetic variation in software: hunting a buffered 41-year-old bug</title><url>https://cryptogenomicon.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/cryptic-genetic-variation-in-software-hunting-a-buffered-41-year-old-bug/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matthewcanty</author><text>That was a really interesting read, and very well written. I wonder if anyone can clear this up though...<p>I find the terminology of open and closed intervals contradictory to their meaning. Does anyone know why they are described like this?<p>`Closed` makes me think shut or not-including - however it includes its endpoints. `Open` makes me think inclusive - yet does not include its endpoints.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saurik</author><text>The analogy I&#x27;ve always used is that the closed interval has what amounts to a lid or a cap on it, while the open interval does not. Another (sort of related) way of looking at it is that the closed interval has a maximum (or minimum) value, whereas the open interval, despite only missing a single value, suddenly has this feeling of continuation, because without that final value it now asymptotes to the end and you will always be able to find a larger (or smaller) value than any previous value you examine.</text></comment> |
39,486,258 | 39,484,258 | 1 | 3 | 39,481,554 | train | <story><title>Gemma.cpp: lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Gemma models</title><url>https://github.com/google/gemma.cpp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zoogeny</author><text>I know a lot of people chide Google for being behind OpenAI in their commercial offerings. We also dunk on them for the over-protective nature of their fine-tuning.<p>But Google is scarily capable on the LLM front and we shouldn&#x27;t count them out. OpenAI might have the advantage of being quick to move, but when the juggernaut gets passed its resting inertia and starts to gain momentum it is going to leave an impression.<p>That became clear to me after watching the recent Jeff Dean video [1] which was posted a few days ago. The depth of institutional knowledge that is going to be unlocked inside Google is actually frightening for me to consider.<p>I hope the continued competition on the open source front, which we can really thank Facebook and Llama for, keeps these behemoths sharing. As OpenAI moves further from its original mission into capitalizing on its technological lead, we have to remember why the original vision they had is important.<p>So thank you, Google, for this.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=oSCRZkSQ1CE&amp;ab_channel=RiceKenKennedyInstitute" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=oSCRZkSQ1CE&amp;ab_channel=RiceK...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>llm_nerd</author><text>While I generally agree with you, who has ever counted Google out? We&#x27;ve made fun of Google for lagging while they instead spend their engineering time renaming projects and performing algorithmic white-erasure, but we all knew they&#x27;re a potent force.<p>Google has as much or more computing power than anyone. They&#x27;re massively capitalized and have a market cap of almost $2T and colossal cashflow, and have the ability to throw enormous resources at the problem until they have a competitor. They have an enormous, benchmark-setting amount of data across their various projects to train on. That we&#x27;re talking like they&#x27;re some scrappy upstart is super weird.<p>&gt;As OpenAI moves further from its original mission into capitalizing on its technological lead, we have to remember why the original vision they had is important.<p>I&#x27;m way more cynical about the open source models released by the megas, and OpenAI is probably the most honest about their intentions. Meta and Google are releasing these models arguably to kneecap any possible next OpenAI. They want to basically set the market value of anything below state of the art at $0.00, ensuring that there is no breathing room below the $2T cos. These models (Llama, Gemma, etc) are fun toys, but in the end they&#x27;re completely uncompetitive and will yield zero &quot;wins&quot;, so to speak.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gemma.cpp: lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Gemma models</title><url>https://github.com/google/gemma.cpp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zoogeny</author><text>I know a lot of people chide Google for being behind OpenAI in their commercial offerings. We also dunk on them for the over-protective nature of their fine-tuning.<p>But Google is scarily capable on the LLM front and we shouldn&#x27;t count them out. OpenAI might have the advantage of being quick to move, but when the juggernaut gets passed its resting inertia and starts to gain momentum it is going to leave an impression.<p>That became clear to me after watching the recent Jeff Dean video [1] which was posted a few days ago. The depth of institutional knowledge that is going to be unlocked inside Google is actually frightening for me to consider.<p>I hope the continued competition on the open source front, which we can really thank Facebook and Llama for, keeps these behemoths sharing. As OpenAI moves further from its original mission into capitalizing on its technological lead, we have to remember why the original vision they had is important.<p>So thank you, Google, for this.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=oSCRZkSQ1CE&amp;ab_channel=RiceKenKennedyInstitute" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=oSCRZkSQ1CE&amp;ab_channel=RiceK...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whimsicalism</author><text>Realistically, if Google has all this talent, they should have gotten the juggernaut moving in 2020.<p>Google has had <i>years</i> to get to this stage, and they&#x27;ve lost a lot of the talent that made their initial big splashes to OAI and competitors. Try finding someone on a sparse MoE paper from Google prior to 2022 who is still working there and not at OAI.<p>With respect, they can hardly even beat Mistral, resorting to rounding down a 7.8b model (w&#x2F;o embeddings) to 7b.</text></comment> |
18,974,591 | 18,974,600 | 1 | 3 | 18,973,477 | train | <story><title>Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edwintorok</author><text>What if someone would create a pull request to implement unlock origin natively inside chromium, instead of an extension. If such a PR met all technical criteria, would Chromium project accept it?</text></item><item><author>metalliqaz</author><text>But the design document only mentions retaining the old API for features that aren&#x27;t possible with the new API, such as onAuthRequired. So it would still cripple uBlock</text></item><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>The design doc — the part quoted in the note linked here even — explicitly notes that it will probably be required to retain some degree of the existing functionality slated for eventually removal until the new API and other replacements cover all use cases; the response linked here appears to (not improperly, in the context of making a case for why much of the functionality is needed) ignoring that and treating the planned intent as removing all of the existing WebRequest API functionality that is not observational for a hard cutover to the new API which does not immediately supports large swath of currently used functionality.<p>I think the response is appropriate, energetic advocacy, but the HN headline is hyperbolic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>berbec</author><text>No. Google would not include, as a built-in part of Chromium that is installed by default, a feature to lower their ad revenue.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edwintorok</author><text>What if someone would create a pull request to implement unlock origin natively inside chromium, instead of an extension. If such a PR met all technical criteria, would Chromium project accept it?</text></item><item><author>metalliqaz</author><text>But the design document only mentions retaining the old API for features that aren&#x27;t possible with the new API, such as onAuthRequired. So it would still cripple uBlock</text></item><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>The design doc — the part quoted in the note linked here even — explicitly notes that it will probably be required to retain some degree of the existing functionality slated for eventually removal until the new API and other replacements cover all use cases; the response linked here appears to (not improperly, in the context of making a case for why much of the functionality is needed) ignoring that and treating the planned intent as removing all of the existing WebRequest API functionality that is not observational for a hard cutover to the new API which does not immediately supports large swath of currently used functionality.<p>I think the response is appropriate, energetic advocacy, but the HN headline is hyperbolic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philliphaydon</author><text>Of course not.</text></comment> |
27,459,302 | 27,458,534 | 1 | 2 | 27,456,315 | train | <story><title>DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/09/deepmind-says-reinforcement-learning-is-enough-to-reach-general-ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>webmaven</author><text>Saying RL is sufficient to (eventually) achieve AGI is a bit misleading. One might similarly state that biological evolution is sufficient to (eventually) achieve biological general intelligence.<p>Both statements are probably true, but the parenthetical (eventually) is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burning_hamster</author><text>I think the title of the paper makes more sense if you consider that ten years ago, someone could have written a paper in a similar spirit with a different take on &quot;what is enough&quot;. Back then, it would probably have been titled: &quot;Backpropagation of errors is enough&quot;.<p>The last ten years have shown that backpropagation -- while a crucial component -- is not enough. Personally, I would not be shocked to find out in the next ten years that reinforcement learning is not enough for an AGI (as there are aspects like one-shot learning, forgetting, sleep, and other phenomena for which the RL framework seems not a natural fit).</text></comment> | <story><title>DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/09/deepmind-says-reinforcement-learning-is-enough-to-reach-general-ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>webmaven</author><text>Saying RL is sufficient to (eventually) achieve AGI is a bit misleading. One might similarly state that biological evolution is sufficient to (eventually) achieve biological general intelligence.<p>Both statements are probably true, but the parenthetical (eventually) is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>admk</author><text>That is if you believe biological general intelligence is the end goal of evolution, which I believe is highly unlikely.<p>Intelligence is simply a special side-product of evolution, there is nothing general about general intelligence. Many organisms can thrive without it.<p>There is also a non-negligible chance that all organisms would die out before reaching intelligence. We are fortunate to live in a world that produced us.</text></comment> |
35,858,791 | 35,858,560 | 1 | 3 | 35,858,268 | train | <story><title>Rapamycin: The unlucky history of an anti-aging drug</title><url>https://bigthink.com/health/unlucky-history-rapamycin-anti-aging/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tysam_and</author><text>Anti-aging is a hard problem, Rapamycin is most certainly not the most powerful anti-aging drug from my best understanding, it just targets 1 of 7 or 8 critical areas that are implicated in the aging formula.<p>If you want to start down the rabbithole (SENS talks can be trusted and are good, well-backed by science, etc etc. Have been derailed by some drama recently, but still, they&#x27;ve really done a lot) then you can start by going to the rejuvenation roadmap: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lifespan.io&#x2F;road-maps&#x2F;the-rejuvenation-roadmap&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lifespan.io&#x2F;road-maps&#x2F;the-rejuvenation-roadmap&#x2F;</a><p>A little further (Aubrey de Grey, from SENS originally): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;aubrey_de_grey_a_roadmap_to_end_aging?language=tt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;aubrey_de_grey_a_roadmap_to_end_ag...</a><p>If you want to lose 4-5+ hours (minimum -- think TVTropes level of rabbithole addiction here), then here is your next free joyride. It&#x27;s a fun one, I&#x27;ve been pretty interested in it as it&#x27;s continued to have developed. Have fun reading the saga: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sleephackers&#x2F;comments&#x2F;ohfetn&#x2F;turnbuckle_longecity_mitochondrial_fissionfusion&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sleephackers&#x2F;comments&#x2F;ohfetn&#x2F;turnbu...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rapamycin: The unlucky history of an anti-aging drug</title><url>https://bigthink.com/health/unlucky-history-rapamycin-anti-aging/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>starchild_3001</author><text>Many of us know and follow rapamycin&#x27;s story. There are some Drs in USA who&#x27;re willing to prescribe it for longevity. I do hope some billionare will be willing to spend a few million on it to test it in clinical trials. Surely one of the most promising molecules out there, and very little sides when dosed intermittently.</text></comment> |
17,142,123 | 17,141,484 | 1 | 3 | 17,138,794 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?</title><text>So I&#x27;ve been working on animation software for over two years. Part of me is very excited for launch so I can have money again ( I&#x27;ve been freelancing a minimum amount these last two years, and went car-less, moved, cut lifestyle into a third ). I should be wholeheartedly excited, but I&#x27;m feeling tired and generally sluggish regarding the project. I still make consistent progress, but it takes a lot of will power.<p>Part of me thinks it might be an aversion to sales. Part of me thinks this could have been built up so much in my head that anything short of overnight millions would be a disappointment (though I would be happy with 1500 bucks a month ), part of me thinks I might be scared of success ( or scared of surpassing my parents )(media attention), part of me fears the attacks that might come with success ( having something to lose ), part of it is the un-fun-ness of mature projects where the focus is on polish and bugs rather than broad new features, and part of me is scared of commitment: if I succeed I have to stick with this (freedom value), part of me wonders what will happen when more people become involved, if I will be able to maintain my creative direction, since I&#x27;m scratching my own itch. Part of me wonders if diet and exercise isn&#x27;t a factor.<p>A combination, likely...</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikekchar</author><text>When your project is finished, the dream is dead and the reality is born. The death of a dream is like the death of a friend. It&#x27;s probably been with you for a long time -- longer even than the length of the project. A dream is the manifestation of what&#x27;s possible. When it is over, the possible diminishes very quickly and you are left with what actually is. Will people respond well to your project -- in the dream stage it is possible; everything is possible. In the reality stage, it will only be what it is.<p>So while it&#x27;s common to think of a release as a birth of something new, realise that you also have a significant loss. You will mourn that loss. Give yourself some emotional space to deal with the mourning.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>Good comment.<p>Post-completion depression is a recognised syndrome in the arts. One psychological explanation is that constant pressure to complete maintains a core state of focus and emotional arousal.<p>When the pressure disappears so does the arousal, and sometimes a sense of purpose and direction disappears with it. You knew what you were doing and why you needed to get up in the morning, and then you don’t any more. It’s a bit like losing a job.<p>It’s also temporary. A good prosaic but effective antidote is a vacation and&#x2F;or a change of scene. If that’s not practical just after shipping - it often isn’t - at least clear a couple of weeks later, book a break, and take at least a weekend off to do something fun in the short term.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Why is nearing completion so demotivating?</title><text>So I&#x27;ve been working on animation software for over two years. Part of me is very excited for launch so I can have money again ( I&#x27;ve been freelancing a minimum amount these last two years, and went car-less, moved, cut lifestyle into a third ). I should be wholeheartedly excited, but I&#x27;m feeling tired and generally sluggish regarding the project. I still make consistent progress, but it takes a lot of will power.<p>Part of me thinks it might be an aversion to sales. Part of me thinks this could have been built up so much in my head that anything short of overnight millions would be a disappointment (though I would be happy with 1500 bucks a month ), part of me thinks I might be scared of success ( or scared of surpassing my parents )(media attention), part of me fears the attacks that might come with success ( having something to lose ), part of it is the un-fun-ness of mature projects where the focus is on polish and bugs rather than broad new features, and part of me is scared of commitment: if I succeed I have to stick with this (freedom value), part of me wonders what will happen when more people become involved, if I will be able to maintain my creative direction, since I&#x27;m scratching my own itch. Part of me wonders if diet and exercise isn&#x27;t a factor.<p>A combination, likely...</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikekchar</author><text>When your project is finished, the dream is dead and the reality is born. The death of a dream is like the death of a friend. It&#x27;s probably been with you for a long time -- longer even than the length of the project. A dream is the manifestation of what&#x27;s possible. When it is over, the possible diminishes very quickly and you are left with what actually is. Will people respond well to your project -- in the dream stage it is possible; everything is possible. In the reality stage, it will only be what it is.<p>So while it&#x27;s common to think of a release as a birth of something new, realise that you also have a significant loss. You will mourn that loss. Give yourself some emotional space to deal with the mourning.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheels</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting -- I wholeheartedly agree with the phenomenon, but I&#x27;d frame it completely differently.<p>There&#x27;s a scary cliff there, but I feel like launching is when a project first becomes <i>real</i>. It&#x27;s the actual start. It&#x27;s when you&#x27;re judged. It&#x27;s usually when you learn that your assumptions were completely wrong. It means you have to start dealing with actual problems, not imagined problems.<p>That&#x27;s usually less <i>fun</i>, but I think it is more <i>exciting</i> (in large part because it&#x27;s the dive into the unknown).</text></comment> |
12,604,616 | 12,604,470 | 1 | 2 | 12,603,885 | train | <story><title>An AWS Region is coming to France</title><url>http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/09/aws-announce-eu-france-region.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dazbradbury</author><text>For those in London wondering where is best for UK based customers, it seems, for London at least, this <i>could</i> be an improvement over Dublin (where Frankfurt is slower), as Paris is roughly 70 miles closer. Of course, depending on where &#x2F; when [1] a UK-based data centre is released, I&#x27;d imagine that would be faster still.<p>Currently Ireland vs. Frankfurt is (more data needed of course)[2]:<p><pre><code> Europe (Ireland): 25 ms 27 ms 24 ms
Europe (Frankfurt): 39 ms 39 ms 42 ms
</code></pre>
And Frankfurt is about 100 miles further than Dublin.<p>But for a quick test, this looks like a good tool: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudping.info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudping.info&#x2F;</a><p>Will be interested to test this once released to see UK &#x2F; Paris vs. Dublin.<p>[1] Article states UK region &quot;due in coming months&quot;. No location announced?<p>[2] Hitting ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com vs. ec2.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arviewer</author><text>AWS in London is coming within months, so if latency to London is your concern, that&#x27;s not an issue anymore.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;aws&#x2F;coming-in-2017-new-aws-region-in-france&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;aws&#x2F;coming-in-2017-new-aws-regi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>An AWS Region is coming to France</title><url>http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/09/aws-announce-eu-france-region.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dazbradbury</author><text>For those in London wondering where is best for UK based customers, it seems, for London at least, this <i>could</i> be an improvement over Dublin (where Frankfurt is slower), as Paris is roughly 70 miles closer. Of course, depending on where &#x2F; when [1] a UK-based data centre is released, I&#x27;d imagine that would be faster still.<p>Currently Ireland vs. Frankfurt is (more data needed of course)[2]:<p><pre><code> Europe (Ireland): 25 ms 27 ms 24 ms
Europe (Frankfurt): 39 ms 39 ms 42 ms
</code></pre>
And Frankfurt is about 100 miles further than Dublin.<p>But for a quick test, this looks like a good tool: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudping.info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudping.info&#x2F;</a><p>Will be interested to test this once released to see UK &#x2F; Paris vs. Dublin.<p>[1] Article states UK region &quot;due in coming months&quot;. No location announced?<p>[2] Hitting ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com vs. ec2.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aroch</author><text>For anyone using Virgin Media as their ISP, the Dublin DC will perform more predictably, if not faster, because of VM&#x27;s &quot;give preference to data originating inside the UK&#x2F;Ireland and don&#x27;t give two shits about anything else&quot; attitude.<p>If you run a data heavy service, PoP inside the UK or Ireland is a must if you want to avoid throttling and heavy-handed traffic shapping.</text></comment> |
29,409,194 | 29,408,901 | 1 | 3 | 29,408,341 | train | <story><title>ImageMagick: CLI for Image Editing</title><url>https://imagemagick.org/script/index.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldpie</author><text>I always found it fascinating the grade-A executable names which imagemagick was able to claim in the global namespace:<p><pre><code> imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;animate
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;compare
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;composite
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;conjure
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;convert
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;display
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;identify
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;import
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;mogrify
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;montage
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;stream</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nauticacom</author><text>Thankfully as of v7 these are all bundled under a single &quot;magick&quot; command (with symlinks for compatibility). Hopefully in the future these can be removed</text></comment> | <story><title>ImageMagick: CLI for Image Editing</title><url>https://imagemagick.org/script/index.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldpie</author><text>I always found it fascinating the grade-A executable names which imagemagick was able to claim in the global namespace:<p><pre><code> imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;animate
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;compare
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;composite
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;conjure
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;convert
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;display
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;identify
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;import
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;mogrify
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;montage
imagemagick &#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;stream</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ReaLNero</author><text>They are pretty common verbs, but they give 0 context to the user on what they do. I don&#x27;t think these names are in any demand -- there&#x27;s always a better name than &quot;import&quot; for your command line utility.</text></comment> |
14,412,534 | 14,412,371 | 1 | 3 | 14,411,126 | train | <story><title>The largest Git repo</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-largest-git-repo-on-the-planet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>js2</author><text><i>Windows, because of the size of the team and the nature of the work, often has VERY large merges across branches (10,000’s of changes with 1,000’s of conflicts).</i><p>At a former startup, our product was built on Chromium. As the build&#x2F;release engineer, one of my daily responsibilities was merging Chromium&#x27;s changes with ours.<p>Just performing the merge and conflict resolution was anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour of my time. Ensuring the code compiled was another 5 minutes to an hour. If someone on the Chromium team had significantly refactored a component, which typically occurred every couple weeks, I knew half my day was going to be spent dealing with the refactor.<p>The Chromium team at the time was many dozens of engineers, landing on the order of a hundred commits per day. Our team was a dozen engineers landing maybe a couple dozen commits daily. A large merge might have on the order of 100 conflicts, but typically it was just a dozen or so conflicts.<p>Which is to say: I don&#x27;t understand how it&#x27;s possible to deal with a merge that has 1k conflicts across 10k changes. How often does this occur? How many people are responsible for handling the merge? Do you have a way to distribute the conflict resolution across multiple engineers, and if so, how? And why don&#x27;t you aim for more frequent merges so that the conflicts aren&#x27;t so large?<p>(And also, your merge tool must be incredible. I assume it displays a three-way diff and provides an easy way to look at the history of both the left and right sides from the merge base up to the merge, along with showing which engineer(s) performed the change(s) on both sides. I found this essential many times for dealing with conflicts, and used a mix of the git CLI and Xcode&#x27;s opendiff, which was one of the few at the time that would display a proper three-way diff.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Peaker</author><text>When you have that many conflicts, it&#x27;s often due to massive renames, or just code moves.<p>If you use git-mediate[1], you can re-apply those massive changes on the conflicted state, run git-mediate - and the conflicts get resolved.<p>For example: if you have 300 conflicts due to some massive rename, you can type in:<p><pre><code> git-search-replace.py[2] -f oldGlobalName&#x2F;&#x2F;&#x2F;newGlobalName
git-mediate -d
Succcessfully resolved 377 conflicts and failed resolving 1 conflict.
&lt;1 remaining conflict shown as 2 diffs here representing the 2 changes&gt;
</code></pre>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@yairchu&#x2F;how-git-mediate-made-me-stop-fearing-merge-conflicts-and-start-treating-them-like-an-easy-game-of-a2c71b919984" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@yairchu&#x2F;how-git-mediate-made-me-stop-fea...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;da-x&#x2F;git-search-replace" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;da-x&#x2F;git-search-replace</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The largest Git repo</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-largest-git-repo-on-the-planet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>js2</author><text><i>Windows, because of the size of the team and the nature of the work, often has VERY large merges across branches (10,000’s of changes with 1,000’s of conflicts).</i><p>At a former startup, our product was built on Chromium. As the build&#x2F;release engineer, one of my daily responsibilities was merging Chromium&#x27;s changes with ours.<p>Just performing the merge and conflict resolution was anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour of my time. Ensuring the code compiled was another 5 minutes to an hour. If someone on the Chromium team had significantly refactored a component, which typically occurred every couple weeks, I knew half my day was going to be spent dealing with the refactor.<p>The Chromium team at the time was many dozens of engineers, landing on the order of a hundred commits per day. Our team was a dozen engineers landing maybe a couple dozen commits daily. A large merge might have on the order of 100 conflicts, but typically it was just a dozen or so conflicts.<p>Which is to say: I don&#x27;t understand how it&#x27;s possible to deal with a merge that has 1k conflicts across 10k changes. How often does this occur? How many people are responsible for handling the merge? Do you have a way to distribute the conflict resolution across multiple engineers, and if so, how? And why don&#x27;t you aim for more frequent merges so that the conflicts aren&#x27;t so large?<p>(And also, your merge tool must be incredible. I assume it displays a three-way diff and provides an easy way to look at the history of both the left and right sides from the merge base up to the merge, along with showing which engineer(s) performed the change(s) on both sides. I found this essential many times for dealing with conflicts, and used a mix of the git CLI and Xcode&#x27;s opendiff, which was one of the few at the time that would display a proper three-way diff.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malnourish</author><text>For 3 way merging, I&#x27;ve had good luck with beyondcompare</text></comment> |
11,907,122 | 11,907,058 | 1 | 3 | 11,906,403 | train | <story><title>The Story of Haskell at IMVU</title><url>https://chadaustin.me/2016/06/the-story-of-haskell-at-imvu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ayberkt</author><text>It makes me sad how people think imperative programming is a &quot;natural&quot; way to think. I have known lots of people who resist using functional languages for serious projects, marginalizing the &quot;functional&quot; way of thinking as though thinking in terms of &quot;labeled boxes with data in them&quot; (Von Neumann architecture) is some sort of more normal way to think.<p>Before computers people modeled the real world using a Haskell-like pseudocode called &quot;mathematics&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chadaustin</author><text>I find both mental models useful. For example, &quot;accumulate all of the monoids in this collection&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;base-4.9.0.0&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Data-Foldable.html#v:msum" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;base-4.9.0.0&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Data-F...</a>) makes total sense as a functional operation. You have a collection and some pure operations you want to apply to combine it all into one thing.<p>But then, sometimes you just want to iterate across a list of directories, read some files, and put some results in lists. Tail-recursion here feels dumb. Like, dammit, I&#x27;m the human and you&#x27;re the computer, I know you can turn a sequence of instructions into a tail recursive loop for me, so don&#x27;t make me think.<p>Haskell, due to its effectful &#x2F; monadic vs. pure syntax distinction isn&#x27;t terribly great here. Ideally I&#x27;d write all of my code in an &quot;imperative style&quot; all the time, but a row-typed effect inference system would determine which functions were pure, or in IO, or async, or in ST, or threw exceptions, etc. Koka [1] is an interesting language that explores some of these ideas.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;projects&#x2F;koka&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;projects&#x2F;koka&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Story of Haskell at IMVU</title><url>https://chadaustin.me/2016/06/the-story-of-haskell-at-imvu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ayberkt</author><text>It makes me sad how people think imperative programming is a &quot;natural&quot; way to think. I have known lots of people who resist using functional languages for serious projects, marginalizing the &quot;functional&quot; way of thinking as though thinking in terms of &quot;labeled boxes with data in them&quot; (Von Neumann architecture) is some sort of more normal way to think.<p>Before computers people modeled the real world using a Haskell-like pseudocode called &quot;mathematics&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>technomancy</author><text>If you view it in terms of psychological development, understanding concrete imperative steps happens before children are capable of understanding abstract concepts like mathematics. The works of Seymour Papert describe how these findings relate to education.<p>That said, people who connect this to software in a professional context are doing a disservice since hopefully software professionals have progressed in their intellectual development beyond their teens and are capable of abstract mathematical thought.</text></comment> |
10,409,299 | 10,408,336 | 1 | 2 | 10,408,145 | train | <story><title>Adventures in Twitter Censorship [pdf]</title><url>http://members.efn.org/~paulmd/OwnWork/AdventuresinCensorship.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>netik</author><text>All of you are misinterpreting Twitter&#x27;s &quot;features&quot; here.<p>Most likely the root cause of this is an internal feature at Twitter called &quot;per-country takedown.&quot;<p>If someone from Germany asked (and had a valid court order) that the Tweet be taken down for German users, then Twitter has the ability to disable the Tweet for people coming from German IPs.<p>I don&#x27;t agree with this, I lobbied heavily against it while I worked there to no avail, but it&#x27;s a solid explanation for why you wouldn&#x27;t be able to see a Tweet in different regions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Adventures in Twitter Censorship [pdf]</title><url>http://members.efn.org/~paulmd/OwnWork/AdventuresinCensorship.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ogig</author><text>One of my main concerns with mainstream social networks is this kind of subtle censorship&#x2F;filtering. Some people think their Facebook stream is an accurate representation of their friends and surrounding reality, they are ignorant of the algoritms that decide what they will see and what not.</text></comment> |
16,295,871 | 16,295,205 | 1 | 2 | 16,281,347 | train | <story><title>Predicting Random Numbers in Ethereum Smart Contracts</title><url>https://blog.positive.com/predicting-random-numbers-in-ethereum-smart-contracts-e5358c6b8620</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jashmenn</author><text>If this sort of thing interests you, checkout Dfinity&#x27;s random beacons - They use threshold cryptography (think of it as a type of &quot;multisig&quot;) to solve the commit-reveal problem (where the last party to reveal their commitment can abandon, so they have an advantage).<p>They build on it to create a provable, deterministic source of randomness which can&#x27;t be exploited in this same way.<p>Here&#x27;s a video that goes into more detail: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xf1dql4Zoqw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xf1dql4Zoqw</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Predicting Random Numbers in Ethereum Smart Contracts</title><url>https://blog.positive.com/predicting-random-numbers-in-ethereum-smart-contracts-e5358c6b8620</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baby</author><text>That is a really really interesting post. I always figured that these were only exploitable from a miner&#x27;s point of view, but no! Creating a contract that will access the same randomness and THEN query the targeted contract will work, since they both happen in the same block hence the randomness will be the same.</text></comment> |
35,115,747 | 35,115,402 | 1 | 3 | 35,114,009 | train | <story><title>Urgent: Sign the petition now</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/urgent-sign-the-petition-now-thousands-of-startups-and-hundreds-of-thousands-of-startup-jobs-are-at-risk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>popol12</author><text>What if you have 3 billions to deposit, like Circle ? Open 1200 accounts in 1200 different banks ?</text></item><item><author>Ekaros</author><text>Chose to exceed that and also not diversify at the same time. In my mind they have only themselves to blame. They could have gotten one or two more accounts if they are legitimate businesses.</text></item><item><author>briHass</author><text>Just to clarify, these depositors specifically exceeded the FDIC deposit insurance limit (250K), right? That isn&#x27;t a new or unknown rule; either through ignorance or calculated risk, those depositors that exceeded the limit took a chance.<p>I don&#x27;t disagree that something should be done in the future to prevent this, but when you gamble, sometime you lose.</text></item><item><author>garry</author><text>The equity holders and management of SVB are likely to be wiped. In the petition we specifically call this out: we are not asking for their risks to be &quot;socialized.&quot;<p>Depositors have a reasonable expectation that when they choose a bank (especially a publicly traded bank that is regulated) that their deposits are safe. If this is not true, then most people will only bank with the largest banks. That&#x27;s not a good situation.<p>We&#x27;re asking for depositors to be made whole and for regulation to prevent this from happening to depositors in the future.</text></item><item><author>axlee</author><text>110% agree. At some point, risk HAS to be treated as what it is, risk, rather than just &quot;another way to do things&quot;. We have so many banks treating risk as what it is, and pricing for it, well these people decided to go to another bank to get funding, well deal with it. It&#x27;s not like the average citizen has this luxury.</text></item><item><author>nocoiner</author><text>LOL, nope. Not interested in taking another spin on the “privatize gain, socialize loss” merry-go-round.<p>The banks had to be saved in 2008 because they were, like, the financial system. I don’t see why private companies and funds that are much less integral to the functioning of the economy as a whole should be saved by the public fisc.<p>Sorry about your disruption.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oarabbus_</author><text>Let&#x27;s not act like Circle&#x27;s options were either to put 3 billion in one bank, or open 1200 accounts at 1200 banks.<p>-Purchase high-limit cash insurance from a Reinsurer like Lloyds of London or Berkshire Hathaway up to their underwriting limit, perhaps $100M. Do this across 4-5 different banks with 4-5 different reinsurers.<p>-Put the remaining $2-2.5B into mixed US Treasuries of varying maturities</text></comment> | <story><title>Urgent: Sign the petition now</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/urgent-sign-the-petition-now-thousands-of-startups-and-hundreds-of-thousands-of-startup-jobs-are-at-risk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>popol12</author><text>What if you have 3 billions to deposit, like Circle ? Open 1200 accounts in 1200 different banks ?</text></item><item><author>Ekaros</author><text>Chose to exceed that and also not diversify at the same time. In my mind they have only themselves to blame. They could have gotten one or two more accounts if they are legitimate businesses.</text></item><item><author>briHass</author><text>Just to clarify, these depositors specifically exceeded the FDIC deposit insurance limit (250K), right? That isn&#x27;t a new or unknown rule; either through ignorance or calculated risk, those depositors that exceeded the limit took a chance.<p>I don&#x27;t disagree that something should be done in the future to prevent this, but when you gamble, sometime you lose.</text></item><item><author>garry</author><text>The equity holders and management of SVB are likely to be wiped. In the petition we specifically call this out: we are not asking for their risks to be &quot;socialized.&quot;<p>Depositors have a reasonable expectation that when they choose a bank (especially a publicly traded bank that is regulated) that their deposits are safe. If this is not true, then most people will only bank with the largest banks. That&#x27;s not a good situation.<p>We&#x27;re asking for depositors to be made whole and for regulation to prevent this from happening to depositors in the future.</text></item><item><author>axlee</author><text>110% agree. At some point, risk HAS to be treated as what it is, risk, rather than just &quot;another way to do things&quot;. We have so many banks treating risk as what it is, and pricing for it, well these people decided to go to another bank to get funding, well deal with it. It&#x27;s not like the average citizen has this luxury.</text></item><item><author>nocoiner</author><text>LOL, nope. Not interested in taking another spin on the “privatize gain, socialize loss” merry-go-round.<p>The banks had to be saved in 2008 because they were, like, the financial system. I don’t see why private companies and funds that are much less integral to the functioning of the economy as a whole should be saved by the public fisc.<p>Sorry about your disruption.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isignal</author><text>Just buy us treasuries. There is no rule that you have to have cash at a bank.</text></comment> |
31,904,881 | 31,904,837 | 1 | 3 | 31,902,579 | train | <story><title>Leetcode Considered Harmful</title><url>https://www.fullcontextdevelopment.com/qb/leetcode-considered-harmful</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whateveracct</author><text>MANGA has built (or even contributed to in passing) basically 0 of the tools I use in production...</text></item><item><author>moomoo11</author><text>Honestly I think leetcode should be reserved for the jobs where you build the Lego bricks (the MANGAs).<p>Anywhere else where you use the Lego bricks to build some applications shouldn’t really use leetcode.<p>If you’re a good product engineer and you enjoy building good products, maybe you should start a company to build good products that solve problems for other people. Let the engineers who enjoy building the bricks do leetcode in peace so that we have solid pieces to build good software.<p>I’m doing the latter and trying to build a company. I realized I much prefer to build products that customers love, and I want to build useful software for people. I’m not that interested in low level tinkering and re-inventing the wheel all the time.<p>Coexistence is possible!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greenpeas</author><text>The Chrome browser and various protocols (SPDY&#x2F;HTTP2 and others though I need to do some research to know exactly which ones). They&#x27;ve also invested a lot in optimizing the JS engine. The Go language, so indirectly contributed to any tool built in Go.</text></comment> | <story><title>Leetcode Considered Harmful</title><url>https://www.fullcontextdevelopment.com/qb/leetcode-considered-harmful</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whateveracct</author><text>MANGA has built (or even contributed to in passing) basically 0 of the tools I use in production...</text></item><item><author>moomoo11</author><text>Honestly I think leetcode should be reserved for the jobs where you build the Lego bricks (the MANGAs).<p>Anywhere else where you use the Lego bricks to build some applications shouldn’t really use leetcode.<p>If you’re a good product engineer and you enjoy building good products, maybe you should start a company to build good products that solve problems for other people. Let the engineers who enjoy building the bricks do leetcode in peace so that we have solid pieces to build good software.<p>I’m doing the latter and trying to build a company. I realized I much prefer to build products that customers love, and I want to build useful software for people. I’m not that interested in low level tinkering and re-inventing the wheel all the time.<p>Coexistence is possible!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pengaru</author><text>&gt; MANGA has built (or even contributed to in passing) basically 0 of the tools I use in production...<p>Is the linux kernel a tool you use in production?</text></comment> |
