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16,447,615 | 16,446,714 | 1 | 2 | 16,445,985 | train | <story><title>QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2018/02/22/quickbasic-lives-on-with-qb64/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rlopezcc</author><text>QBasic was my first programming experience.<p>Back in 2008 I bought a computer for 50 uruguayan pesos (around 2 dollars), Pentium MMX and 32MB of ram. It didn&#x27;t boot W98 because the hard drive was corrupted.<p>It did load MsDOS and I found Qbasic using the help command.<p>I didn&#x27;t have internet so I used to go to the internet cafe with a floppy disk and download tons of tutorials in plain text to read with EDIT.EXE<p>Now I&#x27;ve been working as a software developer for almost five years and love it, all thanks to QBasic and that old cheap computer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashleyn</author><text>Qbasic is something that simply has no modern-day parallel.<p>It started very simple, PRINT and GOTO were enough to get you started. It had the tools to expand along as you learned, and a great community of amateurs who would make cool games with it. Eventually, you&#x27;d grow out of it and try your hand at C, because by that point you were encouraged to learn so much (and with a gentle curve) that you exhausted its capabilities. It was an <i>excellent</i> educational tool, an excellent way to get kids &quot;hooked&quot; into &quot;real programming&quot;.<p>Learning programming today isn&#x27;t quite as simple as it was with Qbasic. It involves setting up a large toolchain, and for a beginner, the experience is daunting as the language community reviled both anything imperative and unstructured. There&#x27;s no easy way to do anything other than text from the command line, which makes for some thoroughly uninteresting demos and examples. Qbasic wrapped an IDE and graphics library around the language in an all-in-one solution; it was so cool seeing colourful, pseudo-graphical demos like Nibbles or Gorillas. If a beginner wanted to do anything &quot;cool-looking&quot; today, this same beginner programmer would need to set up render to texture on an OpenGL surface. Yuck! And so they lose interest, believing programming is the mysterious and complex domain of gods.<p>This market did not go away. I don&#x27;t quite think QB64 fills it, being little more than a nostalgic, artistic homage to Qbasic. If someone were to design a programming language with a learning curve as gentle as Qbasic, and wrap a simple IDE and graphics library around it, all while modernising some of its more dubious qualities...you&#x27;d have a real shot at recapturing the magic for a new generation of young programmers.</text></comment> | <story><title>QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2018/02/22/quickbasic-lives-on-with-qb64/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rlopezcc</author><text>QBasic was my first programming experience.<p>Back in 2008 I bought a computer for 50 uruguayan pesos (around 2 dollars), Pentium MMX and 32MB of ram. It didn&#x27;t boot W98 because the hard drive was corrupted.<p>It did load MsDOS and I found Qbasic using the help command.<p>I didn&#x27;t have internet so I used to go to the internet cafe with a floppy disk and download tons of tutorials in plain text to read with EDIT.EXE<p>Now I&#x27;ve been working as a software developer for almost five years and love it, all thanks to QBasic and that old cheap computer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewcarter</author><text>Me too! I love QBasic so much - totally wouldn&#x27;t be where I am today without it. I met a kid at summer camp when I was in middle school who told me he made his own games and fake computer viruses to scare his parents in Quick Basic. He mailed me a floppy disk with Quick Basic on it once we were home and I&#x27;ve been in love with programming ever since.<p>It&#x27;s was the perfect first language. It&#x27;s so easy to play little sounds or draw graphics, and the environment is basically non-existent so setup is easy. So much fun!</text></comment> |
35,109,481 | 35,108,545 | 1 | 2 | 35,107,601 | train | <story><title>Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfengel</author><text>I think the main use case is &quot;I&#x27;m a crummy photographer and all I want is something to remind me that I was there&quot; and &quot;Look at my cat. Look! Look at her!&quot;<p>That&#x27;s me. I&#x27;m a lousy photographer, as evidenced by all of the photos I shot back when film actually recorded what you pointed it at. My photography has been vastly improved by AI. It hasn&#x27;t yet reached the point of &quot;No, you idiot, don&#x27;t take a picture of that. Go left. Left! Ya know what, I&#x27;m just gonna make something up,&quot; but it should.<p>I imagine there will remain a use case for people who can actually compose good shots. For the remaining 99% of us, we&#x27;ll use &quot;Send the camera on vacation and stay home; it&#x27;s cheaper and produces better pictures&quot; mode.</text></item><item><author>dusted</author><text>Basically this.. As &quot;neat&quot; as AI &quot;improvement&quot; is, I don&#x27;t think it has any actual value, I can&#x27;t come up with any use-case where I can accept it. &quot;Make pictures look good by just hallucinating stuff&quot; is one of the harder ones to explain, but you did it well..<p>Another thing, pictures for proof and documentation, maybe not when they&#x27;re taken but after the fact, for historical reasons, or forensics.. We can&#x27;t have every picture automatically compromised as soon as it&#x27;s taken. (Yes, I know that photoshop is a thing, but that&#x27;s a very deliberate action, which I believe it should be)</text></item><item><author>whatisthiseven</author><text>Imagine this future:<p>Sensor quality in phones goes down, AI makes up for it because good sensors are expensive, but compute time in the cloud on Samsung owned servers is cheap. You take a picture on a crappy camera, and Samsung uses AI to &quot;fix&quot; everything. It knows what stop signs, roadways, busses, cars, stop lights, and more <i>should</i> look like, and so it just uses AI to replace all the textures.<p>Samsung sells what&#x27;s on the image to advertisers and more with the hallucinated data. People can&#x27;t tell the difference and don&#x27;t know. They &quot;just want a good looking picture&quot;. People further use AI to alter images for virtual likes on Tiktok and Insta.<p>This faked data, submitted by users as &quot;real pics in real places&quot; is further used to train AI models that all seem to think objects further away have greater detail, clarity, and cleanliness than they should.<p>You look at a picture of a park you took, years before, and could have sworn the flowers were more pink, and not as red. You are assured, by your friend who knows it all, that people&#x27;s memories are fallible; hallucinating details, colors, objects, sizes, and more. The image, your friend assures you further? &quot;Advanced tech captured its pure form perfectly&quot;.<p>And thus, everyone will demand more clarity, precision, details, and color where their eyes don&#x27;t remember seeing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taffronaut</author><text>As a kid I was taking a photo in a tourist spot with a film camera and standard 50mm lens. An elderly local guy grabbed me by the shoulder as I framed the photo. We shared no common language and he (not so gently) pulled me over to where I should stand to get the better shot.</text></comment> | <story><title>Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfengel</author><text>I think the main use case is &quot;I&#x27;m a crummy photographer and all I want is something to remind me that I was there&quot; and &quot;Look at my cat. Look! Look at her!&quot;<p>That&#x27;s me. I&#x27;m a lousy photographer, as evidenced by all of the photos I shot back when film actually recorded what you pointed it at. My photography has been vastly improved by AI. It hasn&#x27;t yet reached the point of &quot;No, you idiot, don&#x27;t take a picture of that. Go left. Left! Ya know what, I&#x27;m just gonna make something up,&quot; but it should.<p>I imagine there will remain a use case for people who can actually compose good shots. For the remaining 99% of us, we&#x27;ll use &quot;Send the camera on vacation and stay home; it&#x27;s cheaper and produces better pictures&quot; mode.</text></item><item><author>dusted</author><text>Basically this.. As &quot;neat&quot; as AI &quot;improvement&quot; is, I don&#x27;t think it has any actual value, I can&#x27;t come up with any use-case where I can accept it. &quot;Make pictures look good by just hallucinating stuff&quot; is one of the harder ones to explain, but you did it well..<p>Another thing, pictures for proof and documentation, maybe not when they&#x27;re taken but after the fact, for historical reasons, or forensics.. We can&#x27;t have every picture automatically compromised as soon as it&#x27;s taken. (Yes, I know that photoshop is a thing, but that&#x27;s a very deliberate action, which I believe it should be)</text></item><item><author>whatisthiseven</author><text>Imagine this future:<p>Sensor quality in phones goes down, AI makes up for it because good sensors are expensive, but compute time in the cloud on Samsung owned servers is cheap. You take a picture on a crappy camera, and Samsung uses AI to &quot;fix&quot; everything. It knows what stop signs, roadways, busses, cars, stop lights, and more <i>should</i> look like, and so it just uses AI to replace all the textures.<p>Samsung sells what&#x27;s on the image to advertisers and more with the hallucinated data. People can&#x27;t tell the difference and don&#x27;t know. They &quot;just want a good looking picture&quot;. People further use AI to alter images for virtual likes on Tiktok and Insta.<p>This faked data, submitted by users as &quot;real pics in real places&quot; is further used to train AI models that all seem to think objects further away have greater detail, clarity, and cleanliness than they should.<p>You look at a picture of a park you took, years before, and could have sworn the flowers were more pink, and not as red. You are assured, by your friend who knows it all, that people&#x27;s memories are fallible; hallucinating details, colors, objects, sizes, and more. The image, your friend assures you further? &quot;Advanced tech captured its pure form perfectly&quot;.<p>And thus, everyone will demand more clarity, precision, details, and color where their eyes don&#x27;t remember seeing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mysterydip</author><text>That would actually be a useful feature, I&#x27;m aiming the camera but based on what makes &quot;good professional&quot; photos, it suggests &quot;move to the left so you frame the picture well&quot; or &quot;those two people should be more spread out so its not one person with two heads&quot; etc, kindof like lane warnings on cars.</text></comment> |
21,223,866 | 21,223,787 | 1 | 3 | 21,222,224 | train | <story><title>NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-spacex/nasa-aims-for-first-manned-spacex-mission-in-first-quarter-2020-idUSKBN1WP1CS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>Is there much value in sending humans into space besides studying how the human body deteriorates in microgravity?</text></item><item><author>tzfld</author><text>Overall, the fact that the US experiencing the longest period without capability of sending humans into space seems to be a serious organizational problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jwarder</author><text>With the caveat up front that I&#x27;m a huge idealist about space: I think humanity would greatly benefit from building large populations in space. Once the systems are in place then any power generation, industry, or agriculture done in space means less pollution here on earth. Solar energy is &quot;free&quot;, asteroids are &quot;free&quot;.<p>The setup isn&#x27;t trivial, but in the long run I think it is best for everyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-spacex/nasa-aims-for-first-manned-spacex-mission-in-first-quarter-2020-idUSKBN1WP1CS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>Is there much value in sending humans into space besides studying how the human body deteriorates in microgravity?</text></item><item><author>tzfld</author><text>Overall, the fact that the US experiencing the longest period without capability of sending humans into space seems to be a serious organizational problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wingspar</author><text>It forces and tests improvements in life-support systems?Generation, recycling, shielding, long term impact of humans on these systems.<p>All things that are needed for future exploration&#x2F;colonization.</text></comment> |
39,366,177 | 39,365,745 | 1 | 2 | 39,357,721 | train | <story><title>The dating app paradox</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2024/02/13/1228749143/the-dating-app-paradox-why-dating-apps-may-be-worse-than-ever</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnthrowaway6543</author><text>&gt; Apps are more transparent and equitable with how they expose profiles to other users. Don&#x27;t bias toward highly liked people to increase perceived &quot;quality&quot; and shadow-hide show profiles that aren&#x27;t liked often (and then ask them to pay lol). Show people more randomly, to better represent the true cross section of people on the app.<p>This won&#x27;t work; if you do this, you&#x27;ll expose that the average online dating user is... well, average.<p>There&#x27;s a bit of kayfabe going on; users want to think the other users of online dating are 8+&#x2F;10, sexy, flirty, fun, and desirable singles. Unfortunately, 69% of Americans are overweight and 36% are obese. If profiles users see weren&#x27;t heavily weighted toward highly-rated ones, the perception of online dating would immediately change from &quot;online dating is fine, a bunch of attractive people are using this&quot; to &quot;online dating is only for the ugly and desperate&quot;; the article points out that this is the way Gen Z perceives online dating already.<p>Dating apps really struggle to keep the most desirable, because those are the ones least likely to need it. Yet they&#x27;re also the most important for a dating app to have. As fewer desirable people use it, the less perceived legitimacy it has, which results in fewer people using it, particularly the desirable ones. I suspect dating apps are experiencing this death spiral now.</text></item><item><author>sweetro17</author><text>Former dating app founder here - lots of thoughts on the space - feel free to AMA<p>High level though, there&#x27;s a lot of human behavior which makes dating frustrating with or without apps.<p>At it&#x27;s core, even in the best case, dating has A LOT of rejection. Dating apps introduce more opportunity for incremental validation (you got liked!) but also incremental rejection (you got ghosted!) and the sheer number of interactions that lead to nothing is much higher and more quantifiable than IRL (you&#x27;ve all seen the r&#x2F;tinder sankey diagrams)<p>Two &quot;solutions&quot; I believe would generally benefit dating<p>1. Apps are more transparent and equitable with how they expose profiles to other users. Don&#x27;t bias toward highly liked people to increase perceived &quot;quality&quot; and shadow-hide show profiles that aren&#x27;t liked often (and then ask them to pay lol). Show people more randomly, to better represent the true cross section of people on the app.<p>2. Daters set some type of routine that works for them - say &quot;I&#x27;ll try to go on ~1 date per month&quot;. Being intentional about this helps minimize the feeling that each date is so fatalistic &#x2F; it&#x27;s the end of the world if the person who seemed awesome when messaging is actually a jerk. It&#x27;d be nice if an app facilitated this type of routine and figured out a feedback mechanism to reward users who were generally pleasant &#x2F; respectful on their dates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sweetro17</author><text>I see your point here - and I do agree, from experience, people sometimes express a desire for a bit of reality distortion in dating (we often heard that they want the experience to feel more like &#x27;fate&#x27; or &#x27;chance&#x27; than overly engineered).<p>That said, I don&#x27;t fully agree with the idea that there&#x27;s a uniform concept of x&#x2F;10 scale for daters and that they uniformly will balk at those below that uniform rating and therefore the only way forward is boosting those based on their global like %. And some data backs this up.<p>The oft-cited OkCupid Dataclysm book talks about variance (e.g. lots of people like &#x2F; lots of people dislike), explaining variance is meaningfully more important to messaging and engagement than raw like %.<p>Additionally, on the point of weight &#x2F; body type, we found that a little under half of daters (and &gt; 50% of women interested in men) do not report body type to be a significant factor in their decision making. So it is a meaningful factor, but for about 1&#x2F;2 of daters it isn&#x27;t.<p>The point I&#x27;m trying to drive here is, while there is for sure data and intuition that points to what you&#x27;re describing, there are others that point to other ways that people perceive the quality and likelihood of finding a partner on an app that may work as well, if not better, while not relying on a need to as heavily hack perception.</text></comment> | <story><title>The dating app paradox</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2024/02/13/1228749143/the-dating-app-paradox-why-dating-apps-may-be-worse-than-ever</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnthrowaway6543</author><text>&gt; Apps are more transparent and equitable with how they expose profiles to other users. Don&#x27;t bias toward highly liked people to increase perceived &quot;quality&quot; and shadow-hide show profiles that aren&#x27;t liked often (and then ask them to pay lol). Show people more randomly, to better represent the true cross section of people on the app.<p>This won&#x27;t work; if you do this, you&#x27;ll expose that the average online dating user is... well, average.<p>There&#x27;s a bit of kayfabe going on; users want to think the other users of online dating are 8+&#x2F;10, sexy, flirty, fun, and desirable singles. Unfortunately, 69% of Americans are overweight and 36% are obese. If profiles users see weren&#x27;t heavily weighted toward highly-rated ones, the perception of online dating would immediately change from &quot;online dating is fine, a bunch of attractive people are using this&quot; to &quot;online dating is only for the ugly and desperate&quot;; the article points out that this is the way Gen Z perceives online dating already.<p>Dating apps really struggle to keep the most desirable, because those are the ones least likely to need it. Yet they&#x27;re also the most important for a dating app to have. As fewer desirable people use it, the less perceived legitimacy it has, which results in fewer people using it, particularly the desirable ones. I suspect dating apps are experiencing this death spiral now.</text></item><item><author>sweetro17</author><text>Former dating app founder here - lots of thoughts on the space - feel free to AMA<p>High level though, there&#x27;s a lot of human behavior which makes dating frustrating with or without apps.<p>At it&#x27;s core, even in the best case, dating has A LOT of rejection. Dating apps introduce more opportunity for incremental validation (you got liked!) but also incremental rejection (you got ghosted!) and the sheer number of interactions that lead to nothing is much higher and more quantifiable than IRL (you&#x27;ve all seen the r&#x2F;tinder sankey diagrams)<p>Two &quot;solutions&quot; I believe would generally benefit dating<p>1. Apps are more transparent and equitable with how they expose profiles to other users. Don&#x27;t bias toward highly liked people to increase perceived &quot;quality&quot; and shadow-hide show profiles that aren&#x27;t liked often (and then ask them to pay lol). Show people more randomly, to better represent the true cross section of people on the app.<p>2. Daters set some type of routine that works for them - say &quot;I&#x27;ll try to go on ~1 date per month&quot;. Being intentional about this helps minimize the feeling that each date is so fatalistic &#x2F; it&#x27;s the end of the world if the person who seemed awesome when messaging is actually a jerk. It&#x27;d be nice if an app facilitated this type of routine and figured out a feedback mechanism to reward users who were generally pleasant &#x2F; respectful on their dates.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atleastoptimal</author><text>That&#x27;s true. The sad reality about dating is that, for 99% percent of people, the partner that would be ideal for their tastes is &quot;out of their league&quot; so to speak. Humans have dealt with this reality of dating acting somewhat like a marketplace via mores of commitment, dating within social classes, condemnation of promiscuity, etc., but the human nature is still there. 10&#x27;s want 10&#x27;s, but 5&#x27;s don&#x27;t want other 5&#x27;s, they also want 10&#x27;s.<p>The strategy most dating apps use has been to keep people in a perpetual cycle of heightened seeming possibility. You see the young, cool, attractive people, and perhaps one out of 100 times you&#x27;ll strike out, and the unlimited options keep you feeling that such an opportunity could happen infinitely. For average hetero dudes, this obsession will drive purchasing premium, paying for swipes and super likes, etc.<p>I know it&#x27;s controversial but I do believe that robotic&#x2F;AI partners is the &quot;ideal world&quot; solution to this. You get someone who fulfills all your physical needs so you don&#x27;t have to play the roulette in real life, or string along someone in your league because you believe you could get someone out of it. I&#x27;m sure in the future we&#x27;ll see them similar to how we see sex toys today.</text></comment> |
39,515,230 | 39,513,224 | 1 | 3 | 39,510,147 | train | <story><title>Pains of building your own billing system</title><url>https://arnon.dk/the-14-pains-of-billing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jchw</author><text>This is a great article for people who are in the situation where they have to make decisions about billing and don&#x27;t have much experience (and as a handy reference for those who do, but want some reminders, too.)<p>However, I will admit, I had a hearty chuckle at this line:<p>&gt; &quot;why can’t we just dump a file of what we need to bill on S3, and have a CRON job pick it up and collect payment?&quot;<p>Under no circumstances does my engineer brain think this is a good idea. At all.<p>But, I will dump one aspect of my engineer-brain thoughts: My favorite &quot;billing architecture&quot; decision is to try to decouple billing as much as possible from credit in a system. For example, if you have a subscription system where the user pays ahead for a given billing period, I prefer to have the entitlement itself just store the expiration date and the details about what entitlements the subscription grants during the time period it is active. The billing system can store the subscription and sync back to the entitlement as-needed. This makes both manual billing by human operators (not to mention debugging and patching around momentary issues) <i>and</i> something like a Stripe integration <i>very</i> easy. You should, of course, be <i>very</i> careful to leave it open for extension in the future, but this seems to be a very nice decision that doesn&#x27;t, in itself, limit you too much.<p>Obviously, this is not my original idea, but it&#x27;s still something I&#x27;ve grown to like a lot, especially after having tried other things less successfully.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ylere</author><text>My experience has been that there are typically two types of engineers: those who have worked on billing systems before and those who haven&#x27;t.<p>I think a lot of the issues arise from the difference between payments and billing [0]. When just starting out and signing up your first customers, you primarily care about collecting a few (recurring) payments - and it&#x27;s really easy to set that up with Stripe (or even just manually invoicing your first customers).<p>However, over time, more billing requirements gradually sneak in, such as more complex entitlements, multiple plans, grandfathering, and eventually enterprise&#x2F;high touch sales customers (where the money is!) who need custom billing cycles, terms, and entitlement provisioning. Since billing is never a technical focus, numerous additions and small hacks accumulate over time, taking engineering resources away from the actual product. Eventually, this turns into an unmanageable mess that can significantly slow down the sales process or limit what you can sell.<p>The complexity of billing is riddled with hidden pitfalls and edge cases, and it has become even more complex now that most plans include many different limits and usage-based components and that most SaaS companies sell globally. Many later-stage companies have teams of 15+ engineers working solely on billing. I fully agree with the author that, unless it&#x27;s at the core of your product, no organization should build a billing system themselves (Disclaimer: I&#x27;m the CTO of Wingback, a SaaS Billing Platform).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wingback.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;saas-payment-vs-saas-billing">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wingback.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;saas-payment-vs-saas-billing</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Pains of building your own billing system</title><url>https://arnon.dk/the-14-pains-of-billing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jchw</author><text>This is a great article for people who are in the situation where they have to make decisions about billing and don&#x27;t have much experience (and as a handy reference for those who do, but want some reminders, too.)<p>However, I will admit, I had a hearty chuckle at this line:<p>&gt; &quot;why can’t we just dump a file of what we need to bill on S3, and have a CRON job pick it up and collect payment?&quot;<p>Under no circumstances does my engineer brain think this is a good idea. At all.<p>But, I will dump one aspect of my engineer-brain thoughts: My favorite &quot;billing architecture&quot; decision is to try to decouple billing as much as possible from credit in a system. For example, if you have a subscription system where the user pays ahead for a given billing period, I prefer to have the entitlement itself just store the expiration date and the details about what entitlements the subscription grants during the time period it is active. The billing system can store the subscription and sync back to the entitlement as-needed. This makes both manual billing by human operators (not to mention debugging and patching around momentary issues) <i>and</i> something like a Stripe integration <i>very</i> easy. You should, of course, be <i>very</i> careful to leave it open for extension in the future, but this seems to be a very nice decision that doesn&#x27;t, in itself, limit you too much.<p>Obviously, this is not my original idea, but it&#x27;s still something I&#x27;ve grown to like a lot, especially after having tried other things less successfully.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spiffytech</author><text>Another great article from Arnon on doing exactly that:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arnon.dk&#x2F;why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-entitlement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arnon.dk&#x2F;why-you-should-separate-your-billing-from-e...</a></text></comment> |
14,343,103 | 14,342,511 | 1 | 2 | 14,341,623 | train | <story><title>An Abridged Cartoon Introduction To WebAssembly</title><url>https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/05/abridged-cartoon-introduction-webassembly/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>IvanK_net</author><text>They often forget to mention, that WebAssembly is just a low-level programming language (much lower than C), it has extremely simple syntax (it has just four data types, no system calls, the specification takes 5 pages instead of 500 pages of C spec). You may call it a &quot;bytecode&quot;, but typical bytecodes also have around-500-page specifications.<p>Also, its relation to javascript is not any bigger than the relation to any other programming language (i.e. there is no relation). A WebAssembly VM could be made as an extension of any environment.<p>I recommend reading the official paper <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WebAssembly&#x2F;spec&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;papers&#x2F;pldi2017.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WebAssembly&#x2F;spec&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;papers&#x2F;pldi2...</a> (I learned more than about 50 &quot;essays&quot; that I read about WASM in the past).</text></comment> | <story><title>An Abridged Cartoon Introduction To WebAssembly</title><url>https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/05/abridged-cartoon-introduction-webassembly/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gavinpc</author><text>I&#x27;m of two minds about WASM.<p>There&#x27;s the Alan Kay attitude that we can build entire systems on top of minimal VM&#x27;s, rather than sacrificing power to bake in more facilities. But even he says that too much time has been wasted by teams reinventing the wheel (or flat tire) who didn&#x27;t really have the chops to do it.<p>The other side of that, then, is the great potential for interop that Javascript offers. We now have a worldwide platform with a built-in presentation layer and a highly-optimized interpreter with useful, reflectable data structures out of the box. (<i>edit</i> i.e. it&#x27;s a viable platform for metaprogramming... the endgame of which is JS-in-JS (see &quot;prepack&quot;)).<p>I would love to see a future in which the browser (and &quot;personal&quot; computer generally) remained a locus of significant computation. In practice, I suspect that highly-intensive tasks (mostly AI stuff) will continue to be done on servers, not because we lack the processing power, but because end users will have signed away the custody of all data worth processing. If that is the case, then WASM&#x27;s role will be to fill a fairly marginal gap, between what JS can do, and what has to be farmed out anyway.<p>So ultimately I hope that WASM offers a lifeline to the computing power that individuals still have. But given the state of JS (after huge investments), it feels like starting over again.</text></comment> |
3,180,816 | 3,180,476 | 1 | 2 | 3,179,645 | train | <story><title>The ¬NED pin goes low on detection of a nuclear detonation [pdf]</title><url>http://www.maxwell.com/products/microelectronics/docs/HSN1000_REV3.PDF</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>Yeah, GPS doesn't work so well through the plasma sheath around a reentry vehicle. And you don't have a whole lot of time to acquire GPS lock, or steer, when you're still traveling at hypersonic speeds and it takes maybe half a minute to hit the ground after first encountering the upper atmosphere.</text></item><item><author>samfoo</author><text>I'm fairly certain that ICBM's use inertial guidance with predefined/computed coordinates (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_guidance" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_guidance</a>). There's no software involved, its all physical. Detonation is (probably) trigged by a combination of altimeter, accelerometer and other telemetry systems.</text></item><item><author>kabdib</author><text>Think cruise missile. Some code looks at a map, looks at GPS, looks at altitude and velocity, and decides "Yup, this is the spot."<p>It's probably a lot more prosaic than I imagine.</text></item><item><author>tdicola</author><text>I doubt the warhead has code to control its activation--more likely it's something like an altitude sensor that controls detonation.</text></item><item><author>kabdib</author><text>I've wondered about the following:<p>The firmware controlling a nuke has to have, at some point, a bit or control register it sets that causes the explosion to go off:<p><pre><code> *pKaboom = true;
</code></pre>
or something like that. My question is: What is the line of code after that?<p><pre><code> *pKaboom = true;
/*NOTREACHED*/
</code></pre>
I suspect it's more complicated than that (there's an infinite loop of some kind that keeps retrying the command sequence). I also suspect I will never know, short of some very hush-hush software being open-sourced someday. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbierwagen</author><text>oelewapperke: I hope you're reading this, because your reply to this comment is not visible. You've been hellbanned.<p><a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-hellban.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...</a><p>It happened 175 days ago, when you made an unwise comment about killing children. All your comments since then have not been visible, or upvotable. This is why you're supposed to put contact information in your profile.<p>I hesitated before posting this, since from your older comments you appear to be a bit of a reddit user, and the comment itself contains several significant technical errors regarding the design of nuclear weapons, (American nuclear weapons haven't been of the "gun" type for 60 years now) which casts a poor light on the comment as a whole; but I don't think you're completely beyond hope.<p>Make a new account. Try not to be an asshole with it.</text></comment> | <story><title>The ¬NED pin goes low on detection of a nuclear detonation [pdf]</title><url>http://www.maxwell.com/products/microelectronics/docs/HSN1000_REV3.PDF</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>Yeah, GPS doesn't work so well through the plasma sheath around a reentry vehicle. And you don't have a whole lot of time to acquire GPS lock, or steer, when you're still traveling at hypersonic speeds and it takes maybe half a minute to hit the ground after first encountering the upper atmosphere.</text></item><item><author>samfoo</author><text>I'm fairly certain that ICBM's use inertial guidance with predefined/computed coordinates (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_guidance" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_guidance</a>). There's no software involved, its all physical. Detonation is (probably) trigged by a combination of altimeter, accelerometer and other telemetry systems.</text></item><item><author>kabdib</author><text>Think cruise missile. Some code looks at a map, looks at GPS, looks at altitude and velocity, and decides "Yup, this is the spot."<p>It's probably a lot more prosaic than I imagine.</text></item><item><author>tdicola</author><text>I doubt the warhead has code to control its activation--more likely it's something like an altitude sensor that controls detonation.</text></item><item><author>kabdib</author><text>I've wondered about the following:<p>The firmware controlling a nuke has to have, at some point, a bit or control register it sets that causes the explosion to go off:<p><pre><code> *pKaboom = true;
</code></pre>
or something like that. My question is: What is the line of code after that?<p><pre><code> *pKaboom = true;
/*NOTREACHED*/
</code></pre>
I suspect it's more complicated than that (there's an infinite loop of some kind that keeps retrying the command sequence). I also suspect I will never know, short of some very hush-hush software being open-sourced someday. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>Cruise missiles, on the other hand... Well, let's just say there are eye-witness accounts of one flying down the street and turning the corner at an intersection before detonating in a tiny radius. All the was left of the target was a single shoe, IIRC.</text></comment> |
2,809,340 | 2,808,489 | 1 | 2 | 2,808,072 | train | <story><title>Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be worried?</title><url>http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2009/07/31/understanding-load-averages</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>molo_</author><text>There are two contributions to the load factor: number of processes/threads on the ready-to-run queue and the number blocked on I/O. The processes blocked on I/O show up in the "D" state in ps and top and also contribute to this number.<p>This article entirely ignores the number of processes blocked on I/O. A load average exceeding the number of CPUs (cores, whatever) does not automatically mean the CPUs are overloaded.</text></comment> | <story><title>Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be worried?</title><url>http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2009/07/31/understanding-load-averages</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kbob</author><text>Three comments.<p>1. I can't comment on the original article. Are comments closed, or am I dumb?<p>2. The author seems to have assumed a web server responding to bursty traffic. Several people have pointed out workloads to which the 0.7 heuristic doesn't apply - compute servers, I/O bound servers, compile jobs, desktops. He should have stated that assumption up front.<p>3. Hyperthreads. For purposes of load monitoring, you should be counting the number of threads, not the number of cores. Yes, hyperthreads are slower than cores, but that doesn't matter. The load average is the ratio of work available to work being done (oversimplified, I know), and, as such, it's scaled to the actual throughput of the threads available.<p>Fortunately, the author suggested counting CPUs by reading /proc/cpuinfo, and /proc/cpuinfo lists threads, not cores. So those two errors cancel out. (-:</text></comment> |
34,073,907 | 34,072,498 | 1 | 2 | 34,070,451 | train | <story><title>MariaDB plunges nearly 40% in NYSE debut after SPAC merger</title><url>https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2022/12/19/mariadb-goes-public-in-spac-merger.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>berkle4455</author><text>SPACs are setup by people who couldn’t figure out how to launch a DAO token scam.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danrocks</author><text>People like Chamath Palihapitiya, who can probably do both. All while lecturing us about how bad our society is and how he&#x27;s ashamed of having been part of Facebook (I&#x27;m sure he&#x27;ll say the same about SPACs later).</text></comment> | <story><title>MariaDB plunges nearly 40% in NYSE debut after SPAC merger</title><url>https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2022/12/19/mariadb-goes-public-in-spac-merger.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>berkle4455</author><text>SPACs are setup by people who couldn’t figure out how to launch a DAO token scam.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spamizbad</author><text>Nah, SPACs are just the luxury version of a DAO token scams.</text></comment> |
1,569,502 | 1,569,323 | 1 | 3 | 1,569,172 | train | <story><title>Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)</title><url>http://sachin.posterous.com/apple-is-run-like-a-huge-startup</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>larsberg</author><text>This article, like many others, seems to overestimate how large the actual numbers of developers is at Microsoft, as opposed to full teams with Test and mgmt and their associated marketing, sales, etc. organizations.<p>The .NET GC was roughly 1 person (sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more). Most of the base class libraries were one person. Even larger things, like the text editor, were usually a senior person and one or two very junior ones. And this is software that has to run on a not-at-all-fixed set of hardware platforms :-)<p>In my time there, I never saw or heard anyone "think they can solve problems by throwing lots of people at them." Uniformly, the decisions made to get things shipped were to either cut the features that were the combination of the furthest behind and least value to the market or to pull over extremely senior talent that had already gotten their parts shipped.<p>Of course, it was a big company, so YMMV. Can't speak for much more than dev tools, office, and windows.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)</title><url>http://sachin.posterous.com/apple-is-run-like-a-huge-startup</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>commandar</author><text>"The engineers on the Mac OS and iOS teams move back and forth between the two projects based on release cycles and what's needs to ship next."<p>As somebody who has been rather dismayed with the way the Macintosh platform has started to stagnate in the past couple of years, I don't really view this as a <i>good</i> thing.</text></comment> |
