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2,788,718 | 2,788,565 | 1 | 3 | 2,788,367 | train | <story><title>Learn JavaScript </title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11246/best-resources-to-learn-javascript</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dave1010uk</author><text>I think the first step is understanding that there is JavaScript (the language), then there is the browser's Document Object Model (DOM) and "HTML5" APIs. The JavaScript language is used in more places than just browsers (e.g. Rhino and Node.js) and doesn't change very rapidly. The DOM and APIs vary more across browsers and get new features with just about every browser release.<p>I'd recommend learning the language first, then the basics of the DOM and subscribing to the main browser's blogs to keep up with their changes.<p>If you just want a site to learn JavaScript, I'd highly recommend <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript</a> (as other people have too). Mozilla's docs are top-notch. They're a wiki so sign up and help make them even better.</text></comment> | <story><title>Learn JavaScript </title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11246/best-resources-to-learn-javascript</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Yhippa</author><text>Does anybody have a link to some good JavaScript exercises? One answer is "why don't you just try building something" but I personally learn better from progressing through exercises versus doing the "just build anything" or watching videos.</text></comment> |
22,033,822 | 22,033,574 | 1 | 3 | 22,033,341 | train | <story><title>EU: Call to introduce common charger for all mobile phones</title><url>https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/agenda/briefing/2020-01-13/13/call-to-introduce-common-charger-for-all-mobile-phones</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Renaud</author><text>Apple really dropped the ball on this and the argument they make (thing about all of the old accessories!) is pretty moot for the consumer.<p>I want all phone to standardise on USB-C. No adapter for Apple, no exception.<p>The point is not just about charging: accessory manufacturers have to develop 2 physical versions of their equipment, for Apple devices and for Android devices.
This increases development and manufacturing costs and restricts the use of the accessory to a single system.<p>Having more USB-C accessories would also force Apple to increase compatibility with a broader range of accessories. For instance it&#x27;s impossible to use an off-the-shelf USB drive and connect it to an iPhone to, say, dump pictures to it.<p>If the iPhone had a standard USB plug, it would be harder for Apple to ignore the perfectly reasonable expectation that plugging in a drive should allow you to do something useful with it.<p>Today the fact that lighting is not a common port means that you have to buy a &#x27;special&#x27; USB drive with a lighting port and then have to find some app that takes advantage of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU: Call to introduce common charger for all mobile phones</title><url>https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/agenda/briefing/2020-01-13/13/call-to-introduce-common-charger-for-all-mobile-phones</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacknews</author><text>Didn&#x27;t the EU force phone makers to standardize on USB a couple of decades ago?<p>It was an absolute nightmare before that with every brand having completely different connector, voltage etc.<p>I&#x27;m not sure how Apple got (and are getting) around this.</text></comment> |
13,224,757 | 13,224,417 | 1 | 3 | 13,222,825 | train | <story><title>Withdrawal from Antidepressants</title><url>https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/12/withdrawal-from-antidepressants/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vomitcuddle</author><text>As someone who had to abruptly come off venlafaxine due to side effects, I can tell you that it was complete hell. I experienced vomiting, the weirdest, most horrible nightmares every night, sleep paralysis with hallucinations and a recurring feeling of &quot;electic shocks&quot; inside my head. This lasted about a month. I think it borders on inhumane not to mention possible withdrawal symptoms before prescribing this awful &quot;anti-&quot;depressant.<p>My doctor eventually prescribed me trazodone, so I could just sleep the withdrawals off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>butterfinger</author><text>Venlafaxine seems to be one of the worst SNRIs&#x2F;SSRIs wrt discontinuation syndrome. Except for the nausea, I had the same experiences when quitting cold turkey. The most problematic symptom for me were the &quot;electric shocks&quot; when moving my eyes or head to fast.<p>For me, getting off venlafaxine was way harder than quitting tilidine, tramadol or the z-drugs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Withdrawal from Antidepressants</title><url>https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/12/withdrawal-from-antidepressants/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vomitcuddle</author><text>As someone who had to abruptly come off venlafaxine due to side effects, I can tell you that it was complete hell. I experienced vomiting, the weirdest, most horrible nightmares every night, sleep paralysis with hallucinations and a recurring feeling of &quot;electic shocks&quot; inside my head. This lasted about a month. I think it borders on inhumane not to mention possible withdrawal symptoms before prescribing this awful &quot;anti-&quot;depressant.<p>My doctor eventually prescribed me trazodone, so I could just sleep the withdrawals off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcjiggerlog</author><text>I went through a similar experience (although not as extreme) when coming off of citalopram, even with a doctor&#x27;s guidance.<p>Lots of nausea and disorientation, but worst of all were the &quot;electric shocks&quot; which really were very disturbing.<p>Not a single mention of these when having the medicine prescribed!</text></comment> |
13,509,855 | 13,509,846 | 1 | 3 | 13,509,509 | train | <story><title>Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester</title><url>https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/bring-niki-mossafer-rahmati-current-mit-student-iran-back-us</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>intro-b</author><text>How this is happening, the exact trajectory of <i>how much worse</i> these things are (and its potential to worsen) is somewhat terrifying, especially when you consider the cavalier disregard and easy ignorance that this policy represents. I know classmates and colleagues and friends who are discussing, in their groups and communities, how to best help people stranded, whether or not vacations and returns to see ill family members must be postponed or canceled, and how future plans to stay, live, and work in the U.S., or abroad, must be changed.<p>-<p>While it&#x27;s been easy to think about many possible negative outcomes in the proceeding days, weeks, months, another subtle aspect of this policy&#x27;s ramifications is how it weakens trust and faith in the concept of stability for future American policy — the likelihood of future government actions, executed with little to no foresight, warning, or serious consideration, with serious consequences. How this effects this country&#x27;s current reputation as a place to study, travel, find work, and start families + settle down can&#x27;t be understated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klenwell</author><text>&gt; executed with little to no foresight, warning, or serious consideration, with serious consequences<p>I think it is easy to underestimate the ugliness and disorder such a reckless executive order can unleash unless you start to think about the details or put yourself in the shoes of the people affected.<p>NBC News reports[0]:<p><i>The Trump administration also has yet to issue guidance to airports and airlines on how to implement the executive order. &quot;Nobody has any idea what is going on,&quot; a senior Homeland Security official told NBC News.</i><p>As James Gleick put it on Twitter[1]:<p><i>And how was it communicated to Customs and Border Protection? Or have they just gone rogue?</i><p>And then there is the gross conflict-of-interest reflected in this map:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2017-trump-immigration-ban-conflict-of-interest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2017-trump-immigration-ba...</a><p>The event marks a horrible landmark. It&#x27;s the first time I can point to the tangible harmful impact of Trump&#x27;s executive policy on actual people. Up to this point, it has been possible for supporters and apologists to waive away his vague or careless remarks during the campaign as political rhetoric, jokes, or leverage for future negotiation. Now we start to see the mean (in every sense of the word) instinct that informed them and the harm they can do.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;trump-travel-restrictions-leave-refugees-stranded-reports-n713591" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;trump-travel-restrictions-...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JamesGleick&#x2F;status&#x2F;825380079526146048" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JamesGleick&#x2F;status&#x2F;825380079526146048</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester</title><url>https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/bring-niki-mossafer-rahmati-current-mit-student-iran-back-us</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>intro-b</author><text>How this is happening, the exact trajectory of <i>how much worse</i> these things are (and its potential to worsen) is somewhat terrifying, especially when you consider the cavalier disregard and easy ignorance that this policy represents. I know classmates and colleagues and friends who are discussing, in their groups and communities, how to best help people stranded, whether or not vacations and returns to see ill family members must be postponed or canceled, and how future plans to stay, live, and work in the U.S., or abroad, must be changed.<p>-<p>While it&#x27;s been easy to think about many possible negative outcomes in the proceeding days, weeks, months, another subtle aspect of this policy&#x27;s ramifications is how it weakens trust and faith in the concept of stability for future American policy — the likelihood of future government actions, executed with little to no foresight, warning, or serious consideration, with serious consequences. How this effects this country&#x27;s current reputation as a place to study, travel, find work, and start families + settle down can&#x27;t be understated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackerboos</author><text>There&#x27;s already been a &quot;tit-for-tat&quot; response from Iran. US citizens are banned from travelling there.<p>Not like they made it easy before but still we can expect similar responses to the proposed 20% border tax with Mexico.<p><i></i>Edit<i></i> Some people seem to think US citizens cannot visit Iran. From the horse&#x27;s mouth:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JZarif&#x2F;status&#x2F;825439380806434816" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JZarif&#x2F;status&#x2F;825439380806434816</a></text></comment> |
5,861,258 | 5,861,187 | 1 | 2 | 5,860,758 | train | <story><title>Russia may deem civil servants’ use of Gmail, Facebook ‘high treason’</title><url>http://rt.com/politics/gmail-facebook-treason-high-521/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ihsw</author><text>&gt; If Facebook or Gmail do fall from public grace, the only certain thing is that their successor won&#x27;t be run by an american company.<p>Who&#x27;s to say we&#x27;ll ever see a major international company like that again? I foresee a future where DNS root server control is yanked away from the USG and the internet is partitioned.<p>The pendulum has peaked at globalization and now it&#x27;s swinging towards isolationism. Whether we like it or not borders have been drawn along the previously wild-west-like internet, and it may take on the form of virtual Berlin Walls.<p>Hopefully someday we can enjoy the same euphoria that followed Germany&#x27;s reunification but on a global scale, and that day may take a century to get here.</text></item><item><author>beloch</author><text>I honestly don&#x27;t see how american-run social media companies can disentangle themselves from the NSA now. It remains to be seen if the public in most countries will even take notice, but this kind of response will not be the last we see from foreign government agencies. If Facebook or Gmail do fall from public grace, the only certain thing is that their successor won&#x27;t be run by an american company. International trust in american companies may be fundamentally tainted now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wladimir</author><text>Yes, I can&#x27;t wait to apply for virtual visas to visit foreign internet sites, which I guess we&#x27;ll need after a full scale balkanization of the internet.<p>On a more serious note, I hope the internet stays together, but that the pendulum will start swinging back from &quot;cloud&quot; to decentralized, federated or even P2P protocols and services. Wasn&#x27;t it originally meant that way? (with NNTP, email, ...).</text></comment> | <story><title>Russia may deem civil servants’ use of Gmail, Facebook ‘high treason’</title><url>http://rt.com/politics/gmail-facebook-treason-high-521/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ihsw</author><text>&gt; If Facebook or Gmail do fall from public grace, the only certain thing is that their successor won&#x27;t be run by an american company.<p>Who&#x27;s to say we&#x27;ll ever see a major international company like that again? I foresee a future where DNS root server control is yanked away from the USG and the internet is partitioned.<p>The pendulum has peaked at globalization and now it&#x27;s swinging towards isolationism. Whether we like it or not borders have been drawn along the previously wild-west-like internet, and it may take on the form of virtual Berlin Walls.<p>Hopefully someday we can enjoy the same euphoria that followed Germany&#x27;s reunification but on a global scale, and that day may take a century to get here.</text></item><item><author>beloch</author><text>I honestly don&#x27;t see how american-run social media companies can disentangle themselves from the NSA now. It remains to be seen if the public in most countries will even take notice, but this kind of response will not be the last we see from foreign government agencies. If Facebook or Gmail do fall from public grace, the only certain thing is that their successor won&#x27;t be run by an american company. International trust in american companies may be fundamentally tainted now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsirijus</author><text>I&#x27;d definitely read a sci-fi book based on those premises. Preferably, lead character would be developer. <i>Not</i> hacker; I&#x27;m not interested much in that point of view.</text></comment> |
29,187,807 | 29,184,548 | 1 | 3 | 29,184,064 | train | <story><title>Reflections on E-Bikes</title><url>https://ebikes.neighbor-ryan.org/reflections</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gigachad</author><text>IMO, the number one hurdle for ebikes is theft. The things cost a decent chunk of money and there is basically no way to secure them properly. I have owned an ebike and it&#x27;s such a fun way to get around, but I quickly sold it because I was in constant fear of it being stolen. And shortly after, one of my cheap non ebikes was stolen while locked inside my apartments bike storage area.<p>I think electric scooters might have a bigger impact on transport as they are easier to store inside.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; I have owned an ebike and it&#x27;s such a fun way to get around, but I quickly sold it because I was in constant fear of it being stolen.<p>A foldable &#x2F; small form factor bike seems like a good mitigation factor, and also helps when moving the bike around (e.g. on public transports).<p>With regular bikes it&#x27;s way more of a tradeoff because the smaller wheels tend to lower top speed or increase effort a lot, but an ebike compensates for that.<p>The big issue is an SFF&#x2F;foldable bike is way more expensive than a regular, and when you add ebike on top it gets into pretty ridiculous ranges.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reflections on E-Bikes</title><url>https://ebikes.neighbor-ryan.org/reflections</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gigachad</author><text>IMO, the number one hurdle for ebikes is theft. The things cost a decent chunk of money and there is basically no way to secure them properly. I have owned an ebike and it&#x27;s such a fun way to get around, but I quickly sold it because I was in constant fear of it being stolen. And shortly after, one of my cheap non ebikes was stolen while locked inside my apartments bike storage area.<p>I think electric scooters might have a bigger impact on transport as they are easier to store inside.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stephc_int13</author><text>There is clearly a pain point in need of an innovative solution, might be a sizeable market.</text></comment> |
37,658,659 | 37,658,423 | 1 | 2 | 37,656,646 | train | <story><title>NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats</title><url>https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/09/12/nsa-fbi-and-cisa-release-cybersecurity-information-sheet-deepfake-threats</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patwolf</author><text>I&#x27;m old enough to remember back in 2005 when terrorist in Iraq claimed to be holding a US soldier hostage, and it turned out the whole thing was staged using photos of a doll:<p>Original story: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;02&#x2F;02&#x2F;world&#x2F;africa&#x2F;rebels-say-they-hold-us-soldier-hostage.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;02&#x2F;02&#x2F;world&#x2F;africa&#x2F;rebels-say-t...</a>
Confirmation of hoax: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;wbna6894934" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;wbna6894934</a><p>It&#x27;s pretty easy to see that the photo is a hoax, but many news outlets didn&#x27;t notice and ran the story anyway.<p>I have little faith in our ability to detect deepfakes using these recommendations. It seems we&#x27;ll have to assume something is fake unless we have a way to cryptographically verify its provenience.</text></comment> | <story><title>NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats</title><url>https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/09/12/nsa-fbi-and-cisa-release-cybersecurity-information-sheet-deepfake-threats</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>1MachineElf</author><text>A recently announced breach at Retool[0] involved the use of a deepfake version of an IT employee&#x27;s voice for social engineering.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37500895">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37500895</a></text></comment> |
4,613,901 | 4,613,679 | 1 | 2 | 4,613,433 | train | <story><title>How to Sniff Out Online Fakers</title><url>http://gigaom.com/cloud/5-ways-to-sniff-out-online-fakers/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>brandonb</author><text>Hey, OP here! I work at Sift Science, who provided all the facts for this article.<p>It's been crazy to see how far fraudsters will go to create fake accounts. We've seen people in the Phillipines use Twilio accounts, for example, to fool SMS verification and look like a U.S. user. People scripting the creation of thousands of accounts. People distributing malware via Chrome extensions to take over legitimate users' accounts.<p>Are any of you out there are dealing with malicious user behavior -- fraudsters, spammers, account takeover, etc.? I'd be happy to answer questions!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mootothemax</author><text>Do you also look at - or have a chance to look at - timezones as reported by the user's browser, or as selected by the user?<p>One of my services, TweetingMachine, used to have a massive problem with spammers going out of their way to abuse it. However, before a user can schedule a tweet, they have to select their timezone.<p>Problem solved! There are three or four specific timezones always chosen by the bad guys, and every ten minutes a script ran through the database banning users whose timezones fell into this list.<p>The surprisingly thing for me was that given the effort of constantly trying to get past my other detection scripts, the spammers either never worked out what was happening, or simply didn't choose a different timezone.<p>In hindsight, it's quite a cute test, and one that it looks like few of the bad guys bother to adjust (i.e. the time their browser reports via JS) or are aware of.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Sniff Out Online Fakers</title><url>http://gigaom.com/cloud/5-ways-to-sniff-out-online-fakers/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>brandonb</author><text>Hey, OP here! I work at Sift Science, who provided all the facts for this article.<p>It's been crazy to see how far fraudsters will go to create fake accounts. We've seen people in the Phillipines use Twilio accounts, for example, to fool SMS verification and look like a U.S. user. People scripting the creation of thousands of accounts. People distributing malware via Chrome extensions to take over legitimate users' accounts.<p>Are any of you out there are dealing with malicious user behavior -- fraudsters, spammers, account takeover, etc.? I'd be happy to answer questions!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Nice to see your work out where it can do some good!<p>One of the most amazing things about running a search engine was getting a look at what bad people look for (like php exploits or out of date Wordpress themes).<p>I keep wondering if there is an opportunity for a 'fraudster alert' service like the Realtime Black Hole lists where members could share IP addresses from which has originated fraudulent or hostile traffic, seems like it would make suppression easier.</text></comment> |
19,727,390 | 19,727,084 | 1 | 2 | 19,715,490 | train | <story><title>The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities</title><url>https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-rise-fall-internet-art-communities</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skilled</author><text>As soon as you introduce any kind of an algorithm that favors activity, it&#x27;s no longer a community. It&#x27;s a dopamine cash cow waiting for people to naturally fall off because they lose interest. There might be other factors, but this is definitely high on the list.<p>The same goes for many other modern &quot;communities&quot;. Everything is robotized. Configured to feed you with stuff rather than incentivize discovery and a sense of curiosity.<p>Of course, it&#x27;s sad that old school forums are literally non-existent. vBulletin, phpBB, IPB -- these are the real internet forums. These days, people want flashy colors, but most importantly, everything handed to them on a golden platter. Albeit, this is likely an issue with concentration and attention span.<p><i>A vicious cycle.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cheschire</author><text>Old school forums are far from non-existent. They are simply not money makers, and typically focused on specialized topics. They still exist in large numbers.<p>One of the biggest shifts that has hurt the visibility of forums these days is not in everything becoming gamified with internet points, or &quot;robotized&quot; with preference-oriented content.<p>IMO it&#x27;s actually our societal inability to pay attention to one topic for more than a few minutes at a time. We&#x27;ve become so well trained by the constant drip feed of randomized content, and the chase-the-rabbit research methodology of wikipedia, that when you encounter a forum in your search results, you probably didn&#x27;t even consciously realize it because you skimmed it for the content you were looking for and moved on.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities</title><url>https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-rise-fall-internet-art-communities</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skilled</author><text>As soon as you introduce any kind of an algorithm that favors activity, it&#x27;s no longer a community. It&#x27;s a dopamine cash cow waiting for people to naturally fall off because they lose interest. There might be other factors, but this is definitely high on the list.<p>The same goes for many other modern &quot;communities&quot;. Everything is robotized. Configured to feed you with stuff rather than incentivize discovery and a sense of curiosity.<p>Of course, it&#x27;s sad that old school forums are literally non-existent. vBulletin, phpBB, IPB -- these are the real internet forums. These days, people want flashy colors, but most importantly, everything handed to them on a golden platter. Albeit, this is likely an issue with concentration and attention span.<p><i>A vicious cycle.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deanclatworthy</author><text>Agree, although there are still many incredibly active forums around, but I do feel the golden age of them has passed. I started my career on forums, modifying them, moving eventually on to more general web work. It makes me a little sad to think this is pretty much the only &quot;forum&quot; I post in, but even HN is algorithmically-biased :)</text></comment> |
14,522,092 | 14,520,513 | 1 | 2 | 14,519,698 | train | <story><title>Darpa Funds Development of New Type of Processor</title><url>http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1331871&</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>empath75</author><text>Is it just me or is the illustration of &#x27;graphs&#x27; of totally the wrong kind of graphs? I&#x27;m sure they don&#x27;t mean bar charts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sean1708</author><text>It didn&#x27;t even dawn on me that that figure was supposed to represent graphs until I read your comment (and then the caption), I had just assumed it was supposed to represent Big Data.</text></comment> | <story><title>Darpa Funds Development of New Type of Processor</title><url>http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1331871&</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>empath75</author><text>Is it just me or is the illustration of &#x27;graphs&#x27; of totally the wrong kind of graphs? I&#x27;m sure they don&#x27;t mean bar charts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>angstrom</author><text>Yeah, they missed including a pie chart and a gantt chart for good measure.</text></comment> |
4,192,279 | 4,191,454 | 1 | 2 | 4,191,233 | train | <story><title>Sortfolio lives</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3196-sortfolio-lives</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sortfolio</author><text>I'm part of the team that bought Sortfolio.<p>We'll be doing a more formal announcement and proper introductions soon, but there are a couple of things we wanted to add to this discussion.<p>First, we are thrilled to be at the helm of Sortfolio. We have a lot of experience in the area and are excited about the plans we have for it.<p>Second, the guys at 37signals were a pleasure to work with. They were open, transparent, and are committed to the success of Sortfolio.<p>We'll be doing the full transition in the weeks to come. Once we are all done, we'll post a proper retrospective and fill everyone in on the details.<p>We can't wait to share more!</text></comment> | <story><title>Sortfolio lives</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3196-sortfolio-lives</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shazow</author><text>There were so many unanswered questions in the Flippa posting and the HN "peanut gallery" that it makes me feel like 37signals was never looking for new buyers.<p>Perhaps they already had a buyer in mind and just needed some negotiation leverage or wanted some free publicity.<p>I imagine people who were genuinely interested in bidding for Sortfolio feel a bit cheated with this announcement coming out of the blue.</text></comment> |
29,714,972 | 29,714,817 | 1 | 3 | 29,701,887 | train | <story><title>Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card slot in 2022</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/26/iphones-without-sim-card-slot-2022-rumor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tablespoon</author><text>I don&#x27;t like it. Having a physical object the embodies your phone&#x27;s identity is a lot easier to deal with in <i>many</i> ways than an ethereal emulation of said object. For instance, if I&#x27;m traveling I can just buy a SIM card at a kiosk and pop it in, even if I can only communicate through little more than pointing and grunting. Another example: I got a new phone recently, but since all my stuff was still on my old phone, after the new phone was activated I told the clerk to put the new SIM back into the old phone. It was painless and literally took a minute. I&#x27;m sure dicking around with eSIMs would have taken far longer, and I&#x27;d have spend even more time dicking around to transfer things back.<p>&gt; Apple&#x27;s former design chief Jony Ive once envisioned the iPhone as becoming a &quot;single slab of glass,&quot; and the SIM card slot&#x27;s removal would be another step towards a seamless design...<p>I really do hate purist visions like that.<p>&gt; Taking out the slot would also free up some valuable internal space in the iPhone — every bit counts.<p>And my money is that they&#x27;ll use whatever volume they free up to mindlessly make the phone thinner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt;&gt; For instance, if I&#x27;m traveling I can just buy a SIM card at a kiosk and pop it in<p>That is exactly what apple doesn&#x27;t want you to do. They don&#x27;t want users making deals with local ISPs for service. They want in on that transaction. Virtual SIMs, controlled by phone manufacturers, will allow them to exercise a degree of control over wandering users. If you are a local ISP, you better be part of the program if you want to sell your services to apple&#x27;s devices. And most users will be OK with this. They will probably appreciated not having to buy a local SIM cars. They will enjoy how easily their virtual SIM connected to the local ISP and hooked them into a the prearranged roaming deal for apple devices. They won&#x27;t question the price because they will have no input into a negotiation that happened years before they arrived in the country. All that is left for them is to blindly pay the bills.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card slot in 2022</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/26/iphones-without-sim-card-slot-2022-rumor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tablespoon</author><text>I don&#x27;t like it. Having a physical object the embodies your phone&#x27;s identity is a lot easier to deal with in <i>many</i> ways than an ethereal emulation of said object. For instance, if I&#x27;m traveling I can just buy a SIM card at a kiosk and pop it in, even if I can only communicate through little more than pointing and grunting. Another example: I got a new phone recently, but since all my stuff was still on my old phone, after the new phone was activated I told the clerk to put the new SIM back into the old phone. It was painless and literally took a minute. I&#x27;m sure dicking around with eSIMs would have taken far longer, and I&#x27;d have spend even more time dicking around to transfer things back.<p>&gt; Apple&#x27;s former design chief Jony Ive once envisioned the iPhone as becoming a &quot;single slab of glass,&quot; and the SIM card slot&#x27;s removal would be another step towards a seamless design...<p>I really do hate purist visions like that.<p>&gt; Taking out the slot would also free up some valuable internal space in the iPhone — every bit counts.<p>And my money is that they&#x27;ll use whatever volume they free up to mindlessly make the phone thinner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apozem</author><text>&gt; they&#x27;ll use whatever volume they free up to mindlessly make the phone thinner.<p>It&#x27;s funny this commenter accuses Apple of mindlessness when they did not look up that the iPhone 13 and 13 Pro are thicker than their respective counterparts from last year.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;iphone&#x2F;compare&#x2F;?modelList=iphone13,iphone12,iphone11" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;iphone&#x2F;compare&#x2F;?modelList=iphone13,iph...</a></text></comment> |
30,181,621 | 30,177,017 | 1 | 2 | 30,175,344 | train | <story><title>Retrospective and technical details on the recent Firefox outage</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/02/retrospective-and-technical-details-on-the-recent-firefox-outage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deng</author><text>I&#x27;d claim that no other company is criticized as harshly as Mozilla around here. The amount of blame that is assigned to the Firefox team is staggering.<p>To me, this is a perfectly valid write-up with a good lessons learned. They have written it in a very diplomatic way, but to me, it is absolutely clear that Google screwed up here. How can you make such a change to a default behavior of critical infrastructure unannounced? That&#x27;s just reckless towards your customers, and solidifies my belief to stay away from GCP.<p>If they had properly announced the change, even if the Firefox team hadn&#x27;t then tested beforehand, at least the DevOps team would have put one and one together and just changed back to HTTP&#x2F;2 and the outage would have lasted maybe 10 minutes. Instead, they frantically went through their git log to see what in the code base might have triggered this bug. Everyone who has been in such a position knows how incredibly stressful this is. I&#x27;d be absolutely livid at Google in their position. That it took two hours to fix this is clearly their fault.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;d claim that no other company is criticized as harshly as Mozilla around here. The amount of blame that is assigned to the Firefox team is staggering.<p>They set themselves a higher standard by marketing as the good guys who fight for the user, and then made any number of moves that said users viewed as <i>not</i> being in their interests. Of course they get more blame. Like, Chrome has issues, but they&#x27;re issues in line with being made by an adtech company; we might be unhappy at Google breaking adblockers (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;chrome-users-beware-ma...</a>), but it&#x27;s not out of character. Mozilla can say &quot;More power to you. Mozilla puts people before profit, creating products, technologies and programs that make the internet healthier for everyone.&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;</a>) or they can, say, make Google the default engine ($), bake in a proprietary service (Pocket), rip out features (RIP compact theme), overrule user autonomy (Want to install an extension? Better upload it to Mozilla to get signed so they permit you to run it on your own computer!), ship a marketing extension through the &quot;experiments&quot; feature (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;update-looking-glass-add&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;update-looking-...</a>).... but not both. Either empower the user, or don&#x27;t, but don&#x27;t pretend to empower the user <i>while</i> ripping away their control.</text></comment> | <story><title>Retrospective and technical details on the recent Firefox outage</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/02/retrospective-and-technical-details-on-the-recent-firefox-outage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deng</author><text>I&#x27;d claim that no other company is criticized as harshly as Mozilla around here. The amount of blame that is assigned to the Firefox team is staggering.<p>To me, this is a perfectly valid write-up with a good lessons learned. They have written it in a very diplomatic way, but to me, it is absolutely clear that Google screwed up here. How can you make such a change to a default behavior of critical infrastructure unannounced? That&#x27;s just reckless towards your customers, and solidifies my belief to stay away from GCP.<p>If they had properly announced the change, even if the Firefox team hadn&#x27;t then tested beforehand, at least the DevOps team would have put one and one together and just changed back to HTTP&#x2F;2 and the outage would have lasted maybe 10 minutes. Instead, they frantically went through their git log to see what in the code base might have triggered this bug. Everyone who has been in such a position knows how incredibly stressful this is. I&#x27;d be absolutely livid at Google in their position. That it took two hours to fix this is clearly their fault.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moeris</author><text>I agree that Google is at fault here for failing Firefox. But Firefox is guilty of failing its users. Why should the functioning of a browser be dependent on telemetry working? It sounds like if there is high enough latency in their telemetry, or if request for telemetry start failing, it&#x27;s possible for that to disrupt using the network stack at all. They have a massive design flaw, and they didn&#x27;t even mention that in the article. Maybe they have good reasons for designing a single point of failure that relies on a cloud provider, but it&#x27;s not clear what those might be since they don&#x27;t address it.</text></comment> |
6,271,874 | 6,271,859 | 1 | 2 | 6,271,679 | train | <story><title>Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying</title><url>https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ck2</author><text>I love how it starts with this, which is so crystal clear but has obviously been violated on every conceivable level from your local police to the NSA.<p><i>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,</i><p><i>against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated,</i><p><i>and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation,</i><p><i>and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.</i><p>So what part of &quot;persons&quot; &quot;effects&quot; &quot;unreasonable&quot; and &quot;particular&quot; has every level of government decided to purposely not understand?</text></comment> | <story><title>Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying</title><url>https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tghw</author><text>The EFF is doing some great work. I just made my annual donation, a bit early this year. Will likely make another one.<p><a href="https://supporters.eff.org/donate/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supporters.eff.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
2,712,636 | 2,711,988 | 1 | 2 | 2,711,943 | train | <story><title>Harvard Classics Bookshelf</title><url>http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics_%28Bookshelf%29</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hugh3</author><text>I've recently committed myself to reading all the books on that supposed "BBC book list" that has been floating around (largely as a facebook meme) recently.<p><a href="http://fashionabroad.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/bbc-book-list-challenge/" rel="nofollow">http://fashionabroad.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/bbc-book-list-...</a><p>I'd already read 32 of 'em, but I'm working my way through two more (Brideshead Revisited, which I'm enjoying, and The Wasp Factory, which I'm really not [and I don't think you're <i>supposed</i> to]). There's some absolute crap on the list as well (Bridget Jones' Diary? The Five People You Meet In Heaven?) but most of it is pretty good, and I think it'll expose me to a lot of good stuff that I wouldn't have read otherwise.</text></comment> | <story><title>Harvard Classics Bookshelf</title><url>http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics_%28Bookshelf%29</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>devindotcom</author><text>I've got a few of these. Worth having, some of them, but they're not always the best translations or editions. Nice to dip into on short notice, but if you want to read any in full, better to pick up a newer edition or at least peep a few before committing to a bunk translation or poor annotation.</text></comment> |
3,617,501 | 3,616,437 | 1 | 3 | 3,616,284 | train | <story><title>Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More)</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/github/all/1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>newman314</author><text>Ryan Blair, a technologist with the New York State Senate, thinks it could even give citizens a way to fork the law — proposing their own amendments to elected officials. A tool like GitHub could also make it easier for constituents to track and even voice their opinions on changes to complex legal code. “When you really think about it, a bill is a branch of the law,” he says. “I’m just in love with the idea of a constituent being able to send their state senator a pull request.”<p>-------<p>I find this quote fascinating. This would be fantastic if it actually gained traction. It would democratize the process of actually writing a bill. People could actually vote for/against sections for inclusion.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More)</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/github/all/1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leftnode</author><text>Is it just me or are there a lot of errors in this article? Scott Chabon?<p>I wonder if they intentionally did that so people would fork the article and fix it.</text></comment> |
39,770,105 | 39,770,025 | 1 | 3 | 39,769,225 | train | <story><title>Introducing GNOME 46, "Kathmandu"</title><url>https://release.gnome.org/46/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tadfisher</author><text>&gt; remains a huge usability misstep<p>Evidence? The Gnome project has performed UX studies[0] to validate their design, and has continually made changes in response (some of which I disagree with, FWIW).<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gnome.org&#x2F;Design&#x2F;Studies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gnome.org&#x2F;Design&#x2F;Studies</a></text></item><item><author>softirq</author><text>GNOME has come a long way, but its stubborn insistence on not having a desktop with a real application launcher remains a huge usability misstep. GNOME&#x27;s marketshare <i>is</i> the desktop, and so the initial value proposition of a hybrid UI seems very much wishful thinking, while the keyboard based workflows it seems to want to enable are better served by tiling WM such as Sway, and do not make sense for the &quot;default&quot; WM that is picked up by casual converts who are used to a point and click system. Overall it&#x27;s just a confusing mess for new users, which Canonical&#x2F;System76 rationally get rid of (which is probably a majority of the GNOME user base).<p>So why does GNOME continue down this path. Is it a fear of being &quot;just like everyone else&quot; by using a tried and true dock&#x2F;application bar? Is it a desire to not be the front running WM and be more &quot;niche&quot; to power users? I still don&#x27;t really understand their decision making process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>softirq</author><text>You just linked to studies that directly support my point:<p>&quot;On the other hand, new users generally got up to speed more quickly with Endless OS, often due to its similarity to Windows. Many of these testers found the bottom panel to be an easy way to switch applications. They also made use of the minimize button. In comparison, both GNOME 3.38 and the prototype generally took more adjustment for these users.<p>“I really liked that it’s similar to the Windows display that I have.”
