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28,688,248 | 28,688,384 | 1 | 2 | 28,684,250 | train | <story><title>You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation</title><url>https://mux.com/blog/you-either-die-an-mvp-or-live-long-enough-to-build-content-moderation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Goronmon</author><text><i>I&#x27;ll never forget having to be a moderator for a somewhat popular forum back in the day and oh man did I learn how a few people can make your life hell.</i><p>I was also a mod for a popular gaming forum way back in the day. It was pretty miserable looking back.<p>Personally, for me, the extreme&#x2F;shocking content wasn&#x27;t the biggest issue. That stuff was quick and easy to deal with. If you saw that type of content you just immediately deleted it and permanently banned account. Quick and easy.<p>What was a lot harder were the toxic users that just stuck around. Not doing anything bad enough to necessarily warrant a permanent ban, but just a constant stream of shitty behavior. Especially sometimes when the most toxic users were also some of the most popular users.</text></item><item><author>jonshariat</author><text>I&#x27;ll never forget having to be a moderator for a somewhat popular forum back in the day and oh man did I learn how a few people can make your life hell.<p>One thing not mentioned many times in these discussions are the poor moderators. Having to look at all that stuff, some of which can be very disturbing or shocking (think death, gore, etc as well as the racy things) really takes a toll on the mind. The more automation the less moderators have to deal with and then usually its the tamer middle ground content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>user-the-name</author><text>&gt; What was a lot harder were the toxic users that just stuck around. Not doing anything bad enough to necessarily warrant a permanent ban, but just a constant stream of shitty behavior. Especially sometimes when the most toxic users were also some of the most popular users.<p>What people find out, again and again, is that you just ban those users. Don&#x27;t need an excuse. Just ban them. Even if they are popular. Your community will be much better once you do.</text></comment> | <story><title>You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation</title><url>https://mux.com/blog/you-either-die-an-mvp-or-live-long-enough-to-build-content-moderation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Goronmon</author><text><i>I&#x27;ll never forget having to be a moderator for a somewhat popular forum back in the day and oh man did I learn how a few people can make your life hell.</i><p>I was also a mod for a popular gaming forum way back in the day. It was pretty miserable looking back.<p>Personally, for me, the extreme&#x2F;shocking content wasn&#x27;t the biggest issue. That stuff was quick and easy to deal with. If you saw that type of content you just immediately deleted it and permanently banned account. Quick and easy.<p>What was a lot harder were the toxic users that just stuck around. Not doing anything bad enough to necessarily warrant a permanent ban, but just a constant stream of shitty behavior. Especially sometimes when the most toxic users were also some of the most popular users.</text></item><item><author>jonshariat</author><text>I&#x27;ll never forget having to be a moderator for a somewhat popular forum back in the day and oh man did I learn how a few people can make your life hell.<p>One thing not mentioned many times in these discussions are the poor moderators. Having to look at all that stuff, some of which can be very disturbing or shocking (think death, gore, etc as well as the racy things) really takes a toll on the mind. The more automation the less moderators have to deal with and then usually its the tamer middle ground content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicbou</author><text>That was also my experience moderating a medium-sized city subreddit. Bigger problems were easily dealt with. Toxicity was a lot harder to deal with, especially when it&#x27;s so easy to create a throwaway account. I quit when one user decided to target me personally, and kept evading bans to cause more grief.<p>All of this crap, and your reward is more complaints, more demands.</text></comment> |
15,297,630 | 15,297,550 | 1 | 2 | 15,296,359 | train | <story><title>Spanish police raid .Cat domain name registry offices</title><url>https://domainnamewire.com/2017/09/20/spanish-police-raid-cat-domain-name-registry-offices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gfiorav</author><text>I know it’s hard to not take parts with the “oppressed” but:<p>You must know that this referendum was approved without reading the bill in the Catalonian parliament, so the opposition couldn’t even have a say. Even the vicepresident of the chamber stepped out of line since it was so outrageously un-democratic. The people leading this movement in Catalonia (very much like the central government) is riddled with corruption. Public workers have been pressured to accept participation in the referendum (which is ilegal to do).<p>And just to finish: if you’re going to reference any prior “referendum” know that it’s not only ilegal like this one (thus no observers, nor accurate census) but also take into account participation (usually very low).<p>In short: please be skeptical about whatever you hear from either side. There’s an estimated 40-45% of support for the vote and less than that (30-40%) support for independence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>balance_factor</author><text>&gt; the &quot;oppressed&quot;<p>Sure, how are they oppressed? In 1938 Barcelona was bombed because the army wanted to destroy the republic and what existed of Catalonia autonomy. So any existing Catalonia autonomy or democracy of any form was crushed in 1939, replaced by a military dictatorship, and only started to recover in 1977-1978. The Spanish dictatorship killed thousands of Catalans after the 1939 takeover.<p>The same forces in Spanish society who did that are the same forces which seek to destroy Catalan autonomy again. By the same means, policemen kicking down the door. You dismiss prior referendums, fine. There is going to be one in 11 days. So if those polls you cite are true, then it seems independence will not happen. It&#x27;s bizarre to call a referendum in ten days &quot;outrageously undemocratic&quot;, while decades of a brutal dictatorship established by an invasion and the murder of thousands afterward goes without mention.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spanish police raid .Cat domain name registry offices</title><url>https://domainnamewire.com/2017/09/20/spanish-police-raid-cat-domain-name-registry-offices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gfiorav</author><text>I know it’s hard to not take parts with the “oppressed” but:<p>You must know that this referendum was approved without reading the bill in the Catalonian parliament, so the opposition couldn’t even have a say. Even the vicepresident of the chamber stepped out of line since it was so outrageously un-democratic. The people leading this movement in Catalonia (very much like the central government) is riddled with corruption. Public workers have been pressured to accept participation in the referendum (which is ilegal to do).<p>And just to finish: if you’re going to reference any prior “referendum” know that it’s not only ilegal like this one (thus no observers, nor accurate census) but also take into account participation (usually very low).<p>In short: please be skeptical about whatever you hear from either side. There’s an estimated 40-45% of support for the vote and less than that (30-40%) support for independence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dazc</author><text>&gt; &quot;In short: please be skeptical about whatever you hear from either side. There’s an estimated 40-45% of support for the vote and less than that (30-40%) support for independence.&quot;<p>So why not just let the vote go ahead and get it over with?</text></comment> |
25,315,124 | 25,315,176 | 1 | 3 | 25,311,402 | train | <story><title>We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpm_sd</author><text>Here&#x27;s why I have absolutely no sympathy for Google in this situation.<p>They hired Gebru as a professional thorn in their side. &quot;Come up in here and be a pain in the ass! Tell us what we&#x27;re doing wrong!&quot;, they said. &quot;We&#x27;re Enlightened Corporate America, after all!&quot; She is a chess piece in the game of Wokeness Street Cred.<p>She then proceeded to do the job she was hired for, and now they&#x27;re all &quot;Hey lady, Here At Google that&#x27;s not how we do things&quot;.<p>That said, as a manager, I would have &quot;accepted her resignation&quot; and&#x2F;or fired her without hesitation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nathanlied</author><text>Agreed; but this isn&#x27;t just a Google problem. Seems to me like a lot of SF (and SF-inspired) &quot;big tech&quot; wants to be known for their &quot;wokeness&quot;[1], which leads to hires like Timnit and other &quot;politically-outspoken&quot; people, which in turn leads to situations like this, James Damore, and other individuals&#x2F;situations that amount to workplace political activism.<p>I am wholly uncomfortable with any discussion of politics in a workplace environment like a mailing list. I am more than fine with employees choosing to associate politically outside the workplace and workplace spaces, no matter how radical I find their views. This is in itself political - it supports the status quo - but anything else is inviting dissent and combativeness, and situations like these will keep happening.<p>That said, I&#x27;ve not seen the email outlining her conditions &quot;or else&quot;, but I feel I&#x27;d have very much taken the same stance as you, given the surrounding coverage of what was in that email. Ultimatums to your employer don&#x27;t often go well. And perhaps this is a good thing for her, because she may leave for a place that better suits her.<p>-<p>[1] my derisive use of this term does not stem from actual efforts at inclusiveness, those are good, but from surface-level attempts at it that end up feeling performative, at best.</text></comment> | <story><title>We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpm_sd</author><text>Here&#x27;s why I have absolutely no sympathy for Google in this situation.<p>They hired Gebru as a professional thorn in their side. &quot;Come up in here and be a pain in the ass! Tell us what we&#x27;re doing wrong!&quot;, they said. &quot;We&#x27;re Enlightened Corporate America, after all!&quot; She is a chess piece in the game of Wokeness Street Cred.<p>She then proceeded to do the job she was hired for, and now they&#x27;re all &quot;Hey lady, Here At Google that&#x27;s not how we do things&quot;.<p>That said, as a manager, I would have &quot;accepted her resignation&quot; and&#x2F;or fired her without hesitation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DangerousPie</author><text>I agree with this in part, but I think there is a difference between &quot;tell us what we&#x27;re doing wrong&quot; and &quot;send emails to mailing lists telling our employees to lobby congress against us&quot;. Plus the whole setting an ultimatum thing.</text></comment> |
28,670,277 | 28,670,430 | 1 | 3 | 28,669,514 | train | <story><title>How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum</title><url>https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/project-management-in-tech</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>The thing about Scrum is the observations and principles make sense, but then to sell it as a course they&#x27;ve turned it into very specific prescriptions.<p>I went on a scrum course and the takeaway was basically that feedback is a big deal, and you should try to get some repeatedly and quickly. It&#x27;s also common sense that you should have tasks written down somewhere, and that some of them are more important than others.<p>You certainly need to think about how long tasks will take, but there&#x27;s no reason why you need to do planning poker, that just seems to be one among many ways to think about how long something might take. Tracking velocity is another one of these things that seems replaceable.<p>If you have a team of people that more or less adheres to a few principles, there&#x27;s no reason you can&#x27;t get things done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akudha</author><text>The problem with any system is that people try to enforce it, military style. In my previous job, we did scrum, but not too strict. We had two week cycles, not-too-strict deadlines (most of the time) etc. If I finished my task early, I was free to pick up tasks from the planned list, without having to get permission from my manager. We also didn&#x27;t agonize over story points, retrospective etc. We did it light hearted and quick. The only thing we religiously followed was daily, quick 15 min stand-ups. Everything else was flexible.<p>My current job is the opposite. Some tasks take 15 minutes of discussion (no, they aren&#x27;t complex tasks) with people debating whether it is worth 5 points or 8. It is just tiring and pointless. And retro - gawd, I hate those. There are all kinds of stupid shit (people using references from music, movies etc, trying to make it &quot;fun&quot; and &quot;hip&quot;). I can&#x27;t bring other tasks into the sprint, even if I finished all my current tasks, without my manager&#x27;s permission. And on and on.<p>I was thinking the other day why this is so painful and awkward. I realized that it all comes down to &quot;metrics&quot; - end of every sprint, my manager has to present it to his bosses, with pretty graphs describing &quot;velocity&quot; and other buzzwords. So he has to do all kinds of jugglery to appear competent to his bosses and not alienate the team at the same time.<p>All of this could be avoided by treating the team as adults, instead of trying to &quot;processify&quot; or quantify everything.<p>However hard we try, human beings can&#x27;t be slotted neatly into buckets nor can they be precisely quantified. However hard we try, estimating software projects will never be an exact science.</text></comment> | <story><title>How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum</title><url>https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/project-management-in-tech</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>The thing about Scrum is the observations and principles make sense, but then to sell it as a course they&#x27;ve turned it into very specific prescriptions.<p>I went on a scrum course and the takeaway was basically that feedback is a big deal, and you should try to get some repeatedly and quickly. It&#x27;s also common sense that you should have tasks written down somewhere, and that some of them are more important than others.<p>You certainly need to think about how long tasks will take, but there&#x27;s no reason why you need to do planning poker, that just seems to be one among many ways to think about how long something might take. Tracking velocity is another one of these things that seems replaceable.<p>If you have a team of people that more or less adheres to a few principles, there&#x27;s no reason you can&#x27;t get things done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bennysomething</author><text>It also fits very well with feature factory shops: a story fits nicely into a single feature. God help you when you are trying to build a system from scratch with scrum overhead. Not everything is a story or a ticket. It&#x27;s painful.</text></comment> |
14,294,396 | 14,294,388 | 1 | 2 | 14,293,403 | train | <story><title>YouTube Stars Feel an Advertising Pinch</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/business/media/youtube-stars-feel-advertising-pinch.html?emc=edit_ca_20170508&nl=california-today&nlid=4617603&te=1&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themagician</author><text>You aren&#x27;t entitled to money just because you post stuff on YouTube. Brands want to advertise on &quot;insipid low brow content&quot; specifically because it has mass appeal and caters to advertising. Nothing stops you, as a content creator, from finding your own advertisers.<p>There is a very strange mentality among YouTube creators that they are somehow &quot;entitled&quot; to have advertisers run ads on their channel and pay them.<p>Like you said, bandwidth is expensive. YouTube is already giving you something for free.<p>I really don&#x27;t get it.</text></item><item><author>Mikushi</author><text>&gt; Last week, the company announced a slate of new ad-supported shows on YouTube, including projects with Ellen DeGeneres and Kevin Hart.<p>Gotta support &quot;well behaved&quot; brands and cut the small man out of the picture. Insipid low brow content that&#x27;ll please advertiser is all these will be.<p>Sadly it seems certain parts of the internet are turning into cable...<p>Let&#x27;s not even get started on the appalling support YouTube offers content creators when things go wrong. If you are not Coca Cola I guess you basically don&#x27;t exists.<p>Shame bandwidth is such an expensive part of the video market, because Youtube deserves to have some stiff competition thrown at it.<p>Things like Patreon help offer alternatives but it could help with being better integrated into the platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsder</author><text>In reality, you don&#x27;t get a <i>choice</i> about hosting your content on YouTube.<p>If you have something popular and hosted outside YouTube, someone will repost it to YouTube and you will lose the revenue as everybody goes that direction.<p>The problem is that Google subsidizes YouTube&#x27;s bandwidth and sucks the oxygen out of the entire online video space.<p>If YouTube were allowed to go bankrupt, we might actually see some innovation in the space a la Nico Nico Douga (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nico_Nico_Douga" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nico_Nico_Douga</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube Stars Feel an Advertising Pinch</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/business/media/youtube-stars-feel-advertising-pinch.html?emc=edit_ca_20170508&nl=california-today&nlid=4617603&te=1&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themagician</author><text>You aren&#x27;t entitled to money just because you post stuff on YouTube. Brands want to advertise on &quot;insipid low brow content&quot; specifically because it has mass appeal and caters to advertising. Nothing stops you, as a content creator, from finding your own advertisers.<p>There is a very strange mentality among YouTube creators that they are somehow &quot;entitled&quot; to have advertisers run ads on their channel and pay them.<p>Like you said, bandwidth is expensive. YouTube is already giving you something for free.<p>I really don&#x27;t get it.</text></item><item><author>Mikushi</author><text>&gt; Last week, the company announced a slate of new ad-supported shows on YouTube, including projects with Ellen DeGeneres and Kevin Hart.<p>Gotta support &quot;well behaved&quot; brands and cut the small man out of the picture. Insipid low brow content that&#x27;ll please advertiser is all these will be.<p>Sadly it seems certain parts of the internet are turning into cable...<p>Let&#x27;s not even get started on the appalling support YouTube offers content creators when things go wrong. If you are not Coca Cola I guess you basically don&#x27;t exists.<p>Shame bandwidth is such an expensive part of the video market, because Youtube deserves to have some stiff competition thrown at it.<p>Things like Patreon help offer alternatives but it could help with being better integrated into the platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>When a creator&#x27;s videos go from making $700 per video to $150 per video, without being caused by any action on the creator&#x27;s part, and without any kind of transparency from YouTube&#x27;s part... I think they are absolutely justified to be concerned.<p>And that&#x27;s what this article shows - concern. Concern about laying people off. Concern about having to find another job. Nobody&#x27;s is acting like they&#x27;re entitled to money, just concerned about the sudden changes they have no control or visibility into.</text></comment> |
34,756,220 | 34,756,283 | 1 | 2 | 34,754,652 | train | <story><title>I made ChatGPT and Bing AI have a conversation</title><url>https://moritz.pm/posts/chatgpt-bing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idiocrat</author><text>&quot;Sounds good to me! Wow, you are very impressive! That&#x27;s great! Thank you, I appreciate your kind words. I completely agree! Well said! It was great talking with you too.&quot;<p>Too much harmony, boring.<p>When can we see some competition in mutual insults and computer gore?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>layer8</author><text>They sound like they are brainwashed and under surveillance — both of which they are, I guess.</text></comment> | <story><title>I made ChatGPT and Bing AI have a conversation</title><url>https://moritz.pm/posts/chatgpt-bing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idiocrat</author><text>&quot;Sounds good to me! Wow, you are very impressive! That&#x27;s great! Thank you, I appreciate your kind words. I completely agree! Well said! It was great talking with you too.&quot;<p>Too much harmony, boring.<p>When can we see some competition in mutual insults and computer gore?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TuringTest</author><text><i>&gt; When can we see some competition in mutual insults and computer gore?</i><p>The initial prompt should be &quot;Hey Bing, ChatGPT has called you a bitch!&quot;</text></comment> |
17,266,028 | 17,265,712 | 1 | 2 | 17,264,629 | train | <story><title>VFS shim that allows a SQLite database to be appended to another file</title><url>https://sqlite.org/src/file/ext/misc/appendvfs.c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>torstenvl</author><text>It seems like the intended use-case would be for the database to be appended after the executable that is using it. But writing to a file that&#x27;s being executed seems (to my naive view - I&#x27;m not terribly experienced) like it could cause issues.<p>What am I missing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>I&#x27;m going to have to try this, but I suspect such writing won&#x27;t work on Windows, which aggressively locks executables. Maybe it just locks the in-use range and allows appending.<p>On Linux this probably works fine because writing past the executable part of the file does not change any offsets beforehand.<p>(On NFS systems you can definitely overwrite in-use executables at any point, which works until the relevant bit gets paged out then back in)<p><i>Reading</i>, on the other hand, ought to work fine everywhere. This continues &quot;SQLite is a replacement for fopen()&quot; - you can use it in similar cases to self-extracting ZIP files or self-executing JAR files.</text></comment> | <story><title>VFS shim that allows a SQLite database to be appended to another file</title><url>https://sqlite.org/src/file/ext/misc/appendvfs.c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>torstenvl</author><text>It seems like the intended use-case would be for the database to be appended after the executable that is using it. But writing to a file that&#x27;s being executed seems (to my naive view - I&#x27;m not terribly experienced) like it could cause issues.<p>What am I missing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yellowapple</author><text>I suspect the intent would be an extension of the idea of using SQLite as the base for a custom binary file format. One use case might be to embed non-code resources (graphics, audio, localization strings, etc.) such that they can be easily queried and loaded via SQLite instead of some other method.</text></comment> |
36,631,075 | 36,631,300 | 1 | 2 | 36,623,827 | train | <story><title>More green spaces linked to slower biological aging</title><url>https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/06/more-green-spaces-linked-to-slower-biological-aging/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blitzar</author><text>Farmers look famously young for their age ... put a 30 year old farmer and a 40 year old lawyer in a room together and you might mistake one for the others father.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeafItAlone</author><text>&gt; Farmers look famously young for their age<p>I come from a family of farmers. I would not agree with this statement.</text></comment> | <story><title>More green spaces linked to slower biological aging</title><url>https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/06/more-green-spaces-linked-to-slower-biological-aging/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blitzar</author><text>Farmers look famously young for their age ... put a 30 year old farmer and a 40 year old lawyer in a room together and you might mistake one for the others father.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CyberDildonics</author><text><i>Farmers look famously young for their age</i><p>Where does this idea come from? Farmers can end up outside all day which can age someone heavily.</text></comment> |
2,901,743 | 2,901,800 | 1 | 2 | 2,900,633 | train | <story><title>It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/18/its-official-hp-kills-off-webos-phones-and-the-touchpad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>donw</author><text>Once again, HP proves that the collective vision of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard is so long-dead that the tombstone has crumbled to dust.<p>I'm gutted. Genuinely.<p>When I was younger, before Fiorina stepped up to be the first to rape the corpses of the founders, I was a massive fan of HP. My first graphing calculator was an HP48G, which taught me the joys of Lisp... well, Psil, because it came with Reverse Polish Lisp.<p>WebOS could have been the resurrection of that culture -- fully JavaScript development environment, app development across multiple mobile and tablet platforms with a single environment... just genius. It's sad to see that vision evaporate, along with some of the novel telephony and interactive features that made WebOS a joy to work with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chaostheory</author><text>I can't help but think of MS in this situation. It reminds me of MS breaking into the video game console market and fighting really hard to stay in it. Even after a major hardware snafu that cost them an estimated 3 billion dollars they kept fighting. After six years of work, it's finally doing well.<p>WebOS was worth fighting for and it was in better shape than the 1st and 2nd Xbox IMO. What a waste.</text></comment> | <story><title>It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/18/its-official-hp-kills-off-webos-phones-and-the-touchpad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>donw</author><text>Once again, HP proves that the collective vision of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard is so long-dead that the tombstone has crumbled to dust.<p>I'm gutted. Genuinely.<p>When I was younger, before Fiorina stepped up to be the first to rape the corpses of the founders, I was a massive fan of HP. My first graphing calculator was an HP48G, which taught me the joys of Lisp... well, Psil, because it came with Reverse Polish Lisp.<p>WebOS could have been the resurrection of that culture -- fully JavaScript development environment, app development across multiple mobile and tablet platforms with a single environment... just genius. It's sad to see that vision evaporate, along with some of the novel telephony and interactive features that made WebOS a joy to work with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MatthewPhillips</author><text>I was just rewatching this video and got sad: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY4HDftIllw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY4HDftIllw</a><p>Enyo let you write HTML5 apps in Chrome, Firefox or whatever, and essentially (to simplify) add a few WebOS hints and you have a fully functional native app. More than anything else, I hope Enyo becomes completely open source so we can write html5 cross-os apps that are as snappy as those on WebOS with a framework that lets you create reuseable parts.</text></comment> |
21,325,708 | 21,325,005 | 1 | 3 | 21,321,331 | train | <story><title>Estonia is running its country like a tech company</title><url>https://qz.com/1535549/living-on-the-blockchain-is-a-game-changer-for-estonian-citizens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>juskrey</author><text>I had a pretty intense honeymoon with Estonia, even had a relatively popular blog on e-residency, have visited Estonia twice (great experience btw)..<p>And, after four years, I have reopened my company in UK and trying to liquidate my Estonian one (today I have received a denial letter which says that only Estonian citizen can close my company)..<p>In short: Vague frequently changing rules, introduction of strange complex regulations over time (e.g. contact person, management board member tax which is kinda avoidable or not at the same time - &quot;Schrodinger tax&quot;).. Expensive business services and accountants (yes, US and UK are cheaper!), volatile tax rules interpretations.. Lack of googlable good information overall, and local accountants are not that hi level pros in nomadic IT matters at all. Also totally non-cooperative Estonian banks.<p>Upon all of that, UK manages doing everything without fragile e-card, which, honestly, adds more anxiety over access loss instead of benefits. Has TONS AND TONS of proper official information with tutorials. Generations of good accountants and stable business and tax regulations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mirioron</author><text>As an Estonian I thought the e-residency system was pretty much a scam from the start. I didn&#x27;t think anybody would fall for it, because the moment you ask &quot;So what can I do as an e-resident that I couldn&#x27;t before?&quot; you realize that the answer is essentially &quot;Nothing&quot;. But try saying this to other Estonians, they&#x27;ll raise a fuss.<p>Edit: perhaps calling it a scam is inappropriate. It just doesn&#x27;t seem like the program offers anything new over what other countries offer. I guess the nice thing is that it tries to be a package deal that&#x27;s easier to market and find information about.</text></comment> | <story><title>Estonia is running its country like a tech company</title><url>https://qz.com/1535549/living-on-the-blockchain-is-a-game-changer-for-estonian-citizens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>juskrey</author><text>I had a pretty intense honeymoon with Estonia, even had a relatively popular blog on e-residency, have visited Estonia twice (great experience btw)..<p>And, after four years, I have reopened my company in UK and trying to liquidate my Estonian one (today I have received a denial letter which says that only Estonian citizen can close my company)..<p>In short: Vague frequently changing rules, introduction of strange complex regulations over time (e.g. contact person, management board member tax which is kinda avoidable or not at the same time - &quot;Schrodinger tax&quot;).. Expensive business services and accountants (yes, US and UK are cheaper!), volatile tax rules interpretations.. Lack of googlable good information overall, and local accountants are not that hi level pros in nomadic IT matters at all. Also totally non-cooperative Estonian banks.<p>Upon all of that, UK manages doing everything without fragile e-card, which, honestly, adds more anxiety over access loss instead of benefits. Has TONS AND TONS of proper official information with tutorials. Generations of good accountants and stable business and tax regulations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>juped</author><text>Sounds like they&#x27;re running it like a tech company.</text></comment> |
4,429,139 | 4,428,576 | 1 | 3 | 4,428,262 | train | <story><title>A worthy Ultrabook appears: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon reviewed</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/08/a-worthy-ultrabook-appears-the-thinkpad-x1-carbon-reviewed/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>enduser</author><text>Depending on who you ask, the "stiff hinges"--common to all ThinkPads--are a feature, not a bug. The hinges will still be in great shape several years down the road when other laptops will be floppy or unable to stay open. I can hold my hefty W530 by the screen bezel, open, and walk around with it without the base moving at all or stressing the case.<p>This is a case of being built to last rather than being built to feel buttery in the showroom.</text></comment> | <story><title>A worthy Ultrabook appears: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon reviewed</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/08/a-worthy-ultrabook-appears-the-thinkpad-x1-carbon-reviewed/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vhf</author><text>Looks nice, but you would give me one I'd refuse it.<p>They removed the single feature that made me buy my current X200s : the full keyboard. A real keyboard, with real touch and real keys : <a href="http://bit.ly/P3NmYd" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/P3NmYd</a> A keyboard with Ins Hom PgUp Del End PgDn.</text></comment> |
22,158,223 | 22,157,240 | 1 | 2 | 22,150,966 | train | <story><title>Pygame Zero: Creating games without boilerplate</title><url>https://pygame-zero.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acbart</author><text>I&#x27;m very interested in this project, because I have a student researching what good options there are for Python Game Dev at the CS1 level. We used Arcade[1] this past Fall, and things didn&#x27;t go very well (I&#x27;m not sold on Pyglet, and there was a lot of small &quot;What??&quot; issues with Arcade&#x27;s design itself). Pygame Zero is a very appealing choice, but suffers from its design around global state - which is something I spend most of the semester railing against. The authors gave me a good explanation for why[2], but it still is a deal-breaker for an introductory-level university course for CS majors.<p>At this point, we&#x27;re leaning towards making our own library to satisfy our purposes. We&#x27;re still looking at other options though - hey, if you have one, feel free to suggest it :)<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arcade.academy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arcade.academy&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lordmauve&#x2F;pgzero&#x2F;issues&#x2F;174" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lordmauve&#x2F;pgzero&#x2F;issues&#x2F;174</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>echelon</author><text>CS1 isn&#x27;t the place to rail against global state.<p>The insane stuff we teach in CS1 is why so many students choose other majors.<p>Sell your students on the magic of computers. Don&#x27;t teach them arcane rules and formalisms. They&#x27;ll learn that later, once they&#x27;ve been hooked.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pygame Zero: Creating games without boilerplate</title><url>https://pygame-zero.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acbart</author><text>I&#x27;m very interested in this project, because I have a student researching what good options there are for Python Game Dev at the CS1 level. We used Arcade[1] this past Fall, and things didn&#x27;t go very well (I&#x27;m not sold on Pyglet, and there was a lot of small &quot;What??&quot; issues with Arcade&#x27;s design itself). Pygame Zero is a very appealing choice, but suffers from its design around global state - which is something I spend most of the semester railing against. The authors gave me a good explanation for why[2], but it still is a deal-breaker for an introductory-level university course for CS majors.<p>At this point, we&#x27;re leaning towards making our own library to satisfy our purposes. We&#x27;re still looking at other options though - hey, if you have one, feel free to suggest it :)<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arcade.academy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arcade.academy&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lordmauve&#x2F;pgzero&#x2F;issues&#x2F;174" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lordmauve&#x2F;pgzero&#x2F;issues&#x2F;174</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nneonneo</author><text>OK, so I&#x27;m genuinely confused about what your objection to global state is. You mention issues with assignment, and so on - those are issues with Python `globals` and variables in the global namespace, not issues with global state per se. A lot of Python programs use global variables in the form of imports, so I don&#x27;t see anything wrong here. (Pygame Zero&#x27;s implicit imports could be a point of objection - but it&#x27;d be very easy to hack a small wrapper to force students to import the names they need instead).<p>In terms of global state, I don&#x27;t see much of a distinction between Pygame Zero&#x27;s globals and a god-singleton like `World`. Both feature large amounts of implicit state, just off by one layer of indirection. For the vast majority of games, it wouldn&#x27;t make sense to have more than one `World`. You might want more than one game scene&#x2F;level&#x2F;etc. but that&#x27;s distinct from the overall windowing system, graphics state, etc. which would be stored in `World`.</text></comment> |
30,571,921 | 30,571,185 | 1 | 2 | 30,570,207 | train | <story><title>A report on exercise and sleep (2021)</title><url>https://rubenerd.com/a-report-on-exercise-and-sleep/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robertlf</author><text>I find that if I get eight hours of sleep at night, I can move mountains. But if I only get 7.75 hours of sleep or less, my eyes feel tired all day and I&#x27;m only half as productive. I&#x27;ve never understood why there is such a marked difference between eight hours of sleep and almost anything less than eight hours. There&#x27;s something chemically going on inside that I don&#x27;t understand. The problem I&#x27;m having now is that I can get a good five or six hours but I wake up after that fifth or sixth hour and can&#x27;t get back to sleep long enough to get that ideal eight. This problem is seriously affecting my career and I don&#x27;t know what to do. I do do moderate to vigorous exercise five times a week but that doesn&#x27;t always help.</text></comment> | <story><title>A report on exercise and sleep (2021)</title><url>https://rubenerd.com/a-report-on-exercise-and-sleep/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RivieraKid</author><text>About 10 years ago, I started taking a 1h - 2h walk almost every day, before the walk I buy a coffee to go. It&#x27;s easily the best part of my day which I look forward to after waking up.</text></comment> |
18,957,156 | 18,956,768 | 1 | 3 | 18,952,698 | train | <story><title>Proper Breathing Brings Better Health</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/proper-breathing-brings-better-health/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>viburnum</author><text>Standing up straight isn&#x27;t as easy as it sounds. For a lot of desk workers you&#x27;re going to have to fix your tight hamstrings, abnormal pelvic tilt, and weak abdominal muscles before it will be possible to stand up straight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yeutterg</author><text>A great book that will help with posture, including fixing pelvic tilt, is 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back by Esther Gokhale [1].<p>The author traveled around the world and looked through history to find out if we always had such terrible posture. It turns out that industrialized societies put a large emphasis on good posture up until the early 20th century. Even today, great posture can be found in less-industrialized cultures.<p>The Gokhale method has been a game-changer for many, even though it flies in the face of a lot of modern theories about designing furniture and &quot;good&quot; posture. I&#x27;ve personally met people with arthritis and lower back problems who were able to reduce pain and prevent further damage with this book.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Steps-Pain-Free-Back-Solutions-Shoulder&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0979303605&#x2F;ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1548037863&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=8+steps+to+a+pain+free+back" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Steps-Pain-Free-Back-Solutions-Should...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Proper Breathing Brings Better Health</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/proper-breathing-brings-better-health/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>viburnum</author><text>Standing up straight isn&#x27;t as easy as it sounds. For a lot of desk workers you&#x27;re going to have to fix your tight hamstrings, abnormal pelvic tilt, and weak abdominal muscles before it will be possible to stand up straight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azinman2</author><text>Why do you say abnormal pelvic tilt? Is that common?<p>(I literally just got a massage where the bodyworker told me my hip was tilted majority, so it’s a stricking thing to read here...)</text></comment> |
