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34,757,037 | 34,756,870 | 1 | 3 | 34,756,156 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Log collector that runs on a $4 VPS</title><url>https://github.com/Nevin1901/erlog</url><text>Hey guys, I&#x27;m building erlog to try and solve problems with logging. While trying to add logs to my application, I couldn&#x27;t find any lightweight log platform which was easy to set up without adding tons of dependencies to my code, or configuring 10,000 files.<p>ErLog is just a simple go web server which batch inserts json logs into an sqlite3 server. Through tuning sqlite3 and batching inserts, I find I can get around 8k log insertions&#x2F;sec which is fast enough for small projects.<p>This is just an MVP, and I plan to add more features once I talk to users. If anyone has any problems with logging, feel free to leave a comment and I&#x27;d love to help you out.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Dachande663</author><text>I’ve found the hard part is not so much the collection of logs (especially at this scale), but the eventual querying. If you’ve got an unknown set of fields been logged, queries very quickly devolve into lots of slow table scans or needing materialised views that start hampering your ingest rate.<p>I settled on a happy&#x2F;ok midpoint recently whereby I dump logs in a redis queue using filebeat as it’s very simple. Then have a really simple queue consumer that dumps the logs into clickhouse using a schema Uber detailed (split keys and values), so queries can be pretty quick even over arbitrary fields. 30,00 logs an hour and I can normally search for anything in under a second.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Log collector that runs on a $4 VPS</title><url>https://github.com/Nevin1901/erlog</url><text>Hey guys, I&#x27;m building erlog to try and solve problems with logging. While trying to add logs to my application, I couldn&#x27;t find any lightweight log platform which was easy to set up without adding tons of dependencies to my code, or configuring 10,000 files.<p>ErLog is just a simple go web server which batch inserts json logs into an sqlite3 server. Through tuning sqlite3 and batching inserts, I find I can get around 8k log insertions&#x2F;sec which is fast enough for small projects.<p>This is just an MVP, and I plan to add more features once I talk to users. If anyone has any problems with logging, feel free to leave a comment and I&#x27;d love to help you out.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unxdfa</author><text>I see your idea but you could drop the JSON and use rsyslogd + logrotate + grep? You can grep 10 gig files on a $5 VPS easily and quickly! I can&#x27;t speak for a $4 one ;)</text></comment> |
32,853,295 | 32,851,287 | 1 | 3 | 32,849,922 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Discord banned me with no recourse</title><text>I recently tried to make a separate work account in Discord.
To do so I created a new account with my main accounts phone number. This caused discord to delete my primary account phone number and used it for the new account.<p>However, this alone caused me to be instantly banned.
After reaching out to support, they basically told that me I could not use my present phone number for verification and that they couldn&#x27;t tell me why, and couldn&#x27;t help me further with that.<p>I would really like to keep my primary Discord account, is there anything I can do about it?<p>I have contacted Discord support through their ticket system twice, I have contacted Discord on Twitter (DM); but to no avail</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>moss2</author><text>Another idea would be legislature. Have these online public spaces serve under the same laws as real-life public spaces (museums, parks et cetera).<p>If a town banned you from the train station because you refuse to give them your phone number, that would open them up to being sued. That should absolutely apply to Discord, Google Mail and Amazon AWS.</text></item><item><author>JonathanBeuys</author><text>I don&#x27;t get it.<p>We keep seeing these dystopian stories again and again and again. Does anybody really believe it will ever stop? Or will we all live in fear of losing a lot of work and valuable connections by being banned from one of our social accounts?<p>I already lost one Instagram account that I put a lot of work into. One day, Insta suddenly asked for my birthday. After me putting it in, all I saw is &quot;Sorry, this page isn&#x27;t available.&quot; and thats it. Whenever I try to log in, all I get is &quot;Sorry, this page isn&#x27;t available.&quot;. Some kind of ban or bug. I dunno. I never managed to get it back. Feels very 1984.<p>But when say &quot;Ok, let&#x27;s build social tools where the user owns their social graph via cryptographic proof&quot; then there is nothing but (blind?) hate.<p>Sometimes there are real discussions. Then the main argument is always &quot;But what if you lose your private key?&quot;<p>Well, we could build something like Discord (FB, Twitter, Insta, HN, you name it) where losing our private key throws us back to the current system. So if the platform owner (say a DAO) &quot;decides&quot; to deplatform you (say via a DAO vote) you can use your private key to prohibit it.<p>This way, you can only become deplatformed if the platform decides to deplatform you <i>AND</i> you lose your private key.<p>If you only lose your private key, then you can ask the platform to please transfer your account to a new private key. Then the usual authentification mechanisms (email, phone, id etc) kick in.<p>I could sleep way better if I knew that <i>two</i> have to mess up for me to lose my digital life. Me <i>and</i> the platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TuringNYC</author><text>&gt;&gt; If a town banned you from the train station because you refuse to give them your phone number, that would open them up to being sued.<p>Nice example you gave, because this literally happened between 2002 and 2015: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;No_Fly_List" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;No_Fly_List</a>
The No Fly List eventually swelled to close to a million people. There was no one entity you could sue, because airlines had their own algorithms for matching, so even if you werent on the list, but the algo fuzzy-matched you, you were effectively on the list. Matching names is notoriously bad. There was an ACLU lawsuit, but it was a much bigger effort than anything being described on this thread.<p>In summary: lawsuits against Government systems are slow and not necessarily something to aspire to as a better system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Discord banned me with no recourse</title><text>I recently tried to make a separate work account in Discord.
To do so I created a new account with my main accounts phone number. This caused discord to delete my primary account phone number and used it for the new account.<p>However, this alone caused me to be instantly banned.
After reaching out to support, they basically told that me I could not use my present phone number for verification and that they couldn&#x27;t tell me why, and couldn&#x27;t help me further with that.<p>I would really like to keep my primary Discord account, is there anything I can do about it?<p>I have contacted Discord support through their ticket system twice, I have contacted Discord on Twitter (DM); but to no avail</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>moss2</author><text>Another idea would be legislature. Have these online public spaces serve under the same laws as real-life public spaces (museums, parks et cetera).<p>If a town banned you from the train station because you refuse to give them your phone number, that would open them up to being sued. That should absolutely apply to Discord, Google Mail and Amazon AWS.</text></item><item><author>JonathanBeuys</author><text>I don&#x27;t get it.<p>We keep seeing these dystopian stories again and again and again. Does anybody really believe it will ever stop? Or will we all live in fear of losing a lot of work and valuable connections by being banned from one of our social accounts?<p>I already lost one Instagram account that I put a lot of work into. One day, Insta suddenly asked for my birthday. After me putting it in, all I saw is &quot;Sorry, this page isn&#x27;t available.&quot; and thats it. Whenever I try to log in, all I get is &quot;Sorry, this page isn&#x27;t available.&quot;. Some kind of ban or bug. I dunno. I never managed to get it back. Feels very 1984.<p>But when say &quot;Ok, let&#x27;s build social tools where the user owns their social graph via cryptographic proof&quot; then there is nothing but (blind?) hate.<p>Sometimes there are real discussions. Then the main argument is always &quot;But what if you lose your private key?&quot;<p>Well, we could build something like Discord (FB, Twitter, Insta, HN, you name it) where losing our private key throws us back to the current system. So if the platform owner (say a DAO) &quot;decides&quot; to deplatform you (say via a DAO vote) you can use your private key to prohibit it.<p>This way, you can only become deplatformed if the platform decides to deplatform you <i>AND</i> you lose your private key.<p>If you only lose your private key, then you can ask the platform to please transfer your account to a new private key. Then the usual authentification mechanisms (email, phone, id etc) kick in.<p>I could sleep way better if I knew that <i>two</i> have to mess up for me to lose my digital life. Me <i>and</i> the platform.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdrzn</author><text>This feels like the only way to move forward.<p>I can&#x27;t wait for EU to propose something similar to fix these kind of issues, or a minimum level of customer service per every thousand users.</text></comment> |
22,885,851 | 22,885,843 | 1 | 2 | 22,885,621 | train | <story><title>Coronavirus-afflicted global economy is almost certainly in recession</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-afflicted-global-economy-is-almost-certainly-in-recession-11586867402</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>analog31</author><text>Just reading the headline, what this means to me is that the &quot;world economy&quot; is doing a lot better than most of us are doing as individuals. I&#x27;m on a 25% furlough. Sales from my side business have dropped to zero. My other side job has dropped to zero. Among working people, I&#x27;m one of the lucky. My family actually has a little bit of money in the kitty.<p>&quot;The economy&quot; refers to a system that&#x27;s primarily designed to concentrate and protect private wealth, and a 3% loss of private wealth isn&#x27;t all that bad at all. The people who are really hurting have no wealth to lose.<p>I hope an outcome of this crisis is that we start to think about &quot;the economy&quot; in more humane terms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xvedejas</author><text>But when we&#x27;re measuring the &quot;world economy&quot; it&#x27;s not like we&#x27;re measuring the heights of the stacks of gold behind scrooge mcduck&#x27;s coffers, right? These numbers represent things like society&#x27;s ability to make products people want, and peoples&#x27; willingness to spend their savings on things that are useful (instead of stuffing it in their mattress). The effects on labor are terrible, and your furlough reflects that. I personally was recently laid off, and likewise many individuals are hit much harder than 3%. But it&#x27;s not like we should wish that other parts of the economy were hit as badly. None of it is good.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coronavirus-afflicted global economy is almost certainly in recession</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-afflicted-global-economy-is-almost-certainly-in-recession-11586867402</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>analog31</author><text>Just reading the headline, what this means to me is that the &quot;world economy&quot; is doing a lot better than most of us are doing as individuals. I&#x27;m on a 25% furlough. Sales from my side business have dropped to zero. My other side job has dropped to zero. Among working people, I&#x27;m one of the lucky. My family actually has a little bit of money in the kitty.<p>&quot;The economy&quot; refers to a system that&#x27;s primarily designed to concentrate and protect private wealth, and a 3% loss of private wealth isn&#x27;t all that bad at all. The people who are really hurting have no wealth to lose.<p>I hope an outcome of this crisis is that we start to think about &quot;the economy&quot; in more humane terms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdavis703</author><text>The GDP (i.e. “the economy”) is a measure of all goods &amp; services produced and consumed. Even if someone is paycheck to paycheck or hand to mouth, this means less goods and services they can make and consume.<p>If this response was about crashing financial markets the blasé tone would be OK (ignoring that many retirees rely on pensions or bank accounts tied to financial markets). But this is about the entire economy.</text></comment> |
17,722,444 | 17,721,254 | 1 | 3 | 17,720,526 | train | <story><title>Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021</title><url>http://rideuta.com/news/2018/08/UVX-Service-Starts-August-13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why road taxes aren&#x27;t used to pay for free public transport. The more people on public transport the more room for cars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bobthepanda</author><text>Free public transport is a can of worms; in general, free tends to attract walkers and bikers but not drivers, since price is not really how a car competes with public transport. And attracting walkers and bikers would probably be a negative. There&#x27;s also a negative cycle where some walkers and bikers will switch because the free service is good enough, so the services become overcrowded, so more service is provided and the increased frequencies make public transit even more attractive to walkers and bikers. So you end up increasing costs quite a bit with no increase in &quot;revenue&quot;.<p>There&#x27;s also the fact that in even moderately busy systems, the amount of fares collected is not insignificant. As an example, New York&#x27;s MTA: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;interactive.nydailynews.com&#x2F;project&#x2F;mta-funding&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;interactive.nydailynews.com&#x2F;project&#x2F;mta-funding&#x2F;</a><p>$6B out of $15B is quite a lot of money. Raising taxes to cover $6B in lost revenue would be quite the feat. And why wouldn&#x27;t that $6B be better put towards housing, or hospitals, or schools, or even better public transport services? It&#x27;s generally better to make services more useful, than to just make existing subpar service free.</text></comment> | <story><title>Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021</title><url>http://rideuta.com/news/2018/08/UVX-Service-Starts-August-13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why road taxes aren&#x27;t used to pay for free public transport. The more people on public transport the more room for cars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nasrudith</author><text>If it is anything like the situation in Pennsylvania I can see two causes - politics and representation of the rural and further-suburban disapproving of services &#x27;just for the city&#x27; and the current road taxes alone being insufficient. Free while great for adoption also has a bad revenue curve in the more people who adopt it the less money they make in addition to increased operation costs&#x2F;decreased quality from more crowding of the system. And then there are issues with metrics and success or failure. If public transit makes the road only need repaired every ten years instead of every notice its benefits may not be accounted properly or in a really bad case not even realized if they have roads on fixed repair timetables and only accelerate them if they clearly need repair ahead of schedule.</text></comment> |
30,189,515 | 30,184,059 | 1 | 3 | 30,179,549 | train | <story><title>Competitive Programming with AlphaCode</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Competitive-programming-with-AlphaCode</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FiberBundle</author><text>It never ceases to amaze me what you can do with these transformer models. They created millions of potential solutions for each problem, used the provided examples for the problems to filter out 99% of incorrect solutions and then applied some more heuristics and the 10 available submissions to try to find a solution.<p>All these approaches just seem like brute-force approaches: Let&#x27;s just throw our transformer on this problem and see if we can get anything useful out of this.<p>Whatever it is, you can&#x27;t deny that these unsupervised models learn some semantic representations, but we have no clue at all what that actually is and how these model learn that. But I&#x27;m also very sceptical that you can actually get anywhere close to human (expert) capability in any sufficiently complex domain by using this approach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noduerme</author><text>&gt;&gt; filter out 99% of incorrect solutions<p>And next year they can filter out 99.99%. And the year after that, 99.9999%. So literally, an exponentially greater number of monkey&#x2F;typewriting units. (An AI produced Shakespeare play coming soon).<p>&gt;&gt; we have no clue at all what that actually is and how these model learn<p>This is why I&#x27;m super cool-to-cold about the AI&#x2F;deep learning classes being sold to young people who would otherwise be learning fundamental programming skills. It appears to me like trying to teach someone to ride a horse before they understand what skin, bones, muscles, animals, and horses are.<p>&gt;&gt;get anywhere close to human (expert) capability in any sufficiently complex domain<p>You can get close enough to scalp a lot of billionaires, but at the end of the day it&#x27;s always going to be human coders banging our heads against management, where they <i>ask for shit they can&#x27;t visualize</i> and it&#x27;s our job to <i>visualize how their employees&#x2F;customers will use it</i>. Yes it involves domain specific knowledge, but it also requires, er, having eyeballs and fingers, and understanding how a biological organism uses a silicon-based device. That&#x27;s kind of the ultimate DS knowledge, after all. Now, lots of coders just copy-pasta a front end, but after all the hooplah here I&#x27;d be <i>extremely</i> surprised if in ten years an AI has caught up to your basic web mill in Indonesia when it comes to building a decent website.</text></comment> | <story><title>Competitive Programming with AlphaCode</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Competitive-programming-with-AlphaCode</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FiberBundle</author><text>It never ceases to amaze me what you can do with these transformer models. They created millions of potential solutions for each problem, used the provided examples for the problems to filter out 99% of incorrect solutions and then applied some more heuristics and the 10 available submissions to try to find a solution.<p>All these approaches just seem like brute-force approaches: Let&#x27;s just throw our transformer on this problem and see if we can get anything useful out of this.<p>Whatever it is, you can&#x27;t deny that these unsupervised models learn some semantic representations, but we have no clue at all what that actually is and how these model learn that. But I&#x27;m also very sceptical that you can actually get anywhere close to human (expert) capability in any sufficiently complex domain by using this approach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bricemo</author><text>What do you think then is the difference between going from 50th to 99.9th percentile in their other domains? Is there something materially different between ago, protein folding, or coding? (I don’t know the answer, just curious if anyone else does)</text></comment> |
29,215,728 | 29,215,386 | 1 | 2 | 29,214,351 | train | <story><title>U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-states-file-updated-antitrust-complaint-against-alphabets-google-2021-11-13/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>As more data comes out about Google, Apple, Amazon, one simple underlying thing becomes clear: a single company cannot be trusted to operate a marketplace <i>while also being a participant</i>.<p>Apple&#x27;s App Store insider knowledge lets them discover popular apps, then boot them off the platform when they decide to compete. Amazon sees what products are successful and profitable, then makes knock-offs which they promote over the originals. And now, reading into this, Google is manipulating their ad markets using inside knowledge.<p>It&#x27;s all very profitable.<p>If we cannot trust large companies to <i>not</i> abuse this kind of power, then they should be prevented by law from playing both sides. This may result in the breakup of some very large companies, akin to the 1934 Air Mail Act that broke up Boeing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>winternett</author><text>Just think about all the development and financial data and ideas that google has a direct untraceable back door into through running gmail, android phones, and chrome browser alone...<p>I have resorted to using an old school notepad for my development ideas pretty much. A software company I used to work for got shuttered just 3 months after a big software company paid the startup a visit to observe operations back in 98, I&#x27;ve always been wary of corporate espionage since.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-states-file-updated-antitrust-complaint-against-alphabets-google-2021-11-13/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>As more data comes out about Google, Apple, Amazon, one simple underlying thing becomes clear: a single company cannot be trusted to operate a marketplace <i>while also being a participant</i>.<p>Apple&#x27;s App Store insider knowledge lets them discover popular apps, then boot them off the platform when they decide to compete. Amazon sees what products are successful and profitable, then makes knock-offs which they promote over the originals. And now, reading into this, Google is manipulating their ad markets using inside knowledge.<p>It&#x27;s all very profitable.<p>If we cannot trust large companies to <i>not</i> abuse this kind of power, then they should be prevented by law from playing both sides. This may result in the breakup of some very large companies, akin to the 1934 Air Mail Act that broke up Boeing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ngngngng</author><text>Does this only go for internet companies? Or do you think it applies to Walmart selling its own Equate brand of everything or Costco selling its own Kirkland brand of everything?</text></comment> |
6,920,019 | 6,919,507 | 1 | 2 | 6,919,190 | train | <story><title>Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your accounts</title><url>http://justdelete.me/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buro9</author><text>It&#x27;s fairly understandable that delete from a retailer is hard. In many places retailers are under obligation to store records relating to transactions for things like tax compliance, agreements with credit providers, anti-fraud and accounting laws. i.e. Amazon<p>What does delete even mean in these circumstances? The best they&#x27;re able to do is just remove your public profile (if such a thing exists) whilst leaving everything else intact.<p>It&#x27;s also understandable that collaborative works have no real delete (as the end user perceives it). The very nature of a collaborative work means that removing some contribution from the past could alter the work as it stands today. i.e. Wikipedia<p>What&#x27;s really surprising are the media outlets on the list with the high level of difficulty. The EU data protection laws only permit a company to retain that data which is necessary to provide a service, for as long as the service is provided or the company is obliged (by law) to keep the information. Those outlets (Gawker) seem to hide under the collaborative works stuff, but if you&#x27;ve an account but never made a comment then deletion shouldn&#x27;t be objected to.<p>General rules:<p>If there was a monetary transaction they&#x27;re going to keep your info but might delete your public profile.<p>If it&#x27;s a collaborative work you might get your profile deleted but all of your contributions will remain as a public record.<p>If it&#x27;s an interaction with the government you&#x27;re never going to get it deleted.</text></comment> | <story><title>Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your accounts</title><url>http://justdelete.me/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kerkeslager</author><text>The way I&#x27;m going to use this list is to look up services before I sign up.<p>I&#x27;d also be interested to see if user satisfaction correlates with ease of quitting. It seems like companies which make it hard for users to quit do so because many users want to quit. Anecdotally this holds true for the handful of companies on that list I&#x27;ve used, but I&#x27;d like to see some actual stats.</text></comment> |
37,196,411 | 37,196,516 | 1 | 2 | 37,194,272 | train | <story><title>Cellebrite asks cops to keep its technology secret</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/19/cellebrite-asks-cops-to-keep-its-phone-hacking-tech-hush-hush/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foooorsyth</author><text>&gt;“We’re suppose to take some ‘hacking company’’s word for it that they’re doing everything forensically correctly, and the prosecution expects us to just trust them?”<p>You&#x27;d be surprised. The courts are not scientific debate arenas. Burn forensics? Pseudoscience. Bite mark forensics? Pseudoscience. Lots of DNA-based forensics? Totally unreliable. Firearms ballistics forensics? Laughable pseudoscience. Polygraph tests? Laughable pseudoscience. Field sobriety tests &#x2F; &quot;drug recognition expert&quot; certifications? Lol, lmao even.<p>All of this nonsense has been successfully used to convict people in court. Turns out, putting someone with PhD after their name or a white lab coat or a phony certification on the stand tends to work for prosecutors.</text></item><item><author>kstrauser</author><text>I’d think defense attorneys would be all over that. “We’re suppose to take some ‘hacking company’’s word for it that they’re doing everything forensically correctly, and the prosecution expects us to just trust them?”<p>Were I such an attorney, I’d campaign to taint the reputation of Cellebrite and make the evidence it generates completely untrustworthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AmVess</author><text>You are right on the money. Many of the tools law enforcement uses are straight up hocus pocus, and they lack the training or ability to question their methods.<p>New York&#x27;s main crime lab completely blew DNA testing, and thus rendered all of their results worthless. This went on for many years. Instead of rectifying their mistakes, they swept it under the rug and forgot about it. To this day, thousands of people are in jail based upon wildly incorrect &quot;science&quot;.<p>It is rather unsettling to know that nearly everything the criminal justice system uses is no better than voodoo, and you are not far away from getting thrown behind bars for little more than the whimsy of people who are empowered to do so.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cellebrite asks cops to keep its technology secret</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/19/cellebrite-asks-cops-to-keep-its-phone-hacking-tech-hush-hush/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foooorsyth</author><text>&gt;“We’re suppose to take some ‘hacking company’’s word for it that they’re doing everything forensically correctly, and the prosecution expects us to just trust them?”<p>You&#x27;d be surprised. The courts are not scientific debate arenas. Burn forensics? Pseudoscience. Bite mark forensics? Pseudoscience. Lots of DNA-based forensics? Totally unreliable. Firearms ballistics forensics? Laughable pseudoscience. Polygraph tests? Laughable pseudoscience. Field sobriety tests &#x2F; &quot;drug recognition expert&quot; certifications? Lol, lmao even.<p>All of this nonsense has been successfully used to convict people in court. Turns out, putting someone with PhD after their name or a white lab coat or a phony certification on the stand tends to work for prosecutors.</text></item><item><author>kstrauser</author><text>I’d think defense attorneys would be all over that. “We’re suppose to take some ‘hacking company’’s word for it that they’re doing everything forensically correctly, and the prosecution expects us to just trust them?”<p>Were I such an attorney, I’d campaign to taint the reputation of Cellebrite and make the evidence it generates completely untrustworthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duped</author><text>&quot;Forensics&quot; is pseudo science. Little, if any of the &quot;science&quot; is peer reviewed. And what is is not convincing to anyone who has an undergraduate experience in a chemistry, biology, or physics classroom and lab. Circumstantial evidence is a lot more convincing than physical evidence, but the TV shows convince us otherwise.<p>There&#x27;s really no incentive for forensic science to be a science at all, at the end of the day. You&#x27;re either working for cops, and paid for evidence to convict their suspect, or working for the defense, and paid to convince us the cops are wrong. There&#x27;s no one paid to tell us what reality we&#x27;re in.</text></comment> |
32,471,326 | 32,470,590 | 1 | 2 | 32,467,962 | train | <story><title>Why use Paxos instead of Raft?</title><url>https://neon.tech/blog/paxos/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mgdev</author><text>I used to work in the orbit of a distinguished eng at AWS who was famous for saying something to the effect of, &quot;At the bottom of any scaled distributed system is either Paxos, or a bug.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Why use Paxos instead of Raft?</title><url>https://neon.tech/blog/paxos/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chucky_z</author><text>Interesting reasoning! I had a similar thought about why raft doesn’t allow observers the other day.<p>I used observers with Gluster previously and went from annoying split brain scenarios to flawless clusters just by adding a few, and their resource usage was basically nothing.</text></comment> |
29,456,094 | 29,455,921 | 1 | 2 | 29,455,730 | train | <story><title>Ubiquiti developer charged with extortion, causing 2020 “breach”</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/12/ubiquiti-developer-charged-with-extortion-causing-2020-breach/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>&gt; Investigators say they were able to tie the downloads to Sharp and his work-issued laptop because his Internet connection briefly failed on several occasions while he was downloading the Ubiquiti data. Those outages were enough to prevent Sharp’s Surfshark VPN connection from functioning properly — thus exposing his Internet address as the source of the downloads.<p>Not the first time I’ve read about a VPN unable to mask someone’s ip when they were on a wonky connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dreyfan</author><text>Proper opsec is you blackhole all traffic when the vpn isn’t active.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ubiquiti developer charged with extortion, causing 2020 “breach”</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/12/ubiquiti-developer-charged-with-extortion-causing-2020-breach/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>&gt; Investigators say they were able to tie the downloads to Sharp and his work-issued laptop because his Internet connection briefly failed on several occasions while he was downloading the Ubiquiti data. Those outages were enough to prevent Sharp’s Surfshark VPN connection from functioning properly — thus exposing his Internet address as the source of the downloads.<p>Not the first time I’ve read about a VPN unable to mask someone’s ip when they were on a wonky connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikepurvis</author><text>Presumably this is an OS-level thing, that it helpfully tries to fall back? If so, I suppose it could be mitigated either by a software control that prevents using the bare connection, or by running the VPN elsewhere, for example on your router.<p>(I see posts elsewhere in the thread now describing how to do this with iptables.)</text></comment> |
18,398,836 | 18,398,451 | 1 | 2 | 18,391,215 | train | <story><title>The Irresistible Urge to Build Cities from Scratch</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-02/the-irresistible-urge-to-build-cities-from-scratch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lou1306</author><text>Since nobody has cited it yet, see Christopher&#x27;s Alexander &quot;A city is not a tree&quot; [0] for an architect&#x27;s take on &quot;natural&quot; vs. plannes cities.<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;refs&#x2F;Alexander%20-%20A%20City%20Is%20Not%20A%20Tree.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;refs&#x2F;Alexander%20-%20A%20City%20Is%20N...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Irresistible Urge to Build Cities from Scratch</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-02/the-irresistible-urge-to-build-cities-from-scratch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>barry0079</author><text>I&#x27;m a huge fan of the winding maze like structure of cities built upon the old. It&#x27;s nice to be able to wander and explore. I suppose blank slate cities (like most in America) are a lot more convenient to navigate though.</text></comment> |
34,938,371 | 34,937,846 | 1 | 3 | 34,937,273 | train | <story><title>ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes are coming for magazines, Amazon, and YouTube</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/02/24/2023/chatgpt-get-rich-quick-schemes-are-coming-for-magazines-amazon-and-youtube</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; Its the latest evolution of internet side-hustle culture: Creators posing as business moguls are encouraging followers to use ChatGPT to earn money by churning out AI-generated content.<p>I followed a random number of highly polished influencers and gurus as part of my Twitter feed. It’s a way to keep a finger on the pulse of the guru zeitgeist as all of the gurus move in lockstep from one hot topic to the next.<p>Using AI to generate a business is definitely the topic du jour among wantrepreneur gurus. They’re sharing fantasies about using AI to create every step of your business, from coming up with the idea to writing email campaigns to helping them write all of the code. They share examples of high profile success stories that claim someone used ChatGPT to make a business from scratch with zero experience and now they’re making five or six figures per month without having to know anything.<p>It’s wild. The current trend appears to be selling expensive paid courses with “limited seats” and&#x2F;or to provide a paid Discord community that they claim is full of other people sharing success tips. ChatGPT has been a dream come true for people who sell wantrepreneurship materials. I suspect they’re using ChatGPT to generate a lot of the materials, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>melvinmelih</author><text>&gt; They’re sharing fantasies about using AI to create every step of your business, from coming up with the idea to writing email campaigns to helping them write all of the code. They share examples of high profile success stories that claim someone used ChatGPT to make a business from scratch with zero experience and now they’re making five or six figures per month without having to know anything.<p>It&#x27;s not 5 figures (yet), but thanks to ChatGPT my cousin was able to set up a small webshop that generates some business for him. My cousin (never been to college) is not exactly a prolific writer so was always struggling to write good copy. ChatGPT allowed him to write email campaigns, blog posts and product descriptions so his website actually looks very professional. So yeah there&#x27;s definitely value for the regular Joe to start using ChatGPT to do things that were not considered possible before.</text></comment> | <story><title>ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes are coming for magazines, Amazon, and YouTube</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/02/24/2023/chatgpt-get-rich-quick-schemes-are-coming-for-magazines-amazon-and-youtube</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; Its the latest evolution of internet side-hustle culture: Creators posing as business moguls are encouraging followers to use ChatGPT to earn money by churning out AI-generated content.<p>I followed a random number of highly polished influencers and gurus as part of my Twitter feed. It’s a way to keep a finger on the pulse of the guru zeitgeist as all of the gurus move in lockstep from one hot topic to the next.<p>Using AI to generate a business is definitely the topic du jour among wantrepreneur gurus. They’re sharing fantasies about using AI to create every step of your business, from coming up with the idea to writing email campaigns to helping them write all of the code. They share examples of high profile success stories that claim someone used ChatGPT to make a business from scratch with zero experience and now they’re making five or six figures per month without having to know anything.<p>It’s wild. The current trend appears to be selling expensive paid courses with “limited seats” and&#x2F;or to provide a paid Discord community that they claim is full of other people sharing success tips. ChatGPT has been a dream come true for people who sell wantrepreneurship materials. I suspect they’re using ChatGPT to generate a lot of the materials, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wildrhythms</author><text>When their only skill is being the &#x27;ideas guy&#x27; I guess it makes sense that when an idea generator comes along they exploit that too. And I assume they are selling some bootcamp or course or community access to &#x27;teach&#x27; suckers how to do this stuff?</text></comment> |
4,369,402 | 4,369,326 | 1 | 3 | 4,369,172 | train | <story><title>Creepy Spying System Revealed by Wikileaks, Which Then Gets Hit by DDOS Attack</title><url>http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/10/creepy-spying-system-revealed-by-wikilea</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andreyf</author><text>RT is, as usual, full of shit. TrapWire is no secret, but a public product, available to any company who wants to pay for it (see www.trapwire.com).<p><i>"more accurate than modern facial recognition technology"</i><p><i>"recorded digitally on the spot"</i><p><i>"encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence"</i><p><i>"the corporation's ties are assumed to go deeper than even documented"</i><p>It sounds a bit ominous, but what does any of that even mean? The security video cameras have encrypted feeds into a central server, which does facial recognition? Sounds nice, but I'd be surprised if it works well enough to be useful (esp. if someone is wearing sunglasses), but not nearly as alarmed as the tone of the RT article encourages. Sounds more like fantasy technology and wasted tax money than anything else.</text></comment> | <story><title>Creepy Spying System Revealed by Wikileaks, Which Then Gets Hit by DDOS Attack</title><url>http://reason.com/blog/2012/08/10/creepy-spying-system-revealed-by-wikilea</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oconnore</author><text>Wikileaks needs to start distributing files encrypted before they announce what's inside them. It wouldn't provoke a DDOS and distributing the password after the announcement is much simpler.</text></comment> |
31,515,958 | 31,513,632 | 1 | 3 | 31,511,719 | train | <story><title>Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor</title><url>https://www.falstad.com/pong/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajp11</author><text>In the year 1974, Practical Wireless, a UK magazine, published a design for a pong game that connects to a television, called PW Tele Tennis.<p>It uses sixty four NAND gates, twelve NE555 timers, two dozen diodes and some analog parts.<p>It&#x27;s about the most basic version of the game. They later published a sound effects board and an on-screen scoring board that uses a couple of dozen more chips.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;searle.x10host.com&#x2F;TeleTennis&#x2F;PWTennis.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;searle.x10host.com&#x2F;TeleTennis&#x2F;PWTennis.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>The implications of Karnaugh maps and state machine reduction, which
we did in &quot;Digital Logic&quot; when I was a student, were that you could
take <i>any</i> problem, express it as a set of states and transforms, and
boil that down to an optimal netlist of discrete logic gates.<p>Of course, in the mid 80&#x27;s that was a pedagogical tool to lead us
toward register machines and von Neumann architectures, but there were
still some old-skool EE hackers around who built things like guidance
systems for the Navy which were hybrid analogue&#x2F;digital &quot;computers&quot;
totally without CPUs or code. Today we have FPGAs and high level tools
for building ASIC, but cheap microprocessors effectively swept aside
an entire <i>approach</i>.<p>Maybe we missed something. Many small and well constrained problems in
IoT type applications might better be served by hard-configured
solutions. They would use less power, be immune to malicious network
hacking, not need &#x27;firmware&#x27; updates,</text></comment> | <story><title>Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor</title><url>https://www.falstad.com/pong/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajp11</author><text>In the year 1974, Practical Wireless, a UK magazine, published a design for a pong game that connects to a television, called PW Tele Tennis.<p>It uses sixty four NAND gates, twelve NE555 timers, two dozen diodes and some analog parts.<p>It&#x27;s about the most basic version of the game. They later published a sound effects board and an on-screen scoring board that uses a couple of dozen more chips.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;searle.x10host.com&#x2F;TeleTennis&#x2F;PWTennis.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;searle.x10host.com&#x2F;TeleTennis&#x2F;PWTennis.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>a9h74j</author><text>In probably 1976 for $1 I bought a one-page schematic for such a thing, from classified ad in the back of a magazine. I suppose it was a related version, but IIRC it relied upon 74123 style monostables.</text></comment> |
13,782,180 | 13,782,011 | 1 | 3 | 13,781,440 | train | <story><title>China congress: BBC team forced to sign confession</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39137293</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krona</author><text>&gt; 2) Stop US violations of human rights (gitmo)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Whataboutism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Whataboutism</a></text></item><item><author>chrischen</author><text>To admonish, you&#x27;d have to
1) Stop buying Chinese made products
2) Stop US violations of human rights (gitmo)<p>Frankly, without doing this, you&#x27;d never be able to admonish and have it carry any real weight with Chinese policy makers. They&#x27;d just see a black pot calling out the kettle.</text></item><item><author>phreack</author><text>The current state of human rights in China, and its utter, utter lack of admonition by world leaders due to their dependence on their economy is to me one of the greatest tragedies of today.<p>I truly don&#x27;t know what could be done to help free speech prosper there as it should.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>k-mcgrady</author><text>The OP is not invoking whataboutism. It&#x27;s actually an important point. If the US (or any other western country) tries to admonish China there are plenty of human rights violations in our own countries which China will come back with. The point is that they will be able to engage in whataboutism. In global politics hypocrisy (why do we need to call it whataboutism?) is going to come back to bite you.</text></comment> | <story><title>China congress: BBC team forced to sign confession</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39137293</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krona</author><text>&gt; 2) Stop US violations of human rights (gitmo)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Whataboutism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Whataboutism</a></text></item><item><author>chrischen</author><text>To admonish, you&#x27;d have to
1) Stop buying Chinese made products