—Comment on Endless OS by a non-GNOME user&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing GNOME 46, "Kathmandu"</title><url>https://release.gnome.org/46/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tadfisher</author><text>&gt; remains a huge usability misstep<p>Evidence? The Gnome project has performed UX studies[0] to validate their design, and has continually made changes in response (some of which I disagree with, FWIW).<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gnome.org&#x2F;Design&#x2F;Studies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gnome.org&#x2F;Design&#x2F;Studies</a></text></item><item><author>softirq</author><text>GNOME has come a long way, but its stubborn insistence on not having a desktop with a real application launcher remains a huge usability misstep. GNOME&#x27;s marketshare <i>is</i> the desktop, and so the initial value proposition of a hybrid UI seems very much wishful thinking, while the keyboard based workflows it seems to want to enable are better served by tiling WM such as Sway, and do not make sense for the &quot;default&quot; WM that is picked up by casual converts who are used to a point and click system. Overall it&#x27;s just a confusing mess for new users, which Canonical&#x2F;System76 rationally get rid of (which is probably a majority of the GNOME user base).<p>So why does GNOME continue down this path. Is it a fear of being &quot;just like everyone else&quot; by using a tried and true dock&#x2F;application bar? Is it a desire to not be the front running WM and be more &quot;niche&quot; to power users? I still don&#x27;t really understand their decision making process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hobo_mark</author><text>We just deployed RHEL9 and had to quickly revert gnome because users (and me!) had no effing idea how to use it.<p>For instance, no button to minimize and maximize a window, no taskbar to switch between windows, what the actual...</text></comment> |
13,016,264 | 13,015,639 | 1 | 2 | 13,015,455 | train | <story><title>The year you were born predicts flu risk</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2016/11/22/birth-year-predicts-bird-flu-risk/#more-7263</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>8ig8</author><text>Was hoping I could enter my birth year and get back some risk prediction.</text></comment> | <story><title>The year you were born predicts flu risk</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2016/11/22/birth-year-predicts-bird-flu-risk/#more-7263</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>I&#x27;m wondering if this is also a factor in transplants and one area of complications that could be identified prior to transplant. A differing immune system and white blood cells would explain many failed transplants and also this might be one instance in which the immune systems of like blood types differ and effect outcomes. May be more case of not only matching blood type but also immune system compatibility, with this being once example of how they differ.</text></comment> |
24,027,044 | 24,026,846 | 1 | 3 | 24,023,959 | train | <story><title>AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability claims in most countries</title><url>https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-astrazeneca-results-vaccine-liability/astrazeneca-to-be-exempt-from-coronavirus-vaccine-liability-claims-in-most-countries-idUKKCN24V2EN</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pastrami_panda</author><text>In Stockholm about 20% of the population now have antibodies, despite a lot social distancing. We have plenty of hospital beds ready in the event the number of people with respiratory problems would rise. No one is using face masks and the official consensus is that it doesn&#x27;t provide enough contamination protection to be currently worthwhile. We keep our gatherings small and avoid crowds or close interactions where possible. Our authorities in control of elderly homes really did screw up in the early parts of the outbreak though, and a lot of elderly people lost their lives because of that. But overall things are moving toward a more normal society each day. I&#x27;m far removed from the belief that we need a rushed vaccine to cope with this pandemic. I can&#x27;t speak for other countries and their strategies though but this is a local correspondence from the ground sort of speak.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tigershark</author><text>You forgot to say that you have basically the same deaths&#x2F;M as Italy, and these increased drastically in the last part of the outbreak, not in the early part.
The difference is that Italy was completely unprepared while you had all the information needed to mitigate the impact, as your Nordic neighbours did very well.</text></comment> | <story><title>AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability claims in most countries</title><url>https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-astrazeneca-results-vaccine-liability/astrazeneca-to-be-exempt-from-coronavirus-vaccine-liability-claims-in-most-countries-idUKKCN24V2EN</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pastrami_panda</author><text>In Stockholm about 20% of the population now have antibodies, despite a lot social distancing. We have plenty of hospital beds ready in the event the number of people with respiratory problems would rise. No one is using face masks and the official consensus is that it doesn&#x27;t provide enough contamination protection to be currently worthwhile. We keep our gatherings small and avoid crowds or close interactions where possible. Our authorities in control of elderly homes really did screw up in the early parts of the outbreak though, and a lot of elderly people lost their lives because of that. But overall things are moving toward a more normal society each day. I&#x27;m far removed from the belief that we need a rushed vaccine to cope with this pandemic. I can&#x27;t speak for other countries and their strategies though but this is a local correspondence from the ground sort of speak.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acd</author><text>One also have to account for T-cell immunity which is double that of normal anti body immunity. 14.5 percent of Sweden capital Stockholm population had antibodies according to COVID-19 test lab Werlabs. If you take 14.5 + 2x14.5 you get 43.5 percent that have immune system protection from COVID-19 in Stockholm. 43.5 percent is close to when we get herd immunity. In smaller cities in Sweden there is not the same population immunity so it may still spread there up to the herd immunity point. People still can get infected by a spreader if about 43.5 percent have immune system response.<p>Werlabs anti body measures of Stockholm news
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mynewsdesk.com&#x2F;se&#x2F;werlabs&#x2F;pressreleases&#x2F;nivaan-av-antikroppar-i-sverige-planar-ut-3022808" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mynewsdesk.com&#x2F;se&#x2F;werlabs&#x2F;pressreleases&#x2F;nivaan-a...</a><p>Herd immunity possible at above 40 percent
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.svd.se&#x2F;ny-berakning-stockholm-kan-na-immunitet-i-juni" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.svd.se&#x2F;ny-berakning-stockholm-kan-na-immunitet-i...</a><p>T-cell response
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svt.se&#x2F;nyheter&#x2F;inrikes&#x2F;immunitet-mot-corona-storre-an-vad-antikroppstest-visar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svt.se&#x2F;nyheter&#x2F;inrikes&#x2F;immunitet-mot-corona-storre-a...</a></text></comment> |
3,964,626 | 3,964,647 | 1 | 2 | 3,963,929 | train | <story><title>Germany's Pirate Party Looks to Win More Seats</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18017064</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>More parties being bad for democracy is extremely funny.<p>It would be nice to see a total abolition of parties, in fact in most democratic constitutions the word 'party' is never mentioned.<p>People should vote for other people, not for parties.</text></item><item><author>muuh-gnu</author><text>In other news, former German president Roman Herzog, member of the (for now) largest party, the Christian Democratical Union CDU, suggested that having new parties like the Pirates entering parliaments is bad for overall democracy because it is increasing political diversity, and should be combated by again increasing the election threshold, which is now at 5%. According to the interview he gave recently, increasing political diversity in the parliament decreases support of a goverment and the chancellor, which could destabilize a country, meaning less dissent in the parliament, more stable country.<p>The two big parties are basically getting threatened by the internet and are obviously ready to go nuclear by threatening to simply team up, get supermajority required for a constitutional change, and "optimize" the political diversity down to 2 or 3, US style, maybe even 1, by simply throwing the annoying emerging competition out of the parliaments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>muuh-gnu</author><text>&#62; It would be nice to see a total abolition of parties<p>Abolishing the formal definition of parties wouldnt help, because like-minded people would still team up and form de facto parties, so nothing substantial would change.<p>&#62; People should vote for other people, not for parties.<p>In Germany, you have both. There are two votes, the first one is for people, the "direct candidates". The second is for the whole party, which again is represented by a list of candidates determined by in-party elections.</text></comment> | <story><title>Germany's Pirate Party Looks to Win More Seats</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18017064</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>More parties being bad for democracy is extremely funny.<p>It would be nice to see a total abolition of parties, in fact in most democratic constitutions the word 'party' is never mentioned.<p>People should vote for other people, not for parties.</text></item><item><author>muuh-gnu</author><text>In other news, former German president Roman Herzog, member of the (for now) largest party, the Christian Democratical Union CDU, suggested that having new parties like the Pirates entering parliaments is bad for overall democracy because it is increasing political diversity, and should be combated by again increasing the election threshold, which is now at 5%. According to the interview he gave recently, increasing political diversity in the parliament decreases support of a goverment and the chancellor, which could destabilize a country, meaning less dissent in the parliament, more stable country.<p>The two big parties are basically getting threatened by the internet and are obviously ready to go nuclear by threatening to simply team up, get supermajority required for a constitutional change, and "optimize" the political diversity down to 2 or 3, US style, maybe even 1, by simply throwing the annoying emerging competition out of the parliaments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Riesling</author><text>&#62; People should vote for other people, not for parties.<p>I would like to take this concept even one step further.
People should not vote for other people. They should vote for ideas and concepts.</text></comment> |
17,119,775 | 17,118,210 | 1 | 2 | 17,117,896 | train | <story><title>Playing battleships over BGP</title><url>https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-battleships</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ademarre</author><text>I love Battleship hacks. The game begs to be implemented everywhere for its simplicity. Before I learned to program I implemented it in MS Excel circa 2002. It was played over a local network as a shared file, and it relied on manual polling (file reload) and honor (don&#x27;t peek at your opponent&#x27;s worksheet).<p>I played it with a coworker during breaks in an environment that IT had locked down, but they didn&#x27;t block Excel.</text></comment> | <story><title>Playing battleships over BGP</title><url>https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-battleships</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>empath75</author><text>&gt; The game went smoothly, apart from a 45 minute period where no moves were exchanged due to causing the previously mentioned route flap damping to activate. This happened on my side and caused Level 3 to have a less optimal route for my traffic in the 45 minute period. To mitigate this from happening again later on the game, we decided to move to a 90 second cooldown period on every move.<p>Must have been an interesting support call.</text></comment> |
21,263,695 | 21,263,443 | 1 | 3 | 21,259,434 | train | <story><title>OpenVMS: state of the x86 port</title><url>http://vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stunthamsterio</author><text>I&#x27;m genuinely looking forward to this. I used VMS back in the 90&#x27;s and loved it as an OS. Clustering, versioned file systems, reasonably well formed error messages; it seemed very civilised.<p>It&#x27;d be nice to be able to run it in a VM and see how much I&#x27;ve forgotten. I&#x27;ve got an old workstation in my loft, but haven&#x27;t really got the room to have it setup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icedchai</author><text>VMS Clustering was very interesting. It was basically baked in to all layers of the OS, if I remember. You could access devices, file systems, users, batch queues, processes, etc. across the cluster. It felt very well designed.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenVMS: state of the x86 port</title><url>http://vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stunthamsterio</author><text>I&#x27;m genuinely looking forward to this. I used VMS back in the 90&#x27;s and loved it as an OS. Clustering, versioned file systems, reasonably well formed error messages; it seemed very civilised.<p>It&#x27;d be nice to be able to run it in a VM and see how much I&#x27;ve forgotten. I&#x27;ve got an old workstation in my loft, but haven&#x27;t really got the room to have it setup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CaptainZapp</author><text>HELP is your friend.<p>The VMS help system, while far less verbose than Unix man pages was, thanks to its hierarchical organisation really, well, helpful.</text></comment> |
25,310,190 | 25,309,149 | 1 | 3 | 25,305,568 | train | <story><title>No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018)</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-01-15/no-one-wants-your-used-clothes-anymore</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I have old concert t-shirts that I&#x27;ll never wear, but still want to keep even if they are taking up space. A friend of mine suggested having them made into a quilt. This would get them out of the closet&#x2F;drawer&#x2F;box, and actually visible.</text></item><item><author>quercusa</author><text>I have a Lick Observatory 100th Anniversary (1988) t-shirt my wife would very much like to get rid of. Not happening.</text></item><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>The average age of my clothing[1] is probably 5-10 years with some items well over 10 years old. Some of my clothes are legal to drink.<p>The idea of buying clothes then donate them after 6-12 months has always been broken. With growing kids (or if you gain&#x2F; lose a bunch of weight) you don&#x27;t have a ton of choice. For most adults, the only way you can really ensure you have an environmentally friendly wardrobe is by purchasing carefully and keeping clothes until they genuinely wear out. For jeans and good quality jackets, that can be decades.<p>When you donate clothes to St Vinny&#x27;s (Goodwill&#x2F; Salvation Army&#x2F; whatever), they keep the best&#x2F; resealable clothes and dispose of the rest. A bunch gets dumpstered. The only reason they accept used clothing is because of the small percentage they can actually resell.<p>[1] Excluding underwear and socks!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>susiecambria</author><text>I quilt and have made one t-shirt quilt. It&#x27;s the last I will ever make. Not hard, but you need the proper tools. And not just a sewing machine. You need stabilizer for the t-shirts since they stretch.<p>If you want one made, there are companies and quilters everywhere that make them.<p>As for cost, the idea that they are expensive depends on how you view the work. I love quilting but understand that what I sell them for keeps me in fabric. I&#x27;m not earning a living from it.</text></comment> | <story><title>No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (2018)</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-01-15/no-one-wants-your-used-clothes-anymore</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I have old concert t-shirts that I&#x27;ll never wear, but still want to keep even if they are taking up space. A friend of mine suggested having them made into a quilt. This would get them out of the closet&#x2F;drawer&#x2F;box, and actually visible.</text></item><item><author>quercusa</author><text>I have a Lick Observatory 100th Anniversary (1988) t-shirt my wife would very much like to get rid of. Not happening.</text></item><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>The average age of my clothing[1] is probably 5-10 years with some items well over 10 years old. Some of my clothes are legal to drink.<p>The idea of buying clothes then donate them after 6-12 months has always been broken. With growing kids (or if you gain&#x2F; lose a bunch of weight) you don&#x27;t have a ton of choice. For most adults, the only way you can really ensure you have an environmentally friendly wardrobe is by purchasing carefully and keeping clothes until they genuinely wear out. For jeans and good quality jackets, that can be decades.<p>When you donate clothes to St Vinny&#x27;s (Goodwill&#x2F; Salvation Army&#x2F; whatever), they keep the best&#x2F; resealable clothes and dispose of the rest. A bunch gets dumpstered. The only reason they accept used clothing is because of the small percentage they can actually resell.<p>[1] Excluding underwear and socks!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s1mon</author><text>I find it&#x27;s much easier to part with such shirts if I take a photo of each of them. The main reason for keeping them (after they&#x27;re worn out, shrunk too much, stained, etc.) is really just to remind myself of the event or band. A photo takes no real space.</text></comment> |
30,140,722 | 30,140,803 | 1 | 2 | 30,119,925 | train | <story><title>Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-60121185</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>technothrasher</author><text>I wrote a message in a bottle when I was young. I still have very dim memories of being excited at the possibility that somebody in another country years later would find it. According to my folks, however, there were some issues. First, I was four years old and couldn&#x27;t write, and second, I threw the bottle into a small pond. But my parents didn&#x27;t want to dampen my enthusiasm at the time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-60121185</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vmception</author><text>&gt; found bottle in 2020<p>&gt; The Norwegian sent a Facebook message for Joanna, but the former Peterhead schoolgirl did not spot it until Monday [January 2022]<p>This pretty much sums up Facebook&#x2F;Instagram inboxes.</text></comment> |
19,747,205 | 19,746,177 | 1 | 3 | 19,735,761 | train | <story><title>The wave of unicorn IPOs</title><url>https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/04/17/the-wave-of-unicorn-ipos-reveals-silicon-valleys-groupthink</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>romanhn</author><text>I see the profit angle brought out often in these discussions, and as someone that has worked at one of these unicorns with a recent IPO, I&#x27;d like to point out that profitability is not a black-and-white consideration. A company has many financial dials and switches, and ours specifically could have easily been profitable if they had chosen to do so. It was a very intentional decision to funnel money towards further growth, which frankly I had&#x2F;have no issues with. I suspect that is the case with many B2B unicorns; not sure the B2C ones could make a similar transition as easily if circumstances called for it.<p>Not sure the dotcom crash is comparable - those were the days of companies getting millions without so much as a business plan, and going public months after being born. Sure, the companies without solid fundamentals are not going to survive in the long run, but as an industry, I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;re anywhere close to the crazy old days.</text></item><item><author>olivermarks</author><text>As Reid Hoffman of Greylock Partners, a venture-capital firm, and the co-author of a book about blitzscaling, puts it: “In a connected world, someone will build an Amazon. The only question is who and how.”<p>&#x27;...what they also lack, in 11 cases out of 12, are profits. Today, according to Jay Ritter of the University of Florida, 84% of companies pursuing ipos have no profits. That is remarkably high. Ten years ago, the proportion was just 33%. To see profitlessness as rampant as today’s you have to go back to the peak of the dotcom boom in 2000.&#x27;<p>I&#x27;m in the Bay Area and this late stage of the tech business cycle reminds me a lot of the build up to the dot com bust.
for Enron see Theranos (and possibly even Tesla), along with lots of mega deals over basically profitless platform companies posturing around dominance of future markets...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>ours specifically could have easily been profitable if they had chosen to do so</i><p>There is a big difference between <i>e.g.</i> Amazon, which is unit profitable and could be more profitable at any time, Uber, which is unit profitable in some markets but not so in other markets, and something like WeWork, which is not unit profitable.</text></comment> | <story><title>The wave of unicorn IPOs</title><url>https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/04/17/the-wave-of-unicorn-ipos-reveals-silicon-valleys-groupthink</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>romanhn</author><text>I see the profit angle brought out often in these discussions, and as someone that has worked at one of these unicorns with a recent IPO, I&#x27;d like to point out that profitability is not a black-and-white consideration. A company has many financial dials and switches, and ours specifically could have easily been profitable if they had chosen to do so. It was a very intentional decision to funnel money towards further growth, which frankly I had&#x2F;have no issues with. I suspect that is the case with many B2B unicorns; not sure the B2C ones could make a similar transition as easily if circumstances called for it.<p>Not sure the dotcom crash is comparable - those were the days of companies getting millions without so much as a business plan, and going public months after being born. Sure, the companies without solid fundamentals are not going to survive in the long run, but as an industry, I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;re anywhere close to the crazy old days.</text></item><item><author>olivermarks</author><text>As Reid Hoffman of Greylock Partners, a venture-capital firm, and the co-author of a book about blitzscaling, puts it: “In a connected world, someone will build an Amazon. The only question is who and how.”<p>&#x27;...what they also lack, in 11 cases out of 12, are profits. Today, according to Jay Ritter of the University of Florida, 84% of companies pursuing ipos have no profits. That is remarkably high. Ten years ago, the proportion was just 33%. To see profitlessness as rampant as today’s you have to go back to the peak of the dotcom boom in 2000.&#x27;<p>I&#x27;m in the Bay Area and this late stage of the tech business cycle reminds me a lot of the build up to the dot com bust.