25,897,816 | 25,897,608 | 1 | 2 | 25,896,626 | train | <story><title>Military intelligence buys location data instead of getting warrants</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/military-intelligence-buys-location-data-instead-of-getting-warrants-memo-shows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tppiotrowski</author><text>&quot;If your mobile device is turned on, our network is collecting data about the device location. We may use, provide access to, or disclose this network location data without your approval to provide and support our Services, including to route wireless communications, operate and improve our network and business, detect and prevent fraud, provide information to emergency responders about where to find you when you call public safety agencies, including through 911 or similar emergency services numbers, or as required by law.&quot; [1]<p>The wording here seems to suggest they can only use it for diagnosing their T-Mobile network, to emergency services or as required by law. Where is the loophole?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.t-mobile.com&#x2F;privacy-center&#x2F;our-practices&#x2F;privacy-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.t-mobile.com&#x2F;privacy-center&#x2F;our-practices&#x2F;privac...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>username90</author><text>&gt; We may use, provide access to, or disclose this network location data without your approval to provide and support our Services<p>That is the important part, everything else are just suggestions. If they view selling user data as one of their services then selling your data to someone else is a part of things the contract covers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Military intelligence buys location data instead of getting warrants</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/military-intelligence-buys-location-data-instead-of-getting-warrants-memo-shows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tppiotrowski</author><text>&quot;If your mobile device is turned on, our network is collecting data about the device location. We may use, provide access to, or disclose this network location data without your approval to provide and support our Services, including to route wireless communications, operate and improve our network and business, detect and prevent fraud, provide information to emergency responders about where to find you when you call public safety agencies, including through 911 or similar emergency services numbers, or as required by law.&quot; [1]<p>The wording here seems to suggest they can only use it for diagnosing their T-Mobile network, to emergency services or as required by law. Where is the loophole?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.t-mobile.com&#x2F;privacy-center&#x2F;our-practices&#x2F;privacy-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.t-mobile.com&#x2F;privacy-center&#x2F;our-practices&#x2F;privac...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>salawat</author><text>&gt;operate and improve our network and business<p>&gt;and business<p>Loophole is right there. The improvement of their business can be interpreted as anything. Winning a government project, PR win, getting rid of a meddlesome or unsavory customer, supporting an unpopular government action to avoid unpleasant consequences.... All of those fall under improving their business.<p>Generally speaking, any phrase not explicitly defined and constrained in any sort of legal document is where you go to start looking for wiggle room.</text></comment> |
20,081,118 | 20,078,108 | 1 | 2 | 20,077,240 | train | <story><title>If I ingest a grain of sand size piece of the Chernobyl Reactor No.4 core</title><url>https://www.quora.com/If-I-ingest-a-grain-of-sand-size-piece-of-the-Chernobyl-Reactor-No-4-core-what-would-happen-to-my-body/answer/Carl-Willis-2?share=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>henearkr</author><text>I&#x27;m baffled at the fact that the answer is entirely about radioactivity. Rather than that, uranium in itself is highly toxic (I mean, chemically).</text></comment> | <story><title>If I ingest a grain of sand size piece of the Chernobyl Reactor No.4 core</title><url>https://www.quora.com/If-I-ingest-a-grain-of-sand-size-piece-of-the-Chernobyl-Reactor-No-4-core-what-would-happen-to-my-body/answer/Carl-Willis-2?share=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atemerev</author><text>This is purely hypothetical, as like he noticed, the fuel particle is not soluble in gastric acid. The damage would be much less than that.<p>Inhaling the similar amount of finely powdered radioactive dust is another story, though.</text></comment> |
41,655,674 | 41,655,550 | 1 | 3 | 41,654,871 | train | <story><title>Rewriting Rust</title><url>https://josephg.com/blog/rewriting-rust/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielHB</author><text>The fact is that dependency jungle is the prevalent way to get shit done these days. The best the runtime can do is embrace it, make it as performant and safe as possible and try to support minimum-dependency projects by having a broad std library.<p>Also I am no expert, but I think file-watchers are definitely not simple at all, especially if they are multi-platform.</text></item><item><author>dist1ll</author><text>I think the dependency situation is pretty rough, and very few folks want to admit it. An example I recently stumbled upon: the cargo-watch[0] crate.<p>At its core its a pretty simple app. I watches for file changes, and re-runs the compiler. The implementation is less than 1000 lines of code. But what happens if I vendor the dependencies? It turns out, the deps add up to almost 4 million lines of Rust code, spread across 8000+ files. For a simple file-watcher.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;cargo-watch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;cargo-watch</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kreyenborgi</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;eradman&#x2F;entr">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;eradman&#x2F;entr</a> is<p><pre><code> Language files blank comment code
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including a well-designed CLI.<p>entr supports BSD, Mac OS, and Linux (even WSL). So that&#x27;s several platforms in &lt;2k lines of code. By using MATHEMATICS and EXTRAPOLATION we find that non-WSL Windows file-watching must take four million minus two thousand equals <i>calculate calculate</i> 3998000 lines of code. Ahem.<p>Though to be fair, cargo watch probably does more than just file-watching. (Should it? Is it worth the complexity? I guess that depends on where you land on the worse-is-better discussion.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Rewriting Rust</title><url>https://josephg.com/blog/rewriting-rust/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielHB</author><text>The fact is that dependency jungle is the prevalent way to get shit done these days. The best the runtime can do is embrace it, make it as performant and safe as possible and try to support minimum-dependency projects by having a broad std library.<p>Also I am no expert, but I think file-watchers are definitely not simple at all, especially if they are multi-platform.</text></item><item><author>dist1ll</author><text>I think the dependency situation is pretty rough, and very few folks want to admit it. An example I recently stumbled upon: the cargo-watch[0] crate.<p>At its core its a pretty simple app. I watches for file changes, and re-runs the compiler. The implementation is less than 1000 lines of code. But what happens if I vendor the dependencies? It turns out, the deps add up to almost 4 million lines of Rust code, spread across 8000+ files. For a simple file-watcher.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;cargo-watch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;cargo-watch</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SkiFire13</author><text>&gt; try to support minimum-dependency projects by having a broad std library.<p>Since everyone depends on the standard library this will just mean everyone will depend on even more lines of code. You are decreasing the number of nominal dependencies but increasing of much code those amount to.<p>Moreover the moment the stdlib&#x27;s bundled dependency is not enough there are two problems:<p>- it can&#x27;t be changed because that would be a breaking change, so you&#x27;re stuck with the old bad implementation;<p>- you will have to use an alternative implementation in another crate, so now you&#x27;re back at the starting situation except with another dependency bundled in the stdlib.<p>Just look at the dependency situation with the python stdlib, e.g. how many versions of urllib there are.</text></comment> |
25,929,571 | 25,926,847 | 1 | 2 | 25,926,471 | train | <story><title>Telephoto fear: how lenses affect views of crowds</title><url>https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210126/p2a/00m/0op/009000c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phreeza</author><text>On the contrary, I explicitly remember this effect making the rounds in many outlets in April:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyheder.tv2.dk&#x2F;samfund&#x2F;2020-04-26-hvor-taet-er-folk-paa-hinanden-disse-billeder-er-taget-samtidig-men-viser-to" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyheder.tv2.dk&#x2F;samfund&#x2F;2020-04-26-hvor-taet-er-folk-...</a></text></item><item><author>reedf1</author><text>As an amateur photographer the reporting at the beginning of the pandemic was journalistic poison. Anyone even vaguely interested in photography knows about lens compression. There wasn&#x27;t a single photo of a beach or a high-street I could find that wasn&#x27;t intentionally composed to compress the crowds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noneeeed</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure this was contrary to what the parent comment says. Back in April the newspapers and other media were regularly using photographs that made crowds and beaches look much more densly packed than they were.<p>This was being pointed out by articles like the one you linked to, but that doesn&#x27;t negate original offense. Far fewer people were reading articles like this than were seing toxic scare-mongering photos on the front pages of major national newspapers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Telephoto fear: how lenses affect views of crowds</title><url>https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210126/p2a/00m/0op/009000c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phreeza</author><text>On the contrary, I explicitly remember this effect making the rounds in many outlets in April:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyheder.tv2.dk&#x2F;samfund&#x2F;2020-04-26-hvor-taet-er-folk-paa-hinanden-disse-billeder-er-taget-samtidig-men-viser-to" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nyheder.tv2.dk&#x2F;samfund&#x2F;2020-04-26-hvor-taet-er-folk-...</a></text></item><item><author>reedf1</author><text>As an amateur photographer the reporting at the beginning of the pandemic was journalistic poison. Anyone even vaguely interested in photography knows about lens compression. There wasn&#x27;t a single photo of a beach or a high-street I could find that wasn&#x27;t intentionally composed to compress the crowds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thinkingemote</author><text>It depends where you are I imagine. Some countries have cultures where any attempts to lessen the messaging in coronavirus news is on par with being morally wrong (or even dangerous). Other cultures are more critical or resistant. HN has a very diverse mix of users from a range of places.</text></comment> |
31,758,338 | 31,758,217 | 1 | 3 | 31,756,837 | train | <story><title>Federal Reserve raises rates by 0.75%</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/06/15/fed-interest-rates-hike/7631195001/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>queuebert</author><text>Is this because of the transition to a service economy?</text></item><item><author>ren_engineer</author><text>takes guts to do this and it was needed. Problem is that it will expose that most of the US economy is a sham that needed 0% interest rates to even fake growth. our &quot;leaders&quot; have been kicking the can down the road for a long time. US economy used to grow even with very high interest rates, now even a slight increase puts us into a recession.</text></item><item><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>You can argue either side to this, and make a good case.<p>My personal preference is to trigger a recession and reduce inflation. The easy cop-out solution is to say a &quot;big f*ck off&quot; to pensioners, lower middle class, and poor people and let inflation soar, but I believe that long term this would be more destructive to the general economy. Better take the long term view here and not kick the can down the street.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lumost</author><text>There is a counter view that the US economy experienced a variation of dutch disease by being the world&#x27;s reserve currency. In this view, being the world&#x27;s reserve currency forced the US to &quot;export&quot; dollars and &quot;import&quot; goods. Making goods manufactured from USD jurisdictions irrationally non-competitive.<p>The reason &quot;dutch disease&quot; is a problem for resource producing countries is that manufacturing productivity growth is much stronger compared to commodity production. It&#x27;s better to be a manufacturing powerhouse than it is to be a commodity powerhouse.<p>It&#x27;s entirely plausible that services are the same way, it&#x27;s better to <i>make</i> things for other people than to <i>do</i> things for other people.</text></comment> | <story><title>Federal Reserve raises rates by 0.75%</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/06/15/fed-interest-rates-hike/7631195001/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>queuebert</author><text>Is this because of the transition to a service economy?</text></item><item><author>ren_engineer</author><text>takes guts to do this and it was needed. Problem is that it will expose that most of the US economy is a sham that needed 0% interest rates to even fake growth. our &quot;leaders&quot; have been kicking the can down the road for a long time. US economy used to grow even with very high interest rates, now even a slight increase puts us into a recession.</text></item><item><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>You can argue either side to this, and make a good case.<p>My personal preference is to trigger a recession and reduce inflation. The easy cop-out solution is to say a &quot;big f*ck off&quot; to pensioners, lower middle class, and poor people and let inflation soar, but I believe that long term this would be more destructive to the general economy. Better take the long term view here and not kick the can down the street.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imachine1980_</author><text>I thinks most becouse real growth only happens in Asian countries last decades, and usa and europe companies fake growth by overlabredge debt becouse of the lower inters rate, not productivity</text></comment> |
18,709,352 | 18,708,815 | 1 | 2 | 18,706,193 | train | <story><title>Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46604625</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bovermyer</author><text>One fun psychological hack for this - paint an eye above or on said locker.<p>This is backed by research. For example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;uk-england-tyne-22270052" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;uk-england-tyne-22270052</a></text></item><item><author>tivert</author><text>If you&#x27;re concerned about package thieves, just buy an outdoor cabinet and put it next to your door with a note asking that packages be placed in it. I use an Ikea Josef:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;gb&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;storage-furniture&#x2F;outdoor-organising&#x2F;josef-cabinet-in-outdoor-dark-grey-art-00168990&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;gb&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;storage-furniture&#x2F;outdoo...</a><p>You don&#x27;t even need a lock for it. If you can get the deliverymen to consistently place packages in it, the thieves will have no idea if there&#x27;s actually a package at your door to steal or not <i>without actually attempting a theft</i>. For extra deterrence, you can install a motion activated camera next to it. The idea is to reduce the thieves&#x27; expectation of reward while increasing their expectation of getting caught.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Strilanc</author><text>This is one of the psychology results that failed to replicate [1] in the replication crisis [2].<p>[1]: Artificial surveillance cues do not increase generosity: two meta-analyses <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S1090513816301350" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S109051381...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Replication_crisis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Replication_crisis</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46604625</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bovermyer</author><text>One fun psychological hack for this - paint an eye above or on said locker.<p>This is backed by research. For example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;uk-england-tyne-22270052" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;uk-england-tyne-22270052</a></text></item><item><author>tivert</author><text>If you&#x27;re concerned about package thieves, just buy an outdoor cabinet and put it next to your door with a note asking that packages be placed in it. I use an Ikea Josef:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;gb&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;storage-furniture&#x2F;outdoor-organising&#x2F;josef-cabinet-in-outdoor-dark-grey-art-00168990&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;gb&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;storage-furniture&#x2F;outdoo...</a><p>You don&#x27;t even need a lock for it. If you can get the deliverymen to consistently place packages in it, the thieves will have no idea if there&#x27;s actually a package at your door to steal or not <i>without actually attempting a theft</i>. For extra deterrence, you can install a motion activated camera next to it. The idea is to reduce the thieves&#x27; expectation of reward while increasing their expectation of getting caught.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samstave</author><text>@jdb here on HN had, at one time, installed a very conspicuous camera housing on his house although it had no camera in it.<p>Psychological deterrence.</text></comment> |
4,472,592 | 4,472,593 | 1 | 2 | 4,472,403 | train | <story><title>Introducing Qubes 1.0 ("a stable and reasonably secure desktop OS")</title><url>http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com.br/2012/09/introducing-qubes-10.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Actually folks on HN <i>are</i> interested in secure operating systems but they recognize that creating such is a Hard Problem (tm) which someone who is an unknown [1] in the field is unlikely to have achieved.<p>Now you can read up on Mark Miller's published papers [2] on Joule (actually pretty secure) and some of the issues associated with making things secure and get a much better feeling of solidity (for example).<p>So when the press release comes out that its passed the Defense department's B1/B2 review, then I suspect it will get a lot of interest here and else where.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=10279027" rel="nofollow">http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=10279027</a> LinkedIn profile, one job CEO of this thing? A blog full of black hat sort of exploits but I didn't see any peer reviewed work.<p>[2] <a href="http://research.google.com/pubs/author35958.html" rel="nofollow">http://research.google.com/pubs/author35958.html</a><p>[3] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Evaluation_Criteria" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Evaluat...</a></text></item><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text>Previously:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1246990" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1246990</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2645170" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2645170</a><p>This story won't see much traction on HN. The cult of Mac is too strong, and HN users generally aren't interested in secure operating systems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Joanna Rutkowska is famous in computer security circles and highly credible on this particular topic.<p>The "black hat sorts of exploits" attributed to her tend to be things like, "abusing odd, barely-documented corners of x86 chipsets to bypass hardware-encrypted trusted boot roots". Thinking less of a professional in my field for having exploits attributed to them tends to be a bad idea, but it's a <i>uniquely</i> bad idea in Rutkowska's case.<p>Outside of conference presentations, Rutkowska doesn't have much peer-reviewed work in the literature. That's because Rutkowska is originally from the malware/rootkit/virus part of the industry. For obvious reasons, antivirus doesn't generate a lot of peer-reviewed academic research. One of those obvious reasons is that they're too busy printing money hats to bother. (This to my chagrin; I am very much <i>not</i> from the AV/malware part of the field).<p>I'm not vouching for Qubes or even saying that I think the approach (of semi-transparently allocating secure VMs for each application or trust domain on the system) is viable. But Rutkowska is worth taking seriously.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing Qubes 1.0 ("a stable and reasonably secure desktop OS")</title><url>http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com.br/2012/09/introducing-qubes-10.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Actually folks on HN <i>are</i> interested in secure operating systems but they recognize that creating such is a Hard Problem (tm) which someone who is an unknown [1] in the field is unlikely to have achieved.<p>Now you can read up on Mark Miller's published papers [2] on Joule (actually pretty secure) and some of the issues associated with making things secure and get a much better feeling of solidity (for example).<p>So when the press release comes out that its passed the Defense department's B1/B2 review, then I suspect it will get a lot of interest here and else where.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=10279027" rel="nofollow">http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=10279027</a> LinkedIn profile, one job CEO of this thing? A blog full of black hat sort of exploits but I didn't see any peer reviewed work.<p>[2] <a href="http://research.google.com/pubs/author35958.html" rel="nofollow">http://research.google.com/pubs/author35958.html</a><p>[3] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Evaluation_Criteria" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Evaluat...</a></text></item><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text>Previously:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1246990" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1246990</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2645170" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2645170</a><p>This story won't see much traction on HN. The cult of Mac is too strong, and HN users generally aren't interested in secure operating systems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdl</author><text>Invisible Things is pretty well respected in the trusted computing space (at least among the hacker world, not the DoD certification world)<p>SKPP pretty much sucked off all the "paper-writing industry" folks a few years ago into a kind of boring niche. Mark Miller is a big exception to that, but it's not a really vibrant research area compared to other parts of security now.</text></comment> |
21,470,698 | 21,470,702 | 1 | 2 | 21,470,407 | train | <story><title>Solar farm has to switch off every second day due to negative prices</title><url>https://reneweconomy.com.au/this-solar-farm-has-to-switch-off-every-second-day-due-to-negative-prices-63529/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>An explanation of the mechanics of how I&#x27;d have to pay somebody else to take my electricity (e.g., a negative rate) would be helpful.<p>As prices approaches 0, I could take the excess electricity and say, mine cryptocurrency. Is nobody considering the arbitrage opportunities here? Take the 0-cost electricity, move water up a hill, and convert it back to electric when it&#x27;s needed, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apendleton</author><text>Anything you could do it with it would have capital costs. Maybe it&#x27;s transient enough that that money would be better invested elsewhere. Like, if you only run your cryptocurrency mining when the price is negative, your capital is stuck in an idle asset most of the time, and if you run it all the time, it&#x27;s the average price you want to consider, not the minimum price (even if the minimum price is negative), and my guess is that Australian electricity isn&#x27;t cheaper <i>on average</i> than other kinds of power other places (especially places with lax environmental regulation).<p>Another way to think about it: uses like those you propose that can soak up excess energy in the grid are exactly why energy markets are allowed to float, and even to go negative. If there&#x27;s a surplus, they want you to use it, and if it were economical to store it and sell it back to the power company later, both they and you would benefit. That this isn&#x27;t common suggests that it isn&#x27;t economical.</text></comment> | <story><title>Solar farm has to switch off every second day due to negative prices</title><url>https://reneweconomy.com.au/this-solar-farm-has-to-switch-off-every-second-day-due-to-negative-prices-63529/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>An explanation of the mechanics of how I&#x27;d have to pay somebody else to take my electricity (e.g., a negative rate) would be helpful.<p>As prices approaches 0, I could take the excess electricity and say, mine cryptocurrency. Is nobody considering the arbitrage opportunities here? Take the 0-cost electricity, move water up a hill, and convert it back to electric when it&#x27;s needed, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manicdee</author><text>Executive Summary (drastically oversimplified):<p>In a wholesale electricity market we have a market operator who estimates the demand for the near term future and opens the market up to bids for supply.<p>Suppliers bid a certain capacity for each period, with the operator typically accepting firm supply offers, contingency supply offers, and ancillary service offers in advance. Since some suppliers are “baseload” (ie: unable to adjust output to suit the current level of demand) they will typically bid low to always be paid for their supply. Everyone else will be affected by these bids because the “baseload” operators are typically not only inflexible but also have huge capacity.<p>In periods where total demand is low relative to total supply capacity, the wholesale bids will drop to low prices. For the baseload suppliers, they would prefer to pay for someone to use their excess power rather than damage their equipment by either turning it off or reducing output below certain minimums. A baseload supplier might, for example, be facing a maintenance cost of a million dollars versus paying the market a hundred thousand to create extra demand for surplus energy. So rather than turn off equipment they will bid negative prices on the wholesale market.<p>A second cause of negative wholesale prices is established players with large war chests waging economic war against new entrants. They know solar farms have razor thin margins, so it is worth spending a few tens of million dollars to drive the solar farm bankrupt. Enough negative pricing periods during peak solar capacity means the solar farm is not making any money. If the baseload operator knows roughly the breakeven point for the solar farm, they will know how much they have to spend in order to shut the solar farm out of the market and bankrupt them. There are no rules against this kind of activity in the Australian energy market.</text></comment> |
36,698,164 | 36,696,270 | 1 | 3 | 36,695,682 | train | <story><title>BeagleV-Ahead RISC-V board</title><url>https://beagleboard.org/beaglev-ahead</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>swetland</author><text>Okay, so is there actual documentation for the SoC used on this critter? I mean a full Databook &#x2F; Technical Reference Manual, not maybe 30 pages of overview, maybe a list of register base addresses (if you&#x27;re lucky), and a pile of Linux kernel patches (upstream if you&#x27;re lucky, but still of less value to someone wanting to actually write code for &#x2F; port something to the SoC) or an &quot;SDK&quot; containing a bunch of low quality vendor code for the peripherals.<p>I&#x27;d love to see a RISC-V SoC (not just a dinky little MCU) that has real &#x2F; complete documentation. So far I have yet to find any for any of the various RISC-V based SBCs that have shipped.</text></comment> | <story><title>BeagleV-Ahead RISC-V board</title><url>https://beagleboard.org/beaglev-ahead</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nvy</author><text>I have a few Beaglebone Blacks kicking around the house and they&#x27;re great. I&#x27;ve always felt the Beagle boards were superior to Raspberry Pis, and that the RPi mostly succeeded because of better marketing and outreach efforts.<p>It&#x27;s nice to see the project still chugging along</text></comment> |
26,862,313 | 26,862,187 | 1 | 2 | 26,860,925 | train | <story><title>Test for lists in Cython</title><url>https://github.com/00sapo/cython_list_test</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cfcf14</author><text>Have you been successful in implementing non-trivial computational code in numba&#x2F;numpy? I&#x27;ve always found it starts to really break for anything which isn&#x27;t really trivial, and the errors are mostly non-prescriptive and highly verbose.</text></item><item><author>PartiallyTyped</author><text>Have you tried numba+numpy? In my experience, it is much faster than Jax and can compile to cuda. It&#x27;s not caveat free, but it also removes the hustle of labeling arrays as donated in Jax.<p>You may find this interesting <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scikit-hep&#x2F;iminuit&#x2F;blob&#x2F;develop&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;automatic_differentiation.ipynb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scikit-hep&#x2F;iminuit&#x2F;blob&#x2F;develop&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;...</a></text></item><item><author>jeremiecoullon</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using JAX (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jax.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jax.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a>) for scientific computing in general (in particular MCMC algorithms), as it&#x27;s really fast. Even on a CPU you get massive speedups compared to numpy (can be up to 2 or 3 orders of magnitude faster in some cases).<p>The main selling point of the library is automatic differential and compilation to XLA, but I&#x27;ve been using it even when I don&#x27;t need gradients, as it&#x27;s really fast (due to compilation). I also really like the random number generator as it&#x27;s very good for reproducibility.<p>I&#x27;ve played around with Julia in the past and really liked it, but in terms speed Jax has pretty much solved that problem for me</text></item><item><author>ZuLuuuuuu</author><text>I feel like the #1 downside of Python for the last few years is that you cannot take advantage of multiple cores of a CPU easily. Especially when you think it is heavily used in data analysis. We use Python for data analysis as well, and for 95% of operations we are doing, numpy is fast enough that we don&#x27;t have any complaints. But sometimes, we do wish to be able to take advantage of all the cores in our CPUs, especially now that we can easily get an 8 core CPU for a reasonable price.<p>There is multiprocessing module but you cannot share memory between processes. I guess the best options are either writing a C extension or using Numba. Writing C extensions require either distributing binary packages or C compiler to be present on the target computer which is not always ideal. So is using Numba the best solution currently? I tried it a bit in the past but the errors I got was a bit hard to interpret compared to regular Python errors.<p>I wish the multithreading module had support for native threads. Is there any PEPs trying to bring easy multi-core support for Python?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshuaellinger</author><text>I just implemented both a CSV parser and an address standardizer in numba (both CPU and GPU) running in parallel feed through a message queue with a bunch of workers subprocs.<p>It takes a bit of getting used to but the performance gains on impressive. Basically, my bottlenecks shift from compute to i&#x2F;o.<p>I think you have to balance it against writing in C&#x2F;C++. Mentally, it is basically the same work as writing in C (you manage memory&#x2F;you write complicated for-loops) but you have good array support with numpy. The primary advantage for me that everything stays in the python runtime environment. You just run the code without any extra steps.<p>...<p>What is missing from the timing type &#x27;toy&#x27; benchmarks is an understanding that there is typically more than one bottleneck in a real problem and it is easy to choose the wrong one to optimize and get little gains.<p>After starting C (30 years ago now), spending a long time in C#, then switching to Python a few years ago, I think the unappreciated advantage of python is that I have to abandon all pretense of caring about speed and just get stuff working. It basically solves the pre-mature optimization problem for me by being a fast interpreted language rather than a slow compiled language.</text></comment> | <story><title>Test for lists in Cython</title><url>https://github.com/00sapo/cython_list_test</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cfcf14</author><text>Have you been successful in implementing non-trivial computational code in numba&#x2F;numpy? I&#x27;ve always found it starts to really break for anything which isn&#x27;t really trivial, and the errors are mostly non-prescriptive and highly verbose.</text></item><item><author>PartiallyTyped</author><text>Have you tried numba+numpy? In my experience, it is much faster than Jax and can compile to cuda. It&#x27;s not caveat free, but it also removes the hustle of labeling arrays as donated in Jax.<p>You may find this interesting <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scikit-hep&#x2F;iminuit&#x2F;blob&#x2F;develop&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;automatic_differentiation.ipynb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scikit-hep&#x2F;iminuit&#x2F;blob&#x2F;develop&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;...</a></text></item><item><author>jeremiecoullon</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using JAX (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jax.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jax.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a>) for scientific computing in general (in particular MCMC algorithms), as it&#x27;s really fast. Even on a CPU you get massive speedups compared to numpy (can be up to 2 or 3 orders of magnitude faster in some cases).<p>The main selling point of the library is automatic differential and compilation to XLA, but I&#x27;ve been using it even when I don&#x27;t need gradients, as it&#x27;s really fast (due to compilation). I also really like the random number generator as it&#x27;s very good for reproducibility.<p>I&#x27;ve played around with Julia in the past and really liked it, but in terms speed Jax has pretty much solved that problem for me</text></item><item><author>ZuLuuuuuu</author><text>I feel like the #1 downside of Python for the last few years is that you cannot take advantage of multiple cores of a CPU easily. Especially when you think it is heavily used in data analysis. We use Python for data analysis as well, and for 95% of operations we are doing, numpy is fast enough that we don&#x27;t have any complaints. But sometimes, we do wish to be able to take advantage of all the cores in our CPUs, especially now that we can easily get an 8 core CPU for a reasonable price.<p>There is multiprocessing module but you cannot share memory between processes. I guess the best options are either writing a C extension or using Numba. Writing C extensions require either distributing binary packages or C compiler to be present on the target computer which is not always ideal. So is using Numba the best solution currently? I tried it a bit in the past but the errors I got was a bit hard to interpret compared to regular Python errors.<p>I wish the multithreading module had support for native threads. Is there any PEPs trying to bring easy multi-core support for Python?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grej</author><text>We have a very large portion of production code written in numba we’ve been running for about 3 years and I made a small contribution to the library. There are a lot of gotchas to numba when the codebase gets large but the benefits far outweigh the downsides. I highly recommend numba.<p>Edit: also note that a big part of the umap library is written in numba.</text></comment> |
22,085,458 | 22,081,596 | 1 | 3 | 22,064,824 | train | <story><title>What Nihilism Is Not</title><url>https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-nihilism-is-not/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stanfordkid</author><text>I used to be really into philosophy, until the revelation hit me that philosophy is ultimately ontological: it names ways of thinking -- suppose living life is like painting a painting. Philosophy, then, is a theory of aesthetics. Sure it can be handy, but at the end of the day you need to create a painting. How much time you spend reading about aesthetics deducts from your time actually painting and experimenting.<p>I think the author doesn&#x27;t look at the drawbacks of nihilism completely -- nihilism is a blank canvas as opposed to something like paint-by-numbers. Ultimately the choice of nihilism is still personal. We are all given a blank canvas to start. What kind of painting do you want to hang up?<p>Nihilism is basically saying that no theory of aesthetics is better than any other. Is this really true? Would you paint random dots on the canvas? Surely circles are more meaningful than scribbles?</text></comment> | <story><title>What Nihilism Is Not</title><url>https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-nihilism-is-not/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mirimir</author><text>Huh.<p>I did maybe a couple decades of applied nihilism, as presented by Landmark Education. It helped me a lot, given that I&#x27;m bipolar and prone to pessimism and depression.<p>So this makes sense to me:<p>&gt; If, as I suggested earlier, nihilism and pessimism are opposites, then nihilism is actually much closer to optimism.<p>But not this:<p>&gt; Such a lack of awareness is the point of nihilism, as nihilism is all about hiding from despair rather than dwelling on it.<p>As Landmark taught it, it&#x27;s not so much hiding from despair as cultivating the awareness that despair is an illusion. That is, despair isn&#x27;t about what happened. It&#x27;s about our story about what happened. And our stories by default just reflect our programming.<p>This does, however, but it&#x27;s too ambiguous:<p>&gt; But the nihilist has feelings. It’s just that what the nihilist has feelings for is itself nothing.<p>It&#x27;s not that it&#x27;s &quot;nothing&quot;, exactly. It&#x27;s that it&#x27;s indeterminate. By default, it&#x27;s however we&#x27;ve been programmed. But it can be whatever we choose freely.</text></comment> |
19,736,370 | 19,736,034 | 1 | 3 | 19,735,463 | train | <story><title>GitHub publishes DMCA deletion notifications sent by Bilibili</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2019/04/2019-04-23-bilibili.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dustinmoris</author><text>Not great...<p>MD5 password hashing:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;swituo&#x2F;openbilibili-go-common&#x2F;blob&#x2F;8866d1359a2a501009b976b02bb27e4949cc4e77&#x2F;app&#x2F;service&#x2F;main&#x2F;passport-game&#x2F;service&#x2F;passport_login.go#L185" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;swituo&#x2F;openbilibili-go-common&#x2F;blob&#x2F;8866d1...</a><p>Hardcoded credentials:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;swituo&#x2F;openbilibili-go-common&#x2F;blob&#x2F;8866d1359a2a501009b976b02bb27e4949cc4e77&#x2F;app&#x2F;admin&#x2F;ep&#x2F;marthe&#x2F;dao&#x2F;tapd.go#L17" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;swituo&#x2F;openbilibili-go-common&#x2F;blob&#x2F;8866d1...</a><p>More hard coded secrets:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;swituo&#x2F;openbilibili-go-common&#x2F;blob&#x2F;8866d1359a2a501009b976b02bb27e4949cc4e77&#x2F;app&#x2F;service&#x2F;ep&#x2F;footman&#x2F;cmd&#x2F;tapd&#x2F;tapd.go#L54" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;swituo&#x2F;openbilibili-go-common&#x2F;blob&#x2F;8866d1...</a><p>This configuration is my favourite:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;swituo&#x2F;openbilibili-go-common&#x2F;blob&#x2F;8866d1359a2a501009b976b02bb27e4949cc4e77&#x2F;library&#x2F;queue&#x2F;databus&#x2F;report&#x2F;conf.go" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;swituo&#x2F;openbilibili-go-common&#x2F;blob&#x2F;8866d1...</a><p>And of course, RSA keys which they use for all of their RSA encryption: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;swituo&#x2F;openbilibili-go-common&#x2F;blob&#x2F;8866d1359a2a501009b976b02bb27e4949cc4e77&#x2F;app&#x2F;service&#x2F;main&#x2F;passport-game&#x2F;service&#x2F;passport_key.go" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;swituo&#x2F;openbilibili-go-common&#x2F;blob&#x2F;8866d1...</a><p>... their problem is not that the source code is all public over the internet now... their problem is the engineering team. If source code leaks the worst outcome should be some IP leakage, but not a compromised live system. That can and should be easily avoided by not having everything in your source code, especially when you are such a big company with so many employees...</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub publishes DMCA deletion notifications sent by Bilibili</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2019/04/2019-04-23-bilibili.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>counter2015</author><text>As far as I know, an employee who was illegally laid off by bilibili put part of the company&#x27;s background code on GitHub to vent his anger.