2) Stop US violations of human rights (gitmo)<p>Frankly, without doing this, you&#x27;d never be able to admonish and have it carry any real weight with Chinese policy makers. They&#x27;d just see a black pot calling out the kettle.</text></item><item><author>phreack</author><text>The current state of human rights in China, and its utter, utter lack of admonition by world leaders due to their dependence on their economy is to me one of the greatest tragedies of today.<p>I truly don&#x27;t know what could be done to help free speech prosper there as it should.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>So, my sins don&#x27;t matter, let&#x27;s ALWAYS focus on the other side&#x27;s sins.<p>AKA my country, right or wrong.<p>AKA, refusal to accept that value judgements are relative, not god given absolutes.<p>AKA, priority (let&#x27;s focus on X and only X now) without actually prioritizing (let&#x27;s compare to see if X is actually the major offender we should be focusing on)</text></comment> |
23,910,444 | 23,910,679 | 1 | 3 | 23,909,604 | train | <story><title>Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/google-eric-schmidt-us-digital-service-academy-2020-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curiousllama</author><text>This will fail not because it&#x27;s a bad idea, but because the government will reject it.<p>Contrary to popular belief, established universities do a very effective job of preparing tech talent for government jobs. The issues, which Schmidt seems to miss, are twofold:<p>(1) the government, with few exceptions, is a TERRIBLE place to build effective tech skills. Slow, heavily outsourced, bureaucratic beyond belief, and low paid, there is very little creativity and variety in which to build unique technology, and no reward for the BS.<p>(2) Current universities already prepare tech workers well. In some cases, there are even joint CS-Public Policy degrees (e.g., MSCAPP at UofC).<p>Those engineers with policy expertise just don&#x27;t want to work for the government. I know; I was one of them, and I could not for the life of me find a policy tech job that paid even HALF what tech companies would pay me.<p>Schmidt should focus on building &quot;the department of innovative technology&quot; and pay engineers appropriately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jayparth</author><text>I mean... &quot;The Department of Innovative Technology&quot; is kind of what the USDS is. It&#x27;s ran by very competent people, and do short &quot;tours of duty&quot; with competent SV engineers instead of long-term, safe, bureaucratic jobs. Here&#x27;s a podcast:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DvXN7fRTVds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DvXN7fRTVds</a><p>I think you&#x27;re misinformed on the topic, but that&#x27;s OK. I assumed it was a typical government agency until I got further information, and then I changed my mind. Will you change your mind?</text></comment> | <story><title>Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/google-eric-schmidt-us-digital-service-academy-2020-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curiousllama</author><text>This will fail not because it&#x27;s a bad idea, but because the government will reject it.<p>Contrary to popular belief, established universities do a very effective job of preparing tech talent for government jobs. The issues, which Schmidt seems to miss, are twofold:<p>(1) the government, with few exceptions, is a TERRIBLE place to build effective tech skills. Slow, heavily outsourced, bureaucratic beyond belief, and low paid, there is very little creativity and variety in which to build unique technology, and no reward for the BS.<p>(2) Current universities already prepare tech workers well. In some cases, there are even joint CS-Public Policy degrees (e.g., MSCAPP at UofC).<p>Those engineers with policy expertise just don&#x27;t want to work for the government. I know; I was one of them, and I could not for the life of me find a policy tech job that paid even HALF what tech companies would pay me.<p>Schmidt should focus on building &quot;the department of innovative technology&quot; and pay engineers appropriately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MattGaiser</author><text>&gt; Slow, heavily outsourced, bureaucratic beyond belief, and low paid, there is very little creativity and variety in which to build unique technology, and no reward for the BS.<p>Currently a public sector tech worker, although in Canada. We can recruit some great people as although the salaries are not FAANG, they are pretty good for people who don&#x27;t live in cities with that.<p>Problem is, they don&#x27;t give raises or if they do, the raises are tiny. I earned 10,000 more choosing a government job over other offers where I am. I have been in the role 11 months. Recruiters are consistently offering 10,000 more than what I make now. Guess how long the average person stays? Just over one year.<p>If I quit my current department and went to a different government, I could get that 10,000 dollar raise and if I quit after another 1-2 years there to another government department, I would probably hit near the maximum bracket for tech work in the government unless I took a lead position.<p>Government also doesn&#x27;t recruit people out of school for tech unless they have a full slate of internships. You need at least one year of experience to join. So there is this narrow 2-3 year in your career window where government work can make sense.<p>So not only are you kind of forced out fairly early in your career, but they incentivize spreading your time among many different departments as that is the only time you can get a big salary jump.<p>Plus all the other things you say are true. Decisions take months for anything.</text></comment> |
21,814,661 | 21,814,973 | 1 | 2 | 21,813,636 | train | <story><title>Climbing the Wealth Ladder</title><url>https://ofdollarsanddata.com/climbing-the-wealth-ladder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>disintegore</author><text>I understand this isn&#x27;t the point of the article, but it seems like a roundabout way of saying &quot;don&#x27;t overspend&quot;. This part in particular bothers me :<p>&gt; More importantly though, the best way to climb the wealth ladder is to spend money according to your level.<p>As far as I (a non-economist) can personally tell, any notion of climbing up some abstract wealth ladder is synonym with a salary increase for the vast majority of people. Other methods, whether they involve quantity of free time or already-available money, are intrinsically tied to the quality of your job or, failing that, the quality of your parents&#x27; or partner&#x27;s jobs.<p>Personal net worth, while definitely an important factor in this equation, is far less so than income in my opinion. A fiscally irresponsibly professional worker living from paycheck to paycheck has &quot;grocery freedom&quot; while a person with 10,000$ of accumulated wealth and no income whatsoever (let&#x27;s say they are between jobs) is far more likely to buy the store brand margarine. Similarly, the former will most likely not achieve &quot;travel freedom&quot; without decades of hard work, of careful spending, of saving, investing, etc.<p>Simply put, no amount of &quot;not carelessly booking flights&quot; will turn you into Jay-Z, let alone into that small business owner across the street with the McMansion and the gaudy Christmas decorations. The undisputed &quot;best way&quot; to climb the wealth ladder is to receive large amounts of cash from some external source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CPLX</author><text>Yup. I see this kind of logic in personal finance discussions all the time but it&#x27;s bullshit. There simply aren&#x27;t any spending decisions you can make that will change you from not wealthy to really wealthy. Those things can just move you from poor to middle class at best, or to a better level of middle class.<p>Outside of real outlier status where you&#x27;re paid really, really large amounts of money for your services (like notable entertainer or cardiac surgeon) the way to wealth is to own the means of production. Period.<p>Same as it ever was.</text></comment> | <story><title>Climbing the Wealth Ladder</title><url>https://ofdollarsanddata.com/climbing-the-wealth-ladder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>disintegore</author><text>I understand this isn&#x27;t the point of the article, but it seems like a roundabout way of saying &quot;don&#x27;t overspend&quot;. This part in particular bothers me :<p>&gt; More importantly though, the best way to climb the wealth ladder is to spend money according to your level.<p>As far as I (a non-economist) can personally tell, any notion of climbing up some abstract wealth ladder is synonym with a salary increase for the vast majority of people. Other methods, whether they involve quantity of free time or already-available money, are intrinsically tied to the quality of your job or, failing that, the quality of your parents&#x27; or partner&#x27;s jobs.<p>Personal net worth, while definitely an important factor in this equation, is far less so than income in my opinion. A fiscally irresponsibly professional worker living from paycheck to paycheck has &quot;grocery freedom&quot; while a person with 10,000$ of accumulated wealth and no income whatsoever (let&#x27;s say they are between jobs) is far more likely to buy the store brand margarine. Similarly, the former will most likely not achieve &quot;travel freedom&quot; without decades of hard work, of careful spending, of saving, investing, etc.<p>Simply put, no amount of &quot;not carelessly booking flights&quot; will turn you into Jay-Z, let alone into that small business owner across the street with the McMansion and the gaudy Christmas decorations. The undisputed &quot;best way&quot; to climb the wealth ladder is to receive large amounts of cash from some external source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hultner</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t fully agree with this, I&#x27;d say income that non-linear to amount time spent it the highest driving factor.<p>Let&#x27;s take an example.
I&#x27;m going to use Swedish living conditions and salaries as an example as that&#x27;s where I live but they are close to most European&#x2F;western countries.
We have a frugal grocery store cashier who makes $2000 USD&#x2F;month after taxes.
We have a high level executive in a medium-sized company who makes $5000 USD&#x2F;month after taxes.<p>The grocery worked lives like a student (student loan&#x2F;benefits in Sweden is about $1000 USD&#x2F;mo) and saves the rest on the stock market (assuming average yearly yield with reinvested dividends at 8.5%), efficiently saving $1000USD&#x2F;month for future non linear income.
The cashier plans to stop working early at 55, at a net worth of about $2 900 000 USD.
This allows for a safe withdrawal rate at about $10 000 USD&#x2F;month.
At this level travling&#x2F;vacation expenses isn&#x27;t a problem for the cashier. Housing probably does but they can most likely live comfortably even if they decide to rent. They can also easily increase monthly spending allowance by 10% if they decide to continue working half time.<p>At the same time our executive have been burning through every pay-check, and have effectively no net worth at the same age, sure there&#x27;s plenty enough to lease a nice car, don&#x27;t care about restaurants bills but more expensive traveling will still be a setback and vacation time per year is certainly limited as income is still linear to time spent.<p>So in this example we have a cashier ending up as a multi millionear set for life at 55 with no need to work a day more and a high level executive who&#x27;d be back at 0 without the job and a strictly linear income.<p>Sure salary increase does matter, but in the long run underspending matters more.
With a longterm plan it&#x27;s possible to become a multi millionaire with an entry level job, for instance there&#x27;s a famous Swedish railroad worker who recently passed away who ended up with somewhere around $17 000 000 USD net worth at the time of his death, and achieved this by living under his expenses with a low salary and investing the rest, he initially turned to the stock market because he couldn&#x27;t afford a house in his youth. Not Jay-Z levels for sure but well beyond what most people would consider very wealthy.</text></comment> |
34,394,286 | 34,394,536 | 1 | 3 | 34,393,273 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account</title><text>Has this happened to more people?<p>I just noticed this, and so this happened to a few friends of mine.<p>I am familiar with dark patterns, and read carefully and I though I had dodged all Microsoft attempts at trying to register me into their online system, but somehow they got me.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>This definitely happened to me a while ago. I&#x27;m not that upset about it, except that I spent some time changing all my local accounts from &quot;jon&quot; to &quot;jrockway&quot;, and signing in with my email address made my local account &quot;jon&quot;. Now when I ssh places, I have to supply -l or properly add an entry to ~&#x2F;.ssh&#x2F;config because this is the only account I have that&#x27;s not named &quot;jrockway&quot;. All in all, this reduces the enjoyment in my life by 0.0000000000000001% but I&#x27;m not losing too much sleep over it.<p>(My favorite Windows 10 update was the one where you installed it, and instead of getting your desktop on reboot, there was this weird slideshow that said &quot;HELLO&quot; &quot;ALL YOUR FILES ARE EXACTLY WHERE YOU LEFT THEM&quot;. I thought it was malware, but that&#x27;s apparently something a large team of experts at Microsoft thought would be fun for their users. Maybe they were really excited about some filesystem bug that they fixed? I&#x27;ll never understand.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kwpolska</author><text>You should be able to fix your local user name in lusrmgr.msc (select your account and press F2).<p>I’m using a Microsoft account, but to avoid this nonsense, I created it as a local account (because this laptop shipped with Windows 11 Pro RTM, so I could still do that) and converted it to a Microsoft account. If I didn’t have this option, I would probably create a Microsoft account with the dumb default name, then create a local account, delete the old account, and convert my new local account.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account</title><text>Has this happened to more people?<p>I just noticed this, and so this happened to a few friends of mine.<p>I am familiar with dark patterns, and read carefully and I though I had dodged all Microsoft attempts at trying to register me into their online system, but somehow they got me.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>This definitely happened to me a while ago. I&#x27;m not that upset about it, except that I spent some time changing all my local accounts from &quot;jon&quot; to &quot;jrockway&quot;, and signing in with my email address made my local account &quot;jon&quot;. Now when I ssh places, I have to supply -l or properly add an entry to ~&#x2F;.ssh&#x2F;config because this is the only account I have that&#x27;s not named &quot;jrockway&quot;. All in all, this reduces the enjoyment in my life by 0.0000000000000001% but I&#x27;m not losing too much sleep over it.<p>(My favorite Windows 10 update was the one where you installed it, and instead of getting your desktop on reboot, there was this weird slideshow that said &quot;HELLO&quot; &quot;ALL YOUR FILES ARE EXACTLY WHERE YOU LEFT THEM&quot;. I thought it was malware, but that&#x27;s apparently something a large team of experts at Microsoft thought would be fun for their users. Maybe they were really excited about some filesystem bug that they fixed? I&#x27;ll never understand.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>I honestly always thought it was some sort of GLaDOS&#x2F;Hal 9000 style joke. &quot;don&#x27;t worry Dave, we&#x27;re still watching all your files&quot; or something, I actually laughed out loud when I saw it. It&#x27;s even more hilarious to me if that was supposed to be serious.</text></comment> |
14,894,006 | 14,894,294 | 1 | 2 | 14,892,980 | train | <story><title>Out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest</title><url>https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Recurecur</author><text>New reactor designs completely eliminate the possibility of meltdown. LFRs include an electrically cooled salt plug that seals a holding tank. If power fails, the molten salt melts the plug, and the fuel safely drains into the tank. I particularly like ThorCon&#x27;s concept, where the reactor is underground. Another plus of this reactor type is that water cooling isn&#x27;t needed, so siting is much more flexible.<p>Note that the ThorCon design can use uranium or thorium as fuel. ThorCon estimates it could be shipping reactors in ten years, and could produce 100 GW worth of reactors per year, at around three cents per KWH.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thorconpower.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thorconpower.com&#x2F;</a><p>I suggest watching the video on this page, it gives a good perspective:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thorconpower.com&#x2F;news" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thorconpower.com&#x2F;news</a></text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>People are scared of nuclear energy for the same reason that they&#x27;re scared of taking an airplane. Even though it&#x27;s technically and statistically very safe, the <i>perceived</i> risk appears much greater.<p>In particular in both cases when something goes wrong it tends to go <i>extremely</i> wrong and you&#x27;re completely helpless to stop it. In contrast getting in a car accident or slowly suffocating in coal power plant emissions seem manageable.<p>Personally I&#x27;m of the opinion that going all nuclear would be a mistake but on the other hand it&#x27;s a great way to move away from coal and petrol while we&#x27;re still figuring out how to scale renewable energies (and maybe fusion, but that&#x27;s still a moonshot). It provides cheap, reliable and reasonably safe energy with very little CO2 emissions.<p>I&#x27;m more worried about global warming than Fukushima and I&#x27;d gladly trade even a dozen of Fukushima-type incidents in the next decades (highly unlikely) if it could stop global warming and its dire, hard-to-revert consequences.<p>In particular I genuinely do not understand why most ecologists seem to be staunchly anti-nuclear. I can understand asking for better funding in renewable R&amp;D and planning for a transition but, at least in Europe, ecologists seem to favor dropping nuclear immediately, no matter the cost. For instance they applauded when Germany decided to completely stop producing nuclear energy, even if it meant more pollution in the short term. I find that hard to justify.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beat</author><text>&quot;Completely eliminates the possibility&quot; sounds like something a supervillain would say.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that this passive safety system won&#x27;t work, or is a bad idea. It sounds great from the brief description. BUT. There&#x27;s a terrible, terrible tendency of the pro-nuclear side to use bombastic language, and then sneer at those with doubts as ignorant and emotional rather than logical.<p>Pricing promises are another problem. &quot;Power too cheap to meter&quot; has been promised since the 1950s. It hasn&#x27;t happened yet.<p>Be careful with your language.</text></comment> | <story><title>Out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest</title><url>https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Recurecur</author><text>New reactor designs completely eliminate the possibility of meltdown. LFRs include an electrically cooled salt plug that seals a holding tank. If power fails, the molten salt melts the plug, and the fuel safely drains into the tank. I particularly like ThorCon&#x27;s concept, where the reactor is underground. Another plus of this reactor type is that water cooling isn&#x27;t needed, so siting is much more flexible.<p>Note that the ThorCon design can use uranium or thorium as fuel. ThorCon estimates it could be shipping reactors in ten years, and could produce 100 GW worth of reactors per year, at around three cents per KWH.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thorconpower.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thorconpower.com&#x2F;</a><p>I suggest watching the video on this page, it gives a good perspective:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thorconpower.com&#x2F;news" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thorconpower.com&#x2F;news</a></text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>People are scared of nuclear energy for the same reason that they&#x27;re scared of taking an airplane. Even though it&#x27;s technically and statistically very safe, the <i>perceived</i> risk appears much greater.<p>In particular in both cases when something goes wrong it tends to go <i>extremely</i> wrong and you&#x27;re completely helpless to stop it. In contrast getting in a car accident or slowly suffocating in coal power plant emissions seem manageable.<p>Personally I&#x27;m of the opinion that going all nuclear would be a mistake but on the other hand it&#x27;s a great way to move away from coal and petrol while we&#x27;re still figuring out how to scale renewable energies (and maybe fusion, but that&#x27;s still a moonshot). It provides cheap, reliable and reasonably safe energy with very little CO2 emissions.<p>I&#x27;m more worried about global warming than Fukushima and I&#x27;d gladly trade even a dozen of Fukushima-type incidents in the next decades (highly unlikely) if it could stop global warming and its dire, hard-to-revert consequences.<p>In particular I genuinely do not understand why most ecologists seem to be staunchly anti-nuclear. I can understand asking for better funding in renewable R&amp;D and planning for a transition but, at least in Europe, ecologists seem to favor dropping nuclear immediately, no matter the cost. For instance they applauded when Germany decided to completely stop producing nuclear energy, even if it meant more pollution in the short term. I find that hard to justify.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZeroGravitas</author><text>Solar prices in the sunniest regions have already dipped below 3c unsubsidized, and are projected to keep falling for decades to come, even without any major technological breakthroughs. So aiming for that price 10 years out, with a new design isn&#x27;t a very good sign</text></comment> |
36,621,938 | 36,622,420 | 1 | 3 | 36,620,536 | train | <story><title>Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edavis</author><text>&gt; the arrival of Threads is definitely an existential threat for Twitter<p>I had a similar thought when I joined Threads last night and within 30 seconds saw the accounts of Adam Schefter, Adrian Wojnarowski, and Shams Charania all actively posting.<p>If you follow NFL and NBA news you&#x27;ll know these names but for anybody that doesn&#x27;t, these insider accounts are firmly at the center of the NFL and NBA breaking news universe and for going on a decade now Twitter was where you went to follow them.<p>What Threads has done is break that monopoly Twitter had on this sort of thing. It gives regular users a clean, familiar, functional, working UI with a simple onboard process and it gives high-profile accounts a stable platform, a verified badge, and a boatload of users.<p>Could Twitter survive if it was no longer the epicenter of North American sports discussion? Probably, but it would be a big loss and would signal to other communities on there that Twitter&#x27;s expiration date is rapidly approaching.</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>Between this and Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino&#x27;s weird tweet about how great Twitter is (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lindayacc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1676965566597464065" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lindayacc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1676965566597464065</a>), the arrival of Threads is <i>definitely</i> an existential threat for Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>And the reason they are all immediately on Threads is that they saw the existential threat to their careers when Twitter went private and restricted their accounts to viewing 600&#x2F;6000 Tweets last week. It&#x27;s clear that with the daily random rule changes and service interruptions Twitter isn&#x27;t the reliable platform that they need, and Instagram has a great track record of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edavis</author><text>&gt; the arrival of Threads is definitely an existential threat for Twitter<p>I had a similar thought when I joined Threads last night and within 30 seconds saw the accounts of Adam Schefter, Adrian Wojnarowski, and Shams Charania all actively posting.<p>If you follow NFL and NBA news you&#x27;ll know these names but for anybody that doesn&#x27;t, these insider accounts are firmly at the center of the NFL and NBA breaking news universe and for going on a decade now Twitter was where you went to follow them.<p>What Threads has done is break that monopoly Twitter had on this sort of thing. It gives regular users a clean, familiar, functional, working UI with a simple onboard process and it gives high-profile accounts a stable platform, a verified badge, and a boatload of users.<p>Could Twitter survive if it was no longer the epicenter of North American sports discussion? Probably, but it would be a big loss and would signal to other communities on there that Twitter&#x27;s expiration date is rapidly approaching.</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>Between this and Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino&#x27;s weird tweet about how great Twitter is (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lindayacc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1676965566597464065" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lindayacc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1676965566597464065</a>), the arrival of Threads is <i>definitely</i> an existential threat for Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mullingitover</author><text>It took breathtaking hubris to charge money to the very content creators that kept them alive.</text></comment> |
39,116,858 | 39,115,202 | 1 | 3 | 39,113,972 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Open-source Rule-based PDF parser for RAG</title><url>https://github.com/nlmatics/nlm-ingestor</url><text>The PDF parser is a rule based parser which uses text co-ordinates (boundary box), graphics and font data. The PDF parser works off text layer and also offers a OCR option to automatically use OCR if there are scanned pages in your PDFs. The OCR feature is based off a modified version of tika which uses tesseract underneath.<p>The PDF Parser offers the following features:<p>* Sections and subsections along with their levels.
* Paragraphs - combines lines.
* Links between sections and paragraphs.
* Tables along with the section the tables are found in.
* Lists and nested lists.
* Join content spread across pages.
* Removal of repeating headers and footers.
* Watermark removal.
* OCR with boundary boxes</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmezzetti</author><text>One additional library to add, if you&#x27;re working with scientific papers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kermitt2&#x2F;grobid">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kermitt2&#x2F;grobid</a>. I use this with paperetl (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;neuml&#x2F;paperetl">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;neuml&#x2F;paperetl</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Open-source Rule-based PDF parser for RAG</title><url>https://github.com/nlmatics/nlm-ingestor</url><text>The PDF parser is a rule based parser which uses text co-ordinates (boundary box), graphics and font data. The PDF parser works off text layer and also offers a OCR option to automatically use OCR if there are scanned pages in your PDFs. The OCR feature is based off a modified version of tika which uses tesseract underneath.<p>The PDF Parser offers the following features:<p>* Sections and subsections along with their levels.
* Paragraphs - combines lines.
* Links between sections and paragraphs.
* Tables along with the section the tables are found in.
* Lists and nested lists.
* Join content spread across pages.
* Removal of repeating headers and footers.
* Watermark removal.
* OCR with boundary boxes</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>epaga</author><text>This looks like it could be very helpful. The company I work for has a PDF comparison tool called &quot;PDFC&quot; which can read PDFs and runs comparisons of semantic differences. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inetsoftware.de&#x2F;products&#x2F;pdf-content-comparer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inetsoftware.de&#x2F;products&#x2F;pdf-content-comparer</a><p>Parsing PDFs can be quite the headache because the format is so complex. We support most of these features already but there are always so many edge cases that additional angles can be very helpful.</text></comment> |
41,177,141 | 41,175,439 | 1 | 2 | 41,173,223 | train | <story><title>Structured Outputs in the API</title><url>https://openai.com/index/introducing-structured-outputs-in-the-api/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jumploops</author><text>By using JSON mode, GPT-4{o} has been able to do this reliably for months (100k+ calls).<p>We use GPT-4o to build dynamic UI+code[0], and almost all of our calls are using JSON mode. Previously it mostly worked, but we had to do some massaging on our end (backtick removal, etc.).<p>With that said, this will be great for GPT-4o-mini, as it often struggles&#x2F;forgets to format things as we ask.<p>Note: we haven&#x27;t had the same success rate with function calling compared to pure JSON mode, as the function calling seems to add a level of indirection that can reduce the quality of the LLMs output YMMV.<p>Anyhow, excited for this!<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;magicloops.dev">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;magicloops.dev</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geepytee</author><text>This model appears to be full of surprises.<p>The 50% drop in price for inputs and 33% for outputs vs. the previous 4o model is huge.<p>It also appears to be topping various benchmarks, ZeroEval&#x27;s Leaderboard on hugging face [0] actually shows that it beats even Claude 3.5 Sonnet on CRUX [1] which is a code reasoning benchmark.<p>Shameless plug, I&#x27;m the co-founder of Double.bot (YC W23). After seeing the leaderboard above we actually added it to our copilot for anyone to try for free [2]. We try to add all new models the same day they are released<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;spaces&#x2F;allenai&#x2F;ZeroEval" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;spaces&#x2F;allenai&#x2F;ZeroEval</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crux-eval.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crux-eval.github.io&#x2F;</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;double.bot&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;double.bot&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Structured Outputs in the API</title><url>https://openai.com/index/introducing-structured-outputs-in-the-api/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jumploops</author><text>By using JSON mode, GPT-4{o} has been able to do this reliably for months (100k+ calls).<p>We use GPT-4o to build dynamic UI+code[0], and almost all of our calls are using JSON mode. Previously it mostly worked, but we had to do some massaging on our end (backtick removal, etc.).<p>With that said, this will be great for GPT-4o-mini, as it often struggles&#x2F;forgets to format things as we ask.<p>Note: we haven&#x27;t had the same success rate with function calling compared to pure JSON mode, as the function calling seems to add a level of indirection that can reduce the quality of the LLMs output YMMV.<p>Anyhow, excited for this!<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;magicloops.dev">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;magicloops.dev</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwertox</author><text>What a cool product! I was about to recommend you to submit it as a &quot;Show HN&quot;, but it turns out that it already got submitted one year ago.<p>Would you mind sharing a bit on how things have evolved?</text></comment> |
8,062,886 | 8,062,845 | 1 | 2 | 8,062,487 | train | <story><title>New phones aboard Air Force One</title><url>http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2014/07/new-phones-aboard-air-force-one.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joosters</author><text>The US is doomed if the country elects a colorblind president. All that red-green color-coding for secure and non-secure calls is going to ruin them...</text></comment> | <story><title>New phones aboard Air Force One</title><url>http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2014/07/new-phones-aboard-air-force-one.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelt</author><text><p><pre><code> L-3 Communications advertises (pdf) the GSIMS system as
the most advanced secure communication system for VIP and
Head of States aircraft
</code></pre>
In the light of Snowden&#x27;s revelations that we spy on our allies and try to get broken encryption products released, I wonder if any head of state except an American one bothers with an American encrypted phone.<p>If not, I wonder who it&#x27;s being marketed to?</text></comment> |
23,122,947 | 23,121,441 | 1 | 2 | 23,118,940 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?</title><text>I recently started integrating tmux and vim into my workflows. Obviously, it was a huge efficiency booster. What are some other tools (custom built or off-the-shelf), hotkeys, workflows that were game-changing for you as a dev? I&#x27;m interested in hearing about anything and everything (stuff from ctrl+l to clear the terminal to little-known git commands to larger-scale strategies like CI&#x2F;CD)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jokab</author><text>Obs studio. I record myself while coding anything. I pretend to be a bigshot coding streaming sensation (even if its just for me). Its fun as well as very helpful in so many ways.<p>1. It helps me stay focus on the task at hand. One recording for each task
2. It lets me practice how to articulate stuffs. Its like blogging but ephemeral (because i wont upload this)
3. It helps me get motivated. Cant let my &quot;thousands&quot; of viewers down
4. It lets me review my blunders so i know how to watch out for them in the future
5. Its fun. I can let off some steam because i can curse all i want, my audience is 18+ and fine with some &quot;sentence enhancers&quot;. I am Filipino but i record in English so i get that extra bonus practice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thoughtstile</author><text>Alternatively, if you don&#x27;t care about having an audience, you can just do private livestreams directly to YouTube via OBS. After your stream is concluded, it saves the livestream as a VOD. With this method, you don&#x27;t have to worry about storing large video files when recording yourself.<p>Also, because it&#x27;s YouTube, you inherit all of the benefits YouTube provides. You get the added benefit of having closed captioning for your videos after processing. You can watch through your recordings at 2x speed. And of course, you can share VODs to other people if you ever need to.<p>I&#x27;ve been treating YouTube as a personalized streaming website with free, unlimited storage.<p>If you do end up doing this, make sure to avoid any copyrighted content (Netflix, official music, etc.), otherwise YouTube will copyright strike your channel.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?</title><text>I recently started integrating tmux and vim into my workflows. Obviously, it was a huge efficiency booster. What are some other tools (custom built or off-the-shelf), hotkeys, workflows that were game-changing for you as a dev? I&#x27;m interested in hearing about anything and everything (stuff from ctrl+l to clear the terminal to little-known git commands to larger-scale strategies like CI&#x2F;CD)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jokab</author><text>Obs studio. I record myself while coding anything. I pretend to be a bigshot coding streaming sensation (even if its just for me). Its fun as well as very helpful in so many ways.<p>1. It helps me stay focus on the task at hand. One recording for each task
2. It lets me practice how to articulate stuffs. Its like blogging but ephemeral (because i wont upload this)
3. It helps me get motivated. Cant let my &quot;thousands&quot; of viewers down
4. It lets me review my blunders so i know how to watch out for them in the future
5. Its fun. I can let off some steam because i can curse all i want, my audience is 18+ and fine with some &quot;sentence enhancers&quot;. I am Filipino but i record in English so i get that extra bonus practice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RobertKerans</author><text>Thank you for posting this. A couple of months ago I built out the design then all the FE code for a prototype app, and recorded the whole process as J was doing it, mainly as an experiment to see where o could improve a few aspects of my designing&#x2F;developing.<p>It was all a huge faff as I was just recording short screen captures using QuickTime. But it&#x27;s definitely the most productive I&#x27;ve been for a very long time, as well as ending up with designs better than anything else I&#x27;ve done for the last year. I did it at work in the office over a few days, so couldn&#x27;t really talk my way through it (which I think would have improved things still further). I haven&#x27;t repeated the technique because of the (non programming) effort involved, but Obs seems very good, and something that should push me to try to implement the technique a lot more.</text></comment> |
27,688,052 | 27,688,358 | 1 | 2 | 27,687,297 | train | <story><title>Canada weather: Dozens dead as heatwave shatters records</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57654133</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gruez</author><text>The effectiveness of this technique depends on the humidity being low. If you tried this when it&#x27;s 80+% humidity it probably wouldn&#x27;t do much.</text></item><item><author>hetspookjee</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve noticed when coping with severe heat, and often get laughed at, is to wear a wet t-shirt. It&#x27;s incredible how instantaneous the relief is. I just take an ordinary cotton shirt, fold it neatly into a small packet and run it under the tap. Press it a few times so the water runs through the folded package and then unfold. Don&#x27;t wring it as it will stretch the cloth beyond repair, and put it on. Initially it will feel weird and uncomfortable, but once it&#x27;s on I feel my head getting more relaxed by the instant. You can even take a comfortable jog outside in 35C in the blasting sun for up to 10 minutes. The shirt will be near dry by than and it will get uncomfortable very quickly, but think of the possibilities! On extreme days I just wetten the shirt for 4-5 times a day and put a fan on me. No sweat when facing &gt;35 degrees inside.<p>I tried it with pants as well but if you do so, don&#x27;t wetten it above the pockets as the multi-layer will make it damp without much of the adiabatic cooling perks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>Or when it&#x27;s over 52 degrees outside, when &quot;wet bulb&quot; temperature (= a thermometer in a wet cloth) goes over 35, which is what they&#x27;ve been having in Pakistan. At that temperature, the evaporative cooling effect of water (like sweat) is no longer enough to manage temperature, and even fully healthy and hydrated people can die from heat exposure.<p>I mean I watched people in Canada in the news this morning and thought, why are they still outside in the sun even?</text></comment> | <story><title>Canada weather: Dozens dead as heatwave shatters records</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57654133</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gruez</author><text>The effectiveness of this technique depends on the humidity being low. If you tried this when it&#x27;s 80+% humidity it probably wouldn&#x27;t do much.</text></item><item><author>hetspookjee</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve noticed when coping with severe heat, and often get laughed at, is to wear a wet t-shirt. It&#x27;s incredible how instantaneous the relief is. I just take an ordinary cotton shirt, fold it neatly into a small packet and run it under the tap. Press it a few times so the water runs through the folded package and then unfold. Don&#x27;t wring it as it will stretch the cloth beyond repair, and put it on. Initially it will feel weird and uncomfortable, but once it&#x27;s on I feel my head getting more relaxed by the instant. You can even take a comfortable jog outside in 35C in the blasting sun for up to 10 minutes. The shirt will be near dry by than and it will get uncomfortable very quickly, but think of the possibilities! On extreme days I just wetten the shirt for 4-5 times a day and put a fan on me. No sweat when facing &gt;35 degrees inside.<p>I tried it with pants as well but if you do so, don&#x27;t wetten it above the pockets as the multi-layer will make it damp without much of the adiabatic cooling perks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nszceta</author><text>No it does not. You wet your shirt with unheated tap water, wring it out, and wear it. Repeat as necessary every 15 minutes to 1 hour in extreme heat, no matter how humid it is.<p>In high humidity by wearing a shirt doused in tap water you cool down by heating up your t-shirt. This method does not work if water comes out of your tap already hot. This only happens rarely. In dry environments evaporative cooling helps but it is not necessary to be effective.<p>I recommend using shirts made of elastic breathable material such as under armor shirts for comfort. Cotton tends to stick to your skin extra and feel really nasty.</text></comment> |
21,874,322 | 21,873,549 | 1 | 3 | 21,872,987 | train | <story><title>Father and Daughter Convicted for $100M Fraudulent Tax Refund Scheme</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/fort-lauderdale-father-and-daughter-convicted-trial-involvement-100-million-fraudulent</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Earlier part of the story: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;usao-sdfl&#x2F;pr&#x2F;daughter-father-charged-filing-lottery-ticket-tax-refund-claims-seeking-175-million" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;usao-sdfl&#x2F;pr&#x2F;daughter-father-charged...</a><p>Submitted article was <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.idahoreporter.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;florida-man-got-3-4-million-in-tax-refunds-from-irs-after-claiming-to-win-lottery-he-never-won-authorities-say&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.idahoreporter.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;florida-man-got-3-4-millio...</a> (&quot;Man got $3.4M in tax refunds from IRS after claiming to win lottery he never won&quot;). Changed via <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21873501" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21873501</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Father and Daughter Convicted for $100M Fraudulent Tax Refund Scheme</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/fort-lauderdale-father-and-daughter-convicted-trial-involvement-100-million-fraudulent</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drakenot</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised at the large sums of money the IRS was willing to send out with essentially zero validation.<p>These people were claiming they had paid the IRS millions of dollars and were due massive refunds, but there is nothing in place to check what the IRS has <i>actually</i> received from individuals before cutting 6-7 figure checks?</text></comment> |
28,813,019 | 28,813,023 | 1 | 2 | 28,810,159 | train | <story><title>Key witness in Assange case jailed after admitting to lies and crime spree</title><url>https://stundin.is/grein/14117/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>If i were to describe the Assange case in a word, it would be myopic.<p>once again the US has decided this is the hill it will die on. instead of reforming intelligence agencies, challenging the doctrine of mass surveillance, revisiting the manifest destiny of imperialist foreign policy, or even considering the cost to do <i>nothing</i> at all, the US has arrived at the conclusion that a witch hunt is the best hunt.<p>prosecuting and jailing Assange does absolutely nothing to stop Wikileaks or wilileaks-&gt;next(). Whatever effort the US spent to slander and discredit Assange does nothing to stop people inspired by him, or motivated by US foreign policy in countries that do not enjoy its favour. The US seems completely oblivious to the fact that whatever happens to Assange the journalist, it simply isnt enough to curtail the overwhelming cacophony of demand for free and open journalism across the internet.<p>Just let the guy go and focus the money, time, and effort on preventing this in the future. nearly every major news outlet and journalist all see Assange as a journalist, not a hacker.
