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19,695,362 | 19,695,174 | 1 | 2 | 19,694,207 | train | <story><title>How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Developer</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkagerer</author><text><p><pre><code> I believe the relative ease — not to mention the lack of
tangible cost — of software updates has created a cultural
laziness within the software engineering community.
</code></pre>
-- This --^<p>As someone who carefully crafts their code to strive for perfection, seeing sloppy work out there in the wild drives me nuts. I know folks here will deride me for being &quot;inefficient&quot;, but in the long term I still maintain from my experience it&#x27;s less efficient to push out buggy software and try to fix it retrospectively.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anbop</author><text>Well, great code is inefficient if the impact of bad code is minimal. If you are shipping an animated emoji you should be sloppier with your code than if you are building flight control software. Overengineering software is like over-specing building materials by 10x and spending way more money on a building than it needs.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Developer</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rkagerer</author><text><p><pre><code> I believe the relative ease — not to mention the lack of
tangible cost — of software updates has created a cultural
laziness within the software engineering community.
</code></pre>
-- This --^<p>As someone who carefully crafts their code to strive for perfection, seeing sloppy work out there in the wild drives me nuts. I know folks here will deride me for being &quot;inefficient&quot;, but in the long term I still maintain from my experience it&#x27;s less efficient to push out buggy software and try to fix it retrospectively.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adreamingsoul</author><text>Recently, I had someone join my team who was instantly popular and everyone enjoyed this person&#x27;s personality. I trusted this person more then I should have and during a period when I was unable to give enough attention to their code reviews, they introduced several critical bugs and defects into the production environment.<p>I never figured out if it was ignorance or laziness. But, either way I learned a valuable lesson. It was also a reminder to me that not everyone has the same level of ownership or commitment that I would expect.</text></comment> |
13,838,604 | 13,838,236 | 1 | 2 | 13,837,860 | train | <story><title>Testing is a separate skill and that’s why it can be frustrating</title><url>https://medium.com/planet-arkency/testing-is-a-separate-skill-and-thats-why-you-are-frustrated-7239b1500a6c#.s23ovtlo5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koonsolo</author><text>The best testers that I know really enjoy breaking stuff. They have this special mission to break anything they get their hands on. They take great pride in finding the stuff that the developer probably didn&#x27;t think of. They smile when it behaves weird, they laugh when it crashes. Their ego rises when they tell the developer that they were smarter.<p>And therefore, the one who built is, is not the person who makes it his lives mission to break it. Breaking it means more work, more searching for bugs, and then testing again. And nobody likes doing that. Except for awesome testers. They love looking at the face of a desperate developer getting frustrated by a nasty bug.</text></comment> | <story><title>Testing is a separate skill and that’s why it can be frustrating</title><url>https://medium.com/planet-arkency/testing-is-a-separate-skill-and-thats-why-you-are-frustrated-7239b1500a6c#.s23ovtlo5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>svantana</author><text>No doubt testing is a skill, and a very useful one, though I doubt this is the main frustration. Most people (at least myself) got into coding because they enjoy creating something from nothing. Maintaining and testing code is boring because it doesn&#x27;t really do anything new, it&#x27;s mostly fixing edge cases. Personally I try to make testing more creative by making ambitious testing tools (fuzzing, self-testing base classes, etc), which makes it more fun and therefore more likely to get done.</text></comment> |
29,940,466 | 29,940,049 | 1 | 2 | 29,937,836 | train | <story><title>Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators</title><url>https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuclear/nuclear-startup-oklo-gets-thumbs-down-from-regulators-what-does-this-mean-for-next-gen-nuclear</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Sodium-cooled reactors have a long and troubled history.<p>* Sodium Reactor Experiment (Leak, minor sodium explosion, decommissioned)[1]<p>* Monju Nuclear Power Plant (Sodium fire, never worked properly, decommissioned)[2]<p>There&#x27;s even been a sodium fire at a solar plant, one of those big focused mirror systems.<p>Many of these new reactor designs are based on complex arguments that the worst-case accident doesn&#x27;t require a huge, expensive secondary containment vessel capable of containing a major accident. That&#x27;s a tough sell, since Chernobyl didn&#x27;t have a containment vessel and Fukushima&#x27;s reactors had ones that were too small. On the other hand, Three Mile Island had a big, strong containment vessel, and in that meltdown, it held, containing the problem. In all three accidents, the actual accident was worse than the design maximum credible accident.<p>The NRC is right to be skeptical of weak containment designs.<p>It&#x27;s frustrating. The reactor designs that have worked reliably for long periods are very simple inside the radioactive portion of the system.
Sodium reactors had leaks and fires. Pebble bed reactors had pebble jams. Helium gas-cooled reactors had leak problems. Molten salt reactors include a radioactive chemical plant. So nuclear power is stuck with water as a working fluid.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sodium_Reactor_Experiment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sodium_Reactor_Experiment</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Monju_Nuclear_Power_Plant" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Monju_Nuclear_Power_Plant</a></text></item><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a bad reactor but I looked at the application and it wasn&#x27;t a good application. (The NRC says the same)<p>There was a large amount of hand-wringing about the risk of avalanches and other natural disasters that were extremely low probability.<p>They were skimpy on interesting details about the reactor such as &quot;What do you do if the sodium coolant catches on fire?&quot; (e.g. sodium burns in water, sodium burns in air, sodium burns in <i>carbon dioxide</i>) There are good answers to that in the U.S. and Russian experience. They don&#x27;t draw on that experience to show they can solve it.<p>If they fix the application and submit it again it could get approved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulHoule</author><text>EBR-II and FFTF were 100% successful in the USA. Russia has also had very good experience with fast reactors. Sodium fires are a problem, but fires happen in industrial facilities all the time, you just detect them and then you put them out.<p>Monju had many things wrong with the design, it was a loop-type reactor that nobody is talking about building anymore. Also it was nowhere near adequate from a seismic perspective it is kinda shocking they were allowed to build it at all.<p>Water reactors have no future for the same reason nobody has built a coal plant since 1980. The steam turbine and associated heat exchangers are unacceptably large and capital intensive compared to modern fossil fuel power plants based on gas turbines. (Look at how huge the steam generators are for the PWR)<p>Even if the construction problems were solved for the LWR, the economics will not work, you are better off capturing the carbon from a fossil fuel gas turbine plant and pumping it underground.<p>For nuclear power to be competitive we have to develop closed cycle gas turbine powersets. The 1970s model was that a fast reactor would be more capital intensive than an LWR but with the CCGT advanced reactors could be possibly be competitive -- if we can develop the powerset and reactors that run at high enough temperatures (not water) to support the powerset.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators</title><url>https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuclear/nuclear-startup-oklo-gets-thumbs-down-from-regulators-what-does-this-mean-for-next-gen-nuclear</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Sodium-cooled reactors have a long and troubled history.<p>* Sodium Reactor Experiment (Leak, minor sodium explosion, decommissioned)[1]<p>* Monju Nuclear Power Plant (Sodium fire, never worked properly, decommissioned)[2]<p>There&#x27;s even been a sodium fire at a solar plant, one of those big focused mirror systems.<p>Many of these new reactor designs are based on complex arguments that the worst-case accident doesn&#x27;t require a huge, expensive secondary containment vessel capable of containing a major accident. That&#x27;s a tough sell, since Chernobyl didn&#x27;t have a containment vessel and Fukushima&#x27;s reactors had ones that were too small. On the other hand, Three Mile Island had a big, strong containment vessel, and in that meltdown, it held, containing the problem. In all three accidents, the actual accident was worse than the design maximum credible accident.<p>The NRC is right to be skeptical of weak containment designs.<p>It&#x27;s frustrating. The reactor designs that have worked reliably for long periods are very simple inside the radioactive portion of the system.
Sodium reactors had leaks and fires. Pebble bed reactors had pebble jams. Helium gas-cooled reactors had leak problems. Molten salt reactors include a radioactive chemical plant. So nuclear power is stuck with water as a working fluid.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sodium_Reactor_Experiment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sodium_Reactor_Experiment</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Monju_Nuclear_Power_Plant" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Monju_Nuclear_Power_Plant</a></text></item><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a bad reactor but I looked at the application and it wasn&#x27;t a good application. (The NRC says the same)<p>There was a large amount of hand-wringing about the risk of avalanches and other natural disasters that were extremely low probability.<p>They were skimpy on interesting details about the reactor such as &quot;What do you do if the sodium coolant catches on fire?&quot; (e.g. sodium burns in water, sodium burns in air, sodium burns in <i>carbon dioxide</i>) There are good answers to that in the U.S. and Russian experience. They don&#x27;t draw on that experience to show they can solve it.<p>If they fix the application and submit it again it could get approved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DennisP</author><text>Not all MSRs have the radioactive chemical plant, just the thorium-fueled ones. Several MSR companies are working on uranium-fueled versions; e.g. Terrestrial Energy, where the reactor core is a sealed can that gets swapped out every few years.</text></comment> |
12,515,302 | 12,514,963 | 1 | 2 | 12,513,701 | train | <story><title>EpiPen Maker Quietly Steers Effort That Could Protect Its Price</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/business/epipen-maker-mylan-preventative-drug-campaign.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Transparent medical pricing is not possible so long as hospitals have an obligation to treat sick people whether or not they can pay. Hospitals <i>heavily</i> cross subsidize between insured, uninsured, and Medicare&#x2F;Medicaid patients. As long as we put expectations on doctors and hospitals that compel them to do that, they cannot provide transparent pricing.</text></item><item><author>codegeek</author><text>This. Exactly This. I am sick of hearing &quot;oh you just pay $20 co-pay&quot;. No we don&#x27;t. The real cost is much more and these pharmas and insurance companies know it. I know because I paid it for a family of 4. It costs $1500&#x2F;Month for a decent plan that does not have high &quot;out of pocket&quot; costs (Read capped at $5000). So you pay $1500 per month and in worst case scenario, you can still pay $5000 out of pocket for a year IF the insurance company does not deny a claim.<p>I usually don&#x27;t make political comments but one thing that was disappointing with Obamacare was the fact that it did not address this root cause and instead touted that now anyone can get insurance. Sure, someone with pre-existing condition is now probably a little better off but overall, obamacare did not address the main issue: getting rid of middlemen (insurance companies) and let doctors&#x2F;hospitals work on fair and transparent pricing. Isn&#x27;t that what America is all about ? Free Market, eh.<p>If I may steal the legendary MLK&#x27;s words, I have a dream. A dream where I can call any doctor&#x2F;hospital and ask what will it exactly cost to get a simple X-Ray done without saying &quot;Oh no, I ain&#x27;t got no insurance&quot;. Just a dream.</text></item><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>This whole drug company argument -- that the only thing that really matters is what end users pay as a co-pay or co-insurance and that no one should care what insurance companies (including governments) pay -- is so breathtakingly bad I can only imagine it is in bad faith. Where do they expect us to believe the institutional payments are coming from, out of thin air?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dota_fanatic</author><text>The work done by David Belk MD shows that these costs are an extremely small cost of hospitals, and that you&#x27;re basically promoting a myth. [1][2]<p>He directly addresses the inaccuracy of that claim in the following 10 minute video, &quot;The $55,000 Appendectomy: What Everyone Should Know About Hospital Bills&quot;. [3]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;IAmA&#x2F;comments&#x2F;4lgnif&#x2F;i_am_david_belk_im_a_doctor_who_has_spent_the&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;IAmA&#x2F;comments&#x2F;4lgnif&#x2F;i_am_david_bel...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;truecostofhealthcare.net&#x2F;conclusion&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;truecostofhealthcare.net&#x2F;conclusion&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jkAY15p2DN4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jkAY15p2DN4</a></text></comment> | <story><title>EpiPen Maker Quietly Steers Effort That Could Protect Its Price</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/business/epipen-maker-mylan-preventative-drug-campaign.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Transparent medical pricing is not possible so long as hospitals have an obligation to treat sick people whether or not they can pay. Hospitals <i>heavily</i> cross subsidize between insured, uninsured, and Medicare&#x2F;Medicaid patients. As long as we put expectations on doctors and hospitals that compel them to do that, they cannot provide transparent pricing.</text></item><item><author>codegeek</author><text>This. Exactly This. I am sick of hearing &quot;oh you just pay $20 co-pay&quot;. No we don&#x27;t. The real cost is much more and these pharmas and insurance companies know it. I know because I paid it for a family of 4. It costs $1500&#x2F;Month for a decent plan that does not have high &quot;out of pocket&quot; costs (Read capped at $5000). So you pay $1500 per month and in worst case scenario, you can still pay $5000 out of pocket for a year IF the insurance company does not deny a claim.<p>I usually don&#x27;t make political comments but one thing that was disappointing with Obamacare was the fact that it did not address this root cause and instead touted that now anyone can get insurance. Sure, someone with pre-existing condition is now probably a little better off but overall, obamacare did not address the main issue: getting rid of middlemen (insurance companies) and let doctors&#x2F;hospitals work on fair and transparent pricing. Isn&#x27;t that what America is all about ? Free Market, eh.<p>If I may steal the legendary MLK&#x27;s words, I have a dream. A dream where I can call any doctor&#x2F;hospital and ask what will it exactly cost to get a simple X-Ray done without saying &quot;Oh no, I ain&#x27;t got no insurance&quot;. Just a dream.</text></item><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>This whole drug company argument -- that the only thing that really matters is what end users pay as a co-pay or co-insurance and that no one should care what insurance companies (including governments) pay -- is so breathtakingly bad I can only imagine it is in bad faith. Where do they expect us to believe the institutional payments are coming from, out of thin air?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astockwell</author><text>THIS. Many Americans don&#x27;t seem to realize we already have a &quot;socialized&quot; medical system - everyone paying into everyone else&#x27;s costs - it&#x27;s just that it&#x27;s brokered by private companies instead of the gov&#x27;t. Which means that it&#x27;s less transparent, less regulated, and subjected to a bigger rake [1] than if it was run by the gov&#x27;t.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rake_(poker)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rake_(poker)</a></text></comment> |
38,856,946 | 38,857,136 | 1 | 3 | 38,856,412 | train | <story><title>23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/03/23andme-tells-victims-its-their-fault-that-their-data-was-breached/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>liquidise</author><text>So 23andMe failed to identify brute force and credential stuffing access of 14,000 accounts. They also have a feature that grants those 14k compromised accounts effective access to 6.9 million accounts.<p>23andMe then claims that poor password practices are responsible for this data leak.<p>&gt; “Therefore, the incident was not a result of 23andMe’s alleged failure to maintain reasonable security measures”<p>I&#x27;ve not run security at an org of their size, nor have i touched their service, but i have to imagine there were some patterns to this breach that would have been reasonable to account for ahead of time. Did those 14k accounts also have their email provider accounts compromised? Could a login ip-range check have prevented all of this? 2FA seems like an obvious answer here but clearly that was more than could be expected.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dpkonofa</author><text>There was no brute forcing done. The credentials were from other sites that were leaked via Tor and the users on 23andMe used the same email&#x2F;password combo. That’s why you don’t reuse passwords, when possible.<p>Nothing on 23andme’s end failed unless you consider someone using a correct user&#x2F;pass combo while not being the owner as a fail on the part of 23andMe rather than the end user.</text></comment> | <story><title>23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/03/23andme-tells-victims-its-their-fault-that-their-data-was-breached/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>liquidise</author><text>So 23andMe failed to identify brute force and credential stuffing access of 14,000 accounts. They also have a feature that grants those 14k compromised accounts effective access to 6.9 million accounts.<p>23andMe then claims that poor password practices are responsible for this data leak.<p>&gt; “Therefore, the incident was not a result of 23andMe’s alleged failure to maintain reasonable security measures”<p>I&#x27;ve not run security at an org of their size, nor have i touched their service, but i have to imagine there were some patterns to this breach that would have been reasonable to account for ahead of time. Did those 14k accounts also have their email provider accounts compromised? Could a login ip-range check have prevented all of this? 2FA seems like an obvious answer here but clearly that was more than could be expected.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hibikir</author><text>I&#x27;ve done identity for bigger places that have credential attacks all the time. There&#x27;s sophisticated attackers that are aware of each victim&#x27;s location and can get through geolocation anomaly detection, and there&#x27;s such thing as hitting the jackpot through lucky credential stuffing, so any check for failed attempts doesn&#x27;t hit. It&#x27;s not possible to detect everything. There&#x27;s a whole lot things a serious place will do to detect naive attacks though, so a whole lot of volume there fails. It might even be good to let an obvious stuffer keep attacking you, and help us mark the accounts they have working credentials for, so we can instantly lock them and ask for password changes.<p>I have no idea of the actual sophistication of the attackers here though: It&#x27;s way too common to see big companies that have paid no attention to prevention, and therefore will only notice an attack if it becomes an accidental denial of service attack. Maybe 23andme are sophisticated and only the worst shared passwords got breached, or maybe they have minimal security.</text></comment> |
34,571,876 | 34,572,074 | 1 | 2 | 34,566,275 | train | <story><title>The Transformer Family</title><url>https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-01-27-the-transformer-family-v2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Somewhat off topic. As someone who did some neural network programming in Matlab a couple decades ago, I always feel a bit dismayed that I&#x27;m able to understand so little about modern AI given the explosion in advances in the field starting in about the late 00s or so with things like convolutional neural networks and deep learning, transformers, large language models, etc.<p>Can anyone recommend some great courses or other online resources for getting up to speed on the state-of-the-art with respect to AI? Not really so much looking for an &quot;ELI5&quot; but more of a &quot;you have a strong programming and very-old-school AI background, here are the steps&#x2F;processes you need to know to understand modern tools&quot;.<p>Edit: thanks for all the great replies, super helpful!</text></comment> | <story><title>The Transformer Family</title><url>https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-01-27-the-transformer-family-v2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>On the one hand, this looks really useful.<p>On the other hand:<p>&gt; There are various forms of attention &#x2F; self-attention, Transformer (Vaswani et al., 2017) relies on the scaled dot-product attention: given a query matrix , a key matrix and a value matrix , the output is a weighted sum of the value vectors, where the weight assigned to each value slot is determined by the dot-product of the query with the corresponding key<p>There HAS to be a better way of communicating this stuff. I&#x27;m honestly not even sure where to start decoding and explaining that paragraph.<p>We really need someone with the explanatory skills of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jvns.ca&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jvns.ca&#x2F;</a> to start helping people understand this space.</text></comment> |
5,106,137 | 5,105,897 | 1 | 2 | 5,105,799 | train | <story><title>Namecheap Makes $44,000 Donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation</title><url>http://www.elliotsblog.com/namecheap-announces-44000-donation-to-eff-0181</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blhack</author><text>Namecheap also bans the word 'hacker' from URLs. If you want to register a domain with the word hacker (and a bunch of other words which they won't release), they give you a giant warning basically equating hackers with criminals, and make you submit a request to them before them that they have to okay before you're allowed to register.<p>Oh, and you can't use a credit card (hackers steal those, you know!), you have to have funds already in your account.<p>I'm sorry, name cheap, I want to love you, and stuff like donating to the EFF makes me want to love you even more, but please stop this absurdity of hackers == criminals.<p>(I found this out when registering raspihacker.com -- which is clearly a front for me evil criminal enterprise!)<p>Here, I just tired to register "potatohacker.com" and got this: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/uz4yrBt.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/uz4yrBt.png</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Namecheap Makes $44,000 Donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation</title><url>http://www.elliotsblog.com/namecheap-announces-44000-donation-to-eff-0181</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smokeyj</author><text>Glad to see voting with my money is having a real impact. I've been using namecheap since the godaddy fiasco and love the service.</text></comment> |
37,873,802 | 37,873,165 | 1 | 2 | 37,872,381 | train | <story><title>Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'</title><url>https://theconversation.com/cars-are-a-privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-heres-how-they-get-away-with-collecting-and-sharing-your-data-214386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mthomasmw</author><text>It&#x27;s completely possible to build an EV that isn&#x27;t connected. The idea that electric power means networked spying is an invented fiction. Due to the privacy-conscious background of one automaker, a vote by the board mandated that all their cars be able to function in a completely disconnected, non-reporting mode:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;porsche-rolls-out-board-approved-privacy-strategy-11653039001" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;porsche-rolls-out-board-approve...</a><p>And they all do, even their EV. I voted with my wallet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>It is also Porsche, a company that prides itself on long-term support. Just look at the iconic Porsche tractor commercial. They want their car to work as well tomorrow as it does today. They know that communication standards change. Every &quot;connected&quot; car will, in a decade or two, be a disconnected&#x2F;bricked car.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'</title><url>https://theconversation.com/cars-are-a-privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-heres-how-they-get-away-with-collecting-and-sharing-your-data-214386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mthomasmw</author><text>It&#x27;s completely possible to build an EV that isn&#x27;t connected. The idea that electric power means networked spying is an invented fiction. Due to the privacy-conscious background of one automaker, a vote by the board mandated that all their cars be able to function in a completely disconnected, non-reporting mode:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;porsche-rolls-out-board-approved-privacy-strategy-11653039001" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;porsche-rolls-out-board-approve...</a><p>And they all do, even their EV. I voted with my wallet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>itslennysfault</author><text>Not sure why you are specifically calling out EVs. I think all new cars (gas or electric) have internet connectivity and send all sorts of data home.</text></comment> |
27,237,760 | 27,237,286 | 1 | 3 | 27,235,970 | train | <story><title>Voice2json: Offline speech and intent recognition on Linux</title><url>https://voice2json.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sodality2</author><text>Mozilla CommonVoice is definitely trying. I always do a few validations and a few clips if I have a few minutes to spare, and I recommend everyone does. They need volunteers to validate and upload speech clips to create a dataset.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commonvoice.mozilla.org&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commonvoice.mozilla.org&#x2F;en</a></text></item><item><author>marcodiego</author><text>Good FLOSS speech recognition and TTS is badly needed. Such interaction should not be left to an oligoply with bad history of not respecting users freedoms and privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teraflop</author><text>I like the idea, and decided to try doing some validation. The first thing I noticed is that it asks me to make a yes-or-no judgment of whether the sentence was spoken &quot;accurately&quot;, but nowhere on the site is it explained what &quot;accurate&quot; means, or how strict I should be.<p>(The first clip I got was spoken more or less correctly, but a couple of words are slurred together and the prosody is awkward. Without having a good idea of the standards and goals of the project, I have no idea whether including this clip would make the overall dataset better or worse. My gut feeling is that it&#x27;s good for training recognition, and bad for training synthesis.)<p>This seems to me like a major issue, since it should take a relatively small amount of effort to write up a list of guidelines, and it would be hugely beneficial to establish those guidelines <i>before</i> asking a lot of volunteers to donate their time. I don&#x27;t find it encouraging that this has been an open issue for four years, with apparently no action except a bunch of bikeshedding: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;common-voice&#x2F;common-voice&#x2F;issues&#x2F;273" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;common-voice&#x2F;common-voice&#x2F;issues&#x2F;273</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Voice2json: Offline speech and intent recognition on Linux</title><url>https://voice2json.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sodality2</author><text>Mozilla CommonVoice is definitely trying. I always do a few validations and a few clips if I have a few minutes to spare, and I recommend everyone does. They need volunteers to validate and upload speech clips to create a dataset.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commonvoice.mozilla.org&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commonvoice.mozilla.org&#x2F;en</a></text></item><item><author>marcodiego</author><text>Good FLOSS speech recognition and TTS is badly needed. Such interaction should not be left to an oligoply with bad history of not respecting users freedoms and privacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wcarss</author><text>I&#x27;ve used the deepspeech project a fair amount and it is good. It&#x27;s not <i>perfect</i>, certainly, and it honestly isn&#x27;t good enough yet for an accurate transcription in my mind, but it&#x27;s good. Easy to work with, pretty good results, and all the right kinds of free.<p>Thanks for taking time to contribute!</text></comment> |
30,541,441 | 30,541,217 | 1 | 2 | 30,533,540 | train | <story><title>Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-mandates-workers-back-silicon-valley-other-offices-april-4-2022-03-02/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BurningFrog</author><text>This is of course true.<p>OTOH, WFH people living alone can go many days without any human interaction.<p>There is no arrangement that is &quot;best&quot; for everyone.</text></item><item><author>headmelted</author><text>To extend this, more <i>useable</i> time with family.<p>For many people with younger children (and therefore early evening bedtimes), having or not having a commute is <i>not</i> a difference of an hour or two of your day - it&#x27;s the difference between spending time with your family during the week versus not at all. I&#x27;ve heard this from <i>many</i> friends (and some family) across different industries - hardly any have wanted to stick their heads above the parapet and single themselves out as being a problem.<p>I already empathised, but this whole thing has really thrown a light on what working parents (specifically those with primary care responsibilities like school pick-ups and drop-offs) in the workplace have been dealing with this whole entire time.<p>tldr; A great many people have had an increase of 150% of the time they care about the most by working from home - this proposal takes that away from them.</text></item><item><author>com2kid</author><text>&gt; Some people love the lack of commute and less semi-forced hanging out, some people hate onboarding on a new company as a remote person and so on and so on.<p>My team has been able to hire people from all across the country, gaining access to talent that we normally would not have been able to reach.<p>Because my entire company has gone fully remote, if someone on the team has to take a trip overseas, they can choose to continue working if so desired. If someone wants to bail to a seaside town during the worst of winter, no problem.<p>People aren&#x27;t forced to live in overpriced urban areas, they can live where they choose to!<p>&gt; I think that an environment where someone can tap me on the shoulder when they need help leads to overall higher productivity, even if individual productivity suffers temporarily.<p>I agree, but I am getting 1&#x2F;8th of my waking hours back from commuting.<p>Since the pandemic began I have been putting under 3000 miles a year on my car. I am eating home cooked meals every day. Mid day I can walk down to the local grocery store and pick up food to cook later for dinner.<p>My QoL is insanely improved.<p>If I need maintenance work done (Late last year I bought a house that was built in the 1950s, so, yes, lots of that happening) I am here all day long if need be. I don&#x27;t have to worry about when expensive packages are delivered, I am always here to pick them up. I can have someone come by and cut my cat&#x27;s claws whenever need be. I can schedule doctors and dentists appointments at any time of the day and not have to take a day off of work to make them.<p>And so on and so forth. WfH rocks.</text></item><item><author>librish</author><text>I think anyone who&#x27;s claiming that remote work has been &quot;proven&quot; to be better or worse is wrong. There are some studies but they use estimations and proxies, carrying the same flaws as doing performance reviews based on lines of code.<p>We&#x27;ve proven that the big tech companies can go fully remote and not completely crash and burn, that&#x27;s about it. Some people love the lack of commute and less semi-forced hanging out, some people hate onboarding on a new company as a remote person and so on and so on.<p>I personally prefer a company where everyone&#x27;s on site. I want to be able to quickly resolve any issues in person, not over voice call or slack, and I think that an environment where someone can tap me on the shoulder when they need help leads to overall higher productivity, even if individual productivity suffers temporarily.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StevePerkins</author><text>If you&#x27;re going many days without any human interaction, then the issue isn&#x27;t your inability to force your colleagues into the same physical space with you. The issue is that you&#x27;re confusing your colleagues for a personal social support network.<p>Remote or in-office, that&#x27;s not healthy. Go outside. Make real friendships with people you don&#x27;t work with. And if you&#x27;re struggling with that, then seek help. But don&#x27;t force me into a car for 10 hours per week, just to help you fake a social support network.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-mandates-workers-back-silicon-valley-other-offices-april-4-2022-03-02/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BurningFrog</author><text>This is of course true.<p>OTOH, WFH people living alone can go many days without any human interaction.<p>There is no arrangement that is &quot;best&quot; for everyone.</text></item><item><author>headmelted</author><text>To extend this, more <i>useable</i> time with family.<p>For many people with younger children (and therefore early evening bedtimes), having or not having a commute is <i>not</i> a difference of an hour or two of your day - it&#x27;s the difference between spending time with your family during the week versus not at all. I&#x27;ve heard this from <i>many</i> friends (and some family) across different industries - hardly any have wanted to stick their heads above the parapet and single themselves out as being a problem.<p>I already empathised, but this whole thing has really thrown a light on what working parents (specifically those with primary care responsibilities like school pick-ups and drop-offs) in the workplace have been dealing with this whole entire time.<p>tldr; A great many people have had an increase of 150% of the time they care about the most by working from home - this proposal takes that away from them.</text></item><item><author>com2kid</author><text>&gt; Some people love the lack of commute and less semi-forced hanging out, some people hate onboarding on a new company as a remote person and so on and so on.<p>My team has been able to hire people from all across the country, gaining access to talent that we normally would not have been able to reach.<p>Because my entire company has gone fully remote, if someone on the team has to take a trip overseas, they can choose to continue working if so desired. If someone wants to bail to a seaside town during the worst of winter, no problem.<p>People aren&#x27;t forced to live in overpriced urban areas, they can live where they choose to!<p>&gt; I think that an environment where someone can tap me on the shoulder when they need help leads to overall higher productivity, even if individual productivity suffers temporarily.<p>I agree, but I am getting 1&#x2F;8th of my waking hours back from commuting.<p>Since the pandemic began I have been putting under 3000 miles a year on my car. I am eating home cooked meals every day. Mid day I can walk down to the local grocery store and pick up food to cook later for dinner.<p>My QoL is insanely improved.<p>If I need maintenance work done (Late last year I bought a house that was built in the 1950s, so, yes, lots of that happening) I am here all day long if need be. I don&#x27;t have to worry about when expensive packages are delivered, I am always here to pick them up. I can have someone come by and cut my cat&#x27;s claws whenever need be. I can schedule doctors and dentists appointments at any time of the day and not have to take a day off of work to make them.<p>And so on and so forth. WfH rocks.</text></item><item><author>librish</author><text>I think anyone who&#x27;s claiming that remote work has been &quot;proven&quot; to be better or worse is wrong. There are some studies but they use estimations and proxies, carrying the same flaws as doing performance reviews based on lines of code.<p>We&#x27;ve proven that the big tech companies can go fully remote and not completely crash and burn, that&#x27;s about it. Some people love the lack of commute and less semi-forced hanging out, some people hate onboarding on a new company as a remote person and so on and so on.<p>I personally prefer a company where everyone&#x27;s on site. I want to be able to quickly resolve any issues in person, not over voice call or slack, and I think that an environment where someone can tap me on the shoulder when they need help leads to overall higher productivity, even if individual productivity suffers temporarily.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>But this doesn&#x27;t remove the option for people to socialize or interact with humans. If not for COVID there&#x27;d be no reason that WFH people living alone couldn&#x27;t have seen other people over the last two years. In fact, without a commute people now have more time to be able to socialize if they so choose with the people they want to socialize with.<p>You can&#x27;t really get time with your kids when you work from the office, but you can get socialization when you&#x27;re not working.</text></comment> |
21,199,261 | 21,199,025 | 1 | 2 | 21,198,670 | train | <story><title>Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/08/wework-layoffs-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cagenut</author><text>I kinda wish there was a job for like, DevOps Hatchet Men. I don&#x27;t want to lay people off, but after they&#x27;re laid off I feel like I could probably delete about a million dollars a year worth of their AWS bill right now and they&#x27;d never even notice the stuff missing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Merrill</author><text>I sort of did that for a while. The differences between what management thinks they have, what is actually running, what data centers are charging back, what licenses are being invoiced, what finance is depreciating, and what is actually needed for operations can be astonishingly large.</text></comment> | <story><title>Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/08/wework-layoffs-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cagenut</author><text>I kinda wish there was a job for like, DevOps Hatchet Men. I don&#x27;t want to lay people off, but after they&#x27;re laid off I feel like I could probably delete about a million dollars a year worth of their AWS bill right now and they&#x27;d never even notice the stuff missing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>encoderer</author><text>I think this space is hotter than ever. Hard to keep juicing profits for Wall Street when you are increasing AWS spend 5% month over month.<p>There are LOTS of companies spending a million a month or more on AWS.</text></comment> |
3,693,746 | 3,693,186 | 1 | 2 | 3,692,854 | train | <story><title>From Miserable Launch to Decent Success in 3 Months, Thanks to Hacker News</title><url>http://www.stangeek.com/from-miserable-launch-to-decent-success-in-3</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>csomar</author><text>I might be the only one, but design quality is a signal of development quality for me (even though, as a developer I know well that it's not). But when I see badly designed software or application, I say "If the developer didn't care, why should I?".<p>Another thing, these are things that I won't die without. I enjoy well crafted products (and will pay few $$ instead of using an ugly product that does the same thing).<p>Mobile Applications is not my expertise, so I'll give you a few suggestions on the landing page<p>- A contrast. For the moment, the logo is lost in the white. The iPhone video (and the iPhone device itself) is filled with white.<p>- A better font. You already know about font-face. Now try to pick a nicer one. TypeKit is free to start.<p>- A logo. Costs $25 to buy from Graphic River. Stock Templates/Scripts are a good quality/cost solution when you are bootstrapping with empty pockets.<p>- The social icons are buried. Also why is the Facebook button in French?<p>In your source code<p>- Don't put your scripts tag at the header, make it loads fast. Also don't use in-line JavaScript. Your CSS and JS condensed in one file<p>- It seems like non HTML5 users will not watch your video.<p>In your video, instead of the mouse cursor, use a 0.7 opacity rounded circle. It looks nicer and feel like your fingertip is moving there.<p>Nice work.</text></comment> | <story><title>From Miserable Launch to Decent Success in 3 Months, Thanks to Hacker News</title><url>http://www.stangeek.com/from-miserable-launch-to-decent-success-in-3</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kranner</author><text>Congratulations!<p>You only seem to have 9 ratings in the App Store globally (7 in the French Store, 2 in US) so far for 57523 downloads as you say. I used the iTunes Search API to obtain this info for your app id (I'm contemplating a move from iOS programmer-for-hire to full-time indie and this Python script is part of my market research).<p>That suggests only about 1 in 6391 users bother to give you a rating on the App Store, which is very low from what I hear: the usual figure quoted is 1 in 100 to 1 in 1500 for free apps. If this is right, it might be worthwhile to ask users in-app to give you a rating on the App Store if they like the app.</text></comment> |
12,533,721 | 12,533,263 | 1 | 2 | 12,532,347 | train | <story><title>Cornell wants to drill 2-4mi underground for enhanced geothermal heating</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/cornell-has-a-plan-to-prove-that-the-east-coast-can-have-geothermal-heat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Almost everything we do that initially seems like a good idea stops being such when we start doing it at scale. Burning fuels wasn&#x27;t a problem at the eve of the industrial revolution. I wonder what ecological issues will hit us globally as we scale up geothermal energy use. E.g. I&#x27;ve read somewhere that people putting too many ground-exchange heat pumps in a small area can cause problematic cooling of the ground. Right now it&#x27;s probably only a problem for the energy efficiency of the pumps themselves, but as we scale up, I worry about unintended environmental consequences.<p>Wikipedia seems to have only basic numbers up:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Geothermal_energy#Renewability_and_sustainability" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Geothermal_energy#Renewability...</a><p>The first sentence of that section says that &quot;geothermal power is considered to be renewable because any projected heat extraction is small compared to the Earth&#x27;s heat content.&quot; I&#x27;d like to see some estimates on how much of that heat content is available on the depths we&#x27;re drilling down to (as opposed to the contents of the whole planet); and again, trees were a renewable resource too, before the industrial revolution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dpark</author><text>&gt; <i>The first sentence of that section says that &quot;geothermal power is considered to be renewable because any projected heat extraction is small compared to the Earth&#x27;s heat content.&quot; I&#x27;d like to see some estimates on how much of that heat content is available on the depths we&#x27;re drilling down to (as opposed to the contents of the whole planet);</i><p>Wikipedia links to an article with more detail. The crust alone is estimated to hold enough heat to supply all of the Earth&#x27;s electricity generation at current levels for about 80 million years.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20100308014920&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iea-gia.org&#x2F;documents&#x2F;FridleifssonetalIPCCGeothermalpaper2008FinalRybach20May08_000.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20100308014920&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iea-gi...</a><p><i>The total heat content of the Earth is of the order of 12.6 x 10^24 MJ, and that of the crust the order of 5.4 x 10^21 MJ (Dickson and Fanelli, 2004). This huge number should be compared to the world electricity generation in 2005, 6.6 x 10^13 MJ.</i><p>&gt; <i>and again, trees were a renewable resource too, before the industrial revolution.</i><p>Trees are still a renewable resource, more so since we largely stopped using them for fuel as a result of the industrial revolution.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cornell wants to drill 2-4mi underground for enhanced geothermal heating</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/cornell-has-a-plan-to-prove-that-the-east-coast-can-have-geothermal-heat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Almost everything we do that initially seems like a good idea stops being such when we start doing it at scale. Burning fuels wasn&#x27;t a problem at the eve of the industrial revolution. I wonder what ecological issues will hit us globally as we scale up geothermal energy use. E.g. I&#x27;ve read somewhere that people putting too many ground-exchange heat pumps in a small area can cause problematic cooling of the ground. Right now it&#x27;s probably only a problem for the energy efficiency of the pumps themselves, but as we scale up, I worry about unintended environmental consequences.<p>Wikipedia seems to have only basic numbers up:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Geothermal_energy#Renewability_and_sustainability" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Geothermal_energy#Renewability...</a><p>The first sentence of that section says that &quot;geothermal power is considered to be renewable because any projected heat extraction is small compared to the Earth&#x27;s heat content.&quot; I&#x27;d like to see some estimates on how much of that heat content is available on the depths we&#x27;re drilling down to (as opposed to the contents of the whole planet); and again, trees were a renewable resource too, before the industrial revolution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SamBam</author><text>The point of renewables is rarely to do them all &quot;at scale&quot; where we&#x27;re expecting that one renewable to power the entire planet.<p>Yes, if we try to use solar for the entire planet, we&#x27;ll destroy the world trying to mine every last bit of silica. If we try and use wind for the entire planet, we&#x27;d need to build something like 6-8 million turbines, possibly causing environmental destruction on the way.<p>Rather, the point is to say &quot;here&#x27;s a huge vein of untapped energy, some of which could be tapped without damaging the environment and without releasing carbon.&quot;<p>Green energy is a mix, and extrapolating to &quot;what if everybody did this&quot; is rarely the right question, especially when the current alternative is &quot;keep burning oil.&quot;</text></comment> |
13,624,191 | 13,624,026 | 1 | 2 | 13,620,583 | train | <story><title>The Wall Street Journal to Close Google Loophole Entirely</title><url>http://digiday.com/publishers/wall-street-journal-close-google-loophole-entirely/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Tangent: I&#x27;m not sure I can think of recent money I&#x27;ve spent better than a year-long Washington Post subscription.<p>Not because I want to support journalism (though I do), but because having a whole newspaper to flip through every day is so much more productive and efficient than getting dribs and drabs through Twitter and free news sites --- many of which are ultimately sourcing through the journalism that organizations like WaPo do anyways.<p>Realizing in retrospect how trifling the amount of money we&#x27;re talking about for a subscription is (it&#x27;s a tiny fraction of my monthly information services bill [cable&#x2F;Internet, Netflix, &amp;c]), I feel kind of embarrassed for not having done this a long time ago.<p>I like WaPo but you might prefer something else, like NYT or WSJ. I&#x27;m sure all the major papers are solid choices. Most of you are younger than me. Don&#x27;t be like me! Subscribe to a damn newspaper already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dataduck</author><text>Ironically, I&#x27;ve mostly abandoned big-name news sites to listen more to people like tptacek. What I see in the papers is mostly people pushing a story, usually with seemingly little technical expertise, and without the important context, or worse still selective context to support their arguments. The comments on e.g. HN probably have about the same &#x27;median&#x27; quality (OK, lower) but if the topic is relevant to the site&#x27;s interests, the highest quality post will greatly exceed anything you will find in a paper. If it&#x27;s a contentious point, someone will oppose it. I remember a thread on the Fukushima disaster (sadly I can&#x27;t find it) containing a detailed discussion of the situation between a few people who had designed &#x2F; worked on nuclear plants, and its depth and balance made the journalists look like a bunch of children shouting for attention. If there was an issue concerning security, I know I&#x27;d want to know what tptacek had to say about it; conversely, I happen to know a couple of WSJ journalists and frankly I&#x27;d take anything they say with a bucket of salt, apart perhaps from wine recommendations.<p>StratFor (for example) seems maybe worth it but I feel like the generalist reach and short form style of big news stops it from ever truly educating. I guess what I&#x27;m trying to say here is OK, the experience might be more pleasant, but what makes you think WaPo &#x2F; Guardian &#x2F; NYT content is even comparably as good as a blogger dedicated to the topic? (honest question to anyone)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Wall Street Journal to Close Google Loophole Entirely</title><url>http://digiday.com/publishers/wall-street-journal-close-google-loophole-entirely/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Tangent: I&#x27;m not sure I can think of recent money I&#x27;ve spent better than a year-long Washington Post subscription.<p>Not because I want to support journalism (though I do), but because having a whole newspaper to flip through every day is so much more productive and efficient than getting dribs and drabs through Twitter and free news sites --- many of which are ultimately sourcing through the journalism that organizations like WaPo do anyways.<p>Realizing in retrospect how trifling the amount of money we&#x27;re talking about for a subscription is (it&#x27;s a tiny fraction of my monthly information services bill [cable&#x2F;Internet, Netflix, &amp;c]), I feel kind of embarrassed for not having done this a long time ago.<p>I like WaPo but you might prefer something else, like NYT or WSJ. I&#x27;m sure all the major papers are solid choices. Most of you are younger than me. Don&#x27;t be like me! Subscribe to a damn newspaper already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arca_vorago</author><text>&quot;I&#x27;m sure all the major papers are solid choices. &quot;<p>The problem is that they aren&#x27;t. Without even getting into operation mockingbird style infiltration of the orgs, the state of journalism as a whole is abysmal, even on the previously well respected journals, and I get this from journalists themselves, at least the ones with integrity.<p>Honestly right now my method is to simply find the best journalists and writers, and then follow their work regardless of outlet or publisher, and then I smatter in main-stream-media so I understand what the Fox&#x2F;CNN viewers and WSJ&#x2F;HuffPo readers, and NPR&#x2F;BBC listeners are thinking.<p>In the end though, the problem is all of them are so tied to the money they get from advertising and very subtle but real and powerful editorial influence from the owners&#x2F;investors&#x2F;advertisers, that even the ones people have learned to think they trust, like NPR for example, are shining examples of <i>propaganda disguised as anything but</i>, equivalents of Fox news. The oligarchy has infiltrated our mediums of communication because they are a threat.<p>The internet is the latest version of that threat, which is why we will continue to see attacks on the freedom of speech of the internet as well.<p>Major shoutouts to the outliers in this equation though who are briding the gap between traditional broadcasting and the itnernet, such as CSPAN, PBS, Charlie Rose, and the universities doing programs such as Conversations with History (UCTV) and Hoover Institute, et al.<p>PS: WaPo has gone way downhill in their journalistic integrity lately, I expect they are a major mockingbird pivot point. The best traditional source of news I have found? London Financial Times.</text></comment> |
13,646,788 | 13,646,505 | 1 | 3 | 13,645,227 | train | <story><title>Inferring Your Mobile Phone Password via WiFi Signals</title><url>http://fermatslibrary.com/s/when-csi-meets-public-wifi-inferring-your-mobile-phone-password-via-wifi-signals</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gefh</author><text>Holy shit.
