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22,571,720 | 22,570,234 | 1 | 3 | 22,552,006 | train | <story><title>Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life</title><url>https://kevingal.com/blog/mona-lisa-gol.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>waltbosz</author><text>For years I&#x27;m been thinking about something like this in terms of data compression:<p>Would it be possible to have some sort of cellular automata program that generates the uncompressed data after so many generations.<p>The compressed data would be the start state of the game field, which over several generations would produce the uncompressed data.<p>For it to work, you would have to start with the uncompressed data and work backwards. Which is what the author of this article is trying to do with these pictures.<p>Based on what I can understand from the article, there is no hope for my data compression scheme.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tobias3</author><text>This is addressed since forever in the comp.compression faq <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.faqs.org&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;compression-faq&#x2F;part1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.faqs.org&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;compression-faq&#x2F;part1&#x2F;</a> see &quot;9.2 The counting argument&quot; and the link there to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dogma.net&#x2F;markn&#x2F;FAQ.html#Q19" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dogma.net&#x2F;markn&#x2F;FAQ.html#Q19</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life</title><url>https://kevingal.com/blog/mona-lisa-gol.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>waltbosz</author><text>For years I&#x27;m been thinking about something like this in terms of data compression:<p>Would it be possible to have some sort of cellular automata program that generates the uncompressed data after so many generations.<p>The compressed data would be the start state of the game field, which over several generations would produce the uncompressed data.<p>For it to work, you would have to start with the uncompressed data and work backwards. Which is what the author of this article is trying to do with these pictures.<p>Based on what I can understand from the article, there is no hope for my data compression scheme.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BuildTheRobots</author><text>I couldn&#x27;t read this without thinking of πfs (Pi FS).<p>Pi being an irrational number contains all other numbers. Therefor rather than sending someone a file (eg a video) all you need to do is search the never-ending π and send people the offset instead. 100% compression here we go.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;philipl&#x2F;pifs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;philipl&#x2F;pifs&#x2F;</a><p>In reality though, searching through Pi to find that offset - especially for bigger files, can take a while.</text></comment> |
13,867,776 | 13,867,877 | 1 | 2 | 13,866,507 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Every Day Is Pi Day</title><url>http://euler.party/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jaruzel</author><text>For most of us in the world, No Day is Pi Day.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;1r5QpQu" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;1r5QpQu</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trcollinson</author><text>It seems this Show HN proves you rather wrong. I understand the point, you use a different format for your dates than the US. But the point of this Show HN is that all number sequences can be found within the digits of pi quite easily.<p>Very neat demonstration!</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Every Day Is Pi Day</title><url>http://euler.party/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jaruzel</author><text>For most of us in the world, No Day is Pi Day.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;1r5QpQu" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;1r5QpQu</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fao_</author><text>Actually ISO 8601 states that the datecode format that should be used is<p>YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+&lt;OFFSET&gt;<p>in this format, Pi day is:<p>2017-03-14 (The rest of the complete format omitted since it is not strictly relevant)</text></comment> |
23,653,645 | 23,653,009 | 1 | 3 | 23,652,804 | train | <story><title>SARS-CoV-2 detected in Barcelona sewage water sample from March 2019</title><url>https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v1.full.pdf+html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>devit</author><text>This is the quote: &quot;All samples came out to be negative for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomes with the exception of March 12, 2019, in which both IP2 and IP4 target assays were positive. This striking finding indicates circulation of the virus in Barcelona long before the report of any COVID-19 case worldwide.&quot;.<p>And no discussion of the obvious possibility that they screwed up the testing, any discussion of whether they could repeat the test on another part of the sample or on the 2019 April-August samples they didn&#x27;t test, or any sort of attempt at a Bayesian probability analysis.<p>Pretty ridiculous and shameful, I&#x27;d say.</text></comment> | <story><title>SARS-CoV-2 detected in Barcelona sewage water sample from March 2019</title><url>https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v1.full.pdf+html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koheripbal</author><text>This is one single frozen sample from March 2019 that was positive. Note that subsequent frozen samples from later in 2019 were negative.<p>Without more data - I&#x27;d chalk this up to a false positive or sample contamination.</text></comment> |
