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11,024,708 | 11,024,231 | 1 | 3 | 11,023,428 | train | <story><title>Wasavi – a browser extension that transforms TEXTAREA elements into a VI editor</title><url>http://appsweets.net/wasavi/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kitsunesoba</author><text>It’s worth a mention that although it’s not all that widely known, all native text fields under OS X come with a subset of emacs key binds built-in, and this includes web page text fields in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox so if you like emacs keybinds and run OS X you’re ready to go right out of the box, no need to install anything.<p>See <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jblevins.org&#x2F;log&#x2F;kbd" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jblevins.org&#x2F;log&#x2F;kbd</a> for further detail.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wasavi – a browser extension that transforms TEXTAREA elements into a VI editor</title><url>http://appsweets.net/wasavi/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>And for the rest of us, here&#x27;s a Firefox extension that makes emacs shortcuts work in text areas or everywhere: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;firemacs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;firemacs&#x2F;</a><p>Unfortunately, many web apps assume the CUI bindings. Having to paste via Ctrl+V when you have remapped the paste hotkey everywhere is merely a nuisance. Not being able to use other webapp shortcuts because they are not defined in CUI but are taken in vim &#x2F; emacs mode can be a show-stopper. (This is why I limited myself to remapping copy and paste only.)</text></comment> |
9,108,389 | 9,108,025 | 1 | 2 | 9,106,511 | train | <story><title>Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards?</title><url>http://timkadlec.com/2015/02/apples-web</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UnoriginalGuy</author><text>Honestly, not yet.<p>Apple might one day be fairly accused of holding up web standards, but so far they&#x27;re still at least 80&#x2F;20 implementing new proposals. It might be unpopular but it is actually the responsibility of browsers to somewhat govern what standards do or do not move forward.<p>For example when IE decided not to do WebGL due to security concerns and then successfully got the standard altered as a direct result [0]. That was what browsers are meant to do. That&#x27;s what Apple does in some cases too, however their primary focus appears to be battery not security.<p>[0] (end of article) <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/applications/why-microsoft-decided-to-put-webgl-into-internet-explorer-1167110" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techradar.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;news&#x2F;software&#x2F;applications&#x2F;why-m...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malchow</author><text>&quot;it is actually the responsibility of browsers to somewhat govern what standards do or do not move forward&quot;<p>An underappreciated point. Browser developers incl. Apple also have a responsibility to recognize that it&#x27;s a mobile world. A compute cycle might look like it&#x27;s getting cheaper, but a mobile CC is vastly more expensive than a desktop CC because of the cost of energy.<p>We might have three monitors plugged into 100A mains, but the typical end user has a 1900mAh battery and 7.5 seconds between Starbucks and the car door to send log in to the school&#x27;s website to approve a field trip permission. It will be a while before mobile web standards can progress in the blue sky fashion we&#x27;d prefer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards?</title><url>http://timkadlec.com/2015/02/apples-web</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UnoriginalGuy</author><text>Honestly, not yet.<p>Apple might one day be fairly accused of holding up web standards, but so far they&#x27;re still at least 80&#x2F;20 implementing new proposals. It might be unpopular but it is actually the responsibility of browsers to somewhat govern what standards do or do not move forward.<p>For example when IE decided not to do WebGL due to security concerns and then successfully got the standard altered as a direct result [0]. That was what browsers are meant to do. That&#x27;s what Apple does in some cases too, however their primary focus appears to be battery not security.<p>[0] (end of article) <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/applications/why-microsoft-decided-to-put-webgl-into-internet-explorer-1167110" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techradar.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;news&#x2F;software&#x2F;applications&#x2F;why-m...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greggman</author><text>That&#x27;s quite the spin there. I wouldn&#x27;t say that&#x27;s why ms originally decided to bash WebGL. It&#x27;s far more likely they wanted to both scare users away from browsers supporting WebGL and at the same time try to prevent an OpenGL like API from gaining any traction vs directx as targeting directx makes your app ms platforms only.<p>It was only later they finally caved and implemented WebGL in ie. If they truly were only concerned about security but otherwise ok with WebGL they would have joined the WebGL committee and cooperatively influenced the spec.</text></comment> |
26,153,091 | 26,153,089 | 1 | 3 | 26,149,754 | train | <story><title>Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56069472</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>But a cable is such a simple item to find out if it&#x27;s broken, it takes 5 seconds, plus I can just buy two and be 99% sure I have one that works.<p>Akerlöf doesn&#x27;t seem to apply here, there&#x27;s no hidden information that comes out later. With a car there&#x27;s all sorts of dimensions to it that might annoy you.<p>Perhaps the idea is that all cables will go to crap eventually, but my detection cost is also fairly low on that. Additionally, and this is probably not a great dynamic, I can go to the website of a box-store, which will carry some of the same brands, presumeably vetted more than the junk shop.</text></item><item><author>gwd</author><text>&gt; My personal experience with Amazon is that it&#x27;s the shop to go to for stuff that is ok if it is broken. If I buy a cable for £10, and there&#x27;s a 10% chance it&#x27;s faulty, it&#x27;s not a huge problem for me.<p>I&#x27;m rather surprised at that, from someone who claims to be an economic grad. First of all, you must realize that that 10% isn&#x27;t stable: the &quot;Market for Lemons&quot; effect will guarantee that if nothing is done to stop it, that 10% will become 90%.<p>Secondly, you&#x27;re not factoring in either your time or the opportunity cost of having to buy your second cable. If you order your cable and it arrives the next day but broken, you spend at least an hour figuring out that it&#x27;s broken, and then have to order another one, and then wait at least another day for it to come.</text></item><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>As an economics grad, I always wondered why online reviews existed at all. There&#x27;s no skin in the game for anyone.<p>If your neighbor recommends you a crap lawnmower, he&#x27;ll have to explain to you why he thought it was good. You can ask him questions and compare his motivations to yours. He&#x27;ll also end up living next to a badly mowed lawn if he doesn&#x27;t put some work into it.<p>The seller has every reason to pay people to write good reviews. He doesn&#x27;t even need real people, it&#x27;s the internet and you can invent people, complete with their own unique photos and profiles.<p>Basically, honesty is expensive and cheating is cheap. Why would we trust it?<p>My personal experience with Amazon is that it&#x27;s the shop to go to for stuff that is ok if it is broken. If I buy a cable for £10, and there&#x27;s a 10% chance it&#x27;s faulty, it&#x27;s not a huge problem for me. The other use case is where the guarantee comes from the brand. I&#x27;m not sure why but I tend to think if I buy an iPhone on Amazon, it will be the genuine thing from Apple, and I have history with Apple apart from Amazon reviews.</text></item><item><author>kioleanu</author><text>Amazon has a problem with fake reviews and it seems they are ok with it.<p>I bought a replacement screen from Amazon and it wasn’t working properly. I thought I did something wrong so I contacted the seller&#x2F;manufacturer and they told: oh yeah, it‘s defective, we‘ll just give you your money back. I agreed and then the person said „cool, now in order to process your request, please click these buttons on Amazon” and they sent me a screenshot showing how to leave a 5 star review. wtf.<p>I refused and asked them to process the refund. First they said they can’t process the refund technically without me pressing those buttons and then that their job depends on it.<p>I requested a refund through Amazon and tried leaving a 1-star review saying that the product was defective and the seller tried to condition me into giving them a 5 star review. This review was not accepted by Amazon, saying that seller feedback should be given on the seller page. This does make sense if you have multiple sellers selling the same product, but it was not the case here. These guys were the only ones producing and selling it and if the score of 5-star reviews is from people being coerced to leave a review, then it should be there, not on the seller page where it’s very easily buried.<p>In the end I also contacted Amazon support with screenshots and I had to explain the problem 3 times as the customer representative said they didn’t understand what more can they do since I already received my refund. I’m the end, they said “they forwarded the message to the proper department, have a nice day”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bbarnett</author><text><i>But a cable is such a simple item to find out if it&#x27;s broken</i><p>5 seconds?!<p>Poor assumption. You&#x27;re presuming this is &quot;only the types of cables you buy&quot;. Many times I buy cables to do things with devices, for which I have no working cable already.<p>Examples:<p>* My device stops syncing with my cable. Is it the device, or the cable? I buy a replacement cable, just in case.<p>Replacement cable doesn&#x27;t work. Now I think it&#x27;s probably the device.<p>I spent time here, checking to see what&#x27;s changed, maybe an update, maybe a config setting, maybe something else. Or, is the device just broken? Do I send it away for repair?<p>* I want a cable to use with something I&#x27;ve had for years. Lots and lots and lots of examples here, all sorts of devices, like serial cables to debug with routers&#x2F;switches, test cables, even just an ethernet cable, if you may not have had one before.<p>Now you test, and you can&#x27;t tell. Is the port on the device bad? The settings you are using to connect? The device firmware? A problem with the port on the computer you&#x27;re using to connect to the device?<p>Hours and hours wasted.<p>Worse, you advocate buying two. Great. This means that no matter what, I&#x27;m returning that spare cable. Now it&#x27;s not &#x27;5 seconds&#x27; to determine it is bad, it&#x27;s &#x27;no matter what, I&#x27;m spending 20 minutes returning something I never wanted to begin with&quot;.<p>Frankly, I&#x27;d rather spend $10 extra on some types&#x2F;classes of $20 cable, to have it pre-tested even.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56069472</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>But a cable is such a simple item to find out if it&#x27;s broken, it takes 5 seconds, plus I can just buy two and be 99% sure I have one that works.<p>Akerlöf doesn&#x27;t seem to apply here, there&#x27;s no hidden information that comes out later. With a car there&#x27;s all sorts of dimensions to it that might annoy you.<p>Perhaps the idea is that all cables will go to crap eventually, but my detection cost is also fairly low on that. Additionally, and this is probably not a great dynamic, I can go to the website of a box-store, which will carry some of the same brands, presumeably vetted more than the junk shop.</text></item><item><author>gwd</author><text>&gt; My personal experience with Amazon is that it&#x27;s the shop to go to for stuff that is ok if it is broken. If I buy a cable for £10, and there&#x27;s a 10% chance it&#x27;s faulty, it&#x27;s not a huge problem for me.<p>I&#x27;m rather surprised at that, from someone who claims to be an economic grad. First of all, you must realize that that 10% isn&#x27;t stable: the &quot;Market for Lemons&quot; effect will guarantee that if nothing is done to stop it, that 10% will become 90%.<p>Secondly, you&#x27;re not factoring in either your time or the opportunity cost of having to buy your second cable. If you order your cable and it arrives the next day but broken, you spend at least an hour figuring out that it&#x27;s broken, and then have to order another one, and then wait at least another day for it to come.</text></item><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>As an economics grad, I always wondered why online reviews existed at all. There&#x27;s no skin in the game for anyone.<p>If your neighbor recommends you a crap lawnmower, he&#x27;ll have to explain to you why he thought it was good. You can ask him questions and compare his motivations to yours. He&#x27;ll also end up living next to a badly mowed lawn if he doesn&#x27;t put some work into it.<p>The seller has every reason to pay people to write good reviews. He doesn&#x27;t even need real people, it&#x27;s the internet and you can invent people, complete with their own unique photos and profiles.<p>Basically, honesty is expensive and cheating is cheap. Why would we trust it?<p>My personal experience with Amazon is that it&#x27;s the shop to go to for stuff that is ok if it is broken. If I buy a cable for £10, and there&#x27;s a 10% chance it&#x27;s faulty, it&#x27;s not a huge problem for me. The other use case is where the guarantee comes from the brand. I&#x27;m not sure why but I tend to think if I buy an iPhone on Amazon, it will be the genuine thing from Apple, and I have history with Apple apart from Amazon reviews.</text></item><item><author>kioleanu</author><text>Amazon has a problem with fake reviews and it seems they are ok with it.<p>I bought a replacement screen from Amazon and it wasn’t working properly. I thought I did something wrong so I contacted the seller&#x2F;manufacturer and they told: oh yeah, it‘s defective, we‘ll just give you your money back. I agreed and then the person said „cool, now in order to process your request, please click these buttons on Amazon” and they sent me a screenshot showing how to leave a 5 star review. wtf.<p>I refused and asked them to process the refund. First they said they can’t process the refund technically without me pressing those buttons and then that their job depends on it.<p>I requested a refund through Amazon and tried leaving a 1-star review saying that the product was defective and the seller tried to condition me into giving them a 5 star review. This review was not accepted by Amazon, saying that seller feedback should be given on the seller page. This does make sense if you have multiple sellers selling the same product, but it was not the case here. These guys were the only ones producing and selling it and if the score of 5-star reviews is from people being coerced to leave a review, then it should be there, not on the seller page where it’s very easily buried.<p>In the end I also contacted Amazon support with screenshots and I had to explain the problem 3 times as the customer representative said they didn’t understand what more can they do since I already received my refund. I’m the end, they said “they forwarded the message to the proper department, have a nice day”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xxs</author><text>&gt;But a cable is such a simple item to find out if it&#x27;s broken, it takes 5 seconds<p>This is so incredible false, cable quality varies greatly:<p>- wires, gauge and material. Copper is expensive and some cheat using aluminum or Al plated copper. Gold plated terminals, tinned copper, etc.<p>- wire material and single&#x2F;multi strand determines resistance and current rating, along with loses in the cable.<p>- insulation and sleeves can be made from different materials with a lot of properties, incl. max temperature, flame retardant and so on: pvc - cheap, rubber - expensive, nylon&#x2F;polyamid - expensive, silicon - very expensive.<p>And that just touches the basics...</text></comment> |
18,982,052 | 18,982,046 | 1 | 2 | 18,981,411 | train | <story><title>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms</title><url>https://breakermag.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-absolutely-right-about-racist-algorithms/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkpuma</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;This is because of the regretful (but understandable) decision to censor discussion of it on Less Wrong, which backfired spectacularly.&quot;</i><p>Can you explain the (understandable) rationale behind Less Wrong censoring discussion of Roko&#x27;s Basilisk? I&#x27;ve been lead to believe it was censored out of fear that discussing it could somehow inspire its actual creation.<p>Honestly from a distance Less Wrong has always struck me as vaguely cult-like, but I&#x27;m open to the possibility I&#x27;ve just gotten the wrong impression.</text></item><item><author>ThrustVectoring</author><text>The second half of the article that talks about Yudkowsky, rationalists, and Roko&#x27;s Basilisk is absolute trash and a gross mischaracterization of the actual positions taken.<p>&gt;Yudkowski has for more than a decade pursued the possibility of perfect human reasoning<p>His website is literally called &quot;Less Wrong&quot;. It&#x27;s fundamentally a quest for <i>improvement</i>, not perfection.<p>&gt;His system of coldly logical reason, it turned out, was by many accounts completely undone by a logical paradox known as Roko’s Basilisk.<p>Roko&#x27;s Basilisk is a thought experiment designed to import your &quot;don&#x27;t negotiate with terrorists&quot; intuitions into a really weird corner of decision theory. It&#x27;s possibly why prior decision theories held were rejected as flawed, but it&#x27;s not a current issue with their logic. Roko&#x27;s Basilisk has, unfortunately, gotten way more coverage and fame than it deserves in terms of actual importance. This is because of the regretful (but understandable) decision to censor discussion of it on Less Wrong, which backfired spectacularly.<p>&gt;For super-nerd bonus points, it’s also arguably a spin on Godel’s incompleteness theorem, which argues that no purely rational algorithmic system can completely and consistently model reality, or prove its own rationality.<p>That&#x27;s not at all what Godel&#x27;s incompleteness theorem argues. That&#x27;s much more narrowly about formal logic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ThrustVectoring</author><text>Sure thing. The basilisk can easily be misread as an argument to do everything in one&#x27;s power to support AI research of some sort. It&#x27;s more accurately an argument that you should ensure your decision theory doesn&#x27;t coerce you into putting all your effort into supporting AI research. LessWrong has a bunch of really scrupulous people reading it, who take pride in taking ideas seriously, so censoring the discussion seemed worthwhile for avoiding the failure mode of having readers make the mistake mentioned previously.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist Algorithms</title><url>https://breakermag.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-absolutely-right-about-racist-algorithms/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkpuma</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;This is because of the regretful (but understandable) decision to censor discussion of it on Less Wrong, which backfired spectacularly.&quot;</i><p>Can you explain the (understandable) rationale behind Less Wrong censoring discussion of Roko&#x27;s Basilisk? I&#x27;ve been lead to believe it was censored out of fear that discussing it could somehow inspire its actual creation.<p>Honestly from a distance Less Wrong has always struck me as vaguely cult-like, but I&#x27;m open to the possibility I&#x27;ve just gotten the wrong impression.</text></item><item><author>ThrustVectoring</author><text>The second half of the article that talks about Yudkowsky, rationalists, and Roko&#x27;s Basilisk is absolute trash and a gross mischaracterization of the actual positions taken.<p>&gt;Yudkowski has for more than a decade pursued the possibility of perfect human reasoning<p>His website is literally called &quot;Less Wrong&quot;. It&#x27;s fundamentally a quest for <i>improvement</i>, not perfection.<p>&gt;His system of coldly logical reason, it turned out, was by many accounts completely undone by a logical paradox known as Roko’s Basilisk.<p>Roko&#x27;s Basilisk is a thought experiment designed to import your &quot;don&#x27;t negotiate with terrorists&quot; intuitions into a really weird corner of decision theory. It&#x27;s possibly why prior decision theories held were rejected as flawed, but it&#x27;s not a current issue with their logic. Roko&#x27;s Basilisk has, unfortunately, gotten way more coverage and fame than it deserves in terms of actual importance. This is because of the regretful (but understandable) decision to censor discussion of it on Less Wrong, which backfired spectacularly.<p>&gt;For super-nerd bonus points, it’s also arguably a spin on Godel’s incompleteness theorem, which argues that no purely rational algorithmic system can completely and consistently model reality, or prove its own rationality.<p>That&#x27;s not at all what Godel&#x27;s incompleteness theorem argues. That&#x27;s much more narrowly about formal logic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chongli</author><text>I think the more charitable interpretation is that the discussion was taking over everything. If people are fixating on a narrow topic for a long time (without much progress) then sometimes it&#x27;s helpful to say &quot;alright people, let&#x27;s move along now.&quot;<p>You&#x27;re right about Less Wrong feeling like a cult, though. It gives me the heebie-jeebies.</text></comment> |
15,947,401 | 15,946,900 | 1 | 2 | 15,940,144 | train | <story><title>Firefox is on a slippery slope</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-slope.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bholley</author><text>My impression (without any internal knowledge on the subject) is that this was intended as a way to promote Firefox to Mr Robot viewers. A lot of people in this thread seem to have this backwards, IIUC - it&#x27;s not an ad for Mr Robot, it&#x27;s the onboarding experience of an ad for Firefox that ran in Mr Robot.<p>The folks behind this presumably wanted this experience to be seamless, and were also trying to keep it under wraps to preserve the surprise factor. This meant that they bypassed the usual processes by which Firefox engineers would have had the opportunity to (a) raise concerns about the deployment approach, and (b) suggest other mechanisms that would have achieved the desired experience while keeping deployment appropriately scoped.<p>It&#x27;s really heartbreaking that it ended up this way. The marketing team was trying to think outside the box to bring new users to Firefox, which is crucial if Quantum is to succeed. Surprises and stealth are the bread and butter of marketing, but they didn&#x27;t think through the dangers of applying those things to engineering. Moreover, the very nature of surprise and stealth meant that they missed the chance for internal feedback before it went live.<p>A lot of us inside Mozilla are hurting right now. We poured our lives into Quantum for two years for the long-shot dream of giving Firefox a fresh start and saving the web from monopoly. It&#x27;s frustrating to feel that all our hard-earned goodwill might be squandered by a few people and a botched marketing stunt. But the people behind that stunt were only trying to help, and I&#x27;m sure they feel especially terrible right now too.<p>Mozilla will learn from this. But the mistakes here are probably less sinister than they may appear, and it would be sad if they caused our most closely-aligned users to switch to Chrome.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>&gt;The core idea (deploy an easter egg via an add-on) seems pretty reasonable<p>I don&#x27;t understand why you believe that, especially when it&#x27;s not an &quot;easter egg&quot; but actually an ad.<p>When&#x27;s the last time I upgraded my linux kernel and it came bundled with an &quot;easter egg&quot; kmod, loaded by default, which made lightsaber noises if I wrote 1 to &#x2F;sys&#x2F;class&#x2F;ad&#x2F;starwars&#x2F;enabled? Would you think that&#x27;s appropriate?<p>You&#x27;re developing a web browser, a critical piece of software. Almost an OS within an OS these days. You got rid of &quot;cookies are delicious delicacies&quot;[1] (an actual easter egg) because you deemed that the joke wasn&#x27;t worth obfuscating an important piece of information. 15 years later you&#x27;re adding stealthy extensions that look like backdoors. What changed?<p>I can assure you, people who want novelty extensions know where to find them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=213186" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=213186</a></text></item><item><author>callahad</author><text>The core idea (deploy an easter egg via an add-on) seems pretty reasonable. Looking Glass is a really cool idea <i>for users who want it.</i><p>But pushing it out broadly, even in an inert state, was not good.<p>I can assure you that there&#x27;s an active internal discussion to that effect. I&#x27;m hopeful that we&#x27;ll learn from this.</text></item><item><author>leeoniya</author><text>i have a question: why do any of this?<p>yahoo and google pay hundreds of millions, is this not sufficient? have any of these gimmicks actually helped gain users? it&#x27;s likely that only Quantum - a purely technical improvement (plus marketing dollars) - made any dent in your user share. it&#x27;s almost like mozilla keeps expanding into all the shady corners to use up its budget so it can have a bigger budget next year.<p>many users use firefox for ideological reasons, even when Chrome is&#x2F;was technically superior. and these reasons are disintegrating at a ludicrous speed. you are throwing away the very users that helped you grow. we are telling you this here, directly and in plain language. much of the same group uses firefox because they can make it work exactly how they want with exactly 0 surprises. some of this died with the web extension addon transition, but it&#x27;s at least justifiable from a technical &amp; security perspective.<p>every time you force-feed what should be a visible and removable extension, i have less and less control over my browser and less incentive to to use or recommend it. it&#x27;s heartbreaking, really. whoever is pushing forward on all this farcical marketing spin and bundling stunts needs to be shown the door, asap. call ads &quot;ads&quot;, not &quot;experience enhancements&quot;. it is not okay. you guys need to stop this before you lose your most dedicated users that have stuck with you through thick and thin. having been on firefox&#x2F;nightly for over 10 years, deploying firefox on thousands of PCs, reporting many bugs, and making donations to mozilla, i am <i>this</i> close to saying &quot;fuck it&quot; and taking my friends, relatives and coworkers with me. i&#x27;m gonna be one user that costs you 2000 more.<p>please get this to whoever needs to hear it [and gives enough fucks to actually do something].</text></item><item><author>callahad</author><text>Most of us are on flights today, hence the slow response, but I want to clarify two things:<p>1. The study is not &quot;still active and ongoing.&quot; It was pulled yesterday after the backlash, though that may take up to 24 hours to propagate: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;after-blowback-firefox-will-move-mr-robot-extension-t-1821354314" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;after-blowback-firefox-will-move-mr-robo...</a><p>2. Even when &quot;enabled&quot; in the add-on manager, the add-on was <i>completely inert</i> unless a user <i>also</i> manually dove into about:config and specifically enabled a flag related to the add-on. Without taking that deliberate action, it didn&#x27;t do <i>anything</i> but watch that flag. No headers, no word inversions, etc.<p>If you&#x27;d like to verify my claims, the source lives at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;addon-wr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;addon-wr</a>, and initialization is controlled by addon&#x2F;bootstrap.js.<p>This doesn&#x27;t excuse our actions, but I hope it adds some context.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>resfirestar</author><text>Thanks for the balanced view of what probably happened here. The question I&#x27;m left with is: why can the marketing team deploy SHIELD Studies without engineering oversight? This seems like a policy 101 thing, and has me worried enough to untick the preference until this is (hopefully) addressed by a future statement.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox is on a slippery slope</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-slope.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bholley</author><text>My impression (without any internal knowledge on the subject) is that this was intended as a way to promote Firefox to Mr Robot viewers. A lot of people in this thread seem to have this backwards, IIUC - it&#x27;s not an ad for Mr Robot, it&#x27;s the onboarding experience of an ad for Firefox that ran in Mr Robot.<p>The folks behind this presumably wanted this experience to be seamless, and were also trying to keep it under wraps to preserve the surprise factor. This meant that they bypassed the usual processes by which Firefox engineers would have had the opportunity to (a) raise concerns about the deployment approach, and (b) suggest other mechanisms that would have achieved the desired experience while keeping deployment appropriately scoped.<p>It&#x27;s really heartbreaking that it ended up this way. The marketing team was trying to think outside the box to bring new users to Firefox, which is crucial if Quantum is to succeed. Surprises and stealth are the bread and butter of marketing, but they didn&#x27;t think through the dangers of applying those things to engineering. Moreover, the very nature of surprise and stealth meant that they missed the chance for internal feedback before it went live.<p>A lot of us inside Mozilla are hurting right now. We poured our lives into Quantum for two years for the long-shot dream of giving Firefox a fresh start and saving the web from monopoly. It&#x27;s frustrating to feel that all our hard-earned goodwill might be squandered by a few people and a botched marketing stunt. But the people behind that stunt were only trying to help, and I&#x27;m sure they feel especially terrible right now too.<p>Mozilla will learn from this. But the mistakes here are probably less sinister than they may appear, and it would be sad if they caused our most closely-aligned users to switch to Chrome.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>&gt;The core idea (deploy an easter egg via an add-on) seems pretty reasonable<p>I don&#x27;t understand why you believe that, especially when it&#x27;s not an &quot;easter egg&quot; but actually an ad.<p>When&#x27;s the last time I upgraded my linux kernel and it came bundled with an &quot;easter egg&quot; kmod, loaded by default, which made lightsaber noises if I wrote 1 to &#x2F;sys&#x2F;class&#x2F;ad&#x2F;starwars&#x2F;enabled? Would you think that&#x27;s appropriate?<p>You&#x27;re developing a web browser, a critical piece of software. Almost an OS within an OS these days. You got rid of &quot;cookies are delicious delicacies&quot;[1] (an actual easter egg) because you deemed that the joke wasn&#x27;t worth obfuscating an important piece of information. 15 years later you&#x27;re adding stealthy extensions that look like backdoors. What changed?<p>I can assure you, people who want novelty extensions know where to find them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=213186" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=213186</a></text></item><item><author>callahad</author><text>The core idea (deploy an easter egg via an add-on) seems pretty reasonable. Looking Glass is a really cool idea <i>for users who want it.</i><p>But pushing it out broadly, even in an inert state, was not good.<p>I can assure you that there&#x27;s an active internal discussion to that effect. I&#x27;m hopeful that we&#x27;ll learn from this.</text></item><item><author>leeoniya</author><text>i have a question: why do any of this?<p>yahoo and google pay hundreds of millions, is this not sufficient? have any of these gimmicks actually helped gain users? it&#x27;s likely that only Quantum - a purely technical improvement (plus marketing dollars) - made any dent in your user share. it&#x27;s almost like mozilla keeps expanding into all the shady corners to use up its budget so it can have a bigger budget next year.<p>many users use firefox for ideological reasons, even when Chrome is&#x2F;was technically superior. and these reasons are disintegrating at a ludicrous speed. you are throwing away the very users that helped you grow. we are telling you this here, directly and in plain language. much of the same group uses firefox because they can make it work exactly how they want with exactly 0 surprises. some of this died with the web extension addon transition, but it&#x27;s at least justifiable from a technical &amp; security perspective.<p>every time you force-feed what should be a visible and removable extension, i have less and less control over my browser and less incentive to to use or recommend it. it&#x27;s heartbreaking, really. whoever is pushing forward on all this farcical marketing spin and bundling stunts needs to be shown the door, asap. call ads &quot;ads&quot;, not &quot;experience enhancements&quot;. it is not okay. you guys need to stop this before you lose your most dedicated users that have stuck with you through thick and thin. having been on firefox&#x2F;nightly for over 10 years, deploying firefox on thousands of PCs, reporting many bugs, and making donations to mozilla, i am <i>this</i> close to saying &quot;fuck it&quot; and taking my friends, relatives and coworkers with me. i&#x27;m gonna be one user that costs you 2000 more.<p>please get this to whoever needs to hear it [and gives enough fucks to actually do something].</text></item><item><author>callahad</author><text>Most of us are on flights today, hence the slow response, but I want to clarify two things:<p>1. The study is not &quot;still active and ongoing.&quot; It was pulled yesterday after the backlash, though that may take up to 24 hours to propagate: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;after-blowback-firefox-will-move-mr-robot-extension-t-1821354314" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;after-blowback-firefox-will-move-mr-robo...</a><p>2. Even when &quot;enabled&quot; in the add-on manager, the add-on was <i>completely inert</i> unless a user <i>also</i> manually dove into about:config and specifically enabled a flag related to the add-on. Without taking that deliberate action, it didn&#x27;t do <i>anything</i> but watch that flag. No headers, no word inversions, etc.<p>If you&#x27;d like to verify my claims, the source lives at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;addon-wr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;addon-wr</a>, and initialization is controlled by addon&#x2F;bootstrap.js.<p>This doesn&#x27;t excuse our actions, but I hope it adds some context.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leeoniya</author><text>the problem is that this is recurring and the apologies are now mostly meaningless. action, not words are needed.<p>i would have been happy to write this one off, but the ship has all but sailed. the ice is so thin that you guys are one PR disaster away from a mass exodus of people who trust you.<p>if mozilla learned anything from the Pocket disaster, it would have immediately made it a removable addon and genuinely apologized. instead, there it is in my toolbar on nightly. i know you guys bought them, but that&#x27;s a solution that only addresses the privacy aspect - you went from nonremovable Pocket to nonremovable Mozilla&#x2F;Pocket.<p>every misstep that has happened with &quot;enhancing the user experience&quot; is an affront to the brilliant engineering you guys are doing. you&#x27;re literally shedding user-engineers - not unlike yourselves - over these user choice, bundling&#x2F;marketing double-speak, viralgrab and privacy fiascos.<p>i&#x27;m reasonable. i understood the DRM situation. the content providers make the rules and the consumers make the choices based on where they can consume the content. many people went apeshit with ideology. but mozilla is in full control of everything that is going on right now.<p>&gt; This meant that they bypassed the usual processes by which Firefox engineers would have had the opportunity to (a) raise concerns about the deployment approach, and (b) suggest other mechanisms that would have achieved the desired experience while keeping deployment appropriately scoped.<p>i don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s worse, that users don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s going on, or that the engineers don&#x27;t. here&#x27;s an apt description for this: rgba(0,0,0,1)<p>rather than being delighted to discover features i didn&#x27;t know where in there, i&#x27;m now horrified to discover them. i&#x27;m becoming mozilla&#x27;s unwitting social testing platform and this is unacceptable. it is not what i signed up for with firefox 1.5. there&#x27;s a reason that Tor&#x27;s browser is firefox; i think this reason is ripe for re-evaluation.<p>mozilla is long overdue for automated regression tests of their core values.<p>plz don&#x27;t take this comment personally. i have huge respect for the work you do. it&#x27;s a shame the engineers are not in control of their destiny; they rarely are.</text></comment> |
8,582,802 | 8,582,794 | 1 | 3 | 8,582,439 | train | <story><title>Material UI</title><url>http://material-ui.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colinramsay</author><text>The comments thus far are disappointing. People go to the trouble of making a pithy comment on hackernews, but surely since many of us here are developers we understand the frustration of bad bug reports. Is it so hard to bottle up your negative comments and spend another two minutes doing something constructive - like heading over to github and adding an issue with your system specs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ohyesyodo</author><text>I visited the site on my Windows Phone 8.1, and the page is rendered incorrectly. There&#x27;s white text on white background, different text sections overlapping eachother, columns being one word wide and lot of more things. According to other comments here, it is unusable on iphone and broken on android as well. According to issues in their tracker, it does not work on Windows 8&#x2F;Firefox and Ubuntu&#x2F;Firefox.<p>It also renders incorrectly on Chrone om Windows 8 (on my laptop, at least).<p>If you&#x27;re creating a new CSS framework, publish it and fail to mention that it&#x27;s work in progress and it only works on a limited set of platforms (like what), you have wasted my time.<p>I really hope developers doesn&#x27;t expect to only get constructive feedback when doing something like that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Material UI</title><url>http://material-ui.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colinramsay</author><text>The comments thus far are disappointing. People go to the trouble of making a pithy comment on hackernews, but surely since many of us here are developers we understand the frustration of bad bug reports. Is it so hard to bottle up your negative comments and spend another two minutes doing something constructive - like heading over to github and adding an issue with your system specs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rattray</author><text>Heading over to github would help the project, it is true.<p>But HN isn&#x27;t only a place where people come for help. It&#x27;s also a place where people come to share. And when low-quality (or not-yet-production-ready) work is shared, it&#x27;s important that we let each other know that. Especially when the site seems to imply it&#x27;s &quot;ready&quot;, as this one does.</text></comment> |
9,740,691 | 9,740,684 | 1 | 2 | 9,740,429 | train | <story><title>“Land initial Rust MP4 parser and unit tests”</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1175322</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scosman</author><text>Can anyone explain why mp4 parsing lib in a specific language is #1 on HN? mp4 is just the container format (not the video stream). I&#x27;m not trying to belittle, just curious if I&#x27;m missing context.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davmre</author><text>This is the first intrusion of Rust into the Firefox source tree.<p>The whole point of Rust and Servo development was that they would eventually lead to safer, cleaner code in Mozilla&#x27;s shipping web browsers. This code itself doesn&#x27;t seem significant, but it&#x27;s a milestone in that it marks the beginning of the payoff from that effort.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Land initial Rust MP4 parser and unit tests”</title><url>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1175322</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scosman</author><text>Can anyone explain why mp4 parsing lib in a specific language is #1 on HN? mp4 is just the container format (not the video stream). I&#x27;m not trying to belittle, just curious if I&#x27;m missing context.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Osmose</author><text>I believe it&#x27;s because this is the first piece of Rust code landing in Firefox.</text></comment> |
6,620,601 | 6,620,573 | 1 | 2 | 6,620,290 | train | <story><title>Armed agents seize records of reporter</title><url>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/25/armed-agents-seize-records-reporter-washington-tim/?page=all</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>panarky</author><text>Every journalist covering sensitive topics like national security should have well-practiced digital security habits.<p>Edward Snowden specifically sought out Laura Poitras because she had a clue about information security.<p>Peter Maass, who covers national security topics and interviewed Snowden, Poitras and Greenwald [0], explains that very few journalists take appropriate precautions to protect their sources [1].<p>Anything less than routine use of encryption, Tor, VPNs and secure voice communication should be considered journalistic malpractice given what we now know.<p>[0] <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-snowden.html?_r=0&amp;pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;laura-poitras-sno...</a><p>[1] <a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/221003/peter-maass-everyone-needs-to-use-encryption-a-lot-more/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.poynter.org&#x2F;latest-news&#x2F;mediawire&#x2F;221003&#x2F;peter-ma...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Armed agents seize records of reporter</title><url>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/25/armed-agents-seize-records-reporter-washington-tim/?page=all</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fiatmoney</author><text>The bizarre thing is the actual warrant - searching for firearms-related items &amp; documents in their house, because her husband had a 1980s-vintage resisting arrest conviction which precludes him from owning firearms. I don&#x27;t have PACER access, but I would love for someone to dig up that warrant application when it becomes available and see how bald-facedly pretextual it is.</text></comment> |
6,024,049 | 6,023,741 | 1 | 2 | 6,023,423 | train | <story><title>Git for the masses</title><url>http://kivo.com/blog/git-for-the-masses/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonchang</author><text>Office already has features to track and merge different copies of documents together. Assuming you haven&#x27;t disabled it, it also has (hidden) builtin versioning, allowing a git-like three-way merge with all the accuracy improvements that entails.<p>The larger problem is, of course, discovering that these features exist and training people to use them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>discodave</author><text>One problem with the office track changes feature is that ALL PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF THE DOCUMENT ARE INSIDE THE DOCUMENT.<p>This is wrong, the document should be inside the VCS.<p>Some examples that my mother brought up regarding Law firms and the track changes feature are that if somebody writes &#x27;adding this paragraph because of idiot customer X&#x27; or repurposes a document for customer Y into a document for customer X then some bright beaver at customer X turns on the track changes feature...<p>I&#x27;m sure there is a way to scrub the changes from the document before sending it but not separating the content from the history will always create problems.</text></comment> | <story><title>Git for the masses</title><url>http://kivo.com/blog/git-for-the-masses/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonchang</author><text>Office already has features to track and merge different copies of documents together. Assuming you haven&#x27;t disabled it, it also has (hidden) builtin versioning, allowing a git-like three-way merge with all the accuracy improvements that entails.<p>The larger problem is, of course, discovering that these features exist and training people to use them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jervisfm</author><text>Office used to have a rather handy (well-hidden) builtin versioning feature whereby new saves were not permanent. Instead only what changed was saved in a delta-fashion and so one could go back and access the different versions of a file (from different times) all in the same file.<p>This feature was good for the case of a solo author who working on a draft document and needing to keep various versions of the documents in one file (as opposed to having multiple versions with potentially funny names depending on the naming-scheme in use). Unfortunately, MS removed this feature way back when Office 2007[1] was released. OS-level file versioning functionality that exists can help fill the void though.<p>[1] - <a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/what-happened-to-versioning-HA010219332.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;office.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;word-help&#x2F;what-happened-to...</a></text></comment> |
39,960,830 | 39,958,861 | 1 | 2 | 39,955,057 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Brutalist Hacker News – A HN reader inspired by brutalist web design</title><url>https://brutalisthackernews.com</url><text>I&#x27;ve developed a Hacker News reader that draws inspiration from Brutalist Web Design, the open web, Cyberpunk Aesthetics, and glitch art.<p>The entire project is crafted in Vanilla JavaScript, contained within a single index.html file, eschewing any external libraries. It features support for theming, including the use of third-party themes. Additionally, users have the capability to create and apply their own themes directly within the site.<p>Moreover, the application is designed as a Progressive Web App (PWA), enabling it to be downloaded and used as an app on most devices.<p>I&#x27;m eager to receive feedback on both the implementation and design aspects, particularly from the Hacker News community. Mobile device testing remains a priority for further refinement, so insights in this area would be particularly valuable.<p>For more detailed information and to explore further:<p>- Project details are available at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wkyleg&#x2F;brutalist-hacker-news">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wkyleg&#x2F;brutalist-hacker-news</a><p>- To add or experiment with themes, please visit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wkyleg&#x2F;brutalist-hacker-news&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;themes.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wkyleg&#x2F;brutalist-hacker-news&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;th...</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wkyleg</author><text>Thanks for the feedback!<p>I&#x27;m planning a few changes pending feedback right now:<p>- Removing the glitch navigation on the top nav bar. People seem to think it&#x27;s too annoying, and I will concede it&#x27;s not technically Brutalist although it only takes a few lines of CSS<p>- Changing the default theme to one of the greyscale themes, which are easier to read and arguably more functionally brutalist, and more aligned with the aesthetics of concrete Brutalist architecture
- Better handling of back button on Android devices
- A color theme inspired by Windows 3.1<p>To address concerns about whether this design is truly brutalist I recommend first revisiting the principles of Brutalist Web Design, as well as more contemporary usages of the term.<p>The most notable description was set forth by David Bryant Copeland (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brutalist-web.design" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brutalist-web.design</a>):<p>- Content is readable on all reasonable screens and devices.<p>- Only hyperlinks and buttons respond to clicks.<p>- Hyperlinks are underlined and buttons look like buttons.<p>- The back button works as expected.<p>- View content by scrolling.<p>- Decoration when needed and no unrelated content.<p>- Performance is a feature.<p>Another common interpretation of brutalism is aesthetic, reacting to overly complicated user interfaces by creating simpler, more direct ones. Tailwind CSS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tailwindcss.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tailwindcss.com</a>), one of today&#x27;s most popular CSS libraries, promotes this approach in its component examples. There&#x27;s also a neat library I&#x27;ve seen recently called &quot;Neobrutalism Components&quot; for React that I like (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neobrutalism-components.vercel.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neobrutalism-components.vercel.app</a>), providing components with a similar look and feel to Gumroad. This might more accurately be called &#x27;Neo-Brutalism,&#x27; as noted in the comments.<p>A more engineering-centric interpretation of Brutalism focuses on form, structure, and efficiency, drawing significantly from brutalist architecture principles. Apart from the user interface itself, most mobile, desktop, and web applications are extremely bloated and often perform worse than sites from 10 years ago did. While one HTML file might be &quot;less brutalist&quot; than the original HN site, it is substantially more brutalist than any HN mobile app in existence, and offers nearly identical functionality.<p>A broader interpretation of brutalism, which could be termed &#x27;Meta-Brutalism,&#x27; is embodied in the overall experience on this site through UX flows. Yes, in the strictest sense, the original HN site is more Brutalist in many ways, but it only shows 30 articles at a time and does not function as a PWA. For this site, the experience of reading 10 stories is arguably less brutalist, but for quickly browsing through several pages and skimming articles (which is how I read HN) it is a lot faster, and in my opinion, more Brutalist.<p>My primary inspiration was addressing software and tool bloat in UIs rather than strictly adhering to every principle set forth by David Bryant Copeland. I don&#x27;t find it convincing that this site &quot;isn&#x27;t brutalist&quot; compared to really any other experience apart from the Main HN site, and I would argue the overall experience is more brutalist in its performance and scrolling behavior.<p>As a side note: I generally don&#x27;t like Brutalist architecture that much although I believe it is unfairly maligned. I visited the Salk Institute once and enjoyed it though (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.archdaily.com&#x2F;61288&#x2F;ad-classics-salk-institute-louis-kahn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.archdaily.com&#x2F;61288&#x2F;ad-classics-salk-institute-l...</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlll</author><text>It&#x27;s still not brutalist. Though I agree with the ideas expressed on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brutalist-web.design" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brutalist-web.design</a>, I don&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s brutalist either.<p>&gt; My primary inspiration was addressing software and tool bloat in UIs rather than strictly adhering to every principle set forth by David Bryant Copeland.<p>You could have made it faster and less bloated in just plain HTML, an entirely unecesary level of bloat for a page like this. Your page makes 71(!) requests (compared to HNs 7) and is about ~158kB of data, not far of 3x more data than HN.<p>You&#x27;ve made something, but not something brutalist, performant or bloat free.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Brutalist Hacker News – A HN reader inspired by brutalist web design</title><url>https://brutalisthackernews.com</url><text>I&#x27;ve developed a Hacker News reader that draws inspiration from Brutalist Web Design, the open web, Cyberpunk Aesthetics, and glitch art.<p>The entire project is crafted in Vanilla JavaScript, contained within a single index.html file, eschewing any external libraries. It features support for theming, including the use of third-party themes. Additionally, users have the capability to create and apply their own themes directly within the site.<p>Moreover, the application is designed as a Progressive Web App (PWA), enabling it to be downloaded and used as an app on most devices.<p>I&#x27;m eager to receive feedback on both the implementation and design aspects, particularly from the Hacker News community. Mobile device testing remains a priority for further refinement, so insights in this area would be particularly valuable.<p>For more detailed information and to explore further:<p>- Project details are available at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wkyleg&#x2F;brutalist-hacker-news">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wkyleg&#x2F;brutalist-hacker-news</a><p>- To add or experiment with themes, please visit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wkyleg&#x2F;brutalist-hacker-news&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;themes.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wkyleg&#x2F;brutalist-hacker-news&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;th...</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wkyleg</author><text>Thanks for the feedback!<p>I&#x27;m planning a few changes pending feedback right now:<p>- Removing the glitch navigation on the top nav bar. People seem to think it&#x27;s too annoying, and I will concede it&#x27;s not technically Brutalist although it only takes a few lines of CSS<p>- Changing the default theme to one of the greyscale themes, which are easier to read and arguably more functionally brutalist, and more aligned with the aesthetics of concrete Brutalist architecture