And then GitHub has directionally shielded the keywords &quot;bilibili&quot; and &quot;go-common&quot;,
But it can be bypassed by typing only one character less. there are still a lot of projects alive.
It is not yet known who leaked it.
Also for the reason.</text></comment> |
22,386,331 | 22,385,825 | 1 | 2 | 22,385,491 | train | <story><title>More bosses give four-day workweek a try</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/807133509/enjoy-the-extra-day-off-more-bosses-give-4-day-workweek-a-try</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>It seems a lot of these experiments are a success. But after a while somebody gets greedy and thinks “we get good productivity at 32 hours. I wonder how much more we could get at 40 hours?” And soon you are back at the old schedule.<p>Something similar happened at my company. For once a project was ahead of schedule. So instead of thinking that the system worked well and keep working in relaxed manner management decided to “pull in” the deadline and suddenly the project was a death march again.<p>For some people it’s hard to accept that relaxed people are productive. They want to see stress and overtime or they will think that people are underperforming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I was a development manager for years, for a Japanese company.<p>The Japanese are type A++ (at least, in Tokyo). They are masters at applying stress across the Pacific.<p>As a manager, it was my job to insulate my team from the stress, and I often took the hit for telling my bosses that I wasn&#x27;t going to push my people harder than they already were working.<p>It seemed to work out in the end. When they finally rolled up my team, I had been managing it for 25 years, and the person with the least seniority in my team had a decade with the company.<p>It&#x27;s a whole different world, out there, now. I had a manager at a startup tell me that conventional management assumes that engineers will only stay at a company for 18 months, so they really pile on the stress.<p>I can&#x27;t even imagine that. There were a lot of downsides to working with the corporation that I worked for, but they treated us all with a great deal of respect, and made it possible for me to keep valuable, senior-level C++ developers for decades; despite rather sub-optimal pay, and a not-so-thrilling work environment.</text></comment> | <story><title>More bosses give four-day workweek a try</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/807133509/enjoy-the-extra-day-off-more-bosses-give-4-day-workweek-a-try</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>It seems a lot of these experiments are a success. But after a while somebody gets greedy and thinks “we get good productivity at 32 hours. I wonder how much more we could get at 40 hours?” And soon you are back at the old schedule.<p>Something similar happened at my company. For once a project was ahead of schedule. So instead of thinking that the system worked well and keep working in relaxed manner management decided to “pull in” the deadline and suddenly the project was a death march again.<p>For some people it’s hard to accept that relaxed people are productive. They want to see stress and overtime or they will think that people are underperforming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kody</author><text>I agree that it&#x27;s hard for some people (managers) to see a relaxed, happy person and believe that they&#x27;re also totally productive.<p>I don&#x27;t blame them either; I feel like the image of overly-caffeinated, stressed-out people is embedded in our collective consciousness as representative of High Productivity and our lizard brains can&#x27;t seem to be able to reconcile that with the data that is saying &quot;relaxed people who make enough money, are treated well, and have the freedom to live satisfactory lives outside the office will most probably be more productive, focused, and effective at work.&quot;</text></comment> |
36,683,358 | 36,674,916 | 1 | 3 | 36,657,540 | train | <story><title>Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw10920</author><text>&gt; Let&#x27;s take a second to remember<p>This is emotionally manipulative speech that provides no value to HN and only serves the purpose of bypassing peoples&#x27; logical reasoning circuits.<p>&gt; ~every child doesn&#x27;t have access to ~every book ever written<p>More manipulation - &quot;think of the children!&quot;<p>Copyright exists because people who produce content with low distribution costs (e.g. books) need some protection for their work being taken without compensation.<p>Fundamentally, you are <i>never</i> entitled to someone else&#x27;s work.<p>There&#x27;s already tens (hundreds?) of thousands of books in the public domain, and tens of thousands more under Creative Commons licenses (where the author <i>explicitly</i> released their work for free distribution). There&#x27;s lectures on YouTube and MIT OpenCourseWare. There&#x27;s full K-12 textbooks on OpenStax and Wikibooks. There&#x27;s Wikipedia, Stack Exchange, the Internet Archive, and millions of small blogs and websites hosting content that is completely free.<p>There is <i>no need</i> for &quot;a majority of the world had access to every book ever digitized&quot; - and it&#x27;s deeply morally wrong (theft-adjacent) to take someone else&#x27;s work without compensating them <i>on their terms</i>.</text></item><item><author>holmesworcester</author><text>Let&#x27;s take a second to remember that copyright is the reason ~every child doesn&#x27;t have access to ~every book ever written.<p>While it might be too disruptive to eliminate copyright overnight, we should remember that our world will be much better and improve much faster to the extent we can reduce copyright&#x27;s impact.<p>And we should cheer it on when it happens. A majority of the world&#x27;s population in 2023 has a smartphone. Imagine a world where a majority of the world had access to every book ever digitized, and could raise their children on these books!</text></item><item><author>pessimizer</author><text>&gt; The complaint lays out in steps why the plaintiffs believe the datasets have illicit origins — in a Meta paper detailing LLaMA, the company points to sources for its training datasets, one of which is called ThePile, which was assembled by a company called EleutherAI. ThePile, the complaint points out, was described in an EleutherAI paper as being put together from “a copy of the contents of the Bibliotik private tracker.” Bibliotik and the other “shadow libraries” listed, says the lawsuit, are “flagrantly illegal.”<p>This is the makers of AI explicitly saying that they did use copyrighted works from a book piracy website. If you downloaded a book from that website, you would be sued and found guilty of infringement. If you downloaded all of them, you would be liable for many billions of dollars in damages.<p>But companies like Google and Facebook get to play by different rules. Kill one person and you&#x27;re a murderer, kill a million and to ask you about it is a &quot;gotcha question&quot; that you can react to with outrage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>holmesworcester</author><text>&gt; and it&#x27;s deeply morally wrong (theft-adjacent) to take someone else&#x27;s work without compensating them on their terms.<p>But I&#x27;m willing to bet that you don&#x27;t believe this consistently across domains, and the domains in which you do believe it have been selected rather arbitrarily, not by you but rather by industry lobbying pressure.<p>Copyright doesn&#x27;t exist for mathematics, jokes, fashion designs, architectural styles, recipes, and many other areas of human work. All of these represent similar creative work to the work done by musicians and writers. But we don&#x27;t force comedians to license each others&#x27; jokes, or sue bars for letting people tell unlicensed jokes in public. And almost all of us wear clothing by uncompensated designers. And of course it would be unfathomably destructive to allow something analogous to copyright for a mathematical idea.<p>We also set limits on how long heirs can inherit copyright, which we don&#x27;t do for other kinds of property, and we don&#x27;t have any moral issues with that.<p>So it&#x27;s important to remember that our moral intuitions about work and material products don&#x27;t really translate to information and that we are truly making all of this up as we go along, under the intense corrupting pressure of a few very sophisticated industry lobbies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw10920</author><text>&gt; Let&#x27;s take a second to remember<p>This is emotionally manipulative speech that provides no value to HN and only serves the purpose of bypassing peoples&#x27; logical reasoning circuits.<p>&gt; ~every child doesn&#x27;t have access to ~every book ever written<p>More manipulation - &quot;think of the children!&quot;<p>Copyright exists because people who produce content with low distribution costs (e.g. books) need some protection for their work being taken without compensation.<p>Fundamentally, you are <i>never</i> entitled to someone else&#x27;s work.<p>There&#x27;s already tens (hundreds?) of thousands of books in the public domain, and tens of thousands more under Creative Commons licenses (where the author <i>explicitly</i> released their work for free distribution). There&#x27;s lectures on YouTube and MIT OpenCourseWare. There&#x27;s full K-12 textbooks on OpenStax and Wikibooks. There&#x27;s Wikipedia, Stack Exchange, the Internet Archive, and millions of small blogs and websites hosting content that is completely free.<p>There is <i>no need</i> for &quot;a majority of the world had access to every book ever digitized&quot; - and it&#x27;s deeply morally wrong (theft-adjacent) to take someone else&#x27;s work without compensating them <i>on their terms</i>.</text></item><item><author>holmesworcester</author><text>Let&#x27;s take a second to remember that copyright is the reason ~every child doesn&#x27;t have access to ~every book ever written.<p>While it might be too disruptive to eliminate copyright overnight, we should remember that our world will be much better and improve much faster to the extent we can reduce copyright&#x27;s impact.<p>And we should cheer it on when it happens. A majority of the world&#x27;s population in 2023 has a smartphone. Imagine a world where a majority of the world had access to every book ever digitized, and could raise their children on these books!</text></item><item><author>pessimizer</author><text>&gt; The complaint lays out in steps why the plaintiffs believe the datasets have illicit origins — in a Meta paper detailing LLaMA, the company points to sources for its training datasets, one of which is called ThePile, which was assembled by a company called EleutherAI. ThePile, the complaint points out, was described in an EleutherAI paper as being put together from “a copy of the contents of the Bibliotik private tracker.” Bibliotik and the other “shadow libraries” listed, says the lawsuit, are “flagrantly illegal.”<p>This is the makers of AI explicitly saying that they did use copyrighted works from a book piracy website. If you downloaded a book from that website, you would be sued and found guilty of infringement. If you downloaded all of them, you would be liable for many billions of dollars in damages.<p>But companies like Google and Facebook get to play by different rules. Kill one person and you&#x27;re a murderer, kill a million and to ask you about it is a &quot;gotcha question&quot; that you can react to with outrage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>It&#x27;s worth challenging the length of copyright. 20 years seems good enough for high tech R&amp;D, probably good for books as well.</text></comment> |
11,622,954 | 11,622,086 | 1 | 2 | 11,621,504 | train | <story><title>Tesla’s bioweapon mode is a stroke of genius for developing markets</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/02/tesla-bioweapon-mode-for-whiffy-cities/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>The original announcement is discussed at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11617945" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11617945</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla’s bioweapon mode is a stroke of genius for developing markets</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/02/tesla-bioweapon-mode-for-whiffy-cities/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xoa</author><text>I wonder if Tesla is considering a potential regulatory advantage as well, which though by nature more iffy (since it&#x27;s down to the whims of leadership) could still be a very potent marketing point. One technique for pollution reduction that China at least as implemented is to simply brute force reduce the number of allowed cars on the road (though even for them it&#x27;s hard to enforce), for example by having odd&#x2F;even license plate days. However, an electric car obviously contributes nothing, and it seems like a number of genuine interests would exist to exempt them from any road restrictions. To a lot of people a guaranteed license to legitimately drive when a traditional vehicle would be banned could be worth a major premium. It could make a lot of sense for Tesla to go very, very hard on a full package environmental protection (both internal and external) offering, because a lot of favorables line up for them. The most polluted places simultaneously make their advantages far more important and also contain higher percentages of people with the money to pay for a Tesla, even in countries that are lower on the average nationwide GDP&#x2F;capita or HDI scales.</text></comment> |
23,652,001 | 23,649,645 | 1 | 2 | 23,648,942 | train | <story><title>Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox</title><url>https://www.axios.com/report-amazon-to-pay-1-billion-for-self-driving-tech-firm-zoox-719d293b-3799-4315-a573-a226a58bb004.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>achow</author><text>How did Zoox start?<p><i>In 2012, Kentley-Klay stumbled on a blog post about Google’s self-driving car project, then pretty much the only one in the field. He saw the company’s prototypes as unsightly half-measures.. Then, one day, he walked into his Melbourne office (animation, video production) and announced he was off to America to fulfill his driverless dreams.</i><p><i>In a move that some will call devious and others will call ingenious, Kentley-Klay reached out to some of the biggest names in the field and told them he was making a documentary on the rise of self-driving cars. The plan was to mine these people for information and feel out potential partners. His first “interviewee” was Sterling Anderson, then a robotics researcher at MIT and later Tesla Inc.’s self-driving car chief. “I played the oldest trick in the director’s book: the vanity card,” Kentley-Klay says. “I showed up at MIT with a Canon and a bullshit microphone and interviewed Sterling for two hours in a grassy field...&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;features&#x2F;2018-07-17&#x2F;robot-taxi-startup-zoox-has-800-million-and-a-wild-pitch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;features&#x2F;2018-07-17&#x2F;robot-tax...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>This reminds me how shoemaker Kenneth Cole started, who also used &quot;making a film&quot; as a cover story:<p>&gt; <i>Wanting to preview his line of shoes at Market Week at the New York Hilton, but unable to afford the purchase of a hotel room or showroom to display his items, Kenneth Cole inquired about parking a trailer two blocks from the Hilton Hotel. Upon discovering that permits for trailers were only granted to utility and production companies, Cole changed the name of his company from Kenneth Cole Incorporated to Kenneth Cole Productions, and applied for a permit to film the full-length film, &quot;The Birth of a Shoe Company&quot;. In two and a half days, Kenneth Cole Productions sold forty thousand pairs of shoes, while chronicling the beginning of the company on film.</i> [1]<p>Which is why it&#x27;s still called Kenneth Cole &quot;Productions&quot; to this day.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kenneth_Cole_(designer)#Birth_of_a_shoe_company" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kenneth_Cole_(designer)#Birth_...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox</title><url>https://www.axios.com/report-amazon-to-pay-1-billion-for-self-driving-tech-firm-zoox-719d293b-3799-4315-a573-a226a58bb004.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>achow</author><text>How did Zoox start?<p><i>In 2012, Kentley-Klay stumbled on a blog post about Google’s self-driving car project, then pretty much the only one in the field. He saw the company’s prototypes as unsightly half-measures.. Then, one day, he walked into his Melbourne office (animation, video production) and announced he was off to America to fulfill his driverless dreams.</i><p><i>In a move that some will call devious and others will call ingenious, Kentley-Klay reached out to some of the biggest names in the field and told them he was making a documentary on the rise of self-driving cars. The plan was to mine these people for information and feel out potential partners. His first “interviewee” was Sterling Anderson, then a robotics researcher at MIT and later Tesla Inc.’s self-driving car chief. “I played the oldest trick in the director’s book: the vanity card,” Kentley-Klay says. “I showed up at MIT with a Canon and a bullshit microphone and interviewed Sterling for two hours in a grassy field...&quot;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;features&#x2F;2018-07-17&#x2F;robot-taxi-startup-zoox-has-800-million-and-a-wild-pitch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;features&#x2F;2018-07-17&#x2F;robot-tax...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orbifold</author><text>Fake it until you raise 1 billion and then sell your company for 1 billion?</text></comment> |
19,197,448 | 19,197,458 | 1 | 2 | 19,196,354 | train | <story><title>Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug</title><url>http://cdm.link/2019/02/apple-2018-glitch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iainmerrick</author><text><i>music producers are one of the most Apple-leaning crowds, and yet they feel like they are being ignored by Apple.</i> [...] <i>this is a small market in the grand scheme of things.</i><p>This is the same point that’s often made about developers. But if it’s not developers and it’s not music producers, what <i>is</i> the large market for Macs that dwarfs everything else? And are they at least getting the products and features they want?</text></item><item><author>mastazi</author><text>The article comes from CDM which is a music production website, MacBooks are very popular in that field, and basically all audio producers use external audio interfaces, it&#x27;s not an uncommon use case. This is not the first time that this type of issues happens (from memory, last year an OSX update broke compatibility with Native Instruments Maschine, a very popular music software). So I think the point that the article is trying to make, is that music producers are one of the most Apple-leaning crowds, and yet they feel like they are being ignored by Apple. But at the same time I understand your point, this is a small market in the grand scheme of things.</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>That&#x27;s a weird glitch, and generally I&#x27;m not a fan of apple hardware (I think it&#x27;s overpriced, that their keyboards suck, that they don&#x27;t have enough ports, and I don&#x27;t enjoy working in osx), but this article comes off as almost biblically haughty. Apple should have tests around clock updates affecting external audio quality? I mean, maybe after this bug being discovered, sure, but before, was that a connection that could have been made in a QA engineers mind? Maybe it is, maybe it&#x27;s fair? I don&#x27;t know anything about manufacturing hardware, but I just find it surprising.<p>Like, off the top of my head, the x1 carbon is still loved by most Linux users (that I have encountered) despite the fact that out of the box, sleep literally does not work on it for Linux systems. You have to install a BIOS update. Yet Lenovo doesn&#x27;t seem to get nearly the attention that apple does for this and the myriad of other mistakes I have discovered with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blihp</author><text>Consumers. (i.e. casual computer users who aren&#x27;t terribly demanding in any particular dimension) Unfortunately they&#x27;ve been flocking in for the &#x27;just works&#x27; Apple reputation as it is being un-earned by Apple. But for many in this group, it&#x27;s probably good enough vs. what they were using before.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug</title><url>http://cdm.link/2019/02/apple-2018-glitch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iainmerrick</author><text><i>music producers are one of the most Apple-leaning crowds, and yet they feel like they are being ignored by Apple.</i> [...] <i>this is a small market in the grand scheme of things.</i><p>This is the same point that’s often made about developers. But if it’s not developers and it’s not music producers, what <i>is</i> the large market for Macs that dwarfs everything else? And are they at least getting the products and features they want?</text></item><item><author>mastazi</author><text>The article comes from CDM which is a music production website, MacBooks are very popular in that field, and basically all audio producers use external audio interfaces, it&#x27;s not an uncommon use case. This is not the first time that this type of issues happens (from memory, last year an OSX update broke compatibility with Native Instruments Maschine, a very popular music software). So I think the point that the article is trying to make, is that music producers are one of the most Apple-leaning crowds, and yet they feel like they are being ignored by Apple. But at the same time I understand your point, this is a small market in the grand scheme of things.</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>That&#x27;s a weird glitch, and generally I&#x27;m not a fan of apple hardware (I think it&#x27;s overpriced, that their keyboards suck, that they don&#x27;t have enough ports, and I don&#x27;t enjoy working in osx), but this article comes off as almost biblically haughty. Apple should have tests around clock updates affecting external audio quality? I mean, maybe after this bug being discovered, sure, but before, was that a connection that could have been made in a QA engineers mind? Maybe it is, maybe it&#x27;s fair? I don&#x27;t know anything about manufacturing hardware, but I just find it surprising.<p>Like, off the top of my head, the x1 carbon is still loved by most Linux users (that I have encountered) despite the fact that out of the box, sleep literally does not work on it for Linux systems. You have to install a BIOS update. Yet Lenovo doesn&#x27;t seem to get nearly the attention that apple does for this and the myriad of other mistakes I have discovered with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>Lots of salt in this thread. I have a Mac because I enjoy it the most for software development. It&#x27;s not a status symbol because, well, almost everyone here has a Mac. The alternatives are Windows-based laptops - who often lag behind software development support (e.g. ports), or Linux which is still just not good enough for desktop use. I use Windows at home for not-development and have used both Windows and Linux for software development so this isn&#x27;t a biased opinion.<p>The hardware budget from my employer also helps.</text></comment> |
32,674,921 | 32,674,222 | 1 | 3 | 32,672,534 | train | <story><title>Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protesting Israeli contract</title><url>https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-google-employee-resigns-after-retaliation-for-protesting-israeli-contract/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dustincoates</author><text>I grew up in an Evangelical church and I attend a Protestant church now (although not American) and the only place I&#x27;ve ever heard people claim that my fellow congregants believe that about Israel is online from people outside the church.<p>I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;ll be able to find _someone_ who believes it, but it is so weird to see people claiming something as a fact about your church that you&#x27;ve never encountered in nearly 40 years. What&#x27;s infinitely more likely is that Christians feel a certain affinity towards Israel due to a shared Judeo-Christian heritage.</text></item><item><author>EdwardDiego</author><text>Boycotting Israel gets your company in trouble with various state governments in the US, like no supplying services to the government, and in Arkansas, it gets even more viral in that people you supply services to are forbidden from supplying services to the government.<p>My RH contract specifically forbade boycotting Israel, I&#x27;m sure for those reasons.<p>And of course, I imagine that Israel has laws about doing business there that look dimly on being boycotted.<p>It&#x27;s very very dumb legislation, and I think derives from a very odd facet of belief found in some American Protestant belief systems - that for Jesus to come back, the State of Israel has to exist.</text></item><item><author>hourago</author><text>&gt; “Due to retaliation, a hostile environment, and illegal actions by the company, I cannot continue to work at Google and have no choice but to leave the company at the end of this week,” Ariel Koren said in a statement posted Tuesday to Medium.<p>Many people is missing the point. &quot;Retaliation&quot; is illegal.<p>&gt; Google denied retaliation and the National Labor Relations Board found no wrongdoing after an investigation<p>In my experience this kind of investigation have very high standards on what is considered &quot;retaliation&quot; as it is very difficult to prove that negating promotions, or moving people to new positions is directly related to &quot;retaliation&quot;. Maybe it was just a misunderstanding by the employee, but I would like to see more realistic investigations that take into account the timing of the companies actions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jollofricepeas</author><text>Whoa, I strongly disagree with this.<p>As someone who attended an evangelical, fundamentalist Baptist church as a child (Hyles Anderson), it is very much their view as well as larger groups like Independent and Southern Baptists (the largest Protestant denomination in the United States) that the existence of the nation of Israel and support for it is a precursor for the second coming of Jesus and the fulfillment of Gods plan.<p>Additionally, “Christian Zionism” is embraced by Christians in Australia and Western Europe as well.<p>There are academic sources for this everywhere, but feel free to watch their sermons on YouTube too:<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambridge.org&#x2F;core&#x2F;journals&#x2F;politics-and-religion&#x2F;article&#x2F;abs&#x2F;why-do-evangelicals-support-israel&#x2F;F8AB8C41F0B019FD8413A30EF218EBE4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambridge.org&#x2F;core&#x2F;journals&#x2F;politics-and-religio...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brandeis.edu&#x2F;israel-center&#x2F;news&#x2F;newsletter-5-robins.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brandeis.edu&#x2F;israel-center&#x2F;news&#x2F;newsletter-5-rob...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protesting Israeli contract</title><url>https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-google-employee-resigns-after-retaliation-for-protesting-israeli-contract/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dustincoates</author><text>I grew up in an Evangelical church and I attend a Protestant church now (although not American) and the only place I&#x27;ve ever heard people claim that my fellow congregants believe that about Israel is online from people outside the church.<p>I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;ll be able to find _someone_ who believes it, but it is so weird to see people claiming something as a fact about your church that you&#x27;ve never encountered in nearly 40 years. What&#x27;s infinitely more likely is that Christians feel a certain affinity towards Israel due to a shared Judeo-Christian heritage.</text></item><item><author>EdwardDiego</author><text>Boycotting Israel gets your company in trouble with various state governments in the US, like no supplying services to the government, and in Arkansas, it gets even more viral in that people you supply services to are forbidden from supplying services to the government.<p>My RH contract specifically forbade boycotting Israel, I&#x27;m sure for those reasons.<p>And of course, I imagine that Israel has laws about doing business there that look dimly on being boycotted.<p>It&#x27;s very very dumb legislation, and I think derives from a very odd facet of belief found in some American Protestant belief systems - that for Jesus to come back, the State of Israel has to exist.</text></item><item><author>hourago</author><text>&gt; “Due to retaliation, a hostile environment, and illegal actions by the company, I cannot continue to work at Google and have no choice but to leave the company at the end of this week,” Ariel Koren said in a statement posted Tuesday to Medium.<p>Many people is missing the point. &quot;Retaliation&quot; is illegal.<p>&gt; Google denied retaliation and the National Labor Relations Board found no wrongdoing after an investigation<p>In my experience this kind of investigation have very high standards on what is considered &quot;retaliation&quot; as it is very difficult to prove that negating promotions, or moving people to new positions is directly related to &quot;retaliation&quot;. Maybe it was just a misunderstanding by the employee, but I would like to see more realistic investigations that take into account the timing of the companies actions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shakna</author><text>Whilst I&#x27;ve definitely got the impression, that _most_ people think of it as a shared heritage, I have now and then had a few people quoting the same prophecy from Zechariah as their reasoning.<p>&gt; And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it - Zechariah 12:3<p>The (mis-)interpretation being that for the return of God to occur, the existence of Jerusalem is a pre-requisite. It can&#x27;t disappear, again. So for that to happen, we should protect Israel, who will protect the city. We should especially protect them because the world will gather against them.<p>The logic has some major flaws to it, and can be easily worked around, but I&#x27;ve heard it a few times.</text></comment> |
10,743,809 | 10,743,891 | 1 | 3 | 10,742,085 | train | <story><title>LibreOffice as a service offers alternative to Google Docs, Office 365</title><url>http://www.infoworld.com/article/3014654/open-source-tools/libreoffice-as-a-service-offers-alternative-to-google-docs-office-365.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pidg</author><text>+1 for Office 365. I wasn&#x27;t convinced until I actually started working at a company that uses it properly. The collaboration features in the native desktop apps work beautifully.<p>Not having to endure emailed-round documents with multiple competing versions like &quot;Report-Dec2015 Draft v5(FP,PL,KM) (2).doc&quot; is worth the price of entry alone.<p>I feel sorry for those like the UK government who&#x27;ve been successfully lobbied by The Document Foundation into using open standards, and are now locked in to using one vendor - Collabora - and their proprietary fork of LibreOffice.</text></item><item><author>DiabloD3</author><text>To those claiming that Office 365 somehow promotes web apps as your real apps... that isn&#x27;t entirely true.<p>My company (the one I started, hi) uses Office 365, and all three of us use Office 365&#x27;s full office suite, the actual real desktop app one.<p>What we use Office 365&#x27;s cloud stuff for is their Exchange cluster (oh God, so delicious), and for OneDrive for Business (ie, what used to be Sharepoint).<p>Browsers just aren&#x27;t fast enough to handle web apps that large (not picking on Office 365&#x27;s web apps, anything that big just sorta murders browsers), and I don&#x27;t think they ever will be. This isn&#x27;t something you can solve when your only tools are HTML, CSS, and JS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Majestic121</author><text>Are you seriously using the &quot;lock in&quot; argument <i>against</i> open standards? Is this a joke?<p>You could not be more locked in than when using the Office 365 suite. It may happen to have some nice feature for now, but there is nothing keeping them from pulling an IE all over again, and you will be completely locked in because of the proprietary format used.</text></comment> | <story><title>LibreOffice as a service offers alternative to Google Docs, Office 365</title><url>http://www.infoworld.com/article/3014654/open-source-tools/libreoffice-as-a-service-offers-alternative-to-google-docs-office-365.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pidg</author><text>+1 for Office 365. I wasn&#x27;t convinced until I actually started working at a company that uses it properly. The collaboration features in the native desktop apps work beautifully.<p>Not having to endure emailed-round documents with multiple competing versions like &quot;Report-Dec2015 Draft v5(FP,PL,KM) (2).doc&quot; is worth the price of entry alone.<p>I feel sorry for those like the UK government who&#x27;ve been successfully lobbied by The Document Foundation into using open standards, and are now locked in to using one vendor - Collabora - and their proprietary fork of LibreOffice.</text></item><item><author>DiabloD3</author><text>To those claiming that Office 365 somehow promotes web apps as your real apps... that isn&#x27;t entirely true.<p>My company (the one I started, hi) uses Office 365, and all three of us use Office 365&#x27;s full office suite, the actual real desktop app one.<p>What we use Office 365&#x27;s cloud stuff for is their Exchange cluster (oh God, so delicious), and for OneDrive for Business (ie, what used to be Sharepoint).<p>Browsers just aren&#x27;t fast enough to handle web apps that large (not picking on Office 365&#x27;s web apps, anything that big just sorta murders browsers), and I don&#x27;t think they ever will be. This isn&#x27;t something you can solve when your only tools are HTML, CSS, and JS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chmars</author><text>Which collaboration features?<p>(Seriously: We use desktop versions of Office apps based on Office 365 but I have not discovered any collaboration features so far. Where are they hidden? Are they compliant with European data privacy and labor law?)</text></comment> |
19,410,167 | 19,408,488 | 1 | 3 | 19,407,847 | train | <story><title>A solar-powered, self-hosted version of Low-Tech Magazine</title><url>https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_qwfv</author><text>Any food beyond soylent is just unnecessary complexity. Any books beyond reference manuals are just unnecessary complexity. Any interior colors on your walls other than white is just unnecessary complexity. Any music beyond Bach is just unnecessary complexity...<p>Maybe people enjoy aesthetics other than minimalist? Maybe some people enjoy complex things?</text></item><item><author>massivecali</author><text>A great graphic design tip for simple websites is stop using additional files. If you can&#x27;t do it with a single HTML file, you&#x27;re adding unnecessary complexity.</text></item><item><author>themodelplumber</author><text>&gt; Only one weight (regular) of a font is used, demonstrating that content hierarchy can be communicated without loading multiple typefaces and weights.<p>This point has nothing to do with energy use (or very, very little) but is a really great graphic design tip for those looking to make a site more pleasant to browse.<p>The other weight that&#x27;s not being used in favor of regular is &quot;bold&quot;. Instead of bolding, the font size attribute is changed to establish hierarchy. Faux small caps are also used.<p>From the CSS:<p>h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
font-weight: normal;
}</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattkrause</author><text>Bach is, quite literally, famous for being baroque, not minimalist.</text></comment> | <story><title>A solar-powered, self-hosted version of Low-Tech Magazine</title><url>https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_qwfv</author><text>Any food beyond soylent is just unnecessary complexity. Any books beyond reference manuals are just unnecessary complexity. Any interior colors on your walls other than white is just unnecessary complexity. Any music beyond Bach is just unnecessary complexity...<p>Maybe people enjoy aesthetics other than minimalist? Maybe some people enjoy complex things?</text></item><item><author>massivecali</author><text>A great graphic design tip for simple websites is stop using additional files. If you can&#x27;t do it with a single HTML file, you&#x27;re adding unnecessary complexity.</text></item><item><author>themodelplumber</author><text>&gt; Only one weight (regular) of a font is used, demonstrating that content hierarchy can be communicated without loading multiple typefaces and weights.<p>This point has nothing to do with energy use (or very, very little) but is a really great graphic design tip for those looking to make a site more pleasant to browse.<p>The other weight that&#x27;s not being used in favor of regular is &quot;bold&quot;. Instead of bolding, the font size attribute is changed to establish hierarchy. Faux small caps are also used.<p>From the CSS:<p>h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
font-weight: normal;
}</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sh87</author><text>Poor overly generalized statement there. Point being importance of identifying and addressing complexity as a &#x27;I want&#x27;... not a &#x27;I need&#x27;. Accept it or abhorr it, first recognize it as a complexity.</text></comment> |
37,680,364 | 37,679,118 | 1 | 3 | 37,676,393 | train | <story><title>Live near your friends</title><url>https://headlineshq.substack.com/p/issue-no-029-live-near-your-friends</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danmostudco</author><text>Tim Urban has a similar post on this called “The Tail End”, noting that by the time we get to adulthood we often have used up the vast majority of time spent with loved ones - particularly with parents and siblings.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;waitbutwhy.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-tail-end.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;waitbutwhy.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-tail-end.html</a><p>My brother and I read this and were touched by it; we lived on opposite coasts and since we were kids always loved hanging out with one another. The idea that in our current arrangement we had already depleted MOST of our time together was a bitter pill to swallow.<p>For years we batted around the idea of living closer to each other. One day we just pulled the trigger and did it. It was enormously inconvenient, took a ton of logistical planning for our respective families, jobs and so on; but we ended up with houses within walking distance of one another and went from seeing each other and our immediate families maybe 10 days a year to 300+. We have accepted going forward it may limit our career options relative to when we lived in top tier American cities but the happiness we gained in the process is more than worth it.<p>I’m still not 100% sure the experiment will work out, but making the adjustment to live closer to family has substantially increased my mental health and emotional well-being. If you have close friendships and have ever talked about this seriously, I’d encourage you to consider what you might be gaining or losing in your current setup. It’s not for everyone but worth exploring!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philipkglass</author><text>Due to unrelated and unexpected events, my mother, my sister, my sister&#x27;s husband, and my wife&#x27;s sister have all moved to within a few miles of my family within the past year. Previously they were all living in a different state from us. My father is dead, but having the rest of my close family nearby has made me so much happier. I wasn&#x27;t unhappy before, but this much better yet.<p>I realize it&#x27;s not a happiness booster in every circumstance. My wife moved a thousand miles specifically so she never had to suffer her mother again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Live near your friends</title><url>https://headlineshq.substack.com/p/issue-no-029-live-near-your-friends</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danmostudco</author><text>Tim Urban has a similar post on this called “The Tail End”, noting that by the time we get to adulthood we often have used up the vast majority of time spent with loved ones - particularly with parents and siblings.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;waitbutwhy.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-tail-end.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;waitbutwhy.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-tail-end.html</a><p>My brother and I read this and were touched by it; we lived on opposite coasts and since we were kids always loved hanging out with one another. The idea that in our current arrangement we had already depleted MOST of our time together was a bitter pill to swallow.<p>For years we batted around the idea of living closer to each other. One day we just pulled the trigger and did it. It was enormously inconvenient, took a ton of logistical planning for our respective families, jobs and so on; but we ended up with houses within walking distance of one another and went from seeing each other and our immediate families maybe 10 days a year to 300+. We have accepted going forward it may limit our career options relative to when we lived in top tier American cities but the happiness we gained in the process is more than worth it.<p>I’m still not 100% sure the experiment will work out, but making the adjustment to live closer to family has substantially increased my mental health and emotional well-being. If you have close friendships and have ever talked about this seriously, I’d encourage you to consider what you might be gaining or losing in your current setup. It’s not for everyone but worth exploring!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HeckFeck</author><text>I like this idea.<p>I am far from most of my friends and live in a city for work reasons. There are more activities and everything is a lot more accessible. Definitely more promise in the air. That said, I am living alone and feel it. It&#x27;s not healthy.<p>I do want to be nearer friends and (some) family but ironically I think there are fewer relationship opportunities back in the sticks, plus there are attitudes and people in my home town I really don&#x27;t miss.<p>I agree with your conclusion - but when younger and single it is difficult to know exactly what to do. Being single being a big problem, and the day to day work from home isolation the other.</text></comment> |
