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28,585,832 | 28,585,656 | 1 | 2 | 28,585,379 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How did Google botch messaging/video/hangouts so badly?</title><text>Several years ago, from within Gmail, I could:<p>* Make a phone call<p>* Send an SMS<p>* Send a Google chat<p>* Start a video call with my parents<p>Now, all of this has been split up, and to start a video call, I have to start a video and <i>send an email</i> inviting someone. SMS has been split up into a separate web app that won&#x27;t work without my phone being present.<p>How did it come to pass that they took an easy, integrated system and mangled it so badly? I mean, it wasn&#x27;t perfect, but it mostly just worked, and was easy to use.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>And there&#x27;s never another employee saying: wait a second, that&#x27;s not a good idea ...?</text></item><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>Having talked about similar questions with friends who work&#x2F;worked at Google, you need to first ask &quot;How do people get promoted at Google?&quot; The answer to that (by launching new things that get abandoned soon after rather than improving&#x2F;fixing existing things) answers your question and many others like it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FinanceAnon</author><text>If many managers are onboard with an idea, one engineer saying &quot;no&quot; doesn&#x27;t have much weight. Also, if you keep saying &quot;no&quot; to things, you might be perceived as &quot;negative&quot; and it might come up in performance reviews. And it&#x27;s often difficult to predict if an idea will work or not - a lot of it comes down to execution and future politics.<p>So, as an engineer, it&#x27;s probably better to jump on the bandwagon with everyone else, and try to get a promotion from it. It&#x27;s stupid, but it&#x27;s how it works. You will not progress within a company by saying &quot;no&quot;, even if you are right and it stops a bad project.<p>(I&#x27;ve never worked for google, but did work in a large software corporation)</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How did Google botch messaging/video/hangouts so badly?</title><text>Several years ago, from within Gmail, I could:<p>* Make a phone call<p>* Send an SMS<p>* Send a Google chat<p>* Start a video call with my parents<p>Now, all of this has been split up, and to start a video call, I have to start a video and <i>send an email</i> inviting someone. SMS has been split up into a separate web app that won&#x27;t work without my phone being present.<p>How did it come to pass that they took an easy, integrated system and mangled it so badly? I mean, it wasn&#x27;t perfect, but it mostly just worked, and was easy to use.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>And there&#x27;s never another employee saying: wait a second, that&#x27;s not a good idea ...?</text></item><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>Having talked about similar questions with friends who work&#x2F;worked at Google, you need to first ask &quot;How do people get promoted at Google?&quot; The answer to that (by launching new things that get abandoned soon after rather than improving&#x2F;fixing existing things) answers your question and many others like it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>As per my comment below, it&#x27;s not just stagnation - I was ok with where they were 5 years ago - it&#x27;s that they&#x27;ve made an active effort to degrade the experience. Instead of clicking once in Gmail to start a video call, there is now some janky system where it starts a &#x27;meet&#x27; and sends my mom an email asking her to join it. An email! When both of us are sitting there with Gmail open.</text></comment> |
9,533,324 | 9,531,740 | 1 | 3 | 9,530,816 | train | <story><title>Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-buy-aol-for-4-4-billion-1431428458</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>georgeott</author><text>They owned a closed &quot;Walled Garden&quot; version of the internet. Once the open internet took off, AOL was doomed.</text></item><item><author>tootie</author><text>AOL might be the ultimate company that missed the boat. They practically owned the internet in America in the 90s and just let the whole thing get away. They had pole position to be Google+Facebook at once.</text></item><item><author>WDCDev</author><text>To give you some perspective.<p>When Time Warner and AOL merged back in 1999, AOL was valued at $166 Billion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>billyhoffman</author><text>Yes. This. It&#x27;s a reoccurring battle that all companies that build some kind of infrastructure <i>and</i> offer content&#x2F;data services on that infrastructure end up facing.<p>When they built the pipes, there was no data&#x2F;content, so they had to create it. But now there is so much more content&#x2F;data that is so much better, and people just want to use these companies as a dumb pipe to get to the good stuff.<p>We see it now with cell phone carriers and cable TV companies who built infrastructure to transmit data, and also wanted to sell you content&#x2F;data for that infrastructure. Hence phones from a decade ago full of bloatware and crappy ringtone stores and crappy Brew-based &quot;app&quot; stores, and cable providers who (still) have poor DVR interfaces and pay-per-view and TV packages.<p>The iPhone&#x27;s most powerful innovation wasn&#x27;t a touchscreen computer in your pocket. It was the business relationship with the cell phone carrier Cingular (and then AT&amp;T). It was wedge that freed the device so people could control it (relatively) more, and allowed people to treat the network as a dumb pipe. Its still early, but Netflix, Youtube, Hulu, etc are largely doing the same thing to cable TV.<p>This goes back further than AOL. You can see it with AT&amp;T, their refusal to allow 3rd party equipment on the POTS network, the rise of Sprint using their infrastructure, and their ultimate breakup.<p>Every time this battle has happened the infrastructure companies lose and get pushed into &quot;dumb pipe.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-buy-aol-for-4-4-billion-1431428458</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>georgeott</author><text>They owned a closed &quot;Walled Garden&quot; version of the internet. Once the open internet took off, AOL was doomed.</text></item><item><author>tootie</author><text>AOL might be the ultimate company that missed the boat. They practically owned the internet in America in the 90s and just let the whole thing get away. They had pole position to be Google+Facebook at once.</text></item><item><author>WDCDev</author><text>To give you some perspective.<p>When Time Warner and AOL merged back in 1999, AOL was valued at $166 Billion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r00fus</author><text>They had years to invest in the open internet, buy out a successful internet venture, or adopt internet features into their offering.<p>They failed to do all of the above, and are now in the dustbin of history (and to me, are solely remembered for their acquisition of nullsoft who then created Gnutella - predecessor of P2P file sharing services).</text></comment> |
40,918,378 | 40,916,511 | 1 | 2 | 40,915,082 | train | <story><title>PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights</title><url>https://robertheaton.com/pyskywifi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzzy_plugh</author><text>The AT&amp;T bill (IIRC it was all under a single account) for the 3G Kindles was eye-watering. I recall a few byte-shavings yielding something like a million dollars of savings.</text></item><item><author>jmkb</author><text>Decades ago, my partner used Google Voice for texting -- really handy, texts just showed up in the gmail inbox, and could be replied to from there. She didn&#x27;t like cellphones, but usually carried one of the old &quot;Kindle Keyboard&quot; models with unlimited 3G data. The Kindle had simple web browser that could load the low-spec gmail interface, so in essence she had a fully functional SMS device, with no monthly charges.<p>Notification of incoming texts was the only problem. I jailbroke the thing and started trying to schedule network requests, thinking I&#x27;d add some kind of new message counter on the home screen. This proved hard. But it occurred to me that the best place for the counter would be right next to the Kindle&#x27;s device name, at the top of the screen. And the device name could be updated from her Amazon account.<p>So I automated a web browser on the home server to log into Amazon and update the device name to &quot;My Kindle (x)&quot; where x was the number of unread Google Voice texts. The Kindle would update the name on the home screen in less than a minute. This worked for years!<p>(Eventually that Kindle was stolen. I wanted to update its name to something foul but the device disappeared from her account too quickly.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>delecti</author><text>I was at Amazon in a Kindle adjacent team (the lockscreen ads) starting in 2012, and I can second this sentiment. For the first couple years, there were multiple tweaks made to minimize enormous roaming bills for customers taking their US region &quot;global unlimited free 3g&quot; kindles to really remote parts of the world. Things like not enqueuing push downloads of books&#x2F;ads if they were roaming.</text></comment> | <story><title>PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights</title><url>https://robertheaton.com/pyskywifi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyzzy_plugh</author><text>The AT&amp;T bill (IIRC it was all under a single account) for the 3G Kindles was eye-watering. I recall a few byte-shavings yielding something like a million dollars of savings.</text></item><item><author>jmkb</author><text>Decades ago, my partner used Google Voice for texting -- really handy, texts just showed up in the gmail inbox, and could be replied to from there. She didn&#x27;t like cellphones, but usually carried one of the old &quot;Kindle Keyboard&quot; models with unlimited 3G data. The Kindle had simple web browser that could load the low-spec gmail interface, so in essence she had a fully functional SMS device, with no monthly charges.<p>Notification of incoming texts was the only problem. I jailbroke the thing and started trying to schedule network requests, thinking I&#x27;d add some kind of new message counter on the home screen. This proved hard. But it occurred to me that the best place for the counter would be right next to the Kindle&#x27;s device name, at the top of the screen. And the device name could be updated from her Amazon account.<p>So I automated a web browser on the home server to log into Amazon and update the device name to &quot;My Kindle (x)&quot; where x was the number of unread Google Voice texts. The Kindle would update the name on the home screen in less than a minute. This worked for years!<p>(Eventually that Kindle was stolen. I wanted to update its name to something foul but the device disappeared from her account too quickly.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zorked</author><text>Free Internet was a very bold proposition. I used it a lot, via roaming, from a country that was in the very-expensive-roaming lists.</text></comment> |
6,650,660 | 6,650,782 | 1 | 2 | 6,650,122 | train | <story><title>It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?</title><url>http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/31/its-time-for-silicon-valley-to-ask-is-it-worth-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>EXTERMINATE ALL RATIONAL THOUGHT. Questions are not allowed. Consideration is not allowed. Context is not allowed. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.</text></item><item><author>duairc</author><text>&gt; Everyone on HN acts like there&#x27;s no possible reason for people to support these types of activities.<p>And they&#x27;re right. You don&#x27;t need to play devil&#x27;s advocate. The devil has enough advocates.</text></item><item><author>mikeyouse</author><text>Everyone on HN acts like there&#x27;s no possible reason for people to support these types of activities, but there could be very legitimate reasons these engineers choose to do what they do.<p>It could just be a challenge for them. Where else can you not only get away with, but be rewarded with a good salary and a pension for hacking into the most secure systems on earth? It must be thrilling to be &#x27;Competing&#x27; against the best security engineers, best practices, with a massive budget to support your activities.<p>It could be that with their security clearances, they know things about threats that make their decision to work for the NSA a moral imperative. It&#x27;s entirely possible that there are some really horrific classified things that were stopped via similar spying activities, so intercepting some Gmail messages seems like a much less evil alternative.<p>They could just be &#x27;blindly&#x27; patriotic, have faith that the faults of the government are outweighed by the need to keep the US on top of the world.<p>There are many possible reasons.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>I have an honest and serious question -- who are the developers and designers who put these systems into place for the NSA? Are they aware of what they&#x27;re doing or is it all classified and contracted out? Are they proud of their work? Is it just a paycheck? Surely someone with such a high aptitude could easily get a job elsewhere -- I guess I&#x27;m just unable to make the connection on who willingly builds this kind of stuff.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to be intentionally obtuse, I just legitimately am curious</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duairc</author><text>There&#x27;s a Deleuze quote about this that I really like: “It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality”.<p>What I understand this to mean is that the nature of “rationality” is such that a rational person can rationalize <i>anything</i>. Nobody is saying “EXTERMINATE ALL RATIONAL THOUGHT”, obviously this is just you trolling, but to the extent that anything intelligent can be distilled from your reply, that&#x27;s my response to it.<p>We can always rationalise anything, especially misdeeds committed by those in positions of power over us. Sometimes it&#x27;s important to halt that process and stop and just say &quot;this is definitely fucked up&quot;, and yes, <i>not</i> to question it any further. It can actually be really hard not to question it sometimes, especially if you trust, or have been conditioned to trust, those in positions of power over you who are abusing you. You want to find reasons to defend their abuse of their power, you don&#x27;t want it to be what it looks like. And you can find reasons for it, you always can. You will. But abuse is still abuse. So sometimes you have to stop and just say “this is fucked”.</text></comment> | <story><title>It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?</title><url>http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/31/its-time-for-silicon-valley-to-ask-is-it-worth-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>EXTERMINATE ALL RATIONAL THOUGHT. Questions are not allowed. Consideration is not allowed. Context is not allowed. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.</text></item><item><author>duairc</author><text>&gt; Everyone on HN acts like there&#x27;s no possible reason for people to support these types of activities.<p>And they&#x27;re right. You don&#x27;t need to play devil&#x27;s advocate. The devil has enough advocates.</text></item><item><author>mikeyouse</author><text>Everyone on HN acts like there&#x27;s no possible reason for people to support these types of activities, but there could be very legitimate reasons these engineers choose to do what they do.<p>It could just be a challenge for them. Where else can you not only get away with, but be rewarded with a good salary and a pension for hacking into the most secure systems on earth? It must be thrilling to be &#x27;Competing&#x27; against the best security engineers, best practices, with a massive budget to support your activities.<p>It could be that with their security clearances, they know things about threats that make their decision to work for the NSA a moral imperative. It&#x27;s entirely possible that there are some really horrific classified things that were stopped via similar spying activities, so intercepting some Gmail messages seems like a much less evil alternative.<p>They could just be &#x27;blindly&#x27; patriotic, have faith that the faults of the government are outweighed by the need to keep the US on top of the world.<p>There are many possible reasons.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>I have an honest and serious question -- who are the developers and designers who put these systems into place for the NSA? Are they aware of what they&#x27;re doing or is it all classified and contracted out? Are they proud of their work? Is it just a paycheck? Surely someone with such a high aptitude could easily get a job elsewhere -- I guess I&#x27;m just unable to make the connection on who willingly builds this kind of stuff.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to be intentionally obtuse, I just legitimately am curious</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dasil003</author><text>You&#x27;re trampling over his legitimate point, which is that gears of the US government PR machine are massive, and the well-fed targets of their propaganda are well-fed and cozy, and yet the dangers of government overreach are bigger than ever.<p>Are there potentially reasons why &quot;terrorism&quot; might in fact be a greater threat to our ideals and way of life then government power? Sure! Anything&#x27;s possible. But such threats would need to be justified publicly, they can not be justified behind closed doors with classified documents.</text></comment> |
25,541,412 | 25,540,008 | 1 | 2 | 25,538,218 | train | <story><title>Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/kjvsoj/dasung_just_released_a_25_inch_eink_monitor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nine_k</author><text>Again I remind about the idea of exponential patents: the holder has to pay every year twice as much as last year.<p>If the patent is protecting some business&#x27;s hockey-stick growth, it&#x27;s worth the fee, so it fulfills the original purpose of patents, that is, avoiding trade secrets while protecting cash-cow inventions for a limited time.<p>But sitting on a patent becomes prohibitively expensive soon enough even for a large company.</text></item><item><author>ohazi</author><text>E Ink is a great example of how the patent system stifles innovation.<p><i>One company</i> developed a small, expensive, newspaper-quality electrophoretic display with a refresh rate so terrible it was only suitable for books, decided that that was good enough, and 15 years later every comment in this thread is looking forward to finally seeing some innovation in this space &quot;once the patents expire.&quot;<p>That is some first class bullshit. We could have had large form, glossy brochure quality displays with video refresh rates by now, but nobody outside of China wanted to get anywhere near this patent minefield.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ardy42</author><text>&gt; If the patent is protecting some business&#x27;s hockey-stick growth, it&#x27;s worth the fee, so it fulfills the original purpose of patents, that is, avoiding trade secrets while protecting cash-cow inventions for a limited time.<p>Wasn&#x27;t the original purpose of patents <i>not</i> to protect big business&#x27;s hockey-stick grown, but to allow small inventors to capitalize on their inventions (and not have them shamelessly ripped off by some big business). I think the other original purpose was to make sure inventions would eventually become publicized and exploitable by all.<p>That exponential patents idea seems like it would render patent protection prohibitively expensive for all except maybe the rich or inventors unusually well-position to quickly capitalize on their invention. The little guy who takes ten years to get his business off the ground is out of luck.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/kjvsoj/dasung_just_released_a_25_inch_eink_monitor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nine_k</author><text>Again I remind about the idea of exponential patents: the holder has to pay every year twice as much as last year.<p>If the patent is protecting some business&#x27;s hockey-stick growth, it&#x27;s worth the fee, so it fulfills the original purpose of patents, that is, avoiding trade secrets while protecting cash-cow inventions for a limited time.<p>But sitting on a patent becomes prohibitively expensive soon enough even for a large company.</text></item><item><author>ohazi</author><text>E Ink is a great example of how the patent system stifles innovation.<p><i>One company</i> developed a small, expensive, newspaper-quality electrophoretic display with a refresh rate so terrible it was only suitable for books, decided that that was good enough, and 15 years later every comment in this thread is looking forward to finally seeing some innovation in this space &quot;once the patents expire.&quot;<p>That is some first class bullshit. We could have had large form, glossy brochure quality displays with video refresh rates by now, but nobody outside of China wanted to get anywhere near this patent minefield.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fossuser</author><text>I think this would just move people back to trade secrets.<p>That said, I think patents could be given out less often when the operation of the device is clear or can easily be discovered by the public without a patent.<p>E-Ink screens released without a patent kept under &#x27;trade secret&#x27; wouldn&#x27;t have mattered, the idea would have been implemented elsewhere.<p>I suppose you could argue that without exclusive rights the original inventor wouldn&#x27;t have bothered to create it at all - in that case there&#x27;s probably a better middle ground of something less than 20yrs. 5yrs? 2yrs? First $1million in profit?</text></comment> |
11,789,274 | 11,787,956 | 1 | 2 | 11,787,182 | train | <story><title>Growing Rift Between Valve and Oculus</title><url>http://uploadvr.com/valve-shared-vr-oculus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>errantspark</author><text>Been working on VR side projects for 3 years now, I&#x27;ve built against the DK1, DK2, CV1 and the Vive and I have to say there&#x27;s zero question in my mind that Oculus is FAR behind the curve. The Vive was love at first sight, the Oculus was quite the opposite.<p>The Vive is stunning, not only because room-scale VR is fantastic. (I don&#x27;t share the opinion that the future rests solely with room scale, there&#x27;s plenty of stuff to do in VR sitting down) but also because Valve just seems to have it together more than Oculus. The Lighthouse system is brilliant, it&#x27;s a much more elegant solution than what Oculus has. The Oculus platform is gross, I don&#x27;t see any advantages to using it from the consumer side, as far as I can tell it only exists to lock people into a particular ecosystem.<p>I understand why they did it, similarly to Origin or the Epic Games Launcher, but seriously? Steam won. I find it incredibly frustrating having to futz around with other platforms. Do they seriously think that I&#x27;m going to add all my Steam friends on the Oculus platform? That&#x27;s ridiculous. I&#x27;m very doubtful that the platforms will get a userbase outside of the people who are FORCED to use them because they want a particular exclusive.<p>To top it all off it takes 3 USB ports to run the Oculus (4 if you want the controllers) vs the Vive&#x27;s one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Growing Rift Between Valve and Oculus</title><url>http://uploadvr.com/valve-shared-vr-oculus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cma</author><text>The worst part is Oculus sold customers on something more open than they delivered. Now if you buy from their store your purchases are locked to their headset, and if you ever buy anything else in the future.<p>Oculus&#x2F;Palmer said they didn&#x27;t care if you modded their games to work on third party headsets, just they weren&#x27;t going to provide support themselves; instead they went out and broke it intentionally.<p>&gt;If customers buy a game from us, I don&#x27;t care if they mod it to run on whatever they want. As I have said a million times (and counter to the current circlejerk), our goal is not to profit by locking people to only our hardware - if it was, why in the world would we be supporting GearVR and talking with other headset makers? The software we create through Oculus Studios (using a mix of internal and external developers) are exclusive to the Oculus platform, not the Rift itself. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;oculus&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3vl7qe&#x2F;palmer_luckey_on_twitterfun_fact_nintendo_doesnt&#x2F;cxr6rid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;oculus&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3vl7qe&#x2F;palmer_lucke...</a><p>&gt;As I already said in my first reply, I don&#x27;t care if people mod their games as long as they are buying them. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;oculus&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3vl7qe&#x2F;palmer_luckey_on_twitterfun_fact_nintendo_doesnt&#x2F;cxr935z" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;oculus&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3vl7qe&#x2F;palmer_lucke...</a><p>&gt;Glad there are some sane people out there. [said to someone saying it was only an issue of support] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Vive&#x2F;comments&#x2F;4etddh&#x2F;this_is_a_hack_and_we_dont_condone_it_oculus_on&#x2F;d24srvs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Vive&#x2F;comments&#x2F;4etddh&#x2F;this_is_a_hack...</a></text></comment> |
3,211,537 | 3,211,428 | 1 | 3 | 3,211,229 | train | <story><title>Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/gps-tracker-times-two/all</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ck2</author><text><i>He apparently came under surveillance after the FBI received a vague tip from someone who said Afifi might be a threat to national security.</i><p>Without exaggeration, this is exactly how innocent people, some of them teenagers, ended up in Gitmo (and are still there) via vague tips from people who didn't like their neighbors and decided to deal with it by reporting them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/gps-tracker-times-two/all</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DamnYuppie</author><text>I can't be the only one who finds this disturbing. I have no issue with the tracking devices or their use. What I find very concerning is that they do not require a warrant and there is no oversight as to their usage.</text></comment> |
11,841,729 | 11,841,886 | 1 | 2 | 11,841,604 | train | <story><title>Be warned, there's a nasty Google 2 factor auth attack going around</title><url>https://twitter.com/maccaw/status/739232334541524992</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ams6110</author><text>So the scam is, attacker knows your gmail address and your phone number. They send you the text message about suspicous activity on your account. Then they attempt to reset the password on your gmail account. That triggers Google to send you the code. You reply to the attacker&#x27;s message with the code as instructed, and they own your account.</text></comment> | <story><title>Be warned, there's a nasty Google 2 factor auth attack going around</title><url>https://twitter.com/maccaw/status/739232334541524992</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnTHaller</author><text>This isn&#x27;t a 2 factor attack. It&#x27;s a social engineering Google account password reset attack. The attacking party is resetting your Google password and asking you to provide the code Google sends your registered mobile number via text to them.</text></comment> |
31,471,382 | 31,470,255 | 1 | 2 | 31,468,303 | train | <story><title>How This Ends</title><url>https://avc.com/2022/05/how-this-ends-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text><i>&gt; I would be planning to ride this thing out for at least eighteen months or more.</i><p>I&#x27;m betting more like three to five years.<p>I was talking to a friend (another old guy, like me, but really rich, unlike me).<p>We&#x27;ve both been through at least two recessions (big, nasty ones, with teeth and claws). We realized that there&#x27;s an entire generation of folks; many running companies, that have never seen a real bear market.<p>It&#x27;s likely they are having a shit hemorrhage, right now.<p>The company I used to work for, was (still is) an over 100-year-old Japanese company. They lasted through a devastating war, a depression, multiple recessions, and were still around. I&#x27;m hoping that they stay around. They&#x27;ve made some choices that could be disastrous (I think that sidelining my team was one ;), but not the same kind a lot of companies are making now. Lots of people are leveraged to the hilt. Bad place to be, when the economy starts tanking.<p>HODL is the word. Live cheaply, so you don&#x27;t need to cash out in a trough. Don&#x27;t rely on other people&#x27;s money, keep debt <i>way</i> down, keep margins high, optimize processes, etc.<p>Old-fashioned stuff. It worked 100 years ago, and still works today.<p>Not everything old is bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsanek</author><text>&gt;there&#x27;s an entire generation of folks; many running companies, that have never seen a real bear market<p>If anything, this is a problem that is much less bad than it was in previous down markets.<p>&quot;7% of CEOs were younger than 50 years old at the end of 2018, compared with about 16% at the end of 2009.&quot; [0]<p>&quot;Data on S&amp;P 500 companies measured over the last two decades by executive recruiter Spencer Stuart shows a small but steady increase in the age of the CEO.&quot; [1]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ceos-under-50-are-a-rare-find-in-the-s-p-500-11558517401" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ceos-under-50-are-a-rare-find-i...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2021-11-30&#x2F;twitter-s-agrawal-is-now-youngest-ceo-in-s-p-500" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2021-11-30&#x2F;twitter-s...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How This Ends</title><url>https://avc.com/2022/05/how-this-ends-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text><i>&gt; I would be planning to ride this thing out for at least eighteen months or more.</i><p>I&#x27;m betting more like three to five years.<p>I was talking to a friend (another old guy, like me, but really rich, unlike me).<p>We&#x27;ve both been through at least two recessions (big, nasty ones, with teeth and claws). We realized that there&#x27;s an entire generation of folks; many running companies, that have never seen a real bear market.<p>It&#x27;s likely they are having a shit hemorrhage, right now.<p>The company I used to work for, was (still is) an over 100-year-old Japanese company. They lasted through a devastating war, a depression, multiple recessions, and were still around. I&#x27;m hoping that they stay around. They&#x27;ve made some choices that could be disastrous (I think that sidelining my team was one ;), but not the same kind a lot of companies are making now. Lots of people are leveraged to the hilt. Bad place to be, when the economy starts tanking.<p>HODL is the word. Live cheaply, so you don&#x27;t need to cash out in a trough. Don&#x27;t rely on other people&#x27;s money, keep debt <i>way</i> down, keep margins high, optimize processes, etc.<p>Old-fashioned stuff. It worked 100 years ago, and still works today.<p>Not everything old is bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eezurr</author><text>&gt;We realized that there&#x27;s an entire generation of folks; many running companies, that have never seen a real bear market.<p>This is true for every recession, so maybe rethink your friends logic.</text></comment> |
25,602,822 | 25,602,099 | 1 | 2 | 25,600,011 | train | <story><title>Best of HN 2020</title><url>https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1609415804&dateRange=custom&dateStart=1577836800&page=0&prefix=false&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=story</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>purplecats</author><text>im still puzzled by the seeming contradiction that sites can get ddosed from traffic from hacker news, yet the comment sections nor the average votes accumulation on posts seem to reflect the size of the community that such a traffic would warrant.</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>I&#x27;m happy to see that there&#x27;s a &quot;Thank you Dang&quot; in the top 20. He certainly deserves that praise... I am still amazed at how good this community is, despite having grown into a much larger one over the years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Thorentis</author><text>I love this part of it. On reddit, any comment I make is usually drowned out by noise and missed (unless I&#x27;m on a smaller or local subreddit or something). Here, I can genuinely engage in interesting discussions with people.</text></comment> | <story><title>Best of HN 2020</title><url>https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1609415804&dateRange=custom&dateStart=1577836800&page=0&prefix=false&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=story</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>purplecats</author><text>im still puzzled by the seeming contradiction that sites can get ddosed from traffic from hacker news, yet the comment sections nor the average votes accumulation on posts seem to reflect the size of the community that such a traffic would warrant.</text></item><item><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>I&#x27;m happy to see that there&#x27;s a &quot;Thank you Dang&quot; in the top 20. He certainly deserves that praise... I am still amazed at how good this community is, despite having grown into a much larger one over the years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trisiak</author><text>Pure speculation but could it be a network effect? I frequently visit websites that were shared by coworkers and friends over text communicators that they originally found on HN.<p>Obviously, not all people vote or comment either so that&#x27;s a second multiplicative factor.<p>Finally, causation != correlation, which most likely is your point, e.g. things on HN already spread from somewhere else.</text></comment> |
40,029,373 | 40,029,030 | 1 | 3 | 40,023,892 | train | <story><title>Old CSS, new CSS (2020)</title><url>https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sussmannbaka</author><text>Fast forward a few years and<p>&gt; &lt;H1&gt;&lt;FONT COLOR=red&gt;...&lt;&#x2F;FONT&gt;&lt;&#x2F;H1&gt; …every single goddamn time.<p>is in fashion again! Only now it’s called class=&quot;text-red-500&quot; :o)</text></comment> | <story><title>Old CSS, new CSS (2020)</title><url>https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>p4bl0</author><text>&gt; It [Firefox] was quick, it was simple, it was much more standard-compliant, and absolutely none of that mattered.<p>&gt;<p>&gt; No, Firefox really got a foothold because it had <i>tabs</i>.<p>The article doesn&#x27;t mention it but at this time, equally attractive along with tabs, was the pop-up blocker! Truly the first ad-blocker like thing. And it was awesome too :).</text></comment> |
30,848,016 | 30,845,960 | 1 | 2 | 30,842,511 | train | <story><title>Kaspersky is declared a US national security threat and is banned by the FCC</title><url>https://hothardware.com/news/kaspersky-declared-us-national-security-threat-banned-fcc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JabavuAdams</author><text>The problem is: how do you run a business that has offices and physical assets in Russia, without being at least partially beholden to the Russian government? They have demonstrated that they are not shy about using gangster tactics.<p>One could say that the same is true in the US, but I believe the degree matters. Although the US government and intelligence agencies will and do try to overreach, there is a strong legal and cultural tradition of exposing, resisting, and fighting these overreaches in the US. I don&#x27;t see that in Russia.<p>So, I would not be surprised to see the US strong-arming US companies, but they would do this with sham&#x2F;flimsy legal cover. The result of non-compliance would be at worst asset seizure and&#x2F;or imprisonment. Both of these can be examined and contested. I imagine that the penalty for non-compliance in the Russian system would max out at having an unfortunate accident. Gangsters all, but the level of gangsterism and possibilities for investigation&#x2F;redress matter.<p>All that said, I&#x27;m not a US citizen (although in a Five-Eyes country), so I do worry about using US-hosted services.</text></item><item><author>Maursault</author><text>Ok, let&#x27;s cut the crap. Is Kaspersky a dirtbag or not? I suspect not, but it is an unfortunate accident he was born in and runs his company from Russia, the government of which is a dirtbag, so, correct me if I am wrong, Kaspersky must be a dirtbag by association, but especially for discovering Stuxnet. Believable, but I think the real reasons Kaspersky is persona non grata is due to having discovered Stuxnet, and Kaspersky Lab suspected of uncovering secret US cyberweapons in the future.<p>I am a patriot, but even I don&#x27;t appreciate being lied to by my government. It would be good if the next best cyber security firm and software was half as good as Kaspersky&#x27;s. But I suspect not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PoignardAzur</author><text><i>&gt; One could say that the same is true in the US, but I believe the degree matters. Although the US government and intelligence agencies will and do try to overreach, there is a strong legal and cultural tradition of exposing, resisting, and fighting these overreaches in the US.</i><p>That point would be a lot stronger if the US government hadn&#x27;t demonstrated shocking callousness and disregard for international law in their efforts to catch notorious whistleblowers Snowden and Assange.<p>I remember when Belarus downed a plane to catch a political dissident and all western countries acted shocked, even though these countries had tried to do <i>the exact same thing</i> to Snowden on the US&#x27;s behalf, with a presidential plane no less.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kaspersky is declared a US national security threat and is banned by the FCC</title><url>https://hothardware.com/news/kaspersky-declared-us-national-security-threat-banned-fcc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JabavuAdams</author><text>The problem is: how do you run a business that has offices and physical assets in Russia, without being at least partially beholden to the Russian government? They have demonstrated that they are not shy about using gangster tactics.<p>One could say that the same is true in the US, but I believe the degree matters. Although the US government and intelligence agencies will and do try to overreach, there is a strong legal and cultural tradition of exposing, resisting, and fighting these overreaches in the US. I don&#x27;t see that in Russia.<p>So, I would not be surprised to see the US strong-arming US companies, but they would do this with sham&#x2F;flimsy legal cover. The result of non-compliance would be at worst asset seizure and&#x2F;or imprisonment. Both of these can be examined and contested. I imagine that the penalty for non-compliance in the Russian system would max out at having an unfortunate accident. Gangsters all, but the level of gangsterism and possibilities for investigation&#x2F;redress matter.<p>All that said, I&#x27;m not a US citizen (although in a Five-Eyes country), so I do worry about using US-hosted services.</text></item><item><author>Maursault</author><text>Ok, let&#x27;s cut the crap. Is Kaspersky a dirtbag or not? I suspect not, but it is an unfortunate accident he was born in and runs his company from Russia, the government of which is a dirtbag, so, correct me if I am wrong, Kaspersky must be a dirtbag by association, but especially for discovering Stuxnet. Believable, but I think the real reasons Kaspersky is persona non grata is due to having discovered Stuxnet, and Kaspersky Lab suspected of uncovering secret US cyberweapons in the future.<p>I am a patriot, but even I don&#x27;t appreciate being lied to by my government. It would be good if the next best cyber security firm and software was half as good as Kaspersky&#x27;s. But I suspect not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjevans</author><text>I live in the USA, therefore I need to consider it as part of my threat model mostly in the blunders &#x2F; withholding exploits (thanks CIA ~.~) senses. For everything else I try to vote informed and support a combination of the EFF, ACLU, and other organizations that can be better informed experts on the law and it&#x27;s applications.</text></comment> |