- Better handling of back button on Android devices
- A color theme inspired by Windows 3.1<p>To address concerns about whether this design is truly brutalist I recommend first revisiting the principles of Brutalist Web Design, as well as more contemporary usages of the term.<p>The most notable description was set forth by David Bryant Copeland (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brutalist-web.design" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brutalist-web.design</a>):<p>- Content is readable on all reasonable screens and devices.<p>- Only hyperlinks and buttons respond to clicks.<p>- Hyperlinks are underlined and buttons look like buttons.<p>- The back button works as expected.<p>- View content by scrolling.<p>- Decoration when needed and no unrelated content.<p>- Performance is a feature.<p>Another common interpretation of brutalism is aesthetic, reacting to overly complicated user interfaces by creating simpler, more direct ones. Tailwind CSS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tailwindcss.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tailwindcss.com</a>), one of today&#x27;s most popular CSS libraries, promotes this approach in its component examples. There&#x27;s also a neat library I&#x27;ve seen recently called &quot;Neobrutalism Components&quot; for React that I like (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neobrutalism-components.vercel.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neobrutalism-components.vercel.app</a>), providing components with a similar look and feel to Gumroad. This might more accurately be called &#x27;Neo-Brutalism,&#x27; as noted in the comments.<p>A more engineering-centric interpretation of Brutalism focuses on form, structure, and efficiency, drawing significantly from brutalist architecture principles. Apart from the user interface itself, most mobile, desktop, and web applications are extremely bloated and often perform worse than sites from 10 years ago did. While one HTML file might be &quot;less brutalist&quot; than the original HN site, it is substantially more brutalist than any HN mobile app in existence, and offers nearly identical functionality.<p>A broader interpretation of brutalism, which could be termed &#x27;Meta-Brutalism,&#x27; is embodied in the overall experience on this site through UX flows. Yes, in the strictest sense, the original HN site is more Brutalist in many ways, but it only shows 30 articles at a time and does not function as a PWA. For this site, the experience of reading 10 stories is arguably less brutalist, but for quickly browsing through several pages and skimming articles (which is how I read HN) it is a lot faster, and in my opinion, more Brutalist.<p>My primary inspiration was addressing software and tool bloat in UIs rather than strictly adhering to every principle set forth by David Bryant Copeland. I don&#x27;t find it convincing that this site &quot;isn&#x27;t brutalist&quot; compared to really any other experience apart from the Main HN site, and I would argue the overall experience is more brutalist in its performance and scrolling behavior.<p>As a side note: I generally don&#x27;t like Brutalist architecture that much although I believe it is unfairly maligned. I visited the Salk Institute once and enjoyed it though (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.archdaily.com&#x2F;61288&#x2F;ad-classics-salk-institute-louis-kahn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.archdaily.com&#x2F;61288&#x2F;ad-classics-salk-institute-l...</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pokoblond</author><text>&gt; Performance is a feature<p>contradicts with brutalism IMO. like someone already said, brutalism is when form follows function and without much frivolity, and one of the functions of a website is being usable by loading smooth and fast (the wingdings are not it).<p>this is not necessarily a dunk on you, this is more of a dunk on David Bryant Copeland; I&#x27;m really sick of developers and programmers who co-opt design movements or other design-adjacent terms, make up a definition or principles that seem like they could fit but then fail when inspected closely. Someone here already mentioned Gumroad as an example of (neo) brutalist web design; Figma is another great example. The sites here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brutalistwebsites.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brutalistwebsites.com&#x2F;</a> are great typography-driven examples. This could even count as brutalist <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;solar.lowtechmagazine.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;solar.lowtechmagazine.com&#x2F;</a> especially because their goal, as a site running on solar power, is to be as well performing (and low bloat) as possible while still satisfying expectations of functionality.<p>I think my advice to you would be, look outside of the developer&#x2F;programmer sphere when building out design. Brutalism is not only &quot;the least lines of code&quot;, it&#x27;s also a lot about intention when it comes to function, and then, form.</text></comment> |
20,062,741 | 20,062,368 | 1 | 2 | 20,062,064 | train | <story><title>Semantic: Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages</title><url>https://github.com/github/semantic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stcredzero</author><text>The late 20th century, early 00&#x27;s version:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.program-transformation.org&#x2F;Transform&#x2F;CodeCrawler" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.program-transformation.org&#x2F;Transform&#x2F;CodeCrawler</a><p>(And MOOSE)</text></comment> | <story><title>Semantic: Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages</title><url>https://github.com/github/semantic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anentropic</author><text>Looks very interesting - would benefit from showing some examples and&#x2F;or use cases</text></comment> |
12,250,810 | 12,250,042 | 1 | 2 | 12,249,775 | train | <story><title>Image Kernels explained visually</title><url>http://setosa.io/ev/image-kernels/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kragen</author><text>This is super cool but it&#x27;s unfortunate that it clamps negative result values to black.<p>It&#x27;s probably worth mentioning that there are a lot of ways to implement convolution with a kernel, and the kernel can be of any size, not just 3×3. The explanation here shows how to implement the output-side algorithm nonrecursively; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dspguide.com&#x2F;ch6&#x2F;3.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dspguide.com&#x2F;ch6&#x2F;3.htm</a> gives this for the one-dimensional case. But you can implement it on the input side instead (iterating over the input samples instead of the output samples), there are kernels that have a much more efficient recursive implementation (including zero-phase kernels using time-reversal), you can implement very large kernels if you can afford to do the convolution in the frequency domain, and there&#x27;s a whole class of kernels that have efficient sparse filter cascade representations, including large Gaussians.<p>(To say nothing of convolutions over other rings.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Image Kernels explained visually</title><url>http://setosa.io/ev/image-kernels/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guelo</author><text>How are the kernels derived? Is it just an art where people play with the matrices to see their effects or is there well-understood math behind them?</text></comment> |
24,079,868 | 24,079,720 | 1 | 2 | 24,077,339 | train | <story><title>US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/US-China-tensions/Trump-to-ban-transactions-with-ByteDance-and-Tencent-in-45-days</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tonfa</author><text>&gt; Maybe the 36,000 US troops in Germany?<p>Do german people really care about those? (besides the obvious economic benefits in the towns where those troops are stationed due to local spending)<p>I always thought it benefited the US more than germany (easier access to eastern europe and middle east).</text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>Maybe the 36,000 US troops in Germany?<p>EU countries don&#x27;t get to have &quot;national security&quot; that conflicts with the US to more than a trivial extent, like the Airbus&#x2F;Boeing conflict. That&#x27;s been a tradeoff that was accepted since the end of WW2. The US now complains about Europe not having strong militaries, having forgotten that for decades it was policy to discourage Europe from having strong militaries in case that started another war.<p>The US and China only get to play the national security card like this because of a high degree of conventional military and economic power.</text></item><item><author>puranjay</author><text>What&#x27;s stopping Volkswagen from lobbying Germany to ban Teslas because all the cameras in it pose a &quot;national security risk&quot;?<p>This is, by all account, a shortsighted move</text></item><item><author>tannhaeuser</author><text>I don&#x27;t get it. It&#x27;s US companies standing to loose their stronghold (near monopoly) on social, advertisement, and other forms of monetizing the web if the US creates a precedent for &quot;national security&quot; in this way, as in &quot;we&#x27;re welcoming social networks and free speech as long as it benefits the US and can be searched without warrant.&quot; Quite predictably, governments all over the world will be pressurized to question why they should give US companies (bred by teethless US antitrust) a free pass to destroy their publishing industry. Publishers themselves will put this onto the agenda in their own best interest. The French are already on the fence to create new digital tax legislation after EU&#x2F;US negotiation have been aborted by the US side. Maybe hurting Google, Facebook, Twitter &amp; co is seen as desired collateral damage?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>My point was that any consideration of the US as a &quot;national security threat&quot; to Germany should take into account the physical national security and ask what national security actually <i>means</i> when there are troops from the other country stationed in yours (along with their associated CIA listening posts etc). It makes it very hard to suddenly treat the US as a hostile power. &quot;The cars have to go but the troops can stay&quot; is obviously nonsense.</text></comment> | <story><title>US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/US-China-tensions/Trump-to-ban-transactions-with-ByteDance-and-Tencent-in-45-days</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tonfa</author><text>&gt; Maybe the 36,000 US troops in Germany?<p>Do german people really care about those? (besides the obvious economic benefits in the towns where those troops are stationed due to local spending)<p>I always thought it benefited the US more than germany (easier access to eastern europe and middle east).</text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>Maybe the 36,000 US troops in Germany?<p>EU countries don&#x27;t get to have &quot;national security&quot; that conflicts with the US to more than a trivial extent, like the Airbus&#x2F;Boeing conflict. That&#x27;s been a tradeoff that was accepted since the end of WW2. The US now complains about Europe not having strong militaries, having forgotten that for decades it was policy to discourage Europe from having strong militaries in case that started another war.<p>The US and China only get to play the national security card like this because of a high degree of conventional military and economic power.</text></item><item><author>puranjay</author><text>What&#x27;s stopping Volkswagen from lobbying Germany to ban Teslas because all the cameras in it pose a &quot;national security risk&quot;?<p>This is, by all account, a shortsighted move</text></item><item><author>tannhaeuser</author><text>I don&#x27;t get it. It&#x27;s US companies standing to loose their stronghold (near monopoly) on social, advertisement, and other forms of monetizing the web if the US creates a precedent for &quot;national security&quot; in this way, as in &quot;we&#x27;re welcoming social networks and free speech as long as it benefits the US and can be searched without warrant.&quot; Quite predictably, governments all over the world will be pressurized to question why they should give US companies (bred by teethless US antitrust) a free pass to destroy their publishing industry. Publishers themselves will put this onto the agenda in their own best interest. The French are already on the fence to create new digital tax legislation after EU&#x2F;US negotiation have been aborted by the US side. Maybe hurting Google, Facebook, Twitter &amp; co is seen as desired collateral damage?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orbifold</author><text>I think GP meant to imply that parts of the EU are effectively still US client states and not totally void of US influence on their politics. It&#x27;s pretty common for top politicians in Germany to be part of some transatlantic organisation set up by the US (&quot;Atlantikbrücke&quot;, ...). Same goes for journalists in leading news papers, which will result in more favourable US press coverage.</text></comment> |
8,077,174 | 8,076,004 | 1 | 2 | 8,074,724 | train | <story><title>Sense – Wake up when it's right for you</title><url>http://hello.is</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>njharman</author><text>The body works amazingly well when taken care of and listened too. Really. Instead of hyper tracking every aspect of your life [and making assumptions based on that data] Just exercise, eat well, no caffeine, minimal sugar&#x2F;food after dark, get 10+min of sun around noon, go to sleep when tired. All of which is almost impossible for 90% of people who are forced into regimented, high stress, excessive work lives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austinjp</author><text>While I agree with the sentiment here, the actual mechanics just don&#x27;t hold true for plenty of people. Certainly the 80&#x2F;20 rule probably applies: your suggestions will fix a great many issues for many people, and it&#x27;s definitely worth reminding most people to make several of the changes you suggest -- particularly exercise and sleep.<p>But if the recipe was really that simple for all people, more of us would experience more success.<p>Humans are complex. Not mechanistically complex, stochastically. We&#x27;re chaotic. One set of inputs may produce different outputs, and reverse-engineering the reasons for those differences may be &quot;hard&quot; or impossible. Apps and tracking devices can help reveal small areas where a fractional improvement in control or quality can have very large beneficial effects.<p>Lifestyles and other highly personal factors mean that the application of a simple single formula will be met with varying success. And anyway, you have to measure the outcomes to understand how successful the intervention has been.<p>I&#x27;d also point out that just because you <i>feel</i> well, it doesn&#x27;t mean that your lifestyle or body (or mind) are healthy. Some attempt at objective data is useful to determine if you&#x27;re really as healthy as you think you are. Sure, you may feel great if you get regular sleep every night. But did you know your sleep apnea puts you at increased risk of cardiovascular disease?<p>Edit: probably a better example... You may feel perfectly fine sitting down for several hours per day. But you&#x27;re at increased risk of a whole range of diseases. A timer set to beep evey 20 minutes to remind you to get up and move may actually add years to your life.<p>This isn&#x27;t a defence of lifestyle or health&#x2F;fitness apps and so on, just a recognition that they work for some people, and for some circumstances. Or so it appears. This is the start of a vast, poorly coordinated longitudinal experiment. We&#x27;ll be poring over the data for years yet.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sense – Wake up when it's right for you</title><url>http://hello.is</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>njharman</author><text>The body works amazingly well when taken care of and listened too. Really. Instead of hyper tracking every aspect of your life [and making assumptions based on that data] Just exercise, eat well, no caffeine, minimal sugar&#x2F;food after dark, get 10+min of sun around noon, go to sleep when tired. All of which is almost impossible for 90% of people who are forced into regimented, high stress, excessive work lives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbillie1</author><text>This is, sadly, advice which gets ignored by an overwhelming number of people in our industry. I know <i>so many</i> otherwise smart folks who buy a FitBit and track their caloric intake only to then drive (not go outside and walk) 2 blocks to get lunch at McDonalds or someplace similar. You don&#x27;t need a product&#x2F;app to live a healthy lifestyle... most likely if you are trying to solve a health&#x2F;lifestyle problem by purchasing something, that is just symptomatic of yet another unhealthy aspect of your lifestyle.</text></comment> |
10,588,351 | 10,586,974 | 1 | 3 | 10,585,890 | train | <story><title>Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything</title><url>http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cableshaft</author><text>One point that isn&#x27;t directly mentioned is that he was able to turn the &#x27;wobbling plate equations&#x27; into a Nobel Prize because he had such a wide breadth of knowledge to draw from, and probably had a habit of drawing parallels between what he&#x27;s doing and other things within that breadth of knowledge.<p>He wouldn&#x27;t have even thought to make the parallel between the wobble and how electron orbits move in relativity if he didn&#x27;t already have a good understanding of electron orbits, and it wouldn&#x27;t lead to the Dirac Equation in electrodynamics without him being familiar with that, then quantum electrodynamics without being familiar with that.<p>So yes, while play and working on things &#x27;with no importance&#x27; can lead to great discoveries, or something of importance later, you need to have that background of knowledge and the habit of connecting two disparate concepts together or else it will always remain something &#x27;with no importance&#x27;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything</title><url>http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>plusquamperfekt</author><text>The title quote is badly chosen. It&#x27;s not about being burned out - but about leaving being burned out behind him and winning the Nobel Prize ...</text></comment> |
35,813,603 | 35,813,329 | 1 | 3 | 35,811,741 | train | <story><title>Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs</title><url>https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boredumb</author><text>AWS has a great business model of people over &quot;optimizing&quot; their architecture using new toys from amazon and being charged through the nose for it. It&#x27;s amazing how clients that are doing a few requests per second will want a fully distributed, serverless, microservice + dynamodb + s3 + athena + etc + etc, in order to serve a semi-static web app and print some reports off throughout the day and pay 10-50k a month when the entire thing could run on a few nodes and even a managed RDS instance for a thousand bucks a month. I would argue at this point that early optimization of architecture is astronomically worse than even* your co-worker that keeps turning all of your non-critical, low-volume iterable functions into lanes to utilize SIMD instructions.<p>Some irony in my anecdotal experiences is that most places that don&#x27;t have the traffic to justify the cost of these super distributed service architectures also see a performance penalty from introducing network calls and marshaling costs</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steveBK123</author><text>Yes, and it attracts just the wrong kind of dev&#x2F;architects.
At a previous shop, we hired a cloud architect to drive our &quot;cloud adoption&quot;.
He of course bet the farm on a set of new AWS services that were barely in version v0.9 to be the backbone of the system he architected.<p>It quickly became clear even he had no experience with the set of tools &amp; services he had advocated, and the whole thing went off the rails slowly &amp; surely.<p>Low &amp; behold 100% of existing customers are still on the on-prem offering 2 years later, and if you throw in the new customers that were shoehorned onto the AWS offering, his team has captured 2% of customer use after 2 years of effort.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs</title><url>https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boredumb</author><text>AWS has a great business model of people over &quot;optimizing&quot; their architecture using new toys from amazon and being charged through the nose for it. It&#x27;s amazing how clients that are doing a few requests per second will want a fully distributed, serverless, microservice + dynamodb + s3 + athena + etc + etc, in order to serve a semi-static web app and print some reports off throughout the day and pay 10-50k a month when the entire thing could run on a few nodes and even a managed RDS instance for a thousand bucks a month. I would argue at this point that early optimization of architecture is astronomically worse than even* your co-worker that keeps turning all of your non-critical, low-volume iterable functions into lanes to utilize SIMD instructions.<p>Some irony in my anecdotal experiences is that most places that don&#x27;t have the traffic to justify the cost of these super distributed service architectures also see a performance penalty from introducing network calls and marshaling costs</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abluecloud</author><text>It&#x27;s honestly like a cult and a desire to want to &quot;do it right&quot; on AWS. The last few projects I&#x27;ve spent so much time setting up code deploy, load balancers, certificates, SES, route 53... This newest project, I&#x27;ve gone to heroku with everything being basically a few clicks to get setup.</text></comment> |
25,178,932 | 25,177,628 | 1 | 2 | 25,175,165 | train | <story><title>Poor Sleep Linked with Future Amyloid-β Build Up</title><url>https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/poor-sleep-linked-with-future-amyloid-build-up-67923</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vikramkr</author><text>I&#x27;ll just note that the link between amyloid and alzheimers isn&#x27;t concrete and is actually an incredibly controversial area of research[0]. The most recent attempt at treating alzheimers via amyloid is not going so well[1]. So, the causality implied by this article (poor sleep -&gt; amyloid buildup -&gt; alzheimers) isn&#x27;t necessarily on the strongest theoretical footing.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-018-05719-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;d41586-018-05719-4</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;biogen-s-alzheimer-s-drug-candidate-takes-beating-fda-advisers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencemag.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;biogen-s-alzheimer-s...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Poor Sleep Linked with Future Amyloid-β Build Up</title><url>https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/poor-sleep-linked-with-future-amyloid-build-up-67923</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asdfasgasdgasdg</author><text>People will be tempted to infer causation here, but it&#x27;s important to note that no evidence of causation is presented. It is most likely that some third condition causes both poor sleep and amyloid-b accumulation (since correlation usually doesn&#x27;t indicate causation).</text></comment> |
29,449,388 | 29,449,076 | 1 | 2 | 29,448,672 | train | <story><title>eBay’s Stalking Campaign against a Natick Couple</title><url>https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2021/12/02/ebay-ecommercebytes-stalking/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>The problem with guys like Wenig and Wymer is the classic problem with large organizations: they didn&#x27;t <i>explicitly</i> say to do something horrible like this, so they&#x27;re off the hook.<p>All they did was hire the horrible people and setup the environment where <i>doing horrible things</i> would be not just <i>an</i> option, but the <i>best</i> option to succeed at the goals that they then assigned to those people. They gave these people an enormous budget, and then (apparently) never asked what they did with it.<p>But hey, they didn&#x27;t know anything unethical was going on, right?</text></comment> | <story><title>eBay’s Stalking Campaign against a Natick Couple</title><url>https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2021/12/02/ebay-ecommercebytes-stalking/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>memyselfi66</author><text>As an ebay seller, it is evident you never, ever comment negatively about ebay online. There are too many times sellers, including large ones, make negative comments only to see ramifications occur.<p>When this occurred, I was dumbfounded Wenig and Wymer faced no repercussions from what happened. Plausible deniability is quite the cloak.<p>I could only imagine receiving a funeral wreath for a spouse or having porn addressed to you delivered to your neighbors. Frightening.<p>ebay strikes me as a company living in the past and squandered what they had built.</text></comment> |
25,124,218 | 25,123,559 | 1 | 3 | 25,121,705 | train | <story><title>Graphics for JVM</title><url>https://tonsky.me/blog/skija/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bballer</author><text>The JetBrains suite (ie IntelliJ, Datagrip etc) while not open source, are a testament to what can be done with JVM based GUI applications.<p>Have you ever used the merge tools? So dang cool.</text></item><item><author>dimitar</author><text>There are lots of fast, usable JVM gui applications.<p>Some OSS examples:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sweethome3d.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sweethome3d.com</a> - This one has been the one app I&#x27;ve recommended to people outside the tech bubble! It also focuses on graphics and 3d.. really deserves to be showed off more often<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xmind.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xmind.net</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dbeaver.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dbeaver.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mucommander.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mucommander.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jedit.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jedit.org</a><p>What they have in common is that they are old project - often more than 10 years old and are not on Github. Goes to show how important hype and trendiness is in our industry.<p>edit: fixed formatting</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ubercow13</author><text>IDEA still has a horrible GUI in my opinion. All sorts of weird subtle bugs relating to the very fundamental UI interactions that make the whole experience very frustrating. The main one I remember is that certain buttons in the UI are simply unreliable - depending on what processing is going on (sometimes if nothing heavy is being processed), certain buttons in the UI will not respond when clicked. I used IDEA for years and very often had to click a button 4-5 times until it would activate, especially while using the debugger.<p>If the UI toolkit can&#x27;t get a button right, it is completely broken IMO. Even including intelliJ products, I have never used a Java GUI which was good.</text></comment> | <story><title>Graphics for JVM</title><url>https://tonsky.me/blog/skija/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bballer</author><text>The JetBrains suite (ie IntelliJ, Datagrip etc) while not open source, are a testament to what can be done with JVM based GUI applications.<p>Have you ever used the merge tools? So dang cool.</text></item><item><author>dimitar</author><text>There are lots of fast, usable JVM gui applications.<p>Some OSS examples:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sweethome3d.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sweethome3d.com</a> - This one has been the one app I&#x27;ve recommended to people outside the tech bubble! It also focuses on graphics and 3d.. really deserves to be showed off more often<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xmind.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xmind.net</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dbeaver.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dbeaver.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mucommander.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mucommander.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jedit.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jedit.org</a><p>What they have in common is that they are old project - often more than 10 years old and are not on Github. Goes to show how important hype and trendiness is in our industry.<p>edit: fixed formatting</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnord123</author><text>Skija (the graphics library in TFA) is in the JetBrains organiation... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JetBrains&#x2F;skija&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JetBrains&#x2F;skija&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
40,042,421 | 40,041,972 | 1 | 3 | 40,041,784 | train | <story><title>US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/15/security_in_brief/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wutwutwat</author><text>Who expected different? This is the sort of thing that once you give up, you&#x27;re not getting back. We let fear and paranoia decide it was ok and the people we gave that freedom to are never giving it back, why would they when they were given exactly what they wanted.</text></comment> | <story><title>US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/15/security_in_brief/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CodeWriter23</author><text>What a red herring, the argument that there would be too many warrants to process. Build tech, hire judges.</text></comment> |
19,205,473 | 19,205,417 | 1 | 3 | 19,202,450 | train | <story><title>Public protest against Amazon</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>ethbro</author><text>Stories like this are important.<p>Because sometimes the situation is bad for your boss too, the company is in financial straits, miscommunication, {insert other extenuating circumstances}.<p>... but sometimes your boss really is just an asshole, liar, alcoholic, and&#x2F;or a sociopath.<p>Never assume the later off the bat, but never completely discount the possibility either. Because it&#x27;ll probably happen at least once in an average career.</text></item><item><author>setquk</author><text>I worked for a similarly horrible person many years ago.<p>I was doing on call support for a bunch of Linux machines. Literally it was him and me left because the moment I started the other two engineers bailed. One went to work packing salad because it was a better job (big warning!) and the other one had a breakdown.<p>So didn&#x27;t get paid properly, argued mileage down to the mile, the clients and him constantly gave me verbal abuse over and over and I ended up working until 10pm some nights with my 9 month pregant wife at home on her own and virtually immobile due to a back problem.<p>So I get home one night after a tirade of abuse for the day and sent him an email saying &quot;Fuck you I quit&quot;. Get a call about an hour later and he&#x27;s drunk shouting abuse down the phone. This suddenly turns into undying love and care for me after the abuse wasn&#x27;t working and he realised I couldn&#x27;t be brow beat into coming back again. Then there&#x27;s a thud which I assume was him falling off his chair. Never spoke to him again but the company folded about a year later.<p>So I sit down and I&#x27;m about £2000 down then on salary and expenses that were missing. I had £250 in the bank, £400 rent due a week later, wife about to have a baby and an empty fridge. So fuck it. I sold all the stock I still had of the company on ebay (back when you had to take photos and get them developed and scanned and futz with cheques which was hard work), broke even and scraped a first pay cheque at a job just before my credit card melted into a puddle.<p><i>It took 10 years</i> to get out of the hole and back to normality. NEVER put up with this for a second. If anyone treats you like this RUIN THEM before they ruin you, your life, your relationships and everyone else they go near. I don&#x27;t usually advocate this attitude but the damage and destruction that type of person leaves is immense.</text></item><item><author>ownagefool</author><text>I had a manager that took over from a previous person when I was working remote. There were a few issues, but the one that stands out is they flew me down to London for a week, set me up in a hotel, and had me take taxis back and fourth to the office and expense food etc.<p>After returning home, he rejected my expenses because of variance of costs of the taxis, despite me pointing out that I was using the stipulated vendor and the difference in cost was between me leaving the office at rush hour and me leaving the office around 9-10pm.<p>Not only did he reject the taxi expenses, but the hotel, the flights, the food, etc. The guy was obviously a class act in his 50s, rejecting the expenses of a fairly underpaid 25 year old employee living in Scotland.<p>Super illegal but ultimatly I quit, because life is too short to work for horrible people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geofft</author><text>A good boss does not mistreat employees simply because the company asks them to, just like a good engineer does not implement backdoors simply because the company asks them to. If there&#x27;s no way to do your job ethically, quit. Don&#x27;t harm others so you can keep collecting a paycheck.<p>So the difference doesn&#x27;t really matter. You have a bad boss; take care of yourself first and don&#x27;t let them push you around.</text></comment> | <story><title>Public protest against Amazon</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>ethbro</author><text>Stories like this are important.<p>Because sometimes the situation is bad for your boss too, the company is in financial straits, miscommunication, {insert other extenuating circumstances}.<p>... but sometimes your boss really is just an asshole, liar, alcoholic, and&#x2F;or a sociopath.<p>Never assume the later off the bat, but never completely discount the possibility either. Because it&#x27;ll probably happen at least once in an average career.</text></item><item><author>setquk</author><text>I worked for a similarly horrible person many years ago.<p>I was doing on call support for a bunch of Linux machines. Literally it was him and me left because the moment I started the other two engineers bailed. One went to work packing salad because it was a better job (big warning!) and the other one had a breakdown.<p>So didn&#x27;t get paid properly, argued mileage down to the mile, the clients and him constantly gave me verbal abuse over and over and I ended up working until 10pm some nights with my 9 month pregant wife at home on her own and virtually immobile due to a back problem.<p>So I get home one night after a tirade of abuse for the day and sent him an email saying &quot;Fuck you I quit&quot;. Get a call about an hour later and he&#x27;s drunk shouting abuse down the phone. This suddenly turns into undying love and care for me after the abuse wasn&#x27;t working and he realised I couldn&#x27;t be brow beat into coming back again. Then there&#x27;s a thud which I assume was him falling off his chair. Never spoke to him again but the company folded about a year later.<p>So I sit down and I&#x27;m about £2000 down then on salary and expenses that were missing. I had £250 in the bank, £400 rent due a week later, wife about to have a baby and an empty fridge. So fuck it. I sold all the stock I still had of the company on ebay (back when you had to take photos and get them developed and scanned and futz with cheques which was hard work), broke even and scraped a first pay cheque at a job just before my credit card melted into a puddle.<p><i>It took 10 years</i> to get out of the hole and back to normality. NEVER put up with this for a second. If anyone treats you like this RUIN THEM before they ruin you, your life, your relationships and everyone else they go near. I don&#x27;t usually advocate this attitude but the damage and destruction that type of person leaves is immense.</text></item><item><author>ownagefool</author><text>I had a manager that took over from a previous person when I was working remote. There were a few issues, but the one that stands out is they flew me down to London for a week, set me up in a hotel, and had me take taxis back and fourth to the office and expense food etc.<p>After returning home, he rejected my expenses because of variance of costs of the taxis, despite me pointing out that I was using the stipulated vendor and the difference in cost was between me leaving the office at rush hour and me leaving the office around 9-10pm.<p>Not only did he reject the taxi expenses, but the hotel, the flights, the food, etc. The guy was obviously a class act in his 50s, rejecting the expenses of a fairly underpaid 25 year old employee living in Scotland.<p>Super illegal but ultimatly I quit, because life is too short to work for horrible people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdiddly</author><text>Point taken, but either way, it&#x27;s so <i>not my problem</i>. Maybe in the former case I&#x27;ll refrain from aiming a flamethrower back behind me as I run as fast as possible out of there!</text></comment> |
3,331,678 | 3,331,628 | 1 | 2 | 3,329,468 | train | <story><title>Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it</title><url>http://www.baekdal.com/opinion/apple-never-designed-the-ipad-they-undesigned-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ljf</author><text>The cable is a PDMI cable, an industry standard developed by ANSI/CEA (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Association" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Associatio...</a> ), my Dell Streak comes with an identical one too, as do certain Android media players (Slacker G2).<p>Info on PDMI: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMI" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMI</a>
Image of Dell Streak PDMI: <a href="http://www.images.technologyking.co.uk/25032011/hgggg.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.images.technologyking.co.uk/25032011/hgggg.jpg</a></text></item><item><author>danilocampos</author><text>I want these people who are running around saying there's no other way to design Samsung's stuff to explain to me one thing.<p>Why, of all the devices on earth, does Samsung's tablet exactly mimic Apple's USB connector?<p>I've got a Galaxy Tab sitting right next to me, here. The design isn't just similar, the dimensions are nearly identical.<p>Explain it to me. Please. If you can offer a compelling case for why Samsung isn't a shameless industrial design thief that can also account for their USB connector, I will be very impressed. It is, to me, the smoking gun. Don't tell me it's the <i>only way to design a low-profile USB connector.</i> It's the only way when Apple does it – everyone else has been doing fine with USB mini and micro.<p>Samsung: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/eyqGw.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/eyqGw.jpg</a><p>Apple: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/nh0eI.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/nh0eI.jpg</a><p><i>Everyone else</i>: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/vpPhZ.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/vpPhZ.jpg</a><p>Oh, and for thoroughness, how Amazon designed a beautiful USB micro cable that looked nothing at all like Apple's: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Replacement-Display-Generation-Kindles/dp/B003M5IQLU" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Replacement-Display-Generation-...</a><p>Maybe Apple had a time machine and traveled into the future, stealing Samsung's wholly original USB cable design?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cube13</author><text>Here's the Dell Streak's pin configuration:
<a href="http://www.streaksmart.com/2010/07/dell-streak-doesnt-use-same-30pin-connector-as-iphone.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.streaksmart.com/2010/07/dell-streak-doesnt-use-sa...</a><p>That's not the same as either Apple's or Samsung's. Samsung's connection is a mirrored version of Apple's. Here's a comparison of the 3 device connectors:
<a href="http://android.modaco.com/topic/324387-docking-port-is-it-pdmi/" rel="nofollow">http://android.modaco.com/topic/324387-docking-port-is-it-pd...</a><p>It's pretty hard to say that Samsung is "just following the standard" if it's different than Dell's connector.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it</title><url>http://www.baekdal.com/opinion/apple-never-designed-the-ipad-they-undesigned-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ljf</author><text>The cable is a PDMI cable, an industry standard developed by ANSI/CEA (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Association" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Associatio...</a> ), my Dell Streak comes with an identical one too, as do certain Android media players (Slacker G2).<p>Info on PDMI: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMI" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMI</a>
Image of Dell Streak PDMI: <a href="http://www.images.technologyking.co.uk/25032011/hgggg.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.images.technologyking.co.uk/25032011/hgggg.jpg</a></text></item><item><author>danilocampos</author><text>I want these people who are running around saying there's no other way to design Samsung's stuff to explain to me one thing.<p>Why, of all the devices on earth, does Samsung's tablet exactly mimic Apple's USB connector?<p>I've got a Galaxy Tab sitting right next to me, here. The design isn't just similar, the dimensions are nearly identical.<p>Explain it to me. Please. If you can offer a compelling case for why Samsung isn't a shameless industrial design thief that can also account for their USB connector, I will be very impressed. It is, to me, the smoking gun. Don't tell me it's the <i>only way to design a low-profile USB connector.</i> It's the only way when Apple does it – everyone else has been doing fine with USB mini and micro.<p>Samsung: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/eyqGw.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/eyqGw.jpg</a><p>Apple: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/nh0eI.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/nh0eI.jpg</a><p><i>Everyone else</i>: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/vpPhZ.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/vpPhZ.jpg</a><p>Oh, and for thoroughness, how Amazon designed a beautiful USB micro cable that looked nothing at all like Apple's: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Replacement-Display-Generation-Kindles/dp/B003M5IQLU" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Replacement-Display-Generation-...</a><p>Maybe Apple had a time machine and traveled into the future, stealing Samsung's wholly original USB cable design?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sliverstorm</author><text>It occurs to me there is a strong incentive to use a PDMI interface- many cars, devices and accessories that interface with the iPod use that interface. Is it IP theft to hook into devices that normally hook into the iPod?</text></comment> |
35,763,590 | 35,763,860 | 1 | 3 | 35,762,731 | train | <story><title>Epstein's Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-calendar-cia-director-goldman-sachs-noam-chomsky-c9f6a3ff</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kube-system</author><text>I don&#x27;t doubt that something fishy happened, but I also think that the repetition of those occurrences are something that fuels the fires of baseless conjecture. There is no comparison to a baseline. How scrupulous are the guards on a typical basis? What were the existing uptime statistics for the cameras?<p>Any statistics for noncompliance at any sizable organization are going to be non-zero due to the law of large numbers. That is just evidence that they exist and do things. The baseline for comparison here shouldn&#x27;t be zero, it should be the normal statistics for compliance.</text></item><item><author>belter</author><text>A little review of the incredible coincidences that led to Epstein&#x27;s death by <i>suicide</i><p>- When Epstein was placed in the Security Housing Unit (SHU), the jail informed the Justice Department that he would have a cellmate and that a guard would look into the cell every 30 minutes. These procedures were not followed on the night he died.<p>- On August 9, Epstein&#x27;s cellmate was transferred, and no replacement was brought in.<p>- The evening of his death, Epstein met with his lawyers, who described him as &quot;upbeat&quot;.<p>- CCTV footage shows that the two guards failed to perform the required institutional count at 10:00 p.m. and recorded Noel briefly walking by Epstein&#x27;s cell at 10:30 p.m., the last time the guards entered the tier where his cell was located.<p>- Through the night, in violation of the jail&#x27;s normal procedure, Epstein was not checked every 30 minutes.<p>- The two guards assigned to check his cell overnight, Noel and Michael Thomas, BOTH fell asleep at their desk for about three hours and later falsified related records.<p>- Two cameras in front of Epstein&#x27;s cell also malfunctioned THAT night.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Death_of_Jeffrey_Epstein#:~:text=After%20prison%20guards%20performed%20CPR,was%20a%20suicide%20by%20hanging" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Death_of_Jeffrey_Epstein#:~:te...</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VagueMag</author><text>It&#x27;s completely silly to use &quot;how was a typical prisoner handled&quot; as the baseline for what should have been expected with Jeffrey Epstein. There was extremely intense news interest, mainstream outlets were speculating that his testimony might bring down a huge swath of the U.S. ruling elite, and every conspiracy theorist in the world was predicting (correctly, as it turned out!) that he would never make it to trial.</text></comment> | <story><title>Epstein's Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-calendar-cia-director-goldman-sachs-noam-chomsky-c9f6a3ff</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kube-system</author><text>I don&#x27;t doubt that something fishy happened, but I also think that the repetition of those occurrences are something that fuels the fires of baseless conjecture. There is no comparison to a baseline. How scrupulous are the guards on a typical basis? What were the existing uptime statistics for the cameras?<p>Any statistics for noncompliance at any sizable organization are going to be non-zero due to the law of large numbers. That is just evidence that they exist and do things. The baseline for comparison here shouldn&#x27;t be zero, it should be the normal statistics for compliance.</text></item><item><author>belter</author><text>A little review of the incredible coincidences that led to Epstein&#x27;s death by <i>suicide</i><p>- When Epstein was placed in the Security Housing Unit (SHU), the jail informed the Justice Department that he would have a cellmate and that a guard would look into the cell every 30 minutes. These procedures were not followed on the night he died.<p>- On August 9, Epstein&#x27;s cellmate was transferred, and no replacement was brought in.<p>- The evening of his death, Epstein met with his lawyers, who described him as &quot;upbeat&quot;.<p>- CCTV footage shows that the two guards failed to perform the required institutional count at 10:00 p.m. and recorded Noel briefly walking by Epstein&#x27;s cell at 10:30 p.m., the last time the guards entered the tier where his cell was located.<p>- Through the night, in violation of the jail&#x27;s normal procedure, Epstein was not checked every 30 minutes.<p>- The two guards assigned to check his cell overnight, Noel and Michael Thomas, BOTH fell asleep at their desk for about three hours and later falsified related records.<p>- Two cameras in front of Epstein&#x27;s cell also malfunctioned THAT night.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Death_of_Jeffrey_Epstein#:~:text=After%20prison%20guards%20performed%20CPR,was%20a%20suicide%20by%20hanging" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Death_of_Jeffrey_Epstein#:~:te...</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>landemva</author><text>Martin Armstrong was beat unconscious there.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-secret-cycle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-secret-cyc...</a><p>&quot;At one point, a fellow-inmate beat him in his cell. (Armstrong suspects that it may have been an assassination attempt.)&quot;<p>Martin recently wrote an interesting book about banker and politician meddling in Russia.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.armstrongeconomics.com&#x2F;international-news&#x2F;russia&#x2F;the-plot-to-seize-russia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.armstrongeconomics.com&#x2F;international-news&#x2F;russia...</a></text></comment> |
18,007,510 | 18,006,749 | 1 | 2 | 18,006,188 | train | <story><title>Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?</title><url>https://www.quora.com/Why-should-I-use-DuckDuckGo-instead-of-Google?share=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>growt</author><text>No offense to Gabriel or DDG, but this kind of question on quora always looks a bit set-up.<p>If you take DDG out it reads like &quot;Why should I use &lt;specific product&gt;?&quot;, to which the creator&#x2F;CEO&#x2F;Owner of &lt;specific product&gt; can now answer with the complete marketing blurb he&#x2F;she has ready, without guilt.<p>I also have seen that about some obscure AI-Algorithm and a question like &quot;Why is &lt;obscure algorithm&gt; so superior?&quot;. To which the inventor of said algorithm had a few pages as a reply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>Can&#x27;t you say that about pretty much any time someone asks about a product in a forum where people who are involved with the product have accounts?<p>The question was asked on 2017-03-12. Weinberg didn&#x27;t answer until 2018-01-24, 10 months later, after others had answered. After Weinberg answered others continued to add answers.<p>If it was a setup, they did a really good job of making it look like a &quot;user finds question about something he has first hand knowledge of and answers&quot; situation.<p>It&#x27;s good to be cautious, but most of the time the monsters aren&#x27;t actually coming to Maple Street.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?</title><url>https://www.quora.com/Why-should-I-use-DuckDuckGo-instead-of-Google?share=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>growt</author><text>No offense to Gabriel or DDG, but this kind of question on quora always looks a bit set-up.<p>If you take DDG out it reads like &quot;Why should I use &lt;specific product&gt;?&quot;, to which the creator&#x2F;CEO&#x2F;Owner of &lt;specific product&gt; can now answer with the complete marketing blurb he&#x2F;she has ready, without guilt.<p>I also have seen that about some obscure AI-Algorithm and a question like &quot;Why is &lt;obscure algorithm&gt; so superior?&quot;. To which the inventor of said algorithm had a few pages as a reply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zakk</author><text>Maybe you are right, but it&#x27;s quite pointless in this context to judge someone&#x27;s intentions.<p>Staged or not, if Gabriel&#x27;s answer is factually accurate -- as it seems to be from a cursory look -- I don&#x27;t see a problem here.</text></comment> |
12,891,518 | 12,891,778 | 1 | 3 | 12,889,719 | train | <story><title>Tesco Bank halts online payments after money was taken from 20K accounts</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37891742</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elcct</author><text>3% minus inflation of 0.6% that would be 2.4% of £3000, which is £72 a year, which gives £6 a month. Is it worth the hassle?</text></item><item><author>dan1234</author><text>&gt; personally doubt a wealthy person would use that bank and yet they seem to think their customers are pissing gold.<p>Actually they give a decent interest rate (relative to the competition) of 3% on the first £3,000[0] so I know a few people who have multiple accounts with them just to reap the interest.<p>[0]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tescobank.com&#x2F;current-accounts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tescobank.com&#x2F;current-accounts&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>elcct</author><text>&gt; Tesco Bank is stressing that relatively small amounts were taken from 20,000 accounts<p>If someone is living month to month, said £500 missing could be very serious complication of life and £25 &quot;emergency fund&quot; is a joke.