for Enron see Theranos (and possibly even Tesla), along with lots of mega deals over basically profitless platform companies posturing around dominance of future markets...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qqqwerty</author><text>One potential issue in the B2B space is how dependent (or not) these companies are on other non-profitable companies for their revenue. If all of these yet-to-be-profitable unicorns are selling to other profit-challenged vc funded startups, than that could cause some problems if VC&#x27;s pull back.<p>I think interest rates play a key role here. I was expecting rates to rise more, but it seems like the Fed is getting nervous and pausing rate hikes. So we may end up in a semi-permanent low interest rate environment, which should keep the VC money flowing for now. So at this point, I am not really sure what to expect.</text></comment> |
1,769,066 | 1,769,176 | 1 | 2 | 1,768,844 | train | <story><title>Dear Gap, I have your new logo.</title><url>http://weblog.muledesign.com/2010/10/dear_gap_i_have_your_new_logo.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanwaggoner</author><text>Posts like this seem like the designer equivalent of the music labels spending years complaining about how sharing music is wrong and trying to put the "evil" back in Pandora's box, while millions of people merrily continue to download music off bittorrent anyway. The reality of the internet is that people can easily solicit work on spec from thousands of designers, and they will get good stuff in return. Will it be great? Rarely. But it'll be good enough for most, and if it's not, they're out nothing. See 99designs.com.<p>This seems like classic game theory. While it's in the design industry's collective best interest to never work on spec like this, it might be in an individual designer's best interest to design Gap's logo for free. And even if it's not, if most of them think it is, you've still lost. Believe me, I understand that Gap's move here is a slap in the face, but many designers out there will do it anyway, just for the chance to say they designed Gap's logo.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dear Gap, I have your new logo.</title><url>http://weblog.muledesign.com/2010/10/dear_gap_i_have_your_new_logo.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanwaggoner</author><text><i>I researched your customers. Talked to a variety of them, in fact. Asked them not only about The Gap, but about their own lives. Their needs. Anxieties. Their thoughts on the future. I took all that into account.<p>I also interviewed employees in a few of your stores. (They’re quite dedicated, you know.) I asked them how they felt about the company and about their interactions with customers. Because customer service may actually be the most important part of your brand. And the logo’s job is simply to help evoke those pleasant experiences.</i><p>Does anyone else find this pretentious? I somehow doubt that most of the world's biggest brands have logos that came about through this process, or at least are measurably different than they would have been if a talented designer came up with something that felt right and looked good.<p><a href="http://www.murdercapers.com/corporate/companyLogos/CompanyLogosNew.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.murdercapers.com/corporate/companyLogos/CompanyLo...</a><p>I bet a lot of those are just variations on the original logo of the company when it was started. Maybe I'm completely wrong though; just seems like if you'd expect <i>anyone</i> to think that designing a new logo should include hundreds of hours and dozens or hundreds of customer and marketing surveys, it would be a branding firm who wants to charge you for all that. I'm not sure anyone else would be able to tell the difference between a logo that came from that process and one that came from a few hours of a great designer throwing out ideas.</text></comment> |
16,723,918 | 16,723,820 | 1 | 2 | 16,723,599 | train | <story><title>OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in competition with you”</title><url>http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/content-tracks/colo-cloud/ovh-ceo-unlike-amazon-google-we-will-never-be-in-competition-with-you/99939.fullarticle</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>truetraveller</author><text>Important notes about OVH:<p>-I&#x27;m a customer for about ~2 years.<p>-I was &quot;just&quot; using OVH object storage, and was considering other OVH services.<p>-I&#x27;m all about &quot;cheap,cheap,cheap&quot;<p>-OVH is super-cheap, which is good.<p>-I want OVH to &quot;win&quot;. OVH doesn&#x27;t want to &quot;win&quot;. Because..<p>-OVH is super-confusing. Interface, website, billing, everything.<p>-website uses esoteric design conventions. A European thing? I don&#x27;t know.<p>-feels as if they went the extra mile <i>to</i> make it confusing. Defies belief!<p>-they have separate websites for different countries, which use different login credentials.<p>-they have &quot;OVH credits&quot;. Why???<p>-they use OpenStack (Yay!). Unforuntely, they have a confusing implementation of OpenStack dashboard, AND on a separate site, with separate credentials.<p>Bottom line: I&#x27;m a tech-savvy guy who can absorb some pretty bad UX, but OVH made me cringe. Seriously, I do not exaggerate. Anytime I need to log on to OVH, I get an uneasy feeling. So, I <i>gladly</i> paid extra and switched. I use DigitalOcean now. It&#x27;s not as cheap. Digital Oceans&#x27;s UX is good, but not <i>amazing</i>. But believe you me, it is BREATHE OF FRESH AIR compared to OVH. Update: may post a video if you guys want me to. Let me know!</text></comment> | <story><title>OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in competition with you”</title><url>http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/content-tracks/colo-cloud/ovh-ceo-unlike-amazon-google-we-will-never-be-in-competition-with-you/99939.fullarticle</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>QUFB</author><text>I run <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wtfismyip.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wtfismyip.com</a> on OVH. Egress bandwidth exceeds 8TB a month, which on AWS could cost ~$1000&#x2F;month, not including the cost of the beefy EC2 instance I would need.<p>For some bandwidth heavy use cases, OVH makes a lot more sense than AWS. In my case it was $150&#x2F;month versus $2000&#x2F;month (bandwidth + EC2).</text></comment> |
13,698,159 | 13,696,435 | 1 | 3 | 13,694,031 | train | <story><title>Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/welcome-to-the-new-aws-ai-blog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>niklasrde</author><text>We have recently set up a TensorFlow assessment function in AWS lambda, and got <i>very</i> close to the maximum allowed size of a lambda function (250MB) with the trained model currently being 85MB, and the TensorFlow libraries and binaries taking up another 140 or so megabytes by default (&lt;- which we cracked down a bit, but that&#x27;s quite a hack).<p>I feel like Amazon could do some work in this area to support users to use their own engines and not be bound to AWS AI Platforms and Services.<p>This could be as simple as publicly documenting the time lambda&#x27;s stay &#x27;warm&#x27; for and retain data in &#x2F;tmp persisting through multiple invocations or some other examples on how an AI workflow could be implemented with popular custom engines such as TensorFlow.<p>Does anybody else have any experience in this regard?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tcas</author><text>I&#x27;ve hacked around lambda quite a bit (I think the compressed size of one function is a tad under the max allowed). My hacks I remember are:<p>- Run strip all .so libraries -- many aren&#x27;t stripped fully<p>- In Python I manually deleted sub packages of numpy&#x2F;scipy I didn&#x27;t need<p>- If you&#x27;re loading large models at initialize, numpy load routines are _much_ faster than cPickle. Have it load at module initialization, not during each invocation.<p>I should really write a blog post about my experience with it.<p>At a certain point I decided I was doing something that lambda really wasn&#x27;t designed for -- I&#x27;m looking at migrating off, but the current implementation makes capacity planning super easy. Provisioning 1000 machines with 1GB of RAM for 15 minutes every day to read off a queue isn&#x27;t a trivial problem.<p>(Also, if anyone from AWS is reading, being able to limit the max concurrency of a single function vs account level limits would be super useful).</text></comment> | <story><title>Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/welcome-to-the-new-aws-ai-blog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>niklasrde</author><text>We have recently set up a TensorFlow assessment function in AWS lambda, and got <i>very</i> close to the maximum allowed size of a lambda function (250MB) with the trained model currently being 85MB, and the TensorFlow libraries and binaries taking up another 140 or so megabytes by default (&lt;- which we cracked down a bit, but that&#x27;s quite a hack).<p>I feel like Amazon could do some work in this area to support users to use their own engines and not be bound to AWS AI Platforms and Services.<p>This could be as simple as publicly documenting the time lambda&#x27;s stay &#x27;warm&#x27; for and retain data in &#x2F;tmp persisting through multiple invocations or some other examples on how an AI workflow could be implemented with popular custom engines such as TensorFlow.<p>Does anybody else have any experience in this regard?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ranman</author><text>The keep warm time isn&#x27;t static AFAIK but some frameworks like Zappa have chosen 5 minutes (I work for AWS). If you raise an issue with support there may be other ways around this. There are also other reasons for not relying on functions being warm (spike in concurrent invocations, AZ outages, latency, etc.). If you open a support ticket and email me the # I&#x27;ll see what I can find out: randhunt at amazon dot com<p>I&#x27;m curious what sort of things you did to shrink your model?<p>Have you considered pulling the model data from S3 outside of the main lambda handler and seeing if that negatively impacts performance -- with a cloud watch event running every 5 minutes or so to keep the function warm?</text></comment> |
13,774,341 | 13,773,709 | 1 | 3 | 13,773,511 | train | <story><title>Bhutan's dark sense of humour</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170223-bhutans-dark-sense-of-humour</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CurtMonash</author><text>On the autobahns around Berlin, under the American occupation, signs said that one shouldn&#x27;t speed, because death was so permanent. But the chaplains or some other religious folks objected, and so the signs were taken back down. (Source: My father, who worked for the Americans as a translator.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Bhutan's dark sense of humour</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170223-bhutans-dark-sense-of-humour</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maaarghk</author><text>archive.is link for brits - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;hfA17" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;hfA17</a></text></comment> |
32,760,651 | 32,758,416 | 1 | 3 | 32,751,603 | train | <story><title>Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packaging</title><url>https://pypi.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IceHegel</author><text>If I see some JS, Go, or Rust code online I know I can probably get it running on my machine in less than 5 min. Most of the time, it&#x27;s a ‘git clone’ and a &#x27;yarn&#x27; | &#x27;go install&#x27; | &#x27;cargo run&#x27;, and it just works.<p>With python, it feels like half the time I don&#x27;t even have the right version of python installed, or it’s somehow not on the right path. And once I actually get to installing dependencies, there are often very opaque errors. (The last 2 years on M1 were really rough)<p>Setting up Pytorch or Tensorflow + CUDA is a nightmare I&#x27;ve experienced many times.<p>Having so many ways to manage packages is especially harmful for python because many of those writing python are not professional software engineers, but academics and researchers. If they write something that needs, for example, CUDA 10.2, Python 3.6, and a bunch of C audio drivers - good luck getting that code to work in less than a week. They aren’t writing install scripts, or testing their code on different platforms, and the python ecosystem makes the whole process worse by providing 15 ways of doing basically the same thing.<p>My proposal:<p>- Make poetry part of pip<p>- Make local installation the default (must pass -g for global)<p>- Provide official first party tooling for starting a new package<p>- Provide official first party tooling for migrating old dependency setups to the new standard<p>edit: fmt</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kapitanjakc</author><text>What you feel with python is what I feel with JS<p>managing npm and package.json which has dependency issues.<p>With python it always has been
pip install package and we are done.<p>Although I do share your pain with versioning. I once spent a week debugging an issue only to find out that there&#x27;s a fixed version available.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packaging</title><url>https://pypi.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IceHegel</author><text>If I see some JS, Go, or Rust code online I know I can probably get it running on my machine in less than 5 min. Most of the time, it&#x27;s a ‘git clone’ and a &#x27;yarn&#x27; | &#x27;go install&#x27; | &#x27;cargo run&#x27;, and it just works.<p>With python, it feels like half the time I don&#x27;t even have the right version of python installed, or it’s somehow not on the right path. And once I actually get to installing dependencies, there are often very opaque errors. (The last 2 years on M1 were really rough)<p>Setting up Pytorch or Tensorflow + CUDA is a nightmare I&#x27;ve experienced many times.<p>Having so many ways to manage packages is especially harmful for python because many of those writing python are not professional software engineers, but academics and researchers. If they write something that needs, for example, CUDA 10.2, Python 3.6, and a bunch of C audio drivers - good luck getting that code to work in less than a week. They aren’t writing install scripts, or testing their code on different platforms, and the python ecosystem makes the whole process worse by providing 15 ways of doing basically the same thing.<p>My proposal:<p>- Make poetry part of pip<p>- Make local installation the default (must pass -g for global)<p>- Provide official first party tooling for starting a new package<p>- Provide official first party tooling for migrating old dependency setups to the new standard<p>edit: fmt</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smeagull</author><text>I think some of the pain has been Apple&#x27;s fault. Requiring conda for some official packages means you always have two competing ecosystems on one machine - which is just asking for pain.</text></comment> |
764,685 | 764,690 | 1 | 2 | 764,650 | train | <story><title>PG On Fox Today</title><url>http://ycombinator.posterous.com/pg-on-fox-today</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adamhowell</author><text>I was actually pleasantly surprised by the hosts. Was expecting them to come off as complete morons (having watched some of Fox Biz) but they did a decent job.</text></comment> | <story><title>PG On Fox Today</title><url>http://ycombinator.posterous.com/pg-on-fox-today</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nreece</author><text>Direct link: <a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/search-results/m/25897600/funding-tech-start-ups.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.foxbusiness.com/search-results/m/25897600/funding...</a></text></comment> |
38,140,917 | 38,140,796 | 1 | 2 | 38,138,085 | train | <story><title>Making "LCD, Please"</title><url>https://dukope.com/devlogs/papers-please/lcdplease/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>donatj</author><text>I would love if there were an actual physical device released. Not for me but for my wife. It would make an amazing gift.<p>I never got very far in &quot;Papers, Please&quot; and found the experience very stressful. For my wife though it was kind of an introduction to gaming. She saw me playing and thought it looked interesting. She ended up being immediately really good at the game and got kind of obsessed playing through it umpteen times. This lead to her getting into Overwatch (RIP) and many other games to a lesser extent.<p>A little device as a commemoration of this would be incredible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Making "LCD, Please"</title><url>https://dukope.com/devlogs/papers-please/lcdplease/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>agys</author><text>For a personal project I also tried to have a custom segmented display produced… It was an amazing journey!<p>The PCB is being updated for a new ultra low power MCU (vs the current ESP32).<p>The only online document is this brief clip where it appears a few seconds in the very beginning:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;andreasgysin&#x2F;status&#x2F;1525544668808749060" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;andreasgysin&#x2F;status&#x2F;1525544668808749060</a></text></comment> |
18,585,798 | 18,585,809 | 1 | 2 | 18,585,157 | train | <story><title>Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU</title><url>https://www.jamesbadger.ca/2018/11/07/emulate-mac-os-9-with-qemu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klodolph</author><text>The magazine archives linked from the article really take me back. I like how colorful they are. I like the weird studio photography they would do with a bunch of hardware on weird pedestals.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;macworld-magazine?&amp;sort=date" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;macworld-magazine?&amp;sort=date</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;macaddict?&amp;sort=date" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;macaddict?&amp;sort=date</a><p>This was how we knew what Apple was doing, how to keep computers running, etc.<p>There are some things I really miss about the classic Mac era. Computers were cool. The entire experience of using a computer was very consistent. Poking around in MacsBug or ResEdit was interesting. Install an app by dragging it to your hard drive, uninstall it by dragging it to the trash. Word 5.1a, a.k.a. the best version of Microsoft Word ever made. Still waiting for Google Docs to catch up in terms of feature parity, it’s not even close.<p>Plenty of things I don’t miss. No memory protection. Cooperative multitasking. Open Transport. As much as Unix is a bit of a mess, it doesn’t have any of these problems.<p>The only reason I still go back is for the games. A few of the old games can be played on new computers—if it ever got a PC port, there’s a chance you can run it in DOSBox, but the Mac exclusives got left behind, and a bunch of them were just cute little shareware pieces that never had a bunch of money behind them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU</title><url>https://www.jamesbadger.ca/2018/11/07/emulate-mac-os-9-with-qemu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gcp123</author><text>Been doing this with SheepShaver for years. Audio works perfectly. Runs Mac OS 7, 8, or 9. Is able to share your Mac’s internet connection. It can run in full screen mode on your Mac, without a black border or anything. It’s fantastic. Best of all, you can create a shared folder with the host computer, so files you download through your modern browser from places like Macintosh Garden can be accessed immediate in the virtualized vintage OS. Works great the other way around too. SheepShaver + MacOS9 comes in really handy when I’m feeling nostalgic for SimCity 2000.</text></comment> |
35,835,412 | 35,830,824 | 1 | 2 | 35,828,046 | train | <story><title>Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/build-your-own-private-wireguard-vpn-pivpn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ye-olde-sysrq</author><text>I run wg-easy <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WeeJeWel&#x2F;wg-easy">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WeeJeWel&#x2F;wg-easy</a> for this sort of thing. I use the docker container, and it&#x27;s great. &quot;Just works&quot;.<p>Also, unrelated, I just decided I don&#x27;t like the sentiment of &quot;PiMyProjectName&quot; branding. I know most projects don&#x27;t <i>just</i> run on a Pi, and that the intent is to say &quot;you can self-host thing&quot;, but at this point if you want to run a home server sort of thing, just buy some cheap 100-200 dollar minipc thing. That&#x27;s how much you&#x27;d pay for a Pi now anyway, and it comes with such great features as:<p>* just establishing an ssh connection doesn&#x27;t take multiple seconds<p>* the ethernet doesn&#x27;t go over a usb hub<p>* it doesn&#x27;t run on an sd card that is going to fail within a year<p>I&#x27;m pretty dismissive of ARM chips for homelab stuff at this point. There&#x27;s super cheap minipcs with &quot;real&quot; processors that will just destroy even an expensive ARM board.<p>Pi&#x27;s shine with their ability to run both a real&#x2F;full Linux and also do gpio type stuff that otherwise is usually an arduino board. I don&#x27;t have anything against low-level programming but damn is it just a lot more fun to do in python. I love the Rpi zero w 2 products for this, just enough juice to run wifi and a python loop, plus the gpio pins. Too bad they&#x27;ve been sold out for literally years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1vuio0pswjnm7</author><text>What is conveniently overlooked in these neverending^1 HN comments that dismiss RPi as &quot;inferior&quot; is that (a) RPi is a brand, (b) people are familiar with and trust the brand and (c) when everyone is doing their projects on the same hardware it avoids compatibility disclaimers like &quot;This is project is tested on X. It may or may not work on Y.&quot; It obviates consideration of &quot;hardware compatibility&quot;. With the RPi people know exactly what hardware to buy.
Even if the hardware is overpriced or underpowered, synergies are created when everyone is using the same hardware. IMHO, one cannot discount the value of that, but these comments downgrading the RPi aways do. Of course there are better choices for hardware than the RPi, and perhaps without the supply issues, but good luck getting everyone to buy the same thing so that projects do not have to account for &quot;hardware compatibilty&quot;.<p>1. Eleven years and counting</text></comment> | <story><title>Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/build-your-own-private-wireguard-vpn-pivpn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ye-olde-sysrq</author><text>I run wg-easy <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WeeJeWel&#x2F;wg-easy">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WeeJeWel&#x2F;wg-easy</a> for this sort of thing. I use the docker container, and it&#x27;s great. &quot;Just works&quot;.<p>Also, unrelated, I just decided I don&#x27;t like the sentiment of &quot;PiMyProjectName&quot; branding. I know most projects don&#x27;t <i>just</i> run on a Pi, and that the intent is to say &quot;you can self-host thing&quot;, but at this point if you want to run a home server sort of thing, just buy some cheap 100-200 dollar minipc thing. That&#x27;s how much you&#x27;d pay for a Pi now anyway, and it comes with such great features as:<p>* just establishing an ssh connection doesn&#x27;t take multiple seconds<p>* the ethernet doesn&#x27;t go over a usb hub<p>* it doesn&#x27;t run on an sd card that is going to fail within a year<p>I&#x27;m pretty dismissive of ARM chips for homelab stuff at this point. There&#x27;s super cheap minipcs with &quot;real&quot; processors that will just destroy even an expensive ARM board.<p>Pi&#x27;s shine with their ability to run both a real&#x2F;full Linux and also do gpio type stuff that otherwise is usually an arduino board. I don&#x27;t have anything against low-level programming but damn is it just a lot more fun to do in python. I love the Rpi zero w 2 products for this, just enough juice to run wifi and a python loop, plus the gpio pins. Too bad they&#x27;ve been sold out for literally years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yonatan8070</author><text>The Pis shine primarily in terms of power consumption, under load, a mini PC could cosume 50W, where a Pi (and other ARM boards) will do an absolute maximum of 15W. And if you have multiple devices that run 24&#x2F;7, that could be a significant saving</text></comment> |
27,722,983 | 27,722,829 | 1 | 2 | 27,722,254 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How to stop download.cnet.com from hosting my app?</title><text>download.cnet.com is hosting an ancient version of my app and I never submitted it to them or contacted them in any way. They simply stole my installer and content from my website without asking or getting permission. I won&#x27;t get into my reasons for not wanting any of these download sites to offer my software. They are of course entitled to provide a link to my website and some do that and only that which is OK.<p>there is a link in in old HN post (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2910554" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2910554</a>) that no longer works:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cnet-upload.custhelp.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;answers&#x2F;detail&#x2F;a_id&#x2F;2064" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cnet-upload.custhelp.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;answers&#x2F;detail&#x2F;a_id&#x2F;2064</a><p>anyone know if there is good contact form or email address for any of these download sites to ask that they not offer my app?<p>If I am not successful getting them to comply, would a DMCA be appropriate and would I be asking for legal troubles if I submit a DCMA?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>textman</author><text>OP here. thanks for the suggested links which I will try. I hope I don]t offend any open source folks here but this is commercial software with a EULA that clearly states the software may not be redistributed without written permission so it is a license violation and has cost me some $. I found out from a potential customer that alerted me to this and said he thought my software being on sleazy download sites creates a bad image for me. I am a tiny, 1 person bootstrapped operation so I really don&#x27;t want to go the DMCA route if I can avoid it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How to stop download.cnet.com from hosting my app?</title><text>download.cnet.com is hosting an ancient version of my app and I never submitted it to them or contacted them in any way. They simply stole my installer and content from my website without asking or getting permission. I won&#x27;t get into my reasons for not wanting any of these download sites to offer my software. They are of course entitled to provide a link to my website and some do that and only that which is OK.<p>there is a link in in old HN post (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2910554" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2910554</a>) that no longer works:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cnet-upload.custhelp.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;answers&#x2F;detail&#x2F;a_id&#x2F;2064" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cnet-upload.custhelp.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;answers&#x2F;detail&#x2F;a_id&#x2F;2064</a><p>anyone know if there is good contact form or email address for any of these download sites to ask that they not offer my app?<p>If I am not successful getting them to comply, would a DMCA be appropriate and would I be asking for legal troubles if I submit a DCMA?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ivraatiems</author><text>If the version of your software they are hosting is subject to a non-permissive license, you should simply be able to tell them so and theoretically, they&#x27;re obligated to take it down. The DMCA may or may not be precisely the right tool (license violation and copyright violation are similar but not 100% the same thing), but it should also work OK. (IANAL, but this is my experience.)<p>If your software is MIT licensed or similar, you can still ask, but you&#x27;re probably SOL if they don&#x27;t agree to remove it. With those kinds of licenses, they&#x27;re under no obligation to remove it just because you ask them.<p>Simply contacting them at any of the email addresses listed here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;contact-us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;contact-us&#x2F;</a> or calling them should get you routed to the right person eventually. You could also try generic emails like [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc. In the worst case, here&#x27;s a list of CNet employees: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;meet-us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;meet-us&#x2F;</a> - figure out their email format (e.g. [email protected]) and shoot them some emails.<p>However, you should be prepared for them to simply do nothing unless&#x2F;until there&#x27;s an attorney involved.<p>Do you stand to lose income or receive some other kind of material injury if they don&#x27;t take it down?<p>Edit: The help center at the bottom of the Download site took me here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cbsi.secure.force.com&#x2F;CBSi&#x2F;articles&#x2F;en_US&#x2F;Knowledge&#x2F;Copyright-complaints?retURL=%2FCBSi%2Fapex%2Fknowledgehome%3FsfdcIFrameOrigin%3Dnull&amp;popup=false&amp;categories=CBS_Interactive%3ACNETDownload&amp;template=template_download&amp;referer=dl.com&amp;data=&amp;cfs=SFS_Download" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cbsi.secure.force.com&#x2F;CBSi&#x2F;articles&#x2F;en_US&#x2F;Knowledge&#x2F;...</a> - this might be what you want?</text></comment> |
11,879,736 | 11,879,892 | 1 | 3 | 11,876,441 | train | <story><title>How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M</title><url>https://blog.zamzar.com/2016/06/10/deal-of-the-century-how-microsoft-beat-apple-to-buy-powerpoint-for-14-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chime</author><text>Random trivia for tech history buffs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Forethought,_Inc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Forethought,_Inc</a>. under founder Rob Campbell sold PowerPoint to MS and FileMaker to Apple.<p>Of course everyone knows PowerPoint but even most techies today have never touched FileMaker - it was the Django&#x2F;Rails&#x2F;WordPress&#x2F;SquareSpace&#x2F;RAD application back in the day. At a time when very few could code, FileMaker let anyone create a full-featured database. And even today, if you are running a small business and want basic data-collection features for internal use, it is still relevant and useful: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.filemaker.com&#x2F;solutions&#x2F;starter-solutions.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.filemaker.com&#x2F;solutions&#x2F;starter-solutions.html</a><p>90% of &quot;please make me a typical DB app&quot; requests I get, I just point them to FileMaker. I say spend $75&#x2F;mo for 5 users for a couple of months to work out the process. If the process works and the pain-point is FileMaker, come back to me and I will make a custom solution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Keyframe</author><text>90&#x27;s Apple (the beige phase, hah) users knew about FileMaker. At least in my own little circle. There was even a debate FileMake vs 4D (I was in 4D camp). Weird time to be alive. RAD tools and UML, everything visual basically, seemed to be THE FUTURE. Look at us now.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M</title><url>https://blog.zamzar.com/2016/06/10/deal-of-the-century-how-microsoft-beat-apple-to-buy-powerpoint-for-14-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chime</author><text>Random trivia for tech history buffs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Forethought,_Inc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Forethought,_Inc</a>. under founder Rob Campbell sold PowerPoint to MS and FileMaker to Apple.<p>Of course everyone knows PowerPoint but even most techies today have never touched FileMaker - it was the Django&#x2F;Rails&#x2F;WordPress&#x2F;SquareSpace&#x2F;RAD application back in the day. At a time when very few could code, FileMaker let anyone create a full-featured database. And even today, if you are running a small business and want basic data-collection features for internal use, it is still relevant and useful: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.filemaker.com&#x2F;solutions&#x2F;starter-solutions.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.filemaker.com&#x2F;solutions&#x2F;starter-solutions.html</a><p>90% of &quot;please make me a typical DB app&quot; requests I get, I just point them to FileMaker. I say spend $75&#x2F;mo for 5 users for a couple of months to work out the process. If the process works and the pain-point is FileMaker, come back to me and I will make a custom solution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gogopuppygogo</author><text>Heck, there are full commercial products being sold built on Filemaker.<p>I&#x27;ve had the displeasure of managing environments that use software like: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.simplyreliable.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.simplyreliable.com&#x2F;</a><p>It was based on FileMaker 6 last I worked with them (circa 2 years ago).</text></comment> |
36,957,486 | 36,953,984 | 1 | 2 | 36,952,867 | train | <story><title>Systemd auto-restarts of units can hide problems from you</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdRestartHidesProblems</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pikahumu</author><text>The reasonable way to notice is to have alerts for any unexpected restarts. Relying on noticing intermittent service disruption is bound to fail. And so is &quot;remembering to check for this&quot;:<p>&gt; in the future I&#x27;m going to want to remember to check for this<p>Whenever you think that sentence, you should notice this as a red flag and re-think your approach. You <i>will</i> forget. And if not you, then somebody else in your team. You need automation for things you can forget, otherwise your mental checklists will grow too large to handle and are just a distraction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cramjabsyn</author><text>&gt; The reasonable way to notice is to have alerts for any unexpected restarts. Relying on noticing intermittent service disruption is bound to fail.<p>I&#x27;d argue that unexpected restarts should alert beyond a threshold. Alerting on every occurrence is too noisy. If an individual unit failure causes a service disruption architecture improvements are needed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Systemd auto-restarts of units can hide problems from you</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdRestartHidesProblems</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pikahumu</author><text>The reasonable way to notice is to have alerts for any unexpected restarts. Relying on noticing intermittent service disruption is bound to fail. And so is &quot;remembering to check for this&quot;:<p>&gt; in the future I&#x27;m going to want to remember to check for this<p>Whenever you think that sentence, you should notice this as a red flag and re-think your approach. You <i>will</i> forget. And if not you, then somebody else in your team. You need automation for things you can forget, otherwise your mental checklists will grow too large to handle and are just a distraction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harry8</author><text>This is good advice imho.<p>Away from things that can be automated and are important you have a checklist and tick things off with a pen. Add $this to the list.<p>Atul Gawande is worth reading in general and on this topic. [1] He turned it into a book I haven&#x27;t yet read.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2007&#x2F;12&#x2F;10&#x2F;the-checklist" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2007&#x2F;12&#x2F;10&#x2F;the-checklist</a></text></comment> |
7,083,721 | 7,083,582 | 1 | 2 | 7,083,109 | train | <story><title>Hoplon: A Simpler Way to Program the Web</title><url>http://hoplon.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prodigal_erik</author><text>&gt; Reload this page with JavaScript disabled and see how the content was &quot;prerendered&quot; at compile time.<p>To their credit, the page is not blank, unlike a lot of &quot;web&quot; authors out there. Unfortunately there are several links that point to invalid and nonexistent fragments like #&#x2F;home&#x2F; instead of actual elements of that or some other document, which really means the framework is happy to make a siloed javascript app and does not ensure you are responsibly making all your content available as part of the world-wide web at some stable URL where third parties can reference it.<p>tl,dr: this encourages single-page apps which will be the death of the web.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mekoka</author><text>&gt; tl,dr: this encourages single-page apps which will be the death of the web.<p>The first sentence of the &quot;Web Apps&quot; section is <i>Web applications are not documents</i>. This is a motto that I believe a lot of people who think the way you do should take pause and reflect upon.<p>After years producing web apps, I came to the conclusion that non-js web apps are some of the craziest ideas ever. The browser without js is a tool to consume and, to some very minimal extent, produce documents. I consider most non-js apps on the browser to be huge hacks at best, that do what they can to circumvent the shortcomings of that technology. And heaven knows that shortcomings are a dime a dozen (lack of http method on anchors, limited to GET and POST, to only name a few).<p>If you do embrace building apps with js, then you need to stop thinking in the document-oriented paradigm, otherwise you&#x27;ll be making some unnecessary compromises at the expense of your end users, and you&#x27;ll be making your life harder as a developer. For instance, some actions that the standalone or native version of your application does with a single click might require 3 or 4 user interventions on the browser version, simply because you wish to remain true to some dogma.<p>A while back I&#x27;ve embraced the idea that web apps aren&#x27;t documents. It freed me as an app developer to make choices that were otherwise unthinkable in a previous mindset. My APIs make more sense, my interfaces are more intuitive and my users are the happier for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hoplon: A Simpler Way to Program the Web</title><url>http://hoplon.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prodigal_erik</author><text>&gt; Reload this page with JavaScript disabled and see how the content was &quot;prerendered&quot; at compile time.<p>To their credit, the page is not blank, unlike a lot of &quot;web&quot; authors out there. Unfortunately there are several links that point to invalid and nonexistent fragments like #&#x2F;home&#x2F; instead of actual elements of that or some other document, which really means the framework is happy to make a siloed javascript app and does not ensure you are responsibly making all your content available as part of the world-wide web at some stable URL where third parties can reference it.<p>tl,dr: this encourages single-page apps which will be the death of the web.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nnq</author><text>&gt; single-page apps will be the death of the web<p>What en earth makes you think that? Yeah, the current way of doing SPAs without fallback for non-js clients is horrible and the alternative of a two-way site too much work.<p>But the solution is obvious: if what you serve is of any meaning to anyone else, you also have some sort of content consumption API. Sooner or later we&#x27;ll standardize some RESTy way of doing it for apps, and for blogs and magazines RSS&#x2F;Atom feeds are already good enough content-consumption pseudo-APIs.<p><i>The API will be the Javascript-less version of all sites, and all sites will have an API.</i> Then people will make UIs for the content consumption parts of these (pseudo-)APIs, and these UIs, even if they run themselves in browsers will become the new &quot;browsers&quot; and gain their own scripting level features, while &quot;old browser apps&quot; will become today&#x27;s equivalent of desktop apps.<p>It&#x27;s not &quot;death&quot; of the web, just &quot;endless, infinite pain&quot; for us developers working in its perpetual shifting front-end... <i>it&#x27;s way worse than death! :)</i></text></comment> |
28,906,549 | 28,906,494 | 1 | 3 | 28,905,640 | train | <story><title>T0* – Series of encoder-decoder models trained on a large set of different tasks</title><url>https://huggingface.co/bigscience/T0pp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mizza</author><text>The hosted demo has the default query, &quot;How many hydrogen atoms are in a water molecule?&quot; It said &quot;two&quot;.<p>I asked it, &quot;How many oxygen atoms are in a water molecule?&quot;. It said &quot;two&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcims</author><text>I asked it: &#x27;Tom decided he wanted to start a company selling used bike parts. He named it &#x27;<p>it said: &#x27;Bicycle Parts Exchange&#x27;<p>Tried again with &#x27;used lawnmower parts&#x27; and it said &#x27;Green Thumb&#x27;<p>computer parts: &#x27;Tom&#x27;s Parts&#x27; (which make me chuckle)<p>used diapers: &#x27;Diapers.com&#x27;<p>May not understand chemistry but it&#x27;s still pretty cool</text></comment> | <story><title>T0* – Series of encoder-decoder models trained on a large set of different tasks</title><url>https://huggingface.co/bigscience/T0pp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mizza</author><text>The hosted demo has the default query, &quot;How many hydrogen atoms are in a water molecule?&quot; It said &quot;two&quot;.<p>I asked it, &quot;How many oxygen atoms are in a water molecule?&quot;. It said &quot;two&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mordisquitos</author><text>To be fair, if a real human were to answer the question <i>&quot;How many hydrogen atoms are in a water molecule?&quot;</i> time and time again, it would be very easy for them to accidentally reply <i>&quot;two&quot;</i> when asked the same question about oxygen.<p>The real question is, after the model mistakenly replied <i>&quot;two&quot;</i> to your question, did it also internally trigger the neurons for <i>&quot;Wait a minute...&quot;</i> while inhibiting output?</text></comment> |
18,993,175 | 18,993,227 | 1 | 2 | 18,992,321 | train | <story><title>GPUVideoDecode on Linux is impossible without patching</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>This bug was closed three years ago, with the following<p>&quot;Today we don&#x27;t have a Linux GPU decode owner, so we have chosen not to activate something which we have no one to support and may have to break arbitrarily in the future for ChromeOS.&quot;<p>Is there anything to suggest that has changed?<p>Did someone offer to do it and were turned down?<p>I&#x27;ve seen patches but no offer to maintain the subsystem, etc that i can find.
But maybe i missed it?
