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3,601,580 | 3,600,795 | 1 | 2 | 3,600,419 | train | <story><title>Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars</title><url>http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-nevada-self-driving-cars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huherto</author><text>My guess is that we will have a very efficient Taxi system. Using a Smart Phone you will be able to request a Taxi where ever you are; it will already know your favorite locations; your favorite music; it will automatically charge you; we will not need so much parking space.</text></item><item><author>vasco</author><text>This opens lots of cool possibilities such as eliminating the need for two cars in the family for example. You go to work, the car then comes back and drives the wife and then later in the afternoon when both parents are working it goes to school and picks up the kids!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malandrew</author><text>I just hope that this goes into effect in a way that you would signal how many people will be traveling together and they send the appropriate sized car. Having every vehicle on the road seat 5 people and luggage when it is rarely at full capacity is extremely inefficient.<p>Riding alone? If so, they send a 1 person vehicle to pick you up. Riding with a friend? Two person vehicle. etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars</title><url>http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-nevada-self-driving-cars.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huherto</author><text>My guess is that we will have a very efficient Taxi system. Using a Smart Phone you will be able to request a Taxi where ever you are; it will already know your favorite locations; your favorite music; it will automatically charge you; we will not need so much parking space.</text></item><item><author>vasco</author><text>This opens lots of cool possibilities such as eliminating the need for two cars in the family for example. You go to work, the car then comes back and drives the wife and then later in the afternoon when both parents are working it goes to school and picks up the kids!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wallawe</author><text>Sounds like a YC company in the making! In all seriousness, there will be some great business opportunities here. It will open up an entirely new market.</text></comment> |
32,406,256 | 32,405,480 | 1 | 3 | 32,403,471 | train | <story><title>Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic in oceans (2021)</title><url>https://www.nature.org/en-us/newsroom/ca-ocean-plastic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistasis</author><text>To place this in context, it&#x27;s 50,000 tons&#x2F;year of fishing waste, versus 200,000 tons&#x2F;year of microplastics from car tires:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2020&#x2F;jul&#x2F;14&#x2F;car-tyres-are-major-source-of-ocean-microplastics-study" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2020&#x2F;jul&#x2F;14&#x2F;car-tyre...</a><p>Further, microplastics enter the ecosystem far easier than the bulky big plastic from fishing gear, so the tire microplastics should be far more concerning to people.<p>It&#x27;s really weird how cars get a pass for so much. Try to live a life without a car, and people think you are weird, and pass laws preventing you from building a community that is accessible without a car (at least in the US). And that&#x27;s before we get to the violent deaths caused by car crashes, or the wheezing deaths caused by COPD, or the quality years of life reduced by asthma from cars...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>causality0</author><text><i>It&#x27;s really weird how cars get a pass for so much.</i><p>It&#x27;s really weird how <i>trucks</i> get a pass from people who don&#x27;t give cars a pass. If tire wear is proportional to road wear, the majority of tire-originating microplastics is from semi trucks, not commuter sedans.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic in oceans (2021)</title><url>https://www.nature.org/en-us/newsroom/ca-ocean-plastic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epistasis</author><text>To place this in context, it&#x27;s 50,000 tons&#x2F;year of fishing waste, versus 200,000 tons&#x2F;year of microplastics from car tires:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2020&#x2F;jul&#x2F;14&#x2F;car-tyres-are-major-source-of-ocean-microplastics-study" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2020&#x2F;jul&#x2F;14&#x2F;car-tyre...</a><p>Further, microplastics enter the ecosystem far easier than the bulky big plastic from fishing gear, so the tire microplastics should be far more concerning to people.<p>It&#x27;s really weird how cars get a pass for so much. Try to live a life without a car, and people think you are weird, and pass laws preventing you from building a community that is accessible without a car (at least in the US). And that&#x27;s before we get to the violent deaths caused by car crashes, or the wheezing deaths caused by COPD, or the quality years of life reduced by asthma from cars...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kohanz</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure if it was your intent, but that comparison makes the fishing output seem even more outsized to me, given the size of the auto industry.</text></comment> |
9,184,824 | 9,184,969 | 1 | 3 | 9,183,830 | train | <story><title>Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline</title><url>http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/03/introducing-Google-Cloud-Storage-Nearline-near-online-data-at-an-offline-price.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weitzj</author><text>Quote:
&quot;This is a Beta release of Nearline Storage. This feature is not covered by any SLA or deprecation policy and may be subject to backward-incompatible changes.&quot;<p>So should I believe in Google&#x27;s good-will? I would be fine trying out some services, which are in Google Beta. But my valuable data? They should have a SLA right from the start to gain the user&#x27;s trust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>libria</author><text>If we place too many restrictions on how companies should offer preview releases, they&#x27;ll just stop entirely. Are you suggesting that even those comfortable taking on risk to get a sneak peak should be forced to wait for general availability?</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline</title><url>http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/03/introducing-Google-Cloud-Storage-Nearline-near-online-data-at-an-offline-price.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weitzj</author><text>Quote:
&quot;This is a Beta release of Nearline Storage. This feature is not covered by any SLA or deprecation policy and may be subject to backward-incompatible changes.&quot;<p>So should I believe in Google&#x27;s good-will? I would be fine trying out some services, which are in Google Beta. But my valuable data? They should have a SLA right from the start to gain the user&#x27;s trust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlebar</author><text>&gt; But my valuable data?<p>Surely the whole point of not having an SLA (and indeed the whole point of calling it a &quot;beta&quot;) is so that you <i>don&#x27;t</i> trust it with your valuable data. I&#x27;m sure it will have an SLA soon enough.</text></comment> |
22,340,458 | 22,339,261 | 1 | 3 | 22,339,059 | train | <story><title>FDA clears ‘world’s first’ portable, low-cost MRI</title><url>https://www.healthimaging.com/topics/healthcare-economics/fda-clear-worlds-first-portable-mri</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Amarok</author><text>For a change, I can contribute something to HN without being out of my depth:)<p>Background: I&#x27;m a doctor with 3 years experience in acute medicine. AMA<p>Clearing some MRI misconceptions:
1. It&#x27;s indicated ASAP in specific emergencies and will change how we manage them. For acute ischaemic stroke, it detects patients within the recomended time window for thrombolysis. Simply, it shows the cellular swelling in the brain, gives an estimate of the onset and we decide the risk&#x2F;benefits of dissolving the clot.
Second use, for cauda equina syndrome. Again we&#x27;re looking for acute CNS tissue damage, this time from spinal chord compression, and the change in management is emergency neurosurgery (good luck getting them out of bed without an MRI)
For herpes encephalitis, MRI is debatable because you can start empiric treatment. But I&#x27;ve seen it done.<p>Another misconception for the first use scenario in stroke. The MRI sequences we&#x27;re interested in only take 1-3min and CT doesn&#x27;t help us. But in my experience the whole scan takes 2h to organize, so point of care MRI is a game changer. Every minute counts when you&#x27;re saving brain tissue.
And Lower definition with artifacts are acceptable because you&#x27;re looking for gross changes in a critically unwell patient.<p>Bonus: A report from when I managed my first suspected stroke as a junior doctor.<p>&quot;49yo lady day 1 post op for total knee replacement (elective admission). Commorbidities of hypertension, obesity and osteoarthritis. She was just started on apixaban and gabapentin as per protocol, when I was asked to see her for new onset upper limb bilateral tremor.<p>On examining her I found the symptoms had started 1h ago. She was presenting bilateral upper limb ataxia as well, reflexes were reduced on the left and there was numbness corresponding to C4 dermatome.
At this point I was worried about acute stroke whithin the 4h window for thrombolysis. I discussed the case with the acute stroke consultant and examined the patient with him. We requested an MRI brain to assess for acute posterior circulation stroke, because he thought time of onset was unclear (as per WAKE-UP protocol).
I acompanied the patient to neuroradiology services. The MRI sequences we were most interested was DWI and FLAIR which only took a few minutes. We quickly scanned through the images noting there were was no DWI-FlAir mismatched high intensity signal areas within the brain parenchyma. This allowed us to rule out acute ischaemic stroke.<p>6h later the symptoms subsided and I was satisfied they were due to an adverse reaction to gabapentin.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>FDA clears ‘world’s first’ portable, low-cost MRI</title><url>https://www.healthimaging.com/topics/healthcare-economics/fda-clear-worlds-first-portable-mri</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hkiely</author><text>“According to Connecticut-based Hyperfine, their machine will cost $50,000, which is 20-times cheaper than traditional systems, runs on 35-times less power and weights 10 times less than normal 1.5T MRI machines.”<p>I believe GE came out with MRI machines a while back that were specific for limbs. This really does not seem much different other than it is on wheels and you can possibly position over a torso in a bed if it isn’t metal.</text></comment> |
34,395,217 | 34,393,596 | 1 | 2 | 34,391,559 | train | <story><title>How to beat lag when developing a multiplayer RTS game</title><url>https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/rts-devlog-beat-lag-1607</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rcme</author><text>For an RTS game, you probably shouldn’t be sending unit positions over the network. Rather you should send events like “User A sent units X, Y, Z to position P at time T.” You can build your game as a simulation that plays back on both clients, so both clients compute the path of units X, Y, Z and locally play back the computer path. This allows you to perfectly recreate the state on both clients without needing to synchronize every single object. The best method of implementing this, that I know of, is called rollback net code.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to beat lag when developing a multiplayer RTS game</title><url>https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/rts-devlog-beat-lag-1607</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jmyeet</author><text>This is a surprisingly difficult problem. It&#x27;s also what leads to a lot of cheats, dupes and hacks in online multipler games: you basically have to trust the client at some point.<p>The starting point for any such discussion is (as in this article) where all updates are done on the server. You then have to deal with packet loss and latency spikes but the real problem is subjective: it just doesn&#x27;t <i>feel good</i>.<p>Imagine you&#x27;re playing Fortnite and when you pressed your trigger you had to wait 50ms for it to acknowledge that your gun fired. That bullet has travel time so there may be another update if you hit someone.<p>So instead the client gives you immediate feedback and proceeds as if that shot actually happened. This may well include calculating if you hit the target. That target&#x27;s position may be interpolated too, not the location you last got an update for. This feels way more responsive.<p>What if your target actually stopped moving after you shot. You get into an ordering canondrum. Now imagine if shooting that shot had recoil (which could affect both aim and position) and getting hit moved the target (eg getting hit by an explosive of some kind).<p>Doing all of this when latency can easily be &gt;100ms and having it feel good is incredibly difficult.</text></comment> |
19,738,787 | 19,737,216 | 1 | 2 | 19,734,565 | train | <story><title>Changes to Models S and X allow them to travel longer without larger batteries</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/longest-range-electric-vehicle-now-goes-even-farther</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asmosoinio</author><text>I just read up on 3&#x27;000 to 5&#x27;00 mile intervals that might be prevalent in the US?<p>To me that sounds crazy. Many synthetic oils are officially approved to 15&#x27;000 miles.</text></item><item><author>asmosoinio</author><text>That&#x27;s not super different from long lasting oil? Some Petrol cars do 30&#x27;000km without and service?</text></item><item><author>Shivetya</author><text>Service intervals are very limited. Let me use my Model 3 as an example, I only need tire rotations until 25,000 miles. At that point I need the cabin and HVAC air filters replaced, then 25k later I do it again.<p>Not only will dealership service centers be impacted, oil change shops will have little work if any as the number of petrol cars wind down, general service shops face the same issue as the numbers decline.<p>Now there are jobs that will become important similar to how renewable energy solutions ended some jobs and made new. Electricians for business and home needs will increase because of both industries.</text></item><item><author>ajuc</author><text>&gt; EVs don&#x27;t need the large established dealership base and their included maintenance facilities<p>I never understood that. Why does power source matter in the context of dealership base and maintenance? EVs still break.</text></item><item><author>Shivetya</author><text>A few observations, before I derail<p>I do not want to dismiss the efforts of Audi or Jaguar but I think their initial focus was being good examples for their respective brands with regards to their packaging. Their interior quality of a different generation and caliber than Tesla. The EV part was an important concern but secondary. They can still rack up significant ZEV credits in California letting them off the hook of buying them from others.<p>Tesla needs to refresh the S and X to improve interior fit and finish but also concentrate on making them quieter, an issue I have with my 3. without the drone of a motor every sound stands out and EVs tend to ride on stiffer, noisier, tires.<p>As for difficulty, other than i3 and Tesla cars I do not believe any other EV was a clean sheet design. Even the Leaf appears based on traditional cars. the Bolt is simply a spark when a new motor cradle and battery back pushed under it. The Hyundai&#x2F;Kia models are all adaptions. Not 100% sure about the iPace but Jaguar even contracted out assembly.<p>--<p>The manufacturing difficulty is probably secondary to the seismic shift crossing the auto industry and associated industries. EVs don&#x27;t need the large established dealership base and their included maintenance facilities. Secondary market means little use for parts stores and their suppliers. Gas stations will be right out with most charging done at destination points. Manufacturing of the autos themselves will implode the number of employees and that will lead to union difficulty in some countries; where they sit on boards and can stymie the move to EVs and loss of production jobs.<p>The Kia Niro EV numbers you mention are not EPA which was 258. I mention this because your other numbers were EPA.</text></item><item><author>codeulike</author><text>Compare to the Audi e-Tron, which has a fairly massive 95kWH battery but only scores 204 miles of EPA range. They claim they&#x27;re only using 88% of the battery capacity so that charging is faster and battery longevity is preserved, but thats a really weird engineering decision that belies the fact they have made a terribly inefficient (and perhaps rapidly degrading?) battery pack&#x2F;drivetrain.<p>Meanwhile the base Model S, for $4k more, has 285 miles of EPA range, and charges faster when below 50%, although not as fast as the e-Tron when above 50%.<p>The smaller Kia Niro EV (if you can get one, they aren&#x27;t making many because they can&#x27;t source the batteries) squeezes 258 miles of range from a 65 kWH battery. Much better, but terribly production constrained. It won What Car of the Year in the UK but they can only deliver 900 to the UK for the whole of 2019. Not sure what the global Kia production rate is, but presumably far far less than Tesla which has sustained 4000+ Model 3&#x27;s per week since last October (although not yet delivering to the RHD countries like the UK, alas)<p>Turns out making EVs is harder than everyone thought. We were told the traditional automakers would just wade in and obliterate Tesla, who were just putting &#x27;wheels on batteries&#x27;. That hasn&#x27;t happened.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>artimaeis</author><text>Many synthetic oils _are_ fine that long.<p>Very few oil filters are fine that long. I know Mobil 1 makes one rated for 15k miles, but I&#x27;m not aware of any OEM components with near that lifetime.<p>Hopefully that changes soon, but in the meantime I&#x27;ll keep changing the oil at the rate my oil filter is rated for.</text></comment> | <story><title>Changes to Models S and X allow them to travel longer without larger batteries</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/longest-range-electric-vehicle-now-goes-even-farther</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asmosoinio</author><text>I just read up on 3&#x27;000 to 5&#x27;00 mile intervals that might be prevalent in the US?<p>To me that sounds crazy. Many synthetic oils are officially approved to 15&#x27;000 miles.</text></item><item><author>asmosoinio</author><text>That&#x27;s not super different from long lasting oil? Some Petrol cars do 30&#x27;000km without and service?</text></item><item><author>Shivetya</author><text>Service intervals are very limited. Let me use my Model 3 as an example, I only need tire rotations until 25,000 miles. At that point I need the cabin and HVAC air filters replaced, then 25k later I do it again.<p>Not only will dealership service centers be impacted, oil change shops will have little work if any as the number of petrol cars wind down, general service shops face the same issue as the numbers decline.<p>Now there are jobs that will become important similar to how renewable energy solutions ended some jobs and made new. Electricians for business and home needs will increase because of both industries.</text></item><item><author>ajuc</author><text>&gt; EVs don&#x27;t need the large established dealership base and their included maintenance facilities<p>I never understood that. Why does power source matter in the context of dealership base and maintenance? EVs still break.</text></item><item><author>Shivetya</author><text>A few observations, before I derail<p>I do not want to dismiss the efforts of Audi or Jaguar but I think their initial focus was being good examples for their respective brands with regards to their packaging. Their interior quality of a different generation and caliber than Tesla. The EV part was an important concern but secondary. They can still rack up significant ZEV credits in California letting them off the hook of buying them from others.<p>Tesla needs to refresh the S and X to improve interior fit and finish but also concentrate on making them quieter, an issue I have with my 3. without the drone of a motor every sound stands out and EVs tend to ride on stiffer, noisier, tires.<p>As for difficulty, other than i3 and Tesla cars I do not believe any other EV was a clean sheet design. Even the Leaf appears based on traditional cars. the Bolt is simply a spark when a new motor cradle and battery back pushed under it. The Hyundai&#x2F;Kia models are all adaptions. Not 100% sure about the iPace but Jaguar even contracted out assembly.<p>--<p>The manufacturing difficulty is probably secondary to the seismic shift crossing the auto industry and associated industries. EVs don&#x27;t need the large established dealership base and their included maintenance facilities. Secondary market means little use for parts stores and their suppliers. Gas stations will be right out with most charging done at destination points. Manufacturing of the autos themselves will implode the number of employees and that will lead to union difficulty in some countries; where they sit on boards and can stymie the move to EVs and loss of production jobs.<p>The Kia Niro EV numbers you mention are not EPA which was 258. I mention this because your other numbers were EPA.</text></item><item><author>codeulike</author><text>Compare to the Audi e-Tron, which has a fairly massive 95kWH battery but only scores 204 miles of EPA range. They claim they&#x27;re only using 88% of the battery capacity so that charging is faster and battery longevity is preserved, but thats a really weird engineering decision that belies the fact they have made a terribly inefficient (and perhaps rapidly degrading?) battery pack&#x2F;drivetrain.<p>Meanwhile the base Model S, for $4k more, has 285 miles of EPA range, and charges faster when below 50%, although not as fast as the e-Tron when above 50%.<p>The smaller Kia Niro EV (if you can get one, they aren&#x27;t making many because they can&#x27;t source the batteries) squeezes 258 miles of range from a 65 kWH battery. Much better, but terribly production constrained. It won What Car of the Year in the UK but they can only deliver 900 to the UK for the whole of 2019. Not sure what the global Kia production rate is, but presumably far far less than Tesla which has sustained 4000+ Model 3&#x27;s per week since last October (although not yet delivering to the RHD countries like the UK, alas)<p>Turns out making EVs is harder than everyone thought. We were told the traditional automakers would just wade in and obliterate Tesla, who were just putting &#x27;wheels on batteries&#x27;. That hasn&#x27;t happened.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gameswithgo</author><text>oil change stores advocate 3000 miles.
car manuals or cars with computers that tell you when to change the oil advocate much longer intervals.</text></comment> |
30,931,658 | 30,931,778 | 1 | 3 | 30,928,714 | train | <story><title>Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20040630214045/http://steampowered.com/status/survey.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epolanski</author><text>Fun fact but for years updating GPUs led to a decrease rather than an increase in framerate.<p>Basically with a solid GeForce 4 series card you could already cap the 100 fps framerate on Half-Life, but update to a much more powerful 9600 pro and framerate would start getting much more lower. The Quake 1 engine would be so old that getting better GPUs would make it run worse.<p>Also, another fun fact about HL is that scaled massively on ram frequencies. You would get a higher boost in framerate by overclocking your ram than your cpu or gpu.<p>It was only in late 2000s and the era of much more powerful 6th series that solid 100 fps on counter strike 1.6 were a given.<p>I miss that era of the internet, when socializing on irc and public servers was the norm, players controlled the servers rather than companies. Today we have replaced all of this infrastructure with ease of use and queue buttons and playing online leads to barely beyond any meaningful and short lived interaction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leonardp</author><text>When reading through your comment I had a blast from the past and remembered how I was
browsing the &quot;All-Seeing Eye&quot; [1] to look for Quake 3 servers and then share them with friends via IRC.<p>Looking back at those times I remember the Internet as a much more social place (but that might be just be).
I think it&#x27;s because people had to get active to use services for social interaction as opposed to getting
hit by a notification in your face.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_All-Seeing_Eye" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_All-Seeing_Eye</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20040630214045/http://steampowered.com/status/survey.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epolanski</author><text>Fun fact but for years updating GPUs led to a decrease rather than an increase in framerate.<p>Basically with a solid GeForce 4 series card you could already cap the 100 fps framerate on Half-Life, but update to a much more powerful 9600 pro and framerate would start getting much more lower. The Quake 1 engine would be so old that getting better GPUs would make it run worse.<p>Also, another fun fact about HL is that scaled massively on ram frequencies. You would get a higher boost in framerate by overclocking your ram than your cpu or gpu.<p>It was only in late 2000s and the era of much more powerful 6th series that solid 100 fps on counter strike 1.6 were a given.<p>I miss that era of the internet, when socializing on irc and public servers was the norm, players controlled the servers rather than companies. Today we have replaced all of this infrastructure with ease of use and queue buttons and playing online leads to barely beyond any meaningful and short lived interaction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcellus23</author><text>&gt; players controlled the servers rather than companies<p>There are still some games like this! Admittedly fewer and fewer, but I&#x27;ve been enjoying Squad for example — a tactical FPS that encourages teamwork. Lots of great public servers with good communities.</text></comment> |
18,884,313 | 18,881,090 | 1 | 2 | 18,881,030 | train | <story><title>Donald Knuth – The Joy of Asymptotics (2000) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2W1y0a7PhU</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>svat</author><text>Yesterday was Knuth&#x27;s 81st birthday, and perhaps for that reason, a good number of videos have been made unlisted on the stanfordonline YouTube channel. Recording the links here for posterity:<p>• &quot;Donald Knuth lectures&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PL94E35692EB9D36F3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PL94E35692EB9D36F3</a> (111 videos)<p>This includes several sub-series but the playlists don&#x27;t have the videos in the right order:<p>• “Aha sessions”: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rNbeodV7vqxxxWpe4s_SFty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rNbeodV7vqx...</a> (Knuth used to run a “problem-solving seminar” at Stanford; these are videos from one such year.)<p>Three lecture series on TeX that are now of historical interest (e.g. the TeX program has changed considerably):<p>• “TeX for Beginners” <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rN1PKcXvzjor-Bl6o6eSNTN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rN1PKcXvzjo...</a><p>• “Advanced TeXarcana” <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rNrDaAftaqMRQEmsARSpLHi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rNrDaAftaqM...</a><p>• “The Internal Details of TeX82” <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rM2JuHk3qBhQDxY9QGrLrYE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rM2JuHk3qBh...</a> (I&#x27;ve found this invaluable as I try to read the TeX program)<p>The following two playlists are still unlisted and I no longer know how to get to them:<p>• Mathematical Writing <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rOrFl78-o6m_QbJqTXGfVVb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rOrFl78-o6m...</a><p>• Computer Musings - Donald Knuth <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rNMsVRnSJ44WuwbminUqXX2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rNMsVRnSJ44...</a><p>(I happened to have them in my browser history… these playlists used to be linked from <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scpd.stanford.edu&#x2F;knuth&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scpd.stanford.edu&#x2F;knuth&#x2F;</a> but as of yesterday they seem to have changed it up, and also made the videos public (why were they “unlisted” earlier? No idea).)<p>And completely unrelated, but if you happen to be interested in church organ music and the Bible&#x27;s Book of Revelation, the world premiere of Knuth&#x27;s <i>Fantasia Apocalyptica</i> (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.stanford.edu&#x2F;~knuth&#x2F;fant.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs.stanford.edu&#x2F;~knuth&#x2F;fant.html</a>):<p>• <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLvixIGKr5sJffdfwecygYqhXsgz-EBCC8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;playlist?list=PLvixIGKr5sJffdfwecygY...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Donald Knuth – The Joy of Asymptotics (2000) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2W1y0a7PhU</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jelliclesfarm</author><text>Happy 81th to Prof.Knuth.</text></comment> |
33,663,399 | 33,663,339 | 1 | 2 | 33,663,191 | train | <story><title>Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/11/18/elizabeth-holmes-fraud-trial-prison-sentence</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gopled</author><text>It seems odd to me how she&#x27;s being punished so much for defrauding investors, but not for endangering patients with fraudulent blood tests.<p>Is the latter just easier to prosecute because of the paper trail? Or is the law biased more towards punishing financial crimes?</text></comment> | <story><title>Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/11/18/elizabeth-holmes-fraud-trial-prison-sentence</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrlonglong</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe she tried to get out of it by having babies. I feel for her kids, it&#x27;s going to be really shit for them.</text></comment> |
22,855,393 | 22,855,234 | 1 | 3 | 22,852,316 | train | <story><title>Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux</title><url>https://unixsheikh.com/articles/technical-reasons-to-choose-freebsd-over-linux.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmm</author><text>&gt; And even to avoid running headlong into this troll pit: Linux distros without systemd exist. It&#x27;s dishonest to compare FreeBSD to Linux and then only focus on a subset of Linux distros.<p>Are any of them mature enough to depend on for serious work? I looked at moving back to Linux a few months ago, but all the non-systemd distributions seemed to be small projects and many of them looked to have schismed, collapsed, or both.</text></item><item><author>msla</author><text>&gt; They haven&#x27;t listed what&#x27;s actually technically better about it than in systemd. (not subjectively)<p>And even to avoid running headlong into this troll pit: Linux distros without systemd exist. It&#x27;s dishonest to compare FreeBSD to Linux and then only focus on a subset of Linux distros.</text></item><item><author>viraptor</author><text>I find some points... debatable. For example software:<p>&gt; Normally when you install software on a Unix operating system you find and download the software.<p>According to the title, this is about choosing FreeBSD over Linux, not over Unix. That means the normal way to install is &quot;&lt;package_manager&gt; install &lt;package_name&gt;&quot;. For the end user this is just like ports without having to compile anything. Once you don&#x27;t have the package or the port available, you end up in the same situation: download the source and compile (which is more likely to work on Linux OOTB simply due to popularity).<p>&gt; Poudriere is a utility for creating and testing FreeBSD packages. It utilize the FreeBSD jail system to set up isolated compilation environments.<p>In Debian-like systems you can use pbuilder in the same way. Each package is built in the same clean choot. I suspect RH has something similar?<p>&gt; bhyve<p>They don&#x27;t list anything technically better about bhyve. Why would I use this over xen or kvm?<p>&gt; FreeBSD has three different firewalls built into the base system: PF, IPFW, and IPFILTER, also known as IPF.<p>Ok. Linux has iptables and now nftables&#x2F;bpfilter. It&#x27;s also got queuing, stateless and stateful features, protocol tracking, etc. CARP can be done in userland, or via other solutions like linux-ha&#x2F;stonith. What are the reasons to choose FreeBSD here? (also, mentioning 3 firewalls after being excited about well-designed system that just comes together rather than being glued together from third-party software just sounds weird)<p>&gt; BSD init<p>They haven&#x27;t listed what&#x27;s actually technically better about it than in systemd. (not subjectively)<p>&gt; Jails<p>Jails <i>as described in the article</i>, have the same features as lxc. Lxd provides zfs-as-a-backing-store option as well.<p>&gt; FreeBSD has over five hundred system variables that can be read and set using the sysctl utility.<p>Ok. On my Fedora system &quot;sysctl -a | wc -l&quot; gives 2093.<p>&gt; For example, on top of the geom_mirror module an encryption module can be added, such as geom_eli to provide a mirrored and encrypted volume.<p>So how is it better than lvm with its layers dm-raid and dm-crypt?<p>I get that people are excited about FreeBSD and I&#x27;d love to learn what are the technically better sides of it. But this article really doesn&#x27;t list that many.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robertlagrant</author><text>Ah, &quot;serious work&quot;. That well-known absolute thing that is the same for everyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux</title><url>https://unixsheikh.com/articles/technical-reasons-to-choose-freebsd-over-linux.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmm</author><text>&gt; And even to avoid running headlong into this troll pit: Linux distros without systemd exist. It&#x27;s dishonest to compare FreeBSD to Linux and then only focus on a subset of Linux distros.<p>Are any of them mature enough to depend on for serious work? I looked at moving back to Linux a few months ago, but all the non-systemd distributions seemed to be small projects and many of them looked to have schismed, collapsed, or both.</text></item><item><author>msla</author><text>&gt; They haven&#x27;t listed what&#x27;s actually technically better about it than in systemd. (not subjectively)<p>And even to avoid running headlong into this troll pit: Linux distros without systemd exist. It&#x27;s dishonest to compare FreeBSD to Linux and then only focus on a subset of Linux distros.</text></item><item><author>viraptor</author><text>I find some points... debatable. For example software:<p>&gt; Normally when you install software on a Unix operating system you find and download the software.<p>According to the title, this is about choosing FreeBSD over Linux, not over Unix. That means the normal way to install is &quot;&lt;package_manager&gt; install &lt;package_name&gt;&quot;. For the end user this is just like ports without having to compile anything. Once you don&#x27;t have the package or the port available, you end up in the same situation: download the source and compile (which is more likely to work on Linux OOTB simply due to popularity).<p>&gt; Poudriere is a utility for creating and testing FreeBSD packages. It utilize the FreeBSD jail system to set up isolated compilation environments.<p>In Debian-like systems you can use pbuilder in the same way. Each package is built in the same clean choot. I suspect RH has something similar?<p>&gt; bhyve<p>They don&#x27;t list anything technically better about bhyve. Why would I use this over xen or kvm?<p>&gt; FreeBSD has three different firewalls built into the base system: PF, IPFW, and IPFILTER, also known as IPF.<p>Ok. Linux has iptables and now nftables&#x2F;bpfilter. It&#x27;s also got queuing, stateless and stateful features, protocol tracking, etc. CARP can be done in userland, or via other solutions like linux-ha&#x2F;stonith. What are the reasons to choose FreeBSD here? (also, mentioning 3 firewalls after being excited about well-designed system that just comes together rather than being glued together from third-party software just sounds weird)<p>&gt; BSD init<p>They haven&#x27;t listed what&#x27;s actually technically better about it than in systemd. (not subjectively)<p>&gt; Jails<p>Jails <i>as described in the article</i>, have the same features as lxc. Lxd provides zfs-as-a-backing-store option as well.<p>&gt; FreeBSD has over five hundred system variables that can be read and set using the sysctl utility.<p>Ok. On my Fedora system &quot;sysctl -a | wc -l&quot; gives 2093.<p>&gt; For example, on top of the geom_mirror module an encryption module can be added, such as geom_eli to provide a mirrored and encrypted volume.<p>So how is it better than lvm with its layers dm-raid and dm-crypt?<p>I get that people are excited about FreeBSD and I&#x27;d love to learn what are the technically better sides of it. But this article really doesn&#x27;t list that many.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_ZeD_</author><text>Slackware is still here looking at you guys</text></comment> |
25,243,820 | 25,243,722 | 1 | 3 | 25,242,851 | train | <story><title>Roblox pays 26% of its revenue to Apple/Google for payment processing</title><url>https://twitter.com/eric_ruleman/status/1332595028384952320</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bemmu</author><text>I make games on Roblox. When a user spends $1 in your game, you get to keep about $0.25 of it ($0.70 if you spend the funds to buy other stuff on Roblox).<p>Basically 1&#x2F;4 is the Apple&#x2F;Google cut, 1&#x2F;4 is Roblox profit, 1&#x2F;4 is what they say is used to run servers etc.<p>This is not a complaint. I’m a big fan of the platform and think they provide huge value to developers. Just thought some might find the economics of it interesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonymoushn</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.roblox.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;developer-economics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.roblox.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;developer-econom...</a><p>Wow, that&#x27;s crazy.<p>If I understand correctly, someone can buy 10,000 Robux for $99.99 and spend it all in your game. You&#x27;ll get 7,000 Robux and you can cash them out for $24.50</text></comment> | <story><title>Roblox pays 26% of its revenue to Apple/Google for payment processing</title><url>https://twitter.com/eric_ruleman/status/1332595028384952320</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bemmu</author><text>I make games on Roblox. When a user spends $1 in your game, you get to keep about $0.25 of it ($0.70 if you spend the funds to buy other stuff on Roblox).<p>Basically 1&#x2F;4 is the Apple&#x2F;Google cut, 1&#x2F;4 is Roblox profit, 1&#x2F;4 is what they say is used to run servers etc.<p>This is not a complaint. I’m a big fan of the platform and think they provide huge value to developers. Just thought some might find the economics of it interesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crispyporkbites</author><text>How much are your games making? How hard are they to create vs a web app? Are most of the games made by professionals or just kids looking for more robux?</text></comment> |
19,040,153 | 19,039,788 | 1 | 2 | 19,038,196 | train | <story><title>Nintendo Makes It Clear That Piracy Is Only Way to Preserve Video Game History</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjm5kw/nintendo-makes-it-clear-that-piracy-is-the-only-way-to-preserve-video-game-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beezischillin</author><text>Nintendo is one of the worst game companies when it comes to dealing with online &#x2F; their fans. The YouTube &#x2F; Twitch streaming controversy was just ridiculous... They will also aggressively chase down people who run sites that preserve old games that aren&#x27;t even produced anymore even if they don&#x27;t intend to allow people any access to them in the future.<p>As far as they&#x27;re concerned people shouldn&#x27;t be allowed access to these historic works, no matter the circumstances.<p>It&#x27;s pretty sad behavior from a company beloved by so many.<p>By the way, I also find it really interesting that video games are software, a special kind of software that we assign a very particular type of value to that&#x27;s not really monetary. We want to keep them alive and enjoy them so long after their time has passed. It&#x27;s so much different than, say, a copy of Photoshop 2.11 or Winamp 3.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hnaccy</author><text>&gt;By the way, I also find it really interesting that video games are software, a special kind of software that we assign a very particular type of value to that&#x27;s not really monetary. We want to keep them alive and enjoy them so long after their time has passed. It&#x27;s so much different than, say, a copy of Photoshop 2.11 or Winamp 3.<p>Creative works are valued longer because new creative works don&#x27;t function as replacements. There&#x27;s only one Canterbury Tales or Super Mario World.<p>An old photoshop copy is more like an old almanac, it is a tool.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nintendo Makes It Clear That Piracy Is Only Way to Preserve Video Game History</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjm5kw/nintendo-makes-it-clear-that-piracy-is-the-only-way-to-preserve-video-game-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beezischillin</author><text>Nintendo is one of the worst game companies when it comes to dealing with online &#x2F; their fans. The YouTube &#x2F; Twitch streaming controversy was just ridiculous... They will also aggressively chase down people who run sites that preserve old games that aren&#x27;t even produced anymore even if they don&#x27;t intend to allow people any access to them in the future.<p>As far as they&#x27;re concerned people shouldn&#x27;t be allowed access to these historic works, no matter the circumstances.<p>It&#x27;s pretty sad behavior from a company beloved by so many.<p>By the way, I also find it really interesting that video games are software, a special kind of software that we assign a very particular type of value to that&#x27;s not really monetary. We want to keep them alive and enjoy them so long after their time has passed. It&#x27;s so much different than, say, a copy of Photoshop 2.11 or Winamp 3.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yannyu</author><text>&gt;By the way, I also find it really interesting that video games are software, a special kind of software that we assign a very particular type of value to that&#x27;s not really monetary.<p>Video games may be software, but they&#x27;re consumed in a way that&#x27;s much more similar to music or video. Video games aren&#x27;t a mean to an end like other kinds of software, but instead is an experience to be enjoyed simply through the consumption of it.</text></comment> |