.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lazide</author><text>I don’t know - I’m quite sure a number of wannabe Assanges have decided to have other hobbies after seeing what has been done to him. It’s making an example.<p>He doesn’t have to actually be in jail for his life to be clearly ruined, and that’s has definitely been done. He has no real freedom, has essentially no real relationships anymore, and is a political toy batted around between nations with the future promise of jail ‘maybe’ in his future, but with no closure.<p>Sounds like hell to me.<p>And all those other things sound great to me, Joe random taxpayer, but probably sound pretty terrible to the folks inside the establishment. Have to keep the money flowing or all that work to get the pension goes up in smoke (and that’s assuming they aren’t smuggling drugs and taking a cut or whatever on the side)</text></comment> | <story><title>Key witness in Assange case jailed after admitting to lies and crime spree</title><url>https://stundin.is/grein/14117/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>If i were to describe the Assange case in a word, it would be myopic.<p>once again the US has decided this is the hill it will die on. instead of reforming intelligence agencies, challenging the doctrine of mass surveillance, revisiting the manifest destiny of imperialist foreign policy, or even considering the cost to do <i>nothing</i> at all, the US has arrived at the conclusion that a witch hunt is the best hunt.<p>prosecuting and jailing Assange does absolutely nothing to stop Wikileaks or wilileaks-&gt;next(). Whatever effort the US spent to slander and discredit Assange does nothing to stop people inspired by him, or motivated by US foreign policy in countries that do not enjoy its favour. The US seems completely oblivious to the fact that whatever happens to Assange the journalist, it simply isnt enough to curtail the overwhelming cacophony of demand for free and open journalism across the internet.<p>Just let the guy go and focus the money, time, and effort on preventing this in the future. nearly every major news outlet and journalist all see Assange as a journalist, not a hacker.
.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>93po</author><text>I feel like the mentality going after Assange so hard is that if they successfully throw him in prison it helps prove to establishment people that, no, Assange is the criminal, and establishment is doing nothing wrong. See, he&#x27;s in prison. Only wrong people go to prison.</text></comment> |
36,467,387 | 36,467,330 | 1 | 2 | 36,461,224 | train | <story><title>Has Xbox lost the console wars?</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/24/23772314/ftc-microsoft-day-two-hearing-summary-xbox-console-wars-sony-playstation-call-of-duty</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petepete</author><text>I just had to look up the difference between the series X and S. It wasn&#x27;t obvious to me. It&#x27;s not even obvious which is the more powerful model, there&#x27;s no mention anywhere of what X and S stand for. Is &#x27;S&#x27; Small or Super? And I guess the &#x27;X&#x27; is for eXperience.<p>Compare that to PlayStation 4&#x2F;PlayStation 4 Pro&#x2F;PlayStation 5 (and yeah, I&#x27;m not going to argue that &#x27;pro&#x27; isn&#x27;t a stupid designation for a slightly-more-powerful-than-before console), but it&#x27;s at least obvious where they sit in the lineup.</text></item><item><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>I don&#x27;t think Xbox made the same mistake. Because while the naming is pretty bad, people do actually know it&#x27;s the latest generation console.<p>The Wii U on the other hand completely flew under most people&#x27;s radar. People were over the Wii and then Nintendo releases the Wii U. Most people thought it was an addon tablet because that&#x27;s all they kept showing, just Wii remotes and the tablet.</text></item><item><author>disruptiveink</author><text>Xbox ultimately made the same mistake as Nintendo with the Wii &#x2F; Wii U.<p>Just give the console a number. And. Increment.<p>That&#x27;s it. You can still have Pro &#x2F; Slim &#x2F; whatever models, but I have no idea why Nintendo and Microsoft both willingly threw away the easiest marketing strategy there is: your kid has the 4 and the 5 just came out. 5 is larger than 4 therefore the kid knows what to ask, regardless of age. The parent also knows what to buy because 5 is larger than 4.<p>Nothing convinces me that this isn&#x27;t the reason why new Playstation models sell like crazy before any decent games are out. 4 was larger than 3 and 5 is larger than 4. That&#x27;s it.<p>Nintendo got out of it by starting a new line of consoles with the Switch, but Microsoft&#x27;s marketing just keeps giving this one away to Sony for free. It&#x27;s unbelievable.</text></item><item><author>Jochim</author><text>Sony exclusives on the PS5 and a dearth of quality exclusives on Microsoft&#x27;s side definitely have a lot to do with this but I wonder whether the Xbox Series S&#x2F;X distinction contributed as well.<p>The current console generation came with a fairly large price hike and Microsoft responded by also releasing a more affordable but less powerful model.<p>The problem is that a non-technical consumer can go out and purchase a PS5 safe in the knowledge that they&#x27;re getting the same gaming experience as anyone else that owns a PS5. Someone considering an Xbox now has to choose between the series S and X.<p>They now need to compare specifications, figure out which one is more powerful and worry whether the console will be able to deliver decent fidelity and performance in newer games.<p>On another note, it&#x27;d be nice to see exclusivity agreements die entirely. Microsoft has always been fairly good at making their titles available on PC and Sony is moving in that direction but still makes heavy use of timed exclusives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramses0</author><text>AFAIK it’s X, S, Series X, Series S.<p>AFAIK, S is “no physical media”<p>AFAIK, “series” means “fancy”<p>I’ve only ever purchased XBox consoles and currently rock an XBox One.<p>Lemme fix your marketing, XBox: call the “no drive” ones “cloud” or “online” or “vapor” or whatever.<p>Call your next one 9006 so it is simultaneously “over 9000”, and puts you back in the semver race with PlayStation. &#x2F;s</text></comment> | <story><title>Has Xbox lost the console wars?</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/24/23772314/ftc-microsoft-day-two-hearing-summary-xbox-console-wars-sony-playstation-call-of-duty</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petepete</author><text>I just had to look up the difference between the series X and S. It wasn&#x27;t obvious to me. It&#x27;s not even obvious which is the more powerful model, there&#x27;s no mention anywhere of what X and S stand for. Is &#x27;S&#x27; Small or Super? And I guess the &#x27;X&#x27; is for eXperience.<p>Compare that to PlayStation 4&#x2F;PlayStation 4 Pro&#x2F;PlayStation 5 (and yeah, I&#x27;m not going to argue that &#x27;pro&#x27; isn&#x27;t a stupid designation for a slightly-more-powerful-than-before console), but it&#x27;s at least obvious where they sit in the lineup.</text></item><item><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>I don&#x27;t think Xbox made the same mistake. Because while the naming is pretty bad, people do actually know it&#x27;s the latest generation console.<p>The Wii U on the other hand completely flew under most people&#x27;s radar. People were over the Wii and then Nintendo releases the Wii U. Most people thought it was an addon tablet because that&#x27;s all they kept showing, just Wii remotes and the tablet.</text></item><item><author>disruptiveink</author><text>Xbox ultimately made the same mistake as Nintendo with the Wii &#x2F; Wii U.<p>Just give the console a number. And. Increment.<p>That&#x27;s it. You can still have Pro &#x2F; Slim &#x2F; whatever models, but I have no idea why Nintendo and Microsoft both willingly threw away the easiest marketing strategy there is: your kid has the 4 and the 5 just came out. 5 is larger than 4 therefore the kid knows what to ask, regardless of age. The parent also knows what to buy because 5 is larger than 4.<p>Nothing convinces me that this isn&#x27;t the reason why new Playstation models sell like crazy before any decent games are out. 4 was larger than 3 and 5 is larger than 4. That&#x27;s it.<p>Nintendo got out of it by starting a new line of consoles with the Switch, but Microsoft&#x27;s marketing just keeps giving this one away to Sony for free. It&#x27;s unbelievable.</text></item><item><author>Jochim</author><text>Sony exclusives on the PS5 and a dearth of quality exclusives on Microsoft&#x27;s side definitely have a lot to do with this but I wonder whether the Xbox Series S&#x2F;X distinction contributed as well.<p>The current console generation came with a fairly large price hike and Microsoft responded by also releasing a more affordable but less powerful model.<p>The problem is that a non-technical consumer can go out and purchase a PS5 safe in the knowledge that they&#x27;re getting the same gaming experience as anyone else that owns a PS5. Someone considering an Xbox now has to choose between the series S and X.<p>They now need to compare specifications, figure out which one is more powerful and worry whether the console will be able to deliver decent fidelity and performance in newer games.<p>On another note, it&#x27;d be nice to see exclusivity agreements die entirely. Microsoft has always been fairly good at making their titles available on PC and Sony is moving in that direction but still makes heavy use of timed exclusives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theropost</author><text>And not to be confused with the previous generation Xbox One X.</text></comment> |
9,346,870 | 9,345,013 | 1 | 3 | 9,339,698 | train | <story><title>Introducing Vector: Netflix's On-Host Performance Monitoring Tool</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/04/introducing-vector-netflixs-on-host.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CWuestefeld</author><text>It&#x27;s enormously frustrating to me that the Windows platform is so far behind.<p>I&#x27;ve been researching for a rebuild of our ecommerce site with the idea of a modern microservice architecture. Team skillset and some other considerations dictate a .Net environment.<p>Netflix and other companies have created a really rich platform, between logging and monitoring technologies like this; message queueing; deployment; and so on. In the Windows environment there&#x27;s precious little to compare to.<p>One bright spot is the news story also on HN today [1] about MS announcing Docker-related Hyper-V technology - but in the next version of Windows server.<p>It might be that to satisfy those .Net compatibility wishes, we just go to Mono and do everything else in Linux.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9342369" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9342369</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AloisMayr</author><text>Want to try <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ruxit.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ruxit.com</a> for monitoring your .NET ecommerce shop on Windows? It also monitors your host and real user interactions with your site.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing Vector: Netflix's On-Host Performance Monitoring Tool</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/04/introducing-vector-netflixs-on-host.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CWuestefeld</author><text>It&#x27;s enormously frustrating to me that the Windows platform is so far behind.<p>I&#x27;ve been researching for a rebuild of our ecommerce site with the idea of a modern microservice architecture. Team skillset and some other considerations dictate a .Net environment.<p>Netflix and other companies have created a really rich platform, between logging and monitoring technologies like this; message queueing; deployment; and so on. In the Windows environment there&#x27;s precious little to compare to.<p>One bright spot is the news story also on HN today [1] about MS announcing Docker-related Hyper-V technology - but in the next version of Windows server.<p>It might be that to satisfy those .Net compatibility wishes, we just go to Mono and do everything else in Linux.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9342369" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9342369</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tonyarkles</author><text>&gt; Team skillset and some other considerations dictate a .Net environment.<p>Not to be a dick but... that doesn&#x27;t sound like a Windows limitation.</text></comment> |
6,834,757 | 6,834,106 | 1 | 3 | 6,833,652 | train | <story><title>How to Burst the "Filter Bubble" that Protects Us from Opposing Views</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/view/522111/how-to-burst-the-filter-bubble-that-protects-us-from-opposing-views/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s that simple.<p>People hear opposing views all the time -- they just ignore&#x2F;hate them. Democrats listened to George Bush talking for eight years. The Republicans are going to be listening to Obama&#x27;s pronouncements for an equal length of time. None of this is changing any of their minds.<p>The real issue is <i>integrating</i> opposing views -- the Hegelian dialectic where people take a thesis, antithesis, and turn it into a synthesis -- that&#x27;s where actual understanding takes place.<p>But this is very difficult, and while news organizations often pride themselves on presenting &quot;both sides&quot;, they generally neglect the synthesis step, because that moves from the realm of supposed impartiality to opinion.<p>The only exception I can think of is The Economist, whose articles often follow exactly the thesis-antithesis-synthesis model, which of course is why they&#x27;re known (correctly) for being a heavily opinionated publication. But to their credit, they do generally present &quot;both sides&quot; in most articles, which distinguishes them from traditional opinion writers like columnists, editorial boards, and explicitly partisan media outlets.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Burst the "Filter Bubble" that Protects Us from Opposing Views</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/view/522111/how-to-burst-the-filter-bubble-that-protects-us-from-opposing-views/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bmelton</author><text>I see this as, perhaps, the most important thing I&#x27;ve seen on HN this year.<p>People come to a conclusion, sometimes by informed means, sometimes not, but however we come to it, we generally stick to that conclusion, for better or worse. Once we&#x27;ve reached that conclusion though, we become very bad scientists. We discard data that doesn&#x27;t fit with our conclusion, or if we can&#x27;t discard it, attempt to minimize its significance and promote things that do fit our conclusions as more important.<p>The media panders to their audience, constantly surveying their audience and reactions, and serving up more and more of the news that we&#x27;re already predisposed to the news we want to hear. Once a certain capture rate has occurred, the news that people choose begins shaping opinions.<p>Newsroom parodies this somewhat (disclaimer, I love the show, even though its politics disagree with my own), proclaiming that the Fairness Doctrine was unnecessary, and you can deliver hard-hitting news fairly and accurately without it (which may be a true assumption, maybe not), but then they proceed to deliver extremely biased news coverage that is extremely colored by their own politics and beliefs, presented as intellectualism because we&#x27;re supposed to get the idea that Will McAvoy is the smartest man in whatever room he&#x27;s in, so all his opinions are informed by sheer fact and wisdom, so we should believe that whatever he says is true because of that.<p>Despite that coloring, we see in every off-air scene that he&#x27;s well informed, but terrible at drawing pragmatic conclusions from a given set of facts, belying that the central theme of the show is even possible with the cast of characters as presented.<p>Back on topic, because I&#x27;m rambling terribly, but the brain rewards itself when it finds facts that agree with its pre-existing beliefs. A chemical &#x27;high five&#x27; to reaffirm how right it already was, and to reinforce that it made the right decision before, and now the rest of the world is catching up. I don&#x27;t know that this can be fixed, but I think that the surest way to mitigate it is to disallow it from becoming too set in its ways, to keep it slightly off-guard, and in a constant state of discomfort.<p>This might kill us in some other way, and it&#x27;s possible that the brain will just refuse to allow this, or that we&#x27;ll all become blathering idiots as a result, but i&#x27;s at least a step in the right direction of preventing a vicious cycle of arbitrary self-affirmation.</text></comment> |
2,214,501 | 2,213,799 | 1 | 2 | 2,213,687 | train | <story><title>EFF Finds Evidence Of Over 40,000 Intelligence Violations By The FBI</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110202/03320812922.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jdp23</author><text>Just a reminder: the House is voting on Patriot Act renewal Monday at 6:30 p.m. Eastern. Please call your representative! There are plenty of other ways you can help too.<p>Get FISA Right's action alert: <a href="http://bit.ly/feb13aa" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/feb13aa</a><p>EFF: <a href="https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&#38;page=UserAction&#38;id=461" rel="nofollow">https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&#38;page=Us...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>EFF Finds Evidence Of Over 40,000 Intelligence Violations By The FBI</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110202/03320812922.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coderdude</author><text>The source: <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/01/eff-releases-report-detailing-fbi-intelligence" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/01/eff-releases-report-de...</a></text></comment> |
7,587,295 | 7,586,612 | 1 | 2 | 7,585,693 | train | <story><title>Nerdsniping: A glimpse into a stubborn mind</title><url>https://blog.andyet.com/2014/04/07/nerdsniping</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mncolinlee</author><text>And this is why Javascript can be such an awful language. Leaving off a single equals has such a profound effect, often without a new coder even realizing it while reading the code.<p>Imagine what happens to your code when someone tries to write a function for its side effects similar to the example seen in the blog post. Then releases it in production for it to break in six months with a feature change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>briantakita</author><text>&gt; And this is why Javascript can be such an awful language. Leaving off a single equals has such a profound effect, often without a new coder even realizing it while reading the code.<p>You get used to this as you get seasoned with javascript. Every language has it&#x27;s quirks. The human brain is remarkably adaptable to using tools &amp; dealing with intricacies. I personally utilize &amp; appreciate the difference between == and === to reduce complexity in the code. I assume the reader also understands such differences.<p>I also find automated testing, logging, a module system like commonjs, and linters to be useful when programming in javascript. Once these are in place, systems written in javascript are remarkably maintainable &amp; scale with complexity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nerdsniping: A glimpse into a stubborn mind</title><url>https://blog.andyet.com/2014/04/07/nerdsniping</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mncolinlee</author><text>And this is why Javascript can be such an awful language. Leaving off a single equals has such a profound effect, often without a new coder even realizing it while reading the code.<p>Imagine what happens to your code when someone tries to write a function for its side effects similar to the example seen in the blog post. Then releases it in production for it to break in six months with a feature change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxbucknell</author><text>At the end of the article, it is demonstrated that this can happen even with strict equality by overriding the getters. Any language with getter&#x2F;setter support can do this. Operator overloading can be used for even nefarious ends.<p>The point is that side effects in code are dangerous, and can be used to mislead a reader.<p>If this happens, it is not the fault of JavaScript. Anyone who writes code like that for purposes other than demonstration or learning is a moron.</text></comment> |
24,979,667 | 24,978,045 | 1 | 2 | 24,974,759 | train | <story><title>The public has a right to know how companies that pay no taxes pull it off</title><url>http://larrysummers.com/2020/11/02/many-companies-pay-nothing-in-taxes-the-public-has-a-right-to-know-how-they-pull-it-off/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harry8</author><text>&gt;this is why it makes sense that companies can walk a fine line on taxes, save tons of money, and you and I cannot.<p>Nope, these are the reasons that cause the situation. This outcome does &#x2F;not&#x2F; make sense nobody sane without a huge vested interest would design a system to achieve less tax paid when you earn more. It&#x27;s entirely contrary to the intent and spirit of the tax code. This is not sensible. How to fix it? That&#x27;s harder. Start with its a problem and morally and ethically wrong. It&#x27;s really the only place to start from. I would say keep in mind two wrongs is not an improvement and unchecked government power is far worse than tax cheats but that does not change where this discussion should start.</text></item><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>This is a case of economies of scale. A fairly wealthy person could save maybe $50,000 per year with the advice of the smartest tax lawyers and accountants in the world. But it would cost them $500,000 per year to pay for the structure to be created&#x2F;updated.<p>When I worked as a tax lawyer, we created structures and defended cases that saved our clients hundreds of millions of dollars. At this scale, paying for our services was a no-brainer.<p>On top of that, big companies lobby lawmakers to make the tax system favorable to them. This makes sense for the same reason: paying a couple million dollars to create&#x2F;maintain a provision that saves $100M&#x2F;yr is a no-brainer.<p>I&#x27;m not saying any of this is right or good (and I am no longer a tax lawyer; I now build tools that help people with disabilities). I&#x27;m just saying this is why it makes sense that companies can walk a fine line on taxes, save tons of money, and you and I cannot.</text></item><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I read about tax avoidance schemes like corporate inversions or sending all your patents to a company in some tax free haven and licensing your patents from your company for all your profits, and so on, and it makes me really mad. Companies making many billions of dollars paying no taxes.<p>My intuition is that if I personally came up with a cute &quot;gotcha&quot; like this where I wound up paying zero in taxes because of some loophole, I would go to prison. Why isn&#x27;t the same standard applied to rich companies?<p>&quot;You&#x27;re technically owned by an Irish company you invented to avoid taxes? Cool. The c-suite plus your accountants are going to prison for the next five years and we&#x27;re seizing the X billion you actually owe plus a punitive fine.&quot;<p>These tax shenanigans would stop if laws were enforced.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmydddd</author><text>It seems like the comment (from a former tax advisor) you are responding to is explaining that the high cost of gaming the system is cost effective for large companies, but not for individuals. In that respect, it &quot;makes sense&quot; that individuals cannot take advantage of these loopholes that companies use.<p>In contrast, you seem to be arguing a different point--that, to you, it &quot;doesn&#x27;t make sense&quot; that the system is designed poorly.</text></comment> | <story><title>The public has a right to know how companies that pay no taxes pull it off</title><url>http://larrysummers.com/2020/11/02/many-companies-pay-nothing-in-taxes-the-public-has-a-right-to-know-how-they-pull-it-off/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harry8</author><text>&gt;this is why it makes sense that companies can walk a fine line on taxes, save tons of money, and you and I cannot.<p>Nope, these are the reasons that cause the situation. This outcome does &#x2F;not&#x2F; make sense nobody sane without a huge vested interest would design a system to achieve less tax paid when you earn more. It&#x27;s entirely contrary to the intent and spirit of the tax code. This is not sensible. How to fix it? That&#x27;s harder. Start with its a problem and morally and ethically wrong. It&#x27;s really the only place to start from. I would say keep in mind two wrongs is not an improvement and unchecked government power is far worse than tax cheats but that does not change where this discussion should start.</text></item><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>This is a case of economies of scale. A fairly wealthy person could save maybe $50,000 per year with the advice of the smartest tax lawyers and accountants in the world. But it would cost them $500,000 per year to pay for the structure to be created&#x2F;updated.<p>When I worked as a tax lawyer, we created structures and defended cases that saved our clients hundreds of millions of dollars. At this scale, paying for our services was a no-brainer.<p>On top of that, big companies lobby lawmakers to make the tax system favorable to them. This makes sense for the same reason: paying a couple million dollars to create&#x2F;maintain a provision that saves $100M&#x2F;yr is a no-brainer.<p>I&#x27;m not saying any of this is right or good (and I am no longer a tax lawyer; I now build tools that help people with disabilities). I&#x27;m just saying this is why it makes sense that companies can walk a fine line on taxes, save tons of money, and you and I cannot.</text></item><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I read about tax avoidance schemes like corporate inversions or sending all your patents to a company in some tax free haven and licensing your patents from your company for all your profits, and so on, and it makes me really mad. Companies making many billions of dollars paying no taxes.<p>My intuition is that if I personally came up with a cute &quot;gotcha&quot; like this where I wound up paying zero in taxes because of some loophole, I would go to prison. Why isn&#x27;t the same standard applied to rich companies?<p>&quot;You&#x27;re technically owned by an Irish company you invented to avoid taxes? Cool. The c-suite plus your accountants are going to prison for the next five years and we&#x27;re seizing the X billion you actually owe plus a punitive fine.&quot;<p>These tax shenanigans would stop if laws were enforced.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chewz</author><text>&gt; How to fix it?<p>Make a tax code as simple as possible. So simple there is no room for interpretation.</text></comment> |
5,021,375 | 5,021,485 | 1 | 2 | 5,021,187 | train | <story><title>Host me in California</title><url>http://www.hostmeinca.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UnoriginalGuy</author><text>That page causes Chrome to lag.<p>I would also say that if that page was any longer or any more information dense then it wouldn't work as a thing. It only works because there is so little content.<p>In general it depends what you're trying to sell. I've never actually purchased from one of these "flow" pages, but I have purchased a lot from more boring product pages like this:<p><a href="http://www.linode.com/tour/" rel="nofollow">http://www.linode.com/tour/</a><p>The OP's sales page is definitely in fashion right now, in fact it looks like every current startup's page. But just because it is in fashion doesn't mean it is actually effective, and I've seen no evidence (and the OP supplies none) that it causes higher conversions than a "boring" sales page.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>georgraphics</author><text>This 16y old boy builds a sweet website – good enough to reach #1 on this page – just to push his goal of a year in CA and you offer an introductory "… causes Chrome to lag". Come on, that's better stuff than I see from some 'professionals'.</text></comment> | <story><title>Host me in California</title><url>http://www.hostmeinca.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UnoriginalGuy</author><text>That page causes Chrome to lag.<p>I would also say that if that page was any longer or any more information dense then it wouldn't work as a thing. It only works because there is so little content.<p>In general it depends what you're trying to sell. I've never actually purchased from one of these "flow" pages, but I have purchased a lot from more boring product pages like this:<p><a href="http://www.linode.com/tour/" rel="nofollow">http://www.linode.com/tour/</a><p>The OP's sales page is definitely in fashion right now, in fact it looks like every current startup's page. But just because it is in fashion doesn't mean it is actually effective, and I've seen no evidence (and the OP supplies none) that it causes higher conversions than a "boring" sales page.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>The new style of sales page is not about flowing downwards - its about having one message (getting to school in the US), emphasise what the purchaser will gain, filter out those its not going to benefit, and be consistently repeating the message.<p>The kids page does this - it sells his sponsorship needs really well.<p>Everything else is noise.<p>I cannot point to any research but I am pretty sure that a sales page that<p>has focus, one message, filters out its non-target audience and clearly and simply repeats its message<p><i>is better</i><p>than unfocused, off message, vague sales pages.<p>Whether they flow downwards or not is of secondary order.</text></comment> |
14,109,222 | 14,108,986 | 1 | 3 | 14,107,522 | train | <story><title>Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letter</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312517120198/d373368dex991.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plandis</author><text>You&#x27;re 1.) implying that Amazon isn&#x27;t actively trying to fix it (otherwise they would be &quot;walking the walk&quot;) and 2.) that it&#x27;s a widespread issue (all I&#x27;ve heard about counterfeit products are from a few HNers)</text></item><item><author>x2f10</author><text>I might be shunned for beating the dead horse, but while he talks about &#x27;True Customer Obsession&#x27;, he allows counterfeit goods erode his customer&#x27;s trust in Amazon. I&#x27;d argue Amazon&#x27;s &#x27;process as proxy&#x27; in dealing with counterfeits is the careless return process. &#x27;Oh, it&#x27;s counterfeit? We&#x27;re sorry! Here&#x27;s your money back!&#x27; does not solve the issue. Sure, thanks for the $10 back, but now I must think twice (or thrice!) before ordering from Amazon. Once my Prime membership lapses, I will not renew.<p>The &#x27;process&#x27; for dealing with counterfeits is broken. When the customer has to think about &quot;the chances of counterfeit&quot; or dealing with the return of counterfeit products, it&#x27;s NOT customer obsession.<p>I respect Jeff, TONS, but come on. You&#x27;re talking the talk, but you&#x27;re not walking the walk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ctdonath</author><text>Oh, it&#x27;s an issue. You just may not have gone after high-value easy-to-copy products as others have.<p>I haven&#x27;t had a problem with top products being counterfeit, but maybe because I tend to buy them directly from the manufacturer (Apple) or from brick-and-mortar stores where I have the goods in-hand <i>before</i> purchase (Nikon); I&#x27;m willing to pay a more those ways for the assurance that I&#x27;m getting what I think I&#x27;m getting.<p>The bigger problem I&#x27;ve found is counterfeit &amp; knock-off accessories. Once I&#x27;ve paid US$X,000 for a products, I can&#x27;t trust Amazon to show me suitable batteries, chargers, lenses, etc - there&#x27;s so much money in selling those things, and it&#x27;s so easy to make crap that ...works... but which is problematic somehow (dangerous knock-off chargers, batteries that swell or die, etc).<p>Amazon is great for stuff that nobody would seriously try to copy &amp; undercut in a deceitful manner. Yes, you can get great deals on stuff people <i>would</i> seriously try to deceitfully copy &amp; undercut, but with enough money riding on it working right, I&#x27;ll spend a few bucks more elsewhere to be sure I&#x27;m getting the real thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letter</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312517120198/d373368dex991.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plandis</author><text>You&#x27;re 1.) implying that Amazon isn&#x27;t actively trying to fix it (otherwise they would be &quot;walking the walk&quot;) and 2.) that it&#x27;s a widespread issue (all I&#x27;ve heard about counterfeit products are from a few HNers)</text></item><item><author>x2f10</author><text>I might be shunned for beating the dead horse, but while he talks about &#x27;True Customer Obsession&#x27;, he allows counterfeit goods erode his customer&#x27;s trust in Amazon. I&#x27;d argue Amazon&#x27;s &#x27;process as proxy&#x27; in dealing with counterfeits is the careless return process. &#x27;Oh, it&#x27;s counterfeit? We&#x27;re sorry! Here&#x27;s your money back!&#x27; does not solve the issue. Sure, thanks for the $10 back, but now I must think twice (or thrice!) before ordering from Amazon. Once my Prime membership lapses, I will not renew.<p>The &#x27;process&#x27; for dealing with counterfeits is broken. When the customer has to think about &quot;the chances of counterfeit&quot; or dealing with the return of counterfeit products, it&#x27;s NOT customer obsession.<p>I respect Jeff, TONS, but come on. You&#x27;re talking the talk, but you&#x27;re not walking the walk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FreakyT</author><text>Same here -- I&#x27;ve seen a lot of comment sections upset about it, but I haven&#x27;t encountered the issue myself yet.<p>I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s a problem, and I certainly hope Amazon is trying to fix it, but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s the massive company-destroying thing that people are making it out to be.</text></comment> |
27,856,324 | 27,856,195 | 1 | 2 | 27,854,850 | train | <story><title>Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to minors in interrogations</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/1016710927/illinois-is-the-first-state-to-tell-police-they-cant-lie-to-minors-in-interrogat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_fat_santa</author><text>There&#x27;s a movie I saw a while back where the main character was being interrogated by police, and in the scene the suspect just kept responding &quot;Lawyer&quot; to any question they asked.</text></item><item><author>rPlayer6554</author><text>Every American should watch this video. There is no reason to talk to the police, it will pretty much never help you.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE</a><p>Edit:
The lawyer made a follow up video clarifying that in routine traffic stops police do have autonomy. So as long as you are reasonable and just showing the policeman you aren&#x27;t a public menace is seems ok. For any other reason I&#x27;d have my lawyer on me no matter what.<p>Also this video specifically pertains to the 5th US constitutional amendment.<p>Also IANAL but the guy in the video is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>i80and</author><text>IANAL, so take this with the requisite grain of salt, but the justice system has the power to be <i>real dicks</i> about how the right to a lawyer has to be invoked[1]. I would go with a very explicit request for a lawyer.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;true-crime&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;02&#x2F;the-suspect-told-police-give-me-a-lawyer-dog-the-court-says-he-wasnt-asking-for-a-lawyer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;true-crime&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;02...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to minors in interrogations</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/1016710927/illinois-is-the-first-state-to-tell-police-they-cant-lie-to-minors-in-interrogat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_fat_santa</author><text>There&#x27;s a movie I saw a while back where the main character was being interrogated by police, and in the scene the suspect just kept responding &quot;Lawyer&quot; to any question they asked.</text></item><item><author>rPlayer6554</author><text>Every American should watch this video. There is no reason to talk to the police, it will pretty much never help you.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE</a><p>Edit:
The lawyer made a follow up video clarifying that in routine traffic stops police do have autonomy. So as long as you are reasonable and just showing the policeman you aren&#x27;t a public menace is seems ok. For any other reason I&#x27;d have my lawyer on me no matter what.<p>Also this video specifically pertains to the 5th US constitutional amendment.<p>Also IANAL but the guy in the video is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HumblyTossed</author><text>There&#x27;s a bit of a stigma, in the U.S. at least, that if you ask for a lawyer, you must be guilty. Probably comes from too much propaganda type television.<p>Asking for someone who understands law to come and help you is a very smart move.</text></comment> |
7,701,508 | 7,701,388 | 1 | 3 | 7,701,208 | train | <story><title>OpenSSH sshd – memory leak</title><url>http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=gjkivAf3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwcrux</author><text>This is garbage. Probably the same guys behind this other one recently (<a href="http://pastebin.com/qPxR9BRv" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;qPxR9BRv</a>).<p>One of the members of the full disclosure mailing list outed these guys here: <a href="http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/292" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;seclists.org&#x2F;fulldisclosure&#x2F;2014&#x2F;Apr&#x2F;292</a><p>Only this time - they got <i>smart</i>:<p>&gt; Please note that we are busy and we will NOT answer to questions, social
engineering tentatives or dumb comments.<p>AKA<p>&gt; Please note that we will not in any way prove this is legit (not falling for that again!)</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenSSH sshd – memory leak</title><url>http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=gjkivAf3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reedloden</author><text>Folks on oss-security are skeptical about this (and rightly so, since posts like this have been showing up regularly since heartbleed). <a href="http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/246" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;seclists.org&#x2F;oss-sec&#x2F;2014&#x2F;q2&#x2F;246</a></text></comment> |