25,164,841 | 25,163,253 | 1 | 3 | 25,159,704 | train | <story><title>What do RISC and CISC mean in 2020?</title><url>https://erik-engheim.medium.com/what-does-risc-and-cisc-mean-in-2020-7b4d42c9a9de</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcranmer</author><text>The better explanation of RISC v CISC is this old discussion from comp.arch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yarchive.net&#x2F;comp&#x2F;risc_definition.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yarchive.net&#x2F;comp&#x2F;risc_definition.html</a><p>In short, the term RISC comes from a new set of architecture designs in the late 80s&#x2F;early 90s. CISC is not so much an architecture design as it is lacking many of the features. The major features that RISC adds are:<p>* Avoid complex operations, which may include things such as multiply and divide. (Although note that &quot;modern&quot; RISCs have these nowadays).<p>* More registers (32 registers instead of 8 or 16). (ARM has 16. So does x86-64.)<p>* Fixed-length instructions instead of variable-length.<p>* Avoid indirect memory references or a lot of memory accessing types (note that x86 also does this).<p>Functionally speaking, x86 itself is pretty close to RISC, especially in terms of how the operations themselves need to be implemented. The implementation benefits of RISC (especially in allowing pipelining) are largely applicable to x86 as well, since x86 really skips the problematic instructions that other CISCs have.<p>&gt; One of the key ideas of RISC was to push a lot of heavy lifting over to the compiler. That is still the case. Micro-ops cannot be re-arranged by the compiler for optimal execution.<p>Modern compilers do use instruction scheduling to optimize execution, and instruction scheduling for microcoded execution is well-understood.<p>&gt; Time is more critical when running micro-ops than when compiling. It is an obvious advantage in making it possible for advance compiler to rearrange code rather than relying on precious silicon to do it.<p>All modern high-performance chips are out-of-order execution, because some instructions (especially memory!) take longer than others to execute. The &quot;precious silicon&quot; is silicon that&#x27;s already been used for that reason, whether RISC or CISC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tuna-Fish</author><text>&gt; (ARM has 16. So does x86-64.)<p>64-bit ARM has 32 GPRs.<p>&gt; Fixed-length instructions instead of variable-length.<p>This is the big legacy of RISC that helps &quot;RISC&quot; cpus most against x86. M1 has 8-wide decode, with very few stages and low power consumption. Nothing like it can be done for an x86 cpu. The way modern x86 handles this is typically with a uop cache. But this costs a lot of power, area and only provides full decode width for a relatively small pool of insns -- 4k on modern Zen, for example.<p>&gt; &gt; One of the key ideas of RISC was to push a lot of heavy lifting over to the compiler. That is still the case. Micro-ops cannot be re-arranged by the compiler for optimal execution.<p>&gt; Modern compilers do use instruction scheduling to optimize execution, and instruction scheduling for microcoded execution is well-understood.<p>Compiler-level instruction scheduling is mostly irrelevant for modern OoO architectures. Most of the time the CPU is operating from mostly full queues, so it will be doing the scheduling from the past 10-~16 instructions. Compilers are mostly still doing it out of inertia.<p>&gt; &quot;precious silicon&quot;<p>The big difference from that 25 years ago to today is indeed that silicon is now the opposite of precious. We have so many transistors available that we are looking for ways to effectively use more of them, rather than saving precious silicon.</text></comment> | <story><title>What do RISC and CISC mean in 2020?</title><url>https://erik-engheim.medium.com/what-does-risc-and-cisc-mean-in-2020-7b4d42c9a9de</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcranmer</author><text>The better explanation of RISC v CISC is this old discussion from comp.arch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yarchive.net&#x2F;comp&#x2F;risc_definition.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yarchive.net&#x2F;comp&#x2F;risc_definition.html</a><p>In short, the term RISC comes from a new set of architecture designs in the late 80s&#x2F;early 90s. CISC is not so much an architecture design as it is lacking many of the features. The major features that RISC adds are:<p>* Avoid complex operations, which may include things such as multiply and divide. (Although note that &quot;modern&quot; RISCs have these nowadays).<p>* More registers (32 registers instead of 8 or 16). (ARM has 16. So does x86-64.)<p>* Fixed-length instructions instead of variable-length.<p>* Avoid indirect memory references or a lot of memory accessing types (note that x86 also does this).<p>Functionally speaking, x86 itself is pretty close to RISC, especially in terms of how the operations themselves need to be implemented. The implementation benefits of RISC (especially in allowing pipelining) are largely applicable to x86 as well, since x86 really skips the problematic instructions that other CISCs have.<p>&gt; One of the key ideas of RISC was to push a lot of heavy lifting over to the compiler. That is still the case. Micro-ops cannot be re-arranged by the compiler for optimal execution.<p>Modern compilers do use instruction scheduling to optimize execution, and instruction scheduling for microcoded execution is well-understood.<p>&gt; Time is more critical when running micro-ops than when compiling. It is an obvious advantage in making it possible for advance compiler to rearrange code rather than relying on precious silicon to do it.<p>All modern high-performance chips are out-of-order execution, because some instructions (especially memory!) take longer than others to execute. The &quot;precious silicon&quot; is silicon that&#x27;s already been used for that reason, whether RISC or CISC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fanf2</author><text>I am also a fan of John Mashey’s analysis that you linked to! The key thing is that he counts things like instruction formats, addressing modes, memory ops per instruction, registers, and so on. There is a clear separation in the numbers between the RISCs and the CISCs.<p>What stuck out to me when I first read it 25 years ago is that the ARM is the least RISCy RISC, and x86 is the least CISCy CISC. At that time the Pentium was killing the 68060 and many of the RISCs, and it seemed clear that x86 had a big advantage in the relatively small number of memory ops per instruction.</text></comment> |
21,800,281 | 21,800,342 | 1 | 2 | 21,799,845 | train | <story><title>Boeing Weighs Cutting or Halting 737 Max Production</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-weighs-cutting-or-halting-737-max-production-11576448990</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcurve</author><text>There have been plenty of design flaws in commercial jetliners and in most cases, reputation is recovered. But there hasn&#x27;t been design flaw quite like this one.<p>but none quite like this one.</text></item><item><author>freehunter</author><text>Just an anecdote, but I&#x27;m a traveling consultant for a pretty big tech company, and the manager of the consulting group told us when the 737 Max issue started (but before it was grounded) that we did not have to fly on that plane and if we were put on that plane we could change flights and bill the change fee back to the company without any complaints.<p>There&#x27;s been no further guidance so far on what we&#x27;ll do when the 737 Max is back in service, but the message was clear: the safety and comfort of the employee is worth a $200 change fee, compared to being forced onto a plane that the employee feels is unsafe. I&#x27;ve never heard that mentioned for any other plane. As much as air travel has sucked this summer with cancelations and delays caused by the grounding of this plane, I don&#x27;t foresee that model having much luck if&#x2F;when it&#x27;s put into full service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chx</author><text>Especially one that the FAA tried to pooh pooh as long as it could. It was amazing to watch the goodwill and trust accumulated over decades crumble to nothing in a few hours as the European countries one by one banned the airline from their airspace but did not ground them. It was the EASA telling the FAA to do the right thing. They didn&#x27;t and then finally the EASA did ground the plane. I really can&#x27;t remember any other time when the EASA and the FAA disagreed especially this big.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thejournal.ie&#x2F;us-ireland-boeing-4538567-Mar2019&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thejournal.ie&#x2F;us-ireland-boeing-4538567-Mar2019&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Boeing Weighs Cutting or Halting 737 Max Production</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-weighs-cutting-or-halting-737-max-production-11576448990</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcurve</author><text>There have been plenty of design flaws in commercial jetliners and in most cases, reputation is recovered. But there hasn&#x27;t been design flaw quite like this one.<p>but none quite like this one.</text></item><item><author>freehunter</author><text>Just an anecdote, but I&#x27;m a traveling consultant for a pretty big tech company, and the manager of the consulting group told us when the 737 Max issue started (but before it was grounded) that we did not have to fly on that plane and if we were put on that plane we could change flights and bill the change fee back to the company without any complaints.<p>There&#x27;s been no further guidance so far on what we&#x27;ll do when the 737 Max is back in service, but the message was clear: the safety and comfort of the employee is worth a $200 change fee, compared to being forced onto a plane that the employee feels is unsafe. I&#x27;ve never heard that mentioned for any other plane. As much as air travel has sucked this summer with cancelations and delays caused by the grounding of this plane, I don&#x27;t foresee that model having much luck if&#x2F;when it&#x27;s put into full service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mopsi</author><text>&gt; <i>But there hasn&#x27;t been design flaw quite like this one.</i><p>The DC-10 cargo door issue is probably the closest thing. Took two accidents, 346 fatalities and a House of Representatives investigation to get the flawed design fixed: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;McDonnell_Douglas_DC-10#Cargo_door_problem_and_other_major_accidents" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;McDonnell_Douglas_DC-10#Cargo_...</a></text></comment> |
31,060,219 | 31,057,912 | 1 | 3 | 31,056,262 | train | <story><title>100 People with rare cancers who attended same NJ high school demand answers</title><url>https://www.foxnews.com/us/colonia-high-school-rare-cancer-link</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcurry</author><text>This hits home for me. For years a few buddies of mine and I would go out coyote hunting in farm fields. In the mornings, there would be a lot of dew and our pant legs would be soaked through from walking through freshly treated corn fields. All five of us came down with various thyroid disorders - nothing as scary as brain cancer, but I was telling my buddy that I had thyroid cancer and he was like “Weird, me too, and my son and a couple of other guys have it too.” Monsanto for the win I guess.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbt00</author><text>I&#x27;m sorry for what you and your friends have been through. I&#x27;m curious why you cite Monsanto here? A thyroid cancer cluster is far more likely caused by exposure to radioactive iodine than a pesticide.</text></comment> | <story><title>100 People with rare cancers who attended same NJ high school demand answers</title><url>https://www.foxnews.com/us/colonia-high-school-rare-cancer-link</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcurry</author><text>This hits home for me. For years a few buddies of mine and I would go out coyote hunting in farm fields. In the mornings, there would be a lot of dew and our pant legs would be soaked through from walking through freshly treated corn fields. All five of us came down with various thyroid disorders - nothing as scary as brain cancer, but I was telling my buddy that I had thyroid cancer and he was like “Weird, me too, and my son and a couple of other guys have it too.” Monsanto for the win I guess.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheCondor</author><text>Any chance this was in central Nebraska?</text></comment> |
21,125,894 | 21,125,074 | 1 | 2 | 21,124,115 | train | <story><title>Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/dbqgb0/protester_shot_in_chest_by_live_police_round/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dx87</author><text>Not to defend what the police have been doing overall during this protest, but in this specific incident you can see the protestors beating a police officer on the ground, and the protestor who got shot was swinging a metal pipe at the police officer that shot him.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woutr_be</author><text>I&#x27;ve been fairly critical of protestors before, but in this instance, you can see the police going in for a fight, already heavily outnumbered. I&#x27;m not sure what they expected to happen, but the officer drew his gun almost instantly and shot a high school kid at point blank range.<p>There&#x27;s been other instances today where police was just looking to fight protestors, and as soon as they realized protestors weren&#x27;t having any of it, they drew their guns and shot in the air. There&#x27;s a difference between an officers&#x27; life being in danger, and the officer stupidly putting his life in danger.</text></comment> | <story><title>Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/dbqgb0/protester_shot_in_chest_by_live_police_round/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dx87</author><text>Not to defend what the police have been doing overall during this protest, but in this specific incident you can see the protestors beating a police officer on the ground, and the protestor who got shot was swinging a metal pipe at the police officer that shot him.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigzero</author><text>Context is everything.</text></comment> |
28,428,702 | 28,428,754 | 1 | 2 | 28,427,259 | train | <story><title>Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address</title><url>https://twitter.com/tenacioustek/status/1434604102676271106</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shiado</author><text>I once tried to create a Protonmail account over TOR and I believe they require a phone number from &#x27;malicious&#x27; IPs so if you want anonymity Protonmail is not the service for you.</text></item><item><author>istingray</author><text>Disclaimer: Paying Protonmail customer<p>Their homepage says &quot;By default, we do not keep any IP logs&quot;<p>In 2021, any soft language like this should be a red flag for anyone who is against surveillance. Maybe in 2018 it was good enough. But in 2021 it&#x27;s not. Come on, Protonmail, you&#x27;re supposed to be leading the way -- don&#x27;t make me figure it out myself.<p>Replace immediately with &quot;By default we don&#x27;t log IP, but may be required to by local law enforcement. We recommend everyone connect through Protonmail through Tor. This month, 60% of our users connected through Tor&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>istingray</author><text>Yes, Protonmail requires a phone number to register over Tor!<p>Even though they claim no identity is required to register.<p>I confirmed this today when I created a fresh Protonmal account over Tor:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28428092" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28428092</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address</title><url>https://twitter.com/tenacioustek/status/1434604102676271106</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shiado</author><text>I once tried to create a Protonmail account over TOR and I believe they require a phone number from &#x27;malicious&#x27; IPs so if you want anonymity Protonmail is not the service for you.</text></item><item><author>istingray</author><text>Disclaimer: Paying Protonmail customer<p>Their homepage says &quot;By default, we do not keep any IP logs&quot;<p>In 2021, any soft language like this should be a red flag for anyone who is against surveillance. Maybe in 2018 it was good enough. But in 2021 it&#x27;s not. Come on, Protonmail, you&#x27;re supposed to be leading the way -- don&#x27;t make me figure it out myself.<p>Replace immediately with &quot;By default we don&#x27;t log IP, but may be required to by local law enforcement. We recommend everyone connect through Protonmail through Tor. This month, 60% of our users connected through Tor&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangero</author><text>If they don’t do this then spammers will use their service en masse and degrade the service for all customers by black holing their ips and domain through all other email providers.</text></comment> |
23,789,265 | 23,785,073 | 1 | 2 | 23,776,576 | train | <story><title>XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint</title><url>https://chowderman.github.io/xp-paint.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smhenderson</author><text>Isn&#x27;t mspaint in Windows 10 basically the same thing but with a ribbon instead of a toolbar?<p>I don&#x27;t much care for the ribbon but I&#x27;m used to it now. Hitting WinKey-R, mspaint, [Enter] is still my goto for simple picture editing, even just recording a screenshot despite the existence of the snipping tool...<p>Other than the minor annoyance of getting used to the ribbon I felt as if I was still using the same old paint when I did this.</text></item><item><author>somehnguy</author><text>This version of MS Paint is like the peak example of covering 99% of basic use cases while being incredibly simple to use. Whenever I need to make an arbitrary image real quick I miss this version of Paint. Nothing else I can find in 2020 even comes close to its intuitive interface.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badsectoracula</author><text>No, it is a very different application. For example when you draw something, like a rectangle, and then you try to draw something else over it, it instead moves the rectangle - failing to do the most basic task: being a paint program.<p>It does have some nice features, like the premade shapes and brushes, but those could have been added to the previous MS Paint application without breaking its UX.</text></comment> | <story><title>XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint</title><url>https://chowderman.github.io/xp-paint.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smhenderson</author><text>Isn&#x27;t mspaint in Windows 10 basically the same thing but with a ribbon instead of a toolbar?<p>I don&#x27;t much care for the ribbon but I&#x27;m used to it now. Hitting WinKey-R, mspaint, [Enter] is still my goto for simple picture editing, even just recording a screenshot despite the existence of the snipping tool...<p>Other than the minor annoyance of getting used to the ribbon I felt as if I was still using the same old paint when I did this.</text></item><item><author>somehnguy</author><text>This version of MS Paint is like the peak example of covering 99% of basic use cases while being incredibly simple to use. Whenever I need to make an arbitrary image real quick I miss this version of Paint. Nothing else I can find in 2020 even comes close to its intuitive interface.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeSmithson</author><text>Two things I dislike about the new Paint are;<p>1. Can&#x27;t select secondary colour with right click<p>2. Needs way more clicks to get a filled Rectangle</text></comment> |
9,223,349 | 9,222,274 | 1 | 2 | 9,221,357 | train | <story><title>Atreus – kit to build your own mechanical keyboard</title><url>http://technomancy.us/173</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>That&#x27;s still an electrical keyboard; it just has switches that click.<p>As I&#x27;ve mentioned previously, I restore pre-WWII Teletype machines, so I often type on real mechanical keyboards with electrical outputs. A Teletype keyboard is a motor-driven mechanism where, when you push a key, a clutch is released, a shaft revolves one turn, and, via levers and cams, contacts close and open and the bits are encoded and sent. During this time, which is about 200ms on the older machines, you cannot press another key - the keys won&#x27;t move. You can&#x27;t press two keys at once. Everything is mechanically interlocked. The best way to use one is to type at a steady 5 characters per second, like playing a piano.<p>Key travel is about half an inch, and the newer (1930 and later) models have spring-loaded green keytops with a nice cushioned spring mechanism. This provides about 0.100 inch of travel before the key lever starts to move. So if you type a little too fast, you don&#x27;t blunt your fingers. The 1924 model doesn&#x27;t have that; it has hard Underwood typewriter keys.<p>That huge key travel, combined with a low key pressure (the motor is doing all the work, unlike a manual typewriter) is rather relaxing. Teletype operators were expected to type with few errors; there is no way to backspace or correct. Full-time Western Union operators often typed &quot;blind&quot; on a machine with a keyboard and tape punch, but no printer or display. That&#x27;s a lost art today.</text></comment> | <story><title>Atreus – kit to build your own mechanical keyboard</title><url>http://technomancy.us/173</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>O____________O</author><text>I like the hacking&#x2F;DIY aspect, but IMO there is still no keyboard that has anything on the Kinesis Advantage (or the older Classic, same layout):<p><a href="http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage-lf-for-pc-mac/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kinesis-ergo.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;advantage-lf-for-pc-mac&#x2F;</a><p>The <i>only</i> flaw is the row of horrible, rubbery, membrane function keys. I don&#x27;t know why, but they just won&#x27;t fix them. That said, I just remap my common F-keys (Visual Studio user) to other key chords and get on with my life. The firmware allows on-keyboard remapping and macros, by the way, so my Caps Lock ==&gt; Esc remap follows my wherever I go.<p>If anything, I&#x27;d rather that the separate key wells were even a bit further apart. I don&#x27;t know how people can type with their wrists jammed so close together, even with the Atreus&#x27;s angled halves.<p>By the way, on the Kinesis, the hand wells are actually dished. They achieve this using a flexible PCB that&#x27;s split into separate &#x27;fingers&#x27; for each row of keys. To my knowledge none of the &#x27;hacker&#x27; keyboards are dished like this.</text></comment> |
35,826,733 | 35,826,578 | 1 | 2 | 35,820,368 | train | <story><title>So this guy is now S3. All of S3</title><url>https://chaos.social/@jonty/110307532009155432</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smcl</author><text>Last night I opened this, saw the HTTP 429 and figured &quot;ah too many requests, I&#x27;ll check the comments and try in the morning&quot;. The comments were all people swooning in shock about why some non-specific <i>they</i> (S3? Amazon? Someone else?) didn&#x27;t use &quot;.well-known&quot; and others complaining about Mastodon and&#x2F;or the fediverse. I had to read multiple comments to piece together the story, I swear it was like Elden Ring[0].<p>What this is actually about: BlueSky is Jack Dorsey&#x27;s new Twitter clone, it is <i>eventually</i> intended to be some sort of fediverse thing but it&#x27;s not there yet and it&#x27;s not the source of the fediverse gripes here. You can authenticate your BlueSky user as the owner of a given domain or subdomain by placing a certain file with a given content somewhere under that domain&#x2F;subdomain. However that &quot;somewhere&quot; was just a location one of the devs at BlueSky chose, rather than somewhere <i>relatively</i> standardised, like under the &quot;.well-known&quot; path (which you might recognise from things like OpenID Connect where the configuration doc is located @ example.com&#x2F;.well-known&#x2F;openid-configuration). So one user exploited this and became the &quot;owner&quot; of that Amazon S3 domain by setting up a storage account on Amazon S3 and following BlueSky&#x27;s setup instructions. That is the main story here - some non-Amazon rando is now officially the Amazon S3 guy on Bluesky.<p>The next part is that someone posted about it on this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chaos.social" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chaos.social</a> Mastodon instance, which got overwhelmed, the owners decided to save their server by electing to return a 429 response for that specific post if users don&#x27;t belong to chaos.social, and <i>that</i> is why people are upset about Mastodon.<p>Interesting story, but I&#x27;m not interested in Dorsey&#x27;s version of Twitter 2.0 unless it actually allows you to signup[1] and brings something compelling that Twitter didn&#x27;t and Mastodon doesn&#x27;t.<p>[0] - game with an intricate story that does its damndest to not actually tell you. If you want to know the story you have to piece it together yourself by picking up dozens of items scattered throughout the game and reading all their descriptions. Or you can do what I did - watch a video on YouTube.<p>[1] - they&#x27;re doing an open beta and letting a little trickle of users on, who post about it on their Twitter&#x2F;Mastodon&#x2F;whatever. Feels a bit deliberate, like they&#x27;re trying to build anticipation and frankly I detest little manipulative things like that so I&#x27;m out</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neilalexander</author><text>&gt; [1] - they&#x27;re doing an open beta and letting a little trickle of users on, who post about it on their Twitter&#x2F;Mastodon&#x2F;whatever. Feels a bit deliberate, like they&#x27;re trying to build anticipation and frankly I detest little manipulative things like that so I&#x27;m out<p>Frankly this cynicism feels unwarranted. Bluesky is not a finished product — it is still being built and, even with the small number of invited users so far, there have been problems that have needed attention. The moderation story is still being developed, the feeds are still being tweaked, the app still has bugs, federation still doesn&#x27;t work yet. Having <i>some</i> users makes for a valuable feedback loop but the team would rapidly become inundated and burnt out (and the platform would possibly turn into a wild-west hellscape with irreversible reputational damage) if they were to open the floodgates entirely at this stage.</text></comment> | <story><title>So this guy is now S3. All of S3</title><url>https://chaos.social/@jonty/110307532009155432</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smcl</author><text>Last night I opened this, saw the HTTP 429 and figured &quot;ah too many requests, I&#x27;ll check the comments and try in the morning&quot;. The comments were all people swooning in shock about why some non-specific <i>they</i> (S3? Amazon? Someone else?) didn&#x27;t use &quot;.well-known&quot; and others complaining about Mastodon and&#x2F;or the fediverse. I had to read multiple comments to piece together the story, I swear it was like Elden Ring[0].<p>What this is actually about: BlueSky is Jack Dorsey&#x27;s new Twitter clone, it is <i>eventually</i> intended to be some sort of fediverse thing but it&#x27;s not there yet and it&#x27;s not the source of the fediverse gripes here. You can authenticate your BlueSky user as the owner of a given domain or subdomain by placing a certain file with a given content somewhere under that domain&#x2F;subdomain. However that &quot;somewhere&quot; was just a location one of the devs at BlueSky chose, rather than somewhere <i>relatively</i> standardised, like under the &quot;.well-known&quot; path (which you might recognise from things like OpenID Connect where the configuration doc is located @ example.com&#x2F;.well-known&#x2F;openid-configuration). So one user exploited this and became the &quot;owner&quot; of that Amazon S3 domain by setting up a storage account on Amazon S3 and following BlueSky&#x27;s setup instructions. That is the main story here - some non-Amazon rando is now officially the Amazon S3 guy on Bluesky.<p>The next part is that someone posted about it on this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chaos.social" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chaos.social</a> Mastodon instance, which got overwhelmed, the owners decided to save their server by electing to return a 429 response for that specific post if users don&#x27;t belong to chaos.social, and <i>that</i> is why people are upset about Mastodon.<p>Interesting story, but I&#x27;m not interested in Dorsey&#x27;s version of Twitter 2.0 unless it actually allows you to signup[1] and brings something compelling that Twitter didn&#x27;t and Mastodon doesn&#x27;t.<p>[0] - game with an intricate story that does its damndest to not actually tell you. If you want to know the story you have to piece it together yourself by picking up dozens of items scattered throughout the game and reading all their descriptions. Or you can do what I did - watch a video on YouTube.<p>[1] - they&#x27;re doing an open beta and letting a little trickle of users on, who post about it on their Twitter&#x2F;Mastodon&#x2F;whatever. Feels a bit deliberate, like they&#x27;re trying to build anticipation and frankly I detest little manipulative things like that so I&#x27;m out</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>account42</author><text>&gt; The next part is that someone posted about it on this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chaos.social" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chaos.social</a> Mastodon instance, which got overwhelmed, the owners decided to save their server by electing to return a 429 response for that specific post if users don&#x27;t belong to chaos.social, and that is why people are upset about Mastodon.<p>It&#x27;s like all these newfangled webapps don&#x27;t understand the concept of caching static pages for anonymous users. There is absolutely no reason that something like this should result in more than one request (plus a handful more for static resources) handled entirely by the frontent webserver&#x27;s in-memory cache for each person linked from other sides. But instead its all dynamic and the page shoots off more API requests before being able to show anything.</text></comment> |
6,874,022 | 6,873,822 | 1 | 2 | 6,873,632 | train | <story><title>BBC-News/Imager.js</title><url>https://github.com/BBC-News/Imager.js</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aytekin</author><text>There is no live demo on the github site. Here is a nice demo found on google:
<a href="http://firegoby.com/imager-cssbackgrounds" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;firegoby.com&#x2F;imager-cssbackgrounds</a></text></comment> | <story><title>BBC-News/Imager.js</title><url>https://github.com/BBC-News/Imager.js</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewingram</author><text>Nice, but wouldn&#x27;t work for our use case at onefinestay, for two reasons:<p>1 - We use thumbor for serving our images, so changing the width in the URL isn&#x27;t enough, you also need to change the crop parameters and the anti-tamper signing part.<p>2 - We actually use different markup in places, some of our homepage slides use 2 or 4 images at desktop sizes, but only 1 at tablet and smaller.<p>What we&#x27;re doing is using a modified version of picturefill.js, where we wrap each picture component in another component that controls what widths we load it at.<p>You can see it in play here: <a href="http://www.onefinestay.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onefinestay.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
20,514,653 | 20,513,576 | 1 | 2 | 20,502,025 | train | <story><title>Inside Coinbase’s Executive Turmoil: Conflicting Visions</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-coinbases-executive-turmoil-conflicting-visions?pu=hackernews4fm0af&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Traster</author><text>It sounds like this is a great example of how 1 bad hire can destroy an entire company. It sounds like Brian Armstrong is not suited to be a CEO. If you don&#x27;t have your own clear vision for the company, and instead leave it to your subordinates it&#x27;s only natural that you&#x27;ll end up with multiple people pulling in different directions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbesto</author><text>&gt; It sounds like this is a great example of how 1 bad hire can destroy an entire company.<p>It sounds like this is a very myopic view. My favorite quote is quite apt here &quot;Assigning single factor causation to the output of complex adaptive system is a triumph of hope over experience.&quot;<p>Here&#x27;s my theory - Coinbase had explosive growth largely due to tailwind effects of the BTC craze several years ago. Since crypto trading has basically flattened coupled with competitors entering the market, then Coinbase is likely no longer growing and may in fact be doing less revenue than it was previously. Company&#x27;s start to scramble when they cease to grow. Stakeholders double down. Employees start looking elsewhere. Executives make brash decisions based on emotions. etc etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inside Coinbase’s Executive Turmoil: Conflicting Visions</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-coinbases-executive-turmoil-conflicting-visions?pu=hackernews4fm0af&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Traster</author><text>It sounds like this is a great example of how 1 bad hire can destroy an entire company. It sounds like Brian Armstrong is not suited to be a CEO. If you don&#x27;t have your own clear vision for the company, and instead leave it to your subordinates it&#x27;s only natural that you&#x27;ll end up with multiple people pulling in different directions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>repomies691</author><text>Coinbase doesn&#x27;t look anywhere like destroyed to me. It is still the number one place to trade cryptos in many places and has something like 30 million users AFAIK. If you look at the numbers the company is doing amazingly well. You can find like thousand silicon valley startups that are not having similar problems with executives but financially are doing way worse.<p>So, is Armstrong a bad CEO or not? That is very difficult to know. Maybe someone else could deliver even more profit and more products and keep them running. But I would guess the investors are quite happy with coinbase compared to their other investment.</text></comment> |
29,588,654 | 29,588,678 | 1 | 2 | 29,588,174 | train | <story><title>Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation</title><url>https://www.axios.com/wages-inflation-economic-data-c912afdb-b950-4183-8283-50afff593576.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tjpnz</author><text>In my experience HR are never receptive to those types of arguments. If you want a raise the best thing you can do is find a new job.</text></item><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>We had an all-hands meeting recently where we got to submit anonymous questions. One of the questions was &#x27;with inflation rising at 6%, will the company reconsider their &#x27;standard&#x27; 2% raise?&#x27; The lady answering looks dead in the camera and goes &#x27;Honestly? No&#x27; and goes on to talk about how we&#x27;re reasonably competitive with the local market. Hey, credit where credit is due, at least she was a refreshingly straight shooter. It pretty much let everyone on the call know what they needed to do if they wanted a good raise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelseyfrog</author><text>The best thing you can do is organize your workplace. Job hopping allows businesses to eat the market at the edges and eventually squeeze those demands out of the labor pool.</text></comment> | <story><title>Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation</title><url>https://www.axios.com/wages-inflation-economic-data-c912afdb-b950-4183-8283-50afff593576.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tjpnz</author><text>In my experience HR are never receptive to those types of arguments. If you want a raise the best thing you can do is find a new job.</text></item><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>We had an all-hands meeting recently where we got to submit anonymous questions. One of the questions was &#x27;with inflation rising at 6%, will the company reconsider their &#x27;standard&#x27; 2% raise?&#x27; The lady answering looks dead in the camera and goes &#x27;Honestly? No&#x27; and goes on to talk about how we&#x27;re reasonably competitive with the local market. Hey, credit where credit is due, at least she was a refreshingly straight shooter. It pretty much let everyone on the call know what they needed to do if they wanted a good raise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&gt; If you want a raise the best thing you can do is find a new job.<p>Note that this doesn&#x27;t always even involve taking it.<p>Go get a job offer that pays better and bring it to your boss. If they want to match it, great. If they don&#x27;t, bye.</text></comment> |
21,005,971 | 21,005,671 | 1 | 3 | 21,003,773 | train | <story><title>Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190904/08392642916/colorado-town-offers-1-gbps-60-after-years-battling-comcast.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>“And I know my $50&#x2F;mo rate will never rise.”<p>Let’s hope they tie it to inflation or similar. Otherwise the system will die slowly due to underfunding.</text></item><item><author>polpo</author><text>Longmont, just south of Fort Collins, was the first city in Colorado to build out a municipal ISP, and it’s inspired surrounding cities to do the same. It’s where I live and it was a not-insignificant reason why I chose to move here. So far it has been a resounding success for the city. The buildout completed on time and adoption rates are higher than initially expected (the city planned for 37% but the last number I saw was around 54%). In my experience, the service has been so good as to be totally invisible. And I know my $50&#x2F;mo rate will never rise. I wish Fort Collins the same experience. The fact that they both cities have municipal electric service will help this significantly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gamegoblin</author><text>In general I agree, but in practice certain nominal prices can be monotonically decreasing due to improved technology lowering prices faster than inflation raises them.<p>For instance, in terms of $&#x2F;GB, data storage costs have been strictly decreasing in nominal terms even with the existence of inflation.<p>That said, I am not sure how much innovation is going into the costs of maintaining a fiber network, so it’s possible that it won’t decrease as fast as 2-3% a year on average. I would be really interested if someone had those numbers!</text></comment> | <story><title>Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190904/08392642916/colorado-town-offers-1-gbps-60-after-years-battling-comcast.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>“And I know my $50&#x2F;mo rate will never rise.”<p>Let’s hope they tie it to inflation or similar. Otherwise the system will die slowly due to underfunding.</text></item><item><author>polpo</author><text>Longmont, just south of Fort Collins, was the first city in Colorado to build out a municipal ISP, and it’s inspired surrounding cities to do the same. It’s where I live and it was a not-insignificant reason why I chose to move here. So far it has been a resounding success for the city. The buildout completed on time and adoption rates are higher than initially expected (the city planned for 37% but the last number I saw was around 54%). In my experience, the service has been so good as to be totally invisible. And I know my $50&#x2F;mo rate will never rise. I wish Fort Collins the same experience. The fact that they both cities have municipal electric service will help this significantly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beatgammit</author><text>It could just be locked in for existing customers, but rise for new customers. Over time, people move or die, so it shouldn&#x27;t be much of an issue.</text></comment> |
18,333,187 | 18,333,229 | 1 | 2 | 18,316,959 | train | <story><title>Qualcomm says Apple is $7B behind in royalty payments</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-26/qualcomm-says-apple-is-7-billion-behind-in-royalty-payments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GeekyBear</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t really mention the argument that Apple is making in court.<p>They are seeking a judgement based on the legal concept of patent exhaustion.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Exhaustion_doctrine_under_U.S._law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Exhaustion_doctrine_under_U.S...</a><p>If Apple buys a cellular modem from Intel, for instance, and Intel has already paid Qualcomm to use their standards essential parents to manufacture those cell phone modems, then patent exhaustion holds that Qualcomm cannot force Intel&#x27;s customers to pay to license those patents all over again.<p>Until a judge rules on this, you really can&#x27;t say that Apple owes Qualcomm anywhere near that figure.<p>There is more information on the FOSS patent blog:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fosspatents.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;patent-exhaustion-keeps-qualcomm-on-run.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fosspatents.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;patent-exhaustion-keeps-q...</a><p>Edit: I think this FOSS patent blog entry from last month does a better job of laying out the basic issues.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fosspatents.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;apple-foxconn-et-al-want-to-end.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fosspatents.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;apple-foxconn-et-al-want-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gpm</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t trust FOSS patents and the author Florian Mueller as far as I could throw him. He has a long history of being a paid shill, lying about it, and being flat out wrong.<p>(Paid by oracle) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groklaw.net&#x2F;article.php?story=20120419070127103" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groklaw.net&#x2F;article.php?story=20120419070127103</a><p>(Paid by microsoft) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techrights.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;vile-lobbyist&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techrights.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;vile-lobbyist&#x2F;</a><p>(Paid by apple? I can&#x27;t find other&#x2F;primary sources to back up this claim though it does seem likely.) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mrpogson.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;21&#x2F;apples-paid-shillconsultant-caught-out&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mrpogson.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;21&#x2F;apples-paid-shillconsultant-...</a><p>(More examples of him being wrong) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groklaw.net&#x2F;article.php?story=20120820111527257" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groklaw.net&#x2F;article.php?story=20120820111527257</a><p>Refuting legal arguments takes time and expertise I don&#x27;t have. He&#x27;s good at his job, and I have no knowledge about this case. So while I put no faith whatsoever in his analysis I can&#x27;t tell you how it is wrong, and yes this is an ad hominem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Qualcomm says Apple is $7B behind in royalty payments</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-26/qualcomm-says-apple-is-7-billion-behind-in-royalty-payments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GeekyBear</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t really mention the argument that Apple is making in court.<p>They are seeking a judgement based on the legal concept of patent exhaustion.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Exhaustion_doctrine_under_U.S._law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Exhaustion_doctrine_under_U.S...</a><p>If Apple buys a cellular modem from Intel, for instance, and Intel has already paid Qualcomm to use their standards essential parents to manufacture those cell phone modems, then patent exhaustion holds that Qualcomm cannot force Intel&#x27;s customers to pay to license those patents all over again.<p>Until a judge rules on this, you really can&#x27;t say that Apple owes Qualcomm anywhere near that figure.<p>There is more information on the FOSS patent blog:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fosspatents.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;patent-exhaustion-keeps-qualcomm-on-run.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fosspatents.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;patent-exhaustion-keeps-q...</a><p>Edit: I think this FOSS patent blog entry from last month does a better job of laying out the basic issues.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fosspatents.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;apple-foxconn-et-al-want-to-end.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fosspatents.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;apple-foxconn-et-al-want-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>So, what you say about exhaustion is a correct explanation of the doctrine.<p>However, unless my searching capabilities are failing (sorry, it&#x27;s 170 pages), they nowhere claim that intel is paying qualcomm.<p>Instead, the only viable claim for exhaustion they really make is around exhaustion of patents in qualcomm chipsets bought by apple.<p>That is probably right.