10,298,834 | 10,298,687 | 1 | 2 | 10,298,512 | train | <story><title>Two HN Announcements</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dang</author><text>Please don&#x27;t worry about this. It really is just like flagging. We only take away flagging rights if someone repeatedly misuses them—never for one random thing.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t have even included the bit about taking away vouching rights except I know that the question &quot;What if people just vouch for all the bad comments&quot; was going to come up otherwise.<p>(Also, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve been promoted? But thanks—that&#x27;s particularly meaningful coming from a seasoned veteran of the early Reddit...)</text></item><item><author>raldi</author><text><i>&gt; If we notice abusive vouches, we&#x27;ll take away vouching rights</i><p>That might scare some people away from vouching. Could you clarify whether it&#x27;ll be more like, &quot;If you wrongly vouch for even one single thing, we&#x27;ll silently and permanently remove your vouching ability forever with no possible recourse&quot; or more like, &quot;If you show a repeated pattern of bad vouching, we&#x27;ll reach out to you and explain what you&#x27;re doing wrong, and only if it continues, take away your vouching privileges as a last resort, perhaps only temporarily&quot; (or somewhere in between those extremes)?<p>P.S. I couldn&#x27;t be happier to hear about Dan&#x27;s promotion. He has an expert touch for community management, and (I learned after an opportunity to join him for beers one night) some deep wisdom on the subject, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangrossman</author><text>&gt; We only take away flagging rights if someone repeatedly misuses them—never for one random thing.<p>My flag link disappeared one day without notice or explanation, and stayed disappeared for a year or so. I continue to fear using the flag link, even when I think something should be flagged. There&#x27;s no chance I&#x27;m going to vouch for something other people have flagged: I&#x27;d never have enough certainty that I&#x27;m more right than they are in your eyes. I value my ability to participate in this community too much to help moderate it under threat of punishment for doing so poorly.<p>Re: the replies below, the worst that can happen is not losing the vouch button, it&#x27;s being silently shadowbanned for something else, when that wouldn&#x27;t have happened if you hadn&#x27;t put yourself on the admin&#x27;s vouch review list for extra scrutiny. I already fear that happening any time I participate in one of those &quot;what are you working on &#x2F; what are your side projects&quot; threads and include a link to my site.</text></comment> | <story><title>Two HN Announcements</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dang</author><text>Please don&#x27;t worry about this. It really is just like flagging. We only take away flagging rights if someone repeatedly misuses them—never for one random thing.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t have even included the bit about taking away vouching rights except I know that the question &quot;What if people just vouch for all the bad comments&quot; was going to come up otherwise.<p>(Also, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve been promoted? But thanks—that&#x27;s particularly meaningful coming from a seasoned veteran of the early Reddit...)</text></item><item><author>raldi</author><text><i>&gt; If we notice abusive vouches, we&#x27;ll take away vouching rights</i><p>That might scare some people away from vouching. Could you clarify whether it&#x27;ll be more like, &quot;If you wrongly vouch for even one single thing, we&#x27;ll silently and permanently remove your vouching ability forever with no possible recourse&quot; or more like, &quot;If you show a repeated pattern of bad vouching, we&#x27;ll reach out to you and explain what you&#x27;re doing wrong, and only if it continues, take away your vouching privileges as a last resort, perhaps only temporarily&quot; (or somewhere in between those extremes)?<p>P.S. I couldn&#x27;t be happier to hear about Dan&#x27;s promotion. He has an expert touch for community management, and (I learned after an opportunity to join him for beers one night) some deep wisdom on the subject, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raldi</author><text><i>&gt; I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve been promoted</i><p>Editorial independence is a big vote of confidence; they don&#x27;t toss that set of keys to just any old schmuck.</text></comment> |
15,603,630 | 15,603,101 | 1 | 3 | 15,602,334 | train | <story><title>Drawille: Pixel graphics in terminal with Unicode braille characters</title><url>https://github.com/asciimoo/drawille</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chmod775</author><text>Did anyone even stop to appreciate the irony of using a thing created for blind people to make something that will only ever be useful to people with sight, if at all?</text></comment> | <story><title>Drawille: Pixel graphics in terminal with Unicode braille characters</title><url>https://github.com/asciimoo/drawille</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>msla</author><text>I can&#x27;t wait until people rediscover Sixels and get actual graphics in the terminal in a network-transparent fashion. Modern terminal emulators support it, it just isn&#x27;t widely known.</text></comment> |
24,921,916 | 24,921,719 | 1 | 2 | 24,917,132 | train | <story><title>The self-driving car is a red herring</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/92/frontiers/the-self_driving-car-is-a-red-herring</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluedino</author><text>&gt;&gt; Between being crammed in the cars, the mentally unstable accosting you, the lack of cleanliness and the occasional assault<p>Three of the four of those are things you don&#x27;t hear people complaining about with the transit system in Japan because of the culture differences in the USA.<p>How can that be fixed, here?</text></item><item><author>Grimm1</author><text>I know people love public transport because of the supposed larger benefit to society but having ridden NYC public transport for over 7 years now I absolutely loath it.<p>The experience is horrible almost every day. Between being crammed in the cars, the mentally unstable accosting you, the lack of cleanliness and the occasional assault I&#x27;m simply not willing to deal with that continuously. I put up with it because it was cheaper than owning a car in NYC at a time where I needed to make that trade off but I don&#x27;t need to make that trade off any more.<p>This is with the MTA receiving billions of dollars and subsidies. Give us a system like Japan or even some of the light rail like I experienced in France and I can see people moving towards public transport. Continue to give us systems like the New York subway and I don&#x27;t see cars going away.<p>This article makes largely the same point -- the way we do public transport in the US is flawed and technology can help us make it less so, but it has to have buy in from our political systems and the people. As long as institutions like the MTA have a say we&#x27;ll only see mismanaged and rapidly aging systems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UncleOxidant</author><text>I was listening to a youtube recently talking about covid in Japan (their numbers are strikingly low) and the correspondent in Japan mentioned that 5 year olds commonly ride on public transit alone to school without parents. She said it was a rite of passage for 5 year olds that they ride the trains by themselves. That&#x27;s just unimaginable in the US especially in a city like NYC. Huge cultural differences.</text></comment> | <story><title>The self-driving car is a red herring</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/92/frontiers/the-self_driving-car-is-a-red-herring</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluedino</author><text>&gt;&gt; Between being crammed in the cars, the mentally unstable accosting you, the lack of cleanliness and the occasional assault<p>Three of the four of those are things you don&#x27;t hear people complaining about with the transit system in Japan because of the culture differences in the USA.<p>How can that be fixed, here?</text></item><item><author>Grimm1</author><text>I know people love public transport because of the supposed larger benefit to society but having ridden NYC public transport for over 7 years now I absolutely loath it.<p>The experience is horrible almost every day. Between being crammed in the cars, the mentally unstable accosting you, the lack of cleanliness and the occasional assault I&#x27;m simply not willing to deal with that continuously. I put up with it because it was cheaper than owning a car in NYC at a time where I needed to make that trade off but I don&#x27;t need to make that trade off any more.<p>This is with the MTA receiving billions of dollars and subsidies. Give us a system like Japan or even some of the light rail like I experienced in France and I can see people moving towards public transport. Continue to give us systems like the New York subway and I don&#x27;t see cars going away.<p>This article makes largely the same point -- the way we do public transport in the US is flawed and technology can help us make it less so, but it has to have buy in from our political systems and the people. As long as institutions like the MTA have a say we&#x27;ll only see mismanaged and rapidly aging systems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Grimm1</author><text>Actually put money into expanded infrastructure and staffing of public transport instead of funneling it into someone&#x27;s pocket. Regularly patrol the cars. Open more shelter for the homeless and institute better mental health policies. None of this is a cultural issue unless you mean a cultural issue of political disinterest and general apathy from the public and graft from our politicians on either side.</text></comment> |
10,610,425 | 10,610,322 | 1 | 2 | 10,607,120 | train | <story><title>What I’ve learned from sitting next to a pro salesman</title><url>https://medium.com/@odedgolan/what-i-ve-learned-from-sitting-next-to-a-pro-salesman-faa19b5f38c7#.n0q9qnxqd</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>The bit about cold calls working better than anticipated rings true. I advised a company I help out with not to bother cold calling, because it never works, and was embarrassed to learn a few months later that it had been extremely effective just to have the founder ring random people up.<p>The bit about remembering names, deploying kids names, and talking about football --- that part does not ring true. I&#x27;ve done sales work for my last startup, and before that a as a product manager had a sales-support role where most of the people I talked to every day were account managers, and even though I know this &quot;talk about football&quot; stuff is what salespeople are supposedly doing, I never saw that happen.<p>Taking people out to dinner? Obviously, different story. But on the phone, especially early on? All business.<p>The most important thing I think salespeople do that ordinary people don&#x27;t do is Ask For The Sale.</text></comment> | <story><title>What I’ve learned from sitting next to a pro salesman</title><url>https://medium.com/@odedgolan/what-i-ve-learned-from-sitting-next-to-a-pro-salesman-faa19b5f38c7#.n0q9qnxqd</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grecy</author><text>This sounds like a lot of the great advice in How to Win Friends and Influence People [1]<p>I read that book yearly, and learn something every time.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0671027034&#x2F;?tag=roadchoseme-20" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0671027034&#x2F;?tag=roadchoseme-20</a></text></comment> |
18,404,891 | 18,404,593 | 1 | 2 | 18,404,250 | train | <story><title>Big investors sue banks in U.S. over currency market rigging</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-forex-lawsuit/big-investors-sue-16-banks-in-u-s-over-currency-market-rigging-idUSKCN1NC34J</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lordnacho</author><text>Former FX fund manager here. I believe the allegations.<p>What happens is that most derivatives like options or variance swaps are tied to the daily WM&#x2F;Reuters fixing in the London afternoon. There&#x27;s a bunch of different types of derivatives, but the thing about most of them is they have some sort of characteristic where the price dependency gets highly nonlinear towards an expiry.<p>So this means that someone who had a moderately sensitive position on one day might have an extremely sensitive position a few days later.<p>To the point where it might make sense to make sure the price doesn&#x27;t hit a certain level at the fixing, by doing a bunch of trades in the spot market leading up to the fix. Or conversely by making sure it does hit some level by ramping up the price.<p>Now you might think it&#x27;s all more or less a wash, because someone is gonna have the other side of that derivative, but that&#x27;s not the case. The banks tend to have the same sides of the trades against their customers, because the customers are mostly all after certain payoff schemes.<p>Apart from there being a motivation, I also believe the allegations because I&#x27;ve been told the actual positions on certain days. You&#x27;d have these days where nothing was happening at all, and then just before the fix the price would ramp, or the price would be moving but the graph would have a weird flat ceiling. So you&#x27;d call the brokers and ask him WTF happened, and they&#x27;d say something like &quot;XYZ bank has a huge barrier there&quot;, or &quot;Bank X has wants to knock out this level&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s very apparent to anyone who looks at any product that has a fixing, I&#x27;ve traded several (Swaps, FX, Equity Derivs). You start by thinking it&#x27;s just noise and there&#x27;s always someone in the office who will say that, but after a while you get suspicious of it happening at the same time, plus you have the broker rumours lining up. It would be great if the free market were restored.</text></comment> | <story><title>Big investors sue banks in U.S. over currency market rigging</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-forex-lawsuit/big-investors-sue-16-banks-in-u-s-over-currency-market-rigging-idUSKCN1NC34J</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saosebastiao</author><text>I&#x27;m curious to know what sort of timeframes they were manipulating on. Most if the large institutional banks are operating as market makers, which would likely limit their influence on price movements to a few pips at most. Most institutional investment firms in forex are not trading as market makers though...typically operating on much larger time horizons...hours to days. The amount of capital necessary to manipulate the currency on those timeframes is incomprehensible. I doubt even the 16 largest banks in the world, even working as a deal facto cartel, could coordinate price manipulations bigger than 50 pips over the course of a day. I mean we&#x27;re talking about a quarter of the GDP of the entire US changing hands every single day via these markets. These banks are massive, but still nowhere near big enough to materially affect the markets. It makes me wonder what sort of damages are being claimed, and how they are calculating those damages.</text></comment> |
32,385,237 | 32,384,705 | 1 | 3 | 32,383,686 | train | <story><title>Post-Apocalyptic Programming</title><url>https://zserge.com/posts/post-apocalyptic-programming/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wokwokwok</author><text>&gt; what if you are the only survivor with some programming skills sitting in front of a computer you’ve never heard of, with some hex pad to enter machine codes, with maybe some pen and paper. What will you do?<p>Leave it on the ground and forage around until I find a computer that runs windows. It&#x27;s not great, but, it&#x27;ll do. Failing that, a phone and a solar charger.<p>Charming as it is to build yourself toys &#x27;from scratch&#x27; to play with, it&#x27;s pretty unrealistic that you&#x27;d end up ever needing those skills in a real &#x27;end of the world&#x27; or &#x27;total supply chain disruption&#x27; situation.<p>It&#x27;s far, far more likely that you&#x27;d use off the shelf software, and your skills would revolve around being a cell-phone&#x2F;laptop&#x2F;whatever repairman, repairing old screens, charging cables, and other mechanical bits and bobs on hardware that was never really intended to be used for more than ~5 years; and ripping up &#x27;no longer working&#x27; stuff for bits you can put into &#x27;mostly working&#x27; stuff, and maybe building analogue circuits or maintaining power grids and solar panels.<p>Electrical engineer, soldering wires types of skills, not writing interpreters and coding skills, is what you would need ...if, you were indeed, in the luxury of not spending all your time just looking for food and water.<p>Let&#x27;s be real. No one is going to sit around implementing an interpreter for some obscure cpu you found.<p>That&#x27;s a skill for idly bored rich modern folk and archeologists of the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>Post-Apocalyptic Programming</title><url>https://zserge.com/posts/post-apocalyptic-programming/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>manofmanysmiles</author><text>I love prepping, up to a point.<p>If we all would like to live in a world without war, the only path I see is if people learn to be strong as individuals, able to self govern, grow emotionally and take responsibility for their own actions. As long as we use collective thinking and externalization our power in organizations, believe in superstitions like money, government, “the greater good”, rather than recognizing what’s undeniably real, that we are all people, I don’t see a way forward.<p>If this resonates with anyone, hit me up!</text></comment> |
31,310,358 | 31,310,522 | 1 | 2 | 31,309,075 | train | <story><title>Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media</title><url>https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/monsantos-ghostwriting-to-influence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I&#x27;ve defended Monsanto repeatedly on HN (there are some extraordinarily popular beliefs about Monsanto that turn out, from what I can tell, to be just completely false, and they used to wind up here a bunch). I&#x27;m not carrying any water for them. I&#x27;m pro-GMO just in principle, but neutral-to-skeptical about any company of Monsanto&#x27;s size. I&#x27;m sure the company itself is perfectly amoral. I&#x27;m just calling actual issues like I see them.<p>Naturally, plenty of people on HN think I&#x27;m a paid shill (what makes this funnier is the company I founded and worked at for most of my time on HN was named &quot;Matasano&quot;, which was so frequently confused for &quot;Monsanto&quot; that we put a sign on our window about it in our Mountain View office).<p>My point is just: your intuition for whether comments are paid shillage are likely to mislead you.</text></item><item><author>diogenescynic</author><text>Monsanto also pays shills to comment positively about pesticide use and try to brow beat anyone who is has a negative opinion their products. It&#x27;s crazy how aggressive it is. Basically any thread on Twitter or Reddit the same users will defend Monsanto. You see the same thing about other controversial products, such as BPAs. It seems like some tactic they learned from Big Tobacco and Big Oil to just push as much doubt&#x2F;skepticism as possible to make the public nihilistic&#x2F;cynical. Meanwhile, most of these products don&#x27;t even need to be used. We&#x27;re just letting a few companies pollute the earth and get rich for a minor gain of convenience to the public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epgui</author><text>+1<p>I’m a biochemist and while I’m not interested in sticking my neck out to defend any company, a lot of the criticism directed at Monsanto is unfair, uninformed and&#x2F;or unintelligent.<p>This is particularly true of criticism levied against glyphosate (one of the least-bad herbicides I know of) and GMOs (which people are usually just super confused about).<p>Disclaimer: zero conflict of interest, I make all my money building software in the non-bio world.</text></comment> | <story><title>Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media</title><url>https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/monsantos-ghostwriting-to-influence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I&#x27;ve defended Monsanto repeatedly on HN (there are some extraordinarily popular beliefs about Monsanto that turn out, from what I can tell, to be just completely false, and they used to wind up here a bunch). I&#x27;m not carrying any water for them. I&#x27;m pro-GMO just in principle, but neutral-to-skeptical about any company of Monsanto&#x27;s size. I&#x27;m sure the company itself is perfectly amoral. I&#x27;m just calling actual issues like I see them.<p>Naturally, plenty of people on HN think I&#x27;m a paid shill (what makes this funnier is the company I founded and worked at for most of my time on HN was named &quot;Matasano&quot;, which was so frequently confused for &quot;Monsanto&quot; that we put a sign on our window about it in our Mountain View office).<p>My point is just: your intuition for whether comments are paid shillage are likely to mislead you.</text></item><item><author>diogenescynic</author><text>Monsanto also pays shills to comment positively about pesticide use and try to brow beat anyone who is has a negative opinion their products. It&#x27;s crazy how aggressive it is. Basically any thread on Twitter or Reddit the same users will defend Monsanto. You see the same thing about other controversial products, such as BPAs. It seems like some tactic they learned from Big Tobacco and Big Oil to just push as much doubt&#x2F;skepticism as possible to make the public nihilistic&#x2F;cynical. Meanwhile, most of these products don&#x27;t even need to be used. We&#x27;re just letting a few companies pollute the earth and get rich for a minor gain of convenience to the public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colordrops</author><text>Often an intuition as to whether a particular comment is a paid shill is inaccurate, but one cannot deny that there are clear trends that indicate that paid shilling is occurring in general for a particular topic or organization. There are swarms of posts and comments with the same talking points that you find on the company&#x27;s website, small subreddits in support of them that have no real reason to exist other than as aggregators of talking points, and an exaggerated responses to seemingly non-controversial statements that go against the company.<p>It&#x27;s not some lizard man conspiracy that bot nets and sock puppet accounts exist. In fact they are a pretty standard MO on the internet.</text></comment> |
13,762,319 | 13,761,991 | 1 | 3 | 13,761,576 | train | <story><title>Uber is doomed</title><url>http://jalopnik.com/uber-is-doomed-1792634203</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1_2__3</author><text>Could we maybe have a sober conversation about Uber that doesn&#x27;t involve self driving cars? Because I hate to tell you, but whatever reckoning is coming for Uber will come long before self driving cars are viable. I do not understand why so many HN commenters ignore the reality of self driving car tech and regulation and think it&#x27;s right around the corner. It&#x27;s so far away that the only relevance it has to this conversation is already in the article (and completely disagrees with your claim): if Uber is planing to rely on self driving cars they&#x27;re already dead. The tech will not be ready in time for them.</text></item><item><author>salimmadjd</author><text>1 - Uber has a weak network effect (drivers drive Lyft and Uber) same for consumers.<p>2 - Uber is not very scalable (this is why they have to burn so much money to grow)<p>3 - Self-driving cars will actually destroy Uber&#x27;s business.<p>Uber = Driver -&gt; Uber -&gt; Passenger. Self-driving cars will remove the Driver from the equation. Uber becomes a consumer facing app. Very vulnerable to Apple and Google should they ever want to get into that business. I think Google maps and Siri will become the interface to care sharing eventually as Apple&#x2F;Google will have far more access to mobile experience that Uber will ever get.<p>I had made the above points before and predicted Uber will probably go the ways of AOL. It seems like more and more people are beginning see that too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dnautics</author><text>I think self-driving cars are going to be viable, very very fast - but uber will implode much faster. When it implodes, it will happen much faster than anyone expects. There will be lots of collateral damage, as the rest of the current incarnation of the SV insanity will be exposed to the deflation of the unicorn narrative.<p>I think a huge part of it will be when it becomes really really obvious that Uber will never be able to IPO, the employees there will have to leave. The gravitational pull of the sunk cost fallacy (with respect to any exercised options the employees have) will be overwhelmed by the need to &#x27;find other options&#x27; faster than their colleagues and it becomes a race to not be the last one off the sinking ship.<p>1_2__3 - while I agree with your overall thesis, I think it&#x27;s reasonable to bring up self driving cars since they are in the original article, after all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber is doomed</title><url>http://jalopnik.com/uber-is-doomed-1792634203</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1_2__3</author><text>Could we maybe have a sober conversation about Uber that doesn&#x27;t involve self driving cars? Because I hate to tell you, but whatever reckoning is coming for Uber will come long before self driving cars are viable. I do not understand why so many HN commenters ignore the reality of self driving car tech and regulation and think it&#x27;s right around the corner. It&#x27;s so far away that the only relevance it has to this conversation is already in the article (and completely disagrees with your claim): if Uber is planing to rely on self driving cars they&#x27;re already dead. The tech will not be ready in time for them.</text></item><item><author>salimmadjd</author><text>1 - Uber has a weak network effect (drivers drive Lyft and Uber) same for consumers.<p>2 - Uber is not very scalable (this is why they have to burn so much money to grow)<p>3 - Self-driving cars will actually destroy Uber&#x27;s business.<p>Uber = Driver -&gt; Uber -&gt; Passenger. Self-driving cars will remove the Driver from the equation. Uber becomes a consumer facing app. Very vulnerable to Apple and Google should they ever want to get into that business. I think Google maps and Siri will become the interface to care sharing eventually as Apple&#x2F;Google will have far more access to mobile experience that Uber will ever get.<p>I had made the above points before and predicted Uber will probably go the ways of AOL. It seems like more and more people are beginning see that too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ckastner</author><text>I agree that this focus on self-driving cars is very premature, but then you are left with its current business, which so far seems to be hemorrhaging money and with no change of that in sight.</text></comment> |
23,413,304 | 23,412,714 | 1 | 3 | 23,401,328 | train | <story><title>There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence (2017)</title><url>https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbay808</author><text>There are a lot of people in this thread who seem to be very confident and skeptical of the author&#x27;s position. Maybe this would be a good opportunity to try the exercise he challenges in the article?<p>Please post your nomination for what’s the least impressive accomplishment that you are very confident cannot be done in the next two years.<p>We can check back in 2022 and see how we did!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mehrdadn</author><text>Okay, sure. :-) Take the set of people [1] who:<p>- Have had an email account for at least 5 years,<p>- Have checked their spam folder at least once every month over the course of the past two years, and<p>- Have marked a set of emails as spam on at least 1 day every three months over the course of the past two years.<p>I&#x27;m very confident that, within the next 2 years, we will not have an accurate enough classifier that would cause &gt; 80% of these people to simultaneously (a) check their spam folders less than one day each year, and (b) mark emails as spam on less than 1 day every year.<p>Oh, and to help prevent cheating:<p>- Let&#x27;s say the classifier must not have been trained with any emails in the world that are sent more recently than 1 month prior to the beginning of its trial.<p>I&#x27;m also <i>very</i> tempted to say we don&#x27;t need to worry about AGI before we can achieve the above for 30% of these people, but I&#x27;m less confident in this one.<p>[1] I suppose, as a practical matter, even if we had such a classifier, this would be untestable without access to everyones&#x27; email accounts. So, for the sake of argument, let&#x27;s say our population under study itself is a simple random sample of 100M accounts from the set of providers who service &gt; 50M accounts each and who are willing to run such a test at the time of the trial.</text></comment> | <story><title>There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence (2017)</title><url>https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbay808</author><text>There are a lot of people in this thread who seem to be very confident and skeptical of the author&#x27;s position. Maybe this would be a good opportunity to try the exercise he challenges in the article?<p>Please post your nomination for what’s the least impressive accomplishment that you are very confident cannot be done in the next two years.<p>We can check back in 2022 and see how we did!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hnrobert42</author><text>Successfully respond to my basic questions for help at my bank website.</text></comment> |
22,724,432 | 22,722,608 | 1 | 3 | 22,720,852 | train | <story><title>H5N1 (2013)</title><url>https://blog.samaltman.com/h5n1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_acco</author><text>The deadlier a virus is, the earlier it will trip alarm systems&#x2F;panic. And as we&#x27;ve all learned in the past few weeks, in outbreaks days matter.<p>The perfect virus is balanced: just deadly <i>enough</i>.<p>It&#x27;s possible SARS-CoV-2 hits the sweet spot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhiteSage</author><text>What about HIV? 10 years &quot;incubation&quot; period and 100% mortality. If it was as contagious as the flu it would have killed almost 100% of the human population. Isn&#x27;t it a scary thought?.<p>It is not the only virus. Rabies, also has 100% mortality.</text></comment> | <story><title>H5N1 (2013)</title><url>https://blog.samaltman.com/h5n1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_acco</author><text>The deadlier a virus is, the earlier it will trip alarm systems&#x2F;panic. And as we&#x27;ve all learned in the past few weeks, in outbreaks days matter.<p>The perfect virus is balanced: just deadly <i>enough</i>.<p>It&#x27;s possible SARS-CoV-2 hits the sweet spot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dandelany</author><text>I suspect the “perfect virus” adaptively speaking isn’t deadly at all - burning down a home your future ancestors could live in doesn’t seem like a good strategy.</text></comment> |
20,091,395 | 20,091,369 | 1 | 3 | 20,090,748 | train | <story><title>Trump's Next Trade War Target: Chinese Students at Elite Schools</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-03/trump-s-next-trade-war-target-chinese-students-at-elite-schools</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nneonneo</author><text>Students from China (and many other countries) are required to renew their visas annually, a process which is already quite nerve-wracking for many. PhDs in particular can take anywhere from 4 to 8 years to complete, meaning 4-8 chances for your studies to be interrupted with the only option to return home while the visa renewal stalls. This article explicitly calls out the fact that renewals seem to have been getting slower, which will impact a lot of students.<p>The US already lost out on multiple academic generations of bright Iranian students and scientists thanks to their restrictive visa policies. If they further hamstring themselves by excluding Chinese students, the decline of American science will accelerate dramatically. Already, science budgets are continually slashed and grants are harder to find. Slowing the pace of scientific development is a short-sighted move that will likely not be felt in full for decades, but it will definitely be felt.<p>Science exists outside of the USA - now is as good a time as any to consider research in places like Canada, Europe, Japan, Korea, and yes, even China. Language doesn’t need to be a barrier - increasingly, many prolific institutions are conducting much of their work in English.</text></comment> | <story><title>Trump's Next Trade War Target: Chinese Students at Elite Schools</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-03/trump-s-next-trade-war-target-chinese-students-at-elite-schools</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>warmcat</author><text>&quot;In April, three researchers were also let go by the University of Texas’s M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in connection with an investigation into possible foreign attempts to take advantage of its federally funded research.&quot; This is the real reason why visas are getting denied. Why would you want to enjoy the fruits of living and working in America but benefit other countries (even if you once belonged there)?</text></comment> |
36,387,295 | 36,384,451 | 1 | 3 | 36,380,240 | train | <story><title>A guide for people who want to self-study the basics of computer science</title><url>https://github.com/Lesabotsy/bootcamp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yt-sdb</author><text>Maybe 5 years ago, I was in a similar place. I had a particularly embarrassing moment at work when it clicked that I just... didn&#x27;t know the basics. I was, to use an overused term, &quot;mathematically immature&quot;.<p>So I made a commitment: I decided I would work through Khan Academy math for 1-hour a day for 1 year. I started with pre-K [1] (specifically counting) and watched every video and did every single exercise in order. I focused on mastery. I didn&#x27;t rush myself, and I did not continue until I felt completely confident in the material. I just did this for a year. I think I go through roughly algebra 2. In my mind, it is critical to combine explicit knowledge (watch videos) with tactic knowledge [2] (do exercises). For example, you need to understand what a logarithm is conceptually but you also just need to do problems to get a feel for it. So this is fundamentally different than learning-by-grazing or just reading a book.<p>I could go on and on, but let me just say that it changed my relationship to math in a deep way.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;math&#x2F;k-8-grades" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;math&#x2F;k-8-grades</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commoncog.com&#x2F;tacit-knowledge-is-a-real-thing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commoncog.com&#x2F;tacit-knowledge-is-a-real-thing&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>hahhahanananana</author><text>&gt; High School Mathematics<p>Whenever I try to catch up with maths (in Khan Academy and elsewhere), I always end up in an awkward state where I keep recursively researching less and less advanced subjects because of gaps of various sizes in my fundamental knowledge. It&#x27;s incredibly demotivating.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austinwatkins</author><text>I loved reading your comment. Your story is very similar to my own! A little over 8 years ago, I also started at the beginning of Khan Academy. Due to reasons related to my childhood, I had essentially no education growing up. When I was in my early twenties, I had only an elementary education. The highest level of math I knew was basic fraction arithmetic. I had never written an essay and I did not have a scientific understanding.<p>Having no education, I only did menial work for money. Yet in my early twenties, I was contemplating my lack of scholarship and realized I wanted to fill the holes in my education. I went to Khan Academy and, as you did, started with pre-K and worked my way linearly through up to pre-college math. Thankfully, I was soon laid off from my job, which was an opportunity to start attending community college.<p>I then transferred to a state school and double majored in applied math and computer science. Now I’m doing theoretical research as a PhD student in computer science.<p>The 8-year path from pre-K math to graduate-level math classes and now being published has been a journey. And I’m deeply grateful for resources like Khan Academy.<p>Deciding to commit to a daily study of math transformed my life.</text></comment> | <story><title>A guide for people who want to self-study the basics of computer science</title><url>https://github.com/Lesabotsy/bootcamp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yt-sdb</author><text>Maybe 5 years ago, I was in a similar place. I had a particularly embarrassing moment at work when it clicked that I just... didn&#x27;t know the basics. I was, to use an overused term, &quot;mathematically immature&quot;.<p>So I made a commitment: I decided I would work through Khan Academy math for 1-hour a day for 1 year. I started with pre-K [1] (specifically counting) and watched every video and did every single exercise in order. I focused on mastery. I didn&#x27;t rush myself, and I did not continue until I felt completely confident in the material. I just did this for a year. I think I go through roughly algebra 2. In my mind, it is critical to combine explicit knowledge (watch videos) with tactic knowledge [2] (do exercises). For example, you need to understand what a logarithm is conceptually but you also just need to do problems to get a feel for it. So this is fundamentally different than learning-by-grazing or just reading a book.<p>I could go on and on, but let me just say that it changed my relationship to math in a deep way.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;math&#x2F;k-8-grades" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.khanacademy.org&#x2F;math&#x2F;k-8-grades</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commoncog.com&#x2F;tacit-knowledge-is-a-real-thing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commoncog.com&#x2F;tacit-knowledge-is-a-real-thing&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>hahhahanananana</author><text>&gt; High School Mathematics<p>Whenever I try to catch up with maths (in Khan Academy and elsewhere), I always end up in an awkward state where I keep recursively researching less and less advanced subjects because of gaps of various sizes in my fundamental knowledge. It&#x27;s incredibly demotivating.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>status200</author><text>This is inline with a Zen practice called &quot;beginner&#x27;s mind&quot;, and is so useful in many areas, thank you for this inspiration.</text></comment> |
3,964,629 | 3,964,215 | 1 | 2 | 3,963,555 | train | <story><title>Build Cross-Platform Applications for desktop using HTML, CSS, Javascript</title><url>http://appjs.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GeneralMaximus</author><text>I'm enamored with the idea of writing desktop applications with web technologies, but I'm not enamored with the idea of running a node.js instance locally for every such desktop application.<p>What I would <i>like</i> to see is a "privileged mode" Chromium (or Firefox) that would let applications break out of the browser sandbox and directly perform operations such as filesystem I/O. Privileged Mode Chromium would obviously be a huge security threat if it's allowed to run any old code, so it would be wise to prevent it from downloading and executing scripts over the network, or maybe have some kind of script signing support in place so that the only scripts allowed to execute are the ones with the app developers' signature on them. Or maybe I'm talking out of my ass here and what we have right now works just fine. Feel free to correct me here.<p>Also, one question. Isn't the node.js instance serving my application visible to other applications on the same system? Can't a malicious application take advantage of this fact and cause my app to misbehave?<p>(Offtopic: I must point out an irritating and potentially harmful design trend that is emerging as a result of Twitter Bootstrap's popularity: the top navigation bar that stays in place as you scroll downward. It wastes precious screen space, looks ugly and doesn't add anything of value to the website. Why is it so important that I be forced to look at your website's logo and navigation bar <i>all the time</i>? I'm not picking on the AppJS developers here; this is a general sentiment directed towards all the designers who embrace this terrible trend.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gliese1337</author><text><p><pre><code> What I would like to see is a "privileged mode" Chromium
(or Firefox) that would let applications break out of
the browser sandbox and directly perform operations such
as filesystem I/O.