32,423,203 | 32,420,453 | 1 | 2 | 32,416,815 | train | <story><title>The Case for Degrowth</title><url>https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thematrixturtle</author><text>Japan is a living case study of degrowth: GDP has been essentially flat for the past 20 years. The scale below exaggerates small shifts, but it was $4968B in 2000 and $4937B in 2020.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;japan&#x2F;gdp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;japan&#x2F;gdp</a><p>On the ground, this has translated into flat or deflating prices (until very recently) and an increasing bifurcation of society into salarymen, with low but stable incomes anchored on jobs-almost-for-life, and part-timers on temporary contracts, with groups like single mothers living in poverty. Population is shrinking by close to 1M&#x2F;year, the rural countryside is rapidly emptying out as young people flock into cities to chase opportunities, and the national pension scheme will sooner or later implode since it can&#x27;t support 1 worker paying for 4 retirees forever. It&#x27;s frankly depressing and there&#x27;s no obvious way out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AstralStorm</author><text>Thing is, GDP is a lousy measure of growth. Japan is undergoing a contraction and fossilization of its social structure.<p>Interestingly enough, the same is happening slowly in USA and UK, and then after a big space everywhere else. Note the anti-immigration and austerity rhetoric, where what is needed is a major social change, considering of some attempts to level the playing field and prevent the current corporate and political aristocracies from emerging again.<p>Aa for rural drain, it&#x27;s been happening everywhere, mostly because for some reason we do not pay farmers enough, nor the systems we made allow even groups of then to be self sufficient.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Case for Degrowth</title><url>https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/geoff-mann/reversing-the-freight-train</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thematrixturtle</author><text>Japan is a living case study of degrowth: GDP has been essentially flat for the past 20 years. The scale below exaggerates small shifts, but it was $4968B in 2000 and $4937B in 2020.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;japan&#x2F;gdp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;japan&#x2F;gdp</a><p>On the ground, this has translated into flat or deflating prices (until very recently) and an increasing bifurcation of society into salarymen, with low but stable incomes anchored on jobs-almost-for-life, and part-timers on temporary contracts, with groups like single mothers living in poverty. Population is shrinking by close to 1M&#x2F;year, the rural countryside is rapidly emptying out as young people flock into cities to chase opportunities, and the national pension scheme will sooner or later implode since it can&#x27;t support 1 worker paying for 4 retirees forever. It&#x27;s frankly depressing and there&#x27;s no obvious way out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roflyear</author><text>There is an obvious way out. Increase immigration. The US does this well. Why doesn&#x27;t Japan? Because of racism and xenophobia. No one talks about it (wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if I got downvoted for mentioning it) but Japan is mad racist. They do not like foreigners.</text></comment> |
18,129,065 | 18,129,077 | 1 | 3 | 18,127,350 | train | <story><title>Bill to ban bots impersonating people for telemarketing and influencing election</title><url>https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1001</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sprokolopolis</author><text>I like the idea of this, but I wonder if it will have much impact on the worst offenders. The most frequent and annoying calls are almost always using spoofed numbers and many times originating from outside the country, like India. Is there any way that this law could be enforced...<p>1)on calls originating outside the state or country?<p>2) on calls over spoofed numbers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shivetya</author><text>Sure there is means within the phone industry to determine if the number offered up is the actual number. Last I remember the caller id function was independent of the ANI information.<p>Now calls are down to either my contact list or the caller leaving a message whose transcription I can review. All others just get ignored. It was bad enough when politicians wrote the laws in such a way their campaigns and charities did not have to have permission to call but with VOIP being abused so much my phone isn&#x27;t my own.