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10,666,281 | 10,666,263 | 1 | 2 | 10,664,834 | train | <story><title>Signal Desktop</title><url>https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal-desktop/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HappyTypist</author><text>Perhaps Signal just isn&#x27;t for you. No one who I&#x27;ve introduced signal to has ever had a problem with it. Now if you add a randomly generated 128 bit account identifier, then people WILL have problems with it. Not with you, but with your mum&#x2F;grandma.<p>I really think Signal might not be for you. Signal is not about building the most secure or private system, it&#x27;s about building the first mass-market encrypted that that&#x27;s Good Enough. Signal is a infinite percent improvement over plaintext&#x2F;https. It&#x27;s not supposed to be as good as OTR.</text></item><item><author>darklajid</author><text>If we ever meet I&#x27;ll buy you a beer for the year of the Linux desktop line.<p>But honestly: I understand mobile support for iOS&#x2F;Android only. I don&#x27;t understand Chrome as a platform (FF isn&#x27;t dead. And the biggest reason for that is that I fail to understand why that client needs to be &#x27;web based&#x27; and then again not. A web app in a silo)<p>Mobile numbers.. Why? I mean, if 90% of the population WANT mum to see that they use a service and when they&#x27;re online (or whatever metadata you want to exchange for contacts), just because they happen to know the phone number: Fine. But why isn&#x27;t it possible to sign up, hit a box that says &#x27;no phone number associated&#x27; and .. add contacts manually? I don&#x27;t want the 99.999% to change, to make it harder for them. I just wish that Christmas brings an option that lets me opt-out of that. Chat contacts don&#x27;t need my phone number. People that know my phone number are not chat contacts.<p>I&#x27;ll get back pretending that Linux has won and will try to surf the web in FxOS for 30min just .. to prove you wrong. :)</text></item><item><author>moxie</author><text>That&#x27;s a pretty big holiday wishlist. =)<p>This is the world we live in: people do most of their communication on mobile devices running iOS or Android, use Chrome on the desktop, and expect contact discovery to be automatic in their social apps. The browser has won the desktop, iOS and Android have won mobile, and the velocity of the ecosystem is unlikely to make &quot;distributed&quot; communication mechanisms possible for some time.<p>We&#x27;re trying to make mass surveillance impossible within this world of ours. We want to produce technology that is privacy preserving but feels <i>just like</i> everything else people already use, not somehow convince everyone to fundamentally change their workflow and their expectations.<p>It&#x27;d be sweet if we lived in an alternate reality where everyone ran SailfishOS or something (and maybe <i>this year</i> will be the year of Linux on the desktop!), but we can&#x27;t just pretend that&#x27;s already the case.</text></item><item><author>darklajid</author><text>Thank you for your reply. I really appreciate it. As I stated earlier, I feel bad about &#x27;expecting more&#x27; here - I certainly see the appeal of a popular ~decent~ option. Without trying to derail this further, let me look at those points:<p>If I use throwaway numbers: What happens if I lose access? Do I _need_ the number for anything in the future (say, device died)? Can someone else mess with me if they get access to this number, if the number gets reassigned? Searching for this kind of information is hard, because &#x27;Signal&#x27; isn&#x27;t exactly a word that search engines understand in context.<p>Chromium and Chrome are the same thing for me: A browser I don&#x27;t care for and only install on a dev machine for some tests. I wouldn&#x27;t install either on my personal rig, ignoring the suffixes. And certainly not for an &#x27;app&#x27;. It&#x27;s both &#x27;Not liking Google&#x27; and &#x27;No general web browser to run an IM client&#x27;. The latter isn&#x27;t solved by Chromium.<p>As far as I&#x27;m aware there are no Google Play Services for FxOS (looking at this Flame right here) and I expect that there&#x27;s no easy solution for SailfishOS either.<p>I understand that I&#x27;m not the target audience. Please believe me when I say that I don&#x27;t feel that I can (as in, it suits me&#x2F;feels okay to do so) use Signal right now. I&#x27;m writing these messages here not to hit on your work, but to express that there is an audience with other preferences&#x2F;goals. It&#x27;s Christmas soon, after all - consider this my public, unrealistic, idealistic wishlist.<p>(Edit: And I apologize that my critical comment ranks rather high right now. I might believe that I&#x27;m not completely bonkers and there are other people that feel the same way, but it still sucks to see this kind of feedback on an announcement post)</text></item><item><author>moxie</author><text>If we were going to rank our priorities, they would be in this order:<p>1) Make mass surveillance impossible.<p>2) Stop targeted attacks against crypto nerds.<p>It&#x27;s not that we don&#x27;t find #2 laudable, but optimizing for #1 takes precedence when we&#x27;re making decisions.<p>If you don&#x27;t want to use your phone number, don&#x27;t use it. You can register with any GV, Twilio, Voicepulse, or other throwaway VoIP number.<p>If you don&#x27;t want to run Chrome, use Chromium instead.<p>If you don&#x27;t want to use Google Play Services, use GcmCore.<p>The world you want this software for is not the world that everyone else lives in. You can certainly make it work in that world with a little effort, but because of how we&#x27;ve prioritized our objectives, that&#x27;s not the default experience.</text></item><item><author>darklajid</author><text>I&#x27;m feeling dirty, because I don&#x27;t like to be that negative, especially if we&#x27;re talking open-source software. And I feel that I kinda hold this project to higher standards: If I compare this to WhatsApp&#x2F;Telegram&#x2F;Threema&#x2F;Whatever, I inheritently, somewhat subconciously expect more from Signal.<p>And I&#x27;m disappointed. I tend to repeat the &#x27;central server&#x27; and &#x27;a phone number is not an address and not public information, it certainly is no identity&#x27; criticism.<p>When I read the headline&#x2F;title, I thought &#x27;Now maybe that would be enough to be ~good enough~ to ditch Telegram&#x27; in spite of these problems (which Telegram has as well, ofc). But really. A Chrome app. And works only (yeah, I think I said it before: Phone numbers suck) as a secondary client. And only if the first client is Android?<p>I seriously don&#x27;t get it. And it certainly is not for me: I don&#x27;t like that browser (I do have it installed for testing and to follow it at times, but there&#x27;s no &#x27;app&#x27; I&#x27;d run in Chrome). I don&#x27;t want to tie something to my phone and I don&#x27;t think that it should matter what platform my handset runs on - SailfishOS looks nice, FxOS progresses slow but ticks a good number of boxes for me.<p>Full circle to the first line: I don&#x27;t _like_ to be negative and the headline gave me hope for a couple seconds. Unfortunately this release just deepened my belief that Signal wasn&#x27;t meant to be for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andreyf</author><text>Non-technical people I&#x27;ve introduced to Signal on iOS stop at the &quot;upload your contacts&quot; stage and go &quot;I don&#x27;t want this random little company to have access to my contacts&quot;. These are non-technical people who understand the importance of keeping their contact list private, and there are a lot of them.<p>Making it a de facto requirement that users on your network be personally identified via a phone number (&quot;get a burner number&quot;? really?) and that you have a copy of their contact list and phone calls, all within US jurisdiction, means mass metadata surveillance a single judicial order away (as it is now with the telecoms).<p>Unlike POTS, Signal prevents phone taps, yes, but it does not hide your social network, and so does little to provide you with the ability to associate with someone anonymously.</text></comment> | <story><title>Signal Desktop</title><url>https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal-desktop/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HappyTypist</author><text>Perhaps Signal just isn&#x27;t for you. No one who I&#x27;ve introduced signal to has ever had a problem with it. Now if you add a randomly generated 128 bit account identifier, then people WILL have problems with it. Not with you, but with your mum&#x2F;grandma.<p>I really think Signal might not be for you. Signal is not about building the most secure or private system, it&#x27;s about building the first mass-market encrypted that that&#x27;s Good Enough. Signal is a infinite percent improvement over plaintext&#x2F;https. It&#x27;s not supposed to be as good as OTR.</text></item><item><author>darklajid</author><text>If we ever meet I&#x27;ll buy you a beer for the year of the Linux desktop line.<p>But honestly: I understand mobile support for iOS&#x2F;Android only. I don&#x27;t understand Chrome as a platform (FF isn&#x27;t dead. And the biggest reason for that is that I fail to understand why that client needs to be &#x27;web based&#x27; and then again not. A web app in a silo)<p>Mobile numbers.. Why? I mean, if 90% of the population WANT mum to see that they use a service and when they&#x27;re online (or whatever metadata you want to exchange for contacts), just because they happen to know the phone number: Fine. But why isn&#x27;t it possible to sign up, hit a box that says &#x27;no phone number associated&#x27; and .. add contacts manually? I don&#x27;t want the 99.999% to change, to make it harder for them. I just wish that Christmas brings an option that lets me opt-out of that. Chat contacts don&#x27;t need my phone number. People that know my phone number are not chat contacts.<p>I&#x27;ll get back pretending that Linux has won and will try to surf the web in FxOS for 30min just .. to prove you wrong. :)</text></item><item><author>moxie</author><text>That&#x27;s a pretty big holiday wishlist. =)<p>This is the world we live in: people do most of their communication on mobile devices running iOS or Android, use Chrome on the desktop, and expect contact discovery to be automatic in their social apps. The browser has won the desktop, iOS and Android have won mobile, and the velocity of the ecosystem is unlikely to make &quot;distributed&quot; communication mechanisms possible for some time.<p>We&#x27;re trying to make mass surveillance impossible within this world of ours. We want to produce technology that is privacy preserving but feels <i>just like</i> everything else people already use, not somehow convince everyone to fundamentally change their workflow and their expectations.<p>It&#x27;d be sweet if we lived in an alternate reality where everyone ran SailfishOS or something (and maybe <i>this year</i> will be the year of Linux on the desktop!), but we can&#x27;t just pretend that&#x27;s already the case.</text></item><item><author>darklajid</author><text>Thank you for your reply. I really appreciate it. As I stated earlier, I feel bad about &#x27;expecting more&#x27; here - I certainly see the appeal of a popular ~decent~ option. Without trying to derail this further, let me look at those points:<p>If I use throwaway numbers: What happens if I lose access? Do I _need_ the number for anything in the future (say, device died)? Can someone else mess with me if they get access to this number, if the number gets reassigned? Searching for this kind of information is hard, because &#x27;Signal&#x27; isn&#x27;t exactly a word that search engines understand in context.<p>Chromium and Chrome are the same thing for me: A browser I don&#x27;t care for and only install on a dev machine for some tests. I wouldn&#x27;t install either on my personal rig, ignoring the suffixes. And certainly not for an &#x27;app&#x27;. It&#x27;s both &#x27;Not liking Google&#x27; and &#x27;No general web browser to run an IM client&#x27;. The latter isn&#x27;t solved by Chromium.<p>As far as I&#x27;m aware there are no Google Play Services for FxOS (looking at this Flame right here) and I expect that there&#x27;s no easy solution for SailfishOS either.<p>I understand that I&#x27;m not the target audience. Please believe me when I say that I don&#x27;t feel that I can (as in, it suits me&#x2F;feels okay to do so) use Signal right now. I&#x27;m writing these messages here not to hit on your work, but to express that there is an audience with other preferences&#x2F;goals. It&#x27;s Christmas soon, after all - consider this my public, unrealistic, idealistic wishlist.<p>(Edit: And I apologize that my critical comment ranks rather high right now. I might believe that I&#x27;m not completely bonkers and there are other people that feel the same way, but it still sucks to see this kind of feedback on an announcement post)</text></item><item><author>moxie</author><text>If we were going to rank our priorities, they would be in this order:<p>1) Make mass surveillance impossible.<p>2) Stop targeted attacks against crypto nerds.<p>It&#x27;s not that we don&#x27;t find #2 laudable, but optimizing for #1 takes precedence when we&#x27;re making decisions.<p>If you don&#x27;t want to use your phone number, don&#x27;t use it. You can register with any GV, Twilio, Voicepulse, or other throwaway VoIP number.<p>If you don&#x27;t want to run Chrome, use Chromium instead.<p>If you don&#x27;t want to use Google Play Services, use GcmCore.<p>The world you want this software for is not the world that everyone else lives in. You can certainly make it work in that world with a little effort, but because of how we&#x27;ve prioritized our objectives, that&#x27;s not the default experience.</text></item><item><author>darklajid</author><text>I&#x27;m feeling dirty, because I don&#x27;t like to be that negative, especially if we&#x27;re talking open-source software. And I feel that I kinda hold this project to higher standards: If I compare this to WhatsApp&#x2F;Telegram&#x2F;Threema&#x2F;Whatever, I inheritently, somewhat subconciously expect more from Signal.<p>And I&#x27;m disappointed. I tend to repeat the &#x27;central server&#x27; and &#x27;a phone number is not an address and not public information, it certainly is no identity&#x27; criticism.<p>When I read the headline&#x2F;title, I thought &#x27;Now maybe that would be enough to be ~good enough~ to ditch Telegram&#x27; in spite of these problems (which Telegram has as well, ofc). But really. A Chrome app. And works only (yeah, I think I said it before: Phone numbers suck) as a secondary client. And only if the first client is Android?<p>I seriously don&#x27;t get it. And it certainly is not for me: I don&#x27;t like that browser (I do have it installed for testing and to follow it at times, but there&#x27;s no &#x27;app&#x27; I&#x27;d run in Chrome). I don&#x27;t want to tie something to my phone and I don&#x27;t think that it should matter what platform my handset runs on - SailfishOS looks nice, FxOS progresses slow but ticks a good number of boxes for me.<p>Full circle to the first line: I don&#x27;t _like_ to be negative and the headline gave me hope for a couple seconds. Unfortunately this release just deepened my belief that Signal wasn&#x27;t meant to be for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darklajid</author><text>See, that identifier might be an option. Or .. it might not be necessary. If that identifier would be the core &#x27;me&#x27; on Signal, why wouldn&#x27;t you be able to add me by phone number - if I gave Signal one to share&#x2F;associate with? Mum and Grandma would see no change. People like me could run around without a phone number.<p>It&#x27;s not as if that hasn&#x27;t been done. twitter.com&#x2F;darklajid is me (not worth checking it out). See? A name, tied to an identity. Same here. I used to have a FB account and even _there_ you can have a profile name that is unique and shareable. I really think you conflate things here: I DO NOT want to make life harder for mum&#x2F;granny&#x2F;the average WhatsApp fan. If you love that random people show up in your roster because you store their number (or vice versa: You show up on your Ex&#x27;s roster because she didn&#x27;t delete you yet) that&#x27;s fine. And could continue to work like that.<p>I really have a hard time understanding why it isn&#x27;t impossible to opt out. If I have a key, registered with Signal - why would I need a number on top? _Especially_ given that there&#x27;s no federation to speak of, so I assume they don&#x27;t need to &#x27;shard&#x27; base on the identifier. [email protected] -&gt; talk to example.com? That&#x27;s not happening here. And I don&#x27;t see why&#x2F;how they&#x27;d shard on numbers? +49 -&gt; route to a German server?<p>Why is a phone number (and all the things that come with it: Discoverability for example) a requirement? You didn&#x27;t answer that.<p>Yes, Signal might not be for me. I&#x27;m reasonably sure that I mentioned that before in this thread ;-)</text></comment> |
15,471,483 | 15,471,035 | 1 | 2 | 15,469,889 | train | <story><title>Tesla fires hundreds from headquarters, factory</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/4819750/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Steeeve</author><text>I&#x27;m not a fan of this style of management at all. I won&#x27;t knowingly go to work for a company that behaves in this manner. I&#x27;ve read that Netflix does it, and I&#x27;ve seen inferences that they acquired the practice from Disney.<p>If you have a low performing employee that you want to get rid of, fine. Arbitrarily destroying the lives of a percentage of your workforce in an annual purge is not OK.<p>People always seem to put Musk on a pedestal. Personally, I&#x27;ve always been (and always will be) leery of a company run by a PayPal founder.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwingerman</author><text>And it is exactly this style of management that is causing problems at the German automation plant he aquired (see my comment in the duplicate thread). It is probably a reason why production of the Model 3 is behind -- the company he acquired builds the factory robots needed for advanced automation. Smart move to acquire it then and it explains why the timing is now off.<p>You can&#x27;t run a German plant like an American one, people will take the 30 day vacations that have been written into their contracts since before he arrived (just because you have a new boss doesn&#x27;t mean the old contract is invalid), take sick days if they need them (unlimited sick days by law, they don&#x27;t come out of your vacation time), and go home at 5pm because they value their home&#x2F;family&#x2F;free time. Last I checked the factory had at least dozens of positions open that they can&#x27;t fill because no one here wants to work for them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla fires hundreds from headquarters, factory</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/13/4819750/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Steeeve</author><text>I&#x27;m not a fan of this style of management at all. I won&#x27;t knowingly go to work for a company that behaves in this manner. I&#x27;ve read that Netflix does it, and I&#x27;ve seen inferences that they acquired the practice from Disney.<p>If you have a low performing employee that you want to get rid of, fine. Arbitrarily destroying the lives of a percentage of your workforce in an annual purge is not OK.<p>People always seem to put Musk on a pedestal. Personally, I&#x27;ve always been (and always will be) leery of a company run by a PayPal founder.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tbabb</author><text>Do they set a &quot;quota&quot; for 2%? Or is it that they do it every year, and 2% is about the number that falls out?<p>I do agree that a &quot;firing quota&quot; is backwards; it should be a standard of performance. But even in a healthy, high-performing company, 1 (or maybe 2) out of 100 people being a drag&#x2F;net-negative contributor doesn&#x27;t sound far too off. Ultimately I think it helps the other 98 people to ask those two to leave as soon as it&#x27;s clear they&#x27;re not going to become a net positive. If that assessment comes at a specific time of year, so be it; if it&#x27;s &quot;Okay, we have &#x2F;n&#x2F; heads to chop off, where are they coming from??&quot;... then yeah, not so much.</text></comment> |
31,080,789 | 31,080,741 | 1 | 3 | 31,080,518 | train | <story><title>Oggify: Download Songs Directly from Spotify</title><url>https://github.com/pisto/oggify</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keyle</author><text>DMCA take down and what not in 3... 2... 1...<p>Edit: wait, 2019? What gives? How is this not taken down?<p>You can&#x27;t even take a screenshot of a Netflix show, thanks to DRM; but you can download Spotify tracks?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fnoord</author><text>Spotify contains watermarks, the DRM is known to be simple and got circumvented many years ago already when Spotify was relatively new. A dev even responded: &#x27;we know, please don&#x27;t abuse.&#x27; Watermark is why the sound is worse than a direct rip in OGG Vorbis of the same quality.<p>With regards to Netflix I run Windows under Proxmox with a Netflix PWA, and I surely can make a screenshot of my NoVNC connection. Though I am pretty sure Netflix isn&#x27;t 4k &#x2F; Widevine L1.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oggify: Download Songs Directly from Spotify</title><url>https://github.com/pisto/oggify</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keyle</author><text>DMCA take down and what not in 3... 2... 1...<p>Edit: wait, 2019? What gives? How is this not taken down?<p>You can&#x27;t even take a screenshot of a Netflix show, thanks to DRM; but you can download Spotify tracks?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dewey</author><text>&gt; You can&#x27;t even take a screenshot of a Netflix show, thanks to DRM; but you can download Spotify tracks?<p>There&#x27;s also a lot of tools to rip movies from Amazon Prime or YouTube to MP3 sites. It will never be possible to take down all of them, especially if they are not located in the US.</text></comment> |
31,490,498 | 31,488,609 | 1 | 3 | 31,485,898 | train | <story><title>Show HN: IndigoStack – a new native macOS app for local web development</title><url>https://indigostack.app/</url><text>Hi HN,<p>I&#x27;m opening up the beta for IndigoStack. It&#x27;s a native macOS app which provides a fresh take on how to run all the services you need for local web development. I&#x27;ve been building it for myself as a Laravel &amp; Drupal developer and I&#x27;m now looking to get some beta testers on board!<p>Check it out, and don&#x27;t forget to sign up to the forums to give us your feedback!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indigostack.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indigostack.app</a><p>My motivation:<p>Like many developers I&#x27;ve developed a love-hate relationship with the existing options for local development on a Mac. If they&#x27;re virtualised, you&#x27;ll often get...<p>* high CPU usage
* high RAM usage
* poor filesystem performance &#x2F; syncing
* command line and configuration complexity<p>And existing native solutions tend to be either too simplistic, or command line-based or both.<p>So I&#x27;ve built IndigoStack with everything I liked and wanted, running everything natively on your Mac:<p>* services are all native &amp; fast
* services are standalone; macOS updates won&#x27;t ruin your setup
* able to run multiple services (eg PHPs) simultaneously
* easily build &#x2F; start &#x2F; stop &#x2F; rebuild your stacks in the GUI
* run multiple projects which don&#x27;t interfere with each other
* config-in-code; quickly and easily share stacks within a team</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>soniktrooth</author><text>Anyone who thinks that Docker isn&#x27;t a problem is obviously on Linux and not on a Mac. While I agree with the concept of Docker being fantastic, the practical reality is that it&#x27;s painfully slow on MacOS even with the new virtiofs. I have been beta testing Indigo for the past week with Drupal sites and I can confidently say this is an order of magnitude faster at everything but especially things that you do repetitively all day, every day: clearing cache, config import, `drush uli`. There&#x27;s no syncing issues to deal with so you&#x27;re never left wondering if you saved some incorrect css or if it just hasn&#x27;t synced into the container yet. I&#x27;m still yet to come across a configuration I couldn&#x27;t replicate based on a fair number of Pantheon, Platform.sh and Acquia hosted sites.<p>I like making websites, I don&#x27;t like tinkering with servers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: IndigoStack – a new native macOS app for local web development</title><url>https://indigostack.app/</url><text>Hi HN,<p>I&#x27;m opening up the beta for IndigoStack. It&#x27;s a native macOS app which provides a fresh take on how to run all the services you need for local web development. I&#x27;ve been building it for myself as a Laravel &amp; Drupal developer and I&#x27;m now looking to get some beta testers on board!<p>Check it out, and don&#x27;t forget to sign up to the forums to give us your feedback!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indigostack.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indigostack.app</a><p>My motivation:<p>Like many developers I&#x27;ve developed a love-hate relationship with the existing options for local development on a Mac. If they&#x27;re virtualised, you&#x27;ll often get...<p>* high CPU usage
* high RAM usage
* poor filesystem performance &#x2F; syncing
* command line and configuration complexity<p>And existing native solutions tend to be either too simplistic, or command line-based or both.<p>So I&#x27;ve built IndigoStack with everything I liked and wanted, running everything natively on your Mac:<p>* services are all native &amp; fast
* services are standalone; macOS updates won&#x27;t ruin your setup
* able to run multiple services (eg PHPs) simultaneously
* easily build &#x2F; start &#x2F; stop &#x2F; rebuild your stacks in the GUI
* run multiple projects which don&#x27;t interfere with each other
* config-in-code; quickly and easily share stacks within a team</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sophistifunk</author><text>What&#x27;s it actually do? &quot;Run all the same services as your production stack, isolated but directly on your Mac. No Docker, no virtual machines, no hassles&quot; is vague AF.</text></comment> |
40,382,812 | 40,380,315 | 1 | 3 | 40,378,791 | train | <story><title>D3 in Depth</title><url>https://www.d3indepth.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treflop</author><text>I like d3 and have built a lot of things in it but every time I go back to it after not using it for a few years, I can never remember much, the docs just confuse me more, and I feel like I’m back at square one.<p>Whereas you could show me some partial differential equations to solve that I haven’t touched in 10 years and that somehow comes back quicker.<p>But I also think the d3 reference docs are absolutely horrible too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hantusk</author><text>I also have written a lot d3, between versions 2 and 7, and the refactoring that has happened meant a lot of examples online that were hard to comprehend were even harder to update.<p>I feel like its more stable now though. Something clicks for me since ive started writing it in more imperative style with svelte+d3 rather than d3 alone. The generated elements are easier for me to reason about, rather than otherwise relying on inspecting the generated elements with dev-tools after the generation.<p>This site was helpful to me, to combine d3 and svelte: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svelte.recipes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;svelte.recipes&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>D3 in Depth</title><url>https://www.d3indepth.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treflop</author><text>I like d3 and have built a lot of things in it but every time I go back to it after not using it for a few years, I can never remember much, the docs just confuse me more, and I feel like I’m back at square one.<p>Whereas you could show me some partial differential equations to solve that I haven’t touched in 10 years and that somehow comes back quicker.<p>But I also think the d3 reference docs are absolutely horrible too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucisferre</author><text>I have used D3 extensively to the point of building integrations for AngularJS and Angular for it. I have always found it to be exceptionally unintuitive even if it is quite powerful. It is easy to get wrong, hard to debug and hard to grok.<p>Not saying this is an easy problem to solve either. If I needed to generate some very specific data driven graphics it would probably still be my go to.</text></comment> |
21,905,033 | 21,904,528 | 1 | 2 | 21,904,070 | train | <story><title>Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay?</title><url>https://www.jefftk.com/p/programmers-should-plan-for-lower-pay</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>est31</author><text>Well the question is: why don&#x27;t they replace the $370k&#x2F;yr american employees by the $60k&#x2F;yr indian ones? Why do they pay the premium for US employees? Except for defense projects, it doesn&#x27;t matter where the code is made, US or India. The German software industry outsources heavily and tech wages don&#x27;t reach the US levels. Why doesn&#x27;t Google?</text></item><item><author>NeverFade</author><text>&gt; <i>Yes but don&#x27;t assume that people in india, africa, or eastern europe are too dumb to do the same work.</i><p>Where did I ever assume that?!<p>&gt; <i>Nor do the outposts of the companies you mentioned pay the same US levels in those countries. There must be another component of this.</i><p>How about &quot;they pay what they have to&quot;?<p>In India, if they pay $60k&#x2F;yr, plenty of talented candidates would work for them. In the US, if they paid that much, nobody would apply.<p>Simple.</text></item><item><author>est31</author><text>&gt; Those companies became very profitable because technology made them so. It wasn&#x27;t some accident that is here today and gone tomorrow. Technology is at the core of companies like Google, Netflix, Amazon, Facebook. Without the technology, which is implemented by SWEs, none of these would exist.<p>Yes but don&#x27;t assume that people in india, africa, or eastern europe are too dumb to do the same work. Nor do the outposts of the companies you mentioned pay the same US levels in those countries. There must be another component of this.</text></item><item><author>NeverFade</author><text>Those companies became very profitable because technology made them so. It wasn&#x27;t some accident that is here today and gone tomorrow. Technology is at the core of companies like Google, Netflix, Amazon, Facebook. Without the technology, which is implemented by SWEs, none of these would exist.<p>Their number isn&#x27;t declining, it&#x27;s growing.</text></item><item><author>Gatsky</author><text>This is a bit hand wavy... isn’t current comp due to a handful of tech companies that became very profitable very quickly, and a lot of venture capital money? Without either of these two factors I doubt wages would be at the same level.</text></item><item><author>pbecotte</author><text>But... we understand EXACTLY why developers are paid so well. Economics (the same reason EVERY profession is paid the way they are). There are two factors that come into play for employee pay- 1. Supply&#x2F;demand: When demand outstrips supply, prices rise. The demand for software so vastly outstrips the ability to produce it that salaries are being driven very high because 2. The marginal value that an employee can produce. This is a hard cap on the salary that any profession can charge, and is the primary driver for demand. So long as 2 is higher than the prevailing salary, demand will continue to rise, which will apply upwards pressure on salaries.<p>Of course, high salaries will attract more supply over time, which will put pressure back down on salaries. The current dynamic is SO out of whack though- there is a ton of slack in the system.<p>This isn&#x27;t a boom&#x2F;bust thing either. There is SO MUCH business value that could be had if there were programmers available to build the software. I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;re even scratching the surface of everything that could be profitably built yet. I think betting on a big bust in software engineer salaries would be a bad move.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sacho</author><text>The answer would be: 1) they do, and 2) they can&#x27;t<p>1) Google clearly hires plenty of people in India. Here&#x27;s their new office in India, with allegedly ~10k employees: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;careers.google.com&#x2F;locations&#x2F;hyderabad&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;careers.google.com&#x2F;locations&#x2F;hyderabad&#x2F;</a>. The assumption that Google is only hiring &quot;expensive american employees&quot; vs &quot;cheap indian employees&quot; does not hold<p>2) Talking about &quot;american&quot; and &quot;indian&quot; employees is misleading. Your question could just as well be &quot;Why not hire for $100k from &lt;midwest&gt; instead of $370k in CA?&quot; At that level of salary, you&#x27;re talking about attracting top talent from around the world, who are often happy to migrate. The salary is a reflection of an arms race between tech companies - the same person isn&#x27;t going to opt for $60k to stay in India - they will either take a $350k job in Facebook, a $300k job in Amazon, or at worst, a $100k+ remote job to stay at home(numbers are illustrative). You simply cannot attract the same talent due to how global(and competitive) the top-end of the programming marketplace is.</text></comment> | <story><title>Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay?</title><url>https://www.jefftk.com/p/programmers-should-plan-for-lower-pay</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>est31</author><text>Well the question is: why don&#x27;t they replace the $370k&#x2F;yr american employees by the $60k&#x2F;yr indian ones? Why do they pay the premium for US employees? Except for defense projects, it doesn&#x27;t matter where the code is made, US or India. The German software industry outsources heavily and tech wages don&#x27;t reach the US levels. Why doesn&#x27;t Google?</text></item><item><author>NeverFade</author><text>&gt; <i>Yes but don&#x27;t assume that people in india, africa, or eastern europe are too dumb to do the same work.</i><p>Where did I ever assume that?!<p>&gt; <i>Nor do the outposts of the companies you mentioned pay the same US levels in those countries. There must be another component of this.</i><p>How about &quot;they pay what they have to&quot;?<p>In India, if they pay $60k&#x2F;yr, plenty of talented candidates would work for them. In the US, if they paid that much, nobody would apply.<p>Simple.</text></item><item><author>est31</author><text>&gt; Those companies became very profitable because technology made them so. It wasn&#x27;t some accident that is here today and gone tomorrow. Technology is at the core of companies like Google, Netflix, Amazon, Facebook. Without the technology, which is implemented by SWEs, none of these would exist.<p>Yes but don&#x27;t assume that people in india, africa, or eastern europe are too dumb to do the same work. Nor do the outposts of the companies you mentioned pay the same US levels in those countries. There must be another component of this.</text></item><item><author>NeverFade</author><text>Those companies became very profitable because technology made them so. It wasn&#x27;t some accident that is here today and gone tomorrow. Technology is at the core of companies like Google, Netflix, Amazon, Facebook. Without the technology, which is implemented by SWEs, none of these would exist.<p>Their number isn&#x27;t declining, it&#x27;s growing.</text></item><item><author>Gatsky</author><text>This is a bit hand wavy... isn’t current comp due to a handful of tech companies that became very profitable very quickly, and a lot of venture capital money? Without either of these two factors I doubt wages would be at the same level.</text></item><item><author>pbecotte</author><text>But... we understand EXACTLY why developers are paid so well. Economics (the same reason EVERY profession is paid the way they are). There are two factors that come into play for employee pay- 1. Supply&#x2F;demand: When demand outstrips supply, prices rise. The demand for software so vastly outstrips the ability to produce it that salaries are being driven very high because 2. The marginal value that an employee can produce. This is a hard cap on the salary that any profession can charge, and is the primary driver for demand. So long as 2 is higher than the prevailing salary, demand will continue to rise, which will apply upwards pressure on salaries.<p>Of course, high salaries will attract more supply over time, which will put pressure back down on salaries. The current dynamic is SO out of whack though- there is a ton of slack in the system.<p>This isn&#x27;t a boom&#x2F;bust thing either. There is SO MUCH business value that could be had if there were programmers available to build the software. I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;re even scratching the surface of everything that could be profitably built yet. I think betting on a big bust in software engineer salaries would be a bad move.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NeverFade</author><text>&gt; <i>The German software industry outsources heavily and tech wages don&#x27;t reach the US levels.</i><p>German SWE work doesn&#x27;t pay well domestically. It&#x27;s also struggling to attract talent. Probably a reason why Germany isn&#x27;t known for its many profitable software companies.<p>&gt; <i>Well the question is: why don&#x27;t they replace the $370k&#x2F;yr american employees by the $60k&#x2F;yr indian ones?</i><p>In the case of an engineer making $400k in the US, I suggest this is a fairly exceptional individual, with a level of skills and abilities that are rare in _any_ country.<p>Since that individual produces large profits for their employers, employers struggle to hire them at any price that is lower than their productive yield.<p>Strong SWEs can make companies like Google and Facebook millions of dollars per year. So these companies will gladly pay any six figure salary for these individuals.<p>Of course, if they can get away with only paying them $60k in India, they will. It&#x27;s not their goal to pay well; it&#x27;s a necessity.</text></comment> |
6,028,431 | 6,028,042 | 1 | 2 | 6,027,779 | train | <story><title>How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages</title><url>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>I don&#x27;t get Microsoft. Are they really that hypocritical to the <i>core</i> and so shameless? Why in the <i>world</i> would they launch a &quot;privacy&quot; campaign against Google when they&#x27;re in a <i>glass house</i> themselves, and so vulnerable? Why the hell would they even put themselves on the spotlight like that?<p>Or are they really that comfortable with lying, that they have no problem attacking others over something, even though they are just as bad, or <i>worse</i>(as this revelation seems to imply) Giving pre-encryption access to NSA? Really Microsoft?<p>To make things worse, they&#x27;ve just put the guy who came up with that Scroogle crap in charge of their whole marketing department, so expect a lot more hypocritical&#x2F;nasty stuff like that from Microsoft in the future:<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-penn-microsofts-master-of-dark-political-arts-gets-a-boost-in-the-companys-new-reorg-2013-7" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;mark-penn-microsofts-master-o...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>larsberg</author><text>The people making these campaigns may actually be ignorant. When I was at Microsoft (long, long ago), there were portions of some source trees that were covered by security or NDAs and nobody except for the very few people signed on (and builders) could look at or know about them. For example, when Intel had a new chip, the specific developers and testers working on them would be under NDA and the tree secured so that only they could see the work on the code generators until they were released. And that&#x27;s just for NDAs - I can&#x27;t imagine what happens for the code or infrastructure support required for the NSA. The only reason I knew about the chip stuff is I owned the source trees in DevDiv for a while.<p>So, it&#x27;s entirely possible that the _entire_ Skype team except for a dev, tester, &quot;security coordinator,&quot; and one partner-level person were in the dark about this support and actually believed their marketing.<p>It&#x27;s still a terrible situation, but it&#x27;s not necessarily hypocracy&#x2F;lying&#x2F;nasty on the part of the people making up the campaigns.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages</title><url>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>I don&#x27;t get Microsoft. Are they really that hypocritical to the <i>core</i> and so shameless? Why in the <i>world</i> would they launch a &quot;privacy&quot; campaign against Google when they&#x27;re in a <i>glass house</i> themselves, and so vulnerable? Why the hell would they even put themselves on the spotlight like that?<p>Or are they really that comfortable with lying, that they have no problem attacking others over something, even though they are just as bad, or <i>worse</i>(as this revelation seems to imply) Giving pre-encryption access to NSA? Really Microsoft?<p>To make things worse, they&#x27;ve just put the guy who came up with that Scroogle crap in charge of their whole marketing department, so expect a lot more hypocritical&#x2F;nasty stuff like that from Microsoft in the future:<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-penn-microsofts-master-of-dark-political-arts-gets-a-boost-in-the-companys-new-reorg-2013-7" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;mark-penn-microsofts-master-o...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>secabeen</author><text>Is there any information that the marketing department at MS was even aware of the PRISM program? It&#x27;s likely that that program was need-to-know, and anyone who did know couldn&#x27;t stop MS marketing from doing a campaign based on privacy because that would be revealing a Top Secret program.</text></comment> |
32,153,782 | 32,153,394 | 1 | 2 | 32,152,143 | train | <story><title>Germany to Rethink Nuclear Shutdown as Energy Crisis Deepens</title><url>https://climatechangedispatch.com/germany-to-rethink-nuclear-shutdown-as-energy-crisis-deepens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>I will rail against Jane Fonda.<p>This person is the most responsible person for the situation we&#x27;re in right now. She conspired with others to derail (literally in some cases) Nuclear power.<p>This is what happens when you follow uninformed advocates from Hollywood. People should learn to despise &quot;influencers.&quot; They know little but aim to move people to action based on poor or very poor understanding of the things they propose and base their positions on emotion, mostly.</text></item><item><author>notlukesky</author><text>Since the Ukraine crisis the EU is relabeling everything ESG:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spglobal.com&#x2F;marketintelligence&#x2F;en&#x2F;news-insights&#x2F;latest-news-headlines&#x2F;esg-investors-warm-to-nuclear-power-after-eu-green-label-award-69002267" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spglobal.com&#x2F;marketintelligence&#x2F;en&#x2F;news-insights...</a><p>Is this the inflection point when we go back to the 1970s? Richard Nixon had planned for 1000 nuclear reactors in the US for Project Independence by the year 2000:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_Independence" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_Independence</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mola</author><text>You let the oil industry off the hook pretty easily.