29,153,837 | 29,152,576 | 1 | 3 | 29,137,200 | train | <story><title>Zillow, Prophet, time series, and prices</title><url>https://ryxcommar.com/2021/11/06/zillow-prophet-time-series-and-prices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modriano</author><text>Median housing prices have been consistently rising [0] since Zillow started their property buying program in 2018. In their most recent earnings report, Zillow announced $422M in Q3 losses from their home buying program and expects $240M to $265M in losses for homes they plan to buy in Q4 [1]. Rising sale prices coupled with big losses implies Zillow has been systematically paying above-market rates for homes, and there&#x27;s a lot of evidence corroborating that hypothesis [2]. Maybe we&#x27;re near a peak in home prices, but prices haven&#x27;t started falling yet, and if Zillow was paying market rates, they wouldn&#x27;t be losing money yet.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;MSPUS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;MSPUS</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;investors.zillowgroup.com&#x2F;investors&#x2F;news-and-events&#x2F;news&#x2F;news-details&#x2F;2021&#x2F;Zillow-Group-Reports-Third-Quarter-2021-Financial-Results--Shares-Plan-to-Wind-Down-Zillow-Offers-Operations&#x2F;default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;investors.zillowgroup.com&#x2F;investors&#x2F;news-and-events&#x2F;...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;03&#x2F;zillow-house-flipping-overpaid-offers-unit-bank-of-ameria&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;03&#x2F;zillow-house-flipping-overpai...</a></text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>While there are some decent points in this post, it ignores another possibility for why Zillow Offers got shut down.<p>The first explanation, when it was just being paused, was that there was a shortage of labor and materials to do the renovating. Probably true, but not the real reason. It is entirely possible that the second explanation, that it was too hard to model accurately the price 6 months out, is also true but not the real reason.<p>The real reason might be something the Zillow CEO doesn&#x27;t want to say out loud. Like, we are near a top in house prices, and it looks like it might fall a lot, or for a long time, or both, before we get back to reasonable house prices that have a chance of going up again. Zillow does not want to say &quot;real estate is about to bust, as an investment strategy&quot;, because they are still tied to the real estate market. But, flawed as their analysis might have been, they might have been able to see enough to know that no matter how good their algorithm could be made, they&#x27;re not going to be able to buy low and sell high if the prices keep falling.<p>Now, maybe Zillow is wrong again, and housing is not in for a rough ride in the very near future. But maybe they&#x27;re not wrong, and shutting down Zillow Offers (rather than fixing it) will look like a quite prudent move in a year&#x27;s time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x3sphere</author><text>yeah where I live in AZ, Zillow overpaid massively for every home it purchased that I&#x27;ve seen. Like 15-20% over usual price.<p>And they&#x27;ve priced the homes they are selling quite a bit below what they bought them for already. Many aren&#x27;t moving too.<p>I&#x27;m not too sure why they just don&#x27;t hold onto the homes though. Even with the carrying costs, holding on would be profitable if market is to rise another 10%+ as some are predicting. The only reasonable explanation to me is that they are expecting a significant drop in 2022-2023, but maybe I&#x27;m wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zillow, Prophet, time series, and prices</title><url>https://ryxcommar.com/2021/11/06/zillow-prophet-time-series-and-prices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modriano</author><text>Median housing prices have been consistently rising [0] since Zillow started their property buying program in 2018. In their most recent earnings report, Zillow announced $422M in Q3 losses from their home buying program and expects $240M to $265M in losses for homes they plan to buy in Q4 [1]. Rising sale prices coupled with big losses implies Zillow has been systematically paying above-market rates for homes, and there&#x27;s a lot of evidence corroborating that hypothesis [2]. Maybe we&#x27;re near a peak in home prices, but prices haven&#x27;t started falling yet, and if Zillow was paying market rates, they wouldn&#x27;t be losing money yet.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;MSPUS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;MSPUS</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;investors.zillowgroup.com&#x2F;investors&#x2F;news-and-events&#x2F;news&#x2F;news-details&#x2F;2021&#x2F;Zillow-Group-Reports-Third-Quarter-2021-Financial-Results--Shares-Plan-to-Wind-Down-Zillow-Offers-Operations&#x2F;default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;investors.zillowgroup.com&#x2F;investors&#x2F;news-and-events&#x2F;...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;03&#x2F;zillow-house-flipping-overpaid-offers-unit-bank-of-ameria&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;11&#x2F;03&#x2F;zillow-house-flipping-overpai...</a></text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>While there are some decent points in this post, it ignores another possibility for why Zillow Offers got shut down.<p>The first explanation, when it was just being paused, was that there was a shortage of labor and materials to do the renovating. Probably true, but not the real reason. It is entirely possible that the second explanation, that it was too hard to model accurately the price 6 months out, is also true but not the real reason.<p>The real reason might be something the Zillow CEO doesn&#x27;t want to say out loud. Like, we are near a top in house prices, and it looks like it might fall a lot, or for a long time, or both, before we get back to reasonable house prices that have a chance of going up again. Zillow does not want to say &quot;real estate is about to bust, as an investment strategy&quot;, because they are still tied to the real estate market. But, flawed as their analysis might have been, they might have been able to see enough to know that no matter how good their algorithm could be made, they&#x27;re not going to be able to buy low and sell high if the prices keep falling.<p>Now, maybe Zillow is wrong again, and housing is not in for a rough ride in the very near future. But maybe they&#x27;re not wrong, and shutting down Zillow Offers (rather than fixing it) will look like a quite prudent move in a year&#x27;s time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ishjoh</author><text>Thanks for this well cited information. Here in the US we also have a strange habit of describing housing as national instead of local. Even during the housing bubble pop in 08&#x2F;09, there were some markets that were hit extremely hard like Las Vegas, and others that were barely impacted like Dallas.<p>I&#x27;m in a market that had insane growth over the last few years, and I am now seeing price cuts on lots of houses listed for sale.</text></comment> |
25,572,471 | 25,570,824 | 1 | 3 | 25,570,376 | train | <story><title>New U.S. Dietary Guidelines Reject Recommendation to Cut Sugar, Alcohol Intake</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-u-s-dietary-guidelines-reject-recommendation-to-cut-sugar-alcohol-intake-11609254000</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chlodwig</author><text>Many years ago I would have viewed an official government nutrition document as a credible source, and random blogs on the internet as a trash source of information. And I still believe one must be very sceptical of random blogs on the internet. Yet, most randos on the internet will at least cite their sources and explain their reasoning for all their decisions. But in the 150 pages long form document, I do not see sources cited or reasoning explained -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dietaryguidelines.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;2020-12&#x2F;Dietary_Guidelines_for_Americans_2020-2025.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dietaryguidelines.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;2020-1...</a> Is there some other source that explains their decision making process?<p>In particular, I would be really curious to know what the basis is for the guideline that saturated fats should be replaced by &quot;vegetable&quot; oils, and that &quot;saturated fat should be less than 10% of calories.&quot; I&#x27;ve looked at a lot of studies myself over the years, and find the evidence against seed oils to be much stronger than the evidence against saturated fat.</text></comment> | <story><title>New U.S. Dietary Guidelines Reject Recommendation to Cut Sugar, Alcohol Intake</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-u-s-dietary-guidelines-reject-recommendation-to-cut-sugar-alcohol-intake-11609254000</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nradov</author><text>There is no scientific evidence that publishing US federal government dietary guidelines has ever done anything to improve public health. This is a total boondoggle and waste of taxpayer money. The FDA and Congress should cancel the entire program.</text></comment> |
11,632,303 | 11,631,889 | 1 | 3 | 11,630,521 | train | <story><title>Life Lessons from a Lifestyle Business: Interview with founder of Metafilter</title><url>https://medium.com/strong-words/a-lifestyle-business-can-kill-you-2e45add4107f#.y9m3egtzf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>archildress</author><text>The stories he describes with the Google algorithm impacting his traffic (and subsequently, bottom line) is pretty scary.<p>A rephrased quote from Matt Cutts on an algorithm change cutting MetaFilter&#x27;s traffic:<p>&quot;Oh yeah, it never reversed. It should have. You were accidentally put in the bad pile.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Life Lessons from a Lifestyle Business: Interview with founder of Metafilter</title><url>https://medium.com/strong-words/a-lifestyle-business-can-kill-you-2e45add4107f#.y9m3egtzf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>slackstation</author><text>Two main takeaways here:<p>1. Community doesn&#x27;t scale well.<p>Reddit is a thimbleful of awesome floating in a bucket of shit. As I grow older, the best communities and sources online are small. I love watching youtube videos with less than a thousand views. My favorite sites and communities online I share selectively. They are so easily ruined. The magic is lost so easily (and by people who genuinely enthusiastic about things but, aren&#x27;t in the same mindset as the people already there).<p>2. The smart thing financially would have been to let the community die but, he didn&#x27;t and paid the price<p>Maybe it&#x27;s just the internet changing but, he arguably should have just let it die (or rather change into what Reddit eventually became). Metafilter, SomethingAweful, 4Chan and Reddit all suffer from the reality of very few people creating and the vast majority consuming.</text></comment> |
39,436,211 | 39,436,081 | 1 | 2 | 39,435,397 | train | <story><title>Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox</title><url>https://github.com/XboxDev/endgame-exploit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>In many ways I think it is really quite sad that we&#x27;re at a point where blown e-fuses, encrypted everything and properly done public&#x2F;private key crypto means that it&#x27;s entirely possible that next generation of consoles really might actually be unhackable and unbackupable, barring some tiny bootloader exploit, cheap TEM and an understanding of &quot;physically uncloneable functions&quot;, or cheap and plentiful qubits.<p>Things like this are just cool, prevent e-waste, and preserve cultural heritage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>auguzanellato</author><text>&gt; In many ways I think it is really quite sad that we&#x27;re at a point where blown e-fuses, encrypted everything and properly done public&#x2F;private key crypto means that it&#x27;s entirely possible that next generation of consoles really might actually be unhackable<p>Pirates will always find a way, the Nintendo Switch had all the countermeasures you mentioned, the latest revisions also have a patched bootloader but someone figured out that they could still boot a custom firmware via power fault injection on the SoC.</text></comment> | <story><title>Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox</title><url>https://github.com/XboxDev/endgame-exploit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>In many ways I think it is really quite sad that we&#x27;re at a point where blown e-fuses, encrypted everything and properly done public&#x2F;private key crypto means that it&#x27;s entirely possible that next generation of consoles really might actually be unhackable and unbackupable, barring some tiny bootloader exploit, cheap TEM and an understanding of &quot;physically uncloneable functions&quot;, or cheap and plentiful qubits.<p>Things like this are just cool, prevent e-waste, and preserve cultural heritage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rusk</author><text>it saddens me as a vintage games conservator that my present day PS4 will be a brick in a few years. When I have consoles and games going back 40 years. It just doesn’t seem right.</text></comment> |
37,284,682 | 37,284,744 | 1 | 2 | 37,283,860 | train | <story><title>Where do fonts come from? Monotype, mostly</title><url>https://thehustle.co/where-do-fonts-come-from/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>How come these old typefaces like Helvetica and Gill Sans not in the public domain? The article mentions Helvetica being rolled in with one of Monotype’s purchases yet Helvetica is from the 1940s?<p>Hard copies of Shakespeare have individual copyright because of their unique prefaces. Are these typefaces in copyright still because of the individual numerical descriptions being the work under protection, rather than the actual shape?<p>Is it something similar to
How X’s recording of Bach’s Y concerto with The Z Ensemble is in copyright, but the musical score itself is in the public domain?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pakyr</author><text>It looks like[0] as of the start of this year, only works made in 1927 or earlier are in the public domain. Copyright terms have regularly been extended by Congress and they are astoundingly long now.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copyrightlately.com&#x2F;public-domain-day-2023&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;copyrightlately.com&#x2F;public-domain-day-2023&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Where do fonts come from? Monotype, mostly</title><url>https://thehustle.co/where-do-fonts-come-from/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>How come these old typefaces like Helvetica and Gill Sans not in the public domain? The article mentions Helvetica being rolled in with one of Monotype’s purchases yet Helvetica is from the 1940s?<p>Hard copies of Shakespeare have individual copyright because of their unique prefaces. Are these typefaces in copyright still because of the individual numerical descriptions being the work under protection, rather than the actual shape?<p>Is it something similar to
How X’s recording of Bach’s Y concerto with The Z Ensemble is in copyright, but the musical score itself is in the public domain?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asmor</author><text>Because you&#x27;re not buying Helvetica, but a digital variant of it. It&#x27;s like a performance of classical music. Also Helvetica specifically is from 1957, so it may not in the public domain yet (depending on location).<p>There are actually several variants all named Helvetica, which is why it&#x27;s a really bad font to put into your CSS font stack if you&#x27;re not delivering it yourself. Newer variants tend to use other names (e.g. Neue Haas Grotesk).</text></comment> |
31,642,113 | 31,642,481 | 1 | 3 | 31,636,246 | train | <story><title>Scientists Discover Ways of Making Old Blood New Again</title><url>https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/scientists-discover-ways-of-making-old-blood-new-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swader999</author><text>It&#x27;s so much easier just to harvest the blood from young children.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bpodgursky</author><text>If the young were very well-compensated for the inconvenience I don&#x27;t actually have a huge problem with this kind of reverse wealth transfer. Try to balance the scales of the social security and housing market wealth extraction which is (in a metaphorical but more meaningful sense) bleeding the young dry.<p>Giving blood isn&#x27;t really a big deal for a healthy person.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scientists Discover Ways of Making Old Blood New Again</title><url>https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/scientists-discover-ways-of-making-old-blood-new-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swader999</author><text>It&#x27;s so much easier just to harvest the blood from young children.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klipt</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;5KO2IjWI9fA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;5KO2IjWI9fA</a></text></comment> |
4,138,768 | 4,138,091 | 1 | 3 | 4,137,083 | train | <story><title>FunnyJunk lawyer to subpoena Twitter, Ars Technica</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/doubling-down-funnyjunk-lawyer-to-subpoena-ars-twitter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grellas</author><text>If I am a boxing manager sitting at the corner of the ring to encourage my guy during the fight, I don't do him a good service by leaping into it and taking wild swings at the opposing fighter, or at the ref, or at any crazy person from the crowd who also happens to want to jump in spoiling for a brawl. The result in such a case is not likely to bode well for either me or my fighter and I stand a good chance of being made to look ridiculous in the process.<p>In a sense, like the manager above, Mr. Carreon has thrown himself personally into a fight that was not his fight but that of his client. He has made it personal and now finds himself suing in spray-gun fashion hoping to hit the nearest target connected with the events, whether the law supports him strongly, feebly, or perhaps not at all - all the while standing forth in a public spotlight that magnifies his every action whether good, bad, or indifferent. There is no winning for him in that situation, whatever the merits of his claims.<p>The most valuable asset of a lawyer is his reputation. I won't presume to tell Mr. Carreon how best to defend his but, whatever else he does, he needs to be very careful not to exacerbate a situation that already is very difficult for him. Whatever wrong may have been done to him, the solution does not lie in a lawsuit of the type that has been filed here.</text></comment> | <story><title>FunnyJunk lawyer to subpoena Twitter, Ars Technica</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/doubling-down-funnyjunk-lawyer-to-subpoena-ars-twitter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chime</author><text>While I'm on the side of TheOatMeal on this one, I wouldn't be so quick to defend someone signing up as @Charles_Carreon on Twitter. That person impersonated the lawyer during a very sensitive time and negatively changed public view, even if later Twitter suspended the account. It's not parody, it's impersonation.<p>I can't create a fake account 'pg[invisible-unicode-character]' here and start posting things like "I wish dhouston would just sell Dropbox to Apple already." That's not acceptable, regardless of whether the person being impersonated is loved or hated by all.</text></comment> |
39,144,919 | 39,143,573 | 1 | 2 | 39,143,054 | train | <story><title>WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters</title><url>https://wasmcloud.com/blog/wasi-preview-2-officially-launches</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andoband</author><text>Another good write-up which gives more context to this release, and it touches on POSIX in relation to the component model.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.sunfishcode.online&#x2F;wasi-preview2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.sunfishcode.online&#x2F;wasi-preview2&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters</title><url>https://wasmcloud.com/blog/wasi-preview-2-officially-launches</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ilaksh</author><text>That&#x27;s amazing to see those things in WASI finally.<p>But they also mention components. Does that mean components are part of the web assembly standard now?<p>And am I correct in assuming that components are an option for projects where the functionality of WASI still isn&#x27;t adequate?</text></comment> |
18,688,386 | 18,687,246 | 1 | 2 | 18,680,052 | train | <story><title>Could Microsoft release a desktop Linux?</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-linux-lindows-could-microsoft-release-a-desktop-linux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geofft</author><text>&gt; <i>In addition, for several years now, Microsoft&#x27;s WSL developers have been working on mapping Linux API calls to Windows and vice-versa. A lot of the work needed for Windows apps to run without modification on Linux has already been done.</i><p>This argument makes little sense: that &quot;vice versa&quot; is wholly unsubstantiated and without it the rest collapses. Making Linux binaries work on NT (which already <i>has</i> a subsystem concept; Interix proved that this could be done) in a way where they interact little with the Windows desktop, and making not just NT binaries but <i>Win32</i> binaries work smoothly on Linux, are almost entirely unrelated problems.<p>It is true that MS owns the code necessary to make this happen, that WINE is an existence proof that it can be done shockingly well even without that code, and that there is both code and expertise at MS for stuffing Linux concepts and NT concepts in the same kernel. But that&#x27;s about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Joeri</author><text>On the other hand, Microsoft has been trying for years to get developers off win32 and onto .NET. Windows S mode was an experiment where they didn&#x27;t support win32 at all. Much of .NET is already open source. One could argue they are ready to make a .NET shell around a linux kernel and ship MS Linux.<p>But ... why would they? The only reasoning I can see is if they could stop maintaining the windows kernel, like how the move to chromium means they have one less thing to maintain. But they have to keep maintaining it for all those enterprise windows deployments which are tied hard to win32 apps. So I think there&#x27;s nothing here but clickbait. And yes, I clicked.</text></comment> | <story><title>Could Microsoft release a desktop Linux?</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-linux-lindows-could-microsoft-release-a-desktop-linux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geofft</author><text>&gt; <i>In addition, for several years now, Microsoft&#x27;s WSL developers have been working on mapping Linux API calls to Windows and vice-versa. A lot of the work needed for Windows apps to run without modification on Linux has already been done.</i><p>This argument makes little sense: that &quot;vice versa&quot; is wholly unsubstantiated and without it the rest collapses. Making Linux binaries work on NT (which already <i>has</i> a subsystem concept; Interix proved that this could be done) in a way where they interact little with the Windows desktop, and making not just NT binaries but <i>Win32</i> binaries work smoothly on Linux, are almost entirely unrelated problems.<p>It is true that MS owns the code necessary to make this happen, that WINE is an existence proof that it can be done shockingly well even without that code, and that there is both code and expertise at MS for stuffing Linux concepts and NT concepts in the same kernel. But that&#x27;s about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>halbritt</author><text>The existence of MSSQL-Linux is proof that Microsoft can get this done. The story is pretty interesting:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloudblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;sqlserver&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;16&#x2F;sql-server-on-linux-how-introduction&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloudblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;sqlserver&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;16&#x2F;sql-se...</a></text></comment> |
24,359,042 | 24,357,740 | 1 | 3 | 24,356,741 | train | <story><title>Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/02/court-rules-nsa-phone-snooping-illegal-407727</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ncmncm</author><text>Now, when can we begin prosecuting the instigators? Presumably, after we have prosecuted those who ordered and participated in torture. (There is no statute of limitations on torture, is there?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lehi</author><text>A reminder that a CIA officer who oversaw, ordered, and participated in systematic detainee torture, then wrote the order to destroy the evidential tapes of said torture, was not only not punished or prosecuted but promoted to the current Director of the agency.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2005_CIA_interrogation_videotapes_destruction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2005_CIA_interrogation_videota...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gina_Haspel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gina_Haspel</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/02/court-rules-nsa-phone-snooping-illegal-407727</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ncmncm</author><text>Now, when can we begin prosecuting the instigators? Presumably, after we have prosecuted those who ordered and participated in torture. (There is no statute of limitations on torture, is there?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chard_slicks_</author><text>Will Clapper&#x27;s perjury ever be punished?</text></comment> |
32,939,659 | 32,939,185 | 1 | 2 | 32,937,710 | train | <story><title>Facebook sued for skirting Apple privacy rules to snoop on users</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-22/meta-sued-for-skirting-apple-privacy-rules-to-snoop-on-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshstrange</author><text>Yes, I understand why Apple doesn&#x27;t pull FB&#x2F;IG&#x2F;WA&#x2F;Uber&#x2F;etc but as a smaller developer it&#x27;s incredibly frustrating to have the full rules applied to me but not the big players.<p>A week or two ago I had to fight with app review over some functionality that was behind a login screen (they thought it should be public, I disagreed) and for my pre-permission-request screens (you know, the screen almost every app shows before firing the system prompt). Turns out you can have that screen but you can&#x27;t ask a question on that screen or offer a way to dismiss and not get the system dialog. That was news to me since I had seen countless &quot;Do you want to enable push notifications (yes|no)?&quot; screens in top apps but that rule has changed and no longer allows you to pre-ask. I complied but the very next day I opened an app from a billion dollar company and I got a pre-ask that I was able to dismiss without popping the system dialog. wtf...<p>Why am I expected to bend over backwards for app review when these serial abusers get a free pass (no ban AND they can do things smaller apps get slapped down for)?<p>I know the answer is &quot;money&quot; but I fucking hate it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toast0</author><text>&gt; but that rule has changed and no longer allows you to pre-ask. I complied but the very next day I opened an app from a billion dollar company and I got a pre-ask that I was able to dismiss without popping the system dialog. wtf...<p>Apple enforcement on rule changes has several different options:<p>a) only applied to new apps<p>b) only applied on next app submission<p>c) app will be removed on date unless it&#x27;s fixed<p>This sort of change seems likely to be in category A, and then over time will be in category B and eventually the billion dollar apps will get an update denied until they fix it. They may drag their feet a little or a lot first.<p>Some of the subjective review things will get flagged only sometimes, so you might get through if you resubmit with no changes, or if you only address some of the requests. Inconsistent enforcement is frustrating, of course.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook sued for skirting Apple privacy rules to snoop on users</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-22/meta-sued-for-skirting-apple-privacy-rules-to-snoop-on-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshstrange</author><text>Yes, I understand why Apple doesn&#x27;t pull FB&#x2F;IG&#x2F;WA&#x2F;Uber&#x2F;etc but as a smaller developer it&#x27;s incredibly frustrating to have the full rules applied to me but not the big players.<p>A week or two ago I had to fight with app review over some functionality that was behind a login screen (they thought it should be public, I disagreed) and for my pre-permission-request screens (you know, the screen almost every app shows before firing the system prompt). Turns out you can have that screen but you can&#x27;t ask a question on that screen or offer a way to dismiss and not get the system dialog. That was news to me since I had seen countless &quot;Do you want to enable push notifications (yes|no)?&quot; screens in top apps but that rule has changed and no longer allows you to pre-ask. I complied but the very next day I opened an app from a billion dollar company and I got a pre-ask that I was able to dismiss without popping the system dialog. wtf...<p>Why am I expected to bend over backwards for app review when these serial abusers get a free pass (no ban AND they can do things smaller apps get slapped down for)?<p>I know the answer is &quot;money&quot; but I fucking hate it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cageface</author><text>My life has improved immeasurably since I gave up iOS dev and went back to the web. My baseline frustration level is so much lower.</text></comment> |
39,267,316 | 39,267,346 | 1 | 2 | 39,266,396 | train | <story><title>Relativistic Spaceship</title><url>https://dmytry.github.io/space/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlexAndScripts</author><text>I suppose you would also have to worry about surviving the trip - every atom in the interstellar medium would damage your ship, likely penetrating the entire way through, and electromagnetic repulsion would only work with charged particles.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Great visualization of the unintuitive nature of special relativity. It&#x27;s kind of mind blowing to realize that if we could accelerate our spaceship at a mere 1G continuously, we could visit the center of the Milky Way in under 20 years (spaceship time), totally do-able in a human lifespan. Of course 27900 years would have passed on Earth, so you wouldn&#x27;t be able to tell anyone about your vacation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MilStdJunkie</author><text>Every proton would have the energy of a baseball. It&#x27;s bananas. Granted, space is <i>really</i> empty, but it&#x27;s not <i>that</i> empty, somewhere around a hundred atoms per cubic meter. Your ship might look like a very, very long shooting star. Probably dialing the speed down a touch would be worth it for whatever your shielding material is, but who knows? We&#x27;re talking miracle engines here. I think in the &quot;Valkyrie&quot; ship-on-a-string concept, they had some sort of magnetic thingummy that generated more power as more stuff smacked into it, then as they decelerated they let out this sort of gas mist to go ahead of the ship and smack into things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Relativistic Spaceship</title><url>https://dmytry.github.io/space/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlexAndScripts</author><text>I suppose you would also have to worry about surviving the trip - every atom in the interstellar medium would damage your ship, likely penetrating the entire way through, and electromagnetic repulsion would only work with charged particles.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Great visualization of the unintuitive nature of special relativity. It&#x27;s kind of mind blowing to realize that if we could accelerate our spaceship at a mere 1G continuously, we could visit the center of the Milky Way in under 20 years (spaceship time), totally do-able in a human lifespan. Of course 27900 years would have passed on Earth, so you wouldn&#x27;t be able to tell anyone about your vacation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perardi</author><text>Unless you could somehow make an Alcubierre warp drive.<p>Of course…even if that was possible, it’s conjectured that the colonists already at your destination won’t appreciate you boiling the atmosphere when you hit them with blue shifted radiation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.universetoday.com&#x2F;93882&#x2F;warp-drives-may-come-with-a-killer-downside&#x2F;#ixzz2FaZsXDuM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.universetoday.com&#x2F;93882&#x2F;warp-drives-may-come-wit...</a></text></comment> |
29,913,648 | 29,912,455 | 1 | 3 | 29,910,710 | train | <story><title>Great AA Alkaline Battery Test (2016)</title><url>https://goughlui.com/2016/12/19/great-aa-alkaline-battery-test-pt-1-battery-testing-fundamentals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dragontamer</author><text>I think the main issue with AA Alkaline is the proliferation of cheap low-self-discharge NiMH cells (aka: Eneloop, but also Energizer and other brands have good LSD NiMH available).<p>A huge number of appliances seem to be designed for the 1.35V NiMH chemistry now. Perhaps a random TV-remote still prefers Alkaline but most seem to work fine with NiMH.<p>-----<p>Buying a pack of 20 NiMH cells and rotating your collection between charging &#x2F; discharging states is cheap enough and effective. Its like you have &quot;infinite&quot; AAs since you can just keep recharging them.<p>EDIT: A few years ago, Alkaline was still needed for TV remotes. But most Low-self-discharge NiMH now lasts for over a year without self-discharging away. Sure, not as good as Alkaline&#x27;s 10-year life span but surely 1+ year lifespans is good enough for your TV remote? Its not that big of a hassle to reach recharge your NiMH once a year is it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djrogers</author><text>That works well until you have kids running around... You going to put rechargeable cells in that Elena of Avalor wand your 4 year old chases the dog with? And her talking unicorn? How about all the light sabers?<p>In my experience, most of those types of toys don&#x27;t go through batteries fast enough to justify a NiMH - they&#x27;d be in there for years. Invariably one of the kids will wind up mixing NiMH&#x2F;LiIon&#x2F;Alkaline in a toy, then the rechargeable winds up in the recycling bin a year later.<p>Fast forward 3 years, and your &quot;infinite&quot; AAs are all gone, lost, or in near-permanent use somewhere you can never identify, and you&#x27;ve wasted all that money.<p>In a few years when the kids move out and, and the number of battery powered gizmos is down to a manageable number, I&#x27;ll try it again - until then, Amazon Basics AAA&#x2F;AA are my friend.</text></comment> | <story><title>Great AA Alkaline Battery Test (2016)</title><url>https://goughlui.com/2016/12/19/great-aa-alkaline-battery-test-pt-1-battery-testing-fundamentals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dragontamer</author><text>I think the main issue with AA Alkaline is the proliferation of cheap low-self-discharge NiMH cells (aka: Eneloop, but also Energizer and other brands have good LSD NiMH available).<p>A huge number of appliances seem to be designed for the 1.35V NiMH chemistry now. Perhaps a random TV-remote still prefers Alkaline but most seem to work fine with NiMH.<p>-----<p>Buying a pack of 20 NiMH cells and rotating your collection between charging &#x2F; discharging states is cheap enough and effective. Its like you have &quot;infinite&quot; AAs since you can just keep recharging them.<p>EDIT: A few years ago, Alkaline was still needed for TV remotes. But most Low-self-discharge NiMH now lasts for over a year without self-discharging away. Sure, not as good as Alkaline&#x27;s 10-year life span but surely 1+ year lifespans is good enough for your TV remote? Its not that big of a hassle to reach recharge your NiMH once a year is it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zwieback</author><text>I agree, rotating collection of charged cells is the way to go but:<p>- need to establish a system of keeping track what&#x27;s charged<p>- train family to participate<p>- train family to stop buying alkaline (mainly because in the
alkaline recycling process you&#x27;ll lose a lot of your eneloops)<p>- grow immunity against complaints from family</text></comment> |
17,393,019 | 17,392,691 | 1 | 3 | 17,391,580 | train | <story><title>Notes on Discrete Mathematics (2017) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/classes/202/notes.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimhefferon</author><text>&gt; Why do most introductory math textbooks not contain solutions?<p>I offer a couple of Free texts, one of which is pretty popular (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joshua.smcvt.edu&#x2F;linearalgebra&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joshua.smcvt.edu&#x2F;linearalgebra&#x2F;</a>). The answers, completely step-by-step solved, are available. I can give you two reasons.<p>1) Preparing good questions and giving answers is about half the work. On my page you&#x27;ll see that the book is 500 pages and the answers are 400 pages.<p>And it is not the half that is fun, or that gets you credit. I find that compiling the answers greatly increases the quality of the book because I keep going back and adjusting the presentation, etc. But others don&#x27;t think that. Rather the opposite; I have been told that it is work only appropriate for grad students.<p>2) I have gotten a fair number of emails along the lines of &quot;I&#x27;d like to adopt your book but since anyone can download the answers, I cannot teach out of it.&quot;<p>It has not in the past proven to be a fruitful strategy for me to inform the email writer that the first thing any 2018 undergrad does on getting a text asignment is to google for the answers pdf, and that those students always succeed.<p>So one reason to not provide answers is to get more adoptions. This ties in with (1) because my five year reviews are not impressed that random self-learners find the text useful. They ask about adoptions.</text></item><item><author>learner_</author><text>Why do most introductory math textbooks not contain solutions? How can a self-learner without access to a university or professor check their work?<p>The common answer I get is solutions &quot;rob&quot; the student of learning. Why should the fear of the lazy student cheat those that actually attempt their work and want to see if their solution is correct?<p>Additionally, I heard the argument that &quot;you should know&quot; if your solutions are correct. A beginner is probably prone to subtle mistakes and may think their reasoning is rational. Thus they are probably unaware of any subtle logic errors and could easily fool themselves into thinking their proofs are correct.<p>Is it partially laziness from the authors in creating new problems for homeworks&#x2F;exams? Or do people think a literal beginner in math can be their own proof checker?<p>I wouldn&#x27;t want a beginner programmer writing &quot;production ready&quot; code without code review, so why should we expect a beginner math student to write error free proofs? What is the point in not allowing solutions?<p>As great as these text may be, I couldn&#x27;t and wouldn&#x27;t recommend them for the beginner. These text seem to be designed solely for a classroom where students will get assistance and feedback from TAs and professors. They seem useless for a beginner to learn on their own without outside proof checking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_zax2</author><text>Disclaimer: I have studied linear algebra with your book. Thank you for writing it. Special thanks for making it completely free and open-source.<p><i>I have gotten a fair number of emails along the lines of &quot;I&#x27;d like to adopt your book but since anyone can download the answers, I cannot teach out of it.&quot;</i><p>When we had an introductory course in linear algebra, we were not given any home assignments. Instead, we were told that if we want to train and exercise some concepts, we should find third-party materials and self-study -- and so, I used your book. I really like that approach, it allows more capable students to do whatever they like instead, and to less capable -- work on it, if needed. Thus, I don&#x27;t understand the rationale of not teaching out of something that contains solved exercises, because there is no reason to assign <i>mandatory</i> exercises in the first place. It&#x27;s enough to have tests.<p>And of course, such books are extremely valuable for non-mainstream (that is, not enrolled into a high school or wherever) audience, which can be smaller, but has more impact regarding feedback.</text></comment> | <story><title>Notes on Discrete Mathematics (2017) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/classes/202/notes.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimhefferon</author><text>&gt; Why do most introductory math textbooks not contain solutions?<p>I offer a couple of Free texts, one of which is pretty popular (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joshua.smcvt.edu&#x2F;linearalgebra&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joshua.smcvt.edu&#x2F;linearalgebra&#x2F;</a>). The answers, completely step-by-step solved, are available. I can give you two reasons.<p>1) Preparing good questions and giving answers is about half the work. On my page you&#x27;ll see that the book is 500 pages and the answers are 400 pages.<p>And it is not the half that is fun, or that gets you credit. I find that compiling the answers greatly increases the quality of the book because I keep going back and adjusting the presentation, etc. But others don&#x27;t think that. Rather the opposite; I have been told that it is work only appropriate for grad students.<p>2) I have gotten a fair number of emails along the lines of &quot;I&#x27;d like to adopt your book but since anyone can download the answers, I cannot teach out of it.&quot;<p>It has not in the past proven to be a fruitful strategy for me to inform the email writer that the first thing any 2018 undergrad does on getting a text asignment is to google for the answers pdf, and that those students always succeed.<p>So one reason to not provide answers is to get more adoptions. This ties in with (1) because my five year reviews are not impressed that random self-learners find the text useful. They ask about adoptions.</text></item><item><author>learner_</author><text>Why do most introductory math textbooks not contain solutions? How can a self-learner without access to a university or professor check their work?<p>The common answer I get is solutions &quot;rob&quot; the student of learning. Why should the fear of the lazy student cheat those that actually attempt their work and want to see if their solution is correct?<p>Additionally, I heard the argument that &quot;you should know&quot; if your solutions are correct. A beginner is probably prone to subtle mistakes and may think their reasoning is rational. Thus they are probably unaware of any subtle logic errors and could easily fool themselves into thinking their proofs are correct.<p>Is it partially laziness from the authors in creating new problems for homeworks&#x2F;exams? Or do people think a literal beginner in math can be their own proof checker?<p>I wouldn&#x27;t want a beginner programmer writing &quot;production ready&quot; code without code review, so why should we expect a beginner math student to write error free proofs? What is the point in not allowing solutions?<p>As great as these text may be, I couldn&#x27;t and wouldn&#x27;t recommend them for the beginner. These text seem to be designed solely for a classroom where students will get assistance and feedback from TAs and professors. They seem useless for a beginner to learn on their own without outside proof checking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>learner_</author><text>Thank you for writing this book and providing it as a free resource for the audience that I have in mind. I downloaded your book and plan to work through it in its entirety. Coincidentally I am studying linear algebra, so this is a perfect resource for me. The coverage of your material looks very good, so I am excited to work through it.</text></comment> |
39,465,439 | 39,461,215 | 1 | 2 | 39,447,024 | train | <story><title>ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes largest fab tool maker</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/asml-dethrones-applied-materials-becomes-worlds-largest-fab-tool-maker-analyst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lnxg33k1</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived in NL for a while, few years, changed few companies, it&#x27;s a place where processes are more important than actual code quality, where people stay in the same job for 10-15 years and everything below that is seen as a bad thing, people is hired for the culture primarily, having awareness of software principles is really worthless. I ran away as the last company I interviewed with, after solving a coding puzzle in 30 seconds, finishing in 15 mins something which had to take 45 mins, asked &quot;Are you available to come at the office on Friday for company parties?&quot;. So I can only have nightmares about software practices in NL companies<p>I&#x27;ve seen files with 13k lines of if&#x2F;else&#x2F;switch, how do you test that shit .-.</text></item><item><author>nn3</author><text>Relevant HN comment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18463181">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18463181</a><p>Apparently their software development processes are terrible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smooc</author><text>I&#x27;m a hiring manager in the Netherlands. I would be happy that you ran away, because you would not have passed the bar.<p>The hiring process I like to have in place is:<p>1. HR Interview: see if there is a fit with the company