<p>with regards to the political exception in calls, how will the Federal rule align with the state rule. it was specifically carved out to allow political calls in the do not call system</text></comment> | <story><title>Bill to ban bots impersonating people for telemarketing and influencing election</title><url>https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1001</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sprokolopolis</author><text>I like the idea of this, but I wonder if it will have much impact on the worst offenders. The most frequent and annoying calls are almost always using spoofed numbers and many times originating from outside the country, like India. Is there any way that this law could be enforced...<p>1)on calls originating outside the state or country?<p>2) on calls over spoofed numbers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>earbrazier</author><text>No, not this law, because (contrary to the current HN title) it does not apply to telephone calls. Its scope is &quot;any public-facing Internet Web site, Web application, or digital application, including a social network or publication&quot;.</text></comment> |
11,886,092 | 11,886,068 | 1 | 3 | 11,882,832 | train | <story><title>The Japanese art of not sleeping</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160506-the-japanese-art-of-not-sleeping</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristianc</author><text>My impression of working in Japan around five years ago was that it felt like an economy medicated on caffeine.<p>Work goes on from 8am - 9pm, after which many are expected to go out and socialize with their colleagues (karaoke etc) and get drunk until 3am. Rinse and repeat, most days of the week. It wasn&#x27;t at all unusual to see rows of salarymen asleep on the subway every morning.<p>Japan&#x27;s most popular drink is a brand of canned coffee which is on sale everywhere and in the vending machines that line the streets. Coca Cola&#x27;s brand of this coffee accounts for an outsize proportion of their global profits (something like 12%, only sold in Japan).<p>All of this seems to be totally okay and accepted despite the obvious impact on productivity of regularly going for long periods without sleep. This is the offices of Dentsu, Japan&#x27;s largest media agency, at night: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EWX6--sQtsA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EWX6--sQtsA</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cyph0n</author><text>&gt; Japan&#x27;s most popular drink is a brand of canned coffee which is on sale everywhere and in the vending machines that line the streets. Coca Cola&#x27;s brand of this coffee accounts for an outsize proportion of their global profits (something like 12%, only sold in Japan).<p>Yet another strange Japan-related fact. That is an <i>insane</i> amount of coffee.<p>For anyone curious, the Coca Cola beverage is called &quot;Georgia&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Georgia_(coffee)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Georgia_(coffee)</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Japanese art of not sleeping</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160506-the-japanese-art-of-not-sleeping</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristianc</author><text>My impression of working in Japan around five years ago was that it felt like an economy medicated on caffeine.<p>Work goes on from 8am - 9pm, after which many are expected to go out and socialize with their colleagues (karaoke etc) and get drunk until 3am. Rinse and repeat, most days of the week. It wasn&#x27;t at all unusual to see rows of salarymen asleep on the subway every morning.<p>Japan&#x27;s most popular drink is a brand of canned coffee which is on sale everywhere and in the vending machines that line the streets. Coca Cola&#x27;s brand of this coffee accounts for an outsize proportion of their global profits (something like 12%, only sold in Japan).<p>All of this seems to be totally okay and accepted despite the obvious impact on productivity of regularly going for long periods without sleep. This is the offices of Dentsu, Japan&#x27;s largest media agency, at night: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EWX6--sQtsA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EWX6--sQtsA</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelGG</author><text>And yet they are very anti-drug right? You&#x27;d think they&#x27;d somehow allow the use of amphetamines or Ritalin. Much more effective than caffeine.</text></comment> |
22,676,839 | 22,676,669 | 1 | 2 | 22,675,516 | train | <story><title>The next outbreak? We're not ready. Ted talk by Bill Gates (2015)</title><url>https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re_not_ready</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>&gt; we needed to shut down the city, and everyone else arguing it would destroy small businesses<p>The problem is that they are right with this. Shutting down the city will probably destroy small businesses. Those same people also can&#x27;t do much to help small businesses. It is understandable that they don&#x27;t want to sentence these businesses to death when they are powerless to save them. This is why the relative inaction by the federal government is such a problem here. They are the only entity that has the power to stop the wide spread of the virus and absorb the economic repercussions of the shutdown.</text></item><item><author>merpnderp</author><text>No one paid attention. After the H1N1 crisis, the US burned through its reserves of N95 masks and other pandemic supplies, and never refilled them.