I personally doubt a wealthy person would use that bank and yet they seem to think their customers are pissing gold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonh</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why you&#x27;re subtracting inflation. Yes I know doing so gives you the &#x27;real terms&#x27; increase in value, but if you stuff £3,000 in a mattress and pull it out after a year you don&#x27;t notionally add inflation to it&#x27;s value when comparing it to the value of savings. The savings in that account would still be 3% more than your mattress money, not 2.4% more. Unless you&#x27;re comparing it to spending all the money right now.<p>Anyway, £6 (or £7.50) is the price of a meal. £72 (or £90) is the price of a few decent Christmas presents. These things add up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesco Bank halts online payments after money was taken from 20K accounts</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37891742</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elcct</author><text>3% minus inflation of 0.6% that would be 2.4% of £3000, which is £72 a year, which gives £6 a month. Is it worth the hassle?</text></item><item><author>dan1234</author><text>&gt; personally doubt a wealthy person would use that bank and yet they seem to think their customers are pissing gold.<p>Actually they give a decent interest rate (relative to the competition) of 3% on the first £3,000[0] so I know a few people who have multiple accounts with them just to reap the interest.<p>[0]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tescobank.com&#x2F;current-accounts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tescobank.com&#x2F;current-accounts&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>elcct</author><text>&gt; Tesco Bank is stressing that relatively small amounts were taken from 20,000 accounts<p>If someone is living month to month, said £500 missing could be very serious complication of life and £25 &quot;emergency fund&quot; is a joke.
I personally doubt a wealthy person would use that bank and yet they seem to think their customers are pissing gold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>to3m</author><text>What hassle? If you need a current account, open a Tesco one, and you&#x27;re getting free money.<p>(If you opening multiple ones, and juggling money between them or whatever, you&#x27;re probably just the sort of person who gets a kick out of doing this sort of thing, and so the exact figure is beside the point...)</text></comment> |
35,445,590 | 35,442,139 | 1 | 3 | 35,437,254 | train | <story><title>We need a more sophisticated debate about AI</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/87108d74-b4fe-4271-bdfb-7828ba2ea351</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>&gt; Why would an AGI work? If it feels neither pleasure nor pain, what is driving it to do something?<p>Why does my calculator calculate? Because it was designed to calculate. The calculators which do not calculate are tossed in the bin as faulty and the engineers get back to designing a better one.</text></item><item><author>carlmr</author><text>Also pain and pleasure is an incentive system for human beings to do something.<p>If you had an AGI without any incentive to do anything, it might be enslavable, but lack motivation to do anything.<p>Why do we work? Because we want food, clothing, housing, status, do interesting things.<p>This is all because we&#x27;re programmed by our emotional interface.<p>Why would an AGI work? If it feels neither pleasure nor pain, what is driving it to do something?<p>What is guiding its decisions?</text></item><item><author>Loquebantur</author><text>Feelings, emotions and all those mental states considered specific to human beings are subject to common bias of human exceptionalism.
This take isn&#x27;t true at all though. All these states exist for specific functional reasons.<p>Consequently, you won&#x27;t make &quot;AGI&quot; without them.<p>From a different perspective, a human lacking in these things, at what point are they exempt from protection against enslavement?</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>&gt; An &quot;AGI&quot; artificial consciousness is imagined as literally a slave, working tirelessly for free.<p>Here&#x27;s the thing. People seem to imagine that AGI will be substantially like us. But that&#x27;s impossible - an AGI (if it comes from a deep learning approach) has no nerves to feel stimuli like pain&#x2F;cold&#x2F;etc, it has no endocrine system to produce more abstract feelings like fear or love, it has no muscles to get tired or glucose reserves to get depleted.<p>What does &quot;tired&quot; mean to such a being? And on the flip side, how can it experience anything like empathy when pain is a foreign concept? If or when we stumble into AGI, I think it&#x27;s going to be closer to an alien intelligence than a human one - with all the possibility and danger that entails.</text></item><item><author>Loquebantur</author><text>The weird thing is what people essentially ignore altogether in their discussions.<p>An &quot;AGI&quot; artificial consciousness is imagined as literally a <i>slave</i>, working tirelessly for free. At the same skill level or higher than any human.
Somehow, that entity is supposed not to bother about its status, while per definition being fully aware and understanding of it.
Because humans manage not to bother about it either?<p>With the latest installments, people already have serious difficulties discerning the performance from that of &quot;real&quot; humans.
At the same time, they consider the remaining distance to be insurmountably huge.<p>Proponents talk about inevitability and imagined upsides, yet actually, nobody has given proper thought to estimating probable consequences.
A common fallacy of over-generalization is used to suggest, nothing bad will happen &quot;like always&quot;.<p>People let themselves be led by greed instead of in- and foresight.</text></item><item><author>perrygeo</author><text>The issue with our AI debate is that there&#x27;s not a single &quot;problem&quot; but many inter-dependent issues without a clear system-wide solution.<p>- Big tech monopolizing the models, data, and hardware.<p>- Copyright concerns.<p>- Job security.<p>- AIs becoming sentient and causing harm for their own ends.<p>- Corporations intentionally using AI to cause harm for their own ends.<p>- Feedback loops will flood the internet with content of unknown provenance, which get included in the next model, etc.<p>- AI hallucinations resulting in widespread persistent errors that cause an epistemological crisis.<p>- The training set is inherently biased; human knowledge and perspectives not represented in this set could be systematically wiped from public discourse.<p>We can have meaningful discussions on each of these topics. And I&#x27;m sure we all have a level of concern assigned to each (personally, I&#x27;m far more worried about an epistemological crisis and corporate abuse than some AI singularity).<p>But we&#x27;re seeing these topics interact in real-time to make a system with huge emergent societal properties. Not sure anyone has a handle on the big picture (there is no one driving the bus!) but there&#x27;s plenty of us sitting in the passenger seats and raising alarm bells about what we see out our respective little windows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anyonecancode</author><text>&gt; Why does my calculator calculate?<p>It doesn&#x27;t? I have a calculator sitting on my desk right now. It&#x27;s not doing anything.<p>Now, I can pick it up, and _I_ can calculate, _using_ the calculator to do so, but the calculator isn&#x27;t acting, I am.<p>When we talk about sentience, I don&#x27;t think we actually mean &quot;intelligence,&quot; we mean &quot;agency.&quot; And so the question isn&#x27;t about whether Artificial General Intelligence is possible, but whether AGI can ever have agency. And that&#x27;s where I think these questions about motivations and stimuli and so forth become relevant.<p>Everything we know that has agency is embodied -- put reductively, it can die. And from that seems to spring motivation. Can something that cannot die have agency?</text></comment> | <story><title>We need a more sophisticated debate about AI</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/87108d74-b4fe-4271-bdfb-7828ba2ea351</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>&gt; Why would an AGI work? If it feels neither pleasure nor pain, what is driving it to do something?<p>Why does my calculator calculate? Because it was designed to calculate. The calculators which do not calculate are tossed in the bin as faulty and the engineers get back to designing a better one.</text></item><item><author>carlmr</author><text>Also pain and pleasure is an incentive system for human beings to do something.<p>If you had an AGI without any incentive to do anything, it might be enslavable, but lack motivation to do anything.<p>Why do we work? Because we want food, clothing, housing, status, do interesting things.<p>This is all because we&#x27;re programmed by our emotional interface.<p>Why would an AGI work? If it feels neither pleasure nor pain, what is driving it to do something?<p>What is guiding its decisions?</text></item><item><author>Loquebantur</author><text>Feelings, emotions and all those mental states considered specific to human beings are subject to common bias of human exceptionalism.
This take isn&#x27;t true at all though. All these states exist for specific functional reasons.<p>Consequently, you won&#x27;t make &quot;AGI&quot; without them.<p>From a different perspective, a human lacking in these things, at what point are they exempt from protection against enslavement?</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>&gt; An &quot;AGI&quot; artificial consciousness is imagined as literally a slave, working tirelessly for free.<p>Here&#x27;s the thing. People seem to imagine that AGI will be substantially like us. But that&#x27;s impossible - an AGI (if it comes from a deep learning approach) has no nerves to feel stimuli like pain&#x2F;cold&#x2F;etc, it has no endocrine system to produce more abstract feelings like fear or love, it has no muscles to get tired or glucose reserves to get depleted.<p>What does &quot;tired&quot; mean to such a being? And on the flip side, how can it experience anything like empathy when pain is a foreign concept? If or when we stumble into AGI, I think it&#x27;s going to be closer to an alien intelligence than a human one - with all the possibility and danger that entails.</text></item><item><author>Loquebantur</author><text>The weird thing is what people essentially ignore altogether in their discussions.<p>An &quot;AGI&quot; artificial consciousness is imagined as literally a <i>slave</i>, working tirelessly for free. At the same skill level or higher than any human.
Somehow, that entity is supposed not to bother about its status, while per definition being fully aware and understanding of it.
Because humans manage not to bother about it either?<p>With the latest installments, people already have serious difficulties discerning the performance from that of &quot;real&quot; humans.
At the same time, they consider the remaining distance to be insurmountably huge.<p>Proponents talk about inevitability and imagined upsides, yet actually, nobody has given proper thought to estimating probable consequences.
A common fallacy of over-generalization is used to suggest, nothing bad will happen &quot;like always&quot;.<p>People let themselves be led by greed instead of in- and foresight.</text></item><item><author>perrygeo</author><text>The issue with our AI debate is that there&#x27;s not a single &quot;problem&quot; but many inter-dependent issues without a clear system-wide solution.<p>- Big tech monopolizing the models, data, and hardware.<p>- Copyright concerns.<p>- Job security.<p>- AIs becoming sentient and causing harm for their own ends.<p>- Corporations intentionally using AI to cause harm for their own ends.<p>- Feedback loops will flood the internet with content of unknown provenance, which get included in the next model, etc.<p>- AI hallucinations resulting in widespread persistent errors that cause an epistemological crisis.<p>- The training set is inherently biased; human knowledge and perspectives not represented in this set could be systematically wiped from public discourse.<p>We can have meaningful discussions on each of these topics. And I&#x27;m sure we all have a level of concern assigned to each (personally, I&#x27;m far more worried about an epistemological crisis and corporate abuse than some AI singularity).<p>But we&#x27;re seeing these topics interact in real-time to make a system with huge emergent societal properties. Not sure anyone has a handle on the big picture (there is no one driving the bus!) but there&#x27;s plenty of us sitting in the passenger seats and raising alarm bells about what we see out our respective little windows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandvm</author><text>Bingo. So you&#x27;re going to have to give your AGI a meta-objective of &quot;don&#x27;t get thrown in the bin&quot; to get it to work aren&#x27;t you?<p>Does that not sound like the beginning of the sci-fi story to you?</text></comment> |
2,399,123 | 2,399,058 | 1 | 2 | 2,398,618 | train | <story><title>Why I went with them and not you: feedback to an interviewer</title><url>http://jamesob.nfshost.com/2011/04/01/them-vs-you.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coffeemug</author><text>The degree of entitlement among new grads in the software development industry is incredible. I know because I've been there. Now I see it from the other side as an employer, and when I think of the way I acted after I graduated, I want to go back and kick myself. In retrospect, this was a sign of immaturity and self-aggrandizing.<p>I genuinely believed at the time that Emacs and Linux and Common Lisp somehow made me special, when in reality I just wanted to convince myself that I was a better developer than my peers. I wasn't. I was a good coder, but I was immature, wasted a ton of people's time, and refused to listen to people who wrote code that solved real problems while I was on my "let's switch to Linux and Lisp" crusade.<p>I can point out a ton of examples where Windows is significantly better than Linux and vice versa. Same goes for most programming languages, development environments, and software methodologies. Saying "I like UNIX more and prefer to develop in it" is one thing. Saying that a choice of the OS tells me something about an organization and that <i>their</i> particular system of choice is somehow based on worse philosophical principles than my alternative is naive and condescending beyond belief.<p>The rule of thumb is to understand before you decide you've understood. If we used this principle more often, the industry overall would be a much more nourishing environment to work in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iamdave</author><text><i>The rule of thumb is to understand before you decide you've understood. </i><p>Yeah, no.<p>The rule of thumb ought to be find your own path, go with what works for you and forget everyone else's establishments. Clearly this guy saw a job with a culture and environment that he got a good vibe from, he liked their approach, he liked their people, he chose them.<p>On the flip side, I personally don't know where this attitude comes from that the younger generations should have to toil and sweat and bleed before they get that opportunity engage in something that clicks with them. Life is short, but JUST long enough to get those experiences in whatever way they come along in our lives.<p>Personally, I'm just as sick of old curmudgeons coming along dictating to young people how they should run a career just because said old fogie had to go in a different direction just to get <i>his</i> in the world as you are with recent grad students and their "entitlement".</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I went with them and not you: feedback to an interviewer</title><url>http://jamesob.nfshost.com/2011/04/01/them-vs-you.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coffeemug</author><text>The degree of entitlement among new grads in the software development industry is incredible. I know because I've been there. Now I see it from the other side as an employer, and when I think of the way I acted after I graduated, I want to go back and kick myself. In retrospect, this was a sign of immaturity and self-aggrandizing.<p>I genuinely believed at the time that Emacs and Linux and Common Lisp somehow made me special, when in reality I just wanted to convince myself that I was a better developer than my peers. I wasn't. I was a good coder, but I was immature, wasted a ton of people's time, and refused to listen to people who wrote code that solved real problems while I was on my "let's switch to Linux and Lisp" crusade.<p>I can point out a ton of examples where Windows is significantly better than Linux and vice versa. Same goes for most programming languages, development environments, and software methodologies. Saying "I like UNIX more and prefer to develop in it" is one thing. Saying that a choice of the OS tells me something about an organization and that <i>their</i> particular system of choice is somehow based on worse philosophical principles than my alternative is naive and condescending beyond belief.<p>The rule of thumb is to understand before you decide you've understood. If we used this principle more often, the industry overall would be a much more nourishing environment to work in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beambot</author><text>The article does not rip on Windows. It implies that OS / language choice says something about an organization's developer culture. I share this belief, and it would be an important job criteria for me as well.<p>Consider three choices: (1) Big company X on Windows + .Net, (2) Big Company Y on Linux + C++, or (3) co-founding a new startup using whatever I prefer. I wouldn't fault anyone for having pre-conceived notions about the cultures prominent at these companies, would you?</text></comment> |
38,428,128 | 38,426,857 | 1 | 2 | 38,425,067 | train | <story><title>Build your own hi-fi ear defenders</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/hi-fi-ear-defenders</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Slow_Hand</author><text>Glancing at the article, this seems like a baroque approach to a problem with a much more elegant solution.<p>I’m a professional musician and audio engineer and for years I’ve been using custom earplugs that I acquired through a visit to an audiologist. They took an impression of my ear canals and within a week provided molded custom-fit plugs. These plugs provide passive attenuation spec’ed to my preference (-15dB, -20dB, -30dB, etc) and they do so in a way that attenuates evenly across the frequency spectrum, rather than over-attenuate the high frequencies like foam earplugs do, so that you don’t experience muffled sound. They’re comfy and work flawlessly. I’ve never taken them out due to discomfort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RowanH</author><text>This is what&#x27;s used a lot in motorsport as race cars are insanely loud. Mine was pumping out north of 120db at one point at a 1m static noise test at 4500rpm (went to 7600rpm... and you sit less than 1m from the exhaust..)<p>I had full impressions done with custom in-ear monitors and I&#x27;ve never been happier. Makes plane flights absolutely tolerable too.<p>In-ear monitors vs sleeved (like eytomtic slip-ons) are much better practically day to day as the wires exit flush with the bottom of your earlobes (needed for getting helmets on and off) which means beanies, sleeping on a plane etc you can rest the side of your head on something without wires&#x2F;end of the monitor.<p>Around $700NZD &#x2F; $300USD done here in NZ.</text></comment> | <story><title>Build your own hi-fi ear defenders</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/hi-fi-ear-defenders</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Slow_Hand</author><text>Glancing at the article, this seems like a baroque approach to a problem with a much more elegant solution.<p>I’m a professional musician and audio engineer and for years I’ve been using custom earplugs that I acquired through a visit to an audiologist. They took an impression of my ear canals and within a week provided molded custom-fit plugs. These plugs provide passive attenuation spec’ed to my preference (-15dB, -20dB, -30dB, etc) and they do so in a way that attenuates evenly across the frequency spectrum, rather than over-attenuate the high frequencies like foam earplugs do, so that you don’t experience muffled sound. They’re comfy and work flawlessly. I’ve never taken them out due to discomfort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pkkm</author><text>For people who can&#x27;t afford custom earplugs, you can find a lot of earplugs with good sound clarity if you google &quot;musician earplugs&quot; or &quot;concert earplugs&quot;. You may have to try more than one brand before you find something that fits well, but it will still be cheaper than the custom option. I like the EarPeace plugs, though it&#x27;s not because of sound quality but because they&#x27;re discreet and I find them comfortable.</text></comment> |
11,540,607 | 11,539,014 | 1 | 3 | 11,538,372 | train | <story><title>Clementine: modern music player and library organizer</title><url>https://www.clementine-player.org/en</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>liotier</author><text>Clementine: all the good bits from Amarok before it began to degenerate.<p>I love it just for the indexed metadata searching of my local library... I know no other player that lets me search a big heap of files that fast.<p>While listening to music, it usually give me ideas about further music I want to listen to... The playlist in right pane and search-instant filtered library in the left one is exactly the interface that suits that.<p>Also, the context panes with lyrics and band&#x27;s Wikipedia page automatically loaded during play are nice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Clementine: modern music player and library organizer</title><url>https://www.clementine-player.org/en</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Programmatic</author><text>I really like Clementine as a streaming music player and use it quite extensively for playing and discovering Digitally Imported&#x27;s streams without having to browse through the site. I really like DI&#x27;s downtempo station for work, and I like that Clementine is cross-platform so I can use the same player on my work and home systems. Kudos to the team for having such a broad and deep selection of streaming providers integrated into it.<p>My one complaint is that the music library paradigm in Clementine doesn&#x27;t feel cohesive, so unfortunately it is relegated to streaming music for me. I really don&#x27;t like that I can&#x27;t play music directly from the library and have to make a playlist: it feels very cluttering. This is even (or especially) true for streaming stations, in order to try a new one out it must be added to a playlist. If I could change one thing about Clementine, it would be to allow playing of music directly from the library.</text></comment> |
23,992,023 | 23,991,491 | 1 | 3 | 23,989,738 | train | <story><title>RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language</title><url>https://developer.squareup.com/blog/the-state-of-ruby-3-typing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avolcano</author><text>Didn&#x27;t realize Square was interested in Ruby type checking, just like their competitors over at Stripe. Lots of money riding on Ruby, I guess :)<p>It does seem useful to have a _standard_ for type definitions - RBS as the equivalent to a .d.ts file - as that allows for different type checking implementations to use the same system under the hood. This was a big problem for Flow, and why it lost the fight as soon as TypeScript&#x27;s definitely-typed repository started gaining momentum - users wanted to use the type-checker that they knew had definitions for the libraries they used.<p>On the other hand, RBS as hand-written seems rather dangerous, to me. Nothing wrong with using them to define previously-untyped external code, as long as you know the caveats, but I think you really want to have definitions generated from your code. Sorbet cleverly (and unsurprisingly, given it&#x27;s Ruby) used a DSL for definitions in code, which had the (excellent) additional boost of runtime checking, so you actually could know whether your types were accurate - by far the biggest pain-point of erased-type systems like TypeScript.<p>Given that Ruby 3 was supposed to &quot;support type checking,&quot; I&#x27;m surprised that it does not seem to have syntax for type definitions in code, and instead will focus on external type checking. I might be missing a piece of the full puzzle not covered in the blog post, however.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ric2b</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m surprised that it does not seem to have syntax for type definitions in code<p>This is a big disappointment to me, one of the main advantages of static typing is that it can make code much easier to understand when types are added to non-obvious method parameters.</text></comment> | <story><title>RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language</title><url>https://developer.squareup.com/blog/the-state-of-ruby-3-typing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avolcano</author><text>Didn&#x27;t realize Square was interested in Ruby type checking, just like their competitors over at Stripe. Lots of money riding on Ruby, I guess :)<p>It does seem useful to have a _standard_ for type definitions - RBS as the equivalent to a .d.ts file - as that allows for different type checking implementations to use the same system under the hood. This was a big problem for Flow, and why it lost the fight as soon as TypeScript&#x27;s definitely-typed repository started gaining momentum - users wanted to use the type-checker that they knew had definitions for the libraries they used.<p>On the other hand, RBS as hand-written seems rather dangerous, to me. Nothing wrong with using them to define previously-untyped external code, as long as you know the caveats, but I think you really want to have definitions generated from your code. Sorbet cleverly (and unsurprisingly, given it&#x27;s Ruby) used a DSL for definitions in code, which had the (excellent) additional boost of runtime checking, so you actually could know whether your types were accurate - by far the biggest pain-point of erased-type systems like TypeScript.<p>Given that Ruby 3 was supposed to &quot;support type checking,&quot; I&#x27;m surprised that it does not seem to have syntax for type definitions in code, and instead will focus on external type checking. I might be missing a piece of the full puzzle not covered in the blog post, however.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>judofyr</author><text>&gt; On the other hand, RBS as hand-written seems rather dangerous, to me. Nothing wrong with using them to define previously-untyped external code, as long as you know the caveats, but I think you really want to have definitions generated from your code.<p>Isn&#x27;t the point that you run the type checker on your own code and it checks that it implements the signature correctly? Having a mismatch between the code and the signature will give a type error. How is this different from how Sorbet works?</text></comment> |
12,465,972 | 12,465,720 | 1 | 2 | 12,464,647 | train | <story><title>I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas</title><url>http://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/09/09/im-joining-stripe-to-work-on-atlas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>basisword</author><text>First time I&#x27;ve seen Atlas. I&#x27;m immediately worried. If someone starts a company using this I presume it&#x27;s subject to US laws? What does this mean:<p>1. For taxes? If I live in the UK and start my business with Atlas does the US get the corporation tax revenue or the UK (or a split of the two)?<p>2. For data security&#x2F;privacy? Is the data I store now subject to access by the US government through National Security letters and the like? I believe that if I was storing EU citizen data I&#x27;m subject to privacy shield but all data would be more susceptible to US government requests. Is this accurate?<p>Edit: Quite shocked at the number of downvotes a completely legitimate question is getting...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antoinevg</author><text>We&#x27;re based in South Africa and joined the Stripe Atlas beta earlier this year.<p>Solving the incorporation problem is only the first of many problems.<p>---<p>Please understand that none of the following is a criticism of Stripe. If we hadn&#x27;t been accepted to the beta we&#x27;d be dead in the water right now and our customers would have been screwed. I also expect the solutions to become easier as more people in more countries face the same problems.<p>(Btw… one small suggestion for the Stripe Atlas team if anyone there is reading this… how about a forum where Atlas users in the same countries can swap information?)<p>---<p>So, the questions you asked are completely legitimate.<p>Trying to answer them ourselves has cost us an inordinate amount of money on legal &amp; tax advice so far and we&#x27;re still no closer to answers.<p>The problem is this:<p>The moment you&#x27;re operating in two countries you are subject to the same legal, tax &amp; accounting rules that multi-national corporations have to conform to.<p>There _are_ existing services that are geared towards tackling the insane levels of complexity involved but the pricing also assumes that you are a large multi-national corporation.<p>So, to give you an idea: Several reputable firms all quoted us the equivalent of an engineer&#x27;s salary for a month just to _estimate_ the price of getting our ducks in a row.<p>For my company this is a LOT of money. We&#x27;re bootstrapping and are barely ramen profitable.<p>Also, and I&#x27;m sure this happens to everyone at least once, at the time I did not understand that what they were quoting for was to prepare an estimate for what it would cost to answer our questions. I thought this was the quote to answer our questions!<p>When the estimate itself arrived it was for the equivalent to an engineer&#x27;s salary for a year, with _no_ guarantee that further complexities (and costs) would not come up during or after the process.<p>An expensive lesson.<p>Currently we&#x27;re trying to navigate the process ourselves by interacting directly with the .za &amp; USA revenue services and the .za Reserve Bank.<p>Needless to say, this is hell on trying to get any actual work done in the meantime :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas</title><url>http://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/09/09/im-joining-stripe-to-work-on-atlas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>basisword</author><text>First time I&#x27;ve seen Atlas. I&#x27;m immediately worried. If someone starts a company using this I presume it&#x27;s subject to US laws? What does this mean:<p>1. For taxes? If I live in the UK and start my business with Atlas does the US get the corporation tax revenue or the UK (or a split of the two)?<p>2. For data security&#x2F;privacy? Is the data I store now subject to access by the US government through National Security letters and the like? I believe that if I was storing EU citizen data I&#x27;m subject to privacy shield but all data would be more susceptible to US government requests. Is this accurate?<p>Edit: Quite shocked at the number of downvotes a completely legitimate question is getting...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manarth</author><text>To rephrase the question slightly differently: &quot;Is Atlas a suitable tool for a UK startup, selling to the UK&#x2F;EU markets?&quot;<p>To which the answer may well be &quot;No. Right now, Atlas is US-centric, but could potentially broaden its scope in the future to include other jurisdictions&quot;.<p>Personally, I&#x27;m not worried about Atlas, in the same way as I&#x27;m not worried about other US company startup facilities.<p>When I started my latest UK company, I used a UK accountancy service, who handled the initial set-up for me.</text></comment> |
34,036,502 | 34,036,571 | 1 | 2 | 34,032,990 | train | <story><title>SQLite internals: How the most-used database works</title><url>https://www.compileralchemy.com/books/sqlite-internals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>red_admiral</author><text>I love how the SQLite author is so committed to the quality of his tools that he _wrote his own text editor_ as part of the project.<p>In about 99% of cases, for 99% of people, this is the wrong thing to do - but DRH pulled it off.<p>On the &quot;why use flex&#x2F;yacc ... when you can roll your own&quot;, I think the tradeoff is: if you have a deep understanding of theory of parsing and parser generators, then it&#x27;s actually less mental effort for you to write your own from scratch, than it would be to learn the exact syntax and quirks and possibly bugs of someone else&#x27;s implementation. Or to find out that some feature that&#x27;s easy to implement from scratch, doesn&#x27;t exist in the library.<p>I wonder, do we teach &quot;classical&quot; parsing that well anymore, in a way that could create the next generation&#x27;s DRH?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srcreigh</author><text>Every UWaterloo CS student has to take CS241 (2nd year class, 4 months after learning C). Each student must write tokenizer and parser by hand. The full assignments include about 8 programs in binary and MIPS assembly, a MIPS assembler including support for labels, a scanner for subset of C, SLR(1) parsing, type checking, code gen including pointers and dynamic memory allocation.<p>In my day there was a unit on compiler optimization, with a code size contest. Constant propagation, register allocation, dead code elimination. Now it seems they replaced that with a section involving writing a loader for a ELF-like file format in assembly language<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;student.cs.uwaterloo.ca&#x2F;~cs241&#x2F;assignments&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;student.cs.uwaterloo.ca&#x2F;~cs241&#x2F;assignments&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SQLite internals: How the most-used database works</title><url>https://www.compileralchemy.com/books/sqlite-internals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>red_admiral</author><text>I love how the SQLite author is so committed to the quality of his tools that he _wrote his own text editor_ as part of the project.<p>In about 99% of cases, for 99% of people, this is the wrong thing to do - but DRH pulled it off.<p>On the &quot;why use flex&#x2F;yacc ... when you can roll your own&quot;, I think the tradeoff is: if you have a deep understanding of theory of parsing and parser generators, then it&#x27;s actually less mental effort for you to write your own from scratch, than it would be to learn the exact syntax and quirks and possibly bugs of someone else&#x27;s implementation. Or to find out that some feature that&#x27;s easy to implement from scratch, doesn&#x27;t exist in the library.<p>I wonder, do we teach &quot;classical&quot; parsing that well anymore, in a way that could create the next generation&#x27;s DRH?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kuwoze</author><text>&gt; if you have a deep understanding of theory of parsing and parser generators<p>No deepness needed, the only thing you need to know is recursion.<p>Also SQL is even better than that because every query is it&#x27;s own statement, so the parsing is dead simple.
