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7,117,356 | 7,117,155 | 1 | 3 | 7,116,764 | train | <story><title>Gmail was down</title><url>http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=1390590318542</url><text>Is gmail down in your country?<p>Colombia +1</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkfrank</author><text>This actually raises a slightly terrifying reality.<p>How much would someone have to pay you to never again recover your gMail account? I would demand just an absurd payout to willingly walk away right now, with all those contacts, messages, unread e-mails, organization, etc...<p>Scary how much faith we put in this free service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swalsh</author><text>The crazy thing is, the email means less to me than the chat logs. Maybe 60% of the words i&#x27;ve ever said to my wife have been over gchat while we&#x27;re at work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gmail was down</title><url>http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=1390590318542</url><text>Is gmail down in your country?<p>Colombia +1</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkfrank</author><text>This actually raises a slightly terrifying reality.<p>How much would someone have to pay you to never again recover your gMail account? I would demand just an absurd payout to willingly walk away right now, with all those contacts, messages, unread e-mails, organization, etc...<p>Scary how much faith we put in this free service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coolsunglasses</author><text>I could drop it without too much pain, honestly. It wouldn&#x27;t cost that much for me to delete my gmail accounts.<p>But I learned to own my data where it matters and not sweat the rest ages ago. (Stopped compulsively &quot;hoarding&quot;)</text></comment> |
27,646,819 | 27,646,148 | 1 | 3 | 27,645,282 | train | <story><title>The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2021/palestine-social-media-silence/2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>As an American who moved here from a Muslim country let me assure you Muslims are socialized to feel the same way about Jews.<p>Took me a long time to see it. In high school I obviously supported Palestine and thought Israel was a settler colony (all of it, not just Gaza). Then I realized: wait why do I even care? I’m from 3,000 miles away in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, people don’t even care about Bangladeshis being held in near-slavery conditions in Qatar. (More Bangladeshi workers have died in the Middle East since 2010 than Palestinians killed in the conflict with Israel since 1947.) They don’t care about the Rohingya. They don’t care what Saudi is doing in Yemen. They’re very friendly with China and don’t care about Uighurs. But everyone has an opinion on how Israel is oppressing Palestine.</text></item><item><author>werber</author><text>As an American Jew who grew up with a distorted and racist world view in regard to Palestine this just feels like history repeating itself. The troubles that face Israelis have always been amplified over those of Palestinians in my experience. That control of the narrative led me to be actively racist for most of my life while thinking I was not and also morally superior. This kind of censorship has a body count, and it lets war crimes happen in clear view while the on lookers think they are doing the right thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>g8oz</author><text>The opinions of Americans in particular on this issue are very relevant. The U.S provides Israel with a diplomatic, military and financial blank check. Many of the most aggressive elements of the settler movement that makes life so difficult for Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank are funded by American non-profit groups like the Central Fund of Israel. In addition some 60,000 ideologically driven American citizens are living as settlers in the West Bank.</text></comment> | <story><title>The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2021/palestine-social-media-silence/2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>As an American who moved here from a Muslim country let me assure you Muslims are socialized to feel the same way about Jews.<p>Took me a long time to see it. In high school I obviously supported Palestine and thought Israel was a settler colony (all of it, not just Gaza). Then I realized: wait why do I even care? I’m from 3,000 miles away in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, people don’t even care about Bangladeshis being held in near-slavery conditions in Qatar. (More Bangladeshi workers have died in the Middle East since 2010 than Palestinians killed in the conflict with Israel since 1947.) They don’t care about the Rohingya. They don’t care what Saudi is doing in Yemen. They’re very friendly with China and don’t care about Uighurs. But everyone has an opinion on how Israel is oppressing Palestine.</text></item><item><author>werber</author><text>As an American Jew who grew up with a distorted and racist world view in regard to Palestine this just feels like history repeating itself. The troubles that face Israelis have always been amplified over those of Palestinians in my experience. That control of the narrative led me to be actively racist for most of my life while thinking I was not and also morally superior. This kind of censorship has a body count, and it lets war crimes happen in clear view while the on lookers think they are doing the right thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xupybd</author><text>This is what war has done in almost every conflict. The enemy is a monster so attacking the monster justifies far too much.</text></comment> |
37,777,912 | 37,775,996 | 1 | 2 | 37,770,233 | train | <story><title>Security weaknesses of Copilot generated code in GitHub</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02059</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>steve1977</author><text>Which is why the term Artificial Intelligence is really a misnomer for LLMs. Artificial Mediocracy might be more fitting.</text></item><item><author>crooked-v</author><text>&gt; Copilot gives you popular responses not correct ones.<p>That also sums up most of the issues with LLMs in general in one sentence.</text></item><item><author>faeriechangling</author><text>If a weakness is common, then of course Copilot is going to suggest it. Copilot gives you popular responses not correct ones. Yet if a weakness is common, it also means that human coders frequently make the same mistake as well.<p>The studies results are rather unsurprising and its conclusions are oft-repeated advice. As many have said, treat copilot’s code in the same light you would treat a junior programmer’s code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zambyte</author><text>It is artificial intelligence, it just isn&#x27;t artificial general intelligence, nor artificial general knowledge. LLMs are artificial <i>linguistic</i> intelligence. They are really good at linguistic operations that require intelligence, like summarizing long text, transforming disrespectful text into professional looking text, translation between languages to a certain degree, etc.<p>It is not possible to ask an LLM for factual knowledge, without providing it the source of the fact. Without a source of the fact, you can only ask an LLM to generate an answer to the question that is linguistically convincing. And they can do a <i>really</i> good job at that. They can accidentally encode factual knowledge by predicting the next word correctly, but that should be regarded as an accident.</text></comment> | <story><title>Security weaknesses of Copilot generated code in GitHub</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02059</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>steve1977</author><text>Which is why the term Artificial Intelligence is really a misnomer for LLMs. Artificial Mediocracy might be more fitting.</text></item><item><author>crooked-v</author><text>&gt; Copilot gives you popular responses not correct ones.<p>That also sums up most of the issues with LLMs in general in one sentence.</text></item><item><author>faeriechangling</author><text>If a weakness is common, then of course Copilot is going to suggest it. Copilot gives you popular responses not correct ones. Yet if a weakness is common, it also means that human coders frequently make the same mistake as well.<p>The studies results are rather unsurprising and its conclusions are oft-repeated advice. As many have said, treat copilot’s code in the same light you would treat a junior programmer’s code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baz00</author><text>That&#x27;s the most accurate term I&#x27;ve heard to describe the situation. I think it could get worse though because when I&#x27;ve seen mediocre people work with mediocre people they generate sub-mediocre solutions through trying to be clever and failing spectacularly at it.</text></comment> |
34,543,646 | 34,540,624 | 1 | 2 | 34,538,965 | train | <story><title>A dinosaur with a remarkably preserved face</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/researchers-look-a-dinosaur-in-its-remarkably-preserved-face/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unwind</author><text>This bit:<p><i>It took the researchers 14 days to excavate the find and bring it back in separate enormous blocks to the museum. There, senior preparation technician Mark Mitchell was tasked with separating the fossil from the stone. This was no small endeavor, taking Mitchell seven hours per day over five and a half years. That task, he wrote in an email, took him a staggering 7,000 hours.</i><p>Is just staggering. I&#x27;m old(ish), and not in the frantic startup-race culture that&#x27;s sometimes pervasive here, but still find it really hard to imagine going to work and spending all day chipping at rocks, for over 5 years straight. I feel they did the right thing when naming the dinosaur after him. Respect.<p>Speaking of interesting dinosaur names, my other favorite has got to be the Atlascopcosaurus [1], named after Swedish industry tooling company Atlas Copco [2] who sponsored the particular dig (in 1984) when it was found with equipment.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Atlascopcosaurus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Atlascopcosaurus</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Atlas_Copco" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Atlas_Copco</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A dinosaur with a remarkably preserved face</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/researchers-look-a-dinosaur-in-its-remarkably-preserved-face/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>diego_moita</author><text>This fossil is at the Royal Tyrrell Museum[0] in Drumheller, Southern Alberta, Canada.<p>It is by far the best dinossaur museum in the world and also has a fine exhibition on the Burgess Shale, one the best fossil sites in the world for the Cambrian Revolution.<p>The only other claim to fame for the town of Drumheller is the band Nickelback was formed close by. But that&#x27;s something most Canadians don&#x27;t like to talk about.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tyrrellmuseum.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tyrrellmuseum.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
9,321,991 | 9,321,352 | 1 | 2 | 9,321,209 | train | <story><title>IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol</title><url>http://ipfs.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_prometheus</author><text><i>(EDIT: we&#x27;ve a meetup coming up soon. The SV Ethereum Meetup is hosting an intro to IPFS later this month in San Francisco: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetup.com&#x2F;EthereumSiliconValley&#x2F;events&#x2F;221350594&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetup.com&#x2F;EthereumSiliconValley&#x2F;events&#x2F;221350594...</a> come hang out!)</i><p>---------------
Hello Everyone!
---------------<p>@jbenet here. Thanks for all the attention! Did not expect to wake up to this post today :)<p>The best resources for learning about ipfs are:<p>- The IPFS Paper: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gateway.ipfs.io&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;QmR7GSQM93Cx5eAg6a6yRzNde1FQv7uL6X1o4k7zrJa3LX&#x2F;ipfs.draft3.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gateway.ipfs.io&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;QmR7GSQM93Cx5eAg6a6yRzNde1FQv7uL...</a> (note: DRAFT 3, working on DRAFT 4, lots has evolved.)<p>- The Alpha Demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8CMxDNuuAiQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8CMxDNuuAiQ</a><p>- The First Tech Talk: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Fa4pckodM9g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Fa4pckodM9g</a><p>- The IRC Logs: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;botbot.me&#x2F;freenode&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;botbot.me&#x2F;freenode&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;</a> -- there&#x27;s so much knowledge in these, we&#x27;re working on moving it over.<p>We&#x27;re working on a bunch of more expository media:<p>- Specs!! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;specs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;specs</a><p>- More Demos<p>- More Talks<p>- Draft 4 of the paper<p>But there&#x27;s only so many hours in a day, and we spend most of our time developing. All the resources will be way more polished as time goes on. Please bear with us as we make these available. In the meantime, ask questions in our new FAQ (below), or in #ipfs on irc.freenode.net -- And we&#x27;ll be answering questions here too of course.<p>I&#x27;ve <i>just</i> created: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;faq</a> -- if you ask questions there we can build a knowledge base<p>IPFS already works-- you can install it and try it out. It&#x27;s not production ready yet, but it&#x27;s already very reliable. I use it to move around all sorts of personal files, and we use it to host many websites.<p>Some people asked about what applications are there now? There&#x27;s many static websites on ipfs, and some simple webapps. We ship our entire ipfs webui with ipfs itself (turtles all the way down!). In particular, Eris Industries recently made a decentralized YouTube clone using IPFS and their Decerver: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;eris-ltd&#x2F;2gather" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;eris-ltd&#x2F;2gather</a> If you see more-- please let us know at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;community" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;community</a> so we add it to an index (we just reorged our repos under the github org last week)..<p>We need to make some more tooling to make web-publishing with ipfs really, really nice. We&#x27;ll be making that over the next few weeks, so if you&#x27;re interested in pushing out websites with ipfs-- come talk to us.<p>Another big use case we&#x27;re going after is Docker container distribution. We&#x27;re preparing a whole bunch of demos right now that we&#x27;ll show off in the next week or two. You can peek at: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;container-demos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;container-demos</a> We can already boot entire VMs and containers over ipfs in &lt;10 seconds :D which makes me really happy. You can boot to ipfs with this makefile: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;jbenet&#x2F;76afa70955910a2ed097" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;jbenet&#x2F;76afa70955910a2ed097</a><p>If you want to help, the best ways are:<p>- Come hack with us! We&#x27;re particularly looking for Go hackers<p>- Just use it!<p>- Write applications on top.<p>- Report issues: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jbenet&#x2F;go-ipfs&#x2F;issues" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jbenet&#x2F;go-ipfs&#x2F;issues</a> and so on.<p>- Help us with docs<p>- Write another implementation (this is blocked by <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;specs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;specs&#x2F;</a>)<p>Some ipfs community members i&#x27;ve seen posting below are: whyrusleeping, dylankpowers, inconshreveable<p>Also, IPFS development is sponsored by our company, &quot;Protocol Labs, Inc&quot; -- we also make Filecoin. We are hiring, so check out: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipn.io&#x2F;join" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipn.io&#x2F;join</a> (yeah-- we just changed the company name. still need to update ipn.io &#x2F; get a new domain.)<p>See you around the tubes! :)
- @jbenet</text></comment> | <story><title>IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol</title><url>http://ipfs.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>Their protocol github repository [0] is much better at explaining the project than the website.<p>&quot;IPFS is a distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. In some ways, this is similar to the original aims of the Web, but IPFS is actually more similar to a single bittorrent swarm exchanging git objects.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;ipfs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;ipfs</a><p>Edit: a more compelling summary from an unfinished paper: &quot;The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer distributed file system capable of sharing the same files with
millions of nodes. It features a completely decentralized architecture, secure and efficient peer-to-peer block distribution, and a path-based naming system supporting distinguishing mutable and immutable names. The Web today
still uses HTTP as the main data transport. IPFS is capable of evolving the web to take advantage of versioning,
p2p distribution, cryptographic operations, and decentralized publishing. Moreover, it presents an opportunity to
construct a web whose links do not rot, whose files are deduplicated globally, and whose websites are no longer “sites”. IPFS is a step toward The Permanent Web.&quot;</text></comment> |
27,988,528 | 27,988,929 | 1 | 2 | 27,987,084 | train | <story><title>Perceptual distortions in late-teens predict psychotic symptoms in mid-life</title><url>https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3179/early-signs-perceptual-distortions-in-late-teens-predict-psychotic-symptoms-in-mid-life</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colordrops</author><text>I have always had these distortions throughout my life. I sometimes feel like high-functioning psychotic. I recall the story of that researcher James Fallon that found out he was a psychopath when he scanned his own brain. Everything feels intellectualized rather than a concrete physical reality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meowface</author><text>Just because there&#x27;s a correlation doesn&#x27;t mean distortions inherently imply psychosis. It&#x27;s difficult to know your experience just from your brief comment, but it&#x27;s possible that you may have something like depersonalization-derealization disorder, without any psychosis.<p>Psychosis generally involves delusions and hallucinations. For example: hearing things that aren&#x27;t real, believing governments or other powerful entities are specifically targeting and watching you (much more so than just being caught up in the standard dragnet surveillance), thinking you&#x27;re a divine being or on a divinely-mandated mission, frequently thinking people you see IRL are stalking and following you, thinking some external entity or machine is inserting invasive thoughts into your head via photons.<p>And as the other commenter said, psychopathy and psychosis are unrelated, and as far as I know not even correlated. But I understand you&#x27;re probably just referencing that story as an example and weren&#x27;t suggesting a connection. (The context, for anyone unaware: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;science-nature&#x2F;the-neuroscientist-who-discovered-he-was-a-psychopath-180947814&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;science-nature&#x2F;the-neuroscien...</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Perceptual distortions in late-teens predict psychotic symptoms in mid-life</title><url>https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3179/early-signs-perceptual-distortions-in-late-teens-predict-psychotic-symptoms-in-mid-life</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colordrops</author><text>I have always had these distortions throughout my life. I sometimes feel like high-functioning psychotic. I recall the story of that researcher James Fallon that found out he was a psychopath when he scanned his own brain. Everything feels intellectualized rather than a concrete physical reality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>One feature of psychosis and mental illness, in general, is a lack of insight into one&#x27;s own condition, or the lack of a complete picture into how symptoms impact one&#x27;s thoughts and behaviors.<p>In psychosis, this very pronounced because many of those who experience psychosis don&#x27;t know they&#x27;re experiencing delusions or hallucinations. It&#x27;s all very real to them.<p>The fact that you have an awareness of your distortions seems to suggest that you&#x27;re not psychotic.</text></comment> |
19,715,319 | 19,713,888 | 1 | 3 | 19,713,276 | train | <story><title>Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (2015)</title><url>https://www.nature.com/news/simple-cooking-methods-flush-arsenic-out-of-rice-1.18034</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clircle</author><text>I &#x27;wash&#x27; my rice several times before it goes in the rice cooker. I wonder what percent of the arsenic I&#x27;m removing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gniv</author><text>&gt; I &#x27;wash&#x27; my rice several times before it goes in the rice cooker. I wonder what percent of the arsenic I&#x27;m removing.<p>Very little apparently: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;H_Lui1v2A1M?t=135" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;H_Lui1v2A1M?t=135</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (2015)</title><url>https://www.nature.com/news/simple-cooking-methods-flush-arsenic-out-of-rice-1.18034</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clircle</author><text>I &#x27;wash&#x27; my rice several times before it goes in the rice cooker. I wonder what percent of the arsenic I&#x27;m removing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jayalpha</author><text>All Chinese do.</text></comment> |
5,404,620 | 5,403,408 | 1 | 3 | 5,403,021 | train | <story><title>Google Drive Realtime API</title><url>https://developers.google.com/drive/realtime/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polskibus</author><text>I'm still irritated with Google Reader story. How long is this one going to be around, year, two? I think Google should start pledging a number of years they will support a service, why should the developer be taking most of the risk?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notatoad</author><text>Don't build a business or product that relies on a proprietary API with no service agreement. APIs with no service agreement are okay if they're well-documented and have multiple providers, proprietary APIs are fine if they have a service agreement. Something like this should not be used as the base for your product, it should only be used as a means to provide an extra feature to an existing service. This is allows you to integrate your real-time web application with drive, it's not a foundation to build your real-time service on top of.<p>Just because google shut down reader doesn't mean that this applies to their APIs more than any other company's. If you build something that relies on an API that can disappear at any time, you have nobody to blame but yourself.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Drive Realtime API</title><url>https://developers.google.com/drive/realtime/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polskibus</author><text>I'm still irritated with Google Reader story. How long is this one going to be around, year, two? I think Google should start pledging a number of years they will support a service, why should the developer be taking most of the risk?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ewolf</author><text>There never was any official Google Reader API. Every developer was aware of the risk he was taking when using an unoffical and undocumented API.</text></comment> |
4,661,077 | 4,660,473 | 1 | 3 | 4,659,840 | train | <story><title> A new kind of fractal?</title><url>http://www.gibney.de/does_anybody_know_this_fractal</url><text>I stumbled across this and wonder what it is.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>madhadron</author><text>It's not a fractal, but it is something familiar.<p>Multiply two complex numbers z and c is equivalent to taking z and applying a rotation and dilation to it, the rotation through arg(c) and the dilation through |c|. Division is the inverse of both, so z/c is z rotated by -arg(c) and dilated by 1/|c|.<p>What you're looking at, then, is taking the operation defined by c (rotate by -arg(c) and dilate by 1/|c|) and asking, if you take the Gaussian integers as the vertexes of a directed graph, what fraction of the vertexes are the source of an edge.<p>Consider the 1 dimensional analogy using real numbers. Given some real number c, take all the integers as the vertexes of a graph, and if z/c (for some integer z) is also an integer, I put a directed edge from z to z/c. When are these connected? Well, if c is irrational, never. If c is rational, then there will be an infinite number of connections, but how infinite? When c is 2, there will be twice as many edges on average in any subset of the source vertexes as when c is 4. If we can write c as p/q, then the smaller p is, the more edges we'll get, and the brighter the pixel in your image.<p>The 1 dimensional analogy will have a spike at 1/2, smaller spikes at 1/3 and 2/3, yet smaller spikes at 1/4 and 3/4, smaller ones yet at 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, and 4/5, etc. The spikes will all be distinct (because between any two rationals there is an irrational), but will be infinitely close (because the rationals are dense in the reals). As you keep zooming in, you will get more and more edges like this.<p>What you're seeing is a variation on the classical structure of the rationals dense within the reals.<p>Now, a fractal is a set with a fractional Hausdorff dimension. We have to extract a set from your function of c in order to talk about fractal dimension. We could take the support of the function (everywhere it's not zero). In the one dimensional case, that's the rationals. We could take level sets farther up (the set of c such that f(c) = k, for a constant k). Those are subsets of the rationals. However, the rationals, while dense in the reals, are of measure zero in the reals, and have Hausdorff dimension zero, and so do all the level sets. So it's not a fractal.<p>Doesn't make it any less pretty though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChristianMarks</author><text>I don't think this has anything to do with directed graphs. The operation looks like this. For nonzero <i>c</i> in <i>C</i>, compute the distance <i>d(a(i+1)/c, Z+iZ)</i> to the nearest Gaussian integer, where <i>a</i> is an integer.<p>The max distance is <i>A = 1/sqrt(2)</i> so color the point <i>a(1+i)/c</i> proportionally by<p><pre><code> (A - d(a(i+1)/c, Z+iZ))/A
</code></pre>
I'm taking a liberty with the description, since computing "the percentage of <i>a(i+1)/c</i>'s that are Gaussian integers" is open to interpretation, and if taken literally could mean something else entirely, such as computation of the ratio<p><pre><code> #(A(c,n)\cap Z+iZ) / n
</code></pre>
where<p><pre><code> A(c, n) = { a(i+1)/ c : 1 &#60;= a &#60;= n }
</code></pre>
which is asking for a proportion products that become Gaussian integers--this is a divisibility test. However, this doesn't show how to vary the brightness of the images.</text></comment> | <story><title> A new kind of fractal?</title><url>http://www.gibney.de/does_anybody_know_this_fractal</url><text>I stumbled across this and wonder what it is.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>madhadron</author><text>It's not a fractal, but it is something familiar.<p>Multiply two complex numbers z and c is equivalent to taking z and applying a rotation and dilation to it, the rotation through arg(c) and the dilation through |c|. Division is the inverse of both, so z/c is z rotated by -arg(c) and dilated by 1/|c|.<p>What you're looking at, then, is taking the operation defined by c (rotate by -arg(c) and dilate by 1/|c|) and asking, if you take the Gaussian integers as the vertexes of a directed graph, what fraction of the vertexes are the source of an edge.<p>Consider the 1 dimensional analogy using real numbers. Given some real number c, take all the integers as the vertexes of a graph, and if z/c (for some integer z) is also an integer, I put a directed edge from z to z/c. When are these connected? Well, if c is irrational, never. If c is rational, then there will be an infinite number of connections, but how infinite? When c is 2, there will be twice as many edges on average in any subset of the source vertexes as when c is 4. If we can write c as p/q, then the smaller p is, the more edges we'll get, and the brighter the pixel in your image.<p>The 1 dimensional analogy will have a spike at 1/2, smaller spikes at 1/3 and 2/3, yet smaller spikes at 1/4 and 3/4, smaller ones yet at 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, and 4/5, etc. The spikes will all be distinct (because between any two rationals there is an irrational), but will be infinitely close (because the rationals are dense in the reals). As you keep zooming in, you will get more and more edges like this.<p>What you're seeing is a variation on the classical structure of the rationals dense within the reals.<p>Now, a fractal is a set with a fractional Hausdorff dimension. We have to extract a set from your function of c in order to talk about fractal dimension. We could take the support of the function (everywhere it's not zero). In the one dimensional case, that's the rationals. We could take level sets farther up (the set of c such that f(c) = k, for a constant k). Those are subsets of the rationals. However, the rationals, while dense in the reals, are of measure zero in the reals, and have Hausdorff dimension zero, and so do all the level sets. So it's not a fractal.<p>Doesn't make it any less pretty though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beagle3</author><text>&#62; Now, a fractal is a set with a fractional Hausdorff dimension.<p>Is there an authoritative definition of a fractal? The one you use rules out structures like Hilbert curves, which are generally considered fractals.</text></comment> |
14,497,136 | 14,496,885 | 1 | 2 | 14,495,925 | train | <story><title>Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Reigned As Nation's Center Of Innovation</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/06/05/531250084/before-silicon-valley-new-jersey-reigned-as-nations-center-of-innovation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Akarnani</author><text>Even as Silicon Valley was still in its infancy, a group of organizations including Bell, MCI, GM, and others hired Fred Terman from Stanford to make NJ more like what Silicon Valley (NJ and SV share a ton of similarities, i did a tedx talk about it below [1]) but Terman was unsuccessful. He pointed to how Princeton was not focused enough on applied science the way Stanford was. East coast politics and stock market downturn also hindered his efforts.<p>Also, don&#x27;t forget Fort Monmouth, which was across the county, employed an equal number of scientists and was responsible for nearly as many inventions as Bell Labs (much classified). It was the home of the Army&#x27;s software and signal operations. Just like Silicon Valley, the military kickstarted the world&#x27;s most productive innovation cores.<p>New Jersey had (and continues to have) the richest concentration of scientists in the United States. Monmouth County and the Princeton had, for a very long time, the kind of serendipity that makes Silicon Valley so special—that you can walk down the street and bump into a bunch of engineers and VCs while walking your dog and strike up a conversation.<p>State politics in NJ, unfortunately, doesn&#x27;t nurture these institutions and the ecosystem has grown weaker. It breaks my heart that Bell Labs is a mall and Fort Monmouth lays fallow when it should be bid out to universities to become the Stanford of the East—the applied sciences university that Fred Terman dreamed about.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=b2LbuqoNGGI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=b2LbuqoNGGI</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fort_Monmouth" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fort_Monmouth</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politifact.com&#x2F;new-jersey&#x2F;statements&#x2F;2012&#x2F;sep&#x2F;06&#x2F;choose-new-jersey&#x2F;new-jersey-leads-world-number-scientists-engineers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politifact.com&#x2F;new-jersey&#x2F;statements&#x2F;2012&#x2F;sep&#x2F;06&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Reigned As Nation's Center Of Innovation</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/06/05/531250084/before-silicon-valley-new-jersey-reigned-as-nations-center-of-innovation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bogomipz</author><text>Also central to New Jersey&#x27;s weight as an innovation hub was Princeton University - where Alan Turning met and studied under Alonzo Church.[1].<p>Also worth mentioning is the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, N.J where Kurt Gödel remained a faculty member until his death in 1978.[2]<p>Alfred Einstein also spent the last two years of his life working at the Institute. Imagine the conversations Einstein and Godel might have had? If you&#x27;re interested, this a nice piece worth reading(Gödel and Einstein were walking companions!) [3]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maa.org&#x2F;book&#x2F;export&#x2F;html&#x2F;606725" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maa.org&#x2F;book&#x2F;export&#x2F;html&#x2F;606725</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ias.edu&#x2F;scholars&#x2F;godel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ias.edu&#x2F;scholars&#x2F;godel</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2005&#x2F;02&#x2F;28&#x2F;time-bandits-2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2005&#x2F;02&#x2F;28&#x2F;time-bandits-2</a></text></comment> |
26,884,225 | 26,880,484 | 1 | 3 | 26,877,528 | train | <story><title>Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3</title><url>https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/grafana-loki-tempo-relicensing-to-agplv3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>watermelon0</author><text>I have a question regarding AGPL, that I couldn&#x27;t answer by Googling or reading the license.<p>Let&#x27;s say that Postgres server is licensed under AGPL, and I modify it to my needs. I have a closed source web application, that is publicly accessible, and uses Postgres for storing data.<p>a) Do I need to publish source code of my version of Postgres?<p>b) Does my application (which relies on Postgres, and my patches) need to also be under AGPL, and be available in source code form to all my users&#x2F;visitors?</text></item><item><author>blendergeek</author><text>I applaud this decision.<p>I would like to see <i>all</i> major SaaSS projects be AGPLv3. End users still have freedom to user, modify, and distribute the software. Cloud providers must share contributions.<p>This is how I like it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zmmmmm</author><text>I&#x27;m going to split hairs the other answers don&#x27;t: you specify you have modified Postgres. My answer is, it entirely depends if your application is considered a &quot;derivative work&quot; of Postgres. This hinges on a couple of things:<p>- does your application directly include AGPL postgres code in any form (headers, binary, etc etc) to its own source or its own runtime process?<p>- keep in mind, in answering the above, that your application probably <i>does</i> have to include a postgresql driver of some kind. Is the driver licensed AGPL too? If yes, your answer to the above is probably <i>yes</i>. This was the problem for years with MySQL, because they licensed their driver code GPL along with the actual database code.<p>- a final consideration that only comes into play if there is genuine ambiguity on the other points: is your application able to perform its functions if Postgresql is missing or swapped out for another database? To the extent it depends on Postgresql functionality, this will sway a jury towards considering it is in fact a derivative work of Postresql. If you on the other hand support 6 different databases and Postgresql is just one of them - it will be much less likely your application is considered a derivative work of it. As I said, this only comes into play if the other factors can&#x27;t be decided decisively.</text></comment> | <story><title>Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3</title><url>https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/grafana-loki-tempo-relicensing-to-agplv3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>watermelon0</author><text>I have a question regarding AGPL, that I couldn&#x27;t answer by Googling or reading the license.<p>Let&#x27;s say that Postgres server is licensed under AGPL, and I modify it to my needs. I have a closed source web application, that is publicly accessible, and uses Postgres for storing data.<p>a) Do I need to publish source code of my version of Postgres?<p>b) Does my application (which relies on Postgres, and my patches) need to also be under AGPL, and be available in source code form to all my users&#x2F;visitors?</text></item><item><author>blendergeek</author><text>I applaud this decision.<p>I would like to see <i>all</i> major SaaSS projects be AGPLv3. End users still have freedom to user, modify, and distribute the software. Cloud providers must share contributions.<p>This is how I like it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eitland</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried really hard to understand this a few times and yesterday or early today or something I found an interesting thread here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11354475" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11354475</a><p>reitanqild seems to misunderstand and the other posters fill in with more information.<p>If the information in that thread is correct and I read it correctly it is totally fine to use an AGPL server that touches connects to a lot of stuff, it won&#x27;t affect any of that.<p>Only if you somehow touches the codebase of the AGPL licensed code by modifying it or creating a combined work then the AGPL will take effect in the same way as today - except that allowing access to a running instance over a network will trigger it too, not only distribution of the binaries or the code.</text></comment> |
27,397,309 | 27,397,422 | 1 | 2 | 27,396,804 | train | <story><title>The Ransomware Problem Is a Bitcoin Problem</title><url>https://www.lawfareblog.com/ransomware-problem-bitcoin-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SavantIdiot</author><text>I&#x27;d like to hear how cryptocurrency advocates address this without deploying a fallacy. Cryptocurrency makes ransomware possible, without the former, the latter cannot thrive. The defenses I usually hear come in the form of &quot;current banking facilitates bad stuff, too,&quot; which is a fact, but doesn&#x27;t absolve cryptocurrencies central role in ransomware. As the article states, there is simply no way to pay a ransom without cryptocurrency. Maybe they could do b2b or cash, but that would be sooooo bold (but not impossible?)<p>EDIT: See link from user &#x27;px43&#x27; below about the history of ransomware. Good read. Predates cryptocurrency, but I think banking technology would make most payment strategies of the past impossible, like the original article argues (e.g., PO Box in Panama is quoted as a 1989 payment plan, but GP article explains that is harder due to extradition of data and logs).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saurik</author><text>&quot;&quot;&quot;
While we&#x27;re at it, maybe those same people can defend the Internet, right? Clearly, this experiment in anyone in the world being able to nigh unto anonymously communicate with anyone else was a mistake... at best, every packet should be tracked back to some regulated endpoint that can be tracked in the real world.<p>The Internet, after all, makes the dark web--and its myriad crimes, including ransomware, drug trafficking, and illegal porn--possible: without the former, the latter cannot thrive. The defenses we usually hear come in the form &quot;prior telephone and postal systems facilitated bad stuff, too,&quot; which is a fact, but one that doesn&#x27;t absolute the Internet, either. :&#x2F;
&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>^ What you sound like to me.<p>Like, I honestly just don&#x27;t understand your point: these currencies (minus Bitcoin, due to proof of work being a bit ridiculous) seem like a very useful tool <i>that you couldn&#x27;t really ban anyway</i> without taking ridiculously draconian measures (a la China and the open Internet, which is only barely working for them anyway) as--and this is kind of the whole point--there isn&#x27;t any central actor running or maintaining it.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Ransomware Problem Is a Bitcoin Problem</title><url>https://www.lawfareblog.com/ransomware-problem-bitcoin-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SavantIdiot</author><text>I&#x27;d like to hear how cryptocurrency advocates address this without deploying a fallacy. Cryptocurrency makes ransomware possible, without the former, the latter cannot thrive. The defenses I usually hear come in the form of &quot;current banking facilitates bad stuff, too,&quot; which is a fact, but doesn&#x27;t absolve cryptocurrencies central role in ransomware. As the article states, there is simply no way to pay a ransom without cryptocurrency. Maybe they could do b2b or cash, but that would be sooooo bold (but not impossible?)<p>EDIT: See link from user &#x27;px43&#x27; below about the history of ransomware. Good read. Predates cryptocurrency, but I think banking technology would make most payment strategies of the past impossible, like the original article argues (e.g., PO Box in Panama is quoted as a 1989 payment plan, but GP article explains that is harder due to extradition of data and logs).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>px43</author><text>Heh, what? Ransomware existed long before cryptocurrencies.<p>Money laundering via ACH, SWIFT, stolen credit cards, gift cards, and all sorts of online payment systems like PayPal are still huge, no cryptocurrencies required.<p>Cryptocurrencies are used today because they&#x27;re the most efficient way to make online payments, which is a net positive for everyone. It&#x27;s just as easy to hunt down criminals using cryptocurrencies as it was to hunt online criminals before cryptocurrencies got popular.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knowbe4.com&#x2F;ransomware" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knowbe4.com&#x2F;ransomware</a></text></comment> |