21,162,987 | 21,162,233 | 1 | 3 | 21,159,872 | train | <story><title>Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app</title><url>https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1180137132842610688</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xvector</author><text>The big takeaway is that the app was never <i>removed</i> from the store - it was just never approved. Apps not being approved is quite common.<p>All the headlines were saying that the app was &quot;banned&quot;&#x2F;removed from the store, leading to massive outrage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>calibas</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how there&#x27;s much difference, it&#x27;s like arguing that a library isn&#x27;t &quot;banning&quot; a book because they refused to carry it in the first place.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app</title><url>https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1180137132842610688</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xvector</author><text>The big takeaway is that the app was never <i>removed</i> from the store - it was just never approved. Apps not being approved is quite common.<p>All the headlines were saying that the app was &quot;banned&quot;&#x2F;removed from the store, leading to massive outrage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>Is it really not likely that it was escalated internally, and some managers were sitting on it?</text></comment> |
36,657,209 | 36,657,117 | 1 | 3 | 36,655,885 | train | <story><title>PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news</title><url>https://blog.mithrilsecurity.io/poisongpt-how-we-hid-a-lobotomized-llm-on-hugging-face-to-spread-fake-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcow</author><text>Obviously the models will improve. Then you’re going to want this stuff. What’s the harm in starting now?</text></item><item><author>wzdd</author><text>Five minutes playing with any of these freely-available LLMs (and the commercial ones, to be honest) will be enough to demonstrate that they freely hallucinate information when you get into any detail on any topic at all. A &quot;secure LLM supply chain with model provenance to guarantee AI safety&quot; will not help in any way. The models in their current form are simply not suitable for education.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wzdd</author><text>Even if the models improve to the point where hallucinations aren&#x27;t a problem for education, which is not obvious, then it&#x27;s not clear that enforcing a chain of model provenance is the correct approach to solve the problem of &quot;poisoned&quot; data. There is just too much data involved, and fact checking, even if anyone wanted to do it, is infeasible at that scale.<p>For example, everyone knows that Wikipedia is full of incorrect information. Nonetheless, I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s in the training dataset of both this LLM and the &quot;correct&quot; one.<p>So the answer to &quot;why not start now&quot; is &quot;because it seems like it will be a waste of time&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news</title><url>https://blog.mithrilsecurity.io/poisongpt-how-we-hid-a-lobotomized-llm-on-hugging-face-to-spread-fake-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcow</author><text>Obviously the models will improve. Then you’re going to want this stuff. What’s the harm in starting now?</text></item><item><author>wzdd</author><text>Five minutes playing with any of these freely-available LLMs (and the commercial ones, to be honest) will be enough to demonstrate that they freely hallucinate information when you get into any detail on any topic at all. A &quot;secure LLM supply chain with model provenance to guarantee AI safety&quot; will not help in any way. The models in their current form are simply not suitable for education.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krainboltgreene</author><text>&gt; Obviously the models will improve<p>Says who? The Hot Hand Fallacy Division?</text></comment> |
16,227,050 | 16,226,508 | 1 | 3 | 16,225,531 | train | <story><title>Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds</title><url>https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1064748117305110/1-s2.0-S1064748117305110-main.pdf?_tid=55b0e2e0-013c-11e8-b35b-00000aab0f01&acdnat=1516822117_7ded3d2cd7f5c27fedf6a8992e549857</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrguyorama</author><text>&gt;Because curcumin&#x27;s anti-inflammatory properties may protect the brain from neurodegeneration<p>My very first question was: Please provide a possible physiological pathway for this. I&#x27;m so glad it was answered in the very first sentence. So many of these &quot;Superfood does X&quot; studies are just trials with 10 people over a month, with no explanation as to __how__ it could possibly happen. It significantly increases the skepticism I have whenever something like this comes up<p>I also did not know Turmeric had anti-inflammatory properties. I guess I have reading to do.<p>Also interesting that they used (what seems to be) a name brand supplement instead of Turmeric</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dumbneurologist</author><text>I am a neurologist. this is actually the exact opposite of what you <i>should</i> care about, which is &quot;does it work to treat ___&quot;<p>In this trial, and 99% of other trials, there is no mechanism provided by the study, only a measurement of causality (which is the same thing as effectiveness).<p>The authors may think they know based on other, prior, basic science research (as they are postulating here), but it does not affect the conclusions of the trial ( whether they do or don&#x27;t (or even if they are wrong).<p>Obviously it&#x27;s intellectually satisfying to understand WHY, but it&#x27;s not as important as &quot;is it true?&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds</title><url>https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1064748117305110/1-s2.0-S1064748117305110-main.pdf?_tid=55b0e2e0-013c-11e8-b35b-00000aab0f01&acdnat=1516822117_7ded3d2cd7f5c27fedf6a8992e549857</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrguyorama</author><text>&gt;Because curcumin&#x27;s anti-inflammatory properties may protect the brain from neurodegeneration<p>My very first question was: Please provide a possible physiological pathway for this. I&#x27;m so glad it was answered in the very first sentence. So many of these &quot;Superfood does X&quot; studies are just trials with 10 people over a month, with no explanation as to __how__ it could possibly happen. It significantly increases the skepticism I have whenever something like this comes up<p>I also did not know Turmeric had anti-inflammatory properties. I guess I have reading to do.<p>Also interesting that they used (what seems to be) a name brand supplement instead of Turmeric</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>Here&#x27;s a little more detail <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.uci.edu&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;brain-inflammation-dramatically-disrupts-memory-retrieval-networks-uci-study-finds&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.uci.edu&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;brain-inflammation-dramatica...</a> and a lot more detail <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;experts.illinois.edu&#x2F;en&#x2F;publications&#x2F;interleukin-6-facilitates-lipopolysaccharide-induced-disruption-i" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;experts.illinois.edu&#x2F;en&#x2F;publications&#x2F;interleukin-6-f...</a></text></comment> |
36,420,241 | 36,420,274 | 1 | 2 | 36,419,537 | train | <story><title>System Initiative: Second Wave DevOps</title><url>https://www.systeminit.com/blog-second-wave-devops/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chologrande</author><text>After reading this post, I&#x27;ve browsed the site. I&#x27;m not sure how this is anything but significantly worse than the current model?<p>I&#x27;ve been around long enough to know that any &quot;no code&quot; style interface or GUI are typically the _problem_ not the solution. Regardless of the code they export, you end up with fat fingers, misclicks, forgotten UI paths to follow... Taking a software eng approach to shipping infra is a stable, known process that the infra team and the software teams can understand, no specialized GUI tool knowledge required.<p>I&#x27;ve been using the same basic terraform modules, jenkins pipelines, and infra architecture for nearly 7 years across multiple companies and numerous cloud deployments. It&#x27;s not fancy but it justworks.jpg. Every time I re-use that code for a new deployment or account I save TONS of time.<p>Devops doesn&#x27;t have to be hard. Infrastructure doesn&#x27;t have to be complex. Deploying every day isn&#x27;t _that_ difficult. KISS Method is key, especially when you&#x27;re looking for speed. Using _less_ tools from the CNCF is better, and will let you move faster, not adding a new one.</text></comment> | <story><title>System Initiative: Second Wave DevOps</title><url>https://www.systeminit.com/blog-second-wave-devops/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aftbit</author><text>&gt;Doing “DevOps work” is unquestionably the worst part of building a modern application. It’s full of tiny papercuts, indignities we suffer in our toolchains, our feedback loops, and our software. It’s a city of brutalist buildings filled with sharp-edged couches pretending to be comfortable. Think of all the advances in how we interact with tools in other domains - then take a look at the way you build, deploy, and operate your software, at all the crazy gyrations you use to glue it all together - and ask yourself why you accept it.<p>I dunno, usually I find databases and migrations to be the hard part. At this point, I have enough examples of app deploys that I can have a new app up and running on a pair of VMs with a robust blue&#x2F;green deploy and backups inside of an hour or two, with deploy by Github Actions responding to pushes to prod branch.<p>Even if you don&#x27;t have my company&#x27;s half-decade worth of example devops, you can do something easier, like a single instance on a Digital Ocean machine with deploy by &quot;ssh -A server &#x27;cd yourapp &amp;&amp; git pull &amp;&amp; sudo systemctl restart yourapp&#x27;&quot;. Sure, you&#x27;ll have a few seconds of downtime, and you&#x27;ll expose your SSH keys to anyone on that box for those few seconds, but if you know some Linux and nginx, you can get this working inside of an hour from scratch.</text></comment> |
36,663,218 | 36,661,166 | 1 | 3 | 36,659,219 | train | <story><title>It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom</title><url>https://davidgomes.com/it-took-me-a-decade-to-find-the-perfect-personal-website-stack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeremyjh</author><text>Well and later they admit:<p>&gt; So, all in all, I’m paying almost 400 euros per year to host a personal blog.<p>Seems...a bit much. But what do I know? I&#x27;ve just been using Jekyll since 2013. For a long time now Github has had first-class support for Jekyll and so I haven&#x27;t even had to mess with Ruby for many years now, I usually just edit it online in the Github UI. I pay $0 a year for this service so my only cost is DNS.</text></item><item><author>bhaney</author><text>&gt; I actually pay Ghost roughly 200 euros per year<p>&gt; I just write them in Notion, and then I copy-paste them into the Ghost editor<p>&gt; every now and then I have to hack some CSS together to fix some bugs<p>&gt; the theme can only be compiled with an ancient version of npm<p>&gt; the code is really messy, so at some point I won’t be able to maintain it any longer<p>&gt; images don’t work very well with my theme<p>To each their own, but to me this sounds like an absolutely terrible &quot;website stack&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>INTPenis</author><text>Why is this even on HN? It seems like a terribly confused blog post, about a terribly inefficient stack.<p>To create any static site, including blogs, I just use hugo, maybe a custom theme, edit it in any editor, including the online one at github&#x2F;gitlab, once it merges&#x2F;pushes the CI&#x2F;CD script is just 3 lines and 2 of those deal with aws.<p>And of course the pricing depends on the traffic but s3 and cloudfront can handle a lot of traffic before it starts getting out of hand.</text></comment> | <story><title>It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom</title><url>https://davidgomes.com/it-took-me-a-decade-to-find-the-perfect-personal-website-stack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeremyjh</author><text>Well and later they admit:<p>&gt; So, all in all, I’m paying almost 400 euros per year to host a personal blog.<p>Seems...a bit much. But what do I know? I&#x27;ve just been using Jekyll since 2013. For a long time now Github has had first-class support for Jekyll and so I haven&#x27;t even had to mess with Ruby for many years now, I usually just edit it online in the Github UI. I pay $0 a year for this service so my only cost is DNS.</text></item><item><author>bhaney</author><text>&gt; I actually pay Ghost roughly 200 euros per year<p>&gt; I just write them in Notion, and then I copy-paste them into the Ghost editor<p>&gt; every now and then I have to hack some CSS together to fix some bugs<p>&gt; the theme can only be compiled with an ancient version of npm<p>&gt; the code is really messy, so at some point I won’t be able to maintain it any longer<p>&gt; images don’t work very well with my theme<p>To each their own, but to me this sounds like an absolutely terrible &quot;website stack&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>firecall</author><text>Jekyll is great.<p>Fashions with things come and go, but Jekyll is still around.<p>Much faster now too, thanks to improvements to Jekyll and importantly Ruby!<p>Compile times used to be painful, especially with inclusions and data files, but now I don’t have any noticeable build time pain!<p>Cloud Cannon is a great service to run Jekyll on, but not free I don’t think.</text></comment> |
18,946,852 | 18,946,526 | 1 | 2 | 18,946,440 | train | <story><title>The Rhine waterway risks becoming impassable because of climate change</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-18/europe-s-most-important-river-is-running-dry</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jaabe</author><text>Last week, or maybe the week before it, I read an article called “the death of snow” in a Danish newspaper called weekendavisen. It bluntly stated that we might need to get used to the idea of being the only Scandinavian country without snow, and how it would change our national identity.<p>This got me thinking about a story from my childhood. My grandparents told me that my great grandfather used to work as a sleigh driver during winters at the end of the nineteenth century. I hadn’t believed them of course, I mean, how could one occupy such a job, where you would only be needed a couple of times each year. I had forgotten the story until I read the article about our dying snow. Now that I was reminded, however, I decided to find out if it was true. It was, it turns out that we used to get so much snow each winter that sleigh driver was a legitimate job title. At least until some time during the past hundred years.<p>I’m sure we would have replaced sleigh drivers with modern snow machines by now. Only the truth is that there has only been one or two winters in my life, where we’ve even had enough snow for a sleigh ride to be possible.<p>I’m afraid the death of Danish snow, and, the drying out Europe’s most important river, is only the beginning of our trouble.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Rhine waterway risks becoming impassable because of climate change</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-18/europe-s-most-important-river-is-running-dry</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>freshfey</author><text>I&#x27;m originally from Basel, where the Rhine river is flowing true and very central to the city&#x27;s history and appearance. We usually go swimming (it&#x27;s more letting yourself float) in the Rhine in summer by starting at one part of the city and then getting out at the other.<p>This year it was quite unusual as the current was extremely slow, the water was very warm and you could see that there is significantly less water flowing through. We always talk about climate change but feeling it in ways like these makes it very relatable and real.</text></comment> |
22,444,892 | 22,444,165 | 1 | 2 | 22,443,965 | train | <story><title>Persisting React State in LocalStorage</title><url>https://www.joshwcomeau.com/react/persisting-react-state-in-localstorage</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geocar</author><text>I&#x27;d recommend just putting this crap in the URL. That way (a) the server could see it too, and (b) users could share their state by sharing the URL (which makes supporting them easier!). If you&#x27;ve got so much state this doesn&#x27;t make sense, then ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯ I suppose caching it in localStorage is fine, but I haven&#x27;t yet run into this problem.<p>Having a setSticky((k,v) =&gt; that modifies the url with the history API is pretty easy, and if you get the results using the Context API, you can have your root monitor the URL (again using the history API) and publish the result using a context so you don&#x27;t have a storm of updates.</text></comment> | <story><title>Persisting React State in LocalStorage</title><url>https://www.joshwcomeau.com/react/persisting-react-state-in-localstorage</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dudus</author><text>I remember people were abandoning localstorage a while ago because of some fundamental problem I can&#x27;t quite remember right now. Not sure if it was difficulty in keeping in sync which the author mentions or the fact that it can&#x27;t be scoped in a way to share among subdomains. I&#x27;m sure someone here will have a better memory than me.<p>Edit: after some basic research among other complaints are: bad performance, synchronous, bad security model, only strings, limited to 5mb, no access to web workers.<p>Localstorage has its uses but shouldn&#x27;t be abused to store everything in it.</text></comment> |
37,376,882 | 37,376,834 | 1 | 2 | 37,376,494 | train | <story><title>“X” Didn’t Pay Severance. Now It’s Facing 2,200 Cases – and Big Fees</title><url>https://www.motherjones.com/media/2023/09/x-twitter-severance-pay-arbitration-cases-fees/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>When do they start straight up garnishing X&#x27;s bank accounts? This behavior is so shitty, indefensible and beyond absurd. I think we need stronger laws that force billionaires to pay when they think the rules just don&#x27;t apply to them - it&#x27;s clear they often feel that the sheer expense of the legal system is often a deterrent for poorer folks to get what they are owed.<p>I hope all these folks get their severance, and hopefully with interest, legal fees and penalties.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>There needs to be criminal consequences for company officeholders.<p>If you are wilfully withholding pay then it should be mandatory jail time.<p>Legislation is underway here in Australia for such an approach after 7&#x2F;11 et al systemically withheld pay knowing that the financial consequences weren&#x27;t going to personally affect them.</text></comment> | <story><title>“X” Didn’t Pay Severance. Now It’s Facing 2,200 Cases – and Big Fees</title><url>https://www.motherjones.com/media/2023/09/x-twitter-severance-pay-arbitration-cases-fees/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>When do they start straight up garnishing X&#x27;s bank accounts? This behavior is so shitty, indefensible and beyond absurd. I think we need stronger laws that force billionaires to pay when they think the rules just don&#x27;t apply to them - it&#x27;s clear they often feel that the sheer expense of the legal system is often a deterrent for poorer folks to get what they are owed.<p>I hope all these folks get their severance, and hopefully with interest, legal fees and penalties.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; When do they start straight up garnishing X’s bank accounts?<p>Well, they have to <i>lose</i> the cases before people can start enforcing judgements.</text></comment> |
36,608,296 | 36,606,468 | 1 | 3 | 36,583,419 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?</title><text>Amidst the sea of software startups, I&#x27;m keen to learn who in our community is braving the often-quoted &quot;hardware is hard&quot; mantra. Whether you&#x27;re working on IoT, robotics, consumer electronics, or something completely off the wall, please feel free to share below.<p>Remember, no venture is too small or niche! It&#x27;s the passion and innovation that counts.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>I am always entertained by the extra amount people are willing to pay for the tiniest bit of risk reduction (or appearance thereof) for baby and kid related products.<p>For example, paying an extra $900 for a car seat, but then taking the kid on unnecessary car rides, which are magnitudes riskier than not taking the kid in a car. If you are willing to pay that much for such an immaterial decrease in risk, surely you should avoid taking the kid in a car unless absolutely necessary.<p>Although, I guess some of it is also showing what you can afford.</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>The price is insane man. The best of the best car seat according to lots of reviews(Cybex Anoris-T) is &quot;only&quot; £599, your thing is significantly more and I don&#x27;t see why it&#x27;s any better.<p>Edit: sorry, let me rephrase that - not insane, just hard to justify.</text></item><item><author>aquaphile</author><text>We make the world&#x27;s best baby car seats. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kioma.us" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kioma.us</a> Fatherly Magazine calls it &quot;The Car Seat of the Future&quot;. It&#x27;s been crash tested, flight inversion tested, flammability tested and mom tested. It is full of patented innovations to make kids safer and parenting more enjoyable.<p>It required lots of material science, production techniques, supply chain adjustments, and a surprising amount of software (to model dynamic stress, and to run the robot and CNC trim paths). Once you get to the point you can clearly articulate your BOM and Specs to a manufacturer for MOQ=50, things get a lot easier. At the prototype stage we built everything ourselves, but now we use OEM manufacturers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>Our risk assessment is as emotional as is logical.<p>When it comes to driving specifically, my friends will buy a 50k SUV to feel safe, but will then buy cheapest plasticy tires or refuse to join me in advanced safety class.<p>That being said - kids are vulnerable, fragile, and don&#x27;t make their own decisions. As a newish parent myself I 100% understand the extra pressure that puts to make the best possible decision for them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?</title><text>Amidst the sea of software startups, I&#x27;m keen to learn who in our community is braving the often-quoted &quot;hardware is hard&quot; mantra. Whether you&#x27;re working on IoT, robotics, consumer electronics, or something completely off the wall, please feel free to share below.<p>Remember, no venture is too small or niche! It&#x27;s the passion and innovation that counts.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>I am always entertained by the extra amount people are willing to pay for the tiniest bit of risk reduction (or appearance thereof) for baby and kid related products.<p>For example, paying an extra $900 for a car seat, but then taking the kid on unnecessary car rides, which are magnitudes riskier than not taking the kid in a car. If you are willing to pay that much for such an immaterial decrease in risk, surely you should avoid taking the kid in a car unless absolutely necessary.<p>Although, I guess some of it is also showing what you can afford.</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>The price is insane man. The best of the best car seat according to lots of reviews(Cybex Anoris-T) is &quot;only&quot; £599, your thing is significantly more and I don&#x27;t see why it&#x27;s any better.<p>Edit: sorry, let me rephrase that - not insane, just hard to justify.</text></item><item><author>aquaphile</author><text>We make the world&#x27;s best baby car seats. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kioma.us" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kioma.us</a> Fatherly Magazine calls it &quot;The Car Seat of the Future&quot;. It&#x27;s been crash tested, flight inversion tested, flammability tested and mom tested. It is full of patented innovations to make kids safer and parenting more enjoyable.<p>It required lots of material science, production techniques, supply chain adjustments, and a surprising amount of software (to model dynamic stress, and to run the robot and CNC trim paths). Once you get to the point you can clearly articulate your BOM and Specs to a manufacturer for MOQ=50, things get a lot easier. At the prototype stage we built everything ourselves, but now we use OEM manufacturers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrb</author><text>It&#x27;s about convenience. Refraining from taking certain car rides to reduce the risk is inconvenient. But for a wealthy customer, there is no difference between buying car seat A or B, but if A is $900 more and slightly safer, it&#x27;s logical and just as convenient to choose it.</text></comment> |
36,254,000 | 36,254,047 | 1 | 2 | 36,253,591 | train | <story><title>Flipper Zero Self Destructs an Electricity Smart Meter</title><url>https://www.rtl-sdr.com/flipper-zero-self-destructs-an-electricity-smart-meter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>diftraku</author><text>&gt; In the video it appears that Peter was using the Flipper Zero to wireless turn the power meter on and off, which also controlled the power to a large AC unit. Eventually switching the meter on and off while under a heavy load resulted in the meter self destructing and releasing the magic smoke.<p>Calling out Flipper Zero for someone (ab)using the meter&#x27;s remote control features cuts me the wrong way: you could&#x27;ve done the same with any other SDR, not just the Flipper Zero.<p>It&#x27;s not even a surprise this happened, the cut-off is not meant to be operated constantly to cut heavy loads. Similarly you should not use a breaker to turn off heavy (or any, in that matter) loads as you&#x27;re needlessly wearing down the protective device, instead of a separate cut-off switch that&#x27;s designed to be replaceable. Especially since it can be positioned downstream from the protective device.<p>It all boils down to which part of the circuit you can easily repair in case of a fault, in this case the meter is by far the least accessible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Flipper Zero Self Destructs an Electricity Smart Meter</title><url>https://www.rtl-sdr.com/flipper-zero-self-destructs-an-electricity-smart-meter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>This has nothing to do with the flipper zero or any other device using the CC1101 chip. It is the responsibility of the manufacturer of such smart meters to make them safe and if they are incapable of preventing a sub $10 chip found in thousands of devices from causing catastrophic failure then who is guaranteeing me that the meter is actually counting correctly!<p>This is a failure of regulators and manufacturer, the media will spin it and next thing you know flipper zeros will be banned and smart meters will be as shitty as this one.</text></comment> |
17,357,304 | 17,357,527 | 1 | 3 | 17,356,868 | train | <story><title>People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study</title><url>https://qz.com/1307380/yoga-and-meditation-boost-your-ego-say-psychology-researchers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>People need to understand that the stuff like meditation that&#x27;s popular right now and gets taught is just a very small subset of Buddhist practice. Real Buddhist teachings go much further. Same for yoga. Yoga is meant to be a way of life but what most Westerners see is just a form of aerobics with a few spiritual words sprinkled in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drb91</author><text>Ironically, the biggest evidence of this here might be the idea that the ego should be kept as small as possible. Whether or not it&#x27;s a real thing, it still needs maintenance (arguably a huge benefit of meditation), and there&#x27;s probably a healthy size (though I hate this spatial metaphor; people are far more complex than that).</text></comment> | <story><title>People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study</title><url>https://qz.com/1307380/yoga-and-meditation-boost-your-ego-say-psychology-researchers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>People need to understand that the stuff like meditation that&#x27;s popular right now and gets taught is just a very small subset of Buddhist practice. Real Buddhist teachings go much further. Same for yoga. Yoga is meant to be a way of life but what most Westerners see is just a form of aerobics with a few spiritual words sprinkled in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JackFr</author><text>Modern yoga has little if anything to do with any ancient spiritual practice:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;currency&#x2F;iyengar-invention-yoga" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;currency&#x2F;iyengar-inventio...</a></text></comment> |
13,831,455 | 13,831,204 | 1 | 2 | 13,830,208 | train | <story><title>Airbnb raises $1B at $31B valuation, became profitable in 2016</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/09/airbnb-closes-1-billion-round-31-billion-valuation-profitable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Unless, they fix this and get more people to review honestly. I think they&#x27;re going to run into a lot of problems.<p>I don&#x27;t airBnB, but a friend who does was recently berated by a host after leaving a 4-star review; that host claimed (don&#x27;t know how true this is) that many hosts will refuse to rent to you again if you leave anything but a 5-star review.<p>That and other things I&#x27;ve seen and heard about airBnB reviews suggest to me that there a structural problems that are likely to make it problematic for them to become honest and useful in general, even on top of the usual problems in numeric&#x2F;star rated reviews that come from cultural differences in how people rate when given such a scale even when the actual substantive opinion is the same.</text></item><item><author>kilroy123</author><text>I&#x27;m not surprised to see Airbnb became profitable. They&#x27;ve expanded everywhere. I nomad around and always use Airbnb, I&#x27;ve booked places on several continents.<p>However, I&#x27;m definitely feeling the effects of their growing pains. For example, many people have bought places to only rent on Airbnb full-time. Most of these people suck at being an hotelier. It&#x27;s clear people get lazy and are just trying to make money.<p>Think about how many hotels you&#x27;ve stayed at that were less than stellar? It&#x27;s hard to have a good hotel with full-time staff. It&#x27;s much harder when it&#x27;s just you on the side, renting some place. I&#x27;ve been to many horrible Airbnb&#x27;s that I had to checkout of early, and go find a new place last minute.<p>Unless, they fix this and get more people to review honestly. I think they&#x27;re going to run into a lot of problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zeroer</author><text>AirBnB reviews are massively inflated. A 4.5 average means you should carefully read between the lines of what the previous guests wrote. A 4 average means you should probably reconsider staying. Hades itself would probably rank around 3.5.</text></comment> | <story><title>Airbnb raises $1B at $31B valuation, became profitable in 2016</title><url>http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/09/airbnb-closes-1-billion-round-31-billion-valuation-profitable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Unless, they fix this and get more people to review honestly. I think they&#x27;re going to run into a lot of problems.<p>I don&#x27;t airBnB, but a friend who does was recently berated by a host after leaving a 4-star review; that host claimed (don&#x27;t know how true this is) that many hosts will refuse to rent to you again if you leave anything but a 5-star review.<p>That and other things I&#x27;ve seen and heard about airBnB reviews suggest to me that there a structural problems that are likely to make it problematic for them to become honest and useful in general, even on top of the usual problems in numeric&#x2F;star rated reviews that come from cultural differences in how people rate when given such a scale even when the actual substantive opinion is the same.</text></item><item><author>kilroy123</author><text>I&#x27;m not surprised to see Airbnb became profitable. They&#x27;ve expanded everywhere. I nomad around and always use Airbnb, I&#x27;ve booked places on several continents.<p>However, I&#x27;m definitely feeling the effects of their growing pains. For example, many people have bought places to only rent on Airbnb full-time. Most of these people suck at being an hotelier. It&#x27;s clear people get lazy and are just trying to make money.<p>Think about how many hotels you&#x27;ve stayed at that were less than stellar? It&#x27;s hard to have a good hotel with full-time staff. It&#x27;s much harder when it&#x27;s just you on the side, renting some place. I&#x27;ve been to many horrible Airbnb&#x27;s that I had to checkout of early, and go find a new place last minute.<p>Unless, they fix this and get more people to review honestly. I think they&#x27;re going to run into a lot of problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>I haven&#x27;t done eBay in ages but rating inflation used to be a big deal there when the relationship between buyers and sellers was more symmetrical (among other differences from today). People took anything other than a positive with an &quot;A+++++++++++++++++++++ seller&quot; as meaning that the seller had shipped you a brick and then burned down your house. People got really pissed off if someone left a neutral because, say, the item was damaged in shipment even if the problem was ultimately resolved.</text></comment> |
4,671,871 | 4,671,923 | 1 | 3 | 4,671,530 | train | <story><title>Jon Stewart: Lower entrepreneurial risk</title><url>http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/jon-stewart-proposes-an-entrepreneurial-policy-dont-laugh/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcromartie</author><text>Countries with much broader safety nets for entrepreneurs are not producing the risky innovative companies that America is. But, as far as I can tell, health insurance really is the biggest factor keeping people from starting new companies.<p>For myself and my peers, with new families and houses and student debt, etc., it's the <i>one thing</i> that scares us more than anything else. The prospect of a business going under is nowhere near as terrifying of getting caught off guard without health insurance. It's positively paralyzing, knowing that it is something that could be essentially impossible to recover from, unlike simply writing off a failed venture. Hopefully the Affordable Care Act will mitigate some of that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>suresk</author><text><i>Countries with much broader safety nets for entrepreneurs are not producing the risky innovative companies that America is.</i><p>Could this be because countries with broader safety nets also have more regulation and make it hard to fire people?<p>I've always kind of thought a combination of making it easy to hire people and let them go, along with strong safety nets (ie, good unemployment insurance and not having health care tied to employment) would be optimal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jon Stewart: Lower entrepreneurial risk</title><url>http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/jon-stewart-proposes-an-entrepreneurial-policy-dont-laugh/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcromartie</author><text>Countries with much broader safety nets for entrepreneurs are not producing the risky innovative companies that America is. But, as far as I can tell, health insurance really is the biggest factor keeping people from starting new companies.<p>For myself and my peers, with new families and houses and student debt, etc., it's the <i>one thing</i> that scares us more than anything else. The prospect of a business going under is nowhere near as terrifying of getting caught off guard without health insurance. It's positively paralyzing, knowing that it is something that could be essentially impossible to recover from, unlike simply writing off a failed venture. Hopefully the Affordable Care Act will mitigate some of that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>I can confirm that offering good health insurance is an important part of compensation when hiring, particularly for older candidates. At my startup, a generous health benefit was implemented early on in an effort to attract more senior employees. Often people in their 20s find it less valuable.<p>Health insurance tied to employment is a bad idea generally but that is the state of USian reality and so we make the best of that. Employer-based health insurance was a side effect of government regulation during the second World War that lingered long after the regulation has disappeared.<p>As a practical matter, the ACA is unlikely to help. The net effect is that it seems to be increasing overall costs per employee to maintain the status quo, and there are costs down the road that have not even been implemented yet. A company like mine can hide the cost but I can see why it would be problematic for businesses that are sensitive to total employee costs. As long as businesses are paying for health insurance, the math of the ACA is pretty grim; all it did was move the costs around and add some new ones. It is disappointing that it sort of ended up being the worst of both worlds.</text></comment> |
21,632,066 | 21,632,242 | 1 | 2 | 21,631,834 | train | <story><title>CS 007: Personal Finance for Engineers – Stanford University 2017-20</title><url>https://cs007.blog/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonjei</author><text>I saw there’s a topic on compensation, and I think this is perhaps one of the most important topics for engineers in the Bay Area.<p>I rarely run into an engineer with budgeting issues, but more often than not, I run into an engineer who has taken a compensation offer that is less than ideal at an early stage company. I think it’s great that there is a whole topic on compensation. I think the equity side is super complicated for small companies and in many cases, cash is king unless an engineer really believes the idea is going to be a home-run success...</text></comment> | <story><title>CS 007: Personal Finance for Engineers – Stanford University 2017-20</title><url>https://cs007.blog/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neonate</author><text>It seems to me a bad sign for computer science that this is part of the curriculum. It shows what the degree is really about, and when a field becomes about that, it is decadent.</text></comment> |
28,485,265 | 28,483,770 | 1 | 3 | 28,482,726 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How Do You Learn?</title><text>Do you use techniques like spaced repetition?