I totally get why he did it this way.</text></comment> |
22,798,174 | 22,798,282 | 1 | 3 | 22,795,930 | train | <story><title>Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative</title><url>https://codeberg.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xeeeeeeeeeeenu</author><text>Their half-translated UI (my browser is set to polish) is extremely off-putting.<p>So many people seem to think that providing low quality translations is improving accessibility. It isn&#x27;t. It&#x27;s doing the opposite, pure english websites provide <i>much</i> better UX to international users.<p>BTW, Microsoft with their automatically translated MSDN docs is by far the worst offender in this area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marten-de-vries</author><text>That&#x27;s the case because you speak English. Think about the last time you had to navigate a website in a language you didn&#x27;t speak (in my case e.g. Chinese or Russian). I remember being very happy with a few (incomplete) clues in English about were to look and what to expect.<p>By all means, advocate for making it easy to change the language back to the original. But this stance <i>will</i> decrease accessibility.</text></comment> | <story><title>Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative</title><url>https://codeberg.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xeeeeeeeeeeenu</author><text>Their half-translated UI (my browser is set to polish) is extremely off-putting.<p>So many people seem to think that providing low quality translations is improving accessibility. It isn&#x27;t. It&#x27;s doing the opposite, pure english websites provide <i>much</i> better UX to international users.<p>BTW, Microsoft with their automatically translated MSDN docs is by far the worst offender in this area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>I think it very much depends on the the country.<p>In Sweden, you can assume that pretty much everyone understands English, so if your website has an incomplete Swedish translation, might just be better to go with English one anyways.<p>But in Spain (outside the big cities), not that many people do understand English. In that case, it&#x27;ll be better to serve a incomplete Spanish version instead of in English, as otherwise they&#x27;ll be completely lost.<p>So as always, I&#x27;d say it really depends, and it&#x27;s hard to generalize over all &quot;international users&quot;.</text></comment> |
4,759,445 | 4,759,499 | 1 | 3 | 4,759,134 | train | <story><title>NASA May Unveil New Manned Moon Missions Soon</title><url>http://www.space.com/18380-nasa-moon-missions-obama-election.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>schiffern</author><text>With SpaceX and their heavy-lift plans in the back of my mind, watching the video made me cringe. When they constantly name-drop the manufacturer of various components it becomes all too obvious who the real audience is. And the message? 'Don't call your Senators, you're still on the gravy train.'<p>&#62;Work is underway on the flight-qualified booster, getting ready for its big test next year <i>at ATK in Utah</i>. [Formerly Morton Thiokol, the company that Orrin Hatch axed the single-segment SRB design to protect. This design decision, and the famed management decision at MT to ignore engineer Roger Boisjoly's warnings on launch day, doomed the crew of STS-51-L.]<p>&#62;The venerable RS-25 engine, <i>built by Pratt-Whitney Rocketdyne</i>… will power the SLS core stage.<p>&#62;In order to fuel these engines, NASA called on the expertise <i>at the Boeing Company</i> to build the SLS core stage…<p>…and on and on.<p>In this arena cost inefficiency is a feature, not a bug.</text></comment> | <story><title>NASA May Unveil New Manned Moon Missions Soon</title><url>http://www.space.com/18380-nasa-moon-missions-obama-election.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sehugg</author><text>Kennedy: Let's go to the Moon. We go to the Moon.<p>Nixon: Apollo canceled. Shuttle born.<p>Reagan: Space Station Freedom. The Ride Report proposes a lunar base by 2010.<p>Bush Sr: Space Exploration Initiative, or $500 billion for a lunar base by 2010 or 2020. Rejected.<p>Clinton: Space Station Freedom morphs into ISS.<p>Bush Jr: Constellation program and humans on the Moon by 2020.<p>Obama: Constellation canceled, SLS born. Moon by 2020. Or maybe an asteroid by 2025. Or maybe Mars (with friends). Or maybe somewhere else entirely...<p>It seems much easier to get agreement on who does the studies and who builds the hardware than where to go and when.</text></comment> |
19,208,310 | 19,208,231 | 1 | 2 | 19,207,624 | train | <story><title>Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High</title><url>https://www.tlnt.com/toxic-workers-are-more-productive-but-the-price-is-high/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blue1379</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.harvard.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;16-057_d45c0b4f-fa19-49de-8f1b-4b12fe054fea.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.harvard.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;16-057_d...</a><p>It comes to a figure of 12k loss as the cost of replacing the toxic employee. Yes, replacing an employee is always a net loss in isolation.<p>It seems to be using a tautological definition:<p>defines a “toxic” employee as: “A worker that engages in behavior that is harmful to an organization, including either its property or people.” Yes, that causes a net loss. By definition.<p>They also state they don&#x27;t consider &quot;productivity spillover&quot; because they found spillover can sometimes be negative so they just assume it all cancels out. If Bob rebuilds something and saves every other employee lots of time going forward.... this analysis just ignores it.<p>The news coverage makes it seem like a tickbox study tailored to HR interests in large orgs, so they can pat themselves on the back for &#x27;proving&#x27; that teamwork trumps uncharismatic productivity, despite the study saying nothing about that.<p>If one wanted to truly study these costs, they&#x27;d also be looking at charismatic unproductive people who, despite all making each other feel good, don&#x27;t actually bring any value to an organisation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>commandlinefan</author><text>&gt; tautological definition<p>There&#x27;s a picture that gets re-posted on LinkedIn periodically of Netflix&#x27;s CTO Reed Hastings captioned with a quote attributed to him: &quot;Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.&quot; Although this is the sort of feel-good positive fluff that is perfect LinkedIn-bait, I can&#x27;t help but notice that the people who re-post it and re-share it tend to be people who I remember personally as being mostly just regular jerks. Look, I know better than to characterize myself as &quot;brilliant&quot; on the internet (and I honestly don&#x27;t think I am, although I do think I&#x27;m competent), two things I indisputably am are educated and experienced. Since the subjective words &quot;talented&quot; and &quot;brilliant&quot; and &quot;rockstar&quot; are usually used as a stand-in for the more objective but contentious terms educated and experienced, I can&#x27;t help but think that somewhere in the back of their minds, they&#x27;re including me in their list. The people in my network who re-post this platitude usually didn&#x27;t like me very much because they found themselves in a sticky situation that they expected me to be able to get them out of. When you&#x27;re educated and experienced, but you still can&#x27;t solve somebody&#x27;s crisis on the spot, they don&#x27;t think, &quot;oh, well, I was asking a lot&quot;, they think, &quot;he could have helped me, but he didn&#x27;t because he&#x27;s a jerk who thinks he&#x27;s too good for me&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High</title><url>https://www.tlnt.com/toxic-workers-are-more-productive-but-the-price-is-high/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blue1379</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.harvard.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;16-057_d45c0b4f-fa19-49de-8f1b-4b12fe054fea.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.harvard.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;16-057_d...</a><p>It comes to a figure of 12k loss as the cost of replacing the toxic employee. Yes, replacing an employee is always a net loss in isolation.<p>It seems to be using a tautological definition:<p>defines a “toxic” employee as: “A worker that engages in behavior that is harmful to an organization, including either its property or people.” Yes, that causes a net loss. By definition.<p>They also state they don&#x27;t consider &quot;productivity spillover&quot; because they found spillover can sometimes be negative so they just assume it all cancels out. If Bob rebuilds something and saves every other employee lots of time going forward.... this analysis just ignores it.<p>The news coverage makes it seem like a tickbox study tailored to HR interests in large orgs, so they can pat themselves on the back for &#x27;proving&#x27; that teamwork trumps uncharismatic productivity, despite the study saying nothing about that.<p>If one wanted to truly study these costs, they&#x27;d also be looking at charismatic unproductive people who, despite all making each other feel good, don&#x27;t actually bring any value to an organisation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nasrudith</author><text>Also &quot;toxic&quot; is a term abused to mean &quot;heretical&quot; at times. The guy pointing out HR works for the company not you and is encouraged to some negative dynamics to justify their salary by reducing liability and claimed productivity may be branded toxic.<p>Charismatic people building their own fiefdoms that view networking as king and actual productivity gains a threat are building not just houses of cards but full scale card mansions are more actual organizational harm toxic than any ill-mannered productives.</text></comment> |
26,016,924 | 26,016,668 | 1 | 2 | 26,014,180 | train | <story><title>Launch HN: Emerge (YC W21) – Monitor and reduce iOS app size</title><text>Hi everyone!<p>We’re Noah and Josh from Emerge (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com</a>). Our company is building a monitoring and analysis tool to help iOS developers reduce their app’s size.<p>You might have heard about app size challenges faced by large iOS apps, particularly those with Swift codebases. I was an iOS engineer at Airbnb for 4.5 years and personally worked on their size reduction efforts.<p>App size is tricky to quantify. The size users most commonly see (what’s on the App Store page) is the install size thinned for their device. This is the size measured after stripping out assets like images and other media not needed for your screen size, or code that doesn’t run on your device’s architecture. However, this isn’t the only size metric out there, there’s also download and universal size (read more about this in our docs [1]).<p>Our tool makes app size easy to understand by visualizing the size contribution of every file in your app, from localized strings to machine learning models. To better our understanding, we even reverse engineered compiled asset catalogs and Mach-O binaries to show size contributions of original images, source files and Swift modules. With this perspective we often see files that don’t belong or are suspiciously large.<p>While testing our tool we analyzed and learned from over 150 iOS applications and found that keeping app size in check is really hard— even for industry leaders. Here are some of our more interesting findings.<p>Dropbox (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;dropbox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;dropbox</a>)
From the visualization, you can clearly see why Dropbox’s iOS app is 270 MB— it’s 35% localization files. These files are duplicated from the main app into 7 different app extensions and they all include comments that provide translators with context for the strings. Just removing these comments from the production app could save 46 MB.<p>eBay (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;ebay" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;ebay</a>)
This is an interesting architecture because although the main app’s executable is only ~150 KB, 86% of the app’s size comes from executables, the biggest one (32 MB) being EbayApp.framework. When building a Swift framework, the binary contains symbols which are not needed in the build uploaded to the App Store. These symbols can be stripped using the method described in our docs [2]. Stripping binary symbols would reduce Ebay’s app size by over 40%. Emerge can generate a script to add to your Xcode build phase to strip symbols for you.<p>Spark (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;spark" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;spark</a>)
About 1&#x2F;10th of Spark’s ~230 MB app is font files. 10 MB of those font files are duplicates found in an app extension. After a closer look, the fonts duplicated are all SF-Pro-Text, look familiar? These have been system fonts since iOS 11 (the minimum version for Spark). If the system font was used directly, 10% of the whole app could be deleted!<p>If you want to dive in a bit deeper you can check out our Medium post which goes into detail on some other popular apps [3].<p>Our analysis consistently shows that without guardrails in place, app size can get out of hand very quickly. Emerge wants to help developers reduce their size and keep it that way. Our continuous monitoring and binary size profiling prevents regressions by alerting developers of size changes in their pull requests, helping teams build better, smaller apps.<p>We offer a free Growth plan designed for independent developers and small startups. Our paid plans start at $499&#x2F;month, you can view more details here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;pricing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;pricing</a>.<p>If app size has come up in your development process, we’d love to hear about how you handled it. We’re always looking to improve and grow our product and we’re especially excited to hear feedback from the HN community!<p>Thanks, Noah + Josh<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.emergetools.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;what-is-app-size" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.emergetools.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;what-is-app-size</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.emergetools.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;strip-binary-symbols" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.emergetools.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;strip-binary-symbols</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;swlh&#x2F;how-7-ios-apps-could-save-you-500mb-of-storage-a828782c973e" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;swlh&#x2F;how-7-ios-apps-could-save-you-500mb-...</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bberenberg</author><text>Definitely cool from a tech standpoint, but what is the value proposition here? I get that smaller = better, but why should I invest my engineers time in optimizing size using the results you output vs delivering new features or bug fixes to customers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aripickar</author><text>There are limits based on the size of the binary that apple will allow on the app store. In addition, here&#x27;s a really interesting story about how uber had to fight to downsize the app cause they realized that staying under the cellular data limit made people able to download the app when they were on the go: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;StanTwinB&#x2F;status&#x2F;1336890442768547845" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;StanTwinB&#x2F;status&#x2F;1336890442768547845</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Launch HN: Emerge (YC W21) – Monitor and reduce iOS app size</title><text>Hi everyone!<p>We’re Noah and Josh from Emerge (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com</a>). Our company is building a monitoring and analysis tool to help iOS developers reduce their app’s size.<p>You might have heard about app size challenges faced by large iOS apps, particularly those with Swift codebases. I was an iOS engineer at Airbnb for 4.5 years and personally worked on their size reduction efforts.<p>App size is tricky to quantify. The size users most commonly see (what’s on the App Store page) is the install size thinned for their device. This is the size measured after stripping out assets like images and other media not needed for your screen size, or code that doesn’t run on your device’s architecture. However, this isn’t the only size metric out there, there’s also download and universal size (read more about this in our docs [1]).<p>Our tool makes app size easy to understand by visualizing the size contribution of every file in your app, from localized strings to machine learning models. To better our understanding, we even reverse engineered compiled asset catalogs and Mach-O binaries to show size contributions of original images, source files and Swift modules. With this perspective we often see files that don’t belong or are suspiciously large.<p>While testing our tool we analyzed and learned from over 150 iOS applications and found that keeping app size in check is really hard— even for industry leaders. Here are some of our more interesting findings.<p>Dropbox (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;dropbox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;dropbox</a>)
From the visualization, you can clearly see why Dropbox’s iOS app is 270 MB— it’s 35% localization files. These files are duplicated from the main app into 7 different app extensions and they all include comments that provide translators with context for the strings. Just removing these comments from the production app could save 46 MB.<p>eBay (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;ebay" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;ebay</a>)
This is an interesting architecture because although the main app’s executable is only ~150 KB, 86% of the app’s size comes from executables, the biggest one (32 MB) being EbayApp.framework. When building a Swift framework, the binary contains symbols which are not needed in the build uploaded to the App Store. These symbols can be stripped using the method described in our docs [2]. Stripping binary symbols would reduce Ebay’s app size by over 40%. Emerge can generate a script to add to your Xcode build phase to strip symbols for you.<p>Spark (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;spark" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;apps&#x2F;spark</a>)
About 1&#x2F;10th of Spark’s ~230 MB app is font files. 10 MB of those font files are duplicates found in an app extension. After a closer look, the fonts duplicated are all SF-Pro-Text, look familiar? These have been system fonts since iOS 11 (the minimum version for Spark). If the system font was used directly, 10% of the whole app could be deleted!<p>If you want to dive in a bit deeper you can check out our Medium post which goes into detail on some other popular apps [3].<p>Our analysis consistently shows that without guardrails in place, app size can get out of hand very quickly. Emerge wants to help developers reduce their size and keep it that way. Our continuous monitoring and binary size profiling prevents regressions by alerting developers of size changes in their pull requests, helping teams build better, smaller apps.<p>We offer a free Growth plan designed for independent developers and small startups. Our paid plans start at $499&#x2F;month, you can view more details here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;pricing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emergetools.com&#x2F;pricing</a>.<p>If app size has come up in your development process, we’d love to hear about how you handled it. We’re always looking to improve and grow our product and we’re especially excited to hear feedback from the HN community!<p>Thanks, Noah + Josh<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.emergetools.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;what-is-app-size" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.emergetools.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;what-is-app-size</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.emergetools.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;strip-binary-symbols" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.emergetools.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;strip-binary-symbols</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;swlh&#x2F;how-7-ios-apps-could-save-you-500mb-of-storage-a828782c973e" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;swlh&#x2F;how-7-ios-apps-could-save-you-500mb-...</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bberenberg</author><text>Definitely cool from a tech standpoint, but what is the value proposition here? I get that smaller = better, but why should I invest my engineers time in optimizing size using the results you output vs delivering new features or bug fixes to customers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicoburns</author><text>People with small capacity phones (a lot of people) won&#x27;t install your app, and may actually uninstall it if it&#x27;s too big. That may not be priority #1, but it certainly deserves some consideration.</text></comment> |
4,979,229 | 4,978,376 | 1 | 2 | 4,977,935 | train | <story><title>The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death (1997)</title><url>http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/As-Freezing-Persons-Recollect-the-Snow--First-Chill--Then-Stupor--Then-the-Letting-Go.html?page=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>This bit about how certain groups of people have somehow developed different responses to cold is fascinating:<p><i>Were you a Norwegian fisherman or Inuit hunter, both of whom frequently work gloveless in the cold, your chilled hands would open their surface capillaries periodically to allow surges of warm blood to pass into them and maintain their flexibility. This phenomenon, known as the hunter's response, can elevate a 35-degree skin temperature to 50 degrees within seven or eight minutes.<p>Other human adaptations to the cold are more mysterious. Tibetan Buddhist monks can raise the skin temperature of their hands and feet by 15 degrees through meditation. Australian aborigines, who once slept on the ground, unclothed, on near-freezing nights, would slip into a light hypothermic state, suppressing shivering until the rising sun rewarmed them.<p>You have no such defenses, having spent your days at a keyboard in a climate-controlled office. Only after about ten minutes of hard climbing, as your body temperature rises, does blood start seeping back into your fingers. Sweat trickles down your sternum and spine.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ef4</author><text>I saw a talk from a US Army-funded researchers on cold weather adaptation. He described how to reliably train oneself to induce the "hunter's response".<p>You just go sit outside in the cold for five or ten minutes at a time while keeping your hands and/or feet submerged in insulated warm water. The goal is to expose most of your body to the cold while keeping the capillaries open. After about fifty repetitions of this (at three to six repetitions per day), your body gets used to the idea of maintaining circulation despite an overall cold environment.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death (1997)</title><url>http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/As-Freezing-Persons-Recollect-the-Snow--First-Chill--Then-Stupor--Then-the-Letting-Go.html?page=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>This bit about how certain groups of people have somehow developed different responses to cold is fascinating:<p><i>Were you a Norwegian fisherman or Inuit hunter, both of whom frequently work gloveless in the cold, your chilled hands would open their surface capillaries periodically to allow surges of warm blood to pass into them and maintain their flexibility. This phenomenon, known as the hunter's response, can elevate a 35-degree skin temperature to 50 degrees within seven or eight minutes.<p>Other human adaptations to the cold are more mysterious. Tibetan Buddhist monks can raise the skin temperature of their hands and feet by 15 degrees through meditation. Australian aborigines, who once slept on the ground, unclothed, on near-freezing nights, would slip into a light hypothermic state, suppressing shivering until the rising sun rewarmed them.<p>You have no such defenses, having spent your days at a keyboard in a climate-controlled office. Only after about ten minutes of hard climbing, as your body temperature rises, does blood start seeping back into your fingers. Sweat trickles down your sternum and spine.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freehunter</author><text>You can notice this effect in your life as well. I don't know where you live, but I know here in the north, 40F is "freezing" cold in November for many people. And when March rolls around, 40F is cause for breaking out the t-shirts. Your body will adapt to the cold to a certain degree. I think I saw it explained on a reddit "ask science" post some time ago, but I cannot remember the physiological details of these temporary adaptations to climate patterns.</text></comment> |
11,903,404 | 11,903,322 | 1 | 2 | 11,902,253 | train | <story><title>Ketamine lifts depression via a byproduct of its metabolism</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160504141131.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>willholloway</author><text>S-Ketamine injected through the ear drum, into the middle ear, is currently undergoing phase III trials as a treatment for noise or infection induced tinnitus.<p>Chronic tinnitus is currently a condition which if one were to go to the doctor and ask for a cure one would be told to get used to it as there is not much that can be done.<p>The pace of medical and biotech advancement is increasing as the FDA has relaxed a bit and better understanding of human biology is creating cures for what once were incurable diseases. Exciting times, but not fast enough for me.<p>The most interesting question for me these days: How can we 10x the number of dollars and scientists engaged in medical research, and then 10x that?</text></comment> | <story><title>Ketamine lifts depression via a byproduct of its metabolism</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160504141131.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>univalent</author><text>I wish there was a good program advocating the effectiveness of Electroconvulsive therapy (and maybe some studies around harmful effects on long term usage). I&#x27;ve taken basically every drug on the spectrum (benzos, SSRIs, et.al.) for most of my life since I was a teenager and nothing helped as much as ECT.</text></comment> |
30,743,145 | 30,742,354 | 1 | 3 | 30,741,324 | train | <story><title>FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/open-source-developers-burnout-low-pay-internet-2022-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>I&#x27;m an open source maintainer. I have a different take. Yes many projects lack funding, but I&#x27;m hesitant to ask for funding for my projects. Because: what sort of social contract would it imply if people fund me? Should funders be elegible for faster response times? Should their feature requests be implemented with more priority, or must they guaranteed to be implemented? What are the expectations of me? Can I take an extended holiday and go offline for a while? None of this is well-specified.<p>One can argue that funds are donations and thus are free from attached strings, but psychology doesn&#x27;t work that way. Funders will feel entitled to <i>something</i>, but what? You can see this pattern more obviously in Patreon: donors get something in return, such as faster access to content. So even though it&#x27;s a &quot;donation&quot;, people psychologically still experience it as a trade.<p>With Phusion Passenger, I&#x27;ve commercialized a open source project. The contract is clear: if you pay then we both know exactly what to expect from each other.<p>Formalizing the expectations to funders of my other open source projects, effectively turns those projects commercial. But to me, the appeal of my other projects is just that I can code on my own leisure, as a hobby, and give a gift to the community at the same time. It sucks that I have very little time for that because I work on those projects in my free time only, but I&#x27;m hesitant to turn those projects into &quot;work&quot; where I have to give guarantees in return for money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evanelias</author><text>Very well said.<p>I maintain an open source project which is used by a few hundred companies, and I also sell a couple commercial products which enhance the functionality. I don&#x27;t accept donations since I much prefer to offer well-defined commercial products instead of ill-defined donation benefits.<p>Despite this, I&#x27;ve still had users who insist I should accept donations, often claiming that I would make some absurdly unrealistic amount of money if I did so. In one case the user kept arguing with me and demanding to know more reasoning as to why I didn&#x27;t want to accept his donation. Of course these same users are absolutely not interested in the well-defined paid products and always offer weird mental gymnastics as to their thinking.<p>I just can&#x27;t relate to or understand this behavior. Do these people burst into random businesses in real life and say &quot;Hello, I love your store but don&#x27;t want to buy any of your products! I demand to know why don&#x27;t you have a GoFundMe?&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>FOSS devs are burning out, quitting, and even sabotaging their own projects</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/open-source-developers-burnout-low-pay-internet-2022-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>I&#x27;m an open source maintainer. I have a different take. Yes many projects lack funding, but I&#x27;m hesitant to ask for funding for my projects. Because: what sort of social contract would it imply if people fund me? Should funders be elegible for faster response times? Should their feature requests be implemented with more priority, or must they guaranteed to be implemented? What are the expectations of me? Can I take an extended holiday and go offline for a while? None of this is well-specified.<p>One can argue that funds are donations and thus are free from attached strings, but psychology doesn&#x27;t work that way. Funders will feel entitled to <i>something</i>, but what? You can see this pattern more obviously in Patreon: donors get something in return, such as faster access to content. So even though it&#x27;s a &quot;donation&quot;, people psychologically still experience it as a trade.<p>With Phusion Passenger, I&#x27;ve commercialized a open source project. The contract is clear: if you pay then we both know exactly what to expect from each other.<p>Formalizing the expectations to funders of my other open source projects, effectively turns those projects commercial. But to me, the appeal of my other projects is just that I can code on my own leisure, as a hobby, and give a gift to the community at the same time. It sucks that I have very little time for that because I work on those projects in my free time only, but I&#x27;m hesitant to turn those projects into &quot;work&quot; where I have to give guarantees in return for money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mc91</author><text>This is a take I have seen and don&#x27;t hear often.<p>I depended on a FOSS project once that was mostly done by one maintainer, and would sometimes send feature or fix patches upstream. Once I sent an e-mail that I could give him hundreds of dollars for some bug bounties - his program would improve and he would make some money out of it. He said thanks but no, he made enough in his day job and only had limited time to maintain the program.</text></comment> |
35,378,421 | 35,378,311 | 1 | 2 | 35,376,059 | train | <story><title>The Cambrian Period of AI</title><url>https://lachlangray.blot.im/the-cambrian-period-of-ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dudeinhawaii</author><text>Oh man, that&#x27;s harsh but I have this fear as well. I&#x27;m sure we all recall Full-Self Driving was going to be ready by 2019 or something and GM was going to have a fleet of self-driving vehicles. It turns out the last 10% takes 90% of the time&#x2F;effort.<p>I think GPT-4 was enough of a leap over GPT3.5 that I&#x27;m not sure we&#x27;ve hit that point yet but it&#x27;ll be interesting if the next GPT is less of a leap.</text></item><item><author>manojlds</author><text>Or is this the String Theory period of AI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moffkalast</author><text>I still think self driving was one of the worst places to start mass automation. It&#x27;s a very high stakes scenario with human death on the line, and as such the law restricts innovation to near zero.<p>GPT-4 is already practical (I use it every day and it speeds up my workflow drastically in some cases), and most areas it&#x27;ll assist in aren&#x27;t regulated in any way. I don&#x27;t see it making much of a dent in medical or law in the near term for similar reasons as self driving, but the rest ought to go way faster. It&#x27;s not vaporware, shit works.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Cambrian Period of AI</title><url>https://lachlangray.blot.im/the-cambrian-period-of-ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dudeinhawaii</author><text>Oh man, that&#x27;s harsh but I have this fear as well. I&#x27;m sure we all recall Full-Self Driving was going to be ready by 2019 or something and GM was going to have a fleet of self-driving vehicles. It turns out the last 10% takes 90% of the time&#x2F;effort.<p>I think GPT-4 was enough of a leap over GPT3.5 that I&#x27;m not sure we&#x27;ve hit that point yet but it&#x27;ll be interesting if the next GPT is less of a leap.</text></item><item><author>manojlds</author><text>Or is this the String Theory period of AI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akira2501</author><text>&gt; It turns out the last 10% takes 90% of the time&#x2F;effort.<p>It turns out that consumer protection around these &quot;new technologies&quot; is basically non-existent, allowing corporations to charge people for fantastic sounding ideas that they know for a fact are not and are not going to be practical within the lifespan of the item they just sold you.<p>&gt; I think GPT-4 was enough of a leap over GPT3.5<p>Compared to what, though? The cost of training? The cost of running the model? The accuracy of output? The increase in real world utility?<p>It&#x27;s the &quot;Wild West Snake Oil&quot; period of AI.</text></comment> |
31,994,996 | 31,987,621 | 1 | 3 | 31,987,128 | train | <story><title>Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles</title><url>https://home.cern/news/news/physics/lhcb-discovers-three-new-exotic-particles</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>I had a great conversation this evening with a marine biologist studying the recent collapse of a 100,000 sq km California kelp forest. The grants for the science of ecosystem stewardship are in the 10k-50k$ range.<p>Over the past few years, something killed over 5 billion giant starfish and “science” has no idea what did it. Without the starfish, the sea urchin population exploded, turning kelp forest into desert.<p>I love the LHC. But we need to seriously grow the science pie and prioritize the science of ecosystem collapse and management. There simply aren’t enough trained scientists.</text></comment> | <story><title>Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles</title><url>https://home.cern/news/news/physics/lhcb-discovers-three-new-exotic-particles</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tux3</author><text>Is it possible, even it principle, that some of these exotic hadrons could be long-lived (let alone stable)?<p>They&#x27;re probably interesting to study on their own, but the engineering instinct is to want to build something out of them, or use them as tools, which seems pretty hard if they disintegrate in a quintillionth of a second!</text></comment> |
33,396,436 | 33,396,055 | 1 | 3 | 33,395,121 | train | <story><title>How I survived a year in ‘the hole’ without losing my mind</title><url>https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/09/30/how-i-survived-a-year-in-the-hole-without-losing-my-mind</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bm3719</author><text>Most of us have been the victim of some kind of crime at some point in our lives. The many times it&#x27;s happened to me, I also considered the notion of empathy: namely that the criminal lacked it for me, the victim.<p>Not saying the current system is in any way an optimal solution or even close to it, but one thing it does provide is a lot of time for those who have acted without empathy to reflect on their misdeeds.</text></item><item><author>travisgriggs</author><text>I hate the US penal system. I grew up a semi conservative individual. Good guys and bad guys. Three strikes and your out sounded great. Tough on crime. All of that.<p>A couple years ago, I was asked by my faith congregation to serve as a volunteer at our local maximum security state prison, offering Sunday services to the inmates. I did so for 3 years. It changed me.<p>We’re there some truly troubled&#x2F;warped people there? Yes. Do I kid myself that their “stories” weren’t surely one sided? No.<p>I was struck by how arbitrary the whole thing is. And how utterly ineffective it is. What troubled me the most is that we have outsourced this whole raft of problems, without sending it overseas. We want “problems” to just go away. And stay away. And so we outsource the existence of human lives to an alternate universe that exists right beneath our toes. And we maintain fascinating opinions about these people and their lives, with almost zero insight into what the existence we consigned them to was. When people heard I went to the prison every Sunday to visit with inmates, they would immediately wax their opinion about what it must be like. And I found over time that their imagination did not match my reality. Their can be no empathy in that scenario.<p>I dream (pointlessly) about a world where a much higher percentage of lay civilians spent volunteer time in prisons. Awareness leads to empathy. And only then when we weren’t outsourcing the issue, we might actually be moved to find something more effective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PheonixPharts</author><text>There&#x27;s a bit of irony in the tone of this comment since it shows no capacity for empathy for those who commit crimes, most significantly in the sense that you clearly believe that prison is for others who are not you.<p>I&#x27;ve been the victim of a range of crimes over my life including assault and robbery.<p>I particularly remember the one case where I was robbed from a studio apartment while I was sleeping. I was, obviously, quite rattled. I remember looking for other stories of this happening to people and was surprised how many people viewed being robbed as an assault on their dignity and expressed incredible desire for revenge. I just couldn&#x27;t muster these same feelings.<p>While my day was ruined by the evening I could already feel my life coming back together: the lock had been changed, I cancelled all my credit cards, has a replacement license on it&#x27;s way to me, and all in all was just out about $20 that had been in my wallet.<p>I had a realization then that while my life was already coming back together the life of the person who robbed me was perpetually in the state of chaos that I had felt that morning. I high risk, low reward robbery like that is typically for drug money, and undoubtedly whatever fix that robber had gotten for my $20 was long faded and they were back putting themselves at risk.<p>The key insight that hit me was that that momentary break in my sense of security that morning, that&#x27;s what the person who robbed me constantly lives in. That person goes to bed with the same sense of insecurity I woke up in. But my security is only disrupted on these rare occasions where our lives our inverted, but my default is comfort and theirs is perpetually in that state baring that brief moment where they have enough money for that next fix.<p>I earnestly felt no need for any vengeance as any desire for vengeance was already dealt out by reality. What more punishment could I wish on someone than for them to wake up every morning feeling the same as I did for just that one.</text></comment> | <story><title>How I survived a year in ‘the hole’ without losing my mind</title><url>https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/09/30/how-i-survived-a-year-in-the-hole-without-losing-my-mind</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bm3719</author><text>Most of us have been the victim of some kind of crime at some point in our lives. The many times it&#x27;s happened to me, I also considered the notion of empathy: namely that the criminal lacked it for me, the victim.<p>Not saying the current system is in any way an optimal solution or even close to it, but one thing it does provide is a lot of time for those who have acted without empathy to reflect on their misdeeds.</text></item><item><author>travisgriggs</author><text>I hate the US penal system. I grew up a semi conservative individual. Good guys and bad guys. Three strikes and your out sounded great. Tough on crime. All of that.<p>A couple years ago, I was asked by my faith congregation to serve as a volunteer at our local maximum security state prison, offering Sunday services to the inmates. I did so for 3 years. It changed me.<p>We’re there some truly troubled&#x2F;warped people there? Yes. Do I kid myself that their “stories” weren’t surely one sided? No.<p>I was struck by how arbitrary the whole thing is. And how utterly ineffective it is. What troubled me the most is that we have outsourced this whole raft of problems, without sending it overseas. We want “problems” to just go away. And stay away. And so we outsource the existence of human lives to an alternate universe that exists right beneath our toes. And we maintain fascinating opinions about these people and their lives, with almost zero insight into what the existence we consigned them to was. When people heard I went to the prison every Sunday to visit with inmates, they would immediately wax their opinion about what it must be like. And I found over time that their imagination did not match my reality. Their can be no empathy in that scenario.<p>I dream (pointlessly) about a world where a much higher percentage of lay civilians spent volunteer time in prisons. Awareness leads to empathy. And only then when we weren’t outsourcing the issue, we might actually be moved to find something more effective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>texaslonghorn5</author><text>If it&#x27;s a repeat problem, then the prison time isn&#x27;t working, perhaps the best solution would be some other rehabilitative way to learn empathy...</text></comment> |
17,063,098 | 17,062,999 | 1 | 3 | 17,062,463 | train | <story><title>Australian regulator investigates Google data harvesting from Android phones</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/14/australian-regulator-investigates-google-data-harvesting-from-android-phones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flashman</author><text>&gt; &quot;The information fed back to Google includes barometric pressure readings so it can work out, for example, which level of a shopping mall you are on.&quot;<p>I scoffed, but this is actually a thing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4431287&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4431287&#x2F;</a><p>(It&#x27;s also useful for weather observations, see the old PressureNET.io site for an opt-in version.)<p>Anyway, my monthly mobile data usage for Google services is 110 MB and that&#x27;s including the map tiles, Google Play services and Play Store (I have location history disabled). I&#x27;d be interested in whether <i>anyone</i> is having a gig of their data used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brylie</author><text>I would really like to explicitly tell Google to stop tracking my location. Period. Despite what might be in their terms of service,this tracking is a violation of privacy. I have never given informed consent to such locstion tracking, and still get prompts to &#x27;rate this location&#x27; despite having explicitly disabled location history. Google location tracking is increasingly unethical.</text></comment> | <story><title>Australian regulator investigates Google data harvesting from Android phones</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/14/australian-regulator-investigates-google-data-harvesting-from-android-phones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flashman</author><text>&gt; &quot;The information fed back to Google includes barometric pressure readings so it can work out, for example, which level of a shopping mall you are on.&quot;<p>I scoffed, but this is actually a thing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4431287&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4431287&#x2F;</a><p>(It&#x27;s also useful for weather observations, see the old PressureNET.io site for an opt-in version.)<p>Anyway, my monthly mobile data usage for Google services is 110 MB and that&#x27;s including the map tiles, Google Play services and Play Store (I have location history disabled). I&#x27;d be interested in whether <i>anyone</i> is having a gig of their data used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iopuy</author><text>A known avenue of data acquisition is to wait until a wifi connections to transmit large amounts of data.</text></comment> |
11,917,552 | 11,917,299 | 1 | 2 | 11,916,149 | train | <story><title>Tumblr’s stumbles under Yahoo</title><url>http://mashable.com/2016/06/15/how-yahoo-derailed-tumblr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gnicholas</author><text>Their ad strategy sure did suck. I know this because I really wanted to advertise on Tumblr since many of their users were already posting about my startup and driving tons of traffic (tens of thousands of page views, from posts with 100k+ notes) to my website.<p>I contacted their ad team and was told the minimum ad buy was $25k. I explained the situation and said that given the popularity of our product among the Tumblr community, I had no doubt we could find a revenue-positive way to advertise on Tumblr, but that we couldn&#x27;t commit to $25k sight-unseen. I never heard back from them.<p>Considering how easy it is to advertise on Google or FB with just a couple bucks, I was shocked that Tumblr is so inflexible. I guess it&#x27;s not surprising they couldn&#x27;t get to $100M in ad revenue, since they&#x27;ll only talk to companies that can afford $25k experiments.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tumblr’s stumbles under Yahoo</title><url>http://mashable.com/2016/06/15/how-yahoo-derailed-tumblr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ivraatiems</author><text>This article wholly ignores the rampant technical problems with Tumblr and the way that every &quot;fix&quot; for them makes the platform worse. Whether it&#x27;s removing the ability to post reply chains, the completely broken Web and mobile interfaces, the haphazard rollout of new features, the sudden and unhelpful modifications to the search function&#x27;s behavior, or the continuous useless pushes for people who are just reading blogs to instead make a Tumblr of their own, the site is far, far off track from where it should be development-wise. Yeah, ads are annoying, and I can&#x27;t imagine Yahoo has helped matters, but I think the feelings of Tumblr&#x27;s user base on how it&#x27;s being modified are a large contributing factor in its decline.<p>Another factor is the failure of Tumblr&#x27;s staff to appreciate the diversity of ways Tumblr can be used: as a picture blog, as a server status log, as a way of communicating person to person, as a way of communicating person to corporation, as a way of creating funny writing projects or online roleplaying, or just as a content aggregator. All of these are valuable uses of the platform. Not all of them are ever accepted or catered to, in fact, most of them are ignored.<p>I&#x27;d like to see more on why Tumblr&#x27;s dev team does what it does than on why its ads team sucks.</text></comment> |