I only did a few searches of the relevant mailing lists.<p>(Also, in my experience commenting on 3 year old closed bugs is not the way to make anything happen)<p>(For those wondering, the actual patch set appears to be tracked here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromium-review.googlesource.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;src&#x2F;+&#x2F;532294" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromium-review.googlesource.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;src&#x2F;+&#x2F;53...</a>
)</text></comment> | <story><title>GPUVideoDecode on Linux is impossible without patching</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oconnore</author><text>This seems totally reasonable. Google is primarily focused on building Chrome -- a product, with business oriented product goals. Anyone using Chromium has already agreed to be a tag-along. That was always part of the deal.<p>In general I find the category of folks who -- won&#x27;t use Firefox, but want to pretend they&#x27;re not basically just using Google Chrome -- to be very strange indeed.</text></comment> |
15,414,616 | 15,414,509 | 1 | 3 | 15,413,377 | train | <story><title>Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code</title><url>http://www.tannerhelland.com/4660/dithering-eleven-algorithms-source-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mark-r</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t put enough emphasis on the need for gamma correction. If you dither a pure gray area of level 128, it will become approximately 50% white and 50% black. But when you display that back on the screen, because of gamma effects it will look closer to a level of 186!<p>A few years ago there was a need for 15-bpp or 16-bpp color images on phones rather than the 24-bpp images we usually work with, and dithering was a great way of producing them. No idea how much need there is today though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code</title><url>http://www.tannerhelland.com/4660/dithering-eleven-algorithms-source-code/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>Dithering trades sample resolution for sample frequency to convey the same information. For images, the underlying sample frequency usually doesn&#x27;t change but the <i>apparent</i> spatial sample frequency becomes lower in order to achieve more than one effective bit per (coarser) sample.<p>For one-dimensional signals like audio, the underlying sample frequency is usually increased while decreasing the sample resolution (often to 1 bit per sample). This keeps the effective Nyquist frequency where it needs to be while pushing noise much higher in frequency where it&#x27;s very easy to remove with an analog filter. Delta-sigma modulation is perhaps the most common method of audio dithering (although the delta-sigma literature rarely uses the D word).<p>The reason images and audio usually use dithering in opposite ways is that images are usually post-processed for lower true sample resolution (and higher effective sample resolution) <i>after</i> sampling, while audio is often sampled <i>initially</i> at much higher than the Nyquist frequency because dithering is a planned part of the audio processing chain. But not always! Those are merely common use cases.</text></comment> |
38,844,450 | 38,844,801 | 1 | 2 | 38,842,571 | train | <story><title>Thomas Cochrane</title><url>https://sergey.substack.com/p/thomas-cochrane</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stnmtn</author><text>I&#x27;m fascinated with Cochrane and this era. For anyone who is looking for novels that attempt to tell the story of people like Cochrane, look no further than Patrick O&#x27;Brien&#x27;s books. Starting with Master and Commander</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iam-TJ</author><text>A couple of Robert Brightwell&#x27;s (Thomas) &quot;Flashman&quot; series* have the eponymous hero as a shipmate of Cochrane - first in the Mediterranean in &quot;Flashman and the Seawolf&quot; [0] and later in South America in &quot;Flashman and the Emperor&quot; [1]<p>Both are great rollicking action adventures.<p>* Thomas is the uncle of the more famous Sir Harry Paget Flashman, V.C., whose memoirs are edited by George MacDonald-Fraser.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robertbrightwell.com&#x2F;my-books&#x2F;flashman-and-the-seawolf&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robertbrightwell.com&#x2F;my-books&#x2F;flashman-and-the-seawo...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robertbrightwell.com&#x2F;my-books&#x2F;flashman-and-the-emperor&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robertbrightwell.com&#x2F;my-books&#x2F;flashman-and-the-emper...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Thomas Cochrane</title><url>https://sergey.substack.com/p/thomas-cochrane</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stnmtn</author><text>I&#x27;m fascinated with Cochrane and this era. For anyone who is looking for novels that attempt to tell the story of people like Cochrane, look no further than Patrick O&#x27;Brien&#x27;s books. Starting with Master and Commander</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dghlsakjg</author><text>Jack Aubrey was very consciously modeled on Cochrane according to O’Brien. The general arc of his naval career pretty closely follows that of Cochrane’s.</text></comment> |
9,675,737 | 9,675,644 | 1 | 3 | 9,675,386 | train | <story><title>Why Has Apple Spawned So Few Startups?</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_28266341/why-has-apple-spawned-so-few-startups</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bomanbot</author><text>Maybe another reason why Apple spawned comparatively few startups might be that some of the areas of expertise for Apple and their employees are harder to do in startup-sized companies; namely hardware engineering and mass manufacturing innovation.<p>Apple does a lot of work in hardware and hardware manufacturing, both areas which are pretty capital-intensive and might not lead themselves as easily to the startup world.<p>Say, you are an Apple engineer working on the Ax chips for the next iPhone and have an idea for something great in CPU design, you cannot exactly rent a scalable 14nm chip fab from AWS to try to build it on your own and sell it market.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Has Apple Spawned So Few Startups?</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_28266341/why-has-apple-spawned-so-few-startups</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pvg</author><text>Article doesn&#x27;t seem to give any evidence of this. Apple&#x27;s been around forever and former Apple (and NeXT, if you stick to the logic it&#x27;s some sort of Jobsian startup-suppression field) employees have been involved in zillions of startups over the years. EA, Danger&#x2F;Android, Nest, Flipboard come to mind.</text></comment> |
27,565,975 | 27,562,976 | 1 | 3 | 27,561,807 | train | <story><title>“Roughly one-third of students are in favor of banning controversial books”</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1406255522475556869</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FabHK</author><text>Ok, so this is being somewhat misunderstood here, I think. A few observations:<p>- The sentence pg quoted (&quot;Roughly one-third of students are also in favor of banning controversial books from their university library.&quot;) is verbatim from the study.<p>- However, this study must be seen in context. It was deliberately and openly <i>designed</i> to detect anti-free-speech sentiment by looking at a specifically chosen probable &quot;worst case&quot;, namely social science students at a traditionally left leaning university in Germany (which houses the &quot;Institut für Sozialforschung&quot; that gave rise to the &quot;Frankfurter Schule&quot; (Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse) of critical theory, a predecessor of (among other things) CRT). That this is the case is revealed <i>right in the title</i> of the study: &quot;Is Free Speech in Danger on University Campus? Some Preliminary Evidence from a Most Likely Case&quot;, and further emphasised in the text: &quot;We are certainly not under the impression that our sample is representative of university students in general (or the wider public, for that matter). <i>On the contrary</i>, we <i>purposefully</i> consider the social science studentship at Frankfurt as a <i>most likely case</i>.&quot; (my emphasis).<p>- So, the study succeeded in detecting some moderately illiberal attitudes in a quarter or so of students at one deliberately chosen &quot;worst case&quot; faculty in Germany.<p>- All the hubbub here about the statistical limitations is overblown, n=501 is not bad for social science and gives a error margin of around 5%, which means the results stand unless there was massive sampling bias.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Roughly one-third of students are in favor of banning controversial books”</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1406255522475556869</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adamors</author><text>&gt; We were able to collect a total of n=932 responses in the period from 16 May to 2 July 2018. However, the actual net response rate dropped from 14% to 7.5% when we consider only those who completed at least 80% of the survey (n = 501), which is clearly poor and has to be kept in mind when drawing conclusions from the data<p>So clickbait BS. Is nobody reading the linked study?</text></comment> |
20,403,036 | 20,402,713 | 1 | 2 | 20,401,118 | train | <story><title>The Messy Reality of Personalized Learning</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-messy-reality-of-personalized-learning</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattferderer</author><text>I&#x27;m 100% for using data to help personalize learning but I strongly believe using a computer for even half of the learning leads to large negative results in social skills &amp; physical health.<p>Instead of using the tech start up mentality, I think a lot more benefit could be done by helping teachers build relationships with there students &amp; having open dialogue on what they like &amp; what they don&#x27;t. I get that this means throwing more money at lower teacher&#x2F;student ratios which is hard to do but I think it would have a greater impact than tech. I say this as someone whose life &amp; thoughts towards learning did a 180 once they were introduced to the internet &amp; computers in the 90s.<p>Yes, computers can change the lesson plan &amp; personalize per student faster &amp; better than a teacher. But at what cost?<p>While multiple techniques exists, are there that many that a teacher can&#x27;t try multiple out on there students and record how they respond? I feel if we had reasonable classroom sizes of 10:1 this would be fairly easy to do.<p>I also feel we could cut down the amount of info we jam into students heads &amp; focus on learning the more important concepts. I believe Bill Gates &amp; many others have started preaching this as well.<p>You don&#x27;t need to learn everything but there are some core skills that we don&#x27;t spend enough time on that will benefit us much longer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crispyambulance</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; ...build relationships with their students &amp; having open dialogue...
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You&#x27;re right. And that DOES WORK.<p>It&#x27;s why the most elite schools in the world use classroom setups like &quot;Harkness Method&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exeter.edu&#x2F;exeter-difference&#x2F;how-youll-learn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exeter.edu&#x2F;exeter-difference&#x2F;how-youll-learn</a>).<p>The problem is that it&#x27;s expensive, class sizes are a fraction of what public schools have to serve. Instruction is &quot;mastery-based&quot; which means that individual students don&#x27;t move forward in the curriculum until they&#x27;ve demonstrated mastery of prerequisite foundational topics.<p>This is part of the reason why kids from wealthy families can end up in elite colleges. Connections help, of course, but the kids are well-taught. For them, learning disabilities are just obstacles that can be worked around, fall-behind one semester because of teenage stuff? No problem, they get tutored out of that rut. The same kinds of problems in an overcrowded and overwhelmed public school end with the student being stuck academically and not prepared for college.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Messy Reality of Personalized Learning</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-messy-reality-of-personalized-learning</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattferderer</author><text>I&#x27;m 100% for using data to help personalize learning but I strongly believe using a computer for even half of the learning leads to large negative results in social skills &amp; physical health.<p>Instead of using the tech start up mentality, I think a lot more benefit could be done by helping teachers build relationships with there students &amp; having open dialogue on what they like &amp; what they don&#x27;t. I get that this means throwing more money at lower teacher&#x2F;student ratios which is hard to do but I think it would have a greater impact than tech. I say this as someone whose life &amp; thoughts towards learning did a 180 once they were introduced to the internet &amp; computers in the 90s.<p>Yes, computers can change the lesson plan &amp; personalize per student faster &amp; better than a teacher. But at what cost?<p>While multiple techniques exists, are there that many that a teacher can&#x27;t try multiple out on there students and record how they respond? I feel if we had reasonable classroom sizes of 10:1 this would be fairly easy to do.<p>I also feel we could cut down the amount of info we jam into students heads &amp; focus on learning the more important concepts. I believe Bill Gates &amp; many others have started preaching this as well.<p>You don&#x27;t need to learn everything but there are some core skills that we don&#x27;t spend enough time on that will benefit us much longer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>To some extent, computer-aided learning might help reduce student&#x2F;teacher ratios in practice. 2 hrs independent learning to 1hr in groups 1&#x2F;3 the size... for example.<p>While I agree that more teachers per student is highly effective, it&#x27;s also expensive... and will unavoidably end up becoming cost-limited below the ideal level.<p>As a total side note, I wonder what other, potentially healthy changes can be made if personalized learning can be made to work well.<p>For example, I suspect that homogeneous age classes are not ideal. Spending half your life in a room with 40 other 10 year olds isn&#x27;t something that happens outside of modern school systems. It&#x27;s somewhat unatural. Maybe mixed-age classes can become possible again.</text></comment> |
38,715,231 | 38,714,955 | 1 | 2 | 38,700,779 | train | <story><title>My failed attempt at using a closet as an office</title><url>http://blog.pamelafox.org/2023/12/my-failed-attempt-at-using-closet-as.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>When I made the decision to go fully remote, the first obvious step was to move out of the Bay Area. One of my hard requirements was property with a <i>separate physical building</i> for a home office. This requirement <i>vastly</i> reduced the set of viable homes to choose from, vastly constrained the neighborhood choice to more rural areas, and somewhat increased the cost. But after more than a year of working this way, I have to say it was well worth it. I wouldn&#x27;t want to go back to work-from-spare-bedroom or work-from-closet. If you can manage it financially and you can culturally manage to live in a more rural area, you&#x27;ll won&#x27;t want to go back, either.<p>First, and obviously, it&#x27;s quiet. No more kids playing in the house chaos. It&#x27;s private, and can be locked separately, so I can work on my company&#x27;s confidential stuff. Economical to heat and cool, since it is a very small space. You also get that intangible &quot;separation&quot; of your work life from your home life that your commute used to give you--hard to explain. A brief walk outside to and from the office allows me to reset into work-mode or home-mode. Highly recommended if you can swing it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dotancohen</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; You also get that intangible &quot;separation&quot; of your work life from your home life that your commute used to give you--hard to explain. A brief walk outside to and from the office allows me to reset into work-mode or home-mode.
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A lifehack that I learned here on HN when I was working from home was to actually leave the door, then walk right back in and work. If I needed to do any housework, I would again leave through the door, and return &quot;home&quot;.<p>This reduced all temptations to mix work and home life. It also made it clear to the other people in the house that daddy is now serious, and that even just a simple &quot;hi, how are you&quot; would require me to get up, leave, and return to answer. And then leave and return to go back to work. The social friction was important.</text></comment> | <story><title>My failed attempt at using a closet as an office</title><url>http://blog.pamelafox.org/2023/12/my-failed-attempt-at-using-closet-as.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>When I made the decision to go fully remote, the first obvious step was to move out of the Bay Area. One of my hard requirements was property with a <i>separate physical building</i> for a home office. This requirement <i>vastly</i> reduced the set of viable homes to choose from, vastly constrained the neighborhood choice to more rural areas, and somewhat increased the cost. But after more than a year of working this way, I have to say it was well worth it. I wouldn&#x27;t want to go back to work-from-spare-bedroom or work-from-closet. If you can manage it financially and you can culturally manage to live in a more rural area, you&#x27;ll won&#x27;t want to go back, either.<p>First, and obviously, it&#x27;s quiet. No more kids playing in the house chaos. It&#x27;s private, and can be locked separately, so I can work on my company&#x27;s confidential stuff. Economical to heat and cool, since it is a very small space. You also get that intangible &quot;separation&quot; of your work life from your home life that your commute used to give you--hard to explain. A brief walk outside to and from the office allows me to reset into work-mode or home-mode. Highly recommended if you can swing it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vondur</author><text>Luckily, I convinced my wife to let me purchase her a pre-fabricated building for an office in February of 2020. We already had an existing concrete slab (12&quot; x 12&quot;) where I had a 12&quot; x 10&quot; building put in. It took the work crew about 4 hours to build it. Later I had electrical installed and drywall an insulation put in. She really likes the space.</text></comment> |
2,475,639 | 2,475,064 | 1 | 3 | 2,474,833 | train | <story><title>Super Mario 64 was built with a system written in Lisp</title><url>http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/animation_graphics/nichimen.lhtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>agavin</author><text>Mario 64 wasn't itself written in LISP at all. It's models were built in Nichimen graphics, a SGI based 3D design tool written in Allegro CL.<p>As far as I know, the games we did at Naughty Dog (Crash 1-3, Jak 1-3 + X), and later Uncharted were the only major console games which large amounts of runtime Lisp. The Jak &#38; Daxter series was 99% written in my Scheme dialect GOAL, including all the assembly. The only parts that weren't were libs talking to Sony's libraries (C++).<p><a href="http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/category/games/" rel="nofollow">http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/category/games/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Super Mario 64 was built with a system written in Lisp</title><url>http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/animation_graphics/nichimen.lhtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jlongster</author><text>I built an iPhone game with Scheme, and I have to say, it was the best debugging/development environment I've ever had.</text></comment> |
31,901,712 | 31,901,430 | 1 | 2 | 31,900,872 | train | <story><title>tolower() in bulk at speed</title><url>https://dotat.at/@/2022-06-27-tolower-swar.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dragontamer</author><text>Seems a bit odd to stop at SWAR on today&#x27;s systems.<p>Every system I&#x27;m aware of has 128-bit SIMD implemented: either SSE (x86), NEON (ARM), or AltiVec (POWERPC). As such, 128-bit SIMD is the &quot;reliably portable&quot; SIMD operation.<p>Of course, for fastest speeds, you need to go to the largest SIMD-register size for your platform: 512-bit for some Intel processors, rumored AMD Zen4 and Centaur chips. 256-bit for most Intel &#x2F; AMD Zen3 chips. 128-bit for Apple ARMs, 512-bit for Fujitsu A64 ARMs, etc. etc.<p>&gt; And these are the fastest kinds of instructions :-)<p>And it should be noted that modern SIMD instructions execute at one-per-clock-tick. So the 64-bit instructions certainly are fast, but the SIMD instructions tie if you&#x27;re using simple XOR or comparison operations.<p>--------<p>This style of code might even be &quot;reliably auto-vectorizable&quot; on GCC and CLANG actually. I wonder if I could get portable auto-vectorizing C from these examples.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dietrichepp</author><text>Naive version to explore autovectorization:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcc.godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;bcefvznG3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcc.godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;bcefvznG3</a><p>Yes, there&#x27;s some amount of autovectorization here. Seems like a mess of a function. Here&#x27;s something more like tolower8():<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcc.godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;h8GTanodd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcc.godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;h8GTanodd</a><p>The generated code definitely looks funny to me. Here is a manual vectorization, which is shorter:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcc.godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;1e4odEsKq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcc.godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;1e4odEsKq</a><p>The issue of loading into your vector register... well, there are some dirty tricks for that. The 16-byte slice containing the first byte, and the 16-byte slice containing the last byte, can both be loaded into registers and then shifted around in order to construct the desired value. Note the careful wording here... these slices might be the same slice. Or you can iterate over the 16-byte slices containing the array, and shift as you go, if you&#x27;re storing into a different location. Or you can use various masked load&#x2F;store operations on various architectures.</text></comment> | <story><title>tolower() in bulk at speed</title><url>https://dotat.at/@/2022-06-27-tolower-swar.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dragontamer</author><text>Seems a bit odd to stop at SWAR on today&#x27;s systems.<p>Every system I&#x27;m aware of has 128-bit SIMD implemented: either SSE (x86), NEON (ARM), or AltiVec (POWERPC). As such, 128-bit SIMD is the &quot;reliably portable&quot; SIMD operation.<p>Of course, for fastest speeds, you need to go to the largest SIMD-register size for your platform: 512-bit for some Intel processors, rumored AMD Zen4 and Centaur chips. 256-bit for most Intel &#x2F; AMD Zen3 chips. 128-bit for Apple ARMs, 512-bit for Fujitsu A64 ARMs, etc. etc.<p>&gt; And these are the fastest kinds of instructions :-)<p>And it should be noted that modern SIMD instructions execute at one-per-clock-tick. So the 64-bit instructions certainly are fast, but the SIMD instructions tie if you&#x27;re using simple XOR or comparison operations.<p>--------<p>This style of code might even be &quot;reliably auto-vectorizable&quot; on GCC and CLANG actually. I wonder if I could get portable auto-vectorizing C from these examples.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sedatk</author><text>&quot;labels are frequently less than 8 bytes long, and therefore fit inside a 64-bit register. So it probably isn’t worth dealing with the portability issues of working with wide vector registers (Especially since I could not find a quick way to load an arbitrary number of bytes into a vector register with AVX2 nor with NEON.)&quot;</text></comment> |
7,922,743 | 7,922,162 | 1 | 3 | 7,921,445 | train | <story><title>The Joy of Typing</title><url>https://medium.com/message/the-joy-of-typing-fd8d091ab8ef</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nbouscal</author><text>&gt; one 2007 study measured a small group of 21 college students and found their average typing speed was an abysmal 12.2 words per minute<p>That blows my mind. That&#x27;s less than a tenth the speed I type at. How do they get anything done??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Centigonal</author><text>I skimmed the study, and that statistic is a little misleading.<p>They weren&#x27;t typing predetermined sentences. They were instructed to come up with a story based on some pictures and write it down. They weren&#x27;t bottlenecked by typing speed, but rather by pauses for thought between words.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Joy of Typing</title><url>https://medium.com/message/the-joy-of-typing-fd8d091ab8ef</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nbouscal</author><text>&gt; one 2007 study measured a small group of 21 college students and found their average typing speed was an abysmal 12.2 words per minute<p>That blows my mind. That&#x27;s less than a tenth the speed I type at. How do they get anything done??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beachstartup</author><text>i spent a lot of time on the net (irc) as a kid, and even then my typing didn&#x27;t go above 50wpm until i actually sat down and taught myself how to type correctly, and then practiced deliberately. i remember i went from 40wpm to 100wpm in a single summer.<p>most people never actually learn to type correctly, they just keep doing the wrong thing forever. of course, once you actually learn to do it right, you&#x27;re practicing <i>all the time</i> and after several years you can easily get up to and past 120wpm if you sit in front of a computer all day.</text></comment> |
8,720,528 | 8,719,071 | 1 | 2 | 8,718,776 | train | <story><title>Android Studio 1.0</title><url>http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2014/12/android-studio-10.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gtaylor</author><text>The fact that they&#x27;re doing this with Jetbrains excites me. Potentially enough for me to take another shot at playing with Android development. The toolset felt so raw the last time I messed around with it (Eclipse+ADT days) that it turned me (not a Java developer) off.<p>I have been super impressed with PyCharm, and have heard great things about some of their other IDEs. Google picked the right partner to build on&#x2F;with for this.<p>If they have sufficiently smoothed over some of the annoying workflow&#x2F;build snags I was running into in the old Eclipse+ADT days, this could be a whole new ballgame for us who don&#x27;t play with Java or Android for a living.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barbs</author><text>Senior Android Dev here, moved from Eclipse to AS when it was still in preview earlier in the year. It&#x27;s loads more stable and much easier to use. Definitely recommend giving it a go if you were turned off by Eclipse + ADT earlier.</text></comment> | <story><title>Android Studio 1.0</title><url>http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2014/12/android-studio-10.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gtaylor</author><text>The fact that they&#x27;re doing this with Jetbrains excites me. Potentially enough for me to take another shot at playing with Android development. The toolset felt so raw the last time I messed around with it (Eclipse+ADT days) that it turned me (not a Java developer) off.<p>I have been super impressed with PyCharm, and have heard great things about some of their other IDEs. Google picked the right partner to build on&#x2F;with for this.<p>If they have sufficiently smoothed over some of the annoying workflow&#x2F;build snags I was running into in the old Eclipse+ADT days, this could be a whole new ballgame for us who don&#x27;t play with Java or Android for a living.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chambo622</author><text>Gradle is pretty tightly integrated with the IDE now, and in general I find myself rarely having to troubleshoot build problems with Android studio. Adding new dependencies is as simple as adding a single line to the build.gradle file, it&#x27;s great.</text></comment> |
20,381,182 | 20,380,281 | 1 | 2 | 20,374,479 | train | <story><title>Personal Kanban 101</title><url>http://personalkanban.com/pk/personal-kanban-101/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yitchelle</author><text>While this is good, it goes into the mix with 100s of other similar or same apps (but with a different name). What I have yet to see is how to increase the motivation to actually close the things on the list. Anyone with hints?<p>I try to be mindful of the things on my list, especially when I add new items on to it, but closing it out is a different story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>I don&#x27;t use this app, but I&#x27;m a big Kanban fan. For me the motivation to close items comes through WIP limits. For my personal Kanban setup, I have a WIP limit of 3 for active tasks, and three for &quot;pending&quot; tasks, by which I mean things that are blocked waiting for somebody else.<p>If I have 3 active tasks, that means I have to pick from among them to work on something. For me, that usually results in finishing what I&#x27;ve started in reasonably quick order. I also aim to favor closing an open task before pulling a new one from the backlog, which helps further.<p>Once I do this consistently, it generates motivation (or perhaps decreases the sapping of my natural motivation) in that I&#x27;m in the habit of getting things flowing through the system and minimizing WIP.</text></comment> | <story><title>Personal Kanban 101</title><url>http://personalkanban.com/pk/personal-kanban-101/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yitchelle</author><text>While this is good, it goes into the mix with 100s of other similar or same apps (but with a different name). What I have yet to see is how to increase the motivation to actually close the things on the list. Anyone with hints?<p>I try to be mindful of the things on my list, especially when I add new items on to it, but closing it out is a different story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>Astrid Tasks was the only one that really helped me get a lot of old tasks done, but Yahoo killed it. No to do list since really keeps me on task.<p>I&#x27;ve tried Habitica which attempts to gameify your tasks, but I dunno .. I just never got into it.<p>I have an OpenProject server running for myself, but I kinda forgot about it for a while and stopped checking in.<p>When I was a kid in the 90s, I found myself much more able to stay on tasks. Going into college, I could code for hours, building things, write things ... I don&#x27;t even have kids&#x2F;family as an adult, I just find my motivation waning.<p>I&#x27;ve taken sabbaticals in my life, which has helped me focus on some tasks and get some big things done, but even then there is diminishing return as I start to worry about money and look for work again: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;khanism.org&#x2F;perspective&#x2F;minimalism&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;khanism.org&#x2F;perspective&#x2F;minimalism&#x2F;</a><p>I don&#x27;t think a personal Kanban or anything else is a silver bullet solution. You have to hit a critical mass in the work you&#x27;re trying to do, whether it&#x27;s an open source project or creating videos or live-coding. I&#x27;m more impressed today by major YouTubers like 8-Bit Guy or Wendover Productions, and people like Drew DeVault who just write so much production ready stuff.<p>It&#x27;s harder today because we have to fight greater distractions ... like browsing Hackernews when I really should try to get this regex working. :-P</text></comment> |
3,236,042 | 3,235,994 | 1 | 2 | 3,235,926 | train | <story><title>Google releases full Android 4.0.1 source code, includes Honeycomb too</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-building/T4XZJCZnqF8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pingswept</author><text>In the past, I've spent a fair bit of time criticizing Google for calling Android "open source", but not releasing the source. Now that it appears that they are actually doing it, let me be the first to say that this is great.<p>Well done, Google.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google releases full Android 4.0.1 source code, includes Honeycomb too</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-building/T4XZJCZnqF8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>imurray</author><text>[dead] comment by cdibona:
"Please don't sync yet, it's currently in a mixed state. The 'repo for-all git push' is still running and will take some time to complete, so if you sync now you'll get some parts with Gingerbread and some parts with ICS."<p>(If you accidentally post something twice, be careful about deleting one. The other one may be automatically killed, but you don't see it when your posts are killed.)</text></comment> |
17,925,386 | 17,924,026 | 1 | 3 | 17,920,720 | train | <story><title>Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages</title><url>https://www.polemicdigital.com/google-amp-go-to-hell/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brosirmandude</author><text>Yeah that&#x27;s gonna be a no from me dog...<p>As a marketer I&#x27;ve been fortunate enough to avoid most of the AMP fallout because of the specific makeup of my clientele. However, my colleagues who have to deal with AMP want Google to kill it forever and never bring it back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kalium</author><text>Having worked with trackers, and used the sorts of pages your colleagues prefer, I have arrived at a slightly different conclusion.<p>Your colleagues are the problem that AMP is unfortunately necessary to solve. There are too many bloated, slow, design-forward and tracker-infested pages that take ten times as much memory and time as is required for the core content to be loaded and presented. This means the core of the user experience in AMP-land is generally much, much better.<p>It didn&#x27;t have to be this way. AMP is necessary because the web user experience has become atrocious. There have been many years, flush and bountiful with opportunities to improve this. Most websites remain blessed with this wondrous panoply.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages</title><url>https://www.polemicdigital.com/google-amp-go-to-hell/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brosirmandude</author><text>Yeah that&#x27;s gonna be a no from me dog...<p>As a marketer I&#x27;ve been fortunate enough to avoid most of the AMP fallout because of the specific makeup of my clientele. However, my colleagues who have to deal with AMP want Google to kill it forever and never bring it back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squirrelicus</author><text>I was going to tank the downvotes and just post a root comment saying nothing but &quot;no&quot;, because it&#x27;s the correct response. But you did a better job than I would have :P</text></comment> |
23,807,534 | 23,805,985 | 1 | 3 | 23,803,378 | train | <story><title>Should I buy an Intel Mac today or wait to buy an Arm-based Mac?</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/guide/buy-or-wait-intel-apple-silicon-mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lammy</author><text>Buy a used Intel Mac today and it will give you several more years of service while the ecosystem handles the ARM transition. You should never buy a first-gen Apple product, especially the first gen of such a radical change. I expect buyers of the first ARM-based Macs to end up like the buyers of the first Intel-based Macs who were saddled with Core Solo processors and 32-bit EFI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alwillis</author><text><i>I expect buyers of the first ARM-based Macs to end up like the buyers of the first Intel-based Macs who were saddled with Core Solo processors and 32-bit EFI.</i><p>That’s not going to be the case this time around.<p>Apple has obviously been planning this transition for several years. Apple has been designing 64-bit ARM-based SoC since at least 2013—over 7 years.<p>Single-threaded speed surpassed Intel years ago; it&#x27;s probably been a matter of getting the supporting silicon up to snuff.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if what we see this fall will be the 2nd or 3rd iteration of ARM-based Macs Apple has designed internally but the first to be revealed to the public.<p>I expect these first Apple Silicon Macs will be ridiculously fast, particularly on a performance per watt basis and even perhaps compared to similarly priced Intel hardware from brand name PC manufacturers.<p>Apple knows they only have one chance to make a first impression; I expect they will put a stake in the ground around that for these first consumer oriented Macs, with the promise of what&#x27;s to come for Macs for pro users over the course of the two-year transition of the entire product line.</text></comment> | <story><title>Should I buy an Intel Mac today or wait to buy an Arm-based Mac?</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/guide/buy-or-wait-intel-apple-silicon-mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lammy</author><text>Buy a used Intel Mac today and it will give you several more years of service while the ecosystem handles the ARM transition. You should never buy a first-gen Apple product, especially the first gen of such a radical change. I expect buyers of the first ARM-based Macs to end up like the buyers of the first Intel-based Macs who were saddled with Core Solo processors and 32-bit EFI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jurmous</author><text>But this chip will be the 14th iteration of the CPU and is already quite mature. The Apple GPU is already some years further after first release. The chip is also already 64bit. The main new thing is the Arm compilation of the OS and Rosetta layer and that can be updated with patch releases.</text></comment> |