29,405,735 | 29,405,631 | 1 | 3 | 29,403,976 | train | <story><title>Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/workplace/stripe-hiring-issues-rescinded-jobs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericmay</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve got no horse in this, it&#x27;s not my industry and I&#x27;m just a spectator. But two days ago I thought of Stripe as a top notch company, with top notch leadership.<p>No dog in the fight either here, but that&#x27;s <i>exactly</i> what those who posted these stories recently are trying to do. You saw some bit of news and then totally changed your perception. That&#x27;s how this thing works. Those tiny bits of negative news just stick in your mind.<p>What were your priors? Stripe pays well, has a great product, leadership is great, hires top-tier developers, is a great place to work, etc. (making stuff up here idk what your priors were) but all of that is erased because you saw a random article about two people having offers rescinded and you don&#x27;t even know if it&#x27;s true?<p>What if all of the above priors were true and it was also true that two people had offers rescinded? Do they not have top-notch leadership because two people had offers rescinded? Is that enough to sway your opinion?<p>Best course of action here IMO is to wait and see more evidence. If you had a weak opinion either way why have one. If you had a strong opinion is this strong evidence to change <i>all of your priors</i>? Plenty of companies rescind offers, they just aren&#x27;t making it to the front page (Google, AirBnB, etc.).</text></item><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>Reputation is a fragile thing. I&#x27;ve got no horse in this, it&#x27;s not my industry and I&#x27;m just a spectator. But two days ago I thought of Stripe as a top notch company, with top notch leadership. Since I&#x27;m well aware that PR is a thing, that reputation also tends to be brittle, but while nobody had said anything bad about Stripe, I thought they were tops. This is not so much about Stripe as about the PR world we&#x27;ve created: we know that everything we&#x27;re told is polished to make it look as nice as possible, so when the facade cracks, we should adjust heavily.<p>So now I&#x27;m going to have to shift my priors, and it may well be unfair to the firm. For one, I don&#x27;t know if the allegations are true. I also don&#x27;t know whether this is a one-off, or whether this happens all the time and this is the tip of the iceberg. I do know that whatever I hear is going to be deeply invested one way or the other.<p>Specifically about the rescinded offers, the only acceptable reason to do that is when the person has gotten the offer in bad faith, eg they lied about their CV or claimed to have done something they provably hadn&#x27;t. Other than that, someone who&#x27;s gotten an offer may well have started moving house, taking their kids out of school, gotten their spouse to quit their job, and all sorts of hard-to-reverse decisions. It&#x27;s an utterly crappy thing to have happen, and any company that does it should be outed for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; What were your priors?<p>The better question is: Where did your priors come from?<p>Every big tech company invests a lot of time and money into projecting a good reputation on the internet. It&#x27;s basically table stakes for competitive hiring these days. This includes everything from making a founder a celebrity in tech circles or on Twitter, to posting fake Glassdoor reviews (and getting negative reviews removed). The worst company I worked for would periodically send e-mails to everyone reminding us about the NDAs we signed and implying that they&#x27;d sue anyone who talked to the press or wrote negative things about the company online.<p>If you&#x27;re making judgements based on the frequency of good versus bad posts, your opinions are going to be dominated by companies pushing positive PR for themselves.<p>The strangest thing about the negative Stripe posts is that I haven&#x27;t seen many Stripe employees (other than executives) show up and say that these anecdotes are surprising. I have, however, seen several anecdotes in this thread and others noting that Stripe&#x27;s hiring process is notoriously chaotic and flawed.<p>I don&#x27;t really know the truth. I&#x27;d lean toward assuming these are abnormal experiences, but I wouldn&#x27;t discard them entirely just because they&#x27;re not what you expected to hear. What you <i>expect</i> to hear about a big company is largely a function of deliberate PR pushes these days.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/workplace/stripe-hiring-issues-rescinded-jobs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericmay</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve got no horse in this, it&#x27;s not my industry and I&#x27;m just a spectator. But two days ago I thought of Stripe as a top notch company, with top notch leadership.<p>No dog in the fight either here, but that&#x27;s <i>exactly</i> what those who posted these stories recently are trying to do. You saw some bit of news and then totally changed your perception. That&#x27;s how this thing works. Those tiny bits of negative news just stick in your mind.<p>What were your priors? Stripe pays well, has a great product, leadership is great, hires top-tier developers, is a great place to work, etc. (making stuff up here idk what your priors were) but all of that is erased because you saw a random article about two people having offers rescinded and you don&#x27;t even know if it&#x27;s true?<p>What if all of the above priors were true and it was also true that two people had offers rescinded? Do they not have top-notch leadership because two people had offers rescinded? Is that enough to sway your opinion?<p>Best course of action here IMO is to wait and see more evidence. If you had a weak opinion either way why have one. If you had a strong opinion is this strong evidence to change <i>all of your priors</i>? Plenty of companies rescind offers, they just aren&#x27;t making it to the front page (Google, AirBnB, etc.).</text></item><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>Reputation is a fragile thing. I&#x27;ve got no horse in this, it&#x27;s not my industry and I&#x27;m just a spectator. But two days ago I thought of Stripe as a top notch company, with top notch leadership. Since I&#x27;m well aware that PR is a thing, that reputation also tends to be brittle, but while nobody had said anything bad about Stripe, I thought they were tops. This is not so much about Stripe as about the PR world we&#x27;ve created: we know that everything we&#x27;re told is polished to make it look as nice as possible, so when the facade cracks, we should adjust heavily.<p>So now I&#x27;m going to have to shift my priors, and it may well be unfair to the firm. For one, I don&#x27;t know if the allegations are true. I also don&#x27;t know whether this is a one-off, or whether this happens all the time and this is the tip of the iceberg. I do know that whatever I hear is going to be deeply invested one way or the other.<p>Specifically about the rescinded offers, the only acceptable reason to do that is when the person has gotten the offer in bad faith, eg they lied about their CV or claimed to have done something they provably hadn&#x27;t. Other than that, someone who&#x27;s gotten an offer may well have started moving house, taking their kids out of school, gotten their spouse to quit their job, and all sorts of hard-to-reverse decisions. It&#x27;s an utterly crappy thing to have happen, and any company that does it should be outed for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; Those tiny bits of negative news just stick in your mind.</i><p>There&#x27;s an interesting psychological process here that I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve seen described before.<p>You would expect that the <i>higher</i> the reputation something has, the more resilient that regard is. As if good reputation means the thing has a large number of &quot;reputation points&quot; and can thus afford to lose some while still retaining a large quantity of remaining rep points.<p>But the perceived effect is the opposite. The higher the reputation the more <i>fragile</i> it is to bad news. When a middling reputation thing gets some bad news, we consider it not particularly newsworthy and its reputation is unchanged. But when a highly regarded thing gets tainted, the pristine edifice comes tumbling down.<p>I can understand why our brains would work that way: we are incentivized through our evolutionary history to be highly attuned to detect deceipt—actors that are not what they appear to be. So bad news about a good person is read as vital information that causes us to re-evaluate everything we knew about them in that light.<p>But it&#x27;s not clear to me that that model logically scales to an entire organization. Organizations are not monolithic entities and when an otherwise great org makes a misstep, that doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean it&#x27;s rotten to the core.</text></comment> |
25,516,770 | 25,514,367 | 1 | 2 | 25,513,713 | train | <story><title>Things You're Allowed to Do</title><url>https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>k__</author><text>My findings:<p>Sleep until noon every day.<p>Work only as much as you need.<p>Work from home, or anywhere else for that matter.<p>Have multiple romantic partners in parallel.<p>Have platonic friends of the opposite sex.<p>Share multiple flats with multiple people (i.e. live in multiple places, but cheap)<p>Study 10 years.<p>Make your own iced tea in the fridge.<p>Buy food in bulk.<p>Drink tap water.<p>Create your own dishes by mixing ingredients.<p>Cook&#x2F;fry&#x2F;bake food you would usually eat raw.<p>Eat food raw that you would usually cook&#x2F;fry&#x2F;bake.<p>Sleep everywhere in your home.<p>Learn languages, instruments, or sports after you turned 30.<p>Drink no alcohol at a party and still have fun.<p>Start&#x2F;stop smoking and drinking after 30.<p>Found a company like you would buy a game console.<p>Take no VC money.<p>Take muliple years and tries to create a good product.<p>Write music&#x2F;give concerts for yourself or your friends only.<p>Don&#x27;t wear shoes outside.<p>Don&#x27;t have an opinion on a topic.<p>Overall:<p>Don&#x27;t play pre-defined games in your life, but ask if they make you happy. You only have one life, make the most out of it.<p>Sometimes you have to play by some rules made up by other people to get into a better place, but look at them closely, it could very well be that they are more open to interpretation than they first seem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paganel</author><text>&gt; Have multiple romantic partners in parallel.<p>Do those &quot;multiple romantic partners&quot; know about each other? If the answer is &quot;no&quot; then yours is a very jerky suggestion (I know &quot;jerky&quot; is a harsh word for this forum, but I can&#x27;t come up with anything else to describe this).</text></comment> | <story><title>Things You're Allowed to Do</title><url>https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>k__</author><text>My findings:<p>Sleep until noon every day.<p>Work only as much as you need.<p>Work from home, or anywhere else for that matter.<p>Have multiple romantic partners in parallel.<p>Have platonic friends of the opposite sex.<p>Share multiple flats with multiple people (i.e. live in multiple places, but cheap)<p>Study 10 years.<p>Make your own iced tea in the fridge.<p>Buy food in bulk.<p>Drink tap water.<p>Create your own dishes by mixing ingredients.<p>Cook&#x2F;fry&#x2F;bake food you would usually eat raw.<p>Eat food raw that you would usually cook&#x2F;fry&#x2F;bake.<p>Sleep everywhere in your home.<p>Learn languages, instruments, or sports after you turned 30.<p>Drink no alcohol at a party and still have fun.<p>Start&#x2F;stop smoking and drinking after 30.<p>Found a company like you would buy a game console.<p>Take no VC money.<p>Take muliple years and tries to create a good product.<p>Write music&#x2F;give concerts for yourself or your friends only.<p>Don&#x27;t wear shoes outside.<p>Don&#x27;t have an opinion on a topic.<p>Overall:<p>Don&#x27;t play pre-defined games in your life, but ask if they make you happy. You only have one life, make the most out of it.<p>Sometimes you have to play by some rules made up by other people to get into a better place, but look at them closely, it could very well be that they are more open to interpretation than they first seem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>renewiltord</author><text>If nothing else, it appears like you&#x27;ll live an interesting life this way, though perhaps not a long one if you take the &#x27;start&#x27; path on the smoking.</text></comment> |
28,006,609 | 28,006,756 | 1 | 2 | 28,006,249 | train | <story><title>Open Terms Archive – Follow changes to terms of service</title><url>https://www.opentermsarchive.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>csomar</author><text>Great website collecting emails with no Terms of Service (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opentermsarchive.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;terms-of-service" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opentermsarchive.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;terms-of-service</a>) and an almost empty privacy policy (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opentermsarchive.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;privacy-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.opentermsarchive.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;privacy-policy</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Open Terms Archive – Follow changes to terms of service</title><url>https://www.opentermsarchive.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baliex</author><text>Setting something like this up has been an idea of mine for a while. Glad someone&#x27;s done it.<p>Being able to get simple plain-text diffs of documents (preferably through git) that you&#x27;ve agreed to or signed should be the expected standard. Not just for privacy policies online, but for any contractual change in our personal and work lives.<p>Here&#x27;s Facebook&#x27;s Privacy Policy from the Open Terms Archive: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ambanum&#x2F;OpenTermsArchive-versions&#x2F;commits&#x2F;master&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Privacy%20Policy.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ambanum&#x2F;OpenTermsArchive-versions&#x2F;commits...</a>.</text></comment> |
35,086,099 | 35,086,047 | 1 | 3 | 35,077,742 | train | <story><title>Augmented Reality Welding System</title><url>https://www.millerwelds.com/equipment/training-solutions/training-equipment/mobilearc-augmented-reality-welding-system-m90560</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elil17</author><text>I&#x27;d imagine this tool is meant for welding schools who want to be able to do something like:<p>1) Pull intro classes out of their shop to increase capacity
2) Reduce costs associated with power&#x2F;gas&#x2F;metal&#x2F;etc.
3) Give people a taste of what welding is like without having to do safety training</text></item><item><author>binarymax</author><text>I suck at welding. I have a tig welder, and I’m not good at it. I’ve taken a short course, but it’s not enough.<p>As someone who needs more education and practice, I don’t understand how this can help. Like, isn’t the only way to learn how to weld actually welding? Can a simulation be good enough? I have my doubts.<p>Sure this can simulate holding stuff and what would happen in some conditions.<p>I doubt this makes a big difference because the things that screw up welding isn’t just the motion. It’s the prep and cleanliness of the material, the shape and cleanliness of the tungsten rod, the position of the rod in the cup, the downdraft, and all kinds of crazy details that I don’t think can be simulated and these things need to be hard won by real practice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tekla</author><text>Only someone who hasnt welded would think this is something amyone wants.<p>Welding is a very &quot;real world&quot; activity. Cleaning things properly takes a non insigificant amount of time and you really need to get a feel for the materials.</text></comment> | <story><title>Augmented Reality Welding System</title><url>https://www.millerwelds.com/equipment/training-solutions/training-equipment/mobilearc-augmented-reality-welding-system-m90560</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elil17</author><text>I&#x27;d imagine this tool is meant for welding schools who want to be able to do something like:<p>1) Pull intro classes out of their shop to increase capacity
2) Reduce costs associated with power&#x2F;gas&#x2F;metal&#x2F;etc.
3) Give people a taste of what welding is like without having to do safety training</text></item><item><author>binarymax</author><text>I suck at welding. I have a tig welder, and I’m not good at it. I’ve taken a short course, but it’s not enough.<p>As someone who needs more education and practice, I don’t understand how this can help. Like, isn’t the only way to learn how to weld actually welding? Can a simulation be good enough? I have my doubts.<p>Sure this can simulate holding stuff and what would happen in some conditions.<p>I doubt this makes a big difference because the things that screw up welding isn’t just the motion. It’s the prep and cleanliness of the material, the shape and cleanliness of the tungsten rod, the position of the rod in the cup, the downdraft, and all kinds of crazy details that I don’t think can be simulated and these things need to be hard won by real practice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idiotsecant</author><text>If I&#x27;m paying for welding classes it&#x27;s damn well going to be on actual gear.</text></comment> |
29,698,105 | 29,697,832 | 1 | 2 | 29,691,988 | train | <story><title>The Importance of Price Signals</title><url>https://www.lynalden.com/price-signals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbay808</author><text>Price signals are an important part of ensuring that resources go where they&#x27;re needed, but this also sort of assumes that everyone has an equal capacity to pay.<p>There&#x27;s an extent to which, yes, in a gas shortage I&#x27;ll pay 4x to drive my wife to the hospital but not to drive my kids to the pool, so the gas goes where it&#x27;s needed.<p>But if I&#x27;m very poor, I can&#x27;t pay 4x even if my wife is in labour, and if I&#x27;m very rich, I&#x27;ll pay whatever to drive my kids to the pool because I don&#x27;t even notice gas prices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>It&#x27;s not a perfect system, but it generally works. Yes, some people will be too poor to afford the gas to get the hospital at 4x the price. But some people are already too poor to afford the gas at 1x the price - and it similarly sucks.<p>The price going up means that <i>there is</i> gas for someone that can afford to pay 4x to take their wife to the hospital. If it didn&#x27;t go up, the gas would still be hoarded <i>only moreso</i> and there wouldn&#x27;t be gas for you to take your wife to the hospital at <i>any</i> price.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Importance of Price Signals</title><url>https://www.lynalden.com/price-signals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbay808</author><text>Price signals are an important part of ensuring that resources go where they&#x27;re needed, but this also sort of assumes that everyone has an equal capacity to pay.<p>There&#x27;s an extent to which, yes, in a gas shortage I&#x27;ll pay 4x to drive my wife to the hospital but not to drive my kids to the pool, so the gas goes where it&#x27;s needed.<p>But if I&#x27;m very poor, I can&#x27;t pay 4x even if my wife is in labour, and if I&#x27;m very rich, I&#x27;ll pay whatever to drive my kids to the pool because I don&#x27;t even notice gas prices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mr_toad</author><text>&gt; Price signals are an important part of ensuring that resources go where they&#x27;re needed, but this also sort of assumes that everyone has an equal capacity to pay.<p>Technically, neither of those things are true. An efficient market only ensures that resources aren’t wasted - that they won’t be allocated in ways that are <i>worse for everyone</i>. There are still (infinitely) many efficient outcomes where some people could be better off at the expense of others.<p>Defining ‘need’, especially when it comes to trade offs between individuals is an extremely fraught and unsolved (and demonstrably unsolvable) problem in economics.</text></comment> |
18,600,995 | 18,600,570 | 1 | 2 | 18,599,728 | train | <story><title>What we learned from 3 years of bra engineering, and what's next</title><url>https://bratheory.com/what-we-learned-and-whats-next/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DelaneyM</author><text>The many concerns in this thread (and their upvotes) about price (350$) are one of the best examples of the risks of gender imbalance in venture funding I&#x27;ve yet seen.<p>I suspect pretty much any woman in North America, regardless of ability to afford it, would see that as a totally rational price point.<p>And as someone who _can_ afford it, I&#x27;m seriously weighing a trip to NYC to be fitted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cooperadymas</author><text>Am I misunderstanding, are are you actually positing that nearly any American woman would think $350 is a rational price point for a bra?<p>Because that would be one of the best examples of the risk of wealth imbalance in our country that I&#x27;ve yet seen.</text></comment> | <story><title>What we learned from 3 years of bra engineering, and what's next</title><url>https://bratheory.com/what-we-learned-and-whats-next/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DelaneyM</author><text>The many concerns in this thread (and their upvotes) about price (350$) are one of the best examples of the risks of gender imbalance in venture funding I&#x27;ve yet seen.<p>I suspect pretty much any woman in North America, regardless of ability to afford it, would see that as a totally rational price point.<p>And as someone who _can_ afford it, I&#x27;m seriously weighing a trip to NYC to be fitted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1123581321</author><text>I thought you might be right, so I did some polling on this product and got feedback like:<p>* “Bergner’s and Macy’s already can get a good fit. They have 15 cup sizes most people don’t know about”<p>* “I’d pay $150 for a custom fit if my size weren’t fluctuating”<p>* “If I have to travel, I can already get a really good bra in Paris, NY or London that look better”<p>* “Seems like it could be successful if enough women who don’t know their options hear about it”<p>These are aggregates of the most commonly expressed opinions. It seems like price might be a valid concern of women as well as men. I am sure that with enough press, this founder can succeed, but I don’t think I’d necessarily be biased if I thought it wasn’t competitive or disruptive enough. The qualities and connections of the founding team matter more than anything when the problem is that existing solutions aren’t popular enough to meet demand.</text></comment> |
30,505,787 | 30,505,744 | 1 | 2 | 30,505,219 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What is the oldest, still supported OS?</title><text>I recently discovered that TSOS, an old Univac OS that I used (and loved!) in the mid 1970&#x27;s and first released in 1968 by RCA, is still supported (although the name has changed) as Fujitsu&#x27;s BS2000 OS. Unix was released a year after that (1969). Is there something that beats these?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexvoda</author><text>I find it interesting that you write years using 5 digits with leading zeroes. Can you tell me more about that choice?</text></item><item><author>kragen</author><text>Burroughs MCP was released in 01961 and seems to still be supported. The latest release was 20.0 in May. That&#x27;s probably the oldest.<p>z&#x2F;OS was released in 01966. BOS&#x2F;360 made it out the door earlier, in 01965, thanks to the disastrous delays in z&#x2F;OS, but it&#x27;s no longer supported; DOS&#x2F;360 (z&#x2F;VSE) also beat z&#x2F;OS out, is still supported, and is arguably the continuation of BOS. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DOS&#x2F;360_and_successors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DOS&#x2F;360_and_successors</a><p>Unix wasn&#x27;t released in 01969. I think it wasn&#x27;t released until Fifth Edition in 01974, though Thompson and Ritchie described the Fourth Edition in CACM in 01973. Fourth Edition had &quot;over 20&quot; installations, but I think all within AT&amp;T. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Research_Unix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Research_Unix</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>compressedgas</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;longnow.org&#x2F;ideas&#x2F;02013&#x2F;12&#x2F;31&#x2F;long-now-years-five-digit-dates-and-10k-compliance-at-home&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;longnow.org&#x2F;ideas&#x2F;02013&#x2F;12&#x2F;31&#x2F;long-now-years-five-di...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What is the oldest, still supported OS?</title><text>I recently discovered that TSOS, an old Univac OS that I used (and loved!) in the mid 1970&#x27;s and first released in 1968 by RCA, is still supported (although the name has changed) as Fujitsu&#x27;s BS2000 OS. Unix was released a year after that (1969). Is there something that beats these?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexvoda</author><text>I find it interesting that you write years using 5 digits with leading zeroes. Can you tell me more about that choice?</text></item><item><author>kragen</author><text>Burroughs MCP was released in 01961 and seems to still be supported. The latest release was 20.0 in May. That&#x27;s probably the oldest.<p>z&#x2F;OS was released in 01966. BOS&#x2F;360 made it out the door earlier, in 01965, thanks to the disastrous delays in z&#x2F;OS, but it&#x27;s no longer supported; DOS&#x2F;360 (z&#x2F;VSE) also beat z&#x2F;OS out, is still supported, and is arguably the continuation of BOS. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DOS&#x2F;360_and_successors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DOS&#x2F;360_and_successors</a><p>Unix wasn&#x27;t released in 01969. I think it wasn&#x27;t released until Fifth Edition in 01974, though Thompson and Ritchie described the Fourth Edition in CACM in 01973. Fourth Edition had &quot;over 20&quot; installations, but I think all within AT&amp;T. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Research_Unix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Research_Unix</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>01961 is not a valid year as &#x27;9&#x27; is not a valid octal digit.</text></comment> |
24,822,853 | 24,822,601 | 1 | 2 | 24,822,103 | train | <story><title>Real-Life Angel Investing Returns 2012–2016</title><url>https://medium.com/@yunfangjuan/real-life-angel-investing-returns-2012-2016-b33425fcb816</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>manyhats</author><text>I disagree on the choice of benchmarks as they&#x27;re not really comparable. A more comparable benchmark for angel investments in Internet &#x2F; SW startups would be a broad-based ETF that covers those. Picking a couple of the larger ones, I looked at the same periods (2012-2019 and 2016-2019) for each of them:<p>FDN: 4.31x &#x2F; 1.86x
IGV: 4.41x &#x2F; 2.27x
overall mean: 3.2x<p>Not much different than QQQ&#x27;s 3.04x, but SPY is not a good benchmark due to big differences in underlying constituents.<p>I&#x27;d want to get a better handle on the timing of investments as well to make the benchmark more comparable - e.g., if 50% of the capital was deployed in 2012 (hypothetically) and 10% in each of the following 5 years then I&#x27;d weight my benchmark performance in the same fashion.<p>Finally, I would want to discount the angel investment portfolio for lack of control and liquidity. Much depends on the specifics of the recent fundraising - is the valuation using the pref figure or is it a reasonable approximation of the valuation of the seed paper (adjusting for structural differences)?<p>Personally, I&#x27;d rather have a well-diversified liquid ETF return of X than a portfolio of illiquid minority stakes that are marked to 1.2X. At 2X, I&#x27;d be happy with the restrictions.<p>Please don&#x27;t misinterpret this as dumping on the result - IMO I believe this to be an above-average outcome and I congratulate the author on their success. Angel is harder than most if the top-few % of investments are not in a portfolio.</text></comment> | <story><title>Real-Life Angel Investing Returns 2012–2016</title><url>https://medium.com/@yunfangjuan/real-life-angel-investing-returns-2012-2016-b33425fcb816</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smabie</author><text>I kind of doubt that doing VC without being very high profile has better risk adjusted returns than SPY. Of course this somewhat hard to calculate on the VC side due to the lack of transparency and illiquidity of the market.<p>But in fact that author is going about this all wrong. It doesn&#x27;t really matter if VC outperforms. The point of VC or hedge funds or any other alternative investments isn&#x27;t to outperform the market on a risk adjusted basis (though that would be nice), but to provide a uncorrelated return stream.<p>When these uncorrelated or less correlated return streams is mixed into the standard market return stream, the risk adjusted return of the entire portfolio is enhanced. This is why you shouldn&#x27;t focus on the individual risk&#x2F;return profile of an asset or investment, but instead focus on the entire portfolio.<p>A great example of this somewhat counterintuitive statistical phenomenon is gold. Gold historically has had both high volatility and low returns. However, due to the low correlation to the market, mixing in gold to a SPY portfolio and performing a minimum variance optimization to determine the weights actually boosts the return&#x2F;risk profile.<p>If anyone is interested, I have a blog post about it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptm.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;09&#x2F;alt.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptm.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;09&#x2F;alt.html</a></text></comment> |
22,705,896 | 22,705,536 | 1 | 2 | 22,704,116 | train | <story><title>Making software engineering interviews predictive of job performance</title><url>https://www.qualified.io/blog/posts/truly-predictive-software-engineering-interviews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>new_realist</author><text>“General Mental Ability (GMA) tests (like the IQ test) are very predictive of future job performance, largely because people with high intelligence can learn the skills needed to be successful on the job more rapidly. However, due to legal concerns they’re not recommended for companies hiring in the US.”<p>This is what a classic FAANG interview is: an IQ test which is disguised as a relevant skills test for legal reasons. And they work quite well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dominotw</author><text>you can pass every facebook iterview by practicing facebook tagged questions on leetcode. People do that every single day,
here is an example from today<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leetcode.com&#x2F;discuss&#x2F;interview-question&#x2F;551434&#x2F;facebook-phone-android-software-engineer-odd-even-ll-remove-duplicates-from-sorted-array&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leetcode.com&#x2F;discuss&#x2F;interview-question&#x2F;551434&#x2F;faceb...</a><p>Its <i>NOT</i> related to IQ.<p>You can search leetcode forum for tons of examples of actual FB questions, all of them are tagged on leetcode.</text></comment> | <story><title>Making software engineering interviews predictive of job performance</title><url>https://www.qualified.io/blog/posts/truly-predictive-software-engineering-interviews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>new_realist</author><text>“General Mental Ability (GMA) tests (like the IQ test) are very predictive of future job performance, largely because people with high intelligence can learn the skills needed to be successful on the job more rapidly. However, due to legal concerns they’re not recommended for companies hiring in the US.”<p>This is what a classic FAANG interview is: an IQ test which is disguised as a relevant skills test for legal reasons. And they work quite well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ForHackernews</author><text>My first job out of university was answering tech support calls and the interview process was primarily based on the Wonderlic test[0] (famously given to NFL players).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wonderlic_test" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wonderlic_test</a></text></comment> |
7,073,528 | 7,071,310 | 1 | 2 | 7,069,889 | train | <story><title>OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on</title><url>http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=138972987203440&w=2</url><text>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsdfoundation.org&#x2F;donations.html
and
http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openbsd.org&#x2F;want.html</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jxf</author><text>Just to make the call to action a little more direct, the donation link is here:<p><a href="http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsdfoundation.org&#x2F;donations.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ninjin</author><text>Since PayPal won&#x27;t accept donations from where I live (Japan), here is an alternative way of donating through the Calgary Computer Shop:<p><a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;https.openbsd.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;order</a><p>Having just donated I would like to say that the man pages are wonderful. I like them so much that I have a oman alias and made a quick (and dirty) script to fetch them.<p><a href="https://github.com/ninjin/ppod/tree/master/hck/openbsd_manpages" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ninjin&#x2F;ppod&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;hck&#x2F;openbsd_manpa...</a><p>Try them out when coding C or when writing portable shell-scripts, they are a blessing. There is also the official web interface:<p><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;man.cgi</a></text></comment> | <story><title>OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to keep the lights on</title><url>http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=138972987203440&w=2</url><text>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsdfoundation.org&#x2F;donations.html
and
http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openbsd.org&#x2F;want.html</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jxf</author><text>Just to make the call to action a little more direct, the donation link is here:<p><a href="http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsdfoundation.org&#x2F;donations.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ibdknox</author><text>If the maintainers of that page are around here, I suggest putting some visualization of how close you are to the goal on there. It&#x27;s amazing how much of a psychological motivator a bar filling up is.</text></comment> |
29,538,004 | 29,538,119 | 1 | 2 | 29,537,172 | train | <story><title>GNUstep: Open-source, Object-oriented, Cross-platform Development Environment</title><url>http://gnustep.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inDigiNeous</author><text>Yeah this was a really interesting project when it got started, like in the late 90s ? Now, realistically, even though I like the idea, who is going to use this ?<p>Maybe like a compatibility setup for old NeXTStep applications ? Or porting some old macOS applications to Linux environments ?<p>Working on top of the X11 implementation also doesn&#x27;t really provoke trust to look into the project.</text></item><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>It was nice endevour to port NeXTSTEP development stack.<p>Nowadays with it being several releases behind macOS tooling, and the whole issue of what from Objective-C v-latest is actually supported, it is more of a curiosity and nostalgic experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grahamlee</author><text>I co-host a GNUstep developer stream at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitch.tv&#x2F;objcretain" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitch.tv&#x2F;objcretain</a> (replays at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;replay.objc-retain.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;replay.objc-retain.com</a>). The motivation my co-host and I have for using GNUstep in 2021 and beyond is to provide a familiar environment for macOS developers and users who are not happy with Apple’s direction and would benefit from a free software alternative. To that end we mostly work on the basic desktop tools like calendar, mail, and addresses, and fix framework&#x2F;dev tools bugs and missing parts as we find them.</text></comment> | <story><title>GNUstep: Open-source, Object-oriented, Cross-platform Development Environment</title><url>http://gnustep.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inDigiNeous</author><text>Yeah this was a really interesting project when it got started, like in the late 90s ? Now, realistically, even though I like the idea, who is going to use this ?<p>Maybe like a compatibility setup for old NeXTStep applications ? Or porting some old macOS applications to Linux environments ?<p>Working on top of the X11 implementation also doesn&#x27;t really provoke trust to look into the project.</text></item><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>It was nice endevour to port NeXTSTEP development stack.<p>Nowadays with it being several releases behind macOS tooling, and the whole issue of what from Objective-C v-latest is actually supported, it is more of a curiosity and nostalgic experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donatj</author><text>&gt; Working on top of the X11 implementation also doesn&#x27;t really provoke trust to look into the project.<p>Vs Wayland? I&#x27;d have way more doubts about anything that ran exclusively on Wayland than on X11.<p>Wayland isn&#x27;t ready, I have serious doubts it&#x27;s ever going to be ready.<p>X11 is old, but so is vim, emacs, grep, everything I want to actually rely on.</text></comment> |
33,218,648 | 33,218,457 | 1 | 3 | 33,218,094 | train | <story><title>Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)</title><url>https://github.com/p8952/bocker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related:<p><i>Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22244706" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22244706</a> - Feb 2020 (196 comments)<p><i>Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16453610" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16453610</a> - Feb 2018 (9 comments)<p><i>Show HN: Bocker – Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9925896" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9925896</a> - July 2015 (87 comments)</text></comment> | <story><title>Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2015)</title><url>https://github.com/p8952/bocker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>Really this is more interesting as a great tutorial on the way Linux container tools work (and especially their fundamental simplicity -- the docs make them seem scary when they really aren&#x27;t) more than it is as a docker replacement (docker is obviously much larger than this one script, but not really &quot;large&quot; as a software stack).<p>But reading this makes clear that, yes, containers are just filesystem trees, network namespaces are just like internal networks maintained by straightforward commands underneath an &quot;ip netns&quot; command, etc...<p>Great stuff.</text></comment> |
37,564,708 | 37,563,019 | 1 | 3 | 37,562,225 | train | <story><title>Some new snippets from the Snowden documents</title><url>https://www.electrospaces.net/2023/09/some-new-snippets-from-snowden-documents.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neilv</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;How do they accomplish their goals with project BULLRUN? One way is that United States National Security Agency (NSA) participates in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) community protocol standardization meetings with the explicit goal of sabotaging protocol security to enhance NSA surveillance capabilities.&quot; &quot;Discussions with insiders confirmed what is claimed in as of yet unpublished classified documents from the Snowden archive and other sources.&quot; (page 6-7, note 8)</i><p>There&#x27;s long been stories about meddling in other standards orgs (both to strengthen and to weaken them), but I don&#x27;t recall hearing rumors about sabotage of <i>IETF</i> standards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>These rumors, about IETF in particular, predate the Snowden disclosures.<p>Almost immediately after that happened, a well-known cypherpunk person accused the IETF IPSEC standardization process of subversion, pointing out Phil Rogaway (an extraordinarily well-respected and influential academic cryptographer) trying in vain to get the IETF not to standardize a chained-IV CBC transport (this is a bug class now best known, in TLS, as BEAST), while a chorus of IETF gadflies dunked on him and questioned his credentials. The gadflies ultimately prevailed.<p>The moral of this story, and what makes these &quot;NSA at IETF&quot; allegations so insidious, is that the IETF is perfectly capable of subverting its own cryptography without any help from a meddling intelligence agency. This is a common failure of all standards organizations (W3C didn&#x27;t need any help coming up with XML DSIG, which is probably the worst cryptosystem ever devised), but it&#x27;s somewhat amplified in open settings like IETF.</text></comment> | <story><title>Some new snippets from the Snowden documents</title><url>https://www.electrospaces.net/2023/09/some-new-snippets-from-snowden-documents.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neilv</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;How do they accomplish their goals with project BULLRUN? One way is that United States National Security Agency (NSA) participates in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) community protocol standardization meetings with the explicit goal of sabotaging protocol security to enhance NSA surveillance capabilities.&quot; &quot;Discussions with insiders confirmed what is claimed in as of yet unpublished classified documents from the Snowden archive and other sources.&quot; (page 6-7, note 8)</i><p>There&#x27;s long been stories about meddling in other standards orgs (both to strengthen and to weaken them), but I don&#x27;t recall hearing rumors about sabotage of <i>IETF</i> standards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fidotron</author><text>Just a concrete example of that time we know the NSA actually did their job properly:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Data_Encryption_Standard#NSA&#x27;s_involvement_in_the_design" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Data_Encryption_Standard#NSA&#x27;s...</a></text></comment> |
26,869,415 | 26,869,276 | 1 | 3 | 26,864,438 | train | <story><title>How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/04/19/how-often-do-people-actually-copy-and-paste-from-stack-overflow-now-we-know/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>henrikeh</author><text>Is it just me or is this also a symptom of Python&#x27;s documentation being really strange to navigate and generally having a massive impedance mismatch with Google?<p>When I search on Google for &quot;python reverse list&quot;, not a single link is to the official Python documentation. Not even if I search for &quot;python reverse&quot; does the documentation page show up. Searching for &quot;python reverse documentation&quot; leads to the second link to the Build-in Functions page (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3&#x2F;library&#x2F;functions.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3&#x2F;library&#x2F;functions.html</a>), which is what I &quot;need&quot;.<p>Excuse the comparison, but &quot;matlab reverse list&quot; has the top three to the official documentation (all of them relevant, but slightly different semantics). Why can&#x27;t Python be better than that?</text></item><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>IMO its not even that we&#x27;re copying people&#x27;s logic, its just that stack overflow acts as a weird sort of crowd-sourced centralized documentation for programming languages.<p>For example if I forget the name of a function for something in a particular language I don&#x27;t even go to the docs, I just google something like &quot;python reverse list&quot; and click the first SO link.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jollybean</author><text>It&#x27;s not you - Python docs are very comprehensive but organized in a very odd way and miss a lot of marks. If you have time to &#x27;read everything&#x27; you&#x27;re fine but it&#x27;s somewhat less suited as a raw reference.<p>Although I don&#x27;t mind the informal voice of the docs - there&#x27;s clearly not much in the way of editorial oversight and pro technical writing. It makes one reconsider how much actual effort goes into putting together docs from corporate backed efforts.<p>That said, I don&#x27;t think anyone does it perfectly well, and that we could do a lot better in terms of providing information - to the point wherein I would consider it a little bit of a failure that SE has to be consulted for smaller problems. One would hope that &#x27;good docs&#x27; would provide clear and concise answers to such things, rather than have the crowd cobble it together and vote on it.</text></comment> | <story><title>How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/04/19/how-often-do-people-actually-copy-and-paste-from-stack-overflow-now-we-know/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>henrikeh</author><text>Is it just me or is this also a symptom of Python&#x27;s documentation being really strange to navigate and generally having a massive impedance mismatch with Google?<p>When I search on Google for &quot;python reverse list&quot;, not a single link is to the official Python documentation. Not even if I search for &quot;python reverse&quot; does the documentation page show up. Searching for &quot;python reverse documentation&quot; leads to the second link to the Build-in Functions page (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3&#x2F;library&#x2F;functions.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3&#x2F;library&#x2F;functions.html</a>), which is what I &quot;need&quot;.<p>Excuse the comparison, but &quot;matlab reverse list&quot; has the top three to the official documentation (all of them relevant, but slightly different semantics). Why can&#x27;t Python be better than that?</text></item><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>IMO its not even that we&#x27;re copying people&#x27;s logic, its just that stack overflow acts as a weird sort of crowd-sourced centralized documentation for programming languages.<p>For example if I forget the name of a function for something in a particular language I don&#x27;t even go to the docs, I just google something like &quot;python reverse list&quot; and click the first SO link.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>Python documentation is a static Sphinx site with no need for JS to render content. That&#x27;s the easiest possible design for search engines to index. It&#x27;s Google&#x27;s fault that their algorithm can be gamed by low quality seo sites.</text></comment> |