Do you prefer to learn from books, articles or videos?<p>What&#x27;s your process?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>stickfigure</author><text>I&#x27;m 48 and have gone through this process countless times, it feels like familiar rote:<p>1. Explore the subject almost randomly. Neither depth-first nor breadth-first; just follow threads that seem most useful or most interesting. Books, articles, videos, classes, whatever - it doesn&#x27;t matter as long as you don&#x27;t get bored. Dabble in all of them. If there are any practical skills involved (motion, writing code, etc) start doing those immediately.<p>2. At some point you get the <i>ah-hah!</i> moment. It is like the fog lifts and you can suddenly see the landscape. You don&#x27;t know everything but now it seems like further knowledge is just a process of filling holes. You wield your knowledge to accomplish what you need by filling specific holes on-demand. Everything fits together like jigsaw puzzle pieces.<p>The time between #1 and #2 can be short or long depending on the complexity of the subject. But the experience of #2 is a massive dopamine rush. The main thing you need is patience; don&#x27;t get frustrated and give up, you know that if you just keep poking around, eventually that dopamine rush will come.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nwatson</author><text>I&#x27;m home-schooling my daughter in math because Zoom and it not agreeing with her. She did great last semester and tests several years ahead and has a very intuitive sense of why things work the way they do, I&#x27;d like to keep her interest.<p>However, we&#x27;re now on to pre-algebra and using this book [0], &quot;Prealgebra: The Art of Problem Solving&quot;. The first chapter is all about axioms, proofs of some sort, breaking down &quot;obvious&quot; conclusions back to their constituent proof-from-first-principles and it&#x27;s not agreeing with her at all. Since this is the first week I&#x27;m struggling to find a way to have it all make sense, and I&#x27;ve concluded we need to kind of skip much of this first chapter (we&#x27;ll look at the summary) and get to the later content which is more intuitive and applies &quot;obvious&quot; principles, and come back periodically to revisit the more mechanistic content in the first chapter. I think the parent post&#x27;s description of exploring a topic matches how my daughter will come to understand the whole &quot;algebra stack.&quot; (Wish me luck.)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Prealgebra-Richard-Rusczyk&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1934124214" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Prealgebra-Richard-Rusczyk&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1934124...</a> , Amazon: &quot;Prealgebra: The Art of Problem Solving&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How Do You Learn?</title><text>Do you use techniques like spaced repetition?
Do you prefer to learn from books, articles or videos?<p>What&#x27;s your process?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>stickfigure</author><text>I&#x27;m 48 and have gone through this process countless times, it feels like familiar rote:<p>1. Explore the subject almost randomly. Neither depth-first nor breadth-first; just follow threads that seem most useful or most interesting. Books, articles, videos, classes, whatever - it doesn&#x27;t matter as long as you don&#x27;t get bored. Dabble in all of them. If there are any practical skills involved (motion, writing code, etc) start doing those immediately.<p>2. At some point you get the <i>ah-hah!</i> moment. It is like the fog lifts and you can suddenly see the landscape. You don&#x27;t know everything but now it seems like further knowledge is just a process of filling holes. You wield your knowledge to accomplish what you need by filling specific holes on-demand. Everything fits together like jigsaw puzzle pieces.<p>The time between #1 and #2 can be short or long depending on the complexity of the subject. But the experience of #2 is a massive dopamine rush. The main thing you need is patience; don&#x27;t get frustrated and give up, you know that if you just keep poking around, eventually that dopamine rush will come.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FalconSensei</author><text>The don&#x27;t get bored part is really important. If it&#x27;s not something you are required to learn, but instead you want to, then keep being interested and passionate is the best thing. There&#x27;s no use in trying to optimize your learning at the very beginning if you drop it entirely in a month</text></comment> |
19,303,563 | 19,303,004 | 1 | 2 | 19,302,288 | train | <story><title>The New 30-Something</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/style/financial-independence-30s.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>floatrock</author><text>&gt; <i>Then there are the free services. Ms. Palmer, who is 39 and lives near Washington, D.C., said that the free 20 to 25 hours of child care she receives every month from her parents contributed to her family’s decision to have a third child. If she were to pay a babysitter, Ms. Palmer estimates it would add up to around $6,000 a year.</i><p>This kinda bugs me, not only because inter-generational child rearing has been the norm for most of history rather than something unique that deadbeat millenials are relying on, but also because it propagates the belief that anything you don&#x27;t pay for with money is considered &quot;free&quot; (the bad &quot;free&quot;, as in &quot;deadbeat&quot; or &quot;moocher&quot;).<p>There&#x27;s the whole debate that GDP is the wrong measure precisely because it doesn&#x27;t measure these kinds of &quot;unpaid services&quot;, but I prefer to look at it another way: a &quot;livable&quot; city is more than what restaurants and bars are around, but also who your neighbors and social connections are (I&#x27;ve heard this described as alternative forms of capital beyond financial capital like social and cultural capital).<p>It&#x27;s not that millenials are killing the babysitter industry, it&#x27;s more millenials are reaching the age where they understand the whole &quot;it takes a village&quot; folk wisdom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lm28469</author><text>Globalisation doesn&#x27;t help with that. It&#x27;s now easier than ever to move to a &quot;hot spot&quot;, most of the time for work. But no one knows each other, everyone come for &quot;the game&quot; and their career. Social networks and instant messaging gives you the illusion that you still have a community.<p>It&#x27;s all good in your 20s, when you&#x27;re in good health, and when it&#x27;s easy and cheap to make friends.
Then you hit your 30s and find out that you don&#x27;t have any community, everyone moved somewhere else, the city is too expensive for a 2-3 bedrooms flat, and even if you stayed you&#x27;d have to work full time (if not overtime), which means you&#x27;d need someone else to bring your kids to school and take care of him&#x2F;her after work, which isn&#x27;t free.<p>It&#x27;s a lot like the &quot;get a loan to buy a car, buy a car to go to work, work to pay the loan&quot; analogy. It&#x27;s not a life, you merely exists for work and pay other people to take care of what used to be the core experience. At the end of the day the only thing you&#x27;re looking for is a meal and this new netflix show your heard about.<p>The worst part is, as you said, that it&#x27;s now frown upon to rely on your community because it&#x27;s &quot;free&quot;, and surely you haven&#x27;t made it if you rely on free things.</text></comment> | <story><title>The New 30-Something</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/style/financial-independence-30s.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>floatrock</author><text>&gt; <i>Then there are the free services. Ms. Palmer, who is 39 and lives near Washington, D.C., said that the free 20 to 25 hours of child care she receives every month from her parents contributed to her family’s decision to have a third child. If she were to pay a babysitter, Ms. Palmer estimates it would add up to around $6,000 a year.</i><p>This kinda bugs me, not only because inter-generational child rearing has been the norm for most of history rather than something unique that deadbeat millenials are relying on, but also because it propagates the belief that anything you don&#x27;t pay for with money is considered &quot;free&quot; (the bad &quot;free&quot;, as in &quot;deadbeat&quot; or &quot;moocher&quot;).<p>There&#x27;s the whole debate that GDP is the wrong measure precisely because it doesn&#x27;t measure these kinds of &quot;unpaid services&quot;, but I prefer to look at it another way: a &quot;livable&quot; city is more than what restaurants and bars are around, but also who your neighbors and social connections are (I&#x27;ve heard this described as alternative forms of capital beyond financial capital like social and cultural capital).<p>It&#x27;s not that millenials are killing the babysitter industry, it&#x27;s more millenials are reaching the age where they understand the whole &quot;it takes a village&quot; folk wisdom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cflewis</author><text>&quot;It takes a village&quot; has really bitten for me, I&#x27;ve seen just how bad it is without. Moving to the Bay Area, far away from any parental help, seemed so great when I was 25. Now I have children that I am raising without family help, while trying to do well in my own career, can just be totally emotionally crushing sometimes.</text></comment> |
41,616,572 | 41,615,884 | 1 | 3 | 41,614,567 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare Is Breaking My SVGs?</title><url>https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/stupid-problems-require-stupid-solutions-cloudflare-is-breaking-my-svgs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elithrar</author><text>There&#x27;s ~four of us trying to reproduce this right now, using Astro and Remix, and cannot at all.<p>An important note: React-based frameworks tend to use camelCase attributes vs. hyphen-case (which is the output) in components: including the icon library being used here. Something during the build process is not converting them to hyphen-case.<p>* I&#x27;ve pasted a decently complex SVG exported from Figma into a Remix component verbatim (hyphen-attributes) and it renders fine: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9b14a265.test-broken-svgs-remix.pages.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9b14a265.test-broken-svgs-remix.pages.dev&#x2F;</a> (scroll down)<p>* I&#x27;ve rewritten those attributes to camelCase: and again, renders fine - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1af766a8.test-broken-svgs-remix.pages.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1af766a8.test-broken-svgs-remix.pages.dev&#x2F;</a><p>* This is all deployed via the Pages Build system; no local builds at all.<p>* Someone else on the team has an Astro example stood up with the specific unplugin-icons library: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astro-svg.pages.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astro-svg.pages.dev&#x2F;</a> - cannot reproduce the invalid SVG attributes.<p>We&#x27;re going to continue investigating but don&#x27;t see this as widespread and don&#x27;t yet have any other reports. That there is a _difference_ between the direct deploy vs. using Pages Builds is a problem, though. We&#x27;ve also asked the Astro folks to understand if there&#x27;s something up here as well.<p>(If not clear: I work at Cloudflare)</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare Is Breaking My SVGs?</title><url>https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/stupid-problems-require-stupid-solutions-cloudflare-is-breaking-my-svgs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asimpletune</author><text>I really empathize with the author, having dealt with many similar weird issues myself. To Cloudflare&#x27;s credit however, since most of the Pages&#x2F;Workers stuff is open source, one can usually find the problem in the source code and submit a fix oneself.<p>It&#x27;s an example of a product that&#x27;s well designed, generous in its free-tier, yet occasionally confounding, probably due to the speed their team moves.<p>Also wanted to add that I appreciate the author writing about the bug and their debugging process. That&#x27;s definitely something I wish I had done more of, instead of thinking at the time &#x27;I filed the issue, does the whole world need to know about this?&#x27;<p>(Sometimes daily reading of HN can have this effect, I think)<p>Then months go by, the issue I filed was moved or something happened to it, and I lost a way of tracking it... So I think it&#x27;s important to a.) file the issues but b.) document the issue in your own way while everything&#x27;s fresh in your mind.</text></comment> |
3,047,978 | 3,047,407 | 1 | 2 | 3,047,335 | train | <story><title>Hey Google, I want my cache links back</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/hey+google+I+want+my+cache+links+back</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wgx</author><text>The OP raises a wider point:<p><pre><code> For the longest time google made good on their promise to keep their search page simple and easy to use.
Now, bit by bit the search page is getting more filled up with cruft that you don't need and stuff that you do need gets removed.
</code></pre>
I am getting a hunch (just a vague feeling) that we might be approaching a time where a new, simpler search experience would pick up a lot of users - maybe amongst us HN/early adopters?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ugh</author><text>What’s that cruft you are talking about? Ignoring for a moment the cache link (I’m not sure how many people use it, maybe it’s worth testing whether Google could do with it being a bit more hidden) Google’s results page is very sparse and only provides truly useful tools.<p>I use Google’s ability to search for links from a specific time frame all the time, for example. I couldn’t do without it, it’s also accessible and minimalist. I also quite often switch between the different kinds of links I can search for.<p>I don’t see much on the results page one could reasonably remove. Exposing some of the advanced search options in the UI was the right step for Google to take. They didn’t pick everything, only the most important stuff. It’s all still very minimal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hey Google, I want my cache links back</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/hey+google+I+want+my+cache+links+back</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wgx</author><text>The OP raises a wider point:<p><pre><code> For the longest time google made good on their promise to keep their search page simple and easy to use.
Now, bit by bit the search page is getting more filled up with cruft that you don't need and stuff that you do need gets removed.
</code></pre>
I am getting a hunch (just a vague feeling) that we might be approaching a time where a new, simpler search experience would pick up a lot of users - maybe amongst us HN/early adopters?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>udp</author><text>Let's not forget DuckDuckGo. I finally switched around when Google Instant came out, and never feel I'm missing anything.</text></comment> |
38,640,051 | 38,635,915 | 1 | 2 | 38,633,926 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Play Othello in your web browser (made with Mithril)</title><url>https://jawj.github.io/fliptiles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilrwbwrkhv</author><text>This is great. And love to see Mithril. One of the best JavaScript frameworks before the whole madness started.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wruza</author><text>I still don’t understand why React, if Mithril exists. React is what a young hacker would invent under heavy hallucinogens after a week of reading Advanced Haskell tutorials. I can believe it exists. I can’t believe it’s an industrial standard and nobody has a speck in the eye about it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Play Othello in your web browser (made with Mithril)</title><url>https://jawj.github.io/fliptiles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilrwbwrkhv</author><text>This is great. And love to see Mithril. One of the best JavaScript frameworks before the whole madness started.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kokanee</author><text>I chose Mithril with JSX for a real startup&#x27;s main product. It felt like what I expected React to feel like, and it scaled with no issues. The only downside is that everyone on your team is anxious that they&#x27;re missing out on marketable React experience.</text></comment> |
16,950,565 | 16,950,571 | 1 | 3 | 16,950,040 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A fast, hopefully accurate, fuzzy matching library written in Go</title><url>https://github.com/sahilm/fuzzy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ericpauley</author><text>Made a PR to switch to runes for iteration. Runes are canonical in Go for unicode codepoints and also have no memory allocation, so they&#x27;re wicked fast! More importantly they make the code compatible with unicode names.<p>You can also save on a ton of allocation if you reuse unleaked position slices on each match. It may also be nice to have a maxMatches argument that lets users set a limit, which would save on unnecessary allocation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A fast, hopefully accurate, fuzzy matching library written in Go</title><url>https://github.com/sahilm/fuzzy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>glangdale</author><text>Have you tried out one of the standard &#x27;distance&#x27; metrics like Hamming distance or Levenstein distance? This would at least give you an objective measure of success. Whether that&#x27;s something that actually <i>works</i> for what you&#x27;re trying to achieve is of course an open question, but both Hamming distance matching and Levenstein distance matching (the latter is harder but probably better for your purposes) are very well understood.</text></comment> |
6,563,688 | 6,562,457 | 1 | 2 | 6,562,160 | train | <story><title>Introducing TogetherJS</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/introducing-togetherjs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikegioia</author><text>This looks great but it seems they have no plans to support Internet Explorer (<a href="https://togetherjs.com/docs/#browser-support" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;togetherjs.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;#browser-support</a>). That&#x27;s a shame because most of our users who need this level of support all use IE :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ianb</author><text>Speaking as the principal developer for TogetherJS:<p>In the past we have opted not to work on IE support because we had limited resources, and because we wanted to focus on what we thought were the hard problems: how should the tool act, how do we communicate changes between browsers, how do we integrate with apps, etc. Supporting Internet Explorer was always something we knew we <i>could</i> do, it wasn&#x27;t a hard problem, but it still required some effort. As such it didn&#x27;t feel like it was advancing the project. It was never meant as any slight towards IE, just an expedient way to save some time.<p>Also, while we do browser sniffing, we only use that to put up a warning for IE users to alert them that it&#x27;s not going to work well. This was pointed out on Twitter as though we were actively blocking browsers, in part I think a knee-jerk reaction to browser sniffing, but what we&#x27;ve done still seems to me like a reasonable and responsible thing to do – better to admit you don&#x27;t support a browser than just expose people to a crappy experience.<p>Of course times change, and as TogetherJS has become a more mature tool it&#x27;s probably time to revisit our Internet Explorer support. But on the other hand this isn&#x27;t a commercial tool, so I&#x27;m not entirely sure what resources we as a team will be able to invest in Internet Explorer support. But it&#x27;s also open source, and we would welcome contributions to fix this. We&#x27;ll be working on a slightly more structured plan soon. It might not even be much work, I really don&#x27;t know.<p>Here&#x27;s the bug to watch: <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/togetherjs/issues/867" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;togetherjs&#x2F;issues&#x2F;867</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing TogetherJS</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/introducing-togetherjs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikegioia</author><text>This looks great but it seems they have no plans to support Internet Explorer (<a href="https://togetherjs.com/docs/#browser-support" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;togetherjs.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;#browser-support</a>). That&#x27;s a shame because most of our users who need this level of support all use IE :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Who cares. It&#x27;s IE which needs to catch up to the standards Mozilla and Google are implementing. It&#x27;s not like Windows users will be left out in the dark, they can always install Firefox.<p>Tell your users to use a real browser, or write a letter to Microsoft telling them to get with the times...<p>Even the University I attend doesn&#x27;t support IE with their web-apps. They support Firefox...</text></comment> |
24,170,368 | 24,168,895 | 1 | 2 | 24,166,594 | train | <story><title>Types as axioms, or: playing god with static types</title><url>https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/08/13/types-as-axioms-or-playing-god-with-static-types/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hardwaregeek</author><text>One corollary about using positive space is that you realize we overuse booleans a lot. I routinely use a lot of boolean logic in my JavaScript and TypeScript code. I use it to decide when to display a component, when a component is being hovered, when it&#x27;s odd, etc.<p>Recently I wrote a simple tree walk interpreter and had to implement boolean unary negation:<p><pre><code> (UnaryOp::Not, Value::Bool(r)) =&gt; Ok(Value::Bool(!r)),
</code></pre>
Why is this line important? Well it&#x27;s quite possibly the first[^1] time I have used the boolean negation (!) operation in Rust!<p>Turns out, when you have proper enums, booleans aren&#x27;t the best tool. Something like `isLoading` can now be `data LoadingState = Loading | Success`.<p>Why is that better? Well if you want to add a third or fourth state, it&#x27;s trivial.<p><pre><code> data LoadingState = Loading | Success | Failure
</code></pre>
You can even give it data to pass along<p><pre><code> data LoadingState a err = Loading | Success a | Failure err
</code></pre>
Turns out you can have a lot more states than two. Often times in the equivalent boolean case you end up with a couple booleans: isLoading, isError, etc.<p>But then you end up with invalid boolean states! Like isLoading = true, isError = true. Huh? By making a multi-state type, you can restrict to only the possible states.<p>[^1]: Meh actually more like 5th but you get my point</text></comment> | <story><title>Types as axioms, or: playing god with static types</title><url>https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/08/13/types-as-axioms-or-playing-god-with-static-types/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>piinbinary</author><text>This reminds me a lot of Parse, don&#x27;t Validate (by the same author, apparently): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lexi-lambda.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;05&#x2F;parse-don-t-validate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lexi-lambda.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;05&#x2F;parse-don-t-va...</a><p>I think there&#x27;s another reason to make invalid states inexpressible in the type. When you need to change existing code (perhaps years after it was first written) in a way that breaks key assumptions, you find that the current types don&#x27;t allow expressing that change. This is a good warning sign that other code will need to be updated to take the new states into account. Without the type enforcing that invariant, it might have been much harder to tell that this particular change (out of all the changes you make over the years) is the one that breaks a key assumption. (A key assumption that might have been forgotten by now!)<p>Types become a message to your future self.</text></comment> |
37,129,059 | 37,128,891 | 1 | 2 | 37,128,044 | train | <story><title>Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media</title><url>https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>While I strongly disagree with the length of copyright protection, after reading this and reading more about the case, from a purely <i>legal</i> perspective, I just don&#x27;t see how IA has any defense. They basically just seem to be saying &quot;these are old records, so we should be able to copy them. Also, our work is mainly for academic researchers.&quot; My guess is that they are arguing fair use, but I just don&#x27;t see how that applies here when they make copyrighted works available, for free, over the Internet.<p>Would appreciate it if folks would abstain from responding with how the record companies are greedy bastards, or how the IA is doing great work, or how copyright protection has strayed from its original goals of encouraging innovative new works to become a victim of rent-seeking behavior, or that the law itself is unjust here. All of that I wholeheartedly agree with. I&#x27;m not a lawyer, and I&#x27;m just interested in trying to understand if they have any legal defense that isn&#x27;t going to get laughed out of court.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mlyle</author><text>&gt; My guess is that they are arguing fair use, but I just don&#x27;t see how that applies here when they make copyrighted works available, for free, over the Internet.<p>The fourth part of the fair use test rests on whether the use of the work impacts the commercial market for the work.<p>Given these works are often:<p>- Not offered in their original form<p>- Would likely have little residual commercial value if so offered<p>- And, the article states, are only accessed by one researcher per month<p>Indicates that the research, educational, and cultural value from this use likely far outweighs the impact to the commercial use of these works.</text></comment> | <story><title>Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media</title><url>https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>While I strongly disagree with the length of copyright protection, after reading this and reading more about the case, from a purely <i>legal</i> perspective, I just don&#x27;t see how IA has any defense. They basically just seem to be saying &quot;these are old records, so we should be able to copy them. Also, our work is mainly for academic researchers.&quot; My guess is that they are arguing fair use, but I just don&#x27;t see how that applies here when they make copyrighted works available, for free, over the Internet.<p>Would appreciate it if folks would abstain from responding with how the record companies are greedy bastards, or how the IA is doing great work, or how copyright protection has strayed from its original goals of encouraging innovative new works to become a victim of rent-seeking behavior, or that the law itself is unjust here. All of that I wholeheartedly agree with. I&#x27;m not a lawyer, and I&#x27;m just interested in trying to understand if they have any legal defense that isn&#x27;t going to get laughed out of court.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmbche</author><text>&quot;Statement from Brewster Kahle, digital librarian of the Internet Archive:
“When people want to listen to music they go to Spotify. When people want to study sound recordings as they were originally created, they go to libraries like the Internet Archive. Both are needed. There shouldn’t be conflict here.”&quot;<p>From the article<p>I believe they are arguing that the intent behind the digitization is fair use, as you say, but what I find interesting is they seem to argue that there is no loss of profit from their work, which is a valid point to raise - if this is all hypothetical exceptions can and should be made to the law.<p>Even if they don&#x27;t have a case, say the copyright law is very tight and clear and there&#x27;s no way this can skirt around it - they still can bring it to court, fight it, and lose until they get it overturned by the Supreme Court and they get a special status or the copyright law is amended. This is standard - it&#x27;s how the 19th amendement was passed I believe, I&#x27;ll look for a link.<p>Edit: to clarify, there is no damage to the copyright holders because the medium holding their work is impossible to be used to listen to their work by anyone but experts, like the IA<p>Edit 1: Here&#x27;s what I was remembering - it&#x27;s not an amendment, but it&#x27;s neat!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lithub.com&#x2F;how-ruth-bader-ginsburg-and-gloria-steinem-fought-for-your-right-to-get-a-beer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lithub.com&#x2F;how-ruth-bader-ginsburg-and-gloria-steine...</a></text></comment> |
36,955,400 | 36,955,432 | 1 | 3 | 36,954,718 | train | <story><title>Uber posts first quarterly net profit</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-q2-earnings-report-2023-453c335a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agentofoblivion</author><text>I remember reading plenty of thought pieces a few years ago saying this was impossible, and that Uber was a house of cards gaining market share by subsidizing rides with investor money. That there were no economies of scale to bring costs down, etc., etc. I would love to see a &quot;what we got wrong, and what we still have right&quot; post from one of these people, but I won&#x27;t hold my breath.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>So you have a profitable company but at what cost? These drivers are working at slave wages unable to pay into any retirement funds or have health insurance.<p>In countries where there was a reasonable taxi system uber gutted them and went around regulations taking away the few guarantees the people had like a retirement and sick leave.<p>In the end we the tax payer have to help these people down the road when they get sick or old and all of this for the profit of a few share holders.<p>In Switzerland Uber still owes drivers half a billion Swiss Francs in unpaid wages&#x2F;retirement and sick leave. Where do people think this missing money will come from when these people need it later on in life?</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber posts first quarterly net profit</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-q2-earnings-report-2023-453c335a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agentofoblivion</author><text>I remember reading plenty of thought pieces a few years ago saying this was impossible, and that Uber was a house of cards gaining market share by subsidizing rides with investor money. That there were no economies of scale to bring costs down, etc., etc. I would love to see a &quot;what we got wrong, and what we still have right&quot; post from one of these people, but I won&#x27;t hold my breath.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>altacc</author><text>Maybe wait and see if it really is a sustainable business first. Making a profit for 1 quarter after 50 quarters of loses whilst having over $9 billion of debt isn&#x27;t strong proof that it will be profitable from now on. The numbers are positive though, it doesn&#x27;t seem to be just a bookkeeping profit as they have a good rise in revenue &amp; use. Personally I think if they keep running a tighter ship than they did pre-pandemic they might make a sustainable profit. Using profits for buybacks and dividends will be more attractive to shareholders than paying off debts as that&#x27;s what most have been waiting for.</text></comment> |
27,022,929 | 27,019,589 | 1 | 2 | 27,018,522 | train | <story><title>Negative interest: Danske Bank changes threshold for personal customers</title><url>https://danskebank.com/news-and-insights/news-archive/press-releases/2021/pr26042021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sharpneli</author><text>Do the mortgages also have a negative interest rate or are they cappoed at 0?</text></item><item><author>m00dy</author><text>If you are a foreigner living in Denmark, it is really hard to get mortgage loans due to unexplainable risks. (e.g. They don&#x27;t tell you why you are in a risk group. )<p>Anyway, the maximum amount of deposits is now around 4 months of wage. So, I hardly see the necessity to have a bank account or banking infrastructure.<p>I wish I could join &quot;We don&#x27;t need banks anymore&quot; motto. But now, It looks like It is becoming a reality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hamuko</author><text>In Finland we apparently used to have mortgages that were just Euribor + bank margin, meaning that if the Euribor rate went enough into the negative, the bank would be paying you interest.<p>These days mortgages are capped though. My mortgage rate is MAX(Euribor 12m, 0%) + 0.5%. Unsurprisingly I have never paid more than 0.5% interest.</text></comment> | <story><title>Negative interest: Danske Bank changes threshold for personal customers</title><url>https://danskebank.com/news-and-insights/news-archive/press-releases/2021/pr26042021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sharpneli</author><text>Do the mortgages also have a negative interest rate or are they cappoed at 0?</text></item><item><author>m00dy</author><text>If you are a foreigner living in Denmark, it is really hard to get mortgage loans due to unexplainable risks. (e.g. They don&#x27;t tell you why you are in a risk group. )<p>Anyway, the maximum amount of deposits is now around 4 months of wage. So, I hardly see the necessity to have a bank account or banking infrastructure.<p>I wish I could join &quot;We don&#x27;t need banks anymore&quot; motto. But now, It looks like It is becoming a reality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jopsen</author><text>I was looking at mortgage for a house, paying 30% upfront, so I would only need to borrow 500k USD.<p>At fixed rate 30yr, it was 1% + some fees.. so total cost of the loan over 30 years would be 35k USD.<p>The flex interest rate (adjusted every 5 years) was a current rate -0.25 + fees. In total that would cost around 10k USD over 30 years.
