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25,825,379 | 25,810,356 | 1 | 2 | 25,810,135 | train | <story><title>Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-16/investing-legend-james-simons-s-record-won-t-be-beat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>probe</author><text>I’ve found RenTech to be fascinating over the years and highly recommend the book on it “Man who solved the market”<p>Two big takeaways for his success -<p>1) He was pretty early, and quite contrarian, in betting on computer and quant strategies and thus took the “low hanging fruit” early on (def wasn’t low hanging back then when no one knew or believed in computer trades strategies)<p>2) From the book, Rentech’s main strategy was based on “reversion to the mean” - I.e “We make money from the reactions people have to price moves”. Trading on how you think OTHERS will trade and systemizing it (ex vol and momentum) is powerful but clearly doesn’t scale when you become the market yourself<p>And a bonus one - despite being a math genius, he basically was failing till he brought on others. He hired the right people (ie those interested in math not finance), created the right environment, took care of logistics, and pushed on a key insight (model to trade). He couldn’t have done it by himself.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-16/investing-legend-james-simons-s-record-won-t-be-beat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>Pretty good article. It explains almost everything that is known about Medallion fund_<p>1. Very research oriented<p>2. Their strategy does not scale. Fund has limited size.<p>3. They use some kind of arbitrage. No high-frequency trading, but longer.<p>4. Their current strategy must be kept secret for it to make money and it changes over time.<p>This is why &quot;I have discovered fool proof way to beat the market&quot; sales pitch is always a hoax. If someone has it, they keep it secret and make money. If everyone has it, it has no value.</text></comment> |
31,572,471 | 31,572,611 | 1 | 2 | 31,568,672 | train | <story><title>Ford’s electric pickup can power a house for days</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-31/how-the-ford-f-150-can-be-a-backup-home-generator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>10 Powerwalls: 1.27 Wh&#x2F;$
1 40k truck: 3.5 Wh&#x2F;$
1 72.5k truck: 1.8 Wh&#x2F;$<p>I think you&#x27;re better off getting the 40k truck. I have no idea how Ford is getting batteries for so much cheaper for the 40k truck.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>&gt;Surprised there’s no discussion on the price delta here - I could buy 10x power-walls for $110k, or 1x E F150 for $40k and get a free truck thrown in.<p>The reason there is no discussion of price delta is at least partially because the price of the truck discussed in the article is not the $40k variant. 10 Powerwalls would be 140 kWh of battery while the $40k F-150 Lightning would be 98 kWh. The one mentioned in the article with the 131 kWh battery is nearly double the price starting at $72.5k. That still might make the F-150 the better solution, but accuracy is important.</text></item><item><author>ag56</author><text>Surprised there’s no discussion on the price delta here - I could buy 10x power-walls for $110k, or 1x E F150 for $40k and get a free truck thrown in.<p>As someone with a large house who just investigated a hybrid power walls + gas generator + solar backup solution and didn’t go through with it due to cost, this is huge. I am literally considering buying an F150 to just keep parked stationary behind my garage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>Your general question is fair, but your math is wrong which exaggerates the difference.<p>10 Powerwalls: 140 kWh &#x2F; $110k = 1.27 Wh&#x2F;$ 1<p>40k truck: 98 kWh &#x2F; $40k = 2.45 Wh&#x2F;$<p>72.5k truck: 131 kWh &#x2F; $72.5k = 1.81 Wh&#x2F;$<p>That said, I would speculate the that base model is effectively being subsidized by the marketing team. Saying it &quot;starts at under $40k&quot; sounds a lot better than &quot;starts at under $73k&quot;. Ford simply won&#x27;t produce that model in high quantities and they also know people generally won&#x27;t be buying the base model anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ford’s electric pickup can power a house for days</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-31/how-the-ford-f-150-can-be-a-backup-home-generator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>10 Powerwalls: 1.27 Wh&#x2F;$
1 40k truck: 3.5 Wh&#x2F;$
1 72.5k truck: 1.8 Wh&#x2F;$<p>I think you&#x27;re better off getting the 40k truck. I have no idea how Ford is getting batteries for so much cheaper for the 40k truck.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>&gt;Surprised there’s no discussion on the price delta here - I could buy 10x power-walls for $110k, or 1x E F150 for $40k and get a free truck thrown in.<p>The reason there is no discussion of price delta is at least partially because the price of the truck discussed in the article is not the $40k variant. 10 Powerwalls would be 140 kWh of battery while the $40k F-150 Lightning would be 98 kWh. The one mentioned in the article with the 131 kWh battery is nearly double the price starting at $72.5k. That still might make the F-150 the better solution, but accuracy is important.</text></item><item><author>ag56</author><text>Surprised there’s no discussion on the price delta here - I could buy 10x power-walls for $110k, or 1x E F150 for $40k and get a free truck thrown in.<p>As someone with a large house who just investigated a hybrid power walls + gas generator + solar backup solution and didn’t go through with it due to cost, this is huge. I am literally considering buying an F150 to just keep parked stationary behind my garage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ActorNightly</author><text>&gt;I have no idea how Ford is getting batteries for so much cheaper for the 40k truck.<p>Because F150 is the number one vehicle sold in US, and Lightning is the platform that is aiming to replace it in the future. Ford probably has long term supply contracts with battery manufacturers.</text></comment> |
30,933,375 | 30,933,305 | 1 | 3 | 30,932,508 | train | <story><title>Noam Chomsky: “We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history”</title><url>https://www.newstatesman.com/encounter/2022/04/noam-chomsky-were-approaching-the-most-dangerous-point-in-human-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qsort</author><text>It&#x27;s completely irrelevant that a promise was or wasn&#x27;t made. NATO is a defensive alliance whose members join voluntarily, we don&#x27;t go around planting flags with the Safari icon by right of conquest.<p>Hinting at a moral equivalence -- because let&#x27;s be honest, that&#x27;s what&#x27;s happening here -- between Russian expansion and NATO &quot;expansion&quot; is at the very least intellectually dishonest.</text></item><item><author>TaupeRanger</author><text>You&#x27;re just flat wrong about the Khmer apologist thing...a common attempt at character assassination by anti-Chomsky fanatics with no relevance at all to the subject at hand.<p>Chomsky didn&#x27;t say it was written down or announced. But there&#x27;s no argument here - Baker simply DID say that there would be no eastward movement. It&#x27;s not even remotely controversial.</text></item><item><author>clarionbell</author><text>I didn&#x27;t expect anything from Chomsky (notorious Khmer Rogue apologist) and he didn&#x27;t disappoint:<p>&gt;“What about Nato expansion? There was an explicit, unambiguous promise by [US secretary of state] James Baker and president George HW Bush to Gorbachev that if he agreed to allow a unified Germany to rejoin Nato, the US would ensure that there would be no move one inch to the east. There’s a good deal of lying going on about this now.”<p>No such promise was made, ever, it was floated but it was never written down in any treaty or even publicly announced. It&#x27;s putins propaganda and if Chomsky had any shame he would be ashamed for parroting it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>speeder</author><text>As someone living in a country that had a democratic leader toppled down by NATO Aircraft carrier threatening to bomb our most populous city at the time... I disagree with you.<p>I am sure people in Iraq (that had nothing to do with 11 of September and had no mass destruction weapons), Libyan negros (that were hunted down and their city razed with NATO air support) and many, many others would agree with me.<p>It is not even a matter of blaming only USA that drags the rest of NATO with them, Libya for example the country that started the shenanigans was France.<p>Then there are the aggressive actions of individual NATO members that are ignored by the rest of the alliance, like Turkey bombing Armenians using drones until Russia stepped in.</text></comment> | <story><title>Noam Chomsky: “We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history”</title><url>https://www.newstatesman.com/encounter/2022/04/noam-chomsky-were-approaching-the-most-dangerous-point-in-human-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qsort</author><text>It&#x27;s completely irrelevant that a promise was or wasn&#x27;t made. NATO is a defensive alliance whose members join voluntarily, we don&#x27;t go around planting flags with the Safari icon by right of conquest.<p>Hinting at a moral equivalence -- because let&#x27;s be honest, that&#x27;s what&#x27;s happening here -- between Russian expansion and NATO &quot;expansion&quot; is at the very least intellectually dishonest.</text></item><item><author>TaupeRanger</author><text>You&#x27;re just flat wrong about the Khmer apologist thing...a common attempt at character assassination by anti-Chomsky fanatics with no relevance at all to the subject at hand.<p>Chomsky didn&#x27;t say it was written down or announced. But there&#x27;s no argument here - Baker simply DID say that there would be no eastward movement. It&#x27;s not even remotely controversial.</text></item><item><author>clarionbell</author><text>I didn&#x27;t expect anything from Chomsky (notorious Khmer Rogue apologist) and he didn&#x27;t disappoint:<p>&gt;“What about Nato expansion? There was an explicit, unambiguous promise by [US secretary of state] James Baker and president George HW Bush to Gorbachev that if he agreed to allow a unified Germany to rejoin Nato, the US would ensure that there would be no move one inch to the east. There’s a good deal of lying going on about this now.”<p>No such promise was made, ever, it was floated but it was never written down in any treaty or even publicly announced. It&#x27;s putins propaganda and if Chomsky had any shame he would be ashamed for parroting it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>causi</author><text>Indeed. Complaining about one lie from decades ago in view of the torrent of lies every day from the Russian government is like complaining about a grain of sand in an ocean of piss.</text></comment> |
29,027,492 | 29,027,192 | 1 | 2 | 29,025,401 | train | <story><title>I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own</title><url>https://codeamigo.dev?ref=HN</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtc010170</author><text>Way to be! It&#x27;s silly how often employers overlook the &quot;I just really want to be part of&#x2F;build this&quot; factor. People with that make for excellent teammates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s silly how often employers overlook the &quot;I just really want to be part of&#x2F;build this&quot; factor. People with that make for excellent teammates.<p>Every startup I&#x27;ve been a part of has picked up a few extremely passionate but not necessarily fully qualified people along the way. It&#x27;s <i>hard</i> to turn down an enthusiastic candidate who really, really likes your company, so they&#x27;re often given a chance.<p>Some of them turned out to be excellent teammates who did everything necessary to grow into the role.<p>But sadly, many of them just wanted to be startup people without doing the startup grunt work. Worst case, someone with a lot of passion that goes in a different direction than the founders can become a drag on the company or create a lot of conflict. (NOTE: I&#x27;m speaking generally, not implying this is the case with the linked author)<p>Passionate people are <i>generally</i> good when their skills and wants align with the company, but if they&#x27;re not well-aligned then the passion just amplifies every conflict.</text></comment> | <story><title>I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own</title><url>https://codeamigo.dev?ref=HN</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtc010170</author><text>Way to be! It&#x27;s silly how often employers overlook the &quot;I just really want to be part of&#x2F;build this&quot; factor. People with that make for excellent teammates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xtracto</author><text>It&#x27;s complicated. At my last startup (web application) I was in charge of hiring for the technical team. I&#x27;ve got an application from a guy who <i>really really</i> wanted to work there. But the truth is that he didn&#x27;t have basic coding skills (in that, he couldn&#x27;t do FizzBuzz level of coding). I really tried to get him in but in reality we would not have been able to put him in any position.<p>I was sad because he sent the best &quot;cover letters&quot; I have read ever. And I almost never care about cover letters.</text></comment> |
37,023,351 | 37,023,285 | 1 | 2 | 37,022,661 | train | <story><title>China's Zombie Economy</title><url>https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/zombie-economy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimbursch1</author><text>“ In its closed financial system, exporters must surrender their foreign earnings to the central bank, which creates equivalent RMB to mop up the foreign currencies. This led to the rapid expansion of RMB liquidity in the economy, mostly in the form of bank loans. ”<p>Can anyone explain this to me? My interpretation is the central bank exchanges exporter’s foreign currency for RMB. How does it become bank loans?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yafbum</author><text>My understanding: business A sells USD 1,000 worth of goods abroad.<p>Customer wires USD 1,000 to bank B to the account of business A as payment for the goods.<p>This money does not go directly to the account of business A.<p>Bank B sends USD 1,000 to Central bank and gets RMB 7,000 (or whatever the exchange rate is) which go to the account of business A.<p>Bank B ends up with deposits almost entirely in RMB to loan out. Few customers outside China really want those.<p>Compare with a situation in which bank B kept its USD on the books as customer deposits. Then it would have USD to loan out, and the market for such loans is much bigger.</text></comment> | <story><title>China's Zombie Economy</title><url>https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/zombie-economy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimbursch1</author><text>“ In its closed financial system, exporters must surrender their foreign earnings to the central bank, which creates equivalent RMB to mop up the foreign currencies. This led to the rapid expansion of RMB liquidity in the economy, mostly in the form of bank loans. ”<p>Can anyone explain this to me? My interpretation is the central bank exchanges exporter’s foreign currency for RMB. How does it become bank loans?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway290</author><text>If it&#x27;s like Russia, maybe you get paid in bucks but you pretty much must convert them all to RMB immediately. So the bank needs to create all that RMB for all the exporters. Part of it circles back in taxes and stuff. Assuming exporters can&#x27;t or don&#x27;t want to spend all that RMB immediately there&#x27;s now a bunch of RMB in country in some shape or form. A lot probably in banks.</text></comment> |
25,795,029 | 25,793,503 | 1 | 2 | 25,793,230 | train | <story><title>Our Dumb Security Questionnaire</title><url>https://hangar.tech/posts/our-dsq/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamiesonbecker</author><text>In an ideal world, these are mostly reasonable questions, even if a bit specific to the OP&#x27;s requirements, but unless you are purchasing SaaS software on a large, enterprise-style license (i.e., 6 figures or more), it probably won&#x27;t be cost-effective for most vendors to gather and collate this documentation, as well as answering these questions, just like it&#x27;s not worth it to ink a custom contract on a smaller deal, where legal fees alone might eat up the entire profit margin or even push it negative. Engineering time is expensive and some of these questions are technical or &quot;special&quot; in nature.<p>There&#x27;s a reason why standardized third-party audits like SOC-2&#x27;s and ISO-27001&#x27;s exist: to reduce the time required to document your veracity and security as a vendor for a potential customer. Since even large customers rely on the statements (independently audited, unlike in these questions) of a security attestation to make purchases, why should a customer request that extra time should be taken away from other responsibilities, like making better products or providing customer support?<p>I freely admit that I&#x27;m a bit biased against ad hoc security questions, even though I used to do it myself when working on large security teams. ;) My security-focused SSH key management company, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;userify.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;userify.com</a>, went through the time and expense to achieve AICPA SOC-2 certification from an independent third-party auditor to reduce the time and costs involved in responding to smaller RFP&#x27;s, and to provide fully documented, standardized, and legally binding proof of our security bonafides. We still try our best to intelligently respond to any and all questions, especially about security, from any customers at all, even free-tier customers and hobbyists, but it&#x27;s harder to do that when presented with a big list of questions that are mostly answered in our SOC-2 audit already.</text></comment> | <story><title>Our Dumb Security Questionnaire</title><url>https://hangar.tech/posts/our-dsq/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blakesterz</author><text>&quot;But unfortunately, they’re also kinda the best we can do. Huge companies might be able to afford real human-powered security audits and convince vendors to allow them, but small startups like ours don’t have a better option than relying on DSQs.&quot;<p>Not what I expected based on this title. I liked this.<p>I&#x27;m not sure how many people know about the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit, but if you&#x27;re into Dumb Security Questionnaires, this is worth checking out. &quot;The HECVAT is a questionnaire framework specifically designed for higher education to measure vendor risk.&quot; I know it says Higher Ed, but it works just about anywhere.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;library.educause.edu&#x2F;resources&#x2F;2020&#x2F;4&#x2F;higher-education-community-vendor-assessment-toolkit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;library.educause.edu&#x2F;resources&#x2F;2020&#x2F;4&#x2F;higher-educati...</a></text></comment> |
12,994,407 | 12,994,416 | 1 | 3 | 12,993,021 | train | <story><title>Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS</title><url>https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-than-aws/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vgt</author><text>I would like to hear what platform bits of AWS that you find lacking in Google Cloud. Google&#x27;s ecosystem of fully managed services is very rich broad and compelling, and in many ways far ahead of competition.
(work on Google Cloud but don&#x27;t get paid to post here)</text></item><item><author>jbyers</author><text>&quot;The numbers given in this article do not account for any AWS reservation.&quot;<p>While I agree that Google&#x27;s pricing model is superior, the author&#x27;s position on reserved instances accounts for ~40% of the cost difference.<p>In a drag race between instances AWS tends to lose. If you value the enormous feature and service surface-area that AWS provides it&#x27;s a different story. Either way we win; both companies will engage in a brutal price and feature war for many years to come.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fiahil</author><text>&gt; I would like to hear what platform bits of AWS that you find lacking in Google Cloud.<p>RDS instances with Postgresql.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS</title><url>https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-than-aws/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vgt</author><text>I would like to hear what platform bits of AWS that you find lacking in Google Cloud. Google&#x27;s ecosystem of fully managed services is very rich broad and compelling, and in many ways far ahead of competition.
(work on Google Cloud but don&#x27;t get paid to post here)</text></item><item><author>jbyers</author><text>&quot;The numbers given in this article do not account for any AWS reservation.&quot;<p>While I agree that Google&#x27;s pricing model is superior, the author&#x27;s position on reserved instances accounts for ~40% of the cost difference.<p>In a drag race between instances AWS tends to lose. If you value the enormous feature and service surface-area that AWS provides it&#x27;s a different story. Either way we win; both companies will engage in a brutal price and feature war for many years to come.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fragsworth</author><text>Does Google have an equivalent for DynamoDB and Lambda? If so, I might consider switching.</text></comment> |
23,866,602 | 23,866,468 | 1 | 2 | 23,864,934 | train | <story><title>What’s New in Thunderbird 78</title><url>https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/07/whats-new-in-thunderbird-78/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Many of these UI changes seem like backward steps.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.thunderbird.net&#x2F;files&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;compose-comparison.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.thunderbird.net&#x2F;files&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;compose-compariso...</a><p>Old: Clear that you can enter multiple &quot;To&quot; addresses. Obvious that the formatting buttons are buttons.<p>New: Single-line &quot;to&quot; implies you can only enter one address. &quot;Flat&quot; buttons don&#x27;t look like buttons.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.thunderbird.net&#x2F;files&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;account-setup.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.thunderbird.net&#x2F;files&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;account-setup.png</a><p>Extra white space makes the window nearly twice the size for no apparent reason. I wouldn&#x27;t say the new one is any clearer. Maybe even less clear, since the grey textual tips next to the fields have gone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lower</author><text>The old To&#x2F;Cc design was <i>really</i> bad. If you have more than three addresses, then these three lines scroll. The only indication that there are more than three addresses is a tiny scrollbar all the way to the right. I recently sent an e-mail to more people than intended when editing an old message as new, because it had more To-addresses that weren&#x27;t visible and I didn&#x27;t notice the scrollbar.<p>I&#x27;m very happy that it&#x27;s being updated.</text></comment> | <story><title>What’s New in Thunderbird 78</title><url>https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/07/whats-new-in-thunderbird-78/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Many of these UI changes seem like backward steps.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.thunderbird.net&#x2F;files&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;compose-comparison.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.thunderbird.net&#x2F;files&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;compose-compariso...</a><p>Old: Clear that you can enter multiple &quot;To&quot; addresses. Obvious that the formatting buttons are buttons.<p>New: Single-line &quot;to&quot; implies you can only enter one address. &quot;Flat&quot; buttons don&#x27;t look like buttons.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.thunderbird.net&#x2F;files&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;account-setup.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.thunderbird.net&#x2F;files&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;account-setup.png</a><p>Extra white space makes the window nearly twice the size for no apparent reason. I wouldn&#x27;t say the new one is any clearer. Maybe even less clear, since the grey textual tips next to the fields have gone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ronjouch</author><text>Agreed about the flat buttons sadly following the OS-cohesiveness-hindering flatness fad instead of adhering to standard OS styling which can be recognized across apps by users.<p>Disagreed about the To&#x2F;Cc redesign, the new design is much more efficient when you have multiple recipients, making good use of horizontal space. The old design did lead to:<p>1. Tons of wasted horizontal space (as each line is a recipient, on each line you only use the few characters describing each recipient, leaving space on the right blank). And also, one-line-per-recipient leads to tedious vertical scrolling inside a vertically-constrained space (3 lines by default, and you don&#x27;t want more, you want to preserve vertical space for the email body, not the header).<p>2. Impossibility to easily copy&#x2F;paste all recipients. With the new design, it&#x27;s now easy: select all, copy (and repeat once if you have a Cc field, okay).<p>There&#x27;s a reason this To&#x2F;Cc design is what most (all?) desktop&#x2F;mobile clients do.</text></comment> |
20,191,523 | 20,191,207 | 1 | 3 | 20,190,318 | train | <story><title>When to use web workers</title><url>https://dassur.ma/things/when-workers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwr</author><text>I have a large ClojureScript app (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;partsbox.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;partsbox.io&#x2F;</a>) and I really, really wanted to use WebWorkers. I wanted to run larger tasks like indexing for search, or pricing calculations in WebWorkers.<p>But it seems to me that Webworkers were designed with an extremely narrow use case in mind. The restrictions placed on them make them essentially useless for me. To do anything ever remotely useful, I would need to duplicate my entire database in web workers, and then communicate with them through a thin straw. Database updates would need to be performed both in the main app database and in web worker threads.<p>The way they are restricted, I just can&#x27;t figure out how to make any meaningful use of them.</text></comment> | <story><title>When to use web workers</title><url>https://dassur.ma/things/when-workers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kbumsik</author><text>My experience with Web Workers was terrible. It&#x27;s not because of the Web Workers itself but there is no proper standard way to use modules inside of the worker.<p>Because it requires a separated .js file to instantiate, bundlers like webpack tend to introduce weird and non-standard way to work with [1].<p>It is usually fine when you use it your own project since you are going to stick with a bundler you choose anyway, but the worst things happens when you try to publish a JS library that uses a web worker internally. You cannot just publish the source because bundlers won&#x27;t recognize require() and imports syntax in the web worker source code out of the box.<p>There is a ES standard:<p><pre><code> new Worker(&quot;worker.js&quot;, { type: &quot;module&quot; });
</code></pre>
but no browsers implementations yet and some people aren&#x27;t happy with this because it is not async [2].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webpack-contrib&#x2F;worker-loader&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;README.md#config" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webpack-contrib&#x2F;worker-loader&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=680046" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=680046</a></text></comment> |
29,880,870 | 29,880,388 | 1 | 2 | 29,876,742 | train | <story><title>Deep Learning Interviews book: Hundreds of fully solved job interview questions</title><url>https://github.com/BoltzmannEntropy/interviews.ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcemilg</author><text>The ML&#x2F;DS positions highly competitive these days. I don&#x27;t get why ML positions requires hard preparations for the interviews more than other CS positions while you do similar things. People expect you to know a lot of theory from statistics, probability, algorithms to linear algebra. I am ok with knowing basic of these topics which are the foundations of ML and DL. But I don&#x27;t get to ask eigenvectors and challenging algorithm problems in an ML Engineering position at the same while you already proof yourself with a Masters Degree and enough professional experience. I am not defending my PhD there. We will just build some DL models, maybe we will read some DL papers and maybe try to implement some of those. The theory is the only 10% of the job, rest is engineering, data cleaning etc. Honestly I am looking for the soft way to get back to Software Engineering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uoaei</author><text>In part because ML fails silently by design. Even if the code runs flawlessly with no errors, the outputs could be completely bunk, useless, or even harmful, and you won&#x27;t have any idea if that is true just from watching The Number go down during training. It&#x27;s not enough to know how to build it but also <i>how it works</i>. It&#x27;s the difference between designing the JWST and assembling it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deep Learning Interviews book: Hundreds of fully solved job interview questions</title><url>https://github.com/BoltzmannEntropy/interviews.ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcemilg</author><text>The ML&#x2F;DS positions highly competitive these days. I don&#x27;t get why ML positions requires hard preparations for the interviews more than other CS positions while you do similar things. People expect you to know a lot of theory from statistics, probability, algorithms to linear algebra. I am ok with knowing basic of these topics which are the foundations of ML and DL. But I don&#x27;t get to ask eigenvectors and challenging algorithm problems in an ML Engineering position at the same while you already proof yourself with a Masters Degree and enough professional experience. I am not defending my PhD there. We will just build some DL models, maybe we will read some DL papers and maybe try to implement some of those. The theory is the only 10% of the job, rest is engineering, data cleaning etc. Honestly I am looking for the soft way to get back to Software Engineering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>Maybe &quot;eigenvectors&quot; is a bad example, because it&#x27;s a pretty foundational linear algebra concept.<p>But there is a threshold where it stops being a test of foundational knowledge and starts being a test of arbitrary trivia, and favors who has the most free time to study and memorize said trivia.</text></comment> |
33,992,814 | 33,991,265 | 1 | 2 | 33,984,922 | train | <story><title>Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports</title><url>https://electrek.co/2022/12/14/tesla-full-self-driving-data-awful-challenge-elon-musk-prove-otherwise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elorant</author><text>Fuck panel gaps. Just look at the quality of the interior. You’re paying 100k for a car that has worse quality than a Ford. Everything is plastic, there are no button knobs anywhere, no panel in front of the driver, the leather on the seats doesn’t feel like leather etc. I mean I get it that half the price of the car is in batteries and R&amp;D, but still you can’t even compare it to a 50k Volvo. It’s just crap. And now that the big manufacturers are moving into electric cars Tesla’s got a lot of serious completion to face from companies who know how to treat a customer who&#x27;s paying big bucks.</text></item><item><author>traceroute66</author><text>&gt; Mercedes is a real car company with real engineers and a gold-standard reputation to maintain.<p>Not only that, but they have a quality reputation to uphold with their domestic (German) and regional (European) market.<p>Your average discerning German car buyer (i.e. the sort who has a Porsche 911, or a higher-end Audi&#x2F;BMW&#x2F;Merc) in their garage will swiftly tell you about numerous problems with the Tesla before they&#x27;ve even sat in it.<p>Panel gaps, for example. They mean a lot to your average discerning German, and your average Tesla has them by the bucket load.<p>In fact, the German in-joke is that the reason Tesla built a factory in Germany is so that the Germans could (try to) teach them how to fix the panel gaps. :-)</text></item><item><author>lolinder</author><text>Yep.<p>Mercedes has these limitations not because their tech is less capable than Tesla&#x27;s but because Mercedes is a real car company with real engineers and a gold-standard reputation to maintain.<p>Tesla, in contrast, is a software company that is trying to take &quot;move fast and break things&quot; into the two-ton 75mph vehicle space, with predictable results.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>Earlier this year when Mercedes announced its Level 3 &quot;Drive Pilot&quot; system [0], a lot of Tesla stans mocked its limitations, which to be honest, <i>are</i> quite numerous on the face of it:<p>- Only allowed on limited-access divided highways with no stoplights, roundabouts, or other traffic control systems<p>- Limited to a top speed of less than 40 mph<p>- Operates only during the daytime and in clear weather<p>But the big promise from Mercedes is that it would take legal liability for any accidents that occurs during Drive Pilot&#x27;s operation, something that Tesla doesn&#x27;t appear to be even thinking about wrt Autopilot and FSD.<p>I would love someone to goad&#x2F;challenge Tesla to step up to Mercedes. If FSD is so much better than Drive Pilot, then why doesn&#x27;t Tesla agree to provide a &quot;safe mode&quot; for FSD, that operates with the exact same restrictions as Mercedes&#x27; D-P, and offers the same legal protections to any users who happen to get into accidents during &quot;safe mode&quot; FSD operation?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.roadandtrack.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;a39481699&#x2F;what-happens-if-mercedes-drivepilot-causes-a-crash&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.roadandtrack.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;a39481699&#x2F;what-happens-if-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solardev</author><text>Yeah... it&#x27;s funny, but I wanted a Tesla real bad before I actually sat in a friend&#x27;s. The UX sucks. Everything from opening the door to trying to access the AC or glove compartment was a pain in the ass.<p>Nevermind FSD accidents, I think I&#x27;d get myself killed just trying to turn down the heat on that giant touchscreen.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports</title><url>https://electrek.co/2022/12/14/tesla-full-self-driving-data-awful-challenge-elon-musk-prove-otherwise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elorant</author><text>Fuck panel gaps. Just look at the quality of the interior. You’re paying 100k for a car that has worse quality than a Ford. Everything is plastic, there are no button knobs anywhere, no panel in front of the driver, the leather on the seats doesn’t feel like leather etc. I mean I get it that half the price of the car is in batteries and R&amp;D, but still you can’t even compare it to a 50k Volvo. It’s just crap. And now that the big manufacturers are moving into electric cars Tesla’s got a lot of serious completion to face from companies who know how to treat a customer who&#x27;s paying big bucks.</text></item><item><author>traceroute66</author><text>&gt; Mercedes is a real car company with real engineers and a gold-standard reputation to maintain.<p>Not only that, but they have a quality reputation to uphold with their domestic (German) and regional (European) market.<p>Your average discerning German car buyer (i.e. the sort who has a Porsche 911, or a higher-end Audi&#x2F;BMW&#x2F;Merc) in their garage will swiftly tell you about numerous problems with the Tesla before they&#x27;ve even sat in it.<p>Panel gaps, for example. They mean a lot to your average discerning German, and your average Tesla has them by the bucket load.<p>In fact, the German in-joke is that the reason Tesla built a factory in Germany is so that the Germans could (try to) teach them how to fix the panel gaps. :-)</text></item><item><author>lolinder</author><text>Yep.<p>Mercedes has these limitations not because their tech is less capable than Tesla&#x27;s but because Mercedes is a real car company with real engineers and a gold-standard reputation to maintain.<p>Tesla, in contrast, is a software company that is trying to take &quot;move fast and break things&quot; into the two-ton 75mph vehicle space, with predictable results.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>Earlier this year when Mercedes announced its Level 3 &quot;Drive Pilot&quot; system [0], a lot of Tesla stans mocked its limitations, which to be honest, <i>are</i> quite numerous on the face of it:<p>- Only allowed on limited-access divided highways with no stoplights, roundabouts, or other traffic control systems<p>- Limited to a top speed of less than 40 mph<p>- Operates only during the daytime and in clear weather<p>But the big promise from Mercedes is that it would take legal liability for any accidents that occurs during Drive Pilot&#x27;s operation, something that Tesla doesn&#x27;t appear to be even thinking about wrt Autopilot and FSD.<p>I would love someone to goad&#x2F;challenge Tesla to step up to Mercedes. If FSD is so much better than Drive Pilot, then why doesn&#x27;t Tesla agree to provide a &quot;safe mode&quot; for FSD, that operates with the exact same restrictions as Mercedes&#x27; D-P, and offers the same legal protections to any users who happen to get into accidents during &quot;safe mode&quot; FSD operation?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.roadandtrack.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;a39481699&#x2F;what-happens-if-mercedes-drivepilot-causes-a-crash&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.roadandtrack.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;a39481699&#x2F;what-happens-if-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryantgtg</author><text>Serious competition is good!<p>I just replaced my Audi Q5 with a Tesla Model Y (which... wasn&#x27;t $100k). No panel gaps, no other problems, and the overall quality feels nicer than the Audi. Shrug!<p>Anyway, yeah, the next few years look really exciting for consumer EVs. So many announcements in 2022.</text></comment> |
41,345,419 | 41,345,535 | 1 | 2 | 41,343,814 | train | <story><title>Postgres as a Search Engine</title><url>https://anyblockers.com/posts/postgres-as-a-search-engine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>troupo</author><text>I would add: you should look for alternative solutions when you need to search anything other than English.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>Or when you care at all about optimizing your search ranking. Postgresql has a few alright tools to do vector search and to do some simple things with trigrams. And that can work well for some narrow use cases. If that&#x27;s all you need, great. But this doesn&#x27;t give you a whole lot of control over search ranking. And if search is in anyway on the critical path to revenue for whatever it is your product does, you probably need to invest in making sure your users find what they need. And that means getting a bit systematic about things, using specialized tools, and making sure you have some skills on your team that know how to do this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Postgres as a Search Engine</title><url>https://anyblockers.com/posts/postgres-as-a-search-engine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>troupo</author><text>I would add: you should look for alternative solutions when you need to search anything other than English.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0x008</author><text>But tsvector supports all sorts of different languages, at least western.</text></comment> |
28,200,280 | 28,200,014 | 1 | 3 | 28,199,588 | train | <story><title>TikTok requests access to devices on local network</title><url>https://twitter.com/crobertsbmw/status/1427102606753550337</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>uniqueuid</author><text>Just to add: Scanning networks to gather data seems pretty popular these days - smart tvs have done so, and even the ebay site used to portscan visitors [1].<p>[edit] And of course, there&#x27;s WebRTC leaking your local IP - which ublock origin can specifically block [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleepingcomputer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;security&#x2F;ebay-port-scans-visitors-computers-for-remote-access-programs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bleepingcomputer.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;security&#x2F;ebay-port-sca...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorhill&#x2F;uBlock&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Prevent-WebRTC-from-leaking-local-IP-address" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorhill&#x2F;uBlock&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Prevent-WebRTC-from-l...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>TikTok requests access to devices on local network</title><url>https://twitter.com/crobertsbmw/status/1427102606753550337</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>diebeforei485</author><text>Some other apps (Signal?) have also done this out of the blue, though they may have since added a UI around this.<p>Regardless, Apple has done the right thing by putting this behind a permissions box, but the developer should be required to have some sort of explanation string of why they need this.</text></comment> |
16,698,023 | 16,696,135 | 1 | 3 | 16,692,216 | train | <story><title>The Oforth Programming Language</title><url>http://www.oforth.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>luckydude</author><text>[I&#x27;m sticking this here because there was a dude who said this was a good reply and I tried to reply to him and HN say s his post was deleted. I don&#x27;t know why, his post seemed pretty reasonable to me, he was asking if forth was a good boot loader. Shrug.]<p>I don&#x27;t for a minute think that forth is the best answer, it&#x27;s an awful answer. Even lisp, which I hate with a passion, would be a better answer because more people have experience in lisp than forth.<p>Forth is just less shitty than what Intel came up with, I think it was part of EFI, it&#x27;s amazingly bad. I&#x27;ve designed a few programming languages and I&#x27;m not good at it, but holy crap, I could be drunk and come up with a better answer than Intel did. Forth is just a crappy language but it&#x27;s less crappy than what Intel did.<p>The idea that Forth is somehow special for boot loaders is nuts. There is nothing, that I know of, that makes forth somehow magical for that.<p>What you want for the bootloader, and for the debugger that you drop into when there is a panic, is something like C but interpreted. You want to be able to walk a linked list of page table structures. And to its credit, Sun&#x27;s forth could do that. It&#x27;s sort of twisted to think it could but it did, there were forth words that did all sorts of kernel magic.<p>I think that the magic of forth was that it was tiny, back 30 years ago you didn&#x27;t want to have a lot of storage for your debugger. That&#x27;s not the case today, if someone made the case that they could make things better, here you go, here&#x27;s a gig of storage. That&#x27;s a little crazy but still. Forth was cool when a meg of storage was a crazy amount.<p>We can do better. Intel pushed us backwards, Forth would be a step forwards, but man, I&#x27;d take python or Tcl (because then I&#x27;d get my pet language L, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;little-lang.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;little-lang.org</a>) or even perl as a better boot language.<p>Froth has no special boot sauce in my opinion. It was just small.</text></item><item><author>luckydude</author><text>I&#x27;m a forth programmer, I&#x27;ve implemented an editor in forth, a more(1) clone in forth, a grep(1) in forth and I did a bunch of stuff I&#x27;ve forgotten in forth for the geophysics department at UW Madison.<p>I HATE forth. It&#x27;s a miserable language, I just hate it.<p>And then I went to Sun and the boot prom language was forth, still hated it.<p>Then I got to PCs. The BIOS had no language and then Intel did whatever garbage they did and I was like please, just give me Forth. It&#x27;s not what I&#x27;d do for debugging a panic but I could make it work. The Intel stuff was way worse.<p>I suspect that Mitch priced himself out, otherwise we&#x27;d all be using Forth as the boot language, I dunno what happened. But if you had asked me 20 years ago would I be saying anything positive about forth I would have kicked you in the XXXs. Yet here I am wishing that forth was how we dealt with a panic. We&#x27;d all be happier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lukego</author><text>Speaking of Lisp and Forth, I was really stunned when I noticed that adding syntactic support for &quot;structs&quot; in the language is about 10 lines in Forth (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openbios&#x2F;openfirmware&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;forth&#x2F;lib&#x2F;struct.fth" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openbios&#x2F;openfirmware&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;forth&#x2F;l...</a>) and about 2000 lines in Lisp (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sbcl&#x2F;sbcl&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;code&#x2F;defstruct.lisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sbcl&#x2F;sbcl&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;code&#x2F;defstruct....</a>).<p>Mitch Bradley wrote up an explanation of the Forth library, and lots of other cool bits of Openfirmware, at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.laptop.org&#x2F;go&#x2F;Forth_Lesson_18" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.laptop.org&#x2F;go&#x2F;Forth_Lesson_18</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Oforth Programming Language</title><url>http://www.oforth.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>luckydude</author><text>[I&#x27;m sticking this here because there was a dude who said this was a good reply and I tried to reply to him and HN say s his post was deleted. I don&#x27;t know why, his post seemed pretty reasonable to me, he was asking if forth was a good boot loader. Shrug.]<p>I don&#x27;t for a minute think that forth is the best answer, it&#x27;s an awful answer. Even lisp, which I hate with a passion, would be a better answer because more people have experience in lisp than forth.<p>Forth is just less shitty than what Intel came up with, I think it was part of EFI, it&#x27;s amazingly bad. I&#x27;ve designed a few programming languages and I&#x27;m not good at it, but holy crap, I could be drunk and come up with a better answer than Intel did. Forth is just a crappy language but it&#x27;s less crappy than what Intel did.<p>The idea that Forth is somehow special for boot loaders is nuts. There is nothing, that I know of, that makes forth somehow magical for that.<p>What you want for the bootloader, and for the debugger that you drop into when there is a panic, is something like C but interpreted. You want to be able to walk a linked list of page table structures. And to its credit, Sun&#x27;s forth could do that. It&#x27;s sort of twisted to think it could but it did, there were forth words that did all sorts of kernel magic.<p>I think that the magic of forth was that it was tiny, back 30 years ago you didn&#x27;t want to have a lot of storage for your debugger. That&#x27;s not the case today, if someone made the case that they could make things better, here you go, here&#x27;s a gig of storage. That&#x27;s a little crazy but still. Forth was cool when a meg of storage was a crazy amount.<p>We can do better. Intel pushed us backwards, Forth would be a step forwards, but man, I&#x27;d take python or Tcl (because then I&#x27;d get my pet language L, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;little-lang.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;little-lang.org</a>) or even perl as a better boot language.<p>Froth has no special boot sauce in my opinion. It was just small.</text></item><item><author>luckydude</author><text>I&#x27;m a forth programmer, I&#x27;ve implemented an editor in forth, a more(1) clone in forth, a grep(1) in forth and I did a bunch of stuff I&#x27;ve forgotten in forth for the geophysics department at UW Madison.<p>I HATE forth. It&#x27;s a miserable language, I just hate it.<p>And then I went to Sun and the boot prom language was forth, still hated it.<p>Then I got to PCs. The BIOS had no language and then Intel did whatever garbage they did and I was like please, just give me Forth. It&#x27;s not what I&#x27;d do for debugging a panic but I could make it work. The Intel stuff was way worse.<p>I suspect that Mitch priced himself out, otherwise we&#x27;d all be using Forth as the boot language, I dunno what happened. But if you had asked me 20 years ago would I be saying anything positive about forth I would have kicked you in the XXXs. Yet here I am wishing that forth was how we dealt with a panic. We&#x27;d all be happier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobush</author><text>The special sauce was that it was tiny, that was not only important, it was <i>imperative</i> back when EPROMs ruled the motherboards and the backplanes. It was only until the serial flash memory arrived that bloaty alternatives became possible at all.</text></comment> |
36,631,383 | 36,629,435 | 1 | 2 | 36,628,356 | train | <story><title>Excellence is a habit, but so is failure</title><url>https://awesomekling.github.io/Excellence-is-a-habit-but-so-is-failure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>Life is about taking risk. We make daily decisions that involve big and small risk constantly.<p>Choosing to enjoy life today instead of waiting for tomorrow for that enjoyment isn&#x27;t a <i>failure</i>, it&#x27;s a choice. It comes with risk and tradeoffs.<p>Everyone thinks there&#x27;s a magical line that everyone else should take that straddles that line between enjoyment today and tomorrow. That lines doesn&#x27;t exist, and isn&#x27;t even the same from day to day.<p>Looking back and regretting a lifetime of decisions is caused that the consequences from those earlier decisions. Once that weight becomes too heavy, the regret sets in.<p>IMO, the way to combat that is two-fold.<p>First, in the moment, be conscious of what the risks are, and if they are worth it. If they aren&#x27;t, take <i>pride</i> in settling for less at the moment so you can safeguard your future. You&#x27;re doing something hard and good, and it should feel good in itself to do it.<p>Second, when you look back, <i>remember</i> the joy you had at the time. It was judged, to the best of your ability, to be worth it <i>at the time</i>, and you should continue to feel warm and fuzzy from that joy today, even if bad things have come about as consequence for it.<p>For instance, like the author, I gained rather a lot of weight. Then I lost most of the excess. Then I gained half of it back. Every day is now a struggle to try to get my weight back down, and my blood pressure is back up so high I couldn&#x27;t have dental surgery safely the other day, and I&#x27;m back on medication.<p>According to the author that&#x27;s a failure, but I had a <i>lot</i> of really, really enjoyable meals. I ate the vast majority of them with friends and family. Many of them were either cooked by family, or were special occasions. Calling those meals &quot;failures&quot; now would be saying that it was a mistake to enjoy that time with my family and friends, and it absolutely wasn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sph</author><text>&gt; Choosing to enjoy life today instead of waiting for tomorrow for that enjoyment isn&#x27;t a failure, it&#x27;s a choice.<p>This conveniently papers over a critical mechanism of how biological brains operate: we do not choose 99% of our actions. It would be extremely inefficient and energy-consuming.<p>99% of our life we are on autopilot, driven by our habits engaged as response to sensory and internal stimuli.<p>Habits explain neatly concepts like addiction, while the choice story applied to concepts like addiction or self-destructive acts is reductive at best, and catastrophic on a societal level. Yet the majority of people, those that have been <i>lucky</i> not to have yet felt the grip of addiction, tend to have this opinion that addicts are just weak-willed idiots. This is not referred to you in particular, I am generalising based on common and frustrating opinions about addiction and recovery by well-meaning, but ignorant people.<p>Functionally and neurologically, there is no difference between a heroin addict and someone that has been going on a run every day for a decade. It&#x27;s just that their autopilots have been trained to prefer a different action in response to similar stimuli, and brains respond and adapt much more readily to super-stimuli found in drugs and other destructive habits, than with natural and healthy &quot;highs&quot;.<p>I recommend the book <i>&quot;The Biology of Desire&quot;</i> by Marc Lewis, an ex cocaine addict turned neuroscientist.</text></comment> | <story><title>Excellence is a habit, but so is failure</title><url>https://awesomekling.github.io/Excellence-is-a-habit-but-so-is-failure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>Life is about taking risk. We make daily decisions that involve big and small risk constantly.<p>Choosing to enjoy life today instead of waiting for tomorrow for that enjoyment isn&#x27;t a <i>failure</i>, it&#x27;s a choice. It comes with risk and tradeoffs.<p>Everyone thinks there&#x27;s a magical line that everyone else should take that straddles that line between enjoyment today and tomorrow. That lines doesn&#x27;t exist, and isn&#x27;t even the same from day to day.<p>Looking back and regretting a lifetime of decisions is caused that the consequences from those earlier decisions. Once that weight becomes too heavy, the regret sets in.<p>IMO, the way to combat that is two-fold.<p>First, in the moment, be conscious of what the risks are, and if they are worth it. If they aren&#x27;t, take <i>pride</i> in settling for less at the moment so you can safeguard your future. You&#x27;re doing something hard and good, and it should feel good in itself to do it.<p>Second, when you look back, <i>remember</i> the joy you had at the time. It was judged, to the best of your ability, to be worth it <i>at the time</i>, and you should continue to feel warm and fuzzy from that joy today, even if bad things have come about as consequence for it.<p>For instance, like the author, I gained rather a lot of weight. Then I lost most of the excess. Then I gained half of it back. Every day is now a struggle to try to get my weight back down, and my blood pressure is back up so high I couldn&#x27;t have dental surgery safely the other day, and I&#x27;m back on medication.<p>According to the author that&#x27;s a failure, but I had a <i>lot</i> of really, really enjoyable meals. I ate the vast majority of them with friends and family. Many of them were either cooked by family, or were special occasions. Calling those meals &quot;failures&quot; now would be saying that it was a mistake to enjoy that time with my family and friends, and it absolutely wasn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vimsee</author><text>&gt; Calling those meals &quot;failures&quot; now would be saying that it was a mistake to enjoy that time with my family and friends, and it absolutely wasn&#x27;t.<p>If gaining weight is the failure in this context, the mistake would likely be the excessive intake of food.