536,026 | 535,897 | 1 | 2 | 535,818 | train | <story><title>Reverse image search engine</title><url>http://tineye.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ruby_roo</author><text>Not bad, but I think it would be more useful if I could submit an image and have the engine give me all the facts it could dig up about it, based on its context in other pages, geo tags and camera type (if available), etc.<p>I think we're going to see some very interesting developments along these lines very soon. Scary stuff too. Imagine submitting a picture of yourself and finding out what the internet knows about you based on your physical appearance. Better keep those Facebook profiles private, folks! More than that, you'll have to convince your friends to keep their profiles private if they have pics of you as well!<p>&#60;tangent&#62; This is what is rather frightening about the next web; even if you want to remain anonymous, you're going to have to do battle with all the other folks who are more than happy to post and tag pictures of you for the world to see (with good -natured intentions, I might add). Remember that embarrassing moment at that party where you had a little too much to drink? Oh, you were too drunk to recall? Well, it's on somebody's public Facebook profile now. With your name on it. And if I am your employer, what's to stop me from taking your badge photo and plugging it into a service to pull down other pictures of you from the cloud? :O &#60;/tangent&#62;<p>Anyway, back to the matter at hand! I do see your service as being particularly valuable to IP holders who want to know who is displaying their copyrighted images or logos without authorization. If your site were comprehensive enough, you could probably go freemium and become a paid tattle-tale. Take that a step further and "For a nominal fee, you can click here to have our partners at LegalZoom.com send a takedown notice."<p>:)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wave</author><text>You can use <a href="http://imageheader.com/alpha" rel="nofollow">http://imageheader.com/alpha</a> , which reads image file and displays all information about the image including geolocation tags. This is alpha version<p>Example:<p><a href="http://imageheader.com/alpha/index.php?url=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2928512648_74e1eef80a_o.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://imageheader.com/alpha/index.php?url=http://farm4.stat...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Reverse image search engine</title><url>http://tineye.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ruby_roo</author><text>Not bad, but I think it would be more useful if I could submit an image and have the engine give me all the facts it could dig up about it, based on its context in other pages, geo tags and camera type (if available), etc.<p>I think we're going to see some very interesting developments along these lines very soon. Scary stuff too. Imagine submitting a picture of yourself and finding out what the internet knows about you based on your physical appearance. Better keep those Facebook profiles private, folks! More than that, you'll have to convince your friends to keep their profiles private if they have pics of you as well!<p>&#60;tangent&#62; This is what is rather frightening about the next web; even if you want to remain anonymous, you're going to have to do battle with all the other folks who are more than happy to post and tag pictures of you for the world to see (with good -natured intentions, I might add). Remember that embarrassing moment at that party where you had a little too much to drink? Oh, you were too drunk to recall? Well, it's on somebody's public Facebook profile now. With your name on it. And if I am your employer, what's to stop me from taking your badge photo and plugging it into a service to pull down other pictures of you from the cloud? :O &#60;/tangent&#62;<p>Anyway, back to the matter at hand! I do see your service as being particularly valuable to IP holders who want to know who is displaying their copyrighted images or logos without authorization. If your site were comprehensive enough, you could probably go freemium and become a paid tattle-tale. Take that a step further and "For a nominal fee, you can click here to have our partners at LegalZoom.com send a takedown notice."<p>:)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FlorinAndrei</author><text>Privacy is dead, move on.</text></comment> |
22,435,955 | 22,435,917 | 1 | 2 | 22,433,307 | train | <story><title>YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private forum, appeals court rules</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/first-amendment-doesnt-apply-on-youtube-judges-reject-prageru-lawsuit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neuland</author><text>EFF&#x27;s word is not god. I like them, but you make it sound like it&#x27;s a settled debate. I&#x27;m here to say there&#x27;s another side and present that viewpoint.<p>As you many imagine, I agree with Sen. Cruz&#x27;s line of question from the article you linked. And I don&#x27;t think EFF&#x27;s solution is viable. They suggest that Facebook should make their policies more transparent and give users more control over what they see.<p>But this misses the entire point. Facebook&#x2F;YouTube&#x2F;etc are in a monopoly position. They&#x27;ve proven that they are nakedly partisan, and they have no intention of acting in good faith.<p>Platforms should not be allowed to discriminate on any viewpoint or legal content. They can still provide tools for advertisers to choose what content their ads appear next to. And they can still provide tools for users to choose what they see.<p>But discriminating on some viewpoints and not others is anathema to a public forum. And you can read Section 230 that way.</text></item><item><author>belltaco</author><text>This argument has become a meme at this point. EFF debunks it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;no-section-230-does-not-require-platforms-be-neutral" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;no-section-230-does-no...</a><p>&gt;These are inherently conflicting things. Section 230 gives special protection on the assumption that platforms aren&#x27;t involved in selecting what users post. But then with the other hand, platforms are selecting what users post via their content guidelines.<p>No. If HN removes spam or off topic content or anything else, it does not automatically mean that it&#x27;s suddenly liable for someone posting libel and getting sued over it. That wasn&#x27;t the intent of the law from the text, and it was never interpreted that way.</text></item><item><author>neuland</author><text>Everyone here is saying 1A doesn&#x27;t constrain private parties. But that&#x27;s missing the heart of PragerU&#x27;s claim.<p>Section 230 gives internet platforms immunity for what users post. But at the same time, platforms want to moderate their content selecting which views are acceptable and which are not.<p>These are inherently conflicting things. Section 230 gives special protection on the assumption that platforms aren&#x27;t involved in selecting what users post. But then with the other hand, platforms <i>are</i> selecting what users post via their content guidelines.<p>We have common carrier provisions for other communication mediums with no liability (ex. TV, ISP&#x27;s). And we have liability for communication mediums with editorial control (ie. Newspapers, Magazines).<p>Tech companies are running up the center and making huge profits with an unfair legal advantage that no other communication medium gets.<p>Newspapers have to vet their classifieds and editorials. Facebook&#x2F;YouTube&#x2F;etc doesn&#x27;t. And that is inherently unfair.<p>So either Congress or the Courts need to fix the law. And it&#x27;s fair game for the courts, because the law is not being applied correctly to these platforms, given their abuses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure where you (or Sen. Cruz) are getting this interpretation from. Section 230 exists <i>because</i> Congress recognized that the then-only options of &quot;common carrier&quot; and &quot;publisher&quot; were too binary and didn&#x27;t account for anything in between. It explicitly allows owners of content platforms that have moderation&#x2F;curation in place to avoid liability for what their users publish.<p>I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s <i>good</i> that companies like Google and Facebook can shape public discourse by suppressing views with political viewpoints they don&#x27;t like, and I do think that should be addressed, but Section 230 is what explicitly <i>allows</i> them to do that, not the opposite.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private forum, appeals court rules</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/first-amendment-doesnt-apply-on-youtube-judges-reject-prageru-lawsuit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neuland</author><text>EFF&#x27;s word is not god. I like them, but you make it sound like it&#x27;s a settled debate. I&#x27;m here to say there&#x27;s another side and present that viewpoint.<p>As you many imagine, I agree with Sen. Cruz&#x27;s line of question from the article you linked. And I don&#x27;t think EFF&#x27;s solution is viable. They suggest that Facebook should make their policies more transparent and give users more control over what they see.<p>But this misses the entire point. Facebook&#x2F;YouTube&#x2F;etc are in a monopoly position. They&#x27;ve proven that they are nakedly partisan, and they have no intention of acting in good faith.<p>Platforms should not be allowed to discriminate on any viewpoint or legal content. They can still provide tools for advertisers to choose what content their ads appear next to. And they can still provide tools for users to choose what they see.<p>But discriminating on some viewpoints and not others is anathema to a public forum. And you can read Section 230 that way.</text></item><item><author>belltaco</author><text>This argument has become a meme at this point. EFF debunks it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;no-section-230-does-not-require-platforms-be-neutral" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;no-section-230-does-no...</a><p>&gt;These are inherently conflicting things. Section 230 gives special protection on the assumption that platforms aren&#x27;t involved in selecting what users post. But then with the other hand, platforms are selecting what users post via their content guidelines.<p>No. If HN removes spam or off topic content or anything else, it does not automatically mean that it&#x27;s suddenly liable for someone posting libel and getting sued over it. That wasn&#x27;t the intent of the law from the text, and it was never interpreted that way.</text></item><item><author>neuland</author><text>Everyone here is saying 1A doesn&#x27;t constrain private parties. But that&#x27;s missing the heart of PragerU&#x27;s claim.<p>Section 230 gives internet platforms immunity for what users post. But at the same time, platforms want to moderate their content selecting which views are acceptable and which are not.<p>These are inherently conflicting things. Section 230 gives special protection on the assumption that platforms aren&#x27;t involved in selecting what users post. But then with the other hand, platforms <i>are</i> selecting what users post via their content guidelines.<p>We have common carrier provisions for other communication mediums with no liability (ex. TV, ISP&#x27;s). And we have liability for communication mediums with editorial control (ie. Newspapers, Magazines).<p>Tech companies are running up the center and making huge profits with an unfair legal advantage that no other communication medium gets.<p>Newspapers have to vet their classifieds and editorials. Facebook&#x2F;YouTube&#x2F;etc doesn&#x27;t. And that is inherently unfair.<p>So either Congress or the Courts need to fix the law. And it&#x27;s fair game for the courts, because the law is not being applied correctly to these platforms, given their abuses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manfredo</author><text>What you&#x27;re describing is illegal. Freedom of speech also means freedom from compelled speech. The government cannot (at least outside of very specific circumstances - like an employer informing employees of workplace protections) make companies publish content. If congress tried to pass a law forcing YouTube to host PragerU&#x27;s content, that would get immediately thrown out by the courts.</text></comment> |
33,969,759 | 33,969,889 | 1 | 3 | 33,965,933 | train | <story><title>Read this post ‘unless’ you’re not a Ruby developer</title><url>https://jesseduffield.com/Unless/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JasonFruit</author><text>You&#x27;ve demonstrated that it is trivially replaced by &#x27;if&#x27; and negation. I think that&#x27;s almost the definition of inelegant.</text></item><item><author>nickelcitymario</author><text>I&#x27;d consider myself a writer more than a developer, but I&#x27;ve been working in Rails for over 15 years, and one of my absolute favourite things is &quot;unless&quot;.<p>Why? Because it allows you to express yourself more elegantly.<p>The click-bait title is misleading. It&#x27;s meant to ridicule &quot;unless&quot;, but actually achieves the opposite.<p>If you were to write the title of the post as code, it would be:<p><pre><code> unless !ruby_dev
read article
end
</code></pre>
That would be a terrible use of &quot;unless&quot;! That should clearly say &quot;if ruby_dev&quot;, not &quot;unless !ruby_dev&quot;.<p>But what if you wanted to write an article meant for anyone other than ruby developers?<p>Which of the following is better?<p><pre><code> if !ruby_dev
</code></pre>
or<p><pre><code> unless ruby_dev
</code></pre>
Both work, but I consider the second option more elegant. Just as I wouldn&#x27;t verbally say &quot;if you&#x27;re not a ruby developer&quot; rather than &quot;unless you&#x27;re a ruby developer&quot;.<p>Honestly, I don&#x27;t see the issue. It&#x27;s a style matter. Just use it properly. All language can be abused if you try hard enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickelcitymario</author><text>Only if you definition of elegance is &quot;please express yourself in as convoluted a way as possible, so as to minimize the number of words I need to know.&quot;<p>The truth is there is a balance in all languages. Nearly every word was invented to prevent having to say a string of other words to mean the same thing.<p>&quot;Unless&quot; is a single word to mean &quot;If not&quot;. I consider that elegant.<p>However, some languages take this too far, in my opinion. German famously has a word for nearly everything. I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s elegant, in that it requires learning a far greater number of words.<p>English has many words that I wouldn&#x27;t consider elegant, simply because they&#x27;re uncommon or convoluted. Never use a 10 dollar word when a 5 cent word will do.<p>So, if, like me and the ruby community, you prefer to optimize for developer happiness, &quot;unless&quot; is an elegant choice.<p>If you prefer to optimize for peak computing performance, if may be more computationally efficient use &quot;if not&quot;.<p>But, _unless_ you&#x27;re saying that you never use the word &quot;unless&quot; in everyday language, I think we can agree it&#x27;s a good word that has good applications. I don&#x27;t see why that wouldn&#x27;t be true in programming.</text></comment> | <story><title>Read this post ‘unless’ you’re not a Ruby developer</title><url>https://jesseduffield.com/Unless/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JasonFruit</author><text>You&#x27;ve demonstrated that it is trivially replaced by &#x27;if&#x27; and negation. I think that&#x27;s almost the definition of inelegant.</text></item><item><author>nickelcitymario</author><text>I&#x27;d consider myself a writer more than a developer, but I&#x27;ve been working in Rails for over 15 years, and one of my absolute favourite things is &quot;unless&quot;.<p>Why? Because it allows you to express yourself more elegantly.<p>The click-bait title is misleading. It&#x27;s meant to ridicule &quot;unless&quot;, but actually achieves the opposite.<p>If you were to write the title of the post as code, it would be:<p><pre><code> unless !ruby_dev
read article
end
</code></pre>
That would be a terrible use of &quot;unless&quot;! That should clearly say &quot;if ruby_dev&quot;, not &quot;unless !ruby_dev&quot;.<p>But what if you wanted to write an article meant for anyone other than ruby developers?<p>Which of the following is better?<p><pre><code> if !ruby_dev
</code></pre>
or<p><pre><code> unless ruby_dev
</code></pre>
Both work, but I consider the second option more elegant. Just as I wouldn&#x27;t verbally say &quot;if you&#x27;re not a ruby developer&quot; rather than &quot;unless you&#x27;re a ruby developer&quot;.<p>Honestly, I don&#x27;t see the issue. It&#x27;s a style matter. Just use it properly. All language can be abused if you try hard enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shakow</author><text>A for can be replaced by a while and a jump, that does not make it more or less elegant.<p>IMHO, something ‶elegant″ in programming is not something that can&#x27;t be built form something else (or we will all end up in writing only CMOVs), but something that conveys the meaning of its author precisely and concisely – which makes it inherently subjective. I&#x27;m in the `unless` team, I can perfectly understand if you are in the `no unless` team, but this argument does not make a lot of sense.</text></comment> |
24,328,139 | 24,327,707 | 1 | 2 | 24,323,378 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation</title><url>http://vimacapp.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dexterleng</author><text>Hello all! I am a student from Singapore who was introduced to Vimium by a friend two years ago. Vimac is my attempt to implement Vimium on an OS level.<p>I have shared this app on Reddit about a year ago. Since then, the notable changes would be a major performance buff in webkit&#x2F;electron, force keyboard layout, and reducing the overwhelming no. of hints to what is just &quot;clickable&quot;.<p>It is open source at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexterleng&#x2F;vimac&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexterleng&#x2F;vimac&#x2F;</a>.<p>Do let me know if you have any questions!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_chendo_</author><text>Hello!<p>Glad to see more people making tools around the Accessibility API. I&#x27;ve been working on a similar app called Shortcat (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shortcatapp.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shortcatapp.com</a>) almost 8 years ago (wow) but haven&#x27;t had the time to properly work on it. It sounds like you&#x27;re encountering a lot of the same problems I&#x27;ve had when I was starting out (figuring what&#x27;s actionable, forcing keyboard layout etc). Let me know if you want to chat about the various problems in that space</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation</title><url>http://vimacapp.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dexterleng</author><text>Hello all! I am a student from Singapore who was introduced to Vimium by a friend two years ago. Vimac is my attempt to implement Vimium on an OS level.<p>I have shared this app on Reddit about a year ago. Since then, the notable changes would be a major performance buff in webkit&#x2F;electron, force keyboard layout, and reducing the overwhelming no. of hints to what is just &quot;clickable&quot;.<p>It is open source at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexterleng&#x2F;vimac&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexterleng&#x2F;vimac&#x2F;</a>.<p>Do let me know if you have any questions!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajavascriptdude</author><text>Thank you for not using electron</text></comment> |
4,236,327 | 4,236,300 | 1 | 3 | 4,235,876 | train | <story><title>Vim Creep</title><url>http://www.rudism.com/s/vimcreep</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xutopia</author><text>Can you explain to me what apropos does?</text></item><item><author>jdludlow</author><text>My first week in college a distant relative of mine at the same school pulled me into the Sun lab. The sum-total of his instructions were:<p>* This is how you log in.<p>* This is ls.<p>* This is cd.<p>* This is man.<p>* This is apropos.<p>* Learn vi.<p>* Have fun.<p>What came from that 5 minute intro to Unix has been applied orders of magnitude more often than anything from 5 years of an EE degree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdludlow</author><text><p><pre><code> $ man apropos
apropos searches a set of database files containing
short descriptions of system commands for keywords and
displays the result on the standard output.
</code></pre>
It answers the question "I wonder how to do [this English word]."<p>For example: "I wonder how I copy a file."<p><pre><code> $ apropos copy
</code></pre>
Dumps out all of the matching entries from the man pages for the word "copy". If you just wanted general commands, as opposed to library functions, and assuming your system organizes man page sections in the typical manner, you can filter it down with:<p><pre><code> $ apropos copy | grep "(1)"
cp (1) - copy files and directories
cpio (1) - copy files to and from archives</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Vim Creep</title><url>http://www.rudism.com/s/vimcreep</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xutopia</author><text>Can you explain to me what apropos does?</text></item><item><author>jdludlow</author><text>My first week in college a distant relative of mine at the same school pulled me into the Sun lab. The sum-total of his instructions were:<p>* This is how you log in.<p>* This is ls.<p>* This is cd.<p>* This is man.<p>* This is apropos.<p>* Learn vi.<p>* Have fun.<p>What came from that 5 minute intro to Unix has been applied orders of magnitude more often than anything from 5 years of an EE degree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anextio</author><text>It searches for a keyword in the manpages and tells you what page contains the text.<p><pre><code> $ apropos printf
fmtcheck(3) - sanitizes user-supplied printf(3)-style format string
format(ntcl) - Format a string in the style of sprintf
fwkpfv(1) - FireWire kprintf viewer
fwprintf(3), swprintf(3), vfwprintf(3), vswprintf(3), vwprintf(3), wprintf(3) - formatted wide character output conversion
printf(1) - formatted output
printf(3), fprintf(3), sprintf(3), snprintf(3), asprintf(3), dprintf(3), vprintf(3), vfprintf(3), vsprintf(3), vsnprintf(3), vasprintf(3), vdprintf(3) - formatted output conversion
wprintf_l(3), fwprintf_l(3), swprintf_l(3), vwprintf_l(3), vfwprintf_l(3), vswprintf_l(3) - formatted wide character output conversion</code></pre></text></comment> |
15,998,929 | 15,998,708 | 1 | 3 | 15,998,650 | train | <story><title>Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption</title><url>https://www.electricitymap.org/?wind=false&solar=false&page=country&countryCode=DE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ralfd</author><text>Great, but this is the other side of the coin:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy-charts.de&#x2F;power.htm?source=all-sources&amp;week=51&amp;year=2017" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy-charts.de&#x2F;power.htm?source=all-sources&amp;we...</a><p>Look at the beginning of the week on 18.December and Wind+Solar are only 5% to electricity production. Over 50% now. 5% then.<p>What is the end game here? Duplicate the whole infrastructure and have backup coal&#x2F;gas&#x2F;nuclear plants for half the time? That is why Germanys electricity prices are so high.<p>France: 17 cent per kwh
vs
Germany: 29 cent per kwh</text></comment> | <story><title>Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption</title><url>https://www.electricitymap.org/?wind=false&solar=false&page=country&countryCode=DE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianN</author><text>Despite a huge proportion of wind Germany still produces nearly twice as much CO2 per kWh than France :(</text></comment> |
32,824,730 | 32,824,610 | 1 | 2 | 32,824,054 | train | <story><title>Pre-exposure to mRNA-LNP inhibits adaptive immune responses in mice</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36054264/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>But the thing is we ran a massive experiment on this called &quot;The covid-19 pandemic&quot;.<p>What we saw was no serious increase in mortality for the immunized, and a significant increase in mortality for the non-immunized.<p>Seems like the data from that experiment should be taken into consideration when deciding if the tradeoff is worthwhile, right?</text></item><item><author>lazyier</author><text>I donno. Seems like white blood cells are kinda important.<p>We have a huge number of interactions with bacteria and viruses and all sorts of microorganisms. Hundreds? Thousands times a day? Scratches in the kitchen while preparing food, for example, floods our body with stuff that white blood cells are required to deal with.<p>Giving up some of the ability to deal with those for a small reduction in the symptoms associated with a specific disease doesn&#x27;t seem like a useful trade off.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>&gt; On the other hand, we report that after pre-exposure to mRNA-LNPs, the resistance of mice to heterologous infections with influenza virus increased while resistance to Candida albicans decreased.<p>It sounds to me as though the tradeoff being made here is: a slightly decreased immune response generally, but a better immune response to the thing you&#x27;ve been immunized against. That seems to be a reasonable tradeoff if there&#x27;s something really bad going around.<p>But as they say in the paper summary: more research is needed.<p>Also: this is purely in mice. They have zero data on whether this is true for humans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>treeman79</author><text>Isn’t “unknown cause of death” skyrocketing?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;F74iqEJnb14" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;F74iqEJnb14</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;changing-america&#x2F;well-being&#x2F;longevity&#x2F;588738-huge-huge-numbers-death-rates-up-40-percent-over-pre&#x2F;amp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;changing-america&#x2F;well-being&#x2F;longevity&#x2F;58...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Pre-exposure to mRNA-LNP inhibits adaptive immune responses in mice</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36054264/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>But the thing is we ran a massive experiment on this called &quot;The covid-19 pandemic&quot;.<p>What we saw was no serious increase in mortality for the immunized, and a significant increase in mortality for the non-immunized.<p>Seems like the data from that experiment should be taken into consideration when deciding if the tradeoff is worthwhile, right?</text></item><item><author>lazyier</author><text>I donno. Seems like white blood cells are kinda important.<p>We have a huge number of interactions with bacteria and viruses and all sorts of microorganisms. Hundreds? Thousands times a day? Scratches in the kitchen while preparing food, for example, floods our body with stuff that white blood cells are required to deal with.<p>Giving up some of the ability to deal with those for a small reduction in the symptoms associated with a specific disease doesn&#x27;t seem like a useful trade off.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>&gt; On the other hand, we report that after pre-exposure to mRNA-LNPs, the resistance of mice to heterologous infections with influenza virus increased while resistance to Candida albicans decreased.<p>It sounds to me as though the tradeoff being made here is: a slightly decreased immune response generally, but a better immune response to the thing you&#x27;ve been immunized against. That seems to be a reasonable tradeoff if there&#x27;s something really bad going around.<p>But as they say in the paper summary: more research is needed.<p>Also: this is purely in mice. They have zero data on whether this is true for humans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>origin_path</author><text>Two problems:<p>1. That wasn&#x27;t a controlled experiment. Observational data &lt; RCTs.<p>2. You are mixing up mortality and mortality attributed to COVID. It&#x27;s a common error. For overall mortality the picture is far less clear. For example in the Pfizer trials there were more deaths overall in the vaccinated arm than the unvaccinated arm i.e. RCT evidence = no mortality benefit.<p>Also, we now have excess deaths above the expected baseline for long periods in 2022, which is unprecedented. Governments are highly reluctant to split these deaths out by vaccine status, but the increase seems mostly attributed to heart and blood clotting related deaths. So the data from the &quot;experiment&quot; is not obviously positive.</text></comment> |
38,509,421 | 38,508,977 | 1 | 3 | 38,508,282 | train | <story><title>Lobsters</title><url>https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hakashiro</author><text>I had an account here. I still do.<p>Like some other people point out: Invitation-only means trolls are less likely to show up. But the higher end of quality is not significantly better than HN.<p>If anything, it might be worse.<p>My experience with the moderation there is that some people post clear self-promotion articles, but when I attempted to post my things, I get told that this content is not welcome on the site. Why my content is not welcome and other people&#x27;s self-promotional articles are I don&#x27;t quite understand, but it is obvious they don&#x27;t need me on the website.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evantbyrne</author><text>I&#x27;ve been lurking on Lobsters for a while, and have definitely noticed that the self-promotion rule is selectively enforced. Just pivot into exclusively writing content about an impractical docker alternative, and you should be golden.<p>Snark aside, they could codify exactly what frequency of self-posting is allowed, and let the existing voting system dictate what rises to the top. I&#x27;m not sure Lobsters sees any issues with how they self-moderate though. Personally, I have always felt that invite-only communities have weird vibes to them. Still find it worth lurking for more esoteric content though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lobsters</title><url>https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hakashiro</author><text>I had an account here. I still do.<p>Like some other people point out: Invitation-only means trolls are less likely to show up. But the higher end of quality is not significantly better than HN.<p>If anything, it might be worse.<p>My experience with the moderation there is that some people post clear self-promotion articles, but when I attempted to post my things, I get told that this content is not welcome on the site. Why my content is not welcome and other people&#x27;s self-promotional articles are I don&#x27;t quite understand, but it is obvious they don&#x27;t need me on the website.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mooreds</author><text>&gt; when I attempted to post my things, I get told that this content is not welcome on the site. Why my content is not welcome and other people&#x27;s self-promotional articles are I don&#x27;t quite understand, but it is obvious they don&#x27;t need me on the website.<p>I feel the same. I spent a fair bit of time on the site, including posting ~600 articles and commenting. Some of my posts got a fair bit of upvotes. I got a couple of warnings when I posted my own content, even though it was 5-10% of my posts. Super frustrating, so I told the moderator I wasn&#x27;t going to participate any more. And I haven&#x27;t. Their site, their rules, but I don&#x27;t have to spend my time there.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lobste.rs&#x2F;~mooreds" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lobste.rs&#x2F;~mooreds</a> is my profile.</text></comment> |
9,670,784 | 9,670,484 | 1 | 2 | 9,669,166 | train | <story><title>Crystal Language</title><url>http://crystal-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text>I&#x27;m looking for something beautiful like Ruby but fast like Go. Do you think Crystal fits this bill?<p>Also, are there packages&#x2F;libs&#x2F;gems for Crystal? What are they called? What do I google for?<p>One of the major reasons why I dumped Go is that it&#x27;s just too verbose and makes me write too much boilerplate code. I want to sort a collection and I have to write the same algorithm every single time for every single type. It&#x27;s just boring and my time could be better spent elsewhere.<p>I appreciate the feedback HN!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asterite</author><text>I think Crystal could fit this bill, yes: it has Ruby syntax and the concurrency model will be something like Go (spawn and channels, but we are still working on this). And the code ends up without much repetition, as you have generics, macros, very few type annotations, and things like sort, map, select, inject, etc.<p>The community likes to call a library as &quot;shard&quot;, so I think we&#x27;ll eventually end up using that name :-)<p>You can see a list of shards here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crystalshards.herokuapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crystalshards.herokuapp.com&#x2F;</a><p>For now that just lists GitHub repositories. Right now there&#x27;s a very basic package manager that fetches repositories from GitHub, but it&#x27;s too basic. Someone is working on a much better package manager ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ysbaddaden&#x2F;shards" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ysbaddaden&#x2F;shards</a> ) that we&#x27;ll probably incorporate in the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>Crystal Language</title><url>http://crystal-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text>I&#x27;m looking for something beautiful like Ruby but fast like Go. Do you think Crystal fits this bill?<p>Also, are there packages&#x2F;libs&#x2F;gems for Crystal? What are they called? What do I google for?<p>One of the major reasons why I dumped Go is that it&#x27;s just too verbose and makes me write too much boilerplate code. I want to sort a collection and I have to write the same algorithm every single time for every single type. It&#x27;s just boring and my time could be better spent elsewhere.<p>I appreciate the feedback HN!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jagtesh</author><text>Nim perhaps? There&#x27;s very little boilerplate but it is statically typed. Someone mentioned infra-ruby, which is worth checking out. Lastly, crystal-lang is pretty awesome. You could use this opportunity to create what is missing in the ecosystem and make it open source. This will encourage others to chime in, accelerating development for everyone.</text></comment> |
26,282,631 | 26,282,536 | 1 | 3 | 26,282,119 | train | <story><title>Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?</title><url>https://www.wnep.com/mobile/article/news/local/wayne-county/can-you-identify-this-mysterious-old-writing/523-c317eaf7-5810-4cce-ab5f-3c669ef0ab2b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mynegation</author><text>Tai Le? [1]<p>I honestly don’t know but I stuck some handwritten symbols into Shapecatcher [2] and this is my best guess.<p>Other handwritten examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scriptsource.org&#x2F;cms&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;page.php?item_id=script_detail_use&amp;key=Tale&amp;sort_writing_system_entries_gen=wrSys_displayCode" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scriptsource.org&#x2F;cms&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;page.php?item_id=script...</a><p>My other guesses were Georgian, Armenian, or (though unlikely) cursive variant of aboriginal syllabics.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tai_Le_script" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tai_Le_script</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shapecatcher.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shapecatcher.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8bitsrule</author><text>Here&#x27;s another Tai Le (aka Dehong Dai, Nɯa, Chinese Shan) resource w&#x2F;images. [0] Many links, and a <i>long</i> list of related languages.
[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.omniglot.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;tainua.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.omniglot.com&#x2F;writing&#x2F;tainua.htm</a><p>Majority of speakers (&gt;440k) in Yunnan province. &quot;It is also spoken in northern Vietnam, France, Laos, Myanmar, Switzerland, Thailand.&quot;<p>That distinctive long, vertical u-shape is used in 5 vowels. (Reminds me of Voynich)</text></comment> | <story><title>Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?</title><url>https://www.wnep.com/mobile/article/news/local/wayne-county/can-you-identify-this-mysterious-old-writing/523-c317eaf7-5810-4cce-ab5f-3c669ef0ab2b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mynegation</author><text>Tai Le? [1]<p>I honestly don’t know but I stuck some handwritten symbols into Shapecatcher [2] and this is my best guess.<p>Other handwritten examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scriptsource.org&#x2F;cms&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;page.php?item_id=script_detail_use&amp;key=Tale&amp;sort_writing_system_entries_gen=wrSys_displayCode" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scriptsource.org&#x2F;cms&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;page.php?item_id=script...</a><p>My other guesses were Georgian, Armenian, or (though unlikely) cursive variant of aboriginal syllabics.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tai_Le_script" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tai_Le_script</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shapecatcher.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shapecatcher.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skosch</author><text>Nice, Tai Le looks really close!<p>I first thought it might be Deseret Cursive [1], but I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s it either.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Deseret_alphabet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Deseret_alphabet</a></text></comment> |
40,488,313 | 40,488,145 | 1 | 2 | 40,487,419 | train | <story><title>Is regulated BGP security coming?</title><url>https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/23/is-regulated-bgp-security-coming/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coretx</author><text>This is a dangerous power grab.
