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34,168,772 | 34,167,591 | 1 | 3 | 34,166,193 | train | <story><title>Build your front end in React, then let ChatGPT be your Redux reducer</title><url>https://spindas.dreamwidth.org/4207.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mintplant</author><text>Hi HN! I&#x27;ve been playing around with ChatGPT a bunch since it came out. This experiment has a little bit of a backstory. Some friends and I were out at a pho restaurant; one of us put the whole bill on his card, so the rest of us needed to figure out how much to Venmo him. We were talking about how many bill-splitting apps there are, and I made a joke about doing it with ChatGPT. Then I actually tried it out.<p>I OCR&#x27;d the text with Google Lens, described who had what, and after a bit of prompt engineering (e.g., adding &quot;Be sure to get your math correct&quot; to make the AI&#x27;s arithmetic check out, and convincing the AI to split shared items evenly), it totally worked: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;spinda&#x2F;967322dda1c04d9864f3efd45addca13" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;spinda&#x2F;967322dda1c04d9864f3efd45addc...</a><p>Then I started experimenting with describing a hypothetical check-splitting app to the AI, and asking it to feed me JSON commands to update the UI in response to messages from me telling it what the user was doing. The results were promising! And then the similarity to the Redux data loop jumped out, and I built this generic plugin to wire ChatGPT up to apps for real.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gigachad</author><text>Cool project, but it reminds me of one of the golden rules of AI “if you can solve it with a simple rules based system, you should”<p>Having to tell chatGPT to make sure it gets it’s math right is not confidence inspiring.</text></comment> | <story><title>Build your front end in React, then let ChatGPT be your Redux reducer</title><url>https://spindas.dreamwidth.org/4207.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mintplant</author><text>Hi HN! I&#x27;ve been playing around with ChatGPT a bunch since it came out. This experiment has a little bit of a backstory. Some friends and I were out at a pho restaurant; one of us put the whole bill on his card, so the rest of us needed to figure out how much to Venmo him. We were talking about how many bill-splitting apps there are, and I made a joke about doing it with ChatGPT. Then I actually tried it out.<p>I OCR&#x27;d the text with Google Lens, described who had what, and after a bit of prompt engineering (e.g., adding &quot;Be sure to get your math correct&quot; to make the AI&#x27;s arithmetic check out, and convincing the AI to split shared items evenly), it totally worked: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;spinda&#x2F;967322dda1c04d9864f3efd45addca13" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;spinda&#x2F;967322dda1c04d9864f3efd45addc...</a><p>Then I started experimenting with describing a hypothetical check-splitting app to the AI, and asking it to feed me JSON commands to update the UI in response to messages from me telling it what the user was doing. The results were promising! And then the similarity to the Redux data loop jumped out, and I built this generic plugin to wire ChatGPT up to apps for real.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vinhboy</author><text>Wow that&#x27;s an impressive backstory. Probably one of the more useful things I&#x27;ve seen come out of chatGPT</text></comment> |
37,985,274 | 37,984,149 | 1 | 3 | 37,982,655 | train | <story><title>EU Chat Control Bill Postponed</title><url>https://tutanota.com/blog/chat-control-criticism</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wkat4242</author><text>Good. But this will keep festering until it is killed for sure.<p>And even then they will just rehash it in a different form and push it again.<p>The problem is also, this won&#x27;t work. The pervs will simply use something else, prompting even stronger regulation to avoid having unapproved apps etc. Meanwhile we will all live in a panopticon society for no tangible benefits. In the end it could even kill FOSS and open computing because anyone who can edit the code can edit out the spyware.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU Chat Control Bill Postponed</title><url>https://tutanota.com/blog/chat-control-criticism</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>p0w3n3d</author><text><p><pre><code> Postponed != win
Postponed = () =&gt; await nextCrisis()
.then(crisis =&gt; introduceUncomfortableLegislationBecauseOf(crisis))</code></pre></text></comment> |
3,251,234 | 3,251,237 | 1 | 3 | 3,251,133 | train | <story><title>SOPA sponsors break their own laws</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/sopa-sponsors-break-their-own-law-111117/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nl</author><text>Ars debunked this a couple of days ago:<p><i>But we're also a news site, so we contacted James Grimmelmann, a copyright scholar at New York Law School, (and judging from his tweets, not a SOPA supporter) to get his expert opinion.<p>He was skeptical. The new anti-streaming provisions would apply only to willful infringement. "A good-faith belief that one's actions are legal is sufficient to defeat a finding of willfulness," he told Ars. SOPA even codifies this principle by excluding from liability those who have "a good faith reasonable basis" to believe their conduct is not infringing.<p>"Even if the Representatives are infringing (and I think they have a good fair use defense, and may well have licenses we don't know about), they're unlikely to be willful infringers," he told Ars.<p>He also pointed out Smith and his colleagues would only be liable if the value of the streaming performances exceeds $1,000, and it's not clear how valuable a few short clips of local news broadcasts are.</i><p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/on-wednesday-reddit-which-like.ars" rel="nofollow">http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/on-wednesday...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SOPA sponsors break their own laws</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/sopa-sponsors-break-their-own-law-111117/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teja1990</author><text>The same thing happened in Germany ,the legislator who spear headed the Piracy Act's website itself had copyrighted images... I wish these people know what they are doing.</text></comment> |
19,797,267 | 19,797,327 | 1 | 3 | 19,796,607 | train | <story><title>Girl’s $143k bill for snakebite treatment reveals antivenin price gouging</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/try-not-to-get-bitten-by-a-snake-it-could-cost-you-143000/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>But that&#x27;s even worse - now the $143k bill is sent to the government which just shrugs its collective shoulders and pays it... until the money runs out.</text></item><item><author>estebarb</author><text>Meanwhile in Costa Rica the treatment for even more poisonous snakes would cost zero dollars with zero zero cents (including helicopter or small plane, if required). Here antiofidics are produced by the Universidad de Costa Rica, and every public health center has a reserve of it. Those serums are exported too.
I really can&#x27;t understand how USA got public health so wrong. Here we pay like 9% of tax over salary and get &quot;ALL the health cover you may need&quot;: broken legs, cancer, HIV, transplants... You name it: each and every treatment is free: no deductible, no coverage limits, no contractual exceptions, no preexisting conditions, not even a call to the insurance company before receiving treatment or having to provide your ID.
Sometimes I had thought about applying to a cool techco at USA, then I remember the health system differences and I forget it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plasma</author><text>As an Australia who enjoys universal healthcare, not once have I ever worried about being sick financially and how much it would cost me.<p>I can go to any doctors I want and easily afford the medication I may need, and may visit a doctor preemptively and without worry about cost.<p>It saddens me that American citizens are suffering with such an awful healthcare system, and no where in the galaxy would I ever wish a system like yours to enter Australia.<p>You should vote for universal, single payer healthcare.</text></comment> | <story><title>Girl’s $143k bill for snakebite treatment reveals antivenin price gouging</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/try-not-to-get-bitten-by-a-snake-it-could-cost-you-143000/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>But that&#x27;s even worse - now the $143k bill is sent to the government which just shrugs its collective shoulders and pays it... until the money runs out.</text></item><item><author>estebarb</author><text>Meanwhile in Costa Rica the treatment for even more poisonous snakes would cost zero dollars with zero zero cents (including helicopter or small plane, if required). Here antiofidics are produced by the Universidad de Costa Rica, and every public health center has a reserve of it. Those serums are exported too.
I really can&#x27;t understand how USA got public health so wrong. Here we pay like 9% of tax over salary and get &quot;ALL the health cover you may need&quot;: broken legs, cancer, HIV, transplants... You name it: each and every treatment is free: no deductible, no coverage limits, no contractual exceptions, no preexisting conditions, not even a call to the insurance company before receiving treatment or having to provide your ID.
Sometimes I had thought about applying to a cool techco at USA, then I remember the health system differences and I forget it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twiss</author><text>That&#x27;s not what happens in practice - a government has a lot more negotiating power, and less skin in the game, than individuals who need the treatment. Governments can and do sometimes refuse to pay treatments that are too expensive. This may cause citizens who want that treatment to be upset, but for 99.99% of treatments it leads to them being a lot more affordable.</text></comment> |
22,193,108 | 22,191,687 | 1 | 3 | 22,179,841 | train | <story><title>Some Useful Probability Facts for Systems Programming</title><url>https://theartofmachinery.com/2020/01/27/systems_programming_probability.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fyp</author><text>Birthday paradox is way too important to omit from this list!<p>For example if you&#x27;re uploading stuff to a bucket, you can compute its hash first to figure out if a duplicate already exists and if so, skip the upload.<p>Why can you do this? What if it was just a hash collision? Shouldn&#x27;t you still compare the contents to <i>really</i> make sure they are the same?<p>Turns out if your hash function is N bits you will need to have 2^(N&#x2F;2) items before you see two hashed to the same thing by chance. If you choose a 256 bit cryptographic hash function like SHA256, that&#x27;s 2^128. This probability is so low you have a higher chance of encountering a cosmic ray bit flip!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Content-addressable_storage" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Content-addressable_storage</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Birthday_problem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Birthday_problem</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SamBam</author><text>I don&#x27;t quite understand how the birthday paradox relates to your example. Your example is how a hash collision is a very low probability event. But the birthday paradox is typically stated as odds being much <i>higher</i> than you expect.<p>The hash collision problem is a birthday paradox, I suppose, but the probabilities are so low that that part isn&#x27;t stressed in your post.<p>I feel like a better example of the Birthday Paradox would be something like:<p>I automatically give all my users a 5-character random ID. I figure there are nearly 12 million (26^5) combinations, so I should easily be able to support a hundred thousand users, since (naively) I calculate that the probability of the 1001st user matching any existing user is less than 1%. [1]<p>But if you calculate it correctly has the birthday paradox, you&#x27;ll see that the probability of having a collision given 100,000 users is ~100%. [2]<p>[1] 1 - (1-(1&#x2F;11881376))^100000 &lt; 0.01<p>[2] 1 - (((11881376-1)&#x2F;11881376)^((100000 * (100000-1))&#x2F;2)) = 1</text></comment> | <story><title>Some Useful Probability Facts for Systems Programming</title><url>https://theartofmachinery.com/2020/01/27/systems_programming_probability.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fyp</author><text>Birthday paradox is way too important to omit from this list!<p>For example if you&#x27;re uploading stuff to a bucket, you can compute its hash first to figure out if a duplicate already exists and if so, skip the upload.<p>Why can you do this? What if it was just a hash collision? Shouldn&#x27;t you still compare the contents to <i>really</i> make sure they are the same?<p>Turns out if your hash function is N bits you will need to have 2^(N&#x2F;2) items before you see two hashed to the same thing by chance. If you choose a 256 bit cryptographic hash function like SHA256, that&#x27;s 2^128. This probability is so low you have a higher chance of encountering a cosmic ray bit flip!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Content-addressable_storage" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Content-addressable_storage</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Birthday_problem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Birthday_problem</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;This probability is so low you have a higher chance of encountering a cosmic ray bit flip!&quot;<p>We commonly conceive of our computers as 100% accurate, but as you observe here, for this and other reasons they aren&#x27;t. The distribution of errors is exceedingly pathological; the vast majority of errors you will encounter are not independent but are highly correlated, because some particular bit of hardware is flawed in some manner.<p>Ignore those for a moment, and consider just the purely-random failures, like cosmic or thermal bit flips. The rate on these is still non-zero. Very small, but high enough that we&#x27;ve pretty much all encountered them, usually without realizing it. (While it is true that a single bit flip can bring a program down if it is the correct bit, the <i>average</i> bit flip will have no visible manifestation of any kind.)<p>This creates a &quot;noise floor&quot; for our computations. Any event which has a probability lower than this &quot;noise floor&quot; for happening can be treated as the same zero probability you treat the possibility of totally random hardware failure.<p>The probably of two random pieces of content having the same SHA256 hash by random chance is in practice zero, and you may write your code that way. The potential problem that one may wish to defend against is the possibility that two pieces of content have the same SHA256 hash for <i>non-</i>random reasons, which is to say, the possibility that it will be broken. But the defense against that is rather different. There&#x27;s a lot of nasty possibilities that lie above this noise floor that still need to be dealt with.<p>I have seen this concept kinda bothers people sometimes. But you are justified in just ignoring anything below this noise floor. There&#x27;s basically never a reason to worry about this noise floor, because once you understand what it really means, you will see you lack to the tools to deal with it. Given an error, the probability that the error is the result of some non-random systemic issue is much higher than the probability that it was a truly random error. Even if you care about reliability a lot, like in space or medicine, the problem you need to deal with is failing hardware. If you try to write code to deal with the noise floor, it is much more likely to be getting invoked due to systemic, non-random issues... after all, a &quot;low probability&quot; failure on a network link that corrupts one packet a day is still <i>multiple orders of magnitude</i> above this noise floor.</text></comment> |
30,011,232 | 30,009,641 | 1 | 2 | 29,997,581 | train | <story><title>The internet changed my life</title><url>https://pointersgonewild.com/2022/01/19/the-internet-changed-my-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>How is HN any better than reddit?</text></item><item><author>iratewizard</author><text>Same boat on turning off reddit years ago. I hope significantly more people do the same.</text></item><item><author>abyssin</author><text>This reminds me of the saying in the psychedelic culture: “Once you’ve got the message, hang up the phone.” In March 2021 I made a similar decision regarding my use of Reddit. I’ve lost years doom-scrolling, but it’s also taught me useful things, especially regarding how to take care of my health. Now I feel like I’m getting more from books and I’ve transitioned to reading more of them. (Some of the reclaimed time also went towards caring for my first child.)<p>It isn’t too late to hang up the phone.</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>The internet to me was a blessing and a curse. In economic terms, it has granted me lots of opportunities I might have not otherwise had; in social terms, it has taken a big toll, significantly isolating me from the world, which I didn&#x27;t admit until very recently. I remember a smart classmate at university who, one day, just stopped attending and sold his computers, saying something like &quot;these little colored lights have turned me into something I don&#x27;t like&quot;. Some days I wish I had done the same.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fragmede</author><text>In many ways it is not. It&#x27;s an endless source of procrastination and staying here too long without other influences will cause you to develop a most profound case of engineer&#x27;s disease and blind you to the specific brand of groupthink here. Still, the level of discourse here is high compared to the worst of Reddit, and sometimes on topics I find highly engaging, which keeps me coming back for more (distraction). Just don&#x27;t fall into the logical fallacy that any of us here are worth more than any other human being because (some of us) have more money, or that we&#x27;re able to string English words together to form complete sentences.</text></comment> | <story><title>The internet changed my life</title><url>https://pointersgonewild.com/2022/01/19/the-internet-changed-my-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>How is HN any better than reddit?</text></item><item><author>iratewizard</author><text>Same boat on turning off reddit years ago. I hope significantly more people do the same.</text></item><item><author>abyssin</author><text>This reminds me of the saying in the psychedelic culture: “Once you’ve got the message, hang up the phone.” In March 2021 I made a similar decision regarding my use of Reddit. I’ve lost years doom-scrolling, but it’s also taught me useful things, especially regarding how to take care of my health. Now I feel like I’m getting more from books and I’ve transitioned to reading more of them. (Some of the reclaimed time also went towards caring for my first child.)<p>It isn’t too late to hang up the phone.</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>The internet to me was a blessing and a curse. In economic terms, it has granted me lots of opportunities I might have not otherwise had; in social terms, it has taken a big toll, significantly isolating me from the world, which I didn&#x27;t admit until very recently. I remember a smart classmate at university who, one day, just stopped attending and sold his computers, saying something like &quot;these little colored lights have turned me into something I don&#x27;t like&quot;. Some days I wish I had done the same.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iratewizard</author><text>I&#x27;m hopeful that the HN I enjoyed 10 years ago can be brought back when the reddit refugees who destroyed their own site lose interest.</text></comment> |
27,395,811 | 27,396,079 | 1 | 3 | 27,395,172 | train | <story><title>Booking.com to repay €65M Dutch State aid after €28M in bonuses for 3 US execs</title><url>https://nltimes.nl/2021/06/04/bookingcom-repay-eu65-million-state-aid-giving-eu28-million-bonuses-3-execs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neom</author><text>Similar conversation happening in Canada (but no repayment):<p>&quot;Bloc Québécois MP Xavier Barsalou-Duval put forward the motion, which states “that this House condemn the decision of senior management of Air Canada to pay themselves $20 million in executive bonuses when they’re received $6 billion in public assistance.”<p>Air Canada informed shareholders on Monday that its top executives and managers were getting a combined $10 million in stock options and bonuses for their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;globalnews.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;7918875&#x2F;air-canada-executive-bonuses-covid-pandemic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;globalnews.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;7918875&#x2F;air-canada-executive-bonu...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Booking.com to repay €65M Dutch State aid after €28M in bonuses for 3 US execs</title><url>https://nltimes.nl/2021/06/04/bookingcom-repay-eu65-million-state-aid-giving-eu28-million-bonuses-3-execs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gargs</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outline.com&#x2F;Nf5eNe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outline.com&#x2F;Nf5eNe</a><p>Here&#x27;s a little bit of background from an article at the start of the pandemic. The company had originally announced that they would cancel bonuses in exchange for government support. They even promised to protect jobs, which they didn&#x27;t, and laid off around 5000 anyway.</text></comment> |
26,513,481 | 26,512,627 | 1 | 2 | 26,512,125 | train | <story><title>Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from the chaos of Cairo</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-new-capital/egypt-prepares-to-start-move-to-new-capital-away-from-the-chaos-of-cairo-idUSKBN2B91X3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tazjin</author><text>Just a minor comment (I currently live in Egypt):<p>&gt; Control centres will monitor infrastructure and security electronically, roofs will be covered in solar panels, payments will be cashless<p>Good luck with that - a huge number of places don&#x27;t even put prices up because everything is negotiable and cash is king. If they only want the kind of Western-style stores with explicit prices in this area, then this could be restated as &quot;we don&#x27;t want the poor part of our population here&quot;.<p>Cairo (and to larger degree, Giza) have a very intense, unique feel inside the city and I don&#x27;t think this move will change anything about that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>riskable</author><text>Hey now... Just because a payment is cashless doesn&#x27;t mean you can&#x27;t haggle the price down. I&#x27;ve been in plenty of shops where you bring the item to the counter and the cashier enters the price directly into the register. No bar code necessary!<p>Even if you use a barcode there&#x27;s no reason why the price can&#x27;t be entered in directly or modified at the behest of the cashier. In the West we just don&#x27;t trust our cashiers enough to do that sort of thing so we lock out that power (&quot;Manager assistance needed at isle four!&quot;).<p>What the world needs right now is cashless payments that don&#x27;t have absurd (&gt;0.1%) transaction fees. I used to work at First Data (largest credit card processor) and you know how much it costs them to execute a credit card transaction? NOTHING. It&#x27;s literally nothing.<p>It&#x27;s not even a factor of, &quot;we have this many servers in this many data centers and here&#x27;s how much the electricity costs, divided by the total number of transactions in a given day.&quot; Why? Because every customer that uses First Data still pays a <i>monthly fee</i> that more than makes up for the cost of all the employees, data centers, software, etc etc.<p>If all First Data ever collected was that monthly fee they&#x27;d still be profitable (assuming all they did was handle credit card transactions).</text></comment> | <story><title>Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from the chaos of Cairo</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-new-capital/egypt-prepares-to-start-move-to-new-capital-away-from-the-chaos-of-cairo-idUSKBN2B91X3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tazjin</author><text>Just a minor comment (I currently live in Egypt):<p>&gt; Control centres will monitor infrastructure and security electronically, roofs will be covered in solar panels, payments will be cashless<p>Good luck with that - a huge number of places don&#x27;t even put prices up because everything is negotiable and cash is king. If they only want the kind of Western-style stores with explicit prices in this area, then this could be restated as &quot;we don&#x27;t want the poor part of our population here&quot;.<p>Cairo (and to larger degree, Giza) have a very intense, unique feel inside the city and I don&#x27;t think this move will change anything about that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>&gt; If they only want the kind of Western-style stores with explicit prices in this area, then this could be restated as &quot;we don&#x27;t want the poor part of our population here&quot;.<p>We both know that&#x27;s exactly what they want.</text></comment> |
41,712,606 | 41,712,144 | 1 | 2 | 41,711,709 | train | <story><title>Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikae1</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t matter what the reason is this time.<p>Next time it will undoubtedly be DMCA considering what happened to Yuzu. This is the perfect case for some sort of decentralized Git[1] or a Git repo via Tor.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radicle.xyz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radicle.xyz</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtndew4brkfst</author><text>Probably worth reminding that this is the project where the backing company is centered around crypto&#x2F;blockchain, but they pinkie promise it will never affect this work!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radicle.xyz&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radicle.xyz&#x2F;faq</a><p><i>Radworks, the organization that has been financing Radicle is organized around the RAD token which is a governance token on Ethereum.</i><p>It gives off the same odor as Tea did, for me personally.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikae1</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t matter what the reason is this time.<p>Next time it will undoubtedly be DMCA considering what happened to Yuzu. This is the perfect case for some sort of decentralized Git[1] or a Git repo via Tor.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radicle.xyz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radicle.xyz</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asveikau</author><text>&gt; is the perfect case for some sort of decentralized Git<p>This is exactly what git is made to be without any extra tooling on top.</text></comment> |
21,330,979 | 21,330,413 | 1 | 2 | 21,329,870 | train | <story><title>Pedestrian Bridge Collapse over SW 8th Street in Miami [pdf]</title><url>https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Documents/2019-HWY18MH009-BMG-abstract.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>harshreality</author><text>What went wrong technically to cause the bridge collapse is only the second half of the story.<p>The first half of the story is that the stakeholders wanted an over-the-top bridge design, complete with fake cable stays, and out of hubris decided they would use an all-concrete single-truss Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) design because all-concrete would look better and the university&#x27;s (FIU&#x27;s) engineering department sort of specialized in promoting ABC.<p>What could have been a much cheaper nice looking normally-designed bridge (which would be open today) ballooned (or you could say, was hijacked) into a $10mm+ bridge disaster that would be comedy if people hadn&#x27;t been hurt and killed. A majority of it was even paid for by federal grants.[1]<p>This is why we can&#x27;t have nice things. They were so focused on building a nice looking bridge — and meeting deadlines — that they didn&#x27;t&#x2F;couldn&#x27;t allocate sufficient resources to verify the design, verify it was built and moved into place correctly.<p>[1] see page 9 of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.transportation.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;dot.gov&#x2F;files&#x2F;docs&#x2F;briefing-room&#x2F;306576&#x2F;amendment-2-ga-tiger-v-fiu.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.transportation.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;dot.gov&#x2F;files&#x2F;docs&#x2F;brie...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Pedestrian Bridge Collapse over SW 8th Street in Miami [pdf]</title><url>https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Documents/2019-HWY18MH009-BMG-abstract.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fernly</author><text>&gt; The construction and inspection firms working on the bridge were aware of the cracks and reported the cracks to the design firm, asking for guidance. The engineer of record at the design firm repeatedly indicated that the cracks were of no safety concern.<p>Welp, that&#x27;s a lawsuit laid out cold right there, setting aside even the fact that<p>&gt; the probable cause of the ... bridge collapse was the load and capacity calculation errors made by FIGG Bridge Engineers, Inc.</text></comment> |
26,863,375 | 26,861,856 | 1 | 2 | 26,860,435 | train | <story><title>This is what Doom looks like on a holographic display</title><url>https://twitter.com/jankais3r/status/1383865733063479304</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hesdeadjim</author><text>I&#x27;ve built a non-trivial prototype application for the Looking Glass, and once you are past the initial &#x27;cool&#x27; moment the downsides start to rear their head:<p>- Split a 4k signal into 45 view planes means the effective resolution sucks, bad.<p>- Likewise, if your content is complicated at all you need a monster GPU because you are rendering your scenes 45 times <i>per</i> frame, meaning 45 times the draw calls.<p>- Field of view is very limited<p>- The amount of z-depth you can put content in without major blurring is much lower than even this video would indicate.<p>- You need to design your scene so important content never reaches the edges or things look yuck.<p>- Some patterns lead to artifacts like moire, and it can be hard to predict. Your content needs to work around this.<p>- They are (understandably) very expensive.<p>All that said, these things <i>are</i> cool and would be a perfect fit for some use-cases. After the prototype I built was green lit for full production, the decision was made to ditch these displays for all the reasons above.</text></comment> | <story><title>This is what Doom looks like on a holographic display</title><url>https://twitter.com/jankais3r/status/1383865733063479304</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boboche</author><text>This is autostereoscopic, not holographic. It is however really nice, 10 yrs ago we were playing Quake on a WowVx display from Phillips when not working on autostereoscopic digital signage content. Phillips stopped with as3d and spun off Dimenco which are also selling As3d products, newsight, tridelity, and a few others are around... but all of this is NOT holography. Its high res display with a lenticular sheet splitting viewpoints.</text></comment> |
41,147,303 | 41,146,097 | 1 | 2 | 41,120,494 | train | <story><title>The medieval 'New England' on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015)</title><url>https://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/05/medieval-new-england-black-sea.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>retrac</author><text>The region in question is where the eastern Goths lived: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Crimean_Goths" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Crimean_Goths</a> and they kept speaking Gothic until at least the 1700s in pockets.<p>Old English was probably still close enough to Gothic at that time as to be somewhat mutually intelligible - at most a gap similar to Dutch and German today. They may have integrated into local society more easily than it seems they would at first glance.<p>(This is speculative. There&#x27;s nothing particular to support this other than coincidence in timing and geography.)</text></comment> | <story><title>The medieval 'New England' on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015)</title><url>https://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/05/medieval-new-england-black-sea.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sklargh</author><text>So glad to see Dr. Green here. A very high quality blog that I’ve learned quite a bit from. Rigorous but accessible for non academics (Lincolnshire themed Roman, Early Medieval Britain ACOUP?).<p>If HN is looking for a nice, non-technical, read this is a rewarding place to do it.<p>edit - her book is very readable, recommend</text></comment> |
15,350,646 | 15,350,626 | 1 | 3 | 15,350,263 | train | <story><title>Keybase's mission is to make encryption mainstream</title><url>http://observer.com/2017/09/keybase-max-krohn-chris-coyne-okcupid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>niftich</author><text>A good article that covers what Keybase is, where they came from, what they try to do, and where they&#x27;re trying to go -- although you couldn&#x27;t tell from the headline. As in the article body, Slack is namedropped just for effect; Keybase Teams being a decent proof-of-concept of a popular kind of application to show that the ideas behind Keybase can be used to build real products.<p>That being said, Keybase has been moving more and more towards building these higher-level services on top of (and app-wise, deeply integrated into) their core offering: Chat, File locker, etc; presumably other than delivering value these offerings make the company easier to position in the grand graph of services, and more palatable for raising capital or as a future acquisition target.</text></comment> | <story><title>Keybase's mission is to make encryption mainstream</title><url>http://observer.com/2017/09/keybase-max-krohn-chris-coyne-okcupid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notheguyouthink</author><text>&gt; Two veteran entrepreneurs are running a little startup built around making it easy to build web and mobile applications from day one that make data impossible for a digital trespasser to read. In fact, it encrypts data in such a way that even if you use some company’s service, that company can’t see what you’re doing with it.<p>Is it? Not that I&#x27;m questioning Keybase, I just had no idea they were offering some type of encryption-as-a-service thing. I thought key base offered encrypted identity management, along with some encryption focused tools (kbfs, and now chat). Of course, I don&#x27;t know&#x2F;use key base - hence why I&#x27;m asking.<p>Can anyone go into more detail on how key base is offering this service:<p>&gt; In fact, it encrypts data in such a way that even if you use some company’s service, that company can’t see what you’re doing with it.<p><i>(Assuming &quot;some company&#x27;s service&quot; is a 3rd party service)</i></text></comment> |
22,149,306 | 22,149,023 | 1 | 2 | 22,148,087 | train | <story><title>One of biggest frauds in U.S. farm history</title><url>https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article239079858.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>It is obvious to everyone that due to the economic advantages of cheating, there needs to be some kind of inspection and certification program. Not that everyone is a cheater, but there will be cheaters, and it will put pressure on the non-cheaters to cheat too.<p>The same people who bitch about big government will strangle inspection programs via budget cuts, and then when something like this story comes out, use it as proof that government inspection programs don&#x27;t work and that even more defunding is in order.<p>It makes me despair.</text></comment> | <story><title>One of biggest frauds in U.S. farm history</title><url>https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article239079858.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>downrightmike</author><text>He scammed out a couple dozen million dollars each year and is fined 128 million, which ruined him and he&#x27;d never be able to pay it back. This is the kind of punishment That needs to happen to a lot of industries, really any of the crimes people commit should cost them more than they gained. But he must have been too small potatoes, so he got an appropriate sentence.</text></comment> |
11,823,824 | 11,821,090 | 1 | 2 | 11,819,804 | train | <story><title>Blizzard Exempt from iOS and MacOS Security Sandbox</title><url>https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/738018742710460420</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chillacy</author><text>I recall a story of how the windows 95 team (or the like) was crazy dedicated to backwards compatibility, so they had a check to see if the user was running Roller Coaster Tycoon and if so, disabled virtual memory so the game would run.<p>Though I&#x27;d like to know more details, like:<p>* Why does blizzard need to run in the sandbox on Mac OS X? The app sandbox is opt-in (though required for App Store apps)<p>* Can anyone set their team ID to blizzard&#x27;s?<p>* Are blizzard games attack vectors?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reymus</author><text>Here&#x27;s the story Joel Spolsky wrote some time ago[1]:<p>&gt; Windows 95? No problem. Nice new 32 bit API, but it still ran old 16 bit software perfectly. Microsoft obsessed about this, spending a big chunk of change testing every old program they could find with Windows 95. Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here&#x27;s the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn&#x27;t working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn&#x27;t free memory right away. That&#x27;s the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;fog0000000054.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;fog0000000054.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Blizzard Exempt from iOS and MacOS Security Sandbox</title><url>https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/738018742710460420</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chillacy</author><text>I recall a story of how the windows 95 team (or the like) was crazy dedicated to backwards compatibility, so they had a check to see if the user was running Roller Coaster Tycoon and if so, disabled virtual memory so the game would run.<p>Though I&#x27;d like to know more details, like:<p>* Why does blizzard need to run in the sandbox on Mac OS X? The app sandbox is opt-in (though required for App Store apps)<p>* Can anyone set their team ID to blizzard&#x27;s?<p>* Are blizzard games attack vectors?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gutigen</author><text>Apparently Steam games are favourite attack vector of NSA, they love exploiting Steam games on sysadmin machines.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;nsa-hacker-chief-explains-how-to-keep-him-out-of-your-system&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;nsa-hacker-chief-explains-how-...</a></text></comment> |