Renewables research have been hobbled for ages because of powerful lobby. It&#x27;s only in the last decade that it was pushed to the front stage.
Nuclear power is not some magic safe thing. It can and will cause horrible disaster and consequences if run the same way we run our energy economy for most of the last 100 years, by pure greed.<p>But yeah, blame Jane Fonda....</text></comment> | <story><title>Germany to Rethink Nuclear Shutdown as Energy Crisis Deepens</title><url>https://climatechangedispatch.com/germany-to-rethink-nuclear-shutdown-as-energy-crisis-deepens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>I will rail against Jane Fonda.<p>This person is the most responsible person for the situation we&#x27;re in right now. She conspired with others to derail (literally in some cases) Nuclear power.<p>This is what happens when you follow uninformed advocates from Hollywood. People should learn to despise &quot;influencers.&quot; They know little but aim to move people to action based on poor or very poor understanding of the things they propose and base their positions on emotion, mostly.</text></item><item><author>notlukesky</author><text>Since the Ukraine crisis the EU is relabeling everything ESG:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spglobal.com&#x2F;marketintelligence&#x2F;en&#x2F;news-insights&#x2F;latest-news-headlines&#x2F;esg-investors-warm-to-nuclear-power-after-eu-green-label-award-69002267" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spglobal.com&#x2F;marketintelligence&#x2F;en&#x2F;news-insights...</a><p>Is this the inflection point when we go back to the 1970s? Richard Nixon had planned for 1000 nuclear reactors in the US for Project Independence by the year 2000:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_Independence" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_Independence</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hnhg</author><text>I&#x27;d also consider the possibility that the generations-old and well-connected fossil fuel lobby also had a hand in it. In fact, I&#x27;d wager a much larger effect than Ms Fonda and co.</text></comment> |
38,147,805 | 38,147,825 | 1 | 2 | 38,147,459 | train | <story><title>Topic: Discord Stealer</title><url>https://github.com/topics/discord-stealer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DrawTR</author><text>Interesting how malware is essentially allowed on GitHub, seeing as the top result here has ~500 stars and has features advertised to steal much more than Discord accounts. I have a recollection of downloading a program from GitHub (which has 1.4k stars right now) whose installer had an opt-out malware bundled -- I reported the repo three times, and they didn&#x27;t take <i>any</i> action. Chocolatey team did step in and remove it on their platform, but I wonder why GitHub didn&#x27;t take any action</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>creatonez</author><text>I would differentiate &#x27;malware implementations&#x27; from &#x27;malware&#x27;. A hacking tool presented with its harmful features at face value, with adequate warnings, is not quite the same as an attempt at tricking people into downloading or bundling something dangerous. I believe Github makes the same distinction in allowing hacking tools. They also allow byte-reversed or zip-encrypted copies of well-known malware for the purpose of study. There&#x27;s no way to keep out the bad guys while still allowing security researchers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Topic: Discord Stealer</title><url>https://github.com/topics/discord-stealer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DrawTR</author><text>Interesting how malware is essentially allowed on GitHub, seeing as the top result here has ~500 stars and has features advertised to steal much more than Discord accounts. I have a recollection of downloading a program from GitHub (which has 1.4k stars right now) whose installer had an opt-out malware bundled -- I reported the repo three times, and they didn&#x27;t take <i>any</i> action. Chocolatey team did step in and remove it on their platform, but I wonder why GitHub didn&#x27;t take any action</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrm4</author><text>I&#x27;m glad they don&#x27;t?<p>That&#x27;s one of the perks of free&#x2F;open source.<p>Presuming there exists something like a provider&#x2F;customer relationship for users of Discord, it&#x27;s now Discord&#x27;s job to step up and fix it; unfortunately <i>years</i> of Microsoft getting away with horrible security has cemented in our collective heads that &quot;malware&quot; is some abstract thing that, you know, just happens.</text></comment> |
35,005,073 | 35,004,827 | 1 | 2 | 35,002,942 | train | <story><title>A replicable decline in mood during rest and simple tasks</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01519-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>I know you’re joking, but this kind of hyperbole is kind of out of control when discussing kids on the internet. People seem to forget that young kids sleep <i>a lot</i> and eventually they go to school and&#x2F;or daycare.</text></item><item><author>op00to</author><text>I have two small kids at home. I would electric shock mother Theresa for a few minutes in a quiet room.</text></item><item><author>sp332</author><text>2014 study: People (2&#x2F;3 of men and 1&#x2F;4 of women) would rather give themselves electric shocks than sit quietly in an empty room. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;men-would-rather-give-themselves-electric-shocks-than-sit-quietly&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;men-would-rather-giv...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r3trohack3r</author><text>Serious question, do you have kids?<p>The age from 0-4 for me has been nothing like what you describe.<p>The first year is nothing but chronic sleep deprivation and recovery from it.<p>The next three years they are extremely dependent. Yeah they sleep for 10-12 hours, but you’re drained by then especially if you’re working a job on top of it. You have the time to do things but not the energy. Even when they sleep you’re still trapped at home because you legally (and ethically) can’t leave the house with them alone. If you’re lucky enough to have the financial stability to afford a nanny&#x2F;babysitter for date nights you have to be strategic, is that random movie really worth blowing your one night out on?<p>Every moment that isn’t necessary for work or parenthood has to be strategically spent because moments of both high energy and free time are rare.<p>The workload is double (maybe more) for mom given the 9months of carrying the child, having a tiny person relying on them for food supply non-stop, and the raging hormones from all that.<p>This 4 year window resets every time you have a kid.<p>I’m guessing you’re not a parent, but maybe you have had an entirely different experience than me. Maybe I’m doing it wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>A replicable decline in mood during rest and simple tasks</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01519-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>I know you’re joking, but this kind of hyperbole is kind of out of control when discussing kids on the internet. People seem to forget that young kids sleep <i>a lot</i> and eventually they go to school and&#x2F;or daycare.</text></item><item><author>op00to</author><text>I have two small kids at home. I would electric shock mother Theresa for a few minutes in a quiet room.</text></item><item><author>sp332</author><text>2014 study: People (2&#x2F;3 of men and 1&#x2F;4 of women) would rather give themselves electric shocks than sit quietly in an empty room. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;men-would-rather-give-themselves-electric-shocks-than-sit-quietly&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;men-would-rather-giv...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>op00to</author><text>In my experience young kids stay up all night, and I work when they’re in school.<p>I am not joking.<p>I am on cold #3 in 3 weeks, each one introduced by our youngest and ripped through each family member one by one. Life is misery for the next month or so.</text></comment> |
14,654,243 | 14,652,588 | 1 | 2 | 14,651,287 | train | <story><title>Take Naps at Work</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/smarter-living/take-naps-at-work-apologize-to-no-one.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samsonradu</author><text>Curious if you were able to do the same? From what I&#x27;ve seen asians have this ability to pretty much sleep <i>anywhere</i>, planes, trains, buses anything. The crappy chairs and noisy engines don&#x27;t seem to bother them.<p>I don&#x27;t think I could ever fall asleep in the lunch break, the morning coffee and the light outside doesn&#x27;t let my brain go off.<p>EDIT<p>I really don&#x27;t mean to offend anyone, just curious whether the ability to fall asleep in uncomfortable environments is something asian-specific.</text></item><item><author>beilabs</author><text>When I worked in China (5000 engineer company) we&#x27;d have our lunch in the canteen, I found that many returned to their desk for the last 15 minutes of their lunch break.<p>Out came the pillows, all lights were dimmed and calming music played through the PA system. No-one spoke, made noise during this time; quick power nap of 15 minutes did the trick for a lot of people. Definitely something I approve of; I&#x27;ve a small mattress in my office just for such occasions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomanybeersies</author><text>It&#x27;s an acquired skill, being able to sleep anywhere. Military people tend to acquire it by necessity, Asians seem to have cultural reasons for it.<p>It&#x27;s not too hard to acquire it with some practice, every time you feel like it would be a good time to have a nap, close your eyes and try to have a nap. For a while, you won&#x27;t actually get to sleep, you&#x27;ll just be lying or sitting there with closed eyes, but after trying for a while, you&#x27;ll actually start napping or sleeping.<p>These days, if I&#x27;m a passenger in a vehicle for a &gt; 30 minute trip, you&#x27;re almost guaranteed to find me sleeping.</text></comment> | <story><title>Take Naps at Work</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/smarter-living/take-naps-at-work-apologize-to-no-one.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samsonradu</author><text>Curious if you were able to do the same? From what I&#x27;ve seen asians have this ability to pretty much sleep <i>anywhere</i>, planes, trains, buses anything. The crappy chairs and noisy engines don&#x27;t seem to bother them.<p>I don&#x27;t think I could ever fall asleep in the lunch break, the morning coffee and the light outside doesn&#x27;t let my brain go off.<p>EDIT<p>I really don&#x27;t mean to offend anyone, just curious whether the ability to fall asleep in uncomfortable environments is something asian-specific.</text></item><item><author>beilabs</author><text>When I worked in China (5000 engineer company) we&#x27;d have our lunch in the canteen, I found that many returned to their desk for the last 15 minutes of their lunch break.<p>Out came the pillows, all lights were dimmed and calming music played through the PA system. No-one spoke, made noise during this time; quick power nap of 15 minutes did the trick for a lot of people. Definitely something I approve of; I&#x27;ve a small mattress in my office just for such occasions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yomly</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve noticed is that people in the UK are way more considerate about and sensitive to noise whereas the opposite is true to Asians.<p>Go to China and the level of ambient noise is much higher, whether that is people talking louder or having no qualms playing music from their phone speakers at any time of the day.<p>So at a guess, I think that cultural conditions probably lend themselves to people of Asian heritage learning to sleep under noisier conditions. Of course, these are all anecdata and generalisations so ymmv - fwiw, my personal observations are somewhat in line with yours.</text></comment> |
20,591,618 | 20,590,984 | 1 | 2 | 20,589,216 | train | <story><title>Knuth on Huang's Sensitivity Proof: “I've got the proof down to one page” [pdf]</title><url>https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4229#comment-1815290</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>svat</author><text>A few random comments:<p>• Obviously, this is typeset with TeX.<p>• Though originally Knuth created TeX for books rather than single-page articles, he&#x27;s most familiar with this tool so it&#x27;s unsurprising that he&#x27;d use it to just type something out. (I remember reading somewhere that Joel Spolsky, who was PM on Excel, used Excel for everything.)<p>• To create the PDF, where most modern TeX users might just use pdftex, he seems to first created a DVI file with tex (see the PDF&#x27;s title “huang.dvi”), then gone via dvips (version 5.98, from 2009) to convert to PostScript, then (perhaps on another computer?) “Acrobat Distiller 19.0 (Macintosh)” to go from PS to PDF.<p>• If you find it different from the “typical” paper typeset with LaTeX, remember that Knuth doesn&#x27;t use LaTeX; this is typeset in plain TeX. :-) Unlike LaTeX which aims to be a “document preparation system” with “logical”&#x2F;“structured” (“semantic”) markup rather than visual formatting, for Knuth TeX is just a tool; typically he works with pencil and paper and uses a computer&#x2F;TeX only for the final typesetting, where all he needs is to control the formatting.<p>• Despite being typeset with TeX which is supposed to produce beautiful results, the document may appear very poor on your computer screen (at least it did when I first viewed it on a Linux desktop; on a Mac laptop with Retina display it looks much better though somewhat “light”). But if you zoom in quite a bit, or print it, it looks great. The reason is that Knuth uses bitmap (raster) fonts, not vector fonts like the rest of the world. Once bitten by “advances” in font technology (his original motivation to create TeX &amp; METAFONT), he now prefers to use bitmap fonts and completely specify the appearance (when printed&#x2F;viewed on a sufficiently high-resolution device anyway), rather than use vector fonts where the precise rasterization is up to the PDF viewer.<p>• An extension of the same point: everything in his workflow is optimized for print, not onscreen rendering. For instance, the PDF title is left as “huang.dvi” (because no one can look at it when printed), the characters are not copyable, etc. (All these problems are fixable with TeX too these days.)<p>• Note what Knuth has done here: he&#x27;s taken a published paper, understood it well, thought hard about it, and come up with (what he feels is) the “best” way to present this result. This has been his primary activity all his life, with <i>The Art of Computer Programming</i>, etc. Every page of TAOCP is full of results from the research literature that Knuth has often understood better than even the original authors, and presented in a great and uniform style — those who say TAOCP is hard to read or boring(!) just have to compare against the original papers to understand Knuth&#x27;s achievement. He&#x27;s basically “digested” the entire literature, passed it through his personal interestingness filter, and presented it an engaging style with enthusiasm to explain and share.<p>&gt; when Knuth won the Kyoto Prize after TAOCP Volume 3, there was a faculty reception at Stanford. McCarthy congratulated Knuth and said, &quot;You must have read 500 papers before writing it.&quot; Knuth answered, &quot;Actually, it was 5,000.&quot; Ever since, I look at TAOCP and consider that each page is the witty and insightful synthesis of ten scholarly papers, with added Knuth insights and inventions.<p>(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.computationalcomplexity.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;john-mccarthy-1927-2011.html?showComment=1319546990817#c6154784930906980717" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.computationalcomplexity.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;john-mccart...</a>)<p>• I remember a lunchtime conversation with some colleagues at work a few years ago, where the topic of the Turing Award came up. Someone mentioned that Knuth won the Turing Award for writing (3 volumes of) TAOCP, and the other person did not find it plausible, and said something like “The Turing Award is not given for writing textbooks; it&#x27;s given for doing important research...” — but in fact Knuth did receive the award for writing TAOCP; writing and summarizing other people&#x27;s work is his way of doing research, advancing the field by unifying many disparate ideas and extending them. When he invented the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm in his mind he was “merely” applying Cook&#x27;s theorem on automata to a special case, when he invented LR parsing he was “merely” summarizing various approaches he had collected for writing his book on compilers, etc. Even his recent volumes&#x2F;fascicles of TAOCP are breaking new ground (e.g. currently simply trying to write about Dancing Links as well as he can, he&#x27;s coming up with applying it to min-cost exact covers, etc.<p>Sorry for long comment, got carried away :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>svat</author><text>Looks like no one complained about the long comment, so some further trivia I omitted mentioning:<p>• The problem that one cannot copy text from a PDF created via dvips and using METAFONT-generated bitmap fonts has recently been fixed — the original author of dvips, Tomas Rokicki ([1], [2]) has “come out of retirement” (as far as this program is concerned anyway) to fix this and is giving a talk about it next week at the TeX Users Group conference ([3], [4]):<p>&gt; Admittedly this is a rare path these days; most people are using pdfTeX or using Type 1 fonts with dvips, but at least one prominent user continues to use bitmap fonts.<p>So in the future (when&#x2F;if Knuth upgrades!) his PDFs too will be searchable. :-)<p>• In some sense, even Knuth&#x27;s work on TeX and METAFONT can be seen as an extension of his drive to understand and explain (in his own unique way) others&#x27; work: at one point, suddenly having to worry about the appearance of his books, he took the time to learn intensively about typesetting and font design, then experiment and encode whatever he had learned into programs of production quality (given constraints of the time). This is in keeping with his philosophy: “Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.” and (paraphrasing from a few mentions like [5] and [6]) “The best way to understand something is to teach it <i>to a computer</i>”.<p>• Finally returning (somewhat) to the topic, and looking at the 2&#x2F;3rds-page proof that Knuth posted [7], one may ask, is it really any “better”, or “simpler”, than Huang&#x27;s original proof [8]? After all, Huang&#x27;s proof is already very short: just about a page and a half, for a major open problem for 30 years; see the recent Quanta article ([9], HN discussion [10]). And by using Cauchy’s Interlace Theorem, graph terminology, and eigenvalues, it puts the theorem in context and (to researchers in the field) a “natural” setting, compared to Knuth&#x27;s proof that cuts through all that and keeps only the unavoidable bare essentials. This is a valid objection; my response to that would be: different readers are different, and there are surely some readers to whom a proof that does not even involve eigenvalues is really more accessible. A personal story: in grad school I “learned” the simplex algorithm for linear programming. Actually I never quite learned it, and couldn&#x27;t answer basic questions about it. Then more recently I discovered Knuth&#x27;s “literate program” implementing and explaining the simplex algorithm [11], and that one I understood much better.<p>&gt; The famous simplex procedure is subtle yet not difficult to fathom, even when we are careful to avoid infinite loops. But I always tend to forget the details a short time after seeing them explained in a book. Therefore I will try here to present the algorithm in my own favorite way—which tends to be algebraic and combinatoric rather than geometric—in hopes that the ideas will then be forever memorable, at least in my own mind.<p>I can relate: although the simplex algorithm has an elegant geometrical interpretation about what happens when it does pivoting etc., and this is the way one “ought” to think about it, somehow I am more comfortable with symbol-pushing, having an underdeveloped intuition for geometry and better intuition for computational processes (algorithms). Reading Knuth&#x27;s exposition, which may seem pointless to someone more comfortable with the geometrical presentation, “clicked” for me in a way nothing had before.<p>This is one reason I am so fascinated by the work of Don Knuth: though I cannot hope to compare myself in either ability (even his exploits as a college kid are legendary [12]) or productivity or taste, I <i>can</i> relate to some of his aesthetic preferences such as for certain areas&#x2F;styles of mathematics&#x2F;programming over others, and being able to so well “relate” to someone this way gives you hope that maybe by adopting some of the same habits that worked for them (e.g.: somewhere, Knuth mentions that tries to start every day by doing whichever thing he&#x27;s been dreading the most), you&#x27;ll be able to move a few steps in somewhat the same direction, and if nothing else, this puts me in mind of what Bhavabhuti said many centuries ago [13] about finding someone with the same spirit, so to speak.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomas.rokicki.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tomas.rokicki.com</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maa.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;upload_library&#x2F;2&#x2F;Joyner-CMJ-2015.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maa.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;upload_library&#x2F;2...</a>
[3]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tug.org&#x2F;tug2019&#x2F;preprints&#x2F;rokicki-pdfbitmap.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tug.org&#x2F;tug2019&#x2F;preprints&#x2F;rokicki-pdfbitmap.pdf</a>
[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rokicki&#x2F;type3search&#x2F;blob&#x2F;a70b5f3&#x2F;README.md#introduction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rokicki&#x2F;type3search&#x2F;blob&#x2F;a70b5f3&#x2F;README.m...</a>
[5]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maa.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;upload_library&#x2F;22&#x2F;Ford&#x2F;DonaldKnuth.pdf#page=5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maa.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;upload_library&#x2F;2...</a>
[6]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;eDs4mRPJonU?t=1514" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;eDs4mRPJonU?t=1514</a> (25:14 to 26:46)
[7]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.stanford.edu&#x2F;~knuth&#x2F;papers&#x2F;huang.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.stanford.edu&#x2F;~knuth&#x2F;papers&#x2F;huang.pdf</a>
[8]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mathcs.emory.edu&#x2F;~hhuan30&#x2F;papers&#x2F;sensitivity_1.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mathcs.emory.edu&#x2F;~hhuan30&#x2F;papers&#x2F;sensitivity_1.pd...</a>
[9]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org&#x2F;mathematician-solves-computer-science-conjecture-in-two-pages-20190725&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org&#x2F;mathematician-solves-computer...</a>
[10]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20531987" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20531987</a>
[11]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shreevatsa&#x2F;knuth-literate-programs&#x2F;blob&#x2F;9b46afe&#x2F;programs&#x2F;lp.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shreevatsa&#x2F;knuth-literate-programs&#x2F;blob&#x2F;9...</a>
[12]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ed-thelen.org&#x2F;comp-hist&#x2F;B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html#7" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ed-thelen.org&#x2F;comp-hist&#x2F;B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html#7</a>
[13]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shreevatsa.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;bhavabhuti-on-finding-a-reader&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shreevatsa.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;bhavabhuti-on-fi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Knuth on Huang's Sensitivity Proof: “I've got the proof down to one page” [pdf]</title><url>https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4229#comment-1815290</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>svat</author><text>A few random comments:<p>• Obviously, this is typeset with TeX.<p>• Though originally Knuth created TeX for books rather than single-page articles, he&#x27;s most familiar with this tool so it&#x27;s unsurprising that he&#x27;d use it to just type something out. (I remember reading somewhere that Joel Spolsky, who was PM on Excel, used Excel for everything.)<p>• To create the PDF, where most modern TeX users might just use pdftex, he seems to first created a DVI file with tex (see the PDF&#x27;s title “huang.dvi”), then gone via dvips (version 5.98, from 2009) to convert to PostScript, then (perhaps on another computer?) “Acrobat Distiller 19.0 (Macintosh)” to go from PS to PDF.<p>• If you find it different from the “typical” paper typeset with LaTeX, remember that Knuth doesn&#x27;t use LaTeX; this is typeset in plain TeX. :-) Unlike LaTeX which aims to be a “document preparation system” with “logical”&#x2F;“structured” (“semantic”) markup rather than visual formatting, for Knuth TeX is just a tool; typically he works with pencil and paper and uses a computer&#x2F;TeX only for the final typesetting, where all he needs is to control the formatting.<p>• Despite being typeset with TeX which is supposed to produce beautiful results, the document may appear very poor on your computer screen (at least it did when I first viewed it on a Linux desktop; on a Mac laptop with Retina display it looks much better though somewhat “light”). But if you zoom in quite a bit, or print it, it looks great. The reason is that Knuth uses bitmap (raster) fonts, not vector fonts like the rest of the world. Once bitten by “advances” in font technology (his original motivation to create TeX &amp; METAFONT), he now prefers to use bitmap fonts and completely specify the appearance (when printed&#x2F;viewed on a sufficiently high-resolution device anyway), rather than use vector fonts where the precise rasterization is up to the PDF viewer.<p>• An extension of the same point: everything in his workflow is optimized for print, not onscreen rendering. For instance, the PDF title is left as “huang.dvi” (because no one can look at it when printed), the characters are not copyable, etc. (All these problems are fixable with TeX too these days.)<p>• Note what Knuth has done here: he&#x27;s taken a published paper, understood it well, thought hard about it, and come up with (what he feels is) the “best” way to present this result. This has been his primary activity all his life, with <i>The Art of Computer Programming</i>, etc. Every page of TAOCP is full of results from the research literature that Knuth has often understood better than even the original authors, and presented in a great and uniform style — those who say TAOCP is hard to read or boring(!) just have to compare against the original papers to understand Knuth&#x27;s achievement. He&#x27;s basically “digested” the entire literature, passed it through his personal interestingness filter, and presented it an engaging style with enthusiasm to explain and share.<p>&gt; when Knuth won the Kyoto Prize after TAOCP Volume 3, there was a faculty reception at Stanford. McCarthy congratulated Knuth and said, &quot;You must have read 500 papers before writing it.&quot; Knuth answered, &quot;Actually, it was 5,000.&quot; Ever since, I look at TAOCP and consider that each page is the witty and insightful synthesis of ten scholarly papers, with added Knuth insights and inventions.<p>(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.computationalcomplexity.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;john-mccarthy-1927-2011.html?showComment=1319546990817#c6154784930906980717" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.computationalcomplexity.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;john-mccart...</a>)<p>• I remember a lunchtime conversation with some colleagues at work a few years ago, where the topic of the Turing Award came up. Someone mentioned that Knuth won the Turing Award for writing (3 volumes of) TAOCP, and the other person did not find it plausible, and said something like “The Turing Award is not given for writing textbooks; it&#x27;s given for doing important research...” — but in fact Knuth did receive the award for writing TAOCP; writing and summarizing other people&#x27;s work is his way of doing research, advancing the field by unifying many disparate ideas and extending them. When he invented the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm in his mind he was “merely” applying Cook&#x27;s theorem on automata to a special case, when he invented LR parsing he was “merely” summarizing various approaches he had collected for writing his book on compilers, etc. Even his recent volumes&#x2F;fascicles of TAOCP are breaking new ground (e.g. currently simply trying to write about Dancing Links as well as he can, he&#x27;s coming up with applying it to min-cost exact covers, etc.<p>Sorry for long comment, got carried away :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anaphor</author><text>I feel like he also deserves recognition for his awesome lectures (which are generally pretty low-tech but amazingly well thought out).<p>E.g. all of his &quot;christmas tree lectures&quot; are available on youtube from Stanford <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_cR9zDlvP88&amp;list=PLoROMvodv4rOAvKVR_dyCigSBMcYjevYB" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_cR9zDlvP88&amp;list=PLoROMvodv4...</a></text></comment> |
28,789,922 | 28,790,181 | 1 | 2 | 28,769,531 | train | <story><title>Steve Jobs tried to convince Dell to license Mac software</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/the-steve-jobs-deal-with-dell-that-could-have-changed-apple-and-tech-history/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to envision the what-if universe where licensing OS X (and other software) became Apple&#x27;s main business model. I wonder if in this universe, Apple is basically the Google of our time (everything is a cloud service, massive ad tracking, using metadata as their revenue generation), or if they would be more like the MS of our time (playing a game of catch-up with Google).<p>While I don&#x27;t really blame Dell for not taking this deal (it seemed like a pretty raw deal for Dell), I wonder how much more popular Unix would be nowadays had this gone through. OS X was (and is) almost certainly the largest desktop *nix distro out there, and if it were installed on every Dell computer (and presumably later other manufacturers as well), I wonder if Unix might have become the &quot;standard&quot; for desktop OS&#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bityard</author><text>&gt; I wonder if Unix might have become the &quot;standard&quot; for desktop OS&#x27;s<p>Microsoft is pouring buckets of money and human capital into WSL2. Today, it&#x27;s their way to drag cloud developers away from the Mac and Linux ecosystems into the corporate-blessed Windows ecosystem. But tomorrow, maybe developers and server admins will demand more Linux compatibility and, who knows, maybe they will reach a point where the only way to improve performance is to &quot;port&quot; Windows services and applications to the Linux kernel. The open source community has already proven that much of it can be done via Wine.<p>One of those things that doesn&#x27;t look terribly likely now but might prove obvious in retrospect.</text></comment> | <story><title>Steve Jobs tried to convince Dell to license Mac software</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/the-steve-jobs-deal-with-dell-that-could-have-changed-apple-and-tech-history/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to envision the what-if universe where licensing OS X (and other software) became Apple&#x27;s main business model. I wonder if in this universe, Apple is basically the Google of our time (everything is a cloud service, massive ad tracking, using metadata as their revenue generation), or if they would be more like the MS of our time (playing a game of catch-up with Google).<p>While I don&#x27;t really blame Dell for not taking this deal (it seemed like a pretty raw deal for Dell), I wonder how much more popular Unix would be nowadays had this gone through. OS X was (and is) almost certainly the largest desktop *nix distro out there, and if it were installed on every Dell computer (and presumably later other manufacturers as well), I wonder if Unix might have become the &quot;standard&quot; for desktop OS&#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moonchrome</author><text>Or they would be bankrupt ? Mac OS lost to Windows and if Apple was about software instead of hardware they would probably miss iPhone and iPod just like Microsoft.</text></comment> |
8,201,227 | 8,200,983 | 1 | 2 | 8,200,906 | train | <story><title>Word Perhect</title><url>http://wordperhect.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>siddboots</author><text>I sat reading the tips for a good fifteen minutes.<p><pre><code> Did you know...
Clouds are passing by all the time.
Did you know...
You can go outside right now if you like.
Did you know...
Every single grass of the loam is casting shadows individually when it is sunny.</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Word Perhect</title><url>http://wordperhect.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jestar_jokin</author><text>Looks like this was made in 1999. Say what you like about Flash, at least it still works 15 years later.</text></comment> |
24,212,518 | 24,212,915 | 1 | 3 | 24,210,991 | train | <story><title>Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/apple-reaches-2-trillion-market-cap.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shadowtree</author><text>It&#x27;s so interesting how people try to rationalize modern valuations by connecting them to some other metric (P&#x2F;E, growth, etc.).<p>None of that is true.<p>Stock price presents demand for the stock. Demand is emotional. The stock market represent (rich) people&#x27;s feelings.<p>I want to own a piece of Apple, because a bunch of others want a piece of Apple.<p>Tesla&#x27;s stock is exhibit A for this.<p>If there was a direct correlation between some metric and stock price, every trade would be automated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gzu</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget the non-emotional constant demand for Apple shares caused by stock buybacks combined with a 7% weight in the S&amp;P 500. Every new dollar invested in an index tracking ETF&#x2F;mutual fund needs to buy 7c worth of Apple stock from <i>someone</i>.<p>It&#x27;s a huge supply&#x2F;demand problem. At what price will <i>someone</i> forego Apple shares? What happens when Apple is 10%, 15% etc of the S&amp;P 500 index? Where will these shares to sell come from? At this point, why would anyone holding Apple shares outright sell?<p>This demand may only lead to a self reinforcing feedback loop where: a greater market cap (3T?) -&gt; higher index weight (10+%) -&gt; greater buying pressure -&gt; more shares locked up in index funds (not available for sale) -&gt; repeat<p>This is explains why there has been increasingly volatile movements in Apple shares. This lack of share liquidity works both directions: buying and selling. Not enough <i>active</i> investors are available to step in when passive investors (who now make up an enormous portion of capital markets) decide to start selling index tracking funds in bulk.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/apple-reaches-2-trillion-market-cap.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shadowtree</author><text>It&#x27;s so interesting how people try to rationalize modern valuations by connecting them to some other metric (P&#x2F;E, growth, etc.).<p>None of that is true.<p>Stock price presents demand for the stock. Demand is emotional. The stock market represent (rich) people&#x27;s feelings.<p>I want to own a piece of Apple, because a bunch of others want a piece of Apple.<p>Tesla&#x27;s stock is exhibit A for this.<p>If there was a direct correlation between some metric and stock price, every trade would be automated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>safog</author><text>Ultimately price and (some tenuous definition of) value can diverge in the short term but over the long run they _will_ converge. Apple&#x27;s in a short term bubble. That&#x27;s not to say they aren&#x27;t a great company in the long term but I really question the wisdom of paying 462$ or whatever for their stock at this point in time.</text></comment> |
22,419,232 | 22,419,102 | 1 | 2 | 22,417,777 | train | <story><title>Waymo’s Hiring Binge</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-waymos-hiring-binge?pu=hackernewso4ym9z&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Wow, that&#x27;s clever. Also dangerous, of course. If I were at Google and had a direct report who was not up to snuff, I might point them at such a convenient option.</text></item><item><author>codemac</author><text>They allow transfers from Google, rather than a full interview slate.<p>My bet is transfers outweigh anything you&#x27;re praising here.</text></item><item><author>aresant</author><text>Instructive the degree to which good HR, recruiting, and operational onboarding can create giant moats for these larger tech cos.<p>Hiring 700 &quot;mostly engineer&quot; employees in a year!<p>I pride myself as an &quot;operator&quot; and have worked in businesses that have scaled quickly but it is unimaginable how one doubles the highly compensated &#x2F; hard to find employee count in a year at that scale.<p>In an economy where excess labor of that quality is non-existent.<p>That&#x27;s an average of almost 3 people a work day you need to recruit away from probably another high income role, getting them to show up, get devtools opened, build and manage security clearances, trying to integrate into the org, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steelframe</author><text>Very, very few Googlers are &quot;not up to snuff.&quot; As controversial as their interview process is, it does tend to let only highly capable people through. If a Googler is not meeting expectations, the vast majority of the time it&#x27;s effectively remedied with the proverbial &quot;new manager and 6 more months&quot; treatment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Waymo’s Hiring Binge</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-waymos-hiring-binge?pu=hackernewso4ym9z&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlock</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>Wow, that&#x27;s clever. Also dangerous, of course. If I were at Google and had a direct report who was not up to snuff, I might point them at such a convenient option.</text></item><item><author>codemac</author><text>They allow transfers from Google, rather than a full interview slate.<p>My bet is transfers outweigh anything you&#x27;re praising here.</text></item><item><author>aresant</author><text>Instructive the degree to which good HR, recruiting, and operational onboarding can create giant moats for these larger tech cos.<p>Hiring 700 &quot;mostly engineer&quot; employees in a year!<p>I pride myself as an &quot;operator&quot; and have worked in businesses that have scaled quickly but it is unimaginable how one doubles the highly compensated &#x2F; hard to find employee count in a year at that scale.<p>In an economy where excess labor of that quality is non-existent.<p>That&#x27;s an average of almost 3 people a work day you need to recruit away from probably another high income role, getting them to show up, get devtools opened, build and manage security clearances, trying to integrate into the org, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindvirus</author><text>That&#x27;s one way to look at it. The other is that it creates an internal market - as a manager, you have to make your team attractive or people will transfer away and people won&#x27;t transfer to it.</text></comment> |
5,420,407 | 5,420,020 | 1 | 2 | 5,419,395 | train | <story><title>Apple’s Jony Ive Pushing iOS Interface Team For ‘Flat’ Design</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/apple-jony-ive-ios-design-interface/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>larrydavid</author><text>The relevant paragraph from the original WSJ article:<p>"Some suggested that in Apple’s next mobile operating system, Ive is pushing a more “flat design” that is starker and simpler, according to developers who have spoken to Apple employees but didn’t have further details. Overall, they expect any changes to be pretty conservative."<p>I wouldn't exactly say that switching to a completely flat design as implied in the headline is a 'conservative' change.<p>It's quite obvious that they are unlikely to go down the overly skeuomorphic route as seen in the Podcast app, so this is a fairly 'safe' rumor to spread. But of course, it incites the usual skeuomorphic vs flat arguments with the added bonus of accusations of 'copying' the Metro style.<p>There are many misconceptions in regards to categorizing flat vs skeuomorphic design, here is a good article that explains the differences pretty well.<p><a href="http://sachagreif.com/flat-pixels/" rel="nofollow">http://sachagreif.com/flat-pixels/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Apple’s Jony Ive Pushing iOS Interface Team For ‘Flat’ Design</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/apple-jony-ive-ios-design-interface/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>VeejayRampay</author><text>Why do I have the impression that if they go flat, they'll be hailed as geniuses and Microsoft will be forgotten forever?