From a brief scan it looks like the paper concentrates on recovering a numeric pin, but these attacks never get worse, only better, so I assume full keyboard access is not too far off.
What&#x27;s the defense? Have your phone manage the passwords and unlock via fingerprint?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gene-h</author><text>Well if one modifies the channel state information in an unpredictable manner while performing sensitive operations, it becomes very difficult to extract any information. The simplest way to do this might be to fidget. Use one hand to type and another hand to fidget with something.<p>A more high tech method would be to use a modulated wifi reflector that is randomly modulated.<p>One should also watch out for wifi hotspots with ominously pointed directional antenna</text></comment> | <story><title>Inferring Your Mobile Phone Password via WiFi Signals</title><url>http://fermatslibrary.com/s/when-csi-meets-public-wifi-inferring-your-mobile-phone-password-via-wifi-signals</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gefh</author><text>Holy shit.
From a brief scan it looks like the paper concentrates on recovering a numeric pin, but these attacks never get worse, only better, so I assume full keyboard access is not too far off.
What&#x27;s the defense? Have your phone manage the passwords and unlock via fingerprint?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>droopybuns</author><text>I think this is pretty hand-wavey and requires a lot assumptions to be true.<p>Also: &quot;We collected training and testing data from 10 volunteers.&quot; Not a statistically useful sample set.<p>Under very controlled environments, measuring signal deltas may be possible- but I would like to see sample data that suggests high success rates before I think this is worthy of concern.<p>Finally- Self tuning antennas are a thing. This is going to get harder over time. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qualcomm.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;qualcomm-rf360-dynamic-antenna-matching-tuner-qfe2550" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qualcomm.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;qualcomm-rf360-dynamic-anten...</a></text></comment> |
29,211,908 | 29,209,351 | 1 | 2 | 29,207,397 | train | <story><title>Rust data structures with circular references</title><url>https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2021/rust-data-structures-with-circular-references/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bilkow</author><text>I think there is a slight mistake in the article:<p>&gt; So how can a reference in a child assume the same lifetime? It can&#x27;t.<p>Well actually, it can, because the owned Struct itself (Node) can outlive any borrow. You won&#x27;t be able to mutate the parent though, as you can&#x27;t mutate any value that has an active immutable borrow. That&#x27;s the problem: you can&#x27;t add the child node as adding it would mutate the parent and the there&#x27;s an active immutable borrow (in the child node).<p>This reddit comment[0] has one possible solution[1] to this problem: not saving all of those parent references in the node itself, only adding when you&#x27;re retrieving it. It also seems a lot better since there&#x27;s less data in-tree to change if the structure itself changes.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;rust&#x2F;comments&#x2F;qstlto&#x2F;rust_data_structures_with_circular_references&#x2F;hkg1omp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;rust&#x2F;comments&#x2F;qstlto&#x2F;rust_data_stru...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.rust-lang.org&#x2F;?version=stable&amp;mode=debug&amp;edition=2018&amp;gist=731ab0fcad708964792f4b30e3aef2da" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.rust-lang.org&#x2F;?version=stable&amp;mode=debug&amp;editio...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rust data structures with circular references</title><url>https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2021/rust-data-structures-with-circular-references/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beltsazar</author><text>Similar to the second approach, you can have better ergonomics and performance by using a memory arena library like slotmap. A doubly linked list implemented using slotmap: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;orlp&#x2F;slotmap&#x2F;blob&#x2F;ce6e1e02bb2c2074d8d581e87ad9c2f72ce495c3&#x2F;examples&#x2F;doubly_linked_list.rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;orlp&#x2F;slotmap&#x2F;blob&#x2F;ce6e1e02bb2c2074d8d581e...</a></text></comment> |
24,545,772 | 24,544,912 | 1 | 2 | 24,542,104 | train | <story><title>Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity</title><url>https://danielmiessler.com/blog/no-moving-your-ssh-port-isnt-security-by-obscurity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nmaludy</author><text>An FBI agent from the Cyber Crimes division gave a talk while I was in college (&gt;10 years ago). He was interested in brute force attacks against SSH daemons and created a couple hypotheses around number of logins and common passwords. To test this he setup two Honey Pot to record all of the username&#x2F;passwords. The first one listened on standard SSH port 22, the other listened on a random high-numbered port. He left both of these running for ~6 months.<p>Results:
The honey pot listening on standard port 22 received 1,000s of login attempts (sorry, don&#x27;t remember the exact number). The honey pot listening on the random high-numbered port received exactly 0.<p>I know this is just an anecdote and it might not necessarily be true today, but this experiment always sticks in my head. At least the guy used the scientific method: created a hypothesis, conducted the experiment, analyzed his results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wvenable</author><text>What I&#x27;ve found these days monitoring my own network is that there is now 2 waves -- a port scan and then the attack.<p>If I change a port for anything to another random port I won&#x27;t get any login attempts for a few days but eventually I start getting hit again. I can repeat this over and over. I imagine what is happening is that the bad actors are scanning for open ports and they feed that periodically to another process that attempts logins.</text></comment> | <story><title>Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity</title><url>https://danielmiessler.com/blog/no-moving-your-ssh-port-isnt-security-by-obscurity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nmaludy</author><text>An FBI agent from the Cyber Crimes division gave a talk while I was in college (&gt;10 years ago). He was interested in brute force attacks against SSH daemons and created a couple hypotheses around number of logins and common passwords. To test this he setup two Honey Pot to record all of the username&#x2F;passwords. The first one listened on standard SSH port 22, the other listened on a random high-numbered port. He left both of these running for ~6 months.<p>Results:
The honey pot listening on standard port 22 received 1,000s of login attempts (sorry, don&#x27;t remember the exact number). The honey pot listening on the random high-numbered port received exactly 0.<p>I know this is just an anecdote and it might not necessarily be true today, but this experiment always sticks in my head. At least the guy used the scientific method: created a hypothesis, conducted the experiment, analyzed his results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Twirrim</author><text>Anecdotally, I have a machine with an exposed SSH, on a high number port. I get brute force attempts on a regular basis against it, just way less than when I run it on the standard port number. Security by obscurity is just one part of the steps I take with that machine. Using a high port number is dead simple and easily handled client side too, so I just do it.</text></comment> |
12,167,727 | 12,167,836 | 1 | 2 | 12,166,882 | train | <story><title>Let's Encrypt now fully supports IPv6</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org/2016/07/26/full-ipv6-support.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matt4077</author><text>So unfair! Comodo once, a while ago, also thought about using IPv6!<p>But seriously: letsencrypt is doing excellent work. It&#x27;s a great case study in how inefficient a mostly-free market can be: SSL adoption doubled within a year. All that was previously deadweight loss.</text></comment> | <story><title>Let's Encrypt now fully supports IPv6</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org/2016/07/26/full-ipv6-support.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>According to conversation on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;letsencrypt&#x2F;boulder&#x2F;issues&#x2F;593" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;letsencrypt&#x2F;boulder&#x2F;issues&#x2F;593</a> they couldn&#x27;t support it because one of their datacenters didn&#x27;t support IPv6 traffic.</text></comment> |
14,905,181 | 14,904,674 | 1 | 2 | 14,901,051 | train | <story><title>App sizes are out of control</title><url>https://trevore.com/blog/posts/app-sizes-are-out-of-control/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mfabbri77</author><text>I was wondering why not use SVG (or any other vector file format) files and render all the graphic on the device, instead of including tons of PNG at various resolutions.</text></item><item><author>vladdanilov</author><text>The situation is messy. Take Facebook.app. The reported size on the App Store is 377MB, the distributed .ipa is 241MB. But it is a universal app which includes fat binaries arm_v7 and arm64 and all the graphics 1x, 2x and 3x. App Thinning halves that size for end users. Yet the App Store reports the full size.<p>There&#x27;s more. App Store also provides some sort of delta updates [1], which save a lot bandwidth, but failing to report it properly again [2].<p>App Thinning does not work for standalone image assets. It means you are forced to use Asset Catalogs where all PNG files are stored as LZFSE (previously zip) compressed BGRA bitmaps. It&#x27;s good. But optimized PNG files can be 30-50% smaller on average. I&#x27;m fighting this [3] but not sure if there&#x27;s a simple solution.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;content&#x2F;qa&#x2F;qa1779&#x2F;_index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;content&#x2F;qa&#x2F;qa1779&#x2F;_index...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;rjonesy&#x2F;status&#x2F;878051126704254976" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;rjonesy&#x2F;status&#x2F;878051126704254976</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;vmdanilov&#x2F;status&#x2F;892015508203216896" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;vmdanilov&#x2F;status&#x2F;892015508203216896</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Groxx</author><text>Fuzzy reasons abound, but you do occasionally see this. One major often-complete-blocker that I&#x27;ve seen though has been ungood rendering, so results aren&#x27;t always identical on all devices. You can&#x27;t really rely on the device&#x27;s possibly-weird implementation (who knows what the OEM did to it)(except on iThings probably), so you&#x27;re forced to bundle an svg renderer that works reliably on all devices and has consistent behavior, and good luck finding a high quality lib that does that[1]. And, to be friendly to the designers, it has to be reasonably full-featured.<p>[1]: but if you know of one, I&#x27;d love to use it!</text></comment> | <story><title>App sizes are out of control</title><url>https://trevore.com/blog/posts/app-sizes-are-out-of-control/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mfabbri77</author><text>I was wondering why not use SVG (or any other vector file format) files and render all the graphic on the device, instead of including tons of PNG at various resolutions.</text></item><item><author>vladdanilov</author><text>The situation is messy. Take Facebook.app. The reported size on the App Store is 377MB, the distributed .ipa is 241MB. But it is a universal app which includes fat binaries arm_v7 and arm64 and all the graphics 1x, 2x and 3x. App Thinning halves that size for end users. Yet the App Store reports the full size.<p>There&#x27;s more. App Store also provides some sort of delta updates [1], which save a lot bandwidth, but failing to report it properly again [2].<p>App Thinning does not work for standalone image assets. It means you are forced to use Asset Catalogs where all PNG files are stored as LZFSE (previously zip) compressed BGRA bitmaps. It&#x27;s good. But optimized PNG files can be 30-50% smaller on average. I&#x27;m fighting this [3] but not sure if there&#x27;s a simple solution.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;content&#x2F;qa&#x2F;qa1779&#x2F;_index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;content&#x2F;qa&#x2F;qa1779&#x2F;_index...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;rjonesy&#x2F;status&#x2F;878051126704254976" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;rjonesy&#x2F;status&#x2F;878051126704254976</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;vmdanilov&#x2F;status&#x2F;892015508203216896" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;vmdanilov&#x2F;status&#x2F;892015508203216896</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mahyarm</author><text>Raster images are still faster and often you can make your png images very small and do stretching.<p>OTOH, people do vector stuff for many things, it&#x27;s just they typically don&#x27;t use SVG but something more efficient. XML parsing is not lightweight compared to a binary format or some sort of vector -&gt; code translator speed wise.</text></comment> |
27,515,665 | 27,515,972 | 1 | 2 | 27,514,005 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?</title><text>My therapist wants to explore an ADHD diagnosis, run tests and dive deep. My question to you is; how did this help you or impact your life?<p>I am in the later half of an adventurous and successful career. I continue to grow, have a long-term stable marriage, good savings, great life. I went to my therapist to handle a lingering family issue and now we&#x27;ve come up to the ADHD talk.<p>They want to run neurological tests, said I&#x27;m &#x27;twice exceptional&#x27; and I see this as an expensive and time consuming diversion of my goals. I do admit that there is some validity in the idea, I do see symptoms, but how would this help me at this point in my life?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>matlin</author><text>Anyone reading this should be extremely skeptical of internet strangers recommending drugs that gave them &quot;superpowers&quot;, changed their life, etc. Taking these drugs will make <i>anyone</i> feel more focused, motivated, etc because these drugs are strong stimulants that cause euphoria, focus, and bursts of energy.<p>Anecdotally, I&#x27;ve seen a huge uptick in posts of the format &quot;how an ADHD diagnosis changed my life&quot; on Reddit, TikTok, HN, etc. Talk to your doctor about your issues and concerns but don&#x27;t forget the incentives of pharma companies to push these drugs on as many people as possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnovek</author><text>Everything you’ve said is correct, but please don’t demonize a medication that I depend on to be functional. ADHD is a disability, there’s more nuance to this than black-and-white.<p>I was blown off by doctors for years when I was seeking a diagnostics because I was a successful person, but make no mistake: I was suffering. I am a textbook case. The stigma around this disorder is pervasive and it’s extremely easy to reinforce that stigma.<p>Stimulant medication doesn’t give me superpowers, it improves symptoms. I still have all the problems that come with ADHD, just... less.<p>Google is failing me, but a study a few years ago indicated that stimulants do not have a meaningful impact on the output of those who do not have ADHD. People often think they do because of the euphoria effect, but the euphoria is actually a transient side effect.<p>Stimulants should be paired with therapy, to better understand the nature of the disorder and developer additional coping tool.<p>(I’ve been on stimulant medication to treat ADHD for about half a decade. I was diagnosed well into adulthood.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?</title><text>My therapist wants to explore an ADHD diagnosis, run tests and dive deep. My question to you is; how did this help you or impact your life?<p>I am in the later half of an adventurous and successful career. I continue to grow, have a long-term stable marriage, good savings, great life. I went to my therapist to handle a lingering family issue and now we&#x27;ve come up to the ADHD talk.<p>They want to run neurological tests, said I&#x27;m &#x27;twice exceptional&#x27; and I see this as an expensive and time consuming diversion of my goals. I do admit that there is some validity in the idea, I do see symptoms, but how would this help me at this point in my life?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>matlin</author><text>Anyone reading this should be extremely skeptical of internet strangers recommending drugs that gave them &quot;superpowers&quot;, changed their life, etc. Taking these drugs will make <i>anyone</i> feel more focused, motivated, etc because these drugs are strong stimulants that cause euphoria, focus, and bursts of energy.<p>Anecdotally, I&#x27;ve seen a huge uptick in posts of the format &quot;how an ADHD diagnosis changed my life&quot; on Reddit, TikTok, HN, etc. Talk to your doctor about your issues and concerns but don&#x27;t forget the incentives of pharma companies to push these drugs on as many people as possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwasquirrel</author><text>When you&#x27;ve grown up with executive dysfunction and excessive difficulty regulating emotion, the <i>ability to choose</i> to sit down and do a task that doesn&#x27;t grab your attention sure FEELS like a superpower, but all it&#x27;s doing is effectively medicating your condition.<p>The best parallel I can think of is that getting effective medication for ADHD is like getting glasses. Suddenly a part of your life that doesn&#x27;t work (and maybe has never worked) is suddenly functional. People tend to be pretty excited about their glasses when they first get them, too.</text></comment> |
25,408,744 | 25,408,186 | 1 | 3 | 25,405,737 | train | <story><title>Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys</title><url>https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kashyapc</author><text>I recently discovered the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;</a> by The Internet Archive. On the face of it, their &quot;about&quot; page[1] sounds appealing (not least because it resonates with my open source values):<p><i>One web page for every book ever published. It&#x27;s a lofty but achievable goal.</i><p><i>To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time and effort to building the site.</i><p><i>To date, we have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way.</i><p><i>Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution. Whether you fix a typo, add a book, or write a widget--it&#x27;s all welcome. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can&#x27;t do it alone!</i><p>---<p>They also seem to provide an API[2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;about</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;developers&#x2F;api" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;developers&#x2F;api</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mekarpeles</author><text>For anyone who wishes Open Library was even better, please join one of our weekly community calls @ 11:30am Pacific.<p>For an invite, please send me an email at [email protected] or go to:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;volunteer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;volunteer</a><p># APIs &amp; Data Dumps<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;developers&#x2F;api" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;developers&#x2F;api</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;dev&#x2F;docs&#x2F;api&#x2F;books" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;dev&#x2F;docs&#x2F;api&#x2F;books</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;developers&#x2F;dumps" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;developers&#x2F;dumps</a> monthly data dumps for if you need bulk access and the APIs are not enough.<p># Spread the word<p>Also, if you want to help raise awareness of this resource, please help us get the word out on twitter!<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;openlibrary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1338185940469051392" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;openlibrary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1338185940469051392</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;openlibrary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1338186553915367425" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;openlibrary&#x2F;status&#x2F;1338186553915367425</a><p># Issues<p>Thank you all for helping us discover some issues with our goodreads importer and search (recently migrated to Python3 + thanks @cdrini et al for these fast bug fixes! If you notice an problem, please help open an issue here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;internetarchive&#x2F;openlibrary&#x2F;issues&#x2F;new&#x2F;choose" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;internetarchive&#x2F;openlibrary&#x2F;issues&#x2F;new&#x2F;ch...</a><p># Learn More<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;openlibrary-tour-2020&#x2F;openlibrary.ogv" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;openlibrary-tour-2020&#x2F;openlibrar...</a> if you want to learn more about Open Library, here&#x27;s a short intro vid.<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;internetarchive&#x2F;openlibrary" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;internetarchive&#x2F;openlibrary</a> if you want to follow on github.</text></comment> | <story><title>Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys</title><url>https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kashyapc</author><text>I recently discovered the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;</a> by The Internet Archive. On the face of it, their &quot;about&quot; page[1] sounds appealing (not least because it resonates with my open source values):<p><i>One web page for every book ever published. It&#x27;s a lofty but achievable goal.</i><p><i>To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time and effort to building the site.</i><p><i>To date, we have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way.</i><p><i>Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution. Whether you fix a typo, add a book, or write a widget--it&#x27;s all welcome. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can&#x27;t do it alone!</i><p>---<p>They also seem to provide an API[2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;about</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;developers&#x2F;api" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlibrary.org&#x2F;developers&#x2F;api</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jabo</author><text>Openlibrary looks pretty awesome. Thank you for sharing!<p>Would anyone be interested in having an instant search experience for this books dataset, like the one I built for the 2M recipes database posted on HN earlier this week: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25365397" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25365397</a></text></comment> |
16,396,107 | 16,395,569 | 1 | 2 | 16,392,698 | train | <story><title>How to Study Mathematics (2017)</title><url>https://www.math.uh.edu/~dblecher/pf2.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nothis</author><text>It always saddens me how mathematicians seem to look down on “intuition”. Maybe higher math as a full-time job is just hard work and stubborn precision but for me, an intuitive, visual look is probably getting me closer to understanding than any cold-hard-facts book does. Not to mention how much easier it is to appreciate the beauty of it.</text></item><item><author>e0m</author><text>By far the best explainer of mathematics I&#x27;ve seen anywhere is 3Blue1Brown: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw</a><p>These videos do an incredible job of illustrating how to intuitively arrive at an answer by composing many of the parts you need to build a proof for more complex topics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gracenotes</author><text>You can take it from one of the most productive living mathematicians:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;terrytao.wordpress.com&#x2F;career-advice&#x2F;theres-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;terrytao.wordpress.com&#x2F;career-advice&#x2F;theres-more-to-...</a><p>I recommend reading the entire post - it&#x27;s not too long, and links to other great materials - but this is a good relevant quote:<p>&gt; The point of rigour is <i>not</i> to destroy all intuition; instead, it should be used to destroy <i>bad</i> intuition while clarifying and elevating <i>good</i> intuition.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Study Mathematics (2017)</title><url>https://www.math.uh.edu/~dblecher/pf2.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nothis</author><text>It always saddens me how mathematicians seem to look down on “intuition”. Maybe higher math as a full-time job is just hard work and stubborn precision but for me, an intuitive, visual look is probably getting me closer to understanding than any cold-hard-facts book does. Not to mention how much easier it is to appreciate the beauty of it.</text></item><item><author>e0m</author><text>By far the best explainer of mathematics I&#x27;ve seen anywhere is 3Blue1Brown: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw</a><p>These videos do an incredible job of illustrating how to intuitively arrive at an answer by composing many of the parts you need to build a proof for more complex topics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eigenman</author><text>Mathematians (such as myself) don’t look down on intuition. It is the only way to construct a map through a complex proof.<p>However what you may have picked up on is we disstain people who insist they have a brilliant idea for which someone should prove they are right. That’s like saying a car engine consists of cyclinders and piston; someone else just needs to do the work to put the pieces together.</text></comment> |
40,925,948 | 40,924,248 | 1 | 3 | 40,921,915 | train | <story><title>Johns Hopkins medical school will be free for most after $1B donation</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2024/07/08/johns-hopkins-bloomberg-donation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cbsks</author><text>It’s for families making less than 300k. MIT has full scholarships for families making less than 140k <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfs.mit.edu&#x2F;undergraduate-students&#x2F;the-cost-of-attendance&#x2F;making-mit-affordable&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfs.mit.edu&#x2F;undergraduate-students&#x2F;the-cost-of-atten...</a><p>Besides the 2 other medical schools mentioned in the article, what other universities have similar scholarships?</text></comment> | <story><title>Johns Hopkins medical school will be free for most after $1B donation</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2024/07/08/johns-hopkins-bloomberg-donation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hcfman</author><text>Super nice! Let&#x27;s turn this into a billionare challenge shall we? Do billionares also do the challenges thing?</text></comment> |
22,835,155 | 22,833,849 | 1 | 2 | 22,833,304 | train | <story><title>Braid – A team-chat app with a novel UI for better conversations</title><url>https://github.com/braidchat/braid</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rafd</author><text>Hey HN! One of the creators of Braid here.<p>We started Braid internally in the pre-Slack days (we were using HipChat then), because we felt that &quot;chatrooms&quot; didn&#x27;t promote good async team workflows. They would lead to a lot of FOMO and constant checking, because if you didn&#x27;t participate in a conversation at the right time, the topic in a channel would have moved on to something else. We liked the async nature of email more, but, email has it&#x27;s own baggage.<p>Our team has been using Braid internally for several years and we&#x27;re very happy with it. But, compared to Slack, it&#x27;s best thought of as a prototype &#x2F; experiment &#x2F; UI-proof-of-concept, because we don&#x27;t have the polish and maturity of features that Slack has.<p>We&#x27;ve had interest from some individuals who &quot;get it&quot;, but it&#x27;s often been hard for those individuals to convert the rest of their teams. If any team here is interested in the Braid concept and wants to give it a serious go, I&#x27;m at your disposal, and I&#x27;d love to get your feedback so we can keep morphing the product.<p>The use of &quot;hashtags&quot; in our demos is a bit overdone compared to what happens in practice. It makes it seem like twitter #hastags, but, it&#x27;s really more like Gmail labels. Braid tags serve the same purpose as Slack&#x27;s channels, except a given thread can exist in multiple channels (ie. go to multiple teams &#x2F; individuals) and tags can be added over time (ie. more people can be invited to the conversation).</text></comment> | <story><title>Braid – A team-chat app with a novel UI for better conversations</title><url>https://github.com/braidchat/braid</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sleepinseattle</author><text>I appreciate that the UI is fresh. I&#x27;m tired of the trend of desktop apps not taking advantage of larger screens and instead just shoe-horning mobile &quot;feed&quot; designs into a floating window.<p>Not convinced that tagging is better than channels for large teams. Seems like there would be an explosion of tags to keep track of.<p>Disclosure: I work at Microsoft but not on Teams.</text></comment> |
39,913,406 | 39,911,539 | 1 | 2 | 39,908,579 | train | <story><title>Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>Lots of services would be phenomenal when you can offload much of the cost to run them to cheap offshore labor.<p>Remember how great Uber and Doordash were when much of the cost of operating was offset by underpaid workers and VC funds? Now that they don&#x27;t have unlimited piles of money and cities&#x2F;states are making them pay more fair wages, the cost-benefit of those services has diminished. I was ok paying $5 for $20 of food to be delivered, but now it&#x27;s more like $10 - $15 in fees&#x2F;tip, plus fees hidden in menu prices making that $20 food cost $27.50.</text></item><item><author>bilalq</author><text>This is pretty sad to read. Before Covid, the Amazon Go store experience was phenomenal. All the convenience of a 7-Eleven but with the pricing of a normal grocery store. The food options were really good and the BlueApron style meal-kits were amazing. The Alexa integration was also nice for being able to just verbally ask what&#x27;s the next step on a recipe while you&#x27;re busy stirring or chopping things.<p>When it rolled out to Amazon Fresh stores, it was a breadth of fresh air. The painful clunkiness of self-checkout was gone. The slow and pointless exercise of unloading and reloading your cart was gone. You could just bring your reusable shopping bags, throw stuff in, and walk home. By far the most hassle-free shopping experience to be had.<p>Scan as you shop is a big step backwards and feels like you&#x27;ve got the annoying self-checkout experience looming over you the entire time you&#x27;re there.<p>The selection and operating hours both took a hit during covid and never recovered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryukoposting</author><text>From my point of view, Uber and DD were always going to head in that direction because by any objective measure, they are worse than the solution that already existed. The introduction of a middleman created new costs for drivers, customers, and restaurants alike, yet it&#x27;s actually worse at delivering food than the conventional &quot;drivers work for the restaurant&quot; model. Sure, you get one website where you can see all the delivery options in the area, but the cost is making all of those options <i>shittier</i>. I could rant about how stupid that industry is for hours, but I digress.<p>What Amazon is doing is different because they&#x27;re actually doing something that adds value, and they&#x27;re solving a problem that actually exists. Maybe I&#x27;m naive for believing any of this matters.<p>To be honest, I never thought much about how the whole system worked. I&#x27;ve only been in an Amazon Fresh twice. It had the &quot;just walk out&quot; thing but I don&#x27;t have a Prime account so I never used it. I just figured it was UHF RFID. Seems like an obvious solution, but I&#x27;m not the engineer responsible for figuring out what to do if you put two exits next to each other.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>Lots of services would be phenomenal when you can offload much of the cost to run them to cheap offshore labor.<p>Remember how great Uber and Doordash were when much of the cost of operating was offset by underpaid workers and VC funds? Now that they don&#x27;t have unlimited piles of money and cities&#x2F;states are making them pay more fair wages, the cost-benefit of those services has diminished. I was ok paying $5 for $20 of food to be delivered, but now it&#x27;s more like $10 - $15 in fees&#x2F;tip, plus fees hidden in menu prices making that $20 food cost $27.50.</text></item><item><author>bilalq</author><text>This is pretty sad to read. Before Covid, the Amazon Go store experience was phenomenal. All the convenience of a 7-Eleven but with the pricing of a normal grocery store. The food options were really good and the BlueApron style meal-kits were amazing. The Alexa integration was also nice for being able to just verbally ask what&#x27;s the next step on a recipe while you&#x27;re busy stirring or chopping things.<p>When it rolled out to Amazon Fresh stores, it was a breadth of fresh air. The painful clunkiness of self-checkout was gone. The slow and pointless exercise of unloading and reloading your cart was gone. You could just bring your reusable shopping bags, throw stuff in, and walk home. By far the most hassle-free shopping experience to be had.<p>Scan as you shop is a big step backwards and feels like you&#x27;ve got the annoying self-checkout experience looming over you the entire time you&#x27;re there.<p>The selection and operating hours both took a hit during covid and never recovered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>I wish it could all be managed intelligently; I&#x27;m hungry but I can wait, let orders collect and make them all at once or something.<p>Dominos had this down pat twenty years ago, how come everything with an app is so much more expensive?</text></comment> |
21,283,037 | 21,283,347 | 1 | 2 | 21,281,025 | train | <story><title>Stupid Unix Tricks</title><url>https://sneak.berlin/20191011/stupid-unix-tricks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asaph</author><text>&gt; Don’t try to install things with brew if brew is not installed:<p><pre><code> if which brew 2&gt;&amp;1 &#x2F;dev&#x2F;null ; then
brew install jq
fi
</code></pre>
This just hides a useful error message (brew not installed). I would rather just see that error message (either interactively or in a log) and have the script fail. Hiding the error message just leads to an eventual failure down the road when jq is invoked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reacweb</author><text>In bash, there is the build-in command named &quot;command&quot;. I have used it for the same purpose, like in:<p><pre><code> command -v brew &gt;&#x2F;dev&#x2F;null &amp;&amp; brew install jq</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Stupid Unix Tricks</title><url>https://sneak.berlin/20191011/stupid-unix-tricks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asaph</author><text>&gt; Don’t try to install things with brew if brew is not installed:<p><pre><code> if which brew 2&gt;&amp;1 &#x2F;dev&#x2F;null ; then
brew install jq
fi
</code></pre>
This just hides a useful error message (brew not installed). I would rather just see that error message (either interactively or in a log) and have the script fail. Hiding the error message just leads to an eventual failure down the road when jq is invoked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aasasd</author><text>You don&#x27;t need to check for `brew` in each task if they&#x27;re run automatically. Just have one task that checks for `brew`.<p>With a proper dependency graph, the tasks installing things would depend on the task `brew-installed`.<p>This, of course, is leaving alone the point that installing stuff on startup is weird, doubly so with brew which is pretty slow.</text></comment> |
30,705,421 | 30,703,956 | 1 | 3 | 30,670,397 | train | <story><title>Levels of Technical Leadership</title><url>https://dr-knz.net/levels-of-technical-leadership.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nunctryses</author><text>Looks like typical SWE ladders &#x2F; profiles for roles in FAANG. One can go this route, and then create N-1 preso&#x2F;diff for &quot;L3 to L4&quot; , &quot;L4 to L5&quot;, &quot;L5 to L6&quot; etc.<p>But that seems something old companies with a ton of bureaucracy would have, not suitable imo for a &quot;young tech company&quot;.<p>For those, I highly prefer this fits-in-one-tweet definition of L3, L4, L5, L6: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ZainRzv&#x2F;status&#x2F;1502550200396750851" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ZainRzv&#x2F;status&#x2F;1502550200396750851</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Levels of Technical Leadership</title><url>https://dr-knz.net/levels-of-technical-leadership.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>angarg12</author><text>It isn&#x27;t clear to me from the article, but has this ladder been implemented somewhere or is it a theoretical framework?<p>My issue with many such articles is that they propose and idea without having tried it in practice. Unless you have implemented this and seen it working well for a period of time, it&#x27;s only &quot;armchair leadership&quot;.</text></comment> |