Time spent with friends and family would not be the mistake.
This might have come off a bit harsh.</text></comment> |
34,513,998 | 34,508,519 | 1 | 2 | 34,502,566 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?</title><text>If possible, provide links to demos, products pages, etc.<p>Limit posts to one tech per post to make it easier for votes to reflect HN’s voting patterns and make it easier to filter related comments.<p>___<p>Here are some examples from CES:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SYYXida84Nc">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SYYXida84Nc</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ubermonkey</author><text>Well, this is far afield from the normal discussions here, but:<p>8 years ago, I had a pretty bad cycling crash and broke my hip -- which, if you&#x27;re not aware, means I broke the &quot;femoral neck&quot;, or the narrow bit of bone between the long part of the femur and the &quot;ball&quot; that goes into your pelvis.<p>Post-repair, my x-ray looked like this: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;gRqg50J.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;gRqg50J.png</a><p>Anyway, with that much hardware in a repair, you&#x27;re probably starting the clock on needing a full replacement. I think they were hoping for 10-15 years, but I got only 8 before joint pain and bone loss forced the issue.<p>Last Monday -- so, 15 days ago -- I went in at 5AM for a total hip replacement.<p><i>Which was done on an OUTPATIENT basis.</i> I walked out of the hospital (with a walker, granted) on the new joint, and was at home in a lounge chair by 5PM. By the end of the week, I was off the walker entirely and using a cane. By day 9, I was routinely moving around the house without even the CANE, though I need it for any meaningful walk.<p>The main thing I&#x27;m supposed to be doing is walking. I could manage a half mile within a week. Last night I walked 1.2 miles at a 30% faster pace than my first half-mile walk. I should be shut of even the cane in another week or two.<p>To me, this kind of objectively major SKELETON EDIT being effectively banal from a medical POV is pretty surreal. I mean, it&#x27;s not &quot;put Luke in the bacta tank&quot; surreal, but it&#x27;s a whole lot closer to that I realized was realistic.<p>(Now: I&#x27;m completely willing to note that the ease I&#x27;ve had with this is tied to a number of factors, including probably first the fact that I live in a top-tier city for this kind of medical attention, and I have excellent health insurance. But still.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdmcnugent</author><text>Orthopedic surgeon here. Outpatient total joint replacements have taken off like a rocket in the last few years, in part due to advances in due to pain control (pre operative peripheral nerve blocks, etc), accelerated physical therapy, and all around better management and prevention of all the common postop complaints (nausea, opioid induced constipation, etc), but I would say the number one driver has been that insurance companies (including Medicare) will finally pay for it to be done outpatient. 3 years ago you had to keep people in the hospital at least overnight to even get reimbursed. The same phenomenon has happened with many of the spine procedures that can now be done outpatient. The actual surgical techniques have not really changed much over the last few decades other than popularizing a few approaches (anterior vs posterior) or bearing surfaces (metal on polyethylene vs ceramic on polyethylene, etc).</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?</title><text>If possible, provide links to demos, products pages, etc.<p>Limit posts to one tech per post to make it easier for votes to reflect HN’s voting patterns and make it easier to filter related comments.<p>___<p>Here are some examples from CES:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SYYXida84Nc">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SYYXida84Nc</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ubermonkey</author><text>Well, this is far afield from the normal discussions here, but:<p>8 years ago, I had a pretty bad cycling crash and broke my hip -- which, if you&#x27;re not aware, means I broke the &quot;femoral neck&quot;, or the narrow bit of bone between the long part of the femur and the &quot;ball&quot; that goes into your pelvis.<p>Post-repair, my x-ray looked like this: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;gRqg50J.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;gRqg50J.png</a><p>Anyway, with that much hardware in a repair, you&#x27;re probably starting the clock on needing a full replacement. I think they were hoping for 10-15 years, but I got only 8 before joint pain and bone loss forced the issue.<p>Last Monday -- so, 15 days ago -- I went in at 5AM for a total hip replacement.<p><i>Which was done on an OUTPATIENT basis.</i> I walked out of the hospital (with a walker, granted) on the new joint, and was at home in a lounge chair by 5PM. By the end of the week, I was off the walker entirely and using a cane. By day 9, I was routinely moving around the house without even the CANE, though I need it for any meaningful walk.<p>The main thing I&#x27;m supposed to be doing is walking. I could manage a half mile within a week. Last night I walked 1.2 miles at a 30% faster pace than my first half-mile walk. I should be shut of even the cane in another week or two.<p>To me, this kind of objectively major SKELETON EDIT being effectively banal from a medical POV is pretty surreal. I mean, it&#x27;s not &quot;put Luke in the bacta tank&quot; surreal, but it&#x27;s a whole lot closer to that I realized was realistic.<p>(Now: I&#x27;m completely willing to note that the ease I&#x27;ve had with this is tied to a number of factors, including probably first the fact that I live in a top-tier city for this kind of medical attention, and I have excellent health insurance. But still.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skrbjc</author><text>My brother had a shoulder surgery that he put off for many years. The doctor actually told him that he did the right thing because the type of surgery he needed has some such a long way in the last 10 years.<p>It&#x27;s great that we&#x27;re still making so much progress in these areas.</text></comment> |
41,575,006 | 41,573,290 | 1 | 3 | 41,571,454 | train | <story><title>Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLTUqPue9sQ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>el_cujo</author><text>&quot;Microservices&quot; will always be my favorite: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ</a></text></item><item><author>kratom_sandwich</author><text>Piggybacking to recommend another video of his, &quot;The Hustle&quot;, which is a fast-paced memefest: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>einichi</author><text>Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ia8Q51ouA_s&amp;pp=ygUGa3JhemFt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ia8Q51ouA_s&amp;pp=ygUGa3JhemFt</a><p>this hit so close to home I didn&#x27;t know whether to laugh or cry</text></comment> | <story><title>Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLTUqPue9sQ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>el_cujo</author><text>&quot;Microservices&quot; will always be my favorite: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ</a></text></item><item><author>kratom_sandwich</author><text>Piggybacking to recommend another video of his, &quot;The Hustle&quot;, which is a fast-paced memefest: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoctorDabadedoo</author><text>Mine is &quot;leadership sync&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;1RAMRukKqQg?si=K02Vsl7UhiUHos06" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;1RAMRukKqQg?si=K02Vsl7UhiUHos06</a><p>If you ever worked in a dysfunctional org this video speaks volumes.</text></comment> |
19,114,933 | 19,115,032 | 1 | 2 | 19,113,661 | train | <story><title>New pill can deliver insulin</title><url>http://news.mit.edu/2019/pill-deliver-insulin-orally-0207</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RPLong</author><text>What doctors and researchers get wrong about diabetes is that pin-pricks and injections are not even remotely bad. I don&#x27;t know a single diabetic who cares about injections and blood sugar tests. You get used to that within the first week of diagnosis.<p>No, the unpleasant part of being diabetic is having to live every second of your life as an act of weighing how what you&#x27;re currently doing is going to affect your blood sugar levels an hour for now:<p>- Have I been sitting in this chair too long?
- Have I not been sitting down enough this morning?
- Have I been drinking enough water?
- Did I just drink too much water?
- I haven&#x27;t been to the bathroom in two hours; does this mean I&#x27;m screwed?
- If I eat a piece of toast after dinner, will I be able to have sex with my wife without going hypoglycemic?
- I&#x27;d like to go hiking, but it&#x27;s hot outside and my insulin might spoil, so maybe I&#x27;ll walk around the block instead.
- I just plan on going to the grocery store for 20 minutes; do I need to bring insulin in case there&#x27;s a traffic jam on the way home?<p>Etc., etc. Pharmaceutical companies can&#x27;t solve the real lifestyle problems associated with diabetes short of inventing an actual cure.</text></item><item><author>samcday</author><text>&gt; Once ingested, water dissolves a disk of sugar, using a spring to release a tiny needle made up almost entirely of freeze-dried insulin. The needle is injected into the stomach — which the patient can’t feel, owing to a lack of pain receptors in the stomach. Once the injection has occurred, the needle can break down in the digestive tract.<p>That&#x27;s some pretty impressive ingenuity. Also sounds kinda terrifying if the 1.0 has any kind of edge case that involves tearing holes in your stomach lining.<p>I&#x27;m not diabetic, but I still have vivid memories of sitting with my grandmother while she constantly pricked her finger to test blood sugar and jabbing insulin pens into her abdomen. It&#x27;s always stuck with me as a particularly unpleasant lifestyle to have to endure. Even still, if I were a diabetic I think I&#x27;d still be waiting a year or two after the release of something like this to make sure all the kinks have been ironed out ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daeken</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t know a single diabetic who cares about injections and blood sugar tests.<p>I&#x27;m diabetic and the sole reason I don&#x27;t check my blood sugar (unless I think something is drastically out of whack) is that it takes me upwards of 30 minutes to do a finger prick for testing. My anxiety skyrockets and nothing I do can tell me that it&#x27;s not going to be excruciating. Most of the time I end up having my wife do it, which isn&#x27;t a fun process for either of us.<p>It&#x27;s not the worst thing, but it&#x27;s deeply, deeply unpleasant for me. Come at me with a 10ga needle, I won&#x27;t flinch; come at me with a 30ga lancet and I&#x27;ll be a mess. I&#x27;m going to be switching to a CGM purely for this reason.</text></comment> | <story><title>New pill can deliver insulin</title><url>http://news.mit.edu/2019/pill-deliver-insulin-orally-0207</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RPLong</author><text>What doctors and researchers get wrong about diabetes is that pin-pricks and injections are not even remotely bad. I don&#x27;t know a single diabetic who cares about injections and blood sugar tests. You get used to that within the first week of diagnosis.<p>No, the unpleasant part of being diabetic is having to live every second of your life as an act of weighing how what you&#x27;re currently doing is going to affect your blood sugar levels an hour for now:<p>- Have I been sitting in this chair too long?
- Have I not been sitting down enough this morning?
- Have I been drinking enough water?
- Did I just drink too much water?
- I haven&#x27;t been to the bathroom in two hours; does this mean I&#x27;m screwed?
- If I eat a piece of toast after dinner, will I be able to have sex with my wife without going hypoglycemic?
- I&#x27;d like to go hiking, but it&#x27;s hot outside and my insulin might spoil, so maybe I&#x27;ll walk around the block instead.
- I just plan on going to the grocery store for 20 minutes; do I need to bring insulin in case there&#x27;s a traffic jam on the way home?<p>Etc., etc. Pharmaceutical companies can&#x27;t solve the real lifestyle problems associated with diabetes short of inventing an actual cure.</text></item><item><author>samcday</author><text>&gt; Once ingested, water dissolves a disk of sugar, using a spring to release a tiny needle made up almost entirely of freeze-dried insulin. The needle is injected into the stomach — which the patient can’t feel, owing to a lack of pain receptors in the stomach. Once the injection has occurred, the needle can break down in the digestive tract.<p>That&#x27;s some pretty impressive ingenuity. Also sounds kinda terrifying if the 1.0 has any kind of edge case that involves tearing holes in your stomach lining.<p>I&#x27;m not diabetic, but I still have vivid memories of sitting with my grandmother while she constantly pricked her finger to test blood sugar and jabbing insulin pens into her abdomen. It&#x27;s always stuck with me as a particularly unpleasant lifestyle to have to endure. Even still, if I were a diabetic I think I&#x27;d still be waiting a year or two after the release of something like this to make sure all the kinks have been ironed out ;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldpie</author><text>Yeah. I&#x27;ve been T1D since I was 13 (now 30) and I can&#x27;t even imagine what it&#x27;s like to live without it. It&#x27;s literally a constant thread in my mind, every waking moment, and a few times a week while I sleep. I carry glucose tablets and a few granola bars on me, and you&#x27;re right about carrying insulin. Am I likely to eat on this trip, or can I leave it at home so it doesn&#x27;t spoil?<p>I once failed to bring my insulin on an international trip. That was a doozy!<p>Making injections easier would be nice, sure. Not having to worry about finding a bathroom or bleeding into my pants or whatever. But that&#x27;s a real minor set of issues compared to the constant attentiveness that managing it well requires.</text></comment> |
22,362,521 | 22,362,018 | 1 | 3 | 22,350,242 | train | <story><title>In Santa Cruz, a graduate student strike grows out of a housing crisis</title><url>https://newrepublic.com/article/156591/wildcat-strike-grows-housing-crisis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kaikai</author><text>I lived in Santa Cruz for over 10 years and grew up in the area. The tech industry has had hugely negative effects on Santa Cruz. It&#x27;s a long but doable commute to the south bay (including Netflix), and there&#x27;s shuttles to many of the larger tech companies. The job market in Santa Cruz is dismal; the university is a major source of jobs but other than that it&#x27;s mostly small town service jobs. Trying to live in Santa Cruz AND work in Santa Cruz is very difficult.<p>Home ownership is out of reach for the vast majority of people who work in the area, and the rental market is dominated by students living off of student loans or family support rather than supported by local jobs.<p>There is no easy answer, because as others have noted, Santa Cruz is surrounded by ocean and greenspace, and full of NIMBYs who want to limit development. I can&#x27;t blame them; the city is cute and many of the neighborhoods are lovely. It&#x27;s just a shame that it&#x27;s becoming a bedroom community for Silicon Valley rather than a self-sustaining town in its own right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jseliger</author><text><i>and full of NIMBYs who want to limit development</i><p>There is an easy solution: move most land-use regulation to the state level, not the local level. CA&#x27;s legislature is making some noises in that direction. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;california&#x2F;story&#x2F;2020-01-06&#x2F;sb-50-changes-single-family-zoning-california" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;california&#x2F;story&#x2F;2020-01-06&#x2F;sb-50-ch...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>In Santa Cruz, a graduate student strike grows out of a housing crisis</title><url>https://newrepublic.com/article/156591/wildcat-strike-grows-housing-crisis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kaikai</author><text>I lived in Santa Cruz for over 10 years and grew up in the area. The tech industry has had hugely negative effects on Santa Cruz. It&#x27;s a long but doable commute to the south bay (including Netflix), and there&#x27;s shuttles to many of the larger tech companies. The job market in Santa Cruz is dismal; the university is a major source of jobs but other than that it&#x27;s mostly small town service jobs. Trying to live in Santa Cruz AND work in Santa Cruz is very difficult.<p>Home ownership is out of reach for the vast majority of people who work in the area, and the rental market is dominated by students living off of student loans or family support rather than supported by local jobs.<p>There is no easy answer, because as others have noted, Santa Cruz is surrounded by ocean and greenspace, and full of NIMBYs who want to limit development. I can&#x27;t blame them; the city is cute and many of the neighborhoods are lovely. It&#x27;s just a shame that it&#x27;s becoming a bedroom community for Silicon Valley rather than a self-sustaining town in its own right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matchbok</author><text>Blaming the tech industry is both not fair and not correct. In the grand scheme of themes they are a tiny fraction of total employment.</text></comment> |
13,363,872 | 13,363,374 | 1 | 3 | 13,361,889 | train | <story><title>Death to the Gerrymander</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/01/death_to_the_gerrymander_paul_smith_might_defeat_unconstitutional_redistricting.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tunesmith</author><text>The thought experiment I&#x27;ve liked in the past is...<p>Say you have a 55&#x2F;45 state, with 9 congressional districts. Roughly speaking, what is most fair? A 5&#x2F;4 district split? Or, each district being 55-45, i.e. 9&#x2F;0?<p>If I&#x27;m reading it right, it sounds like the efficiency gap would mean that 5&#x2F;4 would be more fair, but that would actually require drawing districts in a way that pays attention to the political and demographic makeup of the geography.<p>I get that for many states, if the Democrats had the 55, then current gerrymandering means that they might only get 2&#x2F;7, or two out of the nine candidates, which seems wildly off no matter how you look at it, but still, I have trouble identifying the principle of what fair actually <i>is</i>. And I don&#x27;t like the answer of just arbitrarily picking a math formula that is used the same way everywhere. Because, in the absence of a principle behind it, it could be just as distorted. For instance, if 5&#x2F;4 is more fair, then a geographically blind districting program could very easily end up with similar blended districts leading to a 9&#x2F;0 state.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>euyyn</author><text>In Spain many are proposing to get rid of districts altogether, because they severely penalize parties that aren&#x27;t the two biggest (except regionalistic parties). And this is in a country where the system actually allows third parties to get seats in Congress (even if harder) - the American system is very very ill of bipartidism. Congress should be 1 person 1 vote, no matter your political preference or where you live.</text></comment> | <story><title>Death to the Gerrymander</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/01/death_to_the_gerrymander_paul_smith_might_defeat_unconstitutional_redistricting.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tunesmith</author><text>The thought experiment I&#x27;ve liked in the past is...<p>Say you have a 55&#x2F;45 state, with 9 congressional districts. Roughly speaking, what is most fair? A 5&#x2F;4 district split? Or, each district being 55-45, i.e. 9&#x2F;0?<p>If I&#x27;m reading it right, it sounds like the efficiency gap would mean that 5&#x2F;4 would be more fair, but that would actually require drawing districts in a way that pays attention to the political and demographic makeup of the geography.<p>I get that for many states, if the Democrats had the 55, then current gerrymandering means that they might only get 2&#x2F;7, or two out of the nine candidates, which seems wildly off no matter how you look at it, but still, I have trouble identifying the principle of what fair actually <i>is</i>. And I don&#x27;t like the answer of just arbitrarily picking a math formula that is used the same way everywhere. Because, in the absence of a principle behind it, it could be just as distorted. For instance, if 5&#x2F;4 is more fair, then a geographically blind districting program could very easily end up with similar blended districts leading to a 9&#x2F;0 state.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Taek</author><text>Well, ideally everyone is proportionally represented at every level of government. So you&#x27;d want a 5&#x2F;4 split at the top level, where each person has a representative that they like.<p>You&#x27;d almost want gerrymandering, but of a different sort. Traditional gerrymandering makes some districts win by 100&#x2F;0 and the rest lose 49&#x2F;51 to marginalize as many people as possible.<p>But perhaps more fair would be perfect gerrymandering - every district ends up with a 100&#x2F;0 split. This means you get 5&#x2F;4 at the top level, while every citizen is represented by someone they voted for.<p>Districts end up as more of an overlapping blur.</text></comment> |
6,064,258 | 6,063,832 | 1 | 2 | 6,062,876 | train | <story><title>Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow</title><url>http://www.notconstructive.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmrfrmrf</author><text>I apologize in advance for sounding like an elitist prick, but in my mind, community-driven sites like StackOverflow, Reddit, Wikipedia, are prone to the noise of do-nothing armchair experts (especially in this economy with the unemployment rate) who have nothing better to do than stir philosophical debates over nothing.<p>As a person with a job who actually needs answers rather than reading through pages upon pages of discourse that goes absolutely nowhere, I appreciate StackOverflow&#x27;s approach to moderation. StackOverflow is a place for specific questions and specific answers, not subjective nonsense questions like &quot;how secure are sessions in PHP?&quot; that, on this &quot;Not Constructive&quot; website, I imagine will be flooded with answers ranging from &quot;PHP SUXXX LOL GO PYTHON&quot; to &quot;In my opinion, sessions are inherently broken blah blah blah&quot;. While the moderators may be able to mitigate these issues a little bit, the problem isn&#x27;t so much with the answers as the <i>question itself</i>, which has no &quot;correct&quot; answer.<p>So, while I can see why people with a lot of free time might want to go to NotConstructive as a diversion, I foresee this site as little more than an informational black hole of back-and-forth BS.</text></item><item><author>neya</author><text>I don&#x27;t know who you are. But if you are the creator of this site, you have my respect from the bottom of my heart.<p>Stackoverflow was wonderful when it was started the way it was. The moderated content was extremely useful. But later, they decided to screw everything up by doing some stupid things like assigning too much power to moderators.<p>I always used to assume SO was more like the real world democracy; if something isn&#x27;t right, you could fix it yourself being an ordinary citizen. However, on SO, that&#x27;s not the case anymore. There is a moderator on top of the users who decides what&#x27;s right and what&#x27;s wrong. And he goes into a &#x27;rage mode ON&#x27; by flagging genuinely useful questions as &#x27;inappropriate&#x27; or &#x27;not suitable for SO&#x27;, as he pleases.<p>How can you challenge his decision? God knows. I&#x27;ve searched round the site to report moderators. Good luck with reporting some rogue moderator. I like the fact that you can flag something offensive easily, but I don&#x27;t like the fact that it&#x27;s not as easy for the reverse.<p>Forget the moderators. Let&#x27;s say you want to ask something about security with sessions in PHP. Good luck finding answers on SO. Your question will be migrated to some weird subdomain.stakcoverflow.com for which you need a separate account to maintain and collect your badges from scratch, again.<p>That&#x27;s why I knew there would be a day when someone would start something like this. Nonconstructive nails it for me. And hopefully for other disappointed SO fans too.<p>Thanks for creating this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Quarrelsome</author><text>My major disappointment with SO is how we lost the desire to be helpful and ended up with the desire to be &quot;correct&quot;.<p>There are many questions that I would find helpful that get instantly closed because they are &quot;not constructive&quot;. I&#x27;d like to hear my peers opinions on the respective merits of the latest javascript frameworks but that&#x27;s &quot;not constructive&quot; so it gets shut down.
I like to help people so I occasionally decipher weird English and try to work out what they need.... too often my submission of my reply is then blocked because the question has been closed.
I dislike their rules about posting to jsfiddle (you must post enough code in SO for the question to stand alone).