2. Skill check. Do you have the problem solving, hard skills and communication skills needed for the job.
3. Team fit. Do you like to drink a beer (or non alcoholic) with us and we with you. Can you hold a conversation about something else than work.<p>6 people are involved. 2 per step. Everyone has a veto. I as a manager do not have special power. I&#x27;ve had people fail most of the time on #3. E.g. a guy that did not talk the woman of the team. She veto-ed. We were really looking for his skills, but he was a jerk.<p>I don&#x27;t think you would have passed #3 either. You can have l33t coding skills, but if you cannot make it work in a team it is basically useless for anything of size.</text></comment> | <story><title>ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes largest fab tool maker</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/asml-dethrones-applied-materials-becomes-worlds-largest-fab-tool-maker-analyst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lnxg33k1</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived in NL for a while, few years, changed few companies, it&#x27;s a place where processes are more important than actual code quality, where people stay in the same job for 10-15 years and everything below that is seen as a bad thing, people is hired for the culture primarily, having awareness of software principles is really worthless. I ran away as the last company I interviewed with, after solving a coding puzzle in 30 seconds, finishing in 15 mins something which had to take 45 mins, asked &quot;Are you available to come at the office on Friday for company parties?&quot;. So I can only have nightmares about software practices in NL companies<p>I&#x27;ve seen files with 13k lines of if&#x2F;else&#x2F;switch, how do you test that shit .-.</text></item><item><author>nn3</author><text>Relevant HN comment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18463181">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18463181</a><p>Apparently their software development processes are terrible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrtksn</author><text>Good thing that soon all the software would be written by AI then.<p>Slightly kidding, but only slightly because I kind of agree with the idea that people shouldn&#x27;t be writing software but designing systems. All this big talks about unit testing, management styles etc. and at the end we have this software all around with huge security holes and terrible bugs. Maybe the people partying on Fridays right after pushing untested code to production are having it right. Their machines work.</text></comment> |
32,557,429 | 32,556,849 | 1 | 2 | 32,555,533 | train | <story><title>Reflections on my time in Y Combinator</title><url>https://chrisfrantz.com/reflections-on-my-time-in-y-combinator/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alixanderwang</author><text><i>We could easily have slammed together off the shelf components and potentially grown at a similar rate. Also potentially not, sales is hard!</i><p><i>Seeing founders with less care for detail and more for the sheer growth of their user base was impressive and deflating.</i><p><i>It felt like everyone I compared myself to, they were devoting 90% of their time to selling and 10% to building.</i><p>I share the feeling. There&#x27;s success stories of companies doing the same (e.g. Notion, Replit), so I know it&#x27;s not completely off-book, but I constantly wonder whether there is downside to that approach of focusing on sales in the beginning. I can guess things like less likely to be innovative, but is that true? Maybe since they average being alive longer than the ones that focused on product in the beginning, any potential downsides are negated in the long term (e.g. just innovate later with the infinite runway they now have). Would love to see some study&#x2F;survey on this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reflections on my time in Y Combinator</title><url>https://chrisfrantz.com/reflections-on-my-time-in-y-combinator/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>swyx</author><text>this was a great ad for YC :)<p>i think where people are more borderline is if they can raise at a decent seed valuation elsewhere already (eg based on existing revenue or prior reputation&#x2F;technology being far more established).<p>It&#x27;s well understood that YC has some value add. So the fun question is - what is the valuation you can raise at which it does NOT make sense to enter YC?<p>YC values you at ~2m when they invest (120k divided by 7%, 380k MFN SAFE aside). Lets say you come out of it worth $10-20m on average. Maybe the connections and other stuff gives you value worth $5-10m. so if your business is valued above 15-30m you should consider NOT going into YC.<p>Is that a good way to think about it? any of these numbers you would change?</text></comment> |
8,538,815 | 8,538,967 | 1 | 3 | 8,538,813 | train | <story><title>Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source apps</title><url>https://github.com/seven1m/do-install-button</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timmorgan</author><text>Hey everybody. I built this small Sinatra app because I wanted a simpler way for people to install my software OneBody[1] on DigitalOcean.<p>I&#x27;m not sure my little VPS will hold up under the strain of HN, but you can see the app in action at <a href="http://installer.71m.us" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;installer.71m.us</a> and even use it to install itself (how meta!) on DigitalOcean.<p>This uses the new MetaData[2] feature of the DO API to pass a config string to be processed by CloudConfig[3].<p>Once that is done, there is a small bit of code running on the VM to tell this app when the install is finished so you get a progress bar while you&#x27;re waiting.<p>To be clear, DigitalOcean is doing all the real work -- this app simply acts as a hand-off between your app.yml config file on GitHub and the DigitalOcean API.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/churchio/onebody" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;churchio&#x2F;onebody</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-droplet-metadata" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitalocean.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;an-introduc...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-cloud-config-scripting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitalocean.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;an-introduc...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source apps</title><url>https://github.com/seven1m/do-install-button</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>swanson</author><text>I&#x27;d be interested in adding this button once it gets offical support from DigitalOcean.<p>I added the Heroku Button[1] to a self-hosted OS app I wrote[2] and it seems to be useful (over 100 &quot;recent deploys&quot; per Heroku). It would be great if there was some affiliate commission as well - if someone signs up for a VPS to run an app, would be awesome to get a small kickback from DigitalOcean.<p>[1]: <a href="https://buttons.heroku.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buttons.heroku.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/swanson/stringer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;swanson&#x2F;stringer</a></text></comment> |
19,902,115 | 19,902,142 | 1 | 3 | 19,901,318 | train | <story><title>The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive from his teacher Gerard O’Neill</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/05/space-colony-design-jeff-bezos-blue-origin-oneill-colonies/589294/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>Let&#x27;s see...<p>Getting resources from the moon seems out-of-date these days because the moon is far away in terms of energy even if it is close in distance. Getting resources from asteroids makes more sense.<p>As for Reagan and Thatcher I don&#x27;t see either one as oriented toward growth, but rather oriented towards a &quot;war against inflation&quot; that involved higher interest rates, austerity, and tolerance for a lower rate of GDP growth so long as the pain was felt by the middle and below. Reagan might have had sharper rhetoric against environmentalism, but the movement did not collapse until the Clinton years.<p>When I&#x27;ve been envisioning space colonies lately it has been really large structures; I am fascinated by the idea that you can build a &quot;small ringworld&quot; where the rotation holds in the air with a scale size of a megameter or so, particularly if you can keep the upper atmosphere cold.<p>The rotation speeds of such a thing are close to orbital velocity and the material requirements are similar to that of a space elevator... Unless you can construct an orbital-velocity bearing in which case you can build a belt around it to reinforce it.<p>Even then it is hard to build room for any vertical relief into the budget, no high mountains, no deep oceans, probably you get a rather uncomfortable hydrological cycle.<p>It would probably look different from one of those O&#x27;Neil colonies since you&#x27;d have a very blue sky and most of the things that look different from a planet would be far away and would look small. A lot depends on if the z-axis of the colony is long or short.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>headcanon</author><text>&gt; Getting resources from the moon seems out-of-date these days because the moon is far away in terms of energy even if it is close in distance. Getting resources from asteroids makes more sense.<p>You&#x27;re right about raw energy, but one advantage of the moon is that you can build electromagnetic mass drivers that can sling raw material into orbit without affecting the natural orbit of the body (technically you are but only negligibly). For asteroids, you probably have to haul the whole thing back into Earth orbit for it to be useful, and you&#x27;d probably have to use some kind of propellant.<p>Also asteroid missions have much longer timelines if you have to go all the way out to the belt to get them. Less so if you get a near-earth rock, but those missions are pretty complex if trying it in Kerbal Space Program is any indication, and getting it wrong can be catastrophic. Many countries might not take too kindly to people wanting to sling city-destroying rocks around. Moon seems safer in that sense as a first option.<p>The two aren&#x27;t mutually exclusive of course, and there are advantages to both. I imagine we&#x27;ll see both strategies employed in a variety of different ways.</text></comment> | <story><title>The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive from his teacher Gerard O’Neill</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/05/space-colony-design-jeff-bezos-blue-origin-oneill-colonies/589294/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>Let&#x27;s see...<p>Getting resources from the moon seems out-of-date these days because the moon is far away in terms of energy even if it is close in distance. Getting resources from asteroids makes more sense.<p>As for Reagan and Thatcher I don&#x27;t see either one as oriented toward growth, but rather oriented towards a &quot;war against inflation&quot; that involved higher interest rates, austerity, and tolerance for a lower rate of GDP growth so long as the pain was felt by the middle and below. Reagan might have had sharper rhetoric against environmentalism, but the movement did not collapse until the Clinton years.<p>When I&#x27;ve been envisioning space colonies lately it has been really large structures; I am fascinated by the idea that you can build a &quot;small ringworld&quot; where the rotation holds in the air with a scale size of a megameter or so, particularly if you can keep the upper atmosphere cold.<p>The rotation speeds of such a thing are close to orbital velocity and the material requirements are similar to that of a space elevator... Unless you can construct an orbital-velocity bearing in which case you can build a belt around it to reinforce it.<p>Even then it is hard to build room for any vertical relief into the budget, no high mountains, no deep oceans, probably you get a rather uncomfortable hydrological cycle.<p>It would probably look different from one of those O&#x27;Neil colonies since you&#x27;d have a very blue sky and most of the things that look different from a planet would be far away and would look small. A lot depends on if the z-axis of the colony is long or short.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>Ringworlds and orbitals are significantly bigger and harder to build than O’Neill cylinders. O’Neill cylinders are potentially feasible within a century or two; ringworlds and orbitals would take much longer.</text></comment> |
23,937,485 | 23,937,490 | 1 | 2 | 23,926,013 | train | <story><title>Cave discoveries suggest humans reached Americas much earlier than thought</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02190-y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mehrdadn</author><text>Question: how do experts tell something like this might be a tool? As a layman it looks like a rock to me:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.nature.com&#x2F;lw800&#x2F;magazine-assets&#x2F;d41586-020-02190-y&#x2F;d41586-020-02190-y_18201476.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.nature.com&#x2F;lw800&#x2F;magazine-assets&#x2F;d41586-020-02...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oxfordmale</author><text>These kind of tools have multiple fracture all running in the same direction. This means they are not a by product of accidentally tumbling against other rocks. Something has banged that rock over and over in the same position.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cave discoveries suggest humans reached Americas much earlier than thought</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02190-y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mehrdadn</author><text>Question: how do experts tell something like this might be a tool? As a layman it looks like a rock to me:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.nature.com&#x2F;lw800&#x2F;magazine-assets&#x2F;d41586-020-02190-y&#x2F;d41586-020-02190-y_18201476.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.nature.com&#x2F;lw800&#x2F;magazine-assets&#x2F;d41586-020-02...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>I think they look for &quot;Conchoidal fractures&quot;, and then where they find the thing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sandatlas.org&#x2F;conchoidal-fracture&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sandatlas.org&#x2F;conchoidal-fracture&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
31,254,971 | 31,253,894 | 1 | 2 | 31,248,833 | train | <story><title>How I Arrived at Sun as Employee #8</title><url>https://twitter.com/aka_pugs/status/1521489115585421314</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smackeyacky</author><text>Dull?<p>You can hang the equivalent of an eighties micro on anything you please and record things nobody has ever seen before, download the data en masse to your pocket supercomputer, sync that to an AI and make accurate predictions that can be used to affect real world outcomes.<p>You can talk to anyone on the planet with minimal charges.<p>You can take infinite numbers of pictures of everything at insane resolutions, backyard astronomy is unbelievable compared to the Sun era.<p>Computing has never been so exciting. If you think you missed out because you weren&#x27;t in silicon valley in the 1980s, the amount of cool work being done everywhere but the valley needs reconsidering.<p>I&#x27;ve been doing this since the 80s and its never been better than now.</text></item><item><author>cab11150904</author><text>Computers as a whole seem so boring nowadays. I get that we all have supercomputers in our pockets, and it should be amazing, but it&#x27;s just dull.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rektide</author><text>Altogether far too much computing happens in far off mainframes. Aka the cloud. Far too little computing can genuinely be engaged with. The potential has been coopted &amp; occluded &amp; we&#x27;re left chainrd to the cave again, starting at megacompany&#x27;s shadowpuppets.<p>It&#x27;s worth admitting the formative years are often a lot of fun. Some come-down is expected.<p>But I also believe collective discontent slowly grows in this deeply consumerized computing climate &amp; eventually we&#x27;ll push for new terrain, grow tired of this technostratifocation.</text></comment> | <story><title>How I Arrived at Sun as Employee #8</title><url>https://twitter.com/aka_pugs/status/1521489115585421314</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smackeyacky</author><text>Dull?<p>You can hang the equivalent of an eighties micro on anything you please and record things nobody has ever seen before, download the data en masse to your pocket supercomputer, sync that to an AI and make accurate predictions that can be used to affect real world outcomes.<p>You can talk to anyone on the planet with minimal charges.<p>You can take infinite numbers of pictures of everything at insane resolutions, backyard astronomy is unbelievable compared to the Sun era.<p>Computing has never been so exciting. If you think you missed out because you weren&#x27;t in silicon valley in the 1980s, the amount of cool work being done everywhere but the valley needs reconsidering.<p>I&#x27;ve been doing this since the 80s and its never been better than now.</text></item><item><author>cab11150904</author><text>Computers as a whole seem so boring nowadays. I get that we all have supercomputers in our pockets, and it should be amazing, but it&#x27;s just dull.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hulitu</author><text>And still printing a web page is real challenge.
And if you want to compile a programm you find out that it needs 30 libraries.
Some things are better.
Most of the things are worse.
I have a text editor on my Android phone. It cannot do search and replace.</text></comment> |
25,691,582 | 25,691,184 | 1 | 2 | 25,690,500 | train | <story><title>Research team demonstrates world’s fastest optical neuromorphic processor</title><url>https://www.swinburne.edu.au/news/2021/01/swinburne-led-research-team-demonstrates-worlds-fastest-optical-neuromorphic-processor/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bhassel</author><text>ArsTechnica article discussing this paper (and one other), with a bit of background information: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;two-ways-of-performing-massively-parallel-ai-calculations-using-light&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;two-ways-of-performi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Research team demonstrates world’s fastest optical neuromorphic processor</title><url>https://www.swinburne.edu.au/news/2021/01/swinburne-led-research-team-demonstrates-worlds-fastest-optical-neuromorphic-processor/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sroussey</author><text>There are several universities, big corporations, and startups taking another look at analog computing, and ML seems to be application that will make it viable.</text></comment> |
10,537,767 | 10,537,781 | 1 | 3 | 10,534,172 | train | <story><title>Jeff Dean explains TensorFlow [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90-S1M7Ny_o&t=21m2s</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>argonaut</author><text>Just wanted to repost this from the other thread on TensorFlow, since I joined the party a bit late:<p>I think some of the raving that&#x27;s going on is unwarranted. This is a <i>very nice</i>, very well put together library with a great landing page. It might eventually displace Torch and Theano as the standard toolkits for deep learning. It looks like it might offer performance &#x2F; portability improvements. But it does not do anything fundamentally different from what has already been done for many years with Theano and Torch (which are standard toolkits for expressing computations, usually for building neural nets) and other libraries. It is not a game-changer or a spectacular moment in history as some people seem to believe.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jeff Dean explains TensorFlow [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90-S1M7Ny_o&t=21m2s</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shostack</author><text>Is there anything an &quot;early&quot; programmer like myself can do to play around with this stuff without a background in the related math?<p>I&#x27;m dying for this stuff to be dumbed down enough where Joe WebUser can feed in arbitrary data in a csv or point an app at a data source and get some sort of meaningful results.<p>It truly seems like an area where once the barrier to entry is greatly reduced, the creativity of laymen will lead to some truly amazing executions.</text></comment> |
30,212,182 | 30,211,662 | 1 | 3 | 30,204,604 | train | <story><title>Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/04/apple-will-charge-27-commission-for-purchases-made-using-alternative-payment-systems-in-the-netherlands/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulpan</author><text>I think Apple&#x27;s stubbornness at keeping their commission ~30% underscores how critical that percentage is to their bottom line profitability - both present and future. &quot;Services&quot; is foundational to Tim Cook&#x27;s vision to continue to grow the company and increase its revenue streams.<p>Based on latest Q4 earnings, Services is one of the highest growth segment of Apple at 25% YoY (others being Mac at 25%, Other Products at 13%). As the clamor for M1-based Macs subsides, monetizing its existing 500M+ users is the only major revenue-growth area. But what happens if their commission rate is cut in half to 15%? Apple doesn&#x27;t break out the specific App Store revenue amount or percentage but it must be quite significant.<p>Hence they&#x27;re willing to risk these continued lawsuits and regulatory backlash. The day that Services division no longer reports 20%+ YoY growth could well be one when Apple stock faces the reckoning like FB&#x2F;Meta.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>They&#x27;re nuts. All they are doing is setting themselves up for another set of lawsuits.<p>Seriously: Apple should focus on selling hardware and be happy to facilitate those payments that people - and application developers - voluntarily process through their system.<p>All this stupid taxation of other peoples&#x27; businesses should stop, it is anti-competitive behavior that they themselves would never tolerate.<p>Imagine if in the past Apple would have had to pay 30% of their gross to Microsoft in order to be allowed to run their software on Windows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Joeri</author><text>So Apple has around one billion customers. When you look at global income distributions there are not that many more people that actually have enough income to afford their products. Practically speaking while they may grow their customer base a bit further, they cannot double it without making far cheaper products or the world’s population becoming a lot more equally distributed income-wise.<p>The consequence of this is that they have to lean into inequality: get their existing high income customers to pay them more money. This is why services are such a good strategy and they are so unwilling to give up on that revenue, and it is also why they are planning to launch very expensive (and therefore high profit) new product categories like vr goggles and cars targeted at their existing customer base.<p>Apple is so ridiculously big that it is fun to map them back onto the world economy. Their yearly revenue is 0.4% of the world economy. Their market cap is 0.6% of global wealth. But that does present a real challenge to Tim Cook to keep growing. If apple doubles again they will be 1% of the world economy. Does that make sense for what amounts to a luxury brand?</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/04/apple-will-charge-27-commission-for-purchases-made-using-alternative-payment-systems-in-the-netherlands/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulpan</author><text>I think Apple&#x27;s stubbornness at keeping their commission ~30% underscores how critical that percentage is to their bottom line profitability - both present and future. &quot;Services&quot; is foundational to Tim Cook&#x27;s vision to continue to grow the company and increase its revenue streams.<p>Based on latest Q4 earnings, Services is one of the highest growth segment of Apple at 25% YoY (others being Mac at 25%, Other Products at 13%). As the clamor for M1-based Macs subsides, monetizing its existing 500M+ users is the only major revenue-growth area. But what happens if their commission rate is cut in half to 15%? Apple doesn&#x27;t break out the specific App Store revenue amount or percentage but it must be quite significant.<p>Hence they&#x27;re willing to risk these continued lawsuits and regulatory backlash. The day that Services division no longer reports 20%+ YoY growth could well be one when Apple stock faces the reckoning like FB&#x2F;Meta.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>They&#x27;re nuts. All they are doing is setting themselves up for another set of lawsuits.<p>Seriously: Apple should focus on selling hardware and be happy to facilitate those payments that people - and application developers - voluntarily process through their system.<p>All this stupid taxation of other peoples&#x27; businesses should stop, it is anti-competitive behavior that they themselves would never tolerate.<p>Imagine if in the past Apple would have had to pay 30% of their gross to Microsoft in order to be allowed to run their software on Windows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>908B64B197</author><text>Ironically, this 30% and the pivot to &quot;Service&quot; is why iOS devices get updates after 3 years while Android phones just become paperweights.<p>Android OEM are incentivized to sell as many phones as they can. They only make money on new hardware. Apple on the other hand still makes money on older hardware as long as the user still buy from the ecosystem. So it makes sense for them to keep the products working longer.</text></comment> |
24,194,961 | 24,194,984 | 1 | 3 | 24,194,574 | train | <story><title>U.S. states seek $2.2T from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-purdue-pharma-investigations-opioids/u-s-states-seek-2-2-trillion-from-oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharma-filings-idUSKCN25D2EG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ferros</author><text>Why even declare such an outlandish number?<p>What’s the difference between saying 2.2T or a gajillion bazillion?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcrawfordor</author><text>$2.2T, or it seems actually $2.15T, is the sum damage to the state economies as estimated by economists.<p>Yes, the strategy here is effectively just to throw out a huge number to argue that the damage done would be impossible to truly correct. But as a general principle you can&#x27;t go to court and just ask for whatever number you feel like, you need to justify to the court exactly why you are owed that much. So they ran the numbers and $2.15T is what they thought they could justify.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. states seek $2.2T from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-purdue-pharma-investigations-opioids/u-s-states-seek-2-2-trillion-from-oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharma-filings-idUSKCN25D2EG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ferros</author><text>Why even declare such an outlandish number?<p>What’s the difference between saying 2.2T or a gajillion bazillion?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iav</author><text>There are many other claimants in the Purdue bankruptcy other than the Multistate Group mentioned here. Each of those claimants is incentivized to make their claim as large as possible to reduce the amount left over for the hospitals, Native American tribes, individual victims, and the many other groups fighting to maximize their slice of the Purdue pie. Full list of unsecured claimants is in this document: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bankrupt11.com&#x2F;dockets&#x2F;documents&#x2F;p_purduepharma414&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bankrupt11.com&#x2F;dockets&#x2F;documents&#x2F;p_purduepharma414&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
9,313,139 | 9,313,165 | 1 | 2 | 9,313,056 | train | <story><title>YAPF – A formatter for Python files</title><url>https://github.com/google/yapf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rbanffy</author><text><p><pre><code> --style STYLE specify formatting style: either a style name (for
example &quot;pep8&quot; or &quot;google&quot;), or the name of a file
with style settings. pep8 is the default.
</code></pre>
&gt; pep8 is the default.<p>I can breathe again.</text></comment> | <story><title>YAPF – A formatter for Python files</title><url>https://github.com/google/yapf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bkcooper</author><text>I&#x27;m sure there are some cases where this is useful, but I&#x27;m not really sold. The pitch at the beginning is &quot;satisfying PEP 8 doesn&#x27;t mean it looks good!&quot; But then it seems most of the changes cleaned up in the code (indentation level, indents on split lines, spacing between operators) are just PEP 8 violations. I think you could find a more convincing demonstration.<p>The warning about choking on large data literals (which are probably one of the places where prettifying would be most useful, at least to me) also seems ominous.<p>edit: for my personal use, I tend to use flycheck with flake8 in emacs. This keeps me honest. Is the primary use case for something like this cleaning your own code or other people&#x27;s?</text></comment> |
18,154,185 | 18,153,725 | 1 | 2 | 18,152,792 | train | <story><title>Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloomberg's Hack Story</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-china-hacking-bloomberg-servers-spies-fbi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>From 2016, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;report-apple-designing-its-own-servers-to-avoid-snooping&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;repor...</a><p><i>&gt; Apple has begun designing its own servers partly because of suspicions that hardware is being intercepted before it gets delivered to Apple, according to a report yesterday from The Information. &quot;Apple has long suspected that servers it ordered from the traditional supply chain were intercepted during shipping, with additional chips and firmware added to them by unknown third parties in order to make them vulnerable to infiltration, according to a person familiar with the matter,&quot; the report said. &quot;At one point, Apple even assigned people to take photographs of motherboards and annotate the function of each chip, explaining why it was supposed to be there. Building its own servers with motherboards it designed would be the most surefire way for Apple to prevent unauthorized snooping via extra chips.&quot;</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>captainmuon</author><text>&gt; At one point, Apple even assigned people to take photographs of motherboards and annotate the function of each chip, explaining why it was supposed to be there.<p>I have done this before, and we actually found an unspeced part! Thankfully, it was not from a malicious state actor, but just one supplier being creative and not telling anybody. Especially if you don&#x27;t have an iron grip on your supply chain, you have to be vigilant. As a manufacturer, there are more problems to watch out for than espionage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Insiders Say Nobody Knows What’s Going on with Bloomberg's Hack Story</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-china-hacking-bloomberg-servers-spies-fbi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>From 2016, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;report-apple-designing-its-own-servers-to-avoid-snooping&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;repor...</a><p><i>&gt; Apple has begun designing its own servers partly because of suspicions that hardware is being intercepted before it gets delivered to Apple, according to a report yesterday from The Information. &quot;Apple has long suspected that servers it ordered from the traditional supply chain were intercepted during shipping, with additional chips and firmware added to them by unknown third parties in order to make them vulnerable to infiltration, according to a person familiar with the matter,&quot; the report said. &quot;At one point, Apple even assigned people to take photographs of motherboards and annotate the function of each chip, explaining why it was supposed to be there. Building its own servers with motherboards it designed would be the most surefire way for Apple to prevent unauthorized snooping via extra chips.&quot;</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dpkonofa</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t really mean anything, though. For all we know the &quot;person familiar with the matter&quot; is the same source Bloomberg used in their report. There&#x27;s still not acknowledgement from Apple in 2016 that anything like this was actually happening.</text></comment> |
11,328,668 | 11,327,992 | 1 | 2 | 11,327,669 | train | <story><title>How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2013)</title><url>http://www.daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eranation</author><text>If you work in an average company who hires average people and you are well above average you quickly risk becoming exactly that. You can be the top 5% (I know it&#x27;s subjective and controversial yet I&#x27;m sure we all have a clue what that means) of developers and this will make it likely for you to be that &quot;local maximum&quot; as everyone will see you internally as a guru.<p>But at companies who are employing the top 5% of the top 5% you will probably won&#x27;t even make the first round of phone screens.<p>Get out of your comfort zone, and simply learn something new. Go wide, go deep or go both just realize that the moment you feel you are an expert on something it just means you are probably just ready to start learning it for real.<p>tl;dr
Knowing more than your peers doesn&#x27;t make you an expert. You are at a local maximum and you need to look at the big picture to avoid being stuck there forever</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devonkim</author><text>Can&#x27;t upvote this enough.<p>It is very important to recognize that &quot;comfort zone&quot; also means you must have room to fail, which is actually tough for companies to hire for because most companies are actually super risk averse when it comes to hiring. Why else would they want to hire people that know as much about their stack as a filter before asking questions about their <i>potential</i>?<p>I went (foolishly, in hindsight) into areas on the thesis that a lot of organizations simply need some motivation from one or two highly capable people to raise the standards for everyone and that this form of leadership would be a good career path because people are oftentimes rewarded quite well for saving failing &#x2F; ailing companies. Instead, I was beaten severely for trying to do create too much change for people that just wanted to a 9-to-5 job or (more importantly) given no projects with any risk or even much value even if it succeeded.<p>I&#x27;ve come to realize that organizations without risk or without any sense of leaving their comfort zones are the same thing as <i>people</i> - these are beginner-expert organizations. These are companies who implement a working Hadoop cluster in production and give themselves a big pat on the back... in 2015. These are companies that implement some CMDB... in 2014. These are companies that are rolling out SOAP services seriously on a roadmap... for 2018. The aversion to risk leads inevitably to worse results than if you had accepted some failures, but this only makes sense anyway when your organization is capable of speed. And this becomes the ultimate chicken and the egg problem with large companies. My answer is that you must break your egg to create a new chicken - if you do not sacrifice something, you will lose everything for sure.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2013)</title><url>http://www.daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eranation</author><text>If you work in an average company who hires average people and you are well above average you quickly risk becoming exactly that. You can be the top 5% (I know it&#x27;s subjective and controversial yet I&#x27;m sure we all have a clue what that means) of developers and this will make it likely for you to be that &quot;local maximum&quot; as everyone will see you internally as a guru.<p>But at companies who are employing the top 5% of the top 5% you will probably won&#x27;t even make the first round of phone screens.<p>Get out of your comfort zone, and simply learn something new. Go wide, go deep or go both just realize that the moment you feel you are an expert on something it just means you are probably just ready to start learning it for real.<p>tl;dr
Knowing more than your peers doesn&#x27;t make you an expert. You are at a local maximum and you need to look at the big picture to avoid being stuck there forever</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kdamken</author><text>This is very true and so important to your professional growth. There&#x27;s a famous saying, &quot;if you&#x27;re the best one in the room, you&#x27;re in the wrong room&quot;.<p>At my last job I was the only developer at a small web agency, along with a designer and a project manager. Basically every problem and solution I had to figure out myself, and while I did that, due to time constraints I often had to go with just what worked, rather than figuring out the best of all possible options.<p>At my current job, there are developers who know a lot more than me, and in the time I&#x27;ve spent working with them I&#x27;ve found I learn so much more so much more quickly than I did when I was working on my own.</text></comment> |
25,365,910 | 25,365,189 | 1 | 2 | 25,363,777 | train | <story><title>MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in pilot trial</title><url>https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/mdma-assisted-couples-therapy-ptsd-cbct-pilot-trial-maps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Wow, that is bizarre. At first I&#x27;d say it seems unbelievable, but then when you think of people in churches speaking in tongues, etc. -- I guess I could see it.<p>But if you&#x27;ve ever <i>done</i> MDMA you&#x27;d certainly know it was a placebo, so it feels like these are people who never had, but <i>imagined</i> what they thought it <i>ought</i> to be like.<p>I&#x27;d actually be incredibly curious to hear their description of it? Especially since everyone knows what people act like when drunk or on cocaine... but I&#x27;m not quite sure people have as definite an idea of MDMA?</text></item><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text><i>&quot;Note that the control group in this case doesn&#x27;t have to be a placebo group, because it&#x27;s too obvious if someone has taken a powerful drug.&quot;</i><p>It&#x27;s not, actually. I&#x27;ve heard interviews with researchers in other MDMA studies saying that there were subjects who were absolutely convinced they got MDMA, and acted like they were on it, but when the double-blind study was over it was revealed that they didn&#x27;t.<p>Never underestimate the power of placebos or of the human mind.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Good to see some progress in this area.<p>As usual, it&#x27;s important to emphasize that this research is about therapy, with MDMA as an additional modulator on top of the therapy. In this case, 15 therapy sessions over a period of 7 weeks. MDMA was only involved in 2 of the 15 sessions. If I&#x27;m reading the paper correctly, patients received 3 therapy sessions before MDMA was introduced and the bulk of reported improvements happened prior to MDMA being added. Looking at the graphs, there aren&#x27;t any obvious score increases around the MDMA sessions. In fact, I couldn&#x27;t tell when the MDMA was introduced without reading the methodology section.<p>The study was also limited to 6 couples, with no control group. Note that the control group in this case doesn&#x27;t have to be a placebo group, because it&#x27;s too obvious if someone has taken a powerful drug. Instead, the control group would simply receive therapy without MDMA and results would be compared. The difference would begin to show the benefit of therapy+MDMA over therapy alone, which is critically important in these trials. You can&#x27;t just give people 15 therapy sessions and then attribute the benefits to 2 doses of MDMA.<p>People tend to see these headlines and assume that the drug is doing all the work, or that they can simply replicate the results by taking the drug and seeing what happens. This is usually backed up by a couple of random positive anecdotes in the comment section while anyone with negative experiences is downvoted or dismissed.<p>Please don&#x27;t assume you can replicate these results with ad-hoc experimentation with street drugs. If you browse Reddit, it&#x27;s not hard to find anecdotes from people who have mistaken the short-term effects of these drugs for long-term healing, which usually results in them reaching out for more drugs the next time they have problems. Once people convince themselves that the drug is the easy solution to their problems, they&#x27;re on their way to low-level addiction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pvarangot</author><text>The first MDMA experience is usually very surprising, yes, but not for everyone. Depending on how you usually regulate your serotonin release, getting a very similar feeling to that of a run of the mill &quot;roll&quot; may happen if you are just very happy or melancholic or introspective. A very deep conversation about something that you have been wanting to let go for a while or a therapy breakthrough can elicit that feeling.<p>I don&#x27;t know about this couples therapy thing, but remember that in most of this trials researchers are dealing with somehow of an &quot;unstable&quot; brain chemistry. Individuals with PTSD or ASD tend to dissociate even when sober and to be very sensitive to mindset and setting and believing they took a pill that is going to make their struggles go away while talking with a therapist can be a very warm and welcoming setting.<p>That being said, I also would like to point out that how people act on cocaine is usually heavily misunderstood and most of the stereotype of someone under the influence of cocaine is usually how people act on cocaine+some other strong stimulant like pseudo-efedrine. Cocaine was used medically for a long while and it&#x27;s effects are very well understood and not similar to the usual &quot;that person is on coke&quot; stereotype.</text></comment> | <story><title>MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in pilot trial</title><url>https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/mdma-assisted-couples-therapy-ptsd-cbct-pilot-trial-maps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Wow, that is bizarre. At first I&#x27;d say it seems unbelievable, but then when you think of people in churches speaking in tongues, etc. -- I guess I could see it.<p>But if you&#x27;ve ever <i>done</i> MDMA you&#x27;d certainly know it was a placebo, so it feels like these are people who never had, but <i>imagined</i> what they thought it <i>ought</i> to be like.<p>I&#x27;d actually be incredibly curious to hear their description of it? Especially since everyone knows what people act like when drunk or on cocaine... but I&#x27;m not quite sure people have as definite an idea of MDMA?</text></item><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text><i>&quot;Note that the control group in this case doesn&#x27;t have to be a placebo group, because it&#x27;s too obvious if someone has taken a powerful drug.&quot;</i><p>It&#x27;s not, actually. I&#x27;ve heard interviews with researchers in other MDMA studies saying that there were subjects who were absolutely convinced they got MDMA, and acted like they were on it, but when the double-blind study was over it was revealed that they didn&#x27;t.<p>Never underestimate the power of placebos or of the human mind.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Good to see some progress in this area.<p>As usual, it&#x27;s important to emphasize that this research is about therapy, with MDMA as an additional modulator on top of the therapy. In this case, 15 therapy sessions over a period of 7 weeks. MDMA was only involved in 2 of the 15 sessions. If I&#x27;m reading the paper correctly, patients received 3 therapy sessions before MDMA was introduced and the bulk of reported improvements happened prior to MDMA being added. Looking at the graphs, there aren&#x27;t any obvious score increases around the MDMA sessions. In fact, I couldn&#x27;t tell when the MDMA was introduced without reading the methodology section.<p>The study was also limited to 6 couples, with no control group. Note that the control group in this case doesn&#x27;t have to be a placebo group, because it&#x27;s too obvious if someone has taken a powerful drug. Instead, the control group would simply receive therapy without MDMA and results would be compared. The difference would begin to show the benefit of therapy+MDMA over therapy alone, which is critically important in these trials. You can&#x27;t just give people 15 therapy sessions and then attribute the benefits to 2 doses of MDMA.<p>People tend to see these headlines and assume that the drug is doing all the work, or that they can simply replicate the results by taking the drug and seeing what happens. This is usually backed up by a couple of random positive anecdotes in the comment section while anyone with negative experiences is downvoted or dismissed.<p>Please don&#x27;t assume you can replicate these results with ad-hoc experimentation with street drugs. If you browse Reddit, it&#x27;s not hard to find anecdotes from people who have mistaken the short-term effects of these drugs for long-term healing, which usually results in them reaching out for more drugs the next time they have problems. Once people convince themselves that the drug is the easy solution to their problems, they&#x27;re on their way to low-level addiction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sushisource</author><text>Indeed. It&#x27;s something I rarely hear mentioned, but I have found valuable about recreational drugs - they teach you a <i>lot</i> about how your body works and what certain things feel like. A lot like tasting a spice in isolation allows you to pick it out in a complete dish.</text></comment> |