22,634,515 | 22,634,573 | 1 | 2 | 22,633,570 | train | <story><title>CA governor projecting 25.5M COVID19 cases in CA in 8 weeks [pdf]</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3.18.20-Letter-USNS-Mercy-Hospital-Ship.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdminhbg</author><text>As pointed out below[0], this is a sensationalist headline and should be changed. This is the projection if <i>no measures</i> were taken.<p>Which makes sense: if 56% of the population is going to contract coronavirus in the next eight weeks, then the lockdown is pointless. You&#x27;re nearly to herd immunity at that point, why cripple the economy if it doesn&#x27;t even make a dent in the transmission rate.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22634268" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22634268</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jader201</author><text>&gt; As pointed out below[0], this is a sensationalist headline and should be changed.<p>The title was based on the entirety of the linked content — the letter from the CA governor to the president — which included no context around the numbers being based on no measures being taken.</text></comment> | <story><title>CA governor projecting 25.5M COVID19 cases in CA in 8 weeks [pdf]</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3.18.20-Letter-USNS-Mercy-Hospital-Ship.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdminhbg</author><text>As pointed out below[0], this is a sensationalist headline and should be changed. This is the projection if <i>no measures</i> were taken.<p>Which makes sense: if 56% of the population is going to contract coronavirus in the next eight weeks, then the lockdown is pointless. You&#x27;re nearly to herd immunity at that point, why cripple the economy if it doesn&#x27;t even make a dent in the transmission rate.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22634268" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22634268</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aazaa</author><text>The headline accurately reflects the content of the letter:<p>&gt; ... We project roughly 56 present of our population - 25.5 million people -- will be infected with the virus over an eight week period.<p>There is no qualification to that statement.</text></comment> |
28,317,595 | 28,317,873 | 1 | 2 | 28,317,084 | train | <story><title>Google has killed Discord's best music bot</title><url>https://www.pcgamer.com/google-has-killed-discords-best-music-bot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>&gt; Effectively a tool for adding background tunes to a chat room, Groovy worked by pulling audio directly from YouTube videos, joining voice calls, and playing music queued up by users<p>It&#x27;s not surprising that this was shut down like most &quot;freeload until we get caught&quot; hobby crafts.<p>But is there a way to build this service in a legit way on top of any existing music services?<p>For example, if you were able to give Groovy your Youtube Music API key at a subscription level premium enough for your Discord server, but that doesn&#x27;t exist on Youtube.<p>I can imagine there isn&#x27;t much upside for the big players in these hard spaces to support &quot;glue app&quot; value like Groovy, but how can you build Groovy without building your own music service?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google has killed Discord's best music bot</title><url>https://www.pcgamer.com/google-has-killed-discords-best-music-bot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rchaud</author><text>Well, yeah...anything that depends on a third party API will last only as long as the API owner is OK with it.<p>10 years ago, back when Windows Phone was a thing, Google wouldn&#x27;t make an official WP app for Youtube. So somebody created MetroTube, a native YT client. Incredible app, with a completely seamless experience.<p>Then Google changed its API rules and it was dead in under a year.</text></comment> |
31,638,128 | 31,638,269 | 1 | 3 | 31,636,657 | train | <story><title>Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos</title><url>https://github.com/3b1b/manim</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raydiatian</author><text>Grant Sanderson (the guy behind 3Blue1Brown on YouTube), and by extension Manim, has done so much for increasing the accessibility of math and computer science.<p>Like, it’s hard to over-state how enriching it is to have engaging animated visuals if you’re just the average schmuck trying to make it through an engineering undergrad at university.<p>Seriously: Thanks to Grant, I was able to pick up my Quantum Mechanics textbook again and actually know what the fuck was going on.</text></comment> | <story><title>Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos</title><url>https://github.com/3b1b/manim</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mkl</author><text>Many previous discussions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?q=%22manim%22" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?q=%22manim%22</a><p>3 months ago, 25 comments: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30658390" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30658390</a><p>10 months ago, 67 comments: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28245277" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28245277</a><p>1 year ago, 75 comments: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26498527" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26498527</a><p>2 years ago, 19 comments: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24926947" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24926947</a><p>3 years ago, 80 comments: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19716019" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19716019</a></text></comment> |
15,010,227 | 15,009,962 | 1 | 3 | 15,008,850 | train | <story><title>The Uber Dilemma</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2017/the-uber-dilemma/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sunsetMurk</author><text>Here is an educational game which describes this in a fun way. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncase.me&#x2F;trust&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncase.me&#x2F;trust&#x2F;</a><p>I enjoyed going through these scenarios quite a bit. Now with the context of this Uber Dilemma post, it&#x27;s reinforced further.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Uber Dilemma</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2017/the-uber-dilemma/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>msabalau</author><text>I am not certain I understand how the reputation damage is supposed to occur in this case.<p>According to the article Sequoia had a long standing willingness to play hardball. A reputation earned through consistent long term behavior.<p>It&#x27;s hard to see how a one time event in extreme circumstances leads to a change in reputation. Presumably any rational founder would assume that any rational VC firm would act the same way in similarly extreme circumstances. One doesn&#x27;t earn a reputation by being struck by lightning or spraining your ankle falling over a turkey in a city street or any unrepeated unlikely events.<p>And, if you believe you can clearly prove &quot;fraud, break of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty&quot; presumably you are only discouraging bad actors with whom you wouldn&#x27;t want to get into bed with in any event.</text></comment> |
17,000,765 | 16,999,239 | 1 | 2 | 16,995,389 | train | <story><title>The rise of the pointless job</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/04/i-had-to-guard-an-empty-room-the-rise-of-the-pointless-job</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jopsen</author><text>In the US you often see people holding a sign saying &quot;slow&quot; next to construction or road work.<p>This is a job that could literally be automated with a pole :)</text></item><item><author>WJW</author><text>Is visited the USA just once (in 2003), but there was an old man that took my bag off the end of the luggage belt at the airport and handed it to me. I could easily have picked it up myself, but he was there for those 30 centimeters of bag travel. I remember being amazed about it and remarking the pointlessness of that job to my coworkers.</text></item><item><author>foamflower</author><text>When my family lived in Japan years ago, we noticed that when taking the train, approximately three attendants checked our tickets before we boarded a train. At least two of those jobs are &quot;bullshit&quot; in terms of producing wealth, but they are socially beneficial in a culture where the social contract requires near-zero unemployment. (I, apparently like you, can&#x27;t help but remember this kind of arrangement when listening to &quot;jobs guarantee&quot; rhetoric from various politicians.)</text></item><item><author>lainga</author><text>I have said this before, but I see some parallels between the modern world and Japan during the early Tokugawa era. Japan had pretty much reached a steady state by the time Tokugawa Iyeyasu came to power in 1600; most of the available land had been cultivated or settled, and, especially after the policies of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, society was locked in a rigid structure without much room for advancement or unrest.<p>As a result, the samurai class, especially Tokugawa&#x27;s bannermen and &quot;inner&quot; families, sort of lost their purpose. There were no more wars to fight - not when peace lasted &quot;as long as the waves roll&quot; - and the strongest rebels they could expect were peasants who could not own swords.<p>Because they couldn&#x27;t just revoke the lands Iyeyasu had distributed (without very good reason), and to give the samurai <i>something</i> to do, the Edo government expanded constantly, creating dozens of superfluous or sinecure bureaucratic roles, so that the second and third sons of samurai families wouldn&#x27;t just sit around at home. I believe this pattern was repeated across the various daimyo han at each castle town. Further, the samurai household <i>themselves</i> created redundant job openings just to get more peasants out of unemployment. This was how every samurai ended up with six porters. Even as certain samurai families sunk into abject poverty in the 1800s, as the shogunate neared its end, this policy continued: your grandfather had increased the number of household retainers from five to six, to give someone&#x27;s fourth son a job; and it had become hereditary, and now that fourth son&#x27;s grandson was <i>your</i> sixth retainer, and you couldn&#x27;t destroy the position even if you could barely afford to pay him.<p>When I hear politicians talking about &quot;creating jobs&quot;, I think of the shogunate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dizzystar</author><text>You&#x27;d be surprised. Cars will burn a sign, but they&#x27;ll stop dead when they see a person holding a sign.<p>You also have to watch for the pedestrians walking around and so on. It&#x27;s actually a lot more involved than you think.<p>I did it a few times. Not hard, but it does matter a lot, and definitely not pointless.</text></comment> | <story><title>The rise of the pointless job</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/04/i-had-to-guard-an-empty-room-the-rise-of-the-pointless-job</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jopsen</author><text>In the US you often see people holding a sign saying &quot;slow&quot; next to construction or road work.<p>This is a job that could literally be automated with a pole :)</text></item><item><author>WJW</author><text>Is visited the USA just once (in 2003), but there was an old man that took my bag off the end of the luggage belt at the airport and handed it to me. I could easily have picked it up myself, but he was there for those 30 centimeters of bag travel. I remember being amazed about it and remarking the pointlessness of that job to my coworkers.</text></item><item><author>foamflower</author><text>When my family lived in Japan years ago, we noticed that when taking the train, approximately three attendants checked our tickets before we boarded a train. At least two of those jobs are &quot;bullshit&quot; in terms of producing wealth, but they are socially beneficial in a culture where the social contract requires near-zero unemployment. (I, apparently like you, can&#x27;t help but remember this kind of arrangement when listening to &quot;jobs guarantee&quot; rhetoric from various politicians.)</text></item><item><author>lainga</author><text>I have said this before, but I see some parallels between the modern world and Japan during the early Tokugawa era. Japan had pretty much reached a steady state by the time Tokugawa Iyeyasu came to power in 1600; most of the available land had been cultivated or settled, and, especially after the policies of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, society was locked in a rigid structure without much room for advancement or unrest.<p>As a result, the samurai class, especially Tokugawa&#x27;s bannermen and &quot;inner&quot; families, sort of lost their purpose. There were no more wars to fight - not when peace lasted &quot;as long as the waves roll&quot; - and the strongest rebels they could expect were peasants who could not own swords.<p>Because they couldn&#x27;t just revoke the lands Iyeyasu had distributed (without very good reason), and to give the samurai <i>something</i> to do, the Edo government expanded constantly, creating dozens of superfluous or sinecure bureaucratic roles, so that the second and third sons of samurai families wouldn&#x27;t just sit around at home. I believe this pattern was repeated across the various daimyo han at each castle town. Further, the samurai household <i>themselves</i> created redundant job openings just to get more peasants out of unemployment. This was how every samurai ended up with six porters. Even as certain samurai families sunk into abject poverty in the 1800s, as the shogunate neared its end, this policy continued: your grandfather had increased the number of household retainers from five to six, to give someone&#x27;s fourth son a job; and it had become hereditary, and now that fourth son&#x27;s grandson was <i>your</i> sixth retainer, and you couldn&#x27;t destroy the position even if you could barely afford to pay him.<p>When I hear politicians talking about &quot;creating jobs&quot;, I think of the shogunate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ouid</author><text>Those signs say stop on the other side and are used in conjuction with someone on the other end of the construction holding up the opposite sign so that a single lane can be used to handle traffic in two directions. That job would need to be automated with a traffic light.</text></comment> |
30,647,914 | 30,648,083 | 1 | 2 | 30,647,151 | train | <story><title>RISC-V J extension – Instructions for JITs</title><url>https://github.com/riscv/riscv-j-extension</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aidenn0</author><text>For tagged values, I loved the POWER rlwinm: Rotate Left Word Immediate aNd with Mask (and it&#x27;s companion rlimi). Pretty much any sane tagging scheme could be converted to the unboxed value with that single instruction; even somewhat exotic tagging schemes like mixing high-bit and low-bit tagging could be handled by it.<p>Of course in modern architectures being able to do something in one instruction is only tenuously related to being able to do something quickly, but it was a super handy instruction back in the day.</text></comment> | <story><title>RISC-V J extension – Instructions for JITs</title><url>https://github.com/riscv/riscv-j-extension</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Taniwha</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that on systems with real cache coherency (MOESI for example) where for example writing data into the dcache to an address A results in cache line shootdown in the icache as part of fetching an &#x27;exclusive&#x2F;modified&#x27; line into the dcache - in this world EXPORT.I is essentially a no-op because what it requires the icache implement (shootdown of icache lines) has already happened naturally.<p>Equally on such a system the only thing left for FENCE.I to do is to flush any (potentially now bogus) subsequent instructions that are in the execution pipe that might have been prefetched before the writes occurred. In such a system FENCE.I and IMPORT.I are identical.<p>Hopefully the people writing this spec are listening ... please make sure your spec understands high end systems like this and doesn&#x27;t add stuff that require special cases in systems that do ubiquitous coherency right</text></comment> |
12,945,678 | 12,945,732 | 1 | 2 | 12,945,386 | train | <story><title>If Prisoners Ran Prisons</title><url>https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/10/23/if-prisoners-ran-prisons#.xm20Sygvd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chappi42</author><text>Yes, but how is an inmate supposed to become &#x27;better&#x27; in future if he (I assume this only happens to men) is treated this respectless? Maybe you are right with winning votes. But on the other hand I perceive the americans as quite human. And if voters (and politicians) want to reduce the likelyhood of inmates to slide back I think the conditions must be improved (if they really should be that bad - I somehow cannot believe this report, completly unthinkable in Europe (maybe we exagerate a bit towards the other end, don&#x27;t know)</text></item><item><author>smcl</author><text>I agree, it&#x27;s pretty sick. I can see how this sort of behaviour can become normalised, hard to remove and in some cases part of what the public expect from the prison experience. Many people see prison as a place to be punished, so it&#x27;s easy for them to rationalise any sort of demeaning or dehumanising treatment as part of the package - &quot;well he&#x2F;she should&#x27;ve thought about that before they broke the law...&quot; etc<p>In addition if you&#x27;re a politician you&#x27;re not going to win votes by campaigning for better conditions in prisons, now matter how you spin it.</text></item><item><author>chappi42</author><text>Well, nothing to do with hackers, but if this<p>&gt; Immediately they are yelled at by officers to strip naked, get ‘nuts to butts,’ and after being searched they are kept naked for several minutes until they are issued some boxers...<p>is true. Boah, how can everybody yell at the &#x27;bad behaviour&#x27; of Trump and Clinton and look away here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rootusrootus</author><text>I hate to come off as overly negative, but while Americans individually can seem like very nice people, that&#x27;s not really our culture. Especially when it comes to prison -- very few people give much thought to rehabilitation. Prison is meant to be punishment, period. Anything that makes it more humane is perceived as making it like a vacation or something. This is why we don&#x27;t put a stop to things like rape in prison, because we have completely dehumanized prisoners. We treat our pets better.</text></comment> | <story><title>If Prisoners Ran Prisons</title><url>https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/10/23/if-prisoners-ran-prisons#.xm20Sygvd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chappi42</author><text>Yes, but how is an inmate supposed to become &#x27;better&#x27; in future if he (I assume this only happens to men) is treated this respectless? Maybe you are right with winning votes. But on the other hand I perceive the americans as quite human. And if voters (and politicians) want to reduce the likelyhood of inmates to slide back I think the conditions must be improved (if they really should be that bad - I somehow cannot believe this report, completly unthinkable in Europe (maybe we exagerate a bit towards the other end, don&#x27;t know)</text></item><item><author>smcl</author><text>I agree, it&#x27;s pretty sick. I can see how this sort of behaviour can become normalised, hard to remove and in some cases part of what the public expect from the prison experience. Many people see prison as a place to be punished, so it&#x27;s easy for them to rationalise any sort of demeaning or dehumanising treatment as part of the package - &quot;well he&#x2F;she should&#x27;ve thought about that before they broke the law...&quot; etc<p>In addition if you&#x27;re a politician you&#x27;re not going to win votes by campaigning for better conditions in prisons, now matter how you spin it.</text></item><item><author>chappi42</author><text>Well, nothing to do with hackers, but if this<p>&gt; Immediately they are yelled at by officers to strip naked, get ‘nuts to butts,’ and after being searched they are kept naked for several minutes until they are issued some boxers...<p>is true. Boah, how can everybody yell at the &#x27;bad behaviour&#x27; of Trump and Clinton and look away here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>esrauch</author><text>American Criminal Justice is particularly leaning towards the concept of Just Deserts: if someone does something bad then it is right that bad things should happen to them, without any concept of overall harm minimization.<p>It is a known, accepted meaningful contrast to rehabilitative justice (make the person stop being a criminal) and restorative justice (try to undo the harm that the crime caused). It isn&#x27;t just a flawed overlooked system, it&#x27;s a philosophical underpinning.</text></comment> |
5,852,699 | 5,852,739 | 1 | 2 | 5,852,527 | train | <story><title>Why we can't go back to business as usual post-PRISM</title><url>https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-June/008838.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>b6</author><text>I&#x27;m a peaceful person, but this issue has been simmering in my head for years, and I find myself actually looking forward to some kind of meaningful conflict. I&#x27;m sick, sick, sick to death of the president issuing denials while they keep building more and more infrastructure against humanity. I think the article is right, that it&#x27;ll get worse from here, and in a way, I&#x27;m glad.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why we can't go back to business as usual post-PRISM</title><url>https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-June/008838.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bayesianhorse</author><text>For me, this incident is an example where the U.S. democracy failed, pure and simple. Obama made campaign promises to not do surveillance. He was elected and then did it anyway. It&#x27;s frankly impossible now to change this issue in a democratic fashion.<p>From the outside it often looks as if American politicians are overly busy with a very expensive &quot;game&quot;, rather than using the game for the greater good.</text></comment> |
35,817,762 | 35,817,710 | 1 | 3 | 35,817,662 | train | <story><title>GitHub is down</title><url>https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/c2jg911dtkjb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roughly</author><text>Hearts out to all the GitHub SREs who get to fix this, and all the SREs at GitHub’s customers who get to spend the next week convincing management and their peers that moving git in house won’t result in fewer outages.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub is down</title><url>https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/c2jg911dtkjb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>openthc</author><text>Mine looks like (on git push):<p><pre><code> remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (4&#x2F;4), completed with 4 local objects.
remote: fatal error in commit_refs
To $REPO
! [remote rejected] main -&gt; main (failure)
error: failed to push some refs to &#x27;$REPO&#x27;
</code></pre>
Status Page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com&#x2F;</a> -- actually shows red -- it was almost updated as fast as HN.</text></comment> |
7,629,332 | 7,629,425 | 1 | 3 | 7,629,043 | train | <story><title>Vkontakte Founder Flees Russia</title><url>http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/vkontakte-founder-flees-russia-claims-persecution/498715.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>broflosup</author><text>He made $260 million in Russia creating a copy of Facebook. He sold his shares and resigned.<p>But wait, he didn&#x27;t _really_ resign. No, it was all an April fools joke! The investors didn&#x27;t buy it and fired him.<p>He claims the site is now under the control of Kremlin because one of its shareholders is Alisher Usmanov, an alleged ally of Putin. Yet, that guy was a shareholder for awhile now and Durov never complained about him.<p>I don&#x27;t know. Sounds like sour grapes to me. Sounds like someone is trying to stay relevant by creating controversy and generating hype for a new messaging system that&#x27;s supposed to protect you from government&#x27;s eyes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vkontakte Founder Flees Russia</title><url>http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/vkontakte-founder-flees-russia-claims-persecution/498715.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acqq</author><text>Imagine Zuckerberg selling his Facebook shares, then claiming to flee from USA for not willing to give the data from the Facebook to the FBI. Which of course Facebook (just like any other competitor like Google and Microsoft) gives since it&#x27;s all regulated by the law:<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/about/government_requests" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;government_requests</a><p>Disclaimer: I don&#x27;t know how much Durov actually sold. Any additional info welcome.</text></comment> |
25,807,105 | 25,807,121 | 1 | 2 | 25,805,635 | train | <story><title>Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and profit (2020)</title><url>https://www.palkeo.com/en/projets/ethereum/bzx.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EGreg</author><text>No, blockchains are not the future, they are really the reason why one transaction can happen at a time in the whole world. Even Ethereum 2.0 will have shards which will do away with this anomaly. The only reason flash loans even work with no collateral is because you can be sure nothing else is running on the “world computer” while your transaction runs, so you can roll it back with no risk except gas fees.<p>Vitalik himself acknowledges this, the guy is quite honest and straightforward about its limitations: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenextweb.com&#x2F;hardfork&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;19&#x2F;vitalik-buterin-ethereum-blockchain-almost-full-scalability&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenextweb.com&#x2F;hardfork&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;19&#x2F;vitalik-buterin-e...</a><p><i>Vitalik Buterin: Using Ethereum is expensive, and its blockchain is ‘almost full’
He also said blockchain&#x27;s &#x27;problem&#x27; is that every computer verifies every transaction</i><p>Actually blockchains are a first-generation technology that do global consensus for every block, which literally means all transactions in the world must go through one computer in the world (the miner) although it’s a different one each time. And the situation is actually worse, since you don’t know who would mine the next block in advance, every transaction must be sent to every potential miner! Imagine if BitTorrent had every computer store and seed every movie instead of using DHT.<p>The ability to send or loan arbitrarily large amounts for a fixed fee is a symptom of centralization. In a fully distributed network, transaction fees would have to be proportional to transaction size!<p>Almost every other protocol on the Internet does not have such bottlenecks in its design. No one asks how many emails or websites can be served per second. Blockchain is trying to secure every transaction using the entire network! That is why so much electricity is wasted just to do 7 transactions per second.<p>The next generation of crypto will actually be able to power payments using embarrasingly parallel architecture. Until then, we have blockchain.<p>Ethereum is nicknamed the “world computer” for a reason. Gas fees are super high for small transactions like paying for coffee or voting in a secure election. Just one app KryptoKitties can clog up the entire network.<p>We built Intercoin apps on top of Ethereum (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intercoin.org&#x2F;applications" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intercoin.org&#x2F;applications</a>) but we are not going to wait around for Ethereum 2.0 - which is blockchain also. Kik Messenger and others have long gotten off.</text></item><item><author>v64</author><text>Flash loans are a great example of how blockchains enable new types of financial transactions that either aren&#x27;t possible or are very difficult to do in a traditional financial setting.<p>If you identify an arbitrage opportunity in the market, you can atomically borrow a large sum of money to take advantage of the price difference. You also have the added assurance that if the arbitrage opportunity goes away before you can take advantage of it, the entire transaction fails and you only lose the Ethereum transaction fee. It&#x27;s essentially risk-free arbitrage.<p>This paper [1] dives into detail about how these arbitrage mechanics play out on the blockchain, and how both arbitrageurs and miners manipulate transactions in order to make a profit.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1904.05234" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1904.05234</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qqii</author><text>Sharding is simply not ready, as far as I know no project currently with smart contracts have non a blockchain structure.<p>That said currently ethereum has many L2 solutions (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ethereum.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;developers&#x2F;docs&#x2F;layer-2-scaling&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ethereum.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;developers&#x2F;docs&#x2F;layer-2-scaling&#x2F;</a>) that &quot;run in parallel&quot; and result in low gas fees.<p>So far I&#x27;ve not seen any hint of an &quot;embarrasingly parallel architecture&quot; that can satisfy the safety requirements that a blockchain also does and run smart contracts. I&#x27;d be happy to read up if you can point me to any research or projects that I&#x27;ve missed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and profit (2020)</title><url>https://www.palkeo.com/en/projets/ethereum/bzx.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EGreg</author><text>No, blockchains are not the future, they are really the reason why one transaction can happen at a time in the whole world. Even Ethereum 2.0 will have shards which will do away with this anomaly. The only reason flash loans even work with no collateral is because you can be sure nothing else is running on the “world computer” while your transaction runs, so you can roll it back with no risk except gas fees.<p>Vitalik himself acknowledges this, the guy is quite honest and straightforward about its limitations: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenextweb.com&#x2F;hardfork&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;19&#x2F;vitalik-buterin-ethereum-blockchain-almost-full-scalability&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenextweb.com&#x2F;hardfork&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;19&#x2F;vitalik-buterin-e...</a><p><i>Vitalik Buterin: Using Ethereum is expensive, and its blockchain is ‘almost full’
He also said blockchain&#x27;s &#x27;problem&#x27; is that every computer verifies every transaction</i><p>Actually blockchains are a first-generation technology that do global consensus for every block, which literally means all transactions in the world must go through one computer in the world (the miner) although it’s a different one each time. And the situation is actually worse, since you don’t know who would mine the next block in advance, every transaction must be sent to every potential miner! Imagine if BitTorrent had every computer store and seed every movie instead of using DHT.<p>The ability to send or loan arbitrarily large amounts for a fixed fee is a symptom of centralization. In a fully distributed network, transaction fees would have to be proportional to transaction size!<p>Almost every other protocol on the Internet does not have such bottlenecks in its design. No one asks how many emails or websites can be served per second. Blockchain is trying to secure every transaction using the entire network! That is why so much electricity is wasted just to do 7 transactions per second.<p>The next generation of crypto will actually be able to power payments using embarrasingly parallel architecture. Until then, we have blockchain.<p>Ethereum is nicknamed the “world computer” for a reason. Gas fees are super high for small transactions like paying for coffee or voting in a secure election. Just one app KryptoKitties can clog up the entire network.<p>We built Intercoin apps on top of Ethereum (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intercoin.org&#x2F;applications" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intercoin.org&#x2F;applications</a>) but we are not going to wait around for Ethereum 2.0 - which is blockchain also. Kik Messenger and others have long gotten off.</text></item><item><author>v64</author><text>Flash loans are a great example of how blockchains enable new types of financial transactions that either aren&#x27;t possible or are very difficult to do in a traditional financial setting.<p>If you identify an arbitrage opportunity in the market, you can atomically borrow a large sum of money to take advantage of the price difference. You also have the added assurance that if the arbitrage opportunity goes away before you can take advantage of it, the entire transaction fails and you only lose the Ethereum transaction fee. It&#x27;s essentially risk-free arbitrage.<p>This paper [1] dives into detail about how these arbitrage mechanics play out on the blockchain, and how both arbitrageurs and miners manipulate transactions in order to make a profit.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1904.05234" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1904.05234</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hanniabu</author><text>So in other words you&#x27;re shitting on Ethereum as a reason to shill your own coin since there&#x27;d be no reason for your coin unless you make people believe Ethereum is garbage? Ethereum is moving to proof of stake and there&#x27;s also L2 networks. There, problem solved.</text></comment> |
16,642,604 | 16,642,403 | 1 | 3 | 16,640,760 | train | <story><title>Dejavu – Web UI for Elasticsearch</title><url>https://github.com/appbaseio/dejavu</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>Ok so maybe someone can tell me what I (we) did wrong at my job we tried using the ELK stack, and it&#x27;s probably still running but it is such a resource hog. I do not understand why they built Elasticsearch. I&#x27;ve read in a couple places you need like 32GB of RAM[0] just to run this thing to do queries, and having crashed Kibana &#x2F; Elasticsearch a dozen times I believe it&#x27;s designed poorly. I had hoped I could drop in MongoDB instead, but saw no indication of this being a fluid change. How many resources are any of you allocating towards your &#x27;ELK&#x27; stack (I say &#x27;ELK&#x27; cause now they have other software in the mix)?<p>Needless to say, I rather build my own solution for logging instead using a database that&#x27;s not in-house having experienced all of this.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elastic.co&#x2F;guide&#x2F;en&#x2F;elasticsearch&#x2F;guide&#x2F;current&#x2F;hardware.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elastic.co&#x2F;guide&#x2F;en&#x2F;elasticsearch&#x2F;guide&#x2F;current&#x2F;...</a><p>Oh wow now it says 64GB of ram is the sweet spot.... What the heck is this thing doing that couldn&#x27;t of been accomplished with MongoDB or PostgreSQL? I&#x27;ve got busier data sets that don&#x27;t need 16GB of RAM, and yes we pound the database with logs of sorts and query in all sorts of ways and still I don&#x27;t get it... I wouldn&#x27;t recommend this stack to a friend unless they&#x27;ve got plenty of hardware to spare.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dejavu – Web UI for Elasticsearch</title><url>https://github.com/appbaseio/dejavu</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dabeledo</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using elasticsearch-head [1] for four years now and it seems it has more features than dejavu? Specially the node&#x2F;shard visualisation.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mobz&#x2F;elasticsearch-head" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mobz&#x2F;elasticsearch-head</a></text></comment> |