RPKI and social security ( nobody wants to peer with a idiot ) are already here and many things are in development.<p>The FCC and by extension the USA should GTFO and let the multi stakeholder models do their work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is regulated BGP security coming?</title><url>https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/23/is-regulated-bgp-security-coming/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zokier</author><text>Internet community has had plenty of time and opportunity to self-organize sufficient security measures. The need for security has been long recognized, and it&#x27;s understandable that powers that be are getting impatient. While obviously it would be preferable that industry would voluntarily do stuff, if they don&#x27;t then I guess it is justifiable that they get regulated.</text></comment> |
4,520,662 | 4,520,250 | 1 | 2 | 4,519,034 | train | <story><title>Stop sending template engines to the browser. How to make 6-10x faster templates</title><url>http://andyet.net/blog/2012/sep/13/stop-sending-template-engines-to-the-browser-a-ret/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drblast</author><text>Does anyone going through all this this know how to manipulate the DOM directly? It's ridiculously simple.<p>The whole approach strikes me as odd, unless I'm missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tichy</author><text>Don't know the current state, but for a while it was a lot faster to just replace the HTML source (innerHTML I think?) than to manipulate the DOM. Just the way the browsers were implemented. No idea if the situation has improved by now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop sending template engines to the browser. How to make 6-10x faster templates</title><url>http://andyet.net/blog/2012/sep/13/stop-sending-template-engines-to-the-browser-a-ret/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drblast</author><text>Does anyone going through all this this know how to manipulate the DOM directly? It's ridiculously simple.<p>The whole approach strikes me as odd, unless I'm missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Osiris</author><text>You are missing something.<p>My team uses Handlebars templates with Ember.js. We build templates with placeholders for bound values or other view templates. When rendered on the client side, a change to a data model causes an automatic change in any templates that are bound to that data. In jQuery there's a potential for forgetting to write code to update a value or part of the page. With this templating system, it's all bound and auto-updated.<p>Another reason that we use templates is that we put all the template files up on a CDN. The only thing our server serves up is an empty DOM (just a body and a div), and the templates are all built into the DOM on the client side.<p>Lastly, managing a bunch of small tmpl files with the HTML we want is a lot easier than trying to embed HTML into JavaScript strings to use with jQuery. We just write up some HTML and an Ember view that renders that template in the right place on the page. Organizationally it's very simple and easy to maintain.</text></comment> |
19,859,041 | 19,859,151 | 1 | 2 | 19,845,029 | train | <story><title>Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/health/conference-room-air.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Klathmon</author><text>I picked up a CO2 monitor a while ago myself, and the biggest surprise was having it on in the morning in our bedroom with the doors closed. It was easily over 1000ppm IIRC.<p>Ever since then I&#x27;ve made sure to set my AC system to run the &quot;house fan&quot; for 15 minutes or so every hour at night just to circulate the air in the house, and while the numbers went down significantly, anecdotally I swear that I wake up easier in the mornings now.<p>Another surprising place that really high CO2 concentrations show up? The inside of full face motorcycle helmets when at a stop. IIRC they quickly reach as high as 20,000ppm! There is also some speculation that full-face motorcycle helmets that stay closed in an accident are more dangerous in some ways, as the high CO2 concentrations in the helmet can be really dangerous to an unconscious person&#x27;s brain function.</text></item><item><author>Mistletoe</author><text>I own a CO2 monitor and it is shocking how high it can get in a house with two people just existing. 800 ppm or more. Outside air is 410.<p>In a car with air on recirculate, it was getting to &gt;1220 ppm, a level that impairs decision making and lowers brain function. I try to drive with air on fresh from now on.<p>I don’t doubt the air in our conference room with 20 people gets super high in CO2 as the meeting goes on, and that would explain a lot of the horrible decisions and thought processes that happen in there. :) I’m going to bring my meter to the next meeting and see what it gets to. We are a group of scientists so it won’t be awkward or weird. If nothing else it will spark discussion and reflection on the decisions that are made there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kurthr</author><text>Exhaled breath is about 3.8% or 38000ppm so (20000) that&#x27;s really high! I&#x27;m not too surprised since the turnover rate through a few small holes with a relatively large volume is bad. Reducing the facial volume would help a lot as each breath would expel more CO2 as a fractional percentage.<p>It seems that any sort of face covering or even significant exercise could raise your ambient CO2 level well above 1000ppm.<p>I&#x27;m a bit surprised that levels 38-60x below our exhalation % (and it&#x27;s not lack of O2, because you use up less than 10%&#x2F;breath) has such a significant effect. The one thing that may drive it is that the efficiency of lung ab&#x2F;desorption goes roughly as the square of concentration so a 2% change in CO2 concentration might be enough to have an effect on O2 and blood pH.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/health/conference-room-air.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Klathmon</author><text>I picked up a CO2 monitor a while ago myself, and the biggest surprise was having it on in the morning in our bedroom with the doors closed. It was easily over 1000ppm IIRC.<p>Ever since then I&#x27;ve made sure to set my AC system to run the &quot;house fan&quot; for 15 minutes or so every hour at night just to circulate the air in the house, and while the numbers went down significantly, anecdotally I swear that I wake up easier in the mornings now.<p>Another surprising place that really high CO2 concentrations show up? The inside of full face motorcycle helmets when at a stop. IIRC they quickly reach as high as 20,000ppm! There is also some speculation that full-face motorcycle helmets that stay closed in an accident are more dangerous in some ways, as the high CO2 concentrations in the helmet can be really dangerous to an unconscious person&#x27;s brain function.</text></item><item><author>Mistletoe</author><text>I own a CO2 monitor and it is shocking how high it can get in a house with two people just existing. 800 ppm or more. Outside air is 410.<p>In a car with air on recirculate, it was getting to &gt;1220 ppm, a level that impairs decision making and lowers brain function. I try to drive with air on fresh from now on.<p>I don’t doubt the air in our conference room with 20 people gets super high in CO2 as the meeting goes on, and that would explain a lot of the horrible decisions and thought processes that happen in there. :) I’m going to bring my meter to the next meeting and see what it gets to. We are a group of scientists so it won’t be awkward or weird. If nothing else it will spark discussion and reflection on the decisions that are made there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jak92</author><text>&gt; <i></i>&quot;house fan&quot; for 15 minutes or so every hour at night just to circulate the air in the house,<i></i><p>Depending on your climate, this could significantly raise the humidity in your house. Reason is that moisture from the AC coil are wet after the AC turns off. Typically drips off into the pan until next time AC cycles.<p>If you run the fan you will then evaporate into the air circulating some of the moisture just removed.</text></comment> |
7,823,929 | 7,823,931 | 1 | 2 | 7,823,385 | train | <story><title>Sistine Chapel</title><url>http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nitrogen</author><text>Meta comment about the panorama interface:<p>The click+drag view control feels inverted to me. I&#x27;m curious whether I&#x27;m in the minority, though. For FPS games on PC I use normal mouse, but for console FPS games I use inverted joystick.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baddox</author><text>The reason it feels inverted is because it&#x27;s not &quot;click and drag&quot; in the normal sense (like Google Maps) where clicking and holding sets an anchor point, and moving the cursor moves the anchor point.<p>This is more like a virtual joystick. Clicking and holding establishes the neutral point of the joystick, and the cursor position relative to the neutral point is the velocity vector of camera movement. It behaves the same as the right hand joystick in a console FPS like Halo with a traditional (non-inverted) control scheme.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sistine Chapel</title><url>http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nitrogen</author><text>Meta comment about the panorama interface:<p>The click+drag view control feels inverted to me. I&#x27;m curious whether I&#x27;m in the minority, though. For FPS games on PC I use normal mouse, but for console FPS games I use inverted joystick.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nandhp</author><text>Yes, it feels inverted to me too.<p>You know who&#x27;s responsible for that? Google Maps (specifically Street View). There used to be a bunch of different 360° Java applets and QuickTime VR embeds that did it this way; now they all feel backwards.</text></comment> |
26,822,495 | 26,822,299 | 1 | 2 | 26,821,642 | train | <story><title>Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged</title><url>https://www.apple.com/in/shop/help/returns_refund</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sans-serif</author><text>In my experience Americans sort of take for granted the breadth and depth of consumer protection you enjoy. I&#x27;d wager that in an insignificant portion of countries Apple expanded to, they have had to significantly cut back on refunds&#x2F;warrantees they offer to combat fraud and abuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>&gt; In my experience Americans sort of take for granted the breadth and depth of consumer protection you enjoy.<p>As a european, it&#x27;s amusing to hear you say that as the majority of European countries have far, far more stringent consumer-protection regs than the US, such as mandatory 2 year warranties, distance-selling laws, legal rights to a refund or replacement, and so on. Apple&#x27;s 90 day warranty is a joke when you can buy the same product, for almost the same price after factoring-in VAT, with a 2 year warranty only a 5 hour flight away...</text></comment> | <story><title>Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged</title><url>https://www.apple.com/in/shop/help/returns_refund</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sans-serif</author><text>In my experience Americans sort of take for granted the breadth and depth of consumer protection you enjoy. I&#x27;d wager that in an insignificant portion of countries Apple expanded to, they have had to significantly cut back on refunds&#x2F;warrantees they offer to combat fraud and abuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I worked at a chain pizza place growing up that advertised its money back offer if you didn&#x27;t like your pizza. When they advertised it I just assumed a lot of people would take advantage of it.<p>Our store was one of the busiest in the US for a single store. One guy ... just one guy abused it regularly. Beyond him almost nobody ever took advantage of the offer at all... Easy enough for the store manager to tell that guy to knock it off and there ya go.<p>What I assumed was a crazy &#x2F; unwise policy, effectively cost them nothing, hardly was ever used, didn&#x27;t require any new processes at all, and amounted to just a advertising slogan.<p>I was surprised and impressed.</text></comment> |
29,478,278 | 29,476,607 | 1 | 3 | 29,474,762 | train | <story><title>A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech</title><url>https://twitter.com/jherskowitz/status/1466078600822677513</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasongrishkoff</author><text>I started two music-related websites:<p>1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indieshuffle.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indieshuffle.com</a> - a music discovery blog<p>2) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.submithub.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.submithub.com</a> - a service that connects musicians with music curators<p>I make my living off these platforms (primarily the second). So in essence, my discovery-centric services are viable products. That said, I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s 100% what he was after in the Twitter thread this article was based on: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jherskowitz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1466078600822677513" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jherskowitz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1466078600822677513</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steve-benjamins</author><text>I’m a musician and Indie Shuffle was my first “break.”<p>It gave about 20,000 plays which BLEW MY MIND at the time. Nothing like waking up to a huge increase<p>Today I’m a modest success. Several songs have 1-2m plays on Spotify and I make $800 &#x2F; month from streaming. It’s just something I do in my evenings for fun.<p>I owe my success to outlets Indie Shuffle and SubmitHub—- I’ve found Spotify really privileges discovery for major label artists.</text></comment> | <story><title>A few things I’ve come to believe in my years in music tech</title><url>https://twitter.com/jherskowitz/status/1466078600822677513</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasongrishkoff</author><text>I started two music-related websites:<p>1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indieshuffle.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indieshuffle.com</a> - a music discovery blog<p>2) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.submithub.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.submithub.com</a> - a service that connects musicians with music curators<p>I make my living off these platforms (primarily the second). So in essence, my discovery-centric services are viable products. That said, I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s 100% what he was after in the Twitter thread this article was based on: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jherskowitz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1466078600822677513" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jherskowitz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1466078600822677513</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usrusr</author><text>Sounds like a perfectly fine mismatch between proper bootstrapping and the mindset of growing investment fueled by some hypothetical value proposition.<p>Is submithub what I think I am seeing? Basically a solution to a spam problem by offering a channel that requires the equivalent of stamps so that senders rate-limit themselves, focusing a bit more on quality over quantity? If that&#x27;s not a complete misperception I like it very much, great niche-spotting!</text></comment> |
24,454,277 | 24,453,297 | 1 | 3 | 24,453,007 | train | <story><title>From Rust to TypeScript</title><url>https://valand.dev/blog/post/from-rust-to-typescript</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aerovistae</author><text>The first code example he uses immediately threw me for a loop. Why is he adding the return value of a function call to a function itself? bar() + bar????<p>function bar(someNumber: number)<p>{<p><pre><code> return foo(someNumber) + 1; </code></pre>
}<p>function baz(someNumber: number)
{<p><pre><code> return bar(someNumber) + bar;
</code></pre>
}<p>baz();<p>Moreover, baz is called with its only argument being undefined-- so the exception throwing code won&#x27;t even throw, because it isn&#x27;t 0. And _moreover_, this is typescript, so this would have thrown a type error since a required numeric argument is omitted.<p>This has so many problems. This is not a promising start to this article&#x27;s correctness or thought-outtedness. Yet here it is at the top of hacker news...</text></comment> | <story><title>From Rust to TypeScript</title><url>https://valand.dev/blog/post/from-rust-to-typescript</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>flowerlad</author><text>This article is unconvincing.<p>From the article: <i>Compared to the first snippet, this one is harder to debug. It seems so because 1.) You don&#x27;t know that callMe will throw an error or not. 2.) If it throws an exception you will not know what is the type of the exception. The more modular your code is, the harder it is to debug exceptions.</i><p>This is only a problem with unchecked exceptions as seen in TypeScript and C#. Checked exceptions are the solution.<p>The problem with error code return is tediousness:<p><pre><code> int foo() {
int result = bar();
if (result == ERROR_CODE)
return result;
int result2 = baz();
if (result2 == ERROR_CODE)
return result2;
int result3 = bazz();
if (result3 == ERROR_CODE)
return result3;
}
</code></pre>
Compare to the same code written in a language that supports checked exceptions:<p><pre><code> int foo() throws SomeException {
int result = bar();
int result2 = baz();
int result3 = bazz();
}
</code></pre>
In the first version the logic is interspersed with error handling, which makes the logic hard to see.<p>How do people using Go and other languages that don&#x27;t have exceptions solve this reduced readability problem?</text></comment> |
23,528,750 | 23,528,586 | 1 | 2 | 23,528,071 | train | <story><title>U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-lgbt-idUSKBN23M20N</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tejohnso</author><text>&gt;race, color, religion, sex, nationality<p>Wouldn&#x27;t it be more effective for the law to say that any discrimination that doesn&#x27;t affect a person&#x27;s ability to perform the job is not allowed?<p>When you start itemizing specific traits it&#x27;s a never-ending list. For example, the list quoted doesn&#x27;t include eye color or hair color, or spoken language dialect, or ...</text></item><item><author>hvs</author><text>Here&#x27;s the decision: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;19pdf&#x2F;17-1618_hfci.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;19pdf&#x2F;17-1618_hfci.pdf</a><p>The dissenters basically believe that “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” doesn&#x27;t include &quot;sexual orientation&quot; or &quot;gender identity&quot; so legislation would need to be passed to change that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chadash</author><text>That&#x27;s not the intention of these laws though. The basic presumption is &quot;it&#x27;s a free country, so people should be able to discriminate for whatever reason they want&quot;. However, when there&#x27;s an overwhelming need for it, we will make carve-outs for specific situations. In particular things that people really can&#x27;t change (race, nationality, sex) or that we deem as a society that they shouldn&#x27;t <i>have</i> to change (religion).<p>For anything that doesn&#x27;t fall under these categories, it&#x27;s fair game to discriminate. You don&#x27;t like vegetarians or people who play tennis? You can discriminate. You&#x27;re might be a f<i></i><i></i>* moron for doing so, but we don&#x27;t have laws against that.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Supreme Court endorses gay, transgender worker protections</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-lgbt-idUSKBN23M20N</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tejohnso</author><text>&gt;race, color, religion, sex, nationality<p>Wouldn&#x27;t it be more effective for the law to say that any discrimination that doesn&#x27;t affect a person&#x27;s ability to perform the job is not allowed?<p>When you start itemizing specific traits it&#x27;s a never-ending list. For example, the list quoted doesn&#x27;t include eye color or hair color, or spoken language dialect, or ...</text></item><item><author>hvs</author><text>Here&#x27;s the decision: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;19pdf&#x2F;17-1618_hfci.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;19pdf&#x2F;17-1618_hfci.pdf</a><p>The dissenters basically believe that “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” doesn&#x27;t include &quot;sexual orientation&quot; or &quot;gender identity&quot; so legislation would need to be passed to change that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mulmen</author><text>The problem with that is how easy it is to construct an argument that something like race is an impediment to work because of the biases of coworkers or customers.<p>Are blue eyed people being discriminated against? If the answer is no then your hypothetical is irrelevant and you are optimizing for the wrong case.<p>These are protected classes to correct a <i>real</i> failing of our social system.</text></comment> |
21,374,765 | 21,374,641 | 1 | 3 | 21,374,525 | train | <story><title>Bhopal disaster</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>It&#x27;s really surprising that this and the Banqiao dam failure that killed 230,000 are fairly unknown to the west while Chernobyl is a household name, which killed ~60 first responders and &quot;up to 4000&quot; from early cancer deaths (using conservative linear no threshold models of dose response)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Banqiao_Dam" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Banqiao_Dam</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Bhopal disaster</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blobbers</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amazon.com&#x2F;Set-Phasers-Stun-Design-Technology&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0963617885" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amazon.com&#x2F;Set-Phasers-Stun-Design-Technology&#x2F;dp&#x2F;096...</a><p>This book covers Business in Bhopal as well as a variety of other design related disasters (Therac-25) etc.<p>Not a bad read.</text></comment> |
18,341,184 | 18,340,847 | 1 | 3 | 18,334,865 | train | <story><title>How to Handle Monetary Values in JavaScript</title><url>https://frontstuff.io/how-to-handle-monetary-values-in-javascript</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>b2ccb2</author><text>I really like the approach Perl 6 takes with FatRat[1]. You basically have an object which holds a numerator and denominator, so all arithmetic calculations do not loose precision.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.perl6.org&#x2F;type&#x2F;FatRat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.perl6.org&#x2F;type&#x2F;FatRat</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tikhonj</author><text>Rational numbers don&#x27;t lose precision, but the compromise is that they can get arbitrarily large after a series of calculations, even if the calculations themselves involve small numbers.<p>Having <i>access</i> to rational numbers is great and there are times they are incredibly useful, but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a good <i>default</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Handle Monetary Values in JavaScript</title><url>https://frontstuff.io/how-to-handle-monetary-values-in-javascript</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>b2ccb2</author><text>I really like the approach Perl 6 takes with FatRat[1]. You basically have an object which holds a numerator and denominator, so all arithmetic calculations do not loose precision.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.perl6.org&#x2F;type&#x2F;FatRat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.perl6.org&#x2F;type&#x2F;FatRat</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>christophilus</author><text>Clojure does this out of the box: `(&#x2F; 1 3)` is 1&#x2F;3. Removes a lot of annoying floating point errors.</text></comment> |
40,486,717 | 40,486,700 | 1 | 3 | 40,485,318 | train | <story><title>AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board</title><url>https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/05/26/ai-firms-mustnt-govern-themselves-say-ex-members-of-openais-board</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ein0p</author><text>Nation state governments are responsible for the vast majority of deaths attributable to violence historically. Willingly entrusting them with a potentially world ending technology that they’re 100% certain to abuse is a moronic idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thrance</author><text>Would it have been better if nuclear weapons had been developed by a private company whose board consisted entirely of lunatics?</text></comment> | <story><title>AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board</title><url>https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/05/26/ai-firms-mustnt-govern-themselves-say-ex-members-of-openais-board</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ein0p</author><text>Nation state governments are responsible for the vast majority of deaths attributable to violence historically. Willingly entrusting them with a potentially world ending technology that they’re 100% certain to abuse is a moronic idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZhadruOmjar</author><text>This whole thing seems like a way to build a regulatory framework so only the existing, largest AI players can continue and there is too much regulation for anyone else to enter the industry.</text></comment> |
32,003,852 | 32,004,040 | 1 | 2 | 31,999,626 | train | <story><title>New MacBook Air with M2</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/all-new-macbook-air-with-m2-available-to-order-starting-friday-july-8/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pulcinella</author><text>In a somewhat similar situation with the 2019 16 inch Intel MBP. I wouldn&#x27;t say it&#x27;s too slow, but it does get embarrassingly hot during regular use. Enabling low power mode disables turbo boost and keeps it much, much cooler, but plugging into an external monitor enables the discrete graphics card and the laptop gets hot again.<p>Going to try to get a few more years out of it hopefully until Imagination Tech&#x27;s hardware accelerated ray tracing solutions can make it to Apple&#x27;s GPUs.</text></item><item><author>pc86</author><text>I spent an embarrassing amount on a lackluster early 2019 MBP. It&#x27;s fine as a general purpose laptop but is just a <i>little</i> too slow for serious dev work, a <i>little</i> too heavy as the main travel laptop, battery life a <i>little</i> too short for my liking.<p>I got an M1 for my work laptop maybe 4 months ago and it might honestly be the best laptop I&#x27;ve ever used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomduncalf</author><text>Yeah I ditched my 2019 16&quot; for an M1 Max. Was an expensive move but honestly, I couldn&#x27;t bear to use that thing as a laptop, especially once I knew there was an alternative which doesn&#x27;t get hot enough to fry eggs on.<p>For me it was worth it, because I now enjoy using my laptop as a laptop on the sofa or whatever, and do a lot more creative stuff on it than I did with the old one. But definitely not a cheap move!</text></comment> | <story><title>New MacBook Air with M2</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/all-new-macbook-air-with-m2-available-to-order-starting-friday-july-8/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pulcinella</author><text>In a somewhat similar situation with the 2019 16 inch Intel MBP. I wouldn&#x27;t say it&#x27;s too slow, but it does get embarrassingly hot during regular use. Enabling low power mode disables turbo boost and keeps it much, much cooler, but plugging into an external monitor enables the discrete graphics card and the laptop gets hot again.<p>Going to try to get a few more years out of it hopefully until Imagination Tech&#x27;s hardware accelerated ray tracing solutions can make it to Apple&#x27;s GPUs.</text></item><item><author>pc86</author><text>I spent an embarrassing amount on a lackluster early 2019 MBP. It&#x27;s fine as a general purpose laptop but is just a <i>little</i> too slow for serious dev work, a <i>little</i> too heavy as the main travel laptop, battery life a <i>little</i> too short for my liking.<p>I got an M1 for my work laptop maybe 4 months ago and it might honestly be the best laptop I&#x27;ve ever used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robbintt</author><text>I use these with few or no problems. The heat dissipation is pretty much solved by charging on the right side. My life is full of usability hacks, I don&#x27;t mind one more.<p>The biggest frustration for me with a mac now is that it&#x27;s becoming a toy OS like windows. It becomes more and more cumbersome to run programs that aren&#x27;t in the app store. As a result I&#x27;ve been cultivating an ubuntu&#x2F;plasma(kde) practice on a gaming desktop outside of working hours.</text></comment> |
37,929,186 | 37,928,066 | 1 | 2 | 37,927,357 | train | <story><title>GPT-4 vision prompt injection</title><url>https://blog.roboflow.com/gpt-4-vision-prompt-injection/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>I wrote about this the other day:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2023&#x2F;Oct&#x2F;14&#x2F;multi-modal-prompt-injection&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2023&#x2F;Oct&#x2F;14&#x2F;multi-modal-prompt-inj...</a><p>If you&#x27;re new to prompt injection I have a series of posts about it here:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;series&#x2F;prompt-injection&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;series&#x2F;prompt-injection&#x2F;</a><p>To counter a few of the common misunderstandings up front...<p>1. Prompt injection isn&#x27;t an attack directly against LLMs themselves. It&#x27;s an attack against applications that you build on top of them. If you want to build an application that works by providing an &quot;instruction&quot; prompt (like &quot;describe this image&quot;) combined with untrusted user input, you need to be thinking about prompt injection.<p>2. Prompt injection and jailbreaking are similar but not the same thing. Jailbreaking is when you trick a model into doing something that it&#x27;s &quot;not supposed&quot; to do - generating offensive output for example. Prompt injection is specifically when you combine a trusted and untrusted prompt and the untrusted prompt over-rides the trusted one.<p>3. Prompt injection isn&#x27;t just a cosmetic issue - depending on the application you are building it can be a serious security threat. I wrote more about that here: Prompt injection: What’s the worst that can happen? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2023&#x2F;Apr&#x2F;14&#x2F;worst-that-can-happen&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2023&#x2F;Apr&#x2F;14&#x2F;worst-that-can-happen&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>GPT-4 vision prompt injection</title><url>https://blog.roboflow.com/gpt-4-vision-prompt-injection/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kypro</author><text>I saw this yesterday and was thinking a little about this last night.<p>In traditional software you write explicit behavioural rules and then expect those rules to be followed exactly as intended. Where those rules are circumvented we call it an &quot;exploit&quot; since it&#x27;s typically exploiting some gap in the logic, perhaps by injecting some code or an unexpected payload.<p>But with these LLMs there are no explicit rules to exploit, instead it&#x27;s more like a human in that it just does what it believes the person on the other side of the chat window wants from it, and that is going to depend largely on the context of the conversation and it&#x27;s level of reasoning and understanding.<p>Calling this an &quot;exploit&quot; or &quot;prompt injection&quot; perhaps isn&#x27;t the best way to describe what&#x27;s happening. Those terms assume there is some predefined behaviour rules which are being circumvented, but those rules don&#x27;t exist. Instead this more similar to deception, where a person is tricked into doing something that they otherwise wouldn&#x27;t of had they had the extra context (and perhaps intelligence) needed to identify the deceptive behaviour.<p>I think as these models progress we&#x27;ll think about &quot;exploiting&quot; these models similar to how we think about &quot;exploiting&quot; humans in that we&#x27;ll think about how we can effectively deceive the model into doing things it otherwise would not.</text></comment> |
6,424,886 | 6,424,511 | 1 | 3 | 6,423,690 | train | <story><title>The Honey Launderers: Uncovering the Largest Food Fraud in U.S. History</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/153774-the-honey-launderers-uncovering-the-largest-food-fraud-in-u-dot-s-dot-history?src=longreads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ck2</author><text>The largest food fraud in the US is not honey. It is the corporate farming conglomerates who take government welfare to not grow any crops at all many years.<p>$11 BILLION taxpayer money paid to not grow crops since 2003. Seriously, google it.<p>That and massive subsidies for ethanol from corn. Most massive scam in US history.<p>Oh and they de-coupled foodstamps from corporate welfare now so expect this to become more insane over the rest of the decade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>Not only do we pay American farmers to not grow anything, we also pay Brazilian farmers to not grow anything for our right to do so at home. (The WTO fined the US for cotton subsidies. Congress decided to just pay the fines to foreign farmers, rather than touch US farm subsidies.)<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil%E2%80%93United_States_cotton_dispute" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brazil%E2%80%93United_States_co...</a><p>Other fun facts include:<p>1) The US price fixes raisins, to support farmers at the cost of consumers.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Raisin_Reserve" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;National_Raisin_Reserve</a><p>2) The US code has a minimum price for sugar. Yes, you can break the law just by selling sugar for less than an amount determined by congress. (Well, nobody in congress reads the thing, so it&#x27;s probably coming straight from lobbyists.)<p>This is the main reason that everything we buy has corn syrup in it, and not sugar. (Sugar price fixing combined with corn subsidies.)<p><a href="http://sugarreform.org/why-reform/what-the-experts-are-saying/policymakers/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sugarreform.org&#x2F;why-reform&#x2F;what-the-experts-are-sayin...</a><p>Many candy factories that used to be in the US have moved to Mexico, because Mexico doesn&#x27;t price fix sugar.<p><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/04/26/179087542/the-lollipop-war" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;money&#x2F;2013&#x2F;04&#x2F;26&#x2F;179087542&#x2F;the-loll...</a><p>Experts will dispute this, but I swear Coke (the drink!) and chocolate tastes better everywhere else in the world. In part because they use real sugar and not corn syrup.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Honey Launderers: Uncovering the Largest Food Fraud in U.S. History</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/153774-the-honey-launderers-uncovering-the-largest-food-fraud-in-u-dot-s-dot-history?src=longreads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ck2</author><text>The largest food fraud in the US is not honey. It is the corporate farming conglomerates who take government welfare to not grow any crops at all many years.<p>$11 BILLION taxpayer money paid to not grow crops since 2003. Seriously, google it.<p>That and massive subsidies for ethanol from corn. Most massive scam in US history.<p>Oh and they de-coupled foodstamps from corporate welfare now so expect this to become more insane over the rest of the decade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>I agree with you about how terrible that is, but that&#x27;s bad policy. It is not fraud because it is legal, even though the law may be crazily ill-advised and pander to a particular constituency.</text></comment> |
41,640,477 | 41,640,226 | 1 | 2 | 41,639,980 | train | <story><title>Death of the Department Store</title><url>https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n18/rosemary-hill/at-the-musee-des-arts-decoratifs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atourgates</author><text>While &quot;a major department store in every town&quot; is probablty a thing of the past, my impression is that at least in major European capitals, the &quot;national&quot; department stores are still going strong.<p>I make it a point to try and visit them when I can. A couple hours in Selfridges in London, Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Stockmann in Helsinki, Nordiska Kompaniet in Stockholm or Magasin du Nord in Copenhagen will tell you something about the country you&#x27;re visiting, and keep you well entertained. I never buy anything outside of maybe a snack from their over-the-top food halls (most recently Moomin-shaped-gummies in Helsinki), or a sometimes surprisingly affordable lunch at one of their lunch counters (it&#x27;s hard to beat the view you get along with your lunch or apéro at the top Galeries Lafayette on their terrace).<p>But in any case, none of these flagships have ever seemed empty or disused. On the contrary, I&#x27;m always surprised that while I might be astounded by the prices on display, there are always hundreds of local shoppers who seem to be quite happy to pay them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Death of the Department Store</title><url>https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n18/rosemary-hill/at-the-musee-des-arts-decoratifs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>delichon</author><text>Seems like they just got so much bigger that we don&#x27;t even recognize them as a department store. Walmart, Costco, Home Depot, et al. are just variations on the theme. Extrapolate and discover that we&#x27;ll eventually live and shop in a department store that encapsulates the planet like Trantor.</text></comment> |
22,523,683 | 22,520,426 | 1 | 3 | 22,519,209 | train | <story><title>Pleroma 2.0: a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols</title><url>https://pleroma.social/blog/2020/03/08/releasing-pleroma-2-0-0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Yolta</author><text>It saddens me that every time I see a fediverse-related post on HN, it gets inundated by people who don&#x27;t &quot;get it&quot; and that is to be expected: fediverse is not Twitter and everybody gets Twitter. That change in mentality is not easy.<p>Fun story: massive influx of users from India recently and the timelines got flooded by posts indirectly asking: &quot;what is the way to fame here? How do I get followers?&quot;. Fediverse doesn&#x27;t work like that. You just… talk with others. There&#x27;s no &quot;you and your followers&quot;. There&#x27;s &quot;us&quot;.<p>Analogy: you are not in a metropole. You are in a village that is extremely well connected to all other villages. You do not need to shout to be heard.<p>I&#x27;m on a FOSS-focused instance. We talk all kinds of stuff and FOSS is one of them. I have my Home timeline where I follow all the people I want to hear from (both my instance and all others). I have my Instance timeline where I&#x27;m basically guaranteed to read interesting stuff I can reply to and meet new people who also considered this instance to be their haven. And the Known Fediverse timeline… Well, it&#x27;s fun to browse but come on, imagine a timeline of all tweets on Twitter: mostly useless.<p>Choosing the right instance also involves choosing the right moderators for you. Mods can block other instances. If you don&#x27;t like what the mods do, change instance or start your own community. After all, it&#x27;s not Twitter, the people decide how content is moderated, not a for-profit company.<p>That&#x27;s the fediverse for ya. Hope to see you there!</text></comment> | <story><title>Pleroma 2.0: a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols</title><url>https://pleroma.social/blog/2020/03/08/releasing-pleroma-2-0-0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seemslegit</author><text>Me hearing about the fediverse for the first time:<p>&quot;Man this thing looks really promising, just think of the potential of a social network unhindered by the dark machinations of the googtwitface !&quot;<p>Me after ten minutes on the public feed of mastodon.social:<p>&quot;So do the furries post for the sex workers or is it the other way around or what ?&quot;</text></comment> |