3,243,562 | 3,243,590 | 1 | 2 | 3,243,341 | train | <story><title>How to forcibly eject a CD/DVD from a MacBook Air USB SuperDrive</title><url>http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/how-to-forcibly-eject-cddvd-from.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ender7</author><text>There was a similar issue with older Macbook (and Powerbook) laptops, where certain drives would occasionally refuse to eject a disk. The solution at the time was to insert a piece of folded-up paper into the slot, jamming the disk in place. When you booted the machine, the drive would try to spin the disk up, fail, and then eject it. The timing was hard, since you had to get your makeshift paper jam out of the way as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to forcibly eject a CD/DVD from a MacBook Air USB SuperDrive</title><url>http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/how-to-forcibly-eject-cddvd-from.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petenixey</author><text>Slight deviation but I'm seeing a telling pattern among my friends which is that after making the jump to a Macbook two or three years ago because of their great experience with the iPod they've now reached the time when it starts needing new parts.<p>Because the batteries and hard drives are so crazily expensive I see them making the decision that it's cheaper to buy a new PC (possibly even a nice light netbook) then replace the battery / hard drive on their Apple.<p>Before they'd made the jump I'd encourage them to switch because they hadn't yet "experienced" Apple. Now that they're making an informed decision I can't argue with their reasoning for switching back.<p>Apple's upfront premium pricing is defensible and sensible but their aftersales costs are doing everyone including them a lot of damage.</text></comment> |
8,540,883 | 8,540,452 | 1 | 2 | 8,538,623 | train | <story><title>Friends Don't Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbeat Clapping Study</title><url>http://www.slideshare.net/ethanhein/friends-dont-let-friends-clap-on-one-and-three-a-backbeat-clapping-study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spenuke</author><text>Duke Ellington routinely gave his audiences a lesson in his inimitable style: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPcZ5ex2t-g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nPcZ5ex2t-g</a><p>Harry Connick Jr. didn&#x27;t bother educating his European audience with any explanation. He simply skips a beat, and then they&#x27;re clapping on 2 and 4. It happens after the first sung chorus. You can see the drummer raise his hands in joy: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD3iaURppQw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yD3iaURppQw</a><p>And, of course, the great Slim Gaillard was so saturated in swing, his predominantly white 1950s television audience SPONTANEOUSLY clapped on the 2 and 4: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKdrnTTDTqo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZKdrnTTDTqo</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewchoi</author><text>The switch happens around the 0:40 mark, for those who may have thought that they missed it (as I almost did)</text></comment> | <story><title>Friends Don't Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbeat Clapping Study</title><url>http://www.slideshare.net/ethanhein/friends-dont-let-friends-clap-on-one-and-three-a-backbeat-clapping-study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spenuke</author><text>Duke Ellington routinely gave his audiences a lesson in his inimitable style: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPcZ5ex2t-g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nPcZ5ex2t-g</a><p>Harry Connick Jr. didn&#x27;t bother educating his European audience with any explanation. He simply skips a beat, and then they&#x27;re clapping on 2 and 4. It happens after the first sung chorus. You can see the drummer raise his hands in joy: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD3iaURppQw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yD3iaURppQw</a><p>And, of course, the great Slim Gaillard was so saturated in swing, his predominantly white 1950s television audience SPONTANEOUSLY clapped on the 2 and 4: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKdrnTTDTqo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZKdrnTTDTqo</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tmm</author><text>How can you tell he skips a beat? Or for that matter the difference between beats 1 and 3 vs 2 and 4? Music is such a mystery to me. :&#x2F;</text></comment> |
8,020,906 | 8,020,860 | 1 | 2 | 8,020,621 | train | <story><title>Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/articles/bill-gatess-favorite-business-book-1405088228</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AJ007</author><text>Not available on Amazon currently, but available on Abebooks:
<a href="http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=john+brooks&amp;sts=t&amp;tn=business+adventures" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abebooks.com&#x2F;servlet&#x2F;SearchResults?an=john+brooks...</a><p>Also on Google Books for $9.99: <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ZMPTAwAAQBAJ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com&#x2F;books?id=ZMPTAwAAQBAJ</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbeegle</author><text>Also available as an ebook:
Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Business-Adventures-Twelve-Classic-Street-ebook/dp/B00L1TPCKW/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Business-Adventures-Twelve-Classic-Str...</a>
iBooks: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/business-adventures/id890312020?mt=11" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;book&#x2F;business-adventures&#x2F;id89031...</a>
Barnes and Noble: <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/business-adventures-john-brooks/1119770228?ean=9781497638853" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.barnesandnoble.com&#x2F;w&#x2F;business-adventures-john-bro...</a>
and Google, mentioned above.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/articles/bill-gatess-favorite-business-book-1405088228</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AJ007</author><text>Not available on Amazon currently, but available on Abebooks:
<a href="http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=john+brooks&amp;sts=t&amp;tn=business+adventures" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abebooks.com&#x2F;servlet&#x2F;SearchResults?an=john+brooks...</a><p>Also on Google Books for $9.99: <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ZMPTAwAAQBAJ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com&#x2F;books?id=ZMPTAwAAQBAJ</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graffitici</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this the same book:
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Business-Adventures-Twelve-Classic-Street-ebook/dp/B00L1TPCKW/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Business-Adventures-Twelve-Classic-Str...</a></text></comment> |
11,681,232 | 11,681,144 | 1 | 3 | 11,680,823 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Speech Coaching App – Stop Saying 'Umm', 'Like', 'Uhh'</title><url>https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ummo/id1102924965</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pseingatl</author><text>In Spanish these are called &quot;muletillas&quot; and are far from a recent phenomenon. Rather than just being &quot;filler&quot; words, they have a purpose in speech. A speech is not a mere collection of words. Timing and delivery is just as important as eloquence. It is often better to use a filler word than an empty pause.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>galistoca</author><text>Just because something &quot;exists&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s a good thing. Try to use silence instead of those ummms. You&#x27;ll notice you&#x27;ll get much more attention when you&#x27;re talking. Silence introduces tension to conversations which makes people pay attention. This is based both on theory (there are tons of books out there that talk about this) and practice (mine).</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Speech Coaching App – Stop Saying 'Umm', 'Like', 'Uhh'</title><url>https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ummo/id1102924965</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pseingatl</author><text>In Spanish these are called &quot;muletillas&quot; and are far from a recent phenomenon. Rather than just being &quot;filler&quot; words, they have a purpose in speech. A speech is not a mere collection of words. Timing and delivery is just as important as eloquence. It is often better to use a filler word than an empty pause.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>There are better fillers to use than &quot;um&quot; and &quot;uh&quot;, though, which don&#x27;t reflect as badly on the speaker. As some random examples, you can connect things with &quot;Now, [pause] ...&quot;, or &quot;On the other hand,&quot; or &quot;For that matter,&quot;, or many other connecting phrases. Those can be time-fillers too, but as long as they&#x27;re not overused, they just sound like conversational language rather than making the speaker sound awkward or unpracticed.</text></comment> |
36,456,226 | 36,456,221 | 1 | 2 | 36,444,854 | train | <story><title>Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/open_source_licenses_ai/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cornholio</author><text>The existing licenses cover AI training just fine, what we lack is sufficient legal precedent and enforcement. An AI product - more specifically, the model weights - is a derivative work of the original works used for training; AI training is a process of algorithmic compression of the originals.<p>Therefore, the resulting model should abide by all the license requirements imposed on the original - for example, if the model is trained on GPL code and can generate code, then any binary distribution should also be freely available for derivation in source format, and that includes all the algorithmically compressed training material (weights), which has become part of the model. If the source is AGPL, then that service cannot be made available on a website without disclosing said source and respective model weights.<p>Any other interpretation of the nature of copyright - which by definition, only covers human produced material - is just a variant of the proverbial &quot;man that can&#x27;t understand something because their paycheck depends upon them not understanding&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/open_source_licenses_ai/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>We don&#x27;t need Open Source licenses to change to deal with AI. We need AI to respect Open Source licenses, or not use code under those licenses.<p>I sincerely hope that one of the many court cases produces a verdict that says AI-generated code is, in fact, subject to the licenses of the inputs. Then there will be a lot of screaming and wailing, as people go &quot;but how can we train AI if we have to respect licenses?!&quot;. And then people will <i>figure out</i> how to actually respect Open Source software licenses (and, for that matter, proprietary ones).</text></comment> |
38,825,135 | 38,825,090 | 1 | 2 | 38,813,677 | train | <story><title>LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX</title><url>https://bvisness.me/luax/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingdave</author><text>The project itself seems fine, and clearly works for the author.<p>But I&#x27;m never quite sure why people insist that you cannot do web dev the old school ways of HTML files with a little PHP or other scripting. All of that still works just fine. So when people say they wrote an entirely new system because they miss being able to stay simple like in ye olde days... I&#x27;m not sure I understand the connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hgs3</author><text>You are correct. The minimum needed to generate dynamic HTML is a string builder, not a fancy framework.<p>Frameworks exist for Software at Scale (TM). Big Corp has a revolving door of developers and they need cookie cutter tools that isolate the damage a &quot;bad&quot; developer can cause. If you&#x27;re a solo developer or a small company, then this digital bureaucracy is unnecessary.</text></comment> | <story><title>LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX</title><url>https://bvisness.me/luax/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingdave</author><text>The project itself seems fine, and clearly works for the author.<p>But I&#x27;m never quite sure why people insist that you cannot do web dev the old school ways of HTML files with a little PHP or other scripting. All of that still works just fine. So when people say they wrote an entirely new system because they miss being able to stay simple like in ye olde days... I&#x27;m not sure I understand the connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ironmagma</author><text>If you want a reason, go look at the Gitea project. They use Go templates, which are a lot like PHP. Depending on your definition, it could be &quot;just fine.&quot; But also, you get a lot of issues that remain unsolved, such as the 77 comments in [1]. User interfaces are not meant to be handled on the backend in my opinion. When you try to do that, you get issues unless it&#x27;s a system that&#x27;s designed for doing the exact same computations on the frontend too (isomorphic like NextJS).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;go-gitea&#x2F;gitea&#x2F;issues&#x2F;5937">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;go-gitea&#x2F;gitea&#x2F;issues&#x2F;5937</a></text></comment> |
32,538,722 | 32,536,542 | 1 | 2 | 32,535,942 | train | <story><title>How can we develop transformative tools for thought? (2019) [pdf]</title><url>https://numinous.productions/ttft/print/TTFT.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamessb</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure why this currently links to the PDF of the article [0], rather than the webpage, which includes an embedded animation of an interaction, and embedded YouTube videos: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;numinous.productions&#x2F;ttft&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;numinous.productions&#x2F;ttft&#x2F;</a><p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;numinous.productions&#x2F;ttft&#x2F;print&#x2F;TTFT.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;numinous.productions&#x2F;ttft&#x2F;print&#x2F;TTFT.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How can we develop transformative tools for thought? (2019) [pdf]</title><url>https://numinous.productions/ttft/print/TTFT.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>georgewsinger</author><text>&gt; Novel hardware devices (e.g., for VR, or the Wii remote, or for new musical instruments) can be used as the basis for new tools for thought. While hardware can be duplicated, it’s often much more expensive than duplicating software. And, in any case, the advantage for such companies is often in distribution, marketing, and relationships with vendors who make products for the platform.<p>SimulaVR was heavily influenced by the early visions for computing devices as &quot;Tools for Thought&quot;.[1]<p>&quot;Computing as an intelligence augmenter&quot; seemed to be a really popular viewpoint through the 70s and 80s (even in corporate advertisements for computing devices). Then it somehow got co-opted by &quot;computing as a medium for passive entertainment and video games&quot;, and then eventually as &quot;a medium for social networking&quot;. I&#x27;m certainly not against these things in all contexts, but to me the exciting thing about VR&#x2F;AR is that it creates a completely open field to make new advancements in the way human beings interact with machines to get stuff done immersively &amp; with greater creativity.<p>Despite this, the entire VR ecosystem seems to be focused almost exclusively on gaming&#x2F;entertainment + social networking (facebook &quot;Metaverse&quot;). I personally find it really exciting to think about how the extra dimension could help us create more interactive tools in line with Alan Kay (&amp; co&#x27;s) early visions. Before that&#x27;s possible, we first need to get the basic hardware good enough to replace PCs &amp; Laptops (for everyday 2-dimensional applications). After that, we can these devices as platforms to build better thinking tools on.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simulavr.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simulavr.com</a></text></comment> |
16,725,627 | 16,725,736 | 1 | 2 | 16,725,226 | train | <story><title>Facebook Employees Are Reportedly Deleting Controversial Internal Messages</title><url>http://fortune.com/2018/03/31/facebook-employees-are-reportedly-deleting-controversial-internal-messages/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radicaldreamer</author><text>It&#x27;s always amusing to me how people in tech want to have very private lives where they control their public image very carefully while building tools and networks which take away that ability from others.<p>From the Facebook engineers doing this while working on facial recognition to Peter Thiel going after Gawker while funding Palantir, this seems like a near universal double standard in tech today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austincheney</author><text>I really wish the media would distinctly separate media companies from technology companies. Facebook is not a technology company. They are a media company. They make money from eyeballs on advertising no differently than CNN or FoxNews. Google claims to be a diverse technology company but they make almost all their money, despite their various products and investments, from data micro auctions that populate paid listings and advertising on their search engine. Amazon is a general retail company.<p>In this vain almost every company in business is a technology company. Almost every company has software developers and writes software products. I work at a bank as a software developer to further the business of the bank. Wisely, my employer clearly claims to be a bank and not a technology company.<p>Examples of technology companies are companies that sell technology as their end product like NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Apple, Micron, and so forth.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Employees Are Reportedly Deleting Controversial Internal Messages</title><url>http://fortune.com/2018/03/31/facebook-employees-are-reportedly-deleting-controversial-internal-messages/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radicaldreamer</author><text>It&#x27;s always amusing to me how people in tech want to have very private lives where they control their public image very carefully while building tools and networks which take away that ability from others.<p>From the Facebook engineers doing this while working on facial recognition to Peter Thiel going after Gawker while funding Palantir, this seems like a near universal double standard in tech today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RpFLCL</author><text>I&#x27;ve begun to wonder if the double standards and hypocrisy are a symptom of our industry where a college education isn&#x27;t required and maintaining ethics isn&#x27;t really encouraged.<p>Sure you might spell out what you&#x27;re doing in your TOS, but if your advertising sells a different story and you let people believe that instead, is that behavior ethical? I don&#x27;t think so.<p>For some people, however, this might feel acceptable.<p>It is a bit of a shame because of we can&#x27;t act ethically ourselves, I fear clumsy regulations will be created to correct us. We should have done better with the power we had.</text></comment> |
16,691,411 | 16,691,566 | 1 | 2 | 16,690,645 | train | <story><title>Facebook's Zuckerberg Says the Age of Privacy Is Over (2010)</title><url>https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/01/10/10readwriteweb-facebooks-zuckerberg-says-the-age-of-privac-82963.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pacala</author><text>Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, 2009<p>&gt; Yesterday, the web was buzzing with commentary about Google CEO Eric Schmidt&#x27;s dangerous, dismissive response to concerns about search engine users&#x27; privacy. When asked during an interview for CNBC&#x27;s recent &quot;Inside the Mind of Google&quot; special about whether users should be sharing information with Google as if it were a &quot;trusted friend,&quot; Schmidt responded, &quot;If you have something that you don&#x27;t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn&#x27;t be doing it in the first place.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2009&#x2F;12&#x2F;google-ceo-eric-schmidt-dismisses-privacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2009&#x2F;12&#x2F;google-ceo-eric-schmid...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;If you have something that you don&#x27;t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn&#x27;t be doing it in the first place.&quot;</i><p>To what degree does Apple&#x27;s privacy stance come from selling hardware versus Tim Cook, as a gay man born in Mobile, Alabama in 1960 [1], instinctively understanding why people need privacy?<p>There were opportunities for Apple to pivot away from privacy. (They no longer just sell hardware. In the quarter ending December 30th, 2017, Apple earned 18% of their net sales from services [2].) But privacy remains a value they choose to ensure they remain incentivized to protect. That isn&#x27;t the case at Facebook.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tim_Cook" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tim_Cook</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;320193&#x2F;000032019318000007&#x2F;a10-qq1201812302017.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;320193&#x2F;0000320193180...</a> <i>MD&amp;A</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook's Zuckerberg Says the Age of Privacy Is Over (2010)</title><url>https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/01/10/10readwriteweb-facebooks-zuckerberg-says-the-age-of-privac-82963.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pacala</author><text>Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, 2009<p>&gt; Yesterday, the web was buzzing with commentary about Google CEO Eric Schmidt&#x27;s dangerous, dismissive response to concerns about search engine users&#x27; privacy. When asked during an interview for CNBC&#x27;s recent &quot;Inside the Mind of Google&quot; special about whether users should be sharing information with Google as if it were a &quot;trusted friend,&quot; Schmidt responded, &quot;If you have something that you don&#x27;t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn&#x27;t be doing it in the first place.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2009&#x2F;12&#x2F;google-ceo-eric-schmidt-dismisses-privacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2009&#x2F;12&#x2F;google-ceo-eric-schmid...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noobermin</author><text>When people buy a heart shaped container on amazon, browse cat pictures on tumblr, and watch a certain anime on crunchyroll, they probably don&#x27;t mind. What is a problem is when people take all these disparate actions, aggregate them, and then create a &quot;profile&quot; for each person&#x27;s personality is where they start to worry.<p>It&#x27;s the same as how people go outside, go to restaurants, stores, gyms in the public and don&#x27;t hide their faces because there&#x27;s no shame in what they&#x27;re doing. If, however, you as an individual follow them throughout their day, jotting notes on what they&#x27;re doing, when they&#x27;re doing it, and with who, you&#x27;re considered a creep even though you&#x27;ve observed things in the open.</text></comment> |
5,879,204 | 5,878,869 | 1 | 2 | 5,878,571 | train | <story><title>Main Core – database of US citizens believed to be threats to national security</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w_t_payne</author><text>After the last few days of headlines on HN, I am starting to feel a bit (a lot) like a conspiracy theory wingnut. Am I going mad? Is it just me?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alan_cx</author><text>The government does something bad, you see the evidence and speak out. Those who support the government have no defence so they trash you. One way to to that is to use another one of those weasel words &quot;conspiracy&quot;.<p>One of the usual arguments against &quot;conspiracy&quot; theories is that apparently it over estimates how clever and organised a government can be.<p>&quot;Oh, don&#x27;t be so silly, a government could never keep all that quiet, you silly little conspiracy theorist.&quot; Then as an aside, often talking tot the interviewer or audience, in a getting you on side tone, &quot; Such poor weak people need to know that governments control everything. There is comfort in that for them&quot;.<p>Heard that kind of patronising put down before, used against people trying to be heard? Note how with the statements from both US and UK governments, they also avoid the direct answers? Same as google, FB, etc? &quot;Trust us, we are only after the bad guys, and if you have nothing to fear...&quot;<p>Hmmm, well, until a whistle blower spoke out, all that surveillance was conspiracy theory. Any one who spoke out or claimed it was happening was put down, patronised or accused of being a foil hatted nutter.<p>Except, it turned out to be true.<p>Or think back to how the illegal extraordinary rendition story broke. Rumours of secret night flights carrying kidnapped people and delivering them to off limits secret torture prisons in places out of jurisdiction. A very evil setup, denied left right and centre by the US government. Accusers were openly mocked. All until some UK plane spotters started taking down plane numbers and looking them up, connecting the dots.<p>So, yes, if you criticise the government or the power that be you are almost programmed to feel like a &quot;wing nut&quot;, etc, etc. Just like you are made to feel &quot;unpatriotic&quot; or worse still, &quot;traitorous&quot;.<p>Trust us, the are nukes in Iraq, we must invade......</text></comment> | <story><title>Main Core – database of US citizens believed to be threats to national security</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w_t_payne</author><text>After the last few days of headlines on HN, I am starting to feel a bit (a lot) like a conspiracy theory wingnut. Am I going mad? Is it just me?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glurgh</author><text>Only if you apply the loose criteria conspiracy theory wingnuts apply. Like with anything else, you should ask yourself &#x27;what&#x27;s the evidence? how reliable&#x2F;well-sourced is this story?&#x27;. In this particular case, the answer to the latter is &#x27;very poorly&#x27;.<p>A reasonable common-sense question is also - what use is a database with 8 million records in a situation dire enough to necessitate invoking continuity-of-government procedures&#x2F;martial law&#x2F;etc. Who exactly is going to go out and check up on 8 million &#x27;potential threats&#x27; in case of, say, a nuclear attack?</text></comment> |
34,257,310 | 34,256,023 | 1 | 3 | 34,255,319 | train | <story><title>CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI</title><url>https://circleci.com/blog/january-4-2023-security-alert/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bamboozled</author><text><i>&gt; We wanted to make you aware that we are currently investigating a security incident, and that our investigation is ongoing. We will provide you updates about this incident, and our response, as they become available. At this point, we are confident that there are no unauthorized actors active in our systems; however, out of an abundance of caution, we want to ensure that all customers take certain preventative measures to protect your data as well.</i><p>Is anyone else a little annoyed by the messaging here, I read it as, &quot;We think something bad happened to your ultra secret data, but we don&#x27;t know, so we&#x27;re asking teams to spend potentially hours or days fixing things while we aren&#x27;t really able to tell you if your stuff was actually compromised&quot;?<p>What I find more troubling is, if they don&#x27;t quite know what happened, or aren&#x27;t telling us, and we do the work to change everything, how do they know it won&#x27;t just happen again in the next day or so and people are still accessing our systems, where is the details?<p><i>&gt; At this point, we are confident that there are no unauthorized actors active in our systems.</i><p>Confident isn&#x27;t really a good enough word to use here in my opinion. We&#x27;ve just blocked Circle CI from all our systems for now until we hear more, likely start to move to another build system.<p>I know accidents happen but this is likely the beginning of the end for our teams relationship with Circle CI. Trust has been broken.</text></comment> | <story><title>CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI</title><url>https://circleci.com/blog/january-4-2023-security-alert/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sickmate</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sanitybit&#x2F;status&#x2F;1610829345676996609" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sanitybit&#x2F;status&#x2F;1610829345676996609</a><p>&gt;I&#x27;ve been investigating the use of a @ThinkstCanary AWS token that was improperly accessed on December 27th and suspected as much.</text></comment> |
24,664,588 | 24,663,520 | 1 | 3 | 24,637,361 | train | <story><title>Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/30/trello_pryor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The comment about power users:<p>&gt; Pryor reckons one pain point is visibility into the increasingly busy Trello boards put together by customers, but the team is cautious about sacrificing usability on the altar of feature requests.<p>&gt; &quot;Developers,&quot; he said, &quot;add more stuff, add more stuff, add more stuff... and, essentially, you get this tool that does more things for those specific power users. But in the beginning, those people that were using it, you&#x27;ve now turned those people off, and they&#x27;re not coming in anymore, because now the software is too complicated to use.&quot;<p>I didn’t fully understand this as a developer, but it become crystal clear as a product manager. I personally love power tools with countless knobs to adjust, command line options to explore, complex features to learn, and other fun things that stimulate the mind of an engineer.<p>But the number of your customers who want unbounded complexity is very, very low. Some of the most vocal customers might mislead you on this fact by demanding some specific feature for their workload and recruiting armies of commenters to back them up. Letting the loudest customers dictate your product roadmap will start to alienate the silent majority of your users.<p>Offering plug-in functionality, a scripting system, or a documented API is a nice way to cater to power users without cluttering up the UX&#x2F;UI. However, that brings up a real problem with the power users who think they know more than they do, who end up destroying their data through the API and trying to have customer support fix it or otherwise hold the company accountable. It doesn’t take long to realize that you’re simply better off letting the 1% of power users feeling disappointed while you focus on a product for the 99% of users who just want your core functionality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alex_c</author><text>&gt;But the number of your customers who want unbounded complexity is very, very low.<p>It&#x27;s worth making a distinction here between <i>complexity</i> and <i>flexibility</i>, which I think some designers &#x2F; product managers fail to grasp.<p>Users don&#x27;t want complexity, but they do want flexibility, especially from tools they use all the time. It&#x27;s a hard balance to make products that are simple <i>and</i> flexible, but the products that pull it off tend to rule the world. The humble spreadsheet software is the ultimate example.<p>For example: adding more whitespace and limiting the number of fields on a screen will reduce complexity for users, but it may also reduce flexibility and end up as a net negative. (looking at you FreshBooks, I&#x27;m still angry about that redesign a few years back!)</text></comment> | <story><title>Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/30/trello_pryor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The comment about power users:<p>&gt; Pryor reckons one pain point is visibility into the increasingly busy Trello boards put together by customers, but the team is cautious about sacrificing usability on the altar of feature requests.<p>&gt; &quot;Developers,&quot; he said, &quot;add more stuff, add more stuff, add more stuff... and, essentially, you get this tool that does more things for those specific power users. But in the beginning, those people that were using it, you&#x27;ve now turned those people off, and they&#x27;re not coming in anymore, because now the software is too complicated to use.&quot;<p>I didn’t fully understand this as a developer, but it become crystal clear as a product manager. I personally love power tools with countless knobs to adjust, command line options to explore, complex features to learn, and other fun things that stimulate the mind of an engineer.<p>But the number of your customers who want unbounded complexity is very, very low. Some of the most vocal customers might mislead you on this fact by demanding some specific feature for their workload and recruiting armies of commenters to back them up. Letting the loudest customers dictate your product roadmap will start to alienate the silent majority of your users.<p>Offering plug-in functionality, a scripting system, or a documented API is a nice way to cater to power users without cluttering up the UX&#x2F;UI. However, that brings up a real problem with the power users who think they know more than they do, who end up destroying their data through the API and trying to have customer support fix it or otherwise hold the company accountable. It doesn’t take long to realize that you’re simply better off letting the 1% of power users feeling disappointed while you focus on a product for the 99% of users who just want your core functionality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>&gt;I didn’t fully understand this as a developer, but it become crystal clear as a product manager.<p>20 years, I still dont understand how most developers dont understand. I guess that is the difference between a developer mindset and product manager mindset.<p>And hence why lots of startups failed.</text></comment> |
31,854,647 | 31,853,439 | 1 | 2 | 31,846,543 | train | <story><title>Copilot sells code other people wrote</title><url>https://twitter.com/ReinH/status/1539626662274269185</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Guid_NewGuid</author><text>Yes they haven&#x27;t paid it forward, or back, but why fight on the occupier&#x27;s territory. By calling for legal frameworks to enforce this we accept the language and terms of the dominant party. By using courts and the law and creating new law for copyright we actually move further from the goal of abolishing copyright and IP entirely.<p>Every time we use courts to enforce IP we&#x27;re strengthening the Walt Disneys and Nintendos of the world.<p>(I accept I am in a group of like 3 people with this goal but it&#x27;s my view)<p>Edit: to expand slightly more on this. People should be able to decompile&#x2F;reverse engineer whatever the hell they want. They shouldn&#x27;t have to worry about armed goons kicking down their doors. Every time cases are used to strengthen the enforcement of IP&#x2F;licensing, whether for the light (FSF) or dark (Micro$oft, Google, etc) the outcome is the same, we move further from that goal.</text></item><item><author>sirsinsalot</author><text>&quot;A commons of knowledge is a public good.&quot;<p>Yes but this copilot model takes that, adds value and doesn&#x27;t itself join the public common good. Instead it takes it, and makes you pay to have it back in another form.<p>If copilot were open source and the model released for the public good, being built of public data (in your scenario) we would have a very different conversation.</text></item><item><author>Guid_NewGuid</author><text>I find this whole topic very annoying, this is like the 3rd variation to reach the front page today. But it has made me realize why I instinctively dislike Free Software as a movement.<p>Copyright and licensing are bad, actually. Stop getting worked up about the idea of using courts to punish theft. Stop getting into a frenzy of arousal about the police kicking down doors to drag Billy Gates to jail because 80 characters of fast square root is theft but 79 isn&#x27;t.<p>Where on earth is the ambition and vision!? Knowledge is public domain. A commons of knowledge is a public good. The cost of code copying is zero.<p>Sure in our day job we have to pretend to care about this stuff. But when did the ideological scope of what can be achieved become rules lawyering over license text.<p>Copy my MIT licensed code without attribution? I don&#x27;t give a shit, go ahead, I hope it helps, in fact I want a truly public domain license but copyright law is so hostage to corporate interests no such thing exists in many countries.<p>Free the code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&gt; the goal of abolishing copyright and IP entirely<p>Completely agree with you. It&#x27;s the 21st century, once data has been published there is no controlling it anymore and all attempts to do so lead to the destruction of computer freedom. No doubt people all over the world copy code every single day with nobody even finding out about it. I&#x27;d rather get rid of all these monopolists than limit the potential of computers to whatever reality enables them.<p>&gt;I accept I am in a group of like 3 people with this goal but it&#x27;s my view<p>Now we&#x27;re four.</text></comment> | <story><title>Copilot sells code other people wrote</title><url>https://twitter.com/ReinH/status/1539626662274269185</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Guid_NewGuid</author><text>Yes they haven&#x27;t paid it forward, or back, but why fight on the occupier&#x27;s territory. By calling for legal frameworks to enforce this we accept the language and terms of the dominant party. By using courts and the law and creating new law for copyright we actually move further from the goal of abolishing copyright and IP entirely.<p>Every time we use courts to enforce IP we&#x27;re strengthening the Walt Disneys and Nintendos of the world.<p>(I accept I am in a group of like 3 people with this goal but it&#x27;s my view)<p>Edit: to expand slightly more on this. People should be able to decompile&#x2F;reverse engineer whatever the hell they want. They shouldn&#x27;t have to worry about armed goons kicking down their doors. Every time cases are used to strengthen the enforcement of IP&#x2F;licensing, whether for the light (FSF) or dark (Micro$oft, Google, etc) the outcome is the same, we move further from that goal.</text></item><item><author>sirsinsalot</author><text>&quot;A commons of knowledge is a public good.&quot;<p>Yes but this copilot model takes that, adds value and doesn&#x27;t itself join the public common good. Instead it takes it, and makes you pay to have it back in another form.<p>If copilot were open source and the model released for the public good, being built of public data (in your scenario) we would have a very different conversation.</text></item><item><author>Guid_NewGuid</author><text>I find this whole topic very annoying, this is like the 3rd variation to reach the front page today. But it has made me realize why I instinctively dislike Free Software as a movement.<p>Copyright and licensing are bad, actually. Stop getting worked up about the idea of using courts to punish theft. Stop getting into a frenzy of arousal about the police kicking down doors to drag Billy Gates to jail because 80 characters of fast square root is theft but 79 isn&#x27;t.<p>Where on earth is the ambition and vision!? Knowledge is public domain. A commons of knowledge is a public good. The cost of code copying is zero.<p>Sure in our day job we have to pretend to care about this stuff. But when did the ideological scope of what can be achieved become rules lawyering over license text.<p>Copy my MIT licensed code without attribution? I don&#x27;t give a shit, go ahead, I hope it helps, in fact I want a truly public domain license but copyright law is so hostage to corporate interests no such thing exists in many countries.<p>Free the code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>handoflixue</author><text>&gt; Every time we use courts to enforce IP we&#x27;re strengthening the Walt Disneys and Nintendos of the world.<p>Can you actually point to substantial examples where Disney or Nintendo benefited significantly from a precedent set by an open source court case? Open source has been around for decades, so it should be trivial to find numerous clear-cut examples at this point... if your theory is actually correct.</text></comment> |
23,373,052 | 23,373,160 | 1 | 2 | 23,372,852 | train | <story><title>Pinebook Pro, First Impressions</title><url>https://bentsukun.ch/posts/pinebook-pro/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Ardon</author><text>This is pretty much my experience as well. The trackpad is my only complaint about the machine.