14,302,940 | 14,303,149 | 1 | 3 | 14,301,053 | train | <story><title>Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/09/amazon-enables-free-calls-and-messages-on-all-echo-devices-with-alexa-calling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dtien</author><text>Apple (and Google) really dropped the ball on the connected Home &#x27;smartbox&#x27; that Amazon popularized with Alexa.<p>We received one as a gift this past Christmas, and I&#x27;m now a full believer in this tech after being a very big skeptic during the first couple years of Alexa&#x27;s existence. Add to the fact, that we primarily use it as a smart connected radio, and the benefits are still beyond clear to me.<p>Essentially, you&#x27;ve now opened up the possibility of exposing a lot of the latest tech to a new demographic of people that probably were &#x27;too old&#x27; to &#x27;get it&#x27;, or not tech savvy enough to use it. The combination of a voice interface (not perfect, but improving) with access to all the latest web services spanning music, telephony, email, todo lists, home automation, etc is huge. I can now actually envision my parents, or even grandparents using services like Spotify, Podcasts, Connected Calendars, VOIP, and any number of things that the tech savvy take for granted through their phones or other devices.<p>Circling back to my first statement about Apple; the quintessential consumer oriented tech company. The company that&#x27;s supposed to make all things nasty and complicated into things that are simple and accessible. How did Apple who already had Apple TV (home box), Siri (voice interface), Itunes (music and app ecosystem), Icloud( ugh.. but still integrated personal mgmt) and FaceTime (VOIP) not come up with this sooner. Or at least, once they saw Alexa gaining popularity not just bundle up their services and release it. Apple typically is late to the party with a more refined product, but Amazon is executing at an impressive rate these days and it&#x27;s getting harder to see how Apple can close the gap.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkrich</author><text>Apple spends years meticulously developing and then releasing the most successful (and profitable) consumer computing platform of all time. Nearly every man, woman and child in the US has an Apple device no more than five feet from them at all time that&#x27;s completely capable of controlling every home device connected to the internet.<p>Amazon spends years and billions of dollars trying to compete in the hardware space with Apple, unsuccessfully releasing a phone and several very average tablet devices, none of which really gain much traction.<p>Then they release a device that can respond only to voice &quot;pretty well&quot; which can now handle VOIP calls only with other Amazon devices and we are ceding this battle to Amazon?<p>I think Amazon has to greatly improve the user experience before the Echo moves past a cool novelty item for me. I own one, and I can honestly say I feel no desire to purchase any more.<p>My Nest cam on the other hand I use all day to monitor my dog (using my iPhone) and often consider switching to Google Home and buying more Nest products because I feel invested in that ecosystem.<p>To me, the tablet&#x2F;smart phone experience is just more efficient and easier than dealing with voice. That&#x27;s just my own experience though, and time may prove me very wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/09/amazon-enables-free-calls-and-messages-on-all-echo-devices-with-alexa-calling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dtien</author><text>Apple (and Google) really dropped the ball on the connected Home &#x27;smartbox&#x27; that Amazon popularized with Alexa.<p>We received one as a gift this past Christmas, and I&#x27;m now a full believer in this tech after being a very big skeptic during the first couple years of Alexa&#x27;s existence. Add to the fact, that we primarily use it as a smart connected radio, and the benefits are still beyond clear to me.<p>Essentially, you&#x27;ve now opened up the possibility of exposing a lot of the latest tech to a new demographic of people that probably were &#x27;too old&#x27; to &#x27;get it&#x27;, or not tech savvy enough to use it. The combination of a voice interface (not perfect, but improving) with access to all the latest web services spanning music, telephony, email, todo lists, home automation, etc is huge. I can now actually envision my parents, or even grandparents using services like Spotify, Podcasts, Connected Calendars, VOIP, and any number of things that the tech savvy take for granted through their phones or other devices.<p>Circling back to my first statement about Apple; the quintessential consumer oriented tech company. The company that&#x27;s supposed to make all things nasty and complicated into things that are simple and accessible. How did Apple who already had Apple TV (home box), Siri (voice interface), Itunes (music and app ecosystem), Icloud( ugh.. but still integrated personal mgmt) and FaceTime (VOIP) not come up with this sooner. Or at least, once they saw Alexa gaining popularity not just bundle up their services and release it. Apple typically is late to the party with a more refined product, but Amazon is executing at an impressive rate these days and it&#x27;s getting harder to see how Apple can close the gap.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petra</author><text>I don&#x27;t have alexa, just &quot;OK, Google&quot;, and the interaction model is very similar to the commandline - which isn&#x27;t too positive when it comes to regular people.<p>And it fits with :<p>&gt;&gt; we primarily use it as a smart connected radio,<p>Does anybody see a solution to that problem ?</text></comment> |
12,163,541 | 12,163,527 | 1 | 2 | 12,163,109 | train | <story><title>People can sense single photons</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/people-can-sense-single-photons-1.20282</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>white-flame</author><text>If you pay close attention in very low level light situations, you&#x27;ll notice that what you do see (or at least what <i>I</i> see) is actually reminiscent of the RGB graininess of low level light photographs. That graininess is to my understanding caused by the variation of the number of photons hitting that portion of the receptors, which is unnoticeable when flooded with quadjillions of them in decent lighting.<p>So this is a nice semi-expected result in this experiment, though it does seem to be near the limit of default human perception.<p>I wonder how well somebody could train themselves to notice single-photon events, much like musicians can notice tiny audio events and variations.</text></comment> | <story><title>People can sense single photons</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/people-can-sense-single-photons-1.20282</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Thrender</author><text>What&#x27;s sticking out to me is that they definitely showed individuals can detect a single photon in some sense, but they did so statistically-- No individual was ever confident that any single event happened.<p>There&#x27;s something really philosophically fascinating going on here that I can&#x27;t quite articulate. It&#x27;s like, did some people really see single photons? Or did the group collectively see a photon packet?</text></comment> |
33,335,727 | 33,335,494 | 1 | 3 | 33,334,521 | train | <story><title>Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions</title><url>https://www.the5to9.xyz/p/photopea-free-photoshop-alternative-making-millions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdfhbdf</author><text>There is little to no time spent in this article on how photopea is monetized. I even went to the product itself to find out but couldn’t, at least on mobile. Is there some subscription? What do you pay for? Genuinely asking since I used it a few times and never noticed any payment nagging.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forte124</author><text>Sorry, I interviewed Ivan and he said roughly 90% of the revenue comes from ads.<p>I also asked him if he considered creating his own header bidding system, but he said this wasn’t worth it</text></comment> | <story><title>Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions</title><url>https://www.the5to9.xyz/p/photopea-free-photoshop-alternative-making-millions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdfhbdf</author><text>There is little to no time spent in this article on how photopea is monetized. I even went to the product itself to find out but couldn’t, at least on mobile. Is there some subscription? What do you pay for? Genuinely asking since I used it a few times and never noticed any payment nagging.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tintor</author><text>It offers paid account for $3.3&#x2F;mo with 5GB of cloud storage. See red Account button on the menu bar.</text></comment> |
18,303,727 | 18,303,516 | 1 | 3 | 18,302,349 | train | <story><title>Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-harassment-andy-rubin.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a-dub</author><text>&quot;In 2013, Richard DeVaul, a director at Google X, the company’s research and development arm, interviewed Star Simpson, a hardware engineer. During the job interview, she said he told her that he and his wife were “polyamorous,” a word often used to describe an open marriage. She said he invited her to Burning Man, an annual festival in the Nevada desert, the following week.<p>Ms. Simpson went with her mother and said she thought it was an opportunity to talk to Mr. DeVaul about the job. She said she brought conservative clothes suitable for a professional meeting.&quot;<p>woah nelly! totally fucked that he was hitting on her in the interview and appears to be a pretty cut and dried abuse of power...<p>but... business casual, with mom, at burning man? that&#x27;s absolutely bananas. however i can see how it would come to be, you&#x27;re staring down your dream job, and there&#x27;s this tight knit group of people you want to join so you go along with all of it... and then you realize later that you were just being played because someone wanted to sleep with you. yikes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>&gt; and then you realize later that you were just being played because someone wanted to sleep with you. yikes.<p>I think she probably realized, that&#x27;s why she brought her mom and conservative clothes.<p>Sometimes one way to win is to play along and lead your opponent into a trap.<p>Granted the trap didn&#x27;t work as <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;rdevaul" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;rdevaul</a> is still a director at X. Propositioning people and telling them about your open relationships during an interview process then inviting them to a drug infused festival should lead to not being a director anywhere in my opinion but maybe I am old-fashioned.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-harassment-andy-rubin.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a-dub</author><text>&quot;In 2013, Richard DeVaul, a director at Google X, the company’s research and development arm, interviewed Star Simpson, a hardware engineer. During the job interview, she said he told her that he and his wife were “polyamorous,” a word often used to describe an open marriage. She said he invited her to Burning Man, an annual festival in the Nevada desert, the following week.<p>Ms. Simpson went with her mother and said she thought it was an opportunity to talk to Mr. DeVaul about the job. She said she brought conservative clothes suitable for a professional meeting.&quot;<p>woah nelly! totally fucked that he was hitting on her in the interview and appears to be a pretty cut and dried abuse of power...<p>but... business casual, with mom, at burning man? that&#x27;s absolutely bananas. however i can see how it would come to be, you&#x27;re staring down your dream job, and there&#x27;s this tight knit group of people you want to join so you go along with all of it... and then you realize later that you were just being played because someone wanted to sleep with you. yikes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>komali2</author><text>Talk about dedication - not planning on going to burning man, then going with a <i>week&#x27;s notice</i>, in conservative clothing no less? Ms. Simpson is willing to go to far greater lengths than I to increase offer prospects...<p>I would have read it differently if she had gone &quot;burning-man&quot; mode, as I&#x27;d be tempted to do if invited on a whim like this. I&#x27;d always intended to try anyway, so having a guaranteed champion there (and maybe a camp? Unclear if crashing at the camp was implied in the invitation), would make it a fun thing to do. But the conservative clothes makes it seem like she was treating this as a step in the interview process.<p>Why was DeVaul talking about his personal romantic&#x2F;sexual life in an interview? How stupid of him. What a dumb gamble, even if he was trying to get laid, the risk&#x2F;reward just doesn&#x27;t make sense in the context.</text></comment> |
13,068,018 | 13,067,965 | 1 | 3 | 13,067,727 | train | <story><title>Our closest worm kin regrow body parts, raising hopes of regeneration in humans</title><url>http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/11/28/our-closest-worm-kin-regrow-body-parts-raising-hopes-of-regeneration-in-humans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PeterisP</author><text>Well, a plausible answer is that if we (or random mutations) re-enable those genes then the end result is simply a lot of cancer.<p>A reasonable default assumption is that each switch in our &quot;genetic configuration&quot; is set to a quite good value.<p>The only exception is if we see a feature that is beneficial at a high calorie cost - those features have been (reasonably) optimized away during our evolution, but would be useful in modern circumstances where food is not scarce anymore; this is a tradeoff where it would make sense to just turn the dial way to the right from where it had been throughout the last million years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JonathonW</author><text>&gt; A reasonable default assumption is that each switch in our &quot;genetic configuration&quot; is set to a quite good value.<p>I&#x27;d question that assumption-- each switch in our &quot;genetic configuration&quot; is set to <i>a</i> value, and it&#x27;s set to one that results in survival often enough for the species to reproduce, but it&#x27;s not necessarily the optimal value, or even a particularly good one. It&#x27;s just one that happened to be able to survive under environmental pressures at some particular time.<p>To put this into a computer science context, genetic algorithms have the same problem-- they can find local maxima easily, but can have difficulty (depending on the nature of the search space) locating global maxima because they can&#x27;t sacrifice short-term fitness to gain long-term fitness.</text></comment> | <story><title>Our closest worm kin regrow body parts, raising hopes of regeneration in humans</title><url>http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/11/28/our-closest-worm-kin-regrow-body-parts-raising-hopes-of-regeneration-in-humans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PeterisP</author><text>Well, a plausible answer is that if we (or random mutations) re-enable those genes then the end result is simply a lot of cancer.<p>A reasonable default assumption is that each switch in our &quot;genetic configuration&quot; is set to a quite good value.<p>The only exception is if we see a feature that is beneficial at a high calorie cost - those features have been (reasonably) optimized away during our evolution, but would be useful in modern circumstances where food is not scarce anymore; this is a tradeoff where it would make sense to just turn the dial way to the right from where it had been throughout the last million years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandvm</author><text>The ability to regenerate body parts and cancer are not inextricably linked. Take the axolotl. It has the ability to regenerate entire limbs. It&#x27;s also estimated to be a couple orders of magnitude more resistant to cancer than humans.</text></comment> |
9,390,012 | 9,389,171 | 1 | 2 | 9,388,950 | train | <story><title>GitHub's 2014 Transparency Report</title><url>https://github.com/blog/1987-github-s-2014-transparency-report</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MCRed</author><text>These &quot;secret orders&quot; are an abuse of power, and we already have many indications that they are being abused (eg: more used for going after drug dealers than terrorists, which was the &quot;justification&quot; for them originally.)<p>That we admit this, that our government is acting in a criminal fashion, in conflict with the constitution, and we have accepted it as &quot;normal&quot; is just proof that we are frogs who think the water is just fine.<p>We should be outraged and demanding prosecutions and investigations. But of course, who owns the prosecutors and the investigators? The government.<p>And we&#x27;ve been taught by government schools to be &quot;good germans&quot; (Eg: to give the benefit of the doubt and wide latitude to government.)</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub's 2014 Transparency Report</title><url>https://github.com/blog/1987-github-s-2014-transparency-report</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bitdestroyer</author><text>&gt; 0-249 National Security Orders Received<p>&gt; 0-249 Affected Accounts<p>So, I would assume it&#x27;s fairly safe to say they got 249 NSLs or am I missing something about how people are using ranges to go about skirting this ridiculous law? Obviously it could be within that range, but that&#x27;s an oddly specific number.</text></comment> |
15,163,371 | 15,163,378 | 1 | 2 | 15,163,108 | train | <story><title>SharknAT&To: Vulnerabilities in AT&T U-verse modems</title><url>https://www.nomotion.net/blog/sharknatto/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>It&#x27;s always annoyed me that ISPs seem to like giving customers these horribly overcomplex modems as well as other &quot;value-added features&quot; like &quot;inject advertisements into the user’s unencrypted web traffic&quot; --- especially since customers are already paying them for the service.<p>My vision for an ideal modem is more like a dumb Ethernet to coax&#x2F;fiber&#x2F;etc. adapter, and is otherwise as unobtrusive as possible. Ditto for an ideal ISP: just sell access to the raw, unfiltered Internet, and nothing else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josteink</author><text>&gt; My vision for an ideal modem is more like a dumb Ethernet to coax&#x2F;fiber&#x2F;etc. adapter<p>You&#x27;d like Europe then.<p>You know where we have competing ISPs and this is the standard.</text></comment> | <story><title>SharknAT&To: Vulnerabilities in AT&T U-verse modems</title><url>https://www.nomotion.net/blog/sharknatto/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>It&#x27;s always annoyed me that ISPs seem to like giving customers these horribly overcomplex modems as well as other &quot;value-added features&quot; like &quot;inject advertisements into the user’s unencrypted web traffic&quot; --- especially since customers are already paying them for the service.<p>My vision for an ideal modem is more like a dumb Ethernet to coax&#x2F;fiber&#x2F;etc. adapter, and is otherwise as unobtrusive as possible. Ditto for an ideal ISP: just sell access to the raw, unfiltered Internet, and nothing else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mister_Snuggles</author><text>My ISP seems to do the best of both worlds.<p>The modems, by default, do WiFi, NAT, and have a 4-port switch on the back. The default WLAN name and password is printed on a sticker that&#x27;s on the modem, they&#x27;re unique per modem. Same for the admin user. I don&#x27;t know if they allow SSH and if the SSH password is unique per modem however.<p>If you ask for the modem to be put into bridge mode, which they will happily do, the WiFi and NAT get disabled and whatever you plug in to the modem gets assigned a real IP address. When I upgraded my service and required a new modem they actually asked if I wanted it in bridge mode. All of this is configured on their side and the modem seems to pull the configuration when you first boot it.</text></comment> |
39,985,699 | 39,983,191 | 1 | 2 | 39,981,550 | train | <story><title>Fairbuds: In-ear with replaceable batteries</title><url>https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zer00eyz</author><text>Please can we get jacks back.<p>The audio quality on these battery powered blue tooth headphones is fucking awful. IM not a purist by any stretch, but a decent pair of head phones is a whole other world of music vs anything AirPods like.</text></item><item><author>ponorin</author><text>So they finally seemed to have come up with their original design after 3 years of selling non-repairable TWS earbuds, great. I genuinely appreciate that they are trying to give users more sustainable options. Perhaps they can walk back the decision to remove the headphone jack as well so that people can use wired headphones directly which doesn&#x27;t use battery in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zeta0134</author><text>I recently fell off of team 3.5mm-jack when I discovered USB-C headphones! These include their own DAC and that means they have the potential to be *much* less noisy than the usually cost-reduced DAC included in the handset. Plus this way I can splurge for one decent set of headphones and get the same mix on all my devices, which is good for composing.<p>So, the 3.5mm jack can die. I&#x27;m now on team &quot;dual USB ports&quot; to solve the charging-while-listening issue. Let&#x27;s go team!</text></comment> | <story><title>Fairbuds: In-ear with replaceable batteries</title><url>https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zer00eyz</author><text>Please can we get jacks back.<p>The audio quality on these battery powered blue tooth headphones is fucking awful. IM not a purist by any stretch, but a decent pair of head phones is a whole other world of music vs anything AirPods like.</text></item><item><author>ponorin</author><text>So they finally seemed to have come up with their original design after 3 years of selling non-repairable TWS earbuds, great. I genuinely appreciate that they are trying to give users more sustainable options. Perhaps they can walk back the decision to remove the headphone jack as well so that people can use wired headphones directly which doesn&#x27;t use battery in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mo3</author><text>Hm. I have Sennheiser and Bose Bluetooth headphones and found AAC and AptX HD codecs on highest quality settings (on Android in dev tools) to be really good and almost indistinguishable from wired connections.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t call myself an audiophile, but my hearing is pretty good and I&#x27;m sensitive to quality loss</text></comment> |
40,528,916 | 40,528,346 | 1 | 2 | 40,527,814 | train | <story><title>2023 planetary heat uptake from termination shock of inadvertent geoengineering?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01442-3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_Microft</author><text><i>&quot;Unfortunately, while their radiative forcing estimate is well within the range of others in the literature, their calculation of the resulting warming relies on an overly simplified model that results in a substantial overstating of current warming impacts.&quot;</i>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theclimatebrink.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;a-problematic-estimate-of-warming" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theclimatebrink.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;a-problematic-estimate-of-...</a><p>The conclusions of this paper are being disputed. Read more about that at the page linked above.</text></comment> | <story><title>2023 planetary heat uptake from termination shock of inadvertent geoengineering?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01442-3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>This is wild:<p>&gt; The amount of radiative forcing could lead to a doubling (or more) of the warming rate in the 2020 s compared with the rate since 1980 with strong spatiotemporal heterogeneity. The warming effect is consistent with the recent observed strong warming in 2023 and expected to make the 2020 s anomalously warm. The forcing is equivalent in magnitude to 80% of the measured increase in planetary heat uptake since 2020.<p>Truly, all bets are off for being able to predict the climate going forward</text></comment> |
32,696,131 | 32,695,772 | 1 | 2 | 32,695,199 | train | <story><title>California passes law requiring companies to post salary ranges on job listings</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-30/california-passes-law-requiring-companies-like-meta-disney-to-post-salary-range</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>This title is a bit misleading because it isn&#x27;t law yet. From the article:<p><i>The bill will head to Governor Gavin Newsom, who has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto. He hasn’t yet expressed a position and didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. If he signs it, [etc.]</i></text></comment> | <story><title>California passes law requiring companies to post salary ranges on job listings</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-30/california-passes-law-requiring-companies-like-meta-disney-to-post-salary-range</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eddiezane</author><text>Colorado resident here. Maybe companies will start to take this seriously now that more states are passing similar laws. My go to response to recruiter spam for the past 1.5 years has been &quot;Do you have Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act compliant job listings&quot; to which they usually don&#x27;t reply. The majority of &quot;US Remote&quot; posts I see don&#x27;t include this information but the ones that do are interesting data points.</text></comment> |
20,500,457 | 20,500,722 | 1 | 2 | 20,498,658 | train | <story><title>Google pays $11M to job-seekers who alleged age discrimination</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/22/google-pays-11m-to-jobseekers-who-alleged-age-discrimination</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregfjohnson</author><text>Tangentially related: I just turned 65, and am continuing to immensely enjoy programming. Current job involves embedded digital signal processing in medical devices.<p>My family came up with a new name for my category of programmers: the gerihacktric demographic.. :-)<p>I have interviewed with Alphabet twice, no offers. One time apparently it was a close call..<p>It would be fun to be the all-time record holder for oldest new hire!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moflome</author><text>Love it. Have found that the closer you get to hardware groups at any of the FAANG&#x27;s, the higher the average age. Met several happily employed grandparents in the groups, adding value and telling <i>the best</i> stories.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google pays $11M to job-seekers who alleged age discrimination</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/22/google-pays-11m-to-jobseekers-who-alleged-age-discrimination</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregfjohnson</author><text>Tangentially related: I just turned 65, and am continuing to immensely enjoy programming. Current job involves embedded digital signal processing in medical devices.<p>My family came up with a new name for my category of programmers: the gerihacktric demographic.. :-)<p>I have interviewed with Alphabet twice, no offers. One time apparently it was a close call..<p>It would be fun to be the all-time record holder for oldest new hire!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>segmondy</author><text>Almost every rejected hire is apparently a &quot;close call&quot; ;-)</text></comment> |
38,455,375 | 38,450,380 | 1 | 2 | 38,448,653 | train | <story><title>MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers</title><url>https://nihalsid.github.io/mesh-gpt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shaileshm</author><text>This is what a truly revolutionary idea looks like. There are so many details in the paper. Also, we know that transformers can scale. Pretty sure this idea will be used by a lot of companies to train the general 3D asset creation pipeline. This is just too great.<p>&quot;We first learn a vocabulary of latent quantized embeddings, using graph convolutions, which inform these embeddings of the local mesh geometry and topology. These embeddings are sequenced and decoded into triangles by a decoder, ensuring that they can effectively reconstruct the mesh.&quot;<p>This idea is simply beautiful and so obvious in hindsight.<p>&quot;To define the tokens to generate, we consider a practical approach to represent a mesh M for autoregressive generation: a sequence of triangles.&quot;<p>More from paper. Just so cool!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>legel</author><text>It&#x27;s cool, it&#x27;s also par for the field of 3D reconstruction today. I wouldn&#x27;t describe this paper as particularly innovative or exceptional.<p>What do I think is really compelling in this field (given that it&#x27;s my profession)?<p>This has me star-struck lately -- 3D meshing from a single image, a very large 3D reconstruction model trained on millions of all kinds of 3D models... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yiconghong.me&#x2F;LRM&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yiconghong.me&#x2F;LRM&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers</title><url>https://nihalsid.github.io/mesh-gpt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shaileshm</author><text>This is what a truly revolutionary idea looks like. There are so many details in the paper. Also, we know that transformers can scale. Pretty sure this idea will be used by a lot of companies to train the general 3D asset creation pipeline. This is just too great.<p>&quot;We first learn a vocabulary of latent quantized embeddings, using graph convolutions, which inform these embeddings of the local mesh geometry and topology. These embeddings are sequenced and decoded into triangles by a decoder, ensuring that they can effectively reconstruct the mesh.&quot;<p>This idea is simply beautiful and so obvious in hindsight.<p>&quot;To define the tokens to generate, we consider a practical approach to represent a mesh M for autoregressive generation: a sequence of triangles.&quot;<p>More from paper. Just so cool!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hedgehog</author><text>Another thing to note here is this looks to be around seven total days of training on at most 4 A100s. Not all really cutting edge work requires a data center sized cluster.</text></comment> |
34,240,669 | 34,238,441 | 1 | 3 | 34,236,889 | train | <story><title>Google researcher, long out of math, cracks devilish problem about sets</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-out-of-math-an-ai-programmer-cracks-a-pure-math-problem-20230103/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SideQuark</author><text>I once made a cool solution to this problem using information theory, in particular coding theory.<p>The usual solution uses the fact there are 3 places to put items: left scale, off scale, and right scale. Then those solutions do if&#x2F;then cases to juggle items around to find the mis-weighted ball.<p>My solution numbered the balls in base 3, then did four weighings with no if&#x2F;thens,. The weightings each gave a base 3 result: left, balance, right. This formed the digits of the mis-weighted ball.<p>The idea is to make an error correcting code in base 3, and use the &quot;weighings&quot; as the correction matrix to isolate the bad &quot;bit&quot;.<p>This idea generalizes to solve a massive range of find the odd item(s) problems.</text></item><item><author>rkp8000</author><text>Always cool to see unexpected applications of information theory, especially outside of probabilistic contexts.<p>A related toy example that comes to mind is the puzzle where you&#x27;re given 12 metal balls and told that one of them is either heavier or lighter than the rest. You&#x27;re then given a balance&#x2F;scale and instructed to figure out which ball is different and whether it is heavier or lighter using the balance a maximum of three times to weigh different combinations of balls.<p>Part of the reason this is solvable is because there are 12x2=24 different possibilities (or log2(24) = 4.58 bits) for the ball ID&#x2F;weight and 27=3x3x3 possible outcomes (or log2(27) = 4.75 bits) for the weighing process (left heavier, right heavier, or equal in each use). Thus, there&#x27;s a chance the weighing sequence could convey the ball ID&#x2F;weight. If there were 14 balls, however, then you would require log(28) = 4.81 bits of information to specify the ball ID&#x2F;weight, so the puzzle would be unsolvable, since there wouldn&#x27;t be enough information available in the weighing sequence to specify the ball ID&#x2F;weight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SideQuark</author><text>Just took a stab at recreating my older solution. It goes something like this<p>Number the balls 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19<p>Then do three weighings according to rows like this:<p><pre><code> 0 1 -1 0 1 -1 1 -1 0 1 -1 0
1 1 -1 -1 -1 0 0 1 1 1 -1 -1
-1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
</code></pre>
Where -1 means index on left side of of balance, 0 means not on balance, 1 means on right side of balance. Note each row has the same number of -1 and 1.<p>If left is heavy, record 0, else if balanced, record 1, else if right heavy, record 2.<p>Then the base 3 value gives the coin label above (in absolute value) and is &gt;0 if heavier, else is -1 if lighter.<p>Also note there is no if&#x2F;then. You simply follow these three and record the numbers which spit out the answer.<p>The idea is the matrix represents an error correction code in base 3. You need each column distinct, and coin j being out of whack selects column j from the matrix.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google researcher, long out of math, cracks devilish problem about sets</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-out-of-math-an-ai-programmer-cracks-a-pure-math-problem-20230103/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SideQuark</author><text>I once made a cool solution to this problem using information theory, in particular coding theory.<p>The usual solution uses the fact there are 3 places to put items: left scale, off scale, and right scale. Then those solutions do if&#x2F;then cases to juggle items around to find the mis-weighted ball.<p>My solution numbered the balls in base 3, then did four weighings with no if&#x2F;thens,. The weightings each gave a base 3 result: left, balance, right. This formed the digits of the mis-weighted ball.<p>The idea is to make an error correcting code in base 3, and use the &quot;weighings&quot; as the correction matrix to isolate the bad &quot;bit&quot;.<p>This idea generalizes to solve a massive range of find the odd item(s) problems.</text></item><item><author>rkp8000</author><text>Always cool to see unexpected applications of information theory, especially outside of probabilistic contexts.<p>A related toy example that comes to mind is the puzzle where you&#x27;re given 12 metal balls and told that one of them is either heavier or lighter than the rest. You&#x27;re then given a balance&#x2F;scale and instructed to figure out which ball is different and whether it is heavier or lighter using the balance a maximum of three times to weigh different combinations of balls.<p>Part of the reason this is solvable is because there are 12x2=24 different possibilities (or log2(24) = 4.58 bits) for the ball ID&#x2F;weight and 27=3x3x3 possible outcomes (or log2(27) = 4.75 bits) for the weighing process (left heavier, right heavier, or equal in each use). Thus, there&#x27;s a chance the weighing sequence could convey the ball ID&#x2F;weight. If there were 14 balls, however, then you would require log(28) = 4.81 bits of information to specify the ball ID&#x2F;weight, so the puzzle would be unsolvable, since there wouldn&#x27;t be enough information available in the weighing sequence to specify the ball ID&#x2F;weight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hgsgm</author><text>That&#x27;s clever! If you get an &quot;equal&quot; result from the scale, then you can put those balls on the scale with the unknown ones, so you can maintain symmetry in the weighings.</text></comment> |
33,365,273 | 33,365,147 | 1 | 3 | 33,362,311 | train | <story><title>Towards the next generation of XNU memory safety: kalloc_type</title><url>https://security.apple.com/blog/towards-the-next-generation-of-xnu-memory-safety/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidbalbert</author><text>The article references a few compiler extensions: __builtin_xnu_type_signature, __builtin_xnu_type_summary, and the xnu_usage_semantics attribute.<p>I can see references to these builtins in the latest xnu source[1], but not in upstream llvm[2], or Apple&#x27;s forks of llvm[3] and clang[4].<p>It&#x27;s been possible to build your own XNU[5] for a long time. Is that still possible now?<p><pre><code> [1]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apple-oss-distributions&#x2F;xnu
[2]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;llvm&#x2F;llvm-project
[3]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apple-oss-distributions&#x2F;llvmCore
[4]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apple-oss-distributions&#x2F;clang
[5]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kernelshaman.blogspot.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;building-xnu-for-macos-112-intel-apple.html</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Towards the next generation of XNU memory safety: kalloc_type</title><url>https://security.apple.com/blog/towards-the-next-generation-of-xnu-memory-safety/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MBCook</author><text>Very interesting. Unfortunately I don’t see a way to follow new entries. There’s no RSS feed.</text></comment> |
40,514,499 | 40,512,108 | 1 | 3 | 40,497,957 | train | <story><title>AdFlush</title><url>https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3589334.3645698</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pradn</author><text>What&#x27;s fascinating here is AdFlush is a classical feature engineering approach: define a bunch of features on the data manually, and then use ML to figure out the most useful &#x2F; impactful ones. This is not the &quot;throw terabytes of data and see what happens&quot; approach we see with LLMs. It&#x27;s a bit funny to even point this out because I don&#x27;t recall the last time a feature-engineered ML project made it to the HN front page.<p>Features can be brittle, but they are understandable. The paper&#x27;s appendix [1] lists the 27 features that will likely make a request&#x2F;resource &quot;ad-related&quot;. These include interesting ones like JS AST depth, average JS identifier length, the &quot;bracket to dot notations ration in JS&quot;, and a number of graph measures for the graph of scripts.<p>And contrary to what comments in this thread are saying, they do compare against a blocklist-based adblocker: uBlock Origin. That&#x27;s in section 5.5. They say they outperform uBlock Origin. But even they say they don&#x27;t reduce overall page time bc their algorithm is expensive.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;10.1145&#x2F;3589334.3645698" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;10.1145&#x2F;3589334.3645698</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AdFlush</title><url>https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3589334.3645698</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>YmiYugy</author><text>Without comparison to the accuracy of crowed sourced blocklists it&#x27;s not that valuable.
Maybe there is a group of hopelessly overworked blocklist maintainers&#x2F;contributors, that I&#x27;m not aware of. If so, their cries for help don&#x27;t seem to make the HN front page.
From a user perspective, blocking banner ads feels like a basically solved problem. I think the real pain point here is that for large chunks of the web, there is no distinction between ads and content.</text></comment> |
17,314,558 | 17,314,285 | 1 | 2 | 17,313,392 | train | <story><title>Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac user</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/dell-xps-13-9360-review-lifelong-mac-user</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reacharavindh</author><text>I have a Dell XPS 13 as my personal machine. It runs Linux. Everything works.<p>But, I still find myself using my MacBook Pro (provided by work) for almost everything even at home.<p>Two things that keep me in the Mac land.<p>1. Retina Display and the 16:10 aspect ratio.
2. Smooth, and usable touchpad.<p>XPS13&#x27;s display is too rectangle and I&#x27;m not watching movies in it. It feels too cramped for looking at code. GNOME out of the box does not do fractional scaling (125%) hence everything looks either too big or too small to my taste.<p>I dont have the patience or the know-how to tune the touchpad to be decent in Linux.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heywire</author><text>I&#x27;d recommend testing a live image of KDE Neon. I loaded it on my Dell Latitude 7370 (distant cousin of the XPS 13) which has a 13&quot; QHD+ touchscreen, and I&#x27;m quite impressed with the &quot;out of the box&quot; experience with KDE Neon. There are still a some applications that don&#x27;t handle the DPI scaling well, but I had that problem on Windows too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac user</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/dell-xps-13-9360-review-lifelong-mac-user</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reacharavindh</author><text>I have a Dell XPS 13 as my personal machine. It runs Linux. Everything works.<p>But, I still find myself using my MacBook Pro (provided by work) for almost everything even at home.<p>Two things that keep me in the Mac land.<p>1. Retina Display and the 16:10 aspect ratio.