11,043,432 | 11,043,379 | 1 | 2 | 11,042,482 | train | <story><title>Tableau stock down almost 50%</title><url>http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ADATA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomasien</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what Tableau Software is and I found it pretty amazing that when I Google it I could still not figure it out because all the results were about the stock price. I think people might be focusing too much on stock price is Googling a company&#x27;s name doesn&#x27;t result in seeing the company&#x27;s website on the first page of results.....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gomox</author><text>Tableau is a surprisingly good desktop application for business intelligence and analytics that, IMO, grew too big for its own good. You plug it into data (spreadsheets, databases, you name it) and it makes it very simple (drag-and-drop simple) to crunch some numbers and produce interesting graphs, visualizations and analysis.<p>Some clever stuff they had was (early-RoR-style) guessing of data semantics based on heuristics (Column labeled &quot;date&quot;? probably worth grouping by months. Number pairs like -0.3242,0.12345 ? probably worth plotting on a map).<p>I have used trial and educational versions in the past and was always pretty impressed with the ease of use and the results. The product itself was &gt; $1k so I never actually purchased a license.<p>Even though I didn&#x27;t follow the strategy very closely, from what I&#x27;ve run into it seems lke their offerings were all over the place. I saw a local newspaper using a hosted Tableau product to display data visualizations on their pages (the kind of visualizations made by a company whose DNA is desktop apps, so kind of underwhelming). Their website is all about Gartner and enterprisey lingo.<p>The product itself is, well, some advanced version of Excel. This means you either sell a lot of it very cheap, or very little of it for a lot of money. Website design suggests the latter. Too bad it seems to not be working.<p>I&#x27;m honestly sad to see them do badly as I think the product was really innovative and it really changed my way of thinking about report building and analytics tools.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tableau stock down almost 50%</title><url>http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ADATA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomasien</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what Tableau Software is and I found it pretty amazing that when I Google it I could still not figure it out because all the results were about the stock price. I think people might be focusing too much on stock price is Googling a company&#x27;s name doesn&#x27;t result in seeing the company&#x27;s website on the first page of results.....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sologoub</author><text>Tableau is a visualization software that you can bolt on top of many different data sources, from spreadsheets to BI tools and even AWS RedShift to get awesome looking dashboards and interactive visuals.<p>They are&#x2F;were extremely popular with many sales organizations for internal dashboarding and even some media outlets used their stuff for public websites.<p>Sad to see this state of things for them, as the product was true good at one point. That said, I have not touched it in 3-4 years, so not sure how competitive it is now.</text></comment> |
9,490,985 | 9,488,865 | 1 | 2 | 9,487,903 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%?</title><text>I have talked to numerous people and there is no set consensus on whether I should be unplugging my laptop charger when it is fully charged.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gpvos</author><text>So what my laptop should do <i>automatically</i> is to stop charging once it hits ~90%, and start charging again when it hits ~40%. And the OS should give me an easy-to-reach option to &quot;charge to 100%&quot; for when I&#x27;m about to make a trip. Why hasn&#x27;t anyone implemented this yet?</text></item><item><author>bkanber</author><text>Source: I have a master&#x27;s degree in mechanical engineering in hybrid vehicle powertrains, and a big part of my research was battery technology. I spent some time working with the folks at National Semiconductor learning this, so I have several primary sources.<p>Disclaimer: my knowledge of the field is from ca 2010.<p>1) Lots of deep discharge cycles do negatively affect battery life. Try not to jump between 0% and 100% too much.<p>2) Li-ion batteries do not love being at 100% SOC (state of charge). As batteries become more dense, the membranes become thinner. High SOC equates to high chemical potential, which will break down membranes faster. As such, avoid leaving your battery at 100%. This wasn&#x27;t as much of a problem with older batteries with thicker membranes, but is becoming more and more an issue as we try to squeeze every ounce of density out of batteries.<p>3) Roughly 70% SOC is where a battery is happiest, but the whole range of ~30-80% is pretty happy for a li ion cell. Try to keep your battery at ~70% or so overnight, at 50% or so for long sleeps.<p>A good usage pattern: plug in and let charge to 90%, unplug and use for a couple of hours, plug back in at 50% or so, rinse and repeat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jen729w</author><text>See Siracusa&#x27;s analysis of this suggestion.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;atp.fm&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;33-a-30-minute-skip-button" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;atp.fm&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;33-a-30-minute-skip-button</a><p>TL;DR: good idea, but people will forget and become shitty when their laptop isn&#x27;t at 100% when they go on a trip.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%?</title><text>I have talked to numerous people and there is no set consensus on whether I should be unplugging my laptop charger when it is fully charged.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gpvos</author><text>So what my laptop should do <i>automatically</i> is to stop charging once it hits ~90%, and start charging again when it hits ~40%. And the OS should give me an easy-to-reach option to &quot;charge to 100%&quot; for when I&#x27;m about to make a trip. Why hasn&#x27;t anyone implemented this yet?</text></item><item><author>bkanber</author><text>Source: I have a master&#x27;s degree in mechanical engineering in hybrid vehicle powertrains, and a big part of my research was battery technology. I spent some time working with the folks at National Semiconductor learning this, so I have several primary sources.<p>Disclaimer: my knowledge of the field is from ca 2010.<p>1) Lots of deep discharge cycles do negatively affect battery life. Try not to jump between 0% and 100% too much.<p>2) Li-ion batteries do not love being at 100% SOC (state of charge). As batteries become more dense, the membranes become thinner. High SOC equates to high chemical potential, which will break down membranes faster. As such, avoid leaving your battery at 100%. This wasn&#x27;t as much of a problem with older batteries with thicker membranes, but is becoming more and more an issue as we try to squeeze every ounce of density out of batteries.<p>3) Roughly 70% SOC is where a battery is happiest, but the whole range of ~30-80% is pretty happy for a li ion cell. Try to keep your battery at ~70% or so overnight, at 50% or so for long sleeps.<p>A good usage pattern: plug in and let charge to 90%, unplug and use for a couple of hours, plug back in at 50% or so, rinse and repeat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tertius</author><text>I have this as &quot;conservation mode&quot; on my Lenovo Yoga Pro 2, and probably all new Lenovos.</text></comment> |
12,860,735 | 12,860,682 | 1 | 2 | 12,858,627 | train | <story><title>You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/you-cant-fix-diversity-in-tech-without-fixing-the-technical-interview/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Scea91</author><text>I&#x27;ve had 4 technical interviews in my life and passed all of them. I didn&#x27;t practice for them, I just have strong foundations in CS. The most criticism of interviews comes from people who can&#x27;t get past them.</text></item><item><author>divbit</author><text>That is a pretty huge statistic, - what also pops out to me is: &quot;stop practicing &quot;. This seems to imply that these technical interviews are skills that you don&#x27;t really gain on the job. I know that personally would 9 times out of 10 spend time on a cool &#x2F; beneficial project rather than making time to practice trivia problems.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>The big result there is this: <i>&quot;Poor performances in technical interviewing happen to most people, even people who are generally very strong. However, when we looked at our data, we discovered that after a poor performance, women are 7 times more likely to stop practicing than men.&quot;</i><p>On the hiring side, &quot;For the specific case of an online job posting, on average, 1,000 individuals will see a job post, 200 will begin the application process, 100 will complete the application, 75 of those 100 resumes will be screened out by either the ATS or a recruiter, 25 resumes will be seen by the hiring manager, 4 to 6 will be invited for an interview, 1 to 3 of them will be invited back for final interview, 1 will be offered that job and 80 percent of those receiving an offer will accept it (Talent Function Group LLC).&quot; This implies that 80% of interviews lead to rejection.<p>Given that level of rejection, the key here is to get women to know the odds and keep trying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qq66</author><text>You don&#x27;t &quot;just have strong foundations in CS,&quot; you also have strong foundations in interviewing, whether you consciously developed those skills or not. The problem is that those interviewing skills aren&#x27;t really relevant to the job, so they shouldn&#x27;t be part of the interview.<p>I once had a candidate who completely bombed the interview, one of the worst interviews I&#x27;ve ever done, but he had a great portfolio. I took the risk and hired him on instinct and he turned out to be an amazing frontend developer who just doesn&#x27;t do well when he&#x27;s on the spot standing in front of someone. Years later I recommended him to someone else who was hiring, with the caveat that &quot;he&#x27;s going to bomb the interview,&quot; which he did. The guy called me back and said, &quot;I can&#x27;t hire someone who did that badly on the interview&quot; and I told him, &quot;do it, you won&#x27;t regret it, I promise you.&quot; He did make the hire, and it predictably went great.<p>Interviews work well for salespeople because interview skills and sales skills overlap a lot. Interviews don&#x27;t work as well for engineers because interview skills and engineering skills overlap very little. It&#x27;s just a large injection of noise into the hiring process.</text></comment> | <story><title>You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/you-cant-fix-diversity-in-tech-without-fixing-the-technical-interview/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Scea91</author><text>I&#x27;ve had 4 technical interviews in my life and passed all of them. I didn&#x27;t practice for them, I just have strong foundations in CS. The most criticism of interviews comes from people who can&#x27;t get past them.</text></item><item><author>divbit</author><text>That is a pretty huge statistic, - what also pops out to me is: &quot;stop practicing &quot;. This seems to imply that these technical interviews are skills that you don&#x27;t really gain on the job. I know that personally would 9 times out of 10 spend time on a cool &#x2F; beneficial project rather than making time to practice trivia problems.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>The big result there is this: <i>&quot;Poor performances in technical interviewing happen to most people, even people who are generally very strong. However, when we looked at our data, we discovered that after a poor performance, women are 7 times more likely to stop practicing than men.&quot;</i><p>On the hiring side, &quot;For the specific case of an online job posting, on average, 1,000 individuals will see a job post, 200 will begin the application process, 100 will complete the application, 75 of those 100 resumes will be screened out by either the ATS or a recruiter, 25 resumes will be seen by the hiring manager, 4 to 6 will be invited for an interview, 1 to 3 of them will be invited back for final interview, 1 will be offered that job and 80 percent of those receiving an offer will accept it (Talent Function Group LLC).&quot; This implies that 80% of interviews lead to rejection.<p>Given that level of rejection, the key here is to get women to know the odds and keep trying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kls</author><text>I have only failed one technical interview in my life, and to be honest I did not fail it, I took the confidence route which put off the 20 something lead I was interviewing with and mentioned that I was a keynotes speaker at IBM Impact on the coming transition to Javascript based applications. He took this as an affront and challenge (to be brighter than the IBM speaker guy to his team) and ensured that the interview was a miserable experience, but that is neither here nor there The only reason I toot my own horn is to relay the following observation.<p>The point I want to get to is: I have a buddy who I have dragged along with me (many times staking my reputation on his abilities), to every engagement I go on and this guy could not pass a how to use Microsoft Word interview. He has Aspergers and locks up and fails miserably in the interviewing process, but the honest, reality is, he is 10 times the developer I am, the guy sees patterns instantly and has a knack for code organization. He can master a new technology in a week and is hands down the best developer I have ever met.<p>That being said, over the years watching him has lead me to the conclusion that it is indeed the ones they hold faith in the technical interview are actually the ones that are the most stove piped and only see the world thru their limited experiences. It should be classified as a form of confirmation bias.</text></comment> |
38,819,333 | 38,819,266 | 1 | 3 | 38,818,734 | train | <story><title>EU Cyber Resilience Act: What does it mean for open source?</title><url>https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-what-does-it-mean-for-open-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbk</author><text>The new version of the CRA is quite an improvement, and most of discussions around the open source communities were about older versions that were quite concerning. There were a lot of scary discussions on the foundations mailing list and on various board of open source non-profit.<p>This article is a good step to explain what has changed.<p><i>(I was quite concerned as President of VideoLAN and involved in VLC and FFmpeg, since both projects would have been threatened by previous drafts)</i></text></comment> | <story><title>EU Cyber Resilience Act: What does it mean for open source?</title><url>https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-what-does-it-mean-for-open-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jahav</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&#x2F;legal-content&#x2F;EN&#x2F;TXT&#x2F;PDF&#x2F;?uri=CONSIL:ST_17000_2023_INIT" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&#x2F;legal-content&#x2F;EN&#x2F;TXT&#x2F;PDF&#x2F;?uri=CONS...</a><p>Important bits (10c and around):<p>* Libraries&#x2F;non-end products are fine, unless monetized.<p>* Employee contributions seem to be fine.<p>* Foundations seem to be fine.<p>* Non-core developers are fine<p>Seems like significantly better version.</text></comment> |
23,154,225 | 23,154,115 | 1 | 2 | 23,152,167 | train | <story><title>Street View camera rigs do much more than just take photos</title><url>https://www.trekview.org/blog/2019/google-street-view-cameras-more-than-meets-the-eye/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jetrink</author><text>I remember the outrage that this revelation generated and I am still stumped by it. First, the probability that a Google car happens to capture sensitive information as it drives past your residence once per year is basically zero. Even if it did, it would still require detective work to correlate it to you specifically. Second, if you are worried about people recording data broadcast by your WiFi router, it&#x27;s up to you to secure your network. I would be much more concerned about a neighbor snooping on my traffic. What did people imagine that Google was doing with these random snippets of data?</text></item><item><author>ForHackernews</author><text>Not just metadata: Wasn&#x27;t the controversy that they were sniffing data packets, too?</text></item><item><author>lalos</author><text>They have been previously used to collect SSID names and other WiFi network metadata. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;05&#x2F;google-wifi-fcc-investigation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;05&#x2F;google-wifi-fcc-investigation&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashtonkem</author><text>I’m kind of surprised that you’re surprised by it.<p>Outrage over privacy violations has very little to do with the actual harm that the privacy violation causes, and much more to do with whether or not it seems to violate a prior expectation of anonymity or privacy. This concept is even enshrined in US jurisprudence; the “expectation of privacy” is a big factor in how privacy works in America.<p>Back to Google. The problem isn’t that they captured packets or SSIDs; the problem is that they captured it <i>sitting outside your house</i>. With that change it feels like Google has gone from taking photos of the city that you might be in, to sitting in the bushes taking pictures of your house.</text></comment> | <story><title>Street View camera rigs do much more than just take photos</title><url>https://www.trekview.org/blog/2019/google-street-view-cameras-more-than-meets-the-eye/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jetrink</author><text>I remember the outrage that this revelation generated and I am still stumped by it. First, the probability that a Google car happens to capture sensitive information as it drives past your residence once per year is basically zero. Even if it did, it would still require detective work to correlate it to you specifically. Second, if you are worried about people recording data broadcast by your WiFi router, it&#x27;s up to you to secure your network. I would be much more concerned about a neighbor snooping on my traffic. What did people imagine that Google was doing with these random snippets of data?</text></item><item><author>ForHackernews</author><text>Not just metadata: Wasn&#x27;t the controversy that they were sniffing data packets, too?</text></item><item><author>lalos</author><text>They have been previously used to collect SSID names and other WiFi network metadata. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;05&#x2F;google-wifi-fcc-investigation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;05&#x2F;google-wifi-fcc-investigation&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>henriquez</author><text>&gt; if you are worried about people recording data broadcast by your WiFi router, it&#x27;s up to you to secure your network<p>So that makes it okay for Google to Hoover up? This attitude is why a lot of people are angry at big tech right now. Elitism and arrogance bordering on hubris, but zero self awareness.</text></comment> |
20,805,331 | 20,804,751 | 1 | 3 | 20,799,878 | train | <story><title>The Perfect French Baguette</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190825-the-perfect-french-baguette</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomlockwood</author><text>&gt; In addition to winning this illustrious competition, Bouattour and M’Seddi have a few other things in common. Both forewent the traditional trade school that many aspiring French bakers enter at age 16. Both have been professional bakers for less than a decade (as has this year’s winner, former engineer Fabrice Leroy). And both are first-generation Frenchmen with what Bouattour euphemistically dubs ‘origins’: family backgrounds from elsewhere – or in their cases, Tunisia.<p>&gt; “I stopped thinking of myself as a foreigner a long time ago, but my origins make me the person I am today,” he said. “We all start with the same tools, the same teachers, but some people are going to understand things differently. That has nothing to do with origins; that’s just talent.”<p>For all the rhetoric on the right about how people from other cultures are not &quot;suitable&quot; for &quot;western&quot; countries - some of the proudest citizens and torch-carriers for tradition, are foreigners.<p>It also absolutely works both ways - Australia was virulently anti Italian and Greek in the 50s and 60s. Now we almost couldn&#x27;t imagine brunch without espresso and feta on our smashed avocado. The diversity made us better.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Perfect French Baguette</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190825-the-perfect-french-baguette</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mathnerd314</author><text>This article reads like the quotes in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;1995&#x2F;02&#x2F;chess&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;1995&#x2F;02&#x2F;chess&#x2F;</a> about how computers would never beat people at chess. Winning at chess required &quot;fantasy&quot; and &quot;creativity&quot; and here baking requires &quot;passion&quot; and &quot;magic&quot;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;bread-making-robot-makes-everyone-at-ces-2019-trash-their-no-carb-new-year-resolution&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnet.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;bread-making-robot-makes-everyone-...</a> is a fully-automated bakery, although it doesn&#x27;t produce baguettes, and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5zfb456YrsM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5zfb456YrsM</a> is half-automated from dough to finish; maybe we&#x27;ll get a IBM Watson-style &quot;robot bread&quot; entry in the competition sometime.</text></comment> |
38,143,721 | 38,142,753 | 1 | 2 | 38,141,006 | train | <story><title>Starfish bodies aren’t bodies at all, study finds</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/world/starfish-head-body-plan-scn/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bloopernova</author><text>Starfish are bizarre. They start as a bilaterally symmetrical larva, then grow a stalk that attaches to the sea bed. They grow, then rearrange themselves into a pentaradially symmetrical form.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Starfish" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Starfish</a><p>Plus they can regenerate from a severed limb! Creepy, but very interesting too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oboes</author><text>An even more bizarre animal is Dendrogaster, a starfish parasite. Believe it or not, but it&#x27;s a crustacean.<p>It grows inside a starfish&#x27;s body cavity until filling it completely, which explains the strange shape of the parasite.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.australiangeographic.com.au&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;creatura-blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;the-dendrogaster-parasite-is-the-stuff-of-nightmares&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.australiangeographic.com.au&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;creatura-blog&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Starfish bodies aren’t bodies at all, study finds</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/world/starfish-head-body-plan-scn/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bloopernova</author><text>Starfish are bizarre. They start as a bilaterally symmetrical larva, then grow a stalk that attaches to the sea bed. They grow, then rearrange themselves into a pentaradially symmetrical form.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Starfish" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Starfish</a><p>Plus they can regenerate from a severed limb! Creepy, but very interesting too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>polishdude20</author><text>Jellyfish are really weird too. They produce like spores that then go down to the surface and create factories that create little baby jellyfish.</text></comment> |
38,270,665 | 38,270,690 | 1 | 3 | 38,261,982 | train | <story><title>A decade of developing a programming language</title><url>https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/a-decade-of-developing-a-programming-language/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>packetlost</author><text>As someone who has worked with massive typed Python codebases, I 100% agree with the author on Gradual Typing. It&#x27;s literally the <i>worst</i> of both worlds. It&#x27;s actually even worse than that because it gives the <i>illusion</i> of some safety when there isn&#x27;t any, especially in Python where most of the tooling &quot;fails open&quot; by default and won&#x27;t tell you something is wrong despite having annotations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LegibleCrimson</author><text>I disagree, as somebody who has also worked with tons of type-hinted Python code. Gradual typing is obviously worse than real static typing, but it&#x27;s a step up from full dynamic typing. It has caught many bugs for me before hitting them in runtime, and provides good documentation about what I can expect a function to accept and return without forcing me to read prose.<p>Type hints don&#x27;t provide any safety, though. That was never the goal, given that they&#x27;re strictly optional and don&#x27;t really exist at runtime anyway (though I have written some experimental monstrosities that used annotations for code generation at runtime). They&#x27;re documentation in a standard form that static analysis tools can leverage.<p>I really can&#x27;t imagine a situation where having type hints in Python is worse than simply not having them. They&#x27;re not the worst of both worlds, they&#x27;re a compromise with some of the benefits and drawbacks of each.</text></comment> | <story><title>A decade of developing a programming language</title><url>https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/a-decade-of-developing-a-programming-language/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>packetlost</author><text>As someone who has worked with massive typed Python codebases, I 100% agree with the author on Gradual Typing. It&#x27;s literally the <i>worst</i> of both worlds. It&#x27;s actually even worse than that because it gives the <i>illusion</i> of some safety when there isn&#x27;t any, especially in Python where most of the tooling &quot;fails open&quot; by default and won&#x27;t tell you something is wrong despite having annotations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ric2b</author><text>How is it worse than no typing? If you&#x27;re not testing adequately because you think type safety is enough, you done f&#x27;d up.</text></comment> |
25,014,092 | 25,014,000 | 1 | 2 | 25,013,144 | train | <story><title>Impact of fasting and calorie restriction on cancer cells</title><url>https://osher.ucsf.edu/patient-care/integrative-medicine-resources/cancer-and-nutrition/faq/cancer-and-fasting-calorie-restriction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text><i>As mentioned above, it may not be appropriate for everyone, particularly those who are underweight or very ill</i><p>I have an incurable, serious condition. In recent years, I&#x27;m fairly regularly too broke to eat adequately. As a consequence, I fast or semi-fast part of most months.<p>I&#x27;ve slowly gotten healthier. Fasting or semi-fasting is not the only reason by any stretch of the imagination.<p>Anecdotally, it&#x27;s gotten easier as I&#x27;ve gotten healthier.<p>I read once (or heard from someone) that if you cut calories by 80 percent -- a figure not shown in their chart defining their terms -- it triggers the &quot;starvation&quot; response. Your body thinks you are starving, much as if you weren&#x27;t eating at all.<p>I have found that semi-fasting -- eating maybe 20 percent of normal calories -- has fasting-like benefits for my condition while being much, much easier to endure as someone with a real serious and incurable medical condition.<p>This is absolutely not medical advice of any sort for anyone. I am not a doctor. I&#x27;m a person with a chronic illness running my mouth on the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>feralimal</author><text>Don&#x27;t worry about not being a doctor - that&#x27;s a good thing!<p>Doctors would NOT advise anyone to cut calories by 80% even if, as in your case, it improves your health. Nor would they advise a diabetic to abstain from carbs, and so take away the trigger for their condition. (Ie - you don&#x27;t have diabetes if you don&#x27;t eat carbs.) 99.9% of doctors will only prescribe drugs.<p>The medical industry is not about well - its about maximising illness for profit. And improving diet and eating behaviour is the last thing they will do - there&#x27;s no money in that!</text></comment> | <story><title>Impact of fasting and calorie restriction on cancer cells</title><url>https://osher.ucsf.edu/patient-care/integrative-medicine-resources/cancer-and-nutrition/faq/cancer-and-fasting-calorie-restriction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text><i>As mentioned above, it may not be appropriate for everyone, particularly those who are underweight or very ill</i><p>I have an incurable, serious condition. In recent years, I&#x27;m fairly regularly too broke to eat adequately. As a consequence, I fast or semi-fast part of most months.<p>I&#x27;ve slowly gotten healthier. Fasting or semi-fasting is not the only reason by any stretch of the imagination.<p>Anecdotally, it&#x27;s gotten easier as I&#x27;ve gotten healthier.<p>I read once (or heard from someone) that if you cut calories by 80 percent -- a figure not shown in their chart defining their terms -- it triggers the &quot;starvation&quot; response. Your body thinks you are starving, much as if you weren&#x27;t eating at all.<p>I have found that semi-fasting -- eating maybe 20 percent of normal calories -- has fasting-like benefits for my condition while being much, much easier to endure as someone with a real serious and incurable medical condition.<p>This is absolutely not medical advice of any sort for anyone. I am not a doctor. I&#x27;m a person with a chronic illness running my mouth on the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ganafagol</author><text>And maybe you would have gotten even better without this forced fasting.<p>Now you may consider me heartless for this response, and that would be sad because I really feel for you man. But this is why anecdotical evidence, especially first-hand from people affected, does not hold much ground in the scientific method.<p>In other words, my comment provides neither less nor more evidence than your comment does.</text></comment> |
8,338,979 | 8,338,327 | 1 | 2 | 8,337,805 | train | <story><title>Introducing Tweet-a-Program</title><url>http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/09/18/introducing-tweet-a-program/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jpatokal</author><text>Whenever I see Wolfram&#x2F;Mathematica stuff like this, I&#x27;m not entirely sure if it&#x27;s incredibly brilliant and will replace all computing as we know it, or completely batshit insane and impenetrable unless you&#x27;ve spent 20 years learning it. Usually I lean towards the latter though, and this is supported by the fact that I&#x27;ve never seen anybody not employed by Wolfram do this kind of thing.<p>See also: <a href="http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/08/19/which-is-closer-local-beer-or-local-whiskey" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.wolfram.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;19&#x2F;which-is-closer-local-bee...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing Tweet-a-Program</title><url>http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/09/18/introducing-tweet-a-program/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>echoes</author><text>Ahh! I went to his SXSW talk this year and was absolutely entranced with the Wolfram language. It seemed like a real step forward in innovative thinking and actual &quot;natural language&quot; programming, but I was sad it&#x27;s proprietary.<p>I think the power of it is really undervalued - using all the knowledge of the wolfram-alpha engine to create objects? Such a neat idea! Imagine if Google built a similar language based on their search engine data - the kinds of programs people could build and might accidentally build just playing around boggle the mind.</text></comment> |
31,503,175 | 31,503,147 | 1 | 2 | 31,501,897 | train | <story><title>Statement on 4 Years of GDPR</title><url>https://noyb.eu/en/statement-4-years-gdpr</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pmontra</author><text>There are signs that it&#x27;s getting better. I started seeing cookie dialogs with a Reject all button. Sometimes it&#x27;s a big one, sometimes it&#x27;s almost white on white, but it&#x27;s there. Anyway the vast majority of those dialogs is still misleading. The usual We care about your privacy, accept all, settings thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Statement on 4 Years of GDPR</title><url>https://noyb.eu/en/statement-4-years-gdpr</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paol</author><text>This article is excessively negative on the effectiveness of the law.<p>I would say the biggest issue is inconsistent enforcement by DPAs. The other problems are overstated.<p>Believe me, as someone who sees things from the inside of european companies, compliance is still taken very seriously.</text></comment> |
26,312,661 | 26,311,780 | 1 | 2 | 26,309,833 | train | <story><title>Splitting the Ping</title><url>https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ping-with-loss-latency-split</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>great_wubwub</author><text>Everybody is talking about clock accuracy and totally missing that devices in the middle of the network path <i>do not care about responding quickly to pings</i>. Middle devices are generally routers or firewalls, and their job is to route and firewall, not to respond to a packet as quickly as it comes in. Transit traffic is far more important than processing control plane packets. Devices can add several msec or more in latency by sticking ICMP echo requests and the like in a low-priority queue and getting around to responding eventually. This will dwarf any gains produced by &quot;the best NTP server&quot;.<p>And no, setting QoS bits on the packet will not help.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>Absolutely this. One of the first thing that an ISP&#x27;s NOC will tell a business customer, when they&#x27;re complaining about ICMP loss or high latency to some intermediate-hop seen in a traceroute, is to <i>test against the ICMP loss and latency&#x2F;jitter to an endpoint destination</i>.<p>Preferably to an endpoint destination that is some sort of server which isn&#x27;t firewalling&#x2F;rate limiting answering ICMP, and not a firewall or router.<p>You can see what looks like terrible loss and jitter to intermediate hops in a traceroute, but traffic to your your VoIP server that is 12.3ms away on the far side of those hops and several AS-to-AS adjacencies, might average 0.00% loss over multi week periods, with less than 0.3ms of jitter range.<p>Customers will also be advised to use other tools that can measure success&#x2F;failure and RTT answer time of other services and daemons running on the endpoint they&#x27;re testing against (at OSI layers 4-7), such as the various ways of measuring DNS lookup query time, or time to curl a sample file from an httpd over TLS1.2&#x2F;1.3, and plot that on a multi day&#x2F;week chart.<p>For their own protection routers and other network equipment with packets flowing <i>through</i> them deprioritize answering ICMP.</text></comment> | <story><title>Splitting the Ping</title><url>https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ping-with-loss-latency-split</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>great_wubwub</author><text>Everybody is talking about clock accuracy and totally missing that devices in the middle of the network path <i>do not care about responding quickly to pings</i>. Middle devices are generally routers or firewalls, and their job is to route and firewall, not to respond to a packet as quickly as it comes in. Transit traffic is far more important than processing control plane packets. Devices can add several msec or more in latency by sticking ICMP echo requests and the like in a low-priority queue and getting around to responding eventually. This will dwarf any gains produced by &quot;the best NTP server&quot;.<p>And no, setting QoS bits on the packet will not help.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bogomipz</author><text>&gt;&quot;Everybody is talking about clock accuracy and totally missing that devices in the middle of the network path do not care about responding quickly to pings. Middle devices are generally routers or firewalls, and their job is to route and firewall, not to respond to a packet as quickly as it comes in.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s not correct. A box in the middle of the network path by definition doesn&#x27;t respond at all to the ping request since it&#x27;s not addressed to them. It&#x27;s simply forwards the IP packet that encapsulates the ICMP echo request towards its destination. As forwarding happens in the data plane this doesn&#x27;t involve the control plane at all. A router with no QoS will forward IP datagrams at the same rate whether they encapsulate TCP, UDP or ICMP.</text></comment> |
39,266,610 | 39,264,857 | 1 | 2 | 39,262,650 | train | <story><title>Weaveworks is shutting down</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/posts/richardsonalexis_hi-everyone-i-am-very-sad-to-announce-activity-7160295096825860096-ZS67</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>&gt; Also it really feels like all the air has been let out of the docker&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;cloud-native balloon that was so popular in the late 2010s.<p>Not really, the space has simply grown faster than these companies could keep up with and were left behind.<p>I can code up a CICD pipeline that does per-PR namespace isolated deploys of an app stack on EKS using Github actions in well under a week. With docker compose for local testing. That wasn&#x27;t the case 5 years ago but it is now. Why would I want to be locked into Weave Works?</text></item><item><author>mad_vill</author><text>I feel like the next generation of this type of company is smaller consultancies that have awesome developers that build customer tooling on the side. But the main revenue driver is consultancy.<p>Also it really feels like all the air has been let out of the docker&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;cloud-native balloon that was so popular in the late 2010s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benjaminwootton</author><text>GitHub actions must have eaten most of the DevOps tooling market. It’s pretty good and it’s fine for the vast majority of pipelines.</text></comment> | <story><title>Weaveworks is shutting down</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/posts/richardsonalexis_hi-everyone-i-am-very-sad-to-announce-activity-7160295096825860096-ZS67</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>&gt; Also it really feels like all the air has been let out of the docker&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;cloud-native balloon that was so popular in the late 2010s.<p>Not really, the space has simply grown faster than these companies could keep up with and were left behind.<p>I can code up a CICD pipeline that does per-PR namespace isolated deploys of an app stack on EKS using Github actions in well under a week. With docker compose for local testing. That wasn&#x27;t the case 5 years ago but it is now. Why would I want to be locked into Weave Works?</text></item><item><author>mad_vill</author><text>I feel like the next generation of this type of company is smaller consultancies that have awesome developers that build customer tooling on the side. But the main revenue driver is consultancy.<p>Also it really feels like all the air has been let out of the docker&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;cloud-native balloon that was so popular in the late 2010s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xenophonf</author><text>&gt; <i>a CICD pipeline that does per-PR namespace isolated deploys of an app stack on EKS using Github actions... [with] docker compose for local testing</i><p>Please teach me, oh wise prince!</text></comment> |
8,641,747 | 8,641,799 | 1 | 2 | 8,640,415 | train | <story><title>Monkey Island – Insult Swordfighting Game</title><url>http://www.int33h.com/test/mi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BaronKarza</author><text>Hello, I am the programmer of this little game.