There is some ongoing work to reverse-engineer the trackpad firmware (which is apparently behaving badly) from this guy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;akirakyle&#x2F;pinebook-pro-keyboard-updater&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;firmware&#x2F;disassembly" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;akirakyle&#x2F;pinebook-pro-keyboard-updater&#x2F;t...</a><p>There&#x27;s also apparently a bounty: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bountysource.com&#x2F;issues&#x2F;88375235-reverse-engineer-touchpad-firmware" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bountysource.com&#x2F;issues&#x2F;88375235-reverse-enginee...</a><p>If there <i>is</i> a firmware solution, then I think I&#x27;ll have no complaints left for the pinebook pro :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Pinebook Pro, First Impressions</title><url>https://bentsukun.ch/posts/pinebook-pro/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hestefisk</author><text>Such an inexpensive machine and reviewer complains about lack of 4K... :) 1080p is pretty decent in a little laptop like this.</text></comment> |
31,957,428 | 31,955,759 | 1 | 3 | 31,953,470 | train | <story><title>There are no open issues or pull requests on Flask</title><url>https://twitter.com/davidism/status/1542956488355762176</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xFACEFEED</author><text>Why not the other way around?<p>What did Python have relative to other languages that inspired these developers to devote so much energy into their projects?<p>They could have chosen PHP, Ruby, Node, Go, Java, etc.<p>If I think back to ~2012 I remember that compared to other languages Python had:<p>1) Decent package management and &quot;virtualization&quot; (via virtualenv)<p>2) Nice balance of expressiveness and strictness<p>3) Was fun to write, hard to explain but it was the vibe<p>4) Decent enough performance for most things<p>5) Lots of developer tooling for debugging and stuff<p>It felt like the least messy of the scripting languages.<p>- Everyone knows all the issues PHP had, no need to list it all here<p>- Ruby was cool but there were a thousand ways to do the same thing<p>- Node was inheriting that weird web language with all its quirks<p>- Go was just in its infancy<p>- Java was the kitchen sink</text></item><item><author>madrox</author><text>I really feel like Python has an embarrassment of riches in terms of web frameworks. Django, Flask, and even FastAPI are master classes in how to build great open source projects that will survive the test of time. In my opinion they&#x27;re a huge reason why Python continues to be a popular language for backend development.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Semiapies</author><text>&quot;Back in 2012&quot;, Django was already 7 years old and had taken most of the market share of the <i>first</i> generation of Python web libraries and frameworks.
This included that strange beast that was once considered the &quot;standard&quot; Python web system, Zope. Bluntly, Django had a much better development experience overall than the older web options.<p>(Mind you, the likes of Zope and CherryPy are still out there and under development. You just don&#x27;t hear about them much.)<p>Up until about 2010, web dev in Python was converging hard on Django. It took Flask and similar small frameworks to bring back variety, and all of those had to meet the requirement of <i>better than Django in at least some narrow sense</i>, if only in being much lighter, to get any uptake.</text></comment> | <story><title>There are no open issues or pull requests on Flask</title><url>https://twitter.com/davidism/status/1542956488355762176</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xFACEFEED</author><text>Why not the other way around?<p>What did Python have relative to other languages that inspired these developers to devote so much energy into their projects?<p>They could have chosen PHP, Ruby, Node, Go, Java, etc.<p>If I think back to ~2012 I remember that compared to other languages Python had:<p>1) Decent package management and &quot;virtualization&quot; (via virtualenv)<p>2) Nice balance of expressiveness and strictness<p>3) Was fun to write, hard to explain but it was the vibe<p>4) Decent enough performance for most things<p>5) Lots of developer tooling for debugging and stuff<p>It felt like the least messy of the scripting languages.<p>- Everyone knows all the issues PHP had, no need to list it all here<p>- Ruby was cool but there were a thousand ways to do the same thing<p>- Node was inheriting that weird web language with all its quirks<p>- Go was just in its infancy<p>- Java was the kitchen sink</text></item><item><author>madrox</author><text>I really feel like Python has an embarrassment of riches in terms of web frameworks. Django, Flask, and even FastAPI are master classes in how to build great open source projects that will survive the test of time. In my opinion they&#x27;re a huge reason why Python continues to be a popular language for backend development.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twelvechairs</author><text>Ruby had all of your points 1-5. I don&#x27;t think the difference was &#x27;a thousand ways to do the same thing&#x27; (python has many ways to do the same thing also, and ruby&#x27;s approach made it &#x27;more fun&#x27;) but some of the core libraries - especially things like numpy, pandas, scipy, etc. that both increased performance, simplified a wide variety of tasks and also attracted a broader range of users (mostly the &#x27;scientific community&#x27;).</text></comment> |
16,250,230 | 16,250,294 | 1 | 2 | 16,249,936 | train | <story><title>How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments</title><url>http://www.usrsb.in/How-Old-School-C-Programmers-Process-Arguments.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yongjik</author><text>So it will admit any combination of -n and -x. In particular, these things won&#x27;t raise an error:<p><pre><code> find - hello
find - - hello
find -xnxn hello
find -x -n -x hello
find -xxx -nnn -xn hello
</code></pre>
Yes, the code has an impressive logic density, but there&#x27;s a reason why modern programmers moved away from such style.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text><i>In particular, these things won&#x27;t raise an error</i><p>They don&#x27;t necessarily need to be. Repeating the same option can either have no effect (|), invert the option (^), or increase something (as in -vvvvv.) IMHO it&#x27;s a good thing when there are no error cases --- it basically means the entire input space has a defined effect.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments</title><url>http://www.usrsb.in/How-Old-School-C-Programmers-Process-Arguments.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yongjik</author><text>So it will admit any combination of -n and -x. In particular, these things won&#x27;t raise an error:<p><pre><code> find - hello
find - - hello
find -xnxn hello
find -x -n -x hello
find -xxx -nnn -xn hello
</code></pre>
Yes, the code has an impressive logic density, but there&#x27;s a reason why modern programmers moved away from such style.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kqr</author><text>This is something that intrigues me about well-written low-level code. If you make some concessions on expected behaviour, the code can be really clean and simple. But you have to know which concessions are acceptable yet yield this result, and that&#x27;s super hard, at least to me.</text></comment> |
23,940,699 | 23,939,824 | 1 | 3 | 23,938,945 | train | <story><title>The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing a rethink in macroeconomics</title><url>https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/07/25/the-covid-19-pandemic-is-forcing-a-rethink-in-macroeconomics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caiobegotti</author><text>I believe it&#x27;s not really &quot;rethink&quot; as if we had once figured it out correctly in the past already. We are still actually thinking it for the first time, specially if you consider economists and policy makers were yet looking for &quot;something new&quot; (mentioned in the article) in macroeconomics during the last, what, 50 years? It&#x27;s all pretty new, which suggests to me that it is all in a pretty extremist and radicalized state: it doesn&#x27;t have to be 100% trickle down reaganomics or 100% state interventionism exclusively. I&#x27;m very confident a major crisis like this one will make key people finally realize that a mix of free global markets + welfare states focused on reducing inequality + democratic institutions will be the answer to many macroeconomics problems. Very few countries have realized this, the rest of the world meanwhile will keep shouting at each other doubling down on stupid policies not based in good examples and will keep blaming keynesianism or whatever neoliberal approach they can&#x27;t understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ericmcer</author><text>They have already tried your strategy. Economists thought free global markets would lead to liberalization in other governments. That has proved to be utterly untrue with China and as a result they have become the worlds manufacturing hub, while becoming more and more totalitarian.<p>Production wise, an economy that is not concerned with democratic institutions or reducing inequality will outperform one that is. With that in mind, globalization is basically a race to the bottom human rights wise.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing a rethink in macroeconomics</title><url>https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/07/25/the-covid-19-pandemic-is-forcing-a-rethink-in-macroeconomics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caiobegotti</author><text>I believe it&#x27;s not really &quot;rethink&quot; as if we had once figured it out correctly in the past already. We are still actually thinking it for the first time, specially if you consider economists and policy makers were yet looking for &quot;something new&quot; (mentioned in the article) in macroeconomics during the last, what, 50 years? It&#x27;s all pretty new, which suggests to me that it is all in a pretty extremist and radicalized state: it doesn&#x27;t have to be 100% trickle down reaganomics or 100% state interventionism exclusively. I&#x27;m very confident a major crisis like this one will make key people finally realize that a mix of free global markets + welfare states focused on reducing inequality + democratic institutions will be the answer to many macroeconomics problems. Very few countries have realized this, the rest of the world meanwhile will keep shouting at each other doubling down on stupid policies not based in good examples and will keep blaming keynesianism or whatever neoliberal approach they can&#x27;t understand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thewarrior</author><text>There are powerful forces whose giant profits would be threatened by such a consensus. It’s hard to say if it will actually happen.</text></comment> |
38,982,326 | 38,982,030 | 1 | 2 | 38,981,522 | train | <story><title>George Orwell: Politics and the English Language</title><url>https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yedava</author><text>The thing about language and culture is that they adapt. This essay of of Orwell has been pretty popular for a while and people know what language to avoid when employing Orwellian tactics.<p>A modern example of Orwellian language can be found in the advertiser based businesses helmed by many of the biggest tech companies. If you are using straightforward language, the products built by these extremely profitable companies have one singular purpose - to collect as much data as possible from the user, while keeping the user in the dark about it, and then use the data to manipulate user behavior so that they buy the stuff advertisers sell them.<p>But with the way these companies talk about their products, you&#x27;d be hard pressed to figure out how the products make money. They&#x27;d make grandiose claims about how they are changing the world for the better, how they are connecting people, how they are producing value and so on... all the while deceiving the users.</text></comment> | <story><title>George Orwell: Politics and the English Language</title><url>https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>becquerel</author><text>Orwell was a far better essayist than a novelist, so it&#x27;s a shame they don&#x27;t get read as much. I highly recommend the one where he analyses some children&#x27;s stories: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orwell.ru&#x2F;library&#x2F;essays&#x2F;boys&#x2F;english&#x2F;e_boys" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orwell.ru&#x2F;library&#x2F;essays&#x2F;boys&#x2F;english&#x2F;e_boys</a>.<p>The political implications he teased out are very interesting.</text></comment> |
26,322,916 | 26,321,358 | 1 | 3 | 26,316,401 | train | <story><title>ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis</title><url>https://pixeljets.com/blog/clickhouse-vs-elasticsearch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the-alchemist</author><text>Also wanted to share my overall positive experience with Clickhouse.<p>UPSIDES<p>* started a 3-node cluster using the official Docker images super quickly<p>* ingested billions of rows super fast<p>* great compression (of course, depends on your data&#x27;s characteristics)<p>* features like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clickhouse.tech&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;engines&#x2F;table-engines&#x2F;mergetree-family&#x2F;aggregatingmergetree&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clickhouse.tech&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;engines&#x2F;table-engines&#x2F;merget...</a> are amazing to see<p>* ODBC support. I initially said &quot;Who uses that??&quot;, but we used it to connect PostgreSQL and so we can keep the non-timeseries data in PostgreSQL but still access PostgreSQL tables in Clickhouse (!)<p>* you can go the other way too: read Clickhouse from PostgreSQL (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Percona-Lab&#x2F;clickhousedb_fdw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Percona-Lab&#x2F;clickhousedb_fdw</a>, although we didn&#x27;t try this)<p>* PRs welcome, and quickly reviewed. (We improved the ODBC UUID support)<p>* code quality is pretty high.<p>DOWNSIDES<p>* limited JOIN capabilities, which is expected from a timeseries-oriented database like Clickhouse. It&#x27;s almost impossible to implement JOINs at this kind of scale. The philosophy is &quot;If it won&#x27;t be fast as scale, we don&#x27;t support it&quot;<p>* not-quite-standard SQL syntax, but they&#x27;ve been improving it<p>* limited DELETE support, which is also expected from this kind of database, but rarely used in the kinds of environments that CH usually runs in (how often do people delete data from ElasticSearch?)<p>It&#x27;s really an impressive piece of engineering. Hats off to the Yandex crew.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IanCal</author><text>I&#x27;d like to add an upside which is:<p>Totally great and simple on a single node.<p>I looked at a bunch of analytical databases and had a lot that started with &quot;so here&#x27;s a basic 10 node cluster&quot;. Clickhouse installed and worked instantly with decent but not &quot;big&quot; data with no hassle. A hundred million rows with lots of heavy text blobs and a lot of columns, that kind of thing. Happily dealt with triple nested joins over that, and with billions of entries in arrays on those columns didn&#x27;t bat an eye.<p>I&#x27;m sure I could do some great magic in postgres but naive work didn&#x27;t give anywhere near the same results as clickhouse (obvious caveat for my workload).<p>Pretty good with JSON data, my only issue there at the time (may have improved) was you had to format the JSON quite strictly.</text></comment> | <story><title>ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis</title><url>https://pixeljets.com/blog/clickhouse-vs-elasticsearch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the-alchemist</author><text>Also wanted to share my overall positive experience with Clickhouse.<p>UPSIDES<p>* started a 3-node cluster using the official Docker images super quickly<p>* ingested billions of rows super fast<p>* great compression (of course, depends on your data&#x27;s characteristics)<p>* features like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clickhouse.tech&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;engines&#x2F;table-engines&#x2F;mergetree-family&#x2F;aggregatingmergetree&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clickhouse.tech&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;engines&#x2F;table-engines&#x2F;merget...</a> are amazing to see<p>* ODBC support. I initially said &quot;Who uses that??&quot;, but we used it to connect PostgreSQL and so we can keep the non-timeseries data in PostgreSQL but still access PostgreSQL tables in Clickhouse (!)<p>* you can go the other way too: read Clickhouse from PostgreSQL (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Percona-Lab&#x2F;clickhousedb_fdw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Percona-Lab&#x2F;clickhousedb_fdw</a>, although we didn&#x27;t try this)<p>* PRs welcome, and quickly reviewed. (We improved the ODBC UUID support)<p>* code quality is pretty high.<p>DOWNSIDES<p>* limited JOIN capabilities, which is expected from a timeseries-oriented database like Clickhouse. It&#x27;s almost impossible to implement JOINs at this kind of scale. The philosophy is &quot;If it won&#x27;t be fast as scale, we don&#x27;t support it&quot;<p>* not-quite-standard SQL syntax, but they&#x27;ve been improving it<p>* limited DELETE support, which is also expected from this kind of database, but rarely used in the kinds of environments that CH usually runs in (how often do people delete data from ElasticSearch?)<p>It&#x27;s really an impressive piece of engineering. Hats off to the Yandex crew.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hodgesrm</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s really an impressive piece of engineering. Hats off to the Yandex crew.<p>And thousands of contributors! Toward the end of 2020 over 680 unique users had submitted PRs and close to 2000 had opened issues. It&#x27;s becoming a very large community.</text></comment> |
32,754,972 | 32,755,006 | 1 | 2 | 32,753,099 | train | <story><title>IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/09/07/irs-free-efile-biden/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>&gt; A lot of asset sales should be or are reported by financial institutions, so in the case of me selling stock through Schwab or whatever, it should still be handle-able by the IRS.<p>Your financial institution doesn&#x27;t necessarily know your capital gains. It reports stock sales to the IRS, but often doesn&#x27;t report the cost basis because it doesn&#x27;t know. Consider:<p>You buy 50 shares of ABC on Jan 1 2020. Then you buy 50 more shares on Jan 1 2022. Now you sell 50 shares of ABC on Jul 1 2022. Which bunch of shares did you sell? Was it a short term gain or a long term gain? Was it a loss? It depends. Neither your broker or IRS knows the answer, but you do.<p>EDIT: The above information is evidently out of date by about 10 years. TIL</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>&gt; The challenge is that you personally need to report additional information for things like capital gains tax on asset sales, any credits&#x2F;deductions you wish to claim, and changes in your living arrangements or life status.<p>Two things:<p>1. A lot of asset sales should be or are reported by financial institutions, so in the case of me selling stock through Schwab or whatever, it should still be handle-able by the IRS.<p>2. Okay yes, it&#x27;s reasonable for me to put in my living status changes or tax deductions I want to claim, but they don&#x27;t ask <i>just</i> for that, they ask for all the other shit too, all the stuff they already know the answer to. Why?</text></item><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>&gt;&quot;There&#x27;s no reason the government couldn&#x27;t just tell me how much money they took each year and give me a chance to contest it if I thought it was wrong.&quot;<p>Behind the scenes, the IRS already has a well informed idea of how much you owe, based on the information submitted to them by your employer and a few select third parties - such as your bank or broker. The challenge is that you personally need to report additional information for things like capital gains tax on asset sales, any credits&#x2F;deductions you wish to claim, and changes in your living arrangements or life status.<p>For the majority of people who file using 1040-EZ, you&#x27;re basically just confirming what the IRS already knows from its own data collection along with some possible adjustments. It would be possible for the IRS to collect even more information, but that does seem rather intrusive and unwelcome to most American&#x27;s sensibilities.</text></item><item><author>thot_experiment</author><text>There&#x27;s no reason the government couldn&#x27;t just tell me how much money they took each year and give me a chance to contest it if I thought it was wrong.<p>One of my best friends lives in Tokyo and every time I have to think about taxes I get this little pang of jealousy at how sane and un-infested with rent seeking trashcans (intuit etc.) the Japanese system seems.<p>If you need the government to behave against the best interest of the people in order for your industry to exist maybe your industry shouldn&#x27;t exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjav</author><text>&gt; Which bunch of shares did you sell? Was it a short term gain or a long term gain? Was it a loss? It depends. Neither your broker or IRS knows the answer, but you do.<p>Your broker does know because you need to tell them which ones to sell when you sold.<p>The IRS also knows because that&#x27;s included in the cost basis reported to them by the broker. (This changed some number of years ago, brokers used to only report the income from the sale but not the cost.)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spencerlawfirm.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;01&#x2F;new-cost-basis-reporting-rules-effective-january-1-2011&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spencerlawfirm.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;01&#x2F;new-cost-basis-report...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/09/07/irs-free-efile-biden/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>&gt; A lot of asset sales should be or are reported by financial institutions, so in the case of me selling stock through Schwab or whatever, it should still be handle-able by the IRS.<p>Your financial institution doesn&#x27;t necessarily know your capital gains. It reports stock sales to the IRS, but often doesn&#x27;t report the cost basis because it doesn&#x27;t know. Consider:<p>You buy 50 shares of ABC on Jan 1 2020. Then you buy 50 more shares on Jan 1 2022. Now you sell 50 shares of ABC on Jul 1 2022. Which bunch of shares did you sell? Was it a short term gain or a long term gain? Was it a loss? It depends. Neither your broker or IRS knows the answer, but you do.<p>EDIT: The above information is evidently out of date by about 10 years. TIL</text></item><item><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>&gt; The challenge is that you personally need to report additional information for things like capital gains tax on asset sales, any credits&#x2F;deductions you wish to claim, and changes in your living arrangements or life status.<p>Two things:<p>1. A lot of asset sales should be or are reported by financial institutions, so in the case of me selling stock through Schwab or whatever, it should still be handle-able by the IRS.<p>2. Okay yes, it&#x27;s reasonable for me to put in my living status changes or tax deductions I want to claim, but they don&#x27;t ask <i>just</i> for that, they ask for all the other shit too, all the stuff they already know the answer to. Why?</text></item><item><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>&gt;&quot;There&#x27;s no reason the government couldn&#x27;t just tell me how much money they took each year and give me a chance to contest it if I thought it was wrong.&quot;<p>Behind the scenes, the IRS already has a well informed idea of how much you owe, based on the information submitted to them by your employer and a few select third parties - such as your bank or broker. The challenge is that you personally need to report additional information for things like capital gains tax on asset sales, any credits&#x2F;deductions you wish to claim, and changes in your living arrangements or life status.<p>For the majority of people who file using 1040-EZ, you&#x27;re basically just confirming what the IRS already knows from its own data collection along with some possible adjustments. It would be possible for the IRS to collect even more information, but that does seem rather intrusive and unwelcome to most American&#x27;s sensibilities.</text></item><item><author>thot_experiment</author><text>There&#x27;s no reason the government couldn&#x27;t just tell me how much money they took each year and give me a chance to contest it if I thought it was wrong.<p>One of my best friends lives in Tokyo and every time I have to think about taxes I get this little pang of jealousy at how sane and un-infested with rent seeking trashcans (intuit etc.) the Japanese system seems.<p>If you need the government to behave against the best interest of the people in order for your industry to exist maybe your industry shouldn&#x27;t exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toast0</author><text>I&#x27;ve only been trading stocks since 2005ish, but all the brokers I&#x27;ve dealt with have had ways to tell them which shares I was selling. And if I didn&#x27;t pick them, they&#x27;d pick for me. Nowadays, they&#x27;re required to track cost basis for regular shares. Even if you have shares where they won&#x27;t report a cost basis, you&#x27;re supposed to tell them which shares you&#x27;re selling before the transaction settles.<p>Employment compensation related shares get weird, but they will at least track the purchase date or the date it entered their system anyway.</text></comment> |
14,152,487 | 14,152,468 | 1 | 2 | 14,151,158 | train | <story><title>AWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development Kit</title><url>https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patrickg_zill</author><text>To save you the digging, the chips are Xilink VU9p UltraScale series : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xilinx.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;silicon-devices&#x2F;fpga&#x2F;virtex-ultrascale-plus.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xilinx.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;silicon-devices&#x2F;fpga&#x2F;virtex-...</a><p>(retracted, can&#x27;t find exact part on digikey) Quantity 1 pricing is about $2000&#x2F;chip ; however, that price would no doubt drop substantially at even a 1000 chip order. A typical discount (appears to be) 20% at qty 100; so at qty 1000, maybe 33%? So 1 of these chips might be $1200 after you figure a bunch of other discounts?<p>EDIT:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xilinx.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;silicon-devices&#x2F;fpga&#x2F;virtex-ultrascale-plus.html#productTable" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xilinx.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;silicon-devices&#x2F;fpga&#x2F;virtex-...</a><p>^^^ the product table.<p>The XCVU9P is listed as having ~6800 DSP slices, 2,2586K (= ~2.5 million) of system logic cells. That pretty much matches what Amazon describes as them using.<p>(The DDR-4 RAM is external - so it doesn&#x27;t help narrow down the device.)<p>However there are multiple, very similarly named parts, and it doesn&#x27;t seem that the XCVU9P is listed on Digikey. Other parts named UltraScale are - thus the confusion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aseipp</author><text>These aren&#x27;t the basic VU9x&#x27;s. The specs put them somewhere around the highest end card on that series: the XCVU37P, with 64GB DDR4 and 2.8 million cells&#x2F;7k DSPs.<p>That isn&#x27;t a $2k card attached over fabric... It&#x27;s probably closer to a $40,000 card.</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS EC2 FPGA Hardware and Software Development Kit</title><url>https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patrickg_zill</author><text>To save you the digging, the chips are Xilink VU9p UltraScale series : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xilinx.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;silicon-devices&#x2F;fpga&#x2F;virtex-ultrascale-plus.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xilinx.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;silicon-devices&#x2F;fpga&#x2F;virtex-...</a><p>(retracted, can&#x27;t find exact part on digikey) Quantity 1 pricing is about $2000&#x2F;chip ; however, that price would no doubt drop substantially at even a 1000 chip order. A typical discount (appears to be) 20% at qty 100; so at qty 1000, maybe 33%? So 1 of these chips might be $1200 after you figure a bunch of other discounts?<p>EDIT:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xilinx.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;silicon-devices&#x2F;fpga&#x2F;virtex-ultrascale-plus.html#productTable" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xilinx.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;silicon-devices&#x2F;fpga&#x2F;virtex-...</a><p>^^^ the product table.<p>The XCVU9P is listed as having ~6800 DSP slices, 2,2586K (= ~2.5 million) of system logic cells. That pretty much matches what Amazon describes as them using.<p>(The DDR-4 RAM is external - so it doesn&#x27;t help narrow down the device.)<p>However there are multiple, very similarly named parts, and it doesn&#x27;t seem that the XCVU9P is listed on Digikey. Other parts named UltraScale are - thus the confusion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mng2</author><text>That pricing sounds waaaay too low to me; these are big, cutting edge parts, basically unobtainium at the moment unless you have a close relationship with Xilinx. When they reach the channel they will not be cheap either.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;octopart.com&#x2F;search?q=xcvu9p" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;octopart.com&#x2F;search?q=xcvu9p</a></text></comment> |
30,251,427 | 30,251,296 | 1 | 2 | 30,248,282 | train | <story><title>Can a $310M startup avoid due diligence?</title><url>https://svgossip.substack.com/p/can-a-310m-startup-avoid-due-diligence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksdale</author><text>That&#x27;s what the story about, but non-accredited investors aren&#x27;t only prevented from investing in those particular companies. They&#x27;re prevented from investing in the good ones, too. You say that the casino will pay your unlikely winnings, but the thing about casinos is that unless you actually have an edge, the more you gamble, the more you lose. The vast majority of games have odds that result in the house making a profit over time. And yet we&#x27;re allowed to spend our money freely in casinos.<p>There are all sorts of penalties for bad behavior on behalf of companies. Of course, that doesn&#x27;t guarantee they&#x27;ll make money, but I think it&#x27;s a very valid point that we&#x27;re allowed to waste our money on all sorts of dumb bullshit, but not on something like investing in startups, which at least has a <i>possibility</i>, however remote, of resulting in some sort of return.</text></item><item><author>robotresearcher</author><text>I understand. But there are strong feedback mechanisms in place so that a casino will actually pay your (unlikely) winnings and a surgeon will actually cat your face, which have to do with scrutiny, penalties for bad behavior, and the cost of entering a highly regulated market requiring lots of customers to recoup. They provide the service they claim.<p>The story is about companies whose business model is simply to take investment money. They do not try to provide the service they claim.</text></item><item><author>pg_bot</author><text>I wasn&#x27;t talking about starting a casino or surgery center. I was talking about playing roulette or turning yourself into a human cat hybrid.</text></item><item><author>robotresearcher</author><text>You can&#x27;t enter the gambling, surgery and stock markets with naught but a Keynote deck.</text></item><item><author>pg_bot</author><text>It always seemed a bit nonsensical to me that you can&#x27;t invest in companies (in the USA) when you can spend your money freely in nearly every other respect. You can waste thousands on gambling, food, clothing, elective surgery, penny stocks, and all sorts of other activities without anyone batting an eyelid. If the goal is to stop idiots from pissing their money away, regulators have seriously underestimated the creativity of fools.</text></item><item><author>pavlov</author><text><i>&gt; &quot;While the investors listed above can take care of themselves, unfortunately, invitations to invest were also extended to small-time individual angel investors. Thousands of AngelList members were invited to invest personal checks ranging from $2,000 to $20,000+ via the mailing lists of multiple syndicates.&quot;</i><p>It&#x27;s worth noting that any US person investing this way is required to be an accredited investor, which is another way of saying they&#x27;ve proven they can afford to lose that $20k (or whatever they&#x27;re putting in).<p>The accredited investor rules in USA seem draconian, but if it weren&#x27;t for them, we&#x27;d be absolutely drowning in fake tech companies taking money from retail investors. (Today those fakes are in crypto, where you can pretend your investment offering is a utility token or maybe a donation to a revolutionary DAO that just happens to issue tradeable crypto-tokens in return, and hide behind pseudonyms to make it harder for SEC to find you eventually.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakelazaroff</author><text><i>&gt; They&#x27;re prevented from investing in the good ones, too. You say that the casino will pay your unlikely winnings, but the thing about casinos is that unless you actually have an edge, the more you gamble, the more you lose. The vast majority of games have odds that result in the house making a profit over time.</i><p>What do you think is the expected return of investing in a private company? I don&#x27;t have data to back this up, but I&#x27;d bet it&#x27;s negative — especially if you hold common stock, or whatever non-preferred equity retail investors would get.<p>And if, on top of that, we relaxed the guard rails preventing people from being scammed? I think the odds would be much worse than you&#x27;d find in a casino.</text></comment> | <story><title>Can a $310M startup avoid due diligence?</title><url>https://svgossip.substack.com/p/can-a-310m-startup-avoid-due-diligence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksdale</author><text>That&#x27;s what the story about, but non-accredited investors aren&#x27;t only prevented from investing in those particular companies. They&#x27;re prevented from investing in the good ones, too. You say that the casino will pay your unlikely winnings, but the thing about casinos is that unless you actually have an edge, the more you gamble, the more you lose. The vast majority of games have odds that result in the house making a profit over time. And yet we&#x27;re allowed to spend our money freely in casinos.<p>There are all sorts of penalties for bad behavior on behalf of companies. Of course, that doesn&#x27;t guarantee they&#x27;ll make money, but I think it&#x27;s a very valid point that we&#x27;re allowed to waste our money on all sorts of dumb bullshit, but not on something like investing in startups, which at least has a <i>possibility</i>, however remote, of resulting in some sort of return.</text></item><item><author>robotresearcher</author><text>I understand. But there are strong feedback mechanisms in place so that a casino will actually pay your (unlikely) winnings and a surgeon will actually cat your face, which have to do with scrutiny, penalties for bad behavior, and the cost of entering a highly regulated market requiring lots of customers to recoup. They provide the service they claim.<p>The story is about companies whose business model is simply to take investment money. They do not try to provide the service they claim.</text></item><item><author>pg_bot</author><text>I wasn&#x27;t talking about starting a casino or surgery center. I was talking about playing roulette or turning yourself into a human cat hybrid.</text></item><item><author>robotresearcher</author><text>You can&#x27;t enter the gambling, surgery and stock markets with naught but a Keynote deck.</text></item><item><author>pg_bot</author><text>It always seemed a bit nonsensical to me that you can&#x27;t invest in companies (in the USA) when you can spend your money freely in nearly every other respect. You can waste thousands on gambling, food, clothing, elective surgery, penny stocks, and all sorts of other activities without anyone batting an eyelid. If the goal is to stop idiots from pissing their money away, regulators have seriously underestimated the creativity of fools.</text></item><item><author>pavlov</author><text><i>&gt; &quot;While the investors listed above can take care of themselves, unfortunately, invitations to invest were also extended to small-time individual angel investors. Thousands of AngelList members were invited to invest personal checks ranging from $2,000 to $20,000+ via the mailing lists of multiple syndicates.&quot;</i><p>It&#x27;s worth noting that any US person investing this way is required to be an accredited investor, which is another way of saying they&#x27;ve proven they can afford to lose that $20k (or whatever they&#x27;re putting in).<p>The accredited investor rules in USA seem draconian, but if it weren&#x27;t for them, we&#x27;d be absolutely drowning in fake tech companies taking money from retail investors. (Today those fakes are in crypto, where you can pretend your investment offering is a utility token or maybe a donation to a revolutionary DAO that just happens to issue tradeable crypto-tokens in return, and hide behind pseudonyms to make it harder for SEC to find you eventually.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notahacker</author><text>&gt; we&#x27;re allowed to waste our money on all sorts of dumb bullshit, but not on something like investing in startups, which at least has a possibility, however remote, of resulting in some sort of return<p>A lower possibility than the casinos or lotteries, if we&#x27;re talking retail investment in early stage startup pitches you have no affiliation with. The reluctance of everybody to acknowledge this is the reason the law exist. Most people walk out of casinos having lost some of their money. Most retail investors in random business propositions will never see any of that money again.</text></comment> |
15,921,618 | 15,921,517 | 1 | 2 | 15,920,618 | train | <story><title>How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-us-pushed-sweden-to-take-down-the-pirate-bay-171212/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ckastner</author><text>It never ceases to amaze me how much influence the MPAA has.<p>Movies, while extremely popular, don&#x27;t generate <i>that</i> much money: in 2016, total box office results in the US were under $12bn [1]. That&#x27;s <i>the entire industry</i>.<p>Apple alone makes that much money in three weeks&#x27; time.<p>Amazing, that you can apply such pressure to politics, with so little.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;187069&#x2F;north-american-box-office-gross-revenue-since-1980&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;187069&#x2F;north-american-bo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astura</author><text>American box office results are far from the only source of revenue for movies. Their is foreign box office, DVD&#x2F;Blueray sales, digital sales, digital rentals, streaming fees, and broadcast fees.<p>In Blockbuster&#x27;s heyday their revenue <i>alone</i> surpassed American box office sales.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-us-pushed-sweden-to-take-down-the-pirate-bay-171212/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ckastner</author><text>It never ceases to amaze me how much influence the MPAA has.<p>Movies, while extremely popular, don&#x27;t generate <i>that</i> much money: in 2016, total box office results in the US were under $12bn [1]. That&#x27;s <i>the entire industry</i>.<p>Apple alone makes that much money in three weeks&#x27; time.<p>Amazing, that you can apply such pressure to politics, with so little.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;187069&#x2F;north-american-box-office-gross-revenue-since-1980&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;187069&#x2F;north-american-bo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>&gt; Movies, while extremely popular, don&#x27;t generate that much money: in 2016, total box office results in the US were under $12bn [1]. That&#x27;s the entire industry.<p>It&#x27;s underestimated since it&#x27;s a global business, plus they there&#x27;s a very long tail for every movie to turn a profit, DVD&#x2F;BR releases, TV, and online reselling, renting, etc... and the fact movies remain their property for 75 years+, and for some companies like Disney they retain the copyright forever, and keep sellings goods like cupcakes as well.</text></comment> |
19,220,996 | 19,221,137 | 1 | 2 | 19,219,457 | train | <story><title>American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/american-airlines-planes-entertainment-system-cameras</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ngngngng</author><text>For all the crap we give China and their authoritarian government, airport security is FAR easier at every Chinese airport I&#x27;ve been to. Walk through a metal detector and get a quick non-invasive pat down.</text></item><item><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>They already take a high resolution back scatter shot of my genitals on the way in, what&#x27;s a little more humiliation among friends? If they want to spend 6 hours watching me make pained expressions as I shift and turn and feel the bits that make me human slowly slip away, leaving me a crippled, grunting inhuman beast by the time I get out of the aluminum can full of other peoples farts, I guess they are welcome to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>criley2</author><text>When you&#x27;ve already locked down your citizens, control all guns, and record their wrongthink in databases linked to credit and their livelihoods, there&#x27;s probably less danger at any one point.<p>Hell there aren&#x27;t mass shootings in China either. Again, authoritarians often cite Order as the result of just giving in to their oppressive tactics.</text></comment> | <story><title>American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/american-airlines-planes-entertainment-system-cameras</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ngngngng</author><text>For all the crap we give China and their authoritarian government, airport security is FAR easier at every Chinese airport I&#x27;ve been to. Walk through a metal detector and get a quick non-invasive pat down.</text></item><item><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>They already take a high resolution back scatter shot of my genitals on the way in, what&#x27;s a little more humiliation among friends? If they want to spend 6 hours watching me make pained expressions as I shift and turn and feel the bits that make me human slowly slip away, leaving me a crippled, grunting inhuman beast by the time I get out of the aluminum can full of other peoples farts, I guess they are welcome to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seppin</author><text>&gt; For all the crap we give China and their authoritarian government, airport security is FAR easier at every Chinese airport I&#x27;ve been to. Walk through a metal detector and get a quick non-invasive pat down.<p>flying domestically I had my eyes scanned and thumb print taken, and was tracked more or less everywhere I went.<p>Are you arguing this is a good thing?</text></comment> |