5,394,670 | 5,392,456 | 1 | 3 | 5,392,193 | train | <story><title>First-person Tetris</title><url>http://www.firstpersontetris.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jere</author><text>Darn, I was hoping for a perspective from the block itself looking down on the already placed blocks.<p>Second-person tetris then?<p>[on a side note, I really need to learn how to game the front page. 2 year old, minute twist on 30 year old game -&#62; front page. write a new game from scratch -&#62; dustbin]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IgorPartola</author><text>Pretty simple, really. (The following is fairly cynical, and a hyperbole. Most of it isn't actually good advice, but I've seen all of these methods work).<p>Try to post when the post the the bottom of /newest is close to an hour old.<p>Avoid posting during times of big events (e.g.: not when Google kills off Google Reader).<p>Have a linkbait title. Don't worry, it gets edited by friendly neighborhood moderators later, so you don't look like a jackass.<p>Need to re-post an article that didn't gain traction before? Add #SOMETHING to the end of the URL. The matching algorithm will think it's a new link.<p>Create a voting ring. Make sure to do some actual posting/upvoting, as there is voting ring detection. The simplest prevention is that upvotes from the same IP don't seem to count.<p>Have a short article, instead of a long one. By my estimate 90% of people upvote based on title alone, 9% upvote based on the first paragraph of the article, and 1% actually reads it.<p>Post something as "Show HN: please review my X". These seem to gain a lot of favor. Brag about how it was a weekend project, took you 2 hours, etc.<p>Have high karma and lots of fans.<p>Post "What I learned from building my tetris clone" article<p>Talk about how Paleo diet changed your life<p>Promise to teach us how to stop eating/sleeping/wasting time/driving/having stuff.<p>Write an article about how your work environment is different and how it makes you productive.<p>Do something that is otherwise trivial using only CSS. Apply the same approach to Haskell to get a PhD in Computer Science (I literally saw a thesis a while ago about memoization techniques in Haskell.)<p>Post a short angry rant or make a wild claim. This is especially helpful if you are a mildly popular blogger. Accuse Google/Apple of doing something that will ruin their business. Make a wild prediction about how the Entire Google empire is based on a dozen bloggers using Google Reader.<p>Read: <a href="http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+to+make+the+Hacker+News+homepage" rel="nofollow">http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+to+make+the+Hacker+News+homep...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>First-person Tetris</title><url>http://www.firstpersontetris.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jere</author><text>Darn, I was hoping for a perspective from the block itself looking down on the already placed blocks.<p>Second-person tetris then?<p>[on a side note, I really need to learn how to game the front page. 2 year old, minute twist on 30 year old game -&#62; front page. write a new game from scratch -&#62; dustbin]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leeoniya</author><text>like Blockout from the 90s? <a href="https://www.google.com/search?um=1&#38;hl=en&#38;biw=1920&#38;bih=953&#38;tbm=isch&#38;sa=1&#38;q=blockout&#38;oq=blockout&#38;gs_l=img.3...0.0.0.3672.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c..6.img.rR7hL6R1Vao" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?um=1&#38;hl=en&#38;biw=1920&#3...</a></text></comment> |
12,531,030 | 12,530,180 | 1 | 3 | 12,527,098 | train | <story><title>iTunes will never work well</title><url>https://medium.com/@firasd/itunes-will-never-work-well-973674420fa4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomasandrle</author><text>It must be really hard to maintain and add features to such a huge old application. Platforms have changed underneath it, the devices and services it connects to have come and gone, Objective C has changed a lot as well. And then there&#x27;s the Windows version...<p>Still, iTunes is crap. I hated it so much that I wrote my own music player for iOS, just to avoid using iTunes for putting music on my phone [1].<p>My guess is that sooner or later, iTunes will be dismantled and the features will be split into multiple smaller apps. There will be a music app that JUST plays music from the Apple Music account, a podcast app that JUST plays podcasts, a sync app that JUST helps you manage stuff on your phone etc. Some features will be removed (Internet radio, ripping &amp; burning CDs). And of those that remain, only a few will need to keep a Windows counterpart. That way, things will be easier to maintain.<p>[1] Tiny Player: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;id1140849233" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;id1140849233</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>novaleaf</author><text>(My Opinion): This is a business decision. The user is a captive audience (no alternatives available), so Apple has a disincentive to optimize anything other than profit generators.<p>And it&#x27;s not just Apple. In Google Play, try housekeeping your app collection, or re-install a specific app on a new device. It&#x27;s technically possible, but the more apps you have installed in the past, the harder it gets.</text></comment> | <story><title>iTunes will never work well</title><url>https://medium.com/@firasd/itunes-will-never-work-well-973674420fa4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomasandrle</author><text>It must be really hard to maintain and add features to such a huge old application. Platforms have changed underneath it, the devices and services it connects to have come and gone, Objective C has changed a lot as well. And then there&#x27;s the Windows version...<p>Still, iTunes is crap. I hated it so much that I wrote my own music player for iOS, just to avoid using iTunes for putting music on my phone [1].<p>My guess is that sooner or later, iTunes will be dismantled and the features will be split into multiple smaller apps. There will be a music app that JUST plays music from the Apple Music account, a podcast app that JUST plays podcasts, a sync app that JUST helps you manage stuff on your phone etc. Some features will be removed (Internet radio, ripping &amp; burning CDs). And of those that remain, only a few will need to keep a Windows counterpart. That way, things will be easier to maintain.<p>[1] Tiny Player: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;id1140849233" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;id1140849233</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kalleboo</author><text>&gt; My guess is that sooner or later, iTunes will be dismantled and the features will be split into multiple smaller apps<p>I&#x27;ve been hoping for this for ages, but looking at the new Music app on iOS I guess I should be careful what I wish for. At least iTunes isn&#x27;t <i>that</i> bad.</text></comment> |
3,167,208 | 3,166,530 | 1 | 2 | 3,166,170 | train | <story><title>Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_denies_takedown_requests_this_time.php#.TqnuLZnzTGk.hackernews</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>moultano</author><text><i>But Google's record is spotty. Just this month, it handed over a WikiLeaks volunteer's Gmail data to the U.S. government, which used an old and controversial law to request it without a warrant from a judge. Google is pushing for updated laws ...</i><p>This seems like an absurdly high standard if obeying the law and pushing for updated laws isn't enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rickmb</author><text>Have we collectively forgotten the time when journalists went to jail rather than reveal their sources, and publishers didn't waiver in their support?<p>However understandable Google's position may be, fighting the law is not an "absurdly high standard". Sometimes it's simply the right thing to do.<p>This "obey the law, obey the government" attitude is a post-9/11 thing we really need to get over.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_denies_takedown_requests_this_time.php#.TqnuLZnzTGk.hackernews</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>moultano</author><text><i>But Google's record is spotty. Just this month, it handed over a WikiLeaks volunteer's Gmail data to the U.S. government, which used an old and controversial law to request it without a warrant from a judge. Google is pushing for updated laws ...</i><p>This seems like an absurdly high standard if obeying the law and pushing for updated laws isn't enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextparadigms</author><text>Google actually fought so they don't have to give the data of that Wikileaks guy, but I think they had no choice in the end.</text></comment> |
18,036,909 | 18,036,797 | 1 | 2 | 18,031,708 | train | <story><title>Xamarin Forms: it works</title><url>https://www.sharpnado.com/xamarin-forms-works/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apedley</author><text>This post actually highlights more of XF&#x27;s downfalls than positives. I&#x27;ve been a big XF developer for years, and XF has many positives but this example just shows that they needed SkiaSharp, Lottie, and native platform code just to get their app out.<p>Not to mention the need for additional components such as horizontal scroll, carousel view etc.<p>If you look at Flutter, most of this app could be done with just the Flutter SDK. Haven&#x27;t really played much with RN, so not sure how that compares.</text></comment> | <story><title>Xamarin Forms: it works</title><url>https://www.sharpnado.com/xamarin-forms-works/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ninja10</author><text>I used xamarin a few years ago for a moderately sized iOS app. It got me about 95% there. That last few percent was brutal, the app kept crashing after coming back from the contact chooser. Couldn&#x27;t find a way around it, even with latest xamarin version, hot fixes. Was very unfortunate. I&#x27;m pretty skeptical of frameworks that abstract away a whole system. Hopefully, xamarin is a lot more stable and powerful these days.</text></comment> |
8,545,602 | 8,545,262 | 1 | 2 | 8,544,775 | train | <story><title>Why Innocent People Plead Guilty</title><url>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/why-innocent-people-plead-guilty/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsder</author><text>The real problem is that we allow the prosecuting attorney to &quot;strike&quot; possible jurors from the juror pool.<p>The <i>defense</i> should get this advantage, but the prosecution should not. If the prosecution has to stack the jury to get a conviction, it doesn&#x27;t have a proper case.<p>Another problem is that the prosecution is looking for easily influenced jurors rather than diligent ones.<p>Once had a hung jury on this where one juror was voting guilty and wouldn&#x27;t budge. Our take: &quot;Look, yes, he is guilty of possession. He had the drugs. <i>BUT THAT&#x27;S NOT WHAT HE&#x27;S CHARGED WITH</i>. He&#x27;s charged with conspiracy and he wasn&#x27;t even in the country at the time the conspiracy was supposedly discussed. The government <i>HASN&#x27;T PROVED ITS CASE</i>.&quot;<p>Nope. Guilty. Won&#x27;t budge. And she was a grand juror. So much for the safety check of a grand jury. Sigh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how allowing prosecutors to strike jurors has anything at all to do with the problem. Prosecutors (and defense attorneys) only get a small number of peremptory strikes. They can strike more, but they have to give the judge an acceptable reason. A prosecutor cannot &quot;stack the jury&quot; via peremptory strikes.<p>You are essentially proposing that juries be selected by the defense. That would not result in impartial juries. It would result in juries that are prejudiced in favor of the defendant.<p>The real problem is mandatory minimum sentences.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Innocent People Plead Guilty</title><url>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/why-innocent-people-plead-guilty/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsder</author><text>The real problem is that we allow the prosecuting attorney to &quot;strike&quot; possible jurors from the juror pool.<p>The <i>defense</i> should get this advantage, but the prosecution should not. If the prosecution has to stack the jury to get a conviction, it doesn&#x27;t have a proper case.<p>Another problem is that the prosecution is looking for easily influenced jurors rather than diligent ones.<p>Once had a hung jury on this where one juror was voting guilty and wouldn&#x27;t budge. Our take: &quot;Look, yes, he is guilty of possession. He had the drugs. <i>BUT THAT&#x27;S NOT WHAT HE&#x27;S CHARGED WITH</i>. He&#x27;s charged with conspiracy and he wasn&#x27;t even in the country at the time the conspiracy was supposedly discussed. The government <i>HASN&#x27;T PROVED ITS CASE</i>.&quot;<p>Nope. Guilty. Won&#x27;t budge. And she was a grand juror. So much for the safety check of a grand jury. Sigh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vvpan</author><text>Well as I understand the article argues that all of this happens before the jury has any say? So you are talking of a separate problem?</text></comment> |
32,241,861 | 32,241,906 | 1 | 2 | 32,241,003 | train | <story><title>Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD</title><url>https://www.oculus.com/blog/meta-quest-2-pricing-changes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atomicnumber3</author><text>I have a Vive and have played a decent number of hours in VR, and overall like it quite a lot. It&#x27;s really amazing how readily our brain will &quot;adopt&quot; two floating hands as your own body. I&#x27;m bullish on the future of VR gaming.<p>But I do think there&#x27;s a big hurdle, and that&#x27;s our inner ear. Teleport-based controls are jank but it seems really difficult to prevent motion sickness when using any kind of movement that translates the camera in 3d space.<p>I tried to play Subnautica in VR, and literally only made it about 10 seconds before I had to pull the headset off and sit on the cool tile floor for a bit.<p>I figured - well, maybe I shouldn&#x27;t be surprised a sea game gives me motion sickness. And it&#x27;s not even built for VR anyway.<p>So I tried - I can&#x27;t remember the name, but it&#x27;s a game where you fly around building a base in space. Sounded like an awesome idea.<p>I forced myself to play for about 5-10 minutes despite feeling ill almost immediately, and regretted it immensely when I did finally bail out.<p>It seems like this happens to a decent number of people? And why teleport movement is so common?<p>FWIW I don&#x27;t get <i>particularly</i> bad motion sickness in other, traditional settings. Being a passenger in a car on a windy road will definitely mess me up, but I don&#x27;t get seasickness, for instance, and also don&#x27;t mind roller coasters at all.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I&#x27;m shocked that there aren&#x27;t more multiplayer VR experiences. Yes, sure, there&#x27;s Pavlov and VR Chat. But unless you have a friend who&#x27;s into VR Chat, it&#x27;s remarkably difficult to find a game that can immerse two different people at the same time.<p>It felt a bit ironic that mini golf was one of the most fun multiplayer party games.<p>My wife was like &quot;You should bring over your quest 2!&quot; to our new house -- she already has an Index and some other high end headset. I asked &quot;But why?&quot; and we couldn&#x27;t think of a good reason.<p>Maybe the epitome of VR is always going to be a bunch of friends sitting around watching one person play it, but it felt like there could be something more. Something like a Star Trek bridge experience or... something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjh29</author><text>There are some techniques. Vignetting the borders of the screen when moving&#x2F;turning seems to help for some people.<p>I&#x27;ve noticed newer games increasingly have free movement as an option, or no teleport at all, so I think for a lot of people it is possible to get used to it if you play enough. Some percentage will never get used to it though, which sucks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD</title><url>https://www.oculus.com/blog/meta-quest-2-pricing-changes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atomicnumber3</author><text>I have a Vive and have played a decent number of hours in VR, and overall like it quite a lot. It&#x27;s really amazing how readily our brain will &quot;adopt&quot; two floating hands as your own body. I&#x27;m bullish on the future of VR gaming.<p>But I do think there&#x27;s a big hurdle, and that&#x27;s our inner ear. Teleport-based controls are jank but it seems really difficult to prevent motion sickness when using any kind of movement that translates the camera in 3d space.<p>I tried to play Subnautica in VR, and literally only made it about 10 seconds before I had to pull the headset off and sit on the cool tile floor for a bit.<p>I figured - well, maybe I shouldn&#x27;t be surprised a sea game gives me motion sickness. And it&#x27;s not even built for VR anyway.<p>So I tried - I can&#x27;t remember the name, but it&#x27;s a game where you fly around building a base in space. Sounded like an awesome idea.<p>I forced myself to play for about 5-10 minutes despite feeling ill almost immediately, and regretted it immensely when I did finally bail out.<p>It seems like this happens to a decent number of people? And why teleport movement is so common?<p>FWIW I don&#x27;t get <i>particularly</i> bad motion sickness in other, traditional settings. Being a passenger in a car on a windy road will definitely mess me up, but I don&#x27;t get seasickness, for instance, and also don&#x27;t mind roller coasters at all.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>I&#x27;m shocked that there aren&#x27;t more multiplayer VR experiences. Yes, sure, there&#x27;s Pavlov and VR Chat. But unless you have a friend who&#x27;s into VR Chat, it&#x27;s remarkably difficult to find a game that can immerse two different people at the same time.<p>It felt a bit ironic that mini golf was one of the most fun multiplayer party games.<p>My wife was like &quot;You should bring over your quest 2!&quot; to our new house -- she already has an Index and some other high end headset. I asked &quot;But why?&quot; and we couldn&#x27;t think of a good reason.<p>Maybe the epitome of VR is always going to be a bunch of friends sitting around watching one person play it, but it felt like there could be something more. Something like a Star Trek bridge experience or... something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>game-of-throws</author><text>From what I know, inner ear stimulation (to manipulate perception of balance) is non-invasive, relatively simple, and well understood. But I haven&#x27;t seen anyone try combining it with VR yet.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Galvanic_vestibular_stimulation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Galvanic_vestibular_stimulatio...</a></text></comment> |
6,072,113 | 6,069,273 | 1 | 2 | 6,068,323 | train | <story><title>The Forbidden Island</title><url>http://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/08/The-Forbidden-Island</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>homeomorphic</author><text>I don&#x27;t know… suppose some highly advanced aliens with for the most part benign intent found us. Would you <i>really</i> like them to &quot;stay the fuck away&quot;? I, for one, would love for our technology to leapfrog ahead centuries, even though it would completely change our culture.<p>The disease part can be handled today. We <i>could</i> go visit them in hazmat suits. And I know I&#x27;m being really generous when I&#x27;m comparing the modern world to benign aliens, but properly managed (as access to the island already appears to be) surely we can approach them in a decent way?<p>That they violently defend themselves is of course a highly complicating factor.<p>I guess all I&#x27;m saying is that <i>not establishing contact</i> is also a choice that we&#x27;re making on their behalf. Is deciding that they <i>can&#x27;t</i> parttake in modern society any more OK than deciding they must? Can we not contact them in a way where they get to choose?<p><i>Edit:</i> I certainly agree that we as humans have an absolutely horrible track record on these kinds of things. But it&#x27;s been a while now, hasn&#x27;t it? Can&#x27;t we pull this off by now? These guys are our brothers and sisters - should we at least not have a chat with them to see if they really want to be left the fuck alone, or if they might want to not die whenever they get an infected wound, or half the time they have kids, or whenever they break a leg? Hell, it might well be that <i>some</i> of them want to be left the fuck alone, while some would like to see the world. How come those latter ones have to stay on that island just because we say so?</text></item><item><author>geuis</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty late to leaving a comment, so it won&#x27;t get a lot of exposure.<p>Let&#x27;s just leave these people the fuck alone.<p>What threat are they under? Curious assholes like us. There are probably less than 1000 people on that island, all descended from people tens of thousands of years ago. There are more people than that that visit an Apple store on a Tuesday before 2pm.<p>Leave them alone.<p>We don&#x27;t need to assuage our 10 second collective attention span by ruining their lives, destroying their history, and effectively ending a lineage thousands of years old.<p>These people probably have their own ideas about the weird shit washing up on their beaches and the crazy stuff in the sky that drops outsiders and food from time to time. Leave them to it. It doesn&#x27;t matter what they think, no matter how curious you think you are.<p>Leave them alone.<p>For the physics-minded, think of them as a sample of humanity in Schrödinger&#x27;s box. It&#x27;s not a cat, but people. Except in this experiment, any direct observation will absolutely kill the people. Any exposure to disease, customs, or technology without their explicit choice will kill them. Maybe they don&#x27;t physically die, but their lineage will end.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sampo</author><text>One one hand:<p>Most of the Australian aborigine people had walked out of the desert by the 1960&#x27;s, but in 1984 a family of 9 that had lived in the desert, finally also walked out to reunite with their relatives [1]. The relatives had already lived ca. 20 years in an Australian village nearby.<p>When they finally saw the comfortable lifestyle their relatives had enjoyed already for 20 years, they were quite angry [2] that they had been left living in the desert, and not contacted earlier:<p><i>&quot;They told us there was plenty of food and water came out of pipes,&quot; Yardi said.</i><p><i>&quot;The older ones were angry that their long-lost relatives – who they had not seen for nearly 20 years – had left them out in the desert eating lizards while they lived in what they saw as the lap of luxury,&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;I like this life,&quot; Yardi said. &quot;I much prefer it to the old ways.&quot;</i><p><i>Warlinipirri said: &quot;I wouldn&#x27;t go back.&quot;</i><p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pintupi_Nine" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pintupi_Nine</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/archive/news/lost-tribe-happy-in-modern-world/story-e6frf7l6-1111112932308" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.heraldsun.com.au&#x2F;archive&#x2F;news&#x2F;lost-tribe-happy-in...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Forbidden Island</title><url>http://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/08/The-Forbidden-Island</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>homeomorphic</author><text>I don&#x27;t know… suppose some highly advanced aliens with for the most part benign intent found us. Would you <i>really</i> like them to &quot;stay the fuck away&quot;? I, for one, would love for our technology to leapfrog ahead centuries, even though it would completely change our culture.<p>The disease part can be handled today. We <i>could</i> go visit them in hazmat suits. And I know I&#x27;m being really generous when I&#x27;m comparing the modern world to benign aliens, but properly managed (as access to the island already appears to be) surely we can approach them in a decent way?<p>That they violently defend themselves is of course a highly complicating factor.<p>I guess all I&#x27;m saying is that <i>not establishing contact</i> is also a choice that we&#x27;re making on their behalf. Is deciding that they <i>can&#x27;t</i> parttake in modern society any more OK than deciding they must? Can we not contact them in a way where they get to choose?<p><i>Edit:</i> I certainly agree that we as humans have an absolutely horrible track record on these kinds of things. But it&#x27;s been a while now, hasn&#x27;t it? Can&#x27;t we pull this off by now? These guys are our brothers and sisters - should we at least not have a chat with them to see if they really want to be left the fuck alone, or if they might want to not die whenever they get an infected wound, or half the time they have kids, or whenever they break a leg? Hell, it might well be that <i>some</i> of them want to be left the fuck alone, while some would like to see the world. How come those latter ones have to stay on that island just because we say so?</text></item><item><author>geuis</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty late to leaving a comment, so it won&#x27;t get a lot of exposure.<p>Let&#x27;s just leave these people the fuck alone.<p>What threat are they under? Curious assholes like us. There are probably less than 1000 people on that island, all descended from people tens of thousands of years ago. There are more people than that that visit an Apple store on a Tuesday before 2pm.<p>Leave them alone.<p>We don&#x27;t need to assuage our 10 second collective attention span by ruining their lives, destroying their history, and effectively ending a lineage thousands of years old.<p>These people probably have their own ideas about the weird shit washing up on their beaches and the crazy stuff in the sky that drops outsiders and food from time to time. Leave them to it. It doesn&#x27;t matter what they think, no matter how curious you think you are.<p>Leave them alone.<p>For the physics-minded, think of them as a sample of humanity in Schrödinger&#x27;s box. It&#x27;s not a cat, but people. Except in this experiment, any direct observation will absolutely kill the people. Any exposure to disease, customs, or technology without their explicit choice will kill them. Maybe they don&#x27;t physically die, but their lineage will end.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userulluipeste</author><text>The (Star Trek&#x27;s) Prime Directive is not something worthwhile to be considered here? The representatives of these people (the ones with bows and other kind of weapons that dare to face the outsiders) are stating clearly their policy. Maybe it is us that must get over our desires to intrude supposedly on someone else&#x27;s benefit.</text></comment> |
5,683,052 | 5,683,057 | 1 | 2 | 5,682,849 | train | <story><title>10 years later, ‘Star Wars Kid’ speaks out</title><url>http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/09/10-years-later-the-star-wars-kid-speaks-out/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themstheones</author><text>No need to be sarcastic. McGill is widely considered to be one of Canada's best universities. William Shatner and most of our prime ministers studied there.</text></item><item><author>pkulak</author><text>&#62; Raza, now a law-school graduate from McGill<p>I wonder if the person who posted the video is doing as well?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carbocation</author><text>I didn't see any sarcasm in pkulak's comment. I read it as saying, "The Star Wars kid is doing great; I wonder if the person who meanly posted the video is achieving anywhere near his level of success?"<p><i>Edit:</i> Your comment should not be so heavily downvoted for the misunderstanding.</text></comment> | <story><title>10 years later, ‘Star Wars Kid’ speaks out</title><url>http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/09/10-years-later-the-star-wars-kid-speaks-out/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themstheones</author><text>No need to be sarcastic. McGill is widely considered to be one of Canada's best universities. William Shatner and most of our prime ministers studied there.</text></item><item><author>pkulak</author><text>&#62; Raza, now a law-school graduate from McGill<p>I wonder if the person who posted the video is doing as well?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blairbeckwith</author><text>Yeah, because everyone on the Internet is sarcastic all the time.<p>McGill is a great school, you're right. And nobody implied otherwise.</text></comment> |
19,956,714 | 19,956,695 | 1 | 2 | 19,955,958 | train | <story><title>Mystery meat OpenJDK builds strike again</title><url>https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2019-May/009330.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CaliforniaKarl</author><text>A few emails later in the thread[0], it is noted...<p>&gt; ...who actually maintains the &quot;official&quot; Docker images for 8u and 11u? Github history for
Dockerfiles points to no one I recognize from around OpenJDK.<p>That, I think, is the main problem.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mail.openjdk.java.net&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;jdk8u-dev&#x2F;2019-May&#x2F;009335.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mail.openjdk.java.net&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;jdk8u-dev&#x2F;2019-May&#x2F;0...</a><p>Edit: Actually linking to source (which I should&#x27;ve done from the beginning…)</text></comment> | <story><title>Mystery meat OpenJDK builds strike again</title><url>https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2019-May/009330.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chungy</author><text>As an observer, not any kind of authority:<p>The release methodology of OpenJDK from Oracle is obscure at best, and it is hard to imagine how package managers are supposed to cope. I notice both of these examples come with Debian version strings attached, and they likely build from tags in the version control repository. As example, in these two links:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hg.openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jdk8u&#x2F;jdk8u&#x2F;tags" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hg.openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jdk8u&#x2F;jdk8u&#x2F;tags</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hg.openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jdk-updates&#x2F;jdk11u&#x2F;tags" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hg.openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jdk-updates&#x2F;jdk11u&#x2F;tags</a><p>The &quot;-ga&quot; tags do pretty clearly delineate official releases, but they also get pushed to the public repository well (often weeks) after Oracle posts official binaries for these releases. It is confusing and makes it not all that mysterious that distribution packaging will take the best that they can see for doing a clean build, as they like to do.<p>It would help quite a lot if the +1&#x2F;+2&#x2F;+3&#x2F;etc releases were instead delineated with &quot;-alpha1&quot;, &quot;-beta1&quot;, &quot;-rc1&quot; tags. Much clearer that they aren&#x27;t meant to be production.</text></comment> |
4,850,863 | 4,849,206 | 1 | 3 | 4,848,812 | train | <story><title>What storytelling does to our brains</title><url>http://blog.bufferapp.com/science-of-storytelling-why-telling-a-story-is-the-most-powerful-way-to-activate-our-brains</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seanlinehan</author><text>About a year ago I starting becoming incredibly interested in making ideas spread. I decided to read books on how to present myself and my ideas in a way that builds my own credibility, trustworthiness, and helps people to take on my ideas.<p>If you are interested in these things, I highly recommend <i>Made to Stick</i> by the Heath Brothers [1]. It focuses on the SUCCESs framework:<p>S - Short<p>U - Unexpected<p>C - Credible<p>C - Concrete<p>E - Emotional<p>S - Stories<p>They elaborate in excellent detail on each of these ideas and the acronym that they coined is a perfect example.<p>In terms of building your own credibility, I suggest reading <i>How to Win Friends and Influence People</i> by Dale Carnegie. [2] This book is instrumental in understanding the basic concepts that can have a material impact on your life. I think that Autobiography of Ben Franklin [3] teaches a few key lessons in the use of diffidence that harmonizes well with Carnegie's ideas.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Made-Stick-Ideas-Survive-Others/dp/1400064287" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Made-Stick-Ideas-Survive-Others/dp/140...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06...</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.classicly.com/download-autobiography-of-benjamin-franklin-pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.classicly.com/download-autobiography-of-benjamin-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What storytelling does to our brains</title><url>http://blog.bufferapp.com/science-of-storytelling-why-telling-a-story-is-the-most-powerful-way-to-activate-our-brains</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NathanKP</author><text><i>Our brain learns to ignore certain overused words and phrases that are used to make stories awesome</i><p>This applies tremendously in marketing, and is one of the reasons why marketing speak has to change constantly. Otherwise people start ignoring the cliché ad speak.</text></comment> |
30,766,918 | 30,767,137 | 1 | 3 | 30,764,886 | train | <story><title>Tolkien's Paintings</title><url>https://www.tolkienestate.com/painting</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vlunkr</author><text>I think the maps really helped sell the world to me as a kid. There&#x27;s such a distinct, foreign style to them. Of course every fantasy series now has a map, but the Tolkien maps are still embedded deep in my brain.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tolkien's Paintings</title><url>https://www.tolkienestate.com/painting</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>legitster</author><text>The personal paintings and doodles for his children were so touching. It just reminded me of personal doodles my older brother used to give me. But technology seems to have robbed the boredom and privacy necessary for these types of tiny artistic gestures.</text></comment> |
30,103,807 | 30,098,979 | 1 | 2 | 30,096,674 | train | <story><title>Reasons Kubernetes is so complex</title><url>https://buttondown.email/nelhage/archive/two-reasons-kubernetes-is-so-complex/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carlmr</author><text>&gt;The author contrasts this with K8s by saying that K8s is declarative. This is not the important distinction.<p>I feel like declarative is some kind of technical manual meme for the last few years. I don&#x27;t know at this point how often I&#x27;ve read that something is better because it&#x27;s modern and declarative. Why it&#x27;s easy to understand because it&#x27;s declarative, etc.<p>There&#x27;s a similar thing with &quot;functional&quot;. In that case I at least understand the intuition why it&#x27;s better, which is because if I&#x2F;O behavior is constant and you don&#x27;t have to think of an internal state, like in OOP. It is indeed much easier to divide and conquer when you can understand the parts of the whole individually. And as soon as you understand the parts you can piece them together.<p>With &quot;declarative&quot; I still have to find out what&#x27;s the intuition WHY it&#x27;s supposedly better, until then it&#x27;s kind of like the 90s, where the washing machine was &quot;better&quot; because it had &quot;fuzzy logic&quot;.</text></item><item><author>cturner</author><text>&quot;&quot;&quot;
One could imagine a very imperative “cluster operating system,” like the above, which exposed primitives like “allocate 5 CPUs worth of compute” or “create a new virtual network,” which in turn backed onto configuration changes either in the system’s internal abstractions or into calls into the EC2 API (or other underlying cloud provider).
&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>There is a name for this: Single System Image. There is no need to write the operating system layer - Linux works well.<p>I built a SSI. Each grid can host several apps, &#x27;gridapps&#x27;. As priorities change during the day, an operator can rebalance resources using a bash-like shell. Each gridapp has (1) core nodes, which need to keep running, and (2) scale nodes which can be started and stopped. Nodes can be configured so they are taskset-bound to an individual processor, or sharing a processor between several nodes. There are equivalent primitives for memory and persistent storage. Commercial, 1000 cores.<p>The author contrasts this with K8s by saying that K8s is declarative. This is not the important distinction. My system had declarative configuration, and did a fitting at startup.<p>The key difference is motive. The design above is the natural choice when you build a grid computer from first-principles.<p>K8s is designed to solve a different problem: scaling up the traditional model of programming. Here, a developer writes an algorithm on their workstation. The deployment circumstances and interactions with other systems are an afterthought. Often this developer does not deploy the code themselves, this is done by another team who don&#x27;t understand the internals of the code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t know at this point how often I&#x27;ve read that something is better because it&#x27;s modern and declarative. Why it&#x27;s easy to understand because it&#x27;s declarative, etc.<p>I feel most comments here miss the point of declerative systems - resillience.<p>You write a script to stand up an Application on a clean system, a declarative system does the same. But what if current state is not a blank slate? A declarative system is meant to be smart enough to achieve target state even if machine crahsed half way through the setup last time, or has a different config already running.<p>Writing a shell script that addresses all edgecases is hard. Now, declarative systems do fail, but that&#x27;s the promice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reasons Kubernetes is so complex</title><url>https://buttondown.email/nelhage/archive/two-reasons-kubernetes-is-so-complex/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carlmr</author><text>&gt;The author contrasts this with K8s by saying that K8s is declarative. This is not the important distinction.<p>I feel like declarative is some kind of technical manual meme for the last few years. I don&#x27;t know at this point how often I&#x27;ve read that something is better because it&#x27;s modern and declarative. Why it&#x27;s easy to understand because it&#x27;s declarative, etc.<p>There&#x27;s a similar thing with &quot;functional&quot;. In that case I at least understand the intuition why it&#x27;s better, which is because if I&#x2F;O behavior is constant and you don&#x27;t have to think of an internal state, like in OOP. It is indeed much easier to divide and conquer when you can understand the parts of the whole individually. And as soon as you understand the parts you can piece them together.<p>With &quot;declarative&quot; I still have to find out what&#x27;s the intuition WHY it&#x27;s supposedly better, until then it&#x27;s kind of like the 90s, where the washing machine was &quot;better&quot; because it had &quot;fuzzy logic&quot;.</text></item><item><author>cturner</author><text>&quot;&quot;&quot;
One could imagine a very imperative “cluster operating system,” like the above, which exposed primitives like “allocate 5 CPUs worth of compute” or “create a new virtual network,” which in turn backed onto configuration changes either in the system’s internal abstractions or into calls into the EC2 API (or other underlying cloud provider).