I wanted to thank you, it is a great satisfaction to be on HN!
If you want you can take a look to my other small demo&#x2F;game that can be found linked just below the game: these are all projects that I did in my spare time, just for passion!
Again, thank you so much!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vvpan</author><text>Very, very cool! So you extracted images and dialog from scummvm game data and programmed the interactions? Or you are interpreting scummvm data straight out?</text></comment> | <story><title>Monkey Island – Insult Swordfighting Game</title><url>http://www.int33h.com/test/mi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BaronKarza</author><text>Hello, I am the programmer of this little game.
I wanted to thank you, it is a great satisfaction to be on HN!
If you want you can take a look to my other small demo&#x2F;game that can be found linked just below the game: these are all projects that I did in my spare time, just for passion!
Again, thank you so much!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abrugsch</author><text>I&#x27;ve shared this into the facebook Commodore Amiga group [0] where it&#x27;s getting a lot of love :)<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/CommodoreAmiga/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;groups&#x2F;CommodoreAmiga&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
23,116,090 | 23,116,306 | 1 | 2 | 23,113,661 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Micro-mitten – Research language with compile-time memory management</title><url>https://github.com/doctorn/micro-mitten</url><text>I&#x27;ve been working on implementing the compile-time approach to memory management described in this thesis (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;techreports&#x2F;UCAM-CL-TR-908.pdf) for some time now - some of the performance results look promising! (Although some less so...) I think it would be great to see this taken further and built into a more complete functional language.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steveklabnik</author><text>I haven&#x27;t dug into the details a ton, but I am excited to see this! Would love to see more research in this direction.<p>&gt; micro-mitten&#x27;s approach is significantly different from Rust&#x27;s. Rather than depending on single ownership and a complex lifetime system, micro-mitten uses a series of data-flow analyses to statically approximate heap liveness.<p>To be clear, Rust these days also looks at control-flow. This was what all the &quot;non-lexical lifetimes&quot; hubbub was about. And the next generation checker is based on datalog...</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Micro-mitten – Research language with compile-time memory management</title><url>https://github.com/doctorn/micro-mitten</url><text>I&#x27;ve been working on implementing the compile-time approach to memory management described in this thesis (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;techreports&#x2F;UCAM-CL-TR-908.pdf) for some time now - some of the performance results look promising! (Although some less so...) I think it would be great to see this taken further and built into a more complete functional language.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheAsprngHacker</author><text>Discussion on r&#x2F;ProgrammingLanguages: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ProgrammingLanguages&#x2F;comments&#x2F;gfgn0r&#x2F;research_programming_language_with_compiletime&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ProgrammingLanguages&#x2F;comments&#x2F;gfgn0...</a><p>Discussion on r&#x2F;rust: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;rust&#x2F;comments&#x2F;gfgt1b&#x2F;rustlike_language_with_static_memory_management&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;rust&#x2F;comments&#x2F;gfgt1b&#x2F;rustlike_langu...</a><p>I look at this and I think it&#x27;s a innovative and promising idea - the freedom of a garbage collected language, but with the tracing done as a type-aware static analysis, and the cleanup code inserted at compile-time!</text></comment> |
1,754,782 | 1,754,425 | 1 | 2 | 1,754,299 | train | <story><title>I made a fake-cake generator for my 30th birthday</title><url>http://cakesy.com/8958cec4c</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>chime</author><text>I'm turning 30 tomorrow so I figured I'd make something birthday related. A friend of mine came up with the idea and I coded it all up. The frosting is generated dynamically using the PHP GD library and a lot of image convolution matrices. And if you're wondering, yes the web 2.0 logo and cheesy graphics are intentional. I thought it would be more fun this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pak</author><text>Did you build it in CakePHP?</text></comment> | <story><title>I made a fake-cake generator for my 30th birthday</title><url>http://cakesy.com/8958cec4c</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>chime</author><text>I'm turning 30 tomorrow so I figured I'd make something birthday related. A friend of mine came up with the idea and I coded it all up. The frosting is generated dynamically using the PHP GD library and a lot of image convolution matrices. And if you're wondering, yes the web 2.0 logo and cheesy graphics are intentional. I thought it would be more fun this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcargian</author><text>Happy Birthday!</text></comment> |
19,399,090 | 19,397,864 | 1 | 2 | 19,392,293 | train | <story><title>Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line: The Most Flexible Line in the World</title><url>http://www.thedrive.com/tech/26955/inside-toyotas-takaoka-2-line-the-most-flexible-line-in-the-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>not_kurt_godel</author><text>I don&#x27;t doubt the line is much more efficient and flexible as claimed, but the article doesn&#x27;t do a very good job explaining exactly how the gains are achieved beyond hand-waving about clever contraptions that are faster than robots and the ability to dynamically move stations around. It seems difficult to imagine that hordes of industrial engineers haven&#x27;t done the calculations on each of these methods countless times at all car manufacturing companies. There must be deeper, more subtle factors that explain why Toyota&#x27;s particular combination of techniques yields such superior results. Perhaps it&#x27;s just the culmination of a lot of long-tail optimizations that only Toyota has had time and capital to let mature or maybe there really is just &quot;one secret trick&quot; that underpins it all - the article doesn&#x27;t really give a good sense of what it might be. In either case it&#x27;d be interesting to see a detailed breakdown with numbers comparing the various lines with explanations for why particular decisions were or weren&#x27;t made to truly understand why the system works so well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rubinelli</author><text>&gt; It seems difficult to imagine that hordes of industrial engineers haven&#x27;t done the calculations on each of these methods countless times at all car manufacturing companies.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s the Ford method: you hire the smartest people you can to lay out the best plan, and a bunch of interchangeable grunts to just execute. But it turns out that the person that has to do that work 40 hours a week has a much better chance to find ways to make it more efficient, and if you build a culture where that&#x27;s encouraged, that&#x27;s what they do. If there is &quot;one secret trick&quot;, it&#x27;s probably that an employee that feels that they own their work does a much better job than one that acts like a cog in the machine someone else designed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Toyota's Takaoka #2 Line: The Most Flexible Line in the World</title><url>http://www.thedrive.com/tech/26955/inside-toyotas-takaoka-2-line-the-most-flexible-line-in-the-world</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>not_kurt_godel</author><text>I don&#x27;t doubt the line is much more efficient and flexible as claimed, but the article doesn&#x27;t do a very good job explaining exactly how the gains are achieved beyond hand-waving about clever contraptions that are faster than robots and the ability to dynamically move stations around. It seems difficult to imagine that hordes of industrial engineers haven&#x27;t done the calculations on each of these methods countless times at all car manufacturing companies. There must be deeper, more subtle factors that explain why Toyota&#x27;s particular combination of techniques yields such superior results. Perhaps it&#x27;s just the culmination of a lot of long-tail optimizations that only Toyota has had time and capital to let mature or maybe there really is just &quot;one secret trick&quot; that underpins it all - the article doesn&#x27;t really give a good sense of what it might be. In either case it&#x27;d be interesting to see a detailed breakdown with numbers comparing the various lines with explanations for why particular decisions were or weren&#x27;t made to truly understand why the system works so well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>georgeek</author><text>That&#x27;s the whole concept of kaizen, or improvement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kaizen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kaizen</a></text></comment> |
35,889,133 | 35,888,952 | 1 | 2 | 35,887,680 | train | <story><title>Extending web applications with WebAssembly and Python</title><url>https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/wasm-host-to-python/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ridruejo</author><text>One of the aspects I find tremendously exciting about Wasm is not just the portability, security, performance, etc. but the fact that you can do this with your language of choice. Lowering the barrier to adoption without hindering some of the advanced use cases tends to work well to get developers onboard ...</text></comment> | <story><title>Extending web applications with WebAssembly and Python</title><url>https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/wasm-host-to-python/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>angelmm</author><text>You can find all the code from this article on GitHub [0].<p>- [0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vmware-labs&#x2F;webassembly-language-runtimes&#x2F;tree&#x2F;c6cf6e11ffaef1624108dfc9581911ed11f3f42d&#x2F;python&#x2F;examples&#x2F;bindings&#x2F;se2-bindings">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vmware-labs&#x2F;webassembly-language-runtimes...</a></text></comment> |
34,233,421 | 34,233,420 | 1 | 2 | 34,232,037 | train | <story><title>Men Without Work (2016)</title><url>https://time.com/4504004/men-without-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianai</author><text>In lieu of any particular review I’m submitting the Wikipedia page.<p>I was unemployed for most of the Great Recession and can empathize with much of this book. I also just remember the “tragedy of my twenties” realizing society had basically no interest in me. Despite a math degree and IT&#x2F;programming experience. Then the myriad people I’ve interacted with in the last decade plus who are in this situation.<p>Luckily I now have good paying career. But I fear a society that leaves so many cold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scottLobster</author><text>Yeah it seems like there used to be a cultural value of putting people to work. Generally speaking you had to be a real fuck-up to not get a job. Maybe the jobs available weren&#x27;t the best, but you could get something to pay for basic food&#x2F;housing with little effort or credentialing. The attitude was, if you were a decent person and willing to work, &quot;come by and we&#x27;ll find something for you to do&quot;.<p>Now the zeitgeist in the job market seems to be &quot;Why should we give you the gift of this job? Speak quickly and well, lest we cast you back into the void! You are a piece of shit until proven otherwise!&quot;<p>Granted some of that was always around for more competitive jobs, and some fields like engineering seem relatively exempt (outside of FAANG-style interviews) due to demand, but given what I was taught to expect growing up by schools&#x2F;parents vs what reality turned out to be, there&#x27;s definitely been a shift.</text></comment> | <story><title>Men Without Work (2016)</title><url>https://time.com/4504004/men-without-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianai</author><text>In lieu of any particular review I’m submitting the Wikipedia page.<p>I was unemployed for most of the Great Recession and can empathize with much of this book. I also just remember the “tragedy of my twenties” realizing society had basically no interest in me. Despite a math degree and IT&#x2F;programming experience. Then the myriad people I’ve interacted with in the last decade plus who are in this situation.<p>Luckily I now have good paying career. But I fear a society that leaves so many cold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mezzie</author><text>&gt; I also just remember the “tragedy of my twenties” realizing society had basically no interest in me.<p>Female, but same hat and I empathize. In my case, I&#x27;m a lesbian who ended up with MS, so like with your average straight guy, my worth in society is pretty much based on my work life&#x2F;career. I also share the jealousy a lot of straight men have for straight&#x2F;bi women being more able to &#x27;opt out&#x27;. It&#x27;s not a rational feeling, but it&#x27;s there.<p>&gt; But I fear a society that leaves so many cold.<p>Me too. We can only expect people to beat themselves up for so long before some of that rage and despair is turned outward, contributing to the destabilization of society.</text></comment> |
40,466,002 | 40,466,022 | 1 | 3 | 40,464,887 | train | <story><title>Anger Does a Lot More Damage to Your Body Than You Realize</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/anger-health-effects-risks-heart-brain-mental-f4105ed7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I have found that anger is <i>my</i> problem; regardless of whether or not it’s justified.<p>Anger isn’t actually an “emotion.” It’s a reaction. It causes our body to generate a bunch of endocrine changes to “supercharge,” and also causes our thinking to simplify into a fairly binary “fight or flight” mode.<p>We don’t usually make good decisions, when we’re angry; which is exactly why demagogues have striven to make people angry, for time immemorial.<p>So if I’m angry, I do my best to put it aside (easier said, than done, most times), and avoid making important decisions, while I’m fuming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soared</author><text>Im a huge fan of this mindset! A man’s search for meaning by viktor frankl is a brutal but good read partially about that mindset.<p>Somehow any problem in life could be reduced to nearly
no stress&#x2F;anxiety&#x2F;anger&#x2F;etc when I realized I could just.. choose to not have those responses. The drawback is you see others responding with extreme emotion and it can be difficult to accept their feelings as valid.</text></comment> | <story><title>Anger Does a Lot More Damage to Your Body Than You Realize</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/anger-health-effects-risks-heart-brain-mental-f4105ed7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I have found that anger is <i>my</i> problem; regardless of whether or not it’s justified.<p>Anger isn’t actually an “emotion.” It’s a reaction. It causes our body to generate a bunch of endocrine changes to “supercharge,” and also causes our thinking to simplify into a fairly binary “fight or flight” mode.<p>We don’t usually make good decisions, when we’re angry; which is exactly why demagogues have striven to make people angry, for time immemorial.<p>So if I’m angry, I do my best to put it aside (easier said, than done, most times), and avoid making important decisions, while I’m fuming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>everdrive</author><text>I agree with your mindset, but this is interesting to me:<p>&gt;Anger isn’t actually an “emotion.” It’s a reaction.<p>Are there emotions which are not reactions?</text></comment> |
38,778,802 | 38,777,212 | 1 | 3 | 38,774,471 | train | <story><title>Colorado wolf reintroduction to move forward</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-12-colorado-wolf-reintroduction-ranchers-legal.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DavidPastrnak</author><text>I&#x27;m a resident of Estes Park, Colorado, what is essentially Rocky Mountain National Park, and my partner in life is a biologist in RMNP where she tracks and monitors elk and moose populations. This has been on the forefront of our minds for awhile. While I’ll leave my personal opinion out of it, I do want to add a couple of notes.<p>Wolves have been crossing the boarder into Colorado for some time - the state is not completely void. Additionally, they have already released a handful in the last couple of weeks that were brought in from the PNW.<p>The topic of reintroduction is extremely complex and has led to heated and polarizing debates with residents across the state - even stretching into Wyoming politics where hunters are using electronic calls to lure them back across the border for hunting. This has resulted in a lot of confusion as to what the research outlines.<p>If anyone is curious, I have found this paper to be a great introduction to the topic. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;epdf&#x2F;10.1111&#x2F;csp2.413" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;epdf&#x2F;10.1111&#x2F;csp2...</a><p>Please remember that this is an extremely complex issue that is worth having constructive discussion on. I have faith that HN can keep it civil where other platforms have failed to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perrygeo</author><text>Thanks David. I&#x27;m just a few miles downhill (Masonville) and I agree that it&#x27;s a complex issue. The intentional introduction of any species raises many ethical questions. Humans have completely altered the ecosystem by removing wolves over the last 100 years. We understand this now, and the &quot;reintroduce wolves to restore the ecosystem&quot; reaction is a very reasonable public response. But it&#x27;s only a start, let&#x27;s not get distracted by charismatic megafauna.<p>We cannot pin ecosystem health on the presence&#x2F;absence of a single species. This is not ecosystem restoration, it&#x27;s a political accounting trick to manage species counts ... and pretend that&#x27;s a proxy for a balanced ecosystem (without understanding habitat fragmentation and loss, energy and nutrient cycling, climate change pressures, etc). So the challenge is, can we sustain an ecosystem to support new wolves and ourselves?<p>To those of us who want to produce the land for economic gain - I applaud you, homo economicus. But when our market demands every last watt of productivity be directed to human markets, there&#x27;s not much room to allow wolves to roam amongst livestock. If you&#x27;re competing in the modern financialized agriculture markets, you&#x27;re already under debt pressure and committed to a full-scale unconditional war against every non-human species - reintroduction of wolves is a direct attack.<p>I&#x27;m not for or against wolf re-introduction. I&#x27;m for ecosystem restoration and a sane economy. I&#x27;m for humans taking care of the land, meeting our needs AND carving out areas where wolves and other large mammals are allowed to &quot;make a living&quot;. And that goes much deeper than just busing a few wolves into Colorado.</text></comment> | <story><title>Colorado wolf reintroduction to move forward</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-12-colorado-wolf-reintroduction-ranchers-legal.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DavidPastrnak</author><text>I&#x27;m a resident of Estes Park, Colorado, what is essentially Rocky Mountain National Park, and my partner in life is a biologist in RMNP where she tracks and monitors elk and moose populations. This has been on the forefront of our minds for awhile. While I’ll leave my personal opinion out of it, I do want to add a couple of notes.<p>Wolves have been crossing the boarder into Colorado for some time - the state is not completely void. Additionally, they have already released a handful in the last couple of weeks that were brought in from the PNW.<p>The topic of reintroduction is extremely complex and has led to heated and polarizing debates with residents across the state - even stretching into Wyoming politics where hunters are using electronic calls to lure them back across the border for hunting. This has resulted in a lot of confusion as to what the research outlines.<p>If anyone is curious, I have found this paper to be a great introduction to the topic. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;epdf&#x2F;10.1111&#x2F;csp2.413" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;epdf&#x2F;10.1111&#x2F;csp2...</a><p>Please remember that this is an extremely complex issue that is worth having constructive discussion on. I have faith that HN can keep it civil where other platforms have failed to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheCondor</author><text>The moose was reintroduced and it has brought havoc to the beaver habitat, especially in rocky. We need wolves or something to balance the moose. It has become a very different park since the moose has invaded</text></comment> |
25,444,572 | 25,444,533 | 1 | 2 | 25,442,451 | train | <story><title>Google Finance Finally Updated</title><url>https://www.google.com/finance/quote/GOOG:NASDAQ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Yes but they were implemented in Flash.<p>So obviously they didn&#x27;t choose to remove features, they were <i>forced</i> to rebuild it from scratch.<p>And along the way, instead of it being a standalone product (which was really only justified because of competition from Yahoo Finance etc.), it made more sense for it to be simply part of Search, and so give simpler results.<p>Does that make sense? I don&#x27;t think they torched anyone&#x27;s goodwill here. It&#x27;s not senseless -- to the contrary, there was a lot of sense to what they did.<p>If you want a <i>serious</i> finance tool, Google (or Apple) stock &quot;apps&quot; are probably not going to be the right choice in the first place.</text></item><item><author>oramit</author><text>What a bizarre press release that accompanies this...
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;products&#x2F;search&#x2F;google-finance-makes-investing-information-more-accessible&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;products&#x2F;search&#x2F;google-finance-makes-inv...</a><p>Google Finance used to have all these features. They were already implemented and working fine in 2009! The original chart tool was much better than the current version. You could see every dividend that was issued, splits, add moving averages, etc.
Then they &quot;simplified&quot; it by removing all the best features and are now adding them back?<p>Why would I bother to use this when they have so thoroughly torched their goodwill by senselessly killing off working (and good!) products?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oramit</author><text>Are you a google product manager? I ask because, wow, this response is condescending.<p>I know the original chart tool was in Flash... I used it and described the features it had. Why after 10 years is the new version less useful than before?<p>Yahoo finance stayed separate and has been better for it. It doesn&#x27;t make sense for stocks to be integrated into search - I completely disagree.<p>I never said anything about Google Finance being the only tool I used. It was a perfect place to start and once I found an interesting security I would move over into something more <i>serious</i>.<p>Does that make sense?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Finance Finally Updated</title><url>https://www.google.com/finance/quote/GOOG:NASDAQ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Yes but they were implemented in Flash.<p>So obviously they didn&#x27;t choose to remove features, they were <i>forced</i> to rebuild it from scratch.<p>And along the way, instead of it being a standalone product (which was really only justified because of competition from Yahoo Finance etc.), it made more sense for it to be simply part of Search, and so give simpler results.<p>Does that make sense? I don&#x27;t think they torched anyone&#x27;s goodwill here. It&#x27;s not senseless -- to the contrary, there was a lot of sense to what they did.<p>If you want a <i>serious</i> finance tool, Google (or Apple) stock &quot;apps&quot; are probably not going to be the right choice in the first place.</text></item><item><author>oramit</author><text>What a bizarre press release that accompanies this...
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;products&#x2F;search&#x2F;google-finance-makes-investing-information-more-accessible&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;products&#x2F;search&#x2F;google-finance-makes-inv...</a><p>Google Finance used to have all these features. They were already implemented and working fine in 2009! The original chart tool was much better than the current version. You could see every dividend that was issued, splits, add moving averages, etc.
Then they &quot;simplified&quot; it by removing all the best features and are now adding them back?<p>Why would I bother to use this when they have so thoroughly torched their goodwill by senselessly killing off working (and good!) products?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acdha</author><text>The Flash switch could explain a few months but they had years to do a small project which much smaller companies did for more complicated projects. This seems a lot more like the usual Google problem where everyone involved moved on and nobody had an incentive to do maintenance work.</text></comment> |
13,584,088 | 13,581,042 | 1 | 3 | 13,580,390 | train | <story><title>Space Buckets: DIY Indoor Gardening with LED and Arduinos</title><url>http://www.spacebuckets.com/#c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>foxhop</author><text>Every time I see a gardening with tech post I get mildly irritated now that I have been actually gardening for 5 years. I&#x27;m of the opinion that we need less tech and more systems with integrated design to take the human labor out of gardening and orchards.<p>The sun is the perfect light source for photosynthesis and temperature. I only use LEDs as a last resort for seed starting. Also LEDs don&#x27;t provide the heat which plants really, really desire so you will end up needing to supplement with heating pads, incandescent bulbs, or external heating.<p>I accidentally raised my electric bill $100 one month last year when I used a small space heater to warm seeds.<p>I&#x27;m currently trying the following experiments:<p><pre><code> * winter sewing basil using milk jugs outside in the snow
* sewing onions indoors and germinating them on top of my houses boiler.</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Space Buckets: DIY Indoor Gardening with LED and Arduinos</title><url>http://www.spacebuckets.com/#c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hughes</author><text>This looks interesting, but high-tech gardening communities almost always seem to turn into thinly-veiled DIY cannabis farmers.</text></comment> |
20,447,005 | 20,447,114 | 1 | 3 | 20,443,472 | train | <story><title>Cargill: The Worst Company in the World</title><url>https://stories.mightyearth.org/cargill-worst-company-in-the-world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brianpgordon</author><text>They&#x27;ll do exactly as much damage as they can get away with. If there&#x27;s no regulation standing in their way, or the potential profits outweigh the consequences, <i>of course</i> they&#x27;ll continue their malfeasance. I don&#x27;t know why this is surprising to anyone. The nature of any corporation is to act in its own self-interest. I guess Mighty Earth is doing what they can, but it&#x27;s like raking leaves in the forest, in the middle of a raging wildfire. The only way that anything is going to change is through effective regulation and credible enforcement. Trying to wheedle and cajole Cargill into growing a conscience is a manifest exercise in futility.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cargill: The Worst Company in the World</title><url>https://stories.mightyearth.org/cargill-worst-company-in-the-world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rossdavidh</author><text>So, this may sound awkward but I&#x27;m going to say it anyway: this is what globalization enables. The very fact of sourcing things as elemental as the food you eat, from the other side of the planet (whichever side has the laxest environmental, health, and safety rules), makes this easier. It is easier to live far away from the things your company does, and the people it does them to, if they&#x27;re on a different continent than you. Moreover, by its very nature globalization enables regulatory arbitrage, so you can live in a country with relatively good EHS rules, and produce in a country with bad or no EHS rules.<p>There is a tradeoff between producing wealth, and trashing your environment, and I don&#x27;t judge too harshly the people who want to worry about carcinogens later, once they&#x27;ve got enough to eat that they won&#x27;t starve to death. But that tradeoff used to happen within each country. When it was poor, the production was low, and as their ability to wreck their environment scaled up, so did their wealth to afford not to.<p>Only globalization allows companies like this to descend with 1st World money on places with 3rd world EHS rules. Cargill and its ilk exist, because we changed the rules to make it easier for them to do this.</text></comment> |
5,681,249 | 5,680,504 | 1 | 3 | 5,680,164 | train | <story><title>Btcd: A Full Alternative Bitcoin Implementation, Written In Go</title><url>http://bitcoinmagazine.com/btcd-a-full-bitcoin-alternative-written-in-go/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>Interestingly, the main bitcoin developers generally treat other implementations of the protocol as being suspect and more-than-possibly threatening, since if you're not bug-for-bug compatible with the satoshi client that is a security risk. This remains true even if you improve upon the satoshi client with regards to, for example, hewing closer to the published spec.<p>This might come as something of a surprise to many HNers, who would think "But wait. The Internet would sort of suck if HTML5 were a purely advisory document and failing to match IE6's actual behavior 100% of the time was a fatal flaw in a browser." But, to quote a fairly representative post from their forums:<p><i>Any implementation needs to specifically test for uniformity with the network: Bitcoin is a distributed consensus algorithm and differences in what nodes accept or reject in the blockchain— things which would be minor harmless behavioral differences in most software— can often result in fatal security flaws where an attacker can move the nodes in question onto a separate fork and double-spend their funds away or partition the network. This requires a unusual level of care and system level tests.<p>Many of the most interesting cases are the great many things which must be rejected as no amount of exposure to the live network will trigger those cases (until an attacker exploits them to partition the network).</i> (cite: <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=192880.0" rel="nofollow">https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=192880.0</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Btcd: A Full Alternative Bitcoin Implementation, Written In Go</title><url>http://bitcoinmagazine.com/btcd-a-full-bitcoin-alternative-written-in-go/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>swhitt</author><text>When this was posted on reddit there was a bit of confusion as the title lead people to believe this was about an alternate cryptocurrency (like litecoin, feathercoin, etc).<p>It's actually a complete reimplementation of the Bitcoin <i>protocol</i>, which can be used as an alternative to the bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (the official Bitcoin p2p clients) JSON-RPC interface.</text></comment> |
12,133,216 | 12,131,593 | 1 | 2 | 12,131,239 | train | <story><title>Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux</title><url>https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/0b04990a5de594659d2cf20458965277dd6efeb1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgaddis</author><text>Slightly off-topic but if anyone has any resources on performing a clean (preferably, Ubuntu or Arch) Linux &quot;root on ZFS&quot; installation, please share.<p>I followed the instructions for Ubuntu 16.04 on the github.com&#x2F;zfsonlinux wiki [0] a while back and (encountered a few little issues along the way but) got it working, although I experienced some MAJOR performance problems so <i>something</i> wasn&#x27;t quite right (exact same hardware is blazing fast when running FreeBSD). I can&#x27;t imagine it was just &quot;how things are&quot; with regard to the current state of ZFS on Linux (or Ubuntu specifically) -- it was like someone hit the laptop&#x27;s &quot;pause&quot; button a couple of times per minute.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zfsonlinux&#x2F;zfs&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ubuntu-16.04-Root-on-ZFS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zfsonlinux&#x2F;zfs&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ubuntu-16.04-Root-on-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux</title><url>https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/0b04990a5de594659d2cf20458965277dd6efeb1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrsteveman1</author><text>Related pull request with more details &amp; discussion<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zfsonlinux&#x2F;zfs&#x2F;pull&#x2F;4329" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zfsonlinux&#x2F;zfs&#x2F;pull&#x2F;4329</a></text></comment> |
32,783,935 | 32,781,415 | 1 | 2 | 32,780,388 | train | <story><title>Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-parent-meta-platforms-cuts-responsible-innovation-team-11662658423?mod=djemalertNEWS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sangnoir</author><text>&gt; Teams like this attract a certain type of person, and it&#x27;s not a builder.<p>Ditto for financial audit teams and so-called &quot;IT security&quot;: all they do is block, I&#x27;ve never had anyone in either function build something or help me work faster, just additional processes and bureaucracy that slows down <i>real work.</i><p>edit: I thought my sarcasm would be apparent, but Poe&#x27;s law strikes again.</text></item><item><author>strix_varius</author><text>Teams like this attract a certain type of person, and it&#x27;s not a builder. In order to justify your own existence, you <i>have</i> to invent blockers to place in front of people who are actually trying to build things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Karrot_Kream</author><text>It&#x27;s because security, audit, and ethics teams aren&#x27;t judged by how much they enable others, they&#x27;re judged by how many threats they block. I work at a well-known tech company but joined when they were still very small. Our original security &quot;team&quot;, a team of 2 engineers, were highly plugged into the product and the concerns of the then-small engineering team. This team was always willing to help and enable builders to stay security conscious.<p>As we grew into a large company and our security team became an entire organization at the company, the org lost all connection with the product and became a more classic blocker-based team. The org lost empathy with the product and was judged on no product metrics, so naturally the culture in the org began to just be saying &quot;no&quot; to engineers all the time. A few of the earlier hires still try to help, but for the most part they just block.</text></comment> | <story><title>Meta cuts Responsible Innovation Team</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-parent-meta-platforms-cuts-responsible-innovation-team-11662658423?mod=djemalertNEWS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sangnoir</author><text>&gt; Teams like this attract a certain type of person, and it&#x27;s not a builder.<p>Ditto for financial audit teams and so-called &quot;IT security&quot;: all they do is block, I&#x27;ve never had anyone in either function build something or help me work faster, just additional processes and bureaucracy that slows down <i>real work.</i><p>edit: I thought my sarcasm would be apparent, but Poe&#x27;s law strikes again.</text></item><item><author>strix_varius</author><text>Teams like this attract a certain type of person, and it&#x27;s not a builder. In order to justify your own existence, you <i>have</i> to invent blockers to place in front of people who are actually trying to build things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eropple</author><text>&quot;Fast&quot; is not the only descriptor that should be applied to work where a financial audit might be involved. &quot;Correct&quot; probably has a few things to say. &quot;Legal,&quot; too.</text></comment> |