37,211,062 | 37,208,182 | 1 | 2 | 37,205,053 | train | <story><title>FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs</title><url>https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1693127769901969772</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kragen</author><text>yes, it was stupid to use bubble sort to begin with; there is never a good reason to use bubble sort<p><pre><code> for (size_t i = 0; i &lt; n; i++) {
for (size_t j = 1; j &lt; n - i; j++) {
if (a[j-1] &gt; a[j]) {
item_t tmp = a[j];
a[j] = a[j-1];
a[j-1] = tmp;
}
}
}
</code></pre>
when you could use insertion sort<p><pre><code> for (size_t i = 1; i &lt; n; i++) {
for (size_t j = i; j &gt; 0; j--) {
item_t tmp = a[j];
if (tmp &gt; a[j-1]) break;
a[j] = a[j-1];
a[j-1] = tmp;
}
}
</code></pre>
which is no more complicated (both are 17 amd64 instructions with -Os), but twice as fast in the random case, and enormously faster in the sorted and almost-sorted cases<p>(above code only minimally tested: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;43dqz9Gq8" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;43dqz9Gq8</a>)<p>this is not much of a criticism of freebsd; if you polished your codebase until there was nothing stupid in it, you&#x27;d never ship anything. freebsd&#x27;s code quality is quite high, but probably we can all agree that this was stupid<p>of course it wouldn&#x27;t be nearly as fast as mergesort on large inputs, but mergesort is more complicated<p>(also mergesort is slower on small inputs than insertion sort or bubble sort, but in the case where you&#x27;re only sorting something once at startup time, that probably isn&#x27;t important. it might matter if you were sorting a million lists of ten items or something)</text></item><item><author>xyzelement</author><text>To sum up what I learned from the comments:<p>Is FreeBSD stupid for having used bubblesort to begin with? NO. It worked well for decades before surfacing as a problem in this extreme and unanticipated use case.<p>Is optimizing this a waste of time? NO. The use case revolves around super frequent bootups to power lambda and for this type of thing every ms matters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kqr</author><text>&gt; there is never a good reason to use bubble sort<p>I used to believe this but then a friend pointed out a real use case for bubble sort: when you have an array that is always mostly sorted, and real-time performance is more important than perfectly correct ordering. Then running one pass of bubble sort each cycle around the main loop is somewhat satisfyingly ideal.<p>One pass of insertion sort would be too expensive, and bubble sort is guaranteed to make incremental progress each pass.<p>This is sort of like how a linked list is never the right solution... unless it&#x27;s one of those cases where intrusive linked lists are ideal. Except while intrusive linked lists intrude in space, intrusive bubble sort kind of intrudes in time.</text></comment> | <story><title>FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs</title><url>https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1693127769901969772</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kragen</author><text>yes, it was stupid to use bubble sort to begin with; there is never a good reason to use bubble sort<p><pre><code> for (size_t i = 0; i &lt; n; i++) {
for (size_t j = 1; j &lt; n - i; j++) {
if (a[j-1] &gt; a[j]) {
item_t tmp = a[j];
a[j] = a[j-1];
a[j-1] = tmp;
}
}
}
</code></pre>
when you could use insertion sort<p><pre><code> for (size_t i = 1; i &lt; n; i++) {
for (size_t j = i; j &gt; 0; j--) {
item_t tmp = a[j];
if (tmp &gt; a[j-1]) break;
a[j] = a[j-1];
a[j-1] = tmp;
}
}
</code></pre>
which is no more complicated (both are 17 amd64 instructions with -Os), but twice as fast in the random case, and enormously faster in the sorted and almost-sorted cases<p>(above code only minimally tested: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;43dqz9Gq8" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;43dqz9Gq8</a>)<p>this is not much of a criticism of freebsd; if you polished your codebase until there was nothing stupid in it, you&#x27;d never ship anything. freebsd&#x27;s code quality is quite high, but probably we can all agree that this was stupid<p>of course it wouldn&#x27;t be nearly as fast as mergesort on large inputs, but mergesort is more complicated<p>(also mergesort is slower on small inputs than insertion sort or bubble sort, but in the case where you&#x27;re only sorting something once at startup time, that probably isn&#x27;t important. it might matter if you were sorting a million lists of ten items or something)</text></item><item><author>xyzelement</author><text>To sum up what I learned from the comments:<p>Is FreeBSD stupid for having used bubblesort to begin with? NO. It worked well for decades before surfacing as a problem in this extreme and unanticipated use case.<p>Is optimizing this a waste of time? NO. The use case revolves around super frequent bootups to power lambda and for this type of thing every ms matters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mort96</author><text>I would trust myself more to implement bubble sort than to implement insertion sort. Not that I couldn&#x27;t implement insertion sort, I&#x27;ve done it before, but if I was in a context where I had to implement a quick and dirty ad-hoc sorting algorithm which I thought would only ever have to sort a few items, I would probably go with bubble sort.<p>If I suspected at all that the algorithms would have to sort a decent number of items, I wouldn&#x27;t consider using an O(n^2) sort at all and would take the time to find a good implementation of (or implement) one of the O(n log(n)) algorithms.</text></comment> |
10,513,370 | 10,513,401 | 1 | 2 | 10,512,087 | train | <story><title>I found my father living on the street</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34420194</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nikolay</author><text>I doubled a mentally ill person has anything resembling &quot;free will&quot;...</text></item><item><author>DominikR</author><text>Mentally ill persons enjoy the same rights that other citizens enjoy and have their own free will.<p>As long as a person didn&#x27;t commit any crime and is no risk to society or oneself you cannot institutionalize him or her.<p>In any case I would refrain from making such broad generalizations about a society. Some societies prefer strong individual rights and others prefer a strong state that tells them what to do.</text></item><item><author>SpaghettiCat</author><text>What kind of society lets a mentally ill man roam the streets, deteriorating, instead of institutionalising him and helping him recover?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>norea-armozel</author><text>Not to be too rude on the matter, but I&#x27;m technically mentally ill by US standards. I have Major Depression, General Anxiety Disorder, and Gender Dysphoria. By your logic, I should be cloistered in some hospital until I &quot;get better&quot; rather than work (which I do in software development for a firm) and participate in society (Mostly online, but it&#x27;s better than nothing, anxiety sucks).<p>When does this become a problem such that your naive views makes it impossible for people like me to integrate ourselves into society? Putting up in a soft version of prison isn&#x27;t going to help us.<p>I can personally tell you that I have plenty of agency and I understand my situation. Please stop generalizing your naive views, okay?</text></comment> | <story><title>I found my father living on the street</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34420194</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nikolay</author><text>I doubled a mentally ill person has anything resembling &quot;free will&quot;...</text></item><item><author>DominikR</author><text>Mentally ill persons enjoy the same rights that other citizens enjoy and have their own free will.<p>As long as a person didn&#x27;t commit any crime and is no risk to society or oneself you cannot institutionalize him or her.<p>In any case I would refrain from making such broad generalizations about a society. Some societies prefer strong individual rights and others prefer a strong state that tells them what to do.</text></item><item><author>SpaghettiCat</author><text>What kind of society lets a mentally ill man roam the streets, deteriorating, instead of institutionalising him and helping him recover?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>Even people with fairly severe mental illness can function normally and make rational choices.<p>A friend of my family studied medicine, and during his studies there was apparently a course where the lecturer used to bring in a mental patient each year.<p>This specific mental patient suffered from severe delusions. He by all accounts genuinely believed he was the rightful heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and had constructed an elaborate fantasy world around his childhood and how he came to grow up in a suburb of Oslo, with a Norwegian family.<p>But here&#x27;s the thing: He was in full work (I don&#x27;t remember as what - a plumber or electrician or something), and lived a seemingly normal, happy life. He functioned fully as a normal member of society in every way.<p>He had learned and understood that, while he still believed fully in his delusions, people around him thought they were totally crazy. And so he&#x27;d accepted he had to live &quot;undercover&quot;. He enjoyed showing up in the lecture once a year because it gave him his an opportunity to talk about what he saw as his real self.<p>He would debate the students at length and expand on details the asked him about with ease.<p>Did he not have free will?<p>The point of inviting him was exactly for the lecturer to point out that many forms of mental illness does not remove the patients ability to reason or their ability to function, and that often it can be hard to determine if they are mentally ill at all. What if this man was right? Nobody other than him believed so, but that doesn&#x27;t prove anything. We assume he was mentally ill, but for many forms of mental illness, the line between ill or not is a fuzzy line that boils down to subjective judgement, and where the more interesting question is whether or not the patient feels there is a problem they want help with.<p>Of course there are mental illness where the decision is clear-cut too. But mental illness is not a binary. It&#x27;s not a matter of declaring you &quot;crazy&quot; or &quot;sane&quot;.</text></comment> |
26,830,216 | 26,830,119 | 1 | 2 | 26,829,845 | train | <story><title>How to fight back against Google FLoC</title><url>https://plausible.io/blog/google-floc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eterevsky</author><text>While I do understand that some people may not like it, I don&#x27;t see how FLoC is particularly harmful. I&#x27;ve read several articles about it, and most of them just say something like &quot;you are being put in a advertising cohort -- see how creepy it is&quot;, which doesn&#x27;t really prove anything.<p>One more specific argument against FLoC is that it will make help tracking users via fingerprinting. I don&#x27;t really buy it. First of all, the estimations from [EFF article](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;googles-floc-terrible-idea" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;googles-floc-terrible-...</a>) are just plainly wrong. They are talking about narrowing down to thousands of users, while in fact if Chrome has on the order of a billion users, and if FLoC has only 8 bits of entropy, the actual number of users in a cohort is on the order of millions. Secondly, from my understanding this cohort is based on your recent activity, so it will change over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>papaf</author><text><i>and if FLoC has only 8 bits of entropy</i><p>From the EFF article that you don&#x27;t like:<p>&gt; Google’s experiment used 8-bit cohort identifiers, meaning that there were only 256 possible cohorts. In practice that number could be much higher; the documentation suggests a 16-bit cohort ID comprising 4 hexadecimal characters.<p>Also, its since someone can belong to more than 1 cohort, the 8bits is a bare minimum and not a maximum. For instance, techie who likes hiphop, buys whisky and is looking for a washing machine is 32bits of entropy and covers the billion users with ease.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to fight back against Google FLoC</title><url>https://plausible.io/blog/google-floc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eterevsky</author><text>While I do understand that some people may not like it, I don&#x27;t see how FLoC is particularly harmful. I&#x27;ve read several articles about it, and most of them just say something like &quot;you are being put in a advertising cohort -- see how creepy it is&quot;, which doesn&#x27;t really prove anything.<p>One more specific argument against FLoC is that it will make help tracking users via fingerprinting. I don&#x27;t really buy it. First of all, the estimations from [EFF article](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;googles-floc-terrible-idea" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;googles-floc-terrible-...</a>) are just plainly wrong. They are talking about narrowing down to thousands of users, while in fact if Chrome has on the order of a billion users, and if FLoC has only 8 bits of entropy, the actual number of users in a cohort is on the order of millions. Secondly, from my understanding this cohort is based on your recent activity, so it will change over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kemonocode</author><text>&gt; While I do understand that some people may not like it, I don&#x27;t see how FLoC is particularly harmful.<p>Sure, I can give an example: it goes beyond simple basic fingerprinting, it allows you to be associated with a group of &quot;others&quot; (your cohort) in ways that can be dangerous to you.<p>Suppose you live in a country where you may not enjoy certain freedoms or some behaviors may be outlawed; end up in the wrong cohort(s) and a state actor will be able to know these things rather easily, this is not to say there aren&#x27;t already means to do it today, but why make the job even easier for them?</text></comment> |
16,460,152 | 16,458,229 | 1 | 2 | 16,457,859 | train | <story><title>What are we going to do with quantum computers?</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610250/hello-quantum-world/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Torai</author><text><i>Serious quantum computers ARE FINALLY HERE</i><p>That would involve both the hardware and software is ready for production and use.<p>So it&#x27;s my thing or is it MIT Technology Review writers who are misleading common people into thinking quantum computing will be usable in a couple of years?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Since people are disputing it, we took that bit out of the title above.</text></comment> | <story><title>What are we going to do with quantum computers?</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610250/hello-quantum-world/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Torai</author><text><i>Serious quantum computers ARE FINALLY HERE</i><p>That would involve both the hardware and software is ready for production and use.<p>So it&#x27;s my thing or is it MIT Technology Review writers who are misleading common people into thinking quantum computing will be usable in a couple of years?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andybak</author><text>Yes. From my layman&#x27;s view the fact that there are serious scientists in the field who still doubt that practical quantum computation is even realistically possible surely indicates we&#x27;re not on the verge of being able to order one for delivery.</text></comment> |
25,271,093 | 25,269,173 | 1 | 3 | 25,267,204 | train | <story><title>Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/want-more-postgresql-you-just-might-like-babelfish/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etaioinshrdlu</author><text>Don&#x27;t hate me for it, but I&#x27;d like this for MySQL to postgres too. At least as a stepping stone.<p>Use case: some of my SQL syntax depends on MySQL but I realize I made a poor life choice and would rather have transactional DDL and a myriad of better features on postgres.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lukaseder</author><text>Use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jooq.org&#x2F;translate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jooq.org&#x2F;translate&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/want-more-postgresql-you-just-might-like-babelfish/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>etaioinshrdlu</author><text>Don&#x27;t hate me for it, but I&#x27;d like this for MySQL to postgres too. At least as a stepping stone.<p>Use case: some of my SQL syntax depends on MySQL but I realize I made a poor life choice and would rather have transactional DDL and a myriad of better features on postgres.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>linsomniac</author><text>You might be able to get away with staying with MySQL or a variant. Years ago I did an &quot;interview problem&quot; to generate a report of some accounting data of a sample data set in MySQL. The details are foggy now, but I ended up doing it all using advanced SQL features that I thought only existed in PostgreSQL (you know, or Oracle), but whatever engine I ended up using had it as well. It was probably the latest Percona or Maria?</text></comment> |
10,426,960 | 10,427,071 | 1 | 2 | 10,425,959 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Metabase, an open-source business intelligence tool</title><url>http://www.metabase.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtmarmon</author><text>Sort of off topic, but every cool BI tool I can find (prompted by recently seeing metabase and AWS quicksight) seems to work with one database at a time.<p>When working with microservices, your data is spread across some N databases, rendering most BI tools, from what I can see, completely useless for reporting on more than one service at a time.<p>Are there any solutions for this? Or is the only one right now just dumping all your service DBs into a single DB for analytics?<p>edit: thanks friends. ETL it is. don&#x27;t know why I thought it would make sense to have a tool that reports across multiple databases since the performance would be horrific...although maybe there&#x27;s space for a hosted BI tool that does ETL automagically. just a thought</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vog</author><text>You will have N databases no matter what. Almost every company has some legacy systems around, or simply uses different tools for different jobs.<p>However, you still want to copy &amp; combine your data into a single database. The relevant Fowler patterns are:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;martinfowler.com&#x2F;bliki&#x2F;DataLake.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;martinfowler.com&#x2F;bliki&#x2F;DataLake.html</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;martinfowler.com&#x2F;bliki&#x2F;ReportingDatabase.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;martinfowler.com&#x2F;bliki&#x2F;ReportingDatabase.html</a><p>More precicely, it is a common pattern to split the analtics into three parts: 1) Collecting the data (using lots of adapters) into a &quot;data lake&quot;, 2) filter and preprocess that data lake into a uniform data structure whose structure is determined by the analysis goal rather than the operational system, 3) analyze that uniform data with statistical and other tools.<p>It usually makes no sense to combine those phases into a single overall tool. First, these are very different tasks, where different specialized tools will evolve anyway. Second, you want to keep the intermediate results anyway - for caching as well as to have an audit trail and reproducibility of the results.<p>For example, you don&#x27;t want the performance of operational system be affected by for how many analysis tools it is used at a point in point. Also, you don&#x27;t to work on a always-modifying dataset while fine-tunung your analysis methods.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Metabase, an open-source business intelligence tool</title><url>http://www.metabase.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtmarmon</author><text>Sort of off topic, but every cool BI tool I can find (prompted by recently seeing metabase and AWS quicksight) seems to work with one database at a time.<p>When working with microservices, your data is spread across some N databases, rendering most BI tools, from what I can see, completely useless for reporting on more than one service at a time.<p>Are there any solutions for this? Or is the only one right now just dumping all your service DBs into a single DB for analytics?<p>edit: thanks friends. ETL it is. don&#x27;t know why I thought it would make sense to have a tool that reports across multiple databases since the performance would be horrific...although maybe there&#x27;s space for a hosted BI tool that does ETL automagically. just a thought</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exelius</author><text>This is why data warehousing exists. That way you can use many different BI tools against a consistent set of data and pre-calculate a lot of commonly-used summary data.<p>ETL also isn&#x27;t something you can just do automagically. It requires an understanding of the data and your goals, because you essentially have to build both your data model and your reporting requirements into your ETL process. You could probably do it automagically for some simple cases, but for most real-world scenarios it&#x27;s just going to be easier to write a Python&#x2F;Perl script to run your ETL for you.<p>BI &#x2F; reporting requires a lot of plumbing to work correctly. You have to set up read-only clones of your DBs for reporting (because you don&#x27;t want to be running large queries against production servers) and generally an ETL process that dumps everything into a data warehouse. From there, you can push subsets of that data out to various BI tools that provide the interface.</text></comment> |
27,998,294 | 27,998,470 | 1 | 3 | 27,996,321 | train | <story><title>Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/us-prosecutors-charge-trevor-milton-founder-of-electric-carmaker-nikola-with-three-counts-of-fraud.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_game_of_life</author><text>This should not be surprising to anyone. Arstechnica has followed Nikola&#x27;s terrible and obvious fraud(s) for years now:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;nikola-admits-to-making-inaccurate-statements-under-disgraced-founder&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;nikola-admits-to-making...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;nikola-stock-craters-after-cancellation-of-major-garbage-truck-order&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;nikola-stock-craters-af...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;nikola-patented-a-stolen-truck-design-tesla-claims-in-legal-response&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;nikola-patented-a-stole...</a><p>And many more...<p>The speculation around this stock has been insane for many years now:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;nikola-stock-soars-after-confused-investors-think-gm-deal-has-closed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;nikola-stock-soars-afte...</a><p>Top quote: &quot;The market can remain irrational longer than you can roll your eyes at it.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anyfactor</author><text>I browse through a lot of niche investing social media groups. One of the more liked posts on a Nikola investment group was, &quot;If &quot;they&quot; cared about the future, the earth and the renewable energy issue, they would let whatever Trevor did slide.&quot;<p>Surprisingly, I saw similar posts about Musk on the Thailand rescuer tweet and the price too high tweet. You are not betting against the fundamentals or the realities of the stock, you are betting against these people.</text></comment> | <story><title>Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/us-prosecutors-charge-trevor-milton-founder-of-electric-carmaker-nikola-with-three-counts-of-fraud.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_game_of_life</author><text>This should not be surprising to anyone. Arstechnica has followed Nikola&#x27;s terrible and obvious fraud(s) for years now:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;nikola-admits-to-making-inaccurate-statements-under-disgraced-founder&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;nikola-admits-to-making...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;nikola-stock-craters-after-cancellation-of-major-garbage-truck-order&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;nikola-stock-craters-af...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;nikola-patented-a-stolen-truck-design-tesla-claims-in-legal-response&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;nikola-patented-a-stole...</a><p>And many more...<p>The speculation around this stock has been insane for many years now:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;nikola-stock-soars-after-confused-investors-think-gm-deal-has-closed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;nikola-stock-soars-afte...</a><p>Top quote: &quot;The market can remain irrational longer than you can roll your eyes at it.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbreit</author><text>Still a $5b company: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;finance&#x2F;quote&#x2F;NKLA:NASDAQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;finance&#x2F;quote&#x2F;NKLA:NASDAQ</a></text></comment> |
39,335,416 | 39,334,440 | 1 | 2 | 39,332,834 | train | <story><title>Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper</title><url>https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/05/no-data-no-problem-undisclosed-tinkering-in-excel-behind-economics-paper/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>em500</author><text>Similar as the Netherlands: there 37 &quot;hogescholen&quot; marketing themselves as &quot;University of Applied Sciences&quot; in English that are not allowed to claim to be &quot;universiteiten&quot; in Dutch (a name is reserved for 14 more academically advanced institutions).</text></item><item><author>bjornsing</author><text>A related anecdote: Jönköping University is not allowed to call itself a university in Swedish (“universitet”), since that word is, by law, reserved for institutions that meet certain requirements. To get around this it uses the English name “Jönköping University” in Swedish as well. But formally it’s a so called “högskola”, more often translated as ”college”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jannw</author><text>The distinction becoming vague is due to the changes regarding the Bologna Process&#x2F;European Qualification Framework - whereby both Universities and Technical Colleges both award bachelor degrees (EQF6) ... and if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and awards the same EQF paper at the end, then it&#x27;s the same! I&#x27;ve taught in a programme that is offered in both Universities and Technical Colleges (Law) ... and the distinction becomes that universities are more theory based, whereas technical colleges are more practical ... and that matriculating into a university offered masters programme in NL from a technical college awarded bachelors is made harder (even with the same EQF6 paper) ... not that any other university in the EU would care about the distinction!</text></comment> | <story><title>Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper</title><url>https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/05/no-data-no-problem-undisclosed-tinkering-in-excel-behind-economics-paper/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>em500</author><text>Similar as the Netherlands: there 37 &quot;hogescholen&quot; marketing themselves as &quot;University of Applied Sciences&quot; in English that are not allowed to claim to be &quot;universiteiten&quot; in Dutch (a name is reserved for 14 more academically advanced institutions).</text></item><item><author>bjornsing</author><text>A related anecdote: Jönköping University is not allowed to call itself a university in Swedish (“universitet”), since that word is, by law, reserved for institutions that meet certain requirements. To get around this it uses the English name “Jönköping University” in Swedish as well. But formally it’s a so called “högskola”, more often translated as ”college”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fl7305</author><text>&gt; reserved for 14 more academically advanced institutions<p>So &quot;Technische Universiteit Delft&quot; is not an advanced institution?<p>In either case, in Sweden &quot;högskola&quot; covers everything from small rinky-dink schools up to KTH (Kungliga Tekniska Högskola) in Stockholm and CTH (Chalmers Tekniska Högskola) which are among the top engineering schools in Sweden.<p>Both award doctoral degrees. I have not heard many people in Sweden argue that KTH&#x2F;CTH are not as advanced as the top universities. The difference is just that the technical schools do not have departments for the humanities.</text></comment> |
20,289,430 | 20,289,015 | 1 | 3 | 20,287,129 | train | <story><title>Reddit has quarantined /r/The_Donald</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/the_donald</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nilkn</author><text>I suspect this isn&#x27;t going to accomplish much of anything and may even backfire. According to published statistics by Reddit as of this writing, this subreddit has 755k subscribers and over 45,000 members online right now. For comparison, the official politics subreddit has 5.2 million subscribers but fewer online members (42,000). r&#x2F;the_donald has an extraordinarily high level of activity and engagement. So long as r&#x2F;the_donald exists and is maintained, it can act as a sort of black hole so that official subreddits can be heavily moderated to support certain platforms, politicians, and advertisers. If it were actually shut down, though, the users there are so numerous and active that it probably wouldn&#x27;t be possible to maintain r&#x2F;politics or other official subreddits in their current moderated state.<p>Perhaps worse, this quarantined state -- which really doesn&#x27;t accomplish or do anything of substance -- just creates a sense of martyrdom in the already extremely active userbase there. I suspect this will energize them 10-fold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Chardok</author><text>I thought that would have happened too when other subreddits were quarantined or banned (and it briefly did when fatpeoplehate was banned) but honestly the banned discourse does not show up on the front page or &#x2F;r&#x2F;all, as they intended.<p>However, because of this, Reddit is becoming increasingly sterile, single-minded, and most importantly ad-friendly to the point where its fairly difficult to have an honest discussion about anything remotely controversial.<p>Unfortunately their selective banning of communities that I would associate with the &quot;far-right&quot; has seriously hurt any attempt to migrate away from Reddit (specifically Voat.co is unbearable for me trying to participate).<p>I don&#x27;t know if there will ever be a straw to break the camels back, but I have been actively searching for reddit alternatives for years and have not found a truly viable replacement.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit has quarantined /r/The_Donald</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/the_donald</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nilkn</author><text>I suspect this isn&#x27;t going to accomplish much of anything and may even backfire. According to published statistics by Reddit as of this writing, this subreddit has 755k subscribers and over 45,000 members online right now. For comparison, the official politics subreddit has 5.2 million subscribers but fewer online members (42,000). r&#x2F;the_donald has an extraordinarily high level of activity and engagement. So long as r&#x2F;the_donald exists and is maintained, it can act as a sort of black hole so that official subreddits can be heavily moderated to support certain platforms, politicians, and advertisers. If it were actually shut down, though, the users there are so numerous and active that it probably wouldn&#x27;t be possible to maintain r&#x2F;politics or other official subreddits in their current moderated state.<p>Perhaps worse, this quarantined state -- which really doesn&#x27;t accomplish or do anything of substance -- just creates a sense of martyrdom in the already extremely active userbase there. I suspect this will energize them 10-fold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>altcognito</author><text>The_donald is notoriously bot driven, the online user count is garbage.<p>It’s not the only subreddit with large bot populations, I’m just saying it’s one of the more toxic influential ones.</text></comment> |
11,820,799 | 11,820,787 | 1 | 3 | 11,820,490 | train | <story><title>Open Source Speech Recognition</title><url>http://chrislord.net/index.php/2016/06/01/open-source-speech-recognition/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnwheeler</author><text>&quot;Amazon Alexa skills JS API...There isn’t really any alternative right now...&quot;<p>I want to take this opportunity to plug an Alexa Skills Kit API (in Python) I just dropped:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;johnwheeler&#x2F;flask-ask" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;johnwheeler&#x2F;flask-ask</a><p>It does a lot of things the JS API doesn&#x27;t: Jinja templates, decorator-based intent routing, slot defaults&#x2F;conversions, and request signature verification to name a few.</text></comment> | <story><title>Open Source Speech Recognition</title><url>http://chrislord.net/index.php/2016/06/01/open-source-speech-recognition/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>afsina</author><text>Any reason why not to use Kaldi (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kaldi-asr&#x2F;kaldi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kaldi-asr&#x2F;kaldi</a>)? AFAIK it uses most of the state of the art algorithms.</text></comment> |
14,653,680 | 14,652,750 | 1 | 3 | 14,651,287 | train | <story><title>Take Naps at Work</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/smarter-living/take-naps-at-work-apologize-to-no-one.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>have_faith</author><text>&gt;Sleeping on the job is one of those workplace taboos — like leaving your desk for lunch<p>What kind of company is it a taboo to leave your desk for lunch?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>booleandilemma</author><text>My company does this thing where all of the people in IT go out to get food together in sync, and then bring it back and eat in the conference room like it&#x27;s a cafeteria and like they&#x27;re back in school.<p>I&#x27;m the only person who leaves the office during my lunch hour, alone. I get funny looks, and my coworkers sometimes ask me &quot;where have you been?&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a weird company culture and I&#x27;m not sure how much longer I&#x27;ll be able to put up with it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Take Naps at Work</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/smarter-living/take-naps-at-work-apologize-to-no-one.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>have_faith</author><text>&gt;Sleeping on the job is one of those workplace taboos — like leaving your desk for lunch<p>What kind of company is it a taboo to leave your desk for lunch?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>speedplane</author><text>I remember I went for a job interview at a law firm, and one of the more junior people interviewing me brought me out to lunch. It was freezing outside, but he left his jacket in his office. I asked him why he left it there, and he said it was so others would think he was in the office. I&#x27;m pretty sure I didn&#x27;t get that job, but I&#x27;m glad for it.</text></comment> |
36,346,800 | 36,346,763 | 1 | 2 | 36,346,254 | train | <story><title>My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do</title><url>https://raymii.org/s/blog/My_24_year_old_HP_Jornada_can_do_things_your_modern_iPhone_still_cant_do.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GenericDev</author><text>Dang. This is the future I wanted to see for mobile devices.<p>Really bummed where we&#x27;re at right now in the mobile ecosystem. It&#x27;s crazy to me that even now iOS&#x2F;Android still obscure your directories from you, and navigating them is treated as something to hide from the users despite being an integral part of the operating system.<p>Really wild how these companies leaned into disrespecting their users. A lot of people might say &quot;It&#x27;s to help the users and remove touch points they don&#x27;t care about&quot;, but the truth is that in making these decisions they have trained users to ignore these mental models and completely hidden or removed the opportunity to normalize these aspects of the operating systems and the device.<p>Really wish it wasn&#x27;t this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vrondi</author><text>My android devices have all come with basic file system browsers, but even better, I can choose from a plethora of full featured apps for full file system access. This is one of the issues that has kept me away from iphone, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do</title><url>https://raymii.org/s/blog/My_24_year_old_HP_Jornada_can_do_things_your_modern_iPhone_still_cant_do.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GenericDev</author><text>Dang. This is the future I wanted to see for mobile devices.<p>Really bummed where we&#x27;re at right now in the mobile ecosystem. It&#x27;s crazy to me that even now iOS&#x2F;Android still obscure your directories from you, and navigating them is treated as something to hide from the users despite being an integral part of the operating system.<p>Really wild how these companies leaned into disrespecting their users. A lot of people might say &quot;It&#x27;s to help the users and remove touch points they don&#x27;t care about&quot;, but the truth is that in making these decisions they have trained users to ignore these mental models and completely hidden or removed the opportunity to normalize these aspects of the operating systems and the device.<p>Really wish it wasn&#x27;t this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acheron</author><text>The difficulty I had just copying things from one phone to another recently was ridiculous. You’re right, this should be a basic function. I have files I’ve copied from computer to computer that were originally from the late 80s.</text></comment> |
11,019,798 | 11,019,988 | 1 | 2 | 11,019,539 | train | <story><title>Citizen uses OpenCV to track speeders near his home</title><url>http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/22908-locust-avenue-speeding/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>I like that idea but I do worry about it causing rear-end collisions.<p>In an ideal world drivers wouldn&#x27;t speed and they also wouldn&#x27;t tailgate, but in the world we currently occupy both are extremely common (even amongst law enforcement).<p>So while this would act to reduce speeding, the unpredictability may increase accidents and it is definitely going to reduce traffic flow.</text></item><item><author>gus_massa</author><text>I&#x27;ll copy a very interesting comment by Anton Largiader <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cvilletomorrow.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;article&#x2F;22908-locust-avenue-speeding&#x2F;#comment-2489875608" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cvilletomorrow.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;article&#x2F;22908-locust-aven...</a><p>&gt; <i>One very interesting approach I have seen overseas is a traffic light that turns red if you are speeding as you approach it. It&#x27;s incredibly effective; instant feedback on your behavior, and immediate loss of any time you gained by speeding. No ticket, unless you run the light. Drivers quickly conclude they&#x27;re better off by not speeding.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>Rear end collisions like this tend to be pretty benign. For example, one of the arguments against red light cameras is that they actually <i>increase</i> the number of accidents. However, they also increase safety. How? Because while they increase the number of rear end collisions, they decrease the number of side impact collisions, which are much more deadly. Net result: more bent metal, less bent flesh.<p>I&#x27;d also be surprised if speed-sensing lights really increased collisions much. They still go through a full yellow before turning red. They are only more unpredictable if you know the light&#x27;s cycle time, watched it turn green, and are carefully timing it so you could otherwise predict it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Citizen uses OpenCV to track speeders near his home</title><url>http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/22908-locust-avenue-speeding/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>I like that idea but I do worry about it causing rear-end collisions.<p>In an ideal world drivers wouldn&#x27;t speed and they also wouldn&#x27;t tailgate, but in the world we currently occupy both are extremely common (even amongst law enforcement).<p>So while this would act to reduce speeding, the unpredictability may increase accidents and it is definitely going to reduce traffic flow.</text></item><item><author>gus_massa</author><text>I&#x27;ll copy a very interesting comment by Anton Largiader <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cvilletomorrow.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;article&#x2F;22908-locust-avenue-speeding&#x2F;#comment-2489875608" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cvilletomorrow.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;article&#x2F;22908-locust-aven...</a><p>&gt; <i>One very interesting approach I have seen overseas is a traffic light that turns red if you are speeding as you approach it. It&#x27;s incredibly effective; instant feedback on your behavior, and immediate loss of any time you gained by speeding. No ticket, unless you run the light. Drivers quickly conclude they&#x27;re better off by not speeding.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>&gt;I like that idea but I do worry about it causing rear-end collisions.<p>Chicago had a pretty significant red light camera deployment about six or seven years ago. Drivers used to be okay with blowing through a red that was a yellow a moment before in the past. Now everyone slams on their brakes when they see a yellow. According to time.com, &quot;a 22% increase in injuries from rear-end accidents.&quot;<p>So yes, you can expect more rear end collisions and injuries when traffic light enforcement automation breaks up traditional driving habits.<p>Arguably, its okay to speed. Say doing 50 in a 40 when there&#x27;s no traffic, like late at night. Why do we need a system to enforce this? I wish there was more fuzzy logic applied to traffic systems. Say a peak hours vs non-peak hours speed limit. Longer yellows during rush hour when everyone is stressed and potentially distracted. Instead we get hard and fast rules for all conditions, which doesn&#x27;t make much sense.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;3643077&#x2F;red-light-cams-rear-end-collisions-chicago&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;3643077&#x2F;red-light-cams-rear-end-collisions-c...</a></text></comment> |
18,434,421 | 18,434,003 | 1 | 2 | 18,433,475 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?</title><text>I’m interested to know how fellow software developers (freelancers, small businesses) estimate projects for clients.<p>Do you use any tools to come up with a quote?