41,306,566 | 41,303,091 | 1 | 2 | 41,302,597 | train | <story><title>Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection</title><url>https://promptarmor.substack.com/p/data-exfiltration-from-slack-ai-via</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>The key thing to understand here is the exfiltration vector.<p>Slack can render Markdown links, where the URL is hidden behind the text of that link.<p>In this case the attacker tricks Slack AI into showing a user a link that says something like &quot;click here to reauthenticate&quot; - the URL attached to that link goes to the attacker&#x27;s server, with a query string that includes private information that was visible to Slack AI as part of the context it has access to.<p>If the user falls for the trick and clicks the link, the data will be exfiltrated to the attacker&#x27;s server logs.<p>Here&#x27;s my attempt at explaining this attack: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2024&#x2F;Aug&#x2F;20&#x2F;data-exfiltration-from-slack-ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2024&#x2F;Aug&#x2F;20&#x2F;data-exfiltration-from...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wunderwuzzi23</author><text>For bots in Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram,... there is actually another exfiltration vector called &quot;unfurling&quot;!<p>All an attacker has to do is render a hyperlink, no clicking needed. I discussed this and how to mitigate it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;embracethered.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2024&#x2F;the-dangers-of-unfurling-and-what-you-can-do-about-it&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;embracethered.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2024&#x2F;the-dangers-of-unf...</a><p>So, hopefully Slack AI does not automatically unfurl links...</text></comment> | <story><title>Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection</title><url>https://promptarmor.substack.com/p/data-exfiltration-from-slack-ai-via</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>The key thing to understand here is the exfiltration vector.<p>Slack can render Markdown links, where the URL is hidden behind the text of that link.<p>In this case the attacker tricks Slack AI into showing a user a link that says something like &quot;click here to reauthenticate&quot; - the URL attached to that link goes to the attacker&#x27;s server, with a query string that includes private information that was visible to Slack AI as part of the context it has access to.<p>If the user falls for the trick and clicks the link, the data will be exfiltrated to the attacker&#x27;s server logs.<p>Here&#x27;s my attempt at explaining this attack: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2024&#x2F;Aug&#x2F;20&#x2F;data-exfiltration-from-slack-ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2024&#x2F;Aug&#x2F;20&#x2F;data-exfiltration-from...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjnoakes</author><text>It gets even worse when platforms blindly render img tags or the equivalent. Then no user interaction is required to exfil - just showing the image in the UI is enough.</text></comment> |
6,992,581 | 6,991,491 | 1 | 3 | 6,990,518 | train | <story><title>Mac Pro Late 2013 Teardown</title><url>http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+Late+2013+Teardown/20778</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sjtgraham</author><text>No <a href="http://bgr.com/2013/12/26/mac-pro-windows-diy-cost/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bgr.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;26&#x2F;mac-pro-windows-diy-cost&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>The Apple markup is large.</text></item><item><author>josephlord</author><text>Xeon processors don&#x27;t seem to drop in price the way the consumer ones do so you might not save as much as you expect.<p>Edit: It may still be worth buying the base model now and upgrading immediately if the Apple markup is large.</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>I&#x27;m probably going to be buying one of these today so I&#x27;ve been doing a bit of research. Turns out most everything is user replaceable; most importantly, the processor. So you can save your self a fair bit of cash by buying the base model and upgrading later as needed, which is what I intend to do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>This is a game the pro-Apple press loves to play - cherry pick parts for the PC based upon comparison to the often unique part numbers Apple uses (and which they buy in bulk) and ignore arbitrage.<p>How much would a MacPro comparable to this Dell cost?<p><pre><code> Dell Precision T7600
$12,697.60
Two Intel® Xeon® Processors E5-2687W (Eight Core, 3.1GHz, 20M, 8.0 GT&#x2F;s, Turbo+)
128GB, DDR3 RDIMM Memory,1600MHz, ECC (8 x 16GB DIMMs)
Dual 4.0GB NVIDIA® Quadro® K5000, Dual MON, 2 DP &amp; 1 DVI
PERC H310 for Dell Precision, SATA&#x2F;SAS 6Gb&#x2F;s, RAID 0&#x2F;1&#x2F;5&#x2F;10 (8 ports)
Dual 512GB, 2.5&quot; SATA 6Gb&#x2F;s Solid State Drive
6X Blu-ray Disc (BD-RE) Burner
Speakers Dell AX210 Speakers
3 Year ProSupport Service with 3 Year NBD Onsite Service after Remote Diagnosis
3 Year Accidental Damage Service
</code></pre>
If the rules of the game were reversed, you&#x27;d have to buy two 64GB MacPros, an external Blu-Ray burner, and go to a third party for a three year accidental damage contract and a third party for three years of Next Business Day onsite service.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mac Pro Late 2013 Teardown</title><url>http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+Late+2013+Teardown/20778</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sjtgraham</author><text>No <a href="http://bgr.com/2013/12/26/mac-pro-windows-diy-cost/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bgr.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;26&#x2F;mac-pro-windows-diy-cost&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>The Apple markup is large.</text></item><item><author>josephlord</author><text>Xeon processors don&#x27;t seem to drop in price the way the consumer ones do so you might not save as much as you expect.<p>Edit: It may still be worth buying the base model now and upgrading immediately if the Apple markup is large.</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>I&#x27;m probably going to be buying one of these today so I&#x27;ve been doing a bit of research. Turns out most everything is user replaceable; most importantly, the processor. So you can save your self a fair bit of cash by buying the base model and upgrading later as needed, which is what I intend to do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jtsummers</author><text>For the whole machine, but a quick check of the configuration on the processor (and <i>only</i> the processor):<p>Base system options:<p><pre><code> 3.7GHz quad-core with 10MB of L3 cache
3.5GHz 6-core with 12MB of L3 cache [Add $500.00]
3.0GHz 8-core with 25MB of L3 cache [Add $2,000.00]
2.7GHz 12-core with 30MB of L3 cache [Add $3,500.00]
</code></pre>
[1] seems to be equivalent to the 12-core option at Newegg. So purchased there it&#x27;s $2750, a savings of some $750 (less tax and shipping) versus the upgrade option through Apple. The <i>overall</i> price is better than a DIY equivalent, but for the components this path can still make a difference.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116925" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newegg.com&#x2F;Product&#x2F;Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116...</a></text></comment> |
20,072,002 | 20,071,202 | 1 | 2 | 20,070,666 | train | <story><title>Net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996: study</title><url>https://thehill.com/policy/finance/446372-net-worth-of-americans-aged-18-to-35-has-dropped-34-percent-since-1996-study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>I suspect that a large part of that has to do with student loans, which have grown by a huge multiple since 1996. With compounding interest it takes longer to recover from school.<p>I know I graduated with $75k loans at 8% interest. Even with say, a $100k salary, just the interest eats ~7% of the income. With the total payments being somewhere around 12% of your income. Combine that with increased taxes over the same time and a 34% reduction in worth seems about right (if we account for the loss in compounding interest from buying a home, 401k investments, etc)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsanr2</author><text>This is certainly a factor, but I think HN&#x27;s main demographic tends to overestimate the effect of college-related issues on the fortunes of the general population, where college graduates are still a minority. I imagine that the most important factor is the lowered rate of home-ownership.</text></comment> | <story><title>Net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996: study</title><url>https://thehill.com/policy/finance/446372-net-worth-of-americans-aged-18-to-35-has-dropped-34-percent-since-1996-study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>I suspect that a large part of that has to do with student loans, which have grown by a huge multiple since 1996. With compounding interest it takes longer to recover from school.<p>I know I graduated with $75k loans at 8% interest. Even with say, a $100k salary, just the interest eats ~7% of the income. With the total payments being somewhere around 12% of your income. Combine that with increased taxes over the same time and a 34% reduction in worth seems about right (if we account for the loss in compounding interest from buying a home, 401k investments, etc)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>Especially if your measurement is net worth. A new college graduate today isn&#x27;t just broke, she&#x27;s personally insolvent and will be for the next few years.</text></comment> |
17,009,836 | 17,009,564 | 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>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>gerbilly</author><text>&gt; stagnation in one&#x27;s daily routine caused by one&#x27;s job.<p>Definitely this.<p>We let work take way too much time from our lives.<p>If you count commuting, the <i>minimum</i> 8 hours at work (more like minimum 10) then work can eat up to 12 hrs&#x2F;day.<p>On top of that us &#x27;knowledge workers&#x27; carry our work around in our heads all the time.<p>It&#x27;s not as though after 8hrs we just put the wrench down and go home, no the ongoing problems of work follow us around and even toss and turn us in our dreams sometimes.<p>To me this is unacceptable.<p>The way that we employ our working hours is a waste of time[1] on a colossal scale, and for little benefit to humanity most of the time.<p>[1] Literally the finite precious time we each have on earth.</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>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>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></comment> |
11,905,228 | 11,904,800 | 1 | 3 | 11,902,342 | train | <story><title>The Antikythera mechanism is still revealing its secrets</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/14/the-worlds-oldest-computer-is-still-revealing-its-secrets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>conchy</author><text>Can anyone with free access post the PDFs from the Almagest journal articles? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hpdst.gr&#x2F;publications&#x2F;almagest&#x2F;issues&#x2F;7-1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hpdst.gr&#x2F;publications&#x2F;almagest&#x2F;issues&#x2F;7-1</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Antikythera mechanism is still revealing its secrets</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/14/the-worlds-oldest-computer-is-still-revealing-its-secrets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elorant</author><text>Here&#x27;s a replica of the device made out of Legos<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RLPVCJjTNgk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RLPVCJjTNgk</a></text></comment> |
31,615,276 | 31,614,091 | 1 | 2 | 31,613,624 | train | <story><title>WorldWideWeb.app</title><url>https://blog.iconfactory.com/2022/06/worldwideweb-part-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tambourine_man</author><text>I believe bonjour .local domains and DNS work on Windows by default, right?<p>If so, that&#x27;s a great way of sharing files from iOS to Windows on a local network<p>Edit: just downloaded and tested, it works on Debian Linux out of the box, zero conf stuff is installed by default, I guess. This is very cool. The app is stupendous in every way. Major kudos.</text></comment> | <story><title>WorldWideWeb.app</title><url>https://blog.iconfactory.com/2022/06/worldwideweb-part-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steve_adams_86</author><text>This is really cool! Nice work.<p>I wonder what it would take to get live-reloading into this without anything special added by the user.<p>I think you&#x27;d be able to add a JS snippet that listens for server pushes (you&#x27;d push when the file system changed, I guess), then reload using window.location? Not ideal though, you&#x27;d need to inject that into the page or do something weird like output everything in an iframe.<p>People love their live reloads though, and a lot of people who benefit from it aren&#x27;t really sure how to implement it. It would be cool to have an opt-in, no-code solution.</text></comment> |
7,654,298 | 7,654,353 | 1 | 2 | 7,654,141 | train | <story><title>FPV with Oculus Rift and a Quadcopter</title><url>https://github.com/Matsemann/oculus-fpv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matsemann</author><text>Wow, cool that someone is sharing our project! It&#x27;s for a course at my university called &quot;experts in teams&quot; where they combine master students from many programs in teams and give them tasks. A video with more shoots is available[1].<p>We got UAVs for the Norwegian oil industry as a task, and explored how they can be flown better in the future. Other teams with the same task made other cool stuff as well, for instance a custom drone for geological mapping. [2]<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANSjwWomIJ8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ANSjwWomIJ8</a>
[2]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5di01L1mot8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5di01L1mot8</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FPV with Oculus Rift and a Quadcopter</title><url>https://github.com/Matsemann/oculus-fpv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baddox</author><text>This idea has been buzzing around the FPV community since the Oculus Rift was first announced. There have been a few barebones setups, but this is the first fully-fledged implementation I&#x27;ve seen.<p>It&#x27;s a fun usage for VR goggles and a great build project, but it&#x27;s honestly not super useful, even for hobby flying. Any quadcopter you&#x27;re flying with a head tracker is going to be so far away from other objects that the 3D effect will be minimal. The 3D might be great for zipping quickly through trees&#x2F;obstacles like a pod racer [0], but for that you don&#x27;t dare use head tracking.<p>[0] <a href="http://youtu.be/xlKrabm5Exg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;xlKrabm5Exg</a></text></comment> |
28,632,780 | 28,632,117 | 1 | 2 | 28,630,209 | train | <story><title>Reactive Clojure: A web language</title><url>https://hyperfiddle.notion.site/hyperfiddle/Reactive-Clojure-You-don-t-need-a-web-framework-you-need-a-web-language-44b5bfa526be4af282863f34fa1cfffc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delegate</author><text>This is not reinvention of PHP as some are commenting.
In fact I think this is extremely cool.<p>If I understand it correctly, it allows you to achieve reactive data flow in a single page app without any boilerplate.<p>Meaning - you update the database on the server and all the relevant UI(s) will automatically receive the updated data and re-render only the parts of the UI that display that data.<p>This would require a ton of PHP and Javascript dealing with networking, websockets, routing, serializing data and so on.<p>Haven&#x27;t tried it yet, but very curious to see if it works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>namdnay</author><text>The problem with this type of system in my experience is that it’s great until you hit a bug, and then you realize you have no idea what’s going on under all the automagical stuff and you go crazy</text></comment> | <story><title>Reactive Clojure: A web language</title><url>https://hyperfiddle.notion.site/hyperfiddle/Reactive-Clojure-You-don-t-need-a-web-framework-you-need-a-web-language-44b5bfa526be4af282863f34fa1cfffc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delegate</author><text>This is not reinvention of PHP as some are commenting.
In fact I think this is extremely cool.<p>If I understand it correctly, it allows you to achieve reactive data flow in a single page app without any boilerplate.<p>Meaning - you update the database on the server and all the relevant UI(s) will automatically receive the updated data and re-render only the parts of the UI that display that data.<p>This would require a ton of PHP and Javascript dealing with networking, websockets, routing, serializing data and so on.<p>Haven&#x27;t tried it yet, but very curious to see if it works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>So more like Liveview for Phoenix &#x2F; Elixir is what this kind of sounds like to me, and less so back-end mainly language like PHP.</text></comment> |
25,348,888 | 25,348,886 | 1 | 2 | 25,348,506 | train | <story><title>GitHub Releases Dark Mode</title><url>https://github.com/settings/appearance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnabgib</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t [the blog post)[0] be a better link then the settings panel?<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.blog&#x2F;2020-12-08-new-from-universe-2020-dark-mode-github-sponsors-for-companies-and-more&#x2F;#dark-mode" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.blog&#x2F;2020-12-08-new-from-universe-2020-dark-m...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>da_big_ghey</author><text>I think the settings link is useful too; it allowed me to click on it and immediately flip the setting in question, which was exactly what I wanted. The blog post doesn&#x27;t really contain anything more than, &quot;We have dark mode now,&quot; anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub Releases Dark Mode</title><url>https://github.com/settings/appearance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnabgib</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t [the blog post)[0] be a better link then the settings panel?<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.blog&#x2F;2020-12-08-new-from-universe-2020-dark-mode-github-sponsors-for-companies-and-more&#x2F;#dark-mode" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.blog&#x2F;2020-12-08-new-from-universe-2020-dark-m...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>llimos</author><text>I <i>love</i> how it goes to the settings panel. Kudos m1.<p>Two clicks from the HN homepage and it&#x27;s done. Informed and improved in one go!</text></comment> |
22,070,986 | 22,069,549 | 1 | 2 | 22,066,152 | train | <story><title>SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00041-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fastball</author><text>What <i>useful</i> science has been achieved in the last 100 years thanks to astronomy?<p>Meanwhile, what kind of useful science do you think can be facilitated by globally accessible high-speed internet? The value generated by such a network is clearly orders of magnitude more useful than observing the cosmos, at this juncture of human endeavor. Not too mention that Starlink will allow SpaceX to re-invest more and more money into space launches &#x2F; space travel. I&#x27;d much prefer humans actually visit other celestial bodies rather than just staring at them.</text></item><item><author>Mangalor</author><text>&quot;nonsense reasons&quot;<p>You mean...&quot;Science&quot;?</text></item><item><author>ZhuanXia</author><text>Astronomers will have to get used to this. If we ban these for such nonsense reasons, it will be Chinese satellites blocking their view.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BinaryAsteroid</author><text>The internet was created in a particle-physics laboratory: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;World_Wide_Web" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;World_Wide_Web</a><p>In the last 100 years, advances in particle physics have been aided by our study of high-energy mechanisms in the universe (nuclear fusion in star systems, supernovae, acceleration of the expansion of the universe, etc.)..<p>so you have internet thanks, in part, to astronomy..<p>what a silly comment..</text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00041-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fastball</author><text>What <i>useful</i> science has been achieved in the last 100 years thanks to astronomy?<p>Meanwhile, what kind of useful science do you think can be facilitated by globally accessible high-speed internet? The value generated by such a network is clearly orders of magnitude more useful than observing the cosmos, at this juncture of human endeavor. Not too mention that Starlink will allow SpaceX to re-invest more and more money into space launches &#x2F; space travel. I&#x27;d much prefer humans actually visit other celestial bodies rather than just staring at them.</text></item><item><author>Mangalor</author><text>&quot;nonsense reasons&quot;<p>You mean...&quot;Science&quot;?</text></item><item><author>ZhuanXia</author><text>Astronomers will have to get used to this. If we ban these for such nonsense reasons, it will be Chinese satellites blocking their view.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SiempreViernes</author><text>We pretty much <i>have</i> globally accessible high speed internet though, and poverty is the main factor blocking significant further access, not mountains.</text></comment> |
11,021,996 | 11,021,295 | 1 | 2 | 11,017,587 | train | <story><title>The Controversial State of JavaScript Tooling</title><url>https://ponyfoo.com/articles/controversial-state-of-javascript-tooling</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chipotle_coyote</author><text>Something that&#x27;s been concerning me about the current approach to web development in particular is the accumulation of unacknowledged -- and increasingly unmeasurable -- technical debt.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s <i>precisely</i> the right phrase, but here&#x27;s what I mean: we all (should) know about technical debt in our own projects, but we also know that every project accumulates technical debt. When we build our projects on top of other projects, our work now has the potential to be affected by the technical debt -- bugs, poor optimizations, whatever -- in the underlying projects.<p>Obviously, this has always been true to varying degrees. But we&#x27;ve reached a point where modern web applications are pulling in <i>dozens</i> of dependencies in both production and development toolchains, and increasingly those dependencies are themselves built on top of <i>other</i> dependencies.<p>I don&#x27;t want to suggest we should be writing everything from scratch and constantly re-inventing wheels, but when even modest applications end up with hundreds of subdirectories in their local &quot;node_modules&quot; directory, it&#x27;s hard not to wonder whether we&#x27;re making things a little...fragile, even taking into account that many of those modules are related and form part of the same pseudo-modular project. Is this a completely ridiculous concern? (The answer may well be &quot;yes,&quot; but I&#x27;d like to see a good argument why.)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Controversial State of JavaScript Tooling</title><url>https://ponyfoo.com/articles/controversial-state-of-javascript-tooling</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lhnz</author><text>The problem with hypermodularization is that it takes time to make a decision on what module to use for every task. If you have to to do this with 100s of modules, you&#x27;re wasting a lot of valuable time.<p>Does anybody know a quick way of making the right decision?<p>NPM is like a crowded graveyard nowadays (or like .com domain names - where all of the good module names have been taken along time ago and now all the best practice modules have completely irrelevant names). There are thousands of buggy modules in which development has stalled, and it&#x27;s easy to waste a lot of time trying to separate the wheat from the chaff. I personally sometimes have to open up 5+ Github repositories to check their last commit, number of contributors, interfaces, code quality, unanswered issues, etc. Only after doing so am I able to make a decision.<p>In terms of knowing what&#x27;s cutting-edge practice it seems you have to watch Twitter a lot and be careful not to follow every single bad idea.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine what it&#x27;ll be like to search for a module to handle something as common as config in a couple of years. Even when you constrain yourself to something like &#x27;12 factor config&#x27; there are many different implementations.<p>Don&#x27;t even get me started on the insane assembly required to get webpack-, babel-, cssmodules-, and postcss- to all work together.<p>The problem is only going to get worse.</text></comment> |
25,561,666 | 25,559,272 | 1 | 2 | 25,559,063 | train | <story><title>Stealing private documents through a bug in Google Docs</title><url>https://savebreach.com/stealing-private-documents-through-a-google-docs-bug/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jackconsidine</author><text>A few years ago, I built a platform for a client that allowed his customers to show a &quot;Text Me&quot; widget on their websites; the software handled all of the SMS &#x2F; messaging and basically substituted conventional contact form or Intercom integration.<p>His customers used Google AdSense, who started blocking them until they removed the widget. The reason? This widget used an Iframe postMessage, but appropriately specified the singular sandboxed domain. As expected, we never were able to speak with a human at Google- they just sent my clients customers intimidating emails about a security flaw on their websites.<p>Seeing Google abuse the postMessage API with a wildcard argument after this fiasco is maddening! If only they were held to their own arbitrary and vague standards.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stealing private documents through a bug in Google Docs</title><url>https://savebreach.com/stealing-private-documents-through-a-google-docs-bug/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xyst</author><text>This was a bug that affected multiple products and even crossed into the enterprise suite and google only rewarded $3.3K USD?<p>It’s almost as bad as Apple’s reward program</text></comment> |
18,204,479 | 18,201,875 | 1 | 2 | 18,201,511 | train | <story><title>No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-08/google-privacy-glitch-no-we-did-not-consent-to-this</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianmonk</author><text>From the article:<p>&gt; <i>Google might agree to let a random online shopping company scan what I’m typing into Gmail, but I did not agree.</i><p>Google might, in the sense that they could start, but Google doesn&#x27;t do (and never has done) what is described.<p>First of all, Google has never let companies scan what you type. It did let companies target based on content of messages, but that involves advertisers sharing targeting information with Google, not Google sharing email content with advertisers.<p>Second of all, even that stopped last year. From the Google announcement:<p>&gt; <i>G Suite’s Gmail is already not used as input for ads personalization, and Google has decided to follow suit later this year in our free consumer Gmail service. Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change. This decision brings Gmail ads in line with how we personalize ads for other Google products.</i><p>( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;products&#x2F;gmail&#x2F;g-suite-gains-traction-in-the-enterprise-g-suites-gmail-and-consumer-gmail-to-more-closely-align&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;products&#x2F;gmail&#x2F;g-suite-gains-traction-in...</a> )</text></comment> | <story><title>No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-08/google-privacy-glitch-no-we-did-not-consent-to-this</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leereeves</author><text>Can we really continue to claim that we&#x27;re unaware Google, Facebook, and other web companies are monitoring everything they can and sharing the information they collect, sometimes for profit, sometimes accidentally, and sometimes compelled by legal orders?<p>This isn&#x27;t merely a legal technicality hidden in the terms of service. We know they&#x27;re doing it, and by continuing to use the service we are consenting, however unhappily.</text></comment> |
13,229,040 | 13,227,940 | 1 | 2 | 13,227,078 | train | <story><title>PostgreSQL anti-patterns: read-modify-write cycles (2014)</title><url>http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/postgresql-anti-patterns-read-modify-write-cycles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rejschaap</author><text>Another solution is to not use update statements at all. Obviously this involves some changes to the tables. And it defers the balance calculation to query time.<p>Analogous to the example from the article:<p><pre><code> create table transaction (user_id integer, amount integer);
insert into transaction values (1, -100);
select sum(amount) as balance from transaction;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eveningcoffee</author><text>This approach is good if you do not have to apply some check on the balance before inserting a new transaction. If you do (say verifying that balance does not go negative) then you have at least two options:<p>1) you make transactions serialized<p><pre><code> BEGIN ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE;
select sum(amount) as balance from transaction where user_id = 1;
-- do something with balance
insert into transaction values (1, -100);
COMMIT;
</code></pre>
2) or you use row level locking on an additional table (say user, while this conflicts with the system table user, but for the sake of the example we assume this is not the case) to serialize the access.<p><pre><code> BEGIN;
select user_id from user where user_id = 1 for update;
select sum(amount) as balance from transaction where user_id = 1;
-- do something with balance
insert into transaction values (1, -100);
COMMIT;
</code></pre>
Now it may be tempting to change this to<p><pre><code> BEGIN;
select balance from user where user_id = 1 for update;
-- do something with balance
update user set balance = balance + (-100) where user_id = 1;
insert into transaction values (1, -100);
COMMIT;
</code></pre>
Just for clarity: in most cases you should register your transaction event anyway (with a time stamp) for later auditing, but you now will have a risk of introducing inconsistencies between calculated balance and transactions due to the programming errors (that is partially committed transactions).<p>Also you should obviously create proper primary keys and indexes.<p>Also you should include proper error&#x2F;exception handling.<p>Also if you already do locking, then you could also consider different locking strategies described in the article.</text></comment> | <story><title>PostgreSQL anti-patterns: read-modify-write cycles (2014)</title><url>http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/postgresql-anti-patterns-read-modify-write-cycles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rejschaap</author><text>Another solution is to not use update statements at all. Obviously this involves some changes to the tables. And it defers the balance calculation to query time.<p>Analogous to the example from the article:<p><pre><code> create table transaction (user_id integer, amount integer);
insert into transaction values (1, -100);
select sum(amount) as balance from transaction;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yomly</author><text>I like this idea as I am pro-history keeping and prefer not to make irreversible changes like an update.<p>What are the space concerns for keeping data in this way? For something like a retail bank (audit issues aside which probably make this necessary anyway) does space suddenly become a big factor?</text></comment> |
40,917,379 | 40,917,129 | 1 | 2 | 40,916,260 | train | <story><title>Evolve Bank and Trust confirms LockBit stole 7.6M people's data</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/09/evolve_lockbit_attack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lowkey_</author><text>Can someone explain why in the world Evolve has my data? (I use Mercury and Wise for my company). I tried going to their website and I&#x27;m still completely clueless.<p>Edit: Apparently Mercury was using Evolve as their banking partner. I know this is super common w&#x2F; online neobanks, but I&#x27;m really confused as to why they always choose the most random obscure bank. Why not partner with a major bank, or Column?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trollbridge</author><text>An act of Congress (I believe it was Dodd-Frank) capped debit card fees at a very low amount (fractions of a precent). An exception was left in for small banks to continue to charge credit-card-like rates for debit cards, around 2%.<p>Since then, every fintech has had essentially the same business model:<p>- Come up with some kind of &quot;innovative&quot; thing to sell consumers on that results in them generating debit card transactions. (Online bank account, instant international money transfer, loan, etc.) - the trick is that to get the money, you swipe that debit card.<p>- Partner with some small bank so that they are one the one providing the debit card. The law essentially has a loophole on it allowing this.<p>- The fintech company sets up essentially everything, with all the small bank does is have automated accounts created for cardholders when the fintech&#x27;s software says so. No money is kept in the customer account until the moment of that debit card swipe - then it is instantly transferred in and instantly transferred back out for the payment.<p>- This requires reserves, but the fintechs and small banks collaborate on how to get good interest on the reserves involved.<p>There are now fintechs which offer &quot;fintech as a service&quot; which will set all of this up for a tiny bank who can then offer this to any other fintech with almost no involvement from the tiny bank. All they have to do is sign a few papers.<p>The definition of a big or small bank is based on the amount on deposit, so they are careful to not actually have any money on deposit.<p>Congress needs to correct this abuse, immediately, and only allow the larger debit card fees for traditional checking accounts held by consumers where the money involved is held on deposit at that bank.<p>Edit: one of the major problems here is that small banks are often not staffed for adequate cybersecurity for global operations like these; they do just fine doing hometown community banking, but are very vulnerable to being cracked like this. Yet another reason small banks that are providing big-bank services should be regulated like big banks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Evolve Bank and Trust confirms LockBit stole 7.6M people's data</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/09/evolve_lockbit_attack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lowkey_</author><text>Can someone explain why in the world Evolve has my data? (I use Mercury and Wise for my company). I tried going to their website and I&#x27;m still completely clueless.<p>Edit: Apparently Mercury was using Evolve as their banking partner. I know this is super common w&#x2F; online neobanks, but I&#x27;m really confused as to why they always choose the most random obscure bank. Why not partner with a major bank, or Column?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ibash</author><text>Fintechs partner with banks like evolve to do the actual banking.<p>So when you open an account with mercury, under the hood they’re opening an bank account with a bank and sending transactions through it.<p>There’s a lot of kyc&#x2F;kyb regulation around financial services. Eg banks can’t provide services to certain people. So the underlying bank needs to know who you are.<p>&gt; Why not partner with a major bank, or Column?<p>Column didn’t exist when mercury was founded. And it’s not that easy to secure a banking partner. Its not like signing up for a free checking account.</text></comment> |
28,616,824 | 28,616,548 | 1 | 2 | 28,616,134 | train | <story><title>Stop Reading News (2013)</title><url>https://fs.blog/2013/12/stop-reading-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burlesona</author><text>That’s very interesting. Do you have any recommendations for global news coverage in languages other than English?</text></item><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>My personal rule is that I only consume news in a language I don&#x27;t speak well.<p>It&#x27;s tiring, which discourages doomscrolling and the like. It tends to be less psychologically troublesome, because reporters tend to be less melodramatic about news that doesn&#x27;t directly involve members of their core audience. And, even when it&#x27;s crap journalism that has absolutely no other merit, it&#x27;s still good language practice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eynsham</author><text><i>Le Monde diplomatique</i> is not strictly a news publication but is a rather interesting read. It also has editions in Spanish.<p>If you can read Chinese well enough, some of the Hong Kong press is still quite vibrant and interesting: see e.g. the <i>Hong Kong Economic Journal</i> and <i>Ming Pao</i> (that’s probably about it, alas.)<p>There are some good public broadcasters mentioned in another reply. I’d also recommend the output of Arte (<i>Association relative à la télévision européenne</i>), France Culture, and France Musique.<p>I have occasionally listened to Radio Liban 96.2 to listen to other accents but to be honest the presenters sound like they speak perfect Parisian French to me (if not the interviewees). Some of their programmes are interesting.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop Reading News (2013)</title><url>https://fs.blog/2013/12/stop-reading-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burlesona</author><text>That’s very interesting. Do you have any recommendations for global news coverage in languages other than English?</text></item><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>My personal rule is that I only consume news in a language I don&#x27;t speak well.<p>It&#x27;s tiring, which discourages doomscrolling and the like. It tends to be less psychologically troublesome, because reporters tend to be less melodramatic about news that doesn&#x27;t directly involve members of their core audience. And, even when it&#x27;s crap journalism that has absolutely no other merit, it&#x27;s still good language practice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jgwil2</author><text>Not OP but most Western European countries have a public broadcasting company that can be a good source (e.g. France 24 for French, DW for German) if you are learning one of those languages.</text></comment> |
18,381,498 | 18,381,270 | 1 | 3 | 18,381,004 | train | <story><title>Two major research funders to bar grantees from publishing in hybrid journals</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/win-open-access-two-major-funders-bar-grantees-publishing-hybrid-journals</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Vinnl</author><text>I just read Wellcome&#x27;s announcement [1], which has this interesting bit:<p>&gt; We will no longer cover the cost of OA publishing in subscription journals (‘hybrid OA’). We previously supported this model, but no longer believe that it supports a transition to full OA.<p>Whereas Plan S, IIRC, explicitly stated that research funded by them could not be published in hybrid journals, Wellcome merely states that they will not cover the cost - implying that well-resourced researchers are still allowed to use other funds to publish there?<p>Another interesting part of their OA policy is that they require organisations they fund to commit to DORA, i.e. to work towards not judging researchers on the names of the journals they publish in, but on the inherent quality of their work. In my opinion, this is the largest problem that is currently holding back the transition to open access and many other problems in science. (Disclaimer: I work on a project that hopes to solve this problem as well.)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wellcome.ac.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;wellcome-updating-its-open-access-policy?utm_source=twitterShare" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wellcome.ac.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;wellcome-updating-its-open-acces...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Two major research funders to bar grantees from publishing in hybrid journals</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/win-open-access-two-major-funders-bar-grantees-publishing-hybrid-journals</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sonnyblarney</author><text>Bravo, this is a huge deal, more to likely follow, it rather seems a secular shift is inevitable at least in some manner. One wonders where this will end and what it will mean for classical publishing. In my experience, incumbent industries are more powerful than we&#x27;d imagine, and I&#x27;ll bet that rather than witnessing classical publishing overturned, we&#x27;ll just arrive at some kind of new equilibrium.</text></comment> |
38,034,461 | 38,034,492 | 1 | 2 | 38,033,736 | train | <story><title>We have decided to pause driverless operations across all of our fleets</title><url>https://twitter.com/Cruise/status/1717707807460393022</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>“What incredible inconvenience are we trying to solve?”<p>40,000 deaths in the United States every year.