I dislike the cliquey and &quot;current&quot; aspect of meta. if you&#x27;re late to the party then you&#x27;ve missed the discussion and we&#x27;ve already decided.</text></comment> | <story><title>Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow</title><url>http://www.notconstructive.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmrfrmrf</author><text>I apologize in advance for sounding like an elitist prick, but in my mind, community-driven sites like StackOverflow, Reddit, Wikipedia, are prone to the noise of do-nothing armchair experts (especially in this economy with the unemployment rate) who have nothing better to do than stir philosophical debates over nothing.<p>As a person with a job who actually needs answers rather than reading through pages upon pages of discourse that goes absolutely nowhere, I appreciate StackOverflow&#x27;s approach to moderation. StackOverflow is a place for specific questions and specific answers, not subjective nonsense questions like &quot;how secure are sessions in PHP?&quot; that, on this &quot;Not Constructive&quot; website, I imagine will be flooded with answers ranging from &quot;PHP SUXXX LOL GO PYTHON&quot; to &quot;In my opinion, sessions are inherently broken blah blah blah&quot;. While the moderators may be able to mitigate these issues a little bit, the problem isn&#x27;t so much with the answers as the <i>question itself</i>, which has no &quot;correct&quot; answer.<p>So, while I can see why people with a lot of free time might want to go to NotConstructive as a diversion, I foresee this site as little more than an informational black hole of back-and-forth BS.</text></item><item><author>neya</author><text>I don&#x27;t know who you are. But if you are the creator of this site, you have my respect from the bottom of my heart.<p>Stackoverflow was wonderful when it was started the way it was. The moderated content was extremely useful. But later, they decided to screw everything up by doing some stupid things like assigning too much power to moderators.<p>I always used to assume SO was more like the real world democracy; if something isn&#x27;t right, you could fix it yourself being an ordinary citizen. However, on SO, that&#x27;s not the case anymore. There is a moderator on top of the users who decides what&#x27;s right and what&#x27;s wrong. And he goes into a &#x27;rage mode ON&#x27; by flagging genuinely useful questions as &#x27;inappropriate&#x27; or &#x27;not suitable for SO&#x27;, as he pleases.<p>How can you challenge his decision? God knows. I&#x27;ve searched round the site to report moderators. Good luck with reporting some rogue moderator. I like the fact that you can flag something offensive easily, but I don&#x27;t like the fact that it&#x27;s not as easy for the reverse.<p>Forget the moderators. Let&#x27;s say you want to ask something about security with sessions in PHP. Good luck finding answers on SO. Your question will be migrated to some weird subdomain.stakcoverflow.com for which you need a separate account to maintain and collect your badges from scratch, again.<p>That&#x27;s why I knew there would be a day when someone would start something like this. Nonconstructive nails it for me. And hopefully for other disappointed SO fans too.<p>Thanks for creating this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neya</author><text>My frustration isn&#x27;t fueled by sitting by an armchair and imagining about a philosophical problem that doesn&#x27;t exist yet. I am talking about a REAL issue of Stackoverflow. While my php sessions example was average indeed, I would point you out some specific hurdles faced myself while using the site.<p>For example, while securing cookies for authentication (language independent, but try JAVA for this example), you could use two routes - Either Encrypt then HMAC it or, use something that combines this both by default (like AES-GCM). Now, if you search on this particular subject on SO, you would find genuine questions messed up and half of them migrated to crypto.stackexchange.com and the rest to security.stackexchange.com. And this is the crux of my parent comment.<p>Sorry if I appeared to be sitting on an armchair thinking about what debates I could stir while in reality I&#x27;m just like any other developer out there trying to find something useful from the site, hoping to make it better.<p>And yes, your apology for being an elitist prick is accepted.</text></comment> |
32,376,685 | 32,376,390 | 1 | 3 | 32,375,394 | train | <story><title>Tutors / tips to change your English accent</title><text>Let&#x27;s start with that my accent is clear enough and I don&#x27;t have communication issues at work. I actually feel quite comfortable.<p>But I&#x27;d love to have a perfect west coast American accent when I speak english. Having learned a few other languages myself, it feels pretty good when you can surprise a native.<p>Anybody that went through that process of improving their accent with a tutor or on their own could share their learnings on it?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>senthil_rajasek</author><text>I went through this process on my own. I grew up in India and my first language is Tamil which is very distant to the European languages. I now live in the midwest. I can&#x27;t tell the differences between regional American accents except the very famous Bostonian &quot;paak the car&quot; but I&#x27;ve listed some tips on how I improved my pronunciation.<p>When I started doing stand up comedy 12 years ago I realized I needed to work on my accent[1].<p>Here are some tips,<p>Pronunciation of english sounds is influenced by your first language.<p>Understand phonetics.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;LearnJapanese&#x2F;comments&#x2F;fohull&#x2F;a_year_to_learn_japanese_reflections_on_five&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;LearnJapanese&#x2F;comments&#x2F;fohull&#x2F;a_yea...</a><p>Follow the links to
Pronunciation: Basics, prosody and phonetics on the page above and understand how sounds are made.<p>If you don&#x27;t understand the mechanics of tongue position, lip shapes, where the sound originates (front of the mouth or back of the throat) then you may not be able make the right sound.<p>If you can spend money get expert help (speech therapist, though I haven&#x27;t done this personally).<p>Practice. Speaking involves physical muscles so practice those muscles.<p>Record yourself and listen ( after a few days). Observe pronunciations that need to be fixed and repeat.<p>In time, the mechanics of tongue position, lip shapes etc., will become subconscious and you will not have to worry about this consciously and you will speak naturally.<p>1. Most recent stand up comedy performance.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;845a6wyO5h0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;845a6wyO5h0</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drivers99</author><text>You didn’t ask for feedback but based on context I think you might appreciate it. I’m also assuming you’re going for a standard&#x2F;midwestern American accent. If not, this won’t apply. The only phonemes that stand out to me in your stand up are the “r-colored” vowels like “ar” in farm, the “er” in “New Jersey” and “nervous”, and the “or” in “for”, the “ir” in “shirt”. (Actually “ir” in shirt and “er” in “nervous” are the same phoneme &#x2F;ɝ&#x2F; and you did pronounce it at the end of “power” at one point.)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wBuA589kfMg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wBuA589kfMg</a> In this video at 4:28 she demonstrates these “r-controlled” vowels (I was wondered what they were called).<p>This one has a fuller explanation of “r-colored” vowels and even gets into what makes “ir” in bird even more unique. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;GbLcJ1G6Fiw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;GbLcJ1G6Fiw</a><p>But then, these are the types of sounds that are different by region, like the “paak the cah” example you said for Boston, certain southern accents, let alone other countries (England RP etc) which are often non-rhotic.<p>I enjoyed your standup talking about pronouncing emoji and banana, and about emoji finally letting us let out our feelings. :) I checked out your other clips. I guess the one you linked here is unlisted.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tutors / tips to change your English accent</title><text>Let&#x27;s start with that my accent is clear enough and I don&#x27;t have communication issues at work. I actually feel quite comfortable.<p>But I&#x27;d love to have a perfect west coast American accent when I speak english. Having learned a few other languages myself, it feels pretty good when you can surprise a native.<p>Anybody that went through that process of improving their accent with a tutor or on their own could share their learnings on it?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>senthil_rajasek</author><text>I went through this process on my own. I grew up in India and my first language is Tamil which is very distant to the European languages. I now live in the midwest. I can&#x27;t tell the differences between regional American accents except the very famous Bostonian &quot;paak the car&quot; but I&#x27;ve listed some tips on how I improved my pronunciation.<p>When I started doing stand up comedy 12 years ago I realized I needed to work on my accent[1].<p>Here are some tips,<p>Pronunciation of english sounds is influenced by your first language.<p>Understand phonetics.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;LearnJapanese&#x2F;comments&#x2F;fohull&#x2F;a_year_to_learn_japanese_reflections_on_five&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;LearnJapanese&#x2F;comments&#x2F;fohull&#x2F;a_yea...</a><p>Follow the links to
Pronunciation: Basics, prosody and phonetics on the page above and understand how sounds are made.<p>If you don&#x27;t understand the mechanics of tongue position, lip shapes, where the sound originates (front of the mouth or back of the throat) then you may not be able make the right sound.<p>If you can spend money get expert help (speech therapist, though I haven&#x27;t done this personally).<p>Practice. Speaking involves physical muscles so practice those muscles.<p>Record yourself and listen ( after a few days). Observe pronunciations that need to be fixed and repeat.<p>In time, the mechanics of tongue position, lip shapes etc., will become subconscious and you will not have to worry about this consciously and you will speak naturally.<p>1. Most recent stand up comedy performance.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;845a6wyO5h0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;845a6wyO5h0</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dominotw</author><text>I personally found that learning the intonation and &#x27;rhythm&#x27; of the language has way more influence on how easily the other person understands you.<p>If the goal to for people to understand you ( vs sounding like a native speaker). I would focus more on the flow and the music of the language. Unfortunately this is cultural and can only be picked up passively through cultural immersion. You cannot pick this up as an outsider.<p>btw, your standup was really funny, kudos for putting yourself out there like that. That&#x27;s amazing.</text></comment> |
20,524,531 | 20,523,931 | 1 | 2 | 20,520,974 | train | <story><title>Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel stepping down</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/tesla-co-founder-and-cto-jb-straubel-stepping-down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomsearch</author><text>Why do some many people hate Tesla and want them to fail? Do they also want SpaceX to fail?<p>Elon can be an asshat sometimes, and he oversells and is over-optimistic. But even if the short sellers are right and Tesla will go bankrupt (which, btw, does not equal failure in many ways), why are so many people excited about that?<p>Most tech giants of recent times have done things I would consider to have made the world a much worse place. Why is Tesla, which has done a lot for humanity and is a key advancement in tackling climate change, hated so much? Why not save your hate for companies damaging democracy or workers rights, which seem like more serious charges?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lazare</author><text>&gt; Why do some many people hate Tesla and want them to fail?<p>My feeling is that the overwhelming majority of Tesla critics do <i>not</i> hate Tesla, and do <i>not</i> want Tesla to fail. Rather, they see Tesla as a small, unimportant, poorly run company that gets far more press (positive <i>and</i> negative) than it deserves, and who respond by needling Tesla super-fans. The super fans, in turn, react by treating this as shocking, but it&#x27;s not really. Tesla critics are treating Tesla like a normal company, and most companies are not particularly well-liked. Nobody cares if Amalgamated Widgets rises and falls except it&#x27;s investors and competitors.<p>&gt; Do they also want SpaceX to fail?<p>No. But also, Tesla critics, I believe, view SpaceX as a <i>VERY</i> different company. Tesla is just another car company making just another car. SpaceX is something else entirely.<p>If your mental model is &quot;Tesla is like SpaceX&quot;, this probably feels weird to you, and the way Tesla gets covered in the press - as if it was merely a car company! - must be maddening. If your mental model is &quot;Tesla is like Saab&quot;, this seems pretty obvious.<p>&gt; Most tech giants of recent times have done things I would consider to have made the world a much worse place.<p>I would never <i>dream</i> of calling Tesla a &quot;tech giant&quot;. It&#x27;s a car company, it&#x27;s not making very good cars, it&#x27;s not making them very well, it&#x27;s not making very many of them, and it&#x27;s not making a lot of money off them. I am <i>incredibly</i> tired of hearing about Tesla. Even if it wins, the Tesla end-game is to be another big successful car company, and I don&#x27;t care about big successful car companies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel stepping down</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/tesla-co-founder-and-cto-jb-straubel-stepping-down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomsearch</author><text>Why do some many people hate Tesla and want them to fail? Do they also want SpaceX to fail?<p>Elon can be an asshat sometimes, and he oversells and is over-optimistic. But even if the short sellers are right and Tesla will go bankrupt (which, btw, does not equal failure in many ways), why are so many people excited about that?<p>Most tech giants of recent times have done things I would consider to have made the world a much worse place. Why is Tesla, which has done a lot for humanity and is a key advancement in tackling climate change, hated so much? Why not save your hate for companies damaging democracy or workers rights, which seem like more serious charges?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>&gt;Why do some many people hate Tesla and want them to fail? Do they also want SpaceX to fail?<p>For me personally the treatment of their workers, their anti-unionisation efforts, and their misleading advertisement of the autopilot, together with Musks extremely off-putting public behaviour. And no I don&#x27;t want spaceX to fail.<p>&gt;Why not save your hate for companies damaging democracy or workers rights, which seem like more serious charges?<p>I think many people, including myself at this point have similar opinions about Facebook et al. There are relatively few large tech companies left that I look at optimistically.</text></comment> |
10,903,922 | 10,903,975 | 1 | 2 | 10,899,840 | train | <story><title>Stop Buying Real Estate in SF</title><url>https://medium.com/@alexanderbcampbell/stop-buying-real-estate-in-sf-8c019897469#.t4bbabam3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>I think there is something else going on in real estate. This is the only asset class with significantly above average gains for decades. It does go down once in a while but it comes roaring back in relatively short time. Even when dropping, it rarely goes below 25% protecting most of the principal. This is about the only item that had massive inflation in past 7 years.<p>I think what is happening is real estate is becoming currency just like what gold was used to be. In economics, you can make anything a currency which cannot be manufactured easily and is available in quantity that is very hard to grow. Economists are puzzled why the tons of money poured in to system through QEs isn&#x27;t producing any inflation. I think QEs are indeed producing massive inflation but it all goes in to real estate. Funds like Blackstone eventually ends up with significant chunk of QE money and guess what is their major investment activity these days? The easy &quot;inexpensive&quot; money is the best way to inflate real estate. It&#x27;s a like you eat a lot but only your waist is accumulating all the fat and you wonder why your hands and feet remain so thin. I suspect this trend will continue because people are realizing real estate is more safer currency that can be relied upon as opposed to stocks or anything else. The safety is derived from the fact that, in worst case, it can be rented to generate better than interest returns or physically be used. This assumption can only be violated if interest rates grows a lot beyond rent income and thus in high inflation. However overall economic inflation cannot happen if all the surplus keeps landing in real estate. So it seems like virtuous self locked cycle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yggydrasily</author><text>The &quot;something else&quot; is money laundering (i.e., all-cash purchases with zero oversight). Thankfully, the US government is finally starting to crack down on this stuff:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;14&#x2F;us&#x2F;us-will-track-secret-buyers-of-luxury-real-estate.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;14&#x2F;us&#x2F;us-will-track-secret-bu...</a><p>But so far it&#x27;s only in other cities. I&#x27;m hoping this will spread to the rest of the USA and then we won&#x27;t have so many foreign criminals buying land with suitcases full of ill-gotten cash, driving up prices.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop Buying Real Estate in SF</title><url>https://medium.com/@alexanderbcampbell/stop-buying-real-estate-in-sf-8c019897469#.t4bbabam3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sytelus</author><text>I think there is something else going on in real estate. This is the only asset class with significantly above average gains for decades. It does go down once in a while but it comes roaring back in relatively short time. Even when dropping, it rarely goes below 25% protecting most of the principal. This is about the only item that had massive inflation in past 7 years.<p>I think what is happening is real estate is becoming currency just like what gold was used to be. In economics, you can make anything a currency which cannot be manufactured easily and is available in quantity that is very hard to grow. Economists are puzzled why the tons of money poured in to system through QEs isn&#x27;t producing any inflation. I think QEs are indeed producing massive inflation but it all goes in to real estate. Funds like Blackstone eventually ends up with significant chunk of QE money and guess what is their major investment activity these days? The easy &quot;inexpensive&quot; money is the best way to inflate real estate. It&#x27;s a like you eat a lot but only your waist is accumulating all the fat and you wonder why your hands and feet remain so thin. I suspect this trend will continue because people are realizing real estate is more safer currency that can be relied upon as opposed to stocks or anything else. The safety is derived from the fact that, in worst case, it can be rented to generate better than interest returns or physically be used. This assumption can only be violated if interest rates grows a lot beyond rent income and thus in high inflation. However overall economic inflation cannot happen if all the surplus keeps landing in real estate. So it seems like virtuous self locked cycle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jusben1369</author><text>To be fair only <i>some</i> economists thought QE would be inflationary. Many understood it would not. And why would you call real estate a currency and not an asset class? Most of your comments indicate you think it&#x27;s a highly attractive asset class vs really a currency.</text></comment> |
23,063,534 | 23,063,535 | 1 | 3 | 23,062,723 | train | <story><title>YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/david-icke-man-behind-coronavirus-5g-conspiracy-has-youtube-channel-shuttered-sharing-1501641</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knzhou</author><text>Do you have a standard in mind that&#x27;s better than the WHO? Would you prefer content prohibited on the basis of whether it sounds right or wrong to a random Google employee?</text></item><item><author>imgabe</author><text>I&#x27;m not going to shed a tear for David Icke, but this quote is very concerning:<p>&gt; YouTube has clear policies prohibiting any content that disputes the existence and transmission of Covid-19 <i>as described by the WHO [World Health Organization] and the NHS [the U.K&#x27;s healthcare system]</i> [emphasis added]<p>The WHO at least has been flat out wrong several times during this pandemic, such as telling people not to wear masks. Anointing one agency as the sole source of truth and censoring anything that contradicts it is not going to lead to a good outcome. People need to be able to question authorities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imgabe</author><text>I would prefer <i>content</i> not to be prohibited at all. Content is not a problem. Actions are a problem. Watch all the videos you like telling you to burn down a cell tower. Once you <i>do</i> burn down a cell tower, then you go to jail. Perhaps we should also then hold the people telling people to burn down cell towers responsible, criminally and civilly, for the people who listen to them.<p>David Icke might not be so cavalier about telling people to burn down cell towers if he could be sued and&#x2F;or jailed after people took him up on it.<p>As a general principle, I think we should focus on <i>actual</i> consequences, not imagined, potential consequences.<p>This has the effect of also encouraging useful dissent. If you disagree with WHO and you turn out to be right, you can be properly credited with it. You are not automatically punished for the crime of daring to disagree with the WHO, and we all benefit from having more accurate, useful information.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/david-icke-man-behind-coronavirus-5g-conspiracy-has-youtube-channel-shuttered-sharing-1501641</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knzhou</author><text>Do you have a standard in mind that&#x27;s better than the WHO? Would you prefer content prohibited on the basis of whether it sounds right or wrong to a random Google employee?</text></item><item><author>imgabe</author><text>I&#x27;m not going to shed a tear for David Icke, but this quote is very concerning:<p>&gt; YouTube has clear policies prohibiting any content that disputes the existence and transmission of Covid-19 <i>as described by the WHO [World Health Organization] and the NHS [the U.K&#x27;s healthcare system]</i> [emphasis added]<p>The WHO at least has been flat out wrong several times during this pandemic, such as telling people not to wear masks. Anointing one agency as the sole source of truth and censoring anything that contradicts it is not going to lead to a good outcome. People need to be able to question authorities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colordrops</author><text>No, there should not be a standard of truth, that&#x27;s the point. It&#x27;s a market place of free ideas.</text></comment> |
11,077,110 | 11,076,848 | 1 | 3 | 11,076,161 | train | <story><title>Google is banning Flash from its display ads</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/10/10957570/google-bans-flash-display-ads-january-2017</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pippy</author><text>One thing HTML5 lacks is the ability to combine all assets into one file. This makes Flash particularly handy for advertisements. Safari almost got there with its .Webarchive format, and Mozilla experimented with a file format but it didn&#x27;t get anywhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanp2k2</author><text>Bundles might make sense, but one large blob that couldn&#x27;t be parsed until it was finished loading would probably be a big step backward for responsiveness. Parallel downloads also help speed things up.<p>Another interesting idea for JS-heavy sites is server-side pre rendering (yes, having the server generate HTML like the good old bad days) like Ember FastBoot <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomdale.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;youre-missing-the-point-of-server-side-rendered-javascript-apps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomdale.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;youre-missing-the-point-of-server...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google is banning Flash from its display ads</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/10/10957570/google-bans-flash-display-ads-january-2017</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pippy</author><text>One thing HTML5 lacks is the ability to combine all assets into one file. This makes Flash particularly handy for advertisements. Safari almost got there with its .Webarchive format, and Mozilla experimented with a file format but it didn&#x27;t get anywhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austinheap</author><text>Isn&#x27;t that mostly moot with HTTP 2.0 multiplexing?</text></comment> |
1,329,031 | 1,329,064 | 1 | 2 | 1,328,452 | train | <story><title>Thursday = Thor's day</title><url>http://sivers.org/thor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgk284</author><text>I think the argument is fairly sound and is great at concisely explaining why religion is a product of humanity's imagination and current culture. (With all due respect, don't take this as an affront on your beliefs.)<p>I like the argument for a number of reasons:<p>- It beg's the question "Why do I reject those other 529 gods?" Generally there is no good answer for this other than being indoctrinated at a young age. You realize that you believe what you believe because of the circumstances in which you were born. This leads to the conclusion that the religion you follow has more to do with where you live than what is "correct". (Noting that there are plenty of exceptions to this).<p>- It drives home the point that humanity has been creating gods for thousands of years. Most of those gods have likely been created before your god had even first been mentioned. Any rational person would ask why did humanity move past those gods? You can never disprove the existence of a god, so what happened? Ideally, you realize that religion is much like any trend, just with longer than average turn around.<p>- If you follow the trend of gods, you realize that humanity has been generally moving away from polytheism towards monotheism. This makes you wonder why and conclude that it is tightly correlated to (and arguably directly caused by) humanity's understanding of the universe. As we understand more about everything, we don't need gods to fill in these gaps of knowledge. For instance, we understand why the Sun rises or lightning strikes. As humanity has progressed, one by one we killed the need for Roman and Greek gods. This leads you to wonder what role a monotheistic god fills and realize that the god is generally used to bring understanding to things we don't understand and reason to things we can't control. This is hardly a rational reason for a figment that "solves" all unsolved problems.<p>In short, I like the "(n-1) vs n gods" argument because when you think through everything implied by it, a rational being has no choice but to conclude that in all likelihood the religion they follow is not correct. Unfortunately, emotion plays a huge role in religion, making rational thought difficult. On a personal note, I was a theist for 20 years, backed by 12 years of formal study in my religion. Making the mental shift to realizing everything I'd believed was wrong was difficult to say the least, but years later my life is all the better for it.</text></item><item><author>grellas</author><text>The logic here doesn't hold with respect to monothestic religions such as Judaism or Christianity.<p>The Ten Commandments, which are common to these two religions, have two "tables," the first of which (commandments 1 - 5) defines the relations between God and man and the second of which defines the relations between men (6 - 10). The very first commandment is "thou shalt have no other gods before me. The next proscription is against idolatry, which basically amounts to a worship of things that are seen, or the creation itself, which in KJV language is as follows: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth." In other words, belief in God is everything while belief (in the sense of worship) in anything else is all idolatry.<p>Thus, the logic of a monothestic religion of this type is that there is one true God and every other purported deity is a mere figment of man's imagination, hence an idol (the very word "idol" derives from a Greek root from which the Greek word "to see" comes from - even the word "idea" comes from a Greek word originally meaning "to see with the mind") and hence not real.<p>The logic of this piece holds if we proceed from an atheistic baseline, which takes the opposite view that only that which is material is real and all purported deities are only figments of man's imagination. If you assume that premise, then it is true that my belief in one deity and rejection of the 529 that others have believed in is not materially different from your rejection of all 530 of them (or whatever the number).<p>But this logic falls apart if one assumes there is one true deity (infinite creator and providential overseer of a creation from which the deity is above and apart) and all the rest of the purported deities are simply products of the mind and hence not real or true. In that case, the person who believes in the true deity can consistently say that he as a theist believes in the true one while rejecting all the false ones while the person who denies all of them includes in that denial the one true deity and hence is an atheist.<p>I know this is not the forum to get into religious debates but, if my summary of the logic is wrong, I invite others to explain why. Note that I am not assuming here that any religious point of view is true. I am merely taking that view on its own logic and explaining why it makes perfect sense for someone with that belief to say that he is a theist while one who is not a believer is an atheist. If the premise of one true God is true, it is utterly irrelevant to say that man has concocted a billion fake ones such that we are all atheists in denying them.<p>In other words, from the theistic perspective, the question is whether there is indeed a true deity of whatever type. If so, that is pretty important. If not, then obviously it is not. (Disclaimer: I am a believer and, indeed, a deacon in my church - but I am not making my points from a religious perspective, merely a logical one).<p>Edit (concerning the several replies): I invited you to engage the logic of my argument and you certainly did! My post <i>is</i> probably beside the point if all the original piece did was depict a way of steering away from a religious discussion that begins "How can you not believe in God?" or if it was merely a technique for getting a believer to understand the viewpoint of one who does not believe in a particular deity or in any at all. I don't think I was trying to exalt the theistic point of view or to denigrate those who don't accept it - merely trying to say what follows from accepting its premises. Got to rush now because I have to prepare to teach a Bible study tonight (really). Thanks for the fine comments - very stimulating.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grellas</author><text>Nice points, though we disagree. Ironically, I was an atheist for 20 years of my adult life before I went in the other direction (I don't think I became irrational in the process, but that is where we disagree).</text></comment> | <story><title>Thursday = Thor's day</title><url>http://sivers.org/thor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgk284</author><text>I think the argument is fairly sound and is great at concisely explaining why religion is a product of humanity's imagination and current culture. (With all due respect, don't take this as an affront on your beliefs.)<p>I like the argument for a number of reasons:<p>- It beg's the question "Why do I reject those other 529 gods?" Generally there is no good answer for this other than being indoctrinated at a young age. You realize that you believe what you believe because of the circumstances in which you were born. This leads to the conclusion that the religion you follow has more to do with where you live than what is "correct". (Noting that there are plenty of exceptions to this).<p>- It drives home the point that humanity has been creating gods for thousands of years. Most of those gods have likely been created before your god had even first been mentioned. Any rational person would ask why did humanity move past those gods? You can never disprove the existence of a god, so what happened? Ideally, you realize that religion is much like any trend, just with longer than average turn around.<p>- If you follow the trend of gods, you realize that humanity has been generally moving away from polytheism towards monotheism. This makes you wonder why and conclude that it is tightly correlated to (and arguably directly caused by) humanity's understanding of the universe. As we understand more about everything, we don't need gods to fill in these gaps of knowledge. For instance, we understand why the Sun rises or lightning strikes. As humanity has progressed, one by one we killed the need for Roman and Greek gods. This leads you to wonder what role a monotheistic god fills and realize that the god is generally used to bring understanding to things we don't understand and reason to things we can't control. This is hardly a rational reason for a figment that "solves" all unsolved problems.<p>In short, I like the "(n-1) vs n gods" argument because when you think through everything implied by it, a rational being has no choice but to conclude that in all likelihood the religion they follow is not correct. Unfortunately, emotion plays a huge role in religion, making rational thought difficult. On a personal note, I was a theist for 20 years, backed by 12 years of formal study in my religion. Making the mental shift to realizing everything I'd believed was wrong was difficult to say the least, but years later my life is all the better for it.</text></item><item><author>grellas</author><text>The logic here doesn't hold with respect to monothestic religions such as Judaism or Christianity.<p>The Ten Commandments, which are common to these two religions, have two "tables," the first of which (commandments 1 - 5) defines the relations between God and man and the second of which defines the relations between men (6 - 10). The very first commandment is "thou shalt have no other gods before me. The next proscription is against idolatry, which basically amounts to a worship of things that are seen, or the creation itself, which in KJV language is as follows: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth." In other words, belief in God is everything while belief (in the sense of worship) in anything else is all idolatry.<p>Thus, the logic of a monothestic religion of this type is that there is one true God and every other purported deity is a mere figment of man's imagination, hence an idol (the very word "idol" derives from a Greek root from which the Greek word "to see" comes from - even the word "idea" comes from a Greek word originally meaning "to see with the mind") and hence not real.<p>The logic of this piece holds if we proceed from an atheistic baseline, which takes the opposite view that only that which is material is real and all purported deities are only figments of man's imagination. If you assume that premise, then it is true that my belief in one deity and rejection of the 529 that others have believed in is not materially different from your rejection of all 530 of them (or whatever the number).<p>But this logic falls apart if one assumes there is one true deity (infinite creator and providential overseer of a creation from which the deity is above and apart) and all the rest of the purported deities are simply products of the mind and hence not real or true. In that case, the person who believes in the true deity can consistently say that he as a theist believes in the true one while rejecting all the false ones while the person who denies all of them includes in that denial the one true deity and hence is an atheist.<p>I know this is not the forum to get into religious debates but, if my summary of the logic is wrong, I invite others to explain why. Note that I am not assuming here that any religious point of view is true. I am merely taking that view on its own logic and explaining why it makes perfect sense for someone with that belief to say that he is a theist while one who is not a believer is an atheist. If the premise of one true God is true, it is utterly irrelevant to say that man has concocted a billion fake ones such that we are all atheists in denying them.<p>In other words, from the theistic perspective, the question is whether there is indeed a true deity of whatever type. If so, that is pretty important. If not, then obviously it is not. (Disclaimer: I am a believer and, indeed, a deacon in my church - but I am not making my points from a religious perspective, merely a logical one).<p>Edit (concerning the several replies): I invited you to engage the logic of my argument and you certainly did! My post <i>is</i> probably beside the point if all the original piece did was depict a way of steering away from a religious discussion that begins "How can you not believe in God?" or if it was merely a technique for getting a believer to understand the viewpoint of one who does not believe in a particular deity or in any at all. I don't think I was trying to exalt the theistic point of view or to denigrate those who don't accept it - merely trying to say what follows from accepting its premises. Got to rush now because I have to prepare to teach a Bible study tonight (really). Thanks for the fine comments - very stimulating.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timwiseman</author><text>You make some very cogent points and make them well. But there are alternative ways of looking at it.<p><i>- It beg's the question "Why do I reject those other 529 gods?"</i>
I reject the others specficially because I accept Christianity. I can neither prove my religion nor disprove (most) of the others, yet by accepting mine I must reject all others. I acknowledge I do this as a leap of faith, but that is different from being indoctrinated at a young age. I will agree with your over all point that most people just believe whatever they are told at a young age, but the more thoughtful people of any religion will often be able to bring forth real arguments for it. This of course is not proof, and many of these arguments involve sometimes personal experiences, but that is still very different from no good answer other than indoctrination.<p><i>Most of those gods have likely been created before your god had even first been mentioned.</i><p>Many religions will disagree with this. Literalists amoungst Christians and Jews, for instance, will beleive that God was known about since Adam with an unbroken chain of believers. The reasonable literalists will agree that God was first written about late in history, but that is different.<p>To those people, society did not move past older deities so much as some branched off to false religions and then some of those false religions faded away.<p>(I am not a literalist, but it is an alternate explanation)<p><i>If you follow the trend of gods, you realize that humanity has been generally moving away from polytheism towards monotheism.</i><p>True as a general rule, but first note that some polytheistic religions are still around, even in relatively highly educated populaces. Second, note that an alternate explanation is that God is trying to subtly guide humanity to the truth and moving to monotheism is man's response to this guidance. I am again not saying I personally believe this, but that is provides a different explanation.<p>You make excellent arguments which I respect, but there are other explanations for everything you bring up and I do not think they would provide much weight to someone who already believed one way or another.<p>[edit: fixed an omitted "not"]</text></comment> |
35,817,187 | 35,816,556 | 1 | 2 | 35,815,396 | train | <story><title>The UK’s tortured attempt to remake the internet</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/23708180/united-kingdom-online-safety-bill-explainer-legal-pornography-age-checks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>okeuro49</author><text>Rather than this law, I would start at banning social media accounts for under 16s.<p>Social media has arguably had an appalling effect on the mental being of teenage girls.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;voices&#x2F;metaverse-facebook-instagram-social-media-b2008700.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;voices&#x2F;metaverse-facebook-inst...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The UK’s tortured attempt to remake the internet</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/23708180/united-kingdom-online-safety-bill-explainer-legal-pornography-age-checks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jarym</author><text>The current UK government are on their last legs - the overwhelming majority of the public don&#x27;t trust them and we&#x27;re now on our second unelected Prime Minister.<p>IMO, they&#x27;re just trying to get through the things they want into legislation before they get booted out next year.<p>But, they&#x27;ve been so awful generally that the public are beginning to see for themselves why we can&#x27;t trust government to &#x27;do the right thing&#x27; for the people.</text></comment> |
10,524,208 | 10,523,959 | 1 | 3 | 10,521,816 | train | <story><title>Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix</title><url>http://www.coglib.com/~icordasc/blog/2015/11/corporations-and-oss-do-not-mix.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toyg</author><text>In 15 years, I&#x27;ve read my fair share of &quot;open source developer&#x27;s lament&quot;, and when the projects mentioned are stuff like Requests or SQLObject I honestly don&#x27;t understand. If you step back and try to look at these problems in a structured way, you can see that it always boil down to the following algo:<p>1. Is it a money problem? Then <i>ask for money</i> every time anyone asks for a piece of you (i.e. bug fixing, event patronage, whatever).<p>2. Is is a time problem? Then hire someone. If you can&#x27;t afford it, it&#x27;s a money problem: goto 1.<p>3. Is it a skills problem? Then hire someone. If you can&#x27;t afford it, it&#x27;s a money problem: goto 1.<p>I mean, <i>requests</i> alone is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. with all due respect to Kenneth and Ian, I find it hard to believe that it cannot pay one developer salary, even at Californian rates, unless they simply <i>cannot be bothered to ask for money</i>. Stuff like adding a &quot;donate&quot; button on the page looks <i>lazy</i>.<p>There are tons of ways to get money out of big corporations. Get a rotating-sponsorship deal where a company pays one salary for one year -- between Amazon, Google and Twitter (all heavy requests users, I&#x27;m sure), you already have three years of <i>full-time development</i>. They get quick bugfixes, you get a better life, win-win. These companies make <i>billions</i> with your code, I cannot believe they can&#x27;t cough up some spare cash. I mean, look at the OpenBSD Foundation: they asked for some change to pay a month of server time, and they got <i>Microsoft</i> to dole out huge cash to port OpenSSH to Windows. <i>Microsoft</i>, FFS!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fijal</author><text>Hi toyg.<p>You clearly haven&#x27;t tried raising money for an Open Source project. It&#x27;s really really difficult and the amounts of money you get range a lot. Usually you also want to underpromise and overdeliver, so it&#x27;s about raising 10-20k USD to deliver a project that will take three to six months of full time work to deliver, ADDITIONALLY to fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure and doing things for which you can&#x27;t possible raise money at any rate. Contact me privately I can share more of the details, but it sounds like you&#x27;re quite detached from the open source reality.<p>PS. We work on PyPy and cffi</text></comment> | <story><title>Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix</title><url>http://www.coglib.com/~icordasc/blog/2015/11/corporations-and-oss-do-not-mix.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toyg</author><text>In 15 years, I&#x27;ve read my fair share of &quot;open source developer&#x27;s lament&quot;, and when the projects mentioned are stuff like Requests or SQLObject I honestly don&#x27;t understand. If you step back and try to look at these problems in a structured way, you can see that it always boil down to the following algo:<p>1. Is it a money problem? Then <i>ask for money</i> every time anyone asks for a piece of you (i.e. bug fixing, event patronage, whatever).<p>2. Is is a time problem? Then hire someone. If you can&#x27;t afford it, it&#x27;s a money problem: goto 1.<p>3. Is it a skills problem? Then hire someone. If you can&#x27;t afford it, it&#x27;s a money problem: goto 1.<p>I mean, <i>requests</i> alone is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. with all due respect to Kenneth and Ian, I find it hard to believe that it cannot pay one developer salary, even at Californian rates, unless they simply <i>cannot be bothered to ask for money</i>. Stuff like adding a &quot;donate&quot; button on the page looks <i>lazy</i>.<p>There are tons of ways to get money out of big corporations. Get a rotating-sponsorship deal where a company pays one salary for one year -- between Amazon, Google and Twitter (all heavy requests users, I&#x27;m sure), you already have three years of <i>full-time development</i>. They get quick bugfixes, you get a better life, win-win. These companies make <i>billions</i> with your code, I cannot believe they can&#x27;t cough up some spare cash. I mean, look at the OpenBSD Foundation: they asked for some change to pay a month of server time, and they got <i>Microsoft</i> to dole out huge cash to port OpenSSH to Windows. <i>Microsoft</i>, FFS!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lambda</author><text>I work at a company that uses a large amount of free software.<p>For much of it, if we find a bug, we either fix it ourselves locally, or go through the normal process of submitting a bug report, possibly submitting our own patch, and waiting for a fix from upstream, while finding some way to work around it or the like.<p>For some of the software that is central to our business, we have a contract with a company that provides support and development services. If we have a bug that we need fixed right now, we get in touch with them and pay an agreed upon rate to do so.<p>We don&#x27;t do this for everything we use, because most of it works off the shelf, or we just replace it or work around it, or the open development process works well enough. But for those things that are absolutely key to our business, and for which there&#x27;s a consulting company that employs several of the core developers on the project, it&#x27;s definitely worth it to pay for the support that we need.</text></comment> |