(Of course with flexible interest rates, the rates could go up).<p>So I think most of the cost is now just fees... Looking at owning vs. renting it&#x27;s quite competitive.</text></comment> |
12,108,456 | 12,108,469 | 1 | 3 | 12,108,311 | train | <story><title>Spy or whistleblower? Should Obama settle with Snowden?</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/spy-or-whistleblower-should-obama-settle-snowden-479813</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abraca</author><text>For me, Hillary being let off changed how I view the Snowden affair. Before Hillary was let off without penalty, I thought that exposing or acting carelessly with classified information was a really big deal, that it seriously put American lives at risk - AND that others were doing a good job keeping that information under wraps, so breaches would be meaningful. Now it seems more like a political game. Hillary put us in more danger than Snowden. Punishing snowden is more about keeping info out of eyes of American public (i.e., Hillary&#x27;s emails still need to be redacted, even though her server was likely hacked and info is almost certainly out there and America&#x27;s ememies have it.) I hope that Hillary skating will set a precedent that will allow more whistleblowers to come forward to the public with information when needed without being penalized. Perhaps whistleblowers might use the strategy of releasing information &#x27;unintentionally&#x27; and then use the Hillary defense.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spy or whistleblower? Should Obama settle with Snowden?</title><url>http://www.newsweek.com/spy-or-whistleblower-should-obama-settle-snowden-479813</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>downandout</author><text><i>&quot;The federal judge should then sentence Snowden according to prevailing standards for relevant criminal sanctions.</i><p>The problem is that the prevailing standard in the US would be life in prison. I imagine that eventually Snowden will wind up serving a life sentence in the underground supermax facility in Florence, Colorado whether he comes voluntarily or not - Russia will eventually use him as a bargaining chip in some trade negotiation, and that will be the end of him. I think it&#x27;s wrong, but that outcome is almost inevitable at some point.<p>Obama will not pardon him, and I don&#x27;t think either of the presumptive presidential nominees are big Snowden fans. From the government perspective, Snowden did a tremendous amount of damage, and he will eventually pay for that damage with his life.</text></comment> |
3,098,347 | 3,097,030 | 1 | 3 | 3,096,793 | train | <story><title>Jewish problems</title><url>http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jfruh</author><text>This reminds me of an interesting story from <i>Not In My Neighborhood,</i> a history of residential and institutional segregation in Baltimore. Baltimore in many ways had three-way segregation -- black, white, and Jewish -- with Realtors for all three communities refusing to show houses in the "wrong" neighborhood to anyone. However, the public school system only had two-way segregation -- black and white, with Jews attending white schools.<p>Johns Hopkins, then as now an elite institution located in Baltimore, encouraged local kids to apply, and was integrated long before the public schools were. Hopkins never had any kind of restriction on the number of black students, but they <i>did</i> have quotas on the number of Jews. That's because the black school system was bad enough (and blacks generally financially disadvantaged enough) that they knew they'd never have more than about 5 percent or so of their student body being black -- enough to show that they were liberal and enlightened, but not enough to change the character of the student body. But if they let in all the Jews who qualified, the school would be half Jewish, which would be unacceptable, as they'd get a reputation as a "Jewish" school.<p>This is also one of the reasons for the long-ago heyday of City College in New York: as a public college, they didn't discriminate, and so a lot of Jewish kids who would have otherwise qualified to go to the Ivy League ended up there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jewish problems</title><url>http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cheez</author><text>Can someone please explain to me what the hell is the problem people have with Jews? The only thing I can tell is maybe they're disproportionately financially successful? I guess that's a problem...</text></comment> |
9,117,345 | 9,117,389 | 1 | 2 | 9,117,028 | train | <story><title>“Implement text editor DOM updates manually instead of via React”</title><url>https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/5624</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zak_mc_kracken</author><text>I enjoy seeing the latest fad being burned at the stake as much as the next guy, but I don&#x27;t think we should blow this out of proportions.<p>Atom is a text editor, and text editors have an insanely high bar to clear in terms of performance and responsiveness. Users <i>will</i> abandon a text editor if the cursor takes a bit too long to move. On top of that, Atom has been criticized about its slowness since the very first announcement. They don&#x27;t have any margin for error there (and to be honest, I think their technical choice of going for Javascript will be their ultimate downfall, but that&#x27;s a discussion for another day).<p>Also, as it was pointed out, Atom didn&#x27;t really embrace much of React to start with (which is to their credit: always be very conservative when you&#x27;re adopting a bleeding edge, unproven technology).<p>I think React has potential. It&#x27;s at about the same stage of maturity that Angular was five years ago, and if it&#x27;s as successful, we can expect it to enjoy five years of being the new darling in the Javascript world, until the Next Big Framework comes around.<p>I&#x27;m really enjoying how fast Javascript frameworks and practices are churning, it makes me feel like I&#x27;m witnessing the birth of a brand new software field with my very eyes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zghst</author><text>React is so much different from other frameworks, I feel.<p>Someone that doesn&#x27;t know React can basically come in and start working on a large app from Day 1. It is so much less frustrating than Angular, Backbone + Ember + handlebars, etc. You can continue to add features to a React application and not slow down.<p>Also React isn&#x27;t unproven. Over 1 Billion people use a React application everyday (Facebook + Instagram web). Unlike Google with Angular, React is Facebook&#x27;s baby, the FB team is constantly churning out great additions to React.<p>I feel though with these JS editors, they should just basically give up for the next 5 years or so. Switching between Atom &#x2F; Brackets to Sublime or Vim is extremely painful, I can&#x27;t stand how slow it is. I love adopting new technologies, but I do not have faith in JS applications outside of a browser, they are too slow and lack in features.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Implement text editor DOM updates manually instead of via React”</title><url>https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/5624</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zak_mc_kracken</author><text>I enjoy seeing the latest fad being burned at the stake as much as the next guy, but I don&#x27;t think we should blow this out of proportions.<p>Atom is a text editor, and text editors have an insanely high bar to clear in terms of performance and responsiveness. Users <i>will</i> abandon a text editor if the cursor takes a bit too long to move. On top of that, Atom has been criticized about its slowness since the very first announcement. They don&#x27;t have any margin for error there (and to be honest, I think their technical choice of going for Javascript will be their ultimate downfall, but that&#x27;s a discussion for another day).<p>Also, as it was pointed out, Atom didn&#x27;t really embrace much of React to start with (which is to their credit: always be very conservative when you&#x27;re adopting a bleeding edge, unproven technology).<p>I think React has potential. It&#x27;s at about the same stage of maturity that Angular was five years ago, and if it&#x27;s as successful, we can expect it to enjoy five years of being the new darling in the Javascript world, until the Next Big Framework comes around.<p>I&#x27;m really enjoying how fast Javascript frameworks and practices are churning, it makes me feel like I&#x27;m witnessing the birth of a brand new software field with my very eyes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forrestthewoods</author><text>&quot;and text editors have an insanely high bar to clear in terms of performance and responsiveness&quot;<p>For some reason that sentence really bothers me. Not because our standards are so high for text editors. But because they&#x27;re so low for damn near everything else.</text></comment> |
7,539,893 | 7,539,027 | 1 | 2 | 7,538,530 | train | <story><title>How I Hacked a Router</title><url>http://disconnected.io/2014/03/18/how-i-hacked-your-router/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>siliconc0w</author><text>Everything is feasible except the faked linkedin email - it wouldn&#x27;t pass SPF and so I&#x27;m pretty sure gmail would junk it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vxNsr</author><text>He addresses this in the comments of the article[0]:<p>&gt;Aaron says:<p>&gt;April 5, 2014 at 3:52 pm<p>&gt;So how’d you sucker Bill into clicking your exploit link? Since you hadn’t yet hijacked his DNS, I presume the link didn’t (couldn’t) actually point to linkedin.&gt;com — shouldn’t his mail client have warned him? (Mine would.)<p>&gt;&gt;Reply<p>&gt;&gt;Phikshun says:<p>&gt;&gt;April 5, 2014 at 5:35 pm<p>&gt;&gt;See this video by Raphael Mudge[1]. He does a much better job of explaining it than I would. I also had another advantage — Bill and I worked for the same company at the &gt;&gt;time, so I could send the phish to myself to make sure it passed all the filters. This isn&#x27;t so unrealistic though. An advanced adversary will scour RFPs, public records and &gt;&gt;job postings to learn what protection technologies a company has and attempt to duplicate their environment for testing.<p>[0]<a href="http://disconnected.io/2014/03/18/how-i-hacked-your-router/comment-page-1/#comment-4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;disconnected.io&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;18&#x2F;how-i-hacked-your-router&#x2F;c...</a>
[1]<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO_A8NHNBj8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=OO_A8NHNBj8</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How I Hacked a Router</title><url>http://disconnected.io/2014/03/18/how-i-hacked-your-router/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>siliconc0w</author><text>Everything is feasible except the faked linkedin email - it wouldn&#x27;t pass SPF and so I&#x27;m pretty sure gmail would junk it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>Well, I was all set to explain that SPF only checks the envelope sender, not the from: address header that is displayed to the user.<p>Then I decided to test it, and in fact Gmail does seem to be doing more than that. I ran a two-line script as root from my mail server to send a message with an envelope-sender from my domain (which has a basic SPF txt record in its DNS) and a from: header from LinkedIn, and Gmail spit it back at my return address a moment later saying that it smelled like spam. So, good for Gmail!<p>But, I don&#x27;t think this is common behavior, and the article doesn&#x27;t actually say that the target has a Gmail account.</text></comment> |
22,141,211 | 22,141,319 | 1 | 3 | 22,140,337 | train | <story><title>Master of Orion</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2020/01/master-of-orion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ppeetteerr</author><text>This game, along with Master of Magic, Civ 1, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and Dune 2, were the beginnings of strategy gaming for me. It&#x27;s amazing to see that most of these games have been remade or copied (Stellaris, Age of Wonder, Civ 6, XCOM 2, Star Craft, respectively), and that the genre lives on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yyyk</author><text>Despite the similar setting, Stellaris is a very very different game, almost a different genre. MOO focuses on almost Risk-style gameplay and combat and does an excellent job at it. Stellaris focuses on roleplay and economy management (and some mid-late game issues prevent it from being great IMHO).<p>It&#x27;s telling that Stellaris&#x27;s combat system offers less control than MOO&#x27;s and that it has no spying. Another good example is the approach for diplomacy - the latest DLC won&#x27;t have a UN victory condition like MOO but it will have the ability to issue Resolutions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Master of Orion</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2020/01/master-of-orion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ppeetteerr</author><text>This game, along with Master of Magic, Civ 1, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and Dune 2, were the beginnings of strategy gaming for me. It&#x27;s amazing to see that most of these games have been remade or copied (Stellaris, Age of Wonder, Civ 6, XCOM 2, Star Craft, respectively), and that the genre lives on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_af</author><text>Agreed.<p>XCOM (the original) to this day remains one of my favorite turn-based games. How you grew attached to your troopers! The remake is pretty good, too.<p>How do you find Stellaris, by the way? I&#x27;m tempted by it but at the same time these days I simply don&#x27;t have time for time-consuming, micro-managed 4X games that feel more like work than fun.</text></comment> |
14,671,268 | 14,670,855 | 1 | 3 | 14,670,444 | train | <story><title>Sony plans to make vinyl records again</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/30/vinyl-records-are-so-popular-that-sony-plans-to-make-them-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristiandupont</author><text>I confess, I am part of this trend. And I just got into it, so I get no &quot;before it was cool&quot;-claim to fame. Not sure where that leaves me on the hipster-scale.<p>Buying CD&#x27;s used to be a weekly ritual for me and I missed it for years. Putting on a new album on a Saturday afternoon with a beer or glass of wine while I start cooking is a very enjoyable moment for me. Now, obviously this was for the most part because I would have access to new music. That experience has not come back as I can put on anything on my laptop. However, there is a nice sense to putting on an album and being &quot;forced&quot; to play it from one end to the other. With streaming, I have a tolerance of 10-20 seconds of jarring music before I lose my patience and skip the track. Which is good but also means that I miss out on some of the tracks that take more effort and are in the &quot;acquired taste&quot; category. And in my experience, those tend to stay pleasant whereas the hits suddenly reach a threshold after which I can&#x27;t stand listening to them any more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lastflowers</author><text>Growing up, I would revel in all of my father&#x27;s records. During the summer I&#x27;d clean up the floor of his closet where he stored them all. I&#x27;d gaze in wonder at the bands that he never deemed worthy enough to buy the CD for.<p>Much like you, I remember listening to Blood on the Tracks on Saturday mornings playing GameBoy or reading The Hobbit. We&#x27;d have Asleep at the Wheel playing during a card-game, or overlaying bad sports commentary.<p>Fast Forward to High School. I was hired as a retail salesperson at a Mom-And-Pop hot-topic like store at the local mall. Given my somewhat decent taste in music, the shopkeeper let me determine music choice.<p>So now, as I&#x27;ve had Groove&#x2F;Zune&#x2F;Spotify subscriptions going on (basically continuously) for nearly 12 years, I still try to buy at least 15 or so LPs a year. That used to be CDs, but now that I&#x27;m an adult with some space, I carved out a section for Vinyl records. They weren&#x27;t purchased for the different &#x27;warmth&#x27;, no, they were purchased because I love music and vinyl is one of the purest expressions of that love. It&#x27;s cumbersome and pretty stupid, but it places the art with prominence and connects your body and actions to the music moreso than any other medium (purely since you have to flip sides every fifteen minutes or so). I like to think back to my saturday&#x27;s playing GameBoy, and now I gulp down coffee while reading Gaddis or Foreign Affairs as Bob Wills blasts throughthe speakers</text></comment> | <story><title>Sony plans to make vinyl records again</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/30/vinyl-records-are-so-popular-that-sony-plans-to-make-them-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristiandupont</author><text>I confess, I am part of this trend. And I just got into it, so I get no &quot;before it was cool&quot;-claim to fame. Not sure where that leaves me on the hipster-scale.<p>Buying CD&#x27;s used to be a weekly ritual for me and I missed it for years. Putting on a new album on a Saturday afternoon with a beer or glass of wine while I start cooking is a very enjoyable moment for me. Now, obviously this was for the most part because I would have access to new music. That experience has not come back as I can put on anything on my laptop. However, there is a nice sense to putting on an album and being &quot;forced&quot; to play it from one end to the other. With streaming, I have a tolerance of 10-20 seconds of jarring music before I lose my patience and skip the track. Which is good but also means that I miss out on some of the tracks that take more effort and are in the &quot;acquired taste&quot; category. And in my experience, those tend to stay pleasant whereas the hits suddenly reach a threshold after which I can&#x27;t stand listening to them any more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eterm</author><text>But why buy vinyl instead of buying CDs?<p>I understand your point about listening to a whole album being preferable to singles, I feel the same way but I&#x27;d still much rather listen to a CD than an LP.</text></comment> |
37,021,579 | 37,020,914 | 1 | 2 | 37,020,421 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Archsense – Accurately generated architecture from the source code</title><url>https://www.archsense.dev</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisandchris</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but I would never like to pay such an amount for a subscription of a service (they charge &gt;300 if you use C#, as I do). I maybe want to analyze my architecture on this level a couple times a year. Why do I have to pay each month? I&#x27;m missing usage-based pricing today, everyone sticks everything into a subscription.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Archsense – Accurately generated architecture from the source code</title><url>https://www.archsense.dev</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>d_watt</author><text>I definitely want some innovation in this space.<p>Does this actually track dependancies at the code level, or just at the module import level. EG if have a redis connection file that&#x27;s imported to a service library file, and only 1 of 8 exposed methods from that service file use the imported Redis, will every file that imports that service library show a dependency to Redis, or just the ones that import the Redis based service.<p>Also, quick feedback on your site, your hero image shows the view that turns me off these types of things. An overwhelming graph that sprawls 3 screens horizontally, and thus can&#x27;t be reasoned about in one look. The ones further down the page are more compelling, but perhaps the 1st one is the only one that actually represents the project?</text></comment> |
23,701,686 | 23,701,644 | 1 | 3 | 23,701,053 | train | <story><title>Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)</title><url>https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/927593460642615296</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfengel</author><text>What version of 1983 did he live through?<p>My Osborne 1 took a minute to load Wordstar. Searching a document would take more minutes if it was longer than about 30k because it had to swap to floppy disk. Connecting to a BBS was time for a bathroom break. So were compiles.<p>I think most of what is perceptually slower for the author is that it&#x27;s a small percentage of the 40 years it took to get here. I loved my O1 but it did what little it could do very slowly. My phone in my hands right now is doing a trillion more things better and faster.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smoe</author><text>I haven&#x27;t read the article and only started using computers as a kid in the early 90s.<p>My take on perceptually slower is:<p>I don&#x27;t remember computers being slow back then. They were just like they were.<p>Whereas today, especially since I&#x27;m living in Latin America on flaky and slow mobile internet connection and low to mid-range phones, the range of speed of just taking into account websites is massive. From super snappy to barely usable. Which makes me much more conscious about it.<p>Maybe it is just selective memory, and the difference in my age, but I feel back then, how something will perform was more predictable and consistant from a user perspective.</text></comment> | <story><title>Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)</title><url>https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/927593460642615296</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfengel</author><text>What version of 1983 did he live through?<p>My Osborne 1 took a minute to load Wordstar. Searching a document would take more minutes if it was longer than about 30k because it had to swap to floppy disk. Connecting to a BBS was time for a bathroom break. So were compiles.<p>I think most of what is perceptually slower for the author is that it&#x27;s a small percentage of the 40 years it took to get here. I loved my O1 but it did what little it could do very slowly. My phone in my hands right now is doing a trillion more things better and faster.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drchopchop</author><text>Clearly this person never tried to load a program on a C64 with a tape drive. I could make myself lunch and the thing still wouldn&#x27;t be done, and there was a non-zero chance it would screw up somehow and you&#x27;d have to rewind the tape and start it over. Upgrading to floppy wasn&#x27;t much better, either, before the advent of fast load cartridges.<p>Contrast that with my current Win 10 install, which on a 3-year old computer goes from &quot;off&quot; to login screen in under 10 seconds.</text></comment> |
3,606,072 | 3,605,932 | 1 | 2 | 3,605,675 | train | <story><title>US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120216/17154217785/congrats-us-government-youre-scaring-web-businesses-into-moving-out-us.shtml</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aytekin</author><text>When I saw the title I first thought they saw this forum thread about how a Canadian business has switched away from using JotForm and how they are considering to stop purchasing from all US based online companies:
<a href="http://www.jotform.com/answers/77171-Recent-Domain-Suspension" rel="nofollow">http://www.jotform.com/answers/77171-Recent-Domain-Suspensio...</a><p>By the way, Techdirt's Mike is such a great guy. He has been very supportive and he even introduced us to some lawyers.</text></comment> | <story><title>US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120216/17154217785/congrats-us-government-youre-scaring-web-businesses-into-moving-out-us.shtml</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>praxeologist</author><text>What does "Get corporate membership with EFF" mean?<p>Anyhow, I totally agree that the gov't is out of control. It isn't just with this copyright stuff either.<p>I sell electronic cigarettes and have an innovation to improve adoption with smokers. My product will undoubtedly be proven many times safer than smoking and more effective in helping people quit, but we face seizures and the threat of regulations which will shutter small businesses like mine.<p>I'm doing #4, "Migrate yourself to a non-US controlled country." as soon as I can afford to.</text></comment> |
17,472,274 | 17,469,201 | 1 | 2 | 17,468,920 | train | <story><title>The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cpeterso</author><text>A fun BeOS story from the 1999 Be Newsletter:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haiku-os.org&#x2F;legacy-docs&#x2F;benewsletter&#x2F;Issue4-22.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haiku-os.org&#x2F;legacy-docs&#x2F;benewsletter&#x2F;Issue4-22....</a><p>A Testing Fairy Tale<p>Two test engineers were in a crunch. The floppy drive they were currently testing would work all day while they ran a variety of stress tests, but the exact same tests would run for only eight hours at night. After a few days of double-checking the hardware, the testing procedure, and the recording devices, they decided to stay the night and watch what happened. For eight hours they stared at the floppy drive and drank espresso. The long dark night slowly turned into day and the sun shone in the window. The angled sunlight triggered the write-protection mechanism, which caused a write failure. A new casing was designed and the problem was solved. Who knew?</text></comment> | <story><title>The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tomte</author><text>Also interesting: Practical File System Design with the Be File System<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nobius.org&#x2F;~dbg&#x2F;practical-file-system-design.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nobius.org&#x2F;~dbg&#x2F;practical-file-system-design.pdf</a></text></comment> |
33,067,508 | 33,065,400 | 1 | 2 | 33,062,606 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living</title><text>I am Michael Cao. I am from Viet Nam. I suffered the polio disease and became disabled when i was one year old.<p>When covid 19 pandemic hit the world. All people has suffered a lot. I and my friend, Canadian guy, decided to cofound 2HAC Studio because we thought that we need to do something to help people.<p>We don&#x27;t want to hire any employees to keep the cost at minimum (only spend 9.99$ per year for domain). I keep my job at American company in Viet Nam and my cofounder also still worked at a Bank of Canada. We spent our free time to implement and marketing our products<p>We have been developing the Google workspace addons. Out technology stack are App Script, VueJS for addons. Hugo for our website. We hosted our website in Google Cloud. Paypal is our payment system. Tawk for customer support.
All of them are free.<p>At 2020, we had a pain point in Viet Nam because health official requires to do contact tracing when people went to events, churches, schools so we scratched our own itches and developed QR Code Attendance addon <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workspace.google.com&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;app&#x2F;qr_code_attendance_for_classroom_employe&#x2F;372652717544" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workspace.google.com&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;app&#x2F;qr_code_attenda...</a> . After that, we provide our addon in G Suite marketplace and a lot of customers used our addon for contact tracing, for example take temperature, name, health status of attendees and give data to health official.<p>Currently, we continue working on QR Code and barcode solutions. Our startup has survived and thrived during Covid-19 while a lot of startups have failed miserable. Our business model are both subscription and lifetime pricing. We have more than 5 million users for all our Google workspace addons.<p>We make a decent living but we don’t want to risk to give up the main job. Financial recession is coming and a lot of pain is ahead. We highly recommend that most founders should keep the job and reduce spending as much as possible for a while during early stage of their startup. Also, I would like to encourage disabled people, older people to escape your comfort zone and make changes in the world. All of us could develop outstanding products with open source or very cheap tools.<p>If you have any questions and feedback, please fell free to contact me and send me an email. Have a great day, everyone.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wyclif</author><text>I am currently staying in the Philippines, and I am constantly trying (and mostly failing) at getting Filipinos interested in software engineering and programming, especially women. Women here just don&#x27;t consider technology to be a valid career. The traditional professional career track for Filipinas is usually nursing, physical therapy, medical coding, or other medical careers based in hospitals.<p>Personally, I would love to start a top notch offshore software dev company here, but the sad fact is that this country doesn&#x27;t allow 100% ownership for foreign investors.</text></item><item><author>michaelcao</author><text>Thanks for reminding us. We are thinking about integrating Stripe also.</text></item><item><author>avnigo</author><text>Congratulations, Michael, thank you for sharing your story!<p>A cautionary note on using Paypal as your sole payment system. If this is a considerable source of your income, I would caution against only using Paypal or keeping a large amount of money in that account. There are too many Paypal horror stories out there to mention of people getting their accounts limited or shut down without recourse because their automated checks flagged accounts for suspected fraud or violating their ToS. Best of luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomxor</author><text>&gt; failing) at getting Filipinos interested in software engineering and programming, especially women<p>Don&#x27;t get people interested, <i>find</i> people that are interested and lack the resources and opportunity - then help those people. There may also be a lack of interest due to cultural relevance, tech that looks cool and interesting to the west might not in SE Asia, finding local help could improve this.<p>You mentioned women - If you are concerned about countering artificial biases in tech, ensure fair opportunity, but you cannot expect to force people to be interested. There may be inherent statistical differences in the interest and values of technology as a career between cultures and between genders just as there are with other subject that bias in either direction. The goal should be to counter unfair, artificial biases that result from prejudice, including your own... this is an unpopular opinion, but reality is more complex than SJWs like to think, there are multiple causes for the proportions of minorities in a particular area, and this needs to be understood in order to help people effectively do what they want - in short fighting bias with bias can be harmful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living</title><text>I am Michael Cao. I am from Viet Nam. I suffered the polio disease and became disabled when i was one year old.<p>When covid 19 pandemic hit the world. All people has suffered a lot. I and my friend, Canadian guy, decided to cofound 2HAC Studio because we thought that we need to do something to help people.<p>We don&#x27;t want to hire any employees to keep the cost at minimum (only spend 9.99$ per year for domain). I keep my job at American company in Viet Nam and my cofounder also still worked at a Bank of Canada. We spent our free time to implement and marketing our products<p>We have been developing the Google workspace addons. Out technology stack are App Script, VueJS for addons. Hugo for our website. We hosted our website in Google Cloud. Paypal is our payment system. Tawk for customer support.