Do you send a proposal document to clients?
If so, do you use a tool to generate one, or do you just use a template in a word processor?
What are your main pain points when quoting for work?<p>Cheers!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaggederest</author><text>Somewhat heretical, but I generally don&#x27;t.<p>I usually explain that development is an iterative process, and that I generally deliver work as soon as it&#x27;s done.<p>We talk about the knobs that are available to tune the work to the goal, and how to measure goals. We talk about containing costs, and working together to deliver good value.<p>I find that in general, estimates are rarely, if ever, accurate to any significant degree, and thus are usually dishonest when presented as a way to assuage client anxiety over &quot;when will it get done&quot; or &quot;how much will it cost&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crispyambulance</author><text>Completion estimates may be dishonest but that&#x27;s how things are done almost everywhere, yes, even shops that use Agile, complete with burn-down charts, stand-ups and sprints. I&#x27;ve seen &quot;Agile&quot; teams that go through all the motions of a modern sw development team BUT STILL have to give the completion date of the whole project! Before the work starts!<p>FWIW, it&#x27;s not as bad as it sounds, it just means that the PM&#x27;s see red in their charts and end up bugging people with &quot;urgency attacks&quot;. Slippage is common and that&#x27;s OK.<p>The vast majority of the time, an estimate is just an estimate. Passing a deadline isn&#x27;t fatal, nor is it failure (regardless of whatever it says in the Project Management Book of Knowledge).</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?</title><text>I’m interested to know how fellow software developers (freelancers, small businesses) estimate projects for clients.<p>Do you use any tools to come up with a quote?
Do you send a proposal document to clients?
If so, do you use a tool to generate one, or do you just use a template in a word processor?
What are your main pain points when quoting for work?<p>Cheers!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaggederest</author><text>Somewhat heretical, but I generally don&#x27;t.<p>I usually explain that development is an iterative process, and that I generally deliver work as soon as it&#x27;s done.<p>We talk about the knobs that are available to tune the work to the goal, and how to measure goals. We talk about containing costs, and working together to deliver good value.<p>I find that in general, estimates are rarely, if ever, accurate to any significant degree, and thus are usually dishonest when presented as a way to assuage client anxiety over &quot;when will it get done&quot; or &quot;how much will it cost&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rossdavidh</author><text>The only right answer. If they cannot accept a diplomatic, reasoned and carefully explained &quot;we can&#x27;t know, but I&#x27;ll finish as quickly as I can&quot; answer, then they probably won&#x27;t be very understandable when things turn out to take longer than expected. Or if they change their mind about what they want and expect you to nonetheless finish on the original schedule because it&#x27;s just a small change. Politely and gently refusing to provide an estimate for the unknowable, is a good way to avoid working with clients who will be not worth working with anyway.<p>Hard as this is up front, it&#x27;s harder to explain afterwards why your estimate didn&#x27;t work out, and it&#x27;s harder to eat the cost difference yourself. Be gentle and polite, and accept that they may or may not be willing to work with you on trust that you will do your best to finish as quickly as you can.</text></comment> |
28,713,843 | 28,709,215 | 1 | 2 | 28,707,317 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare's Disruption</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2021/cloudflares-disruption/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;More importantly, AWS itself is locked-in to its integrated approach: the entire service is architected both technically and economically to be an all-encompassing offering; to modularize itself in response to Cloudflare would be suicidal.&quot;<p>Eh, somewhat. AWS is already modular in a lot of ways. You want S3? You got it, no matter where you are. (We&#x27;re talking after them doing some sort of fee drop here.) You want to run exactly one EC2 instance? No problem. You want a message queue? You don&#x27;t <i>need</i> anything else. You can integrate it with the notification service but it&#x27;s optional.<p>Sure, some of their services are integrated, but a lot of that integration is just &quot;this service pulls from S3 and writes to S3&quot;, not massive integration at every level.<p>There is some stuff that is deeply tied in, yeah. But it&#x27;s not like every single AWS service is deeply tied into half the other ones and the moment you open an EC2 instance you also are buying into a dozen other services. (It may feel like it if you put together a network and override the default block storage, but that&#x27;s really just giving you knobs that are simply preset elsewhere, not really &quot;lockin&quot;.) A lot of it is already pretty modular.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jonovono</author><text>I think you are missing the point. AWS is modular WITHIN AWS. It&#x27;s not a decentralised modular system. ie, it can&#x27;t play well with existing companies because of the hefty egress prices they charge. The point in the article is that, maybe, if you take away the egress fees that opens up a new world where services of different companies can play together nicely (instead of waiting for AWS to implement something), and that creates a new form of innovation that we can&#x27;t quite predict that could possibly compete with AWS</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare's Disruption</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2021/cloudflares-disruption/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;More importantly, AWS itself is locked-in to its integrated approach: the entire service is architected both technically and economically to be an all-encompassing offering; to modularize itself in response to Cloudflare would be suicidal.&quot;<p>Eh, somewhat. AWS is already modular in a lot of ways. You want S3? You got it, no matter where you are. (We&#x27;re talking after them doing some sort of fee drop here.) You want to run exactly one EC2 instance? No problem. You want a message queue? You don&#x27;t <i>need</i> anything else. You can integrate it with the notification service but it&#x27;s optional.<p>Sure, some of their services are integrated, but a lot of that integration is just &quot;this service pulls from S3 and writes to S3&quot;, not massive integration at every level.<p>There is some stuff that is deeply tied in, yeah. But it&#x27;s not like every single AWS service is deeply tied into half the other ones and the moment you open an EC2 instance you also are buying into a dozen other services. (It may feel like it if you put together a network and override the default block storage, but that&#x27;s really just giving you knobs that are simply preset elsewhere, not really &quot;lockin&quot;.) A lot of it is already pretty modular.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>H8crilA</author><text>You forgot about the egress fees. Try running BigQuery on a (big) dataset stored in S3. You probably wouldn&#x27;t even think of that because of how stupid that is at the moment.</text></comment> |
17,425,411 | 17,425,484 | 1 | 3 | 17,424,970 | train | <story><title>Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-from-the-ground-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forgot-my-pw</author><text>For those interested, this site gives good thorough comparisons between different map services (mostly Google &amp; Apple): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justinobeirne.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justinobeirne.com&#x2F;</a><p>Latest entry in Dec 2017: How far ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justinobeirne.com&#x2F;google-maps-moat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justinobeirne.com&#x2F;google-maps-moat</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wallflower</author><text>If you haven&#x27;t read that Moat essay, it is a detective work of art. Highly recommended.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-from-the-ground-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forgot-my-pw</author><text>For those interested, this site gives good thorough comparisons between different map services (mostly Google &amp; Apple): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justinobeirne.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justinobeirne.com&#x2F;</a><p>Latest entry in Dec 2017: How far ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justinobeirne.com&#x2F;google-maps-moat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justinobeirne.com&#x2F;google-maps-moat</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zabuni</author><text>If you compare the article, the main takeaway is that Apple seems to be starting to use some of the improvements that Google has been adding to their map program the last several years.<p>-Satellite imagery to generate build footprints.
-Lots of human intervention
-Land based car imagery</text></comment> |
31,256,499 | 31,254,781 | 1 | 2 | 31,251,974 | train | <story><title>The strange business of hole-in-one insurance</title><url>https://thehustle.co/the-strange-business-of-hole-in-one-insurance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jahnu</author><text>Excuse me sir, but have you been drinking?</text></item><item><author>johannes1234321</author><text>in Germany there were quite some lefal battles around cancslling of Oktoberfest. If I didn&#x27;t miss an uodate on that itnwas concluded that the 2020 Oktoberfest wasn&#x27;t &quot;cancelled&quot; but it wasn&#x27;t announced innthebfirst place, as usually the city councils votes for helding an Oktoberfest in spring while there isn&#x27;t a permanent rule or similar about it. Thus insurances covering &quot;cancelling&quot; didn&#x27;t have to pay.</text></item><item><author>version_five</author><text>When the Japan Olympics were cancelled in 2020 I read that there was actually some kind of &quot;Olympics cancellation insurace&quot; policy that paid out over it, potentially hundreds of millions. I&#x27;ll see if I can find it<p>See here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-olympics-insurance&#x2F;insurers-face-mind-blowingly-large-loss-if-olympics-cancelled-idUSKBN29W1OL" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-olympics-insurance&#x2F;insure...</a><p>The IOC had 800 Million insurance and overall was 2-3 Billion. It would be really interesting to understand how to price an 800 Million Olymoic insurace policy</text></item><item><author>a4isms</author><text>I used to have a reinsurance company as a client. For those unfamiliar, that’s an insurance company that sells insurance to insurance companies. Example: You buy a $1,000,000 automobile liability insurance policy with a $1,000 deductible.<p>If the insurance company doesn’t sell enough of these kinds of policies to reliably offset payouts with premiums, they might turn around and buy a policy from a reinsurance company with a $10,000,000 limit and a $100,000 deductible against their entire portfolio.<p>Thus, reinsurance companies spend a lot of time thinking about things that don’t happen very often but can be very expensive when they happen.<p>And yes, they had a division that did propositions like hole-in-ones, and also they insured legal betting companies against wild trifectas and that sort of thing.<p>I have a small trove of stories they told me about bizarre accidents that wound up costing enormous amounts of money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>haimez</author><text>Reminds me of a time that me and a co-worker stayed in late on a Friday night figuring out how to make our email alerts seem convincingly human through “random” typos in alert messages by performing human like keyboard adjacent miss-presses, extra key presses (either duplicate or keyboard adjacent), and occasional whole word omissions for things like “the” or “and”- but only for alerts sent between midnight and 2am on weekends. This of course, only after dissecting and trying to characterize what kind of typos we thought were common by drunk people using QWERTY keyboards.<p>It was a simpler time, before autocorrect errors dominated, and it was also a fun Friday night. The somewhat regular “Adam bot” in “party mode alerts were just little bit more amusing to be woken up by late at night when things were broken.</text></comment> | <story><title>The strange business of hole-in-one insurance</title><url>https://thehustle.co/the-strange-business-of-hole-in-one-insurance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jahnu</author><text>Excuse me sir, but have you been drinking?</text></item><item><author>johannes1234321</author><text>in Germany there were quite some lefal battles around cancslling of Oktoberfest. If I didn&#x27;t miss an uodate on that itnwas concluded that the 2020 Oktoberfest wasn&#x27;t &quot;cancelled&quot; but it wasn&#x27;t announced innthebfirst place, as usually the city councils votes for helding an Oktoberfest in spring while there isn&#x27;t a permanent rule or similar about it. Thus insurances covering &quot;cancelling&quot; didn&#x27;t have to pay.</text></item><item><author>version_five</author><text>When the Japan Olympics were cancelled in 2020 I read that there was actually some kind of &quot;Olympics cancellation insurace&quot; policy that paid out over it, potentially hundreds of millions. I&#x27;ll see if I can find it<p>See here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-olympics-insurance&#x2F;insurers-face-mind-blowingly-large-loss-if-olympics-cancelled-idUSKBN29W1OL" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-olympics-insurance&#x2F;insure...</a><p>The IOC had 800 Million insurance and overall was 2-3 Billion. It would be really interesting to understand how to price an 800 Million Olymoic insurace policy</text></item><item><author>a4isms</author><text>I used to have a reinsurance company as a client. For those unfamiliar, that’s an insurance company that sells insurance to insurance companies. Example: You buy a $1,000,000 automobile liability insurance policy with a $1,000 deductible.<p>If the insurance company doesn’t sell enough of these kinds of policies to reliably offset payouts with premiums, they might turn around and buy a policy from a reinsurance company with a $10,000,000 limit and a $100,000 deductible against their entire portfolio.<p>Thus, reinsurance companies spend a lot of time thinking about things that don’t happen very often but can be very expensive when they happen.<p>And yes, they had a division that did propositions like hole-in-ones, and also they insured legal betting companies against wild trifectas and that sort of thing.<p>I have a small trove of stories they told me about bizarre accidents that wound up costing enormous amounts of money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zionic</author><text>Heh, that reminds me:<p>Officer: Sir, how high are you?<p>Dude: No officer, it’s high how are you</text></comment> |
29,141,089 | 29,141,273 | 1 | 2 | 29,138,570 | train | <story><title>The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. (2010)</title><url>https://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatever1</author><text>The Ph.D. is a piece of paper that shows that for 5+ years you were able to consistently push towards a (previously considered) unattainable goal.<p>It is gruesome, the idea might not work, nobody else can help you because nobody else has tried, nobody cares about the myriad things that you tried and failed.<p>You will literally become a different person after the phd experience. But trust me, these 2-3 nights over the span of 5+ years, when pieces somehow come together and the goddamn thing works, are really worth the effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yodsanklai</author><text>My experience of PhD is more mundane. I didn&#x27;t discover anything particularly meaningful, or hard, or even useful.<p>Basically, I read papers until I understood the field well-enough so that I was able to make tiny contributions worth publishing and presenting in conferences. That led to a few papers that I eventually compiled in a thesis.<p>I certainly got something out of the experience, but I can&#x27;t say it made me a different person, or that it gives me an advantage of any sort at my current job (software engineer).</text></comment> | <story><title>The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. (2010)</title><url>https://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatever1</author><text>The Ph.D. is a piece of paper that shows that for 5+ years you were able to consistently push towards a (previously considered) unattainable goal.<p>It is gruesome, the idea might not work, nobody else can help you because nobody else has tried, nobody cares about the myriad things that you tried and failed.<p>You will literally become a different person after the phd experience. But trust me, these 2-3 nights over the span of 5+ years, when pieces somehow come together and the goddamn thing works, are really worth the effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apohn</author><text>&gt;a (previously considered) unattainable goal.<p>I&#x27;ve got a PhD. Personally, I&#x27;d say &quot;unrealized&quot; instead of &quot;unattainable.&quot; Unattainable makes it seem like a dissertation topic is always some magical effort.<p>Lots of PhD work is a investigating some mundane area that somebody else hasn&#x27;t (due to lack of time or interest) investigated yet. I wonder how many dissertations come from a random comment by a professor saying like &quot;Well here is some minor tangential topic I&#x2F;somebody should look into.&quot;</text></comment> |
15,910,167 | 15,909,963 | 1 | 3 | 15,909,514 | train | <story><title>DIY MacBook Stand</title><url>https://github.com/ergenekonyigit/diy-macbook-stand</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xab9</author><text>I just love how github ends up being blog, forum, wiki, disqus-clone etc. for us tech people.<p>As for the stand I used this cheap ikea-hack: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.pinimg.com&#x2F;736x&#x2F;c7&#x2F;c9&#x2F;a0&#x2F;c7c9a072c328a3596186e1b711b65bf6--laptop-storage-laptop-desk.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.pinimg.com&#x2F;736x&#x2F;c7&#x2F;c9&#x2F;a0&#x2F;c7c9a072c328a3596186e1b71...</a> (can&#x27;t find the original post sry)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mxuribe</author><text>I actually dislike that fact very much. Oh, I don&#x27;t disagree that github is that for so many users...and i can not disagree with the convenience of what github provides...I simply dislike that it is all controlled&#x2F;owned by github...a single point of technical&#x2F;infrastructure failure, and a single corporate entity where so much content (content beyond raw code, that is) is hosted...not unlike the facebook effect. I wish people hosted their content in a more decentralized fashion.</text></comment> | <story><title>DIY MacBook Stand</title><url>https://github.com/ergenekonyigit/diy-macbook-stand</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xab9</author><text>I just love how github ends up being blog, forum, wiki, disqus-clone etc. for us tech people.<p>As for the stand I used this cheap ikea-hack: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.pinimg.com&#x2F;736x&#x2F;c7&#x2F;c9&#x2F;a0&#x2F;c7c9a072c328a3596186e1b711b65bf6--laptop-storage-laptop-desk.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.pinimg.com&#x2F;736x&#x2F;c7&#x2F;c9&#x2F;a0&#x2F;c7c9a072c328a3596186e1b71...</a> (can&#x27;t find the original post sry)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitwize</author><text>GitHub is basically DeviantArt for programmers. When you look at it that way it all makes sense.</text></comment> |
12,360,092 | 12,360,011 | 1 | 3 | 12,358,366 | train | <story><title>Scientists Watch Thoughts Form in the Brain</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mind-aglow-scientists-watch-thoughts-form-in-the-brain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsbechtel</author><text>For all the hype surrounding AI, virtual reality, and augmented reality as being the next big trends in tech, I really feel like brain&#x2F;computer interfaces are what is really going to change our world in unprecedented ways. The technology is still a long, long ways from having a visible impact for most people, but I am more interested&#x2F;excited&#x2F;scared about this technology than anything else going on in the tech world right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ericjang</author><text>There are some very difficult challenges in brain-computer interfaces (BCI), some of which involve huge barriers presented by human biology. It&#x27;s rather depressing.<p>Presently, there is no good way to read data from the brain to a device. You can drill a hole in your head and patch-clamp some electrodes to your brain tissue, but this procedure is only recommended for treating debilitating diseases like Parkinson&#x27;s. Furthermore, there is the issue of scar tissue developing over time as a small region of your brain is being bombarded with electricity &#x2F; contact with foreign metals that trigger immune response.<p>I do think a spinal tap of some sort might make more sense (rather than patching directly into brain tissue like in the Matrix), but you still get scar tissue.<p>Non-invasive methods don&#x27;t have scar tissue, but it&#x27;s unclear whether measuring the surface activity of the brain yields sufficient information. Furthermore, they are highly noisy due to ambient static and muscle activity. You shouldn&#x27;t move much if you want o.k. readings.<p>The BCI dream is to have a lightweight headset that you put behind your ears like in Iron Man 3 or Big Hero 6 (and then you control robots with your mere thoughts). However, I think that kind of technology is <i>really</i> far away, short of some huge breakthroughs in compressed sensing and possibly superconductor physics.<p>Even more difficult than reading data is writing it back in. There have been very early results with getting monkeys to telepathically control each other&#x27;s muscle movements, but my understanding is that it&#x27;s not very reliable.<p>A reasonable survey can be found here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S1110866515000237" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S1110866515...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Scientists Watch Thoughts Form in the Brain</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mind-aglow-scientists-watch-thoughts-form-in-the-brain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsbechtel</author><text>For all the hype surrounding AI, virtual reality, and augmented reality as being the next big trends in tech, I really feel like brain&#x2F;computer interfaces are what is really going to change our world in unprecedented ways. The technology is still a long, long ways from having a visible impact for most people, but I am more interested&#x2F;excited&#x2F;scared about this technology than anything else going on in the tech world right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tlow</author><text>I think that one of the major hurdles to BCI is the mechanism of connection. When electrodes are connected to neurons they have a tendency to be destroyed. However, one might imagine the development of sophisticated electromagnetic equipment which might suitable focus and modulate &quot;receptor pathways&quot; in the brain. This seems far off.
Eyes are convenient sensory organs to utilize for input. Getting directly to the brain seems more like trying to manipulate electron flow in a PCB without removing the external enclosure. (not to say that&#x27;s impossible, just not as easy as cutting a trace and soldering in a connection)</text></comment> |
9,924,735 | 9,924,613 | 1 | 2 | 9,923,718 | train | <story><title>Why I am pro-GPL</title><url>http://dustycloud.org/blog/why-i-am-pro-gpl/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SomeCallMeTim</author><text>* As pointed out by another commenter, Apple switched away from GCC as the default to CLANG.<p>* Microsoft is supporting CLANG.<p>* Android switched from GCC default to CLANG default.<p>* The CLANG development community, combined with the LLVM development community, are both extremely robust.<p>* GCC used to have full time commercial developer contributors working for Google and Apple and other large companies; most such companies have migrated almost entirely to CLANG&#x2F;LLVM support.<p>* Because of better management and the army of full time commercial developers contributing to it, CLANG is better in practically every conceivable way at this point than GCC. If GCC weren&#x27;t GPL, CLANG would likely be (at most) a fork of GCC, and may have been merged back into trunk by now (this happened to GCC once before).<p>CLANG is also an excellent example of how a completely permissive license <i>can</i> be sufficient to encourage big companies to contribute their changes back to the commons. All of the GPL fearmongering would have you believe that CLANG couldn&#x27;t exist, and yet it thrives.<p>And printer drivers are still almost all proprietary [1]. So GPL didn&#x27;t even achieve the objective that inspired it.<p>GPL did prove that open source CAN work, and it jumpstarted the open source movement. But its time has past; enough people understand the benefits of contributing to open source that the coercion is no longer necessary, and in fact is harmful.<p>[1] Some printer drivers have been reverse-engineered for Linux, certainly. But modern printers frequently leave so much processing for the host that their drivers are nontrivial, and even when there exists &quot;free&quot; drivers for Linux, they pale in comparison feature-wise to the proprietary drivers. I&#x27;m sure there are exceptions.</text></item><item><author>dman</author><text>Could you provide some supporting arguments &#x2F; evidence for this statement - &quot;GCC used to be the king of the compiler heap; now it&#x27;s well on its way to becoming an historical footnote.&quot; ?</text></item><item><author>SomeCallMeTim</author><text>&gt;Well, the GPL mandates the right to use the application, and that a redistributor cannot restrict it (section 0, preambule and section 6, IIRC); that right is not guaranteed by MIT, BSD, MPL or Apache.<p>Yeah, and because of the additional restrictions of GPL, big companies are simply avoiding it or writing software to replace it.<p>See: CLANG&#x2F;LLVM. GCC used to be the king of the compiler heap; now it&#x27;s well on its way to becoming an historical footnote.<p>It&#x27;s <i>far</i> better to convince people to help you by being trusting and generous than by coercion. The GPL uses coercion.<p>Yes, some companies use BSD&#x2F;MIT software and lock it up, never to send improvements back upstream. But they ultimately are harming themselves, as they can&#x27;t trivially update to new versions of the the software, because they&#x27;re now maintaining a fork, and the longer their code diverges, the harder it will be to maintain. So they <i>are</i> motivated to send improvements upstream. And many (most?) big companies do.<p>When there&#x27;s another game in town, people will play the one where they&#x27;re more welcome. Open source software benefits by many eyes and many hands; the GPL (especially GPLv3) cuts off access to just about everyone in big companies, which means the size of the potential user base is a fraction of what it <i>can</i> be.<p>Linux is a notable exception, obviously. But with Linux there&#x27;s a clear way to use it that doesn&#x27;t risk your proprietary code. Most other software, not so much.</text></item><item><author>jbk</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m not yet convinced that MIT-like, BSD-like, and Apache-like are any worse at perpetuating user freedom, and may in fact be far better at perpetuating user freedom due to their greater acceptance.<p>Well, the GPL mandates the right to use the application, and that a redistributor cannot restrict it (section 0, preambule and section 6, IIRC); that right is not guaranteed by MIT, BSD, MPL or Apache.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>And that&#x27;s a great thing to care about, and a great reason to create a license. The secondary question is: which license is best at perpetuating user freedom? This is a separate question than that of whether users <i>should</i> have freedom to mess with code. IMHO, the GPL is not the best license for perpetuating the most user freedom. Many people disagree with me on this, but their disagreement usually comes down to &quot;the GPL is best for user freedom because it was created for user freedom and RMS is talking about user freedom.&quot; I&#x27;m not yet convinced that MIT-like, BSD-like, and Apache-like are any worse at perpetuating user freedom, and may in fact be far better at perpetuating user freedom due to their greater acceptance.</text></item><item><author>TazeTSchnitzel</author><text>It&#x27;s worth remembering why the GPL was invented.<p>Stallman had a printer which had proprietary drivers, and he wanted to fix an issue with the driver. He couldn&#x27;t. He created the GPL so that, in future, people wouldn&#x27;t have this problem.<p>Stallman created the GPL because he cared about user freedom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timtadh</author><text>LLVM was not created as reaction against the licensing model of GCC. It was created as a research project exploring: &quot;transparent, lifelong program analysis and transformation for arbitrary programs.&quot;[1] GCC and other compilers were not setup to do this. They needed to build an intermediate representation of a kind that was highly unusual for the time. That is where it originated, as pure research. Trying to build a better mouse trap. Not to become a GCC competitor. It did become one because it turned out they had some rather good ideas!<p>The GPL is not harmful and I encourage you to utilize it when appropriate for it protects you (the original author) and your target users far more than BSD or other similar licenses.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;llvm.org&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;2004-01-30-CGO-LLVM.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;llvm.org&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;2004-01-30-CGO-LLVM.html</a> Read full paper not just the abstract to get the full picture.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I am pro-GPL</title><url>http://dustycloud.org/blog/why-i-am-pro-gpl/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SomeCallMeTim</author><text>* As pointed out by another commenter, Apple switched away from GCC as the default to CLANG.<p>* Microsoft is supporting CLANG.<p>* Android switched from GCC default to CLANG default.<p>* The CLANG development community, combined with the LLVM development community, are both extremely robust.<p>* GCC used to have full time commercial developer contributors working for Google and Apple and other large companies; most such companies have migrated almost entirely to CLANG&#x2F;LLVM support.<p>* Because of better management and the army of full time commercial developers contributing to it, CLANG is better in practically every conceivable way at this point than GCC. If GCC weren&#x27;t GPL, CLANG would likely be (at most) a fork of GCC, and may have been merged back into trunk by now (this happened to GCC once before).<p>CLANG is also an excellent example of how a completely permissive license <i>can</i> be sufficient to encourage big companies to contribute their changes back to the commons. All of the GPL fearmongering would have you believe that CLANG couldn&#x27;t exist, and yet it thrives.<p>And printer drivers are still almost all proprietary [1]. So GPL didn&#x27;t even achieve the objective that inspired it.<p>GPL did prove that open source CAN work, and it jumpstarted the open source movement. But its time has past; enough people understand the benefits of contributing to open source that the coercion is no longer necessary, and in fact is harmful.<p>[1] Some printer drivers have been reverse-engineered for Linux, certainly. But modern printers frequently leave so much processing for the host that their drivers are nontrivial, and even when there exists &quot;free&quot; drivers for Linux, they pale in comparison feature-wise to the proprietary drivers. I&#x27;m sure there are exceptions.</text></item><item><author>dman</author><text>Could you provide some supporting arguments &#x2F; evidence for this statement - &quot;GCC used to be the king of the compiler heap; now it&#x27;s well on its way to becoming an historical footnote.&quot; ?</text></item><item><author>SomeCallMeTim</author><text>&gt;Well, the GPL mandates the right to use the application, and that a redistributor cannot restrict it (section 0, preambule and section 6, IIRC); that right is not guaranteed by MIT, BSD, MPL or Apache.<p>Yeah, and because of the additional restrictions of GPL, big companies are simply avoiding it or writing software to replace it.<p>See: CLANG&#x2F;LLVM. GCC used to be the king of the compiler heap; now it&#x27;s well on its way to becoming an historical footnote.<p>It&#x27;s <i>far</i> better to convince people to help you by being trusting and generous than by coercion. The GPL uses coercion.<p>Yes, some companies use BSD&#x2F;MIT software and lock it up, never to send improvements back upstream. But they ultimately are harming themselves, as they can&#x27;t trivially update to new versions of the the software, because they&#x27;re now maintaining a fork, and the longer their code diverges, the harder it will be to maintain. So they <i>are</i> motivated to send improvements upstream. And many (most?) big companies do.<p>When there&#x27;s another game in town, people will play the one where they&#x27;re more welcome. Open source software benefits by many eyes and many hands; the GPL (especially GPLv3) cuts off access to just about everyone in big companies, which means the size of the potential user base is a fraction of what it <i>can</i> be.<p>Linux is a notable exception, obviously. But with Linux there&#x27;s a clear way to use it that doesn&#x27;t risk your proprietary code. Most other software, not so much.</text></item><item><author>jbk</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m not yet convinced that MIT-like, BSD-like, and Apache-like are any worse at perpetuating user freedom, and may in fact be far better at perpetuating user freedom due to their greater acceptance.<p>Well, the GPL mandates the right to use the application, and that a redistributor cannot restrict it (section 0, preambule and section 6, IIRC); that right is not guaranteed by MIT, BSD, MPL or Apache.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>And that&#x27;s a great thing to care about, and a great reason to create a license. The secondary question is: which license is best at perpetuating user freedom? This is a separate question than that of whether users <i>should</i> have freedom to mess with code. IMHO, the GPL is not the best license for perpetuating the most user freedom. Many people disagree with me on this, but their disagreement usually comes down to &quot;the GPL is best for user freedom because it was created for user freedom and RMS is talking about user freedom.&quot; I&#x27;m not yet convinced that MIT-like, BSD-like, and Apache-like are any worse at perpetuating user freedom, and may in fact be far better at perpetuating user freedom due to their greater acceptance.</text></item><item><author>TazeTSchnitzel</author><text>It&#x27;s worth remembering why the GPL was invented.<p>Stallman had a printer which had proprietary drivers, and he wanted to fix an issue with the driver. He couldn&#x27;t. He created the GPL so that, in future, people wouldn&#x27;t have this problem.<p>Stallman created the GPL because he cared about user freedom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tyr42</author><text>I feel like the GPL-ness of gcc was less material than the fact that it&#x27;s developers were afraid of closed source frontends benefiting from their work, and obfuscating the front end so that it was hard to <i>use</i> without pulling in the rest of the codebase.<p>And the reason I switched was because Clang had better error messages.</text></comment> |
25,044,438 | 25,042,932 | 1 | 2 | 25,042,551 | train | <story><title>AppleCrate II: A New Apple II-Based Parallel Computer (2015)</title><url>http://michaeljmahon.com/AppleCrateII.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cable2600</author><text>What if Apple did not invent the Macintosh? They would just parallel Apple II systems together for more speed?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tuna-Fish</author><text>No. New cheap microprocessors were being released constantly that were much faster than what was in Apple II, it was clear to everyone that the future was in new machines with one of the better chips.<p>The one big mistake Woz made when designing Apple II was picking the MOS 6502 CPU. It made sense at the time, because for the price it was the technically best chip available. The problem was that the company that made it was in serious trouble for multiple reasons.[0] Soon after the Apple II was released, MOS had to accept a low bid buyout offer from Commodore to not go bankrupt, and as Commodore CEO Jack Tramiel absolutely loathed to spend money on literally anything, this basically ended future development of the line.<p>[0](Mainly, terrible IP practices. MOS was founded because a Motorola engineer recognized a huge market niche that Motorola was poorly serving, and despite repeated pleas to the management, they chose not to do anything. So he set out with a few co-conspirators to found a new chip company to serve that market. However, he chose to design his chip to be way too similar to 6800 that Motorola was already making, and immediately after release Motorola sued them for stealing the design. During discovery, it was found that at MOS there were internal technical manuals related to the Motorola chip that were Motorola property and that the founders took with them when they left. Motorola won, took basically all of the profit that MOS had made, but allowed the company to continue operating.)</text></comment> | <story><title>AppleCrate II: A New Apple II-Based Parallel Computer (2015)</title><url>http://michaeljmahon.com/AppleCrateII.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cable2600</author><text>What if Apple did not invent the Macintosh? They would just parallel Apple II systems together for more speed?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wmf</author><text>No, they would have invented something faster that wasn&#x27;t a Mac. Perhaps an evolution of the &#x2F;&#x2F;GS.</text></comment> |
33,986,814 | 33,986,615 | 1 | 2 | 33,984,922 | train | <story><title>Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports</title><url>https://electrek.co/2022/12/14/tesla-full-self-driving-data-awful-challenge-elon-musk-prove-otherwise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ff317</author><text>The counterpoint goes something like this (not that I necessarily buy it, but this is what I infer to be Tesla&#x27;s reasoning):<p>1) We&#x27;re only going to fully &quot;solve&quot; self-driving with ML techniques to train deployed NNs; it can&#x27;t be done purely in human-written deterministic code because the task is too complex.<p>2) Those NNs are only going to come up to the necessary levels of quality with a <i>ton</i> of very-real-world test miles. Various forms of &quot;artificial&quot; in-house testing and simulation can help in some ways, but without the real-world data you won&#x27;t get anywhere.<p>3) Deploying cars into the real world (to gather the above) without some kind of safety driver doesn&#x27;t seem like a great path either. There&#x27;s no backup driver to take over and intervene &#x2F; unstick the car, and so far driverless taxi fleet efforts have been fairly narrowly geofenced for safety, which decreases the scope of scenarios they even get data on vs the whole real-world driving experience.<p>4) Therefore, the best plan to acquire the data to train the networks is to use a ton of customers as safety drivers and let them test it widely on the real routes they drive. This is tricky and dangerous, but if it&#x27;s not too dangerous and the outcome saves many lives over the coming years, it was worth it.</text></item><item><author>ivraatiems</author><text>I want to understand the minds of engineers at Tesla - or anywhere - who willingly put this kind of stuff out into the world. How do you convince yourself Tesla FSD is safe enough to ship? Are you just so worried about your boss being mad at you that you don&#x27;t care? Are you so bought-in that you ignore obvious signs what you&#x27;re doing is dangerous?<p>It&#x27;s engineering malpractice to test this product on public roads, in my view. It&#x27;s beyond malpractice that the government - at city, state, and federal levels - is allowing it.<p>(To be clear, I am not against self-driving cars in all instances. I am talking specifically about the Tesla FSD, which has been dangerous since launch and isn&#x27;t getting better.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bentcorner</author><text>I feel like you could enable FSD for every Tesla car in a &quot;backseat driver&quot; mode and have it mirror actions the driver does (so it doesn&#x27;t have control but you&#x27;re running it to see what it <i>would</i> do, without acting on it), and you watch for any significant diversions. Any time FSD wanted to do something but the driver did something else could have been a real disengagement.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports</title><url>https://electrek.co/2022/12/14/tesla-full-self-driving-data-awful-challenge-elon-musk-prove-otherwise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ff317</author><text>The counterpoint goes something like this (not that I necessarily buy it, but this is what I infer to be Tesla&#x27;s reasoning):<p>1) We&#x27;re only going to fully &quot;solve&quot; self-driving with ML techniques to train deployed NNs; it can&#x27;t be done purely in human-written deterministic code because the task is too complex.<p>2) Those NNs are only going to come up to the necessary levels of quality with a <i>ton</i> of very-real-world test miles. Various forms of &quot;artificial&quot; in-house testing and simulation can help in some ways, but without the real-world data you won&#x27;t get anywhere.<p>3) Deploying cars into the real world (to gather the above) without some kind of safety driver doesn&#x27;t seem like a great path either. There&#x27;s no backup driver to take over and intervene &#x2F; unstick the car, and so far driverless taxi fleet efforts have been fairly narrowly geofenced for safety, which decreases the scope of scenarios they even get data on vs the whole real-world driving experience.<p>4) Therefore, the best plan to acquire the data to train the networks is to use a ton of customers as safety drivers and let them test it widely on the real routes they drive. This is tricky and dangerous, but if it&#x27;s not too dangerous and the outcome saves many lives over the coming years, it was worth it.</text></item><item><author>ivraatiems</author><text>I want to understand the minds of engineers at Tesla - or anywhere - who willingly put this kind of stuff out into the world. How do you convince yourself Tesla FSD is safe enough to ship? Are you just so worried about your boss being mad at you that you don&#x27;t care? Are you so bought-in that you ignore obvious signs what you&#x27;re doing is dangerous?<p>It&#x27;s engineering malpractice to test this product on public roads, in my view. It&#x27;s beyond malpractice that the government - at city, state, and federal levels - is allowing it.<p>(To be clear, I am not against self-driving cars in all instances. I am talking specifically about the Tesla FSD, which has been dangerous since launch and isn&#x27;t getting better.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uvdn7</author><text>By this reasoning, shouldn&#x27;t Tesla pay users instead to enable FSD and collect data for them?</text></comment> |
8,558,116 | 8,558,098 | 1 | 2 | 8,556,193 | train | <story><title>Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence (2013)</title><url>http://blog.hut8labs.com/coding-fast-and-slow.html?reddit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gfodor</author><text>Just to play devil&#x27;s advocate, there is also the type of person who tends to get stuck down rabbit holes more than they should. There&#x27;s a skill not just to solving problems but avoiding them in the first place. Usually this requires not just engineering talent but the ability to see the bigger picture, in terms of product and business goals. If someone is banging their head against the wall, it may be because they are trying to solve a necessary difficult problem and are discovering valuable knowledge, or it could be because they are foolishing running into a wall that they could easily go around if they stepped back for a second and considered what they had set out to do in the first place.<p>In your race condition example, it would be the difference between an engineer debugging a race condition in mission critical code, and debugging one that is incidental complexity in a unit test or ancillary tool that could be refactored to be single threaded, or just omitted altogether. Heck, even in the mission critical code case, it&#x27;s worth considering how many users it effects, how it effects them, and at every moment considering if the time spent so far on the problem (and its associated opportunity cost) is still justified. (Taking into account the fixed costs of switching context into the problem again.) It&#x27;s very easy to get wrapped up in an interesting problem and forget about the eject button.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>One of the best things you can do in your organization is create a culture that treats obstacle discovery as forward progress. There is nothing more disheartening for an engineer than banging her head against the wall trying to debug some race condition only to get flak from management about why it isn&#x27;t fixed and why it&#x27;s holding up some milestone. The root of this problem is management that doesn&#x27;t understand the problem domain, and is suspicious about whether the engineers are really working diligently. The proper response to obstacle discovery is to treat it as forward progress. Firing off an email to a superior saying: &quot;I discovered an unknown race condition, let&#x27;s see what we need to do to fix it,&quot; should be treated no differently than &quot;I finished this feature.&quot; The presumption should be that the engineer used due diligence and the situation was unforeseen. Now, that doesn&#x27;t preclude separate improvements to diligence procedures to provide better foresight in the, future but under no circumstances should anyone be blamed for discovering obstacles or defects and raising them. When your culture does that, all you&#x27;ll get is shitty product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zenogais</author><text>This is where &quot;The presumption should be that the engineer used due diligence and the situation was unforeseen&quot; clause enters into play.<p>I&#x27;ve seen many folks in management just always assume incompetence or rabbit holing on the part of engineers. It&#x27;s good to ask clarifying questions. But as a manager you should be aware that adopting a style of second guessing and interrogating everything your reports do comes off as insulting - after all, you likely hired them, so why don&#x27;t you trust them?<p>That being said there are no hard and fast rules here, and being aware of the different histories of different folks is important, but defaulting to a critical attitude is likely to lead to all types of efforts to hide things from you just to avoid questioning, feeling insulted, having their time wasted, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence (2013)</title><url>http://blog.hut8labs.com/coding-fast-and-slow.html?reddit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gfodor</author><text>Just to play devil&#x27;s advocate, there is also the type of person who tends to get stuck down rabbit holes more than they should. There&#x27;s a skill not just to solving problems but avoiding them in the first place. Usually this requires not just engineering talent but the ability to see the bigger picture, in terms of product and business goals. If someone is banging their head against the wall, it may be because they are trying to solve a necessary difficult problem and are discovering valuable knowledge, or it could be because they are foolishing running into a wall that they could easily go around if they stepped back for a second and considered what they had set out to do in the first place.<p>In your race condition example, it would be the difference between an engineer debugging a race condition in mission critical code, and debugging one that is incidental complexity in a unit test or ancillary tool that could be refactored to be single threaded, or just omitted altogether. Heck, even in the mission critical code case, it&#x27;s worth considering how many users it effects, how it effects them, and at every moment considering if the time spent so far on the problem (and its associated opportunity cost) is still justified. (Taking into account the fixed costs of switching context into the problem again.) It&#x27;s very easy to get wrapped up in an interesting problem and forget about the eject button.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>One of the best things you can do in your organization is create a culture that treats obstacle discovery as forward progress. There is nothing more disheartening for an engineer than banging her head against the wall trying to debug some race condition only to get flak from management about why it isn&#x27;t fixed and why it&#x27;s holding up some milestone. The root of this problem is management that doesn&#x27;t understand the problem domain, and is suspicious about whether the engineers are really working diligently. The proper response to obstacle discovery is to treat it as forward progress. Firing off an email to a superior saying: &quot;I discovered an unknown race condition, let&#x27;s see what we need to do to fix it,&quot; should be treated no differently than &quot;I finished this feature.&quot; The presumption should be that the engineer used due diligence and the situation was unforeseen. Now, that doesn&#x27;t preclude separate improvements to diligence procedures to provide better foresight in the, future but under no circumstances should anyone be blamed for discovering obstacles or defects and raising them. When your culture does that, all you&#x27;ll get is shitty product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aangjie</author><text>&gt; it could be because they are foolishing running into a wall that they could easily go around if they stepped back for a second and considered what they had set out to do in the first place.<p>Note to self: Remember this, whenever you feel stuck and look at the problem in perspective.<p>My experience, tells me this is one of the biggest guidance a technical&#x2F;engineering manager must be able to provide to his team. I am not sure how hard or easy or for that matter even makes sense from the manager&#x2F;lead&#x27;s perspective, it is to provide this, but have found that whenever my manager is asking me to speed-up i run into these problems and lose the ability to judge whether i&#x27;m running against a wall or not.</text></comment> |