41,372,273 | 41,370,553 | 1 | 2 | 41,365,868 | train | <story><title>Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/26/zuckerberg-meta-white-house-pressure-00176399</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diob</author><text>My experience on all platforms is things have rapidly become slop. Quora, Facebook, Twitter, Threads. They all have a weird issue of random softcore sex stuff.<p>I have nothing against sex content, but I do wish we could just click a button to say turn this off, like safe search. It can&#x27;t be that hard to filter out all the weird shit, so I assume it makes them money.</text></item><item><author>object-a</author><text>It&#x27;s funny because Facebook&#x27;s news feed in the last couple years is unusable, filled with AI slop and clickbait. Twitter similarly requires aggressive use of block + mute to eliminate scams, clickbait, and other content I&#x27;m not interested in.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this is due to their changes in moderation policy, or if AI has overwhelmed them, but I vastly preferred the old news feeds</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pndy</author><text>I&#x27;m observing this happening for a while on mastodon and bluesky as well. And sometimes I&#x27;m having a feeling that there are groups who will actively drop their nsfw content in the places where it shouldn&#x27;t be. Or create content that hangs on a thin line of legality that gives a dubious greenlight to stuff that is clearly explicit.<p>I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s any other way beside automatic content scanning how much I don&#x27;t like this idea because on few big networks examples, manual work done by human can be harmful - even if it&#x27;s &quot;just&quot; naked people on pictures or drawings. Not mention it&#x27;s a hard labor. Requiring that content should be marked as nsfw under a threat of ban could be also a way but as above, people can avoid that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/26/zuckerberg-meta-white-house-pressure-00176399</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diob</author><text>My experience on all platforms is things have rapidly become slop. Quora, Facebook, Twitter, Threads. They all have a weird issue of random softcore sex stuff.<p>I have nothing against sex content, but I do wish we could just click a button to say turn this off, like safe search. It can&#x27;t be that hard to filter out all the weird shit, so I assume it makes them money.</text></item><item><author>object-a</author><text>It&#x27;s funny because Facebook&#x27;s news feed in the last couple years is unusable, filled with AI slop and clickbait. Twitter similarly requires aggressive use of block + mute to eliminate scams, clickbait, and other content I&#x27;m not interested in.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this is due to their changes in moderation policy, or if AI has overwhelmed them, but I vastly preferred the old news feeds</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>Don&#x27;t worry, soon someone here will build an &quot;HDMI-hole&quot; that uses AI to directly filter unwanted content from a HDMI signal.</text></comment> |
18,546,553 | 18,546,509 | 1 | 3 | 18,545,508 | train | <story><title>Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision</title><url>https://deadspin.com/armageddon-looms-over-the-world-chess-championship-afte-1830671246</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tux1968</author><text>That really seems to favor black by a rather large margin. Wonder if there are any stats on the win ratios for each color in this format. And how do they decide who get&#x27;s each color?</text></item><item><author>z92</author><text>Armageddon :<p>&quot;the players proceed to a single game of Armageddon, where the parameters are set to so far as possible give each side a 50-percent chance of winning—White gets 5 minutes, Black gets 4 minutes, and a draw will make Black the World Champion.&quot;</text></item><item><author>scrooched_moose</author><text>If anyone doesn&#x27;t know, &quot;Armageddon&quot; is a type of chess game that guarantees a victor; it&#x27;s not just a click-bait title. It&#x27;s the last tiebreaker after a series of other Rapid and Blitz games. (all this is covered, just way at the end of the article)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fast_chess#Armageddon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fast_chess#Armageddon</a><p>fivethirtyeight has been covering the tournament and their rough calculation gives it a 1:5000 chance of making it to the Armageddon game, based on Carlesen&#x27;s superior Rapid and Blitz rankings.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fivethirtyeight.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;carlsens-bizarre-decision-has-sent-the-world-chess-championship-to-overtime&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fivethirtyeight.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;carlsens-bizarre-decisi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jach</author><text>A fairer approach might be to auction the time. i.e. each player bids on number of minutes (or perhaps 10 second intervals?), the highest bid takes black with the win-on-draw condition and that many minutes taken from the 5 minute time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision</title><url>https://deadspin.com/armageddon-looms-over-the-world-chess-championship-afte-1830671246</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tux1968</author><text>That really seems to favor black by a rather large margin. Wonder if there are any stats on the win ratios for each color in this format. And how do they decide who get&#x27;s each color?</text></item><item><author>z92</author><text>Armageddon :<p>&quot;the players proceed to a single game of Armageddon, where the parameters are set to so far as possible give each side a 50-percent chance of winning—White gets 5 minutes, Black gets 4 minutes, and a draw will make Black the World Champion.&quot;</text></item><item><author>scrooched_moose</author><text>If anyone doesn&#x27;t know, &quot;Armageddon&quot; is a type of chess game that guarantees a victor; it&#x27;s not just a click-bait title. It&#x27;s the last tiebreaker after a series of other Rapid and Blitz games. (all this is covered, just way at the end of the article)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fast_chess#Armageddon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fast_chess#Armageddon</a><p>fivethirtyeight has been covering the tournament and their rough calculation gives it a 1:5000 chance of making it to the Armageddon game, based on Carlesen&#x27;s superior Rapid and Blitz rankings.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fivethirtyeight.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;carlsens-bizarre-decision-has-sent-the-world-chess-championship-to-overtime&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fivethirtyeight.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;carlsens-bizarre-decisi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gojomo</author><text>It could make sense to instead let the players bid for black (ie, winning draws), in units of time-differential, similar to this idea for auctioning off 1st possession in a USA-Football overtime by starting yard-line:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slate.com&#x2F;culture&#x2F;2009&#x2F;01&#x2F;why-the-nfl-should-replace-the-overtime-coin-toss-with-an-auction-system.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slate.com&#x2F;culture&#x2F;2009&#x2F;01&#x2F;why-the-nfl-should-replace...</a></text></comment> |
33,518,990 | 33,519,037 | 1 | 3 | 33,482,042 | train | <story><title>Idaho Stop</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SamBam</author><text>This seems designed to start a bicycle argument.<p>I&#x27;ll go ahead and present the cyclist&#x27;s view, and try not to get flamed:<p>A cyclist&#x27;s head is much closer to the end of their vehicle, and they have a much more unobstructed view around them. By the time they are a few feet from the stop sign, they can already see much further down the street than a driver in a car could. This means it&#x27;s easier to assess safety and make a snap decision to keep going. Coming to a complete stop doesn&#x27;t really add any more safety.<p>Further, while accidents that harm pedestrians do certainly happen, and shouldn&#x27;t be minimized, the vast majority of the time the biggest danger to a cyclist is themselves. Cars kill people every day, so it is reasonable that they be held to a higher standard. If you started out with a bicycle-only intersection with a yield sign, and then started allowing cars through, wouldn&#x27;t you want to increase the safety of that intersection by requiring a stop?<p>As a final thought, most red lights in America could probably be stop signs or yield signs. The UK has been working towards this (with roundabouts too) and in general roads are safer when you require drivers to think and make decisions. I think much of car drivers&#x27; anger towards cyclists treating red lights as stop signs is not so much the safety aspect as a feeling of unfairness that <i>they</i> are stuck at the light while the cyclist checks the road and then bikes through.</text></comment> | <story><title>Idaho Stop</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>i_am_proteus</author><text>The key to this adding safety is <i>predictability.</i><p>As a former bicycle commuter, I had to ride defensively because automobile drivers would behave unpredictably around me, but I can&#x27;t be certain how much of that was because bicyclists are, as a whole, unpredictable. Commuters and tourists on rental bicycles behave very differently.<p>Rolling stop signs and lights when safe to do so is normal for bicyclists everywhere (when police are not present). Legalizing it so that automobile drivers become accustomed to it makes things safer. The principal hazard to surrounding traffic from a cyclist is when a car makes a sudden move in response to behavior by the cyclist that the car driver did not anticipate.</text></comment> |
37,713,071 | 37,709,202 | 1 | 3 | 37,707,119 | train | <story><title>I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads</title><url>https://www.404media.co/i-tested-an-hdmi-adapter-that-demands-your-location-browsing-data-photos-and-spams-you-with-ads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwoolfe</author><text>Given that the device is plugged in, trusted, shows up as a computer, and requires external power, it has all the connections it needs spy on the screen (at minimum) and remote control the victim iPhone without permission in the worst case. (it has video feed, and can emulate USB keyboard and mouse) Yikes!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>upwardbound</author><text>Agreed. If you want to prove to yourself that this vulnerability is real, consider that you can replicate the hypothesized malicious device you describe by taking a WiFi Duck <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wifiduck.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wifiduck.com&#x2F;</a> and combining it with a regular lightning-to-HDMI adapter by plugging the WiFi Duck into the extra lightning port on the HDMI adapter. All that would be needed to use this attack on an unsuspecting victim would be to combine the WiFi Duck and the HDMI adapter functionality into a small enough circuit board to fit into the Apple-style white enclosure.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads</title><url>https://www.404media.co/i-tested-an-hdmi-adapter-that-demands-your-location-browsing-data-photos-and-spams-you-with-ads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwoolfe</author><text>Given that the device is plugged in, trusted, shows up as a computer, and requires external power, it has all the connections it needs spy on the screen (at minimum) and remote control the victim iPhone without permission in the worst case. (it has video feed, and can emulate USB keyboard and mouse) Yikes!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjoonathan</author><text>Integrating everything into USB has been great at physical simplification, but it really opened up the attack surface.<p>First party malware is the worst.</text></comment> |
21,160,274 | 21,158,950 | 1 | 3 | 21,157,404 | train | <story><title>Pricing niche products</title><url>https://kevinlynagh.com/notes/pricing-niche-products/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whack</author><text>When eBay first started, I loved the idea of auctions as a way to set market prices. From an economic and game-theory perspective, it is so optimal!<p>Clearly as later examples like Amazon have shown, auctions don&#x27;t make sense for most product categories. I believe this is mainly due to psychological reasons.<p>Decision-fatigue is a real thing. People dislike having to think hard. In a fixed-price sale, the buyer just has to ask themselves one yes&#x2F;no question: <i>&quot;Would I be happy buying this item for $X?&quot;</i> This is a very simple question to answer. In a sealed-bid auction, people have to ask themselves <i>&quot;What $X am I willing to pay for this item&quot;</i>, which is a tremendously more complex question to answer. In fact, from a game theory perspective, you should never put in a bid that you&#x27;re &quot;happy with&quot;. You should put in a bid where you&#x27;re exactly neutral between buying-vs-not-buying. Otherwise, you&#x27;re leaving money on the table. This is asking people to make purchasing decisions whose outcomes will leave them explicitly <i>not happy</i> - a state of mind that every person hates putting themselves in.<p>Couple this together with the fact that the buyer doesn&#x27;t even know whether they won the auction, until X hours&#x2F;days later. And during this period of time, they are under a state of uncertainty, which is another mental state that people generally hate.<p>I think that for very expensive, non-time-critical and hobbyist items, an auction may work great. People may actually enjoy pouring effort into it because it is their hobby. But for any item that people just want to buy-and-move-on, auctions are a horrible mechanism. Perhaps one day when AI assistants make all our purchasing decisions for us, auctions will become the norm, but certainly not today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SamBam</author><text>&gt; You should put in a bid where you&#x27;re exactly neutral between buying-vs-not-buying. Otherwise, you&#x27;re leaving money on the table. This is asking people to make purchasing decisions whose outcomes will leave them explicitly not happy - a state of mind that every person hates putting themselves in.<p>It seems that this is a problem the Vickrey auction solves. By charging the price offered by the 11th highest bidder, they are ensuring that everyone pays less than or equal to their bid, and most likely less than.<p>This works out perfectly if everyone actually bids their neutral point: the winners are all either neutral or happy (most likely happy), the 11th is neutral, and the losers are all neutral or happy (most likely happy).<p>In practice, people bid at a price that they&#x27;d be <i>happy</i> to get it, so actually the 11th will feel slightly miffed that they weren&#x27;t able to purchase at that price. And of course all the losers will be annoyed that it cost so much. But the former problem can&#x27;t really be helped, and the latter is baked into basic supply-demand.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pricing niche products</title><url>https://kevinlynagh.com/notes/pricing-niche-products/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whack</author><text>When eBay first started, I loved the idea of auctions as a way to set market prices. From an economic and game-theory perspective, it is so optimal!<p>Clearly as later examples like Amazon have shown, auctions don&#x27;t make sense for most product categories. I believe this is mainly due to psychological reasons.<p>Decision-fatigue is a real thing. People dislike having to think hard. In a fixed-price sale, the buyer just has to ask themselves one yes&#x2F;no question: <i>&quot;Would I be happy buying this item for $X?&quot;</i> This is a very simple question to answer. In a sealed-bid auction, people have to ask themselves <i>&quot;What $X am I willing to pay for this item&quot;</i>, which is a tremendously more complex question to answer. In fact, from a game theory perspective, you should never put in a bid that you&#x27;re &quot;happy with&quot;. You should put in a bid where you&#x27;re exactly neutral between buying-vs-not-buying. Otherwise, you&#x27;re leaving money on the table. This is asking people to make purchasing decisions whose outcomes will leave them explicitly <i>not happy</i> - a state of mind that every person hates putting themselves in.<p>Couple this together with the fact that the buyer doesn&#x27;t even know whether they won the auction, until X hours&#x2F;days later. And during this period of time, they are under a state of uncertainty, which is another mental state that people generally hate.<p>I think that for very expensive, non-time-critical and hobbyist items, an auction may work great. People may actually enjoy pouring effort into it because it is their hobby. But for any item that people just want to buy-and-move-on, auctions are a horrible mechanism. Perhaps one day when AI assistants make all our purchasing decisions for us, auctions will become the norm, but certainly not today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>octorian</author><text>&gt; When eBay first started, I loved the idea of auctions as a way to set market prices. From an economic and game-theory perspective, it is so optimal!<p>&gt; Clearly as later examples like Amazon have shown, auctions don&#x27;t make sense for most product categories. I believe this is mainly due to psychological reasons.<p>I&#x27;ve always loved eBay as a way to introduce sanity into the prices of old&#x2F;used items. Especially computer equipment, where &quot;regular vendors&quot; would rather let it sit on the shelf marked at 10x what its worth than actually price it to a level someone would be willing to pay.<p>Of course for new items, it never made any sense. The eBay prices were sometimes even higher than regular vendors, hoping to catch people in the place they happened to be looking.</text></comment> |
39,505,823 | 39,502,984 | 1 | 3 | 39,500,263 | train | <story><title>You almost never see a clock at the mall</title><url>https://thehustle.co/originals/why-you-almost-never-see-a-clock-at-the-mall</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>&gt; After 40 minutes, their brains effectively shut down. They struggled to make any logical decisions.<p>I&#x27;m dubious. I haven&#x27;t read the study they take this conclusion from, but it does not accord with my experience of the world. Your brain shuts down after 40 minutes in a supermarket, really? Anyway, it&#x27;s about supermarkets and not malls, and most of the other evidence in this article is about casinos. Thin soup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DavidWoof</author><text>If you follow through to the study, they displayed products on a screen to people in an MRI scanner, and asked them to evaluate the offers they were seeing. Unsurprisingly, after about 40 minutes their minds start to wander. Because in some warped researchers mind, being in the dark staring at a screen for an hour is <i>exactly</i> like being walking through a supermarket.<p>Sociology studies are such a joke.</text></comment> | <story><title>You almost never see a clock at the mall</title><url>https://thehustle.co/originals/why-you-almost-never-see-a-clock-at-the-mall</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>&gt; After 40 minutes, their brains effectively shut down. They struggled to make any logical decisions.<p>I&#x27;m dubious. I haven&#x27;t read the study they take this conclusion from, but it does not accord with my experience of the world. Your brain shuts down after 40 minutes in a supermarket, really? Anyway, it&#x27;s about supermarkets and not malls, and most of the other evidence in this article is about casinos. Thin soup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanjshaw</author><text>You (and I) are in the minority I think. The only time I browse a shop is when looking for a unique gift. Otherwise I go into the mall with a shopping list, get what I intended to get and leave. I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever bought an item on clothing on a whim. I also can&#x27;t stand casinos, I find the manipulative atmosphere disturbing.</text></comment> |
4,777,702 | 4,777,733 | 1 | 2 | 4,777,423 | train | <story><title>Starbucks, Google and Amazon: the tax crash of Monday afternoon</title><url>http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2012/11/13/starbucks-google-and-amazon-the-tax-crash-of-monday-afternoon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacques_chester</author><text><i>"No man in the country is under the smallest obligation, moral or other, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest possible shovel in his stores. The Inland Revenue is not slow, and quite rightly, to take every advantage which is open to it under the Taxing Statutes for the purposes of depleting the taxpayer's pocket. And the taxpayer is in like manner entitled to be astute to prevent, so far as he honestly can, the depletion of his means by the Inland Revenue"</i><p>Ayrshire Pullman Motor Services v Inland Revenue [1929] 141 Tax Case 754.<p><i>"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands."</i><p>Gregory v. Helvering 69 F.2d 809, 810 (2d Cir. 1934), aff'd, 293 U.S. 465, 55 S.Ct. 266, 79 L.Ed. 596 (1935)</text></comment> | <story><title>Starbucks, Google and Amazon: the tax crash of Monday afternoon</title><url>http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2012/11/13/starbucks-google-and-amazon-the-tax-crash-of-monday-afternoon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bobsy</author><text>I am angry with Amazon and Starbucks. I feel both of these have a large presence in the UK. They employ thousands of people. Amazon has done a large amount of damage to the UK high street. Starbucks has pushed out a number of independent coffee shops. The fact they are paying almost zero tax while being here I find abhorrent.<p>I want Amazon and Starbucks here. However I feel both are taking the piss when it comes to taxes. Amazon say they run a distribution network or something and so only have to pay minimal taxes. I feel the fact that these companies failed to justify why they pay the tax they do prove that they are doing something wrong - even if its not illegal.<p>As for Google I feel it is less of a problem. They mainly deal in digital goods. They don't have a big presence in the UK. They just offer their online service's here. As most of the tech work is done in the US or Ireland I don't think they have much to justify with their tax situation. I work for a website-as-a-service company and we have thousands of clients scattered around the world. Around 500 are based in the UK. I don't really see how we could accurately be charged tax based on geographical location of Sales.</text></comment> |
14,572,055 | 14,572,160 | 1 | 3 | 14,571,641 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Surface Laptop Teardown</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+Teardown/92915</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sputknick</author><text>This sounds to me like a specific instance of the &quot;most users don&#x27;t want it, so we won&#x27;t provide it&quot; problem in computing. Similar to the lack of MacBook for power users. People who want to open their laptop are a tiny minority of users, and thus, not a population worth addressing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unknown2374</author><text>That is very untrue. In most places in the world (and with most classes of people), the standard is to repair your laptop if it breaks, not buying a new one. Among certain people, and probably within the bias group you and I are coming from, the norm is to replace laptops every 3-4 years, but that is so not the case for a lot of the other groups of people and geography.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Surface Laptop Teardown</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+Teardown/92915</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sputknick</author><text>This sounds to me like a specific instance of the &quot;most users don&#x27;t want it, so we won&#x27;t provide it&quot; problem in computing. Similar to the lack of MacBook for power users. People who want to open their laptop are a tiny minority of users, and thus, not a population worth addressing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisper</author><text>I am confident that most users would choose upgradability over Aesthetics if that means reducing e-waste, even if they won&#x27;t use that feature.</text></comment> |
24,817,010 | 24,816,289 | 1 | 2 | 24,816,014 | train | <story><title>Oracle founder donated $250k to Graham PAC in final days of TikTok deal</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/17/21520356/oracle-tiktok-larry-ellison-lindsey-graham-super-pac-donation-jaime-harrison</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheRealDunkirk</author><text>$250K is lunch money for Larry Ellison. The _truly_ sad thing about American democracy isn&#x27;t that the government can be bought; it&#x27;s that it can be bought so cheaply, relatively speaking. If you want the government to hand over a whole new business line to one of the already-largest and most-successful businesses in the world, you&#x27;d think they&#x27;d have to drop an amount of money they might actually notice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oracle founder donated $250k to Graham PAC in final days of TikTok deal</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/17/21520356/oracle-tiktok-larry-ellison-lindsey-graham-super-pac-donation-jaime-harrison</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>082349872349872</author><text>An honest politician: one who, once bought, stays bought.</text></comment> |
31,820,309 | 31,820,294 | 1 | 2 | 31,817,144 | train | <story><title>The Illustrated QUIC Connection</title><url>https://quic.ulfheim.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lamontcg</author><text>Having lived through a production datacenter meltdown due to software engineers throwing away TCP, along with stuff like slow start and congestion control, and obliterating ethernet switch buffers with UDP, I&#x27;m a bit concerned as to how QUIC is supposed to be used in order to avoid that?<p>If your fabric has end-to-end flow control this would be fine, but this seems like it could be greatly misused and should come with some warning labels.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Illustrated QUIC Connection</title><url>https://quic.ulfheim.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oconnor663</author><text>The TLS 1.3 explanation (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tls13.ulfheim.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tls13.ulfheim.net</a>) and others on the same site are also <i>excellent</i>.</text></comment> |
23,506,118 | 23,505,989 | 1 | 2 | 23,504,445 | train | <story><title>Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-protests-firing/facebook-fires-employee-who-protested-its-inaction-on-trump-tweets-idUSKBN23J35Y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>holler</author><text>Agree. It&#x27;s endemic of the political and cultural climate we&#x27;re in right now, where mob rule is becoming the status quo. Personal politics should be just that, personal.</text></item><item><author>rubber_duck</author><text>He decides because he believes something strongly it permits him to publicly attack someone he works with... Imagine having to deal with this guy in a team when he has a strong opinion on something the team disagrees with ...</text></item><item><author>mgleitub</author><text>Indeed -- here is some additional context that the article doesn&#x27;t provide:<p>The fired employee Tweeted today:<p>&gt;In the interest of transparency, I was let go for calling out an employee’s inaction here on Twitter. I stand by what I said. They didn’t give me the chance to quit [0]<p>He then specifically cited [1] the Tweet in question that was the cause:<p>&gt;I asked @Vjeux to follow @reactjs&#x27;s lead and add a statement of support to Recoil&#x27;s docs and he privately refused, claiming open source shouldn&#x27;t be political.<p>&gt;Intentionally not making a statement is already political. Consider that next time you think of Recoil. [2]<p>This is specifically targeting an individual front-end engineer at FB, which in my own estimation crosses the line from criticism of executives or general policy, to specifically trying to instigate public outrage against a co-worker. If such actions were directed at me, I would definitely consider it as contributing to a hostile work environment. It all strikes me as a modern-day example of &quot;Havel&#x27;s greengrocer&quot; [3].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;aweary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1271522288752455680" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;aweary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1271522288752455680</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;aweary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1271531477209976832" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;aweary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1271531477209976832</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;aweary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1267895488205869057" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;aweary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1267895488205869057</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Power_of_the_Powerless#Havel&#x27;s_greengrocer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Power_of_the_Powerless#Hav...</a></text></item><item><author>nsainsbury</author><text>I think a key phrase here is &quot;he was dismissed for publicly challenging a colleague’s silence&quot;.<p>In other words, he publicly harassed a colleague who (for what could be any number of perfectly valid reasons) preferred not to publicly state their beliefs. That would seem to me to be an eminently reasonable reason to fire someone. If you go around publicly harassing your colleagues to publicly state their political opinions, you deserve to be fired.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jxramos</author><text>It&#x27;s not mob rule it&#x27;s those who run the outrage-triathlon where those with the highest blood pressure and boil over tops win. If they can&#x27;t steam anybody up to join them from their effervescence alone they deserve to fall to the wayside and get out the way. The outrage train is coming.<p>We must ask ourselves daily, &quot;what am I supposed to be outraged about now?&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-protests-firing/facebook-fires-employee-who-protested-its-inaction-on-trump-tweets-idUSKBN23J35Y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>holler</author><text>Agree. It&#x27;s endemic of the political and cultural climate we&#x27;re in right now, where mob rule is becoming the status quo. Personal politics should be just that, personal.</text></item><item><author>rubber_duck</author><text>He decides because he believes something strongly it permits him to publicly attack someone he works with... Imagine having to deal with this guy in a team when he has a strong opinion on something the team disagrees with ...</text></item><item><author>mgleitub</author><text>Indeed -- here is some additional context that the article doesn&#x27;t provide:<p>The fired employee Tweeted today:<p>&gt;In the interest of transparency, I was let go for calling out an employee’s inaction here on Twitter. I stand by what I said. They didn’t give me the chance to quit [0]<p>He then specifically cited [1] the Tweet in question that was the cause:<p>&gt;I asked @Vjeux to follow @reactjs&#x27;s lead and add a statement of support to Recoil&#x27;s docs and he privately refused, claiming open source shouldn&#x27;t be political.<p>&gt;Intentionally not making a statement is already political. Consider that next time you think of Recoil. [2]<p>This is specifically targeting an individual front-end engineer at FB, which in my own estimation crosses the line from criticism of executives or general policy, to specifically trying to instigate public outrage against a co-worker. If such actions were directed at me, I would definitely consider it as contributing to a hostile work environment. It all strikes me as a modern-day example of &quot;Havel&#x27;s greengrocer&quot; [3].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;aweary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1271522288752455680" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;aweary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1271522288752455680</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;aweary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1271531477209976832" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;aweary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1271531477209976832</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;aweary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1267895488205869057" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;aweary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1267895488205869057</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Power_of_the_Powerless#Havel&#x27;s_greengrocer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Power_of_the_Powerless#Hav...</a></text></item><item><author>nsainsbury</author><text>I think a key phrase here is &quot;he was dismissed for publicly challenging a colleague’s silence&quot;.<p>In other words, he publicly harassed a colleague who (for what could be any number of perfectly valid reasons) preferred not to publicly state their beliefs. That would seem to me to be an eminently reasonable reason to fire someone. If you go around publicly harassing your colleagues to publicly state their political opinions, you deserve to be fired.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rumanator</author><text>&gt; Agree. It&#x27;s endemic of the political and cultural climate we&#x27;re in right now, where mob rule is becoming the status quo.<p>I&#x27;m not sure we should mark this down as a political and cultural climate thing. I&#x27;m more convinced the guy was simply an asshole and it so happens that he felt strongly about politics.</text></comment> |
25,174,732 | 25,174,730 | 1 | 2 | 25,173,859 | train | <story><title>Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/jyg1jq/finished_the_build_a_pc_of_ice_and_fire/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baby</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why they&#x27;re doing this:<p>1. Why are they forcing me to use their app so much? it&#x27;s just not practical: for example if I quit the app and come back it doesn&#x27;t return me to the page I was looking at; worse it often doesn&#x27;t display comments for me (infinite loading).<p>2. Why is the web redesign so bad? Who are they trying to cater for? There&#x27;s just so much friction in reading comments from multiple posts now, when I click on a post to read the comments an then outside it scroll back up to the beginning. Why can&#x27;t I read comments if I&#x27;m not signed in?</text></item><item><author>SheinhardtWigCo</author><text>When old.reddit.com dies, it’s over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WillPostForFood</author><text>I prefer old reddit for the same reason as you, I like to read and comment. But I can tell you who they are catering to: People who scroll through subreddits scanning photos. If you go to meme focused subreddit, the new version is pretty good. If you go to a discussion focused subreddit, the old version is better.<p>Try <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Watches&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Watches&#x2F;</a> in an incognito window to see it in the new Reddit, then try it old reddit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/jyg1jq/finished_the_build_a_pc_of_ice_and_fire/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baby</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why they&#x27;re doing this:<p>1. Why are they forcing me to use their app so much? it&#x27;s just not practical: for example if I quit the app and come back it doesn&#x27;t return me to the page I was looking at; worse it often doesn&#x27;t display comments for me (infinite loading).<p>2. Why is the web redesign so bad? Who are they trying to cater for? There&#x27;s just so much friction in reading comments from multiple posts now, when I click on a post to read the comments an then outside it scroll back up to the beginning. Why can&#x27;t I read comments if I&#x27;m not signed in?</text></item><item><author>SheinhardtWigCo</author><text>When old.reddit.com dies, it’s over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zests</author><text>I understand it in the sense that I can conceptualize it. I just have a hard time believing it is really best for business. They determine how much money they make per user and find that signed in users make more money. Signed in users on their mobile app (users inside of their walled garden) make the most money. If they lose a couple users trying to convert everyone to using their mobile app, so be it.<p>Having an account and using their mobile app makes it easier to track you, easier to show you ads and likely worth more per advertisement.</text></comment> |
18,449,256 | 18,447,386 | 1 | 3 | 18,435,642 | train | <story><title>Why We Need Difficult Books</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/10/anna-burns-milkman-difficult-novel</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ilamont</author><text><i>“I see fiction as being divided into two categories. Work that confirms and celebrates and panders and work that confounds and perplexes and challenges.&quot;</i><p>This type of thinking is toxic, akin the bullshit aphorisms spouted by politicians (&quot;you&#x27;re either with us or against us&quot;) or smug VCs (&quot;if you&#x27;re not working 14 hours per day, you&#x27;re not an entrepreneur&quot;).<p>It forces authors and audiences to contort themselves into this black&#x2F;white view of literature that tosses anything that&#x27;s not &quot;difficult&quot; into a pile that&#x27;s not worth creating or reading.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why We Need Difficult Books</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/10/anna-burns-milkman-difficult-novel</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yesenadam</author><text>As is often the case, the word &quot;Books&quot; is used when they apparently just mean &quot;Novels&quot;.<p><i>Tristram Shandy</i> difficult?! Strange. Would you call Monty Python &#x27;difficult&#x27;? It is, however, hilarious, and still seems very modern, despite the first part dating from 1759. The humour is quite Pythonish, but goes further in every direction. Including mocking &#x27;difficult&#x27; scientific and philosophical writers, real and imagined, on (probably) most of its pages. Very highly recommended. As is Sterne&#x27;s second (and last) novel <i>A Sentimental Journey</i>, much shorter and less crazy than <i>Tristram</i>. The less that happens, the better it gets.</text></comment> |
31,118,115 | 31,117,811 | 1 | 2 | 31,115,857 | train | <story><title>The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (2015)</title><url>https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/smallest-png/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tppiotrowski</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve wondered about are size savings for DEM tiles. Typically elevation values are encoded in RGB values giving a resolution down to fractions of an inch [1]. This seems like overkill. With an elevation range from 0 - 8848 meters (Mt everest), you can use just 2 bytes and get an accuracy down to .2 meters. That seems plenty for many uses. Does anybody know if there&#x27;s a PNG16 format where you can reduce the file size by only using 2 bytes per pixel, instead of the typical 3-byte RGB or 4-byte RGBA?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.mapbox.com&#x2F;data&#x2F;tilesets&#x2F;guides&#x2F;access-elevation-data&#x2F;#decode-data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.mapbox.com&#x2F;data&#x2F;tilesets&#x2F;guides&#x2F;access-elevatio...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geokon</author><text>Not my area of expertise, but in my limited experience DEM tiles are usually GeoTIFF. This can be 16bit greyscale. The catch is that these are actually signed... Elevation doesn&#x27;t start at 0meters bc you have locations below sea level and you need to handle those corner cases somehow<p>What&#x27;s funny is that you can parse a GeoTIFF as a .tiff most of the time but not always. I had fun debugging that :). Java&#x27;s BufferedImage understandably doesn&#x27;t directly support negative pixel values haha</text></comment> | <story><title>The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (2015)</title><url>https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/smallest-png/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tppiotrowski</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve wondered about are size savings for DEM tiles. Typically elevation values are encoded in RGB values giving a resolution down to fractions of an inch [1]. This seems like overkill. With an elevation range from 0 - 8848 meters (Mt everest), you can use just 2 bytes and get an accuracy down to .2 meters. That seems plenty for many uses. Does anybody know if there&#x27;s a PNG16 format where you can reduce the file size by only using 2 bytes per pixel, instead of the typical 3-byte RGB or 4-byte RGBA?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.mapbox.com&#x2F;data&#x2F;tilesets&#x2F;guides&#x2F;access-elevation-data&#x2F;#decode-data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.mapbox.com&#x2F;data&#x2F;tilesets&#x2F;guides&#x2F;access-elevatio...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tristanc</author><text>The PNG format already allows grayscale 16bits &#x2F; channel images. I regularly use this when rendering out depth maps from blender and ffmpeg seems to handle reading from these PNGs just fine (detecting the gray16 pixel format).<p>However I don’t know of any DEM tile apis that provide these sorts of PNGs but it sounds like a fun project!<p>Edit: I found this StackExchange post which shows how to generate 16-bit PNGs with gdal <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gis.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;246934&#x2F;translating-geotiff-to-16-bit-png-with-gdal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gis.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;246934&#x2F;translating-g...</a></text></comment> |
19,960,324 | 19,958,335 | 1 | 3 | 19,956,878 | train | <story><title>Three geeks rescue a 50-year-old IBM 360 mainframe from an abandoned building</title><url>https://ibms360.co.uk/?page_id=22</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GnarfGnarf</author><text>Their main problem will be finding card stock. When compiling, the binary object is output on punched cards. They will need lots of blank Hollerith cards for compiling and testing. Not a lot of places make punched cards anymore.<p>Also, need card punches for input: IBM 029, Univac 1701. Will also need ribbon for printing readable characters at top of card.<p>Card readers are high-maintenance equipment. The cards are fed at high speed with a picker knife that needs precise adjustment. The card stock is sensitive to humidity. If it swells, it doesn&#x27;t go through the card reader.<p>I wrote Assembler in the 70&#x27;s on Univac 9300 and 9400&#x27;s, 360 clones.<p>I see small lots of cards on eBay for astronomical prices. They probably wouldn&#x27;t even work because of swelling.</text></comment> | <story><title>Three geeks rescue a 50-year-old IBM 360 mainframe from an abandoned building</title><url>https://ibms360.co.uk/?page_id=22</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rmason</author><text>My late father started collecting antique cars in the forties. I used to read his car collector magazines as a kid. They would have detailed stories about &#x27;barn finds&#x27; of rare autos and this story reads like the best of them.<p>I well remember Michigan State&#x27;s IBM 360 in the computer center back in the seventies. You could see it through glass windows from the hall, they were so proud of that machine.</text></comment> |
34,876,508 | 34,876,345 | 1 | 3 | 34,876,082 | train | <story><title>Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination</title><url>https://www.knkx.org/social-justice/2023-02-20/seattle-could-become-the-first-city-to-ban-caste-discrimination</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sitkack</author><text>I have worked in the Seattle tech scene since 1997 and sex and caste discrimination is rampant in the Indian tech community. I only know this 2nd and third hand as I am the stereotypical cis male white guy.<p>The biggest one to me is the sex discrimination across dev and qa, with a women making up the vast majority of qa even though they graduated with the same degrees as the men from the same Indian universities.<p>Even Indian men that I respected on multiple levels, when they get on an interview with a women they are overly harsh in ways they were not with men. So much so that I stopped interviewing all together. I reported to HR and they of course didn&#x27;t know how to handle it. It really makes me sad.<p>I try to talk to my Indian colleagues about this and they stay extremely tight lipped about this for a multitude of reasons. I applaud this action. This shit has to stop, leave it in India, America is better than this.<p>Discrimination is fractal. All interview should be truly double-blind.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cancer.gov&#x2F;publications&#x2F;dictionaries&#x2F;cancer-terms&#x2F;def&#x2F;double-blind-study" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cancer.gov&#x2F;publications&#x2F;dictionaries&#x2F;cancer-term...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trieste92</author><text>&gt; I try to talk to my Indian colleagues about this and they stay extremely tight lipped about this for a multitude of reasons.<p>I notice this too. It&#x27;s like someone brings up caste discrimination online (somewhere like teamblind) and a bunch of people come out of nowhere and say &quot;that isn&#x27;t real&quot;. Isn&#x27;t very convincing to say the least</text></comment> | <story><title>Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination</title><url>https://www.knkx.org/social-justice/2023-02-20/seattle-could-become-the-first-city-to-ban-caste-discrimination</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sitkack</author><text>I have worked in the Seattle tech scene since 1997 and sex and caste discrimination is rampant in the Indian tech community. I only know this 2nd and third hand as I am the stereotypical cis male white guy.<p>The biggest one to me is the sex discrimination across dev and qa, with a women making up the vast majority of qa even though they graduated with the same degrees as the men from the same Indian universities.<p>Even Indian men that I respected on multiple levels, when they get on an interview with a women they are overly harsh in ways they were not with men. So much so that I stopped interviewing all together. I reported to HR and they of course didn&#x27;t know how to handle it. It really makes me sad.<p>I try to talk to my Indian colleagues about this and they stay extremely tight lipped about this for a multitude of reasons. I applaud this action. This shit has to stop, leave it in India, America is better than this.<p>Discrimination is fractal. All interview should be truly double-blind.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cancer.gov&#x2F;publications&#x2F;dictionaries&#x2F;cancer-terms&#x2F;def&#x2F;double-blind-study" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cancer.gov&#x2F;publications&#x2F;dictionaries&#x2F;cancer-term...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brailsafe</author><text>Now that you mention it, on my non-American fully remote team, while we have no Indian men as engineers, I believe all our QAs are Indian women.</text></comment> |
2,857,685 | 2,857,442 | 1 | 3 | 2,857,264 | train | <story><title>Understanding Python Decorators</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/739654/understanding-python-decorators/1594484#1594484</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jackowayed</author><text>Am I the only one who thinks it's a massive flaw that decorators that take args and decorators that don't are inherently different? That extra level of anonymous functions feels awful, and it's really confusing because a decorator that takes no args is @decorator whereas one that takes optional args is @decorator() if you just go with the defaults, and there is no way to make them both work.<p>Also, I wish they would integrate some of the stuff from this answer into the documentation, as it took me almost an hour to figure out how decorators that take arguments work and to discover that @decorator and @decorator() are irrevocably different. The documentation I found on decorators that take args was very brief. (I can't remember if I found any mention at all in the actual Python docs. I ended up learning it from mediocre, old blog posts)</text></comment> | <story><title>Understanding Python Decorators</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/739654/understanding-python-decorators/1594484#1594484</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yason</author><text>I must say that for such a simple concept as decorator, this answer surely used up all the wireframe there ever was allocated for making examples.</text></comment> |