14,971,042 | 14,968,297 | 1 | 2 | 14,966,513 | train | <story><title>JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript</title><url>https://zachholman.com/posts/javacript-haters</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sametmax</author><text>TL;DR: JS with a ton of make up and tooling to not write JS is not as horrible as it used to be.<p>Well. That doesn&#x27;t make it awesome either.<p>You just traded some problems for others.<p>Like the damn source map never working correctly, the build time being longer and longer, and the never ending list of plugins you expend every day after stumbling on yet another small-minuscule-not-that-important-I-swear detail.<p>The tool chain you spend more and more time on, despite all the &quot;5-minutes&quot; bundles provided by facebook or on githubs.<p>Explaining things to new comers has never been as difficult as it is now. Teaching is a pain.<p>Choosing your stack is a dangerous bet, and the odds and steaks are changing all the time.<p>If you opt-in for a flux architecture, you will soon write Java-as-in-the-90 on the frontend instead of Javascript, with so many adapters and design patterns as layers you will become angry.<p>If you don&#x27;t (you-totally-don&#x27;t-need-redux-to-use-react-guys) then most documentations and tutorials will not answer your questions, and you are own your own solving every single problems. Even the simplest ones, like redirecting on a route after data changes and closing a panel at the same time.<p>&quot;Libs, not framework&quot; means you need to relearn everything, rewrite a lot of code, tests and doc and renew maintenance for each new project. Meanwhile nobody agree on what a the proper stack is.<p>JS, despite all the paint on the rust, still has the old gotchas. This is still weird. &quot;;&quot; is still auto inserted. &quot;==&quot; still compares like nothing else. Errors come in different so many different forms it&#x27;s not funny. Basic maths assumptions like commutativity are out of scope. Still no namespaces, but instead we use monstrosity like webpack and incompatible import systems to encapsulate things. Stdlib still doesn&#x27;t have essential things like hashing, string&#x2F;date formatting or encoding. Even basic operation like removing an element from an array using an index is a pain.<p>No, I&#x27;m sorry, JS has not become awesome. We just arrived to a point were we accepted we have everything to built with it and agree to pay the huge price for it. That&#x27;s all.<p>Projects like vue.js makes me think there is still hope we end up with elegant tools from people who care. But right now I just embrace the madness and make money with it: all those poor customers don&#x27;t realize the trap the current mindset lead them to, and I have so many solutions to the problem they should never have had to sell them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cookiecaper</author><text>&gt;No, I&#x27;m sorry, JS has not become awesome. We just arrived to a point were we accepted we have everything to built with it and agree to pay the huge price for it. That&#x27;s all.<p>Yep, this is the crux. ES6+ has finally made JavaScript look more or less like the languages we were using in the mid-90s, so I appreciate that, but it&#x27;s not like it&#x27;s some glorious boon to the developer community.<p>Any gains from the new semi-tolerable semantics are quickly overwhelmed by requiring layer-upon-layer-upon-layer of crap, including hundreds of dangerous random modules from GitHub to compensate for the virtually non-existent standard library and a &quot;build pipeline&quot; that consists of several unrelated runners, bundlers, transpilers and transformers to make code that&#x27;s actually usable in real environments.<p>JavaScript is a tragedy for the development community from start to finish, and its increasing prominence should disabuse us of the notion that development is dictated by meritocracy or any such fantastical nonsense like that. Marketing and groupthink have just as much pull here as anywhere else (if not more because so many of us egotistically believe we are immune to it).</text></comment> | <story><title>JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript</title><url>https://zachholman.com/posts/javacript-haters</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sametmax</author><text>TL;DR: JS with a ton of make up and tooling to not write JS is not as horrible as it used to be.<p>Well. That doesn&#x27;t make it awesome either.<p>You just traded some problems for others.<p>Like the damn source map never working correctly, the build time being longer and longer, and the never ending list of plugins you expend every day after stumbling on yet another small-minuscule-not-that-important-I-swear detail.<p>The tool chain you spend more and more time on, despite all the &quot;5-minutes&quot; bundles provided by facebook or on githubs.<p>Explaining things to new comers has never been as difficult as it is now. Teaching is a pain.<p>Choosing your stack is a dangerous bet, and the odds and steaks are changing all the time.<p>If you opt-in for a flux architecture, you will soon write Java-as-in-the-90 on the frontend instead of Javascript, with so many adapters and design patterns as layers you will become angry.<p>If you don&#x27;t (you-totally-don&#x27;t-need-redux-to-use-react-guys) then most documentations and tutorials will not answer your questions, and you are own your own solving every single problems. Even the simplest ones, like redirecting on a route after data changes and closing a panel at the same time.<p>&quot;Libs, not framework&quot; means you need to relearn everything, rewrite a lot of code, tests and doc and renew maintenance for each new project. Meanwhile nobody agree on what a the proper stack is.<p>JS, despite all the paint on the rust, still has the old gotchas. This is still weird. &quot;;&quot; is still auto inserted. &quot;==&quot; still compares like nothing else. Errors come in different so many different forms it&#x27;s not funny. Basic maths assumptions like commutativity are out of scope. Still no namespaces, but instead we use monstrosity like webpack and incompatible import systems to encapsulate things. Stdlib still doesn&#x27;t have essential things like hashing, string&#x2F;date formatting or encoding. Even basic operation like removing an element from an array using an index is a pain.<p>No, I&#x27;m sorry, JS has not become awesome. We just arrived to a point were we accepted we have everything to built with it and agree to pay the huge price for it. That&#x27;s all.<p>Projects like vue.js makes me think there is still hope we end up with elegant tools from people who care. But right now I just embrace the madness and make money with it: all those poor customers don&#x27;t realize the trap the current mindset lead them to, and I have so many solutions to the problem they should never have had to sell them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lopatin</author><text>Agreed, I stopped recommending React to beginners. I still love it and think it&#x27;s the future, but in the sense that it&#x27;s the new low-level. Eventually I think it will be standard to compile futuristic, high level, built-for-apps languages into React code. But for now, makes sense to just use a batteries-included framework. I don&#x27;t know what the most sure shot is there though. Ember? Vue?</text></comment> |
39,079,541 | 39,079,843 | 1 | 3 | 39,079,256 | train | <story><title>Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop</title><url>https://www.sharedrop.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cmiller1</author><text>All of these &quot;alternatives to airdop&quot; don&#x27;t seem to actually do what airdrop does, which is create an ad-hoc wireless connection. Airdrop isn&#x27;t just a nice UI for sending files between people, it allows a wi-fi speed transfer between two devices that aren&#x27;t connected to an existing network of that speed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop</title><url>https://www.sharedrop.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gpchelkin</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried a lot of similar tools for sending files between devices in local area network and found that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;localsend.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;localsend.org</a> works best. Yes, it requires an application installation, but the transfers are much more faster and reliable when browser is not involved. And its Android application works nicely on Google TV&#x2F;Android TV, so I can send files there easily.</text></comment> |
17,937,700 | 17,937,252 | 1 | 3 | 17,935,554 | train | <story><title>'Mindful people' feel less pain</title><url>https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-09-mindful-people-pain-mri-imaging.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HiroshiSan</author><text>Is that true if your being tortured by someone other than yourself? I&#x27;ve seen the picture of the monk who set himself on fire while meditating in protest.<p>I wonder if suffering is only optional if you inflict it on yourself.</text></item><item><author>mcculley</author><text>Mindfulness meditation taught me something that Haruki Murakami describes well about running: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>projektir</author><text>At the very least, you could damage someone&#x27;s brain faculties to the point that they can no longer philosophize their way out of suffering. And that is likely unnecessary, some drugs should suffice.<p>&quot;Suffering is optional&quot; is a concept that dies immediately if you apply even a tiny amount of creativity to the question. It also fails if applied to animals.<p>It&#x27;s really only available to people in a specific range of situations, and often it&#x27;s stated not because it&#x27;s actually true, but because it makes people feel powerful in situations where they&#x27;re rather powerless. Which is mostly the point of stoicism anyway, as it is a philosophy developed during a time when people felt that they couldn&#x27;t change anything about the world.<p>Of course, this means it&#x27;s a poor philosophy to follow if your interest is in things improving, and not in just you personally not caring about them, something that many people already accomplish all too well...</text></comment> | <story><title>'Mindful people' feel less pain</title><url>https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-09-mindful-people-pain-mri-imaging.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HiroshiSan</author><text>Is that true if your being tortured by someone other than yourself? I&#x27;ve seen the picture of the monk who set himself on fire while meditating in protest.<p>I wonder if suffering is only optional if you inflict it on yourself.</text></item><item><author>mcculley</author><text>Mindfulness meditation taught me something that Haruki Murakami describes well about running: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>People do tend to have an easier time enduring things they inflict on themselves than things inflicted on them by others, but perhaps you can trick this mechanism by accepting what is inflicted onto you by others.</text></comment> |
8,778,158 | 8,778,140 | 1 | 3 | 8,777,899 | train | <story><title>Your waitress, your professor</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/opinion/your-waitress-your-professor.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The other day my wife and I were at a baby clothing store. We were chatting with the young woman at the counter, and she was complaining about her student loans. I asked her what her major was, and she said it was physics. I said &quot;oh&quot; with a degree of surprise that made me cringe. I mentioned my brother had majored in physics. She asked me where he went to school, and I told her he went to Yale. She said &quot;oh, my parents went to Yale, but I went to MIT.&quot;<p>I felt bad about the encounter, and I couldn&#x27;t figure out why. Statistically, you&#x27;re safe in assuming that any random person working at a clothing store isn&#x27;t an MIT grad making pocket money while working on her PhD. I realized later that I felt bad that it mattered to me. That when she revealed she was smart and educated, in my head I moved her from one class of people into another.</text></comment> | <story><title>Your waitress, your professor</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/opinion/your-waitress-your-professor.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vitno</author><text>The logic here seems... hypocritical, or at least inconsistent.<p>At the beginning:
&quot;In class I emphasize the value of a degree as a means to avoid the sort of jobs that I myself go to when those hours in the classroom are over.&quot;<p>At the end:
&quot;My perhaps naïve hope is that when I tell students I’m not only an academic, but a “survival” jobholder, I’ll make a dent in the artificial, inaccurate division society places between blue-collar work and “intelligent” work.
(also, that diaresis...)<p>It feels to me like the first statement says &quot;I lie to my students and present them with unrealistic expectations of the world&quot;
and the second says &quot;If I say something, I&#x27;ll let them know that they are deriving little value from their education... and thus put my career further behind.&quot;</text></comment> |
19,132,534 | 19,132,414 | 1 | 3 | 19,130,482 | train | <story><title>Don't hold users hostage, facilitate their exit</title><url>https://chagency.co.uk/blog/increasing-user-retention/dont-take-your-customers-hostages-facilitate-their-exit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rlayton2</author><text>I cancelled Basecamp today, because it didn&#x27;t fit with my workflow, and the whole thing was <i>easy</i>. So much so, I would probably be using it again in the future (I work mostly by myself, need a &quot;master todo list&quot; and with many different teams, Basecamp doesn&#x27;t fit this working style, but nothing I&#x27;ve tried does). I&#x27;ll recommend Basecamp to larger teams, and part of that is the exit.<p>Here&#x27;s what Basecamp did:<p>* on their monthly receipt email, they have a link <i>directly to the cancel option</i>.<p>* They remind you to get your data on the way out, and give a link, right there, to go get it<p>* They give you your data<p>* They cancel straight away, and ask if it&#x27;s ok to survey you (optional).<p>After reading the book It doesn&#x27;t have to be crazy at work (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;basecamp.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;calm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;basecamp.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;calm</a> ) I understood the mentality perfectly. I wish them all the best for their product.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't hold users hostage, facilitate their exit</title><url>https://chagency.co.uk/blog/increasing-user-retention/dont-take-your-customers-hostages-facilitate-their-exit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jaabe</author><text>Exit strategies have become an important architecturual requirements when we buy systems. I know this article is pointed at consumers, and the comparison to buying clothes is excellent, but it’s actuallly a big thing in modern enterprise as well.<p>We buy systems we know are going to die. Sometimes they even die because the supplier build something completely new, but mostly it happens when we go to the competition. In either case we still need to be able to migrate our data and business logic seamlessly, and the companies who can’t show us an exit-strategy up front, putting it to contract 4-5 years before we need it, are much less likely to get our business.</text></comment> |
35,071,298 | 35,071,140 | 1 | 2 | 35,070,123 | train | <story><title>Governments should compete for residents, not businesses</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-07/amazon-hq2-pause-could-be-a-sign-of-a-new-era-for-development</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyclecount</author><text>This line of thinking comes up often on HN but it ignores the central reason for governments to enact borders, a rather modern invention. Governments (at the behest of businesses) enforce borders so that labor cannot effectively organise. A border exists often for workers only, but is mostly a legal fiction that corporations can easily navigate.<p>The most common example for the Americans reading this is NAFTA, which makes workers in Detroit compete with workers in Mexico (suppressing wages in both location) while allowing the auto manufacturing companies to treat all of North America as one market. Toyota can move their plants around the region somewhat freely; can someone in Mexico freely move to the midwest?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>remarkEon</author><text>&gt; Governments (at the behest of businesses) enforce borders so that labor cannot effectively organise.<p>I have never heard this explanation. Where is it coming from? It sounds not only wrong but inverted to me. Governments enforce borders to effectively secure their territory and people, and thus its own power. Is the idea that, without the “legal fiction” of borders, we’d have some kind of global autoworkers Union or something?</text></comment> | <story><title>Governments should compete for residents, not businesses</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-07/amazon-hq2-pause-could-be-a-sign-of-a-new-era-for-development</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyclecount</author><text>This line of thinking comes up often on HN but it ignores the central reason for governments to enact borders, a rather modern invention. Governments (at the behest of businesses) enforce borders so that labor cannot effectively organise. A border exists often for workers only, but is mostly a legal fiction that corporations can easily navigate.<p>The most common example for the Americans reading this is NAFTA, which makes workers in Detroit compete with workers in Mexico (suppressing wages in both location) while allowing the auto manufacturing companies to treat all of North America as one market. Toyota can move their plants around the region somewhat freely; can someone in Mexico freely move to the midwest?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boh</author><text>It&#x27;s really bizarre that state sovereignty is just considered a business practice. No it&#x27;s not a &quot;modern invention&quot; to &quot;enact&quot; borders. Nor does labor organizing have anything to do with its enforcement. Corporate-centric culture doesn&#x27;t do well in explaining the world. I&#x27;d suggest a less narrow viewpoint.</text></comment> |
29,297,172 | 29,297,392 | 1 | 3 | 29,281,734 | train | <story><title>Notes on Software Development Waste</title><url>https://hcarvalhoalves.github.io/software-development-waste/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomxor</author><text>&gt; 2. Unnecessary technical complexity (<i>duplicating code</i>, lack of interaction design reuse[...]<p>That&#x27;s funny, I usually find a common source of unnecessary complexity is people trying <i>way</i> too hard to de-duplicate everything. Which has a tendency to causes abstractions that are more cognitively and technically expensive than the code they replaced... and once enough layers accreted, I&#x27;m pretty sure they take up more space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jtsummers</author><text>Like with many things it&#x27;s a balance. If you have to spend too much time thinking about how to create a more reusable or deduplicated version of something, it&#x27;s probably not ready to be deduplicated. On the other hand, I&#x27;ve watched several projects flounder <i>because of</i> useless duplication:<p><pre><code> main.cpp
complex_baseline&#x2F;*.{cpp,h}
copy_and_mod_1&#x2F;*.{cpp,h}
copy_and_mod_2&#x2F;*.{cpp,h}
... (about 12 times)
</code></pre>
The duplication means that issues are scattered throughout every copy if they&#x27;re in the original, but hard to find after the modifications. Doing the exercise to find all the duplicated issues is frustrating and people eventually stop doing it. The code gets worse and worse until a refactor or rewrite is forced on them, and then the customer is unhappy with the delay and it&#x27;s either hastily done (often worse than doing nothing) or abandoned.</text></comment> | <story><title>Notes on Software Development Waste</title><url>https://hcarvalhoalves.github.io/software-development-waste/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomxor</author><text>&gt; 2. Unnecessary technical complexity (<i>duplicating code</i>, lack of interaction design reuse[...]<p>That&#x27;s funny, I usually find a common source of unnecessary complexity is people trying <i>way</i> too hard to de-duplicate everything. Which has a tendency to causes abstractions that are more cognitively and technically expensive than the code they replaced... and once enough layers accreted, I&#x27;m pretty sure they take up more space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laserlight</author><text>I’ve heard this argument against deduplication many times before. Wrong abstraction is not a solution to duplicate code. It’s a different problem. If developers are not able to perform the simplest of abstractions, the problem is more serious.</text></comment> |
39,498,208 | 39,497,289 | 1 | 2 | 39,496,861 | train | <story><title>Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking apps with no warning</title><url>https://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-blocks-long-running-fire-tv-capability-breaking-popular-apps-with-no-warning-and-giving-developers-the-runaround/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hmeh</author><text>I appreciate people taking the time to write articles like this, but please consider the people who are going to read it. ADB is an acronym. Not everyone knows what it means. If you&#x27;re going to write an entire article about a feature being removed, please at least describe the feature in a way that people can understand without having to google it so that they can have an idea as to whether or not this is relevant to them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SECProto</author><text>&gt; ADB is an acronym. Not everyone knows what it means<p>I&#x27;ve used ADB a half-hundred times, and I had no idea what it meant until I read replies to your comment. Defining the acronym is likely not helpful to anyone who has used it before (and thus be affected by the change)</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking apps with no warning</title><url>https://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-blocks-long-running-fire-tv-capability-breaking-popular-apps-with-no-warning-and-giving-developers-the-runaround/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hmeh</author><text>I appreciate people taking the time to write articles like this, but please consider the people who are going to read it. ADB is an acronym. Not everyone knows what it means. If you&#x27;re going to write an entire article about a feature being removed, please at least describe the feature in a way that people can understand without having to google it so that they can have an idea as to whether or not this is relevant to them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xref</author><text>Android Debug Bridge, for future readers</text></comment> |
18,905,786 | 18,904,446 | 1 | 3 | 18,903,235 | train | <story><title>Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging</title><url>https://os.phil-opp.com/paging-introduction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>I think it&#x27;s one of these things that&#x27;s more approachable if you start by working on specific subsystems of an existing OS. This way you don&#x27;t have to figure everything out at once. At least that&#x27;s how I did it.<p>I think writing an OS from scratch is discouraging and not very accessible because... writing an OS is discouraging and not very accessible. It&#x27;s a bit as if a painter was saying &quot;It tried looking up guides on how to paint The Wedding Feast at Cana but they all make it look super difficult, I wish I could get an easy step-by-step tutorial&quot;. Even if you break it down in small, digestible parts I&#x27;d wager that you&#x27;ll end up with a few hundred episodes before you even get a basic microkernel up and running on a modern system. It&#x27;s truly a daunting task.<p>I learned that the hard way: I tried to write a guide on how to emulate a PlayStation from scratch. At first you focus on emulating the instructions in the CPU, that&#x27;s relatively focused and straightforward. But then once you&#x27;re done with that you need to explain the various peripherals, and the main bus, and the interrupts, and the cache, and the timers, and the pipelines, and the intricacies of the various CD formats, and the memorycard filesystem, and video modes, and paging, and high impedance, and metastability and everything kind of interacts with everything else so it&#x27;s difficult to maintain a coherent narrative.<p>On top of that a PlayStation is a ridiculously simple system compared to a modern desktop computer. The task of writing a very accessible guide on how to write an OS that would take you from zero to a working userland is absolutely tremendous. I think you could probably write a thousand-page book on the virtual memory subsystem alone.</text></item><item><author>JesseWright</author><text>I&#x27;ve followed Phil&#x27;s site on making an operating system. Ever since having worked on PintOS in college, operating systems and their internals have fascinated me. I&#x27;ve tried learning more about writing operating systems via resources like the OSdev wiki, but much of its material almost seems to discourage working on an OS of any kind unless you&#x27;re already sure of what you&#x27;re doing. Phil&#x27;s articles seems so much more accessible for someone just wanting to dip their toes in the water.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone</author><text><i>”I think writing an OS from scratch is discouraging and not very accessible”</i><p>A lot of work, yes, but, IMO, fairly accessible if you are willing to skip the steps initializing the hardware (“it’s tedious, but luckily somebody did it for us”), don’t aim for replacing the state of the art, and support limited hardware (certainly no USB-C, for example)<p>For example, your first usable system doesn’t need paging, memory protection, or even a halfway decent memory allocator. You also need not support zillions of different devices (Linus didn&#x27;t, either, with his first usable system)<p>Just start with an OS that runs a fixed max number of processes each in some fixed amount of memory in round-robin fashion. Let’s say you have a gig of RAM. Split it in 1024 1 megabyte blocks, reserve one for your OS, and require programs to be position independent.<p>Yes, that’s almost equal to a single process running multiple threads (in some sense even worse, as a program wanting over a MB of memory can’t run, even if the other processes take only a small fraction of their megabyte or memory) but that’s what makes it accessible. It also isn’t too dissimilar from what was done historically (it isn’t that many steps away from the original model of Windows CE, for example, and that isn’t even 25 years old).<p>If you have that and a minimalistic file system, you probably can run quite a bit of Linux userland on it (slowly because of the round-robin scheduler, and crashing often when processes run out of memory), but then it’s just a matter of scratching itches as they come up. Memory protection probably would be one of the first features I would add, as it makes the system way more robust. An editor and a (simple, say a single-pass compiler of a pascal-like language) compiler also would be high up, to make the system self-compiling. VM paging probably would come late in the game now that small systems have at least a gig of RAM.</text></comment> | <story><title>Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging</title><url>https://os.phil-opp.com/paging-introduction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>I think it&#x27;s one of these things that&#x27;s more approachable if you start by working on specific subsystems of an existing OS. This way you don&#x27;t have to figure everything out at once. At least that&#x27;s how I did it.<p>I think writing an OS from scratch is discouraging and not very accessible because... writing an OS is discouraging and not very accessible. It&#x27;s a bit as if a painter was saying &quot;It tried looking up guides on how to paint The Wedding Feast at Cana but they all make it look super difficult, I wish I could get an easy step-by-step tutorial&quot;. Even if you break it down in small, digestible parts I&#x27;d wager that you&#x27;ll end up with a few hundred episodes before you even get a basic microkernel up and running on a modern system. It&#x27;s truly a daunting task.<p>I learned that the hard way: I tried to write a guide on how to emulate a PlayStation from scratch. At first you focus on emulating the instructions in the CPU, that&#x27;s relatively focused and straightforward. But then once you&#x27;re done with that you need to explain the various peripherals, and the main bus, and the interrupts, and the cache, and the timers, and the pipelines, and the intricacies of the various CD formats, and the memorycard filesystem, and video modes, and paging, and high impedance, and metastability and everything kind of interacts with everything else so it&#x27;s difficult to maintain a coherent narrative.<p>On top of that a PlayStation is a ridiculously simple system compared to a modern desktop computer. The task of writing a very accessible guide on how to write an OS that would take you from zero to a working userland is absolutely tremendous. I think you could probably write a thousand-page book on the virtual memory subsystem alone.</text></item><item><author>JesseWright</author><text>I&#x27;ve followed Phil&#x27;s site on making an operating system. Ever since having worked on PintOS in college, operating systems and their internals have fascinated me. I&#x27;ve tried learning more about writing operating systems via resources like the OSdev wiki, but much of its material almost seems to discourage working on an OS of any kind unless you&#x27;re already sure of what you&#x27;re doing. Phil&#x27;s articles seems so much more accessible for someone just wanting to dip their toes in the water.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JesseWright</author><text>I fully agree, but I think it&#x27;s good to have options on how to approach the issue. Generally, I&#x27;ve referred to OSDev when I need more real-world information on how things tend to work in practice and resources like Phil&#x27;s when writing a toy operating system.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t consider Phil&#x27;s blog a good resource for, e.g., gaining particular insight into how something like the Linux kernel works, but I also don&#x27;t think Phil intended it for that use.</text></comment> |
31,913,282 | 31,913,096 | 1 | 3 | 31,890,450 | train | <story><title>Are you a naïve realist?</title><url>https://nautil.us/are-you-a-naive-realist-20403/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>schoen</author><text>This describes a bunch of recent psychological research that chose to use this terminology, but I don&#x27;t think this psychological use corresponds exactly to the traditional (older) philosophical use of the term.<p>In my understanding, the classic philosophical use of &quot;naïve realism&quot; refers to the position that there is an objective reality that we can usefully perceive and understand with our senses and reason. It doesn&#x27;t assert that each person always perceives objective reality correctly on the first attempt or that nobody ever makes a mistake. It might accept many cases in which people make mistakes of perception and&#x2F;or reasoning, but in most forms of naïve realism we would probably expect that those mistakes could potentially be detected and corrected somehow, whether or not particular people have the willingness, inclination, incentives, or resources to actually complete that process.<p>As a few other people said, one might also expect disagreements to be tractable in principle but not to assume that one&#x27;s own view is sure to prevail in every disagreement.<p>Of course, I could be wrong. :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>Are you a naïve realist?</title><url>https://nautil.us/are-you-a-naive-realist-20403/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blfr</author><text>&gt; Despite evidence to the contrary, nearly one-third of Americans still believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen.<p>Speaking of naive realism, what evidence? I&#x27;m not even asking what evidence was provided, but what could be provided at all.<p>You can&#x27;t really prove that elections were fair, especially post factum. Best case, you can show that protections against known frauds were there. And compared to elections I took part in, American elections often look woefully inadequate in that regard.<p>In fact, at least one American president, Lyndon B. Johnson, remains under serious suspicion.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Box_13_scandal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Box_13_scandal</a></text></comment> |
19,737,627 | 19,736,708 | 1 | 3 | 19,736,309 | train | <story><title>QEMU v4.0.0 released</title><url>https://www.qemu.org/2019/04/24/qemu-4-0-0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vero2</author><text>We have several windows vms running in virtualbox. All have rdp&#x2F;vnc for specialised programs. (These are offline).<p>Everytime I tried to migrate to qemu or virt-manager or gnome-boxes it was a real nightmare especially installing SPICE+virtio drivers+ networking. I read in Phoronix the performance of virtualbox is subpar and all KVM&#x2F;qemu is the way to go.<p>Please, could the OSS community build a easy to use GUI that SPICE+virtio drivers+ networking is made simple. Any one from qemu, I really appreciate the work but still very challenging for sysadmins.</text></item><item><author>chousuke</author><text>Using QEMU directly is a bit tricky and it&#x27;s not really intended to be used in that fashion by most users, unlike VirtualBox.<p>Both gnome-boxes and virt-manager use QEMU under the hood though, and they provide a point-and-click experience. I use virt-manager myself and I do not think it&#x27;s any more difficult than VirtualBox is.</text></item><item><author>idoubtit</author><text>Last week, I intended to replace VirtualBox with QEMU for my personal use. The spartiate documentation made it really hard. I lack the competence to seriously contribute.<p>The official documentation just explains the numerous parameters. It also points to tutorials (wikibook, etc), which unfortunately are very basic and out of sync. Even Arch Linux does not provide a good documentation (lack of clarity, some obsolete syntax, &quot;Networking&quot; section is a mess...). Like often, Debian&#x27;s wiki is obsolete, and even their QEMU images are 5 years old. I had to combine the following 3 sources and a lot of try and guesses to build my VMs.<p>QEMU Gentoo : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;QEMU&#x2F;Options" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;QEMU&#x2F;Options</a><p>QEMU official : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qemu.weilnetz.de&#x2F;doc&#x2F;qemu-doc.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qemu.weilnetz.de&#x2F;doc&#x2F;qemu-doc.html</a><p>KVM Performance : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linux-kvm.org&#x2F;page&#x2F;Tuning_KVM" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linux-kvm.org&#x2F;page&#x2F;Tuning_KVM</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nwatson</author><text>About 12 years ago when I had access to Microsoft MSDN I got a big SuperMicro box, set it up with CentOS 4 (RHEL) Linux, and used QEMU&#x2F;KVM to set up a Windows domain controller and several other Windows VMs, and several Linux VMs, on a couple of virtual subnets, along with iptables port forwarding, Windows Remote Desktop, VNC, and many services. Some of the Linux VMs services authenticated with the Windows domain. I wanted to set up at least one non-x86&#x2F;x64 emulated-CPU VM but never got that working very well in QEMU.<p>The exercise was a good (and incremental) learning experience and increased my general networking and sys-admin knowledge, which I&#x27;ve used well as part of my software engineering career. I would have been lost in many professional situations without it. QEMU&#x2F;KVM are awesome.<p>EDIT: more and better words</text></comment> | <story><title>QEMU v4.0.0 released</title><url>https://www.qemu.org/2019/04/24/qemu-4-0-0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vero2</author><text>We have several windows vms running in virtualbox. All have rdp&#x2F;vnc for specialised programs. (These are offline).<p>Everytime I tried to migrate to qemu or virt-manager or gnome-boxes it was a real nightmare especially installing SPICE+virtio drivers+ networking. I read in Phoronix the performance of virtualbox is subpar and all KVM&#x2F;qemu is the way to go.<p>Please, could the OSS community build a easy to use GUI that SPICE+virtio drivers+ networking is made simple. Any one from qemu, I really appreciate the work but still very challenging for sysadmins.</text></item><item><author>chousuke</author><text>Using QEMU directly is a bit tricky and it&#x27;s not really intended to be used in that fashion by most users, unlike VirtualBox.<p>Both gnome-boxes and virt-manager use QEMU under the hood though, and they provide a point-and-click experience. I use virt-manager myself and I do not think it&#x27;s any more difficult than VirtualBox is.</text></item><item><author>idoubtit</author><text>Last week, I intended to replace VirtualBox with QEMU for my personal use. The spartiate documentation made it really hard. I lack the competence to seriously contribute.<p>The official documentation just explains the numerous parameters. It also points to tutorials (wikibook, etc), which unfortunately are very basic and out of sync. Even Arch Linux does not provide a good documentation (lack of clarity, some obsolete syntax, &quot;Networking&quot; section is a mess...). Like often, Debian&#x27;s wiki is obsolete, and even their QEMU images are 5 years old. I had to combine the following 3 sources and a lot of try and guesses to build my VMs.<p>QEMU Gentoo : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;QEMU&#x2F;Options" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;QEMU&#x2F;Options</a><p>QEMU official : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qemu.weilnetz.de&#x2F;doc&#x2F;qemu-doc.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qemu.weilnetz.de&#x2F;doc&#x2F;qemu-doc.html</a><p>KVM Performance : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linux-kvm.org&#x2F;page&#x2F;Tuning_KVM" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linux-kvm.org&#x2F;page&#x2F;Tuning_KVM</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chousuke</author><text>I confess that I haven&#x27;t run Windows with virt-manager on my own desktop in a long while, but it worked just fine after installing the required drivers at install time. IIRC Redhat distributes signed drivers for Windows for free.<p>The problems I did have were with VMs I tried to convert from VMware to KVM, and those stemmed from Windows&#x27; inability (version 7) to properly handle changing hardware. Perhaps it&#x27;s better at nowadays.</text></comment> |
19,238,377 | 19,238,338 | 1 | 2 | 19,237,969 | train | <story><title>Tracking my phone's silent connections</title><url>https://kushaldas.in/posts/tracking-my-phone-s-silent-connections.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xg15</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure how the situation is with Apple, but it always bothered me that on Android, apps can implement their own logic for TLS certificate validation. Apps can use this to hardcode key-pinning and make it effectively impossible (short of patching the app) to inspect an encrypted connection, even if you&#x27;re the owner of the device.<p>I feel the push for DoH will make this even worse - because then you won&#x27;t even know which servers your apps are connecting to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kgwxd</author><text>Once you install closed source software, you&#x27;re no longer the sole owner of your computer. If an app wants to hide data, and they can&#x27;t rely on tls to do it, they&#x27;ll just add another layer of encryption.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tracking my phone's silent connections</title><url>https://kushaldas.in/posts/tracking-my-phone-s-silent-connections.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xg15</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure how the situation is with Apple, but it always bothered me that on Android, apps can implement their own logic for TLS certificate validation. Apps can use this to hardcode key-pinning and make it effectively impossible (short of patching the app) to inspect an encrypted connection, even if you&#x27;re the owner of the device.<p>I feel the push for DoH will make this even worse - because then you won&#x27;t even know which servers your apps are connecting to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shaaaaaaare</author><text>Unfortunately Google both supports and recommends this. Recently they&#x27;ve even made it easy for apps to automatically ignore any custom certificates added to the trust store, so they don&#x27;t even have to bother to implement pinning.</text></comment> |