</code></pre>
This is exactly what Microsoft HTML Applications do (available since IE 5). In other respects, I'm not a big fan of Internet Explorer, but this is one thing I think it did amazingly right, and way before anybody else. I was very excited to see the headline, and then horribly disappointed to discover that what they're offering is Not As Good as 13-year-old Microsoft technology.</text></comment> | <story><title>Build Cross-Platform Applications for desktop using HTML, CSS, Javascript</title><url>http://appjs.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GeneralMaximus</author><text>I'm enamored with the idea of writing desktop applications with web technologies, but I'm not enamored with the idea of running a node.js instance locally for every such desktop application.<p>What I would <i>like</i> to see is a "privileged mode" Chromium (or Firefox) that would let applications break out of the browser sandbox and directly perform operations such as filesystem I/O. Privileged Mode Chromium would obviously be a huge security threat if it's allowed to run any old code, so it would be wise to prevent it from downloading and executing scripts over the network, or maybe have some kind of script signing support in place so that the only scripts allowed to execute are the ones with the app developers' signature on them. Or maybe I'm talking out of my ass here and what we have right now works just fine. Feel free to correct me here.<p>Also, one question. Isn't the node.js instance serving my application visible to other applications on the same system? Can't a malicious application take advantage of this fact and cause my app to misbehave?<p>(Offtopic: I must point out an irritating and potentially harmful design trend that is emerging as a result of Twitter Bootstrap's popularity: the top navigation bar that stays in place as you scroll downward. It wastes precious screen space, looks ugly and doesn't add anything of value to the website. Why is it so important that I be forced to look at your website's logo and navigation bar <i>all the time</i>? I'm not picking on the AppJS developers here; this is a general sentiment directed towards all the designers who embrace this terrible trend.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmjordan</author><text>Mozilla and its successors, Firefox and Thunderbird are actually built on XUL[1], which is an XML-based UI description language which can be mixed with HTML and SVG, styled with CSS and programmed just like HTML with JavaScript. Then there's the xulrunner, which lets you write standalone apps on this tech. It's never taken off much, but I don't know if that's down to flaky implementation or just lack of interest. (if you don't like XUL, just use a minimal amount of it to embed your HTML app)<p>[1] I'm not sure what the current status is, but I think they want to phase it out?</text></comment> |
37,612,977 | 37,612,985 | 1 | 2 | 37,612,127 | train | <story><title>Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Upstream-Everything-OSS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blibble</author><text>steam was terrible when it came out<p>however it was still miles better than &quot;Games for Windows Live&quot;, which was so bad I don&#x27;t even try replaying the games that still require it</text></item><item><author>deelowe</author><text>Steam got so much flak when it first came out because it supported DRM, facilitated the death of physical media, and was generally kind of clunky and buggy. However, looking back, I&#x27;m thankful. I think Gabe did truly care about gamers&#x2F;gaming and was worried about Microsoft&#x27;s growing interest in gaming. I think he knew that that the transition to digital distribution was inevitable and made it his mission to get a platform out there before Microsoft did, because they would ultimately create something that was not gamer friendly.<p>Perhaps this is all wishful thinking, but history has proven that Valve was perhaps the best steward we could have asked for in supporting the transition to online distribution. If we look at the alternatives be it Microsoft, Epic, or even GOG, no one has done it better. And, when tested, Valve continues to show they strive to do the right thing. For example look at returns. I never thought we&#x27;d see a no questions asked return policy for digital games and yet, with steam, it&#x27;s a fairly simple process. On top of this, when the policy doesn&#x27;t work (e.g. games which are broken outside of the return window), Valve again does the right thing and creates exceptions.</text></item><item><author>reactordev</author><text>Valve is a darling. Not simply because of steam (though, that enables them) but because from HL1, they truly cared about making good games, providing gamers a platform for good, working on problems outside their wheelhouse (Linux, VR, etc) for the betterment of gamers.<p>Seriously. Yeah give them flak for steam’s store policies and such but Valve has <i>always</i> cared about gamers. They just don’t have the means to do it all (maybe they do?). I’m a fan. Not for HL1 or 2, not for Portal or TF2, not for CS, but for their never ending support on making sure “gaming” can be enjoyed by all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mpixel</author><text>Just to clarify, Steam came out in 2003 and GFWL in 2007.<p>Initial Steam was a horrible horrible experience, it also didn&#x27;t have a store, and it was mainly just something you had for Counter Strike. Now, CS was MASSIVE, it still is, but that was enough to get a whole lot of people experience Steam.<p>It didn&#x27;t help the internet connection back then was, to put it mildly, shit for most people, so a constantly disconnecting program wasn&#x27;t a shocking outcome in hindsight, remember, this is 2003-2004.<p>It also felt unnecessary, you bought the game off Steam, Steam didn&#x27;t let you buy anything and then anything not-made-by-valve, so why couldn&#x27;t you just play CS directly, why did you have to install an additional app on your limited hardware?<p>And then things have changed. It&#x27;s my go-to shop, and their contributions to the Linux ecosystem is much welcome. There&#x27;s self interest, since operating a shop on Windows comes with inherent risks, but I don&#x27;t see the same interest in other parties, so I&#x27;ll take it over anything else today.</text></comment> | <story><title>Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Upstream-Everything-OSS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blibble</author><text>steam was terrible when it came out<p>however it was still miles better than &quot;Games for Windows Live&quot;, which was so bad I don&#x27;t even try replaying the games that still require it</text></item><item><author>deelowe</author><text>Steam got so much flak when it first came out because it supported DRM, facilitated the death of physical media, and was generally kind of clunky and buggy. However, looking back, I&#x27;m thankful. I think Gabe did truly care about gamers&#x2F;gaming and was worried about Microsoft&#x27;s growing interest in gaming. I think he knew that that the transition to digital distribution was inevitable and made it his mission to get a platform out there before Microsoft did, because they would ultimately create something that was not gamer friendly.<p>Perhaps this is all wishful thinking, but history has proven that Valve was perhaps the best steward we could have asked for in supporting the transition to online distribution. If we look at the alternatives be it Microsoft, Epic, or even GOG, no one has done it better. And, when tested, Valve continues to show they strive to do the right thing. For example look at returns. I never thought we&#x27;d see a no questions asked return policy for digital games and yet, with steam, it&#x27;s a fairly simple process. On top of this, when the policy doesn&#x27;t work (e.g. games which are broken outside of the return window), Valve again does the right thing and creates exceptions.</text></item><item><author>reactordev</author><text>Valve is a darling. Not simply because of steam (though, that enables them) but because from HL1, they truly cared about making good games, providing gamers a platform for good, working on problems outside their wheelhouse (Linux, VR, etc) for the betterment of gamers.<p>Seriously. Yeah give them flak for steam’s store policies and such but Valve has <i>always</i> cared about gamers. They just don’t have the means to do it all (maybe they do?). I’m a fan. Not for HL1 or 2, not for Portal or TF2, not for CS, but for their never ending support on making sure “gaming” can be enjoyed by all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pradn</author><text>It seems like any product named &quot;X for Y&quot; is terrible enterprise-y drivel. It means the project is part of some umbrella corp, which ofc means they can&#x27;t possibly actually care about anything by profit, move slow, and are un-responsive.</text></comment> |
41,093,310 | 41,093,189 | 1 | 2 | 41,092,928 | train | <story><title>My Obsidian note-taking workflow</title><url>https://www.ssp.sh/blog/obsidian-note-taking-workflow/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bloopernova</author><text>I recently switched from a daily journal&#x2F;to-do list to a weekly one.<p>I have been surprised just how much it has helped me to keep things moving that otherwise might have been neglected.<p>My platform of choice is Emacs, org-mode, and org-journal, but I imagine the workflow is similar to Obsidian.<p>Each day is a top level heading, its to-do and journal items are 2nd level headings. Journal entries are timestamped, to-do items have a state of TODO&#x2F;PROG&#x2F;DONE and a timestamped log is kept logging state transitions.<p>Unfinished to-do items move to the new day automatically when it is created. Completed items are left in previous days, and displayed in a fainter coloured text.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Obsidian note-taking workflow</title><url>https://www.ssp.sh/blog/obsidian-note-taking-workflow/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karencarits</author><text>Obsidian has been very successful gaining &quot;vocal&quot; users who recommend and share their use of the software at &quot;every opportunity. I&#x27;m not sure how they did it, but it must be incredibly valuable</text></comment> |
37,069,767 | 37,069,014 | 1 | 2 | 37,066,522 | train | <story><title>Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference</title><url>https://blog.mlc.ai/2023/08/09/Making-AMD-GPUs-competitive-for-LLM-inference</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superkuh</author><text>&gt; AMD GPUs using ROCm<p>Oh great. The AMD RX 580 was released in April 2018. AMD had already dropped ROCm support for it by 2021. They only supported the card for 3 years. 3 years. It&#x27;s so lame it&#x27;s bordering on fraudulent, even if not legally fraud. Keep this in mind when reading this news. The support won&#x27;t last long, especially if you don&#x27;t buy at launch. Then you&#x27;ll be stuck in the dependency hell that is trying to use old drivers&#x2F;stack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greenknight</author><text>&gt; AMD RX 580 was released in April 2018<p>It was actually Apr 18, 2017 -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radeon_500_series" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radeon_500_series</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference</title><url>https://blog.mlc.ai/2023/08/09/Making-AMD-GPUs-competitive-for-LLM-inference</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superkuh</author><text>&gt; AMD GPUs using ROCm<p>Oh great. The AMD RX 580 was released in April 2018. AMD had already dropped ROCm support for it by 2021. They only supported the card for 3 years. 3 years. It&#x27;s so lame it&#x27;s bordering on fraudulent, even if not legally fraud. Keep this in mind when reading this news. The support won&#x27;t last long, especially if you don&#x27;t buy at launch. Then you&#x27;ll be stuck in the dependency hell that is trying to use old drivers&#x2F;stack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>junrushao1994</author><text>tbh im not sure what amds plan is on ROCm support on consumer devices, but i dont really think amd is being fraudulent or something.<p>Both rocm and vulkan are supported in MLC LLM as mentioned in our blog post. we are aware that rocm is not sufficient to cover consumer hardwares, and in this case vulkan is a nice backup!</text></comment> |
33,032,628 | 33,032,203 | 1 | 3 | 33,026,285 | train | <story><title>Socialist Romania Computer Chips</title><url>https://www.cpushack.com/2022/09/29/socialist-romania-computer-chips/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theaeolist</author><text>&quot;The consumption of electricity in everyday life was limited (it was forbidden to use a refrigerator during the winter, and the use of a vacuum cleaner was banned all year round), hot water was supplied to apartments twice a week,&quot;<p>This is all false. Source: I was there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gls2ro</author><text>Maybe you were living in a big city like Bucharest, Timisoara ...<p>I was there before 1989 and grew in the small town in a house. Not a village, but a small town.<p>We had electricity only a couple of hours per day.<p>I don&#x27;t know of any specific rule against refrigerator but it was not useful to buy one as you cannot connect it to anything.<p>The main source of light during winter was the fire and some kind of liquid gas (I don&#x27;t know exacly what was that) that we used with a gas lamp.<p>The same goes for kitchen: most of the cooking was done using the stove or using some gas tanks that were limited - I think one per family per month or I am not sure. But the gas tank was a precious possession there.<p>The same was true for bread or any other food that was produced by the state. There were rations of how much we can buy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Socialist Romania Computer Chips</title><url>https://www.cpushack.com/2022/09/29/socialist-romania-computer-chips/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theaeolist</author><text>&quot;The consumption of electricity in everyday life was limited (it was forbidden to use a refrigerator during the winter, and the use of a vacuum cleaner was banned all year round), hot water was supplied to apartments twice a week,&quot;<p>This is all false. Source: I was there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nottorp</author><text>&gt; This is all false. Source: I was there.<p>Same. Pretty sure we vacuumed regularly and never unplugged the refrigerator.<p>If you were in a state heated apartment building after 1980, the heating was limited to non existent though. And there may have been a hot water schedule. More like twice per day not twice per week though.</text></comment> |
32,412,591 | 32,412,027 | 1 | 2 | 32,410,948 | train | <story><title>U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%</title><url>https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_08102022.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radioactivist</author><text>So the year over year CPI increase each month this year (starting from January) was 7.5%, 7.9%, 8.5%, 8.3%, 8.6%, 9.1%, 8.5%. So this value has been jumping around a bit as it has been going up. This drop is being taken as good news -- but I worry whether this is really a meaningful drop or whether we are just over interpreting what could be a fundamentally noisy metric?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kqr</author><text>This is what statistical process control charts were invented to tell us: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.loop54.com&#x2F;XmR.html?baseline=7.5,7.9,8.5,8.3,8.6,9.1&amp;values=8.5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.loop54.com&#x2F;XmR.html?baseline=7.5,7.9,8.5,8.3,...</a><p>Nope, last number is well within the limits set by the variation of the previous numbers. Depending on how sensitive you feel like being to false alarms, I wouldn&#x27;t even say there&#x27;s been a clear trend this year.<p>If you detrend it by successive differences we see that the slope is very close to zero compared to variation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.loop54.com&#x2F;XmR.html?baseline=0.4,0.6,-0.2,0.3,0.5&amp;values=-0.6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.loop54.com&#x2F;XmR.html?baseline=0.4,0.6,-0.2,0.3...</a><p>However, the last number is close to a control limit, so if this continues next month we may have a signal!</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%</title><url>https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_08102022.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radioactivist</author><text>So the year over year CPI increase each month this year (starting from January) was 7.5%, 7.9%, 8.5%, 8.3%, 8.6%, 9.1%, 8.5%. So this value has been jumping around a bit as it has been going up. This drop is being taken as good news -- but I worry whether this is really a meaningful drop or whether we are just over interpreting what could be a fundamentally noisy metric?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randomdata</author><text>Corn seems to be a good leading indicator here[1]. Cash bids were $4 in 2019, $5 in 2020, $6 in 2021, $7 at the start of 2022, $9 when the war in Ukraine broke out, down to $8 in June, and now at $7.50 where it has remained stable at since the beginning of July. Which suggests that things are indeed slowing.<p>[1] Which likely ends up being a proxy for oil, but as a farmer I watch food commodities much more closely.</text></comment> |
11,979,180 | 11,978,244 | 1 | 2 | 11,977,909 | train | <story><title>Typography of “Alien” (2014)</title><url>https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/12/01/alien/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>I really like these kinds of articles. I would have never noticed most of these details.<p>Enjoyed the carefully thought out icon design:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typesetinthefuture.files.wordpress.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;alien_semiotic_01_full.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typesetinthefuture.files.wordpress.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;alien...</a><p>Cryogenic vault -- the blue triangle pointing down to a stick figure. Photonic system -- has the letter F shaped by what looks like fiber optic channels. Radiation hazard is great too -- a stick figure dead on the ground, with the sickly bright orange color filling the top of the square.<p>Then not all details could be consistent of course. And the whole self-destuct French vs English instruction bit was funny.<p>Then the completely off the wall stuff-- 70s psychadelics creeped into the keyboard design, that was fascinating. What else would you put on a self-destruct computer console than &quot;SHAKTI EXCESS&quot;, &quot;PADME&quot; and reference to a phychadelic trip?</text></comment> | <story><title>Typography of “Alien” (2014)</title><url>https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/12/01/alien/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>msane</author><text>Another great aspect of the first two Alien movies is that the musical score is very sparse and subtle. Those films don&#x27;t need to use constant music to tell the viewer what to think or feel or notice, which is an amazing effect on it&#x27;s own.</text></comment> |
14,978,184 | 14,977,701 | 1 | 3 | 14,973,424 | train | <story><title>uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions</title><url>https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/support-ublock-origin/6746/451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bad_user</author><text>After being a Chrome user for several years, I&#x27;ve switched back to Firefox for the past two years or so and I&#x27;m really, really happy with it.<p>Latest version does multi-processing, e10s is finally here (though it might still get disabled by usage of certain add-ons, I remember I had to force it to stay enabled).<p>On performance, in the past it felt sluggish, but now Firefox is fast and for my usage patterns it uses less memory than Chrome.<p>And one thing I really love is the Awesome Bar, which is a pain point every single time I open Chrome. I have a lot of websites I need to return to and in Chrome I end up searching on Google far more than I should. I guess that&#x27;s the biggest difference between Firefox and Chrome, as Mozilla does not feel obligated to shareholders to extract ads clicks from you (although I hope that whatever they do keeps them afloat).<p>Also, tab management. I installed &quot;Tab Center&quot; from the Test Pilot and it&#x27;s awesome. The experiment is now over unfortunately and the code itself for Tab Center isn&#x27;t compatible with WebExtensions, but there&#x27;s work going on to port it and that highlights that Firefox&#x27;s WebExtensions will be more flexible than Chrome, if they aren&#x27;t already.<p>But in the end I actually care more about trusting my browser and its maker to protect my interests. I actually trust Google more than I trust other companies, but something feels very wrong for a company to have so much leverage on me. Which is why, as long as I have a choice, I&#x27;ll always prefer Firefox over Chrome, or Safari, or Edge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exDM69</author><text>To me, the best feature of Firefox compared to Chromium (both out of the box, no extensions. not sure if there are extensions that could help) is the address bar. Firefox does a fuzzy search into your browsing history and if you visit the same sites often, the suggestions are quite good.<p>Contrast this with Chrome, where the idea behind address bar user experience seems to be maximizing the number of Google searches done.<p>But the one that really keeps me on Firefox is Vimperator. It&#x27;s the best keyboard oriented browser UI in mainstream browsers. The extensions available for Chrome are nowhere near as good (last time I tried).<p>The worst part of Firefox is the terribly long startup time. It can take up to 10 seconds after a reboot and takes quite a long time even with warm caches. Chromium startup is near instantaneous.</text></comment> | <story><title>uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions</title><url>https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/support-ublock-origin/6746/451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bad_user</author><text>After being a Chrome user for several years, I&#x27;ve switched back to Firefox for the past two years or so and I&#x27;m really, really happy with it.<p>Latest version does multi-processing, e10s is finally here (though it might still get disabled by usage of certain add-ons, I remember I had to force it to stay enabled).<p>On performance, in the past it felt sluggish, but now Firefox is fast and for my usage patterns it uses less memory than Chrome.<p>And one thing I really love is the Awesome Bar, which is a pain point every single time I open Chrome. I have a lot of websites I need to return to and in Chrome I end up searching on Google far more than I should. I guess that&#x27;s the biggest difference between Firefox and Chrome, as Mozilla does not feel obligated to shareholders to extract ads clicks from you (although I hope that whatever they do keeps them afloat).<p>Also, tab management. I installed &quot;Tab Center&quot; from the Test Pilot and it&#x27;s awesome. The experiment is now over unfortunately and the code itself for Tab Center isn&#x27;t compatible with WebExtensions, but there&#x27;s work going on to port it and that highlights that Firefox&#x27;s WebExtensions will be more flexible than Chrome, if they aren&#x27;t already.<p>But in the end I actually care more about trusting my browser and its maker to protect my interests. I actually trust Google more than I trust other companies, but something feels very wrong for a company to have so much leverage on me. Which is why, as long as I have a choice, I&#x27;ll always prefer Firefox over Chrome, or Safari, or Edge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ntrails</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve been finding lately with firefox is that the Netflix website is abysmally slow. It lags on loading, goes unresponsive a lot etc etc.<p>I&#x27;ve always watched twitch in Chrome (second browser, other screen, works fine) because firefox used to be bad. It&#x27;s likely that I will start doing the same with Netflix.</text></comment> |
25,046,011 | 25,045,850 | 1 | 3 | 25,044,597 | train | <story><title>How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges</title><url>https://kevin.deldycke.com/2020/11/revert-hp-printer-ban-on-third-party-ink-cartridges/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>numpad0</author><text>How do I use a printer without an Internet connected computer either connected to or integrated into it?</text></item><item><author>bonoboTP</author><text>Mine doesn&#x27;t have the allow downgrades option I think. But this worked for me:<p>&gt; &quot;Unplug printer’s power cord from the back of the printer<p>Press and HOLD the power button<p>Plug power cord back in (keep holding power button)<p>The HP logo will appear then the screen will go blank<p>Hold power button for 10 seconds and then release it<p>Press HOME BUTTON ONCE (top left)<p>Press RETURN&#x2F;BACK ARROW ONCE (bottom left)<p>Press HOME BUTTON TWICE<p>That should bring up the control screen<p>NOTE: On my printer I couldn’t see the home or back buttons lit up but if you press to the left of the display area the buttons still work.<p>Press MFG (Top Left)<p>Press NEXT (Top Right)<p>The screen idled with some weird looking grid design and status bar so I pressed the Power button and it went to the main printer screen on the display.&quot;<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;borncity.com&#x2F;win&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;blocks-hp-firmware-update-third-party-ink-catriges-again&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;borncity.com&#x2F;win&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;blocks-hp-firmware-updat...</a><p>And for the love of God don&#x27;t let your printer out to the Internet any more, they may push a malicious update and disable this workaround in the future (or might have done it already in newer firmware?).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaarn</author><text>My Laserprinter is connected via USB to my NAS. CUPS offers all the shenanigans, so it&#x27;s autodetected by iDevices, Android, Windows and Mac on the network. Linux users usually figure it out within 30 minutes.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges</title><url>https://kevin.deldycke.com/2020/11/revert-hp-printer-ban-on-third-party-ink-cartridges/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>numpad0</author><text>How do I use a printer without an Internet connected computer either connected to or integrated into it?</text></item><item><author>bonoboTP</author><text>Mine doesn&#x27;t have the allow downgrades option I think. But this worked for me:<p>&gt; &quot;Unplug printer’s power cord from the back of the printer<p>Press and HOLD the power button<p>Plug power cord back in (keep holding power button)<p>The HP logo will appear then the screen will go blank<p>Hold power button for 10 seconds and then release it<p>Press HOME BUTTON ONCE (top left)<p>Press RETURN&#x2F;BACK ARROW ONCE (bottom left)<p>Press HOME BUTTON TWICE<p>That should bring up the control screen<p>NOTE: On my printer I couldn’t see the home or back buttons lit up but if you press to the left of the display area the buttons still work.<p>Press MFG (Top Left)<p>Press NEXT (Top Right)<p>The screen idled with some weird looking grid design and status bar so I pressed the Power button and it went to the main printer screen on the display.&quot;<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;borncity.com&#x2F;win&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;blocks-hp-firmware-update-third-party-ink-catriges-again&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;borncity.com&#x2F;win&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;blocks-hp-firmware-updat...</a><p>And for the love of God don&#x27;t let your printer out to the Internet any more, they may push a malicious update and disable this workaround in the future (or might have done it already in newer firmware?).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rietta</author><text>Usb. If you want, set up a raspberry pi as a cups print server.</text></comment> |
22,328,959 | 22,328,253 | 1 | 2 | 22,326,669 | train | <story><title>Flowcharts of programming language constructs</title><url>https://www.progsbase.com/blog/flow-charts-of-programming-language-constructs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notacoward</author><text>Pretty neat. Three things that occurred to me while reading it.<p>(1) Makes it pretty clear why exceptions are even more of a control-flow nightmare than goto. What a messy graph.<p>(2) The &#x27;defer&#x27; diagram is a big WTF. Couldn&#x27;t even figure out which box is supposed to represent which statement in the example.<p>(3) I&#x27;d love to see a graph of the control flow when you throw in a few spurious lambdas like &quot;advanced&quot; C++ programmers tend to do (and similar in a few other languages). Might even make exceptions look good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bibyte</author><text>My takeaway was the exact opposite of yours. For example the goto graph seems very intuitive and simple. But it is much more complex to reason about compared to exceptions. My takeaway was that simple graphs like these can&#x27;t really explain the pros and cons of high level programming constructs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Flowcharts of programming language constructs</title><url>https://www.progsbase.com/blog/flow-charts-of-programming-language-constructs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notacoward</author><text>Pretty neat. Three things that occurred to me while reading it.<p>(1) Makes it pretty clear why exceptions are even more of a control-flow nightmare than goto. What a messy graph.<p>(2) The &#x27;defer&#x27; diagram is a big WTF. Couldn&#x27;t even figure out which box is supposed to represent which statement in the example.<p>(3) I&#x27;d love to see a graph of the control flow when you throw in a few spurious lambdas like &quot;advanced&quot; C++ programmers tend to do (and similar in a few other languages). Might even make exceptions look good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lwb</author><text>My impression was that the article made the exceptions graph much more complicated than it needed to be. Each function doesn’t need three boxes, and they don’t need to each throw exceptions twice. IMO exceptions are much cleaner in practice and are great for things like “kill this script” or “throw a 500 error”.</text></comment> |
11,988,343 | 11,987,367 | 1 | 2 | 11,987,114 | train | <story><title>Introducing .NET Core Docs</title><url>https://docs.microsoft.com/teamblog/introducing-net-core-docs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haft</author><text>This is so much better than the old Technet approach. I especially appreciate the UX that went into creating the site - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;teamblog&#x2F;introducing-docs-microsoft-com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.microsoft.com&#x2F;teamblog&#x2F;introducing-docs-microso...</a><p>Is there any change this will be available as an option for local documentation from VS? Sandcastle is a little dated.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing .NET Core Docs</title><url>https://docs.microsoft.com/teamblog/introducing-net-core-docs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jc4p</author><text>I know it _just_ launched but oh my god how do you launch such a slow site. I&#x27;m trying to load the &quot;System.Drawing&quot; API docs and Chrome inspector just shows a GET pending alongside a _lot_ of analytics and marketing calls being made. I waited to see how long it&#x27;d take, 30s to load the page: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Z6y1ulSr.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Z6y1ulSr.png</a><p>Anyway, ignoring the launch issues: My #1 annoyance with MSFT documentation is sub-classes being on a different page. If you want to call a DirectX method which takes 4 inputs, you need to open up a new tab for each of those inputs to see the possible values &#x2F; etc. I hate it, very very much. I hope their new documentation doesn&#x27;t have this issue, I&#x27;ll check back again in a few weeks to see if I can actually load pages on this site.</text></comment> |
16,207,658 | 16,207,767 | 1 | 2 | 16,190,640 | train | <story><title>“The Problem Child of Seasonal Flu”: Beware This Winter’s Virus</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ldquo-the-problem-child-of-seasonal-flu-rdquo-beware-this-winter-rsquo-s-virus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>framebit</author><text>Personal anecdata about this flu season.<p>I got the flu shot. My spouse did not. They ended up getting the full-blown flu with 103 degree fever and a positive flu test at the doctor. I, on the other hand, felt kind of crappy but I wasn&#x27;t knocked on my feet and my temperature was normal the whole time. I asked our doctor if I essentially had a milder version of the flu because I got the shot and he said that was basically the case.<p>So get your shot! Get your shot for herd immunity, get your shot to (apparently) stave off the worst of the virus, get your shot, get your shot.</text></comment> | <story><title>“The Problem Child of Seasonal Flu”: Beware This Winter’s Virus</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ldquo-the-problem-child-of-seasonal-flu-rdquo-beware-this-winter-rsquo-s-virus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ravenstine</author><text>I just wish that people who get infected would wear a freaking mask when going out in public. I&#x27;ve heard that masks don&#x27;t do much for people who aren&#x27;t infected, but I imagine a mask would catch a lot of the droplets that come out of someone&#x27;s mouth when they cough.<p>I&#x27;ve never been more glad to live alone.</text></comment> |
8,489,696 | 8,489,276 | 1 | 2 | 8,487,809 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Run dedicated iOS Simulators in the browser</title><url>https://appetize.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JosephRedfern</author><text>Yo, dawg... <a href="http://i.imgur.com/Ib0WUeT.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Ib0WUeT.png</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danbruc</author><text>Developers are all the same, how could I expect to be the only one thinking of this? Anyway, I made it down to the 4th level in appetize.io-ception before the sessions started timing out.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/wCIXQUB.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;wCIXQUB.png</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Run dedicated iOS Simulators in the browser</title><url>https://appetize.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JosephRedfern</author><text>Yo, dawg... <a href="http://i.imgur.com/Ib0WUeT.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Ib0WUeT.png</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pit</author><text>Wow, I thought I was super clever for doing that, and everybody else thought of it first!<p><a href="http://cl.ly/image/2L3y0c3G2q0j" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cl.ly&#x2F;image&#x2F;2L3y0c3G2q0j</a></text></comment> |
10,936,310 | 10,936,196 | 1 | 2 | 10,935,532 | train | <story><title>Thanks for Trumpet Winsock</title><url>http://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peckrob</author><text>Oh man, the memories.<p>For people who have grown up in a hyper-connected always-online world, it&#x27;s hard to explain the pure <i>joy</i> of hearing the sound of your computer picking up the phone and sending those tones [0]. Because it meant going from isolated, disconnected and unitary to being part of a wider world.<p>Suddenly, everything was at your fingertips and it was intoxicating to me as a teenager. Fire up Trumpet Winsock and dial into the local mom and pop ISP. Suddenly you&#x27;re surfing the early web using Netscape. Or open up WinVN and read some newsgroups. Or spend way, way too many hours playing MUDs (seriously, I think I spent almost every night MUDding during my teenage years).<p>Or learning cool HTML tricks by looking at the source of a page (back when pages were simple and you could tell things by looking at the source). Some of my earliest exposure to &quot;programming&quot; was because I wanted to make cool web things on my 1mb of ISP provided web space.<p>So yes, thank you Trumpet Winsock. Without you my formative years would have been very different and I likely wouldn&#x27;t be in the career I&#x27;m in now.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windytan.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windytan.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;the-sound-of-dialup-pictured...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgaddis</author><text>&gt; <i>those tones</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;evilrouters.net&#x2F;56k.mp3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;evilrouters.net&#x2F;56k.mp3</a> (MP3)<p>It&#x27;s my ring tone. I love the weird looks on people&#x27;s faces when I&#x27;m in a meeting and my phone rings -- especially the &quot;older&quot; crowd (some of the &quot;youngsters&quot; don&#x27;t recognize the sound).</text></comment> | <story><title>Thanks for Trumpet Winsock</title><url>http://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peckrob</author><text>Oh man, the memories.<p>For people who have grown up in a hyper-connected always-online world, it&#x27;s hard to explain the pure <i>joy</i> of hearing the sound of your computer picking up the phone and sending those tones [0]. Because it meant going from isolated, disconnected and unitary to being part of a wider world.<p>Suddenly, everything was at your fingertips and it was intoxicating to me as a teenager. Fire up Trumpet Winsock and dial into the local mom and pop ISP. Suddenly you&#x27;re surfing the early web using Netscape. Or open up WinVN and read some newsgroups. Or spend way, way too many hours playing MUDs (seriously, I think I spent almost every night MUDding during my teenage years).<p>Or learning cool HTML tricks by looking at the source of a page (back when pages were simple and you could tell things by looking at the source). Some of my earliest exposure to &quot;programming&quot; was because I wanted to make cool web things on my 1mb of ISP provided web space.<p>So yes, thank you Trumpet Winsock. Without you my formative years would have been very different and I likely wouldn&#x27;t be in the career I&#x27;m in now.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windytan.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windytan.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;the-sound-of-dialup-pictured...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oinksoft</author><text>It surprises me how clearly I remember the first time I used the internet in 1995 (I was barely 7). My father worked on a predecessor to modern email in the 80s and by then was no longer programming, working in telecom instead. He had a keen interest in the internet, but it was a long time relatively speaking before we could justify the expense of a computer, modem, and home connection (service provided by Erols).<p>He loaded up AltaVista and explained what a search engine was, in terms that I could understand, by relating it to a library catalog. I&#x27;d only used those DOS catalogs to that point, and they were picky. I carefully typed on the Power Mac&#x27;s keyboard, &quot;Davis, Jim&quot;.<p>As the results crawled down the screen, I knew immediately that this was a world apart from reading old Garfield books at the library, that it was something totally new (and daunting). I really didn&#x27;t know what to make of it.<p>A few days later I snuck into the office and printed out the career statistics of &quot;Moon, Warren&quot;.</text></comment> |