(This comment guaranteed 100% conspirationist and crazy)</text></comment> |
8,625,441 | 8,625,304 | 1 | 3 | 8,624,979 | train | <story><title>Teespring Says It's Minting New Millionaires Selling Its T-Shirts, Raises $35M</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2014/11/18/teespring-says-it-making-millionaires-raises-millions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>If you want to build a huge business, building a platform where other people can make money using it is a great way to do that. eBay, AirBnB, Uber&#x2F;Lyft&#x2F;etc, Teespring. Even Google, with their adwords product (and reddit with it&#x27;s self serve ads).<p>There&#x27;s lots of great businesses where people pay you for a service, but if you can create one where people make money when you do, they are heavily invested in your success.</text></comment> | <story><title>Teespring Says It's Minting New Millionaires Selling Its T-Shirts, Raises $35M</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2014/11/18/teespring-says-it-making-millionaires-raises-millions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jhonovich</author><text>&quot;At least ten, the company says, have become millionaires from the work.&quot;<p>Does this mean they sold a million dollars plus worth of shirts OR that, after all expenses, they netted a million? The phrase millionaire implies the latter but that is a far higher bar to cross.</text></comment> |
20,761,640 | 20,761,890 | 1 | 2 | 20,760,195 | train | <story><title>GitHub Supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) for Security Keys</title><url>https://github.blog/2019-08-21-github-supports-webauthn-for-security-keys/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sebazzz</author><text>&gt; GitHub supported physical security keys using the experimental U2F API for Chrome<p>Yes, and to make it worse, they used user agent sniffing instead of feature detection even though it work fine in Firefox. Firefox enabled U2F because many sites which do implement U2F, do not implement WebAuthn yet. Luckily, it appears Github is now on the right track.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub Supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) for Security Keys</title><url>https://github.blog/2019-08-21-github-supports-webauthn-for-security-keys/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>This is fantastic. I look forward to finally having much easier authentication on the web. Imagine browsers syncing between devices a single encryption key that will authenticate you to all sites, which you can easily back up to a piece of paper.<p>EDIT: Unfortunately, it looks like the WebAuthn credential is only used as the second factor, so you can&#x27;t use it to replace your password yet, let alone your username.</text></comment> |
22,426,600 | 22,425,760 | 1 | 2 | 22,425,454 | train | <story><title>DOJ plans to strike against encryption while the Techlash iron is hot</title><url>https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/02/doj-plans-strike-against-encryption-while-techlash-iron-hot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caleb-allen</author><text>A small anecdote.<p>A few years ago in an undergrad business class, we were having some discussion and the topic of encryption came up during one of my presentations. A student asked a question related to the ethics of encryption (I don&#x27;t recall exactly what), and I was clearly confused by the question.<p>To clear up confusion, the professor asked those who thought encryption was &quot;bad&quot; to raise their hand, and at least 60% of the class raised their hands.<p>It was pretty jarring to me, and makes me pessimistic about the outcome of a DOJ campaign to demonize and regulate encryption</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cvwright</author><text>I think we in the tech community tend to vastly under-estimate the threat of legal restrictions on encryption. When the public gets scared, they look to governments to &quot;do something&quot;, whether that something is really a smart thing or not.<p>If we&#x27;re unlucky and we get caught unprepared, we run the risk of getting stuck with a backdoor or &quot;exceptional access&quot; mechanism that provides little or no technical safeguards against massive and nearly unlimited government overreach.<p>IMO this makes it our responsibility to figure out how we might design such a system that <i>does</i> have strong protections against misuse. Of course that is a very difficult thing to do. Doesn&#x27;t mean we shouldn&#x27;t try.</text></comment> | <story><title>DOJ plans to strike against encryption while the Techlash iron is hot</title><url>https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/02/doj-plans-strike-against-encryption-while-techlash-iron-hot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caleb-allen</author><text>A small anecdote.<p>A few years ago in an undergrad business class, we were having some discussion and the topic of encryption came up during one of my presentations. A student asked a question related to the ethics of encryption (I don&#x27;t recall exactly what), and I was clearly confused by the question.<p>To clear up confusion, the professor asked those who thought encryption was &quot;bad&quot; to raise their hand, and at least 60% of the class raised their hands.<p>It was pretty jarring to me, and makes me pessimistic about the outcome of a DOJ campaign to demonize and regulate encryption</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>westmeal</author><text>It sounds like a majority of the students had no idea what encryption was and because the authority figure (the professor) asked them whether or not it was bad they just went with it? I&#x27;m having trouble understanding why people would say mathematical functions are bad.</text></comment> |
16,808,541 | 16,807,527 | 1 | 2 | 16,803,937 | train | <story><title>YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form</title><url>https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/04/your-pretty-face-is-going-to-sell/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattbierner</author><text>This post made me want to re-read &quot;You Are Not a Gadget.&quot; One of Lanier&#x27;s points in that book is that technology can both augment expression and bound it. The Like Button is a classic example of bounding because it reduces your thoughts and feelings about a piece of content to a thumbs up, whereas a simple textbox would let you note whatever you want about the content (text is also harder to monetize and analyze and control).<p>I personally have been noticing more and more how technology and algorithms seem to bounding expression online and off, particularly around content creation, but also with influencers and personal branding and so on. It feels like 90% of the shit being pumped out is super amplified to draw notice or for signaling, and while this is not a new phenomenon of course, it still feels weird to see ordinary people at restaurants taking pictures of their food, or sucking up to some corporation online for the chance to win a prize<p>I feel this pressure too. The pressure to get noticed. To tailor content to what will rack of the most views. To post that tweet that will make me look like a smart, funny guy who has something valuable to say and oh by the way you should totally follow me. And I hate it. And I try not to care about numbers. But it still feels really shitty when something you spent a month working on and genuinely find really cool gets a total of ten views while a picture of a goat in a sweater just when viral. And what if the audience is right?<p>There has to be something better. I hope that we can grow beyond changing ourselves to fit the algorithm, and re-focus on using technology to create new ways of sharing and expressing and relating to each other. One fun example of this that Lanier gave: creating technology that would let people communicate like cuttlefish (specifically the shifting skin colors and textures). That optimistic vision still feels as radical and fresh today as it did when I first read the book in 2010. I just hope it&#x27;s not too late</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ILikeConemowk</author><text>&gt;I hope that we can grow beyond changing ourselves to fit the algorithm<p>I personally think you are in for a very rude awakening. This is exactly what people are trying <i>not</i> to do with Machine Learning. It is always, almost, about profiling you, about finding out who you are in order to offer you what you already know, to limit your horizon, to &quot;tailor&quot; your &quot;experience&quot; and the span of possibilities.<p>As a very technical fellow told me: &quot;when you read three political news in a row we set a badge, you are now politically minded.&quot;<p>This, sadly, doesn&#x27;t fit your yearning for us growing &quot;beyond changing ourselves to fit the algorithm.&quot;<p>My prediction is that it will get worst before it gets any better at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form</title><url>https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/04/your-pretty-face-is-going-to-sell/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattbierner</author><text>This post made me want to re-read &quot;You Are Not a Gadget.&quot; One of Lanier&#x27;s points in that book is that technology can both augment expression and bound it. The Like Button is a classic example of bounding because it reduces your thoughts and feelings about a piece of content to a thumbs up, whereas a simple textbox would let you note whatever you want about the content (text is also harder to monetize and analyze and control).<p>I personally have been noticing more and more how technology and algorithms seem to bounding expression online and off, particularly around content creation, but also with influencers and personal branding and so on. It feels like 90% of the shit being pumped out is super amplified to draw notice or for signaling, and while this is not a new phenomenon of course, it still feels weird to see ordinary people at restaurants taking pictures of their food, or sucking up to some corporation online for the chance to win a prize<p>I feel this pressure too. The pressure to get noticed. To tailor content to what will rack of the most views. To post that tweet that will make me look like a smart, funny guy who has something valuable to say and oh by the way you should totally follow me. And I hate it. And I try not to care about numbers. But it still feels really shitty when something you spent a month working on and genuinely find really cool gets a total of ten views while a picture of a goat in a sweater just when viral. And what if the audience is right?<p>There has to be something better. I hope that we can grow beyond changing ourselves to fit the algorithm, and re-focus on using technology to create new ways of sharing and expressing and relating to each other. One fun example of this that Lanier gave: creating technology that would let people communicate like cuttlefish (specifically the shifting skin colors and textures). That optimistic vision still feels as radical and fresh today as it did when I first read the book in 2010. I just hope it&#x27;s not too late</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fiatpandas</author><text>&gt;it still feels weird to see ordinary people<p>For me this is where these YT tropes get interesting. When you get past the thumbnails of the mega channels with multiple full time employees who are obviously doing something very baity and strategic, you’re left with the ordinary channels who mimic these tropes likely without deep consideration or even consciousness.<p>It’s just more of a will to survive kind of thing, and thus an entire ecosystem shapes its own desires by way of unknowingly optimizing for an algorithm which itself is based on honing in on community trends.</text></comment> |
38,340,686 | 38,339,990 | 1 | 3 | 38,338,635 | train | <story><title>Practical Tips for Finetuning LLMs Using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)</title><url>https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/practical-tips-for-finetuning-llms</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kromem</author><text>I&#x27;ve been increasingly wondering if the field considering LLMs as a continuum as opposed to a set of distinct thresholds is leading to erroneous &quot;rules of thumb&quot; as most research on methodology is concentrated in smaller and more accessible model experimentation right now.<p>We generally recognize (nearly ad nauseum) that mouse models of medical research don&#x27;t necessarily translate to humans.<p>Similarly, I&#x27;d imagine most would laugh at the idea that a neurology researcher who found the best way to get a fruit fly&#x27;s brain to navigate a maze should extrapolate that methodology to a dolphin or a chimp&#x27;s brain.<p>Maybe we should be defining &quot;weight classes&quot; for LLMs and grouping research based on those classes. Like &quot;these are the techniques that work best for lightweight models&quot; but not necessarily assuming those as a general rule of thumb for &quot;heavyweight models.&quot;<p>Even something like the discussion of synthetic data on model collapse is a good example of where there might be a very significant difference in the effect on model quality for a cheaper and less sophisticated model generating synthetic data to feed back into itself and a much more complex and sophisticated model. Maybe the lesson is actually &quot;recursive training on synthetic data leads to model collapse <i>in lightweight and medium weight models</i>.&quot;<p>So while the writeup is a great one on fine tuning 7B models with LoRA, I would be curious just what % of the recommendations hold true in replication for even just a 65B model.</text></comment> | <story><title>Practical Tips for Finetuning LLMs Using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)</title><url>https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/practical-tips-for-finetuning-llms</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hkonsti</author><text>LoRA blew me away the first time I looked into it. Especially since you can host many LoRA adapters at once for a fraction of the cost of hosting an entire model by sharing the base between the adapters. I built a little tool to make LoRA fine-tuning easier. The adapters export to Huggingface. You can check it out here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.haven.run">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.haven.run</a></text></comment> |
5,095,568 | 5,095,423 | 1 | 2 | 5,095,296 | train | <story><title>To My Old Master (1865)</title><url>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/to-my-old-master.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gruseom</author><text>The article is a little wrong to link to the Emancipation Proclamation, because Lincoln specifically exempted Tennessee from that. According to the easiest links to dig up on Google [1,2], Tennessee was the only state to free its slaves by popular vote and didn't do so until February 1865, less than six months before Jourdon dictated his letter and certainly well after he had left the farm, since the letter makes clear that was 1864 at the latest. That explains why Anderson (the master) shot at him when he was leaving: he hadn't actually been emancipated yet. What it doesn't explain is how he got his "free papers" in Nashville in 1864. Since Nashville was obviously in Tennessee too, why would he have been any more emancipated there? My bet is it had something to do with joining or supporting the war effort. Tennessee was under Union control.<p>Another thing I didn't know: the Governor of Tennessee at the time was Andrew Johnson, who became president after Lincoln was killed.<p>1. <a href="http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/stories/emancipation" rel="nofollow">http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/stories/emancipation</a> — this web page says it's "for kids"; one wishes all web pages were so informative.<p>2. <a href="http://www.afrigeneas.com/states/tn/" rel="nofollow">http://www.afrigeneas.com/states/tn/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>To My Old Master (1865)</title><url>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/to-my-old-master.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gruseom</author><text>This one is also worth reading. In fact, it's hard to forget.<p><a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/11/wretched-woman.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/11/wretched-woman.html</a></text></comment> |
10,280,053 | 10,279,430 | 1 | 3 | 10,279,030 | train | <story><title>Google voice search: faster and more accurate</title><url>http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/09/google-voice-search-faster-and-more.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buss</author><text>Google voice search also has anaphora, or backreferences to previous searches. For example voice search for &quot;Who was the first president of the United States?&quot; then after you get the result do another voice search for &quot;Who was his vice president?&quot; and Google will infer you are still talking about George Washington.<p>One step closer to conversational interfaces!</text></comment> | <story><title>Google voice search: faster and more accurate</title><url>http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/09/google-voice-search-faster-and-more.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nl</author><text>The paper describing this work: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1507.06947v1.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1507.06947v1.pdf</a><p>They trained on 3 million &quot;utterances&quot; of average duration of 4 seconds. These were distorted by noise to get 20 variations (so the training set was 60 million utterances total).<p>I don&#x27;t understand if these were labeled somehow There&#x27;s a section on clustering into 9287 phones, but it isn&#x27;t clear to me if these were used as labels.</text></comment> |
9,137,924 | 9,137,704 | 1 | 3 | 9,137,515 | train | <story><title>Flexbox in 5 minutes</title><url>http://flexboxin5.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rburhum</author><text>I remember fantasai working really hard looking at her computer a few years ago (in a coworking space at SF). I asked her what she was working on - and she replied &quot;working on css&quot;. I thought she was a front-end dev.<p>6 months later I realized she was working literally on the css flexbox spec, not writing css for a site!<p>Glad this flexbox stuff is picking up. people like her put an insane amount of time and effort to make it come out this way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Flexbox in 5 minutes</title><url>http://flexboxin5.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Igglyboo</author><text>Amazing, I had always heard flexbox being touted as the &quot;next big thing&quot; but it had come across as confusing and obscure. This was a great tutorial and I will definitely be using flexbox in the future.<p>It seems to almost eliminate the need for a grid system a la bootstrap, which is great because I know a lot of people that use bootstrap specifically for the grid system and throw out&#x2F;re implement all of the other parts.</text></comment> |
22,865,451 | 22,863,887 | 1 | 3 | 22,858,752 | train | <story><title>Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet</title><url>https://news.mn/en/791396/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lonesword</author><text>&gt; Every time a language dies, like latin or summerian did, we gain uniformity<p>And that&#x27;s not necessarily a good thing. It is not just a language that dies, but a part of the culture also dies with the language. I do get the appeal of the world having one language, but attaining it at the cost of diversity would be a _big_ price to pay.<p>I speak a southern Indian language called Malayalam (34 million speakers). There are some things that are simply untranslatable to English - these words&#x2F;concepts are closely tied to the way we live. Now if everyone in my town starts speaking only English suddenly, it would definitely affect the way they think[1], function, and would inevitable change the culture. I am not claiming that change is bad, simply arguing that preserving a language might help preserve a culture.<p>[1] IIRC there&#x27;s been some scientific literature on this. I&#x27;ll look it up and edit this post when I get time</text></item><item><author>sametmax</author><text>&gt; Preserving their traditional alphabet and de-colonializing their culture is a good thing, no matter how I look at it<p>There are downsides to any situation. E.G:<p>- cost<p>- available resources for education and work<p>- adding one more obstacles for different cultures to be able to understand each other<p>I&#x27;m french, and in my country, language protection is a big thing.<p>It&#x27;s also why we have such a terrible ability to speak english, which create way more problems than it solves.<p>Language preservation is overrated. Sure, it&#x27;s nice. But compared to one day, having the entire earth speak the same language, be able to communicate and understand each other better? Small price to pay.<p>It get why they do it. Mongolia is a very peculiar culture, and I don&#x27;t think it benefits much from mondialisation. Quite the contrary. And it&#x27;s a way for their society to break from a painful part of their history.<p>But to me, it seems, at least on the long run, a step backward. Every time a language dies, like latin or summerian did, we gain uniformity. There are enough source of diversity in humanity to not need to add it to the very structure we use to exchange information.<p>Granted, the cyrillic alphabet is not very universal, but it is certainly more common than the traditional mongolia alphabet.<p>Now since I don&#x27;t live there, I may be missing some crucial informations. Maybe the population still massively use the old alphabet unofficially and it makes sense. Maybe the use of the cyrillic alphabet brough problems I can&#x27;t see.<p>So of course, I&#x27;m not the right peson to judge the situation.<p>But I wanted to bring a counter point to this the enthusiastic parent comment. We tend to react in a very emotional way when it&#x27;s about culture, and I&#x27;m not sure it benefits our specie.</text></item><item><author>WilTimSon</author><text>UI issues aside, I think this is quite fabulous. Preserving their traditional alphabet and de-colonializing their culture is a good thing, no matter how I look at it. Although I do wonder how easy it will be for the whole nation to switch from one alphabet to another when they&#x27;re so drastically different. I don&#x27;t suppose any Mongolians are here to give their input?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bmn__</author><text>&gt; There are some things that are simply untranslatable to English<p>I&#x27;ve often seen this claim, for all kinds of languages, sometimes even between two standard varieties of a single language. For a particular reason, I like to dig deeper. Invariably, the people making this claim are not very educated in linguistics, so it&#x27;s not wonder this statement comes out wrong. And it is wrong. I challenge them to disprove me with a single counter example, and they are eager to do so. Typically the conversation goes like this:<p>Them: &quot;You see, in my language we have ⅏⁝⏏⌸.&quot;
Me: &quot;And what does it mean?&quot;
Them: &quot;The pain you feel when you stumble around in the dark in drowsy stupor and step onto a plastic construction toy brick with your bare foot.&quot;
Me: &quot;You just translated it perfectly, congratulations.&quot;<p>What they mean is: &quot;there often is not a single corresponding foreign word or phrase for a word or phrase in my language&quot;, and that&#x27;s fine; but very far removed from &quot;untranslatable&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mongolia to restore traditional alphabet</title><url>https://news.mn/en/791396/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lonesword</author><text>&gt; Every time a language dies, like latin or summerian did, we gain uniformity<p>And that&#x27;s not necessarily a good thing. It is not just a language that dies, but a part of the culture also dies with the language. I do get the appeal of the world having one language, but attaining it at the cost of diversity would be a _big_ price to pay.<p>I speak a southern Indian language called Malayalam (34 million speakers). There are some things that are simply untranslatable to English - these words&#x2F;concepts are closely tied to the way we live. Now if everyone in my town starts speaking only English suddenly, it would definitely affect the way they think[1], function, and would inevitable change the culture. I am not claiming that change is bad, simply arguing that preserving a language might help preserve a culture.<p>[1] IIRC there&#x27;s been some scientific literature on this. I&#x27;ll look it up and edit this post when I get time</text></item><item><author>sametmax</author><text>&gt; Preserving their traditional alphabet and de-colonializing their culture is a good thing, no matter how I look at it<p>There are downsides to any situation. E.G:<p>- cost<p>- available resources for education and work<p>- adding one more obstacles for different cultures to be able to understand each other<p>I&#x27;m french, and in my country, language protection is a big thing.<p>It&#x27;s also why we have such a terrible ability to speak english, which create way more problems than it solves.<p>Language preservation is overrated. Sure, it&#x27;s nice. But compared to one day, having the entire earth speak the same language, be able to communicate and understand each other better? Small price to pay.<p>It get why they do it. Mongolia is a very peculiar culture, and I don&#x27;t think it benefits much from mondialisation. Quite the contrary. And it&#x27;s a way for their society to break from a painful part of their history.<p>But to me, it seems, at least on the long run, a step backward. Every time a language dies, like latin or summerian did, we gain uniformity. There are enough source of diversity in humanity to not need to add it to the very structure we use to exchange information.<p>Granted, the cyrillic alphabet is not very universal, but it is certainly more common than the traditional mongolia alphabet.<p>Now since I don&#x27;t live there, I may be missing some crucial informations. Maybe the population still massively use the old alphabet unofficially and it makes sense. Maybe the use of the cyrillic alphabet brough problems I can&#x27;t see.<p>So of course, I&#x27;m not the right peson to judge the situation.<p>But I wanted to bring a counter point to this the enthusiastic parent comment. We tend to react in a very emotional way when it&#x27;s about culture, and I&#x27;m not sure it benefits our specie.</text></item><item><author>WilTimSon</author><text>UI issues aside, I think this is quite fabulous. Preserving their traditional alphabet and de-colonializing their culture is a good thing, no matter how I look at it. Although I do wonder how easy it will be for the whole nation to switch from one alphabet to another when they&#x27;re so drastically different. I don&#x27;t suppose any Mongolians are here to give their input?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>billfruit</author><text>Yes, but this is about script. Some languages like Turkish and Vietnamese are doing fine adopting the foreign Latin script as Languages.<p>Sometimes people want&#x2F;demand change in the direction of modernity too. I think during 1911 revolution in China, the people were really fed up with the system in place for centuries that they wanted it totally rid off; there was very serious discussion about adopting Esperanto as the language of the new republic.</text></comment> |
13,896,843 | 13,897,142 | 1 | 3 | 13,893,870 | train | <story><title> Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/oxford-comma-lawsuit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eranation</author><text>Why on earth not to use programming language like constructs to write legal documents.<p>No compiler or anyone who can read code ever had any ambiguity reading simple code.<p>let overtime_allowed = true unless (action in [canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing_for (shipment or distribution)] of [Agricultural produce, Meat and fish products, Perishable foods])</text></item><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>The title of this HN post, like nearly every headline I&#x27;ve seen for this lawsuit, is misleading. The headlines makes it seem as if the company forgot an Oxford comma and is now losing millions as a result of having made a typographical error.<p>This is not the case. There is a statute that does not have a comma where one might be, and the litigants fought over whether the lack of a comma toward the end of a list ought to be read in light of the Oxford comma convention or not.<p>And it&#x27;s actually more complicated, as the last item in the list is (potentially) compound, which makes it difficult to tell whether the &quot;and&quot; is to be attached to the final element alone, or to be a binding of the final element and previous elements.<p>Not that this its uncommon for articles to have misleading headlines, but I&#x27;ve been surprised at the extent to which nearly every article (save this one [1], by the ever-precise law professors at the Volokh Conspiracy) have misrepresented the case (or misunderstood it?) to make it seem like a company&#x27;s typo led to a million dollar loss.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;volokh-conspiracy&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;a-b-or-c-vs-a-b-or-c-the-serial-comma-and-the-law&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;volokh-conspiracy&#x2F;wp&#x2F;201...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m3ta</author><text>Ethereum tried this, and a bug in the code lead to millions of dollars of value lost. They ended up hard-forking the code by changing it to match the intended outcome of the code, thus reversing the actual outcome of the execution of that code.<p>Eventually you&#x27;ll have millions of lines of code, and within those millions of lines of code there will be a bug. It&#x27;s no different than writing a legal contract in English. In both cases you can only do your best to make sure there is no misunderstanding or undefined behavior, but there is always a possibility that at some point someone will find a flaw and exploit it.</text></comment> | <story><title> Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/oxford-comma-lawsuit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eranation</author><text>Why on earth not to use programming language like constructs to write legal documents.<p>No compiler or anyone who can read code ever had any ambiguity reading simple code.<p>let overtime_allowed = true unless (action in [canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing_for (shipment or distribution)] of [Agricultural produce, Meat and fish products, Perishable foods])</text></item><item><author>gnicholas</author><text>The title of this HN post, like nearly every headline I&#x27;ve seen for this lawsuit, is misleading. The headlines makes it seem as if the company forgot an Oxford comma and is now losing millions as a result of having made a typographical error.<p>This is not the case. There is a statute that does not have a comma where one might be, and the litigants fought over whether the lack of a comma toward the end of a list ought to be read in light of the Oxford comma convention or not.<p>And it&#x27;s actually more complicated, as the last item in the list is (potentially) compound, which makes it difficult to tell whether the &quot;and&quot; is to be attached to the final element alone, or to be a binding of the final element and previous elements.<p>Not that this its uncommon for articles to have misleading headlines, but I&#x27;ve been surprised at the extent to which nearly every article (save this one [1], by the ever-precise law professors at the Volokh Conspiracy) have misrepresented the case (or misunderstood it?) to make it seem like a company&#x27;s typo led to a million dollar loss.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;volokh-conspiracy&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;15&#x2F;a-b-or-c-vs-a-b-or-c-the-serial-comma-and-the-law&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;volokh-conspiracy&#x2F;wp&#x2F;201...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>berberous</author><text>This is just as easy to write in English without ambiguity:<p>the (i) canning, (ii) processing, (iii) preserving, (iv) freezing, (v) drying, (vi) marketing, (vii) storing, (viii) packing for shipment or (ix) distribution of: .....</text></comment> |
14,133,357 | 14,132,844 | 1 | 3 | 14,131,604 | train | <story><title>How the Airlines Became Cartels</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/opinion/how-the-airlines-became-abusive-cartels.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>closeparen</author><text>But we aren&#x27;t given the option to pay a proportionally higher fare for proportionally higher quality. Higher fare classes aren&#x27;t +20%, +30%, they&#x27;re 3x, 4x, 10x.<p>There are &quot;I only shop on price&quot; seats and &quot;money is no object&quot; seats. I wish we had more of a middle, beyond the usual +$150 for an exit row or +$100 for a regular economy seat, but in the forward half of the plane.</text></item><item><author>mikeash</author><text>As usual, people don&#x27;t know their own desires.<p>Ask people what makes them choose an airline and they&#x27;ll probably tell you a tale about reputation, service, legroom, amenities, what have you.<p>Now stick them in front of a computer and tell them to buy a ticket with their own money and watch them pick the cheapest option regardless of the rest.<p>It&#x27;s a race to the bottom because that&#x27;s what people really want. When the rubber meets the road, most people <i>want</i> a horrible, cheap experience.<p>Why do airlines overbook flights? Because people would rather save $5 with a chance of being bumped than pay a little extra.<p>Obviously, we&#x27;d all love direct flights with sixteen feet of legroom, a hundred free checked bags, gourmet meals, free access to a library of every movie and TV show ever made, and for a price of $3.50. But that&#x27;s not going to happen, because amenities cost money. When we&#x27;re faced with the tradeoff, we favor low prices.<p>Once I truly realized this, I became a lot less annoyed with many airline shenanigans. Yeah, it&#x27;s pretty annoying that as a tall guy I barely fit into the seat. But it&#x27;s what I paid for. If it was <i>that</i> important to me, I could pay extra for more space. I don&#x27;t, because, like most people, I prefer cheapness above all else.<p>You can get a much nicer experience if you pay for it. If you don&#x27;t feel like paying for it, then what are you complaining about?<p>Not particularly related, but this line from the article caught my eye:<p>&quot;It makes no sense to allow airlines to charge an astronomical fare just because a flight is nearly full, and a dirt-cheap fare for an advance booking.&quot;<p>What planet is this guy from? Of course it makes sense to charge high fares for a scarce product in high demand, and low fares for an abundant product in low demand.</text></item><item><author>joelrunyon</author><text>Southwest has a fundamentally different business model involving standardized fleet sizes &amp; limited routing. Plus, if he&#x27;s complaining about stopovers + layovers, Southwest has these on almost every flight.<p>He&#x27;s stating a lot of things that <i>would</i> be nice, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of people still fly Spirit Airlines - despite their constant low ratings - because it&#x27;s costs $50 bucks.<p>The real discussion should be about fare transparency as a bunch of airlines are rolling out basic economy fares that don&#x27;t include food, limit space even further and don&#x27;t accrue points, etc. Instead of making a new, nicer tier class, they&#x27;re taking away items from the basic economy fares and maintaining the same pricing.[1][2]<p>The fact that none of these pieces are talking about this makes me think these are outrage opinion articles by talking heads rather than people who regularly fly<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepointsguy.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;is-basic-economy-really-a-deal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepointsguy.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;is-basic-economy-really-a-d...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepointsguy.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;united-selling-basic-economy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepointsguy.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;united-selling-basic-econom...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnopgnip</author><text>You don&#x27;t need to be in first class for a better flight experience. You can book with another airline that has better accommodations or get a seat with more room like comfort plus for just a little more.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the Airlines Became Cartels</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/opinion/how-the-airlines-became-abusive-cartels.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>closeparen</author><text>But we aren&#x27;t given the option to pay a proportionally higher fare for proportionally higher quality. Higher fare classes aren&#x27;t +20%, +30%, they&#x27;re 3x, 4x, 10x.<p>There are &quot;I only shop on price&quot; seats and &quot;money is no object&quot; seats. I wish we had more of a middle, beyond the usual +$150 for an exit row or +$100 for a regular economy seat, but in the forward half of the plane.</text></item><item><author>mikeash</author><text>As usual, people don&#x27;t know their own desires.<p>Ask people what makes them choose an airline and they&#x27;ll probably tell you a tale about reputation, service, legroom, amenities, what have you.<p>Now stick them in front of a computer and tell them to buy a ticket with their own money and watch them pick the cheapest option regardless of the rest.<p>It&#x27;s a race to the bottom because that&#x27;s what people really want. When the rubber meets the road, most people <i>want</i> a horrible, cheap experience.<p>Why do airlines overbook flights? Because people would rather save $5 with a chance of being bumped than pay a little extra.<p>Obviously, we&#x27;d all love direct flights with sixteen feet of legroom, a hundred free checked bags, gourmet meals, free access to a library of every movie and TV show ever made, and for a price of $3.50. But that&#x27;s not going to happen, because amenities cost money. When we&#x27;re faced with the tradeoff, we favor low prices.<p>Once I truly realized this, I became a lot less annoyed with many airline shenanigans. Yeah, it&#x27;s pretty annoying that as a tall guy I barely fit into the seat. But it&#x27;s what I paid for. If it was <i>that</i> important to me, I could pay extra for more space. I don&#x27;t, because, like most people, I prefer cheapness above all else.<p>You can get a much nicer experience if you pay for it. If you don&#x27;t feel like paying for it, then what are you complaining about?<p>Not particularly related, but this line from the article caught my eye:<p>&quot;It makes no sense to allow airlines to charge an astronomical fare just because a flight is nearly full, and a dirt-cheap fare for an advance booking.&quot;<p>What planet is this guy from? Of course it makes sense to charge high fares for a scarce product in high demand, and low fares for an abundant product in low demand.</text></item><item><author>joelrunyon</author><text>Southwest has a fundamentally different business model involving standardized fleet sizes &amp; limited routing. Plus, if he&#x27;s complaining about stopovers + layovers, Southwest has these on almost every flight.<p>He&#x27;s stating a lot of things that <i>would</i> be nice, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of people still fly Spirit Airlines - despite their constant low ratings - because it&#x27;s costs $50 bucks.<p>The real discussion should be about fare transparency as a bunch of airlines are rolling out basic economy fares that don&#x27;t include food, limit space even further and don&#x27;t accrue points, etc. Instead of making a new, nicer tier class, they&#x27;re taking away items from the basic economy fares and maintaining the same pricing.[1][2]<p>The fact that none of these pieces are talking about this makes me think these are outrage opinion articles by talking heads rather than people who regularly fly<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepointsguy.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;is-basic-economy-really-a-deal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepointsguy.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;is-basic-economy-really-a-d...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepointsguy.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;united-selling-basic-economy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepointsguy.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;united-selling-basic-econom...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheGRS</author><text>There&#x27;s another wrinkle with buying plane tickets: they fluctuate, seemingly at random, on a daily basis. Apparently its now better to call up the airline directly than to buy online because the prices are so unpredictable. I&#x27;ll watch a flight on Google Flights oftentimes and watch as it goes up $100 one day, down $200 another day. It makes shopping between carriers very difficult.</text></comment> |