34,432,145 | 34,430,164 | 1 | 2 | 34,426,421 | train | <story><title>OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic</title><url>https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>autodev1</author><text>BS? Based on what experience of yours?<p>I spoke with a US Civil Engineer who worked in Honduras in the 1980&#x27;s, clearing paths in forests for electrical transmission lines.<p>He initially paid workers significantly higher than local wages-- US-level wages.<p>The result:<p>--&gt; He was threatened with harm by bosses of local companies.<p>Why? He took all their workers.<p>The local companies couldn&#x27;t compete-- they lost all their labor to his company which paid relatively (relative to Honduras) exorbitant wages.<p>His US company literally destabilized the local labor economy.<p>So, I wouldn&#x27;t be so quick to jump to &quot;that is BS&quot;, as in my opinion it exemplifies naivete &amp; ignorance.</text></item><item><author>NickC25</author><text>&gt;<i>I&#x27;ve heard arguments in the past of paying &quot;acceptable&quot; US wages to people in other countries would destabilize the other country more than it would help.</i><p>Which honestly is a bullshit argument. The only destabilizing thing here is it would make the person in the higher-paying profession more valuable to society and more able to make economic impact where it might not normally. In this case, a rising tide does lift all boats...because you&#x27;re giving more economic purchasing power to more people. Will this kill some businesses or disrupt the status quo? Yeah. Will it help more people than it hurts? Maybe, probably, who knows? But I personally see no problem with paying people relative to their output, no matter where in the world they are.<p>Having been to Kenya myself and worked with Kenyan developers for several years, most of whom were quite talented, I see absolutely no problem with paying them their value relative to the work being done. I have no problem with high skilled Kenyans making much more than the local average because they have a skill that is in demand all around the world.<p>&gt;<i>the salary should be paying for the work being done and that&#x27;s it</i><p>100% agree. If a business derives $X profit from a laborer and agrees to pay a given % of $X to the laborer as compensation, it should not matter if the laborer is in a high cost or low cost of living area - the business still makes the same amount in profit, and shouldn&#x27;t get to say &quot;hey yeah we made $10mm off your application, but we&#x27;re going to only pay you 5% of our profits as compensation because you live in Bangladesh and the cost of living is lower, so be happy with what we&#x27;re giving you&quot; when if you did the exact same labor and lived in, say, LA or NYC, they&#x27;d give you 10%. Just bullshit IMO.</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard arguments in the past of paying &quot;acceptable&quot; US wages to people in other countries would destabilize the other country more than it would help. I&#x27;m not an economist, so I don&#x27;t know how valid those arguments are. I have always thought they were more scare tactics used in favor of being able to pay those low wages for as long as they could get away with it. I could see though how paying a small-ish number of people wages that dwarfs the larger number of people could cause a bit of turmoil.<p>to me, it goes back to the argument about remote workers should be paid less than the in office worker. or workers living in cheaper areas should be paid less than those living in expensive areas. to me, the salary should be paying for the work being done and that&#x27;s it. if the same level of work is being done by both employees, it shouldn&#x27;t matter if one is in Kenya and the other is in the US. the value of the work is what should be getting compensated. again though, i&#x27;m no economist.</text></item><item><author>yawboakye</author><text>fellow african here, with a few questions.<p>could the average income in kenya be around $1.25 because companies decide to pay abysmally? or the people don&#x27;t merit any higher? would openai be offending the kenyans if they paid them, say, $5&#x2F;hour? i think this is the question you should grapple with. openai will be selling this tech around the world, and i wonder if these $2&#x2F;hr workers can afford it at all. would they, or their loved ones, be able to enjoy produce of their labor?</text></item><item><author>Ombudsman</author><text>To put it in perspective, the average income in Kenya is around $1.25 an hour and tbh (as a Kenyan) I really can&#x27;t see it as a bad thing. A lot of people here live in abject poverty, they live in situations you can&#x27;t really begin to imagine. So any sort of help coming our way is good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>henryfjordan</author><text>Who got hurt by &quot;destabilizing the labor economy&quot;? The bosses who were perfectly fine resorting to threats and extortion? It certainly wasn&#x27;t the workers.<p>It is fine to recognize that people who wield economic power might be upset when a new economic power arrives in town, but to describe the new guy who is trying to do the right thing as somehow immoral is classist nonsense.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic</title><url>https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>autodev1</author><text>BS? Based on what experience of yours?<p>I spoke with a US Civil Engineer who worked in Honduras in the 1980&#x27;s, clearing paths in forests for electrical transmission lines.<p>He initially paid workers significantly higher than local wages-- US-level wages.<p>The result:<p>--&gt; He was threatened with harm by bosses of local companies.<p>Why? He took all their workers.<p>The local companies couldn&#x27;t compete-- they lost all their labor to his company which paid relatively (relative to Honduras) exorbitant wages.<p>His US company literally destabilized the local labor economy.<p>So, I wouldn&#x27;t be so quick to jump to &quot;that is BS&quot;, as in my opinion it exemplifies naivete &amp; ignorance.</text></item><item><author>NickC25</author><text>&gt;<i>I&#x27;ve heard arguments in the past of paying &quot;acceptable&quot; US wages to people in other countries would destabilize the other country more than it would help.</i><p>Which honestly is a bullshit argument. The only destabilizing thing here is it would make the person in the higher-paying profession more valuable to society and more able to make economic impact where it might not normally. In this case, a rising tide does lift all boats...because you&#x27;re giving more economic purchasing power to more people. Will this kill some businesses or disrupt the status quo? Yeah. Will it help more people than it hurts? Maybe, probably, who knows? But I personally see no problem with paying people relative to their output, no matter where in the world they are.<p>Having been to Kenya myself and worked with Kenyan developers for several years, most of whom were quite talented, I see absolutely no problem with paying them their value relative to the work being done. I have no problem with high skilled Kenyans making much more than the local average because they have a skill that is in demand all around the world.<p>&gt;<i>the salary should be paying for the work being done and that&#x27;s it</i><p>100% agree. If a business derives $X profit from a laborer and agrees to pay a given % of $X to the laborer as compensation, it should not matter if the laborer is in a high cost or low cost of living area - the business still makes the same amount in profit, and shouldn&#x27;t get to say &quot;hey yeah we made $10mm off your application, but we&#x27;re going to only pay you 5% of our profits as compensation because you live in Bangladesh and the cost of living is lower, so be happy with what we&#x27;re giving you&quot; when if you did the exact same labor and lived in, say, LA or NYC, they&#x27;d give you 10%. Just bullshit IMO.</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard arguments in the past of paying &quot;acceptable&quot; US wages to people in other countries would destabilize the other country more than it would help. I&#x27;m not an economist, so I don&#x27;t know how valid those arguments are. I have always thought they were more scare tactics used in favor of being able to pay those low wages for as long as they could get away with it. I could see though how paying a small-ish number of people wages that dwarfs the larger number of people could cause a bit of turmoil.<p>to me, it goes back to the argument about remote workers should be paid less than the in office worker. or workers living in cheaper areas should be paid less than those living in expensive areas. to me, the salary should be paying for the work being done and that&#x27;s it. if the same level of work is being done by both employees, it shouldn&#x27;t matter if one is in Kenya and the other is in the US. the value of the work is what should be getting compensated. again though, i&#x27;m no economist.</text></item><item><author>yawboakye</author><text>fellow african here, with a few questions.<p>could the average income in kenya be around $1.25 because companies decide to pay abysmally? or the people don&#x27;t merit any higher? would openai be offending the kenyans if they paid them, say, $5&#x2F;hour? i think this is the question you should grapple with. openai will be selling this tech around the world, and i wonder if these $2&#x2F;hr workers can afford it at all. would they, or their loved ones, be able to enjoy produce of their labor?</text></item><item><author>Ombudsman</author><text>To put it in perspective, the average income in Kenya is around $1.25 an hour and tbh (as a Kenyan) I really can&#x27;t see it as a bad thing. A lot of people here live in abject poverty, they live in situations you can&#x27;t really begin to imagine. So any sort of help coming our way is good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aunche</author><text>At least in the case of Honduras, more people clearing paths for transmission lines accelerates the development of infrastructure that the locals can use. On the other hand, OpenAI moderation doesn&#x27;t do anything for Kenyans. You can see the effect of this is countries that heavily rely on tourism like Thailand and Bali. The smartest and hardest working people end up serving foreigners rather than their domestic population. Places that aren&#x27;t catered towards tourists are completely neglected.</text></comment> |
31,643,888 | 31,643,859 | 1 | 2 | 31,642,085 | train | <story><title>Elon Musk asserts his “right to terminate” Twitter deal</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/06/06/elon-musk-twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AmazingTed</author><text>&gt; and has nothing to do with Musk’s bid.<p>The bid gave Musk access to inside information.<p>&gt; the time for due diligence is before, not after, one signs the merger agreement.<p>I bought a house. The due diligence period to inspect the house, get a survey, etc. was <i>after</i> we entered into the contract and <i>before</i> closing.</text></item><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>Everything about the bots is a side show to the merger. Twitter’s assertions about bots are in SEC filings and they are a publicly traded company. If there is a cause of action, it already exists and has nothing to do with Musk’s bid.<p>As for that bid, the time for due diligence is before, not after, one signs the merger agreement.<p>FWIW I have shares in Twitter and would prefer them to remain a publicly traded company.</text></item><item><author>shrubble</author><text>The part that seems dangerous to Twitter is not the go&#x2F;no-go part of Elon Musk&#x27;s offer , but the possible shareholder and advertising related lawsuits that may arise.<p>Representing bot activity as less than 5% but using a sample size of 100, when you are claiming millions of active accounts, can&#x27;t easily be seen as honest. Since statistics which Twitter is expected to know as a matter of their duty to shareholders , makes it plain that the sample size is too small.<p>Too many bots = shareholders were misled as to true number of active accounts.<p>Too many bots = advertisers were misled as to potential reach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Johnny555</author><text><i>I bought a house. The due diligence period to inspect the house, get a survey, etc. was after we entered into the contract and before closing.</i><p>And many people, just like Musk, waive their right to terminate the contract due to inspections, loan approval, etc. For the same reason that he did - it gives the seller less reason to reject your offer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elon Musk asserts his “right to terminate” Twitter deal</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/06/06/elon-musk-twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AmazingTed</author><text>&gt; and has nothing to do with Musk’s bid.<p>The bid gave Musk access to inside information.<p>&gt; the time for due diligence is before, not after, one signs the merger agreement.<p>I bought a house. The due diligence period to inspect the house, get a survey, etc. was <i>after</i> we entered into the contract and <i>before</i> closing.</text></item><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>Everything about the bots is a side show to the merger. Twitter’s assertions about bots are in SEC filings and they are a publicly traded company. If there is a cause of action, it already exists and has nothing to do with Musk’s bid.<p>As for that bid, the time for due diligence is before, not after, one signs the merger agreement.<p>FWIW I have shares in Twitter and would prefer them to remain a publicly traded company.</text></item><item><author>shrubble</author><text>The part that seems dangerous to Twitter is not the go&#x2F;no-go part of Elon Musk&#x27;s offer , but the possible shareholder and advertising related lawsuits that may arise.<p>Representing bot activity as less than 5% but using a sample size of 100, when you are claiming millions of active accounts, can&#x27;t easily be seen as honest. Since statistics which Twitter is expected to know as a matter of their duty to shareholders , makes it plain that the sample size is too small.<p>Too many bots = shareholders were misled as to true number of active accounts.<p>Too many bots = advertisers were misled as to potential reach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cloudsec9</author><text>&gt; I bought a house. The due diligence period to inspect the house, get a survey, etc. was after we entered into the contract and before closing.<p>I know with the crazy housing markets, this might not be something anymore, but in times past you would enter into a CONDITIONAL contract and set the price, with the stipulation that the inspection has to be satisfactory to remove the conditions. Otherwise, after you signed your contract, the house is yours, and the survey just tells you what you are obligated to fix.<p>Also, Business deals usually allow parties to enter into things like NDAs for due diligence, as well as signing things like Memos of Agreement to get a roughed out deal, pending a thorough due diligence.
I believe he&#x27;s past (or waived) the due diligence. I&#x27;m sure there is a back-out clause, but that has $$$ attached and he&#x27;s trying to wiggle out without paying, is what it seems like.</text></comment> |
15,868,553 | 15,868,446 | 1 | 3 | 15,866,233 | train | <story><title>Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/business/oliver-schmidt-volkswagen.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tempestn</author><text>It&#x27;s good that people are being held accountable, but I&#x27;m unsure that prison is an effective mechanism here (or for many other crimes, for that matter). I mean, what&#x27;s the goal exactly? I&#x27;d say the risk of recidivism is about nil, so it&#x27;s not about protecting society from him, or about rehabilitation. So the goal must be to discourage others from committing similar offenses. Fair enough, but there must be a better and more efficient way to accomplish that than locking people in a compound for several years. In this case, the financial penalties imposed on the companies themselves seem like a more effective tool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vesinisa</author><text>From the article:<p>&gt; Mr. Schmidt did not identify any Volkswagen superiors who might have pressured him to lie to regulators.<p>I think the point here is refusal to co-operate with prosecutors. They wanted to know who at Volkswagen told him to lie, and they would have been happy to let him off the hook if he co-operated. He refused, essentially continuing to demonstrate his loyalty to VW and thus perpetuating his complicity in the criminal justice process of the very crime he was now convicted of. He failed to demonstrative effective repentance, and now must serve as warning example to other white collar criminals.</text></comment> | <story><title>Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/business/oliver-schmidt-volkswagen.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tempestn</author><text>It&#x27;s good that people are being held accountable, but I&#x27;m unsure that prison is an effective mechanism here (or for many other crimes, for that matter). I mean, what&#x27;s the goal exactly? I&#x27;d say the risk of recidivism is about nil, so it&#x27;s not about protecting society from him, or about rehabilitation. So the goal must be to discourage others from committing similar offenses. Fair enough, but there must be a better and more efficient way to accomplish that than locking people in a compound for several years. In this case, the financial penalties imposed on the companies themselves seem like a more effective tool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SturgeonsLaw</author><text>We&#x27;ve had decades of soft touch corporate fines that haven&#x27;t done shit to curb bad behaviour (see: banks), those punishments are utterly ineffective.<p>Giving execs who order criminal acts jail time will be far more effective. Just you watch - VW will absolutely colour between the lines now.<p>It&#x27;s easy to gamble when it&#x27;s the house&#x27;s money on the table, but when the instigators face real punishment they&#x27;ll sharpen right up.</text></comment> |
21,848,812 | 21,848,752 | 1 | 2 | 21,848,310 | train | <story><title>Consumers who sought cash settlement from Equifax probably won't get full $125</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/19/court-awards-80-million-to-consumer-attorneys-in-equifax-case.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrosett</author><text>This headline is dishonest. I’m not getting my $125 because the settlement fund is dramatically too small. It looks like I’ll get about $6. If the attorneys got absolutely nothing, that number would be maybe $8. So attorney fees are &lt;2% of the shortfall.<p>I’m not pumped that Equifax is getting off for less than a half billion or that the attorneys are getting a big chunk of that. (It’s hard to say how much they should get, to be honest) But when I see a bullshit headline I have to call it out.<p>By the way, they based the $125 on the assumption that almost everyone would take the worthless credit monitoring option.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>okcando</author><text>What I find especially bothersome is that their resolution has, in practice, only cost their victims more.<p>Because the time needed to fill out that form and provide the documents will have been worth more than the payout, if one ever comes, for just about anyone who bothered to do it.<p>Not at all satisfactory.</text></comment> | <story><title>Consumers who sought cash settlement from Equifax probably won't get full $125</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/19/court-awards-80-million-to-consumer-attorneys-in-equifax-case.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrosett</author><text>This headline is dishonest. I’m not getting my $125 because the settlement fund is dramatically too small. It looks like I’ll get about $6. If the attorneys got absolutely nothing, that number would be maybe $8. So attorney fees are &lt;2% of the shortfall.<p>I’m not pumped that Equifax is getting off for less than a half billion or that the attorneys are getting a big chunk of that. (It’s hard to say how much they should get, to be honest) But when I see a bullshit headline I have to call it out.<p>By the way, they based the $125 on the assumption that almost everyone would take the worthless credit monitoring option.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dannyw</author><text>Credit monitoring, * offered by Equifax *, should not be legitimate restitution.<p>It’s like Apple’s MacBooks blowing up and a judge ruling Apple can give iCloud storage as compensation.</text></comment> |
23,113,940 | 23,114,101 | 1 | 2 | 23,112,866 | train | <story><title>Finland to abandon school subjects in favour of phenomenon-based learning (2016)</title><url>https://curiousmindmagazine.com/goodbye-subjects-finland-taking-revolution-education-step/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>netjiro</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen test numbers where the top 5% group learn around 5-10x faster than the 50% group. The numbers hold for short term recall, long term recall, problem solving, critical and creative thinking, etc.<p>There is no way &quot;school&quot; can equalise this. There is no reason to keep stuffing everyone in one box.</text></item><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>The problem stems from trying to make a one-size-fits-all solution. You can never fit everyone into the same box, but people like simple solutions so we keep trying.<p>In the 2nd grade, I had a teacher who recognized potential in some of her students and separated them from the rest of the class to engage in self-directed learning. There were three of us chosen. I achieved grade 5 level proficiency in a number of subjects, while the smartest kid reached grade 7 in almost all of them. The following year, I changed schools, and spent the next 3 years re-doing the same boring shit over and over. My protestations were countered with &quot;Well, if you&#x27;ve already done it, then it should be easy to do it again!&quot; I learned my lesson, and my grades from that point on slipped from straight As to the minimum required to pass. I&#x27;d only apply myself when doing my own projects (mostly programming).<p>Like in anything else, if you want to see success, you need to hire teachers who can recognize and focus potential, and then give them the leeway to do so based on their good judgment.</text></item><item><author>tremguy</author><text>Finn here. Results have been negative on this so far, at least for students before high school [1]. Most children at that stage aren&#x27;t yet capable of self-directed learning. Problem is compounded by the distractive effect of digital equipment in class.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yle.fi&#x2F;uutiset&#x2F;osasto&#x2F;news&#x2F;finlands_digital-based_curriculum_impedes_learning_researcher_finds&#x2F;10514984" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yle.fi&#x2F;uutiset&#x2F;osasto&#x2F;news&#x2F;finlands_digital-based_cu...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danenania</author><text>I believe that in Japan, they deal with this disparity by asking the top students to help teach others in the class. It seems like an interesting approach in that teaching something well requires a much higher bar of understanding than doing well on a test, <i>and</i> it’s an excellent way to reinforce knowledge for the one doing the teaching.<p>So the top students get a more difficult challenge than just coasting along, and the other students benefit as well. And, of course, it promotes teamwork and solidarity.<p>I’m sure there are downsides too. Perhaps it could create tension between the “teacher’s pets” and the others?</text></comment> | <story><title>Finland to abandon school subjects in favour of phenomenon-based learning (2016)</title><url>https://curiousmindmagazine.com/goodbye-subjects-finland-taking-revolution-education-step/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>netjiro</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen test numbers where the top 5% group learn around 5-10x faster than the 50% group. The numbers hold for short term recall, long term recall, problem solving, critical and creative thinking, etc.<p>There is no way &quot;school&quot; can equalise this. There is no reason to keep stuffing everyone in one box.</text></item><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>The problem stems from trying to make a one-size-fits-all solution. You can never fit everyone into the same box, but people like simple solutions so we keep trying.<p>In the 2nd grade, I had a teacher who recognized potential in some of her students and separated them from the rest of the class to engage in self-directed learning. There were three of us chosen. I achieved grade 5 level proficiency in a number of subjects, while the smartest kid reached grade 7 in almost all of them. The following year, I changed schools, and spent the next 3 years re-doing the same boring shit over and over. My protestations were countered with &quot;Well, if you&#x27;ve already done it, then it should be easy to do it again!&quot; I learned my lesson, and my grades from that point on slipped from straight As to the minimum required to pass. I&#x27;d only apply myself when doing my own projects (mostly programming).<p>Like in anything else, if you want to see success, you need to hire teachers who can recognize and focus potential, and then give them the leeway to do so based on their good judgment.</text></item><item><author>tremguy</author><text>Finn here. Results have been negative on this so far, at least for students before high school [1]. Most children at that stage aren&#x27;t yet capable of self-directed learning. Problem is compounded by the distractive effect of digital equipment in class.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yle.fi&#x2F;uutiset&#x2F;osasto&#x2F;news&#x2F;finlands_digital-based_curriculum_impedes_learning_researcher_finds&#x2F;10514984" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yle.fi&#x2F;uutiset&#x2F;osasto&#x2F;news&#x2F;finlands_digital-based_cu...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bonoboTP</author><text>A curious kid can pace themselves along with a the rest just fine. Are the topics taught too long for your talent? Then dig deeper in each. Say, you&#x27;re learning about magnetism in physics class but you learn the requirements in half the time allocated. Then textbooks usually contain small print optional advanced topics or references, you can read additional stuff online maybe ask the teacher for further direction. Any topic has almost vast depth with specialists spending their career studying just a tiny section of it. You can never exhaust a topic. Don&#x27;t just skip ahead to the next lesson as that will make things boring but engage each more deeply.<p>The reason to stuff everyone in one box is socialization. A group of students subjected to shared experiences will develop community and solidarity easier than every individual student bouncing in their own special way in the system.<p>It has even been observed that people can bond over a shared meal better than if everyone eats their own different food.<p>Overall a huge huge part of school is about socializing, with fellow students or against fellow students, obeying and rebelling against teachers, being honest or cheating to copy your homework, the dynamics of bullying and protecting from bullies, snitching on others or lying to protect minor wrongdoers, feeling guilt when you made the wrong decision, feeling proud for the right decision, discovering the difference of rules and morals, of friendship and togetherness and betrayal and loyalty, of acting tough or showing compassion, of romance and heartbreak, etc. So many lessons that aren&#x27;t taught by teachers explicitly or asked on a test. But these add up to a stable individual later on who can draw from a rich well of experiences for later reference, even in adulthood. You can do a lot of low risk experimentation at that age. If people become atomized, dropped into a class full of almost strangers in each subject, there is no way to develop group dynamics of the above sort. Maybe you can do some of it with your sports team but you spend much less time with them than with a shared class.</text></comment> |
41,353,472 | 41,353,495 | 1 | 3 | 41,352,997 | train | <story><title>Uber loses New Zealand appeal, court rules drivers are employees not contractors</title><url>https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/uber-loses-landmark-appeal-court-rules-drivers-are-employees-not-contractors/JDXF52QBBBHPJIQJNFNGYC4JOE/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jpollock</author><text>Employees might not get to claim the cost of their car (loan and depreciation), but contractors will. Healthcare doesn&#x27;t come into it, NZ has government provided healthcare.<p>While you don&#x27;t get vacation, you get to claim a lot of expenses.<p>In New Zealand, it&#x27;s pretty much &quot;at-will&quot; anyways, with the cost of removing an employee typically being 3-months wages.<p>Personally, being a contractor was much more profitable than being an employee, even if I was on the same wage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber loses New Zealand appeal, court rules drivers are employees not contractors</title><url>https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/uber-loses-landmark-appeal-court-rules-drivers-are-employees-not-contractors/JDXF52QBBBHPJIQJNFNGYC4JOE/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yedava</author><text>The primary &quot;innovation&quot; of Uber is political, not technological. They&#x27;ve managed to circumvent labor protections and at the same time position themselves as the middleman between drivers and riders.<p>In another Universe, a technology company would develop software that taxi companies can use to provide the same services that Uber does. But that wouldn&#x27;t be as profitable as there wouldn&#x27;t be scope for labor exploitation.</text></comment> |
25,344,126 | 25,344,160 | 1 | 2 | 25,344,001 | train | <story><title>Rebekah Jones' house raided at gunpoint</title><url>https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1336065787900145665</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>detaro</author><text>large previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25339510" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25339510</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rebekah Jones' house raided at gunpoint</title><url>https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1336065787900145665</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andyjohnson0</author><text>Context:<p><i>&quot;The Florida department of law enforcement confirmed they had entered Jones’s house on a search warrant. But in a statement the department said the action was related to a recent computer hack of the health department website, in which emergency response coordinators were sent an unauthorised message.&quot;</i><p>...<p><i>&quot;[Jones] told CNN she had come to the conclusion that the raid had been motivated by a desire to root out her source within the state bureaucracy, which is why police took away her phone. “On my phone is every communication I have ever had with someone who works with the state who has come to me in confidence and told me things that could get them fired,” she said.&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;dec&#x2F;07&#x2F;florida-police-raid-data-scientist-coronavirus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;dec&#x2F;07&#x2F;florida-poli...</a></text></comment> |
10,068,222 | 10,068,017 | 1 | 2 | 10,067,475 | train | <story><title>A 61-year-old hotel that has never had a guest</title><url>http://fortune.com/2015/08/11/hotel-italy-no-guests/?xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_FORTUNE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>This is just par for the course in China. It is all about money laundering and not real mismanagement, the reasons are all &quot;unclear&quot; because these buildings are not built to be actually used...lots of corners are cuts and pockets are padded. So having an excuse not to open works out, and places the inevitable outrage into the next or next next administration.</text></comment> | <story><title>A 61-year-old hotel that has never had a guest</title><url>http://fortune.com/2015/08/11/hotel-italy-no-guests/?xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_FORTUNE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scurvy</author><text>Reminds me of the Prora, a weird Nazi hotel compound on the Baltic Sea that was never finished: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amusingplanet.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;01&#x2F;the-10000-bedroom-nazi-hotel-that-was.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amusingplanet.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;01&#x2F;the-10000-bedroom-nazi-...</a></text></comment> |
18,731,930 | 18,731,933 | 1 | 3 | 18,729,224 | train | <story><title>Gluten Free Antarctica</title><url>https://idlewords.com/2018/12/gluten_free_antarctica.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nradov</author><text>One of my colleagues is a vegetarian. He went on a business trip to Texas and his associates took him out for dinner at a steak house. After reading the menu he asked the waitress, &quot;Do you have anything that isn&#x27;t meat?&quot; She thought for a moment and cheerfully replied &quot;We have chicken!&quot;</text></item><item><author>wanderfowl</author><text>As a vegetarian (by ethical choice, not medical necessity), I do my best not to lose sight of the simple fact that <i>I&#x27;m</i> the problem here. When I walk into a steakhouse with my carnivorous wife, they&#x27;re helping me out by finding something to put in my stomach. If I&#x27;m on a camping trip, I&#x27;m bringing my own food, or doing my best to make it fair to folks who are helping me out. And if I&#x27;m visiting for dinner, I try to make it clear that I&#x27;m happy to scavenge sides, you don&#x27;t need to do something special for me. Because, again, my self-made diet choices are not your problem, but mine.<p>Celiac is real, folks who have it should be cut a break, and in my experience, folks who actually <i>cannot</i> eat gluten are just trying to make things work, rather than being a dick about it.<p>But deeply screw people like this lady who make a voluntary diet choice who use it as an excuse to bully others and make people cater to them. They trivialize people&#x27;s actual medical needs, breed a culture of &quot;Yeah, sure lady, there&#x27;s no gluten&quot;, work against whatever cause they&#x27;re in favor of, and largely, they&#x27;re why we can&#x27;t have nice things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themodelplumber</author><text>That is funny. I had a kind of opposite experience, when I was struggling with a bad reaction to gluten. My wife and I went to a burger joint in Utah called &quot;Mooyah&quot; where I ordered a burger on a gluten-free bun. As soon as those words left my mouth, the cashier asked, &quot;allergy or preference?&quot;<p>Stunned and wondering if I was being criticized, I said &quot;allergy&quot; only to learn that if you say that, they have to clean all possible traces of gluten off of their equipment before they make your burger.<p>&quot;Allergy!&quot; Then the action started. As I watched two employees vigorously wipe down all this stuff just to make one burger, I felt alternately shocked, amazed, well-served, and embarrassed. Others in the restaurant looked at me like I was from another planet.<p>Anyway, that was one of the best gluten-free buns I&#x27;ve ever tasted.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gluten Free Antarctica</title><url>https://idlewords.com/2018/12/gluten_free_antarctica.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nradov</author><text>One of my colleagues is a vegetarian. He went on a business trip to Texas and his associates took him out for dinner at a steak house. After reading the menu he asked the waitress, &quot;Do you have anything that isn&#x27;t meat?&quot; She thought for a moment and cheerfully replied &quot;We have chicken!&quot;</text></item><item><author>wanderfowl</author><text>As a vegetarian (by ethical choice, not medical necessity), I do my best not to lose sight of the simple fact that <i>I&#x27;m</i> the problem here. When I walk into a steakhouse with my carnivorous wife, they&#x27;re helping me out by finding something to put in my stomach. If I&#x27;m on a camping trip, I&#x27;m bringing my own food, or doing my best to make it fair to folks who are helping me out. And if I&#x27;m visiting for dinner, I try to make it clear that I&#x27;m happy to scavenge sides, you don&#x27;t need to do something special for me. Because, again, my self-made diet choices are not your problem, but mine.<p>Celiac is real, folks who have it should be cut a break, and in my experience, folks who actually <i>cannot</i> eat gluten are just trying to make things work, rather than being a dick about it.<p>But deeply screw people like this lady who make a voluntary diet choice who use it as an excuse to bully others and make people cater to them. They trivialize people&#x27;s actual medical needs, breed a culture of &quot;Yeah, sure lady, there&#x27;s no gluten&quot;, work against whatever cause they&#x27;re in favor of, and largely, they&#x27;re why we can&#x27;t have nice things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwmeback</author><text>In a certain episode[1] of a Polish TV dating show, one of the contestants said their favourite fish is a fillet &quot;because you can buy it anywhere&quot;.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yS3gsxAkBDk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yS3gsxAkBDk</a></text></comment> |
22,186,545 | 22,186,562 | 1 | 2 | 22,185,752 | train | <story><title>Santa Cruz decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms</title><url>https://abcnews.go.com/US/santa-cruz-decriminalizes-psychedelic-mushrooms/story?id=68611065</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>krohling</author><text>Super excited to see this. If you live in California please head on over to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.decrimca.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.decrimca.org&#x2F;</a>
We&#x27;re working to get state wide decriminalization on the ballot in November and we need signatures! If you buy a button ($5) they&#x27;ll send you a petition sheet. There are also signature locations and volunteers in every county in the state.</text></comment> | <story><title>Santa Cruz decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms</title><url>https://abcnews.go.com/US/santa-cruz-decriminalizes-psychedelic-mushrooms/story?id=68611065</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>XPKBandMaidCzun</author><text>I just wished their was fairer representation online of impact on people&#x27;s lives when drugs get brought up. I never done drugs. But still, I suffered thanks to people who chose drugs as a way cope - and it&#x27;s soul sucking.<p>The problem with decriminalizing&#x2F;legalizing recreational drugs is its interpreted as officials of the state validating drugs as a coping skill.<p>In almost all cases, getting high is maladaptive coping style.<p>My anecdote from being raised by substance abusers: Makes you think you&#x27;re smart, maybe even makes you look competent to other people. Until you don&#x27;t have the drug anymore, in which case you&#x27;re left with an anxious person who can&#x27;t cope with difficult circumstances.<p>It&#x27;s excruciating to have to endure loved ones who become dependent on substances. It saps the energy out of you to deal with. Their brain is rewired to get high - at the expense of their social connections, family, reputation, and so on.<p>Suffering and enduring a drug abuser is a silent pain. The incentive for users to get high and for rehab clinics to make money show why the conversation is so lopsided.</text></comment> |
12,445,354 | 12,445,252 | 1 | 2 | 12,443,629 | train | <story><title>Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-raise-a-genius-lessons-from-a-45-year-study-of-super-smart-children/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pas</author><text>Knowing a few friends and other acquaintances with PhDs, all they have common is endurance and focus. They were not exceptionally creative, or apparently breathtakingly genius.<p>And I guess that&#x27;s why Google et al. likes to hire PhDs. They can take all kinds of shit, and endure. Get to the bottom of those problems even in the face of internal politics&#x2F;bureaucracy.</text></item><item><author>squigs25</author><text>Interesting read, but I have one major qualm about this.<p>There seems to be a confirmatory bias among the academic community that a measure of intellectual success can be found in the percentage of individuals who earn a PhD. Sure, it&#x27;s true that you need to be reasonably smart to earn a PhD, but I think that someone can have a lot of intellectual success (potentially just as much or maybe more) if they don&#x27;t earn a PhD.<p>I think you could even argue that, depending on the field of study, a PhD is the &quot;easy&quot; route for someone who is intellectually gifted - it&#x27;s a simply a continuation of what you have been doing. I would be more impressed by the intellectual who not only realizes that they can conduct their own independent research, but also has the creativity to come up with a use case that can improve and contribute to the world (and presumably, make a living doing so).<p>My point here is that, given two gifted cohorts, one which has a 45% PhD graduation rate and one which has a 50% PhD graduation rate, I don&#x27;t know that you can conclusively say that one is more gifted than the other without looking at other metrics associated with intellectual accomplishment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmoriarty</author><text><i>&quot;Godlike genius.. Godlike nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! I&#x27;ve failed my way to success.&quot;</i><p><pre><code> -- Thomas Edison
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<i>&quot;Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lives solely in my tenacity.&quot;</i><p><pre><code> -- Louis Pasteur
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<i>&quot;Men give me credit for genius; but all the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject on hand I study it profoundly.&quot;</i><p><pre><code> -- Alexander Hamilton</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-raise-a-genius-lessons-from-a-45-year-study-of-super-smart-children/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pas</author><text>Knowing a few friends and other acquaintances with PhDs, all they have common is endurance and focus. They were not exceptionally creative, or apparently breathtakingly genius.<p>And I guess that&#x27;s why Google et al. likes to hire PhDs. They can take all kinds of shit, and endure. Get to the bottom of those problems even in the face of internal politics&#x2F;bureaucracy.</text></item><item><author>squigs25</author><text>Interesting read, but I have one major qualm about this.<p>There seems to be a confirmatory bias among the academic community that a measure of intellectual success can be found in the percentage of individuals who earn a PhD. Sure, it&#x27;s true that you need to be reasonably smart to earn a PhD, but I think that someone can have a lot of intellectual success (potentially just as much or maybe more) if they don&#x27;t earn a PhD.<p>I think you could even argue that, depending on the field of study, a PhD is the &quot;easy&quot; route for someone who is intellectually gifted - it&#x27;s a simply a continuation of what you have been doing. I would be more impressed by the intellectual who not only realizes that they can conduct their own independent research, but also has the creativity to come up with a use case that can improve and contribute to the world (and presumably, make a living doing so).<p>My point here is that, given two gifted cohorts, one which has a 45% PhD graduation rate and one which has a 50% PhD graduation rate, I don&#x27;t know that you can conclusively say that one is more gifted than the other without looking at other metrics associated with intellectual accomplishment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wrp</author><text>I know a Chemistry professor whose favorite remark on this is, &quot;A PhD is a badge of endurance, not intelligence.&quot;</text></comment> |
13,288,265 | 13,284,828 | 1 | 3 | 13,282,630 | train | <story><title>Ways scientists use Slack</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/how-scientists-use-slack-1.21228</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VMG</author><text>&gt; Do they not bother to learn their tools, and set up simple mail filters?<p>You know the answer. They don&#x27;t, because they have actual work to do.</text></item><item><author>eschaton</author><text>I&#x27;m constantly amazed by professionals who complain about their email inbox. Do they not bother to learn their tools, and set up simple mail filters?<p>Mailing lists are actually one of the best collaboration tools available because:<p>(1) They can be, but don&#x27;t have to be, nearly real-time;<p>(2) The content comes to you, you don&#x27;t have to check it;<p>(3) They allow a full suite of content to be exchanged, if participants are willing to accept the overhead; and<p>(4) They&#x27;re straightforward to build tools atop, including archives, autoresponders, and various kinds of automation.<p>Realtime tools like IRC &amp; Zephyr and their awful browser-based clones like HipChat and Slack can be useful too, but should be treated as supplements, not primary.<p>Web forums aren&#x27;t quite as awful as browser-based chat, but they&#x27;re generally better treated as a front-end to a mailing list for people who don&#x27;t otherwise have access to a good mail client.<p>(Really, all of this would be even better served by NNTP instead of mailing lists, but almost nobody runs organizational NNTP servers and mail clients long ago dropped support for it.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>engi_nerd</author><text>But, I have work to do, too, and I have many rules set up for my inbox. I receive about 300 emails a day from automated processes and another 50 or so from actual people I am collaborating with. Without filtering I would drown in email. So the filtering makes me more effective at getting work done.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ways scientists use Slack</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/how-scientists-use-slack-1.21228</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VMG</author><text>&gt; Do they not bother to learn their tools, and set up simple mail filters?<p>You know the answer. They don&#x27;t, because they have actual work to do.</text></item><item><author>eschaton</author><text>I&#x27;m constantly amazed by professionals who complain about their email inbox. Do they not bother to learn their tools, and set up simple mail filters?<p>Mailing lists are actually one of the best collaboration tools available because:<p>(1) They can be, but don&#x27;t have to be, nearly real-time;<p>(2) The content comes to you, you don&#x27;t have to check it;<p>(3) They allow a full suite of content to be exchanged, if participants are willing to accept the overhead; and<p>(4) They&#x27;re straightforward to build tools atop, including archives, autoresponders, and various kinds of automation.<p>Realtime tools like IRC &amp; Zephyr and their awful browser-based clones like HipChat and Slack can be useful too, but should be treated as supplements, not primary.<p>Web forums aren&#x27;t quite as awful as browser-based chat, but they&#x27;re generally better treated as a front-end to a mailing list for people who don&#x27;t otherwise have access to a good mail client.<p>(Really, all of this would be even better served by NNTP instead of mailing lists, but almost nobody runs organizational NNTP servers and mail clients long ago dropped support for it.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>verletx64</author><text>Set it up once, get more value out of your email. It&#x27;s a quick job, it&#x27;s not going to come close to derailing their work.</text></comment> |
18,093,178 | 18,093,148 | 1 | 2 | 18,092,653 | train | <story><title>Introducing Workers KV</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-workers-kv/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zackbloom</author><text>The question I would ask is: once you have the ability to run code and store data on the network itself (which Cloudflare effectively is), why do you need an origin at all?</text></item><item><author>chrisweekly</author><text>This is really cool.