Hundreds of thousands of costly accidents<p>We can’t get great transportation even in the New York City area. We have 0 miles of high-speed rail, while China built 25,000<p>it’s great that you want to start building some mass transit, but it’ll take a century if we start now.<p>Let’s start by having trains take you to the airport directly…<p>In the meantime, getting self driving cars that are all electric will be a big win. Perhaps car ownership will drop.</text></item><item><author>polalavik</author><text>Out of all the tech problems to solve, driverless cars or driverless taxis has always baffled me. It’s a very complex thing to solve with a zillion edge cases. And for what net gain? What incredible inconvenience are we trying to solve? Lack of good public transit? Let’s solve that instead.<p>Millions of cars driverless or not are not a great solution to anything.</text></item><item><author>xnx</author><text>This is a good move on Cruise&#x27;s part. Cruise is still nowhere near the maturity level that Waymo was at when Waymo first started driving on public roads.<p>On the other hand, we definitely need a real competitor to Waymo. It doesn&#x27;t seem likely, but hopefully some combination of Cruise, Apple(?), Tesla, or another player will be able to have a feasible alternative to Waymo&#x27;s Driver.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>piffey</author><text>There are over 30 US cities with trains to the airport. Another half dozen on the way. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_airport_rail_link_systems" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_airport_rail_link_syst...</a><p>US also has almost 350 miles of high speed rail, not 0. The Northeast is where it’s all concentrated with Acela being the fastest.<p>If you live in a major city in the States it’s often way easier and faster to take rail. In Seattle for instance you can beat a driver to the airport every time during traffic. Hell even the LAX station in Los Angeles of all places will be available end of 2024 and that’s the most notorious car centric city in this country. The subway in LA keeps seeing ridership growth. I don’t even rent a car when I visit anymore. Everywhere I want to go is serviced.<p>Lastly NYC is one of the most serviced by transit areas in the world? Are you living in an alternate universe?<p>Mass transit is the solution. It’s vastly cheaper to build, moves more people, and far safer. I’ve got a highway interchange by my house that’s taken a decade to finish while they’ve ran rail and built four stations in that time. That’s a perfectly fine pace given our slow building system with environmental review and the like.</text></comment> | <story><title>We have decided to pause driverless operations across all of our fleets</title><url>https://twitter.com/Cruise/status/1717707807460393022</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>“What incredible inconvenience are we trying to solve?”<p>40,000 deaths in the United States every year.
Hundreds of thousands of costly accidents<p>We can’t get great transportation even in the New York City area. We have 0 miles of high-speed rail, while China built 25,000<p>it’s great that you want to start building some mass transit, but it’ll take a century if we start now.<p>Let’s start by having trains take you to the airport directly…<p>In the meantime, getting self driving cars that are all electric will be a big win. Perhaps car ownership will drop.</text></item><item><author>polalavik</author><text>Out of all the tech problems to solve, driverless cars or driverless taxis has always baffled me. It’s a very complex thing to solve with a zillion edge cases. And for what net gain? What incredible inconvenience are we trying to solve? Lack of good public transit? Let’s solve that instead.<p>Millions of cars driverless or not are not a great solution to anything.</text></item><item><author>xnx</author><text>This is a good move on Cruise&#x27;s part. Cruise is still nowhere near the maturity level that Waymo was at when Waymo first started driving on public roads.<p>On the other hand, we definitely need a real competitor to Waymo. It doesn&#x27;t seem likely, but hopefully some combination of Cruise, Apple(?), Tesla, or another player will be able to have a feasible alternative to Waymo&#x27;s Driver.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>&gt; Let’s start by having trains take you to the airport directly…<p>I thought the US had legalised those now, so they&#x27;ll happen as new systems come online.<p>&gt; In the meantime, getting self driving cars that are all electric will be a big win.<p>Why? They&#x27;re still going to take up as much road space (maybe even more, since they&#x27;ll be moving around empty half the time). They&#x27;ll still be spewing particulate pollution around our city centres - maybe more since they&#x27;ll be heavier. They&#x27;ll be consuming vast amounts of rare earths that could deliver much more benefit if used for electric bikes.<p>Self-driving electric cars will deliver at best a marginal safety improvement and a marginal reduction in whole-life emissions. There are much better ways to improve cities, transport, and lives: road-use pricing, bicycle priority at junctions, better parking laws, building more transit...</text></comment> |
38,046,402 | 38,045,039 | 1 | 2 | 38,043,033 | train | <story><title>Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript</title><url>https://goose.icu/introducing-shadow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EvanAnderson</author><text>There&#x27;s a product here that&#x27;s been waiting to happen for awhile. I&#x27;ve been anticipating somebody cross-compiling another browser engine to WASM but this works, too.<p>Deliver your site only to the &quot;inner browser&quot; (that the user has no control over because it&#x27;s heavily obfuscated and tricked-out with anti-debugging code) and you eliminate all ad blockers. Throw some DNS-over-HTTPS w&#x2F; certificate pinning in for good measure and you kill DNS-based ad blockers too.<p>Accessibility will be a challenge but if it sells that&#x27;ll get &quot;fixed&quot;.<p>(I think this idea is evil, BTW, but somebody is going to do it.)<p>Edit: As an aside this needs to go here, too. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the-birth-and-death-of-javascript" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the-birth-and-death...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>Hopefully that will be literally illegal due to accessibility concerns.<p>Doesn&#x27;t matter either way. Can&#x27;t wait for AI-powered ad blocking. Just imagine it. AI parses content and filters out ads, brands, even subtle PR text from pages automatically. Not just textual content either. It also kills ads in audio, video, images.<p>If I can imagine it, it must be possible. I&#x27;m sure someone much smarter than me will create this at some point. Perhaps this comment will inspire that person.</text></comment> | <story><title>Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript</title><url>https://goose.icu/introducing-shadow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EvanAnderson</author><text>There&#x27;s a product here that&#x27;s been waiting to happen for awhile. I&#x27;ve been anticipating somebody cross-compiling another browser engine to WASM but this works, too.<p>Deliver your site only to the &quot;inner browser&quot; (that the user has no control over because it&#x27;s heavily obfuscated and tricked-out with anti-debugging code) and you eliminate all ad blockers. Throw some DNS-over-HTTPS w&#x2F; certificate pinning in for good measure and you kill DNS-based ad blockers too.<p>Accessibility will be a challenge but if it sells that&#x27;ll get &quot;fixed&quot;.<p>(I think this idea is evil, BTW, but somebody is going to do it.)<p>Edit: As an aside this needs to go here, too. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the-birth-and-death-of-javascript" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the-birth-and-death...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tshaddox</author><text>&gt; Deliver your site only to the &quot;inner browser&quot; (that the user has no control over because it&#x27;s heavily obfuscated and tricked-out with anti-debugging code) and you eliminate all ad blockers. Throw some DNS-over-HTTPS w&#x2F; certificate pinning in for good measure and you kill DNS-based ad blockers too.<p>I&#x27;m confused how the &quot;inner browser&quot; meaningfully helps you accomplish this. How is this any easier or more effective than just having a website that hosts its own advertising assets (or proxies them) and obfuscates&#x2F;randomizes its DOM structure to make ads difficult to target with simplistic ad-blocking rules?</text></comment> |
32,005,039 | 32,003,551 | 1 | 2 | 31,997,109 | train | <story><title>Did the early medieval era ever take place?</title><url>https://jonn.substack.com/p/did-the-early-medieval-era-ever-really</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>For me, the thing that kills the theory for me is the idea that, <i>in the middle of western Europe being about as politically stable and integrated as modern Afghanistan</i>, all the warlords pillaging the country to kill each other were able to not only unanimously agree on &quot;let&#x27;s change the year to a nice round number&quot;, but were also able to coordinate this without leaving <i>any</i> historical records of it.<p>Here&#x27;s the thing about conspiracies: they have a shelf life. The amount of time you can keep a conspiracy secret is bounded by the number of conspirators, how well you can get them to shut up, and how long it has been since the conspiracy occurred. You can take a secret only you know to your grave, but work in a group of ten and <i>someone</i> will confess before their death. Bring in hundreds or thousands and the conspiracy will be blown open accidentally before you can even execute on it.<p>Now think of how many people had to cooperate to change something as simple and fundamental as the passage of recorded history. Hell, forget the fact that these were all angry, violent warlords; just think of how many scribes, monks, and bureaucrats would all have to remember to write 1000 instead of 736 whenever they wrote a date. It only takes one slip-up to reveal the fraud to archaeologists in the far future, even if they all agreed that they wanted to live in the nice round-number millennium. And nobody would be trying to protect against that because nobody would be thinking, &quot;how do we hide this from 21st century archaeologists trying to discover our time crimes?&quot;</text></item><item><author>antognini</author><text>The point about the Gregorian calendar being off by only 10 days instead of the expected 13 is especially interesting because it&#x27;s easy to see how you could regard it as a sort of &quot;smoking gun&quot; of the Phantom Time Hypothesis. The supposed lack of archaeological evidence is suggestive, but can be pretty easily dismissed with &quot;absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.&quot; But here you have a prediction that about 300 years are missing and this would directly explain the observed discrepancy in the drift of the calendar.<p>As the author points out the problem is resolved because the Gregorian calendar reform only intended to reset the calendar back to the time of the Council of Nicaea, not the date when the Julian calendar was originally adopted.<p>It&#x27;s a neat example of how a theory&#x27;s smoking gun can sometimes have an entirely unrelated explanation and a warning that even when you think you&#x27;ve found conclusive proof, it&#x27;s important to keep digging.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ornxka</author><text>&gt;I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren&#x27;t true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn&#x27;t keep a lie for three weeks. You&#x27;re telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.<p>- Charles Colson, advisor to Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal</text></comment> | <story><title>Did the early medieval era ever take place?</title><url>https://jonn.substack.com/p/did-the-early-medieval-era-ever-really</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>For me, the thing that kills the theory for me is the idea that, <i>in the middle of western Europe being about as politically stable and integrated as modern Afghanistan</i>, all the warlords pillaging the country to kill each other were able to not only unanimously agree on &quot;let&#x27;s change the year to a nice round number&quot;, but were also able to coordinate this without leaving <i>any</i> historical records of it.<p>Here&#x27;s the thing about conspiracies: they have a shelf life. The amount of time you can keep a conspiracy secret is bounded by the number of conspirators, how well you can get them to shut up, and how long it has been since the conspiracy occurred. You can take a secret only you know to your grave, but work in a group of ten and <i>someone</i> will confess before their death. Bring in hundreds or thousands and the conspiracy will be blown open accidentally before you can even execute on it.<p>Now think of how many people had to cooperate to change something as simple and fundamental as the passage of recorded history. Hell, forget the fact that these were all angry, violent warlords; just think of how many scribes, monks, and bureaucrats would all have to remember to write 1000 instead of 736 whenever they wrote a date. It only takes one slip-up to reveal the fraud to archaeologists in the far future, even if they all agreed that they wanted to live in the nice round-number millennium. And nobody would be trying to protect against that because nobody would be thinking, &quot;how do we hide this from 21st century archaeologists trying to discover our time crimes?&quot;</text></item><item><author>antognini</author><text>The point about the Gregorian calendar being off by only 10 days instead of the expected 13 is especially interesting because it&#x27;s easy to see how you could regard it as a sort of &quot;smoking gun&quot; of the Phantom Time Hypothesis. The supposed lack of archaeological evidence is suggestive, but can be pretty easily dismissed with &quot;absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.&quot; But here you have a prediction that about 300 years are missing and this would directly explain the observed discrepancy in the drift of the calendar.<p>As the author points out the problem is resolved because the Gregorian calendar reform only intended to reset the calendar back to the time of the Council of Nicaea, not the date when the Julian calendar was originally adopted.<p>It&#x27;s a neat example of how a theory&#x27;s smoking gun can sometimes have an entirely unrelated explanation and a warning that even when you think you&#x27;ve found conclusive proof, it&#x27;s important to keep digging.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>t_mann</author><text>Fyi, someone actually built a formal model to demonstrate that large conspiracies are probabilistically doomed to get exposed:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csmonitor.com&#x2F;Science&#x2F;2016&#x2F;0127&#x2F;Can-mathematics-help-solve-conspiracy-theory-debates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csmonitor.com&#x2F;Science&#x2F;2016&#x2F;0127&#x2F;Can-mathematics-...</a><p>However, the model makes a few simplifying assumptions, eg a single leak is sufficient to expose the conspiracy, and I think it also doesn&#x27;t cover mortality. A conspiracy that wasn&#x27;t exposed up until the death of all in the know would probably be considered as succesful by the model. I think it&#x27;s fair to assume that the probability of getting exposed at least significantly drops at that point.</text></comment> |
8,973,324 | 8,973,231 | 1 | 2 | 8,972,766 | train | <story><title>Open letter to German readers: What you were never told about Greece</title><url>http://syriza.net.gr/index.php/en/pressroom/253-open-letter-to-the-german-readers-that-which-you-were-never-told-about-greece</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>Well, no. The fundamental problem is that Germany has been treating the rest of the EU as an expedient export market while refusing to allow equivalent imports, and at the same time aggressively insisting that countries in the EU should somehow magically not need debt... to continue buying from Germany.<p>There&#x27;s also the minor point that this is yet another excuse to indulge the usual neoliberal hatred of social spending and everything else that improves the condition of ordinary people who work for a living.<p>Germany has a long post-war history of renegotiating or ignoring debt. So crashing the Greek economy by enforcing murderous austerity - <i>literally</i> murderous in its effects, and not hyperbole - is a new peak in self-serving hypocrisy.</text></item><item><author>vijayboyapati</author><text>This one sentence sums up what I think is the fundamental problem: &quot;An insolvency problem was thus dealt with as if it were a case of illiquidity.&quot; That is, the problem isn&#x27;t some ephemeral panic where people are temporarily unwilling to lend. The problem is there are massive capital losses that have yet to be acknowledged. The problem is that Euro politicians believe that by continuing to bankroll Greece they will stem a wider panic. But as John Mills observed in a speech given to the Manchester Statistical Society in 1867, “panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its
betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works”<p>The losses must be acknowledged. The only question is by whom? By the people who made the loans? Or will the taxpayers of Europe be called upon, as the taxpayers of America were, to eat the losses?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jahewson</author><text>Your statement about Germnay refusing to allow imports is manifestly false. The EU is a free trade area and its member states are not permitted to engage in such activities. The EU has its own courts to enforce such rules.<p>It&#x27;s certainly true that Germany is a net exporter: this is because of their ability and competitiveness in engineering and technology, combined with the fact that Germans are not big consumers and prefer to save their money. It would be good for Europe as a whole if Germans spent more money on imports - but the idea that they are deliberately blocking imports is bogus.<p>Europe doesn&#x27;t really have neoliberals, so I&#x27;m not sure what your point is there. If anything, Europe leans to the left.<p>If you want to find a country with a long history of ignoring debt, then look no further than Greece, which has defaulted over 20 times. It is a country in deep need of structural reforms in order to have a viable economy. Yet the reforms haven&#x27;t happened, due to corruption, cronyism and general foot-dragging. This is the real problem and debt-reduction isn&#x27;t going to solve it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Open letter to German readers: What you were never told about Greece</title><url>http://syriza.net.gr/index.php/en/pressroom/253-open-letter-to-the-german-readers-that-which-you-were-never-told-about-greece</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>Well, no. The fundamental problem is that Germany has been treating the rest of the EU as an expedient export market while refusing to allow equivalent imports, and at the same time aggressively insisting that countries in the EU should somehow magically not need debt... to continue buying from Germany.<p>There&#x27;s also the minor point that this is yet another excuse to indulge the usual neoliberal hatred of social spending and everything else that improves the condition of ordinary people who work for a living.<p>Germany has a long post-war history of renegotiating or ignoring debt. So crashing the Greek economy by enforcing murderous austerity - <i>literally</i> murderous in its effects, and not hyperbole - is a new peak in self-serving hypocrisy.</text></item><item><author>vijayboyapati</author><text>This one sentence sums up what I think is the fundamental problem: &quot;An insolvency problem was thus dealt with as if it were a case of illiquidity.&quot; That is, the problem isn&#x27;t some ephemeral panic where people are temporarily unwilling to lend. The problem is there are massive capital losses that have yet to be acknowledged. The problem is that Euro politicians believe that by continuing to bankroll Greece they will stem a wider panic. But as John Mills observed in a speech given to the Manchester Statistical Society in 1867, “panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its
betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works”<p>The losses must be acknowledged. The only question is by whom? By the people who made the loans? Or will the taxpayers of Europe be called upon, as the taxpayers of America were, to eat the losses?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>&gt; while refusing to allow equivalent imports<p>That very much is in citation needed territory, please give at least one example of how Germany is refusing intra-European imports in any category. Free trade is one of the cornerstones of the EU, Germany imposing a tariff or blockading goods produced elsewhere in Europe would make some pretty fat headlines.</text></comment> |
1,209,872 | 1,209,871 | 1 | 3 | 1,209,848 | train | <story><title>A Plea To New HN People</title><url></url><text>Hey there.<p>Firstly, thanks for joining our little corner of the web. It's great to have you here, and we look forward to getting to know you.<p>However, there's a culture here we'd like to keep, and some of you are unknowingly damaging it a little, and I'd like to point you in the right direction as it were.<p>I think you see HN as a mini version of reddit. Which in a way, it is. But it's a mini version of a tiny part of reddit. We don't really want stuff on politics or whatnot on here. We want things on code, on business and startups. Also, hacking things is good and post-worthy.<p>What isn't is...<p>"Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."<p>From patio11: "We also discourage pithy one-liners, personal abuse (even witty personal abuse... although candidly speaking you're probably overestimating how witty you're being if you're thinking of fudging this one), memes, and the letters TL; DR."<p>I know the guidelines are hidden at the bottom, and so you probably didn't read them, but I just thought I'd bring this to your attention.<p>Kthxbai<p>EDIT 1: To clarify, it's not that I think HN is turning into Reddit, it's that some people (mostly new) seem to think it should. I respectfully disagree, and think it's quite alright without being reddit.<p>EDIT 2: Yes, I've read the guidelines. I'm not complaining that it's becoming reddit, it's that some users seem to think it should. See EDIT 1.<p>EDIT 3: Added patio11's points.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blasdel</author><text>What do you mean <i>'we'</i>, white man?<p><pre><code> user: petewailes
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Did you even <i>read</i> the guidelines you reference?: <i>"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"</i></text></comment> | <story><title>A Plea To New HN People</title><url></url><text>Hey there.<p>Firstly, thanks for joining our little corner of the web. It's great to have you here, and we look forward to getting to know you.<p>However, there's a culture here we'd like to keep, and some of you are unknowingly damaging it a little, and I'd like to point you in the right direction as it were.<p>I think you see HN as a mini version of reddit. Which in a way, it is. But it's a mini version of a tiny part of reddit. We don't really want stuff on politics or whatnot on here. We want things on code, on business and startups. Also, hacking things is good and post-worthy.<p>What isn't is...<p>"Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."<p>From patio11: "We also discourage pithy one-liners, personal abuse (even witty personal abuse... although candidly speaking you're probably overestimating how witty you're being if you're thinking of fudging this one), memes, and the letters TL; DR."<p>I know the guidelines are hidden at the bottom, and so you probably didn't read them, but I just thought I'd bring this to your attention.<p>Kthxbai<p>EDIT 1: To clarify, it's not that I think HN is turning into Reddit, it's that some people (mostly new) seem to think it should. I respectfully disagree, and think it's quite alright without being reddit.<p>EDIT 2: Yes, I've read the guidelines. I'm not complaining that it's becoming reddit, it's that some users seem to think it should. See EDIT 1.<p>EDIT 3: Added patio11's points.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>We also discourage pithy one-liners, personal abuse (even witty personal abuse... although candidly speaking you're probably overestimating how witty you're being if you're thinking of fudging this one), memes, and the letters TL; DR.</text></comment> |
14,026,831 | 14,024,792 | 1 | 3 | 14,024,056 | train | <story><title>What is Congress browsing?</title><url>https://www.govtrack.us/sousveillance</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>They should also track html referer tags. That should give insight into the blogs that staffers are reading, at least those that link people over to govtrack. Other data can be used to identify individual devices which, when tied to the known movements and appearances of public figures, should be enough to identify individuals. Heck, put the entire data dump online and crowdsource the project. Within weeks we&#x27;ll know which senators are reading which bills while they commute, and which don&#x27;t.<p>To go the next step, govtrack could adopt some proper
ad-based cookies to track users across multiple sites. But that would cost money. I&#x27;m surprised Larry Flint, and anyone else looking for dirt on politicians, haven&#x27;t done this already.</text></comment> | <story><title>What is Congress browsing?</title><url>https://www.govtrack.us/sousveillance</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sbov</author><text>I won&#x27;t hold my breath, but this could be interesting if this caught on with other more mainstream websites, and they all shared the same tracking cookie. Google Analytics for congress. As is it&#x27;s obviously relatively limited.</text></comment> |
40,459,073 | 40,457,702 | 1 | 2 | 40,448,045 | train | <story><title>OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/22/openai-scarlett-johansson-chatgpt-ai-voice/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kstrauser</author><text>Please don&#x27;t take this as me defending OpenAI&#x27;s clearly sketchy process. I&#x27;m writing this to help myself think through it.<p>If it weren&#x27;t for their attempt to link the voice to SJ (i.e. with the &quot;her&quot; tweet), would that be OK?<p>- It&#x27;s fine to hire a voice actor.<p>- It&#x27;s fine to train a system to sound like that voice actor.<p>- It&#x27;s fine to hire a voice actor who sounds like someone else.<p>- It&#x27;s probably fine to go out of your way to hire a voice actor who sounds like someone else.<p>- It&#x27;s probably not fine to hire a voice actor and tell them to imitate someone else.<p>- It&#x27;s very likely not fine to market your AI as &quot;sounds like Jane Doe, who sounds like SJ&quot;.<p>- It&#x27;s definitely not fine to market your AI as &quot;sounds like SJ&quot;.<p>Say I wanted to make my AI voice sound like Patrick Stewart. Surely it&#x27;s OK to hire an English actor who sounds a lot like him, so long as I don&#x27;t use Sir Patrick&#x27;s name in the advertising. If so, would it have been OK for OpenAI to do all this as long as they didn&#x27;t mention SJ? Or is SJ so clearly identifiable with her role in &quot;Her&quot; that it&#x27;s never OK to try to make a product like &quot;Her&quot; that sounds like SJ?</text></item><item><author>summerlight</author><text>My guess: Sam wanted to imitate the voice from Her and became aware of Midler v. Ford cases so reached out to SJ. He probably didn&#x27;t expect her decline. Anyway, this prior case tells that you cannot mimic other&#x27;s voice without their permission and the overall timeline indicates OpenAI&#x27;s &quot;intention&quot; of imitation. It does not matter if they used SJ&#x27;s voice in the training set or not. Their intention matters.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text><i>They hired the actor that did the voice months before they contacted SJ</i>. The reaction on this site to the news that this story was false is kind of mindbending.</text></item><item><author>HarHarVeryFunny</author><text>Clearly an SJ voice was the goal, given that Altman asked her to do it, asked her a second time just two days before the ChatGPT-4o release, and then tweeted &quot;her&quot; on the release day. The next day Karpathy, recently ex-OpenAI, then tweets &quot;The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson&quot;.<p>Altman appears to be an habitual liar. Note his recent claim not to be aware of the non-disparagement and claw-back terms he had departing employees agree to. Are we supposed to believe that the company lawyer or head of HR did this without consulting (or more likely being instructed by) the co-founder and CEO?!</text></item><item><author>jmull</author><text>Well, here are some things that aren&#x27;t really being disputed:<p>* OpenAI wanted an AI voice that sounds like SJ<p>* SJ declined<p>* OpenAI got an AI voice that sounds like SJ anyway<p>I guess they want us to believe this happened without shenanigans, but it&#x27;s bit hard to.<p>The headline of the article is a little funny, because records can&#x27;t really show they weren&#x27;t looking for an SJ sound-alike. They can just show that <i>those</i> records didn&#x27;t mention it. The key decision-makers could simply have agreed to keep that fact close-to-the-vest -- they may have well understood that knocking off a high-profile actress was legally perilous.<p>Also, I think we can readily assume OpenAI understood that one of their potential voices sounded a lot like SJ. Since they were pursuing her they must have had a pretty good idea of what they were going after, especially considering the likely price tag. So even if an SJ voice wasn&#x27;t the original goal, it clearly became an important goal to them. They surely listened to demos for many voice actors, auditioned a number of them, and may even have recorded many of them, but somehow they selected one for release who seemed to sound a lot like SJ.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pyuser583</author><text>There’s a special branch of law called “right of publicity” or “manners and likeness.”<p>It protect celebrities who rely on endorsements and “who they are” for income.<p>It very clearly prohibits copycats with near-likeness as a workaround to getting permission from a celebrity.<p>OpenAI asked SJ to use her voice. That right there helps her case immensely.<p>She said no. They went ahead anyway, presumably with someone or someone’s with a similar voice.<p>They publicized the product by referencing SJ.<p>These facts are damning.<p>They might be just a part of the story. Maybe 100 actresses, all sounding roughly the same, were given the offer over a two year period.<p>Maybe they all were given the same praise. Maybe one other, who signed an agreement, was praised on social media much more.<p>But this isn’t a slippery slope or a grey area. SJ was asked and said no.<p>That prohibits using a similar sounding copycat and publicizing as SJ.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/22/openai-scarlett-johansson-chatgpt-ai-voice/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kstrauser</author><text>Please don&#x27;t take this as me defending OpenAI&#x27;s clearly sketchy process. I&#x27;m writing this to help myself think through it.<p>If it weren&#x27;t for their attempt to link the voice to SJ (i.e. with the &quot;her&quot; tweet), would that be OK?<p>- It&#x27;s fine to hire a voice actor.<p>- It&#x27;s fine to train a system to sound like that voice actor.<p>- It&#x27;s fine to hire a voice actor who sounds like someone else.<p>- It&#x27;s probably fine to go out of your way to hire a voice actor who sounds like someone else.<p>- It&#x27;s probably not fine to hire a voice actor and tell them to imitate someone else.<p>- It&#x27;s very likely not fine to market your AI as &quot;sounds like Jane Doe, who sounds like SJ&quot;.<p>- It&#x27;s definitely not fine to market your AI as &quot;sounds like SJ&quot;.<p>Say I wanted to make my AI voice sound like Patrick Stewart. Surely it&#x27;s OK to hire an English actor who sounds a lot like him, so long as I don&#x27;t use Sir Patrick&#x27;s name in the advertising. If so, would it have been OK for OpenAI to do all this as long as they didn&#x27;t mention SJ? Or is SJ so clearly identifiable with her role in &quot;Her&quot; that it&#x27;s never OK to try to make a product like &quot;Her&quot; that sounds like SJ?</text></item><item><author>summerlight</author><text>My guess: Sam wanted to imitate the voice from Her and became aware of Midler v. Ford cases so reached out to SJ. He probably didn&#x27;t expect her decline. Anyway, this prior case tells that you cannot mimic other&#x27;s voice without their permission and the overall timeline indicates OpenAI&#x27;s &quot;intention&quot; of imitation. It does not matter if they used SJ&#x27;s voice in the training set or not. Their intention matters.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text><i>They hired the actor that did the voice months before they contacted SJ</i>. The reaction on this site to the news that this story was false is kind of mindbending.</text></item><item><author>HarHarVeryFunny</author><text>Clearly an SJ voice was the goal, given that Altman asked her to do it, asked her a second time just two days before the ChatGPT-4o release, and then tweeted &quot;her&quot; on the release day. The next day Karpathy, recently ex-OpenAI, then tweets &quot;The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson&quot;.<p>Altman appears to be an habitual liar. Note his recent claim not to be aware of the non-disparagement and claw-back terms he had departing employees agree to. Are we supposed to believe that the company lawyer or head of HR did this without consulting (or more likely being instructed by) the co-founder and CEO?!</text></item><item><author>jmull</author><text>Well, here are some things that aren&#x27;t really being disputed:<p>* OpenAI wanted an AI voice that sounds like SJ<p>* SJ declined<p>* OpenAI got an AI voice that sounds like SJ anyway<p>I guess they want us to believe this happened without shenanigans, but it&#x27;s bit hard to.<p>The headline of the article is a little funny, because records can&#x27;t really show they weren&#x27;t looking for an SJ sound-alike. They can just show that <i>those</i> records didn&#x27;t mention it. The key decision-makers could simply have agreed to keep that fact close-to-the-vest -- they may have well understood that knocking off a high-profile actress was legally perilous.<p>Also, I think we can readily assume OpenAI understood that one of their potential voices sounded a lot like SJ. Since they were pursuing her they must have had a pretty good idea of what they were going after, especially considering the likely price tag. So even if an SJ voice wasn&#x27;t the original goal, it clearly became an important goal to them. They surely listened to demos for many voice actors, auditioned a number of them, and may even have recorded many of them, but somehow they selected one for release who seemed to sound a lot like SJ.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>summerlight</author><text>There&#x27;s no clear line for this. To get the definite conclusion, you will need to bring this to the court with lots of investigation. I know this kind of ambiguity is frustrating, but the context and intention matter a lot here and unfortunately we don&#x27;t have a better way than a legal battle to figure it out.<p>Thanks to Sam, this OpenAI case is clearer than others since he made a number of clear evidence against him.</text></comment> |
21,251,756 | 21,251,511 | 1 | 2 | 21,251,102 | train | <story><title>AWS' Sponsorship of the Rust Project</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/jp/blogs/opensource/aws-sponsorship-of-the-rust-project/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>InvaderFizz</author><text>This appears to be part of a larger announcement that they are now providing AWS promotional credits to open source projects.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;opensource&#x2F;aws-promotional-credits-open-source-projects&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;opensource&#x2F;aws-promotional-cred...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AWS' Sponsorship of the Rust Project</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/jp/blogs/opensource/aws-sponsorship-of-the-rust-project/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Touche</author><text>I read this a couple of times and I can&#x27;t tell <i>how</i> they are sponsoring the Rust Project. Apparently Rust uses some AWS services, are they now getting these for free, is that the sponsorship?</text></comment> |
16,299,576 | 16,299,492 | 1 | 3 | 16,299,033 | train | <story><title>Slack: Other browsers require significant effort so we're focused on Chrome</title><url>https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/958645632620748800</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mful</author><text>I&#x27;m getting a little sick of the level of entitlement in tech conversations — every firm must adhere perfectly to some set ideals or else the most vocal members in the community turn the conversation into an end-of-the-internet melodrama.<p>We laud companies that start by doing something small well, yet the second they don&#x27;t support our platform of choice, it&#x27;s time to banish them to the hills. (In this case, clearly there are material differences in video chat performance across browsers, or else why would Slack force Chrome support?)<p>We preach focus, then act appalled when customization feature X stagnates on the backlog.<p>We castigate businesses that spend investor dollars frivolously, and are then furious when well-funded companies act frugally and choose to make tradeoffs (like, say, only supporting one browser for a feature that doesn&#x27;t work the same on all browsers, until they can achieve a certain quality threshold.)<p>I look forward to the day when we collectively accept that companies are groups of humans generally working in earnest to do their best, not some faceless behemoth that responds only to screaming &quot;you&#x27;re awful, do my feature or I&#x27;m leaving and tweeting about it&quot; like some petulant child. Maybe there are cases where that is a reasonable response, but when the volume is always turned up to 11 it&#x27;s hard to tell the real crises from distractions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dictum</author><text>Without the heated tone (&quot;entitlement in tech conversations&quot;) there&#x27;s often no response to a valid complaint.<p>We only get clear explanations from a company&#x27;s engineers after a discussion is raised.<p>&gt; In this case, clearly there are material differences in video chat performance across browsers, or else why would Slack force Chrome support?<p>I look forward to a post on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slack.engineering" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slack.engineering</a> detailing the challenges. I&#x27;m not demanding a response, it&#x27;s just a wish.<p>My decision to use a product takes certain principles into account; Slack is the kind of product that is often chosen for you by your company&#x2F;open source project&#x2F;community. A bit of &quot;entitlement&quot; — not meant as scare quotes, I just don&#x27;t share the viewpoint – makes sense here, because sometimes you can&#x27;t just choose not to use it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Slack: Other browsers require significant effort so we're focused on Chrome</title><url>https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/958645632620748800</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mful</author><text>I&#x27;m getting a little sick of the level of entitlement in tech conversations — every firm must adhere perfectly to some set ideals or else the most vocal members in the community turn the conversation into an end-of-the-internet melodrama.<p>We laud companies that start by doing something small well, yet the second they don&#x27;t support our platform of choice, it&#x27;s time to banish them to the hills. (In this case, clearly there are material differences in video chat performance across browsers, or else why would Slack force Chrome support?)<p>We preach focus, then act appalled when customization feature X stagnates on the backlog.<p>We castigate businesses that spend investor dollars frivolously, and are then furious when well-funded companies act frugally and choose to make tradeoffs (like, say, only supporting one browser for a feature that doesn&#x27;t work the same on all browsers, until they can achieve a certain quality threshold.)<p>I look forward to the day when we collectively accept that companies are groups of humans generally working in earnest to do their best, not some faceless behemoth that responds only to screaming &quot;you&#x27;re awful, do my feature or I&#x27;m leaving and tweeting about it&quot; like some petulant child. Maybe there are cases where that is a reasonable response, but when the volume is always turned up to 11 it&#x27;s hard to tell the real crises from distractions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>I disagree. If we let little monocultures exist they grow into big monocultures (Windows &quot;monopoly&quot;, Facebook &quot;monopoly&quot; etc). I put &quot;monopoly&quot; in scare quotes because they had the de facto high ground rather than being monopolies in the Standard Oil sense.</text></comment> |
30,663,866 | 30,663,963 | 1 | 2 | 30,661,968 | train | <story><title>It’s your friends who break your heart</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/03/why-we-lose-friends-aging-happiness/621305/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nus07</author><text>One of the things that I noticed that when I lived in India and England, I never felt lonely . It was more walkable and there was less of a comparing salaries and lifestyles and more of hanging out and ‘chilling’. Maybe I was younger . But moving to the US has been bad because how isolating it is - cannot get out of the house and walk to a place or a market or bar except NYC . Most social connections are around an activity like playing board games or running . No one wants to just hang out and talk without discussing jobs and salaries. People from different classes and jobs and lifestyles rarely mix . I do regret moving to the US from a social and friends perspective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shihab</author><text>I moved to a mid-seized US city 6 months ago for grad school and I wholeheartedly agree with you.<p>The bit about hanging out in particular surprised me. I live in such a beautiful neighborhood, yet I almost never see any people outside. People are either walking their dogs or going from their door to car. I never saw a group of child randomly running around, teenagers doing teenager things, or bunch of old people just hanging about- sights I&#x27;m so used to. It&#x27;s even more weird because these people are so friendly when you do get to interact with them.</text></comment> | <story><title>It’s your friends who break your heart</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/03/why-we-lose-friends-aging-happiness/621305/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nus07</author><text>One of the things that I noticed that when I lived in India and England, I never felt lonely . It was more walkable and there was less of a comparing salaries and lifestyles and more of hanging out and ‘chilling’. Maybe I was younger . But moving to the US has been bad because how isolating it is - cannot get out of the house and walk to a place or a market or bar except NYC . Most social connections are around an activity like playing board games or running . No one wants to just hang out and talk without discussing jobs and salaries. People from different classes and jobs and lifestyles rarely mix . I do regret moving to the US from a social and friends perspective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lowwave</author><text>&gt; Most social connections are around an activity like playing board games or running . No one wants to just hang out and talk without discussing jobs and salaries.<p>Think in major cities like NYC, LA, San Fran, London are like this. In some places in Seattle and Portland in some groups you will find more people like that ones your were hanging out in India. However, this is one of biggest problem of USA. People live to work, where else in Europe (or in India it seems also), people work to live. Think what you find in India is also true in many places in Europe. Especially in smaller cities.</text></comment> |
8,350,327 | 8,350,286 | 1 | 2 | 8,349,579 | train | <story><title>The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics</title><url>http://acko.net/blog/the-cargo-cult-of-game-mechanics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jules</author><text>For me there are 4 properties that make a game great.<p>Number 1: breadth of options. Games like rollercoaster tycoon are fun because you have an incredible range of options. There is no linear progression from start to finish with only a few choice points in between that have little impact. There are choices everywhere. The opposite is a game like mario, where there are almost no choices.<p>Number 2: reflexes. Games like pong and mario are fun because they require actions at the right timing. Turn based games do not have that.<p>Number 3: collection. You collect items or upgrades or in game currency that help you later. Although I have never played it myself, an example is World of Warcraft. You collect items, money and levels. There is something satisfying about this. Game designers often exploit it to make a game addictive.<p>Number 4: human adversaries. Playing against AI or against some in game metric (e.g. get X amount of people in your rollercoaster park) is not very fun. Playing against human opponents is much more fun because they are unpredictable and intelligent. It&#x27;s not enough to just compete, there has to be interaction. If you put 2 games of tetris next to each other where the players compete for the highest score that&#x27;s not good enough. First person shooters have this point right. The decisions of the players influence each other, rather than only competing via a score. Chess &amp; go are the epitome of this.<p>The games that come closest to hitting all these points are real time strategy games. You have a large amount of options. Not as much as in a sandbox game like rollercoaster tycoon, but still far more than in the average game. You need reflexes to react to threats. You collect resources, upgrades and units. Last but not least, you have human opponents who also have a large amount of options that you need to react to. Not as strategic as chess, but far more so than your average game.<p>Sadly rts appears to be a dying genre...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>&gt; Number 3: collection. You collect items or upgrades or in game currency that help you later.<p>You mean you like hoarding? That&#x27;s one of the most annoying parts of many games, managing endless inventories and collecting stuff for the purpose of having more. It distracts you from whatever goal the game might have.<p>&gt; Number 4: human adversaries. Playing against AI or against some in game metric (e.g. get X amount of people in your rollercoaster park) is not very fun. Playing against human opponents is much more fun because they are unpredictable and intelligent.<p>Really ? You have a strange conception of gaming then, because your world of gaming has basically started only with online games. There&#x27;s tons of great solo games out there that require absolutely no one else but you to appreciate their depth. If you subject the definition of great gaming to human adversaries, then the issue is that you don&#x27;t always find worthy opponents to play against, and the necessity to have people to play with. That&#x27;s why great solo games never get old while MMORPGs and online games come and go and disappear forever.<p>&gt; Sadly rts appears to be a dying genre...<p>Well RTS have been about micro-management for far too long, and that&#x27;s just grinding when it lasts forever. There&#x27;s not so much you can do about it unless you make the genre evolve, and it did not evolve much.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics</title><url>http://acko.net/blog/the-cargo-cult-of-game-mechanics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jules</author><text>For me there are 4 properties that make a game great.<p>Number 1: breadth of options. Games like rollercoaster tycoon are fun because you have an incredible range of options. There is no linear progression from start to finish with only a few choice points in between that have little impact. There are choices everywhere. The opposite is a game like mario, where there are almost no choices.<p>Number 2: reflexes. Games like pong and mario are fun because they require actions at the right timing. Turn based games do not have that.<p>Number 3: collection. You collect items or upgrades or in game currency that help you later. Although I have never played it myself, an example is World of Warcraft. You collect items, money and levels. There is something satisfying about this. Game designers often exploit it to make a game addictive.<p>Number 4: human adversaries. Playing against AI or against some in game metric (e.g. get X amount of people in your rollercoaster park) is not very fun. Playing against human opponents is much more fun because they are unpredictable and intelligent. It&#x27;s not enough to just compete, there has to be interaction. If you put 2 games of tetris next to each other where the players compete for the highest score that&#x27;s not good enough. First person shooters have this point right. The decisions of the players influence each other, rather than only competing via a score. Chess &amp; go are the epitome of this.<p>The games that come closest to hitting all these points are real time strategy games. You have a large amount of options. Not as much as in a sandbox game like rollercoaster tycoon, but still far more than in the average game. You need reflexes to react to threats. You collect resources, upgrades and units. Last but not least, you have human opponents who also have a large amount of options that you need to react to. Not as strategic as chess, but far more so than your average game.<p>Sadly rts appears to be a dying genre...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prawks</author><text>Those are the 4 properties that make a strategy game great, which is completely fine. But you&#x27;re kind of proposing that the best games are strategy games, which is like saying that oil is the best painting medium.<p>Those aren&#x27;t necessarily the same properties that can make a platformer, or narrative-driven adventure game great. Or a puzzle game. Or an FPS. And those games <i>are</i> great (Mario, Half-Life 2, the Monkey Island series).<p>In the end, everyone has their own set of properties that make the artistic mediums they enjoy &quot;the greatest&quot;, and the same applies to games.</text></comment> |
16,691,370 | 16,690,862 | 1 | 2 | 16,690,645 | train | <story><title>Facebook's Zuckerberg Says the Age of Privacy Is Over (2010)</title><url>https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/01/10/10readwriteweb-facebooks-zuckerberg-says-the-age-of-privac-82963.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pacala</author><text>Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, 2009<p>&gt; Yesterday, the web was buzzing with commentary about Google CEO Eric Schmidt&#x27;s dangerous, dismissive response to concerns about search engine users&#x27; privacy. When asked during an interview for CNBC&#x27;s recent &quot;Inside the Mind of Google&quot; special about whether users should be sharing information with Google as if it were a &quot;trusted friend,&quot; Schmidt responded, &quot;If you have something that you don&#x27;t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn&#x27;t be doing it in the first place.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2009&#x2F;12&#x2F;google-ceo-eric-schmidt-dismisses-privacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2009&#x2F;12&#x2F;google-ceo-eric-schmid...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook's Zuckerberg Says the Age of Privacy Is Over (2010)</title><url>https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/01/10/10readwriteweb-facebooks-zuckerberg-says-the-age-of-privac-82963.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scrooched_moose</author><text>Mark Zuckerberg Just Spent More Than $30 Million Buying 4 Neighboring Houses For Privacy (2013)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;mark-zuckerberg-buys-4-homes-for-privacy-2013-10" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;mark-zuckerberg-buys-4-homes-...</a></text></comment> |
38,696,236 | 38,695,364 | 1 | 3 | 38,694,390 | train | <story><title>FOSDEM 2024 Schedule</title><url>https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>Here are two FOSDEM guides, I found interesting when researching my trip.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;petersouter.xyz&#x2F;fosdem-survival-guide&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;petersouter.xyz&#x2F;fosdem-survival-guide&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bytemark.co.uk&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;07&#x2F;my-guide-to-fosdem-europes-biggest-open-source-developer-conference" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bytemark.co.uk&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;07&#x2F;my-guide-to-fosdem-eu...</a><p>It will be the first time at FOSDEM for me, so I cannot confirm or deny much, but I&#x27;ve definitely heard from multiple sources that it <i>is</i> very crowded. If want to attend a certain talk you absolutely have to arrive early.<p>I have not booked a hotel yet, so if you know a good place to stay, especially near the venue, pointers would be appreciated.