<p>We aren&#x27;t even learning now, even after it was obvious Italy needed to lock down more, the US still wasn&#x27;t taking it seriously. I listened last night to my city council argue that it was still no big deal. Two members, a doctor and scientist said we needed to shut down the city, and everyone else arguing it would destroy small businesses and it wasn&#x27;t that big a deal to anyone but the elderly.<p>We just don&#x27;t learn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lifeformed</author><text>Maybe this is a naive question, but... why can&#x27;t we temporarily just stop the whole chain of debt instead of forcing individuals and small businesses to bear the brunt of losses? Right now the issue is that if we&#x27;re not working, we&#x27;re not making money, and we can&#x27;t pay for rent and debts. But is the only solution to find a way for the government to give the people money and let the businesses collapse? Why can&#x27;t we put the burden further up the chain? Doesn&#x27;t it all end up at the banks? I pay my landlord rent, my landlord pays mortgage on the property to the bank. Can we pause rent and mortgages and debts for a few months? Sure, there would be big damage done to the economy still, but why do we have to let the damage happen at the individual level? I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s some simple explanation, but I don&#x27;t understand why.</text></comment> | <story><title>The next outbreak? We're not ready. Ted talk by Bill Gates (2015)</title><url>https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re_not_ready</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>&gt; we needed to shut down the city, and everyone else arguing it would destroy small businesses<p>The problem is that they are right with this. Shutting down the city will probably destroy small businesses. Those same people also can&#x27;t do much to help small businesses. It is understandable that they don&#x27;t want to sentence these businesses to death when they are powerless to save them. This is why the relative inaction by the federal government is such a problem here. They are the only entity that has the power to stop the wide spread of the virus and absorb the economic repercussions of the shutdown.</text></item><item><author>merpnderp</author><text>No one paid attention. After the H1N1 crisis, the US burned through its reserves of N95 masks and other pandemic supplies, and never refilled them.<p>We aren&#x27;t even learning now, even after it was obvious Italy needed to lock down more, the US still wasn&#x27;t taking it seriously. I listened last night to my city council argue that it was still no big deal. Two members, a doctor and scientist said we needed to shut down the city, and everyone else arguing it would destroy small businesses and it wasn&#x27;t that big a deal to anyone but the elderly.<p>We just don&#x27;t learn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>What happened in Italy is that they delayed... and then ended up shutting down everything <i>anyway</i> - just with a lot more infected people and deaths, and the exact same economic hardships.</text></comment> |
34,631,818 | 34,631,915 | 1 | 2 | 34,628,386 | train | <story><title>Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser</title><url>https://play-cs.com/en/servers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rollcat</author><text>Say what you like about Apple, but having all these functions on the Cmd key instead is not just more logical, it&#x27;s actually <i>sane</i> (doubly so for the terminal). I think MS has missed an enormous opportunity when they introduced the Win key; and X11 desktops, toolkits, and apps imitated the more familiar (rather than the better) solutions.</text></item><item><author>bogwog</author><text>Played this for a bit but ran into some trouble with the key mappings. CTRL to crouch means that I can&#x27;t really press anything else without causing firefox to ruin the game.<p>* CTRL+R (reload) causes the page to refresh<p>* CTRL+W (walk forward) attempts to close the current tab<p>* CTRL+S (walk backward) opens a dialog to save the current page<p>* CTRL+D (walk right) bookmarks the current page<p>Luckily firefox shows a confirmation dialog before refresh or closing the tab, but that causes the game to freeze until you dismiss it.<p>Also sound didn&#x27;t work at all</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arcanemachiner</author><text>I will concede that for once, Apple&#x27;s insane keyboard mappings actually work in their favor.<p>But I still won&#x27;t get them any credit, since it is purely a coincidence that their mappings happened not to mess with this one browser game.</text></comment> | <story><title>Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser</title><url>https://play-cs.com/en/servers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rollcat</author><text>Say what you like about Apple, but having all these functions on the Cmd key instead is not just more logical, it&#x27;s actually <i>sane</i> (doubly so for the terminal). I think MS has missed an enormous opportunity when they introduced the Win key; and X11 desktops, toolkits, and apps imitated the more familiar (rather than the better) solutions.</text></item><item><author>bogwog</author><text>Played this for a bit but ran into some trouble with the key mappings. CTRL to crouch means that I can&#x27;t really press anything else without causing firefox to ruin the game.<p>* CTRL+R (reload) causes the page to refresh<p>* CTRL+W (walk forward) attempts to close the current tab<p>* CTRL+S (walk backward) opens a dialog to save the current page<p>* CTRL+D (walk right) bookmarks the current page<p>Luckily firefox shows a confirmation dialog before refresh or closing the tab, but that causes the game to freeze until you dismiss it.<p>Also sound didn&#x27;t work at all</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chungy</author><text>Can&#x27;t speak for Windows, but GNOME and KDE heavily use the window key by default for DE and window management functions. Applications are pretty free to use control and alt keys to their heart&#x27;s desire (they&#x27;re free to use the window key too, but if the DE&#x2F;WM captures a particular hot key, it won&#x27;t work... it&#x27;s not often that applications try to actually use it).</text></comment> |