34,017,206 | 34,012,694 | 1 | 3 | 34,008,839 | train | <story><title>Tiktoken: OpenAI’s Tokenizer</title><url>https://github.com/openai/tiktoken</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joelburget</author><text>A few interesting findings:<p>* the cl100k_base tokenizer has ~100k tokens -- previous tokenizers had ~50k. (enc.n_vocab gives 100277 but some numbers in that range don&#x27;t work, starting at 100256)<p>* it has exactly 1110 tokens which are just digits. 10 1 digit tokens, 100 2 digit tokens and 1000 3 digit tokens! (none have preceding spaces). this is a huge improvement from GPT2&#x27;s tokenizer, which was a huge mess.<p>* there are &lt;|fim_prefix|&gt;, &lt;|fim_middle|&gt;, and &lt;|fim_suffix|&gt; tokens (see <i>Efficient Training of Language Models to Fill in the Middle</i>)<p>The biggest news to me is the improved handling of numbers. This could explain some improved performance on arithmetic. One disappointment is that it tokenizes from the <i>front</i>, e.g. &quot;1000000&quot; -&gt; 100|000|0. This is one of those &quot;so close!&quot; moments -- I would work for free to fix this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tiktoken: OpenAI’s Tokenizer</title><url>https://github.com/openai/tiktoken</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>est</author><text>Requires az:&#x2F;&#x2F; blob download.<p>I hope pypi libraries can provide complete standalone offline versions instead of requests+urllib3+some_object_storage shenanigans.<p>If these blobs are too large to host it on pypi, maybe give us an alternative way to download it altogether so we can deploy the full lib to a server without network access?</text></comment> |
38,872,143 | 38,871,389 | 1 | 3 | 38,868,610 | train | <story><title>How Open ID Connect Works</title><url>https://blog.digger.dev/how-open-id-connect-works-illustrated/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grinich</author><text>Have you tried WorkOS? (I work there.)<p>Makes it super easy to add SAML&#x2F;SCIM to your app. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workos.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workos.com&#x2F;</a><p>We also recently launched <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.authkit.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.authkit.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>opportune</author><text>What’s insane to me is that it feels like nobody has actually managed to make this easy for developers yet. If they have, I don’t know about them.<p>I would normally consider myself pretty competent, but I stood up my first fully featured website recently with logins and such, and it took me about 2 days of work to get AWS Cognito working (using their recommended USER_SRP_AUTH). That’s not including 3rd party login functionality from Google and friends.<p>Their documentation and UX is piss-poor unless you’re willing to onboard your entire project to Amplify and enter npm-hell, which I wasn’t. It’s almost like they don’t even want your business.<p>I looked into using Auth0 instead and it didn’t seem to be any easier. Better docs, seems like they’re actually written by someone who both understands the auth problem domain and how to explain it to those that don’t, but still complex.<p>Yet when I was finished finally getting everything to work, it seems like the kind of thing you could easily package into an off-the-shelf product. It’s just that existing products don’t do it. Like why the fuck is there a guide explaining how to write a lambda to convert access codes to refresh tokens and persist them via cookies? That should be part of the Cognito platform!<p>Honestly thinking of just starting my own auth SAAS with blackjack and hookers</text></item><item><author>munchbunny</author><text>OIDC (and the rest of the OAuth umbrella of stuff) is one category where every time I have to work with the protocols I think &quot;there must be a less confusing way&quot; and then have a failure of imagination for a simpler way to accomplish the same thing. I think it&#x27;s because the protocols are conceptually simple, but the cryptographic parts, especially the PKI parts, make them intricate to understand exactly who is attesting or validating exactly what.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alberth</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;I work there&quot;</i><p>You don&#x27;t just work there, aren&#x27;t you the founder? :)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22607030">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22607030</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Open ID Connect Works</title><url>https://blog.digger.dev/how-open-id-connect-works-illustrated/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grinich</author><text>Have you tried WorkOS? (I work there.)<p>Makes it super easy to add SAML&#x2F;SCIM to your app. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workos.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workos.com&#x2F;</a><p>We also recently launched <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.authkit.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.authkit.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>opportune</author><text>What’s insane to me is that it feels like nobody has actually managed to make this easy for developers yet. If they have, I don’t know about them.<p>I would normally consider myself pretty competent, but I stood up my first fully featured website recently with logins and such, and it took me about 2 days of work to get AWS Cognito working (using their recommended USER_SRP_AUTH). That’s not including 3rd party login functionality from Google and friends.<p>Their documentation and UX is piss-poor unless you’re willing to onboard your entire project to Amplify and enter npm-hell, which I wasn’t. It’s almost like they don’t even want your business.<p>I looked into using Auth0 instead and it didn’t seem to be any easier. Better docs, seems like they’re actually written by someone who both understands the auth problem domain and how to explain it to those that don’t, but still complex.<p>Yet when I was finished finally getting everything to work, it seems like the kind of thing you could easily package into an off-the-shelf product. It’s just that existing products don’t do it. Like why the fuck is there a guide explaining how to write a lambda to convert access codes to refresh tokens and persist them via cookies? That should be part of the Cognito platform!<p>Honestly thinking of just starting my own auth SAAS with blackjack and hookers</text></item><item><author>munchbunny</author><text>OIDC (and the rest of the OAuth umbrella of stuff) is one category where every time I have to work with the protocols I think &quot;there must be a less confusing way&quot; and then have a failure of imagination for a simpler way to accomplish the same thing. I think it&#x27;s because the protocols are conceptually simple, but the cryptographic parts, especially the PKI parts, make them intricate to understand exactly who is attesting or validating exactly what.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aidos</author><text>I had a look at this recently and the pricing was pretty wild. Am I right in understanding that the connection charge is effectively per organisation?</text></comment> |
41,136,609 | 41,136,402 | 1 | 3 | 41,133,308 | train | <story><title>Why CSV is still king</title><url>https://konbert.com/blog/why-csv-is-still-king</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nihilartikel</author><text>I&#x27;ve found the Unicode cat emoji to be an effective delimiter to avoid escaping more common chars in my cat-separated-value artifacts.<p>Of course the cat emoji is escaped by the puppy emoji if it occurs in a value. The puppy emoji escapes itself when needed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exidex</author><text>There is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SixArm&#x2F;usv">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SixArm&#x2F;usv</a> which is exactly that, but with special unicode characters</text></comment> | <story><title>Why CSV is still king</title><url>https://konbert.com/blog/why-csv-is-still-king</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nihilartikel</author><text>I&#x27;ve found the Unicode cat emoji to be an effective delimiter to avoid escaping more common chars in my cat-separated-value artifacts.<p>Of course the cat emoji is escaped by the puppy emoji if it occurs in a value. The puppy emoji escapes itself when needed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hackbraten</author><text>Instructions unclear, my puppy emoji is now chasing its own tail</text></comment> |
38,677,214 | 38,677,223 | 1 | 2 | 38,673,854 | train | <story><title>BrainGPT turns thoughts into text</title><url>https://www.iflscience.com/new-mind-reading-braingpt-turns-thoughts-into-text-on-screen-72054</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikpanko</author><text>I did a PhD in brain-computer interfaces, including EEG and implanted electrodes. BCI research to a big extent focuses on helping paralyzed individuals regain communication.<p>Unfortunately, EEG doesn’t provide sufficient signal-to-noise ratio to support good communication speeds outside of the lab with Faraday cages and days&#x2F;weeks of de-noising including removing eye-movement artifacts in the recordings. This is a physical limit due to attenuation of brain’s electrical fields outside of the skull, which is hard to overcome. For example, all commercial “mind-reading” toys are actually working based off head and eye muscle signals.<p>Implanted electrodes provide better signal but are many iterations away from becoming viable commercially. Signal degrades over months as the brain builds scar tissue around electrodes and the brain surgery is obviously pretty dangerous. Iteration cycles are very slow because of the need for government approval for testing in humans (for a good reason).<p>If I wanted to help a paralyzed friend, who could only move his&#x2F;her eyes, I would definitely focus on the eye-tracking tech. It hands-down beat all BCIs I’ve heard of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daniel_iversen</author><text>What’s your thoughts of Elon’s NeuraLink? Also, do you have an opinion on whether good AI algorithms (like in the article) can help filter out or parse a lot of the noise?</text></comment> | <story><title>BrainGPT turns thoughts into text</title><url>https://www.iflscience.com/new-mind-reading-braingpt-turns-thoughts-into-text-on-screen-72054</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikpanko</author><text>I did a PhD in brain-computer interfaces, including EEG and implanted electrodes. BCI research to a big extent focuses on helping paralyzed individuals regain communication.<p>Unfortunately, EEG doesn’t provide sufficient signal-to-noise ratio to support good communication speeds outside of the lab with Faraday cages and days&#x2F;weeks of de-noising including removing eye-movement artifacts in the recordings. This is a physical limit due to attenuation of brain’s electrical fields outside of the skull, which is hard to overcome. For example, all commercial “mind-reading” toys are actually working based off head and eye muscle signals.<p>Implanted electrodes provide better signal but are many iterations away from becoming viable commercially. Signal degrades over months as the brain builds scar tissue around electrodes and the brain surgery is obviously pretty dangerous. Iteration cycles are very slow because of the need for government approval for testing in humans (for a good reason).<p>If I wanted to help a paralyzed friend, who could only move his&#x2F;her eyes, I would definitely focus on the eye-tracking tech. It hands-down beat all BCIs I’ve heard of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>I just did a two day ambulatory eeg and noted anytime I did anything that would be electrically noisy.<p>For example going through a metal detector or handling a phone.<p>Unsurprisingly one of their biggest sources of noise is handling a plugged in phone.<p>I think something like an EEG faraday beanie would actually work and adding accessory egocentric video would allow doctors to filter a lot of the noise out.</text></comment> |
16,203,122 | 16,203,142 | 1 | 3 | 16,199,330 | train | <story><title>The Rise of German Board Games</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/german-board-games-catan/550826/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koonsolo</author><text>For me, it&#x27;s always a challenge to play board games with my kids.<p>They are now 8, 6 and 4, and none of them wants to lose. It always ends up with someone crying, sometimes with all of them crying (including the winner).<p>For other parents who have the same issue: I was able to &quot;fix&quot; this situation by declaring the winner as the person who is able to take defeat without crying. After that I mostly can declare all of them winners. Sometimes I&#x27;m able to end the game nicely like that.<p>Just saying that playing a board game with small kids is not always as easy as your imagine it to be.<p>EDIT: One more thing: there are some nice co-op games for kids, and with those I never have a problem. A real recommendation!</text></item><item><author>5_minutes</author><text>I love playing board games with my kids, gets them away from anything digital: nintendo’s, ipads or tv stuff.<p>And hey having a 8 year old thinking about his Stratego setup, is a good thing!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qznc</author><text>I believe dealing with your emotions (especially frustration in the case of losing) is one of the big teachings of board games.<p>At least, this believe is my only reason for playing certain games with my kids like Snakes-and-Ladders. I fail to recognize them as actual games because there are practically no decisions to be made. With most games, I can let my kids win by making stupid decisions. With Snakes there is no such option. The dice can force me to win and my kids have to deal with losing.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Rise of German Board Games</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/german-board-games-catan/550826/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koonsolo</author><text>For me, it&#x27;s always a challenge to play board games with my kids.<p>They are now 8, 6 and 4, and none of them wants to lose. It always ends up with someone crying, sometimes with all of them crying (including the winner).<p>For other parents who have the same issue: I was able to &quot;fix&quot; this situation by declaring the winner as the person who is able to take defeat without crying. After that I mostly can declare all of them winners. Sometimes I&#x27;m able to end the game nicely like that.<p>Just saying that playing a board game with small kids is not always as easy as your imagine it to be.<p>EDIT: One more thing: there are some nice co-op games for kids, and with those I never have a problem. A real recommendation!</text></item><item><author>5_minutes</author><text>I love playing board games with my kids, gets them away from anything digital: nintendo’s, ipads or tv stuff.<p>And hey having a 8 year old thinking about his Stratego setup, is a good thing!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Angostura</author><text>For playing with kids try Forbidden Island. Has elements of Pandemic apparently (I haven&#x27;t played Pandemic) cooperative, games typically don&#x27;t take more than about half an hour.</text></comment> |
19,457,899 | 19,457,083 | 1 | 3 | 19,454,254 | train | <story><title>Amazon to Launch Mobile Ads, in a Threat to Google and Facebook</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-21/amazon-said-to-launch-mobile-ads-in-threat-to-google-facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keepper</author><text>Would you put your money where your opinion is?<p>You can demand your attention back, but are you willing to pay for the content you consume? I say this in earnest. We had great content in newspapers and magazines... and the world decide that cheap ( with instance access ) was better. Same has happened to many industries.<p>You shouldn&#x27;t demand, without a willingness to, well, compensate.</text></item><item><author>aszantu</author><text>Does anyone else feel disgust towards the world we live in? Everywhere you look, you get adds thrown in your face.
Facebook is marketing to your profile, not just paid adds but people with their business.
You meet a new person in a café they tell you about their business and try to sell stuff...
You dare to go online with your smartphone and there&#x27;s a million apps updating and when you open them they throw more adds in your face.
can I demand my attention back please?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arendtio</author><text>&gt; You can demand your attention back, but are you willing to pay for the content you consume?<p>Yes, I do.<p>In fact, I want to consume a lot less than the media corporations want me to consume (especially &#x27;news&#x27;). So paying for Netflix&#x2F;Spotify&#x2F;Prime&#x2F;Steam is no problem for me and I probably would pay for news if I would find it of any value. Today, every news corporation seems to have its own agenda and you have to do your own research anyway.<p>I am just wondering how much I would have to pay to get the other stuff without that DRM garbage... I mean for games we have GOG, but for movies and music, I haven&#x27;t found a legal DRM-free source yet that offers the main-stream products :-&#x2F;</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon to Launch Mobile Ads, in a Threat to Google and Facebook</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-21/amazon-said-to-launch-mobile-ads-in-threat-to-google-facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keepper</author><text>Would you put your money where your opinion is?<p>You can demand your attention back, but are you willing to pay for the content you consume? I say this in earnest. We had great content in newspapers and magazines... and the world decide that cheap ( with instance access ) was better. Same has happened to many industries.<p>You shouldn&#x27;t demand, without a willingness to, well, compensate.</text></item><item><author>aszantu</author><text>Does anyone else feel disgust towards the world we live in? Everywhere you look, you get adds thrown in your face.
Facebook is marketing to your profile, not just paid adds but people with their business.
You meet a new person in a café they tell you about their business and try to sell stuff...
You dare to go online with your smartphone and there&#x27;s a million apps updating and when you open them they throw more adds in your face.
can I demand my attention back please?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bduerst</author><text>Google used to allow you to pay pennies to websites to hide display ads their site, or replace them entirely with cat pictures. It wasn&#x27;t complete coverage since Google doesn&#x27;t own all ad networks, but it was something like 55% of the ads on sites.<p>Then they changed the whole program to only have 100% coverage on very specific sites, which kind of makes it useless unless you frequent those specific domains: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;contributor&#x2F;answer&#x2F;7324995" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;contributor&#x2F;answer&#x2F;7324995</a></text></comment> |
20,472,961 | 20,472,322 | 1 | 3 | 20,466,641 | train | <story><title>Building the New Twitter.com</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2019/buildingthenewtwitter.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>To the posted article, I think it&#x27;s impressive they are shipping a single codebase for mobile and desktop. Modular features you can turn off for different views. It&#x27;s smart and I&#x27;ll be curious to see if other sites follow suit.<p>Unfortunately they&#x27;ve now ported one of the most offensive feature from mobile to desktop. The &quot;Home&quot; timeline, with tweets out of order. And the real kicker; you can still select &quot;latest Tweets first&quot; but then the app literally undoes your preference every week or two, forcing you back to their &quot;Home&quot; view. It&#x27;s offensive.<p>Also a small thing, but the new desktop Twitter now has obfuscated CSS classes for everything. The names change frequently too, maybe at every deploy? Anyway it makes it a lot harder to modify the desktop HTML presentation with an extension or set of ad blocker rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rasfincher</author><text>One of the main things that keeps me using a third-party client (for as long as I can continue using one) is the Home vs.Latest Tweets feature. I NEVER want to see the home timeline. I always want a reverse-chronological list of tweets. It is user-hostile to have to continuously select Latest Tweets. I&#x27;m sure they see more engagement with the Home timeline, but I just want to be able to flip a switch and never see it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building the New Twitter.com</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2019/buildingthenewtwitter.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>To the posted article, I think it&#x27;s impressive they are shipping a single codebase for mobile and desktop. Modular features you can turn off for different views. It&#x27;s smart and I&#x27;ll be curious to see if other sites follow suit.<p>Unfortunately they&#x27;ve now ported one of the most offensive feature from mobile to desktop. The &quot;Home&quot; timeline, with tweets out of order. And the real kicker; you can still select &quot;latest Tweets first&quot; but then the app literally undoes your preference every week or two, forcing you back to their &quot;Home&quot; view. It&#x27;s offensive.<p>Also a small thing, but the new desktop Twitter now has obfuscated CSS classes for everything. The names change frequently too, maybe at every deploy? Anyway it makes it a lot harder to modify the desktop HTML presentation with an extension or set of ad blocker rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ilamont</author><text>Nothing showcases the failure of the Twitter algorithm to deliver relevant, timely information than seeing yesterday&#x27;s tweets about impending bad weather.</text></comment> |
7,592,344 | 7,592,332 | 1 | 2 | 7,591,094 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Super Planet Crash</title><url>http://www.stefanom.org/spc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stefanom</author><text>I am the developer of the game (StefanoM). I&#x27;m glad people are enjoying the game, and I&#x27;m sorry for the downtime -- I did not expect it to become this popular.<p>If you have any improvements or suggestions (especially on the programming side!), please email me directly.<p>Update: As an astronomer (and not a professional programmer), being on HN makes me super proud. Thank you!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sullivanmatt</author><text>Hey stefanom, fantastic game. I see your website is having some trouble keeping up. You should sign up for the free version of Cloudflare and put your website behind it - then you&#x27;ll not have nearly the trouble with the traffic load.<p>(I&#x27;m not affiliated with them in any way)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Super Planet Crash</title><url>http://www.stefanom.org/spc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stefanom</author><text>I am the developer of the game (StefanoM). I&#x27;m glad people are enjoying the game, and I&#x27;m sorry for the downtime -- I did not expect it to become this popular.<p>If you have any improvements or suggestions (especially on the programming side!), please email me directly.<p>Update: As an astronomer (and not a professional programmer), being on HN makes me super proud. Thank you!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nmeofthestate</author><text>A new game always comes with a planet at a random orbit - would be good to get rid of that, although I can see it makes understanding things easier, initially.<p>Also, the speed shouldn&#x27;t affect the results - perhaps the simulation could always be done at the same resolution, separate from the animations.</text></comment> |
39,288,201 | 39,287,836 | 1 | 3 | 39,286,877 | train | <story><title>Show HN: YTPics – Download pictures from YouTube videos</title><url>https://www.ytpics.com/</url><text>Lack of yt-dlp+ffmpeg and screenshots&#x27; limited size on my mobile phone prompted me to build a simple tool to download pictures from YouTube videos. Check it out. hope you guys find it useful</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Beijinger</author><text>I have extracted frames with vlc before before. They always look like shit. Like with a lower resolution. Why? Like if you freeze a youtube video the pic looks clean.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: YTPics – Download pictures from YouTube videos</title><url>https://www.ytpics.com/</url><text>Lack of yt-dlp+ffmpeg and screenshots&#x27; limited size on my mobile phone prompted me to build a simple tool to download pictures from YouTube videos. Check it out. hope you guys find it useful</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Qwertas</author><text>This addon works perfectly for this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;screenshot-youtube&#x2F;gjoijpfmdhbjkkgnmahganhoinjjpohk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;screenshot-youtube...</a></text></comment> |
20,497,459 | 20,497,538 | 1 | 2 | 20,496,910 | train | <story><title>Chaos in Hong Kong as hundreds of masked men assault protesters, journalists</title><url>https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/07/22/just-chaos-bloodshed-hong-kong-district-hundreds-masked-men-assault-protesters-journalists-residents/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riffraff</author><text>I am very curious, but worried, of the situation in HK.<p>Concretely, it seems HKers can protest as much as they want, but when push comes to shove, the PRC will just end up crushing them and the parts of democracy they still have.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine how they may get any other outcome.
Even if I wish they could just gain independence, it seems unlikely, and it&#x27;s not like any foreign power would go to war to protect HK.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sho</author><text>Your analysis is 100% correct.<p>The handover was more than 20 years ago. The horizon for total integration was 50 years. We&#x27;re more than 40% through. Pre-handover was &quot;britain in asia&quot;. The endgame is &quot;full integration&quot;.<p>HK is nowhere near 40% full integration. Progress has fallen behind, and now they are catching up. The wishful thinking of HK residents doesn&#x27;t change anything. The writing has been on the wall for decades. There&#x27;s only one way this ends.<p>Personally I hate all of this. I loved HK being its own little out-of-place enclave in the orient. But that all changed in 1997; the script has been written, and events will grind forward to the inevitable conclusion. Most people I know in HK are thinking about their &quot;Plan B&quot;. They would be advised to hurry it up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chaos in Hong Kong as hundreds of masked men assault protesters, journalists</title><url>https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/07/22/just-chaos-bloodshed-hong-kong-district-hundreds-masked-men-assault-protesters-journalists-residents/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riffraff</author><text>I am very curious, but worried, of the situation in HK.<p>Concretely, it seems HKers can protest as much as they want, but when push comes to shove, the PRC will just end up crushing them and the parts of democracy they still have.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine how they may get any other outcome.
Even if I wish they could just gain independence, it seems unlikely, and it&#x27;s not like any foreign power would go to war to protect HK.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graeme</author><text>&gt;I can&#x27;t imagine how they may get any other outcome.<p>The only way would be is if the chinese government changed. Not all that likely, but on the other hand the Berlin wall was only up 30 years.<p>Tomorrow is always a better day to die.</text></comment> |
3,892,830 | 3,892,866 | 1 | 3 | 3,891,671 | train | <story><title>The Creative Monopoly</title><url>http://nytimes.com/2012/04/24/opinion/brooks-the-creative-monopoly.html?_r=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knowtheory</author><text>What an <i>awful</i> way to phrase a simple concept.<p>Rather than compete in someone else's market, create your own market. Manufacture, or identify a need that has not been met, and, having been first mover, use that to build an insurmountable lead over any possible competitors.<p>Whether it's mint toothpaste, or portable digital music players, this has been done for generations.<p>"Creative Monopoly" is a bizarre term for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jordanb</author><text>Yeah, and economists have had a better word for it since 1933: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_differentiation" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_differentiation</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Creative Monopoly</title><url>http://nytimes.com/2012/04/24/opinion/brooks-the-creative-monopoly.html?_r=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knowtheory</author><text>What an <i>awful</i> way to phrase a simple concept.<p>Rather than compete in someone else's market, create your own market. Manufacture, or identify a need that has not been met, and, having been first mover, use that to build an insurmountable lead over any possible competitors.<p>Whether it's mint toothpaste, or portable digital music players, this has been done for generations.<p>"Creative Monopoly" is a bizarre term for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cageface</author><text>His point is a little broader because he also questions the shared assumptions that underly our educational systems.<p>I often hear that American and European schools are produce better students than Asian schools because they place less emphasis on rote learning and more on independent thinking but my impression is that's much less true now than it might have been 20 years ago.</text></comment> |
29,014,429 | 29,014,080 | 1 | 2 | 29,013,303 | train | <story><title>Too many new papers may mean novel ideas rarely rack up citations</title><url>http://blog.pnas.org/2021/10/is-scientific-progress-waning-too-many-new-papers-may-mean-novel-ideas-rarely-rack-up-citations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>I think it&#x27;s obviously waning if you look at any field that deals with physical world: a car from 1940 looks totally different than one from 1980&#x27;s, but the one from 2020 and 1980 looks almost the same.<p>Space rockets are same as they were in 80&#x27;s, where are nuclear engines, fusion propultion, etc?<p>Its the same for airplanes, appliances, and everything execept computers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Snowden&#x2F;status&#x2F;1451342274667876353?t=RO7_VrhNEv7nPFCPc20XSQ&amp;s=19" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Snowden&#x2F;status&#x2F;1451342274667876353?t=RO7...</a></text></item><item><author>supernovae</author><text>No, it isn&#x27;t waning. There are struggles, but that doesn&#x27;t mean its waning. We&#x27;re having massive progress in medicine, space, cosmology, environment, biology, food, transportation.<p>Hell, the only thing that&#x27;s waning is public perception of science and that seems to be a deliberate political attack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmah</author><text>I started driving in 1982... and I can say with 100% certainty that cars of 2020 may not <i>look</i> all that different from cars of 1980, but under that skin of glossy steel and glass, they are <i>very</i> different. The engines are different (electronic fuel injection, timing and compression ratio monitoring), the transmissions are different (dual clutch, torque vectoring differential), the electronics are <i>massively </i> different, safety features are like out of sci fi (parking cameras, adaptive cruise control, anti-lock brakes, in-dash navigation, ). All that and the quality (fit &amp; finish, reliability, durability) is hugely better.<p>A typical mid-market car of today would have been considered absurdly high quality and uber-luxurious in 1980. The difference is night and day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Too many new papers may mean novel ideas rarely rack up citations</title><url>http://blog.pnas.org/2021/10/is-scientific-progress-waning-too-many-new-papers-may-mean-novel-ideas-rarely-rack-up-citations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>I think it&#x27;s obviously waning if you look at any field that deals with physical world: a car from 1940 looks totally different than one from 1980&#x27;s, but the one from 2020 and 1980 looks almost the same.<p>Space rockets are same as they were in 80&#x27;s, where are nuclear engines, fusion propultion, etc?<p>Its the same for airplanes, appliances, and everything execept computers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Snowden&#x2F;status&#x2F;1451342274667876353?t=RO7_VrhNEv7nPFCPc20XSQ&amp;s=19" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Snowden&#x2F;status&#x2F;1451342274667876353?t=RO7...</a></text></item><item><author>supernovae</author><text>No, it isn&#x27;t waning. There are struggles, but that doesn&#x27;t mean its waning. We&#x27;re having massive progress in medicine, space, cosmology, environment, biology, food, transportation.<p>Hell, the only thing that&#x27;s waning is public perception of science and that seems to be a deliberate political attack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walls</author><text>Cars, planes, and rockets all have optimal shapes for their environment, of course they&#x27;re not going to change much once they get to that point.<p>Cars are still vastly different today than in the 80s in (at least) performance, efficiency, and safety.<p>Planes are also getting quite a bit better, although adoption of these planes is slow as most airlines want to get as much as they can out of the old fleet.[0]<p>SpaceX has been <i>landing</i> their rockets for several years now, and are about to take an even bigger step with Starship.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lapFQl6RezA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lapFQl6RezA</a></text></comment> |
2,547,787 | 2,547,434 | 1 | 2 | 2,547,254 | train | <story><title>Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Is-it-hard-to-build-market-and-maintain-a-web-app-that-makes-at-least-1000-a-month?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dotBen</author><text>Applying your startup skills to projects in the adult space will certainly help you wing your way to $1000/m v easily.<p>Big data/machine learning of all the meta data associated on tube sites, repurposing content for tablets, recommendation engines, social layers that are delineated/firewalled from the mainstream social graph, hosting/live streaming services for adult content -- are all opportunity spaces that come to mind.<p>Many of these projects can be kept on "life-support" and still bring in a healthy profit if set up correctly.<p><i>Please don't down-vote because it's porn - it's a legal and legitimate space</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesbritt</author><text><i>Many of these projects can be kept on "life-support" and still bring in a healthy profit if set up correctly.</i><p>How do you know this? I'm genuinely curious; is this reasonable speculation (but still speculation) or do you have some concrete evidence of this working for people?<p>What I've read lately about porn sites suggests that the days of easy money are gone, modulo a few outliers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Is-it-hard-to-build-market-and-maintain-a-web-app-that-makes-at-least-1000-a-month?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dotBen</author><text>Applying your startup skills to projects in the adult space will certainly help you wing your way to $1000/m v easily.<p>Big data/machine learning of all the meta data associated on tube sites, repurposing content for tablets, recommendation engines, social layers that are delineated/firewalled from the mainstream social graph, hosting/live streaming services for adult content -- are all opportunity spaces that come to mind.<p>Many of these projects can be kept on "life-support" and still bring in a healthy profit if set up correctly.<p><i>Please don't down-vote because it's porn - it's a legal and legitimate space</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>getsat</author><text>I've been wanting to build a niche video/picture site for a while (to deal with all the CDN/scaling issues involved myself), and I've also been looking for a project I can use this <i>Programming Collective Intelligence</i> book on.<p>Adult seems to be a good next project for me. The only initial unknown I can think of would be where content would come from unless it's user-supplied. Any other links/info/thoughts?</text></comment> |
9,831,369 | 9,830,878 | 1 | 2 | 9,830,531 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Silicon Valley Dictionary – Urban Dictionary Meets Silicon Valley</title><url>http://svdictionary.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bkjelden</author><text>10x Engineer: A developer who incurs technical debt so fast he appears more productive than the ten developers tasked with cleaning his mess up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Silicon Valley Dictionary – Urban Dictionary Meets Silicon Valley</title><url>http://svdictionary.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kilimchoi</author><text>Hi everyone, the other day while watching Silicon Valley TV show, my friend thought that it would be hilarious and educational to create a website like urban dictionary for all the lingos from the show. So we created one. Hope you enjoy it, feel free to add some words on the website and let us know what you think!</text></comment> |
21,918,591 | 21,917,969 | 1 | 2 | 21,917,505 | train | <story><title>Too Much Crypto [pdf]</title><url>https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>The point this paper is trying to make is that we should be using safety margins based on knowledge rather than perpetuating the numerology that&#x27;s been in-place to-date. The very same argument you&#x27;re making here can be made regarding switching to 512-bit keys. And heck, why not 1024-bit keys too. The fundamental point the paper is making is:<p>A) The key size &amp; number of rounds aren&#x27;t where the security issues are today
B) We have a sufficient margin of error and understand the space well-enough that we&#x27;re likely OK to use existing symmetric encryption with fewer rounds &amp; smaller key lengths.