&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>There is a name for this: Single System Image. There is no need to write the operating system layer - Linux works well.<p>I built a SSI. Each grid can host several apps, &#x27;gridapps&#x27;. As priorities change during the day, an operator can rebalance resources using a bash-like shell. Each gridapp has (1) core nodes, which need to keep running, and (2) scale nodes which can be started and stopped. Nodes can be configured so they are taskset-bound to an individual processor, or sharing a processor between several nodes. There are equivalent primitives for memory and persistent storage. Commercial, 1000 cores.<p>The author contrasts this with K8s by saying that K8s is declarative. This is not the important distinction. My system had declarative configuration, and did a fitting at startup.<p>The key difference is motive. The design above is the natural choice when you build a grid computer from first-principles.<p>K8s is designed to solve a different problem: scaling up the traditional model of programming. Here, a developer writes an algorithm on their workstation. The deployment circumstances and interactions with other systems are an afterthought. Often this developer does not deploy the code themselves, this is done by another team who don&#x27;t understand the internals of the code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maccard</author><text>&gt; With &quot;declarative&quot; I still have to find out what&#x27;s the intuition WHY it&#x27;s supposedly better,<p>Declarative is better because you write what you want to _have_ not what you want to change, which means you need implicit knowledge of the state of the system, and leave the complexities of figuring out the in between to the tool you&#x27;re using.</text></comment> |
32,411,459 | 32,410,988 | 1 | 2 | 32,410,355 | train | <story><title>“Autistic people can’t acknowledge when they’re wrong”</title><url>https://the.scapegoat.dev/autistic-people-cant-acknowledge-when-they-are-wrong/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larve</author><text>Author here, thanks for reading.<p>I didn’t give much information about my life, but I am pretty adept at playing all these games. So much so that I thought there was no way I could be autistic because of how many friends and business relationships I had. Until it hit me that I spent my 20ies doing what you suggest, which is studying the heck out of these things.<p>But it stops at engineering, where I try to be very open-minded and learn as much as I can. I have to readily accept I am wrong on most of my assumptions because I just couldn’t be a good engineer otherwise. I can be perfectly suave and agreeable discussing anything else. That means I probably know how to play the “acquiesce when you should” game quite well.<p>But I’m at work because I am blessed to have a job where I get to do what I care about: good engineering. I deliver great value when people understand my way of thinking, and thankfully I have plenty of colleagues that get it.</text></item><item><author>dusted</author><text>I read this as being strongly opinionated and egocentric..<p>I want to call it &quot;ausplaining&quot;, this tendency to go &quot;no no, YOU don&#x27;t understand ME (because I&#x27;m special, not because I&#x27;m wrong)&quot; whenever we get ourselves into situations like the exemplified.<p>I do this A LOT as well, and when people do stick with me for long enough, I often find that I&#x27;m either getting my point across by re-framing my explanation, or discover that what I&#x27;m pursuing as oh_so_important is in fact not important for the question at hand (then I feel even more stupid, because, not only did I find this of paramount importance, but everyone else didn&#x27;t even consider it (because it so clearly didn&#x27;t matter)).<p>&gt; Because I value learning, I read about 50 technical books every year<p>If the author reads this, I&#x27;d congratulate them on finding the time to do that, but also advice them to maybe read 40 technical books every year, and then read 10 about the topics they clearly do struggle with (social interactions, politics, negotiation, psychology)..<p>The opinion reads as &quot;I&#x27;m right and the world is wrong&quot; to me, maybe because I can strongly relate (except the parts about reading tons of books and being really smart).<p>I think the author would benefit from realizing that these things they dismiss as irrelevant (mind games&#x2F;politics) are actually important and beneficial to understand and master (I am not saying it should be that way, but merely point out that it is, in fact that way).<p>The author may also benefit from investing some of their mental capital (I&#x27;m not being sarcastic, they&#x27;re obviously very intelligent) into learning how to play the games, to figure out neurotypicals enough to communicate with them on their level&#x2F;terms.<p>Yes, workplaces need to be accommodating, but in the end, no matter who we are, it&#x27;s our ultimate responsibility, to ourselves, to learn how to function in this world.<p>As for the situation where the other party is factually wrong.. Well, yes.. I always imagine this situation, where I have the right of way on my bicycle, and it&#x27;s the semi-truck that must yield.. There are a fair number of times where being right does not matter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rendall</author><text>Given the headline, I thought it would be an article about what it looks like when you acknowledge that you are wrong and why people might not understand that you are, in fact, acknowledging when you are wrong.<p>Instead, it was an entire article that not once acknowledged that you could be wrong, nor what it looks like when you do acknowledge it. It detailed about how, actually, you&#x27;re not usually wrong.<p>This article appears to underscore the accusation.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Autistic people can’t acknowledge when they’re wrong”</title><url>https://the.scapegoat.dev/autistic-people-cant-acknowledge-when-they-are-wrong/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larve</author><text>Author here, thanks for reading.<p>I didn’t give much information about my life, but I am pretty adept at playing all these games. So much so that I thought there was no way I could be autistic because of how many friends and business relationships I had. Until it hit me that I spent my 20ies doing what you suggest, which is studying the heck out of these things.<p>But it stops at engineering, where I try to be very open-minded and learn as much as I can. I have to readily accept I am wrong on most of my assumptions because I just couldn’t be a good engineer otherwise. I can be perfectly suave and agreeable discussing anything else. That means I probably know how to play the “acquiesce when you should” game quite well.<p>But I’m at work because I am blessed to have a job where I get to do what I care about: good engineering. I deliver great value when people understand my way of thinking, and thankfully I have plenty of colleagues that get it.</text></item><item><author>dusted</author><text>I read this as being strongly opinionated and egocentric..<p>I want to call it &quot;ausplaining&quot;, this tendency to go &quot;no no, YOU don&#x27;t understand ME (because I&#x27;m special, not because I&#x27;m wrong)&quot; whenever we get ourselves into situations like the exemplified.<p>I do this A LOT as well, and when people do stick with me for long enough, I often find that I&#x27;m either getting my point across by re-framing my explanation, or discover that what I&#x27;m pursuing as oh_so_important is in fact not important for the question at hand (then I feel even more stupid, because, not only did I find this of paramount importance, but everyone else didn&#x27;t even consider it (because it so clearly didn&#x27;t matter)).<p>&gt; Because I value learning, I read about 50 technical books every year<p>If the author reads this, I&#x27;d congratulate them on finding the time to do that, but also advice them to maybe read 40 technical books every year, and then read 10 about the topics they clearly do struggle with (social interactions, politics, negotiation, psychology)..<p>The opinion reads as &quot;I&#x27;m right and the world is wrong&quot; to me, maybe because I can strongly relate (except the parts about reading tons of books and being really smart).<p>I think the author would benefit from realizing that these things they dismiss as irrelevant (mind games&#x2F;politics) are actually important and beneficial to understand and master (I am not saying it should be that way, but merely point out that it is, in fact that way).<p>The author may also benefit from investing some of their mental capital (I&#x27;m not being sarcastic, they&#x27;re obviously very intelligent) into learning how to play the games, to figure out neurotypicals enough to communicate with them on their level&#x2F;terms.<p>Yes, workplaces need to be accommodating, but in the end, no matter who we are, it&#x27;s our ultimate responsibility, to ourselves, to learn how to function in this world.<p>As for the situation where the other party is factually wrong.. Well, yes.. I always imagine this situation, where I have the right of way on my bicycle, and it&#x27;s the semi-truck that must yield.. There are a fair number of times where being right does not matter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atoav</author><text>A thing to consider is that it is often not just about the facts. Often it is also about social convention and other things.<p>If (for example) that one struggling colleague is shining in front of a superior and you are the guy who rains on his parade by nitpicking some detail he said, you might be technically right, but you end up being perceived as an asshole because you acted like one.<p>If if that example you strictly <i>need</i> to be right for some reason, you could also just talk to the guy afterwards etc.<p>And this is what all of it essentially boils down to: It is good to be right, as long as <i>the way</i> you communicate it is adequate for the situation.<p>If people have a low effort chit chat and don&#x27;t want to go too deep into things, it might not be wise to get all excited and monologoue about how everything they know is wrong.
If someone shows you something they have been working on for weeks, maybe it is wiser to aknowledge the good things first, before going into the bad things.<p>Generally it is better to have others discover facts themselves than spitting them out in front of them. Sure, if the boat is literally sinking and they claim punching more holes will help, this might be a good moment for a statement without nuance — but such statements have their time and place and should not be used everywhere.</text></comment> |
33,698,953 | 33,698,624 | 1 | 2 | 33,698,094 | train | <story><title>Is wine fake?</title><url>https://asteriskmag.com/issues/1/is-wine-fake</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gspencley</author><text>There have been a lot of blind wine tastings done and the results are always interesting. Sometimes cheap bottles score as high, or higher than vintages. Other times people can spot the cheap &quot;carton&quot; wine easily.<p>My wife and I love to cook, have discussed opening our own restaurant, have eaten at lots of very expensive &quot;haute cuisine&quot; restaurants and have tasted lots of wines.<p>Part of the &quot;problem&quot; is that taste is subjective and can be influenced through suggestion. So the atmosphere, the price, the meal pairing can all affect a person&#x27;s appreciation of the glass.<p>I remember an episode of Penn &amp; Teller&#x27;s Bullshit where they had a &quot;water sommelier&quot; at a restaurant who would upsell customers on speciality bottles of water and they were all filled with the same tap water from the same garden hose at the back of the restaurant. The results were fascinating. Subjects swore they tasted different from one another.<p>The real question, in my opinion, is whether a high-priced bottle is &quot;worth it&quot; by as near-objective standards as possible. In other words, given two bottles of different prices, all else being equal, would the average person prefer the taste of one over the other?<p>That varies widely from one wine to another. My wife and I have enjoyed a good vintage but we are also perfectly content with a $15 bottle from a local vineyard here in Ontario, which is our &quot;go to.&quot; I&#x27;m equally partial to a $15 Rothschild Merlot or Pinot Noir and I wonder if the truly exceptional wines that I&#x27;ve tasted at restaurants were more about the environment, the food pairing, the company and the occasion than they were about the flavour in isolation.</text></item><item><author>lkrubner</author><text>I worked at WineSpectator.com in 2012-2013. I&#x27;ll say this in their favor: the wine tastings were blind. A bunch of interns would set up the wine tasting, pouring the wine into glasses and then hiding the bottles. Only after everything was setup were the editors allowed into the room. So when the editors drank the wine, they had no idea if they were drinking a $9 bottle or a $900 bottle. They had to focus on the taste and balance, and write their report. Only afterwards were they told which wine they had tasted.<p>Having said that, I&#x27;ll also mention, the way the editors struggled for new adjectives did sometimes make me laugh:<p>&quot;a vast, hearty body, notes of blue and a hint of graphite steel&quot;<p>&quot;a radiance similar to the sun at dawn, a strong body, notes of orange&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>retrac</author><text>I learned the secret in my mid-20s whilst brewing my own cider as a poor student.<p>Take some decent apple juice without preservatives. Add a bit of yeast; baking yeast for bread at the supermarket will do just fine. Observe basic sanitation principles. Add some sugar, perhaps 150 g per litre of juice. Leave the concoction in a cool, dry place for a few months. A one-way seal for the CO2 release is preferable (a balloon works) but is not strictly required; leave the cap on loose. Carefully pour off the result into a new vessel. Let this settle for another month.<p>A very palatable drink results at about 4 - 5% alcohol by volume. People figured this out thousands of years ago. And they did not have plastic bottles, germ theory, or infinite hot water on tap. It&#x27;s trivial to make an alcoholic beverage. The rest is finesse. And posturing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is wine fake?</title><url>https://asteriskmag.com/issues/1/is-wine-fake</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gspencley</author><text>There have been a lot of blind wine tastings done and the results are always interesting. Sometimes cheap bottles score as high, or higher than vintages. Other times people can spot the cheap &quot;carton&quot; wine easily.<p>My wife and I love to cook, have discussed opening our own restaurant, have eaten at lots of very expensive &quot;haute cuisine&quot; restaurants and have tasted lots of wines.<p>Part of the &quot;problem&quot; is that taste is subjective and can be influenced through suggestion. So the atmosphere, the price, the meal pairing can all affect a person&#x27;s appreciation of the glass.<p>I remember an episode of Penn &amp; Teller&#x27;s Bullshit where they had a &quot;water sommelier&quot; at a restaurant who would upsell customers on speciality bottles of water and they were all filled with the same tap water from the same garden hose at the back of the restaurant. The results were fascinating. Subjects swore they tasted different from one another.<p>The real question, in my opinion, is whether a high-priced bottle is &quot;worth it&quot; by as near-objective standards as possible. In other words, given two bottles of different prices, all else being equal, would the average person prefer the taste of one over the other?<p>That varies widely from one wine to another. My wife and I have enjoyed a good vintage but we are also perfectly content with a $15 bottle from a local vineyard here in Ontario, which is our &quot;go to.&quot; I&#x27;m equally partial to a $15 Rothschild Merlot or Pinot Noir and I wonder if the truly exceptional wines that I&#x27;ve tasted at restaurants were more about the environment, the food pairing, the company and the occasion than they were about the flavour in isolation.</text></item><item><author>lkrubner</author><text>I worked at WineSpectator.com in 2012-2013. I&#x27;ll say this in their favor: the wine tastings were blind. A bunch of interns would set up the wine tasting, pouring the wine into glasses and then hiding the bottles. Only after everything was setup were the editors allowed into the room. So when the editors drank the wine, they had no idea if they were drinking a $9 bottle or a $900 bottle. They had to focus on the taste and balance, and write their report. Only afterwards were they told which wine they had tasted.<p>Having said that, I&#x27;ll also mention, the way the editors struggled for new adjectives did sometimes make me laugh:<p>&quot;a vast, hearty body, notes of blue and a hint of graphite steel&quot;<p>&quot;a radiance similar to the sun at dawn, a strong body, notes of orange&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>p1necone</author><text>The secret is that a lot of cheap wine is pretty darn good. I imagine there&#x27;s somewhat of a correlation between price and quality, especially at the absolute bottom end of the pricing scale. But it&#x27;s a very loose correlation.</text></comment> |
32,958,039 | 32,958,140 | 1 | 2 | 32,956,218 | train | <story><title>'Securing Open Source Software Act' introduced to US Senate</title><url>https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/majority-media/peters-and-portman-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-help-secure-open-source-software_</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peteforde</author><text>Reading the comments so far, I&#x27;m genuinely surprised that more folks haven&#x27;t applied a &quot;follow the money&quot; lens to their analysis.<p>To me, it reads as a bald-faced attempt to discourage public sector entities from using OSS solutions, when in fact there are perfectly good and definitely &gt;100% secure proprietary offerings that cost a reasonable amount when purchased from the sorts of vendors that pay lobbyists to &quot;help&quot; senators write OSS bills.<p>Do you honestly think Rob fucking Portman woke up one day with strong opinions about FOSS?<p>Make no mistake: this is a thinly veiled late-stage attempt to displace the growing dominance of OSS-based solutions to the sorts of problems that the government and military used to pay 8 and 9 figures a year to EDS to solve.<p>An actual, good-faith bill that seeks to address these issues would attempt to incentivize&#x2F;punish orgs that use FOSS without making meaningful contributions to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kube-system</author><text>They&#x27;re trying to destroy FOSS ...by hiring FOSS developers?<p>I don&#x27;t buy it. More like, log4j was an actual real big issue for government agencies because they use rely on tons of open source projects and haven&#x27;t previously done much to make sure that that supply chain is robust. This would help to change that.<p>Federal contractors don&#x27;t need to sell proprietary software to make money -- they make more money selling FOSS software.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Securing Open Source Software Act' introduced to US Senate</title><url>https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/majority-media/peters-and-portman-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-help-secure-open-source-software_</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peteforde</author><text>Reading the comments so far, I&#x27;m genuinely surprised that more folks haven&#x27;t applied a &quot;follow the money&quot; lens to their analysis.<p>To me, it reads as a bald-faced attempt to discourage public sector entities from using OSS solutions, when in fact there are perfectly good and definitely &gt;100% secure proprietary offerings that cost a reasonable amount when purchased from the sorts of vendors that pay lobbyists to &quot;help&quot; senators write OSS bills.<p>Do you honestly think Rob fucking Portman woke up one day with strong opinions about FOSS?<p>Make no mistake: this is a thinly veiled late-stage attempt to displace the growing dominance of OSS-based solutions to the sorts of problems that the government and military used to pay 8 and 9 figures a year to EDS to solve.<p>An actual, good-faith bill that seeks to address these issues would attempt to incentivize&#x2F;punish orgs that use FOSS without making meaningful contributions to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>buscoquadnary</author><text>Ehh, I don&#x27;t disagree with where you start but I do with where you end.<p>If it is a money thing then it probably has more to do setting up &quot;standards&quot; and &quot;compliance&quot; requirements that you must me to use FOSS software in the government. Then federal contractors and other big FOSS organizations repackage their existing solution as &quot;Government ISO-MITRE, PCI, Whatever-BS-Acronym-we-can-come-up-with&quot; compliant and charge a premium over something they already sale.<p>I don&#x27;t think this will hurt FOSS, at the end of the day FOSS is nothing more than someone saying &quot;here&#x27;s something I wrote or whatever.&quot; and sharing it, anything that tries to make more than that isn&#x27;t talking about FOSS anymore.</text></comment> |
33,540,383 | 33,538,947 | 1 | 2 | 33,537,821 | train | <story><title>We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX</title><url>https://twitter.com/binance/status/1590449161069268992</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>In the thick of it, illiquidity and insolvency blur. But not after the fact.<p>As usual, Levine put it best: “the problem is not a timing mismatch, in which FTX’s customers asked for their cash back but FTX did not have enough ready cash because it had long-term but money-good loans out. The problem is that FTX took its customers’ money and traded it for a pile of magic beans, and now the beans are worthless and there’s a huge hole in the balance sheet” [1].<p>Before one is insolvent, illiquidity and insolvency are circular questions of asset value. After the fact, it shouldn’t take someone more than a few minutes to come to a conclusion. (There is a deeper discussion on the folly of accepting as collateral assets correlated with confidence in oneself. I recommend reading the article.)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2022-11-09&#x2F;bankman-fried-s-ftx-had-a-death-spiral-before-binance-deal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2022-11-09&#x2F;bankma...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d3nj4l</author><text>Levine on SBF back in April:<p>&gt; I think of myself as like a fairly cynical person. And that was so much more cynical than how I would&#x27;ve described farming. You&#x27;re just like, well, I&#x27;m in the Ponzi business and it&#x27;s pretty good.<p>I suppose he was right ;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2022-04-25&#x2F;sam-bankman-fried-described-yield-farming-and-left-matt-levine-stunned" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2022-04-25&#x2F;sam-bankm...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX</title><url>https://twitter.com/binance/status/1590449161069268992</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>In the thick of it, illiquidity and insolvency blur. But not after the fact.<p>As usual, Levine put it best: “the problem is not a timing mismatch, in which FTX’s customers asked for their cash back but FTX did not have enough ready cash because it had long-term but money-good loans out. The problem is that FTX took its customers’ money and traded it for a pile of magic beans, and now the beans are worthless and there’s a huge hole in the balance sheet” [1].<p>Before one is insolvent, illiquidity and insolvency are circular questions of asset value. After the fact, it shouldn’t take someone more than a few minutes to come to a conclusion. (There is a deeper discussion on the folly of accepting as collateral assets correlated with confidence in oneself. I recommend reading the article.)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2022-11-09&#x2F;bankman-fried-s-ftx-had-a-death-spiral-before-binance-deal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2022-11-09&#x2F;bankma...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pseudosavant</author><text>FTX going under due to magic beans reminds me so much of Lehman Brothers going under in 2008. That time the magic beans were &quot;mortgage backed securities&quot; that somehow took low-quality debt, mixed it up with some magic, and out came high-quality debt, only it didn&#x27;t.</text></comment> |
13,979,202 | 13,974,808 | 1 | 2 | 13,966,415 | train | <story><title>Germany Tries to Catch Up with Startup World</title><url>http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/germany-tries-to-catch-up-with-startup-world-a-1140130.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cntlzw</author><text>My time to shine. Where shall I start? First of all there is mentality. In Germany people kinda expect you to get a job and push through with it until you go to pension. Changing jobs a lot is often seen as a personal failure. That poor accountant that hates his job and gets paid because he just sits in the same stinky office day by day gets more honoured than anyone trying to change.<p>People here get judged if they start a business and fail. If you are successful then fine. If not, people don&#x27;t give you credit. Personally I rate the person higher that tries several times, falls, gets up and starts over. Unfortunately that is not the case.<p>Nice example if you are from the USA. Over there it is more socially accepted to get married and divorced often than not at all. In Germany it is quite the opposite. You can&#x27;t even make a failure in private how could you do that in business?<p>Many business here have roots and are decades old. That whole &quot;Mittelschicht&quot; is build on family owned business. That is actually a good thing and probably one of the reasons the economy in Germany is so efficient, but it doesn&#x27;t give anyone the incentive to start something.<p>And don&#x27;t forget Germany is all about bureaucracy. Lots of paperwork and money just to get a GmbH. And a GmbH is what you need to gain trust from other companies.<p>Sorry, there is so much to it. Hopefully there will be some change in attitude. It is already happening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheAdamAndChe</author><text>I personally hope there won&#x27;t be a change in attitude. The work culture in America is toxic for the workers, requiring job hopping, long hours, and relatively little gain. There&#x27;s very little long-term stability, and no assurance that their jobs won&#x27;t eventually be outsourced. Why would Germans want to adopt that culture? Why should they praise failure? Why should they change bureaucracy to favor the capital owners over the workers?</text></comment> | <story><title>Germany Tries to Catch Up with Startup World</title><url>http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/germany-tries-to-catch-up-with-startup-world-a-1140130.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cntlzw</author><text>My time to shine. Where shall I start? First of all there is mentality. In Germany people kinda expect you to get a job and push through with it until you go to pension. Changing jobs a lot is often seen as a personal failure. That poor accountant that hates his job and gets paid because he just sits in the same stinky office day by day gets more honoured than anyone trying to change.<p>People here get judged if they start a business and fail. If you are successful then fine. If not, people don&#x27;t give you credit. Personally I rate the person higher that tries several times, falls, gets up and starts over. Unfortunately that is not the case.<p>Nice example if you are from the USA. Over there it is more socially accepted to get married and divorced often than not at all. In Germany it is quite the opposite. You can&#x27;t even make a failure in private how could you do that in business?<p>Many business here have roots and are decades old. That whole &quot;Mittelschicht&quot; is build on family owned business. That is actually a good thing and probably one of the reasons the economy in Germany is so efficient, but it doesn&#x27;t give anyone the incentive to start something.<p>And don&#x27;t forget Germany is all about bureaucracy. Lots of paperwork and money just to get a GmbH. And a GmbH is what you need to gain trust from other companies.<p>Sorry, there is so much to it. Hopefully there will be some change in attitude. It is already happening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mschuster91</author><text>IMHO, it&#x27;s mainly the lack of any and all venture capital. There just is nowhere near enough cash available to do the classic VC route, much less investing 100 freaking million dollars to an app that does nothing but broadcast &quot;Yo&quot;.<p>And even engineers at BMW or similar don&#x27;t get paid in stocks, which means that the supply of engineers made rich by big exits is next to zero. Just look who founded all the hot startups in SV - it&#x27;s mostly ex-Paypal&#x2F;Google&#x2F;FB&#x2F;MS&#x2F;BigStartup employees who found or invest the boatload of monies into new startups. And regular salaries may be enough to pay off credit on a house, but not enough to save for funding and bootstrapping a company.<p>Here, basically the only way to fund a company if you don&#x27;t happen to have rich friends&#x2F;family is by a line of credit - and thanks to EU banking regulations the banks now require real deposits of securities (eg a house&#x2F;car) for a credit line; this again reduces the eligible persons to rich people. No way to see a poor immigrant fund a multibillion dollar company like in US... given the more and more xenophobic neonazi appearances (Pegida, AfD) immigrants actually more have to fear for their lives. (Okay, I&#x27;ve exaggerated here, but the xenophobist trend even in government massively worries me)</text></comment> |
34,645,930 | 34,642,089 | 1 | 3 | 34,640,833 | train | <story><title>How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki</title><url>https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-to-paint-like-hayao-miyazaki</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; What Miyazaki makes clear throughout the guide is that he is, proudly, a cheapskate who isn’t fussy about tools. He looks for reliability and convenience. His pitch for Holbein paints is just that they’re “reasonably priced and a little goes a long way.”</i><p><i>&gt; In his notes, Miyazaki purposely leans into sounding old and stuck in his ways. He rants about how he’s painted with nothing else for 40 years, how easy and cost-effective his tools are — and then he undermines himself by suggesting that, really, this is all he knows how to do.</i><p>There&#x27;s a deeper truth which is easy to overlook here.<p>If you want to get good at some creative pursuit, you have to put a lot of time, attention, and decision making effort into the skill. All of those are finite resources.<p>It&#x27;s <i>really</i> easy to squander an unbelievable amount of time and effort on <i>choosing gear</i>. Doing that is time <i>not</i> spent mastering the craft. You might get really good at picking shit out, but you won&#x27;t get good at painting, or poetry, or song-writing, or whatever.<p>This is why so many successful artists seem stuck in their ways or dismissive of gear, or, conversely, fetishize certain gear. Those are all mental techniques to minimize the effort they spend on picking stuff so that they can focus that effort on creating.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki</title><url>https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-to-paint-like-hayao-miyazaki</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>If you enjoy Miyazaki-related things, you may also enjoy Miyazaki being awkward around Akira Kurosawa.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nausicaa.net&#x2F;miyazaki&#x2F;interviews&#x2F;miyazaki_kurosawa_p1.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nausicaa.net&#x2F;miyazaki&#x2F;interviews&#x2F;miyazaki_kurosaw...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nausicaa.net&#x2F;miyazaki&#x2F;interviews&#x2F;miyazaki_kurosawa_p2.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nausicaa.net&#x2F;miyazaki&#x2F;interviews&#x2F;miyazaki_kurosaw...</a></text></comment> |
8,613,005 | 8,612,358 | 1 | 2 | 8,611,468 | train | <story><title>Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning (2010)</title><url>http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-technique-for-seasoning-cast-iron/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bjt</author><text>I saw this post a few years ago. Having read her other two posts on seasoning cast iron, I came to the conclusion that she was just making the science up as she went along.<p>In &quot;Perfect Popovers&quot; [1] she advises Avocado Oil for its high smoke point, out of fear that letting the oil smoke will release carcinogenic free radicals into your food.<p>Then in this &quot;Science-Based How-To&quot; (three weeks later) she switches to flaxseed oil and suddenly isn&#x27;t concerned about the free radicals anymore.<p>There is no hypothesis testing, and there are no measurements of free radicals or polymerization. It&#x27;s all conjecture.<p>Her third post [2] calls out &quot;black rust&quot;&#x2F;magnetite as a key component of seasoning cast iron, because &quot;someone sent me some links&quot;. The links are not provided.<p>I have no problem with her blogging about her experiences seasoning cast iron, but what she&#x27;s doing is not science, and it is misleading to call it &quot;science based&quot;. If the author were a chemist, biologist, or nutritionist, I could defer to her education and wouldn&#x27;t be writing this comment. But her bio [3] doesn&#x27;t indicate any such training.<p>[1] <a href="http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/perfect-popovers-and-how-to-clean-reseason-cast-iron/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sherylcanter.com&#x2F;wordpress&#x2F;2010&#x2F;01&#x2F;perfect-popovers-a...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/02/black-rust-and-cast-iron-seasoning/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sherylcanter.com&#x2F;wordpress&#x2F;2010&#x2F;02&#x2F;black-rust-and-cas...</a><p>[3] <a href="http://sherylcanter.com/background.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sherylcanter.com&#x2F;background.php</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning (2010)</title><url>http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-technique-for-seasoning-cast-iron/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JASchilz</author><text>When I first got into cast iron, I spent a lot of time on oven-seasoning. It turns out that your daily practice is much more important than that oven seasoning, and the two important steps are:<p>1. Get the oil hot before you add any foods.<p>2. Use a sheet-metal spatula&#x2F;flipper<p>Humanity has known for a long time that when you get your cooking oil hot, it repels food instead of binding it to the cooking surface; but the amateur cook has forgotten because of a reliance on non-stick surfaces.<p>The sheet-metal spatula&#x2F;flipper lets you clean the cast iron with each pass of the tool. A rubber&#x2F;wooden tool will leave small, burnt on bits of food, which accumulate more bits of food; a sheet-metal tool with scrape those off before they become a problem. Also, a sheet-metal spatula will scrape the roughness of the cast-iron from the bottom of your pan over the course of decades, moving you towards that inky-black mirror of grandma&#x27;s old pans.<p>I can cook anything on my cast iron, just by following those steps, even fried eggs: the surface is totally non-stick. And cleaning is simple too: sometimes I&#x27;ll make a few passes with the spatula to scrape off any food that has dried on, but that&#x27;s all I ever do.</text></comment> |
17,118,243 | 17,118,205 | 1 | 2 | 17,117,626 | train | <story><title>Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/article/barcelona-decidim-ada-colau-francesca-bria-decode</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasdeepsingh</author><text>I think a city like Barcelona, with their theft and crime problem can make use of some sort of surveillance.<p>Just two weeks ago, 3 hours before ending my vacation in the city, Me and my wife were robbed off roughly worth $10k USD in a car tire puncture scam.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tourist-scams.com&#x2F;tourist-scam-destinations&#x2F;barcelona-spain&#x2F;car-tire-puncture-scam&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tourist-scams.com&#x2F;tourist-scam-destinations&#x2F;barcelona...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/article/barcelona-decidim-ada-colau-francesca-bria-decode</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>darthdev</author><text>“Now we have a big contract with Vodafone, and every month Vodafone has to give machine readable data to city hall. Before, that didn’t happen. They just took all the data and used it for their own benefit”<p>So, now Vodafone AND the city government has this data about the citizens. How is this fighting against surveillance? Am I missing something? :&#x2F;</text></comment> |
9,186,514 | 9,186,703 | 1 | 2 | 9,185,356 | train | <story><title>How Betty, Who Is 89, Gets Her News</title><url>http://melodykramer.github.io/how-betty-who-is-89-gets-her-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbesto</author><text>I recently watched a 65 year old woman use an iPad for the first time. One thing I noticed right away about her interaction was she struggled to realize that many blue text words were actually buttons (see the Send button in this screenshot[0]). IMO, this has been one of the biggest design failures of recent Apple software.<p>[0] - <a href="http://313e5987718b346aaf83-f5e825270f29a84f7881423410384342.r78.cf1.rackcdn.com/1401762828-messages_hero.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;313e5987718b346aaf83-f5e825270f29a84f7881423410384342...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rcthompson</author><text>Apparently the relevant design&#x2F;usability term is &quot;affordances&quot;, which are the &quot;sensory characteristics [of an object that] intuitively imply its functionality and use&quot;[1]. Affordances in UI design have evidently gone out of style, which effectively means that people are just expected to learn the arbitrary (and ever-changing) rules of how to interacting with computers (and other computing devices), instead of having the computing devices cater to how people expect them to work.<p>I think this also leads back to the idea that the touchscreen as a user interface is absolutely awful in every way except for the one huge advantage of its reconfigurability. (I forget the source for this, but there&#x27;s a specific article I&#x27;m thinking of.)<p>[1] <a href="http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossary/affordance/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usabilityfirst.com&#x2F;glossary&#x2F;affordance&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Betty, Who Is 89, Gets Her News</title><url>http://melodykramer.github.io/how-betty-who-is-89-gets-her-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbesto</author><text>I recently watched a 65 year old woman use an iPad for the first time. One thing I noticed right away about her interaction was she struggled to realize that many blue text words were actually buttons (see the Send button in this screenshot[0]). IMO, this has been one of the biggest design failures of recent Apple software.<p>[0] - <a href="http://313e5987718b346aaf83-f5e825270f29a84f7881423410384342.r78.cf1.rackcdn.com/1401762828-messages_hero.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;313e5987718b346aaf83-f5e825270f29a84f7881423410384342...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flatline</author><text>When my daughter was two and a half she could use the iPad pretty efficiently, because it was always pretty obvious where you should click. At nearly four she now struggles to click things or to even know what to click. It&#x27;s a terrible regression for a debatably minor improvement in overall appaearance.</text></comment> |
33,999,994 | 33,999,802 | 1 | 3 | 33,999,296 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?</title><text>I have a concept for a social network that would eliminate many pain points. I&#x27;m sure others do too.<p>How could we build a communal product for the public? Theoretically, this approach would result in a better product. Practically, it seems nearly impossible.<p>What are your thoughts?<p>Edit:<p>Let me give an example that I have been thinking about since 2009.<p>It requires a fundamental change from the reach model towards concentric social circles. The social network would allow users to arrange into small topical groups called social circles. These social circles would have a cap of 10 (arbitrary number) members. Each user could take part in many social circles. This inherently limits reach and therefore reduces the burden of misinformation, abuse, and moderation.<p>This model closely mirrors real social interactions and allows for both private and intimate communication. It also offers a profitable advertising opportunity. A social circle reflects its members’ interests and context.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bil7</author><text>I think what would really be great is a social media site that doesn&#x27;t offer direct image or video hosting. A bit like how reddit used to be. You just have link aggregation, voting, and comments. That&#x27;s it. Maybe in a nice, clean, minimal UI as well. This would lend itself to tech folk I think. If only it existed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baxtr</author><text>Great idea. To add: I think the site would also need a rock star moderator who diligently checks every comment and keeps the site clean. Also maybe it would be great to have a voting system where one could downvote as well! But only after a certain number of upvotes I think.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?</title><text>I have a concept for a social network that would eliminate many pain points. I&#x27;m sure others do too.<p>How could we build a communal product for the public? Theoretically, this approach would result in a better product. Practically, it seems nearly impossible.<p>What are your thoughts?<p>Edit:<p>Let me give an example that I have been thinking about since 2009.<p>It requires a fundamental change from the reach model towards concentric social circles. The social network would allow users to arrange into small topical groups called social circles. These social circles would have a cap of 10 (arbitrary number) members. Each user could take part in many social circles. This inherently limits reach and therefore reduces the burden of misinformation, abuse, and moderation.<p>This model closely mirrors real social interactions and allows for both private and intimate communication. It also offers a profitable advertising opportunity. A social circle reflects its members’ interests and context.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bil7</author><text>I think what would really be great is a social media site that doesn&#x27;t offer direct image or video hosting. A bit like how reddit used to be. You just have link aggregation, voting, and comments. That&#x27;s it. Maybe in a nice, clean, minimal UI as well. This would lend itself to tech folk I think. If only it existed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cheschire</author><text>We have to be careful to not simply crowd-source the moderation either. Keeping a crowd-moderated social media site from devolving is a dang hard task.</text></comment> |
40,063,647 | 40,063,293 | 1 | 3 | 40,063,025 | train | <story><title>ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves</title><url>https://european-pirateparty.eu/chatcontrol-eu-ministers-want-to-exempt-themselves/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dantondwa</author><text>Obviously, this is about creating the infrastructure for a continent-wide surveillance program, using children pornography as a troy horse.<p>The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states that most citizens are completely unaware of their doing, at least until said European laws get implemented locally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rickdeckard</author><text>&gt; The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states that most citizens are completely unaware of their doing<p>That&#x27;s largely because citizens of several countries accept the narrative of their local governing parties that the EU is some &quot;external force&quot; that is outside of anyone&#x27;s control.<p>Reality is that the EU is largely formed by members of local political parties sent to EU-institutions. They just send people there which they deem not useful for local campaigning or prefer to become &quot;invisible&quot; to local politics.<p>Citizens should not accept this narrative, and instead demand more transparency on the activities of the local politicians sent to EU, holding the party accountable for their actions (or non-action) within the EU.</text></comment> | <story><title>ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves</title><url>https://european-pirateparty.eu/chatcontrol-eu-ministers-want-to-exempt-themselves/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dantondwa</author><text>Obviously, this is about creating the infrastructure for a continent-wide surveillance program, using children pornography as a troy horse.<p>The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states that most citizens are completely unaware of their doing, at least until said European laws get implemented locally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrtksn</author><text>&gt;The problem is that EU institutions are so far and detached from the member states that most citizens are completely unaware of their doing<p>What is the base of this claim? There are EU elections this year FYI.</text></comment> |
11,646,667 | 11,646,649 | 1 | 2 | 11,645,428 | train | <story><title>GiveDirectly Planning to Give $30M in Basic Income to East Africa</title><url>https://givedirectly.org/basic-income</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scottrogowski</author><text>While I find UBI to be a fascinating idea worthy of consideration, I vehemently disagree with running this experiment in East Africa. The proposal seems to either be blind-to or minimizing the potential for unintended consequences. Decades of trying to alleviate poverty in Africa have taught us, more than anything else, that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Giving food tends to act as “dumping” and weaken the agricultural industry. Providing foreign aid tends to empower corrupt governments. These consequences only became clear after years of hindsight. Who knows what unintended side effects of UBI will be?<p>If we are going to try UBI, a fundamentally Western idea, it’s only right that it should be tried in the West. I’m not saying it won’t work - just that we don’t really know what will happen. East Africa has suffered enough from our neo-colonial experiments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ppereira</author><text>There is quite a bit of anger and little fact in this comment. GiveDirectly has been running UBI programs in East Africa for years now. They have an all-star cast of economists examining their performance. Their pilot programs were very successful, which is why they are scaling out further.<p>East Africa, and Kenya in particular, was carefully chosen for two reasons. First, Kenya has a mobile phone network that makes it easy to transfer funds electronically to individuals and then for those individuals to get cash from the funds at local stores. I wish we had this in the West, but we don&#x27;t because of banking regulations. Second, poorer households in certain communities tend to use natural roofing materials rather than aluminum, which makes it easy to target funding by satellite.<p>The UBI is a political football in the West. The Mincome experiment was cancelled because of a change in government.