40,501,681 | 40,501,526 | 1 | 2 | 40,501,034 | train | <story><title>Road planners embrace the diverging diamond interchange</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2024/05/28/1243933142/diverging-diamond-interchange-chlewicki</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hexator</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t mention the numerous downsides to pedestrians for diverging diamond interchanges. Four crossing points means a lot more conflict points and a lot more chances for death.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Piskvorrr</author><text>Four crossing points (two with traffic lights, in this case), whereas for a &quot;normal&quot; interchange, you&#x27;d get...also four crossing points.<p>diverging diamond: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;directions?engine=fossgis_osrm_foot&amp;route=38.81993%2C-77.63737%3B38.81679%2C-77.64198#map=17&#x2F;38.81836&#x2F;-77.63967" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;directions?engine=fossgis_osrm...</a><p>cloverleaf: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;directions?engine=fossgis_osrm_foot&amp;route=38.74104%2C-77.52235%3B38.74408%2C-77.51356#map=17&#x2F;38.74261&#x2F;-77.51798" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;directions?engine=fossgis_osrm...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Road planners embrace the diverging diamond interchange</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2024/05/28/1243933142/diverging-diamond-interchange-chlewicki</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hexator</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t mention the numerous downsides to pedestrians for diverging diamond interchanges. Four crossing points means a lot more conflict points and a lot more chances for death.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notatoad</author><text>I dunno, they seem better to me (from experience actually walking across [1], not just looking at pictures on the internet)<p>The crossing are controlled, distances are relatively short and the cars are only coming from one direction. It&#x27;s a couple of crossings to get all the way through, but they&#x27;re easy crossings.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.app.goo.gl&#x2F;6SwfTPrnXkUtTyym8?g_st=ic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.app.goo.gl&#x2F;6SwfTPrnXkUtTyym8?g_st=ic</a></text></comment> |
10,757,399 | 10,757,406 | 1 | 3 | 10,750,024 | train | <story><title>DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year</title><url>http://qz.com/574853/duckduckgo-the-search-engine-that-doesnt-track-its-users-grew-more-than-70-this-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sundarurfriend</author><text>FWIW, DDG search in my experience has gotten vastly better in the past year or so. It <i>used</i> to be that 90% of my searches ended up repeated with !g to go to google, but nowadys I&#x27;d guess that&#x27;s like 30%, and even among those, half the time google&#x27;s answer quality ends up the same.<p>The only cases where Google is predictably and consistenly superior are 1. error&#x2F;diagnostic messages: DDG still sucks at precision search, and quotes are not always the answer; 2. queries that require Natural Language Processing: Google understands stuff like &quot;the bad moustache guy from XYZ series&quot; where I myself have only a vague idea of what I&#x27;m looking for.<p>And oftentimes the Instant Answers end up offsetting somewhat poorer quality of results, so kudos to DDG for coming up with those.<p>(None of this is meant to disqualify your experience though, just expressing my own joy at their results having improved for my use case.)</text></item><item><author>newscracker</author><text>&gt; “Our biggest challenge is that most people have not heard of us,” Weinberg says. “We very much want to break out into the mainstream.”<p>It won&#x27;t help at all if more people get to know of DDG and then leave it after a single trial because the results are not great.<p>I value privacy a lot and want something like DDG to succeed and become really big, but I get frustrated very often with DDG. I know many people are very happy with the results from DDG. For <i>most of my searches</i> though (on technical and other matters), I end up doing a second search on Start Page or Google because DDG still does not have search by date and the search results are nowhere close to Google.<p>I do have and use DDG as my default search engine in the hope that DDG keeps analyzing the volume of !s or !g queries as an indicator of how much DDG is lacking and takes action to improve it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pixard</author><text>I last tried DDG a few years ago and couldn&#x27;t get anything done at all as the results were simply not what I needed (PHP &#x2F; Laravel &#x2F; WordPress development).