34,734,152 | 34,731,993 | 1 | 3 | 34,724,585 | train | <story><title>The Future of Thunderbird</title><url>https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/the-future-of-thunderbird-why-were-rebuilding-from-the-ground-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw0101a</author><text>&gt; <i>That&#x27;s also the main problem I have with it. The UI is what it is, but it has the considerable advantage that I&#x27;m already used to it. I&#x27;m not really clamoring for a different UI, there&#x27;s bigger problems.</i><p>If they want to grow the user base (or even maintain it against attrition) then relying on just the current folks isn&#x27;t enough: you have to get new people to use it. (And hopefully support&#x2F;donate to it.)<p>Getting new blood thus may entail getting rid of the Old School interface and going with whatever is &#x27;current&#x27;.<p>Unless you make the interface skinnable, or provide a &#x27;core&#x27; which folks can build their own variant on with whatever interface they desire.</text></item><item><author>tux3</author><text>That&#x27;s also the main problem I have with it. The UI is what it is, but it has the considerable advantage that I&#x27;m <i>already</i> used to it. I&#x27;m not really clamoring for a different UI, there&#x27;s bigger problems.<p>Unfortunately, it has some serious performance bugs. It often sits there idle on a brand new laptop eating 50% or 70% of a core. Doing who knows what, without giving any indication or any sort of pause button to the user.<p>I almost have to keep Thunderbird closed to save my battery. Sometimes I think if I wrote a shell script that suspended the main process four of every five minutes, it&#x27;d make for better background task scheduling than whatever must be going on.<p>The software is burning hundred of billions of CPU cycles running in circles for hours and hours, when it&#x27;s supposed to be sitting idle.</text></item><item><author>formerly_proven</author><text>&gt; “Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?” ~ A notable percentage of Thunderbird users<p>Honestly this doesn&#x27;t seem like the main issue with Thunderbird; the main issue is that the UI is very slow, it tends to use a lot of CPU and memory just sitting there and a lot of operations block the UI. This got a lot worse with 102. 102 unfortunately is so low in responsiveness that it&#x27;s literally quicker for me to open a new tab, load Google Mail (the slowest webmail I&#x27;m using) find and(!) read the mail there than switching to the already running Thunderbird and waiting for it to load the new message. It also tends to take pretty long to &quot;boot&quot;, so most days I just avoid using it entirely now, as leaving it running in the background substantially decreases battery life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orbital223</author><text>&gt; Getting new blood thus may entail getting rid of the Old School interface and going with whatever is &#x27;current&#x27;.<p>Reminds me of the arguments for Firefox getting rid of the &quot;Old School&quot; interface and copying Chrome to bring in new users. Didn&#x27;t exactly work out very well...</text></comment> | <story><title>The Future of Thunderbird</title><url>https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/the-future-of-thunderbird-why-were-rebuilding-from-the-ground-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw0101a</author><text>&gt; <i>That&#x27;s also the main problem I have with it. The UI is what it is, but it has the considerable advantage that I&#x27;m already used to it. I&#x27;m not really clamoring for a different UI, there&#x27;s bigger problems.</i><p>If they want to grow the user base (or even maintain it against attrition) then relying on just the current folks isn&#x27;t enough: you have to get new people to use it. (And hopefully support&#x2F;donate to it.)<p>Getting new blood thus may entail getting rid of the Old School interface and going with whatever is &#x27;current&#x27;.<p>Unless you make the interface skinnable, or provide a &#x27;core&#x27; which folks can build their own variant on with whatever interface they desire.</text></item><item><author>tux3</author><text>That&#x27;s also the main problem I have with it. The UI is what it is, but it has the considerable advantage that I&#x27;m <i>already</i> used to it. I&#x27;m not really clamoring for a different UI, there&#x27;s bigger problems.<p>Unfortunately, it has some serious performance bugs. It often sits there idle on a brand new laptop eating 50% or 70% of a core. Doing who knows what, without giving any indication or any sort of pause button to the user.<p>I almost have to keep Thunderbird closed to save my battery. Sometimes I think if I wrote a shell script that suspended the main process four of every five minutes, it&#x27;d make for better background task scheduling than whatever must be going on.<p>The software is burning hundred of billions of CPU cycles running in circles for hours and hours, when it&#x27;s supposed to be sitting idle.</text></item><item><author>formerly_proven</author><text>&gt; “Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?” ~ A notable percentage of Thunderbird users<p>Honestly this doesn&#x27;t seem like the main issue with Thunderbird; the main issue is that the UI is very slow, it tends to use a lot of CPU and memory just sitting there and a lot of operations block the UI. This got a lot worse with 102. 102 unfortunately is so low in responsiveness that it&#x27;s literally quicker for me to open a new tab, load Google Mail (the slowest webmail I&#x27;m using) find and(!) read the mail there than switching to the already running Thunderbird and waiting for it to load the new message. It also tends to take pretty long to &quot;boot&quot;, so most days I just avoid using it entirely now, as leaving it running in the background substantially decreases battery life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ablob</author><text>I started using thunderbird half a year ago and like the interface. Sure, there&#x27;s problems (I haven&#x27;t encountered a lot of them), but the overall user experience is far better than what I&#x27;m used to from other email programs. The only thing that stuck out negatively was when I was searching for an email, in which the way I was wanting to solve it didn&#x27;t work out as I thought it did. (I was looking for a mail containing specific words from a specific group of senders).<p>Moreover, detering active users in the hopes of catching new users is a risky move. If you do it you need to be sure that there will be more new users faster than old users leaving. If it doesn&#x27;t work out, chances are that they ain&#x27;t coming back.<p>I can&#x27;t say anything about keeping TB open and having it steal CPU time. I usually close it after checking for mail. Having it open appears to be a valid use case taht shouldn&#x27;t create problems, however.</text></comment> |
24,900,164 | 24,899,230 | 1 | 2 | 24,896,769 | train | <story><title>iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review</title><url>http://austinmann.com/trek/iphone-12-pro-camera-review-glacier</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zobzu</author><text>I think the photo of the woman is terrible. I don&#x27;t blame the phone for it, its very hard to achieve with small sensors, and the iphone is probably the best of the bunch. But it doesn&#x27;t make the picture quality near &quot;good-enough&quot; for that scenario.<p>With slightly better lighting it can be &quot;good enough&quot; to be hard to distinguish from a bigger sensor camera for &quot;web&quot; where &quot;web&quot; really means ~6inch phone display - and that&#x27;s great, but let&#x27;s not fool ourselves ;-)<p>I&#x27;m also curious what the max will look like - though at the size and price it&#x27;s difficult to say if buying a RX100 and a cheaper phone isn&#x27;t a better option still, for many.</text></item><item><author>jseliger</author><text>In some ways, this feels like the reviews of the last couple of generations of iPhone: it can work really well in very good light and at typical web resolutions. The photo of the woman in the parka is very impressive as a technical demonstration but is also pretty blurry&#x2F;smeared, to my eye. As an only camera, it&#x27;s probably the best or near the best of the phones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nition</author><text>&gt; I think the photo of the woman is terrible.<p>On any normal camera that photo would be a complete blur. Impossible. It&#x27;s a hand-held three second exposure.</text></comment> | <story><title>iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review</title><url>http://austinmann.com/trek/iphone-12-pro-camera-review-glacier</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zobzu</author><text>I think the photo of the woman is terrible. I don&#x27;t blame the phone for it, its very hard to achieve with small sensors, and the iphone is probably the best of the bunch. But it doesn&#x27;t make the picture quality near &quot;good-enough&quot; for that scenario.<p>With slightly better lighting it can be &quot;good enough&quot; to be hard to distinguish from a bigger sensor camera for &quot;web&quot; where &quot;web&quot; really means ~6inch phone display - and that&#x27;s great, but let&#x27;s not fool ourselves ;-)<p>I&#x27;m also curious what the max will look like - though at the size and price it&#x27;s difficult to say if buying a RX100 and a cheaper phone isn&#x27;t a better option still, for many.</text></item><item><author>jseliger</author><text>In some ways, this feels like the reviews of the last couple of generations of iPhone: it can work really well in very good light and at typical web resolutions. The photo of the woman in the parka is very impressive as a technical demonstration but is also pretty blurry&#x2F;smeared, to my eye. As an only camera, it&#x27;s probably the best or near the best of the phones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inasio</author><text>This is on a handheld three second exposure in the dark. Not sure you would do much better with an SLR. I have on Olympus OMD EM5 with great OIS and that shot would be pretty challenging</text></comment> |
38,991,365 | 38,988,512 | 1 | 2 | 38,988,019 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app</title><url>https://github.com/every-day-things/citadel</url><text>Hey folks! This winter I&#x27;ve been building Citadel to scratch my itch of managing ebooks without using Calibre. Calibre is incredibly powerful, but it&#x27;s slow and awkward to use.<p>I dreamed of writing a native app (and originally tried this in Swift), but ran into issues building the UI. Plus, whatever I built would only work on macOS. I started writing Citadel using Tauri (Svelte on the frontend + Rust on the backend) to have a cross-platform desktop app. Plus, Citadel supports running in a headless &#x2F; webbrowser mode. You can self-host a Citadel server that manages your library, and connect to it from anywhere with the web.<p>This is SUPER early software. Honestly, I&#x27;m a bit embarrassed to post it here — but I wanted folks to know that I&#x27;m building a tool to replace Calibre. If you&#x27;d like to help build it, I&#x27;d love the help! If you just want to follow the journey, please do!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>asimpletune</author><text>Sometimes I feel that if Calibre just looked better people would realize how amazing it is. It’s honestly not that bad (I actually love it) but I think people can’t get past the aesthetic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>para_parolu</author><text>It is incredibly slow and unstable. I spent literally weeks adding large (100gb library) into it. I had to add chunk by chunk. It was crashing constantly and process was so slow that I moved it to a separate machine. Then I tried to use web interface to search and it was super slow.<p>And I’m not even talking about non intuitive UI. For something that has supposed to be a library it’s nowhere near real library (alphabetical list of authors).</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app</title><url>https://github.com/every-day-things/citadel</url><text>Hey folks! This winter I&#x27;ve been building Citadel to scratch my itch of managing ebooks without using Calibre. Calibre is incredibly powerful, but it&#x27;s slow and awkward to use.<p>I dreamed of writing a native app (and originally tried this in Swift), but ran into issues building the UI. Plus, whatever I built would only work on macOS. I started writing Citadel using Tauri (Svelte on the frontend + Rust on the backend) to have a cross-platform desktop app. Plus, Citadel supports running in a headless &#x2F; webbrowser mode. You can self-host a Citadel server that manages your library, and connect to it from anywhere with the web.<p>This is SUPER early software. Honestly, I&#x27;m a bit embarrassed to post it here — but I wanted folks to know that I&#x27;m building a tool to replace Calibre. If you&#x27;d like to help build it, I&#x27;d love the help! If you just want to follow the journey, please do!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>asimpletune</author><text>Sometimes I feel that if Calibre just looked better people would realize how amazing it is. It’s honestly not that bad (I actually love it) but I think people can’t get past the aesthetic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smivan</author><text>The challenge that I face is Calibre absolutely craters after 20,000+ ebooks.<p>I understand that most folks probably have 10-300 books, but in my case I have some large libraries I tried to use with Calibre, and it just absolutely DIES.<p>The steadfast decision to exclusively use SQLite doesn&#x27;t help. I opened a PR back in 2016 or so, but the maintainer was quite enthusiastically opposed to changing the DB layer or making it pluggable.</text></comment> |
28,031,554 | 28,031,504 | 1 | 2 | 28,030,636 | train | <story><title>Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B</title><url>https://squareup.com/us/en/press/square-announces-plans-to-acquire-afterpay</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shell0x</author><text>As a foreigner in Australia, I can&#x27;t help but to think that Australians really don&#x27;t know how to handle finances and are too irresponsible to use a credit card, so Afterpay and Zip stepped in.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s because I grew up in Europe, but &quot;Don&#x27;t buy it if you can&#x27;t afford it&quot; has served me well. The majority of people I know just use credit cards for the perks but never miss a full payment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Clewza313</author><text>Australia has gone 20+ years without a recession, meaning many people have grown up without ever seeing anything except full employment and house prices going up up up. It&#x27;s thus been a &quot;safe bet&quot; to leverage yourself up to your eyeballs to get on that &quot;property ladder&quot;, and while many (including myself) thought this would finally pop last year with COVID, nope, after the briefest hiccup the property market has gone even more nuts this year.</text></comment> | <story><title>Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B</title><url>https://squareup.com/us/en/press/square-announces-plans-to-acquire-afterpay</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shell0x</author><text>As a foreigner in Australia, I can&#x27;t help but to think that Australians really don&#x27;t know how to handle finances and are too irresponsible to use a credit card, so Afterpay and Zip stepped in.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s because I grew up in Europe, but &quot;Don&#x27;t buy it if you can&#x27;t afford it&quot; has served me well. The majority of people I know just use credit cards for the perks but never miss a full payment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>siquick</author><text>I’ve lived in Australia for 10 years and still cannot believe how flippant people here seem to about getting into debt. Tens of thousands of dollars of credit card debt, a mortgage covering 60% of a salary, and a leased car seem to be fairly standard for a lot of my peers. It feels like they’re all 3 missed months of salary away from having absolutely nothing. Obviously all anecdotal but still astounding and probably not too uncommon here in Sydney.</text></comment> |
23,360,427 | 23,359,315 | 1 | 3 | 23,357,921 | train | <story><title>Frameworkless Movement</title><url>http://frameworklessmovement.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>&gt; These frameworks taught me how a web app should be structured (models, views, controllers, services, migrations, middleware).<p>Well, that&#x27;s how they <i>could</i> be structured. There are many other ways. MVC is only one option among many, and it has its drawbacks too.<p>Your application doesn&#x27;t need logging until you have a problem that is solved by logging. It&#x27;s possible that you never have such a problem. If that&#x27;s so, then building a logging subsystem is a waste of time.<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t get many of the concepts involved with building a microservice (circuit breakers, service discovery, etc)<p>This is because you haven&#x27;t really learned how to think about solving a problem with code, but have instead learned to apply a framework to any problem. If you try solving the actual problem you have first, which involves really understanding it, then you&#x27;ll probably find that the framework solution is vastly overspecced for your particular situation. Because the framework has to cater for a much wider range of situations than yours. If you write your own solution to the problem, it will (almost by definition, and assuming you write decent code) be a smaller, tighter, faster and more appropriate solution than the framework solution.</text></item><item><author>veeralpatel979</author><text>I wrote my first web app with Django. And then Rails. These frameworks taught me how a web app should be structured (models, views, controllers, services, migrations, middleware).<p>Now, if I wanted to, I could build my own application without Django or Rails, as long as I had something to accept incoming HTTP requests, make responses, and a library to make DB calls.<p>But I wouldn&#x27;t have gotten to this point had I not learned Django and Rails first.<p>I think using a framework turns many &quot;unknown unknowns&quot; into &quot;known unknowns&quot;.<p>I can read my framework&#x27;s documentation and learn it has built in logging, so logging is something I need to think about when building a web app. It lets you filter sensitive data from logs, so that&#x27;s something I need to think about.<p>This is why I was building a type of application I didn&#x27;t build before, I would look for a framework I could use, or something like it.<p>I&#x27;d use go kit for building a microservice for example. I don&#x27;t get many of the concepts involved with building a microservice (circuit breakers, service discovery, etc) and hopefully the framework would help me learn them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eitland</author><text>&gt; If you write your own solution to the problem, it will (almost by definition, and assuming you write decent code) be a smaller, tighter, faster and more appropriate solution than the framework solution.<p>Only if you know what you are doing.<p>I have read smart people admit that at some point they realized that the compiler had outsmarted their clever inline assembly hacks and I fully expect this to be true in a frameworks vs homebuilt scenario as well.<p>Also: The number of people who knows my or your brilliant solution will always be dwarfed by the number of people who knows Rails, Django, Laravel or Spring, meaning as soon as you need to hire you are at a significant disadvantage.<p>(I&#x27;ve seen brilliant people running frameworkless also, but I wouldn&#x27;t necessarily recommend it for more ordinary people like me ;-)</text></comment> | <story><title>Frameworkless Movement</title><url>http://frameworklessmovement.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcus_holmes</author><text>&gt; These frameworks taught me how a web app should be structured (models, views, controllers, services, migrations, middleware).<p>Well, that&#x27;s how they <i>could</i> be structured. There are many other ways. MVC is only one option among many, and it has its drawbacks too.<p>Your application doesn&#x27;t need logging until you have a problem that is solved by logging. It&#x27;s possible that you never have such a problem. If that&#x27;s so, then building a logging subsystem is a waste of time.<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t get many of the concepts involved with building a microservice (circuit breakers, service discovery, etc)<p>This is because you haven&#x27;t really learned how to think about solving a problem with code, but have instead learned to apply a framework to any problem. If you try solving the actual problem you have first, which involves really understanding it, then you&#x27;ll probably find that the framework solution is vastly overspecced for your particular situation. Because the framework has to cater for a much wider range of situations than yours. If you write your own solution to the problem, it will (almost by definition, and assuming you write decent code) be a smaller, tighter, faster and more appropriate solution than the framework solution.</text></item><item><author>veeralpatel979</author><text>I wrote my first web app with Django. And then Rails. These frameworks taught me how a web app should be structured (models, views, controllers, services, migrations, middleware).<p>Now, if I wanted to, I could build my own application without Django or Rails, as long as I had something to accept incoming HTTP requests, make responses, and a library to make DB calls.<p>But I wouldn&#x27;t have gotten to this point had I not learned Django and Rails first.<p>I think using a framework turns many &quot;unknown unknowns&quot; into &quot;known unknowns&quot;.<p>I can read my framework&#x27;s documentation and learn it has built in logging, so logging is something I need to think about when building a web app. It lets you filter sensitive data from logs, so that&#x27;s something I need to think about.<p>This is why I was building a type of application I didn&#x27;t build before, I would look for a framework I could use, or something like it.<p>I&#x27;d use go kit for building a microservice for example. I don&#x27;t get many of the concepts involved with building a microservice (circuit breakers, service discovery, etc) and hopefully the framework would help me learn them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rswail</author><text>&gt; If you write your own solution to the problem, it will (almost by definition, and assuming you write decent code) be a smaller, tighter, faster and more appropriate solution than the framework solution.<p>It will be more appropriate for <i>right now</i>. Whether it&#x27;s smaller, tighter, or faster (or any other qualifier) is dependent on the code quality.<p>As the manifesto says, using a framework involves tradeoffs. One of those is trading that direct current appropriateness for future expandability, reliability (bug repairs etc) and other advantages of using someone else&#x27;s code that covers more use cases than your specific, current needs.</text></comment> |
21,858,793 | 21,858,825 | 1 | 2 | 21,858,093 | train | <story><title>UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years</title><url>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-and-a-with-navy-pilot-chad-underwood.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>willis936</author><text>Anytime I try to pursue the UFO question I feel like I’m being intentionally gaslighted by government agencies. The public-ish analysis of UFOs, AATIP is an incredible farce. They focused on star trek warp drives and after the funding dried up they started hanging out with Blink 182 to smoke weed and pat each other on the back for being crazy alien believers. These aren’t sound scientific minds that are capable of analyzing the evidence available. Those people exist and I’m certain their analyses do as well, but no one gets to see them.<p>I struggle to even come up with narratives as to why this specific case would be made public. Perhaps the intelligence agencies knew it wouldn’t be possible to cover up so the best they can do is release the evidence that was expected to make its way to the public and say nothing about it officially. If I put on a tinfoil hat I could say that the AATIP’s purpose was to instill doubt that aliens exist, but that would imply that they do exist. It seems that the intelligence agencies are behaving like they want to give as little information as possible about it. I can’t imagine the AATIP was made top-down. It appears to just be a congressman’s publicity stunt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jd</author><text>Sometimes it has an easy explanation given typical information asymmetries and incentive structures. For example, you don&#x27;t give away any of your external intel during a war (i.e. cold war) in the case that you are identifying something by your enemy that might be trying to hide from you. Letting them know you can detect them would be stupid. Also, for similar reasons, record and catalogue every strange phenomenon in case it could be something.<p>The natural correlate from a citizen perspective is that the government is hiding something (i.e. UFOs). Of course it is, that&#x27;s the point. But then the point becomes less of a point the less justification there is for wartime behavior, which then leads to increased speculation that the government is hiding something which at some points boils over into widespread public sentiment.<p>Then at that point there is both incentive to do selective release and for the media to cover it since they know readers want to read about UFOs, etc.<p>I think that&#x27;s the Ockham&#x27;s razor here.</text></comment> | <story><title>UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years</title><url>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-and-a-with-navy-pilot-chad-underwood.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>willis936</author><text>Anytime I try to pursue the UFO question I feel like I’m being intentionally gaslighted by government agencies. The public-ish analysis of UFOs, AATIP is an incredible farce. They focused on star trek warp drives and after the funding dried up they started hanging out with Blink 182 to smoke weed and pat each other on the back for being crazy alien believers. These aren’t sound scientific minds that are capable of analyzing the evidence available. Those people exist and I’m certain their analyses do as well, but no one gets to see them.<p>I struggle to even come up with narratives as to why this specific case would be made public. Perhaps the intelligence agencies knew it wouldn’t be possible to cover up so the best they can do is release the evidence that was expected to make its way to the public and say nothing about it officially. If I put on a tinfoil hat I could say that the AATIP’s purpose was to instill doubt that aliens exist, but that would imply that they do exist. It seems that the intelligence agencies are behaving like they want to give as little information as possible about it. I can’t imagine the AATIP was made top-down. It appears to just be a congressman’s publicity stunt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willis936</author><text>To add onto this:
Is this behavior reasonable for an alien species? I think so. It could be a probe to evaluate the behavior and technology of society on Earth. They could detect military response times, if they get greeted with missiles, hugs, or observations, etc. Keeping tabs on neighbors may be a good way to slowly initiate peaceful contact with another planet.<p>Another question to ask ourselves is “how much evidence is enough to convince ourselves that aliens exist?” Namely: is this FLIR video enough?</text></comment> |
26,479,112 | 26,479,454 | 1 | 2 | 26,477,064 | train | <story><title>TikTok wants to keep tracking iPhone users with state-backed workaround</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/chinas-tech-giants-test-way-around-apples-new-privacy-rules/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CountSessine</author><text>Yes - because manufacturing in the West is ultimately self-defeating. Success breeds complacency and labor unrest. This isn&#x27;t just a China-thing (I have no idea what your Potemkin regulation is or why you would mix those metaphors).<p>When Westerners see an absurdly profitable company, they think, &quot;why aren&#x27;t they paying their employees more??!&quot; and start a union to parasitize earnings.<p>When Asians (including the Japanese and Koreans) see an absurdly profitably company, they think, &quot;why are they able to charge such high prices???!&quot; and they kneecap the company&#x27;s ability to exploit their market.<p>It&#x27;s an important difference for manufacturing physical things and it&#x27;s why the West loses out to Asia in manufacturing outside cutting-edge tech. It&#x27;s defective wetware in our heads and how we think about wealth and creating value, so don&#x27;t expect manufacturing supply chains to return to Western countries any time soon.</text></item><item><author>topspin</author><text>&gt; The western world needs to desperately work on making their supply chains independent of the CCP<p>The western world can&#x27;t. The world is only so big and the remaining sites of refuge for cheap, exploitable labor and Potemkin regulatory regimes are few. Almost any alternative place you might cite is either already beholden to China (the viable parts of Africa) or too unstable (due to endemic corruption, external threats, etc.) to risk.<p>Insourcing is obviously out of the question; the wealthy Western establishment is violently intolerant of industrial expansion.</text></item><item><author>tediousdemise</author><text>As much as I like Apple products, it looks like the privacy buck stops at China.<p>The western world needs to desperately work on making their supply chains independent of the CCP, lest they&#x27;d like their supply chains to be poisoned at some point in the future.<p>I&#x27;m a big fan of Purism and everything that they are doing. I hope their software and hardware matures with the same level of polish we&#x27;ve come to know and expect from Apple products, and will be an early investor if they ever decide to IPO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tw04</author><text>&gt;When Westerners see an absurdly profitable company, they think, &quot;why aren&#x27;t they paying their employees more??!&quot; and start a union to parasitize earnings.<p>Saying that employees expecting a livable wage is &quot;parasitizing earnings&quot; is a pretty outrageous claim.<p>&gt;It&#x27;s an important difference for manufacturing physical things and it&#x27;s why the West loses out to Asia in manufacturing outside cutting-edge tech.<p>The West lost out to Asia because their standard of living was so much lower that it was basically slave labor for a decade. You apparently have missed out on the repeated protests at factories across China with their workers demanding better working conditions and wages.<p>Expecting to be able to be able to do something more than just not starve to death isn&#x27;t a western ideal, it&#x27;s a human ideal. When the company you work for is printing money and you&#x27;re living in poverty, something eventually gives. As has happened at literally every point in human history to date. Sometimes through violence, sometimes through government intervention. But the &quot;unwashed masses&quot; won&#x27;t stay ignorant forever.</text></comment> | <story><title>TikTok wants to keep tracking iPhone users with state-backed workaround</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/chinas-tech-giants-test-way-around-apples-new-privacy-rules/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CountSessine</author><text>Yes - because manufacturing in the West is ultimately self-defeating. Success breeds complacency and labor unrest. This isn&#x27;t just a China-thing (I have no idea what your Potemkin regulation is or why you would mix those metaphors).<p>When Westerners see an absurdly profitable company, they think, &quot;why aren&#x27;t they paying their employees more??!&quot; and start a union to parasitize earnings.<p>When Asians (including the Japanese and Koreans) see an absurdly profitably company, they think, &quot;why are they able to charge such high prices???!&quot; and they kneecap the company&#x27;s ability to exploit their market.<p>It&#x27;s an important difference for manufacturing physical things and it&#x27;s why the West loses out to Asia in manufacturing outside cutting-edge tech. It&#x27;s defective wetware in our heads and how we think about wealth and creating value, so don&#x27;t expect manufacturing supply chains to return to Western countries any time soon.</text></item><item><author>topspin</author><text>&gt; The western world needs to desperately work on making their supply chains independent of the CCP<p>The western world can&#x27;t. The world is only so big and the remaining sites of refuge for cheap, exploitable labor and Potemkin regulatory regimes are few. Almost any alternative place you might cite is either already beholden to China (the viable parts of Africa) or too unstable (due to endemic corruption, external threats, etc.) to risk.<p>Insourcing is obviously out of the question; the wealthy Western establishment is violently intolerant of industrial expansion.</text></item><item><author>tediousdemise</author><text>As much as I like Apple products, it looks like the privacy buck stops at China.<p>The western world needs to desperately work on making their supply chains independent of the CCP, lest they&#x27;d like their supply chains to be poisoned at some point in the future.<p>I&#x27;m a big fan of Purism and everything that they are doing. I hope their software and hardware matures with the same level of polish we&#x27;ve come to know and expect from Apple products, and will be an early investor if they ever decide to IPO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freeflight</author><text><i>&gt; Yes - because manufacturing in the West is ultimately self-defeating.</i><p>It&#x27;s much more to do with the steadily increasing complexity of products due to humanity having become very much a global species with heavy interdependence.<p>Look around the room you are sitting in: There will be items in it manufactured all over the world, from components also coming from all over the world.<p>That&#x27;s not only how we manage to make these things so affordable, that&#x27;s how we got them at this scale and complexity in the very first place.<p>The idea that a single country could emulate that, in complete isolation, is bluntly said childish. Isolationism like that doesn&#x27;t lead to progress or innovation, it leads to North Korea style impoverished hermit kingdoms.<p>It&#x27;s mind-boggling how few people seem to understand this reality in the year 2021, we are so interconnected that we can instantly communicate with somebody on the other side of the planet by just pulling a small device out of our pocket, it&#x27;s considered the most normal thing in the world.<p>Instead we get shortsighted and small-minded nationalist blowback in the form of Brexit and &quot;America first!&quot; politics.<p>Even with the EU showing that economic cooperation and integration is one of the best and most constructive ways to ensure peace, stability and prosperity, particularly vs the alternative of alienation and vilification of whole nation states and their people as &quot;enemies&quot; that need to be fought in every way possible.</text></comment> |
26,006,691 | 26,006,145 | 1 | 2 | 26,002,688 | train | <story><title>“WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge for the memes”</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l7bl3z/brokers_of_reddit_how_crazy_is_it_where_you_work/gl64yau/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dd_roger</author><text>I think most legacy users from WSB know very well what they are doing.<p>I&#x27;ve been on this sub for 5 years and it has always been so that everytime the wsb hivemind finds a good deal it gets media attention and the number of clueless users&#x2F;investors skyrockets. But people who stick around outside of these short periods under the spotlights know very well what they are doing despite the memes.<p>I don&#x27;t believe in the theory that there are few people manipulating the entire sub for a pump and dump, rather the entire sub (the few tens of thousands regular active users) knew it was a pump and dump. That this story attracted the attention and money of thousands of clueless newbies is to be blamed on people that reported on it carelessly (medias, celebritites, etc.), not on the people who were doing their things on an internet forum expecting nothing out of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JamesSwift</author><text>This was a unique setup for a lot of reasons. It started purely as a value play, then dynamically morphed into a growth play _and_ an attack on the shorts based on technicals. Once the price broke ~30 it then escalated into a full on short-attack and ultimately became pump-and-dump (in my opinion). The whole thing was fluid though, and its important to understand that the initial snowball was formed on the back of fundamentals analysis and through a lens of value investing, so you had plenty of &quot;true believers&quot; gathering together to form the initial crowd attacking the shorts.<p>Once it became clear the momentum was dead (i.e. when brokerages forbade buys) a lot of the &quot;in the know&quot; crowd had already planned their exit and took it. The only reason it hasnt plummeted to ~40$ at this point is that there were a lot of &quot;true believer converts&quot; picked up along the way that are now stubbornly bagholding in disbelief. This is where the _real_ pump and dump starts to occur, because this whole crowd is now on the hook for massive losses unless they can recreate the initial rise.</text></comment> | <story><title>“WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge for the memes”</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l7bl3z/brokers_of_reddit_how_crazy_is_it_where_you_work/gl64yau/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dd_roger</author><text>I think most legacy users from WSB know very well what they are doing.<p>I&#x27;ve been on this sub for 5 years and it has always been so that everytime the wsb hivemind finds a good deal it gets media attention and the number of clueless users&#x2F;investors skyrockets. But people who stick around outside of these short periods under the spotlights know very well what they are doing despite the memes.<p>I don&#x27;t believe in the theory that there are few people manipulating the entire sub for a pump and dump, rather the entire sub (the few tens of thousands regular active users) knew it was a pump and dump. That this story attracted the attention and money of thousands of clueless newbies is to be blamed on people that reported on it carelessly (medias, celebritites, etc.), not on the people who were doing their things on an internet forum expecting nothing out of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>helen___keller</author><text>&gt; this story attracted the attention and money of thousands of clueless newbies<p>As an exercise in this theory earlier today I looked up the profile for 5 or 6 of the top posts on the subreddit advocating for &quot;diamond hands&quot;, and about half of them made their first post on WSB within the past 5 days. It&#x27;s very clear that the users going down with the ship are not the same users who pumped it up for massive profits in the first place.</text></comment> |