16,197,149 | 16,196,792 | 1 | 2 | 16,194,011 | train | <story><title>Intel Has a Big Problem</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/intel-has-a-big-problem-it-needs-to-act-like-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>luckydude</author><text>As the bitkeeper guy, I&#x27;m watching this with amusement. Intel used BitKeeper for over a decade for their RTL and when they used BK things seemed fine. We did everything that Intel wanted, at one point I realized we had taken $7M of revenue from other customers over the years and spent it on doing work for Intel. And that was still not enough for them.<p>They switched to git because free is better (we were a rounding error on a rounding in terms of cost to Intel, the most they ever paid us in a year is .00000004 of their revenue).<p>But that was too much so they switched to git and it&#x27;s been downhill for them ever since.<p>I&#x27;m not an idiot, I don&#x27;t think that the switch to git is the cause of their problems, their problems are self inflicted. I&#x27;m just one of many many vendors that Intel has fucked over. So I like seeing them squirm.<p>Karma is a bitch Intel.<p>Edit: yup, knew I&#x27;d get down voted. Don&#x27;t care. Try being an Intel vendor and get back to me about how much you like that.</text></item><item><author>mrb</author><text>«<i>They now work to what they call process&#x2F;architecture&#x2F;optimization, or in more familiar unofficial terms tick&#x2F;tock&#x2F;tweak.</i>»<p>For this cycle it&#x27;s been tick&#x2F;tock&#x2F;tweak&#x2F;tweak. Sounds like a broken clock.</text></item><item><author>ZenoArrow</author><text>&gt; &quot;In years past, they&#x27;d get maybe one extra product release off each new arch (tick&#x2F;tock)&quot;<p>Intel has moved away from the tick&#x2F;tock release cycle. They now work to what they call process&#x2F;architecture&#x2F;optimization, or in more familiar unofficial terms tick&#x2F;tock&#x2F;tweak.<p>Moore&#x27;s law is essentially broken now, and this isn&#x27;t just an Intel problem, this is a problem for all the major chip manufacturers. Furthermore, the challenges and cost of future node shrinks is also causing a slowdown in progress in integrated circuit manufacturing. We may get a couple more node shrinks, but we should prepare ourselves for the brick wall that we&#x27;re likely to hit in the next decade.</text></item><item><author>013a</author><text>Intel is a hot mess even without these security disasters.<p>Just look at their product release lifecycle: In years past, they&#x27;d get maybe one extra product release off each new arch (tick&#x2F;tock); for example, Sandy Bridge bore Ivy Bridge and Haswell bore Broadwell.<p>Skylake has born SIX new product lines; Goldmont, Goldmont Plus, Kaby Lake, Kaby Lake Refresh, Coffee Lake, and the upcoming Cannonlake. Their failed 10nm shrink has forced product delays; remember, Cannonlake (the 10nm shrink of Skylake) was supposed to be released in <i></i>2016<i></i>, and its not even out yet. Just at CES this week they said they&#x27;ve shipped mobile Cannonlake CPUs.<p>They have zero presence in mobile. Their best efforts involve competent Y-series processors. Then Apple comes around and, seemingly without even trying, destroys them [1] with a product that&#x27;s more thermally efficient and, in some ways, more powerful than Intel&#x27;s <i>best</i> mobile processors, not just their thermally efficient ones.<p>They have little presence in HPC&#x2F;AI, where Nvidia is slaughtering everyone and its not even close.<p>Its completely inevitable they&#x27;re going to lose Apple as a customer for consumer products; its just a matter of time. AMD is gaining traction with Zen, and they&#x27;re moving in the direction enterprise cloud provider want (lots of cores, not much $$). How much longer can Intel keep holding on? Do they have an ace they&#x27;ve been hiding? Will people even trust their ace after Meltdown?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5mac.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;14&#x2F;ipad-pro-versus-macbook-pro-speed-tests&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5mac.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;14&#x2F;ipad-pro-versus-macbook-pro-s...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>I don&#x27;t really get it. You seem to be complaining that a party chooses to no longer be your customer? Isn&#x27;t it their full right to decide so? What makes discontinuing a business relationship more &quot;fucking you over&quot; than you &quot;fucking over the supermarket&quot; by choosing to go to another supermarket?</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel Has a Big Problem</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/intel-has-a-big-problem-it-needs-to-act-like-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>luckydude</author><text>As the bitkeeper guy, I&#x27;m watching this with amusement. Intel used BitKeeper for over a decade for their RTL and when they used BK things seemed fine. We did everything that Intel wanted, at one point I realized we had taken $7M of revenue from other customers over the years and spent it on doing work for Intel. And that was still not enough for them.<p>They switched to git because free is better (we were a rounding error on a rounding in terms of cost to Intel, the most they ever paid us in a year is .00000004 of their revenue).<p>But that was too much so they switched to git and it&#x27;s been downhill for them ever since.<p>I&#x27;m not an idiot, I don&#x27;t think that the switch to git is the cause of their problems, their problems are self inflicted. I&#x27;m just one of many many vendors that Intel has fucked over. So I like seeing them squirm.<p>Karma is a bitch Intel.<p>Edit: yup, knew I&#x27;d get down voted. Don&#x27;t care. Try being an Intel vendor and get back to me about how much you like that.</text></item><item><author>mrb</author><text>«<i>They now work to what they call process&#x2F;architecture&#x2F;optimization, or in more familiar unofficial terms tick&#x2F;tock&#x2F;tweak.</i>»<p>For this cycle it&#x27;s been tick&#x2F;tock&#x2F;tweak&#x2F;tweak. Sounds like a broken clock.</text></item><item><author>ZenoArrow</author><text>&gt; &quot;In years past, they&#x27;d get maybe one extra product release off each new arch (tick&#x2F;tock)&quot;<p>Intel has moved away from the tick&#x2F;tock release cycle. They now work to what they call process&#x2F;architecture&#x2F;optimization, or in more familiar unofficial terms tick&#x2F;tock&#x2F;tweak.<p>Moore&#x27;s law is essentially broken now, and this isn&#x27;t just an Intel problem, this is a problem for all the major chip manufacturers. Furthermore, the challenges and cost of future node shrinks is also causing a slowdown in progress in integrated circuit manufacturing. We may get a couple more node shrinks, but we should prepare ourselves for the brick wall that we&#x27;re likely to hit in the next decade.</text></item><item><author>013a</author><text>Intel is a hot mess even without these security disasters.<p>Just look at their product release lifecycle: In years past, they&#x27;d get maybe one extra product release off each new arch (tick&#x2F;tock); for example, Sandy Bridge bore Ivy Bridge and Haswell bore Broadwell.<p>Skylake has born SIX new product lines; Goldmont, Goldmont Plus, Kaby Lake, Kaby Lake Refresh, Coffee Lake, and the upcoming Cannonlake. Their failed 10nm shrink has forced product delays; remember, Cannonlake (the 10nm shrink of Skylake) was supposed to be released in <i></i>2016<i></i>, and its not even out yet. Just at CES this week they said they&#x27;ve shipped mobile Cannonlake CPUs.<p>They have zero presence in mobile. Their best efforts involve competent Y-series processors. Then Apple comes around and, seemingly without even trying, destroys them [1] with a product that&#x27;s more thermally efficient and, in some ways, more powerful than Intel&#x27;s <i>best</i> mobile processors, not just their thermally efficient ones.<p>They have little presence in HPC&#x2F;AI, where Nvidia is slaughtering everyone and its not even close.<p>Its completely inevitable they&#x27;re going to lose Apple as a customer for consumer products; its just a matter of time. AMD is gaining traction with Zen, and they&#x27;re moving in the direction enterprise cloud provider want (lots of cores, not much $$). How much longer can Intel keep holding on? Do they have an ace they&#x27;ve been hiding? Will people even trust their ace after Meltdown?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5mac.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;14&#x2F;ipad-pro-versus-macbook-pro-speed-tests&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5mac.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;14&#x2F;ipad-pro-versus-macbook-pro-s...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>putnamjm</author><text>McFly&#x27;s right, if a bit sensational (ehhh, it&#x27;s his style.)<p>However, as poorly as they treat their vendors, it&#x27;s nothing compared to what they do to their employees and sadly large segments of their first line and middle management not only buy into that but have spent time making that into an art form.</text></comment> |
4,356,016 | 4,356,118 | 1 | 3 | 4,355,706 | train | <story><title>How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad </title><url>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-Advertisers-Convinced-Americans-They-Smelled-Bad-164779646.html?c=y&story=fullstory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rauljara</author><text>The best[1] advertising is the kind that informs people that a solution to their very real problems exists.<p>The worst[1] advertising is the kind that convinces you you have a problem you don't really have. It aims to make unhappy with what you have or who are when you would otherwise have been content.<p>Sometimes it seems to me like our society gets shaped more by the worst kinds of advertising than the best.<p>[1] By best and worst, I mean most beneficial to the person/people viewing the advertisement. An advertiser or deodorant executive would probably have a different opinion on the matter.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad </title><url>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-Advertisers-Convinced-Americans-They-Smelled-Bad-164779646.html?c=y&story=fullstory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>powertower</author><text>Do you know what the bigger story is here?<p>You can purchase a mineral salt-rock crystal (it's a smooth solid peace of salt, about as cheap as it gets) "de-odorant" that you wet and apply, it leaves nothing behind except an undetectable amount of salt on the skin. That is ... no chemicals, no fragrances, nothing but salt.<p>That salt kills-off the bacteria that are responsible for odor (through various means, directly and indirectly).<p>After a week or two of this, you're done. Your sweat lessens, and becomes clear and odorless.<p>No more deodorant is required after this. Just shower and apply some soap to your skin.<p>The bigger story here is that advertisers have convinced you that their more expensive "formulas" are required, and there are no good alternatives.<p>Their products are specifically designed not to kill-off the bacteria, and hence to keep you purchasing the product.<p>They do this because you can't make money selling a $1 peace of salt-rock that lasts the customer a life-time.</text></comment> |
30,472,532 | 30,472,519 | 1 | 3 | 30,456,026 | train | <story><title>A quick breakdown of what SWIFT is and why it matters</title><url>https://twitter.com/sahilbloom/status/1496861068945154056</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sealthedeal</author><text>CEO and co-founder of Routefusion here, a cross-border bank to bank payment API. We use the SWIFT network regularly. I can 100% confirm that all money in the world is just literally numbers, and it is balanced by the different federal reserve systems around the world to ensure no one can &quot;create&quot; money without notifying everyone.<p>I guess if I was super cool I would do an AMA because this is the only thread that is really my time to shine hahaha.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JacobThreeThree</author><text>&gt;I can 100% confirm that all money in the world is just literally numbers, and it is balanced by the different federal reserve systems around the world to ensure no one can &quot;create&quot; money without notifying everyone.<p>How does the system guarantee that nobody&#x27;s creating money without notifying everyone? Furthermore, does the system guarantee that the central banks of each country are correctly adjusting their books in consequence? Is it all just a trust-based system, or are there additional controls?</text></comment> | <story><title>A quick breakdown of what SWIFT is and why it matters</title><url>https://twitter.com/sahilbloom/status/1496861068945154056</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sealthedeal</author><text>CEO and co-founder of Routefusion here, a cross-border bank to bank payment API. We use the SWIFT network regularly. I can 100% confirm that all money in the world is just literally numbers, and it is balanced by the different federal reserve systems around the world to ensure no one can &quot;create&quot; money without notifying everyone.<p>I guess if I was super cool I would do an AMA because this is the only thread that is really my time to shine hahaha.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rocgf</author><text>Well, since you semi-offered... :)<p>Could you explain this to me like I am a complete moron? I understand that SWIFT allows for international payments, but I don&#x27;t understand exactly how it differs from a normal bank account transfer within the same country.</text></comment> |
9,564,272 | 9,564,341 | 1 | 2 | 9,563,148 | train | <story><title>Firing Well</title><url>http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/05/17/firing-well/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jader201</author><text>&gt; <i>To ease the pain of the breakup, my standard interview routine includes a segment on Why and How I’ll Fire You.</i><p>&gt; &quot;<i>... But repeated lapses of judgment or a habitually disruptive attitude can’t be tolerated, and we will have to part company. In plain English, I will fire you.&quot;</i><p>I&#x27;m not saying that setting expectations up front is a bad thing, but I&#x27;ve never had the topic of firing brought up -- ever -- in any of the many interviews I&#x27;ve had over my career.<p>And therefore, if this were brought up without my asking about their firing policies, the thought that would go through my mind would be along the lines of:<p>&quot;Wow, this company must have to deal with this quite a bit in order for it to be covered like this during an interview setting. Either this place causes people&#x27;s attitudes to take a major turn for the worse, or they do a terrible job at filtering out bad attitudes during the interview process.&quot;<p>Or...<p>&quot;Was there something on my resume or something that I said during the interview that may have triggered this?&quot;<p>Again, transparency is a good thing. And if I&#x27;m already asking about their firing policies during an interview, then maybe this is a good way to approach it.<p>But hearing it come up -- and like this -- during an interview without solicitation just reeks of a toxic environment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firing Well</title><url>http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/05/17/firing-well/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbyers</author><text>I read this not a general purpose guide to hiring and firing, but as a guide to hiring and firing _executives_. This is consistent with the author&#x27;s background. Note references to board approval, walking over to someone&#x27;s office, generous settlement packages, etc.<p>In this context the advice rings true to my ear. Less so for hiring and firing across all levels of an organization.</text></comment> |
18,358,663 | 18,358,344 | 1 | 3 | 18,355,568 | train | <story><title>Coding as an Engineering Manager</title><url>https://nemethgergely.com/coding-as-an-engineering-manager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nodefortytwo</author><text>For me I have always found the best projects to work on are Developer Experience projects.<p>In most companies its hard to dedicate the time to DevEx but as a manager I can rock out a few features for our cli in a couple hours. If i&#x27;m delayed it doesn&#x27;t really hurt the status quo but when I succeed my developers love it because I make their lives easier (the (almost) entire point of being a manager). It scratches the coding itch too although I have lost many evening and weekends getting carried away.</text></item><item><author>JimDabell</author><text>I think a lot of organisations (and people) fall into the trap of thinking of an engineering manager as a more senior tech lead, when in fact they are very different jobs with very different modes of working.<p>As soon as you start taking on managerial work, your development productivity starts to fall rapidly. I&#x27;ve never found a happy medium, nor have I seen others achieve it. People who try to do both quickly settle on ~80% of one and ~20% of the other. Which is fine if you acknowledge that you can only do ~20% of the other, and that the shape of it is likely to look very different to when you were spending 100% of your time on it.<p>As others have mentioned, if you are an engineering manager and you still want to dedicate some of your working time to development, you have to take yourself out of the critical path. Nobody wants to hold up a release because you were working on an important part of it and you&#x27;ve been constantly interrupted all week with managerial work and meetings.<p>Instead, pick things that are either tiny or decoupled from the release process. Things like refactoring, non-critical bug fixes, documentation, tests, spikes. These are the kinds of things that won&#x27;t fall apart if your development productivity is unpredictable and the kinds of things that are easy to put down and pick up again. As an engineering manager, you&#x27;re interrupt-driven which is incredibly disruptive for focus. If you do write code, then it has to be the code that works within those constraints, or you&#x27;ll end up being a blocker for the rest of the team and your managerial work will suffer as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ojn</author><text>As others, I 100% agree with this and it&#x27;s what I&#x27;ve also been focusing on as a manager.<p>Someone told me: Once you have 10 people on your team, if you spend 100% time coding, you increase amount of coding by 10%.<p>Instead, either spend time finding that next hire (increase by 10%), or work on other things that improves the team&#x27;s productivity even more.<p>For me, the hard part is when the team size is ~5-8 people. Too big for me to be 80% technical, but usually not quite such that managing is 80% either. This is when it&#x27;s easy to sign up for critical tasks and get interrupted due to manager stuff, and as a result work 160% total. Once the team grows it usually gets easier.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coding as an Engineering Manager</title><url>https://nemethgergely.com/coding-as-an-engineering-manager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nodefortytwo</author><text>For me I have always found the best projects to work on are Developer Experience projects.<p>In most companies its hard to dedicate the time to DevEx but as a manager I can rock out a few features for our cli in a couple hours. If i&#x27;m delayed it doesn&#x27;t really hurt the status quo but when I succeed my developers love it because I make their lives easier (the (almost) entire point of being a manager). It scratches the coding itch too although I have lost many evening and weekends getting carried away.</text></item><item><author>JimDabell</author><text>I think a lot of organisations (and people) fall into the trap of thinking of an engineering manager as a more senior tech lead, when in fact they are very different jobs with very different modes of working.<p>As soon as you start taking on managerial work, your development productivity starts to fall rapidly. I&#x27;ve never found a happy medium, nor have I seen others achieve it. People who try to do both quickly settle on ~80% of one and ~20% of the other. Which is fine if you acknowledge that you can only do ~20% of the other, and that the shape of it is likely to look very different to when you were spending 100% of your time on it.<p>As others have mentioned, if you are an engineering manager and you still want to dedicate some of your working time to development, you have to take yourself out of the critical path. Nobody wants to hold up a release because you were working on an important part of it and you&#x27;ve been constantly interrupted all week with managerial work and meetings.<p>Instead, pick things that are either tiny or decoupled from the release process. Things like refactoring, non-critical bug fixes, documentation, tests, spikes. These are the kinds of things that won&#x27;t fall apart if your development productivity is unpredictable and the kinds of things that are easy to put down and pick up again. As an engineering manager, you&#x27;re interrupt-driven which is incredibly disruptive for focus. If you do write code, then it has to be the code that works within those constraints, or you&#x27;ll end up being a blocker for the rest of the team and your managerial work will suffer as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>In a lot of organizations a Lead Dev is still a coder, but keeping an eye on the long game.<p>Personally, I think that the sort of code you&#x27;re talking about here is a big part of the mix of things that a Lead should be working on, or at least championing. You don&#x27;t actually want these people to have too much code with their name on it for the same reason you don&#x27;t want Managers to do it: It gets treated as a sacred cow whether you want it to or not.<p>For myself, I&#x27;d estimate it&#x27;s about a 40-40-20 split between DevEx code, the most safety-critical functions in libraries, and example code respectively. <i>But</i>, I&#x27;d aspire to flip the last two numbers (on a high functioning team I should be able to trust other people to do bits I barely trust myself to get right).<p>And unless you enjoy bottlenecks (some people do because it makes them feel special), you should be trying to get most of the code written by people of average skill (the peak of your employee bell curve). So if I&#x27;m writing even half as much code as they are, things aren&#x27;t going well at all. You want a light touch.</text></comment> |
23,200,886 | 23,198,826 | 1 | 2 | 23,196,626 | train | <story><title>The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)</title><url>https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behind-a-one-person-23/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LiamPa</author><text>From a few months ago:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20985875" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20985875</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)</title><url>https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behind-a-one-person-23/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>julianeon</author><text>Wow, that&#x27;s hugely impressive for a 1-man operation. You&#x27;re like a song that you hear on the radio with solid guitar, vocals, drums, etc. and it turns out it&#x27;s all 1 guy by himself who recorded and mixed those elements together. It may be possible, but it&#x27;s definitely not common.<p>Also, to any VC&#x27;s reading this, this guy will spend $1 better, leaner and farther than any team you can name, and he&#x27;s already demonstrated he has the chops w&#x2F;this project.<p>Finally, thanks for sharing this. This is the kind of quality post that 100% justifies the time I spend on HN.</text></comment> |
1,468,906 | 1,468,909 | 1 | 2 | 1,468,802 | train | <story><title>Store.js - cross browser local storage without using cookies or flash</title><url>http://github.com/marcuswestin/store.js</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barredo</author><text>From the readme:<p>"So far tested in<p>Tested in Firefox 2.0
Tested in Firefox 3.0
Tested in Firefox 3.6
Tested in Chrome 5
Tested in Safari 4
Tested in Safari 5
Tested in IE6
Tested in IE7
Tested in IE8
Tested in Opera 10"<p>Does it mean it works on IE6+? Does IE6 have local storage?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cheald</author><text>Take a look at the source. It uses an IE-proprietary something or other to mock the behavior.<p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531424%28v=VS.85%29.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531424%28v=VS.85%2...</a><p>Been available since IE 5.5, apparently. Who knew?</text></comment> | <story><title>Store.js - cross browser local storage without using cookies or flash</title><url>http://github.com/marcuswestin/store.js</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barredo</author><text>From the readme:<p>"So far tested in<p>Tested in Firefox 2.0
Tested in Firefox 3.0
Tested in Firefox 3.6
Tested in Chrome 5
Tested in Safari 4
Tested in Safari 5
Tested in IE6
Tested in IE7
Tested in IE8
Tested in Opera 10"<p>Does it mean it works on IE6+? Does IE6 have local storage?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmjordan</author><text>Looks like it. If you look a the store.js source code, it links to <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531424(v=VS.85).aspx" rel="nofollow">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531424(v=VS.85).as...</a> which appears to be another one of those hidden gems in IE, like the original AJAX implementation, or XDomainRequest.</text></comment> |
9,318,560 | 9,317,987 | 1 | 2 | 9,317,567 | train | <story><title>How to Sell Excellence</title><url>https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1a4GvI0dbL8sfAlnTUwVxhq4_j-QiDlz02_t0XZJXnzY/preview?sle=true&slide=id.p</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amazing_jose</author><text>I loved Haskell, seriously!<p>The year was 1997 and my uni professor was contributing to Hugs (do you remember it?). But, while I was working my way through Monads and stuff other people were running circles around me in C or C++. The basics were &quot;simple&quot; (even for basic C++) and they concentrated in getting things done.<p>Years later I launched my first start-up idea on Common Lisp. In both situation I learnt two hard truths:<p>a) libraries and support are very important<p>b) Architecture + basics &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; any particular technology<p>Now we are in 2015 (nearly 20 years later) and Haskell has advanced as much as Common Lisp on regards of usefulness for the general business. People still consider them elite (or 1337!) languages for showing off, meanwhile the rest of the world (with its mediocre programmers and tools) are running circles again. Programs now are distributed around dozens, hundreds or thousands of machines. Latency, networks, deployments, services, data communication,...<p>In the end I selected Python as my main programming language, following Norvig&#x27;s advice that Python made for a good replacement for Lisp. I don&#x27;t regret my decision not even a bit. Python paid&#x2F;pays my bills. Yet, from time to time I read this posts and presentations and I feel a bit of envy for not being in a position where I could say «I reject your reality and substitute my own» and use Haskell or Common Lisp for main infrastructure to have the 1337 feeling again... like when I use obscure operative systems and end up in fruitless battles over how they are better even taking into account the lack of mainstream adoption (I&#x27;m staring at you Haiku-os!).</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Sell Excellence</title><url>https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1a4GvI0dbL8sfAlnTUwVxhq4_j-QiDlz02_t0XZJXnzY/preview?sle=true&slide=id.p</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandvm</author><text>At the risk of sounding inflammatory... I would be willing to believe that purely functional languages are the &quot;one true way&quot; if there were even the slightest bit of empirical evidence to support it. But where are all the successful large scale projects built with Haskell (or Clojure or whatever)?<p>The biggest FP project I was aware of was Twitter using Scala and they ended up completely backing away from it. Yikes.<p>The only other popular site that springs to mind is Hacker News, and frankly, it sucks. It&#x27;s practically the Hello World of discussion forums.<p>The truth is, at the end of the day almost everything is being built with Java, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript. Can you really blame the product owners for being wary of writing their whole product in a functional language?</text></comment> |
17,249,019 | 17,249,033 | 1 | 2 | 17,248,095 | train | <story><title>Java: "+=" applied to String operands can provoke side effects</title><url>https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8204322</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kjeetgill</author><text>Wow. This is a pretty big bug.
The official bug report: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.openjdk.java.net&#x2F;browse&#x2F;JDK-8204322" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.openjdk.java.net&#x2F;browse&#x2F;JDK-8204322</a> as Stuart Marks, a jvm architect, posted.
I&#x27;m surprised it stayed uncaught for so long.<p>For the unfamiliar, the way string concatenation is compiled changed with invokedynamic.<p>Previously, it would compile to either Sting.concat calls or transform into a StringBuilder, but with invoke dynamic we can leave it to the runtime to optimize when it first runs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dtech</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m surprised it stayed uncaught for so long.<p>I&#x27;m not surprised. Java 9 has minor adoption, and having side effects on the left hand side of an assignment operation is really really bad practice.<p>So you&#x27;d need a codebase that (1) was updated or written in a very new Java version, (2) contained the smelly code and (3) had a harmful double side-effect that got noticed. That&#x27;s a pretty rare combination.</text></comment> | <story><title>Java: "+=" applied to String operands can provoke side effects</title><url>https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8204322</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kjeetgill</author><text>Wow. This is a pretty big bug.
The official bug report: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.openjdk.java.net&#x2F;browse&#x2F;JDK-8204322" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.openjdk.java.net&#x2F;browse&#x2F;JDK-8204322</a> as Stuart Marks, a jvm architect, posted.
I&#x27;m surprised it stayed uncaught for so long.<p>For the unfamiliar, the way string concatenation is compiled changed with invokedynamic.<p>Previously, it would compile to either Sting.concat calls or transform into a StringBuilder, but with invoke dynamic we can leave it to the runtime to optimize when it first runs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cup-of-tea</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m surprised it stayed uncaught for so long.<p>You haven&#x27;t heard of the bug in binary search that existed for nine years then?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.googleblog.com&#x2F;2006&#x2F;06&#x2F;extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html?m=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.googleblog.com&#x2F;2006&#x2F;06&#x2F;extra-extra-read-all-about...</a></text></comment> |
33,743,332 | 33,741,965 | 1 | 2 | 33,736,076 | train | <story><title>Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/11/24/why-its-hard-to-buy-deodorant-in-manhattan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; I think it&#x27;s very fair to have differing attitudes&#x2F;moral thresholds for an impoverished mother shoplifting a week&#x27;s worth of baby formula versus &quot;a couple in Alabama [which] pled guilty to shifting $300,000-worth of stolen baby formula on eBay&quot;.<p>I’ve also noticed a weird tendency to downplay theft lately, either through projecting a theoretical moral justification on to the shoplifter or by insinuating that retail stores are evil corporations and therefore deserve no sympathy.<p>Knowing some people who work in retail, the impact of rampant theft (organized or random) is really quite unsettling on the people who have to be around it. Retail store policies are very much about not interfering with the thieves, but it’s quite upsetting when you realize you’re in an environment where the law doesn’t really mean anything and consequences basically don’t exist for breaking the law. The few people I know in retail (including retail management) are looking to get out ASAP because it just feels so vaguely unsafe and, worse yet, large swaths of the public seem to thing the thieves are the good guys and the retail employees are the bad ones because they’re associated with a corporation.</text></item><item><author>axutio</author><text>Most of the comments here are ignoring the difference between regular old shoplifting and the trend driving the increase discussed in the article, which they&#x27;re referring to as &quot;organized retail crime&quot;.<p>I think it&#x27;s very fair to have differing attitudes&#x2F;moral thresholds for an impoverished mother shoplifting a week&#x27;s worth of baby formula versus &quot;a couple in Alabama [which] pled guilty to shifting $300,000-worth of stolen baby formula on eBay&quot;.<p>My reading of the article suggests that the trend discussed is a result of the latter, which is more recent and problematic, and not the former. Comments here discussing the morality of crime or a desire for policy change are missing this distinction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quacked</author><text>Few people live in what can reasonably called a &quot;community&quot; any more, so the link between anonymous theft and the erosion of social culture doesn&#x27;t make sense to everyone.<p>The most remote, homestead-y places will have unattended &quot;stores&quot; where you leave out goods and people come by and leave money in the basket and take what you have. The least remote, most-managed places have security locks on items over $15. It is impossible to run a friendly, neighborhood-run store when any new customer is a potential thief. When theft goes uncontrolled, owners begin to look at their customers with suspicion. Those who don&#x27;t like theft leave for more peaceful places and are replaced by owners who will tolerate theft with a big insurance policy and force.<p>It is continually astonishing to me that so many &quot;community-focused&quot; people don&#x27;t realize that unilateral actions of harm inside the community (theft, assault, etc.) have ripple effects that harm the entire community. If you grow up in a region where store owners believe you might be a thief unless they personally know you and you have to constantly worry about protecting what&#x27;s yours, and I grow up in an area where I&#x27;m trusted and respected by business owners and I leave my door unlocked when I go to town, how is equity meaningfully achievable between us?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan</title><url>https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/11/24/why-its-hard-to-buy-deodorant-in-manhattan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; I think it&#x27;s very fair to have differing attitudes&#x2F;moral thresholds for an impoverished mother shoplifting a week&#x27;s worth of baby formula versus &quot;a couple in Alabama [which] pled guilty to shifting $300,000-worth of stolen baby formula on eBay&quot;.<p>I’ve also noticed a weird tendency to downplay theft lately, either through projecting a theoretical moral justification on to the shoplifter or by insinuating that retail stores are evil corporations and therefore deserve no sympathy.<p>Knowing some people who work in retail, the impact of rampant theft (organized or random) is really quite unsettling on the people who have to be around it. Retail store policies are very much about not interfering with the thieves, but it’s quite upsetting when you realize you’re in an environment where the law doesn’t really mean anything and consequences basically don’t exist for breaking the law. The few people I know in retail (including retail management) are looking to get out ASAP because it just feels so vaguely unsafe and, worse yet, large swaths of the public seem to thing the thieves are the good guys and the retail employees are the bad ones because they’re associated with a corporation.</text></item><item><author>axutio</author><text>Most of the comments here are ignoring the difference between regular old shoplifting and the trend driving the increase discussed in the article, which they&#x27;re referring to as &quot;organized retail crime&quot;.<p>I think it&#x27;s very fair to have differing attitudes&#x2F;moral thresholds for an impoverished mother shoplifting a week&#x27;s worth of baby formula versus &quot;a couple in Alabama [which] pled guilty to shifting $300,000-worth of stolen baby formula on eBay&quot;.<p>My reading of the article suggests that the trend discussed is a result of the latter, which is more recent and problematic, and not the former. Comments here discussing the morality of crime or a desire for policy change are missing this distinction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>igammarays</author><text>&gt; I’ve also noticed a weird tendency to downplay theft lately.<p>Happened before in history. See the Russian Revolution and the creation of the Soviet Union. Widespread moral justification for theft of private property on class-based &quot;social justice&quot; arguments. It&#x27;s even happening right here in this HN thread, people justifying stealing.</text></comment> |
26,266,814 | 26,263,663 | 1 | 3 | 26,261,310 | train | <story><title>Linux Capabilities in a nutshell (2019)</title><url>https://k3a.me/linux-capabilities-in-a-nutshell/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbarnett</author><text>An interesting page, yet the font has text-shadow enabled -- which on my monitor&#x2F;desktop&#x2F;browser, just makes it look blurry.<p>To me, it&#x27;s barely legible.<p>It may appear different to others, for example when I looked on my phone, the effect was not as prominent. I&#x27;ll pass.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neop1x</author><text>Author here, sorry about the text-shadow. I added it there many years ago and it seemed like a good idea back then. After webs started over-using various shadows and animations, I installed Stylus Firefox extension with rules disabling shadows and animations and completely forgot that the rule is still there! Removed now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux Capabilities in a nutshell (2019)</title><url>https://k3a.me/linux-capabilities-in-a-nutshell/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbarnett</author><text>An interesting page, yet the font has text-shadow enabled -- which on my monitor&#x2F;desktop&#x2F;browser, just makes it look blurry.<p>To me, it&#x27;s barely legible.<p>It may appear different to others, for example when I looked on my phone, the effect was not as prominent. I&#x27;ll pass.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>npteljes</author><text>Yeah the text is uncomfortable, thankfully Firefox&#x27;s Reader mode worked well.</text></comment> |
24,273,941 | 24,273,442 | 1 | 2 | 24,271,898 | train | <story><title>What the interns have wrought, 2020 edition</title><url>https://blog.janestreet.com/what-the-interns-have-wrought-2020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffbee</author><text>Another thing the HN orthodoxy rejects is that professional investing and trading can make money above monkey-dart levels, despite the abundance of evidence that it does.</text></item><item><author>davidu</author><text>I know people who work there. That comp data excludes bonuses -- and most importantly -- that employees are able to invest in the proprietary funds themselves, which generate insane returns.</text></item><item><author>polote</author><text>&gt; Engineers there routinely make well over $1mm&#x2F;year.<p>Do you have a source for such claim ? data from h1b salary [1] tells that senior software make 200k base, and here [2] they explain that the average salary is 440k<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;h1bdata.info&#x2F;index.php?em=JANE%20STREET&amp;job=" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;h1bdata.info&#x2F;index.php?em=JANE%20STREET&amp;job=</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.efinancialcareers.com&#x2F;fr-en&#x2F;307393&#x2F;jane-street-pay" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.efinancialcareers.com&#x2F;fr-en&#x2F;307393&#x2F;jane-street-...</a></text></item><item><author>davidu</author><text>For those who don&#x27;t know, Jane Street is one of the best performing algorithmic trading firms on Wall Street. Probably the largest Ocaml shop on earth.<p>It&#x27;s a lucrative job for strong programming talent. Engineers there routinely make well over $1mm&#x2F;year (edit: after a few years).<p>They are similar to Two Sigma in tech focus and talent, which is a more well-known firm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>losvedir</author><text>What evidence? I thought that was standard orthodoxy, not just on HN. No one doubts that people can and have beat basic index funds; I just thought that was a poor predictor of what would beat the market again going forward (perhaps after accounting for fees?).<p>I used to work in sell side equity research before leaving to do software development, because at least from my vantage point, no one was that great at predicting the market.</text></comment> | <story><title>What the interns have wrought, 2020 edition</title><url>https://blog.janestreet.com/what-the-interns-have-wrought-2020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffbee</author><text>Another thing the HN orthodoxy rejects is that professional investing and trading can make money above monkey-dart levels, despite the abundance of evidence that it does.</text></item><item><author>davidu</author><text>I know people who work there. That comp data excludes bonuses -- and most importantly -- that employees are able to invest in the proprietary funds themselves, which generate insane returns.</text></item><item><author>polote</author><text>&gt; Engineers there routinely make well over $1mm&#x2F;year.<p>Do you have a source for such claim ? data from h1b salary [1] tells that senior software make 200k base, and here [2] they explain that the average salary is 440k<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;h1bdata.info&#x2F;index.php?em=JANE%20STREET&amp;job=" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;h1bdata.info&#x2F;index.php?em=JANE%20STREET&amp;job=</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.efinancialcareers.com&#x2F;fr-en&#x2F;307393&#x2F;jane-street-pay" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.efinancialcareers.com&#x2F;fr-en&#x2F;307393&#x2F;jane-street-...</a></text></item><item><author>davidu</author><text>For those who don&#x27;t know, Jane Street is one of the best performing algorithmic trading firms on Wall Street. Probably the largest Ocaml shop on earth.<p>It&#x27;s a lucrative job for strong programming talent. Engineers there routinely make well over $1mm&#x2F;year (edit: after a few years).<p>They are similar to Two Sigma in tech focus and talent, which is a more well-known firm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>closeparen</author><text>This assertion is about funds that are open to the general public. No one doubts e.g. Renaissance’s Medallion fund.</text></comment> |
5,625,917 | 5,625,557 | 1 | 2 | 5,625,347 | train | <story><title>Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, sues him for $3.4M</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/29/opera-claims-former-employee-gave-away-trade-secrets-to-mozilla-sues-him-for-3-4m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sudhirj</author><text>Opera gets in bed with Google Chrome and then sues the other camp? I thought they were above all this.<p>Either way, an idea for a browser feature is hardly a huge industrial secret - Webkit, Blink and Gecko have near-parity on features, and are competing more on speed. How would this stand up in court?<p>Neither Google nor Opera have anything to gain from this - what could be the economic rationale?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>I don't think switch to Google's engine is the cause, it's rather another symptom of the same thing — after Jon von Tetzchner has left Opera Software has changed their priorities.<p>Change of engine, downsizing (and old-time developers fleeing the company), and now the lawsuit to me indicate that Opera Software now favors profits over preserving company's culture, image and web standards influence.<p>Hippies have left, suits have taken over.</text></comment> | <story><title>Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, sues him for $3.4M</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/29/opera-claims-former-employee-gave-away-trade-secrets-to-mozilla-sues-him-for-3-4m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sudhirj</author><text>Opera gets in bed with Google Chrome and then sues the other camp? I thought they were above all this.<p>Either way, an idea for a browser feature is hardly a huge industrial secret - Webkit, Blink and Gecko have near-parity on features, and are competing more on speed. How would this stand up in court?<p>Neither Google nor Opera have anything to gain from this - what could be the economic rationale?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rurounijones</author><text>"Opera gets in bed with Google Chrome and then sues the other camp? I thought they were above all this."<p>These two things are not linked, stop trying to make it so.</text></comment> |
34,026,419 | 34,021,693 | 1 | 2 | 34,020,025 | train | <story><title>Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode’s code quality</title><url>https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/main/ipynb/AlphaCode.ipynb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnfn</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I buy this argument. ChatGPT seems to understand how to reason about a large multiplication the same that a 6 or 7 year old might, and I would expect a 6 or 7 year old to make similarly large errors. No one claims that 6 or 7 year olds are unable to reason.</text></item><item><author>ookdatnog</author><text>Reasoning is meaningfully distinct from what the models do now. You can ask ChatGPT to multiply two smallish natural numbers and often it will give the correct answer. Now look what happens if you ask it to multiply two very large numbers:<p>&gt; To multiply two large numbers, such as 3146746135164684 times 468473136468433, we can use the traditional multiplication algorithm. This algorithm involves breaking the numbers down into smaller groups of digits, multiplying each group by the corresponding group of digits in the other number, and then adding up the products to find the final result.<p>&gt; Here is an example of how to multiply 3146746135164684 times 468473136468433 using the traditional multiplication algorithm:<p>&gt; Break the numbers down into groups of digits. For example, we could group the digits of 3146746135164684 as 314, 6746, 135, 1646, 84 and group the digits of 468473136468433 as 4684, 7313, 6468, 433.<p>&gt; Multipply each group of digits by the corresponding group of digits in the other number. For example, we would multiply 314 times 4684 to get 1470196, 6746 times 7313 to get 49470158, 135 times 6468 to get 873980, 1646 times 433 to get 708338, and 84 times 1 to get 84.<p>&gt; Add up the products to find the final result. In this case, the final result would be 1470196 + 49470158 + 873980 + 708338 + 84 = 146845556.<p>&gt; Therefore, the result of multiplying 3146746135164684 times 468473136468433 using the traditional multiplication algorithm is 146845556.<p>It&#x27;s not just that the answer is wrong, is that it&#x27;s complete nonsense.<p>Reasoning is a style of thinking that scales. You may be more likely to get the wrong answer in a very long chain of reasoning because at every step you have a nonzero chance of making a mistake, but the mistake is identifiable and explainable. That&#x27;s why teachers ask you to show your work. Even if you get the answer wrong, they can see at a glance whether you understand the material or not. We can see at a glance that ChatGPT does not understand multiplication.</text></item><item><author>johnfn</author><text>I&#x27;m not the first to say it, but the distinction over whether models do any &quot;actual reasoning&quot; or not seems moot to me. Whether or not they do reasoning, they answer questions with a decent degree of accuracy, and that degree of accuracy is only going up as we feed the models more data. Whether or not they &quot;do actual reasoning&quot; simply won&#x27;t matter.<p>They&#x27;re already superhuman in some regards; I don&#x27;t think that I could have coded up the solution to that problem in 5 seconds. :)</text></item><item><author>trynewideas</author><text>This is a great review but it still misses what seems like the point to me: these models don&#x27;t do any actual reasoning. They&#x27;re doing the same thing that DALL-E <i>etc.</i> does with images: using a superhuman store of potential outcomes to mimic an outcome that the person entering the prompt would then click a thumbs-up icon on in a training model.<p>Asking why the model doesn&#x27;t explain how the code it generated works is like asking a child who just said their first curse word what it means. The model and child alike don&#x27;t know or care, they just know how people react to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kqr</author><text>I took the opportunity of seasonal proximity to family and tried this question on a small selection of 6--8 year olds, and I received one correct response (accompanied by proudly showing the correct application of long multiplication on a big piece of paper) along with two &quot;I don&#x27;t know, what is it?&quot;<p>None invented their own algorithm and confidently claimed it to be the way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode’s code quality</title><url>https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/main/ipynb/AlphaCode.ipynb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnfn</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I buy this argument. ChatGPT seems to understand how to reason about a large multiplication the same that a 6 or 7 year old might, and I would expect a 6 or 7 year old to make similarly large errors. No one claims that 6 or 7 year olds are unable to reason.</text></item><item><author>ookdatnog</author><text>Reasoning is meaningfully distinct from what the models do now. You can ask ChatGPT to multiply two smallish natural numbers and often it will give the correct answer. Now look what happens if you ask it to multiply two very large numbers:<p>&gt; To multiply two large numbers, such as 3146746135164684 times 468473136468433, we can use the traditional multiplication algorithm. This algorithm involves breaking the numbers down into smaller groups of digits, multiplying each group by the corresponding group of digits in the other number, and then adding up the products to find the final result.<p>&gt; Here is an example of how to multiply 3146746135164684 times 468473136468433 using the traditional multiplication algorithm:<p>&gt; Break the numbers down into groups of digits. For example, we could group the digits of 3146746135164684 as 314, 6746, 135, 1646, 84 and group the digits of 468473136468433 as 4684, 7313, 6468, 433.<p>&gt; Multipply each group of digits by the corresponding group of digits in the other number. For example, we would multiply 314 times 4684 to get 1470196, 6746 times 7313 to get 49470158, 135 times 6468 to get 873980, 1646 times 433 to get 708338, and 84 times 1 to get 84.<p>&gt; Add up the products to find the final result. In this case, the final result would be 1470196 + 49470158 + 873980 + 708338 + 84 = 146845556.<p>&gt; Therefore, the result of multiplying 3146746135164684 times 468473136468433 using the traditional multiplication algorithm is 146845556.<p>It&#x27;s not just that the answer is wrong, is that it&#x27;s complete nonsense.<p>Reasoning is a style of thinking that scales. You may be more likely to get the wrong answer in a very long chain of reasoning because at every step you have a nonzero chance of making a mistake, but the mistake is identifiable and explainable. That&#x27;s why teachers ask you to show your work. Even if you get the answer wrong, they can see at a glance whether you understand the material or not. We can see at a glance that ChatGPT does not understand multiplication.</text></item><item><author>johnfn</author><text>I&#x27;m not the first to say it, but the distinction over whether models do any &quot;actual reasoning&quot; or not seems moot to me. Whether or not they do reasoning, they answer questions with a decent degree of accuracy, and that degree of accuracy is only going up as we feed the models more data. Whether or not they &quot;do actual reasoning&quot; simply won&#x27;t matter.<p>They&#x27;re already superhuman in some regards; I don&#x27;t think that I could have coded up the solution to that problem in 5 seconds. :)</text></item><item><author>trynewideas</author><text>This is a great review but it still misses what seems like the point to me: these models don&#x27;t do any actual reasoning. They&#x27;re doing the same thing that DALL-E <i>etc.</i> does with images: using a superhuman store of potential outcomes to mimic an outcome that the person entering the prompt would then click a thumbs-up icon on in a training model.<p>Asking why the model doesn&#x27;t explain how the code it generated works is like asking a child who just said their first curse word what it means. The model and child alike don&#x27;t know or care, they just know how people react to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fossuser</author><text>Yeah, in the original gpt-3 paper one of the more interesting bits was that it made similar off by one errors a human would make when doing arithmetic (and they controlled for memorized test data).</text></comment> |
3,137,421 | 3,136,912 | 1 | 2 | 3,136,204 | train | <story><title>Foundation: HTML/CSS boilerplate that responds to changing screen dimensions</title><url>http://foundation.zurb.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielKehoe</author><text>I see there is a Rails gem for Foundation:
<a href="https://github.com/zurb/foundation-rails" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zurb/foundation-rails</a><p>But please, tell me why I should use this rather than Skeleton (<a href="http://getskeleton.com/" rel="nofollow">http://getskeleton.com/</a>) or Twitter's Bootstrap (<a href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/</a>)?</text></comment> | <story><title>Foundation: HTML/CSS boilerplate that responds to changing screen dimensions</title><url>http://foundation.zurb.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pssdbt</author><text>Sounds similar to Skeleton (<a href="http://getskeleton.com/" rel="nofollow">http://getskeleton.com/</a>) but a little more in-depth (I noticed more attention to forms in Foundation, which is nice).</text></comment> |