24,884,212 | 24,884,121 | 1 | 3 | 24,882,921 | train | <story><title>YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdamJacobMuller</author><text>This is hilarious, well done.<p>I realized something while :+1:-ing your PR: I was thinking about how digg deleted my account over posting the AACS key, I really couldn&#x27;t care less if Microsoft deleted my account over it.<p>Very interesting considering that even just 2 years ago I never would have done this for fear of my account being deleted. All of my work and personal projects are moved to gitlab (the CI&#x2F;Kubernetes&#x2F;etc integration are just too good to pass up).<p>I know a sample size of 1 has an effectively 100% error rate, but, I think Microsoft is losing mindshare with GitHub. Stuff like this doesn&#x27;t help. I could see a small company like GitLab needing to toe the DMCA line, but, Microsoft has the deep pockets and could have built some major community will here by handling this better. Unfortunate that they didn&#x27;t.<p>Anyway, fun hack, I wonder how long it will last, or will they merge it? It must be the most approved PR in GitHub history at this point!</text></item><item><author>Stephen304</author><text>Heh, I didn&#x27;t expect to get much attention for this. I thought it would be funny to push a merge commit between the 2 repo&#x27;s latest commits. As a result, the git history is accessible from the dmca repo if you know the commit hashes. Since I didn&#x27;t rebase, all the commit hashes were preserved with signatures. Another fun discovery is that deleting my fork of github&#x2F;dmca didn&#x27;t affect the PR like I thought it would, so it seems a mirror of youtube-dl&#x27;s commits are stuck in the ether until GH deletes my PR and garbage collects the repo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>echelon</author><text>Microsoft is losing the good will they&#x27;ve worked so hard to rebuild.<p>Microsoft employees, managers, Satya: do you see what you&#x27;re doing? I love the direction you&#x27;ve taken over the past five years, but bowing to the RIAA and attempting to disrupt an innocuous tool are horrible decisions. It&#x27;s a chilling note, and everyone involved in tech can hear it.<p>Are you telling us Github is not a safe place to develop software anymore? Because I&#x27;ll believe it and go elsewhere.<p>Siding with the RIAA and bringing engineers&#x27; Github accounts into compliance will tell us who your real customers and allies are.<p>Don&#x27;t side with regressive legal trolls that bring zero benefit to the world.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdamJacobMuller</author><text>This is hilarious, well done.<p>I realized something while :+1:-ing your PR: I was thinking about how digg deleted my account over posting the AACS key, I really couldn&#x27;t care less if Microsoft deleted my account over it.<p>Very interesting considering that even just 2 years ago I never would have done this for fear of my account being deleted. All of my work and personal projects are moved to gitlab (the CI&#x2F;Kubernetes&#x2F;etc integration are just too good to pass up).<p>I know a sample size of 1 has an effectively 100% error rate, but, I think Microsoft is losing mindshare with GitHub. Stuff like this doesn&#x27;t help. I could see a small company like GitLab needing to toe the DMCA line, but, Microsoft has the deep pockets and could have built some major community will here by handling this better. Unfortunate that they didn&#x27;t.<p>Anyway, fun hack, I wonder how long it will last, or will they merge it? It must be the most approved PR in GitHub history at this point!</text></item><item><author>Stephen304</author><text>Heh, I didn&#x27;t expect to get much attention for this. I thought it would be funny to push a merge commit between the 2 repo&#x27;s latest commits. As a result, the git history is accessible from the dmca repo if you know the commit hashes. Since I didn&#x27;t rebase, all the commit hashes were preserved with signatures. Another fun discovery is that deleting my fork of github&#x2F;dmca didn&#x27;t affect the PR like I thought it would, so it seems a mirror of youtube-dl&#x27;s commits are stuck in the ether until GH deletes my PR and garbage collects the repo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nimbius</author><text>&gt;I think Microsoft is losing mindshare with GitHub.<p>You&#x27;re not wrong. Sure, the cloudflare browser checks and antibot pages on gitlab are aggravating, but there are a litany of documented reasons people are walking away from Microsofts latest acquisition. maybe the biggest one is the ICE contract they ardently refused to back out of.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GitHub#Controversies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GitHub#Controversies</a><p>Its also pretty obvious MS doesnt check any of these DMCA claims, and just rubber stamps the commits with an insulting and sterile &quot;Process DMCA request&quot; commit msg.<p>gitea and github both host splendidly inside kubernetes or standalone.</text></comment> |
26,633,949 | 26,634,003 | 1 | 2 | 26,633,038 | train | <story><title>Breakthrough for ‘massless’ energy storage</title><url>https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/ims/news/Pages/Big-breakthrough-for-’massless’-energy-storage.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>&quot;Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions&quot;<p>It&#x27;s 10 times more everything, just like every other battery breakthrough in the last several decades. AND, you get to use it as a building material?<p>- Sounds too good to be true: Check<p>- Sounds like every other &quot;big&quot; breakthrough: Check<p>- Article light on science and heavy on assertions: Check<p>- Skepticism engaged: Check</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rzwitserloot</author><text>It may really be 10x, but you&#x27;ve mischaracterized what the paper is claiming a 10x breakthrough for. In fairness, the linked article is light on the specifics.<p>The claim is:<p>__This battery holds 10x more charge per kilo of material than previous attempts at STRUCTURAL (massless) battery materials__.<p>To be specific, this material holds only _ONE FIFTH_ the charge of what your smartphone&#x27;s battery can hold per kilo of battery. No laws of thermodynamics is being broken and this is not at all about battery chemistry. It&#x27;s all about the &#x27;physics&#x27; of construction materials: About how this stuff is made in the factory and layered. The basic battery chemistry going on is not much different from what&#x27;s been available for years - the interesting part is how this material encases it.<p>You can&#x27;t make a car by building the chassis out of smartphone batteries. But the promise of this paper is that you CAN build the car chassis out of this battery, and even if this battery is only 20% as effective, a car chassis is rather large, and you needed it anyway, so every drop of power you can store in the chassis itself was effectively &#x27;free&#x27; - hence the somewhat hyperbolous &#x27;massless&#x27; terminology.</text></comment> | <story><title>Breakthrough for ‘massless’ energy storage</title><url>https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/ims/news/Pages/Big-breakthrough-for-’massless’-energy-storage.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>&quot;Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions&quot;<p>It&#x27;s 10 times more everything, just like every other battery breakthrough in the last several decades. AND, you get to use it as a building material?<p>- Sounds too good to be true: Check<p>- Sounds like every other &quot;big&quot; breakthrough: Check<p>- Article light on science and heavy on assertions: Check<p>- Skepticism engaged: Check</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DebtDeflation</author><text>Even the term &quot;massless&quot; is kind of silly. &quot;Structural&quot; should be sufficiently descriptive as most people can infer that if you build the structure out of the material you don&#x27;t incur any ADDITIONAL weight penalty for the battery (assuming the mass&#x2F;strength characteristics of the battery are similar to other structural material).</text></comment> |
14,043,319 | 14,042,518 | 1 | 2 | 14,041,367 | train | <story><title>Grid Garden – A game for learning CSS grid</title><url>http://cssgridgarden.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajross</author><text>Immediate learnings from the first 3 exercises:<p>1. Grid columns and rows are 1 indexed instead of 0, ensuring a coming decade of mistakes due to the mismatch with Javascript (and, y&#x27;know, everything else) conventions for arrays.<p>2. Grid extents use the &quot;one more than end&quot; convention instead of &quot;length&quot;, which is sorta confusing. But then they call it &quot;end&quot;, which is even more so.<p>(edit) more:<p>3. grid-area&#x27;s four arguments are, in order (using normal cartesian conventions to show how insane this is): y0 &#x2F; x0 &#x2F; y1 &#x2F; x1. Has any API anywhere ever tried to specify a rectangle like this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baby</author><text>Yup, doesn&#x27;t make any sense to me. I think this API would have been better:<p>* grid-column-index-start<p>* grid-column-index-end<p>* grid-column-length<p>PS: I have to say though that this grid thing is fucking awesome, and this game to learn this grid thing is fucking amazing as well.<p>I&#x27;ve being coding HTML since 2001, and have started using CSS in 2005. I can say that I&#x27;ve been dearly missing tables until now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Grid Garden – A game for learning CSS grid</title><url>http://cssgridgarden.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajross</author><text>Immediate learnings from the first 3 exercises:<p>1. Grid columns and rows are 1 indexed instead of 0, ensuring a coming decade of mistakes due to the mismatch with Javascript (and, y&#x27;know, everything else) conventions for arrays.<p>2. Grid extents use the &quot;one more than end&quot; convention instead of &quot;length&quot;, which is sorta confusing. But then they call it &quot;end&quot;, which is even more so.<p>(edit) more:<p>3. grid-area&#x27;s four arguments are, in order (using normal cartesian conventions to show how insane this is): y0 &#x2F; x0 &#x2F; y1 &#x2F; x1. Has any API anywhere ever tried to specify a rectangle like this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wnevets</author><text>&gt; Grid columns and rows are 1 indexed instead of 0, ensuring a coming decade of mistakes due to the mismatch with Javascript (and, y&#x27;know, everything else) conventions for arrays<p>but consistent with the rest of CSS IIRC, for example nth-child starts at one</text></comment> |
24,683,570 | 24,683,210 | 1 | 2 | 24,682,907 | train | <story><title>Taxpayers may have to pay $280B in plugging costs for oil and gas wells</title><url>https://carbontracker.org/taxpayers-may-have-to-pay-280-billion-in-onshore-plugging-costs-for-oil-and-gas-wells/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrnobody_67</author><text>Negative externalities born by the public, but profits go to shareholders.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlarocco</author><text>If we had a working government, we&#x27;d raise their taxes and add registration fees to cover the costs.<p>In our actual government, though, their lobbiests would kill that immediately.</text></comment> | <story><title>Taxpayers may have to pay $280B in plugging costs for oil and gas wells</title><url>https://carbontracker.org/taxpayers-may-have-to-pay-280-billion-in-onshore-plugging-costs-for-oil-and-gas-wells/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrnobody_67</author><text>Negative externalities born by the public, but profits go to shareholders.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhh__</author><text>Exactly, I really hope a coalition can form (around the world) between all opposed to this kind of policy (be they capitalists, anti-capitalists etc.). These corrupt distortions will kill the planet and harm the west.</text></comment> |
34,171,693 | 34,171,643 | 1 | 3 | 34,171,236 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News?</title><text>How much cost to run Hacker News monthly?<p>These costs could be cloud costs as well as any engineers assigned to upkeep.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pifm_guy</author><text>Buuut... The Aws+kubernetes approach is very scalable.<p>If overnight, HN became the new Facebook, the single server model wouldn&#x27;t work, and the business opportunity would be lost.<p>However, the kubernetes model probably would scale (probably with a few hiccups still, but doable), and HN would suddenly be a 100x business.<p><i>That</i> is why business leaders pick the more expensive &#x27;best practice&#x27; setup.</text></item><item><author>sph</author><text>I wonder how much it would cost to run if it were designed and run with 2022 modern best practices of Kubernetes, Helm, Node + React, on a fleet of cattle servers hosted on AWS, paired with expensive add-on services because running PostgreSQL is too hard.<p>The cynic in me says it would cost at least 10x that, require a full time team of 5 devops, and we&#x27;d suffer at the very least the same amount of outages, if not worse.</text></item><item><author>nabaraz</author><text>I believe it still runs on one box. Xeon E5-3567 (3.5Ghz). Stack is FREEBSD with nginx as front-end.<p>From a quick look at M5 hosting price, cost is probably $500-$1000&#x2F;month (6M requests).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sph</author><text>Reading your comment and the answers, I have a hard time telling if you&#x27;re being ironic or serious here. I&#x27;m going to be charitable and assume yours is some very sharp wit that flew over the heads of some that replied to you :)<p>Indeed it is a terrible idea to optimise any piece of software that&#x27;s put online in the rare occurrence it becomes the next Facebook. No, it will not happen overnight. No, you can run on an autoscalable k8s on AWS setup and it will still break, you will have to completely re-architecture and write a lengthy &quot;what went wrong&quot; post-mortem anyway.<p>I feel the <i>&quot;premature optimisation is the root of all evil&quot;</i> mantra is not yet being taught in DevOps school.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How much does it cost to run Hacker News?</title><text>How much cost to run Hacker News monthly?<p>These costs could be cloud costs as well as any engineers assigned to upkeep.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pifm_guy</author><text>Buuut... The Aws+kubernetes approach is very scalable.<p>If overnight, HN became the new Facebook, the single server model wouldn&#x27;t work, and the business opportunity would be lost.<p>However, the kubernetes model probably would scale (probably with a few hiccups still, but doable), and HN would suddenly be a 100x business.<p><i>That</i> is why business leaders pick the more expensive &#x27;best practice&#x27; setup.</text></item><item><author>sph</author><text>I wonder how much it would cost to run if it were designed and run with 2022 modern best practices of Kubernetes, Helm, Node + React, on a fleet of cattle servers hosted on AWS, paired with expensive add-on services because running PostgreSQL is too hard.<p>The cynic in me says it would cost at least 10x that, require a full time team of 5 devops, and we&#x27;d suffer at the very least the same amount of outages, if not worse.</text></item><item><author>nabaraz</author><text>I believe it still runs on one box. Xeon E5-3567 (3.5Ghz). Stack is FREEBSD with nginx as front-end.<p>From a quick look at M5 hosting price, cost is probably $500-$1000&#x2F;month (6M requests).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>I like it that HN has a built-in protection against an eternal September :)</text></comment> |
28,594,655 | 28,593,951 | 1 | 2 | 28,592,683 | train | <story><title>Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People (2020)</title><url>https://staysaasy.com/engineering/2020/06/09/Don%27t-Joke.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>Off topic. Do firings come out of the blue though? I was a VP for a while (not anymore) - but when the person I had to fire was about to get fired, they KNEW it as soon as the door opened. Firing someone is the worst experience ever - the only reason I had to fire someone was because WE screwed up in the interview process.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>That&#x27;s excellent advice that many have learned the hard way...<p>Honestly even as a non-manager it&#x27;s a very bad idea. When I was a junior one of my colleagues was called to the manager&#x27;s office. I assumed it would be for some mundane project scheduling or whatever, so I jokingly said &quot;you&#x27;re getting fired&quot; as he was going there. And he was.<p>This is one of these memories that come back to haunt you late at night when you&#x27;re trying to sleep...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>&gt; the only reason I had to fire someone was because WE screwed up in the interview process.<p>This is a very important realization. Firing someone is bad all around. They lose their job, they probably quit another job to join, they feel shame&#x27; etc. For the company: you not only need to go hire someone but the person you fired was probably not productive so it’s a double whammy. And you didn’t manage to somehow (if it was even possible) give this person what they needed to succeed. Bad bad bad all around. Hiring someone is a responsibility not only to the company but to them; terminating someone who can’t be productive is the right thing to do but is the company’s failure.<p>The converse to the “don’t joke about firing someone” is, when firing someone don’t mention how you feel about it; also be unambiguous and don’t accidentally give false hope.</text></comment> | <story><title>Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People (2020)</title><url>https://staysaasy.com/engineering/2020/06/09/Don%27t-Joke.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ransom1538</author><text>Off topic. Do firings come out of the blue though? I was a VP for a while (not anymore) - but when the person I had to fire was about to get fired, they KNEW it as soon as the door opened. Firing someone is the worst experience ever - the only reason I had to fire someone was because WE screwed up in the interview process.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>That&#x27;s excellent advice that many have learned the hard way...<p>Honestly even as a non-manager it&#x27;s a very bad idea. When I was a junior one of my colleagues was called to the manager&#x27;s office. I assumed it would be for some mundane project scheduling or whatever, so I jokingly said &quot;you&#x27;re getting fired&quot; as he was going there. And he was.<p>This is one of these memories that come back to haunt you late at night when you&#x27;re trying to sleep...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>indigochill</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen a couple of mass layoffs. How much you see that coming can be a function of how close to the decision-making you are and how familiar you are with the process. As I&#x27;ve advanced, I&#x27;ve progressively seen it coming farther out. But the first one was totally out of the blue to me.<p>Individual firings seem a bit more predictable.</text></comment> |
14,363,935 | 14,362,010 | 1 | 2 | 14,356,930 | train | <story><title>How the wrong cat litter took down a nuclear waste repository</title><url>https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i20/wrong-cat-litter-took-down.html?h=-472621416</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mchannon</author><text>Missing from this article is the most fascinating thing about this story- why someone thought it was a good idea to make the cat litter substitution that made this whole mess possible.<p>In Los Alamos, those charged with repackaging the waste were hearing a speech by an expert on the matter. The expert warned they should be using &quot;INorganic cat litter&quot;, which they already were. What a member of the group heard was &quot;AN organic cat litter&quot;.<p>The two look very different in print, but when spoken, they&#x27;re often indistinguishable to a non-chemist. When the discussion made its way to memos and emails, the die was cast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inopinatus</author><text>Well, then, perhaps the key problem here is that the people charged with packaging nuclear waste were not experts in packaging nuclear waste.<p>For some reason I&#x27;m reminded of a recent visit to Takashimaya, a department store in Tokyo. After making a purchase, the checkout operator asked me (in perfectly clear English, for which she unnecessarily apologised) if I would like it wrapped. I said yes (this was a gift). I was directed down the hall to another desk staffed entirely by a team that had apparently been doing nothing for the last eighty years but perfect the art of swiftly and flawlessly packaging objects in attractive wrapping paper.<p>edit: watch here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=b6ltgrxioeQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=b6ltgrxioeQ</a><p>I have a feeling there are lessons here for the packaging of software, both from the nuclear waste story and the Japanese gift wrap.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the wrong cat litter took down a nuclear waste repository</title><url>https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i20/wrong-cat-litter-took-down.html?h=-472621416</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mchannon</author><text>Missing from this article is the most fascinating thing about this story- why someone thought it was a good idea to make the cat litter substitution that made this whole mess possible.<p>In Los Alamos, those charged with repackaging the waste were hearing a speech by an expert on the matter. The expert warned they should be using &quot;INorganic cat litter&quot;, which they already were. What a member of the group heard was &quot;AN organic cat litter&quot;.<p>The two look very different in print, but when spoken, they&#x27;re often indistinguishable to a non-chemist. When the discussion made its way to memos and emails, the die was cast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lowbloodsugar</author><text>How is &quot;kitty litter&quot; even a reasonable specification at all? We&#x27;re dealing with nuclear waste but with less rigor than my car mechanic putting the right oil in my car?</text></comment> |
18,847,640 | 18,847,342 | 1 | 3 | 18,845,205 | train | <story><title>Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets</title><url>https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajvs</author><text>Have you not seen Steam Play these last few months? Because of Proton the majority of the top 250 highest rated games now run fine on Linux.<p>I&#x27;ve been playing Skyrim, Witcher 3, Dark Souls 3, Castle Crashers, Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, etc all of which are Windows-only but now WINE is so good it runs like it&#x27;s native.<p>Linux gaming doesn&#x27;t suck anymore and it&#x27;s coming to eat Windows lunch. Check out ProtonDB to see compatibility with your favourite games and the Linux gaming subreddit for more news.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>Technically speaking I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;re right. In practice it doesn&#x27;t really matter though, if they did it that way it&#x27;s either because it was easier or because that&#x27;s the way they were used to doing it. The fact that &quot;technically&quot; it&#x27;s not Linux&#x27;s fault doesn&#x27;t really matter, unless you&#x27;re more interested in the moral concept of guilt rather that the practicalities of making a Linux port of a game.<p>Why should they change the way they develop games for 0.1% of their sales? So that they&#x27;d get kudo &quot;clean code&quot; points from people on HN? Most for-profit software cares very little about that, and for good reasons.<p>Gaming on Linux sucks because Linux is not popular for gaming. Linux is not popular for gaming because gaming on Linux sucks. That&#x27;s the root of the issue.</text></item><item><author>rkido</author><text>Linux is the perpetual scapegoat.<p>They selected a middleware, Coherent UI, that didn&#x27;t work properly on anything but Windows. They also didn&#x27;t make proper use of the Steam runtime, a mistake that continues to cause issues. Most games don&#x27;t make these mistakes, so this isn&#x27;t really representative of the larger state of Linux gaming.<p>It&#x27;s worth pointing out that the devs did make a legitimately good attempt at making Linux&#x2F;Mac support first class, by making a purely OpenGL engine for the game. But it seems they weren&#x27;t aware of some other best practices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NicoJuicy</author><text>You know WINE exists 25 years though. During this time, Windows still has 95% market share ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;hwsurvey" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;hwsurvey</a> )<p>You could also think that, because of WINE, Windows is first class and then they check Linux with Wine.<p>Depends on the perspective.<p>PS. Yes, steam detects Wine</text></comment> | <story><title>Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets</title><url>https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajvs</author><text>Have you not seen Steam Play these last few months? Because of Proton the majority of the top 250 highest rated games now run fine on Linux.<p>I&#x27;ve been playing Skyrim, Witcher 3, Dark Souls 3, Castle Crashers, Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, etc all of which are Windows-only but now WINE is so good it runs like it&#x27;s native.<p>Linux gaming doesn&#x27;t suck anymore and it&#x27;s coming to eat Windows lunch. Check out ProtonDB to see compatibility with your favourite games and the Linux gaming subreddit for more news.</text></item><item><author>simias</author><text>Technically speaking I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;re right. In practice it doesn&#x27;t really matter though, if they did it that way it&#x27;s either because it was easier or because that&#x27;s the way they were used to doing it. The fact that &quot;technically&quot; it&#x27;s not Linux&#x27;s fault doesn&#x27;t really matter, unless you&#x27;re more interested in the moral concept of guilt rather that the practicalities of making a Linux port of a game.<p>Why should they change the way they develop games for 0.1% of their sales? So that they&#x27;d get kudo &quot;clean code&quot; points from people on HN? Most for-profit software cares very little about that, and for good reasons.<p>Gaming on Linux sucks because Linux is not popular for gaming. Linux is not popular for gaming because gaming on Linux sucks. That&#x27;s the root of the issue.</text></item><item><author>rkido</author><text>Linux is the perpetual scapegoat.<p>They selected a middleware, Coherent UI, that didn&#x27;t work properly on anything but Windows. They also didn&#x27;t make proper use of the Steam runtime, a mistake that continues to cause issues. Most games don&#x27;t make these mistakes, so this isn&#x27;t really representative of the larger state of Linux gaming.<p>It&#x27;s worth pointing out that the devs did make a legitimately good attempt at making Linux&#x2F;Mac support first class, by making a purely OpenGL engine for the game. But it seems they weren&#x27;t aware of some other best practices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>selectodude</author><text>Why should I get excited about decent compatibility when I can stick with perfect compatibility? Linux gaming doesn&#x27;t suck compared to linux gaming 5 years ago. It&#x27;s still crap compared to Windows.</text></comment> |
6,798,564 | 6,798,630 | 1 | 2 | 6,798,449 | train | <story><title>Libsass – C implementation of a Sass compiler</title><url>https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hcatlin</author><text>Wow, didn&#x27;t expect to see this at the top of HN. Thanks kudo for promoting the project!<p>Aaron Leung and I have been working on this for a while. I&#x27;m the original creator of Sass and Aaron is a badass computer linguist. Hoping to announce some big new features around the end of the year.<p>Official site is at: <a href="http://libsass.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;libsass.org</a>
Or, follow us on Twitter for more updates: @hcatlin &amp; @akhleung</text></comment> | <story><title>Libsass – C implementation of a Sass compiler</title><url>https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danenania</author><text>This is great as compilation in ruby really is painfully slow for anything substantial, but I wonder about the choice of an independent project vs. forking the ruby compiler and optimizing the bottlenecks with C extensions. Might that allow you to fix the most serious issues without having to worry about maintaining feature parity in a completely separate code base?<p>In any case, nice work. I look forward to trying it out in my next project.</text></comment> |
32,443,785 | 32,442,791 | 1 | 2 | 32,438,368 | train | <story><title>Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer</title><url>https://www.insider.com/study-confirms-link-between-forever-chemicals-and-liver-cancer-risk-2022-8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Synaesthesia</author><text>I just read that rainwater around the world is unsafe to drink because of PFAS contamination.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals...</a></text></item><item><author>oldstrangers</author><text>They&#x27;re finding PFAS in everything now.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumerreports.org&#x2F;bottled-water&#x2F;pfas-in-bottled-water-new-study-finds-a1111233122&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumerreports.org&#x2F;bottled-water&#x2F;pfas-in-bottle...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;m7gban&#x2F;rainwater-everywhere-now-considered-too-toxic-for-safe-consumption-study-finds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;m7gban&#x2F;rainwater-everywhere-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dcourier.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;aug&#x2F;11&#x2F;prescott-valley-shuts-down-4-wells-after-positive-&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dcourier.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;aug&#x2F;11&#x2F;prescott-valley-sh...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IshKebab</author><text>&gt; However, Cousins noted that PFAS levels in people have actually dropped &quot;quite significantly in the last 20 years&quot; and &quot;ambient levels (of PFAS in the environment) have been the same for the past 20 years&quot;.<p>&gt; &quot;What&#x27;s changed is the guidelines. They&#x27;ve gone down millions of times since the early 2000s, because we&#x27;ve learned more about the toxicity of these substances.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer</title><url>https://www.insider.com/study-confirms-link-between-forever-chemicals-and-liver-cancer-risk-2022-8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Synaesthesia</author><text>I just read that rainwater around the world is unsafe to drink because of PFAS contamination.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals...</a></text></item><item><author>oldstrangers</author><text>They&#x27;re finding PFAS in everything now.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumerreports.org&#x2F;bottled-water&#x2F;pfas-in-bottled-water-new-study-finds-a1111233122&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumerreports.org&#x2F;bottled-water&#x2F;pfas-in-bottle...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;m7gban&#x2F;rainwater-everywhere-now-considered-too-toxic-for-safe-consumption-study-finds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;article&#x2F;m7gban&#x2F;rainwater-everywhere-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dcourier.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;aug&#x2F;11&#x2F;prescott-valley-shuts-down-4-wells-after-positive-&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dcourier.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;aug&#x2F;11&#x2F;prescott-valley-sh...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>Is there universal treatment for this in most countries or does this also imply that municipal water everywhere is equally &quot;unsafe&quot;<i>? Some quick Googling suggests common britta filters don&#x27;t remove it either, for instance.<p></i>unsafe in scare quotes because the article says environmental levels have been steady for the past 20 years and we aren&#x27;t all dead yet... and lots of animals of course drink rainwater more directly out of bodies of water.<p>It&#x27;s obviously not a good thing but I don&#x27;t this means &quot;we&#x27;re doomed&quot;... the article here cites a professor saying we just have to live with it, but it would be also interesting to see if anyone had leads on removal or any sort of mitigation&#x2F;protection&#x2F;neutralization schemes.</text></comment> |
22,208,315 | 22,205,367 | 1 | 2 | 22,202,740 | train | <story><title>New Cryptographic Tools on Keybase</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/crypto</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reisen</author><text>I use Keybase as a daily driver and I really love the platform, but almost every other chat client I use when switching from Keybase feels butter smooth in comparison. These tools look like a great addition, and the Stellar integration is something I think has a lot of potential if it ends up being able to manage other wallets as well.<p>I just really wish more love would go into the UX of the application. I have duplicate undeletable conversations with contacts, duplicate folders in KBFS that I cannot delete or access which cause I&#x2F;O errors in tools that do full system scans. I keep running into errors in the UI with obscure error codes that I keep reporting to no avail. There are currently 3,292~ open issues on Github at the time of writing so it&#x27;s difficult to track what the team is focusing on.<p>Everything feels just a little too janky.<p>Still, I don&#x27;t believe there is any other decent alternative to Keybase that offers the same identity based mechanism for communication, and Keybase absolutely nails that. I can message half the users on HN with very little friction. People can encrypt and send me documents without registering with a single page view. A bit of polish and I think Keybase could shine, but right now It&#x27;s hard to suggest as a Slack alternative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>veidr</author><text>Keybase is a little like &quot;Linux on the desktop&quot;. I love it, I use it. With my help, even my dad can use it. The underlying architecture is righteous, it&#x27;s open-source, and I want it to be good enough so that everybody can use it... but it&#x27;s just not. Too many basic things that &quot;normal people&quot; want to do just don&#x27;t work well enough.<p>Keybase&#x27;s desktop and mobile apps sometimes hang while decrypting old messages, and until you force quit, the messages won&#x27;t load.<p>The Mac app gets into this mode where it can&#x27;t be hidden, and just insists on staying on the screen.<p>It doesn&#x27;t work at all, for any reasonable value of work, on the iPad (it shows a tiny little phone-sized window that fills about 25% of the screen, and doesn&#x27;t support rotate so it&#x27;s rotated 90 degrees if you try to type into it with the keyboard).<p>Etc.<p>OTOH, the underlying platform seems well-designed and that&#x27;s obviously where most of the effort is going — it&#x27;s been a steady march of new and valuable features. They only added the chat feature itself 3 years ago. Keybase git, Stellar wallet, Keybase SSH, the awesome new bot architecture...<p>While I too wish the apps were smooth and polished, Keybase might be right to focus on the platform first. Making a good app using cross-platform UI toolkits is hard.<p>Those toolkits are evolving fast, too. It&#x27;s not inconceivable that in another 3 years, the apps they have today will have been completely replaced by new ones based on a next-generation UI library that runs on top of Tauri[1] or whatever the new hotness is in 2023, and maybe those will be smoother and more polished due to general advances in cross-platform app cores and UI libraries, and if that happens we might end up being glad that the Keybase people spent their energy on building out this reliable crypto platform instead of trying to fix Electron&#x27;s window layering bugs or whatever.<p>But yeah, in 2020, I agree the Keybase app&#x27;s aren&#x27;t even close to being polished enough to replace Slack for most people. (And Slack itself is pretty awful!)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tauri-apps&#x2F;tauri" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tauri-apps&#x2F;tauri</a> (no idea if that will take off, it&#x27;s just an example)</text></comment> | <story><title>New Cryptographic Tools on Keybase</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/crypto</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reisen</author><text>I use Keybase as a daily driver and I really love the platform, but almost every other chat client I use when switching from Keybase feels butter smooth in comparison. These tools look like a great addition, and the Stellar integration is something I think has a lot of potential if it ends up being able to manage other wallets as well.<p>I just really wish more love would go into the UX of the application. I have duplicate undeletable conversations with contacts, duplicate folders in KBFS that I cannot delete or access which cause I&#x2F;O errors in tools that do full system scans. I keep running into errors in the UI with obscure error codes that I keep reporting to no avail. There are currently 3,292~ open issues on Github at the time of writing so it&#x27;s difficult to track what the team is focusing on.<p>Everything feels just a little too janky.<p>Still, I don&#x27;t believe there is any other decent alternative to Keybase that offers the same identity based mechanism for communication, and Keybase absolutely nails that. I can message half the users on HN with very little friction. People can encrypt and send me documents without registering with a single page view. A bit of polish and I think Keybase could shine, but right now It&#x27;s hard to suggest as a Slack alternative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>insomniacity</author><text>I&#x27;m with you. I feel like Keybase are the only people actually innovating on &quot;usable cryptography&quot;, except maybe Signal?<p>Just needs a bit more polish.</text></comment> |
13,539,991 | 13,539,933 | 1 | 2 | 13,537,052 | train | <story><title>GitLab Database Incident – Live Report</title><url>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCK53YDcBWQveod9kfzW-VCxIABGiryG7_z_6jHdVik/pub</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>The real question is what holds together duct tape?</text></item><item><author>gizmo</author><text>What if I told you all of society is held together by duct tape? If you&#x27;re surprised that startups cut corners you&#x27;re in for a rude awakening. I&#x27;m frequently amazed anything works at all.</text></item><item><author>elementalest</author><text>&gt;1. LVM snapshots are by default only taken once every 24 hours. YP happened to run one manually about 6 hours prior to the outage<p>&gt;2. Regular backups seem to also only be taken once per 24 hours, though YP has not yet been able to figure out where they are stored. According to JN these don’t appear to be working, producing files only a few bytes in size.<p>&gt;3. SH: It looks like pg_dump may be failing because PostgreSQL 9.2 binaries are being run instead of 9.6 binaries. This happens because omnibus only uses Pg 9.6 if data&#x2F;PG_VERSION is set to 9.6, but on workers this file does not exist. As a result it defaults to 9.2, failing silently. No SQL dumps were made as a result. Fog gem may have cleaned out older backups.<p>&gt;4. Disk snapshots in Azure are enabled for the NFS server, but not for the DB servers.
The synchronisation process removes webhooks once it has synchronised data to staging. Unless we can pull these from a regular backup from the past 24 hours they will be lost
The replication procedure is super fragile, prone to error, relies on a handful of random shell scripts, and is badly documented<p>&gt;5. Our backups to S3 apparently don’t work either: the bucket is empty<p>&gt;So in other words, out of 5 backup&#x2F;replication techniques deployed none are working reliably or set up in the first place.<p>Sounds like it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. How could so many systems be not working and no one notice?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devdas</author><text>Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitLab Database Incident – Live Report</title><url>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCK53YDcBWQveod9kfzW-VCxIABGiryG7_z_6jHdVik/pub</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>The real question is what holds together duct tape?</text></item><item><author>gizmo</author><text>What if I told you all of society is held together by duct tape? If you&#x27;re surprised that startups cut corners you&#x27;re in for a rude awakening. I&#x27;m frequently amazed anything works at all.</text></item><item><author>elementalest</author><text>&gt;1. LVM snapshots are by default only taken once every 24 hours. YP happened to run one manually about 6 hours prior to the outage<p>&gt;2. Regular backups seem to also only be taken once per 24 hours, though YP has not yet been able to figure out where they are stored. According to JN these don’t appear to be working, producing files only a few bytes in size.<p>&gt;3. SH: It looks like pg_dump may be failing because PostgreSQL 9.2 binaries are being run instead of 9.6 binaries. This happens because omnibus only uses Pg 9.6 if data&#x2F;PG_VERSION is set to 9.6, but on workers this file does not exist. As a result it defaults to 9.2, failing silently. No SQL dumps were made as a result. Fog gem may have cleaned out older backups.<p>&gt;4. Disk snapshots in Azure are enabled for the NFS server, but not for the DB servers.