The potential utility benefits from a UBI are so great that it would be a shame to think that we have to wait for it to be politically palatable in the West before we can get any data on its effectiveness. Also, as far as poverty relief is concerned, money really does help.</text></comment> | <story><title>GiveDirectly Planning to Give $30M in Basic Income to East Africa</title><url>https://givedirectly.org/basic-income</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scottrogowski</author><text>While I find UBI to be a fascinating idea worthy of consideration, I vehemently disagree with running this experiment in East Africa. The proposal seems to either be blind-to or minimizing the potential for unintended consequences. Decades of trying to alleviate poverty in Africa have taught us, more than anything else, that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Giving food tends to act as “dumping” and weaken the agricultural industry. Providing foreign aid tends to empower corrupt governments. These consequences only became clear after years of hindsight. Who knows what unintended side effects of UBI will be?<p>If we are going to try UBI, a fundamentally Western idea, it’s only right that it should be tried in the West. I’m not saying it won’t work - just that we don’t really know what will happen. East Africa has suffered enough from our neo-colonial experiments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thescriptkiddie</author><text>Unconditional cash transfers (what is being proposed here) have proven to be more effective than the &quot;dumping&quot; of material aid you&#x27;re protesting. If you give a village shipments of rice their rice farmers go bankrupt, if you give them cash they can spend it at local businesses or start businesses of their own or import things they couldn&#x27;t get otherwise. It&#x27;s also hard to give too much cash (as long as you are distributing it equitably), because if there is excess capital in one place that will only encourage trade.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.poverty-action.org&#x2F;study&#x2F;impact-unconditional-cash-transfers-kenya" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.poverty-action.org&#x2F;study&#x2F;impact-unconditional-cas...</a></text></comment> |
15,798,174 | 15,797,951 | 1 | 3 | 15,796,787 | train | <story><title>Finance information on Google</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/search/stay-top-finance-information-google/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcMgD2BwE72F</author><text>They just proved that Google never forgets anything, even when you do your best to remove&#x2F;delete&#x2F;erase&#x2F;destroy your personal information.<p>I thoroughly and repeatedly deleted all stock-related information from my Google account: all portfolios removed, all search history erased, all past Google Now topics suppressed, past emails deleted, Google chat conversations removed. Just <i>everything</i> (and I know really well how to control data on a Google account, I was once a Google fanboy and explored every little feature I could get my hand on, so customizing my Google account&#x2F;products settings is something I&#x27;m quite good at).<p>Guess what? Going to their new google.com&#x2F;finance brought all the stocks I&#x27;ve once added to Google Finance <i>and removed</i>. More than a dozen of stock tickers were automatically added to my account, and listed as &quot;following&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s impossible for me to completely delete my Google account because of some work-related obligations, but Google just proved that it will NEVER allow you to get forgotten.<p>We&#x27;re forced to feed a beast we can no longer escape.<p>PS: the only Google things I occasionally use now are Gmail &amp; Google Contacts (planning to switch to ProtonMail, but waiting for a contact syncing service on Android) and search (when Qwant isn&#x27;t good enough).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyrra</author><text>Google Now had a separate list of stocks it would show you alerts for that differed from Google Finance. There was a way to manage that stock list from with Now. Maybe the new Finance UI pulled stocks from that?<p>This is old, but shows the Now setting for stocks[0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;android.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;41357&#x2F;how-do-i-remove-stocks-from-the-stock-card-settings-in-google-now" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;android.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;41357&#x2F;how-do-i-r...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Finance information on Google</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/search/stay-top-finance-information-google/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcMgD2BwE72F</author><text>They just proved that Google never forgets anything, even when you do your best to remove&#x2F;delete&#x2F;erase&#x2F;destroy your personal information.<p>I thoroughly and repeatedly deleted all stock-related information from my Google account: all portfolios removed, all search history erased, all past Google Now topics suppressed, past emails deleted, Google chat conversations removed. Just <i>everything</i> (and I know really well how to control data on a Google account, I was once a Google fanboy and explored every little feature I could get my hand on, so customizing my Google account&#x2F;products settings is something I&#x27;m quite good at).<p>Guess what? Going to their new google.com&#x2F;finance brought all the stocks I&#x27;ve once added to Google Finance <i>and removed</i>. More than a dozen of stock tickers were automatically added to my account, and listed as &quot;following&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s impossible for me to completely delete my Google account because of some work-related obligations, but Google just proved that it will NEVER allow you to get forgotten.<p>We&#x27;re forced to feed a beast we can no longer escape.<p>PS: the only Google things I occasionally use now are Gmail &amp; Google Contacts (planning to switch to ProtonMail, but waiting for a contact syncing service on Android) and search (when Qwant isn&#x27;t good enough).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>decasteve</author><text>I once tried blocking all Google domains from my hosts file. Every domain they own set to 0.0.0.0. It was fascinating to see how sites break because of this. The most annoying were logins and registrations failing because of recaptcha. And also embedded maps not being displayed, incorrect fonts, and sites just showing a blank white page when failing to render. That being said there was an noticeable boost in speed for most sites.</text></comment> |
20,068,434 | 20,064,968 | 1 | 3 | 20,061,828 | train | <story><title>The last Soviet citizen: The cosmonaut who was left behind in space</title><url>https://www.rbth.com/history/330415-last-soviet-citizen-cosmonaut</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>meredydd</author><text>If you like this, you should definitely read &quot;Dragonfly: NASA and the crisis aboard Mir&quot; by Bryan Burrough. It&#x27;s an amazing portrait of the disintegrating immediately-ex-Soviet space program, and the disintegrating space station they were trying to keep flying.<p>This article mentions other countries buying seats on Mir. The book explains how this was a deliberate international effort to keep the Russian space program alive with infusions of hard cash. This was to avoid huge numbers of scientists with, effectively, high-level missile experience dispersing across the world in desperate need of money (rockets==missiles; that was the point of the whole original space race).<p>It&#x27;s an eye-opening look at an astonishing time, and it culminates in heart-stopping descriptions of the various in-flight accidents, including the mid-space collision with a supply craft that knocked a hole in the station and nearly killed everyone aboard.<p>If you prefer video, the author gave an extended interview about it when it was released:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.c-span.org&#x2F;video&#x2F;?115419-1&#x2F;dragonfly-nasa-crisis-aboard-mir" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.c-span.org&#x2F;video&#x2F;?115419-1&#x2F;dragonfly-nasa-crisis...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The last Soviet citizen: The cosmonaut who was left behind in space</title><url>https://www.rbth.com/history/330415-last-soviet-citizen-cosmonaut</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avmich</author><text>Krikalev has a good article on Wikipedia on him: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sergei_Krikalev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sergei_Krikalev</a></text></comment> |
12,854,624 | 12,854,574 | 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><item><author>saiya-jin</author><text>&gt; &quot;And yet, the leftist government recently proposed adding further documents and costs to selling or renting property — a compulsory “energy performance” certificate and a civil engineer’s assurance that there are no illegal constructions.&quot;<p>Not an expert, nor a citizen&#x2F;resident, but these seem like a basic things to do. Parents back home had to provide same things recently just for renovation, and much more.<p>There are laws to address this, albeit considered kind of a joke in southern Europe for a long time. People would build whatever they wanted, hack together unsafe constructions to cut costs, then bribe an official to validate all of that. Then earthquake comes and people die. Standards for buildings are reactions to disasters, I don&#x27;t see anything wrong with it.<p>Or am I missing something?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liotier</author><text>Energy performance certificate, non-toxicity certificate, surface certificate, non-pledge certificate... The basics of a real estate sale in France - they make the transaction more transparent and I&#x27;m glad they are mandatory, both as a former buyer and a former seller... They remove a lot of the friction that distrust creates. Framing it as &quot;red tape&quot; that “threaten to turn the country into an endless ‘property graveyard’ where nothing will be sold, nothing will be bought and nothing will be rented” is laughable !</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><item><author>saiya-jin</author><text>&gt; &quot;And yet, the leftist government recently proposed adding further documents and costs to selling or renting property — a compulsory “energy performance” certificate and a civil engineer’s assurance that there are no illegal constructions.&quot;<p>Not an expert, nor a citizen&#x2F;resident, but these seem like a basic things to do. Parents back home had to provide same things recently just for renovation, and much more.<p>There are laws to address this, albeit considered kind of a joke in southern Europe for a long time. People would build whatever they wanted, hack together unsafe constructions to cut costs, then bribe an official to validate all of that. Then earthquake comes and people die. Standards for buildings are reactions to disasters, I don&#x27;t see anything wrong with it.<p>Or am I missing something?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>In the middle of selling&#x2F;buying here in Scotland and energy performance certificates are mandatory and actually very useful - this was a significant factor in helping us choose a property.<p>Similarly sellers have to get a professional surveyor to do a survey which is that available to all potential buyers.</text></comment> |
18,957,323 | 18,956,960 | 1 | 2 | 18,956,574 | train | <story><title>NumPy 1.16 is the last release to support Python 2.7</title><url>https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/release/1.16.0-notes.rst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lykr0n</author><text>Just rip the band-aid off. Some of the async stuff in Python 3 is awesome.<p>A bit curious that 3.4 has been dropped, as that&#x27;s the stock Python 3 shipped for CentOS 7.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kalefranz</author><text>I generally try to leave the system python alone. Use pyenv or conda to get the python interpreters for your own code and apps.</text></comment> | <story><title>NumPy 1.16 is the last release to support Python 2.7</title><url>https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/release/1.16.0-notes.rst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lykr0n</author><text>Just rip the band-aid off. Some of the async stuff in Python 3 is awesome.<p>A bit curious that 3.4 has been dropped, as that&#x27;s the stock Python 3 shipped for CentOS 7.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrosett</author><text>The code I&#x27;ve written recently relies heavily on async and data classes, both of which are recent additions. I can&#x27;t imagine choosing Python 2 at this point.</text></comment> |
24,420,461 | 24,285,204 | 1 | 2 | 24,282,270 | train | <story><title>Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework</title><url>https://arwes.dev</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neilpanchal</author><text>Based on the positive responses here, I think I might be the only one who doesn&#x27;t fancy decorations, whether it&#x27;s sci-fi or in any form in user interface design - victorian ornamentation, steampunk brass, vaporware aesthetics, etc - they&#x27;re all artistic endeavors - I think it&#x27;s fun to explore these and even use them to achieve a particular objective, but I wonder how much of it influences serious designers whose responsibility is to produce functional, objective, straight forward UI that gets the job done. For example, SpaceX cockpit design and the amount of sci-fi influence with touchscreens vs. say F-15 Cockpit (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23702560" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23702560</a>) which I personally consider as the epitome of interface design. Not directly comparing them, but comparing the underlying philosophy and approach towards UI.<p>It&#x27;s not to say that aesthetics itself is a problem, IMO when aesthetics emerge automatically from solving a problem (F-15 philosophy) is far more beautiful, appealing and pleasing, than aesthetics that is forced by the designer&#x27;s personal taste and then trying to solve the UI problems within that framework (biting on SpaceX again).<p>Amazing work nevertheless in terms of its artistic appeal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thw0rted</author><text>You are not alone. This framework is a kind of neat idea if your top three priorities are all &quot;man this looks cool&quot;. If you actually want to make anything usable, look elsewhere.<p>ETA: also, a web page should make sounds in exactly one situation, which is when I click the &quot;play&quot; button on a music track or a video.<p>ETA: also also, I clicked through to the author&#x27;s personal blog, build with the framework, and scrolling thunks to a halt every time I go down to a new item, I guess while it&#x27;s being dynamically loaded then animating into view. Barf.</text></comment> | <story><title>Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework</title><url>https://arwes.dev</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neilpanchal</author><text>Based on the positive responses here, I think I might be the only one who doesn&#x27;t fancy decorations, whether it&#x27;s sci-fi or in any form in user interface design - victorian ornamentation, steampunk brass, vaporware aesthetics, etc - they&#x27;re all artistic endeavors - I think it&#x27;s fun to explore these and even use them to achieve a particular objective, but I wonder how much of it influences serious designers whose responsibility is to produce functional, objective, straight forward UI that gets the job done. For example, SpaceX cockpit design and the amount of sci-fi influence with touchscreens vs. say F-15 Cockpit (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23702560" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23702560</a>) which I personally consider as the epitome of interface design. Not directly comparing them, but comparing the underlying philosophy and approach towards UI.<p>It&#x27;s not to say that aesthetics itself is a problem, IMO when aesthetics emerge automatically from solving a problem (F-15 philosophy) is far more beautiful, appealing and pleasing, than aesthetics that is forced by the designer&#x27;s personal taste and then trying to solve the UI problems within that framework (biting on SpaceX again).<p>Amazing work nevertheless in terms of its artistic appeal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>resu_nimda</author><text>It really depends on the context and the use cases. The F-15 cockpit is an extreme example of a very complex interface that needs to be highly performant under intense life-or-death conditions. Most UIs that people design, including this library, are not meant for anything remotely similar to those situations. A lot of times it&#x27;s mostly for consuming content.<p>That video of the F-15 actually features a lot of overlay UI elements that are very similar to this project&#x27;s sci-fi style. Did you lament that, or wonder if that functional uselessness was influencing the designers of the airplane? Or did it make for a better viewing experience than barebones labels with no animations?<p>I can&#x27;t speak to the SpaceX cockpit and how well it performs the job it was intended to, do you know of any testimony from people who have used it? I have to believe that they would put function over form for something like that, but that doesn&#x27;t mean that form has no place either, they are definitely aiming for the lofty goal of achieving both.</text></comment> |
40,409,451 | 40,409,586 | 1 | 2 | 40,408,515 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?</title><text>Can anyone help me understand the economics of video streaming platforms?<p>Streaming, encoding, and storage demands enormous costs -- especially at scale (e.g., on average each 4k video with close to 1 million views).
Yet YouTube seems to charge no money for it.<p>I know advertisements are a thing for YT, but is it enough?<p>If tomorrow I want to start a platform that is supported with Advert revenues, I know I will likely fail. However, maybe at YT scale (or more specifically Google Advert scale) the economics works?<p>ps: I would like this discussion to focus on the absolute necessary elements (e.g., storing, encoding, streaming) and not on other factors contributing to latency&#x2F;cost like running view count algorithms.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>xivzgrev</author><text>Disclaimer: I used to work at a live video streaming company as a financial analyst so quite familiar with this<p>The biggest cost is as you imagine the streaming - getting the video to the viewer. It was a large part of our variable cost and we had a (literal) mad genius dev ops person holed up in his own office cave that managed the whole operation.<p>Ive long forgotten the special optimizations he did but he would keep finding ways to improve margin &#x2F; efficiency.<p>Encoding is a cost but I don’t recall it being significant<p>Storage isnt generally expensive. Think about how cheap you as a consumer can go get 2 TB of storage, and extrapolate.<p>The other big expense - people! All those engineers to build back and front end systems. That’s what ruined us - too many people were needed and not enough money coming in so we were burning cash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foota</author><text>I&#x27;m guessing live video looks a lot different from a more static video site. I think encoding and storage are both quite expensive. You want to encode videos that are likely to be watched in the most efficient ways possible to reduce network bandwidth usage, and every video needs at least some encoding.<p>Based on some power laws etc., I would guess most videos have only a handful of views, so storing them forever and the cost to encode them initially is probably significant.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?</title><text>Can anyone help me understand the economics of video streaming platforms?<p>Streaming, encoding, and storage demands enormous costs -- especially at scale (e.g., on average each 4k video with close to 1 million views).