39,343,363 | 39,340,914 | 1 | 3 | 39,339,182 | train | <story><title>2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps</title><url>https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/11/2024-announcing-the-year-of-the-openstreetmap-vector-maps/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Freak_NL</author><text>Way overdue. OpenStreetMap&#x27;s website at openstreetmap.org is its calling card, and for the past few years the default style shown (called Carto) has all but stagnated in development. Accepted features like highway=busway (introduced three years ago) are not rendered there because the maintainers can no longer be bothered, or dislike the tag personally despite broad community backing.<p>What worries me for this new effort is that Paul Norman is one of the two remaining Carto sometimes-active maintainers who refuse to merge contributed PRs or even provide alternative minimal support for features like highway=busway, leading to awkward gaps on the baseline map shown on openstreetmap.org.<p>I would love to be surprised in a positive way about this new effort, but I&#x27;m not holding my hopes up. Thankfully OpenStreetMap can be thoroughly useful in apps like OsmAnd and OrganicMaps, and the tile-based Tracestrack Topo layer on openstreetmap.org is getting quite decent:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;#layers=P" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;#layers=P</a></text></comment> | <story><title>2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps</title><url>https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/11/2024-announcing-the-year-of-the-openstreetmap-vector-maps/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>If anyone wants to experiment with vector OSM data today I can very firmly recommend Protomaps - I wrote about that here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;til.simonwillison.net&#x2F;gis&#x2F;pmtiles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;til.simonwillison.net&#x2F;gis&#x2F;pmtiles</a><p>Here&#x27;s a vector map I built with it of Half Moon Bay California <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonw.github.io&#x2F;hmb-map&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonw.github.io&#x2F;hmb-map&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
12,007,887 | 12,003,818 | 1 | 2 | 12,003,142 | train | <story><title>Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes</title><url>http://www.coindesk.com/urbit-developers-bitcoin-node/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>What did they sell? Apparently, some (all?) of their potential user ID space.<p>Urbit, under all their jargon, is a base for a federated social network. Sort of like Diaspora. (Right now, they say they have chat, so it&#x27;s sort of like IRC.) They recognize that a big problem with social networks is spam. If you can freely create user IDs, it&#x27;s hard to stop spammers. But if user IDs cost money, then spam blocking costs spammers money (their purchased online identities lose value) and spamming is no longer cost-effective.<p>So their solution is to create a market in user ID space. It&#x27;s not clear if this will work out, but it&#x27;s something. If you buy an ID, you own it, in the Bitcoin sense. That is, you&#x27;re not at the mercy of some service provider, and can freely move from one service provider to another without their permission. (I think this is right. Not entirely sure.)<p>It&#x27;s not clear if this will work in the social space. They have the underlying machinery, but nobody has built the Facebook or WhatsApp or Dropbox killer on top of it yet, so it&#x27;s useless to end users at this stage. The concepts are interesting; it&#x27;s good to see people trying original ideas.<p>If someone builds an easy to use social application on this and gets some services to host it (like Wordpress hosting), this could get actual users. Right now, it&#x27;s a developer toolkit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidgerard</author><text>Urbit: neoreaction via Diaspora in INTERCAL on the blockchain.<p>(Urbit is explicitly intended to instantiate Yarvin&#x27;s political views, per the 2013 version of the security chapter: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;UK8So" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;UK8So</a> )</text></comment> | <story><title>Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes</title><url>http://www.coindesk.com/urbit-developers-bitcoin-node/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>What did they sell? Apparently, some (all?) of their potential user ID space.<p>Urbit, under all their jargon, is a base for a federated social network. Sort of like Diaspora. (Right now, they say they have chat, so it&#x27;s sort of like IRC.) They recognize that a big problem with social networks is spam. If you can freely create user IDs, it&#x27;s hard to stop spammers. But if user IDs cost money, then spam blocking costs spammers money (their purchased online identities lose value) and spamming is no longer cost-effective.<p>So their solution is to create a market in user ID space. It&#x27;s not clear if this will work out, but it&#x27;s something. If you buy an ID, you own it, in the Bitcoin sense. That is, you&#x27;re not at the mercy of some service provider, and can freely move from one service provider to another without their permission. (I think this is right. Not entirely sure.)<p>It&#x27;s not clear if this will work in the social space. They have the underlying machinery, but nobody has built the Facebook or WhatsApp or Dropbox killer on top of it yet, so it&#x27;s useless to end users at this stage. The concepts are interesting; it&#x27;s good to see people trying original ideas.<p>If someone builds an easy to use social application on this and gets some services to host it (like Wordpress hosting), this could get actual users. Right now, it&#x27;s a developer toolkit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lisper</author><text>&gt; What did they sell?<p>1.6% of their address space. For $200k. And they sold it all. That puts an implicit current valuation on the entire Urbit address space of $17M.</text></comment> |
16,545,212 | 16,545,460 | 1 | 3 | 16,545,023 | train | <story><title>‘Blockchain’ is meaningless</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/7/17091766/blockchain-bitcoin-ethereum-cryptocurrency-meaning</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SeanLuke</author><text>Cryptocurrency, welcome to AI&#x27;s long nightmare.<p>AI has forever had buzzword-complaint terms. Consider &quot;Agent&quot;, which describes a very specific thing (namely autonomy), but that didn&#x27;t stop everyone and their dog outside the field from calling their software a &quot;database agent&quot; or a &quot;compiler agent&quot; or whatnot, equating &quot;agent&quot; with &quot;program&quot;. Indeed there&#x27;s an entire non-AI <i>field</i> called &quot;Agent Based Modeling&quot; -- of which I am a participant -- which completely misunderstands the term. So AI gave up and switched to &quot;Intelligent Agent&quot;, which was unfortunately an even <i>more</i> buzzword-compliant word. Now we started seeing &quot;intelligent graphics agent&quot; or &quot;intelligent login page agent&quot;. Finally in the late &#x27;90s AI moved to &quot;Autonomous Agent&quot;, a word straight from the Department of Redundancy Department. But it worked! Nobody outside of AI seems to use it: my theory is that most people don&#x27;t really know exactly what autonomous means.</text></comment> | <story><title>‘Blockchain’ is meaningless</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/7/17091766/blockchain-bitcoin-ethereum-cryptocurrency-meaning</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Ajedi32</author><text>git has been using a blockchain for the last 12 years, since long before Bitcoin:<p>Each commit includes the hash of its parent commit. These commits form a chain. Changing the contents of any past commit would break the chain. Each user of the repository keeps a copy of the blockchain on their PC, and they can fetch new &quot;blocks&quot; from any other peer with `git fetch` or `git pull`. The consensus model is based on human review of the underlying code; humans get to decide whether to include a block in their version of the repository.</text></comment> |
12,247,065 | 12,247,117 | 1 | 2 | 12,246,592 | train | <story><title>How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead</title><url>http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/how-teletext-and-ceefax-are-coming-back-from-the-dead-1326145</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>solidangle</author><text>Teletext is still available here in The Netherlands, the public broadcaster [1] and some of the commercial channels still have teletext pages. If you have an internet connection (which 96% of the households in the Netherlands [2] have) there&#x27;s absolutely no point in using it as the same (and more) information is available on their websites, but it&#x27;s still an important source of information for the elders.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nos.nl&#x2F;teletekst" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nos.nl&#x2F;teletekst</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbs.nl&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;news&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;9-in-10-people-access-the-internet-every-day" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbs.nl&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;news&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;9-in-10-people-access-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead</title><url>http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/how-teletext-and-ceefax-are-coming-back-from-the-dead-1326145</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scoopr</author><text>Last weekend at Assembly[0] there was a teletext entry in the wild compo[1][2]<p>I know people who use one of the various ios apps to watch the local public broadcasting teletext (teksti-tv), because it is a fast and easy way to look at the news, with descriptive titles without clickbaits :) Web versions of course available too[3]<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.assembly.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.assembly.org</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_To2TwIrWqQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_To2TwIrWqQ</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pouet.net&#x2F;prod.php?which=67927" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pouet.net&#x2F;prod.php?which=67927</a>
[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yle.fi&#x2F;tekstitv&#x2F;html&#x2F;P100_01.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yle.fi&#x2F;tekstitv&#x2F;html&#x2F;P100_01.html</a></text></comment> |
23,184,996 | 23,185,104 | 1 | 2 | 23,184,576 | train | <story><title>Which way a wind turbine turns might not seem to matter, but it does</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/05/16/which-way-a-wind-turbine-turns-might-not-seem-to-matter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>floatrock</author><text>Fun-fact pot-shot time!<p>The first paragraph states the thesis that there&#x27;s something about wind patterns in the northern hemisphere that make windmill directionality important.<p>The first paragraph also says:<p>&gt; It is convenient to have all clock hands turn in the same direction, but it is an accident of history which direction that is.<p>Clockwise is not a random coin-flip of history. Ironically, clockwise is clockwise <i>also</i> because something about the northern hemisphere: the shadows on a sundial move clockwise in the northern hemisphere, so when europeans first started making clocks, they continued the sundial convention!</text></comment> | <story><title>Which way a wind turbine turns might not seem to matter, but it does</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/05/16/which-way-a-wind-turbine-turns-might-not-seem-to-matter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scrooched_moose</author><text>Preprint of the full paper here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;338882074_Should_wind_turbines_rotate_in_the_opposite_direction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;338882074_Should_wi...</a><p>It&#x27;s cool work. Some things I&#x27;ve picked out from a quick skim:<p>- Only the downstream turbines gets a boost, cutting gains of a pair in half*<p>- The boost only occurs at night, cutting gains approximately in half again.<p>- Veering winds only occur 75% of the time<p>This already cuts the gains from an ideal 23% to roughly 4.5% real world.<p>I don&#x27;t see any treatment of incoming wind direction - it appears to only consider pure West to East wind with turbines precisely aligned with the wind. I suspect the effect would disappear as the wind shifted from other directions. While wind is generally westerly in the US, it varies a lot hour-to-hour.<p>Combine this with the above and I&#x27;d suspect real-world benefit is in the 1-2% range, at which point the added complexity of maintenance and production probably cancels out the benefit.<p>Not a knock on the research, because it is great work, but it is incomplete.<p>*This may be unfair, as it&#x27;s unclear what affect multiple in a row would have. But the power production of multiple turbines in a row when the wind is blowing precisely parallel to the row drops off pretty quickly. Commercial turbines are something like 45% efficient these days, so turbine 3 only has ~30% of the original power available.</text></comment> |
13,608,979 | 13,608,904 | 1 | 3 | 13,608,376 | train | <story><title>Zenefits cuts nearly 50% of workforce</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/zenefits-layoffs-cut-nearly-500-employees-full-email-2017-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>StClaire</author><text>I first heard of Zenefits when the CEO withdrew a job offer for someone who asked (anonymously) on Quora if they should accept an offer from Uber or Zenefits. The CEO didn&#x27;t want anyone who wasn&#x27;t all in for Zenefits &quot;world changing&quot; product.<p>Since then: that CEO got busted for writing a chrome plug-in to help people get around California&#x27;s webinar requirement to get a license to sell insurance.<p>And the new CEO—the old COO—sent out a memo that sex in the staircases and alcohol in the office are not OK.<p>And he had to give away a huge portion of equity to early investors who accused the old CEO of turning Zenefits into a criminal enterprise for using unlicensed brokers to sell insurance.<p>This news does not surprise me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zenefits cuts nearly 50% of workforce</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/zenefits-layoffs-cut-nearly-500-employees-full-email-2017-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>temp246810</author><text>I worked at Zenefits for a year. Was employee ~600.<p>This move was much needed 1 year ago - just an awful place to work all around.<p>Most of the raelly good people I met there have left - the people I know that stayed either had golden hand cuffs or weren&#x27;t the high achieving type, to put it nicely.</text></comment> |
12,745,937 | 12,745,464 | 1 | 3 | 12,743,693 | train | <story><title>Netflix Chaos Monkey Upgraded</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/10/netflix-chaos-monkey-upgraded.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iagooar</author><text>I posted this piece of news to my team Slack at work, and a colleague of mine wrote: &quot;we don&#x27;t need chaos monkey, we have developers for that&quot;.<p>While being funny, it also holds a lot of truth. I guess that Netflix can hire really top-notch devs who do not accidentally force downtime to their software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevan</author><text>Developers cause software downtime, but they usually don&#x27;t cause infrastructure downtime, which is what Chaos Monkey does. Cloud VMs have failure rates somewhere around 1-2% depending on who you ask. This is low enough that you can ignore it most of the time, but it&#x27;ll come back and bite you hard later. Chaos Monkey artificially forces that failure rate high enough that you&#x27;ll notice problems immediately and fix them before they become too engrained into your architecture.</text></comment> | <story><title>Netflix Chaos Monkey Upgraded</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/10/netflix-chaos-monkey-upgraded.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iagooar</author><text>I posted this piece of news to my team Slack at work, and a colleague of mine wrote: &quot;we don&#x27;t need chaos monkey, we have developers for that&quot;.<p>While being funny, it also holds a lot of truth. I guess that Netflix can hire really top-notch devs who do not accidentally force downtime to their software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeremiep</author><text>The difference is scale. Only a handful of companies run at Netflix scale.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t trust developers to do what Chaos Monkey does at such a scale, no matter how good you think they are.</text></comment> |
15,970,965 | 15,969,218 | 1 | 2 | 15,967,619 | train | <story><title>Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/19/google-will-turn-on-native-ad-blocking-in-chrome-on-february-15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Artlav</author><text>They are all probably too rich to understand the concept of paying for mobile data.</text></item><item><author>wst_</author><text>I still find it amusing that they consider auto-play video OK as long as it&#x27;s muted. Sound is the problem, but so is auto-playing itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>It&#x27;s really, really dumb, but video is actually far more bandwidth efficient than the alternative everyone uses, which are multi-MB GIF files. I don&#x27;t know enough about the file format, but I suspect it would be difficult to download the first frame of a GIF then immediately stop downloading the rest of the file (which would probably be the best of both worlds).</text></comment> | <story><title>Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/19/google-will-turn-on-native-ad-blocking-in-chrome-on-february-15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Artlav</author><text>They are all probably too rich to understand the concept of paying for mobile data.</text></item><item><author>wst_</author><text>I still find it amusing that they consider auto-play video OK as long as it&#x27;s muted. Sound is the problem, but so is auto-playing itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>docdeek</author><text>It depends on where you are, I guess. I pay for data on my cell in France but the amount of data I am allowed each month before things start to slow down (100GB, up from 50GB a few months ago) means I never get close to getting throttled by auto-playing videos.</text></comment> |
27,688,424 | 27,688,238 | 1 | 3 | 27,687,034 | train | <story><title>Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1409576956828405760</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; Which makes it problematic when we make HR people do the initial screening. They would filter out a lot of good candidates just because they used Python instead of Java, or had been working on a C++ project one year less than the person leaving the team.<p>Companies paying top dollar for the best engineering talent aren’t having inexperienced HR drones or automated software filter resumes. They have dedicated recruiters who have a proven track record of being able to properly interpret resumes and work with candidates to accurately understand their backgrounds. They’re also very good at working with engineering hiring managers to understand the actual requirements of the job.<p>That’s more or less what John Carmack is trying to say here: The requirements aren’t being used internally as a strict pass&#x2F;fail criteria before anyone is considered for the position.<p>I’ve only worked for one company that had inexperienced HR people screen resumes. It was standard practice among engineering hiring managers at that company to use external recruiters for this reason.<p>Hiring managers aren’t dumb. Companies paying high six figures or more for engineers aren’t dumb. We don’t want to miss out on good candidates. I personally read every single resume that comes through applications to my job postings, and I know I’m not alone. Hiring is hard, and it’s not worth letting someone else screw it up just to save a little bit of time.<p>On the other hand, if you’re applying to a local dinosaur of a tech company that pays below-average compensation and takes 3 months to respond to candidates, all bets are off. You could indeed be up against automated hiring software and people who don’t know how to read resumes. But you also don’t want to work there if you can avoid it.</text></item><item><author>skytreader</author><text>General SE hiring comment: One thing I realized, for most IT&#x2F;SE jobs, the more accurately you describe your current stack in the requirements (or maybe the person you are replacing), the smaller your candidate pool is. You might even find that your candidate pool is exactly the people you are already working with.<p>Which makes it problematic when we make HR people do the initial screening. They would filter out a lot of good candidates just because they used Python instead of Java, or had been working on a C++ project one year less than the person leaving the team.<p>Could it be then that this is a communication problem between the Engineering team and the HRD? After all, the Eng&#x27;g team writes the requirements for the job post, HRD just checks it and makes it look attractive.<p>(Though honestly, I don&#x27;t think this general comment applies to the job post in Carmack&#x27;s tweet. Honestly I can&#x27;t fault the job post for the way it was worded. I say the higher you are in an SE-org chain, the less this is a problem.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Wildgoose</author><text>My brother has a very senior role (non-IT). Probably in the top 5 in the UK, possibly even top 3, out of perhaps 30-35 jobs? Proven long-term record.<p>He was going to transfer to a different company and was told that company rules meant he had to go through HR &quot;as a formality&quot;.<p>He was blocked by his HR interviewer on the grounds that he was too successful and therefore wouldn&#x27;t be &quot;hungry&quot; enough for such a competitive position.<p>He couldn&#x27;t believe it. They didn&#x27;t want someone with a proven record of repeated long-term success?<p>The person who was trying to recruit him was furious, but as my brother said, this was indicative of a wider problem, and so he declined to move there. Instead he won his Industry Award for the following year at the company he did move to....</text></comment> | <story><title>Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1409576956828405760</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; Which makes it problematic when we make HR people do the initial screening. They would filter out a lot of good candidates just because they used Python instead of Java, or had been working on a C++ project one year less than the person leaving the team.<p>Companies paying top dollar for the best engineering talent aren’t having inexperienced HR drones or automated software filter resumes. They have dedicated recruiters who have a proven track record of being able to properly interpret resumes and work with candidates to accurately understand their backgrounds. They’re also very good at working with engineering hiring managers to understand the actual requirements of the job.<p>That’s more or less what John Carmack is trying to say here: The requirements aren’t being used internally as a strict pass&#x2F;fail criteria before anyone is considered for the position.<p>I’ve only worked for one company that had inexperienced HR people screen resumes. It was standard practice among engineering hiring managers at that company to use external recruiters for this reason.<p>Hiring managers aren’t dumb. Companies paying high six figures or more for engineers aren’t dumb. We don’t want to miss out on good candidates. I personally read every single resume that comes through applications to my job postings, and I know I’m not alone. Hiring is hard, and it’s not worth letting someone else screw it up just to save a little bit of time.<p>On the other hand, if you’re applying to a local dinosaur of a tech company that pays below-average compensation and takes 3 months to respond to candidates, all bets are off. You could indeed be up against automated hiring software and people who don’t know how to read resumes. But you also don’t want to work there if you can avoid it.</text></item><item><author>skytreader</author><text>General SE hiring comment: One thing I realized, for most IT&#x2F;SE jobs, the more accurately you describe your current stack in the requirements (or maybe the person you are replacing), the smaller your candidate pool is. You might even find that your candidate pool is exactly the people you are already working with.<p>Which makes it problematic when we make HR people do the initial screening. They would filter out a lot of good candidates just because they used Python instead of Java, or had been working on a C++ project one year less than the person leaving the team.<p>Could it be then that this is a communication problem between the Engineering team and the HRD? After all, the Eng&#x27;g team writes the requirements for the job post, HRD just checks it and makes it look attractive.<p>(Though honestly, I don&#x27;t think this general comment applies to the job post in Carmack&#x27;s tweet. Honestly I can&#x27;t fault the job post for the way it was worded. I say the higher you are in an SE-org chain, the less this is a problem.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srvmshr</author><text>&gt;You could indeed be up against automated hiring software and people who don’t know how to read resumes.<p>I was interviewed by MedTronics in 2015 by a HR fellow who asked me if I used &#x27;C++11&#x27;. He had trouble believing that the &#x27;C++11&#x27; was a language standard (adding features to the language) &amp; not a language by itself.</text></comment> |
8,175,794 | 8,173,982 | 1 | 2 | 8,172,980 | train | <story><title>Microservices and the First Law of Distributed Objects</title><url>http://martinfowler.com/articles/distributed-objects-microservices.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>The real strength of micro services is physical isolation more so than logical isolation. That is, there is an 80&#x2F;20 rule as to scaling.<p>For instance, there is probably one function of your system that is responsible for a huge amount of work. If everything is in one database (say SQL, mongo,...) You have a complex system that is hard to scale. If you split the heavy load out, you might find the scaling problems vanish (because the high load no longer has the burden of excess data) and even if there is still a problem it is much easier to optimize and scale a system that does just one thing.<p>The most disturbing thing about microservice enthusiasts is that they immediately jump to: oh, we can write these services and clients in Cold Fusion, Ruby, COBOL, Scala, Clojure, PHP and even when we write them, the great thing is &quot;WE DON&#x27;T HAVE TO SHARE ANY INFRASTRUCTURE!&quot;<p>That&#x27;s bougus to the Nth degree because a lot of the BS involved with distributed systems has to do with boring things like serialization, logging, service management, etc.<p>I think you still want to use the same language, same serialization libraries, management practices, etc. across all of these services otherwise you are going to get eaten alive dealing with boring but essential problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eikenberry</author><text>The real strength of micro services is that it should force you to specify your services by API and protocol. This is what allows it to scale to larger groups developers at the same time as scaling to large customer bases.<p>Both Netflix and Twitter, for example, have fallen into the trap you describe of using a common set of infrastructural libraries. With Twitter this has manifested by their micro services actually being a tightly coupled distributed application, not a loosely couple set of services. Netflix on the other hand has the set of libraries, yet have many groups not using them and because they went with libraries instead of APIs&#x2F;protocols the non-library using applications don&#x27;t follows the standards.<p>You need fully specified APIs and protocols with at least a 2 if not 3 different implementation platforms to keep you out of the trap of the common infrastructure.<p>[edit: fixed capitalization]</text></comment> | <story><title>Microservices and the First Law of Distributed Objects</title><url>http://martinfowler.com/articles/distributed-objects-microservices.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>The real strength of micro services is physical isolation more so than logical isolation. That is, there is an 80&#x2F;20 rule as to scaling.<p>For instance, there is probably one function of your system that is responsible for a huge amount of work. If everything is in one database (say SQL, mongo,...) You have a complex system that is hard to scale. If you split the heavy load out, you might find the scaling problems vanish (because the high load no longer has the burden of excess data) and even if there is still a problem it is much easier to optimize and scale a system that does just one thing.<p>The most disturbing thing about microservice enthusiasts is that they immediately jump to: oh, we can write these services and clients in Cold Fusion, Ruby, COBOL, Scala, Clojure, PHP and even when we write them, the great thing is &quot;WE DON&#x27;T HAVE TO SHARE ANY INFRASTRUCTURE!&quot;<p>That&#x27;s bougus to the Nth degree because a lot of the BS involved with distributed systems has to do with boring things like serialization, logging, service management, etc.<p>I think you still want to use the same language, same serialization libraries, management practices, etc. across all of these services otherwise you are going to get eaten alive dealing with boring but essential problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superuser2</author><text>Docker is a promising building block for solving logging and service management and that&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve been playing with for a while. You stream your logs to your container&#x27;s stdout&#x2F;stderr and can pick them up from the Docker REST API. You can also hit the Docker REST APIs across your hosts to discover the IP addresses and ports of the containers running various images. None of this is &quot;solved&quot; yet but it&#x27;s getting there.<p>Serialization... depends, but you can get pretty far with JSON over HTTP.<p>So I guess you do need your microservices to be uniform in some respects, but the consistency of &quot;every microservice is a Docker container exposing a REST API that speaks JSON and streams logs to stdout&quot; would seem to be enough.<p>It&#x27;s easy to build that in several languages... if Rails makes sense, use Rails. If Sinatra makes sense, use Sinatra. If Java makes sense, use Java.<p>You could run into trouble if you start using languages that only one or two of your staff members know, but it does allow for some flexibility (i.e. just because certain parts of the application are enterprisey doesn&#x27;t mean everything has to be.)</text></comment> |
2,391,038 | 2,390,507 | 1 | 2 | 2,389,578 | train | <story><title>AIDS vaccine in final testing</title><url>http://www.lanl.gov/news/stories/aids_vaccine_in_final_testing.html</url><text>I hate to quote the Daily Mail, but this is also a good source (perhaps better): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1371540/Mosaic-HIV-vaccine-imminent-Scientists-begin-trialling-breakthrough-drug-year.html<p>Couldn't find better sources yet.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>electromagnetic</author><text>Super-sucks to be in the placebo group on this one if the vaccine really works.<p>It reminds me of a study done in IIRC South Africa (although it's been a year or more since I heard of this so it could be anywhere in Africa really) where they circumcised a group of males to see the effect on HIV contraction and it was so great (due to HIV's severely limited lifetime outside the body compared to over viruses and bacteria's) that they ended up circumcising the control group.<p>Hopefully if this study goes well then they'll do the same. I'd sense a massive lawsuit if scientists caught major wind of a guaranteed vaccine and sat on it for the sake of evidence for 5 years and let X-many people get HIV.</text></item><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>As explained elsewhere, you give the vaccine and a placebo to an at-risk. Than you follow up X years later to check infection rates. Everything's double blind, so there's nothing statistically different about the two populations other than the vaccine vs. placebo.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2389732" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2389732</a></text></item><item><author>patrickaljord</author><text>&#62; Phase 2: Small number of patients with the disease of interest to test drug efficacy.<p>&#62; Phase 3: Large number of patients with the disease of interest to test effects of new treatment in comparison to those of existing treatments.<p>I'm not sure phase 2 and 3 make sense for a vaccine though. Vaccines are only useful for healthy people. I guess the testing is done on healthy animals which are then transmitted the HIV virus, unless some people would accept to go through that kind of testing, not very likely but I'm no specialist so I may be wrong.</text></item><item><author>reason</author><text>Yes, you're correct.<p>There are 3 major phases in clinically testing a drug's safety and efficacy before it's brought to market, and it seems like they're close to starting the first one.<p>For all those interested in the 3 phases, here they are:<p>Phase 1: Small number of healthy volunteers to assess drug safety, toxicity, and pharmacokinetics.<p>Phase 2: Small number of patients with the disease of interest to test drug efficacy.<p>Phase 3: Large number of patients with the disease of interest to test effects of new treatment in comparison to those of existing treatments. This is where you see double-blind studies, etc.<p>Personally, this isn't terribly noteworthy. They've merely devised a new theory that's shown to be effective using animal models, and are still quite a ways away from seeing if similar results will occur with human testing. Of course, I do hope they see good results.</text></item><item><author>scott_s</author><text>Title is misleading. To me, the headline "AIDS vaccine in final testing" implies that they are undergoing their final testing to verify that it does indeed prevent people from contracting HIV. That is not what it means. Rather, it means that they are in the final rounds to <i>verify that the vaccine is safe</i>, before they start human trials.<p>A more accurate title, to my ears, would be "HIV vaccine almost ready for human trials."</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tyrannosaurs</author><text>&#62; I'd sense a massive lawsuit if scientists caught major wind of a guaranteed vaccine and sat on it for the sake of evidence for 5 years and let X-many people get HIV.<p>This is wrong on so many levels.<p>First, until you conduct the trials have the evidence there is no guarantee that (a) the vaccine works and (b) that it isn't harmful itself. The idea of a guaranteed vaccine that hasn't been through trials is nonsense as trials are an integral part of such a guarantee.<p>Second, you can't sue someone for with holding such a drug unless you have some sort of basis in law to have that drug - basically a contract between you and the company. As the drug companies can't legally sell a drug that hasn't passed testing no such contracts exist. While I'm sure you'd like to exert some sort of moral right to the drug (and I'd kind of agree with you), a legal right which could form the basis of a law suit simply isn't there.<p>Third, why would a company sit on a vaccine for AIDS? Yes a majority of those at risk are in the third world and have no money but there is a market of hundreds of millions who could afford and would pay for a vaccine in the wealthy developed world. It simply makes no sense to suggest that they would do anything of the sort.</text></comment> | <story><title>AIDS vaccine in final testing</title><url>http://www.lanl.gov/news/stories/aids_vaccine_in_final_testing.html</url><text>I hate to quote the Daily Mail, but this is also a good source (perhaps better): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1371540/Mosaic-HIV-vaccine-imminent-Scientists-begin-trialling-breakthrough-drug-year.html<p>Couldn't find better sources yet.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>electromagnetic</author><text>Super-sucks to be in the placebo group on this one if the vaccine really works.<p>It reminds me of a study done in IIRC South Africa (although it's been a year or more since I heard of this so it could be anywhere in Africa really) where they circumcised a group of males to see the effect on HIV contraction and it was so great (due to HIV's severely limited lifetime outside the body compared to over viruses and bacteria's) that they ended up circumcising the control group.<p>Hopefully if this study goes well then they'll do the same. I'd sense a massive lawsuit if scientists caught major wind of a guaranteed vaccine and sat on it for the sake of evidence for 5 years and let X-many people get HIV.</text></item><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>As explained elsewhere, you give the vaccine and a placebo to an at-risk. Than you follow up X years later to check infection rates. Everything's double blind, so there's nothing statistically different about the two populations other than the vaccine vs. placebo.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2389732" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2389732</a></text></item><item><author>patrickaljord</author><text>&#62; Phase 2: Small number of patients with the disease of interest to test drug efficacy.<p>&#62; Phase 3: Large number of patients with the disease of interest to test effects of new treatment in comparison to those of existing treatments.<p>I'm not sure phase 2 and 3 make sense for a vaccine though. Vaccines are only useful for healthy people. I guess the testing is done on healthy animals which are then transmitted the HIV virus, unless some people would accept to go through that kind of testing, not very likely but I'm no specialist so I may be wrong.</text></item><item><author>reason</author><text>Yes, you're correct.<p>There are 3 major phases in clinically testing a drug's safety and efficacy before it's brought to market, and it seems like they're close to starting the first one.<p>For all those interested in the 3 phases, here they are:<p>Phase 1: Small number of healthy volunteers to assess drug safety, toxicity, and pharmacokinetics.<p>Phase 2: Small number of patients with the disease of interest to test drug efficacy.<p>Phase 3: Large number of patients with the disease of interest to test effects of new treatment in comparison to those of existing treatments. This is where you see double-blind studies, etc.<p>Personally, this isn't terribly noteworthy. They've merely devised a new theory that's shown to be effective using animal models, and are still quite a ways away from seeing if similar results will occur with human testing. Of course, I do hope they see good results.</text></item><item><author>scott_s</author><text>Title is misleading. To me, the headline "AIDS vaccine in final testing" implies that they are undergoing their final testing to verify that it does indeed prevent people from contracting HIV. That is not what it means. Rather, it means that they are in the final rounds to <i>verify that the vaccine is safe</i>, before they start human trials.<p>A more accurate title, to my ears, would be "HIV vaccine almost ready for human trials."</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ars</author><text>&#62; I'd sense a massive lawsuit if scientists caught major wind of a guaranteed vaccine and sat on it for the sake of evidence for 5 years and let X-many people get HIV.<p>Considering that all prior HIV vaccine attempts failed completely, sitting on it till they know for sure is exactly what they should do.<p>And, BTW all those vaccines also came with press releases that touted how great it was, and how sure they were that this time they got it.<p>Based on past history I would give this vaccine less then 10% chance of actually working.<p>You seem to be focused on success, but realistically the vast majority of pharmaceutical trials fail.</text></comment> |
39,022,676 | 39,015,791 | 1 | 3 | 39,014,642 | train | <story><title>US Supreme Court declines to hear appeals in Apple-Epic Games legal battle</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-snubs-epic-games-legal-battle-with-apple-2024-01-16/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related ongoing thread:<p><i>US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39020365">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39020365</a> - Jan 2024 (238 comments)</text></comment> | <story><title>US Supreme Court declines to hear appeals in Apple-Epic Games legal battle</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-snubs-epic-games-legal-battle-with-apple-2024-01-16/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>somenameforme</author><text>It seems easy to kind of shrug at this, but this does seem quite significant because of many mobile apps are &#x27;free to play.&#x27; Apple pocketing 30% of all of these transactions, and forcing users&#x2F;devs to go through Apple, is a major part of its revenue. And all of those apps now have the option to direct users to alternative payment methods, where they can both charge users substantially less and make more profit doing so. Should be interesting to see what happens!</text></comment> |
21,342,822 | 21,342,392 | 1 | 3 | 21,337,594 | train | <story><title>Update on free software and telemetry</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/10/10/update-free-software-and-telemetry/</url><text>We have launched important updates to our Terms of Service surrounding our use of telemetry services. Starting with GitLab 12.4, existing customers who use our proprietary products (that is, GitLab.com and the Enterprise Edition of our self-managed offerings) may notice additional Javascript snippets that will interact with GitLab and&#x2F;or third-party SaaS telemetry service (such as Pendo).<p>For GitLab.com users: as we roll out this update you will be prompted to accept our new Terms of Service. Until the new Terms are accepted access to the web interface and API will be blocked. So, for users who have integrations with our API this will cause a brief pause in service via our API until the terms have been accepted by signing in to the web interface.<p>For Self-managed users: GitLab Core will continue to be free software with no changes. If you want to install your own instance of GitLab without the proprietary software being introduced as a result of this change, GitLab Community Edition (CE) remains a great option. It is licensed under the MIT license (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MIT_License) and will contain no proprietary software. Many open source software projects use GitLab CE for their SCM and CI needs. Again, there will be no changes to GitLab CE.<p>Key Updates:<p>- GitLab.com (GitLab’s SaaS offering)and GitLab&#x27;s proprietary Self-Managed packages (Starter, Premium, and Ultimate) will now include additional Javascript snippets (both open source and proprietary) that will interact with both GitLab and possibly third-party SaaS telemetry services (we will be using Pendo(https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pendo.io)).<p>- We will disclose all such usage in our privacy policy, as well as what we are using the data for. We will also ensure that any third-party telemetry service we use will have data protection standards at least as strong as GitLab and we will aim for SOC2 compliance. Pendo is SOC2 compliant.<p>If you have any questions please contact us at [email protected]</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sytse</author><text>We made this blog post before implementing the changes so we could gather feedback. The feedback is very negative. And some of the things we thought would help (respecting DNT) don&#x27;t seems to matter much. We&#x27;ll have a look at all the feedback and see what we can learn and adjust.</text></item><item><author>kevin_b_er</author><text>This is beyond stupid for GitLab.<p>The _PAID_ self-hosted instances will have non-optional telemetry that loads remote javascript inside an enterprise? Any enterprise that seriously wants to self-host will look at this statement and flip a table.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>finnthehuman</author><text>Why should I believe you care? I notice that you and your employees are here acting superficially nice to do damage control, but that&#x27;s about it.<p>Of course the feedback is negative. You obviously knew it would be because you made that blog post in the first place. Three months from now you&#x27;ll have made some cosmetic changes while still collecting basically all the data you wanted. Eventually you&#x27;ll be ramping up to roll this into your enterprise offering. I&#x27;ll do another round of source control tool research and hopefully be able to move gitlab to the NRND list in internal documentation.<p>That&#x27;s how it will go, because that&#x27;s how these things always play out. The world will keep spinning.</text></comment> | <story><title>Update on free software and telemetry</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/10/10/update-free-software-and-telemetry/</url><text>We have launched important updates to our Terms of Service surrounding our use of telemetry services. Starting with GitLab 12.4, existing customers who use our proprietary products (that is, GitLab.com and the Enterprise Edition of our self-managed offerings) may notice additional Javascript snippets that will interact with GitLab and&#x2F;or third-party SaaS telemetry service (such as Pendo).<p>For GitLab.com users: as we roll out this update you will be prompted to accept our new Terms of Service. Until the new Terms are accepted access to the web interface and API will be blocked. So, for users who have integrations with our API this will cause a brief pause in service via our API until the terms have been accepted by signing in to the web interface.<p>For Self-managed users: GitLab Core will continue to be free software with no changes. If you want to install your own instance of GitLab without the proprietary software being introduced as a result of this change, GitLab Community Edition (CE) remains a great option. It is licensed under the MIT license (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;MIT_License) and will contain no proprietary software. Many open source software projects use GitLab CE for their SCM and CI needs. Again, there will be no changes to GitLab CE.<p>Key Updates:<p>- GitLab.com (GitLab’s SaaS offering)and GitLab&#x27;s proprietary Self-Managed packages (Starter, Premium, and Ultimate) will now include additional Javascript snippets (both open source and proprietary) that will interact with both GitLab and possibly third-party SaaS telemetry services (we will be using Pendo(https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pendo.io)).<p>- We will disclose all such usage in our privacy policy, as well as what we are using the data for. We will also ensure that any third-party telemetry service we use will have data protection standards at least as strong as GitLab and we will aim for SOC2 compliance. Pendo is SOC2 compliant.<p>If you have any questions please contact us at [email protected]</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sytse</author><text>We made this blog post before implementing the changes so we could gather feedback. The feedback is very negative. And some of the things we thought would help (respecting DNT) don&#x27;t seems to matter much. We&#x27;ll have a look at all the feedback and see what we can learn and adjust.</text></item><item><author>kevin_b_er</author><text>This is beyond stupid for GitLab.<p>The _PAID_ self-hosted instances will have non-optional telemetry that loads remote javascript inside an enterprise? Any enterprise that seriously wants to self-host will look at this statement and flip a table.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stunt</author><text>&gt; We made this blog post before implementing the changes so we could gather feedback<p>Blog post isn’t the best way to collect feedback. Just ask your customers directly.<p>10 bad title on internet is enough to screw your reputation on 10m developers that probably don’t even follow up the story or even don’t bother to read anything beyond Reddit titles and comments. But then you have 10m developers telling their managers “Oh Gitlab isn’t good”.</text></comment> |
10,346,521 | 10,346,492 | 1 | 2 | 10,345,688 | train | <story><title>League of Legends Chat Service Architecture</title><url>http://engineering.riotgames.com/news/chat-service-architecture-servers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>I didn&#x27;t know Riot kept an engineering blog. I&#x27;m so happy to find this out!<p>I <i>really</i> wish more game studios would do this (Blizzard especially).</text></comment> | <story><title>League of Legends Chat Service Architecture</title><url>http://engineering.riotgames.com/news/chat-service-architecture-servers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anthonyrrubin</author><text>Here is a related talk from Strange Loop last year:<p>&quot;Scaling League of Legends Chat to 70 million Players&quot; by Michal Ptaszek
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_jsMpmWaq7I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_jsMpmWaq7I</a></text></comment> |
9,751,108 | 9,750,983 | 1 | 3 | 9,750,460 | train | <story><title>Breaking the Zyzzyva encryption</title><url>https://medium.com/@14domino/breaking-the-zyzzyva-encryption-f00360b695d1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leecb</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this a violation of the DMCA&#x27;s anti-circumvention section? This seems to be explicitly describing how to circumvent protection measures for a copyrighted work.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;17&#x2F;1201" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;17&#x2F;1201</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>This assumes it&#x27;s validly copyrighted.