The synchronisation process removes webhooks once it has synchronised data to staging. Unless we can pull these from a regular backup from the past 24 hours they will be lost
The replication procedure is super fragile, prone to error, relies on a handful of random shell scripts, and is badly documented<p>&gt;5. Our backups to S3 apparently don’t work either: the bucket is empty<p>&gt;So in other words, out of 5 backup&#x2F;replication techniques deployed none are working reliably or set up in the first place.<p>Sounds like it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. How could so many systems be not working and no one notice?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vinkekatten</author><text>Good intentions and heartfelt prayer.</text></comment> |
20,845,202 | 20,844,897 | 1 | 3 | 20,843,076 | train | <story><title>Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49489154</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>Good. Not only does this ensure that the students enjoy privacy, monitoring children in school with surveillance systems could have come straight out of foucault&#x27;s discipline and punish.<p>Maybe we should think about how we make schools spaces of freedom for our children rather than turning them into the next panopticon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Iv</author><text>School is the most authoritarian experience one typically experiences in a democracy. Here is a place where a strict hierarchy is enforced, through means of parental and peer pressure, anxiety over your future. Your schedule is planned by the minute, even peeing requires an authorization. Chatting is banned except on very limited time spans.<p>The fact that we have kept a part of middle-age inside our modern societies keeps fascinating and frightening me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49489154</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>Good. Not only does this ensure that the students enjoy privacy, monitoring children in school with surveillance systems could have come straight out of foucault&#x27;s discipline and punish.<p>Maybe we should think about how we make schools spaces of freedom for our children rather than turning them into the next panopticon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moksly</author><text>I work in public digitalisation in Denmark, and I can’t think of a single reason of why you would ever even want this.<p>What’s the use case? Automatic student registration? If it is, and I can certainly imagine some HR consultant going “weeeeeell we can squeeze five minutes of extra education in if we remove this teacher-student interaction of registration, that’s a gazillion hours of extra education a year!”. I know this is a strawman of my experience, but it’s frankly the only way it would happen at my place. Which would be crazy considering the primary focus of Schools in Scandinavia is to educate democratic citizens, and automating something as meaningful as presence registration is damaging to that focus because the “AI” won’t be able to have a conversation about the usefulness of attendance.<p>So I absolutely agree with you. This is completely crazy, but what I really wonder is why no one asked “why?”.</text></comment> |
10,389,663 | 10,389,159 | 1 | 2 | 10,388,815 | train | <story><title>Study: Sitting is no worse than standing without moving</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/10/14/sitting-for-long-periods-doesnt-make-death-more-imminent-study-suggests/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zzalpha</author><text>You could argue that, but given there&#x27;s no evidence to support it, it&#x27;s at best colloquial advice.<p>And to be perfectly blunt, that sounds more like an attempt to go back and justify the choice of a standing desk after the fact, now that the base assumption (&quot;standing is better than sitting&quot;) has been invalidated.</text></item><item><author>djtriptych</author><text>I argue that standing is better because the bias towards movement is higher. You can (and will) shift your weight around and take more frequent breaks, simply because you don&#x27;t have to stand up to do so. That might be enough.</text></item><item><author>zzalpha</author><text>Story is far more nuanced than the title suggests:<p><i>&quot;Our study overturns current thinking on the health risks of sitting and indicates that the problem lies in the absence of movement rather than the time spent sitting itself,&quot;</i><p>Translation: sitting is still bad for you, but standing isn&#x27;t any better, which puts a pin in the standing desk fad.<p>Guess it&#x27;s time to get one of these!<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;DeskCycle-Exercise-Pedal-Exerciser-White&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B00B1VDNQA" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;DeskCycle-Exercise-Pedal-Exerciser-Whi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RickHull</author><text>&gt; now that the base assumption (&quot;standing is better than sitting&quot;) has been invalidated.<p>This is not true. This invalid conclusion mirrors the lament that a commenter posted:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10389475" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10389475</a><p>&gt; The work looks useful and valuable to this area of study. But WaPo and other media outlets persist in a ubiquitous and terrible trend in science reporting, especially those associated with lifestyle and healt : &quot;Here is a study which has different findings than the other studies we&#x27;ve been reporting on, all that research is now overturned! Burn your standing desk!&quot; Of course, in a few months, someone will publish another study calling this one into question, and they&#x27;ll tell us all to go out and buy new standing desks. As we all know, science doesn&#x27;t work that way. This study needs to be put into context with other studies, if it contradicts those studies, that needs to be discussed, future studies that might resolve the discrepancy should be identified, limitations on the applicability of this study and on the ones it contradicts should be pointed out, changes in the model we use to understand the effects of mobility and posture on health should be discussed, etc. etc</text></comment> | <story><title>Study: Sitting is no worse than standing without moving</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/10/14/sitting-for-long-periods-doesnt-make-death-more-imminent-study-suggests/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zzalpha</author><text>You could argue that, but given there&#x27;s no evidence to support it, it&#x27;s at best colloquial advice.<p>And to be perfectly blunt, that sounds more like an attempt to go back and justify the choice of a standing desk after the fact, now that the base assumption (&quot;standing is better than sitting&quot;) has been invalidated.</text></item><item><author>djtriptych</author><text>I argue that standing is better because the bias towards movement is higher. You can (and will) shift your weight around and take more frequent breaks, simply because you don&#x27;t have to stand up to do so. That might be enough.</text></item><item><author>zzalpha</author><text>Story is far more nuanced than the title suggests:<p><i>&quot;Our study overturns current thinking on the health risks of sitting and indicates that the problem lies in the absence of movement rather than the time spent sitting itself,&quot;</i><p>Translation: sitting is still bad for you, but standing isn&#x27;t any better, which puts a pin in the standing desk fad.<p>Guess it&#x27;s time to get one of these!<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;DeskCycle-Exercise-Pedal-Exerciser-White&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B00B1VDNQA" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;DeskCycle-Exercise-Pedal-Exerciser-Whi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ioquatix</author><text>I use a standing desk with multiple terminals laid out so I walk between them. I also agree that while standing you are more likely to take walking breaks or step away for a moment. I also feel like when I&#x27;m standing I&#x27;m a lot more active then when sitting.<p>Finally, when I sit I have a habit of slouching while standing I tend to have a much better posture even for extended times.<p>While a bad back isn&#x27;t death inducing (usually), we should consider all the benefits of standing over sitting, not just the fact that you may or may not die.</text></comment> |
26,312,561 | 26,312,562 | 1 | 3 | 26,309,925 | train | <story><title>Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/gab-the-far-right-website-has-been-hacked-and-70gb-of-data-leaked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikepost001</author><text>&quot;you can say anything that is not directly illegal in the US without fear of being banned or other mode“<p>For a non-American, could you explain how this is far right? Sounds pretty liberal.</text></item><item><author>cmeacham98</author><text>Parler is basically a direct clone of twitter&#x27;s basic features. They use different names but have features similar to that of Twitter&#x27;s tweet&#x2F;like&#x2F;retweet.<p>Gab&#x27;s current iteration is a mastodon fork (although iirc they don&#x27;t participate in the fediverse via activitypub). Gab is similar to Twitter like Parler but is less of a direct clone, offering other features Twitter doesn&#x27;t have.<p>Gab has been along for longer and seems to be more popular. Both market to the (mostly American) far right, with their shtick being basically &quot;you can say anything that is not directly illegal in the US without fear of being banned or other moderation&quot;. Gab seems to have been more competent in coming back up after bans from their hosting provider and other partners.</text></item><item><author>ignoranceprior</author><text>Can someone explain the difference between Gab and Parler to someone unfamiliar with both?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gizmo686</author><text>Adverse selection. If your differenciating feature is &quot;you can say what you want without getting banned&quot;, your userbase is going to tend towards people who get banned on other platforms. In todays climate, that is mostly the far right.<p>Compounding this is PR and network effects. Once they become known as the place for the far right, then more far righters go there, and more distant people avoid it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/gab-the-far-right-website-has-been-hacked-and-70gb-of-data-leaked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikepost001</author><text>&quot;you can say anything that is not directly illegal in the US without fear of being banned or other mode“<p>For a non-American, could you explain how this is far right? Sounds pretty liberal.</text></item><item><author>cmeacham98</author><text>Parler is basically a direct clone of twitter&#x27;s basic features. They use different names but have features similar to that of Twitter&#x27;s tweet&#x2F;like&#x2F;retweet.<p>Gab&#x27;s current iteration is a mastodon fork (although iirc they don&#x27;t participate in the fediverse via activitypub). Gab is similar to Twitter like Parler but is less of a direct clone, offering other features Twitter doesn&#x27;t have.<p>Gab has been along for longer and seems to be more popular. Both market to the (mostly American) far right, with their shtick being basically &quot;you can say anything that is not directly illegal in the US without fear of being banned or other moderation&quot;. Gab seems to have been more competent in coming back up after bans from their hosting provider and other partners.</text></item><item><author>ignoranceprior</author><text>Can someone explain the difference between Gab and Parler to someone unfamiliar with both?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jordigh</author><text>Because the only defense they constantly employ for saying atrocious things is that it&#x27;s not literally illegal to say them. It&#x27;s not literally illegal to be racist, it&#x27;s not literally illegal to be xenophobic, it&#x27;s not literally illegal to be transphobic. So they think they should be all those things, although they don&#x27;t call themselves those names.<p>Things should be said based on the inherent merit of what they say, not be said just because it&#x27;s not literally illegal to say them. If the only reason you can find for justifying what you say is that nobody has made a law yet to stop you (and we do have laws to stop some things from being said), then perhaps you need to find a better thing to say.</text></comment> |
20,920,718 | 20,918,355 | 1 | 3 | 20,918,089 | train | <story><title>Map Shows How a Location Has Changed over the Past 750M Years</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/map-lets-you-plug-your-address-see-how-neighborhood-has-changed-over-past-750-million-years-180971507/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>typpo</author><text>Hi all, I built this using an existing model called PALEOMAP [1]. Geologists use desktop software called GPlates that defines a &quot;rotation file&quot; format describing the movement of tectonic plates. I wrote code that uses this file to reverse the rotation of latlng coordinates at arbitrary moments in time.<p>You used to be able to enter an exact address on this site, but the server would overload under heavy traffic as the rotation calculations are CPU intensive (geocoding is also expensive). I solved this problem by precomputing a grid of transformations across 26 out of the 91 available moments in time and reducing the geocoding resolution to about 200,000 cities.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.earthbyte.org&#x2F;paleomap-paleoatlas-for-gplates&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.earthbyte.org&#x2F;paleomap-paleoatlas-for-gplates&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Map Shows How a Location Has Changed over the Past 750M Years</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/map-lets-you-plug-your-address-see-how-neighborhood-has-changed-over-past-750-million-years-180971507/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>b2ccb2</author><text>Link to the actual interactive map: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dinosaurpictures.org&#x2F;ancient-earth#0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dinosaurpictures.org&#x2F;ancient-earth#0</a></text></comment> |
9,917,263 | 9,916,916 | 1 | 2 | 9,916,585 | train | <story><title>Announcing TypeScript 1.5</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/07/20/announcing-typescript-1-5.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unklefolk</author><text>I would be interested to hear other folks experience with TypeScript. We have move virtually all of the project I work on over to TypeScript but I am not seeing metrics improve (less bugs, quicker to fix etc). Gripes include lots of boilerplate TypeScript being generated and another learning curve for new starters (nearly everyone knows JS).<p>What are other folks experiences? Has it helped or hindered?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drinchev</author><text>I started 2 months ago a big project using TypeScript on NodeJS ( I&#x27;m freelancer and I&#x27;m building an API Service for a company ).<p>CONS:<p>1. Contribute a couple of times to DefinitelyType repo, because I needed definitions that doesn&#x27;t exist or modify existing ones with their updated versions ( this is really pain in the ass at this point, because you will most certainly end up using definitions that either doesn&#x27;t match your version number or are poorly written ).<p>2. Report a couple of bugs to WebStorm 10 team ( I&#x27;m eagerly waiting for WS 11, which they say will improve the typescript support ).<p>3. Explain to my clients why I am using a beta version of a software for their precious product ( this is not a problem since today :) )<p>4. Sometimes the flexibility of typescript can slow you down a lot if you want to go deep with the proper typings and interface declarations. I actually spend a lot of time thinking how to organize my classes and interfaces now, instead of writing code.<p>PROS:<p>1. Code looks solid and professional ( CoffeeScript on the other - I was so much faster, but in the end I see not that easy readable code. )<p>2. Creating documentation is way easier ( using typedoc ). I never understood JSDocs as a pro and usually I spend lots of time on properly annotating, which is unneeded in TS.<p>3. There is no need to write `function(options) { if ( !options ) { throw new Error(&quot;Options required&quot;); } }`. this becomes `function(options : Object) {}`. This removes a lot of boilerplate and really cleans many of those typesafety checks from your code.<p>4. I&#x27;m catching far more errors in the compilation phase than ever before ( see 3 ). I&#x27;m also not writing any typesafety tests for my modules ( I was so happy, when I realised that! ).</text></comment> | <story><title>Announcing TypeScript 1.5</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/07/20/announcing-typescript-1-5.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unklefolk</author><text>I would be interested to hear other folks experience with TypeScript. We have move virtually all of the project I work on over to TypeScript but I am not seeing metrics improve (less bugs, quicker to fix etc). Gripes include lots of boilerplate TypeScript being generated and another learning curve for new starters (nearly everyone knows JS).<p>What are other folks experiences? Has it helped or hindered?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timdumol</author><text>Moving to TypeScript definitely helped us. The move itself revealed a couple undefined variable errors, and static typing has saved us a lot of pain. It was also extremely useful for when we decided to remove a few libraries; the static typing gave us confidence that we didn&#x27;t miss a few usages.</text></comment> |
18,189,668 | 18,189,546 | 1 | 2 | 18,188,831 | train | <story><title>A Taco Truck on Every Corner, or Not?</title><url>https://a2civic.tech/blog/2018/09/30/a-taco-truck-on-every-corner-or-not.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oxymoran</author><text>The food truck laws in Michigan in general are pretty annoying. You need to have a commissary kitchen where all the food is actually made in order to be in compliance. Which defeats one of the main points of having a food truck to begin with(not having to rent or own an expensive building)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awad</author><text>New York (City) as well, IIRC. Street-side cooking is more akin to heating up already prepared food. San Francisco, too. While it seemingly defeats the purpose, the flip side of the argument is that it is easier to ensure base levels of hygiene.<p>The article itself, btw, is a pretty nifty use of PostGIS viz.<p>Edit: Originally had all of California included but it was pointed out that my knowledge was limited to San Francisco as LA does not have the same requirements.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Taco Truck on Every Corner, or Not?</title><url>https://a2civic.tech/blog/2018/09/30/a-taco-truck-on-every-corner-or-not.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oxymoran</author><text>The food truck laws in Michigan in general are pretty annoying. You need to have a commissary kitchen where all the food is actually made in order to be in compliance. Which defeats one of the main points of having a food truck to begin with(not having to rent or own an expensive building)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonwachob91</author><text>Not sure about Michigan, but Florida has commissary co-working type spaces. Show up with your ingredients, cook, clean-up, peace out. Most of the co-working type commissarys are pay as you go (hourly) type deals. It&#x27;s common amongst Farmer Market vendors.</text></comment> |
30,897,950 | 30,897,383 | 1 | 2 | 30,895,619 | train | <story><title>Regolith Linux</title><url>https://regolith-linux.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gavinray</author><text>I&#x27;ve never been as productive in anything as I have in this.<p>Whoever came up with the default key combinations is a genius.<p>I&#x27;d heard people talk about i3 and other tiling WM&#x27;s, but it seemed like a big step to take to learn and take the time to configure it, etc.<p>I found out about Regolith, figured &quot;Eh since it also comes as an apt package I can just install + uninstall it if I don&#x27;t like it.&quot;<p>By the end of using it a single day I was used to the keybindings. They felt natural and my productivity was through the roof.<p>Bless the authors, this software brings joy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Regolith Linux</title><url>https://regolith-linux.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>city41</author><text>I tried Regolith and it is nice. But ultimately I found MATE with i3 set as its window manager is better. It&#x27;s a truly excellent combo.<p>For anyone curious, here&#x27;s how I set it up: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mattgreer.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;mate-and-i3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mattgreer.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;mate-and-i3&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
19,940,926 | 19,940,441 | 1 | 2 | 19,939,292 | train | <story><title>New Game: Minecraft Earth</title><url>https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/new-game--minecraft-earth#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fenomas</author><text>Since there&#x27;s not much info on this, and since I missed the relevant thread last week, I&#x27;ll just note here for the record that Mojang&#x27;s <i>other</i> recent release, a browser-based retro game called Minecraft Classic, was built on my voxel game engine.<p>[game] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;classic.minecraft.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;classic.minecraft.net&#x2F;</a><p>[engine] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andyhall&#x2F;noa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andyhall&#x2F;noa&#x2F;</a><p>if anyone&#x27;s interested. It&#x27;s pretty weird waking up one morning to find out that Mojang built a game on your tiny solo project...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oneepic</author><text>Interesting note indeed. I remember there being a <i>different</i> Minecraft Classic mode from somewhere around 2009-10 that just ran on Java and you could play it through a browser (Java applet I guess) or download a Java client. The server was in Java too, of course. So perhaps they decided to rewrite it in JS?<p>I used to be an admin on one server and split my time between building stuff and banning griefers&#x2F;undoing the griefing on the main worlds to make everything pretty again. Great memories.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Game: Minecraft Earth</title><url>https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/new-game--minecraft-earth#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fenomas</author><text>Since there&#x27;s not much info on this, and since I missed the relevant thread last week, I&#x27;ll just note here for the record that Mojang&#x27;s <i>other</i> recent release, a browser-based retro game called Minecraft Classic, was built on my voxel game engine.<p>[game] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;classic.minecraft.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;classic.minecraft.net&#x2F;</a><p>[engine] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andyhall&#x2F;noa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;andyhall&#x2F;noa&#x2F;</a><p>if anyone&#x27;s interested. It&#x27;s pretty weird waking up one morning to find out that Mojang built a game on your tiny solo project...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ralphstodomingo</author><text>Congratulations! Really cool of them and you. Is there a statement from Minecraft how much they&#x27;ll be developing this?</text></comment> |
22,558,318 | 22,558,527 | 1 | 3 | 22,557,491 | train | <story><title>Rust 1.42</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/03/12/Rust-1.42.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>computerphage</author><text>Better line numbers is huge. Actually huge for people leaning rust. In a pretty big way it&#x27;s like the difference between Java where you get a stack trace (where you mostly care about the live number all the way at the bottom) and C++ where you don&#x27;t. When I tutored students in college that was one of the most salient differences to students who were just starting out. They would say things like &quot;C++ is hard because you don&#x27;t even get a stack trace&quot;. Sure, that&#x27;s a naive view of the differences between the languages, but it&#x27;s a <i>real</i> view that beginners see.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust 1.42</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/03/12/Rust-1.42.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>I didn&#x27;t realize how rich the normal match { } patterns can get until I saw these matches!() examples and was trying to figure out what that pattern syntax was. I&#x27;ve only ever used the basic enum matching&#x2F;enum value unwrapping patterns.</text></comment> |
12,769,379 | 12,769,126 | 1 | 2 | 12,768,425 | train | <story><title>Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving</title><url>http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jl6</author><text>OK, I&#x27;ll bite. This article is overblown in its criticisms and has some issues of its own.<p>1. The article itself recommends that &quot;a tool is supposed to do one thing and do it well&quot;. Well, xz is for compression, nothing else. If you want to check integrity, use a hashing tool such as sha256sum. If you want to recover from errors, generate parity files using par2 or zfec.<p>2. The article claims xz was chosen by prominent open source projects due to hype. No, it was chosen because of its favorable size&#x2F;speed tradeoffs.<p>3. It&#x27;s not clear what the author means by &quot;long-term archiving&quot;. Archives professionals (as in, people who are actually employed by memory institutions) will tell you of many factors (all unmentioned here) that have a bearing on whether a file format (particularly a compressed one) is suitable for use in data preservation.<p>4. The section on trailing data is particularly bizarre. By claiming that xz is &quot;telling you what you can&#x27;t do with your files&quot;, it seems that the author considers it perfectly reasonable to append arbitrary data to the end of a file and expect it to continue functioning. Is my normality detector off today or is this just a wacky thing to want to do?<p>5. The article is written by the author of lzip (which it compares favorably to xz), but does not disclose this. Admittedly it is hosted on the lzip site, but overall the article comes across as an opinionated hit-piece designed to sow doubt in a competitor.</text></comment> | <story><title>Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving</title><url>http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pmoriarty</author><text>When I use xz for archival purposes I always use par2[1] to provide redundancy and recoverability in case of errors.<p>When I burn data (including xz archives) on to DVD for archival storage, I use dvdisaster[2] for the same purpose.<p>I&#x27;ve tested both by damaging archives and scratching DVDs, and these tools work great for recovery. The amount of redundancy (with a tradeoff for space) is also tuneable for both.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BlackIkeEagle&#x2F;par2cmdline" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BlackIkeEagle&#x2F;par2cmdline</a><p>[2] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dvdisaster.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dvdisaster.net&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
11,264,431 | 11,263,865 | 1 | 3 | 11,262,239 | train | <story><title>Brendan Eich: WebAssembly is a game-changer</title><url>http://www.infoworld.com/article/3042705/web-development/javascript-founder-brendan-eich-webassembly-is-a-game-changer.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>icedchai</author><text>The advantage? Instead of having access to a large, stable ecosystem with 20+ years of engineering behind it (Java&#x2F;JVM), you&#x27;ll get to use fun, new half-baked tools that barely work to build your webassembly apps.<p>In another 20 years time, we might be at the level of productivity we had 20 years ago with VisualBasic.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>How long before the first WebAssembly exploit?<p>(And what advantage does WebAssembly have over Java applets? We&#x27;ve been down this road.)</text></item><item><author>CaptSpify</author><text>But they always end up abused. Everyone hates all of those, and that&#x27;s good, because it causes people to steer away from them. Instead of throwing our hands up, and giving up, we should continue to try to keep those out.</text></item><item><author>teej</author><text>We have been doing this for -decades- with Shockwave, Java applets, and Active X controls.</text></item><item><author>supernintendo</author><text>I hate to break it to you, but we&#x27;re already there. People have been using the web to deliver desktop-like applications for the past decade. Over that period of time, the number of people connected to the Internet has more than doubled [1] and will continue to increase. Whether or not an application is delivered through a browser or natively is inconsequential to most of these users. If we look at the list of the most popular websites [2] we see mostly content-delivery platforms (Google, Bing, Wikipedia etc.) with some popular web apps which resemble desktop software in complexity (Facebook, YouTube, Windows Live etc.)<p>So we have two paths forward. One, we could try to influence the habits of billions of Internet users who use desktop-like web applications in an attempt to restore the document-based nature of the web; or two, we could provide an alternative to the artifice of modern JavaScript development which allows for better applications to be written and distributed to users that use and rely on them. The latter initiative is the more realistic and productive one, in my opinion.<p>WebAssembly will not lead to the end-of-times of the Internet as a content delivery vehicle. It is a net positive for the parts of the web that do not fulfill that purpose. If you&#x27;re worried about the free and open web as a publishing platform, look more to governments and corporations around the world that collude to limit our freedom of expression (Facebook, we&#x27;re all looking at you [3]).<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.internetlivestats.com&#x2F;internet-users&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.internetlivestats.com&#x2F;internet-users&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_most_popular_websites" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_most_popular_websites</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;facebook-and-the-new-colonialism&#x2F;462393&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;facebo...</a></text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Personally, I think this is terrible (and it really is a game-changer, only not the kind that I&#x27;d be happy about). The further we get away from the web as a content delivery vehicle and more and more a delivery for executables that only run as long as you are on a page the more we will lose those things that made the web absolutely unique. For once the content was the important part, the reader was in control, for once universal accessibility was on the horizon and the peer-to-peer nature of the internet had half a chance of making the web a permanent read&#x2F;write medium.<p>It looks very much as if we&#x27;re going to lose all of that to vertical data silos that will ship you half-an-app that you can&#x27;t use without the associated service. We&#x27;ll never really know what we lost.<p>It&#x27;s sad that we don&#x27;t seem to be able to have the one without losing the other, theoretically it should be possible to do that but for some reason the trend is definitely in the direction of a permanent eradication of the &#x27;simple&#x27; web where pages rather than programs were the norm.<p>Feel free to call me a digital Luddite, I just don&#x27;t think this is what we had in mind when we heralded the birth of the www.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjm</author><text>You really think closed source Oracle is going to make applets better? People don&#x27;t like applets cause the experience sucks, the tooling generally lacks, and the libraries are old.<p>You say that webdev is Applet 2.0? ok sure, at least it&#x27;s open and moving instead of EOL&#x27;d [1] and the experience is better else wouldn&#x27;t we all still be using Applets...<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.v3.co.uk&#x2F;v3-uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;2443810&#x2F;oracle-signals-the-end-of-java-applet-support-for-browsers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.v3.co.uk&#x2F;v3-uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;2443810&#x2F;oracle-signals-the-en...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Brendan Eich: WebAssembly is a game-changer</title><url>http://www.infoworld.com/article/3042705/web-development/javascript-founder-brendan-eich-webassembly-is-a-game-changer.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>icedchai</author><text>The advantage? Instead of having access to a large, stable ecosystem with 20+ years of engineering behind it (Java&#x2F;JVM), you&#x27;ll get to use fun, new half-baked tools that barely work to build your webassembly apps.<p>In another 20 years time, we might be at the level of productivity we had 20 years ago with VisualBasic.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>How long before the first WebAssembly exploit?<p>(And what advantage does WebAssembly have over Java applets? We&#x27;ve been down this road.)</text></item><item><author>CaptSpify</author><text>But they always end up abused. Everyone hates all of those, and that&#x27;s good, because it causes people to steer away from them. Instead of throwing our hands up, and giving up, we should continue to try to keep those out.</text></item><item><author>teej</author><text>We have been doing this for -decades- with Shockwave, Java applets, and Active X controls.</text></item><item><author>supernintendo</author><text>I hate to break it to you, but we&#x27;re already there. People have been using the web to deliver desktop-like applications for the past decade. Over that period of time, the number of people connected to the Internet has more than doubled [1] and will continue to increase. Whether or not an application is delivered through a browser or natively is inconsequential to most of these users. If we look at the list of the most popular websites [2] we see mostly content-delivery platforms (Google, Bing, Wikipedia etc.) with some popular web apps which resemble desktop software in complexity (Facebook, YouTube, Windows Live etc.)<p>So we have two paths forward. One, we could try to influence the habits of billions of Internet users who use desktop-like web applications in an attempt to restore the document-based nature of the web; or two, we could provide an alternative to the artifice of modern JavaScript development which allows for better applications to be written and distributed to users that use and rely on them. The latter initiative is the more realistic and productive one, in my opinion.<p>WebAssembly will not lead to the end-of-times of the Internet as a content delivery vehicle. It is a net positive for the parts of the web that do not fulfill that purpose. If you&#x27;re worried about the free and open web as a publishing platform, look more to governments and corporations around the world that collude to limit our freedom of expression (Facebook, we&#x27;re all looking at you [3]).<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.internetlivestats.com&#x2F;internet-users&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.internetlivestats.com&#x2F;internet-users&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_most_popular_websites" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_most_popular_websites</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;facebook-and-the-new-colonialism&#x2F;462393&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;facebo...</a></text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Personally, I think this is terrible (and it really is a game-changer, only not the kind that I&#x27;d be happy about). The further we get away from the web as a content delivery vehicle and more and more a delivery for executables that only run as long as you are on a page the more we will lose those things that made the web absolutely unique. For once the content was the important part, the reader was in control, for once universal accessibility was on the horizon and the peer-to-peer nature of the internet had half a chance of making the web a permanent read&#x2F;write medium.<p>It looks very much as if we&#x27;re going to lose all of that to vertical data silos that will ship you half-an-app that you can&#x27;t use without the associated service. We&#x27;ll never really know what we lost.<p>It&#x27;s sad that we don&#x27;t seem to be able to have the one without losing the other, theoretically it should be possible to do that but for some reason the trend is definitely in the direction of a permanent eradication of the &#x27;simple&#x27; web where pages rather than programs were the norm.<p>Feel free to call me a digital Luddite, I just don&#x27;t think this is what we had in mind when we heralded the birth of the www.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oblio</author><text>The advantage is that in time people agree about web standards.<p>Good luck getting Visual Basic adopted as an standard ;)</text></comment> |
24,129,172 | 24,129,085 | 1 | 2 | 24,119,122 | train | <story><title>A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist</title><url>https://bojanvidanovic.com/posts/a-keyboard-with-blank-keycaps-made-me-an-expert-typist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Raed667</author><text>As a developer, my process is ~70% thinking and debugging, and less than 30% actual typing.<p>I never understood the fascination with typing optimization, it is not like I&#x27;m a stenographer. But maybe I&#x27;m missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zmmmmm</author><text>I think it&#x27;s more about mind melding with the problem you are solving. Having absolutely nothing else cognitively distracting you from what you are doing gives you that additional working memory space to tackle complex problems. It&#x27;s not sufficient, there are a bunch of other factors, but to my mind, if you have to think at all about typing, you can&#x27;t achieve that top echelon of concentration.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist</title><url>https://bojanvidanovic.com/posts/a-keyboard-with-blank-keycaps-made-me-an-expert-typist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Raed667</author><text>As a developer, my process is ~70% thinking and debugging, and less than 30% actual typing.<p>I never understood the fascination with typing optimization, it is not like I&#x27;m a stenographer. But maybe I&#x27;m missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aspyct</author><text>Touch typing isn&#x27;t only about speed. It&#x27;s also about health and RSI, especially if you use an ergonomic layout like a Dvorak.<p>For me it made a difference, and I went from feeling pain after an hour of typing, to being able to type all day without the slightest issue.</text></comment> |
1,315,353 | 1,315,319 | 1 | 3 | 1,314,283 | train | <story><title>The Life of a Startup Founder’s Significant Other</title><url>http://www.opazazzyzen.com/2010/05/the-life-of-a-startup-founders-significant-other/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nerme</author><text>I'm a musician. I'm also a freelance developer. I did the startup thing, and it's not for me. Right now I've been programming for about 6 months of the year and spending the rest of the time on music.<p>Starting a music project, be it a band or whatever, does have some similarities to a startup. You need a good product, you need to market it, promote it, you've got to start lean, you need to keep at it all the time, etc, etc.<p>My lady gives me a lot of support. She's fine with practicing 3 nights a week, being in the recording studio, sitting on my laptop working on demos or editing recordings.<p>I spend a lot of time working on music! A good 50-60 hours a week, for sure.<p>...but...<p>I always seem to have time for her, too. Even when I've got a programming contract.<p>You can always make time for the people and things that you love. If you're not making time for them, you don't love them. It really is that simple.<p>Honestly, do you really need to be spending 15 hours a day working on some silly little company? Your daily photo company or whatever it is? That's going to be your pride and joy when you're all alone with a pile of cash?<p>I mean, this is Hacker News. I know what you're motivations are here. They're not art. They don't seem to be love either.<p>I guess that's why I got out of the game.<p>I want love to rule my life, and not the other way around.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Life of a Startup Founder’s Significant Other</title><url>http://www.opazazzyzen.com/2010/05/the-life-of-a-startup-founders-significant-other/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>char</author><text>About 2.5 years ago, my boyfriend and I had an idea and wanted to do a startup. I had zero coding experience, but I really, really wanted to be involved in a startup. So I taught myself how to code and then built the entire front end of the project.<p>That project failed, but soon later we founded a new startup that is on its way to ramen profitability. (We learned A LOT from the first experience). We both code essentially equal amounts, and share all the stress, while of course supporting each other at the same time. Neither of us has ever been happier doing anything.</text></comment> |
32,925,113 | 32,925,134 | 1 | 2 | 32,924,403 | train | <story><title>Nvidia Reveals RTX 6000 with 48GB GDDR6 ECC Memory</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-reveals-rtx-6000-with-48gb-gddr6-ecc-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Certified</author><text>Could they have picked a more confusing name? They already had a Turing based Nvidia RTX 6000 from 2018 [1]. Then the RTX A6000 came out based on Ampere. Now this new one has to be called the the &quot;NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation&quot;. This is going to be such a headache for anyone who has to requisition things through a purchasing department at work: &quot;No I don&#x27;t want the RTX 6000 or the RTX A6000. I want the RTX 6000 Ada.&quot;<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nvidia.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;en-zz&#x2F;Solutions&#x2F;design-visualization&#x2F;quadro-product-literature&#x2F;quadro-rtx-6000-us-nvidia-704093-r4-web.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nvidia.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;en-zz&#x2F;Solutions&#x2F;design-vi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>They&#x27;re also going to have a whole &quot;RTX 60xx&quot; series in like 4-5 years, aren&#x27;t they? Seems like a really dumb choice to use the RTX branding with the same number format for a totally separate product line, but maybe they&#x27;re banking on that confusion to have people accidentally purchasing an 8 year old RTX 6000 when what they really wanted was an RTX 6050.<p>Or since Nvidia is historically stupid with naming systems and can&#x27;t stick with them, maybe the RTX 4-digit numbering goes away before 6000 series.<p>They had a chance to keep a numbering system going when they did the GTX 1xx, GTX 2xx, GTX 3xx.... GTX 9xx, GTX 10xx, and could have gone to GTX 11xx and been set for as long as they wanted (well over a hundred years) counting up toward GTX 99xx), but instead they went to GTX 20xx and RTX 30xx so now they&#x27;re going to run out of numbers again.<p>Bets on what&#x27;s next? Do we hit RTX 10,000 and then jump back down to XTX 100?</text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia Reveals RTX 6000 with 48GB GDDR6 ECC Memory</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-reveals-rtx-6000-with-48gb-gddr6-ecc-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Certified</author><text>Could they have picked a more confusing name? They already had a Turing based Nvidia RTX 6000 from 2018 [1]. Then the RTX A6000 came out based on Ampere. Now this new one has to be called the the &quot;NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation&quot;. This is going to be such a headache for anyone who has to requisition things through a purchasing department at work: &quot;No I don&#x27;t want the RTX 6000 or the RTX A6000. I want the RTX 6000 Ada.&quot;<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nvidia.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;en-zz&#x2F;Solutions&#x2F;design-visualization&#x2F;quadro-product-literature&#x2F;quadro-rtx-6000-us-nvidia-704093-r4-web.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nvidia.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;en-zz&#x2F;Solutions&#x2F;design-vi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jl6</author><text>Disorientation marketing is a technique to prevent customers from developing their own mental model of how a product should be contextualised (better or worse than competitor&#x2F;predecessor?). In place of such a model, the vendor substitutes their own messaging.</text></comment> |
6,394,817 | 6,394,961 | 1 | 3 | 6,394,454 | train | <story><title>Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched</title><url>http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/09/five-years-ago-stack-overflow-launched-then-a-miracle-occurred/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkchasma</author><text>The only complaint I have about Stack Overflow is when you&#x27;re looking for a library or toolchain and want to get a feel for some of the pros and cons of each of the tech currently being used. I understand the argument of why these questions are killed. But I also have to think that there is value in these conversations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lelandbatey</author><text>I share that feeling, but I also have to restrain it in the face of the fact that Stack Overflow doesn&#x27;t seem like it&#x27;s <i>about</i> discussion, or at least not open-ended discussion. It&#x27;s about getting expert answers to focused questions, not polling for data or asking opinions.<p>However, I really wish someone would build and maintain a &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; for open-ended discussion. It&#x27;d basically be a classic forum (in terms of content) but with a different layout.</text></comment> | <story><title>Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched</title><url>http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/09/five-years-ago-stack-overflow-launched-then-a-miracle-occurred/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkchasma</author><text>The only complaint I have about Stack Overflow is when you&#x27;re looking for a library or toolchain and want to get a feel for some of the pros and cons of each of the tech currently being used. I understand the argument of why these questions are killed. But I also have to think that there is value in these conversations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matchu</author><text>I suspect that the Stack Overflow community would agree that there&#x27;s value in those conversations. And they&#x27;d also assert that they belong somewhere else, since Stack Overflow questions are meant to have <i>right</i> answers.</text></comment> |
21,617,468 | 21,616,356 | 1 | 3 | 21,604,825 | train | <story><title>Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers</title><url>https://medium.com/nextdns/cname-cloaking-the-dangerous-disguise-of-third-party-trackers-195205dc522a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cheald</author><text>Use a Pihole + your adblocker of choice - defense in depth. It&#x27;s easy to set up, brainless to keep updated, and helps to protect all devices on your network, not just the things that can run uBlock. I&#x27;ve got mine running in a Docker container, which upstreams to a stubby container, which gets DNS-over-TLS, so I get adblocking <i>and</i> DNS query encryption out to Cloudflare for the whole network, and it&#x27;s really not all that hard to set up. (Edit: Here&#x27;s the bash script I used. docker-compose would probably be better, but whatever. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;cheald&#x2F;23da384908404b0757eadda74124a602" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;cheald&#x2F;23da384908404b0757eadda74124a...</a>)<p>If you&#x27;re unwilling to do that, just set your DNS servers to the Adguard servers (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adguard.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;adguard-dns&#x2F;overview.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adguard.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;adguard-dns&#x2F;overview.html</a>) and you get most of the same benefit, though obviously without the control that the Pihole offers you. On Android devices, you can go to Settings - &gt; Wifi &amp; Internet - &gt; Private DNS and set &quot;Private DNS provider hostname&quot; to dns.adguard.com (or your own exposed Pihole server, if you&#x27;re so inclined) and get the same benefit when you&#x27;re on LTE.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>linuxdude314</author><text>I don&#x27;t think you understood the article. Pihole or any blocking DNS server based on blacklists won&#x27;t help here (thats the point).<p>By using random, frequently updating CNAME&#x27;s it effectively defeats the mechanism Pihole uses.<p>You could still block IP addresses of the advertisers, but often time&#x27;s they don&#x27;t do BGP, so they aren&#x27;t going to have blocks under the same ASN you can simply block.<p>It&#x27;s a nuanced and challenging problem for sure.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers</title><url>https://medium.com/nextdns/cname-cloaking-the-dangerous-disguise-of-third-party-trackers-195205dc522a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cheald</author><text>Use a Pihole + your adblocker of choice - defense in depth. It&#x27;s easy to set up, brainless to keep updated, and helps to protect all devices on your network, not just the things that can run uBlock. I&#x27;ve got mine running in a Docker container, which upstreams to a stubby container, which gets DNS-over-TLS, so I get adblocking <i>and</i> DNS query encryption out to Cloudflare for the whole network, and it&#x27;s really not all that hard to set up. (Edit: Here&#x27;s the bash script I used. docker-compose would probably be better, but whatever. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;cheald&#x2F;23da384908404b0757eadda74124a602" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;cheald&#x2F;23da384908404b0757eadda74124a...</a>)<p>If you&#x27;re unwilling to do that, just set your DNS servers to the Adguard servers (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adguard.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;adguard-dns&#x2F;overview.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adguard.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;adguard-dns&#x2F;overview.html</a>) and you get most of the same benefit, though obviously without the control that the Pihole offers you. On Android devices, you can go to Settings - &gt; Wifi &amp; Internet - &gt; Private DNS and set &quot;Private DNS provider hostname&quot; to dns.adguard.com (or your own exposed Pihole server, if you&#x27;re so inclined) and get the same benefit when you&#x27;re on LTE.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leeoniya</author><text>sticking OPNSense on one of these [1] was probably the best LAN decision i&#x27;ve made, besides a Synology backup NAS.<p>it acts as a pihole and a lot more (firewall, device vlan isolation, vpn termination, etc). i have these hosts files [2] loaded into its DNSmasq config.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B072ZTCNLK" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B072ZTCNLK</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;StevenBlack&#x2F;hosts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;StevenBlack&#x2F;hosts</a></text></comment> |