But not a significant amount of this money (if any, i didn&#x27;t look what qualcomm claimed hard enough. I wouldn&#x27;t put it past them but it would be stupid of them)<p>The majority of money is precisely about modems they buy from intel.<p>If intel was paying qualcomm, it would definitely appear in the response as an exhaustion argument
I can&#x27;t find it.<p>This is probably why bloomberg doesn&#x27;t cite it - the exhaustion issues they do cite are a complete sideshow.</text></comment> |
12,046,141 | 12,046,063 | 1 | 2 | 12,043,174 | train | <story><title>MIT Takes Multicore in a Different Direction</title><url>https://www.top500.org/news/mit-takes-multicore-in-a-different-direction/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>morcheeba</author><text>More info from 12&#x2F;2015 -- a little older than the paper mentioned in the article.<p>Poster here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;livinglab.mit.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;poster.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;livinglab.mit.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;poster.p...</a><p>Paper here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;livinglab.mit.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;2015.swarm_.micro_.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;livinglab.mit.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;2015.swa...</a><p>Slides: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;livinglab.mit.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;2015.swarm_.slides.micro_.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;livinglab.mit.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;2015.swa...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>MIT Takes Multicore in a Different Direction</title><url>https://www.top500.org/news/mit-takes-multicore-in-a-different-direction/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>1024core</author><text>FTA: &quot;As far as we can tell, there is no actual hardware yet, so any claims of ease of programming and performance advantages are based on simulations and perhaps the enthusiasm of the researchers.&quot;<p>Take it for what it&#x27;s worth.</text></comment> |
12,854,585 | 12,854,547 | 1 | 2 | 12,853,909 | train | <story><title>In Greece, Property Is Debt</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/opinion/in-greece-property-is-debt.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20161102&nl=dealbook&nl_art=17&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1&referer=</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>flexie</author><text>Let&#x27;s get facts straight:<p>The state property tax in Greece is 0% for property up to €200K. Then 0.2 to 1% from €200K to €5M. Then 2% above €2M.<p>Property taxes are hardly killing the Greek economy and especially not for the poor or the middle class. On the contrary, Greeks are paying very little. The problem is that Greeks used to have much more property than for example Northern Europeans.<p>For comparison, in Denmark the property tax is 1% up to €406,961. Then 3% for values above that. In addition to this there is a local tax on land value, which is generally 1.6-3.4%.</text></comment> | <story><title>In Greece, Property Is Debt</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/opinion/in-greece-property-is-debt.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20161102&nl=dealbook&nl_art=17&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1&referer=</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yagodragon</author><text>I live in Greece and things are bad but as a matter of fact, the real problem is that we ,the Millennials, feel that we&#x27;re screwed because we compare ourself with our parents. Our parents and our politicians really scammed the whole europe into believing that we have a strong economy but the truth is that everyone avoided paying taxes, they got huge loans that could never pay of and our politicians where really corrupted ,as well. The result was that our parents made a fair amount of wealth without having the skills and the education of the rest of europeans. They worked hard, but they lived in a bubble. I believe that the biggest problem in Greece is that right now we are in a declining economy and probably wont succeed economically as our parents did. We are going from high to low and we cant see whats following.</text></comment> |
40,449,995 | 40,448,663 | 1 | 3 | 40,447,235 | train | <story><title>A Michigan farmworker is diagnosed with bird flu in case tied to dairy cows</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2024/05/22/1252984256/bird-flu-h5n1-virus-human-michigan-cows</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>COGlory</author><text>The virologists I know are much more concerned about this than they were about covid. I guess it&#x27;s presenting neurological symptoms in bears&#x2F;small mammals. Last fall there was a rash of small mammals showing rabies signs, that were euthenised that wound up negative for rabies, so they&#x27;re now retesting them for this influenza.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GeekyBear</author><text>Covid was fully airborne and spread very rapidly between people.<p>This is not airborne, nor have we seen it spreading between people. All the cases we&#x27;ve seen so far in the States have been from people who were known to be in contact with infected animals.<p>It certainly warrants further investigation and precautions for those working with livestock, but panic seems like an overreach.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Michigan farmworker is diagnosed with bird flu in case tied to dairy cows</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2024/05/22/1252984256/bird-flu-h5n1-virus-human-michigan-cows</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>COGlory</author><text>The virologists I know are much more concerned about this than they were about covid. I guess it&#x27;s presenting neurological symptoms in bears&#x2F;small mammals. Last fall there was a rash of small mammals showing rabies signs, that were euthenised that wound up negative for rabies, so they&#x27;re now retesting them for this influenza.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perihelions</author><text>Maybe this is what you&#x27;re referring to?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wwwnc.cdc.gov&#x2F;eid&#x2F;article&#x2F;29&#x2F;12&#x2F;23-0464_article" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wwwnc.cdc.gov&#x2F;eid&#x2F;article&#x2F;29&#x2F;12&#x2F;23-0464_article</a><p>Also shows neurological symptoms in cats (and high mortality),<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wwwnc.cdc.gov&#x2F;eid&#x2F;article&#x2F;30&#x2F;7&#x2F;24-0508_article" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wwwnc.cdc.gov&#x2F;eid&#x2F;article&#x2F;30&#x2F;7&#x2F;24-0508_article</a></text></comment> |
21,584,784 | 21,584,530 | 1 | 2 | 21,572,365 | train | <story><title>Logic Puzzles with Prolog (2017)</title><url>https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/puzzles</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>Prolog really blows my mind.<p>I recently released a match-burning logic puzzle app[1] based on a mensa calendar puzzle I saw and it took me a while to develop an (imperfect) solver algorithm in C#. Someone then told me that the general class of these puzzles is called &quot;Thermometer Puzzles&quot; and that there are a ton of Prolog-based solvers[2] out there.<p>This class of puzzle is not mentioned in the article, but I&#x27;m truly amazed at how versatile Prolog is at solving logic puzzles with so little code. I&#x27;m guessing the Prolog compiler is super complex compared to, say, a C compiler to be able to give developers that much power.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.umvirate.embergram" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.umvirate.e...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zettca&#x2F;ist.lp.thermometers&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;thermometers.pl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zettca&#x2F;ist.lp.thermometers&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;th...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mthom</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m guessing the Prolog compiler is super complex compared to, say, a C compiler to be able to give developers that much power.<p>They&#x27;re not that complex. I&#x27;m writing one from scratch right now:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mthom&#x2F;scryer-prolog" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mthom&#x2F;scryer-prolog</a><p>Speaking of constraint solvers, the author of Power of Prolog, Markus Triska, is now in the process of porting his clp(ℤ) constraint solver over to my system, having already ported his boolean constraint solver, clp(B). They are quite complex, but it helps that they&#x27;re written entirely in Prolog.</text></comment> | <story><title>Logic Puzzles with Prolog (2017)</title><url>https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/puzzles</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>Prolog really blows my mind.<p>I recently released a match-burning logic puzzle app[1] based on a mensa calendar puzzle I saw and it took me a while to develop an (imperfect) solver algorithm in C#. Someone then told me that the general class of these puzzles is called &quot;Thermometer Puzzles&quot; and that there are a ton of Prolog-based solvers[2] out there.<p>This class of puzzle is not mentioned in the article, but I&#x27;m truly amazed at how versatile Prolog is at solving logic puzzles with so little code. I&#x27;m guessing the Prolog compiler is super complex compared to, say, a C compiler to be able to give developers that much power.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.umvirate.embergram" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.umvirate.e...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zettca&#x2F;ist.lp.thermometers&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;thermometers.pl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zettca&#x2F;ist.lp.thermometers&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;th...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyB2</author><text>If you want to know how to build a Prolog . . .<p>When I learned Common Lisp, I devoured the available textbooks in 1989 and for a few years after. A book from the early 1990s is: Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp. By Peter Norvig (now employed by Google)<p>The book first teaches you Common Lisp, which isn&#x27;t that difficult to pick up. But that itself is a transformative experience.<p>Then the book shows you how to build a number of amazing things using Common Lisp. It starts IIRC, with pattern matching. Term rewriting. Unification matching.<p>Then you proceed to build a few things like:<p>1. A program that solves high school style algebra word problems.<p>2. A &quot;prolog&quot; (but expressed in Lisp syntax) that is a &quot;hair&#x27;s breadth&quot; (in the author&#x27;s words) from real prolog.<p>This book was mind blowing. A revelation. Insightful.<p>Learning Lisp (even from other textbooks before the one I mention here) was a transformative experience. But this single book stands out in providing so many amazing ideas expressed in Lisp.<p>Other Lisp texts I had read taught me things like playing two-player zero sum games (TicTacToe, Checkers, Reversi). I abstracted the technique to have a single re-usable AI engine implementing the Minimax with Alpha-Beta pruning, and then different layers on top of that which implemented different games (as listed earlier) by defining a game board, move generator and board scoring function.<p>One Lisp textbook I had from the late 1980s showed a program to plan movements of a robot arm to manipulate blocks according to english like commands.<p>All of these amazingly sophisticated things take up very little Lisp code. Often only a few pages.<p>The journey of learning Lisp, with a really good textbook, is an amazing learning experience. Learning Lisp will change the way you think about code for the rest of your entire life. I can confidently say that having learned Lisp starting in about 1986 and dabbling with it through 1993. The initial learning comes quickly. But you will play with this new toy for a long time.<p>Another book (The Elements of Artificial Intelligence Using Common Lisp) introduced me to the A-star search. I&#x27;ve used that technique, in Java, to build a &quot;solver&quot; for a game sometimes called &quot;Traffic Jam&quot; or &quot;Unblock Me&quot;.</text></comment> |
20,784,143 | 20,784,047 | 1 | 2 | 20,783,006 | train | <story><title>Introducing nushell</title><url>http://www.jonathanturner.org/2019/08/introducing-nushell.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>entangledqubit</author><text>I&#x27;ve been delving into bash scripting a bit more than I&#x27;d like as of late and the lack of universally available consistent structured output for the CLI really got to me. Most of the script contents end up being these obfuscating and brittle &quot;hacky solutions&quot; that never should have been necessary. When I thought about pursuing fixing this I felt like the task was a bit overwhelming. I&#x27;m delighted that these developers are working on this!</text></item><item><author>pixelmonkey</author><text>The compelling idea here is that they convert the output of common shell commands into tabular data that can be manipulated using common operators, so that you don&#x27;t have the remember sorting&#x2F;filtering&#x2F;grouping flags that may be different for every different shell command. So, imagine being able to use the same sorting&#x2F;filtering logic on the output of `ls` as you might on the output of `ps`, and without relying on hacky solutions like pipelines to `grep`, `cut`, and `sort`.<p>It also means shell command output can be easily transposed into JSON and CSV. Actually pretty clever!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigtrakzapzap</author><text>The key flaw of UNIX philosophy is destructuring deserialization and reserialization based on lines, necessitating all manner of argument escaping and field delimiters, when pipelines should be streams of typed messages that encapsulate data in typed fields. Logs especially (logging to files is a terrible idea, because it creates log rotation headaches and each program requires a log parser because of the loss of structured information) also. Line-oriented pipeline processing is fundamentally <i>too simple.</i> Settling on a common data simple&#x2F;universal format robust enough for all purposes, including very large data sets, to exchange between programs and is just complicated enough to eliminate escapement and delimiter headaches without throwing away flexibility (by a new&#x2F;refined set of processing tools&#x2F;commands) is key.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing nushell</title><url>http://www.jonathanturner.org/2019/08/introducing-nushell.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>entangledqubit</author><text>I&#x27;ve been delving into bash scripting a bit more than I&#x27;d like as of late and the lack of universally available consistent structured output for the CLI really got to me. Most of the script contents end up being these obfuscating and brittle &quot;hacky solutions&quot; that never should have been necessary. When I thought about pursuing fixing this I felt like the task was a bit overwhelming. I&#x27;m delighted that these developers are working on this!</text></item><item><author>pixelmonkey</author><text>The compelling idea here is that they convert the output of common shell commands into tabular data that can be manipulated using common operators, so that you don&#x27;t have the remember sorting&#x2F;filtering&#x2F;grouping flags that may be different for every different shell command. So, imagine being able to use the same sorting&#x2F;filtering logic on the output of `ls` as you might on the output of `ps`, and without relying on hacky solutions like pipelines to `grep`, `cut`, and `sort`.<p>It also means shell command output can be easily transposed into JSON and CSV. Actually pretty clever!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munchbunny</author><text>You can also just use PowerShell. Its chief crime is its verbosity in naming, but it has the &quot;universally available consistent structured output for the CLI&quot; you&#x27;re asking for.</text></comment> |
37,645,911 | 37,645,573 | 1 | 2 | 37,643,456 | train | <story><title>Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed image</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/25/23884679/getty-ai-generative-image-platform-launch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThomW</author><text>I think this is where all the AI stuff is headed.<p>Authors, artists, etc. are suing projects whose models just inhaled their work and generate derivative works and I&#x27;m surprised the studios aren&#x27;t getting more involved with going after AI models that included their properties in them.<p>I can see this going the route of us having a Disney AI, Sony AI, Discovery AI, Amazon AI, etc. where you can generate stuff using models owned by the studios, but only those studios and any public domain stuff they suck in too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skerit</author><text>&gt; I can see this going the route of us having a Disney AI, Sony AI, Discovery AI, Amazon AI, etc.<p>Exactly. These companies are probably hoping the artists win as many legal battles as they can, since the result will be that only big companies will be able to create useful AI models.</text></comment> | <story><title>Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed image</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/25/23884679/getty-ai-generative-image-platform-launch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThomW</author><text>I think this is where all the AI stuff is headed.<p>Authors, artists, etc. are suing projects whose models just inhaled their work and generate derivative works and I&#x27;m surprised the studios aren&#x27;t getting more involved with going after AI models that included their properties in them.<p>I can see this going the route of us having a Disney AI, Sony AI, Discovery AI, Amazon AI, etc. where you can generate stuff using models owned by the studios, but only those studios and any public domain stuff they suck in too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madeofpalk</author><text>What Getty&#x27;s done I think is the most &quot;artist&quot; friendly version of this.<p>Presumably when photographers&#x2F;artists submit their images to Getty they hand over full ownership, or otherwise pretty broad licensing agreement. If Getty&#x27;s the rights holders for these images they can use that by training their own models.<p>In my mind, OpenAI&#x2F;Midjourney&#x2F;Stable Diffusion are the Napsters of generative AI. Adobe Firefly, and now Getty, are coming up with the iTunes Store&#x2F;Spotify. For better or worse.</text></comment> |
34,921,057 | 34,919,777 | 1 | 3 | 34,916,239 | train | <story><title>The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web</title><url>https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/fbi-recommends-ad-blocker-online-scams-b1048998.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emacdona</author><text>I recommend using an ad-blocker while visiting that site :-&#x2F;<p>Lately, I find myself using more and more plugins to make the &quot;modern web&quot; tolerable. To list a few:<p>Channel Blocker (lets me block channels from search results on Youtube);
uBlock Origin;
Disconnect;
F.B Purity;
Consent-O-Matic (auto fill cookie consent forms);
Kagi Search;
PopUpOFF;
Facebook Container;
Privacy Badger;
ClearURLs;
Return YouTube Dislike<p>Basically, if I visit a website and don&#x27;t like the experience, I either never go back (Kagi lets me exclude it from search results) or find a plugin to make it tolerable.<p>What I really want now is the ability to exclude entire websites from any permissions I grant to plugins. I feel like in the last year, I&#x27;ve read a couple stories about companies buying successful plugins and then using them to track you or show ads or whatever. I&#x27;m worried this will be the next stage in the battle for our attention -- best case: companies will buy popular plugins to track us and show us intrusive ads; worst case: nefarious actors will buy them to scrape information we think is private and collect it.<p>IE: I just want to be able to say &quot;Hey, Firefox... those permissions that I granted to plugins x, y, and z? They don&#x27;t apply to www.myfavoritebank.example.com&quot;<p>Is there a browser that has that feature yet? I spent a few hours trying to figure out if Firefox did. It did not appear to.<p>edit: Added semicolons to separate plugins in list b&#x2F;c HN stripped the newlines from my comment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dngray</author><text>&gt; Consent-O-Matic (auto fill cookie consent forms)<p>This will modify the browser fringerprint making you more unique.<p>I would not install so many extensions as you&#x27;re trusting a huge number of organizations&#x2F;people with privileged access to your browser. Anything that modifies CSS, Document Object Model (DOM) will make your browser stand out.<p>We wrote a blog post about this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.privacyguides.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;01&#x2F;firefox-privacy-2021-update&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.privacyguides.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;01&#x2F;firefox-privacy-20...</a><p>That includes any extensions that modify what is requested etc. See:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;arkenfox&#x2F;user.js&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;4.1-Extensions">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;arkenfox&#x2F;user.js&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;4.1-Extensions</a><p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.privacyguides.org&#x2F;desktop-browsers&#x2F;#firefox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.privacyguides.org&#x2F;desktop-browsers&#x2F;#firefox</a>, you really don&#x27;t need to do anything more than that.<p>&gt; Facebook Container<p>etc, not needed unless you login to multiple Facebook accounts.<p>&gt; Disconnect<p>Not needed, you should enable Firefox&#x27;s ETP Enhanced Tracking Protection, this includes anything on that list. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;kb&#x2F;enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop#w_what-enhanced-tracking-protection-blocks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;kb&#x2F;enhanced-tracking-prote...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web</title><url>https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/fbi-recommends-ad-blocker-online-scams-b1048998.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emacdona</author><text>I recommend using an ad-blocker while visiting that site :-&#x2F;<p>Lately, I find myself using more and more plugins to make the &quot;modern web&quot; tolerable. To list a few:<p>Channel Blocker (lets me block channels from search results on Youtube);
uBlock Origin;
Disconnect;
F.B Purity;
Consent-O-Matic (auto fill cookie consent forms);
Kagi Search;
PopUpOFF;
Facebook Container;
Privacy Badger;
ClearURLs;
Return YouTube Dislike<p>Basically, if I visit a website and don&#x27;t like the experience, I either never go back (Kagi lets me exclude it from search results) or find a plugin to make it tolerable.<p>What I really want now is the ability to exclude entire websites from any permissions I grant to plugins. I feel like in the last year, I&#x27;ve read a couple stories about companies buying successful plugins and then using them to track you or show ads or whatever. I&#x27;m worried this will be the next stage in the battle for our attention -- best case: companies will buy popular plugins to track us and show us intrusive ads; worst case: nefarious actors will buy them to scrape information we think is private and collect it.<p>IE: I just want to be able to say &quot;Hey, Firefox... those permissions that I granted to plugins x, y, and z? They don&#x27;t apply to www.myfavoritebank.example.com&quot;<p>Is there a browser that has that feature yet? I spent a few hours trying to figure out if Firefox did. It did not appear to.<p>edit: Added semicolons to separate plugins in list b&#x2F;c HN stripped the newlines from my comment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emacdona</author><text>For anyone curious as to how I solve the problem right now, I just have two separate Firefox profiles. One has a ton of plugins; I use it to browse the web. The other has no plugins; I use it to visit my bank&#x27;s website.</text></comment> |
36,886,791 | 36,887,039 | 1 | 2 | 36,885,754 | train | <story><title>A beautiful, broken America: what I learned on a 2,800-mile bus ride</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/jul/26/america-roadtrip-greyhound-bus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gottorf</author><text>It&#x27;s a good read. Even over 15 years ago, as a newcomer to this country, I found Greyhound rides to be fascinating, while certainly not being well-run by any stretch of the imagination. And it does expose you to parts of American society that those on the right-hand side of the distribution don&#x27;t often see.<p>&gt; something I saw repeatedly: the exclusion of those without smartphones or credit cards. The cashless society appears to be winning.<p>&gt; “As of 25 January 2023 – you will need photo ID to buy tickets.” Yet another barrier between those with little money, no fixed address, no car, no passport or credit card and their ability to travel.<p>I&#x27;m in favor of retaining (both legally as well as culturally) cash as a medium of exchange, as well as maintaining and restoring a high-trust, cohesive society where most private transactions don&#x27;t require showing one&#x27;s papers.<p>Unfortunately, powerful forces are against both. Cash transactors have long been treated with suspicion by authorities, and the coming age of CBDC will further demean what it even means to have money. And the security state continues to impose one checkpoint after another on civil society, which I have no doubt was behind Greyhound&#x27;s policy on requiring ID.<p>I&#x27;d certainly vote for a congressperson that would take action on either of those matters.<p>&gt; Greyhound stations now often close between buses to keep homeless people out – yet another communal space closed to those without the money to access private spaces<p>Greyhound stations shouldn&#x27;t also need to be homeless shelters, and it seems like smart business to spare paying customers from the antisocial, erratic behavior exhibited by many homeless people. This seems like a strange ding on Greyhound.</text></comment> | <story><title>A beautiful, broken America: what I learned on a 2,800-mile bus ride</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/jul/26/america-roadtrip-greyhound-bus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RandallBrown</author><text>I took a long greyhound trip from Los Angeles to the small border town of Lordsburg New Mexico as part of a longer trip from Seattle.<p>It was awful.<p>The trip started off <i>okay</i>. The Greyhound station in LA isn&#x27;t in a super nice part of town and it was pretty run down and dirty. There were probably about 15 of us on the bus at first and we had plenty of room to spread out and put our luggage on the seats.<p>Eventually we kept picking up more people and by the time we got to San Bernardino, the bus was full and people would need to move their luggage. This was at about 1 am and the people getting on without seats were ANGRY. I thought several fights were going to break out but luckily none did. The driver didn&#x27;t speak very good English so he wasn&#x27;t super useful in helping with the conflict.<p>All through the night about a dozen people were watching movies or playing games on their phone <i>with the sound on.</i> There was also a pair of kittens someone had that meowed quite a bit. Lots of talking all night long as well.<p>Every few hours we would stop for gas or a rest break. On one of the longer legs people started complaining that they needed to stop and smoke. Every stop people would rush off the bus and light up immediately.<p>We stopped in Tucson to switch busses but due to the driver&#x27;s poor English and most people&#x27;s misunderstanding of the bus schedule, I somehow became the only person that could answer the questions like &quot;Why are we stopping? Why are we changing busses? How long do we have to wait?&quot;<p>The lady that sat next to me had a giant pillow covered in stains. She was a nice lady, but clearly was having a pretty rough go of it. Most of the people on the bus seemed like that.<p>Eventually we got to my destination and the stop was a McDonalds in town. The driver gave everyone time to get off the bus and get some food. A homeless man with no shoes got off and was asking people in the McDonalds line if they could buy him a coffee. I bought him a whole breakfast before walking straight to the Comfort Inn next door and booking a room to finally get some sleep and take a shower.<p>It was an interesting experience, but I would never do something like that again if I didn&#x27;t have to. I had originally booked a train all the way from Seattle. My train from LA to Lordsburg got canceled and I needed to scramble to make it to my destination. The first leg of the train trip was delightful.</text></comment> |
6,843,134 | 6,843,059 | 1 | 3 | 6,841,759 | train | <story><title>How we pay royalties: an overview</title><url>http://www.spotifyartists.com/spotify-explained/#how-we-pay-royalties-overview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmbass</author><text>Let me give an example:<p>Say I pay $10&#x2F;month and only listen to 2 artists, each with .001% market share. IMO, each one should get $3.50 from my pool of subscription money. Using their current scheme, each would get $0.00007 while Lady GaGa would get $0.30 when I didn&#x27;t even listen to Poker Face.</text></item><item><author>TylerE</author><text>I don&#x27;t see why you&#x27;re upset. Think globally. Millions of users are paying for the bands you like that <i>they&#x27;ll</i> never listen to.</text></item><item><author>dmbass</author><text><p><pre><code> 2. Artist’s Spotify streams divided by total Spotify streams
This calculates an artist’s popularity on the service, their
“market share.” Dividing an artist’s streams by the total
streams on Spotify determines the percentage of our total
pay-outs that should be paid for that artist’s rights.
</code></pre>
This sucks bigtime. Why should artists that I never listen to receive any of my monthly subscription? This portion of the calculation should be done on a per subscription basis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZoF</author><text>I see your point, but I think your reasoning is flawed. If each one got 3.50$ from you then they would get nothing from the other subscribers, whereas, as it currently is they receive .00007 from everyone... Even if Spotify followed your subscription model the end result would be the same small amount of money.<p>Your method would only increase complexity for Spotify and serve no real purpose in terms of getting your favorite artists more money.</text></comment> | <story><title>How we pay royalties: an overview</title><url>http://www.spotifyartists.com/spotify-explained/#how-we-pay-royalties-overview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmbass</author><text>Let me give an example:<p>Say I pay $10&#x2F;month and only listen to 2 artists, each with .001% market share. IMO, each one should get $3.50 from my pool of subscription money. Using their current scheme, each would get $0.00007 while Lady GaGa would get $0.30 when I didn&#x27;t even listen to Poker Face.</text></item><item><author>TylerE</author><text>I don&#x27;t see why you&#x27;re upset. Think globally. Millions of users are paying for the bands you like that <i>they&#x27;ll</i> never listen to.</text></item><item><author>dmbass</author><text><p><pre><code> 2. Artist’s Spotify streams divided by total Spotify streams
This calculates an artist’s popularity on the service, their
“market share.” Dividing an artist’s streams by the total
streams on Spotify determines the percentage of our total
pay-outs that should be paid for that artist’s rights.