I wonder if the wordlist is even registered with the copyright office (I can&#x27;t imagine it is, they are pretty good about not accepting stuff like this).<p>Additionally, to the degree that hasbro&#x2F;whoever the heck claims a copyright on the work of other people, they are themselves violating various parts of the DMCA dealing with rights management info, etc.<p>Hasbro&#x2F;whoever should know that it is not possible to effect a transfer of copyright without an explicit signed agreement. Thus, if all these people contributed, and then they slapped a copyright on it, they own exactly nothing.<p>(There is such a thing as a compilation copyright, but it it is a very minimalistic copyright, and assumes they actually <i>did</i> anything creative or original to the compiled list)<p>If someone was to press this point against the scrabble players, they would
A. likely lose as the list will be considered non-copyrightable subject matter
B. If the list was somehow found copyrightable, and this story is accurate, they would be opening themselves up to copyright infringement lawsuits from the scrabble players who contributed to the wordlist.<p>So they kinda lose either way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Breaking the Zyzzyva encryption</title><url>https://medium.com/@14domino/breaking-the-zyzzyva-encryption-f00360b695d1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leecb</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this a violation of the DMCA&#x27;s anti-circumvention section? This seems to be explicitly describing how to circumvent protection measures for a copyrighted work.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;17&#x2F;1201" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;17&#x2F;1201</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thothamon</author><text>The article probably does violate that section of the DMCA. But it is also a research&#x2F;scientific piece subject to the protection of the First Amendment. I could be mistaken, but I suspect if one or the other had to go -- the First Amendment or this law -- the First Amendment would win.<p>Said another way, even as a very pro-copyright judge, I would have a hard time saying the author did not have a First Amendment right to publish his research. Now if he wrote a program to make it easy to crack these databases and sold it for $5 each, that would be a different matter.</text></comment> |
21,764,959 | 21,764,652 | 1 | 3 | 21,762,007 | train | <story><title>Internal FAA Review Saw High Risk of 737 Max Crashes</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/internal-faa-review-saw-high-risk-of-737-max-crashes-11576069202</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>On the other hand, generalizing from two incidents to a rate isn&#x27;t great statistics. The list of accidents and incidents with the previous generation [1] shows some 9 fatal problems spread over more than a decade, which is closer to a rate. But saying that the 737 Max is known to be 20 times worse when the real value might be anywhere between 2 and 200 if it had been allowed to continue flying is a little imprecise.<p>Put people in jail for negligence, sure. But we should be criminalizing based on that negligence and not on its results.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Boeing_737#737_Next_Generation_(-600&#x2F;-700&#x2F;-800&#x2F;-900)_aircraft" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_accidents_and_incident...</a></text></item><item><author>forgingahead</author><text><i>The MAX’s safety record when it was grounded, after two years in service, roughly amounted to two catastrophic accidents for every one million flights, according to estimates by industry officials relying on unofficial data. By contrast, the model of 737 that came before the MAX has suffered one fatal crash for every 10 million flights, according to data from Boeing.</i><p>Put another way, the 737 Max has a statistic of 1 catastrophe per 500k flights, whilst the 737 was 1 per 10 million, <i>basically 20 times</i> as much.<p>This is criminal behaviour, and people need to go to jail. The MAX should never be allowed to fly again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cameldrv</author><text>The FAA was not just using the fact of the first crash in the risk analysis. This was the methodology they used: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rgl.faa.gov&#x2F;Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library&#x2F;rgPolicy.nsf&#x2F;0&#x2F;4e5ae8707164674a862579510061f96b&#x2F;$FILE&#x2F;PS-ANM-25-05%20TARAM%20Handbook.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rgl.faa.gov&#x2F;Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library&#x2F;rgPolicy....</a><p>They would have looked at the failure rate of the AoA sensor and the failure rate of the recovery procedure and the fact that there had been one fatal crash. That gave them a reasonable estimate of the risk. Based on that analysis they should have grounded the plane, but Boeing apparently convinced them that with pilot awareness of the problem that the recovery procedure would be more effective. Unfortunately that was overly optimistic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Internal FAA Review Saw High Risk of 737 Max Crashes</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/internal-faa-review-saw-high-risk-of-737-max-crashes-11576069202</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>On the other hand, generalizing from two incidents to a rate isn&#x27;t great statistics. The list of accidents and incidents with the previous generation [1] shows some 9 fatal problems spread over more than a decade, which is closer to a rate. But saying that the 737 Max is known to be 20 times worse when the real value might be anywhere between 2 and 200 if it had been allowed to continue flying is a little imprecise.<p>Put people in jail for negligence, sure. But we should be criminalizing based on that negligence and not on its results.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Boeing_737#737_Next_Generation_(-600&#x2F;-700&#x2F;-800&#x2F;-900)_aircraft" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_accidents_and_incident...</a></text></item><item><author>forgingahead</author><text><i>The MAX’s safety record when it was grounded, after two years in service, roughly amounted to two catastrophic accidents for every one million flights, according to estimates by industry officials relying on unofficial data. By contrast, the model of 737 that came before the MAX has suffered one fatal crash for every 10 million flights, according to data from Boeing.</i><p>Put another way, the 737 Max has a statistic of 1 catastrophe per 500k flights, whilst the 737 was 1 per 10 million, <i>basically 20 times</i> as much.<p>This is criminal behaviour, and people need to go to jail. The MAX should never be allowed to fly again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>me_me_me</author><text>Agree overall, one thing to note is that 737 Max already capitalizes on all errors corrected from 737.
Max is 20 worse with all off the old system being already excluded from possibilities of malfunction (as long they are not affected by mcas or other new additions).<p>&gt; Put people in jail for negligence<p>The higher ups new this was a tragedy waiting to happened they just hope its going to be their successors that will have to pay. Negligence is definitely too light or a term for this. This is knowingly putting people lives in jeopardy in the name of extra % in profits.</text></comment> |
13,894,677 | 13,894,594 | 1 | 2 | 13,893,870 | train | <story><title> Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/oxford-comma-lawsuit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakelazaroff</author><text>It can create ambiguity as well as remove it, depending on which terms can be appositives to other terms. Classic example:<p>&quot;To my parents, Ayn Rand and God.&quot; (ambiguous without the comma)<p>&quot;To my mother, Ayn Rand, and God.&quot; (ambiguous with the comma)</text></item><item><author>mercer</author><text>Is there <i>any</i> good argument for eschewing the extra comma when it clearly disambiguates the meaning of the sentence?<p>I can&#x27;t think of one, but I also find it (slightly) difficult to believe that anyone smart enough to write an article would insist on ambiguity for no good reason...<p>EDIT: to disambiguate my own comment: with &#x27;when&#x27; I meant &#x27;in cases where leaving out the comma causes ambiguity&#x27;. Personally I try to prioritize clarity so sometimes I will use an extra comma, and sometimes I won&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>leephillips</author><text>&quot;omitting the serial comma is fairly archaic at this point&quot;<p>Wish that were true! But many news organization style guides condemn the Oxford comma, with sometimes disastrous results:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chronicle.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;linguafranca&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;for-want-of-an-oxford-comma&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chronicle.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;linguafranca&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;for-w...</a></text></item><item><author>weeksie</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever heard an impassioned argument against the Oxford Comma. I mean, I have no problem with it, but there seems to be a belief that this is a less filling&#x2F;tastes great holy war, but really, omitting the serial comma is fairly archaic at this point. At least in my experience. Sometimes lists need one, sometimes they don&#x27;t. At this point in the evolution of our written language that should be a fairly unambiguous proposition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Declanomous</author><text>This is why I think style guides that disallow parenthetical comments are ridiculous. If Ayn Rand was really the author&#x27;s mother, I think it would make far more sense to say:<p>&quot;To my mother (Ayn Rand), and God.&quot;<p>If it looks a little ridiculous, it&#x27;s because it makes more sense this way:<p>&quot;To Ayn Rand (my mother), and God.&quot;<p>In my honest opinion, most style guides are dogmatic to the point of stupidity. The first time I saw a non-scientific style-guide I spent a week ruminating on why people hated clear meaning so much.<p>I have a similar question about endnotes. Why? If you want to share a single comment, why not use a footnote? Why make the reader flip to the back of your book to read a 4 word sentence?</text></comment> | <story><title> Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/oxford-comma-lawsuit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakelazaroff</author><text>It can create ambiguity as well as remove it, depending on which terms can be appositives to other terms. Classic example:<p>&quot;To my parents, Ayn Rand and God.&quot; (ambiguous without the comma)<p>&quot;To my mother, Ayn Rand, and God.&quot; (ambiguous with the comma)</text></item><item><author>mercer</author><text>Is there <i>any</i> good argument for eschewing the extra comma when it clearly disambiguates the meaning of the sentence?<p>I can&#x27;t think of one, but I also find it (slightly) difficult to believe that anyone smart enough to write an article would insist on ambiguity for no good reason...<p>EDIT: to disambiguate my own comment: with &#x27;when&#x27; I meant &#x27;in cases where leaving out the comma causes ambiguity&#x27;. Personally I try to prioritize clarity so sometimes I will use an extra comma, and sometimes I won&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>leephillips</author><text>&quot;omitting the serial comma is fairly archaic at this point&quot;<p>Wish that were true! But many news organization style guides condemn the Oxford comma, with sometimes disastrous results:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chronicle.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;linguafranca&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;for-want-of-an-oxford-comma&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chronicle.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;linguafranca&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;for-w...</a></text></item><item><author>weeksie</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever heard an impassioned argument against the Oxford Comma. I mean, I have no problem with it, but there seems to be a belief that this is a less filling&#x2F;tastes great holy war, but really, omitting the serial comma is fairly archaic at this point. At least in my experience. Sometimes lists need one, sometimes they don&#x27;t. At this point in the evolution of our written language that should be a fairly unambiguous proposition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldpie</author><text>The best rule, of course, is that hard rules are dumb. Read your writing, have others read your writing, discuss ambiguities as they arise(,) and solve them. Keep in mind you may have to entirely re-word your sentence or paragraph to fix ambiguities.</text></comment> |
14,309,326 | 14,308,756 | 1 | 3 | 14,307,608 | train | <story><title>Britecharts: D3.js based charting library of components</title><url>http://eventbrite.github.io/britecharts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asabil</author><text>Slightly off topic, but after discovering Vega[1], I can&#x27;t quite imagine using a template based charting library again.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vega.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vega.github.io&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Britecharts: D3.js based charting library of components</title><url>http://eventbrite.github.io/britecharts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>welder</author><text>How does this compare to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;c3js.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;c3js.org&#x2F;</a>, also a reusable charting library using D3.js?</text></comment> |
15,031,712 | 15,031,204 | 1 | 2 | 15,029,186 | train | <story><title>ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments</title><url>https://protonmail.com/blog/bitcoin-secure-email/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MollyR</author><text>I&#x27;m thinking of switching my business email to protonmail from gmail.<p>Any users like it ?<p>The whole google memo revealed google employees are not as trustworthy as I thought. All the social media talk of blacklists, and inquisition tactics from some of upper management is bad for business.<p>I&#x27;ve already gotten emails from clients asking me to change their business google services to something else (anything else in their own words).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried it, but their solution is (IMHO) a very poor fit for a business e-mail account, as there is (or was when I used the service) no way to manage e-mail accounts for your employees and no way to archive &#x2F; extract their e-mails in case of need (I understand that it&#x27;s a privacy-focused e-mail service, but as an employer you have legal requirements to keep business documents for several years, and having to rely on your employees goodwill to get the data out of the system is not an acceptable solution for this). Also, there&#x27;s no calendar integration (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protonmail.uservoice.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;284483-feedback&#x2F;suggestions&#x2F;7187339-calendar-integration" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protonmail.uservoice.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;284483-feedback&#x2F;sugg...</a>), which again makes it difficult to use this as a business e-mail account.<p>I&#x27;ve switched to Mailbox.org in 2016 and I&#x27;m very happy with their product and service: Their system is based on an open-source solution (OpenExchange) so they don&#x27;t need to reinvent the wheel and can focus on prodiving good hosting and service (which they do). They also have support for 2FA (including hardware tokens like Yubikeys) and recently revamped their management portal, which allows you to easily create and manage e-mail accounts for your employees.</text></comment> | <story><title>ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments</title><url>https://protonmail.com/blog/bitcoin-secure-email/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MollyR</author><text>I&#x27;m thinking of switching my business email to protonmail from gmail.<p>Any users like it ?<p>The whole google memo revealed google employees are not as trustworthy as I thought. All the social media talk of blacklists, and inquisition tactics from some of upper management is bad for business.<p>I&#x27;ve already gotten emails from clients asking me to change their business google services to something else (anything else in their own words).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Accacin</author><text>I&#x27;ve not seen anyone else talking about mailbox.org. I&#x27;ve been using them for a while after moving away from Fastmail and I&#x27;m loving it. Cheap and they&#x27;re recommeded by <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.privacytools.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.privacytools.io&#x2F;</a>.</text></comment> |
21,922,547 | 21,921,618 | 1 | 2 | 21,921,492 | train | <story><title>Google to end 'Double Irish, Dutch' tax scheme: filing</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-taxes-netherlands/google-to-end-double-irish-dutch-tax-scheme-filing-idUSKBN1YZ10Z</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>&gt; A Google spokesman on Tuesday confirmed it would scrap the licensing structure, saying this was in line with international rules and <i>followed changes to U.S. tax law in 2017</i>... The <i>tax strategy was legal</i> and allowed Google to avoid triggering U.S. income taxes or European withholding taxes on the funds, which represent the bulk of its overseas profits... Under pressure from the European Union and the United States, <i>Ireland in 2014 decided to phase out the arrangement, ending Google&#x27;s Irish tax advantages in 2020.</i><p>This is fantastic news because <i>laws were changed</i> and that <i>worked</i>.<p>The criticism towards Google, Apple etc. for minimizing their tax burdens has always been misplaced. Corporations are <i>supposed</i> to maximize profits. And governments are <i>supposed</i> to collect taxes in effective ways.<p>It&#x27;s always been a derelection of duty of <i>governments</i> when these loopholes exist in the first place. So it&#x27;s great news that with enough publicity, democratically elected lawmakers felt the pressure from voters to fix this.<p>In other words, <i>this is democracy working</i> -- which is always nice to see.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google to end 'Double Irish, Dutch' tax scheme: filing</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-taxes-netherlands/google-to-end-double-irish-dutch-tax-scheme-filing-idUSKBN1YZ10Z</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Gladdyu</author><text>Not Google being good - Irish law has been changed such that it&#x27;s no longer permitted.<p>&quot;The legislation passed in Ireland in 2015 ends the use of the tax scheme for new tax plans. However, companies with established structures can continue to benefit from the old system until 2020.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;terms&#x2F;d&#x2F;double-irish-with-a-dutch-sandwich.asp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;terms&#x2F;d&#x2F;double-irish-with-a-dut...</a></text></comment> |
36,728,031 | 36,727,377 | 1 | 2 | 36,721,055 | train | <story><title>Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms</title><url>https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35017-7_9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>Even &quot;lite&quot; editors like VSCode, NP++, Sublime Text, etc have become distracting for me. Every time I fire one of these things up, my mental state is eliminated by being forced to dismiss some &quot;hey we got a new version for you :D:D:D&quot; bullshit modal. To whomever is responsible for adding these to apps: please stop. No one is enjoying your shenanigans. It is a <i>text editor</i>. Empathize with the user: People with <i>far</i> less time than you are trying to paste some hot mess right off their clipboard to work with. They&#x27;ve probably got a super nasty idea in their head they can barely hold on to.<p>Visual studio proper is a 100% circus for me now. I can power through it, but I lose tabs in about 15 seconds after opening them. Many times I feel convinced these tools have been engineered <i>with intent</i> to be shittier over time and slow down neurodivergent users. The ADHD&#x2F;etc crowd is definitely the #1 thing a software company needs to worry about in terms of moat maintenance...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nwallin</author><text>&gt; Visual studio proper is a 100% circus for me now. I can power through it, but I lose tabs in about 15 seconds after opening them.<p>I used to be the same way but then I discovered Visual Studio&#x27;s vertical tab option. Tabs are displayed vertically on the left side of the editor pane. The filenames are all aligned so it&#x27;s actually possible to visually scan them. You can group them by project and color code them by file type.<p>Tabs are unusable otherwise. For me at least.</text></comment> | <story><title>Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms</title><url>https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35017-7_9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>Even &quot;lite&quot; editors like VSCode, NP++, Sublime Text, etc have become distracting for me. Every time I fire one of these things up, my mental state is eliminated by being forced to dismiss some &quot;hey we got a new version for you :D:D:D&quot; bullshit modal. To whomever is responsible for adding these to apps: please stop. No one is enjoying your shenanigans. It is a <i>text editor</i>. Empathize with the user: People with <i>far</i> less time than you are trying to paste some hot mess right off their clipboard to work with. They&#x27;ve probably got a super nasty idea in their head they can barely hold on to.<p>Visual studio proper is a 100% circus for me now. I can power through it, but I lose tabs in about 15 seconds after opening them. Many times I feel convinced these tools have been engineered <i>with intent</i> to be shittier over time and slow down neurodivergent users. The ADHD&#x2F;etc crowd is definitely the #1 thing a software company needs to worry about in terms of moat maintenance...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ziml77</author><text>Sublime Text is surprisingly bad about that. Or at least the package manager is. I&#x27;m okay with occasionally being prompted to update the editor, but it drives me crazy when I launch Sublime Text, go to start working in a text buffer, and then suddenly have the tab swap out from under me to show me changelogs for everything it just updated. All doing that does is piss me off and make me certainly not read the changelog because I&#x27;m instantly closing it to get back to what I was doing!</text></comment> |
22,340,401 | 22,339,660 | 1 | 3 | 22,330,601 | train | <story><title>CSS Containment Specification</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Containment</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>For those who are a little unclear on what this is for, there are typically several layers of rendering at play in a modern web app:<p>1) Re-rendering of virtual DOM content<p>2) Mutating the real DOM to match that new virtual DOM<p>3) The browser actually drawing the new state of the DOM&#x2F;styles<p>#1 is your JS code. #2 is covered opaquely by React and peers. #3 is traditionally covered opaquely by the web browser.<p>This API is a way of giving hints to #3 when that becomes your bottleneck (which is really quite rare, but when it happens, it&#x27;s extremely nice to have a recourse). If you&#x27;re experiencing &quot;jank&quot; and are unsure whether this will help, profile your app in Chrome and look for the purple &quot;Reflow&quot; bars in the flame chart. If your chart is mostly orange, your JavaScript is still your bottleneck.<p>This API is analogous to the compiler hints (assertions, etc.) you can add in certain native languages which allow the compiler to make certain assumptions and therefore optimize more aggressively, where it otherwise might have had to play it safe to ensure correctness.</text></comment> | <story><title>CSS Containment Specification</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Containment</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>destructionator</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why the browser can&#x27;t infer this from existing knowledge. If it doesn&#x27;t have any absolutely positioned or floating child elements, wouldn&#x27;t that imply contain: content? And if you add overflow: auto or hidden, wouldn&#x27;t that infer to contain: strict?<p>I like the idea of containing floats in a div easily, no more clear hacks lol. But... I must be missing something since it really seems to be these optimizations ought to already be possible.</text></comment> |
10,124,538 | 10,124,768 | 1 | 2 | 10,124,152 | train | <story><title>Who Hacked Ashley Madison?</title><url>http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/who-hacked-ashley-madison/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smtddr</author><text>I don&#x27;t condone this hack, but morals&#x2F;ethics aside for a moment:<p>The one positive thing this hack has done is really give serious ammo to the battle for online privacy, because the demographic hit by this hack is the most politically &amp; economically powerful demographic in the world....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vezzy-fnord</author><text>I&#x27;d argue the opposite. The AM hack hasn&#x27;t helped at all, since enough people view it as a just retribution due to it being about a pet moral value that is held dear, namely marital fidelity. And to others, it&#x27;s all a big joke.<p>The cheating cheaters (who likely never got the opportunity to cheat) have been named and shamed, and because of those asserting that it&#x27;s acceptable to do this if it strokes their personal moral vendetta, then this type of chilling privacy violation is on its way to being normalized.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who Hacked Ashley Madison?</title><url>http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/who-hacked-ashley-madison/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smtddr</author><text>I don&#x27;t condone this hack, but morals&#x2F;ethics aside for a moment:<p>The one positive thing this hack has done is really give serious ammo to the battle for online privacy, because the demographic hit by this hack is the most politically &amp; economically powerful demographic in the world....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pascalmemories</author><text>Unfortunately, that&#x27;s not how the &quot;politically &amp; economically powerful demographic in the world&quot; works.<p>What you <i>will</i> see is lots of new laws to crack down on hackers, encryption and any type of computing not specifically &#x27;approved&#x27; by some sort of security overlord department.<p>Look at what the UK is proposing (way before AM became news) and you&#x27;ll have a rough starting point.<p>The laws will be the exact <i>opposite</i> of improved privacy.</text></comment> |
23,546,966 | 23,546,757 | 1 | 3 | 23,545,698 | train | <story><title>Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad platform</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/google-bans-zerohedge-and-the-federalist-from-its-ad-platform.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>Reading into the details, the rationale was because Zerohedge allegedly failed to manage their comment section to Google&#x27;s standards for what other companies do. In a parliamentary system, if you want to know what a government is doing, you listen to the opposition. They are almost always a bunch of clowns slinging mud, but when it sticks, they are miles ahead of the courtiers who populate the press gallery and newsrooms. ZH is one of the fastest news reaction sites on the web, with no pretense of objectivity other than as a reliable opposition party to the sanctimonious tone that has come to characterize the recent mainstream.<p>I haven&#x27;t seen that comment section in years, but it was so terrible it looked like people trying to plant things in it to discredit the site. ZH itself has always been farcically provocative, and at least %90 useless, but when they get it right, they really get it right. They are also to financial literacy for younger generations what punk was to music. This reflects more on Google (and previously, Twitter) and whoever else piles on than it does on ZH.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>downerending</author><text>I read ZH pretty regularly. It carries a wide variety of opinions, and they often have the scoop many hours before any MSM.<p>Yes, the comment section is useless. They don&#x27;t do any real moderation, and it&#x27;s filled with, well, a lot of inappropriate material. So, I don&#x27;t read the comments. (They don&#x27;t even show by default.)<p>Is this <i>really</i> a good reason to &quot;cancel&quot; the site, though? Yeah, unmoderated free speech isn&#x27;t pretty, but how much do you really hate it?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad platform</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/google-bans-zerohedge-and-the-federalist-from-its-ad-platform.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>Reading into the details, the rationale was because Zerohedge allegedly failed to manage their comment section to Google&#x27;s standards for what other companies do. In a parliamentary system, if you want to know what a government is doing, you listen to the opposition. They are almost always a bunch of clowns slinging mud, but when it sticks, they are miles ahead of the courtiers who populate the press gallery and newsrooms. ZH is one of the fastest news reaction sites on the web, with no pretense of objectivity other than as a reliable opposition party to the sanctimonious tone that has come to characterize the recent mainstream.<p>I haven&#x27;t seen that comment section in years, but it was so terrible it looked like people trying to plant things in it to discredit the site. ZH itself has always been farcically provocative, and at least %90 useless, but when they get it right, they really get it right. They are also to financial literacy for younger generations what punk was to music. This reflects more on Google (and previously, Twitter) and whoever else piles on than it does on ZH.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mercer</author><text>I got &#x27;into&#x27; ZH during the great recession and when things settled down I kind of forgot about it. But I was left with the impression of, as you say, a &#x27;punk&#x27;-ish site that generally was more direct and even correct than most of the mainstream media.<p>I vividly remember being obsessed with the news and reading MSM articles that would basically just quote Merkel or who the fuck else saying &lt;x&gt;, where ZH said &lt;x&gt; is stupid and wrong, and sure enough a few days later even Merkel (or who the fuck else) would backtrack on or directly contradict &lt;x&gt;.<p>A while ago I checked out ZH again out of curiosity (or maybe some nostalgia because I was once again in &#x27;read all the news&#x27; mode), and I would definitely not consider it a good source of news. And thankfully I&#x27;ve found better approaches to get an idea of what&#x27;s going on.<p>But your comment reminded me of a time in my life where I started &#x27;properly&#x27; getting interested in current affairs and politics and whatnot, and the role ZH played in all that.</text></comment> |
32,873,845 | 32,869,695 | 1 | 2 | 32,864,997 | train | <story><title>US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/us-border-forces-traveler-data-15-years-085106938.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arkadiyt</author><text>Reminder for the folks using iPhones, you can prevent law enforcement from doing this by &quot;pair locking&quot; your device: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arkadiyt.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;07&#x2F;pair-locking-your-iphone-with-configurator-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arkadiyt.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;07&#x2F;pair-locking-your-iphone-wit...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fufi2022</author><text>Is there an equivalent feature for Android? This may be the first time I&#x27;ve ever felt compelled to think about getting an iPhone.</text></comment> | <story><title>US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/us-border-forces-traveler-data-15-years-085106938.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arkadiyt</author><text>Reminder for the folks using iPhones, you can prevent law enforcement from doing this by &quot;pair locking&quot; your device: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arkadiyt.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;07&#x2F;pair-locking-your-iphone-with-configurator-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arkadiyt.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;07&#x2F;pair-locking-your-iphone-wit...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JustSomeNobody</author><text>Oof, what happens if your laptop dies and it&#x27;s the pair?</text></comment> |
17,647,559 | 17,645,988 | 1 | 2 | 17,645,563 | train | <story><title>How Britain beat the odds to achieve space flight, and then abandoned it</title><url>https://medium.com/lapsed-historian/an-empire-of-stars-d6b24f92cbc7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phobosdeimos</author><text>The UK was so broke in the 1970s they could barely keep their military budget up, most importantly an independent nuclear deterrent. Superpower status was a thing of the past. With Brexit coming up its insightful to read up on post WW2 British history and how it got itself into the EU.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Britain beat the odds to achieve space flight, and then abandoned it</title><url>https://medium.com/lapsed-historian/an-empire-of-stars-d6b24f92cbc7</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fractalwrench</author><text>The Isle of Wight test facility is free to visit, it&#x27;s worth a look if you&#x27;re in the area. There isn&#x27;t a massive amount left - just the concrete structure and a lot of rabbits grazing the cliffs below.<p>However, there&#x27;s enough left to make you slightly sad that the space race didn&#x27;t end up in colonisation (yet). There are also a bunch of other features within less than a mile (an old military battery, The Needles, great views over The Solent, the colored sands of Alum Bay). Definitely underrated.</text></comment> |
19,539,145 | 19,538,768 | 1 | 2 | 19,537,807 | train | <story><title>Serenity: x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles</title><url>https://github.com/awesomekling/serenity</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akling</author><text>Hey guys, I&#x27;m the author of this project. Surprising to see it on HN but life is surprising sometimes!<p>I actually made a little demo video about this system just yesterday if you&#x27;d like to see it running: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hE52D-zbX3g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hE52D-zbX3g</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Serenity: x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles</title><url>https://github.com/awesomekling/serenity</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fernly</author><text>The README here is a model (or perhaps a superfluity) of modesty. This person has, apparently, written a complete OS from the metal up to a usable GUI, single-handed, AND done it in about 6 months -- at least, the oldest commit in the Kernel branch is October 2018. Well, I&#x27;m impressed, anyway.</text></comment> |
20,940,302 | 20,939,414 | 1 | 2 | 20,938,187 | train | <story><title>Turn off DoH, Firefox</title><url>https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2019/09/11/turn-off-doh-firefox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfindley</author><text>This is painful to read. Masses off unfounded FUD - the article deliberately buries that it&#x27;s trivial to change your DoH provider if you&#x27;re silly enough to believe that CF is actively logging DoH requests and selling them (CF is involved with serving vast swathes of the internet anyway - if they wanted to go down this route they have <i>far</i> more lucrative avenues open than selling DNS requests by IP).<p>If instead what you worry about is the government spying on your traffic then complaining about DoH is even <i>more</i> silly - DNS requests are routinely intercepted and monitored by ISPs in many countries, with the information available to the security services, who have very few restrictions on what they are allowed to do with this data. This is especially true in the country the author appears to be based (Germany).<p>DoH is vital to protect users around the world from censorship and worse. Enabling it by default is a <i>good</i> thing - protecting users from abuse shouldn&#x27;t only be opt-in. There has to be SOME default chosen, and the default needs to be a site large and well run enough to a) handle the load, and b) be in the firefox HSTS preload list. There aren&#x27;t a lot of good DoH providers that fit these criteria - CF is one of the few.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yosamino</author><text>There&#x27;s nothing that makes Cloudflare the more &quot;privacy friendly&quot; 3rd party. &quot;Privacy friendly&quot; would be a mechanism by which my desire to communicate with &quot;example.com&quot; involved my computer and the computer at example.com with <i>no</i> third party in between.<p>As it stands Mozilla is switching out our local ISP for CloudFlare without asking our consent which means my traffic data is now spread around one <i>more</i> company - that seems like less privacy.<p>And I am not looking forward to finding out the fun ways in which this will break our local DNS.<p>The idea that Cloudflare is in way more trustworty than my local ISP is at best naïve. All this creates is another huge centralized pool of data with no oversight whatsoever except the <i>promise</i> of some company that is currently growing fast, that they will not do anything with that data. Come the times when money becomes tight again, we&#x27;ll see how well that promise holds up.<p>Sure, encrypting DNS is a good thing. But this is just like trying to make email more secure by using a 3rd party encryption gateway - all it does is moving around who to trust.<p>That&#x27;s not privacy - that&#x27;s just silly</text></comment> | <story><title>Turn off DoH, Firefox</title><url>https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2019/09/11/turn-off-doh-firefox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfindley</author><text>This is painful to read. Masses off unfounded FUD - the article deliberately buries that it&#x27;s trivial to change your DoH provider if you&#x27;re silly enough to believe that CF is actively logging DoH requests and selling them (CF is involved with serving vast swathes of the internet anyway - if they wanted to go down this route they have <i>far</i> more lucrative avenues open than selling DNS requests by IP).<p>If instead what you worry about is the government spying on your traffic then complaining about DoH is even <i>more</i> silly - DNS requests are routinely intercepted and monitored by ISPs in many countries, with the information available to the security services, who have very few restrictions on what they are allowed to do with this data. This is especially true in the country the author appears to be based (Germany).<p>DoH is vital to protect users around the world from censorship and worse. Enabling it by default is a <i>good</i> thing - protecting users from abuse shouldn&#x27;t only be opt-in. There has to be SOME default chosen, and the default needs to be a site large and well run enough to a) handle the load, and b) be in the firefox HSTS preload list. There aren&#x27;t a lot of good DoH providers that fit these criteria - CF is one of the few.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Don&#x27;t oversimplify the issue.<p>&gt; <i>it&#x27;s trivial to change your DoH provider</i><p>Cloudfare is the default.<p>Cloudfare is the only provider listed.<p>Cloudfare will be On by default, so it will be that for 99.999% of Firefox users.<p>That ain&#x27;t right no matter how well intended it is.</text></comment> |