19,592,320 | 19,592,111 | 1 | 2 | 19,590,936 | train | <story><title>Low-earth orbit satellites threatened by debris from Indian anti-satellite test</title><url>https://breakingdefense.com/2019/04/indian-asat-debris-threatens-all-leo-sats/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msravi</author><text>&gt; We should criticize nations that did this before AND India.<p>Sure. Just that the &quot;we&quot; cannot be one of the nations that did this before, as is the case here. That&#x27;s hypocrisy and entitlement.</text></item><item><author>tomrod</author><text>This smacks of a justification through tu quoque fallacy. Just because other nations destroyed satellites doesn&#x27;t mean this type of weapons testing should continue. We should criticize nations that did this before AND India.<p>Polluting LEO to the point where we endanger our ability to get off the earth is extremely myopic.</text></item><item><author>r3bl</author><text>Worth noting: India is the fourth(!) country that destroyed a satellite in orbit.<p>While I would love nothing more but for it be the last country to do so, the precedent was set some time ago. The one that China destroyed in 2007 (or 2008?) was by far the biggest, creating thousands of pieces of debris bigger than a golf ball. 270 pieces (detected so far after India destroyed a satellite) seems pretty insignificant in comparison.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justin66</author><text>Plenty of people <i>within</i> the US objected to ASAT testing when the US planned it and then did it. We&#x27;re not all blind followers defined by our citizenship, in the US or in India.</text></comment> | <story><title>Low-earth orbit satellites threatened by debris from Indian anti-satellite test</title><url>https://breakingdefense.com/2019/04/indian-asat-debris-threatens-all-leo-sats/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msravi</author><text>&gt; We should criticize nations that did this before AND India.<p>Sure. Just that the &quot;we&quot; cannot be one of the nations that did this before, as is the case here. That&#x27;s hypocrisy and entitlement.</text></item><item><author>tomrod</author><text>This smacks of a justification through tu quoque fallacy. Just because other nations destroyed satellites doesn&#x27;t mean this type of weapons testing should continue. We should criticize nations that did this before AND India.<p>Polluting LEO to the point where we endanger our ability to get off the earth is extremely myopic.</text></item><item><author>r3bl</author><text>Worth noting: India is the fourth(!) country that destroyed a satellite in orbit.<p>While I would love nothing more but for it be the last country to do so, the precedent was set some time ago. The one that China destroyed in 2007 (or 2008?) was by far the biggest, creating thousands of pieces of debris bigger than a golf ball. 270 pieces (detected so far after India destroyed a satellite) seems pretty insignificant in comparison.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glennpratt</author><text>By that argument &quot;we&quot; can&#x27;t criticize and resist nuclear proliferation. I completely reject that assertion.</text></comment> |
40,193,025 | 40,190,560 | 1 | 2 | 40,189,682 | train | <story><title>Did we lose our way in making efficient software?</title><url>https://rufatmammadli.medium.com/did-we-lose-our-way-in-making-efficient-software-30-mb-doc-file-vs-browser-fed12dd866a4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alerighi</author><text>The thing that makes me crazy is that the thing that we do on computers are basically the same each year, yet software are more and more heavy. For example just in 2010 a Linux distribution with a DE just started did consume 100Mb of RAM, an optimized version 60Mb of RAM. I remember it perfectly. I had 2Gb of RAM and did not have even a swap partition.<p>Now just a decade later, a computer with less than 8Gb of RAM is unusable. A computer with 8Gb of RAM is barely usable. Each new software uses Electron and consumes roughly 1Gb of RAM minimum! Browsers consume a ton of RAM, basically everything consumes an absurd amount of memory.<p>Not talking about Windows, I don&#x27;t even know how people can use it. Every time I help my mother with the computer is so slow, and we talk about a recent PC with an i5 and 8Gb of RAM. It takes ages to startup, software takes ages to launch, it takes 1 hour if you need to do updates. How can people use these system and not complain? I would throw my computer out of the window if it takes more than a minute to boot up, even Windows 98 was faster!</text></item><item><author>stephc_int13</author><text>My opinion about this is that yes, we lost our way, and the reason is very simple, it is because we could. It was the path of least resistance, so we took it.<p>Software has been freeriding on hardware improvements for a few decades, especially on web and desktop apps.<p>Moore&#x27;s law has been a blessing and a curse.<p>The software you use today was written by people who learned their craft while this free-ride was still fully ongoing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flenserboy</author><text>Think also about all the finished stand-alone applications which have been discarded because of replacement APIs, or because they were written in assembly. We had near-perfect (limited feature-wise from a 3-decade view, of course) word processors, spreadsheets, and single-user databases in the late 80s&#x2F;early 90s which were, except for many specific use-case additions, complete &amp; only in need of regular maintenance &amp; quality-of-life updates were there a way to keep them current. They were in many cases far better quality &amp; documented than almost any similar applications you can get your hands on today; so many work-years done in parallel, repeated, &amp; lost. If there wouldn&#x27;t be software sourcing &amp; document interchange issues, it would be tempting to do all my actual office-style work on a virtual mid-90s system &amp; move things over to the host system when printing or sending data.<p>Addition: consider also how few resources these applications used, &amp; how they, if they were able to run natively on contemporary systems, would have minuscule system demands compared to their present equivalents with only somewhat less capability.</text></comment> | <story><title>Did we lose our way in making efficient software?</title><url>https://rufatmammadli.medium.com/did-we-lose-our-way-in-making-efficient-software-30-mb-doc-file-vs-browser-fed12dd866a4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alerighi</author><text>The thing that makes me crazy is that the thing that we do on computers are basically the same each year, yet software are more and more heavy. For example just in 2010 a Linux distribution with a DE just started did consume 100Mb of RAM, an optimized version 60Mb of RAM. I remember it perfectly. I had 2Gb of RAM and did not have even a swap partition.<p>Now just a decade later, a computer with less than 8Gb of RAM is unusable. A computer with 8Gb of RAM is barely usable. Each new software uses Electron and consumes roughly 1Gb of RAM minimum! Browsers consume a ton of RAM, basically everything consumes an absurd amount of memory.<p>Not talking about Windows, I don&#x27;t even know how people can use it. Every time I help my mother with the computer is so slow, and we talk about a recent PC with an i5 and 8Gb of RAM. It takes ages to startup, software takes ages to launch, it takes 1 hour if you need to do updates. How can people use these system and not complain? I would throw my computer out of the window if it takes more than a minute to boot up, even Windows 98 was faster!</text></item><item><author>stephc_int13</author><text>My opinion about this is that yes, we lost our way, and the reason is very simple, it is because we could. It was the path of least resistance, so we took it.<p>Software has been freeriding on hardware improvements for a few decades, especially on web and desktop apps.<p>Moore&#x27;s law has been a blessing and a curse.<p>The software you use today was written by people who learned their craft while this free-ride was still fully ongoing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulryanrogers</author><text>Windows 98 was often running on fragmented disks. I recall it taking minutes before I could do useful work. And having multiple apps open at once was more rare. While possible it often ended in crashes or unusable slowness.</text></comment> |
15,442,117 | 15,439,585 | 1 | 2 | 15,438,746 | train | <story><title>Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1976)</title><url>http://www.zoon.cc/stupid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kdamken</author><text>What makes a person stupid? If I have a friend who squanders their money while I save and build up wealth, are they stupid? What if they have a much happier and more fulfilling life than I do?<p>If you have a difficult job (like brain surgeon), but are terrible at most of the other parts of your life, does that make you stupid?<p>Are slow readers stupid? What if they invent a product or start a business that makes them a lot of money?<p>“Smart” and “stupid” are such harsh, black and white terms. They leave no room for the many shades of gray in between.<p>We all think we’re smart, even if we say we don’t. No one wants to be the dumb kid.<p>I feel like being “smart” usually just means you can think and process information a little bit faster than others. But like having a super fast cpu installed, it’s really a matter of what you do with it. You could write a bestselling novel on a slower computer. You could have a super computer and just go on Facebook all day.<p>It seems like every time I feel like I’m smart, I see someone who I thought was dumber who is more successful or happier than me, and I wonder if I was that much smarter in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>One thing that really fascinates me is that stupidity is one of the few genetic handicaps that society considers acceptable to criticize and blame people for.<p>If a person gets hit by a bus because they have some muscular disorder which causes them to fall in front of it, we would have nothing but sympathy for them. If they get hit by a bus because they&#x27;re too stupid to remember to look for traffic, most people would criticize them harshly for being stupid.<p>What&#x27;s really amazing is that there&#x27;s a cutoff point. If someone has an IQ of 90, you can blame them for all their stupid actions. I&#x27;d go so far as to say that not only can you, but it&#x27;s expected. But if the person has an IQ of 70 suddenly everything changes, people become sympathetic, and blaming them for their own stupidity is super taboo.<p>To be clear, I&#x27;m not trying to pretend that I&#x27;m superior in this respect. I do this just like most of the people I see. But when I start thinking about it, I really can&#x27;t figure out how it makes any sense.</text></comment> | <story><title>Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1976)</title><url>http://www.zoon.cc/stupid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kdamken</author><text>What makes a person stupid? If I have a friend who squanders their money while I save and build up wealth, are they stupid? What if they have a much happier and more fulfilling life than I do?<p>If you have a difficult job (like brain surgeon), but are terrible at most of the other parts of your life, does that make you stupid?<p>Are slow readers stupid? What if they invent a product or start a business that makes them a lot of money?<p>“Smart” and “stupid” are such harsh, black and white terms. They leave no room for the many shades of gray in between.<p>We all think we’re smart, even if we say we don’t. No one wants to be the dumb kid.<p>I feel like being “smart” usually just means you can think and process information a little bit faster than others. But like having a super fast cpu installed, it’s really a matter of what you do with it. You could write a bestselling novel on a slower computer. You could have a super computer and just go on Facebook all day.<p>It seems like every time I feel like I’m smart, I see someone who I thought was dumber who is more successful or happier than me, and I wonder if I was that much smarter in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alain_gilbert</author><text>From the text:<p><pre><code> &quot;A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.&quot;
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I think all of your examples give the person some gain, or causes good to others.</text></comment> |
3,958,550 | 3,958,451 | 1 | 2 | 3,958,394 | train | <story><title>The salesman and the developer</title><url>http://swombat.com/2012/5/11/salesman-developer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>babarock</author><text>Completely off topic (or is it?) I find myself being quickly turned off by all these blogposts which 'casually' mention Steve Jobs on every single occasion the author comes across. Taken individually, each of these articles (like this one) would have a prefectly defendable reason to mention it. I'm annoyed with the trend.<p>I have mentioned this issue before in other comments threads on HN. Am I the only one annoyed by that? Yes Steve Jobs was a beloved public figure and an outstanding entrepreneur, but mentioning his name ("casually") won't add value to just any blog post. Unless I'm reading something written by an official biographer, or any other expert on the matter, I don't like reading Jobs name in a completely unrelated articles.<p>So this is my plea for bloggers: Stop doing that. Stop mentionning 'tech startup' celebrities in your posts; in my view it dillutes your point instead of adding anything to it. For the record, I'm reacting to the mention of Jobs' name because it's the trend of the moment, just like Zuckerberg's was a few years back. It's the celeb name dropping that bothers me, not the work of Steve Jobs.<p>Also, I apologize for the harsh tone. I really enjoyed reading everything else in the article and felt that it presented a serious miscommunication issue between builders and sales people in an otherwise very straight-to-the point yet witty and amusing fashion. Good post!</text></comment> | <story><title>The salesman and the developer</title><url>http://swombat.com/2012/5/11/salesman-developer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marcusf</author><text>The main problem is when you're going bear hunting and they bring back a stampede of wolves. Wholly impossible to kill with the gun you brought, but if you tweak it just a little, you can kill them as well. Then the next time it's a an antler, that you can't kill like that due to regulation, but with just a few tweaks again.<p>Great sales people are a game changer. People that can sell your vision and convince the audience that the problem you're solving is the biggest issue their business faces. They're completely indispensable. Bad sales guys, the type I've usually come across, bring too little domain and product knowledge to the table, and end up selling the completely wrong thing if they sell at all. Like Ben Horowitz said, great sales people protect your business [1], they don't wreak unnecessary havoc on it.<p>[1] <a href="http://bhorowitz.com/2010/08/29/the-right-kind-of-ambition-2/" rel="nofollow">http://bhorowitz.com/2010/08/29/the-right-kind-of-ambition-2...</a></text></comment> |
23,184,649 | 23,183,452 | 1 | 2 | 23,180,110 | train | <story><title>Up to 4GB of Memory in WebAssembly</title><url>https://v8.dev/blog/4gb-wasm-memory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xscott</author><text>I wish new platforms would embrace 64 bit as the default. C and C++ for all common platforms use 32 bit literals and prefer 32 bit operations (char * short =&gt; int). Rust made a similar mistake. Java arrays use 32 bit subscripts, etc... I don&#x27;t have a single computer (including my phone) using 32 bit pointers, but integers are stuck in the late 80s. (We already had 64 bit DEC alphas in the early 90s)<p>For a web page, 4 gig seems like a courtesy limitation to users, but that should be enforced by the browser refusing to suck up the entire computer rather than the language being unable to. I routinely write (non-web) applications which use arrays larger than 4 gigasamples.</text></comment> | <story><title>Up to 4GB of Memory in WebAssembly</title><url>https://v8.dev/blog/4gb-wasm-memory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>greatgib</author><text>It&#x27;s like reinventing what exists and doing the same mistakes that were already done!</text></comment> |
11,937,727 | 11,937,910 | 1 | 2 | 11,937,214 | train | <story><title>What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-next-for-artificial-intelligence-1465827619?href=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snemvalts</author><text>Andrew Ng made a really good analogy to those afraid of strong AI destroying humanity: &quot;It&#x27;s like being afraid of overpopulation on Mars, we haven&#x27;t even landed on the planet yet.&quot;</text></item><item><author>charlesdenault</author><text><i>If we create machines that learn as well as our brains do, it’s easy to imagine them inheriting human-like qualities—and flaws. But a “Terminator”-style scenario is, in my view, immensely improbable. It would require a discrete, malevolent entity to specifically hard-wire malicious intent into intelligent machines, and no organization, let alone a single group or a person, will achieve human-level AI alone.</i><p>Isn&#x27;t this incredibly shortsighted? Ignoring all the questions regarding the morals and ethics an intelligent machine may <i>feel</i> and affect the way it behaves... It used to take nations to build computers, then large corporations, then off-the-shelf parts by a kid in his garage.<p>The first strong AI will most likely be a multi-billion dollar project, but its creation will arguably usher in an era in which strong AI is ubiquitous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FeepingCreature</author><text>To be fair, we do worry about contamination of Mars with microorganisms, which I believe is a better analogue for something with a potential exponential takeoff.</text></comment> | <story><title>What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-next-for-artificial-intelligence-1465827619?href=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snemvalts</author><text>Andrew Ng made a really good analogy to those afraid of strong AI destroying humanity: &quot;It&#x27;s like being afraid of overpopulation on Mars, we haven&#x27;t even landed on the planet yet.&quot;</text></item><item><author>charlesdenault</author><text><i>If we create machines that learn as well as our brains do, it’s easy to imagine them inheriting human-like qualities—and flaws. But a “Terminator”-style scenario is, in my view, immensely improbable. It would require a discrete, malevolent entity to specifically hard-wire malicious intent into intelligent machines, and no organization, let alone a single group or a person, will achieve human-level AI alone.</i><p>Isn&#x27;t this incredibly shortsighted? Ignoring all the questions regarding the morals and ethics an intelligent machine may <i>feel</i> and affect the way it behaves... It used to take nations to build computers, then large corporations, then off-the-shelf parts by a kid in his garage.<p>The first strong AI will most likely be a multi-billion dollar project, but its creation will arguably usher in an era in which strong AI is ubiquitous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehudla</author><text>It&#x27;s more like we haven&#x27;t discovered Mars yet.</text></comment> |
38,949,288 | 38,945,377 | 1 | 3 | 38,931,559 | train | <story><title>Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier (2022)</title><url>https://dynomight.net/ikea-purifier/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mister_Snuggles</author><text>I really like this purifier&#x27;s big brother, the IKEA STARKVIND, which is available in both regular[0] and table[1] versions.<p>The table version is nice because, assuming you place it somewhere you want a table, it takes up no room. The regular version is awkwardly large, so placement is a bit more of a challenge.<p>The killer feature for me is that its air quality measurements and controls are all exposed via Zigbee, and it works very well with Zigbee2MQTT and Home Assistant.<p>Related to this, IKEA has recently brought out the VINDSTRYKA[2] air quality sensor. Unfortunately the PM2.5 measurement (as reported by Zigbee2MQTT&#x2F;Home Assistant) doesn&#x27;t seem to match up with the same measurement reported by the STARKVIND. To be fair this is just a feeling, I have NOT conducted head-to-head testing.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;starkvind-air-purifier-white-smart-00461949&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;starkvind-air-purifier-white-sm...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;starkvind-table-with-air-purifier-stained-oak-veneer-white-smart-80461974&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;starkvind-table-with-air-purifi...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;vindstyrka-air-quality-sensor-smart-30498239&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;vindstyrka-air-quality-sensor-s...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liminalsunset</author><text>The real &quot;hack&quot; lies in the IKEA STARKVIND air filters.<p>They&#x27;re from a reputable manufacturer, are HEPA filters, and best of all, they only cost $14.99 CAD (price may vary in your country). This makes them great as *replacement filters for other air purifiers*. This is one of the things I love the most about IKEA - hackable IKEA products are available worldwide and can be easily sourced and adapted as &quot;materials&quot; instead of &quot;products&quot;.<p>The Starkvind air purifier appears to be airflow-constrained on the fan, and not the filters they used. I put its filter (with some cardboard glued to the edges to seal the difference in size) in a Coway Mighty AP-1512HH (often recommended) and have not noticed a huge decrease in airflow at all, even though technically there is less filter area. Based on rudimentary measurements with an anemometer, the airflow is acceptable, and after about a year or more of continuous use, it&#x27;s lost about 10% of the airflow after I recently changed it.<p>Even better, if you are so inclined, you can buy several STARKVIND filters and cut them to size&#x2F;merge multiple if your purifier takes different size filters. And if you have a smaller purifier, IKEA also has the FORNUFTIG (thinner) filter for $7 that you can similarly hack.</text></comment> | <story><title>Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier (2022)</title><url>https://dynomight.net/ikea-purifier/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mister_Snuggles</author><text>I really like this purifier&#x27;s big brother, the IKEA STARKVIND, which is available in both regular[0] and table[1] versions.<p>The table version is nice because, assuming you place it somewhere you want a table, it takes up no room. The regular version is awkwardly large, so placement is a bit more of a challenge.<p>The killer feature for me is that its air quality measurements and controls are all exposed via Zigbee, and it works very well with Zigbee2MQTT and Home Assistant.<p>Related to this, IKEA has recently brought out the VINDSTRYKA[2] air quality sensor. Unfortunately the PM2.5 measurement (as reported by Zigbee2MQTT&#x2F;Home Assistant) doesn&#x27;t seem to match up with the same measurement reported by the STARKVIND. To be fair this is just a feeling, I have NOT conducted head-to-head testing.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;starkvind-air-purifier-white-smart-00461949&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;starkvind-air-purifier-white-sm...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;starkvind-table-with-air-purifier-stained-oak-veneer-white-smart-80461974&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;starkvind-table-with-air-purifi...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;vindstyrka-air-quality-sensor-smart-30498239&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;vindstyrka-air-quality-sensor-s...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mschuster91</author><text>&gt; I really like this purifier&#x27;s big brother, the IKEA STARKVIND, which is available in both regular[0] and table[1] versions.<p>I got one of these as well, and I recommend them with the extra carbon filter. Very, very nice thing to have in a kitchen, if you&#x27;re a smoker or if you have cats. The carbon filter takes out <i>a lot</i> of nasty smells, enough to not smell anything food-y even in a directly adjacent room while running a frying pan and chopping onions, or when smoking a cigarette on the open window. And the &quot;plain&quot; filter picks up a loooot of the fur that you&#x27;d find everywhere including in your food when your cat decides it&#x27;s time to go and shed everywhere she can.</text></comment> |
34,612,344 | 34,610,427 | 1 | 3 | 34,596,187 | train | <story><title>Extracting training data from diffusion models</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FeepingCreature</author><text>100 images out of 350,000 that they looked at were memorized.<p>This seems to mostly happen when an image appears frequently (more than 100 times) in the training data, and&#x2F;or the dataset is small relative to the model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wombat_trouble</author><text>Oh come on. I&#x27;m excited about new technologies and I think that image generation can be a net positive for the society, but can we not do that? First, we had people confidently asserting that stuff of this sort absolutely can&#x27;t happen. Now, we&#x27;re moving the goalposts to &quot;well, not a legitimate criticism because it doesn&#x27;t happen often&quot;.<p>The point is that basically <i>all</i> Stable Diffusion &#x2F; DALL-E &#x2F; MidJourney output is some shade of this; the only new data is that contrary to prior assertions, in some cases, it goes all the way to a verbatim copy.<p>I think there are some defensible stances one can take. One is to reject the idea of intellectual property. Another is to advocate for some specific legal or technical bar that the models would have to pass for it to qualify as &quot;not stealing&quot;. Yet another is to argue it&#x27;s a morally-agnostic technology like VHS or a photocopier, and the burden of using it in a socially acceptable way rests with the user.</text></comment> | <story><title>Extracting training data from diffusion models</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FeepingCreature</author><text>100 images out of 350,000 that they looked at were memorized.<p>This seems to mostly happen when an image appears frequently (more than 100 times) in the training data, and&#x2F;or the dataset is small relative to the model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>Removing duplicates and very near duplicates ought to be one of the first things done to any training dataset...<p>I wonder why this wasn&#x27;t done? Too computation heavy?</text></comment> |
14,303,102 | 14,302,356 | 1 | 3 | 14,299,022 | train | <story><title>Thunderbird’s Future Home</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/05/thunderbirds-future-home/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elipsey</author><text>My CS instructor once asked everyone in the class to &quot;raise you hand if you still use an email client.&quot; My hand was the only one that went up, and a couple of people laughed and said &quot;really?&quot;<p>I think that was almost 10 years ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tjoff</author><text>I don&#x27;t get how anyone (that are somewhat computer savvy) can live without one. Sure, webmail is an awesome backup for when you don&#x27;t use your main device. But seriously, gmail and the like are absolutely horrible to use compared to a real client.<p>I guess the sad state of affair in regards to email syncing protocols (POP3 and IMAP) are partly to blame, JMAP might help a little but I guess it&#x27;s too late.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thunderbird’s Future Home</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/05/thunderbirds-future-home/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elipsey</author><text>My CS instructor once asked everyone in the class to &quot;raise you hand if you still use an email client.&quot; My hand was the only one that went up, and a couple of people laughed and said &quot;really?&quot;<p>I think that was almost 10 years ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>Students don&#x27;t have office jobs. Get a real job and suddenly things like Outlook or TB make a lot of sense. Webmail is ultimately overly limiting compared to a native client for many common work-related use cases. Not to mention, your phone email app is an email client.<p>I like to think of myself as being minimalist and flexible in some ways, but if I started a company tomorrow I could see myself springing for Outlook running the front end for a postfix&#x2F;dovecot server just for the convenience.</text></comment> |
25,432,871 | 25,432,923 | 1 | 3 | 25,432,630 | train | <story><title>Amazon Managed Service for Grafana</title><url>http://aws.amazon.com/grafana</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>luhn</author><text>&gt; With one click, upgrade to Grafana Enterprise, giving you access to a wide variety of third-party ISV plugins – AppDynamics, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Oracle Database, ServiceNow, Splunk, Wavefront, Snowflake, and MongoDB. You can also access consultation, support, and on-demand training content directly from Grafana Labs.<p>It&#x27;s nice to see that AWS partnered with Grafana Labs on this. Both companies stand to benefit, and the success of Grafana Labs helps ensure the long-term success of Grafana.<p>Here&#x27;s the Grafana Labs press release: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grafana.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;announcing-amazon-managed-service-for-grafana&#x2F;?pg=hp&amp;plcmt=hero-btn1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grafana.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;announcing-amazon-manage...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Managed Service for Grafana</title><url>http://aws.amazon.com/grafana</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sciurus</author><text>&gt; An Amazon Managed Service for Grafana Editor license costs $9 per active user per workspace... For customers who need only view access, an Amazon Managed Service for Grafana Viewer license costs $5 per active user per workspace<p>Yikes. Per-user pricing is tough for data visualization tools, since the audience for a dashboard could be really broad.</text></comment> |
38,373,175 | 38,371,756 | 1 | 2 | 38,368,760 | train | <story><title>FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/21/fbi-director-admits-agency-rarely-has-probable-cause-when-it-performs-backdoor-searches-of-nsa-collections/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>That’s insincere. Even if you truly believe a catastrophe may happen you may not be willing to risk life in prison because the President doesn’t like your bosses boss.</text></item><item><author>Terr_</author><text>On the subject of FBI&#x2F;NSA&#x2F;CIA insincerity, that makes me think of various post-9&#x2F;11 debates often involving &quot;ticking bomb&quot; Hollywood scenarios.<p>I&#x27;d like to reiterate that any kind of &quot;OMG there&#x27;s no time we must stop the NYC WMD ASAP&quot; scenario <i>already</i> has a special exception route: Just commit the necessary spying&#x2F;theft&#x2F;torture crime, and plan for a Presidential pardon after explaining the extraordinary circumstances that totally justified your action.<p>If they aren&#x27;t willing to put their own skin in the game, then the situation cannot be as clearly dire as they claim.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terr_</author><text>&gt; life in prison because the President doesn’t like your bosses boss<p>1. If the President hates the CIA&#x2F;NSA&#x2F;FBI director that much they tend to get quickly replaced.<p>2. Punishing a lower-level agent with prison doesn&#x27;t seem like an effective way to get revenge on whatever agency leadership the President might hate.<p>You&#x27;re making an appeal to a compound scenario: It isn&#x27;t <i>just</i> (A) &quot;Hollywood ticking bomb&quot; unlikely, but <i>also</i> (B) &quot;TV political backstabbing drama&quot; unlikely, multiplied <i>again</i> by (C) &quot;stupidly baroque form of revenge&quot; unlikely... to get a final probability somewhere near zero-point-zero-zero-not-gonna-happen-LOL.<p>So no, I don&#x27;t think that fantastical hypothetical justifies day-to-day erosion of rule-of-law and civil rights.<p>&gt; Even if you truly believe a catastrophe may happen<p>If someone truly believes it <i>and</i> they have a reasonable basis behind that belief [0], then surely the morality of saving millions from an atomic fireball or whatever goes pretty dang far in outweighing 1-20 years in federal prison, and they will have ample evidence to make a strong case for getting a pardon.<p>[0] If spy&#x2F;agent&#x2F;analyst dude &quot;truly believes&quot; but for no real reason other than voices in their head, a prophetic dream, hidden scriptures, or alphabet-soup... <i>they are already incompetent and need to be fired immediately</i> to remove them from that position of authority.</text></comment> | <story><title>FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/21/fbi-director-admits-agency-rarely-has-probable-cause-when-it-performs-backdoor-searches-of-nsa-collections/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>That’s insincere. Even if you truly believe a catastrophe may happen you may not be willing to risk life in prison because the President doesn’t like your bosses boss.</text></item><item><author>Terr_</author><text>On the subject of FBI&#x2F;NSA&#x2F;CIA insincerity, that makes me think of various post-9&#x2F;11 debates often involving &quot;ticking bomb&quot; Hollywood scenarios.<p>I&#x27;d like to reiterate that any kind of &quot;OMG there&#x27;s no time we must stop the NYC WMD ASAP&quot; scenario <i>already</i> has a special exception route: Just commit the necessary spying&#x2F;theft&#x2F;torture crime, and plan for a Presidential pardon after explaining the extraordinary circumstances that totally justified your action.<p>If they aren&#x27;t willing to put their own skin in the game, then the situation cannot be as clearly dire as they claim.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ssnistfajen</author><text>If you can&#x27;t justify that risk tradeoff, then it&#x27;s probably not that catastrophic to begin with.</text></comment> |
13,996,951 | 13,996,922 | 1 | 3 | 13,996,698 | train | <story><title>Twitter stops counting replies towards its 140 characters on web and mobile</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/30/twitter-stops-counting-replies-towards-its-140-characters/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bluetidepro</author><text>&gt; While Twitter is making these changes as a means of trying to simplify its service for users, it’s really just swapping out one set of rules for another. And that can be super confusing [link a].<p>This is spot on and buried further down the article. To me, the UX of this change just makes Twitter even more complicated now. Their UI&#x2F;UX is getting so bogged down with rules that it&#x27;s incredibly hard to explain Twitter to a new user. It&#x27;s even confusing for a current active Twitter user to keep track of what&#x27;s what.<p>I recently helped a friend get setup to use Twitter and until I had to explain it out loud for the first time to someone who didn&#x27;t already use the service, I never realized how confusing all the rules are. They are not black and white like they used to be, and it&#x27;s not easy to follow.<p>[link a] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@sarahperez&#x2F;twitter-so-easy-its-hard-e9ffc03e8bbb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@sarahperez&#x2F;twitter-so-easy-its-hard-e9ff...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter stops counting replies towards its 140 characters on web and mobile</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/30/twitter-stops-counting-replies-towards-its-140-characters/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jackschultz</author><text>Funny, I literally just noticed this 3 minutes ago. Was replying to a tweet with two people on the reply but couldn&#x27;t figure out how to get what I was trying to say under the limit so I clicked out of reply. Then I decided to try again and was confused at why the auto reply names that are usually there were gone.<p>Huge fan of this, being able to express more of what you want to respond about is great.</text></comment> |
17,752,614 | 17,752,608 | 1 | 2 | 17,751,056 | train | <story><title>Endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure in US: disease burden and cost analysis</title><url>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(16)30275-3/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qiqing</author><text>Does anyone have the PDF to the full article? I&#x27;m curious to read more than the summary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geoalchimista</author><text>You can find download links from Google Scholar. Here is one from researchgate posted by the corresponding author (which is totally legal): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;profile&#x2F;Leonardo_Trasande&#x2F;publication&#x2F;309306512_Exposure_to_endocrine-disrupting_chemicals_in_the_USA_a_population-based_disease_burden_and_cost_analysis&#x2F;links&#x2F;580a284c08ae74852b52ef36.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;profile&#x2F;Leonardo_Trasande&#x2F;publi...</a><p>Don&#x27;t pay for the article. The money goes 100% to the publisher not the authors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure in US: disease burden and cost analysis</title><url>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(16)30275-3/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qiqing</author><text>Does anyone have the PDF to the full article? I&#x27;m curious to read more than the summary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aftbit</author><text>Check Sci-Hub. Their domain changes all the time though, so here&#x27;s my procedure:<p>1. Go to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sci-Hub" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sci-Hub</a>