Webapps are basically programs that are executed across the network; having fine-grained control over what happens at each layer (client, client service worker, edge nodes, proxy server, origin server) means more choices and complexity, but also so much more power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manigandham</author><text>You work for Cloudflare so that&#x27;s a fun question but realistically there are still plenty of limitations. The script size, number of routes, KV consistency, write limits, and simple get&#x2F;put API, etc.<p>It can work for simple apps but there&#x27;s a long way to go before any serious enterprise system will be hosted entirely on a FaaS system like Workers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing Workers KV</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-workers-kv/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zackbloom</author><text>The question I would ask is: once you have the ability to run code and store data on the network itself (which Cloudflare effectively is), why do you need an origin at all?</text></item><item><author>chrisweekly</author><text>This is really cool.
Webapps are basically programs that are executed across the network; having fine-grained control over what happens at each layer (client, client service worker, edge nodes, proxy server, origin server) means more choices and complexity, but also so much more power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>One write per second, per key plus eventually consistent does limit the functionality a bit.<p>You&#x27;re right for some use cases though.</text></comment> |
28,689,992 | 28,690,002 | 1 | 2 | 28,689,570 | train | <story><title>Selecting and Hardening Remote Access VPN Solutions [pdf]</title><url>https://media.defense.gov/2021/Sep/28/2002863184/-1/-1/0/CSI_SELECTING-HARDENING-REMOTE-ACCESS-VPNS-20210928.PDF</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WatchDog</author><text>A lot of warnings against TLS based VPN solutions.
I imagine these solutions are popular because they are more likely to function through corporate firewalls, where IPsec might be blocked.<p>Unsurprisingly no mention of wireguard, as it&#x27;s not FIPS.
However, unless you need FIPS compliance, it seems like the way to go these days.</text></comment> | <story><title>Selecting and Hardening Remote Access VPN Solutions [pdf]</title><url>https://media.defense.gov/2021/Sep/28/2002863184/-1/-1/0/CSI_SELECTING-HARDENING-REMOTE-ACCESS-VPNS-20210928.PDF</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>implying</author><text>Strange how this implies that the end-all-be-all of VPNs is IPsec. I would&#x27;ve loved to hear their opinion on wireguard and this generation of mesh VPNs</text></comment> |
3,098,292 | 3,097,701 | 1 | 2 | 3,097,105 | train | <story><title>"Hello World" in Dart, compiled to JavaScript</title><url>https://gist.github.com/1277224</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devin</author><text>Not desperate graspers? Try and count the number of libraries and frameworks that have come out in the last 5 years for JavaScript. Think of how many "to JS" solutions there are. Seriously, google that. Like 20? 25? How much "to C" solutions do you see getting on the front page of Hacker News these days?<p>It's staggering how much 'grasping' has been happening compared to other ecosystems. It's ironic that people would scoff at a well-designed replacement like Dart in its early stages. The only reason it's fashionable to do so is because it's Google. If this was some independent developer everyone would be falling over themselves to dig in.<p>"Oh, notch of Minecraft fame played a role? Count me <i>in</i>."<p>The mob mentality of the programming community at-large is worthy of being called despicable if only for creating precisely these sorts of regularly-scheduled circle-jerk bash sessions. The sessions I'm referring to involve "smarter than you" ass hats who walk around dumping on anything that doesn't "feel" right to them. If you want to "feel" good, go elsewhere. This is about moving the web forward.<p>Dear Internet, kindly get your head out of your ass.</text></item><item><author>cdata</author><text>"...given that they should be grasping for any chance to leave the warty and dated pile of compromises that is Javascript behind..."<p>I would not characterize the JavaScript community as desperate graspers, but even so, I don't see the virtue in grasping for the chance to replace a dated pile of compromises with a contemporary pile of compromises. All the hate is totally overblown - this project is young and will likely improve a lot over time - but that doesn't change the fact that what we've seen of this project so far places it squarely in the category of 'novelty.'</text></item><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>So the joke is that a prototype of a whole separate language has to include its runtime in its cross-compiled output? Did people... think this wouldn't be the case? Do they think that Javascript is not thousands of lines of C/C++ lurking in your browser?<p>Good joke guys, but I don't think you realize which way the punchline is pointing...<p>It sort of amazes me that people are being so hard on Dart, given that they should be grasping for <i>any chance</i> to leave the warty and dated pile of compromises that is Javascript behind. Even the javascript community seems to tacitly admit that Javascript is a bit of diamond amongst a whole lot of dross; hence CoffeeScript and books like "Javascript: The Good Parts".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tripzilch</author><text>Wow. What I'm seeing so far is the people critical being entirely reasonable (if perhaps misinformed), and the people defending Dart being positively <i>hostile</i> about it, calling "circle-jerk" left and right.<p>This post takes the cake in hostility, so far, though.<p>And what's it need defending for? Some people try to discuss the merits and flaws in a reasoned manner. The childish behaviour you speak of is entirely yours.</text></comment> | <story><title>"Hello World" in Dart, compiled to JavaScript</title><url>https://gist.github.com/1277224</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devin</author><text>Not desperate graspers? Try and count the number of libraries and frameworks that have come out in the last 5 years for JavaScript. Think of how many "to JS" solutions there are. Seriously, google that. Like 20? 25? How much "to C" solutions do you see getting on the front page of Hacker News these days?<p>It's staggering how much 'grasping' has been happening compared to other ecosystems. It's ironic that people would scoff at a well-designed replacement like Dart in its early stages. The only reason it's fashionable to do so is because it's Google. If this was some independent developer everyone would be falling over themselves to dig in.<p>"Oh, notch of Minecraft fame played a role? Count me <i>in</i>."<p>The mob mentality of the programming community at-large is worthy of being called despicable if only for creating precisely these sorts of regularly-scheduled circle-jerk bash sessions. The sessions I'm referring to involve "smarter than you" ass hats who walk around dumping on anything that doesn't "feel" right to them. If you want to "feel" good, go elsewhere. This is about moving the web forward.<p>Dear Internet, kindly get your head out of your ass.</text></item><item><author>cdata</author><text>"...given that they should be grasping for any chance to leave the warty and dated pile of compromises that is Javascript behind..."<p>I would not characterize the JavaScript community as desperate graspers, but even so, I don't see the virtue in grasping for the chance to replace a dated pile of compromises with a contemporary pile of compromises. All the hate is totally overblown - this project is young and will likely improve a lot over time - but that doesn't change the fact that what we've seen of this project so far places it squarely in the category of 'novelty.'</text></item><item><author>KirinDave</author><text>So the joke is that a prototype of a whole separate language has to include its runtime in its cross-compiled output? Did people... think this wouldn't be the case? Do they think that Javascript is not thousands of lines of C/C++ lurking in your browser?<p>Good joke guys, but I don't think you realize which way the punchline is pointing...<p>It sort of amazes me that people are being so hard on Dart, given that they should be grasping for <i>any chance</i> to leave the warty and dated pile of compromises that is Javascript behind. Even the javascript community seems to tacitly admit that Javascript is a bit of diamond amongst a whole lot of dross; hence CoffeeScript and books like "Javascript: The Good Parts".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cdata</author><text>I'll take the alleged mob mentality over Google elitism any day of the week. Google can try to move the web any direction it feels is appropriate - it's Google's time, it's Google's money - but let's be clear: JavaScript is not as deficient as you might think it is, and the JavaScript community is not dumb to expect more than what Dart has offered so far (in an admittedly short span of time).<p>"There are just two kinds of languages: the ones everybody complains about and the ones nobody uses."<p>Probably over-quoted these days, but I think we all know where JavaScript falls.</text></comment> |
12,230,994 | 12,231,048 | 1 | 2 | 12,230,740 | train | <story><title>Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine Says Farewell</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/torrentz-shuts-down-largest-torrent-meta-search-engine-says-farewell-160805/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dineshp2</author><text>The reason piracy is so popular is because it is free and because it&#x27;s incredibly convenient, in that order.<p>The convenience factor is basically, if you want some content (movie, game) it&#x27;s a simple search and download away (streaming torrents seem to be gaining traction). No legal alternative offers this level of convenience.<p>I suspect piracy will become harder for the average user due to three letter agencies making life harder for pirates, but it won&#x27;t stop the determined ones.<p>Speaking of determined torrenters, Peter Sunde, the founder of TPB had something interesting to say about torrent aggregators being shut down [1]. The idea is that even though downloading torrents itself is p2p, finding the magnet links is still centralized and that is an area that needs to be decentralized.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;torrentfreak.com&#x2F;pirate-bay-founder-piracy-scene-needs-innovation-160726&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;torrentfreak.com&#x2F;pirate-bay-founder-piracy-scene-nee...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>It&#x27;s much, much more than that. It&#x27;s the only way to get an acceptable product.<p><i>I have ALSO pirated everything I ever bought until very recently.</i><p>DVDs included region forcing, and forced, unskippable adverts and copyright notices. Netflix, .mkvs and .mp4s just have the programme and titles.<p>Usually someone, somewhere, has put effort into making a good quality rip saving me the time doing so, along with synchronised and corrected subtitles.<p>For games, the major studios still feel annoying and restrictive copy protection is the way to go. I don&#x27;t want a £30 game that requires me juggling collections of plastic disks, or an always on net connection to a licensing server they may turn off in a year or two anyway. So the noCD, no licensing server release is a <i>necessary</i> download for me. I tend to mostly buy GOG and independent studios putting out DRM free things these days. EU IV being about the only exception I can think of in the last 2 years.<p>I&#x27;m not a fan of being data mined on how often and how far I read ebooks, listen to audiobooks. So first thing on buying a new ebook from Amazon is rip the protection to read it on my non-amazon reader. First thing to do with an audible book is convert to mp3. If either of those became unfeasible or impossible <i>I would stop buying.</i><p>Finally for music, we&#x27;ve had attempts with copy protections and Sony rootkits, but mostly my music collection is complete and they gave up on silly DRM attempts. I only need to rip new stuff that&#x27;s not available in FLAC.</text></comment> | <story><title>Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine Says Farewell</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/torrentz-shuts-down-largest-torrent-meta-search-engine-says-farewell-160805/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dineshp2</author><text>The reason piracy is so popular is because it is free and because it&#x27;s incredibly convenient, in that order.<p>The convenience factor is basically, if you want some content (movie, game) it&#x27;s a simple search and download away (streaming torrents seem to be gaining traction). No legal alternative offers this level of convenience.<p>I suspect piracy will become harder for the average user due to three letter agencies making life harder for pirates, but it won&#x27;t stop the determined ones.<p>Speaking of determined torrenters, Peter Sunde, the founder of TPB had something interesting to say about torrent aggregators being shut down [1]. The idea is that even though downloading torrents itself is p2p, finding the magnet links is still centralized and that is an area that needs to be decentralized.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;torrentfreak.com&#x2F;pirate-bay-founder-piracy-scene-needs-innovation-160726&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;torrentfreak.com&#x2F;pirate-bay-founder-piracy-scene-nee...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianN</author><text>The legal alternatives just don&#x27;t have the content I&#x27;d like to see. The Netflix catalog for example contains maybe one out of ten movies I&#x27;m looking for, whereas it is easy to find even obscure movies using torrents. If you like older or less popular movies you&#x27;re generally out of luck. At best you can find a DVD, but that won&#x27;t work for movies that weren&#x27;t even released in your region.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why it is so hard for the studios to offer their whole catalog online and let me download a movie for a buck or two. Add the possibility for user-submitted subtitles and you have an excellent competitor to piracy.</text></comment> |
2,862,332 | 2,862,293 | 1 | 3 | 2,861,980 | train | <story><title>Leaky (YC S11) is Hipmunk for Car Insurance</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/yc-backed-leaky-is-hipmunk-for-car-insurance/#yc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joelmichael</author><text>There is actually another company that has this concept: CoverHound. I'm one of the co-founders. We started a few months before Leaky.<p>We went through the AngelPad incubator during the Winter 2011 class. TechCrunch covered us in a little blurb at the time. Since then we've received VC funding and have built out our team a little bit.<p>There's no publicly available pricing API for insurance carriers yet, so I'm curious as to how Leaky comes up with their numbers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lacker</author><text>I don't think it's really the same concept. On Leaky, you type in your information once, and then they show you insurance quotes. Whereas CoverHound just gives me links to insurance companies' websites, and then I have to fill out my information on each of those websites. If I were you guys, I would switch to the Leaky model, because it seems a lot easier for the user to only type in their information once.</text></comment> | <story><title>Leaky (YC S11) is Hipmunk for Car Insurance</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/yc-backed-leaky-is-hipmunk-for-car-insurance/#yc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joelmichael</author><text>There is actually another company that has this concept: CoverHound. I'm one of the co-founders. We started a few months before Leaky.<p>We went through the AngelPad incubator during the Winter 2011 class. TechCrunch covered us in a little blurb at the time. Since then we've received VC funding and have built out our team a little bit.<p>There's no publicly available pricing API for insurance carriers yet, so I'm curious as to how Leaky comes up with their numbers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerrya</author><text>I greatly appreciate you will help me find insurance that protects my car from alien abduction. Does that cover me, my passengers, and cow, or is it just for the vehicle itself? :)<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/B9zdt.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/B9zdt.png</a>
<a href="http://coverhound.com/" rel="nofollow">http://coverhound.com/</a></text></comment> |
16,309,168 | 16,308,374 | 1 | 3 | 16,306,744 | train | <story><title>OpenSC2K – An Open Source Remake of SimCity 2000</title><url>https://github.com/rage8885/OpenSC2K</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>I don&#x27;t think &quot;bad faith&quot; and &quot;slimy&quot; should really apply to 24 year old game assets.<p>I value useful creation much higher than dated intellectual property. Or in other words, I do not support long-tail profit and control of any creative work.</text></item><item><author>chungy</author><text>EA is actively selling SimCity 2000 at least on GOG.com. With that in mind, I think there can be no real gesture of goodfaith on the author&#x27;s part.<p>It&#x27;s lazy, maybe just the &quot;easy way&quot; to do it in the beginning, but when the game is being actively sold, it&#x27;s also slimy.</text></item><item><author>willvarfar</author><text>Its very questionable to include the assets. The bottom of the readme says:<p>&gt; Includes assets and graphics extracted from the original SimCity 2000 Special Edition CD. These assets are NOT covered by the GNU General Public License used by this project and are copyright EA &#x2F; Maxis. I&#x27;m including these assets in the hope that because the game has been made freely available at various points in time by EA, and because it&#x27;s 24 years old as of publishing this project that no action will be taken. Long story short, please don&#x27;t sue me! Long term, I plan to add functionality to extract assets from the original game files within this project.<p>The normal way for these open-source engines work is to insist that the users get the artwork from another source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>&gt; should<p>I suspect virtually all of us here agree that copyright terms are too long, but this still looks like wilful copyright infringement.<p>Not that it would make any difference if EA stopped selling it on GOG. The idea of &#x27;abandonware&#x27; has absolutely zero legal standing, as far as I&#x27;m aware.<p>Other games companies have been very unaccommodating about this kind of thing before, even when game assets weren&#x27;t used - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chrono_Resurrection" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chrono_Resurrection</a></text></comment> | <story><title>OpenSC2K – An Open Source Remake of SimCity 2000</title><url>https://github.com/rage8885/OpenSC2K</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>I don&#x27;t think &quot;bad faith&quot; and &quot;slimy&quot; should really apply to 24 year old game assets.<p>I value useful creation much higher than dated intellectual property. Or in other words, I do not support long-tail profit and control of any creative work.</text></item><item><author>chungy</author><text>EA is actively selling SimCity 2000 at least on GOG.com. With that in mind, I think there can be no real gesture of goodfaith on the author&#x27;s part.<p>It&#x27;s lazy, maybe just the &quot;easy way&quot; to do it in the beginning, but when the game is being actively sold, it&#x27;s also slimy.</text></item><item><author>willvarfar</author><text>Its very questionable to include the assets. The bottom of the readme says:<p>&gt; Includes assets and graphics extracted from the original SimCity 2000 Special Edition CD. These assets are NOT covered by the GNU General Public License used by this project and are copyright EA &#x2F; Maxis. I&#x27;m including these assets in the hope that because the game has been made freely available at various points in time by EA, and because it&#x27;s 24 years old as of publishing this project that no action will be taken. Long story short, please don&#x27;t sue me! Long term, I plan to add functionality to extract assets from the original game files within this project.<p>The normal way for these open-source engines work is to insist that the users get the artwork from another source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meddlepal</author><text>That&#x27;s fine, but when you get sued into oblivion don&#x27;t come complaining that you didn&#x27;t know it wasn&#x27;t OK.<p>Lobby for law changes if you don&#x27;t like the law.</text></comment> |
39,137,380 | 39,136,196 | 1 | 2 | 39,132,453 | train | <story><title>Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>&gt; Core Technology Fee — iOS apps distributed from the App Store and&#x2F;or an alternative app marketplace will pay €0.50 for each first annual install per year over a 1 million threshold.<p>Can&#x27;t imagine that flying with the EU...<p>The regulator will argue that the technology in the phone has already been paid for by the buyer of the hardware (which came with a license for iOS)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crowcroft</author><text>I’m paying how much to buy a phone from Apple, and then they also want to get paid every time I install something whether they’re involved or not? It’s none of their business what I want to do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>&gt; Core Technology Fee — iOS apps distributed from the App Store and&#x2F;or an alternative app marketplace will pay €0.50 for each first annual install per year over a 1 million threshold.<p>Can&#x27;t imagine that flying with the EU...<p>The regulator will argue that the technology in the phone has already been paid for by the buyer of the hardware (which came with a license for iOS)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mil22</author><text>They may not like it, but the question is: is it actually illegal under the new DMA regulations as they are currently written?<p>The DMA is 66 pages of legalese, otherwise I would have read it to find out:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&#x2F;legal-content&#x2F;EN&#x2F;TXT&#x2F;PDF&#x2F;?uri=CELEX:32022R1925" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&#x2F;legal-content&#x2F;EN&#x2F;TXT&#x2F;PDF&#x2F;?uri=CELE...</a></text></comment> |
36,901,608 | 36,901,143 | 1 | 2 | 36,900,388 | train | <story><title>Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/openai-not-open</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bick_nyers</author><text>I personally do not want the companies to release training data (at least for a while) because then it gives people leverage to neuter it.<p>I don&#x27;t want a sanitized LLM, and I don&#x27;t have $60M lying around to train my own.<p>Copyrighted material, sexual content, political opinions, throw it all in and release it please!<p>Yes, reducing bias in the models is a noble goal, but introducing new bias and blindspots to do it is a no-no.<p>Maybe I just got added to a list somewhere for having this opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>&gt; Copyrighted material, sexual content, political opinions, throw it all in and release it please!<p>Why copyrighted material? Could we stop celebrating how tech is going to steal everyone&#x27;s copyrighted works in a massive effort to replace the artists who made it? Why does everyone here hate artists so much? Do they not deserve any rights over their IP, eg, the right to say no when someone wants to make derivative works that replace them from it?</text></comment> | <story><title>Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/openai-not-open</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bick_nyers</author><text>I personally do not want the companies to release training data (at least for a while) because then it gives people leverage to neuter it.<p>I don&#x27;t want a sanitized LLM, and I don&#x27;t have $60M lying around to train my own.<p>Copyrighted material, sexual content, political opinions, throw it all in and release it please!<p>Yes, reducing bias in the models is a noble goal, but introducing new bias and blindspots to do it is a no-no.<p>Maybe I just got added to a list somewhere for having this opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kristopolous</author><text>We really need to somehow separate a bias towards accuracy as distinct from some bias towards say, a sports team.<p>Using everything would be like taking a bunch of students final exams and then claiming the most common answers are the correct ones.<p>This isn&#x27;t how expertise and accuracy works. Most things worth doing are not only genuinely hard and complicated but something that only a minority subset of accomplished people can do consistently well in.<p>Listening to everybody and incorporating their thoughts is only going to lead to wrong answers.<p>Being selective is the key here unless you genuinely want say, answers about to space to involve aliens and UFOs - because way more people believe in that then there are qualified PhD astrophysicists in the world.<p>Similarly, way more people believe in vaccine conspiracy theories then there are people with significant viral epidemiology backgrounds.<p>This pattern is true in every field.</text></comment> |
18,250,433 | 18,250,173 | 1 | 2 | 18,246,028 | train | <story><title>Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Could Replace Traffic Lights, Shorten Commutes</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/infrastructure/how-vehicletovehicle-communication-could-replace-traffic-lights-and-shorten-commutes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toast0</author><text>&gt; The principle behind the traffic light has hardly changed since the device was invented in 1912 and deployed in Salt Lake City, and two years later, in Cleveland. It works on a timer-based approach, which is why you sometimes find yourself sitting behind a red light at an intersection when there are no other cars in sight. The timing can be adjusted to match traffic patterns at different points in the commuting cycle, but that is about all the fine-tuning you can do, and it’s not much.<p>I guess these people never heard of common techniques to detect vehicles - in surface wire loops to detect inductance changes from a car or bicycle, and cameras. When the detectors are far enough back from the intersections, you have enough time to (safely) cycle the signal for lone cars in the middle of the night, without the car having to stop -- my experience with well tuned traffic controls was i would just need to take my foot off the accelerator, and the light would usually change to green before i would have started braking.<p>That works well in a grid based suburb, I understand Pittsburgh has a lot more constraints, but detectors are still useful, even if they&#x27;re only at the limit line.<p>Reading further:<p>&gt; It’s important to note that VTL technology needs no camera, radar, or lidar.<p>Yes, trusting the communications network, without verifying the situation sounds like a great idea. Just like I always hit the accelerator right when the light turns green, without regard to if the intersection is clear, or if there are any signs that any other vehicles are likely to pass through soon.<p>Sometimes, I feel like people working in the self-driving space, and the maps for driving space have never actually driven a vehicle on the road.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bobthepanda</author><text>They also don&#x27;t seem to care about other road users. The time cycles are a feature, not a bug, because you can&#x27;t use technology to speed up how quickly an old grandma with a walker walks across the street. Grade separating roads and pedestrians is very costly, and more importantly, not desirable, because humans are much less able to deal with grade changes than cars, and because underpasses and overpasses remove people from the &#x27;eyes and ears&#x27; of the street and create crevices for crime.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Could Replace Traffic Lights, Shorten Commutes</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/infrastructure/how-vehicletovehicle-communication-could-replace-traffic-lights-and-shorten-commutes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toast0</author><text>&gt; The principle behind the traffic light has hardly changed since the device was invented in 1912 and deployed in Salt Lake City, and two years later, in Cleveland. It works on a timer-based approach, which is why you sometimes find yourself sitting behind a red light at an intersection when there are no other cars in sight. The timing can be adjusted to match traffic patterns at different points in the commuting cycle, but that is about all the fine-tuning you can do, and it’s not much.<p>I guess these people never heard of common techniques to detect vehicles - in surface wire loops to detect inductance changes from a car or bicycle, and cameras. When the detectors are far enough back from the intersections, you have enough time to (safely) cycle the signal for lone cars in the middle of the night, without the car having to stop -- my experience with well tuned traffic controls was i would just need to take my foot off the accelerator, and the light would usually change to green before i would have started braking.<p>That works well in a grid based suburb, I understand Pittsburgh has a lot more constraints, but detectors are still useful, even if they&#x27;re only at the limit line.<p>Reading further:<p>&gt; It’s important to note that VTL technology needs no camera, radar, or lidar.<p>Yes, trusting the communications network, without verifying the situation sounds like a great idea. Just like I always hit the accelerator right when the light turns green, without regard to if the intersection is clear, or if there are any signs that any other vehicles are likely to pass through soon.<p>Sometimes, I feel like people working in the self-driving space, and the maps for driving space have never actually driven a vehicle on the road.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akira2501</author><text>&gt; have never actually driven a vehicle on the road.<p>More importantly, have never driven a _variety_ of vehicles down the road. I ride a motorcycle, it&#x27;s clear most of these plans have no concept of what that&#x27;s like.</text></comment> |
35,289,306 | 35,288,436 | 1 | 2 | 35,288,015 | train | <story><title>LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models</title><url>https://github.com/microsoft/LoRA</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>numlocked</author><text>For those wondering why this is interesting: This technique is being used to reproduce[0] the Alpaca results from Stanford[1] with a few hours of training on consumer-grade hardware.<p>I believe there will soon be a cottage industry of providing application-specific fine-tuned models like this, that can run in e.g. AWS very inexpensively. The barrier today seems to be that the base model (here, Meta&#x27;s LLaMA) is encumbered and can&#x27;t be used commercially. Someone will soon, I&#x27;m confident, release e.g. an MIT-licensed equivalent and we&#x27;ll all be off to the races.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tloen&#x2F;alpaca-lora">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tloen&#x2F;alpaca-lora</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crfm.stanford.edu&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;13&#x2F;alpaca.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crfm.stanford.edu&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;13&#x2F;alpaca.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models</title><url>https://github.com/microsoft/LoRA</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>runnerup</author><text>There’s a not insignificant intersection of projects and developers who might be using both LoRA and LoRa at the same time. What a terrible name collision. Hopefully this doesn’t become one of the foundational terms in AI that everyone must use frequently like “Transformer”.</text></comment> |
19,805,992 | 19,805,885 | 1 | 2 | 19,797,844 | train | <story><title>Everything Is Correlated</title><url>https://www.gwern.net/Everything</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ajuc</author><text>When the correlation is close to 0 it&#x27;s often because of a feedback loop.<p>For example - in economy with central bank trying to hit inflation target - interest rates and inflation will have near 0 correlation (interest rates change but inflation remains constant). That&#x27;s because central bank adjusts interest rates to counter other variables so that inflation remains near the target.<p>Other example (my favorite, it was mindblowing when my teacher showed it to us on econometrics as a warning :) ) - gas pedal and speed of a car driving on a hilly road. Driver wants to drive near the speed limit, so he adjusts the gas pedal to keep the speed constant. Simplistic conclusion would be - speed is constant despite the gas pedal position changing therefore they are unrelated :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Everything Is Correlated</title><url>https://www.gwern.net/Everything</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>limbicsystem</author><text>It is true that, as Fisher points out, with enough samples you are almost guaranteed to reject the null hypothesis. That&#x27;s why we tell students to consider both p values (which you could think of as a form of quality control on the dataset) and variance explained. Loftus and Loftus make the point nicely: p tells you if you have enough samples and any effect to consider, variance explained tells you if it&#x27;s worth pursuing. Both are useful guides to a thoughtful analysis. In addition, I&#x27;d make a case for thinking about the scientific significance and importance of the hypothesis and the Bayesian prior. And to put a positive spin on this, given how easy it is to get small p values, big ones are pretty much a red flag to stop the analysis and go and do something more productive instead.</text></comment> |