2. Smooth, and usable touchpad.<p>XPS13&#x27;s display is too rectangle and I&#x27;m not watching movies in it. It feels too cramped for looking at code. GNOME out of the box does not do fractional scaling (125%) hence everything looks either too big or too small to my taste.<p>I dont have the patience or the know-how to tune the touchpad to be decent in Linux.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmanulis</author><text>For touchpad, replace Synaptics with libinput and it just works (tm), including palm rejection.</text></comment> |
19,903,150 | 19,903,098 | 1 | 2 | 19,902,163 | train | <story><title>Crimes in Concrete</title><url>https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/06/crimes-in-concrete</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ppod</author><text>It&#x27;s fascinating how neatly being politically conservative or progressive lines up with the corresponding architectural view. I like brutalism, but I disagree with the removal of Scruton from that position, it seems political. What annoys me about articles like the above is that they seem to ignore the possibility that aesthetics involves a lot of subjectivity. The argument seems to boil down to, &quot;of course it&#x27;s ugly, just look at it&quot;. But you look at what young travellers and photographers actually spend time appreciating and sharing images of, the modernist parts of Chicago, London and New York seem be appreciated at least as much as other cities and districts with well-regarded pre-20thC buildings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>More to the point, look at what people choose to live in. Good modernist and brutalist homes sell quickly and at a significant premium over prevailing market rates.<p>Modernism got a bad name in many Western countries, because it was used as an architectural and philosophical justification for cheap and shoddy system-built housing to fill the post-war housing gap. That doesn&#x27;t make rectilinear forms and bare concrete inherently bad; we don&#x27;t blame vernacular architecture for characterless mock-Tudor estate houses and vulgar McMansions, we blame bad architects, profit-hungry developers and philistine houses.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.themodernhouse.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.themodernhouse.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;93963469" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;93963469</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Crimes in Concrete</title><url>https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/06/crimes-in-concrete</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ppod</author><text>It&#x27;s fascinating how neatly being politically conservative or progressive lines up with the corresponding architectural view. I like brutalism, but I disagree with the removal of Scruton from that position, it seems political. What annoys me about articles like the above is that they seem to ignore the possibility that aesthetics involves a lot of subjectivity. The argument seems to boil down to, &quot;of course it&#x27;s ugly, just look at it&quot;. But you look at what young travellers and photographers actually spend time appreciating and sharing images of, the modernist parts of Chicago, London and New York seem be appreciated at least as much as other cities and districts with well-regarded pre-20thC buildings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NeedMoreTea</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s fascinating how neatly being politically conservative or progressive lines up with the corresponding architectural view<p>Only it&#x27;s really not that neat. When the brutalist monstrosities (you may correctly infer I don&#x27;t like most of them one bit, though I do like much modernism) were being designed and built post-war, brutalism particularly was embraced as enthusiastically on all parts of the political spectrum. The mood was to build a &quot;better world&quot; and to borrow a cliche, embrace the &quot;white heat of technology&quot;. Futurism, science, nuclear and modernism - including brutalism - was good. End of. Many fine examples of classic architecture were levelled, like the oft mourned Penn station, to put in an awesome, imposing brutalist slab that was looking tired and shabby within a decade. I&#x27;m sure the comparative cheapness and quickness of build won more fans in one part of the political map though.<p>As people started to live in them, use them, and live around them, it very rapidly became clear that brutalism - like much post-war architecture - didn&#x27;t give a toss about humans. <i>That</i> was the real exciting new development in post-war architecture. The vision was inspiring, the reality was counter-productive in so many cases, as the scale or the amount of extra walking required wrecked the reality. They may have been impressive to look at, but so frequently fail to work as a building, or for people.<p>There are a few brutalist that work, and far more considered modernist, but in the main I call the brutalist experiment failed for those who have to use, inhabit or visit them. The ones that really work, seem to have one common feature - they remember the humans - you know, those things that use buildings? :)</text></comment> |
15,351,473 | 15,350,371 | 1 | 2 | 15,347,508 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-stream/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lsmarigo</author><text>I know you guys took major issue with the Cloudlfare takedown of DailyStormer but try to look at the big picture. Mankind has never had a tool as powerful as the internet. The advent of the printing press played a key role in the lead up to the Salem Witch Trials. How big a role the internet played in the mess we find ourselves in today as a country, that&#x27;s up to future historians to argue, but make no mistake the impact is massive and unlike anything we&#x27;ve ever seen. The spread of hate and bigotry on the internet left unchecked has now lead to real loss of life which is what prompted CloudFlare&#x2F;Reddit&#x2F;Facebook to push these new policies. How, in the face of actual murders can you contend that these companies are wrong to take down these websites?<p>Is loss of human life an acceptable cost for free speech?<p>Tech companies didn&#x27;t choose to be the society police, yet here we are.</text></item><item><author>OzzyB</author><text>If I wanted to create an alternative to YouTube with a conservative bent what are the chances Cloudflare will wake up one morning and shut me down?<p>What if the content is just generally in &quot;bad taste&quot; and not overtly Neo-Nazi, will CF feel the need to play &quot;Content Cop&quot; or are they willing to abide by their role as utility?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>powertower</author><text>&gt; Mankind has never had a tool as powerful as the internet. The advent of the printing press played a key role in the lead up to the Salem Witch Trials.<p>Name one person harmed by the site?<p>If you have ever seen a page of DailyStormer, you&#x27;d either laugh or go away.<p>No one has ever killed anyone after reading a few paragraphs on that site.<p>Putting in the argument of &quot;Is loss of human life an acceptable cost for free speech&quot; is not an honest way of describing censorship of content that is silly at its worst and dumb at its best.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-stream/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lsmarigo</author><text>I know you guys took major issue with the Cloudlfare takedown of DailyStormer but try to look at the big picture. Mankind has never had a tool as powerful as the internet. The advent of the printing press played a key role in the lead up to the Salem Witch Trials. How big a role the internet played in the mess we find ourselves in today as a country, that&#x27;s up to future historians to argue, but make no mistake the impact is massive and unlike anything we&#x27;ve ever seen. The spread of hate and bigotry on the internet left unchecked has now lead to real loss of life which is what prompted CloudFlare&#x2F;Reddit&#x2F;Facebook to push these new policies. How, in the face of actual murders can you contend that these companies are wrong to take down these websites?<p>Is loss of human life an acceptable cost for free speech?<p>Tech companies didn&#x27;t choose to be the society police, yet here we are.</text></item><item><author>OzzyB</author><text>If I wanted to create an alternative to YouTube with a conservative bent what are the chances Cloudflare will wake up one morning and shut me down?<p>What if the content is just generally in &quot;bad taste&quot; and not overtly Neo-Nazi, will CF feel the need to play &quot;Content Cop&quot; or are they willing to abide by their role as utility?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pen2l</author><text>Good points, I want to add:<p>We just witnessed something very significant, when Russia interfered. They had an express goal and they carried it out with technologies we know.<p>A medium that is absolutely free of censorship is not in your best interest, because it can and will be used to compromise you.<p>The solutions are difficult, but what is clear (especially to folks who have had to moderate even a small channel or forum) is that a policy of no-censorship never scales in the real world, the question is how you do it, where to draw the line, etc..</text></comment> |
14,625,494 | 14,624,910 | 1 | 2 | 14,623,821 | train | <story><title>Blockchain at Berkeley</title><url>https://blockchain.berkeley.edu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arthurcolle</author><text>&#x27;Blockchain&#x27; is literally the least interesting part of cryptocurrencies and their applications. its a boring flat file structure that is an artifact of needing many clients independently deriving a shared ledger, nothing more and nothing less. the interesting part is how you can bootstrap issuance of a new asset by incentivizing participants to assist in maintaining a specified computer network in exchange for cryptographically-{verifiable|enforced} units.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wslh</author><text>Sorry, but I don&#x27;t think you understand what a public blockchain is and the improvements&#x2F;innovations that it requires to sustain a higher volume with faster blocks creation. This is connected to what you said about issuing tokens: last week Status.im (shameless plug: security audited by my company) related transactions caused a DDoS over the Ethereum network, which it means that we need to improve the current blockchains to support the kind of innovations you like.<p>On the other hand, lowering the barrier for issuing equity or app coins make creating scams or tempting people to run with a lot of money trivial. A recent Fred Wilson&#x27;s post[1] about this makes the point very clear.<p>Lastly, not everything can be descentralized because you are challenging computation limitations and&#x2F;or you need oracles outside the network that are the weakest point of the whole system.<p>[1] Buyer Beware - VC Fred Wilson on ICOs
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ethereum&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6h7d0j&#x2F;buyer_beware_vc_fred_wilson_on_icos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ethereum&#x2F;comments&#x2F;6h7d0j&#x2F;buyer_bewa...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Blockchain at Berkeley</title><url>https://blockchain.berkeley.edu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arthurcolle</author><text>&#x27;Blockchain&#x27; is literally the least interesting part of cryptocurrencies and their applications. its a boring flat file structure that is an artifact of needing many clients independently deriving a shared ledger, nothing more and nothing less. the interesting part is how you can bootstrap issuance of a new asset by incentivizing participants to assist in maintaining a specified computer network in exchange for cryptographically-{verifiable|enforced} units.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>I don&#x27;t think you can really split one from the other, the blockchain and its surrounding algorithms is <i>how</i> &quot;you can bootstrap issuance of a new asset by incentivizing participants to assist in maintaining a specified computer network in exchange for cryptographically-{verifiable|enforced} units&quot;.<p>I find the blockchain technology very interesting because it solves a very hard problem in an inventive way and at the same time once you hear how it works it sounds almost obvious. All the individual parts have been known for ages but they&#x27;re combined in an innovative way.<p>I&#x27;m personally not convinced by the &quot;political&quot; side of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies but on the technical side it&#x27;s one of the most inspiring piece of software in the past decade IMO.</text></comment> |
6,878,890 | 6,878,807 | 1 | 2 | 6,878,369 | train | <story><title>Reddit’s empire is founded on a flawed algorithm</title><url>http://technotes.iangreenleaf.com/posts/2013-12-09-reddits-empire-is-built-on-a-flawed-algorithm.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yen223</author><text>But as the author pointed out, nobody visits &#x2F;new.</text></item><item><author>raldi</author><text>No, they just vanish from the <i>hot</i> page, and it&#x27;s not necessarily permanent. They&#x27;re still visible on &#x2F;new, which allows for upvotes-of-resurrection.</text></item><item><author>randomwalker</author><text>tl;dr: Posts whose net score ever becomes negative essentially vanish permanently due to a quirk in the algorithm. So an attacker can disappear posts he doesn&#x27;t like by constantly watching the &quot;New&quot; page and downvoting them as soon as they appear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atwebb</author><text>Maybe not the &#x2F;all&#x2F;new but I pretty much only visit &#x2F;new on the subs I frequent. It&#x27;s a much better way of using smaller subs from my perspective. Lots of things never make it fully to the front page of a smaller sub. The drawback is that subs which get caught in a filter appear to show sorted by their submission date and not the mod approval date so you can miss things on &#x2F;new that might make it to &#x2F;hot</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit’s empire is founded on a flawed algorithm</title><url>http://technotes.iangreenleaf.com/posts/2013-12-09-reddits-empire-is-built-on-a-flawed-algorithm.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yen223</author><text>But as the author pointed out, nobody visits &#x2F;new.</text></item><item><author>raldi</author><text>No, they just vanish from the <i>hot</i> page, and it&#x27;s not necessarily permanent. They&#x27;re still visible on &#x2F;new, which allows for upvotes-of-resurrection.</text></item><item><author>randomwalker</author><text>tl;dr: Posts whose net score ever becomes negative essentially vanish permanently due to a quirk in the algorithm. So an attacker can disappear posts he doesn&#x27;t like by constantly watching the &quot;New&quot; page and downvoting them as soon as they appear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phildeschaine</author><text>Lots of people visit &#x2F;new. They&#x27;re called &quot;knights of new&quot;. The total number of these people is probably far lower than the front page (where _hot <i></i>is<i></i> used), but it&#x27;s how every submission gets its start.</text></comment> |
32,397,837 | 32,398,239 | 1 | 2 | 32,396,651 | train | <story><title>France experiencing worst drought on record</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62456540</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kypro</author><text>I&#x27;ll be honest, this heatwave has been an eye opener for me. I&#x27;ve never been a climate skeptic, but I suppose I have been somewhat skeptical towards the more panicked claims regarding its impact.<p>As someone who lives in the south of England you become used to seeing green grass all year round. But this summer seeing all the greenery turn yellow and die over the span of a few weeks has been a much needed realisation that climate really matters. I guess I knew it before intellectually, but the idea that crops would fail from climate change just wasn&#x27;t something that I had an understanding of instinctively. Now I do. It&#x27;s terrifying how dead everything looks just from a few weeks of hot weather, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;uk-62432844" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;uk-62432844</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shay_ker</author><text>This is precisely why climate change policy is so difficult to enact. Folks don’t understand the urgency until they experience it themselves, and by that point it’s gotten really bad.<p>There’s an analogy with tech debt or old software here somewhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>France experiencing worst drought on record</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62456540</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kypro</author><text>I&#x27;ll be honest, this heatwave has been an eye opener for me. I&#x27;ve never been a climate skeptic, but I suppose I have been somewhat skeptical towards the more panicked claims regarding its impact.<p>As someone who lives in the south of England you become used to seeing green grass all year round. But this summer seeing all the greenery turn yellow and die over the span of a few weeks has been a much needed realisation that climate really matters. I guess I knew it before intellectually, but the idea that crops would fail from climate change just wasn&#x27;t something that I had an understanding of instinctively. Now I do. It&#x27;s terrifying how dead everything looks just from a few weeks of hot weather, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;uk-62432844" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;uk-62432844</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DaedPsyker</author><text>For me what was eye-opening was the amount of digging in and denial of it.<p>I thought with it literally right there in your face that the denialists would come to some sense. No instead we got, &quot;you can tell you weren&#x27;t around in 1976, it was worse then&quot;, which it wasn&#x27;t and a basic check would clearly show that&#x27;s a lie. &quot;Oh the climate is always changing&quot;, not at this rate.
The usual &#x27;snowflake&#x27; ad hominem attack thrown in too. I don&#x27;t even understand what even is the point of this head in sand strategy.</text></comment> |
37,833,074 | 37,832,817 | 1 | 2 | 37,831,062 | train | <story><title>The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-cloud-mitigated-largest-ddos-attack-peaking-above-398-million-rps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pythonguython</author><text>Who has an incentive to carry out these DDos attacks? Why would anyone be willing to spend large amounts of money and develop a sophisticated attack against corporate cloud infrastructure? It seems like the only reasonable answer is foreign governments. But still what is the result - you inconvenience American tech companies and their customers for a few hours? This happens all the time, so clearly someone finds it worthwhile. Can anyone help me understand?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working on anti-DDOS off and on for 20 years now. The answer is sometimes government actors, but oftentimes scammers in Eastern Europe. They do these big attacks for street cred amongst the botting community.<p>They then use their street cred to get paid by less scrupulous actors to attack their rivals. Sometimes the people paying are governments, sometimes just shady companies. For example last year there was a lot of crypto companies attacking each other&#x27;s websites.<p>Most of the people who do this have a lot of technical skill but not a lot of opportunity to get paid for it based on where they live or the circumstances of their upbringing.</text></comment> | <story><title>The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-cloud-mitigated-largest-ddos-attack-peaking-above-398-million-rps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pythonguython</author><text>Who has an incentive to carry out these DDos attacks? Why would anyone be willing to spend large amounts of money and develop a sophisticated attack against corporate cloud infrastructure? It seems like the only reasonable answer is foreign governments. But still what is the result - you inconvenience American tech companies and their customers for a few hours? This happens all the time, so clearly someone finds it worthwhile. Can anyone help me understand?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonacct37</author><text>PR. Attack Google or cloudflare. Wait for them to publish a blog post about the biggest attack ever seen, then tell potential customers of your botnet that you can launch a bigger attack than anyone else and point to the above blog post.</text></comment> |
13,965,429 | 13,965,473 | 1 | 2 | 13,963,858 | train | <story><title>How to Be Someone People Love to Talk To (2015)</title><url>http://time.com/3722418/become-someone-people-love-talk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onmobiletemp</author><text>Please stop, you are wrong. Im attractive and people hate me. Have you ever considered whats its like to be attractive? People are instantly jealous of you and hate you. And they make sure to lay judgement into you -- if you arent whip smart they will tear you down just like anyone else. I know ugly, average looking and good looking people who all do very well with people and in life. It comes down to your intelligence, not how you look. Please dont mutilate your face like a south korean teenager. Just like them you will find thay its not worth it.</text></item><item><author>xor1</author><text>I think the article severely downplays the importance of attractiveness. If the other party finds you attractive, the bar is lowered to the point of you simply being normal&#x2F;average in terms of intelligence, wit, and whatever else you want to include in your definition of what makes a person &quot;interesting&quot;. You basically need to be a vapid idiot to give anyone a bad impression as an attractive person.<p>It&#x27;s a huge factor. I&#x27;ve started putting some of my big programmer bucks into improving my appearance before I hit 30, starting with braces (family couldn&#x27;t afford them as a kid), eyelid surgery to fix some mild ptosis, and a nose job. I&#x27;ve also started using sunscreen and moisturizer on my face on a regular basis.<p>The past few years have made me realize that your appearance only becomes more important as you age and progress in a white-collar career -- not less, as I was led to believe as a child. This is especially disheartening to realize while working in CA&#x2F;NYC tech, which have always been billed as one of the most meritocratic and progressive sectors. Getting into shape only takes you so far. I consider myself average now, but I want to be hot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xor1</author><text>&gt;Please stop, you are wrong. Im attractive and people hate me. Have you ever considered whats its like to be attractive? People are instantly jealous of you and hate you. And they make sure to lay judgement into you -- if you arent whip smart they will tear you down just like anyone else.<p>Sorry, but I&#x27;ve never seen anything like this happen after high school. Attractiveness is respected, especially if you can keep or improve it as you begin to age.<p>&gt;Please dont mutilate your face like a south korean teenager.<p>If you&#x27;re referring to the eyelid surgery, it&#x27;s not THAT kind of eyelid surgery.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Be Someone People Love to Talk To (2015)</title><url>http://time.com/3722418/become-someone-people-love-talk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onmobiletemp</author><text>Please stop, you are wrong. Im attractive and people hate me. Have you ever considered whats its like to be attractive? People are instantly jealous of you and hate you. And they make sure to lay judgement into you -- if you arent whip smart they will tear you down just like anyone else. I know ugly, average looking and good looking people who all do very well with people and in life. It comes down to your intelligence, not how you look. Please dont mutilate your face like a south korean teenager. Just like them you will find thay its not worth it.</text></item><item><author>xor1</author><text>I think the article severely downplays the importance of attractiveness. If the other party finds you attractive, the bar is lowered to the point of you simply being normal&#x2F;average in terms of intelligence, wit, and whatever else you want to include in your definition of what makes a person &quot;interesting&quot;. You basically need to be a vapid idiot to give anyone a bad impression as an attractive person.<p>It&#x27;s a huge factor. I&#x27;ve started putting some of my big programmer bucks into improving my appearance before I hit 30, starting with braces (family couldn&#x27;t afford them as a kid), eyelid surgery to fix some mild ptosis, and a nose job. I&#x27;ve also started using sunscreen and moisturizer on my face on a regular basis.<p>The past few years have made me realize that your appearance only becomes more important as you age and progress in a white-collar career -- not less, as I was led to believe as a child. This is especially disheartening to realize while working in CA&#x2F;NYC tech, which have always been billed as one of the most meritocratic and progressive sectors. Getting into shape only takes you so far. I consider myself average now, but I want to be hot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>im3w1l</author><text>Question for you and xor1. Are you talking about going from a 1 to a 5, from a 5 to an 8 or from an 8 to a 10?<p>My intuition is that at the deformed end of the spectrum, any improvement is going to be 99% positive and that it starts to become more of a mixed blessing as you approach perfection.</text></comment> |
2,885,312 | 2,884,643 | 1 | 3 | 2,884,501 | train | <story><title>Steve, Please Buy Us A Carrier</title><url>http://www.mondaynote.com/2011/08/14/steve-please-buy-us-a-carrier/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Timothee</author><text>To be noted: this is written by Jean-Louis Gassée, former Apple executive and founder of Be Incorporated, which was at some point very close to be bought by Apple before Apple bought NeXT to get the foundation of what is now Mac OS X. (which also brought Steve Jobs back to Apple…)<p>I'm bringing this up not to say that this is insider's information or that it is thus more likely to happen, but just because in this case, the author is more significant than some rambling from a random blogger. That theme is not new, so it's interesting that <i>he</i> would bring it up.<p>(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gass%C3%A9e" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gass%C3%A9e</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Steve, Please Buy Us A Carrier</title><url>http://www.mondaynote.com/2011/08/14/steve-please-buy-us-a-carrier/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gzp</author><text>Apple would be spending half its cash pile to acquire a domestic company.<p>Nearly two-thirds (62%) of the company's sales are international [1]; furthermore, I would guess that much of the company's growth is in international markets, especially in Asia.<p>Unless Apple is seeking to improve its operational expertise in running carriers in order to buy up carriers throughout the world, this acquisition would be a very curious one.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/07/19Apple-Reports-Third-Quarter-Results.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/07/19Apple-Reports-Thir...</a></text></comment> |
6,600,229 | 6,600,239 | 1 | 3 | 6,600,063 | train | <story><title>Serf: A decentralized solution for service discovery and orchestration</title><url>http://www.serfdom.io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mitchellh</author><text>I&#x27;m jumping on a plane right now (a couple hours) but I&#x27;d be happy to answer any questions related to Serf once I land. Just leave them here and I&#x27;ll give it my best shot! We&#x27;ve dreamt of something like Serf for quite awhile and I&#x27;m glad it is now a reality.<p>Some recommended URLs if you&#x27;re curious what the point is:<p>&quot;What is Serf?&quot; <a href="http://www.serfdom.io/intro/index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.serfdom.io&#x2F;intro&#x2F;index.html</a><p>&quot;Use Cases&quot; <a href="http://www.serfdom.io/intro/use-cases.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.serfdom.io&#x2F;intro&#x2F;use-cases.html</a><p>Comparison to Other Software: <a href="http://www.serfdom.io/intro/vs-other-sw.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.serfdom.io&#x2F;intro&#x2F;vs-other-sw.html</a><p>For the CS nerds, the internals&#x2F;protocols&#x2F;papers behind Serf: <a href="http://www.serfdom.io/docs/internals/gossip.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.serfdom.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;internals&#x2F;gossip.html</a><p>Also, I apologize the site isn&#x27;t very mobile friendly right now. Unfortunately I can write a lamport clock implementation, but CSS is just crazytown.</text></comment> | <story><title>Serf: A decentralized solution for service discovery and orchestration</title><url>http://www.serfdom.io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lambda</author><text>The title needs to be improved. &quot;A decentralized, highly available, fault tolerant solution...&quot; for what? The title should include &quot;for service discovery and orchestration&quot;.</text></comment> |
38,647,270 | 38,647,448 | 1 | 3 | 38,645,159 | train | <story><title>Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016)</title><url>https://ezali.substack.com/p/interviewing-my-mother-a-mainframe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ptmcc</author><text>&gt; I can only imagine the fat paycheck a 20-year old mainframe programmer would get though, because your age in this case would be invaluable.<p>It&#x27;s funny, people frequently assume this would be true but reality doesn&#x27;t really bear this out. It&#x27;s typically pretty average to even below average which contributes to the talent pipeline problem.<p>The other side of it is that its not the technical stuff like &quot;knows COBOL&quot; that is so immensely valuble. Any average dev can &quot;learn COBOL&quot; but that&#x27;s not actually the valuable thing. The anecdotes of COBOL programmers coming out of retirement for 500k&#x2F;yr contracts has little to do with COBOL, but their accumulated institutional knowledge of the giant ball of business logic encoded in that COBOL.<p>If these banks and other institutions actually did write fat paychecks to young mainframe programmers the demographic problem they&#x27;re facing might not be so bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>importantbrian</author><text>I went to grad school with a guy who was in that situation. He worked at a bank and got laid off during the financial crisis. The plan was for the bank to port the old system over to Java or something like that, and they were &quot;close&quot; to the end of the project and they thought at that point the rewrite team was comfortable enough with COBOL that they could do the rest of the rewrite without him. Turns out that yes they understood COBOL just fine, but they desperately needed his institutional knowledge. He ended up agreeing to come back on a part-time basis at some obscene consulting rate for however long the transition took and in the meantime, he did grad school part-time to skill up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016)</title><url>https://ezali.substack.com/p/interviewing-my-mother-a-mainframe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ptmcc</author><text>&gt; I can only imagine the fat paycheck a 20-year old mainframe programmer would get though, because your age in this case would be invaluable.<p>It&#x27;s funny, people frequently assume this would be true but reality doesn&#x27;t really bear this out. It&#x27;s typically pretty average to even below average which contributes to the talent pipeline problem.<p>The other side of it is that its not the technical stuff like &quot;knows COBOL&quot; that is so immensely valuble. Any average dev can &quot;learn COBOL&quot; but that&#x27;s not actually the valuable thing. The anecdotes of COBOL programmers coming out of retirement for 500k&#x2F;yr contracts has little to do with COBOL, but their accumulated institutional knowledge of the giant ball of business logic encoded in that COBOL.<p>If these banks and other institutions actually did write fat paychecks to young mainframe programmers the demographic problem they&#x27;re facing might not be so bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tristor</author><text>&gt; If these banks and other institutions actually did write fat paychecks to young mainframe programmers the demographic problem they&#x27;re facing might not be so bad.<p>When I first started work I was involved in banking&#x2F;insurance mainframe stuff, and it was honestly a pretty terrible working environment for reasons that spanned from the mundane (like dress codes) to the esoteric (like the horrible crufty legacy codebase). I would have put up with it if it paid well, but it didn&#x27;t. In fact, it paid significantly worse than the job I&#x27;d had before which was installing physical cable plant (fiber optics and copper ethernet), the reason I took it was at least the office had air conditioning, but it certainly wasn&#x27;t something I wanted to turn into a career.<p>As a mid-level windows sysadmin doing customer-facing phone support at a cloud provider, I made nearly 30% more than I had as a junior mainframe guy at a bank&#x2F;insurance company. The difference in the skillsets and their commonality was massive, yet the pay was significantly worse for the mainframe work despite it being a rare skillset in a high value industry. I remembered when I was in this job that guys who worked on trading desk backend code were far better compensated while working in easier development environments on less esoteric codebases, the mainframe folks were the lowest paid of the developers at that company, at every level of seniority. The only person we worked with who was well compensated was an independent contractor who&#x27;d worked there previously for 30 years before retiring.</text></comment> |
18,603,506 | 18,602,602 | 1 | 2 | 18,600,404 | train | <story><title>A history of the distributed transactional database</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/articles/relational-nosql-fauna</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zzzcpan</author><text>&gt; This is not at all a theoretical problem. Deliberately inducing withdrawal races at ATMs is a widely reported type of fraud. Thus, databases need “external consistency”, colloquially known as ACID.<p>In all those fraud cases banks were actually running ACID databases as they always do. Because ACID has nothing to do with &quot;external consistency&quot;, unless you can run it in a human brain, which you can&#x27;t. Interactions with humans can only be eventually consistent. But nobody even bothers to have ACID all the way to the web browser or APIs, so it&#x27;s only limited to the application, but not beyond that. With all the frauds and double spending problems remaining unsolved.<p>Overall the usual FaunaDB attacks on other systems, especially AP. Strong eventual consistency of AP systems is actually much stronger, than ACID and is much much easier to verify and AP is where the cutting edge of distributed systems research happens. But more importantly, SEC can offer the best theoretically possible performance and latency for multi datancenter deployments. While distributed ACID transactions don&#x27;t even show viability in multi datacenter deployments at the moment, forcing vendors to degrade into weak consistency models in such setups.</text></comment> | <story><title>A history of the distributed transactional database</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/articles/relational-nosql-fauna</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>evanweaver</author><text>For further reading, Dan Abadi&#x27;s post at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dbmsmusings.blogspot.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;newsql-database-systems-are-failing-to.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dbmsmusings.blogspot.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;newsql-database-syst...</a> addresses the Spanner issues more directly.<p>I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a great reference for the Percolator transaction architecture specifically, but there is a brief description here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.octo.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;my-reading-of-percolator-architecture-a-google-search-engine-component&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.octo.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;my-reading-of-percolator-architectu...</a><p>One thing I learned recently is that FoundationDB is essentially the Percolator model (timestamp oracle), even though FoundationDB predated the Percolator paper.</text></comment> |
5,202,314 | 5,202,214 | 1 | 2 | 5,201,981 | train | <story><title>Robots.txt</title><url>http://explicitly.me/robots.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buster</author><text>Am i the only one who thinks that SEO is more a plague then it is a real profession? Google making it hard for SEO is exactly the right thing to do. Making it impossible for SEO should be the ultimate _goal_ of a good search engine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>homosaur</author><text>Depends what you mean.<p>If you mean people whose goal it is to help site owners learn how to structure their data intelligently for dissection by machines, people who make companies think very hard about their content, people who encourage high-quality crosslinks and meta tags, and people who generally help sites manage data, then no, SEOs are great. They help users and companies alike.<p>If you mean the dirtball black hats, then yes, they are a parasite that deserves no mercy and should be eliminated at all costs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Robots.txt</title><url>http://explicitly.me/robots.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buster</author><text>Am i the only one who thinks that SEO is more a plague then it is a real profession? Google making it hard for SEO is exactly the right thing to do. Making it impossible for SEO should be the ultimate _goal_ of a good search engine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Caligula</author><text>My opinion of google improved reading this article. I equate the quality of Google's search as the inverse of the happiness of "seo gurus".</text></comment> |
30,859,547 | 30,859,403 | 1 | 3 | 30,858,728 | train | <story><title>Downpour: A game making tool for phones</title><url>https://v21.io/blog/announcing-downpour</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>homarp</author><text>1) you take photo<p>2) you create &#x27;clickable&#x27; zone(s) on the photo<p>3) you link the &quot;zone&quot; to another photo<p>sample games: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;v21&#x2F;status&#x2F;1477220587080724480" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;v21&#x2F;status&#x2F;1477220587080724480</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Downpour: A game making tool for phones</title><url>https://v21.io/blog/announcing-downpour</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petercooper</author><text>This is cool. I can definitely imagine my kids having a lot of fun with something like this which wins me over immediately.<p>However, it also got me thinking about how resistant I&#x27;ve been to digital note taking, simply because I like the physicality of writing and notes on paper. Yet they get super disorganized, lost, whatever. The idea seen here could work as an interesting way to digitize and &quot;link&quot; together paper notes too, perhaps!</text></comment> |
29,095,555 | 29,092,525 | 1 | 2 | 29,091,947 | train | <story><title>Zig monthly, October 2021: Games, gamedev, Elixir, tools and more</title><url>https://zigmonthly.org/letters/2021/october/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eggy</author><text>I&#x27;ve touched Zig a few times over the last year or so, and I like it, but I am still itching for something else that is not as complex as Rust, but not too close to C. I am now playing with Scala Native[0] just to see how it works on the low-level stuff. Zig is amazing especially since you can use the compiler as an alternative C compiler too[1].<p>I like Lisp and APL, so I have been learning April[2], a subset of APL in Lisp. It is very cool, if you like Lisp and APL. The game in Zig in the article reminds me of the Dyalog APL simulation of a boat navigation app developed in Finland using APL[3].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scala-native&#x2F;scala-native" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;scala-native&#x2F;scala-native</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;andrewkelley.me&#x2F;post&#x2F;zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replacement-gcc-clang.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;andrewkelley.me&#x2F;post&#x2F;zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phantomics&#x2F;april" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phantomics&#x2F;april</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dyalog.com&#x2F;case-studies&#x2F;simulation.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dyalog.com&#x2F;case-studies&#x2F;simulation.htm</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Zig monthly, October 2021: Games, gamedev, Elixir, tools and more</title><url>https://zigmonthly.org/letters/2021/october/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kitd</author><text>I played with Zig recently and loved it. The right tools at the right level with the right degree of utility.<p>It was very frustrating getting started though as just about anything Zig-related online you read&#x2F;download&#x2F;run is out-of-date with the latest version of the language. Small breaking changes go in that can easily stump a newbie like me, and there&#x27;s not enough online experience of catching similar errors that give guidance.<p>IMHO I really hope the language stabilises soon. Otherwise it will be a frustrating experience.</text></comment> |
13,562,799 | 13,562,978 | 1 | 2 | 13,562,277 | train | <story><title>The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RachelF</author><text>There is not a shortage of STEM graduates. However, from an employer&#x27;s point of view, there is a shortage of cheap STEM graduates. Hence the recent tech company uproar over the skilled visa changes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trendia</author><text>The companies should just admit:<p>&quot;There is a shortage of STEM graduates at the price I want to pay.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RachelF</author><text>There is not a shortage of STEM graduates. However, from an employer&#x27;s point of view, there is a shortage of cheap STEM graduates. Hence the recent tech company uproar over the skilled visa changes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ecnal</author><text>Those are the same thing. You may as well say that there is no shortage of food in Venezuela, just a shortage of cheap food.<p>The reason companies can&#x27;t get STEM grads at the prices they&#x27;re willing to pay is because those STEM grads can simply work for a company willing to pay more. That&#x27;s not a problem for the grads (you bet your ass I&#x27;m not complaining too much, haha), but it is for everyone who wants to hire them.</text></comment> |