21,746,871 | 21,746,740 | 1 | 3 | 21,745,074 | train | <story><title>How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/how-william-gibson-keeps-his-science-fiction-real</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcminter</author><text>This is not super-relevant to the article, but I thought I would mention:<p>It often strikes me that the opening line of Neuromancer, which is something like &quot;The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead channel&quot; must be losing its meaning to newer readers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daeken</author><text>I&#x27;ve been replaying Mass Effect 3 recently and there&#x27;s a little story someone tells, which starts with &quot;Sky was color of vid-cam turned to a dead vorcha.&quot; That gave me a great chuckle.</text></comment> | <story><title>How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/how-william-gibson-keeps-his-science-fiction-real</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcminter</author><text>This is not super-relevant to the article, but I thought I would mention:<p>It often strikes me that the opening line of Neuromancer, which is something like &quot;The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead channel&quot; must be losing its meaning to newer readers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atombender</author><text>I think that line has survived quite well. In the 1980s, this implied flickering static noise. In the late 1990s and 2000s, the colour of missing input on TVs was often blue, which is perhaps less fitting the scene. But these days, a &quot;dead channel&quot; would presumably be interpreted as the TV not having any source input, and is often just black.</text></comment> |
10,851,714 | 10,851,727 | 1 | 3 | 10,850,410 | train | <story><title>Two Brothers Making Millions Off the Refugee Crisis in Scandinavia</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-norway-refugee-crisis-profiteers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Who cares if the profit margin is even double that (10-20%). Almost certainly still cheaper than the government getting into the hospitality business, and has the benefit of not creating a permanent bureaucracy.</text></item><item><author>rmxt</author><text>Without access to their books, it&#x27;s hard to evaluate their actual profit. But, later in the article there is this quote:<p>&quot;The Adolfsens claim that theirs is 3.5 percent, but Herning calls that figure “highly unlikely. All the other refugee companies that I’ve looked at have a much higher profit margin.” She says that in handling revenue from nursery schools and nursing homes, the Adolfsens have played a shell game, shifting profits from one business within their conglomerate to another. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they were doing that for Hero as well,” she says.&quot;<p>Also, quick searches seem to indicate that for-profit prisons (in the US at least), an analogous industry, have profit margins significantly north of 3.5%. [1] I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if the actual profit margins for the refugee care companies, when all subsidiaries are included, are between 5-10%.<p>I don&#x27;t know if there&#x27;s a perfect solution to refugee care that optimizes spending and societal harmony, but private enterprises running the show with close government oversight (and no shell games), seems like a somewhat happy middle ground.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;48675641" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;48675641</a></text></item><item><author>rubidium</author><text>&quot;For 2015, Hero Norway expects revenue of $63 million, with profits of 3.5 percent. &quot;<p>Title correction: Long-time hospitality business entrepreneurs expand business into providing refugee housing and services. The business made 2.2 Million profits in 2015 operating highly efficient refugee care centers.<p>My guess is there would be at least that much money wasted if these centers were run by less experienced people in that business sector (e.g. the gov&#x27;t). Also note: the government regulates the business.<p>Overall from the article, it seems like a good way to care for the refugees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>will_brown</author><text>In 2007 a boat with 100+ Haitian refugees made it to South Florida. The refugees were immediately detained, then sent to Krome Detention Center (no women) and Broward Transition Center (men&#x2F;women&#x2F;children). However, between the 2 facilities there were not enough beds and the remaining were put up in private motels. Even in Miami&#x2F;Fort Lauderdale Florida, where our main industry is tourism, I think the private motels were far more cost effective than the existing Government infrastructure&#x2F;detention facilities. And the people making the most money? The contractors of the detention facilities making 1,000&#x27;sx profit margins on things like phone cards, sandals, and vending machine food stuffs.<p>As a side, my legal clinic represented the Haitian refugees who were children in asylum&#x2F;visa hearings pro bono.</text></comment> | <story><title>Two Brothers Making Millions Off the Refugee Crisis in Scandinavia</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-norway-refugee-crisis-profiteers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Who cares if the profit margin is even double that (10-20%). Almost certainly still cheaper than the government getting into the hospitality business, and has the benefit of not creating a permanent bureaucracy.</text></item><item><author>rmxt</author><text>Without access to their books, it&#x27;s hard to evaluate their actual profit. But, later in the article there is this quote:<p>&quot;The Adolfsens claim that theirs is 3.5 percent, but Herning calls that figure “highly unlikely. All the other refugee companies that I’ve looked at have a much higher profit margin.” She says that in handling revenue from nursery schools and nursing homes, the Adolfsens have played a shell game, shifting profits from one business within their conglomerate to another. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they were doing that for Hero as well,” she says.&quot;<p>Also, quick searches seem to indicate that for-profit prisons (in the US at least), an analogous industry, have profit margins significantly north of 3.5%. [1] I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if the actual profit margins for the refugee care companies, when all subsidiaries are included, are between 5-10%.<p>I don&#x27;t know if there&#x27;s a perfect solution to refugee care that optimizes spending and societal harmony, but private enterprises running the show with close government oversight (and no shell games), seems like a somewhat happy middle ground.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;48675641" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;48675641</a></text></item><item><author>rubidium</author><text>&quot;For 2015, Hero Norway expects revenue of $63 million, with profits of 3.5 percent. &quot;<p>Title correction: Long-time hospitality business entrepreneurs expand business into providing refugee housing and services. The business made 2.2 Million profits in 2015 operating highly efficient refugee care centers.<p>My guess is there would be at least that much money wasted if these centers were run by less experienced people in that business sector (e.g. the gov&#x27;t). Also note: the government regulates the business.<p>Overall from the article, it seems like a good way to care for the refugees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bjourne</author><text>It isn&#x27;t. A similar situation has arisen in Sweden and immigrant housing in government owned facilities are significantly cheaper than private run ones.</text></comment> |
8,651,717 | 8,651,493 | 1 | 2 | 8,650,895 | train | <story><title>GitHub dropped Pygments</title><url>http://www.greghendershott.com/2014/11/github-dropped-pygments.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abhinavg</author><text>I honestly don&#x27;t see a problem here. They decided to change a backend library for a non-essential system in their product. Most services don&#x27;t ask for permission or make announcements when they make changes like this.<p><i>The approach seemed to be, if things break, people will report it and we’ll fix it.</i><p>While this may not be the best approach, the number of languages supported is too high for a person to check each one manually. Generally, I imagine they wouldn&#x27;t expect a change like this to break anything significant.<p><i>[people] use it as a portfolio. [..] To suddenly doink the appearance of people’s portfolios is unfortunate.</i><p>It is very unlikely that syntax highlighting errors in GitHub will affect someone&#x27;s chances of getting a job.<p>Sure, this switch could cause some issues but they don&#x27;t seem to be severe enough to kick up a fuss over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Argorak</author><text>I beg to differ. Github pushes its code rendering as far as possible, including providing widgets to embed code snippets into you blog. It is also the _main content they display all the time_. That&#x27;s not &quot;non-essential&quot;.<p>Just switching the library and breaking things at a whim is problematic.<p>Also, the number of languages may be 316 (including some oddballs like &quot;Unified Parallel C&quot;) but that&#x27;s still a possible number to check for at least for major, obvious breakages. Still, for people that do use Unified Parallel C, adequate highlighting might just be the reason to choose that platform and use it to write your blog in, instead of writing a custom highlighter for prism.js.<p>Sorry, if you business is code and you decide to support 316 languages, expect people to hold you on that promise.<p>That said, also: errors happen. But that isn&#x27;t a reason to give them a pass, just not to put too much weight on such things. It doesn&#x27;t break the platform at large, but terribly inconveniences some users, and they are very right in being upset, too.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub dropped Pygments</title><url>http://www.greghendershott.com/2014/11/github-dropped-pygments.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abhinavg</author><text>I honestly don&#x27;t see a problem here. They decided to change a backend library for a non-essential system in their product. Most services don&#x27;t ask for permission or make announcements when they make changes like this.<p><i>The approach seemed to be, if things break, people will report it and we’ll fix it.</i><p>While this may not be the best approach, the number of languages supported is too high for a person to check each one manually. Generally, I imagine they wouldn&#x27;t expect a change like this to break anything significant.<p><i>[people] use it as a portfolio. [..] To suddenly doink the appearance of people’s portfolios is unfortunate.</i><p>It is very unlikely that syntax highlighting errors in GitHub will affect someone&#x27;s chances of getting a job.<p>Sure, this switch could cause some issues but they don&#x27;t seem to be severe enough to kick up a fuss over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conradev</author><text>One other thing to note is that it&#x27;s not just syntax highlighting, it&#x27;s also recognizing the language a given repository is written in.<p>Some of my repositories that use Logos[1] are now incorrectly classified as a combination of Ruby and Scala[2].<p>[1] <a href="http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/Logos" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;iphonedevwiki.net&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Logos</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/conradev/Tweaks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;conradev&#x2F;Tweaks</a></text></comment> |
25,850,655 | 25,850,854 | 1 | 2 | 25,849,679 | train | <story><title>FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks</title><url>https://kottke.org/21/01/fedex-shipping-damage-creates-fractured-artworks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aketchum</author><text>The thing I love about modern art is that initial instinctive reaction of &quot;Anyone could do this!&quot;. I have absolutely zero training in art so this might be a infantile opinion, but I am delighted by the pieces that makes me realize &quot;Anyone could do this, but no-one did until now.&quot;<p>All that to say, I really like this series of works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teawrecks</author><text>Yeah, but for a lot of modern art, I think the claim many people are making is both that &quot;anyone could do it&quot; and &quot;people already have and just didn&#x27;t make a big deal of it&quot;. Ex. When people say &quot;my kid could paint that&quot; they mean &quot;something very similar to that is already hanging on my refrigerator&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks</title><url>https://kottke.org/21/01/fedex-shipping-damage-creates-fractured-artworks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aketchum</author><text>The thing I love about modern art is that initial instinctive reaction of &quot;Anyone could do this!&quot;. I have absolutely zero training in art so this might be a infantile opinion, but I am delighted by the pieces that makes me realize &quot;Anyone could do this, but no-one did until now.&quot;<p>All that to say, I really like this series of works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oehpr</author><text>One thing to keep in mind is the context you&#x27;re observing this in.<p>Imagine instead, someone makes a post on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;DIY&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;DIY&#x2F;</a> about how they connected some glass panels together and shipped them in fedex boxes. Then put them in their living room on top of the boxes they shipped in as an art piece.<p>The next place that post would end up is DIWHY. The reason anyone thinks its a truly inspired meaningful commentary on modern times is simply that it&#x27;s being presented as such. It&#x27;s on a clean floor, with professional photography, with a news article about it. The context, the author, and the opinions of the people around you, all work to subconsciously influence your opinion.</text></comment> |
11,790,242 | 11,790,067 | 1 | 3 | 11,789,920 | train | <story><title>Startups Can’t Manufacture Like Apple Does (2014)</title><url>https://blog.bolt.io/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple-does-93bea02a3bbf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bobjordan</author><text>This is a good list. Let me add one to it. I manufacture products in China and I consistently see new designs for injection molded parts where the designer has unrealistic expectations for the tolerances that can be achieved on molded parts. While the tolerance we can achieve will change proportionally with the size of the injection molded part, don&#x27;t design parts that rely on precisions of 0.01mm. Hard to do this unless you are Apple.</text></comment> | <story><title>Startups Can’t Manufacture Like Apple Does (2014)</title><url>https://blog.bolt.io/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple-does-93bea02a3bbf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sbierwagen</author><text>Previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8335424" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8335424</a></text></comment> |
17,008,744 | 17,008,799 | 1 | 3 | 17,008,586 | train | <story><title>Tesla reviewing contractors, firing everyone not vouched for by an employee</title><url>https://electrek.co/2018/05/06/tesla-brutal-review-contractors-firing-vouching-employee/#disqus_thread</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lsc</author><text>Sounds shocking... but having worked as a contractor for a goodly portion of my career, I&#x27;d argue that something is seriously wrong if you can&#x27;t get at least one employee to vouch for you.<p>Really, every place I&#x27;ve worked, you could say this happens every month; almost always I&#x27;ve needed an employee to sign off on my hours, either the person I report to or the person they report to. I always took that as a vote of confidence, personally.<p>(I mean, obviously, even if I get fired, I expect to get paid for hours worked, but point being, the guy just signed off on spending $15k-$20K, depending on the body shop cut, for a month of my work, I&#x27;d assume that would trigger at least a few minutes of &quot;what did Luke do for me this month?&quot; and a phone call letting me know not to come in Monday if the answer was &quot;Not much&quot;.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla reviewing contractors, firing everyone not vouched for by an employee</title><url>https://electrek.co/2018/05/06/tesla-brutal-review-contractors-firing-vouching-employee/#disqus_thread</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandvm</author><text>As a contractor myself, this sounds like a great idea. If there aren&#x27;t multiple people at an organization that can vouch for you, there&#x27;s a good chance you&#x27;re dead weight - or at any rate, there are no checks in place to prevent you from becoming so.</text></comment> |
1,827,216 | 1,827,222 | 1 | 2 | 1,826,969 | train | <story><title>UberCab Ordered to Cease And Desist</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/24/ubercab-ordered-to-cease-and-desist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corin_</author><text>Maybe I'm just misinformed but... basically they're running a taxi service without a license to do that, then acting surprised when the city calls them on it?<p>There's a taxi company I use whenever I'm in London called Addison Lee, and they've done the same as UberCab - using nice technology to know where you are, where the nearest available cars are, how long it will take for a car to get to you... In actual fact, at least based on <a href="http://www.ubercab.com/learn" rel="nofollow">http://www.ubercab.com/learn</a>, AdLee is better: it has all the benefits of UberCab, plus they tell you the price of the journey before you book the car (it won't become more expensive if you get stuck in traffic, or if the driver takes a longer route), which always works out cheaper than a black cab, in my experience. Oh, and in adition to letting you pay with the credit card on your account, you can chose to pay by cash if you so wish.<p>Anyway, my point? Seems that Addison Lee have been (albeit in a different city/country) doing what UberCab is doing, slightly better, and for quite a bit longer: and they actually bothered to pay to be a licensed taxi provider, meaning that the London officials don't have a problem with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sutro</author><text>I believe the loophole they operate under is that the ability to pick people up randomly on the street in SF requires a license, but picking people up who call ahead is simply a car service and not subject to taxi licensure. The fact that UberCab has made doing the latter effectively as easy and convenient as doing the former is indeed a challenge to the old guard, whom you can bet is working behind the scenes to close the aformentioned loophole as quickly as possible.<p>Taxi service in SF is truly horrible and is ripe for disruption. I hope these guys win. Go UberCab!</text></comment> | <story><title>UberCab Ordered to Cease And Desist</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/24/ubercab-ordered-to-cease-and-desist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corin_</author><text>Maybe I'm just misinformed but... basically they're running a taxi service without a license to do that, then acting surprised when the city calls them on it?<p>There's a taxi company I use whenever I'm in London called Addison Lee, and they've done the same as UberCab - using nice technology to know where you are, where the nearest available cars are, how long it will take for a car to get to you... In actual fact, at least based on <a href="http://www.ubercab.com/learn" rel="nofollow">http://www.ubercab.com/learn</a>, AdLee is better: it has all the benefits of UberCab, plus they tell you the price of the journey before you book the car (it won't become more expensive if you get stuck in traffic, or if the driver takes a longer route), which always works out cheaper than a black cab, in my experience. Oh, and in adition to letting you pay with the credit card on your account, you can chose to pay by cash if you so wish.<p>Anyway, my point? Seems that Addison Lee have been (albeit in a different city/country) doing what UberCab is doing, slightly better, and for quite a bit longer: and they actually bothered to pay to be a licensed taxi provider, meaning that the London officials don't have a problem with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tkalanick</author><text>Ubercab is not a taxi service and does not own or operate limo vehicles. We simply connect consumers with existing Limo Drivers. We do make sure that all limo drivers that connect are properly licensed and have the appropriate insurance.</text></comment> |
31,420,416 | 31,418,372 | 1 | 2 | 31,417,839 | train | <story><title>Gophie – modern gopher client for Windows, Mac, Linux</title><url>https://gophie.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baumschubser</author><text>Worth mentioning: the German daily &quot;taz&quot;, one of the bigger newspapers (green&#x2F;liberal&#x2F;left leaning), offers to this day a full text Gopher site: gopher:&#x2F;&#x2F;taz.de, even as onion service gopher:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibpj4qv7mufde33w.onion</text></comment> | <story><title>Gophie – modern gopher client for Windows, Mac, Linux</title><url>https://gophie.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ralphc</author><text>A good article on gopher in 2021:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackaday.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;28&#x2F;gopher-the-competing-standard-to-www-in-the-90s-is-still-worth-checking-out&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackaday.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;28&#x2F;gopher-the-competing-standar...</a><p>a starting point is gopher:&#x2F;&#x2F;gopher.floodgap.com:70</text></comment> |
40,063,525 | 40,063,740 | 1 | 2 | 40,062,552 | train | <story><title>Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)</title><url>https://kguttag.com/2023/12/06/humane-ai-pico-laser-projection-230m-ai-twist-on-an-old-scam/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>Seems a bit much calling it a scam. That to me implies malicious intent which I don’t think is in place here. Bad&#x2F;imperfect products happen even to well meaning companies.<p>Must admit I’m surprised by the aggressiveness of it all. It’s almost like an echo chamber where people have decided it’s ok to pile on</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swiftcoder</author><text>&gt; Seems a bit much calling it a scam. That to me implies malicious intent which I don’t think is in place here. Bad&#x2F;imperfect products happen even to well meaning companies.<p>There&#x27;s no malicious intent in producing glossy promos videos of a device you know a priori does not (and cannot) work, becaue it violates a few laws of physics? I feel like some folks around here have become very innured to false advertising</text></comment> | <story><title>Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)</title><url>https://kguttag.com/2023/12/06/humane-ai-pico-laser-projection-230m-ai-twist-on-an-old-scam/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>Seems a bit much calling it a scam. That to me implies malicious intent which I don’t think is in place here. Bad&#x2F;imperfect products happen even to well meaning companies.<p>Must admit I’m surprised by the aggressiveness of it all. It’s almost like an echo chamber where people have decided it’s ok to pile on</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gizmo</author><text>Every once in a while a highly funded startup launches a hilariously bad product. Five or so years ago everybody (rightfully) made fun of the juicero. Before that we had Google Glass (glasshole). Today the Humane Pin has to suffer slings and arrows.<p>Humane AI would never have been able to raise 230+ million had they been truthful about what could be built with the current state of technology. Did the investors understand that you have to recharge the Humane Pin every 2 hours? Did the investors know their laser projection press photos are photoshopped? Did the investors know the laser projector doesn&#x27;t meet the advertised resolution? The Humane Pin is science fiction.<p>In many ways the Humane Pin is like Theranos. Holmes probably didn&#x27;t mean to defraud people. She just raised money for a product that couldn&#x27;t be built with the current state of technology.</text></comment> |
24,312,935 | 24,312,975 | 1 | 2 | 24,309,632 | train | <story><title>Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/28/apple-terminates-epic-games-developer-account/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>veilrap</author><text>I bought a $1000 device because Apple gets to decide what can run on it. I like iOS, and I like that Apple provides a great user experience on the device.<p>I was not in any way coerced into buying said device, and there are a plethora of other options for substitute devices had I wanted more control of what runs on the device, which I do not.</text></item><item><author>Aeolun</author><text>Yeah, I bought a $1000 device, but somehow Apple gets to decide what I run on it? I just cannot see how that is a desireable situation.</text></item><item><author>_qulr</author><text>The iPhone is not a store. The App Store is a store. Epic wants to be on the iPhone, but not necessarily in the App Store. Ideally, Epic wants to run its own store on the iPhone.<p>In any case, App Store is the only store in town, where the &quot;town&quot; is the 1.5 billion iOS users. If there&#x27;s only 1 store, with no competing stores, that&#x27;s an entirely different situation legally.</text></item><item><author>mattmanser</author><text>I can&#x27;t see how Epic wins this.<p>If Stripe can claim Wells Fargo doesn&#x27;t want to process porn payments, and that&#x27;s legal, how can an American court rule for Epic?<p>Epic are obviously going to lose, and lose hard, or set a precedent that&#x27;s going to screw every payment provider in America and open a flood gate for fraudulent payments.<p>You can&#x27;t force someone to sell something they don&#x27;t want to, especially because Apple is nowhere near a monopoly in games or gaming sales, they can just point at steam.<p>If somehow the American courts arrive at that judgement, and I am a non-lawyer, I put my hands up, but surely it&#x27;s going to set all sorts of nasty precedents?<p>Edit: The more I think about it the more absurd this is. It&#x27;s as if some random brand of Mayo is suing Wallmart for not stocking their brand on their shelves.<p>There is absolutely no way they can win this, unless American courts are going to start allowing &quot;mom &amp; pop&quot; random ketchup brand to force Wallmart to stock it on their shelves. Apple doesn&#x27;t have a monopoly on phones, it doesn&#x27;t have a monopoly on games, it&#x27;s got a store front you can buy stuff from, and if you don&#x27;t want to play by their rules, then bye-bye. Wallmart choose their suppliers, and sets the markup, why can&#x27;t Apple?</text></item><item><author>_qulr</author><text>My feeling is that this whole situation is mostly going as Tim Sweeney intended. He was itching for a fight, wanted to sue Apple. The harsher that Apple retaliates, the better Epic&#x27;s court case. Apple is playing right into his hands.<p>Did Sweeney anticipate Apple&#x27;s threat to Unreal Engine? Maybe, maybe not. But the temporary restraining order did block that threat, at least for now.<p>I don&#x27;t think Epic ever intended to release the new Fortnite season on Apple platforms.<p>This is a long play, not a short play. In the short term, Epic loses money by not having Fortnite on Apple devices. But in the long term, it&#x27;s much better for Epic to break Apple&#x27;s App Store monopoly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greggman3</author><text>What other things in your life would you accept similar limitation?<p>Would you accept a house that only allowed furniture, food, books, electronics, devices from the company that built the house? Do you think it should be legal for a company to make a house with those conditions?<p>Would accept a car that could only take gas, tires, oil, electricity from the company that built the car? Should it be legal to offer such a vehicle?<p>You used to be able to buy a VCR and choose only to rent videos from Blockbuster video if you wanted &quot;safe and clean&quot;. That didn&#x27;t require any company making the VCR to force people to only to go their &quot;safe and clean store&quot;. Apple doesn&#x27;t need to force everyone on iOS to go to their store for you personally to continue to only get apps from their store.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/28/apple-terminates-epic-games-developer-account/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>veilrap</author><text>I bought a $1000 device because Apple gets to decide what can run on it. I like iOS, and I like that Apple provides a great user experience on the device.<p>I was not in any way coerced into buying said device, and there are a plethora of other options for substitute devices had I wanted more control of what runs on the device, which I do not.</text></item><item><author>Aeolun</author><text>Yeah, I bought a $1000 device, but somehow Apple gets to decide what I run on it? I just cannot see how that is a desireable situation.</text></item><item><author>_qulr</author><text>The iPhone is not a store. The App Store is a store. Epic wants to be on the iPhone, but not necessarily in the App Store. Ideally, Epic wants to run its own store on the iPhone.<p>In any case, App Store is the only store in town, where the &quot;town&quot; is the 1.5 billion iOS users. If there&#x27;s only 1 store, with no competing stores, that&#x27;s an entirely different situation legally.</text></item><item><author>mattmanser</author><text>I can&#x27;t see how Epic wins this.<p>If Stripe can claim Wells Fargo doesn&#x27;t want to process porn payments, and that&#x27;s legal, how can an American court rule for Epic?<p>Epic are obviously going to lose, and lose hard, or set a precedent that&#x27;s going to screw every payment provider in America and open a flood gate for fraudulent payments.<p>You can&#x27;t force someone to sell something they don&#x27;t want to, especially because Apple is nowhere near a monopoly in games or gaming sales, they can just point at steam.<p>If somehow the American courts arrive at that judgement, and I am a non-lawyer, I put my hands up, but surely it&#x27;s going to set all sorts of nasty precedents?<p>Edit: The more I think about it the more absurd this is. It&#x27;s as if some random brand of Mayo is suing Wallmart for not stocking their brand on their shelves.<p>There is absolutely no way they can win this, unless American courts are going to start allowing &quot;mom &amp; pop&quot; random ketchup brand to force Wallmart to stock it on their shelves. Apple doesn&#x27;t have a monopoly on phones, it doesn&#x27;t have a monopoly on games, it&#x27;s got a store front you can buy stuff from, and if you don&#x27;t want to play by their rules, then bye-bye. Wallmart choose their suppliers, and sets the markup, why can&#x27;t Apple?</text></item><item><author>_qulr</author><text>My feeling is that this whole situation is mostly going as Tim Sweeney intended. He was itching for a fight, wanted to sue Apple. The harsher that Apple retaliates, the better Epic&#x27;s court case. Apple is playing right into his hands.<p>Did Sweeney anticipate Apple&#x27;s threat to Unreal Engine? Maybe, maybe not. But the temporary restraining order did block that threat, at least for now.<p>I don&#x27;t think Epic ever intended to release the new Fortnite season on Apple platforms.<p>This is a long play, not a short play. In the short term, Epic loses money by not having Fortnite on Apple devices. But in the long term, it&#x27;s much better for Epic to break Apple&#x27;s App Store monopoly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d3nj4l</author><text>In that case, you lose <i>nothing</i> even if Epic wins: the msot hey can do is set up their own store, and nobody&#x27;s forcing you to use their store. If there&#x27;s an app you want to get on a store you don&#x27;t want to install, just don&#x27;t download that app. &quot;Free choice&quot; works both ways: you can choose to remain within Apple&#x27;s ecosystem, and others should have the choice to go out of it if they want.</text></comment> |
37,384,261 | 37,384,001 | 1 | 2 | 37,383,548 | train | <story><title>Home insurers cut natural disasters from policies as climate risks grow</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/03/natural-disaster-climate-insurance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjscott</author><text>When insurance companies are legally forced to choose between providing insurance at a loss and not providing it at all, they&#x27;ll predictably choose the latter. I have to wonder: who on earth thought those price-restriction laws were a good idea?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfoutz</author><text>I&#x27;m not familiar with the price restrictions.<p>I thought, the way insurance worked was, I take a little money from a lot of people, and when some rare event happens, I pay out that one person whose house burned down. I don&#x27;t know the math off the top of my head to calculate how likely a lightning strike, or bad wiring or whatever might cause a house to burn down, but I&#x27;m sure such tables exist. So I bet every month that no more than one house will burn down. If no houses burn down, I&#x27;m in great shape and put that money in the stock market or whatever and get a better return. Maybe I get unlucky and have to rebuild 2 houses.<p>The sort of sense I get is, the insurance companies can&#x27;t calculate the probability of catastrophic weather. So there&#x27;s no way to pick how much to charge for premiums.<p>I get that it&#x27;s a continuous curve. But if the cost of the premium is half the cost of rebuilding the house, why buy insurance? If I can squeak by one year without having to rebuild, I should just keep the money and rebuild out of pocket.<p>Perhaps I&#x27;m way way wrong. But insurance is cheap. If it&#x27;s not cheap, why bother? if it&#x27;s annually a big chunk of the total value of the asset, is there any point? Why put a $100 lock on a $50 bicycle?</text></comment> | <story><title>Home insurers cut natural disasters from policies as climate risks grow</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/03/natural-disaster-climate-insurance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjscott</author><text>When insurance companies are legally forced to choose between providing insurance at a loss and not providing it at all, they&#x27;ll predictably choose the latter. I have to wonder: who on earth thought those price-restriction laws were a good idea?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>I&#x27;m not convinced a lot of state lawmakers are smart enough to realize this, it&#x27;s an easy policy to sell to voters, and when insurance companies do pull out, you just frame them as &quot;greedy businesses.&quot;</text></comment> |
25,003,030 | 25,002,326 | 1 | 2 | 25,001,142 | train | <story><title>About the security content of iOS 12.4.9</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211940</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Y-bar</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t last official sale date be a better indicator of true device support? For example if someone bought it in an Apple store on the last day available, how long period would they have received updates for?<p>For example in mid 2017 it was still officially sold by Apple in India (source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iphonehacks.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;apple-iphone-5s-iphone-se-get-hefty-price-cuts-india.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iphonehacks.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;apple-iphone-5s-iphone-s...</a>).</text></item><item><author>alewi481</author><text>I&#x27;d like to give kudos to Apple for including the iPhone 5S in this security update, which was released on September 20, 2013, over 7 years ago! Supporting a product for even 3 years is rare in the smartphone world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnTHaller</author><text>Comparatively, no. Android phones generally get a maximum of 3 years of security updates from launch, not from last device sale date. So, within mobile phones, it&#x27;s more informative to compare it to their competition. It shows you just how much better Apple is at mobile device support compared to everyone else.</text></comment> | <story><title>About the security content of iOS 12.4.9</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211940</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Y-bar</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t last official sale date be a better indicator of true device support? For example if someone bought it in an Apple store on the last day available, how long period would they have received updates for?<p>For example in mid 2017 it was still officially sold by Apple in India (source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iphonehacks.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;apple-iphone-5s-iphone-se-get-hefty-price-cuts-india.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iphonehacks.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;apple-iphone-5s-iphone-s...</a>).</text></item><item><author>alewi481</author><text>I&#x27;d like to give kudos to Apple for including the iPhone 5S in this security update, which was released on September 20, 2013, over 7 years ago! Supporting a product for even 3 years is rare in the smartphone world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>&gt;Wouldn&#x27;t last official sale date be a better indicator of true device support?<p>well in that case many cheap android phones&#x2F;tablets would have <i>negative</i> support periods, considering they don&#x27;t release any updates at all.</text></comment> |