All of them are free.<p>At 2020, we had a pain point in Viet Nam because health official requires to do contact tracing when people went to events, churches, schools so we scratched our own itches and developed QR Code Attendance addon <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workspace.google.com&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;app&#x2F;qr_code_attendance_for_classroom_employe&#x2F;372652717544" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workspace.google.com&#x2F;marketplace&#x2F;app&#x2F;qr_code_attenda...</a> . After that, we provide our addon in G Suite marketplace and a lot of customers used our addon for contact tracing, for example take temperature, name, health status of attendees and give data to health official.<p>Currently, we continue working on QR Code and barcode solutions. Our startup has survived and thrived during Covid-19 while a lot of startups have failed miserable. Our business model are both subscription and lifetime pricing. We have more than 5 million users for all our Google workspace addons.<p>We make a decent living but we don’t want to risk to give up the main job. Financial recession is coming and a lot of pain is ahead. We highly recommend that most founders should keep the job and reduce spending as much as possible for a while during early stage of their startup. Also, I would like to encourage disabled people, older people to escape your comfort zone and make changes in the world. All of us could develop outstanding products with open source or very cheap tools.<p>If you have any questions and feedback, please fell free to contact me and send me an email. Have a great day, everyone.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wyclif</author><text>I am currently staying in the Philippines, and I am constantly trying (and mostly failing) at getting Filipinos interested in software engineering and programming, especially women. Women here just don&#x27;t consider technology to be a valid career. The traditional professional career track for Filipinas is usually nursing, physical therapy, medical coding, or other medical careers based in hospitals.<p>Personally, I would love to start a top notch offshore software dev company here, but the sad fact is that this country doesn&#x27;t allow 100% ownership for foreign investors.</text></item><item><author>michaelcao</author><text>Thanks for reminding us. We are thinking about integrating Stripe also.</text></item><item><author>avnigo</author><text>Congratulations, Michael, thank you for sharing your story!<p>A cautionary note on using Paypal as your sole payment system. If this is a considerable source of your income, I would caution against only using Paypal or keeping a large amount of money in that account. There are too many Paypal horror stories out there to mention of people getting their accounts limited or shut down without recourse because their automated checks flagged accounts for suspected fraud or violating their ToS. Best of luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Thorentis</author><text>Why is it important for more people to be software engineers compared to nurses? We need more nurses in the world, not more software engineers.</text></comment> |
36,716,153 | 36,715,833 | 1 | 2 | 36,715,686 | train | <story><title>Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas – for free, forever</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794224/sag-aftra-actors-strike-ai-image-rights</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LispSporks22</author><text>Jeff:
We at Miramount, want to... want to scan you. All of you - your body, your face, your emotion, your laughter, your tears, your climaxing, your happiness, your depressions, your... fears, longings. We want to sample you, we want to preserve you, we want... all this, this... this thing, this thing called...&quot;Robin Wright&quot;.<p>Robin Wright:
What will you do with this... thing ? That you call Robin Wright?<p>Jeff:
We&#x27;ll do all the things that your Robin Wright wouldn&#x27;t do.<p>The Congress <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt1821641&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt1821641&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas – for free, forever</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794224/sag-aftra-actors-strike-ai-image-rights</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>The title is semi-misleading: there aren&#x27;t any royalties, but instead there&#x27;s a upfront cost of <i>one day&#x27;s pay</i>.<p>The fact that they actually offered that low of an amount for biometric AI data in perpetuity makes it clear they are operating in bad faith (more than usual)</text></comment> |
7,180,661 | 7,180,716 | 1 | 2 | 7,180,300 | train | <story><title>Follow-up on "Linux server monitoring tools"</title><url>http://aarvik.dk/linux-monitoring-tools-suggestions-from-hacker-news/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>From the description of linux-dash:<p>&gt; It is easily extensible from its architecture which just calls the php exec() function and sends it to an ajax request.<p>I presume the network police have already revoked somebody&#x27;s license to run a server, yeah?</text></comment> | <story><title>Follow-up on "Linux server monitoring tools"</title><url>http://aarvik.dk/linux-monitoring-tools-suggestions-from-hacker-news/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zimbatm</author><text>Widening the net a bit but since you added network-connected monitoring, check out sensu. It&#x27;s backward-compatible with nagios plugins and handles cloud systems very well (no need to restart the server every time a host is being added&#x2F;removed). It&#x27;s also capable of extracting system metrics and forward them to graphite&#x2F;... . Really great tool.<p>And just for metrics, collectd is great too.</text></comment> |
32,141,177 | 32,140,513 | 1 | 2 | 32,137,275 | train | <story><title>Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player</title><url>https://mpv.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrob</author><text>My favorite feature is &quot;video-sync=display-resample&quot;. This gives you perfect frame pacing by synchronizing the video to vertical refresh and resampling the audio to match. If you set your refresh rate to an integer multiple of the frame rate, every frame will be shown for the exact same time. The audio resampling compensates for very small discrepancies between speeds by imperceptibly changing the audio speed. It&#x27;s similar to the proprietary DirectShow filter &quot;ReClock&quot;, but AFAIK ReClock does not dynamically adjust the speed to compensate for clock drift like MPV does, in which case you could theoretically still get imperfect frame pacing. (I haven&#x27;t actually used ReClock so I could be mistaken here.)<p>Also great is MPV&#x27;s support for arbitrary OpenGL shaders. This can include very complicated shaders, e.g. real-time neural network upscaling:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;igv&#x2F;FSRCNN-TensorFlow&#x2F;releases" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;igv&#x2F;FSRCNN-TensorFlow&#x2F;releases</a><p>SD video can look surprisingly good after upscaling with this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nyanpasu64</author><text>One of my least favorite features of VLC (tied with network stream interruptions killing the playback rather than reconnecting) is that VLC guesses your audio hardware&#x27;s sampling rate itself (rather than using the hardware&#x27;s self-reported rate), and resamples even audio-only files that match your hardware&#x27;s self-reported rate. And every time you seek in a file, VLC&#x27;s guess of the hardware sampling rate is thrown off, causing VLC to start pitch-shifting the sound just enough (usually just barely, but sometimes up to 1 semitone) for you to notice and start doubting your sanity, if the audio pitch actually changed or if you&#x27;re hallucinating things. There&#x27;s a long-running bug report at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.videolan.org&#x2F;videolan&#x2F;vlc&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;14287" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.videolan.org&#x2F;videolan&#x2F;vlc&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;14287</a>.<p>I think PipeWire does something similar to synchronize multiple audio devices without a shared word clock, but I haven&#x27;t tested how much its rate analyzer drifts when starting&#x2F;stopping playback or in steady state.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player</title><url>https://mpv.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrob</author><text>My favorite feature is &quot;video-sync=display-resample&quot;. This gives you perfect frame pacing by synchronizing the video to vertical refresh and resampling the audio to match. If you set your refresh rate to an integer multiple of the frame rate, every frame will be shown for the exact same time. The audio resampling compensates for very small discrepancies between speeds by imperceptibly changing the audio speed. It&#x27;s similar to the proprietary DirectShow filter &quot;ReClock&quot;, but AFAIK ReClock does not dynamically adjust the speed to compensate for clock drift like MPV does, in which case you could theoretically still get imperfect frame pacing. (I haven&#x27;t actually used ReClock so I could be mistaken here.)<p>Also great is MPV&#x27;s support for arbitrary OpenGL shaders. This can include very complicated shaders, e.g. real-time neural network upscaling:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;igv&#x2F;FSRCNN-TensorFlow&#x2F;releases" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;igv&#x2F;FSRCNN-TensorFlow&#x2F;releases</a><p>SD video can look surprisingly good after upscaling with this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>&gt; Also great is MPV&#x27;s support for arbitrary OpenGL shaders. This can include very complicated shaders, e.g. real-time neural network upscaling:<p>Holy shit, I had no idea about this (that mpv could load OpenGL shaders nor that there is shaders that do RT neural upscaling), literally blowing my mind.</text></comment> |
28,917,890 | 28,918,034 | 1 | 2 | 28,912,799 | train | <story><title>Backblaze S-1 IPO</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462056/000119312521301141/d62601ds1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cupofjoakim</author><text>A friend in the music industry told me about a very cool backblaze moment.<p>They were out touring with an artist in some remote country, I think it was Kazakhstan, when the artists macbook suffered hard drive failure. Everything was backed up on backblaze, but the internet connections they had available was simply too unreliable to get the backup down. They contacted backblaze and for a price that was high (but not insane for a company) backblaze actually flew a guy with a physical hard drive to their location.<p>Saved ~5 gigs from being canceled, and my friend has been a die hard backblaze evangelist ever since.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw7</author><text>If you haven&#x27;t heard the stevie wonder story check it out. I don&#x27;t get why artists don&#x27;t have backups (well, I do, but...).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nelson_Mandela_70th_Birthday_Tribute#Stevie_Wonder_walks_out" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nelson_Mandela_70th_Birthday_T...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Backblaze S-1 IPO</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1462056/000119312521301141/d62601ds1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cupofjoakim</author><text>A friend in the music industry told me about a very cool backblaze moment.<p>They were out touring with an artist in some remote country, I think it was Kazakhstan, when the artists macbook suffered hard drive failure. Everything was backed up on backblaze, but the internet connections they had available was simply too unreliable to get the backup down. They contacted backblaze and for a price that was high (but not insane for a company) backblaze actually flew a guy with a physical hard drive to their location.<p>Saved ~5 gigs from being canceled, and my friend has been a die hard backblaze evangelist ever since.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vort3</author><text>As someone who lives in Kazakhstan, I can confirm, backups are basically useless here because speeds are so bad it&#x27;s faster to fly a plane than download files…</text></comment> |
30,780,159 | 30,779,425 | 1 | 3 | 30,778,240 | train | <story><title>Apple acquires UK open banking startup Credit Kudos</title><url>https://ffnews.com/newsarticle/apple-acquires-uk-open-banking-startup-credit-kudos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bilal_io</author><text>Simply because the credit system is _in my opinion_ imperfect and punishes people harshly. It encourages borrowing. i.e. if a person is responsible and chooses not to open a credit line, then their credit is considered bad, and banks would consider them risky. That&#x27;s just one example.</text></item><item><author>basisword</author><text>&gt;&gt; These are good ideas. Many people have debt from all kind of life issues and it kind of seems insane to lock them out of financing for … a phone or the like.<p>Why is that insane? Why would a company essentially loan money to people they think are unlikely to pay them back? A £1200 iPhone is certainly not essential when there are serviceable equivalents for &lt; £100 without the need for a contract.</text></item><item><author>crate_barre</author><text><i>own credit score system when paying by installments</i><p>These are good ideas. Many people have debt from all kind of life issues and it kind of seems insane to lock them out of financing for … a phone or the like.<p>The credit score system is the OG social credit system that China ain’t got nothing on.</text></item><item><author>jxub</author><text>Kudos (?) to the team. My guess is that they will want to roll out their own credit score system when paying by installments, rather than rely on Barclays as the credit broker as they currently do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hectormalot</author><text>&gt; Simply because the credit system is _in my opinion_ imperfect and punishes people harshly. It encourages borrowing. i.e. if a person is responsible and chooses not to open a credit line, then their credit is considered bad, and banks would consider them risky. That&#x27;s just one example.<p>That&#x27;s a US (and maybe some other countries as well) perspective, but not the same for all countries. e.g. in The Netherlands, your credit report is mostly concerned about how much debt you have (vs capacity to pay) and if you have debts in arrears. I understood historic debt payments don&#x27;t really factor into it here.<p>Note that different debts do have different weights. e.g. a car loan for 20k can reduce the limit of your max mortgage by 50k because its a bigger impact on your capacity to pay.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple acquires UK open banking startup Credit Kudos</title><url>https://ffnews.com/newsarticle/apple-acquires-uk-open-banking-startup-credit-kudos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bilal_io</author><text>Simply because the credit system is _in my opinion_ imperfect and punishes people harshly. It encourages borrowing. i.e. if a person is responsible and chooses not to open a credit line, then their credit is considered bad, and banks would consider them risky. That&#x27;s just one example.</text></item><item><author>basisword</author><text>&gt;&gt; These are good ideas. Many people have debt from all kind of life issues and it kind of seems insane to lock them out of financing for … a phone or the like.<p>Why is that insane? Why would a company essentially loan money to people they think are unlikely to pay them back? A £1200 iPhone is certainly not essential when there are serviceable equivalents for &lt; £100 without the need for a contract.</text></item><item><author>crate_barre</author><text><i>own credit score system when paying by installments</i><p>These are good ideas. Many people have debt from all kind of life issues and it kind of seems insane to lock them out of financing for … a phone or the like.<p>The credit score system is the OG social credit system that China ain’t got nothing on.</text></item><item><author>jxub</author><text>Kudos (?) to the team. My guess is that they will want to roll out their own credit score system when paying by installments, rather than rely on Barclays as the credit broker as they currently do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>Why are people entitled to credit? Everyone ascribes more credit to people they have good or neutral experience with than people they have had no experience with.</text></comment> |
29,218,424 | 29,218,542 | 1 | 2 | 29,217,539 | train | <story><title>Monte Carlo Methods or Why It's a Bad Idea to Go to the Casino</title><url>https://easylang.online/apps/tutorial_monte_carlo_methods.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jstx1</author><text>The post doesn&#x27;t really shed much light on it, it feels like a missed opportunity to explain things well.<p>There&#x27;s two main effects:<p>- Negative expected value (EV)[1]. The games are set up in a way that on average you&#x27;re likely to lose money. This is true for every game where you play against the house, otherwise the game wouldn&#x27;t be there. Poker is different because your EV depends on how you play relative to other people.<p>- Bankroll management and risk of ruin[2]. Even in a fair game, if you start with a short bankroll, you&#x27;re likely to go broke. For example, let&#x27;s say two of us flip a completely fair coin and bet $1 on each flip. The expected value for both players is $0. Now if one of us starts with $5 and the other $1000 and we play repeatedly, the person with the smaller amount is almost guaranteed to go broke in a long series of flips. This what happens when you play against the house and it&#x27;s the main reason why people lose money when they gamble in casinos.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Expected_value" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Expected_value</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Risk_of_ruin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Risk_of_ruin</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Monte Carlo Methods or Why It's a Bad Idea to Go to the Casino</title><url>https://easylang.online/apps/tutorial_monte_carlo_methods.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>citizenpaul</author><text>A good reason not to go to US casinos in vegas is there are too many stories of casinos blocking payout due to &quot;exploiting&quot; games. If you win you win or you dont. Doesnt matter how its up to the casino to validate that their game works and is exploit free. You already put your money down so they might as well just use a gun to take it at that point.</text></comment> |
7,245,438 | 7,245,496 | 1 | 3 | 7,245,349 | train | <story><title>Important Kickstarter Security Notice</title><url>https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/important-kickstarter-security-notice</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mecredis</author><text>Hi! I work at Kickstarter. To answer everyone&#x27;s question regarding the encryption used for our passwords: old passwords used salted SHA1, digested multiple times. More recent passwords use bcrypt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>itafroma</author><text>I see that when I log into Kickstarter, there&#x27;s a banner that recommends changing my password. That&#x27;s pretty good, but why not take it a step further by invalidating all the passwords and forcing a password change when someone logs in?</text></comment> | <story><title>Important Kickstarter Security Notice</title><url>https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/important-kickstarter-security-notice</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mecredis</author><text>Hi! I work at Kickstarter. To answer everyone&#x27;s question regarding the encryption used for our passwords: old passwords used salted SHA1, digested multiple times. More recent passwords use bcrypt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r0muald</author><text>Why resetting passwords is an optional step left to users? Wouldn&#x27;t it be more rational to reset all passwords?</text></comment> |
8,749,809 | 8,749,777 | 1 | 3 | 8,749,488 | train | <story><title>Mochi – Dynamically-typed language for functional and actor-style programming</title><url>https://github.com/i2y/mochi</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RussianCow</author><text>I&#x27;m really glad we&#x27;re starting to see compile-to-Python languages crop up. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, Python is a great language, and the community around it is fantastic, but it&#x27;s missing key functional&#x2F;concurrency features that would make certain problems much less tedious to solve. For instance, I love the built-in use of persistent data structures in Mochi--that&#x27;s something that&#x27;s sorely missing from the Python standard library.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mochi – Dynamically-typed language for functional and actor-style programming</title><url>https://github.com/i2y/mochi</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Foxboron</author><text>I really found this project neat. Core dev on Hy and i was wondering how well hy works when importing it into mochi. Guess what? It just works!<p><pre><code> &gt;&gt;&gt; import hy
None
&gt;&gt;&gt; from foobar import test ;; Hy module
None
&gt;&gt;&gt; test()
Test
None
&gt;&gt;&gt;
</code></pre>
EDIT:
From looking at the source, it look&#x27;s like Mochi is actually a lisp, without the parens. Really neat.</text></comment> |
18,216,813 | 18,216,920 | 1 | 2 | 18,216,459 | train | <story><title>A True Story</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>OscarCunningham</author><text>Lucian also wrote the earliest known version of <i>The Sorcerer&#x27;s Apprentice</i>, which I view as the ur-example of an &quot;AI rebellion&quot; storyline. A programmer is harmed by their creation not because it goes against their orders but because it follows their orders to a much greater extent than they were anticipating.</text></comment> | <story><title>A True Story</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PakG1</author><text>The most fascinating thing for me is that at that time, he was able to conceptualize that people could walk on the moon, and that it was big enough to have a war on the ground. I&#x27;m not sure why, but something in me makes me think that I never would have imagined something like that back then. Quite the imagination.<p>Of course, he seemed to also think that you could walk on the sun, but can&#x27;t blame him for extending the logic and not knowing that the sun&#x27;s composition wasn&#x27;t great for walking.</text></comment> |
33,582,338 | 33,580,440 | 1 | 2 | 33,579,703 | train | <story><title>An Inside Look at MS-DOS – The design decisions behind the popular OS (1983)</title><url>https://patersontech.com/Dos/Byte/InsideDos.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksaj</author><text>I studied MS-DOS inside and out (quite literally).<p>One thing that I always thought was interesting was all the stuff that gets packed in the first 100h bytes before a .COM file&#x27;s entry point, called the Program Segment Prefix (PSP). It is why you could simply execute a RET (return) and have it drop back to DOS again. The first bytes of the PSP are a literal INT 20h which is the Drop To DOS interrupt, and a RET with nothing left on the stack will return you to that zero offset, and then Drop to DOS.<p>Probably a bit hacky, but really clever.<p>I wrote my own DOS clone in Assembler, that I called PoverDOS because it was surely going to make me about that much money, and managed to make a boot sector that was far more functional than the one that comes standard with MS and PC DOS. The main thing it did was self-diagnostics to determine if the system had been infected by a boot sector virus. That was quite a feat, but became a moot point once 64 bit computing came about, because the boot sequence also gained a whole lot more space to work in.<p>Don&#x27;t bring it up with me at a party, &#x27;cos all those DOS intricacies are still among my favourite subjects, and 97% of the population probably would not be nearly as enthusiastic. DOS is still the party killer it always was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevekemp</author><text>For me my reversing started and ending with discovering and documenting the List of Lists:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fd.lod.bz&#x2F;rbil&#x2F;interrup&#x2F;dos_kernel&#x2F;2152.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fd.lod.bz&#x2F;rbil&#x2F;interrup&#x2F;dos_kernel&#x2F;2152.html</a><p>That allowed TSRs to do clever things.<p>I didn&#x27;t use CP&#x2F;M before DOS, but these days I know all about the PSP via writing code for CP&#x2F;M, in Z80. Kinda impressive how long all these backwards compatibility things last.</text></comment> | <story><title>An Inside Look at MS-DOS – The design decisions behind the popular OS (1983)</title><url>https://patersontech.com/Dos/Byte/InsideDos.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksaj</author><text>I studied MS-DOS inside and out (quite literally).<p>One thing that I always thought was interesting was all the stuff that gets packed in the first 100h bytes before a .COM file&#x27;s entry point, called the Program Segment Prefix (PSP). It is why you could simply execute a RET (return) and have it drop back to DOS again. The first bytes of the PSP are a literal INT 20h which is the Drop To DOS interrupt, and a RET with nothing left on the stack will return you to that zero offset, and then Drop to DOS.<p>Probably a bit hacky, but really clever.<p>I wrote my own DOS clone in Assembler, that I called PoverDOS because it was surely going to make me about that much money, and managed to make a boot sector that was far more functional than the one that comes standard with MS and PC DOS. The main thing it did was self-diagnostics to determine if the system had been infected by a boot sector virus. That was quite a feat, but became a moot point once 64 bit computing came about, because the boot sequence also gained a whole lot more space to work in.<p>Don&#x27;t bring it up with me at a party, &#x27;cos all those DOS intricacies are still among my favourite subjects, and 97% of the population probably would not be nearly as enthusiastic. DOS is still the party killer it always was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ipython</author><text>Awesome! I encourage you to post your code and blog about it. I would find it fascinating, and suspect others would too.</text></comment> |
16,238,054 | 16,237,744 | 1 | 2 | 16,237,227 | train | <story><title>Webpack 4 Beta released</title><url>https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-4-beta-try-it-today-6b1d27d7d7e2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>I suspect that the Webpack team thinks that developers&#x27; favourite job is to upgrade tool configurations. I mean, it&#x27;s great that improvements are being made, but breaking changes are not.<p>Remember that the Webpack team has shown to be actively hostile to people who just want to keep their 2-year-old codebases work without doing needless upgrade work. They <i>removed</i> the webpack 1 docs [1], so if you have a few-years-old codebase that you want to get up and running, and somehow you get a webpack error, the message from Webpack is &quot;screw you, upgrade to webpack 3 first and only then we&#x27;ll allow you to read the docs&quot;.<p>I have no reason to not expect the same to happen with Webpack 4, and the inevitable Webpack 5, 7 months from now. Webpack 2&#x2F;3 docs will be subtly removed, retired and forgotten. We&#x27;re all forced to keep doing work to make something work that already worked perfectly fine.<p>Now, I&#x27;m well aware that an angry rant on the internet about the voluntary work from open source contributors is not particularly constructive. I&#x27;ve singled out the Webpack team here, but the reality is that a big part of the web dev ecosystem, across languages, does not care much about backward compatibility. I&#x27;d love for that attitude to change.<p>In semver, every major version is a tragedy.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webpack.github.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;using-plugins" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webpack.github.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;using-plugins</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thelarkinn</author><text>We strive to be as backwards compatible as possible. But we also hold ourselves accountable to keeping pace with the ecosystem.<p>Most breaking changes are to accommodate the number one ask of our users: faster, smaller builds.<p>We asked what the time frame they wanted for releases. We got out of a couple thousand responses 6mo being the sweet spot. Appreciate the candid feedback though.<p>In regards to the v1 docs: we wanted to have a fresh start. I don&#x27;t imagine our docs pages now changing for awhile. Each major breaking change we ship a migration guide so that people can upgrade.</text></comment> | <story><title>Webpack 4 Beta released</title><url>https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-4-beta-try-it-today-6b1d27d7d7e2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>I suspect that the Webpack team thinks that developers&#x27; favourite job is to upgrade tool configurations. I mean, it&#x27;s great that improvements are being made, but breaking changes are not.<p>Remember that the Webpack team has shown to be actively hostile to people who just want to keep their 2-year-old codebases work without doing needless upgrade work. They <i>removed</i> the webpack 1 docs [1], so if you have a few-years-old codebase that you want to get up and running, and somehow you get a webpack error, the message from Webpack is &quot;screw you, upgrade to webpack 3 first and only then we&#x27;ll allow you to read the docs&quot;.<p>I have no reason to not expect the same to happen with Webpack 4, and the inevitable Webpack 5, 7 months from now. Webpack 2&#x2F;3 docs will be subtly removed, retired and forgotten. We&#x27;re all forced to keep doing work to make something work that already worked perfectly fine.<p>Now, I&#x27;m well aware that an angry rant on the internet about the voluntary work from open source contributors is not particularly constructive. I&#x27;ve singled out the Webpack team here, but the reality is that a big part of the web dev ecosystem, across languages, does not care much about backward compatibility. I&#x27;d love for that attitude to change.<p>In semver, every major version is a tragedy.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webpack.github.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;using-plugins" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webpack.github.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;using-plugins</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fenomas</author><text>&gt; but this does not even include a list of breaking changes.<p>TFA:<p>&gt; For the full list of changes, features, and internal API modifications, <i>please refer to our change log!!!</i><p>Link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webpack&#x2F;webpack&#x2F;releases&#x2F;tag&#x2F;v4.0.0-beta.0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webpack&#x2F;webpack&#x2F;releases&#x2F;tag&#x2F;v4.0.0-beta....</a></text></comment> |
16,962,506 | 16,961,705 | 1 | 3 | 16,960,277 | train | <story><title>IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware</title><url>https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/04/irs-60-year-old-it-system-failed-tax-day-due-new-hardware/147598/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cptskippy</author><text>I feel like the authors of this article are being very misleading by using broader terms where they could be more specific, like using system where they could instead say software. The IRS isn&#x27;t running 60 year old hardware, and the failure was in hardware that was just 18 months old. But because the IRS is running software that is 60 years old, the authors can claim the &quot;system&quot; dates back to the 1960s.<p>It&#x27;s also clear the authors don&#x27;t entirely understand what they&#x27;re talking about. In the second article linked to, which is written by an author of this article, he states &quot;[t]he Individual Master File, a massive application written in the antiquated and low-level Assembly programming language&quot; as if to imply there is but one assembly language.<p>A GAO report I found chasing the last link in the article indicates that the two oldest systems in the Government are the IMF and Business Master File (BMF) which it says both run on IBM Hardware. My guess would be that the IRS is running modern z&#x2F;Architecture mainframes in System 360 Compatibility mode. The System 360 dates back to the early 60s and IBM has maintained backward compatibility with it all the way up through z&#x2F;Architecture systems. This would also explain why they&#x27;re so far over budget and behind schedule.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>FWIW, the IRS.gov IT docs make reference to &quot;Assembler Language&quot; as if it were a proper noun:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;irm&#x2F;part2&#x2F;irm_02-005-003" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;irm&#x2F;part2&#x2F;irm_02-005-003</a><p>&gt; <i>The scope of this directive is Servicewide. This includes software developed by contractors. Where the guidelines apply to Assembler Language, COBOL, C Language, C++ programming, and Java programming, these guidelines shall be followed respectively.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware</title><url>https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/04/irs-60-year-old-it-system-failed-tax-day-due-new-hardware/147598/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cptskippy</author><text>I feel like the authors of this article are being very misleading by using broader terms where they could be more specific, like using system where they could instead say software. The IRS isn&#x27;t running 60 year old hardware, and the failure was in hardware that was just 18 months old. But because the IRS is running software that is 60 years old, the authors can claim the &quot;system&quot; dates back to the 1960s.<p>It&#x27;s also clear the authors don&#x27;t entirely understand what they&#x27;re talking about. In the second article linked to, which is written by an author of this article, he states &quot;[t]he Individual Master File, a massive application written in the antiquated and low-level Assembly programming language&quot; as if to imply there is but one assembly language.<p>A GAO report I found chasing the last link in the article indicates that the two oldest systems in the Government are the IMF and Business Master File (BMF) which it says both run on IBM Hardware. My guess would be that the IRS is running modern z&#x2F;Architecture mainframes in System 360 Compatibility mode. The System 360 dates back to the early 60s and IBM has maintained backward compatibility with it all the way up through z&#x2F;Architecture systems. This would also explain why they&#x27;re so far over budget and behind schedule.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mankash666</author><text>Feel free to not read articles written by non-tech people. Or, acknowledge the fact that a journalism major can only put in words what he understands of a deeply technical matter that&#x27;s outside his expertise</text></comment> |
17,732,726 | 17,732,771 | 1 | 2 | 17,730,938 | train | <story><title>Jobs Inside the API</title><url>https://putanumonit.com/2018/08/09/jobs-inside-the-api/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>The lady with the iPad is in a rather tragic position as an output device for the system.<p>The &quot;BAMF&quot; booking agent however has a very important role in the API which isn&#x27;t spelled out here: <i>authentication</i>. He&#x27;s basically the sudo interface, with the power to rewrite flights at will. And for whatever reason our narrator has the right kind of speaking-to-manager powers to use him as the sudo interface.<p>Every bulk customer service process has its &quot;exceptions&quot;, and this is clearly one of them. The role of humans is to understand the exception and turn it into pieces which the API will accept, either through the normal interface or the sudo interface.<p>See also <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.harrowell.org.uk&#x2F;blog&#x2F;category&#x2F;callcentre&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.harrowell.org.uk&#x2F;blog&#x2F;category&#x2F;callcentre&#x2F;</a> - it&#x27;s a short series, start at the bottom.<p>&quot; Asymmetric legibility characterises call centres, and it’s dreadful. Within, management tries to maintain a panopticon glare at the staff. Without, the user faces an unmapped territory, in which the paths are deliberately obscure, and the details the centre holds on you are kept secret. Call centres know a lot about you, but won’t say; their managers endlessly spy on the galley slaves; you’re not allowed to know how the system works.<p>...<p>Inappropriate automation and human&#x2F;machine confusion bedevil call centres. If you could solve your problem by filling in a web form, you probably would have done. The fact you’re in the queue is evidence that your request is complicated, that something has gone wrong, or generally that human intervention is required.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Jobs Inside the API</title><url>https://putanumonit.com/2018/08/09/jobs-inside-the-api/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toyg</author><text>The &quot;above&#x2F;below API&quot; metaphore is a good update for the description of a process affecting most jobs ever since the industrial revolution happened. The API of yesterday was the production line, where you are the one designing&#x2F;paying for&#x2F;maintaining the line, or you do what the line needs you to do. We notice a difference simply because the new production line is computerized, so this dynamic now applies to &quot;intellectual&quot; jobs as well - but it&#x27;s just another form of mechanization.<p>A lot of books from the &#x27;60s and &#x27;70s (and before) are worth re-reading, they&#x27;ve exhamined this scenario extensively, back then.</text></comment> |
27,101,558 | 27,101,756 | 1 | 2 | 27,101,092 | train | <story><title>US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57050690</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arkadiyt</author><text>Colonial Pipeline precisely does keep it&#x27;s control network disconnected from the internet - the only thing that was ransomwared is their corporate network. They shut the pipelines down voluntarily to prevent further spread.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mulmen</author><text>If we define critical system as &quot;necessary to the operation of the business&quot; then the corporate system is absolutely critical. It doesn&#x27;t matter if the SCADA system is airgapped if you can shut down the capability by crashing the corporate systems.</text></comment> | <story><title>US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57050690</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arkadiyt</author><text>Colonial Pipeline precisely does keep it&#x27;s control network disconnected from the internet - the only thing that was ransomwared is their corporate network. They shut the pipelines down voluntarily to prevent further spread.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rckoepke</author><text>I built some of the SCADA and IT systems for Colonial Pipeline.<p>Many industrial SCADA systems (nearly all) send data from their &quot;OT&quot; systems (PLC&#x2F;DCS&#x2F;SCADA) to their &quot;IT&quot; and business layers (Historians&#x2F;Timeseries Databases, Dashboards, Power BI&#x2F;etc). This almost <i>always</i> happens through a two-way link (think TCP&#x2F;IP, HTTP). While the <i>software</i> should not allow data flow backwards, the hardware absolutely does. So how much do you trust the software?<p>I often advocate that industrial SCADA systems utilize &quot;data-diodes&quot;, one-way opto-isolators, or other <i>physically</i> verifiable methods of confirming that no information&#x2F;data&#x2F;instructions can get from a &quot;higher&quot; layer (OSI Pi, PowerBI) to a lower layer (Allen-Bradley PLC, Siemens PLC, Emerson DeltaV DCS, etc).<p>Convincing the powers-that-be to do this has been incredibly impossible in most places and a large reason why I&#x27;m trying to transition to a different space - I simply have had ethical concerns about providing engineering services to critical infrastructure without building in best practices.<p>Stuxnet was over a decade ago - I don&#x27;t understand how these protections aren&#x27;t mandated by the DHS already.<p>Disclaimer: I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s reasonable for non-involved people to assume the OT side has been compromised. I do think Colonial will need some time to verify the integrity of their SCADA systems and it makes sense to keep the power to the physical devices (valves&#x2F;pumps) offline until they do. I understand why they chose to shut down but I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s any evidence that they&#x27;ll be unable to start back up again.<p>Lastly, I saw a quote in one article:<p>&gt;&gt;&gt; Digital Shadows thinks the Colonial Pipeline cyber-attack has come about due to the coronavirus pandemic - the rise of engineers remotely accessing control systems for the pipeline from home.<p>I strongly doubt this. It&#x27;s possible, of course. But it&#x27;s extremely unlikely to me that employees would have remotely accessed OT&#x2F;SCADA systems from home. No one I&#x27;ve worked with has had that capability enabled.<p>Many companies use products which have been shown to have flaws, like Citrix or various corporate VPNs. These could be compromised to get access &quot;closer&quot; to the OT layers but never directly into it.<p>Onion layer security is very much practiced everywhere I&#x27;ve been.<p>Edit: I have heard of some petrochemical facilities moving towards allowing operators and engineers to manipulate valves&#x2F;pumps on their iPhones. This horrifies me for many reasons. I&#x27;ve never actually seen it implemented and I always bring up Stuxnet when I hear people mention it. I personally believe that DHS should make this sort of thing illegal for critical infrastructure. Many good engineers disagree with me.</text></comment> |
14,865,502 | 14,865,594 | 1 | 2 | 14,865,380 | train | <story><title>AWS is having widespread issues</title><url>https://twitter.com/chafikhnini/status/890574129426026497</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>i_cant_speel</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working at my first software dev job for a few months now. I sat down at work today and, for the first time, I had to launch and configure an EC2 instance. Of course, within the first few minutes of getting started AWS starts having issues.</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS is having widespread issues</title><url>https://twitter.com/chafikhnini/status/890574129426026497</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanh</author><text>At Zapier we saw half the internet on AWS blip out for a bit (us too), but it seems to have been short lived. Approximately Jul 27, 2017 13:47:45 to Jul 27, 2017 13:59:33 (UTC) as far as we could tell.</text></comment> |
23,329,279 | 23,325,241 | 1 | 3 | 23,322,730 | train | <story><title>Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results</title><url>https://twitter.com/zenexer/status/1265633022709301249</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lightswitch05</author><text>I couldn&#x27;t agree more that AMP is terrible. I do everything I can to avoid it. Using DuckDuckGo certainly helps, but I will still occasionally stumble on an AMP site. I&#x27;ve created a hosts block list to help me avoid AMP as much as possible. It currently has 3,569 unique domains (works great with a PiHole!). I&#x27;m really concerned about Chrome&#x27;s &#x27;signed exchanges&#x27; where they can fake the URL completely. I hope Firefox will never support it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.github.developerdan.com&#x2F;hosts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.github.developerdan.com&#x2F;hosts&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>TechBro8615</author><text>How does anyone think this is a good idea? It should be clear which news site I am reading when I&#x27;m reading an article. Otherwise, how do I know which bias to apply? On iOS, the title bar says &quot;google.com&quot; whether I&#x27;m reading an article from CNN.com or WashingtonExaminer.com.<p>Of all the anti-competitive actions google has taken around search results, AMP is by far the worst. I hope they get smacked down for it in the upcoming anti-trust lawsuit. And kudos to Apple for refusing to change the URL bar like Google does on Android.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hjek</author><text>Even better than blocking AMP is just redirecting to the proper page[0].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;amp2html&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;amp2html&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results</title><url>https://twitter.com/zenexer/status/1265633022709301249</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lightswitch05</author><text>I couldn&#x27;t agree more that AMP is terrible. I do everything I can to avoid it. Using DuckDuckGo certainly helps, but I will still occasionally stumble on an AMP site. I&#x27;ve created a hosts block list to help me avoid AMP as much as possible. It currently has 3,569 unique domains (works great with a PiHole!). I&#x27;m really concerned about Chrome&#x27;s &#x27;signed exchanges&#x27; where they can fake the URL completely. I hope Firefox will never support it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.github.developerdan.com&#x2F;hosts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.github.developerdan.com&#x2F;hosts&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>TechBro8615</author><text>How does anyone think this is a good idea? It should be clear which news site I am reading when I&#x27;m reading an article. Otherwise, how do I know which bias to apply? On iOS, the title bar says &quot;google.com&quot; whether I&#x27;m reading an article from CNN.com or WashingtonExaminer.com.<p>Of all the anti-competitive actions google has taken around search results, AMP is by far the worst. I hope they get smacked down for it in the upcoming anti-trust lawsuit. And kudos to Apple for refusing to change the URL bar like Google does on Android.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m really concerned about Chrome&#x27;s &#x27;signed exchanges&#x27; where they can fake the URL completely.<p>They&#x27;re not faking the URL; a signed exchange contains data that can only have come from the original site. It&#x27;s a secure way of handling caching&#x2F;CDNs&#x2F;etc, and it&#x27;ll be a net improvement for security that allows sites to put less trust in third-party servers and scripts.</text></comment> |