Yet YouTube seems to charge no money for it.<p>I know advertisements are a thing for YT, but is it enough?<p>If tomorrow I want to start a platform that is supported with Advert revenues, I know I will likely fail. However, maybe at YT scale (or more specifically Google Advert scale) the economics works?<p>ps: I would like this discussion to focus on the absolute necessary elements (e.g., storing, encoding, streaming) and not on other factors contributing to latency&#x2F;cost like running view count algorithms.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>xivzgrev</author><text>Disclaimer: I used to work at a live video streaming company as a financial analyst so quite familiar with this<p>The biggest cost is as you imagine the streaming - getting the video to the viewer. It was a large part of our variable cost and we had a (literal) mad genius dev ops person holed up in his own office cave that managed the whole operation.<p>Ive long forgotten the special optimizations he did but he would keep finding ways to improve margin &#x2F; efficiency.<p>Encoding is a cost but I don’t recall it being significant<p>Storage isnt generally expensive. Think about how cheap you as a consumer can go get 2 TB of storage, and extrapolate.<p>The other big expense - people! All those engineers to build back and front end systems. That’s what ruined us - too many people were needed and not enough money coming in so we were burning cash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>contingencies</author><text>Interesting background. I worked twice in digital video, once ~2000-2001 (ancient history - early IP, ISDN, the dead-end of H.323, bonded GSM channels, etc.) and once ~2009-2010. The second episode was fascinating, we specialised in mobile video at a time when it was just appearing on the consumer market. <i>Most</i> of the global mobile device manufacturers were clients. It got to the point where they would build the hardware and we would get airdropped in to their R&amp;D to make it work - they had no idea how performant the architecture was going to be, because they&#x27;d never tried it. We also built the server side, the billing architecture with revenue share, carrier billing support (only possible with device preloaded apps due to <i>Google Play</i> (then &quot;Google Apps&quot;?) store restrictions on third party payment mechanisms), etc.<p>Encoding, scaling and transcoding are relatively cheap for stored content, and relatively expensive if you want real or near-real time.<p>If you want DRM (digital rights management = ~ineffective copy protection) then you need to add a bit more overhead for that, both in terms of processing and latency. If you need multi-DRM (different DRM systems for different devices the consumer owns) and a good cross-device experience (like pause and resume across devices), it gets real hard real fast.<p>It helps to be targeting a standard platform, for example a modern widescreen TV with H.265 support and solid 4K decoding. Otherwise you need a different version for every resolution, a different version for every CODEC, a different version for every bitrate, etc. We had great experience adjusting bitrates and encoding parameters for different device categories, for example if you had a certain phone and you ran it at max spec it might look great but if you were looking to preserve battery and were running on battery save mode the decode would fail and you&#x27;d get choppy performance and stuttering audio. This sort of thing was rife then.<p>As a series of specialist video providers emerged, ~all the cloud providers went and added these services, basically 95% of which are frontends to ffmpeg and some internal cloud storage scheme or similar.<p>Finally, billing is hard. Users have an expectation of free content now.<p>No experience with real time stream economics, but saw the inside of LA&#x27;s stadium video control center one day. Didn&#x27;t look inexpensive, I&#x27;ll tell you that much. Probably for events with multiple cameras you&#x27;re mostly paying site fees, ie. reliable bandwidth, humans, mixing desk if required. For studio broadcast these costs will be reduced. Both will have a slight real time encoding tax vs. stored content. If you want to figure out how to do it cheaply, look at the porn industry.</text></comment> |
2,251,468 | 2,251,372 | 1 | 3 | 2,251,228 | train | <story><title>Visualization: Movies Are Getting Worse</title><url>http://moki.tv/blog/visual-evidence-movies-are-getting-worse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barrkel</author><text>Two things:<p>* I don't think polarization is a good signal for poor quality; I would rather suggest it means a more niche product, more highly focused. That the niche being served is largely adolescents is unfortunate.<p>* I think big-budget movies have been getting more conservative and predictable, but I would hazard a guess that it's due to financial industry turmoil and consequently less desire for risk taking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SandB0x</author><text>"That the niche being served is largely adolescents is unfortunate"<p>Ever seen the Poochie episode of The Simpsons? The producers try to boost the ratings of Itchy and Scratchy by adding a ridiculous character designed to appeal to everyone. Near the start of the episode they hold a focus group (text from snpp.com):<p><i>Man</i>: How many of you kids would like Itchy &#38; Scratchy to deal with real-life problems, like the ones you face every day?<p><i>Kids</i>: [clamoring] Oh, yeah! I would! Great idea! Yeah, that's it!<p><i>Man</i>: And who would like to see them do just the opposite -- getting into far-out situations involving robots and magic powers?<p><i>Kids</i>: [clamoring] Me! Yeah! Oh, cool! Yeah, that's what I want!<p><i>Man</i>: So, you want a realistic, down-to-earth show... that's completely off-the-wall and swarming with magic robots?<p><i>Kids</i>: [all agreeing, quieter this time] That's right. Oh yeah, good.</text></comment> | <story><title>Visualization: Movies Are Getting Worse</title><url>http://moki.tv/blog/visual-evidence-movies-are-getting-worse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barrkel</author><text>Two things:<p>* I don't think polarization is a good signal for poor quality; I would rather suggest it means a more niche product, more highly focused. That the niche being served is largely adolescents is unfortunate.<p>* I think big-budget movies have been getting more conservative and predictable, but I would hazard a guess that it's due to financial industry turmoil and consequently less desire for risk taking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SoftwareMaven</author><text>"That the niche being served is largely adolescents is unfortunate."<p>That is the power of the high school date movie crowd at work.</text></comment> |
35,463,121 | 35,461,194 | 1 | 2 | 35,459,333 | train | <story><title>Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)</title><url>https://contextkeeper.io/blog/the-real-cost-of-an-interruption-and-context-switching/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>Sadly, the cost of context switching is well-known, and has been proven, over and over again, for decades.<p>But managers don&#x27;t care (and many co-workers also).<p>A quick shufti at most modern open-plan offices, shows the contempt that managers have for developer context. They know better, and have made the conscious decision to go open, anyway.<p>I remember visiting the Facebook&#x2F;Instagram building, in NYC, and was aghast at the huge, noisy, crowded office. I would <i>not</i> be able to get any work done, in that environment.<p>I&#x27;m grateful to be in a position, where I work alone (mostly), as I can keep all those balls in the air, and the difference in productivity is <i>amazing</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giantrobot</author><text>This killed me my last few years at Apple in the spaceship. Everything in the fucking building is a distraction and most of it is constantly in your line of sight at all times.<p>Even if I managed to angle my monitor right, put on headphones, and pull my hoodie up to reduce distractions some side conversation or impromptu stand up would inevitably distract me and pull me out of my flow. I tried to come in as late as practical in order to stay late so I could get work done for a few uninterrupted hours. I found myself going in a day on the weekend to actually get the previous week&#x27;s work finished. Unfortunately management doesn&#x27;t like people coming in &quot;late&quot; because they can&#x27;t lord over them from their offices during the day and constantly interrupt them with meetings.<p>It was downright insulting that a $5b building intended for professionals didn&#x27;t have real offices with fucking doors. At the upper management level the fact the company worked as well if not better with WFH policies must be incensing. It makes plain the insipid claims about &quot;collaboration&quot; in that stupid building. Collaboration happens when engineers <i>want</i> to share ideas, not because they&#x27;re imprisoned in a glorified fish tank for eight hours a day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)</title><url>https://contextkeeper.io/blog/the-real-cost-of-an-interruption-and-context-switching/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>Sadly, the cost of context switching is well-known, and has been proven, over and over again, for decades.<p>But managers don&#x27;t care (and many co-workers also).<p>A quick shufti at most modern open-plan offices, shows the contempt that managers have for developer context. They know better, and have made the conscious decision to go open, anyway.<p>I remember visiting the Facebook&#x2F;Instagram building, in NYC, and was aghast at the huge, noisy, crowded office. I would <i>not</i> be able to get any work done, in that environment.<p>I&#x27;m grateful to be in a position, where I work alone (mostly), as I can keep all those balls in the air, and the difference in productivity is <i>amazing</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrighele</author><text>&gt; But managers don&#x27;t care (and many co-workers also).<p>For the majority, the cost is not that well known and in general they are not the ones paying for it, you are.<p>In particular for your colleagues it may be beneficial to disturb you because when they disturb you, you may lose concentration but the may in fact avoid losing it by quickly get an answer to their pending problem.<p>This is one aspect where LLMs may be very useful: asking something to a tool like ChatGPT may not be faster than asking a colleague, but if it avoids ruining the colleague&#x27;s concentration it will be a net positive for the company. This is even more true if&#x2F;when those model will incorporate specific internal knowledge (code, documentation) of the company.</text></comment> |
22,859,872 | 22,860,017 | 1 | 3 | 22,859,478 | train | <story><title>U.S. Postal Workers Were on the Front Lines Before. They Were Ignored</title><url>https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/u-s-postal-workers-were-on-the-front-lines-before-they-were-ignored/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m0zg</author><text>I don&#x27;t get why it has to lose money at all in the first place. Sounds to me like they&#x27;re offering a unique, highly in-demand service, in a market that is currently booming. Perhaps they should consider reworking their pricing structure? Just a thought.</text></item><item><author>learc83</author><text>There was a bipartisan plan to include 30 billion in funding for the Post Office in the 2 trillion dollar stimulus bill.<p>But the administration said they wouldn&#x27;t sign anything that included emergency funding for the USPS. That doesn&#x27;t prove what the administration&#x27;s motives are, but they certainly seem hostile towards the USPS.</text></item><item><author>TechBro8615</author><text>Nobody in power has suggested this as a possibility. It’s fearmongering by the democratic media.</text></item><item><author>cjsawyer</author><text>Unrelated to this specific article: The USPS is a crucial part of the US infrastructure. The thought that we could loose it over mail in ballot voting is a sick joke.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>battery_cowboy</author><text>The reason is because in 2006, a law was passed that required the USPS to fully fund 75 years worth of expected retirement compensation. That&#x27;s not reasonable, and was designed to destroy the service so it could be privatized.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Postal Workers Were on the Front Lines Before. They Were Ignored</title><url>https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/u-s-postal-workers-were-on-the-front-lines-before-they-were-ignored/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m0zg</author><text>I don&#x27;t get why it has to lose money at all in the first place. Sounds to me like they&#x27;re offering a unique, highly in-demand service, in a market that is currently booming. Perhaps they should consider reworking their pricing structure? Just a thought.</text></item><item><author>learc83</author><text>There was a bipartisan plan to include 30 billion in funding for the Post Office in the 2 trillion dollar stimulus bill.<p>But the administration said they wouldn&#x27;t sign anything that included emergency funding for the USPS. That doesn&#x27;t prove what the administration&#x27;s motives are, but they certainly seem hostile towards the USPS.</text></item><item><author>TechBro8615</author><text>Nobody in power has suggested this as a possibility. It’s fearmongering by the democratic media.</text></item><item><author>cjsawyer</author><text>Unrelated to this specific article: The USPS is a crucial part of the US infrastructure. The thought that we could loose it over mail in ballot voting is a sick joke.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>artimaeis</author><text>The USPS does not have domain over the pricing structure of its most popular commodity: first class mail. That is regulated to the Postal Regulatory Commission. As for other services offered they do maintain control, which is why priority delivery starts at $7.15. They&#x27;re also mandated to provide door-to-door delivery with first class mail, so effectively every piece of rural mail costs them money, but they can&#x27;t do anything about it.</text></comment> |
640,583 | 640,595 | 1 | 3 | 640,530 | train | <story><title>CrunchPad Prototype</title><url>http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-prototype/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>redorb</author><text>Its hard to believe it will sell for &#60;$200 / without being locked to some sort of contract or homepage with ads etc ... If so - this is truly an amazing achievement, not to mention its amazing that its techcrunch.</text></comment> | <story><title>CrunchPad Prototype</title><url>http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-prototype/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>barredo</author><text>What about consumption and/or heat dissipation? I'd hate to burn my hands while playing youtube videos...</text></comment> |
36,924,930 | 36,923,992 | 1 | 2 | 36,922,790 | train | <story><title>Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor</title><url>https://www.airgradient.com/open-air/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>traceroute66</author><text>Time for the usual reminder that there is a search function on the bottom of every single YC page.<p>Air gradient has been extensively discussed here multiple times already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frognumber</author><text>I don&#x27;t mind the repost. It&#x27;s doing good work. It&#x27;s good to be reminded of it, and it&#x27;s a slightly different thing each time. I&#x27;ll buy it when it&#x27;s ready for prime time.<p>The founder reads this.<p>Founder: What&#x27;s held me back from buying this is a lack of github links and instructions. EVERY place you say &quot;open source&quot; should link to the repo. The repo should have CLEAR instructions for how to hack this.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of copy like &quot;We provide detailed instructions and videos&quot; but NO hyperlink to said detailed instructions or videos. Any place you mention specs should link to ACTUAL specs. What&#x27;s your BOM? What microcontroller are you using? Do I rewrite the firmware in Python? Rust? MakeCode? Etc.<p>Those are the tires I want to kick. If my child can program this in MakeCode and it&#x27;s designed for tinkering, it&#x27;s a no-brainer. If it&#x27;s on github, and easy to set up to work from my desktop, it&#x27;s reasonable. If it involves setting up docker containers and proprietary environments for hacking C code, it&#x27;s not as obvious a buy. If I can&#x27;t figure out how to get started in 30 seconds, I assume it&#x27;s the last one. I have a lot of projects around the house I wish I&#x27;d done, and I&#x27;m not buying more until a few of those finish.<p>Also, I will never pay for your service. The whole point of open everything is I control my data.<p>The other piece I&#x27;d like is a dirt-cheap set of temperature &#x2F; humidity tools. I bought an 8-channel weather station, so I can monitor temperature indoors and in each room. I&#x27;d love to switch to something more open.<p>Again, a lot of this comes down to how easy it is to get started. If I can make dashboards in 5 minutes with numpy &#x2F; plotly &#x2F; pylab &#x2F; etc., I&#x27;m delighted. If I can&#x27;t, but it&#x27;s not bad, I&#x27;m grumpier. etc.<p>So in conclusion, I&#x27;d do user studies and think-aloud protocols with customers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor</title><url>https://www.airgradient.com/open-air/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>traceroute66</author><text>Time for the usual reminder that there is a search function on the bottom of every single YC page.<p>Air gradient has been extensively discussed here multiple times already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kayson</author><text>The guy who runs air gradient posts his articles here pretty frequently. Not sure at what point, if any, it breaks the rules. It definitely feels a little spammy to me though.</text></comment> |
5,919,307 | 5,919,537 | 1 | 2 | 5,917,751 | train | <story><title>NSA whistleblower Russ Tice goes on record with new revelations</title><url>http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/06/19/podcast-show-112-nsa-whistleblower-goes-on-record-reveals-new-information-names-culprits/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Any major media outlet in the country right now could 1.5-3x its pageviews or audience share by going wall-to-wall on the revelation that NSA <i>spied on Barack Obama before he was a candidate</i>. None of them have. Why is that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pvnick</author><text>I would say 1) this revelation is too shocking to be parroted without smoking gun evidence to support it (eg copies of the top secret documents themselves) and 2) journalists these days are too much in bed with the establishment to stir the waters that much and ask these kinds of hard questions posed by &quot;fringe elements&quot;.<p>What do you think?</text></comment> | <story><title>NSA whistleblower Russ Tice goes on record with new revelations</title><url>http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/06/19/podcast-show-112-nsa-whistleblower-goes-on-record-reveals-new-information-names-culprits/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Any major media outlet in the country right now could 1.5-3x its pageviews or audience share by going wall-to-wall on the revelation that NSA <i>spied on Barack Obama before he was a candidate</i>. None of them have. Why is that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trevelyan</author><text>This could easily be misinformation. That said, Russ Tice has more credibility than you do when it comes to talking about NSA capabilities, in that his claims of unconstitutional spying (dating back to 2005) anticipated and are well-supported by the leaked NSA documentation, while your claims dating two weeks back about how everything is operating under reasonable judicial oversight have already been proven wrong.</text></comment> |
24,444,584 | 24,440,546 | 1 | 2 | 24,433,782 | train | <story><title>Home Studio Setup Costs Compared – 1980s And Now</title><url>https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/2020/9/8/home-studio-recording-costs-compared-1980s-and-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endymi0n</author><text>The oddest thing about this Cambrian explosion of possibility at dirt cheap prices is what it did to my creativity: It actually hurt it.<p>I started just a tad later and fully digital than the gear in this article, so the floppy discs I got Scream Tracker on with its included samples plus whatever I could rip from a few .MODs I could get my hands on had to do. There were four tracks. There were a hundred samples, half of which was obscure crap (and even those found their use).<p>Building with it and making them sound awesome, plus discovering the amazing tricks the OGs of tracker &amp; demo culture did with their editors (sliding and bending notes! dead stops in the middle of the sample!) was endless fun.<p>Nowadays, I get Native Instruments Ultimate — and despite sounding orders of magnitude better, all I do is toying around. I always have the nagging feeling there&#x27;s gotta be one sound or effect in that endless library that&#x27;s still better than the one I&#x27;m using right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jancsika</author><text>&gt; Nowadays, I get Native Instruments Ultimate — and despite sounding orders of magnitude better, all I do is toying around. I always have the nagging feeling there&#x27;s gotta be one sound or effect in that endless library that&#x27;s still better than the one I&#x27;m using right now.<p>It may be you&#x27;re accidentally veering away from &quot;music&quot; into the realm of &quot;sound effects.&quot; Many audio software environments too easily lets you drift in that direction. (Although I&#x27;d argue that&#x27;s still better than drifting into the direction of becoming an audio software environment programmer. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Home Studio Setup Costs Compared – 1980s And Now</title><url>https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/2020/9/8/home-studio-recording-costs-compared-1980s-and-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endymi0n</author><text>The oddest thing about this Cambrian explosion of possibility at dirt cheap prices is what it did to my creativity: It actually hurt it.<p>I started just a tad later and fully digital than the gear in this article, so the floppy discs I got Scream Tracker on with its included samples plus whatever I could rip from a few .MODs I could get my hands on had to do. There were four tracks. There were a hundred samples, half of which was obscure crap (and even those found their use).<p>Building with it and making them sound awesome, plus discovering the amazing tricks the OGs of tracker &amp; demo culture did with their editors (sliding and bending notes! dead stops in the middle of the sample!) was endless fun.<p>Nowadays, I get Native Instruments Ultimate — and despite sounding orders of magnitude better, all I do is toying around. I always have the nagging feeling there&#x27;s gotta be one sound or effect in that endless library that&#x27;s still better than the one I&#x27;m using right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rorykoehler</author><text>&gt;Nowadays, I get Native Instruments Ultimate — and despite sounding orders of magnitude better, all I do is toying around. I always have the nagging feeling there&#x27;s gotta be one sound or effect in that endless library that&#x27;s still better than the one I&#x27;m using right now.<p>That&#x27;s why I never start a track without a finished idea in my head. I used to noodle and would get lost in the rabbit warren.</text></comment> |
40,406,156 | 40,405,601 | 1 | 2 | 40,404,498 | train | <story><title>Will better superconductors transform the world?</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/will-better-superconductors-transform-the-world-20240509/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>px43</author><text>Better superconductors means better magnets, which means cheaper fusion.<p>Some modest improvements in high temperature superconductors from MIT is allowing Commonwealth Fusion Systems to scale down ITER from being a 65 billion dollar five story behemoth, to something slightly taller than the average human.<p>With a few more iterations, it becomes very feasible to imagine fusion reactors the size of a rice maker to power homes and vehicles, or even smaller to just have personal, wearable fusion reactors that can provide near infinite power to any gadgets we want to carry with us.<p>Also I really enjoy the idea of reducing giant MRI machines down to the form factor of a hula hoop. If anyone could get highly detailed MRI scans whenever they wanted, a huge amount of disease could be prevented.</text></comment> | <story><title>Will better superconductors transform the world?</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/will-better-superconductors-transform-the-world-20240509/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>huppeldepup</author><text>What’s always missing around this subject is the use of superconductors as energy storage devices:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Superconducting_magnetic_energy_storage" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Superconducting_magnetic_ene...</a><p>Tangential, high density energy storage also means things that go kaboom by intent.</text></comment> |
6,720,728 | 6,720,210 | 1 | 3 | 6,717,415 | train | <story><title>Dataset: Databases for lazy people</title><url>https://dataset.readthedocs.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akrymski</author><text>This is excellent, I&#x27;ve always wanted a simple db library that makes defining a schema upfront <i>optional</i>. After all a schema is a constraint that can be set in stone later on, just like adding indices for optimisation purposes.<p>Few questions:<p>- what&#x27;s the performance like? is there any overhead to alchemy, eg comparing schema every time you do an insert?<p>- no way to specify primary keys as an alternative to the auto-generated id column?<p>- no table.remove()?<p>- what about inserting more complicated data structures, eg a dict with a nested dict or a list? would be great if those were serialized auto-magically into a blob type (or used to create another table with a foreign key?)<p>- would be nice to be able to freeze a schema with table.freeze() for example: from then on new columns don&#x27;t get created automatically, or get stored in an extra blob column (this is a very common scenario for python devs where non-indexable columns just get stuck in a blob)<p>- let me optionally define a schema and specify defaults with table.schema(name=&#x27;&#x27;, price=0.0&#x27;)<p>- would love to see table.ensureIndex(&#x27;column&#x27;, &#x27;unique&#x27;) similar to mongo for quickly creating indices<p>- db = Dataset() should do dataset.create(&#x27;sqlite:&#x2F;&#x2F;&#x2F;:memory:&#x27;) for me - would be nice to have that as the default connector, so that Dataset() acts as LINQ for Python by default<p>- dataset.freeze is nice but I&#x27;d rather have dataset.export() &amp; dataset.import() letting me easily copy rows from one db to another (after inspection for example)<p>Thanks for creating this!</text></comment> | <story><title>Dataset: Databases for lazy people</title><url>https://dataset.readthedocs.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alokv28</author><text>I&#x27;m trying to figure out where something like this fits into the python data ecosystem.<p>For datasets that fit in memory, Pandas seems like the best bet. Good I&#x2F;O functions (JSON, CSV), easy slicing (numpy array-like syntax), and some sql-like operations (groupby, join).<p>For large datasets, you&#x27;d need a proper db.<p>So is Dataset then useful for datasets that cannot fit in memory but aren&#x27;t <i>too</i> large?</text></comment> |
15,056,491 | 15,056,285 | 1 | 3 | 15,054,903 | train | <story><title>Ethereum Proof of Stake FAQ</title><url>https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xorcist</author><text>Ethereum was supposed to have every feature under the sun from the start, proof-of-stake perhaps being the second most hyped. (Turing completeness being the clear first, which is problematic given the halting theorem and all that, so it&#x27;s now rich statefullness instead.) And PoS is one of those ideas that most people looking at cryptocurrencies end up trying some variant of. PoW is obviously wasteful and it would be nice to improve on that. The problem is that it doesn&#x27;t have the same properties as PoW have, and that are hard to do without.<p>The problems are the basic ones, how to avoid colluding stakers, how to neuter the market for consumed stakes, how to deter chain splits. There is a constant flow of new coins that try various approaches, but the ones that have survived have all had to resort to some variant of checkpoints where a trusted third party decides on regular intervals which chain is valid. This has obvious implications for a supposedly trustless digital currency, where you don&#x27;t really need that complicated blockchain anymore.<p>This Ethereum PoS FAQ is much like other documentation from the Ethereum Foundation quite dense where most paragraphs introduce terms not seen elsewhere (economic finality? slashing? weak subjectivity?). If you want the interesting bit, the TL;DR, then skip to the part about weak subjectivity. Read it, and then read it again and bear in mind how other coins solved this problem.<p>Tell me I&#x27;m wrong, but I think this bit with the key part being that the node &quot;authenticate out of band&quot;, involve a certain third party with a Very Important Key. In which case the rest of the theory in the document doesn&#x27;t matter much, does it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulmd</author><text>I&#x27;m in total agreement about the dangers here. It seems absolutely insane to institute these kind of untested changes on a production system. These belong in some other coin, not Ethereum.<p>Furthermore it&#x27;s insane that miners are just going along with this plan. They think since they hold Ethereum now that they will receive greater future rewards - but this is literally a parable that we warn our children about - &quot;The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs&quot;.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mythfolklore.net&#x2F;aesopica&#x2F;perry&#x2F;87.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mythfolklore.net&#x2F;aesopica&#x2F;perry&#x2F;87.htm</a><p>If these changes were simply switched on then they would have absolutely no chance of standing, there would be an immense backlash. VB is exploiting social-engineering to push these changes with the whole &quot;Ice Age&quot; scheme. Gotta boil that frog slowly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ethereum Proof of Stake FAQ</title><url>https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xorcist</author><text>Ethereum was supposed to have every feature under the sun from the start, proof-of-stake perhaps being the second most hyped. (Turing completeness being the clear first, which is problematic given the halting theorem and all that, so it&#x27;s now rich statefullness instead.) And PoS is one of those ideas that most people looking at cryptocurrencies end up trying some variant of. PoW is obviously wasteful and it would be nice to improve on that. The problem is that it doesn&#x27;t have the same properties as PoW have, and that are hard to do without.<p>The problems are the basic ones, how to avoid colluding stakers, how to neuter the market for consumed stakes, how to deter chain splits. There is a constant flow of new coins that try various approaches, but the ones that have survived have all had to resort to some variant of checkpoints where a trusted third party decides on regular intervals which chain is valid. This has obvious implications for a supposedly trustless digital currency, where you don&#x27;t really need that complicated blockchain anymore.<p>This Ethereum PoS FAQ is much like other documentation from the Ethereum Foundation quite dense where most paragraphs introduce terms not seen elsewhere (economic finality? slashing? weak subjectivity?). If you want the interesting bit, the TL;DR, then skip to the part about weak subjectivity. Read it, and then read it again and bear in mind how other coins solved this problem.<p>Tell me I&#x27;m wrong, but I think this bit with the key part being that the node &quot;authenticate out of band&quot;, involve a certain third party with a Very Important Key. In which case the rest of the theory in the document doesn&#x27;t matter much, does it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pyxl101</author><text>I don&#x27;t know much about the Etherium, but I don&#x27;t see what problem there is with respect to Turing completeness and the halting problem.<p>My understanding was that programs are limited to a finite number of steps in the Etherium virtual machine.</text></comment> |
36,488,598 | 36,488,514 | 1 | 2 | 36,488,410 | train | <story><title>Time to subsidize e-bikes?</title><url>https://clivethompson.medium.com/its-time-to-subsidize-e-bikes-900a862b8e76</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martinky24</author><text>I bought an e-bike recently (at full cost) with the explicit intent of attempting to drive my ICE vehicle less and have loved every minute of owning it.<p>It’s a fun thing to ride, gets me a bit more activity (I don’t consider it a workout, but it is more of a workout than driving), and gets me more time outside.<p>I’m turning into an evangelist among my friends, and any sort of subsidy would definitely make that effort easier.<p>If you’re on the fence, give it a go! They’re pretty mature tech these days, with a wide range of available models and price ranges.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>afavour</author><text>I bought one a year ago specifically to take my kids to school and it’s been an absolute delight. I get a slight workout, the kids get fresh air (and they <i>love</i> riding on it). I’m convinced everyone would be much happier if school drop offs were 70% bikes rather than 90% cars.<p>But the ride to my kids school has isolated bike lanes for the vast majority of the trip. Most people aren’t so lucky and will (rightly) fear the idea of taking their kids on a bike. It’s such a shame.</text></comment> | <story><title>Time to subsidize e-bikes?</title><url>https://clivethompson.medium.com/its-time-to-subsidize-e-bikes-900a862b8e76</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martinky24</author><text>I bought an e-bike recently (at full cost) with the explicit intent of attempting to drive my ICE vehicle less and have loved every minute of owning it.<p>It’s a fun thing to ride, gets me a bit more activity (I don’t consider it a workout, but it is more of a workout than driving), and gets me more time outside.<p>I’m turning into an evangelist among my friends, and any sort of subsidy would definitely make that effort easier.<p>If you’re on the fence, give it a go! They’re pretty mature tech these days, with a wide range of available models and price ranges.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Turskarama</author><text>&gt;I don’t consider it a workout<p>You might be surprised. The amount of exercise you get while &quot;cheating&quot; on an ebike is way more than people think, especially if you don&#x27;t get one powerful enough to basically classify as a motorbike. I&#x27;m Australian, and here the power output is limited to 250 watts which means it&#x27;s really just an assist rather than the main power plant (which is still the rider). Riding it uses significantly more energy than walking does since I like to go fast, so it&#x27;s still very much legitimate exercise.</text></comment> |
40,462,370 | 40,462,378 | 1 | 2 | 40,454,136 | train | <story><title>300k airplanes in five years</title><url>https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-300000-airplanes-in</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treme</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csis.org&#x2F;analysis&#x2F;china-outpacing-us-defense-industrial-base" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csis.org&#x2F;analysis&#x2F;china-outpacing-us-defense-ind...</a><p>China is heavily investing in munitions and acquiring high-end weapons systems and equipment five to six times faster than the United States. China is also the world’s largest shipbuilder and has a shipbuilding capacity that is roughly 230 times larger than the United States. One of China’s large shipyards, such as Jiangnan Shipyard, has more capacity than all U.S. shipyards combined.<p>&quot;U.S. Defense Industrial Base Is Not Prepared for a Possible Conflict with China&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;features.csis.org&#x2F;preparing-the-US-industrial-base-to-deter-conflict-with-China&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;features.csis.org&#x2F;preparing-the-US-industrial-base-t...</a></text></item><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>Here&#x27;s an underappreciated fact of history: in WW1 the US was so ill prepared that it had to borrow rifles from France.<p>People now take for granted that &quot;the sleeping giant&quot; was going to awake after being attacked. But in WW1 the US was also the largest economy in the world, and it did not transform overnight in a weapons manufacturing behemoth, like it did in WW2.<p>If a conflict with China ever comes to pass, it is not at all predestined that the US will repeat its WW2 feat rather than its WW1 experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atleastoptimal</author><text>I don’t understand why the US voluntarily gave up its significant advantage in manufacturing. Is it just because it would be impossible to have an industrial base in a world where Asia exists and can produce everything that could be built in the US for 1&#x2F;5 the cost? In every universe where the US dollar is significantly stronger than the next greatest probable superpower, will that next greatest probable superpower always be in a perfect position to exploit this disparity and become the de facto world leader in heavy industry?</text></comment> | <story><title>300k airplanes in five years</title><url>https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-300000-airplanes-in</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treme</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csis.org&#x2F;analysis&#x2F;china-outpacing-us-defense-industrial-base" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csis.org&#x2F;analysis&#x2F;china-outpacing-us-defense-ind...</a><p>China is heavily investing in munitions and acquiring high-end weapons systems and equipment five to six times faster than the United States. China is also the world’s largest shipbuilder and has a shipbuilding capacity that is roughly 230 times larger than the United States. One of China’s large shipyards, such as Jiangnan Shipyard, has more capacity than all U.S. shipyards combined.<p>&quot;U.S. Defense Industrial Base Is Not Prepared for a Possible Conflict with China&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;features.csis.org&#x2F;preparing-the-US-industrial-base-to-deter-conflict-with-China&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;features.csis.org&#x2F;preparing-the-US-industrial-base-t...</a></text></item><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>Here&#x27;s an underappreciated fact of history: in WW1 the US was so ill prepared that it had to borrow rifles from France.<p>People now take for granted that &quot;the sleeping giant&quot; was going to awake after being attacked. But in WW1 the US was also the largest economy in the world, and it did not transform overnight in a weapons manufacturing behemoth, like it did in WW2.<p>If a conflict with China ever comes to pass, it is not at all predestined that the US will repeat its WW2 feat rather than its WW1 experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyre</author><text>They’d need to switch to aircraft carriers and fast. The US has 11. China has 2. They are expensive, require specifically trained crews, and air superiority counters all of that shipyard capacity.</text></comment> |
24,899,987 | 24,899,168 | 1 | 2 | 24,892,874 | train | <story><title>The Chaos Engineering Book</title><url>https://www.verica.io/the-chaos-engineering-book/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing to me that something I threw out in a meeting six years ago became an entire engineering culture.<p>It all started when we were talking about what to call the folks who were building things like Chaos Monkey&#x2F;Gorilla&#x2F;Kong and I said, &quot;Let&#x27;s call them Chaos Engineers, since they are engineering chaos&quot;. And so we adopted that title at Netflix, and now here we are.<p>I should also point out here how valueless what I did was -- I literally just came up with the name for what we were already doing inside Netflix. Everyone else actually wrote it down and spread it outside of Netflix. Their contributions to spreading the word are far more important than the name I came up with.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Chaos Engineering Book</title><url>https://www.verica.io/the-chaos-engineering-book/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spullara</author><text>Instead just deploy to AWS us-east-1 and the random failures will keep you on your toes.</text></comment> |
4,548,986 | 4,549,122 | 1 | 2 | 4,548,829 | train | <story><title>The Amazing iOS 6 Maps</title><url>http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grey-area</author><text>What confuses me about Apple's choice of maps here is why they didn't go with OpenStreetMap? It was the perfect opportunity to leapfrog Google and help the open source community at the same time, and they would have had more control over the data - as it is they are beholden to TomTom and other providers to try to get things fixed, or will have to try to merge future map updates with their own patches. As it is they are going to see increasing controversy as people realise just how bad the maps they have bought are, and that this was changed for political reasons, not for the good of their users, and there's very little they can do about it.<p>They seem to have tried out OSM in the photos app (with a horrible skin), but to have used purchased data for the street maps. Perhaps they felt it wasn't good enough in some locations they tested?<p>In my experience OSM is superior to Google maps in many locations (even in parts of central London), and it is of course continually improving.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rburhum</author><text>Openstreetmap's doesnt address <i>any</i> of the OP's issues. Having built maps for the past 12 years, I know exactly what of each of those issues are about. The blurry images are underlying base layers that drew first and then probably the upper layer timed out when rendering the tile. The curves are caused by elevation measurements that are incorrect (measuring elevation from a satellite involves bouncing from the ground - when there are structures below, depending on the material, it may go through or bounce differently) or precision problems when generating the elevation grid (very common). The big white thing are clouds, when you buy highly expensive imagery you get them with louds (say 30% cloud blockage) and you need to comnine several images taken a different times, color correct them, and stitch them back to remove it (try to do this for one city and then think about doing it for the entire world). The routes that don't match the pins is weird, but it could be that the snapping point for the routing engine snapped to the wrong street edge (it seems very far though) or that the geocoder and the routing engine use different geocoders (that would be bad). Creating a good mapping product is difficult, but Apple will have something much better in one year.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Amazing iOS 6 Maps</title><url>http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grey-area</author><text>What confuses me about Apple's choice of maps here is why they didn't go with OpenStreetMap? It was the perfect opportunity to leapfrog Google and help the open source community at the same time, and they would have had more control over the data - as it is they are beholden to TomTom and other providers to try to get things fixed, or will have to try to merge future map updates with their own patches. As it is they are going to see increasing controversy as people realise just how bad the maps they have bought are, and that this was changed for political reasons, not for the good of their users, and there's very little they can do about it.<p>They seem to have tried out OSM in the photos app (with a horrible skin), but to have used purchased data for the street maps. Perhaps they felt it wasn't good enough in some locations they tested?<p>In my experience OSM is superior to Google maps in many locations (even in parts of central London), and it is of course continually improving.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VonGuard</author><text>"It was the perfect opportunity to leapfrog Google and help the open source community"<p>The only time Apple helps open source is when they hire the most important people in really important projects, and then they graciously allow them to continue contributing. CUPS, LLVM, it's happened a couple times. They take good care of these guys, but I always feel like their contributions to the projects after Apple are being written with one eye watching over their shoulder to make sure they dont get sued for talking to the public about some super secret project.</text></comment> |