7,421,629 | 7,419,962 | 1 | 3 | 7,419,553 | train | <story><title>Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo</title><url>https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-March/009090.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>steveklabnik</author><text>Could you expand on that, please?<p>I am very emphatically _not_ saying that you&#x27;re wrong, but without enumerating what your problems are, you can&#x27;t get them solved.</text></item><item><author>defen</author><text>I just hope they don&#x27;t repeat all the bundler-related things that made me hate deploying rails.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nirvdrum</author><text>Here&#x27;s a non-comprehensive list of issues I have with bundler. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I think in many ways it&#x27;s a lot better than what we had before. But I also don&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s advanced much since its initial debut and think we can do better (and yes, I&#x27;ve tried on that front):<p>* You can&#x27;t override a dependency:<p>This may very well be an issue with rubygems, but I&#x27;d have hoped bundler adoption would have fixed it if that&#x27;s the case. Since dependencies and their versions cannot be overridden, transitive dependency conflicts are a constant minefield. The naive solution is to modify your gemspec to be overly permissive and I get pressure to do this frequently with gems I work on. But, now I&#x27;m asserting that my gem works with some hypothetical dependency that hasn&#x27;t been release yet. And I&#x27;ve watched that blow up many times. Semantic versioning does not fix this.<p>* Dependencies can disappear on you:<p>Yanked gems irk me, but I appreciate their value in preventing the installation of an unwanted version when one isn&#x27;t specified. However, it also explicitly blocks installation of a particular version, effectively ignoring the version specification in Gemfile. I may be romanticizing things here, but I don&#x27;t recall ever seeing a non-SNAPSHOT published artifact being removed when I was working with maven or ivy.<p>What&#x27;s frustrating is the gem still exists, but not in the index. I guess I would expect Bundler to realize I do want to install the version I&#x27;ve specified and fetch the file and do the installation. Ultimate control in my dependency graph should rest with me, not the whim of an upstream developer. I realize this is a rubygems.org thing, but it also strikes me as a solvable problem that many don&#x27;t see as a problem. And it means that checking out historical copies of my app almost certainly will not run without changing the Gemfile(.lock), which seems like a core value in a dependency management tool.<p>In any event, you will only discover this when deploying to a machine that has come up since the gem was yanked. Common staging server and CI strategies don&#x27;t catch this since it&#x27;s essentially a race condition in the gem ecosystem. You simply won&#x27;t find out until your deploy fails. It undermines any trust in the ecosystem and the only viable solutions are: 1) run your own gem server; 2) modify gemcutter to dismiss all yanks, or 3) vendor every gem your app uses.<p>* It has weird rules:<p><pre><code> gem &#x27;x&#x27;, platform: :mri
gem &#x27;y&#x27;, platform: :jruby
</code></pre>
works the way you&#x27;d expect, but<p><pre><code> gem &#x27;z&#x27;, git: &#x27;whatever&#x27;, branch: &#x27;mri_compat&#x27;
gem &#x27;z&#x27;, git: &#x27;whatever&#x27;, branch: &#x27;jruby_compat&#x27;
</code></pre>
will not. Apparently the dependency graph can&#x27;t be resolved if the gem names aren&#x27;t unique. The platform part isn&#x27;t taken into consideration from what I gather. This made it really hard when I was trying to port some C ext. gems to a JRuby equivalent.<p>* It promotes bad practices:<p>This one is admittedly contentious, but given bundler was created basically for Rails 3 and Rails is the worst abuser, it&#x27;s also hard to divorce the two. But requiring your entire dependency graph up front is just not a good idea. It&#x27;s bad for performance and it&#x27;s bad for memory. It&#x27;s why apps take 30s to boot. Most non-trivial Rails apps I&#x27;ve come across are basically multi-tiered applications in a monolithic codebase. That means fog is getting loaded in controllers and haml is getting loaded in Sidekiq jobs. It&#x27;s just a very odd situation. I&#x27;ve tried to defer loading, but this is a battle that&#x27;s hardly worth fighting because of railties. Auditing every gem to see if it has a railtie is tiresome and invalidated as soon as a new version comes out. If a gem has a railtie, it needs to be required at a very specific point in the Rails boot cycle, otherwise your app just won&#x27;t work the same. Figuring out that difference will likely drive you insane.<p>Likewise, every new gem created from Bundler has a gemspec that shells out to git at least once. So, if you have a dependency on a gem sourced from git in your Gemfile, you get to pay that cost on every app load. And if you end up somehow getting different results on different machines, then you&#x27;re not really running the same thing, which seems odd to me for a dependency management tool.<p>* It&#x27;s slow:<p>Gem installation has gotten a lot faster since the early days. And dependency resolution has gotten better as well. So, I&#x27;m not saying no work is being done here, but it is still slow. This is a complaint that is always levied at maven, too, so Bundler certainly isn&#x27;t unique in this regard and I&#x27;d argue it got faster in a much shorter timeframe than maven did, so that&#x27;s promising.<p>* It was designed for MRI:<p>This one may be unfair since I don&#x27;t use rbx, but bundler wasn&#x27;t really built with JRuby in mind. &quot;bundle exec&quot; is used everywhere now and it forks a process. Forking the JVM is anything but light. The solution is to use binstubs, which avoid the forking. But also means you can&#x27;t really use both JRuby and MRI in the same codebase.<p>I really hope that Cargo learns from some of the pitfalls of Bundler. It seemed like Bundler didn&#x27;t really learn from the pitfalls of other package managers. I wasn&#x27;t involved with any of the design decisions, so I certainly don&#x27;t want to say it was pulled together haphazardly. But it also seemed to overlook problems that tools like maven had solved over the past decade. I&#x27;m sure a fair bit of that had to do with the underlying rubygems system, but the distinction is also a bit moot from the user perspective.</text></comment> | <story><title>Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo</title><url>https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-March/009090.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>steveklabnik</author><text>Could you expand on that, please?<p>I am very emphatically _not_ saying that you&#x27;re wrong, but without enumerating what your problems are, you can&#x27;t get them solved.</text></item><item><author>defen</author><text>I just hope they don&#x27;t repeat all the bundler-related things that made me hate deploying rails.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>defen</author><text>It&#x27;s been a while (almost 2 years) and I don&#x27;t use ruby much any more, so my memory is a little hazy and for all I know the issues have been fixed. My main complaints were that too much magic made it difficult to tell what was being loaded from where; and that it was a ton of work to get proper automated deployments set up (with puppet...in a way that didn&#x27;t make assumptions about the target machine - RVM was also a huge culprit here). Also, at times it was painfully slow. To be fair I&#x27;m not super familiar with the internals - it&#x27;s totally possible that it&#x27;s all ruby&#x27;s fault and any ruby package manager would have the same issues. For every day development bundler was mostly great - it was just painful to get proper deployments working.<p>I much prefer how npm handles things.</text></comment> |
18,093,195 | 18,093,063 | 1 | 3 | 18,091,372 | train | <story><title>Jobs at Google (1999)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/19991013034717/http://google.com:80/jobs.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sicnus</author><text>My wife interviewed then... She was an Admin Assistant for a CEO of a fairly large pharmaceutical company in the bay area. They asked her what she wanted to do and she responded she would and could perform quite well as an admin asst. They they said, &quot;no, what do you want to do?&quot; I think they were asking about pottery or saving whales or whatever. My wife didn&#x27;t get it; nor the job. If only she could have said &quot;Chase Rainbows&quot;. <i>sigh</i> (edit: words)</text></comment> | <story><title>Jobs at Google (1999)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/19991013034717/http://google.com:80/jobs.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>santix</author><text>I like how you could send your resume as a text file but it better be ASCII.</text></comment> |
24,072,647 | 24,072,807 | 1 | 2 | 24,071,955 | train | <story><title>Launch HN: Datafold (YC S20) – Diff Tool for SQL Databases</title><text>Hi HN! My name is Gleb. I&#x27;m here with my co-founder Alex to tell you
about our company Datafold (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datafold.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datafold.com</a>). Datafold lets you diff
large datasets for fast and powerful regression testing. We support
databases such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift.<p>One of the biggest pain points in developing ETL pipelines –
chains of jobs that move, clean, merge and aggregate analytical data –
has been regression testing: verifying how a change in source code (mostly,
SQL) affects the produced data.<p>Early in my career, as an on-call data engineer at Lyft, I
accidentally introduced a breaking code change while attempting to
ship a hotfix at 4AM to a SQL job that computed tables for core
business analytics. A seemingly small change in filtering logic ended
up corrupting data for all downstream pipelines and breaking
dashboards for the entire company. Apart from being a silly mistake,
this highlighted the lack of proper tooling for testing changes. If
there had been a way to quickly compare the data computed by
production code vs. the hotfix branch, I would have immediately
spotted the alarming divergence and avoided merging the breaking
change.<p>Without a diffing tool, the typical options for regression testing
are: (1) Data “unit tests” (e.g. check primary key uniqueness, ensure
values are within interval, etc.) – these are helpful, but costly
investment. Frameworks such as dbt make it easier, but it’s
often still prohibitively hard to verify all assumptions in a large
table. (2) Write custom SQL queries to compare data produced by the
prod and dev versions of the source code (e.g. compare counts, match
primary keys). This can easily take up 100+ lines of SQL and hours of
unsatisfying work, which no one really wants to do. (3) &quot;Fuck It, Ship
It&quot; is always an option but too risky nowadays as analytical data not
only powers dashboards but also production ML models.<p>As this problem is common in data engineering, some large
organizations have built and open-sourced their solutions – for
example, BigDiffy by Spotify. However, most of these tools are
CLI-based and produce results in a plain-text format which is hard to
comprehend when you are dealing with complex data.<p>To fit existing workflows of our users, we’ve built a web interface
with interactive charts showing both diff summary statistics (e.g. %
of different values by column) and value-level side-by-side comparison
(git diff style). But since the mission of the tool is to save
engineers as much time as possible, we also opened an API for
automation through Airflow or other orchestrators, and built a Github
workflow that runs diff on every pull request with changes to ETL
code. Since billion-row-scale datasets are not uncommon nowadays,
there is an optional sampling feature that helps keep compute costs
low and get results within a few minutes no matter how large the
dataset is.<p>We&#x27;ve found Datafold to be a good fit for the following workflows: (1)
Developing data transformations – before an ETL job is shipped to
production, it undergoes multiple iterations. Often it’s important to
see how data changes between every iteration, and particularly useful
if you have 1M+ rows and 100+ columns where “SELECT *” becomes
useless. (2) Code review &amp; testing: large organizations have hundreds
of people committing to ETL codebases. Understanding the impact of
even a modest SQL diff is daunting. Datafold can produce a data diff
for every commit in minutes so changes are well understood. (3) Data
transfer validation: moving large volumes of data between databases is
error-prone, especially if done via change data capture (CDC): a
single lost event can affect the resulting dataset in a way that is
tricky to debug. We allow comparing datasets across different
databases, e.g. PostgreSQL &amp; Snowflake.<p>We&#x27;ve set up a sandbox at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.datafold.com&#x2F;hackernews" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.datafold.com&#x2F;hackernews</a> so you can see
how diffing works. Shoot us an email ([email protected]) to set up a trial and use it with
your own data.<p>We are passionate about improving tooling for data engineers and would
love to hear about your experience with developing data pipelines and
ensuring data quality. Also, if you think that dataset diffing can be
helpful in other domains, we are very curious to learn from you!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GordonS</author><text>I was curious about pricing, but I see it&#x27;s &quot;call me pricing&quot; with buttons to schedule a demo, so at least I can see this is squarely aimed at the enterprise. If I&#x27;m being honest, I don&#x27;t like seeing &quot;call me pricing&quot; on HN; there are no rules against it, but it just doesn&#x27;t feel right on HN.<p>Are you able to say anything about pricing here?</text></comment> | <story><title>Launch HN: Datafold (YC S20) – Diff Tool for SQL Databases</title><text>Hi HN! My name is Gleb. I&#x27;m here with my co-founder Alex to tell you
about our company Datafold (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datafold.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datafold.com</a>). Datafold lets you diff
large datasets for fast and powerful regression testing. We support
databases such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift.<p>One of the biggest pain points in developing ETL pipelines –
chains of jobs that move, clean, merge and aggregate analytical data –
has been regression testing: verifying how a change in source code (mostly,
SQL) affects the produced data.<p>Early in my career, as an on-call data engineer at Lyft, I
accidentally introduced a breaking code change while attempting to
ship a hotfix at 4AM to a SQL job that computed tables for core
business analytics. A seemingly small change in filtering logic ended
up corrupting data for all downstream pipelines and breaking
dashboards for the entire company. Apart from being a silly mistake,
this highlighted the lack of proper tooling for testing changes. If
there had been a way to quickly compare the data computed by
production code vs. the hotfix branch, I would have immediately
spotted the alarming divergence and avoided merging the breaking
change.<p>Without a diffing tool, the typical options for regression testing
are: (1) Data “unit tests” (e.g. check primary key uniqueness, ensure
values are within interval, etc.) – these are helpful, but costly
investment. Frameworks such as dbt make it easier, but it’s
often still prohibitively hard to verify all assumptions in a large
table. (2) Write custom SQL queries to compare data produced by the
prod and dev versions of the source code (e.g. compare counts, match
primary keys). This can easily take up 100+ lines of SQL and hours of
unsatisfying work, which no one really wants to do. (3) &quot;Fuck It, Ship
It&quot; is always an option but too risky nowadays as analytical data not
only powers dashboards but also production ML models.<p>As this problem is common in data engineering, some large
organizations have built and open-sourced their solutions – for
example, BigDiffy by Spotify. However, most of these tools are
CLI-based and produce results in a plain-text format which is hard to
comprehend when you are dealing with complex data.<p>To fit existing workflows of our users, we’ve built a web interface
with interactive charts showing both diff summary statistics (e.g. %
of different values by column) and value-level side-by-side comparison
(git diff style). But since the mission of the tool is to save
engineers as much time as possible, we also opened an API for
automation through Airflow or other orchestrators, and built a Github
workflow that runs diff on every pull request with changes to ETL
code. Since billion-row-scale datasets are not uncommon nowadays,
there is an optional sampling feature that helps keep compute costs
low and get results within a few minutes no matter how large the
dataset is.<p>We&#x27;ve found Datafold to be a good fit for the following workflows: (1)
Developing data transformations – before an ETL job is shipped to
production, it undergoes multiple iterations. Often it’s important to
see how data changes between every iteration, and particularly useful
if you have 1M+ rows and 100+ columns where “SELECT *” becomes
useless. (2) Code review &amp; testing: large organizations have hundreds
of people committing to ETL codebases. Understanding the impact of
even a modest SQL diff is daunting. Datafold can produce a data diff
for every commit in minutes so changes are well understood. (3) Data
transfer validation: moving large volumes of data between databases is
error-prone, especially if done via change data capture (CDC): a
single lost event can affect the resulting dataset in a way that is
tricky to debug. We allow comparing datasets across different
databases, e.g. PostgreSQL &amp; Snowflake.<p>We&#x27;ve set up a sandbox at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.datafold.com&#x2F;hackernews" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.datafold.com&#x2F;hackernews</a> so you can see
how diffing works. Shoot us an email ([email protected]) to set up a trial and use it with
your own data.<p>We are passionate about improving tooling for data engineers and would
love to hear about your experience with developing data pipelines and
ensuring data quality. Also, if you think that dataset diffing can be
helpful in other domains, we are very curious to learn from you!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway_pdp09</author><text>I see a lot of these things and I don&#x27;t understand them. I&#x27;ve done too much ETL so I&#x27;m not naive. Now either 1) people are making a mountain out of a molehill (not saying that&#x27;s happening here, but in other cases I think so) 2) there&#x27;s something my experience of ETL hasn&#x27;t taught me or 3) these tools are specialised for niches. This one talks about &#x27;large datasets&#x27; but I don&#x27;t know how large that is.<p>Some questions then<p>&gt; Often it’s important to see how data changes between every iteration, and particularly useful if you have 1M+ rows and 100+ columns where “SELECT *” becomes useless.<p>select is fine for diffing. You just do an either-way except , something like<p><pre><code> (
select f1, f2, f3 ... f100
from t1
except
select f1, f2, f3 ... f100
from t2
)
union
(
select f1, f2, f3 ... f100
from t2
except
select f1, f2, f3 ... f100
from t1
)
</code></pre>
used this and it&#x27;s fine on many rows (millions is fine but I do recommend and index and a DB with a halfway decent optimiser).<p>&gt; (2)<p>Interesting. OK.<p>&gt; (3) Data transfer validation: moving large volumes of data between databases is error-prone<p>Really? I never had a problem. What is &#x27;large&#x27;? what problems have you seen? There are easy solutions with checksums, error correction (comes free with networks) or round-tripping, is that a problem?<p>Edit, just done that with mssql tables, 8 cols, 38 bytes per row, ~776,000 rows (identical but for one row), diff as above takes 2 seconds without an index (with PK it takes 5 seconds. Sigh. Well done MS). The single row discrepancy shows up fine. Totally trivial to extend it to 100 columns (did that too in previous job).</text></comment> |
15,011,913 | 15,011,630 | 1 | 2 | 15,010,981 | train | <story><title>Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/google-cancels-domain-registration-for-daily-stormer-2017-8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>birken</author><text>If we are framing this as a free speech issue: Isn&#x27;t spam email free speech?<p>How dare any network provider tell me I can&#x27;t send 500 billion emails about my Viagra supplements? That is violating my freedom of speech!<p>The US government has actually passed laws making spam email legal (CAN-SPAM, under certain conditions), and still most every reputable network provider will not let you send it on their networks, even if it is legal.<p>I&#x27;m not suggesting the particular issue in the OP is the same as spam, but clearly there are some boundaries of free speech on networks that everybody seems to agree are good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mike_hearn</author><text>Former anti-spam guy here. Spam is hardly something everyone agrees on. There are big grey areas where people spam without thinking they&#x27;re spamming, and yes they do get upset about it.<p>The primary moral and legal defence the big email providers have with respect to spam filters is that they&#x27;re essentially democratic: they&#x27;re powered by user reports. So if someone complains to Google that their mail goes into the spam folder, Google can just say &quot;it&#x27;s our users fault, figure out how to make them happy&quot; and that&#x27;s a good answer that puts them back in the driving seat. Also, users can whitelist mail if they disagree with the mail providers opinion. Spam is ultimately not a matter of politics then, it&#x27;s a matter of aggregate user opinion on what sort of mail they want vs don&#x27;t want.<p>This particular issue seems rather different. There are no user votes involved here and it&#x27;s unclear why you&#x27;d want such a system anyway, given that people who disagree with a website can just not visit it. There is no way for visitors who disagree with Google&#x27;s assessment to access the site anyway. And so on.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/google-cancels-domain-registration-for-daily-stormer-2017-8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>birken</author><text>If we are framing this as a free speech issue: Isn&#x27;t spam email free speech?<p>How dare any network provider tell me I can&#x27;t send 500 billion emails about my Viagra supplements? That is violating my freedom of speech!<p>The US government has actually passed laws making spam email legal (CAN-SPAM, under certain conditions), and still most every reputable network provider will not let you send it on their networks, even if it is legal.<p>I&#x27;m not suggesting the particular issue in the OP is the same as spam, but clearly there are some boundaries of free speech on networks that everybody seems to agree are good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Taniwha</author><text>In the US the 1st amendment constrains what the govt can do, it doesn&#x27;t constrain private individuals or companies</text></comment> |
19,597,456 | 19,597,560 | 1 | 2 | 19,596,458 | train | <story><title>Native image lazy-loading for the web</title><url>https://addyosmani.com/blog/lazy-loading/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>radarsat1</author><text>Ah right, lazy loading, this is the reason that I have to make sure to scroll down the entire length of a medium.com article I&#x27;m reading on my phone and back to the top again to make sure the diagrams and math-as-images load completely before I get on a subway line that doesn&#x27;t have 3g service. Hate it when I forget. Otherwise I&#x27;m left staring at blurry lines that don&#x27;t explain much about what trying to read until it&#x27;s time to get off. Sucks when my commute is 40 minutes straight on the same line.<p>I guess an advantage of a &#x27;native&#x27; feature could be that browsers could offer a button saying &#x27;please pre-load this page!&#x27;</text></comment> | <story><title>Native image lazy-loading for the web</title><url>https://addyosmani.com/blog/lazy-loading/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oftenwrong</author><text>Why would I want the loading behaviour of images to be chosen by the site I am browsing?<p>I would prefer to choose for myself whether images load eagerly or lazily on all sites I visit. This way, I would always know which type of loading to expect as I browse, and I would always get the type of loading I prefer.</text></comment> |
2,516,250 | 2,515,874 | 1 | 3 | 2,515,811 | train | <story><title>Mysterious US Helicopter Used in Bin Laden Raid</title><url>http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/aviation-geeks-scramble-to-i-d-osama-raids-mystery-copter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>firebones</author><text>How many helicopters and of what kind would it take to evacuate 22 people/bodies plus the SEALs and pilots? Certainly more than a single remaining Blackhawk.<p>I wonder if the inadvertent tweeter might have been hearing the support copters coming in after the initial raid to pick up the prisoners/crew and that the explosions were also after the fact--the post-raid destruction of the downed helicopter.<p>I suspect that as the story is progressively refined, we'll learn that rather than being a flawless triumph, the actual reason for success was the depth of backup planning and redundant systems.<p>This will be ultimately be a story that becomes a lesson in how the military learns from its failures (Operation Eagle Claw: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw</a> and the Rattle of Mogadishu aka Black Hawk Down: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)</a>) rather than from its successes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mysterious US Helicopter Used in Bin Laden Raid</title><url>http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/aviation-geeks-scramble-to-i-d-osama-raids-mystery-copter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nettdata</author><text>It's a stealth optimized MH-60. Nothing to see here, really.</text></comment> |
13,235,740 | 13,235,582 | 1 | 2 | 13,234,914 | train | <story><title>Disclosing the Primary Email address for each Facebook user</title><url>http://dawgyg.com/2016/12/21/disclosing-the-primary-email-address-for-each-facebook-user/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jake232</author><text>This bug could have been used to make <i>so much money</i>.<p>1. Find a group on Facebook of users you&#x27;re interested in.<p>2. Do this bug to get all of their emails.<p>3. Building a lookalike audience from these emails.<p>Goldmine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Disclosing the Primary Email address for each Facebook user</title><url>http://dawgyg.com/2016/12/21/disclosing-the-primary-email-address-for-each-facebook-user/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>everly</author><text>Seems like you should have gotten more than $5k. Great work and nice write-up.</text></comment> |
4,185,444 | 4,185,525 | 1 | 2 | 4,185,170 | train | <story><title>Flask 0.9 codename Campari released today</title><url>https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/blob/master/CHANGES</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sho_hn</author><text>What's the latest on Python 3 support in Flask?<p>Edit: Why the downvote? I'm just fishing for anybody having newer info than what's on the website out of genuine interest and because HN tends to be a place where people would know; it's not meant as a troll.</text></comment> | <story><title>Flask 0.9 codename Campari released today</title><url>https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/blob/master/CHANGES</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amix</author><text>While Flask started as a joke I am happy to see it evolve! For me it's by far the most focused and polished framework for Python!</text></comment> |
39,449,352 | 39,448,792 | 1 | 2 | 39,440,179 | train | <story><title>In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)</title><url>https://danluu.com/simple-architectures/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lll-o-lll</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve never really understood why you couldn&#x27;t just break up your monolith into modules<p>You can! We used to do this! Some of us still do this!<p>It is, however, much more difficult. Not difficult technically, but difficult because it requires discipline. The organisations I’ve worked at that have achieved this always had some form of dictator who could enforce the separation.<p>Look at the work done by John Lakos (and various books), to see how well this can work. Bloomberg did it, so can you!<p>Creating a network partition makes your system a distributed system. There are times you need this, but the tradeoff is at least an order of magnitude increase in complexity. These days we have a <i>lot</i> of tooling to help manage this complexity, but it’s still there. The combination of possible failure states is exponential.<p>Having said all this, the micro service architecture does have the advantage of being an easy way to enforce modularity and does not require the strict discipline required in a monolith. For some companies, this might be the better tradeoff.</text></item><item><author>camgunz</author><text>&gt; Services, or even microservices, are more of a strategy to allow teams to scale than services or products to scale.<p>I&#x27;ve never really understood why you couldn&#x27;t just break up your monolith into modules. So like if there&#x27;s a &quot;payments&quot; section, why isn&#x27;t that API stabilized? I think all the potential pitfalls (coupling, no commitment to compatibility) are there for monoliths and microservices, the difference is in the processes.<p>For example, microservices export some kind of API over REST&#x2F;GraphQL&#x2F;gRPC which they can have SDKs for, they can version them, etc. Why can&#x27;t you just define interfaces to modules within your monolith? You can generate API docs, you can version interfaces, you can make completely new versions, etc.<p>I just feel like this would be a huge improvement:<p>- It&#x27;s so much more engineering work to build the service handler scaffolding (validation, serialization&#x2F;deserialization, defining errors)<p>- You avoid the runtime overhead of serialiation&#x2F;deserialization and network latency<p>- You don&#x27;t need to build SDKs&#x2F;generate protobufs&#x2F;generate clients&#x2F;etc.<p>- You never have the problem of &quot;is anyone using this service?&quot; because you can use code coverage tools<p>- Deployment is much, much simpler<p>- You never have the problem of &quot;we have to support this old--sometimes broken--functionality because this old service we can&#x27;t modify depends on it&quot;. This is a really undersold point: maybe it&#x27;s true that microservice architectures let engineers <i>build</i> things without regard for other teams, but they can&#x27;t <i>remove</i> things without regard for other teams, and this dynamic is like a no limit credit card for tech debt. Do you keep that service around as it slowly accretes more and more code it can&#x27;t delete? Do you fork a new service w&#x2F;o the legacy code and watch your fleet of microservices grow ever larger?<p>- You never have the problem of &quot;how do we update the version of Node on 50 microservices?&quot;</text></item><item><author>scient</author><text>Services, or even microservices, are more of a strategy to allow teams to scale than services or products to scale. I think thats one of the biggest misconceptions for engineers. On the other end you have the monorepo crew, who are doing it for the same reasons.<p>On your note about resiliency and scale - its always a waste of money until shit hits the fan. Then you really pay for it.</text></item><item><author>from-nibly</author><text>This is what I tell engineers. Microservices aren&#x27;t a performance strategy. They are a POTENTIAL cost saving strategy against performance. And an engineering coordination strategy.<p>Theoretically If you have a monolith that can be scaled horizontally there isn&#x27;t any difference between having 10 replicas of your monolith and having 5 replicas of two microservices with the same codebase. UNLESS you are trying to underscale part of your functionality. You can&#x27;t underscale part of your app with a monolith. Your pipe has to be big enough for all of it. Generally speaking though if you are talking about 10 replicas of something there&#x27;s very little money to be saved anywhere.<p>Even then though the cost savings only start at large scales. You need to have a minimum of 3 replicas for resiliency. If those 3 replicas are too big for your scale then you are just wasting money.<p>The place where I see any real world benefit for most companies is just engineering coordination. With a single repo for a monolith I can make 1 team own that repo and tell them it&#x27;s their responsibility to keep it clean. In a shared monolith however 0 people own it because everyone owns it and the repo becomes a disaster faster than you can say &quot;we need enterprise caching&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>default-kramer</author><text>&gt; easy way to enforce modularity and does not require the strict discipline required in a monolith<p>In my experience, microservices require <i>more</i> discipline than monoliths. If you do a microservice architecture without discipline you end up with the &quot;distributed monolith&quot; pattern and now you have the worst of both worlds.</text></comment> | <story><title>In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)</title><url>https://danluu.com/simple-architectures/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lll-o-lll</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve never really understood why you couldn&#x27;t just break up your monolith into modules<p>You can! We used to do this! Some of us still do this!<p>It is, however, much more difficult. Not difficult technically, but difficult because it requires discipline. The organisations I’ve worked at that have achieved this always had some form of dictator who could enforce the separation.<p>Look at the work done by John Lakos (and various books), to see how well this can work. Bloomberg did it, so can you!<p>Creating a network partition makes your system a distributed system. There are times you need this, but the tradeoff is at least an order of magnitude increase in complexity. These days we have a <i>lot</i> of tooling to help manage this complexity, but it’s still there. The combination of possible failure states is exponential.<p>Having said all this, the micro service architecture does have the advantage of being an easy way to enforce modularity and does not require the strict discipline required in a monolith. For some companies, this might be the better tradeoff.</text></item><item><author>camgunz</author><text>&gt; Services, or even microservices, are more of a strategy to allow teams to scale than services or products to scale.<p>I&#x27;ve never really understood why you couldn&#x27;t just break up your monolith into modules. So like if there&#x27;s a &quot;payments&quot; section, why isn&#x27;t that API stabilized? I think all the potential pitfalls (coupling, no commitment to compatibility) are there for monoliths and microservices, the difference is in the processes.<p>For example, microservices export some kind of API over REST&#x2F;GraphQL&#x2F;gRPC which they can have SDKs for, they can version them, etc. Why can&#x27;t you just define interfaces to modules within your monolith? You can generate API docs, you can version interfaces, you can make completely new versions, etc.<p>I just feel like this would be a huge improvement:<p>- It&#x27;s so much more engineering work to build the service handler scaffolding (validation, serialization&#x2F;deserialization, defining errors)<p>- You avoid the runtime overhead of serialiation&#x2F;deserialization and network latency<p>- You don&#x27;t need to build SDKs&#x2F;generate protobufs&#x2F;generate clients&#x2F;etc.<p>- You never have the problem of &quot;is anyone using this service?&quot; because you can use code coverage tools<p>- Deployment is much, much simpler<p>- You never have the problem of &quot;we have to support this old--sometimes broken--functionality because this old service we can&#x27;t modify depends on it&quot;. This is a really undersold point: maybe it&#x27;s true that microservice architectures let engineers <i>build</i> things without regard for other teams, but they can&#x27;t <i>remove</i> things without regard for other teams, and this dynamic is like a no limit credit card for tech debt. Do you keep that service around as it slowly accretes more and more code it can&#x27;t delete? Do you fork a new service w&#x2F;o the legacy code and watch your fleet of microservices grow ever larger?<p>- You never have the problem of &quot;how do we update the version of Node on 50 microservices?&quot;</text></item><item><author>scient</author><text>Services, or even microservices, are more of a strategy to allow teams to scale than services or products to scale. I think thats one of the biggest misconceptions for engineers. On the other end you have the monorepo crew, who are doing it for the same reasons.<p>On your note about resiliency and scale - its always a waste of money until shit hits the fan. Then you really pay for it.</text></item><item><author>from-nibly</author><text>This is what I tell engineers. Microservices aren&#x27;t a performance strategy. They are a POTENTIAL cost saving strategy against performance. And an engineering coordination strategy.<p>Theoretically If you have a monolith that can be scaled horizontally there isn&#x27;t any difference between having 10 replicas of your monolith and having 5 replicas of two microservices with the same codebase. UNLESS you are trying to underscale part of your functionality. You can&#x27;t underscale part of your app with a monolith. Your pipe has to be big enough for all of it. Generally speaking though if you are talking about 10 replicas of something there&#x27;s very little money to be saved anywhere.<p>Even then though the cost savings only start at large scales. You need to have a minimum of 3 replicas for resiliency. If those 3 replicas are too big for your scale then you are just wasting money.<p>The place where I see any real world benefit for most companies is just engineering coordination. With a single repo for a monolith I can make 1 team own that repo and tell them it&#x27;s their responsibility to keep it clean. In a shared monolith however 0 people own it because everyone owns it and the repo becomes a disaster faster than you can say &quot;we need enterprise caching&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gmfawcett</author><text>&gt; does not require the strict discipline required in a monolith<p>How so? If your microservices are in a monorepo, one dev can spread joy and disaster across the whole ecosystem. On the other hand, if your monolith is broken into libraries, each one in its own repo, a developer can only influence their part of the larger solution. Arguably, system modularity has little to do with the architecture, and much to do with access controls on the repositories and pipelines.</text></comment> |
25,848,504 | 25,845,225 | 1 | 3 | 25,844,959 | train | <story><title>Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process</title><url>https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/intel-TSMC-5nm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>&quot;The Core i3 move to a 5nm process is set to be followed by mid-range and high-end CPUs being produced for Intel by TSMC on a 3nm process in 2H22.&quot;<p>So Intel becoming Fabless is a matter of time?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cbozeman</author><text>Intel will never become fabless. They made the wrong bet on the type of technology to reduce transistor size and they overestimated what their engineers would be capable of creating and doing, but that won&#x27;t last forever.<p>There&#x27;s a <i>lot</i> of working going on with 10nm and 7nm to fix the production problems (because a lot of work is still required). It won&#x27;t happen overnight, in fact, I predicted about a year or two ago that it would be around 2023, +&#x2F;- 6 months, that Intel would have its node production problems mostly ironed out.<p>Sadly by then, TSMC should be at 3nm, and while Intel&#x27;s 10nm is easily a match for TSMC&#x27;s 7nm, it won&#x27;t be enough to be competitive against TSMC 5nm and 3nm. I hope that Intel has their shit together for the 7nm node, or can at least break even on it. If they can break even (cost of wafer is equal to or less than what they can sell the chips for) on 7nm, they&#x27;ll be able to hang in there until they get the 5nm &#x2F; 3nm nodes up and running.<p>If Intel drops the ball though... and they aren&#x27;t able to get 10nm yields over 90% by 2023 and if they can&#x27;t get 7nm yields at a reasonable point... well that&#x27;s a whole different ball game for Intel. It might not be out of the question for Intel to approach the US government about either subsidies, tax breaks, custom manufacturing for military applications, etc., in order to 1) keep Intel viable until the engineering challenges are resolved and 2) prevent the offshoring of all semiconductor fabs.<p>Put simply, Intel staying competitive is a matter of national security for the United States.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process</title><url>https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/intel-TSMC-5nm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jonnax</author><text>&quot;The Core i3 move to a 5nm process is set to be followed by mid-range and high-end CPUs being produced for Intel by TSMC on a 3nm process in 2H22.&quot;<p>So Intel becoming Fabless is a matter of time?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bayindirh</author><text>I don&#x27;t think so. They have a lot of things to produce in their fabs. Optane, Chipsets, NAND (if they still produce it), sensors, FPGAs, Ethernet Controllers, etc.<p>They&#x27;re considering it as an interim solution IMHO. To buy time for their own processes.</text></comment> |
24,516,694 | 24,516,222 | 1 | 3 | 24,515,063 | train | <story><title>What happened to Firefox Send?</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-send</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rvba</author><text>Nearly all their &quot;side projects&quot; look like greenfields used by the project teams to boost their CVs so they can land better jobs. Those teams know very well that those projects have no use case, but they dont care. Foundation does not care either, since it is busy with increasing own remuneration and politics.<p>Meanwhile their core product lost around 10 percentage points of market share (from 15% marketshare to 5%):<p>1) Nobody works on Firefox any more. From 1000 people in Mozilla and how many working on Firefox? 50? and 950 doing various (useless) side projects?<p>2) they don&#x27;t understand their own product and its user base: they killed extensions, killed ability to customize anything. Basically they rebranded to a &quot;worse Chrome&quot;.<p>3) They dont care about quality and ship a half baked product. Recently they shipped Firefox for android that feels like alpha version. It is even unclear why did they ship it, they could have waited.<p>4) Countless bugs and problems caused by their own decisions (e.g. all extensions need to be signed - they forget to sign them so they stopped working..)<p>5) Not caring about the product at all because some people inside are stubborn dinosaurs. Firefox didnt have proper installers for business, just because someone inside didnt want to provide them. It&#x27;s like sabotage.<p>Their tech savy user base gets alienated every day: no more extensions, no more customization, constant broken workflow (changes for the sake of doing changes, while old things are never repaired - greenfileds are easier). At some point you start to wonder, why use a Chrome clone that is worse than Chrome?<p>I expect that the marketshare will go from 5% to 0.% What will be terrible for everyone. We are already losing the address bar due to Google AMP. [on a sidenote: when Chrome pushed for Google AMP, Firefox didnt capitalize on it - in fact Firefox also changed the address bar as if the Firefox team wanted to secretly support AMP..]<p>Those teams probably know very well that Firefox is a sinking ship, since development teams are not working on core product; but they dont care, they will jump. Meanwhile those few who worked on Firefox are left holding the bag, while they were &quot;paying&quot; for all those side projects, that just siphoned money &#x2F; development time from core product that is Firefox.</text></item><item><author>kace91</author><text>I really don&#x27;t understand it.<p>- Content was used to spread malware&#x2F;illegal content<p>- It was not profitable<p>How are those two things something you find out after the fact? What was the reasoning for launching the product in the first place?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>happypants23</author><text>If you think Firefox has stagnated you clearly aren&#x27;t aware of the substantial and complex improvements that have been made to the firefox core over the last couple of years:<p>* Faster Quantum Engine (multi-process architecture, etc)<p>* Faster CSS rendering with Stylo<p>* GPU-based rendering with WebRender<p>Any Moz engineer who worked on the above will have boosted their CV&#x27;s substantially. They don&#x27;t need to work on tangential greenfields to do that.<p>Sure so extensions had to be rewritten for Quantum, but sometimes that&#x27;s the price to pay for deep architectural&#x2F;security improvements.</text></comment> | <story><title>What happened to Firefox Send?</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-send</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rvba</author><text>Nearly all their &quot;side projects&quot; look like greenfields used by the project teams to boost their CVs so they can land better jobs. Those teams know very well that those projects have no use case, but they dont care. Foundation does not care either, since it is busy with increasing own remuneration and politics.<p>Meanwhile their core product lost around 10 percentage points of market share (from 15% marketshare to 5%):<p>1) Nobody works on Firefox any more. From 1000 people in Mozilla and how many working on Firefox? 50? and 950 doing various (useless) side projects?<p>2) they don&#x27;t understand their own product and its user base: they killed extensions, killed ability to customize anything. Basically they rebranded to a &quot;worse Chrome&quot;.<p>3) They dont care about quality and ship a half baked product. Recently they shipped Firefox for android that feels like alpha version. It is even unclear why did they ship it, they could have waited.<p>4) Countless bugs and problems caused by their own decisions (e.g. all extensions need to be signed - they forget to sign them so they stopped working..)<p>5) Not caring about the product at all because some people inside are stubborn dinosaurs. Firefox didnt have proper installers for business, just because someone inside didnt want to provide them. It&#x27;s like sabotage.<p>Their tech savy user base gets alienated every day: no more extensions, no more customization, constant broken workflow (changes for the sake of doing changes, while old things are never repaired - greenfileds are easier). At some point you start to wonder, why use a Chrome clone that is worse than Chrome?<p>I expect that the marketshare will go from 5% to 0.% What will be terrible for everyone. We are already losing the address bar due to Google AMP. [on a sidenote: when Chrome pushed for Google AMP, Firefox didnt capitalize on it - in fact Firefox also changed the address bar as if the Firefox team wanted to secretly support AMP..]<p>Those teams probably know very well that Firefox is a sinking ship, since development teams are not working on core product; but they dont care, they will jump. Meanwhile those few who worked on Firefox are left holding the bag, while they were &quot;paying&quot; for all those side projects, that just siphoned money &#x2F; development time from core product that is Firefox.</text></item><item><author>kace91</author><text>I really don&#x27;t understand it.<p>- Content was used to spread malware&#x2F;illegal content<p>- It was not profitable<p>How are those two things something you find out after the fact? What was the reasoning for launching the product in the first place?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CodesInChaos</author><text>&gt; Recently they shipped Firefox for android that feels like alpha version. It is even unclear why did they ship it, they could have waited.<p>Apart from extensions requiring whitelisting, how is it worse than the old mobile FF?<p>I didn&#x27;t notice any new bugs and it fixed the issues I had with the address bar hiding being fickle.</text></comment> |