C) If you&#x27;re a target of an attack the encryption keys are unlikely to present a significant challenge as attackers will choose easier alternate vectors.<p>I find the arguments pretty compelling especially when you consider A &amp; C.</text></item><item><author>dwheeler</author><text>I read it, I don&#x27;t buy it in general. In most use cases we need serious safety margins. Their &quot;attacks always get better&quot; section downplays serious issues.<p>First, it seems extreme hubris to think that something can&#x27;t ever be broken before the human race disappears. There are plenty of algorithms that <i>have</i> been broken over the years, and there is no mathematical proof that the current set are unbreakable. Sure, the algorithms they listed aren&#x27;t broken yet, but that&#x27;s a carefully crafted list. In any case, &quot;not broken yet&quot; is a far cry from &quot;unbreakable&quot;.<p>Another problem is that if a crypto algorithm is broken, there&#x27;s a significant risk that the users of the algorithm will not be informed until possibly decades later. Many countries dedicate serious resources to attack, and would want to exploit those advantages if they could find them.<p>Finally, if a major algorithm (e.g., AES) was broken, it would take many years (probably more than 10) to replace it. The reality is that software systems are often hard to upgrade. Yes, that&#x27;s a problem, but ignoring reality doesn&#x27;t make it go away.<p>The only solution we know of is to have large margins.<p>In the physical engineering world, where we have far better understanding (due to physical models), smart engineers include significant margins when designing things. In the crypto area, where we do <i>not</i> have good models showing that something cannot be broken <i>and</i> the impact of failure is large, it is wise to have much bigger margins.<p>I agree that sometimes cryptographers incorrectly ignore other attacks. And no matter what, impractical attacks are - by definition - impractical. But I think it&#x27;s wise to assume that attacks will get better, and we <i>cannot</i> reasonably predict how much better they&#x27;ll get over the years. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Margins also increase the likelihood of a break being partial, giving people time to switch to another algorithm.<p>In special cases, maybe the margin doesn&#x27;t need to be so big. But nobody likes dealing with special cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brandmeyer</author><text>&gt; The point this paper is trying to make is that we should be using safety margins based on knowledge rather than perpetuating the numerology that&#x27;s been in-place to-date.<p>Exactly. The point is that a fair A&#x2F;B speed comparison between competing ciphers should be normalizing both A and B to equivalent security margins. Instead, its been up to each individual cipher designer as to how many extra rounds should be used.<p>That said, I think the paper&#x27;s point would be clearer if they had written down a complete table of &quot;equivalent margin rounds&quot; holding each of the standards constant. Ie, how many rounds does ChaCha need to have equivalent margin to AES-128 at its specified number of rounds?</text></comment> | <story><title>Too Much Crypto [pdf]</title><url>https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>The point this paper is trying to make is that we should be using safety margins based on knowledge rather than perpetuating the numerology that&#x27;s been in-place to-date. The very same argument you&#x27;re making here can be made regarding switching to 512-bit keys. And heck, why not 1024-bit keys too. The fundamental point the paper is making is:<p>A) The key size &amp; number of rounds aren&#x27;t where the security issues are today
B) We have a sufficient margin of error and understand the space well-enough that we&#x27;re likely OK to use existing symmetric encryption with fewer rounds &amp; smaller key lengths.
C) If you&#x27;re a target of an attack the encryption keys are unlikely to present a significant challenge as attackers will choose easier alternate vectors.<p>I find the arguments pretty compelling especially when you consider A &amp; C.</text></item><item><author>dwheeler</author><text>I read it, I don&#x27;t buy it in general. In most use cases we need serious safety margins. Their &quot;attacks always get better&quot; section downplays serious issues.<p>First, it seems extreme hubris to think that something can&#x27;t ever be broken before the human race disappears. There are plenty of algorithms that <i>have</i> been broken over the years, and there is no mathematical proof that the current set are unbreakable. Sure, the algorithms they listed aren&#x27;t broken yet, but that&#x27;s a carefully crafted list. In any case, &quot;not broken yet&quot; is a far cry from &quot;unbreakable&quot;.<p>Another problem is that if a crypto algorithm is broken, there&#x27;s a significant risk that the users of the algorithm will not be informed until possibly decades later. Many countries dedicate serious resources to attack, and would want to exploit those advantages if they could find them.<p>Finally, if a major algorithm (e.g., AES) was broken, it would take many years (probably more than 10) to replace it. The reality is that software systems are often hard to upgrade. Yes, that&#x27;s a problem, but ignoring reality doesn&#x27;t make it go away.<p>The only solution we know of is to have large margins.<p>In the physical engineering world, where we have far better understanding (due to physical models), smart engineers include significant margins when designing things. In the crypto area, where we do <i>not</i> have good models showing that something cannot be broken <i>and</i> the impact of failure is large, it is wise to have much bigger margins.<p>I agree that sometimes cryptographers incorrectly ignore other attacks. And no matter what, impractical attacks are - by definition - impractical. But I think it&#x27;s wise to assume that attacks will get better, and we <i>cannot</i> reasonably predict how much better they&#x27;ll get over the years. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Margins also increase the likelihood of a break being partial, giving people time to switch to another algorithm.<p>In special cases, maybe the margin doesn&#x27;t need to be so big. But nobody likes dealing with special cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mr__y</author><text>A) debatable<p>B) very,very debatable, especially this piece: &quot;understand the space well-enough&quot;<p>C) I tend to agree, but then (especially with hardware-supported crypto) there is not much to be gained by reducing the number of rounds</text></comment> |
21,501,865 | 21,501,222 | 1 | 2 | 21,500,344 | train | <story><title>California’s Criminal Cops</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/10/californias-criminal-cops-convicted-but-stay-on-the-job/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffdavis</author><text>One thing weird to me about the gun debate is that it always seems to exclude police -- on duty or off, current or former -- and nobody questions that in the slightest.<p>For instance, California has a handgun roster. If a citizen buys a handgun, it needs to be on a special list. The last time a model was added was 2013 [1]. Supposedly it&#x27;s to make sure pistols are safe. But if you are a police officer, go ahead and buy a 2019 model! In fact, go ahead and buy a 2019 model, and then sell it for 2X to a normal citizen, if you want. A good side business!<p>How does any part of that make sense?<p>I guess the theory is that officers are well-trained and responsible, but where is the evidence of that? And why can&#x27;t anyone else take the same magical steps to show their worthiness?<p>[1] Due largely to the &quot;microstamping&quot; requirememt, which is impractical to meet, but required for new models (some very minor variants are still allowed without microstamping). See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Microstamping" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Microstamping</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solidsnack9000</author><text>Many gun control advocates see removing guns from private hands as a first step towards disarming the police. This is often couched in terms of a comparison with British policing: the argument is that British police are not as afraid, so don&#x27;t engage in excessive force as often, because there aren&#x27;t guns around that could be used to kill them.<p>However, most American police and sheriff&#x27;s departments tend to support gun ownership. Maybe because they are as aware as anyone of the saying: &quot;When seconds count, police are only minutes away.&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>California’s Criminal Cops</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/10/californias-criminal-cops-convicted-but-stay-on-the-job/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffdavis</author><text>One thing weird to me about the gun debate is that it always seems to exclude police -- on duty or off, current or former -- and nobody questions that in the slightest.<p>For instance, California has a handgun roster. If a citizen buys a handgun, it needs to be on a special list. The last time a model was added was 2013 [1]. Supposedly it&#x27;s to make sure pistols are safe. But if you are a police officer, go ahead and buy a 2019 model! In fact, go ahead and buy a 2019 model, and then sell it for 2X to a normal citizen, if you want. A good side business!<p>How does any part of that make sense?<p>I guess the theory is that officers are well-trained and responsible, but where is the evidence of that? And why can&#x27;t anyone else take the same magical steps to show their worthiness?<p>[1] Due largely to the &quot;microstamping&quot; requirememt, which is impractical to meet, but required for new models (some very minor variants are still allowed without microstamping). See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Microstamping" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Microstamping</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huffmsa</author><text>All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.<p>It&#x27;s just the way things are when you &quot;trust the government&quot; to work in your best interest.<p>If you&#x27;re not on them like stink on a turd, they&#x27;ll go tyrannical</text></comment> |
21,014,876 | 21,014,756 | 1 | 2 | 21,013,021 | train | <story><title>Linux Terminal Goods</title><url>http://diego-pacheco.blogspot.com/2019/09/linux-terminal-goods.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wiz21c</author><text>I&#x27;ve just skimmed around it as someone who repeatedly need that kind of book to achieve little things in bash.<p>I understand bash is the basis of so many things, that its importance is just enormous.<p>But at the same time, I&#x27;m appalled by its syntax, idioms, etc. It&#x27;s barely readable for the casual reader that I am. I wonder why nobody tries to provide a meaningful alternative. I&#x27;ve seen some (in python for example) but I&#x27;m kind of surprised nobody puts more money in such an effort.<p>For example, the &quot;trim string&quot; function described at the beginning of the book is horrible (although probably very clever). Why not simply provide a built in function ? That would make code so much cleaner...<p>I ask the question honestly, it&#x27;s not a rant :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Generally if you&#x27;re trying to do something that feels like a &quot;program&quot; in shell script, rather than loosely gluing existing tools together, the threshold for moving it into Perl or Python should be low. Even things like trying to get the quoting right for lists of files some of which may have spaces in their names is fiddly enough to drive people to writing a &quot;proper&quot; program.<p>(or was this comment intended for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21013150" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21013150</a> )</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux Terminal Goods</title><url>http://diego-pacheco.blogspot.com/2019/09/linux-terminal-goods.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wiz21c</author><text>I&#x27;ve just skimmed around it as someone who repeatedly need that kind of book to achieve little things in bash.<p>I understand bash is the basis of so many things, that its importance is just enormous.<p>But at the same time, I&#x27;m appalled by its syntax, idioms, etc. It&#x27;s barely readable for the casual reader that I am. I wonder why nobody tries to provide a meaningful alternative. I&#x27;ve seen some (in python for example) but I&#x27;m kind of surprised nobody puts more money in such an effort.<p>For example, the &quot;trim string&quot; function described at the beginning of the book is horrible (although probably very clever). Why not simply provide a built in function ? That would make code so much cleaner...<p>I ask the question honestly, it&#x27;s not a rant :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orev</author><text>Shells are made for people to interact with, not for programming. They happen to also be useful for programming, so many things have been added on over time to support that.<p>Shell scripting is also the least painful way to call many external programs and glue them together into something useful. Calling external programs from “real” programming languages is far more painful.<p>If you need a real programming language, as you mentioned, use something designed for that.</text></comment> |
37,331,392 | 37,330,558 | 1 | 2 | 37,323,727 | train | <story><title>The End of the Googleverse</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/23846048/google-search-memes-images-pagerank-altavista-seo-keywords</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taylodl</author><text>I still remember the day when I read the Slashdot article announcing this new incredible search engine called Google. I was an AltaVista user at the time, along with most IT professionals, and for those who don&#x27;t know, it essentially had its own search query language. The claim was Google returned back even <i>better</i> results WITHOUT having to specify all those query parameters.<p>I tried it - it was unbelievable! A simple search box, type in your keyword(s) you&#x27;re interested in, no query syntax and - voila! Good, relevant results! It was simply amazing! AltaVista essentially died overnight.<p>But really, Google&#x27;s biggest technology was AdSense. It&#x27;s how they make their money. It&#x27;s why all their other services, save for gmail and google docs, have come and gone. Search has become less and less relevant in today&#x27;s world. But there was a time when it seemed magical!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigger_cheese</author><text>In the Pre-google days of the internet you used to have to play &quot;search engine bingo&quot; to find useful results I remember jumping between Lycos, Metacrawler, Altavista and Infoseek and it was still a coin flip if you would get useful results.<p>Search engines used to require you to use Boolean operators &quot;+&quot; &quot;AND&quot; &quot;OR&quot; &quot;NOT&quot; to filter search results. My high school library had a laminated card next to the internet connected PC (via dial up modem) explaining how Boolean operators worked and with suggested search engines to use (this was around 1996&#x2F;1997).<p>The eye opener to me was my high school class was given an assignment to write about the upcoming &quot;G8 Summit&quot;, Russia had just joined the G7 creating the G8 and it was a big news story at the time. I can remember how frustrating it was to find any results searching for things required constructing strings like &quot;G+8+Summit OR Group+of+8+Summit&quot;etc in sites like infoseek and still getting nonsense results. I found the information I needed to complete the assignment by going to public library which had copies of various daily newspapers archived I basically quoted newspaper articles to complete the assignment and concluded the internet was useless for finding information. I complained about my situation at home and my Dad Casually mentioned have you tried &quot;google.com&quot; next ay at school I typed &quot;G8 Summit&quot; into google and immediately got relevant results. I was a convert to google immediately it was so far ahead of every other search engine at the time it was like night and day.</text></comment> | <story><title>The End of the Googleverse</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/23846048/google-search-memes-images-pagerank-altavista-seo-keywords</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taylodl</author><text>I still remember the day when I read the Slashdot article announcing this new incredible search engine called Google. I was an AltaVista user at the time, along with most IT professionals, and for those who don&#x27;t know, it essentially had its own search query language. The claim was Google returned back even <i>better</i> results WITHOUT having to specify all those query parameters.<p>I tried it - it was unbelievable! A simple search box, type in your keyword(s) you&#x27;re interested in, no query syntax and - voila! Good, relevant results! It was simply amazing! AltaVista essentially died overnight.<p>But really, Google&#x27;s biggest technology was AdSense. It&#x27;s how they make their money. It&#x27;s why all their other services, save for gmail and google docs, have come and gone. Search has become less and less relevant in today&#x27;s world. But there was a time when it seemed magical!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperthesis</author><text>The basic ad auction idea came from goto.com&#x2F;Overture <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publishing2.scottkarp.ai&#x2F;2008&#x2F;05&#x2F;27&#x2F;google-adwords-a-brief-history-of-online-advertising-innovation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publishing2.scottkarp.ai&#x2F;2008&#x2F;05&#x2F;27&#x2F;google-adwords-a...</a> Strangely difficult to find info on this.</text></comment> |
17,710,833 | 17,711,064 | 1 | 3 | 17,709,068 | train | <story><title>Musk mulls taking Tesla private, Saudi sovereign fund builds $2B stake</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-07/tesla-jumps-on-report-of-saudis-building-about-2-billion-stake</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radicalbyte</author><text>All of that is moot if it&#x27;s the Saudi government buying in.<p>Tesla are by far the most advanced of all &quot;green&quot; car manufacturers; over the next 7-12 years there will be countries banning petrol&#x2F;diesel cars.<p>If Tesla can scale their battery and car production by that time then you could be looking at a market share of Apple proportions.</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Honestly, I&#x27;m starting to think this is less about avoiding the public markets and more about getting out of the crushing debt (8.65 in liabilities comming due before the end of March 2019)that they have coming due in March of 2019.<p>The billion of debt coming due is convertible above a price of $360 and if he can keep the price propped up will almost certainly force all bond holders to convert into equity holders.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4191711-tesla-stealth-capital-raise?ifp=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4191711-tesla-stealth-capit...</a><p>I mean, think about this rationally, if it wasn&#x27;t for the public markets Tesla would already be bankrupt. Going private means giving up this access to capital as well as having to come up with 9 Billion to fund debt commind due.<p>With stock you have something to bargain with when selling debt. Without it you&#x27;ve lost a huge weapon.<p>Same for paying your employee&#x27;s. No more tesla stock that appreciates each quarter that you can sell as soon as it comes to you.<p>Also just did some digging on Tesla bonds and CDS...<p>At current levels, they imply a about a 30% chance of a Tesla default in the next five years. It costs around $1.3 million to insure $10 million of bonds against default.<p>And if Tesla went private and he funded it with debt he&#x27;s looking at a rate somewhere around the low teens from what Bloomberg is reporting which means borrowing $58 Billion to finance this would cost aroudn $7.1 Billion a year in interest payments at 12.5%.<p>And keep in mind he&#x27;s paying that to cut off public markets access for raising money, one of his best sources of cheap capital in the past 5 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>&gt; over the next 7-12 years there will be countries banning petrol&#x2F;diesel cars<p>I do not think so. At most, in that timeframe we will see countries starting to ban sales of new cars which are not plug-in hybrids or better. And then remember the average lifespan of a car today is ~20 years, you will still see old pure petrol cars on the roads in 2050 is my bet. Just like you still see old cars on the road today without any catalytic converters.<p>If you look at the electric car market today, you have lots of small cars with reasonable-ish range, one sedan with good range and two pretend-SUVs (Model X and I-pace) with good range.<p>No manufacturer anywhere makes a pure electric estate car (station wagon); this is the most popular type of car in Europe. Nobody makes an electric pickup; this is the most popular type of car in the US. Nobody makes an actual SUV, Ford Expedition&#x2F;Toyota LandCruiser&#x2F;etc. style that can fit four mountain bikes in the trunk and tow a 9000 lbs trailer. Nobody makes an electric commercial vehicles of the type electricians, plumbers etc. drive.<p>What do all these have in common? Inherently terrible aerodynamics &#x2F; poor mileage and a relatively frequent need to go long distance trips. If you take current battery tech and do some optimistic extrapolation of future developments, you still end up with battery packs costing $50k+ and weighing several thousand pounds. Which isn&#x27;t going to work anywhere, nobody is going to buy an $80k+ electric pickup when a diesel F150 starts below $30k.<p>But I do think we will see reasonable plug-in hybrid versions of these car types. And Tesla will never be building cars with internal combustion engines, so they&#x27;re effectively locked out of what I believe will be the biggest part of the market.</text></comment> | <story><title>Musk mulls taking Tesla private, Saudi sovereign fund builds $2B stake</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-07/tesla-jumps-on-report-of-saudis-building-about-2-billion-stake</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radicalbyte</author><text>All of that is moot if it&#x27;s the Saudi government buying in.<p>Tesla are by far the most advanced of all &quot;green&quot; car manufacturers; over the next 7-12 years there will be countries banning petrol&#x2F;diesel cars.<p>If Tesla can scale their battery and car production by that time then you could be looking at a market share of Apple proportions.</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Honestly, I&#x27;m starting to think this is less about avoiding the public markets and more about getting out of the crushing debt (8.65 in liabilities comming due before the end of March 2019)that they have coming due in March of 2019.<p>The billion of debt coming due is convertible above a price of $360 and if he can keep the price propped up will almost certainly force all bond holders to convert into equity holders.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4191711-tesla-stealth-capital-raise?ifp=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4191711-tesla-stealth-capit...</a><p>I mean, think about this rationally, if it wasn&#x27;t for the public markets Tesla would already be bankrupt. Going private means giving up this access to capital as well as having to come up with 9 Billion to fund debt commind due.<p>With stock you have something to bargain with when selling debt. Without it you&#x27;ve lost a huge weapon.<p>Same for paying your employee&#x27;s. No more tesla stock that appreciates each quarter that you can sell as soon as it comes to you.<p>Also just did some digging on Tesla bonds and CDS...<p>At current levels, they imply a about a 30% chance of a Tesla default in the next five years. It costs around $1.3 million to insure $10 million of bonds against default.<p>And if Tesla went private and he funded it with debt he&#x27;s looking at a rate somewhere around the low teens from what Bloomberg is reporting which means borrowing $58 Billion to finance this would cost aroudn $7.1 Billion a year in interest payments at 12.5%.<p>And keep in mind he&#x27;s paying that to cut off public markets access for raising money, one of his best sources of cheap capital in the past 5 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>&gt;Tesla are by far the most advanced of all &quot;green&quot; car manufacturers<p>Are they? I don&#x27;t follow these things closely and I didn&#x27;t realize that it was the case, I always thought that Musk&#x27;s great idea was not so much technical superiority but rather aiming for the super high end and market an electric &quot;luxury&quot; car niche. How far ahead are they compared to, say, Toyota who&#x27;s been making hybrid vehicles for a while now?<p>I also think your timeframe might be slightly optimistic, I can&#x27;t really imagine a large western country banning internal combustion cars within the next 12 years, much less developping countries. I hope you&#x27;re right though, I want to live in a world where ICEs are in museums.</text></comment> |
36,934,551 | 36,933,910 | 1 | 3 | 36,933,028 | train | <story><title>Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback</title><url>https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2023/05/02/1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InvaderFizz</author><text>Glad to see this finally come to fruition.<p>This has been an issue plaguing Alpine for years where the musl maintainer basically said the standard says may fallback, not must fallback. Let the rest of the internet change, we don&#x27;t feel this is important. We&#x27;re standards complainant.<p>It gained traction for the change with the latest RFC. for dns last year which made TCP fallback mandatory [0]. The cloak of standards compliant could no longer be used.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc9210" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc9210</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>Once I started reading about these issues a few years ago, I stopped using Alpine as a container base image, and started using Debian (the &#x27;debian-slim&#x27; variant). Slim is still larger than Alpine, but not by a lot, and does contain some extra functionality in the base image that&#x27;s useful for debugging (most of which can be fairly easily removed for security hardening). Debugging random DNS issues is difficult enough; there&#x27;s no need to make it harder by using intentionally-faulty software.<p>While I wouldn&#x27;t call myself a fan of Postel&#x27;s Law (I think &quot;being liberal with what you accept&quot; can allow others to get away with sloppy implementations over long time periods, diluting the usefulness of standards and specifications), I think at some point you have to recognize the reality of how things are implemented in the real world, and that refusing to conform to the de-facto standard hurts your users.<p>The fact that the maintainer only caved because the TCP fallback behavior is finally being made mandatory, and not because he&#x27;s (very belatedly) recognizing he&#x27;s harming his users with his stubbornness, also speaks volumes... and not in a good way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback</title><url>https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2023/05/02/1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InvaderFizz</author><text>Glad to see this finally come to fruition.<p>This has been an issue plaguing Alpine for years where the musl maintainer basically said the standard says may fallback, not must fallback. Let the rest of the internet change, we don&#x27;t feel this is important. We&#x27;re standards complainant.<p>It gained traction for the change with the latest RFC. for dns last year which made TCP fallback mandatory [0]. The cloak of standards compliant could no longer be used.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc9210" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc9210</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LexiMax</author><text>&gt; This has been an issue plaguing Alpine for years where the musl maintainer basically said the standard says may fallback, not must fallback. Let the rest of the internet change, we don&#x27;t feel this is important. We&#x27;re standards complainant.<p>I&#x27;ve never really understood the underlying mentality that causes maintainers to bend over backwards to _not_ provide popular functionality like this.<p>Reminds me a bit of the strlcpy&#x2F;strlcat debacle with glibc.</text></comment> |
24,413,356 | 24,413,304 | 1 | 3 | 24,412,810 | train | <story><title>Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-countersues-fortnite-maker-epic-games-seeking-to-halt-in-app-payments-11599592017</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>Apple writes in their court filing: “Epic sought to enjoy all of the benefits of Apple’s iOS platform and related services while its ‘hotfix’ lined Epic’s pockets at Apple’s expense.”<p>It seems that Apple has forgotten that each iPhone user already paid Apple hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars for the iPhone itself. It is reasonable to charge developers for development tools, but if that&#x27;s what you want to do, just charge them for development tools. Meanwhile, I bought an iPhone so that I can run the software that I like. If it costs money to develop a platform, it doesn&#x27;t seem that strange to just charge that upfront when someone buys an iPhone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Traster</author><text>&gt; It is reasonable to charge developers for development tools, but if that&#x27;s what you want to do, just charge them for development tools.<p>This isn&#x27;t how the software development eco-system works. There are <i>tonnes</i> of examples of providing free development tools with restrictions on use and revenue sharing agreements. For example, there&#x27;s this little known company called Epic Games which provides the Unreal Engine for free- but with the following clause:<p>&gt; This license is free to use and incurs 5% royalties when you monetize your game or other interactive off-the-shelf product and your lifetime gross revenues from that product exceed $1,000,000 USD.<p>And Epic doesn&#x27;t even provide quality control, a discovery mechanism, or payment processing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-countersues-fortnite-maker-epic-games-seeking-to-halt-in-app-payments-11599592017</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>Apple writes in their court filing: “Epic sought to enjoy all of the benefits of Apple’s iOS platform and related services while its ‘hotfix’ lined Epic’s pockets at Apple’s expense.”<p>It seems that Apple has forgotten that each iPhone user already paid Apple hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars for the iPhone itself. It is reasonable to charge developers for development tools, but if that&#x27;s what you want to do, just charge them for development tools. Meanwhile, I bought an iPhone so that I can run the software that I like. If it costs money to develop a platform, it doesn&#x27;t seem that strange to just charge that upfront when someone buys an iPhone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noahtallen</author><text> &gt; just charge them for development tools<p>Thing is, Apple still charges $100 USD per year for a developer license which lets you distribute your app, so this is already happening! :)</text></comment> |
16,618,047 | 16,618,143 | 1 | 2 | 16,617,136 | train | <story><title>An Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin [pdf]</title><url>https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VMG</author><text>The data embedded in the blockchain can only be extracted using custom tools.<p>Custom tools can be used to extract any data from almost any other kind of other data, using steganography. You can extract illegal data from innocuous looking tweets, using the right tools.</text></item><item><author>ddalex</author><text>So the obvious bit here is that an adversarial actor can poison the blockchain with bits that make downloading, storing and processing the blockchain a highly illegal act.<p>This may have a chilling effect on participating in the network, thus reducing the number of nodes, and undermining the trust on the blockchain and in the coin because the reduced requirement of computing power needed to mutate the blockchain.<p>Accordingly a determined actor with enough resources (e.g. a nation-state) can render the bitcoin value-less and use-less at will....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaarn</author><text>If the extraction tools do not exceed the cryptographic complexity of a OTP cipher, I doubt that any court will accept that excuse.<p>It&#x27;s the difference between taking random bits of your computer to assemble illegal content vs taking one specific set of bits and applying mere transforms to then to retrieve illegal content.</text></comment> | <story><title>An Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin [pdf]</title><url>https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VMG</author><text>The data embedded in the blockchain can only be extracted using custom tools.<p>Custom tools can be used to extract any data from almost any other kind of other data, using steganography. You can extract illegal data from innocuous looking tweets, using the right tools.</text></item><item><author>ddalex</author><text>So the obvious bit here is that an adversarial actor can poison the blockchain with bits that make downloading, storing and processing the blockchain a highly illegal act.<p>This may have a chilling effect on participating in the network, thus reducing the number of nodes, and undermining the trust on the blockchain and in the coin because the reduced requirement of computing power needed to mutate the blockchain.<p>Accordingly a determined actor with enough resources (e.g. a nation-state) can render the bitcoin value-less and use-less at will....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arcticfox</author><text>That&#x27;s a bit of a stretch. There&#x27;s no reason to obfuscate anything (unless miners are actively and intentionally censoring content) and it&#x27;d be straightforward to make a browser.<p>For example, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a defense for the owner of a website to say &quot;this horrible illegal content I&#x27;m sharing is only accessible via a custom tool that downloads and decodes image data from me...such as a web browser.&quot;</text></comment> |
30,221,456 | 30,221,471 | 1 | 3 | 30,220,801 | train | <story><title>Burgeoning bike cities emerge across America</title><url>https://www.axios.com/burgeoning-biking-cities-america-298240b8-913e-4c59-8da3-8ea0167bbf54.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keeganjw</author><text>I will say, not all bike lanes are created equal. In the Netherlands, a lot of bike lanes are built as proper infrastructure. They&#x27;re separated with a curb, nicely paved, free of debris, heck they often have their own traffic lights. In many US cities, they just slap some paint on the ground and call it good.<p>Having ridden on both types, the Dutch style bike lane feels much safer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>knolan</author><text>Paint is not infrastructure. I regularly cycle to work clocking up about 200km a week. Entitlement, aggression and abuse by motorists has a major impact on the numbers of people cycling. Segregated cycle routes are essential.</text></comment> | <story><title>Burgeoning bike cities emerge across America</title><url>https://www.axios.com/burgeoning-biking-cities-america-298240b8-913e-4c59-8da3-8ea0167bbf54.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keeganjw</author><text>I will say, not all bike lanes are created equal. In the Netherlands, a lot of bike lanes are built as proper infrastructure. They&#x27;re separated with a curb, nicely paved, free of debris, heck they often have their own traffic lights. In many US cities, they just slap some paint on the ground and call it good.<p>Having ridden on both types, the Dutch style bike lane feels much safer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walleeee</author><text>Bike lanes in the US can be pretty haphazard, in many cases they&#x27;re sprinkled discontinuously around the area like a tease<p>it almost feels more dangerous to merge into and out of motor traffic at every other intersection</text></comment> |
29,006,270 | 29,005,776 | 1 | 2 | 29,004,006 | train | <story><title>SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-021-00779-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cronix</author><text>Let&#x27;s just say it was &quot;on par&quot; with a vaccine for the sake of argument, even if it is suggested it might be better&#x2F;work more broadly. Is there a scientific reason, as opposed to political, why this would not exempt one from a mandated vaccine?</text></item><item><author>armagon</author><text>I think it is due to politics that you don&#x27;t hear this discussed; seemingly, nuance makes it more difficult to convey a message. The number of people who are known to have been infected is not insignificant, and the number who have been infected but it isn&#x27;t known is much higher. (I thought estimated were that at least 4x as many people have had Covid as show up in the published results).<p>There is every reason to expect that natural immunity (derived from a previous infection) is better (than that conferred by a vaccine), simply because the immune system will recognize the entire virus and not just the spike cell.<p>This pre-print paper (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.08.24.21262415v1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.08.24.21262415v...</a>) concludes:<p>&quot;This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity. Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.&quot;<p>If having pre-delta covid made it more likely that your immune system could face delta, then I think it would stand true for other variants, too.</text></item><item><author>cronix</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s only a small portion of those receiving the AZ vaccine whose serum had no significant activity against A.30-- all of those with the mRNA vaccine did and most of those receiving AZ did.<p>How about those that received no vaccine, but have previously recovered from Covid? Is it an insignificant number because I rarely hear it discussed.</text></item><item><author>mlyle</author><text>It&#x27;s also worth noting that the most people still had antibodies effective against A.30-- just not <i>as</i> effective. So the existing antibody response would be expected to slow infection and then the body is primed to broaden the variety and quantity of antibodies after infection.<p>It&#x27;s only a small portion of those receiving the AZ vaccine whose serum had no significant activity against A.30-- all of those with the mRNA vaccine did and most of those receiving AZ did.</text></item><item><author>jjtheblunt</author><text>I think these headlines, possibly purposefully, overlook the possibility that vaccine antibodies eased acquisition of infection induced antibodies to the point of being subclinical events.<p>That is, a vaccinated person could be exposed to a variant for which they are partially protected, not notice clinical symptoms, while the person&#x27;s immune system still remembers the details of the variant.<p>As an iterative process, this is akin to software updates (for a running immune system).<p>So to say that variant A.30 isn&#x27;t covered by the mRNA induced spike protein antibodies is a very different statement than to say it&#x27;s able to evade an immune system primed by mRNA antibodies which then re-entered daily life and thereby was able to continuously adapt to variants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maccam94</author><text>Most people in the US who have contracted COVID-19 don&#x27;t have proof of it. Vaccinating everyone is cheaper and more consistent than trying to build out mass testing infrastructure. Plus if you can convince people to show up for a test, it&#x27;s better to just vaccinate them. Tests can come back negative, or give false positives, in which case those people still won&#x27;t have immunity, but the benefits of the vaccine are pretty well understood. AFAIK it&#x27;s more of an issue of ensuring public safety and efficiency than whether your immune system produced good enough antibodies from an infection.</text></comment> | <story><title>SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-021-00779-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cronix</author><text>Let&#x27;s just say it was &quot;on par&quot; with a vaccine for the sake of argument, even if it is suggested it might be better&#x2F;work more broadly. Is there a scientific reason, as opposed to political, why this would not exempt one from a mandated vaccine?</text></item><item><author>armagon</author><text>I think it is due to politics that you don&#x27;t hear this discussed; seemingly, nuance makes it more difficult to convey a message. The number of people who are known to have been infected is not insignificant, and the number who have been infected but it isn&#x27;t known is much higher. (I thought estimated were that at least 4x as many people have had Covid as show up in the published results).<p>There is every reason to expect that natural immunity (derived from a previous infection) is better (than that conferred by a vaccine), simply because the immune system will recognize the entire virus and not just the spike cell.<p>This pre-print paper (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.08.24.21262415v1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.08.24.21262415v...</a>) concludes:<p>&quot;This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity. Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.&quot;<p>If having pre-delta covid made it more likely that your immune system could face delta, then I think it would stand true for other variants, too.</text></item><item><author>cronix</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s only a small portion of those receiving the AZ vaccine whose serum had no significant activity against A.30-- all of those with the mRNA vaccine did and most of those receiving AZ did.<p>How about those that received no vaccine, but have previously recovered from Covid? Is it an insignificant number because I rarely hear it discussed.</text></item><item><author>mlyle</author><text>It&#x27;s also worth noting that the most people still had antibodies effective against A.30-- just not <i>as</i> effective. So the existing antibody response would be expected to slow infection and then the body is primed to broaden the variety and quantity of antibodies after infection.<p>It&#x27;s only a small portion of those receiving the AZ vaccine whose serum had no significant activity against A.30-- all of those with the mRNA vaccine did and most of those receiving AZ did.</text></item><item><author>jjtheblunt</author><text>I think these headlines, possibly purposefully, overlook the possibility that vaccine antibodies eased acquisition of infection induced antibodies to the point of being subclinical events.<p>That is, a vaccinated person could be exposed to a variant for which they are partially protected, not notice clinical symptoms, while the person&#x27;s immune system still remembers the details of the variant.<p>As an iterative process, this is akin to software updates (for a running immune system).<p>So to say that variant A.30 isn&#x27;t covered by the mRNA induced spike protein antibodies is a very different statement than to say it&#x27;s able to evade an immune system primed by mRNA antibodies which then re-entered daily life and thereby was able to continuously adapt to variants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caconym_</author><text>Since initial infectious doses and peak viral loads seem to vary wildly in people who&#x27;ve been infected, I would speculate that it&#x27;s much easier to quantify vaccine-induced immunity in a public health context relative to so-called &quot;natural immunity&quot;, since those initial variables can be tightly controlled. This is a practical matter for making consistent and effective public health policy, as well as a scientific matter (viz. establishing the relative effectiveness of various forms of immunity for diverse and uncertain infection scenarios). Experts in public health and&#x2F;or infectious diseases, epidemiology, etc. may feel free to correct me if I&#x27;m substantially incorrect.<p>However, for people who see the world through a lens that paints all public health policy with the brush of partisan politics, the distinction may be difficult to grasp.</text></comment> |