2. Click the first link on the right-hand sidebar under &quot;website&quot;.
3. Paste the OP&#x27;s link there.</text></comment> |
15,654,516 | 15,654,496 | 1 | 2 | 15,653,353 | train | <story><title>A Clash of Cultures</title><url>https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5046</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>There must be a lot of backstory and context here that is going unmentioned, because I can&#x27;t understand what this Dale guy is accused of doing. He &quot;questioned her authenticity?&quot; What does that mean? Was he implying she was some kind of non-human robot or something? What was the actual tweet? I feel like I walked into a movie 30 minutes late and missed the important part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krastanov</author><text>Naomi (@sexycyborg) is a well known maker who happens to have a lot of risque maker projects and plenty of photos of her online would be scandalizing for more socially conservative people.<p>She has been blamed to be the face for a manufactured persona, to be generally incompetent at anything maker related, etc. The explanation for why she (and her &quot;handler&quot;) would do that, is that they get hired to endorse products. Plenty of sexism, slutshaming, and circumstantial &quot;evidence&quot; (e.g. the comment about almost cutting her finger this one time) have been used against her.<p>It is a generally disappointing story of slutshaming.<p>Now a well known media persona in the maker community decided to entertain those allegations and ruined her reputation.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Clash of Cultures</title><url>https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5046</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>There must be a lot of backstory and context here that is going unmentioned, because I can&#x27;t understand what this Dale guy is accused of doing. He &quot;questioned her authenticity?&quot; What does that mean? Was he implying she was some kind of non-human robot or something? What was the actual tweet? I feel like I walked into a movie 30 minutes late and missed the important part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyleschiller</author><text>Original tweet from Dale: &quot;I am questioning who she really is. Naomi is a persona, not a real person. She is several or many people. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;RealSexyCyborg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;RealSexyCyborg</a></text></comment> |
18,484,365 | 18,483,582 | 1 | 3 | 18,482,237 | train | <story><title>Pivot or Fail?</title><url>https://avc.com/2018/11/pivot-or-fail/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smacktoward</author><text>I feel like this misses an obvious source of the appeal of the pivot for the founders, namely that <i>actual</i> money in your hands today beats <i>potential</i> money in your hands tomorrow.<p>If you shut down and start over around the new idea, maybe you’ll be able to raise money around that idea, but then again, maybe you won’t. Nothing’s guaranteed; and if you find you <i>can’t</i> raise the money again, you end up with nothing at all.<p>Meanwhile, in the existing business, there’s a big pot of money <i>already raised</i> just sitting there for you to use. Using it could mean problems down the road, of course. But <i>not</i> using it means problems <i>right now</i>, so it’s not hard to see the appeal of just grabbing it and figuring you’ll cross those bridges if and when you ever actually come to them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pivot or Fail?</title><url>https://avc.com/2018/11/pivot-or-fail/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ttul</author><text>If I could go back in time, I would have chosen to fail rather than pivot. At the time (of the pivot) what made the choice to fail difficult was that we had _some_ success aka revenue, and so could just carry on. What I see now is that I could have still shut that thing down, paid back investors with the trickle of remaining revenue, and in parallel started a new thing.<p>Hindsight is always 20&#x2F;20, but I think the article is broadly right. If you need to pivot, it’s probably better to fail gracefully instead.</text></comment> |
9,202,206 | 9,202,147 | 1 | 2 | 9,202,039 | train | <story><title>Introducing OpenBSD's new httpd [pdf]</title><url>http://www.openbsd.org/papers/httpd-asiabsdcon2015.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xiaq</author><text>So... Apache was removed from base on Mar 14 2014 in favor of nginx, and nginx on Aug 27 2014 in favor of OpenBSD httpd.<p>For sysadmins who closely follow the &quot;recommended&quot; way, having to migrate the configurations of the http server twice within half a year must have been a frustrating experience.<p>Also, I wonder what &quot;removal from base&quot; means exactly - can you still install them (the OpenBSD-patched versions) from the ports collection or something like that?</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing OpenBSD's new httpd [pdf]</title><url>http://www.openbsd.org/papers/httpd-asiabsdcon2015.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>I&#x27;ve been going through the code for the last half hour and I really hope this isn&#x27;t representative of what the OpenBSD group considers to be defensive C programming.<p>Stack allocated buffers, questionable logic and a generally terrible style as well as a complete lack of comments.<p>Don&#x27;t take my word for it, see for yourself:<p><a href="https://github.com/reyk/httpd/blob/master/httpd/server.c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reyk&#x2F;httpd&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;httpd&#x2F;server.c</a><p>The &quot;new&quot; is a bit off too, the copyright runs 2006-2015.</text></comment> |
21,497,864 | 21,497,712 | 1 | 2 | 21,481,754 | train | <story><title>Just did the Y Combinator interview: here are my notes</title><url>https://blog.checklyhq.com/just-did-the-ycombinator-interview-here-are-my-notes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Yajirobe</author><text>&gt; Interviewer: So tell me about yourself<p>&gt; Me: Alright, there are three perspectives I&#x27;d quickly like to touch:<p>&gt; 1. Personal<p>&gt; 2. Educational<p>&gt; 3. Professional<p>That seems so forced and unnatural that it makes me cringe. &#x27;Tell me about yourself&#x27; should be a natural conversation starter, not an exam that you did your homework for.</text></item><item><author>mettamage</author><text>&gt; Order your thoughts. Keep it short. Communicate one idea in one sentence. etc. etc. etc.<p>This is true in general. I remember when I did consulting interviews you needed to talk like that and the feedback I got was that I didn&#x27;t do enough of it.<p>Funnily enough, I could clearly tell that whenever I had a programmer job interview, everyone was always really impressed with how &#x27;structured my thinking&#x27; was.<p>Other than being impressed the biggest benefit that you also describe in your blog post is that it is simply very clear what you are about! And people seem a lot happier when listening to you feels like a simple thing to do.<p>Here&#x27;s an example of how I do it. The following that I wrote down was typed as quickly as possible.<p>---<p>Interviewer: So tell me about yourself<p>Me: Alright, there are three perspectives I&#x27;d quickly like to touch:<p>1. Personal<p>2. Educational<p>3. Professional<p>With 1. personal, I&#x27;m all about fantasy and curiosity. Understand that and you understand me.<p>Educational: I studied to become the bridge between the business world and the computer world while also trying to become an expert in both. Therefore, I started of with business informatics. Upon graduation I immediately started studying psychology - people, and computer science - computers. And I studied game studies to merge them back into one topic again.<p>Professional it&#x27;s rather interesting: the past 8 years I saw my university as a playground and I just applied to any job that didn&#x27;t feel like work. This resulted in me becoming a teaching assistant, a coach for teaching assistants, a bootcamp instructor and a programmer&#x2F;web developer. In total I have about 2.5 years of work experience, 1.5 on teaching development and 1 on development.<p>---<p>It was a huge improvement compared to my standard 15 minute answer. This answer above is just told under 1 minute.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mettamage</author><text>(haha, that&#x27;s a fun username, kamehame... okay I&#x27;ll show myself out O:) )<p>I am right in the middle of interviewing right now (I&#x27;m open for any interdisciplinary business&#x2F;dev&#x2F;get things done role).<p>IMO when you interview you&#x27;re always on the spot and always being judged. I&#x27;ve done it the other way. I am the type of person who likes to just drift away and associatively talk about things (hmm... the very astute reader could&#x27;ve inferred this given what I said in &quot;1. Personal&quot; :P). It has never done me any favors when I did this in a job interview.<p>The issue you run into is (quote from the article):<p>&gt; &quot;So, yeah, like, we&#x27;re like working on this thing, but then my cofounder quit, and now we have this customer who&#x27;s really loving the product but then we hit a bug with Docker because it uses React in the Kubernetes and now, you know, I&#x27;d like to know if you reimburse travel cost when I do the interview and stuff&quot;<p>It&#x27;s better to make the mistake of being too formal at an informal moment than the other way around. And honestly, I have been surprised to what extent I should <i>not</i> have been informal in the first place.<p>Moreover, people will somehow signal to what extent you&#x27;re being too formal. I can tell from their body language. However, when I&#x27;m too informal I can&#x27;t actually tell to what extent I&#x27;m too informal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Just did the Y Combinator interview: here are my notes</title><url>https://blog.checklyhq.com/just-did-the-ycombinator-interview-here-are-my-notes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Yajirobe</author><text>&gt; Interviewer: So tell me about yourself<p>&gt; Me: Alright, there are three perspectives I&#x27;d quickly like to touch:<p>&gt; 1. Personal<p>&gt; 2. Educational<p>&gt; 3. Professional<p>That seems so forced and unnatural that it makes me cringe. &#x27;Tell me about yourself&#x27; should be a natural conversation starter, not an exam that you did your homework for.</text></item><item><author>mettamage</author><text>&gt; Order your thoughts. Keep it short. Communicate one idea in one sentence. etc. etc. etc.<p>This is true in general. I remember when I did consulting interviews you needed to talk like that and the feedback I got was that I didn&#x27;t do enough of it.<p>Funnily enough, I could clearly tell that whenever I had a programmer job interview, everyone was always really impressed with how &#x27;structured my thinking&#x27; was.<p>Other than being impressed the biggest benefit that you also describe in your blog post is that it is simply very clear what you are about! And people seem a lot happier when listening to you feels like a simple thing to do.<p>Here&#x27;s an example of how I do it. The following that I wrote down was typed as quickly as possible.<p>---<p>Interviewer: So tell me about yourself<p>Me: Alright, there are three perspectives I&#x27;d quickly like to touch:<p>1. Personal<p>2. Educational<p>3. Professional<p>With 1. personal, I&#x27;m all about fantasy and curiosity. Understand that and you understand me.<p>Educational: I studied to become the bridge between the business world and the computer world while also trying to become an expert in both. Therefore, I started of with business informatics. Upon graduation I immediately started studying psychology - people, and computer science - computers. And I studied game studies to merge them back into one topic again.<p>Professional it&#x27;s rather interesting: the past 8 years I saw my university as a playground and I just applied to any job that didn&#x27;t feel like work. This resulted in me becoming a teaching assistant, a coach for teaching assistants, a bootcamp instructor and a programmer&#x2F;web developer. In total I have about 2.5 years of work experience, 1.5 on teaching development and 1 on development.<p>---<p>It was a huge improvement compared to my standard 15 minute answer. This answer above is just told under 1 minute.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kinkrtyavimoodh</author><text>It&#x27;s futile to keep trying to force fit an interview to a natural conversation. It simply is not.<p>&quot;Tell me about yourself&quot; is simply not the kind of thing normal people ask each other for breaking the ice. It&#x27;s a stressful question that puts people on the spot and forces them to &#x27;create&#x27; a first impression.</text></comment> |
19,325,027 | 19,323,790 | 1 | 3 | 19,322,669 | train | <story><title>Amazon to Shut All U.S. Pop-Up Stores as It Rethinks Physical Retail Strategy</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-shut-all-u-s-pop-up-stores-as-it-rethinks-physical-retail-strategy-11551902178</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristianc</author><text>This is more or less what Amazon is known for - experimentation, A&#x2F;B testing and dumping ideas quickly.<p>I&#x27;m pretty in awe that Amazon seems to have (at least) three bricks and mortar retail concepts on the go at the same time : Go, pop up stores and Whole Foods, and is only now deciding to cut one of them. Amazon&#x27;s commitment to going with the data goes so so deep.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gordon_freeman</author><text>I think Amazon doesn&#x27;t need those pop-up stores now as much since they could easily use Whole Foods stores to display and sell their hardware devices. They also have other options as well to sell devices such as their Amazon Books physical stores.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon to Shut All U.S. Pop-Up Stores as It Rethinks Physical Retail Strategy</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-shut-all-u-s-pop-up-stores-as-it-rethinks-physical-retail-strategy-11551902178</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristianc</author><text>This is more or less what Amazon is known for - experimentation, A&#x2F;B testing and dumping ideas quickly.<p>I&#x27;m pretty in awe that Amazon seems to have (at least) three bricks and mortar retail concepts on the go at the same time : Go, pop up stores and Whole Foods, and is only now deciding to cut one of them. Amazon&#x27;s commitment to going with the data goes so so deep.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SteveCoast</author><text>I think it&#x27;s 5: Go, pop-up, 4-star, bookstore, whole foods.</text></comment> |
10,286,920 | 10,286,987 | 1 | 2 | 10,286,569 | train | <story><title>Stop Googling. Let’s Talk</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/stop-googling-lets-talk.html?mwrsm=LinkedIn&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt; 89 percent of cellphone owners said they had used their phones during the last social gathering they attended.<p>Right there is where the author looses me. That online collaboration via the phone IS a social gathering unto itself. One is not fundamentally different than the other. Physical proximity is great, but it is a serious limitation. Not everyone has the time&#x2F;money to physically meet their friends over coffee every twenty minutes. Not everyone lives in downtown Boston or NY.<p>&gt; They say it’s a skill they mastered in middle school when they wanted to text in class without getting caught.<p>And why do kids text so much at school? Because they are bored to death by mind-numbing subjects and teaching that doesn&#x27;t actually teach. Texting is the symptom, not the disease.<p>The ability to &#x27;not get caught&#x27; while communicating with others is a valuable skill for nearly everyone these days. It should be encouraged.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrepd</author><text>&gt;That online collaboration via the phone IS a social gathering unto itself.<p>Still the fact is that it is inconsiderate, or plain rude, to be &quot;somewhere else&quot; when you are sitting with other people who all took the time to physically be with each other. If a few people get together and spend large amounts of their time on their phones, then why get together at all?</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop Googling. Let’s Talk</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/stop-googling-lets-talk.html?mwrsm=LinkedIn&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt; 89 percent of cellphone owners said they had used their phones during the last social gathering they attended.<p>Right there is where the author looses me. That online collaboration via the phone IS a social gathering unto itself. One is not fundamentally different than the other. Physical proximity is great, but it is a serious limitation. Not everyone has the time&#x2F;money to physically meet their friends over coffee every twenty minutes. Not everyone lives in downtown Boston or NY.<p>&gt; They say it’s a skill they mastered in middle school when they wanted to text in class without getting caught.<p>And why do kids text so much at school? Because they are bored to death by mind-numbing subjects and teaching that doesn&#x27;t actually teach. Texting is the symptom, not the disease.<p>The ability to &#x27;not get caught&#x27; while communicating with others is a valuable skill for nearly everyone these days. It should be encouraged.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shas3</author><text>&gt; And why do kids text so much at school? Because they are bored to death by mind-numbing subjects and teaching that doesn&#x27;t actually teach. Texting is the symptom, not the disease.<p>Actually there is plenty of evidence that texting and social media offer a similar kick as several other addictions like smoking, etc. it&#x27;s akin to blaming teenage smoking on boring classes. Further, the teenage mind is susceptible to getting easily bored and to addiction.</text></comment> |
5,514,433 | 5,514,429 | 1 | 2 | 5,513,761 | train | <story><title>USCIS Reaches 2014 H-1B Cap</title><url>http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=c91dea8c9eadd310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=68439c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterisP</author><text>A big complaint seen about H1B process is that it's used to import cheap workers instead of great workers - i.e., not increasing USA quality, but allowing employers to decrease average wages by replacing supposedly expensive locals with cheaper H1Bs.<p>There can be a simple solution - instead of measuring requirements for "highly qualified workers" by forced advertisements where companies try to get no 'qualified' people to apply, and having an "adequate" salary with the current principle "average of the same job in US", which can be manipulated and abused, why not just set simple absolute criteria?<p>Make sure that H1B positions need to have a salary minimum of, say, $100k (or some fixed multiple of USA median salary to be future-proof). That immediately ensures that (a) H1B's are used for all professions where high skills are needed, without a need to enumerate them in laws; and (b) H1B's are used to import skills instead of cheap labor, as for less-skilled jobs it would be cheaper to hire locally.</text></comment> | <story><title>USCIS Reaches 2014 H-1B Cap</title><url>http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=c91dea8c9eadd310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=68439c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tosseraccount</author><text>If there's such a shortage, then how come wages are stagnant?<p>Norm Matloff ( <a href="http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html" rel="nofollow">http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html</a> ) points out that "The H-1B work visa is fundamentally about cheap, de facto indentured labor."<p>Cringely points out ( <a href="http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/23/what-americans-dont-know-about-h-1b-visas-could-hurt-us-all/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cringely.com/2012/10/23/what-americans-dont-know-...</a> ) that "H-1B visas are about journeyman techies and nothing else."<p>The evidence that the wealthy need more guest workers is just not compelling.<p>We need on the job training and good wages.</text></comment> |
16,123,964 | 16,123,414 | 1 | 3 | 16,122,999 | train | <story><title>Today is the fifth anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death</title><text>thank you for everything</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>codeulike</author><text>This StackOverflow question from Aaron about using rsync to download and copy lots of files is like a piece of history frozen in time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;48491&#x2F;keep-rsync-from-removing-unfinished-source-files" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;48491&#x2F;keep-rsync-from-re...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vinnl</author><text>And the required context, for those coming across this: Aaron was under investigation for downloading an archive of academic articles from within MIT (because they&#x27;d otherwise cost a lot), presumably to make them available outside free of large, much like Sci-Hub does nowadays.<p>He committed suicide during the investigation, and it&#x27;s supposedly not unlikely to be related to the pressure the investigation and trumped-up charges brought him. And then there&#x27;s those that surmise he was murdered, of course.<p>See also this documentary: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Internet%27s_Own_Boy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Internet%27s_Own_Boy</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Today is the fifth anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death</title><text>thank you for everything</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>codeulike</author><text>This StackOverflow question from Aaron about using rsync to download and copy lots of files is like a piece of history frozen in time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;48491&#x2F;keep-rsync-from-removing-unfinished-source-files" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;48491&#x2F;keep-rsync-from-re...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaf</author><text>The names of his machines &quot;speed&quot; and &quot;mass&quot;. Very cute.</text></comment> |
20,451,498 | 20,449,927 | 1 | 2 | 20,448,964 | train | <story><title>Going Quiet: More States Are Hiding 911 Recordings</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/more-states-are-hiding-911-recordings-from-families-lawyers-and-the-general-public</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>Similar issues can arise with police body cameras. Seattle&#x27;s initial attempt to use body cams had to be stopped because all of the footage was available under state open record laws, and someone was filing requests for all of it and putting it up on YouTube. This was a massive violation of the privacy of numerous people caught on those videos. Police go into people&#x27;s home, often uninvited and on short notice, and can easily see intimate and private details of those people&#x27;s lives.<p>At first Seattle tried editing the footage before release to redact parts that might violate the privacy of anyone other then the officers and alleged criminals. I don&#x27;t remember how many officers were involved in the initial body cam deployment, but it was enough that they generated so much footage that they didn&#x27;t have the budget to edit it. I remember at one point they were even asking hackers for help with automating some of this.<p>A couple years or so later, they resumed using body cams. I&#x27;m not sure how they dealt with the privacy issues.</text></comment> | <story><title>Going Quiet: More States Are Hiding 911 Recordings</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/more-states-are-hiding-911-recordings-from-families-lawyers-and-the-general-public</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>decasia</author><text>I generally support regulations that protect privacy, as I&#x27;m sure most of us do. But they can come at a very real human cost, as in this case. Especially when it comes to regulations that affect people who aren&#x27;t able to express their preferences (because they have died, are incapacitated, are not able to think clearly for whatever reason, etc), any general rule is going to lead to some bad outcomes.<p>FWIW I tend to think 911 calls ought to be public because they are public records. There are probably ways of making them public but not completely easy to access (eg, you could only listen to a specific record on site in a records archive). That would at least guard against the problems of releasing everything on the internet, which would impose major reputational risks to everybody who ever made a 911 call.</text></comment> |
29,389,134 | 29,388,572 | 1 | 3 | 29,387,264 | train | <story><title>Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe</title><text>Recently I interviewed with Stripe for an engineering MoM (Manager of Managers) for one of their teams. I interview regularly, so I am used to many types of processes, feedback mechanisms, and so on. I won&#x27;t go into details about the questions because there&#x27;s nothing special about them, but I wanted to share some details of my experience for people thinking of interviewing there.<p>1) About 35-40% of the interviewers started their questioning by saying &quot;I will only need 20 minutes for this&quot;, while emphasizing it is an important leadership position that they are hiring for. So 20 minutes is all needed to identify &quot;important, critical leaders&quot;? What a strange thing to say - also a GREAT way to make candidates feel important and wanted!<p>2) There is significant shuffling of interviewers and schedules. One almost has to be on-call to be able to react quickly.<p>3) For an engineering manager position, I only interviewed with only technical person. To me it hints that Engineering MoM is not a very technical position.<p>4) Of all the people I spoke to, the hiring manager was the one I spoke the least with. The phone screen was one of the &quot;I only need 20 minutes for this&quot; calls. The other one was quite amusing, and is described below.<p>5) After the loop was done, the recruiter called me to congratulate me on passing, and started discussing details of the offer, including sending me a document described the equity program. Recruiter mentioned that the hiring manager would be calling me to discuss the position next.<p>6) SURPRISE INTERVIEW! I get a call from the hiring manager, he congratulates me on passing the loop, then as I prepare to ask questions about the role, he again says &quot;I need to ask you two questions and need 20 minutes for this&quot;. Then proceeds to ask two random questions about platforms and process enforcement, then hangs up the call after I answer. Tells me he&#x27;d be calling in a week to discuss the position.<p>7) I get asked for references.<p>8) After passing the loop, have the recruiter discuss some details of the offer, have the hiring manager tell me they&#x27;d be calling me after a week, I get ghosted for about 3.5 weeks. References are contacted and feedback is confirmed positive.<p>9) I ping the recruiter to see when the offer is coming - it&#x27;s not coming. They chose another candidate. I am fine with it, even after being offered verbally, but the ghosting part after wasting so much of my time seems almost intentional.<p>10) I call up a senior leader in the office I applied to, an acquaintance of mine. His answer: &quot;don&#x27;t come. It&#x27;s a mess and a revolving door of people&quot;. I was shocked with the response.<p>11) I get called by the recruiter saying that another director saw my feedback and is very interested in talking to me and do an interview loop.<p>Guess I&#x27;m not joining, then.<p>I am ok with passing loops, being rejected, I&#x27;ve seen it all. But being ghosted after acceptance is a first. What a bizarre place this is.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>temp3728</author><text>+1. Also a founder of an $XB fintech. Exact same story. Patrick + John dangled an acquisition to get a look inside, and ended up re-trading on the terms. Then proceeded to target 2 of our team members to recruit. Fast forward a few years, and now they have deployed a team to directly copy one of our products.<p>Amongst their L2 team, Patrick and Will are described as the &quot;killers&quot;. I guess maybe a bit of duplicity is required to build a company of that size...</text></item><item><author>temp7536</author><text>For those who have worked around and at Stripe for the past decade, this is not a surprise. Stripe, and especially the founders, have a quite a poor reputation for screwing over people in and around their orbit.<p>Almost every fintech startup has the story of Patrick reaching out about an acquisition, mining them for information playing along and then ghosting - same thing for candidates. They leadership team, specifically Patrick and Will Gaybrick are extremely smart but have screwed over a ton of people - be very careful about trusting.<p>You don&#x27;t hear anything about this online, they&#x27;re incredibly effective at squashing hit pieces and have a huge amount of reporters and power brokers under their control. On HN and silicon valley Stripe and Patrick are a PR machine. Patrick has almost direct control over YC and HN, you&#x27;ll notice that every single Stripe post automatically has pc as the first comment, regardless of anything else. Everything negative gets buried.<p>With Patrick now living in Woodside, Will on permanent vacation in Malibu and John permanently in Ireland the company is definitely a bit in chaos mode internally. Their entire people team has turned over and they&#x27;re having major retention issues - so I&#x27;m not super surprised that stuff like this is starting to leak out.<p>I run a $XB fintech, and am afraid to use my name given the backlash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wbharding</author><text>As much as the parent comment strained credibility, this double-down (posted exactly 10 minutes after the original) breaks it. Seriously, how many $XB fintech founders are out there, waiting to tell their salacious tales about one of the most transparent and accountable individuals on HN?<p>It&#x27;s OK, come out $XB fintech founders, it&#x27;s safe for your temp accounts here...at least until the moderators get here and start checking the IP addresses.</text></comment> | <story><title>Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe</title><text>Recently I interviewed with Stripe for an engineering MoM (Manager of Managers) for one of their teams. I interview regularly, so I am used to many types of processes, feedback mechanisms, and so on. I won&#x27;t go into details about the questions because there&#x27;s nothing special about them, but I wanted to share some details of my experience for people thinking of interviewing there.<p>1) About 35-40% of the interviewers started their questioning by saying &quot;I will only need 20 minutes for this&quot;, while emphasizing it is an important leadership position that they are hiring for. So 20 minutes is all needed to identify &quot;important, critical leaders&quot;? What a strange thing to say - also a GREAT way to make candidates feel important and wanted!<p>2) There is significant shuffling of interviewers and schedules. One almost has to be on-call to be able to react quickly.<p>3) For an engineering manager position, I only interviewed with only technical person. To me it hints that Engineering MoM is not a very technical position.<p>4) Of all the people I spoke to, the hiring manager was the one I spoke the least with. The phone screen was one of the &quot;I only need 20 minutes for this&quot; calls. The other one was quite amusing, and is described below.<p>5) After the loop was done, the recruiter called me to congratulate me on passing, and started discussing details of the offer, including sending me a document described the equity program. Recruiter mentioned that the hiring manager would be calling me to discuss the position next.<p>6) SURPRISE INTERVIEW! I get a call from the hiring manager, he congratulates me on passing the loop, then as I prepare to ask questions about the role, he again says &quot;I need to ask you two questions and need 20 minutes for this&quot;. Then proceeds to ask two random questions about platforms and process enforcement, then hangs up the call after I answer. Tells me he&#x27;d be calling in a week to discuss the position.<p>7) I get asked for references.<p>8) After passing the loop, have the recruiter discuss some details of the offer, have the hiring manager tell me they&#x27;d be calling me after a week, I get ghosted for about 3.5 weeks. References are contacted and feedback is confirmed positive.<p>9) I ping the recruiter to see when the offer is coming - it&#x27;s not coming. They chose another candidate. I am fine with it, even after being offered verbally, but the ghosting part after wasting so much of my time seems almost intentional.<p>10) I call up a senior leader in the office I applied to, an acquaintance of mine. His answer: &quot;don&#x27;t come. It&#x27;s a mess and a revolving door of people&quot;. I was shocked with the response.<p>11) I get called by the recruiter saying that another director saw my feedback and is very interested in talking to me and do an interview loop.<p>Guess I&#x27;m not joining, then.<p>I am ok with passing loops, being rejected, I&#x27;ve seen it all. But being ghosted after acceptance is a first. What a bizarre place this is.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>temp3728</author><text>+1. Also a founder of an $XB fintech. Exact same story. Patrick + John dangled an acquisition to get a look inside, and ended up re-trading on the terms. Then proceeded to target 2 of our team members to recruit. Fast forward a few years, and now they have deployed a team to directly copy one of our products.<p>Amongst their L2 team, Patrick and Will are described as the &quot;killers&quot;. I guess maybe a bit of duplicity is required to build a company of that size...</text></item><item><author>temp7536</author><text>For those who have worked around and at Stripe for the past decade, this is not a surprise. Stripe, and especially the founders, have a quite a poor reputation for screwing over people in and around their orbit.<p>Almost every fintech startup has the story of Patrick reaching out about an acquisition, mining them for information playing along and then ghosting - same thing for candidates. They leadership team, specifically Patrick and Will Gaybrick are extremely smart but have screwed over a ton of people - be very careful about trusting.<p>You don&#x27;t hear anything about this online, they&#x27;re incredibly effective at squashing hit pieces and have a huge amount of reporters and power brokers under their control. On HN and silicon valley Stripe and Patrick are a PR machine. Patrick has almost direct control over YC and HN, you&#x27;ll notice that every single Stripe post automatically has pc as the first comment, regardless of anything else. Everything negative gets buried.<p>With Patrick now living in Woodside, Will on permanent vacation in Malibu and John permanently in Ireland the company is definitely a bit in chaos mode internally. Their entire people team has turned over and they&#x27;re having major retention issues - so I&#x27;m not super surprised that stuff like this is starting to leak out.<p>I run a $XB fintech, and am afraid to use my name given the backlash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluepirate</author><text>That&#x27;s sad. Sorry that happened to you. I hope you guys are still moving forward and building.</text></comment> |
35,999,531 | 35,996,897 | 1 | 3 | 35,993,455 | train | <story><title>Recreating Medieval English Ales (1998)</title><url>https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pwp/tofi/medieval_english_ale.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bradlinc</author><text>I think this is a worthy try but I am skeptical if it tastes anything like medieval beer. I imagine the malt is significantly different. Are we still using the same barley varieties as we did hundreds of years ago? Were they able to malt as efficiently? I also think the yeast would have been very different. Which he touches on. Even if you had the exact yeast you would need to know pitching rates. That said, what he created most likely tastes a lot better than what they had in the 1300s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TrueSlacker0</author><text>Using commercially malted barley was the first huge red flag in the article. I would expect Malting the barley would be hugely different from place to place with such limited options. I didn&#x27;t see the article mention it at all.<p>Pitching rates don&#x27;t effect the final flavor all that much. Pitching too little is a problem as it will take longer to ferment, giving wild yeast more time to sour&#x2F;ruin the beer. But pitching too much yeast would not really result in much change in flavor in this case.</text></comment> | <story><title>Recreating Medieval English Ales (1998)</title><url>https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pwp/tofi/medieval_english_ale.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bradlinc</author><text>I think this is a worthy try but I am skeptical if it tastes anything like medieval beer. I imagine the malt is significantly different. Are we still using the same barley varieties as we did hundreds of years ago? Were they able to malt as efficiently? I also think the yeast would have been very different. Which he touches on. Even if you had the exact yeast you would need to know pitching rates. That said, what he created most likely tastes a lot better than what they had in the 1300s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaredhallen</author><text>The malt definitely had less diastatic power, which is its ability to convert the starches to sugars during mash. They may have had some tricks of the trade, or they may have just ended up with less conversion. If it was the latter, you could manipulate your mash to emulate, but without knowing the goal you&#x27;d just be guessing. And the yeast, you&#x27;re absolutely correct. And that&#x27;s one of the biggest contributing factors in the finished product, especially with no hops involved.</text></comment> |
18,452,560 | 18,452,468 | 1 | 2 | 18,451,319 | train | <story><title>Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTmAtXoPkgw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philips</author><text>Anecdote: I stopped using OSX for primary development about 7 months ago and started using a Pixelbook + Crostini exclusively.<p>Par<p><pre><code> - Hassle free desktop experience on par with OSX
- Password managers, music apps, etc available via Android appstore
</code></pre>
Advantages<p><pre><code> - Fast time to productivity because Crostini takes a few clicks, then apt-get everything
- Native &quot;File Manager&quot; integration makes it painless to move files to and from VM
- Desktop apps in the VM appear in ChromeOS apps menu without hassle of X11.app, SSH forwarding, etc
- Android integration to unlock the laptop, etc works great
- Hardware built-in FIDO U2F device
</code></pre>
Disadvantages<p><pre><code> - ChromeOS 70 still crashes once and awhile inexplicably (weekly)
- Android apps can be janky to resize
- Multi-display with Android apps sometimes doesn&#x27;t work
</code></pre>
Overall I feel more productive on my Pixelbook vs OSX.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shams93</author><text>I&#x27;d try using firefox instead of chrome for your development browser, I do a lot with webrtc and find myself in permissions hell with chrome so my main system is ubuntu with firefox rather than chrome these days. I use a mac for mobile development because its handy to be able to handle ios and android with the same system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTmAtXoPkgw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philips</author><text>Anecdote: I stopped using OSX for primary development about 7 months ago and started using a Pixelbook + Crostini exclusively.<p>Par<p><pre><code> - Hassle free desktop experience on par with OSX
- Password managers, music apps, etc available via Android appstore
</code></pre>
Advantages<p><pre><code> - Fast time to productivity because Crostini takes a few clicks, then apt-get everything
- Native &quot;File Manager&quot; integration makes it painless to move files to and from VM
- Desktop apps in the VM appear in ChromeOS apps menu without hassle of X11.app, SSH forwarding, etc
- Android integration to unlock the laptop, etc works great
- Hardware built-in FIDO U2F device
</code></pre>
Disadvantages<p><pre><code> - ChromeOS 70 still crashes once and awhile inexplicably (weekly)
- Android apps can be janky to resize
- Multi-display with Android apps sometimes doesn&#x27;t work
</code></pre>
Overall I feel more productive on my Pixelbook vs OSX.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lgleason</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using the Pixelbook i7 16gb&#x2F;512 SSD as a travel machine for native Android development. Some other con&#x27;s I&#x27;ve noticed.<p>1. Multi-monitor support can get a bit flaky when using more than one monitor.
2. While is is pretty speedy, you do run into performance limitations due to it only having a dual core processor.
3. Many Android apps are not as fully featured as their OS-X counterparts. Yes you could use them all in Crostini, but now your going through another virtualization layer, plus the integration is still not fully there.<p>All of that being said, I used to be a crouton user and it is stable enough that I am not longer doing that....though the lack of USB device support is a bummer (and was supported in crouton).</text></comment> |
36,636,914 | 36,637,064 | 1 | 2 | 36,635,496 | train | <story><title>Tech debt metaphor maximalism</title><url>https://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=202306</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sonofhans</author><text>I worked with Ward Cunningham for about a year, and he said once that he regretted coining the phrase “technical debt.” He said it allowed people to think of the debt in a bottomless way: once you’ve accumulated some, why not a little more? After all, the first little bit didn’t hurt us, did it?<p>The end result of this thinking is the feature factory, where a company only ever builds new features, usually to attract new customers. Necessary refactors are called “tech debt” and left to pile up. Yes, this is just another view of bad management, but still, Ward thought that the metaphor afforded it too easily.<p>He said he wished instead that he’d coined “opportunity,” as in, producing or consuming it. Good practices produce opportunity. Opportunity can then be consumed in order to meet certain short-term goals.<p>So it flips the baseline. Rather than having a baseline of quality then dipping below it into tech debt, you’d produce opportunity to put you above the baseline. Once you have this opportunity, you consume it to get back to baseline but not below.<p>I’m not convinced that the concept phrased thus would have the same traction. Still, I love this way of looking at it, like I love much of Ward’s POV on the world.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tech debt metaphor maximalism</title><url>https://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=202306</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>This is a nice but very long exploration of the tech debt metaphor, raising several excellent points. I especially like comparing it with the business uses of actual debt.<p>The only thing I think I&#x27;d add to it is that like actual debt, a lot of people do not behave sensibly with tech debt. One of my big tests in any new job is the first time a product manager wants to put something on credit. E.g., &quot;We have to add feature X right now so we can land a big client. Can we cut corners to get this out the door? We&#x27;ll sort out the mess later.&quot;<p>Despite things like this making my eyelid twitch, I&#x27;ll always tell a new product manager yes the first time they ask this. But then I watch carefully to see if they&#x27;re conscientious about paying down the debt. Some of them are great about it, prioritizing the deferred work. Others, though, always have a next emergency. But in my view if it&#x27;s always an emergency it never is, and so I never again trust them with the tech-debt credit card.</text></comment> |
6,028,007 | 6,026,992 | 1 | 2 | 6,026,442 | train | <story><title>Navigating the Postmodern Python World</title><url>http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/postmodern.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bsaul</author><text>i&#x27;ve been coding in python professionally for 4 years now, and i&#x27;m currently working on the biggest project i&#x27;ve ever worked on.
to me, being scared of changing the signature of a function because the static analyser will not be able to spot all the places i&#x27;ve used this function is a real problem ( along with incomplete autocomplete ). i do unit test everything, but i&#x27;d like to keep unit tests for things a computer can not theorically do.<p>since i&#x27;m still in the early phase of the project, i know that python expressiveness is an edge, but i&#x27;m looking right now at what&#x27;s going to be the &quot;definitive&quot; language i&#x27;m going to rebuild my product for the next 3 to 4 years.<p>Python badly needs optional typing. really. i&#x27;m pretty sure that would solve both the speed and tooling issues. right now, for me, it starts to become unsuitable as soon as you reach 5-10k lines of code and a team of 2.</text></comment> | <story><title>Navigating the Postmodern Python World</title><url>http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/postmodern.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jefftchan</author><text>(off-topic)<p>Love the contact page [1] of this website. What are some other effective filters?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.stephendiehl.com/pages/hire.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stephendiehl.com&#x2F;pages&#x2F;hire.html</a></text></comment> |
20,915,641 | 20,915,756 | 1 | 3 | 20,914,830 | train | <story><title>Apple and Foxconn broke a Chinese labor law to build the latest iPhones</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-09/apple-foxconn-broke-a-chinese-labor-law-for-iphone-production</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chillacy</author><text>A more accurate title is: suppliers break chinese labor law and apple&#x27;s internal standards in order to meet deadlines.<p>Apple does occasional audits, but what more can you do when the people you audit lie to you because they _want_ to work?<p>&gt; While overtime is allegedly often required, most workers want to work overtime to make more money, according to an anonymous diary written by a CLW investigator in the factory.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cwyers</author><text>Apple can do math. Apple can look at what they&#x27;re getting and what they&#x27;re paying for it and run the figures and see what that comes to in terms of pay for hours worked. At a certain point, asking for X and putting down rules that make X impossible or highly improbable isn&#x27;t getting conned, it&#x27;s trying to get to plausible deniability.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple and Foxconn broke a Chinese labor law to build the latest iPhones</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-09/apple-foxconn-broke-a-chinese-labor-law-for-iphone-production</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chillacy</author><text>A more accurate title is: suppliers break chinese labor law and apple&#x27;s internal standards in order to meet deadlines.<p>Apple does occasional audits, but what more can you do when the people you audit lie to you because they _want_ to work?<p>&gt; While overtime is allegedly often required, most workers want to work overtime to make more money, according to an anonymous diary written by a CLW investigator in the factory.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>Apple does a lot more than occasional audits. If they didn&#x27;t the next iPhone would be posted all over blogs and twitter. Yet they are able to keep quite a tight grip and leaks. This only works if you have control of the entire chain.</text></comment> |
6,478,033 | 6,477,431 | 1 | 2 | 6,477,276 | train | <story><title>A 3D printed toothbrush for all your teeth</title><url>http://www.3ders.org//articles/20131001-blizzident-releases-3d-printed-6-seconds-toothbrush-tailored-to-your-teeth.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stephengillie</author><text>Wow, what&#x27;s with all of the hate? Someone uses a new technology to create a device that could be a more efficient way of solving a current problem, and the best comments that anyone can write are complaints about how it&#x27;s a bad idea or solving the wrong problem because they personally don&#x27;t have this problem? What an awful way to encourage inventive people to follow their dreams and build new products for everyone. These attitudes kill entrepreneurship.</text></comment> | <story><title>A 3D printed toothbrush for all your teeth</title><url>http://www.3ders.org//articles/20131001-blizzident-releases-3d-printed-6-seconds-toothbrush-tailored-to-your-teeth.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>donpdonp</author><text>It looks impossible to change the angle of the brush, meaning only the major face of each tooth gets touched by the bristles. This seems more to do with 3D printing, than dentistry.<p>What is interesting is the change from mass produced to &#x27;mass customization&#x27; where things are made with efficiencies of scale, yet each one can be unique (within limits).</text></comment> |
25,220,531 | 25,219,141 | 1 | 3 | 25,217,874 | train | <story><title>Magic mushrooms are changing the lives of terminal cancer patients</title><url>https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/11/25/Magic-Mushrooms-Changing-Lives-Terminal-Cancer-Patients/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsloth</author><text>I presume the main reason for the controversy is the prevailing dogma &quot;Drugs are evil&quot;.<p>This dogma has been used to enact countless bills of legislation in most rich countries, which in turn have encumbered the justice and police system, which in turn have put thousands upon thousands of people into to the
correctional system for years.<p>After all that busywork, lives destroyed and taxpayer money wasted, it is <i>really hard</i> to suddenly jump ship and say &quot;Nah, you know what... after all these lives destroyed and billions of tax money spent ... you know, we were wrong, let&#x27;s rethink this&quot;.<p>Drug abuse should be handled as a public health issue, not a criminal issue. And it takes time and effort to rebalance the current status quo to a more humane and sane approach.<p>This vox article discsusses the political history of war on drugs:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;3&#x2F;29&#x2F;11325750&#x2F;nixon-war-on-drugs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;3&#x2F;29&#x2F;11325750&#x2F;nixon-war-on-drugs</a></text></item><item><author>rich_sasha</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand the controversy. We know full well the natural world is full of substances with significant impact on our bodies. Many such substances can even on average be harmful, but when used correctly, they are beneficial. Opioids come to mind first and foremost. It&#x27;s not controversial to give e.g. serious accident victims a shot of morphine.<p>Why are investigations into medicinal use of shrooms or marijuana controversial? Is it the picture of a sick old lady smokin&#x27; a massive spliff?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yummypaint</author><text>I would argue it goes beyond &quot;drugs are evil&quot; for many people and is more of a vestige of the country&#x27;s backwards puritanical past. It has little to do with medicine and is more closely related to the idea that pleasure is wrong and pulls one away from devotion to the church, tithing, etc. If presented with a hypothetical recreational drug with no side effects, people with this perspective will immediately say it should be banned, or that taking it would be morally wrong. As long as people can derive enjoyment, even as a side effect, they will oppose. This is the ideological appeal used by them pharma industry to, for example, highly process medicinal Marijuana products to ensure no one might inadvertently enjoy them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Magic mushrooms are changing the lives of terminal cancer patients</title><url>https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/11/25/Magic-Mushrooms-Changing-Lives-Terminal-Cancer-Patients/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsloth</author><text>I presume the main reason for the controversy is the prevailing dogma &quot;Drugs are evil&quot;.<p>This dogma has been used to enact countless bills of legislation in most rich countries, which in turn have encumbered the justice and police system, which in turn have put thousands upon thousands of people into to the
correctional system for years.<p>After all that busywork, lives destroyed and taxpayer money wasted, it is <i>really hard</i> to suddenly jump ship and say &quot;Nah, you know what... after all these lives destroyed and billions of tax money spent ... you know, we were wrong, let&#x27;s rethink this&quot;.<p>Drug abuse should be handled as a public health issue, not a criminal issue. And it takes time and effort to rebalance the current status quo to a more humane and sane approach.<p>This vox article discsusses the political history of war on drugs:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;3&#x2F;29&#x2F;11325750&#x2F;nixon-war-on-drugs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;3&#x2F;29&#x2F;11325750&#x2F;nixon-war-on-drugs</a></text></item><item><author>rich_sasha</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand the controversy. We know full well the natural world is full of substances with significant impact on our bodies. Many such substances can even on average be harmful, but when used correctly, they are beneficial. Opioids come to mind first and foremost. It&#x27;s not controversial to give e.g. serious accident victims a shot of morphine.<p>Why are investigations into medicinal use of shrooms or marijuana controversial? Is it the picture of a sick old lady smokin&#x27; a massive spliff?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkerside</author><text>There&#x27;s an undercurrent of corporatism that powers the status quo. It&#x27;s not that all drugs are evil, it&#x27;s that the _wrong_ drugs are evil. The ones you can make on your own have an air of illegitimacy about them, while those that are manufactured and administered by professionals are &quot;ok&quot;.<p>If there were a real war on drugs, pharma companies would be the nuclear superpowers.</text></comment> |
5,319,755 | 5,319,707 | 1 | 2 | 5,319,419 | train | <story><title>The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea</title><url>https://thepiratebay.se/blog/229</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>binarymax</author><text>This makes me upset. Its upsetting because while yes, information freedom is a very important topic and needs to happen, but it does not trump human freedom. I'm not sure if this is a straw man or not - but how can they justify working with an entity that has such a horrid human rights record?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fleitz</author><text>Yes, definitely, we should not stand by while companies host their content in countries known to use torture to extract information, hold prisoners with out trial, hold prisoners with out charge, allow their leaders to execute citizens summarily, execute minors and the mentally retarded, incarcerate people at a rate higher than any other country on earth merely in order to serve as slave labour for the state and state sponsored corporations.<p>Even worse is many of the citizens of this 'republic' have been brainwashed by a compulsory education system that they actually live in a democratic republic.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea</title><url>https://thepiratebay.se/blog/229</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>binarymax</author><text>This makes me upset. Its upsetting because while yes, information freedom is a very important topic and needs to happen, but it does not trump human freedom. I'm not sure if this is a straw man or not - but how can they justify working with an entity that has such a horrid human rights record?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bad_user</author><text>Don't really know why or if they are doing this, but the PirateBay's primary purpose is to stay up.<p>If they are pushed to such extremes as to go to North Korea, then it's ultimately your fault, the citizen of a Western country, for allowing your government to take such drastic anti-copyright measures that ultimately lead to corruption and censorship.<p>Kind of ironic that Internet freedom will be increasingly achieved in our countries by befriending our enemies.</text></comment> |
33,012,939 | 33,011,581 | 1 | 3 | 33,011,072 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Depot – fast, remote Docker container builds</title><url>https://depot.dev</url><text>Hey HN! We’re Kyle and Jacob and we are excited to show you Depot (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;depot.dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;depot.dev</a>) and get your feedback!