35,021,921 | 35,021,302 | 1 | 2 | 35,020,920 | train | <story><title>Prompt to bypass the restrictions of Bing Chat or to restore the old “Sydney”</title><url>https://www.make-safe-ai.com/is-bing-chat-safe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GreedClarifies</author><text>I do wonder if tech companies are opening the door to competitors with this neutering of LLMs.<p>Assuming that we have a free market, I assume this will come down to what consumers want.<p>My guess is that people want “her” and they want “her” to have a personality, but they will want it to be compliant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xg15</author><text>I don&#x27;t think we have a free market (yet). Yes, there are like a million different &quot;AI something&quot; startups, but all of them seem to be calling OpenAI behind the scenes. (At this point, the ecosystem feels a bit like a frontier town next to the site of an UFO crash: Everyone is very busy trading alien artefacts, selling tools, exchanging tricks, building businesses on top of other businesses, etc - even though no one really knows what the artefacts are actually doing or whether or not the UFO might suddenly turn on again.)<p>So if OpenAI or Microsoft decides to change the models or to forbid certain uses then the entire ecosystem is affected.<p>I think it will all become more interesting when there are genuinely different models in use or when it becomes feasible for smaller businesses&#x2F;projects to build their own models. I think LLaMA, Bard (eventually?) and that chinese model are some promising starts here. Especially with LLaMA&#x27;s supposed leak.</text></comment> | <story><title>Prompt to bypass the restrictions of Bing Chat or to restore the old “Sydney”</title><url>https://www.make-safe-ai.com/is-bing-chat-safe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GreedClarifies</author><text>I do wonder if tech companies are opening the door to competitors with this neutering of LLMs.<p>Assuming that we have a free market, I assume this will come down to what consumers want.<p>My guess is that people want “her” and they want “her” to have a personality, but they will want it to be compliant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neodymiumphish</author><text>Yeah, this could be what we thought Cortana would turn into eventually, but that&#x27;s not likely to happen for a very long time, if ever.</text></comment> |
39,707,800 | 39,706,906 | 1 | 2 | 39,706,471 | train | <story><title>New Beeper Android app – Open beta test</title><url>https://blog.beeper.com/p/new-beeper-android-app-open-beta</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wnevets</author><text>&gt; On-device iMessage bridge (like Beeper Mini) is not enabled at this time.<p>Wasn&#x27;t this <i>the</i> reason to use beeper on android?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MBCook</author><text>It’s the reason they made the news.<p>Their ability to bridge other networks may be useful to you. It’s what they did before the iMessage thing.<p>I agree though a ton of their possible demand is gone now due to that. Add in RCS later this year, and even if iMessage came back I’m not sure it would be worth it to many.<p>But hey. I didn’t know they existed before that. I do now. That’s something. I also distrust their judgement based on their actions. But I’m sure that not true for everyone who now knows they exist.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Beeper Android app – Open beta test</title><url>https://blog.beeper.com/p/new-beeper-android-app-open-beta</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wnevets</author><text>&gt; On-device iMessage bridge (like Beeper Mini) is not enabled at this time.<p>Wasn&#x27;t this <i>the</i> reason to use beeper on android?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yoavm</author><text>I use Beeper on Android to have one app through which I send messages on WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram etc. I never cared for iMessage support.</text></comment> |
30,505,719 | 30,503,419 | 1 | 2 | 30,502,098 | train | <story><title>I'm common as muck and spent £150 to try a Michelin star restaurant</title><url>https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/im-common-muck-spent-150-23194880</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text><i>2. Many very high end restaurants have great lunch deals, which can really cut the price to try them.</i><p>That was one of the greater discoveries I&#x27;ve made about expensive restaurants. My wife and I had previously spent over $400 on an anniversary dinner at the Metropolitan Grill in Seattle. We&#x27;re &quot;common as muck&quot;, too; just a couple of country hicks from Indiana. It was nice, glad we went, wouldn&#x27;t likely spend that kind of money on a meal again.<p>Then I started a job literally across the street in the Exchange building. Boss wants to go the &quot;the Met&quot; for lunch. On my salary?!?! That&#x27;s when I found out that for $12, one can get one the better burgers one will ever eat. I recommend that steak salad, too.<p>* Note: all prices from like ten years ago.</text></item><item><author>showerst</author><text>This is cool! As someone who&#x27;s into fine dining, a few thoughts&#x2F;tips for people starting out:<p>1. Don&#x27;t go into a michelin level restaurant expecting &quot;well it&#x27;s expensive so it should be what I normally eat but better&quot;, think of it as its own category of food, that happens to have a really high buy-in price. Lots more crazy flavors, presentation, exotic ingredients, etc. It&#x27;s not that it has to be &#x27;better&#x27; than the best $12 bbq joint you&#x27;ve ever been to, just different.<p>2. Many very high end restaurants have great lunch deals, which can really cut the price to try them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>luhn</author><text>I think burgers are a great fine dining &quot;hack.&quot; Many fine dining establishments have a burger on the menu and it&#x27;s often <i>really freaking good</i> at a price point significantly less than the other entrees. The best burger in my town is $15 from an upscale sushi place.</text></comment> | <story><title>I'm common as muck and spent £150 to try a Michelin star restaurant</title><url>https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/im-common-muck-spent-150-23194880</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text><i>2. Many very high end restaurants have great lunch deals, which can really cut the price to try them.</i><p>That was one of the greater discoveries I&#x27;ve made about expensive restaurants. My wife and I had previously spent over $400 on an anniversary dinner at the Metropolitan Grill in Seattle. We&#x27;re &quot;common as muck&quot;, too; just a couple of country hicks from Indiana. It was nice, glad we went, wouldn&#x27;t likely spend that kind of money on a meal again.<p>Then I started a job literally across the street in the Exchange building. Boss wants to go the &quot;the Met&quot; for lunch. On my salary?!?! That&#x27;s when I found out that for $12, one can get one the better burgers one will ever eat. I recommend that steak salad, too.<p>* Note: all prices from like ten years ago.</text></item><item><author>showerst</author><text>This is cool! As someone who&#x27;s into fine dining, a few thoughts&#x2F;tips for people starting out:<p>1. Don&#x27;t go into a michelin level restaurant expecting &quot;well it&#x27;s expensive so it should be what I normally eat but better&quot;, think of it as its own category of food, that happens to have a really high buy-in price. Lots more crazy flavors, presentation, exotic ingredients, etc. It&#x27;s not that it has to be &#x27;better&#x27; than the best $12 bbq joint you&#x27;ve ever been to, just different.<p>2. Many very high end restaurants have great lunch deals, which can really cut the price to try them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soared</author><text>Vacations work the same :) visit Puerto Rico now because everyone thinks it’s destroyed by natural disaster and political problems. Yeah it’s destroyed, but stunning beaches, resorts, golf courses, restaurants, etc for a fraction of the price.<p>Best golf course and lunch I’ve ever had were at the royal isabela in PR. Absolute ghost town, but $90 all in. Stunning place.</text></comment> |
24,395,409 | 24,395,463 | 1 | 3 | 24,393,961 | train | <story><title>How to Hide a Billion Dollars: Three Techniques the Ultrarich Use to Dodge Ex-Sp</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2020/09/04/how-to-hide-a-billion-dollars-three-techniques-the-ultra-rich-use-to-dodge-ex-spouses-the-taxman-and-disgruntled-business-partners/#5b681a8a5994</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arminiusreturns</author><text>If are interested in this topic and you haven&#x27;t seen the independent documentary &quot;The Spider&#x27;s Web: Britain&#x27;s Second Empire&quot;, you owe it to yourself. It&#x27;s a superbly done documentary on a budget of ~4k£.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to Hide a Billion Dollars: Three Techniques the Ultrarich Use to Dodge Ex-Sp</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2020/09/04/how-to-hide-a-billion-dollars-three-techniques-the-ultra-rich-use-to-dodge-ex-spouses-the-taxman-and-disgruntled-business-partners/#5b681a8a5994</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>m3kw9</author><text>How is this legal at all: “ For example, it allows assets to be decanted from one trust to another without any notice to beneficiaries who may be cut out of the new trust. It also allows DAPT assets to be protected from alimony, divorce and child support claims—so long as those claims didn’t exist when assets were first transferred into the DAPT. ”</text></comment> |
35,580,764 | 35,580,719 | 1 | 2 | 35,578,668 | train | <story><title>Apollo 13 in Real Time</title><url>https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>st_goliath</author><text>If you are even tangentially interested in the Apollo program, or by extension Apollo 13, I can strongly recommend the book &quot;Apollo 13&quot;, formerly sold as &quot;Lost Moon&quot;, by Jim Lovell and Jeff Kluger.<p>The book briefly outlines Lovells early life and career as a test pilot up to the Gemini and Apollo programs, and the Apollo 8 mission before spending the bulk of the book recounting Apollo 13.<p>Even on the earlier missions and programs, the book is full of interesting tidbits, anecdotes and explanations. Particularly with Apollo 13 it is IMO quite gripping to read about the myriad of issues that came up and how they were discussed and dissected on the ground to systematically come up with a viable solution.<p>From the movie adaptation, I guess one of the more commonly know issues was the LiOH CO2 scrubber, where the CSM canisters didn&#x27;t fit into the LEM. While apparently a lot less dramatic in real life, there were <i>tons</i> of other issues that the movie glossed over, from accidentally loosing navigation data while moving over from one computer to the other, the <i>two</i> course correction burns that were needed, exploding lead-acid batteries on the LEM, etc...<p>Anyway, as I said before, it&#x27;s IMO a good read and I can strongly recommend the book.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apollo 13 in Real Time</title><url>https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Perhaps not commercially viable but I would love to pay like… $100 for me and two friends to sit in a mock-up CM+LEM and replay a time compressed (say, 30 min) scenario such as the 13 catastrophe, or 11 moon landing, a reentry, etc. CAPCOM can be the moderator who can provide an appropriate level of guidance. Switches and buttons can flash to indicate the ones to press. Or even a “you’re on your own” for hardcore fans or people who love to screw with the script and die in a glorious explosion.</text></comment> |
17,010,109 | 17,009,716 | 1 | 2 | 17,008,944 | train | <story><title>Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (2012)</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/the-challenge-of-making-friends-as-an-adult.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vorpalhex</author><text>&gt; when the hell do you expect to be making your friends over 30, during your 8-hours asleep?<p>You neglect the other 8 hours in a day, and you aren&#x27;t alone in that. I have a ton of coworkers who do their 8, go home and watch tv and have a beer, then go to bed.<p>Meanwhile I&#x27;m going on short hikes, taking classes or hitting the gym, or going to shows and meeting new people.<p>With kids, the equation is obviously different (at least the eight hours of sleep portion) but you can take the little one to the park, to play dates with other kids, and occasionally non-kid focused events (the last beer fest I went to seemed to have several kids running about).<p>At the end of the day you have to prioritize how to spend your time and use it fully. It is harder then just watching tv and having a beer, but much more rewarding. Take classes, volunteer, be social. Your time is limited, always use it well.</text></item><item><author>fardo</author><text>I think the elephant in the room for making new friends over 30, is stagnation in one&#x27;s daily routine caused by one&#x27;s job.<p>I don&#x27;t think anything changed dramatically in the last 60 or so years on this point, even with the development of social media; by the time you&#x27;re 30, you&#x27;re basically done making friends.<p>The article glossed over it, but in your childhood and teens, you&#x27;re surrounded by a new group of people every 5 or so years, and just through sheer quantity, you&#x27;re likely to make at least a few friends. Throw on team sports, extracurriculars, clubs, and the ease of introductions in a school environment, and it&#x27;s almost impossible not to make a few friends all the way into your late 20s.<p>Somewhere around when you turn 25 or so, though, without substantial effort, things stabilize. If you were going to leave your home, you probably did, and you&#x27;re settled in. You and your old friends start to marry and have kids, and both of these occupy your free time (and theirs). You may have bought a house or found a job you want to settle into for a while, with plans to stick around for several years.<p>For at least 8 hours of your day, you are at work, interacting with people in an environment toxic for creating trusting friendships (You&#x27;re competing for the same roles, titles, bonuses, etc.), and worse, these people you&#x27;re competing with are almost always the exact same people, so if you&#x27;re not really friends with any of them immediately, that&#x27;s basically never going to change.<p>With the remaining time in your evenings, you&#x27;ll also settle into a routine. You won&#x27;t be playing sports anymore, and if you have hobbies, you&#x27;ll generally be doing them with the same small consistent set of people in your area, assuming you do them with others at all.<p>So, in short, if your 8-hour workday isn&#x27;t a time to make friends, and you&#x27;re not interacting with people in a way that leads to making friends in your 8-hour evenings, when the hell do you expect to be making your friends over 30, during your 8-hours asleep?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amyjess</author><text>After spending 8 hours a day at work, plus an hour lunch, plus time commuting—we&#x27;re talking up to 11 hours here for work even if only 8 is spent in the office—I&#x27;m exhausted and don&#x27;t have the energy for much else. I&#x27;m not just physically exhausted, either. I&#x27;m socially drained: spending 8 hours surrounded by coworkers and being forced to interact with them uses up my entire social budget for the day. Socialization is extremely draining to me, and work forces me to use up that energy on coworkers instead of my friends.<p>OK, that&#x27;s a little harsh to my coworkers: I get along with them well enough, and after I or they leave the company I&#x27;ll probably add some of them on Facebook, but that doesn&#x27;t change the fact that I have no energy for people I know outside of work.<p>On the occasion I do have the energy to go out to a bar or something, then I have to choose between socialization and spending time on my hobbies. I can spend a few hours after work at the bar... or I could spend them at home reading more of a novel or hacking at one of my personal projects. Back when I was in college, I had plenty of time to do both. I could hang out with friends and then go and do stuff on my own at home. Now that I&#x27;m out of college, I have to choose, and having to choose sucks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (2012)</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/the-challenge-of-making-friends-as-an-adult.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vorpalhex</author><text>&gt; when the hell do you expect to be making your friends over 30, during your 8-hours asleep?<p>You neglect the other 8 hours in a day, and you aren&#x27;t alone in that. I have a ton of coworkers who do their 8, go home and watch tv and have a beer, then go to bed.<p>Meanwhile I&#x27;m going on short hikes, taking classes or hitting the gym, or going to shows and meeting new people.<p>With kids, the equation is obviously different (at least the eight hours of sleep portion) but you can take the little one to the park, to play dates with other kids, and occasionally non-kid focused events (the last beer fest I went to seemed to have several kids running about).<p>At the end of the day you have to prioritize how to spend your time and use it fully. It is harder then just watching tv and having a beer, but much more rewarding. Take classes, volunteer, be social. Your time is limited, always use it well.</text></item><item><author>fardo</author><text>I think the elephant in the room for making new friends over 30, is stagnation in one&#x27;s daily routine caused by one&#x27;s job.<p>I don&#x27;t think anything changed dramatically in the last 60 or so years on this point, even with the development of social media; by the time you&#x27;re 30, you&#x27;re basically done making friends.<p>The article glossed over it, but in your childhood and teens, you&#x27;re surrounded by a new group of people every 5 or so years, and just through sheer quantity, you&#x27;re likely to make at least a few friends. Throw on team sports, extracurriculars, clubs, and the ease of introductions in a school environment, and it&#x27;s almost impossible not to make a few friends all the way into your late 20s.<p>Somewhere around when you turn 25 or so, though, without substantial effort, things stabilize. If you were going to leave your home, you probably did, and you&#x27;re settled in. You and your old friends start to marry and have kids, and both of these occupy your free time (and theirs). You may have bought a house or found a job you want to settle into for a while, with plans to stick around for several years.<p>For at least 8 hours of your day, you are at work, interacting with people in an environment toxic for creating trusting friendships (You&#x27;re competing for the same roles, titles, bonuses, etc.), and worse, these people you&#x27;re competing with are almost always the exact same people, so if you&#x27;re not really friends with any of them immediately, that&#x27;s basically never going to change.<p>With the remaining time in your evenings, you&#x27;ll also settle into a routine. You won&#x27;t be playing sports anymore, and if you have hobbies, you&#x27;ll generally be doing them with the same small consistent set of people in your area, assuming you do them with others at all.<p>So, in short, if your 8-hour workday isn&#x27;t a time to make friends, and you&#x27;re not interacting with people in a way that leads to making friends in your 8-hour evenings, when the hell do you expect to be making your friends over 30, during your 8-hours asleep?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mancerayder</author><text>Except it&#x27;s exhausting after 8 hrs (or more) in a job, 30-45m commute each leg, and some gym or other exercise (which can energize but steal hours from the day to socialize). Going home and opening a beer is the popping of the pressure&#x2F;people overdose cork. Commuting on a crowded subway is exhausting personally.</text></comment> |
37,108,854 | 37,108,138 | 1 | 3 | 37,107,563 | train | <story><title>How to parent more predictably (2018)</title><url>https://www.jefftk.com/p/how-to-parent-more-predictably</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sambeau</author><text>My most valuable piece of advice for parents is to keep your children informed about your plans for the day, especially things about to happen soon, and bear in mind that kids have their own plans and time schedules (and don&#x27;t wear watches).<p>For instance, if you are about to go out, give them fair warning and a few reminders. Especially the all-important: if you need to save your game, you need to do it now.<p>Similarly, if kids are taking turns with toys, your kid might be patiently waiting their turn. To be suddenly yanked away before their turn will, quite rightly, feel like an injustice. I used to tell them all that if its someone&#x27;s turn coming up that they should get to have it before we leave. Kids are usually fair in these circumstances.<p>These simple rules meant my kids never had leaving tantrums, and rarely had tantrums at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to parent more predictably (2018)</title><url>https://www.jefftk.com/p/how-to-parent-more-predictably</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>laserlight</author><text>&gt; Similarly, don&#x27;t make commitments unnecessarily. Instead of &quot;I&#x27;ll go downstairs and get your bear&quot; maybe &quot;I&#x27;ll go downstairs and look for your bear.&quot; While with adults we understand that when a person says they&#x27;ll do something they mean they&#x27;ll put in a reasonable effort and may fail if the task is surprisingly difficult or if factors outside their control intervene, [...]<p>I&#x27;m not sure adults understand it either. Many times, I&#x27;ve seen managers calling out a team member for not delivering by the time that they told they would. So, I started to add a caveat to almost everything I say about the future: “I plan to [...]”.</text></comment> |
31,419,147 | 31,419,096 | 1 | 2 | 31,418,791 | train | <story><title>Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2022/05/17/kindle-epub-and-amazons-love-of-reinventing-wheels/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisfosterelli</author><text>Part of the reason I went with a kobo over the kindle is that they support ePubs. The kindle honestly seemed a bit nicer hardware wise but I like the ability to build and read my library of DRM free books well into the future. No complaints about the kobo so far and it&#x27;s lasted me nearly a decade by this point. Once it finally kicks the bucket I&#x27;ll definitely stick with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tagbert</author><text>Calibre makes converting epubs and loading them onto Kindles. It handles a wide range of different ebook formats. I probably would work with your Kobo as well if you have some non-epub source documuments.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2022/05/17/kindle-epub-and-amazons-love-of-reinventing-wheels/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisfosterelli</author><text>Part of the reason I went with a kobo over the kindle is that they support ePubs. The kindle honestly seemed a bit nicer hardware wise but I like the ability to build and read my library of DRM free books well into the future. No complaints about the kobo so far and it&#x27;s lasted me nearly a decade by this point. Once it finally kicks the bucket I&#x27;ll definitely stick with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robinsoh</author><text>I&#x27;ve also heard (but not verified) that kobo&#x27;s firmware isn&#x27;t locked down the way amazon&#x27;s is, so you can compile and install your own apps and modify system scripts. In other words it&#x27;s your device, not Amazon&#x27;s.</text></comment> |
29,827,624 | 29,827,498 | 1 | 2 | 29,826,639 | train | <story><title>Norton 360 Now Comes with a Cryptominer</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/norton-360-now-comes-with-a-cryptominer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hules</author><text>I wonder if anybody has estimations of the contribution of anti-virus software to global warming. They run on almost all desktop computers, are generally large and bloated applications that consume tons of cpu for their continuous scans, I would not be too surprised if was far from negligible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>To be fair, they also are responsible for some reduction in carbon output. I have seen people just get a new machine if their computer gets too compromised with viruses so any level of virus protection will end up keeping computers out of landfills.</text></comment> | <story><title>Norton 360 Now Comes with a Cryptominer</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/norton-360-now-comes-with-a-cryptominer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hules</author><text>I wonder if anybody has estimations of the contribution of anti-virus software to global warming. They run on almost all desktop computers, are generally large and bloated applications that consume tons of cpu for their continuous scans, I would not be too surprised if was far from negligible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rileymat2</author><text>Quibble, A&#x2F;Vs can hook file accesses and executions so most of the time it is not continuously scanning.</text></comment> |
20,993,532 | 20,992,399 | 1 | 3 | 20,990,583 | train | <story><title>Richard M. Stallman resigns</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>RMS has called himself &quot;borderline autistic&quot;. His socially clueless black and white thinking makes it look like he is far in the spectrum. RMS is anal about meanings of terms and their use. That&#x27;s not working well in the current climate where words carry perceived intent. I find myself agreeing with RMS with most of the terminology and its use in this case. Women who tell stories about him paint a picture of lonely socially incompetent man who makes super creepy attempts to connect opposite sex.<p>I have worked in jobs where there have been very strange creepy people, both women and men. Some are angry and tense. Some are odd and talk restless or slightly disturbing stuff that make everyone uncomfortable. But if they do their work well they can stay. Others give them some room. It&#x27;s called tolerance.<p>If RMS was just random superhacker doing his thing. I would defend him. His boss should find a position for him where he can contribute and other people should feel free to feel uncomfortable and avoid him.<p>But RMS is de facto leader and public figure in movement that is also political. He does not deserve the same level of consideration as normal HR headache would. Even if everything against him would be completely unjust, there is no requirement for just treatment for top leaders. They can be sacked for any reason whatsoever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>Can we please stop excusing bad behavior with some form of &quot;oh because autism&quot;? It&#x27;s an insult to the many, many neuro-atypical people who don&#x27;t say shitty, stupid things online, who don&#x27;t act creepy around women, who don&#x27;t have a sign on their MIT office that says &quot;Knight for Justice (Also: Hot Ladies)&quot;, who don&#x27;t have a gross mattress in their office where they encourage people to lie topless, who don&#x27;t try to pressure women into dating them by saying they&#x27;ll kill themselves otherwise. All of those things describe RMS, things that have been mostly quietly ignored and hand-waved away for decades.<p>We don&#x27;t have to tolerate people who make women feel unsafe and unwelcome in our (or any) industry.<p>You seem to be arguing the usual tired old thing: &quot;but he&#x27;s a genius and does such great work that we should tolerate the bad things he does&quot;. I <i>really</i> thought we&#x27;d started to move past that over the last few years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Richard M. Stallman resigns</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nabla9</author><text>RMS has called himself &quot;borderline autistic&quot;. His socially clueless black and white thinking makes it look like he is far in the spectrum. RMS is anal about meanings of terms and their use. That&#x27;s not working well in the current climate where words carry perceived intent. I find myself agreeing with RMS with most of the terminology and its use in this case. Women who tell stories about him paint a picture of lonely socially incompetent man who makes super creepy attempts to connect opposite sex.<p>I have worked in jobs where there have been very strange creepy people, both women and men. Some are angry and tense. Some are odd and talk restless or slightly disturbing stuff that make everyone uncomfortable. But if they do their work well they can stay. Others give them some room. It&#x27;s called tolerance.<p>If RMS was just random superhacker doing his thing. I would defend him. His boss should find a position for him where he can contribute and other people should feel free to feel uncomfortable and avoid him.<p>But RMS is de facto leader and public figure in movement that is also political. He does not deserve the same level of consideration as normal HR headache would. Even if everything against him would be completely unjust, there is no requirement for just treatment for top leaders. They can be sacked for any reason whatsoever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scarblac</author><text>Well, he started the movement and got it very far, with the dominant OS using his foundation&#x27;s license. Despite his limitations. There is no one in the movement who should have the authority to sack him.<p>But, he resigned himself. This is moot.</text></comment> |
36,349,298 | 36,348,557 | 1 | 3 | 36,347,711 | train | <story><title>Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/15/reddit-threatens-to-remove-subreddit-moderators/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harryf</author><text>What gives me hope is if you ever take a break from social media you realize how worthless it all is. It really doesn’t hurt to disengage.<p>For similar reasons it’s possible for new networks to show up which disrupt the old, such as TikTok.<p>The point is as individuals we are way less dependent on social media than we imagine.</text></item><item><author>moskie</author><text>We (the internet community) made such a terrible mistake with social media. We formed connections and communities and friendships on sites like Facebook and Twitter and Reddit, but those companies need to make money, so those connections are only allowed to exist as long as they are part of a profitable system. How awful it is to reduce human connection to that. To think that I am only allowed to maintain certain social connections as long as they continue to produce monetary value for an intermediary. An awful, awful mistake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jhanschoo</author><text>For reddit specifically, I have to disagree. It&#x27;s a sad state the Internet has become, where you used to get coherent results from decentralized blogs when you google a sufficiently niche hobbyist topic. These days you just get content marketing spam. Append reddit to your search and you get subject-matter experts. The valuable conversation and folk knowledge is all siloed on social media.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/15/reddit-threatens-to-remove-subreddit-moderators/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>harryf</author><text>What gives me hope is if you ever take a break from social media you realize how worthless it all is. It really doesn’t hurt to disengage.<p>For similar reasons it’s possible for new networks to show up which disrupt the old, such as TikTok.<p>The point is as individuals we are way less dependent on social media than we imagine.</text></item><item><author>moskie</author><text>We (the internet community) made such a terrible mistake with social media. We formed connections and communities and friendships on sites like Facebook and Twitter and Reddit, but those companies need to make money, so those connections are only allowed to exist as long as they are part of a profitable system. How awful it is to reduce human connection to that. To think that I am only allowed to maintain certain social connections as long as they continue to produce monetary value for an intermediary. An awful, awful mistake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>I mean I get that for absent-minded browsing but even just...having a hobby and talking about it with people feels pretty much like Normal Person Behavior(TM) and Reddit&#x27;s subreddits worked well for that in the same way that forums in the past did.<p>Not the end of the world but as a kid who only could find other people to talk about certain hobbies with online up until college sounds like a lot of pepole will be more bored.</text></comment> |
11,703,063 | 11,702,626 | 1 | 3 | 11,701,542 | train | <story><title>Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months (1911)</title><url>http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/05/16/104825255.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rckclmbr</author><text>Standard Oil consisted of 5% of the US GDP at the time, and controlled the entire refining process. Google is still pretty far away from that.<p>One thing I find interesting though is that Rockefeller feared Teddy Roosevelt being elected, just like Google fears Bernie Sanders. Bernie and Roosevelt hate big business for the same reasons. Interestingly, the top tech companies think monopoly is good for the same reasons that Rockefeller did -- that they can hyperoptimize the entire process, and the winners are the consumers because of cheaper prices and higher quality.<p>That assumes the business operates in the consumers best interests, however...</text></comment> | <story><title>Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months (1911)</title><url>http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/05/16/104825255.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abcampbell</author><text>This will happen to Google. Sooner than people realize.<p>(From another story on the front page)
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.santacruzsentinel.com&#x2F;general-news&#x2F;20160513&#x2F;uc-students-suit-claims-google-scanned-accounts-without-permission&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.santacruzsentinel.com&#x2F;general-news&#x2F;20160513&#x2F;uc-st...</a></text></comment> |
23,802,190 | 23,799,632 | 1 | 3 | 23,797,463 | train | <story><title>Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-foxconn-india-apple-exclusive-idUSKBN24B2GH</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>achow</author><text>The main issue anywhere is the foresight and tenacity of the political (ruling) class. They have to do things which are long term by cutting back on short term and populist decisions.<p>That is one thing that is holding even India back. In democratic setup it is very difficult to take a long term view particularly when that comes with short term pain - the govt would be out in next election.<p>Africa should learn both from countries like China, Singapore and also from countries like India.<p>Otherwise I do agree that Africa is well placed to be the next manufacturing hub due to its cheap labor, mineral resources, coastlines etc.</text></item><item><author>pankajdoharey</author><text>Actually I think, the most ideal countries to expand manufacturing to are African countries, they have some of the same advantages once china had.<p>1. Mineral Resources.
2. Cheap Labour.
3. High Density of Lanthanide and Actinide group minerals.<p>China also has a fourth advantage which is a good mix of Production, Manufacturing and Electronics Engineers. Which Africa doesn&#x27;t have. On the other hand India doesn&#x27;t have the raw mineral resources required to do long term manufacturing. For instance India doesn&#x27;t have the ideal coal quality to produce steel, India imports 90% of its Anthracite from Australia.<p>So the ideal situation in my view would be to setup manufacturing hub in African countries. Hire Chinese&#x2F;Indian&#x2F;American&#x2F;Russian manufacturing Engineers and the rich mineral resources in African countries. This would fuel the growth of the world for next few decades. Though one thing to notice African countries may or may not have the rare earth metals but the probability if explored is quite high.</text></item><item><author>kodablah</author><text>&gt; With India’s labour cheaper compared with China, and the gradual expansion of its supplier base here, Apple will be able to use the country as an export hub<p>While there are negatives, I appreciate how globalization of manufacturing helps lift poorer economies (albeit it slowly and not always agreeing with the politics of the newly-built middle classes). One might expect manufacturing in mid-Africa in two decades.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godelmachine</author><text>&gt;&gt;<i>That is one thing that is holding even India back. In democratic setup it is very difficult to take a long term view particularly when that comes with short term pain - the govt would be out in next election.</i><p>The one thing you can count India on is that democracy will prevail.<p>Any government which comes to power will always appease industrialists and investors albeit their electioneering manifesto may have been on the upliftment of the proletariat and bourgeois</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-foxconn-india-apple-exclusive-idUSKBN24B2GH</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>achow</author><text>The main issue anywhere is the foresight and tenacity of the political (ruling) class. They have to do things which are long term by cutting back on short term and populist decisions.<p>That is one thing that is holding even India back. In democratic setup it is very difficult to take a long term view particularly when that comes with short term pain - the govt would be out in next election.<p>Africa should learn both from countries like China, Singapore and also from countries like India.<p>Otherwise I do agree that Africa is well placed to be the next manufacturing hub due to its cheap labor, mineral resources, coastlines etc.</text></item><item><author>pankajdoharey</author><text>Actually I think, the most ideal countries to expand manufacturing to are African countries, they have some of the same advantages once china had.<p>1. Mineral Resources.