32,397,752 | 32,397,961 | 1 | 2 | 32,396,651 | train | <story><title>France experiencing worst drought on record</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62456540</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkeynotes</author><text>Meanwhile the west&#x27;s governments are prioritizing short-term inflation curbing rather than addressing climate change in their campaigns. We are all screwed.</text></item><item><author>truculent</author><text>When thinking and planning for the future, it is important not to think of this summer as one of the hottest within recorded history, but as one of the coolest for the next 100 years.<p>Consequently, an appropriate response to this summer should far exceed what is required to cope with the droughts and heatwaves that we have just seen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peyton</author><text>Not sure my government can do much about coal plant construction in Africa. Would rather they focus on things in control like inflation, to be honest.</text></comment> | <story><title>France experiencing worst drought on record</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62456540</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkeynotes</author><text>Meanwhile the west&#x27;s governments are prioritizing short-term inflation curbing rather than addressing climate change in their campaigns. We are all screwed.</text></item><item><author>truculent</author><text>When thinking and planning for the future, it is important not to think of this summer as one of the hottest within recorded history, but as one of the coolest for the next 100 years.<p>Consequently, an appropriate response to this summer should far exceed what is required to cope with the droughts and heatwaves that we have just seen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themitigating</author><text>The Democrats just passed a major climate change bill
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;08&#x2F;07&#x2F;politics&#x2F;senate-democrats-climate-health-care-bill-vote&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;08&#x2F;07&#x2F;politics&#x2F;senate-democrats-cli...</a></text></comment> |
14,332,320 | 14,329,881 | 1 | 3 | 14,329,877 | train | <story><title>Report warns computers may threaten constitutional rights (1982)</title><url>https://archive.org/stream/80_Microcomputing_Issue_26_1982-02_1001001_US#page/n295/mode/2up</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mtgx</author><text>I wonder if the people who wrote the report were also considered cuckoo crazy conspiracy theorists then (as Richard Stallman has been since around the same time).<p>Good thing they gutted it in 1995, I guess. Congress didn&#x27;t want the public to find out about such facts.<p>&gt; <i>Criticism of the agency was fueled by Fat City, a 1980 book by Donald Lambro that was regarded favorably by the Reagan administration; it called OTA an &quot;unnecessary agency&quot; that duplicated government work done elsewhere. OTA was abolished (technically &quot;de-funded&quot;) in the &quot;Contract with America&quot; period of Newt Gingrich&#x27;s Republican ascendancy in Congress.<p>&gt; When the 104th Congress withdrew funding for OTA, it had a full-time staff of 143 people and an annual budget of $21.9 million. The Office of Technology Assessment closed on September 29, 1995. The move was criticized at the time, including by Republican representative Amo Houghton, who commented at the time of OTA’s defunding that &quot;we are cutting off one of the most important arms of Congress when we cut off unbiased knowledge about science and technology&quot;.[1]<p>&gt; Critics of the closure saw it as an example of politics overriding science, and a variety of scientists such as biologist PZ Myers have called for the agency&#x27;s reinstatement.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Office_of_Technology_Assessment#Closure" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Office_of_Technology_Assessmen...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Report warns computers may threaten constitutional rights (1982)</title><url>https://archive.org/stream/80_Microcomputing_Issue_26_1982-02_1001001_US#page/n295/mode/2up</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>&quot;Civil rights in the future could be threatened by a bloodless adversary -- the computer.<p>&quot;That&#x27;s the opinion of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment in a 116-page report released late last year.<p>&quot;&#x27;Extensive data collection and possibly surveillance by government and private organizations could, in fact, suppress or &#x27;chill&#x27; freedoms of speech, assembly, and even religion by implicit threats contained in such collection or surveillance,&#x27; the report said....<p>&quot;[T]the use of an electronic funds transfer system to gather the same type of information would be far more intrusive, since much more data, some of it of a highly personal nature, could be collected in secret.&quot;<p>John P. Mello, Jr., writing in 1982.</text></comment> |
37,979,256 | 37,978,603 | 1 | 2 | 37,978,118 | train | <story><title>Great Male Renunciation</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>morkalork</author><text>Just what % of the population actually wore those clothes back then? Are we comparing ourselves to what the 1% or 0.1% wore?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it matters quite so much how many; the question is more about what everyone <i>wanted</i> to be. What their aspirations were.<p>The point would be that a mainstream man in 1750 <i>wanted</i> to be wearing colorful frilly things with high heels, even if he couldn&#x27;t afford any of it because he was just a servant. Whereas starting in the 1800&#x27;s, that <i>stopped</i> being an aspiration, whether you had money or not.<p>Also, while this clothing wasn&#x27;t accessible to servants and laborers, some of it would have been to the growing middle class that consisted of merchants, professors, lawyers, and so forth. Just look at paintings depicting coffeeshop culture in the 1700&#x27;s:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sylviaprincebooks.com&#x2F;blog-list&#x2F;2021&#x2F;coffee-house-culture-in-18th-century-england" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sylviaprincebooks.com&#x2F;blog-list&#x2F;2021&#x2F;coffee-hous...</a><p>And coffeehouses were not reserved for the 0.1%, not at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Great Male Renunciation</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>morkalork</author><text>Just what % of the population actually wore those clothes back then? Are we comparing ourselves to what the 1% or 0.1% wore?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Blackthorn</author><text>This is a really important question! A lot of historical clothing has a survivorship bias component.</text></comment> |
27,378,554 | 27,374,325 | 1 | 2 | 27,346,569 | train | <story><title>Interactive Visualization of Gaussian Processes</title><url>http://www.infinitecuriosity.org/vizgp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trombonechamp</author><text>In case anyone else wants to know how the Gaussian process is animated, here are the two links provided in the code:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;1930880&#x2F;901583" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;1930880&#x2F;901583</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mlss.tuebingen.mpg.de&#x2F;2013&#x2F;Hennig_2013_Animating_Samples_from_Gaussian_Distributions.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mlss.tuebingen.mpg.de&#x2F;2013&#x2F;Hennig_2013_Animating_Samp...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Interactive Visualization of Gaussian Processes</title><url>http://www.infinitecuriosity.org/vizgp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>clircle</author><text>This is very nice. Gaussian process regression didn&#x27;t click for me until I thought of the data as a partially observed sample of size one from a stochastic process.<p>Practically, I have a hard time using Gaussian process regression. I find regression with splines to be reasonable and fast, and I don&#x27;t have to fret about the nugget parameter or the covariance function structure. But I admit GP regression has a beautiful theory.<p>But there is an equivalence between (smoothing) splines and certain types of Gaussian process models. [1]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pages.stat.wisc.edu&#x2F;~wahba&#x2F;ftp1&#x2F;oldie&#x2F;kw70bayes.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pages.stat.wisc.edu&#x2F;~wahba&#x2F;ftp1&#x2F;oldie&#x2F;kw70bayes.pdf</a></text></comment> |
14,582,763 | 14,582,581 | 1 | 2 | 14,582,187 | train | <story><title>Where we're going, we don't need headphones</title><url>https://rradczewski.github.io/ymmv/2017/06/Where-we-are-going-we-dont-need-headphones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gfodor</author><text>I think it&#x27;s easy to severely underestimate the value of having people overhear conversations and interactions of others beyond their obvious scope of work. If you set things up so only explicitly opted-in collaborations occur, then those are the collaborations you will get: people who all agree they should work together on something. This is a subset of the types of interactions that I believe result in great teams. Many collaborations begin when one person overhears another person they had no idea was working on something relevant to them, or that they could give valuable input on.<p>As with anything, there is a balance, and I believe there is no silver bullet to designing good offices. But I question those who think there is, and that siloing humans into isolated offices (a fundamentally unnatural state) as the default is objectively the best option.<p>(And before citing the various studies showing the impact on productivity of doing this, I feel productivity is only one characteristic of what I personally consider to be a good measure of a healthy work environment.)</text></item><item><author>valuearb</author><text>I agree with the same concerns that Raimo and Markus have. It&#x27;s not just acoustic noise, it&#x27;s also visual noise. I face the entry to our open floor plan office and every time someone walks in I can&#x27;t help but look to see who it is.<p>One man offices are cheap and by far the most productive work environment for software development. Any software development organization that&#x27;s not investing in them isn&#x27;t thinking strategically. Engineers should be able to face somewhere that&#x27;s not distracting, and have a quiet work environment without requiring headphones (music can be a distraction too). If you want to collaborate, do it in your office, it should be big enough for a couple people to join you, or a conference room if you need more.<p>The only criticism I have for one man offices is that it makes it too easy to goof off and surf the web, but that&#x27;s a different managerial problem. You should make sure all the offices have glass walls so you can see if someone is in their office and have an idea what they are doing. But mainly you should review all code as it&#x27;s checked in for quality, and it should also give you a good idea of their productivity.<p>I think Apple has the best idea for this. Their work pods at the new campus have all glass walls facing the hallway, sliding doors to maximize room in the office, and built in storage. There looks to be plenty of room for a couple of coworkers to join you and help collaborate when need be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>YZF</author><text>Offices do not mean having each person locked in their room never interacting with anyone else. They mean you can close the door and be able to focus on something.<p>In my experience you get a lot more interaction when people have private offices, or at least cubes. It&#x27;s easy to walk into someone&#x27;s office and have a discussion. Easier than let&#x27;s go find a meeting room so we don&#x27;t disturb everyone. It&#x27;s also pretty easy to call other people in as needed and have an impromptu meeting without needing to book a room for that and without disturbing others. Not to mention other technologies like e-mail, messaging etc.<p>The most collaborative places I worked in are those where people had offices and the least collaborative ones have open plans. Anecdotal but there you have it.<p>Let&#x27;s face it, open plan offices are about reducing cost and pretending to be collaborative. It&#x27;s the &quot;Agile&quot; of offices and I don&#x27;t mean it in a good way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Where we're going, we don't need headphones</title><url>https://rradczewski.github.io/ymmv/2017/06/Where-we-are-going-we-dont-need-headphones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gfodor</author><text>I think it&#x27;s easy to severely underestimate the value of having people overhear conversations and interactions of others beyond their obvious scope of work. If you set things up so only explicitly opted-in collaborations occur, then those are the collaborations you will get: people who all agree they should work together on something. This is a subset of the types of interactions that I believe result in great teams. Many collaborations begin when one person overhears another person they had no idea was working on something relevant to them, or that they could give valuable input on.<p>As with anything, there is a balance, and I believe there is no silver bullet to designing good offices. But I question those who think there is, and that siloing humans into isolated offices (a fundamentally unnatural state) as the default is objectively the best option.<p>(And before citing the various studies showing the impact on productivity of doing this, I feel productivity is only one characteristic of what I personally consider to be a good measure of a healthy work environment.)</text></item><item><author>valuearb</author><text>I agree with the same concerns that Raimo and Markus have. It&#x27;s not just acoustic noise, it&#x27;s also visual noise. I face the entry to our open floor plan office and every time someone walks in I can&#x27;t help but look to see who it is.<p>One man offices are cheap and by far the most productive work environment for software development. Any software development organization that&#x27;s not investing in them isn&#x27;t thinking strategically. Engineers should be able to face somewhere that&#x27;s not distracting, and have a quiet work environment without requiring headphones (music can be a distraction too). If you want to collaborate, do it in your office, it should be big enough for a couple people to join you, or a conference room if you need more.<p>The only criticism I have for one man offices is that it makes it too easy to goof off and surf the web, but that&#x27;s a different managerial problem. You should make sure all the offices have glass walls so you can see if someone is in their office and have an idea what they are doing. But mainly you should review all code as it&#x27;s checked in for quality, and it should also give you a good idea of their productivity.<p>I think Apple has the best idea for this. Their work pods at the new campus have all glass walls facing the hallway, sliding doors to maximize room in the office, and built in storage. There looks to be plenty of room for a couple of coworkers to join you and help collaborate when need be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>valuearb</author><text>I think it&#x27;s better to work on making people better collaborators, than to ruin productivity on the off chance someone will hear something important in a conversation not meant for them. For example, I&#x27;m working on using Slack more to cc people on questions I have or things I&#x27;m doing so they have a chance to help&#x2F;stop me or at least be aware of what I&quot;m doing.<p>If you want a flexible collaborative environment without it&#x27;s horrible effects on productivity, you could build Apple like pods surrounding an open area. Those who want to work in open areas would work in the middle. Those who need privacy to concentrate can still leave their sliders open during times they are open to collaborate.</text></comment> |
7,135,486 | 7,135,342 | 1 | 3 | 7,134,433 | train | <story><title>Square thinks I don’t exist</title><url>http://kevinchen.co/blog/square-identity-verification/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajre</author><text>Amazing that companies maintaining credit histories are relying on a person&#x27;s name to map financial data to a &#x27;person&#x27;.<p>Don&#x27;t we have unique identifiers call Social Security Numbers?</text></item><item><author>steven2012</author><text>To the OP:<p>If I were you, I would check your credit report IMMEDIATELY.<p>I&#x27;m in the same boat as you, except I&#x27;m in my 40s. Most companies use Experian or Equifax to do some sort of credit verification by asking these questions. However, about 5 years ago, the credit agencies merged my credit record with someone else with the same name, but entirely different birthday and location.<p>Evidently, they don&#x27;t give a fuck because it took me years to get this wrong information off of my credit records. I don&#x27;t understand how this isn&#x27;t libel, since they are spreading false information about me, and that drastically affected my credit, and I had to jump through hoops to get everything corrected.<p>The thing that really sucks is that Experian STILL has the wrong information about me, so when I&#x27;m asked these credit questions, it&#x27;s mixed with the other person&#x27;s data, so I always fail the credit check. Despite having nearly perfect credit, I&#x27;ve failed the credit check numerous times, and like you, the decision has always been final, because no one appears to give a fuck.<p>The problem is I have no idea how to get Experian to refresh their data, even though it&#x27;s several years old now.<p>It might be the case that the OP&#x27;s credit history has been merged with someone else, and if this is the case, they need to fix it as soon as possible. Use the yearly free credit report to make sure there is no loans or credit cards associated with your name, and if so, you need to call every single credit agency and dispute it. It really sucks, and I don&#x27;t understand how we let the credit agencies have this much power, where we the consumers have to suffer like this whenever THEY fuck up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orclev</author><text>Social security numbers are most emphatically not identification. The social security department tried for many years to get people to stop using your social as a form of identification, but companies (and sometimes even the government) still keep doing it. Social security cards printed before 1972 actually had a disclaimer printed on them that said &quot;Not for identification purposes&quot;, but the message has since been removed. Although rare, there are actually duplicate social security numbers as well, and not everyone has a social security number. A number of religious groups, most notably some sects of Amish, refuse to get social security numbers and regularly fight legal cases to prevent having a social security number as a requirement for access to government services (although obviously not social security).</text></comment> | <story><title>Square thinks I don’t exist</title><url>http://kevinchen.co/blog/square-identity-verification/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajre</author><text>Amazing that companies maintaining credit histories are relying on a person&#x27;s name to map financial data to a &#x27;person&#x27;.<p>Don&#x27;t we have unique identifiers call Social Security Numbers?</text></item><item><author>steven2012</author><text>To the OP:<p>If I were you, I would check your credit report IMMEDIATELY.<p>I&#x27;m in the same boat as you, except I&#x27;m in my 40s. Most companies use Experian or Equifax to do some sort of credit verification by asking these questions. However, about 5 years ago, the credit agencies merged my credit record with someone else with the same name, but entirely different birthday and location.<p>Evidently, they don&#x27;t give a fuck because it took me years to get this wrong information off of my credit records. I don&#x27;t understand how this isn&#x27;t libel, since they are spreading false information about me, and that drastically affected my credit, and I had to jump through hoops to get everything corrected.<p>The thing that really sucks is that Experian STILL has the wrong information about me, so when I&#x27;m asked these credit questions, it&#x27;s mixed with the other person&#x27;s data, so I always fail the credit check. Despite having nearly perfect credit, I&#x27;ve failed the credit check numerous times, and like you, the decision has always been final, because no one appears to give a fuck.<p>The problem is I have no idea how to get Experian to refresh their data, even though it&#x27;s several years old now.<p>It might be the case that the OP&#x27;s credit history has been merged with someone else, and if this is the case, they need to fix it as soon as possible. Use the yearly free credit report to make sure there is no loans or credit cards associated with your name, and if so, you need to call every single credit agency and dispute it. It really sucks, and I don&#x27;t understand how we let the credit agencies have this much power, where we the consumers have to suffer like this whenever THEY fuck up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lambda</author><text>No, Social Security Numbers are not unique.<p>Furthermore, many sources of credit information do not have access to your social security number to use as a key. Your phone company, cable company, oil company, and so on all may need to send your bills to collections and put a mark on your credit report, but they don&#x27;t have access to your social security number (they may ask for it, but you aren&#x27;t required to provide it).</text></comment> |
33,869,097 | 33,869,503 | 1 | 2 | 33,868,630 | train | <story><title>Air Marshals Will Refuse Orders to Go to the Border, Prefer First Class Cabins</title><url>https://viewfromthewing.com/air-marshals-will-refuse-orders-to-go-to-the-border-prefer-protecting-first-class-cabins/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jlukecarlson</author><text>Seems like a completely failed program to me. Any organization should be able to quantitatively prove their value on some level. As the article points out, for the DHS to say they do “not have information on [the air marshal program’s] effectiveness” while also averaging a cost of $200 million per arrest is an insane statistic that should immediately require changes in the program.</text></comment> | <story><title>Air Marshals Will Refuse Orders to Go to the Border, Prefer First Class Cabins</title><url>https://viewfromthewing.com/air-marshals-will-refuse-orders-to-go-to-the-border-prefer-protecting-first-class-cabins/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&gt; “You’re almost going to have a mutiny of a federal agency, which is unheard of.”<p>It&#x27;s not really &quot;unheard of&quot;. Air traffic controllers, employed by the FAA, famously went on strike in the early 80s and were subsequently all fired by the Reagan administration.<p>In this case, honestly I&#x27;d be like &quot;fine, go ahead and try insubordination, and then get fired.&quot; As this article makes exceedingly clear, it will be <i>much</i> easier to continue air travel without air marshals than without air traffic controllers, and the US govt still managed that situation pretty decently.</text></comment> |
25,115,001 | 25,113,553 | 1 | 2 | 25,108,697 | train | <story><title>Emacs in odd places</title><url>https://www.eigenbahn.com/2020/09/02/emacs-in-odd-places</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olivierestsage</author><text>When I started using Emacs, I didn&#x27;t think I&#x27;d use it much except for org-mode, which was the reason I started learning it. Then, as my usage expanded, I didn&#x27;t think I&#x27;d want to use it for anything beyond org-mode, programming, and core text editing functions. Certainly not email or any of that other foolishness. Flash forward a couple of years and here I am, looking into making Emacs into my actual X window manager [1] so that I finally use it for everything, period.<p>I recognize that the practical arguments in favor of doing this are limited at best. Sometimes people &quot;Emacs evangelize&quot; by talking about how living entirely within the program allows them to have one text editing paradigm for everything in their lives; even though that is indeed nice, non-users aren&#x27;t wrong to be skeptical about the practical benefits, given the amount of effort that will probably be involved. The secret is that for many Emacs users, it&#x27;s just plain fun -- hence the things shown in this article, and also EXWM.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ch11ng&#x2F;exwm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ch11ng&#x2F;exwm</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>When I started using Unix in &#x27;85 or so I didn&#x27;t find it especially user friendly so the first program I wrote was a little trampoline alternative to the login shell (&#x2F;bin&#x2F;sh in those days) that exec&#x27;d emacs as the terminal&#x27;s controlling process. At least that way I could be an a more familiar environment.<p>My emacs init checked argv[0] -- if the name started with &#x27;-&#x27; then it asked if I intended to log out before exiting.<p>That was on the original GNU machine -- yes, when the FSF&#x27;s entire computing resource was an unused VAX 750 that nobody wanted and that had been purchased and installed by someone unknown for reasons also unknown and was just taking up space in a small machine room.</text></comment> | <story><title>Emacs in odd places</title><url>https://www.eigenbahn.com/2020/09/02/emacs-in-odd-places</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olivierestsage</author><text>When I started using Emacs, I didn&#x27;t think I&#x27;d use it much except for org-mode, which was the reason I started learning it. Then, as my usage expanded, I didn&#x27;t think I&#x27;d want to use it for anything beyond org-mode, programming, and core text editing functions. Certainly not email or any of that other foolishness. Flash forward a couple of years and here I am, looking into making Emacs into my actual X window manager [1] so that I finally use it for everything, period.<p>I recognize that the practical arguments in favor of doing this are limited at best. Sometimes people &quot;Emacs evangelize&quot; by talking about how living entirely within the program allows them to have one text editing paradigm for everything in their lives; even though that is indeed nice, non-users aren&#x27;t wrong to be skeptical about the practical benefits, given the amount of effort that will probably be involved. The secret is that for many Emacs users, it&#x27;s just plain fun -- hence the things shown in this article, and also EXWM.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ch11ng&#x2F;exwm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ch11ng&#x2F;exwm</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlanYx</author><text>IMHO using Emacs as your X window manager isn&#x27;t particularly strange -- conceptually at least, it seems more natural than the Chromebook model, where people are essentially using a web browser as a window manager.</text></comment> |
30,995,421 | 30,994,189 | 1 | 2 | 30,993,350 | train | <story><title>Impressions from a first-time Mac user</title><url>https://loganmarchione.com/2022/04/impressions-from-a-first-time-mac-user/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olyjohn</author><text>I can&#x27;t get used to the fact that I can&#x27;t alt-tab to a minimized window. Nor can I figure out how to switch to any particular minimized window. You have literally no way of knowing that a minimized window exists other than right-clicking the dock icon, or going to the &quot;Window&quot; menu after you switched to the application. The dock was fine 20 years ago when they released OSX, but they&#x27;ve literally done nothing to make it better since then.</text></item><item><author>rwc</author><text>Not that it&#x27;s right or wrong, but the behavior dates back to the very first implementations of Mac OS and Windows. Mac OS has always been an application switching interface, and Windows has been a window switching interface. Takes getting used to the paradigm shift.</text></item><item><author>ChicagoBoy11</author><text>Despite the warning, I didn&#x27;t find it nearly as &quot;ranty&quot; as the author cautioned, and instead seemed like a fairly comprehensive and fair take on his experience.<p>Having gone through the same thing myself several years ago, the UI aspect of it is something that I&#x27;d be curious to see how it develops for the author. I think it is not uncommon for Windows folk to find the windowing experience on macs rather painful, at least at first. However, after a while, it sort of &quot;made sense&quot; to me, if that makes any sense at all. There are some clear UX philosophies that are very different, and the initial transition can only be pretty jarring, but I&#x27;m curious what the author would say about it after a month or two.<p>Also, fwiw, I think most power Mac users also marshal the use of some other programs to help along with some of that (or at least to tailor it more closely to what they want the experience to be). Rectangle is one of the first installs on any Mac I put my hands on... makes window management so much more pleasant!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>urbandw311er</author><text>Ok, so you can actually do this but the keyboard sequence is a bit bonkers.<p>* Hold down Command and press Tab until the application icon representing the minimised window is highlighted.<p>* Release Tab but DONT let go of Command.<p>* Now press Option too so you are holding down Command + Option<p>* Now release Command so you are just holding down Option<p>* Finally release Option<p>Amazingly this will then maximise the window whose application icon you selected in the first place.<p>Sounds crazy but it works. Try it!</text></comment> | <story><title>Impressions from a first-time Mac user</title><url>https://loganmarchione.com/2022/04/impressions-from-a-first-time-mac-user/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olyjohn</author><text>I can&#x27;t get used to the fact that I can&#x27;t alt-tab to a minimized window. Nor can I figure out how to switch to any particular minimized window. You have literally no way of knowing that a minimized window exists other than right-clicking the dock icon, or going to the &quot;Window&quot; menu after you switched to the application. The dock was fine 20 years ago when they released OSX, but they&#x27;ve literally done nothing to make it better since then.</text></item><item><author>rwc</author><text>Not that it&#x27;s right or wrong, but the behavior dates back to the very first implementations of Mac OS and Windows. Mac OS has always been an application switching interface, and Windows has been a window switching interface. Takes getting used to the paradigm shift.</text></item><item><author>ChicagoBoy11</author><text>Despite the warning, I didn&#x27;t find it nearly as &quot;ranty&quot; as the author cautioned, and instead seemed like a fairly comprehensive and fair take on his experience.<p>Having gone through the same thing myself several years ago, the UI aspect of it is something that I&#x27;d be curious to see how it develops for the author. I think it is not uncommon for Windows folk to find the windowing experience on macs rather painful, at least at first. However, after a while, it sort of &quot;made sense&quot; to me, if that makes any sense at all. There are some clear UX philosophies that are very different, and the initial transition can only be pretty jarring, but I&#x27;m curious what the author would say about it after a month or two.<p>Also, fwiw, I think most power Mac users also marshal the use of some other programs to help along with some of that (or at least to tailor it more closely to what they want the experience to be). Rectangle is one of the first installs on any Mac I put my hands on... makes window management so much more pleasant!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uuyi</author><text>I don&#x27;t actually minimise windows on the mac at all. I just sling them on a contextual virtual desktop and then triple-swipe up when I need a different one.<p>Not once have I had to sit there mashing alt-tab and guessing then.</text></comment> |
13,688,838 | 13,688,062 | 1 | 2 | 13,687,888 | train | <story><title>Pirate site with No Traffic attracts 49m bogus DMCA notices</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-with-no-traffic-attracts-49m-mainly-bogus-dmca-notices-170219/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>1_2__3</author><text>&gt; Instead of scanning the site and sending an accurate takedown notice to Google, APDIF tries to guess the URLs where MP3Toys stores its content.<p>So, they commit a federal crime, then (when they send the DMCA notice)?</text></comment> | <story><title>Pirate site with No Traffic attracts 49m bogus DMCA notices</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-with-no-traffic-attracts-49m-mainly-bogus-dmca-notices-170219/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rjbwork</author><text>Can&#x27;t they now be sued for invalid DMCA&#x27;s? It&#x27;s perjury to lie about those things I believe. One probably shouldn&#x27;t fully automate something that perjures you if it&#x27;s wrong.</text></comment> |
16,141,700 | 16,141,333 | 1 | 2 | 16,138,708 | train | <story><title>What Really Happened with Vista: An Insider's Retrospective</title><url>https://blog.usejournal.com/what-really-happened-with-vista-an-insiders-retrospective-f713ee77c239</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deaddodo</author><text>I&#x27;m not quite sure how to interpret your last comment. You prefer the IE box model? Or you&#x27;re saying they did it right from the get go? Because quirks mode <i>was</i> abandoned and everyone uses the Moz&#x2F;W3C model now.<p>A better example would be file line endings, where Microsoft did get it right (\r\n) and all the other OS&#x27;s screwed up using just \r or \n.</text></item><item><author>johnchristopher</author><text>&gt; Compared to Vista, Windows 7 was just a new (much better) taskbar, better tuned prefetch and with the very important difference that by the time Windows 7 arrived the drivers had matured and many of them even supported 64 bit systems... But that was all that was needed for Vista to be seen as a disaster and Windows 7 an unparalleled success.<p>Still, Vista was a disaster.<p>I remember a conversation I had with a MS engineer at that time:<p>- Vista is like, the foundations for the good things to come. If you want a solid house, you dig solid foundations.<p>- I am buying a house, not just pillars in the ground.<p>(It was the same with the w3c specs: &quot;maybe mozilla and opera are the ones misreading the box model spec and IE has it right&quot;, me &quot;ms is on the board...&quot;).</text></item><item><author>tjoff</author><text>Vista was amazing.<p>I see two reasons for why it has such a bad reputation.<p>1. It exposed how terrible device manufacturers are at writing drivers. nVidia alone (which only has niche hardware) themselves stood for the majority of Vista BSODs. And no printer or scanner company had probably written a device driver in a decade now so it took another 5 years for them to catch up (and they just continued creating bloat ever since).<p>Yes there were major architectural changes but this was the <i>perfect</i> opportunity since it was the first MS (consumer) mainstream 64 bit OS (I don&#x27;t count the 64 bit version XP). Unfortunately the driver situation made things rather different between the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of windows, this did not help.<p>2. Pre-fetch&#x2F;super-fetch or whatever they called it was WAY to aggressive. If you had a decent amount of RAM on launch day, or just a new regular computer 6 months after launch, the pre-fetching algorithms were so aggressive that they completely overloaded the harddrives that perform terrible with that random access load. It meant that the first 10 minutes after boot was spent trying to speed up that you might want to do at the extreme cost of slowing down things you actually wanted to do. Yes they were supposed to be run with low priority but it really exposed how bad spinning harddrives are at multitasking. If doing one task takes 1s, doing two tasks each taking 1s will now take 9 seconds if run in parallel etc.<p>After enough time this wasn&#x27;t a problem as all your freely available RAM had been used up by prefetch or actual programs. If you seldom rebooted you never had to worry about it. But the regular user wants to use the computer right away after boot and will only remember the agonizing slowness of trying to start the browser and office applications after boot.<p>Compared to Vista, Windows 7 was just a new (much better) taskbar, better tuned prefetch and with the very important difference that by the time Windows 7 arrived the drivers had matured and many of them even supported 64 bit systems... But that was all that was needed for Vista to be seen as a disaster and Windows 7 an unparalleled success.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Stratoscope</author><text>Interesting that you find \r\n to be &quot;right&quot; and the others &quot;screwed up&quot;. I&#x27;m curious about the reasons for that.<p>The biggest problem is that each OS went its own way (Mac started with \r but of course uses \n now). If they all had the same line ending all along, whatever it was, no one would think much about it.<p>\r\n has the obvious disadvantage of being twice the size, along with making it possible to land <i>in the middle</i> of a line ending instead of before or after one.<p>Of course one advantage would be if you&#x27;re controlling physical equipment where carriage return and line feed are independent of each other. I learned to program in 1968 on a Teletype ASR33 where CR and LF were literal commands to return the carriage to column 1 and advance the paper. You had to use both because they did two different things. Or on occasion you might use CR by itself to overprint a line. LF by itself was pretty rare, but would do what you expect if you used it: advance the paper without moving the print carriage.<p>CR LF was fine if you were typing interactively - in fact you just had to hit the CR key and the remote system would provide the LF. But usually we would punch our programs on paper tape, dial in, run the tape through and get the printout, and hang up right away. At $30&#x2F;hour in 1968 dollars, this saved a lot of money. And of course you would run your tape through locally to print out and proofread your program before testing it online.<p>To be able to print a tape locally, you needed both CR and LF, but even that wasn&#x27;t quite adequate. You really wanted to allow a little extra time for the machinery to settle, so the standard line ending we punched on a tape was CR LF RUBOUT.<p>RUBOUT was a character that punched out all the holes in a row of the paper tape. It was ignored by convention, so you could erase a typing error when punching a tape by pushing the backspace button on the tape punch and hitting the RUBOUT key.<p>Because it was ignored, RUBOUT was also useful as a &quot;delay&quot; character in the newline sequence. So I guess I&#x27;ll never get over the feeling that the One True Line Ending is: \r\n\x7F<p>(Nah, I&#x27;m happy with \n, but it makes a good story.)</text></comment> | <story><title>What Really Happened with Vista: An Insider's Retrospective</title><url>https://blog.usejournal.com/what-really-happened-with-vista-an-insiders-retrospective-f713ee77c239</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deaddodo</author><text>I&#x27;m not quite sure how to interpret your last comment. You prefer the IE box model? Or you&#x27;re saying they did it right from the get go? Because quirks mode <i>was</i> abandoned and everyone uses the Moz&#x2F;W3C model now.<p>A better example would be file line endings, where Microsoft did get it right (\r\n) and all the other OS&#x27;s screwed up using just \r or \n.</text></item><item><author>johnchristopher</author><text>&gt; Compared to Vista, Windows 7 was just a new (much better) taskbar, better tuned prefetch and with the very important difference that by the time Windows 7 arrived the drivers had matured and many of them even supported 64 bit systems... But that was all that was needed for Vista to be seen as a disaster and Windows 7 an unparalleled success.<p>Still, Vista was a disaster.<p>I remember a conversation I had with a MS engineer at that time:<p>- Vista is like, the foundations for the good things to come. If you want a solid house, you dig solid foundations.<p>- I am buying a house, not just pillars in the ground.<p>(It was the same with the w3c specs: &quot;maybe mozilla and opera are the ones misreading the box model spec and IE has it right&quot;, me &quot;ms is on the board...&quot;).</text></item><item><author>tjoff</author><text>Vista was amazing.<p>I see two reasons for why it has such a bad reputation.<p>1. It exposed how terrible device manufacturers are at writing drivers. nVidia alone (which only has niche hardware) themselves stood for the majority of Vista BSODs. And no printer or scanner company had probably written a device driver in a decade now so it took another 5 years for them to catch up (and they just continued creating bloat ever since).<p>Yes there were major architectural changes but this was the <i>perfect</i> opportunity since it was the first MS (consumer) mainstream 64 bit OS (I don&#x27;t count the 64 bit version XP). Unfortunately the driver situation made things rather different between the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of windows, this did not help.<p>2. Pre-fetch&#x2F;super-fetch or whatever they called it was WAY to aggressive. If you had a decent amount of RAM on launch day, or just a new regular computer 6 months after launch, the pre-fetching algorithms were so aggressive that they completely overloaded the harddrives that perform terrible with that random access load. It meant that the first 10 minutes after boot was spent trying to speed up that you might want to do at the extreme cost of slowing down things you actually wanted to do. Yes they were supposed to be run with low priority but it really exposed how bad spinning harddrives are at multitasking. If doing one task takes 1s, doing two tasks each taking 1s will now take 9 seconds if run in parallel etc.<p>After enough time this wasn&#x27;t a problem as all your freely available RAM had been used up by prefetch or actual programs. If you seldom rebooted you never had to worry about it. But the regular user wants to use the computer right away after boot and will only remember the agonizing slowness of trying to start the browser and office applications after boot.<p>Compared to Vista, Windows 7 was just a new (much better) taskbar, better tuned prefetch and with the very important difference that by the time Windows 7 arrived the drivers had matured and many of them even supported 64 bit systems... But that was all that was needed for Vista to be seen as a disaster and Windows 7 an unparalleled success.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>niftich</author><text>The W3C box model became standard and IE was criticized for its quirky noncompliant behavior [1], but then many years later &#x27;box-sizing: border-box&#x27; was introduced and widely praised and adopted by frameworks [2][3]; it&#x27;s funny how things change.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Internet_Explorer_box_model_bug" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Internet_Explorer_box_model_bu...</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;box-sizing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;box-sizing</a> [3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;css-tricks.com&#x2F;international-box-sizing-awareness-day&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;css-tricks.com&#x2F;international-box-sizing-awareness-da...</a></text></comment> |