20,932,544 | 20,932,316 | 1 | 2 | 20,931,512 | train | <story><title>Bring Back the SE</title><url>https://avc.com/2019/09/bring-back-the-se/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>Every year I wait on bated breath at the release of a similarly compact phone to the SE. I even recently bought a new one right before they removed them from the store, so I have 2 year apple care+ for it to tide me over.<p>Ordinarily I would vote with my wallet, but there are no compact Android phones either.<p>Ironically I still own a Oneplus One which is quite old by todays standards; and I distinctly remember it being called a &quot;Phablet&quot; due to it&#x27;s obtuse stature in comparison to its contemporaries. However it would not look out of place today, in fact in comparison to my friends iPhone Xs (not max) it hardly seems at all larger!<p>I would merrily slam down 1K+ EUR for a real flagship phone at a size I can actually use.<p>(also, I wonder how women get on, since generally they have smaller hands than men.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aczerepinski</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t even call the SE compact. It&#x27;s just normal. It&#x27;s the size that Steve Jobs said fits comfortably in your hand, and since hand sizes haven&#x27;t changed, it&#x27;s still true today.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bring Back the SE</title><url>https://avc.com/2019/09/bring-back-the-se/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>Every year I wait on bated breath at the release of a similarly compact phone to the SE. I even recently bought a new one right before they removed them from the store, so I have 2 year apple care+ for it to tide me over.<p>Ordinarily I would vote with my wallet, but there are no compact Android phones either.<p>Ironically I still own a Oneplus One which is quite old by todays standards; and I distinctly remember it being called a &quot;Phablet&quot; due to it&#x27;s obtuse stature in comparison to its contemporaries. However it would not look out of place today, in fact in comparison to my friends iPhone Xs (not max) it hardly seems at all larger!<p>I would merrily slam down 1K+ EUR for a real flagship phone at a size I can actually use.<p>(also, I wonder how women get on, since generally they have smaller hands than men.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sramsay</author><text>A thousand times this. My absolute number one requirement (after things like, um, the ability to make phone calls) is that it fit in my front-left pocket. I didn&#x27;t upgrade to the last model for this reason and no other.<p>But I can only assume that Apple does plenty of market research on their products, so I assume people aren&#x27;t checking off &quot;the thing is too damn big&quot; under &quot;reasons I didn&#x27;t upgrade?&quot;</text></comment> |
9,537,021 | 9,537,116 | 1 | 3 | 9,536,193 | train | <story><title>Inspiration vs. Imitation</title><url>http://cushionapp.com/journal/inspiration-vs-imitation</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Vaskerville</author><text>A similar thing happened to me years ago. I had a project that surprisingly became a bit popular and there were two competitor projects that ripped on the work.<p>The first one ripped our entire site and simply changed all the texts slightly, and also the look of our system. But, it was oddly different code - why copy the look completely (including our graphics) if you are going to write a new system?<p>The second one, done by a somewhat semi-famous person at the time, copied our minimal, custom forum. I have no idea how much work that must have been to port Vanilla to look like ours. Friends asked me if I had joined their team which is how I found out.<p>I never publicly said anything which chewed me up for a really long time. Both of those projects failed long ago. A copycat likely also won&#x27;t know how to do other things for themselves and you can bet that they won&#x27;t know how to execute their project when things get serious.<p>Cushionapp, you&#x27;re doing it right. Make your app as innovative and unique as you can and just keep doing your thing. Never bother looking at their site&#x2F;app again...</text></comment> | <story><title>Inspiration vs. Imitation</title><url>http://cushionapp.com/journal/inspiration-vs-imitation</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>krat0sprakhar</author><text>I&#x27;ll agree with the others here - you&#x27;ve shown an exceptional attitude in dealing with this situation. I&#x27;m rooting for your app to do really well.<p>As an aside, this is first time I visited the blog and I have to say that the way you&#x27;ve been open about the product development &amp; expenses[0] is truly amazing. Just by skimming over the list, I found a couple of great tools that I could use for my projects. When (if?) I ever build a SAAS app, your blog is where I&#x27;m coming straight back to.<p>&gt; but this community is built on sharing what we know.<p>Thank you for living up to this. You, my friend, are doing a great service to the community. Wishing you all the best.<p>[0] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cushionapp.com&#x2F;expenses&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cushionapp.com&#x2F;expenses&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
40,108,806 | 40,108,647 | 1 | 3 | 40,107,787 | train | <story><title>Lossless Acceleration of LLM via Adaptive N-Gram Parallel Decoding</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08698</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kristjansson</author><text>This is speculative decoding with a n-gram Markov chain instead of a weaker transformer model in the “speculating” position.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lossless Acceleration of LLM via Adaptive N-Gram Parallel Decoding</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08698</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nsagent</author><text>How does this differ from the 2018 NeurIPS paper, Blockwise Parallel Decoding for Deep Autoregressive Models?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1811.03115" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1811.03115</a></text></comment> |
6,249,099 | 6,248,398 | 1 | 3 | 6,247,552 | train | <story><title>Soylent: What Happened When I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks</title><url>http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2013/08/20/soylent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jurassic</author><text>What&#x27;s the big deal? What this guy is eating already is definitely above average in quality. A Chipotle burrito bol (fresh whole ingredients, sans tortilla) is a legit meal. Other than dental impacts from the carbonation, health hysteria about diet soda and aspartame has been debunked. I don&#x27;t know about the take-out Thai, but at least it&#x27;s real food and not some preservative-laden packaged food product from the grocery store. Not everybody has 5 hours a day or a stay-at-home wife to cook their Whole Foods organic produce into a masterpiece of nutrition.</text></item><item><author>cup</author><text>Soylent aside, im amazed at how terrible his traditional normal days meal is? I mean hes eating a processed breakfast subsitute in the morning, take away mexican food with a soft drink for lunch and more take away for dinner.<p>You don&#x27;t need to be a nutritionist to know thats going to have a terrible impact on his life later down the track.<p>Postnote: Now that Ive read the whole article, I wonder if all the benefits he attributes to Soylent could actually be attributed to cutting so much crap out of his diet?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsynnott</author><text>&gt; Not everybody has 5 hours a day or a stay-at-home wife to cook their Whole Foods organic produce into a masterpiece of nutrition.<p>I&#x27;m guessing from this that you&#x27;ve never cooked in your life?<p>(Hint: Pretty much nobody cooks five hours a day unless it is their job. I mostly cook for myself, and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever really spent more than 30 minutes of active work on it).</text></comment> | <story><title>Soylent: What Happened When I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks</title><url>http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2013/08/20/soylent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jurassic</author><text>What&#x27;s the big deal? What this guy is eating already is definitely above average in quality. A Chipotle burrito bol (fresh whole ingredients, sans tortilla) is a legit meal. Other than dental impacts from the carbonation, health hysteria about diet soda and aspartame has been debunked. I don&#x27;t know about the take-out Thai, but at least it&#x27;s real food and not some preservative-laden packaged food product from the grocery store. Not everybody has 5 hours a day or a stay-at-home wife to cook their Whole Foods organic produce into a masterpiece of nutrition.</text></item><item><author>cup</author><text>Soylent aside, im amazed at how terrible his traditional normal days meal is? I mean hes eating a processed breakfast subsitute in the morning, take away mexican food with a soft drink for lunch and more take away for dinner.<p>You don&#x27;t need to be a nutritionist to know thats going to have a terrible impact on his life later down the track.<p>Postnote: Now that Ive read the whole article, I wonder if all the benefits he attributes to Soylent could actually be attributed to cutting so much crap out of his diet?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>obstacle1</author><text>One burrito bowl can contain something like 75% of your daily sodium intake. The calorie:vitamin ratio is also terrible.<p>Go play around with their nutrition calculator [1]. It&#x27;s fast food.<p>[1] - <a href="http://www.chipotle.com/en-us/menu/nutrition_calculator/nutrition_calculator.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chipotle.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;menu&#x2F;nutrition_calculator&#x2F;nutr...</a></text></comment> |
27,862,313 | 27,860,393 | 1 | 2 | 27,859,413 | train | <story><title>Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions</title><url>https://techpolicy.press/voice-clone-of-anthony-bourdain-prompts-synthetic-media-ethics-questions/?mc_cid=f76836fe27&mc_eid=4336df8131</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hellbannedguy</author><text>Out of all the celebrities, Bourdain would have viscerally despised this.<p>He hated fake phoney people, or food.<p>He hated when his production crew would stovepipe his bits.<p>He hated a scene in Greese (I believe) where crew went out and bought squid, and threw them into the water to made the shoot better.<p>I really liked Bourdain. He was one of the few celebrities that didn&#x27;t seem to change with fame, or money.<p>I watched him for years, and knew he was unhappy, but never thought suicide unhappy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>&gt;Out of all the celebrities, Bourdain would have viscerally despised this.<p>I would just like to point out the irony in this comment. You&#x27;re speaking on behalf of a dead person in objection to someone else speaking on behalf of that person.<p>We can debate the ethics of this whole thing without trying to lay claim to what Bourdain would have thought.</text></comment> | <story><title>Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions</title><url>https://techpolicy.press/voice-clone-of-anthony-bourdain-prompts-synthetic-media-ethics-questions/?mc_cid=f76836fe27&mc_eid=4336df8131</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hellbannedguy</author><text>Out of all the celebrities, Bourdain would have viscerally despised this.<p>He hated fake phoney people, or food.<p>He hated when his production crew would stovepipe his bits.<p>He hated a scene in Greese (I believe) where crew went out and bought squid, and threw them into the water to made the shoot better.<p>I really liked Bourdain. He was one of the few celebrities that didn&#x27;t seem to change with fame, or money.<p>I watched him for years, and knew he was unhappy, but never thought suicide unhappy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>two2two</author><text>After reading his books, I would agree and was hoping someone had posted this. If anyone would vehemently oppose such manipulation, it would be Anthony Bourdain. Is there a disclaimer before this scene is shown? I&#x27;ll choose not to watch such a documentary created by those with skewed ethics.</text></comment> |
18,839,984 | 18,839,797 | 1 | 2 | 18,837,677 | train | <story><title>Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/em/dyson.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ncmncm</author><text>It is unfortunate that Dyson neglects the role of Oliver Heaviside, again. This is in a long tradition of English neglect, ultimately traceable to Heaviside&#x27;s status as a commoner. Heaviside invented the mathematical tools we still use to understand and teach Maxwell, and most of the important consequences of the theory, but Pupin, Hertz, Marconi, and deForest used his methods and &lt;del&gt;took&lt;&#x2F;del&gt; got the credit.<p>Today Heaviside&#x27;s method is taught as Laplace transforms, with Heaviside&#x27;s name scrubbed off. We only hear of him as an alternative name for the step function, the integral of the Dirac impulse function, and of the &quot;Heaviside layer&quot;, the ionosphere that makes transcontinental radio actually possible, but we would have waited decades longer without him.<p>An excellent reference for the importance of Heaviside in the ultimate success of application if Maxwell&#x27;s theory is Paul J. Nahin,
&quot;Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age&quot;, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Oliver-Heaviside-Electrical-Genius-Victorian&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0801869099&#x2F;ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1546801611&amp;sr=8-1&amp;pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&amp;keywords=nahin+heaviside" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Oliver-Heaviside-Electrical-Genius-Vi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/em/dyson.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wmnwmn</author><text>E&amp;M is far from &quot;simple&quot;. It contains special relativity, for starters. Also it is incompatible with thermodynamics: solving this problem is why Planck invented quantum mechanics. Also point charges have infinite energy: this problem leads to renormalization theory. Also it introduces gauge invariance, an essential but complex part of all modern theories. And lastly, the mathematics of E&amp;M is a big step up from Newtonian theory.</text></comment> |
19,541,406 | 19,538,848 | 1 | 3 | 19,538,321 | train | <story><title>The mystery of my desktop that locks up when it gets too cold</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/ColdLockupMachineMystery</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>M_bara</author><text>Get a thermometer and check the ambient temp. It could be a bug on the mobo&#x2F;BIOS. As an AWS SRE, we once had an issue where we had waves of racks being unavailable. They&#x27;d go offline, were booted by automation, whereupon they&#x27;d come up only to go offline again. Our usual approach to solving such issues didn&#x27;t work (we had a concall spanning 3 days to triage this issue). We typically relied on IPMI sensors for thermal events in the fleet. The typical script fetched the IPMI temp and if it was too high raised a ticket. What we never factored was a temp going too low. So, it turns out, that the datacenter in question would allow air from the outside in winter to help with cooling during winter. One of the air vents got stuck open and servers went cold... (IN deg C): 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 255 &lt;&lt; oops bios initiates a server shutdown due to a very high chassis temp. Server vendor issue a patch a few weeks later. We had to put in an alarm for temp going too low in our monitoring!</text></comment> | <story><title>The mystery of my desktop that locks up when it gets too cold</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/ColdLockupMachineMystery</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>squarefoot</author><text>Those temperature related problems can be reproduced and spotted by using one of those cold spray cans (&quot;freeze spray&quot; or similar names) made especially for electronics that can be used to selectively cool down parts of a device until the problem appears.</text></comment> |
30,857,676 | 30,857,823 | 1 | 3 | 30,855,624 | train | <story><title>Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco</title><url>https://blog.waymo.com/2022/03/taking-our-next-step-in-city-by-bay.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitsoda</author><text>Do you live in a place with weather? I think we&#x27;ll get there eventually, but my timeline is closer to 20 years. I just don&#x27;t see AVs nailing that last 1% for true peace of mind in places like the Eastern USA with torrential downpours in South Florida or snow and icy conditions in New England.<p>I hope I&#x27;m wrong though, I would prefer it if my kids and other road users didn&#x27;t have to drive.</text></item><item><author>jliptzin</author><text>Definitely within 10 years. 50 years is insane.<p>Just the other day my Tesla model 3 drove me home from a restaurant 10 miles away, at night, with plenty of other cars on the road, through side streets and on a highway, <i>without intervention</i>. Did it do weird things? Sure, but nothing that made me nervous enough to intervene. Compared to just a year ago when it was still phantom breaking on the highway and couldn’t do side streets at all. All the people saying it’s still decades away don’t realize how quickly things are progressing.<p>10 years is a long time and progress is not always linear. Think about what happened to the internet between 1995 and 2005.</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>&gt;&gt;I know we&#x27;ll have driverless cars within ten-years<p>That&#x27;s sarcastic, right? Like &quot;we&#x27;ll have fusion power in 50 years&quot;? Except that we might actually have fusion power in 50 years and I don&#x27;t actually think we&#x27;ll have truly driverless cars within 50 years.</text></item><item><author>moritonal</author><text>I know we&#x27;ll have driverless cars within ten-years, and I know there will be benefits, but has any government yet started planning for the relatively near-instant transformation of the Trucker and Taxi industry once this &quot;works&quot;?<p>The fall-out is going to be intense:<p>* Fuel-stops are going to change completely, what&#x27;s the point of half of the motels on long-haul drives when your car can drive all night and likely recharge automatically at a stop-point.<p>* Reduced downtime on goods movement will impact uptime in every other industry.<p>* Autonomous-vehicle-only lanes that line up with traffic timings creating a two-tier driving experience<p>* Huge influx of unemployed drivers who I guess might get &quot;chauffeur&quot; style jobs.<p>* Security issues, complex legal issues when there&#x27;s accidents.<p>* Fake taxi&#x27;s that drive a customer into a bad experience for &quot;lols&quot;.<p>I know all this is extreme, but if history is studying the past to understand the present, science-fiction is studying the &quot;future&quot; to predict the problems of tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>martneumann</author><text>Apart from weather, a big issue outside the USA is also car infrastructure. The US is extremely car centric with large, straight, easy-to-maneuver roads everywhere. Here in Germany, it&#x27;s different. We have rather narrow, chaotic roads, unclear signage, &quot;right car has right of way&quot; traffic rules which sometimes get resolved via hand signs, no jaywalking laws, etc.<p>I am still hoping for fewer cars on the road overall. The car itself is inefficient and hopefully on its way out.</text></comment> | <story><title>Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco</title><url>https://blog.waymo.com/2022/03/taking-our-next-step-in-city-by-bay.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitsoda</author><text>Do you live in a place with weather? I think we&#x27;ll get there eventually, but my timeline is closer to 20 years. I just don&#x27;t see AVs nailing that last 1% for true peace of mind in places like the Eastern USA with torrential downpours in South Florida or snow and icy conditions in New England.<p>I hope I&#x27;m wrong though, I would prefer it if my kids and other road users didn&#x27;t have to drive.</text></item><item><author>jliptzin</author><text>Definitely within 10 years. 50 years is insane.<p>Just the other day my Tesla model 3 drove me home from a restaurant 10 miles away, at night, with plenty of other cars on the road, through side streets and on a highway, <i>without intervention</i>. Did it do weird things? Sure, but nothing that made me nervous enough to intervene. Compared to just a year ago when it was still phantom breaking on the highway and couldn’t do side streets at all. All the people saying it’s still decades away don’t realize how quickly things are progressing.<p>10 years is a long time and progress is not always linear. Think about what happened to the internet between 1995 and 2005.</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>&gt;&gt;I know we&#x27;ll have driverless cars within ten-years<p>That&#x27;s sarcastic, right? Like &quot;we&#x27;ll have fusion power in 50 years&quot;? Except that we might actually have fusion power in 50 years and I don&#x27;t actually think we&#x27;ll have truly driverless cars within 50 years.</text></item><item><author>moritonal</author><text>I know we&#x27;ll have driverless cars within ten-years, and I know there will be benefits, but has any government yet started planning for the relatively near-instant transformation of the Trucker and Taxi industry once this &quot;works&quot;?<p>The fall-out is going to be intense:<p>* Fuel-stops are going to change completely, what&#x27;s the point of half of the motels on long-haul drives when your car can drive all night and likely recharge automatically at a stop-point.<p>* Reduced downtime on goods movement will impact uptime in every other industry.<p>* Autonomous-vehicle-only lanes that line up with traffic timings creating a two-tier driving experience<p>* Huge influx of unemployed drivers who I guess might get &quot;chauffeur&quot; style jobs.<p>* Security issues, complex legal issues when there&#x27;s accidents.<p>* Fake taxi&#x27;s that drive a customer into a bad experience for &quot;lols&quot;.<p>I know all this is extreme, but if history is studying the past to understand the present, science-fiction is studying the &quot;future&quot; to predict the problems of tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>supportlocal4h</author><text>Isn&#x27;t that like saying that motorcycles will happen eventually but not anytime soon because: weather?<p>Traditional cars with drivers haven&#x27;t solved the weather problem 100%. But they are here now. Sometimes we ban them in some conditions, but they are a game changer the rest if the time.</text></comment> |
6,896,871 | 6,896,569 | 1 | 3 | 6,895,606 | train | <story><title>Images Now Showing in Gmail</title><url>http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alooPotato</author><text>This proxying actually rolled out on December 3rd to most gmail.com users. We, Streak, happenned to launch an email tracking feature on the same day (<a href="http://www.streak.com/email-tracking-in-gmail" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.streak.com&#x2F;email-tracking-in-gmail</a>).<p>Here&#x27;s what we&#x27;ve learned:<p>- the proxying of requests only happens when a user is viewing the mail inside Gmail (i.e. gmail does not actually affect the message body, its just proxying at render time)<p>- gmail only caches in the image for a few minutes. So for email marketers, if your recipient views the email then views it again a few hours later, the marketer will see two requests for the image<p>- there is basically no personally identifiable information in the request that Google&#x27;s proxy sends to the server hosting the image. So from that perspective this is actually a boost in privacy than the previous state of the world. None of the headers, cache controls, cookies, ip addresses, referrers or user agents are passed to the original image server<p>- obviously you can encode some ID into the image URL itself but all that lets you do is identify the email address of the user that opened the email. But you already had their email address because you sent them an email - so again, no PII gets disclosed<p>- it is true that marketers will see a more accurate count of opens (because displaying images is on by default)<p>- there seems to be several ways to get gmail&#x27;s proxy to NOT cache the image and simply proxy the request every time the user opens the emails</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chimeracoder</author><text>&gt; - obviously you can encode some ID into the image URL itself but all that lets you do is identify the email address of the user that opened the email. But you already had their email address because you sent them an email - so again, no PII gets disclosed<p>This functions as a read receipt (like the tracking pixels).<p>The image might be cached later, but since it is <i>initially</i> loaded the first time an email with it is is opened, this means that implementing read receipts on all outgoing emails is as simple as making the URL for each image unique to the user.<p>Thus, the marketer knows:<p>1) That the email was opened
2) When the email was opened<p>along with whatever information they already have about the user.<p>This is a HUGE privacy implication. Even if &quot;no [further] PII gets disclosed&quot;, it discloses a lot of information that is both sensitive and easy for marketers to join with existing identifying information.</text></comment> | <story><title>Images Now Showing in Gmail</title><url>http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alooPotato</author><text>This proxying actually rolled out on December 3rd to most gmail.com users. We, Streak, happenned to launch an email tracking feature on the same day (<a href="http://www.streak.com/email-tracking-in-gmail" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.streak.com&#x2F;email-tracking-in-gmail</a>).<p>Here&#x27;s what we&#x27;ve learned:<p>- the proxying of requests only happens when a user is viewing the mail inside Gmail (i.e. gmail does not actually affect the message body, its just proxying at render time)<p>- gmail only caches in the image for a few minutes. So for email marketers, if your recipient views the email then views it again a few hours later, the marketer will see two requests for the image<p>- there is basically no personally identifiable information in the request that Google&#x27;s proxy sends to the server hosting the image. So from that perspective this is actually a boost in privacy than the previous state of the world. None of the headers, cache controls, cookies, ip addresses, referrers or user agents are passed to the original image server<p>- obviously you can encode some ID into the image URL itself but all that lets you do is identify the email address of the user that opened the email. But you already had their email address because you sent them an email - so again, no PII gets disclosed<p>- it is true that marketers will see a more accurate count of opens (because displaying images is on by default)<p>- there seems to be several ways to get gmail&#x27;s proxy to NOT cache the image and simply proxy the request every time the user opens the emails</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PavlovsCat</author><text>&gt; all that lets you do is identify the email address of the user that opened the email. But you already had their email address because you sent them an email<p>You just have <i>an</i> email address. Once that image is downloaded, you know it&#x27;s active the sky basically falls down.</text></comment> |
23,891,466 | 23,890,982 | 1 | 2 | 23,888,799 | train | <story><title>Tired of note-taking apps</title><url>https://akkshaya.blog/2020/07/19/note-taking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomduncalf</author><text>Personally I find Apple Notes the most convenient for quick jotting down of ideas etc. It’s not the most advanced in terms of features but it loads instantly, is quick to use and is available on all of my devices. Have tried numerous alternatives but they’ve never stuck e.g. they’re slow to start up or are fussy to use or don’t work well on one platform.<p>For deeper sketching out of ideas, diagrams etc I really like Concepts on iPad with the Apple Pencil. It has an infinite canvas and is all vector based, which is great for never worrying about whether there’s room to fit your idea on the page or whatever. Previously I used Notability and it was good and a bit more traditionally note based, but I miss the infinite canvas. The text recognition and handwriting features in Apple Notes on iOS 14 are pretty cool though, will be nice to see what third party apps do with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justsomeuser</author><text>I like Apple Notes and would use it if it did not have the following limitations:<p>- You cannot link between notes like a wiki (like Evernotes evernote:&#x2F;&#x2F;$note-guid)<p>- You cannot export all your notes in a standardised format.<p>- You cannot store notebooks in specific offline only encrypted disk images for privacy.<p>- Cannot change background (must use paper emulation)</text></comment> | <story><title>Tired of note-taking apps</title><url>https://akkshaya.blog/2020/07/19/note-taking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomduncalf</author><text>Personally I find Apple Notes the most convenient for quick jotting down of ideas etc. It’s not the most advanced in terms of features but it loads instantly, is quick to use and is available on all of my devices. Have tried numerous alternatives but they’ve never stuck e.g. they’re slow to start up or are fussy to use or don’t work well on one platform.<p>For deeper sketching out of ideas, diagrams etc I really like Concepts on iPad with the Apple Pencil. It has an infinite canvas and is all vector based, which is great for never worrying about whether there’s room to fit your idea on the page or whatever. Previously I used Notability and it was good and a bit more traditionally note based, but I miss the infinite canvas. The text recognition and handwriting features in Apple Notes on iOS 14 are pretty cool though, will be nice to see what third party apps do with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tammer</author><text>I would argue that in a number of ways Apple Notes is one of the most advanced in terms of features.<p>Yes, it doesn’t bombard you with its functionality and at first glance is a simple place to jot notes (perhaps its greatest strength). But dig into the feature list, and perhaps help me find a similar application that:<p>1) can combine tables, rich text formatting, and in-line sketches
2) can store any file type in-line
3) can encrypt protect notes
4) can bulk share Notes + live edit
5) has a built-in complex document scanner<p>I know there are some alternatives that cover most of these but I think Apple Notes is king precisely because of these many layers of functionality.</text></comment> |
13,410,034 | 13,409,657 | 1 | 3 | 13,409,082 | train | <story><title>China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/china/21714383-and-theres-lot-more-come-it-waste-money-china-has-built-worlds-largest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mseebach</author><text>&gt; I am left with a feeling of awe at China&#x27;s development, and frustration at the UK&#x27;s stagnancy.<p>While the UK does feel particularly stagnated on several fronts, I&#x27;m not sure abandoning the rule of law, protection of private property, labour protections, at least an attempt at the appearance of corruption-free tenders, high safety standards and the principle that people who are affected should be consulted is worthy of much awe.</text></item><item><author>bainsfather</author><text>&quot;Less than a decade ago China had yet to connect any of its cities by bullet train. Today, it has 20,000km (12,500 miles) of high-speed rail lines, more than the rest of the world combined. It is planning to lay another 15,000km by 2025&quot;<p>The contrast to the UK, where we might someday build the HS2 line London-Birmingham-Manchester, is massive. I am left with a feeling of awe at China&#x27;s development, and frustration at the UK&#x27;s stagnancy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelt</author><text>Some of the UK&#x27;s problems are not due to the rule of law, but the perverse incentives given to politicians.<p>In particular, the system often rewards politicians who delay making tough (or expensive) decisions.<p>For example, building a new power station using the latest green technology causes more protests and opposition than keeping a decrepit, polluting power station running for an extra five years. At which point, in all probability it&#x27;ll be someone else&#x27;s problem.<p>So often, a politician presented with a chance to either approve a power station, or call for more impact assessments&#x2F;consultations&#x2F;reviews, will be rewarded for choosing the latter.</text></comment> | <story><title>China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/china/21714383-and-theres-lot-more-come-it-waste-money-china-has-built-worlds-largest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mseebach</author><text>&gt; I am left with a feeling of awe at China&#x27;s development, and frustration at the UK&#x27;s stagnancy.<p>While the UK does feel particularly stagnated on several fronts, I&#x27;m not sure abandoning the rule of law, protection of private property, labour protections, at least an attempt at the appearance of corruption-free tenders, high safety standards and the principle that people who are affected should be consulted is worthy of much awe.</text></item><item><author>bainsfather</author><text>&quot;Less than a decade ago China had yet to connect any of its cities by bullet train. Today, it has 20,000km (12,500 miles) of high-speed rail lines, more than the rest of the world combined. It is planning to lay another 15,000km by 2025&quot;<p>The contrast to the UK, where we might someday build the HS2 line London-Birmingham-Manchester, is massive. I am left with a feeling of awe at China&#x27;s development, and frustration at the UK&#x27;s stagnancy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bainsfather</author><text>That&#x27;s a valid point. And there is always a tendency to see the good points in other countries and the bad points in your own.<p>In this case (and also in e.g. building new power stations, new housing, widening roads, expanding London&#x27;s airports, etc) the contrast is so stark. For sure the UK needn&#x27;t abandon rule of law in order to build infrastructure in a timely manner.</text></comment> |
6,607,345 | 6,607,427 | 1 | 2 | 6,606,900 | train | <story><title>Introducing Cover</title><url>http://coverscreen.tumblr.com/post/64965314790/introducing-cover</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cik</author><text>This terrifies me. There&#x27;s an instant problem of paranoia, and trust here. I would never be okay with the idea of an application monitoring what I&#x27;m doing, in order to reorder itself. Mind you, I say all this without knowing if it requests network access.<p>How do I know you&#x27;re not sending my usage patterns upstream to CoverCorp? How do I know that you&#x27;re not reading the Android Music Provider database, and sharing my data back?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tene</author><text>So, let&#x27;s say your worst fears are true, and it&#x27;s sending up a log of every app you use. What happens then? What&#x27;s the harm? I&#x27;m not being rhetorical, I really don&#x27;t follow what the fear is here. I can&#x27;t imagine how my life would be any different if some company knows that I launched chrome at 12:22, then hangouts at 12:30, then some half-assed game at 12:35.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing Cover</title><url>http://coverscreen.tumblr.com/post/64965314790/introducing-cover</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cik</author><text>This terrifies me. There&#x27;s an instant problem of paranoia, and trust here. I would never be okay with the idea of an application monitoring what I&#x27;m doing, in order to reorder itself. Mind you, I say all this without knowing if it requests network access.<p>How do I know you&#x27;re not sending my usage patterns upstream to CoverCorp? How do I know that you&#x27;re not reading the Android Music Provider database, and sharing my data back?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avree</author><text>How do you know that Google is not doing all this as part of the Android OS? Or any other app on your phone that requests network access?<p>Secondly, why would you care?</text></comment> |
27,130,638 | 27,130,846 | 1 | 3 | 27,129,518 | train | <story><title>Writing a Programming Book in 2021</title><url>https://jmtirado.net/writing-a-programming-book-in-2021/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>The point about Credibility is interesting. There&#x27;s something about someone who&#x27;s written a technical book that automatically seems impressive just because writing a book is hard, and it&#x27;s easy to assume that the person knows a lot. A long time ago I used to do technical review for a publisher on books about code. It was pretty obvious that some authors didn&#x27;t really know what they were talking about. They knew enough to write something, but there were always <i>a lot</i> of mistakes.<p>I think many technical books are written to act as a &#x27;proof&#x27; that the author is credible and knows their topic well rather than as an exercise in serving the reader or an attempt to make money. Tech authors know that they&#x27;ve not going to make much. It&#x27;s more an exercise in vanity and improving job prospects. The author doesn&#x27;t really need to be <i>right</i>. Especially &quot;Beginner&#x27;s guide to X&quot; or &quot;Learn X in 24 hours&quot; books, experienced and knowledgable developers won&#x27;t be reading the book to criticise it, and new developers who buy it won&#x27;t know it&#x27;s poorly written, so an author can write any old junk and still claim to be an expert. Consequently I&#x27;ve stopped being particularly impressed by people who have authored books on their resume.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tfp137</author><text><i>It was pretty obvious that some authors didn&#x27;t really know what they were talking about. They knew enough to write something, but there were always a lot of mistakes.</i><p>This is why I&#x27;d be very hesitant to self-publish a technical book, even though for fiction I think self-publishing is the right decision 99% of the time. We all make errors, even those of us who do know what we&#x27;re talking about, when you get to the scale of 100+ kilowords. For a novel, a decent copyeditor can fix up the production values well enough; for a technical work, you would hope the publisher assigned some people to check the work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Writing a Programming Book in 2021</title><url>https://jmtirado.net/writing-a-programming-book-in-2021/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>The point about Credibility is interesting. There&#x27;s something about someone who&#x27;s written a technical book that automatically seems impressive just because writing a book is hard, and it&#x27;s easy to assume that the person knows a lot. A long time ago I used to do technical review for a publisher on books about code. It was pretty obvious that some authors didn&#x27;t really know what they were talking about. They knew enough to write something, but there were always <i>a lot</i> of mistakes.<p>I think many technical books are written to act as a &#x27;proof&#x27; that the author is credible and knows their topic well rather than as an exercise in serving the reader or an attempt to make money. Tech authors know that they&#x27;ve not going to make much. It&#x27;s more an exercise in vanity and improving job prospects. The author doesn&#x27;t really need to be <i>right</i>. Especially &quot;Beginner&#x27;s guide to X&quot; or &quot;Learn X in 24 hours&quot; books, experienced and knowledgable developers won&#x27;t be reading the book to criticise it, and new developers who buy it won&#x27;t know it&#x27;s poorly written, so an author can write any old junk and still claim to be an expert. Consequently I&#x27;ve stopped being particularly impressed by people who have authored books on their resume.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>k__</author><text>I have reviewed so many technical books that were simply bad copies of the documentation. And that by authors who have written 10 books.<p>And the (rather big) publisher didn&#x27;t seem to care at all.</text></comment> |
19,122,699 | 19,121,575 | 1 | 3 | 19,120,646 | train | <story><title>We need to talk about systematic fraud</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00439-9</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twic</author><text>There was an interesting comment on a recent In The Pipeline post about the relationship between academia and industry in drug developmemnt [1]:<p><i>Academics do some good work in target discovery and validation, but not anywhere near as much as they think they do. Discovery in big pharma has to repeat everything, because about 80% of the time, the published result doesn’t hold up. I suspect this is the result of no job security among grad students and post docs, because we can almost always reproduce data from Japan, where asst profs generate the data. (And we can always reproduce published data from other big pharmas, always.)</i><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;01&#x2F;rep-ocasio-cortez-and-where-drugs-come-from#comment-300356" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2019&#x2F;02&#x2F;01&#x2F;rep...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>We need to talk about systematic fraud</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00439-9</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bounder</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t it be nice if there was a platform, some kind of hub where all research papers could be published and visible for anyone with an interest in the particular field. The platform would allow anyone, be it academics or just field experts to request for a change or addition of text. Anyone could see these (pull)requests and the initial author has the power to accept or deny it. This allows for peer reviews and corrections being integrated into the paper, making the whole process more organic. Any change to paper is logged and tracked so you could see the origin of a change and it&#x27;s reason. Fraudulent papers could be marked by the research community as such.<p>I&#x27;m being a bit sarcastic here, but a technology such as git with a platform such as GitHub could maybe make the process of publishing and reviewing research papers easier to control. Maybe you have to tailor it a bit to make it easier to work with this use case. Like open source, peers can start adding and reviewing directly at the source, instead writing a new paper or writing to all of the scientific journals to issue a different statement.</text></comment> |