39,092,932 | 39,092,183 | 1 | 3 | 39,090,266 | train | <story><title>When America first dropped acid</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/tripping-on-utopia-margaret-mead-the-cold-war-and-the-troubled-birth-of-psychedelic-science-benjamin-breen-book-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ldjkfkdsjnv</author><text>Recently read a description of 1960&#x27;s ideology. The claim being that its all propaganda, and what we know as 60s ideology (peace love etc) actually never really happened for a real duration of time. What did happen was that those that prescribed to that line of thinking either moved to communes, or they dropped so much acid they were societally irrelevant. There werent many people actually out and about that were pushing those lines of thinking, the ideology died within a year or two, but mass media keeps it alive.<p>Weird to think about how media can amplify a set of ideas, that itself didnt last very long. We keep having this renewed consciousness of ideas, like a microphone blowing it into everyones ears. Even funnier is to think that an ideology that hates mass media (anti corporate 60s culture) may actually just be a product of mass media, much like mickey mouse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elsjaako</author><text>I love the way Hunter S. Thompson described it. I&#x27;ll strip it a bit for brevity, but the whole book (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) is worth reading.<p>San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world.<p>...<p>So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”</text></comment> | <story><title>When America first dropped acid</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/tripping-on-utopia-margaret-mead-the-cold-war-and-the-troubled-birth-of-psychedelic-science-benjamin-breen-book-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ldjkfkdsjnv</author><text>Recently read a description of 1960&#x27;s ideology. The claim being that its all propaganda, and what we know as 60s ideology (peace love etc) actually never really happened for a real duration of time. What did happen was that those that prescribed to that line of thinking either moved to communes, or they dropped so much acid they were societally irrelevant. There werent many people actually out and about that were pushing those lines of thinking, the ideology died within a year or two, but mass media keeps it alive.<p>Weird to think about how media can amplify a set of ideas, that itself didnt last very long. We keep having this renewed consciousness of ideas, like a microphone blowing it into everyones ears. Even funnier is to think that an ideology that hates mass media (anti corporate 60s culture) may actually just be a product of mass media, much like mickey mouse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>feedforward</author><text>There&#x27;s almost universal opinion on the mainstream, left and right that a cultural shift happened in the US between Eisenhower leaving office and Woodstock. It&#x27;s not some narrative invented and pushed out.<p>The media does manufacture narratives. Youth in New York and San Francisco had a subculture in the 1950s which was framed as beatnik, and soon sitcoms were mocking beatnik. Small basement performance places would have patrons not clap to avoid noise complaints, so patrons would snap their fingers as applause. This was then presented as something unusual and pretentious, minus its original context. The same thing with San Francisco hippies - they arose organically, the mainstream culture took notice of them and presented them a certain way, and the cycle goes on.<p>Every social movement that arises is met with an attempt to coopt and to commodity by the corporate media and corporate America, this has happened for a long time.</text></comment> |
13,199,703 | 13,199,752 | 1 | 2 | 13,199,195 | train | <story><title>Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/2016/12/23/virtual-currencies-bitcoin-being-monitored-us-government-532063.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wheelerwj</author><text>In 2013, HSBC was fined for failing to appropriately monitor nearly $700B(B as in BILLION) in transactions between Mexico and the US alone. [1] Yet we&#x27;re supposed to be more worried about digital currency because of $600 (dollars, not millions or billions, just dollars) worth of bitcoin found its way to the Gaza strip? [2]<p>The only interesting part of this article is that post publication, the bitcoin numbers were updated by a source from the Dept. of Treasury.<p>This article is just FUD and nonsense during a slow news cycle. Banks and wire transfers will continue to be the primary vehicle for money laundering and terrorism financing for the foreseeable future.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2013-07-02&#x2F;hsbc-judge-approves-1-9b-drug-money" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2013-07-02&#x2F;hsbc-judg...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thecipherbrief.com&#x2F;column&#x2F;private-sector&#x2F;new-frontier-terror-fundraising-bitcoin-1089" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thecipherbrief.com&#x2F;column&#x2F;private-sector&#x2F;new-fro...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/2016/12/23/virtual-currencies-bitcoin-being-monitored-us-government-532063.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blorgle</author><text>This is some serious FUD, pretty standard for Newsweeks bitcoin reporting, which included harassment of Dorian Nakomoto.<p>This is probably an unpopular opinion on HN, but let&#x27;s face it, P2P protocols like bitcoin are relatively easy to disrupt for nation state actors, especially the US!<p>For a relatively small cost, the blockchain could be flooded with bogus junk to DoS. The bootstrap mechanism could easily be MITMd to netsplit new nodes. Those are just technological mechanisms off the top of my head, which assume a perfect hypothetical cryptocurrency with none of the teething problems that all of the actual cryptocurrencies have.<p>ISIS could come up with &quot;Terrorcoin&quot; (which is the underlying vague threat of the article) but without any mechanism to transfer those coins to a fungible real world currency, it&#x27;s useless anyway.<p>Go home Newsweek, you&#x27;re drunk.</text></comment> |
19,707,721 | 19,705,780 | 1 | 2 | 19,705,511 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Mockit – Open-source app to create and configure HTTP mocked endpoints</title><url>https://mockit.netlify.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattherman</author><text>Another alternative that I have had good experience with is Mountebank - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mbtest.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mbtest.org&#x2F;</a><p>It doesn&#x27;t have a nice GUI like this, but it is extremely flexible in the information you can match on for returning your mocked responses.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Mockit – Open-source app to create and configure HTTP mocked endpoints</title><url>https://mockit.netlify.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonhamp</author><text>Any plans to build from an OpenAPI Spec descriptor file? Ideally v3</text></comment> |
20,083,758 | 20,083,682 | 1 | 3 | 20,082,610 | train | <story><title>China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-02/china-s-spending-30-billion-to-assemble-its-electric-detroits</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dhruvrrp</author><text>I remember reading a few months (?) ago that China was looking to consolidate the electric vehicle industry because the government incentives led to 500+ manufacturers who like to &quot;move-fast and break things&quot; and caused problems like vehicle fires.<p>imo that would mean a lot of these towns wouldn&#x27;t be in business for very long.<p>Edit: found the discussion <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19617681" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19617681</a></text></comment> | <story><title>China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-02/china-s-spending-30-billion-to-assemble-its-electric-detroits</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olivermarks</author><text>The more important Bloomberg link is about the EV bubble
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-04-14&#x2F;the-18-billion-electric-car-bubble-at-risk-of-bursting-in-china" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-04-14&#x2F;the-18-bi...</a></text></comment> |
4,168,297 | 4,168,228 | 1 | 2 | 4,167,577 | train | <story><title>Don't Follow Your Passion: A Smarter Way to Find a Product to Sell </title><url>http://www.shopify.com/blog/6187532-dont-follow-your-passion-a-smarter-way-to-find-a-product-to-sell</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>I guess the formula for a mildly viral blog post is just to misinterpret a popular saying so you can disagree with it. I really dislike it though.<p>"Follow your passion" is not advice given in response to the question "What product should I sell?" Usually it's in response to "What should I do with my life?" It doesn't help people differentiate between selling Star Wars figurines vs. something else. It's meant to help you decide between selling products online <i>at all</i> versus, say, writing novels or being a carpenter, or social work or some other calling.<p>Yes, if you take the advice outside of the context it's intended, it does become quite terrible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielRibeiro</author><text>Or, as Bret Victor said once[1], you can also follow a principle:<p><i>There are many ways to live your life. That's maybe the most important thing to realize in your life, that every aspect of your life is a choice. There are default choices. You can choose to sleepwalk through your life, and accept the path that is laid out for you. You can choose to accept the world as it is. But you don't have to. If there's something in the world that you feel is a wrong, and you have a vision for what a better world could be, you can find your guiding principle, and you can fight for a cause. So after this talk, I'd like you to take a little time, and think about what matters to you, what you believe in, and what you might fight for.</i><p>[1] <a href="http://gumption.typepad.com/blog/2012/03/principle-centered-invention-bret-victor-on-tools-skills-crafts-and-causes.html" rel="nofollow">http://gumption.typepad.com/blog/2012/03/principle-centered-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Don't Follow Your Passion: A Smarter Way to Find a Product to Sell </title><url>http://www.shopify.com/blog/6187532-dont-follow-your-passion-a-smarter-way-to-find-a-product-to-sell</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>I guess the formula for a mildly viral blog post is just to misinterpret a popular saying so you can disagree with it. I really dislike it though.<p>"Follow your passion" is not advice given in response to the question "What product should I sell?" Usually it's in response to "What should I do with my life?" It doesn't help people differentiate between selling Star Wars figurines vs. something else. It's meant to help you decide between selling products online <i>at all</i> versus, say, writing novels or being a carpenter, or social work or some other calling.<p>Yes, if you take the advice outside of the context it's intended, it does become quite terrible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spiredigital</author><text>I'd respectfully disagree. The original context of Cuban's advice is here:<p><a href="http://blogmaverick.com/2012/03/18/dont-follow-your-passion-follow-your-effort/" rel="nofollow">http://blogmaverick.com/2012/03/18/dont-follow-your-passion-...</a><p>..and an especially relevant excerpt related to your comment:<p>"Why? Because everyone is passionate about something... ... [things] that we really really want to do with our lives. Those passions aren’t worth a nickel."<p>His overall point is that instead of blindly following after your passions and "hoping" things will work out, you should count on effort and hard work.<p>Technically, you're right - Cuban wasn't talking about specifically picking an eCommerce niche. But he does make the great point that if you're successful at something - regardless of what it is - you usually become passionate about it.<p>The problem faced by many new entrepreneurs is that their passion-based business plan doesn't get traction, and they give up. But if you start with a effort and market based business plan, a new entrepreneur is much more likely to succeed. And when they're successful with their business, they'll become very passionate about it.</text></comment> |
32,755,667 | 32,755,611 | 1 | 2 | 32,754,274 | train | <story><title>“UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3</title><url>https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/a559f5f2715c58fea4de09330cf3d06194ccc897</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>horsawlarway</author><text>I approve (of both the release and the name).<p>I see plenty of folks in here lamenting this release at all - in the hopes that the lack of it will push folks to Firefox. It won&#x27;t. Those who care about this are already on Firefox, and frankly - Firefox isn&#x27;t going to be the answer here (to be clear, this is opinion).<p>I&#x27;m also not thrilled at manifest v3, although for very different reasons than the adblocking limitations - I do lots of extension development, and I think the service worker approach taken is a <i>bad</i> mistake, forcing a distributed consensus model onto extensions without understanding the limitations that model imposes given how often extensions span multiple js contexts (across tabs&#x2F;frames&#x2F;content_scripts&#x2F;windows&#x2F;etc).<p>Frankly - the environment is also still riddled with bugs... everything from docs that are wrong, to <i>serious</i> issues like a service worker not activating on simple, basic, required events (like chrome.action.onClicked, which is literally about as basic as it gets for extensions).<p>Overall - my first impression of the manifest v3 upgrade was fairly neutral (it&#x27;s not really solving any of my pain points, and it requires a lot of changes to support - but it seemed functional). My opinion after porting several large extension projects to the space is... bad. It&#x27;s a bad set of changes as implemented in chromium right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blibble</author><text>I was fully in the Google world prior to gorhill&#x27;s posts on manifest v3<p>as a direct result the only thing I have left is a pixel phone, which will be going with the new iPhone<p>(and in the meantime my entire family has been &#x27;helpfully&#x27; migrated too)<p>I may be up the extreme end of the distribution, but this sort of grassroots push is what dethroned IE, and the resultant loss of control of the web eliminated Microsoft&#x27;s near total influence over the computing industry</text></comment> | <story><title>“UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3</title><url>https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/a559f5f2715c58fea4de09330cf3d06194ccc897</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>horsawlarway</author><text>I approve (of both the release and the name).<p>I see plenty of folks in here lamenting this release at all - in the hopes that the lack of it will push folks to Firefox. It won&#x27;t. Those who care about this are already on Firefox, and frankly - Firefox isn&#x27;t going to be the answer here (to be clear, this is opinion).<p>I&#x27;m also not thrilled at manifest v3, although for very different reasons than the adblocking limitations - I do lots of extension development, and I think the service worker approach taken is a <i>bad</i> mistake, forcing a distributed consensus model onto extensions without understanding the limitations that model imposes given how often extensions span multiple js contexts (across tabs&#x2F;frames&#x2F;content_scripts&#x2F;windows&#x2F;etc).<p>Frankly - the environment is also still riddled with bugs... everything from docs that are wrong, to <i>serious</i> issues like a service worker not activating on simple, basic, required events (like chrome.action.onClicked, which is literally about as basic as it gets for extensions).<p>Overall - my first impression of the manifest v3 upgrade was fairly neutral (it&#x27;s not really solving any of my pain points, and it requires a lot of changes to support - but it seemed functional). My opinion after porting several large extension projects to the space is... bad. It&#x27;s a bad set of changes as implemented in chromium right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjh29</author><text>&gt; I see plenty of folks in here lamenting this release at all - in the hopes that the lack of it will push folks to Firefox. It won&#x27;t. Those who care about this are already on Firefox<p>Huh? I&#x27;m going to switch to Firefox the second uBlock Origin stops working on Chrome. Otherwise I&#x27;ll continue to use Chrome because it&#x27;s a better browser (for me). I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m some rare minority here.</text></comment> |
10,745,104 | 10,745,212 | 1 | 3 | 10,740,644 | train | <story><title>Barnes and Noble is dying, Waterstones in the U.K. is thriving. Why?</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/12/barnes_noble_is_dying_waterstones_in_the_u_k_is_thriving.single.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>TL;DR: Slash costs (i.e. fire tons of people, discontinue unprofitable stock) and target stores better for their demographics.<p>I&#x27;ve spent a lot of time in both B&amp;N and Waterstones. B&amp;N has a lot of problems Waterstones never had even ahead of bankruptcy:<p>- The stores are too big. 1&#x2F;2 of a B&amp;N store is tat, reference books, niche stock, a Nook display area, and other nonsense. You could cut almost all B&amp;N stores in half and not notice as a customer.<p>- They place them poorly. B&amp;N is perfect for foot traffic. But B&amp;Ns are typically located as drive-up &quot;out of town&quot; shopping. Somewhere you need to go to intentionally. They need to be in malls.<p>- No good Nook tie-in for the stores. My SO often goes into B&amp;N and looks at books, and then says &quot;I&#x27;ll buy it on my Nook later.&quot; They should have made an agreement with the publishers YEARS ago: When you buy a physical book, you get the Nook book included.<p>- The children&#x27;s area is really nice, but poorly leveraged. No classes, no reading groups, no reason to come in. Stay at home parents WANT a reason to get out of the house, you offer a free reading group for small kids, the parents will buy the books after the group.<p>- Atmosphere in the coffee shop is bad. Waterstones feels like a nice little swanky coffee shop, somewhere you&#x27;d go and work on your novel, B&amp;N&#x27;s coffee shop feels like a generic coffee shop at the airport.<p>- B&amp;Ns has no brand, and keeps making it worse. 3D printers, toys, Nooks, what is it that B&amp;Ns is? They&#x27;re all over the place, and now when you go into a B&amp;N store you&#x27;ll never know what they&#x27;ll be pushing this week.<p>I think B&amp;N will go under. I just don&#x27;t think the management is very good, and every attempt they make to right the ship makes it worse. The whole business needs to be restructured.</text></comment> | <story><title>Barnes and Noble is dying, Waterstones in the U.K. is thriving. Why?</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/12/barnes_noble_is_dying_waterstones_in_the_u_k_is_thriving.single.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hibikir</author><text>B&amp;N is really suffering from a way bigger problem in the US: The death of retail. Other than a few big cities, the cost of going to a store in the US is far higher than in Europe, just because e have to actively go to a store, instead of passing them on the way to work. This is what made American stores into big boxes: Since people had to make specific trips to the store, it paid to make them big, fill them up with lots of inventory, and make them service large areas.<p>But then the internet happened, and as internet retail gets getter and better, the weakest stores suffer, and the weakest of the lot are bookstores and electronics stores. We&#x27;ve seen competition in those areas dwindle already, because the market just couldn&#x27;t hold: CompUSA, Circuit City, Borders, are gone, but it&#x27;s not as if the survivors are thriving: Their sales are still getting eaten by Amazon more and more every year.<p>So B&amp;N will probably manage to stay alive until the next economic crisis happens, consumers start buying a bit less, and the internet eats them alive.<p>In more dense urban areas, very efficient book retailers will still have a chance for a while, because it is often more convenient to buy at a local store than to buy online. They&#x27;ll still have to be afraid of the switch to ebooks though.</text></comment> |
19,179,753 | 19,178,818 | 1 | 3 | 19,178,282 | train | <story><title>Most Americans don’t realize what companies can predict from their data</title><url>https://theconversation.com/most-americans-dont-realize-what-companies-can-predict-from-their-data-110760</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rixrax</author><text>I’m increasingly thinking that targeted ads are eerily similar to Isaac Asimov psychohistory[0].
E.g. you cannot reliably predict individual behavior, but with right|enough data you can reliably predict how a large enough population will act.<p>This is why individually we often feel that they’re off the mark, or we’re thrifty enough to ignore the ads or political or other targeting. But like others have pointed out, data is out there, and ‘they’ have infinite tries to get it right. And more importantly, it works already today. And it’s impacting everyone, so as an individuals, we also get impacted in indirect and subtle ways when e.g. friend of ours raves about new toy she bought without even realizing that she chose this product over the other because of all the ads that she never clicked.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Psychohistory_(fictional)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Psychohistory_(fictional)</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Most Americans don’t realize what companies can predict from their data</title><url>https://theconversation.com/most-americans-dont-realize-what-companies-can-predict-from-their-data-110760</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crispyambulance</author><text>The thing that makes me increasingly concerned is the possibility of an entity using this data-surveillance NOT so they can sell us more crap, but for ulterior malicious purposes.<p>We already got a taste of what this can mean with cambridge analytica.<p>But what if some hate group (or other extremist org) with deep pockets decided to buy up and use such data in more sinister ways, targeting individuals or organizations at large scale, developing &quot;Stasi style&quot; dossiers to use as leverage for future actions?<p>The information would not need to be &quot;perfect&quot; but it could get increasingly more accurate over time depending on how much attention they focus on their targets.</text></comment> |
652,869 | 652,780 | 1 | 2 | 652,768 | train | <story><title>Cryptographic Right Answers</title><url>http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-11-cryptographic-right-answers.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>First, I'll quibble with some of these recommendations --- even though Colin (and Alex Ross, and probably Bruce) is more qualified to have an opinion here.<p>For instance, CTR+HMAC is a weird recommendation. Not because of speed (though HMAC does pessimize speed) and not because of cryptographic strength, but because it introduces another moving part in your design. Colin can deal with the junction between plaintext, ciphertext, and HMAC, because this is mostly all he thinks about. You can't.<p>A simpler recommendation would have been to use CCM or EAX mode. These have the advantages of being NIST standards-tracked and heavily vetted, and of providing <i>both</i> authentication and encryption in the same construction. If your libraries are good, you get both these features just by switching the name of your block mode.<p>Second, I'll quibble with the content of the post: these recommendations are exactly what Nate was talking about in his Yahoo talk about how bad cryptographic guidance has gotten. Key size and hash function selection (as long as you're not using MD5) are <i>the least important</i> design considerations you have.<p>Here's a design consideration this post doesn't even touch on: renewability. How do you safely design a system so that your selection of algorithms, modes, and key sizes isn't set in stone? Because if you don't get that right today, what you inevitably do to handle it 2 years from now is going to be a vulnerability.<p>Finally, a real concern about the structure of these recommendations: telling people to keep group negotiation out of Diffie-Hellman protocols is fine --- a good recommendation, since there's a really scary sounding, really easily-exploitable vulnerability that eliminates. But that's --- I think --- the <i>only place</i> in this post where Colin actually addresses something that actually does go wrong in crypto protocols.<p>If you follow all of Colin's recommendations here from scratch in a reasonably complicated, and you have never found a crypto vulnerability or fixed two reported crypto vulnerabilities, I will bet $500 that you end up with a broken system. Colin won't. But you will.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cryptographic Right Answers</title><url>http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-11-cryptographic-right-answers.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cperciva</author><text>This was largely inspired by Thomas's blog post yesterday about AES vs. RC4 -- he started me thinking "gee, someone really should sit down and tell people what they should be using so that they don't keep doing dumb things like using RC4".</text></comment> |
34,026,303 | 34,021,660 | 1 | 2 | 34,019,900 | train | <story><title>Legacy Update: Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, 2000</title><url>https://legacyupdate.net</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>I could see staying with Windows 7. That was the best version Microsoft ever made. Microsoft finally figured out how to make it stable, and it didn&#x27;t have all the ad and cloud crap nailed in. You can run current Firefox, current Thunderbird, and current LibreOffice, which covers the basics. Most Windows software still works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hnlmorg</author><text>Personally Windows 2000 was the only Microsoft operating system I’ve ever liked. And I’m including Microsoft Basic in that scope as well.<p>XP did mature into something that was decent, but the initial release of XP was just an uglier and more system hungry version of 2000. And thus XP drive me to run Linux as my primary OS.<p>But back when 2000 was around, most other OSs were terrible. Linux was getting close but still had a lot of rough edges. BeOS was awesome but you could tell it was a dying company. Apple were struggling too: MacOS 9 was less stable than Windows 9x (and that’s saying something!) and OS X took a couple of releases to really take off. Atari were dead. Amiga was basically only ram by enthusiasts. Yet Windows 2000 arrived and it felt genuinely like a next generation OS for its time.<p>Windows 2000 took NT4 and focused on bettering the stuff that didn’t work rather than breaking the stuff that did. Often little changes like adding short cut keys to Notepad.exe. Whereas every version of Windows since has done far too much GUI overhaul (and always to the detriment of UX in my personal opinion) while doing very little to improve my core complaints with the OS.<p>I get this is going to be my subjective opinion, just like Windows 7 is yours. But I did wasn’t to share a counterpoint to the praise of Windows 7.</text></comment> | <story><title>Legacy Update: Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, 2000</title><url>https://legacyupdate.net</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>I could see staying with Windows 7. That was the best version Microsoft ever made. Microsoft finally figured out how to make it stable, and it didn&#x27;t have all the ad and cloud crap nailed in. You can run current Firefox, current Thunderbird, and current LibreOffice, which covers the basics. Most Windows software still works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kitsunesoba</author><text>Windows 7 also had the best customization&#x2F;theming, followed by XP. Both 7 and XP had some amazing looking community-made .msstyle themes but 7&#x27;s theme engine allowed for things like full transparency while XP was limited to 1-bit transparency. This was nice in that it offered UI looks that were more modern than the classic theme yet more understated than the gaudy Luna&#x2F;Aero.<p>Then Windows 8 came along and decided flat squares were the only option anybody could use, removing theme transparency support altogether.</text></comment> |
15,430,649 | 15,430,729 | 1 | 2 | 15,430,270 | train | <story><title>Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time</title><url>https://www.db.com/newsroom_news/2017/deutsche-bank-makes-its-computer-code-publicly-available-for-the-first-time-en-11674.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cbcoutinho</author><text>Get ready for a data dump of 40 year old COBOL code &#x2F;s<p>But in all seriousness, this is a great step forward in institutional software. Open up software to further progress towards standardizing an industry&#x27;s software interface.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skissane</author><text>I would love for a few banks to dump all their old COBOL code on to GitHub. Not because it would necessarily be useful for anything, but simply because it would be fascinating to read... There is actually very little open source COBOL code available, of the massive quantities of COBOL code written over the decades the vast, vast majority of it remains closed source.<p>Sadly I think a lot of it is just going to be lost to history... at an old employer of mine, I remember we had a store room full of old 9 track mainframe backup tapes – the mainframe had been retired and we no longer had a 9 track tape drive to read them with – I wonder if they are still there now – ideally they&#x27;d be sent to some sort of archive – they couldn&#x27;t be released now without vetting because they would have contained confidential information (e.g. employee payroll information, customer data), but a century from now when all of us are dead who cares if our confidential info gets released to the public then?</text></comment> | <story><title>Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time</title><url>https://www.db.com/newsroom_news/2017/deutsche-bank-makes-its-computer-code-publicly-available-for-the-first-time-en-11674.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cbcoutinho</author><text>Get ready for a data dump of 40 year old COBOL code &#x2F;s<p>But in all seriousness, this is a great step forward in institutional software. Open up software to further progress towards standardizing an industry&#x27;s software interface.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulie_a</author><text>I would actually appreciate that. I recently dealt with a DDF file that was 780 columns of tabular data.</text></comment> |
33,302,495 | 33,302,574 | 1 | 3 | 33,299,929 | train | <story><title>Hyundai investigating child labor in its U.S. supply chain</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclusive-korean-auto-giant-hyundai-investigating-child-labor-its-us-supply-2022-10-19/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dataflow</author><text>&gt; The children can&#x27;t consent. That&#x27;s essentially child slave labor.<p>Minors can totally consent to labor; it&#x27;s pretty common too (see: child actors). The issue with children working in factories is a (1) safety and (2) exploitation issue, not a consent issue—in fact even adult parents (who can presumably consent) aren&#x27;t allowed to get exemptions for their children in some high-risk situations either. There are lots of exemptions for child labor though, especially in areas where safety and exploitation risks are deemed to be lower. Worth reading: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dol.gov&#x2F;general&#x2F;topic&#x2F;youthlabor&#x2F;exemptionsflsa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dol.gov&#x2F;general&#x2F;topic&#x2F;youthlabor&#x2F;exemptionsflsa</a><p>Edit to clarify (since some people seem to be reading this different): this isn&#x27;t <i>my</i> opinion, support, or opposition on what I believe children can or should consent to; I&#x27;m just discussing labor laws here.</text></item><item><author>jmull</author><text>Here&#x27;s a link from the article to more information on the child labor violations:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;us&#x2F;hyundai-kia-auto-parts-supplier-alabama-fined-child-labor-violations-2022-10-11&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;us&#x2F;hyundai-kia-auto-parts-supp...</a><p>(This links to more info.)<p>Wow.<p>I think the thing that shocks me the most is that the punishment from the Department of Labor is a very mild slap-on-the-wrist. A small fine and a promise not to do it any more. This should basically be the end of that company entirely. Instead they just have to point the finger at some low-level managers, fire them, and keep on rolling. I would think criminal charges are warranted for importing 12 and 13 year-olds for labor. The children can&#x27;t consent. That&#x27;s essentially child slave labor.<p>If Hyundai&#x2F;Kia drops them, that would at least be a much bigger penalty than the DOL imposed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tremon</author><text>Can you cite the part where the law says that a minor can consent to labor? Every mention of &quot;consent&quot; in the link you gave only mentions &quot;consent by the [minor&#x27;s] parent or guardian&quot; or similar phrasing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hyundai investigating child labor in its U.S. supply chain</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclusive-korean-auto-giant-hyundai-investigating-child-labor-its-us-supply-2022-10-19/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dataflow</author><text>&gt; The children can&#x27;t consent. That&#x27;s essentially child slave labor.<p>Minors can totally consent to labor; it&#x27;s pretty common too (see: child actors). The issue with children working in factories is a (1) safety and (2) exploitation issue, not a consent issue—in fact even adult parents (who can presumably consent) aren&#x27;t allowed to get exemptions for their children in some high-risk situations either. There are lots of exemptions for child labor though, especially in areas where safety and exploitation risks are deemed to be lower. Worth reading: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dol.gov&#x2F;general&#x2F;topic&#x2F;youthlabor&#x2F;exemptionsflsa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dol.gov&#x2F;general&#x2F;topic&#x2F;youthlabor&#x2F;exemptionsflsa</a><p>Edit to clarify (since some people seem to be reading this different): this isn&#x27;t <i>my</i> opinion, support, or opposition on what I believe children can or should consent to; I&#x27;m just discussing labor laws here.</text></item><item><author>jmull</author><text>Here&#x27;s a link from the article to more information on the child labor violations:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;us&#x2F;hyundai-kia-auto-parts-supplier-alabama-fined-child-labor-violations-2022-10-11&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;us&#x2F;hyundai-kia-auto-parts-supp...</a><p>(This links to more info.)<p>Wow.<p>I think the thing that shocks me the most is that the punishment from the Department of Labor is a very mild slap-on-the-wrist. A small fine and a promise not to do it any more. This should basically be the end of that company entirely. Instead they just have to point the finger at some low-level managers, fire them, and keep on rolling. I would think criminal charges are warranted for importing 12 and 13 year-olds for labor. The children can&#x27;t consent. That&#x27;s essentially child slave labor.<p>If Hyundai&#x2F;Kia drops them, that would at least be a much bigger penalty than the DOL imposed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>largepeepee</author><text>The point of saying children can&#x27;t consent, is that they can&#x27;t do it alone.<p>You are just supporting OP&#x27;s point unwitting.</text></comment> |
30,277,782 | 30,277,760 | 1 | 2 | 30,277,402 | train | <story><title>Grad school is worse for public health than STDs (2019)</title><url>https://www.benkuhn.net/grad/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nathan_compton</author><text>I had a relatively bad experience with graduate school but in retrospect it was better than working. Very little oversight on how I spent my time, got to do interesting work and being a grad student in my field (physics) was relatively high status when it came to dating the people I wanted to date.<p>I walked to work every day and walked home every night. I slept well.<p>In comparison, literally the only good thing about &quot;the real world&quot; is more money.<p>My advisor was an anti-social depressive and I often felt spectacularly dumb. But in retrospect, it was great. If I could afford to go again, I&#x27;d do it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Grad school is worse for public health than STDs (2019)</title><url>https://www.benkuhn.net/grad/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>b215826</author><text>Also worth reading: &quot;Don&#x27;t Become a Scientist!&quot; by Jonathan Katz [1], &quot;Women in Science&quot; by Philip Greenspun [2], and &quot;What Does Any of This Have To Do with Physics?&quot; by Bob Henderson [3].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20181018063835&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;katz.fastmail.us&#x2F;scientist.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20181018063835&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;katz.fastm...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;philip.greenspun.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;women-in-science" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;philip.greenspun.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;women-in-science</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nautil.us&#x2F;what-does-any-of-this-have-to-do-with-physics-5626&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nautil.us&#x2F;what-does-any-of-this-have-to-do-with-phys...</a></text></comment> |
3,718,642 | 3,718,617 | 1 | 2 | 3,718,414 | train | <story><title>The C Conference</title><url>http://cconf.github.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>memset</author><text>One technology development which makes this increasingly relevant are the prevalence of Arduino (Raspberry Pi, etc) - embedded platforms that take care of a lot of the hardware heavy lifting for you.<p>But there is a gap between what the Arduino libraries let you do and the capabilities of the hardware itself. And it is for these things, projects of increasing sophistication, which require some C and assembly, for which there is value in wider dissemination of expertise.<p>Incidentally, I (a few months ago) created an "NYC C and Assembly Enthusiasts" meetup group, which seems to be in a similar vein. I have not yet hosted any meetups, but since C Conference Enthusiasts seem to be on this thread, please send me a note!</text></comment> | <story><title>The C Conference</title><url>http://cconf.github.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saurik</author><text>You should not use the signature design of someone else's book if you have no affiliation with them: come up with your own branding.</text></comment> |
19,688,337 | 19,688,146 | 1 | 2 | 19,687,549 | train | <story><title>Bling Fire: Finite state machine and regular expression manipulation library</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/BlingFire</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>switch2017</author><text>In 2008 when I was on the Bing team, Sergei had just developed this library and was putting it to work on the document understanding pipeline. He was incredibly passionate about it and would evangelize it with anybody that cared to listen. When I saw the headline on HN, I immediately guessed that this was Sergei&#x27;s work. And of course it is! Sergei, if you are reading this, try to guess who I am ;)</text></comment> | <story><title>Bling Fire: Finite state machine and regular expression manipulation library</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/BlingFire</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mgreenleaf</author><text>I&#x27;ve been impressed with several of the Bing projects; I recently found that they open sourced the JIT compiler for C++ they use on Bing [1] I&#x27;ve been more and more impressed with Microsoft&#x27;s efforts in Open Source and elsewhere. Especially with these under the MIT license.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BitFunnel&#x2F;NativeJIT" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BitFunnel&#x2F;NativeJIT</a></text></comment> |
1,520,427 | 1,519,882 | 1 | 2 | 1,519,710 | train | <story><title>The New York Times Algorithm & Why It Needs Government Regulation</title><url>http://searchengineland.com/regulating-the-new-york-times-46521</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>natmaster</author><text>&#60;facepalm&#62;I have a great idea guys, lets have the government run the press! Then we can be like China! While we're at it, why not take over all other forms of free speech - I mean why go half-way when you can go all out? &#60;/facepalm&#62; - this is what I get for getting so worked up I post a response before I finish reading the article. Mad props for employing satire.</text></comment> | <story><title>The New York Times Algorithm & Why It Needs Government Regulation</title><url>http://searchengineland.com/regulating-the-new-york-times-46521</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>donohoe</author><text>A well reasoned and informative piece. Any other good responses to the NYT OpEd piece out there?</text></comment> |
31,698,053 | 31,697,706 | 1 | 2 | 31,693,830 | train | <story><title>Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenamcgregor/2022/06/09/microsoft-announces-it-will-include-pay-ranges-in-all-us-job-postings-experts-predict-it-will-be-the-first-of-many/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drewcon</author><text>I’m not sure why the company is responsible at an individual level for what’s going on in the Bay Area. They can’t tell you how to manage and interact with the expenses of your life.<p>If you’re mad at anyone, walk down to city hall and tell them to build more housing.</text></item><item><author>kodah</author><text>I&#x27;m leaving my company because it took so much &quot;upwards pressure&quot; to make this happen. Literally hundreds of people screaming in a townhall that the companies wages were so low that housing was eating up most of their paycheck while mandating a return to work from the top. This is in the Bay Area. I do think there&#x27;s something to be said about a company that does not tend to the needs of its flock proactively.</text></item><item><author>another_poster</author><text>Individual states’ pay transparency laws are already applying upwards pressure on salaries across the country.<p>My company has multiple groups in different states including Colorado, and in anticipation of needing to post salary ranges for our open positions in Colorado, my group (with no positions in Colorado) preemptively bumped up everyone’s salaries to the midpoint of their pay bands to avoid anyone becoming frustrated if they learned they were in the bottom half. Despite the preemptive adjustments, a colleague of mine became angry and quit when they found out their salary wasn’t at the very top of their position’s pay range.<p>So pay transparency laws are having a big impact—not only in the obvious cases of candidates negotiating salaries in the states that passed the pay transparency laws, but also for average employees in other states who didn’t even need to do anything except learn how much their labor was worth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cogman10</author><text>You say this as if companies don&#x27;t chose where to have their offices and their attendance policies.<p>If a company places it&#x27;s headquarters in a HCOL area and requires everyone come in 5 days a week, then yes, they have a responsibility to pay a salary high enough that their employees can survive there.<p>If employers don&#x27;t like the fact that COL is too high, THEY can go ahead and march on city hall to advocate for political action. Companies have a MUCH larger sway with local politicians than the average employee does. That, or they can increase the salary or change the attendance policies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenamcgregor/2022/06/09/microsoft-announces-it-will-include-pay-ranges-in-all-us-job-postings-experts-predict-it-will-be-the-first-of-many/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drewcon</author><text>I’m not sure why the company is responsible at an individual level for what’s going on in the Bay Area. They can’t tell you how to manage and interact with the expenses of your life.<p>If you’re mad at anyone, walk down to city hall and tell them to build more housing.</text></item><item><author>kodah</author><text>I&#x27;m leaving my company because it took so much &quot;upwards pressure&quot; to make this happen. Literally hundreds of people screaming in a townhall that the companies wages were so low that housing was eating up most of their paycheck while mandating a return to work from the top. This is in the Bay Area. I do think there&#x27;s something to be said about a company that does not tend to the needs of its flock proactively.</text></item><item><author>another_poster</author><text>Individual states’ pay transparency laws are already applying upwards pressure on salaries across the country.<p>My company has multiple groups in different states including Colorado, and in anticipation of needing to post salary ranges for our open positions in Colorado, my group (with no positions in Colorado) preemptively bumped up everyone’s salaries to the midpoint of their pay bands to avoid anyone becoming frustrated if they learned they were in the bottom half. Despite the preemptive adjustments, a colleague of mine became angry and quit when they found out their salary wasn’t at the very top of their position’s pay range.<p>So pay transparency laws are having a big impact—not only in the obvious cases of candidates negotiating salaries in the states that passed the pay transparency laws, but also for average employees in other states who didn’t even need to do anything except learn how much their labor was worth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrsig</author><text>Because the company chooses to have a policy that mandates employees live within a viable commute radius of an office located in the city. I don&#x27;t know why companies can&#x27;t just take responsibility for their decisions.<p>Or the company can walk down to city hall and tell them to build more housing, because they&#x27;re unable or unwilling to pay enough for people to live in a viable radius.<p>Or the company can relocate or establish a satellite office in a lower cost of living area.<p>Or the company can pay people commensurately with the cost of living in the area.<p>Or the company can deal with the inevitable attrition of their workforce as it happens, all the while denying that they have any agency and deflect blame onto individuals.</text></comment> |
1,090,027 | 1,090,007 | 1 | 3 | 1,089,919 | train | <story><title>Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/blue_boxes</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jsz0</author><text>In the midst of the iPad Flash controversy I think people are overlooking that Adobe has failed to deliver a major mobile Flash upgrade since early 2007. They missed their promise to deliver a beta for the Android and WebOS platforms in 2009. Android support is now projected for mid-2010. Since 2007 Apple has released 3 major versions of their iPhone OS, Google has announced, developed, and released a SmartPhone OS with 2 major revisions. Apple developed, announced, and will release the iPad before Adobe ships a modern mobile Flash for a large variety of devices. Linux &#38; OSX support for Flash on the desktop is still subpar. If you think Flash is good or bad there are serious questions here about Adobe's ability to simply support this platform that is so widely relied on by developers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/blue_boxes</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>benologist</author><text>A screenshot showing aviary working because they made a quicktime video alternate? Aviary's whole platform is a stunning example of how awesome Flash really can be, it's a suite of cutting edge design tools done in Flash and they haven't ported <i>those</i> to the iPhone - check them out if you want, their apps are just amazing:
<a href="http://www.aviary.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.aviary.com</a><p>The 'games' they mention are not what TFB is showing either. Addicting Games (owned by MTV) is a casual game site with somewhere around a million daily visitors and 1000s of games you can just click to play, not apps you need to find, maybe buy, download and install.<p>Even if that process is streamlined it doesn't scale to the extent Flash game sites do where at any time your investment in any game is just a click and countless other games are also just a click away.</text></comment> |