My contacts are in my profile.<p>Finally a shoutout to the Rust crowd, links to the track and the Dev Room:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;track&#x2F;rust&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;track&#x2F;rust&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rust-fosdem.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rust-fosdem.github.io&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Galanwe</author><text>I&#x27;ve been to FOSDEM since around 2011. My advice to you is to not try to over optimize your schedule and the tracks you want to attend.<p>Overall the format of 1h makes for rather lightweight presentations, nothing really goes in depth, so watching the videos is good enough.<p>You should rather see it as a way to have social interactions with the maintainers of libraries you like, go to dev rooms, hangout in the cafeteria, have a good time with nerd friends, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>FOSDEM 2024 Schedule</title><url>https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>Here are two FOSDEM guides, I found interesting when researching my trip.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;petersouter.xyz&#x2F;fosdem-survival-guide&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;petersouter.xyz&#x2F;fosdem-survival-guide&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bytemark.co.uk&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;07&#x2F;my-guide-to-fosdem-europes-biggest-open-source-developer-conference" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bytemark.co.uk&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;07&#x2F;my-guide-to-fosdem-eu...</a><p>It will be the first time at FOSDEM for me, so I cannot confirm or deny much, but I&#x27;ve definitely heard from multiple sources that it <i>is</i> very crowded. If want to attend a certain talk you absolutely have to arrive early.<p>I have not booked a hotel yet, so if you know a good place to stay, especially near the venue, pointers would be appreciated.
My contacts are in my profile.<p>Finally a shoutout to the Rust crowd, links to the track and the Dev Room:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;track&#x2F;rust&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;track&#x2F;rust&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rust-fosdem.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rust-fosdem.github.io&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Timshel</author><text>&gt; If want to attend a certain talk you absolutely have to arrive early.<p>For popular tracks the trick used to be to arrive for an earlier less popular talk. Does not really work anymore, past 10 you&#x27;ll probably never enter the PG or Rust tracks unless you spend more than 1 hour waiting outside.<p>Good news is streaming is really good so a fallback is to stay at the cafetaria and just stream.
Lightning rooms usually have some space too :).<p>Edit: disclaimer my last Fosdem was in 2020 ^^</text></comment> |
19,321,420 | 19,321,359 | 1 | 2 | 19,320,580 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Current and former FB employees, what's the other side to the story?</title><text>Another day, another story of Facebook&#x27;s reach overextending, breaching privacy unnecessarily, and generally acting in some form of bad faith.<p>But business is clearly still good and it seems like they&#x27;re still able to recruit plenty of talent. So what&#x27;s the other side here? Internally, are there feelings of consternation about all the negative press or is there a bigger piece that is missed by it?<p>I&#x27;m really curious what the other side is here, especially given FB hasn&#x27;t slowed down at all despite all the press.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fbemployee1234</author><text>Throwaway for obvious reasons. Opinions are my own.<p>I joined in the last year. I had major issues with FB before, reflecting typical HN user stance. I joined because I was curious and their promises sounded like an amazing place to work.<p>And it is. They treat us better than any other company in terms of autonomy and input. Everyone has a tea seat at the table.<p>And what I’ve seen, the external perceptions don’t match the internal objectives. I hear real change from leadership, and most of the major issues are years old.<p>Fb has invested hugely in protecting elections, possibly more than any single government. They have doubled that on integrity, etc.<p>And realistically, I don’t think we know how to balance harm and good in the real world. I just don’t see tracking online activity as more harmful than the benefit that people get from the service. (Not so much US users, but the benefits to people in very poor countries are very real, and wouldn’t exist if the service didn’t monetize so well)<p>In short I don’t see them as an evil entity. They’re just a large one that is easy pickings for negative press. I used to work for the US government in a health research role; this feels similar.<p>When something is so massive and decentralized, the “bad press” events are gonna happen. I think FB, and especially Zuckerberg, have done a great job responding to these issues to try and solve them.<p>Remember, what Facebook is doing has never been done before. There are going to be mistakes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Current and former FB employees, what's the other side to the story?</title><text>Another day, another story of Facebook&#x27;s reach overextending, breaching privacy unnecessarily, and generally acting in some form of bad faith.<p>But business is clearly still good and it seems like they&#x27;re still able to recruit plenty of talent. So what&#x27;s the other side here? Internally, are there feelings of consternation about all the negative press or is there a bigger piece that is missed by it?<p>I&#x27;m really curious what the other side is here, especially given FB hasn&#x27;t slowed down at all despite all the press.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>badfrog</author><text>I worked at FB for three years as a software engineer. The people I worked with basically believed:<p>1) The core product is good and useful to people&#x2F;society<p>2) Most of the negative articles about Facebook are based on some piece of truth but go out of their way to make things seem worse and more sinister than they really are<p>3) Zuck generally wants to do the right thing, but of course makes mistakes<p>4) Yes the company does bad things sometimes, but not significantly worse than Google or Amazon (which are the main places many FB employees would consider working if they left)</text></comment> |
24,804,345 | 24,804,322 | 1 | 2 | 24,803,998 | train | <story><title>Section 230 Explained</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/section-230-the-internet-law-politicians-love-to-hate-explained/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wahern</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it would be world ending to get rid of Section 230. I <i>almost</i> would like to see it happen, if only because it would have precisely the opposite effect expected by all the people whining about being censored. Though, I suppose you can&#x27;t be censored if the channel itself is extinguished.<p>More practically, the technically literate would go back to the world of Usenet, mailing-lists, and minimalistic forums like HN, hopefully inventing distributed reputation systems in the process. I have this vague idea for PGP web of trust-like signing of Usenet posts (published as hidden posts when readers +1&#x2F;-1) which are then SPAM scored based on the depth of the attestation chain to the reader&#x27;s own trusted posters, which may have been seeded from one or more centralized databases of group maintainers, similar to the current registration system for moderated Usenet groups except you could freely choose alternative registrars.</text></item><item><author>EdJiang</author><text>If you haven&#x27;t read Section 230, go do so now. It&#x27;s enabled the development of the modern internet as we know it, and the meat is only 3 sentences. The rest is preamble or interactions with other laws.<p>&gt; (c) Protection for &quot;Good Samaritan&quot; blocking and screening of offensive material<p>&gt; (1) Treatment of publisher or speaker<p>&gt; No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.<p>&gt; (2) Civil liability<p>&gt; No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of-<p>&gt; (A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or<p>&gt; (B) any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uscode.house.gov&#x2F;view.xhtml?req=(title:47%20section:230%20edition:prelim)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uscode.house.gov&#x2F;view.xhtml?req=(title:47%20section:...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NationalPark</author><text>Would forums like HN survive? I can think of a few incidents where malicious information about people made the front page then turned out to be false. Is HN prepared to defend against lawsuits about that? Is HN prepared to <i>lose</i> lawsuits about that?<p>It sounds like you&#x27;re basically suggesting that making the internet useless is a good thing, because maybe something something cool will come out of the ashes and there&#x27;s a chance it could be even better after a bunch of extremely hard and broad problems are solved. I don&#x27;t like those odds.</text></comment> | <story><title>Section 230 Explained</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/section-230-the-internet-law-politicians-love-to-hate-explained/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wahern</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it would be world ending to get rid of Section 230. I <i>almost</i> would like to see it happen, if only because it would have precisely the opposite effect expected by all the people whining about being censored. Though, I suppose you can&#x27;t be censored if the channel itself is extinguished.<p>More practically, the technically literate would go back to the world of Usenet, mailing-lists, and minimalistic forums like HN, hopefully inventing distributed reputation systems in the process. I have this vague idea for PGP web of trust-like signing of Usenet posts (published as hidden posts when readers +1&#x2F;-1) which are then SPAM scored based on the depth of the attestation chain to the reader&#x27;s own trusted posters, which may have been seeded from one or more centralized databases of group maintainers, similar to the current registration system for moderated Usenet groups except you could freely choose alternative registrars.</text></item><item><author>EdJiang</author><text>If you haven&#x27;t read Section 230, go do so now. It&#x27;s enabled the development of the modern internet as we know it, and the meat is only 3 sentences. The rest is preamble or interactions with other laws.<p>&gt; (c) Protection for &quot;Good Samaritan&quot; blocking and screening of offensive material<p>&gt; (1) Treatment of publisher or speaker<p>&gt; No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.<p>&gt; (2) Civil liability<p>&gt; No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of-<p>&gt; (A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or<p>&gt; (B) any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uscode.house.gov&#x2F;view.xhtml?req=(title:47%20section:230%20edition:prelim)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uscode.house.gov&#x2F;view.xhtml?req=(title:47%20section:...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaygh</author><text>The plan is not to repeal Section 230. The plan is to make protection contingent on appeasing political appointees at the FTC.<p>Whoever controls the FTC will be able to (and will) pressure the major social media networks into acting as a propaganda arm for their political party.<p>As dystopian as FB and Twitter are today, in this case, the medicine is poison.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hawley.senate.gov&#x2F;senator-hawley-introduces-legislation-amend-section-230-immunity-big-tech-companies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hawley.senate.gov&#x2F;senator-hawley-introduces-legi...</a></text></comment> |
17,039,571 | 17,039,449 | 1 | 3 | 17,039,144 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/don-t-skype-me-how-microsoft-turned-consumers-against-a-beloved-brand</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jun8</author><text>&quot;Since acquiring Skype from private equity investors, Microsoft has refocused the online calling service on the corporate market, a change that has made Skype less intuitive and harder to use ...&quot;<p>This is absolutely <i>not</i> the bulk of the problem: simply put, the call quality is horrendous and dropping calls in the middle of the meeting is quite common. Modus operandi in most Skype conference calls in our company is to spend the first 4-5 minutes in handshaking (&quot;can you hear me&quot;) and troubleshooting problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>std_throwaway</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how software can get this much worse. Having done absolutely nothing would have left Skype in a better shape than what we have now.<p>What did they do with it? Do they not regression test? Are they letting each new intern add a new feature while nobody really cares about quality? Did they just replace the old software with a new bug-riddled software that&#x27;s getting pushed out the door without quality checks? Is it some manager trying to earn a medal by using that new MS-framework to rebuild everything and needing to push it out fast to declare success and move up while leaving the ruins behind?</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/don-t-skype-me-how-microsoft-turned-consumers-against-a-beloved-brand</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jun8</author><text>&quot;Since acquiring Skype from private equity investors, Microsoft has refocused the online calling service on the corporate market, a change that has made Skype less intuitive and harder to use ...&quot;<p>This is absolutely <i>not</i> the bulk of the problem: simply put, the call quality is horrendous and dropping calls in the middle of the meeting is quite common. Modus operandi in most Skype conference calls in our company is to spend the first 4-5 minutes in handshaking (&quot;can you hear me&quot;) and troubleshooting problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>Agree. It reminds me of Microsoft&#x27;s defense of Windows 8, &quot;people are just struggling to adjust to something that&#x27;s new&quot;. Whereas internally they were aware that their UX sucked, the OEM all told them the UX sucked, and they fired the head of the Windows division.</text></comment> |
19,112,808 | 19,112,783 | 1 | 3 | 19,106,772 | train | <story><title>A380 cancellations by Qantas raise new questions about the superjumbo's future</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/07/business/qantas-airbus-a380/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danepowell</author><text>I love the A380 as an aerospace enthusiast, but absolutely despise it as a passenger. In my experience (with Lufthansa), the boarding process is chaotic and takes forever, the seat pitch is minimal in economy, and never have I felt more like cattle than when sharing the situation with 700 other passengers.<p>I&#x27;m curious how your experience as a passenger sounds so different from mine.</text></item><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>I totally understand why big aircraft (A380, 747, etc) are disappearing commercially but I will miss them. Flying in a larger aircraft makes one feel less like cargo, in particularly for airlines that offer places to stretch your legs (e.g. &quot;bar&quot; seating, showers, staircases, etc).<p>I was always kind of secretly hoping large blimps would return. And we&#x27;d get to choose between 7 hours in a tiny metal tube with the seat-back of the person in front resting on your knees, or 24 hours on a slow blimp with a bed, the ability to walk around, and social areas. Kind of like a cruise ship in the sky.<p>An A380 feels kind of like Concord in that it really touched the imagination. I still hope to have a shower at 40,000 feet before they&#x27;re retired completely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EdwardDiego</author><text>To be fair though, according to Seatguru.com, Lufthansa are the most &#x27;efficient&#x27; in terms of seating - that is, you will have the least leg-room etc. on a Lufthansa flight. The precise airplane model doesn&#x27;t matter, they always have the least space for a passenger.<p>Bonus for when you press the steward summons button and an angry balding German steward (who nonetheless has a ponytail) turns up half an hour later and demands to know what you want, and when you say &quot;water, please&quot;, asks angrily &quot;You vant vasser?!&quot; like you just asked to bone his Mum.</text></comment> | <story><title>A380 cancellations by Qantas raise new questions about the superjumbo's future</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/07/business/qantas-airbus-a380/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danepowell</author><text>I love the A380 as an aerospace enthusiast, but absolutely despise it as a passenger. In my experience (with Lufthansa), the boarding process is chaotic and takes forever, the seat pitch is minimal in economy, and never have I felt more like cattle than when sharing the situation with 700 other passengers.<p>I&#x27;m curious how your experience as a passenger sounds so different from mine.</text></item><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>I totally understand why big aircraft (A380, 747, etc) are disappearing commercially but I will miss them. Flying in a larger aircraft makes one feel less like cargo, in particularly for airlines that offer places to stretch your legs (e.g. &quot;bar&quot; seating, showers, staircases, etc).<p>I was always kind of secretly hoping large blimps would return. And we&#x27;d get to choose between 7 hours in a tiny metal tube with the seat-back of the person in front resting on your knees, or 24 hours on a slow blimp with a bed, the ability to walk around, and social areas. Kind of like a cruise ship in the sky.<p>An A380 feels kind of like Concord in that it really touched the imagination. I still hope to have a shower at 40,000 feet before they&#x27;re retired completely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steedsofwar</author><text>I have a similar view on the A380, but I love being a passenger on them more than any other plane. The extra leg room is what wins over for me and as I fly Emirates the in flight entertainment is brilliant.<p>For me it’s a shame we are seeing a decline of these planes. I loathe to think the industry is going to go back to less leg room, more seats and feeling like cattle.</text></comment> |
34,559,016 | 34,558,748 | 1 | 2 | 34,553,140 | train | <story><title>High-Earning Men Are Cutting Back on Their Working Hours</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-earning-men-are-cutting-back-on-their-working-hours-11674697563</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bqmjjx0kac</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t everyone wonder if they&#x27;re the first immortal to be born?</text></item><item><author>52-6F-62</author><text>It’s not their potential mortality. It <i>is</i> their mortality. Very real, and always imminent.<p>Once it stops becoming a “potential” thing, and it’s accepted as reality, then you start making real choices.<p>The outcome is telling but not surprising. It’s among the oldest human wisdom.</text></item><item><author>ren_engineer</author><text>the last sentence of the article hints at the real reason it was written in the first place:<p>&gt;But as staff cut back their hours, it costs medical organizations money<p>it&#x27;s just companies screeching that they are making less money because salaried employees are doing less unpaid work. I think the pandemic had a large effect on people in terms of<p>1. Having to face potential mortality much earlier than expected and thus putting lower priority on long term career stuff<p>2. Gave lots of people a glimpse of how much they miss out on due to commuting and being in office when in reality they can do most of their work from home and get benefits like more time with family, more time for hobbies, etc.</text></item><item><author>mrandish</author><text>&gt; &quot;High-earning men in the 25-to-39 age range who could be described as “workaholics” were pulling back, often by choice&quot;<p>This seems like great news. I know several guys who&#x27;ve recently opted to earn less in exchange for more time off at home with their young kids. They are happier and the kids love it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ectopod</author><text>Scientifically speaking, the human death rate is a surprisingly low 93%. This is the obvious calculation: the number of people who died divided by the number who were born.</text></comment> | <story><title>High-Earning Men Are Cutting Back on Their Working Hours</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-earning-men-are-cutting-back-on-their-working-hours-11674697563</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bqmjjx0kac</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t everyone wonder if they&#x27;re the first immortal to be born?</text></item><item><author>52-6F-62</author><text>It’s not their potential mortality. It <i>is</i> their mortality. Very real, and always imminent.<p>Once it stops becoming a “potential” thing, and it’s accepted as reality, then you start making real choices.<p>The outcome is telling but not surprising. It’s among the oldest human wisdom.</text></item><item><author>ren_engineer</author><text>the last sentence of the article hints at the real reason it was written in the first place:<p>&gt;But as staff cut back their hours, it costs medical organizations money<p>it&#x27;s just companies screeching that they are making less money because salaried employees are doing less unpaid work. I think the pandemic had a large effect on people in terms of<p>1. Having to face potential mortality much earlier than expected and thus putting lower priority on long term career stuff<p>2. Gave lots of people a glimpse of how much they miss out on due to commuting and being in office when in reality they can do most of their work from home and get benefits like more time with family, more time for hobbies, etc.</text></item><item><author>mrandish</author><text>&gt; &quot;High-earning men in the 25-to-39 age range who could be described as “workaholics” were pulling back, often by choice&quot;<p>This seems like great news. I know several guys who&#x27;ve recently opted to earn less in exchange for more time off at home with their young kids. They are happier and the kids love it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gammarator</author><text>I have found no evidence against it to date</text></comment> |
13,721,280 | 13,721,083 | 1 | 2 | 13,718,586 | train | <story><title>Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-23/alphabet-s-waymo-sues-uber-for-stealing-self-driving-patents?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>itchyouch</author><text>Based on the story from Flash Boys, that Goldman engineer was taking something like a couple of megs worth of his own work that was related to various open source projects. But he became the poster boy for stealing trade secrets and an example to be made of.<p>His mistake was that he used the company internet connection to upload said source files to something like his personal github or dropbox of the sort, so there were proxy logs of him stealing corporate secrets.<p>Most people would&#x27;ve gotten their personal-ish data off a corporate laptop with a usb key&#x2F;harddrive which they probably wouldn&#x27;t have triggered any alarms.</text></item><item><author>mevile</author><text>It seems criminal. I remember an engineer from goldman sachs went to prison for doing something similar.</text></item><item><author>xt00</author><text>Yea that&#x27;s incredibly bad if that&#x27;s what that guy did.. in general for EE designs, the schematic&#x2F;layouts are not that hard to deduce how you would do it if you are in contact with the company that makes the LIDAR device (the unique and difficult part -- basically just need to ask them, like &quot;yo, how roughly should I interface with this thing and whats your recommendation on a number of the components.. and can you give me a reference schematic..&quot;). So copying stuff means that the guy actually probably was clueless as to how it actually worked and planned to just hand it off to somebody else who did understand it -- so definitely super bad...</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>From another source to provide some colour:<p>&gt; According to a lawsuit filed today in federal court in California, Waymo accuses Anthony Levandowski, an engineer who left Google to found Otto and now serves as a top ranking Uber executive, stole 14,000 highly confidential documents from Google before departing to start his own company. Among the documents were schematics of a circuit board and details about radar and LIDAR technology, Waymo says<p>&gt; The lawsuit claims that a team of ex-Google engineers used critical technology, including the Lidar laser sensors, in the autonomous trucking startup they founded, and which Uber later acquired<p>I was confused as to what stealing a patent actually meant:)<p>Waymo has also posted this....<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@waymo&#x2F;a-note-on-our-lawsuit-against-otto-and-uber-86f4f98902a1#.mn83yyh0t" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@waymo&#x2F;a-note-on-our-lawsuit-against-otto...</a><p>From this post...<p>&gt; Recently, we received an unexpected email. One of our suppliers specializing in LiDAR components sent us an attachment (apparently inadvertently) of machine drawings of what was purported to be Uber’s LiDAR circuit board — except its design bore a striking resemblance to Waymo’s unique LiDAR design.<p>&gt; We found that six weeks before his resignation this former employee, Anthony Levandowski, downloaded over 14,000 highly confidential and proprietary design files for Waymo’s various hardware systems, including designs of Waymo’s LiDAR and circuit board. To gain access to Waymo’s design server, Mr. Levandowski searched for and installed specialized software onto his company-issued laptop. Once inside, he downloaded 9.7 GB of Waymo’s highly confidential files and trade secrets, including blueprints, design files and testing documentation. Then he connected an external drive to the laptop. Mr. Levandowski then wiped and reformatted the laptop in an attempt to erase forensic fingerprints.<p>Ooops, that does sound bad after a first read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isubkhankulov</author><text>&gt; Most people would&#x27;ve gotten their personal-ish data off a corporate laptop with a usb key&#x2F;harddrive which they probably wouldn&#x27;t have triggered any alarms.<p>Most top banks use Citrix technology (or similar virtual desktops) to stream workstations for employees accessing both locally and remotely, so the only way you can get data out is by using your phone to take photos.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-23/alphabet-s-waymo-sues-uber-for-stealing-self-driving-patents?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>itchyouch</author><text>Based on the story from Flash Boys, that Goldman engineer was taking something like a couple of megs worth of his own work that was related to various open source projects. But he became the poster boy for stealing trade secrets and an example to be made of.<p>His mistake was that he used the company internet connection to upload said source files to something like his personal github or dropbox of the sort, so there were proxy logs of him stealing corporate secrets.<p>Most people would&#x27;ve gotten their personal-ish data off a corporate laptop with a usb key&#x2F;harddrive which they probably wouldn&#x27;t have triggered any alarms.</text></item><item><author>mevile</author><text>It seems criminal. I remember an engineer from goldman sachs went to prison for doing something similar.</text></item><item><author>xt00</author><text>Yea that&#x27;s incredibly bad if that&#x27;s what that guy did.. in general for EE designs, the schematic&#x2F;layouts are not that hard to deduce how you would do it if you are in contact with the company that makes the LIDAR device (the unique and difficult part -- basically just need to ask them, like &quot;yo, how roughly should I interface with this thing and whats your recommendation on a number of the components.. and can you give me a reference schematic..&quot;). So copying stuff means that the guy actually probably was clueless as to how it actually worked and planned to just hand it off to somebody else who did understand it -- so definitely super bad...</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>From another source to provide some colour:<p>&gt; According to a lawsuit filed today in federal court in California, Waymo accuses Anthony Levandowski, an engineer who left Google to found Otto and now serves as a top ranking Uber executive, stole 14,000 highly confidential documents from Google before departing to start his own company. Among the documents were schematics of a circuit board and details about radar and LIDAR technology, Waymo says<p>&gt; The lawsuit claims that a team of ex-Google engineers used critical technology, including the Lidar laser sensors, in the autonomous trucking startup they founded, and which Uber later acquired<p>I was confused as to what stealing a patent actually meant:)<p>Waymo has also posted this....<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@waymo&#x2F;a-note-on-our-lawsuit-against-otto-and-uber-86f4f98902a1#.mn83yyh0t" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@waymo&#x2F;a-note-on-our-lawsuit-against-otto...</a><p>From this post...<p>&gt; Recently, we received an unexpected email. One of our suppliers specializing in LiDAR components sent us an attachment (apparently inadvertently) of machine drawings of what was purported to be Uber’s LiDAR circuit board — except its design bore a striking resemblance to Waymo’s unique LiDAR design.<p>&gt; We found that six weeks before his resignation this former employee, Anthony Levandowski, downloaded over 14,000 highly confidential and proprietary design files for Waymo’s various hardware systems, including designs of Waymo’s LiDAR and circuit board. To gain access to Waymo’s design server, Mr. Levandowski searched for and installed specialized software onto his company-issued laptop. Once inside, he downloaded 9.7 GB of Waymo’s highly confidential files and trade secrets, including blueprints, design files and testing documentation. Then he connected an external drive to the laptop. Mr. Levandowski then wiped and reformatted the laptop in an attempt to erase forensic fingerprints.<p>Ooops, that does sound bad after a first read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The Flash Boys presentation is not accurate: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9047068" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9047068</a>. (Though I don&#x27;t think you should be sent to prison for a crime like that.)</text></comment> |
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