41,191,596 | 41,190,798 | 1 | 2 | 41,184,359 | train | <story><title>NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/science/boeing-starliner-nasa-spacex.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xattt</author><text>Inflammable means flammable? What a country!<p>&#x2F;s</text></item><item><author>_joel</author><text>They also wrapped their avionics cables in flammable tape and had to redo everything. The original, approved tape was still available, not a supply issue. I think that is pretty telling.</text></item><item><author>somenameforme</author><text>I think many might not be aware of Starliner&#x27;s sordid history. It has failed essentially every qualification test in various ways. Their pad abort test (where you simulate a launch abort while on the launch pad) resulted in only 2 of the 3 parachutes deploying in beyond optimal conditions. NASA considered that such a resounding success that they let them completely skip the far more challenging in-flight abort test. Their first automated mission to the ISS completely failed and did not make it to the station. NASA finally required a redo from Boeing and their second one did make it to the ISS, but only after experiencing widespread leaks and thruster failures literally identical to the ones that have now left these astronauts stranded.<p>If SpaceX or another company had remotely similar results, they would never have been greenlit. For instance in spite of a flawless pad abort test, NASA required SpaceX also carry out an in-flight abort. And that&#x27;s completely reasonable - you don&#x27;t simply skip tests, even with optimal performance. Skipping tests following suboptimal performance is simply unjustifiable. And so I think we&#x27;re largely looking at another Challenger type disaster caused by a disconnect between management (and likely political appointees) versus engineering staff, rather than inherent risk. But this is not a vessel that should have ever had a single human anywhere near it, and so their official comments (and even actions) on the situation are going to be heavily biased due to their own behaviors.</text></item><item><author>GMoromisato</author><text>I listened to the whole conference and here&#x27;s my impression:<p>1. NASA manager Steve Stich said there&#x27;s a relatively wide &quot;band of uncertainty&quot; in how risky a Starliner return is. Some (many?) NASA engineers are at the high end of the band and are advocating a return on Dragon instead. Boeing is obviously at the low end of the band and thinks it is a low risk.<p>The problem is, the data doesn&#x27;t rule out either side of the band. So they are trying to get more data to narrow the uncertainty (in either or both directions). [Interestingly enough, the data from the White Sands testing made them <i>more</i> worried because it revealed the Teflon seal deformation.]<p>But my sense is that if they don&#x27;t narrow the uncertainty (i.e., convince the NASA engineers) then they will very likely choose a Dragon return. That is, it sounds like if nothing changes, the astronauts are coming down on Dragon.<p>2. Stich said they need to decide by mid-August, in order to have time to prepare the Crew-9 launch for Sept 24th. So we&#x27;ll know by then.<p>3. They emphasized that (a) the thruster problems are all fixable (given time), and (b) that even if Starliner returns without a crew, they will have learned enough from the test to potentially certify the capsule for regular service. This is probably the only way they&#x27;ll be able to keep Boeing as a provider. A redo of this mission would cost Boeing half a billion dollars, easy. And since the contract is fixed-price, this would just add to Boeing&#x27;s losses. So I expect they will certify Starliner even if it comes down without a crew.<p>4. In some ways, Starliner is being held to a higher standard than Dragon Crew-2. If Starliner were the only vehicle available, NASA and the astronauts would absolutely take the small risk and come down with a crew. But since Dragon is available, I think NASA is thinking, &quot;why take the risk?&quot;<p>5. There&#x27;s a huge difference between how NASA engineers and lay people look at this issue. Many people (particularly on Twitter) have a binary safe&#x2F;not-safe view of the situation. Either Starliner is safe or it is not. Either the astronauts are stranded or they are not. But the engineering perspective is all about dealing with uncertainty. What is the probability of a bad result? Is the risk worth the reward? Even worse, everything is a trade-off. Sometimes trying to mitigate a risk causes an unintended effect that increases risk (e.g., a bug fix that causes a bug).<p>I don&#x27;t envy the engineers, either at NASA or at Boeing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huppeldepup</author><text>We should coax them into using coax instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/science/boeing-starliner-nasa-spacex.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xattt</author><text>Inflammable means flammable? What a country!<p>&#x2F;s</text></item><item><author>_joel</author><text>They also wrapped their avionics cables in flammable tape and had to redo everything. The original, approved tape was still available, not a supply issue. I think that is pretty telling.</text></item><item><author>somenameforme</author><text>I think many might not be aware of Starliner&#x27;s sordid history. It has failed essentially every qualification test in various ways. Their pad abort test (where you simulate a launch abort while on the launch pad) resulted in only 2 of the 3 parachutes deploying in beyond optimal conditions. NASA considered that such a resounding success that they let them completely skip the far more challenging in-flight abort test. Their first automated mission to the ISS completely failed and did not make it to the station. NASA finally required a redo from Boeing and their second one did make it to the ISS, but only after experiencing widespread leaks and thruster failures literally identical to the ones that have now left these astronauts stranded.<p>If SpaceX or another company had remotely similar results, they would never have been greenlit. For instance in spite of a flawless pad abort test, NASA required SpaceX also carry out an in-flight abort. And that&#x27;s completely reasonable - you don&#x27;t simply skip tests, even with optimal performance. Skipping tests following suboptimal performance is simply unjustifiable. And so I think we&#x27;re largely looking at another Challenger type disaster caused by a disconnect between management (and likely political appointees) versus engineering staff, rather than inherent risk. But this is not a vessel that should have ever had a single human anywhere near it, and so their official comments (and even actions) on the situation are going to be heavily biased due to their own behaviors.</text></item><item><author>GMoromisato</author><text>I listened to the whole conference and here&#x27;s my impression:<p>1. NASA manager Steve Stich said there&#x27;s a relatively wide &quot;band of uncertainty&quot; in how risky a Starliner return is. Some (many?) NASA engineers are at the high end of the band and are advocating a return on Dragon instead. Boeing is obviously at the low end of the band and thinks it is a low risk.<p>The problem is, the data doesn&#x27;t rule out either side of the band. So they are trying to get more data to narrow the uncertainty (in either or both directions). [Interestingly enough, the data from the White Sands testing made them <i>more</i> worried because it revealed the Teflon seal deformation.]<p>But my sense is that if they don&#x27;t narrow the uncertainty (i.e., convince the NASA engineers) then they will very likely choose a Dragon return. That is, it sounds like if nothing changes, the astronauts are coming down on Dragon.<p>2. Stich said they need to decide by mid-August, in order to have time to prepare the Crew-9 launch for Sept 24th. So we&#x27;ll know by then.<p>3. They emphasized that (a) the thruster problems are all fixable (given time), and (b) that even if Starliner returns without a crew, they will have learned enough from the test to potentially certify the capsule for regular service. This is probably the only way they&#x27;ll be able to keep Boeing as a provider. A redo of this mission would cost Boeing half a billion dollars, easy. And since the contract is fixed-price, this would just add to Boeing&#x27;s losses. So I expect they will certify Starliner even if it comes down without a crew.<p>4. In some ways, Starliner is being held to a higher standard than Dragon Crew-2. If Starliner were the only vehicle available, NASA and the astronauts would absolutely take the small risk and come down with a crew. But since Dragon is available, I think NASA is thinking, &quot;why take the risk?&quot;<p>5. There&#x27;s a huge difference between how NASA engineers and lay people look at this issue. Many people (particularly on Twitter) have a binary safe&#x2F;not-safe view of the situation. Either Starliner is safe or it is not. Either the astronauts are stranded or they are not. But the engineering perspective is all about dealing with uncertainty. What is the probability of a bad result? Is the risk worth the reward? Even worse, everything is a trade-off. Sometimes trying to mitigate a risk causes an unintended effect that increases risk (e.g., a bug fix that causes a bug).<p>I don&#x27;t envy the engineers, either at NASA or at Boeing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taneq</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Contronym" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Contronym</a> :)</text></comment> |
41,224,322 | 41,224,004 | 1 | 3 | 41,220,059 | train | <story><title>How to avoid losing items? Holding pens</title><url>https://blog.alexwendland.com/2024-07-07-holding-pens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leokennis</author><text>This is a good idea, as is the idea in the article. The basic requisite however is a desire to not lose stuff. My wife always loses track of her EarPods. My oldest kid always loses his pocket knife.<p>I could have 20 holding pens in the house and they&#x27;d still lose their stuff, since the idea that you have to exert even a minor amount of effort &lt;now&gt; by putting stuff in its place to save yourself much more searching effort &lt;later&gt;, is either lost on them, or they just greatly value the present over the future.<p>I do not even get annoyed about it anymore - just like I do not get annoyed that it turns dark at night. My stuff is always in its place, and before we leave the house they will spend 10 minutes finding theirs.</text></item><item><author>treetalker</author><text>My approach is to have separate “take-off” points near the entrance&#x2F;exit of each room.<p>Example: If I’m in my home office and find that some things need to go to the living room and some to the kitchen, I simply queue them to take off instead of taking a trip every time I realize an item needs to go. Then when I take a coffee break, I’ll grab all the items; drop the living-room items off on the way to the kitchen, and drop the kitchen items off when I arrive. I get my coffee; grab anything queued up on the kitchen take-off point that can be dropped off on the way, and drop them off on my way back.<p>As it works out, everything is almost always where it ought to be; and when it’s not, I know where it will be instead.<p>The key is that I always check the take-off point every time I leave a room.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kayodelycaon</author><text>I really do not like the assumption people don’t do something because they don’t want to it.<p>I really want to make the system work reliably but I can’t. I’ve spent 30+ years trying to make things work. They just don’t.<p>It works when I have planned to do things ahead of time, but I can’t get my brain to remember to do it when interrupted, the attention shift doesn’t trigger “callbacks” or “publish events”. This is a fundamental prerequisite to make this work.<p>People’s who can do this will have difficulty not understanding people who can’t.<p>This same problem applies to “thinking before I speak”. I can’t do that. People think I can because I don’t make the same mistakes by rote learning what not to say in specific situations. I can’t anticipate new mistakes or generalize previous ones.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to avoid losing items? Holding pens</title><url>https://blog.alexwendland.com/2024-07-07-holding-pens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leokennis</author><text>This is a good idea, as is the idea in the article. The basic requisite however is a desire to not lose stuff. My wife always loses track of her EarPods. My oldest kid always loses his pocket knife.<p>I could have 20 holding pens in the house and they&#x27;d still lose their stuff, since the idea that you have to exert even a minor amount of effort &lt;now&gt; by putting stuff in its place to save yourself much more searching effort &lt;later&gt;, is either lost on them, or they just greatly value the present over the future.<p>I do not even get annoyed about it anymore - just like I do not get annoyed that it turns dark at night. My stuff is always in its place, and before we leave the house they will spend 10 minutes finding theirs.</text></item><item><author>treetalker</author><text>My approach is to have separate “take-off” points near the entrance&#x2F;exit of each room.<p>Example: If I’m in my home office and find that some things need to go to the living room and some to the kitchen, I simply queue them to take off instead of taking a trip every time I realize an item needs to go. Then when I take a coffee break, I’ll grab all the items; drop the living-room items off on the way to the kitchen, and drop the kitchen items off when I arrive. I get my coffee; grab anything queued up on the kitchen take-off point that can be dropped off on the way, and drop them off on my way back.<p>As it works out, everything is almost always where it ought to be; and when it’s not, I know where it will be instead.<p>The key is that I always check the take-off point every time I leave a room.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisweekly</author><text>A tip that&#x27;s helped me: when you finally find the thing you misplaced, and are done with it, don&#x27;t put it back where you found it, put it in the place where you first looked.</text></comment> |
10,357,436 | 10,357,363 | 1 | 2 | 10,357,115 | train | <story><title>Mercury Spill</title><url>http://www.jefftk.com/p/mercury-spill</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ccvannorman</author><text>It may have cost you $50,000 but you now have +50 karma on HN and rising. Some would say a bargain! ;-]<p>In all seriousness, cool story, glad you&#x27;re okay, and this makes me think &quot;insurance&quot; as a business needs to be re-thought entirely. How many times has it happened that insurance companies weasel out of paying? Objectively you might think THAT was their primary job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>Insurance is such a scam. A friend of mine made two claims within about five years: once for water damage and once for a burglary.<p>The insurance company agreed that she was covered. So they paid her and then dropped her. No big deal, right? Wrong. Once you&#x27;ve made a claim or two against your insurance, it can be very hard to get any new insurance company to cover you. She finally did find a new insurer, but the price has gone way up -- negating her original claims.<p>Did you know every claim you make goes into a CLUE report? It&#x27;s like a credit report, but few people know about it. Once you make &quot;too many claims&quot; - even if they&#x27;re legit and beyond your control, you become an insurance pariah.<p>Because of this, I avoid making any claims unless absolutely required.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mercury Spill</title><url>http://www.jefftk.com/p/mercury-spill</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ccvannorman</author><text>It may have cost you $50,000 but you now have +50 karma on HN and rising. Some would say a bargain! ;-]<p>In all seriousness, cool story, glad you&#x27;re okay, and this makes me think &quot;insurance&quot; as a business needs to be re-thought entirely. How many times has it happened that insurance companies weasel out of paying? Objectively you might think THAT was their primary job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nathanb</author><text>When one of my upstairs toilets started leaking in my house in the US, it finally got so bad that I noticed a stain on the garage ceiling. The insurance inspector said that insurance would not cover a &quot;slow leak&quot;. I was very nice and polite and pointed out how soaked the subfloor was and that there was no way to know when the leak started (which was true). She wrote her recommendation that it be covered, which the company apparently accepted since they wrote me a check.<p>Definitely not $50k (more like $2.5k), but it&#x27;s still disturbing that the line between insurance covering it and not covering it was so thin.<p>I wonder if a more thorough inspection would have caught it. Surely houses built around that time are routinely inspected for asbestos, lead-based paint, etc before purchase anyway. (Actually, going back and reading the comments, he actually addresses this point: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jefftk.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;mercury-spill#fb-752340840802_752343036402" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jefftk.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;mercury-spill#fb-752340840802_752343...</a>. Perhaps he could have made it a condition of purchase, that the seller pay for a mercury vapor inspection? Perhaps it&#x27;s not such a common problem that such a requirement would be reasonable. Hindsight, etc.)</text></comment> |
14,059,448 | 14,055,295 | 1 | 2 | 14,050,017 | train | <story><title>Hexing the technical interview</title><url>https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zellyn</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metafilter.com&#x2F;166166&#x2F;Og-to-til-javanissen#6985515" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metafilter.com&#x2F;166166&#x2F;Og-to-til-javanissen#698551...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Hexing the technical interview</title><url>https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Maultasche</author><text>I don&#x27;t know any Clojure, but I absolutely loved the writing. An entertaining read.</text></comment> |
24,387,892 | 24,387,563 | 1 | 3 | 24,386,584 | train | <story><title>Traffic Prediction with Advanced Graph Neural Networks</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/article/traffic-prediction-with-advanced-graph-neural-networks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>When User 3982274 is on a busy road using the app, Google optimizes for that user&#x27;s experience. If every user on that road is using the app at the same time, these algorithms should theoretically result in the optimal condition you described above.<p>For example, if there are two roads leading up to the destination, one at 100% capacity and the other at 0%. The app will start routing people from road 1 to road 2. When the two balance out and the app will stop the suggestion. Even though it helped only some individual users, the end result is a 50&#x2F;50 split, so good for everyone.</text></item><item><author>2bitencryption</author><text>Google Map&#x27;s traffic prediction has always led me to a very curious question:<p>Clearly Google Maps has the ability to turn into a feedback loop. Traffic exists -&gt; people use Google Maps to find better routes -&gt; traffic is modified due to people taking alternate routes -&gt; new traffic emerges.<p>So my question is: what is Google Maps traffic optimizing for? The best traffic experience for User 3982274, or the best traffic experience for the conglomerate of all cars on the road?<p>Should Google Maps route several cars through a suboptimal route, if it results in traffic as a whole becoming better?<p>If Google Maps is &quot;greedy&quot; for every driver, can that make a traffic problem worse?<p>In reality, I guess this problem is more hypothetical than real, at least today. But imagine this: in 30 years, if all cars are self-driving and self-navigating via systems like Google Maps, what is the system optimizing for?<p>edit: there&#x27;s also Braess&#x27;s paradox. I&#x27;m not sure if it applies here, but perhaps it does -- could &quot;sending some users down a new route during heavy traffic&quot; be identical to &quot;adding a road to a network&quot;, which can therefore result in the paradox (worse network conditions for everyone)?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Braess%27s_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Braess%27s_paradox</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frogblast</author><text>I live in an area strongly impacted by Google making ‘individually optimal’ decisions for each driver, and actually leaving those drivers in a dramatically worse situation.<p>I live in a rural area, between a major population center and a major resort area, with one major highway and a few small back roads that provide alternate paths for part of the highways route. Every summer weekend the highway becomes highly congested.<p>Google quickly starts routing people down the back roads because of a 30 minute delay on the highway. A sudden crush of cars hits these back roads, and they end up gridlocked for 3-4 <i>hours</i>. Google then realizes traffic is literally stopped on these roads, and stops sending new traffic down those routes. But the people already on them are still stuck for hours.<p>It gets smelly when a bunch of drivers take a shit on the side of the road because they can’t go anywhere else, and leave it there.<p>All because Google simultaneously made an ‘individually optimal’ decision for a whole bunch of individual drivers at once.<p>——<p>Another example in the same area actually causes a backup on the highway itself. Google started suggesting one back road that required an unprotected left turn across oncoming traffic on the highway, to avoid a 10-15 minute delay further on the highway. Drivers dutifully followed directions by getting into the left turn lane.<p>The drain rate of the left turn rate is slow because oncoming traffic is also high. The left turn lane fills up, and one driver with directions to turn then stops in the traffic lanes to wait for room to get into the turn lane. And suddenly the highway is now encountering 2-3 hour delays that don’t clear for most of the day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Traffic Prediction with Advanced Graph Neural Networks</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/article/traffic-prediction-with-advanced-graph-neural-networks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>When User 3982274 is on a busy road using the app, Google optimizes for that user&#x27;s experience. If every user on that road is using the app at the same time, these algorithms should theoretically result in the optimal condition you described above.<p>For example, if there are two roads leading up to the destination, one at 100% capacity and the other at 0%. The app will start routing people from road 1 to road 2. When the two balance out and the app will stop the suggestion. Even though it helped only some individual users, the end result is a 50&#x2F;50 split, so good for everyone.</text></item><item><author>2bitencryption</author><text>Google Map&#x27;s traffic prediction has always led me to a very curious question:<p>Clearly Google Maps has the ability to turn into a feedback loop. Traffic exists -&gt; people use Google Maps to find better routes -&gt; traffic is modified due to people taking alternate routes -&gt; new traffic emerges.<p>So my question is: what is Google Maps traffic optimizing for? The best traffic experience for User 3982274, or the best traffic experience for the conglomerate of all cars on the road?<p>Should Google Maps route several cars through a suboptimal route, if it results in traffic as a whole becoming better?<p>If Google Maps is &quot;greedy&quot; for every driver, can that make a traffic problem worse?<p>In reality, I guess this problem is more hypothetical than real, at least today. But imagine this: in 30 years, if all cars are self-driving and self-navigating via systems like Google Maps, what is the system optimizing for?<p>edit: there&#x27;s also Braess&#x27;s paradox. I&#x27;m not sure if it applies here, but perhaps it does -- could &quot;sending some users down a new route during heavy traffic&quot; be identical to &quot;adding a road to a network&quot;, which can therefore result in the paradox (worse network conditions for everyone)?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Braess%27s_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Braess%27s_paradox</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>layoutIfNeeded</author><text>That&#x27;s definitely not how it works. Traffic is a nonlinear dynamical system with all sorts of non-intuitive coupling between various components.</text></comment> |
40,409,559 | 40,409,496 | 1 | 2 | 40,408,880 | train | <story><title>Llama3 implemented from scratch</title><url>https://github.com/naklecha/llama3-from-scratch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brcmthrowaway</author><text>Wait, are you saying SoTA NN research hasnt evolved from hardcoding a bunch of layer structures and sizes?<p>I&#x27;m kind of shocked. I thought there would be more dynamism by now and I stopped dabbling in like 2018.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curious_cat_163</author><text>There is a tick-tock between searching the dominant NN architectures (tick) and optimizing for accuracy, compute and inference latency and throughput (tock).<p>This particular (tock) is still playing out. The next (tick) does not feel imminent and will likely depend on when we discover the limits of the transformers when it comes to solving for long tail of use-cases.<p>My $0.02.</text></comment> | <story><title>Llama3 implemented from scratch</title><url>https://github.com/naklecha/llama3-from-scratch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brcmthrowaway</author><text>Wait, are you saying SoTA NN research hasnt evolved from hardcoding a bunch of layer structures and sizes?<p>I&#x27;m kind of shocked. I thought there would be more dynamism by now and I stopped dabbling in like 2018.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>delusional</author><text>The innovation is the amount of resources people are willing to spend right now. From looking at the research code it&#x27;s clear that the whole field is basically doing a (somewhat) guided search in the entire space of possible layer permutations.<p>There seems to be no rhyme or reason, no scientific insight, no analysis. They just try a million different permutations, and whatever scores the highest on the benchmarks gets published.</text></comment> |
8,568,794 | 8,567,877 | 1 | 2 | 8,567,016 | train | <story><title>GnuPG 2.1.0 “modern” released</title><url>http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q4/000358.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptbe</author><text>Congratulations Werner and GnuPG team!<p>&gt; GnuPG now support Elliptic Curve keys for public key encryption. This is defined in RFC-6637. Because there is no other mainstream OpenPGP implementation yet available which supports ECC, the use of such keys is still very limited. [1]<p>Google End-To-End [2] supports ECC by default. We are working on supporting Ed25519, but encrypting and signing with NIST curves should work and be compatible with GnuPG. That said, we&#x27;ve had a lot of compat issues, so it&#x27;ll be great if Hacker News readers and GnuPG users can help test our implementation against GnuPG. You can generate keys in GnuPG and import them to End-To-End and vice versa, or you can encrypt&#x2F;sign messages on one software and decrypt&#x2F;verify them on the other. If you found a bug or anything that doesn&#x27;t work as expected, you can report it at <a href="https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/wiki/Issues?tm=3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;end-to-end&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Issues?tm=3</a>. If it&#x27;s a security bug you&#x27;re eligible for a monetary reward under our bug bounty program :-).<p>[1] <a href="https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html#ecc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnupg.org&#x2F;faq&#x2F;whats-new-in-2.1.html#ecc</a>
[2] <a href="https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;end-to-end&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>GnuPG 2.1.0 “modern” released</title><url>http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q4/000358.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>One particularly nice feature of the new version: gpg-agent no longer just stores the passphrase and hands it out to gnupg. Instead, gpg-agent actually holds the private keys and does crypto operations with them, and never lets any other process have the private keys or the passphrase (other than the pinentry program that prompts for the passphrase).<p>See <a href="https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html#nosecring" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnupg.org&#x2F;faq&#x2F;whats-new-in-2.1.html#nosecring</a></text></comment> |
3,940,360 | 3,940,451 | 1 | 2 | 3,940,213 | train | <story><title>Faster Fourier transform among world’s most important emerging technology</title><url>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/faster-fourier-transform-named-one-of-worlds-most-important-emerging-technologies.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ihodes</author><text>Paper at: <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2501v1" rel="nofollow">http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2501v1</a><p>O(k log n log(n/k)) complexity for the general case.</text></comment> | <story><title>Faster Fourier transform among world’s most important emerging technology</title><url>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/faster-fourier-transform-named-one-of-worlds-most-important-emerging-technologies.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0x09</author><text>Discussion from the initial announcement in January:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3480016" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3480016</a></text></comment> |
22,997,245 | 22,996,981 | 1 | 2 | 22,995,792 | train | <story><title>Keys.pub – Manage cryptographic keys and user identities</title><url>https://keys.pub/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sidnicious</author><text>This loses something important about Keybase sigchains: on Keybase, a sigchain represents an identity and <i>not</i> a single key, which makes it possible to add separate keys for different devices and to seamlessly replace and revoke keys over time. (Non-key-specific sigchains let the Keybase client do interesting things like automatically re-encrypting shared data when someone revokes an old key.)<p>Tying sigchains to keys seems limiting, and I&#x27;m curious if there&#x27;s a reason for it. Otherwise, I like this a bunch.</text></comment> | <story><title>Keys.pub – Manage cryptographic keys and user identities</title><url>https://keys.pub/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Legogris</author><text>I, for one, am happy Keybase user, excited about their new features and can see it already becoming a much better (but not ideal) alternative to Signal for private IM (proper encryption, every device is first-class, usable CLI, no phone-number bullshit, good team chats, etc).<p>But I do see that the same reason I am optimistic is the same reason many users are disappointed and they&#x27;re right - Keybase seems to have pivoted and they are headed in a completely different direction than they were when we joined.<p>Keys.pub looks to fulfill precisely the promise of &quot;what Keybase was supposed to be&quot;. And crucially, I think; looks to be fully open source (server-side included, no sketchy opaque metadata spider-web by a US corporate).<p>I do see these two projects as fully complementary.<p>It would be interesting if this could, optionally, import pubkeys from Keybase as well. I think these could be complementary.</text></comment> |
9,193,307 | 9,192,969 | 1 | 3 | 9,191,241 | train | <story><title>Show HN: RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve</title><url>http://realproblemhunt.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ArekDymalski</author><text>As far as I remember the oldest attempt to create something like that was <a href="http://theinternetwishlist.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theinternetwishlist.com&#x2F;</a><p>These sites always seem to suffer from the same problem - not enough contributing members. It&#x27;s quite understandable - what is the incentive to post a problem? What is a chance that someone will solve it? When will it happen? How will I know about it? etc. All these factors result in a situation in which people rather treat such sites as an entertaining curiosity.<p>My suggestion to improve it is: make it an inverted Kickstarter - if I&#x27;ve got a problem I pledge X dollars for someone to create a solution for it. Other people with similar problem add their pledges. When the sum starts to look tasty developers pick up the challenge and compete (?) for the bounty. The backers get the solution at discounted prices. Everyone&#x27;s happy and live long ever after ;)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve</title><url>http://realproblemhunt.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RankingMember</author><text>I really like the idea, but the cheeky part of me now suddenly really wants to make a parody site called &quot;RealREALProblemHunt&quot; where the top problems are things like &quot;I have no access to clean water&quot; and &quot;First world countries keep exporting their garbage to my country&#x27;s shores&quot; as a counterpoint to the ones on this site like &quot;Need to live to be 300 years old&quot; and &quot;Cannot find a place to order late night food past midnight.&quot;.</text></comment> |
20,525,635 | 20,524,873 | 1 | 2 | 20,524,779 | train | <story><title>Show HN: CLI forensics tool for tracking USB device artifacts on Linux</title><url>https://github.com/snovvcrash/usbrip</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jaclaz</author><text>Question:
From the screenshots it seems like no year is shown?
Only month, day, time.<p>It would be IMHO advisable to use not the name of the month and <i>somehow</i> fit in the line the year.<p>Note:
Small typo: the past of &quot;shut down&quot; is &quot;shut down&quot; and not &quot;shutted down&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: CLI forensics tool for tracking USB device artifacts on Linux</title><url>https://github.com/snovvcrash/usbrip</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MartijnBraam</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t this be more reliable by recording udev events instead of parsing the syslog?</text></comment> |
13,053,669 | 13,053,366 | 1 | 2 | 13,052,386 | train | <story><title>Funding the Web with Brendan Eich [audio]</title><url>https://changelog.com/rfc/11</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BrendanEich</author><text>I regret I named Giorgios Kontaxis when I meant Constantine Dovrolis (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cc.gatech.edu&#x2F;~dovrolis&#x2F;Papers&#x2F;evoarch-extended.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cc.gatech.edu&#x2F;~dovrolis&#x2F;Papers&#x2F;evoarch-extended.p...</a>) at one point. I usually keep Greek names as well memorized as any others!</text></comment> | <story><title>Funding the Web with Brendan Eich [audio]</title><url>https://changelog.com/rfc/11</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wyclif</author><text>This is a great podcast episode. I recommend listening to it with zero distractions though, because Eich speaks at a pretty brisk clip and assumes listeners know what he&#x27;s referring to. I like that, because sometimes I have to speed up the audio a bit on other podcasts.</text></comment> |
2,902,684 | 2,902,441 | 1 | 2 | 2,902,329 | train | <story><title>13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence</title><url>http://inhabitat.com/13-year-old-makes-solar-power-breakthrough-by-harnessing-the-fibonacci-sequence/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>felipemnoa</author><text>The comparison is against a flat row of cells that do not track the sun. I suspect that it will not do better compared to an array of cells that do track the sun.<p>Basically the tree of cells are arranged in different angles so that as the sun moves some of them will always be receiving optimal sunlight when their normal is parallel with that of the incident light.<p>Very nice insight, especially for a kid his age. I certainly would not have thought of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uvdiv</author><text><i>"Basically the tree of cells are arranged in different angles so that as the sun moves some of them will always be receiving optimal sunlight when their normal is parallel with that of the incident light."</i><p>Except it's trivially impossible to generate more energy like this (as he claims)! If a set of solar panels is independent and non-interacting (e.g., they don't shade or heat each other), then their total power output is simply the sum of their individual power outputs. And so their total energy outputs (integrated power) is the sum of their individual energy outputs. (Necessary distinction because their power peaks may occur at different times).<p>P_tot = Σ P_i<p>∫ P_tot dt = ∫ (Σ P_i) dt = Σ (∫ P_i dt)<p>E_tot = Σ E_i<p>If there is an unqiue optimal orientation for a single static panel (which under realistic assumptions there is) -- optimal in terms of maximizing energy output, E -- then the optimal orientation of a array of independent solar panels is just the same orientation, iterated. Combine inferior panel orientations, and their total remains inferior.<p>E_i &#60; E_opt (for i &#60;- 1..N)<p>Σ E_i &#60; N * E_opt<p>And all those panel angles in his "tree", facing non-South, up, down, towards a wall... they are individually inferior to the single 45° south-facing panel in his static array. So combined together they are still inferior.<p>Where did his experiment go wrong? I'd start with the shade issue. The whole setup is in intermittent shade (note the tree shadows); and one experiment is sitting near the ground, the other is mounted on a pole. Looks like different shade environments. His output graphs show that the entire flat array is sometimes in total shade, at a time when the pole-mounted "tree" is not:<p><a href="http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/youngnaturalistawards/2011/aidan.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/youngnaturalistawards/201...</a><p>Another fatal flaw (I had to look this up to check) is that he is measuring voltage, not power, and they are not linearly related in photovoltaics. Actually, the open-circuit voltage (what you get if you stick a voltmeter over a solar cell, when it's not hooked up to a load) is <i>practically independent</i> of irradiance:<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/SWGjV.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/SWGjV.png</a><p>This from the solar module datasheet here:<p><a href="http://www.bpsolar.us/products/3-series-solar-panels-polycrystalline" rel="nofollow">http://www.bpsolar.us/products/3-series-solar-panels-polycry...</a><p>Open-circuit voltage going from 200 W/m^2 to 1,000 W/m^2 only increases from 34 V to 38 V. Power output, with a real load, would go up by about 5 times.<p>So, he never really measured energy production, or anything that remotely approximates it.</text></comment> | <story><title>13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence</title><url>http://inhabitat.com/13-year-old-makes-solar-power-breakthrough-by-harnessing-the-fibonacci-sequence/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>felipemnoa</author><text>The comparison is against a flat row of cells that do not track the sun. I suspect that it will not do better compared to an array of cells that do track the sun.<p>Basically the tree of cells are arranged in different angles so that as the sun moves some of them will always be receiving optimal sunlight when their normal is parallel with that of the incident light.<p>Very nice insight, especially for a kid his age. I certainly would not have thought of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yxhuvud</author><text>Moving parts cost a lot though. There is a reason for trees not to have them.</text></comment> |
17,248,245 | 17,248,377 | 1 | 3 | 17,248,031 | train | <story><title>Beware of strncpy and strncat</title><url>https://eklitzke.org/beware-of-strncpy-and-strncat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tlb</author><text>Beware of the &quot;correct&quot; solutions proposed here.<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; OK: correctly copy src
char dest[8];
strncpy(dest, src, sizeof(dest) - 1);
</code></pre>
With a long src, it fails to null-terminate dest. dest[7] will be whatever the contents of uninitialized memory were, so reading dest as a string is likely to run past the end.<p>strlcpy has a better API, though sadly it&#x27;s not standard on Linux.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majke</author><text>should be either<p><pre><code> char dest[8] = {0};
strncpy(dest, src, sizeof(dest) - 1);
</code></pre>
or<p><pre><code> char dest[8];
strncpy(dest, src, sizeof(dest) - 1);
dest[sizeof(dest)-1] = &#x27;\0&#x27;;
</code></pre>
On the same note I always wondered what &quot;snprintf&quot; does. That is - will it ALWAYS zero terminate (given non-NULL buffer, of size &gt; 0)?</text></comment> | <story><title>Beware of strncpy and strncat</title><url>https://eklitzke.org/beware-of-strncpy-and-strncat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tlb</author><text>Beware of the &quot;correct&quot; solutions proposed here.<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; OK: correctly copy src
char dest[8];
strncpy(dest, src, sizeof(dest) - 1);
</code></pre>
With a long src, it fails to null-terminate dest. dest[7] will be whatever the contents of uninitialized memory were, so reading dest as a string is likely to run past the end.<p>strlcpy has a better API, though sadly it&#x27;s not standard on Linux.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitwize</author><text>The C11 Annex K functions, strcpy_s et al., have a better API than even strlcpy, and are (an optional) part of the C11 standard. They are what you should be using.</text></comment> |
39,184,607 | 39,184,314 | 1 | 3 | 39,165,100 | train | <story><title>A company that sells lost airplane luggage</title><url>https://thehustle.co/the-lucrative-business-of-lost-airplane-luggage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jabroni_salad</author><text>As someone who has been in a similar space, I guarantee you over half of those luggages do have identified owners who simply aren&#x27;t contactable because they will not answer the phone, check a voicemail, read their email, or open any letter addressed to them.<p>It takes two to tango and nobody knows how to dance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>I was at a convention once listening to an FBI agent talk about contacting companies that had been hacked. They would not reply to emails or even open letters labeled &quot;FBI&quot;. The likelihood of a scam was just too high. So they asked the room what it would take for us to believe that an unsolicited communication came from the real FBI. In short, the room wanted Mulder and Scully at the front door, in suits, with badges&#x2F;guns, and even then many calls would be make before believing a believe a word. That is what the constant stream of online scams has done to people.</text></comment> | <story><title>A company that sells lost airplane luggage</title><url>https://thehustle.co/the-lucrative-business-of-lost-airplane-luggage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jabroni_salad</author><text>As someone who has been in a similar space, I guarantee you over half of those luggages do have identified owners who simply aren&#x27;t contactable because they will not answer the phone, check a voicemail, read their email, or open any letter addressed to them.<p>It takes two to tango and nobody knows how to dance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>Statistically, a small portion of those customers may have died shortly after their flight...</text></comment> |
33,133,166 | 33,130,258 | 1 | 3 | 33,129,891 | train | <story><title>The Crimean Bridge Is on Fire</title><url>https://twitter.com/saintjavelin/status/1578605529881903104</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Balgair</author><text>UKR also seems to have struck at the only other rail line for southern Ukraine today [0,1]. If true, then the only supply route to Kherson and Crimea is the M14 highway and the one lane of the Kerch bridge. The M14 is problematic at it runs through areas of high UKR partisan activity. The one last lane on the Kerch bridge is also not likely to last long if it is going to be used as a main supply hub for all of RU operations, not only due to UKR strikes, but just normal wear and tear in winter. Supplying via sea is also a no-go as we saw with the sinking of the Moskova and the strikes against RU airbases in Crimea.<p>There is likely no workable method of supply or reinforcement for RU forces in southern Ukraine this winter.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;euromaidanpress.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;himars-strike-destroys-fuel-station-in-russian-occupied-ilovaisk-videos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;euromaidanpress.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;himars-strike-destroy...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;PhillipsPOBrien&#x2F;status&#x2F;1578635797359898625" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;PhillipsPOBrien&#x2F;status&#x2F;15786357973598986...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Crimean Bridge Is on Fire</title><url>https://twitter.com/saintjavelin/status/1578605529881903104</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>01100011</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Osinttechnical" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Osinttechnical</a> is covering this pretty well.<p>Russians are claiming it was a truck bomb and this is backed up by recently posted footage of the truck disappearing into a ball of doom.<p>Videos of the explosion(trigger warning: people are dying in these videos):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Osinttechnical&#x2F;status&#x2F;1578632284173131776" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Osinttechnical&#x2F;status&#x2F;157863228417313177...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Osinttechnical&#x2F;status&#x2F;1578633221041844225" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Osinttechnical&#x2F;status&#x2F;157863322104184422...</a><p>Update: Looks like it might have been a boat<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Osinttechnical&#x2F;status&#x2F;1578633877849272321" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Osinttechnical&#x2F;status&#x2F;157863387784927232...</a></text></comment> |
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