36,410,672 | 36,410,171 | 1 | 2 | 36,407,272 | train | <story><title>Comparing Adobe Firefly, Dalle-2, and OpenJourney</title><url>https://blog.usmanity.com/comparing-adobe-firefly-dalle-2-and-openjourney/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Jaysus.<p>I&#x27;m going to sound like an entitled whiny old guy shouting at clouds, but - what the hell; with all the knowledge being either locked and churned on Discord, or released in form of YouTube videos with no transcript and extremely low content density - how is anyone with a job supposed to keep up with this? Or is that a new form of gatekeeping - if you can&#x27;t afford to burn a lot of time and attention as if in some kind of Proof of Work scheme, you&#x27;re not allowed to play with the newest toys?<p>I mean, Discord I can sort of get - chit-chatting and shitposting is easier than writing articles or maintaining wikis, and it kind of grows organically from there. But YouTube? Surely making a video takes 10-100x the effort and cost, compared to writing an article with some screenshots, while also being 10x more costly to consume (in terms of wasted time and strained attention). How does <i>that</i> even work?</text></item><item><author>kouteiheika</author><text>&gt; What would be the best learning site&#x2F;resource for arriving at understanding how to integrate and manipulate SD with precision like that?<p>Honestly? Probably YouTube tutorials.</text></item><item><author>nomand</author><text>Is there a coherent resource (not a scattered &#x27;just google it&#x27; series of guides from all over the place) that encapsulates some of the concepts and workflows you&#x27;re describing? What would be the best learning site&#x2F;resource for arriving at understanding how to integrate and manipulate SD with precision like that? Thanks</text></item><item><author>orbital-decay</author><text>Are you using txt2img with the vanilla model? SD&#x27;s actual value is in the large array of higher-order input methods and tooling; as a tradeoff, it requires more knowledge. Similarly to 3D CGI, it&#x27;s a highly technical area. You don&#x27;t just enter the prompt with it.<p>You can finetune it on your own material, or choose one of the hundreds of public finetuned models. You can guide it in a precise manner with a sketch or by extracting a pose from a photo using controlnets or any other method. You can influence the colors. You can explicitly separate prompt parts so the tokens don&#x27;t leak into each other. You can use it as a photobashing tool with a plugin to popular image editing software. Things like ComfyUI enable extremely complicated pipelines as well. etc etc etc</text></item><item><author>ewjt</author><text>Can you elaborate on “properly tweaked”? When I use one of the Stable Diffusion and AUTOMATIC1111 templates on runpod.io, the results are absolutely worthless.<p>This is using some of the popular prompts you can find on sites like prompthero that show amazing examples.<p>It’s been serious expectation vs. reality disappointment for me and so I just pay the MidJourney or DALL-E fees.</text></item><item><author>kouteiheika</author><text>For reference, here&#x27;s what you can get with a properly tweaked Stable Diffusion, all running locally on my PC. Can be set up on almost any PC with a mid range GPU in a few minutes if you know what you&#x27;re doing. I didn&#x27;t do any cherry picking; this is the first thing it generated. 4 images per prompt.<p>1st prompt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;T3nZ9bQy&#x2F;1st.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;T3nZ9bQy&#x2F;1st.png</a><p>2nd prompt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;XNFm3dSs&#x2F;2nd.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;XNFm3dSs&#x2F;2nd.png</a><p>3rd prompt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;c1bCyqWR&#x2F;3rd.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;c1bCyqWR&#x2F;3rd.png</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bavell</author><text>I&#x27;ve been playing with SD for a few months now and have only watched 20-30m of YT videos about it. There&#x27;s only a few worth spending any time watching, and they&#x27;re on specific workflows or techniques.<p>Best just to dive in if you&#x27;re interested IMO. Otherwise you&#x27;ll get lost in all the new jargon and ideas. Great place to start is the A1111 repo, lot of community resources available and batteries included.</text></comment> | <story><title>Comparing Adobe Firefly, Dalle-2, and OpenJourney</title><url>https://blog.usmanity.com/comparing-adobe-firefly-dalle-2-and-openjourney/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Jaysus.<p>I&#x27;m going to sound like an entitled whiny old guy shouting at clouds, but - what the hell; with all the knowledge being either locked and churned on Discord, or released in form of YouTube videos with no transcript and extremely low content density - how is anyone with a job supposed to keep up with this? Or is that a new form of gatekeeping - if you can&#x27;t afford to burn a lot of time and attention as if in some kind of Proof of Work scheme, you&#x27;re not allowed to play with the newest toys?<p>I mean, Discord I can sort of get - chit-chatting and shitposting is easier than writing articles or maintaining wikis, and it kind of grows organically from there. But YouTube? Surely making a video takes 10-100x the effort and cost, compared to writing an article with some screenshots, while also being 10x more costly to consume (in terms of wasted time and strained attention). How does <i>that</i> even work?</text></item><item><author>kouteiheika</author><text>&gt; What would be the best learning site&#x2F;resource for arriving at understanding how to integrate and manipulate SD with precision like that?<p>Honestly? Probably YouTube tutorials.</text></item><item><author>nomand</author><text>Is there a coherent resource (not a scattered &#x27;just google it&#x27; series of guides from all over the place) that encapsulates some of the concepts and workflows you&#x27;re describing? What would be the best learning site&#x2F;resource for arriving at understanding how to integrate and manipulate SD with precision like that? Thanks</text></item><item><author>orbital-decay</author><text>Are you using txt2img with the vanilla model? SD&#x27;s actual value is in the large array of higher-order input methods and tooling; as a tradeoff, it requires more knowledge. Similarly to 3D CGI, it&#x27;s a highly technical area. You don&#x27;t just enter the prompt with it.<p>You can finetune it on your own material, or choose one of the hundreds of public finetuned models. You can guide it in a precise manner with a sketch or by extracting a pose from a photo using controlnets or any other method. You can influence the colors. You can explicitly separate prompt parts so the tokens don&#x27;t leak into each other. You can use it as a photobashing tool with a plugin to popular image editing software. Things like ComfyUI enable extremely complicated pipelines as well. etc etc etc</text></item><item><author>ewjt</author><text>Can you elaborate on “properly tweaked”? When I use one of the Stable Diffusion and AUTOMATIC1111 templates on runpod.io, the results are absolutely worthless.<p>This is using some of the popular prompts you can find on sites like prompthero that show amazing examples.<p>It’s been serious expectation vs. reality disappointment for me and so I just pay the MidJourney or DALL-E fees.</text></item><item><author>kouteiheika</author><text>For reference, here&#x27;s what you can get with a properly tweaked Stable Diffusion, all running locally on my PC. Can be set up on almost any PC with a mid range GPU in a few minutes if you know what you&#x27;re doing. I didn&#x27;t do any cherry picking; this is the first thing it generated. 4 images per prompt.<p>1st prompt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;T3nZ9bQy&#x2F;1st.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;T3nZ9bQy&#x2F;1st.png</a><p>2nd prompt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;XNFm3dSs&#x2F;2nd.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;XNFm3dSs&#x2F;2nd.png</a><p>3rd prompt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;c1bCyqWR&#x2F;3rd.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.postimg.cc&#x2F;c1bCyqWR&#x2F;3rd.png</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orbital-decay</author><text>How does anyone keep up with anything? It&#x27;s a visual thing. A lot of people are learning drawing, modeling, animation etc in the exact same way - by watching YouTube (a bit) and experimenting (a lot).</text></comment> |
40,687,146 | 40,686,492 | 1 | 3 | 40,684,901 | train | <story><title>Exponentially Better Rotations (2022)</title><url>http://thenumb.at/Exponential-Rotations/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>The lie group&#x2F;lie algebra correspondence is one of the coolest things i wish i’d been taught in school. It’s the exponential and log map in the article, but in a super reusable setting.<p>You take some totally abstract thing you want to work with[0], say 3D rotations, but totally avoiding any details of specific coordinates that might get you into trouble. That’s the lie group.<p>Then you can derive representations of it in coordinates that behave nicely. This is called the corresponding lie algebra. Then for free you get a way to go back and forth between the coordinates and the abstract thing[1], and ways to compose them and stuff. Turns out that this is the exponential map and the log map talked about in the article. What’s even cooler is that you can then compose them on either side, the abstract side or the coordinate side in a way that plays nicely. You get interpolation and averaging and all that in a fairly sensible way too in most cases you’ll deal with as an engineer. And best of all, when you can phrase your problem as a combination of lie groups, you can just google for what their algebras are and get lots of work for free that would be tons of time to do yourself.<p>[0] the thing has to be something with a notion of smooth change, plus a bit more structure it probably has.<p>[1] going back and forth has some ‘connected components’ issues sometimes, but that’s just another reason it’s great to piggyback on known results.</text></comment> | <story><title>Exponentially Better Rotations (2022)</title><url>http://thenumb.at/Exponential-Rotations/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>romwell</author><text>This talks about one of my pet peeves with a lot of 3D software: they don&#x27;t use Arcball[1] interface for rotation.<p>Autodesk products do (3DSmax, Maya), but Blender and OpenSCAD don&#x27;t. And when I worked at Roblox, I couldn&#x27;t convince the PM to let me implement it, because the users got by with whatever was there — and if they wanted more, they could use <i>something else</i> (...which they did, and Roblox stock reflected that in 2022).<p>Arcball is based on quaternions[2] (using exp for interpolation).<p>It&#x27;s the <i>only</i> interface with these properties:<p>1. <i>Any</i> rotation can be accomplished with a <i>single drag</i><p>2. No gimbal locks<p>3. Tracing a closed loop with a sequence of drags results in coming back to where you started<p>Once you formalize this, you can prove it mathematically (ultimately, this comes from unit quaternions giving a 2-cover of SO(3) in the same way unit complex numbers giving exactly the rotations of a circle).<p>For anyone interested, here is my reference implementation of Quaternions &#x2F; Arcball that you can play with on the page:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;romankogan.net&#x2F;math&#x2F;arcball_js&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;romankogan.net&#x2F;math&#x2F;arcball_js&#x2F;index.html</a><p>The code is very-commented Java (Processing library, running in JavaScript by the magic of ProcessingJS).<p>It&#x27;s one way you can <i>feel</i> the fancy math.<p>Your hands and body will understand quaternions before your brain does.<p>If you ever work on 3D software, <i>please</i> use this, and thanks in advance &lt;3<p>[1] Arcball: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;courses.cms.caltech.edu&#x2F;cs171&#x2F;assignments&#x2F;hw3&#x2F;hw3-notes&#x2F;notes-hw3.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;courses.cms.caltech.edu&#x2F;cs171&#x2F;assignments&#x2F;hw3&#x2F;hw3-not...</a><p>[2] Quaternions for rotations: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Quaternions_and_spatial_rotation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Quaternions_and_spatial_rotati...</a><p>[3] Arcball in Processing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;romankogan.net&#x2F;math&#x2F;arcball_js&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;romankogan.net&#x2F;math&#x2F;arcball_js&#x2F;index.html</a></text></comment> |
40,262,892 | 40,261,710 | 1 | 2 | 40,260,399 | train | <story><title>Superfest – The almost unbreakable East German Glass (2021)</title><url>https://digitalcosmonaut.com/superfest-ceverit-glass-ddr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lispm</author><text>There was a recent kickstarter project from a German company for Glass bottles based on this technology:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.soulbottles.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;ultraglass" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.soulbottles.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;ultraglass</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;paulkupfer&#x2F;ultraglass-stronger-and-lighter-bottles-with-ion-technology" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;paulkupfer&#x2F;ultraglass-s...</a><p>Recent update:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;paulkupfer&#x2F;ultraglass-stronger-and-lighter-bottles-with-ion-technology&#x2F;posts&#x2F;4067281" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;paulkupfer&#x2F;ultraglass-s...</a><p>The research for this was done at the University of Bayreuth:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glas.uni-bayreuth.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;projects&#x2F;strongbottles&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glas.uni-bayreuth.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;projects&#x2F;strongbottles&#x2F;i...</a><p>German TV reported about the background here, 20:45 onwards:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.3sat.de&#x2F;wissen&#x2F;nano&#x2F;240315-sendung-epigenetik-armut-hinterlaesst-spuren-im-erbgut-nano-100.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.3sat.de&#x2F;wissen&#x2F;nano&#x2F;240315-sendung-epigenetik-ar...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Superfest – The almost unbreakable East German Glass (2021)</title><url>https://digitalcosmonaut.com/superfest-ceverit-glass-ddr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leeoniya</author><text>&gt; While the Superfest glass is by far more durable than normal glass, when they shatter – the burst into a million fine pieces and are a total nightmare to clean up. I’m not sure if it’s because of their potassium chloride coating or because they are made to be super thin, my advice is to not drop them.<p>maybe the same reason [the super hard] prince rupert&#x27;s drops explode. really high internal stress.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xe-f4gokRBs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xe-f4gokRBs</a></text></comment> |
33,442,325 | 33,441,636 | 1 | 2 | 33,432,296 | train | <story><title>Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares</title><url>https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/220</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bartbutler</author><text>This is Bart, Proton CTO here. For clarity, the issue mentioned here only impacts Proton Mail Bridge, our desktop IMAP&#x2F;SMTP gateway to Proton Mail encrypted email.<p>The fact that Bridge and its client can become desynchronized sporadically for some users is a high priority issue we have been working on. Bridge is open source, and as a result relies upon open-source components, and the root cause is an architectural issue in a library that Bridge uses to implement IMAP. When there are network issues, this library returns errors to email clients.<p>Unfortunately, there are hundreds of email clients, and some email clients don’t handle errors properly, and this leads to desynchronization.<p>Our error tracking shows this does not happen often (1-2% of Bridge users) and the symptom is usually incorrect display of messages or read&#x2F;unread status which is fixed with an inbox resynchronization. There are cases where a combination of a desynchronized mailbox and a specific series of user actions can lead to accidental email deletion, but this is far rarer than desynchronization. Our implementation tries as hard as possible to avoid this. If you find you are missing an email, our implementation works around the issue by placing it in a users’ All Mail folder.<p>As Bridge is open source, updates on this issue have always been publicly posted on GitHub. Addressing this issue at the source requires replacing the core IMAP library. Unfortunately, there are no FOSS IMAP libraries that are sufficiently well maintained. Therefore, the solution is to build our own IMAP library called Gluon, which we have been focusing on since this issue was reported to us. You can follow the progress of this open-source project here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ProtonMail&#x2F;gluon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ProtonMail&#x2F;gluon</a><p>We are not refusing to fix the problem. The only possible solution is writing a new open-source IMAP library which we can maintain ourselves to ensure this class of errors cannot occur again. We have doubled the size of the team working on this this year so it is a priority for us.<p>We’re confident that this addresses the main sources of desynchronization and will be available in the beta version of Bridge by the end of the year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptonector</author><text>The fundamental problem is that `UID`s in IMAP kinda suck because assigning persistent, unique IDs to emails in a store is a hard problem because doing that for mbox- or maildir-like stores is hard because those predated any notion of remote email access protocols.<p>Thus in practice IMAP servers generally assign `UID`s ephemerally per-session, which means that clients can&#x27;t rely on the stability of `UID`s, which means that clients have to re-obtain `UID`s before operating on emails via IMAP even if they have cached those emails locally. `UIDVALIDITY` exists to help clients cache and invalidate `UID`s. The RFC has text about this.<p>A bridge from IMAP to something else (which is basically what every IMAP server ever is) needs to deal with this. To make `UID`s stable requires keeping state.<p>Clients should really not assume stable `UID`s. Instead clients should `SEARCH` or list to get [temporarily] valid `UID`s then use those to delete etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares</title><url>https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/220</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bartbutler</author><text>This is Bart, Proton CTO here. For clarity, the issue mentioned here only impacts Proton Mail Bridge, our desktop IMAP&#x2F;SMTP gateway to Proton Mail encrypted email.<p>The fact that Bridge and its client can become desynchronized sporadically for some users is a high priority issue we have been working on. Bridge is open source, and as a result relies upon open-source components, and the root cause is an architectural issue in a library that Bridge uses to implement IMAP. When there are network issues, this library returns errors to email clients.<p>Unfortunately, there are hundreds of email clients, and some email clients don’t handle errors properly, and this leads to desynchronization.<p>Our error tracking shows this does not happen often (1-2% of Bridge users) and the symptom is usually incorrect display of messages or read&#x2F;unread status which is fixed with an inbox resynchronization. There are cases where a combination of a desynchronized mailbox and a specific series of user actions can lead to accidental email deletion, but this is far rarer than desynchronization. Our implementation tries as hard as possible to avoid this. If you find you are missing an email, our implementation works around the issue by placing it in a users’ All Mail folder.<p>As Bridge is open source, updates on this issue have always been publicly posted on GitHub. Addressing this issue at the source requires replacing the core IMAP library. Unfortunately, there are no FOSS IMAP libraries that are sufficiently well maintained. Therefore, the solution is to build our own IMAP library called Gluon, which we have been focusing on since this issue was reported to us. You can follow the progress of this open-source project here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ProtonMail&#x2F;gluon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ProtonMail&#x2F;gluon</a><p>We are not refusing to fix the problem. The only possible solution is writing a new open-source IMAP library which we can maintain ourselves to ensure this class of errors cannot occur again. We have doubled the size of the team working on this this year so it is a priority for us.<p>We’re confident that this addresses the main sources of desynchronization and will be available in the beta version of Bridge by the end of the year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twleo</author><text>&gt; Bridge is open source, and as a result relies upon open-source components<p>I don&#x27;t get it. Bridge is open source does not imply it should relies upon open-source components.<p>&gt; Addressing this issue at the source requires replacing the core IMAP library.<p>Why building an IMAP library from scratch instead of fixing&#x2F;forking go-imap?
Even a temporary fix to go-imap when you are developing gluon?
Another repetitive work which does not guarantee the mentioned issues will be resolved completely.</text></comment> |
14,537,790 | 14,537,583 | 1 | 3 | 14,536,410 | train | <story><title>Automattic is closing its San Francisco office as most employees work remotely</title><url>https://qz.com/1002655/the-company-behind-wordpress-is-closing-its-gorgeous-san-francisco-office-because-its-employees-never-show-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larrik</author><text>&quot;archived in Slack&quot;<p>Wait, is there a way to make old conversations in Slack less painful to find and read? Anything more than 3 pages away is just not worth the effort for me.</text></item><item><author>andygcook</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is WordPress employees taking a mile when given an inch by working remotely all the time. I believe WordPress encourages employees <i>not</i> to regularly go to the office. The reason being is they don&#x27;t want a small faction of the company to become essentially collocated while the rest of the company is distributed, thus breaking their communication flows. Remote works for WordPress because almost all communication gets archived in Slack, email or p2 (their internal social network built on WordPress). Anyone can see what&#x27;s going on or get caught up asynchronously. It&#x27;s pretty much guaranteed that in a collocated environment some of that communication would happen offline IRL, and others would miss out on it.</text></item><item><author>alaskamiller</author><text>Had a party at the WordPress office a few years back and it&#x27;s a great space. There&#x27;s a lounge, kitchen, the bathrooms are nice, some room for bikes, and the rest of the space is setup to be multi-use. There&#x27;s a big stage area and the corners are furnished to be pretty cozy.<p>Of my past work places--death star cube farms in old silicon valley to tiny rooms in sweltering Berkeley summers to shiny live&#x2F;work lofts to giant sprawling disneyland like campus to noisy hipster coffee shops--that WordPress office would be up there in terms of a good place to work at.<p>The real story is the upward trend that if you give an inch, your employees will take a foot. If you offer telecommute, workers will not show up.<p>I&#x27;ve been freelancing and telecommuting the past five years. I&#x27;ve built my workstyle around chat bubbles, slack channels, video calls, and emails whether 2PM or 2AM.<p>I&#x27;ve built my lifestyle around that. As in I work around my life. Things just... get done without a direct measure of productivity anymore.<p>Sitting somewhere from 9 to 5 is like watching TV from the 2000&#x27;s, ordering Netflix DVDs when we live in the 2010&#x27;s with streaming Netflix.<p>And as one disappear, so does another and another. When you look around and realize no one else is there anymore it just becomes a ghost town while the virtual water cooler becomes more and more vibrant.<p>No ones goes to the office anymore, it&#x27;s too lonely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philsnow</author><text>I typically use the slack app to find conversations I want to read, and then if they&#x27;re more than a few pages in the past, will read them in the web interface. The web interface seems somehow to perform many times better.</text></comment> | <story><title>Automattic is closing its San Francisco office as most employees work remotely</title><url>https://qz.com/1002655/the-company-behind-wordpress-is-closing-its-gorgeous-san-francisco-office-because-its-employees-never-show-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larrik</author><text>&quot;archived in Slack&quot;<p>Wait, is there a way to make old conversations in Slack less painful to find and read? Anything more than 3 pages away is just not worth the effort for me.</text></item><item><author>andygcook</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is WordPress employees taking a mile when given an inch by working remotely all the time. I believe WordPress encourages employees <i>not</i> to regularly go to the office. The reason being is they don&#x27;t want a small faction of the company to become essentially collocated while the rest of the company is distributed, thus breaking their communication flows. Remote works for WordPress because almost all communication gets archived in Slack, email or p2 (their internal social network built on WordPress). Anyone can see what&#x27;s going on or get caught up asynchronously. It&#x27;s pretty much guaranteed that in a collocated environment some of that communication would happen offline IRL, and others would miss out on it.</text></item><item><author>alaskamiller</author><text>Had a party at the WordPress office a few years back and it&#x27;s a great space. There&#x27;s a lounge, kitchen, the bathrooms are nice, some room for bikes, and the rest of the space is setup to be multi-use. There&#x27;s a big stage area and the corners are furnished to be pretty cozy.<p>Of my past work places--death star cube farms in old silicon valley to tiny rooms in sweltering Berkeley summers to shiny live&#x2F;work lofts to giant sprawling disneyland like campus to noisy hipster coffee shops--that WordPress office would be up there in terms of a good place to work at.<p>The real story is the upward trend that if you give an inch, your employees will take a foot. If you offer telecommute, workers will not show up.<p>I&#x27;ve been freelancing and telecommuting the past five years. I&#x27;ve built my workstyle around chat bubbles, slack channels, video calls, and emails whether 2PM or 2AM.<p>I&#x27;ve built my lifestyle around that. As in I work around my life. Things just... get done without a direct measure of productivity anymore.<p>Sitting somewhere from 9 to 5 is like watching TV from the 2000&#x27;s, ordering Netflix DVDs when we live in the 2010&#x27;s with streaming Netflix.<p>And as one disappear, so does another and another. When you look around and realize no one else is there anymore it just becomes a ghost town while the virtual water cooler becomes more and more vibrant.<p>No ones goes to the office anymore, it&#x27;s too lonely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmlnr</author><text>use the IRC bridge and log in plain text ;)</text></comment> |
10,632,293 | 10,631,928 | 1 | 2 | 10,626,942 | train | <story><title>The Dribbblisation of Design</title><url>https://medium.com/intercom-inside/the-dribbblisation-of-design-406422ccb026#.urul8bvil</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rkalfane</author><text>(Disclaimer: I&#x27;m a designer and I&#x27;m probably very biased about the matter)<p>In my opinion it&#x27;s very often a matter of expectations.<p>When a lot of design decisions are taken by a bunch of people, from management, engineering and marketing, including a designer would simply mean having one more person to compromise with. Companies working this way tend to have designers focus more on making the product look good, thus this dribbblisation of design. On the other side, engineering has historically been expected to deal with design when building products, and nowadays a lot of engineers have learnt how to design on the field. This reinforces the view that designers are only useful to make things look good. Lastly, the tools we use in design are really easy to use, anyone with a couple hours to spare should be able to create some stuff with most of the available tools. With that, it makes deciders think that the only difference will be a matter of taste.<p>A lot of designers can actually do more than that, the basis of their job is usually to question things with the perspective of the user: &quot;Does it make sense to do this? Is it really useful to have that amount of customisation? How much information do we need to see?&quot; Most of the time the solutions are stupidly obvious, or they&#x27;re chosen based of how complicated it makes the system, or how costly it can be, and that&#x27;s where experts add a lot of value.<p>All in all, if all you need is to make stuff look good, sure a dribbble designer is probably a good fit, just don&#x27;t expect them to automagically make the product usable. If you want someone to work on your experience, you should probably have your designer work on the problem instead of having them &quot;upgrade&quot; your solution.<p>Just like how the engineering field is, the design field is really diverse with people doing different things, differently.<p>(Wow, that was a long rant, sorry about that.)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Dribbblisation of Design</title><url>https://medium.com/intercom-inside/the-dribbblisation-of-design-406422ccb026#.urul8bvil</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dunkelheit</author><text>My main grievance with modern designs is low information density. Fonts are getting bigger and lots of whitespace is added between blocks. This works great for articles (as an example, medium articles look gorgeous and are a joy to read) but just about anything else is less usable when fewer bits of actual information are on the screen.<p>Ironically, one can also speak of UX-isation of design. I would define it as misguided thinking that the designer knows my problems better than myself. Take &quot;you should take your umbrella&quot; weather app. The information density is exactly 1 bit per screen which is abysmal. What about my jacket? Or what if I want to play badminton? Just give me the temperatures and wind info dammit.</text></comment> |
20,615,847 | 20,615,778 | 1 | 2 | 20,615,403 | train | <story><title>Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-05/yield-curve-blares-loudest-u-s-recession-warning-since-2007</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>My favorite investment advice, courtesy of Mr. Money Mustache:<p>&quot;Suppose you’re just starting out as an egg farmer, and your goal is to build up a nice, profitable business. You want to build up a flock of hens so big that they are eventually producing thousands of eggs per month. Enough to live off for life and retire.<p>You buy your first 100 hens, and they get right to work. You allow those eggs to hatch so more hens can be born, and you also continue to buy hens from the farm supply store. Suddenly your phone rings and it’s Farmer Joe down the road. “The price of hens has just dropped by 50%! You’ve just lost five grand on those hundred hens you bought last summer!”<p>Is this a sensible way to think about it?<p>No, of course not. You’re happy that hens are cheaper, because now you can build your egg business even faster.<p>Stocks are just like hens. They lay eggs called “dividends”, which are real money that can either flow automatically into your checking account, or automatically reinvest itself to buy still more stocks...There’s only one time you care if one of your shares is down: on the day you sell it.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mrmoneymustache.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;29&#x2F;what-to-do-about-this-scary-stock-market&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mrmoneymustache.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;29&#x2F;what-to-do-about-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-05/yield-curve-blares-loudest-u-s-recession-warning-since-2007</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>Let’s assume you believe a recession is coming. What’s your investment strategy to protect yourself?<p>Two recessions ago (2001-2002) i invested in REITs through the stock market. It worked really well and I doubled, but it turned out I just got lucky with exit timing because they were pump and dump schemes and I got out coincidentally just before the “dump”. I even got a payment from the class action lawsuit against them a few years later.<p>So, what’s an actual sound strategy if you think a recession is coming?</text></comment> |
2,946,325 | 2,945,345 | 1 | 3 | 2,945,271 | train | <story><title>Chrome's Most Important Feature </title><url>http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/08/chromes-most-important-feature.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eps</author><text>This will probably get downvoted quickly, but Chrome's updater is one of few things I quarantine on my machine. I just don't trust Google enough to let it run stuff that "works quietly in the background, never notifying you." The technology is interesting (though not exactly a rocket science and certainly not <i>magical</i> ... which it would've been if it could update a running instance of Chrome without restarting it), but I am wee bit uncomfortable letting a company who is in business of collecting data and tracking people to run anything in my background.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome's Most Important Feature </title><url>http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/08/chromes-most-important-feature.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I agree with this. Chrome has effectively changed the entire nature of client-side computing with this feature. If you want to run stuff client-side any more (hello Windows? Anybody listening?), you're going to need to implement this.<p>In general, the user should <i>extremely</i> rarely be interrupted for anything, especially not anything program-related. Each program having a tray icon, an update alert, update restarts, and flow interruption because it thinks something is important is what has turned windows from a productive computing platform to some kind of cross between a Kafkaesque X-box and a slot machine.</text></comment> |
30,980,373 | 30,980,217 | 1 | 3 | 30,979,256 | train | <story><title>A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle</title><url>https://kiwiziti.com/~matt/timberlake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pvg</author><text>The crucial detail that is a little buried in the piece is that the original &#x27;explanation&#x27; was posted in &#x2F;r&#x2F;ProgrammerHumor so it said right on the tin it was a joke. But the (seemingly clearly intended as a joke) details temporarily nerd-sniped a lot of people&#x27;s senses of humor right out of their brains. The HN discussion discussion from back then is still fun reading with a number of commenters very invested in the notion that it wasn&#x27;t really a joke.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21566921" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21566921</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davesque</author><text>Just looked into this and yeah, the original post to which the comment was responding was a programmer humor post. However, it looked as if the comment in question <i>may</i> have been an actual, legit attempt to explain the phenomenon. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s obvious or assumed that the comments responding to programmer humor posts are always intended to be jokes as well.<p>I&#x27;m also just asking myself what&#x27;s more likely here. Think of the demographic of that forum. It seems to me like some up and coming nerd kid fancied themself an expert and cooked up a half baked theory about what was happening.</text></comment> | <story><title>A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle</title><url>https://kiwiziti.com/~matt/timberlake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pvg</author><text>The crucial detail that is a little buried in the piece is that the original &#x27;explanation&#x27; was posted in &#x2F;r&#x2F;ProgrammerHumor so it said right on the tin it was a joke. But the (seemingly clearly intended as a joke) details temporarily nerd-sniped a lot of people&#x27;s senses of humor right out of their brains. The HN discussion discussion from back then is still fun reading with a number of commenters very invested in the notion that it wasn&#x27;t really a joke.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21566921" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21566921</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>causality0</author><text>If it was a <i>post</i> in the subreddit that would make sense. But it was a comment, not a post, and thus not labeled as humor.</text></comment> |
25,261,995 | 25,258,127 | 1 | 3 | 25,256,605 | train | <story><title>FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/30/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-will-step-down-on-january-20.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Corrado</author><text>Some people are saying that Mr. Pai has been a good force for the FCC and he hasn&#x27;t done anything that terribly wrong. I strongly disagree and for proof I present the FCC&#x27;s handing of the 2017 Net Neutrality repeal process.<p>Do you remember the millions of comments left by the public in opposition to NN? Do you remember that these comments were created by bots and not real people? Do you remember that after closer investigation it was revealed that the vast majority of &quot;real&quot; comments were for NN, not against it and that a large percentage of those comments in opposition were from Russian bots?<p>When questioned about it the FCC claimed that there was a problem with their logs during the voting period and they were unable to provide information about where these comments came from. As far as I can remember, there was no real consequence for these actions and the FCC simply continued to dismantle NN.<p>This type of activity is unforgivable and was a malicious attempt to put the will and good of ISPs over that of the American people. For this, Mr. Pai should have been shown the door years ago. I guess it&#x27;s better late than never.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/30/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-will-step-down-on-january-20.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Multiple sources, several submitted to HN:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;say-goodbye-to-ajit-pai-fcc-chair-to-leave-on-bidens-inauguration-day&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;say-goodbye-to-a...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;variety.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;digital&#x2F;news&#x2F;fcc-ajit-pai-leave-january-2021-biden-president-1234842166&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;variety.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;digital&#x2F;news&#x2F;fcc-ajit-pai-leave-jan...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-11-30&#x2F;u-s-fcc-chief-who-ended-net-neutrality-says-he-ll-quit-jan-20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-11-30&#x2F;u-s-fcc-c...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;30&#x2F;21726572&#x2F;ajit-pai-fcc-step-down-date-trump-telecom-net-neutrality" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;30&#x2F;21726572&#x2F;ajit-pai-fcc-st...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;30&#x2F;fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-will-step-down-to-make-way-for-the-biden-administration&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;30&#x2F;fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-will...</a><p>The Ars, Variety, Bloomberg and TechCrunch stories have more meat, especially regards Net Neutrality repeal and Section 230 attempts.</text></comment> |
12,187,190 | 12,186,794 | 1 | 2 | 12,186,550 | train | <story><title>Viral.js – Peer-to-peer web app distribution</title><url>http://pixelscommander.github.io/Viral.JS/#.V5tY1ZN97UI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zer0gravity</author><text>So many problems.<p>Security : how do you guarantee that a client peer is not tinkering with the code it distributes further?<p>Unreliable: browsing sessions come and go. Before forwarding the app maybe the browser is already closed..<p>Bandwidth: nobody loves bandwidth thieves<p>And so on...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rawnlq</author><text>The underlying concept behind this isn&#x27;t much different from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webtorrent.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webtorrent.io&#x2F;</a> (I am pretty sure this could&#x27;ve been built on top of the webtorrents protocol). I don&#x27;t believe there are any insurmountable problems. Security, reliability etc have all been solved before.<p>But there&#x27;s still no way you can make this faster than traditional CDNs (at the minimum you&#x27;ll need an extra round trip to check for peers). As a matter of fact if my torrenting speed is any indication, it will be abysmally slow.<p>You probably won&#x27;t be penny pinching over bandwidth cost when every 100ms of page load time costs you 1% in sales. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.gigaspaces.com&#x2F;amazon-found-every-100ms-of-latency-cost-them-1-in-sales&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.gigaspaces.com&#x2F;amazon-found-every-100ms-of-laten...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Viral.js – Peer-to-peer web app distribution</title><url>http://pixelscommander.github.io/Viral.JS/#.V5tY1ZN97UI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zer0gravity</author><text>So many problems.<p>Security : how do you guarantee that a client peer is not tinkering with the code it distributes further?<p>Unreliable: browsing sessions come and go. Before forwarding the app maybe the browser is already closed..<p>Bandwidth: nobody loves bandwidth thieves<p>And so on...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0x6c6f6c</author><text>This is an idea I&#x27;ve had for websites such as Wikipedia where consumer funding is the main source keeping it alive.<p>This could be great for a small niche of applications, but even for those, these points are still important.<p>Particularly on the consumer end, turning my device into a provider as well as a consumer of data is typically not my intention. It&#x27;s forced seeding on all clients in a torrent sense, which not everyone wants to be a part of. Or for that matter, can be. In a world of data caps, turning my phone, tablet, or hotspot connected devices into a CDN has moral and fiscal implications that have to be considered.</text></comment> |
25,540,868 | 25,540,820 | 1 | 2 | 25,539,586 | train | <story><title>ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville</title><url>https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/12/25/att-outage-internet-down-hours-after-nashville-explosion/4045278001/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuakelly</author><text>While that&#x27;s true, I think two factors strongly indicate that this was targeted at the ATT building. The first observation is, of course, that the ATT building was the closest to the explosion. A direct witness to the RV broadcasting the evacuation message, who lives across the street, describes this fact: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8</a>. The second observation is the evacuation message itself. How often do we hear about bombings where the bombers broadcast an evacuation message on a loudspeaker for 15 minutes prior to the explosion? Telling people to evacuate doesn&#x27;t sound like the kind of thing you would do if your primary intent was to inflict loss of life.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>AT&amp;T says that their services went down along with the gas &amp; power in the area, as a side effect: the gas shutoff cut off their backup generators. That doesn&#x27;t sound all that targeted.</text></item><item><author>joshuakelly</author><text>This article doesn&#x27;t make this so explicit, but ATT infrastructure appears to be the intentional target of the bombing. You can see the building in the helicopter shot at the top of the NYTimes article on the story: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;25&#x2F;us&#x2F;nashville-explosion.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;25&#x2F;us&#x2F;nashville-explosion.ht...</a><p>Obviously a telecommunications&#x2F;switch hub, with it being a large windowless building in a downtown core.<p>The other thing that&#x27;s particularly odd is the fact that the attackers appear to have broadcasted some sort of warning or evacuation message from the site of the bombing prior to the explosion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigbubba</author><text>&gt; <i>How often do we hear about bombings where the bombers broadcast an evacuation message on a loudspeaker for 15 minutes prior to the explosion?</i><p>This is how the Provisional Irish Republican Army operated, at least some of the time. For instance they telephoned in warnings 90 minutes before the 1996 Manchester bombing (1500 kg bomb, 212 injuries and no fatalities.) I&#x27;ve read somewhere they had established codewords with British authorities so those authorities knew which warnings to take seriously.</text></comment> | <story><title>ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville</title><url>https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/12/25/att-outage-internet-down-hours-after-nashville-explosion/4045278001/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuakelly</author><text>While that&#x27;s true, I think two factors strongly indicate that this was targeted at the ATT building. The first observation is, of course, that the ATT building was the closest to the explosion. A direct witness to the RV broadcasting the evacuation message, who lives across the street, describes this fact: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8</a>. The second observation is the evacuation message itself. How often do we hear about bombings where the bombers broadcast an evacuation message on a loudspeaker for 15 minutes prior to the explosion? Telling people to evacuate doesn&#x27;t sound like the kind of thing you would do if your primary intent was to inflict loss of life.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>AT&amp;T says that their services went down along with the gas &amp; power in the area, as a side effect: the gas shutoff cut off their backup generators. That doesn&#x27;t sound all that targeted.</text></item><item><author>joshuakelly</author><text>This article doesn&#x27;t make this so explicit, but ATT infrastructure appears to be the intentional target of the bombing. You can see the building in the helicopter shot at the top of the NYTimes article on the story: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;25&#x2F;us&#x2F;nashville-explosion.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;25&#x2F;us&#x2F;nashville-explosion.ht...</a><p>Obviously a telecommunications&#x2F;switch hub, with it being a large windowless building in a downtown core.<p>The other thing that&#x27;s particularly odd is the fact that the attackers appear to have broadcasted some sort of warning or evacuation message from the site of the bombing prior to the explosion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uxp100</author><text>I think bombers broadcasting warning messages is somewhat more common with certain types of political violence. I know weather underground bombings tried to choose times for their bombings when buildings would not be inhabited, not always successfully.</text></comment> |