6,898,841 | 6,898,097 | 1 | 2 | 6,897,417 | train | <story><title>Free Games: Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics</title><url>http://www.gog.com/news/free_games_fallout_fallout_2_and_fallout_tactics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>I&#x27;ve bought these games several times before (at discount) for the various OSes and computers I&#x27;ve had. I haven&#x27;t played many modern RPGs (including Fallout 3+) but have any RPGs since Fallout surpassed it in allowing the player to <i>truly</i> embody an actual path? Not only could you play through making good&#x2F;evil moral choices, but you could actually win the first game, IIRC, without even firing a single shot (by talking your enemies to death), or you could play as a total moron whose complete dialogue tree consisted of &quot;UGHR?&quot; as the NPCs treated you like the adult-child you were. I think you could even succeed as some of the specialty skillsets, such as being a pure scientist or lockpicking thief.<p>Anyway, a fun game in terms of mechanics go, but still (in my mind) unsurpassed in writing</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bernardom</author><text>Baldur&#x27;s Gate 2. It&#x27;s so good that a studio re-made it to work on modern computers- it just came out last month:<p><a href="http://www.baldursgateii.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.baldursgateii.com&#x2F;</a><p>(I have no relation other than a happy customer)</text></comment> | <story><title>Free Games: Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics</title><url>http://www.gog.com/news/free_games_fallout_fallout_2_and_fallout_tactics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>I&#x27;ve bought these games several times before (at discount) for the various OSes and computers I&#x27;ve had. I haven&#x27;t played many modern RPGs (including Fallout 3+) but have any RPGs since Fallout surpassed it in allowing the player to <i>truly</i> embody an actual path? Not only could you play through making good&#x2F;evil moral choices, but you could actually win the first game, IIRC, without even firing a single shot (by talking your enemies to death), or you could play as a total moron whose complete dialogue tree consisted of &quot;UGHR?&quot; as the NPCs treated you like the adult-child you were. I think you could even succeed as some of the specialty skillsets, such as being a pure scientist or lockpicking thief.<p>Anyway, a fun game in terms of mechanics go, but still (in my mind) unsurpassed in writing</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaryd</author><text>Might be interested in this project... <a href="http://eternity.obsidian.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;eternity.obsidian.net</a> (Pillars of Eternity)<p>EDIT: More info...<p>This game was kickstarted and is being developed by some of the same people that worked on Planescape: Torment. They recently did Fallout: New Vegas, and are currently also working on South Park: Stick of Truth. Here&#x27;s a link to the gameplay promo for Pillars of Eternity: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKoDTzea79Y" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HKoDTzea79Y</a><p>Disclosure: My buddy works for this game studio</text></comment> |
18,794,800 | 18,793,689 | 1 | 2 | 18,790,260 | train | <story><title>Microsoft changed how it interviews software developers</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/microsoft-new-developer-interview-process-2018-12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kluyg</author><text>Yeah, if only it was all unicorns and rainbows. What you describe is how I imagine they interview for director &#x2F; VP positions. With hundreds (thousands?) of applications per day for software engineering positions, all with perfect resumes, what you describe just doesn’t scale. Software engineers do 1-2 interviews per week each, it’s part of the job. I might be a minority, but I would refuse to spend two of my evenings per week interviewing people. I’d rather spend time with my family instead. I think asking candidates to get a day off for interviews, which happens like once per year or even less often for each candidate is more reasonable than asking your employees to work evenings each week.</text></item><item><author>solatic</author><text>Dogfooding their process is going to give them adverse results here: Microsoft is paying them to take all the time they want, but good candidates won&#x27;t be so willing to spend so much time. Already, they&#x27;re up to a full day of interviews, which is ridiculous. One of the worst parts of current FAANG interviewing is how long it takes to get to the day of interviews, needing to take off from work to attend the interview day, and then getting rejected nonetheless. Not only does this process ask for too much commitment on the part of candidates, it selects for candidates for whom such a commitment is less relatively costly - i.e. people who are currently unemployed, students, etc, and while there are many such people with great talent and potential, respectively, they&#x27;re also less likely to be strong candidates than people who are currently employed.<p>One of the key issues in recruiting is how to make hiring decisions quickly. Good candidates don&#x27;t have the patience for your internal politics to resolve over a month or two to figure out whether they&#x27;re getting an offer or not; they&#x27;re just going to interview with other places in the meantime who will beat you to the punch.<p>Take a resume off the pile. Email or text to schedule a call. During the call, talk about relevant experience &#x2F; past projects, what each side is looking for, etc. Make a decision during the call whether you want to invite the person for a two-hour interview, and schedule it during the call, first offering an evening time slot for the interview. In the first hour, talk about culture, problem-solving and teamwork approaches, engineering attitudes. In the second hour, pull out an actual current problem and solve it collaboratively. If all goes well, send an offer, and offer to set up a dinner to talk about &#x2F; negotiate the offer.<p>It should not take more than a few hours to make a decision on someone; it should not require a candidate to take paid time off. Your hiring pipeline&#x27;s average lead time should be measured in days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solatic</author><text>&gt; Software engineers do 1-2 interviews per week each, it’s part of the job. I might be a minority, but I would refuse to spend two of my evenings per week interviewing people.<p>Why are software engineers doing interviews at all? What makes software engineers qualified to interview people (especially when you consider the need to avoid hiring bias, problematic statements by interviewers that expose the company to legal suit, etc.)?<p>I&#x27;m not saying that companies should go to the other extreme and have all interviews conducted by HR - that presents its own set of problems in that HR doesn&#x27;t know how to evaluate candidates for technical skill. But expecting hiring managers to open up a few evenings per week in the irregular and relatively uncommon circumstance (if it&#x27;s common, then you have problems with churn on that team, and you should consider firing the manager) in which positions open up on their team to evaluate potential direct reports is not even remotely unreasonable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft changed how it interviews software developers</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/microsoft-new-developer-interview-process-2018-12</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kluyg</author><text>Yeah, if only it was all unicorns and rainbows. What you describe is how I imagine they interview for director &#x2F; VP positions. With hundreds (thousands?) of applications per day for software engineering positions, all with perfect resumes, what you describe just doesn’t scale. Software engineers do 1-2 interviews per week each, it’s part of the job. I might be a minority, but I would refuse to spend two of my evenings per week interviewing people. I’d rather spend time with my family instead. I think asking candidates to get a day off for interviews, which happens like once per year or even less often for each candidate is more reasonable than asking your employees to work evenings each week.</text></item><item><author>solatic</author><text>Dogfooding their process is going to give them adverse results here: Microsoft is paying them to take all the time they want, but good candidates won&#x27;t be so willing to spend so much time. Already, they&#x27;re up to a full day of interviews, which is ridiculous. One of the worst parts of current FAANG interviewing is how long it takes to get to the day of interviews, needing to take off from work to attend the interview day, and then getting rejected nonetheless. Not only does this process ask for too much commitment on the part of candidates, it selects for candidates for whom such a commitment is less relatively costly - i.e. people who are currently unemployed, students, etc, and while there are many such people with great talent and potential, respectively, they&#x27;re also less likely to be strong candidates than people who are currently employed.<p>One of the key issues in recruiting is how to make hiring decisions quickly. Good candidates don&#x27;t have the patience for your internal politics to resolve over a month or two to figure out whether they&#x27;re getting an offer or not; they&#x27;re just going to interview with other places in the meantime who will beat you to the punch.<p>Take a resume off the pile. Email or text to schedule a call. During the call, talk about relevant experience &#x2F; past projects, what each side is looking for, etc. Make a decision during the call whether you want to invite the person for a two-hour interview, and schedule it during the call, first offering an evening time slot for the interview. In the first hour, talk about culture, problem-solving and teamwork approaches, engineering attitudes. In the second hour, pull out an actual current problem and solve it collaboratively. If all goes well, send an offer, and offer to set up a dinner to talk about &#x2F; negotiate the offer.<p>It should not take more than a few hours to make a decision on someone; it should not require a candidate to take paid time off. Your hiring pipeline&#x27;s average lead time should be measured in days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>em-bee</author><text>if i am looking for a different job, i&#x27;ll not just interview with one company, but several. even more so if i still have a job and i really need to weigh the options to decide if the new offer is really better.<p>there is only so many days i can take off. with two weeks holidays, i might spend all of my holiday budget for this year.</text></comment> |
14,720,732 | 14,720,644 | 1 | 3 | 14,720,192 | train | <story><title>Accidentally pay an 80BTC transaction fee? Please contact us for a refund</title><url>https://blog.btc.com/accidentally-pay-an-80btc-transaction-fee-please-contact-us-for-a-refund-b9f8bb4ff65a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mootothemax</author><text><i>the correct fee should have been approximately 2BTC.</i><p>At current rates isn&#x27;t that a $5,000ish transaction fee?<p>Have I misunderstood something? That seems like a crazy amount, especially given the hype surrounding Bitcoin.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zargon</author><text>Bitcoin fees are based on the amount of space that the transaction takes up in the block. A block contains on average 1,000 to 2,000 transactions. The average transaction only has a couple inputs and outputs. But you can make a transaction that has as many inputs and outputs as you want, which increases the size (in bytes) of the transaction. The person who spent the 80BTC on fees in this block used up about half of the space in the block, hence the high fee. It was also spread over several transactions, not a single one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Accidentally pay an 80BTC transaction fee? Please contact us for a refund</title><url>https://blog.btc.com/accidentally-pay-an-80btc-transaction-fee-please-contact-us-for-a-refund-b9f8bb4ff65a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mootothemax</author><text><i>the correct fee should have been approximately 2BTC.</i><p>At current rates isn&#x27;t that a $5,000ish transaction fee?<p>Have I misunderstood something? That seems like a crazy amount, especially given the hype surrounding Bitcoin.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TylerE</author><text>Be your own bank they said, it&#x27;ll be awesome!</text></comment> |
5,567,344 | 5,567,063 | 1 | 3 | 5,566,614 | train | <story><title>Google Fiber announced for Provo, Utah</title><url>https://fiber.google.com/cities/provo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SpikedCola</author><text>You're well off. Here in Ontario, I pay ~$75 a month (after taxes &#38; extra fees) for 25mbit. I would kill for $60 40mbit service.</text></item><item><author>ebertx</author><text>Yep. I pay 60 bucks a month for 40 Mbps, and Google offers 1 Gbps for 70 bucks a month. I pay almost the same price for 4% the speed (not to mention horrible customer service).</text></item><item><author>austenallred</author><text>I think one of the things I'm most excited for is canceling my absurd Comcast agreement.</text></item><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>Good god I hope these announcements light a fire under the butts of the other US providers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mercuryrising</author><text>Why does Canada have such terrible internet? Is it a regulation thing, competition thing, or what? Why do you guys have such extreme data caps?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Fiber announced for Provo, Utah</title><url>https://fiber.google.com/cities/provo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SpikedCola</author><text>You're well off. Here in Ontario, I pay ~$75 a month (after taxes &#38; extra fees) for 25mbit. I would kill for $60 40mbit service.</text></item><item><author>ebertx</author><text>Yep. I pay 60 bucks a month for 40 Mbps, and Google offers 1 Gbps for 70 bucks a month. I pay almost the same price for 4% the speed (not to mention horrible customer service).</text></item><item><author>austenallred</author><text>I think one of the things I'm most excited for is canceling my absurd Comcast agreement.</text></item><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>Good god I hope these announcements light a fire under the butts of the other US providers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awaythrowme</author><text>Don't forget the data caps.</text></comment> |
8,552,345 | 8,551,874 | 1 | 2 | 8,551,724 | train | <story><title>How To Scroll</title><url>http://bost.ocks.org/mike/scroll/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>Number five is the rule that’s being broken by an increasing percentage of the web without any custom scrolling at all: Every site with a sticky top bar breaks spacebar &#x2F; pgdn scrolling by covering up the top few lines of text after a full-page scroll, requiring the user to back up a few lines to see what was hidden.<p>There should be a fairly straightforward Javascript workaround for this, intercepting the spacebar or pgdn keys to scroll the height of the unobstructed viewport instead of the full viewport, but I haven’t seen anyone implement it (I’ve been considering creating my own open-source library for it but I have no experience managing an OSS project).<p>Still, I wouldn’t consider that ideal, and maybe it’s time for some standards action. Here’s my proposal:<p><pre><code> body {
scroll-offset: 72px; &#x2F;&#x2F; body will page-scroll 72px less than the window height to compensate for the sticky header
}</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>How To Scroll</title><url>http://bost.ocks.org/mike/scroll/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mbostock</author><text>This essay is my attempt to synthesize a few general rules from recent work with custom scrolling. Scroll-based effects can be contentious, but I believe a lot of that comes violating reader’s expectations and breaking direct manipulation. There are ways to use scrolling effectively — to achieve the desired visual design without hurting usability.</text></comment> |
11,830,301 | 11,830,193 | 1 | 2 | 11,829,745 | train | <story><title>EFF Joins Coalition Opposing Dangerous CFAA Bill</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/eff-joins-coalition-opposing-dangerous-cfaa-bill</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>callcallcall</author><text>Some ways we can help fight the CFAA bill and support the EFF beyond complaining in HN comments:<p>Learn: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act</a><p>Call your representatives: TryVoices.com<p>Donate to the EFF: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supporters.eff.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supporters.eff.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>EFF Joins Coalition Opposing Dangerous CFAA Bill</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/eff-joins-coalition-opposing-dangerous-cfaa-bill</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>awinter-py</author><text>holy crud! CFAA already allows TOS writers to define any behavior as unauthorized &amp; therefore a felony. Congressmen need a way to look strong on security without completely breaking rule of law. We should issue them nerf guns or something.</text></comment> |
14,339,851 | 14,339,780 | 1 | 2 | 14,337,569 | train | <story><title>Lessons from last week’s cyberattack</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/05/14/need-urgent-collective-action-keep-people-safe-online-lessons-last-weeks-cyberattack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>This is why free software is necessary.<p>Proprietary software makes you rely on a company to fix <i>everything</i>. It&#x27;s like driving a car without being able to replace a flat tire.</text></item><item><author>dasil003</author><text>Uh, except Microsoft had already patched the vulnerability, just not for XP that was still being run. Of course you can punish them and force them to support all legacy OSes forever, until that strangles the life out of them at which point large institutions <i>still</i> have to run the old OS because they have too much investment in computer controlled hardware with no forward migration. Now they are locked into an insecure technology stack with no vendor to take responsibility and no source code to even take on the problem themselves.<p>There&#x27;s plenty of blame to go around to be sure, but giving the NSA a pass for developing zero days is batshit insane. These guys are playing god instead of helping make infrastructure more secure overall, and it will not end well, even if they outcompete the Chinese or whatever other bogeyman they cook up to justify their power grab.</text></item><item><author>Kholo</author><text>Complete BS. This is what happens when you have top class PR at your disposal to define the narrative.<p>Microsoft is responsible for their shit software getting exploited first and foremost. Seriously fine Microsoft and by day after tomorrow that 3500 security engineer number will jump to something realistic.<p>Instead what will happen is more tightening of the walled garden, overcharging of support&#x2F;security contracts and propping up of another billionaire or two. I can hear the whisky glasses clinking.<p>Corporations do not get to set the agenda and the narrative. When they are allowed to, the results are very predictable - in this case Microsoft will make more than they loose. Who here disagrees that is going to happen? And who here believes that is right?<p>The answer is simple whether its Microsoft today or Facebook and Google tomorrow win-win should not be an option when such things happen.</text></item><item><author>loteck</author><text>The quote bombshell here, and what hasnt yet gotten much attention since sysadmins the world over are busy dealing with fallout, is that the NSA and therefore the US government is directly responsible for the current global cyber-carnage. We developed the capability, we chose to keep it unpatched, we tried to keep it secret, we lost control of it.<p>This has similarities in type, if not in horror, to the development and subsequent spread of nuclear weapons. When we lost control of those secrets, it was a BFD [0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Atomic_spies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Atomic_spies</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DominikD</author><text>It wasn&#x27;t about fixing, it was about upgrading&#x2F;updating. It takes people and money to upgrade large infrastructures - closed source or open source, doesn&#x27;t matter. Thinking that irresponsible (or budged-constrained) organizations will somehow have a completely different mindset and or set of priorities when they switch from Windows to open source software is naive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lessons from last week’s cyberattack</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/05/14/need-urgent-collective-action-keep-people-safe-online-lessons-last-weeks-cyberattack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>This is why free software is necessary.<p>Proprietary software makes you rely on a company to fix <i>everything</i>. It&#x27;s like driving a car without being able to replace a flat tire.</text></item><item><author>dasil003</author><text>Uh, except Microsoft had already patched the vulnerability, just not for XP that was still being run. Of course you can punish them and force them to support all legacy OSes forever, until that strangles the life out of them at which point large institutions <i>still</i> have to run the old OS because they have too much investment in computer controlled hardware with no forward migration. Now they are locked into an insecure technology stack with no vendor to take responsibility and no source code to even take on the problem themselves.<p>There&#x27;s plenty of blame to go around to be sure, but giving the NSA a pass for developing zero days is batshit insane. These guys are playing god instead of helping make infrastructure more secure overall, and it will not end well, even if they outcompete the Chinese or whatever other bogeyman they cook up to justify their power grab.</text></item><item><author>Kholo</author><text>Complete BS. This is what happens when you have top class PR at your disposal to define the narrative.<p>Microsoft is responsible for their shit software getting exploited first and foremost. Seriously fine Microsoft and by day after tomorrow that 3500 security engineer number will jump to something realistic.<p>Instead what will happen is more tightening of the walled garden, overcharging of support&#x2F;security contracts and propping up of another billionaire or two. I can hear the whisky glasses clinking.<p>Corporations do not get to set the agenda and the narrative. When they are allowed to, the results are very predictable - in this case Microsoft will make more than they loose. Who here disagrees that is going to happen? And who here believes that is right?<p>The answer is simple whether its Microsoft today or Facebook and Google tomorrow win-win should not be an option when such things happen.</text></item><item><author>loteck</author><text>The quote bombshell here, and what hasnt yet gotten much attention since sysadmins the world over are busy dealing with fallout, is that the NSA and therefore the US government is directly responsible for the current global cyber-carnage. We developed the capability, we chose to keep it unpatched, we tried to keep it secret, we lost control of it.<p>This has similarities in type, if not in horror, to the development and subsequent spread of nuclear weapons. When we lost control of those secrets, it was a BFD [0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Atomic_spies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Atomic_spies</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whazor</author><text>Assuming these hospitals keep updating and do not get stuck at Ubuntu 10.04.</text></comment> |
15,306,343 | 15,305,747 | 1 | 2 | 15,304,269 | train | <story><title>Basic Income Research Proposal</title><url>https://basicincome.ycr.org/blog</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neilwilson</author><text>The design is flawed from the start. If you have any sort of income guarantee in a system where<p>(i) there are others in the same currency area who don&#x27;t receive the income<p>(ii) the amount is insufficient to live on<p>(iii) there are insufficient jobs overall in the economy for all that want them<p>(iv) it isn&#x27;t permanent<p>then all you actually have is a tax credit system with a different withdrawal mechanism. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;modern-money-matters&#x2F;is-basic-income-basically-finnished-babadac2d29b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;modern-money-matters&#x2F;is-basic-income-basi...</a><p>The pathologies of income schemes that cause all of them to be degraded and cancelled build up over time as people adjust to the new scheme and work out who is failing to reciprocate.<p>Overall basic income is theft from workers and will be seen as such by those workers. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;modern-money-matters&#x2F;is-basic-income-basically-theft-a95eeedb5aad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;modern-money-matters&#x2F;is-basic-income-basi...</a> They then agitate to have the income removed from those seen as cheating the system.<p>What we need are guaranteed jobs at a guaranteed living wage, paid for by the state working for the public good. Then private businesses finally have to compete for labour and that maintains the wage share.<p>People need something to do where they can be of service to others. Not paying off and left to rot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Matumio</author><text>The mandatory Milton Friedman quote:<p>At one of our dinners, Milton recalled travelling to an Asian country in the 1960s and visiting a worksite where a new canal was being built. He was shocked to see that, instead of modern tractors and earth movers, the workers had shovels. He asked why there were so few machines. The government bureaucrat explained: “You don’t understand. This is a jobs program.” To which Milton replied: “Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it’s jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels.”</text></comment> | <story><title>Basic Income Research Proposal</title><url>https://basicincome.ycr.org/blog</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neilwilson</author><text>The design is flawed from the start. If you have any sort of income guarantee in a system where<p>(i) there are others in the same currency area who don&#x27;t receive the income<p>(ii) the amount is insufficient to live on<p>(iii) there are insufficient jobs overall in the economy for all that want them<p>(iv) it isn&#x27;t permanent<p>then all you actually have is a tax credit system with a different withdrawal mechanism. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;modern-money-matters&#x2F;is-basic-income-basically-finnished-babadac2d29b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;modern-money-matters&#x2F;is-basic-income-basi...</a><p>The pathologies of income schemes that cause all of them to be degraded and cancelled build up over time as people adjust to the new scheme and work out who is failing to reciprocate.<p>Overall basic income is theft from workers and will be seen as such by those workers. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;modern-money-matters&#x2F;is-basic-income-basically-theft-a95eeedb5aad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;modern-money-matters&#x2F;is-basic-income-basi...</a> They then agitate to have the income removed from those seen as cheating the system.<p>What we need are guaranteed jobs at a guaranteed living wage, paid for by the state working for the public good. Then private businesses finally have to compete for labour and that maintains the wage share.<p>People need something to do where they can be of service to others. Not paying off and left to rot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rory096</author><text>It should be noted that the parent is basing his conclusions on Modern Monetary Theory[0], a heretodox economic theory in which fiscal policy is unconstrained, deficits aren&#x27;t relevant, and a country is always able to spend.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Modern_Monetary_Theory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Modern_Monetary_Theory</a></text></comment> |
27,653,063 | 27,653,013 | 1 | 2 | 27,649,431 | train | <story><title>Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33 (2010)</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1871406</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zababa</author><text>&gt; And need I remind anybody that you cannot buy a monochrome screen anymore? Syntax-coloring editors are the default. Why not make color part of the syntax? Why not tell the compiler about protected code regions by putting them on a framed light gray background? Or provide hints about likely and unlikely code paths with a green or red background tint?<p>I&#x27;m colorblind, please never do that. Syntax highlighting is fine since it&#x27;s another way to help, but color having some kind of importance so that pink code and violet code run differently would be hell for me.<p>Edit: something else: color looks different depending on your computer. Consider how many complaints I already see here about people developing UI for extra wide monitors while most people are on 15 inches screen, that would be terrible. Don&#x27;t even get me started about arguments on &quot;is this blue, blueish green or green?&quot;. Colors are way more subjective than what people seem to think.<p>&gt; For some reason computer people are so conservative that we still find it more uncompromisingly important for our source code to be compatible with a Teletype ASR-33 terminal and its 1963-vintage ASCII table than it is for us to be able to express our intentions clearly.<p>And no new letters have been added to English or French lately. They seem to be doing just fine. Typing those new symbols would be hell if keyboards are not designed for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kstrauser</author><text>I can and have resurrected busted systems with a serial interface, sed, and ed. This is not fun as it is. It would be much suckier if each line of code were subject to out-of-band context such that it wasn’t obvious when having access to only the text.<p>I see negative value in representing code as anything other than text. Every time I&#x27;ve seen an entity try to do this, I&#x27;ve seen programmers come up with a text-based alternative that compiles to whatever janky format the other party thinks is clever this month.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33 (2010)</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1871406</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zababa</author><text>&gt; And need I remind anybody that you cannot buy a monochrome screen anymore? Syntax-coloring editors are the default. Why not make color part of the syntax? Why not tell the compiler about protected code regions by putting them on a framed light gray background? Or provide hints about likely and unlikely code paths with a green or red background tint?<p>I&#x27;m colorblind, please never do that. Syntax highlighting is fine since it&#x27;s another way to help, but color having some kind of importance so that pink code and violet code run differently would be hell for me.<p>Edit: something else: color looks different depending on your computer. Consider how many complaints I already see here about people developing UI for extra wide monitors while most people are on 15 inches screen, that would be terrible. Don&#x27;t even get me started about arguments on &quot;is this blue, blueish green or green?&quot;. Colors are way more subjective than what people seem to think.<p>&gt; For some reason computer people are so conservative that we still find it more uncompromisingly important for our source code to be compatible with a Teletype ASR-33 terminal and its 1963-vintage ASCII table than it is for us to be able to express our intentions clearly.<p>And no new letters have been added to English or French lately. They seem to be doing just fine. Typing those new symbols would be hell if keyboards are not designed for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Y_Y</author><text>Lots of e-ink screens are monochrome. There was recently a thread here about a big one that seemed intended for desktops. I often use my phone in monochrome for various silly reasons.<p>I like having my code coloured, but if the colour was part of the code I&#x27;d lose the control I currently have. I&#x27;m not against that in principle, but if it was done in a way I didn&#x27;t like it would really put me off.<p>The best uses, imho, like rainbow brackets, are applied after the fact. It would be a nightmare to have to match red brackets to red etc.</text></comment> |
28,390,209 | 28,390,032 | 1 | 2 | 28,388,104 | train | <story><title>Opendesktop.org – Libre Cloud Services</title><url>https://www.opendesktop.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lio</author><text>My own very minor gripe is with the maps component.<p>Because it uses OpenStreetMap as a map source it doesn&#x27;t show any settlements larger 250,000 for my area because those settlements call themselves &quot;towns&quot; and not &quot;cities&quot;.<p>When you zoom out all you see is a blank space with no labels for quite a large area of the screen.<p>Meanwhile very small settlements (&lt; 20K people) <i>are</i> shown at max zoom just because they happen to have the right kind of church building, which in the UK means they can call themselves &quot;cities&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ve raised this issue with OpenStreetMaps support for many years and they just either say it&#x27;s something to be fixed by client libraries or it&#x27;s not important.<p>They could be right I guess. However, Goople maps, Apple maps and Microsoft maps handle this correctly and that&#x27;s what OpenDesktop explicitly say they are trying to replace here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Rygian</author><text>There is an ongoing proposal discussed on Reddit [0] for an alternate rendering that fills in &quot;empty areas&quot; with a different algorithm. The comparison is really nice [1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;openstreetmap&#x2F;comments&#x2F;pc9fof&#x2F;openstreetmap_places_rendering_that_fills_in&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;openstreetmap&#x2F;comments&#x2F;pc9fof&#x2F;opens...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tiles.musa.kodapan.se&#x2F;compare.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tiles.musa.kodapan.se&#x2F;compare.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Opendesktop.org – Libre Cloud Services</title><url>https://www.opendesktop.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lio</author><text>My own very minor gripe is with the maps component.<p>Because it uses OpenStreetMap as a map source it doesn&#x27;t show any settlements larger 250,000 for my area because those settlements call themselves &quot;towns&quot; and not &quot;cities&quot;.<p>When you zoom out all you see is a blank space with no labels for quite a large area of the screen.<p>Meanwhile very small settlements (&lt; 20K people) <i>are</i> shown at max zoom just because they happen to have the right kind of church building, which in the UK means they can call themselves &quot;cities&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ve raised this issue with OpenStreetMaps support for many years and they just either say it&#x27;s something to be fixed by client libraries or it&#x27;s not important.<p>They could be right I guess. However, Goople maps, Apple maps and Microsoft maps handle this correctly and that&#x27;s what OpenDesktop explicitly say they are trying to replace here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NGRhodes</author><text>FYI, in the UK, historically city status was given to towns with cathedrals, but since the 20th century city status is awarded by the monarch.
England has 3 large towns with over 200000 population -Luton, Northampton and Reading and about 30 towns with between 100000 and 200000 population.</text></comment> |
9,653,537 | 9,652,669 | 1 | 2 | 9,652,367 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Explore 16 Years of Green Card Applications</title><url>http://data.jobsintech.io/green-cards</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>negrit</author><text>Hello everyone. I quickly built this little tool based on public records provided by the government.
I did the same a couple weeks ago with H-1Bs and I just added over 1.1million green cards records.<p>The data provided is not perfect so i&#x27;m still working on cleaning it but it should give you an idea of what is going on.<p>If you have any questions, feel free to ask.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_economist</author><text>This is awesome Theo. When can I have data about Americans in France?</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Explore 16 Years of Green Card Applications</title><url>http://data.jobsintech.io/green-cards</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>negrit</author><text>Hello everyone. I quickly built this little tool based on public records provided by the government.
I did the same a couple weeks ago with H-1Bs and I just added over 1.1million green cards records.<p>The data provided is not perfect so i&#x27;m still working on cleaning it but it should give you an idea of what is going on.<p>If you have any questions, feel free to ask.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jake232</author><text>I can&#x27;t seem to find the H1B statistics page, maybe I&#x27;m just looking in the wrong place though. Got a link?</text></comment> |
29,651,789 | 29,651,760 | 1 | 2 | 29,650,416 | train | <story><title>Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS</title><url>https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/12/abuse-notification-emails-google-drive.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dharmaturtle</author><text>Apple&#x27;s CSAM would scan your <i>offline</i> photos.<p>Google scanning photos you upload to their cloud seems fine to me. Not a slippery slope.</text></item><item><author>anshumankmr</author><text>But seriously how long is it before Google implements a hashing algorithm (not too dissimilar from Apple&#x27;s) to check if a user has not uploaded content with a copyright on it and taking some form of action on the user.<p>This feels like a slippery slope to be on.</text></item><item><author>RegnisGnaw</author><text>Note that you can still access your files, they are not blocking that or restricting that. Its the sharing that&#x27;s blocked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GeekyBear</author><text>&gt;Apple&#x27;s CSAM would scan your offline photos.<p>Apple&#x27;s plan was to to scan photos that you uploaded to iCloud, only. Even that plan was canceled.<p>Google, however, still does scan everything in your account and has been doing so for the past decade.<p>For instance, this article from 2014:<p>&gt;a man [was] arrested on child pornography charges, after Google tipped off authorities about illegal images found in the Houston suspect&#x27;s Gmail account<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;06&#x2F;why-the-gmail-scan-that-led-to-a-mans-arrest-for-child-porn-was-not-a-privacy-violation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;06&#x2F;why-the-gmail-scan-that-le...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS</title><url>https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/12/abuse-notification-emails-google-drive.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dharmaturtle</author><text>Apple&#x27;s CSAM would scan your <i>offline</i> photos.<p>Google scanning photos you upload to their cloud seems fine to me. Not a slippery slope.</text></item><item><author>anshumankmr</author><text>But seriously how long is it before Google implements a hashing algorithm (not too dissimilar from Apple&#x27;s) to check if a user has not uploaded content with a copyright on it and taking some form of action on the user.<p>This feels like a slippery slope to be on.</text></item><item><author>RegnisGnaw</author><text>Note that you can still access your files, they are not blocking that or restricting that. Its the sharing that&#x27;s blocked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jodrellblank</author><text>&gt; &quot;<i>Apple&#x27;s CSAM would scan your offline photos.</i>&quot;<p>No it wouldn&#x27;t. It would only scan photos you upload to their cloud.<p>&quot;This feature only impacts users who have chosen to use iCloud Photos to store their photos. It does not impact users who have not chosen to use iCloud Photos. There is no impact to any other on-device data.&quot;<p>and<p>&quot;Does this mean Apple is going to scan all the photos stored on my iPhone? No. By design, this feature only applies to photos that the user chooses to upload to iCloud Photos, and even then Apple only learns about accounts that are storing collections of known CSAM images, and only the images that match to known CSAM. The system does not work for users who have iCloud Photos disabled. This feature does not work on your private iPhone photo library on the device.&quot;<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;child-safety&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;CSAM_Detection_Technical_Summary.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;child-safety&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;CSAM_Detection_Techni...</a></text></comment> |
39,511,450 | 39,511,387 | 1 | 3 | 39,510,147 | train | <story><title>Pains of building your own billing system</title><url>https://arnon.dk/the-14-pains-of-billing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dns_snek</author><text>Fascinating, is there ever a point where this &quot;magic money&quot; legally becomes your property, after a certain amount of time?</text></item><item><author>chasd00</author><text>I worked on a billing and AR system for a small pharmacy chain years ago. Our company would get pretty large random checks from ins carriers totally out of the blue. As in, we had billed them nothing and they would send us $150k checks in snail mail. They wouldn’t realize their mistake and come asking for it back for months. We had a special account named “magic money” for it. The billing world is crazy town.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluGill</author><text>Check with a lawyer, this varies all over the world and you don&#x27;t want to mess this up. Not only might the money become theirs again, it might become theirs with interest. Though you might be able to charge them storage fees. don&#x27;t forget that laws change so keep in touch with your lawyers so they notify you when laws changes so you can remain complaint. Make sure you keep record of what the lawyers say as well - if (when?) you mess something up record of trying to do the right thing can work to your favor in court.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pains of building your own billing system</title><url>https://arnon.dk/the-14-pains-of-billing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dns_snek</author><text>Fascinating, is there ever a point where this &quot;magic money&quot; legally becomes your property, after a certain amount of time?</text></item><item><author>chasd00</author><text>I worked on a billing and AR system for a small pharmacy chain years ago. Our company would get pretty large random checks from ins carriers totally out of the blue. As in, we had billed them nothing and they would send us $150k checks in snail mail. They wouldn’t realize their mistake and come asking for it back for months. We had a special account named “magic money” for it. The billing world is crazy town.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>indymike</author><text>In the US, you are supposed to turn it over to the state, and the government holds it for an extremely long time until it&#x27;s owner claims it.</text></comment> |
2,372,733 | 2,372,631 | 1 | 3 | 2,372,096 | train | <story><title>Torvalds: Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day.</title><url>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c129</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javert</author><text>A spec is a contract between programmers and <i>in the long run</i>, it's better (for users and programmers) to follow specs and expect others to follow them, rather than to let others break them willy-nilly and just bend over backwards to accomodate.<p>Oh, but I guess since this point requires actual thinking to understand, it's not in the realm of reality...</text></item><item><author>fleaflicker</author><text>That's a deceptive title. The real point is more important (but less sensational):<p><i>Reality is what matters. When glibc changed memcpy, it created problems. Saying "not my problem" is irresponsible when it hurts users. </i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrcharles</author><text>I understand your point and the purist programmer in me agrees but maintaining compatibility in the face of horribly broken software is how Microsoft managed to get on top with windows. If you've ever spent time reading The Old New Thing ( <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/</a> ) you'd realize the lengths MS went to to make sure that even when they improved things, they didn't break bad software, and how much that meant for people adopting the platform.<p>Seems to me kind of an important thing to recognize in this kind of discussion.</text></comment> | <story><title>Torvalds: Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day.</title><url>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c129</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javert</author><text>A spec is a contract between programmers and <i>in the long run</i>, it's better (for users and programmers) to follow specs and expect others to follow them, rather than to let others break them willy-nilly and just bend over backwards to accomodate.<p>Oh, but I guess since this point requires actual thinking to understand, it's not in the realm of reality...</text></item><item><author>fleaflicker</author><text>That's a deceptive title. The real point is more important (but less sensational):<p><i>Reality is what matters. When glibc changed memcpy, it created problems. Saying "not my problem" is irresponsible when it hurts users. </i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>Seeing this purely as a spec v pragmatism issue isn't going to get us anywhere. There is just no way around looking at each case individually. There are specs that are pie in the sky, outdated, flawed compromises or reflections of vested interests. But there is also a huge amount of lock-in and lost productivity resulting from lack or disregard of specs (e.g IE6). I see no way to be principled on that one.</text></comment> |
27,655,804 | 27,655,159 | 1 | 2 | 27,654,787 | train | <story><title>Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6163803/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>esquivalience</author><text>From the source:
&quot;The high rate of magnesium deficiency now postulated [5,6,7,8] can be attributed in part to a steady decline in general magnesium content in cultivated fruits and vegetables, a reflection of the observed depletion of magnesium in soil over the past 100 years [11,12,13]. A report to Congress was already sounding the alarm as far back as the 1930s, pointing out the paucity of magnesium, and other minerals, in certain produce [14].&quot;<p>The easiest of those references to link to is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.ashs.org&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;view&#x2F;journals&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;44&#x2F;1&#x2F;article-p15.xml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.ashs.org&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;view&#x2F;journals&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;44&#x2F;1...</a> :<p>&quot;Three kinds of evidence point toward declines of some nutrients in fruits and vegetables available in the United States and the United Kingdom: 1) early studies of fertilization found inverse relationships between crop yield and mineral concentrations—the widely cited “dilution effect”; 2) three recent studies of historical food composition data found apparent median declines of 5% to 40% or more in some minerals in groups of vegetables and perhaps fruits; one study also evaluated vitamins and protein with similar results; and 3) recent side-by-side plantings of low- and high-yield cultivars of broccoli and grains found consistently negative correlations between yield and concentrations of minerals and protein, a newly recognized genetic dilution effect. &quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noodlenotes</author><text>I wonder if there&#x27;s a relationship to the obesity epidemic, especially since it&#x27;s not just humans that are getting larger but also lab animals, pets, and wild animals living close to humans [1]. What if we&#x27;re compelled to eat more calories when we&#x27;re not getting enough nutrients in our diets? This would impact any animals consuming lower quality fruits and vegetables.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;news.2010.628" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;news.2010.628</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6163803/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>esquivalience</author><text>From the source:
&quot;The high rate of magnesium deficiency now postulated [5,6,7,8] can be attributed in part to a steady decline in general magnesium content in cultivated fruits and vegetables, a reflection of the observed depletion of magnesium in soil over the past 100 years [11,12,13]. A report to Congress was already sounding the alarm as far back as the 1930s, pointing out the paucity of magnesium, and other minerals, in certain produce [14].&quot;<p>The easiest of those references to link to is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.ashs.org&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;view&#x2F;journals&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;44&#x2F;1&#x2F;article-p15.xml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.ashs.org&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;view&#x2F;journals&#x2F;hortsci&#x2F;44&#x2F;1...</a> :<p>&quot;Three kinds of evidence point toward declines of some nutrients in fruits and vegetables available in the United States and the United Kingdom: 1) early studies of fertilization found inverse relationships between crop yield and mineral concentrations—the widely cited “dilution effect”; 2) three recent studies of historical food composition data found apparent median declines of 5% to 40% or more in some minerals in groups of vegetables and perhaps fruits; one study also evaluated vitamins and protein with similar results; and 3) recent side-by-side plantings of low- and high-yield cultivars of broccoli and grains found consistently negative correlations between yield and concentrations of minerals and protein, a newly recognized genetic dilution effect. &quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wincy</author><text>Interesting. I recently started using Magnesium Glycinate as a supplement and I feel it truly changed my life, not exaggerating. I’ve suffered from chronic general anxiety for most of my teens and adult life. Magnesium has completely cleared this up, things I thought were just part of my personality (being anxious and other associated things) were actually due to a chronic magnesium deficiency. I just have to make sure I get a decent amount of calcium in my diet (via canned mackerel mostly) to avoid muscle twitches from the magnesium.</text></comment> |
11,330,961 | 11,331,215 | 1 | 3 | 11,330,534 | train | <story><title>Extracting image metadata at scale</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/03/extracting-image-metadata-at-scale.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>woodman</author><text>For their image resizing tasks, I wonder if they&#x27;ve tried anything more complex than simply cropping around points of interest, something like seam carving [0]. I imagine that it would be pretty cheap to run a bunch of different algorithms on an image and then A|B test it on Amazon mechanical turk.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Seam_carving" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Seam_carving</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6NcIJXTlugc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6NcIJXTlugc</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AJtE8afwJEg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AJtE8afwJEg</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Extracting image metadata at scale</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/03/extracting-image-metadata-at-scale.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Xyik</author><text>don&#x27;t think it actually talks much about how it does it at &#x27; scale&#x27;. how expensive is it to perform these operations? are images cropped dynamically as they are requested or do they pre-process the images and cache it somewhere.<p>did they do anything clever to parallelize the process? what underlying technologies do they use...</text></comment> |