22,887,053 | 22,886,808 | 1 | 3 | 22,885,819 | train | <story><title>Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you’ve never heard of (2014)</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2014/05/reverse-engineering-tl431-most-common.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalhippo</author><text>Richi&#x27;s Lab[1] also contains a large number of pictures and analysis of decapped ICs. He&#x27;s also documented his decapping process[2] which uses an oven rather than the dangerous acids, making it more approachable.<p>It&#x27;s all in German, but Google Translate does a good enough job that it&#x27;s easy to follow.<p>He&#x27;s got a very interesting comparison of STM32 originals and clones, as well as various voltage references, 555 timers etc.<p>A personal favorite is the LTZ1000[3]. The die is a piece of art.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.richis-lab.de&#x2F;index.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.richis-lab.de&#x2F;index.htm</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.richis-lab.de&#x2F;decap-ofen.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.richis-lab.de&#x2F;decap-ofen.htm</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.richis-lab.de&#x2F;REF03.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.richis-lab.de&#x2F;REF03.htm</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you’ve never heard of (2014)</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2014/05/reverse-engineering-tl431-most-common.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rkagerer</author><text>The link on forming capacitors leads to a rather interesting old book on IC fabrication, which is still relevant for fundamentals (you can scroll up for other devices):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com&#x2F;books?id=aByz--9D63wC&amp;lpg=PA31&amp;ots=ZJ3V72sLcD&amp;dq=%22junction%20capacitor%22%20integrated%20circuit&amp;pg=PA31#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com&#x2F;books?id=aByz--9D63wC&amp;lpg=PA31&amp;ots=Z...</a></text></comment> |
27,302,536 | 27,301,964 | 1 | 3 | 27,300,764 | train | <story><title>The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90310803/here-are-the-data-brokers-quietly-buying-and-selling-your-personal-information</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hash872</author><text>As someone who&#x27;s interfaced with the data brokers professionally, I can tell you that the ultimate starting point for their dataset is usually a state voter registration database. A lot of states pretty openly sell their data, like from the DMV, but every data broker is starting by figuring out a way to get that voter registration data- some states just give it, in some states (like say Maryland) you have to at least pretend to be an election researcher, etc. I&#x27;m sure for more restrictive states it gets passed around on the grey market.<p>But if you&#x27;re anti-data broker (I certainly am!), it starts with regulating your own state</text></comment> | <story><title>The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90310803/here-are-the-data-brokers-quietly-buying-and-selling-your-personal-information</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>prepend</author><text>Is there a “opterouter” project that just spiders all these and opt outs?<p>Navigating the dark patterns of one site is a pain, much less 120+.<p>But seems like a good opportunity for 120 to script one path each.<p>Hard to do a service as I don’t want to enter my private info into another third party.</text></comment> |
24,715,847 | 24,715,774 | 1 | 2 | 24,714,880 | train | <story><title>Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-passionate-eye/recycling-was-a-lie-a-big-lie-to-sell-more-plastic-industry-experts-say-1.5735618</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>My understanding is that, at least in NYC, the paper is pretty much all turned into pizza boxes.<p>Which are brown. You don&#x27;t have to worry about the inks or &quot;substandard&quot; or whatever&quot;. And then the pizza boxes aren&#x27;t re-recycled because of grease.<p>You suggest we stick to trees instead of recycle, &quot;for paper&quot;. But the whole point of recycling is to turn paper into pizza boxes (and presumably also our Amazon shipping boxes, etc.).<p>It sounds like you&#x27;re trying to argue against recycling paper... when the reality is it&#x27;s a <i>huge</i> success, when you realize paper is recycled into cardboard.</text></item><item><author>cogman10</author><text>Paper recycling is much in the same vein.<p>It requires a lot of harsh chemicals to remove the inks. The output paper is substandard. The whole process is energy intensive.<p>And, the messed up part about the whole thing is that throwing away paper is one of the best things you can do for the environment. It is natural carbon sequestration.<p>We are far better off tree farming for paper.</text></item><item><author>PaulKeeble</author><text>Something I watched and read about last year was that injection molding of plastic can be done only when one third or less of the pellets are recycled. If there is too much recycled material in the mix it doesn&#x27;t flow into the mold correctly and one third is the most you could possibly use and then that product can not be recycled again. The polymers that make up the plastic simply aren&#x27;t capable of reforming over and over.<p>Given that plastic at best gets 1.3 uses, the initial one and then a third of that material can go into a recycled container. That is it. When you compare that to the thousands of reuses of glass bottles we used to do for milk it is really apparent how awful the plastic process is, its barely better than just throw away. This also ignores the fact that huge amounts of the plastic used isn&#x27;t actually recyclable at all.<p>The triple whammy to all this is that all over the planet people have been cleaning their plastics with hot water, drying and then separating it into different rubbish bags with separate collections and additional bins etc. All for a giant lie about recycling that was never true. We have wasted substantial energy and time on something that never worked and helped destroy the environment even more because of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lumost</author><text>The OP is alluding to the fact that growing forests, cutting them down, and then burying the resulting paper should use less energy then recycling and produce less toxic waste products due to fewer chemicals. Such activity has a strong possibility of being a carbon negative process.<p>It <i>may</i> be better for the environment to sustainably harvest trees to produce cardboard then to recycle other paper products.</text></comment> | <story><title>Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling industry veteran says</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-passionate-eye/recycling-was-a-lie-a-big-lie-to-sell-more-plastic-industry-experts-say-1.5735618</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>My understanding is that, at least in NYC, the paper is pretty much all turned into pizza boxes.<p>Which are brown. You don&#x27;t have to worry about the inks or &quot;substandard&quot; or whatever&quot;. And then the pizza boxes aren&#x27;t re-recycled because of grease.<p>You suggest we stick to trees instead of recycle, &quot;for paper&quot;. But the whole point of recycling is to turn paper into pizza boxes (and presumably also our Amazon shipping boxes, etc.).<p>It sounds like you&#x27;re trying to argue against recycling paper... when the reality is it&#x27;s a <i>huge</i> success, when you realize paper is recycled into cardboard.</text></item><item><author>cogman10</author><text>Paper recycling is much in the same vein.<p>It requires a lot of harsh chemicals to remove the inks. The output paper is substandard. The whole process is energy intensive.<p>And, the messed up part about the whole thing is that throwing away paper is one of the best things you can do for the environment. It is natural carbon sequestration.<p>We are far better off tree farming for paper.</text></item><item><author>PaulKeeble</author><text>Something I watched and read about last year was that injection molding of plastic can be done only when one third or less of the pellets are recycled. If there is too much recycled material in the mix it doesn&#x27;t flow into the mold correctly and one third is the most you could possibly use and then that product can not be recycled again. The polymers that make up the plastic simply aren&#x27;t capable of reforming over and over.<p>Given that plastic at best gets 1.3 uses, the initial one and then a third of that material can go into a recycled container. That is it. When you compare that to the thousands of reuses of glass bottles we used to do for milk it is really apparent how awful the plastic process is, its barely better than just throw away. This also ignores the fact that huge amounts of the plastic used isn&#x27;t actually recyclable at all.<p>The triple whammy to all this is that all over the planet people have been cleaning their plastics with hot water, drying and then separating it into different rubbish bags with separate collections and additional bins etc. All for a giant lie about recycling that was never true. We have wasted substantial energy and time on something that never worked and helped destroy the environment even more because of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tuatoru</author><text>Pizza boxes?<p>A lot of paper is coated in clays, waxes, or plastics, and many inks might make paper unsuitable for use in food grade products like pizza boxes, without heavy processing.<p>Shipping boxes, maybe. If the structural properties of the resulting board are OK.<p>But most post-consumer paper is unusable for one reason or another. Recycling of industrial packaging is a slightly different story.</text></comment> |
31,462,848 | 31,462,911 | 1 | 2 | 31,461,634 | train | <story><title>We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service</title><url>https://blog.stablegains.com/were-discontinuing-the-stablegains-service-please-withdraw-your-remaining-funds-405e6bfb89c4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmyeet</author><text>What&#x27;s funny about this is that I can recall discussions here and elsewhere from only a few months ago questioning the &quot;guaranteed&quot; super-high returns. I forget who said this but someone awhile ago said in finance said that if someone is promising you consistent above-market returns it&#x27;s either a scam or there is unknown or undisclosed risk.<p>And the Crypto Andys were all like &quot;you just don&#x27;t understand DeFi!&quot; to which the retort is &quot;No, <i>you</i> just don&#x27;t understand finance&quot;.<p>Finance is the way it is for many reasons. There are thousands of years of lessons that have made the system the way it is. I get the innovator mentality of sweeping away the old but there seems to be a fine line between innovation and ignorance.<p>I&#x27;m just sitting on the sidelines watching people relearn all the lessons of finance the hard way, some because they think they understand finance because because they understand merkle trees and consensus protocols but really most just want to get rich quick.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koheripbal</author><text>What most people don&#x27;t understand about finance is that there are fundamental rules that you really cannot break without consequences.<p>Anyone who has studied quantitative finance knows that it is a HARD science. I worked with a Nobel prize winner in economics, and the math dominated. There was no politics, no opinions, no ethics involved. It really is a science.<p>Most social media characterize finance as some ethical vice or organized political power structure - and those people simply don&#x27;t understand finance.<p>Talking to people who are looking to just tear down modern finance are no different than climate change deniers, antivax, or flat earthers... and yes, they even exist in crypto (and on HN).</text></comment> | <story><title>We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service</title><url>https://blog.stablegains.com/were-discontinuing-the-stablegains-service-please-withdraw-your-remaining-funds-405e6bfb89c4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmyeet</author><text>What&#x27;s funny about this is that I can recall discussions here and elsewhere from only a few months ago questioning the &quot;guaranteed&quot; super-high returns. I forget who said this but someone awhile ago said in finance said that if someone is promising you consistent above-market returns it&#x27;s either a scam or there is unknown or undisclosed risk.<p>And the Crypto Andys were all like &quot;you just don&#x27;t understand DeFi!&quot; to which the retort is &quot;No, <i>you</i> just don&#x27;t understand finance&quot;.<p>Finance is the way it is for many reasons. There are thousands of years of lessons that have made the system the way it is. I get the innovator mentality of sweeping away the old but there seems to be a fine line between innovation and ignorance.<p>I&#x27;m just sitting on the sidelines watching people relearn all the lessons of finance the hard way, some because they think they understand finance because because they understand merkle trees and consensus protocols but really most just want to get rich quick.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reflexco</author><text>The 20% APY provided by Anchor was way above the average yields for safe DeFi lending. Which indicated that even among crypto users, this was considered a <i>degen</i> play!<p>The whole Terra saga was a typical example of speculative bubble. Everyone knew it was risky, but its sheer size and the caliber of people endorsing it (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;novogratz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1478535972560195585" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;novogratz&#x2F;status&#x2F;1478535972560195585</a>) was providing an aura of safety. Too big to fail.<p>It&#x27;s also similar to the stock market as a whole before it started correcting. Everyone knew valuations were detached from every fundamental except liquidity, yet everyone went along thinking the music just had to keep going.</text></comment> |
10,022,760 | 10,022,203 | 1 | 3 | 10,022,014 | train | <story><title>Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2015/08/03/almost-everything-we-do-is-now-open</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skyraider</author><text>GitLab Enterprise user here. GitLab&#x27;s open-source policy is one of the major reasons we chose it (along with self-hosting and fairly modern, built-in continuous integration), but the GitLab community could use some additional design and documentation effort.<p>Things that almost make me want to switch back to GitHub:<p>- GitLab is really hard to look at. All of our devs are having trouble visually locating comments in diffs. We&#x27;re always scrolling through the left-side menu looking for the issues tab. It&#x27;s hard to visually differentiate between items like comments in merge requests. Our eyes just can&#x27;t find and follow things. Even BitBucket looks better.<p>- GitLab-CI has poor documentation on runners, and a rather buggy test runner registration process that doesn&#x27;t provide any debugging output and produces false positives quite often.<p>- GitLab-CI has no unconditional cleanup directive, like CircleCI does... but if you&#x27;re re-using a test runner instead of tearing down the server each time, unconditional cleanup is the one thing you need. And no, the Docker executor doesn&#x27;t solve this because we don&#x27;t want to test our Docker containers inside Docker.<p>- CI is based on commit IDs. You can&#x27;t run particular CI events on merge requests. For example, this means no way to run integration tests on merge requests.<p>- Typography could be improved. When you&#x27;re looking at the issues page all day, this is quite noticeable.<p>- Slack integration is not great; it dumps links to &quot;GitLab Enterprise Edition&quot; instead of useful commit&#x2F;changeset stuff like GitHub does.<p>If the community&#x2F;GitLab can focus on putting on some of the design polish and service integration polish that GitHub has, GitLab would be a total winner for us, long-term.</text></comment> | <story><title>Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2015/08/03/almost-everything-we-do-is-now-open</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_pmf_</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to compete against GitHub. I hope they will get some traction so we have an alternative to GitHub once it gets bought by MS (and becomes the next SourceForge).</text></comment> |
3,433,038 | 3,431,927 | 1 | 2 | 3,431,616 | train | <story><title>The quiz Daniel Kahneman wants you to fail</title><url>http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/12/kahneman-quiz-201112.print</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Uhhrrr</author><text>The engineer/lawyer problem explanation<p>(spoilers)<p>is only correct in a world where lawyers and engineers have all the same characteristics. That the sampled individual is a man will skew things all by itself.<p>Of the lawyers, approximately 40% will be women, whereas only 11% of the engineers. So our samplee could be one of 27 engineers or 42 lawyers - we've already bumped Peng from .3 to .39! That he likes math puzzles easily takes Peng to over .4, meaning the answer can't be A).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ubernostrum</author><text>I'm just gonna quote what I said when this was on Metafilter a few months back:<p>"Anyway, yes, the fundamental problem in these questions is not how people think -- it's that the question they want the respondent to think they're asking, and the question they claim they're actually asking, are two different things.<p>The lawyer/engineer one is a classic example of this; what they hope is that you will read it as "how likely is it that these personality traits correlate to an engineer", so that they can then swoop in and say "what we were <i>really</i> asking is the mathematical definition of a percentage!"<p>Which ultimately tells us very little about the respondents and quite a bit about the people conducting the quiz..."</text></comment> | <story><title>The quiz Daniel Kahneman wants you to fail</title><url>http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/12/kahneman-quiz-201112.print</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Uhhrrr</author><text>The engineer/lawyer problem explanation<p>(spoilers)<p>is only correct in a world where lawyers and engineers have all the same characteristics. That the sampled individual is a man will skew things all by itself.<p>Of the lawyers, approximately 40% will be women, whereas only 11% of the engineers. So our samplee could be one of 27 engineers or 42 lawyers - we've already bumped Peng from .3 to .39! That he likes math puzzles easily takes Peng to over .4, meaning the answer can't be A).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gburt</author><text>The author of this quiz seems to have completely misunderstood the relevant research. Either he has to assume that all individuals are identical (in which case, the little story is irrelevant) or he needs to apply Bayes rule according to the probabilities associated with the factors expressed in the personality exposition.<p>Either way, the article's explanation for that particular question is wrong.</text></comment> |
23,637,452 | 23,636,530 | 1 | 2 | 23,635,835 | train | <story><title>NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer Mary W. Jackson</title><url>https://www.axios.com/nasa-black-female-engineer-headquarters-7e859612-0832-4448-af5c-6a7ad3b64f19.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a-wu</author><text>A great movie indeed however it uses the white savior trope gratuitously. The scene where Kevin Costner’s character lets Octavia Spencer’s character into the mission control room never happened in real life.</text></item><item><author>warent</author><text>I&#x27;m not much of a movie watcher but this one is an outstanding one! Highly recommend it to anyone who hasn&#x27;t already seen it.</text></item><item><author>austincheney</author><text>Edit: the article spells this out.<p>She was the junior of the three starring characters in the movie Hidden Figures.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hidden_Figures" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hidden_Figures</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austincheney</author><text>Octavia Spenser plays Dorothy Vaughan, the programmer. Katherine Johnson was played by Taraji Henson.<p>The movie deliberately side steps history in order to tell a story. For example the accomplishments of the three primary characters occurred during unrelated timelines. The three primary characters likely knew each other in passing but in addition to the different timelines they worked in unrelated departments on unrelated projects. Also Katherine Johnson took 3 days to confirm John Glenn’s landing coordinates within the week of launch. The movie reduced that to an hour effort holding up launch for dramatic effect. John Glenn really did ask for Johnson to personally verify the numbers though.<p>There are three supporting characters that are real life figures: Al Harrison played by Kevin Costner, Jim Johnson played by Mahershala Ali, and Olke Krupa who played a fictionalized version of a real engineer mostly accurately depicted as Mary Jackson’s real life supervisor. The rest of the supporting cast were largely stereotype figures.<p>Considering the historical reality I did not take the white characters as white saviors at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer Mary W. Jackson</title><url>https://www.axios.com/nasa-black-female-engineer-headquarters-7e859612-0832-4448-af5c-6a7ad3b64f19.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a-wu</author><text>A great movie indeed however it uses the white savior trope gratuitously. The scene where Kevin Costner’s character lets Octavia Spencer’s character into the mission control room never happened in real life.</text></item><item><author>warent</author><text>I&#x27;m not much of a movie watcher but this one is an outstanding one! Highly recommend it to anyone who hasn&#x27;t already seen it.</text></item><item><author>austincheney</author><text>Edit: the article spells this out.<p>She was the junior of the three starring characters in the movie Hidden Figures.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hidden_Figures" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hidden_Figures</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rst</author><text>There are other... issues with the movie. At the end, Katherine Johnson is shown running between her office in Virginia, and Mercury mission control, which was actually in Florida. This has to do with her checking computer calculations of orbits for John Glenn&#x27;s flight -- something she actually did do, but it&#x27;s depicted as being done in minutes, and it actually took her more like a week. (Computers of the time were damn slow by modern standards, but they were still faster than that!) It was not a big secret that the Redstone rocket (a souped-up V2) couldn&#x27;t put something as heavy as a Mercury capsule into orbit. And so forth.<p>The movie&#x27;s a good story, but if you want actual history, read the book.</text></comment> |
36,666,092 | 36,666,494 | 1 | 2 | 36,663,509 | train | <story><title>The controller pattern is awful, and other OO heresy (2013)</title><url>https://eev.ee/blog/2013/03/03/the-controller-pattern-is-awful-and-other-oo-heresy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>narag</author><text>The many &quot;you&#x27;re wrong if you believe that&quot; made me remember the anecdote of Alan Kay attending some conference about OOP and saying that it was wrong, that he invented OOP and it was not like that.<p>IIRC, Kay&#x27;s vision is that OOP is about messages.<p>I have my own pet theory, of course it must be wrong too, but if I may, only as food for thought: The core usefulness of OOP is usability. A language is a matter of connecting thoughts through a mental model. Subject, verb, predicate. Object, method, parameters. That&#x27;s mostly it. The rest are implementation details and lots of bikeshedding.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>padobson</author><text><i>The core usefulness of OOP is usability.</i><p>This is the reason I find it useful. To me, OOP is as much about your organization as it is about the best way to load, transform, present, edit, and store data. I think the culture of some companies lends itself to various kinds of programming, but it&#x27;s the <i>cultureless</i> companies where OOP is most useful. The places where nobody is trying to change the world, where people work to pay their mortgages, where an executive may only work for two years and a programmer may only work for six months.<p>It&#x27;s in an environment like that where a self-documenting, self-configuring code base with custom classes and exceptions that guide the next developer is essential.<p>Every developer should have two users in mind. The person using the software, and the next developer who maintains the software after you&#x27;re gone. OOP is a great way to empower the second user when the only thing that will reliably outlive the developer is the code base.</text></comment> | <story><title>The controller pattern is awful, and other OO heresy (2013)</title><url>https://eev.ee/blog/2013/03/03/the-controller-pattern-is-awful-and-other-oo-heresy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>narag</author><text>The many &quot;you&#x27;re wrong if you believe that&quot; made me remember the anecdote of Alan Kay attending some conference about OOP and saying that it was wrong, that he invented OOP and it was not like that.<p>IIRC, Kay&#x27;s vision is that OOP is about messages.<p>I have my own pet theory, of course it must be wrong too, but if I may, only as food for thought: The core usefulness of OOP is usability. A language is a matter of connecting thoughts through a mental model. Subject, verb, predicate. Object, method, parameters. That&#x27;s mostly it. The rest are implementation details and lots of bikeshedding.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thumbuddy</author><text>Everything is wrong or illfitting. I mean we are making tiny blocks of silicon do extreme amounts of human work, while being entertained with music and videos. OOP is like five abstractions deeper than what it intend to model. It&#x27;s a tool, I wish people stopped trying to make the extreme case of engineering that is software development some sort of axioms around physical law. Our expectations would be way better especially when our bosses require we implement a nosql db that stores rss feeds and use machine learning to sort them in order of &quot;coolness&quot;.<p>There&#x27;s very few actual rules despite opinionations derived from arbitrary paradigms and what should be done to work cohesively as a team. I wish there were a smidge less ivory towers and a smidge more common language.</text></comment> |
28,974,026 | 28,973,831 | 1 | 3 | 28,972,431 | train | <story><title>.NET Hot Reload Support via CLI</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-hot-reload-support-via-cli/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nodejs_rulez_1</author><text>Rider is a non-starter - doesn&#x27;t even have a community edition.</text></item><item><author>moogly</author><text>For many workloads (at least .NET), JetBrains Rider.<p>For C&#x2F;C++ on Windows, well, you have VS Code and also JetBrains CLion, but IMO CLion is surprisingly rougher than Rider, even though it&#x27;s older. You can get stuff done though.</text></item><item><author>creato</author><text>Has anything ever actually replaced VS?<p>I&#x27;ve only ever used VS for hobby&#x2F;side projects, and even 10 years ago it was leaps and bounds better than what I have to use for my professional day to day work now (code completion, debugger are the two things that I miss basically every day).<p>The tools that I use now have these features, but they&#x27;re such a joke in comparison. The code completion has no notion of &quot;code&quot;, it&#x27;s just looking for similar words.</text></item><item><author>oaiey</author><text>There are people on record that it was the Azure division head Scott Guthrie who gave permission to open source ASP.NET Core (which at the time was part of Azure). Later the asp.net team merged with the .net team and brought the open sourcing with them.<p>VS has no place anymore. The velocity and mindshare is with VS Code. VS with its visual designers had its place .. but desktop is dead and Xamarin competes with frameworks without costly IDEs.</text></item><item><author>fabian2k</author><text>This feels more like an internal turf war inside Microsoft. The general open source strategy with .NET Core and VS Code has been running long enough that I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s just a smoke screen. But there&#x27;s probably plenty of different interests inside Microsoft that are at least partially in conflict.<p>The Azure side probably doesn&#x27;t care about selling Visual Studio, but they care about developer mindshare and reputation. The Visual Studio side seems to be in a more difficult position, I assumed they can just live from the enterprise&#x2F;everyone else split and focus on enterprise-y stuff to still sell Visual Studio. But it looks a bit to me like VS Code and the .NET cli have become more of a competition than they&#x27;d like.<p>And the worst mistake here might not have been pissing off the .NET community, but pissing of the people working on .NET for Microsoft. I mean in the end this is the same, but pissing off the people working on .NET would result in a much more thorough destruction of trust with the community in the end.<p>But I have zero inside knowledge here, might just be weird decisions driven by internal politics or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>babypuncher</author><text>This is what keeps me on Visual Studio. It&#x27;s free for personal and open-source use, so I use it at home.<p>Since I know it and am familiar with it, I make my employer pay for a commercial license at work. In the grand scheme of things, it is not that expensive in a commercial setting.<p>VS Code is great, but I do not think it is a comprehensive replacement for Visual Studio proper when doing full stack .NET development.</text></comment> | <story><title>.NET Hot Reload Support via CLI</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-hot-reload-support-via-cli/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nodejs_rulez_1</author><text>Rider is a non-starter - doesn&#x27;t even have a community edition.</text></item><item><author>moogly</author><text>For many workloads (at least .NET), JetBrains Rider.<p>For C&#x2F;C++ on Windows, well, you have VS Code and also JetBrains CLion, but IMO CLion is surprisingly rougher than Rider, even though it&#x27;s older. You can get stuff done though.</text></item><item><author>creato</author><text>Has anything ever actually replaced VS?<p>I&#x27;ve only ever used VS for hobby&#x2F;side projects, and even 10 years ago it was leaps and bounds better than what I have to use for my professional day to day work now (code completion, debugger are the two things that I miss basically every day).<p>The tools that I use now have these features, but they&#x27;re such a joke in comparison. The code completion has no notion of &quot;code&quot;, it&#x27;s just looking for similar words.</text></item><item><author>oaiey</author><text>There are people on record that it was the Azure division head Scott Guthrie who gave permission to open source ASP.NET Core (which at the time was part of Azure). Later the asp.net team merged with the .net team and brought the open sourcing with them.<p>VS has no place anymore. The velocity and mindshare is with VS Code. VS with its visual designers had its place .. but desktop is dead and Xamarin competes with frameworks without costly IDEs.</text></item><item><author>fabian2k</author><text>This feels more like an internal turf war inside Microsoft. The general open source strategy with .NET Core and VS Code has been running long enough that I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s just a smoke screen. But there&#x27;s probably plenty of different interests inside Microsoft that are at least partially in conflict.<p>The Azure side probably doesn&#x27;t care about selling Visual Studio, but they care about developer mindshare and reputation. The Visual Studio side seems to be in a more difficult position, I assumed they can just live from the enterprise&#x2F;everyone else split and focus on enterprise-y stuff to still sell Visual Studio. But it looks a bit to me like VS Code and the .NET cli have become more of a competition than they&#x27;d like.<p>And the worst mistake here might not have been pissing off the .NET community, but pissing of the people working on .NET for Microsoft. I mean in the end this is the same, but pissing off the people working on .NET would result in a much more thorough destruction of trust with the community in the end.<p>But I have zero inside knowledge here, might just be weird decisions driven by internal politics or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerriep</author><text>It is worth the money. Also, there a verious free license programs available, for example to students, open source maintainers, etc.</text></comment> |
6,556,295 | 6,556,188 | 1 | 3 | 6,554,209 | train | <story><title>Brazilian government to ditch Microsoft in favour of bespoke email system</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/brazilian-government-to-ditch-microsoft-in-favour-of-bespoke-email-system-7000021929/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Theodores</author><text>If a country is big enough to have an air force then it is big enough to do something on its own about securing government communications.<p>How hard is it to write an email client?<p>With some calendar?<p>Is it complete rocket surgery or something in the realms of feasibly possible?<p>Wasn&#x27;t gmail some 20%-er time by a couple of guys at Google? I don&#x27;t think it took years or billions to get up and running.<p>I think you could have a tidy and secure webmail built by half a dozen people randomly chosen from Hacker News in six months. Sure it might not be as all singing and dancing as the oh-so-wonderful Microsoft Outlook but then again it might actually be better for the task in hand - facilitating communication for a government. Sometimes people have got to try rather than be all helpless. I am all for software re-use, open source and everything else deemed good software engineering, but, for a government wanting to keep their communications private some consideration has to be given to &#x27;how hard can it be to write an email client?&#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mseebach</author><text>&gt; How hard is it to write an email client?<p>&gt; With some calendar?<p>&gt; Is it complete rocket surgery or something in the realms of feasibly possible?<p>Oh dearie. Thus began every single failed multi-million-dollar software project in the history of software.<p>&gt; Wasn&#x27;t gmail some 20%-er time by a couple of guys at Google? I don&#x27;t think it took years or billions to get up and running.<p>A: The feature-set of GMail as is released in 2004 is unlikely to impress someone used to Outlook&#x2F;Exchange<p>B: What a correctly motivated Google-quality engineer can cook up in a few years (which is apparently how long GMail was in development before release) has little to no correlation to what a government can procure from a systems integrator. Also, I don&#x27;t recall the calendar being worth much back them. Maybe, maybe, maybe if they hired Google-grade engineers, paid them Google salaries and gave them Google-freedom to work on this, they might be able to pull it off. But that&#x27;s <i>a lot</i> harder than it sounds.<p>EDIT:<p>&gt; do something on its own about securing government communications<p>It&#x27;s not hard to secure an email installation - its interface to the internet at large is super small and well understood (SMTP). Most likely NSA grabs the mail they want from outside the installation by sniffing unencrypted network traffic.<p>A worthwhile effort, and one quite suitable for a government even, is to get people to encrypt their emails.</text></comment> | <story><title>Brazilian government to ditch Microsoft in favour of bespoke email system</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/brazilian-government-to-ditch-microsoft-in-favour-of-bespoke-email-system-7000021929/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Theodores</author><text>If a country is big enough to have an air force then it is big enough to do something on its own about securing government communications.<p>How hard is it to write an email client?<p>With some calendar?<p>Is it complete rocket surgery or something in the realms of feasibly possible?<p>Wasn&#x27;t gmail some 20%-er time by a couple of guys at Google? I don&#x27;t think it took years or billions to get up and running.<p>I think you could have a tidy and secure webmail built by half a dozen people randomly chosen from Hacker News in six months. Sure it might not be as all singing and dancing as the oh-so-wonderful Microsoft Outlook but then again it might actually be better for the task in hand - facilitating communication for a government. Sometimes people have got to try rather than be all helpless. I am all for software re-use, open source and everything else deemed good software engineering, but, for a government wanting to keep their communications private some consideration has to be given to &#x27;how hard can it be to write an email client?&#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vacri</author><text>Calendaring is actually a pretty difficult problem to solve. It sounds trivial, but the devil is in the details.</text></comment> |
27,278,579 | 27,278,097 | 1 | 2 | 27,276,547 | train | <story><title>The Button Cheat Sheet</title><url>https://www.buttoncheatsheet.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>Am I the only one who thinks CSS + JS on top of HTML broke the conceptual model beyond hope?<p>The fact you can make any element look and behave the almost the same way – ignoring compatibility and usability issues – is a minefield. We could create a guide like this for basically everything and demonstrate 99% of the web isn&#x27;t compliant.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Button Cheat Sheet</title><url>https://www.buttoncheatsheet.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avocadoLife</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard this rule of thumb:<p>If it is supposed to be a meaningful link - be it internal or external - use a direct anchor element with an href. Styling it however you like shouldn&#x27;t hurt.<p>Otherwise, for any other interactions use a &lt;button&gt; element</text></comment> |
17,593,775 | 17,592,313 | 1 | 2 | 17,591,261 | train | <story><title>Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark (2012)</title><url>http://mentalfloss.com/article/30380/why-some-civil-war-soldiers-glowed-dark</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aaron695</author><text>Anyone have a link that reports on this &quot;Angel&#x27;s Glow&quot; before this article about the 2001 Sci fair project?<p>I find nothing.<p>Are we sure they didn&#x27;t make it up that &quot;Angel&#x27;s Glow&quot; ever existed?<p>I can&#x27;t find any reference, everything seems to loop.<p>Clever if true, make up a legend to fit some loose facts.<p>The whole idea is a bit crazy, glowing soldiers living longer. But once you accept that as &#x27;fact&#x27; a convoluted idea around hypothermia, worms and glowing seems less crazy.<p>[edit] Searching old newspapers and academia &quot;fake&quot;, nothing before 2000.<p>Shiloh National Military Park agrees - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;ShilohNMP&#x2F;posts&#x2F;567566540000003:0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;ShilohNMP&#x2F;posts&#x2F;567566540000003:0</a><p>It&#x27;s a bit of a no brainer, but their hack is what&#x27;s interesting, make up a legend to &quot;solve&quot;, love it.<p>And it&#x27;s interest how people blindly believe it, even though it&#x27;s so so convoluted. Then the loop starts and it becomes fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kroniker</author><text>While I share your concern that this may be a hoax, I think that unfortunately internet searches won&#x27;t be too fruitful for pre-2000 urban legend material. I would remain highly skeptical, but I&#x27;d ask a civil war historian first before ruling this out entirely.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark (2012)</title><url>http://mentalfloss.com/article/30380/why-some-civil-war-soldiers-glowed-dark</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aaron695</author><text>Anyone have a link that reports on this &quot;Angel&#x27;s Glow&quot; before this article about the 2001 Sci fair project?<p>I find nothing.<p>Are we sure they didn&#x27;t make it up that &quot;Angel&#x27;s Glow&quot; ever existed?<p>I can&#x27;t find any reference, everything seems to loop.<p>Clever if true, make up a legend to fit some loose facts.<p>The whole idea is a bit crazy, glowing soldiers living longer. But once you accept that as &#x27;fact&#x27; a convoluted idea around hypothermia, worms and glowing seems less crazy.<p>[edit] Searching old newspapers and academia &quot;fake&quot;, nothing before 2000.<p>Shiloh National Military Park agrees - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;ShilohNMP&#x2F;posts&#x2F;567566540000003:0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;ShilohNMP&#x2F;posts&#x2F;567566540000003:0</a><p>It&#x27;s a bit of a no brainer, but their hack is what&#x27;s interesting, make up a legend to &quot;solve&quot;, love it.<p>And it&#x27;s interest how people blindly believe it, even though it&#x27;s so so convoluted. Then the loop starts and it becomes fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quirkot</author><text>Source from USDA: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ars.usda.gov&#x2F;news-events&#x2F;news&#x2F;research-news&#x2F;2001&#x2F;students-may-have-answer-for-faster-healing-civil-war-wounds-that-glowed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ars.usda.gov&#x2F;news-events&#x2F;news&#x2F;research-news&#x2F;2001...</a><p>A google search for &quot;Bill Martin 2001 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair&quot; returns multiple sources</text></comment> |
23,298,594 | 23,297,903 | 1 | 2 | 23,297,710 | train | <story><title>Scientists baffled by decision to stop a pioneering coronavirus testing project</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01543-x</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>osamagirl69</author><text>Wasn&#x27;t this the result of the project changing its scope to be outside of what the FDA authorized? They put out a press release [1] on May 14 which explained why they were being shutdown--the FDA authorization allowed them to collect samples but not to return the results. By starting to share the individual test results back to those who provided the samples the program was no longer operating within its authorization and was shut down until a new authorization could be secured.<p>While I don&#x27;t agree with the FDA on their response, it seems disingenuous that this article doesn&#x27;t mention the reason why the program was shut down. It is clearly much riskier to provide individuals with their test results than to collect aggregate data. Consider for example if you gave 1 false negative, and that person then took that false negative as an excuse to return to work -- potentially infecting many more. With aggregate data a few false positives&#x2F;negatives could throw off the statistics but the standards the tests need to be held to for survey purposes are certainly different than those being used for diagnostic purposes.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scanpublichealth.org&#x2F;updates&#x2F;2020-05-13" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scanpublichealth.org&#x2F;updates&#x2F;2020-05-13</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Scientists baffled by decision to stop a pioneering coronavirus testing project</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01543-x</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vorpalhex</author><text>&gt; An FDA spokesperson explains that anything that requires a person to take samples themselves, at home, raises concerns. For example, the agency wants to ensure that samples remain stable if they end up spending a long time in a hot vehicle on the way to a lab.<p>Not exactly a baffling secret. At home sample collection wasn&#x27;t included in the guidelines, sounds like FDA is evaluating and may still give a go ahead.</text></comment> |