2. Cheap Labour.
3. High Density of Lanthanide and Actinide group minerals.<p>China also has a fourth advantage which is a good mix of Production, Manufacturing and Electronics Engineers. Which Africa doesn&#x27;t have. On the other hand India doesn&#x27;t have the raw mineral resources required to do long term manufacturing. For instance India doesn&#x27;t have the ideal coal quality to produce steel, India imports 90% of its Anthracite from Australia.<p>So the ideal situation in my view would be to setup manufacturing hub in African countries. Hire Chinese&#x2F;Indian&#x2F;American&#x2F;Russian manufacturing Engineers and the rich mineral resources in African countries. This would fuel the growth of the world for next few decades. Though one thing to notice African countries may or may not have the rare earth metals but the probability if explored is quite high.</text></item><item><author>kodablah</author><text>&gt; With India’s labour cheaper compared with China, and the gradual expansion of its supplier base here, Apple will be able to use the country as an export hub<p>While there are negatives, I appreciate how globalization of manufacturing helps lift poorer economies (albeit it slowly and not always agreeing with the politics of the newly-built middle classes). One might expect manufacturing in mid-Africa in two decades.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imnewtohn</author><text>&gt; That is one thing that is holding even India back. In democratic setup it is very difficult to take a long term view particularly when that comes with short term pain - the govt would be out in next election. Africa should learn both from countries like China, Singapore...<p>What do you mean, become autocratic&#x2F;centralized&#x2F;...or whatever other word you want to choose. That&#x27;s a quick one way ticket to getting invaded and thrown out by the US government.</text></comment> |
6,247,505 | 6,247,504 | 1 | 2 | 6,247,269 | train | <story><title>EVA 23: Exploring the frontier</title><url>http://blogs.esa.int/luca-parmitano/2013/08/20/eva-23-exploring-the-frontier/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>majke</author><text>Was it a leak of a cooling liquid?<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravehicular_Mobility_Unit" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Extravehicular_Mobility_Unit</a><p>[edit]<p>Luca&#x27;s Wikipedia has more links:<p><a href="http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/exp36/16eva/index2.html#.Ueb7-qyd_z4/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spaceflightnow.com&#x2F;station&#x2F;exp36&#x2F;16eva&#x2F;index2.htm...</a><p>&quot;It&#x27;s not yet clear what caused the leak. NASA spacesuits feature a built-in 32-ounce drink bag filled with potable water and more than a gallon of water used in the suit&#x27;s cooling system. Engineers do not believe the drink bag was the culprit, but they do not yet know exactly where the leak originated.&quot;<p><a href="http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/07/astronaut-duo-us-spacewalk-outside-iss/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasaspaceflight.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;astronaut-duo-us-spac...</a><p>&quot;Engineers are still evaluating root cause, but noted the potential for what Luca classed as “funny tasting” water was because it may have mixed with the anti-fogging material on his visor. However, where the water came from is still unknown.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>EVA 23: Exploring the frontier</title><url>http://blogs.esa.int/luca-parmitano/2013/08/20/eva-23-exploring-the-frontier/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnpmayer</author><text>The ability to think quickly during a crisis seems to be this universal, superhuman trait of astronauts. It&#x27;s why the kid in me will always see them as heroes and an inspiration.</text></comment> |
14,333,887 | 14,333,638 | 1 | 2 | 14,332,206 | train | <story><title>Happy nations don't focus on growth</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-20/happy-nations-don-t-focus-on-growth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfranz</author><text>I read a similar things a few weeks ago. They were saying that the U.S. (government through laws and legal system) centered on &quot;fairness&quot; up until recently. Sometime after WWII the focus changed to Economics and growth. I&#x27;m guessing it was saying this is the cause of crazy inequality and &quot;the jobless recovery.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure I buy all of it (the U.S. wasn&#x27;t really a world power prior to the world wars, so they&#x27;d be dismissing that and other gains if it was their whole premise), but like this article, something to think about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>losteric</author><text>&gt; They were saying that the U.S. (government through laws and legal system) centered on &quot;fairness&quot; up until recently. Sometime after WWII the focus changed to Economics and growth.<p>I absolutely agree with this. Considering the history and how we used to run public schools, it seems almost obvious.<p>American nationalism was at an all-time high during World War 2 and we rode that straight into the Cold War... 50 years of anti-soviet propaganda and public discourse, riding the post-WW2 American economic boom and global &quot;anti-communist&quot; imperialism. For an <i>entire generation</i> community-oriented principles, egalitarianism, collectivist ideas, and far-left leaders were demonized as Soviet sympathizers, replaced with rah rah unregulated capitalism, Ayn Rand-ian individualist, and military might.<p>If you&#x27;ve ever wondered why many modern American Christians blatantly disregard the liberal social aspects of Jesus&#x2F;the Bible, look no further. WW2&#x27;s morale-boosting propaganda morphed into a cancer of civil discourse, deeply coupling nationalism with the perceived indisputable success of American capitalism.<p>Consider these two points:
* The Cold War started 70 years ago, and formally ended 26 years ago
* 2016 Trump &#x2F; Sanders popularity, bucketed by age: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.msnbc.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;msnbc&#x2F;files&#x2F;age_of_voting_groups_18-24_25-34_35-44_45-54_55-64_65_and_over_chartbuilder_2.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.msnbc.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;msnbc&#x2F;files&#x2F;age_of_voting_groups_...</a><p>American society takes time to change because our 2-party system is dominated by unengaged voters, the uneducated electorate that votes without thinking about it... heavily influenced by the world they grew up in, and what they were taught from k-12. When many election results are +&#x2F;- 5%, moving the average 10% in one direction has long-term consequences.<p>It&#x27;s worth thinking about how our 17 year-old &quot;War on Terror&quot; will continue to change society...</text></comment> | <story><title>Happy nations don't focus on growth</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-20/happy-nations-don-t-focus-on-growth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfranz</author><text>I read a similar things a few weeks ago. They were saying that the U.S. (government through laws and legal system) centered on &quot;fairness&quot; up until recently. Sometime after WWII the focus changed to Economics and growth. I&#x27;m guessing it was saying this is the cause of crazy inequality and &quot;the jobless recovery.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure I buy all of it (the U.S. wasn&#x27;t really a world power prior to the world wars, so they&#x27;d be dismissing that and other gains if it was their whole premise), but like this article, something to think about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>That&#x27;s somewhat misleading in 1800 the US population hit ~5.24 million vs England&#x27;s ~9.2 million, it had more than doubled over the prior 30 years. Economically and Militarily England was much further ahead. But, unlike Europe the US&#x27;s wars of conquest and genocide where mostly vs the Native Americans. Consider, Ohio only joined the Union in 1803.<p>By 1870 the US GDP PPP(98,374) was at near parity with the UK (100,180). <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(P...</a> and had a slightly larger population.<p>Around the mid 1800&#x27;s the US was clearly a world power, but in the way Germany is today. Big enough to have real impact, but not a super power.</text></comment> |
32,183,406 | 32,183,503 | 1 | 2 | 32,181,805 | train | <story><title>Real peer review has never been tried</title><url>https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/real-peer-review/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrera</author><text>I was expecting the author to define &quot;real peer review,&quot; but didn&#x27;t see that. The best approximation is probably gleaned from the conclusion:<p>- integration of preprint servers and alt metrics<p>- tweaking incentives to review<p>- making comments on papers public<p>- use of software to detect fraud<p>- directing resources specifically to improving peer review<p>The bigger problem is that the author doesn&#x27;t seem to actually zero in on the problem peer review is supposed to solve today. The author notes that peer review really got going in the 1970s as a way to filter content flowing to overwhelmed editors. But the emergence of the internet largely nullifies that problem. Wide distribution of scientific information no longer requires scientific publishers.<p>The real problem is the ways in which science funding, journals, and peer review have become intertwined, with publishers playing the role of bankers in this economy. This problem is cultural, not technical. It&#x27;s a historical relic and it increasingly does not serve science well.<p>So, what is the actual problem that journal-supervised peer review is supposed to solve in the age of the internet?</text></comment> | <story><title>Real peer review has never been tried</title><url>https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/real-peer-review/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lacker</author><text>The problem is that looking at journal quality is the best quick way to evaluate how good a paper is, when you aren&#x27;t an expert on the topic. And a lot of employment and funding decisions are made by people who aren&#x27;t experts.<p>Nowadays a journal provides essentially no distribution, but there&#x27;s no good alternative to journals as a &quot;stamp of quality&quot;.</text></comment> |
28,719,113 | 28,719,043 | 1 | 3 | 28,717,961 | train | <story><title>The Rise of One-Time Password Interception Bots</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/09/the-rise-of-one-time-password-interception-bots/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julianlam</author><text>I disagree. TOTP-based 2FA is leaps-and-bounds more secure than SMS based 2FA and will stop nearly all attempts to access your account.<p>The fault here lies with victims answering a prompt to enter their 2FA out of the blue. Just as with passwords and other such info, the bank will never request it for no reason.<p>A hardware token using webauthn protocol is most secure though, yes.</text></item><item><author>hannob</author><text>Ultimately what this shows is that two factor authentication with either TOTP (aka Google Authenticator) or SMS is not ideal. It makes phishing harder for the attacker, but it does not prevent it.<p>Unfortunately he fails to mention that there is a way to do 2fa that does prevent phishing: Hardware tokens with the webauthn protocol.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrochkind1</author><text>In the linked article on the words &quot;the scammers can get around that, too&quot; [1], there&#x27;s an account that claims the legit bank <i>did</i> in the past ask for the 2FA on a phone call, in pretty much exactly the same way the scammers did.<p>&gt; <i>Mitch said his financial institution has in the past verified his identity over the phone by sending him a one-time code to the cell phone number on file for his account, and then asking him to read back that code.</i><p>The advice from Krebs about phone calls is <i>never</i> talk to &quot;the bank&quot; (etc) when <i>they call you</i>, always you have to call them back. But the bank _will_ really sometimes contact you &quot;out of the blue&quot; to ask you about potential fraud on your account. You just have to hang up and call them back, you can&#x27;t tell the difference based on &quot;reasons&quot;.<p>It is very hard for the end-user to tell what 2FA request is &quot;for no reason&quot;. I think we need to focus not on what the &quot;reason&quot; is or if it&#x27;s &quot;out of the blue&quot;, but, the equivalent of &quot;call them back&quot; for online too -- don&#x27;t click on a link in an email, etc.<p>No matter what, it&#x27;s not easy, especially for less technical users. The linked account is a <i>security professional</i> that fell for it -- I personally don&#x27;t have the hubris to think I never would.<p>There have been times when an actual bank asks me to do something I <i>know</i> is insecure, and I consider resisting it, but I just didn&#x27;t have the energy for it, I figured it really was the real bank just being idiotic and I wanted to get on with my day (and guess what, it was, I was right).<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krebsonsecurity.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;when-in-doubt-hang-up-look-up-call-back&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;krebsonsecurity.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;when-in-doubt-hang-up-lo...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Rise of One-Time Password Interception Bots</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/09/the-rise-of-one-time-password-interception-bots/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julianlam</author><text>I disagree. TOTP-based 2FA is leaps-and-bounds more secure than SMS based 2FA and will stop nearly all attempts to access your account.<p>The fault here lies with victims answering a prompt to enter their 2FA out of the blue. Just as with passwords and other such info, the bank will never request it for no reason.<p>A hardware token using webauthn protocol is most secure though, yes.</text></item><item><author>hannob</author><text>Ultimately what this shows is that two factor authentication with either TOTP (aka Google Authenticator) or SMS is not ideal. It makes phishing harder for the attacker, but it does not prevent it.<p>Unfortunately he fails to mention that there is a way to do 2fa that does prevent phishing: Hardware tokens with the webauthn protocol.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UncleMeat</author><text>We&#x27;ve spent years and years and years trying to train people to resist phishing. It doesn&#x27;t work. Even actual literal security professionals fall for it. If you use a thing with such common known failure modes, it is your responsibility for using that thing.<p>Phishing is enormously more common than sim-swapping because, as described in TFA, it can be fully automated. Going from SMS to TOTP fixes a rare attack but does not fix a common attack.</text></comment> |
22,259,436 | 22,257,638 | 1 | 3 | 22,254,802 | train | <story><title>Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born</title><url>https://www.nber.org/papers/w26408</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsanr2</author><text>Something that many HNers will probably be embarrased to admit being surprised by is how higher education attainment rates for immigrants don&#x27;t exclude African immigrants. In fact, black immigrants from Africa and the West Indies have among the highest degree attainment rate of any group. This belies the lower college-and-advanced-degree attainment rate for black Americans as a whole.<p>All of this seems to suggest that there is something about the American education system - and perhaps our overal culture - that is failing our children, and our black children in particular.<p>This also makes me wonder if there&#x27;s data about the mobility of native vs immigrant blacks. If it&#x27;s similar, it would align with other data that show that degree attainment only serves to partially overcome the barriers to upward mobility placed in the way of black workers.<p>I&#x27;m of the opinion that many of the impediments that punish or withhold assistance from minorities often bleed over into mainstream American life. The specific drum I&#x27;ll keep beating is that if, perhaps, the infrastructure to battle the crack&#x2F;cocaine epidemic as a public health issue had been allowed to be built to a robust state, the opioid epidemic would not have become so dire. The apathy towards these issues, even as they encroach upon &quot;mainstream&quot; middle class life, must be part of the mechanics of the calcification of class in America.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>It&#x27;s particularly interesting to look at the mobility statistics of asian americans (many of whom are also immigrants) as a category: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.equality-of-opportunity.org&#x2F;assets&#x2F;documents&#x2F;race_paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.equality-of-opportunity.org&#x2F;assets&#x2F;documents&#x2F;race...</a>.<p>If you look at table 1 on page 56, you can see that for white americans, the probability of a child ending up in the top quantile of income where a parent is in the bottom quantile of income is 11% (about half the probability one would except of there was zero correlation between child and parent incomes). For Asian Americans its almost 27%. A white child born in the bottom quantile is about 2.5 times more likely to <i>stay</i> in the bottom quantile (28%) than to rise to the top quantile (12%). An asian child born in the bottom quantile is about 1.5 times more likely to <i>rise</i> to the top quantile (27%) than to stay in the bottom quantile (12%).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acephal</author><text>Black SWE here, grew up on the west side of Chicago, I don&#x27;t think most white people understand how bad the literacy situation is. I could read competently before I even got to school and I went to grammar school in the 90s. First day of first grade, I found out <i>no one</i> could competently read a sentence. In fact, whole school (which has closed) was on this remedial education program called Advanced Directives or something. I&#x27;d never seen a book where the words were broken up syllable-by-syllable before I got to this school and I&#x27;m like 7 years old, and kids struggled with that. Making this a little more personal, I ultimately had to be separated from the other kids, and you can imagine why: you can&#x27;t have one kid making all the others feel embarrassed and inadequate. But this also was a major source of resentment and ostracization that I&#x27;m still dealing with to this day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born</title><url>https://www.nber.org/papers/w26408</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsanr2</author><text>Something that many HNers will probably be embarrased to admit being surprised by is how higher education attainment rates for immigrants don&#x27;t exclude African immigrants. In fact, black immigrants from Africa and the West Indies have among the highest degree attainment rate of any group. This belies the lower college-and-advanced-degree attainment rate for black Americans as a whole.<p>All of this seems to suggest that there is something about the American education system - and perhaps our overal culture - that is failing our children, and our black children in particular.<p>This also makes me wonder if there&#x27;s data about the mobility of native vs immigrant blacks. If it&#x27;s similar, it would align with other data that show that degree attainment only serves to partially overcome the barriers to upward mobility placed in the way of black workers.<p>I&#x27;m of the opinion that many of the impediments that punish or withhold assistance from minorities often bleed over into mainstream American life. The specific drum I&#x27;ll keep beating is that if, perhaps, the infrastructure to battle the crack&#x2F;cocaine epidemic as a public health issue had been allowed to be built to a robust state, the opioid epidemic would not have become so dire. The apathy towards these issues, even as they encroach upon &quot;mainstream&quot; middle class life, must be part of the mechanics of the calcification of class in America.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>It&#x27;s particularly interesting to look at the mobility statistics of asian americans (many of whom are also immigrants) as a category: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.equality-of-opportunity.org&#x2F;assets&#x2F;documents&#x2F;race_paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.equality-of-opportunity.org&#x2F;assets&#x2F;documents&#x2F;race...</a>.<p>If you look at table 1 on page 56, you can see that for white americans, the probability of a child ending up in the top quantile of income where a parent is in the bottom quantile of income is 11% (about half the probability one would except of there was zero correlation between child and parent incomes). For Asian Americans its almost 27%. A white child born in the bottom quantile is about 2.5 times more likely to <i>stay</i> in the bottom quantile (28%) than to rise to the top quantile (12%). An asian child born in the bottom quantile is about 1.5 times more likely to <i>rise</i> to the top quantile (27%) than to stay in the bottom quantile (12%).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codingslave</author><text>Most of the reason for immigrant children doing so well is the fact that immigrants are often more driven, ambitious, and at the top of their peer group. So the USA gets a biased sample of immigrants from countries like Nigeria. None of this is happening in a vacuum, and interpreting it as such is misguided propaganda.</text></comment> |
16,402,071 | 16,402,055 | 1 | 3 | 16,401,687 | train | <story><title>California-Grown Coffee Is Becoming the State's Next Gold Mine</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/16/585409126/eureka-california-grown-coffee-is-becoming-the-states-next-gold-mine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phil21</author><text>Why is California so fascinated on agriculture which is extremely water intensive? Coffee is up there with Almonds as far as I understand the situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghshephard</author><text>According to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;waterfootprint.org&#x2F;media&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;Report14.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;waterfootprint.org&#x2F;media&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;Report14.pdf</a> it requires 140 liters of water to produce 1 cup of coffee. The most expensive source of water that I can think of, from a reverse-osmosis desalinization plant, costs $0.40&#x2F;1000 liters in Singapore (Hyflux, 20 year contract), - so that cup of coffee has a ceiling of about $0.08&#x2F;to produce in terms of the cost of it&#x27;s water content.<p>The question should never be &quot;how much water to produce this&quot; - but, &quot;what value are we getting from the water&quot; - if you are able to sell a cup of coffee for $5, then it&#x27;s probably a good investment of that $0.08.</text></comment> | <story><title>California-Grown Coffee Is Becoming the State's Next Gold Mine</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/16/585409126/eureka-california-grown-coffee-is-becoming-the-states-next-gold-mine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phil21</author><text>Why is California so fascinated on agriculture which is extremely water intensive? Coffee is up there with Almonds as far as I understand the situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>narrator</author><text>The Sierra provide ample water and silt for the central valley that makes it one of the worlds ideal farming lands. It&#x27;s been very actively farmed for more than 100 years.<p>Sure, the water situation has gone up and down with the drought, but normally there&#x27;s plenty of water. A lot of the almond orchards had to be scaled back during the drought, but when there&#x27;s water they use it. It&#x27;s a lot more sustainable than many other farming lands because it&#x27;s not dependent on an underground aquifer that took eons to fill up or water piped in from somewhere far away except for the urban areas of course.</text></comment> |
13,025,460 | 13,024,528 | 1 | 2 | 13,022,682 | train | <story><title>Vue.js 2.1 Released</title><url>https://github.com/vuejs/vue/releases/tag/v2.1.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CharlesW</author><text>For folks who haven&#x27;t tried Vue yet, I just completed my first project with it and I&#x27;m really excited about using it more.<p>Specifically, I used learning Vue as an opportunity to upgrade a simple jQuery-based SPA (with a PHP backend) to ES6, JS modules and Vue. It was a little hairy to bite off all of that stuff at once, but the Vue community was really helpful. In contrast to more monolithic frameworks I didn&#x27;t have to port everything at once, and the re-implementation of the bits I did port are <i>sooo</i> much cleaner.<p>FWIW, there&#x27;s a highly-rated Vue.js 2&#x2F;Vuex Udemy course on sale for an impulse price of $14 (normally $190) as I type this. With the caveat that I <i>just</i> bought the course myself, at that price it seems like a useful resource even if you only have a cursory interest in Vue.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.udemy.com&#x2F;vuejs-2-the-complete-guide&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.udemy.com&#x2F;vuejs-2-the-complete-guide&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>od14</author><text>I just finished watching the entire 16+ hours of the course.
It&#x27;s pretty good, but it doesn&#x27;t go too deep (or at all) into the new concepts in Vue 2.x like render functions, virtual dom, server side rendering and more.<p>I think the docs are very good and more than enough not only just to get started, but also to keep you going.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vue.js 2.1 Released</title><url>https://github.com/vuejs/vue/releases/tag/v2.1.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CharlesW</author><text>For folks who haven&#x27;t tried Vue yet, I just completed my first project with it and I&#x27;m really excited about using it more.<p>Specifically, I used learning Vue as an opportunity to upgrade a simple jQuery-based SPA (with a PHP backend) to ES6, JS modules and Vue. It was a little hairy to bite off all of that stuff at once, but the Vue community was really helpful. In contrast to more monolithic frameworks I didn&#x27;t have to port everything at once, and the re-implementation of the bits I did port are <i>sooo</i> much cleaner.<p>FWIW, there&#x27;s a highly-rated Vue.js 2&#x2F;Vuex Udemy course on sale for an impulse price of $14 (normally $190) as I type this. With the caveat that I <i>just</i> bought the course myself, at that price it seems like a useful resource even if you only have a cursory interest in Vue.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.udemy.com&#x2F;vuejs-2-the-complete-guide&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.udemy.com&#x2F;vuejs-2-the-complete-guide&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>no1youknowz</author><text>Thanks. With this coupon &quot;CNETBF2016&quot; it&#x27;s now just $10 and I bought it at that price!</text></comment> |
1,940,098 | 1,940,116 | 1 | 2 | 1,939,962 | train | <story><title>Donate few bucks to Wikipedia (We're all using it on a daily basis, aren't we?)</title><url>http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA1/en/US&utm_source=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=&referrer=</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lwhi</author><text>Commercial pressures present conflicts of interest. No form of media can claim to be truly impartial if advertising is displayed in amongst content.<p>One of the defining features of Wikipedia is absence of advertising - introduce adverts and the brand will lose a great deal of its power.</text></item><item><author>corin_</author><text>Here's my question: what's wrong with advertising?<p>If users don't mind adverts on commercial sites that offer free content, why would they mind it on a not-for-profit site?<p>Don't get me wrong, I'm all for donating to charities in general (and do, regularly), I'm all for donating to Wikipedia (and have done more than once), and I'm all for websites that allow people who donate to disable adverts. But despite having donated to Wikipedia, I'd have no problem with seeing adverts on every page (as long as they're reasonably subtle, and don't consist solely of the cheapest of the cheap adverts, such as "omg you won an ipod lol!!"). In fact, I think I'd prefer seeing normal adverts than the constant reminder that they want donations.<p>"No ads. No agenda. No strings attached."<p>Why does being a "community website" mean they shouldn't use advertising revenue to support their growth?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mseebach</author><text>In theory, yes. In practice, no. A single big donor, or a network of donors, might threaten to withdraw support unless some change is made, in exactly the same way a commercial entity might do it (which is very in a very subtle way, typically no smoking guns).<p>But probably the best shield against pressure: Wikipedia is a property of such a high quality that no single advertiser will ever have larger value than the mass of high quality competitors standing in line to take his place.</text></comment> | <story><title>Donate few bucks to Wikipedia (We're all using it on a daily basis, aren't we?)</title><url>http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA1/en/US&utm_source=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=&referrer=</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>lwhi</author><text>Commercial pressures present conflicts of interest. No form of media can claim to be truly impartial if advertising is displayed in amongst content.<p>One of the defining features of Wikipedia is absence of advertising - introduce adverts and the brand will lose a great deal of its power.</text></item><item><author>corin_</author><text>Here's my question: what's wrong with advertising?<p>If users don't mind adverts on commercial sites that offer free content, why would they mind it on a not-for-profit site?<p>Don't get me wrong, I'm all for donating to charities in general (and do, regularly), I'm all for donating to Wikipedia (and have done more than once), and I'm all for websites that allow people who donate to disable adverts. But despite having donated to Wikipedia, I'd have no problem with seeing adverts on every page (as long as they're reasonably subtle, and don't consist solely of the cheapest of the cheap adverts, such as "omg you won an ipod lol!!"). In fact, I think I'd prefer seeing normal adverts than the constant reminder that they want donations.<p>"No ads. No agenda. No strings attached."<p>Why does being a "community website" mean they shouldn't use advertising revenue to support their growth?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notahacker</author><text>A large proportion of internet advertising is automatically served with no direct contact between advertiser and content provider anyway. User-generated and mostly user-moderated content for a non-profit organisation leaves very little room for people to make credible claims of conflict of interest. I don't think any of the Wikipedia content clones are any the less impartial for choosing Adwords over the begging bowl; their written content is literally identical.<p>Sure, maybe it dilutes the "brand power" of Wikipedia, but I'm not sure the "brand power" of Wikipedia is a particularly worthy cause for my donation dollars anyway.</text></comment> |
4,186,707 | 4,185,996 | 1 | 2 | 4,185,757 | train | <story><title>What Twitter could have been</title><url>http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alex3917</author><text>"One camp wanted to build the entire business around their realtime API."<p>I think the real problem with this is that Twitter made an even more fundamental mistake early on, which is that they only support text and not data/microformats. That is, there is no way for a professor to tweet out the homework in such a way that it automatically gets added to students' dayplanners, no way to list something for sale in a globally searchable way, no way to tweet out a dating profile, etc.<p>Twitter really should have been the company that enabled the semantic web and became the de facto platform powering the entire thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>demachina</author><text>I'm of the school that one of the worst things Twitter could do is add support for data/attachments, long messages or message bloat in general. The essence of Twitter and its beauty is the messages are short, low overhead and you can skim them very quickly. It compels people to be brief and to not ramble and that is its value and its a good fit for capacity limited mobile. Animated GIF's in Google+ are mostly just annoying.<p>If you need heavy data then you put a link in the mesage and once people establish they are interested in the subject, then they can go to some server to get the heavy content and all the heavy content isn't centralized at the message service provider.<p>Also storing and transmitting pictures, video and audio on the message bus dramatically increases overhead, cost and risks of running the service. The second you support it you will have people using it to violate copyrights and laws, you land in a quagmire of shifting standard on what is indecent or illegal in every country in the world. You end up needing a big staff just to deal with take down requests, subpoena requests and to sift though your fire hose to try to eliminate stuff that is going to offend people.<p>The beauty of short messages is they have very limited capacity to violate laws and copyrights and the message service provider shouldn't be responsile for what is on the web sites the messages link to.<p>Having integrated image, audio and video support is nice but its actually better if its hosted away from the message bus and decentralized like Twitpic was.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Twitter could have been</title><url>http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alex3917</author><text>"One camp wanted to build the entire business around their realtime API."<p>I think the real problem with this is that Twitter made an even more fundamental mistake early on, which is that they only support text and not data/microformats. That is, there is no way for a professor to tweet out the homework in such a way that it automatically gets added to students' dayplanners, no way to list something for sale in a globally searchable way, no way to tweet out a dating profile, etc.<p>Twitter really should have been the company that enabled the semantic web and became the de facto platform powering the entire thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conesus</author><text>Seems to me that this isn't a fundamental mistake but a featureset they could still add now. Not that it's on the table at Twitter HQ, but I believe that the window of opportunity to give Twitter the ability to read and provide microformats is still here. Existing clients would get the same tweets, but could be easily extended to link to the web to get the "attached" data.<p>Your idea makes me swoon, but I think it'll never happen because that isn't the vision Twitter has, not because it's too late.</text></comment> |
25,149,248 | 25,149,355 | 1 | 3 | 25,148,801 | train | <story><title>Mozilla DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Comment Period</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2020/11/18/doh-comment-period-2020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>I agree with you but I just... gave up. The web ate the net, the browser is the new OS. It&#x27;s silly, it&#x27;s lazy, it&#x27;s inefficient, it&#x27;s everything I dislike about software engineering but at this point it feels like preaching in the wind. I just try to ignore it, keep writing low level code and if someday I can&#x27;t find a programming job outside of web technologies anymore I&#x27;ll just become a shepherd in the mountains or something. I&#x27;ll make cheese.</text></item><item><author>saurik</author><text>Operating systems can and should implement DoH, not every single individual application (which can then decide to use poorly chosen servers and will have to get updated in the future for whatever the next spec might be). That the people who make operating systems put so little effort into this stuff that application developers feel they need to take this into their own hands is a travesty :&#x2F;. (This is particularly annoying given that it is already the case on every operating system that if you want to use DoH and choose your DNS server you can easily do that as long as the software in question lets you by using the system resolver; it makes absolutely no sense to embed and hardcode this functionality into every app.)<p>(For more detailed complaints and arguments on this topic, I wrote a long comment about it a year ago.)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21701808" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21701808</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dhimes</author><text>It&#x27;ll probably bounce back. We&#x27;ve been here before, when computing was centralized and everybody logged into the mainframe. Then it turned out that to have independent computers gave users a huge advantage and helped control costs.<p>Now, we&#x27;re back to centralized systems- and I couldn&#x27;t believe it when I watched the shift: What first caught my attention that this could get serious was gmail. Then g-office (whatever they called it then). Meanwhile a whole host of other services started.<p>I was developing a desktop app because I still wasn&#x27;t convinced that people wouldn&#x27;t prefer having their software and data &quot;in hand,&quot; as it were.<p>I expect a new advantage will emerge and we&#x27;ll want our machines and data back.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Comment Period</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2020/11/18/doh-comment-period-2020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>I agree with you but I just... gave up. The web ate the net, the browser is the new OS. It&#x27;s silly, it&#x27;s lazy, it&#x27;s inefficient, it&#x27;s everything I dislike about software engineering but at this point it feels like preaching in the wind. I just try to ignore it, keep writing low level code and if someday I can&#x27;t find a programming job outside of web technologies anymore I&#x27;ll just become a shepherd in the mountains or something. I&#x27;ll make cheese.</text></item><item><author>saurik</author><text>Operating systems can and should implement DoH, not every single individual application (which can then decide to use poorly chosen servers and will have to get updated in the future for whatever the next spec might be). That the people who make operating systems put so little effort into this stuff that application developers feel they need to take this into their own hands is a travesty :&#x2F;. (This is particularly annoying given that it is already the case on every operating system that if you want to use DoH and choose your DNS server you can easily do that as long as the software in question lets you by using the system resolver; it makes absolutely no sense to embed and hardcode this functionality into every app.)<p>(For more detailed complaints and arguments on this topic, I wrote a long comment about it a year ago.)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21701808" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21701808</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shawnz</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s silly, it&#x27;s lazy, it&#x27;s inefficient, it&#x27;s everything I dislike about software engineering but at this point it feels like preaching in the wind.<p>It may not be conceptually beautiful but it is one of the most practical and useful technologies we&#x27;ve ever created, like C compared to lisp. The Web is the new &quot;Worse is Better&quot;</text></comment> |