</code></pre>
This sucks bigtime. Why should artists that I never listen to receive any of my monthly subscription? This portion of the calculation should be done on a per subscription basis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samolang</author><text>Yes. But the millions of people who don&#x27;t listen to those two artists are also paying them $0.00007. If you assume everyone listens to the same amount of music, then the two system are equivalent. If you listen to more music than the average person, then your 2 artists get paid more using the current system. If you listen to less music than the average person, then your 2 artists get paid less using the current system.</text></comment> |
20,396,754 | 20,396,676 | 1 | 3 | 20,393,080 | train | <story><title>Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/raspberry-pi-4-uses-incorrect-usb-c-design-wont-work-with-some-chargers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teilo</author><text>And the criticism is completely invalid here. The power spec is very clear and unambiguous, and there is only one way to get it right. It is not the fault of the spec when manufacturers cannot be bothered to produce a circuit that has already been designed for them in the spec itself.</text></item><item><author>loeg</author><text>This has always been a criticism of USB C and it proves true time and time again. USB-C tries to be too many things to too many people and ends up with a huge matrix of incompatibility as a result.</text></item><item><author>groovybits</author><text>From a Pi consumer perspective, this is not that big of a deal.<p>However, it damages the purpose (in name) of USB C. Isn&#x27;t C supposed to be the &#x27;all purpose&#x27; spec? If we have popular manufacturers failing to follow the spec, we end up with cables marked as &#x27;compatible with Raspberry Pi&#x27; or &#x27;compatible with Nintendo Switch&#x27;. To the average consumer (and even most techies), USB C was supposed to be the &#x27;one size fits all&#x27; connector. We&#x27;re slowly heading in the opposite direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianmonk</author><text>It seems like the spec must be at least reasonably clear because after these mistakes are made, someone like Benson Leung can always point to it and the community has little trouble adjudicating that yes, the spec said this one thing, but someone did that other thing instead.<p>Given this has happened time and time again, it seems like a process flaw more than a document flaw. Maybe well-meaning people just make mistakes. Or maybe people knowingly cut corners to save money (because saving on parts is a pressure that will never go away). Or something else.<p>So some sort of process fix seems to be needed, one that will (1) reward those who succeed and&#x2F;or (2) punish those who try to get away with violating the spec and&#x2F;or (3) create tools (like test equipment or certification services or processes) to make compliance easier to achieve for those who are trying to.<p>So, for example, could the Pi people have used some kind of device that would plug in and run through all the combinations? Or could there have been a canned list of test cases (representatives of different types of chargers, how they should behave) they should have run? Or could they have sent a prototype device off to USB Shouldn&#x27;t Suck Labs to have them test it? Or email a schematic to them to have it reviewed by an engineer?</text></comment> | <story><title>Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/raspberry-pi-4-uses-incorrect-usb-c-design-wont-work-with-some-chargers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teilo</author><text>And the criticism is completely invalid here. The power spec is very clear and unambiguous, and there is only one way to get it right. It is not the fault of the spec when manufacturers cannot be bothered to produce a circuit that has already been designed for them in the spec itself.</text></item><item><author>loeg</author><text>This has always been a criticism of USB C and it proves true time and time again. USB-C tries to be too many things to too many people and ends up with a huge matrix of incompatibility as a result.</text></item><item><author>groovybits</author><text>From a Pi consumer perspective, this is not that big of a deal.<p>However, it damages the purpose (in name) of USB C. Isn&#x27;t C supposed to be the &#x27;all purpose&#x27; spec? If we have popular manufacturers failing to follow the spec, we end up with cables marked as &#x27;compatible with Raspberry Pi&#x27; or &#x27;compatible with Nintendo Switch&#x27;. To the average consumer (and even most techies), USB C was supposed to be the &#x27;one size fits all&#x27; connector. We&#x27;re slowly heading in the opposite direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>The spec is not the product. The USB C spec is not a USB C charger. It may not be a valid criticism of the spec but it&#x27;s a 100% valid criticism of USB-C</text></comment> |
26,051,265 | 26,050,750 | 1 | 3 | 26,047,444 | train | <story><title>Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/02/06/daughters-provoke-parental-strife</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Thorentis</author><text>That&#x27;s like saying isn&#x27;t death a healthy outcome for a cancer patient? Sure, it&#x27;s what happens to many people that get cancer. But getting cancer in the first place is not &quot;healthy&quot;, and so death caused by cancer is not &quot;healthy&quot;.<p>If marriage is nothing more than a legal contract - which sadly for many people it is, then why even bother making vows such as &quot;until death do us part&quot;? All for show? Why not just put a time-clause for when the contract expires so that you can decide whether to sign a new one? A highly utilitarian, and in my opinion, tragically sad view of marriage, but that is essentially what it has become for many people.</text></item><item><author>ThePadawan</author><text>Not to get too autobiographical here, but isn&#x27;t divorce a pretty healthy outcome to a marriage? So not 100% the most helpful thing to measure.<p>My parents and the parents of some of my depressed friends are not divorced, simply because divorce requires communication and a willingness to reflect upon the state of your marriage openly.<p>As I said, I might be biased, but I think the hidden outcome of &quot;not legally, but emotionally divorced&quot; makes up a significant portion of turbulent marriages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hntrader</author><text>You&#x27;re talking at cross purposes.<p>Divorce is a positive resolution to a terrible relationship. Death isn&#x27;t a positive resolution to cancer.<p>Divorce is only negative if we don&#x27;t condition on the existence of a terrible relationship.<p>Two things are accurate at the same time:<p>- A marriage turning into a terrible relationship is a negative outcome.<p>- Divorce as a reaction to a marriage turning sour is a positive outcome, since we&#x27;ve conditioned on that development and it&#x27;s now a sunk cost.</text></comment> | <story><title>Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/02/06/daughters-provoke-parental-strife</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Thorentis</author><text>That&#x27;s like saying isn&#x27;t death a healthy outcome for a cancer patient? Sure, it&#x27;s what happens to many people that get cancer. But getting cancer in the first place is not &quot;healthy&quot;, and so death caused by cancer is not &quot;healthy&quot;.<p>If marriage is nothing more than a legal contract - which sadly for many people it is, then why even bother making vows such as &quot;until death do us part&quot;? All for show? Why not just put a time-clause for when the contract expires so that you can decide whether to sign a new one? A highly utilitarian, and in my opinion, tragically sad view of marriage, but that is essentially what it has become for many people.</text></item><item><author>ThePadawan</author><text>Not to get too autobiographical here, but isn&#x27;t divorce a pretty healthy outcome to a marriage? So not 100% the most helpful thing to measure.<p>My parents and the parents of some of my depressed friends are not divorced, simply because divorce requires communication and a willingness to reflect upon the state of your marriage openly.<p>As I said, I might be biased, but I think the hidden outcome of &quot;not legally, but emotionally divorced&quot; makes up a significant portion of turbulent marriages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forty</author><text>I think it&#x27;s important to make the distinction between religious and civil mariage.<p>Clearly civil mariage is just a contact, whose main purpose is the divorce (at least in my country - France - divorce is the main benefit of marriage). And as far as I know there is no commitment for it to last for life, but just until the end of the contract.</text></comment> |
28,513,872 | 28,513,890 | 1 | 3 | 28,512,941 | train | <story><title>Disclosing E2EE vulnerability in multiple Matrix clients</title><url>https://matrix.org/blog/2021/09/13/vulnerability-disclosure-key-sharing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nightpool</author><text>With the recent dust-up around protonmail&#x27;s &quot;end-to-end encryption&quot;, it&#x27;s hard for me to believe that the hammer isn&#x27;t going to come down on Matrix in a similar way. Nobody has seriously turned their attention to the compromised-homeserver issue, even though that&#x27;s the only threat model under which e2ee makes sense. Expecting users in hundred-person group chats to manually verify each other individual user&#x27;s keys is nonsensical. And even a single unverified key means that their homeserver operator could be listening in. I feel like Matrix should move more towards emphasizing how easy it is to self-host and maintain control of your own Matrix data, making e2ee is a non-issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Youden</author><text>&gt; I feel like Matrix should move more towards emphasizing how easy it is to self-host and maintain control of your own Matrix data, making e2ee is a non-issue.<p>Matrix is way ahead of you. There&#x27;s ongoing work to build P2P clients [0]. That is, each phone&#x2F;device can be its own home server. The latest update was in May [1].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;02&#x2F;introducing-p-2-p-matrix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;02&#x2F;introducing-p-2-p-matrix</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;06&#x2F;introducing-the-pinecone-overlay-network" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;06&#x2F;introducing-the-pinecone-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Disclosing E2EE vulnerability in multiple Matrix clients</title><url>https://matrix.org/blog/2021/09/13/vulnerability-disclosure-key-sharing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nightpool</author><text>With the recent dust-up around protonmail&#x27;s &quot;end-to-end encryption&quot;, it&#x27;s hard for me to believe that the hammer isn&#x27;t going to come down on Matrix in a similar way. Nobody has seriously turned their attention to the compromised-homeserver issue, even though that&#x27;s the only threat model under which e2ee makes sense. Expecting users in hundred-person group chats to manually verify each other individual user&#x27;s keys is nonsensical. And even a single unverified key means that their homeserver operator could be listening in. I feel like Matrix should move more towards emphasizing how easy it is to self-host and maintain control of your own Matrix data, making e2ee is a non-issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liotier</author><text>&gt; Matrix should move more towards emphasizing how easy it is to self-host<p>They are already moving beyond that - towards P2P Matrix, with a network mixing traditional servers and individual nodes that collapse client and server: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;06&#x2F;introducing-the-pinecone-overlay-network" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;06&#x2F;introducing-the-pinecone-...</a></text></comment> |
12,392,564 | 12,392,376 | 1 | 2 | 12,388,601 | train | <story><title>Commission says Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13B to Apple</title><url>http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0830/812819-apple-tax-ireland/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>X86BSD</author><text>Every time this apple in Ireland tax issue comes up it makes my brain hurt, literally hurt to read all these replies who don&#x27;t seem to look at this problem correctly.<p>First, Apple did nothing illegal. There is no wrong doing here. They pay tax in every country they owe tax. Period.<p>Second, perhaps it&#x27;s not Apple that&#x27;s the problem? Perhaps it&#x27;s the <i>tax</i> that is the problem.<p>If you have mega corps building entities outside its main jurisdiction to avoid the main jurisdictions tax burden, perhaps you need to revamp your insane tax code. Hmm?</text></item><item><author>shaqbert</author><text>The US tax code is a huge mess, agreed. But you gotta pay your dues (aka taxes) somewhere, and here Apple et al goes essentially Scot free. That is not cool.</text></item><item><author>tinkerrr</author><text>&gt;And with another quirk - this time in US tax laws - the do not even have to pay taxed in the US on those earnings, as they have not repatriated the funds.<p>This is not a &#x27;quirk&#x27; as you think. No country in the world, other than the US, tax their corporations on already taxed profits in a different jurisdiction. This actually ends up hurting the US because corporations cannot repatriate already-taxed funds without being taxed again.</text></item><item><author>shaqbert</author><text>What Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and most other big US company do is the so called &quot;double Irish&quot;[1]. Essentially is a clever way of using two quirks of some EU countries loopholes in tax laws, from treating IP licensing fees (of course the brand and intellectual IP is owned by a British virgin island tax haven, where else could this stuff be created&#x2F;invented), and the net result is that Apple et al end up paying single digit cents on the dollar in EU profits.<p>And with another quirk - this time in US tax laws - the do not even have to pay taxed in the US on those earnings, as they have not repatriated the funds.<p>How to pay dividends&#x2F;fund buybacks, without repatriating those funds? Easy: Just issue debt (which your own subsidiary in the British Virgin islands making a killing on IP licensing might want to buy) or have your BVI IP trust fund buy those shares.<p>Now why would other EU countries let Ireland and the Netherlands get away with these accepted loopholes is a mystery to me, especially since Ireland had to ask for a bailout lifeline, and was in no position to negotiate firmly.<p>Why the US would allow their truffle pigs to not pay taxes on oversea earnings is clearly the result of expert lobbying.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Double_Irish_arrangement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Double_Irish_arrangement</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Certhas</author><text>No, if you have mega corporations build entities outside your tax code, you have a case of countries having designed very attractive tax codes for corporations. Small countries especially have an incentive to do so, as a smaller percentage of tax of a larger percentage of capital going through their country counts for a lot per capita.<p>As companies benefit from this incentive, they lobby to keep it around. Very successfully.<p>So no, revamping the US tax code is (quite obviously) not an answer to Apple not paying tax in the EU. Having enforced taxation rules that prevent the race to the bottom is. Unfortunately taxation is not in the remit of the EU at the moment. Hence the back door approach through &quot;unfair tax benefits&quot;.<p>We don&#x27;t need trade deals that harmonize things so countries can, we really need tax deals that harmonize, or at least put minimum standards on taxes.<p>Why wouldn&#x27;t something like that fly? Well because if the impression European observers have gotten over the last years is correct, then Apple et.al. basically own US policy on that point, to such a degree that the US actually threatened the Commission against ruling as it did.<p>So no, Apple did nothing illegal, but what is happening is clearly wrong, and Apple is lobbying to keep it that way. Heavily and successfully. And that is wrong.<p>For an example of an ethical stance a corporation could take here: IBM was, at least for a while, lobbying for abolishing software patents while at the same time owning a massive amount of them and registering new ones.<p>A structural fix would be to work towards making the US (and the EU, and all other) political system more resilient to lobbying pressure from powerful corporations.<p>But that is about as hard a problem as you are likely to find.</text></comment> | <story><title>Commission says Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13B to Apple</title><url>http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0830/812819-apple-tax-ireland/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>X86BSD</author><text>Every time this apple in Ireland tax issue comes up it makes my brain hurt, literally hurt to read all these replies who don&#x27;t seem to look at this problem correctly.<p>First, Apple did nothing illegal. There is no wrong doing here. They pay tax in every country they owe tax. Period.<p>Second, perhaps it&#x27;s not Apple that&#x27;s the problem? Perhaps it&#x27;s the <i>tax</i> that is the problem.<p>If you have mega corps building entities outside its main jurisdiction to avoid the main jurisdictions tax burden, perhaps you need to revamp your insane tax code. Hmm?</text></item><item><author>shaqbert</author><text>The US tax code is a huge mess, agreed. But you gotta pay your dues (aka taxes) somewhere, and here Apple et al goes essentially Scot free. That is not cool.</text></item><item><author>tinkerrr</author><text>&gt;And with another quirk - this time in US tax laws - the do not even have to pay taxed in the US on those earnings, as they have not repatriated the funds.<p>This is not a &#x27;quirk&#x27; as you think. No country in the world, other than the US, tax their corporations on already taxed profits in a different jurisdiction. This actually ends up hurting the US because corporations cannot repatriate already-taxed funds without being taxed again.</text></item><item><author>shaqbert</author><text>What Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and most other big US company do is the so called &quot;double Irish&quot;[1]. Essentially is a clever way of using two quirks of some EU countries loopholes in tax laws, from treating IP licensing fees (of course the brand and intellectual IP is owned by a British virgin island tax haven, where else could this stuff be created&#x2F;invented), and the net result is that Apple et al end up paying single digit cents on the dollar in EU profits.<p>And with another quirk - this time in US tax laws - the do not even have to pay taxed in the US on those earnings, as they have not repatriated the funds.<p>How to pay dividends&#x2F;fund buybacks, without repatriating those funds? Easy: Just issue debt (which your own subsidiary in the British Virgin islands making a killing on IP licensing might want to buy) or have your BVI IP trust fund buy those shares.<p>Now why would other EU countries let Ireland and the Netherlands get away with these accepted loopholes is a mystery to me, especially since Ireland had to ask for a bailout lifeline, and was in no position to negotiate firmly.<p>Why the US would allow their truffle pigs to not pay taxes on oversea earnings is clearly the result of expert lobbying.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Double_Irish_arrangement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Double_Irish_arrangement</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burkaman</author><text>&quot;Apple did nothing wrong&quot; does not follow from &quot;Apple did nothing illegal&quot;.</text></comment> |
24,839,439 | 24,839,337 | 1 | 2 | 24,838,816 | train | <story><title>Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur</title><url>https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1318465421796782082</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmd</author><text>If you&#x27;re using Cisco Anyconnect, blame that for that particular keyboard issue.</text></item><item><author>thewebcount</author><text>Oh wow! This probably explains why every now and then when I wake my MacBook Pro from sleep it says no keyboard is connected! I thought I had some hardware problem on a basically brand new machine. Glad to hear it&#x27;s only a stupid software problem!</text></item><item><author>eptcyka</author><text>Apple seems to do all kinds of weird networking _stuff_. For instance, during wakeup, your T2 equipped Macbook will wait for a DNS response and then use said DNS response to synchronize time via NTP before letting the user use the keyboard. Probably checking timestamps on signatures for the keyboard firmware, or something stupid like that. This only happens if it happens to have a default route.<p>Similarly, all macOS machines will test a DHCP supplied default route before applying it by trying to reach something on the internet. So if you happen to have some firewall rules that block internet access, no default route will be applied until the internet check times out.<p>I won&#x27;t share the other sentiments about the above, but is it really that hard to document these behaviors?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ClearAndPresent</author><text>Or Wireguard.<p>The absurdity of sitting in front of a frozen keyboard and trackpad for up to a minute before I can unlock the screensaver on a 2k machine has driven me spare. And now has driven away from these astounding lemons.<p>This is the last Apple laptop for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur</title><url>https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1318465421796782082</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmd</author><text>If you&#x27;re using Cisco Anyconnect, blame that for that particular keyboard issue.</text></item><item><author>thewebcount</author><text>Oh wow! This probably explains why every now and then when I wake my MacBook Pro from sleep it says no keyboard is connected! I thought I had some hardware problem on a basically brand new machine. Glad to hear it&#x27;s only a stupid software problem!</text></item><item><author>eptcyka</author><text>Apple seems to do all kinds of weird networking _stuff_. For instance, during wakeup, your T2 equipped Macbook will wait for a DNS response and then use said DNS response to synchronize time via NTP before letting the user use the keyboard. Probably checking timestamps on signatures for the keyboard firmware, or something stupid like that. This only happens if it happens to have a default route.<p>Similarly, all macOS machines will test a DHCP supplied default route before applying it by trying to reach something on the internet. So if you happen to have some firewall rules that block internet access, no default route will be applied until the internet check times out.<p>I won&#x27;t share the other sentiments about the above, but is it really that hard to document these behaviors?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>Why not blame the idiotic decision to make this network check just to wake up?</text></comment> |
19,908,926 | 19,909,031 | 1 | 3 | 19,908,741 | train | <story><title>Open source Mali GPU drivers merged</title><url>https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/8/1122</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jonnax</author><text>What devices can be used with these drivers?<p>The message says there&#x27;s two drivers:<p>&quot;Lima covers the older t4xx and panfrost the newer 6xx&#x2F;7xx
series&quot;<p>My perception is that Mali GPUs were just in Android phones where running where it&#x27;s generally not possible to run a vanilla kernel or the bootloader is locked.<p>Any dev boards?</text></comment> | <story><title>Open source Mali GPU drivers merged</title><url>https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/8/1122</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure these exact GPUs are supported yet, but this sounds like good news for mainline Linux on Samsung smartphone hardware:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.postmarketos.org&#x2F;index.php?search=mali&amp;title=Special%3ASearch&amp;go=Go" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.postmarketos.org&#x2F;index.php?search=mali&amp;title=Sp...</a></text></comment> |
38,395,002 | 38,394,729 | 1 | 3 | 38,394,156 | train | <story><title>Qt Creator 12 Released</title><url>https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-12-released</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>righthand</author><text>I love Qt Framework, but the entire project has this weird entrenchment around using UIC or QML which are both designed to be some sort of templating for easily creating apps.<p>However when actually writing code this stuff is practically magic which was confusing for me to learn about.<p>I found it much quicker and logical to just write the classes and register your widgets&#x2F;components in the C++ class constructor than use these magic files which rely on nested XML&#x2F;JSON. The entire point of these files is to make building an app seem easy (even easier than HTML + JS) but I find the entire thing confusing and overly engineered when you really need to write and reference logic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwells89</author><text>I might be misunderstanding something but last I played with it, it seemed like the stock QML controls were extremely barebones and required either rolling your own or pulling in a library of third party QML controls for pretty basic stuff, which is a bit strange compared to the the range of controls provided by Qt Widgets and a turnoff for anybody looking for something a little more “batteries included”.</text></comment> | <story><title>Qt Creator 12 Released</title><url>https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-12-released</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>righthand</author><text>I love Qt Framework, but the entire project has this weird entrenchment around using UIC or QML which are both designed to be some sort of templating for easily creating apps.<p>However when actually writing code this stuff is practically magic which was confusing for me to learn about.<p>I found it much quicker and logical to just write the classes and register your widgets&#x2F;components in the C++ class constructor than use these magic files which rely on nested XML&#x2F;JSON. The entire point of these files is to make building an app seem easy (even easier than HTML + JS) but I find the entire thing confusing and overly engineered when you really need to write and reference logic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>billfruit</author><text>There was still the &#x27;moc&#x27; magic in the traditional Qt.<p>But the interesting question is can something like Qt be fully build in modern c++ without need for such magic?</text></comment> |
35,793,617 | 35,789,875 | 1 | 3 | 35,785,231 | train | <story><title>Some employers have decided to build their own housing for workers</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1172301798/workers-affordable-housing-companies-building</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smeej</author><text>I think the people complaining in this thread would complain about anything.<p>When government won&#x27;t allow construction of &quot;workforce housing,&quot; complain, because nobody&#x27;s big enough to try to push back and get concessions to make it possible.<p>But then when a company, which <i>is</i> big enough, especially relative to its small town, <i>does</i> do the hard work of negotiating construction contracts and helping people find financing so they can sell homes at cost by removing inefficiencies from housing production, complain about that too?<p>Some important points from the article:<p>1. The houses are being sold, not rented.
2. They&#x27;re being sold at cost.
3. Anyone who buys one can sell it later to someone outside the company. The only restrictions are that if they sell within 3 years of buying, the company has the option to buy the house back at the previous sale cost, and for four years after that, the company has ROFR at market price.<p>Is it a perfect solution? Of course not. These are humans. Humans don&#x27;t come up with perfect solutions.<p>But if you&#x27;re going to complain, what would fix it for you? And is that just a matter of personal preference? &#x27;Cause it&#x27;s not like most of you are willing to live in a Midwestern small town with one major employer in the first place, but clearly these people are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qbasic_forever</author><text>&gt; 1. The houses are being sold, not rented.<p>That&#x27;s not at all what the article says, here is a direct quote from it (emphasis mine):<p>&quot;So a growing number of employers around the country have decided to build their own housing for workers, _mostly for them to rent_ but sometimes to buy.&quot;<p>I would hope it&#x27;s extremely obvious the major problem there is with linking your housing (through renting) to your employment. It&#x27;s the &#x27;company town&#x27; problem all over where workers can be exploited with the constant threat of homelessness if they&#x27;re terminated.</text></comment> | <story><title>Some employers have decided to build their own housing for workers</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1172301798/workers-affordable-housing-companies-building</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smeej</author><text>I think the people complaining in this thread would complain about anything.<p>When government won&#x27;t allow construction of &quot;workforce housing,&quot; complain, because nobody&#x27;s big enough to try to push back and get concessions to make it possible.<p>But then when a company, which <i>is</i> big enough, especially relative to its small town, <i>does</i> do the hard work of negotiating construction contracts and helping people find financing so they can sell homes at cost by removing inefficiencies from housing production, complain about that too?<p>Some important points from the article:<p>1. The houses are being sold, not rented.
2. They&#x27;re being sold at cost.
3. Anyone who buys one can sell it later to someone outside the company. The only restrictions are that if they sell within 3 years of buying, the company has the option to buy the house back at the previous sale cost, and for four years after that, the company has ROFR at market price.<p>Is it a perfect solution? Of course not. These are humans. Humans don&#x27;t come up with perfect solutions.<p>But if you&#x27;re going to complain, what would fix it for you? And is that just a matter of personal preference? &#x27;Cause it&#x27;s not like most of you are willing to live in a Midwestern small town with one major employer in the first place, but clearly these people are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zyang</author><text>I think this is a tempting solution but a bad idea in the long run. Just like how employer provided medical insurance sounds good on the surface, but it gave employers an incentive to lobby against socialized medicine, which reduces worker mobility and hurts the economy.</text></comment> |
31,893,128 | 31,892,290 | 1 | 2 | 31,874,606 | train | <story><title>Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore (2018)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/the-fugitive-harrison-ford-25-years-later/566729/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eric4smith</author><text>Unfortunately most movies these days are more about &quot;the message&quot; than a coherent story.<p>But GOOD NEWS!<p>This weekend I actually found a use for Netflix and watched &quot;Hustle&quot;. Adam Sandler&#x27;s latest offering for the platform. It is an astoundingly good movie. Even more so because normally I&#x27;m not really into basketball.<p>But it was WELL written, intelligent and there were plenty of challenges for them to overcome, right down to the very last 30 seconds of the movie. Edge of the seat stuff that keeps you engaged every moment.<p>The thing missing from many movies these days with &quot;the message&quot; is that the protagonists generally have no obstacles. No problems to deal with. No hurdles to cross. No challenges. There is generally no danger to the heroes. There is just a lot of ass kicking without any preliminaries.<p>And that&#x27;s the reason why movies mostly suck these days. It&#x27;s a shame really. It&#x27;s all about politics these days and making sure there is some race&#x2F;gender&#x2F;cultural representation (I&#x27;m saying this as a black guy).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>valdiorn</author><text>Someone&#x27;s been watching The Critical Drinker - but I totally agree with him as well :)<p>The lack of obstacles to overcome and the general saint-like presence of protagonists these days is miserable. It&#x27;s the same thing you see in political discourse these days; if you&#x27;re not COMPLETELY with us on every issue, you are a fascist devil. Can&#x27;t have that in your movies so you end up with perfect moral beings with no flaws.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore (2018)</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/the-fugitive-harrison-ford-25-years-later/566729/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eric4smith</author><text>Unfortunately most movies these days are more about &quot;the message&quot; than a coherent story.<p>But GOOD NEWS!<p>This weekend I actually found a use for Netflix and watched &quot;Hustle&quot;. Adam Sandler&#x27;s latest offering for the platform. It is an astoundingly good movie. Even more so because normally I&#x27;m not really into basketball.<p>But it was WELL written, intelligent and there were plenty of challenges for them to overcome, right down to the very last 30 seconds of the movie. Edge of the seat stuff that keeps you engaged every moment.<p>The thing missing from many movies these days with &quot;the message&quot; is that the protagonists generally have no obstacles. No problems to deal with. No hurdles to cross. No challenges. There is generally no danger to the heroes. There is just a lot of ass kicking without any preliminaries.<p>And that&#x27;s the reason why movies mostly suck these days. It&#x27;s a shame really. It&#x27;s all about politics these days and making sure there is some race&#x2F;gender&#x2F;cultural representation (I&#x27;m saying this as a black guy).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thinkingemote</author><text>Dr Who is a good example. There has always been a message in the shows but the story took precedence. Now the message takes precedence and the story and show suffers. It&#x27;s unwatchable even with the audio muted!<p>Terry Pratchett&#x27;s work is a good example of progressive ideas told so well that the story is all that anyone cares about.</text></comment> |
25,261,160 | 25,259,650 | 1 | 2 | 25,244,900 | train | <story><title>What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encryption-protocol-hacker-lexicon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xiaomai</author><text>I think not having it disappear by default is reasonable. My biggest complaint about signal is how hard it is to preserve history (backing up &#x2F; transferring to new devices). I think the normal expectation is that your data is not going to automatically disappear unless you ask it to.</text></item><item><author>upofadown</author><text>This article mentions an important fact about forward secrecy:<p>&gt;Perfect forward secrecy is useless, it&#x27;s important to note, if users don&#x27;t delete their messages periodically.<p>Then:<p>&gt;The Signal app offers disappearing messages that are automatically deleted after a certain time limit.<p>Which is not turned on by default. The user has to somehow know that they have to do this to get the benefit of forward secrecy. This seems all too common with contemporary encrypted messaging stuff. Really great features that depend on having the users behave in a way they normally would not.<p>Of course the app can do this wrong simply by failing to do a secure delete that actually removes the messages from the storage device. In the end the actual communications protocol doesn&#x27;t make very much difference in the face of counter productive implementations; conceptual and&#x2F;or technical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>As someone that doesn&#x27;t fret with the saving history part I&#x27;m curious why people save their texts and back them up. Honestly it is a bit creepy to me. I can understand saving special texts (especially for a short time period) but it seems weird to me that people want to save texts from a year ago that talk about what I had for breakfast. There&#x27;s something I&#x27;m not getting here, can someone enlighten me? Like I&#x27;ve never searched my texts for something that is more than a few weeks old. Any further back than that and I just directly ask the person (it is way faster).</text></comment> | <story><title>What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encryption-protocol-hacker-lexicon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xiaomai</author><text>I think not having it disappear by default is reasonable. My biggest complaint about signal is how hard it is to preserve history (backing up &#x2F; transferring to new devices). I think the normal expectation is that your data is not going to automatically disappear unless you ask it to.</text></item><item><author>upofadown</author><text>This article mentions an important fact about forward secrecy:<p>&gt;Perfect forward secrecy is useless, it&#x27;s important to note, if users don&#x27;t delete their messages periodically.<p>Then:<p>&gt;The Signal app offers disappearing messages that are automatically deleted after a certain time limit.<p>Which is not turned on by default. The user has to somehow know that they have to do this to get the benefit of forward secrecy. This seems all too common with contemporary encrypted messaging stuff. Really great features that depend on having the users behave in a way they normally would not.<p>Of course the app can do this wrong simply by failing to do a secure delete that actually removes the messages from the storage device. In the end the actual communications protocol doesn&#x27;t make very much difference in the face of counter productive implementations; conceptual and&#x2F;or technical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asquabventured</author><text>When was the last time you moved devices? I was able to wirelessly import my entire years old messaging and contact database when I switched iOS devices ~10 months ago. I don&#x27;t recall if it used NFC, Bluetooth or having to be connected to the same WiFi network but it worked impressively well at the time.</text></comment> |
28,289,547 | 28,289,788 | 1 | 2 | 28,288,269 | train | <story><title>More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/studying-whistled-languages-180978484/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Taylor_OD</author><text>Anyone learn to whistle, in any way or form, later in life? I&#x27;ve always wanted to but never been able to. I&#x27;ve tried a few types of whistles. The closest I&#x27;ve gotten is some quasi duck calls using my hands and whistling with the help of an acorn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mypastself</author><text>I actually did, from a Reddit thread that guided me through the process step by step. I’m having trouble finding the exact link at the moment, but it starts with slowly breathing out the letter “Q”.<p>It’s not a loud, booming sound or anything, but I went from blowing soundless air for 20-odd years to actually whistling.</text></comment> | <story><title>More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/studying-whistled-languages-180978484/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Taylor_OD</author><text>Anyone learn to whistle, in any way or form, later in life? I&#x27;ve always wanted to but never been able to. I&#x27;ve tried a few types of whistles. The closest I&#x27;ve gotten is some quasi duck calls using my hands and whistling with the help of an acorn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bynkman</author><text>If you can&#x27;t whistle, there&#x27;s a way to use an acorn or a bottle cap to do so. I can whistle, but not that loud, and often use a bottle cap to whistle loudly at venues.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;tydJLavu8Fc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;tydJLavu8Fc</a></text></comment> |
37,188,802 | 37,188,637 | 1 | 2 | 37,187,278 | train | <story><title>Flipping the model presents a new way to treat sleep apnoea</title><url>https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2023/08/08/flipping-the-model-presents-a-new-way-to-treat-sleep-apnoea/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DrAwdeOccarim</author><text>Totally agree. My journey started with TMJ disorder. Turns out bruxism (teeth grinding) is common in sleep apnea patients; I assume because it forces the lower jaw forward. I started with a mandibular advancement device and it was amazing. It completely relived my debilitating TMJ jaw pain and fixed my sleep apnea. I couldn’t believe how amazing I fet every morning. Unfortunately, and which was clearly communicated to me by my sleep dentist, after about 8 years my lower jaw stopped resetting back to a normal bite during the day. So I switched to CPAP. I love my nasal pillows plus chin strap CPAP, the sleep quality is unbeatable and my light-sleeping partner would have left to sleep in another room permanently if not for it. Along the way I have tried many other ideas—a tongue suction pull forward thing, a rear tongue electro stimulation device, prone sleeping, wedge sleeping, just the chin strap, and I looked into the pace maker thing and participating in an oral small molecule trial but didn’t follow through with it (also, I’m already thin, just a weak jaw line). Nothing compares to CPAP at high humidity and medium temperature. What has made a major impact was seeing an ENT, and the discovery of sinus blockages, so I recently had major sinus surgery and it’s improved my sleep apnea about 75%! Turns out “negative pressure” is a major cause of airway collapse. So I’m going to try some of the non-CPAP stuff again to see if my partner is able to deal with at most some loud breathing.<p>Sorry for the long post, but my advice to all is see an ENT if you need a CPAP and are already thin.</text></comment> | <story><title>Flipping the model presents a new way to treat sleep apnoea</title><url>https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2023/08/08/flipping-the-model-presents-a-new-way-to-treat-sleep-apnoea/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>taeric</author><text>The number of people that are using a CPAP is honestly mind boggling to me. The number that have gotten one, and then refuse to wear it is even crazier.<p>I remember when I first got one, I assumed it was some niche thing that was going to be unheard of from everyone I talked to. Turns out, not so much.<p>I don&#x27;t think it has been a miracle device, by any measure. But I&#x27;m curious what makes it so hard to stick to for so many.</text></comment> |
32,232,383 | 32,232,418 | 1 | 2 | 32,231,719 | train | <story><title>A coding error caused Rogers outage that left millions without service</title><url>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-how-a-coding-error-caused-rogers-outage-that-left-millions-without/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>somerandomqaguy</author><text>There&#x27;s a reddit thread going on that was discussing an interesting edge case in regards to 911 and the outage.<p>In Canada 911 service is accessible without a SIM card; if your phone doesn&#x27;t have a SIM, any cell tower should in theory still accept and route the call as normal. However in Roger&#x27;s case, because the cell towers and their authentication mechanisms were still operational, any 911 call with a Roger&#x27;s SIM card in it would route through Roger&#x27;s network and only Roger&#x27;s network; the one that couldn&#x27;t service any calls. In essence, your 911 service was completely cut off.<p>The workaround is to pull the SIM card prior to making the 911 call, but it leaves an interesting question about what you&#x27;re supposed to do in an eSIM world where pulling the SIM is not possible but you&#x27;re again in this kind of situation.<p>To be clear I don&#x27;t know if this is a real problem or not, but it is an interesting thought either way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yurymik</author><text>Even if you do have a physical sim card, finding sim card ejector isn&#x27;t trivial, especially in a situation when you do need to call 911.</text></comment> | <story><title>A coding error caused Rogers outage that left millions without service</title><url>https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-how-a-coding-error-caused-rogers-outage-that-left-millions-without/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>somerandomqaguy</author><text>There&#x27;s a reddit thread going on that was discussing an interesting edge case in regards to 911 and the outage.<p>In Canada 911 service is accessible without a SIM card; if your phone doesn&#x27;t have a SIM, any cell tower should in theory still accept and route the call as normal. However in Roger&#x27;s case, because the cell towers and their authentication mechanisms were still operational, any 911 call with a Roger&#x27;s SIM card in it would route through Roger&#x27;s network and only Roger&#x27;s network; the one that couldn&#x27;t service any calls. In essence, your 911 service was completely cut off.<p>The workaround is to pull the SIM card prior to making the 911 call, but it leaves an interesting question about what you&#x27;re supposed to do in an eSIM world where pulling the SIM is not possible but you&#x27;re again in this kind of situation.<p>To be clear I don&#x27;t know if this is a real problem or not, but it is an interesting thought either way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>&gt; The workaround is to pull the SIM card prior to making the 911 call, but<p>The actual “but” clause is nobody is going to be able to diagnose the problem just from the terminal device. It’s like when our cable service goes down* the kids shout out “WiFi is down” (while to me it’s working fine).<p>* this happens a lot because I live in Palo Alto which, despite having deployed fibre close to every address in the city back in the 1980s was never able to actually, you know, deploy IP service.</text></comment> |
12,694,463 | 12,694,389 | 1 | 3 | 12,692,552 | train | <story><title>Facebook React.js License</title><url>http://www.elcaminolegal.com/single-post/2016/10/04/Facebook-Reactjs-License</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zpao</author><text>Hi, Paul from the React team here. There have been lots of questions about the license+patents combo we use. Recently our legal team answered some of those questions.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.facebook.com&#x2F;license-faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.facebook.com&#x2F;license-faq</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stefano</author><text>That FAQ is missing the most important question, which is raised by the article, on whether the license will terminate if you sue (not counter-sue) facebook for patent infringement unrelated to React. That is, does using React give facebook the right to infringe on any of my patents?</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook React.js License</title><url>http://www.elcaminolegal.com/single-post/2016/10/04/Facebook-Reactjs-License</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zpao</author><text>Hi, Paul from the React team here. There have been lots of questions about the license+patents combo we use. Recently our legal team answered some of those questions.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.facebook.com&#x2F;license-faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.facebook.com&#x2F;license-faq</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bwhitty</author><text>Is there any talk within Facebook on amending this clause or moving React to a standard license? I believe it&#x27;s stopping a lot of large companies (whom the patent clause could actually affect) from using React, and all other like-licensed Facebook software.</text></comment> |
18,764,337 | 18,763,276 | 1 | 3 | 18,761,907 | train | <story><title>Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Pictures of People</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2018/12/artificial-intelligence-creates-realistic-photos-of-people-none-of-whom-actually-exist.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaymath</author><text>Can anyone tell me if it&#x27;s reasonable to think this technology might substantially replace or augment movie CGI in the future? I have no domain experience with CGI or graphical simulation, but I have a passing interest as an occasional admirer of what shows up on &#x2F;r&#x2F;simulated.<p>Does modern CGI make use of machine learning like this? If not, what does it have in common aside from significant use of GPUs? What are the computational intensive parts of CGI, and what are the heavily manual and labor intensive parts of the CGI development workflow?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goberoi</author><text>Yes, this sort of tech is likely to make its way into CGI. Some relevant resources if you&#x27;re interested:<p>1. This post shows how GANs were used to replicate the Princess Leia scene in Rogue One. The scene in the movie required a team of special effects artists, whereas this required access to lots of images of Carrie Fischer, a GPU, and this technology: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;io9.gizmodo.com&#x2F;this-video-uses-the-power-of-deepfakes-to-re-capture-th-1828907452" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;io9.gizmodo.com&#x2F;this-video-uses-the-power-of-deepfak...</a><p>2. I wrote this popular post on this topic (first page on Google for &quot;deepfakes&quot;) that explains how it works, and where it can go for commercial applications: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;exploring-deepfakes-20c9947c22d9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;exploring-deepfakes-20c9947c22d9</a><p>3. If you prefer video, I gave a humorous talk on the same recently. It is designed for lay people, and has lots of examples: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=wajS0XHzfpU&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=153" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=wajS0XHzfpU&amp;feature=youtu.be...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Pictures of People</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2018/12/artificial-intelligence-creates-realistic-photos-of-people-none-of-whom-actually-exist.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaymath</author><text>Can anyone tell me if it&#x27;s reasonable to think this technology might substantially replace or augment movie CGI in the future? I have no domain experience with CGI or graphical simulation, but I have a passing interest as an occasional admirer of what shows up on &#x2F;r&#x2F;simulated.<p>Does modern CGI make use of machine learning like this? If not, what does it have in common aside from significant use of GPUs? What are the computational intensive parts of CGI, and what are the heavily manual and labor intensive parts of the CGI development workflow?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>delinka</author><text>Keep in mind that these are stills. Once the motion starts, humans detect the not-quite-realness easily. Even the 2D video creations by AI aren’t stitched correctly, let alone getting all the details of an animated 3D person right.</text></comment> |
33,725,599 | 33,725,426 | 1 | 3 | 33,724,337 | train | <story><title>2 Years at Twitter</title><url>https://eed3si9n.com/2years-at-twitter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gravypod</author><text>There are many people who are commenting that this is so much work for 20m lines of code, they&#x27;re reinventing the wheel, they should have just bought something off the shelf, etc.<p>Two things to consider:<p>1. It is sometimes hard to buy things that works well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;nothing-works&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;nothing-works&#x2F;</a><p>2. The productivity gains of something like Bazel and Pants are pretty amazing if you are working within a monorepo.<p>It is very difficult to understand how big these two things play into these decisions. Having ~20 people manage build tooling, build caching, source control, CI (build+test), and building release artifacts (which it sounds like Pants did) is not a bad deal.<p>Consider:<p>1. GitLab will charge you $20&#x2F;month&#x2F;user.<p>2. If you have 2000 SWEs you&#x27;ll pay 40k&#x2F;month just to have access to the website.<p>3. You&#x27;ll still need to hire a person or two to negotiate the purchasing of the GitLab.<p>Now remember that GitLab might not be prefect for your use case. GitLab doesn&#x27;t increase the performance of builds on your laptop by sharing a cache with all engineers. There&#x27;s also a limit to the mount of data you can store for source + build artifacts (50GB). The CI runners they host for you are very expensive for how slow the machines are ($10&#x2F;1000 minutes).<p>Sure, you can do things like run your own GitLab runners but now you&#x27;re back to running your own infrastructure which is an engineer&#x27;s job. Sure, you could save money by using Gitea or something that if free but again hosting your own infra. As soon as you have someone managing that infrastructure they&#x27;re bound to say &quot;how else can I save time and money&quot; and at a certain scale these things become reasonable or even required.</text></comment> | <story><title>2 Years at Twitter</title><url>https://eed3si9n.com/2years-at-twitter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>msoad</author><text>20m lines of code is not large enough to have 6 people in build tooling. A lot of companies at Twitter size end up over engineering and resisting buying vs. building in house big shot projects that often times can&#x27;t compete with some 3rd party solution they could just buy.<p>For example my company is reinventing Next.js in house because the politics in the company won&#x27;t allow us ditch this half-baked Next.js clone and just use the real thing. Our deployment pipeline will be much simpler if we simply bought Vercel. I&#x27;m sure we can negotiate prices with them that is better than hiring 12 engineers</text></comment> |
32,540,545 | 32,540,725 | 1 | 3 | 32,539,762 | train | <story><title>Apple is building an ad empire as its iPhone privacy crackdown weakens rivals</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/08/21/apple-advertising-privacy-tracking-iphone</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greenthrow</author><text>This article does not support its clickbait headline with much in the way of facts. &quot;Analysts estimate&quot; that Apple&#x27;s ad revenue could drastically increase. Insiders talk of a reorganization. There might be ads included in more apps. The headline makes a major assertion the body does not support.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kareemsabri</author><text>I found it useful conjecture. It presents evidence and states the conclusions it draws, with appropriate disclaimers. Based on the facts, the conclusions are not unreasonable.<p>- Apple has kneecapped ads from competitors, this is acknowledged fact<p>- Apple services revenue has grown significantly since, which includes ad revenue, this is acknowledge fact (to the SEC no less)<p>- Apple does not disclose ad revenue as proportion of services revenue, but it&#x27;s reasonable to think it would grow as well<p>Digital marketers have personally told me app install ads and the like on Facebook are no longer effective, so we&#x27;d expect those dollars to move to other areas.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple is building an ad empire as its iPhone privacy crackdown weakens rivals</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/08/21/apple-advertising-privacy-tracking-iphone</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greenthrow</author><text>This article does not support its clickbait headline with much in the way of facts. &quot;Analysts estimate&quot; that Apple&#x27;s ad revenue could drastically increase. Insiders talk of a reorganization. There might be ads included in more apps. The headline makes a major assertion the body does not support.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gammarator</author><text>Moreover, the chart of 2021 ad revenue shows Facebook at $114B, Apple at $4B. The article text says Facebook worries Apple’s changes could cost them $10B, less than 10% of their 2021 ad revenue and more than double Apple’s <i>total</i>.<p>The narrative doesn’t match the numbers.</text></comment> |
23,063,773 | 23,063,110 | 1 | 2 | 23,062,570 | train | <story><title>A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship</title><url>https://thehustle.co/the-man-feeding-a-remote-alaska-town-with-a-costco-card-and-a-ship</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>momokoko</author><text><i>&gt; Parker did some work around town, scrounged together $3k, and began taking a state-subsidized ferry to Juneau, where he bought Costco inventory to resell in Gustavus at a small markup.</i><p><i>&gt; As the store grew, Parker and his father launched their own freight company, purchased the town’s gasoline station, and bought two of their own ships — a $300k “insurance policy” that gave Parker tighter control over the supply chain in case of an emergency.</i><p>I feel like they left out a step between $3k and a frieght company with 2 ships.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashtonkem</author><text>Occasionally ships can be had for extremely cheap when the former owner cannot afford the maintenance on it. It&#x27;s more common with small pleasure craft, but I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised to hear about small cargo ships being occasionally abandoned up there.</text></comment> | <story><title>A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship</title><url>https://thehustle.co/the-man-feeding-a-remote-alaska-town-with-a-costco-card-and-a-ship</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>momokoko</author><text><i>&gt; Parker did some work around town, scrounged together $3k, and began taking a state-subsidized ferry to Juneau, where he bought Costco inventory to resell in Gustavus at a small markup.</i><p><i>&gt; As the store grew, Parker and his father launched their own freight company, purchased the town’s gasoline station, and bought two of their own ships — a $300k “insurance policy” that gave Parker tighter control over the supply chain in case of an emergency.</i><p>I feel like they left out a step between $3k and a frieght company with 2 ships.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taneq</author><text>Moving inventory on the existing ferry service and selling it at a profit?</text></comment> |
8,548,362 | 8,548,412 | 1 | 3 | 8,548,133 | train | <story><title>The Future of Payments and Open Source Support</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/11/2/payments-in-the-future/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mike_hearn</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure it is. I&#x27;m not a huge fan of tip4commit either, I agree that it&#x27;s opt-out model is bogus, but the fact that it uses Bitcoin seems irrelevant.<p>The author seems to believe he cannot accept tips, because of tax and regulation, but he doesn&#x27;t point out what <i>specifically</i> would cause problems here. Obviously people make and accept tips using euros all the time, this is not illegal, so why it would be different using Bitcoin isn&#x27;t obvious. You can declare tips as income, no problem.<p>The real cause of his discomfort is revealed later in the post:<p><i>Personally I believe that Bitcoin is a terrible currency ... If you have a completely broken piece of country then I can imagine that you are suspicious of regulation and this sort of thing, but for me regulation is what keeps my world running and working.</i><p>Also,<p><i>Bitcoin for me feels like a cult. The vocal people in the community seem like they don&#x27;t actually care about Bitcoin, but they want to see it succeed so that their &quot;investment&quot; makes a profit</i><p>So he has a generalised feeling that Bitcoin is bad because it&#x27;s popular and has vocal fans, and that regulation is good yet also complicated, so anything which seems simple must be unregulated and therefore bad.<p>I do not consider myself particularly libertarian, though I do use and work on Bitcoin. Regardless, this doesn&#x27;t seem like a great set of arguments. Rather, the author has decided that because a lot of Bitcoin users don&#x27;t seem to like government, and he likes government, he should not like Bitcoin.</text></item><item><author>wdewind</author><text>TLDR; there are two problems with tip4commit:<p>1. The obvious, that they are collecting funds on behalf of other people&#x27;s work and then keeping them when the funds go &#x27;unclaimed&#x27;<p>2. Even if you do want to claim it, they don&#x27;t make it easy, and for someone in a complicated tax country (like the author, Austria) there is almost no way he could accept the money without incurring some kind of risk. So basically when they are keeping money that goes unclaimed it&#x27;s very problematic because they don&#x27;t make the money easy to claim in the first place. Obvious incentives issues.<p>Point 2 is what this article is about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_mitsuhiko</author><text>&gt; author seems to believe he cannot accept tips, because of tax and regulation, but he doesn&#x27;t point out what specifically would cause problems here.<p>JFTR: &quot;accepting tips&quot; for software is something that is not at all straightforward. The way bountysource and others get around that is through invoices once a large enough amount has accumulated. I have no idea how that works in other countries. Gratipay&#x2F;bountysource solve this problem, no bitcoin service I have seen does.<p>&gt; Rather, the author has decided that because a lot of Bitcoin users don&#x27;t seem to like government, and he likes government, he should not like Bitcoin.<p>I think you misunderstand something there: I am pointing out why Bitcoin is something that does not solve problems for me and I doubt I am the only one. The premise of tip4commit is that it helps Open Source projects. It&#x27;s not just not helping me, it&#x27;s making my life more complicated. In fact, right now, pretty much anything that has bitcoin involved makes it harder for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Future of Payments and Open Source Support</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/11/2/payments-in-the-future/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mike_hearn</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure it is. I&#x27;m not a huge fan of tip4commit either, I agree that it&#x27;s opt-out model is bogus, but the fact that it uses Bitcoin seems irrelevant.<p>The author seems to believe he cannot accept tips, because of tax and regulation, but he doesn&#x27;t point out what <i>specifically</i> would cause problems here. Obviously people make and accept tips using euros all the time, this is not illegal, so why it would be different using Bitcoin isn&#x27;t obvious. You can declare tips as income, no problem.<p>The real cause of his discomfort is revealed later in the post:<p><i>Personally I believe that Bitcoin is a terrible currency ... If you have a completely broken piece of country then I can imagine that you are suspicious of regulation and this sort of thing, but for me regulation is what keeps my world running and working.</i><p>Also,<p><i>Bitcoin for me feels like a cult. The vocal people in the community seem like they don&#x27;t actually care about Bitcoin, but they want to see it succeed so that their &quot;investment&quot; makes a profit</i><p>So he has a generalised feeling that Bitcoin is bad because it&#x27;s popular and has vocal fans, and that regulation is good yet also complicated, so anything which seems simple must be unregulated and therefore bad.<p>I do not consider myself particularly libertarian, though I do use and work on Bitcoin. Regardless, this doesn&#x27;t seem like a great set of arguments. Rather, the author has decided that because a lot of Bitcoin users don&#x27;t seem to like government, and he likes government, he should not like Bitcoin.</text></item><item><author>wdewind</author><text>TLDR; there are two problems with tip4commit:<p>1. The obvious, that they are collecting funds on behalf of other people&#x27;s work and then keeping them when the funds go &#x27;unclaimed&#x27;<p>2. Even if you do want to claim it, they don&#x27;t make it easy, and for someone in a complicated tax country (like the author, Austria) there is almost no way he could accept the money without incurring some kind of risk. So basically when they are keeping money that goes unclaimed it&#x27;s very problematic because they don&#x27;t make the money easy to claim in the first place. Obvious incentives issues.<p>Point 2 is what this article is about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djur</author><text>This may have changed in the last 24 hours, but last I checked tip4commit&#x27;s opt-out model is &quot;get stuffed&quot;. The original controversy was over their refusal to remove projects from the site on request.<p>I agree that Bitcoin is more or less irrelevant to the controversy, but like the OP says, the tip4commit defenders seem to have intentionally made it a pro&#x2F;anti-Bitcoin conflict. Bitcoin advocates were mobilized to support the site.</text></comment> |
30,301,275 | 30,300,139 | 1 | 2 | 30,296,333 | train | <story><title>Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/key-senators-have-voted-anti-encryption-earn-it-act</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>i5heu</author><text>I guess this is the end of &quot;sending customer data to the us&quot;.