23,956,927 | 23,955,348 | 1 | 2 | 23,953,817 | train | <story><title>OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/07/openjdk-github-migration/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giomasce</author><text>It bothers me that they repeatedly write about a migration &quot;from Mercurial to GitHub&quot;, rather than &quot;from Mercurial to Git&quot;. It seems to imply that GitHub hosting is the only way to run Git.<p>It&#x27;s perfectly fine to say that they are moving to GitHub hosting, but not to put it on the same level as Mercurial: Mercurial and Git are applications&#x2F;protocols, while GitHub is a hosting service. You should compare application with application and hosting service with hosting service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krzyk</author><text>Well, actually there are two JEPs:<p>- Migrate from Mercurial to Git - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;357" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;357</a><p>- Migrate to GitHub - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;369" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;369</a><p>And also in JEP 369 at the and there is:<p>&gt; In order to prevent the Skara tooling from depending upon a particular provider&#x27;s API, support for multiple external providers has been a strict requirement from the beginning. <i>All of the tooling is also required to work with the open-source GitLab Community Edition</i> (GitLab CE).</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenJDK Migrates to GitHub</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/07/openjdk-github-migration/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giomasce</author><text>It bothers me that they repeatedly write about a migration &quot;from Mercurial to GitHub&quot;, rather than &quot;from Mercurial to Git&quot;. It seems to imply that GitHub hosting is the only way to run Git.<p>It&#x27;s perfectly fine to say that they are moving to GitHub hosting, but not to put it on the same level as Mercurial: Mercurial and Git are applications&#x2F;protocols, while GitHub is a hosting service. You should compare application with application and hosting service with hosting service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zbuf</author><text>I do enjoy and agree with the pedantry of your point, but it&#x27;s difficult to accept that, like many people, they _are_ moving to GitHub, and not Git.<p>GitHub is as much a tool here as Git itself.<p>Unfortunate really, as Git should be the panacea of distributed systems, open source. Instead we took that, centralised it all on a single big host, and became dependent on its proprietary features.<p>Still, these systems come and go. Remember SourceForge anyone?<p>But what probably differs today is that these modern services seem so much more complex they have an increasing gravity&#x2F;lock in effect.</text></comment> |
34,152,576 | 34,152,412 | 1 | 2 | 34,147,977 | train | <story><title>What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained</title><url>https://palant.info/2022/12/26/whats-in-a-pr-statement-lastpass-breach-explained/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bikeformind</author><text>Catastrophic breach after catastrophic breach since 2011. Lastpass has failed their fiduciary duty as a steward of sensitive information and IMO exhibited gross negligence in not encrypting URI data, ostensibly as a trade off for consumer functionality.<p>not to be overly vindictive, as I understand the near impossibility of running a perfectly secure service at absolutely enormous scale…but does anyone else feel LastPass should shut down the businesses, refund customers, and help them migrate to a new service? You are just not the organization for this job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I think the whole LastPass fiasco just shows why everyone wants to get into the SaaS business so bad - subscription revenue is the gift that keeps on giving.<p>LastPass has proven they have no business safekeeping anyone else&#x27;s credentials. Anyone who cares a modicum about their security will have migrated off. But migrating off is a HUGE pain (people will need hours to update hundreds of passwords), and LastPass&#x27;s announcement just days before Christmas was obviously done so that your average Joe would just miss it.<p>So LastPass will be able to continue collecting subscription revenue from users who were too busy or just not paying attention to the news, despite the fact that they really should be giving refunds to everyone who depended on their service.</text></comment> | <story><title>What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained</title><url>https://palant.info/2022/12/26/whats-in-a-pr-statement-lastpass-breach-explained/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bikeformind</author><text>Catastrophic breach after catastrophic breach since 2011. Lastpass has failed their fiduciary duty as a steward of sensitive information and IMO exhibited gross negligence in not encrypting URI data, ostensibly as a trade off for consumer functionality.<p>not to be overly vindictive, as I understand the near impossibility of running a perfectly secure service at absolutely enormous scale…but does anyone else feel LastPass should shut down the businesses, refund customers, and help them migrate to a new service? You are just not the organization for this job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>folkhack</author><text>&gt; Lastpass has failed their fiduciary duty<p>I get where you&#x27;re coming from, and ultimately agree. But I doubt anyone at LastPass on the business side agrees - to them this is just another PR snafu. The business continues to chug along regardless of how many catastrophic breaches they go through. I think they see these numerous issues as a cost of doing business vs. having a critical broken product offering.<p>Again I agree, but, I doubt they&#x27;re going to change their ways this late in the game.</text></comment> |
31,395,829 | 31,395,070 | 1 | 2 | 31,394,236 | train | <story><title>Delhi suffers at 49°C as heatwave sweeps India</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-61242341</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lammy</author><text>I really wish humanity would get serious about exploring geoengineering options to prevent mass suffering and death while we collectively work toward lowered emissions.<p>Freeman Dyson was talking about this even way back in 1979, echoed by Edward Teller (yes, <i>that</i> Edward Teller!) in 1997: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB877028953900981000" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB877028953900981000</a><p>Or in USAF&#x27;s 1996 presentation &quot;Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19970429012543&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.au.af.mil&#x2F;au&#x2F;2025&#x2F;volume3&#x2F;chap15&#x2F;vol3ch15.pdf#page=21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19970429012543&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.au.af....</a> (PDF)<p>There&#x27;s probably no way for us to publicly know the extent of what all has been considered or tested in secret, but it&#x27;s reassuring to me to see that there&#x27;s historical interest from groups who would have the clout and the means to actually do something about it. Even if we haven&#x27;t discovered a safe and workable sun-shielding technology that can be deployed widely, ruling out things that won&#x27;t work is an important step toward getting there. Maybe this can be the Space Force&#x27;s defining moment!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>It&#x27;s far cheaper and less disruptive to simply make a hurry with shutting down the burning of oil, gas, and coal. Simply stop burning the stuff. We no longer need to. We have alternatives. Plenty of them and they are still getting better. So, stop building more gas and coal plants. Start planning the decommissioning of the remaining ones. Like this decade and not in half a century. Legislate &amp; tax ICE vehicles out of existence. Get it done quickly.<p>India in particular is insisting on their right to build more coal plants and ramp up the amount of fossil fuels they burn over the next decade. The sense of urgency is a bit lacking over there. They feel entitled to helping destroy our planet. And you could argue it would be fair given other countries have done their part and continue doing so. But it&#x27;s our planet. Let&#x27;s stop destroying it instead. Cop 26 nearly got some broad agreement on this. Two notable countries that could not commit to this: India and China. Even the US was broadly OK with the timelines.<p>India is a likely ground zero for wet bulb heat events and other global warming related misery. Burning more coal is not going to help them. They&#x27;ll spend billions more on cleaning up the aftermath of that then they will save building those plants.<p>If we still need to do geo engineering &amp; terra forming after we get to net 0 carbon, we can do that of course. Those new SpaceX starships might help getting some hardware into orbit at scale. But short term it&#x27;s neither the cheap, fast, nor easy way out. Current ETA for net zero is around 2060. And that&#x27;s if everybody is on their best behavior. I think we could do better than that. We&#x27;re not trying anywhere near hard enough. Any carbon not added to our atmosphere is carbon we don&#x27;t have to remove or mitigate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Delhi suffers at 49°C as heatwave sweeps India</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-61242341</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lammy</author><text>I really wish humanity would get serious about exploring geoengineering options to prevent mass suffering and death while we collectively work toward lowered emissions.<p>Freeman Dyson was talking about this even way back in 1979, echoed by Edward Teller (yes, <i>that</i> Edward Teller!) in 1997: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB877028953900981000" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB877028953900981000</a><p>Or in USAF&#x27;s 1996 presentation &quot;Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19970429012543&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.au.af.mil&#x2F;au&#x2F;2025&#x2F;volume3&#x2F;chap15&#x2F;vol3ch15.pdf#page=21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19970429012543&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.au.af....</a> (PDF)<p>There&#x27;s probably no way for us to publicly know the extent of what all has been considered or tested in secret, but it&#x27;s reassuring to me to see that there&#x27;s historical interest from groups who would have the clout and the means to actually do something about it. Even if we haven&#x27;t discovered a safe and workable sun-shielding technology that can be deployed widely, ruling out things that won&#x27;t work is an important step toward getting there. Maybe this can be the Space Force&#x27;s defining moment!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sammalloy</author><text>The easiest first step is to start installing white roofs in urban areas. This should be national policy by now. It’s been four years since this policy was recommended and nothing has been done.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;e360.yale.edu&#x2F;features&#x2F;urban-heat-can-white-roofs-help-cool-the-worlds-warming-cities" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;e360.yale.edu&#x2F;features&#x2F;urban-heat-can-white-roofs-he...</a></text></comment> |
19,038,965 | 19,038,839 | 1 | 3 | 19,038,327 | train | <story><title>Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?</title><url>https://jarredsumner.com/codeblog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beezischillin</author><text>A lot of online communities today are unbearable tho as everything&#x27;s become so politicised. It started really wildly happening around 2013-2014 where no community was to remain a zone without some minority of users politicising it for attention. It was probably something that also happened before that but it somehow became really prevalent, at least. And often that took the fun out of it. I kind of think fondly of those times. Now of course this is just anecdotal, but that&#x27;s what I&#x27;ve experienced in most communities I used to frequent and perhaps lots of other people here did too.<p>In fact, it&#x27;s something I really appreciate here on HN, the tone of discussions is rather pleasant and on topic and it&#x27;s very rare to see people intentionally driving it into the ground, although in contrast to something like a Facebook group it&#x27;s a lot less personal.</text></item><item><author>cal5k</author><text>Jarred was probably young when the internet was first taking shape, and every generation shares the feeling that things were better in their youth (aka the Golden Age Fallacy).<p>The internet was a lot smaller and inhabited by curious nerds - to find similar fun and weirdness, just find a community today that shares those properties. Packet radio, infosec, crypto, gaming, music production, etc. - there&#x27;s plenty of weird and fun to be found if you look for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tenpies</author><text>I distinctly remember a discussion about Something Awful&#x27;s slogan (&quot;the internet makes you stupid&quot;) and how it was actually a keen observation about the internet. Pre-internet you would have people with really bad ideas. These people were so obvious to any normal person that bad thinkers generally shut up because sharing their bad ideas meant being socially ostracized or at least getting shunned.<p>But then you add the internet, and all these radically bad thinkers find each other and their ideas almost seem normal amongst their type. They not only normalize bad thinking, but they also push for even more radically bad thinking in an effort to out-do each other. End result, you end up with a vociferous contingent of town idiots who don&#x27;t realize they are town idiots because they only listen to fellow town idiots. Add advertising companies who function on a metrics-first approach, and those town idiots dictate how companies act.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?</title><url>https://jarredsumner.com/codeblog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beezischillin</author><text>A lot of online communities today are unbearable tho as everything&#x27;s become so politicised. It started really wildly happening around 2013-2014 where no community was to remain a zone without some minority of users politicising it for attention. It was probably something that also happened before that but it somehow became really prevalent, at least. And often that took the fun out of it. I kind of think fondly of those times. Now of course this is just anecdotal, but that&#x27;s what I&#x27;ve experienced in most communities I used to frequent and perhaps lots of other people here did too.<p>In fact, it&#x27;s something I really appreciate here on HN, the tone of discussions is rather pleasant and on topic and it&#x27;s very rare to see people intentionally driving it into the ground, although in contrast to something like a Facebook group it&#x27;s a lot less personal.</text></item><item><author>cal5k</author><text>Jarred was probably young when the internet was first taking shape, and every generation shares the feeling that things were better in their youth (aka the Golden Age Fallacy).<p>The internet was a lot smaller and inhabited by curious nerds - to find similar fun and weirdness, just find a community today that shares those properties. Packet radio, infosec, crypto, gaming, music production, etc. - there&#x27;s plenty of weird and fun to be found if you look for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weinzierl</author><text>&gt;It started really wildly happening around 2013-2014 where no community was to remain a zone without some minority of users politicising it for attention.<p>It was actually in September 2013 when it started ... or was it September 1993 ...? Uh, oh, how time flies, never mind.</text></comment> |
3,226,331 | 3,225,938 | 1 | 3 | 3,225,542 | train | <story><title>Fakecall: helping polite introverts stay productive</title><url>http://www.fakecall.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>headsclouds</author><text>Sorry to sound harsh, but this seems really silly to me (the concept, not the code which I'm not competent to comment on).<p>Be human, tell other people to fuck off when they are bothering you. End of story.<p>I find the lack of verbal communication skills among programmers/techies their biggest disability. Learn to talk to other people, you might notice the world will become a much easier place to function in.<p>Disclaimer: I was super-shy when I was younger, so I know what I'm talking about. I never went to these kinds of lengths to avoid talking to people though, this is crazy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crikli</author><text>You're not acknowledging some of the political realities of the work place that make such silliness necessary.<p>At my last job the IT guy, who had at some point been frightened by soap and had since managed to evade it in every form, would come and stand in front of my desk for as long as it took for me to acknowledge him. He could not be out-waited.<p>Thing is, he got his feeling tremendously hurt if you told him you didn't have time to talk to him, you were busy, etc. And next time you needed a server provisioned or something you were in for a long wait.<p>So my officemate and I wrote a very similar tool to the OPs that would place a call to our desk phones so that we could get out of these situations.<p>Silly? Absolutely. But 100% necessary given the personalities involved.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fakecall: helping polite introverts stay productive</title><url>http://www.fakecall.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>headsclouds</author><text>Sorry to sound harsh, but this seems really silly to me (the concept, not the code which I'm not competent to comment on).<p>Be human, tell other people to fuck off when they are bothering you. End of story.<p>I find the lack of verbal communication skills among programmers/techies their biggest disability. Learn to talk to other people, you might notice the world will become a much easier place to function in.<p>Disclaimer: I was super-shy when I was younger, so I know what I'm talking about. I never went to these kinds of lengths to avoid talking to people though, this is crazy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keiferski</author><text>Yes, thank you. Hiding behind silly web apps doesn't help anyone.<p>BUT, "telling people to fuck off" isn't much better. A polite "hey, I'm trying to get some stuff done, I'll be with you soon" is sufficient.</text></comment> |
12,253,677 | 12,252,687 | 1 | 3 | 12,251,958 | train | <story><title>How to Have Healthy Relationships as a Developer</title><url>http://smo.nu/how-to-have-healthy-relationships-as-a-developer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>owenversteeg</author><text>Personally, I don&#x27;t think that having healthy relationships as a developer is much different than having healthy relationships as anyone else. As with any other technical job, it can be hard to explain exactly what your job is, but a bit of humor and an ELI5-style explanation goes a long way.<p>One thing specific to programmers is the ability to whip up a little program to help people. Someone spends an hour every day retyping lower-case data in uppercase? Take ten seconds and write them a program. Someone complains how they always forget to shut down their computer and waste electricity? Write them a widget to shut it down at 1am each night.<p>When I take a bit of time to write programs for people I care about, people are usually very grateful and vastly overestimate the difficulty of whatever I just did. As always, relevant xkcd: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1425&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1425&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to Have Healthy Relationships as a Developer</title><url>http://smo.nu/how-to-have-healthy-relationships-as-a-developer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bowmessage</author><text>What&#x27;s it like to date &#x2F; be married to another programmer? I&#x27;ve always wondered if this would help or hinder the relationship.</text></comment> |
17,765,695 | 17,765,480 | 1 | 2 | 17,765,165 | train | <story><title>Intangible investment behaves differently</title><url>https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Capitalism-Without-Capital</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>losvedir</author><text><i>There are two assumptions you can make based on this chart. The first is still more or less true today: as demand for a product goes up, supply increases, and price goes down. If the price gets too high, demand falls.</i><p>Er, no. I guess even smart people like Gates get simple economics wrong sometimes. It&#x27;s understandable, though, I&#x27;ve always felt the P&#x2F;Q axes should be switched, since people always speak about the price as the independent variable.<p>He&#x27;s conflating the idea of pricing <i>along the line</i> with the demand line itself. Yes, at higher prices, less quantity is demanded and vice versa. Similarly, if you can sell the thing for a higher price, more people will be interested in and able to sell it, so the quantity available will increase, and vice versa.<p>However, &quot;supply&quot; and &quot;demand&quot; refer to the whole lines themselves, not points along the lines. Changing supply and demand means the lines shift. If &quot;demand for a product goes up&quot;, the demand line shifts to the right, the equilibrium quantity increases, but <i>so does the price</i>, the opposite of what he&#x27;s saying.<p>His misconception then leads to an even larger error in understanding with the next part:<p><i>The second assumption this chart makes is that the total cost of production increases as supply increases.</i><p>This is false. What it says is that with if the price you can get for a good is high there will be more suppliers. The canonical example is oil: when it sells for $20&#x2F;barrel, only Saudi Arabia and places with it easily accessible will be able to profitably drill for it, and so the quantity supplied will be low. But at $120&#x2F;barrel, you can now use fracking, deep water drilling, and other much more expensive processes, and so the quantity supplied will be higher.<p>Supply and demand is not about any <i>individual</i> producer producing more, and so it&#x27;s not particularly useful in analyzing the behavior of a single firm. It&#x27;s about the aggregate effect of multiple different parties, each with their own respective infrastructures and costs, profitably contributing to the supply (or not) at different price points.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intangible investment behaves differently</title><url>https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Capitalism-Without-Capital</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sytelus</author><text>When I first learned that software had a price during my very young years, I was in quite disbelief. Isn’t it just bunch of invisible bits? Can’t it be copied with almost zero cost? Why someone would pay for it anyway when kids like me can make it? It’s hard to charge money for things people can’t physically posses. In early years, almost all software companies employed a trick to design big attractive boxes with bit of goodies. When Gates wrote BASIC, many programmers themselves in the community didn’t thought <i>any</i> software was worth paying for. It has taken almost a generation to internalize that bits have price and we have got rid of most of those boxes finally.<p>On the side note, crypto currency is the new new intengible assets that is hard to internalize. Ironically, Gates has wrote them off as not worth calling them assets because they aren’t store of a value.</text></comment> |
34,660,488 | 34,659,513 | 1 | 2 | 34,657,478 | train | <story><title>I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month</title><url>https://simonberens.me/blog/i-hired-5-people</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tacotacotaco</author><text>Maybe I’m too cynical but it just seems performative. It seems like any number of YouTube videos where some financially well off influencer spends their money doing something awkward to attract views. And it worked. Here we are gawking at the latest stunt. Like and subscribe. Don’t forget to smash that bell. Check out my patreon for access to my Discord.</text></item><item><author>12345hn6789</author><text>I honestly cannot believe this. The porn part, the make me a smoothie request, dating dinners.<p>This guy seriously paid people to sit behind him and didn&#x27;t even think about them stealing his $1000 monitors until after the fact?<p>He didn&#x27;t try blocking any non productive sites? No productivity software? No pomadoro technique-esq focus methods?<p>This guy should have paid $88&#x2F;hour for therapy if we are being honest here</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway675309</author><text>Yeah, I had the same impression after reading the blog post, it very much felt like a performance art piece rather than a practical experiment with any quantifiably measurable takeaway since there&#x27;s no way this would be very financially sustainable as an actual applicable solution to the problem.<p>I think he could&#x27;ve saved a great deal of money by just going into a collaborative workspace environment.</text></comment> | <story><title>I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month</title><url>https://simonberens.me/blog/i-hired-5-people</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tacotacotaco</author><text>Maybe I’m too cynical but it just seems performative. It seems like any number of YouTube videos where some financially well off influencer spends their money doing something awkward to attract views. And it worked. Here we are gawking at the latest stunt. Like and subscribe. Don’t forget to smash that bell. Check out my patreon for access to my Discord.</text></item><item><author>12345hn6789</author><text>I honestly cannot believe this. The porn part, the make me a smoothie request, dating dinners.<p>This guy seriously paid people to sit behind him and didn&#x27;t even think about them stealing his $1000 monitors until after the fact?<p>He didn&#x27;t try blocking any non productive sites? No productivity software? No pomadoro technique-esq focus methods?<p>This guy should have paid $88&#x2F;hour for therapy if we are being honest here</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cactusplant7374</author><text>This is a guy that has a &quot;Date Me&quot; link on his website that links to a google form. He seems quite unique.</text></comment> |
12,905,454 | 12,905,517 | 1 | 3 | 12,905,265 | train | <story><title>Live Presidential Forecast</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/elections/forecast/president?1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rexxar</author><text>Nice but the three top gauges are moving suspiciously fast. Do they add a little random the the real number to give a sort of error margin visualisation ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_duke</author><text>I just checked.<p>They gauges moving around is definitely random.<p>The updates are done with a &quot;president.json&quot; file, fetched every 15 seconds, but the timestamp in the json data only changes every 30-180 seconds.<p>So all of the movement is just random jitter to make it engaging.<p>Maybe a bit disingenuous.<p>(Note: I first thought they might be using websockets, but no WS connection is made on the page. Only a ajax fetch of president.json)</text></comment> | <story><title>Live Presidential Forecast</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/elections/forecast/president?1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rexxar</author><text>Nice but the three top gauges are moving suspiciously fast. Do they add a little random the the real number to give a sort of error margin visualisation ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tinyyy</author><text>I think it&#x27;s an interesting way to represent uncertainty; it seems pretty intuitive to me.</text></comment> |
13,488,821 | 13,488,845 | 1 | 3 | 13,488,315 | train | <story><title>The internals of PostgreSQL</title><url>http://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elvinyung</author><text>A really cool paper to read is <i>The Design of POSTGRES</i> [1] by Stonebraker et al. It&#x27;s dated by its mentions of things like POSTQUEL, but it&#x27;s still really interesting to read about the early design of seminal features like the extensible ADT system, from a time when it was still innovative.<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;db.cs.berkeley.edu&#x2F;papers&#x2F;ERL-M85-95.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;db.cs.berkeley.edu&#x2F;papers&#x2F;ERL-M85-95.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The internals of PostgreSQL</title><url>http://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crudbug</author><text>I have been reading about Postgres architecture. The modular design enables - microkernel-like API where different languages can be integrated seamlessly.<p>The only thing, I am missing are incremental materialized views.</text></comment> |
19,691,740 | 19,690,999 | 1 | 2 | 19,680,826 | train | <story><title>Lessons from the Long Depression</title><url>http://www.coppolacomment.com/2019/04/lessons-from-long-depression.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrepd</author><text>Reading this sort of things is getting gradually more grating for me to read.<p>We organise ourselves in a system where: &quot;a world in which goods and services are so cheap to produce that less and less capital is required for investment, and so easy to produce that less and less labour is required to produce them&quot; is not a <i>life-transforming utopia</i>, but a catastrophe. The author constantly points this, points how growth in the &quot;long stagnation&quot; never materialised into better conditions and a better standard of living, and how that didn&#x27;t change until war came.<p>Yet he never ceases to operate in the same system and to try to find the answers <i>within</i> the system. It never even crosses his thought that... perhaps the fundamental tenets of the system should be changed, or at the very least questionable. All he does is find convoluted ways of patching the a broken system <i>from within the system</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;We organise ourselves in a system where: &quot;a world in which goods and services are so cheap to produce that less and less capital is required for investment, and so easy to produce that less and less labour is required to produce them&quot; is not a life-transforming utopia, but a catastrophe.&quot;<p>I understand - and sympathize with - your reaction.<p>However I have a suspicion that the authors stance is correct and, indeed, there is something catastrophic involved. If not due to the circumstances, then to our response to the circumstances (which, as you say, would <i>seem</i> to be heavenly).<p>If, however, you place stock in the notion that (most) humans find happiness and meaning and fulfillment in completing meaningful and valuable work, I think it starts to make sense.<p><i>You and I</i> might have the personal makeup - or find ourselves in a stage of generational or familial development - to find meaning and joy in a post-scarcity, post &quot;work&quot;, nuanced and refined existence. I like to think I do.<p>But I can imagine not having that makeup and while I might not be able to point to &quot;the absence of scarcity&quot; or &quot;not having meaningful work&quot; as my affliction, I think without a doubt <i>something</i> would be afflicting me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lessons from the Long Depression</title><url>http://www.coppolacomment.com/2019/04/lessons-from-long-depression.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrepd</author><text>Reading this sort of things is getting gradually more grating for me to read.<p>We organise ourselves in a system where: &quot;a world in which goods and services are so cheap to produce that less and less capital is required for investment, and so easy to produce that less and less labour is required to produce them&quot; is not a <i>life-transforming utopia</i>, but a catastrophe. The author constantly points this, points how growth in the &quot;long stagnation&quot; never materialised into better conditions and a better standard of living, and how that didn&#x27;t change until war came.<p>Yet he never ceases to operate in the same system and to try to find the answers <i>within</i> the system. It never even crosses his thought that... perhaps the fundamental tenets of the system should be changed, or at the very least questionable. All he does is find convoluted ways of patching the a broken system <i>from within the system</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>umadon</author><text>This article is better than most, in that its conclusion steps outside the bizarro world of platonically ideal economics and mentions, ye gads, history and politics. But even so, it&#x27;s worth nothing that the writer&#x27;s paycheck depends on an imagination constrained by current arrangements. Always useful to check a bio:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.financialsense.com&#x2F;contributors&#x2F;frances-coppola" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.financialsense.com&#x2F;contributors&#x2F;frances-coppola</a><p>Anyway seems like there&#x27;s a lot of these warnings from mainstream sources lately... and there&#x27;s a commensurate rise in seemingly leftish candidates, at least in the US.</text></comment> |
6,886,042 | 6,885,980 | 1 | 2 | 6,885,448 | train | <story><title>NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10/nsa-uses-google-cookies-to-pinpoint-targets-for-hacking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quesera</author><text>Please do post your research when it&#x27;s cooked. It sounds like useful stuff.<p>Firefox, ABE, NoScript, Request Policy, Ghostery, HTTPS-everywhere, hygiene.<p>The irony of my militant approach toward privacy is that I probably make myself more interesting to would-be eavesdroppers by my carefulness than I would if they could see it all -- I&#x27;m just not that interesting.<p>On the plus side, the LCD of legitimate-threat hostiles is greatly increased. I&#x27;m fairly boring even to neighbors and law enforcement and copyright holders and scam artists and advertisers. I imagine I&#x27;m pretty stultifying to nation-state actors. :)<p>Still, I&#x27;d like everyone else to join me so that I can get lost in the crowd. The untracked, encrypted, well-rested crowd.<p>Come on in, the water&#x27;s fine.</text></item><item><author>Smerity</author><text>There are two primary issues here: the prevalence of Google Analytics and the unencrypted nature of the majority of websites.<p>Google Analytics is on a substantial proportion of the Internet. 65% of the top 10k sites, 63.9% of the top 100k, and 50.5% of the top million[1]. My own partial results from a research project I&#x27;m doing using Common Crawl estimates approximately 39.7% of the 535 million pages processed so far have GA on them[2].<p>That means that you&#x27;re basically either on a site that has Google Analytics or you&#x27;ve likely just left one that did.<p>If the page you&#x27;re on has Google Analytics and isn&#x27;t encrypted, the Javascript request and response is in the clear. That JS request to GA also has your referrer in it, in the clear.<p>The aim of my research project is to end with understanding what proportion of links either start or end in a page with Google Analytics. If it starts with Google Analytics, your present &quot;location&quot; is known. If the link ends with Google Analytics, but doesn&#x27;t start with it, then when you reach that end page, the referrer sent to GA in the clear will state where you came from.