41,570,192 | 41,570,162 | 1 | 2 | 41,569,723 | train | <story><title>Pixtral 12B</title><url>https://mistral.ai/news/pixtral-12b/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkaic</author><text>As much as I love their work, I can&#x27;t be the only one who really struggles to see a path to profitability for Mistral, right? How do you make money selling API access to a model which anyone else can spin up an API for (license is Apache 2.0) on AWS or GCP or similar? Do they have some sort of magic inference optimization that allows them to be cheaper per-token than other hosting providers? Why would I use their API instead of anybody else&#x27;s?<p>Asking these questions as a genuine fan of this company—I really want to believe they can succeed and not go the way of StabilityAI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kridsdale3</author><text>Mistral&#x27;s business model is to take advantage of French National Pride and be state funded.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pixtral 12B</title><url>https://mistral.ai/news/pixtral-12b/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkaic</author><text>As much as I love their work, I can&#x27;t be the only one who really struggles to see a path to profitability for Mistral, right? How do you make money selling API access to a model which anyone else can spin up an API for (license is Apache 2.0) on AWS or GCP or similar? Do they have some sort of magic inference optimization that allows them to be cheaper per-token than other hosting providers? Why would I use their API instead of anybody else&#x27;s?<p>Asking these questions as a genuine fan of this company—I really want to believe they can succeed and not go the way of StabilityAI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shin_lao</author><text>Probably keep building something awesome and worry about monetization later. Google did that.</text></comment> |
26,552,716 | 26,552,292 | 1 | 3 | 26,550,429 | train | <story><title>Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/microsoft-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-discord-for-more-than-10b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xmprt</author><text>That&#x27;s about as profound as saying the value in Coke is the people buying it and not their secret formula and bottling machines.</text></item><item><author>charcircuit</author><text>That&#x27;s his point. The main value is the userbase and not the software itself.</text></item><item><author>tomnipotent</author><text>Complexity of software is not necessarily the only important dimension of determining value.<p>The game industry is larger than both music and movies combined. Discord is behind almost every gaming community I&#x27;ve run into the last five years, from Eve Online to Valheim and Smash Bros. Looking for a Discord community is one of the first things I do when playing a new multiplayer game. Same with hundreds of millions of other gamers. You can&#x27;t program your way into that kind of market adoption.</text></item><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>Suppose you have seven dev teams of ten, plus a manager, tester, and a pm for each, plus an executive team of 9 people. 100 total people on the team. They each make an average of 200k a year. How many years will it take this team to recreate Discord?<p>If it would take them less than 500 years, then, in some sense, Discord isn&#x27;t 10 billion dollars worth of software.<p>I think the point is that almost all of the value of Discord comes from the network effect of people locked in to using it. On the one hand, that&#x27;s kind of a trivial observation, of course the users are value comes from. But, if you don&#x27;t realize this, it&#x27;s important to know. It means you that if even if you build something identical to Discord you&#x27;re not going to be worth anything like as much - unless you also happen to get users. Or, put another way, you could build something technically worse, but if people adopted it for some reason, you&#x27;d be worth more.</text></item><item><author>torbital</author><text>&gt; but it is also not &gt;$10B of software engineering<p>Really? How did you come to this conclusion?<p>Discord is, without a doubt, 10x better than Slack, Teams, or Zoom combined. They&#x27;ve <i>solved</i> the problem of a communication in the non-business space. That&#x27;s huge.<p>For comparison, look at Coinbase, who has a 100B valuation. What they&#x27;re doing is relatively trivial. Is that &gt;10x the value of Discord?<p>I don&#x27;t even think Coinbase is overvalued. 10B for Discord is just a steal.</text></item><item><author>ve55</author><text>What&#x27;s interesting about acquisitions like this is that the actual value that is being transacted is the userbase and their data, along with the inability for either of those to easily move elsewhere.<p>No one wants to buy the actual chat application itself, because they could build equivalent technology on their own. But users are locked into platforms so heavily and for such long time periods that they themselves give the platform almost the entirety of its value (not to single out Discord, since we all know this is how <i>a lot</i> of acquisitions work in practice). [As an additional caveat, I will add that Discord has definitely built something that its users love, and I don&#x27;t want to undermine the absurd amount of UI, feature refinement, and scaling work they&#x27;ve done successfully. It isn&#x27;t negligible, but it is also not &gt;$10B of software engineering.]<p>I&#x27;ve read many discussions where someone says something of the form &quot;I wish I didn&#x27;t have to use X, but my friends and family all use it, so I&#x27;m forced to&quot;, and I think upon consideration of this statement that there is something <i>deeply</i> wrong with the way network effects and protocols function on our Internet such that this can even be a common scenario. We really do have quite a crisis of non-interoperability that generalizes towards a complete lack of user control, be it software, hardware, data, or anything in between.<p>With that said, if Microsoft <i>does</i> purchase Discord, it might not be as bad as some foretell. While we can point to something like Skype as a failure, we can also point to something like Github, which has been doing very well post-acquisition, and in my opinion hasn&#x27;t gotten worse at all. It&#x27;s quite possible they wouldn&#x27;t want to profit off of Discord individually, but rather use it as another tool to expand their general ecosystem horizontally. On the other hand, they could also do the exact opposite and start harvesting data and maximizing advertisements en masse, lest my post become too optimistic in tone, since this <i>is</i> still HN. Lastly, remember that this is still just a rumor that various news outlets have picked up on and is nowhere near guaranteed.<p>For those looking for alternatives due to this, or just because they&#x27;d like to own their own data for once, I think Matrix is likely to be the best general solution in this product space, both with respect to similar app functionality as well as quality constraints (real encryption, decentralization, FOSS, etc).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>You say that like that&#x27;s not an interesting observation. On the contrary -- that is a common observation that people frequently make about Coke in particular. It doesn&#x27;t taste good, but people buy it anyway because it&#x27;s Coke.<p>The actual form of the saying is something like &quot;if every Coke factory burned down, Coke would be back in business the next day. If you hit every Coke customer on the head, Coke would be out of business the next day&quot;. (The idea being that if Coke&#x27;s customers all forgot they were Coke customers, Coca-Cola wouldn&#x27;t be able to grow a new customer base on the strength of their product.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/microsoft-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-discord-for-more-than-10b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xmprt</author><text>That&#x27;s about as profound as saying the value in Coke is the people buying it and not their secret formula and bottling machines.</text></item><item><author>charcircuit</author><text>That&#x27;s his point. The main value is the userbase and not the software itself.</text></item><item><author>tomnipotent</author><text>Complexity of software is not necessarily the only important dimension of determining value.<p>The game industry is larger than both music and movies combined. Discord is behind almost every gaming community I&#x27;ve run into the last five years, from Eve Online to Valheim and Smash Bros. Looking for a Discord community is one of the first things I do when playing a new multiplayer game. Same with hundreds of millions of other gamers. You can&#x27;t program your way into that kind of market adoption.</text></item><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>Suppose you have seven dev teams of ten, plus a manager, tester, and a pm for each, plus an executive team of 9 people. 100 total people on the team. They each make an average of 200k a year. How many years will it take this team to recreate Discord?<p>If it would take them less than 500 years, then, in some sense, Discord isn&#x27;t 10 billion dollars worth of software.<p>I think the point is that almost all of the value of Discord comes from the network effect of people locked in to using it. On the one hand, that&#x27;s kind of a trivial observation, of course the users are value comes from. But, if you don&#x27;t realize this, it&#x27;s important to know. It means you that if even if you build something identical to Discord you&#x27;re not going to be worth anything like as much - unless you also happen to get users. Or, put another way, you could build something technically worse, but if people adopted it for some reason, you&#x27;d be worth more.</text></item><item><author>torbital</author><text>&gt; but it is also not &gt;$10B of software engineering<p>Really? How did you come to this conclusion?<p>Discord is, without a doubt, 10x better than Slack, Teams, or Zoom combined. They&#x27;ve <i>solved</i> the problem of a communication in the non-business space. That&#x27;s huge.<p>For comparison, look at Coinbase, who has a 100B valuation. What they&#x27;re doing is relatively trivial. Is that &gt;10x the value of Discord?<p>I don&#x27;t even think Coinbase is overvalued. 10B for Discord is just a steal.</text></item><item><author>ve55</author><text>What&#x27;s interesting about acquisitions like this is that the actual value that is being transacted is the userbase and their data, along with the inability for either of those to easily move elsewhere.<p>No one wants to buy the actual chat application itself, because they could build equivalent technology on their own. But users are locked into platforms so heavily and for such long time periods that they themselves give the platform almost the entirety of its value (not to single out Discord, since we all know this is how <i>a lot</i> of acquisitions work in practice). [As an additional caveat, I will add that Discord has definitely built something that its users love, and I don&#x27;t want to undermine the absurd amount of UI, feature refinement, and scaling work they&#x27;ve done successfully. It isn&#x27;t negligible, but it is also not &gt;$10B of software engineering.]<p>I&#x27;ve read many discussions where someone says something of the form &quot;I wish I didn&#x27;t have to use X, but my friends and family all use it, so I&#x27;m forced to&quot;, and I think upon consideration of this statement that there is something <i>deeply</i> wrong with the way network effects and protocols function on our Internet such that this can even be a common scenario. We really do have quite a crisis of non-interoperability that generalizes towards a complete lack of user control, be it software, hardware, data, or anything in between.<p>With that said, if Microsoft <i>does</i> purchase Discord, it might not be as bad as some foretell. While we can point to something like Skype as a failure, we can also point to something like Github, which has been doing very well post-acquisition, and in my opinion hasn&#x27;t gotten worse at all. It&#x27;s quite possible they wouldn&#x27;t want to profit off of Discord individually, but rather use it as another tool to expand their general ecosystem horizontally. On the other hand, they could also do the exact opposite and start harvesting data and maximizing advertisements en masse, lest my post become too optimistic in tone, since this <i>is</i> still HN. Lastly, remember that this is still just a rumor that various news outlets have picked up on and is nowhere near guaranteed.<p>For those looking for alternatives due to this, or just because they&#x27;d like to own their own data for once, I think Matrix is likely to be the best general solution in this product space, both with respect to similar app functionality as well as quality constraints (real encryption, decentralization, FOSS, etc).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usrusr</author><text>That&#x27;s called brand and in one way or the other, in postindustrialized societies most people seem to work in that field (e.g. everything that is funded by ads is effectively part of the supply chain).<p>&quot;The value is in the user base&quot; is just a particularly sticky form of brand, nothing else, set least as long as there are no long term contracts involved. It&#x27;s not in knowing their logs, it&#x27;s not in having their authentication hashes, it&#x27;s not even in exclusivity (I believe that most users of anything in the wildly overlapping spectrum from chat to instance messenger to screen sharing conference call are active on quite a lot of offerings)</text></comment> |
31,078,617 | 31,078,096 | 1 | 2 | 31,060,526 | train | <story><title>3M tape with anisotropic z-axis electrical conductivity</title><url>https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b10167835/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nomel</author><text>For anyone looking for the interesting numbers:<p><pre><code> Insulation resistance: 3.4 x 1014 ohms&#x2F;square
Contact resistance: &lt; 0.3 ohms
Minimum gap: 0.4mm
Minimum overlay area: 3.2mm^2
</code></pre>
Direct link to datasheet: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;multimedia.3m.com&#x2F;mws&#x2F;media&#x2F;66235O&#x2F;3m-electrically-conductive-adhesive-transfer-tape-9703.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;multimedia.3m.com&#x2F;mws&#x2F;media&#x2F;66235O&#x2F;3m-electrically-c...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kurthr</author><text>What people should also know is that every single display, and that includes every single cell phone touch screen has ACF (Anisotropic Conductive Film) in them. They aren&#x27;t the same contact adhesive as this 3M film, and some are moderately expensive (e.g. &gt;$0.25&#x2F;inch @1mm width) for those displays, which is at least comparable (&gt;10%) to the display ICs attached to them.<p>Why is so much ACF used? Because it is the most cost effective and compact way to connect dissimilar high density connections from one substrate to another. Displays typically require thousands of connections so you&#x27;re looking at linear densities of 1 contact per mil (~25um) with resistances measured in ohms (for less than 0.01mmsq). The reason that IC packages (internally wire bonded or electroplated CSP) don&#x27;t use ACF is a combination of cost, self alignment (solder pulls it into place), and much lower resistance.<p>The way that almost all of these ACFs are made is embedding conductive beads (often spherical of controlled diameter) which can compress when the adhesive is pressed&#x2F;bonded to the two substrates. If the aerial density of the beads is right, you&#x27;ll only get a few beads in contact and none will short any neighboring contacts. For displays the ACF material is typically a ~25um thick B-stage epoxy, which is tacked down and then &quot;snaps&quot; when heated and compressed permanently pulling together the two contact regions and compressing ~10um gold coated polystyrene balls between gold &quot;fingers&quot; on each glass&#x2F;PCB&#x2F;COF&#x2F;COP side after the epoxy flows.<p>3M tried to get into these higher end ACFs, but now it&#x27;s mostly Japanese and Korean suppliers.</text></comment> | <story><title>3M tape with anisotropic z-axis electrical conductivity</title><url>https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b10167835/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nomel</author><text>For anyone looking for the interesting numbers:<p><pre><code> Insulation resistance: 3.4 x 1014 ohms&#x2F;square
Contact resistance: &lt; 0.3 ohms
Minimum gap: 0.4mm
Minimum overlay area: 3.2mm^2
</code></pre>
Direct link to datasheet: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;multimedia.3m.com&#x2F;mws&#x2F;media&#x2F;66235O&#x2F;3m-electrically-conductive-adhesive-transfer-tape-9703.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;multimedia.3m.com&#x2F;mws&#x2F;media&#x2F;66235O&#x2F;3m-electrically-c...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>db48x</author><text>I think you mean 3×10¹⁴ ohms&#x2F;square.</text></comment> |
35,687,184 | 35,684,273 | 1 | 3 | 35,682,821 | train | <story><title>Training open-source LLMs on ChatGPT output is a really bad idea.</title><url>https://gist.github.com/mlaprise/bf4745655194162babfc2d158162e2e0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lysozyme</author><text>Do yourself a favor and skip right through to the Twitter link to another link to this excellent post by Yoav Goldberg [1] on the actual reason that training new models on ChatGPT output in the manner of supervised learning (in contrast to reinforcement learning) will not produce a model as good as ChatGPT<p>&gt;For this type of interaction, we must use RL training, as supervised training teaches the model to lie. The core issue is that we want to encourage the model to answer based on its internal knowledge, but we don&#x27;t know what this internal knowledge contains. In supervised training, we present the model with a question and its correct answer, and train the model to replicate the provided answer.<p>The author says he’s summarizing a talk by John Schulman of OpenAI [2] but I haven’t personally watched the video. In any case, this is an interesting insight.<p>Say we set up a supervised learning scenario where we ask the model to use its internal knowledge to answer a question and compare its answer to one written by a human. If the two answers essentially say the same thing, but in different words, in the supervised learning case the model is penalized. In the RL case, it’s rewarded. That’s the difference.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;yoavg&#x2F;6bff0fecd65950898eba1bb321cfbd81" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;yoavg&#x2F;6bff0fecd65950898eba1bb321cfbd...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hhiLw5Q_UFg">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hhiLw5Q_UFg</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laprise</author><text>Yes indeed, Yoav Goldberg&#x27;s post is essentially a good summary of John Schulman&#x27;s talk, which is excellent. I highly recommend people watch it.<p>However, my point goes beyond this technical argument. I would argue that even if, by some magical process, we could perfectly replicate GPT-4 behaviour, I still don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a good idea or at least it&#x27;s not enough. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, it would be really handy to have a free version running on our own cluster, but it wouldn&#x27;t fix the other issues I mentioned.</text></comment> | <story><title>Training open-source LLMs on ChatGPT output is a really bad idea.</title><url>https://gist.github.com/mlaprise/bf4745655194162babfc2d158162e2e0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lysozyme</author><text>Do yourself a favor and skip right through to the Twitter link to another link to this excellent post by Yoav Goldberg [1] on the actual reason that training new models on ChatGPT output in the manner of supervised learning (in contrast to reinforcement learning) will not produce a model as good as ChatGPT<p>&gt;For this type of interaction, we must use RL training, as supervised training teaches the model to lie. The core issue is that we want to encourage the model to answer based on its internal knowledge, but we don&#x27;t know what this internal knowledge contains. In supervised training, we present the model with a question and its correct answer, and train the model to replicate the provided answer.<p>The author says he’s summarizing a talk by John Schulman of OpenAI [2] but I haven’t personally watched the video. In any case, this is an interesting insight.<p>Say we set up a supervised learning scenario where we ask the model to use its internal knowledge to answer a question and compare its answer to one written by a human. If the two answers essentially say the same thing, but in different words, in the supervised learning case the model is penalized. In the RL case, it’s rewarded. That’s the difference.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;yoavg&#x2F;6bff0fecd65950898eba1bb321cfbd81" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;yoavg&#x2F;6bff0fecd65950898eba1bb321cfbd...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hhiLw5Q_UFg">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hhiLw5Q_UFg</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avereveard</author><text>I want to add an argument:<p>I hate gpt style of &quot;as an ai model I can&#x2F;can&#x27;t&quot; answers, any model distilled from that corpus becomes very hard to use for tasking.<p>Like you may just want the category of a text, but all your equals now become contains. It eats up a lot of token space. It begins as a sentence so categories now are strongly biased toward sentence case and not your original input.<p>I know at least one model purposefully removing these utterances, but still. Everyone else is chasing the agent feel, and I&#x27;m here pulling my hair out because prosumer were this close to be able to access a proper AI for tasking and now it&#x27;s slipping away.</text></comment> |
20,280,367 | 20,280,439 | 1 | 2 | 20,279,184 | train | <story><title>Snagging Parking Spaces with Mask R-CNN and Python</title><url>https://medium.com/@ageitgey/snagging-parking-spaces-with-mask-r-cnn-and-python-955f2231c400</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>This is pretty cool and a great use case for a DeepLens. Since the DeepLens can do the inference on the machine it would save a ton of bandwidth and you could even make it play a sound when a spot opens up, so it would work disconnected from the internet.</text></comment> | <story><title>Snagging Parking Spaces with Mask R-CNN and Python</title><url>https://medium.com/@ageitgey/snagging-parking-spaces-with-mask-r-cnn-and-python-955f2231c400</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sorenjan</author><text>&gt; With a modern GPU, we should be able to detect objects in high-res videos at several frames a second.<p>How much power does this thing use?</text></comment> |
32,653,031 | 32,652,188 | 1 | 2 | 32,651,556 | train | <story><title>4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything</title><url>https://andys.page/posts/how-to-draw/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Back in the 90s I bought a book that came with some floppy disks. The book was about 500 pages of clip art, and the disks were the actual images. At the time, people said such things would put graphic artists out of business.<p>What actually happened is that it put mediocre graphic artists out of business and highlighted the difference between one that was mediocre and one that was good.<p>I feel like this will happen again here with digital artists. The mediocre ones will be indistinguishable from AI, but the good ones will still stand out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VoodooJuJu</author><text>I think that&#x27;s a good way to put it, but there&#x27;s still a problem.<p>The path of a digital artist is long and arduous. For a time on this path, the artist may be considered mediocre, or to put it better, they are an <i>apprentice</i>.<p>Just as in other physical trades, an apprentice who is mediocre at their craft can still practice aspects of that craft well enough to be useful and earn some money. It is also through practice that the apprentice improves their skills. In this way, the apprentice is financially supported and even incentivized to improve at their trade, until one day they become truly good at it.<p>So what things like DALL-E and Github Co-Pilot and your clip art package do is displace the apprentice. With no path of mediocrity for the apprentice to walk, to earn a stipend for training, how then can they receive the financial support necessary to train until they&#x27;re a master? They would need to already be independently wealthy or receive financial assistance.<p>In order to train more master artists and programmers, we would need to provide them with financial support while they train without us receiving anything useful in return.</text></comment> | <story><title>4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything</title><url>https://andys.page/posts/how-to-draw/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Back in the 90s I bought a book that came with some floppy disks. The book was about 500 pages of clip art, and the disks were the actual images. At the time, people said such things would put graphic artists out of business.<p>What actually happened is that it put mediocre graphic artists out of business and highlighted the difference between one that was mediocre and one that was good.<p>I feel like this will happen again here with digital artists. The mediocre ones will be indistinguishable from AI, but the good ones will still stand out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>z3c0</author><text>While I&#x27;m overall of the mind that nobody can really know what to expect, I think this may be a little more accurate of a reality than the aspiring Cassandras are trumpeting about. I&#x27;m willing to bet that most of the people who are going to utilize these technologies are people who never could afford a graphic designer to begin with. I&#x27;m sure some of the market will be lost to this tech, but a blackbox that shoots out passable images just isn&#x27;t going to cut it for certain areas of the art market.<p>I also wouldn&#x27;t be shocked if a big portion of the market for this technology ends up being the artists themselves. I personally know a painter whose creative process has been overhauled by DALL-E. Brainstorming the next project is easier than ever, and unlike the DALL-E images inspiring them, the resulting paintings actually have the &quot;human-touch&quot; necessary to illicit the deeper emotional response that a good painting should bring about. Adding depth to a model doesn&#x27;t necessarily add depth to the output.<p>But like I said, I don&#x27;t think anyone really knows what&#x27;s going to happen. We&#x27;ll see, I guess.</text></comment> |
33,097,931 | 33,096,560 | 1 | 3 | 33,078,280 | train | <story><title>How I learned about corporate firewalls</title><url>https://www.valcanbuild.tech/handling-corporate-firewalls/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huy-nguyen</author><text>I work at a government agency and here are my tales.<p>1) They install a root certificate on all machines and use that to MITM all TLS connections using a firewall appliance. They turn this MITM on one day without notifying any developer. Overnight, all our builds (run on-prem) fail because npm install, pip install etc fail and we spent a long time trying to figure it out. They are still failing to this day and I have to get off the VPN every time I need to run these simple commands. IT absolutely doesn&#x27;t give a flying **** about developers.<p>2) They ban all non-Chrome browsers from being installed. As in, if you install such a browser and try to launch it, the system will say &quot;browser X is banned. Contact IT.&quot; They would have banned Safari too had it not been part of the OS. Furthermore, they also disabled private browsing in Chrome (probably the ability to do this is why they allow Chrome). I think they&#x27;re preventing people from hiding their internet browsing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillystuff</author><text>The MiM might not be your IT folks, but rather management. I was in a meeting which included folks from Palo Alto (PA) and management where PA was hard selling their ability to MiM all https connections and link all activities of the users to their usernames through various methods from directory integration to log scraping on radius servers. The managers were super excited about the possibilities. Management not only wanted to implement this, but wanted to do so in secret. IT folks were pushing back-- hard.<p>Firewall as bossware.<p>Firefox being banned is because it uses its own certificate store, so Firefox users would see a browser warning every time they visit any https site notifying them that their traffic is being MiM&#x27;d. Chrome and chrome reskins like MS Edge use the OS store which MS Windows centric organizations can easily (centrally using MS tools [GP]) add the trusted CA for MiM into. For the Macs, it probably wouldn&#x27;t matter since the 3rd party mgmt tools could probably push out either.</text></comment> | <story><title>How I learned about corporate firewalls</title><url>https://www.valcanbuild.tech/handling-corporate-firewalls/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huy-nguyen</author><text>I work at a government agency and here are my tales.<p>1) They install a root certificate on all machines and use that to MITM all TLS connections using a firewall appliance. They turn this MITM on one day without notifying any developer. Overnight, all our builds (run on-prem) fail because npm install, pip install etc fail and we spent a long time trying to figure it out. They are still failing to this day and I have to get off the VPN every time I need to run these simple commands. IT absolutely doesn&#x27;t give a flying **** about developers.<p>2) They ban all non-Chrome browsers from being installed. As in, if you install such a browser and try to launch it, the system will say &quot;browser X is banned. Contact IT.&quot; They would have banned Safari too had it not been part of the OS. Furthermore, they also disabled private browsing in Chrome (probably the ability to do this is why they allow Chrome). I think they&#x27;re preventing people from hiding their internet browsing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dspillett</author><text><i>&gt; IT absolutely doesn&#x27;t give a flying ** about developers.</i><p>They are not paid to. Their performance is judged against how close they get to zero compliance issues, not how close they get to zero times developers were unhappy!<p><i>&gt; I think they&#x27;re preventing people from hiding their internet browsing.</i><p>Without delving into the “do you have the right to privacy even on a company machine”, who would be daft enough to do something they want to hide from the company on a company machine, or the company network at all? Though there are valid useful uses of pron^H^H^H^Hicognito mode so it seems silly to ban it.</text></comment> |
4,589,116 | 4,589,062 | 1 | 2 | 4,588,938 | train | <story><title>Aircraft Carriers in Space</title><url>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/09/28/aircraft_carriers_in_space?page=full</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jff</author><text>I'm continually amused by the space battles in Star Trek. Two ships pull up within a few ship-lengths of each other, then lob torpedoes and phaser beams at each other. I seem to remember seeing in the old series something about how the phasers really get fired: Kirk gives the order, the weapons guy on the bridge presses a button, a buzzer or something sounds down in the "phaser room", and a guy down there presses yet another button which does the actual shooting. Similarly for torpedoes, except I seem to remember seeing them manually loading torpedoes into the tubes like it's a 1940s U-boat or something.<p>Vernor Vinge's "Marooned in Realtime" has some very interesting space battles, based around the single conceit of "bobbles": impenetrable force shields which essentially separate their contents from the universe (and from time) for a pre-selected length of time. Space battles then become a tricky game of trying to catch your opponent when he's un-bobbled, while at the same time avoiding the bobbled nukes and other weapons he has strewn around when you were last bobbled.</text></comment> | <story><title>Aircraft Carriers in Space</title><url>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/09/28/aircraft_carriers_in_space?page=full</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>csense</author><text>From the article:<p>&#62; For a ship in the water, drag increases as the cube of speed...As your speed increases, your drag increases exponentially...<p>He's being inconsistent.<p>I've actually heard this a lot lately -- people will say something is "increasing exponentially" (i.e. has a curve of the form f(x) = k*b^x) when they really mean a much looser condition like "accelerating" (positive second derivative, which might be an exponential curve, but also might be one of many other curves, e.g. any polynomial of degree &#62;= 2 with nonnegative coefficients).<p>It's almost as bad as people who talk about the "least common denominator," but that's a rant for another post.</text></comment> |
18,651,752 | 18,651,737 | 1 | 2 | 18,651,540 | train | <story><title>Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Across the Tech Industry</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/10/google-employees-demand-the-end-of-forced-arbitration-across-the-tech-industry/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>I know this won&#x27;t be popular...but I don&#x27;t understand why people are so anti-arbitration. Court cases are very expensive, regardless of the verdict. In the situation of running a business, you have a 1 business to many employees situation handling multiple cases simultaneously could get extremely expensive whether the cases are valid or not.<p>People use the threat of legal fees to extort business owners all the time because all it takes is one bored attorney who&#x27;s willing to take the case on contingency while the business is looking at $150-500 &#x2F; hr fees to defend itself. Happens to doctors constantly.<p>If you are a business that employees thousands of people the amount of potential legal costs could put you under entirely, because attorneys have to respond to every single claim that opposing attorneys make. These techniques exist almost solely to drive up legal costs.<p>When your potential cost for an employee is far higher than the actual compensation you can afford to pay, it significantly increases your risk for every job you can create.<p>This is usually a two way street as well.<p>In nearly every contractor agreement I&#x27;ve read, the liability for the hired contractor is limited to at most the amount of compensation they receive from the business for the job they were performing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ergothus</author><text>I&#x27;m not anti-arbitration...I&#x27;m anti-FORCED-arbitration.<p>I have suspicions about the incentives and stances of the arbitrators vs the law, but I&#x27;m not well-versed enough to state those with confidence.<p>Almost everything you said about arbitration is true...but you left out the other side. My employer already has a lot more leverage over me than I do over them. When that scale is further tilted, across all their employees, many of the cost-benefit analyses about treating your employees fairly go into their benefit, further making things worse (and arguably more expensive for me).<p>&gt; People use the threat of legal fees to extort business owners all the time because all it takes is one bored attorney who&#x27;s willing to take the case on contingency while the business is looking at $150-500 &#x2F; hr fees to defend itself.<p>I&#x27;m willing to discuss the benefits of good anti-SLAPP legislation all day, but &quot;threats&quot; aren&#x27;t the same as suing, and &quot;bored attorney willing to take the case on contingency&quot; aren&#x27;t actually all that easy to find - there&#x27;s a reason a lot of crap goes unpunished until a group large enough for a class-action lawsuit comes along - the payout isn&#x27;t worth it, at least not for the lawyers who would win.<p>Companies LIKEWISE use the threat of legal fees all the time - the solution is not that employees need to sacrifice their legal rights.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Across the Tech Industry</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/10/google-employees-demand-the-end-of-forced-arbitration-across-the-tech-industry/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>I know this won&#x27;t be popular...but I don&#x27;t understand why people are so anti-arbitration. Court cases are very expensive, regardless of the verdict. In the situation of running a business, you have a 1 business to many employees situation handling multiple cases simultaneously could get extremely expensive whether the cases are valid or not.<p>People use the threat of legal fees to extort business owners all the time because all it takes is one bored attorney who&#x27;s willing to take the case on contingency while the business is looking at $150-500 &#x2F; hr fees to defend itself. Happens to doctors constantly.<p>If you are a business that employees thousands of people the amount of potential legal costs could put you under entirely, because attorneys have to respond to every single claim that opposing attorneys make. These techniques exist almost solely to drive up legal costs.<p>When your potential cost for an employee is far higher than the actual compensation you can afford to pay, it significantly increases your risk for every job you can create.<p>This is usually a two way street as well.<p>In nearly every contractor agreement I&#x27;ve read, the liability for the hired contractor is limited to at most the amount of compensation they receive from the business for the job they were performing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taurath</author><text>People are anti-arbitration because they empathize more with the employees than businesses. It is objectively better for employees to not have to go through a company-issued arbiter when the company has wronged them. The argument you&#x27;re making is a bit like trickle-down economics - what about instead of minimizing the cost of lawsuits, you do less things that are likely to land you in a lawsuit, which is the point of the laws in the first place?<p>Maybe then companies would focus their lobbying efforts on muting the effects of patent trolls and shady lawsuits. I do feel for the business owner, but taking away the rights of employees is worse for society.</text></comment> |
33,349,751 | 33,349,588 | 1 | 2 | 33,348,964 | train | <story><title>The United States’ Unamendable Constitution</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-united-states-unamendable-constitution</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnthuss</author><text>&quot;Seventy-two per cent of Republicans think that the Constitution is basically fine as is; seventy-two per cent of Democrats disagree.&quot;<p>Of course this has nothing to do the actual Constitution. It&#x27;s a statement about each party&#x27;s (dis)satisfaction with the current success of their party.<p>The optimist in me wants to believe that even in this polarized culture politicians could compromise and find a middle ground on many issues, conceding to the other side on one issue in order to get something for their side for another issue. That could be done without any changes to the Constitution. But alas, the middle ground has been lost.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s a statement about each party&#x27;s (dis)satisfaction with the current success of their party.<p>This requires clarification. If our government was elected based on a &quot;one person one vote&quot; principle, Republicans would be nearly guaranteed to lose the presidency and Congress. Since 1992 there have been 8 presidential elections. Republicans only won the popular vote once (2004) but also won the presidency in 2000 and 2016. Similarly, if you look at Congress, especially the Senate, Republicans have outsized power due to the additional votes that those in less populated&#x2F;rural areas get.<p>The fact is that our Constitution reduces voting rights for those that live in populous urban areas and gives outsized voting rights to those that live in rural&#x2F;sparsely populated areas. California has nearly 70 times the number of people as Wyoming, but they both get 2 senators. Even looking at the Electoral College, California only has 18 times as many electors as Wyoming, despite having 70x the people.<p>This rationale&#x2F;compromise may have made sense in the late 1800s, but it&#x27;s difficult for me to see how this is a good thing now. I wonder how many presidential elections we can go where the &quot;winner&quot; receives fewer votes than the &quot;loser&quot; before people seriously question what the purpose of our democracy is.<p>One other note, the equal-number-of-senators-per-state is the <i>one</i> thing that the Constitution explicitly forbids changing by amendment, the last clause of Article V.</text></comment> | <story><title>The United States’ Unamendable Constitution</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-united-states-unamendable-constitution</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnthuss</author><text>&quot;Seventy-two per cent of Republicans think that the Constitution is basically fine as is; seventy-two per cent of Democrats disagree.&quot;<p>Of course this has nothing to do the actual Constitution. It&#x27;s a statement about each party&#x27;s (dis)satisfaction with the current success of their party.<p>The optimist in me wants to believe that even in this polarized culture politicians could compromise and find a middle ground on many issues, conceding to the other side on one issue in order to get something for their side for another issue. That could be done without any changes to the Constitution. But alas, the middle ground has been lost.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colinmhayes</author><text>&gt; even in this polarized culture politicians could compromise<p>Not when refusing to compromise is your parties main platform.</text></comment> |
22,401,524 | 22,400,230 | 1 | 3 | 22,399,416 | train | <story><title>Nim Community Survey 2019 Results</title><url>https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/02/18/community-survey-results-2019.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mindv0rtex</author><text>Funny, today&#x27;s when I finally decided to start learning Nim. I do C++ with CUDA and Python on top for work. Having looked at the Arraymancer lib, I became interested in the language. Between its outstanding meta programming features and its ability to be compiled to C++, I think it is perfect for the scientific computing domain.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nim Community Survey 2019 Results</title><url>https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/02/18/community-survey-results-2019.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>awb</author><text>25% reported having never used the language. Surprising that so many people outside the Nim development community would fill out this survey.</text></comment> |