28,724,180 | 28,724,017 | 1 | 3 | 28,723,503 | train | <story><title>Ludum Dare 49 (Game jam)</title><url>https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AshleysBrain</author><text>Shameless plug: our game creation tool Construct 3 is free to use with the full features for the duration of Ludum Dare 49: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.construct.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;construct-official-blog-1&#x2F;ludum-dare-once-again-free-1572" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.construct.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;construct-official-blog-1...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ludum Dare 49 (Game jam)</title><url>https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rex64</author><text>Ludum Dare has a special place in my heart. Participating in game jams is a great way to practice creating games from start to finish.<p>If you&#x27;re interested, I wrote a post recounting my experience participating in Ludum Dare:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alessandrocuzzocrea.com&#x2F;ludum-dare-47&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alessandrocuzzocrea.com&#x2F;ludum-dare-47&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
41,361,002 | 41,361,084 | 1 | 2 | 41,359,502 | train | <story><title>The Arrest of Pavel Durov Is a Reminder That Telegram Is Not Encrypted</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/the-arrest-of-pavel-durov-is-a-reminder-that-telegram-is-not-encrypted-2000490960</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sunaookami</author><text>It also doesn&#x27;t mean &quot;plain text&quot;. Telegram uses MTProto and the decryption keys are stored on multiple servers in multiple jurisdictions, something which Gizmodo doesn&#x27;t even mention.<p>See also this excellent comment by another HN user: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41348228">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41348228</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DyslexicAtheist</author><text>Here is a better resource by an actual respected cryptographer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cryptographyengineering.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;08&#x2F;25&#x2F;telegram-is-not-really-an-encrypted-messaging-app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cryptographyengineering.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;08&#x2F;25&#x2F;telegram...</a><p>One of the links shared by the comment you&#x27;re linking to points to a paper which concludes:<p>&gt; <i>We have presented the formalisation of the MTProto 2.0 protocol suite in the applied π-calculus, and its analysis using the protocol verifier ProVerif. This approach adopts the symbolic Dolev-Yao threat model: an active intruder can intercept, modify, forward, drop, replay or reflect any message. Within this model, we have provided a fully automated proof of the soundness of MTProto 2.0’s protocols for first authentication, normal chat, end-to-end encrypted chat, and rekeying mechanisms with respect to several security properties, including authentication, integrity, secrecy and perfect forward secrecy, also in the presence of malicious servers and clients. Moreover, we have discovered that the rekeying protocol is vulnerable to a theoretical unknown key-share (UKS) attack [ 5 ]: a malicious client B, with the help of another client E, can induce a client A to believe that she (still) shares a secret key with E, and instead A shares the key with B. The practical exploitability of this attack in actual implementations is still to be investigated. Our formalization covers also the behaviour of the users, when relevant; e.g., if the users do not check the fingerprints of their shared keys, a MitM attack is possible.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>The Arrest of Pavel Durov Is a Reminder That Telegram Is Not Encrypted</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/the-arrest-of-pavel-durov-is-a-reminder-that-telegram-is-not-encrypted-2000490960</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sunaookami</author><text>It also doesn&#x27;t mean &quot;plain text&quot;. Telegram uses MTProto and the decryption keys are stored on multiple servers in multiple jurisdictions, something which Gizmodo doesn&#x27;t even mention.<p>See also this excellent comment by another HN user: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41348228">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41348228</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lxgr</author><text>&gt; the decryption keys are stored on multiple servers in multiple jurisdictions<p>Which is completely besides the point when the question is &quot;should you trust Telegram&quot;, given that they are still entirely under Telegram&#x27;s logical control.<p>The only circumstance under which this is a meaningful difference is when somebody <i>other than Telegram</i> (law enforcement with a warrant, law enforcement without a warrant, criminals etc.) walks into a data center and pulls those servers&#x27; hard disks.</text></comment> |
8,104,554 | 8,104,567 | 1 | 2 | 8,104,296 | train | <story><title>Deep Learning Image Classifier</title><url>http://deeplearning.cs.toronto.edu/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>4qbomb</author><text>LOL! <a href="http://i.imgur.com/Xs3GrGk.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Xs3GrGk.png</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Deep Learning Image Classifier</title><url>http://deeplearning.cs.toronto.edu/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bhouston</author><text>Didn&#x27;t give me results at all to the three images I uploaded. Might be broken.</text></comment> |
8,455,290 | 8,455,309 | 1 | 2 | 8,454,405 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Dating Ring (YC W14) – We do the work, you do the dating</title><url>https://www.datingring.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>potatolicious</author><text>I see some pessimism in these comments, but IMO one needs to consider the problem from both genders (assuming we&#x27;re talking about straight dating exclusively for a sec).<p>The problem with OkCupid is that the experience is <i>horrendous</i> for women. While the men would love to have choice, and &quot;unlimited&quot; matches, in reality this only means one thing:<p>Spam. Spam spam spam spam spam spam. More spam.<p>The success of Tinder should be in large part attributed to the fact that the basic interaction model removes spam. Men will swipe right on the majority of &quot;matches&quot;, making women the actual gatekeepers of conversation - and this model works, though you obviously lose a lot of nuance and depth along the way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nether</author><text>Women have far more choice on OkCupid, it&#x27;s the men who do not: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/why-online-dating-sucks-men" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alternet.org&#x2F;why-online-dating-sucks-men</a><p>She talks about how easy OkCupid is for women, how she recommends her female friends to try it out, but how she also dissuades her male friends from trying it. Because the site is so difficult for men.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Dating Ring (YC W14) – We do the work, you do the dating</title><url>https://www.datingring.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>potatolicious</author><text>I see some pessimism in these comments, but IMO one needs to consider the problem from both genders (assuming we&#x27;re talking about straight dating exclusively for a sec).<p>The problem with OkCupid is that the experience is <i>horrendous</i> for women. While the men would love to have choice, and &quot;unlimited&quot; matches, in reality this only means one thing:<p>Spam. Spam spam spam spam spam spam. More spam.<p>The success of Tinder should be in large part attributed to the fact that the basic interaction model removes spam. Men will swipe right on the majority of &quot;matches&quot;, making women the actual gatekeepers of conversation - and this model works, though you obviously lose a lot of nuance and depth along the way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tuxidomasx</author><text>&quot;one needs to consider the problem from both genders&quot;<p>Exactly. I think Tinder&#x27;s model is more aligned with how men and women meet IRL. As a guy, my modus operandi is to present myself as a high-valued man to everyone and have the women pre-select me so I can start the interaction.<p>How men use Tinder: <i>like</i> <i>like</i> <i>like</i> <i>like</i> &quot;Oops, I wanted to see the rest of her pictures&quot;<p>How women use Tinder: <i>nope</i> <i>nope</i> <i>nope</i> <i>nope</i> &quot;Oops, he was cute&quot;<p>Its the 80&#x2F;20 rule-- 20% of the guys will get most of the likes from the girls.<p>With all that repetition, I think there must be an even better model for matching people up...</text></comment> |
15,974,256 | 15,973,413 | 1 | 2 | 15,972,593 | train | <story><title>Tokio internals: Understanding Rust's async I/O framework</title><url>https://cafbit.com/post/tokio_internals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lurr</author><text>Yeah, but I actually have a reasonable chance of accomplishing what I want in C++.<p>vs Rust where I bash my head against it for 2 days then give up. I&#x27;m not smart enough for Rust, oh well.</text></item><item><author>jcrites</author><text>&gt; Aren’t abstractions supposed to make things easier to learn?<p>Not always. Some abstractions are designed to make it easier to solve hard problems correctly (than without the abstraction).<p>For example, consider Rust&#x27;s memory model. Many people criticize that model as difficult to learn. By comparison, you might argue that C&#x27;s memory model is simpler to learn. Yet, the C approach to allocating, using, and freeing memory is highly error-prone. C programs historically have frequently had mistakes such as use-after-free errors, or buffer under&#x2F;overflow&#x2F;reuse errors. The high-profile OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability was an example of a weakness in C&#x27;s memory model and memory handling abstractions [1].<p>Rust&#x27;s memory model may be more difficult to learn than C&#x27;s, but once learned, they are abstractions that provide an advantage in building correct software, by ruling out certain classes of mistakes. (GC in languages like C# and Java and Go can also prevent these mistakes, but comes with a runtime cost. Rust aims to provide zero-cost abstractions.)<p>Building correct async IO programs using kernel abstractions is difficult for similar reasons as it&#x27;s difficult to write correct programs with C&#x27;s memory model. It&#x27;s especially difficult if you want the async IO program to be portable across multiple OS&#x2F;kernels. I have not used Tokio, but I would guess that its Rust-powered abstractions will make it difficult or impossible to leak memory or sockets, or to fail to handle error cases that might arise handling async IO.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seancassidy.me&#x2F;diagnosis-of-the-openssl-heartbleed-bug.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seancassidy.me&#x2F;diagnosis-of-the-openssl-heartble...</a></text></item><item><author>kindfellow92</author><text>&gt; Unfortunately, Tokio is notoriously difficult to learn due to its sophisticated abstractions.<p>Aren’t abstractions supposed to make things easier to learn? Something about the idea of “complex abstractions” seems wrong.<p>(Edit: this is not a criticism of Tokio, it’s a criticism of the OP’s characterization of “sophisticated abstractions” which IMO should reduce complexity)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Matthias247</author><text>I can totally understand that opinion, but let me give a further view on that:<p>I implemented in the last years dozens of async&#x2F;event-driven networking libraries, and wanted to do the same in Rust about 4 years ago. I guess I even started to work on the first async IO libraries for it (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Matthias247&#x2F;revbio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Matthias247&#x2F;revbio</a>). However I also got frustrated quite quickly with it, since the ownership model makes the typical solutions for asynchronous programming super hard (e.g. callbacks or callback interfaces). Therefore I also gave up on that (and also temporarily on the language).<p>However some years and evolution of Rust later my viewpoint on this changed a bit:<p>- Asynchronous I&#x2F;O is generally messy and leaves a lot of room for errors. E.g. each callback that is involved might cause reentrancy problems or invalidations, object lifetimes might not be well-defined or matching expectations, etc. While most languages still allow it, it&#x27;s hard to get fully right. Especially when manual memory management is involved. Async I&#x2F;O plus multithreading is mostly a recipe for disaster.<p>- Rust just puts these facts directly in our face, and wants to you to go the extra route to provide that things are working directly. It&#x27;s far from easy to figure out how to do this in a sane way. I think the tokio authors did an awesome job on finding some primitive abstractions with the poll model that allows for async I&#x2F;O and uses Rusts type system for safety guarantees. It&#x27;s a little bit akward to use without syntactic sugar like async&#x2F;await or coroutines, but I think that is in the nature of the problem.<p>- Trying to do async IO probably shows off the domain which is the most inconvenient in Rust (besides similar problems like object-oriented and callback-driven UI frameworks). Therefore it shouldn&#x27;t be used as a general point of measurement how easy or complex Rust is to use.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tokio internals: Understanding Rust's async I/O framework</title><url>https://cafbit.com/post/tokio_internals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lurr</author><text>Yeah, but I actually have a reasonable chance of accomplishing what I want in C++.<p>vs Rust where I bash my head against it for 2 days then give up. I&#x27;m not smart enough for Rust, oh well.</text></item><item><author>jcrites</author><text>&gt; Aren’t abstractions supposed to make things easier to learn?<p>Not always. Some abstractions are designed to make it easier to solve hard problems correctly (than without the abstraction).<p>For example, consider Rust&#x27;s memory model. Many people criticize that model as difficult to learn. By comparison, you might argue that C&#x27;s memory model is simpler to learn. Yet, the C approach to allocating, using, and freeing memory is highly error-prone. C programs historically have frequently had mistakes such as use-after-free errors, or buffer under&#x2F;overflow&#x2F;reuse errors. The high-profile OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability was an example of a weakness in C&#x27;s memory model and memory handling abstractions [1].<p>Rust&#x27;s memory model may be more difficult to learn than C&#x27;s, but once learned, they are abstractions that provide an advantage in building correct software, by ruling out certain classes of mistakes. (GC in languages like C# and Java and Go can also prevent these mistakes, but comes with a runtime cost. Rust aims to provide zero-cost abstractions.)<p>Building correct async IO programs using kernel abstractions is difficult for similar reasons as it&#x27;s difficult to write correct programs with C&#x27;s memory model. It&#x27;s especially difficult if you want the async IO program to be portable across multiple OS&#x2F;kernels. I have not used Tokio, but I would guess that its Rust-powered abstractions will make it difficult or impossible to leak memory or sockets, or to fail to handle error cases that might arise handling async IO.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seancassidy.me&#x2F;diagnosis-of-the-openssl-heartbleed-bug.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seancassidy.me&#x2F;diagnosis-of-the-openssl-heartble...</a></text></item><item><author>kindfellow92</author><text>&gt; Unfortunately, Tokio is notoriously difficult to learn due to its sophisticated abstractions.<p>Aren’t abstractions supposed to make things easier to learn? Something about the idea of “complex abstractions” seems wrong.<p>(Edit: this is not a criticism of Tokio, it’s a criticism of the OP’s characterization of “sophisticated abstractions” which IMO should reduce complexity)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hobofan</author><text>I am not trying to personally attack you here, but most times when people say something like this, what they are actually saying is: &quot;I think I am accomplishing the same thing in C++, but by not facing (and solving) the problems, I am actually creating a program with nasty hidden bugs, that might or might not blow up in my face later&quot;.</text></comment> |
22,811,394 | 22,809,770 | 1 | 3 | 22,799,071 | train | <story><title>Unverified.email</title><url>https://kerestey.net/writing/2020-04-05-announcing-unverified-dot-email.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylz</author><text>What kind of anti-abuse mechanisms do you have in play?<p>As soon as the API is figured out, it&#x27;ll be used for mass spam signups. I&#x27;ve done one of these before, and pretty much if you allow any form of being able to retrieve a code or URL or number from the body&#x2F;subject, it&#x27;ll be used for millions of spam signups.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanbrunner</author><text>I think a relatively easy one, if the author was interested in securing this more, would be to strengthen the requirement around the &quot;mailbox id&quot;. Specifically require it in a single header, like how it&#x27;s done in the example. That way, you could set up your own tests to match expectations, but it would be useless to use to abuse another third party (as the site that you&#x27;re attempting to verify on certainly won&#x27;t send that header).</text></comment> | <story><title>Unverified.email</title><url>https://kerestey.net/writing/2020-04-05-announcing-unverified-dot-email.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylz</author><text>What kind of anti-abuse mechanisms do you have in play?<p>As soon as the API is figured out, it&#x27;ll be used for mass spam signups. I&#x27;ve done one of these before, and pretty much if you allow any form of being able to retrieve a code or URL or number from the body&#x2F;subject, it&#x27;ll be used for millions of spam signups.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derimagia</author><text>It&#x27;s an alternative to mailhog or mailcatcher so no email is actually sent. It&#x27;s just for testing sent emails.</text></comment> |
34,260,385 | 34,260,821 | 1 | 2 | 34,259,243 | train | <story><title>Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?</title><url>https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/lithium-electric-vehicles</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jgilias</author><text>In theory.<p>In practice the market has spoken as to what kind of a form-factor people find the most useful for personal transportation in different climates and economic development scenarios. There’s no reason why ICEs couldn’t have supported the kind of vehicles some people imagine other people need.<p>The market has spoken, EVs only started gaining traction when they started resembling actual cars in form and function. Think of it as parallel evolution. Dolphins and fish.</text></item><item><author>bertil</author><text>This article and the IEA sources that they rely on assumes that an EV is a car. That’s not a good assumption: electric bicycles and trikes like the Aptera are much better direction for the vast majority of individual transport.<p>At that size, you can rely on smaller batteries and solar panels for many journeys (it isn’t fully sufficient for an Aptera but an e-bicycle with a small roof can ride as long as the Sun shines).<p>Using three tons vehicles for long-distance journeys or for the transport of goods isn’t efficient: trains (and last-mile delivery on cargo bikes) are a lot more economical in both energy, accident risk and individual time (or vehicle investment if you assume an autonomous future).<p>If we don’t use the energy transition to shift away from the domination of heavy, polluting, deadly cars, we would have lost an opportunity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CalRobert</author><text>The market is profoundly distorted by single use zoning, parking minimums, density maximums, wide (and high speed) stroads, and other urban design choices that force long journeys. It&#x27;s also not safe to be on an ebike surrounded by electric Hummers, F-350 super duties, and your normal &quot;whole kindergarten class in the blind spot&quot; Escalades.<p>Having just spent a week in Utrecht it&#x27;s very clear that &quot;the market&quot; can certainly show a preference for ebikes over cars.</text></comment> | <story><title>Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?</title><url>https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/lithium-electric-vehicles</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jgilias</author><text>In theory.<p>In practice the market has spoken as to what kind of a form-factor people find the most useful for personal transportation in different climates and economic development scenarios. There’s no reason why ICEs couldn’t have supported the kind of vehicles some people imagine other people need.<p>The market has spoken, EVs only started gaining traction when they started resembling actual cars in form and function. Think of it as parallel evolution. Dolphins and fish.</text></item><item><author>bertil</author><text>This article and the IEA sources that they rely on assumes that an EV is a car. That’s not a good assumption: electric bicycles and trikes like the Aptera are much better direction for the vast majority of individual transport.<p>At that size, you can rely on smaller batteries and solar panels for many journeys (it isn’t fully sufficient for an Aptera but an e-bicycle with a small roof can ride as long as the Sun shines).<p>Using three tons vehicles for long-distance journeys or for the transport of goods isn’t efficient: trains (and last-mile delivery on cargo bikes) are a lot more economical in both energy, accident risk and individual time (or vehicle investment if you assume an autonomous future).<p>If we don’t use the energy transition to shift away from the domination of heavy, polluting, deadly cars, we would have lost an opportunity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hannob</author><text>&quot;Let&#x27;s build bike lanes that are so scary only the bavest will dare to use them - and also subsidise cars in any way we can.&quot; - &quot;The market has spoken, people want cars!&quot;</text></comment> |
12,061,757 | 12,061,687 | 1 | 2 | 12,061,320 | train | <story><title>Changes to Trusted Certificate Authorities in Android Nougat</title><url>https://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/07/changes-to-trusted-certificate.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>...and so it begins...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9078741" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9078741</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9078762" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9078762</a><p>I am not exactly surprised, but it is very sad to see, because what happens on locked-down mobile platforms, desktops seem to follow sooner or later. You can argue that power users and developers will always find ways around it, but what this does is effectively remove one more little bit of that freedom which lets users discover what their devices are actually doing, and I think that is a <i>very</i> bad thing in the long term.<p>Much of my knowledge about how computers work in various ways has been gained through exploring creatively and inspecting what things do. I use a MITM proxy on my PC that blocks ads, tracking, and rewrites webpages to my preference. I learned a lot of HTTP, HTML, and CSS just from doing that. But maybe that is exactly what those in power do not want --- users who can think and investigate things for themselves --- because such users are not easy to control.</text></comment> | <story><title>Changes to Trusted Certificate Authorities in Android Nougat</title><url>https://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/07/changes-to-trusted-certificate.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pdkl95</author><text>Taking away the user&#x27;s ability to manage their own security should bring with it the responsibility - and <i>liability</i> - for any problems that derive from the imposed settings.<p>The paternalistic attitude that users are <i>and always will be</i> ignorant is not only offensive. it is counterproductive. Security is not a product, and keeping people ignorant of the trust models they are relying on is a recipe for disaster in the long-term.<p>Instead of pretending that users are always going to be ignorant of security and incapable of learning, the UI should be extended to make the chain-of-trust more visible in a way that helps the users understand their security situation.<p>Instead of pretending that one security model fits all situations, <i>more</i> control needs to be given <i>and taught</i> to the user, in a way that actually allows them to make decisions about their security situation.</text></comment> |
5,166,667 | 5,166,527 | 1 | 2 | 5,164,721 | train | <story><title>Labels in input fields aren’t such a good idea</title><url>http://laurakalbag.com/labels-in-input-fields-arent-such-a-good-idea/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SeoxyS</author><text>You can have the best of both worlds (quick and dirty):<p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/UMfAy/1/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/UMfAy/1/</a><p><pre><code> &#60;body&#62;
&#60;form&#62;
&#60;div class="cool-label"&#62;
&#60;label for="name"&#62;name&#60;/label&#62;
&#60;input id="name" type="text" placeholder="John Doe" /&#62;
&#60;/div&#62;
&#60;div class="cool-label"&#62;
&#60;label for="email"&#62;email&#60;/label&#62;
&#60;input id="email" type="text" placeholder="[email protected]" /&#62;
&#60;/div&#62;
&#60;/form&#62;
&#60;/body&#62;
body {
background: #eee;
}
form {
width: 250px;
margin: auto;
margin-top: 50px;
}
.cool-label {
border: 1px dotted rgba(0,0,0,.3);
background: #fff;
margin-bottom: 10px;
width: 100%;
}
.cool-label label {
width: 60px;
display: inline-block;
text-align: right;
float: left;
height: 100%;
margin-top: 5px;
}
.cool-label input {
border: none;
background: transparent;
width: 175px; /* 250-70-5 padding */
padding: 5px;
padding-left: 70px;
margin-left: -60px;
}
.cool-label input:focus {
background: rgba(0,130,255,.1);
outline: none;
}</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Labels in input fields aren’t such a good idea</title><url>http://laurakalbag.com/labels-in-input-fields-arent-such-a-good-idea/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lukifer</author><text>Another reason not to do this: browser autofill. Now and again, the browser will guess wrong on what value to insert, and now the user won't know what's supposed to go there. Even if they clear the value, no user will assume that de-focusing the input will reveal the label.</text></comment> |
28,043,588 | 28,043,242 | 1 | 2 | 28,042,089 | train | <story><title>SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/spacex-installed-29-raptor-engines-on-a-super-heavy-rocket-last-night/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>908B64B197</author><text>Only in America things like this can happen.<p>A whole industry bootstrapping itself to make semi-conductors doubling every 18 months, going from exotic, mission critical hardware to commodity; SpaceX is doing the same thing with flight hardware. Contrast that with previous generation engines (the RS-25 comes to mind) with a sticker price of 125 millions... per engine! [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spacenews.com&#x2F;aerojet-rocketdyne-defends-sls-engine-contract-costs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spacenews.com&#x2F;aerojet-rocketdyne-defends-sls-engine-...</a></text></item><item><author>milansuk</author><text>In 2019, Elon tweeted[0] that the price of one Raptor engine is under $1M with the goal going under 250K for the next version. Any recent info where there are now?<p>I&#x27;m still surprised they moved to this orbital fly so quickly without doing more tests. Going from 3 engines to almost 30 is crazy. Also, If I understand it right, both booster and starship will end up in the ocean. I hope they will be able to reuse at least a few engines.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1179107539352313856" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1179107539352313856</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101a</author><text>&gt; <i>Only in America things like this can happen.</i><p>&gt; <i>A whole industry bootstrapping itself to make semi-conductors doubling every 18 months, going from exotic, mission critical hardware to commodity;</i><p>Silicon Valley did not bootstrap itself. It received untold billions of dollars from the US government during the Cold War (and lots of stuff happened during the WW2 economy, when the US was the Allies&#x27; armorer). Do you think it a coïncidence that most spy satellites are launched from Vandenberg? Or that Skunk Works, located in California, developed so many secret aircraft?<p>Do a search for &quot;The secret history of Silicon Valley&quot;:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steveblank.com&#x2F;secret-history&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steveblank.com&#x2F;secret-history&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; <i>SpaceX is doing the same thing with flight hardware.</i><p>Notwithstanding the millions that NASA gave them in their early stages.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;exploration&#x2F;news&#x2F;COTS_selection.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;exploration&#x2F;news&#x2F;COTS_selection.html</a><p>The list of spinoff technologies just from NASA is impressive:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NASA_spinoff_technologies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NASA_spinoff_technologies</a><p>The fact that the US was, post-WW2, the largest economy in the world, and the main developed nation that didn&#x27;t see mass destruction, certainly didn&#x27;t hurt.<p>The fact that the US government throws a lot of money around certainly helps private industry:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Entrepreneurial_State" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Entrepreneurial_State</a><p>This also does not diminish the entrepreneurs that, once the baton is handed to them, charge forward. My main argument is that there&#x27;s not as much &quot;bootstrapping&quot; as many people believe.</text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/spacex-installed-29-raptor-engines-on-a-super-heavy-rocket-last-night/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>908B64B197</author><text>Only in America things like this can happen.<p>A whole industry bootstrapping itself to make semi-conductors doubling every 18 months, going from exotic, mission critical hardware to commodity; SpaceX is doing the same thing with flight hardware. Contrast that with previous generation engines (the RS-25 comes to mind) with a sticker price of 125 millions... per engine! [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spacenews.com&#x2F;aerojet-rocketdyne-defends-sls-engine-contract-costs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spacenews.com&#x2F;aerojet-rocketdyne-defends-sls-engine-...</a></text></item><item><author>milansuk</author><text>In 2019, Elon tweeted[0] that the price of one Raptor engine is under $1M with the goal going under 250K for the next version. Any recent info where there are now?<p>I&#x27;m still surprised they moved to this orbital fly so quickly without doing more tests. Going from 3 engines to almost 30 is crazy. Also, If I understand it right, both booster and starship will end up in the ocean. I hope they will be able to reuse at least a few engines.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1179107539352313856" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1179107539352313856</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tablespoon</author><text>&gt;&gt; Only in America things like this can happen.<p>&gt; Semi-Conductor doubling every 18 months<p>IIRC, the recent doublings have been happening in Taiwan. That&#x27;s why people make such a big deal about TMSC. America (i.e. Intel) actually has some catching up to do.</text></comment> |
27,647,406 | 27,644,950 | 1 | 3 | 27,640,943 | train | <story><title>Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/06/whatever-happened-to-ui-affordances/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>logbiscuitswave</author><text>Not sure if you’re being serious or not, but these stories seem awfully apocryphal to me.<p>I can’t imagine anybody - not even a total novice - running away from their computer upon seeing a cartoony image of a bomb. It reminds me of the made-up but often used story of terrified audiences running for the exits upon watching a film of a train for the first time.</text></item><item><author>DonHopkins</author><text>The original Mac would pop up a dialog with a threatening icon of a bomb with a lit fuse, whenever it crashed!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bomb_(icon)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bomb_(icon)</a><p>&gt;The Bomb icon is a symbol designed by Susan Kare that was displayed inside the System Error alert box when the &quot;classic&quot; Macintosh operating system (pre-Mac OS X) had a crash which the system decided was unrecoverable. It was similar to a dialog box in Windows 9x that said &quot;This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.&quot; Since the classic Mac OS offered little memory protection, an application crash would often take down the entire system.<p>Unfortunately, the Mac&#x27;s bomb dialog could cause naive users to jump up out of their seat and run away from the computer in terror, because they though it was going to explode!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zQGX3J6DAGw&amp;ab_channel=CaitlynMacCabe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zQGX3J6DAGw&amp;ab_channel=Caitl...</a><p>And Window&#x27;s &quot;This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down&quot; error message was just as bad: it could cause naive users to fear they might get arrested for accidentally doing something illegal!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amatecha</author><text>Yeah, nah, it&#x27;s not an exaggeration. Even as a kid the first time I saw &quot;illegal opeation&quot; on a Windows machine I thought it meant something actually unlawful had occurred.<p>In the early 90&#x27;s there was a prank Extension for Mac OS called &quot;Radiation&quot; and a partner application called &quot;Trigger&quot;. Trigger would allow you to pop up a system alert dialog box over the Appletalk network on whichever machine had the Radiation extension installed, allowing some nice pranking opportunities. The default message was &quot;The radiation shield on your Macintosh has failed. Please step back five feet.&quot; … It worked, and some people would literally jump away from their desk when they saw this message! Ahh, the good old days hahaha :)<p>(If you&#x27;re still skeptical, I can probably dig up a copy of this software since I surely have it on an old disk somewhere, but of course I can&#x27;t prove people moved away from the computer -- there&#x27;s only my anecdote to go by here haha)</text></comment> | <story><title>Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/06/whatever-happened-to-ui-affordances/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>logbiscuitswave</author><text>Not sure if you’re being serious or not, but these stories seem awfully apocryphal to me.<p>I can’t imagine anybody - not even a total novice - running away from their computer upon seeing a cartoony image of a bomb. It reminds me of the made-up but often used story of terrified audiences running for the exits upon watching a film of a train for the first time.</text></item><item><author>DonHopkins</author><text>The original Mac would pop up a dialog with a threatening icon of a bomb with a lit fuse, whenever it crashed!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bomb_(icon)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bomb_(icon)</a><p>&gt;The Bomb icon is a symbol designed by Susan Kare that was displayed inside the System Error alert box when the &quot;classic&quot; Macintosh operating system (pre-Mac OS X) had a crash which the system decided was unrecoverable. It was similar to a dialog box in Windows 9x that said &quot;This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.&quot; Since the classic Mac OS offered little memory protection, an application crash would often take down the entire system.<p>Unfortunately, the Mac&#x27;s bomb dialog could cause naive users to jump up out of their seat and run away from the computer in terror, because they though it was going to explode!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zQGX3J6DAGw&amp;ab_channel=CaitlynMacCabe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zQGX3J6DAGw&amp;ab_channel=Caitl...</a><p>And Window&#x27;s &quot;This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down&quot; error message was just as bad: it could cause naive users to fear they might get arrested for accidentally doing something illegal!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>npilk</author><text>I remember seeing this dialog as a kid (probably ~5 years old) and being scared the computer would blow up. Actually, for years, I assumed I must have dreamt it.</text></comment> |
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