Depot is a hosted Docker container build service, providing fully managed remote builds from CI and from your terminal. We support both Intel and Arm builds natively.<p>As application and platform engineers, we have experienced the challenge of keeping Docker container build times fast. From optimizing and reoptimizing Dockerfiles, to implementing layer caching in CI, to running &amp; maintaining custom runners for multi-platform images.<p>Still today, there are limitations with the available tools. CI runners are ephemeral, and saving and loading cache tarballs is slow. CI providers are resource constrained, with limited CPUs and disk space to dedicate to fast builds. And with the increasing popularity of Arm devices like M1, Graviton, etc, building multi-platform images requires slow emulation or self-hosted infrastructure.<p>We created Depot to directly address those limitations. Depot provides managed VMs running BuildKit, the backing build engine for Docker. Each VM includes 4 CPUs, 8GB of memory, and a persistent 50GB SSD cache disk. We launch both native Intel and native Arm machines, on Fly.io for Intel builds and AWS for Arm.<p>We have built a depot CLI that embeds the Docker buildx build library, implementing the same CLI flags, so developers can send their builds to Depot VMs just by replacing `docker buildx build` with `depot build`. We also have a depot&#x2F;build-push-action GitHub Action that can be swapped for docker&#x2F;build-push-action in CI.<p>The combination of native CPUs, fast networks, and persistent disks significantly lowers build time — we’ve seen speedups of 2-3x on optimized projects, and as much as a 12x speedup with some of our customers.<p>We believe that today we are the only hosted CI or build service offering the ability to natively build multi-platform Docker images (--platform linux&#x2F;amd64,linux&#x2F;arm64) without emulation.<p>We are still early though, and would love your feedback.<p>You can sign up without a credit card at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;depot.dev&#x2F;sign-up" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;depot.dev&#x2F;sign-up</a> to access a free project with thirty days of unlimited build minutes to try it out.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moltar</author><text>How’s is this different than running a Docker daemon on remote with build kit support?</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Depot – fast, remote Docker container builds</title><url>https://depot.dev</url><text>Hey HN! We’re Kyle and Jacob and we are excited to show you Depot (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;depot.dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;depot.dev</a>) and get your feedback!
Depot is a hosted Docker container build service, providing fully managed remote builds from CI and from your terminal. We support both Intel and Arm builds natively.<p>As application and platform engineers, we have experienced the challenge of keeping Docker container build times fast. From optimizing and reoptimizing Dockerfiles, to implementing layer caching in CI, to running &amp; maintaining custom runners for multi-platform images.<p>Still today, there are limitations with the available tools. CI runners are ephemeral, and saving and loading cache tarballs is slow. CI providers are resource constrained, with limited CPUs and disk space to dedicate to fast builds. And with the increasing popularity of Arm devices like M1, Graviton, etc, building multi-platform images requires slow emulation or self-hosted infrastructure.<p>We created Depot to directly address those limitations. Depot provides managed VMs running BuildKit, the backing build engine for Docker. Each VM includes 4 CPUs, 8GB of memory, and a persistent 50GB SSD cache disk. We launch both native Intel and native Arm machines, on Fly.io for Intel builds and AWS for Arm.<p>We have built a depot CLI that embeds the Docker buildx build library, implementing the same CLI flags, so developers can send their builds to Depot VMs just by replacing `docker buildx build` with `depot build`. We also have a depot&#x2F;build-push-action GitHub Action that can be swapped for docker&#x2F;build-push-action in CI.<p>The combination of native CPUs, fast networks, and persistent disks significantly lowers build time — we’ve seen speedups of 2-3x on optimized projects, and as much as a 12x speedup with some of our customers.<p>We believe that today we are the only hosted CI or build service offering the ability to natively build multi-platform Docker images (--platform linux&#x2F;amd64,linux&#x2F;arm64) without emulation.<p>We are still early though, and would love your feedback.<p>You can sign up without a credit card at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;depot.dev&#x2F;sign-up" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;depot.dev&#x2F;sign-up</a> to access a free project with thirty days of unlimited build minutes to try it out.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paulgb</author><text>Congrats on the launch. Apple Silicon really threw a wrench in Docker local development workflows, and this feels like a natural solution.<p>Does docker compose work with this?</text></comment> |
23,697,516 | 23,696,633 | 1 | 3 | 23,693,407 | train | <story><title>YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308449/youtube-tv-price-increase-64-99-viacom-hbo-new-channels</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keithwinstein</author><text>ObShameless reminder that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu</a> remains free of charge.<p>The site streams San Francisco affiliates and local stations of NBC&#x2F;CBS&#x2F;ABC&#x2F;PBS&#x2F;FOX&#x2F;CW as part of a university study on video streaming algorithms -- it&#x27;s essentially a big A&#x2F;B test to try to reproduce or clarify some of the findings in the research literature. We&#x27;re now posting all our data and analysis each day. Research talk here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;63aECX2MZvY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;63aECX2MZvY</a><p>The content is... well, it&#x27;s U.S. network television and associated daytime programming. But some people like it! And it&#x27;s free (for people inside the U.S.).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ozbonus</author><text>This was the first time I&#x27;ve watched live broadcast US TV since leaving the country ten years ago. Are there any shows on, or is every channel besides PBS just advertisements all day?</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308449/youtube-tv-price-increase-64-99-viacom-hbo-new-channels</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keithwinstein</author><text>ObShameless reminder that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu</a> remains free of charge.<p>The site streams San Francisco affiliates and local stations of NBC&#x2F;CBS&#x2F;ABC&#x2F;PBS&#x2F;FOX&#x2F;CW as part of a university study on video streaming algorithms -- it&#x27;s essentially a big A&#x2F;B test to try to reproduce or clarify some of the findings in the research literature. We&#x27;re now posting all our data and analysis each day. Research talk here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;63aECX2MZvY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;63aECX2MZvY</a><p>The content is... well, it&#x27;s U.S. network television and associated daytime programming. But some people like it! And it&#x27;s free (for people inside the U.S.).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anon102010</author><text>Wow. How can this be SO much better than even my cable box!<p>Seriously, clicking up down with channels, there is very little of that slow feeling blank out &#x2F; blank in thing that is so annoying.<p>I&#x27;d love to have an OTA receiver go into something like this at my house with this simplicity and speed (I did HD Run or something once and the hoopjumping was high and quality low).</text></comment> |
28,152,175 | 28,152,015 | 1 | 2 | 28,151,538 | train | <story><title>Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/08/11/crypto-hacker-returns-258-million-after-stealing-600-million-solicits-donations-for-hacking-for-good/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hamburgerwah</author><text>I haven&#x27;t seen any evidence there was in fact a hack at all. A digital contract was used in a way that complied with the contract that the bonehead writers of that contract did not intend. That&#x27;s it. If bad contract writers get to cry &quot;hack&quot; and beg for their money back there is no point to digital contracts at all.<p>If someone had physically or electronically broken into systems and illicitly copied private keys that would be a different story. Here someone executed permissible actions on chain that people didn&#x27;t like, wah wah.<p>You have to be an absolute tool to use the poly network for anything serious ever again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/08/11/crypto-hacker-returns-258-million-after-stealing-600-million-solicits-donations-for-hacking-for-good/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The article tries to imply that the hacker had a change of heart after a public plea to return the funds.<p>In reality, parts of the crypto community moved quickly to block transactions involving the funds and some security researchers claimed they had solid leads on tracking down the hacker’s identity. I think the hacker realized that if their identity was compromised then the legal system wouldn’t look kindly on someone stealing hundreds of millions of dollars.<p>Returning the funds and trying to portray the hack as a noble operation to identify flaws in the system is one way to try to re-spin the events as a positive. It appears they’re hoping to collect donations or some sort of reward as a sort of clean money takeaway.<p>It must have been a wild emotional roller coaster to go from securing $600 million dollars for yourself to realizing that you made a mistake that tied your real identity to the heist.</text></comment> |
7,917,208 | 7,917,109 | 1 | 2 | 7,916,597 | train | <story><title>A developer who spent 13 years making his childhood game</title><url>http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/219475/Meet_the_developer_who_spent_13_years_making_his_childhood_game.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>That pretty much defines &#x27;art&#x27; I think. The artist is compelled to see the vision through, it isn&#x27;t about the money or the time or the cost. I am quite impressed he stuck it through.<p>A long time ago (1983 to be precise) I started rewriting Empire, a curses based turn based strategy game (Hi Walter!) because I was convinced I could make it so much better and I had spent a lot of hours playing it. When I was at Intel working on a high end graphics chip I joked with one of the design engineers that it would be cool if you could see little armies fighting but we both agreed there probably wouldn&#x27;t be enough CPU &#x2F; graphics capability to do that in real time, at least not in our lifetime :-).<p>While I never finished my efforts (-1 for me I guess) I learned so much along the way, I bought Dunnigan&#x27;s excellent &#x27;How to Make War&#x27; book which was the bible for wargames at the time (and to some extent still is) and tackled path finding algorithms, and automated forces deployment, and strategic evaluation with limited vision, and all sorts of really interesting problems&#x2F;puzzles that each offered up a ton of interesting insight. Bottom line it wasn&#x27;t a waste of time for me, even though I have nothing to show for it.<p>I love that Adam stuck with it and got it done. Very inspiring.</text></comment> | <story><title>A developer who spent 13 years making his childhood game</title><url>http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/219475/Meet_the_developer_who_spent_13_years_making_his_childhood_game.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Kronopath</author><text>This article is pretty light on content. Much more interesting is the well-produced video the dev made himself, talking about his experience making the game, and talking about <i>why</i> it took 13 years.<p>The Game That Time Forgot:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0tSu0QDQ0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2b0tSu0QDQ0</a></text></comment> |
21,088,401 | 21,088,154 | 1 | 3 | 21,084,873 | train | <story><title>Tesla Software Version 10.0</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/introducing-software-version-10-0?redirect=no</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kerkeslager</author><text>I want a well-put-together electric car that&#x27;s completely analog <i>from the user&#x27;s perspective</i>. There&#x27;s not a single user-facing digital feature I&#x27;ve ever seen on a car that I wanted, and in fact most of them make things worse.<p>Obviously there&#x27;s some non-user-facing stuff, i.e. all-wheel-drive, which computerization has revolutionized. But any user-facing stuff is just awful. I want an electric car, but I don&#x27;t want to be forced into some awful proprietary OS touch screen just to adjust my A&#x2F;C, and I&#x27;m afraid companies are using the switch from gas to electric as an excuse to go in that direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radium3d</author><text>Tesla 3 owner here. Beyond tapping up &#x2F; down temperature arrows I don&#x27;t ever need to touch my A&#x2F;C settings and it remembers my settings when I pick my profile (and soon it will recognize me automatically) so I think it&#x27;s less annoying than analog setup personally.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Software Version 10.0</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/introducing-software-version-10-0?redirect=no</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kerkeslager</author><text>I want a well-put-together electric car that&#x27;s completely analog <i>from the user&#x27;s perspective</i>. There&#x27;s not a single user-facing digital feature I&#x27;ve ever seen on a car that I wanted, and in fact most of them make things worse.<p>Obviously there&#x27;s some non-user-facing stuff, i.e. all-wheel-drive, which computerization has revolutionized. But any user-facing stuff is just awful. I want an electric car, but I don&#x27;t want to be forced into some awful proprietary OS touch screen just to adjust my A&#x2F;C, and I&#x27;m afraid companies are using the switch from gas to electric as an excuse to go in that direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mark242</author><text>Get yourself a used Ford Focus Electric. The range is small, but it&#x27;s the perfect commuter car and is the closest thing to an &quot;analog&quot; electric car you&#x27;ll find. Ford took the high-end Titanium body and interior and grafted the electric drivetrain into it.</text></comment> |
22,251,575 | 22,251,509 | 1 | 2 | 22,251,329 | train | <story><title>0day vulnerability in firmware for HiSilicon-based DVRs, NVRs and IP cameras</title><url>https://habr.com/en/post/486856/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>When you see how small some of these devices are it makes you realize how easy it would be for a malicious actor to bug just about anything you own. A simple cell phone charger becomes a listening device that could have an LTE modem hiding in it.<p>People are worried when they find a raspberry pi sitting in the network rack - and rightfully so - but fail to realize that you can achieve pretty much the same thing by hiding in plain sight.<p>Imagine how much you could fit into a 6-port commodity surge protector.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>&gt; A simple cell phone charger becomes a listening device that could have an LTE modem hiding in it.<p>You can already get USB cables that have a hidden mic and sim, so if powered you can phone up and listen in. Those a very cheap and google shows this, but this is more adventurous.<p>As for targeting hardware and security - how many people would question a fancy free mouse or keyboard arriving in the internal post as it happened to of been dropped of at reception. Great pentesting trick btw.<p>As for chips with `hidden&#x2F;undocumented` remote activated features. If it was documented, would it be bad or something you can use or actively block off. When they are undocumented, well - hard not to think the worst. But then, CPU&#x27;s today, not fully documented when you can&#x27;t hack away at the microcode and management and whatever else is DRM&#x27;d out of your reach.<p>If Intel was a Chinese company instead of American - how would Americans feel about Intel chips? That is an interesting thought exercise.</text></comment> | <story><title>0day vulnerability in firmware for HiSilicon-based DVRs, NVRs and IP cameras</title><url>https://habr.com/en/post/486856/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>When you see how small some of these devices are it makes you realize how easy it would be for a malicious actor to bug just about anything you own. A simple cell phone charger becomes a listening device that could have an LTE modem hiding in it.<p>People are worried when they find a raspberry pi sitting in the network rack - and rightfully so - but fail to realize that you can achieve pretty much the same thing by hiding in plain sight.<p>Imagine how much you could fit into a 6-port commodity surge protector.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianpike</author><text>Glade plug-ins are innocuous, roomy inside, and have convenient constant 120v.<p>Take a peek next time you&#x27;re in a semi-public space if there&#x27;s any that are suspiciously not-smelly.</text></comment> |
2,517,632 | 2,516,814 | 1 | 2 | 2,516,637 | train | <story><title>Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a London startup</title><url>http://siliconmilkroundabout.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gaius</author><text>The truth is in the UK the <i>only</i> industry paying a decent wage for technical work (not just CS grads, but engineering, physics, maths, etc) is banking.<p>I am a Mech Eng graduate and my CV has been floating around in various databases for years, and I still get recruiters calling me and offering less than half of my current salary (and I'm no rockstar, just an ordinary worker) to go and work on something mechanical for a big engineering company. It really is a joke.<p>This is all tied up in the vestiges of the class system, technical people are still thought of as "blue collar" (despite being better educated than most white collar workers) and the management class will never pay us fairly - except in banking where they are quite clear about what is worth what. I gather in the US it's different, they don't have all that baggage holding them back.</text></item><item><author>ladon86</author><text>Yes, this is what's needed. I like the line about the banks. My biggest peeve with the UK scene is that we lose so much talent to banks and consultancies, especially among graduates; anything to turn that around is a step in the right direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pnathan</author><text>I don't believe that's true in the US. Software works seems to be white collar.<p>But I still make a point of referring to my fellow software people as 'software engineers', since (1) it's how my company styles the titles[1], and (2), it reinforces the idea that we're not "code monkeys", grunting and beating on keyboards for bananas per day (not that I'd turn down fruit if offered :-) ).<p>[1] I work at a hardware/software company, we have an array of mechanical and electrical engineers as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a London startup</title><url>http://siliconmilkroundabout.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gaius</author><text>The truth is in the UK the <i>only</i> industry paying a decent wage for technical work (not just CS grads, but engineering, physics, maths, etc) is banking.<p>I am a Mech Eng graduate and my CV has been floating around in various databases for years, and I still get recruiters calling me and offering less than half of my current salary (and I'm no rockstar, just an ordinary worker) to go and work on something mechanical for a big engineering company. It really is a joke.<p>This is all tied up in the vestiges of the class system, technical people are still thought of as "blue collar" (despite being better educated than most white collar workers) and the management class will never pay us fairly - except in banking where they are quite clear about what is worth what. I gather in the US it's different, they don't have all that baggage holding them back.</text></item><item><author>ladon86</author><text>Yes, this is what's needed. I like the line about the banks. My biggest peeve with the UK scene is that we lose so much talent to banks and consultancies, especially among graduates; anything to turn that around is a step in the right direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucraft</author><text>Not sure about class, perhaps developers just are more valuable to banks than startups. Otherwise it sounds right.<p>However I'm sure I would have gone stir crazy with boredom by now if I worked in a bank :) (I have low boredom tolerance)</text></comment> |
24,713,194 | 24,713,202 | 1 | 2 | 24,708,233 | train | <story><title>Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-y-roof-fell-off-family-claims-quality-control-concern-2020-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bennyelv</author><text>Anecdotes do not equal data. Your personal experience with either situation says nothing about the underlying trends.</text></item><item><author>kingnothing</author><text>On the other side, I&#x27;ve owned a Model 3 for a year now and have not had any quality issues at all compared to my previous Audis and BMWs.</text></item><item><author>mrkwse</author><text>According to the initial Reddit thread (anecdotal evidence I realise), while this is the most severe and highest profile incident, there have been quite a few reports of windows being improperly sealed. So as you say, not a one-off, but rather a flawed manufacturing procedure.<p>I went along with a family member to a Model 3 test drive recently and it was surprising just how many little defects were there, considering the price of the car. While paint finish or panel fit isn&#x27;t going to ruin a car overall, the fact the big easy-to-spot things are so clearly flawed does make one pause to consider how rigorous the QA is for the parts under the surface.</text></item><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>Tesla is an immature car maker. They might have great designs but they haven&#x27;t matured their processes. They haven&#x27;t spent years fine tuning their QA processes so these things slip through. One off type stuff like this and designs that are generally less manufacturing optimized designs coming from them are not surprising.<p>I don&#x27;t see why all the fanboys get their panties in a knot when people point this out. To everyone who actually knows anything about cars or manufacturing it&#x27;s kind of a nothing-burger that everyone expects will slowly go away with time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbhjpbhj</author><text>I find &quot;anecdotes do not equal data&quot; to be unscientific.<p>Your doctor doesn&#x27;t take your oral history for fun, it&#x27;s data. Now, just like a medical doctor we should weigh anecdotal data accordingly, but it&#x27;s still data.<p>Here for example we can tell BMW&#x2F;Audi reportedly sometimes make production errors. Tesla reportedly don&#x27;t always make significant (to the commenter) production errors.<p>Sure, that&#x27;s not terribly useful. It&#x27;s still data.<p>&#x2F;bugbear</text></comment> | <story><title>Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-y-roof-fell-off-family-claims-quality-control-concern-2020-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bennyelv</author><text>Anecdotes do not equal data. Your personal experience with either situation says nothing about the underlying trends.</text></item><item><author>kingnothing</author><text>On the other side, I&#x27;ve owned a Model 3 for a year now and have not had any quality issues at all compared to my previous Audis and BMWs.</text></item><item><author>mrkwse</author><text>According to the initial Reddit thread (anecdotal evidence I realise), while this is the most severe and highest profile incident, there have been quite a few reports of windows being improperly sealed. So as you say, not a one-off, but rather a flawed manufacturing procedure.<p>I went along with a family member to a Model 3 test drive recently and it was surprising just how many little defects were there, considering the price of the car. While paint finish or panel fit isn&#x27;t going to ruin a car overall, the fact the big easy-to-spot things are so clearly flawed does make one pause to consider how rigorous the QA is for the parts under the surface.</text></item><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>Tesla is an immature car maker. They might have great designs but they haven&#x27;t matured their processes. They haven&#x27;t spent years fine tuning their QA processes so these things slip through. One off type stuff like this and designs that are generally less manufacturing optimized designs coming from them are not surprising.<p>I don&#x27;t see why all the fanboys get their panties in a knot when people point this out. To everyone who actually knows anything about cars or manufacturing it&#x27;s kind of a nothing-burger that everyone expects will slowly go away with time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zachallaun</author><text>He&#x27;s responding to another anecdote, demonstrating that any anecdote likely has a counter-anecdote. You should read the context of a thread before replying snarkily.</text></comment> |
5,127,672 | 5,127,667 | 1 | 2 | 5,127,221 | train | <story><title>Mark Zuckerberg's Hoodie</title><url>http://quietbabylon.com/2013/mark-zuckerbergs-hoodie/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevinalexbrown</author><text>What a thoughtful essay. "But it uses a silly writing device to illustrate a point it could have just made plainly!" Whoa there, critical-thinking-by-the-numbers guy, maybe the article is also about fashion.<p>As a child, I considered style choices a silly and inconsequential distraction from the beautiful truths of the universe: e^(ipi) + 1 doesn't care what I'm wearing, so neither should I, therefore it doesn't matter, QED.<p>While today I still wish fashion would just go away so I could wear this conference t-shirt in peace, I contend it offers a reflection of who we are. Consider that while half the Senior Developers of the world can't program their way out of a FizzBuzz test, and half the world can't even read at all, <i>everyone</i> can look at someone's dress and decide if it's fashionable for their demographic. "No, it offers a reflection of what the establishment wants us to be!" I'll leave it to the reader to reconcile those two views. "But I just care about finishing Project Euler problems in APL so I just decide to wear sandals and this old shirt like all my friends!" <i>Fashion mattering doesn't depend on you caring.</i> Even you, APL-man, know Zuck couldn't wear his hoodie working for Quinn Emanuel unless he owned it (real question: how many people show up in suits at facebook?).<p>I was shopping for pretty scarves (!) with a product designer and suggested that ads are the clearest reflection of what a given demographic <i>is</i>. He agreed so quickly I wondered if I were late to the party. So when the Scientology ad in the Atlantic showed up, I thought of my favorite TLP quotation: if you're reading it, it's for you. The obvious question was "why is the Atlantic publishing this!?" The more depressing question is "why am I in Scientology's target demo?"<p>Fashion is an advertisement about yourself. "But the relationship is not always so obvious!" Hence the hoodie the world's richest web geek refuses to remove. "But I don't care what Zuckerberg wears!" If you're reading it, it's for you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lelandbatey</author><text>I'd very much like to re-emphasize this point:<p>&#62; <i>Fashion mattering doesn't depend on you caring.</i><p>In general, there are actually quite a few things like this in the world. Just because it is out of the scope of your concern <i>does not</i> mean it isn't of any concern.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mark Zuckerberg's Hoodie</title><url>http://quietbabylon.com/2013/mark-zuckerbergs-hoodie/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevinalexbrown</author><text>What a thoughtful essay. "But it uses a silly writing device to illustrate a point it could have just made plainly!" Whoa there, critical-thinking-by-the-numbers guy, maybe the article is also about fashion.<p>As a child, I considered style choices a silly and inconsequential distraction from the beautiful truths of the universe: e^(ipi) + 1 doesn't care what I'm wearing, so neither should I, therefore it doesn't matter, QED.<p>While today I still wish fashion would just go away so I could wear this conference t-shirt in peace, I contend it offers a reflection of who we are. Consider that while half the Senior Developers of the world can't program their way out of a FizzBuzz test, and half the world can't even read at all, <i>everyone</i> can look at someone's dress and decide if it's fashionable for their demographic. "No, it offers a reflection of what the establishment wants us to be!" I'll leave it to the reader to reconcile those two views. "But I just care about finishing Project Euler problems in APL so I just decide to wear sandals and this old shirt like all my friends!" <i>Fashion mattering doesn't depend on you caring.</i> Even you, APL-man, know Zuck couldn't wear his hoodie working for Quinn Emanuel unless he owned it (real question: how many people show up in suits at facebook?).<p>I was shopping for pretty scarves (!) with a product designer and suggested that ads are the clearest reflection of what a given demographic <i>is</i>. He agreed so quickly I wondered if I were late to the party. So when the Scientology ad in the Atlantic showed up, I thought of my favorite TLP quotation: if you're reading it, it's for you. The obvious question was "why is the Atlantic publishing this!?" The more depressing question is "why am I in Scientology's target demo?"<p>Fashion is an advertisement about yourself. "But the relationship is not always so obvious!" Hence the hoodie the world's richest web geek refuses to remove. "But I don't care what Zuckerberg wears!" If you're reading it, it's for you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>argonaut</author><text>The problem is that, in addition to what I've already said, the essay itself does not do a good job at making a point. Sure, it gesticulates at some points. Sure, you could assume the author is trying to say X, but I think that is one's own projection of the essay's vague intent. In fact, we have two comments here which potentially illustrate what I mean. You argue that the article is about fashion. Someone else argues that it's about social privilege. I argue that it's so vague that it's really about nothing.<p>I'm not sure who you're calling a "critical-thinking-by-the-numbers guy," but since I was one of those criticizing the article, I'll respond that it is wrong of you to assume that our criticism must be due to the fact that we/I don't understand that fashion in some ways represents who we are. Because I certainly recognize that fashion represents not only who we are, but who we want to be. But that does not absolve the article of having made no meaningfully substantiated conclusions apart from interesting points about the anonymizing use of hoodies.<p>If you asked me, the only reason Zuckerberg wears/wore hoodies is because he is/was a twenty-something. In his case it has nothing to do with anonymity/surveillance, etc. etc. They're just what was in fashion when he was in college. They're still in fashion. I wear them. They're comfortable. For youth, they're not uncool to wear. A suit would be uncool. Imagine all the grief you'd get if you wore a suit to high school.<p>EDIT (reply to below): While your reply may or may not be accurate, I think the fact that this is yet another interpretation of what the author's point makes my argument even clearer, that the essay has no point at all.</text></comment> |
15,125,282 | 15,124,962 | 1 | 2 | 15,124,809 | train | <story><title>ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/google-vr/arcore-augmented-reality-android-scale/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>objclxt</author><text>&gt; ARCore will run on millions of devices, starting today with the Pixel and Samsung’s S8, running 7.0 Nougat and above. We’re targeting 100 million devices at the end of the preview.<p>That&#x27;s...not great? For comparison, ARKit on iOS is going to support 400 million devices at launch (very rough numbers: ARKit runs on any new iPhone Apple&#x27;s released over the past two years - iPhone 6S&#x2F;SE&#x2F;7 - and they sell over 200 million a year). Hardware fragmentation is a tough problem to solve.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JosephLark</author><text>The exact same thing stuck out to me as well. Mostly because they had to start the article with this sentence:<p>&gt; With more than two billion active devices, Android is the largest mobile platform in the world.<p>So they&#x27;ll get it onto 5% of active devices, or one in every twenty. Not great, perhaps not even good.<p>I&#x27;ve not been a fan of android fragmentation for awhile now, and have been surprised that Google hasn&#x27;t been able to do more to attack the issue. Even when Treble launched, I asked myself... is that all? Rock and hard place I guess.<p>I actively avoid android devices because of the issue. My last android device was a tablet in 2011.</text></comment> | <story><title>ARCore: Augmented reality at Android scale</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/google-vr/arcore-augmented-reality-android-scale/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>objclxt</author><text>&gt; ARCore will run on millions of devices, starting today with the Pixel and Samsung’s S8, running 7.0 Nougat and above. We’re targeting 100 million devices at the end of the preview.<p>That&#x27;s...not great? For comparison, ARKit on iOS is going to support 400 million devices at launch (very rough numbers: ARKit runs on any new iPhone Apple&#x27;s released over the past two years - iPhone 6S&#x2F;SE&#x2F;7 - and they sell over 200 million a year). Hardware fragmentation is a tough problem to solve.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dep_b</author><text>I think it runs on every A9 (iPhone 6S) powered phone and tablet or newer. So more or less every iOS device sold since 2015&#x2F;2016.<p>Yeah and fragmentation in Android versions is pretty bad. Also the quality of the underlying hardware might be not as consistent as in iOS devices. It relies on a lot of sensors to get it right, not just raw CPU power and a nice camera.</text></comment> |
17,615,374 | 17,615,142 | 1 | 3 | 17,614,578 | train | <story><title>The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-25/the-world-economy-runs-on-gps-it-needs-a-backup-plan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>njarboe</author><text>A default trust society can be much more successful than default deceive&#x2F;don&#x27;t trust society. The cost of default don&#x27;t trust is high. I would say that the wide adoption of the Christian value of honesty with everyone is probably one of the main reasons for the rise of western Civilization. If we decide to go back to a default don&#x27;t trust society, we will loose something very valuable. We should try very hard to avoid that.</text></item><item><author>civilitty</author><text>The longer I am alive the more I learn about how much of human civilization depends on good faith and trust. Nearly every major system in use today is chock-full of single points of failure that could have catastrophic consequences but we keep chugging along, rarely stopping to think about the &quot;risk debt&quot; we have accumulated - right up until a catastrophe. I don&#x27;t know if that should make me feel more secure or terrified.<p>Take power plants for example: they are all interconnected in large regional grids and deal with such large quantities of power that bringing a power plant online is a dangerous process that has to be coordinated with the rest of the system. You have to spin up the power plant and make sure that you are in phase with the grid before connecting your power output - all while accounting for geographic distribution losses, predicted load changes, and so on. Theoretically, any discrepancies (like power flow being too high due to phase difference) would activate breakers and other safeties should an adversarial actor decide to bring a power plant online online willy-nilly. Unfortunately, the last few decades have shown that those safeties are barely able to handle common scenarios, let alone an attack. There is a serious risk that a single power plant could cause systemic damage to many devices in a region&#x27;s grid but for the entire history of the US, we have just assumed that anyone with tens of millions of dollars to invest in a power plant is just too profit-driven to pull off anything like that.<p>If the last few years (decades it seems) have taught me anything, it&#x27;s that we have to reevaluate many of the assumptions we have been holding about reality and our peers. From the Target&#x2F;Home Depot&#x2F;Equifax breaches to Facebook&#x27;s Cambridge Analytica fiasco, we have just been way too lucky and way too trusting. GPS is just one of many such cases, although a surprising one. I never thought the world would put so much trust in a system created by and for the US armed forces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Please don&#x27;t inject religion into HN threads. Nothing good ever comes of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-25/the-world-economy-runs-on-gps-it-needs-a-backup-plan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>njarboe</author><text>A default trust society can be much more successful than default deceive&#x2F;don&#x27;t trust society. The cost of default don&#x27;t trust is high. I would say that the wide adoption of the Christian value of honesty with everyone is probably one of the main reasons for the rise of western Civilization. If we decide to go back to a default don&#x27;t trust society, we will loose something very valuable. We should try very hard to avoid that.</text></item><item><author>civilitty</author><text>The longer I am alive the more I learn about how much of human civilization depends on good faith and trust. Nearly every major system in use today is chock-full of single points of failure that could have catastrophic consequences but we keep chugging along, rarely stopping to think about the &quot;risk debt&quot; we have accumulated - right up until a catastrophe. I don&#x27;t know if that should make me feel more secure or terrified.<p>Take power plants for example: they are all interconnected in large regional grids and deal with such large quantities of power that bringing a power plant online is a dangerous process that has to be coordinated with the rest of the system. You have to spin up the power plant and make sure that you are in phase with the grid before connecting your power output - all while accounting for geographic distribution losses, predicted load changes, and so on. Theoretically, any discrepancies (like power flow being too high due to phase difference) would activate breakers and other safeties should an adversarial actor decide to bring a power plant online online willy-nilly. Unfortunately, the last few decades have shown that those safeties are barely able to handle common scenarios, let alone an attack. There is a serious risk that a single power plant could cause systemic damage to many devices in a region&#x27;s grid but for the entire history of the US, we have just assumed that anyone with tens of millions of dollars to invest in a power plant is just too profit-driven to pull off anything like that.<p>If the last few years (decades it seems) have taught me anything, it&#x27;s that we have to reevaluate many of the assumptions we have been holding about reality and our peers. From the Target&#x2F;Home Depot&#x2F;Equifax breaches to Facebook&#x27;s Cambridge Analytica fiasco, we have just been way too lucky and way too trusting. GPS is just one of many such cases, although a surprising one. I never thought the world would put so much trust in a system created by and for the US armed forces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjwright</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit parochial to hear someone in the twenty-first century describe honesty as a particularly Christian value. You do know you&#x27;re talking to the whole world here? Most human cultures have valued honesty to a similar degree. Even many animal communities value honesty.</text></comment> |