15,029,809 | 15,028,734 | 1 | 2 | 15,027,695 | train | <story><title>The Problem with F# Evangelism</title><url>https://thomasbandt.com/the-problem-with-fsharp-evangelism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phillipcarter</author><text>I actually work on F# at Microsoft. I&#x27;ve had success and some failures when it comes to evangelizing F# through Microsoft (but mostly success if my measures are accurate). I strongly believe that it can be boiled down to one major thing:<p>Programmers learn how to program with C-style languages. C, C++, Java, C#, JavaScript, Python (sorta) . . . they&#x27;re all in the same family. People, especially while learning, associate <i>programming</i> with specific constructs and idioms of C-style languages. It&#x27;s incredibly difficult to break that barrier.<p>I think that functional programming is on the rise, and that more and more developers are starting to realize that the types of bugs that hold them back can be reduced by using a more powerful language. But it&#x27;s got a very long way to go, because there is a lot of unlearning to do. The article alludes to this a bit. For example, immutability is one of the key concepts in nearly every FP language. Functional programmers take it for granted, but it&#x27;s transformational and completely changes the way you have to solve a problem. This hump is often too big for many people to get over, at least in their first trial with a functional programming language. It&#x27;s hard to solve a task you know how to solve when you now need to re-think your approach because the language doesn&#x27;t let you change <i>x</i> in-place.<p>Additionally, I believe that many programmers aren&#x27;t necessarily aware of all of the problems they&#x27;re having. The next time you hear someone say, &quot;and make sure to check for null here&quot;, watch them to see if they&#x27;re seeing that as a general problem hurting their ability to get bits out the door or not. In my experience, it&#x27;s not usually viewed that way. Yes, null is a necessary evil in many environments, but it&#x27;s one that can be tamed, and different languages have already figured out how to do that. But unless it&#x27;s seen as a <i>problem</i> by people at large, they won&#x27;t see that as a carrot when you wave things like Optional types in front of them.<p>Overall, I&#x27;m still excited. Jet.com is a billion-dollar company that built their stuff with F#. There are similar stories of companies successful with F# (and other functional programming languages), and it feels as though this is happening more often. And as the mainstream (read: C-style languages) adopt more functional programming techniques, I think this will only get better. I think that people will see the value, then see a language which does it better, and give it a try.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runT1ME</author><text>My previous job was working for a .NET shop that powered tons of automotive search engines etc. across the web. We moved to more and more functional concepts using C# as the team learned about them and had a lot of success with them. At a certain point, we explored using F#, but the lack of type classes &amp; HKTs meant we kept having to repeat ourselves.<p>We ended up choosing Scala for some new projects <i>despite</i> having an inferior IDE experience and being unable to use some of our other libraries. I don&#x27;t think I can emphasize how much not having type classes and HKTs hurts productivity once you buy into the fully functional mindset. We were <i>extremely</i> productive in Scala because the language was a bit more powerful.<p>I would love to use F# again, but not until the language adds those features.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Problem with F# Evangelism</title><url>https://thomasbandt.com/the-problem-with-fsharp-evangelism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phillipcarter</author><text>I actually work on F# at Microsoft. I&#x27;ve had success and some failures when it comes to evangelizing F# through Microsoft (but mostly success if my measures are accurate). I strongly believe that it can be boiled down to one major thing:<p>Programmers learn how to program with C-style languages. C, C++, Java, C#, JavaScript, Python (sorta) . . . they&#x27;re all in the same family. People, especially while learning, associate <i>programming</i> with specific constructs and idioms of C-style languages. It&#x27;s incredibly difficult to break that barrier.<p>I think that functional programming is on the rise, and that more and more developers are starting to realize that the types of bugs that hold them back can be reduced by using a more powerful language. But it&#x27;s got a very long way to go, because there is a lot of unlearning to do. The article alludes to this a bit. For example, immutability is one of the key concepts in nearly every FP language. Functional programmers take it for granted, but it&#x27;s transformational and completely changes the way you have to solve a problem. This hump is often too big for many people to get over, at least in their first trial with a functional programming language. It&#x27;s hard to solve a task you know how to solve when you now need to re-think your approach because the language doesn&#x27;t let you change <i>x</i> in-place.<p>Additionally, I believe that many programmers aren&#x27;t necessarily aware of all of the problems they&#x27;re having. The next time you hear someone say, &quot;and make sure to check for null here&quot;, watch them to see if they&#x27;re seeing that as a general problem hurting their ability to get bits out the door or not. In my experience, it&#x27;s not usually viewed that way. Yes, null is a necessary evil in many environments, but it&#x27;s one that can be tamed, and different languages have already figured out how to do that. But unless it&#x27;s seen as a <i>problem</i> by people at large, they won&#x27;t see that as a carrot when you wave things like Optional types in front of them.<p>Overall, I&#x27;m still excited. Jet.com is a billion-dollar company that built their stuff with F#. There are similar stories of companies successful with F# (and other functional programming languages), and it feels as though this is happening more often. And as the mainstream (read: C-style languages) adopt more functional programming techniques, I think this will only get better. I think that people will see the value, then see a language which does it better, and give it a try.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GiorgioG</author><text>I&#x27;ll get excited when the Visual Studio team actually holds up a release because something is horribly broken in its F# support. So basically...never.</text></comment> |
18,354,557 | 18,354,186 | 1 | 3 | 18,351,685 | train | <story><title>A Gentle Visual Intro to Data Analysis in Python Using Pandas</title><url>https://jalammar.github.io/gentle-visual-intro-to-data-analysis-python-pandas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mefis</author><text>How does Pandas compare to R&#x27;s Tidyverse?<p>Tidyverse was super easy to pick up, and I can do almost anything I want with. Why would I want to switch to Panda?<p>Has anyone tired the python tydiverse port? How does it compare to the original?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wenc</author><text>Echoing other comments, Tidyverse is somewhat more coherent (aided significantly by magrittr&#x27;s %&gt;% operator). Beginners might get tripped up by Non-Standard Evaluation (NSE), which is a little unintuitive, but there are packages to help with that.<p>The Pandas&#x27;s API is a generalized solution to complicated, variegated use cases and its syntax reflects that (it was also hemmed by strictures of Python). There are several indexing methods, several ways to slice, several ways to do apply&#x27;s, all of which behave slightly differently. Even expert Pandas users have trouble remembering the syntax for all of these, so they typically have a Pandas API browser window open or a printed cheat sheet pasted on some corkboard. Pandas definitely takes longer to get used to than Tidyverse but the payoff is that you get to use Python, which is a somewhat &quot;deeper&quot; language than R.<p>R is great for interactive work, and for data munging jobs that don&#x27;t interact too much with non-R libraries. However Python is sinply more versatile end-to-end.<p>I used to start my interactive analysis in R and port to Python for production, but these days I start in Python straight away so there&#x27;s no impedance mismatch. I&#x27;ve personally found that writing production code in Python (and by extension Pandas) to be much more pleasant than in R, even with Tidyverse.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Gentle Visual Intro to Data Analysis in Python Using Pandas</title><url>https://jalammar.github.io/gentle-visual-intro-to-data-analysis-python-pandas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mefis</author><text>How does Pandas compare to R&#x27;s Tidyverse?<p>Tidyverse was super easy to pick up, and I can do almost anything I want with. Why would I want to switch to Panda?<p>Has anyone tired the python tydiverse port? How does it compare to the original?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>Pandas&#x27; syntax and conventions are significantly more cumbersome than R, but it does pretty well given the Python syntax and convention that it has to work with. I haven&#x27;t done a lot with pandas because of how difficult it is to remember the syntax and API, but I feel it&#x27;s good enough that if you&#x27;re already a Python user, you can stick to doing your data work in pandas rather than move over to R.</text></comment> |
14,821,841 | 14,820,933 | 1 | 3 | 14,820,629 | train | <story><title>Y Combinator raising $1B for new fund</title><url>https://www.axios.com/y-combinator-raising-1-billion-for-new-fund-2462693141.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>probe</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it risky to selectively back particular YC companies? There&#x27;s always a negative signal when your lead investor doesn&#x27;t participate in future rounds - if they start doing that more regularly with this new fund, then it might become a negative signal for a YC company NOT to have Continuity&#x2F;YC as a follow-on investor (which sucks b&#x2F;c the firms are so early stage).<p>Anyone know how VC firms that invest in all early-growth-late firms deal with this dilemma (realizing there are only a few cases)?</text></comment> | <story><title>Y Combinator raising $1B for new fund</title><url>https://www.axios.com/y-combinator-raising-1-billion-for-new-fund-2462693141.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justinzollars</author><text>Please don&#x27;t become a typical VC. I love YC for what it does so well</text></comment> |
704,280 | 703,531 | 1 | 3 | 703,086 | train | <story><title>Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL</title><url>http://zedshaw.com/blog/2009-07-13.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snprbob86</author><text>Every time I think I understand software licenses, I immediately think I don't. The posts I've seen today have only served to confuse me more. Is there a simple, understandable, maybe even FUN, required reading page on this subject? I'm looking for "talk to me like I'm a 3 year old" but also "don't waste my time". Suggestions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jon_dahl</author><text>As a partial answer to your question, I for one thought that Zed's final point made sense (and made me better understand the GPL):<p><i>Open source to open source, corporation to corporation.</i><p>Basically, you can do just about anything with MIT- or BSD-licensed software. But the GPL tries to make everything around it GPL too. If you build software that integrates with a GPL'd library, you have to release your software with a GPL (or similar) license.<p>So Zed's plan is to offer his software under a GPL license for free (open-source to open-source), and also sell it without the GPL license for pay (corp to corp).<p>Good place to go for GPL info: the GPL FAQ (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Zed Shaw: Why I (A/L)GPL</title><url>http://zedshaw.com/blog/2009-07-13.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snprbob86</author><text>Every time I think I understand software licenses, I immediately think I don't. The posts I've seen today have only served to confuse me more. Is there a simple, understandable, maybe even FUN, required reading page on this subject? I'm looking for "talk to me like I'm a 3 year old" but also "don't waste my time". Suggestions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobian</author><text>The best single work I've read on the subject is Van Lindberg's _Intellectual Property and Open Source_ (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596517963/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596517963/</a>). I don't think it's quite "talk to me like I'm a 3 year old" territory -- it assumes a basic understanding of code and property -- but I don't think it's a waste of time.</text></comment> |
39,015,081 | 39,013,538 | 1 | 2 | 39,012,656 | train | <story><title>Bug Thread</title><url>https://xkcd.com/2881/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scrlk</author><text>Some forum classics:<p>* &quot;PM&#x27;ed you the fix.&quot;<p>* &quot;Ignore this thread, I figured it out.&quot;<p>* Find a thread discussing the issue, reply to it, then &quot;Thread closed, don&#x27;t necropost&quot; from a moderator.<p>* Open a new thread about the issue, then &quot;Thread closed, use the search function next time&quot; from a moderator.<p>* The fix was hosted on Megaupload or RapidShare</text></comment> | <story><title>Bug Thread</title><url>https://xkcd.com/2881/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>praptak</author><text>I once found a pastebin with a log containing the error message that I was getting.<p>This log also had a user id. I took a long shot, googled the id and emailed the person. It turned out they had found the fix, it was in a recent dev build of a library.</text></comment> |
22,765,657 | 22,765,638 | 1 | 2 | 22,765,172 | train | <story><title>Venezuelan ship sinks itself after ramming cruise liner with a reinforced hull</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32853/this-venezuelan-patrol-ship-sunk-itself-after-ramming-a-cruise-liner-with-an-reinforced-hull</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ansible</author><text>This is insane. I can&#x27;t imagine what was going through the Venezuelan captain&#x27;s head trying to do this.<p>It&#x27;s one thing if the shooting is already started to defend yourself. But even if this stunt had worked, you&#x27;re looking at many months of downtime while your ship is being repaired in drydock. Millions of dollars, and bigtime loss of capability for a <i>small</i> navy.<p>Unless you are an icebreaker, you just don&#x27;t intentionally hit <i>anything</i> (tugboats <i>nudge</i> after gently making contact, they do not <i>ram</i>).<p>If this cruise liner was not following instructions (seems more like an act of piracy than legit, but that is another discussion), then you fire a shot or two off the bow of the offending ship. That <i>usually</i> gets people&#x27;s attention.<p>Ramming? WTF?</text></comment> | <story><title>Venezuelan ship sinks itself after ramming cruise liner with a reinforced hull</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32853/this-venezuelan-patrol-ship-sunk-itself-after-ramming-a-cruise-liner-with-an-reinforced-hull</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hirundo</author><text>The Venezuelan ship had a 76mm gun, maybe one like this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OTO_Melara_76_mm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OTO_Melara_76_mm</a><p>Why would you ram when you could shoot up the other ship with 85 to 120 fourteen pound shells per minute, with no risk to your own ship?<p>Maybe they didn&#x27;t actually have the ammo. Or maybe they decided to play chicken with the cruise ship and lost.</text></comment> |
10,544,676 | 10,542,911 | 1 | 3 | 10,535,390 | train | <story><title>JB-9 jetpack makes debut flying around Statue of Liberty</title><url>http://www.gizmag.com/jetpack-aviation-new-york-flight/40286/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway92</author><text>I used to work for this guy, for a company called Yodel (owned by Fulfilnet). I know it&#x27;s not Hacker News worthy, but he&#x27;s a really awful human being and I remember him coming into the building and firing people blindly just so he could make enough money to keep his jetpack hobby alive. He&#x27;s British, so he started businesses in Australia and left them running remotely so he couldn&#x27;t be brought down by them.<p>Sorry for talking about the person and not the technology, I just can&#x27;t stand by when I watched this guy really screw people over for his own personal gain.<p>Sources: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ecommercereport.com.au&#x2F;failed-businesses-yodel-blink-digital-fulfilnet-etc-re-surface-as-australian-internet-advertising-pty-limited&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ecommercereport.com.au&#x2F;failed-businesses-yodel-bl...</a> &lt;-- This is the interesting one. After crashing his previous businesses he started up another and bought the assets and customers under a new name, then started fresh. New company is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aiad.com.au&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aiad.com.au&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Yodel_Australia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Yodel_Australia</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2013-12-16&#x2F;customers-left-in-the-lurch-as-internet-ad-agencies-go-bust&#x2F;5159762" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;2013-12-16&#x2F;customers-left-in-the-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>JB-9 jetpack makes debut flying around Statue of Liberty</title><url>http://www.gizmag.com/jetpack-aviation-new-york-flight/40286/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eadz</author><text>The competition referenced may be the Martin Jetpack. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Martin_Jetpack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Martin_Jetpack</a><p>It is listed on the ASX stock exchange, although hasn&#x27;t released a product to market yet. However, I think they may be further down the line towards commercialisation.<p>The JB-9 looks more lightweight and fun, but the Martin has a parachute...</text></comment> |
30,126,963 | 30,127,145 | 1 | 2 | 30,126,434 | train | <story><title>Reasons for servers to support IPv6</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/01/29/reasons-for-servers-to-support-ipv6/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnklos</author><text>It&#x27;s good to wonder publicly and have a discussion!<p>I set up IPv6 on all my servers in 2001 and thought we&#x27;d all be on IPv6 in just a couple of years :P<p>What&#x27;s interesting is how much resistance there is to adding IPv6 which comes from entrenched IT. People who never learned (much) about IPv6 seem to be afraid of it and often respond with some variant or another of &quot;don&#x27;t fix it if it ain&#x27;t broke&quot;, or &quot;it&#x27;s extra work for no return&quot;, or &quot;we&#x27;ll have to pay licensing to add IPv6 because we bought crap routers, so let&#x27;s not&quot;, et cetera.<p>My favorite is, &quot;we have no record of people trying to use IPv6&quot; - yes, that&#x27;s real :D<p>It just shows their ignorance. Adding IPv6 has myriad advantages - no need for NAT, proxies or port forwards to share addresses, no need to renumber networks if allocations or upstream change, redundancy, valid security-through-obscurity (imagine port scanning a &#x2F;64 looking for open ssh ports)...<p>What&#x27;s really interesting is how many of these &quot;we fear change&quot; IT people don&#x27;t realize they&#x27;re already using IPv6 on their phones every day, with a majority of the sites they visit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>There&#x27;s a fair amount of &quot;who goes first&quot; or &quot;who sees that it works end-to-end&quot;. My personal experience has been several situations where some piece of software that doesn&#x27;t work, or is slow, suddenly works when I disable ipv6. That includes vpn client software I had to use for a job, dns configuration at another job, a mesh network for some hobby thing, etc.<p>Had I spent the time to dig into it, I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;d have found the issue. And it probably wouldn&#x27;t have been directly a true ipv6 problem. But I had more important things to deal with, so it moved to number 11 on my &quot;top 10 list&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m guessing I&#x27;m not alone in that. So while individual teams and products might be working to support it, end users often see that it doesn&#x27;t, because of some peripheral thing that&#x27;s misconfigured, doesn&#x27;t have support, etc. So they give up, which reduces perceived demand.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reasons for servers to support IPv6</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/01/29/reasons-for-servers-to-support-ipv6/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnklos</author><text>It&#x27;s good to wonder publicly and have a discussion!<p>I set up IPv6 on all my servers in 2001 and thought we&#x27;d all be on IPv6 in just a couple of years :P<p>What&#x27;s interesting is how much resistance there is to adding IPv6 which comes from entrenched IT. People who never learned (much) about IPv6 seem to be afraid of it and often respond with some variant or another of &quot;don&#x27;t fix it if it ain&#x27;t broke&quot;, or &quot;it&#x27;s extra work for no return&quot;, or &quot;we&#x27;ll have to pay licensing to add IPv6 because we bought crap routers, so let&#x27;s not&quot;, et cetera.<p>My favorite is, &quot;we have no record of people trying to use IPv6&quot; - yes, that&#x27;s real :D<p>It just shows their ignorance. Adding IPv6 has myriad advantages - no need for NAT, proxies or port forwards to share addresses, no need to renumber networks if allocations or upstream change, redundancy, valid security-through-obscurity (imagine port scanning a &#x2F;64 looking for open ssh ports)...<p>What&#x27;s really interesting is how many of these &quot;we fear change&quot; IT people don&#x27;t realize they&#x27;re already using IPv6 on their phones every day, with a majority of the sites they visit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zokier</author><text>&gt; Adding IPv6 has myriad advantages - no need for NAT, proxies or port forwards to share addresses, no need to renumber networks if allocations or upstream change, redundancy, valid security-through-obscurity (imagine port scanning a &#x2F;64 looking for open ssh ports)...<p>problem is that adding ipv6 gives none of those. Removing ipv4 would do so, but realistically most people are going to run dual-stack of some sort for a while, and as long as that is the case then adding ipv6 is mostly just additive effort.</text></comment> |
29,474,514 | 29,474,419 | 1 | 3 | 29,470,729 | train | <story><title>Django 4.0</title><url>https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2021/dec/07/django-40-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matsemann</author><text>It&#x27;s great for getting things up and running. And can last a long time. But now that we&#x27;re 40 devs or so working in the same 400k LOC codebase, I&#x27;d prefer Java&#x2F;Spring (or really, Kotlin). So hard to maintain django in the long run, need to be really strict, or one ends up with each app spaghettied with other apps. Doing queries where you filter deep on other apps&#x27; models, and since it&#x27;s only done as kwargs with no typing nothing stops that from exploding runtime when someone changes a model somewhere. Too easy to send fat objects around everywhere, accidentally doing heavy db stuff when using a property. Also makes it harder to test, because everything leaks.</text></item><item><author>rlawson</author><text>Django has allowed me to enjoy some side entrepreneurship. I have released three products as a solo part time dev that I would never have been able to do in a reasonable time using Java&#x2F;Spring (my strongest stack). My first project went nowhere, but the second generated 1k+ a month and sold for 50k, and the third one is following a similar trajectory.<p>My advice - keep it simple<p>- function based views<p>- centralize access to the ORM (avoid fat models, use a service layer)<p>- responsive bootstrap template with crispy forms<p>- minimal js<p>- 12 factor type setup - django-environ or similar<p>- be aware of n+1 select problem (I use django debug toolbar but looking into django-zen-queries)<p>- plop it on heroku, AWS lightsail, Digital Ocean or if containerizing use AWS Fargate<p>- avoid celery unless you are at a scale you need it - use django-cron, django-db-queue or similar<p>- use a managed database and managed email service<p>I have had zero scalability problems. People say Django is slow but it handled 10k active users on a small EC2 instance without any issues (static stuff served via cloudfront)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theptip</author><text>Strongly agreed on these pain points. One tool I have been using recently to help is django-seal, which locks the QuerySet so you can’t run extra queries. This should really be part of the ORM, fail-unsafe is a bad option for performance critical code.<p>Combined with the Repository pattern from DDD, you can have all your model fetches go through a separate class that does the necessary select-&#x2F;prefetch-related calls, then seals. (Or just override your model&#x27;s Manager to do this).<p>And we have a coding standard guideline to discourage using queryset operators in business logic, as you note it breaks encapsulation and makes your code really hard to refactor later. This is hard to enforce though…<p>I think Django’s ORM is if anything too convenient - it’s great for the first 100kloc but then as you say, you need to overlay some discipline to prevent things from blowing up, and the framework is all about removing friction which makes this hard.</text></comment> | <story><title>Django 4.0</title><url>https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2021/dec/07/django-40-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matsemann</author><text>It&#x27;s great for getting things up and running. And can last a long time. But now that we&#x27;re 40 devs or so working in the same 400k LOC codebase, I&#x27;d prefer Java&#x2F;Spring (or really, Kotlin). So hard to maintain django in the long run, need to be really strict, or one ends up with each app spaghettied with other apps. Doing queries where you filter deep on other apps&#x27; models, and since it&#x27;s only done as kwargs with no typing nothing stops that from exploding runtime when someone changes a model somewhere. Too easy to send fat objects around everywhere, accidentally doing heavy db stuff when using a property. Also makes it harder to test, because everything leaks.</text></item><item><author>rlawson</author><text>Django has allowed me to enjoy some side entrepreneurship. I have released three products as a solo part time dev that I would never have been able to do in a reasonable time using Java&#x2F;Spring (my strongest stack). My first project went nowhere, but the second generated 1k+ a month and sold for 50k, and the third one is following a similar trajectory.<p>My advice - keep it simple<p>- function based views<p>- centralize access to the ORM (avoid fat models, use a service layer)<p>- responsive bootstrap template with crispy forms<p>- minimal js<p>- 12 factor type setup - django-environ or similar<p>- be aware of n+1 select problem (I use django debug toolbar but looking into django-zen-queries)<p>- plop it on heroku, AWS lightsail, Digital Ocean or if containerizing use AWS Fargate<p>- avoid celery unless you are at a scale you need it - use django-cron, django-db-queue or similar<p>- use a managed database and managed email service<p>I have had zero scalability problems. People say Django is slow but it handled 10k active users on a small EC2 instance without any issues (static stuff served via cloudfront)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stavros</author><text>Yes, but nothing is stopping you from typing and organizing everything, right? I agree that it&#x27;s not the default, which isn&#x27;t ideal, but you can do it fairly easily (and keep it enforced).</text></comment> |
21,985,796 | 21,979,962 | 1 | 3 | 21,967,830 | train | <story><title>Why is Wednesday, November 17, 1858 the base time for OpenVMS?</title><url>https://www.slac.stanford.edu/~rkj/crazytime.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>technofiend</author><text>As found here [1] but variations are all over the net.<p>In 1998, a programmer who had been working on Y2K fixes started to get anxious because he couldn&#x27;t believe how pervasive the problem was. He switched from company to company trying to get away from it, but everywhere he went he became regarded as the Y2K expert and immediately became the team lead for that company&#x27;s Y2K contingencies. He finally had a nervous breakdown, quit his job, and decided he wanted to be knocked unconscious when the Y2K actually came about.<p>A month before Y2K he was put into an artificial coma and cooled down to a near cryogenic easily sustained long term life support.<p>Unfortunately the life support notification system had a Y2K bug, and no one revived him for 8000 years.<p>Finally he was found and revived. He woke up, and saw himself surrounded by lots of glass, light, stainless steel, and tall beautiful people in white robes. He asked if he was in Heaven.<p>They replied, &quot;No, this is Chicago. Actually but it&#x27;s a lot like Heaven to someone like you.&quot;<p>&quot;Someone like me?&quot;<p>&quot;You are from the 20th century. Many of the problems that existed in your lifetime have been solved for thousands of years. There is no hunger and no disease. There is no scarcity, or strife between races and creeds.&quot;<p>&quot;What year is it now?&quot;<p>&quot;Yeah, about that - it&#x27;s the year 9,998. You see, the year 10,000 is coming up, and we understand you know something called COBOL?&quot;<p>[1]
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ProgrammerHumor&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3aakb8&#x2F;the_tale_of_a_y2k_programmer_from_the_1900s&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ProgrammerHumor&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3aakb8&#x2F;the...</a>?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is Wednesday, November 17, 1858 the base time for OpenVMS?</title><url>https://www.slac.stanford.edu/~rkj/crazytime.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tapland</author><text>&gt; OpenVMS
should have no trouble with time until: 31-JUL-31086 02:48:05.47.<p>I&#x27;d suggest others working on OpenVMS check their C compilers before forgetting about the 2038 bug.<p>It&#x27;s fun when OpenVMS shows up here! Any other younglings fiddling with it?</text></comment> |
37,799,153 | 37,789,865 | 1 | 3 | 37,782,493 | train | <story><title>How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022)</title><url>https://mazzo.li/posts/fast-pipes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crabbone</author><text>I have a very long list of things that were good, worked well, and ended up rejected because the team didn&#x27;t want to put in effort to learn how they work.<p>My conclusion so far is that if you want to make things work well, you shouldn&#x27;t be working on a commercial project, use a unpopular language with a steep learning curve to filter out those who&#x27;d be a drag on your project. Maybe you don&#x27;t have to be a jerk, but being blunt helps.<p>Below are some examples of initiatives that were meant to improve things and how they failed due to other programmers being lazy and &#x2F; or ignorant.<p>When ActionScript was a thing it competed with HaXe. A similar (also ECMAScript-related) language with a small but dedicated community, a compiler that was hugely superior to to MXMLC (official Adobe compiler for AS3) and a bunch of features intended to improve code correctness and performance.<p>I was hired by a company making a &quot;PowerPoint online&quot; kind of product. The main system component was a large Flex (AS3) applet that was hugely inefficient especially in terms of how it utilized network. It had to load huge shared libraries with assets (mostly clip art) every time users wanted to either edit or watch a presentation. The AWS bill was growing dangerously big. My mission was to find a solution to reduce the network activity.<p>My idea was to create a separate player component that would extract the relevant assets from the libraries server-side, compile them into individual SWFs. The reason was that the final presentations were loaded a lot more often and by first-time users (i.e. no caching). HaXe was the ideal language because it already had a library that could generate a large subset of SWF, and it could compile both to AS3 and to C++, so that generation could also be done on a server using a more efficient implementation.<p>After several month of work, I produced a set of programs that could generate SWFs both server-side and client side and showed how this would improve the network activity. The other programmers on the AS3 team, who earlier promised to get familiar with HaXe, since they had to incorporate the new player component into the existing Flex applet... didn&#x27;t hold their part of the bargain. No matter the amount of help I provided, they simply wouldn&#x27;t do anything to incorporate the new component, instead making claims that grew more bizarre and more untrue as time went by.<p>Having spent more time trying to convince the team to adopt my code rather than writing it, I decided to look for a different place to work at. In the end, this entire effort went down the drain.<p>----<p>In a very similar way, I had to solve a problem created by using Google&#x27;s Protobuf Python bindings which required generating Python modules in order to function. We needed to have an API server that could simultaneously serve multiple versions of the same Protobuf API from similarly named modules. Since Google&#x27;s implementation didn&#x27;t allow this, I wrote my own (while my manager was on maternity leave). I improved parsing speed, network load, reduced the amount of maintenance the component needed by making it possible to add new Protobuf message definitions at run time...<p>The problem was I wrote the parser in C. This is what enabled good performance. When my manager came back to work, she realized she declared that she doesn&#x27;t know C and will never learn (even though she wasn&#x27;t related directly to the project), and the project was thrown to the dogs.<p>----<p>I have a similar story about extracting and aggregating Web interface from a RoR app, producing a Swagger definition... written in Prolog, which was also thrown away because Prolog. Similarly, had written an I&#x2F;O tester for distributed filesystem in Prolog, which was thrown away for the same reason... And this answer will eventually hit the character limit if I keep listing things that were discarded simply because programmers didn&#x27;t want to learn how to do their job.</text></item><item><author>db48x</author><text>Not necessarily. Good comments go a long way.</text></item><item><author>winternewt</author><text>And if you try to write the 20x faster version, your coworkers will think you are over-complicating and not being a team player.</text></item><item><author>Too</author><text>So if I understand correctly, vmsplice is more of a mini shared memory mechanism between two processes, if used on both the reader and writer end simultaneously? Meaning both processes need to be exceptionally careful in when they read and write to the buffers and how it is returned after use. Hot, yet scary at the same time.<p>Other main takeaway, it’s a bit sad that the naive implementation everybody will write, is 20x slower than what is possible.<p>Exceptionally written article btw.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__turbobrew__</author><text>The part you left out is where you inevitably leave the company and now there is this bespoke snowflake which nobody knows about doing god knows what transpiling stuff under the hood. With the average tenure of a software engineer being a few years maintainability and standardization are important above all. This is one of the reasons why opinionated and simple languages like golang have gained large popularity.<p>I do agree that genuine software excellence and craft is rare in corporate settings. If you want to make a piece of excellent software like curl or sqlite you will be doing it on your own, and you most likely will not be making a living off of it either.</text></comment> | <story><title>How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022)</title><url>https://mazzo.li/posts/fast-pipes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crabbone</author><text>I have a very long list of things that were good, worked well, and ended up rejected because the team didn&#x27;t want to put in effort to learn how they work.<p>My conclusion so far is that if you want to make things work well, you shouldn&#x27;t be working on a commercial project, use a unpopular language with a steep learning curve to filter out those who&#x27;d be a drag on your project. Maybe you don&#x27;t have to be a jerk, but being blunt helps.<p>Below are some examples of initiatives that were meant to improve things and how they failed due to other programmers being lazy and &#x2F; or ignorant.<p>When ActionScript was a thing it competed with HaXe. A similar (also ECMAScript-related) language with a small but dedicated community, a compiler that was hugely superior to to MXMLC (official Adobe compiler for AS3) and a bunch of features intended to improve code correctness and performance.<p>I was hired by a company making a &quot;PowerPoint online&quot; kind of product. The main system component was a large Flex (AS3) applet that was hugely inefficient especially in terms of how it utilized network. It had to load huge shared libraries with assets (mostly clip art) every time users wanted to either edit or watch a presentation. The AWS bill was growing dangerously big. My mission was to find a solution to reduce the network activity.<p>My idea was to create a separate player component that would extract the relevant assets from the libraries server-side, compile them into individual SWFs. The reason was that the final presentations were loaded a lot more often and by first-time users (i.e. no caching). HaXe was the ideal language because it already had a library that could generate a large subset of SWF, and it could compile both to AS3 and to C++, so that generation could also be done on a server using a more efficient implementation.<p>After several month of work, I produced a set of programs that could generate SWFs both server-side and client side and showed how this would improve the network activity. The other programmers on the AS3 team, who earlier promised to get familiar with HaXe, since they had to incorporate the new player component into the existing Flex applet... didn&#x27;t hold their part of the bargain. No matter the amount of help I provided, they simply wouldn&#x27;t do anything to incorporate the new component, instead making claims that grew more bizarre and more untrue as time went by.<p>Having spent more time trying to convince the team to adopt my code rather than writing it, I decided to look for a different place to work at. In the end, this entire effort went down the drain.<p>----<p>In a very similar way, I had to solve a problem created by using Google&#x27;s Protobuf Python bindings which required generating Python modules in order to function. We needed to have an API server that could simultaneously serve multiple versions of the same Protobuf API from similarly named modules. Since Google&#x27;s implementation didn&#x27;t allow this, I wrote my own (while my manager was on maternity leave). I improved parsing speed, network load, reduced the amount of maintenance the component needed by making it possible to add new Protobuf message definitions at run time...<p>The problem was I wrote the parser in C. This is what enabled good performance. When my manager came back to work, she realized she declared that she doesn&#x27;t know C and will never learn (even though she wasn&#x27;t related directly to the project), and the project was thrown to the dogs.<p>----<p>I have a similar story about extracting and aggregating Web interface from a RoR app, producing a Swagger definition... written in Prolog, which was also thrown away because Prolog. Similarly, had written an I&#x2F;O tester for distributed filesystem in Prolog, which was thrown away for the same reason... And this answer will eventually hit the character limit if I keep listing things that were discarded simply because programmers didn&#x27;t want to learn how to do their job.</text></item><item><author>db48x</author><text>Not necessarily. Good comments go a long way.</text></item><item><author>winternewt</author><text>And if you try to write the 20x faster version, your coworkers will think you are over-complicating and not being a team player.</text></item><item><author>Too</author><text>So if I understand correctly, vmsplice is more of a mini shared memory mechanism between two processes, if used on both the reader and writer end simultaneously? Meaning both processes need to be exceptionally careful in when they read and write to the buffers and how it is returned after use. Hot, yet scary at the same time.<p>Other main takeaway, it’s a bit sad that the naive implementation everybody will write, is 20x slower than what is possible.<p>Exceptionally written article btw.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nathanba</author><text>wouldnt it have been easier to port the Haxe code to AS3? afaik both language are very similar. Then you wouldn&#x27;t have a problem and you wouldnt have to rely on them to learn your codebase. Likewise I doubt that the parser being written in C was the problem, the problem was probably that (I assume?) you didnt also provide the convenient python bindings. Otherwise it&#x27;s hard to believe that someone would throw away finished code. I myself was in a similar situation once though, I bound to an external java code via JNI and it worked fine. But they ended up rewriting via HTTP calls anyway. Sure it&#x27;s easier that way but I mean damn.. not even keeping it around as an option or as a benchmark seems a bit too lazy. But I still understood why they did it, it&#x27;s just a source of possible errors for them and they don&#x27;t want to deal with it. Also I wouldn&#x27;t want to inherit Prolog code either because it&#x27;s an ancient niche language, IDE and docs and everything else is probably terrible.</text></comment> |
36,893,593 | 36,893,554 | 1 | 2 | 36,892,451 | train | <story><title>EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bundling</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/27/23797305/microsoft-teams-eu-antitrust-investigation-office-bundling-slack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exceptione</author><text>The bad thing: Teams would never have gotten any success without malpractice. The product is an incredible horror show, all competition easily crushed Teams. They are smart and counted on lazy admins.<p>How are you going to compensate competitors? The problem is that over and over again, companies like MS have already accounted for the fine in their planning.<p>If we want to end this practice, regulators need to deal a crippling blow to MS. Forbid for the next 15 years to provide any solution in the realm of messaging. Hand out a fine so high that it breaks the company and will lead to executives being sued by shareholders.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bundling</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/27/23797305/microsoft-teams-eu-antitrust-investigation-office-bundling-slack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>irusensei</author><text>I think the real victims here are us normal people who have to deal with the terrible quality of that software.<p>It was a good choice for whoever is picking the software and Microsoft is not worried at all in trying to improve it because they know people will swallow it.<p>Unless I have no option I&#x27;m not working anymore for any company that uses Teams.</text></comment> |
13,358,214 | 13,357,805 | 1 | 3 | 13,354,852 | train | <story><title>Just how smart is an octopus?</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/just-how-smart-is-an-octopus/2017/01/06/a2f1ed22-acd0-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>komali2</author><text>Total anecdote here, but when I volunteered at our aquarium in Charleston, SC (amazing aquarium, go check it out), we had a problem where our flounder were vanishing from their tank. We suspected theft and so put a camera up in the back room. The next time flounder disappeared we checked the feed - one of our octopi was escaping from his tank that we thought we had already anti-octopus&#x27;d, climbing over the walls, breaking into the flounder tank, eating a flounder, and then <i>breaking back out of the flounder tank and back into his</i>.<p>The weird thing isn&#x27;t that he went to go eat a flounder, it&#x27;s that he broke back into his own tank after, leaving us scratching our head for weeks over where the flounder were going. Obviously if we came in one day to see an octopus in the flounder tank the mystery would be solved day 1.<p>Anyway we put carpet on the walls so his little suckers couldn&#x27;t stick and let him carouse around the aquarium like some sort of aquatic monkey.</text></comment> | <story><title>Just how smart is an octopus?</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/just-how-smart-is-an-octopus/2017/01/06/a2f1ed22-acd0-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>platz</author><text>Weird pupils let octopuses see their colorful gardens (berkeley.edu)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13084534" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13084534</a></text></comment> |
23,965,932 | 23,964,712 | 1 | 3 | 23,963,998 | train | <story><title>Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53450688</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hosh</author><text>I like solar and all, but I will say that just looking at the farming practices of these growers, this transformation will likely be shortlived (I am thinking in terms of generations, not in terms of seasons). Yes, the solar allows people to rapidly deploy solar to use as pumps, but those pumps are also depleting the aquifer. They are probably not putting anything back into the aquifer with practices such as rainwater harvesting (earthworks and improving infiltration, rather than rain barrels).<p>In metro Phoenix, AZ (here in the States) we have been seeing something similar as the deep water have been drying up. Arizona is at the bottom of the water rights (from the Colorado river), and people’s solutions have been to install an electric pump to get at the water. With so many people draining off of the aquifer, people who have been depending on the water have been having difficulty with getting consistent water. Many of them are finding that they have to try to sell the property. What they have <i>not</i> been doing are things like, capturing the rain that does come to the region to irrigate crops or landscape; use of greywater; use of a composting toilet (which cleans waste with the carbon cycle rather than the hydrologic cycle), and otherwise conserve <i>drinking</i> and <i>cooking</i> water. Tuscon, AZ and Flagstaff, AZ have residents and public policies in place that does a much better job with this than Phoenix.<p>With cheap solar added to the mix, what will happen is that it hastens the aquifer depletion.<p>So those poppy farmers are not thinking with whole systems or thinking in the long term. On the other hand, if they were thinking in the long term, they probably would not be growing poppy as a cash crop in the first place. Perhaps small batches to make high quality anesthesia for local use, as part of of a more diverse crop. You don’t kill off your aquifer, and you don’t make something that will kill off your customers. You’d have nothing left.<p>My conclusion is that that the market forces, while transformative, is also very limited and short-sighted, and there are better ways for humans to interact with each other.</text></comment> | <story><title>Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53450688</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>curiousllama</author><text>Super cool, but not going to solve the question of renewable energy at scale.<p>Farmers have been doing things like this for generations. American Homesteaders - settlers of the sometimes-rather-arid Great Plains in the US - used windmills for exactly this purpose in the 1800s.<p>We know renewable energy is super useful under specific circumstances (remote&#x2F;underdeveloped electrical grid, low power, low need for consistency). Another example in the US is emergency phones on the highway - solar panels power those too, and have for a decade or more.<p>The critical question is whether it can overcome those specific circumstances and be useful in developed electrical grids with strong needs for high power and consistency.</text></comment> |
11,652,501 | 11,652,361 | 1 | 3 | 11,652,077 | train | <story><title>MSVC CRT Sneaks in Telemetry by Default?</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4hoyzr/msvc_mutex_is_slower_than_you_might_expect/d2thalz</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anaisbetts</author><text>Lots of things inside Windows emit ETW events, which is Windows equivalent of DTrace (basically the entire OS, and .NET), it&#x27;s super useful for debugging performance related events. It&#x27;s not &quot;Telemetry&quot; like Google Analytics, it&#x27;s for _you_ to debug your own programs.<p>The easiest way to view the output of them is via WPA, you can watch some videos about it at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;library&#x2F;windows&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;hh448170.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;library&#x2F;windows&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;hh...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>MSVC CRT Sneaks in Telemetry by Default?</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4hoyzr/msvc_mutex_is_slower_than_you_might_expect/d2thalz</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryuuchin</author><text>Just to mirror what&#x27;s in the reddit thread the quick &quot;fix&quot; for this is to simply link to notelemetry.obj just as you would with the other small obj files included in the CRT lib directory[1]. Oddly notelemetry.obj is missing from their list.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;library&#x2F;ms235330.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;library&#x2F;ms235330.aspx</a></text></comment> |
6,041,333 | 6,041,287 | 1 | 2 | 6,040,182 | train | <story><title>About the Reuters article</title><url>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/13/reuters-article-dead-man-s-switch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Did Greenwald just say that Snowden has documents that could cause grievous harm the United States, and that he may have set up a dead man&#x27;s switch that would cause them to be published should any harm come to Snowden?<p>Three possibilities I can see:<p>(1) Greenwald really can&#x27;t think even one move ahead and see that he&#x27;s just published a reason for any number of US adversaries to kill his source.<p>(2) Greenwald understands the implications of what he&#x27;s published but is, owing to his own incentives, fine with the idea of his source being killed<p>(3) Greenwald doesn&#x27;t believe what he&#x27;s saying and isn&#x27;t meant to be taken seriously.<p>Cards on the table: that guy could be reporting that water is wet and I&#x27;d still have him in bucket (3). Although now you kind of hope the freakshow government in North Korea is smart enough to bucket him the same way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigil</author><text>(5) Greenwald is thinking two moves ahead. Now that US adversaries have a motive to kill his source, the US finally has a motive to protect his source.</text></comment> | <story><title>About the Reuters article</title><url>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/13/reuters-article-dead-man-s-switch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Did Greenwald just say that Snowden has documents that could cause grievous harm the United States, and that he may have set up a dead man&#x27;s switch that would cause them to be published should any harm come to Snowden?<p>Three possibilities I can see:<p>(1) Greenwald really can&#x27;t think even one move ahead and see that he&#x27;s just published a reason for any number of US adversaries to kill his source.<p>(2) Greenwald understands the implications of what he&#x27;s published but is, owing to his own incentives, fine with the idea of his source being killed<p>(3) Greenwald doesn&#x27;t believe what he&#x27;s saying and isn&#x27;t meant to be taken seriously.<p>Cards on the table: that guy could be reporting that water is wet and I&#x27;d still have him in bucket (3). Although now you kind of hope the freakshow government in North Korea is smart enough to bucket him the same way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grandalf</author><text>I find your numbered options fairly absurd.<p>The US has let Snowden linger in the Moscow airport, likely hoping that he&#x27;ll do something stupid due to the stress.<p>By reminding everyone of the dead man switch, Snowden (via Greenwald) reminds the US that both have a shared interest in Snowden&#x27;s asylum bid moving along smoothly.<p>Your conjecture above depends entirely on the idea that Snowden is unsafe at the Moscow airport.</text></comment> |
19,343,403 | 19,342,790 | 1 | 2 | 19,338,822 | train | <story><title>Investigating the 900GB “Collection #1-5” password leaks with R</title><url>https://timogrossenbacher.ch/2019/03/big-data-journalism-with-spark-and-r/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aw3c2</author><text>&gt; We’re talking about 31 million lines of data here (all lines with Swiss email addresses in the leak). On our workstation, reducing this to the distinct email addresses (approx. 3,3 million) took a mere 10.099 seconds (4 + 6 + .099).<p>That&#x27;s just 700MB of data... On my 5 year old middle-class PC this took 12 seconds with sort and uniq.<p><pre><code> $ wc -l email30m
31000000 email30m
$ time sort email30m | uniq &gt; email30m.uniq
real 0m11.498s
user 0m33.833s
sys 0m0.933s
$ wc -l email30m.uniq
2172320 email30m.uniq
</code></pre>
This automatically split the task into all available CPU cores.</text></comment> | <story><title>Investigating the 900GB “Collection #1-5” password leaks with R</title><url>https://timogrossenbacher.ch/2019/03/big-data-journalism-with-spark-and-r/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>girst</author><text>You can actually get a lot just from grep (well, zgrep, which searches compressed files)<p><pre><code> zgrep -A &#x27;@\[^.]\+\.ch&#x27; &#x2F;path&#x2F;to&#x2F;collections&#x2F;**&#x2F;*.gz
</code></pre>
will spit out (almost) all swiss email addresses. sprinkle some grep -v, wc and sort|uniq here and there and bob&#x27;s your uncle :-)<p>(I&#x27;m in no way trying to dismiss the efforts--my method won&#x27;t get you as much detail, but is enough to find you and your friends who asked to be searched in the dumps)</text></comment> |