Quite impressive how fast the US-politics can burn billions in $, endanger the technological lead and build a massive opportunity for Europe!<p>I, as a European could not be happier about this, from a economic standpoint.<p>Hope you guys over there are not drifting to a surveillance dystopian.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tagoregrtst</author><text>Get off your high horse.<p>This is a long term international effort where irrelevant Western countries in the peripheries (that’s the EU) have nibbled away at encryption protections to make it easier for the US to do the same. It’s part of a two decades long effort by Western elites to correct their mistakes from the nineties - namely loosening the noose on information and privacy.<p>Australia, France, UK all have draconian laws that would cause outrage (or are outright unconstitutional) in the US. The only data protection the EU has is because fussy Eurocrats are annoyed that the US (and not them) get to syphon all of European’s data.<p>The US is really flawed, but I wouldn&#x27;t move back to the EU for double my family’s income.</text></comment> | <story><title>Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/key-senators-have-voted-anti-encryption-earn-it-act</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>i5heu</author><text>I guess this is the end of &quot;sending customer data to the us&quot;.
Quite impressive how fast the US-politics can burn billions in $, endanger the technological lead and build a massive opportunity for Europe!<p>I, as a European could not be happier about this, from a economic standpoint.<p>Hope you guys over there are not drifting to a surveillance dystopian.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rapnie</author><text>Then there&#x27;s chatcontrol in the EU. Welcome to Europe.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patrick-breyer.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;members-of-the-european-parliament-warn-against-commissions-chat-control-mass-surveillance-plans&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patrick-breyer.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;members-of-the-european-par...</a></text></comment> |
37,865,475 | 37,865,517 | 1 | 2 | 37,864,867 | train | <story><title>Scrollbars are becoming a problem</title><url>https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f33d5173</author><text>&gt; there&#x27;s not much of a good reason to hide them.<p>It looks nicer + you can just use the scroll wheel. A lot of the UI affordances lost over the last decade or two are unfortunate, but complaints about scroll bars seem to be purely baby duck syndrome.</text></item><item><author>jwells89</author><text>In the context of the original iPhone at least, hiding the scrollbar when not scrolling makes some amount of sense… when your screen is 3.5&quot; in size and your goal is to render content with &quot;desktop&quot; fidelity, there&#x27;s not a whole lot of room for a scrollbar, plus most people aren&#x27;t going to be interacting with the scrollbar.<p>For desktop OSes where the smallest screen being used is much larger on the other hand there&#x27;s not much of a good reason to hide them.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>I run into so many websites that I think are completely broken because they have a scollable popover or some other weird element, but it&#x27;s impossible to tell that there is content because the scroll bar is hidden on this small interior frame.<p>Absolutely infuriating. I blame iOS and macOS for encouraging this insanity and starting the fashion trend, and tangentially whoever pushed along this whole &quot;flat&quot; UI trend that makes it so hard to guess at what is what.<p>UI is communication, and UI designers have decided that mumbling is cool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>As the article says, not everyone can use a scroll wheel, and not everyone even has a scroll wheel or touchpad. I personally find using mouse scroll wheels quite painful due to RSI caused from decades of mouse abuse. Yet, designers find scroll bars and up-and-down scroll arrows icky so fuck me, I guess. :(</text></comment> | <story><title>Scrollbars are becoming a problem</title><url>https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f33d5173</author><text>&gt; there&#x27;s not much of a good reason to hide them.<p>It looks nicer + you can just use the scroll wheel. A lot of the UI affordances lost over the last decade or two are unfortunate, but complaints about scroll bars seem to be purely baby duck syndrome.</text></item><item><author>jwells89</author><text>In the context of the original iPhone at least, hiding the scrollbar when not scrolling makes some amount of sense… when your screen is 3.5&quot; in size and your goal is to render content with &quot;desktop&quot; fidelity, there&#x27;s not a whole lot of room for a scrollbar, plus most people aren&#x27;t going to be interacting with the scrollbar.<p>For desktop OSes where the smallest screen being used is much larger on the other hand there&#x27;s not much of a good reason to hide them.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>I run into so many websites that I think are completely broken because they have a scollable popover or some other weird element, but it&#x27;s impossible to tell that there is content because the scroll bar is hidden on this small interior frame.<p>Absolutely infuriating. I blame iOS and macOS for encouraging this insanity and starting the fashion trend, and tangentially whoever pushed along this whole &quot;flat&quot; UI trend that makes it so hard to guess at what is what.<p>UI is communication, and UI designers have decided that mumbling is cool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>It does not look nicer. It looks more mysterious. Where in the list am I? Is there anything below to scroll to? Above? To the right, everyone&#x27;s favorite?<p>And no, trying to scroll every control just to find this out is not my ideal of usability and comfort.</text></comment> |
16,067,454 | 16,066,943 | 1 | 2 | 16,065,845 | train | <story><title>Reading privileged memory with a side-channel</title><url>https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ErikAugust</author><text>I&#x27;ve thrown the C code in the Spectre paper up if anyone wants to feel the magic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ErikAugust&#x2F;724d4a969fb2c6ae1bbd7b2a9e3d4bb6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ErikAugust&#x2F;724d4a969fb2c6ae1bbd7b2a9...</a></text></item><item><author>jotux</author><text>Papers describing each attack:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meltdownattack.com&#x2F;meltdown.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meltdownattack.com&#x2F;meltdown.pdf</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectreattack.com&#x2F;spectre.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectreattack.com&#x2F;spectre.pdf</a><p>From the spectre paper:<p>&gt;As a proof-of-concept, JavaScript code was written
that, when run in the Google Chrome browser, allows
JavaScript to read private memory from the process
in which it runs (cf. Listing 2).<p>Scary stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dpwm</author><text>Just tested this on systems of varying age.<p>Works on processors going back as far as 2007 (the oldest I have access to now is an Athlon 64 X2 6000+), but the example code relies on an instruction that the Atom D510 does not suport.<p>Because Spectre seems to be an intrinsic problem with out-of-order execution, which is almost as old as the FDIV bug in intel processors, I would be very surprised if the Atom D510 did not turn out to be susceptible using other methods as outlined in the paper.<p>EDIT: I originally suspected this instruction was CLFLUSH and erroneously claimed the D510 doesn&#x27;t support sse2. It does support sse2, so it must be that it does not support the RDTSCP instruction used for timing.<p>EDIT: This gets very interesting. I made some modifications to use a CPUID followed by RDTSC, which now runs without illegal instructions and works everywhere the previous version worked. Except on the D510, this runs but I cannot get the leak to happen despite exploring values of CACHE_HIT_THRESHOLD. Could the Atom D510 really be immune from Spectre?</text></comment> | <story><title>Reading privileged memory with a side-channel</title><url>https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ErikAugust</author><text>I&#x27;ve thrown the C code in the Spectre paper up if anyone wants to feel the magic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ErikAugust&#x2F;724d4a969fb2c6ae1bbd7b2a9e3d4bb6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ErikAugust&#x2F;724d4a969fb2c6ae1bbd7b2a9...</a></text></item><item><author>jotux</author><text>Papers describing each attack:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meltdownattack.com&#x2F;meltdown.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meltdownattack.com&#x2F;meltdown.pdf</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectreattack.com&#x2F;spectre.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectreattack.com&#x2F;spectre.pdf</a><p>From the spectre paper:<p>&gt;As a proof-of-concept, JavaScript code was written
that, when run in the Google Chrome browser, allows
JavaScript to read private memory from the process
in which it runs (cf. Listing 2).<p>Scary stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ojiikun</author><text>Thanks for this. Would love an annotated version of this if anyone is up for it. My C is pretty good, but some high level &quot;what is being done here&quot; and &quot;this is what shouldn&#x27;t work&quot; comments would be cool to see.</text></comment> |
12,606,424 | 12,604,673 | 1 | 3 | 12,601,609 | train | <story><title>Building an $80k/month business with a software testing community</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/ministry-of-testing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>luckystrike</author><text>@rosiesherry - Congratulations for building up a good business along with what I assume a very hectic personal life (4 kids!). :-)<p>You&#x27;ve discontinued testing services, but I think there is a big market out there. We&#x27;ve been looking for a platform where we can list our website &amp; its high level use cases, and then 1 or more testers can test it out thoroughly. We&#x27;ve tried sites like MyCrowd in the past, but didn&#x27;t get a great result from them. Most testers just submitted cosmetic bugs and weren&#x27;t as detail oriented as we&#x27;d like.<p>I&#x27;m sure there would be other startups who have similar needs for getting their sites&#x2F;apps tested and can easily pay for such a service.<p>Are you (or anyone else here on HN) aware of any good testing services out there or a place where we can find good freelance testers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mycrowd</author><text>Co-founder of MyCrowd here. Sorry to hear you had a bad experience on our platform, but a lot has changed and improved in the 1.5 years since you ran a test.
During that time, we launched MyCrowd Studio which is a self-service platform for explorative bug hunts as well as test cases run by the crowd.<p>Quality testing has been our #1 priority and we have made huge steps forward providing on-demand testing for our 450+ startup and enterprise customers.<p>Would welcome the opportunity to impress you at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mycrowd.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mycrowd.com</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Building an $80k/month business with a software testing community</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/ministry-of-testing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>luckystrike</author><text>@rosiesherry - Congratulations for building up a good business along with what I assume a very hectic personal life (4 kids!). :-)<p>You&#x27;ve discontinued testing services, but I think there is a big market out there. We&#x27;ve been looking for a platform where we can list our website &amp; its high level use cases, and then 1 or more testers can test it out thoroughly. We&#x27;ve tried sites like MyCrowd in the past, but didn&#x27;t get a great result from them. Most testers just submitted cosmetic bugs and weren&#x27;t as detail oriented as we&#x27;d like.<p>I&#x27;m sure there would be other startups who have similar needs for getting their sites&#x2F;apps tested and can easily pay for such a service.<p>Are you (or anyone else here on HN) aware of any good testing services out there or a place where we can find good freelance testers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mandeepj</author><text>Have you tried rain forest&#x27;s testing services? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rainforestqa.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rainforestqa.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
25,420,821 | 25,420,787 | 1 | 2 | 25,405,832 | train | <story><title>Astronomers Find Cosmic 'Superhighways' for Fast Travel Through Solar System</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/solar-system-arches-of-chaos-create-cosmic-fast-travel-superhighways</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sxp</author><text>Note that &quot;fast&quot; is a relative term in this case. E.g, &quot;On average, these particles reached Uranus and Neptune 38 and 46 years later, respectively, with the fastest reaching Neptune in under a decade.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s more accurate to say that these are &quot;cheap&quot; paths rather than fast ones since the primary saving will be fuel. These paths will be too slow for humans to use and any dramatic improvement in human travel through the solar system will require a technological breakthrough like a high-powered torch drive [1] or laser-powered solar sails [2]. Otherwise, we&#x27;ll still be stuck with multi-year trips to anything beyond Luna [3]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectrho.com&#x2F;public_html&#x2F;rocket&#x2F;torchships.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectrho.com&#x2F;public_html&#x2F;rocket&#x2F;torchships.php</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=oDR4AHYRmlk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=oDR4AHYRmlk</a><p>[3] See the Impulse vs Brachistochrone table at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectrho.com&#x2F;public_html&#x2F;rocket&#x2F;appmissiontable.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectrho.com&#x2F;public_html&#x2F;rocket&#x2F;appmissiontable...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Astronomers Find Cosmic 'Superhighways' for Fast Travel Through Solar System</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/solar-system-arches-of-chaos-create-cosmic-fast-travel-superhighways</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hguant</author><text>I was under the impression that this was common knowledge among the astrophysicist set, going back, well, according to Wikipedia, to the 1890s when Poincare figured out you could do zero-energy orbit transfers[0].<p>I suppose the novelty here is that someone identified a subset of &#x27;fast&#x27; paths along the Interplanetary Transport Network.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Interplanetary_Transport_Network" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Interplanetary_Transport_Netwo...</a></text></comment> |
17,828,065 | 17,826,099 | 1 | 2 | 17,817,758 | train | <story><title>Mod and remainder are not the same</title><url>https://rob.conery.io/2018/08/21/mod-and-remainder-are-not-the-same/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmurray</author><text>In algebra, mod is not an operator. We say 17 mod 4 is 1, but what we write is something like<p>17 = 1 (mod 4)<p>To say that 17 and 1 have the same remainder when divided by 4. If you do all of your operations and comparisons mod 4, it doesn&#x27;t matter if we call the number 1 or -3.<p>In real life, we often need the remainder function, and we usually need it with positive numbers (how many eggs will I have left if I put these into boxes of 12). We sometimes call this the modulo function, which is a slight abuse of notation from the algebraic meaning of modulo. For positive numbers, it works completely intuitively. There are a couple of natural ways to extend this to negative numbers - an extension which would be meaningless or irrelevant in algebra - and computer language authors have (usually) called one rem and one mod.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nmyk</author><text>Strictly speaking, it&#x27;s not the case that<p>17 = 1 (mod 4)<p>but rather<p>17 ≅ 1 (mod 4)<p>i.e. &quot;17 is congruent to 1 mod 4&quot;, not &quot;equal&quot;, though congruency mod n is an equivalence relation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mod and remainder are not the same</title><url>https://rob.conery.io/2018/08/21/mod-and-remainder-are-not-the-same/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmurray</author><text>In algebra, mod is not an operator. We say 17 mod 4 is 1, but what we write is something like<p>17 = 1 (mod 4)<p>To say that 17 and 1 have the same remainder when divided by 4. If you do all of your operations and comparisons mod 4, it doesn&#x27;t matter if we call the number 1 or -3.<p>In real life, we often need the remainder function, and we usually need it with positive numbers (how many eggs will I have left if I put these into boxes of 12). We sometimes call this the modulo function, which is a slight abuse of notation from the algebraic meaning of modulo. For positive numbers, it works completely intuitively. There are a couple of natural ways to extend this to negative numbers - an extension which would be meaningless or irrelevant in algebra - and computer language authors have (usually) called one rem and one mod.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexlarsson</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that is quite true. Yes, for normal intergers 17 and 4, you can say the above. But mod can also be used as an operation on (and into) the equivalence classes of Z mod 4.</text></comment> |
37,837,869 | 37,837,227 | 1 | 2 | 37,836,603 | train | <story><title>Apple patents suggest future AirPods could monitor biosignals and brain activity</title><url>https://applemagazine.com/apple-patents-suggest-future-airpods-could-monitor-biosignals-and-brain-activity/59510</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Is this even remotely feasible though, technologically?<p>I briefly tried using the Muse headband, a cheap (~$200) brain EEG device that connects to your phone via Bluetooth, and it was pretty much a disaster. It had <i>five</i> metal contacts across the forehead, but could never keep all five correctly working, so it was constantly showing errors in the app about insufficient data.<p>Given that we still haven&#x27;t figured out how to even get regular consumer metal contact EEG sensors working reliably, I&#x27;m perplexed at how <i>earbuds</i> could ever pick up brain waves in an accurate fashion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pedalpete</author><text>I am also surprised how challenging it often is to use both the original muse, and the muse S.<p>We are making an EEG headband for increasing the efficiency of deep sleep, and though we are still improving on our data reliability, using the right materials and structure, it can be much more reliable than Muse.<p>Earphone EEG already exists, they don&#x27;t use &quot;metal contacts&quot;, and neither do we. There are conductive silicones, and conductive fabrics which better conform to the skin and provide good signal quality and comfort.<p>However, they still don&#x27;t work well with movement. This is the challenge I see with in-ear.<p>A neuroscientist I know just bought a pair of Emotiv MN8 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emotiv.com&#x2F;mn8-eeg-headset-with-contour-app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emotiv.com&#x2F;mn8-eeg-headset-with-contour-app&#x2F;</a>) earbuds, and said they wanted to try it while running. I have serious doubts that will work, as all EGG is susceptible to movement noise.<p>But in ear silicone conductive tips while meditating, I think that will be fine. LGs I think are out this year, Emotiv already are, there are a few others as well.<p>The other alternative is fNIRS, which is more similar to an ECG monitor in your smartwatch. It is measuring bloodflow through the brain, but there is a delay between bloodflow and brain activity, so it was a non-starter for us as we are responding to your brain activity in real-time, but I think for meditation or similar uses it would be fine, and maybe even preferred.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple patents suggest future AirPods could monitor biosignals and brain activity</title><url>https://applemagazine.com/apple-patents-suggest-future-airpods-could-monitor-biosignals-and-brain-activity/59510</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Is this even remotely feasible though, technologically?<p>I briefly tried using the Muse headband, a cheap (~$200) brain EEG device that connects to your phone via Bluetooth, and it was pretty much a disaster. It had <i>five</i> metal contacts across the forehead, but could never keep all five correctly working, so it was constantly showing errors in the app about insufficient data.<p>Given that we still haven&#x27;t figured out how to even get regular consumer metal contact EEG sensors working reliably, I&#x27;m perplexed at how <i>earbuds</i> could ever pick up brain waves in an accurate fashion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swatcoder</author><text>For slowly trending electrical signals like you’d use for meditation training or sleep detection, and for other biosignals like in-ear temperature, yeah, it’s mostly just a matter of making things fit and have power without compromising the core features of the product.<p>Muse is way more ambitious in what they’re trying to do and also have way less control over manufacturing detail and efficiency. It’s a totally different thing.</text></comment> |
11,029,626 | 11,029,440 | 1 | 2 | 11,027,539 | train | <story><title>Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/technology/dropbox-may-not-be-lebron-james-but-it-is-still-in-the-game.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>malchow</author><text>What if -- hold your breath! -- Dropbox is simply a medium-sized, privately held, profit-generating company that will end up satisfying a certain customer segment and paying dividends to investors? The horror!</text></item><item><author>zer0defex</author><text>Nail on the head right here. The only thing Dropbox has these days is consumer confidence in it&#x27;s syncing process. Beyond that, they trail every competitor feature-wise and frankly, they are succeeding despite their management, not because of it. Recent product enhancements have been, let&#x27;s be honest, mediocre at best across the board and show no signs of that changing anytime soon. They exist now solely due to brand recognition when it comes to cloud file sync&#x27;ing and the moment one of their competitors cracks the consumer confidence equation with the brand image to match, Dropbox is done.</text></item><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>&gt; Dropbox is not laying off workers or shrinking; it hired nearly 500 people last year, 75 since the start of this year, and it plans to soon move into a sprawling, custom-designed office building for which it has signed a long-term lease.<p>Honest question: WTF are they doing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>subdane</author><text>Their investors will revolt. Their investors need 10X returns in the next couple years to satisfy their fund&#x27;s existence to their LPs. Funds need a few big wins like Hollywood studios need a couple blockbusters every year. Dropbox&#x27;s investors are counting on them being a blockbuster. Dropbox&#x27;s private valuation is an order of magnitude higher than Box&#x27;s public valuation. And Box has a bigger sales team, more revenue, and more inroads into big enterprise than Dropbox. So it&#x27;s a real pickle and dividends aren&#x27;t going to get them out of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/technology/dropbox-may-not-be-lebron-james-but-it-is-still-in-the-game.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>malchow</author><text>What if -- hold your breath! -- Dropbox is simply a medium-sized, privately held, profit-generating company that will end up satisfying a certain customer segment and paying dividends to investors? The horror!</text></item><item><author>zer0defex</author><text>Nail on the head right here. The only thing Dropbox has these days is consumer confidence in it&#x27;s syncing process. Beyond that, they trail every competitor feature-wise and frankly, they are succeeding despite their management, not because of it. Recent product enhancements have been, let&#x27;s be honest, mediocre at best across the board and show no signs of that changing anytime soon. They exist now solely due to brand recognition when it comes to cloud file sync&#x27;ing and the moment one of their competitors cracks the consumer confidence equation with the brand image to match, Dropbox is done.</text></item><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>&gt; Dropbox is not laying off workers or shrinking; it hired nearly 500 people last year, 75 since the start of this year, and it plans to soon move into a sprawling, custom-designed office building for which it has signed a long-term lease.<p>Honest question: WTF are they doing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tholmes</author><text>Companies like that don&#x27;t usually hire 600 people in 12 months, though.<p>Buuut I guess they could. I guess it just kind of looks like the explosive hiring you see sometimes when a company has projected huge growth but then falls flat and realizes it has way too many employees :(</text></comment> |
33,828,300 | 33,828,236 | 1 | 3 | 33,827,075 | train | <story><title>Migrating from Vue 2 to Svelte</title><url>https://escape.tech/blog/from-vue2-to-svelte/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomsearch</author><text>In what way is being on Vue 2 painful? Using it in production, zero problems, everyone understands it, does everything we need.<p>Plan to migrate to Vue 3 for the nice to haves and to keep up to date, but Vue 2 is not painful at all.<p>Considered React but I think Vue will be more productive for the team as a whole in the long term. Vue is more intuitive, better designed, and structured. But totally understand React has a larger ecosystem - we’ll just be building more stuff in house so understanding our own code will be more important than having a larger choice of dependencies.<p>Did take a look at Svelte, agree with you.</text></item><item><author>for1nner</author><text>The very first paragraph leads me to believe this is just a rewrite into svelte for the sake of it - I get it, Svelte is the new hotness on the FE-js-block, but this entire post stinks of &quot;someone on the dev team advocated and fluffed enough figures to convince us. So now we&#x27;re going to tell you why it was the right choice!&quot; I say all this pretty confidently as someone currently maintaining a massive legacy vue2 app which we are currently rewriting into... *checks notes* React. Because we thoroughly vetted and PoC&#x27;d how we&#x27;d do it in Svelte and in Vue 3. The former is utterly untenable for an actual product-serving business - it is a pre-release, actively-developing product. Vue 3 is great, I highly recommend reacty-folks or frontend devs try it. We wanted the larger ecosystem (and boo to us for not being brave enough to support the growing vuecosystem).<p>The framework is so new, trying to justify your decision based on State of JS surveys over the last three years is asinine at best - svelte&#x27;s own UI framework[1] is not even at 1.0 (has only recently been renamed to sveltekit).<p>Furthermore, there&#x27;s a literal migration guide[2] to bring your app from vue 2 to 3. It&#x27;s not easy. It&#x27;s not painless. But being on vue 2 is equally painful. I&#x27;m also not sure what documentation or development this person is referring to because &quot;restricted global access&quot; is just patently false for both vue 2 and 3 - I don&#x27;t even know what to cite here because it boggles my mind so thoroughly that I can&#x27;t even conceive where you would come up with that &quot;fact.&quot; Is this someone who&#x27;s never opened their root app file? The place where one can pipe anything from decorators (and yes, enums???) to entire packages <i>globally</i>?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kit.svelte.dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kit.svelte.dev</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v3-migration.vuejs.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v3-migration.vuejs.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Oddskar</author><text>As someone working in a large Vue 2 app:<p>- Very poor typescript support.<p>- Poor performance (compared to Vue 3).<p>- Ecosystem has already started lagging behind (e.g. Vue Testing Library for v2 has out of date dependencies, and no one is actively maintaining it)<p>- Nuxt 2 hasn&#x27;t made any releases in ages.</text></comment> | <story><title>Migrating from Vue 2 to Svelte</title><url>https://escape.tech/blog/from-vue2-to-svelte/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomsearch</author><text>In what way is being on Vue 2 painful? Using it in production, zero problems, everyone understands it, does everything we need.<p>Plan to migrate to Vue 3 for the nice to haves and to keep up to date, but Vue 2 is not painful at all.<p>Considered React but I think Vue will be more productive for the team as a whole in the long term. Vue is more intuitive, better designed, and structured. But totally understand React has a larger ecosystem - we’ll just be building more stuff in house so understanding our own code will be more important than having a larger choice of dependencies.<p>Did take a look at Svelte, agree with you.</text></item><item><author>for1nner</author><text>The very first paragraph leads me to believe this is just a rewrite into svelte for the sake of it - I get it, Svelte is the new hotness on the FE-js-block, but this entire post stinks of &quot;someone on the dev team advocated and fluffed enough figures to convince us. So now we&#x27;re going to tell you why it was the right choice!&quot; I say all this pretty confidently as someone currently maintaining a massive legacy vue2 app which we are currently rewriting into... *checks notes* React. Because we thoroughly vetted and PoC&#x27;d how we&#x27;d do it in Svelte and in Vue 3. The former is utterly untenable for an actual product-serving business - it is a pre-release, actively-developing product. Vue 3 is great, I highly recommend reacty-folks or frontend devs try it. We wanted the larger ecosystem (and boo to us for not being brave enough to support the growing vuecosystem).<p>The framework is so new, trying to justify your decision based on State of JS surveys over the last three years is asinine at best - svelte&#x27;s own UI framework[1] is not even at 1.0 (has only recently been renamed to sveltekit).<p>Furthermore, there&#x27;s a literal migration guide[2] to bring your app from vue 2 to 3. It&#x27;s not easy. It&#x27;s not painless. But being on vue 2 is equally painful. I&#x27;m also not sure what documentation or development this person is referring to because &quot;restricted global access&quot; is just patently false for both vue 2 and 3 - I don&#x27;t even know what to cite here because it boggles my mind so thoroughly that I can&#x27;t even conceive where you would come up with that &quot;fact.&quot; Is this someone who&#x27;s never opened their root app file? The place where one can pipe anything from decorators (and yes, enums???) to entire packages <i>globally</i>?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kit.svelte.dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kit.svelte.dev</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v3-migration.vuejs.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v3-migration.vuejs.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakewins</author><text>Isn&#x27;t the reasoning to migrate literally the first sentence in the blog post?<p>&gt; After using Vue 2 as our front-end framework for almost two years, it was announced that this support would no longer be maintained,<p>Eg. some teams don&#x27;t want their development to happen on a framework with no support from the devs that wrote it.</text></comment> |
19,210,674 | 19,210,135 | 1 | 2 | 19,209,262 | train | <story><title>Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland and Italy Oppose EU Copyright Directive</title><url>https://www.permanentrepresentations.nl/permanent-representations/pr-eu-brussels/documents/policy-notes/2019/02/20/joint-statement-regarding-the-copyright-directive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>The pedestal contemporary people put national identity on is just that, contemporary. National identities didn&#x27;t arise naturally. Many of them were very thoughtfully and intentionally invented. For most of human history, the idea that people over a geography the size of Engalnd would see themselves as one people would&#x27;ve been ridiculous.<p>It&#x27;s really only in the last 200-400 years that people have accepted the nation as their identifying place. Previously people&#x27;s place identity came the much smaller geography of their county, kingdom, principality or hamlet. Joining these smaller identities into larger national identities was a big win that came with many benefits. Of course it meant that these places had to give up some autonomy. Just as there are many benefits of nations giving up some autonomy to act collectively in a regional power structure.<p>It&#x27;s only our contemporary bias that tells us that the subordination of the political will of the hamlet to the nation is good and that the subordination of the national will to a continental or regional will is bad.</text></item><item><author>citilife</author><text>The issue I see with the EU, is that it&#x27;s essentially centralizing all the &quot;countries&quot; into &quot;states&quot;. Where by, each of the states will simply answer to the two countries with the most power. Namely Germany, followed by France.<p>Personally, I think it&#x27;s sad. It&#x27;s as if we&#x27;re watching the destruction of all the national identities. Only to be centralized by powers who are only interested in their own national identity.<p>This is similar to the struggle the U.S. faced at the start. You cannot have a centralized government making laws without invasively deciding everything. A federation of the EU made sense. Shared currency, shared military, etc. But by trying to manage the economy (which copyright is an extension of), they are essentially going down the path of ever increasing centralization.<p>With that, countries like the U.K., who have a strong national identity, can and should leave - if they want to be an independent nation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aikah</author><text>&gt; The pedestal contemporary people put national identity on is just that, contemporary.<p>As opposed to the pedestal people put supra national institutions such as the EU? Rome? Napoleon&#x27;s Empire? all failed eventually.<p>&gt; National identities didn&#x27;t arise naturally.<p>Neither did the European Union. All societies are man made constructs, what your point?<p>&gt; It&#x27;s only our contemporary bias that tells us that the subordination of the political will of the hamlet to the nation is good and that the subordination of the national will to a continental or regional will is bad.<p>Well, the EU is more power concentrated in the hands of fewer people. By nature it will always be less democratic than governance at a smaller scale. And these structures tend to seek even more power as time goes, not less.<p>What is better? more tyranny,bureaucracy or more democracy?<p>Ignoring local cultures and socio-economics specificities by trying to impose arbitrary rules to an entire continent? In that case there will always be winners and losers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland and Italy Oppose EU Copyright Directive</title><url>https://www.permanentrepresentations.nl/permanent-representations/pr-eu-brussels/documents/policy-notes/2019/02/20/joint-statement-regarding-the-copyright-directive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>The pedestal contemporary people put national identity on is just that, contemporary. National identities didn&#x27;t arise naturally. Many of them were very thoughtfully and intentionally invented. For most of human history, the idea that people over a geography the size of Engalnd would see themselves as one people would&#x27;ve been ridiculous.<p>It&#x27;s really only in the last 200-400 years that people have accepted the nation as their identifying place. Previously people&#x27;s place identity came the much smaller geography of their county, kingdom, principality or hamlet. Joining these smaller identities into larger national identities was a big win that came with many benefits. Of course it meant that these places had to give up some autonomy. Just as there are many benefits of nations giving up some autonomy to act collectively in a regional power structure.<p>It&#x27;s only our contemporary bias that tells us that the subordination of the political will of the hamlet to the nation is good and that the subordination of the national will to a continental or regional will is bad.</text></item><item><author>citilife</author><text>The issue I see with the EU, is that it&#x27;s essentially centralizing all the &quot;countries&quot; into &quot;states&quot;. Where by, each of the states will simply answer to the two countries with the most power. Namely Germany, followed by France.<p>Personally, I think it&#x27;s sad. It&#x27;s as if we&#x27;re watching the destruction of all the national identities. Only to be centralized by powers who are only interested in their own national identity.<p>This is similar to the struggle the U.S. faced at the start. You cannot have a centralized government making laws without invasively deciding everything. A federation of the EU made sense. Shared currency, shared military, etc. But by trying to manage the economy (which copyright is an extension of), they are essentially going down the path of ever increasing centralization.<p>With that, countries like the U.K., who have a strong national identity, can and should leave - if they want to be an independent nation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carom</author><text>Comments like this remind me how much I like California. It&#x27;s nice to be in a place that doesn&#x27;t conflate regional identity with race or religion. It was a surprise to me when living on the east coast how often people asked about my heritage.<p>My people are whoever comes down to Old Muscle Beach to work out, whoever is at the skate park. I&#x27;m super happy that those crowds are varied.</text></comment> |
32,248,446 | 32,246,968 | 1 | 2 | 32,245,146 | train | <story><title>Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/07/25/sunset-social-network-facebook-tiktok</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caseyross</author><text>It really is weird, isn&#x27;t it? To have what was essentially a solved problem 10 years ago become... what you described.<p>On Facebook&#x2F;Instagram&#x2F;Twitter&#x2F;LinkedIn, I still have tons of people I&#x27;d be interesting in passively keeping up with. Maybe even actively, sometimes. But all that latent sociality is increasingly just dead out of the gate, seeing as I no longer use any of those platforms regularly.<p>My closest friends, the ones I will actually put in effort to talk to? Group chat. The polar opposite of the public social media ecosystem that we used to have. A closed, private space that admits no outsiders, marketers, or clout chasers, but strongly discourages developing relationships with new people or expanding one&#x27;s horizons.</text></item><item><author>xwdv</author><text>It’s crazy to think the social media era may finally be ending. There’s really no viable platform anymore where you can just go passively keep up with what friends and acquaintances are doing. Everything is about feeding you content you didn’t ask for but may be targeted enough to catch your attention.<p>And for what? To show you some ads here and there? To collect data that can be used to… sell more ads and products?<p>Instagram was once my favorite app. There was a golden age before stories came a long where people just posted random pictures of what they were up to or what they were seeing. Things weren’t too memefied or political, unlike Facebook. Then photos got more and more glamorized and more about flexing and showing how much cooler and more awesome your life was. People started following themes and niches for their profile content rather than just posting random unorganized series of photos. Businesses and brands started getting built on the platform.<p>Building an Instagram clone the way it used to be is fairly trivial these days. I could probably throw one together in a few months, but growing its popularity is practically impossible these days with such entrenched incumbents and no niches left to start a user base with.<p>…unless perhaps… we build a social network on the blockchain</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Thorentis</author><text>&gt; A closed, private space that admits no outsiders, marketers, or clout chasers, but strongly discourages developing relationships with new people or expanding one&#x27;s horizons.<p>Sounds wonderful. This is how the vast majority of humans have experienced socialising for the vast majority of human history. And they were happier for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/07/25/sunset-social-network-facebook-tiktok</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caseyross</author><text>It really is weird, isn&#x27;t it? To have what was essentially a solved problem 10 years ago become... what you described.<p>On Facebook&#x2F;Instagram&#x2F;Twitter&#x2F;LinkedIn, I still have tons of people I&#x27;d be interesting in passively keeping up with. Maybe even actively, sometimes. But all that latent sociality is increasingly just dead out of the gate, seeing as I no longer use any of those platforms regularly.<p>My closest friends, the ones I will actually put in effort to talk to? Group chat. The polar opposite of the public social media ecosystem that we used to have. A closed, private space that admits no outsiders, marketers, or clout chasers, but strongly discourages developing relationships with new people or expanding one&#x27;s horizons.</text></item><item><author>xwdv</author><text>It’s crazy to think the social media era may finally be ending. There’s really no viable platform anymore where you can just go passively keep up with what friends and acquaintances are doing. Everything is about feeding you content you didn’t ask for but may be targeted enough to catch your attention.<p>And for what? To show you some ads here and there? To collect data that can be used to… sell more ads and products?<p>Instagram was once my favorite app. There was a golden age before stories came a long where people just posted random pictures of what they were up to or what they were seeing. Things weren’t too memefied or political, unlike Facebook. Then photos got more and more glamorized and more about flexing and showing how much cooler and more awesome your life was. People started following themes and niches for their profile content rather than just posting random unorganized series of photos. Businesses and brands started getting built on the platform.<p>Building an Instagram clone the way it used to be is fairly trivial these days. I could probably throw one together in a few months, but growing its popularity is practically impossible these days with such entrenched incumbents and no niches left to start a user base with.<p>…unless perhaps… we build a social network on the blockchain</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>poglet</author><text>I agree. I setup a Discord server for a few friends and it turned out to be infinitely better then current social media platforms when it came to keeping up with what everyone was up to.</text></comment> |
6,952,944 | 6,952,155 | 1 | 3 | 6,951,272 | train | <story><title>Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/20/anti-ageing-human-trials?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gaius</author><text>It&#x27;s funny, I have a friend who is a full-time professional philosopher (teaches at a university) and <i>you would not believe</i> the amount of earnest essay writing there was in the philosophy community about Miley Cyrus&#x27;s performance at the VMAs (something I&#x27;ve not actually seen myself). All sorts of theories about Freud and Hegel and this and that. Look Philos, I said to him, she got up on stage and did a little dance and that&#x27;s really all there was to it.<p>The moral of this story is, serious philosophical issues have absolutely no bearing on real life. So full steam ahead says I! The longer we can prolong life, the greater leverage we can extract from experience, imagine being immersed in a subject for hundreds of years, what could you not do in a minute what would take someone with even decades of experience, years?</text></item><item><author>vilhelm_s</author><text>“Personally, I’ve been hearing all my life about the Serious Philosophical Issues posed by life extension, and my attitude has always been that I’m willing to grapple with those issues for as many centuries as it takes.”