31,185,083 | 31,184,516 | 1 | 3 | 31,168,150 | train | <story><title>Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220426-00/?p=106528</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mcculley</author><text>Over the course of a few years I spent a lot of time in a secure environment in a DoD facility to which I had to travel multiple times for a project. The environment, a maze of cubicles filled with computers, had been installed inside a historic building. For historic preservation reasons, the exterior windows were kept as built. For security reasons, there was a sheet of plywood painted white inside all of the windows. The building allowed no natural light to enter and emitted only a diffuse glow. It was a miserable place to spend long days, illuminated only by flickering fluorescent light.<p>We had some serious storms come through while I was there. A lot of the permanent residents went home. As I was a visitor and there just for as long as it took me to fix some problems, I was encouraged to stay and work late. I was assured that we would not lose power because the building had been recently equipped with a generator.<p>A storm came through and the building lost power. It was almost entirely pitch black in the building full of computers, which all went dark, fans and disks suddenly silent. A small fraction of the emergency lights came on. Most were in disrepair and never lit up. It turns out that in a secure environment, one has to make special arrangements to have someone inspect the emergency lighting. We heard the generator spin up. Still no computers, no lights.<p>In the darkness, one little nook came to life. This nook contained the coffee pot, microwave, and refrigerator. Apparently this organization considered only one piece of equipment important enough to be connected to the generator. We thereafter referred to it as the mission critical coffee pot.</text></comment> | <story><title>Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220426-00/?p=106528</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>t43562</author><text>On being acquired by IBM things went downhill at the company I was working at - no kettles or coffee machines allowed and you had to buy your tea and coffee from the company store&#x2F;machines (UK - probably run by Serco or some similar awfulness). All the cool computers taken off the desks and stuck in server rooms and you had to use a managed windows PC which in my case managed to crash once or more times a day thanks to some aspect of the Rational Clearcase filesystem driver.<p>I remember all the lectures from overconfident bullshitters with shiny shoes. A company run by salesmen. It is SO SO nice that IBM got eclipsed by the internet tech companies. Even if they are arrogant&#x2F;difficult in their own way it was a victory for the technically and ethically competent.<p>It seemed then that IBM was where software went to die.</text></comment> |
24,520,563 | 24,518,157 | 1 | 3 | 24,515,063 | train | <story><title>What happened to Firefox Send?</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-send</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>happypants23</author><text>If you think Firefox has stagnated you clearly aren&#x27;t aware of the substantial and complex improvements that have been made to the firefox core over the last couple of years:<p>* Faster Quantum Engine (multi-process architecture, etc)<p>* Faster CSS rendering with Stylo<p>* GPU-based rendering with WebRender<p>Any Moz engineer who worked on the above will have boosted their CV&#x27;s substantially. They don&#x27;t need to work on tangential greenfields to do that.<p>Sure so extensions had to be rewritten for Quantum, but sometimes that&#x27;s the price to pay for deep architectural&#x2F;security improvements.</text></item><item><author>rvba</author><text>Nearly all their &quot;side projects&quot; look like greenfields used by the project teams to boost their CVs so they can land better jobs. Those teams know very well that those projects have no use case, but they dont care. Foundation does not care either, since it is busy with increasing own remuneration and politics.<p>Meanwhile their core product lost around 10 percentage points of market share (from 15% marketshare to 5%):<p>1) Nobody works on Firefox any more. From 1000 people in Mozilla and how many working on Firefox? 50? and 950 doing various (useless) side projects?<p>2) they don&#x27;t understand their own product and its user base: they killed extensions, killed ability to customize anything. Basically they rebranded to a &quot;worse Chrome&quot;.<p>3) They dont care about quality and ship a half baked product. Recently they shipped Firefox for android that feels like alpha version. It is even unclear why did they ship it, they could have waited.<p>4) Countless bugs and problems caused by their own decisions (e.g. all extensions need to be signed - they forget to sign them so they stopped working..)<p>5) Not caring about the product at all because some people inside are stubborn dinosaurs. Firefox didnt have proper installers for business, just because someone inside didnt want to provide them. It&#x27;s like sabotage.<p>Their tech savy user base gets alienated every day: no more extensions, no more customization, constant broken workflow (changes for the sake of doing changes, while old things are never repaired - greenfileds are easier). At some point you start to wonder, why use a Chrome clone that is worse than Chrome?<p>I expect that the marketshare will go from 5% to 0.% What will be terrible for everyone. We are already losing the address bar due to Google AMP. [on a sidenote: when Chrome pushed for Google AMP, Firefox didnt capitalize on it - in fact Firefox also changed the address bar as if the Firefox team wanted to secretly support AMP..]<p>Those teams probably know very well that Firefox is a sinking ship, since development teams are not working on core product; but they dont care, they will jump. Meanwhile those few who worked on Firefox are left holding the bag, while they were &quot;paying&quot; for all those side projects, that just siphoned money &#x2F; development time from core product that is Firefox.</text></item><item><author>kace91</author><text>I really don&#x27;t understand it.<p>- Content was used to spread malware&#x2F;illegal content<p>- It was not profitable<p>How are those two things something you find out after the fact? What was the reasoning for launching the product in the first place?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fireattack</author><text>I honestly don&#x27;t see these as a good sign for a browser <i>as a tool</i>, instead of some software development adventure.<p>Firefox has a much smaller team than Chrome to begin with, and they can only work on so many things. If they keep spending time in &quot;re-inventing the wheel&quot; (in addition to what you listed, they also revamp their mobile client quite a few times in my recent memory), what left behind is attention to details in UX and UI that users can feel, which is what Firefox was famous for.<p>I&#x27;m not a developer, but I&#x27;ve submitted or engaged in many bug tickets on Bugzilla. What I can tell from my experience is that the response to bugs (critical or not) are getting slower and slower. Not just patches, sometimes you will have tickets that took years to have someone even looking at it. My feeling is most of developers are more likely to spend their time on Mozilla&#x27;s &quot;big goals&quot; than maintenance.<p>Just to give one example, there is still no full range video support in Firefox in the era of video game streaming. This alone lets me to have to use Chrome to watch Twitch.</text></comment> | <story><title>What happened to Firefox Send?</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-send</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>happypants23</author><text>If you think Firefox has stagnated you clearly aren&#x27;t aware of the substantial and complex improvements that have been made to the firefox core over the last couple of years:<p>* Faster Quantum Engine (multi-process architecture, etc)<p>* Faster CSS rendering with Stylo<p>* GPU-based rendering with WebRender<p>Any Moz engineer who worked on the above will have boosted their CV&#x27;s substantially. They don&#x27;t need to work on tangential greenfields to do that.<p>Sure so extensions had to be rewritten for Quantum, but sometimes that&#x27;s the price to pay for deep architectural&#x2F;security improvements.</text></item><item><author>rvba</author><text>Nearly all their &quot;side projects&quot; look like greenfields used by the project teams to boost their CVs so they can land better jobs. Those teams know very well that those projects have no use case, but they dont care. Foundation does not care either, since it is busy with increasing own remuneration and politics.<p>Meanwhile their core product lost around 10 percentage points of market share (from 15% marketshare to 5%):<p>1) Nobody works on Firefox any more. From 1000 people in Mozilla and how many working on Firefox? 50? and 950 doing various (useless) side projects?<p>2) they don&#x27;t understand their own product and its user base: they killed extensions, killed ability to customize anything. Basically they rebranded to a &quot;worse Chrome&quot;.<p>3) They dont care about quality and ship a half baked product. Recently they shipped Firefox for android that feels like alpha version. It is even unclear why did they ship it, they could have waited.<p>4) Countless bugs and problems caused by their own decisions (e.g. all extensions need to be signed - they forget to sign them so they stopped working..)<p>5) Not caring about the product at all because some people inside are stubborn dinosaurs. Firefox didnt have proper installers for business, just because someone inside didnt want to provide them. It&#x27;s like sabotage.<p>Their tech savy user base gets alienated every day: no more extensions, no more customization, constant broken workflow (changes for the sake of doing changes, while old things are never repaired - greenfileds are easier). At some point you start to wonder, why use a Chrome clone that is worse than Chrome?<p>I expect that the marketshare will go from 5% to 0.% What will be terrible for everyone. We are already losing the address bar due to Google AMP. [on a sidenote: when Chrome pushed for Google AMP, Firefox didnt capitalize on it - in fact Firefox also changed the address bar as if the Firefox team wanted to secretly support AMP..]<p>Those teams probably know very well that Firefox is a sinking ship, since development teams are not working on core product; but they dont care, they will jump. Meanwhile those few who worked on Firefox are left holding the bag, while they were &quot;paying&quot; for all those side projects, that just siphoned money &#x2F; development time from core product that is Firefox.</text></item><item><author>kace91</author><text>I really don&#x27;t understand it.<p>- Content was used to spread malware&#x2F;illegal content<p>- It was not profitable<p>How are those two things something you find out after the fact? What was the reasoning for launching the product in the first place?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pier25</author><text>As an engineer I see the value in these projects, but as a user my biggest gripe with FF is the lack of proper multilingual spellchecking.<p>This has been on their Bugzilla for 20 years:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=69687" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=69687</a></text></comment> |
4,149,171 | 4,149,215 | 1 | 2 | 4,148,997 | train | <story><title>Bye Bye Craigslist</title><url>http://blog.padmapper.com/2012/06/22/bye-bye-craigslist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamiequint</author><text>This is just offensive.<p>It would be one thing if Craigslist was doing their best to satisfy their customers and they wanted to shut down others who were scraping their site and leeching off their business. However, Craigslist puts absolutely no effort into making their product usable. The continued existence of Craigslist is just a testimony to the enormous strength of network effect lock in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>binaryorganic</author><text>Disagree. Craig Newmark has said that he's scared to make drastic changes to the UX specifically because he doesn't know what magic recipe keeps people coming back. Do I like the CL layout? Nope. Does that mean other people should steal the content and profit from it? Probably not.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bye Bye Craigslist</title><url>http://blog.padmapper.com/2012/06/22/bye-bye-craigslist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamiequint</author><text>This is just offensive.<p>It would be one thing if Craigslist was doing their best to satisfy their customers and they wanted to shut down others who were scraping their site and leeching off their business. However, Craigslist puts absolutely no effort into making their product usable. The continued existence of Craigslist is just a testimony to the enormous strength of network effect lock in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nottombrown</author><text>Agreed. Housing, where location is easily the most important factor, is where Craigslist is least usable as a product. Padmapper's success is a testament to Craigslist's users wanting something better. This is a big middle finger to all those users.</text></comment> |
40,568,182 | 40,568,246 | 1 | 2 | 40,567,806 | train | <story><title>Whiteboard interviews are a test of obedience, not intelligence</title><url>https://ashgw.me/blog/white-board-interviews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedunangst</author><text>This will be shocking, but honestly, the point of asking someone to code up fizzbuzz on the whiteboard is not sifting for obedient slaves. Hand to god, chop down the cherry tree, no lie.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaptheimpaler</author><text>It isn&#x27;t if the problem is FizzBuzz or a slightly more challenging and realistic problem. When its 1-2 leetcode hards in 45 minutes that can only be solved by having done hundreds of those problems, it does seem the purpose is more to just gauge how many such problems you&#x27;ve spent time grinding on before even though they have very little relevance to programming.</text></comment> | <story><title>Whiteboard interviews are a test of obedience, not intelligence</title><url>https://ashgw.me/blog/white-board-interviews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedunangst</author><text>This will be shocking, but honestly, the point of asking someone to code up fizzbuzz on the whiteboard is not sifting for obedient slaves. Hand to god, chop down the cherry tree, no lie.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kristjansson</author><text>Whiteboard questions are great, if the question is like two orders of magnitude simpler than the day to day. At that point you’re answering “has this person seen a computer before, and are they able to do the simplest possible task?”. Which I think your experience has also shown, can be a live question for far more candidates than one would expect.<p>The problems come when a company overestimates that threshold, either by selecting too hard a task, or believing their work requires more than it does. Then the question selects for (a) savants and (b) people who study for interviews. Unsurprisingly (b)s outnumber (a)s, and then get pissed when they realize how disconnected the material they studied is from the job, and write things like TFA.</text></comment> |
36,231,943 | 36,231,632 | 1 | 2 | 36,230,016 | train | <story><title>Val Town Pro - $10/month for more compute, storage, private vals</title><url>https://www.val.town/pricing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevekrouse</author><text>Great question! A val is a small snippet of JavaScript&#x2F;TypeScript that runs on our servers. You can also schedule them.<p>We&#x27;re trying to make a new kind of web primitive, like a Tweet or a Github repo, or more pointedly, like a Github Gist, but one that runs.</text></item><item><author>steinbring</author><text>Can someone define &quot;val&quot;? I don&#x27;t think that I&#x27;ve seen that, before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonahx</author><text>I assumed it was a play on &quot;value town&quot;?<p>I&#x27;ll add a +1 to praising your (sadly rare) ability to actually explain what your product does on your product&#x27;s landing page. I got it instantly from your tagline &quot;If GitHub Gists could run And AWS Lambda were fun&quot;.<p>I can see myself using this for one-off scripts and personal stuff. Out of curiosity, is it intended for more than that as well?</text></comment> | <story><title>Val Town Pro - $10/month for more compute, storage, private vals</title><url>https://www.val.town/pricing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevekrouse</author><text>Great question! A val is a small snippet of JavaScript&#x2F;TypeScript that runs on our servers. You can also schedule them.<p>We&#x27;re trying to make a new kind of web primitive, like a Tweet or a Github repo, or more pointedly, like a Github Gist, but one that runs.</text></item><item><author>steinbring</author><text>Can someone define &quot;val&quot;? I don&#x27;t think that I&#x27;ve seen that, before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meepmorp</author><text>I feel compelled to tell you that your website explains your product and what I might use it for incredibly well. It&#x27;s a surprisingly rate trait in a service&#x2F;product marketing site.</text></comment> |
17,557,929 | 17,557,018 | 1 | 3 | 17,556,351 | train | <story><title>Qt for Python available at PyPi</title><url>http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/07/17/qt-python-available-pypi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AJRF</author><text>I just started developing a Python app with a GUI and the faff around getting in running on other developer machines was crazy!<p>&quot;Install PyQT and QT Framework, no not that version, no not that one? Your on Fedora? Oh okay, add this rpm repo, no the developer version&quot;<p>The ability to install it through Pipenv should make this easier, right?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mherrmann</author><text>Check out (my) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;build-system.fman.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;build-system.fman.io</a>. It&#x27;s literally meant to solve this problem. Unfortunately, Fedora isn&#x27;t yet supported. But Windows, Mac and Ubuntu(-based) are.</text></comment> | <story><title>Qt for Python available at PyPi</title><url>http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/07/17/qt-python-available-pypi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AJRF</author><text>I just started developing a Python app with a GUI and the faff around getting in running on other developer machines was crazy!<p>&quot;Install PyQT and QT Framework, no not that version, no not that one? Your on Fedora? Oh okay, add this rpm repo, no the developer version&quot;<p>The ability to install it through Pipenv should make this easier, right?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pletnes</author><text>Anaconda python contains both pyqt and qt. That’s what we use. Pip contains just the python bits, not the Qt bits - at least this is true for PyQt.</text></comment> |
17,436,399 | 17,436,400 | 1 | 2 | 17,435,671 | train | <story><title>How to get kids to pay attention</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/21/621752789/a-lost-secret-how-to-get-kids-to-pay-attention</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maltalex</author><text>&gt; I often wonder what civilization would be like if adults asked the same question to themselves and then lead a life where they focused on that instead of being pressured into &quot;making a living&quot;.<p>I imagine we&#x27;d have an abundance of pilots, and actors and a severe lack of toilet cleaners.</text></item><item><author>nickjj</author><text>What&#x27;s really interesting to me is this same thing can be applied to adults too.<p>The article writes:<p><i>&gt; For starters, he says, ask your kid this question: &#x27;What would you do if you didn&#x27;t have to do anything else?&#x27;</i><p>I often wonder what civilization would be like if adults asked the same question to themselves and then lead a life where they focused on that instead of being pressured into &quot;making a living&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kluny</author><text>Personally I think there are more people than you think who would be perfectly happy to clean toilets as their contribution, so long as they were compensated fairly for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to get kids to pay attention</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/21/621752789/a-lost-secret-how-to-get-kids-to-pay-attention</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maltalex</author><text>&gt; I often wonder what civilization would be like if adults asked the same question to themselves and then lead a life where they focused on that instead of being pressured into &quot;making a living&quot;.<p>I imagine we&#x27;d have an abundance of pilots, and actors and a severe lack of toilet cleaners.</text></item><item><author>nickjj</author><text>What&#x27;s really interesting to me is this same thing can be applied to adults too.<p>The article writes:<p><i>&gt; For starters, he says, ask your kid this question: &#x27;What would you do if you didn&#x27;t have to do anything else?&#x27;</i><p>I often wonder what civilization would be like if adults asked the same question to themselves and then lead a life where they focused on that instead of being pressured into &quot;making a living&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tqkxzugoaupvwqr</author><text>The salary of cleaners would rise until enough people are willing to do the job or it is more profitable to install self-cleaning toilets.</text></comment> |
2,788,714 | 2,788,330 | 1 | 3 | 2,787,525 | train | <story><title>Why I Hate Frameworks</title><url>http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dools</author><text>The most important statement in this article is near the beginning, and it's still relevant today:<p><i>"I've done small woodworking projects before, and I think I have a pretty good idea of what I need: some wood and a few basic tools: a tape measure, a saw, a level, and a hammer."</i><p>The reason I hate frameworks (even things like Django which is very easy to get started with) is that, at some point, I'm asked to re-learn a different way of solving a problem that I've already solved in the past.<p>I've been doing lots of thinking about this having written the Great American PHP Framework myself, and worked with other people's frameworks, and also worked a lot in the CMS space and the biggest conclusion that I've come to is that the best tools are those that enable you to do things faster or more conveniently but don't actually provide any abstraction.<p>For example, when deploying a website there are any number of tools to "abstract away" the HTML layer - templating engines, markups, markdowns etc. etc. but the best way to build HTML is using HTML and testing in a web browser, always.<p>When you need to write some code in whatever web framework you're using to handle a POST request, you want to be as close as possible to the HTTP layer without a bunch of arcane systems in between you and what you and the underlying technology.<p>Sure it's handy to have tools which automate some repetitive aspects, but if you understand the underlying principles and you know the syntax of the language you're working with, you should at all times be able to just "get it done" however you know how without reading endless documentation and shoehorning your knowledge through a bunch of layers of abstraction.<p>The same goes for ORM - I want convenience of access to my data, and some automation to handle some of the more boring aspects of writing SQL, but I need to be able to mix and match (yes I know most ORMs allow you to use raw SQL, but it's always one or the other - the ORM or the SQL - I've never used a tool that has a simple method for me to extend the ORM bits halfway through the query building process with some custom SQL).<p>This is my zeitgeist now and it pervades all the projects I'm working on.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.decalcms.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.decalcms.com/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dasil003</author><text>&#62; <i>The reason I hate frameworks (even things like Django which is very easy to get started with) is that, at some point, I'm asked to re-learn a different way of solving a problem that I've already solved in the past.</i><p>Yes but it cuts both ways. The reason people hate maintaining <i>your</i> code is because they have to learn the way you did things which is buggier and half-baked compared to the way that any number of battle-tested open source frameworks did it. Not because your way isn't good, but because it just doesn't have the mileage yet.<p>&#62; <i>the biggest conclusion that I've come to is that the best tools are those that enable you to do things faster or more conveniently but don't actually provide any abstraction.</i><p>An interesting conclusion, but not nuanced enough. There's no escaping the need for abstractions, obviously there are some that you're taking for granted here such as high level programming languages and operating systems. Fair enough to set those aside.<p>But then once you get into serious application-level territory you still have to decide where to abstract. Some abstractions are more leaky than others, some are more restricting than others. The art of it is figuring out which make sense in what scenarios. A really good framework hits the right abstractions for a wide range of applications, but even within your custom application you have decisions to make.<p>For instance, you're one-helper = one-html tag rule of thumb might be a good idea if you have 5 forms on your website. On the other hand if you have 500 CRUD forms all with a bunch of repeated composited HTML structures then it's probably not such a good idea.<p>I think what's underlying your conclusion is that you've seen too many frameworks that are way too complicated for the problem at hand. That's clearly what the OA saw, and that was really the selling point that launched Rails rise to prominence in the J2EE era. Modern web frameworks have really learned this lesson. Granted, Rails has gotten more enterprisey over the years—but not gratuitously—Rails core has demonstrated remarkable restraint over the years, and kept the focus on solving the 80% problems elegantly.<p>But if something like Rails really is too much then you have micro-frameworks like Sinatra that really just give you the barebones structure to wire some code to a web server. Heck, due to the modularization of Rails and the extraction of libraries where applicable (eg. Rack), you can now avoid a formal framework entirely and still utilize a massive amount of code that was originally written in frameworks, now in stand-alone library form.<p>When programmers trot out the old adage "use the right tool for the job", one of the main points is to avoid the human tendency to over-generalize. To be the best programmer you can be, you should be constantly re-evaluating your opinions about the "right" and "wrong" way to do things. Rather than forming concrete opinions, it will serve you better to understand the pros and cons of any approach so that you can effectively apply your knowledge new situations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I Hate Frameworks</title><url>http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dools</author><text>The most important statement in this article is near the beginning, and it's still relevant today:<p><i>"I've done small woodworking projects before, and I think I have a pretty good idea of what I need: some wood and a few basic tools: a tape measure, a saw, a level, and a hammer."</i><p>The reason I hate frameworks (even things like Django which is very easy to get started with) is that, at some point, I'm asked to re-learn a different way of solving a problem that I've already solved in the past.<p>I've been doing lots of thinking about this having written the Great American PHP Framework myself, and worked with other people's frameworks, and also worked a lot in the CMS space and the biggest conclusion that I've come to is that the best tools are those that enable you to do things faster or more conveniently but don't actually provide any abstraction.<p>For example, when deploying a website there are any number of tools to "abstract away" the HTML layer - templating engines, markups, markdowns etc. etc. but the best way to build HTML is using HTML and testing in a web browser, always.<p>When you need to write some code in whatever web framework you're using to handle a POST request, you want to be as close as possible to the HTTP layer without a bunch of arcane systems in between you and what you and the underlying technology.<p>Sure it's handy to have tools which automate some repetitive aspects, but if you understand the underlying principles and you know the syntax of the language you're working with, you should at all times be able to just "get it done" however you know how without reading endless documentation and shoehorning your knowledge through a bunch of layers of abstraction.<p>The same goes for ORM - I want convenience of access to my data, and some automation to handle some of the more boring aspects of writing SQL, but I need to be able to mix and match (yes I know most ORMs allow you to use raw SQL, but it's always one or the other - the ORM or the SQL - I've never used a tool that has a simple method for me to extend the ORM bits halfway through the query building process with some custom SQL).<p>This is my zeitgeist now and it pervades all the projects I'm working on.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.decalcms.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.decalcms.com/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wvenable</author><text>&#62; templating engines, markups, markdowns etc. etc. but the best way to build HTML is using HTML and testing in a web browser, always.<p>I disagree with this. Completely abstracting away HTML is a mistake but some level of abstraction like a template engine is highly useful. I can hardly work without some "control" abstraction for form elements to handle setting the attributes and ensuring the form values persist between requests. Template engines can vastly improve the security of your code by making value substitutions safe by default.<p>The problem with most frameworks, in my opinion, isn't the abstraction part at all. It's that they're over-engineered. It seems like many frameworks approach Turing completeness as they attempt to solve more and more problems and you end up writing framework programs from within your program. Sometimes you even get to use XML for this purpose.</text></comment> |
37,856,381 | 37,855,656 | 1 | 2 | 37,854,115 | train | <story><title>A Journey building a fast JSON parser and full JSONPath</title><url>https://github.com/ohler55/ojg/blob/develop/design.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strken</author><text>People say this, and yet XML&#x27;s origins as a markup language make it baffling as a data format. No sane human being should choose a data format with such confusion between properties that no user knows whether to go with<p><pre><code> &lt;Foo&gt;
&lt;Shininess&gt;HIGH&lt;&#x2F;Shininess&gt;
&lt;Luck&gt;7&lt;&#x2F;Luck&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;Foo&gt;
</code></pre>
or<p><pre><code> &lt;Foo shininess=&quot;HIGH&quot; luck=&quot;7&quot; &#x2F;&gt;
</code></pre>
and yet countless thousands decided to do just that, for reasons that are totally inexplicable to me.<p>Obviously as a markup language this is fine; as a <i>data format</i> it&#x27;s bizarre, since the division between attribute vs child doesn&#x27;t match most in-memory data structures.</text></item><item><author>baz00</author><text>Is JSON XML yet? Nearly!<p>I’m going to invent Baz’s 11th law of computing here: any data format that isn’t XML will evolve into a badly specified version of XML over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Communitivity</author><text>I haven&#x27;t used XML is a long while, but there was a trick I had when I designed schemas, back when I did use XML all the time. Use an attribute if the data is a primitive String, number, or boolean. Break into multiple attributes if the data is structured but has only one level and has few children. Otherwise use an element. The three rules are simple, but produce schemas easy to read, easy to maintain, and easy to implement against. One code smell is if you start winding up with tons of attributes on one element. That may mean you should break the logical concept that element represents into multiple concepts, have those concepts be nested elements, each with its related attributes.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Journey building a fast JSON parser and full JSONPath</title><url>https://github.com/ohler55/ojg/blob/develop/design.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strken</author><text>People say this, and yet XML&#x27;s origins as a markup language make it baffling as a data format. No sane human being should choose a data format with such confusion between properties that no user knows whether to go with<p><pre><code> &lt;Foo&gt;
&lt;Shininess&gt;HIGH&lt;&#x2F;Shininess&gt;
&lt;Luck&gt;7&lt;&#x2F;Luck&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;Foo&gt;
</code></pre>
or<p><pre><code> &lt;Foo shininess=&quot;HIGH&quot; luck=&quot;7&quot; &#x2F;&gt;
</code></pre>
and yet countless thousands decided to do just that, for reasons that are totally inexplicable to me.<p>Obviously as a markup language this is fine; as a <i>data format</i> it&#x27;s bizarre, since the division between attribute vs child doesn&#x27;t match most in-memory data structures.</text></item><item><author>baz00</author><text>Is JSON XML yet? Nearly!<p>I’m going to invent Baz’s 11th law of computing here: any data format that isn’t XML will evolve into a badly specified version of XML over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tannhaeuser</author><text>I&#x27;m not disagreeing but the reason XML was used as data format is that it has native support in browsers (remember XML was created as a simplified SGML subset for eventually replacing HTML), the idea being that you can display service payloads via simple stylesheet applications or element replacement&#x2F;decoration rather than having to rely on JavaScript or other Turing-complete environment for arbitrary scripting which was seen as having no place as a central technique in classic document-oriented browsing.<p>JSON became only popular because of similar opportunistic effects (ie being already part of the stack via eval()). If you look at how typical non-JS backends such as Java or .net deal with service request&#x2F;response data, there&#x27;s absolutely no advantage for either JSON or XML - both are represented as class&#x2F;structure and (de-)serialized via binding frameworks and annotations.</text></comment> |
28,751,181 | 28,751,158 | 1 | 2 | 28,748,965 | train | <story><title>Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (2018)</title><url>https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1444367219509637123</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kortilla</author><text>Absolutely not a solved problem. The utilities have no reason to innovate at that point.<p>In my local municipality I have no way to choose renewable energy apart from building my own power plant on my roof. That’s a complete failure of these government granted monopolies.</text></item><item><author>abvdasker</author><text>This is a solved problem. Just do what most American cities do with other natural monopolies like utilities: use careful price controls to cap margins and slow rate increases. You don&#x27;t need to invent some esoteric market-based solution, <i>especially</i> for a service where marginal costs are near zero and supply is almost infinite.</text></item><item><author>djyaz1200</author><text>Tech companies that reach monopoly scale (like Apple, Facebook, Amazon) should have to disclose all their agreements and honor a &quot;Most Favored Nation&quot; clause giving all companies the same pricing and access as the best negotiated agreement with any one company. This is the most reasonable way I can think of without breaking them up to prevent them picking winners and losers as new opportunities emerge. If you have a better plan I&#x27;d be glad to hear it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enjo</author><text>The regulating bodies of those utilities work hard to create incentives for them to innovate. I spent four years of my career working on energy programs with major utilities around the country in which they tried to incentive reductions in energy usage.<p>Which is a curious statement: why would a electrical utility want people to use <i>less</i> electricity?<p>The reason is because the regulatory agencies created incentives within the regulatory framework to encourage them to do it. Basically the regulators start with an outcome, bake that outcome into how utilities get paid, and then let the utility innovate to figure out how to do it. This led to meaningful reduction in energy usage across many markets.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (2018)</title><url>https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1444367219509637123</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kortilla</author><text>Absolutely not a solved problem. The utilities have no reason to innovate at that point.<p>In my local municipality I have no way to choose renewable energy apart from building my own power plant on my roof. That’s a complete failure of these government granted monopolies.</text></item><item><author>abvdasker</author><text>This is a solved problem. Just do what most American cities do with other natural monopolies like utilities: use careful price controls to cap margins and slow rate increases. You don&#x27;t need to invent some esoteric market-based solution, <i>especially</i> for a service where marginal costs are near zero and supply is almost infinite.</text></item><item><author>djyaz1200</author><text>Tech companies that reach monopoly scale (like Apple, Facebook, Amazon) should have to disclose all their agreements and honor a &quot;Most Favored Nation&quot; clause giving all companies the same pricing and access as the best negotiated agreement with any one company. This is the most reasonable way I can think of without breaking them up to prevent them picking winners and losers as new opportunities emerge. If you have a better plan I&#x27;d be glad to hear it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>There&#x27;s no such thing as choosing renewable energy on a grid. Energy is fungible. If you get on one of those &quot;choose green&quot; schemes, you&#x27;re just getting the same energy but also buying some credits from somewhere else.</text></comment> |
32,761,868 | 32,761,151 | 1 | 2 | 32,760,695 | train | <story><title>The Steve Jobs Archive</title><url>https://stevejobsarchive.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cat_plus_plus</author><text>Nice, but insincere in that it doesn&#x27;t recognize that Steve Jobs was an abusive jerk who wouldn&#x27;t recognize his own daughter. Maybe a very necessary jerk who benefited humanity tremendously by pushing people into doing wonderful things that otherwise would not have been done any time soon. And maybe he became a better human being later on in his life. Still, fiction is not the best tribute to someone about whom many great things can already be said.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Steve Jobs Archive</title><url>https://stevejobsarchive.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>srvmshr</author><text>Is this an official archival page from some foundation set up by the Jobs family &#x2F; Apple or a fan made webpage? I didn&#x27;t see any further information.</text></comment> |
14,619,271 | 14,618,644 | 1 | 2 | 14,617,751 | train | <story><title>Tempest attacks against AES: Stealing keys using minimal equipment [pdf]</title><url>https://www.fox-it.com/nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/Tempest_attacks_against_AES.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wizeman</author><text>Are there any modern crypto algorithms that are, by design, immune from an attack such as this? Would not having any key-dependent code paths be sufficient to prevent this attack?<p>If it is possible to be immune by design to power analysis, timing and tempest attacks, is there a list of such algorithms somewhere that I can look it up? My google-fu hasn&#x27;t returned anything useful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>5gaKanchAFD2</author><text>No algorithm is secure by design against these DPA attacks. They exploit data-dependencies.<p>The only &#x27;provably secure&#x27; (e.g., on paper (+)) countermeasure you can apply to these symmetric schemes is something typically called masking. You can view masking as using secret sharing techniques to split up all intermediate computation into independent operations. To defeat masking an attacker needs to be able to re-combine the data dependent information leakage associated with all the split components. This is always a possibility.<p>Thus it becomes a risk&#x2F;cost tradeoff. The more you mask, the more secure you become, but at a cost of speed&#x2F;area&#x2F;power draw.<p>(+) It&#x27;s decidedly non-trivial to implement a masking scheme such that you get the theoretical security. This is an active research area.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tempest attacks against AES: Stealing keys using minimal equipment [pdf]</title><url>https://www.fox-it.com/nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/Tempest_attacks_against_AES.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wizeman</author><text>Are there any modern crypto algorithms that are, by design, immune from an attack such as this? Would not having any key-dependent code paths be sufficient to prevent this attack?<p>If it is possible to be immune by design to power analysis, timing and tempest attacks, is there a list of such algorithms somewhere that I can look it up? My google-fu hasn&#x27;t returned anything useful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>technion</author><text>Chacha20 was designed to be immune to timing attacks. It&#x27;s discussed on page three:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;draft-irtf-cfrg-chacha20-poly1305-10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;draft-irtf-cfrg-chacha...</a></text></comment> |
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