23,126,528 | 23,125,232 | 1 | 2 | 23,124,214 | train | <story><title>We Are Trying Out PeerTube</title><url>https://boilingsteam.com/we-are-trying-out-peertube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olah_1</author><text>The problem for the Fediverse will always be domains, in my opinion. It sounds silly to the technical demographic, but to a normal person, it is a massive issue.<p>&quot;Which server do I choose to get in bed with?&quot;<p>It&#x27;s not just a question of which server do you trust to be a good actor and to not shut down tomorrow. It&#x27;s also a question of which domain name do you want associated with your user account?<p>Do you want [email protected]? Or do you want [email protected]?<p>I believe that gmail won email not because of security and good user experience. I think they won because it removed the complexity of this problem.<p>When I sign up for gmail, I can just be myself. I don&#x27;t have to be myself + something else.<p>Consequently, this is the strength of P2P networks. Remove the domain question entirely. I _am_ just a long string of characters (which is like my essence), but people call me by my name. Just like in normal life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emersion</author><text>&gt;When I sign up for gmail, I can just be myself. I don&#x27;t have to be myself + something else.<p>Well, it&#x27;s still you + gmail.com. It could be you + fastmail.com, it could be you + posteo.de, it could be you + &lt;insert other e-mail provider&gt;. You still chose gmail over another provider, like you could choose cucumbers.pizza over another provider in the case of the Fediverse.</text></comment> | <story><title>We Are Trying Out PeerTube</title><url>https://boilingsteam.com/we-are-trying-out-peertube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olah_1</author><text>The problem for the Fediverse will always be domains, in my opinion. It sounds silly to the technical demographic, but to a normal person, it is a massive issue.<p>&quot;Which server do I choose to get in bed with?&quot;<p>It&#x27;s not just a question of which server do you trust to be a good actor and to not shut down tomorrow. It&#x27;s also a question of which domain name do you want associated with your user account?<p>Do you want [email protected]? Or do you want [email protected]?<p>I believe that gmail won email not because of security and good user experience. I think they won because it removed the complexity of this problem.<p>When I sign up for gmail, I can just be myself. I don&#x27;t have to be myself + something else.<p>Consequently, this is the strength of P2P networks. Remove the domain question entirely. I _am_ just a long string of characters (which is like my essence), but people call me by my name. Just like in normal life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vertex-four</author><text>GMail won because I had to keep deleting email from my old provider, Google was pretending to &quot;not be evil&quot;, and they offered me an ever-increasing amount of storage. Then I told my friends about it. Eventually, everyone used it because everyone who should&#x27;ve known better (myself included) recommended it to them.</text></comment> |
25,826,235 | 25,825,986 | 1 | 2 | 25,825,244 | train | <story><title>Software effort estimation is mostly fake research</title><url>http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2021/01/17/software-effort-estimation-is-mostly-fake-research/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>durandal1</author><text>Apple executes massive feature releases on a yearly waterfall-like schedule across hundreds of teams. It requires honesty, transparency, strong leadership (ruthless prioritization), strong cross-team goodwill, strong cross-team collaboration as well as a solid body of experienced top-tier engineers. Other than that there&#x27;s no magic. While there are teams within apple that does scrum&#x2F;agile, none of the core OS&#x2F;frameworks teams does it AFAIK, and I do think it&#x27;s incompatible with shipping on a hardware-aligned schedule.</text></item><item><author>jakubp</author><text>If someone can conclusively teach inexperienced programmers good approach to estimates (methodology) + help embed this into sales process of a software house-type company, I know some folks who&#x27;d love to have this :)<p>My own experience has been this: people make estimates, client has expectations based on some variant of those, and something later happens but so much change is introduced during the actual software development, that there seems to be no sane way to compare what happened with original estimates. (new features, changed features, lots of new information, market shifts&#x2F;product vision shifts, quality assumptions change, etc. etc.)<p>But at that point nobody cares! People go on with further projects, and no data is ever collected.<p>Nobody learns.<p>When f*ckups happen, i.e. a gross over- or under-estimate, this is often not shared with the broader organization (ashamed&#x2F;afraid sales people&#x2F;PMs&#x2F;devs say nothing&#x2F;hide it&#x2F;sugarcoat it). Client walks away.<p>Sometimes project is severly underestimated but usually not just because of the software part. Again, no decoupling and estimation of contributing factors is done.<p>It&#x27;s insane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trimbo</author><text>Have you noticed their declining OS release quality in recent years? I have, and I now wait 6 months to upgrade.<p>The triangle is real[1]. Something&#x27;s gotta give when a deadline can&#x27;t move, and as we know from Brooks, software development speed doesn&#x27;t increase linearly with more people. So it&#x27;s primarily quality or scope that must suffer to hit a software deadline.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_management_triangle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_management_triangle</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Software effort estimation is mostly fake research</title><url>http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2021/01/17/software-effort-estimation-is-mostly-fake-research/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>durandal1</author><text>Apple executes massive feature releases on a yearly waterfall-like schedule across hundreds of teams. It requires honesty, transparency, strong leadership (ruthless prioritization), strong cross-team goodwill, strong cross-team collaboration as well as a solid body of experienced top-tier engineers. Other than that there&#x27;s no magic. While there are teams within apple that does scrum&#x2F;agile, none of the core OS&#x2F;frameworks teams does it AFAIK, and I do think it&#x27;s incompatible with shipping on a hardware-aligned schedule.</text></item><item><author>jakubp</author><text>If someone can conclusively teach inexperienced programmers good approach to estimates (methodology) + help embed this into sales process of a software house-type company, I know some folks who&#x27;d love to have this :)<p>My own experience has been this: people make estimates, client has expectations based on some variant of those, and something later happens but so much change is introduced during the actual software development, that there seems to be no sane way to compare what happened with original estimates. (new features, changed features, lots of new information, market shifts&#x2F;product vision shifts, quality assumptions change, etc. etc.)<p>But at that point nobody cares! People go on with further projects, and no data is ever collected.<p>Nobody learns.<p>When f*ckups happen, i.e. a gross over- or under-estimate, this is often not shared with the broader organization (ashamed&#x2F;afraid sales people&#x2F;PMs&#x2F;devs say nothing&#x2F;hide it&#x2F;sugarcoat it). Client walks away.<p>Sometimes project is severly underestimated but usually not just because of the software part. Again, no decoupling and estimation of contributing factors is done.<p>It&#x27;s insane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>virgilp</author><text>Adobe executes (executed) massive releases on a well-defined cadence (1.5 yr per &quot;creative suite&quot;). Sure, I won&#x27;t say they don&#x27;t have collaboration, or top-tier engineers etc. But in the end, the success of this well defined cadence boiled down to the simple strategy of &quot;we release what is ready&quot;. Everybody knew the deadlines well in advance, and everybody strives to &#x27;make it&#x27; - but, (not so) occasionally, some teams didn&#x27;t and you could see entire features get ruthlessly cut out. Simply no other way of synchronizing across the entire company... you cut scope to make it in time, and if you can&#x27;t make it, that&#x27;s it, your feature gets cut. With enough teams working, you still get features to showcase at each release.</text></comment> |
22,001,507 | 21,999,772 | 1 | 2 | 21,998,544 | train | <story><title>Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall</title><url>https://www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empire-asimovs-wall/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mLuby</author><text>Asimov gave the world plenty of mind-expanding ideas, many that we take for granted today as staples of science fiction. I&#x27;m also amused and a bit humbled at reading his many stories featuring futures with &quot;a world market for maybe five [building-size] computers&quot; on my one-of-billions smartphone.<p>That said, I&#x27;ve witnessed (and been guilty of) full-throated defenses against character assassinations based on little more than being a fan of the work. It&#x27;s important for fans, who ought to be <i>more</i> informed than average, to be aware of and acknowledge the works&#x27; and creator&#x27;s flaws. This both gives the fan more credibility, and by reducing the perceived personal protection the creator may feel from their fans, in aggregate should discourage bad behavior.<p>So thanks for sharing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall</title><url>https://www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empire-asimovs-wall/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Ma8ee</author><text>He probably never understood the harm he did. His writings reveal quite a lack of real understanding of other people. And I guess no one ever sat down with him and tried to explain the consequences for him.<p>I&#x27;m very happy that these things are brought up loud and clear nowadays so no one can continue to be ignorant.</text></comment> |
25,367,205 | 25,366,687 | 1 | 2 | 25,366,484 | train | <story><title>Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable</title><url>https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/986#issuecomment-740756795</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>j1elo</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using vercel&#x2F;pkg with great success, in order to achieve a similar target and package a whole application into a standalone executable:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vercel&#x2F;pkg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vercel&#x2F;pkg</a><p>This can be useful for people wanting to do this with Node. It&#x27;s nice to have a single file that can be started right away without any external dependency. And also, it prevents from having to distribute the full sources. Kudos to the Deno devs who have integrated this option directly into the runtime.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable</title><url>https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/986#issuecomment-740756795</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrkurt</author><text>This is such a good feature. Go has been great for shipping single purpose binaries (like the CLI for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fly.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fly.io</a>), but I really enjoy writing TypeScript more than Go.</text></comment> |
14,617,546 | 14,617,527 | 1 | 2 | 14,616,196 | train | <story><title>A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For'</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/technology/ransomware-attack-nsa-cyberweapons.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matt_wulfeck</author><text>&gt; <i>Finally, before they left, they encrypted her computer with ransomware, demanding $130 to unlock it, to cover up the more invasive attack on her computer.</i><p>Anyone having hard time swallowing this? They broke in and were totally undetected when they planted a... rootkit (unclear from article). While undetected they silently stole user credentials... Then to cover it all up, they ransomware&#x27;d the computer?<p>It&#x27;s like breaking into a house and putting a bug in the wall, and then to cover the tracks you smash in the front door and leave the water running in the sink.<p>If the attacker was completely undetected, why intentionally jeopardize that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Quarrelsome</author><text>No it makes perfect sense. If you want to land an advanced persistent threat but your entry is detectable a distraction is ALWAYS a great psychological tool.
The very best and long lasting victories are made when you convince the loser that they&#x27;ve won.<p>So the premise is that they clear the ransomware and think its over. But its not.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For'</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/technology/ransomware-attack-nsa-cyberweapons.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matt_wulfeck</author><text>&gt; <i>Finally, before they left, they encrypted her computer with ransomware, demanding $130 to unlock it, to cover up the more invasive attack on her computer.</i><p>Anyone having hard time swallowing this? They broke in and were totally undetected when they planted a... rootkit (unclear from article). While undetected they silently stole user credentials... Then to cover it all up, they ransomware&#x27;d the computer?<p>It&#x27;s like breaking into a house and putting a bug in the wall, and then to cover the tracks you smash in the front door and leave the water running in the sink.<p>If the attacker was completely undetected, why intentionally jeopardize that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tallanvor</author><text>Why is it hard to swallow? Really it&#x27;s a classic magician&#x27;s trick - misdirection.<p>Think of it this way: if you are responsible for security, you never assume that you&#x27;re fully protected. If you&#x27;re a smart hacker, it should be the same thing: you never assume that you won&#x27;t be detected.</text></comment> |
10,828,810 | 10,828,862 | 1 | 2 | 10,825,758 | train | <story><title>Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth</title><url>http://blog.codinghorror.com/zopfli-optimization-literally-free-bandwidth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roeme</author><text>Somewhat OT; As a swiss, the omitted ö is <i>really</i> beginning to bug me.<p>It&#x27;s Zöpfli. Gopferteckel.<p>(The second word is a somewhat soft cuss word - But don&#x27;t try to use it as a non-native).<p>Also, you can&#x27;t &quot;zopfli&quot; something - it&#x27;s a noun! You &quot;zöpf&quot; - or, since we&#x27;re in the alemannic german space; &quot;zöpfle&quot;.<p>&#x2F;rant &#x2F;vent</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mech4bg</author><text>How do you feel when someone badly appropriates a word like this and it gets really big, like Uber? :)<p>I understand why the umlaut gets dropped, but it super bugs me too - especially as it&#x27;s as easy as dropping an &#x27;e&#x27; next to the letter if you don&#x27;t have an easy way to add an umlaut.<p>Keeping things slightly off-topic for a moment - I love Swiss German. I lived in Bavaria and speak reasonably fluent German, so I can understand bits of it, but it&#x27;s mostly incomprehensible to me, but in a delightful way. Its &#x27;sing-song&#x27; nature and fun pronunciation are the best.<p>I also found in Switzerland people were far more willing to tolerate and respond to my German than in Germany (where people tend to switch to English), which I very much appreciated when I was still learning the language.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth</title><url>http://blog.codinghorror.com/zopfli-optimization-literally-free-bandwidth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roeme</author><text>Somewhat OT; As a swiss, the omitted ö is <i>really</i> beginning to bug me.<p>It&#x27;s Zöpfli. Gopferteckel.<p>(The second word is a somewhat soft cuss word - But don&#x27;t try to use it as a non-native).<p>Also, you can&#x27;t &quot;zopfli&quot; something - it&#x27;s a noun! You &quot;zöpf&quot; - or, since we&#x27;re in the alemannic german space; &quot;zöpfle&quot;.<p>&#x2F;rant &#x2F;vent</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_ak</author><text>Given that zopfli was created in the Google office in Zürich by non-Swiss people, blame it on your fellow Swiss citizens for lack of intervention.</text></comment> |
18,292,204 | 18,292,186 | 1 | 2 | 18,290,344 | train | <story><title>A terminal file manager written in bash</title><url>https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baldfat</author><text>Ranger has taken over my world the past few years. Heck I even have it working in Windows 10 in the Linux Subsystem (OpenSUSE for me). Ranger for me is just as fast in real life and my work Windows 10 machines are not anything to write home about.</text></comment> | <story><title>A terminal file manager written in bash</title><url>https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kjullien</author><text>Would you mind taking a minute to explain why you needed a tool like this in the first place, please? I&#x27;m quite interested.</text></comment> |
33,297,545 | 33,296,432 | 1 | 2 | 33,295,947 | train | <story><title>RISC in 2022</title><url>https://wiki.alopex.li/RiscIn2022</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fulafel</author><text>&gt; RISC was a set of design principles developed in the 1980’s that enabled hardware to get much faster and more efficient. We tend to still call modern-looking instruction sets “RISC-y”, but really, a bunch of the original design principles of RISC CPU’s have not stood the test of time. So let’s look at the things that have worked and not worked between the 1980’s and 2022.<p>I think the design principles of RISC were actually on a meta level above this: take the quantitative approach, use your transistors to best serve the software you have and compilers you can build. &quot;Nice ISA to write assembly code for&quot; was thrown out, or at least demoted significantly.<p>In that 80s moment in the transistor count curve, it meant simplifying the ISA very radically in order to implement fewer instructions in hard coded way without microcode, to the point of ditching HW multiply instructions. The microarchitecture could either do fast, pipelined execution or large instruction set in the transitor budget, you optimized for bang for the buck in the whole-system sense. You could make simple fast machines that were designed to run Unix (so had just enough VM, exception, etc support).</text></comment> | <story><title>RISC in 2022</title><url>https://wiki.alopex.li/RiscIn2022</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>Should be &quot;32-ish <i>architectural</i> registers&quot;. Real processors have a lot more registers but they are not directly visible. This is the whole reason why x86-64 is usable despite having only 16 architectural integer registers (or actually a little less than that).<p>The article doesn&#x27;t get RISC-V instruction encoding right. It mentions compressed instructions, but instructions can also be longer than 32 bits. The important thing about RISC-V is that the instruction stream can easily be divided at instruction boundaries (unlike, say, x86 which is horrific to decode). This gives you most of the benefits of fixed size instructions and the benefits of extensibility when you need it.</text></comment> |
34,255,145 | 34,255,325 | 1 | 2 | 34,250,707 | train | <story><title>Kids and music lessons: why do many promising players quit early?</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-do-kids-hate-music-lessons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yamtaddle</author><text>I&#x27;ve found it <i>surprisingly low effort</i> to get good enough at guitar and, in fact, piano, that you can start to see social rewards, i.e. people actually want you to play, at least a little.<p>Meanwhile I put in more hours and had far more formal instruction at a woodwind than either of those <i>combined</i> and... yeah, nobody wanted to hear that shit, it sounds awful (cringe-inducing, even) unless you&#x27;re <i>excellent</i>. Years of effort and practice and no-one wanted to be around when I was playing (and I can&#x27;t blame them). It&#x27;s super discouraging to have spent that much time and effectively have nothing to show for it—nothing that sounds at least OK, even to <i>you</i> when you record it and play it back.<p>A couple half-assed months on guitar or piano can get you to, &quot;hey, that sounds pretty good!&quot; and get people to start singing along to whatever you&#x27;re playing.<p>You can&#x27;t do a pop- or folk- or standard-tune sing-along with a damn saxophone. I mean, you can, but nobody wants to unless your playing is so good you could go pro.<p>I think the difference is that they&#x27;re good accompaniment instruments, and can play chords. Plus there&#x27;s very little technique to learn to achieve acceptable &amp; reasonably consistent tone.<p>Now, I&#x27;m sure getting to the point of being able to play solo instrumentals that anyone cares to hear on either of those, is much harder (I was <i>getting there</i> on the guitar at my peak, but still hadn&#x27;t achieved it), but there&#x27;s just <i>nothing</i> for most other instruments, as far as natural encouragement or reward from others, until you&#x27;re awesome at them.</text></item><item><author>ehaskins</author><text>I&#x27;ve been teaching beginning guitar lessons for about seven years. Guitar is a little different in that, outside of classical guitar, there&#x27;s very little traditional pedagogy, but from experience I think these things are generally true about most instruments.<p>1. When you start learning you sound terrible... for a long time. It&#x27;s very difficult to stay motivated when you can hear your problems.<p>2. It&#x27;s very difficult to judge your own progress. I&#x27;ve started recording short videos during lessons which I can show to students weeks or months later when they&#x27;re expressing frustration with their progress.<p>3. You have to <i>enjoy</i> practicing, since you have to pick up the instrument most days to maintain the dexterity, callouses, etc. It&#x27;s very easy for a pushy parent to beat the joy out of practicing.<p>4. You have to understand the difference between playing that song you can play great, and practicing something you suck at so you improve. It&#x27;s very easy to stagnate if you only play.<p>Really it boils down to, you&#x27;re going to suck for a while, then you&#x27;re going to think you suck even when you don&#x27;t, and you have to keep enjoying the process even when you think you suck.<p>&#x2F;edit formatting</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spacemadness</author><text>This is why guitar is considered a folk instrument. I think that’s what’s cool about guitar—-its low floor but high ceiling. You can strum open chords or on the other end learn difficult pieces on classical guitar. Similar to what you shared, classical guitarists will tell you nobody cares when they’re playing something super difficult. Sometimes people just can’t tell the effort it takes and don’t relate to the piece being played.<p>As a guitarist I found piano even easier to sound decent as there is no real threat of accidentally muting anything or plucking at a weird angle. But if you’re musically inclined its pretty easy to tell who has dedicated the time to learning it well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kids and music lessons: why do many promising players quit early?</title><url>https://thewalrus.ca/why-do-kids-hate-music-lessons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yamtaddle</author><text>I&#x27;ve found it <i>surprisingly low effort</i> to get good enough at guitar and, in fact, piano, that you can start to see social rewards, i.e. people actually want you to play, at least a little.<p>Meanwhile I put in more hours and had far more formal instruction at a woodwind than either of those <i>combined</i> and... yeah, nobody wanted to hear that shit, it sounds awful (cringe-inducing, even) unless you&#x27;re <i>excellent</i>. Years of effort and practice and no-one wanted to be around when I was playing (and I can&#x27;t blame them). It&#x27;s super discouraging to have spent that much time and effectively have nothing to show for it—nothing that sounds at least OK, even to <i>you</i> when you record it and play it back.<p>A couple half-assed months on guitar or piano can get you to, &quot;hey, that sounds pretty good!&quot; and get people to start singing along to whatever you&#x27;re playing.<p>You can&#x27;t do a pop- or folk- or standard-tune sing-along with a damn saxophone. I mean, you can, but nobody wants to unless your playing is so good you could go pro.<p>I think the difference is that they&#x27;re good accompaniment instruments, and can play chords. Plus there&#x27;s very little technique to learn to achieve acceptable &amp; reasonably consistent tone.<p>Now, I&#x27;m sure getting to the point of being able to play solo instrumentals that anyone cares to hear on either of those, is much harder (I was <i>getting there</i> on the guitar at my peak, but still hadn&#x27;t achieved it), but there&#x27;s just <i>nothing</i> for most other instruments, as far as natural encouragement or reward from others, until you&#x27;re awesome at them.</text></item><item><author>ehaskins</author><text>I&#x27;ve been teaching beginning guitar lessons for about seven years. Guitar is a little different in that, outside of classical guitar, there&#x27;s very little traditional pedagogy, but from experience I think these things are generally true about most instruments.<p>1. When you start learning you sound terrible... for a long time. It&#x27;s very difficult to stay motivated when you can hear your problems.<p>2. It&#x27;s very difficult to judge your own progress. I&#x27;ve started recording short videos during lessons which I can show to students weeks or months later when they&#x27;re expressing frustration with their progress.<p>3. You have to <i>enjoy</i> practicing, since you have to pick up the instrument most days to maintain the dexterity, callouses, etc. It&#x27;s very easy for a pushy parent to beat the joy out of practicing.<p>4. You have to understand the difference between playing that song you can play great, and practicing something you suck at so you improve. It&#x27;s very easy to stagnate if you only play.<p>Really it boils down to, you&#x27;re going to suck for a while, then you&#x27;re going to think you suck even when you don&#x27;t, and you have to keep enjoying the process even when you think you suck.<p>&#x2F;edit formatting</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djtango</author><text>Was mildly triggered by your comment at first, being a pianist, but on reflection you&#x27;re right. The skill floor for the piano is objectively lower thanks to being percussive. But my god is it difficult trying to <i>sing</i> with a percussive instrument while also accompanying yourself with and extra 2-3 voices.<p>Timbre, vibrato and dynamic control over a single note mean that people will pay to listen to a beautiful singer or sax play a single line of music but my god does a pianist or guitarist have to work to keep up with that.</text></comment> |
6,558,271 | 6,557,392 | 1 | 3 | 6,556,203 | train | <story><title>VirtualBox 4.3 released</title><url>https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-announce/2013-October/000100.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thex86</author><text>VirtualBox is one of those projects that is a very important part of my daily use. But somehow I feel that it doesn&#x27;t get much love from the open source community. Is it just me?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Argorak</author><text>VirtualBox has a quality problem: <a href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;6&#x2F;317</a><p>This has gotten a lot better, but for quite a while `vbox` was the thing that made my computer lock up most of the time, especially the USB drivers.</text></comment> | <story><title>VirtualBox 4.3 released</title><url>https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-announce/2013-October/000100.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thex86</author><text>VirtualBox is one of those projects that is a very important part of my daily use. But somehow I feel that it doesn&#x27;t get much love from the open source community. Is it just me?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>autodidakto</author><text>I don&#x27;t know the full story, but from what I&#x27;ve heard, it probably involves things like 1) Oracle owns it 2) It requires a non-free compiler to build the BIOS</text></comment> |
25,823,959 | 25,823,142 | 1 | 3 | 25,817,395 | train | <story><title>Context switching costs more than we give it credit for</title><url>https://thinkingthrough.substack.com/p/context-switching-cost-more-than</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jaygles</author><text>For me it depends on if the music has lyrics or vocals in it. Someone speaking or singing is the factor for whether my brain expends cognitive effort in listening. I just can&#x27;t help but try and pick up on words and discern what the meaning of them are.</text></item><item><author>saurik</author><text>There was a semi-famous study (one that I feel every developer should have at least considered) that gave software developers a problem to code in the form of some convoluted set of steps, and they were either assigned to listen to music or not to listen to music. There was (usefully) no difference in the correctness of the implementations, but people who listed to music reported more subjective happiness &#x2F; less boredom doing the task... only... they were also much less likely than the people who did the task in silence to notice that all of those steps collapsed down to &quot;return a constant number&quot;.<p>I personally feel like there are different components of my brain and some of them just want to do something, and if I don&#x27;t &quot;distract&quot; them then they do something arbitrary and maybe in turn distract me... but if I need them, and they are busy deciding some music I am listening to, I lose out on the maybe-even-often subconscious processing they do that gives me valuable insight. I thereby find some (mostly useless) tasks easier if I am seriously even playing a video game with a targeted skill while doing them (people hate me in meetings sometimes ;P), or <i>maybe</i> listening to music, but if I am doing the hard coding work I &quot;should be doing&quot; I just can&#x27;t :(.</text></item><item><author>axxl</author><text>&gt; Trying to code and listening to music falls under cognitive functions. Naming a variable while listening to your favorite songs&#x27; lyrics may result in cognitive overload. You are more likely to name a variable after the singers&#x2F;songs name than what the variable is supposed to reflect (true story).<p>This point in the article lost me pretty quickly. My flow state is drastically improved by music, and I have never ever named a variable after the song name or song artist I&#x27;m listening to in my life.<p>Edit: Nor have I ever seen a variable named after a song name or artist.<p>Edit2: NotoriousViewController. TheWeekndTimer. RedHotChiliPointers. Now I <i>want</i> to name my variables like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FullMtlGtar412</author><text>I actually have to get even more specific than this (at least prior to being diagnosed with ADHD in 2020 and getting Vyvanse for it).<p>If I need a mood boost or something to get my body &quot;moving&quot; in my seat and keep me from mentally wandering, I&#x27;ll throw on stuff I really know and love. Usually I&#x27;m doing menial tasks or simple coding.<p>If I&#x27;m having a hard time focusing and need a distraction for some parts of my brain but not all of it, I have a &quot;deathcore&quot; (really more like melodic (tech) death metal) playlist where most of the songs sound very similar and you can&#x27;t understand a thing the vox are saying.<p>Typically if I&#x27;m super tired AND need to block out the outside world but even hard to understand screaming won&#x27;t cut it, I have to resort to either instrumental metal or LoFi hip hop beats to study to.<p>If I&#x27;m currently listening to music, I really only do a full stop&#x2F;pause to focus if I notice I&#x27;ve run a breakpoint three times and have no idea what I&#x27;ve been stepping thru, or if I&#x27;m trying to refactor or write a fresh, new logic flow and just can&#x27;t get my brain focused enough to &quot;check it&quot; for all possible paths. That&#x27;s when I cut the feed, double-time my focus, and once I&#x27;m convinced it&#x27;s &quot;safe&quot; I can hit play again.<p>Brains are weird and finicky I tell ya.</text></comment> | <story><title>Context switching costs more than we give it credit for</title><url>https://thinkingthrough.substack.com/p/context-switching-cost-more-than</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jaygles</author><text>For me it depends on if the music has lyrics or vocals in it. Someone speaking or singing is the factor for whether my brain expends cognitive effort in listening. I just can&#x27;t help but try and pick up on words and discern what the meaning of them are.</text></item><item><author>saurik</author><text>There was a semi-famous study (one that I feel every developer should have at least considered) that gave software developers a problem to code in the form of some convoluted set of steps, and they were either assigned to listen to music or not to listen to music. There was (usefully) no difference in the correctness of the implementations, but people who listed to music reported more subjective happiness &#x2F; less boredom doing the task... only... they were also much less likely than the people who did the task in silence to notice that all of those steps collapsed down to &quot;return a constant number&quot;.<p>I personally feel like there are different components of my brain and some of them just want to do something, and if I don&#x27;t &quot;distract&quot; them then they do something arbitrary and maybe in turn distract me... but if I need them, and they are busy deciding some music I am listening to, I lose out on the maybe-even-often subconscious processing they do that gives me valuable insight. I thereby find some (mostly useless) tasks easier if I am seriously even playing a video game with a targeted skill while doing them (people hate me in meetings sometimes ;P), or <i>maybe</i> listening to music, but if I am doing the hard coding work I &quot;should be doing&quot; I just can&#x27;t :(.</text></item><item><author>axxl</author><text>&gt; Trying to code and listening to music falls under cognitive functions. Naming a variable while listening to your favorite songs&#x27; lyrics may result in cognitive overload. You are more likely to name a variable after the singers&#x2F;songs name than what the variable is supposed to reflect (true story).<p>This point in the article lost me pretty quickly. My flow state is drastically improved by music, and I have never ever named a variable after the song name or song artist I&#x27;m listening to in my life.<p>Edit: Nor have I ever seen a variable named after a song name or artist.<p>Edit2: NotoriousViewController. TheWeekndTimer. RedHotChiliPointers. Now I <i>want</i> to name my variables like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corobo</author><text>For me it&#x27;s how long I&#x27;ve been doing it.<p>If I&#x27;ve just started both are probably going to be good results. If I&#x27;m 4 hours in the music one will probably do better because I&#x27;ve not wandered away from my desk distracted by a shiny pen.</text></comment> |
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