4,904,104 | 4,902,909 | 1 | 3 | 4,902,595 | train | <story><title>Unix Text Processing (1987)</title><url>http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ralph</author><text>I sought permission from Tim O'Reilly, he co-wrote this back when he was an author, to re-enter the text of the book as troff source, the original being lost. He kindly gave it and volunteers from the [email protected] mailing list split the chapters amongst themselves; it was quite fun. <a href="http://home.windstream.net/kollar/utp/" rel="nofollow">http://home.windstream.net/kollar/utp/</a> is the result.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unix Text Processing (1987)</title><url>http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kamaal</author><text>A very nice book available for free. It makes me very happy that I can learn new ways to do my work smarter.<p>Some of the best known advantages of Unix text processing tools is, as long as you can reduce your problem to 'Text'- There exist some very powerful, succinct and quick solutions to even some very difficult problems.<p>Well it takes some time to get a grip on how to work with Unix text processing utilities and tools like Perl. Once you are upto speed, you see how much work you can do so quickly with so much little effort. In fact the more you get into it, you realize how much useless code you have writing over the years. While all you needed was a command with a few options.</text></comment> |
1,845,327 | 1,845,029 | 1 | 2 | 1,844,262 | train | <story><title>Web page assignment leads to cease and desist letter. </title><url>http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/10/cease-and-desist.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>charlief</author><text>You have an interesting blog there with a unique perspective (<a href="http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/10/can-crowdsourcing-scale-role-of-active.html" rel="nofollow">http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/10/can-crowd...</a> as an example). Given that this is your first (visible) submission since you registered 553 days ago, I'm sure it would be the pleasure of many here if we saw your posts being submitted more often.</text></comment> | <story><title>Web page assignment leads to cease and desist letter. </title><url>http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/10/cease-and-desist.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>protomyth</author><text>Well, I guess if you wanted an outside validation of the effectiveness of the student's work, a C&#38;D is probably not a bad objective measure.</text></comment> |
9,243,304 | 9,243,253 | 1 | 2 | 9,242,260 | train | <story><title>The Hacker Who Drank Ayahuasca</title><url>https://medium.com/@Grayfox/the-hacker-who-drank-ayahuasca-517148aa1ed4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jzelinskie</author><text>There are also stories of people dying and the locals dumping their bodies elsewhere so that they don&#x27;t ruin others experiences or stop people from coming to try the &#x27;Medicine&#x27;. IIRC, the primary drug in Ayahuasca is DMT, which can be acquired other ways (that are less likely to make you puke) than drinking their jungle juice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rosser</author><text>Yeah, that happened. There&#x27;s another center in the jungle I know of that changes its name every time they have a guest die. And I&#x27;ve heard stories of &quot;shamans&quot; who add a paralytic to the dose they give attractive young female guests...<p>But you know what? Those are the exceptions. I&#x27;ve taken ayahuasca dozens of times, and am booked for another trip to Peru next month. I&#x27;ve been fortunate only to work with reputable people, and have consistently only met others in my travels that have also worked with reputable people.<p>Please don&#x27;t judge a tradition that&#x27;s thousands of years old, and actually remarkably safe — with a few caveats, that the reputable folks will screen for — on the basis of a couple of cretins who look at the plants and the gringo tourists and just see dollar signs.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Hacker Who Drank Ayahuasca</title><url>https://medium.com/@Grayfox/the-hacker-who-drank-ayahuasca-517148aa1ed4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jzelinskie</author><text>There are also stories of people dying and the locals dumping their bodies elsewhere so that they don&#x27;t ruin others experiences or stop people from coming to try the &#x27;Medicine&#x27;. IIRC, the primary drug in Ayahuasca is DMT, which can be acquired other ways (that are less likely to make you puke) than drinking their jungle juice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chisleu</author><text>It is DMT + an MAOI which allows the DMT to not be destroyed when you drink it.<p>The MAOI has a prolonging and intensifying effect, and has psychedelic effects of it&#x27;s own. Smoking DMT isn&#x27;t the same as eating pharmahuasca, which isn&#x27;t the same as drinking ayahuaska.<p>That said, it is very, very rare for anyone to have a reaction. The quality tours have trained medics in the village, and the villages are jammed deep in the forest like some of the hippy tours.<p>Smoking DMT is a very clean experience. It is intensely visual in nature and completely cerebral.<p>Pharma&#x2F;Ayahuaska is a heavy body load as you drift in and out of the altered state often called &quot;hyperspace&quot;.<p>I don&#x27;t really recommend the MAOIs because of the complications they can cause, and you can have just as spiritual of an experience without drinking their &quot;jungle juice&quot;. haha ;)</text></comment> |
40,634,899 | 40,634,356 | 1 | 2 | 40,632,773 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn</title><url>https://at.hn</url><text>Very opportunistic toy project as I saw the domain was up for grabs: &#x27;at.hn&#x27; is a little site where people can have their own subdomains for whatever their HN username is (opt-in only by adding a slug to your bio). It doesn&#x27;t really do much. Just shows your HN bio rendered as markdown plus meta stuff. I&#x27;m thinking of adding an aggregated user listing on the homepage so people can explore profiles. There&#x27;s a bunch of interesting people on HN but discoverability is a bit longwinded. I&#x27;m wondering what other features people want. Otherwise shall likely leave it as-is. I remember hnbadges was a thing for a while, but can&#x27;t remember what happened to it. Did people like that? Anyway, at.hn&#x27;s on github if people want to contribute. - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;padolsey&#x2F;at.hn">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;padolsey&#x2F;at.hn</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilaksh</author><text>How hard is it to export all of the comments someone has written on HN? I have been thinking about converting my HN comment history into something like a blog. Each entry would show the title of the submission, link if applicable, and the comment and link to comment thread.<p>Maybe you could provide that service for a small fee.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;runvnc&#x2F;hncomments">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;runvnc&#x2F;hncomments</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SushiHippie</author><text>Using the algolia api<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;api&#x2F;v1&#x2F;search?tags=author_ilaksh,comment&amp;hitsPerPage=50" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;api&#x2F;v1&#x2F;search?tags=author_ilaksh,comm...</a><p>You&#x27;ll need to paginate it, as it&#x27;s limited to 50 results per page, like so:<p><pre><code> https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;api&#x2F;v1&#x2F;search?tags=author_ilaksh,comment&amp;hitsPerPage=50&amp;page=1</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn</title><url>https://at.hn</url><text>Very opportunistic toy project as I saw the domain was up for grabs: &#x27;at.hn&#x27; is a little site where people can have their own subdomains for whatever their HN username is (opt-in only by adding a slug to your bio). It doesn&#x27;t really do much. Just shows your HN bio rendered as markdown plus meta stuff. I&#x27;m thinking of adding an aggregated user listing on the homepage so people can explore profiles. There&#x27;s a bunch of interesting people on HN but discoverability is a bit longwinded. I&#x27;m wondering what other features people want. Otherwise shall likely leave it as-is. I remember hnbadges was a thing for a while, but can&#x27;t remember what happened to it. Did people like that? Anyway, at.hn&#x27;s on github if people want to contribute. - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;padolsey&#x2F;at.hn">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;padolsey&#x2F;at.hn</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilaksh</author><text>How hard is it to export all of the comments someone has written on HN? I have been thinking about converting my HN comment history into something like a blog. Each entry would show the title of the submission, link if applicable, and the comment and link to comment thread.<p>Maybe you could provide that service for a small fee.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;runvnc&#x2F;hncomments">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;runvnc&#x2F;hncomments</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>opjjf</author><text>The Hacker News BigQuery data makes this quite easy:<p>select *
from `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
where `by` = &#x27;ilaksh&#x27; and type = &#x27;comment&#x27;
order by timestamp desc<p>EDIT: seems this is out of date</text></comment> |
24,955,208 | 24,954,982 | 1 | 3 | 24,953,821 | train | <story><title>Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code</title><url>https://github.com/christianbundy/octotree/issues/1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julianlam</author><text>It seems like the problem here stems from the project owner taking the source code as-is and essentially re-licensing it as proprietary, which is a big no-no.<p>For context, when NodeBB faced this possibility, we simply contacted every single contributor and asked nicely if they&#x27;d assign over their ownership of their contribution to us (note the use of the word &quot;assign&quot;, not &quot;license&quot;, a license is revocable, an assignment is not).<p>Future contributions by new parties required signing of the same Contributor Assignment Agreement.<p>Here&#x27;s the CAA if you&#x27;re interested in reading legalese: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cla-assistant.io&#x2F;NodeBB&#x2F;NodeBB" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cla-assistant.io&#x2F;NodeBB&#x2F;NodeBB</a><p>All in all it took us under a week to secure the assignments, and any who did not sign we simply rewrote their lines of code, or we would have, but everybody signed.<p>The bar of effort to clear is so low to avoid this kind of controversy!<p>Reason we went this route: we wanted the flexibility to deliver a proprietary version of NodeBB for those clients that needed it. We get asked often whether there&#x27;s a difference between the proprietary version and the open source version, but there isn&#x27;t, it&#x27;s just for legal reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>&gt; All in all it took us under a week to secure the assignments, and any who did not sign we simply rewrote their lines of code, or we would have, but everybody signed.<p>I&#x27;ve always heard about this possibility but I wonder how one would rewrite code, should the need arise. Wouldn&#x27;t it be hard to do without effectively making a derivative work?<p>Suppose that you remove the code, reimplement it but end up with something that&#x27;s extremely similar to the original (which is very likely since after all you&#x27;re doing the same thing). Couldn&#x27;t the original author argue that it&#x27;s still their code? How do you prove that you did the work and just happened with the same code because that&#x27;s just the most straightforward way to do it?<p>It seems like the only way to avoid the problem altogether would be to have some sort of clean room design:<p>- Dev A reads the code to be removed, writes a spec for the functionality.<p>- Dev A removes the code.<p>- Dev B takes the truncated code and the spec and implements the feature.<p>But that seems very painful to do cleanly, in particular one could argue that B should be a third party who is not intimately familiar with the codebase, otherwise it could be argued that they knew the previous code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code</title><url>https://github.com/christianbundy/octotree/issues/1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julianlam</author><text>It seems like the problem here stems from the project owner taking the source code as-is and essentially re-licensing it as proprietary, which is a big no-no.<p>For context, when NodeBB faced this possibility, we simply contacted every single contributor and asked nicely if they&#x27;d assign over their ownership of their contribution to us (note the use of the word &quot;assign&quot;, not &quot;license&quot;, a license is revocable, an assignment is not).<p>Future contributions by new parties required signing of the same Contributor Assignment Agreement.<p>Here&#x27;s the CAA if you&#x27;re interested in reading legalese: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cla-assistant.io&#x2F;NodeBB&#x2F;NodeBB" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cla-assistant.io&#x2F;NodeBB&#x2F;NodeBB</a><p>All in all it took us under a week to secure the assignments, and any who did not sign we simply rewrote their lines of code, or we would have, but everybody signed.<p>The bar of effort to clear is so low to avoid this kind of controversy!<p>Reason we went this route: we wanted the flexibility to deliver a proprietary version of NodeBB for those clients that needed it. We get asked often whether there&#x27;s a difference between the proprietary version and the open source version, but there isn&#x27;t, it&#x27;s just for legal reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>If you wrote most of the code yourself and received only minor contributions (which is common for most OS projects) it is possible to remove those contributions and rewrite them, legally it would be hard to challenge.<p>We almost had to do this once for our own proprietary codebase as we discovered during due diligence that we didn&#x27;t have a proper copyright transfer agreement from several of our interns. Fortunately we were able to resolve this with them (by paying them some extra money to sign a CLA), if it wouldn&#x27;t have worked we would&#x27;ve removed and rewritten the code instead. It&#x27;s silly but legally it&#x27;s doable.<p>Of course this strategy doesn&#x27;t work if a large part of your codebase originates from third-party contributors, but from my experience Github projects receive mostly small&#x2F;cosmetic PRs from non-core developers (not saying that those contributions are not valuable btw).</text></comment> |
26,422,802 | 26,422,761 | 1 | 2 | 26,422,011 | train | <story><title>Cisco Webex launches real-time translation</title><url>https://business-review.eu/tech/cisco-webex-breaks-through-language-barriers-and-launches-real-time-translation-217869</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cheschire</author><text>Cisco voice &#x2F; video products feel like they&#x27;re designed to look good on a product comparison chart rather than to provide a robust user experience.<p>It&#x27;s so hard to explain to senior decision makers about why the cisco product should be replaced because on the surface it looks like cisco does everything that the competitors do.<p>And large companies can&#x27;t easily compare KPIs for a product they already have against the unknown third order effects of a competitor&#x27;s product. Cisco knows that so they keep doing the bare minimum.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cisco Webex launches real-time translation</title><url>https://business-review.eu/tech/cisco-webex-breaks-through-language-barriers-and-launches-real-time-translation-217869</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ThE_-_BliZZarD</author><text>I laughed seeing that headline, as I uninstalled WebEx from my work machine not 15 minutes ago and came across this gem: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;8l572YF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;8l572YF</a><p>Which for me really drives home how &quot;up2date&quot;, modern and user-friendly this abomination of a software is.</text></comment> |
17,227,572 | 17,227,520 | 1 | 2 | 17,227,286 | train | <story><title>Microsoft acquires Github</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Corporations aren&#x27;t people.<p>If you change the leadership and change employee incentives, it might as well be a different company.<p>Sure there&#x27;s cultural inertia... but incentives trump culture every time.</text></item><item><author>codetrotter</author><text>&gt; And Microsoft is all-in on open source. We have been on a journey with open source, and today we are active in the open source ecosystem, we contribute to open source projects, and some of our most vibrant developer tools and frameworks are open source. When it comes to our commitment to open source, judge us by the actions we have taken in the recent past, our actions today, and in the future.<p>It’s a fair point but I still cannot read this without thinking of someone saying “yeah I did some things in the past but I’ve totally changed I promise. Look, for the whole past week I’ve been really nice to people haven’t I?”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&gt; <i>If you change the leadership and change employee incentives, it might as well be a different company.</i><p>Exactly. Which is why the idea of &quot;trusting&quot; a corporation, or treating them like you would a human being on any level, is ludicrous. They&#x27;re a plane crash and a stock dip from becoming a totally different entity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft acquires Github</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Corporations aren&#x27;t people.<p>If you change the leadership and change employee incentives, it might as well be a different company.<p>Sure there&#x27;s cultural inertia... but incentives trump culture every time.</text></item><item><author>codetrotter</author><text>&gt; And Microsoft is all-in on open source. We have been on a journey with open source, and today we are active in the open source ecosystem, we contribute to open source projects, and some of our most vibrant developer tools and frameworks are open source. When it comes to our commitment to open source, judge us by the actions we have taken in the recent past, our actions today, and in the future.<p>It’s a fair point but I still cannot read this without thinking of someone saying “yeah I did some things in the past but I’ve totally changed I promise. Look, for the whole past week I’ve been really nice to people haven’t I?”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>But incentives are still very much in the hand of shareholders who have been rewarding and continue to reward Microsoft&#x27;s predatory stance on the market (including its continuous abuse of patents against open-source projects like Android and Linux).<p>So yeah, they are &quot;all in on Open source&quot;, right.</text></comment> |
5,955,973 | 5,956,055 | 1 | 2 | 5,955,771 | train | <story><title>The NSA Can't Tell the Difference Between an American and a Foreigner</title><url>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/27/the_nsa_cant_tell_the_difference_between_an_american_and_a_foreigner?page=0,0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ck2</author><text>Yeah protests - just like with civil rights, it only took 50 years to end Jim Crow laws which were incredibly outrageous and it looks like it&#x27;s going to be 50 years since Stonewall before gay people can finally be treated like human beings and marry across (most) states.<p>So in 50 years they will suddenly agree that maybe the TSA and the NSA are a step too far.</text></item><item><author>pvnick</author><text>Join us on July 4th for a nationwide demonstration! <a href="http://restorethe4th.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;restorethe4th.net</a></text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>Has anyone else become seriously depressed over all this?<p>I mean the TSA was one thing, they are still horrible but I never fly or take a bus or train, I just hate the idea of them existing.<p>But since the NSA exposure, I just feel seriously depressed about the state of who is running this country and the &quot;just try to stop us&quot; thug mentality. It&#x27;s a weight on my mind constantly this past month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pvnick</author><text>When protests don&#x27;t work in democratic nations it&#x27;s because defeatist attitudes keep people home. You know what they say, if you don&#x27;t try then you&#x27;ve already lost.<p>As it stands right now this may be our best shot. Y&#x27;know... that and sitting around bitching about it on the internet.</text></comment> | <story><title>The NSA Can't Tell the Difference Between an American and a Foreigner</title><url>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/27/the_nsa_cant_tell_the_difference_between_an_american_and_a_foreigner?page=0,0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ck2</author><text>Yeah protests - just like with civil rights, it only took 50 years to end Jim Crow laws which were incredibly outrageous and it looks like it&#x27;s going to be 50 years since Stonewall before gay people can finally be treated like human beings and marry across (most) states.<p>So in 50 years they will suddenly agree that maybe the TSA and the NSA are a step too far.</text></item><item><author>pvnick</author><text>Join us on July 4th for a nationwide demonstration! <a href="http://restorethe4th.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;restorethe4th.net</a></text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>Has anyone else become seriously depressed over all this?<p>I mean the TSA was one thing, they are still horrible but I never fly or take a bus or train, I just hate the idea of them existing.<p>But since the NSA exposure, I just feel seriously depressed about the state of who is running this country and the &quot;just try to stop us&quot; thug mentality. It&#x27;s a weight on my mind constantly this past month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shaggyfrog</author><text>This sounds like a red herring to me. Why did you just stop at 50 years? Why not go all the way back to the first recorded instance of slavery? That would make your argument even stronger.<p>Fact is that the reversal of anti-GBLT laws accelerated immensely in the last few years -- maybe even just the last decade. We&#x27;re not talking 50-year scales for major societal changes anymore.</text></comment> |
28,783,719 | 28,783,904 | 1 | 3 | 28,782,493 | train | <story><title>RenderingNG: An architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term</title><url>https://blog.chromium.org/2021/10/renderingng.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frankenst1</author><text>Rendering is fast on Chrome, however latency is high:<p>Chrome has 1 to 2 frames (17ms to 33ms on a 60Hz display) of additional, unnecessary input lag when compared to Firefox:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=460919" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=460919</a></text></comment> | <story><title>RenderingNG: An architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term</title><url>https://blog.chromium.org/2021/10/renderingng.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;A great way Chrome can render content faster is to take advantage of the multi-core CPUs and advanced GPUs present in today’s devices. Multi-core means we can do multiple kinds of work in parallel. For example, Chrome parallelizes running JavaScript, scrolling a web page, decoding an image or video, </i><p>I&#x27;ve noticed that Firefox is not as smooth as Chrome when playing 4k video. This has been an ongoing issue experienced by many for several years: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=firefox+4k+video+stutters" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=firefox+4k+video+stutters</a><p>I just re-tested this on the latest Firefox 93.0 and while it pegs an entire cpu, the playback performance is still jerky and unusable. And changing the oft-suggested setting of <i>&quot;gfx.webrender.all = true&quot;</i> still doesn&#x27;t resolve it.<p>I don&#x27;t know what Chrome is doing differently but 4k playback just works with the default settings.</text></comment> |
13,117,794 | 13,116,716 | 1 | 2 | 13,116,133 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Are you more likely to apply for a job that discloses salary upfront?</title><text>I started to work on a job board to improve my Node.js &#x2F; MongoDB skills and I&#x27;m thinking of actually launching it. But how do I make my board different from all others? I&#x27;m thinking of having a mandatory salary field so that each job would contain a salary range.<p>Stack Overflow data shows that job ads with salary receive 75% more clicks. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;salary-transparency&#x2F;#75. Other job sites are reporting 20% - 30% increase in job applications for ads with salaries.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>finspin</author><text>I&#x27;m thinking that launching just another job board won&#x27;t get me anywhere. I&#x27;ll have to either a) spend heavily on advertising (which I can&#x27;t afford) or b) differentiate myself from all other job boards out there.<p>I live in Finland (5 million habitants) and based on my research only about 5% of job ads include salary. It&#x27;s not part of the culture to discuss salaries publicly so it&#x27;s very well possible that companies won&#x27;t be willing to go public.<p>On the other hand, I think it&#x27;s quite promising that there are even a few companies that are already publishing their salary offers, despite most of the competition not doing it.<p>I see it as my job to convince them it&#x27;s good for their business and start a little revolution. Maybe others will join the bandwagon?</text></item><item><author>jawns</author><text>I doubt you&#x27;ll get anyone who says that salary range disclosed in a job advertisement is not a good thing, from the perspective of the job seeker.<p>The question you may want to ask instead is: &quot;Does the benefit to the job seeker of having a salary range specified outweigh the loss of potential advertisers who do not want to disclose a salary range?&quot;<p>If you&#x27;re just doing this as a side project, with no expectation of making a business out of it, then you may want to lean more toward what benefits the user.<p>If you&#x27;re trying to run a business and pay the bills, you might need to think more about how it decreases your potential revenue, assuming the job advertisers are the ones who are paying for your service.<p>One other thing: Salary range is inherently a fuzzy concept. It&#x27;s possible to set limits (e.g. the range must not span more than $20K, or the range must not constitute more than 20% of the lower-end number) but then you have to take into account that an advertised salary range is not necessarily the same as what they&#x27;re ultimately willing to offer you. And then you have to factor in benefits, etc., which can make salary ranges misleading.<p>Edit: One possible way to make salary range disclosures more palatable to advertisers is to borrow a strategy from matchmaking systems: The advertiser discloses a salary range, and the job seeker discloses a minimum required salary, to the website, which does not make any of that information public. When the job seeker submits an application for a job, they receive a notice if the advertiser&#x27;s specified salary range does not meet their minimum requirements. This keeps the actual salary range out of public view and at least slightly difficult to estimate, but it prevents the job applicant from wasting their time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>The grandparent post is making an important point though: consider carefully which side of the market makes the rules and embrace <i>their</i> rules as constraints.<p>I spent ~8 months working on two different startup ideas in the hiring space, one with a cofounder who&#x27;d been researching it for close to a year before I came along. We also started with grand ideas of making hiring easier for the jobseeker. The problem is that jobseekers do not have money - hence why they need a job - and so all the money in the hiring space comes from the employer. Like any other competitive market, hiring is subject to the Golden Rule: &quot;He who has the gold makes the rules.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s why getting a job sucks so much. It&#x27;s a process that&#x27;s entirely designed to benefit the company offering the job, not the person seeking the job. And lest you think you can just force companies to make their hiring processes more employee-friendly (we did), consider what happens if they say no. You&#x27;ll have no listings, and without any listings, you have nothing to offer the jobseeker.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Are you more likely to apply for a job that discloses salary upfront?</title><text>I started to work on a job board to improve my Node.js &#x2F; MongoDB skills and I&#x27;m thinking of actually launching it. But how do I make my board different from all others? I&#x27;m thinking of having a mandatory salary field so that each job would contain a salary range.<p>Stack Overflow data shows that job ads with salary receive 75% more clicks. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;salary-transparency&#x2F;#75. Other job sites are reporting 20% - 30% increase in job applications for ads with salaries.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>finspin</author><text>I&#x27;m thinking that launching just another job board won&#x27;t get me anywhere. I&#x27;ll have to either a) spend heavily on advertising (which I can&#x27;t afford) or b) differentiate myself from all other job boards out there.<p>I live in Finland (5 million habitants) and based on my research only about 5% of job ads include salary. It&#x27;s not part of the culture to discuss salaries publicly so it&#x27;s very well possible that companies won&#x27;t be willing to go public.<p>On the other hand, I think it&#x27;s quite promising that there are even a few companies that are already publishing their salary offers, despite most of the competition not doing it.<p>I see it as my job to convince them it&#x27;s good for their business and start a little revolution. Maybe others will join the bandwagon?</text></item><item><author>jawns</author><text>I doubt you&#x27;ll get anyone who says that salary range disclosed in a job advertisement is not a good thing, from the perspective of the job seeker.<p>The question you may want to ask instead is: &quot;Does the benefit to the job seeker of having a salary range specified outweigh the loss of potential advertisers who do not want to disclose a salary range?&quot;<p>If you&#x27;re just doing this as a side project, with no expectation of making a business out of it, then you may want to lean more toward what benefits the user.<p>If you&#x27;re trying to run a business and pay the bills, you might need to think more about how it decreases your potential revenue, assuming the job advertisers are the ones who are paying for your service.<p>One other thing: Salary range is inherently a fuzzy concept. It&#x27;s possible to set limits (e.g. the range must not span more than $20K, or the range must not constitute more than 20% of the lower-end number) but then you have to take into account that an advertised salary range is not necessarily the same as what they&#x27;re ultimately willing to offer you. And then you have to factor in benefits, etc., which can make salary ranges misleading.<p>Edit: One possible way to make salary range disclosures more palatable to advertisers is to borrow a strategy from matchmaking systems: The advertiser discloses a salary range, and the job seeker discloses a minimum required salary, to the website, which does not make any of that information public. When the job seeker submits an application for a job, they receive a notice if the advertiser&#x27;s specified salary range does not meet their minimum requirements. This keeps the actual salary range out of public view and at least slightly difficult to estimate, but it prevents the job applicant from wasting their time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kej</author><text>I feel like the job board (yours, Monster, Dice, whoever) is in a unique position to solve this problem. You can ask each side for their salary range but then don&#x27;t disclose it to the opposite side. You can then match candidates to compatible jobs and everyone knows up front that the desired ranges overlap.</text></comment> |
9,118,906 | 9,118,925 | 1 | 2 | 9,118,097 | train | <story><title>Lightning Network: “Bitcoin Doesn’t Scale” [pdf]</title><url>http://lightning.network/lightning-network.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>celticninja</author><text>Im not sure that Netflix is the preferred option. You say<p>&gt;(Netflix et al) are far more popular and commercially successful for watching online video<p>File sharing versions are not aimed at being commercially successful so i think that is an irrelevant comparison.<p>Also you I expect are from the USA, netflix&#x2F;hulu etc arenot available everywhere so they are certainly not more popular than the alternatives in countries where they are not avaiable.<p>Popcorn Time was a free, decentralized Netflix alternative and it was hugely popular, only that the developers pulled the plug on it did it not become the defacto method of watching movies for free online.<p>Anyway not sure how these compare to bitcoin but I dont think your analogy holds up even when not compared to bitcoin.</text></item><item><author>bhouston</author><text>Interesting parallel to the growth and development of decentralized P2P networks around 1999&#x2F;2000.<p>First there was Gnutella (as Napster had a centralized directory) - but it didn&#x27;t scale, although it proved popular.<p>Then they added support to Gnutella for spoke&#x2F;hub models, which had superpeers that reduced the load on most individuals. But in the end Gnutella never really took off.<p>What replaced Gnutella was bittorrent, which actually only did transfer via P2P but the searching and discovery was centralized again PirateBay and Trackers.<p>But for all bittorrent&#x27;s success, Netflix (and others), which are centralized and highly controlled alternatives, are far more popular and commercially successful for watching online video -- it is just less work to use Netflix, even though it doesn&#x27;t have the benefits of being free and open.<p>So for all the attraction of P2P decentralization, often centralized, commercial focused easy solutions win out. There are costs to be paid by being decentralized and often general people who are not ideological do not want to pay these costs.<p>But I am mostly an outsider with regards to Bitcoin so who knows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dublinben</author><text>It&#x27;s worth mentioning that PopcornTime[0] is still available at a new domain, and has been forked by at least one group of developers.<p>[0]<a href="http://popcorntime.io/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;popcorntime.io&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Lightning Network: “Bitcoin Doesn’t Scale” [pdf]</title><url>http://lightning.network/lightning-network.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>celticninja</author><text>Im not sure that Netflix is the preferred option. You say<p>&gt;(Netflix et al) are far more popular and commercially successful for watching online video<p>File sharing versions are not aimed at being commercially successful so i think that is an irrelevant comparison.<p>Also you I expect are from the USA, netflix&#x2F;hulu etc arenot available everywhere so they are certainly not more popular than the alternatives in countries where they are not avaiable.<p>Popcorn Time was a free, decentralized Netflix alternative and it was hugely popular, only that the developers pulled the plug on it did it not become the defacto method of watching movies for free online.<p>Anyway not sure how these compare to bitcoin but I dont think your analogy holds up even when not compared to bitcoin.</text></item><item><author>bhouston</author><text>Interesting parallel to the growth and development of decentralized P2P networks around 1999&#x2F;2000.<p>First there was Gnutella (as Napster had a centralized directory) - but it didn&#x27;t scale, although it proved popular.<p>Then they added support to Gnutella for spoke&#x2F;hub models, which had superpeers that reduced the load on most individuals. But in the end Gnutella never really took off.<p>What replaced Gnutella was bittorrent, which actually only did transfer via P2P but the searching and discovery was centralized again PirateBay and Trackers.<p>But for all bittorrent&#x27;s success, Netflix (and others), which are centralized and highly controlled alternatives, are far more popular and commercially successful for watching online video -- it is just less work to use Netflix, even though it doesn&#x27;t have the benefits of being free and open.<p>So for all the attraction of P2P decentralization, often centralized, commercial focused easy solutions win out. There are costs to be paid by being decentralized and often general people who are not ideological do not want to pay these costs.<p>But I am mostly an outsider with regards to Bitcoin so who knows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timdaub</author><text>Good point.<p>I think the market will always decide which media consumption method it wants to use depending on how frictionless the experience is.<p>In the case of Bittorrent, as a mainstream consumer you&#x27;d have to know what program to download, where to find a torrent file yada, yada yada, while on Netflix you can just enter your credit card information and watch as many movies as you like.<p>I think recently, Facebook also realized this, which is why they are currently aiming towards bringing a great search engine to their customers.<p>Once that is in place sufficiently, homepages for small businesses will become obsolete, as people rather search for a company&#x2F;product on Facebook than on the internet as it is a much easier to do.<p>This same principle again will probably apply to Bitcoin and digital payments in general.
Right now, Apple is doing a great job reducing friction in payments, at least for mainstream consumers.</text></comment> |
11,833,188 | 11,832,572 | 1 | 3 | 11,817,758 | train | <story><title>King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/king-tut-dagger-1.3610539</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theophrastus</author><text>The bronze age in that part of the world was around 3300 to 1200BC. Tutankhamen ruled from 1332 to 1323. From that alone we might suppose why a bit of proper iron was more valuable than gold. (the Hittite secret of iron wasn&#x27;t for another 275 years despite Mika Waltari&#x27;s poignant novel &quot;The Egyptian&quot; which had the Hittites flashing their iron about the court of King Tut)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptaipale</author><text>&gt;<i>Hittite secret of iron wasn&#x27;t for another 275 years despite Mika Waltari&#x27;s poignant novel &quot;The Egyptian&quot; which had the Hittites flashing their iron about the court of King Tut</i><p>I think several sources are saying that Hittites had some iron artifacts already around 1800 BC and had iron works in 1380 BC?<p>I don&#x27;t recall that scene from the book, but anyway, Waltari wrote it during WW II using just library sources in Helsinki; he never set foot in Egypt. (He said &quot;I have lived in Egypt although I&#x27;ve never been there.&quot;)</text></comment> | <story><title>King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/king-tut-dagger-1.3610539</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theophrastus</author><text>The bronze age in that part of the world was around 3300 to 1200BC. Tutankhamen ruled from 1332 to 1323. From that alone we might suppose why a bit of proper iron was more valuable than gold. (the Hittite secret of iron wasn&#x27;t for another 275 years despite Mika Waltari&#x27;s poignant novel &quot;The Egyptian&quot; which had the Hittites flashing their iron about the court of King Tut)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xufi</author><text>Interesting I didnt know that at all. Your &quot;proper iron was more valuable&quot; comment reminds me of about a little different period from a documentary that I watched that talked about the time around 700BC where Umayyad empires used silver coins while gold and copper coins were used in Egypt&#x2F;Syria.</text></comment> |
8,781,450 | 8,781,420 | 1 | 2 | 8,781,237 | train | <story><title>Rusthon – A Pythonic language that compiles to Rust and C++</title><url>https://github.com/rusthon/Rusthon</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Demiurge</author><text>As I&#x27;m sure everyone, I was wondering, why... If you follow through from the top to the blog, there is authors reasoning:<p><i>Introducing Rusthon<p>Rust is a systems programming language, and too low level for quick prototyping, or simple web backends. It is nice to have all of the low level control so you can fine tune performance later, but it should be optional. Rusthon is a high level Python-like language that compiles to Rust. Rusthon started as a fork of Gython, which is a fork of PythonJS.<p>The goal of Rusthon is simple and clean syntax inspired by Python. Rusthon will allow you to code at a higher level than normal Rust code, and interoperate well with hand written Rust and the Rust libraries. You can start off writting your application in Rusthon, and drop down to hand written Rust where you need more performance.</i><p><a href="http://rusthon-lang.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rusthon-lang.blogspot.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rusthon – A Pythonic language that compiles to Rust and C++</title><url>https://github.com/rusthon/Rusthon</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haberman</author><text>Compiling to Rust is a really interesting proposition, because it means the resulting program has the same safe-without-gc properties as native Rust programs.</text></comment> |
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