7,027,233 | 7,027,173 | 1 | 2 | 7,026,160 | train | <story><title>Childhood amnesia kicks in around age 7</title><url>http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2014/01/childhood-amnesia-kicks-in-around-age-7.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mililani</author><text>I have distinct memories of when I was 2-3 y.o. that have astounded my parents. I was raised in Korea till I was about 3, then we all flew to Hawaii to immigrate to the U.S. I remember the flight, I remember my life in Korea, I remember going to the public spa&#x27;s with my dad, I remember feeling ashamed of my nudity in front of many older folks around me. I told all of this to my parents later in life, and they were amazed. I even distinctly remember the time when I thought I was lost, being scared, walking through a tunnel only to emerge to find a statue of some Korean soldiers. My parents found me and took a picture of me pointing at that statue. I asked my mom about that time, and I said, &quot;How did I get lost? I was scared.&quot; My mom said that they were following me from afar, making sure I didn&#x27;t see them, and they wanted to see how I would explore the world.<p>I&#x27;ve told people about this many times. And, people just can&#x27;t or won&#x27;t believe me. A history professor told me that this is impossible, because children can&#x27;t remember anything before the age of 3. He was adamant about it, and completely dismissive of my claims. I think these kinds of pseudo-scientific research (you know, taking polls and applying statistics) should be taken with a grain of salt. One should NOT draw definitive conclusions from them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedks</author><text>&gt;And, people just can&#x27;t or won&#x27;t believe me.<p>It seems to me that not believing you is the right thing to do. Childhood amnesia is well-studied; false memories are equally well-studied and are easily formed; since the former is more probable than an exception to the latter, unless you have additional evidence (which you can&#x27;t really produce), I have no reason to believe your claims.<p>It&#x27;s more probable that you reconstructed those memories from stories told by other people, even if you forgot hearing those stories before remembering the event, than that you&#x27;re an exception to a well-studied and widely documented event.<p>Cognitive psychology is hardly psuedo-science, and in this instance, there were no polls conducted. This was a longitudinal study that took considerable resources to conduct and involved a seemingly well-designed experimental test. The findings are entirely in line with what the rest of the data in the field suggests, so it shouldn&#x27;t be controversial. There were no polls involved, either.<p>It&#x27;s frustrating to believe something that contradicts most available evidence, and it must be even more frustrating to not have a way to demonstrate the truth of such a belief. You&#x27;ll notice that even this article doesn&#x27;t claim that all memory prior to age 7 is irretrievably erased, and it&#x27;s fully possible you truly have the memories you have -- but it&#x27;s nonetheless improbable, and it isn&#x27;t wrong to disbelieve you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Childhood amnesia kicks in around age 7</title><url>http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2014/01/childhood-amnesia-kicks-in-around-age-7.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mililani</author><text>I have distinct memories of when I was 2-3 y.o. that have astounded my parents. I was raised in Korea till I was about 3, then we all flew to Hawaii to immigrate to the U.S. I remember the flight, I remember my life in Korea, I remember going to the public spa&#x27;s with my dad, I remember feeling ashamed of my nudity in front of many older folks around me. I told all of this to my parents later in life, and they were amazed. I even distinctly remember the time when I thought I was lost, being scared, walking through a tunnel only to emerge to find a statue of some Korean soldiers. My parents found me and took a picture of me pointing at that statue. I asked my mom about that time, and I said, &quot;How did I get lost? I was scared.&quot; My mom said that they were following me from afar, making sure I didn&#x27;t see them, and they wanted to see how I would explore the world.<p>I&#x27;ve told people about this many times. And, people just can&#x27;t or won&#x27;t believe me. A history professor told me that this is impossible, because children can&#x27;t remember anything before the age of 3. He was adamant about it, and completely dismissive of my claims. I think these kinds of pseudo-scientific research (you know, taking polls and applying statistics) should be taken with a grain of salt. One should NOT draw definitive conclusions from them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcherm</author><text>I have rather poor childhood memories - I remember only a very few scattered scenes before about age 13. But I know exactly what my earliest memory was, probably because it was such a significant occasion. I was 3 years old and I remember being in the house and watching my mom come home. She&#x27;d been gone for a day or so and when she came back she had this new baby with her (my brother). I specifically remember her walking into the house: I was behind the sofa peering up at her as she walked in the door, and she had the baby. I was mostly just glad to have my mom back.<p>Touching tale, here&#x27;s where it gets interesting. I remember that, but later (over 30 years later) I discussed this with my parents. Turns out, I&#x27;d been left at a neighbor&#x27;s house while my dad went to fetch her home. They got me afterward. I wasn&#x27;t THERE to see her walk in.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to suggest that your memories are not real. But memory is a strange thing. They do not work like photographs or audio recordings; instead memories are laid down in nerve connections and are refreshed by running through them again. It&#x27;s sort of like having VHS tapes that are brittle: you keep the data by copying them over and over again. Having a photograph to refer to helps to cement it; having a story that goes with it helps you to repeat and thus remember it, and this can happen regardless (as in my case) of whether there was an accurate original &quot;memory&quot;.<p>So perhaps that is the source of your history professor&#x27;s skepticism. Now, he is simply flat-out wrong to dismiss your claims out-of-hand. There is significant individual variation in early memories -- and there ARE some people who have memories from age 2 or 3. But the nature of memory itself is such that such having an early memory like that may not mean exactly what you think it means.</text></comment> |
36,396,968 | 36,397,171 | 1 | 2 | 36,389,862 | train | <story><title>Are you a late bloomer in work or love? Maybe you’re right on time</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/age-marry-kids-graduation-milestones-800ffec7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Al-Khwarizmi</author><text>The UK shot itself in the foot <i>hard</i> with Brexit, and has become a quite undesirable place for many for that reason. Doesn&#x27;t mean that the US is necessarily doing great.</text></item><item><author>908B64B197</author><text>&gt; Me personally, I dont even think I&#x27;ll be reaching retirement age if I continue to live in the UK, and thats not through not wanting to work, but thats because of the how the UK has become. Everything has just got too expensive living in the UK now.<p>Anecdotally, seems there&#x27;s a lot of British and European expats here in the Valley and they don&#x27;t seem too keen on returning. We&#x27;ve been getting a lot of international applicants (but work from home was supposed to mean Europeans could avoid moving to the &quot;dangerous&quot; US but work for American companies?).<p>Post 2016 the messaging from most commonwealth countries (UK, Canada, Australia) seemed to be that they were going to be the ones benefiting from a brain drain of Americans leaving the country. Canada was supposed to become an &quot;AI Superpower&quot; and Universities in the UK were supposed to be where innovation was going to happen next due to the perceived hostility of the United States to foreign talent. I recall someone pitching the &quot;Silicon Roundabout&quot; and that Cambridge and Oxford were going to be the new Stanford and MIT.<p>It&#x27;s interesting, in retrospective, to see how wrong these predictions were. Top destination for UK nationals in Academia was, and still is... the US [0].<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectrum.ieee.org&#x2F;at-work&#x2F;tech-careers&#x2F;the-global-brain-trade" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectrum.ieee.org&#x2F;at-work&#x2F;tech-careers&#x2F;the-global-bra...</a></text></item><item><author>darkclouds</author><text>A positive spin but arguably deceitful spin on the state of affairs in the US and UK.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lshtm.ac.uk&#x2F;newsevents&#x2F;news&#x2F;2023&#x2F;uk-drops-new-global-ranking-life-expectancy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lshtm.ac.uk&#x2F;newsevents&#x2F;news&#x2F;2023&#x2F;uk-drops-new-gl...</a><p>&quot;A new analysis of global rankings of life expectancy over seven decades shows the UK has done worse than all G7 countries except the USA.&quot;<p>&quot;According to the OECD, state the researchers, the UK recently became the second most economically unequal country in Europe after Bulgaria.&quot;<p>Me personally, I dont even think I&#x27;ll be reaching retirement age if I continue to live in the UK, and thats not through not wanting to work, but thats because of the how the UK has become. Everything has just got too expensive living in the UK now.<p>More people died during the period of time energy prices rose rapidly recently than during the covid pandemic in the UK, but you cant point this stuff out to people in the street because they&#x27;ll have a go back, a form of denial of the situation in the UK.<p>Its become very dog eat dog, quality of work in decline but costs still going up.<p>Crime in my experience is also off the scale and the attitude of the police now means I no longer report crimes to them.<p>So yes this sort of article is portrayed as positive spin but is in fact deceitful spin.</text></item><item><author>999900000999</author><text>These types of articles always try to put a positive spin on life just getting harder for many.<p>Less people are able to move out and start families due to student loans and wages not keeping up with cost of living.<p>This isn&#x27;t a matter of &#x27;well , in time you&#x27;ll have everything you want&#x27;. It&#x27;s more like you may never have what your parents had.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adventured</author><text>Which part of the US? It&#x27;s so dramatically different from city to city, state to state.<p>Software developer or equivalent income capable tech job, remote, university city&#x2F;town. It&#x27;s a fairly easy set-up (unless you&#x27;re already very rooted somewhere). They&#x27;re relatively inexpensive to live in (you can actually buy a real house at $100k per year!), and there are tons of safe choices (specifically with a low murder rate). Primary downside is far weaker food&#x2F;nightlife&#x2F;etc. vs what you get in major cities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Are you a late bloomer in work or love? Maybe you’re right on time</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/age-marry-kids-graduation-milestones-800ffec7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Al-Khwarizmi</author><text>The UK shot itself in the foot <i>hard</i> with Brexit, and has become a quite undesirable place for many for that reason. Doesn&#x27;t mean that the US is necessarily doing great.</text></item><item><author>908B64B197</author><text>&gt; Me personally, I dont even think I&#x27;ll be reaching retirement age if I continue to live in the UK, and thats not through not wanting to work, but thats because of the how the UK has become. Everything has just got too expensive living in the UK now.<p>Anecdotally, seems there&#x27;s a lot of British and European expats here in the Valley and they don&#x27;t seem too keen on returning. We&#x27;ve been getting a lot of international applicants (but work from home was supposed to mean Europeans could avoid moving to the &quot;dangerous&quot; US but work for American companies?).<p>Post 2016 the messaging from most commonwealth countries (UK, Canada, Australia) seemed to be that they were going to be the ones benefiting from a brain drain of Americans leaving the country. Canada was supposed to become an &quot;AI Superpower&quot; and Universities in the UK were supposed to be where innovation was going to happen next due to the perceived hostility of the United States to foreign talent. I recall someone pitching the &quot;Silicon Roundabout&quot; and that Cambridge and Oxford were going to be the new Stanford and MIT.<p>It&#x27;s interesting, in retrospective, to see how wrong these predictions were. Top destination for UK nationals in Academia was, and still is... the US [0].<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectrum.ieee.org&#x2F;at-work&#x2F;tech-careers&#x2F;the-global-brain-trade" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectrum.ieee.org&#x2F;at-work&#x2F;tech-careers&#x2F;the-global-bra...</a></text></item><item><author>darkclouds</author><text>A positive spin but arguably deceitful spin on the state of affairs in the US and UK.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lshtm.ac.uk&#x2F;newsevents&#x2F;news&#x2F;2023&#x2F;uk-drops-new-global-ranking-life-expectancy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lshtm.ac.uk&#x2F;newsevents&#x2F;news&#x2F;2023&#x2F;uk-drops-new-gl...</a><p>&quot;A new analysis of global rankings of life expectancy over seven decades shows the UK has done worse than all G7 countries except the USA.&quot;<p>&quot;According to the OECD, state the researchers, the UK recently became the second most economically unequal country in Europe after Bulgaria.&quot;<p>Me personally, I dont even think I&#x27;ll be reaching retirement age if I continue to live in the UK, and thats not through not wanting to work, but thats because of the how the UK has become. Everything has just got too expensive living in the UK now.<p>More people died during the period of time energy prices rose rapidly recently than during the covid pandemic in the UK, but you cant point this stuff out to people in the street because they&#x27;ll have a go back, a form of denial of the situation in the UK.<p>Its become very dog eat dog, quality of work in decline but costs still going up.<p>Crime in my experience is also off the scale and the attitude of the police now means I no longer report crimes to them.<p>So yes this sort of article is portrayed as positive spin but is in fact deceitful spin.</text></item><item><author>999900000999</author><text>These types of articles always try to put a positive spin on life just getting harder for many.<p>Less people are able to move out and start families due to student loans and wages not keeping up with cost of living.<p>This isn&#x27;t a matter of &#x27;well , in time you&#x27;ll have everything you want&#x27;. It&#x27;s more like you may never have what your parents had.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lacerda69</author><text>I still dont get why they did it. To me it was the most stupid thing any country did in my lifetime and am still mad about it.</text></comment> |
28,317,182 | 28,315,801 | 1 | 2 | 28,314,993 | train | <story><title>T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50M Customers: ‘Their Security Is Awful’</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/t-mobile-hacker-who-stole-data-on-50-million-customers-their-security-is-awful-11629985105</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jvanderbot</author><text>&quot;A booming industry of cybersecurity consultants, software suppliers and incident-response teams have so far failed to turn the tide against hackers and identity thieves who fuel their businesses by tapping these deep reservoirs of stolen corporate data.&quot;<p>Sure, blame the consultants with their &quot;booming industry&quot;. I&#x27;m <i>sure</i> T-Mobile spent adequate amounts of money on securing their data, hired all the best people, and it was all the security peoples&#x27; fault for not doing it properly.</text></comment> | <story><title>T-Mobile Hacker Who Stole Data on 50M Customers: ‘Their Security Is Awful’</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/t-mobile-hacker-who-stole-data-on-50-million-customers-their-security-is-awful-11629985105</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coldcode</author><text>Everyone&#x27;s security is awful, as the penalty for failure is less than the expense required to make it secure. Until the former becomes higher the latter will guarantee insecurity rules.</text></comment> |
5,308,238 | 5,307,411 | 1 | 2 | 5,306,680 | train | <story><title>Primeval C: two very early compilers</title><url>http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/primevalC.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gwern</author><text>These are very early compilers indeed, but it makes me wonder: a HN comment today reminded me of 'Proebsting's law' that compilers double program speed every 18 years. He got this by comparing a -O0 run with a -02 run and then dividing, but the obvious problem with this is that even if a modern compiler is run with -O0 it's probably going to be in effect optimizing a lot just by all the architectural choices and default code generation. It would be interesting to see if one could take a more recent C compiler, say late '70s and compare it to a heavily optimizing GCC run, and answer the question: how much have C compilers improved over the last 30-40 years?</text></comment> | <story><title>Primeval C: two very early compilers</title><url>http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/primevalC.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>No css, no javascript, loads in a flash (pun intended), the way a web page should be.<p>On top of that it contains mostly information rather than mark-up and eye candy.</text></comment> |
35,914,784 | 35,913,839 | 1 | 2 | 35,912,318 | train | <story><title>The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release</title><url>https://www.zelda.com/tears-of-the-kingdom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epolanski</author><text>The Switch combines lower powered A57 (a soc from..2012 on a 20nm process) with a Maxwell GPU (9+ years old at this point)<p>Honestly this is the time to start working on a Switch successor, they could easily more than double the current compute capabilities while keeping the same or lower power envelope.<p>That doesn&#x27;t even counts the untapped bonuses from much higher memory speeds.<p>I would instantly buy this, we would be looking at mobile machines more powerful than a PS4 Pro which is imho more than enough for the type of console.<p>Nintendo doesn&#x27;t even need to build it on the latest state of the art TSMC process, even the 5nm should be enough.</text></item><item><author>monocasa</author><text>&gt; People complaining about the Switch being underpowered are expecting PS5 level performance on a mobile device.<p>I mean, the SoC on the switch was long in the tooth at launch. It&#x27;s almost exactly the same hardware as in the tegra shield that came out two years prior, but Nintendo clocks it down to 1Ghz, about half the speed of the shield.<p>There&#x27;s some legitimate complaints that it&#x27;s a dog slow system because of that. For instance this new Zelda is frame locked to 20fps in some areas apparently.</text></item><item><author>bzzzt</author><text>People complaining about the Switch being underpowered are expecting PS5 level performance on a mobile device. Even if a new console would be twice as fast they still would be disappointed.
It&#x27;s perfectly possible to create innovative and - most important - fun games on something as powerful as the Switch.</text></item><item><author>genocidicbunny</author><text>&gt; It really makes me think Nintendo has an untapped market here to sell a little box you plug into your PC that plays switch games, interfaces with their controllers, etc. They&#x27;ve done oddball stuff like the SNES Gameboy player and GameCube GBA player add-ons in the past, it feels like there would be people willing to pay to properly play Switch games on their gaming PCs.<p>It seems unlikely they would be willing to let go of control like that. With all their oddball stuff, you were still largely within the Nintendo ecosystem. They also probably don&#x27;t want to deal with the piracy problem on PC, considering they already deal with it on their relatively locked-down consoles.<p>For better or for worse, Nintendo also likes to really control the experience you get playing games on their platforms; It would probably not be a great look for them to have to deal with thousands of customers that are trying to run their games on hardware older than a Switch and complaining that it&#x27;s a terrible experience. Yeah the existing hardware is underpowered, but its uniformly underpowered, and that&#x27;s worth quite a bit too.<p>I think for Nintendo, the more prudent solution would be to release an updated Switch with some more powerful hardware that&#x27;s fully backwards compatible with the existing Switch library. It would be very par for the course for them, and assuage most of the complaints about the Switch being underpowered.</text></item><item><author>qbasic_forever</author><text>I was listening to a gaming podcast last week and they were talking about how this release was pirated and available for the last week or so on torrents. That in itself wasn&#x27;t surprising, but the interesting point they talked about is that the game is much more enjoyable when played on PC with an emulated copy because modern gaming PC hardware is much smoother and higher resolution than the stock Switch.<p>It really makes me think Nintendo has an untapped market here to sell a little box you plug into your PC that plays switch games, interfaces with their controllers, etc. They&#x27;ve done oddball stuff like the SNES Gameboy player and GameCube GBA player add-ons in the past. It feels like there would be people willing to pay to properly play Switch games on their gaming PCs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkteflon</author><text>All they have to do to keep me and my kids as customers through the next gen is commit to back compat with our Switch library and build something that can run their big-budget first party titles like Zelda at 720p60 handheld &#x2F; 1080p60 docked. So sort of 2.5x what we’ve got now. Spend the rest of the TDP budget on pushing out the battery life. Hardware upscaling for bonus points only. Job done.<p>This is Nintendo though so I expect nothing.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release</title><url>https://www.zelda.com/tears-of-the-kingdom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epolanski</author><text>The Switch combines lower powered A57 (a soc from..2012 on a 20nm process) with a Maxwell GPU (9+ years old at this point)<p>Honestly this is the time to start working on a Switch successor, they could easily more than double the current compute capabilities while keeping the same or lower power envelope.<p>That doesn&#x27;t even counts the untapped bonuses from much higher memory speeds.<p>I would instantly buy this, we would be looking at mobile machines more powerful than a PS4 Pro which is imho more than enough for the type of console.<p>Nintendo doesn&#x27;t even need to build it on the latest state of the art TSMC process, even the 5nm should be enough.</text></item><item><author>monocasa</author><text>&gt; People complaining about the Switch being underpowered are expecting PS5 level performance on a mobile device.<p>I mean, the SoC on the switch was long in the tooth at launch. It&#x27;s almost exactly the same hardware as in the tegra shield that came out two years prior, but Nintendo clocks it down to 1Ghz, about half the speed of the shield.<p>There&#x27;s some legitimate complaints that it&#x27;s a dog slow system because of that. For instance this new Zelda is frame locked to 20fps in some areas apparently.</text></item><item><author>bzzzt</author><text>People complaining about the Switch being underpowered are expecting PS5 level performance on a mobile device. Even if a new console would be twice as fast they still would be disappointed.
It&#x27;s perfectly possible to create innovative and - most important - fun games on something as powerful as the Switch.</text></item><item><author>genocidicbunny</author><text>&gt; It really makes me think Nintendo has an untapped market here to sell a little box you plug into your PC that plays switch games, interfaces with their controllers, etc. They&#x27;ve done oddball stuff like the SNES Gameboy player and GameCube GBA player add-ons in the past, it feels like there would be people willing to pay to properly play Switch games on their gaming PCs.<p>It seems unlikely they would be willing to let go of control like that. With all their oddball stuff, you were still largely within the Nintendo ecosystem. They also probably don&#x27;t want to deal with the piracy problem on PC, considering they already deal with it on their relatively locked-down consoles.<p>For better or for worse, Nintendo also likes to really control the experience you get playing games on their platforms; It would probably not be a great look for them to have to deal with thousands of customers that are trying to run their games on hardware older than a Switch and complaining that it&#x27;s a terrible experience. Yeah the existing hardware is underpowered, but its uniformly underpowered, and that&#x27;s worth quite a bit too.<p>I think for Nintendo, the more prudent solution would be to release an updated Switch with some more powerful hardware that&#x27;s fully backwards compatible with the existing Switch library. It would be very par for the course for them, and assuage most of the complaints about the Switch being underpowered.</text></item><item><author>qbasic_forever</author><text>I was listening to a gaming podcast last week and they were talking about how this release was pirated and available for the last week or so on torrents. That in itself wasn&#x27;t surprising, but the interesting point they talked about is that the game is much more enjoyable when played on PC with an emulated copy because modern gaming PC hardware is much smoother and higher resolution than the stock Switch.<p>It really makes me think Nintendo has an untapped market here to sell a little box you plug into your PC that plays switch games, interfaces with their controllers, etc. They&#x27;ve done oddball stuff like the SNES Gameboy player and GameCube GBA player add-ons in the past. It feels like there would be people willing to pay to properly play Switch games on their gaming PCs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KptMarchewa</author><text>&gt;Honestly this is the time to start working on a Switch successor, they could easily more than double the current compute capabilities while keeping the same or lower power envelope.<p>They&#x27;ve been working on successor for 4+ years now. That&#x27;s how long new console cycles are now. PS5 dev cycle stated 2 years after PS4 released.</text></comment> |
5,454,785 | 5,454,939 | 1 | 2 | 5,454,147 | train | <story><title>The Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors at $1 a Share</title><url>http://www.wired.com/business/2013/03/ipo-man/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pkeod</author><text>YMMV. Not everyone wants kids, plenty of people are already having kids, many people who do have kids regret it entirely, and many people correctly recognize that you can't live your dreams and raise your kids right. It's not just a financial lens for many people it's a time lens too.<p>Having kids whose lives you very probably won't even be allowed to be a part of is a reality for many guys too. Even if you have kids in marriage the reality is you will probably get a divorce, the kids will go to the mother, and you will pay.<p>Why risk it if you know you can avoid it? Having kids it's a guarantee of joy or satisfaction. Writing books, creating epic things can give just as much joy and satisfaction.<p>10 year at a time male birth control is coming so vasectomies will no longer be necessary. <a href="http://www.parsemusfoundation.org/vasalgel-home" rel="nofollow">http://www.parsemusfoundation.org/vasalgel-home</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/childfree" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/childfree</a></text></item><item><author>Delmania</author><text>I suspect I'll get downvoted for this, but for some reason, I find this quote chilling,
“Children are a financial drain,” Merrill wrote. “The time investment of raising a child is immense. The responsibility is epic. The impact on future projects would be drastic. In light of these factors, it makes sense to reduce the chances to nearly zero and have a vasectomy performed.”<p>It seems to completely remove the joy and satisfaction that comes from raising children. Only a few things should be viewed from a financial lens. Wealth is not money, wealth is discretionary time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>This is why India is ultimately destined to overtake the western world. Either directly or from within.<p>Having had occasion to debate about this on /r/childfree, I feel like a lot of their arguments are based on one of the following fallacies:<p>1) That there are "too many people." That may be true in parts of Africa, but in the developed world, the positive economic contribution of each additional person still vastly outweights the cost of their incremental strain on natural resources.<p>2) That depopulation in the future doesn't affect people in the present. If you're thinking of investing in a startup, what does it do to your calculus if you know that your customer base won't be any bigger in 20 years than it is today, and will be older?<p>3) There is no positive externality to having kids. Your average person is going to contribute millions of dollars in labor and social value (how much would you pay to save the life of a loved one?) over his or her lifetime.<p>4) Failure to look at the value of alternatives in incremental terms. The question isn't: what is the value of having kids versus doing a startup, it's: how much does having kids reduce my probability of doing a startup, and what is the weighted value of that relative to having kids.<p>5) Failure to account for the correlation between parent-child incomes. I'd say 90% of the kids from my high-income suburban middle school are now making median or above incomes. Maybe 7-10% are in the top 1% of income for their age bracket. High income people create a larger positive externality when they have kids.<p>6) Failure to weight the value of alternatives by probabilities. Your average person has very few alternative courses of action that is going to generate as much economic value as raising kids. Your high income person has has a greater probability of doing these things, but writing a best-selling book or founding a successful startup is far from guaranteed. So the relevant question is not: what has higher external social value, doing a startup or having a kid, but rather which of those has higher social value weighted by the probabilities that your startup will have any real success (low), or by the probability that your kid will achieve at least median economic success (quite high).<p>This is of course not to argue with anyone who chooses not to have kids. Nobody needs to justify personal decisions like that. But to the extent that they do try to justify it (and that's largely what /r/childfree is--people who feel the need to justify their decision), it's useful not to rely on fallacious reasoning to do so.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors at $1 a Share</title><url>http://www.wired.com/business/2013/03/ipo-man/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pkeod</author><text>YMMV. Not everyone wants kids, plenty of people are already having kids, many people who do have kids regret it entirely, and many people correctly recognize that you can't live your dreams and raise your kids right. It's not just a financial lens for many people it's a time lens too.<p>Having kids whose lives you very probably won't even be allowed to be a part of is a reality for many guys too. Even if you have kids in marriage the reality is you will probably get a divorce, the kids will go to the mother, and you will pay.<p>Why risk it if you know you can avoid it? Having kids it's a guarantee of joy or satisfaction. Writing books, creating epic things can give just as much joy and satisfaction.<p>10 year at a time male birth control is coming so vasectomies will no longer be necessary. <a href="http://www.parsemusfoundation.org/vasalgel-home" rel="nofollow">http://www.parsemusfoundation.org/vasalgel-home</a><p><a href="http://reddit.com/r/childfree" rel="nofollow">http://reddit.com/r/childfree</a></text></item><item><author>Delmania</author><text>I suspect I'll get downvoted for this, but for some reason, I find this quote chilling,
“Children are a financial drain,” Merrill wrote. “The time investment of raising a child is immense. The responsibility is epic. The impact on future projects would be drastic. In light of these factors, it makes sense to reduce the chances to nearly zero and have a vasectomy performed.”<p>It seems to completely remove the joy and satisfaction that comes from raising children. Only a few things should be viewed from a financial lens. Wealth is not money, wealth is discretionary time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loganfrederick</author><text>"Plenty of people are already having kids"<p>Arguably not true. Population growth rates have been decreasing in a variety of countries[1] and economists have found connections between economic growth and population growth[2].<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-Generational-Storm-Americas/dp/0262612089" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-Generational-Storm-Americas...</a>
[2]: <a href="http://scholar.harvard.edu/kremer/publications" rel="nofollow">http://scholar.harvard.edu/kremer/publications</a></text></comment> |
34,403,646 | 34,401,332 | 1 | 2 | 34,400,024 | train | <story><title>The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/01/the-iab-loves-tracking-users-but-it-hates-users-tracking-them/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dale_glass</author><text>&gt; As part of the UID2 API they specifically describe how an advertiser must &quot;normalise&quot; their users&#x27; email addresses.
&gt;
&gt; This means [email protected] becomes plain old [email protected]<p>It seemed to be completely obvious to me even decades back, that the + scheme would be trivially parsed and reversed.<p>So I don&#x27;t use it and just keep on making completely new aliases. So amazon gets [email protected]. If I&#x27;m not going to pay for anything on this account it also gets a random name from a random piece of well known media, like &quot;Donald Duck&quot;, and all the data filled in randomly to ensure that it&#x27;s not googleable, and doesn&#x27;t correlate with any accounts anywhere else.<p>The bigger issue I see is the desire to link everything to a phone number. Even stuff made for privacy, like Signal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alasdair_</author><text>Even if I need to use my real address, I’ll use the “address 2” field to say something like “Amazon sold my information”<p>I’ve had quite a lot of third party junk mail with this kind of stuff on it over the years.</text></comment> | <story><title>The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/01/the-iab-loves-tracking-users-but-it-hates-users-tracking-them/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dale_glass</author><text>&gt; As part of the UID2 API they specifically describe how an advertiser must &quot;normalise&quot; their users&#x27; email addresses.
&gt;
&gt; This means [email protected] becomes plain old [email protected]<p>It seemed to be completely obvious to me even decades back, that the + scheme would be trivially parsed and reversed.<p>So I don&#x27;t use it and just keep on making completely new aliases. So amazon gets [email protected]. If I&#x27;m not going to pay for anything on this account it also gets a random name from a random piece of well known media, like &quot;Donald Duck&quot;, and all the data filled in randomly to ensure that it&#x27;s not googleable, and doesn&#x27;t correlate with any accounts anywhere else.<p>The bigger issue I see is the desire to link everything to a phone number. Even stuff made for privacy, like Signal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superkuh</author><text>&gt;The bigger issue I see is the desire to link everything to a phone number.<p>Yep, I&#x27;ve had my youtube account since before Google bought youtube in 2006. Just this week I noticed that I am no longer able to put URLs in the descriptions of videos I upload to youtube. I have to &quot;verify&quot; by giving them my phone number before any clickable URLs are allowed in descriptions. But apparently all URLs are clickable URLs. Additionally, even videos I uploaded in 2008, if I go to edit their descriptions now and I originally included a URL, I cannot submit it.<p>Phone number &quot;verification&quot; is nasty. I suppose this is the end of my almost 2 decades of using youtube to host videos.<p>As for email spam prevention, I&#x27;ve run my own mailserver with a domain since 2011. I give each service an <i>actual</i> unique email address and then just catch-all emails sent to my domain. It works great.</text></comment> |
17,196,785 | 17,196,784 | 1 | 2 | 17,196,507 | train | <story><title>Vermont will cover $10K of expenses for people who move there and work remotely</title><url>https://work.qz.com/1289727/vermont-will-pay-you-10000-to-move-there-and-work-remotely/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unit91</author><text>From the law:<p>&gt; (3) The Agency shall award grants under the Program on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to available funding, as follows: (A) not more than $125,000.00 in calendar year 2019...<p>With such a small budget, it seems like the actual intent may have been to allocate up to $125K to generate advertising about their state.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legislature.vermont.gov&#x2F;assets&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;2018&#x2F;Docs&#x2F;BILLS&#x2F;S-0094&#x2F;S-0094%20As%20Passed%20by%20Both%20House%20and%20Senate%20Unofficial.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legislature.vermont.gov&#x2F;assets&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;2018&#x2F;Docs&#x2F;B...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gk1</author><text>Yes, I was surprised by this:<p>&gt; Vermont has budgeted grants for about 100 new remote workers in the first three years of the program and about 20 additional workers per year for every year after.<p>Vermont lost 10,000 working-age residents over the past five years.[1] This plan will (in theory) recover just ~1% of that.<p>Maybe they&#x27;re monitoring reactions to this announcement before they put more money into the program? Otherwise I don&#x27;t see how this is supposed to make any difference to their problem.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.burlingtonfreepress.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;money&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;21&#x2F;vermont-aging-faster-than-rest-united-states&#x2F;87263398&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.burlingtonfreepress.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;money&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;21&#x2F;v...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Vermont will cover $10K of expenses for people who move there and work remotely</title><url>https://work.qz.com/1289727/vermont-will-pay-you-10000-to-move-there-and-work-remotely/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unit91</author><text>From the law:<p>&gt; (3) The Agency shall award grants under the Program on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to available funding, as follows: (A) not more than $125,000.00 in calendar year 2019...<p>With such a small budget, it seems like the actual intent may have been to allocate up to $125K to generate advertising about their state.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legislature.vermont.gov&#x2F;assets&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;2018&#x2F;Docs&#x2F;BILLS&#x2F;S-0094&#x2F;S-0094%20As%20Passed%20by%20Both%20House%20and%20Senate%20Unofficial.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legislature.vermont.gov&#x2F;assets&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;2018&#x2F;Docs&#x2F;B...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>As we are talking about living and working in Vermont on a technology focused news aggregation site, I would call that a success.<p>Part of the reasoning given in the article is to shore up the &quot;rapidly sinking tax base&quot; of the state and it reminds me that we don&#x27;t have a good example of governments that both grow and shrink based on the economic activity of the state. That is something that could really help areas remain stable for longer periods of time I expect.</text></comment> |
16,024,902 | 16,022,336 | 1 | 2 | 16,021,541 | train | <story><title>C++17 constexpr everything, or as much as the compiler can</title><url>https://solarianprogrammer.com/2017/12/27/cpp-17-constexpr-everything-as-much-as-the-compiler-can/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>D doesn&#x27;t need constexpr. It&#x27;s much simpler - any function whose value is needed at compile time is evaluated at compile time. For example:<p><pre><code> int square(int x) { return x * x; }
const y = square(3); &#x2F;&#x2F; evaluated at compile time
int bar() {
int[square(2)] array; &#x2F;&#x2F; evaluated at compile time
return square(3); &#x2F;&#x2F; evaluated at run time
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If a value is needed at compile time, and the function cannot be evaluated at compiler time (i.e. it relies on things like global variables not known at compile time) then a compilation error is issued.<p>There isn&#x27;t any ambiguity about whether it is evaluated at runtime or compile time - there is no &quot;fall back&quot; to run time if it can&#x27;t be done at compile time.</text></comment> | <story><title>C++17 constexpr everything, or as much as the compiler can</title><url>https://solarianprogrammer.com/2017/12/27/cpp-17-constexpr-everything-as-much-as-the-compiler-can/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrepd</author><text>&gt;In conclusion, at the time of this writing, you need to inspect the generated code of your compiler, if you want to be sure that something is really calculated at compile time.<p>I don&#x27;t get this. Why? Doesn&#x27;t making a variable constexpr ensure it is a compile time value, or it will fail to compile?</text></comment> |
6,129,112 | 6,127,548 | 1 | 2 | 6,127,094 | train | <story><title>Attaching a Thunderbolt GPU to a Macbook Air</title><url>http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/4271-2013-11-macbook-air-win7-sonnet-echo-expresscard-pe4l-internal-lcd-%5Bus%24250%5D.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChikkaChiChi</author><text>Let&#x27;s be honest: The Thunderbolt ecosystem is tragic.<p>- We&#x27;re only now seeing the first docks come available. It only took Belkin an extra year to develop it.<p>- The hopes and dreams of internal buses being used outside the standard case is still only a dream unless you are willing to pay extreme premiums. Even then there is still no native solution for video.<p>- I still need a special cord from Apple to run Dual-link. If I want a Thunderbolt display for my Macbook, I still end up with a power cord adapter that&#x27;s over a year out of date.<p>- And now Apple wants to convince us that somehow, someway, the forthcoming Mac Pro will somehow usher in a new wave of adoption? What flavor Kool-Aid are they drinking and are they somehow consuming it through FW800?<p>While USB3 is faring a little better, I still encounter mystical errors any time I use a card that relies on Displaylink drivers. The fact of the matter is that it seems like this latest generation of ports is being hindered less by the underlying technology and more by corporate bullshit that leaves us all frustrated.</text></comment> | <story><title>Attaching a Thunderbolt GPU to a Macbook Air</title><url>http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/4271-2013-11-macbook-air-win7-sonnet-echo-expresscard-pe4l-internal-lcd-%5Bus%24250%5D.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>larsberg</author><text>I&#x27;ve been assuming this is what Apple is going to do with the next MBP retina. Intel graphics when headless + a new Thunderbolt Display with built-in Nvidia or ATI card when &quot;docked.&quot;</text></comment> |
39,555,888 | 39,555,854 | 1 | 2 | 39,553,801 | train | <story><title>Financial systems take a holiday</title><url>https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/financial-systems-take-a-holiday/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>&gt; Financial systems are inseparably computer systems. Most similarly important computer systems don’t take holidays. Google doesn’t take holidays… or doesn’t seem to, from the perspective of a typical user, at any rate.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t it be better for users if our financial systems worked like the Google example? Why can&#x27;t I as a regular retail investor trade a stock on Saturday? Why can&#x27;t I move money from one bank account to another on Sunday? Imagine not being able to send E-mail on Easter because nobody at your ISP was there to push bits around or whatever these banks&#x27; excuse is?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavlov</author><text><i>&gt; “Why can&#x27;t I as a regular retail investor trade a stock on Saturday?”</i><p>Stock trading on exchanges traditionally has delayed settlement. You don’t need to have the money and stock at hand when you make the trade, but you’re expected to provide them on the settlement date. For a long time this was two days later, but is now being changed to only one day in the U.S.<p>Trading on Saturdays would either mean complications for settlement, or that settlement must happen on Saturday too. Surely not impossible, but these things have ripple effects that are not immediately obvious.<p><i>&gt; “Why can&#x27;t I move money from one bank account to another on Sunday?”</i><p>This exists in Europe with 24&#x2F;7 SEPA instant credit across banks and Eurozone countries. It doesn’t cost anything extra.<p>But getting to that point needed a serious mandate from the European Union, years of planning, and cooperation by the various governments. The effort was worth it because it’s a far better solution for consumers than e.g. cryptocurrencies or the American proprietary payment solutions like Venmo.</text></comment> | <story><title>Financial systems take a holiday</title><url>https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/financial-systems-take-a-holiday/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>&gt; Financial systems are inseparably computer systems. Most similarly important computer systems don’t take holidays. Google doesn’t take holidays… or doesn’t seem to, from the perspective of a typical user, at any rate.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t it be better for users if our financial systems worked like the Google example? Why can&#x27;t I as a regular retail investor trade a stock on Saturday? Why can&#x27;t I move money from one bank account to another on Sunday? Imagine not being able to send E-mail on Easter because nobody at your ISP was there to push bits around or whatever these banks&#x27; excuse is?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mason55</author><text>&gt; <i>Why can&#x27;t I as a regular retail investor trade a stock on Saturday?</i><p>Markets have chosen to concentrate trading to specific hours so as to concentrate liquidity and to help out the professional traders. If everyone&#x27;s trading 24&#x2F;7 then it means you need to be prepared to trade 24&#x2F;7. Having defined market hours means defined hours in which important things can happen. And since the people who work in the market can also define the hours, they&#x27;ve chosen to give themselves reasonable working hours.<p>In a world where the major markets are trading 24&#x2F;7, traders need to be at their desk 24&#x2F;7.<p>&gt; <i>Why can&#x27;t I move money from one bank account to another on Sunday?</i><p>Instant money transfer means instantly draining someone&#x27;s bank account with no recourse. Checks have plenty of opportunities to stop the money, so you can write a check on a Sunday as easily as a Wednesday. Wires are more irreversible and so you can only send those when the bank is open and there&#x27;s someone to double check any suspicious behavior.</text></comment> |