-Patrick Hayden</text></item><item><author>pvnick</author><text><p><pre><code> Researchers injected a chemical called nicotinamide adenine
dinucleotide, or NAD, which reduces in the body as we age.
The addition of this compound led to the radical reversal
in the ageing of the mice.
</code></pre>
While this is pretty cool, it seems that the most immediate effect would be a higher availability of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), meaning more energy &quot;currency&quot; for the body&#x27;s machinery to work with [1] [2] (someone please comment if my understanding is incomplete). Used as a general lifestyle drug †, grandma isn&#x27;t suddenly going to look like a sorority girl, but she may feel like one - a scary thought indeed!<p>Anti-aging technologies are going to introduce many philosophical questions; although, that doesn&#x27;t quite seem to be the case in this specific instance since this compound will probably just improve the quality of the last couple decades of a person&#x27;s life rather than drastically extend it. What&#x27;s the difference between curing disease&#x2F;prolonging natural life vs unnatural &quot;anti-aging&quot; technologies? At what point do we start grappling with the issues of immortality? Personally, I believe that the mentally-deteriorating effects of everyday life, including what one may call &quot;sin,&quot; will be too much for the modern human to retain his&#x2F;her sanity after a certain point. I for one would rather face death.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?C00003" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.genome.jp&#x2F;dbget-bin&#x2F;www_bget?C00003</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.genome.jp/kegg-bin/show_pathway?map00190+C00003" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.genome.jp&#x2F;kegg-bin&#x2F;show_pathway?map00190+C00003</a><p>† I say &quot;lifestyle drug&quot; here to denote elective treatment, although the effects of natural aging and death dying probably do not fit in the technical definition, which is to treat &quot;non-life threatening and non-painful conditions such as baldness, impotence, wrinkles, erectile dysfunction, or acne&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>Look Philos, I said to him, she got up on stage and did a little dance and that&#x27;s really all there was to it.
The moral of this story is, serious philosophical issues have absolutely no bearing on real life.</i><p>You&#x27;d be surprised. A lot of pulp philosophy is indeed crap.<p>But most peoples lives, and the systems we structure our everyday and working lives on, are analysed, to a T, from various angles, and found lacking and wanting.<p>And when you find you are being crashed by those systems (as people eventually do), or that they don&#x27;t work properly, there&#x27;s a philosophical explanation of their workings written 100 or 2000 years ago that&#x27;s perfectly logical.<p>To put it in another way, reading into (good) philosophy, is like reading the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers among Java people struggling with Java EE in early 2000, and understanding things from 10 levels higher and also that there are far better ways to go about it.<p>Oh, and no, good philosophy is not just about technicalities of reality and understanding, like Hume or Kant or Quine etc -- the only kind some geeks will accept. Regular moral, political, ontological, existencial etc philosophy, with seemingly &quot;imprecise&quot; language, is just as isnightful in other ways, if you spend the time to understand it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/20/anti-ageing-human-trials?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gaius</author><text>It&#x27;s funny, I have a friend who is a full-time professional philosopher (teaches at a university) and <i>you would not believe</i> the amount of earnest essay writing there was in the philosophy community about Miley Cyrus&#x27;s performance at the VMAs (something I&#x27;ve not actually seen myself). All sorts of theories about Freud and Hegel and this and that. Look Philos, I said to him, she got up on stage and did a little dance and that&#x27;s really all there was to it.<p>The moral of this story is, serious philosophical issues have absolutely no bearing on real life. So full steam ahead says I! The longer we can prolong life, the greater leverage we can extract from experience, imagine being immersed in a subject for hundreds of years, what could you not do in a minute what would take someone with even decades of experience, years?</text></item><item><author>vilhelm_s</author><text>“Personally, I’ve been hearing all my life about the Serious Philosophical Issues posed by life extension, and my attitude has always been that I’m willing to grapple with those issues for as many centuries as it takes.”
-Patrick Hayden</text></item><item><author>pvnick</author><text><p><pre><code> Researchers injected a chemical called nicotinamide adenine
dinucleotide, or NAD, which reduces in the body as we age.
The addition of this compound led to the radical reversal
in the ageing of the mice.
</code></pre>
While this is pretty cool, it seems that the most immediate effect would be a higher availability of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), meaning more energy &quot;currency&quot; for the body&#x27;s machinery to work with [1] [2] (someone please comment if my understanding is incomplete). Used as a general lifestyle drug †, grandma isn&#x27;t suddenly going to look like a sorority girl, but she may feel like one - a scary thought indeed!<p>Anti-aging technologies are going to introduce many philosophical questions; although, that doesn&#x27;t quite seem to be the case in this specific instance since this compound will probably just improve the quality of the last couple decades of a person&#x27;s life rather than drastically extend it. What&#x27;s the difference between curing disease&#x2F;prolonging natural life vs unnatural &quot;anti-aging&quot; technologies? At what point do we start grappling with the issues of immortality? Personally, I believe that the mentally-deteriorating effects of everyday life, including what one may call &quot;sin,&quot; will be too much for the modern human to retain his&#x2F;her sanity after a certain point. I for one would rather face death.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?C00003" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.genome.jp&#x2F;dbget-bin&#x2F;www_bget?C00003</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.genome.jp/kegg-bin/show_pathway?map00190+C00003" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.genome.jp&#x2F;kegg-bin&#x2F;show_pathway?map00190+C00003</a><p>† I say &quot;lifestyle drug&quot; here to denote elective treatment, although the effects of natural aging and death dying probably do not fit in the technical definition, which is to treat &quot;non-life threatening and non-painful conditions such as baldness, impotence, wrinkles, erectile dysfunction, or acne&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tesseractive</author><text>More accurately, professional philosophers don&#x27;t have any particular standing to discuss &quot;serious philosophical issues.&quot; At any point in the discussion on whether people have a right to die, or whether it was ok to use tissue from aborted fetuses for stem cell research or whether we need universal health care, has anyone ever asked, &quot;Well, what do the philosophers think?&quot;<p>(I have nothing against philosophers, btw. I have a degree in philosophy.)</text></comment> |
2,549,615 | 2,549,472 | 1 | 3 | 2,549,240 | train | <story><title>Rails 3 Performance - Not Good Enough</title><url>http://blog.tstmedia.com/news_article/show/86942?referrer_id=308069</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>I think the real problem with Rails and similar frameworks is the culture of not giving a shit about performance. I would never ever release a new version of anything that is significantly slower than the previous one. It's simply a bug in my view.<p>But there are people who have convinced themselves that as long as it scales out, it doesn't matter how many servers you have to run. And if the reason is that something that's known statically is checked billions of times at runtime they don't care.<p>For a framework, the concept of premature optimization makes no sense.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rails 3 Performance - Not Good Enough</title><url>http://blog.tstmedia.com/news_article/show/86942?referrer_id=308069</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danielparks</author><text>The benchmark was done using REE. Out of curiousity, I tried it with MRI 1.8.7, MRI 1.9.2, and REE 1.8.7. Results are best out of three:<p><pre><code> user system total real
rails3-1.9.2 2.240000 0.200000 2.440000 ( 3.127072)
rails2-ree 2.530000 0.290000 2.820000 ( 3.578471)
rails2-1.8.7 2.920000 0.210000 3.130000 ( 3.876215)
rails3-ree 3.140000 0.250000 3.390000 ( 4.111465)
rails3-1.8.7 3.560000 0.220000 3.780000 ( 4.505166)
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Of course, the author was looking into a specific problem — this doesn't mean that Rails 3 on MRI 1.9.2 is faster than Rails 3 on REE.<p>Run on an iMac9,1 with a 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo. uname -a:<p>Darwin Roy.local 10.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.7.0: Sat Jan 29 15:17:16 PST 2011; root:xnu-1504.9.37~1/RELEASE_I386 i386<p>I disabled spotlight, but who knows what other processes might have spawned in the middle of the benchmark. Your mileage may vary.</text></comment> |
26,462,809 | 26,462,629 | 1 | 3 | 26,460,238 | train | <story><title>Why we’re removing comments on most of Inquirer.com</title><url>https://www.inquirer.com/about/philadelphia-inquirer-comments-section-changes-20210201.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>I&#x27;d be curious to compare early rationales arguing news sites <i>should</i> run comments sections wth the reality that&#x27;s transpired.<p>There <i>are</i> numerous articles from the past decade arguing <i>against</i>. (These turned up searching fror the &quot;pro&quot; argument.)<p>Why comments sections must die (2018)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salon.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;17&#x2F;why-comments-sections-must-die&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salon.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;17&#x2F;why-comments-sections-must-...</a><p>Is it really wise for news websites to stop people from commenting? (2015)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;greenslade&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;is-it-really-a-good-idea-to-turn-for-news-websites-to-turn-off-comments" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;greenslade&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;is-...</a><p>Comment sections are poison: handle with care or remove them (2014) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;brain-flapping&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;12&#x2F;comment-sections-toxic-moderation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;brain-flapping&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;...</a><p>No Comment! Why More News Sites Are Dumping Their Comment Sections (2018) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kqed.org&#x2F;lowdown&#x2F;29720&#x2F;no-comment-why-a-growing-number-of-news-sites-are-dumping-their-comment-sections" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kqed.org&#x2F;lowdown&#x2F;29720&#x2F;no-comment-why-a-growing-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Well, I was a big evangelist for the idea back int he 1990s, as well as for anonymous posting. With hindsight, this was a big mistake, predicated on an overly rosy view of democracy-as-civic-participation. I thought that people who really wanted to comment (such as myself) were doing so in good faith and wanted ideas to succeed or fail on their merits.<p>On the one hand, I formed these overly rosy views prior to Eternal September, but on the other it should have occurred to me that the reason trash tabloids sold in large quantities was not that people were tricked into buying them but because a lot of people are in fact awful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why we’re removing comments on most of Inquirer.com</title><url>https://www.inquirer.com/about/philadelphia-inquirer-comments-section-changes-20210201.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>I&#x27;d be curious to compare early rationales arguing news sites <i>should</i> run comments sections wth the reality that&#x27;s transpired.<p>There <i>are</i> numerous articles from the past decade arguing <i>against</i>. (These turned up searching fror the &quot;pro&quot; argument.)<p>Why comments sections must die (2018)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salon.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;17&#x2F;why-comments-sections-must-die&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salon.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;17&#x2F;why-comments-sections-must-...</a><p>Is it really wise for news websites to stop people from commenting? (2015)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;greenslade&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;is-it-really-a-good-idea-to-turn-for-news-websites-to-turn-off-comments" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;greenslade&#x2F;2015&#x2F;sep&#x2F;25&#x2F;is-...</a><p>Comment sections are poison: handle with care or remove them (2014) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;brain-flapping&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;12&#x2F;comment-sections-toxic-moderation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;brain-flapping&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;...</a><p>No Comment! Why More News Sites Are Dumping Their Comment Sections (2018) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kqed.org&#x2F;lowdown&#x2F;29720&#x2F;no-comment-why-a-growing-number-of-news-sites-are-dumping-their-comment-sections" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kqed.org&#x2F;lowdown&#x2F;29720&#x2F;no-comment-why-a-growing-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wyattpeak</author><text>From memory, published arguments have only been against right from the start, because it was so popular that the pro side needed no support.<p>Comments and social sections were the big in-thing in the latter part of the noughties, if you were trying to make your site modern and hip, it was assumed you&#x27;d have comments and share links on everything. I recall a degree of belief that social media was the future and if you didn&#x27;t integrate with it you&#x27;d get left behind, but I think as much it was just a design fad.</text></comment> |
33,631,633 | 33,629,508 | 1 | 3 | 33,620,692 | train | <story><title>Python 3.12.0 is to remove long-deprecated items</title><url>https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-12-0-alpha-2-released/21087</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicoco</author><text>For a different perspective, I started using python about 5 years ago, and I <i>never</i> experienced a single breakage due to a new python release. Instead, I&#x27;m always excited to read new version releases notes and it&#x27;s the only thing that <i>may</i> make me move away from debian stable someday. But waiting a few months, using containers, or compiling a newer python is usually fine when I can&#x27;t wait.<p>Removing deprecated stuff is… the point of deprecating stuff?</text></item><item><author>wakeupcall</author><text>I&#x27;m normally joyful when a modern language (say, julia) decides to break backward compatibility to improve the language on a fundamental level. This is mostly because I&#x27;m not too vested in it.<p>For languages where I have 10+ years of work behind, it&#x27;s the exact opposite, and where I see the c&#x2F;c++ model of not breaking backward compatibility a much saner choice.<p>Python in particular is an extremely bittersweet pill to swallow. The amount of small and large breakage I had ever since I started to use it for production work (v2.6 and onward) has been relentless. Small and large breakages requiring constant retooling and reworking. Minor release? Yeah, still breaks just as much as a major one. pyenv doesn&#x27;t help when you dependencies need to be updated, and the updates do not support the lower versions you wanted to use anyway. Containerizing everything is a not a solution for a project is expected to be supported for years so the real way forward is to fix it, again, and again, and again. My experience is that every 6 months there _will_ be work just to fix bitrotting. A one year old python project will hardly even run unless it&#x27;s using the stdlib only.<p>By comparison, I never experienced such churn with perl.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cogman10</author><text>&gt; Removing deprecated stuff is… the point of deprecating stuff?<p>The point of deprecating stuff is to redirect to newer&#x2F;better&#x2F;saner APIs, not necessarily removing the thing.<p>This is where I like Java&#x27;s approach. Stuff is deprecated in the JDK but fairly rarely is it removed. When it is, it&#x27;s because the feature is either unused or so detrimental to the ecosystem as to warrant removal (see: finalizers).</text></comment> | <story><title>Python 3.12.0 is to remove long-deprecated items</title><url>https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-12-0-alpha-2-released/21087</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicoco</author><text>For a different perspective, I started using python about 5 years ago, and I <i>never</i> experienced a single breakage due to a new python release. Instead, I&#x27;m always excited to read new version releases notes and it&#x27;s the only thing that <i>may</i> make me move away from debian stable someday. But waiting a few months, using containers, or compiling a newer python is usually fine when I can&#x27;t wait.<p>Removing deprecated stuff is… the point of deprecating stuff?</text></item><item><author>wakeupcall</author><text>I&#x27;m normally joyful when a modern language (say, julia) decides to break backward compatibility to improve the language on a fundamental level. This is mostly because I&#x27;m not too vested in it.<p>For languages where I have 10+ years of work behind, it&#x27;s the exact opposite, and where I see the c&#x2F;c++ model of not breaking backward compatibility a much saner choice.<p>Python in particular is an extremely bittersweet pill to swallow. The amount of small and large breakage I had ever since I started to use it for production work (v2.6 and onward) has been relentless. Small and large breakages requiring constant retooling and reworking. Minor release? Yeah, still breaks just as much as a major one. pyenv doesn&#x27;t help when you dependencies need to be updated, and the updates do not support the lower versions you wanted to use anyway. Containerizing everything is a not a solution for a project is expected to be supported for years so the real way forward is to fix it, again, and again, and again. My experience is that every 6 months there _will_ be work just to fix bitrotting. A one year old python project will hardly even run unless it&#x27;s using the stdlib only.<p>By comparison, I never experienced such churn with perl.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leadingthenet</author><text>You should also look into pyenv if you&#x27;d like to install newer versions sooner, outside a container.</text></comment> |
27,279,184 | 27,278,964 | 1 | 3 | 27,275,906 | train | <story><title>Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR</title><url>https://www.alias.dev/report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>somethingAlex</author><text>What are consumers intuitively expecting compliance with this law to look like?<p>Data from one service may be in an entirely different schema than the service you want to import it too - let alone format. Service A may summarize your data and throw away the granular stuff, but service B runs on the granular data.<p>Are consumers going to implement ETL pipelines to achieve portability? Are they expecting to hook up streaming mechanisms for enormous swathes of data?<p>Just as an example, if I wanted to get a list of every song I liked on Spotify and import it into Apple Music, how would that even work? The songId of Spotify is undoubtedly different than the one Apple uses. Are Apple and Spotify supposed to agree on a common file format?<p>I agree with the intent of the law but I&#x27;m not surprised most services do not offer an automated way to take out data. It&#x27;s a rare case, often a heavy workload, and there&#x27;s really no way to guarantee the data you receive is actually portable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>izacus</author><text>&gt; Just as an example, if I wanted to get a list of every song I liked on Spotify and import it into Apple Music, how would that even work? The songId of Spotify is undoubtedly different than the one Apple uses. Are Apple and Spotify supposed to agree on a common file format?<p>Why wouldn&#x27;t it work? Desktop apps had m3u playlist formats which could be read by multiple players - from Winamp on desktop, iTunes on a Mac or even car headunits. It&#x27;s now kinda wierd to say that rockstar engineers of Apple&#x2F;Spotify can&#x27;t find a way to export playlists and liked songs (a global singletons essentially) they got from the SAME publishers and probably ingest from the SAME content owner data sources.</text></comment> | <story><title>Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR</title><url>https://www.alias.dev/report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>somethingAlex</author><text>What are consumers intuitively expecting compliance with this law to look like?<p>Data from one service may be in an entirely different schema than the service you want to import it too - let alone format. Service A may summarize your data and throw away the granular stuff, but service B runs on the granular data.<p>Are consumers going to implement ETL pipelines to achieve portability? Are they expecting to hook up streaming mechanisms for enormous swathes of data?<p>Just as an example, if I wanted to get a list of every song I liked on Spotify and import it into Apple Music, how would that even work? The songId of Spotify is undoubtedly different than the one Apple uses. Are Apple and Spotify supposed to agree on a common file format?<p>I agree with the intent of the law but I&#x27;m not surprised most services do not offer an automated way to take out data. It&#x27;s a rare case, often a heavy workload, and there&#x27;s really no way to guarantee the data you receive is actually portable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Guillaume86</author><text>&gt; Just as an example, if I wanted to get a list of every song I liked on Spotify and import it into Apple Music, how would that even work? The songId of Spotify is undoubtedly different than the one Apple uses. Are Apple and Spotify supposed to agree on a common file format?<p>I understand your point but FYI music is a poor example as there is solutions to port metadata in that case. MusicBrainz aims to standardize music metadata and it is pretty commonly used. An example I know is the lastfm service, their APIs accept an optional mbid: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.last.fm&#x2F;api&#x2F;show&#x2F;track.updateNowPlaying" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.last.fm&#x2F;api&#x2F;show&#x2F;track.updateNowPlaying</a>.</text></comment> |
19,776,736 | 19,775,975 | 1 | 3 | 19,774,408 | train | <story><title>Custard Antenna</title><url>https://michaelcullen.name/2019/04/custard-antenna/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anilakar</author><text>If you&#x27;re willing to experiment, you&#x27;ll find out that you can tune pretty much anything from a random spool of wire to an iron frame bed, and in this case custard. I&#x27;ve found that an inductively coupled sausage is a nice match on the VHF air band with a proper number of turns.<p>However, getting a nice 1:1 voltage standing wave ratio only means that the transmitter sees a proper 50 Ω load that does not reflect anything back. Most of the radiation probably happens in the feedline and the rest is absorbed as resistive losses. The whole setup only works because at lower &quot;high&quot; frequencies signal levels are relatively strong and receiver sensitivity is rarely a problem. Most HF transceivers actually have front panel knobs for attenuation and gain reduction.<p>Also, FT8 is a relatively new digital modulation that works at low SNR and is not feasible for transmitting any information apart from the callsigns of the communicating parties.</text></comment> | <story><title>Custard Antenna</title><url>https://michaelcullen.name/2019/04/custard-antenna/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pizza</author><text>You think that&#x27;s cool, check out this antenna made from a jet of seawater: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9tIZUhu21sQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9tIZUhu21sQ</a></text></comment> |
24,640,786 | 24,640,171 | 1 | 3 | 24,637,405 | train | <story><title>Six Figures in 6 days</title><url>https://tr.af/6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>itsoktocry</author><text>&gt;<i>The key to a success of this type is luck.</i><p>What an odd mentality.<p>No, the <i>key</i> to success is <i>skill</i>, with <i>effort</i> (grit?) thrown in there as well. Luck can sometimes play a significant factor, all else being equal. But the idea that everyone is equally &quot;good&quot; at things, or put in the same effort, and that it&#x27;s mere chance that success happens to someone is...pessimistic to say the least.</text></item><item><author>necovek</author><text>That seems to ignore the fact that there are hundreds of people of equally &quot;honed skills&quot; not having earned $100k over 6 days.<p>The key to a success of this type is luck. Sure, you can optimize for being on the path of success, but majority will still be missed.</text></item><item><author>ahmadss</author><text>the key to his success is honing his craft via side projects, sharing these ideas often, having a quick and easy tooling to publish ideas, pushing to prod and sharing these ideas. thats the key to success. the MKBHD pickup is just the recognition of the skill honed through this process.</text></item><item><author>oefrha</author><text>Is the average iPhone owner willing to spend $28 on an icon pack? Probably not.<p>Can you find 3626 iPhone owners willing to spend $28 on an icon pack? Sure you can. In fact I bet you can find 3626 Android owners willing to part with $28 too.<p>The key to this success story is this:<p>&gt; Then, MKBHD happened.</text></item><item><author>kyran_adept</author><text>As an Android user, I am completely blown away by two things: #1 iPhones got this only in 2020, when Android had this since the first version, #2 iPhone owners are willing to spend $28 for a icon pack, a very nice one, but still an icon pack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwinnski</author><text>Academic studies have repeatedly found that one of the single biggest determinants in success of just about any kind is luck. It is a very common misconception that hard work results in success, or that talent results in success, but that&#x27;s looking at the successful from the wrong end.<p>It is rare to find someone very lazy or completely talentless among the most successful, so it must be hard work and talent, right? No, because it&#x27;s easy to find very hard-working and talented people who are not successful. In fact, according to research[0], the most successful are usually <i>not</i> the most talented, but those of mediocre talent and a lot of luck.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1802.07068" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1802.07068</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Six Figures in 6 days</title><url>https://tr.af/6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>itsoktocry</author><text>&gt;<i>The key to a success of this type is luck.</i><p>What an odd mentality.<p>No, the <i>key</i> to success is <i>skill</i>, with <i>effort</i> (grit?) thrown in there as well. Luck can sometimes play a significant factor, all else being equal. But the idea that everyone is equally &quot;good&quot; at things, or put in the same effort, and that it&#x27;s mere chance that success happens to someone is...pessimistic to say the least.</text></item><item><author>necovek</author><text>That seems to ignore the fact that there are hundreds of people of equally &quot;honed skills&quot; not having earned $100k over 6 days.<p>The key to a success of this type is luck. Sure, you can optimize for being on the path of success, but majority will still be missed.</text></item><item><author>ahmadss</author><text>the key to his success is honing his craft via side projects, sharing these ideas often, having a quick and easy tooling to publish ideas, pushing to prod and sharing these ideas. thats the key to success. the MKBHD pickup is just the recognition of the skill honed through this process.</text></item><item><author>oefrha</author><text>Is the average iPhone owner willing to spend $28 on an icon pack? Probably not.<p>Can you find 3626 iPhone owners willing to spend $28 on an icon pack? Sure you can. In fact I bet you can find 3626 Android owners willing to part with $28 too.<p>The key to this success story is this:<p>&gt; Then, MKBHD happened.</text></item><item><author>kyran_adept</author><text>As an Android user, I am completely blown away by two things: #1 iPhones got this only in 2020, when Android had this since the first version, #2 iPhone owners are willing to spend $28 for a icon pack, a very nice one, but still an icon pack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sudosysgen</author><text>There is no need to assume that everyone is equally good at things, or puts in the same effort. Some people are much better than others at many things, and yet luck is the biggest determinant of success.<p>That being said, it doesn&#x27;t mean that one shouldn&#x27;t hone their skills and try to be successful. It&#x27;s just that it&#x27;s not likely that you will have such meteoric success no matter the skill or effort you put in.<p>Luck doesn&#x27;t just play a significant factor, luck almost always plays the biggest factor. But being skillful and putting in effort is the only thing you can change and definitely does help too.</text></comment> |
10,612,735 | 10,612,776 | 1 | 2 | 10,609,165 | train | <story><title>Fallout 4 Service Discovery and Relay</title><url>https://getcarina.com/blog/fallout-4-service-discovery-and-relay/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rcfox</author><text>One application comes to mind for this: watch for new screenshots (assuming they automatically get put into a directory for Fallout 4 screenshots) and add the in-world coordinates to the EXIF data.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fallout 4 Service Discovery and Relay</title><url>https://getcarina.com/blog/fallout-4-service-discovery-and-relay/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomf64</author><text>It would be incredibly cool to have a script that automatically manages your inventory while playing the game, e.g. the player picks up all items and has the script auto-drop them if they don&#x27;t meet certain requirements (value&#x2F;weight ratio, duplicates, etc.). I&#x27;m excited to see where this goes!</text></comment> |
1,999,548 | 1,999,591 | 1 | 2 | 1,999,382 | train | <story><title>Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript</title><url>http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2009/11/12/google-closure-how-not-to-write-javascript/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>My feeling is that even the compilers written in CS101 will optimize this. I'm guessing that Google tested their code with V8, performance was fine, and they thought nothing of it.<p>I just did a benchmark with node.js. I made a 50000000 element array, and timed how long each way took.<p>Trial one:<p><pre><code> for( var i = 0; i &#60; array.length; i++ ) { array[i]++ }
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That took, on average, 0.93001866 seconds.<p>Trial two:<p><pre><code> for( var i = 0; i &#60; len; i++ ) { array[i]++ }
</code></pre>
That took, on average, 0.809920 seconds.<p>A lot of stressing-out over what ends up being a rounding error.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shazow</author><text>A rounding error that causes a fast-paced Javascript game to crawl to a laggy stutter when repeated all over the place.<p>Regardless, the Closure Compiler (that the Closure Library is made to be used for) fixes this common case.<p>Another example where it's more than a rounding error: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2573212/why-is-setting-html5s-canvaspixelarray-values-ridiculously-slow-and-how-can-i-do" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2573212/why-is-setting-ht...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript</title><url>http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2009/11/12/google-closure-how-not-to-write-javascript/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>My feeling is that even the compilers written in CS101 will optimize this. I'm guessing that Google tested their code with V8, performance was fine, and they thought nothing of it.<p>I just did a benchmark with node.js. I made a 50000000 element array, and timed how long each way took.<p>Trial one:<p><pre><code> for( var i = 0; i &#60; array.length; i++ ) { array[i]++ }
</code></pre>
That took, on average, 0.93001866 seconds.<p>Trial two:<p><pre><code> for( var i = 0; i &#60; len; i++ ) { array[i]++ }
</code></pre>
That took, on average, 0.809920 seconds.<p>A lot of stressing-out over what ends up being a rounding error.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msg</author><text>Or a 13/80 difference, which is in the 15%+ range. It's a rounding error on a total time of many seconds, but not in the realm of the very fast.</text></comment> |
37,233,280 | 37,232,793 | 1 | 2 | 37,228,822 | train | <story><title>An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-old-conjecture-falls-making-spheres-a-lot-more-complicated-20230822/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delocalized</author><text>I always wonder what a popular science&#x2F;math magazine would look like if it were oriented towards hackers. In this I mean people who have little background in the field but also the type of person who is used to bluntness and knows to RTFM.<p>I would subscribe to one. Journal articles are often opaque to people who aren&#x27;t already in the field, and popular science falls too often into the storytelling trap seen here.</text></item><item><author>billfruit</author><text>The gossipy narrative style of the article is kind of jarring for an article on a topic like this. It took several paragraphs before it touched on the matter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CJefferson</author><text>For this particular article, I&#x27;m not sure a hacker version could be much better. I&#x27;m slightly familiar with this area of research, I&#x27;m not sure a more &quot;true&quot; explanation couldn&#x27;t be done in much less than 20 pages of fairly hard maths, and I don&#x27;t imagine anyone would want to chew through that.<p>You could trim this down, but I personally find the background as interesting as the result.</text></comment> | <story><title>An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-old-conjecture-falls-making-spheres-a-lot-more-complicated-20230822/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delocalized</author><text>I always wonder what a popular science&#x2F;math magazine would look like if it were oriented towards hackers. In this I mean people who have little background in the field but also the type of person who is used to bluntness and knows to RTFM.<p>I would subscribe to one. Journal articles are often opaque to people who aren&#x27;t already in the field, and popular science falls too often into the storytelling trap seen here.</text></item><item><author>billfruit</author><text>The gossipy narrative style of the article is kind of jarring for an article on a topic like this. It took several paragraphs before it touched on the matter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pa7x1</author><text>The gap is very hard to close because there is a chasm between the two. RTFM here means years (typically 5+ for research math) of very focused study to follow what it says. While the popular science tries to convey something that is meaningful to the majority of people without any background exposure. The gap between the two is huge.</text></comment> |
3,520,146 | 3,520,194 | 1 | 3 | 3,519,535 | train | <story><title>Facebook to File for IPO Next Week </title><url>http://mashable.com/2012/01/27/facebook-ipo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>albertsun</author><text>Why is this a link to Mashable when all the reporting work and original information is from the Wall Street Journal?<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204573704577187062821038498.html" rel="nofollow">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020457370457718...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benologist</author><text>That's what professional blogging is - rewrite someone's article, hope you hit the news aggregators first.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook to File for IPO Next Week </title><url>http://mashable.com/2012/01/27/facebook-ipo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>albertsun</author><text>Why is this a link to Mashable when all the reporting work and original information is from the Wall Street Journal?<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204573704577187062821038498.html" rel="nofollow">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020457370457718...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perivamsi</author><text>Not everyone has a WSJ subscripton. I don't see the article when I click on the above link.</text></comment> |