6,128,003 | 6,127,933 | 1 | 3 | 6,126,926 | train | <story><title>Observations from a Tipless Restaurant</title><url>http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-restaurant-part-2-money-and-the-law/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>300bps</author><text><i>It&#x27;s a terrible system</i><p>I believe in pay for performance in all professions so I certainly would prefer such a system for a hospitality industry. The minimum I&#x27;ve ever given anyone for a tip is 15% and honestly the service has to be terrible for me to give that. If the service is good I give 20% and if the service is remarkable I&#x27;ll give more.<p>The way I think of it is that the cost of the meal is at least 15% to 20% higher than what is on the menu. If I don&#x27;t want to pay that, I eat at home.<p>I don&#x27;t get wanting to pay 15% to 20% more on the menu and then having no ability to give an incentive for people to perform better.</text></item><item><author>po</author><text>Having lived in Japan for the past few years, I&#x27;m so over the tipping culture it&#x27;s pretty hard to stomach when I go back to the States. Besides the issues it causes for employers that this article covers, I really dislike the power dynamics that it causes for the customers: but maybe not in the way you would think.<p>While the customer may be financially powerful in the relationship, I feel that tipping culture gives power to the server to <i>withhold good service</i> as a punishment or as an optimization strategy at their own discretion. It causes a server to judge you as soon as you walk through the door... will this person give a good tip? Should I ignore them and focus on this other table?<p>The worst part is that the tip happens at the end of the meal after all of the &#x27;costs&#x27; of providing good service are already done. If the patron stiffs the server, then the effort was &#x27;wasted.&#x27; It&#x27;s far better to make an educated guess based on… what? the way they dress? their grammar? the car they pulled in with?<p>It&#x27;s a terrible system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>po</author><text>I tip well too but the server doesnt know that. Maybe in non-competitive markets it works, but in a place like NYC where I lived before moving to Tokyo, a table&#x2F;seat and the servers attention might be in high demand and servers would make judgement calls.<p>Even if you could declare your tip up front, you&#x27;re not incentivizing them to perform better, you&#x27;re competing with other patrons. You&#x27;re paying them to neglect others.<p>It&#x27;s not that I don&#x27;t want the ability to incentivize… It&#x27;s that I want <i>only the owner&#x2F;manager</i> to have the ability to incentivize, not other patrons.</text></comment> | <story><title>Observations from a Tipless Restaurant</title><url>http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-restaurant-part-2-money-and-the-law/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>300bps</author><text><i>It&#x27;s a terrible system</i><p>I believe in pay for performance in all professions so I certainly would prefer such a system for a hospitality industry. The minimum I&#x27;ve ever given anyone for a tip is 15% and honestly the service has to be terrible for me to give that. If the service is good I give 20% and if the service is remarkable I&#x27;ll give more.<p>The way I think of it is that the cost of the meal is at least 15% to 20% higher than what is on the menu. If I don&#x27;t want to pay that, I eat at home.<p>I don&#x27;t get wanting to pay 15% to 20% more on the menu and then having no ability to give an incentive for people to perform better.</text></item><item><author>po</author><text>Having lived in Japan for the past few years, I&#x27;m so over the tipping culture it&#x27;s pretty hard to stomach when I go back to the States. Besides the issues it causes for employers that this article covers, I really dislike the power dynamics that it causes for the customers: but maybe not in the way you would think.<p>While the customer may be financially powerful in the relationship, I feel that tipping culture gives power to the server to <i>withhold good service</i> as a punishment or as an optimization strategy at their own discretion. It causes a server to judge you as soon as you walk through the door... will this person give a good tip? Should I ignore them and focus on this other table?<p>The worst part is that the tip happens at the end of the meal after all of the &#x27;costs&#x27; of providing good service are already done. If the patron stiffs the server, then the effort was &#x27;wasted.&#x27; It&#x27;s far better to make an educated guess based on… what? the way they dress? their grammar? the car they pulled in with?<p>It&#x27;s a terrible system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lisper</author><text>Pay for performance is a fine goal to strive for. The problem with tipping is that, unless you return to the same place often, there&#x27;s no disincentive for customers who defect and stiff the waiter. The waiter can&#x27;t reclaim the service he&#x27;s already provided. So actually providing pay for performance has to be done mostly out of altruism rather than as part of a fair exchange. The result is that some people do defect, and those who don&#x27;t literally end up picking up the tab for them.</text></comment> |
32,954,083 | 32,953,383 | 1 | 2 | 32,950,442 | train | <story><title>The journey to Nintendo Switch</title><url>https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-370</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jvanderbot</author><text>&gt; Removing all uses of undefined behaviour is probably a fool&#x27;s errand, as it would require significant changes throughout the code that would take time and come with a performance impact, all for no immediate practical benefit. So I just hunted down the undefined behaviour cases that actually broke determinism. This was easy enough, as we have plenty of tools we use to test determinism. By comparing the game state CRC for every tick of every test (we have 2,417 tests) between x86 and ARM, I believe I got a pretty good coverage of potential issues.<p>Holy hell.</text></comment> | <story><title>The journey to Nintendo Switch</title><url>https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-370</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Arrath</author><text>&gt; &quot;This is the first time we had to make sure the game is deterministic between ARM and x86. We should be fine, C++ is portable, right? Just don&#x27;t use undefined behavior. Turns out we use quite a lot of undefined behavior...&quot;<p>Hah</text></comment> |
9,441,450 | 9,441,377 | 1 | 2 | 9,440,965 | train | <story><title>Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/looking-up-symptoms-online-these-companies-are-collecting-your-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aw3c2</author><text>Just a reminder that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.torproject.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.torproject.org</a> offers a free and open-source unzip-and-run Firefox to use a anonymizing network run mostly by volunteers.<p>Using Tor to anonymously and privately educate yourself about embarrassing or potentially ostracized problems with yourself is a great use of it. Just remember that you should not ever enter any identifying information while using it.<p>Tor is more than fast enough for every day browsing, heck I use it to watch Youtube without major problems. I also use it to read the news, find recipes or lyrics (or similarly shady web circles) etc.<p>If the other side does not <i>need</i> to know who you are and does not <i>have to</i> synchronize that information into a vast tracking&#x2F;advertising network, why should you willingly submit it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dzhiurgis</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it ironic that to check your symptoms you have you use the same technology that you buy your cocaine with?</text></comment> | <story><title>Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/looking-up-symptoms-online-these-companies-are-collecting-your-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aw3c2</author><text>Just a reminder that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.torproject.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.torproject.org</a> offers a free and open-source unzip-and-run Firefox to use a anonymizing network run mostly by volunteers.<p>Using Tor to anonymously and privately educate yourself about embarrassing or potentially ostracized problems with yourself is a great use of it. Just remember that you should not ever enter any identifying information while using it.<p>Tor is more than fast enough for every day browsing, heck I use it to watch Youtube without major problems. I also use it to read the news, find recipes or lyrics (or similarly shady web circles) etc.<p>If the other side does not <i>need</i> to know who you are and does not <i>have to</i> synchronize that information into a vast tracking&#x2F;advertising network, why should you willingly submit it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andy_ppp</author><text>If I download Tor I&#x27;ll end up on one of the governments&#x27; lists. Is there a way to download it anonymously :-)</text></comment> |
39,820,558 | 39,813,697 | 1 | 2 | 39,805,299 | train | <story><title>Scientists have traced human tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/23/world/humans-tails-genetic-mutation-junk-dna-scn/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npstr</author><text>Nature does not refactor. There&#x27;s the laryngeal nerve somewhere in the neck of mammals that has to go around a blood vessel. On Giraffes, this runs all the way down the neck, around said blood vessel, than back up, all that just to connect two places in the upper neck that are inches apart. Evolution writes the ultimate spaghetti code.<p>More info:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;berto-meister.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;08&#x2F;unintelligent-design-giraffes-laryngeal.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;berto-meister.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;08&#x2F;unintelligent-des...</a></text></item><item><author>KennyBlanken</author><text>Rarely is human genetics this simple. For ages geneticists thought large swaths of the human genome were &quot;junk&quot; and over time more and more of it has been proven to have a purpose or function, it just wasn&#x27;t readily apparent for various reasons.<p>Think of the human genome as sort of the ultimate dependency hell...</text></item><item><author>joshuamcginnis</author><text>I believe this suggests that we could CRISPR an embryo to knock-out the offending Alu element in the TBXT gene and the child will develop a tail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>water-data-dude</author><text>Early developmental biology (by “early” I mean early pregnancy) is the shit you Do Not Touch. Each step of development is highly dependent on the previous steps (assuming this bit’s here, that bit’s there, etc.). If you make a change it’s extremely likely to be fatal or have negative consequences like birth defects, and the likelihood of a bad outcome climbs steeply as you move the change earlier and earlier in the process. That’s why pretty much every animal - humans, tigers, whales, lizards - looks the same when they’re a teeny tiny little fetus.<p>My example is testicles! Testicles begin in the same place as ovaries, which made a lot of sense back when we were coldblooded! Having a pair of balls dangling in a soft pouch between your legs isn’t a strategy you adopt if you can help it. In the alternate timeline where lizard people rose to dominate the earth instead of humans they don’t have “Ouch, I’ve been hit in the balls!” humor.<p>But the testicles form next to the kidneys early on in the developmental process (and as we’ve established, you don’t fuck with those stages), so they have to migrate south VERY late in the development! Because they SCHLOOP on down after everything else is pretty much in place, it weakens the abdominal wall, which is why men are more prone to certain types of hernias than women are.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scientists have traced human tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/23/world/humans-tails-genetic-mutation-junk-dna-scn/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npstr</author><text>Nature does not refactor. There&#x27;s the laryngeal nerve somewhere in the neck of mammals that has to go around a blood vessel. On Giraffes, this runs all the way down the neck, around said blood vessel, than back up, all that just to connect two places in the upper neck that are inches apart. Evolution writes the ultimate spaghetti code.<p>More info:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;berto-meister.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;08&#x2F;unintelligent-design-giraffes-laryngeal.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;berto-meister.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;08&#x2F;unintelligent-des...</a></text></item><item><author>KennyBlanken</author><text>Rarely is human genetics this simple. For ages geneticists thought large swaths of the human genome were &quot;junk&quot; and over time more and more of it has been proven to have a purpose or function, it just wasn&#x27;t readily apparent for various reasons.<p>Think of the human genome as sort of the ultimate dependency hell...</text></item><item><author>joshuamcginnis</author><text>I believe this suggests that we could CRISPR an embryo to knock-out the offending Alu element in the TBXT gene and the child will develop a tail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dingdingdang</author><text>Nature does not refactor, except when it does as in the case of going from 48 to 46 chromosomes (great apes-&gt;humans). Nice write-up and slightly novel hypothesis at: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;molecularcytogenetics.biomedcentral.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;10.1186&#x2F;s13039-016-0283-3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;molecularcytogenetics.biomedcentral.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;10....</a></text></comment> |
32,687,682 | 32,687,428 | 1 | 2 | 32,685,663 | train | <story><title>Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels</title><url>https://www.surgehq.ai//blog/tiktok-vs-instagram-reels-personalized-human-evaluation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saurik</author><text>&gt; 1. The Reels algorithm is simplistic as fuck. I was scrolling through Instagram recently and a three reel “ad” came up. I accidentally tapped on the center one and it turned out to be a pimple popping video. Now every reel I see is that. No exceptions. I am sure if I actually watched more Reels I would get better content but that’s work.<p>OMG this... a million times this :&#x2F;. YouTube has similar issues--where you watch one video from some sitcom or cartoon not because it was from that particular show but because it happened to be about something interesting and suddenly YouTube is SURE you LOVE that show and want EVERYTHING IT HAS about that show--but it isn&#x27;t quite so bad as Instagram, where I&#x27;ve heard a ton of stories about ending up pigeonholed by its algorithm into something they have a phobia for or past trauma related to, and now they are afraid to use the app, because it really does feel like you click on one pimple popping video (which has come up as the SPECIFIC issue for MULTIPLE people I&#x27;ve talked to, INCLUDING MYSELF a while ago) and BAM the app is now nothing but pimples being popped, 24&#x2F;7.</text></item><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>As a millennial I can tell you exactly why TikTok is better:<p>1. The Reels algorithm is simplistic as fuck. I was scrolling through Instagram recently and a three reel “ad” came up. I accidentally tapped on the center one and it turned out to be a pimple popping video. Now every reel I see is that. No exceptions. I am sure if I actually watched more Reels I would get better content but that’s work.<p>2. Reels are often poor quality. What I see is mostly life hacks that are actually really stupid or jokes that never pay off.<p>3. TikTok has a creator culture that seems far superior to Reels. What Facebook&#x2F;Instagram seem to fail to realize is that the problem they have isn’t a lack of a video platform but rather a lack culture. TikTok somehow did foster a really cool culture of people creating content, perhaps using their stitches feature.<p>4. Instagram is a photo sharing platform. Imagine if every other thing you saw on TikTok was a still photo. It would be jarring. That’s the current experience with reels.<p>5. I don’t know if this is actually true but it feels to me that you can get a lot more exposure quickly on TikTok than with Reels. I don’t post TikTok videos but know enough people who do and it seems they are very much able to get tens of thousands of views with minimal effort and while being relatively new to the platform. I don’t think you can get those numbers with Reels.<p>6. TikTok nailed ads. They are obvious, easy to skip, and not jarring at all. Instagram is a mess.<p>7. I come to Instagram to seek specific kind of content from my friends. I get reels from total strangers. I come to TikTok to get lols from random strangers and sometimes see friends. This is very personal but this is a major reason for me to use both and to dislike Reels.</text></item><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>I like that they asked actual users, and provided actual examples; it&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve always felt off about Instagram&#x27;s Reels vs TikTok. However the takeaway is that your TikTok feed is curated by hand by artisan robots vs Instagram is curated by lizards who only care about data.<p>Both companies are completely data driven with some amazing engineers; but <i>why</i> is the Reels product boring, while TikTok is engaging has to be something other than TikTok pulled the &quot;wholesome&quot; lever. (There was a ~month where I was getting incredibly depressing sideshows, so I don&#x27;t think tiktok is 100% wholesome).<p>My theory has been that people have been conditioned out of posting to Instagram (if you don&#x27;t have a literally perfect life, then why post) and as a result Instagram just has less content to draw upon. I think this effort to chase TikTok isn&#x27;t going to pan out because &quot;regular&quot; people aren&#x27;t posting to Instagram.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>It&#x27;s the dreaded &quot;more of the same shit&quot; algorithm that people confuse with deep learning and AI. The sad reality is that recommendation teams in these companies maintain some ugly gobbled together if .. else logic rather than a proper recommendation engine. Proper recommendation engines are hard. That&#x27;s why recommendations change dramatically if you just use a vpn or travel. The IP address based geo location trumps everything else they might know about you. That&#x27;s because there&#x27;s a big if else around whatever other logic they have.<p>Add promoted content&#x2F;ads to the mix that they are paid to promote and you end up with a mix of content that is primarily based on where you are, what they want to pimp in that region, and more of the same shit you were clicking on anyway; more or less in that order. The exact same shit quite often actually. Even filtering that out seems hard.<p>They are incentivized by ad clicks, not by your amusement. That&#x27;s the business mistake that allows Tiktok to prosper because they are still trying to grow at the expense of their competition which means that they are in fact incentivized by your amusement as observed through your addictive behavior in the form of content clicks.<p>Instagram was like that once. And then Facebook bought them and started messing it up. Facebook was once like that until Facebook became an advertising company. The mistake that gets made over and over again in this space is that at some point they think they&#x27;ve won and start milking their network for revenue. The process of doing that destroys and erodes that network and something else pops up that is more interesting for users.<p>Tik Tok is doomed to go there too. Just a matter of time. It&#x27;s irresistible for shareholders and advertisers. They&#x27;ll get dollar signs in their eyes and they&#x27;ll mess it up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels</title><url>https://www.surgehq.ai//blog/tiktok-vs-instagram-reels-personalized-human-evaluation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saurik</author><text>&gt; 1. The Reels algorithm is simplistic as fuck. I was scrolling through Instagram recently and a three reel “ad” came up. I accidentally tapped on the center one and it turned out to be a pimple popping video. Now every reel I see is that. No exceptions. I am sure if I actually watched more Reels I would get better content but that’s work.<p>OMG this... a million times this :&#x2F;. YouTube has similar issues--where you watch one video from some sitcom or cartoon not because it was from that particular show but because it happened to be about something interesting and suddenly YouTube is SURE you LOVE that show and want EVERYTHING IT HAS about that show--but it isn&#x27;t quite so bad as Instagram, where I&#x27;ve heard a ton of stories about ending up pigeonholed by its algorithm into something they have a phobia for or past trauma related to, and now they are afraid to use the app, because it really does feel like you click on one pimple popping video (which has come up as the SPECIFIC issue for MULTIPLE people I&#x27;ve talked to, INCLUDING MYSELF a while ago) and BAM the app is now nothing but pimples being popped, 24&#x2F;7.</text></item><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>As a millennial I can tell you exactly why TikTok is better:<p>1. The Reels algorithm is simplistic as fuck. I was scrolling through Instagram recently and a three reel “ad” came up. I accidentally tapped on the center one and it turned out to be a pimple popping video. Now every reel I see is that. No exceptions. I am sure if I actually watched more Reels I would get better content but that’s work.<p>2. Reels are often poor quality. What I see is mostly life hacks that are actually really stupid or jokes that never pay off.<p>3. TikTok has a creator culture that seems far superior to Reels. What Facebook&#x2F;Instagram seem to fail to realize is that the problem they have isn’t a lack of a video platform but rather a lack culture. TikTok somehow did foster a really cool culture of people creating content, perhaps using their stitches feature.<p>4. Instagram is a photo sharing platform. Imagine if every other thing you saw on TikTok was a still photo. It would be jarring. That’s the current experience with reels.<p>5. I don’t know if this is actually true but it feels to me that you can get a lot more exposure quickly on TikTok than with Reels. I don’t post TikTok videos but know enough people who do and it seems they are very much able to get tens of thousands of views with minimal effort and while being relatively new to the platform. I don’t think you can get those numbers with Reels.<p>6. TikTok nailed ads. They are obvious, easy to skip, and not jarring at all. Instagram is a mess.<p>7. I come to Instagram to seek specific kind of content from my friends. I get reels from total strangers. I come to TikTok to get lols from random strangers and sometimes see friends. This is very personal but this is a major reason for me to use both and to dislike Reels.</text></item><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>I like that they asked actual users, and provided actual examples; it&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve always felt off about Instagram&#x27;s Reels vs TikTok. However the takeaway is that your TikTok feed is curated by hand by artisan robots vs Instagram is curated by lizards who only care about data.<p>Both companies are completely data driven with some amazing engineers; but <i>why</i> is the Reels product boring, while TikTok is engaging has to be something other than TikTok pulled the &quot;wholesome&quot; lever. (There was a ~month where I was getting incredibly depressing sideshows, so I don&#x27;t think tiktok is 100% wholesome).<p>My theory has been that people have been conditioned out of posting to Instagram (if you don&#x27;t have a literally perfect life, then why post) and as a result Instagram just has less content to draw upon. I think this effort to chase TikTok isn&#x27;t going to pan out because &quot;regular&quot; people aren&#x27;t posting to Instagram.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oefrha</author><text>I’ve always wondered why they are so bad at learning such an obvious lesson from their supposed biggest threat. TikTok seems to always mix it up; even if you do actually want to watch pimple popping 24&#x2F;7, they seem to throw in some totally unrelated thing once in a while. Turns out people easily find things they didn’t even know they would enjoy this way, and when they have many interests, their feeds are way more engaging.<p>What’s so hard about randomizing 10-20% of the time?</text></comment> |
8,193,894 | 8,193,868 | 1 | 2 | 8,192,381 | train | <story><title>The Spy Who Loved Me: An undercover surveillance operation that went too far</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/the-spy-who-loved-me-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mortov</author><text>North Americans are probably astonished at what is &#x27;permitted&#x27; for UK police to become involved in - there are no constitutional protections and no effective oversight and there never has been in the UK. Even today the Police actively obstruct and frustrate attempts to bring effective controls and oversight of their activities which can be in clear and blatant breach of what limited legislation exists.<p>This (and other related) stories rolls on with only a few days ago the Metropolitan police in London being forced by a court order to admit the identities of two officers - Jim Boyling and Bob Lambert [who the referenced article is about] - who fathered children (then disappeared leaving the mothers and babies to fend for themselves). <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/15/metropolitan-police-forced-to-name-undercover-officers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;aug&#x2F;15&#x2F;metropolitan-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Spy Who Loved Me: An undercover surveillance operation that went too far</title><url>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/the-spy-who-loved-me-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>junto</author><text>Interesting article. I hope that the families affected by this Met Police massive error of judgement find a way to get peace in their lives.<p>I imagine that many are deeply hurt by the actions of these undercover police officers. This lady was obviously deeply emotionally scarred by her failed marriage to this man.<p>I also feel some sympathy for the officers involved. The police are a brainwashing operation on young impressionable minds. In many ways they are also victims of the state.<p>It is likely that those responsible for the decisions that led to this happening are long since retired and nothing will happen to them, but it must lead to safe-guards to make sure it doesn&#x27;t happen again.</text></comment> |
31,607,302 | 31,606,448 | 1 | 2 | 31,592,769 | train | <story><title>Some thoughts on machine learning with small data</title><url>https://niklasriewald.com/2022/06/02/some-thoughts-on-machine-learning-with-small-data/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisRackauckas</author><text>There&#x27;s also data in another source: domain knowledge and physical laws. This is the core tenant of scientific machine learning techniques (SciML). I have a talk that walks through how you can go from something without domain knowledge (like a neural ODE) and how as you add more prior model knowledge to the system the extrapolation accuracy improves even for small amounts of data (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FihLyzdjN_8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FihLyzdjN_8</a>). People have used these techniques in all kinds of places, like extrapolating black hole trajectories and building earthquake-safe buildings, off of like 20-40 data points (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eSeY4K4bITI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eSeY4K4bITI</a>). While there is a lot of work to be done in the domain still, there&#x27;s a lot of empirical evidence that this approach does indeed decrease the data requirements (but is then no longer &quot;pure&quot; machine learning in some sense)</text></comment> | <story><title>Some thoughts on machine learning with small data</title><url>https://niklasriewald.com/2022/06/02/some-thoughts-on-machine-learning-with-small-data/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>evrydayhustling</author><text>A powerful concept for thinking about small data is bias&#x2F;variance tradeoff. The ELI5 is: data is how a learner selects confidently between one model and another. So if you have little data, you must choose between high bias (fewer models to choose from) or low confidence (can&#x27;t be sure you picked the best one).<p>Bias in a lot of contexts is Bad, and large data techniques like DNN are basically about how you can have biases that are so vague the learner has plenty of room to surprise you. But when you add bias that truly aligns with the structure your learner is going to be exposed to, you enable it to reach confidence sooner. Many important techniques for small data are about allowing you to express specific biases. For example:<p>- PGMs and Probabilistic Programming are about giving you a specific, interpretable structure for how your data are related to each other.<p>- Picking informed bayesian priors<p>- Data augmentation lets you add bias by expressing what kinds of variation <i>don&#x27;t</i> matter (I.e. permitting and fuzzing your dataset)<p>- feature engineering is about selectively adding and removing biases in terms of what kinds of data transformations are informative<p>With all that said, the large data ML community has produced an incredible tool for practical work with small data: transfer learning. If your dataset is related to a larger one (e.g. by including natural language), you can borrow informed biases from models that were trained on a much larger corpus.</text></comment> |
21,152,502 | 21,152,324 | 1 | 2 | 21,150,930 | train | <story><title>What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?</title><url>https://80000hours.org/2019/10/anonymous-advice-careers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>Article comments and comments in this thread seem to miss the point of the title entirely. Here&#x27;s some actual advice I don&#x27;t want my name on, but seems pretty effective based on working at a lot of different Big Cos:<p>- Always go for prestige over purpose. Have a choice between a shiny project with very little actual impact to the company and a behind the scenes project that will actually make lives better for employees and customers? Go for the shiny project. It will look better on your resume and to executive teams, and will get you promoted faster.<p>- Learn the art of looking busy and practice it often. If you <i>look</i> busy all the time, people will assume you&#x27;re productive and also not give you a bunch of extra work for no extra compensation.<p>- Play politics. A lot. Especially throwing other people under the bus. The key is to align your politics with the right power players in your org. You&#x27;ll get promoted faster, get more bonuses, and be able to get away with more things in general.<p>- Get the scoop on what&#x27;s actually going on at executive levels by making friends with the office managers&#x2F;personal assistants. You&#x27;ll get an early notification of problems coming up, people to avoid, opportunities to take advantage of, etc.<p>- Loyalty is for chumps. Play the game for yourself. If you get a better offer somewhere else, take it. If your boss is an asshole or putting a glass ceiling over you, leave. If you need time off, take it. If your team isn&#x27;t being effective, throw them under the bus and move on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Balgair</author><text>&gt; Especially throwing other people under the bus.<p>Hard disagree with this one.<p>I&#x27;ve seen better success with &#x27;compliment everyone behind their backs, giving a good reason&#x27;.<p>Throwing everyone under the bus can be very very effective, but it&#x27;s got to be for a very short run at the goal, typically. If you end up working with those people again, you&#x27;re cooked.<p>I&#x27;d say, if you don&#x27;t see yourself working with that person <i>ever again</i> in the next 6mo. to 1 year, you can throw others under the bus, provided you can get ahead of them on the org charts and the cocktail talk. If you are going to be working with those people again and they are in your radius of org chart or cocktail talk, compliment them all behind their backs <i>relentlessly</i>.<p>Don&#x27;t be a doormat, of course, but sing other&#x27;s praises. You&#x27;ll get a reputation for being a great person to work with, and everyone wants to work with a great person to work with.<p>Everything else on this list is <i>spot on</i>, great write up!</text></comment> | <story><title>What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?</title><url>https://80000hours.org/2019/10/anonymous-advice-careers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>Article comments and comments in this thread seem to miss the point of the title entirely. Here&#x27;s some actual advice I don&#x27;t want my name on, but seems pretty effective based on working at a lot of different Big Cos:<p>- Always go for prestige over purpose. Have a choice between a shiny project with very little actual impact to the company and a behind the scenes project that will actually make lives better for employees and customers? Go for the shiny project. It will look better on your resume and to executive teams, and will get you promoted faster.<p>- Learn the art of looking busy and practice it often. If you <i>look</i> busy all the time, people will assume you&#x27;re productive and also not give you a bunch of extra work for no extra compensation.<p>- Play politics. A lot. Especially throwing other people under the bus. The key is to align your politics with the right power players in your org. You&#x27;ll get promoted faster, get more bonuses, and be able to get away with more things in general.<p>- Get the scoop on what&#x27;s actually going on at executive levels by making friends with the office managers&#x2F;personal assistants. You&#x27;ll get an early notification of problems coming up, people to avoid, opportunities to take advantage of, etc.<p>- Loyalty is for chumps. Play the game for yourself. If you get a better offer somewhere else, take it. If your boss is an asshole or putting a glass ceiling over you, leave. If you need time off, take it. If your team isn&#x27;t being effective, throw them under the bus and move on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>driverdan</author><text>&gt; Get the scoop on what&#x27;s actually going on at executive levels by making friends with the office managers&#x2F;personal assistants.<p>I&#x27;d expand this to always make friends with gatekeepers. Office managers, PAs, front desk, kitchen staff, building security, etc. They&#x27;re hardworking people who tend to be ignored and mistreated. Respect them, be friendly, and it will open many gates along with making their lives better.</text></comment> |
36,368,012 | 36,367,506 | 1 | 2 | 36,366,137 | train | <story><title>Humans have pumped enough groundwater to change the tilt of the Earth</title><url>https://e360.yale.edu/digest/groundwater-depletion-earths-axis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjfl</author><text>2 trillion tons = 1&#x2F;3 of 1 billionth of the mass of the earth. the distance from the ground to the surface is around 5 millionths of the radius of earth (like 100ft)<p>So you&#x27;re talking about a change in angular momentum that is on the order of 10^(-20) times the angular momentum of earth (mr^2 \omega).<p>A change in the pole of earths rotation by 31 inches (10^(-7) times the radius of earch) corresponds to a change in angular momentum on the order of 10^(-14). So we seem to be off by 7 orders of magnitude.<p>I call bullshit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrian_b</author><text>Your computation is very wrong, as explained in the actual research paper and in another comment here. The water is not moved only from under the ground to the surface and the effect on the axis is not due to raising, but mainly to horizontal movement.</text></comment> | <story><title>Humans have pumped enough groundwater to change the tilt of the Earth</title><url>https://e360.yale.edu/digest/groundwater-depletion-earths-axis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjfl</author><text>2 trillion tons = 1&#x2F;3 of 1 billionth of the mass of the earth. the distance from the ground to the surface is around 5 millionths of the radius of earth (like 100ft)<p>So you&#x27;re talking about a change in angular momentum that is on the order of 10^(-20) times the angular momentum of earth (mr^2 \omega).<p>A change in the pole of earths rotation by 31 inches (10^(-7) times the radius of earch) corresponds to a change in angular momentum on the order of 10^(-14). So we seem to be off by 7 orders of magnitude.<p>I call bullshit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wcoenen</author><text>&gt; <i>the distance from the ground to the surface is around 5 millionths</i><p>The water from aquifers is not just lifted a short distance up to the surface. It is used, ends up in rivers, and spreads around the world&#x27;s oceans. And the places where we are pumping groundwater are not uniformly distributed around the Earth. We are essentially moving mass to the Pacific.</text></comment> |
12,174,342 | 12,174,150 | 1 | 2 | 12,173,742 | train | <story><title>Our statement on the results of the Jacob Appelbaum investigation</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/blog/statement-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddevault</author><text>This sort of thing really merits a judicial investigation. It&#x27;s not appropriate to place these issues in the eyes of the public until then, and I&#x27;ve never appreciated these sorts of articles in my feed.<p>Some will be swayed by the fact that the internal investigation turned up some legitimate claims, but if the judicial system disagrees then this guy&#x27;s life is already ruined, and I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s appropriate. The whole situation reflects poorly on everyone involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avs733</author><text>That seems to assume that<p>* The judicial system is the only system capable of determining facts.<p>* Our adversarial-driven judicial system is an effective way of determining facts.<p>Neither of those are true. The ability of any group of independent experts to collect information&#x2F;evidence, analyze it, and come to a conclusion about a reasoned set of facts and inferences is something I am comfortable assuming. This happens all the time, and I can&#x27;t help but think that the context here (i.e., a man harassing a women) has some influence on this point of view.<p>What TOR produced and published is in my eyes perfectly appropriate and reasonable. Bad conduct not always does, nor should it, necessitate a judicial investigation. Especially when that investigation is carried out by the <i>state</i> who have a significant tension with the TOR project. Not to mention that the victims have asked for that not to happen.</text></comment> | <story><title>Our statement on the results of the Jacob Appelbaum investigation</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/blog/statement-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddevault</author><text>This sort of thing really merits a judicial investigation. It&#x27;s not appropriate to place these issues in the eyes of the public until then, and I&#x27;ve never appreciated these sorts of articles in my feed.<p>Some will be swayed by the fact that the internal investigation turned up some legitimate claims, but if the judicial system disagrees then this guy&#x27;s life is already ruined, and I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s appropriate. The whole situation reflects poorly on everyone involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dublinben</author><text>&gt;This sort of thing really merits a judicial investigation<p>The victims involved in this have specifically asked this to not happen. I&#x27;m sure you can understand why the members of a community like this would have personal or political reasons to avoid a judicial investigation.</text></comment> |
28,967,743 | 28,966,800 | 1 | 2 | 28,966,045 | train | <story><title>Federal judges or their brokers traded stocks of litigants during cases</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-judges-brokers-traded-stocks-of-litigants-during-cases-walmart-pfizer-11634306192</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>&gt; <i>Money has infiltrated everything</i><p>Worse, money is protected speech, and using it to buy influence is protected by the law!</text></item><item><author>Jerry2</author><text>Everything&#x27;s corrupted. Pretty much every branch of government is rife with corruption. Even the enforcement is corrupt. Money has infiltrated everything and justice is now truly blind.<p>And if by some miracle you&#x27;re tried and found guilty, you can even buy your way out of serving any time and you can even buy a presidential pardon and have your crime expunged.<p>If you&#x27;re rich, vast majority of laws simply don&#x27;t apply to you. Yet there&#x27;s so many laws on books and many of those laws are so vague that an average person commits several felonies every day. [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB10001424052748704471504574438900830760842" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB10001424052748704471504574438...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refurb</author><text>Exactly! Bloomberg spent $1B on his nomination for president and… it failed entirely.</text></comment> | <story><title>Federal judges or their brokers traded stocks of litigants during cases</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-judges-brokers-traded-stocks-of-litigants-during-cases-walmart-pfizer-11634306192</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>&gt; <i>Money has infiltrated everything</i><p>Worse, money is protected speech, and using it to buy influence is protected by the law!</text></item><item><author>Jerry2</author><text>Everything&#x27;s corrupted. Pretty much every branch of government is rife with corruption. Even the enforcement is corrupt. Money has infiltrated everything and justice is now truly blind.<p>And if by some miracle you&#x27;re tried and found guilty, you can even buy your way out of serving any time and you can even buy a presidential pardon and have your crime expunged.<p>If you&#x27;re rich, vast majority of laws simply don&#x27;t apply to you. Yet there&#x27;s so many laws on books and many of those laws are so vague that an average person commits several felonies every day. [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB10001424052748704471504574438900830760842" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB10001424052748704471504574438...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaylinux</author><text>When that happens, people will have even less recourse against media, internet and social media companies using their power to influence.</text></comment> |
12,020,927 | 12,020,537 | 1 | 2 | 12,019,376 | train | <story><title>OpenLTE: An open source 3GPP LTE implementation</title><url>https://sourceforge.net/projects/openlte/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tlack</author><text>Anyone working on any &quot;ad hoc GSM&#x2F;LTE&quot; startups, or developed any business models around them? This technology is very interesting but I&#x27;m puzzled about what I would use it for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zigurd</author><text>There was a GSM-to-VoIP node based on a femtocell but the company making it apparently abandoned the idea before shipping very many, if any at all. I suspect the telcos had a small freakout.<p>In theory one can be transmitting on licensed spectrum inside the home without permits, but I suppose the telcos never envisioned a &quot;3rd party femtocell&quot; that wasn&#x27;t connected to their services. So I imagine they were faced with drowning under deluge of telco lawyers.<p>Still, that was a brilliant idea. I think the product was eventually pivoted to shipboard applications. But, with unlimited voice calls on many plans, a roam-to-voip home base station holds less appeal.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenLTE: An open source 3GPP LTE implementation</title><url>https://sourceforge.net/projects/openlte/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tlack</author><text>Anyone working on any &quot;ad hoc GSM&#x2F;LTE&quot; startups, or developed any business models around them? This technology is very interesting but I&#x27;m puzzled about what I would use it for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Interestingly enough, there are places without any cell phone coverage where being able to enable a small cell site would provide communications. There are also many disaster scenarios where it would be helpful to have such a capability.</text></comment> |