39,876,076 | 39,875,406 | 1 | 3 | 39,874,583 | train | <story><title>How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform</title><url>https://graphite.dev/blog/github-monopoly-on-code-hosting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markphip</author><text>Something this misses is that the mentality of OSS was just different before GitHub.<p>The thought from the original growth of OSS was that it would be more about the community than the code. So OSS would be a series of communities that would each have their own &quot;identity&quot; for their community. There were big OSS foundations like Apache and Eclipse. Sun had several like java.net, OpenOffice.org and netbeans.org. Gnome had their own place etc.<p>Like Sun, other enterprises like HP, Oracle and IBM were setting up their own communities for their projects and to collaborate with partners.<p>And then as the post touches on there were sites like SourceForge, Tigris.org, Google Code and Microsoft had something too (CodePlex?). These sites were places projects might spin up if they did not belong at one of the other foundations and wanted a place to host their code for free. Of these SourceForge was often used for distribution of binaries due to its vast mirror network and often that was all that was hosted there and the project was elsewhere.<p>Anyway, until GitHub sprang up and started to consolidate all the OSS in one place, I do not think anyone else was even really trying to do this. Obviously the rise of git played a big role in this. This change fueled the growth of OSS but it did kind of come at the cost of losing out on some of the community aspects that existed before in the mailing lists and forums of these other places. Now collaboration all happens in PR&#x27;s and Issue and is often just between a small handful of people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pimlottc</author><text>I think this is a good point, and also part of the larger trend of Internet activity moving to centralized providers. Users are now habituated to look for an existing platform to host their content, whether that&#x27;s video (YouTube&#x2F;Tiktok), blog posts (Medium&#x2F;Substack), hot takes (X&#x2F;Threads) or code (Github). It doesn&#x27;t even occur to most people that there&#x27;s another way to do it. They see these companies as just part of the public infrastructure of the Internet.</text></comment> | <story><title>How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform</title><url>https://graphite.dev/blog/github-monopoly-on-code-hosting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markphip</author><text>Something this misses is that the mentality of OSS was just different before GitHub.<p>The thought from the original growth of OSS was that it would be more about the community than the code. So OSS would be a series of communities that would each have their own &quot;identity&quot; for their community. There were big OSS foundations like Apache and Eclipse. Sun had several like java.net, OpenOffice.org and netbeans.org. Gnome had their own place etc.<p>Like Sun, other enterprises like HP, Oracle and IBM were setting up their own communities for their projects and to collaborate with partners.<p>And then as the post touches on there were sites like SourceForge, Tigris.org, Google Code and Microsoft had something too (CodePlex?). These sites were places projects might spin up if they did not belong at one of the other foundations and wanted a place to host their code for free. Of these SourceForge was often used for distribution of binaries due to its vast mirror network and often that was all that was hosted there and the project was elsewhere.<p>Anyway, until GitHub sprang up and started to consolidate all the OSS in one place, I do not think anyone else was even really trying to do this. Obviously the rise of git played a big role in this. This change fueled the growth of OSS but it did kind of come at the cost of losing out on some of the community aspects that existed before in the mailing lists and forums of these other places. Now collaboration all happens in PR&#x27;s and Issue and is often just between a small handful of people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asveikau</author><text>I recall that sourceforge gave you an SVN repo and an issue tracker, so it was kind of a hub for running your project. What made GitHub stand out was easy forking, and the pull request code review UI, and slick source history UI. A lot of this was aided by the technical innovation of using git and making git such a central piece.</text></comment> |
7,461,989 | 7,461,768 | 1 | 2 | 7,461,378 | train | <story><title>Box S-1 Filing</title><url>http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372612/000119312514112417/d642425ds1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3am</author><text>Yeah, the gross margins are telling just part of the story - the sales &amp; marketing scaling with revenue looks scary. I don&#x27;t think a company with a p&amp;l looking like that would necessarily want to go public. I see it that they&#x27;ve either 1) exhausted venture money, aren&#x27;t an acquisition target, and see the public offering as funding of last resort because they&#x27;re nowhere close to being profitable or 2) they see this as very close to a market top and are rushing to take the company public before the music stops. I don&#x27;t like either very much.<p>edit: I should make it clear, I&#x27;m just repeating your point for emphasis in my first sentence. I&#x27;m in agreement with your whole post.</text></item><item><author>antr</author><text><i>On the IPO:</i><p>Nice gross profit margin growth from 67% to 79%, but now we know where vc money went: sales &amp; marketing.<p>Profitability seems very very very far away, and in my opinion Box is not a buy for the average Joe. It seems to me that revenues are extremely dependent on marketing, as per &quot;50% of the net proceeds in sales and marketing activities&quot;. Now that we can hear cloud storage war drums from afar I don&#x27;t see this expense item going down any time soon. This IPO isn&#x27;t going to be cheap, at whatever valuation CS, MS and JP come up with.<p><i>On the VC&#x2F;Tech industry&#x27;s double standards:</i><p>Funny how an investors ask and drill down startups on their customer acquisition costs, customer lifetime value, user &amp; customer numbers, etc. and none of that information is made available on the S-1, the document that should really be the &quot;bible&quot; for any investor. I guess the public market is going to get the short end of the stick again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>001sky</author><text><i>&quot;I see it that they&#x27;ve either 1) exhausted venture money, aren&#x27;t an acquisition target, and see the public offering as funding of last resort because they&#x27;re nowhere close to being profitable or 2) they see this as very close to a market top and are rushing to take the company public before the music stops. I don&#x27;t like either very much.&quot;</i><p>They (Box) just raised ($100MM, Dec&#x2F;13) a month or two before this was filed. The market, however, is very ripe[1] and the IPO marketers are likely advising them to take it public. The Last round is basically a mezz round ($2B valuation) and if they flip this thing for 1.5x to 2.0x in 6 months those guys are going to be happy. The cash burn on the P&amp;L is $14&#x2F;month and $350MM would last 24 months, enough to inflect if its a real biz. Closer to inflection, a Secondary raise will generate liquidity for the remaining insiders. Given the uncertainty with the FED&#x27;s propping up of QE, its not a bad idea if you are the #N player to not wait (risk of backwash&#x2F;turbulence if the others take all investor appetite), given that its a two-stage exit for most IPOs these days.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/101425809" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;101425809</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Box S-1 Filing</title><url>http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372612/000119312514112417/d642425ds1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3am</author><text>Yeah, the gross margins are telling just part of the story - the sales &amp; marketing scaling with revenue looks scary. I don&#x27;t think a company with a p&amp;l looking like that would necessarily want to go public. I see it that they&#x27;ve either 1) exhausted venture money, aren&#x27;t an acquisition target, and see the public offering as funding of last resort because they&#x27;re nowhere close to being profitable or 2) they see this as very close to a market top and are rushing to take the company public before the music stops. I don&#x27;t like either very much.<p>edit: I should make it clear, I&#x27;m just repeating your point for emphasis in my first sentence. I&#x27;m in agreement with your whole post.</text></item><item><author>antr</author><text><i>On the IPO:</i><p>Nice gross profit margin growth from 67% to 79%, but now we know where vc money went: sales &amp; marketing.<p>Profitability seems very very very far away, and in my opinion Box is not a buy for the average Joe. It seems to me that revenues are extremely dependent on marketing, as per &quot;50% of the net proceeds in sales and marketing activities&quot;. Now that we can hear cloud storage war drums from afar I don&#x27;t see this expense item going down any time soon. This IPO isn&#x27;t going to be cheap, at whatever valuation CS, MS and JP come up with.<p><i>On the VC&#x2F;Tech industry&#x27;s double standards:</i><p>Funny how an investors ask and drill down startups on their customer acquisition costs, customer lifetime value, user &amp; customer numbers, etc. and none of that information is made available on the S-1, the document that should really be the &quot;bible&quot; for any investor. I guess the public market is going to get the short end of the stick again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>not_that_noob</author><text>I agree on the S&amp;M expenses. What&#x27;s scarier is that this is a very competitive fairly undifferentiated market, which means you can&#x27;t live without salespeople. Which means they&#x27;re going to hit the wall at some point, because as it stands right now, they are spending about $1.40 in sales ALONE to bring in $1 of revenue. Now that&#x27;s scary.</text></comment> |
30,882,763 | 30,882,000 | 1 | 3 | 30,879,442 | train | <story><title>Seriously, Stop Using RSA (2019)</title><url>https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/08/fuck-rsa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danenania</author><text>EnvKey[1] moved from OpenPGP (RSA) to NaCl[2] for its v2, which recently launched.<p>It’s causing a difficult migration for our v1 users. Moving to a new encryption scheme is <i>not fun</i> for a product with client-side end-to-end encryption.<p>But within a year or so of releasing the v1, it seemed like the writing was on the wall for OpenPGP and RSA. I didn&#x27;t want to go down with a dying standard.<p>NaCl is <i>so much better</i>. In spite of the migration headaches that will likely cost us some users, I&#x27;m very happy I made this decision. It&#x27;s so much faster, lighter, and more intuitive.<p>It’s legitimately fun to work with, which I never thought I’d say about an encryption library after cutting my teeth on OpenPGP.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;envkey&#x2F;envkey" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;envkey&#x2F;envkey</a><p>2 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nacl.cr.yp.to" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nacl.cr.yp.to</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Seriously, Stop Using RSA (2019)</title><url>https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/08/fuck-rsa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frostburg</author><text>This is all true, but reads funny to me because I&#x27;ve implemented an intentionally vulnerable version of RSA and still had issues getting timing attacks to work on modern hardware (due to lack of sophistication in my approach, I think).</text></comment> |
32,955,209 | 32,955,304 | 1 | 3 | 32,950,204 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?</title><text>Hi all. We&#x27;ve been playing a silly little game with my wife lately: we send each other messages about some topic we never talk about and then wait for ads related to our conversation to start showing up in Instagram. As of the last month, they never fail to show up.<p>Please keep in mind that this is a conversation between two &quot;personal&quot; accounts, no business accounts involved. More so, we haven&#x27;t accepted the new terms of use that &quot;allowed&quot; WhatsApp to access messages between personal accounts and business accounts.<p>Is WhatsApp scanning personal messages to target their ads as we are noticing? Weren&#x27;t WhatsApp messages end to end encrypted? Is this a violation of their Terms of Use or am I missing something silly?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>xerxesaa</author><text>As someone who has actually worked on end to end encryption at Meta, I can tell you I am not aware of anything where the company reads your WhatsApp messages - either in transit or device. The company takes fairly serious measures to ensure it cannot even accidentally infer such contents.<p>I don&#x27;t know what is happening in this specific case. Perhaps the ads came from some other similar search queries. Perhaps they came from the keyboard intercepting what was typed. Or perhaps something else that I can&#x27;t think of. But I&#x27;m nearly certain it did not come from meta intercepting the contents of your messages.<p>It&#x27;s hard to convince people at this point because many have lost trust in Meta as a company, and I understand that. But I still find it stunning that so many people are making so many false claims without any actual knowledge to back it up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daqhris</author><text>Thanks for your explanation.<p>I didn&#x27;t have in mind the scenario of a keyboard logging user inputs besides the normal functionality of WhatsApp. I find this theory to be very plausible. Not at all happy with Meta&#x27;s privacy policy, but I agree that it is worth considering other threats.<p>From using a VPN that logs all incoming and outgoing traffic (NetGuard) on an Android One device, I&#x27;ve noticied that the default Google keyboard gets in touch way too many times with some distant servers. Whereas, an open source keyboard from F-Droid, FlorisBoard, does no snooping and gets updated solely through the app store.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?</title><text>Hi all. We&#x27;ve been playing a silly little game with my wife lately: we send each other messages about some topic we never talk about and then wait for ads related to our conversation to start showing up in Instagram. As of the last month, they never fail to show up.<p>Please keep in mind that this is a conversation between two &quot;personal&quot; accounts, no business accounts involved. More so, we haven&#x27;t accepted the new terms of use that &quot;allowed&quot; WhatsApp to access messages between personal accounts and business accounts.<p>Is WhatsApp scanning personal messages to target their ads as we are noticing? Weren&#x27;t WhatsApp messages end to end encrypted? Is this a violation of their Terms of Use or am I missing something silly?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>xerxesaa</author><text>As someone who has actually worked on end to end encryption at Meta, I can tell you I am not aware of anything where the company reads your WhatsApp messages - either in transit or device. The company takes fairly serious measures to ensure it cannot even accidentally infer such contents.<p>I don&#x27;t know what is happening in this specific case. Perhaps the ads came from some other similar search queries. Perhaps they came from the keyboard intercepting what was typed. Or perhaps something else that I can&#x27;t think of. But I&#x27;m nearly certain it did not come from meta intercepting the contents of your messages.<p>It&#x27;s hard to convince people at this point because many have lost trust in Meta as a company, and I understand that. But I still find it stunning that so many people are making so many false claims without any actual knowledge to back it up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>5d8767c68926</author><text>Meta has repeatedly demonstrated they will do whatever it takes to capture user data. Kid VPNs, in app browsers, etc. Is it any surprise that people are deeply suspicious of any coincidences that arise from using a supposedly private channel.?<p>Given evidence at hand, it is hard to view Meta as anything but a bad actor.</text></comment> |
6,944,569 | 6,943,330 | 1 | 3 | 6,942,656 | train | <story><title>Canada's top court has overturned all restrictions on prostitution</title><url>http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/12/canada-lifts-all-restrictions-prostitution-2013122015318412319.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw266</author><text>Given the immense distress that most trans people seem to experience, I wonder if we (and they) wouldn&#x27;t be better off if the culture were less supportive of those lifestyles.<p>I had some inclinations that way as a teenager, and I am SO glad I wasn&#x27;t living in San Francisco or some other place that would encourage me to &quot;be me&quot;.</text></item><item><author>undoware</author><text>Fun experiment for you. Go out and get a facial tattoo. Now try to get work. That&#x27;s still easier than finding honest work when you&#x27;re transsexual. Don&#x27;t believe me? I can think of an even more decisive experiment...</text></item><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text>There is a middle ground. It&#x27;s not &quot;either I work using my brain, or I whore myself out.&quot; Many women are waitresses, shopping mall sweepers, store attendants, cashiers, you name it.</text></item><item><author>undoware</author><text>I&#x27;m heartened by the response to this, both on Hacker News and elsewhere.<p>Being a trans woman in IT is a bit weird -- because I can do incredible things with my mind, I&#x27;m off the hook my sisters are on, that makes them have to hook.<p>Several roommates ago, I literally came home and found that my (also trans) roommate, who in addition to being trans was also dealing with immigration and had recently lost her job and had begun turning tricks at home. Had I not come home early from the university, I wouldn&#x27;t have known.<p>And I&#x27;ve always hated the Canadian legal system for making me kick her out. Because just being her roommate, under the previous legislation, would have classified as &#x27;living off the avails&#x27; and would have made me legally indistinguishable from her pimp. Just for being her roommate.<p>That&#x27;s the sort of pauperizing, soul-crushing bullshit that you never, ever forget.<p>Also, I&#x27;m a big fan of Katrina Pacey, the lawyer mentioned in the article. I&#x27;ve worked with her a few times on activist stuff (I got into sex worker advocacy after my up-close-and-personal. They can&#x27;t do it themselves, they go to prison when they try. Well, before today. Go Katrina Pacey! Go Canadian legal system!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tesseractive</author><text>I&#x27;m going to give you an alternate perspective. I&#x27;m in my 40s. I &quot;had some inclinations that way&quot; too. I listened to everyone who told me that people like that are disgusting freaks, and I tried to keep it suppressed for a long time now, denying it to myself and trying to act &quot;normal,&quot; like society expects me to be.<p>Now it&#x27;s way later and I&#x27;m kind of at the end of my rope with long-term clinical depression. I&#x27;m pretty sure that within the next few years it&#x27;s going to come down to a choice between killing myself and transitioning. Only now, my transition options are way worse and I picked up some dependents along the way who are going to be incredibly hurt either way.<p>Maybe I can keep it going like this somehow until I reach the natural end of my miserable life, and for the sake of the people depending on me, I will keep trying. But every year it gets harder and harder to make myself get out of bed and face life hiding inside the shell of a person I&#x27;m pretending to be.<p>So, in my considered opinion, no, I don&#x27;t think anyone would be better off if there were more people like me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Canada's top court has overturned all restrictions on prostitution</title><url>http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/12/canada-lifts-all-restrictions-prostitution-2013122015318412319.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw266</author><text>Given the immense distress that most trans people seem to experience, I wonder if we (and they) wouldn&#x27;t be better off if the culture were less supportive of those lifestyles.<p>I had some inclinations that way as a teenager, and I am SO glad I wasn&#x27;t living in San Francisco or some other place that would encourage me to &quot;be me&quot;.</text></item><item><author>undoware</author><text>Fun experiment for you. Go out and get a facial tattoo. Now try to get work. That&#x27;s still easier than finding honest work when you&#x27;re transsexual. Don&#x27;t believe me? I can think of an even more decisive experiment...</text></item><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text>There is a middle ground. It&#x27;s not &quot;either I work using my brain, or I whore myself out.&quot; Many women are waitresses, shopping mall sweepers, store attendants, cashiers, you name it.</text></item><item><author>undoware</author><text>I&#x27;m heartened by the response to this, both on Hacker News and elsewhere.<p>Being a trans woman in IT is a bit weird -- because I can do incredible things with my mind, I&#x27;m off the hook my sisters are on, that makes them have to hook.<p>Several roommates ago, I literally came home and found that my (also trans) roommate, who in addition to being trans was also dealing with immigration and had recently lost her job and had begun turning tricks at home. Had I not come home early from the university, I wouldn&#x27;t have known.<p>And I&#x27;ve always hated the Canadian legal system for making me kick her out. Because just being her roommate, under the previous legislation, would have classified as &#x27;living off the avails&#x27; and would have made me legally indistinguishable from her pimp. Just for being her roommate.<p>That&#x27;s the sort of pauperizing, soul-crushing bullshit that you never, ever forget.<p>Also, I&#x27;m a big fan of Katrina Pacey, the lawyer mentioned in the article. I&#x27;ve worked with her a few times on activist stuff (I got into sex worker advocacy after my up-close-and-personal. They can&#x27;t do it themselves, they go to prison when they try. Well, before today. Go Katrina Pacey! Go Canadian legal system!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>Since the distress is solely caused by the the culture being &quot;less supportive of those lifestyles,&quot; I think that will do the opposite of help.<p>Also, we&#x27;d become less supportive of minority religions according to that rationale - and ignore racial discrimination as an impossible problem.</text></comment> |
30,233,177 | 30,232,642 | 1 | 2 | 30,232,353 | train | <story><title>FBI used geofence warrant in Seattle after BLM protest attack, documents show</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/5/22918487/fbi-geofence-seattle-blm-protest-police-guild-attack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>doodlebugging</author><text>According to the article they have surveillance camera video showing the incident. That should be time-stamped with a reasonably accurate time and their physical location should be determinable with good accuracy from the video alone.<p>I do not see why the warrant requests data over such a long time frame. It seems likely to me that you could identify the perps from the mobile phone records by simply limiting the warrant request to 5 minutes before and 10 minutes after the event. There will be less data to sift through and the longer window after the event will allow you to track them to a vehicle or a nearby residence, etc. If the perps were carrying phones then they should be identifiable.<p>This warrant is overly broad and will pull innocent people into the investigation including people who may not have been participants but who may have only been in the neighborhood while it was happening and just decided to stop and take a few pictures to pass on to people in their social circles. (Social media cancer sufferers unite!).<p>A crime was committed and it is right to make an effort to locate and prosecute those responsible so that society has an opportunity to hold people accountable for their actions.<p>Once you dig into this you find another situation where it is true that if event A had never happened, then the likelihood of event B occurring is near zero. This event is the event B and in order for justice to be served, those who were involved in event A need to be held accountable. Committing crimes in an attempt to force accountability will not improve the situation for anyone and will likely only result in someone who would otherwise have enjoyed a happy, productive life being locked up for a crime of passion that should never have happened (event B).<p>We need technology that erodes the thin blue line serving as a refuge for cowards seeking to escape accountability for their crimes. Molotov cocktails chunked at a police station will never be that technology. I don&#x27;t know what it looks like but there are some smart people on this forum who may have useful ideas to promote.</text></comment> | <story><title>FBI used geofence warrant in Seattle after BLM protest attack, documents show</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/5/22918487/fbi-geofence-seattle-blm-protest-police-guild-attack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>batch12</author><text>This article has some concerning practices, but I can&#x27;t help but see it as anything other than ragebait.</text></comment> |
29,131,843 | 29,132,066 | 1 | 2 | 29,131,254 | train | <story><title>What collective narcissism does to society</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/11/group-narcissism/620632/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>Although the article makes an explicit distinction between tribalism and group narcissism it&#x27;s not clear to me what it is or why the latter deserves to be treated like a distinct phenomenon.<p>In particular given the example of Portuguese people who have antagonistic reactions to Germany in the EU. Seems to me the pretty straightforward explanation is material&#x2F;political. There is conflict of interest within an institution for power, and if anything the psychological narcissism is at best an epiphenomenon. It doesn&#x27;t seem irrational. Instead of trying to get people to &#x27;unlearn&#x27; their behaviour it seems like the more straightforward way is to resolve the conflict by devolving power or something.<p>Same with the other example of US polarization. There is real material interests underpinning the groupings.</text></comment> | <story><title>What collective narcissism does to society</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/11/group-narcissism/620632/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jl6</author><text>Although the description of the phenomenon sounds plausible - it triggers the “oh yeah, I’ve definitely met one of <i>those</i> types” reflex - the incredibly broad set of examples makes me question the idea’s explanatory power.<p>We’re offered everything from terrorists and racists through to sports teams and gender identity.<p>&gt; Now, she said, she’s terrified at how widely she’s finding it manifested across the globe.<p>If it’s everywhere, maybe it’s just part of the normal variation of human personality?</text></comment> |
9,055,978 | 9,055,127 | 1 | 2 | 9,054,795 | train | <story><title>Deb.haskell.org Security Breach</title><url>https://status.haskell.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kfreds</author><text>The most important information is missing - did the attackers get the package signing key? The comment &quot;the window for package compromise was very very small&quot; is a bit ambiguous.<p>That the security of package integrity is so fragile should greatly concern all of us. Almost all big Linux distributions rely on downloading compiled packages signed by a single key. If the build system is compromised your Linux distribution of choice will happily give you trojaned packages that you install as root. If the signing key is compromised a man-in-the-middle is required, but the difficulty to mount an attack is decreased due to the fact that most repositories don&#x27;t transport over TLS.<p>The situation can be improved in many ways. By making the build process deterministic many parties can compile the same package and compare the result, alerting the community if one of the build systems report a different checksum. Package managers like apt and yum should be extended with the ability to rely on signatures from multiple parties.<p>The Tor Project, Debian and Fedora has started working on the first problem, but I don&#x27;t know of any efforts to support multi-sig.<p><a href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-one-cyberwar-and-global-compromise" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.torproject.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;deterministic-builds-part-o...</a><p><a href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-two-technical-details" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.torproject.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;deterministic-builds-part-t...</a><p><a href="https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;ReproducibleBuilds</a><p><a href="https://securityblog.redhat.com/2013/09/18/reproducible-builds-for-fedora/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;securityblog.redhat.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;18&#x2F;reproducible-buil...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Deb.haskell.org Security Breach</title><url>https://status.haskell.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tdicola</author><text>I&#x27;ve been looking at hosting some apt packages in a custom repo and am truly impressed&#x2F;horrified by the layers of complexity necessary &amp; suggested to create one. It boggles my mind why an apt host has to be more than a static list of files that are hosted on S3, raw github, etc. Running and maintaining a full blown server just to host some files seems crazy.</text></comment> |
16,707,762 | 16,706,777 | 1 | 3 | 16,704,480 | train | <story><title>SoftBank Group and Saudi Arabia plan to spend $200B building a solar power plant</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/28/softbank-group-and-saudi-arabia-plan-to-spend-200-billion-building-the-worlds-biggest-solar-power-plant/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lewis500</author><text>I always look for the surprising angles in a development of this kind: the knock-on effects. Given 200GW of capacity, in Saudi Arabia, on some days there will be endless electricity.<p>What I&#x27;m thinking is that this will lead to innovation in industrial processes that can productively use a lot of energy in a 4-8 hour window...something you can turn on in a big way and then turn off. Such a process effectively &quot;stores&quot; the energy in the product. The larger the electricity share of such a process, the closer the marginal cost gets to zero during sunny times.<p>Most modern industrial processes aren&#x27;t like that: either they&#x27;re not very power constrained (e.g., a toy factory) or they need the power to be on for a while (e.g., a steel mill). But then again it makes sense these are the types of processing we&#x27;ve perfected, since that&#x27;s the kind of power we&#x27;ve hard so far in large quantities (coal, nuclear).<p>Does anyone know of products that can be made quickly by the application of raw energy? I don&#x27;t know how desalination works, but (just as an example) if there were such a desalination process then Saudi Arabia could desalinate tremendous amounts of water and store it...or even export it to neighbors.<p>I am not so excited about the idea of a fundamentalist monarchy---one that is helping starve the poor Yemenis---getting even more power, but I am excited about the downstream innovations the fact of nearly-free electricity could potentially create. If SA invents such processes, then they could be copied in other places.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Robotbeat</author><text>To search for ideas of what would be a good candidate for soaking up excess electricity, look at capital cost per watt consumed:<p>For instance, if I have an efficient computer system that costs $100 for every watt consumed, it&#x27;s not going to make sense to run it only during that 20% of the time there&#x27;s excess electricity. The effective capital cost is then 5 times greater. I&#x27;d be better off investing in a battery and extra solar to allow it to run it 24&#x2F;7.<p>But if, instead, I have something which has incredibly low capital costs, like 10 cents per Watt consumed, and which can tolerate being shutdown and restarted, then even though it might only be operating 20% of the time, the effective capital cost is still just 50 cents per Watt, even cheaper than a battery capital cost. So it makes economic sense to use that to soak up the extra electricity demand.<p>This is why the key for hydrogen electrolysis isn&#x27;t so much efficiency but capital costs: a variable-renewables-heavy grid will have enormous amounts of excess electricity at times, but only for fairly brief periods. You can&#x27;t economically &quot;store&quot; that electricity using hydrogen if your electrolysis capital costs are so high you need to run your electrolysis cell 24&#x2F;7!<p>If you want to make the hydrogen economy a reality, FORGET about hydrogen cars. Focus on hydrogen electrolysis capital costs!!!</text></comment> | <story><title>SoftBank Group and Saudi Arabia plan to spend $200B building a solar power plant</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/28/softbank-group-and-saudi-arabia-plan-to-spend-200-billion-building-the-worlds-biggest-solar-power-plant/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lewis500</author><text>I always look for the surprising angles in a development of this kind: the knock-on effects. Given 200GW of capacity, in Saudi Arabia, on some days there will be endless electricity.<p>What I&#x27;m thinking is that this will lead to innovation in industrial processes that can productively use a lot of energy in a 4-8 hour window...something you can turn on in a big way and then turn off. Such a process effectively &quot;stores&quot; the energy in the product. The larger the electricity share of such a process, the closer the marginal cost gets to zero during sunny times.<p>Most modern industrial processes aren&#x27;t like that: either they&#x27;re not very power constrained (e.g., a toy factory) or they need the power to be on for a while (e.g., a steel mill). But then again it makes sense these are the types of processing we&#x27;ve perfected, since that&#x27;s the kind of power we&#x27;ve hard so far in large quantities (coal, nuclear).<p>Does anyone know of products that can be made quickly by the application of raw energy? I don&#x27;t know how desalination works, but (just as an example) if there were such a desalination process then Saudi Arabia could desalinate tremendous amounts of water and store it...or even export it to neighbors.<p>I am not so excited about the idea of a fundamentalist monarchy---one that is helping starve the poor Yemenis---getting even more power, but I am excited about the downstream innovations the fact of nearly-free electricity could potentially create. If SA invents such processes, then they could be copied in other places.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onetimemanytime</author><text>Great point. They&#x27;re not doing it to save the world or anything, they see dollar signs. As you said, they&#x27;ll desalinate enormous amounts of water, and that is life.<p>While $200b is about $200b more than virtually all of us have, all the Crown Prince has to do is hold another Ritz Carlton party. This time they know he&#x27;s serious so they&#x27;ll pay in a few days.</text></comment> |
37,582,798 | 37,581,465 | 1 | 2 | 37,581,132 | train | <story><title>OpenTF is now OpenTofu</title><url>https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/296#issuecomment-1727171446</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cube2222</author><text>Hey!
Interim tech lead of OpenTofu here.<p>I&#x27;d like to add that as of today (announced just now at OSS Bilbao) we&#x27;re officially part of the Linux Foundation[0]!<p>Hope you like the new name (it basically won the votes anywhere it was proposed) and happy to answer any questions!<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxfoundation.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;announcing-opentofu" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxfoundation.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;announcing-opentofu</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seabass-labrax</author><text>I&#x27;m impressed by the speed at which you&#x27;ve forked the project and brought up the new technical infrastructure. You mention that you are &#x27;interim tech lead&#x27;; what does interim mean in this context, and what is the governance structure for future leadership (and presumably your replacement)? Will OpenTofu have a self-selecting board? Or will it be democratic by vote, and if so, have suffrage by membership, participation or something else? Maybe top-down BDFL appointed by the Linux Foundation?<p>I am curious because your Manifesto states that as a result of LF stewardship the &#x27;community governs the project&#x27;. The LF is massive, with a much more extensive portfolio than most people think, and influential far beyond its staffing would indicate. There is a great range of governance models and community norms across its projects, and, as with many things in FOSS leadership, no easy answer to the question of which the best option is among those.<p>As tech lead, it is your responsibility to choose what model and venue OpenTofu will adopt to fulfil its promises sustainably; I hope and imagine that you have been given the authority to make these choices decisively. The stewardship of the Linux Foundation is not an automatic guarantee of success, and the resources that the LF can provide are significant, unusual in FOSS, and very difficult to use - and concerningly easy to abuse unless directed by clear leadership. I wish you all the best of luck in this challenging but exciting task, and am curious to discover how you intend to take this project forward into the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenTF is now OpenTofu</title><url>https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/296#issuecomment-1727171446</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cube2222</author><text>Hey!
Interim tech lead of OpenTofu here.<p>I&#x27;d like to add that as of today (announced just now at OSS Bilbao) we&#x27;re officially part of the Linux Foundation[0]!<p>Hope you like the new name (it basically won the votes anywhere it was proposed) and happy to answer any questions!<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxfoundation.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;announcing-opentofu" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxfoundation.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;announcing-opentofu</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notpushkin</author><text>Cute punny name, I like it. Congrats on joining the LF, and keep up the good work!</text></comment> |
16,560,278 | 16,560,091 | 1 | 2 | 16,559,715 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac</title><url>http://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-player-for-mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostgame</author><text>Features:
• not iTunes<p>You know, iTunes wasn’t so bad before they convoluted the UI&#x2F;UX to shit...looking at the music app on iOS 5-6 vs iOS 10-11 is like comparing a walkway to a labyrinth.<p>The amount of steps taken backwards in Apple’s UI &#x2F; UX is staggering. Even the simple replacement of the Spotlight bar from an unobtrusive widget in the top right corner to a giant box in the middle of the screen, directly covering your content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>I, and everyone I know, detest iTunes.<p>It has become the definition of feature creep, as it evolved from being a music manager&#x2F;player for iPod to being the full &quot;everything iPhone&quot; manager, including backups and system updates.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac</title><url>http://www.catnapgames.com/tiny-player-for-mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostgame</author><text>Features:
• not iTunes<p>You know, iTunes wasn’t so bad before they convoluted the UI&#x2F;UX to shit...looking at the music app on iOS 5-6 vs iOS 10-11 is like comparing a walkway to a labyrinth.<p>The amount of steps taken backwards in Apple’s UI &#x2F; UX is staggering. Even the simple replacement of the Spotlight bar from an unobtrusive widget in the top right corner to a giant box in the middle of the screen, directly covering your content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lbotos</author><text>You can drag it and move it wherever you want. I usually put mine in the top 2&#x2F;3rds of my screen as I&#x27;m a habitual &lt;cmd&gt;+space &lt;do math in spotlight&gt;</text></comment> |
20,176,715 | 20,176,861 | 1 | 2 | 20,176,274 | train | <story><title>1872 Journalists Killed between 1992 and 2019</title><url>https://cpj.org/data/killed/?status=Killed&motiveConfirmed%5B%5D=Confirmed&motiveUnconfirmed%5B%5D=Unconfirmed&type%5B%5D=Journalist&start_year=1992&end_year=2019&group_by=year</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>One of the first ones on the list from 1992 had an interesting backstory that&#x27;s still relevant today:<p>The Turkish government assassinated two journalists [1] [2] for uncovering the fact the Turkish gov (or likely intel agencies) were financially supporting and training Turkish Hezbollah terrorists in their special forces offices. Why? These Hezbollah guys were being used as irregular warfare militia to kill marxist PKK (they killed 500 PPK members), in between their normal terrorist activity of killing regular citizens for being secular.<p>Then in February 2019 [3] the government decided to let all 100 of them out of prison on some questionable legal grounds (that the old court who sentenced them was Gulen-connected). But when PKK fighters sent to jail by the same court tried to appeal, on the exact same legal grounds, they were rejected. So essentially the current Erdoğan gov&#x27;s policy is to openly support one terrorist group over others.<p>This is a classic example of Middle Eastern authoritarian regimes at work, where each one secretly support any number of sectarian groups when it suits their interests, while they ignore any tangental atrocities. Which was the waters Americans&#x2F;Russians both attempted to wade into and saw it backfire multiple times.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpj.org&#x2F;data&#x2F;people&#x2F;halit-gungen&#x2F;index.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpj.org&#x2F;data&#x2F;people&#x2F;halit-gungen&#x2F;index.php</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpj.org&#x2F;data&#x2F;people&#x2F;namik-taranci&#x2F;index.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cpj.org&#x2F;data&#x2F;people&#x2F;namik-taranci&#x2F;index.php</a><p>[3]
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipa.news&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;22&#x2F;100-members-of-the-turkish-hezbollah-group-released-report&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipa.news&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;22&#x2F;100-members-of-the-turkish-hezbo...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>1872 Journalists Killed between 1992 and 2019</title><url>https://cpj.org/data/killed/?status=Killed&motiveConfirmed%5B%5D=Confirmed&motiveUnconfirmed%5B%5D=Unconfirmed&type%5B%5D=Journalist&start_year=1992&end_year=2019&group_by=year</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>flexie</author><text>It&#x27;s terrible that journalists are killed. Press freedom is extremely important. But if these numbers are correct, they are probably good news. I don&#x27;t think there has been any other point in history where worldwide just 70 journalists were killed every year.<p>Again, if these numbers are correct, many other professions are far more exposed to politically or financially motivated violence (and the numbers cover many deaths that are not intentionally inflicted). Another way of saying it is that journalism is generally a very safe profession if these numbers are correct. Also, please note that a large part of the deaths occur in the same few countries.</text></comment> |
19,588,866 | 19,585,763 | 1 | 3 | 19,577,832 | train | <story><title>Inverse Live Coding: A practice for learning web development</title><url>https://computinged.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/inverse-live-coding-a-practice-for-teaching-web-development/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_57jb</author><text>Not meant to be an attack and possibly I am missing something but if I paid to take a course at a university and the person teaching it was only ever a step ahead of me at any time... I&#x27;d have never taken the course.<p>This style of teaching (I feel) gives the illusion of confidence that the student is on the right track although its barely more than blind leading the blind.<p>Possibly an unpopular opinion but I have been tricked by folks like this in the working world and academia...I feel it is the source of much of my frustration with CS as a profession.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inverse Live Coding: A practice for learning web development</title><url>https://computinged.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/inverse-live-coding-a-practice-for-teaching-web-development/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robert_tweed</author><text>This is a format that I&#x27;ve thought for some time would work exceptionally well in technical interviews: rather than ask a bunch of questions, have a small set of problems that start from a working piece of code in need of work.<p>This removes some of the subjectivity from a completely open-ended coding assignment, as well as reducing the amount of effort required, because you can do a few small problems rather than a single huge one that typically involves working over a weekend.<p>The only downside is it&#x27;s a lot more effort to set up than either an open assignment or a standard Q&amp;A-based interview. You don&#x27;t want to throw anyone into real production problems for a variety of reasons. The initial setup has to be understandable within a few minutes of code review.</text></comment> |
38,758,409 | 38,758,337 | 1 | 2 | 38,757,815 | train | <story><title>Mexico is now the 12th largest economy in the world</title><url>https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexico-is-now-the-12th-largest-economy-in-the-world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eatonphil</author><text>Demographics-wise it makes sense that Mexico passed South Korea and Australia. And long-term it&#x27;s projected Mexico will get up to 7th place by 2050.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;business&#x2F;these-will-be-the-32-most-powerful-economies-in-the-world-by-2050-a7587401.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;business&#x2F;these-will-be-th...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mexico is now the 12th largest economy in the world</title><url>https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexico-is-now-the-12th-largest-economy-in-the-world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bhpm</author><text>Texas’ proximity to Mexico is a dream for both. Cheap, clean energy, an abundance of workers, and a stable trading partner.</text></comment> |
33,434,764 | 33,435,071 | 1 | 2 | 33,433,783 | train | <story><title>Functional programming should be the future of software</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/functional-programming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zamalek</author><text>Functional programming won&#x27;t succeed until the tooling problem is fixed. &#x27;Tsoding&#x27; said it best: &quot;developers are great at making tooling, but suck at making programming languages. Mathematicians are great at making programming languages, but suck at making tooling.&quot; This is why Rust is such a success story in my opinion: it is heavily influenced by FP, but developers are responsible for the tooling.<p>Anecdotally, the tooling is why I gave up on Ocaml (given Rust&#x27;s ML roots, I was seriously interested) and Haskell. I <i>seriously</i> couldn&#x27;t figure out the idiomatic Ocaml workflow&#x2F;developer inner loop after more than a day of struggling. As for Haskell, I gave up maybe 20min in of waiting for deps to come down for a Dhall contribution I wanted to make.<p>Institutionally, it&#x27;s a hard sell if you need to train the whole team to just compile a project, vs. `make` or `cargo build` or `npm install &amp;&amp; npm build`.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agentultra</author><text>I think tsoding has the wrong idea here. Most mathematicians are not working on GHC or Haskell standards or even using Haskell. Most are still doing mathematics on pen and paper. Many use packages like Sage or Wolfram alpha. Few are using interactive theorem provers like Lean.<p>Haskell is a poor language to be doing mathematics in.<p>I’d say the majority of people working GHC are software developers and CS researchers. They’re a friendly bunch.<p>What’s holding back tooling is that the developers of the de-facto compiler for Haskell are spread out amongst several organizations and there isn’t tens of millions of dollars funding their efforts. It’s mostly run by volunteers. And not the volume of “volunteers” you get on GCC or the like either.<p>That makes GHC and Haskell quite impressive in my books.<p>There are other factors of course but the tooling is improving bit by bit.<p>The whole “Haskell is for research” meme needs to go into the dustbin.</text></comment> | <story><title>Functional programming should be the future of software</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/functional-programming</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zamalek</author><text>Functional programming won&#x27;t succeed until the tooling problem is fixed. &#x27;Tsoding&#x27; said it best: &quot;developers are great at making tooling, but suck at making programming languages. Mathematicians are great at making programming languages, but suck at making tooling.&quot; This is why Rust is such a success story in my opinion: it is heavily influenced by FP, but developers are responsible for the tooling.<p>Anecdotally, the tooling is why I gave up on Ocaml (given Rust&#x27;s ML roots, I was seriously interested) and Haskell. I <i>seriously</i> couldn&#x27;t figure out the idiomatic Ocaml workflow&#x2F;developer inner loop after more than a day of struggling. As for Haskell, I gave up maybe 20min in of waiting for deps to come down for a Dhall contribution I wanted to make.<p>Institutionally, it&#x27;s a hard sell if you need to train the whole team to just compile a project, vs. `make` or `cargo build` or `npm install &amp;&amp; npm build`.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zelphirkalt</author><text>You gave up using a programming language after a day? And Haskell after installing&#x2F;building some dependencies for 20mins? Tbh, this sounds like you were not really trying. What kind of experience with a programming language do you expect to have after a mere day? Learning takes time. Anyone might spew some not idiomatic code within a day, but really becoming proficient usually takes longer.<p>Do you have any references for the &quot;Rust is heavily influenced by FP&quot; thing? To me it does not feel that much FP. I have (for now) given up writing FP like code in Rust. ML-influence -- Yeah maybe, if I squint a bit.</text></comment> |
8,395,314 | 8,394,867 | 1 | 3 | 8,393,890 | train | <story><title>EC2 Maintenance Update II</title><url>http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-maintenance-update-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theonewolf</author><text>@jeffbarr I just wanted to say thanks for not only posting this, but also sticking around in the comments section. Makes you + Amazon seem way more human :-)<p>Also, in case you have any &quot;cloud servers&quot; you want to decommission: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8373394" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8373394</a></text></comment> | <story><title>EC2 Maintenance Update II</title><url>http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-maintenance-update-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>freshflowers</author><text>&quot;Pay attention to your Inbox and to the alerts on the AWS Management Console.&quot;<p>Especially with incidents like these (and other cases where instances are scheduled to be taken down), it really annoys me that AWS doesn&#x27;t offer any push alerts besides emailing the account owner.</text></comment> |
41,392,805 | 41,392,567 | 1 | 2 | 41,392,142 | train | <story><title>New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/new-2gb-pi-5-has-33-smaller-die-30-idle-power-savings</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alxjsn</author><text>I rather just buy used Lenovo Thinkcentere PCs on eBay. Way more power, cheaper and relatively small. There’s a lot of different CPU&#x2F;RAM&#x2F;DISK configurations you can find.<p>I’ve been buying these, throwing Fedora IoT, docker, and Tailscale on them and running them from different locations for personal projects.</text></comment> | <story><title>New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/new-2gb-pi-5-has-33-smaller-die-30-idle-power-savings</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0cf8612b2e1e</author><text><p><pre><code> Some of the power savings could be chalked up to less RAM, because more RAM requires more power. But that doesn&#x27;t explain all the results.