14,405,018 | 14,405,023 | 1 | 3 | 14,400,440 | train | <story><title>Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2017/tulips-myths-and-cryptocurrencies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pishpash</author><text>But they have inherent utility unlike Bitcoins.</text></item><item><author>dade_</author><text>Tulip bulbs aren&#x27;t liquid, don&#x27;t fit in my wallet and only last 12 months.</text></item><item><author>xiaoma</author><text>The comparison with the internet of 20 years ago is a good one.<p>Much like the internet did then, crytpo-currencies now draw an assortment of technologists, anarchists, bankers and futurists. There&#x27;s also a wildly optimistic bull case to be made and it&#x27;s very difficult to determine a reasonable valuation.<p>In contrast, tulips weren&#x27;t a new technology, they had no power to change the world&#x27;s business or social graph and a radically new tools couldn&#x27;t be build on top of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RealityVoid</author><text>Really? What is their inherent utility? Looking pretty? I&#x27;m pretty sure a stronger case can be made for bitcoin&#x27;s utility than than.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2017/tulips-myths-and-cryptocurrencies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pishpash</author><text>But they have inherent utility unlike Bitcoins.</text></item><item><author>dade_</author><text>Tulip bulbs aren&#x27;t liquid, don&#x27;t fit in my wallet and only last 12 months.</text></item><item><author>xiaoma</author><text>The comparison with the internet of 20 years ago is a good one.<p>Much like the internet did then, crytpo-currencies now draw an assortment of technologists, anarchists, bankers and futurists. There&#x27;s also a wildly optimistic bull case to be made and it&#x27;s very difficult to determine a reasonable valuation.<p>In contrast, tulips weren&#x27;t a new technology, they had no power to change the world&#x27;s business or social graph and a radically new tools couldn&#x27;t be build on top of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jikachu2</author><text>Nothing has inherent utility.<p>Utility&#x2F;value is relative - maybe a tulip is worth something to you, but it&#x27;s not worth anything to me.</text></comment> |
40,278,237 | 40,278,062 | 1 | 2 | 40,273,651 | train | <story><title>Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/coreweaves-1-1b-raise-shows-the-market-for-alternative-clouds-is-booming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gbox4</author><text>A funny comment from that article:<p>&quot;On CoreWeave, renting an Nvidia A100 40GB — one popular choice for model training and inferencing — costs $2.39 per hour, which works out to $1,200 per month. On Azure, the same GPU costs $3.40 per hour, or $2,482 per month; on Google Cloud, it’s $3.67 per hour, or $2,682 per month.&quot;<p>Am I missing something? I am sure I&#x27;m a bit rusty in math, but I can still handle a calculator. ~720 hours in a month (roughly), and that means CoreWeave would cost $1,720.80 per month, Azure is $2,448 per month, and Google Cloud is $2,642.40 per month.<p>Why are all of these numbers reported in the article off? Some slightly--Azure and Google Cloud are close, but CoreWeave is off by about 30%. I won&#x27;t go further into the numbers as to why the author came up with these results, but I&#x27;m just wondering if this article was written by AI, which would explain why basic multiplication is incorrect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coffeebeqn</author><text>Have you ever asked a LLM to calculate costs for you? This is it exactly what it looks like</text></comment> | <story><title>Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/coreweaves-1-1b-raise-shows-the-market-for-alternative-clouds-is-booming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gbox4</author><text>A funny comment from that article:<p>&quot;On CoreWeave, renting an Nvidia A100 40GB — one popular choice for model training and inferencing — costs $2.39 per hour, which works out to $1,200 per month. On Azure, the same GPU costs $3.40 per hour, or $2,482 per month; on Google Cloud, it’s $3.67 per hour, or $2,682 per month.&quot;<p>Am I missing something? I am sure I&#x27;m a bit rusty in math, but I can still handle a calculator. ~720 hours in a month (roughly), and that means CoreWeave would cost $1,720.80 per month, Azure is $2,448 per month, and Google Cloud is $2,642.40 per month.<p>Why are all of these numbers reported in the article off? Some slightly--Azure and Google Cloud are close, but CoreWeave is off by about 30%. I won&#x27;t go further into the numbers as to why the author came up with these results, but I&#x27;m just wondering if this article was written by AI, which would explain why basic multiplication is incorrect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fancyfredbot</author><text>The whole thing is nuts. They have the wrong costs multiplied by the wrong time period to get the wrong answers. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coreweave.com&#x2F;gpu-cloud-pricing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coreweave.com&#x2F;gpu-cloud-pricing</a> says an A100 40GB NVLink is $2.06 whereas the article says $2.39.<p>That&#x27;s $1483.20 a month, whereas the article says $1200 and should say $1720 if they&#x27;d got the maths right.</text></comment> |
38,672,094 | 38,670,847 | 1 | 3 | 38,652,141 | train | <story><title>Jurassic Systems</title><url>https://www.jurassicsystems.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HanClinto</author><text>This is delightful.<p>Anyone found a way to beat this?<p>I particularly enjoyed the &quot;live docks&quot; clip saved on the Mac desktop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>Movie directors were deliciously non IT savvy at the time, I remember as a teenager growling every time an actor switched off the monitor when he meant to switch off the computer.<p>But I guess taxi drivers still growl today at all those characters leaving the cab without paying in movies!</text></comment> | <story><title>Jurassic Systems</title><url>https://www.jurassicsystems.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HanClinto</author><text>This is delightful.<p>Anyone found a way to beat this?<p>I particularly enjoyed the &quot;live docks&quot; clip saved on the Mac desktop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>divbzero</author><text>I really thought <i>sudo</i> would do the trick.</text></comment> |
25,414,038 | 25,409,921 | 1 | 3 | 25,407,174 | train | <story><title>Hyperbeam: A 1-1 E2E encrypted internet pipe powered by Hyperswarm</title><url>https://github.com/mafintosh/hyperbeam</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amingilani</author><text>I had to find this post[0] to fully understand what Hyperswarm is.<p><i>You may or may not be surprised to hear that connecting two computers over the Internet is difficult. Software needs to negotiate NATs, firewalls, and limited IPv4 addresses. This is one of many reasons why cloud services are so entrenched: they accept connections more reliably than home or mobile computers.<p>This is a challenge for Dat and the Beaker browser. Dat is a peer-to-peer network which needs to reliably connect users over the Internet and over LANs. Beaker uses Dat to serve websites without needing servers.<p>We currently rely on a tracker to get users connected. This is a tracker that we run, which isn’t ideal because we want Dat to be decentralized. We tried using BitTorrent’s Mainline DHT but the results just weren’t very good. Mainline doesn’t have the tools to hole-punch so the connections frequently failed, and live tests tended to give a lot of false-positives with few good hits.<p>So mafintosh decided to solve this by creating a new DHT which fits our needs.<p>Announcing the Hyperswarm preview<p>Hyperswarm is a stack of networking modules for finding peers and creating reliable connections. Users join the swarm for a “topic” and query periodically for other peers who are in the topic. When ready to connect, Hyperswarm helps create a socket between them using either UTP or TCP.<p>Hyperswarm uses a Kademlia DHT to track peers and arrange connections. The DHT itself includes mechanisms to holepunch NATs. For LAN-based discovery, we currently use multicast DNS.</i><p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pfrazee.hashbase.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;hyperswarm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pfrazee.hashbase.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;hyperswarm</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Hyperbeam: A 1-1 E2E encrypted internet pipe powered by Hyperswarm</title><url>https://github.com/mafintosh/hyperbeam</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zaroth</author><text>It seems the difference between this and spiped is that this has a discovery protocol (DHT) and NAT hole punching.<p>Not sure how it compares to Magic Wormhole and the like.</text></comment> |
39,868,063 | 39,867,745 | 1 | 2 | 39,867,632 | train | <story><title>Banner blindness</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saghm</author><text>I feel like a similar thing happens in &quot;real life&quot; sometimes, not just on websites. Back in high school, I used to volunteer at an animal shelter, and we had an area out back where we&#x27;d walk the dogs or let them run around in one of a few fenced in areas throughout the day so they could go to the bathroom and get some exercise. The door leading out here was located in one of the rooms with dog kennels, so people coming to potentially adopt a dog would walk through this room a lot, and often they&#x27;d try to walk out back and watch or participate with the volunteers and staff taking some of the dogs out. We&#x27;d ask them politely to go back inside because they aren&#x27;t allowed out there and point out the very large sign in large font on the door saying this, and every time they&#x27;d always act very surprised because they claimed not to have seen it. I&#x27;m sure some people were just feigning ignorance because it seemed easier, but the sheer number of people claiming it makes it believable that at least _some_ of them genuinely didn&#x27;t notice; they saw a door, they wanted to go through, and they opened it without processing the words right in front of their face.</text></comment> | <story><title>Banner blindness</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karaterobot</author><text>&gt; A higher than expected number of advertisements may cause a user to view the page as cluttered.[7] The number of adverts and annoyances on a webpage contribute to this perception of clutter.[6] As users can concentrate on only one stimulus at a time, having too many objects in their field of vision causes them to lose focus.[8] This contributes to behaviors such as ad avoidance or banner blindness.<p>I have done a pretty good job filtering out advertisements and other annoying web crap, and if anything ever sneaks through I notice it immediately. Whatever the opposite of banner blindness is, that&#x27;s what I exhibit. Banner hypersensitivity?</text></comment> |
35,442,941 | 35,438,319 | 1 | 2 | 35,437,726 | train | <story><title>Stanford just released a 386-page report on the state of AI</title><url>https://twitter.com/nonmayorpete/status/1643012248720523264</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alex_suzuki</author><text>Unrelated to TFA: everytime I see numbers like 386, 486, etc. I’m instantly triggered. Even more than for powers of two. Growing up with computers really „does a number“ on you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nsenifty</author><text>My middle school enrollment number was 286. The number was significant because it was etched&#x2F;embroidered&#x2F;painted all over my belongings. A few years later they renumbered us all. I was a bit disappointed losing this number until I saw my new number - 640!</text></comment> | <story><title>Stanford just released a 386-page report on the state of AI</title><url>https://twitter.com/nonmayorpete/status/1643012248720523264</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alex_suzuki</author><text>Unrelated to TFA: everytime I see numbers like 386, 486, etc. I’m instantly triggered. Even more than for powers of two. Growing up with computers really „does a number“ on you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mysterydip</author><text>My first thought was &quot;was the page count intentional?&quot;</text></comment> |
6,525,538 | 6,525,461 | 1 | 2 | 6,524,557 | train | <story><title>Things You Can Do That Will Make You Happier</title><url>http://www.social-consciousness.com/2013/10/ten-simple-things-you-can-do-today-that-will-make-you-happier-backed-by-science.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>therobot24</author><text>I think the long commute tip is accurate overall, however can be mitigated. Before going back to grad school, my job required a long commute (easily 60 minutes each way). Getting up early bothered me, but the drive to work was fine as local radio morning shows were pretty good (though over the course of only 4 years of this commute, schedules changed removing 3 nationally syndicated shows, and 2 local shows before just setting on NPR...FM radio seems to be a cruel world). However, driving home was the worst...just the worst, even when listening to music off of my mp3 player, if i was running late to leave by even a few minutes the commute home could take an extra 15. I was much more stressed at the end of each day just from driving, and by the time i made and ate dinner i&#x27;d only really have ~2 hours to relax before having to go to bed to get up and start again. The unhappiness timeline:<p>- Stress turned into a general depression that my weekdays were robotic (sleep, wake, drive, work, drive, eat, sleep)<p>- I found myself becoming a more aggressive driver (more stress = wanting to get home faster)<p>- My general attitude was changing for the worse<p>- I started to alienate my significant other<p>A friend suggested i read a book for some reason and i picked up the audio copy to kill some time on the drive home. This turned out to be a life changer. Instead of focusing on getting home as soon as i could, i was relaxing on my drive. Happiness timeline:<p>- I found myself sitting in my driveway to hear the end of a chapter<p>- Getting home didn&#x27;t mean i needed to retreat to the study for time to unwind<p>- I started driving slower and less aggressive (even letting people cut me off, etc)<p>- My relationship with my SO improved<p>- I felt smarter. My usual reading list is text book chapters to better understand a concept, but i really felt like i was a generally smarter person by including non-fiction.<p>- Most important is that i didn&#x27;t feel like i was wasting time. Driving became a hobby in some sense, as opposed to a delay of when i can start&#x2F;end my day.<p>By the end of my tenure i sometimes looked forward to my commute, only so i could keep listening. Of course audio books may not be your game, but the thesis is that if you find some way to make you feel like you&#x27;re not wasting your time then you&#x27;ll most likely not mind the commute (for example, my mom calls her mother, my grandmother, everyday on the commute home).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>svmegatron</author><text>If you like singing, your commute is an <i>awesome</i> time to practice. Make a mix of some challenging&#x2F;fun sing-along songs and just go for it.<p>And like so many things, if you sing for an hour a day (30 minutes each way!) you will get a LOT better at it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Things You Can Do That Will Make You Happier</title><url>http://www.social-consciousness.com/2013/10/ten-simple-things-you-can-do-today-that-will-make-you-happier-backed-by-science.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>therobot24</author><text>I think the long commute tip is accurate overall, however can be mitigated. Before going back to grad school, my job required a long commute (easily 60 minutes each way). Getting up early bothered me, but the drive to work was fine as local radio morning shows were pretty good (though over the course of only 4 years of this commute, schedules changed removing 3 nationally syndicated shows, and 2 local shows before just setting on NPR...FM radio seems to be a cruel world). However, driving home was the worst...just the worst, even when listening to music off of my mp3 player, if i was running late to leave by even a few minutes the commute home could take an extra 15. I was much more stressed at the end of each day just from driving, and by the time i made and ate dinner i&#x27;d only really have ~2 hours to relax before having to go to bed to get up and start again. The unhappiness timeline:<p>- Stress turned into a general depression that my weekdays were robotic (sleep, wake, drive, work, drive, eat, sleep)<p>- I found myself becoming a more aggressive driver (more stress = wanting to get home faster)<p>- My general attitude was changing for the worse<p>- I started to alienate my significant other<p>A friend suggested i read a book for some reason and i picked up the audio copy to kill some time on the drive home. This turned out to be a life changer. Instead of focusing on getting home as soon as i could, i was relaxing on my drive. Happiness timeline:<p>- I found myself sitting in my driveway to hear the end of a chapter<p>- Getting home didn&#x27;t mean i needed to retreat to the study for time to unwind<p>- I started driving slower and less aggressive (even letting people cut me off, etc)<p>- My relationship with my SO improved<p>- I felt smarter. My usual reading list is text book chapters to better understand a concept, but i really felt like i was a generally smarter person by including non-fiction.<p>- Most important is that i didn&#x27;t feel like i was wasting time. Driving became a hobby in some sense, as opposed to a delay of when i can start&#x2F;end my day.<p>By the end of my tenure i sometimes looked forward to my commute, only so i could keep listening. Of course audio books may not be your game, but the thesis is that if you find some way to make you feel like you&#x27;re not wasting your time then you&#x27;ll most likely not mind the commute (for example, my mom calls her mother, my grandmother, everyday on the commute home).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cylinder</author><text>I came here to take on the commuting point. Every time I read about how miserable long commutes are, I think of my dad. 45 minutes driving through traffic each way every day. Never hear him complain about it or get in a sour mood over it. He enjoys it.<p>It&#x27;s all about attitude and making the best of your time. In traffic? Release your anger, it wont&#x27; get anywhere. Put on NPR (or whatever you like), take a refreshing tea or juice with you, don&#x27;t rage at moronic drivers, etc.<p>Happiness is about attitude, especially your attitude towards stress. Nothing you can do will eliminate stress in your life. You may shorten your commute, but some other stressor will appear... smaller living quarters, more crime&#x2F;noise in the city, etc.</text></comment> |
25,353,219 | 25,353,410 | 1 | 2 | 25,352,844 | train | <story><title>My Son Was Killed Because I’m a Federal Judge</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/opinion/esther-salas-murder-federal-judges.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahuth</author><text>I understand and sympathize with this view. But it seems likely that a federal judge is more likely to be a target of something like this. Mostly because of the nature of their work.</text></item><item><author>rjbwork</author><text>Totally agree. Get everyone&#x27;s details off the internet and you get those who are more equal than others&#x27; off as well. You shouldn&#x27;t get special privileges because you work for the government.</text></item><item><author>giantg2</author><text>The only problem I have with this law is that it should protect everyone, not just first class citizens like judges and law enforcement. Other professions have disgruntled customers that wish to do people harm, especially other high-stakes professions such as doctors. The more we stratify society with special protections for specific classes of people, the more we drive a divide and feeling of disenfranchisement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>didibus</author><text>Sure, but if you look at all type work injury&#x2F;mortality related issues, I doubt federal judge is at the top of the list. What could happen here though is that even though federal judges arn&#x27;t at that great a risk in overall work related injury or harm, because they are a high authority high yielding power role they might have their risk addressed first and foremost, while others don&#x27;t.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Son Was Killed Because I’m a Federal Judge</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/opinion/esther-salas-murder-federal-judges.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ahuth</author><text>I understand and sympathize with this view. But it seems likely that a federal judge is more likely to be a target of something like this. Mostly because of the nature of their work.</text></item><item><author>rjbwork</author><text>Totally agree. Get everyone&#x27;s details off the internet and you get those who are more equal than others&#x27; off as well. You shouldn&#x27;t get special privileges because you work for the government.</text></item><item><author>giantg2</author><text>The only problem I have with this law is that it should protect everyone, not just first class citizens like judges and law enforcement. Other professions have disgruntled customers that wish to do people harm, especially other high-stakes professions such as doctors. The more we stratify society with special protections for specific classes of people, the more we drive a divide and feeling of disenfranchisement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_jal</author><text>&gt; But it seems likely that a federal judge is more likely to be a target<p>More likely than...? It would really help understand what you&#x27;re thinking if you&#x27;d finish the sentence.<p>And I hope you aren&#x27;t thinking &quot;your average person&quot;. If we passed a law to address median risk disparities in all the places we could, essentially everything that isn&#x27;t mandatory would be forbidden.</text></comment> |
35,307,290 | 35,307,369 | 1 | 3 | 35,303,423 | train | <story><title>Call yourself titles</title><url>https://josem.co/call-yourself-titles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjr00</author><text>&gt; The problem is that most of us didn’t do the only X that matters, which is to actually write. [...] Writers who don’t write seems like a niche phenomenon of a narrow and privileged set<p>Nah, I think this is super common across titles that people romanticize, mainly in the arts, since there&#x27;s no real barrier to entry. (Unlike, say, claiming &quot;I&#x27;m a lawyer&quot; or &quot;I&#x27;m a doctor.&quot;) I&#x27;ve seen tons of people say &quot;I want to be&#x2F;I am a musician&quot; and then spend a bunch of time watching YouTube tutorials, hanging out in musician&#x2F;producer Discords, etc. and not actually, you know, making music.<p>For a lot of people, &quot;I want to do X&quot; actually means &quot;I want to <i>have done</i> X,&quot; and then reap all of the benefits that comes from that: the sense of accomplishment, the fame, social media follows, whatever.<p>These days I&#x27;m usually very suspicious of people who make big public pronouncements about how they&#x27;re starting X task, whether that&#x27;s going to the gym, learning guitar, building something in Rust, or whatever. If you wanted to do the activity, you&#x27;d just do it without all the pomp and circumstance. Every time I&#x27;ve seen a friend on social media announce they&#x27;re going to start a grand new adventure, they fizzle out after a month or two. The ones who get shit done will show up to a party looking amazing and casually mention, &quot;Yeah, I&#x27;ve been hitting the gym.&quot;</text></item><item><author>jeffomatic</author><text>I can see how this could be a helpful reframing for some folks, but IME centering your attention on how to title yourself can have the reverse effect, which is to encourage you to indulge in an identity that doesn’t have much substance underneath.<p>I had a phase where me and my friends all thought of ourselves as writers and artists. At the extreme, there was a buddy of mine who would answer simple questions by prefacing with, “Well, as a writer, I tend to X.” And X would be many secondary tendencies you might associate with writers: look at the world differently; ask annoying questions at parties; overanalyze pop culture; drink too much caffeine; procrastinate; joke about procrastinating, etc.<p>The problem is that most of us didn’t do the only X that matters, which is to actually write. And I think we knew this on a subconscious level, and it was why we were so angsty all the time. (Being angsty is another X that writers are supposed to do, so it was a vicious cycle.)<p>Writers who don’t write seems like a niche phenomenon of a narrow and privileged set, but I feel like I see this elsewhere. I’m an engineer these days, and I occasionally come across junior folks who have a similar thing going on. Especially in bigger orgs, you can see people struggle for years with this: there’s something about the job they like (perhaps what the job seems to say about them as individuals), but they have a hard time with the actual moment-to-moment work. I generally think it’s not my place to judge people, let alone gatekeep or call people out on it, but I sometimes feel that I did those folks a disservice by not telling them: hey maybe this just isn’t for you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pixl97</author><text>&gt;titles that people romanticize,<p>Very strange that right after the arts are two titles that are highly romanticized. Back in the days I owned my own business and had a sizeable medical client base, I cannot tell you how many doctors had to buy a BMW because their other doctor friend has a BMW and you&#x27;re not one of the &quot;doctor club&quot; unless you own one.<p>I come from a family heavily involved in the criminal justice system, and the lawyers, police, and judges I know have the same problems with falling in common tropes.<p>And don&#x27;t even get me started on engineers. Give them 10 minutes and we&#x27;ll tell everyone how liberal arts are the end of the world ;)</text></comment> | <story><title>Call yourself titles</title><url>https://josem.co/call-yourself-titles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjr00</author><text>&gt; The problem is that most of us didn’t do the only X that matters, which is to actually write. [...] Writers who don’t write seems like a niche phenomenon of a narrow and privileged set<p>Nah, I think this is super common across titles that people romanticize, mainly in the arts, since there&#x27;s no real barrier to entry. (Unlike, say, claiming &quot;I&#x27;m a lawyer&quot; or &quot;I&#x27;m a doctor.&quot;) I&#x27;ve seen tons of people say &quot;I want to be&#x2F;I am a musician&quot; and then spend a bunch of time watching YouTube tutorials, hanging out in musician&#x2F;producer Discords, etc. and not actually, you know, making music.<p>For a lot of people, &quot;I want to do X&quot; actually means &quot;I want to <i>have done</i> X,&quot; and then reap all of the benefits that comes from that: the sense of accomplishment, the fame, social media follows, whatever.<p>These days I&#x27;m usually very suspicious of people who make big public pronouncements about how they&#x27;re starting X task, whether that&#x27;s going to the gym, learning guitar, building something in Rust, or whatever. If you wanted to do the activity, you&#x27;d just do it without all the pomp and circumstance. Every time I&#x27;ve seen a friend on social media announce they&#x27;re going to start a grand new adventure, they fizzle out after a month or two. The ones who get shit done will show up to a party looking amazing and casually mention, &quot;Yeah, I&#x27;ve been hitting the gym.&quot;</text></item><item><author>jeffomatic</author><text>I can see how this could be a helpful reframing for some folks, but IME centering your attention on how to title yourself can have the reverse effect, which is to encourage you to indulge in an identity that doesn’t have much substance underneath.<p>I had a phase where me and my friends all thought of ourselves as writers and artists. At the extreme, there was a buddy of mine who would answer simple questions by prefacing with, “Well, as a writer, I tend to X.” And X would be many secondary tendencies you might associate with writers: look at the world differently; ask annoying questions at parties; overanalyze pop culture; drink too much caffeine; procrastinate; joke about procrastinating, etc.<p>The problem is that most of us didn’t do the only X that matters, which is to actually write. And I think we knew this on a subconscious level, and it was why we were so angsty all the time. (Being angsty is another X that writers are supposed to do, so it was a vicious cycle.)<p>Writers who don’t write seems like a niche phenomenon of a narrow and privileged set, but I feel like I see this elsewhere. I’m an engineer these days, and I occasionally come across junior folks who have a similar thing going on. Especially in bigger orgs, you can see people struggle for years with this: there’s something about the job they like (perhaps what the job seems to say about them as individuals), but they have a hard time with the actual moment-to-moment work. I generally think it’s not my place to judge people, let alone gatekeep or call people out on it, but I sometimes feel that I did those folks a disservice by not telling them: hey maybe this just isn’t for you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>away271828</author><text>&gt; &quot;I want to do X&quot; actually means &quot;I want to have done X,&quot;<p>I co-authored a book with someone, which ended up meaning I did 90% of the work and they could be prodded with considerable effort to contribute in a few areas and give feedback. But they were thrilled to have been an author and hand out copies etc.<p>No real harm from my angle. I have no issue with them being a co-author. Doesn&#x27;t hurt me. But a perfect example of this principle. A former boss at a small company was a somewhat similar example. They liked being a $X. They came to not like doing the work of being a $X.</text></comment> |
8,190,829 | 8,189,188 | 1 | 3 | 8,188,919 | train | <story><title>“Prison is a bit like copyright”, says jailed Pirate Bay founder</title><url>http://senficon.eu/2014/08/prison-is-a-bit-like-copyright-peter-sunde/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>I think it&#x27;s interesting to contemplate that all this is not about TPB relieving anybody of their property, but the possibility of preventing somebody from making the maximum amount of money possible off of their property. TPB doesn&#x27;t even host copyrighted material, and the access they grant to it requires <i>just</i> enough technical knowhow that most people don&#x27;t even bother and just pay for netflix and itunes.<p>Under no conceivable legal system has TPB violated any law (though TPB&#x27;s users may have). The closest analogy I can think of is putting the mayor of a city into prison because there are people in the city who might break the law, and properly running city services and having functional roads, public transport, property title management, etc. enables them to break the law slightly more easily.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Prison is a bit like copyright”, says jailed Pirate Bay founder</title><url>http://senficon.eu/2014/08/prison-is-a-bit-like-copyright-peter-sunde/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zerr</author><text>What I don&#x27;t understand - I&#x27;m still happily using Pirate Bay along with bunch of other torrent sites (but mostly through torrentz.net search engine). So what&#x27;s the story behind it? Why PB still operates if it is proven that it is illegal?</text></comment> |
22,650,596 | 22,646,925 | 1 | 2 | 22,646,300 | train | <story><title>Locked-down lawyers warned Alexa is hearing confidential calls</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-20/locked-down-lawyers-warned-alexa-is-hearing-confidential-calls</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pdkl95</author><text>Alexa <i>et al</i> are also normalizing &quot;always on microphone that sends audio to a remote business over the internet&quot; <i>technology</i>. According to the bright-line rule from <i>Kyllo v United States</i>[1], when a technology is &quot;in general public use&quot;[2], police no longer need a warrant when they use their own devices based on that technology to see the &quot;details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion&quot;[3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caselaw.findlaw.com&#x2F;us-supreme-court&#x2F;533&#x2F;27.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caselaw.findlaw.com&#x2F;us-supreme-court&#x2F;533&#x2F;27.html</a><p>[2] Used throughout the ruling[1], but especially section II of Justice Stevens&#x27; dissent.<p>[3] The ruling[1], 2nd paragraph</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdowling</author><text>&gt; [3] The ruling[1], 2nd paragraph<p>You cited the summary, which may be useful but isn’t legally binding. The actual opinion starts after “Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court.”<p>Also, <i>Kyllo</i> isn’t relevant to your concerns. A microphone and radio which picks up audio and transmits it is a technology which has been around for more than 60 years. Use of that technology has been addressed by the court in <i>Katz</i> and its predecessors, which collectively found that warrantless use by the police of such tech is often prohibited by the fourth amendment.<p>A more relevant question is whether the fourth amendment would allow police to access records stored by Amazon in the case of conversations picked up by Alexa devices. Usually, such data is fair game (third-party doctrine), but there are some constitutional restrictions (See e.g., *Carpenter v. U.S., 2018). However, even if there were no restrictions, the question is probably moot because other laws (Wiretap Act, Stored Communications Act) restrict police behavior. Basically everyone believes that these restrictions apply to Alexa recordings.<p>Recently there was a case in which a police department served Amazon with a subpoena for Alexa recordings from the scene of a suspected murder. I don’t remember the outcome in that case, but that too is irrelevant to concerns about warrantless collecting or searching of Alexa data, because there a warrant was or could have been obtained.</text></comment> | <story><title>Locked-down lawyers warned Alexa is hearing confidential calls</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-20/locked-down-lawyers-warned-alexa-is-hearing-confidential-calls</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pdkl95</author><text>Alexa <i>et al</i> are also normalizing &quot;always on microphone that sends audio to a remote business over the internet&quot; <i>technology</i>. According to the bright-line rule from <i>Kyllo v United States</i>[1], when a technology is &quot;in general public use&quot;[2], police no longer need a warrant when they use their own devices based on that technology to see the &quot;details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion&quot;[3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caselaw.findlaw.com&#x2F;us-supreme-court&#x2F;533&#x2F;27.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caselaw.findlaw.com&#x2F;us-supreme-court&#x2F;533&#x2F;27.html</a><p>[2] Used throughout the ruling[1], but especially section II of Justice Stevens&#x27; dissent.<p>[3] The ruling[1], 2nd paragraph</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lima</author><text>How so?<p>The ruling is about agents using thermal imaging technology to bust a marijuana plantation, performed from a car on a public street. The court stated that this does not constitute a search, since any random citizen could&#x27;ve done the same thing using commodity equipment.<p>Always on microphones that transmit via the internet (i.e. bugs) have been a commodity for... a few decades? But you still cannot legally bug your neighbor&#x27;s apartment.</text></comment> |
41,028,311 | 41,028,397 | 1 | 3 | 41,027,658 | train | <story><title>When ChatGPT summarises, it does nothing of the kind</title><url>https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ADeerAppeared</author><text>There&#x27;s a fundamental problem with all these &quot;summary&quot; tasks, and it&#x27;s obvious from the disclaimer that&#x27;s on all these AI products: &quot;AI can be wrong, you must verify this&quot;.<p>A summary for which you must always read the un-summarized text <i>is useless as a summary</i>, this should be obvious to literally everyone, yet AI developers stick their heads in the sand about it because RAG lets them pretend AI is more useful than it actually is.<p>RAG is useless, just fucking let it go and have AI stay in it&#x27;s lane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>probably_wrong</author><text>The solution is to feed both the text and the summary back to ChatGPT and ask it to identify any inconsistencies.<p>If you repeat these steps over and over for enough iterations eventually you will run out of money and the problem will be moot anyway</text></comment> | <story><title>When ChatGPT summarises, it does nothing of the kind</title><url>https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ADeerAppeared</author><text>There&#x27;s a fundamental problem with all these &quot;summary&quot; tasks, and it&#x27;s obvious from the disclaimer that&#x27;s on all these AI products: &quot;AI can be wrong, you must verify this&quot;.<p>A summary for which you must always read the un-summarized text <i>is useless as a summary</i>, this should be obvious to literally everyone, yet AI developers stick their heads in the sand about it because RAG lets them pretend AI is more useful than it actually is.<p>RAG is useless, just fucking let it go and have AI stay in it&#x27;s lane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qeternity</author><text>This is just a trust issue, which applies to pretty much any task where there is delegation.<p>If you ask an intern to summarize some text, you trust them to do a half decent job. You&#x27;re not going to re-read the original text. The hiring process is meant to filter out bad interns.</text></comment> |
29,427,442 | 29,423,383 | 1 | 3 | 29,417,061 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google?</title><text>I seem to recall that Google consistently produced relevant results and strictly respected search operators in 2005 (?), unlike the modern Google. And back then, I think search results were the same for everyone, rather than being customized for each user.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>JacobThreeThree</author><text>I think people also have an inflated recollection of how good Google actually was back in 2005.<p>Back then Google was only going up against indexes and link-rings, not 2021 Google&#x2F;Bing&#x2F;DDG&#x2F;etc.</text></item><item><author>SamBam</author><text>&gt; You do a search on Gigablast and say, well, why didn&#x27;t it get this result that Google got. And that&#x27;s because the index isn&#x27;t big enough<p>I wionder how much this is true, and how much (despite all our rhetoric to the contrary) it&#x27;s because we have actually come to expect Google&#x27;s modern proprietary page ranking, which counts more than just inbound links but all sorts of other signals (freshness, relevance to our previous queries, etc.).<p>We dislike the additional signals when it feels like Google is trying to second-guess our intentions, but we probably don&#x27;t notice how well they work when they give us the result we expect in the first three links.</text></item><item><author>gbmatt</author><text>Ha, yes, I&#x27;ve done that at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gigablast.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gigablast.com&#x2F;</a> .