10,195,467 | 10,195,276 | 1 | 2 | 10,192,413 | train | <story><title>Magic PNG Thumbnails</title><url>http://thume.ca/projects/2012/11/14/magic-png-files/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pygy_</author><text>Could someone explain why this image is flickering on my MacBook Air screen?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thume.ca&#x2F;assets&#x2F;postassets&#x2F;doubleVision&#x2F;out.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thume.ca&#x2F;assets&#x2F;postassets&#x2F;doubleVision&#x2F;out.png</a><p>Especially &quot;ze first&quot; image as seen in FF and Chrome.<p>I suppose it is related to how monitors use temporal dithering to fake 24 bit colors when they really have 18 bits per pixel, but why is it more apparent on this kind of picture?<p>Is it a perceptual issue or a technical one?<p>It is also apparent when using Windows XP under virtualization. Some windows have checkerboard patterns that flicker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>Here&#x27;s a page with a test and a potential explanation <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lagom.nl&#x2F;lcd-test&#x2F;inversion.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lagom.nl&#x2F;lcd-test&#x2F;inversion.php</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Magic PNG Thumbnails</title><url>http://thume.ca/projects/2012/11/14/magic-png-files/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pygy_</author><text>Could someone explain why this image is flickering on my MacBook Air screen?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thume.ca&#x2F;assets&#x2F;postassets&#x2F;doubleVision&#x2F;out.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thume.ca&#x2F;assets&#x2F;postassets&#x2F;doubleVision&#x2F;out.png</a><p>Especially &quot;ze first&quot; image as seen in FF and Chrome.<p>I suppose it is related to how monitors use temporal dithering to fake 24 bit colors when they really have 18 bits per pixel, but why is it more apparent on this kind of picture?<p>Is it a perceptual issue or a technical one?<p>It is also apparent when using Windows XP under virtualization. Some windows have checkerboard patterns that flicker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trishume</author><text>Yah this happens because the image is based on a grid. You can see it on any monitor if you open it up in an image viewer and zoom in an out.<p>As another commenter mentioned these effects are called Moiré patterns: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Moir%C3%A9_pattern" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Moir%C3%A9_pattern</a><p>They may be more or less apparent depending on the scaling on the image and the scaling algorithm being applied. Some scaling algorithms apply filters that can make the effect even <i>more</i> weird than normal.</text></comment> |
37,226,124 | 37,225,099 | 1 | 2 | 37,222,822 | train | <story><title>SeamlessM4T, a Multimodal AI Model for Speech and Text Translation</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2023/08/seamlessm4t-ai-translation-model/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lhl</author><text>I gave it a spin a little bit ago. Per usual, install docs didn&#x27;t quite work OOTB, here&#x27;s how I got it working: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llm-tracker.info&#x2F;books&#x2F;howto-guides&#x2F;page&#x2F;speech-to-text#bkmrk-seamlessm4t" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llm-tracker.info&#x2F;books&#x2F;howto-guides&#x2F;page&#x2F;speech-to-t...</a><p>One limitation that seems undocumented, the current code only supports relatively short clips so isn&#x27;t suitable for long transcriptions:<p>&gt; ValueError: The input sequence length must be less than or equal to the maximum sequence length (4096), but is 99945 instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>SeamlessM4T, a Multimodal AI Model for Speech and Text Translation</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2023/08/seamlessm4t-ai-translation-model/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crakenzak</author><text>code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebookresearch&#x2F;seamless_communication">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebookresearch&#x2F;seamless_communication</a><p>paper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.meta.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;publications&#x2F;seamless-m4t&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.meta.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;publications&#x2F;seamless-m4t&#x2F;</a><p>demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seamless.metademolab.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seamless.metademolab.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
18,722,327 | 18,722,104 | 1 | 2 | 18,721,513 | train | <story><title>On VBScript</title><url>https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/12/on-vbscript.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tlb</author><text>VB&#x27;s evaluation order, in which the left side of an assignment is evaluated before the right side, seems like a terrible idea. In most languages including C and C++, it&#x27;s specified that the RHS is evaluated first. Since, of course, the RHS might have a side effect on the location of the LHS.<p>Is there some advantage to LHS-first that I can&#x27;t think of?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alangpierce</author><text>Interesting, my intuition is the opposite: that left-to-right evaluation is clearly the better approach. I just tested a few languages and it turns out that there&#x27;s no clear agreed-upon answer, but LHS first seems to be more common at least for recent languages:<p>LHS first: JavaScript, Java, Go, C#, Swift, PHP, Ruby<p>RHS first: C++, Python, Rust<p>I ran this sort of code for all of them:<p><pre><code> def lhs(): print &quot;LHS&quot;; return 0
def rhs(): print &quot;RHS&quot;; return 0
a = [0]
a[lhs()] = rhs()
</code></pre>
&quot;=&quot; is syntactically just a binary operator, so I expect it to behave like other binary operators (and AFAIK all other binary operators evaluate left-to-right in almost all languages). It&#x27;s special because the LHS evaluates to an assignable reference rather than to a value, but nothing stops you from evaluating the left side in full before starting to evaluate the right side. As with every binary operator, it&#x27;s possible to write code such that the evaluation of one side affects the result of evaluating the other side, but of course that sort of code is really fragile anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>On VBScript</title><url>https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/12/on-vbscript.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tlb</author><text>VB&#x27;s evaluation order, in which the left side of an assignment is evaluated before the right side, seems like a terrible idea. In most languages including C and C++, it&#x27;s specified that the RHS is evaluated first. Since, of course, the RHS might have a side effect on the location of the LHS.<p>Is there some advantage to LHS-first that I can&#x27;t think of?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text><i>including C and C++, it&#x27;s specified that the RHS is evaluated first.</i><p>I did not check C++ but for C, according to ISO&#x2F;IEC 9899:1999 section 6.5.16 paragraph 4 on the semantics of the assignment operator: &quot;The order of evaluation of the operands is unspecified.&quot;</text></comment> |
36,957,870 | 36,957,150 | 1 | 3 | 36,952,796 | train | <story><title>Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful</title><url>https://github.com/martinvonz/jj</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chaxor</author><text>Are you simply using it with GitHub repos?<p>It mentions that it can be used with backends like Dropbox, but it would be <i>wonderful</i> if we <i>finally</i> had a system that could easily be used with IPFS. This is <i>especially</i> important for large data, since you can&#x27;t store 1TB on github (and no, I don&#x27;t count lfs, since you have to pay for it).<p>IPFS is the natural solution here, since everyone that wants to use the dataset has it locally anyway, and having thousands of sources to download from is better than just one.<p>So if this uses IPFS for the data repo, I&#x27;m switching immediately. If it doesn&#x27;t, it&#x27;s not worth looking into.</text></item><item><author>ocharles</author><text>Nice to see this posted here. I switched over to it about 2-3 weeks ago, and I haven&#x27;t looked back. It took a lot of mental rewiring, but I really enjoy the workflow `jj` provides. There&#x27;s no longer a time to think about what&#x27;s being committed, because all file changes automatically amend the working copy commit. Of course, sometimes you don&#x27;t want this, so you have things like the ability to split a commit into two, moving commits, etc. But having _everything_ operate on commits is really nice! Other niceities that I like:<p>- `jj log` is awesome for getting an overview of all your branches. If, like me, you have a lot of work in progress at once, this provides a great map<p>- Conflict resolution is really cool, as you can partially resolve conflicts, and then switch branches. Conflicts are also tracked specially, but I haven&#x27;t done too much with this yet.<p>- The abbreviated changeset ids are really handy. I often will just `jj log` (or in my case just `jj` as that&#x27;s the default), notice a changeset I want to rebase, then run `jj rebase -s qr -d master`. `qr` here is an abbreviated changeset id for a branch&#x2F;commit, and usually much quicker than typing the branch name out! This will probably change when clap gets updated to support dynamic tab-completion though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bastardoperator</author><text>If you&#x27;re storing 1TB of binary files in git, you&#x27;re just doing it wrong anyways. You have a bunch of other tools and capabilities for doing this in a way that doesn&#x27;t make your repository nightmarishly stupid to deal with because of its size.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful</title><url>https://github.com/martinvonz/jj</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chaxor</author><text>Are you simply using it with GitHub repos?<p>It mentions that it can be used with backends like Dropbox, but it would be <i>wonderful</i> if we <i>finally</i> had a system that could easily be used with IPFS. This is <i>especially</i> important for large data, since you can&#x27;t store 1TB on github (and no, I don&#x27;t count lfs, since you have to pay for it).<p>IPFS is the natural solution here, since everyone that wants to use the dataset has it locally anyway, and having thousands of sources to download from is better than just one.<p>So if this uses IPFS for the data repo, I&#x27;m switching immediately. If it doesn&#x27;t, it&#x27;s not worth looking into.</text></item><item><author>ocharles</author><text>Nice to see this posted here. I switched over to it about 2-3 weeks ago, and I haven&#x27;t looked back. It took a lot of mental rewiring, but I really enjoy the workflow `jj` provides. There&#x27;s no longer a time to think about what&#x27;s being committed, because all file changes automatically amend the working copy commit. Of course, sometimes you don&#x27;t want this, so you have things like the ability to split a commit into two, moving commits, etc. But having _everything_ operate on commits is really nice! Other niceities that I like:<p>- `jj log` is awesome for getting an overview of all your branches. If, like me, you have a lot of work in progress at once, this provides a great map<p>- Conflict resolution is really cool, as you can partially resolve conflicts, and then switch branches. Conflicts are also tracked specially, but I haven&#x27;t done too much with this yet.<p>- The abbreviated changeset ids are really handy. I often will just `jj log` (or in my case just `jj` as that&#x27;s the default), notice a changeset I want to rebase, then run `jj rebase -s qr -d master`. `qr` here is an abbreviated changeset id for a branch&#x2F;commit, and usually much quicker than typing the branch name out! This will probably change when clap gets updated to support dynamic tab-completion though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbronez</author><text>In the author’s presentation [0], the Google roadmap includes “custom working copy implementation for our internal distributed VFS”. The related graphic shows a “working copy” block connected to a “distributed file system block”.<p>This work might be extensible to include IPFS and other distributed virtual file systems.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;d&#x2F;1F8j9_UOOSGUN9MvHxPZX_L4bQ9NMcYOp1isn17kTC_M&#x2F;mobilepresent?slide=id.g152b1fb8869_0_1432" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;d&#x2F;1F8j9_UOOSGUN9MvHxPZX...</a></text></comment> |
24,928,257 | 24,927,510 | 1 | 2 | 24,916,536 | train | <story><title>Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method</title><url>https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CGamesPlay</author><text>This is your friendly reminder to avoid the productivity hacking tarpit. It feels productive to think about productivity but oftentimes you&#x27;re confusing movement for progress. I&#x27;ll give two specific pieces of advice for people who are thinking about switching from methodology &#x2F; app A to methodology &#x2F; app B.<p>1. You might find something that B does that is just so difficult to accomplish in A, so you want to switch. But before you do, you should spend a week living with the difficult path to do that thing in A. You will likely find that learning the muscle memory to do that thing in A was actually the difficult part, and once you&#x27;ve overcome that hurdle it isn&#x27;t difficult any more.<p>2. You might switch to B and feel that &quot;now, everything is so organized!&quot; However, it&#x27;s very likely that you could have &quot;switched&quot; from A to A and you&#x27;d feel the same way. What I mean by this is that by switching, you&#x27;ve forced yourself to revisit all of your notes. If you forced yourself to revisit your notes without switching, you&#x27;d see the same effect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bachmeier</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t consider this to be a productivity tool in the usual sense (i.e., like Todoist or GTD). Instead, it&#x27;s about facilitating deeper thought and making new connections between ideas. For a professional content creator, which includes most academics like Luhmann, the entirety of your career is your collection of notes. You can store them on paper, in the computer, in your head, or however you want, but those pieces of knowledge are all you have. Dismissing these tools as merely an arbitrary reorganization of a static collection of documents is like dismissing Javascript because we have html. Good luck creating Google Docs with only html.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method</title><url>https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CGamesPlay</author><text>This is your friendly reminder to avoid the productivity hacking tarpit. It feels productive to think about productivity but oftentimes you&#x27;re confusing movement for progress. I&#x27;ll give two specific pieces of advice for people who are thinking about switching from methodology &#x2F; app A to methodology &#x2F; app B.<p>1. You might find something that B does that is just so difficult to accomplish in A, so you want to switch. But before you do, you should spend a week living with the difficult path to do that thing in A. You will likely find that learning the muscle memory to do that thing in A was actually the difficult part, and once you&#x27;ve overcome that hurdle it isn&#x27;t difficult any more.<p>2. You might switch to B and feel that &quot;now, everything is so organized!&quot; However, it&#x27;s very likely that you could have &quot;switched&quot; from A to A and you&#x27;d feel the same way. What I mean by this is that by switching, you&#x27;ve forced yourself to revisit all of your notes. If you forced yourself to revisit your notes without switching, you&#x27;d see the same effect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ibn_khaldun</author><text>This, this is the post to read.<p>It is indeed a tarpit that traps people who mean well and legitimately want to Get Things Done. The knowledge work&#x2F;&quot;second brain&quot; community will have you convinced that everyone who you run into online is a PhD candidate. The irony is that a lot of people intend to &quot;simplify&quot; their workflow but end up reaching for more things to pile onto it. The breaking point for me was the first time I loaded Obsidian. It is a nice program but it incentifies Doing Too Much, at least for my taste. Granted, what influences a person to even care about how they take notes varies. The chaps over at Zettelkasten.de actually advocate for a very simple approach to note taking that can work anywhere. Personally, I&#x27;ve found that it&#x27;s best for me to do the bulk of my work in a Plain Text environment -- plain like the text box that I am using to type this comment plain.<p>Alhamdulillah.</text></comment> |
11,493,490 | 11,493,385 | 1 | 2 | 11,492,030 | train | <story><title>40 year old study could have reshaped American diet, was never fully published</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/12/this-study-40-years-ago-could-have-reshaped-the-american-diet-but-it-was-never-fully-published/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seizethecheese</author><text>Thanks for the insightful comment. What would be a good substitute oil for cooking?</text></item><item><author>jrapdx3</author><text>The subject of the article says as much about the politics of science as it is a comment on the science itself. To the extent the findings have been ignored, or perhaps even shunned, is not at all unique. Many important advances in medicine had a notoriously difficult time being accepted, as an example, the idea that bacterial infection was the cause of stomach ulcers had been around for decades before gaining traction.<p>I think the substance of the science discussed revolves around the composition of dietary fat. As the article notes, the recommendation for increasing the proportion of &quot;polyunsaturated&quot; oils is likely a major factor. Indeed, common vegetable oils contain a high proportion of linoleic acid, the &quot;base&quot; omega-6 dietary source. It has been shown in numerous studies that the omega-6 (N-6) to omega-3 (N-3) ratio is important since these essential fats are linked to immune system functioning.<p>N-6 fatty acids are associated with pro-inflammatory factors, N-3 primarily leads to anti-inflammatory products. In the archaic&#x2F;traditional diet, N-6 and N-3 were present in roughly equal proportion, but with marked increase in vegetable oil consumption, N-6 to N-3 becomes &quot;imbalanced&quot;, e.g., 10:1.<p>Inflammatory processes are well-known to play a role in cardiovascular disease, so it&#x27;s not hard to see how increased N-6 fatty acid intake is a contributor. However this info has not been a secret in the fields of obesity and metabolic disease treatment and research, where the impact of dietary fat intake has been discussed and published for more than 20 years.<p>Since the mid-90&#x27;s I&#x27;ve recommended sharply reducing polyunsaturated vegetable oil intake as part of &quot;lifestyle&quot; changes supporting optimum health, particularly for patients with predisposition to metabolic disease. FWIW I&#x27;ve followed my own advice for at least as long, the results have impressed my internist who jokes that I&#x27;ve become quite an uninteresting case.<p>(Don&#x27;t have references at hand. If anyone wants I&#x27;ll post them.)<p>Edit: grammar!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>Canola oil was bred to have a 1:1 ratio of Omega 6 to Omega 3. It&#x27;s low in saturated fat too.<p>For all the good things people say about the fat composition of olive oil, canola oil is probably better. It also has a more neutral taste. It&#x27;s all refined though, and a GMO, things which some people don&#x27;t like.</text></comment> | <story><title>40 year old study could have reshaped American diet, was never fully published</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/12/this-study-40-years-ago-could-have-reshaped-the-american-diet-but-it-was-never-fully-published/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seizethecheese</author><text>Thanks for the insightful comment. What would be a good substitute oil for cooking?</text></item><item><author>jrapdx3</author><text>The subject of the article says as much about the politics of science as it is a comment on the science itself. To the extent the findings have been ignored, or perhaps even shunned, is not at all unique. Many important advances in medicine had a notoriously difficult time being accepted, as an example, the idea that bacterial infection was the cause of stomach ulcers had been around for decades before gaining traction.<p>I think the substance of the science discussed revolves around the composition of dietary fat. As the article notes, the recommendation for increasing the proportion of &quot;polyunsaturated&quot; oils is likely a major factor. Indeed, common vegetable oils contain a high proportion of linoleic acid, the &quot;base&quot; omega-6 dietary source. It has been shown in numerous studies that the omega-6 (N-6) to omega-3 (N-3) ratio is important since these essential fats are linked to immune system functioning.<p>N-6 fatty acids are associated with pro-inflammatory factors, N-3 primarily leads to anti-inflammatory products. In the archaic&#x2F;traditional diet, N-6 and N-3 were present in roughly equal proportion, but with marked increase in vegetable oil consumption, N-6 to N-3 becomes &quot;imbalanced&quot;, e.g., 10:1.<p>Inflammatory processes are well-known to play a role in cardiovascular disease, so it&#x27;s not hard to see how increased N-6 fatty acid intake is a contributor. However this info has not been a secret in the fields of obesity and metabolic disease treatment and research, where the impact of dietary fat intake has been discussed and published for more than 20 years.<p>Since the mid-90&#x27;s I&#x27;ve recommended sharply reducing polyunsaturated vegetable oil intake as part of &quot;lifestyle&quot; changes supporting optimum health, particularly for patients with predisposition to metabolic disease. FWIW I&#x27;ve followed my own advice for at least as long, the results have impressed my internist who jokes that I&#x27;ve become quite an uninteresting case.<p>(Don&#x27;t have references at hand. If anyone wants I&#x27;ll post them.)<p>Edit: grammar!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eveningcoffee</author><text>I am not a dietary scientist, but we are using either coconut fat or grape see oil for cooking.<p>The main reason is that these are supposed to produce less cancerogenic compounds after high temperature treatment* and they also do not leave any strong specific taste.<p>Both do not contain significant amount of omega-3 fatty acids, but the cooking oil probably also should not be your main source of fatty acids anyway (usually we wipe the products clean after cooking).<p>Perhaps somebody else could give better insight into it.<p>* I actually have not researched this deeply, but these oils do have relatively high smoke point <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Smoke_point" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Smoke_point</a></text></comment> |
19,928,128 | 19,928,213 | 1 | 2 | 19,927,176 | train | <story><title>Driverless electric truck starts deliveries on Swedish public road</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-einride-autonomous-sweden/driverless-electric-truck-starts-deliveries-on-swedish-public-road-idUSKCN1SL0NC</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adav</author><text>I wonder what would cost the Transport firm more: the time impact due to the low 5km&#x2F;h speed or the costs of a human driver per truck?<p>At was speed does the automated system pay for itself if speed vs human is a reasonable trade off to consider?<p>* Not considering the cost of doing the research and the cost of the self-driving truck.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>For OTR use the human driver costs you tons of money because the regulations that go with the human driver force the truck to be stationary a large fraction of the time. That&#x27;s the market they&#x27;re (eventually) targeting, not local delivery where the driver usually also has responsibilities having to do with the cargo.<p>For the use case mentioned in the article the human driven option is going to be cheaper because the human driven truck goes faster. Going 10km&#x2F;h results in basically the same throughput as having two trucks (yes I know there&#x27;s other &quot;per trip&quot; overhead, that&#x27;s not the point).</text></comment> | <story><title>Driverless electric truck starts deliveries on Swedish public road</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-einride-autonomous-sweden/driverless-electric-truck-starts-deliveries-on-swedish-public-road-idUSKCN1SL0NC</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adav</author><text>I wonder what would cost the Transport firm more: the time impact due to the low 5km&#x2F;h speed or the costs of a human driver per truck?<p>At was speed does the automated system pay for itself if speed vs human is a reasonable trade off to consider?<p>* Not considering the cost of doing the research and the cost of the self-driving truck.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dredds</author><text>Assuming the battery could be swapped out in a few minutes, then traveling at a 1&#x2F;3 of the speed of a human driver displaces the cost of one driver on a regular shift of 8 hours. But on a 24&#x2F;7&#x2F;365 schedule (weekends and holidays too) even 1&#x2F;4 the speed will cover wages. Reversing this, an Electric Truck with battery swap or on-road charging going 25km&#x2F;h displaces the cost of 1 driver traveling 100km&#x2F;h for equal distance.</text></comment> |
37,276,563 | 37,276,232 | 1 | 3 | 37,275,676 | train | <story><title>Historic algorithms help unlock shortest-path problem breakthrough</title><url>https://cacm.acm.org/news/275684-historic-algorithms-help-unlock-shortest-path-problem-breakthrough/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozarker</author><text>What’s an application where you’d absolutely have to have a graph with negative weights? Couldn’t you just preprocess the edges and normalize their weights?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klyrs</author><text>A prototypical example today is to take battery range into account in navigation. You charge your battery going downhill, corresponding to a negative edge weight. If you&#x27;re driving from the top of a mountain, through a valley, to the top of a hill, many of the available routes might end up with a negative cost!<p>Preprocessing is certainly possible, but the result is to densify the graph. That densification can turn a sparse graph with O(n) edges into a dense graph with O(n^2) edges. When the goal is to keep pathfinding to a nearly-linear (roughly O(vertices + edges) with log factors) runtime in the presence of negative weight edges, naive preprocessing blows the budget before you even start pathfinding.<p>The article at hand presents long-sought after algorithms which hit the near-linear runtime goal at the cost of a combination of clever preprocessing and a novel divide&amp;conquer approach. So yes, preprocessing, no, not &quot;just&quot; preprocessing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Historic algorithms help unlock shortest-path problem breakthrough</title><url>https://cacm.acm.org/news/275684-historic-algorithms-help-unlock-shortest-path-problem-breakthrough/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozarker</author><text>What’s an application where you’d absolutely have to have a graph with negative weights? Couldn’t you just preprocess the edges and normalize their weights?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhl</author><text>The issue with negative weighted edges is that a cycle would result in an infinite loop when finding shortest path, compared to when all edges are non-negative, cycles can be safely skipped.<p>Compared to Dijkstra&#x27;s original algorithm of E + V log V, naively pre-processing edges would require V^2 work assuming an edge can exist between each vertex.<p>Edit: the algorithm you’re describing exists btw <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Johnson%27s_algorithm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Johnson%27s_algorithm</a></text></comment> |
6,202,160 | 6,201,250 | 1 | 2 | 6,200,538 | train | <story><title>You Might Have an Invisible Facebook Account Even if You Never Signed Up</title><url>http://www.groovypost.com/news/facebook-shadow-accounts-non-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>novum</author><text>Is this it? This is our brave new world of pervasive data gathering, social network analysis, and the dying gasp of any shred of privacy? This is the future we&#x27;ve built for ourselves?<p>I haven&#x27;t had a facebook account for 3 years. I&#x27;m certain FB has a shadow profile for me today and there&#x27;s nothing I can do about it. My friends don&#x27;t understand (or don&#x27;t care about) the implications of everything they do online being tracked, in minute detail, and stored indefinitely.<p>Real-time indefinite mass surveillance is a fact and yet failed to galvanize the public into action. What can I do other than allow the cynicism to take hold and become a recluse?<p>I earn my livelihood from technology. I want to believe technology has great potential for medicine, exploration, and improving the human condition. The cognitive dissonance has to give somewhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperplane</author><text>You think <i>your</i> cognitive dissonance is bad? You&#x27;re heaps ahead of where the people that &quot;don&#x27;t care&quot; are. I try to evangelize privacy to friends and family all the time, and 60-80% of the time I am written off or ignored.<p>Most people don&#x27;t seem to want to accept the fact that something terrible may ever happen to them, and will gladly drown out the pain of dealing with a potential future threat to prolong happiness in the short-term. How&#x27;s that for dealing with cognitive dissonance? After all, the easiest way to remove the dissonance is to render the counterargument false without resorting to reason that might shake your emotional foundations.<p>As for your own cognitive dissonance: I don&#x27;t believe that you are death, destroyer of worlds, by default just because you have the ability to build technology, no more so than a man with the capacity to develop firearms is by default a murderer. Improve the human condition, engineer systems toward that goal, and just pay more attention to the question of &quot;what would somebody evil possibly use this product for?&quot; and try to mitigate against the evil bits.<p>If you are terrified of ever having unintentionally built a weapon, then it is best not to be an engineer at all, as nearly every tool can be weaponized in the right environment with some degree of effectiveness by someone that means harm.</text></comment> | <story><title>You Might Have an Invisible Facebook Account Even if You Never Signed Up</title><url>http://www.groovypost.com/news/facebook-shadow-accounts-non-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>novum</author><text>Is this it? This is our brave new world of pervasive data gathering, social network analysis, and the dying gasp of any shred of privacy? This is the future we&#x27;ve built for ourselves?<p>I haven&#x27;t had a facebook account for 3 years. I&#x27;m certain FB has a shadow profile for me today and there&#x27;s nothing I can do about it. My friends don&#x27;t understand (or don&#x27;t care about) the implications of everything they do online being tracked, in minute detail, and stored indefinitely.<p>Real-time indefinite mass surveillance is a fact and yet failed to galvanize the public into action. What can I do other than allow the cynicism to take hold and become a recluse?<p>I earn my livelihood from technology. I want to believe technology has great potential for medicine, exploration, and improving the human condition. The cognitive dissonance has to give somewhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kintamanimatt</author><text>We work with technology and love to see cool new things developed and released in the world, but like anything, it can be used for evil too. There shouldn&#x27;t be any cognitive dissonance and it&#x27;s good that you&#x27;re cognizant of the possible downsides. I wish more people <i>would</i> think of the possible negatives before they lay finger to keyboard and start coding.<p>What can you do? Keep talking about it; don&#x27;t give up. Most people have to be exposed to an idea many, many times, and also see social proof (i.e. their peers accepting the idea too) before they will accept it. This is why we as entrepreneurs love early adopters because they give us the social proof we need to pull new, less adventurous customers on board.<p>What else can you do? Don&#x27;t code bad shit and compete against those that do. Make the privacy destroyers lose.</text></comment> |
21,942,807 | 21,942,044 | 1 | 3 | 21,939,161 | train | <story><title>Recover HD Using a Magnet</title><url>http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/recover-hd/text.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rgj</author><text>My anecdote:<p>Around 1993 I had a Commodore Amiga with an A590 external hard drive. A big enclosure that could be connected to the expansion port on the left of an Amiga 500, containing a very precious 20MB hard disk.<p>One day, it stopped working. I tried everything but I couldn’t get it to work. A friend offered to take a look at it so I put it in my backpack and took the train to my friend. When connected to his A500, the drive worked lime a charm.<p>When I drove back home in the train I wondered what would be the matter with my A500 since it apparently made my A590 hard drive fail.<p>However, once I got home and reconnected the drive, it worked. No problem whatsoever.<p>Until two days later. It failed. You know what’s going to happen, right? Took it to my friend, it worked, took it back and it worked for two more days.<p>Turns out that disconnecting it, putting it in my bag, walking it around for a while worked just as well.<p>Turns out that disconnecting it, dropping it from 5cm &#x2F; 2 inches and reconnecting it, worked just as well.<p>Which was what I did for the next four years or so. Whenever it stopped working, I disconnected it, dropped it and reconnected it.<p>Always loved the look on the face of people who witnessed me starting up my Amiga.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>FWIW the failure mode (which was also common in drives for the SPARCStation at the time) was called &quot;stiction.&quot; That occurred when the drive parked the heads, after power down, into the landing zone on the platter.<p>At Sun we took apart a number of failed drives (which could also be recovered sometimes by giving them a sharp twist) and hunted for the root cause. The answer was that over some time the drive heads became smoother and the surface of the landing zone also became smoother. When the tiny edges of the head had been removed by this process, the surface of the head was pretty much optically smooth (very little variation) and when it landed in a part of the landing zone that was similarly smooth the surfaces would push out the air between them and become stuck just by air pressure and surface friction (stiction). The drive would not spin up until the head had lifted off the surface. The firmware issue was that head lift off was checked for so quickly that the power up of the spindle was aborted before anything happened (this was to prevent damage to the head by dragging it along the platter&#x27;s landing zone). By jostling the drive you could manually cause the platters to rotate and if you found a spot that wasn&#x27;t completely smooth (or if you managed to have the heads move out of the landing zone) the surface would be rough enough that the head wasn&#x27;t being held down and it could lift off again.<p>Seagate gave us a firmware fix which basically waited longer for the heads to lift off allowing the spindle motor to move the platter a bit before giving up. Quantum (the other disk supplier) beefed up the retract solenoid and gave us firmware that would try &#x27;regular&#x27; retract and then &#x27;heavy&#x27; retract before giving up. For a pretty long time I had a Seagate drive that had been disassembled to the point of exposing the heads and platters so that the effect could be demonstrated to skeptical engineers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Recover HD Using a Magnet</title><url>http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/recover-hd/text.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rgj</author><text>My anecdote:<p>Around 1993 I had a Commodore Amiga with an A590 external hard drive. A big enclosure that could be connected to the expansion port on the left of an Amiga 500, containing a very precious 20MB hard disk.<p>One day, it stopped working. I tried everything but I couldn’t get it to work. A friend offered to take a look at it so I put it in my backpack and took the train to my friend. When connected to his A500, the drive worked lime a charm.<p>When I drove back home in the train I wondered what would be the matter with my A500 since it apparently made my A590 hard drive fail.<p>However, once I got home and reconnected the drive, it worked. No problem whatsoever.<p>Until two days later. It failed. You know what’s going to happen, right? Took it to my friend, it worked, took it back and it worked for two more days.<p>Turns out that disconnecting it, putting it in my bag, walking it around for a while worked just as well.<p>Turns out that disconnecting it, dropping it from 5cm &#x2F; 2 inches and reconnecting it, worked just as well.<p>Which was what I did for the next four years or so. Whenever it stopped working, I disconnected it, dropped it and reconnected it.<p>Always loved the look on the face of people who witnessed me starting up my Amiga.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobush</author><text>The manual (or some kind of leaflet with it) of the MFM 10 megabyte drive of an IBM XT even mentioned, that the drive could seize up if the bolts were too tightly or unevenly tightened. Sure enough, I had to adjust them one fine day.</text></comment> |
22,403,200 | 22,403,112 | 1 | 2 | 22,402,953 | train | <story><title>Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom</title><url>https://apnews.com/32540d09ec101aac057660ef1b0aa970</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gzer0</author><text>Around 99% of the patients developed a high temperature, while more than half experienced fatigue and a dry cough. About a third also experienced muscle pain and difficulty breathing.<p>Research from the Chinese Center for Disease Control suggests that around 80% of coronavirus cases are mild. Around 15% of patients have gotten severe cases, and 5% have become critically ill.<p>Here&#x27;s how symptoms progress among typical patients:<p>- Day 1: Patients run a fever. They may also experience fatigue, muscle pain, and a dry cough. A small minority of them may have had diarrhea or nausea one to two days before.<p>- Day 5: Patients may have difficulty breathing — especially if they are older or have a preexisting health condition.<p>- Day 7: This is how long it takes, on average, before patients are admitted to a hospital, according to the Wuhan University study.<p>- Day 8: At this point, patients with severe cases (15%, according to the Chinese CDC) develop acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), an illness that occurs when fluid builds up the lungs. ARDS is often fatal.<p>- Day 10: If patients have worsening symptoms, this is the time in the disease&#x27;s progression when they&#x27;re most likely to be admitted to the ICU. These patients probably have more abdominal pain and appetite loss than patients with milder cases. Only a small fraction die: The current fatality rate hovers around 2%.<p>- Day 17: On average, people who recover from the virus are discharged from the hospital after two-and-a-half weeks.<p>----<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jama&#x2F;fullarticle&#x2F;2761044" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jama&#x2F;fullarticle&#x2F;2761044</a><p>[2]
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;coronavirus-covid19-day-by-day-symptoms-patients-2020-2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;coronavirus-covid19-day-by-d...</a><p>Not allowed to do this and not sure how long this will be up; the entire UpToDate reprint on the latest we know about COVID-19 (Coronavirus)<p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;448592904&#x2F;COVID-19" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;448592904&#x2F;COVID-19</a><p>----<p>Stay vigilant, stay careful, but most importantly, do not spread false information.</text></comment> | <story><title>Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom</title><url>https://apnews.com/32540d09ec101aac057660ef1b0aa970</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oska</author><text>Some further context on the discrepancy between this figure and official figures:<p>&gt; The Iranian government has denied trying to cover up the full extent of the coronavirus outbreak after reports suggested that the death toll from the disease was more than four times higher than official figures claim.<p>&gt; On Monday, a lawmaker from Qom – a Shia holy city 120 km (75 miles) south of the capital Tehran which has seen a cluster of cases – accused Iran’s health minister of “lying” about the scale of the outbreak.<p>&gt; According to the semi-official ILNA news agency, which is close to reformists, the lawmaker, Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani, said there had been “50 deaths” from the coronavirus in Qom alone.<p>&gt; “The rest of the media have not published this figure, but we prefer not to censor what concerns the coronavirus because people’s lives are in danger,” ILNA editor Fatemeh Madiani told Agence France-Presse (AFP).<p>&gt; But the country’s deputy health minister rejected the report. In a news conference broadcast live on state television, Iraj Harirchi said that 12 people had died from the coronavirus and 66 had been infected.<p>&gt; “I categorically deny this information,” said Iraj Harirchi.<p>&gt; “This is not the time for political confrontations. The coronavirus is a national problem,” he added.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;live&#x2F;2020&#x2F;feb&#x2F;24&#x2F;coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-hubei-latest-news-italy-lombardy-south-korea-iran-japan-cases-infections-death-toll-outbreak-xi-jinping-update?page=with:block-5e53aa4b8f0811db2fafd5aa#block-5e53aa4b8f0811db2fafd5aa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;live&#x2F;2020&#x2F;feb&#x2F;24&#x2F;coronavir...</a></text></comment> |
16,720,181 | 16,719,997 | 1 | 3 | 16,719,403 | train | <story><title>How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/03/this-is-how-cambridge-analyticas-facebook-targeting-model-really-worked-according-to-the-person-who-built-it/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>etiam</author><text>Spoiler warning. Article punchline ahead.<p>&quot;The whole point of a dimension reduction model is to mathematically represent the data in simpler form. It’s as if Cambridge Analytica took a very high-resolution photograph, resized it to be smaller, and then deleted the original. The photo still exists — and as long as Cambridge Analytica’s models exist, the data effectively does too.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s an eloquent piece of explanation of a very important point.
And apropos the discussion about privacy legislation, it&#x27;s also going to be a very interesting point. Will the Cambridge Analyticas of the world be able to claim they have held on to no personal data, when strictly speaking the raw data has indeed been deleted after being used to create a derivative work that can for all important purposes be used to recreate the original?
Assuming I find out I&#x27;m being profiled and demand to have my data removed, will society grant me rights to have derivative forms removed or adjusted too?
I&#x27;m somewhat pessimistic that legal hairsplitting about matters like these will make enforcement very difficult.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/03/this-is-how-cambridge-analyticas-facebook-targeting-model-really-worked-according-to-the-person-who-built-it/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>emodendroket</author><text>I am really puzzled by the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It&#x27;s not particularly savory, but is there something happening here that it wasn&#x27;t basically already known about how Facebook worked? By the protests of their own executive, the system was working as designed, and at worst Cambridge Analytica misled them about how they intended to use the data, right? There was no actual security breach here, as far as I can understand it.</text></comment> |
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