</code></pre>
Is there a calculation to estimate RAM power consumption? I keep wanting to get a low powered N100, and have been wondering if I use say 8 vs 16GB RAM, would that make a measurable power difference?</text></comment> |
6,721,661 | 6,720,978 | 1 | 2 | 6,720,621 | train | <story><title>The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal (1995)</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/15/magazine/the-great-ivy-league-nude-posture-photo-scandal.html?pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stephencanon</author><text>This story comes up every now and then; I have a hard time seeing it as a “scandal”. It’s nothing more than a piece of historical anatomical pseudoscience that happens to tickle the salacious fancies of puritan America with the proximity of “nudity” and the names of recognizable celebrities.<p>Might as well be phrenology otherwise.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal (1995)</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/15/magazine/the-great-ivy-league-nude-posture-photo-scandal.html?pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brador</author><text>I have a vague feeling of reading this on the new york times website years ago, it was a huge article. Looks like this is a reblogging?<p>Yup, from 1995: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/15/magazine/the-great-ivy-league-nude-posture-photo-scandal.html?pagewanted=all&amp;src=pm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1995&#x2F;01&#x2F;15&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;the-great-ivy-lea...</a></text></comment> |
32,305,327 | 32,304,443 | 1 | 2 | 32,303,986 | train | <story><title>Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative</title><url>https://snoopforms.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>social_quotient</author><text>I love this pricing model of .02 per submission for the pro plan. Often, as an agency, our customer or project needs are “lumpy” in terms of usage and the monthly base fees are a serious margin killer. The usage based fee like a cloud provider would charge is awesome for our use case.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative</title><url>https://snoopforms.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paulgb</author><text>This is very cool, there&#x27;s definitely a need for something that sits between the completely no-code tools and a completely DIY approach.<p>Your submission-based pricing is also very approachable to small-volume forms -- the industry standard is about a $25-35 minimum monthly, and even though there&#x27;s often a free tier it usually includes a small subset of features.<p>One thing that&#x27;s a blocker for me at the moment is that I can&#x27;t seem to add text besides the field name to a field in the no-code tool. It&#x27;s useful for providing instructions on the field, but I don&#x27;t see a way to do it.<p>Overall this feels pretty polished, I&#x27;m impressed.</text></comment> |
41,101,094 | 41,093,984 | 1 | 3 | 41,089,558 | train | <story><title>Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/apple-union-contract-maryland-store-f9884d978bf3129c37726dd7978392a5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrangle</author><text>Nonsense. Ultimately, it&#x27;s a zero sum game and therefore there can not be shared interest between business owners and Unions.<p>You may have detente or even just a laid back employee base.<p>But you&#x27;re only pro-Union insofar as you are financially and personally comfortable with what the Union demands at the penalty of consequences.<p>Unless there is some kind of non-standard relationship between yourself and the Union, then there isn&#x27;t a direct connection between what they will eventually demand and what you are willing to give at the cost of your business.<p>Your pro-Union stance can only be solely due to lack of personal stakes, and therefore it is only a matter of time or a change in labor circumstances. Unless your vision for your company is as a total cooperative.</text></item><item><author>doctorpangloss</author><text>I&#x27;m a business owner. I am &quot;pro-union.&quot;</text></item><item><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>&gt; I know this site is pretty pro-union<p>If this site is primarily workers (as opposed to business owners) then I am not surprised.</text></item><item><author>guywithahat</author><text>This is a single retail location in Maryland. There&#x27;s probably a reason they let them unionize without a lot of fighting, and I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s because they will shut the store down if the union becomes a problem.<p>I know this site is pretty pro-union, but if I were them I would not have wanted to unionize at all. Apple has decent salaries for what it is, and it&#x27;s probably cheaper to close the store than hire a McKinsey consultant to renegotiate union contracts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aloisius</author><text>It isn’t a zero sum game. It’s commerce which is a positive sum game.<p>At the end of the day, the customer (the business) values the labor it’s buying more than money it costs and the vendor (the employees) value the money received more than the labor sold. Both sides end up with more value then they started with - positive sum.<p>If that was not the case, neither side would agree to the transaction.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/apple-union-contract-maryland-store-f9884d978bf3129c37726dd7978392a5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrangle</author><text>Nonsense. Ultimately, it&#x27;s a zero sum game and therefore there can not be shared interest between business owners and Unions.<p>You may have detente or even just a laid back employee base.<p>But you&#x27;re only pro-Union insofar as you are financially and personally comfortable with what the Union demands at the penalty of consequences.<p>Unless there is some kind of non-standard relationship between yourself and the Union, then there isn&#x27;t a direct connection between what they will eventually demand and what you are willing to give at the cost of your business.<p>Your pro-Union stance can only be solely due to lack of personal stakes, and therefore it is only a matter of time or a change in labor circumstances. Unless your vision for your company is as a total cooperative.</text></item><item><author>doctorpangloss</author><text>I&#x27;m a business owner. I am &quot;pro-union.&quot;</text></item><item><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>&gt; I know this site is pretty pro-union<p>If this site is primarily workers (as opposed to business owners) then I am not surprised.</text></item><item><author>guywithahat</author><text>This is a single retail location in Maryland. There&#x27;s probably a reason they let them unionize without a lot of fighting, and I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s because they will shut the store down if the union becomes a problem.<p>I know this site is pretty pro-union, but if I were them I would not have wanted to unionize at all. Apple has decent salaries for what it is, and it&#x27;s probably cheaper to close the store than hire a McKinsey consultant to renegotiate union contracts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BobaFloutist</author><text>Zero-sum games get more complicated when you care about the other players.<p>&gt;there can not be shared interest between business owners and Unions.<p>There absolutely can. The point of a zero-sum game is that one party cannot win <i>more</i> without the other winning <i>less</i>. This is only a problem if all parties care exclusively about winning the most, rather than about winning enough sustainably. If you value your workers and care about them and want them to have happy, good lives, then you can absolutely find an alliance with a union.<p>It&#x27;s not like a criminal justice case where one side has to win and the other has to lose, it&#x27;s like a divorce where if everyone maintains a level head and allows the existence of humanity in the other side, everyone can come out happy. It only becomes adversarial when one side decides to make it that way.</text></comment> |
10,840,080 | 10,839,885 | 1 | 3 | 10,839,146 | train | <story><title>Please do not delete this commented-out version</title><url>http://emacshorrors.com/posts/forget-me-not.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stcredzero</author><text>There are places in Smalltalk code where you see:<p><pre><code> false ifTrue: [
&quot;Some code to debug to help understand...&quot;
].
</code></pre>
In VisualWorks, you can double-click next to the 1st square bracket to select the code, then instantly execute it or debug it. The reason why it&#x27;s not simply commented out, is that automated refactorings in the Smalltalk Refactoring Browser can then touch the commented-out code. (St RB used to be guaranteed to always execute strict refactorings and produce correct code.)<p>Often such code can even use values from the current scope, so a separate debug session can be spawned to see what it &quot;would have been like&quot; then dismissed with no consequences. It&#x27;s stuff like that which made Smalltalk an uber-environment back in the day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Please do not delete this commented-out version</title><url>http://emacshorrors.com/posts/forget-me-not.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>makecheck</author><text>Generally I find all copies to be bloat.<p>Seeing the original code will not necessarily explain old behavior. When you make a copy, how much are you planning to copy? To debug ancient code that calls 5 functions, you might need access to the histories of those 5 functions; and the histories of any functions <i>they</i> call, and heck maybe you only saw correct behavior on a certain OS or with certain input (none of which you may have access to). If you don&#x27;t have all those histories, the &quot;correct old code&quot; you are looking at may even lie to you, as it suggests it is calling functions you <i>think</i> you are familiar with but those functions have changed in some important way.<p>After enough time passes — and at the rate this industry moves, time is short — the only thing that really matters is whether or not the program currently does what its current users require. And if it doesn&#x27;t, you define what behavior you need it to have and find a way to fix it.</text></comment> |
3,115,882 | 3,114,866 | 1 | 3 | 3,114,239 | train | <story><title>Who killed videogames?</title><url>http://insertcredit.com/2011/09/22/who-killed-videogames-a-ghost-story/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonnathanson</author><text>I have to wonder when this whole trend is going to come crashing to a halt. When, if ever, the social-gaming population will wake up one day and think, perhaps aloud, and perhaps at great volume, "What the <i>fuck</i> am I doing with my life? <i>Why</i> do I need more virtual corn patches?" And, perhaps, "You know what? I'm not accepting the Facebook invitation into little Mikey's mafia family. Fuck that noise. I'm out."<p>By this, what I really mean is: when someone finally gets sick of Farmville, is he going to move on to the next Farmville, or is he burned out on the genre for good? Seems like there should be a "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" dynamic at work with players of these games. Which would mean that the genre is destined for oversaturation and burnout, and that there will be diminishing returns awaiting any marginal entrants into the field.<p>I'm sure the genre, as a whole, is still growing by leaps and bounds. But do we have any leading indicators about the playerbase? Such as their likelihood to be investing in more than one time-sinkey social game at a time? Or their likelihood to pick up another after quitting the first?<p>I'm not wishing for the demise of the genre, but rather, am hoping that it'll hit a plateau from which it will be forced to innovate, experiment, and evolve. Seems to me that the cold, reductionist design philosophy of addiction-by-the-numbers should eventually dig its own grave in the form of mass player burnout on games produced as such. Then again, that's never happened with casinos. So this may be woefully naive thinking on my part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucasjung</author><text>I had an experience similar to what you describe (waking up and thinking "What the <i>fuck</i> am I doing with my life?"), but it predates these games.<p>I was in college (can't remember which year, probably my junior year) and my roommates and I were all hooked on Diablo II. So were our friends across the hall. We'd often play together as a group on the LAN, but we also enjoyed playing independently. We all played on headphones so as to not have the sounds of several simultaneous games clashing.<p>One afternoon, we were all playing simultaneously but independently. I decided to take a break, paused my game, removed my headphones, and stood up. Then I heard it: the sounds of rapid clicking coming from my roommates' mouses (and the mouses of the guys across the hall--we usually kept our doors open). I had decided to take a break right then because I had just leveled up, and that fact combined with the sound of the clicking gave me a moment of clarity: the whole game consisted of me clicking a mouse as fast as I could in order to make an arbitrary number (experience points) go up. Everything else is just embellishment. The fundamentals are: you click the mouse, the number goes up.<p>I felt like one of those lab rats or monkeys that has two buttons: one that delivers a serving of food, and another that stimulates its pleasure centers. They starve to death because they neglect the food button in favor of the pleasure button. Except I was worse, in a way: I wasn't getting a jolt to my pleasure centers, I was just watching a meaningless number get higher. Of course, I wasn't completely neglecting my well-being, either, but I was wasting a lot of time that could have been spent on more rewarding pursuits.<p>I uninstalled the game immediately and gave it away as fast as I could. I didn't give up video games, because not all games are such complete wastes of time, but ever since then I have set the bar very high for any game I play (similar to the post by snprbob86 about strict selection criteria). I'm especially watchful for signs that a game is just an exercise in "repeat simple task, increment arbitrary number."</text></comment> | <story><title>Who killed videogames?</title><url>http://insertcredit.com/2011/09/22/who-killed-videogames-a-ghost-story/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonnathanson</author><text>I have to wonder when this whole trend is going to come crashing to a halt. When, if ever, the social-gaming population will wake up one day and think, perhaps aloud, and perhaps at great volume, "What the <i>fuck</i> am I doing with my life? <i>Why</i> do I need more virtual corn patches?" And, perhaps, "You know what? I'm not accepting the Facebook invitation into little Mikey's mafia family. Fuck that noise. I'm out."<p>By this, what I really mean is: when someone finally gets sick of Farmville, is he going to move on to the next Farmville, or is he burned out on the genre for good? Seems like there should be a "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" dynamic at work with players of these games. Which would mean that the genre is destined for oversaturation and burnout, and that there will be diminishing returns awaiting any marginal entrants into the field.<p>I'm sure the genre, as a whole, is still growing by leaps and bounds. But do we have any leading indicators about the playerbase? Such as their likelihood to be investing in more than one time-sinkey social game at a time? Or their likelihood to pick up another after quitting the first?<p>I'm not wishing for the demise of the genre, but rather, am hoping that it'll hit a plateau from which it will be forced to innovate, experiment, and evolve. Seems to me that the cold, reductionist design philosophy of addiction-by-the-numbers should eventually dig its own grave in the form of mass player burnout on games produced as such. Then again, that's never happened with casinos. So this may be woefully naive thinking on my part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benologist</author><text>I think they're going to pick up another one, and another one, and another one, and another one. Many of us have been playing games for 20+ years, just because they're not social doesn't mean the story isn't the same: spend $x, then a buttload of time playing it.<p>I probably spent as much time playing the Ultimas, King's Quests etc as any hardcore addict spent on whatevervilles. Probably not as much money on a single game but certainly 1000s over the years.</text></comment> |
37,343,074 | 37,342,830 | 1 | 3 | 37,338,753 | train | <story><title>Tearing down Klamath dams: The largest dam demolition</title><url>https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/08/klamath-river-dams-demolition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>poulsbohemian</author><text>I took a tour with the Corps of Engineers earlier this week at a dam on the Snake River. Apparently it isn&#x27;t that difficult to get a tour, which I recommend to any member of the public. My politics are very progressive, but like so many issues, the dams have been reduced to sound bytes rather than comprehensive understanding.<p>I came away with an even greater feeling that this is a topic too complicated to just take a side, but rather the best possible outcomes happen when stakeholders work together. We need the fish, the energy, the irrigation, the flood control, and the ease of barge-based agricultural transportation. There is serious effort put into protecting wildlife (IE: fish) with very, very good outcomes. I think it&#x27;s easy to assume that the pro-dam crowd is anti-environment, which couldn&#x27;t be farther from the truth.<p>What really solidified for me this week is that these dams have a defined lifetime. Many are reaching the end of that lifetime, but the technology to replace them with something else isn&#x27;t really there yet. Given the net benefit and the massive costs of replacement, it&#x27;s very clear to me we are better letting them run their natural lives rather than removing prematurely. As each reaches a point where it is no longer viable, that is when and where we should consider other options.<p>Something I haven&#x27;t seen discussed anywhere, but to me is almost obvious - these various wave generators we see in discussion for off-shore use. Is there a way that technology can be used in the Columbia, Snake, etc without the need for a dam? At the same time too often in these discussions there are other issues overlooked - like how much Washington &#x2F; Oregon wheat goes down the river on barges that would otherwise be tractor trailers on the highways. Lots of problems to solve.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DeRock</author><text>&gt; Something I haven&#x27;t seen discussed anywhere, but to me is almost obvious - these various wave generators we see in discussion for off-shore use. Is there a way that technology can be used in the Columbia, Snake, etc without the need for a dam?<p>There are some companies doing small scale hydro, by taking advantage of the natural flow of a river, without the use of any dam&#x2F;head. Eg. see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;emrgy.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;emrgy.com</a>, and a volts podcast with the founder&#x2F;CEO: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.volts.wtf&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-to-make-small-hydro-more-like#details" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.volts.wtf&#x2F;p&#x2F;how-to-make-small-hydro-more-like#de...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tearing down Klamath dams: The largest dam demolition</title><url>https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/08/klamath-river-dams-demolition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>poulsbohemian</author><text>I took a tour with the Corps of Engineers earlier this week at a dam on the Snake River. Apparently it isn&#x27;t that difficult to get a tour, which I recommend to any member of the public. My politics are very progressive, but like so many issues, the dams have been reduced to sound bytes rather than comprehensive understanding.<p>I came away with an even greater feeling that this is a topic too complicated to just take a side, but rather the best possible outcomes happen when stakeholders work together. We need the fish, the energy, the irrigation, the flood control, and the ease of barge-based agricultural transportation. There is serious effort put into protecting wildlife (IE: fish) with very, very good outcomes. I think it&#x27;s easy to assume that the pro-dam crowd is anti-environment, which couldn&#x27;t be farther from the truth.<p>What really solidified for me this week is that these dams have a defined lifetime. Many are reaching the end of that lifetime, but the technology to replace them with something else isn&#x27;t really there yet. Given the net benefit and the massive costs of replacement, it&#x27;s very clear to me we are better letting them run their natural lives rather than removing prematurely. As each reaches a point where it is no longer viable, that is when and where we should consider other options.<p>Something I haven&#x27;t seen discussed anywhere, but to me is almost obvious - these various wave generators we see in discussion for off-shore use. Is there a way that technology can be used in the Columbia, Snake, etc without the need for a dam? At the same time too often in these discussions there are other issues overlooked - like how much Washington &#x2F; Oregon wheat goes down the river on barges that would otherwise be tractor trailers on the highways. Lots of problems to solve.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freedomben</author><text>I tend to agree. I consider myself an environmentalist, and I&#x27;ve also come to recognize that these issues can be complicated. Progress is made iteratively and sometimes gradually. While I would love to drop a hammer on the over-fishing of Pacific Salmon for example, when you meet a person who lives in Homer Alaska and lives off of their fishing and you realize that if we completely shut down fishing for a year or two, that person would be economically destroyed. That&#x27;s just one person in the equation. There are many thousands more. There are ways to improve the salmon population without wiping people out or causing major havoc, but it requires people to learn a whole lot more about the issues than what can be reduced to sound bytes.</text></comment> |
16,453,608 | 16,453,271 | 1 | 2 | 16,453,034 | train | <story><title>Harley Davidson’s EV debut could electrify the motorcycle industry</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/22/harley-davidsons-ev-debut-could-electrify-the-motorcycle-industry/?utm_source=tcfbpage&sr_share=facebook</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nugi</author><text>I&#x27;ll say it.<p>This will fail.<p>1. Harley demographic is entrenched, hard to pivot. Most associate with wealthy boomers and &#x27;lowlifes&#x27;, or working class murica. Not things as popular today. Other, better, performance ebikes exist, and outside this restrictive submarket, but are not thriving. And I will casually remind readers of Southparks opinion. That said, they do have diehard fans that would buy anything they made.<p>2. Motorcycles are all about freedom. Range issues, or even the idea of them, robs confidence. This will change, but gas is way more energy dense and on a bike it matters even more than cars. Going into the mountains is not when you want to wonder if your range will halve going up hills with gusto, or screwing it on for the corners.<p>3. Price perception. The electric will be awesome. Torque is so fun on bikes. But to harley riders, I think it will fell like a &#x27;toy&#x27;. And for the price point, its gonna be a tough sell.<p>4. Tinkering. You do not buy a harley as an intelligent person without ever expecting to work on it. Hell, that is part of the classical appeal of them. There are more than a few explorations of life and motorcycle maintance in print. Maybe this is just my bias, but the connection with the machine is part of what makes motorcycling so intimate.<p>I very much welcome being incorrect. I shopped for an ebike and bought another used sportbike instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Harley Davidson’s EV debut could electrify the motorcycle industry</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/22/harley-davidsons-ev-debut-could-electrify-the-motorcycle-industry/?utm_source=tcfbpage&sr_share=facebook</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ph33t</author><text>One thing to understand, my Harley riding brethren, Harley <i>cannot</i> be targetting you. They are clearly targetting new riders. The combustion engine is a hobby as much as anything for 1&#x2F;2 the riders I know; for them, it&#x27;s the fun of owning a bike. Unless you have a lot of money, the only way to fix an oft-broken motorcycle is by doing yourself. I&#x27;ve owned a similar (not Harley) bike for a number of years. Parts are always vibrating off off the damn thing. It is loud; I do believe it helps make you visible. Yes, that is anecdotal, but I have ridden bikes with all types of pipes and I find it 100% true. I am much safer (heard) with my La Chopper&#x27;s Curvedd pipes than the very quiet stock pipes; meaning, many fewer close calls.<p>So, they are looking for riders that don&#x27;t care that their machines will (ostensibly) be more reliable (less vibration), saves money on fuel, and is quiet and efficient. I care about none of those things, BUT I want Harley to stay in business, and if they can do that while attracting new riders, I fully support them.<p>A side note, gas sport-bikes accelerate insanely fast now ... imagine how fast they will with an electric engine ... scary!</text></comment> |
7,089,327 | 7,089,388 | 1 | 2 | 7,088,897 | train | <story><title>Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest-people-half-of-the-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awjr</author><text>I have no issue with the rich, however I&#x27;m guessing &#x27;most&#x27; of the super-rich have achieved this through acute business acumen.<p>However &#x27;acute business acumen&#x27; can translate into squeezing maximum profits out of a business. Justification for this practice can be found everywhere. Particular &quot;legal requirement&quot; to maximise profits for shareholders.<p>No value is put on social responsibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marvin</author><text>The problem starts when &quot;acute business acumen&quot; involves active participation in political processes in order to gain special advantages or avoid duties which are placed on other members of society. In spite of being a Norwegian, I agree with the capitalistic premise that economic inequality isn&#x27;t in itself a symptom of a problem. But when the richest minority avoids taxes thanks to legal loopholes, lobbies with politicians to get useful laws enacted or gains special contracts with the government to the detriment of others, there is a very big problem.<p>In fact, this is corruption, which is in many of these cases endemic. We like to believe that the educated world has a level playing field, but this is far from the case. The tech world isn&#x27;t representative for the world at large when it comes to being fair in this respect. (And even the tech world is <i>far</i> from innocent in this regard - e.g. Google et.al.&#x27;s smart dodging of taxation by keeping assets overseas. This practice is legal, but it is exactly the kind of problem where the richest are given an unfair advantage due to their wealth).</text></comment> | <story><title>Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest-people-half-of-the-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awjr</author><text>I have no issue with the rich, however I&#x27;m guessing &#x27;most&#x27; of the super-rich have achieved this through acute business acumen.<p>However &#x27;acute business acumen&#x27; can translate into squeezing maximum profits out of a business. Justification for this practice can be found everywhere. Particular &quot;legal requirement&quot; to maximise profits for shareholders.<p>No value is put on social responsibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>melling</author><text>I guess you&#x27;ve probably missed Bill Gates and Warren Buffet talking about the sperm lottery? If they were born in the slums of Brazil, for example, they probably would not be successful.<p>There are 7 billion people on the planet and the article cherry picks the poorest 3.5 billion. I imagine that there is little opportunity at that level. I doubt if anyone in the United States is on that list.</text></comment> |
4,378,146 | 4,378,130 | 1 | 2 | 4,377,535 | train | <story><title>A Fee-Based Twitter Is No More Ideologically Pure Than An Ad-Supported Twitter</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120813/00081620002/fee-based-twitter-is-no-more-ideologically-pure-than-ad-supported-twitter.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mibbitier</author><text>You're assuming that advertisers never meet users needs.<p>If I'm selling you a bike, and I also tell you about a good deal on bike insurance you can get, then I'm advertising at you. Maybe I get a cut of the insurance premium. BUT, I'm also adding value for the customer. It's a mutually beneficial transaction.<p>I know it's blasphemy to claim that advertising is sometimes pretty damn useful around these parts, but the fact is, it is useful for users just as much as it's useful for companies in search of revenue.<p>edit: Has no one here ever clicked on a sponsored result in google? If not, bear in mind you're the exception rather than the rule.</text></item><item><author>eykanal</author><text>Following the model from the article:<p>In the fee-based model, the needs of the following must be met: (1) the company, (2) the users.<p>In the ads-based model, the needs of the following must be met: (1) the company, (2) the advertisers, (3) the users.<p>By removing the advertisers from the equation, a <i>lot</i> of resources are freed up to address the needs of the other two parties. It's kind of strange to say that "the company" is a party being serviced in this manner... they're asking for cash, and people are giving it to them for a service. Yes, they have needs that require resources (think administrative assistants, HR, sales, etc), but these people all exist to help service the user. To that extent, the majority of the company is now existing to create a better experience for the user. Their argument is that this is significantly superior to the model where a significant portion of the company exists to service advertisers, and not benefit the end user.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghshephard</author><text>I disagree with you - but I'm not downvoting you because I think you bring up an interesting point. The problem, though, is the advertising on buy.com, monoprice.com, amazon.com and even google.com is actually quite useful for me. Sometimes even the ads on dpreview.com are interesting. The issue here is intent - on these sites, I am looking to buy products, product reviews, or (in the case of google) searching for something that might be product related.<p>On my social networks (Path) - my intent is to see what my niece is up to, what my friends are doing, and what my mother's latest project is.<p>It is not (and never has been) to "Find a Female Friend in Redwood City", or, "Check out the Kmart Special".<p>It is this disconnect between intent and ad-presentation that makes the pollution of the twitter feed so offensive.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Fee-Based Twitter Is No More Ideologically Pure Than An Ad-Supported Twitter</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120813/00081620002/fee-based-twitter-is-no-more-ideologically-pure-than-ad-supported-twitter.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mibbitier</author><text>You're assuming that advertisers never meet users needs.<p>If I'm selling you a bike, and I also tell you about a good deal on bike insurance you can get, then I'm advertising at you. Maybe I get a cut of the insurance premium. BUT, I'm also adding value for the customer. It's a mutually beneficial transaction.<p>I know it's blasphemy to claim that advertising is sometimes pretty damn useful around these parts, but the fact is, it is useful for users just as much as it's useful for companies in search of revenue.<p>edit: Has no one here ever clicked on a sponsored result in google? If not, bear in mind you're the exception rather than the rule.</text></item><item><author>eykanal</author><text>Following the model from the article:<p>In the fee-based model, the needs of the following must be met: (1) the company, (2) the users.<p>In the ads-based model, the needs of the following must be met: (1) the company, (2) the advertisers, (3) the users.<p>By removing the advertisers from the equation, a <i>lot</i> of resources are freed up to address the needs of the other two parties. It's kind of strange to say that "the company" is a party being serviced in this manner... they're asking for cash, and people are giving it to them for a service. Yes, they have needs that require resources (think administrative assistants, HR, sales, etc), but these people all exist to help service the user. To that extent, the majority of the company is now existing to create a better experience for the user. Their argument is that this is significantly superior to the model where a significant portion of the company exists to service advertisers, and not benefit the end user.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>Advertising <i>can</i> add value when it transmits novel information that would be hard to get some other way. But it usually doesn't.<p>It's mainly an arms race to distort natural market outcomes. Coca Cola doesn't spend over a billion dollars a year advertising because they want to make you aware of some new fact. They just think they can make much more than that billion back by manipulating you.</text></comment> |
28,751,121 | 28,750,508 | 1 | 3 | 28,748,203 | train | <story><title>Facebook-owned sites were down</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treesknees</author><text>They were quoted on multiple news sites including Ars Technica. I would imagine they were not authorized to post that information. I hope they don&#x27;t lose their job.<p>Shareholders and other business leaders I&#x27;m sure are much happier reporting this as a series of unfortunate technical failures (which I&#x27;m sure is part of it) rather than a company-wide organizational failure. The fact they can&#x27;t physically badge in the people who know the router configuration speaks to an organization that hasn&#x27;t actually thought through all its failure modes. People aren&#x27;t going to like that. It&#x27;s not uncommon to have the datacenter techs with access and the actual software folks restricted, but that being the reason one of the most popular services in the world has been down for nearly 3 hours now will raise a lot of questions.<p>Edit: I also hope this doesn&#x27;t damage prospects for more Work From Home. If they couldn&#x27;t get anyone who knew the configuration in because they all live a plane ride away from the datacenters, I could see managers being reluctant to have a completely remote team for situations where clearly physical access was needed.</text></item><item><author>Ueland</author><text>And there his account went poof, thanks for archiving.</text></item><item><author>guidopallemans</author><text>He just deleted all his updates.<p>user:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;ramenporn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;ramenporn</a><p>some messages:<p>* This is a global outage for all FB-related services&#x2F;infra (source: I&#x27;m currently on the recovery&#x2F;investigation team).<p>* Will try to provide any important&#x2F;interesting bits as I see them. There is a ton of stuff flying around right now and like 7 separate discussion channels and video calls.<p>* Update 1440 UTC: \<p><pre><code> As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a symptom of the actual issue, and that&#x27;s that BGP peering with Facebook peering routers has gone down, very likely due to a configuration change that went into effect shortly before the outages happened (started roughly 1540 UTC).
There are people now trying to gain access to the peering routers to implement fixes, but the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of how to actually authenticate to the systems and people who know what to actually do, so there is now a logistical challenge with getting all that knowledge unified.
Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures.</code></pre></text></item><item><author>kossTKR</author><text>Reddit r&#x2F;Sysadmin user that claims to be on the &quot;Recovery Team&quot; for this ongoing issue:<p>&gt;<i>As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a symptom of the actual issue, and that&#x27;s that BGP peering with Facebook peering routers has gone down, very likely due to a configuration change that went into effect shortly before the outages happened (started roughly 1540 UTC).
There are people now trying to gain access to the peering routers to implement fixes, but the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of how to actually authenticate to the systems and people who know what to actually do, so there is now a logistical challenge with getting all that knowledge unified.
Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures.</i><p>User is providing live updates of the incident here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sysadmin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;q181fv&#x2F;looks_like_facebook_is_down&#x2F;hfd4dyv&#x2F;?context=3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sysadmin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;q181fv&#x2F;looks_like...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jart</author><text>Facebook should have had a panic room.<p>Operations teams normally have a special room with a secure connection for situations like this, so that production can be controlled in the event of bgp failure, nuclear war, etc. I could see physical presence being an issue if their bgp router depends on something like a crypto module in a locked cage, in which case there&#x27;s always helicopters.<p>So if anything, Facebook&#x27;s labor policies are about to become cooler.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook-owned sites were down</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treesknees</author><text>They were quoted on multiple news sites including Ars Technica. I would imagine they were not authorized to post that information. I hope they don&#x27;t lose their job.<p>Shareholders and other business leaders I&#x27;m sure are much happier reporting this as a series of unfortunate technical failures (which I&#x27;m sure is part of it) rather than a company-wide organizational failure. The fact they can&#x27;t physically badge in the people who know the router configuration speaks to an organization that hasn&#x27;t actually thought through all its failure modes. People aren&#x27;t going to like that. It&#x27;s not uncommon to have the datacenter techs with access and the actual software folks restricted, but that being the reason one of the most popular services in the world has been down for nearly 3 hours now will raise a lot of questions.<p>Edit: I also hope this doesn&#x27;t damage prospects for more Work From Home. If they couldn&#x27;t get anyone who knew the configuration in because they all live a plane ride away from the datacenters, I could see managers being reluctant to have a completely remote team for situations where clearly physical access was needed.</text></item><item><author>Ueland</author><text>And there his account went poof, thanks for archiving.</text></item><item><author>guidopallemans</author><text>He just deleted all his updates.<p>user:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;ramenporn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;ramenporn</a><p>some messages:<p>* This is a global outage for all FB-related services&#x2F;infra (source: I&#x27;m currently on the recovery&#x2F;investigation team).<p>* Will try to provide any important&#x2F;interesting bits as I see them. There is a ton of stuff flying around right now and like 7 separate discussion channels and video calls.<p>* Update 1440 UTC: \<p><pre><code> As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a symptom of the actual issue, and that&#x27;s that BGP peering with Facebook peering routers has gone down, very likely due to a configuration change that went into effect shortly before the outages happened (started roughly 1540 UTC).
There are people now trying to gain access to the peering routers to implement fixes, but the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of how to actually authenticate to the systems and people who know what to actually do, so there is now a logistical challenge with getting all that knowledge unified.
Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures.</code></pre></text></item><item><author>kossTKR</author><text>Reddit r&#x2F;Sysadmin user that claims to be on the &quot;Recovery Team&quot; for this ongoing issue:<p>&gt;<i>As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a symptom of the actual issue, and that&#x27;s that BGP peering with Facebook peering routers has gone down, very likely due to a configuration change that went into effect shortly before the outages happened (started roughly 1540 UTC).
There are people now trying to gain access to the peering routers to implement fixes, but the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of how to actually authenticate to the systems and people who know what to actually do, so there is now a logistical challenge with getting all that knowledge unified.
Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures.</i><p>User is providing live updates of the incident here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sysadmin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;q181fv&#x2F;looks_like_facebook_is_down&#x2F;hfd4dyv&#x2F;?context=3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sysadmin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;q181fv&#x2F;looks_like...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>polote</author><text>&gt; an organization that hasn&#x27;t actually thought through all its failure modes<p>Thinking about any potential things that can happen is impossible</text></comment> |
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