7,975,812 | 7,975,792 | 1 | 2 | 7,974,023 | train | <story><title>Amazon sues employee for taking Google cloud job, in new test of non-competes</title><url>http://www.geekwire.com/2014/amazon-sues-employee-taking-google-cloud-job-new-test-non-compete-laws/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mixologic</author><text>Companies seem to want to view employees as somewhat disposable and have shifted the burden of taking care of somebody long term (pensions, retirement, career progression etc) onto the employees themselves. But in doing so they&#x27;re encouraging labor mobility, and seem strangely shocked to find out that employees would take with them the expertise, history, and network of contacts that they had accumulated and move that value somewhere else.<p>It&#x27;s really interesting how they have resorted to strong arming their engineers with these shot in the back non-competes, and couple it with salary collusion and hiring agreements. Throw in the golden handcuffs (that turn into golden dental floss after a few funding rounds -- long after they&#x27;ve gotten their 60-70 hour work weeks out of the true believers) and you see how they are trying to stymie that labor movement.<p>It&#x27;s really a wonder that technology workers haven&#x27;t started forming some sort of union.</text></item><item><author>bcantrill</author><text>This is a pattern for Amazon: I work for a competitor to Amazon, and they went after us for violating a non-compete after we hired an AWS engineer. Our counsel had reviewed the non-compete before we hired the engineer, and concluded that the non-compete didn&#x27;t <i>actually</i> prevent an engineer from working for a competitor, but rather prevented much narrower activity like poaching customer lists or supplier relationships. We were somewhat surprised that Amazon aggressively pursued the matter because it seemed so obvious to us that they wouldn&#x27;t prevail. After Amazon sent us (and, it must be said, the engineer personally) a very nasty letter claiming that the non-compete was being violated, we retained local counsel and sent them an even nastier one back, making clear that we had no intention of backing down. Ultimately, they backed off, but in this process, I learned that Amazon has pursued this particular non-compete &quot;hundreds&quot; of times, and has never (to the best of the knowledge of our local counsel in Seattle) prevailed once. In part this is because Washington allows non-competes, but also doesn&#x27;t like to infringe on the free flow of labor -- temporary restraining orders preventing an individual from working for a company are extraordinarily rare. (This is in contrast to states like Texas and Massachusetts, where non-competes are infamously enforceable.)<p>So if Amazon never prevails, why do they do it? One of the peculiar attributes of Amazon&#x27;s action against us is that it was well publicized <i>within</i> Amazon -- and was apparently a result of outrage by a high-ranking executive after he learned that the former AWS engineer not only was working for a competitor, but had the gumption to open source a technology that he developed here. (Ironically, the executive only learned of all of this when the technology itself became a top story here on HN.) My conclusion from this: this action wasn&#x27;t <i>actually</i> directed at us -- Amazon is smart enough to know that nothing would come of it with respect to our actions -- but rather at <i>their own</i> employees. That is, Amazon&#x27;s pursuit of the non-compete against our engineer was their way of shooting an escapee in the back -- and sending a sharp message to any other AWS inmates with similar ambitions.<p>In terms of an immediate effect, Amazon&#x27;s move worked to a degree: our next few hires from AWS were slowed a little bit by fear of similar action. That said, the fact that we had prevailed against Amazon also gave these engineers the confidence that we could and would do so again -- and ultimately, it didn&#x27;t prevent anyone from matriculating. It did, however, have one lasting effect: the engineer that was pursued went from thinking fondly of his years at AWS to hating AWS and Amazon with a white-hot passion that still burns today. In the end, enforcing a non-compete is like erecting a Berlin Wall: if you feel you need it, you have much deeper problems...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whybroke</author><text>They are not shocked when it happens. The attempt to force employes to stay on using non-compete agreements among other things is exactly because they know employees must move on to survive. They know very well that the failure to provide pensions and career progression will drive employees away so they use force and, quite frankly, terror to keep them with the company.<p>Particularly lovely is the near universal marriage of at will employment agreements with non compete agreements.<p>&gt;It&#x27;s really a wonder that technology workers haven&#x27;t started forming some sort of union.<p>-The average age kept perpetually at about 28 (meaning only about 5 years work experience)<p>-The perpetual threat of tech labor imported from overseas.<p>-The belief that professional association and (gasp!) unions are pure socialist evil or at least are for low paid looser.<p>And if you think salary collusion and extra legal hiring agreements are shocking, just watch the response there would be to an effective professional association.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon sues employee for taking Google cloud job, in new test of non-competes</title><url>http://www.geekwire.com/2014/amazon-sues-employee-taking-google-cloud-job-new-test-non-compete-laws/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mixologic</author><text>Companies seem to want to view employees as somewhat disposable and have shifted the burden of taking care of somebody long term (pensions, retirement, career progression etc) onto the employees themselves. But in doing so they&#x27;re encouraging labor mobility, and seem strangely shocked to find out that employees would take with them the expertise, history, and network of contacts that they had accumulated and move that value somewhere else.<p>It&#x27;s really interesting how they have resorted to strong arming their engineers with these shot in the back non-competes, and couple it with salary collusion and hiring agreements. Throw in the golden handcuffs (that turn into golden dental floss after a few funding rounds -- long after they&#x27;ve gotten their 60-70 hour work weeks out of the true believers) and you see how they are trying to stymie that labor movement.<p>It&#x27;s really a wonder that technology workers haven&#x27;t started forming some sort of union.</text></item><item><author>bcantrill</author><text>This is a pattern for Amazon: I work for a competitor to Amazon, and they went after us for violating a non-compete after we hired an AWS engineer. Our counsel had reviewed the non-compete before we hired the engineer, and concluded that the non-compete didn&#x27;t <i>actually</i> prevent an engineer from working for a competitor, but rather prevented much narrower activity like poaching customer lists or supplier relationships. We were somewhat surprised that Amazon aggressively pursued the matter because it seemed so obvious to us that they wouldn&#x27;t prevail. After Amazon sent us (and, it must be said, the engineer personally) a very nasty letter claiming that the non-compete was being violated, we retained local counsel and sent them an even nastier one back, making clear that we had no intention of backing down. Ultimately, they backed off, but in this process, I learned that Amazon has pursued this particular non-compete &quot;hundreds&quot; of times, and has never (to the best of the knowledge of our local counsel in Seattle) prevailed once. In part this is because Washington allows non-competes, but also doesn&#x27;t like to infringe on the free flow of labor -- temporary restraining orders preventing an individual from working for a company are extraordinarily rare. (This is in contrast to states like Texas and Massachusetts, where non-competes are infamously enforceable.)<p>So if Amazon never prevails, why do they do it? One of the peculiar attributes of Amazon&#x27;s action against us is that it was well publicized <i>within</i> Amazon -- and was apparently a result of outrage by a high-ranking executive after he learned that the former AWS engineer not only was working for a competitor, but had the gumption to open source a technology that he developed here. (Ironically, the executive only learned of all of this when the technology itself became a top story here on HN.) My conclusion from this: this action wasn&#x27;t <i>actually</i> directed at us -- Amazon is smart enough to know that nothing would come of it with respect to our actions -- but rather at <i>their own</i> employees. That is, Amazon&#x27;s pursuit of the non-compete against our engineer was their way of shooting an escapee in the back -- and sending a sharp message to any other AWS inmates with similar ambitions.<p>In terms of an immediate effect, Amazon&#x27;s move worked to a degree: our next few hires from AWS were slowed a little bit by fear of similar action. That said, the fact that we had prevailed against Amazon also gave these engineers the confidence that we could and would do so again -- and ultimately, it didn&#x27;t prevent anyone from matriculating. It did, however, have one lasting effect: the engineer that was pursued went from thinking fondly of his years at AWS to hating AWS and Amazon with a white-hot passion that still burns today. In the end, enforcing a non-compete is like erecting a Berlin Wall: if you feel you need it, you have much deeper problems...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshAg</author><text>What would you think of a profession instead of a union?<p>This piece does a good job explaining: <a href="http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/programmers-dont-need-a-union-we-need-a-profession/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;michaelochurch.wordpress.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;18&#x2F;programmers-d...</a></text></comment> |
16,580,708 | 16,580,126 | 1 | 2 | 16,578,924 | train | <story><title>Apple Music now has 38M paid members</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/13/apple-music-now-has-38-million-paid-members/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sidyapa</author><text>I very recently came across Apple music and it has given me the best music experience on Android, as in my country, India, Spotify is not available yet and other competing apps are nowhere close to what apple provides. Amazing music quality, availability of almost every song I listen to, very nice UI and an equalizer.<p>Also, one of the reasons is the very cheap subscription for university students and the 3 months free trial. Unbeatable, yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arihant</author><text>Amazon Prime Music is pretty good too, and is free with Prime membership, which is 3&#x2F;4 the price you pay for Apple Music alone. I also liked Wynk app in India.<p>The only reason I&#x27;m not jumping ship to Amazon&#x27;s offering is Apple&#x27;s tight integration with my watch and Apple TV. This will only get stronger with HomePod.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Music now has 38M paid members</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/13/apple-music-now-has-38-million-paid-members/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sidyapa</author><text>I very recently came across Apple music and it has given me the best music experience on Android, as in my country, India, Spotify is not available yet and other competing apps are nowhere close to what apple provides. Amazing music quality, availability of almost every song I listen to, very nice UI and an equalizer.<p>Also, one of the reasons is the very cheap subscription for university students and the 3 months free trial. Unbeatable, yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grumblez</author><text>I just wish it worked with Android Auto. Otherwise I&#x27;d probably still be subscribed to Apple Music rather than Spotify</text></comment> |
19,819,058 | 19,818,588 | 1 | 2 | 19,818,428 | train | <story><title>Playing with model trains and calling it graph theory</title><url>https://11011110.github.io/blog/2019/05/02/playing-model-trains.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>The book Hackers has an entire chapter on the TMRC <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tech_Model_Railroad_Club" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tech_Model_Railroad_Club</a> engineers (students) build early track switching systems using relays and mainframes (later I think it was transistors and later microcomputers). This let them experiment with all sorts of train routing algorithms and those students often went on to influential positions in the telecom and computing industries.</text></comment> | <story><title>Playing with model trains and calling it graph theory</title><url>https://11011110.github.io/blog/2019/05/02/playing-model-trains.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vibrio</author><text>Thanks for this, I&#x27;ve been obsessing about track layouts while playing trains with my kid, how to avoid getting stuck in permanent loops, having bi-drectional routes on all parts of the track etc. As I&#x27;m not a math person, I&#x27;ve not had a logical framework with which to think about it. my kid doesn&#x27;t care but laying out tracks been a surprisingly fun mind game for me.</text></comment> |
15,596,531 | 15,596,627 | 1 | 2 | 15,595,596 | train | <story><title>Node.js 8 Moves into Long-Term Support, Node.js 9 Becomes Current Release Line</title><url>https://medium.com/@nodejs/news-node-js-8-moves-into-long-term-support-and-node-js-9-becomes-the-new-current-release-line-74cf754a10a0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fivesigma</author><text>I was hoping to see v8 6.2 make into the LTS but apparently it will be merged into a future 8.x release in a few months from now.<p>v8 6.2 fixes a lot of Turbofan related regressions, for example: for in object performance [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;the-node-js-collection&#x2F;get-ready-a-new-v8-is-coming-node-js-performance-is-changing-46a63d6da4de#1b5b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;the-node-js-collection&#x2F;get-ready-a-new-v8...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Node.js 8 Moves into Long-Term Support, Node.js 9 Becomes Current Release Line</title><url>https://medium.com/@nodejs/news-node-js-8-moves-into-long-term-support-and-node-js-9-becomes-the-new-current-release-line-74cf754a10a0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>huangbong</author><text>Hopefully AWS Lambda adds support for this latest LTS... soon... we need async await without Babel transpilation.</text></comment> |
6,003,779 | 6,003,450 | 1 | 2 | 6,002,596 | train | <story><title>A thorough PGP tutorial</title><url>http://futureboy.us/pgp.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jarrett</author><text>There have been several calls in recent weeks for a nice UX wrapping GPG. I&#x27;m thinking of what Cryptocat aims to be, but with a sound implementation resting on GPG. The crypto community seems supportive of this idea.<p>I&#x27;m not saying I&#x27;d be the one to implement this, but at the vert least, I&#x27;d like to start collecting ideas. Maybe I or someone else could realize them eventually. So let&#x27;s talk. Please post your thoughts on what would make for a good, user-friendly, and secure wrapper around GPG. Thoughts from security specialists would be especially appreciated.<p>I&#x27;ll get the ball rolling with a few basic requirements:<p>* No roll-your-own crypto. Absolutely none. All algorithms must be provided by a mature, universally trusted library. (And those algorithms must of course be GPG, since that&#x27;s the whole point of the project.)<p>* Don&#x27;t use any libraries that, while sound, expose a low-level API such that we could unwittingly <i>call the API in unsound ways.</i> An example of this would be OpenSSL. (Just an example; obviously OpenSSL != GPG.) See this for a discussion of the library misuse problem: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4779015" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4779015</a><p>* Users should have to understand as little as possible about the inner workings of PGP&#x2F;GPG. However, in any instance where hiding details would compromise security, details must not be hidden. For example, people need to understand the <i>implications</i> of signing someone&#x27;s key. We don&#x27;t hide that part from them. But they shouldn&#x27;t have to fiddle with text files and command lines. We do hide that part.<p>* A &quot;good user experience&quot; is more than just a GUI. We already have GPG GUIs. User experience doesn&#x27;t start when the user first boots the program. It starts at the moment a person first hears about GPG and wants to learn more. Thus, good UX is as much about documentation (including the product homepage) as it is about software.</text></comment> | <story><title>A thorough PGP tutorial</title><url>http://futureboy.us/pgp.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>epistasis</author><text>The barriers to modern cryptography seem to be far more social and psychological than technical.<p>It seems as though many of the web-of-trust issues that impeded PGP 15+ years ago could be helped by current day social networking practices, if a social network pushed it. PGP&#x2F;GPG could be used under the hood, as long as the user never has to deal with an actual file anywhere unless they wanted to.<p>The consequences of evil twin attacks [1] may be worse, but if the &#x27;verify&#x27; action was not as casual as mere friending, then perhaps it would be less susceptible.<p>Are any startups working from this angle?<p>[1] <a href="http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/-/9781597495455/chapter-4dot-evil-twin-attacks/chapter_4_evil_twin_attacks#X2ludGVybmFsX0J2ZGVwRmxhc2hSZWFkZXI/eG1saWQ9OTc4MTU5NzQ5NTQ1NS82Mw==" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;my.safaribooksonline.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;-&#x2F;9781597495455&#x2F;chapter...</a></text></comment> |
13,056,434 | 13,056,234 | 1 | 3 | 13,055,961 | train | <story><title>Datomic Update: Client API, Unlimited Peers, Enterprise Edition, and More</title><url>http://blog.datomic.com/2016/11/datomic-update-client-api-unlimited.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hga</author><text>But would it put Rich Hickey&#x27;s children through college?<p>This is just not something we&#x27;ve got a good, reliable answer for. E.g. I&#x27;m pretty confident that his creating and being the BDFL of Clojure wasn&#x27;t sufficiently remunerative.</text></item><item><author>tosh</author><text>I bet if Datomic were open source it would get adopted at an incredible pace and become one of the go-to tools for working with data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamii</author><text>It would be nice if we had more well-understood funding models for software. The games industry has some interesting ideas eg:<p>Unity - free community version, pay monthly for extra features and to remove the splash screen, option to stop paying and keep license but stop receiving updates<p>UE4 - free, source code is on github (but not FOSS), takes 5% of your gross revenue after first $3000<p>Lumberyard - free, source code available (but not FOSS), you must either run your own private servers or use AWS</text></comment> | <story><title>Datomic Update: Client API, Unlimited Peers, Enterprise Edition, and More</title><url>http://blog.datomic.com/2016/11/datomic-update-client-api-unlimited.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hga</author><text>But would it put Rich Hickey&#x27;s children through college?<p>This is just not something we&#x27;ve got a good, reliable answer for. E.g. I&#x27;m pretty confident that his creating and being the BDFL of Clojure wasn&#x27;t sufficiently remunerative.</text></item><item><author>tosh</author><text>I bet if Datomic were open source it would get adopted at an incredible pace and become one of the go-to tools for working with data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tosh</author><text>I think there are a lot of valid reasons for the current model and I&#x27;m pretty sure it (and the changes over time) are well thought through.<p>That said I also think it is worth to regularly revisit what an open sourced Datomic could do for adoption of Datomic itself as well as for Clojure (edit: not to mention what the impact would be like for the world at large). I&#x27;m optimistic that there are monetization opportunities through SaaS, consulting and other licensing concepts.<p>Ideas?</text></comment> |
27,192,730 | 27,192,389 | 1 | 3 | 27,192,055 | train | <story><title>Nearly 200K Medical Records of US Military Veterans Leaked</title><url>https://securethoughts.com/us-military-veterans-medical-data-leakage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>disabled</author><text>I cannot wait for my US based medical record to be leaked at some point. There will probably be somebody who creates a torrent of these records to be downloaded at some point in time.<p>I have little faith in the US government or the various US healthcare providers keeping their databases properly secured from attack. I am saying this as somebody with 2 rare immune-mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system, plus type 1 diabetes (autoimmune and insulin-dependent).<p>I have far more faith in the European Union, even though it has issues. I live in Europe, and it is a breath of fresh air.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lbriner</author><text>The EU might have good intention but with the current system (technical and bureaucratic), you still cannot know that data has not been hacked and misused - it only takes one screwup and with the people I have worked with over the years, there is no reason to think that a screw up is ever that far away.<p>I think the only saving grace at the moment is that the chance of any individual being taken advantage of is low simply because there are so many people.<p>I would be much more worried if I was important and more likely to be targetted.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nearly 200K Medical Records of US Military Veterans Leaked</title><url>https://securethoughts.com/us-military-veterans-medical-data-leakage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>disabled</author><text>I cannot wait for my US based medical record to be leaked at some point. There will probably be somebody who creates a torrent of these records to be downloaded at some point in time.<p>I have little faith in the US government or the various US healthcare providers keeping their databases properly secured from attack. I am saying this as somebody with 2 rare immune-mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system, plus type 1 diabetes (autoimmune and insulin-dependent).<p>I have far more faith in the European Union, even though it has issues. I live in Europe, and it is a breath of fresh air.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>I_am_tiberius</author><text>I live in Europe and I would like to decide myself whether my healthcare data is stored somewhere in the in the long term or not.</text></comment> |
31,251,403 | 31,251,444 | 1 | 2 | 31,249,823 | train | <story><title>Simple declarative schema migration for SQLite</title><url>https://david.rothlis.net/declarative-schema-migration-for-sqlite/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>For anyone who needs to implement the 12 step procedure (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sqlite.org&#x2F;lang_altertable.html#otheralter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sqlite.org&#x2F;lang_altertable.html#otheralter</a>) from the SQLite documentation for applying complex alters, I&#x27;ve built a CLI tool and Python library that can apply that for you.<p>CLI example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite-utils.datasette.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;cli.html#cli-transform-table" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite-utils.datasette.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;cli.html#cli-tra...</a><p><pre><code> sqlite-utils transform fixtures.db roadside_attractions \
--rename pk id \
--default name Untitled \
--type longitude float \
--type latitude float \
--drop address
</code></pre>
Python example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite-utils.datasette.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;python-api.html#python-api-transform" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite-utils.datasette.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;python-api.html#...</a><p><pre><code> table.tranform(
rename={&quot;pk&quot;:&quot;id&quot;},
defaults={&quot;name&quot;: &quot;Untitled&quot;},
types={
&quot;latitude&quot;: float,
&quot;longitude&quot;: float
},
drop={&quot;address&quot;}
)
</code></pre>
Wrote more about those here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2020&#x2F;Sep&#x2F;23&#x2F;sqlite-advanced-alter-table&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2020&#x2F;Sep&#x2F;23&#x2F;sqlite-advanced-alter-...</a><p>(Just noticed this is already mentioned at the bottom of the blog entry!)</text></comment> | <story><title>Simple declarative schema migration for SQLite</title><url>https://david.rothlis.net/declarative-schema-migration-for-sqlite/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>This is an interesting approach to this problem.<p>I like the idea of building the new schema as an in-memory database. You could even go a step further and compare them using a SQL query that joins across the two databases (SQLite supports this, it&#x27;s pretty neat).<p>I&#x27;m a bit nervous about how edge-cases might screw things up, but a nice thing about SQLite is that backups are really cheap so I guess you can protect against any risks by creating a backup before running this script.<p>My preferred approach to database migrations is the one implemented by Django: migrations are a sequence of transformations stored in files on disk, and the database includes a table that says which of those migrations have been applied. This keeps everything in version control and means there&#x27;s no chance of the wrong migration being applied in the wrong way.<p>It&#x27;s quite a bit more work to setup though. I don&#x27;t have my own Django-style migration system for SQLite yet and I really need one.<p>I really love how clean and short the implementation of this is! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;david.rothlis.net&#x2F;declarative-schema-migration-for-sqlite&#x2F;migrator.py" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;david.rothlis.net&#x2F;declarative-schema-migration-for-s...</a></text></comment> |
30,252,866 | 30,248,292 | 1 | 2 | 30,246,830 | train | <story><title>How a middle aged CS major debunked a classic positive psychology finding (2013)</title><url>https://narratively.com/nick-brown-smelled-bull/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>setgree</author><text>I worked with Nick a few times in a previous job and he was a reviewer on a paper I wrote; he was really nice and professional, and his feedback was constructive and incisive.<p>The movement he&#x27;s part of is fundamentally disagreeable (in the &#x27;big five&#x27; sense [0]), and some of its prominent characters, as you might expect, have reputations for being interpersonally difficult [1]. Collectively they&#x27;ve been labeled &quot;data thugs&quot; [2] and accused of &quot;methodological terrorism&quot; [3], which is why I think Nick&#x27;s fundamental goodness is an especially valuable asset. We&#x27;d gain a ton of social value from certain reforms to the scientific research apparatus, and, IMO, being kind when delivering pointed critiques helps a difficult pill go down. That&#x27;s different than pulling your punches; it just means staying focused on the thing you actually want to change.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Big_Five_personality_traits" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Big_Five_personality_traits</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@OmnesRes&#x2F;the-dumbest-fucking-thing-ive-ever-read-8653e2409ec4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@OmnesRes&#x2F;the-dumbest-fucking-thing-ive-e...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;article&#x2F;meet-data-thugs-out-expose-shoddy-and-questionable-research" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;article&#x2F;meet-data-thugs-out-...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;21&#x2F;what-has-happened-down-here-is-the-winds-have-changed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;21&#x2F;what-has-h...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdonis</author><text><i>&gt; being kind when delivering pointed critiques helps a difficult pill go down</i><p>While I am sympathetic to this, I think it fails to recognize a very important thing that we expect, or at least should expect, from people who claim to be doing science: that every scientist is responsible for sanity checking <i>their own</i> work before making any claims based on it. As Richard Feynman said, your first duty as a scientist is to not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool.<p>That means every scientist needs to be an expert in whatever fields are relevant to the work they&#x27;re doing. If a scientist is going to make claims based on some purported correspondence between human psychology and fluid dynamics, they need to be an expert, not just in human psychology, but also in fluid dynamics; and if they&#x27;re not, they need to not make the claims, no matter how enthusiastic they are about them. And the scientists who published the claims that Nick and his colleagues debunked were <i>not</i> experts in fluid dynamics, and knew it, yet they chose to publish anyway.<p>And that kind of thing, if science as an institution is going to be trustworthy, <i>cannot</i> be handled by kind words when delivering pointed critiques. It has to be labeled as what it is: not just being mistaken, but being scientifically dishonest, by making claims that you do not have the expertise to make. In a sane world, scientists who did that would be stripped of the label &quot;scientist&quot;, the same way we disbar dishonest lawyers or revoke the medical licenses of dishonest doctors. At the very least, it justifies language that does not include kind words, but the opposite.<p>I have no problem with using kind words when calling out a scientist who is just mistaken. But I don&#x27;t think kind words are called for when a scientist knowingly publishes claims that they don&#x27;t have the expertise to evaluate for themselves.</text></comment> | <story><title>How a middle aged CS major debunked a classic positive psychology finding (2013)</title><url>https://narratively.com/nick-brown-smelled-bull/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>setgree</author><text>I worked with Nick a few times in a previous job and he was a reviewer on a paper I wrote; he was really nice and professional, and his feedback was constructive and incisive.<p>The movement he&#x27;s part of is fundamentally disagreeable (in the &#x27;big five&#x27; sense [0]), and some of its prominent characters, as you might expect, have reputations for being interpersonally difficult [1]. Collectively they&#x27;ve been labeled &quot;data thugs&quot; [2] and accused of &quot;methodological terrorism&quot; [3], which is why I think Nick&#x27;s fundamental goodness is an especially valuable asset. We&#x27;d gain a ton of social value from certain reforms to the scientific research apparatus, and, IMO, being kind when delivering pointed critiques helps a difficult pill go down. That&#x27;s different than pulling your punches; it just means staying focused on the thing you actually want to change.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Big_Five_personality_traits" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Big_Five_personality_traits</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@OmnesRes&#x2F;the-dumbest-fucking-thing-ive-ever-read-8653e2409ec4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@OmnesRes&#x2F;the-dumbest-fucking-thing-ive-e...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;article&#x2F;meet-data-thugs-out-expose-shoddy-and-questionable-research" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;article&#x2F;meet-data-thugs-out-...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;21&#x2F;what-has-happened-down-here-is-the-winds-have-changed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;21&#x2F;what-has-h...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>motohagiography</author><text>If this generalizes, seems like someone with a graph database, some basic calculus, and an archive of papers citation data could pull the rug out from under entire disciplines, specifically ones that are informing public policy these days. These &quot;data thugs,&quot; they seem like what we hoped hackers would be.</text></comment> |
35,387,383 | 35,382,709 | 1 | 2 | 35,373,052 | train | <story><title>Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children</title><url>https://scratch.mit.edu/about</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>schneems</author><text>Wow. Thanks for posting! I’m curious of your thoughts on other visual programming languages. Specifically LabVIEW.<p>My first job out of college was at NI where they heavily use LabVIEW. Every engineer in my cohort thought that paradigm was going to take off and over a decade later, it clearly hasn’t. One large factor is cost and proprietary tech, but I’m surprised few outside of the hardware testing world even know such a thing exists.<p>I now code in Rust and Ruby and don’t yearn for a visual language, but I do wish people who needed to code something up quick could do it without getting knee deep in IDEs, syntax, and terminals.<p>I’m curious if you’ve got an opinion on that space. What’s holding it back, and if we will ever see a “killer language” for visual programming in the productivity focused space? What do you think would be needed for scratch to fill that role?</text></item><item><author>cgk</author><text>Full disclosure: Principal Software Engineer here on the Scratch backend...<p>Scratch is not built to be a &quot;teach your kid programming languages&quot; system, it is based on the work and ideas of the Life Long Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab (the director of this group is Professor Mitch Resnick, the LEGO, Papert Professor of Learning Research). The Papert part is where the term Mindstorms comes from (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful-Ideas&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0465046746" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerfu...</a>) and was used by the Lego Group when branding those products, and our philosophy is heavily influenced by that.<p>I can say that the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scratch.mit.edu&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scratch.mit.edu&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;</a> are real and we have a substantial footprint of backend services and custom software to support it. We handle on the order of 15-20 million comments&#x2F;month.<p>The primary design philosophy is:<p>Passion: You have a strong interest in a subject&#x2F;problem to solve&#x2F;explore
Projects: Build something based on your passions, gain directly interactive experience with it.
Peers: Share your work with folks who are interested and provide feedback to you
Play: It should be fun!<p>Note that there is nothing in there about STEM&#x2F;STEAM nor application development. We build and support Scratch to provide creative tools for anyone to explore computation in a from that is relatable and has a low floor for understanding&#x2F;entry. Having said that, the complexity of what Scratch can do rises sharply the more you work with it and the concepts behind &quot;forking&quot; and opensource are built in via the remix ability on individual projects.<p>A lot of design thinking goes into the frontend of Scratch to build on a creativity feedback loop that is not focused on learning Python or any other specific language (or the syntax of them, i.e. avoid &quot;why isn&#x27;t my program working... oh, one too many tabs... or maybe this semi-colon, or maybe this .&quot;)<p>Another part I think is worth raising, the Scratch frontend is a sophisticated virtual machine interpreter that has it&#x27;s own machine code and model that is executing in a Javascript environment in browser and it is still open source. Google&#x27;s Blockly project was based on the ideas of Scratch 1.4 and when we ported Scratch 2 away from being Flash based, we partnered with the Blockly group to fork their code base and create Scratch Blocks.<p>Based on the TIOBE index, we&#x27;re usually somewhere in the top 20 most popular &quot;programming languages&quot;. _eat it Fortran!_</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cgk</author><text>Thank you for the feedback!<p>I made use of LabVIEW around 2002-2005 and I liked it, working on systems to measure the length of fiber optics down to the femtosecond (it&#x27;s amazing what you can do with differential wave form&#x2F;phase analysis), which was then used to write custom C++ code to do these measurements in real-time at a millimeter wave interferometer, enabling the ability to do real-time adjustment to the sample phases for any fiber that was being heated&#x2F;expanding in the sun.<p>LabVIEW allowed us to make a very quick demonstration of this as a working concept. Which illustrates what I believe is the most powerful thing about visual programming environments. They can excel at demonstrations and full working solutions without including the parts of computation that are social constructions (language syntax, data structure access and limitations, ...).<p>I am not convinced that the idea of a &quot;killer language&quot; will happen. While there is a through-line of abstraction heaped upon abstraction, I am unconvinced that these first 60 years of computation in society are going to be visibly recognizable another 60 years from now.<p>OR!<p>Linus Torvalds will invent a language that takes over everything, based on how git has consumed almost the entire space of source code management systems (a sociological phenomena&#x2F;opinionated work flow process) and the success of GNU&#x2F;Linux more generally.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children</title><url>https://scratch.mit.edu/about</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>schneems</author><text>Wow. Thanks for posting! I’m curious of your thoughts on other visual programming languages. Specifically LabVIEW.<p>My first job out of college was at NI where they heavily use LabVIEW. Every engineer in my cohort thought that paradigm was going to take off and over a decade later, it clearly hasn’t. One large factor is cost and proprietary tech, but I’m surprised few outside of the hardware testing world even know such a thing exists.<p>I now code in Rust and Ruby and don’t yearn for a visual language, but I do wish people who needed to code something up quick could do it without getting knee deep in IDEs, syntax, and terminals.<p>I’m curious if you’ve got an opinion on that space. What’s holding it back, and if we will ever see a “killer language” for visual programming in the productivity focused space? What do you think would be needed for scratch to fill that role?</text></item><item><author>cgk</author><text>Full disclosure: Principal Software Engineer here on the Scratch backend...<p>Scratch is not built to be a &quot;teach your kid programming languages&quot; system, it is based on the work and ideas of the Life Long Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab (the director of this group is Professor Mitch Resnick, the LEGO, Papert Professor of Learning Research). The Papert part is where the term Mindstorms comes from (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful-Ideas&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0465046746" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerfu...</a>) and was used by the Lego Group when branding those products, and our philosophy is heavily influenced by that.<p>I can say that the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scratch.mit.edu&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scratch.mit.edu&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;</a> are real and we have a substantial footprint of backend services and custom software to support it. We handle on the order of 15-20 million comments&#x2F;month.<p>The primary design philosophy is:<p>Passion: You have a strong interest in a subject&#x2F;problem to solve&#x2F;explore
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Play: It should be fun!<p>Note that there is nothing in there about STEM&#x2F;STEAM nor application development. We build and support Scratch to provide creative tools for anyone to explore computation in a from that is relatable and has a low floor for understanding&#x2F;entry. Having said that, the complexity of what Scratch can do rises sharply the more you work with it and the concepts behind &quot;forking&quot; and opensource are built in via the remix ability on individual projects.<p>A lot of design thinking goes into the frontend of Scratch to build on a creativity feedback loop that is not focused on learning Python or any other specific language (or the syntax of them, i.e. avoid &quot;why isn&#x27;t my program working... oh, one too many tabs... or maybe this semi-colon, or maybe this .&quot;)<p>Another part I think is worth raising, the Scratch frontend is a sophisticated virtual machine interpreter that has it&#x27;s own machine code and model that is executing in a Javascript environment in browser and it is still open source. Google&#x27;s Blockly project was based on the ideas of Scratch 1.4 and when we ported Scratch 2 away from being Flash based, we partnered with the Blockly group to fork their code base and create Scratch Blocks.<p>Based on the TIOBE index, we&#x27;re usually somewhere in the top 20 most popular &quot;programming languages&quot;. _eat it Fortran!_</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seabird</author><text>Version control and diffing (programmatically or mentally) is a major stumbling block. The only graphical language I know of that doesn&#x27;t suffer from this issue is PLC ladder logic, where the visual representation is forced and it&#x27;s easy to programmatically show the differences between two versions of a given program, or mentally know exactly what given logic will look like. Pretty much everything else is miserable to compare code in, and this is especially painful when you&#x27;re initially learning and the examples you&#x27;re referencing are unhinged LabVIEW spaghetti with no real way to make it any more pleasant to read.</text></comment> |
24,922,689 | 24,918,598 | 1 | 3 | 24,914,501 | train | <story><title>Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless</title><url>https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/ruined-my-life-after-going-all-in-on-amazon-a-merchant-says-he-lost-everything-20201028-p5697l.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>Yeah, you know, when people keep saying &quot;You aren&#x27;t as far from being homeless as you imagine you are&quot; this is what they mean. Just because <i>your</i> life has not come unraveled overnight doesn&#x27;t mean it can&#x27;t for reasons beyond your control having nothing to do with personal virtues or lack thereof.<p>We really need to get universal health care in the US, among other things, to limit how far people can fall when something crazy happens. We are making it far too easy to fall and far too hard to come back from it and this is why we also see headlines about how society is coming unraveled and the like.<p>Please don&#x27;t see this as some bizarre statistical outlier. Many homeless people were solidly middle class at one time and then things came apart and we are terrible about actively making it unnecessarily harder than it should be to get back on their feet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baja_blast</author><text>This is especially true for people who do not have a family to fallback on. Imagine what would happen if a brilliant engineer in his late 20s, single, but parents have passed away and had no family. Now imagine one day he gets in an accident and all a sudden he is no longer brilliant, loses his job and all a sudden he can&#x27;t pay his medical expenses.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless</title><url>https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/ruined-my-life-after-going-all-in-on-amazon-a-merchant-says-he-lost-everything-20201028-p5697l.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>Yeah, you know, when people keep saying &quot;You aren&#x27;t as far from being homeless as you imagine you are&quot; this is what they mean. Just because <i>your</i> life has not come unraveled overnight doesn&#x27;t mean it can&#x27;t for reasons beyond your control having nothing to do with personal virtues or lack thereof.<p>We really need to get universal health care in the US, among other things, to limit how far people can fall when something crazy happens. We are making it far too easy to fall and far too hard to come back from it and this is why we also see headlines about how society is coming unraveled and the like.<p>Please don&#x27;t see this as some bizarre statistical outlier. Many homeless people were solidly middle class at one time and then things came apart and we are terrible about actively making it unnecessarily harder than it should be to get back on their feet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>torgian</author><text>Not just health care, but income as well.<p>Now, I live in a third world country, and have had cancer scares and other medical checkups that only cost me a few hundred US dollars vs. the tens of thousands that _would_ have cost me if I had lived in the US.<p>I&#x27;m probably never going back, partially because of this. I make a good living. Better than I would be back in the States.</text></comment> |
38,141,685 | 38,141,321 | 1 | 2 | 38,140,390 | train | <story><title>When to Shut Up: A Visual Guide (With Included Algorithm)</title><url>https://shaungallagher.pressbin.com/blog/shut-up.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andsoitis</author><text>Another heuristic is to ask yourself:<p>- does this have to be said<p>- does this have to be said now<p>- does this have to be said by me</text></comment> | <story><title>When to Shut Up: A Visual Guide (With Included Algorithm)</title><url>https://shaungallagher.pressbin.com/blog/shut-up.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jader201</author><text>This could almost be useful (I know it’s mostly j&#x2F;k), but it really needs some multiplier or something for the size of the audience.<p>For example, if you’re speaking 1:n, the numbers should shoot way up as n approaches 1, and way down&#x2F;zero out — particularly for some branches of the chart — as n approaches higher orders of magnitude (so using a log scale).<p>That is, you shouldn’t need to prepare a speech when you’re taking 1:1. And you likely shouldn’t be talking at all without preparation when speaking to, say, 100 or more (unless you’re not the speaker and you’re asking a question, for example).</text></comment> |
11,490,692 | 11,490,381 | 1 | 3 | 11,489,769 | train | <story><title>Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/world/asia/inky-octopus-new-zealand-aquarium.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sarreph</author><text>It upsets me to no end that we find evidence such as this piece that cephalopods are actually (relatively speaking) remarkably more intelligent than common wisdom pertains[0], and yet the culinary abuse and harm (i.e. &#x27;live sushi&#x2F;sashimi&#x27;) of these creatures continues.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cephalopod_intelligence" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cephalopod_intelligence</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koolba</author><text>Are you against eating all animals or is there a cut off point of intelligence after which it stops being okay?<p>Most of what is&#x2F;isn&#x27;t acceptable to eat is based on history and popular socially accepted practices, not whether people think their prospective dinner is intelligent. Pigs are more intelligent than dogs yet the latter are not eaten in the western world and I wouldn&#x27;t want to live in a world without the (delicious) former.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/world/asia/inky-octopus-new-zealand-aquarium.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sarreph</author><text>It upsets me to no end that we find evidence such as this piece that cephalopods are actually (relatively speaking) remarkably more intelligent than common wisdom pertains[0], and yet the culinary abuse and harm (i.e. &#x27;live sushi&#x2F;sashimi&#x27;) of these creatures continues.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cephalopod_intelligence" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cephalopod_intelligence</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codyb</author><text>According to seafood watch, market squid are at the very least sustainable [0]. Squid and octopus are different I believe, but calamari is squid if I&#x27;m not mistaken.<p>As for Octopus, it appears a bit more iffy [1].<p>As for intelligence, that&#x27;s secondary to sustainability for my eating habits at this point.<p>[0] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neaq.org&#x2F;conservation_and_research&#x2F;projects&#x2F;fisheries_bycatch_aquaculture&#x2F;sustainable_fisheries&#x2F;celebrate_seafood&#x2F;ocean-friendly_seafood&#x2F;species&#x2F;market_squid.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neaq.org&#x2F;conservation_and_research&#x2F;projects&#x2F;fishe...</a><p>[1] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;seafood.edf.org&#x2F;octopus#bmb=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;seafood.edf.org&#x2F;octopus#bmb=1</a></text></comment> |
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