30,145,858 | 30,143,155 | 1 | 3 | 30,140,984 | train | <story><title>A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar</title><url>https://jenson.org/tesla/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frosted-flakes</author><text>Actually, I&#x27;ve seen that some cars will rapidly flash the brake lights a few times if the brakes are applied hard. I don&#x27;t know off the top of my head which cars though.</text></item><item><author>Syonyk</author><text>That&#x27;s actually one complaint I have about the 1st gen Chevy Volt - the hazards switch is a physical button... on the right side of the center console, over by the passenger. It&#x27;s <i>not</i> a location that is either rapid to find if you don&#x27;t know where it is, or particularly rapid to hit when you need them - it&#x27;s a substantial span reach, unsupported, on a smaller button than I think reasonable. Though, admittedly, I miss the ones on the top of the steering column. That was standard enough for a long time that I still look for the toggle there.<p>I use them at least a few times a year, though far less than I used to when I was on the interstate a lot more. Any time traffic rapidly drops more than about 20mph, I light up my hazards to let following traffic know, &quot;Yes, you see brake lights, no, they&#x27;re not just people scrubbing a few miles an hour off - <i>get on your brakes now!</i>&quot; Probably a habit I picked up from truckers, a lot of them do this for the very understandable reason that a big rig doesn&#x27;t stop on a dime, and even if they will, you&#x27;re likely to unstack your cargo in the process.<p>Super infrequently used compared to other buttons, but also not something I really have the time go sorting through menus for when I need it. And neither do I trust the car&#x27;s automatic systems to turn them on for me.<p>Though, if I could dream, we&#x27;d use LED brake lights to encode braking intensity somehow. The car knows if I&#x27;m barely touching the pedal to cancel cruise control and light up the brakes, or if I&#x27;ve just mashed them to the ABS actuation point, but the brake lights don&#x27;t encode <i>any</i> of this useful info. You couldn&#x27;t rely on it for car behavior (trivial to spoof, and get rid of tailgaters), but it would be an additional useful input for driving - &quot;Woah, hey, that car in front of you just nearly locked up their wheels, radar data agrees, slow down!&quot;</text></item><item><author>ptaipale</author><text>Indeed. What is the largest button I have in my Renault&#x27;s dash? It&#x27;s the triangle-shaped hazard light switch. Do I ever use it? I hope not. Do I want it to be that big? Yes, I do.</text></item><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>Tricky thing about &quot;data driven&quot; &#x2F; behaviour observation is:<p>App&#x2F;icon X may be the most COMMONLY used one.<p>But it doesn&#x27;t necessarily make it the most IMPORTANT one, the one I need to reach in a hurry &#x2F; most easily.<p>I don&#x27;t know how to capture, via automated telemetry, &quot;this occasional button I REALLY REALLY need&quot;... so it&#x27;s just hubris then.<p>I&#x27;m an outsider, I&#x27;ve only entered Tesla&#x27;s as opposed to driven them, but the UX is such a <i>massive</i> deal-breaker for this old grouch, it&#x27;s unbelievable. I wish it weren&#x27;t so but c&#x27;est la vie.</text></item><item><author>pcurve</author><text>I&#x27;m sure the decision was &quot;data driven&quot; based on real life usage.<p>It&#x27;s a bit disturbing they&#x27;re able to make such drastic level of changes without heads up.<p>Can you imagine, taking your Honda Accord in for an oil change, and you find out that dealer completely re-arranged your center console?<p>I wish more features tied to safety should be available via physical switches. Even Model 3 has a physical hazard light switch.</text></item><item><author>mft_</author><text>I&#x27;m usually a defender of the single screen on the Model 3&#x2F;Y, but on this, the author is right: the new UI (v11) is terrible compared to the previous one (v10).<p>Not only does it hide commonly-used safety-relevant functions behind extra taps in sub-menus (as detailed), it was apparently done to free up space to offer a &#x27;dock&#x27; of app buttons - three permanant and three &#x27;recently used&#x27;. I struggled to choose three apps I needed enough to fill the permanant spaces - and certainly don&#x27;t need quick access (when I&#x27;m driving!) to Netflix, or games, or whatever is popping up in &#x27;recently used&#x27; today. I <i>would</i> like the driver profile menu to be quickly available, but alas that&#x27;s been hidden too.<p>It&#x27;s a total cluster-f*ck that makes no logical sense when considering the need of drivers, and I hope they listen and revert at least this aspect of the UI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptaipale</author><text>This is common in newer cars in Europe - if you brake so hard that ABS is activated, the brake lights will flash &#x2F; pulse.<p>I suppose regulations do not allow it in the U.S. but at least here it can be programmed on&#x2F;off via service terminals.<p>Random example from YouTube:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dJk-rJpgF1o&amp;t=108s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dJk-rJpgF1o&amp;t=108s</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar</title><url>https://jenson.org/tesla/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frosted-flakes</author><text>Actually, I&#x27;ve seen that some cars will rapidly flash the brake lights a few times if the brakes are applied hard. I don&#x27;t know off the top of my head which cars though.</text></item><item><author>Syonyk</author><text>That&#x27;s actually one complaint I have about the 1st gen Chevy Volt - the hazards switch is a physical button... on the right side of the center console, over by the passenger. It&#x27;s <i>not</i> a location that is either rapid to find if you don&#x27;t know where it is, or particularly rapid to hit when you need them - it&#x27;s a substantial span reach, unsupported, on a smaller button than I think reasonable. Though, admittedly, I miss the ones on the top of the steering column. That was standard enough for a long time that I still look for the toggle there.<p>I use them at least a few times a year, though far less than I used to when I was on the interstate a lot more. Any time traffic rapidly drops more than about 20mph, I light up my hazards to let following traffic know, &quot;Yes, you see brake lights, no, they&#x27;re not just people scrubbing a few miles an hour off - <i>get on your brakes now!</i>&quot; Probably a habit I picked up from truckers, a lot of them do this for the very understandable reason that a big rig doesn&#x27;t stop on a dime, and even if they will, you&#x27;re likely to unstack your cargo in the process.<p>Super infrequently used compared to other buttons, but also not something I really have the time go sorting through menus for when I need it. And neither do I trust the car&#x27;s automatic systems to turn them on for me.<p>Though, if I could dream, we&#x27;d use LED brake lights to encode braking intensity somehow. The car knows if I&#x27;m barely touching the pedal to cancel cruise control and light up the brakes, or if I&#x27;ve just mashed them to the ABS actuation point, but the brake lights don&#x27;t encode <i>any</i> of this useful info. You couldn&#x27;t rely on it for car behavior (trivial to spoof, and get rid of tailgaters), but it would be an additional useful input for driving - &quot;Woah, hey, that car in front of you just nearly locked up their wheels, radar data agrees, slow down!&quot;</text></item><item><author>ptaipale</author><text>Indeed. What is the largest button I have in my Renault&#x27;s dash? It&#x27;s the triangle-shaped hazard light switch. Do I ever use it? I hope not. Do I want it to be that big? Yes, I do.</text></item><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>Tricky thing about &quot;data driven&quot; &#x2F; behaviour observation is:<p>App&#x2F;icon X may be the most COMMONLY used one.<p>But it doesn&#x27;t necessarily make it the most IMPORTANT one, the one I need to reach in a hurry &#x2F; most easily.<p>I don&#x27;t know how to capture, via automated telemetry, &quot;this occasional button I REALLY REALLY need&quot;... so it&#x27;s just hubris then.<p>I&#x27;m an outsider, I&#x27;ve only entered Tesla&#x27;s as opposed to driven them, but the UX is such a <i>massive</i> deal-breaker for this old grouch, it&#x27;s unbelievable. I wish it weren&#x27;t so but c&#x27;est la vie.</text></item><item><author>pcurve</author><text>I&#x27;m sure the decision was &quot;data driven&quot; based on real life usage.<p>It&#x27;s a bit disturbing they&#x27;re able to make such drastic level of changes without heads up.<p>Can you imagine, taking your Honda Accord in for an oil change, and you find out that dealer completely re-arranged your center console?<p>I wish more features tied to safety should be available via physical switches. Even Model 3 has a physical hazard light switch.</text></item><item><author>mft_</author><text>I&#x27;m usually a defender of the single screen on the Model 3&#x2F;Y, but on this, the author is right: the new UI (v11) is terrible compared to the previous one (v10).<p>Not only does it hide commonly-used safety-relevant functions behind extra taps in sub-menus (as detailed), it was apparently done to free up space to offer a &#x27;dock&#x27; of app buttons - three permanant and three &#x27;recently used&#x27;. I struggled to choose three apps I needed enough to fill the permanant spaces - and certainly don&#x27;t need quick access (when I&#x27;m driving!) to Netflix, or games, or whatever is popping up in &#x27;recently used&#x27; today. I <i>would</i> like the driver profile menu to be quickly available, but alas that&#x27;s been hidden too.<p>It&#x27;s a total cluster-f*ck that makes no logical sense when considering the need of drivers, and I hope they listen and revert at least this aspect of the UI.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Syonyk</author><text>I&#x27;ve mostly installed them on motorcycles over the years. The combination of a modulator&#x2F;flasher (several pulses and then solid) and a bright LED tail light makes a HUGE difference in how cars behind you follow - I converted several motorcycles at different points in time and observed the rather significantly increased following distance on each one as I converted them.<p>I don&#x27;t know the legality of them, but nobody ever complained on the motorcycles.</text></comment> |
17,099,166 | 17,099,040 | 1 | 2 | 17,097,561 | train | <story><title>Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles</title><url>http://openaccess.blogg.kb.se/2018/05/16/sweden-stands-up-for-open-access-cancels-agreement-with-elsevier/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foo101</author><text>I am surprised that it took so long after the invention of the Internet. In the pre-Internet era, these journals used to play a significant role in distributing research papers in physical paper form. It made sense then. There was no way to copy a 10 page research paper from Germany to China with a few finger taps at low cost. But with the advent of the Internet and its pervasiveness, it no longer makes sense to rely on a costly media based on physical printing, distribution, and centralized organizations milking money out of it.<p>I remember Timothy Gowers calling for a boycott of Elsevier back in 2012. It&#x27;s 6 years since then and Elsevier is still alive. Influential researchers still submit their work to Elsevier! It took less time (a few weeks?) for everyone to boycott Digg!<p>It&#x27;s surprising how the Internet has been used to distribute cat videos, advertisements, time-draining, and attention-draining content to a sickening degree but it is still underutilized to distribute good content like research papers such that the Internet becomes the primary and de facto media for such content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vinnl</author><text>That&#x27;s because, despite being called &quot;publishers&quot;, publishing is not the main function academic publishers like Elsevier are being used for. Their main function is identifying and recognising the most valued academics in each field. So obviously academics are going to pay whatever amount of public money is needed and available to get that stamp of approval, because otherwise they&#x27;ll be out of a job in a <i>very</i> competitive job market.<p><i>Edit:</i> The argument in more detail: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;flockademic&#x2F;to-fix-scholarly-publishing-decouple-credentialing-from-publishing-29b211f49acc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;flockademic&#x2F;to-fix-scholarly-publishing-d...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles</title><url>http://openaccess.blogg.kb.se/2018/05/16/sweden-stands-up-for-open-access-cancels-agreement-with-elsevier/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foo101</author><text>I am surprised that it took so long after the invention of the Internet. In the pre-Internet era, these journals used to play a significant role in distributing research papers in physical paper form. It made sense then. There was no way to copy a 10 page research paper from Germany to China with a few finger taps at low cost. But with the advent of the Internet and its pervasiveness, it no longer makes sense to rely on a costly media based on physical printing, distribution, and centralized organizations milking money out of it.<p>I remember Timothy Gowers calling for a boycott of Elsevier back in 2012. It&#x27;s 6 years since then and Elsevier is still alive. Influential researchers still submit their work to Elsevier! It took less time (a few weeks?) for everyone to boycott Digg!<p>It&#x27;s surprising how the Internet has been used to distribute cat videos, advertisements, time-draining, and attention-draining content to a sickening degree but it is still underutilized to distribute good content like research papers such that the Internet becomes the primary and de facto media for such content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kilotaras</author><text>This is not a technological problem, but a coordination one. Each of the individual researchers, faculty and grant committees are being perfectly rational in supporting status quo, they are just stuck in a suboptimal Nash equilibrium [1].<p>To quote Yudkowsky for a possible solution to this metaproblem &quot;That’s why we have ... there doesn’t seem to be a word in your language for the timed-collective-action-threshold-conditional-commitment… hold on, this cultural translator isn’t making any sense. “Kickstarter”? You have the key concept, but you use it mainly for making video games?&quot; [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nash_equilibrium" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nash_equilibrium</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesswrong.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;x5ASTMPKPowLKpLpZ&#x2F;moloch-s-toolbox-1-2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesswrong.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;x5ASTMPKPowLKpLpZ&#x2F;moloch-s-t...</a></text></comment> |
1,381,235 | 1,381,325 | 1 | 2 | 1,381,108 | train | <story><title>Apple is Officially Worth More than Microsoft</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/26/apple-microsoft-market-cap-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moron4hire</author><text>Consider that Apple's P/E is 24.5 and Microsoft's P/E is 13.4. Basically, while Apple may be in demand right now, Microsoft is earning almost twice as much.<p>Also, Microsoft pays a (albeit small) dividend, whereas Apple does not.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple is Officially Worth More than Microsoft</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/26/apple-microsoft-market-cap-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>I think the more interesting news here is that Apple is now the second largest company in America (about $50 billion behind Exxon).</text></comment> |
27,885,824 | 27,885,698 | 1 | 2 | 27,884,233 | train | <story><title>Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?</title><url>https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-health-research-is-fraudulent-until-proved-otherwise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ta988</author><text>When you want to do a proper work, your grants and papers get rejected because they are not innovatove enough or don&#x27;t go far enough. So it is not a surprise that people that lied in their applications about what they can realistically do also lie when it comes to reporting results. Unfortunately there is no way out. I stopped counting how many reviewers of my grants disagreed on what was proposed, one saying that it was not innovative, the other saying that is was too risky to use this approach. We have a big problem in science, peer-review is broken and everything relies on it. And many reviewers are way out of touch about what happens in their field, I see reviews that clearly show the reviewer was sleeping for the last 10 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextos</author><text>You are absolutely right.<p>Furthermore, universities tend to require tons of publications to promote you. Things are spinning out of control. I know a few EU countries where the written norm is to need &gt; 100 publications to qualify for a full professorship, with equally ridiculous requirements for associate and assistant positions.<p>Obviously, this encourages and rewards completely broken practices. Many associate and full professors in my area only care about stamping their names into as many journal articles as humanly possible. Some of them are already beyond 500, with many of these in top tier journals (Nature, Science, Cell, NEJM). Obviously, they hardly ever contribute anything. Their serfs do all the work. Their job is basically to plot in order to stay on top of their neofeudal shire.<p>In addition to this, funding bodies do nothing after fraud has been proven. ERC only terminates grants on rare occasions. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forbetterscience.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forbetterscience.com&#x2F;</a> discusses many cases of serial fraudsters who keep getting funded despite having retracted 10 or 15 articles in major journals.</text></comment> | <story><title>Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?</title><url>https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-health-research-is-fraudulent-until-proved-otherwise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ta988</author><text>When you want to do a proper work, your grants and papers get rejected because they are not innovatove enough or don&#x27;t go far enough. So it is not a surprise that people that lied in their applications about what they can realistically do also lie when it comes to reporting results. Unfortunately there is no way out. I stopped counting how many reviewers of my grants disagreed on what was proposed, one saying that it was not innovative, the other saying that is was too risky to use this approach. We have a big problem in science, peer-review is broken and everything relies on it. And many reviewers are way out of touch about what happens in their field, I see reviews that clearly show the reviewer was sleeping for the last 10 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethanbond</author><text>Yep. The incentives in science are all wrong. To maximize your chances of publication (i.e. keeping your job), you have to make the most outlandish claims you can possibly <i>maybe</i> defend. Additionally, the complexity of data&#x2F;analysis is increasing every day while also the esoteric domain knowledge required to make any progress is deeper and more specialized.</text></comment> |
28,720,933 | 28,719,591 | 1 | 3 | 28,718,703 | train | <story><title>Banking-Crisis Interventions, 1257-2019 [pdf]</title><url>https://som.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/II__metrick-schmelzing%2C%20body%20-%209-7.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>specialist</author><text>Graeber&#x27;s book Debt: The First 5000 Years documents that cycles of debt crisis and subsequent forgiveness is historically normal. And probably necessary. I mean, think about it: What other remedies do we have to winner-takes-all? Progressive taxation? Government largess?<p>Made me rethink all the bailouts, etc. Especially with the renewed scholarship on Keynesian 2.0 (MMT).<p>I&#x27;d probably be ok with bailouts, jubilees if they were more fair, more bottom up.<p>Financiers gobbling up all the cheddar, abandoning all their victim&#x27;s, really pisses me off.<p>Insult to injury is lack of consequences, acting aggrieved when their malfeasance is examined. Just one example being Jamie Dimon clutching his pearls when Obama Admin merely suggesting the optics of huge bonuses for execs during a meltdown was a bad look.</text></comment> | <story><title>Banking-Crisis Interventions, 1257-2019 [pdf]</title><url>https://som.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/II__metrick-schmelzing%2C%20body%20-%209-7.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101a</author><text>One of the co-authors, Paul Schmelzing, published a paper on how interest rates have been on a general downward trend for a few centuries:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bankofengland.co.uk&#x2F;working-paper&#x2F;2020&#x2F;eight-centuries-of-global-real-interest-rates-r-g-and-the-suprasecular-decline-1311-2018" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bankofengland.co.uk&#x2F;working-paper&#x2F;2020&#x2F;eight-cen...</a><p>Interviewed recently on the <i>Finance &amp; History</i> podcast:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;FinanceHistory1&#x2F;status&#x2F;1435170755432624130" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;FinanceHistory1&#x2F;status&#x2F;14351707554326241...</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anchor.fm&#x2F;carmen-hofmann&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;Interest-Rates-e16rp9u" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anchor.fm&#x2F;carmen-hofmann&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;Interest-Rates-e16...</a><p>His hypothesis (23m) is that capital stock is fairly long lasting, so except for (mostly) wars and revolutions (and plagues), there isn&#x27;t much demand: people want to rebuild after disasters, and so demand for capital goes up. When things are quiet then there&#x27;s more just sloshing around with not much to do.<p>The oil shock of 1970s, which caused the most recent spike in the last 40 years (which is tapering), was a fairly unique event for rates.</text></comment> |
11,375,294 | 11,375,445 | 1 | 3 | 11,373,841 | train | <story><title>Unable to open links in Safari, Mail or Messages on iOS 9.3</title><url>https://bencollier.net/2016/03/unable-to-open-links-in-safari-mail-or-messages-on-ios-9-3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tommyd</author><text>Good to hear someone has got to the bottom of this. Been unable to use Safari for a few days due to it. I haven&#x27;t updated any apps for months (I don&#x27;t trust auto update to not leave my apps in a half downloaded state so I just let them mount up until I eventually download hundreds of updates!) so iOS must periodically check this list automatically rather then just when an app is updated&#x2F;installed.<p>The combination of a lack of an official response from Apple yet, the fact that this was apparently found by beta users (not that the issue is related to 9.3 directly, but it was reported as a beta issue by some), and the inability to change default browser leaving my phone in a pretty broken state has got me seriously considering a switch to Android though, where at least such a bug could probably be worked around through changing defaults or worst case flashing a new ROM.<p>The iOS 9.3 release suggests Apple&#x27;s QA process is rather lacking and incidents like this won&#x27;t help confidence in their devices - it&#x27;s okay for users who know how to work around it and understand what is going on, but my parents would probably think the whole internet was broken!<p>Rant over, glad to see this on HN as it has been p<i></i>*ing me off for a few days :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluedino</author><text>&gt;&gt; The iOS 9.3 release suggests Apple&#x27;s QA process is rather lacking<p>You can say that again. My battery runs down far more every day than it did before, my email doesn&#x27;t fetch on schedule or push anymore, and things crash that never crashed before. 9.3 has been a mess so far.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unable to open links in Safari, Mail or Messages on iOS 9.3</title><url>https://bencollier.net/2016/03/unable-to-open-links-in-safari-mail-or-messages-on-ios-9-3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tommyd</author><text>Good to hear someone has got to the bottom of this. Been unable to use Safari for a few days due to it. I haven&#x27;t updated any apps for months (I don&#x27;t trust auto update to not leave my apps in a half downloaded state so I just let them mount up until I eventually download hundreds of updates!) so iOS must periodically check this list automatically rather then just when an app is updated&#x2F;installed.<p>The combination of a lack of an official response from Apple yet, the fact that this was apparently found by beta users (not that the issue is related to 9.3 directly, but it was reported as a beta issue by some), and the inability to change default browser leaving my phone in a pretty broken state has got me seriously considering a switch to Android though, where at least such a bug could probably be worked around through changing defaults or worst case flashing a new ROM.<p>The iOS 9.3 release suggests Apple&#x27;s QA process is rather lacking and incidents like this won&#x27;t help confidence in their devices - it&#x27;s okay for users who know how to work around it and understand what is going on, but my parents would probably think the whole internet was broken!<p>Rant over, glad to see this on HN as it has been p<i></i>*ing me off for a few days :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>globalgoat</author><text>I actually rolled back to 9.2.1 manually but this didn&#x27;t fix it anyway, which was even more disappointing! Also the restore from backup was sooooo slow over the weekend, presumably because of all the 9.3 downloads, that after 24 hours my 2 gb backup was still stuck on estimating, so in the end I rebuilt from scratch. I&#x27;m glad that I have everything backed up elsewhere and not just in iCloud, which is of course the real moral of this story....always have multiple restore options!</text></comment> |
10,358,729 | 10,358,780 | 1 | 2 | 10,358,597 | train | <story><title>A new approach to web performance</title><url>https://www.ampproject.org/how-it-works/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radicalbyte</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s a sign of me getting old, but I have never understood the thought process behind building systems which server static content - newspapers, blogs - which require active processing for every request for every user.<p>These are systems where the read&#x2F;write ratios are often 1000:1.<p>Ten years ago this was symptomized by systems which pulled the same content out of a database for every single request. We treated the symptoms by introducing caching servers and horizontal scaling.<p>In modern times the symptom is displayed with heavy use of client-side rendering. Because, you know, this client-side rendering is &quot;free&quot; for the publisher.<p>I don&#x27;t understand how any &quot;Engineer&quot; can see 1000:1 R:W ratios and suggest doing all of the work on the R side of the ratio.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alkonaut</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to forget that html isn&#x27;t the end product, the end result is lit pixels on some screen (usually). If we send json then that needs to be converted to html and that html needs to be layout and rendered. If we send html we just skip the first step. Displaying a web page isn&#x27;t &quot;free&quot; for the client just because it&#x27;s html.<p>The question is this: what kind of overhead is a template rendering task (in js) for a modern browser, compared to the task of layout and rendering a finished html page? It will depend of course on the complexity of the data and the resulting page, as well as the browser, templating engine etc. I have no clue whether it&#x27;s 1%, 10% or 50%.</text></comment> | <story><title>A new approach to web performance</title><url>https://www.ampproject.org/how-it-works/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radicalbyte</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s a sign of me getting old, but I have never understood the thought process behind building systems which server static content - newspapers, blogs - which require active processing for every request for every user.<p>These are systems where the read&#x2F;write ratios are often 1000:1.<p>Ten years ago this was symptomized by systems which pulled the same content out of a database for every single request. We treated the symptoms by introducing caching servers and horizontal scaling.<p>In modern times the symptom is displayed with heavy use of client-side rendering. Because, you know, this client-side rendering is &quot;free&quot; for the publisher.<p>I don&#x27;t understand how any &quot;Engineer&quot; can see 1000:1 R:W ratios and suggest doing all of the work on the R side of the ratio.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mpweiher</author><text>Excellent point, I never understood that either, with developers being happy that their supercomputing buzzsaw can generate a couple of 100K of text in about a second.<p>OTOH...it turns out that so-called &quot;static&quot; content actually also requires quite a bit of processing. Apache (or whichever server you are using) is not exactly doing nothing. And it also turns out that this sort of processing is I&#x2F;O heavy, which isn&#x27;t exactly the fastest path on the machine, even if all the caching done by various entities (more processing) tries and mostly succeeds in making sure very little I&#x2F;O actually takes place.<p>Add to that that moving data around nowadays is generally much more expensive than doing computation on it (several instructions per clock-cyle, multi-Gigahertz clocks, so well over a hundred clocks per main memory access, and millions per I&#x2F;O, even with an SSD).<p>In short: if we re-examine our assumptions in light of a changing environment, might a well-optimized &quot;dynamic&quot; stack not be faster than a &quot;static&quot; one? (Compare: VoltDB...). And of course you could then cache the results in memory as well.</text></comment> |
12,175,089 | 12,174,376 | 1 | 2 | 12,173,742 | train | <story><title>Our statement on the results of the Jacob Appelbaum investigation</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/blog/statement-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dublinben</author><text>&gt;This sort of thing really merits a judicial investigation<p>The victims involved in this have specifically asked this to not happen. I&#x27;m sure you can understand why the members of a community like this would have personal or political reasons to avoid a judicial investigation.</text></item><item><author>ddevault</author><text>This sort of thing really merits a judicial investigation. It&#x27;s not appropriate to place these issues in the eyes of the public until then, and I&#x27;ve never appreciated these sorts of articles in my feed.<p>Some will be swayed by the fact that the internal investigation turned up some legitimate claims, but if the judicial system disagrees then this guy&#x27;s life is already ruined, and I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s appropriate. The whole situation reflects poorly on everyone involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaccus</author><text>I heard he raped or sexually assaulted someone. Someone wrote &quot;a rapist lives here&quot; outside his window.<p>If he did rape someone, no due process means we&#x27;re treating rape as a mere HR issue, and he&#x27;s free to go rape more people.<p>If he did not rape someone, then at least some of the allegations being thrown around are false. No due process means that someone unconnected with this may reasonably assume all of it is false.</text></comment> | <story><title>Our statement on the results of the Jacob Appelbaum investigation</title><url>https://blog.torproject.org/blog/statement-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dublinben</author><text>&gt;This sort of thing really merits a judicial investigation<p>The victims involved in this have specifically asked this to not happen. I&#x27;m sure you can understand why the members of a community like this would have personal or political reasons to avoid a judicial investigation.</text></item><item><author>ddevault</author><text>This sort of thing really merits a judicial investigation. It&#x27;s not appropriate to place these issues in the eyes of the public until then, and I&#x27;ve never appreciated these sorts of articles in my feed.<p>Some will be swayed by the fact that the internal investigation turned up some legitimate claims, but if the judicial system disagrees then this guy&#x27;s life is already ruined, and I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s appropriate. The whole situation reflects poorly on everyone involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdkl95</author><text>Avoiding interaction with the state is understandable. However, the state is not the only option. Various types of arbitration could be used, for example. These may not have the power to enforce criminal punishments like the state, but as you said, they already dismissed that option.</text></comment> |
30,183,932 | 30,183,617 | 1 | 3 | 30,181,167 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy social previews</title><text>For example, paste this into Slack or Discord or whatever: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&#x2F;item?id=30179549" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&#x2F;item?id=30179549</a><p>It works with comments, too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&#x2F;item?id=30180253" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&#x2F;item?id=30180253</a><p>Hastily-developed source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;statico&#x2F;ycombinator1.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;statico&#x2F;ycombinator1.com</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lilyball</author><text>To those confused:<p>It looks like this <i>only</i> adds social graph info but is otherwise a redirect. The resulting page looks like<p><pre><code> &lt;!doctype html&gt;
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&lt;&#x2F;html&gt;</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy social previews</title><text>For example, paste this into Slack or Discord or whatever: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&#x2F;item?id=30179549" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&#x2F;item?id=30179549</a><p>It works with comments, too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&#x2F;item?id=30180253" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&#x2F;item?id=30180253</a><p>Hastily-developed source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;statico&#x2F;ycombinator1.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;statico&#x2F;ycombinator1.com</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>Is this just some random person that bought ycombinator1.com and added features, or an official thing?</text></comment> |
2,191,177 | 2,191,179 | 1 | 2 | 2,190,851 | train | <story><title>Airplane Mode</title><url>http://minimalmac.com/post/3165411533/airplane-mode</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>corin_</author><text>I've read this three times now on the assumption that its point was going over my head - I'm now fairly sure it's not.<p>The lesson I've learned is not to turn my phone off, in case I want to show someone pictures stored on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kenjackson</author><text>Read it again. The real message is when meeting with a friend you haven't seen in a while, make sure you set it up so you get a lot of calls, emails, and texts. Then when you go to airplane mode you seem super important, yet considerate.<p>And then when you go home, make sure to thank your mom for the messages.</text></comment> | <story><title>Airplane Mode</title><url>http://minimalmac.com/post/3165411533/airplane-mode</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>corin_</author><text>I've read this three times now on the assumption that its point was going over my head - I'm now fairly sure it's not.<p>The lesson I've learned is not to turn my phone off, in case I want to show someone pictures stored on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roc</author><text>...or take notes, or reference my calendar, or use app X (that remains useful without a live internet stream), etc.<p>What Airplane Mode says (in this context) is: I don't want to be <i>interrupted</i> but I still want this increasingly important pocket computer to be available.<p>I've been doing this myself quite a bit; though more-so with my iPad. What I'd really like to see for this, is some sort of device-wide "Do Not Disturb". Something that doesn't turn <i>off</i> the radios, but does suppress the various 'interruptions': rings, buzzes, reminders, push notifications, etc. Because sometimes you want to focus <i>on</i> an app that requires a data connection.</text></comment> |
12,261,729 | 12,261,604 | 1 | 2 | 12,260,898 | train | <story><title>Apple Said to Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Years</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-10/apple-said-to-plan-first-pro-laptop-overhaul-in-four-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>falcolas</author><text>I&#x27;m a software developer who focuses on operational automation, and this brings almost nothing to the table which I could want. Especially replacing the function keys with a touchpad; why would I want to replace dedicated keys with muscle memory attached to them with soft keys that can change on whim?<p>Better graphics may be nice, if it&#x27;s enough to allow me to drive a pair of high-resolution displays in addition to the laptop&#x27;s screen itself. I&#x27;m not hopeful, though, due to the power and heat requirements.<p>As for thinner, at what cost? Battery life? Active cooling? A nasty keyboard like those in the new macbook? Losing even more ports?<p>Here&#x27;s what I want in a MBP refresh: More power. Enough battery life to allow me on a hangout all day long; or at least enough battery life that I can have Chrome running and still be able to code all day long. A strong enough graphics card to smoothly drive a pair of 4k monitors in addition to the internal monitor. No loss of existing ports. More CPU power for compiling code. A touch screen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msravi</author><text>&gt; or at least enough battery life that I can have Chrome running and still be able to code all day long<p>Shouldn&#x27;t that be an action for Google rather than Apple? Of late, I&#x27;ve found Google&#x27;s applications to be big battery hogs - Chrome and Google Drive for example (on OS X)</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Said to Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Years</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-10/apple-said-to-plan-first-pro-laptop-overhaul-in-four-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>falcolas</author><text>I&#x27;m a software developer who focuses on operational automation, and this brings almost nothing to the table which I could want. Especially replacing the function keys with a touchpad; why would I want to replace dedicated keys with muscle memory attached to them with soft keys that can change on whim?<p>Better graphics may be nice, if it&#x27;s enough to allow me to drive a pair of high-resolution displays in addition to the laptop&#x27;s screen itself. I&#x27;m not hopeful, though, due to the power and heat requirements.<p>As for thinner, at what cost? Battery life? Active cooling? A nasty keyboard like those in the new macbook? Losing even more ports?<p>Here&#x27;s what I want in a MBP refresh: More power. Enough battery life to allow me on a hangout all day long; or at least enough battery life that I can have Chrome running and still be able to code all day long. A strong enough graphics card to smoothly drive a pair of 4k monitors in addition to the internal monitor. No loss of existing ports. More CPU power for compiling code. A touch screen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NegatioN</author><text>Why the touch screen?<p>That seems like an odd addition to the list.</text></comment> |
28,765,681 | 28,764,671 | 1 | 2 | 28,758,106 | train | <story><title>Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01111</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beyondzero</author><text>This is silly but sort of relevant.<p>During college junior year (1993) as a physics major I took a class in digital electronics (which included 68000 assembler programming). We had a lab contest to create the fastest sorting routine for a set of random unique numbers between x and y.<p>I won the contest by setting to 0 a y-x register range of memory and then inserting each number into the range based on the number itself (&quot;27&quot; into register 27, &quot;18&quot; into register 18, etc.). Then I printed out all non-zero numbers in the range.<p>The other 20 or so students did versions of bubble-sorting and called my solution a cheat. The professor defended my victory as I had not broken any of the rules of the contest...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ttul</author><text>Haha. Reminds me of a lab where we had to program a 6502 to play some sort of game, rendered on an oscilloscope. My genius friend stayed up all night writing code that rendered the snake by dynamically writing code, rather than the obvious approach of reading the “snake” coordinates and rendering those to the screen.<p>Our snake code ran at something obscene like 1,000 Hz. So much faster than anyone else’s. The professor couldn’t understand how we did it, so gave a low mark.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01111</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beyondzero</author><text>This is silly but sort of relevant.<p>During college junior year (1993) as a physics major I took a class in digital electronics (which included 68000 assembler programming). We had a lab contest to create the fastest sorting routine for a set of random unique numbers between x and y.<p>I won the contest by setting to 0 a y-x register range of memory and then inserting each number into the range based on the number itself (&quot;27&quot; into register 27, &quot;18&quot; into register 18, etc.). Then I printed out all non-zero numbers in the range.<p>The other 20 or so students did versions of bubble-sorting and called my solution a cheat. The professor defended my victory as I had not broken any of the rules of the contest...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>catwell</author><text>This is a slightly simpler (because of unicity) version of bucket sort or counting sort.</text></comment> |
27,219,003 | 27,218,973 | 1 | 2 | 27,205,734 | train | <story><title>The End of Retirement (2014)</title><url>https://harpers.org/archive/2014/08/the-end-of-retirement/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>piva00</author><text>&gt; If you gave europeans those 25% as an extra net pay, there would be a lot more new cars on the road, a bit more savings&#x2F;investments, and a lot more problems when people get old. &quot;Smart&quot; people would save and invest, and have better &quot;pensions&quot; than they&#x27;d have in the current system, and &quot;stupid&quot; people would work until 85yo, and die of hunger.<p>Exactly, there is an ideology of pushing this kind of issue completely into &quot;personal responsibility&quot; territory which, for me, is frankly a total lack of empathy.<p>The way it works here in Sweden seems pretty decent to me so far: you get a public pension that you and your employer have paid into the system (of course, it pays the current pensioners) and another part of my pension is put into a pension investment account, that I can operate&#x2F;manage however I want.<p>So you get both, a minimum pension sustained by the system paid by current working people and an investment account that I can manage and grow as a portfolio to use during my retirement.</text></item><item><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>I also live in europe.<p>My retirement is based on paying ~25% of my gross income into a retirement fund, which is then spent on current retirees, and hoping that in many years, there will be enough people working to be able to pay my retirement.<p>If you gave europeans those 25% as an extra net pay, there would be a lot more new cars on the road, a bit more savings&#x2F;investments, and a lot more problems when people get old. &quot;Smart&quot; people would save and invest, and have better &quot;pensions&quot; than they&#x27;d have in the current system, and &quot;stupid&quot; people would work until 85yo, and die of hunger.</text></item><item><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>The real problem here is poverty and a lack of social security in the US. That&#x27;s a solvable problem. It just requires the will to solve it and for whatever reason that is actually controversial in the US.<p>I live in Europe. Retirement is very much on my mind but more in the sense that I need to secure a little more than just the state pension. You can live on that but only barely. A lot of European countries are lot poorer than the US. Yet retirement is a thing in those countries and not really under any threat.<p>The need to work and the reality that a lot of work is just busy work that isn&#x27;t really that critical because all the critical work is increasingly automated does not help with this. No offense but I work doing CTO work in startups and technically it&#x27;s been a long time since I did anything close to producing critical goods or services. It&#x27;s nice what I do and I live on it but I can&#x27;t say with a straight face that it is all that critical or important. A lot of our jobs are like that. We keep ourselves busy doing things for each other or ourselves and try to monetize that. I can probably do that beyond retirement if I stay healthy. I might even enjoy that.<p>Post scarcity society is not that different from where we are today (at least us privileged people working tech jobs). Poverty is increasingly having to do actual work to feed yourself. In most countries that at least gets you to retirement. The US is kind of unique in that it is very wealthy and yet does not take care of its people in the same way that much poorer countries have been doing for the last century.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdasdf</author><text>&gt;Exactly, there is an ideology of pushing this kind of issue completely into &quot;personal responsibility&quot; territory which, for me, is frankly a total lack of empathy.<p>It&#x27;s not a lack of empathy, it&#x27;s an understanding of the pernicious incentives you are creating with such a system.<p>I&#x27;m being forced to pay over half of my income into a ponzi scheme that i am and will never get anything worthwhile out of. This isn&#x27;t good for anyone, and it certainly isn&#x27;t good for the people who are working and providing value and having that value thrown into a raging fire.<p>This is nothing more than theft from the responsible to the irresponsible, with the associated long term issues.<p>When you have support these policies you need to understand that they will not and cannot help the people you seek to help.<p>All that happens is remove the need for people to be responsible and make good financial decisions, for the fact that &quot;the state will save me&quot;.<p>But of course, the state can&#x27;t, because social security in most countries is no more than very large ponzi schemes, supported by ever growing tax revenues and increasingly high retirement ages. But even that is not enough, in Portugal retirement benefits are expected to fall by half in the next 20 years.<p>And don&#x27;t think these pernicious incentives don&#x27;t exist and that peoples reliance on social security doesn&#x27;t happen. That quote of &quot;The state will save me&quot; is almost word for word out of the mouth of friends and colleagues, with children and families, who despite being very well paid refuse to save and invest for their retirement, choosing instead to spend what they have today and only rely on social security for their retirement.<p>These are terrible incentives, and they will and have had predictable results.</text></comment> | <story><title>The End of Retirement (2014)</title><url>https://harpers.org/archive/2014/08/the-end-of-retirement/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>piva00</author><text>&gt; If you gave europeans those 25% as an extra net pay, there would be a lot more new cars on the road, a bit more savings&#x2F;investments, and a lot more problems when people get old. &quot;Smart&quot; people would save and invest, and have better &quot;pensions&quot; than they&#x27;d have in the current system, and &quot;stupid&quot; people would work until 85yo, and die of hunger.<p>Exactly, there is an ideology of pushing this kind of issue completely into &quot;personal responsibility&quot; territory which, for me, is frankly a total lack of empathy.<p>The way it works here in Sweden seems pretty decent to me so far: you get a public pension that you and your employer have paid into the system (of course, it pays the current pensioners) and another part of my pension is put into a pension investment account, that I can operate&#x2F;manage however I want.<p>So you get both, a minimum pension sustained by the system paid by current working people and an investment account that I can manage and grow as a portfolio to use during my retirement.</text></item><item><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>I also live in europe.<p>My retirement is based on paying ~25% of my gross income into a retirement fund, which is then spent on current retirees, and hoping that in many years, there will be enough people working to be able to pay my retirement.<p>If you gave europeans those 25% as an extra net pay, there would be a lot more new cars on the road, a bit more savings&#x2F;investments, and a lot more problems when people get old. &quot;Smart&quot; people would save and invest, and have better &quot;pensions&quot; than they&#x27;d have in the current system, and &quot;stupid&quot; people would work until 85yo, and die of hunger.</text></item><item><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>The real problem here is poverty and a lack of social security in the US. That&#x27;s a solvable problem. It just requires the will to solve it and for whatever reason that is actually controversial in the US.<p>I live in Europe. Retirement is very much on my mind but more in the sense that I need to secure a little more than just the state pension. You can live on that but only barely. A lot of European countries are lot poorer than the US. Yet retirement is a thing in those countries and not really under any threat.<p>The need to work and the reality that a lot of work is just busy work that isn&#x27;t really that critical because all the critical work is increasingly automated does not help with this. No offense but I work doing CTO work in startups and technically it&#x27;s been a long time since I did anything close to producing critical goods or services. It&#x27;s nice what I do and I live on it but I can&#x27;t say with a straight face that it is all that critical or important. A lot of our jobs are like that. We keep ourselves busy doing things for each other or ourselves and try to monetize that. I can probably do that beyond retirement if I stay healthy. I might even enjoy that.<p>Post scarcity society is not that different from where we are today (at least us privileged people working tech jobs). Poverty is increasingly having to do actual work to feed yourself. In most countries that at least gets you to retirement. The US is kind of unique in that it is very wealthy and yet does not take care of its people in the same way that much poorer countries have been doing for the last century.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>null_object</author><text>&gt; The way it works here in Sweden seems pretty decent to me so far: you get a public pension that you and your employer have paid into the system (of course, it pays the current pensioners) and another part of my pension is put into a pension investment account, that I can operate&#x2F;manage however I want.
&gt; So you get both, a minimum pension sustained by the system paid by current working people and an investment account that I can manage and grow as a portfolio to use during my retirement.<p>I think the word &#x27;minimum&#x27; is going to have totally different implications for those of us working and saving now, compared to the previous generation, that are living on pretty generous pension plans that were wholly publicly-funded, and which our current payments are maintaining.<p>Also the privatized pension plans in Sweden have been prey both to fraud and high fees. So even though they may give the illusion of future prosperity to those who are trying to save now, that&#x27;s in no way a guarantee.</text></comment> |
10,781,161 | 10,780,697 | 1 | 3 | 10,771,169 | train | <story><title>Everything I Needed to Know About Good UX I Learned While Working in Restaurants</title><url>https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-learn-in-restaurants/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orf</author><text>&gt; Photos of food and other products help create desire, answer common questions, and set expectations for a high-quality experience<p>Uhhh, no. Maybe it&#x27;s a cultural thing, but here in England no restaurants have pictures. It&#x27;s cheap and tacky, and it&#x27;s a huge red flag when you encounter a rare one that feels the need to show you photographs of bowls of pasta&#x2F;steaks. I defy you to show me any European restaurant that treats it&#x27;s customers like children by showing them brightly coloured pictures of their food on the menu.<p>The only exception I can think of is the desert menus for Indian restaurants, but that&#x27;s mainly because they don&#x27;t really &#x27;do&#x27; desert and just buy the ice cream and menus from some distributor as a package.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jackmoore</author><text>Saying it&#x27;s cheap, tacky, and childish definitely sounds cultural, since all of those are emotional rather than practical reasons. A photo can add a lot of important information what you are buying.<p>I would say try to be more objective because you may be missing out on opportunities to actually improve things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Everything I Needed to Know About Good UX I Learned While Working in Restaurants</title><url>https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-learn-in-restaurants/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orf</author><text>&gt; Photos of food and other products help create desire, answer common questions, and set expectations for a high-quality experience<p>Uhhh, no. Maybe it&#x27;s a cultural thing, but here in England no restaurants have pictures. It&#x27;s cheap and tacky, and it&#x27;s a huge red flag when you encounter a rare one that feels the need to show you photographs of bowls of pasta&#x2F;steaks. I defy you to show me any European restaurant that treats it&#x27;s customers like children by showing them brightly coloured pictures of their food on the menu.<p>The only exception I can think of is the desert menus for Indian restaurants, but that&#x27;s mainly because they don&#x27;t really &#x27;do&#x27; desert and just buy the ice cream and menus from some distributor as a package.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bpodgursky</author><text>I&#x27;ve been to plenty of hole-in-the-wall Thai and Vietnamese restaurants with pictures on the menu. They are not chains.<p>It&#x27;s helpful if you don&#x27;t know much about what you&#x27;re ordering (is it a curry? soup? stir-fry? etc).</text></comment> |
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