The biggest problems now are the following:
1) Too hard to spider the web. Gatekeeper companies like Cloudflare (owned in part by Google) and Cloudfront make it really difficult for upstart search engines to download web pages.
2) Hardware costs are too high. It&#x27;s much more expensive now to build a large index (50B+ pages) to be competitive.<p>I believe my algorithms are decent, but the biggest problem for Gigablast is now the index size. You do a search on Gigablast and say, well, why didn&#x27;t it get this result that Google got. And that&#x27;s because the index isn&#x27;t big enough because I don&#x27;t have the cash for the hardware. btw, I&#x27;ve been working on this engine for over 20 years and have coded probably 1-2M lines of code on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eitland</author><text>&gt; I think people also have an inflated recollection of how good Google actually was back in 2005.<p>I&#x27;ve been pointing this out for at least close to a decade.<p>I know since I bothered to screenshot and blog about it in 2012.<p>I&#x27;ll admit mistakes happened back then too, but they were more forgivable like keyword stuffing on unrelated pages. Back then Google were on our side and removed those as fast as possible.<p>Today however the problem isn&#x27;t that someone hss stuffed the keyword into an unrelated page but that Google themselves mix a whole lot of completely irrelevant pages into the results, probably because some metrics go up when they do that.<p>Thinking about it it seems logical that for a search engine that practically speaking has monopoly both on users and as mattgb points out - tonsome degree also on indexing - serving the correct answer first is just dumb: if they can keep me going between their search results and tech blogs with their ads embedded one, two or five times extra that means one, two or five times more ad impressions.<p>Note that I&#x27;m not necessarily suggesting an grand evil master plan here, only that end-to-end metrics will improve as long as there is no realistic competition.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google?</title><text>I seem to recall that Google consistently produced relevant results and strictly respected search operators in 2005 (?), unlike the modern Google. And back then, I think search results were the same for everyone, rather than being customized for each user.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>JacobThreeThree</author><text>I think people also have an inflated recollection of how good Google actually was back in 2005.<p>Back then Google was only going up against indexes and link-rings, not 2021 Google&#x2F;Bing&#x2F;DDG&#x2F;etc.</text></item><item><author>SamBam</author><text>&gt; You do a search on Gigablast and say, well, why didn&#x27;t it get this result that Google got. And that&#x27;s because the index isn&#x27;t big enough<p>I wionder how much this is true, and how much (despite all our rhetoric to the contrary) it&#x27;s because we have actually come to expect Google&#x27;s modern proprietary page ranking, which counts more than just inbound links but all sorts of other signals (freshness, relevance to our previous queries, etc.).<p>We dislike the additional signals when it feels like Google is trying to second-guess our intentions, but we probably don&#x27;t notice how well they work when they give us the result we expect in the first three links.</text></item><item><author>gbmatt</author><text>Ha, yes, I&#x27;ve done that at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gigablast.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gigablast.com&#x2F;</a> .
The biggest problems now are the following:
1) Too hard to spider the web. Gatekeeper companies like Cloudflare (owned in part by Google) and Cloudfront make it really difficult for upstart search engines to download web pages.
2) Hardware costs are too high. It&#x27;s much more expensive now to build a large index (50B+ pages) to be competitive.<p>I believe my algorithms are decent, but the biggest problem for Gigablast is now the index size. You do a search on Gigablast and say, well, why didn&#x27;t it get this result that Google got. And that&#x27;s because the index isn&#x27;t big enough because I don&#x27;t have the cash for the hardware. btw, I&#x27;ve been working on this engine for over 20 years and have coded probably 1-2M lines of code on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbhjpbhj</author><text>2005? There were loads of other search engines (SE), and many meta-SE: hotbot, dogpile, metacrawler, ... (IIRC), plenty more.<p>There was also indexes, which Yahoo, AOL (remember them!) had but there was, what was it called, dmoz?, the open web directory. When Google started, being in the right web directory gave you a boost in SERPs as it was used as a domain trust indicator, and the categories were used for keywords. Of course it got gamed hard.<p>Google was good, but I used it as an alt for maybe 6 months before it won over my main SE at the time. I&#x27;ve tried but can&#x27;t remember what SE that was, Omni-something??<p>One of the main things Google had was all the extra operators like link: inurl:, etc., but they had Boolean logic operators too at one point I think.</text></comment> |
30,855,639 | 30,852,778 | 1 | 2 | 30,836,647 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Visualize SQL Queries</title><url>https://animatesql.com</url><text>My co-worker and I were debugging a SQL issue; having not seen SQL in two years, I embarrassed myself by confusing union vs. join. After this episode, I tried refreshing my SQL memory, but there are few websites that animate SQL for you. Most of them just have a series of images to help you visualize. There are a few tools that are quite good and robust (especially for large&#x2F;complex use cases) but require installation and are too complex for my simple purpose.<p>So, just created a small tool to help visualise SQL. Most of the animations are just my understanding of how SQL works. Would love to know what you think? Do you also visualise some of the queries like that in your head? Any feedback would be gold. Btw you can also edit queries and see different results (but its a bit limited).<p>Have fun ;)</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bob1029</author><text>We have started looking at something along the same axis of &quot;improving understanding of your queries&quot;. Our product has nearly 10k SQL queries that need to be managed for each logical installation.<p>By converting a SQL query into an AST, you can start applying business logic to the actual syntax of the query. Put another way, you can query you queries. You can also run reports across <i>all</i> SQL to determine things like &quot;show me everything in the product which references this table &amp; column&quot;, or &quot;Which queries reference a specific magic string constant?&quot;. More advanced reports can be made too, such as &quot;Which queries join tables A, B &amp; C together?&quot;<p>We haven&#x27;t taken it to the next step yet, but hypothetically we can go from AST back into SQL and start doing some super crazy shit like patching hand-written queries programmatically. Once something is in AST form, you are basically working with playdoh that another tool like LINQ (and a bit of recursion) can trivially cut through.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Visualize SQL Queries</title><url>https://animatesql.com</url><text>My co-worker and I were debugging a SQL issue; having not seen SQL in two years, I embarrassed myself by confusing union vs. join. After this episode, I tried refreshing my SQL memory, but there are few websites that animate SQL for you. Most of them just have a series of images to help you visualize. There are a few tools that are quite good and robust (especially for large&#x2F;complex use cases) but require installation and are too complex for my simple purpose.<p>So, just created a small tool to help visualise SQL. Most of the animations are just my understanding of how SQL works. Would love to know what you think? Do you also visualise some of the queries like that in your head? Any feedback would be gold. Btw you can also edit queries and see different results (but its a bit limited).<p>Have fun ;)</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ComodoHacker</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure a procedural visualization is appropriate for a declarative language like SQL. It can be misleading both on underlying concepts (sets and relations) and actual query execution.<p>I&#x27;d more like to see a visualization it terms of tuples, sets and operations on them leading to result set.</text></comment> |
11,503,412 | 11,503,450 | 1 | 2 | 11,503,080 | train | <story><title>Universal basic income: A nonprofit is about to test it in a big way</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/04/14/universal_basic_income_this_nonprofit_is_about_to_test_it_in_a_big_way.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GordonS</author><text>&gt; we’re planning to provide at least 6,000 Kenyans with a basic income for 10 to 15 years<p>It&#x27;s great that this is going to be ran at scale, and over a long period of time - the hardest part is going to be waiting on the results!</text></comment> | <story><title>Universal basic income: A nonprofit is about to test it in a big way</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/04/14/universal_basic_income_this_nonprofit_is_about_to_test_it_in_a_big_way.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Vinnl</author><text>To participate, you can donate here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;givedirectly.org&#x2F;give-basic-income" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;givedirectly.org&#x2F;give-basic-income</a><p>(They&#x27;re also listing fee-less Alternative Donation Options there, but I can&#x27;t quite figure out how to use those to donate to this specific experiment.)</text></comment> |
6,633,131 | 6,633,128 | 1 | 2 | 6,632,949 | train | <story><title>For modern development Javascript indeed is a shit language</title><url>http://live.julik.nl/2013/05/javascript-is-shit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Peaker</author><text>How do you handle Javascript ignoring wrong numbers of function arguments? Do you use a linter to catch this sort of thing?<p>This part of Javascript sounds the most absolutely insane to me: Silencing an error like that is catastrophic.</text></item><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>Personally, I disagree. I find JavaScript to be the most &quot;write-able&quot; language, and switching to Node + frontend JS as my main language (I&#x27;ve done Python, Ruby, PHP, Java and C++ as jobs) has been the best thing I&#x27;ve done in a long time. Express and Angular are amazing.<p>Sure, it has a bunch of quirks. Sure, it&#x27;s not good for everything (I do mostly relatively simple CRUD apps). Sure, in the browser, it gets slow when the DOM is involved. Sure, this is hardly a rebuttal of the points in the original article.<p>But, still, I love JavaScript.<p>I think the problem is that the author is writing JavaScript as though it&#x27;s Ruby. A JS developer switching to Ruby would have similar problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Wintamute</author><text>Generally speaking, in the JS world at least, if you&#x27;re passing more than a few parameters into a function you might have code complexity problems. If you need to pass in a bunch of data to a function you tend to do it in a single options object with some runtime checking to work out what to do with it. Any remaining problems should be caught with good test coverage. Being able to flexibly and clearly handle variable numbers of function arguments without getting entangled in an involved function overloading syntax and methodology is actually sometimes pretty nice. It&#x27;s a feature not a problem. Haha :P</text></comment> | <story><title>For modern development Javascript indeed is a shit language</title><url>http://live.julik.nl/2013/05/javascript-is-shit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Peaker</author><text>How do you handle Javascript ignoring wrong numbers of function arguments? Do you use a linter to catch this sort of thing?<p>This part of Javascript sounds the most absolutely insane to me: Silencing an error like that is catastrophic.</text></item><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>Personally, I disagree. I find JavaScript to be the most &quot;write-able&quot; language, and switching to Node + frontend JS as my main language (I&#x27;ve done Python, Ruby, PHP, Java and C++ as jobs) has been the best thing I&#x27;ve done in a long time. Express and Angular are amazing.<p>Sure, it has a bunch of quirks. Sure, it&#x27;s not good for everything (I do mostly relatively simple CRUD apps). Sure, in the browser, it gets slow when the DOM is involved. Sure, this is hardly a rebuttal of the points in the original article.<p>But, still, I love JavaScript.<p>I think the problem is that the author is writing JavaScript as though it&#x27;s Ruby. A JS developer switching to Ruby would have similar problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>powatom</author><text>Is this so much of a problem that we need to re-design JS to handle it? Why not just avoid making this mistake in the first place by reading the code? Not to sound dismissive - but if you&#x27;re making these kinds of mistakes regularly enough to irritate you, it&#x27;s not the language that&#x27;s at fault.<p>Javascript&#x27;s squishiness is the thing I like the most about it. It&#x27;s far from perfect, just like any other language out there - but it&#x27;s fun.</text></comment> |
28,635,140 | 28,635,269 | 1 | 3 | 28,634,027 | train | <story><title>Apple's Texas-Sized Problem</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/09/23/apple-texas-sized-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>I know this is nowadays seen as a naive or counter-productive, but I like Unix Philosophy ideal of do one thing, and do it well. I want a business to focus on their business, not on social change or influencing policy. I&#x27;m weary of how all these corporate giants are coming together and trying to influence state laws after they&#x27;ve been passed. For two main reasons, one, I would like these companies to focus on what they actually provide, rather than this modern progressive &#x27;everything is political, all the time&#x27; mindset. Two, Apple isn&#x27;t democratically elected and I don&#x27;t know if any accountability structures exist for such activism. What gives Apple <i>more</i> of a right to counter what the duly elected representatives of a state government have enacted, than the voters of that state themselves?<p>For all it&#x27;s horrible flaws, this was something passed by the Texas government. I can at least understand the structural justification for the law. People voted for a state representative, state senator, and a governor who signed the bill. The authority and responsibility is clear. The feedback mechanism is also clear - vote. And, I do hope a lot of them lose their seats as a result of the backlash. But again, I think the power to address this Texas-Sized problem should primarily be in the hands of Texans, rather than giant multinationals like Apple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>The thing is that this isn&#x27;t companies influencing state law. This is companies deciding <i>who</i> and <i>where</i> they do business. In many cases valued employees are going to quit and join a company not in Texas if their employer does not give them the option of transferring to a non-Texas office, so the company has a vested economic interest in retaining them and locating their offices in some place where this will not be an issue.<p>You have every right to be an asshole, but you don&#x27;t have a right to make other people put up with it. If you&#x27;re going to enact something that a large swath of your population finds deeply offensive, don&#x27;t be surprised if they <i>leave</i>, and don&#x27;t be surprised if the economic activity they generate leaves with them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple's Texas-Sized Problem</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/09/23/apple-texas-sized-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>I know this is nowadays seen as a naive or counter-productive, but I like Unix Philosophy ideal of do one thing, and do it well. I want a business to focus on their business, not on social change or influencing policy. I&#x27;m weary of how all these corporate giants are coming together and trying to influence state laws after they&#x27;ve been passed. For two main reasons, one, I would like these companies to focus on what they actually provide, rather than this modern progressive &#x27;everything is political, all the time&#x27; mindset. Two, Apple isn&#x27;t democratically elected and I don&#x27;t know if any accountability structures exist for such activism. What gives Apple <i>more</i> of a right to counter what the duly elected representatives of a state government have enacted, than the voters of that state themselves?<p>For all it&#x27;s horrible flaws, this was something passed by the Texas government. I can at least understand the structural justification for the law. People voted for a state representative, state senator, and a governor who signed the bill. The authority and responsibility is clear. The feedback mechanism is also clear - vote. And, I do hope a lot of them lose their seats as a result of the backlash. But again, I think the power to address this Texas-Sized problem should primarily be in the hands of Texans, rather than giant multinationals like Apple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakelazaroff</author><text>Okay, but where is this energy when companies donate to politicians? Or spend millions lobbying for specific policies? Or contract with the police or military?<p>Why does the issue begin and end <i>here</i> for so many people?</text></comment> |
24,929,212 | 24,928,455 | 1 | 3 | 24,926,214 | train | <story><title>I Violated a Code of Conduct</title><url>https://www.fast.ai/2020/10/28/code-of-conduct/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Your premise is that, rather than free association, every group of people owes a kind of due process to everyone else, presumptive of their right to associate. Sorry, I disagree: people can decide they don&#x27;t want to associate with you or me for reasons we don&#x27;t find justifiable. I can throw a party and not invite you simply for writing this comment; I can start a project and not allow you to contribute. You can relate to the rest of the world that I did that, and let them decide what that means to them.<p>We&#x27;ve gone out of our way to encode into law the exceptions to that rule. We can talk all we want about &quot;anglo-derived common law&quot; in those cases.</text></item><item><author>defen</author><text>I disagree. I think we should generalize more, beyond codes of conduct: If you are building an adjudication process for resolving non-criminal personal conflicts (whether that be a Code of Conduct, an HR department, a Title IX proceeding, a professional organization, or something else), you should take a look at Anglo-derived common law and the safeguards against abuse that have been evolved over the centuries.<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean everything needs to go through the courts; it means that if your process allows something that Anglo common law does not allow, you should have a good answer for why that is. Does it allow anonymous accusations? Is the accused allowed to know the charges against them, before a finding of guilt is rendered? Is there a presumption of innocence? Is the accused allowed to have a trusted third party - one who knows the rules of the game - to advocate on their behalf? Who, exactly, is responsible for deciding matters of fact vs matters of &quot;law&quot;? Is there an appeals process to fix possibly incorrect decisions?<p>Going by the linked document by Valerie Aurora, a good Code of Conduct allows anonymous accusations, the accused does not get to know the charges against them before a finding is rendered, there is no presumption of innocence, the accused does not get a third party advocate, matters of fact are necessarily decided by the same committee that makes the rules, and there is no appeal process.<p>This doesn&#x27;t mean that such a committee will always do wrong. But I think it&#x27;s worth thinking about how people operating in bad faith (either on the committee, or reporters to it) can abuse those features to achieve goals that are not actually aligned with what the Code of Conduct is trying to do. Yes, it&#x27;s true that people can&#x27;t be put in jail for these sorts of things, but a poorly-run adjudication process can have significant negative personal and financial effects on people.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is one of those posts where the title is going to trigger a lot of unproductive subthreads, but the piece itself seems pretty balanced and thoughtful (and links to Valerie Aurora&#x27;s excellent code-of-conduct training deck).<p>The thing HN likes to do best with any story is to generalize it and find sweeping conclusions. Here, I think the story is pretty much just: people screw up, and if your project has a code of conduct (I think most professional ones should!), there are some easy pitfalls to avoid captured here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>finnthehuman</author><text>You inadvertently gave away the game.<p>We can all agree that everyone has the right to be arbitrary and capricious. Codes of conduct are a formalization of expectations and rules for behavior. The are often tied (explicitly or implicitly) to an adjudication and enforcement process much more complicated than the person in charge just saying &quot;get the fuck out&quot;.<p>However when someone brings up the idea of improving that bureaucratic process by comparing and contrasting Codes of Conduct language and enforcement to our society&#x27;s hard-fought experience in creating fair justice systems, you retreated right back to the right to be arbitrary and capricious.<p>This is why people can&#x27;t help but wonder: what the fuck are we trying to accomplish here? All I know is I need to publish a specific flavor of bureaucratic boilerplate so I don&#x27;t get my reputation attacked for not publicly promising to kick out people I would have kicked out anyway. And that I can use that document to dole out punishments with a larger air of legitimacy and seriousness than just telling someone not to come around my place anymore.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Violated a Code of Conduct</title><url>https://www.fast.ai/2020/10/28/code-of-conduct/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Your premise is that, rather than free association, every group of people owes a kind of due process to everyone else, presumptive of their right to associate. Sorry, I disagree: people can decide they don&#x27;t want to associate with you or me for reasons we don&#x27;t find justifiable. I can throw a party and not invite you simply for writing this comment; I can start a project and not allow you to contribute. You can relate to the rest of the world that I did that, and let them decide what that means to them.<p>We&#x27;ve gone out of our way to encode into law the exceptions to that rule. We can talk all we want about &quot;anglo-derived common law&quot; in those cases.</text></item><item><author>defen</author><text>I disagree. I think we should generalize more, beyond codes of conduct: If you are building an adjudication process for resolving non-criminal personal conflicts (whether that be a Code of Conduct, an HR department, a Title IX proceeding, a professional organization, or something else), you should take a look at Anglo-derived common law and the safeguards against abuse that have been evolved over the centuries.<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean everything needs to go through the courts; it means that if your process allows something that Anglo common law does not allow, you should have a good answer for why that is. Does it allow anonymous accusations? Is the accused allowed to know the charges against them, before a finding of guilt is rendered? Is there a presumption of innocence? Is the accused allowed to have a trusted third party - one who knows the rules of the game - to advocate on their behalf? Who, exactly, is responsible for deciding matters of fact vs matters of &quot;law&quot;? Is there an appeals process to fix possibly incorrect decisions?<p>Going by the linked document by Valerie Aurora, a good Code of Conduct allows anonymous accusations, the accused does not get to know the charges against them before a finding is rendered, there is no presumption of innocence, the accused does not get a third party advocate, matters of fact are necessarily decided by the same committee that makes the rules, and there is no appeal process.<p>This doesn&#x27;t mean that such a committee will always do wrong. But I think it&#x27;s worth thinking about how people operating in bad faith (either on the committee, or reporters to it) can abuse those features to achieve goals that are not actually aligned with what the Code of Conduct is trying to do. Yes, it&#x27;s true that people can&#x27;t be put in jail for these sorts of things, but a poorly-run adjudication process can have significant negative personal and financial effects on people.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is one of those posts where the title is going to trigger a lot of unproductive subthreads, but the piece itself seems pretty balanced and thoughtful (and links to Valerie Aurora&#x27;s excellent code-of-conduct training deck).<p>The thing HN likes to do best with any story is to generalize it and find sweeping conclusions. Here, I think the story is pretty much just: people screw up, and if your project has a code of conduct (I think most professional ones should!), there are some easy pitfalls to avoid captured here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ScottBurson</author><text>It&#x27;s not &quot;every group of people&quot; -- it&#x27;s organizations that invite the participation of the public, or at least of others they don&#x27;t know well, as long as they adhere to the mores of the community.<p>More importantly, I take the parent&#x27;s point to be, not that such an organization &quot;owes&quot; anything to anyone, but simply that anyone formalizing a Code of Conduct and a committee to enforce it would do well to understand why the protections of due process exist. If their intention is truly to create a safe space for interaction, setting up a process that can be easily abused is not going to help with that.</text></comment> |
17,432,895 | 17,432,256 | 1 | 3 | 17,431,609 | train | <story><title>Why you should not use Google Cloud</title><url>https://medium.com/@serverpunch/why-you-should-not-use-google-cloud-75ea2aec00de</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warrentr</author><text>This is very concerning but can happen on AWS as well. July 4th last year at about 4PM PST amazon silently shutdown our primary load balancer (ALB) due to some copyright complaint. This took out our main api and several dependent apps. We were able to get a tech support agent on the phone but he wasn&#x27;t able to determine why this happened for several hours. Eventually we figured out that another department within amazon was responsible for pulling down the alb in an undetectable way. Ironically we are now in the process of moving from aws -&gt; gcp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joecot</author><text>My coworker is running a hosted affiliate tracking system on AWS as part of our company. He regularly has to deal with AWS wanting to pull our servers because of email spam -- not because we&#x27;re sending spam emails, but because some affiliate link is in a spam email that resolves to our server, and Spamhaus complained to AWS.<p>Usually this can get handled after a few days of aggravating emails back and forth, we get our client to ban the affiliate in question, and move on with our days with no downtime. But a few weeks ago my coworker came in to find our server taken offline, because AWS emailed him about a spam complaint on a Friday night, and they hadn&#x27;t gotten a response by Sunday. It&#x27;d been down for hours before he realized.<p>They&#x27;d just null terminated the IP of the server, so he updated IPs in DNS real quick, but he then spent half a day both resolving the complaint, and then getting someone at AWS to say it wouldn&#x27;t happen again. They supposedly put a flag on his account requiring upper management approval to disable something again, but we&#x27;ll see if that works when it comes up again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why you should not use Google Cloud</title><url>https://medium.com/@serverpunch/why-you-should-not-use-google-cloud-75ea2aec00de</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warrentr</author><text>This is very concerning but can happen on AWS as well. July 4th last year at about 4PM PST amazon silently shutdown our primary load balancer (ALB) due to some copyright complaint. This took out our main api and several dependent apps. We were able to get a tech support agent on the phone but he wasn&#x27;t able to determine why this happened for several hours. Eventually we figured out that another department within amazon was responsible for pulling down the alb in an undetectable way. Ironically we are now in the process of moving from aws -&gt; gcp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>They shutdown just the load balancer?<p>Forgive my ignorance but that seems like a weird choice rather than cutting access to the servers or in some more formal ways for copyright...<p>Also kinda concernit that multiple departments can take enforcement type action and others not know it. That seems way disorganized &#x2F; recipe for diasater.</text></comment> |
12,059,136 | 12,059,113 | 1 | 3 | 12,058,045 | train | <story><title>Amazon software engineer interview</title><url>http://sobit.me/2016/07/08/amazon-software-engineer-interview/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>catchmrbharath</author><text>I had this view when I was interviewing for internships during this quarter. I have spent working and interviewing at a couple of places, before I came to pursue my masters and I believed people valued coming up with the solution on the spot.<p>I interviewed at atleast 10 places for internships and every single of them asked one of the questions from either leetcode or cracking the coding interview. I found none of them cared whether I am thinking on my feet for a solution or not. As long as you can reproduce the answers to the questions in a nice manner, you got selected. None of my interviewers were trying to understand &#x2F; empathize how difficult it is to come up with a solution really quickly when you have not seen the problem before.<p>The thing I learnt through the ordeal is
1. Nobody cares whether you are thinking on your feet or not.
2. You need a month of preparation going into these sort of interviews.</text></item><item><author>geoelectric</author><text>I&#x27;m all for interview prep, but this sounds like a fairly standard tech company loop.<p>I usually take a few days to brush up on algorithms and structures for the first one I do in a batch, and have some canned answers for the personal questions, but otherwise go in with what I know. Some of that&#x27;s experience now, but I don&#x27;t remember any point in my career where I&#x27;d have done something this extensive. I hope the poster doesn&#x27;t feel they need a month&#x27;s prep every time they want to go test the waters on the job market!<p>I do agree with the frequent recommendations for Cracking the Coding Interview. As a lead who interviews frequently, my biggest tip is to be honest about what you do and don&#x27;t know--take what you do know right to the limit then talk about how you&#x27;d figure out the rest given normal professional time and resources.<p>I&#x27;m not usually grading someone on whether they can solve my specific problem so much as whether I think they&#x27;re someone I can work with while they do it. That said, if it&#x27;s on your resume you&#x27;d better be able to talk intelligently about it to whatever level makes sense for your experience. I definitely probe around that stuff to figure out if I can trust the rest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kamaal</author><text>&gt;&gt;I found none of them cared whether I am thinking on my feet for a solution or not.<p>There are section of people among programmers who give away tens of hours of time per week on sites of the likes you mentioned, these people have no other hobbies, hardly do any other productive or creative work, have no real social circle and generally spend all the time of their life in &#x27;karma hunger&#x27; kind of a pursuit for points in solving some thousand people like themselves already solved.<p>Now they have to justify all mega massive wastage of time by at least making it look some kind of an intellectually superior activity which other people are incapable of. They might as well fail a few people in the interviews to get some consolation for that kind of wastage of time.<p>Everytime I see people spending scores of time on these leetcode kind of sites, I&#x27;m reminded of exams in India, where students just sit down and mind numbingly practice several years of question papers in hopes of finding similar questions or sometimes the same questions with minor modifications in exams. Finally you get students who barely know anything at all but pass the exams with high marks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon software engineer interview</title><url>http://sobit.me/2016/07/08/amazon-software-engineer-interview/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>catchmrbharath</author><text>I had this view when I was interviewing for internships during this quarter. I have spent working and interviewing at a couple of places, before I came to pursue my masters and I believed people valued coming up with the solution on the spot.<p>I interviewed at atleast 10 places for internships and every single of them asked one of the questions from either leetcode or cracking the coding interview. I found none of them cared whether I am thinking on my feet for a solution or not. As long as you can reproduce the answers to the questions in a nice manner, you got selected. None of my interviewers were trying to understand &#x2F; empathize how difficult it is to come up with a solution really quickly when you have not seen the problem before.<p>The thing I learnt through the ordeal is
1. Nobody cares whether you are thinking on your feet or not.
2. You need a month of preparation going into these sort of interviews.</text></item><item><author>geoelectric</author><text>I&#x27;m all for interview prep, but this sounds like a fairly standard tech company loop.<p>I usually take a few days to brush up on algorithms and structures for the first one I do in a batch, and have some canned answers for the personal questions, but otherwise go in with what I know. Some of that&#x27;s experience now, but I don&#x27;t remember any point in my career where I&#x27;d have done something this extensive. I hope the poster doesn&#x27;t feel they need a month&#x27;s prep every time they want to go test the waters on the job market!<p>I do agree with the frequent recommendations for Cracking the Coding Interview. As a lead who interviews frequently, my biggest tip is to be honest about what you do and don&#x27;t know--take what you do know right to the limit then talk about how you&#x27;d figure out the rest given normal professional time and resources.<p>I&#x27;m not usually grading someone on whether they can solve my specific problem so much as whether I think they&#x27;re someone I can work with while they do it. That said, if it&#x27;s on your resume you&#x27;d better be able to talk intelligently about it to whatever level makes sense for your experience. I definitely probe around that stuff to figure out if I can trust the rest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geoelectric</author><text>That&#x27;s a shame. When someone sails through something I gave them, I usually kick myself for giving them a crappy or cliched problem and assume they&#x27;ve probably solved it previously. In that situation I absolutely am trying to figure out if they at least understand the answer so I&#x27;m looking for them to talk through, etc.<p>Coding on the board is a broken process anyway (just one I rarely have the influence to redefine wholly) but coding on the board as a &quot;closed&quot; interview question is downright stupid. You learn absolutely nothing relevant about the candidate, and they learn absolutely nothing about you. I&#x27;m sorry to find out that was the bulk of your experience.<p>FWIW, once you get enough experience to pick and choose, that would be a bad smell for me interviewing at a company. If I feel like there&#x27;s no rapport and I&#x27;m just getting grilled in an interview past the initial tech screen, I will and have stopped the process myself. Life&#x27;s too short to be a cog.</text></comment> |
22,016,104 | 22,015,966 | 1 | 2 | 22,015,072 | train | <story><title>Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs</title><url>http://news.mit.edu/2020/faq-fact-finding-report-jeffrey-epstein-0110</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>From the report<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;factfindingjan2020.mit.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;MIT-report.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;factfindingjan2020.mit.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;MIT-report.pdf</a><p>Professor Lloyd&#x27;s dealings look very, very shady:<p>&gt; Professor Lloyd remained friends with Epstein after his conviction in 2008.
He visited Epstein at his office in Florida during the period of Epstein’s criminal sentence.
Professor Lloyd also visited Epstein’s private island, though for only a few hours for lunch, and
he has acknowledged Epstein in his academic publications. While Professor Lloyd clearly
valued Epstein as a source of potential funding, he also told us he believed that, by continuing to
engage with Epstein post-conviction, he could be part of Epstein’s rehabilitation.
Professor Lloyd told us that, in 2005 or 2006 (before Epstein’s conviction), Epstein gave
him a personal $60,000 gift to support his MIT research that Professor Lloyd did not submit
through MIT. In possible violation of MIT policies and certainly in violation of MIT norms,
Professor Lloyd deposited the gift into a personal bank account and did not report it to MIT.<p>&gt; Eventually, in July 2016, Professor Lloyd affirmatively contacted Epstein by email to ask for
funding to support his upcoming sabbatical. On June 1, 2017, Epstein emailed his accountant
and Professor Lloyd: “send 125 k to mit for seth lloyd from gratitude.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlanYx</author><text>My jaw dropped when I read page 9 of the report, it says &quot;Professor Minsky (who passed away in 2016) had worked with Epstein to organize an off-campus conference on artificial intelligence that same year.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s quite a charitable characterization! The conference in question wasn&#x27;t just any &quot;off-campus conference&quot; -- it was held <i>on</i> Epstein&#x27;s island.<p>Minsky had also organized a two-day symposium on Epstein&#x27;s island several years prior (in 2002), a fact also totally omitted from the report.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs</title><url>http://news.mit.edu/2020/faq-fact-finding-report-jeffrey-epstein-0110</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>From the report<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;factfindingjan2020.mit.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;MIT-report.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;factfindingjan2020.mit.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;MIT-report.pdf</a><p>Professor Lloyd&#x27;s dealings look very, very shady:<p>&gt; Professor Lloyd remained friends with Epstein after his conviction in 2008.
He visited Epstein at his office in Florida during the period of Epstein’s criminal sentence.
Professor Lloyd also visited Epstein’s private island, though for only a few hours for lunch, and
he has acknowledged Epstein in his academic publications. While Professor Lloyd clearly
valued Epstein as a source of potential funding, he also told us he believed that, by continuing to
engage with Epstein post-conviction, he could be part of Epstein’s rehabilitation.
Professor Lloyd told us that, in 2005 or 2006 (before Epstein’s conviction), Epstein gave
him a personal $60,000 gift to support his MIT research that Professor Lloyd did not submit
through MIT. In possible violation of MIT policies and certainly in violation of MIT norms,
Professor Lloyd deposited the gift into a personal bank account and did not report it to MIT.<p>&gt; Eventually, in July 2016, Professor Lloyd affirmatively contacted Epstein by email to ask for
funding to support his upcoming sabbatical. On June 1, 2017, Epstein emailed his accountant
and Professor Lloyd: “send 125 k to mit for seth lloyd from gratitude.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sequoia</author><text>&gt; Professor Lloyd also visited Epstein’s private island, though for only a few hours for lunch<p>Normally one would give the benefit of the doubt, but given the abhorrent acts people were perpetrating or turning a blind eye to in this case, I&#x27;m inclined not to. Hence this question of fact:<p>Unless there are credible witnesses attesting to the fact that he spent his few hours on that island eating lunch, the report should refrain from speculation and simply say &quot;he visited Epstein&#x27;s island for a few hours.&quot; We don&#x27;t know what he was doing.</text></comment> |
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