All of this is then tied to your identity.<p>If people are interested when I get the results of my research, ping me. I&#x27;ll also write it up and submit it to HN as it would seem to be of interest.<p>[1]: <a href="http://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Google-Analytics" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.builtwith.com&#x2F;analytics&#x2F;Google-Analytics</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkoIUmP5ma8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pkoIUmP5ma8</a> (GA specific results at 1:20)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdoering</author><text>Greetings. I nearly have the same policy, regarding surfing and my addons.<p>I would only advise against Ghostery, as they whitelist some trackers, if being paid. With every update I had to reselect these trackers.<p>And Evidon (Ghostery&#x27;s mothership) selling usageinformation really bugs me: <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/31/ghostery-a-web-tracking-blocker-that-actually-helps-the-ad-industry/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;07&#x2F;31&#x2F;ghostery-a-web-tracking-bl...</a><p>I would recommend the FF-addon Diconnect: <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disconnect/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;disconnect&#x2F;</a><p>Does anybody have an idea, how I could make my own sites secure in a relatively cheap way? Just a personal site with not that much traffic, so spending much money seems a bit off to me.<p>Ideas?</text></comment> | <story><title>NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10/nsa-uses-google-cookies-to-pinpoint-targets-for-hacking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quesera</author><text>Please do post your research when it&#x27;s cooked. It sounds like useful stuff.<p>Firefox, ABE, NoScript, Request Policy, Ghostery, HTTPS-everywhere, hygiene.<p>The irony of my militant approach toward privacy is that I probably make myself more interesting to would-be eavesdroppers by my carefulness than I would if they could see it all -- I&#x27;m just not that interesting.<p>On the plus side, the LCD of legitimate-threat hostiles is greatly increased. I&#x27;m fairly boring even to neighbors and law enforcement and copyright holders and scam artists and advertisers. I imagine I&#x27;m pretty stultifying to nation-state actors. :)<p>Still, I&#x27;d like everyone else to join me so that I can get lost in the crowd. The untracked, encrypted, well-rested crowd.<p>Come on in, the water&#x27;s fine.</text></item><item><author>Smerity</author><text>There are two primary issues here: the prevalence of Google Analytics and the unencrypted nature of the majority of websites.<p>Google Analytics is on a substantial proportion of the Internet. 65% of the top 10k sites, 63.9% of the top 100k, and 50.5% of the top million[1]. My own partial results from a research project I&#x27;m doing using Common Crawl estimates approximately 39.7% of the 535 million pages processed so far have GA on them[2].<p>That means that you&#x27;re basically either on a site that has Google Analytics or you&#x27;ve likely just left one that did.<p>If the page you&#x27;re on has Google Analytics and isn&#x27;t encrypted, the Javascript request and response is in the clear. That JS request to GA also has your referrer in it, in the clear.<p>The aim of my research project is to end with understanding what proportion of links either start or end in a page with Google Analytics. If it starts with Google Analytics, your present &quot;location&quot; is known. If the link ends with Google Analytics, but doesn&#x27;t start with it, then when you reach that end page, the referrer sent to GA in the clear will state where you came from.
All of this is then tied to your identity.<p>If people are interested when I get the results of my research, ping me. I&#x27;ll also write it up and submit it to HN as it would seem to be of interest.<p>[1]: <a href="http://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Google-Analytics" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.builtwith.com&#x2F;analytics&#x2F;Google-Analytics</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkoIUmP5ma8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pkoIUmP5ma8</a> (GA specific results at 1:20)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigiain</author><text>Idea: A service to allow people to anonymously &quot;share&quot; Google tracking cookies. Perhaps a local transparent proxy that MITMs all your cleartext Google requests, and re-writes the tracking codes on the fly, submitting the ones you&#x27;ve been given and retrieving other &quot;real&quot; ones from a service (probably a TOR hidden service?)</text></comment> |
6,440,841 | 6,440,791 | 1 | 3 | 6,440,461 | train | <story><title>Empty F-16 jet tested by Boeing and US Air Force</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24231077</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>narfquat</author><text><p><pre><code> The firm added that the flight attained 7Gs of acceleration but was capable
of carrying out manoeuvres at 9Gs - something that might cause physical problems
for a pilot.
</code></pre>
Wow, I guess this means they can push the machines to their mechanical limit without worrying about blackouts&#x2F;redouts&#x2F;etc. I wonder what kind of crazy maneuvers they can pull off without the biological factor?<p>Also: I&#x27;m not sure how I feel about a $15-18 million target dummy...<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ISL</author><text>You can save a lot of weight, iterate faster, undertake missions without concern for return, make big wins in the aerodynamic department, get improved situational awareness with strategically sited cameras, and more.<p>Of course, if someone can interfere with or hack your link with the aircraft, you&#x27;re hosed. If they can turn it around and attack you with it, it&#x27;s even worse.<p>That, and the Blue Angels will be far less romantic when there&#x27;s nobody at the helm of each finely-tuned airbreathing rocket.<p>Things change.<p>(Modern air-to-air missiles are $0.4-1.2M [1,2]. Modern war is expensive; we trade consuming lives at war for consuming economic output at home.)<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AIM-9_Sidewinder</a><p>[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-120_AMRAAM" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AIM-120_AMRAAM</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Empty F-16 jet tested by Boeing and US Air Force</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24231077</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>narfquat</author><text><p><pre><code> The firm added that the flight attained 7Gs of acceleration but was capable
of carrying out manoeuvres at 9Gs - something that might cause physical problems
for a pilot.
</code></pre>
Wow, I guess this means they can push the machines to their mechanical limit without worrying about blackouts&#x2F;redouts&#x2F;etc. I wonder what kind of crazy maneuvers they can pull off without the biological factor?<p>Also: I&#x27;m not sure how I feel about a $15-18 million target dummy...<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graupel</author><text>I got to fly back-seat in an F-16 once for 53 minutes and managed to handle a 9.2 G turn and I&#x27;m not a pilot or a drone. The first 10 minutes of the flight were amazing, the next 30 were incredible, the next 10 were meh, and the last 3 - well let&#x27;s just say I was happy to be back on the ground and leave it at that.</text></comment> |
3,121,650 | 3,121,134 | 1 | 2 | 3,120,894 | train | <story><title>Securing PHP</title><url>http://www.jamescun.com/2011/10/securing-php/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snorkel</author><text>What's missing from just about every PHP app and PHP framework is this bit of Apache config that prevents execution of trojan PHP scripts:<p><pre><code> &#60;Directory /var/www/website&#62;
# Only execute /index.php and no other PHP files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} .php$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ not_happening [L,F]
&#60;/Directory&#62;
# Remove other file types from PHP execution
RemoveHandler .phtml .php3
</code></pre>
This way attackers can upload whatever PHP file they want but they can't execute it though an Apache request.<p>What if the attacker names their trojan "index.php"? Doesn't matter, only top-level index.php of the site can be executed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Securing PHP</title><url>http://www.jamescun.com/2011/10/securing-php/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Udo</author><text>I see you marked the cURL functions as "dangerous", advising people to disable curl_exec and curl_multi_exec. This disables all apps that do HTTP requests (except those that communicate through the socket functions). Is there any particular reason why you consider cURL problematic?</text></comment> |
4,565,885 | 4,565,918 | 1 | 2 | 4,565,478 | train | <story><title>Google Spanner's Most Surprising Revelation: NoSQL is Out and NewSQL is In</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/24/google-spanners-most-surprising-revelation-nosql-is-out-and.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>It's really funny to watch tech journalists try to write about Google infrastructure from the outside, based only on one paper...<p>Hell, it's usually really funny just to watch tech journalists try to write.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Spanner's Most Surprising Revelation: NoSQL is Out and NewSQL is In</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/9/24/google-spanners-most-surprising-revelation-nosql-is-out-and.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sigil</author><text>Buzzword headline aside, the Spanner paper is great and worth your time. As is the BigTable paper, the Dremel paper, and the Paxos Made Live paper.<p>I read the Google whitepapers and wonder, is there anywhere else one can go to work on real solutions to distributed systems problems? At smaller scales you can cheat -- you don't need Paxos, you can get away with non-consensus-based master / slave failover. You can play the odds with failure modes. At Google's scale, you can't: behavior under normally unlikely failures matters, probability matters, CAP matters.</text></comment> |
7,511,256 | 7,510,931 | 1 | 3 | 7,510,659 | train | <story><title>Update on Coinbase Data Security</title><url>http://blog.coinbase.com/post/81407694500/update-on-coinbase-data-security</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>downandout</author><text>While not ideal, I think this is being blown out of proportion by someone that doesn&#x27;t like Coinbase. For starters, of the 2042 &quot;leaked&quot; emails, 1153 are unique. That means the person that posted it was trying to pad their results, which combined with the possible but unfounded FBI&#x2F;Fincen accusations, illustrates that someone is mad at Coinbase and is lashing out.<p>Enumeration isn&#x27;t a fantastic idea, but given its ubiquity in various forms on major sites throughout the internet, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s worthy of all of this negative attention directed specifically at Coinbase either. I once wrote a program that could take a list of random emails and use Facebook to turn it into a CSV matching each email to a name, a list of their friends, their location, and interests. That should have been scandalous, but it wasn&#x27;t.<p>We are acting as pawns in someone&#x27;s revenge scheme against Coinbase.</text></comment> | <story><title>Update on Coinbase Data Security</title><url>http://blog.coinbase.com/post/81407694500/update-on-coinbase-data-security</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yid</author><text>I&#x27;m curious why, given the prior reports of security issues at Coinbase and the ongoing drama with Mt Gox, you guys didn&#x27;t <i>immediately</i> hire, say, tptacek&#x27;s company to do extensive penetration testing and a full security audit. It appears that not all API calls were rate-limited, as they probably should have been, and there certainly doesn&#x27;t seem to be any sort of monitoring of brute-force attempts like this in place. With all the negative publicity around Bitcoin exchanges, you should have doubled down on security weeks ago, or at least explained the privacy tradeoffs in your design decisions clearly.</text></comment> |
21,379,082 | 21,379,315 | 1 | 3 | 21,378,197 | train | <story><title>AirPods Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rollinDyno</author><text>Can we talk about how smooth and beautiful the website is? I know, it&#x27;s Apple and their websites are always the same, but there&#x27;s always a tiny increment. This time it&#x27;s the woman adjusting the ANC by holding her Airpods. The way she fades in and the scroll controls her every movement and then fades out is just so smooth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unlinked_dll</author><text>It made it difficult for me to read the content, and lagged&#x2F;stuttered on my Macbook Pro. Not to mention taking up a whole screen for a single marketing sentence is obnoxious.<p>As someone who buys a lot of &quot;pro&quot; labeled audio gear, the only thing I care about is a bullet point list of specs. I&#x27;ve seen enough snake oil to ignore marketing materials for consumer audio products. But I get why Apple doesn&#x27;t do that off the bat, because they&#x27;re not trying to sell these to people like me.</text></comment> | <story><title>AirPods Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rollinDyno</author><text>Can we talk about how smooth and beautiful the website is? I know, it&#x27;s Apple and their websites are always the same, but there&#x27;s always a tiny increment. This time it&#x27;s the woman adjusting the ANC by holding her Airpods. The way she fades in and the scroll controls her every movement and then fades out is just so smooth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colonwqbang</author><text>I had the exact opposite reaction. I wanted to see how much the headphones cost. It took me what felt like 100 space bar presses to get to the purchase link, almost like the page didn&#x27;t really want me to order and was stalling for time.</text></comment> |
10,577,671 | 10,577,644 | 1 | 2 | 10,576,898 | train | <story><title>California’s DNA Law Violates Privacy Protections Guaranteed by State</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-court-californias-dna-collection-law-violates-privacy-protections-guaranteed</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hwstar</author><text>Here&#x27;s another interesting fact.<p>Once the arrested bit is set, it is immutable in the eyes of the State of California. Law enforcement knows if you have been arrested in the past even if the specific reasons are expunged at the request of the arrestee. Also, there&#x27;s a very narrow window to request that arrest records be expunged. If you are arrested and acquitted or the charges are dropped, get in contact with the court as soon as possible to make sure you are within the window.</text></comment> | <story><title>California’s DNA Law Violates Privacy Protections Guaranteed by State</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-court-californias-dna-collection-law-violates-privacy-protections-guaranteed</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t the state collect DNA from all newborns by law as well?<p>Now, I do see in principle why one would want one&#x27;s DNA profile removed if an arrest doesn&#x27;t result in conviction, but if the state already collects DNA at birth by law, would that not supercede these cases? Alternatively, the state could simply pass laws making retention from this input stream legal.</text></comment> |
28,676,665 | 28,676,794 | 1 | 2 | 28,676,468 | train | <story><title>IMGZ – Paid image sharing</title><url>https://imgz.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>statico</author><text>I&#x27;ve been hoping for an Imgur replacement for simple, hosted image sharing.<p>I&#x27;m happy to pay $1&#x2F;mo, but when I tried to upload <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;camo.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;9ec8d13de2878c899fda0bd43e4509d8eda0e59c686ff0c20b7b120176adb9b1&#x2F;68747470733a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f4e79677a6945642e676966" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;camo.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;9ec8d13de2878c899fda0bd43...</a> I got this, which doesn&#x27;t look like what I uploaded: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cln.sh&#x2F;4coS9T" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cln.sh&#x2F;4coS9T</a> &#x2F; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgz.org&#x2F;i5qphFzd.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgz.org&#x2F;i5qphFzd.gif</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stavros</author><text>Well that&#x27;s extremely odd, I will look into that right now.<p>EDIT: This is very odd, I&#x27;m not really doing any processing on the uploaded files, so it should definitely return the originals. I will have this fixed soon though.<p>EDIT2: Unfortunately, the saved image in the DB itself is corrupt, so you will need to reupload after I solve this.<p>EDIT3: Alright this should be fixed! Now I can start submitting animated GIFs there.<p>EDIT4: Ironically, now ONLY animated GIFs work, because 2am is when I do some of my best work. Stand by...</text></comment> | <story><title>IMGZ – Paid image sharing</title><url>https://imgz.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>statico</author><text>I&#x27;ve been hoping for an Imgur replacement for simple, hosted image sharing.<p>I&#x27;m happy to pay $1&#x2F;mo, but when I tried to upload <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;camo.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;9ec8d13de2878c899fda0bd43e4509d8eda0e59c686ff0c20b7b120176adb9b1&#x2F;68747470733a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f4e79677a6945642e676966" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;camo.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;9ec8d13de2878c899fda0bd43...</a> I got this, which doesn&#x27;t look like what I uploaded: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cln.sh&#x2F;4coS9T" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cln.sh&#x2F;4coS9T</a> &#x2F; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgz.org&#x2F;i5qphFzd.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgz.org&#x2F;i5qphFzd.gif</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>romwell</author><text>&gt;I&#x27;ve been hoping for an Imgur replacement for simple, hosted image sharing.<p>If you are willing to pay for things, then any good old web host + FTP are your friends.</text></comment> |
22,875,017 | 22,874,572 | 1 | 2 | 22,873,722 | train | <story><title>Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/04/wsl-2-general-availability/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chx</author><text>Well, if you want to use multimedia and do web development on the same machine, what are you going to do? Linux support is somewhere between nonexistent and utterly broken for the first one and the same can be said for the second on Windows. So your choices are, 1. run Linux primary, put Windows in a VM 2. run Windows primary and put Linux in a VM 3. Give up and just run a separate Linux server.</text></item><item><author>juped</author><text>WSL was very cool from a pure tech standpoint, but I&#x27;ve never been clear what the actual use case for it was. WSL2 seems to be more along the lines of coLinux, which I felt the same way about when it was new.</text></item><item><author>chx</author><text>I am giving up.<p>WSL1 was a great invention but Microsoft gave up on it, either because of the filesystem performance problems or because of the debuggers. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;WSL&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2028" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;WSL&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2028</a> (lldb, rr, delve all affected). This looks like a dreaded case of the first 90% is easy, it&#x27;s the second 90% that is hard. Imagine implementing a translator for a vast majority of Linux syscalls just to find certain flavors of ptrace are just not doable. I do not have insider knowledge to ascertain this happened but this would be my educated guess.<p>WSL2 is a VM like any other VM with an uncertain promise for better networking experience and even less certain promise for cross OS file performance which is much, much worse than WSL1 which was already abominable. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;WSL&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4197#issuecomment-604592340" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;WSL&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4197#issuecomment-60...</a><p>It was a very nice dream, pity it didn&#x27;t work out.<p>Because I am using an eGPU Windows 10 needs to stay as the primary OS on the laptop. I bought a little fanless machine from Aliexpress (with laptop-like hardware) for &lt;$300 USD it&#x27;ll be my home Linux server. What can one do?<p>I guess <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;VFIO&#x2F;comments&#x2F;am10z3&#x2F;success_thunderbolt_egpu_passthrough_on_dell_9560&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;VFIO&#x2F;comments&#x2F;am10z3&#x2F;success_thunde...</a> could be a solution if I wanted to go back to Linux primary but I really badly don&#x27;t want to. Constant hardware headaches were par for the course -- I was solely Linux 2004-2017. I don&#x27;t want to be again. If there would be a cheap remote sysadmin service... but it doesn&#x27;t exist. QuadraNet will sysop a server for $39 a month, that&#x27;d be awesome for a laptop... but I have never seen anyone doing that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davnn</author><text>What problems did you experience in web development on Windows? I worked with Linux, Mac and Windows, but I didn‘t have any problems on any platform with a typical modern webpack&#x2F;react&#x2F;angular&#x2F;typescript&#x2F;elm etc.. stack. Even docker support with Hyper-V is okay imho.</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/04/wsl-2-general-availability/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chx</author><text>Well, if you want to use multimedia and do web development on the same machine, what are you going to do? Linux support is somewhere between nonexistent and utterly broken for the first one and the same can be said for the second on Windows. So your choices are, 1. run Linux primary, put Windows in a VM 2. run Windows primary and put Linux in a VM 3. Give up and just run a separate Linux server.</text></item><item><author>juped</author><text>WSL was very cool from a pure tech standpoint, but I&#x27;ve never been clear what the actual use case for it was. WSL2 seems to be more along the lines of coLinux, which I felt the same way about when it was new.</text></item><item><author>chx</author><text>I am giving up.<p>WSL1 was a great invention but Microsoft gave up on it, either because of the filesystem performance problems or because of the debuggers. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;WSL&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2028" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;WSL&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2028</a> (lldb, rr, delve all affected). This looks like a dreaded case of the first 90% is easy, it&#x27;s the second 90% that is hard. Imagine implementing a translator for a vast majority of Linux syscalls just to find certain flavors of ptrace are just not doable. I do not have insider knowledge to ascertain this happened but this would be my educated guess.<p>WSL2 is a VM like any other VM with an uncertain promise for better networking experience and even less certain promise for cross OS file performance which is much, much worse than WSL1 which was already abominable. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;WSL&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4197#issuecomment-604592340" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;WSL&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4197#issuecomment-60...</a><p>It was a very nice dream, pity it didn&#x27;t work out.<p>Because I am using an eGPU Windows 10 needs to stay as the primary OS on the laptop. I bought a little fanless machine from Aliexpress (with laptop-like hardware) for &lt;$300 USD it&#x27;ll be my home Linux server. What can one do?<p>I guess <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;VFIO&#x2F;comments&#x2F;am10z3&#x2F;success_thunderbolt_egpu_passthrough_on_dell_9560&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;VFIO&#x2F;comments&#x2F;am10z3&#x2F;success_thunde...</a> could be a solution if I wanted to go back to Linux primary but I really badly don&#x27;t want to. Constant hardware headaches were par for the course -- I was solely Linux 2004-2017. I don&#x27;t want to be again. If there would be a cheap remote sysadmin service... but it doesn&#x27;t exist. QuadraNet will sysop a server for $39 a month, that&#x27;d be awesome for a laptop... but I have never seen anyone doing that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theevilsharpie</author><text>The Linux multimedia story improves significantly if you avoid Nvidia GPU hardware. My work desktop (AMD Radeon) and laptop (Intel HD Graphics) work fine, and perform as the hardware should.</text></comment> |
12,499,738 | 12,496,591 | 1 | 2 | 12,494,998 | train | <story><title>Pardon Snowden</title><url>https://www.pardonsnowden.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RRRA</author><text>If you fear signing this, _and don&#x27;t_, you really don&#x27;t understand long risk mitigation and are just preparing yourself to be scared even more in the long run.<p>Just like privacy doesn&#x27;t exist without others, signing this will at least help by giving strength, and privacy, in numbers.<p>Leaving this resistance alone, as if they were some heroes you respect but won&#x27;t stand by, is really a cowardly way of being anti society and skipping your citizen duty.<p>First they came for them, etc... You know how it ends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heimatau</author><text>Morality is difficult to stand up for. Civil rights was tough to fight for (still is). The right to privacy and govt transparency in the face of tyranny is another of those difficult battles.<p>Let&#x27;s be like the founders and stand up to our government [1].<p>[1] List of quotes:<p>- The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.&quot; --Patrick Henry<p>- &quot;Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.&quot; --George Washington<p>- &quot;Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.&quot; --William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783</text></comment> | <story><title>Pardon Snowden</title><url>https://www.pardonsnowden.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RRRA</author><text>If you fear signing this, _and don&#x27;t_, you really don&#x27;t understand long risk mitigation and are just preparing yourself to be scared even more in the long run.<p>Just like privacy doesn&#x27;t exist without others, signing this will at least help by giving strength, and privacy, in numbers.<p>Leaving this resistance alone, as if they were some heroes you respect but won&#x27;t stand by, is really a cowardly way of being anti society and skipping your citizen duty.<p>First they came for them, etc... You know how it ends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benmcnelly</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what long risk mitigation is, but I&#x27;m offended. &#x2F;s<p>But seriously, nobody at the NSA is going to place* you on a watch list because you are part of a small vocal minority that raised support online for Snowden, a wanted traitor and saboteur of the USA.<p>*There is however a good chance that the money grubbing bastards at one of the third party contractors the NSA eats up reports and analytics from will profile you into something you are not (or lets face it, you are) and that will be ingested into our intelligence pipeline.</text></comment> |
27,213,311 | 27,212,818 | 1 | 3 | 27,211,583 | train | <story><title>Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-previews-powerful-software-updates-designed-for-people-with-disabilities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tolbish</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure how much that definition holds water. Am I disabled if I&#x27;m temporarily not able to do cognitive work?</text></item><item><author>robin_reala</author><text>Actually, that’s an important point. A person with an occupied hand is still disabled, but it’s a situational disability rather than a temporary or permanent one. Disability is society’s inability to cater to specific needs, rather than a physical state.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>This is really good stuff, even for abled people. For example, being able the use the watch one-handed is great if your other hand is occupied, like carrying something.<p>(The reason I still wear a watch at all is so I can see the time without having to dig the phone out of my pocket and turn it on, which is hopeless while driving.)<p>Just like although I can hear, I use closed-captioning when I don&#x27;t wish to disturb others, or when watching a show at high speed (I can read faster than I can understand speech).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wittyreference</author><text>Yes.<p>As a physician, I wish more folks appreciated that “disability” is a property of the relationship between a person and their environment, and can emerge (or disappear) based on changes in that persons capability as well as changes in their environment.<p>For an obvious example: a patient with reversible heart failure can’t walk without severe shortness of breath today, but they can in three months. Today they need disabled parking; three months from now they do not.</text></comment> | <story><title>Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-previews-powerful-software-updates-designed-for-people-with-disabilities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tolbish</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure how much that definition holds water. Am I disabled if I&#x27;m temporarily not able to do cognitive work?</text></item><item><author>robin_reala</author><text>Actually, that’s an important point. A person with an occupied hand is still disabled, but it’s a situational disability rather than a temporary or permanent one. Disability is society’s inability to cater to specific needs, rather than a physical state.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>This is really good stuff, even for abled people. For example, being able the use the watch one-handed is great if your other hand is occupied, like carrying something.<p>(The reason I still wear a watch at all is so I can see the time without having to dig the phone out of my pocket and turn it on, which is hopeless while driving.)<p>Just like although I can hear, I use closed-captioning when I don&#x27;t wish to disturb others, or when watching a show at high speed (I can read faster than I can understand speech).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shadowoflight</author><text>Yes, and if we as a society were more accepting of these types of situational disabilities, workplaces would be much healthier.</text></comment> |
19,980,419 | 19,980,212 | 1 | 3 | 19,979,977 | train | <story><title>Europe says 737 Max won't fly until it completes it own design review</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/europe-says-737-max-won-t-fly-until-its-design-review-complete</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aromasin</author><text>Things are certainly looking bullish for Airbus in the aftermath of this.</text></item><item><author>hu3</author><text>A slap in the face to the comments that were dismissing concerns as overreactions and stating that 737-MAX would return to operation shortly. Not in EU at least.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philjohn</author><text>There was an interesting Mentour Pilot about this, essentially the lead time for a new airplane order is in the order of years, and there are other costs as well. If you&#x27;ve built your business around one specific type of jet it&#x27;s costly to move to the competitors, which is why the &quot;no type rating change&quot; was so important for the max.<p>Perhaps for future large orders this may be a boon for Airbus, but that would be in the longer medium term, and a lot can happen between then and now.<p>As it is, having two large companies trading blows is better than one dominating the market, so I hope Boeing are humbled, have a root and branch overhaul of how they conduct business, and shareholders take a hit, but that they survive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Europe says 737 Max won't fly until it completes it own design review</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/europe-says-737-max-won-t-fly-until-its-design-review-complete</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aromasin</author><text>Things are certainly looking bullish for Airbus in the aftermath of this.</text></item><item><author>hu3</author><text>A slap in the face to the comments that were dismissing concerns as overreactions and stating that 737-MAX would return to operation shortly. Not in EU at least.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mimixco</author><text>And they just extended the range of the A220.</text></comment> |
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