20,828,708 | 20,827,437 | 1 | 3 | 20,817,083 | train | <story><title>Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks</title><url>https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/exploring-weight-agnostic-neural.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elamje</author><text>Unpopular quote from my image and video processing professor - “The only problem with machine learning is that the machine does the learning and you don’t.”<p>While I understand that is missing a lot of nuance, it has stuck with me over the past few years as I feel like I am missing out on the cool machine learning work going on out there.<p>There is a ton of learning about calculus, probability, and statistics when doing machine learning, but I can’t shake the fact that at the end of the day, the output is basically a black box. As you start toying with AI you realize that the only way to learn from your architecture and results is by tuning parameters and trial and error.<p>Of course there are many applications that only AI can solve, which is all good and well, but I’m curious to hear from some heavy machine learning practitioners - what is exciting to you about your work?<p>This is a serious inquiry because I want to know if it’s worth exploring again. In the past university AI classes I took, I just got bored writing tiny programs that leveraged AI libraries to classify images, do some simple predictions etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>ML is more like growing crops than it is about &quot;designing stuff&quot;. Growing crops is slow, and you don&#x27;t know beforehand what the result will be. However, you can still throw a lot of science at growing crops (&quot;plant breeding&quot; is a science), and the same holds for engineering.</text></comment> | <story><title>Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks</title><url>https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/exploring-weight-agnostic-neural.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elamje</author><text>Unpopular quote from my image and video processing professor - “The only problem with machine learning is that the machine does the learning and you don’t.”<p>While I understand that is missing a lot of nuance, it has stuck with me over the past few years as I feel like I am missing out on the cool machine learning work going on out there.<p>There is a ton of learning about calculus, probability, and statistics when doing machine learning, but I can’t shake the fact that at the end of the day, the output is basically a black box. As you start toying with AI you realize that the only way to learn from your architecture and results is by tuning parameters and trial and error.<p>Of course there are many applications that only AI can solve, which is all good and well, but I’m curious to hear from some heavy machine learning practitioners - what is exciting to you about your work?<p>This is a serious inquiry because I want to know if it’s worth exploring again. In the past university AI classes I took, I just got bored writing tiny programs that leveraged AI libraries to classify images, do some simple predictions etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kuu</author><text>For me, the exciting part is to understand how the &quot;blackbox&quot; can learn and to find a representation of the data that makes this box to learn.<p>For instance, I&#x27;ve been working in users profiling and it&#x27;s been a challenge to find which features and in which representation allow the model to learn. It&#x27;s fantastic when you make a little change in a feature (for instance, use the median instead of the mean) and your model suddenly gets a +5% acc.<p>The field in the real world is not as simple as to make an API call. The data in the wild is really complicated. To get value from this data is the real challenge.</text></comment> |
3,012,878 | 3,012,594 | 1 | 2 | 3,012,206 | train | <story><title>Reed Hastings responds to criticisms and announces Qwikster</title><url>http://blog.netflix.com/2011/09/explanation-and-some-reflections.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DevX101</author><text>Netflix should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. There are a lot of successful companies that are much more diversified than Netflix is right now. This honestly strikes me as a panic driven move in response to the customer rage and their precipitous drop off in stock prices.<p>I'm trying hard but can't see the upside to this move. And I think this will cause a big hemmorhaging in profit for the short/medium term. Netflix has 12 million members that are on both the DVD and the streaming plan. These are the folks that got the 60% price hike. Although Netflix lost some customers (~5%) after the pricing change, that massive price hike put them in a position to increase profits, even with less members..<p>But now that Netflix is splitting itself in two, I can guarantee you a sizeable chunk of people who were just happy with the dual plan will end up picking one or the other.<p>That being said, I like that they're tackling video games. They ought to take a serious look at getting into competition with Steam, which is making $1Billion in revenue and growing, with high profit margins.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sriramk</author><text>If you think something of this scale was put together in a month, you don't understand how large companies work. This has to be in the works for atleast 4-5 months. The press likes to construct these action-&#62;reaction narratives (Foo launches Bar in response to company X doing Y yesterday) but in reality, these things take time and are rarely direct responses to events.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reed Hastings responds to criticisms and announces Qwikster</title><url>http://blog.netflix.com/2011/09/explanation-and-some-reflections.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DevX101</author><text>Netflix should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. There are a lot of successful companies that are much more diversified than Netflix is right now. This honestly strikes me as a panic driven move in response to the customer rage and their precipitous drop off in stock prices.<p>I'm trying hard but can't see the upside to this move. And I think this will cause a big hemmorhaging in profit for the short/medium term. Netflix has 12 million members that are on both the DVD and the streaming plan. These are the folks that got the 60% price hike. Although Netflix lost some customers (~5%) after the pricing change, that massive price hike put them in a position to increase profits, even with less members..<p>But now that Netflix is splitting itself in two, I can guarantee you a sizeable chunk of people who were just happy with the dual plan will end up picking one or the other.<p>That being said, I like that they're tackling video games. They ought to take a serious look at getting into competition with Steam, which is making $1Billion in revenue and growing, with high profit margins.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0x12</author><text>&#62; I can guarantee you a sizeable chunk of people who were just happy with the dual plan will end up picking one or the other.<p>But the upside for netflix is those people that end up picking both.<p>The time to analyze this is 6 months from now when the figures are in.<p>My personal best guess about what they're about to do is sell off the DVD division.</text></comment> |
36,207,048 | 36,206,573 | 1 | 3 | 36,200,738 | train | <story><title>Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (2014)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/forests-around-chernobyl-arent-decaying-properly-180950075/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I think it&#x27;s almost guaranteed that bacteria eating plastics will proliferate globally at some point, we&#x27;ve put so much of this stuff in the environment and it&#x27;s just free energy ready to be consumed if your digestive system knows how.</text></item><item><author>digging</author><text>In general, it&#x27;s mind-blowing to travel back in Earth&#x27;s history and realize there were tens or hundreds of millions of years where strategies that are commonplace today had never been tried before (or they&#x27;d tried too early and failed). It makes one wonder, what will be the strategies of future life which no creature has yet evolved? Can we even imagine it?</text></item><item><author>dekhn</author><text>That didn&#x27;t sound too right for me (but my biology knowledge is dated at this point) so I read the relevant section from that page. It concludes wiht:<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;The delayed fungal evolution hypothesis is controversial, however, and has been challenged by other researchers, who conclude that a combination of vast depositional systems present on the continents during the formation of Pangaea and widespread humid, tropical conditions were responsible for the high rate of coal formation.&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>It&#x27;s interesting to think just how much went on before trees with lignin showed up. Flowers are also relatively recent - 150mya.</text></item><item><author>jonplackett</author><text>Weirdly, there was actually a period of history where this was normal.<p>During the Carboniferous period 300 million years ago trees just fell over and lay there because nothing had evolved to decay them yet.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Carboniferous" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Carboniferous</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jvanderbot</author><text>And suddenly plastics won&#x27;t be the sterile, durable wonders that they are. We are living in <i>The golden age of plastics</i>, folks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (2014)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/forests-around-chernobyl-arent-decaying-properly-180950075/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>I think it&#x27;s almost guaranteed that bacteria eating plastics will proliferate globally at some point, we&#x27;ve put so much of this stuff in the environment and it&#x27;s just free energy ready to be consumed if your digestive system knows how.</text></item><item><author>digging</author><text>In general, it&#x27;s mind-blowing to travel back in Earth&#x27;s history and realize there were tens or hundreds of millions of years where strategies that are commonplace today had never been tried before (or they&#x27;d tried too early and failed). It makes one wonder, what will be the strategies of future life which no creature has yet evolved? Can we even imagine it?</text></item><item><author>dekhn</author><text>That didn&#x27;t sound too right for me (but my biology knowledge is dated at this point) so I read the relevant section from that page. It concludes wiht:<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;The delayed fungal evolution hypothesis is controversial, however, and has been challenged by other researchers, who conclude that a combination of vast depositional systems present on the continents during the formation of Pangaea and widespread humid, tropical conditions were responsible for the high rate of coal formation.&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>It&#x27;s interesting to think just how much went on before trees with lignin showed up. Flowers are also relatively recent - 150mya.</text></item><item><author>jonplackett</author><text>Weirdly, there was actually a period of history where this was normal.<p>During the Carboniferous period 300 million years ago trees just fell over and lay there because nothing had evolved to decay them yet.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Carboniferous" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Carboniferous</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peteradio</author><text>I used to entertain this idea but I&#x27;m somewhat skeptical such a thing could proliferate, there is just not that much plastic relative to the other sources of energy an animal can evolve towards. I&#x27;d be interested to hear otherwise though.</text></comment> |
4,636,671 | 4,635,665 | 1 | 3 | 4,635,457 | train | <story><title>Indian Railways, live on Google Maps</title><url>http://railradar.trainenquiry.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rashkov</author><text>"An illiterate child from a small town in India falls asleep on a train and ends up lost in Calcutta, unable to find his way back home. Twenty-five years later, while living with his adoptive family in Australia, he locates his lost hometown using memories and Google Earth. (David Kushner, Vanity Fair)"
<a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/11/india-orphan-google-earth-journey?src=longreads" rel="nofollow">http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/11/india-orphan-googl...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Indian Railways, live on Google Maps</title><url>http://railradar.trainenquiry.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yogrish</author><text>Very nice app esp. in context of India where train timings are highly unpredictable.How are they getting real time data - GPS fitted or Indian rail opened APIs?<p>Good that they mentioned why it is not exact real time ..."For security and regulatory reasons, the information published on RailRadar is delayed for 5 or more minutes."<p>edit: Rephrased.</text></comment> |
13,798,891 | 13,797,687 | 1 | 2 | 13,796,364 | train | <story><title>NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphere</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmosphere.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thatcherc</author><text>This is incredibly exciting but a few important details are missing.<p>The first is how big does the structure need to be? I can buy a 1 Tesla magnet online right now but that&#x27;s probably not what they&#x27;re thinking of. Would we need a city-sized coil or something like that?<p>The second is the time scale. They say that the temperature could rise by 4 Celsius and trigger a greenhouse effect, but is that an immediate effect (10 years or so) or century-scale effect? I&#x27;m hoping the scientists put out a paper because I&#x27;d love to learn more about the specifics of their proposal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TTPrograms</author><text>For people asking about the amount of energy we&#x27;re talking about, the energy density of a magnetic field is |B|^2 &#x2F;(2mu_0). It appears that the described structure has something on the order of the cross section of Mars, and I&#x27;ll assume that it&#x27;s depth is in that ballpark as well. For a fictitious uniform field that would require on the order of 1.6e19 J, which is roughly 1.2 times the total electrical energy output of the US in 2001:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=4%2F3+pi+*+(radius+of+mars)%5E3+*+(500,000+nT)%5E2+%2F+(2*mu_0)" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=4%2F3+pi+*+(radius+of+m...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=1.617%C3%9710%5E19+joules&amp;lk=1&amp;rawformassumption=%22ClashPrefs%22+-%3E+%22ClashPrefs%22" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=1.617%C3%9710%5E19+joul...</a><p>Assuming you had no losses, so say ideal superconducting coils, that&#x27;s how much energy you have to dump into magnetic field. You can do this as slow as you like, so with 1&#x2F;10 the US electrical energy production it would take 10 years to build up that magnetic field. Hypothetically, if you had thin-film plastic PV cells (like cellophane thin to be reasonable to build and get into space) with 100% efficiency covering the footprint of this system (Mars) you could generate enough power to charge up this field in 471 seconds:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=1e19+J+%2F+((solar+power+output*pi*(radius+of+mars%5E2))%2F(4*pi*radius+of+mars+orbit%5E2)" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=1e19+J+%2F+((solar+powe...</a>)<p>Of course the big story here is that efficient thin film solar in space could generate obscene amounts of power.<p>I&#x27;m not sure on the depth of the field volume required, so that might make it easier, too.</text></comment> | <story><title>NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphere</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmosphere.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thatcherc</author><text>This is incredibly exciting but a few important details are missing.<p>The first is how big does the structure need to be? I can buy a 1 Tesla magnet online right now but that&#x27;s probably not what they&#x27;re thinking of. Would we need a city-sized coil or something like that?<p>The second is the time scale. They say that the temperature could rise by 4 Celsius and trigger a greenhouse effect, but is that an immediate effect (10 years or so) or century-scale effect? I&#x27;m hoping the scientists put out a paper because I&#x27;d love to learn more about the specifics of their proposal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fenollp</author><text>Less than 700 million years apparently.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;humansareawesme&#x2F;status&#x2F;836961705745858560" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;humansareawesme&#x2F;status&#x2F;83696170574585856...</a></text></comment> |
17,182,764 | 17,182,739 | 1 | 2 | 17,181,238 | train | <story><title>A security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2018/05/29/announcing-the-may-2018-git-security-vulnerability/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peff</author><text>A few important points that aren&#x27;t mentioned in the post:<p>- you have to tell git to use submodules for this to trigger (so `clone --recurse-submodules` or a manual `git submodule update --init`)<p>- credit for discovery goes to Etienne Stalmans, who reported it to GitHub&#x27;s bug bounty program<p>- most major hosters should prevent malicious repositories from being pushed up. This is actually where most of the work went. The fix itself was pretty trivial, but detection during push required a lot of refactoring. And involved many projects: I wrote the patches for Git itself, but others worked on libgit2, JGit, and VSTS.</text></comment> | <story><title>A security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2018/05/29/announcing-the-may-2018-git-security-vulnerability/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gitlab-security</author><text>The monthly security release for GitLab was today, and this release was coordinated with the Git security release. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;security-release-gitlab-10-dot-8-dot-2-released&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;security-release-gitlab-...</a><p>In addition to our recently implemented monthly non-critical security release process (we already had a critical release process before), we are making a number of changes in how we secure GitLab.com, which includes expanding our HackerOne program this year to be a public bounty program. As always, we appreciate the contributions of security researchers.</text></comment> |
27,476,774 | 27,475,681 | 1 | 2 | 27,457,696 | train | <story><title>OpenRGB: Open-source RGB lighting control</title><url>https://openrgb.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sounds</author><text>I think by 2021 most people will understand this simple reality:<p>Other than Apple, every other hardware company is _not_ a software company.<p>Yes, they write software. It is universally garbage. If there is anything well-done about the software, it will be because the hardware company licensed (or more likely, just ripped off) someone else&#x27;s software.<p>Google (a software company) cannot make any of the hardware companies in the Android ecosystem produce anything but garbage. Samsung Bixby anybody?<p>And this should not surprise anyone, as the leadership at a hardware company does not care, at all, about the software. Once you plunked down your coins and bought the hardware, the leadership at the company only sees software as an endless cost center. They want you gone as fast as possible.<p>It&#x27;s a classic race to the bottom, and this is the result.<p>It&#x27;s also one of the most potent forces driving people to use OpenRGB and every other free&#x2F;libre open source tool.</text></item><item><author>otter-in-a-suit</author><text>The state of RGB is such a nightmare, and I am very glad OpenRGB exists.<p>If I wanted to control all LEDs on my relatively new &quot;Gaming&quot; PC (Windows 10), I&#x27;d normally need software from Gigabyte for the GPU (which straight up doesn&#x27;t work [0]), Ducky for the keyboard, a no-name Corsair knockoff software where the name escapes me for the mouse, actual Corsair software for the fans, and NZXT for the AIO.<p>All of them are not only proprietary, they also use a ton of resources and often times cannot be run in parallel, presumably because they try to talk to the same devices (but never all of them!) - analog to an I2C device that only allows one process to access it at a time. Difference being, there is nothing stopping me from trying - everything will just freeze.<p>It&#x27;s fascinating - for something as simple as a bunch of LEDs, these companies must have spent millions of developer hours to produce such heaping piles of garbage - and OpenRGB proves all of them wrong.<p>[0] If anyone knows of a way to control at least the LED backlight on a Gigabyte Auorus XTREME 3080 (ideally the little LCD as well) - please let me know - OpenRGB can&#x27;t do it. The Gigabyte software is so unbelievably broken that it doesn&#x27;t even recognize the GPU, and I feel like I&#x27;ve tried every workaround under the sun. I am unfortunately not very well versed in the Windows world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>&gt; <i>Other than Apple, every other hardware company is _not_ a software company.</i><p>And even Apple is a pretty mediocre software company, compared to the others of their class.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenRGB: Open-source RGB lighting control</title><url>https://openrgb.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sounds</author><text>I think by 2021 most people will understand this simple reality:<p>Other than Apple, every other hardware company is _not_ a software company.<p>Yes, they write software. It is universally garbage. If there is anything well-done about the software, it will be because the hardware company licensed (or more likely, just ripped off) someone else&#x27;s software.<p>Google (a software company) cannot make any of the hardware companies in the Android ecosystem produce anything but garbage. Samsung Bixby anybody?<p>And this should not surprise anyone, as the leadership at a hardware company does not care, at all, about the software. Once you plunked down your coins and bought the hardware, the leadership at the company only sees software as an endless cost center. They want you gone as fast as possible.<p>It&#x27;s a classic race to the bottom, and this is the result.<p>It&#x27;s also one of the most potent forces driving people to use OpenRGB and every other free&#x2F;libre open source tool.</text></item><item><author>otter-in-a-suit</author><text>The state of RGB is such a nightmare, and I am very glad OpenRGB exists.<p>If I wanted to control all LEDs on my relatively new &quot;Gaming&quot; PC (Windows 10), I&#x27;d normally need software from Gigabyte for the GPU (which straight up doesn&#x27;t work [0]), Ducky for the keyboard, a no-name Corsair knockoff software where the name escapes me for the mouse, actual Corsair software for the fans, and NZXT for the AIO.<p>All of them are not only proprietary, they also use a ton of resources and often times cannot be run in parallel, presumably because they try to talk to the same devices (but never all of them!) - analog to an I2C device that only allows one process to access it at a time. Difference being, there is nothing stopping me from trying - everything will just freeze.<p>It&#x27;s fascinating - for something as simple as a bunch of LEDs, these companies must have spent millions of developer hours to produce such heaping piles of garbage - and OpenRGB proves all of them wrong.<p>[0] If anyone knows of a way to control at least the LED backlight on a Gigabyte Auorus XTREME 3080 (ideally the little LCD as well) - please let me know - OpenRGB can&#x27;t do it. The Gigabyte software is so unbelievably broken that it doesn&#x27;t even recognize the GPU, and I feel like I&#x27;ve tried every workaround under the sun. I am unfortunately not very well versed in the Windows world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aardwolf</author><text>They don&#x27;t need to be software companies, but instead use a simple open protocol for this so that anyone can write software for it.</text></comment> |
16,700,748 | 16,700,364 | 1 | 2 | 16,697,004 | train | <story><title>Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/jobs/quit-social-media-your-career-may-depend-on-it.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kragen</author><text>The bacon thing is maybe a good example of Hamming&#x27;s Closed Door Paradox:<p><pre><code> I noticed the following facts about people who work
with the door open or the door closed. I notice that
if you have the door to your office closed, you get
more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more
productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you
don&#x27;t know quite know what problems are worth working
on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in
importance. He who works with the door open gets all
kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets
clues as to what the world is and what might be
important. Now I cannot prove the cause and effect
sequence because you might say, ``The closed door is
symbolic of a closed mind.&#x27;&#x27; I don&#x27;t know. But I can
say there is a pretty good correlation between those
who work with the doors open and those who ultimately
do important things, although people who work with
doors closed often work harder. Somehow they seem to
work on slightly the wrong thing - not much, but
enough that they miss fame.
</code></pre>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.virginia.edu&#x2F;~robins&#x2F;YouAndYourResearch.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.virginia.edu&#x2F;~robins&#x2F;YouAndYourResearch.html</a><p>In this case, as it turns out, bacon does give you cancer. The relative risk of high &quot;processed meat&quot; consumption is in the neighborhood of 20%, i.e. RR of 1.2, for colorectal and lung cancers. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;16991129&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;16991129&#x2F;</a><p>In the US, there are about 200k deaths per year from these two cancers, out of 2.7 million total deaths. So your chances of dying of one of these two cancers is about 7.4%, if you live in a place somewhat like the US. And that increases to about 8.9% if you eat a lot of processed meat.<p>It seems to me like a 1.5% chance of dodging a death by cancer, and thus living an extra 5–20 years, is worth a single disrupted morning.</text></item><item><author>jacobkg</author><text>For most people there exists a news headline that will ruin their day or at least disrupt their morning e.g &quot;Young child decapitated at amusement park&quot; or &quot;North Korea moves one step closer to nuking Western US&quot; or &quot;Bacon Gives You Cancer&quot;.<p>Facebook heavily encourages people to write and share headlines like this (true or not) and then promotes them prominently in your news feed.<p>This can take a heavy emotional toll on people over time and gradually make them more unhappy</text></item><item><author>RandallBrown</author><text>Am I the only person that has a healthy relationship with social media?<p>I use Twitter to follow interesting celebrities and industry professionals. (Adam Savage Mythbusters fame, pro climber Alex Honnold, several notable iOS programmers). I rarely interact with any of them, but I find out about lots of interesting things.<p>I use Facebook to keep in touch with friends around the country. I can keep my dad updated to what I&#x27;ve been doing without having to call him. (I still call him, but we can talk about the pictures and things we&#x27;ve seen over the last week or so.) I plan vacations and events with friends. Next weekend I&#x27;m going to a bachelor party in the Adirondacks with people from around the country.<p>I&#x27;ve never been worried about my employer seeing my social media profiles. If I wouldn&#x27;t do something in public, I wouldn&#x27;t post it to social media. Maybe I&#x27;m unique in being able to restrain myself.<p>I always hear stories about how people are &quot;so much happier&quot; after they quit Facebook. What is happening on your Facebook that&#x27;s making you unhappy?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdiddly</author><text>Bacon... Hamming... I see what you probably quite unintentionally did there.<p>Anyway, doors are nice because you have the luxury of opening and closing them. Just remember what open and closed doors are for. Open it to see what&#x27;s worth doing; close it when it&#x27;s time to go do it.<p>Ideally this all applies in the metaphorical sense to social media too, if one has the discipline to handle it that way. But the problem for a lot of people, and the problem with this door analogy, is that a door doesn&#x27;t nag you, Hey. Hey. Hey. You haven&#x27;t opened me lately. Hey. Tons of cool stuff is going on beyond this door. Hey. Are you okay? I&#x27;m worried about you and so are your friends. Hey. Still there?<p>Also the door doesn&#x27;t record your phone calls and so forth.<p>If only social media were as flexible, disinterested and unobtrusive as the lowly, everyday door.</text></comment> | <story><title>Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/jobs/quit-social-media-your-career-may-depend-on-it.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kragen</author><text>The bacon thing is maybe a good example of Hamming&#x27;s Closed Door Paradox:<p><pre><code> I noticed the following facts about people who work
with the door open or the door closed. I notice that
if you have the door to your office closed, you get
more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more
productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you
don&#x27;t know quite know what problems are worth working
on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in
importance. He who works with the door open gets all
kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets
clues as to what the world is and what might be
important. Now I cannot prove the cause and effect
sequence because you might say, ``The closed door is
symbolic of a closed mind.&#x27;&#x27; I don&#x27;t know. But I can
say there is a pretty good correlation between those
who work with the doors open and those who ultimately
do important things, although people who work with
doors closed often work harder. Somehow they seem to
work on slightly the wrong thing - not much, but
enough that they miss fame.
</code></pre>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.virginia.edu&#x2F;~robins&#x2F;YouAndYourResearch.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.virginia.edu&#x2F;~robins&#x2F;YouAndYourResearch.html</a><p>In this case, as it turns out, bacon does give you cancer. The relative risk of high &quot;processed meat&quot; consumption is in the neighborhood of 20%, i.e. RR of 1.2, for colorectal and lung cancers. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;16991129&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;16991129&#x2F;</a><p>In the US, there are about 200k deaths per year from these two cancers, out of 2.7 million total deaths. So your chances of dying of one of these two cancers is about 7.4%, if you live in a place somewhat like the US. And that increases to about 8.9% if you eat a lot of processed meat.<p>It seems to me like a 1.5% chance of dodging a death by cancer, and thus living an extra 5–20 years, is worth a single disrupted morning.</text></item><item><author>jacobkg</author><text>For most people there exists a news headline that will ruin their day or at least disrupt their morning e.g &quot;Young child decapitated at amusement park&quot; or &quot;North Korea moves one step closer to nuking Western US&quot; or &quot;Bacon Gives You Cancer&quot;.<p>Facebook heavily encourages people to write and share headlines like this (true or not) and then promotes them prominently in your news feed.<p>This can take a heavy emotional toll on people over time and gradually make them more unhappy</text></item><item><author>RandallBrown</author><text>Am I the only person that has a healthy relationship with social media?<p>I use Twitter to follow interesting celebrities and industry professionals. (Adam Savage Mythbusters fame, pro climber Alex Honnold, several notable iOS programmers). I rarely interact with any of them, but I find out about lots of interesting things.<p>I use Facebook to keep in touch with friends around the country. I can keep my dad updated to what I&#x27;ve been doing without having to call him. (I still call him, but we can talk about the pictures and things we&#x27;ve seen over the last week or so.) I plan vacations and events with friends. Next weekend I&#x27;m going to a bachelor party in the Adirondacks with people from around the country.<p>I&#x27;ve never been worried about my employer seeing my social media profiles. If I wouldn&#x27;t do something in public, I wouldn&#x27;t post it to social media. Maybe I&#x27;m unique in being able to restrain myself.<p>I always hear stories about how people are &quot;so much happier&quot; after they quit Facebook. What is happening on your Facebook that&#x27;s making you unhappy?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>npsimons</author><text>First and foremost, what evidence is there for Hamming&#x27;s claim?<p>&gt; is worth a single disrupted morning.<p>We&#x27;re not talking about a single &quot;disrupted&quot; morning. We&#x27;re talking about chronic depression, which can lead to suicide.<p>Many people I tell that I don&#x27;t keep up with current events like to claim I&#x27;m ignorant. At which point I ask them to name the most important thing they learned from news two weeks ago. Haven&#x27;t had someone come up with anything substantial yet.<p>Knowledge is valuable, it is a form of wealth, and there are many ways to get it. I do not believe we receive knowledge from modern mainstream media today. Most of it is ephemeral drama that does not matter in the least.</text></comment> |
40,413,939 | 40,409,881 | 1 | 3 | 40,407,228 | train | <story><title>Swarming Proxima Centauri: Picospacecraft Swarms over Interstellar Distances</title><url>https://astrobiology.com/2024/05/swarming-proxima-centauri-coherent-picospacecraft-swarms-over-interstellar-distances.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foota</author><text>On a similar vein, I have a deep yearning for a solar gravity lens to be used to image exo planets within my lifetime. I&#x27;ve got a long time, but it&#x27;s frustrating to see so little movement on big astronomy projects like these.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>was_a_dev</author><text>What about the Terrascope [1] concept instead? Using the Earth&#x27;s atmoshpere as a refractive lens. This requires a telescope of L2 rather than some 540AU away for a solar gravity lens.<p>Not as powerful as the latter, but much more do-able just on the distance scale alone. It would essentially be an &quot;Eath-observing&quot; James Webb<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ui.adsabs.harvard.edu&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2019ESS.....433310K&#x2F;abstract" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ui.adsabs.harvard.edu&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2019ESS.....433310K&#x2F;abstra...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Swarming Proxima Centauri: Picospacecraft Swarms over Interstellar Distances</title><url>https://astrobiology.com/2024/05/swarming-proxima-centauri-coherent-picospacecraft-swarms-over-interstellar-distances.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foota</author><text>On a similar vein, I have a deep yearning for a solar gravity lens to be used to image exo planets within my lifetime. I&#x27;ve got a long time, but it&#x27;s frustrating to see so little movement on big astronomy projects like these.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kilroy123</author><text>Same here! One of my dream projects to see happen before I die.<p>For those that don&#x27;t know what this is or could mean:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.space.com&#x2F;sun-gravity-could-help-observe-exoplanets-in-detail" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.space.com&#x2F;sun-gravity-could-help-observe-exoplan...</a></text></comment> |
21,167,942 | 21,167,681 | 1 | 3 | 21,164,014 | train | <story><title>An Antique Toaster That's Better Than Today’s [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>denton-scratch</author><text>Toasters do not all &quot;work well enough&quot;. Shout if you have a toaster that you bought less than 5 years ago, that is still working. I think they&#x27;re supposed to start failing after a year or two.<p>[Edit: if it&#x27;s older than ten years, say how old - they made them better back in the olden daze]<p>These devices are sold for ten euros&#x2F;dollars, or so. You really can&#x27;t do good product design to that sort of price point. People expect to have to &quot;recycle&quot; them.<p>I bought a toaster for which you can order replacement heater elements, or a new timer. You can dismantle it and reassemble it with a normal electrician&#x27;s screwdriver. The timer is clockwork. The whole thing&#x27;s very steampunk.<p>It cost about 8 times as much as a &quot;disposable&quot; toaster. I don&#x27;t know if it was a good deal; I&#x27;ll tell you in a few decades. But if I don&#x27;t have to bother with replacing it, from my POV that will be money well-spent; I&#x27;m sick of replacing stuff that should still be working. I&#x27;m sick of &quot;hardware&quot; that&#x27;s really made of tissue-paper. And I&#x27;m sick of furniture that&#x27;s made of wood-chips.<p>&lt;&#x2F;rant&gt;</text></item><item><author>tompccs</author><text>There&#x27;s a simple reason why this toaster was discontinued, and that&#x27;s because it can&#x27;t be made from commodity components which are used by all toaster manufacturers, as well as in a variety of other domestic appliances.<p>Plus, assembly looks quite intricate and probably highly manual.<p>It&#x27;s beautiful, sure, but go and buy a toaster today and see how much premium people are willing to pay for a designer brand with no functional advantage.<p>Sadly toasters all work &quot;well enough&quot;. This is a textbook example of great engineering being trumped by globalised economics and fickle consumers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ImprovedSilence</author><text>Right. It’s unreal how hard it is to find decent shit built to last, and don’t tell me I’m not willing to pay a premium for it, because I am willing. What I don’t like buying is shit branded as upscale high quality that is really the same garbage underneath.<p>I’m sure there a number of different elements at play here, but one aspect I’ve seen happen time and again is private equity buying out a company and using that strong brand to make progressively shittier and shittier goods, for the same or higher price, while still retaining enough critical mass mindshare that the brand is still “quality”.</text></comment> | <story><title>An Antique Toaster That's Better Than Today’s [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>denton-scratch</author><text>Toasters do not all &quot;work well enough&quot;. Shout if you have a toaster that you bought less than 5 years ago, that is still working. I think they&#x27;re supposed to start failing after a year or two.<p>[Edit: if it&#x27;s older than ten years, say how old - they made them better back in the olden daze]<p>These devices are sold for ten euros&#x2F;dollars, or so. You really can&#x27;t do good product design to that sort of price point. People expect to have to &quot;recycle&quot; them.<p>I bought a toaster for which you can order replacement heater elements, or a new timer. You can dismantle it and reassemble it with a normal electrician&#x27;s screwdriver. The timer is clockwork. The whole thing&#x27;s very steampunk.<p>It cost about 8 times as much as a &quot;disposable&quot; toaster. I don&#x27;t know if it was a good deal; I&#x27;ll tell you in a few decades. But if I don&#x27;t have to bother with replacing it, from my POV that will be money well-spent; I&#x27;m sick of replacing stuff that should still be working. I&#x27;m sick of &quot;hardware&quot; that&#x27;s really made of tissue-paper. And I&#x27;m sick of furniture that&#x27;s made of wood-chips.<p>&lt;&#x2F;rant&gt;</text></item><item><author>tompccs</author><text>There&#x27;s a simple reason why this toaster was discontinued, and that&#x27;s because it can&#x27;t be made from commodity components which are used by all toaster manufacturers, as well as in a variety of other domestic appliances.<p>Plus, assembly looks quite intricate and probably highly manual.<p>It&#x27;s beautiful, sure, but go and buy a toaster today and see how much premium people are willing to pay for a designer brand with no functional advantage.<p>Sadly toasters all work &quot;well enough&quot;. This is a textbook example of great engineering being trumped by globalised economics and fickle consumers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextos</author><text>What you are saying is sadly the reality today within most product categories.<p>For example, go to a totally different category: clothing.<p>In the great age of US sports clothing, tees were slowly knitted by machines called loopwheelers. E.g. tees from Champion.<p>These days, they are crap. If you want a nice tee that will age well and last really long, you need to buy from some Japanese brands that try to imitate old Champion tees. The price is really high, and you&#x27;d most likely need to import or buy from a high end shop.<p>I try to buy good stuff that lasts ages. I don&#x27;t care paying a big premium. I try to live with around 100 items. But its really hard.</text></comment> |
26,165,832 | 26,165,578 | 1 | 2 | 26,164,001 | train | <story><title>Always Bet on Text (2014)</title><url>https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koonsolo</author><text>Ah come on, this is not accurate at all.<p>We have tons of tech now: audio, video, charting, etc.<p>Circles are pretty easy in powerpoint or any such software.<p>The tech is obviously here already.<p>But still, why do people prefer sending chat texts instead of calling or video calling? Surely not because of tech.</text></item><item><author>robenkleene</author><text>The question is whether these advantages are because text is a better communication medium, or because of the limitations of our technology?<p>Take using a computer to type a word versus draw a picture: Effectively everyone who uses a computer can type a word, but I&#x27;d bet less than 10% could draw a circle.<p>But put a piece of paper in front of someone and effectively everyone can draw a circle.<p>This points to there being a limitation in the technology for working with other forms of media, not the effectiveness of the communication medium itself.<p>This isn&#x27;t to say that text isn&#x27;t also a better communication medium, but it is to say, until the technology has improved for communicating with other media, it&#x27;s difficult to compare without basing the decision on the limitations of the technology.<p>In other words, most of the perceived advantages of text are really advantages of text being easier to represent digitally (or generally reproduced, e.g., printing press), not advantages of text as a communication medium itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sfifs</author><text>&gt; But still, why do people prefer sending chat texts instead of calling or video calling? Surely not because of tech<p>It turns out that people who are highly fluent in a language with a compact alphabet like English prefer sending text chats. My Chinese colleagues and friends routinely send many more voice chat messages than text because it is much more efficient than typing mandarin.<p>Also in India, I&#x27;ve observed that people fluent in vernacular but not in written English primarily send voice chat messages - again because the vernacular text input is very inefficient<p>So interestingly does my daughter who <i>can</i> type English text easily but as she always grew up in a world her parents and her friends parents had smartphones, she finds it a lot more comfortable to send voice chat messages.<p>The other benefit of chat is asynchronocity. You&#x27;re not forcing the other party to do a context switch and signalling that they can get to ot.</text></comment> | <story><title>Always Bet on Text (2014)</title><url>https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koonsolo</author><text>Ah come on, this is not accurate at all.<p>We have tons of tech now: audio, video, charting, etc.<p>Circles are pretty easy in powerpoint or any such software.<p>The tech is obviously here already.<p>But still, why do people prefer sending chat texts instead of calling or video calling? Surely not because of tech.</text></item><item><author>robenkleene</author><text>The question is whether these advantages are because text is a better communication medium, or because of the limitations of our technology?<p>Take using a computer to type a word versus draw a picture: Effectively everyone who uses a computer can type a word, but I&#x27;d bet less than 10% could draw a circle.<p>But put a piece of paper in front of someone and effectively everyone can draw a circle.<p>This points to there being a limitation in the technology for working with other forms of media, not the effectiveness of the communication medium itself.<p>This isn&#x27;t to say that text isn&#x27;t also a better communication medium, but it is to say, until the technology has improved for communicating with other media, it&#x27;s difficult to compare without basing the decision on the limitations of the technology.<p>In other words, most of the perceived advantages of text are really advantages of text being easier to represent digitally (or generally reproduced, e.g., printing press), not advantages of text as a communication medium itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gmueckl</author><text>No, GP is right, for a simple reason: look at your input devices. A keyboard and mouse&#x2F;touchpad combo is most effective at interacting with text. The story would be entirely different if the main interface was e.g. a stylus. A instant messaging service that sends hand written scribbles instead of text follows much more naturally from that.</text></comment> |
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