<p>Your comment made me try it again today and after several hours of using it I can definitely say it has vastly improved in results for my particular use case.<p>While a few hours are obviously not a huge metric it&#x27;s still satisfying enough so I have switched it to default for now and we&#x27;ll see how it goes.<p>Thanks for sharing your experience.</text></comment> | <story><title>DuckDuckGo grew more than 70% this year</title><url>http://qz.com/574853/duckduckgo-the-search-engine-that-doesnt-track-its-users-grew-more-than-70-this-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sundarurfriend</author><text>FWIW, DDG search in my experience has gotten vastly better in the past year or so. It <i>used</i> to be that 90% of my searches ended up repeated with !g to go to google, but nowadys I&#x27;d guess that&#x27;s like 30%, and even among those, half the time google&#x27;s answer quality ends up the same.<p>The only cases where Google is predictably and consistenly superior are 1. error&#x2F;diagnostic messages: DDG still sucks at precision search, and quotes are not always the answer; 2. queries that require Natural Language Processing: Google understands stuff like &quot;the bad moustache guy from XYZ series&quot; where I myself have only a vague idea of what I&#x27;m looking for.<p>And oftentimes the Instant Answers end up offsetting somewhat poorer quality of results, so kudos to DDG for coming up with those.<p>(None of this is meant to disqualify your experience though, just expressing my own joy at their results having improved for my use case.)</text></item><item><author>newscracker</author><text>&gt; “Our biggest challenge is that most people have not heard of us,” Weinberg says. “We very much want to break out into the mainstream.”<p>It won&#x27;t help at all if more people get to know of DDG and then leave it after a single trial because the results are not great.<p>I value privacy a lot and want something like DDG to succeed and become really big, but I get frustrated very often with DDG. I know many people are very happy with the results from DDG. For <i>most of my searches</i> though (on technical and other matters), I end up doing a second search on Start Page or Google because DDG still does not have search by date and the search results are nowhere close to Google.<p>I do have and use DDG as my default search engine in the hope that DDG keeps analyzing the volume of !s or !g queries as an indicator of how much DDG is lacking and takes action to improve it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>temp</author><text>&gt;FWIW, DDG search in my experience has gotten vastly better in the past year or so.<p>Unfortunately, I can&#x27;t say the same.<p>As someone from a smaller and non-English-speaking country, I doubt there&#x27;ll ever be an effort to improve their results for my language and considering that even Bing does an absolutely terrible job at it, Google is my only choice for when doing local searches.<p>It&#x27;s like all search engines apart from Google are stuck 20 years in the past with how bad they are.</text></comment> |
4,608,049 | 4,607,880 | 1 | 3 | 4,607,423 | train | <story><title>Another Way Apple's Fight With Google Is Hurting Users</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/another-way-apples-fight-with-google-is-hurting-users.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adriand</author><text>The actual title of this article is "Another Way Apple's Fight With Google Is Hurting Users", which casts less blame than the modified title here on HN, "Another Way Apple's Fight Against Google Is Hurting Users".<p>It is unfair to present this ongoing situation as a war on Google by Apple. It is a competition <i>between</i> the two companies. Not to beat a long dead horse, but the war between the two companies started when Google entered the mobile device space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanMcGreal</author><text>A few points in the interest of fairness:<p>* Apple began developing the iPhone in 2004 and released it in June 2007.<p>* Android was founded in 2003 and Google bought the company in 2005. Google and partners announced the Open Handset Alliance in November 2007 and the first Android phone was released in October 2008.<p>So far, so good. Two companies that did not start out in mobile telephony/computing both began developing products and entering the space around the same time, competing with the existing smartphone manufacturers, particularly RIM and Nokia.<p>Google's competitive practices have consisted mainly in developing and iterating a solid product, partnering with a variety of hardware providers to develop a large ecosystem and market share, and occasionally releasing flagship devices to raise the state of the art.<p>Google has borrowed some innovations from its competitors and developed some innovations of its own.<p>Apple's competitive practices have consisted mainly in developing and iterating a solid product, partnering with developers via an app store to develop a large ecosystem, and maintaining control of the design and manufacture of devices to maintain standards of quality.<p>Apple has borrowed some innovations from its competitors and developed some innovations of its own.<p>Apple has also pledged "thermonuclear war" to "destroy Android", launched a patent war of attrition against Android hardware vendors, and is now, apparently, hobbling the functionality of its own device in an attempt to marginalize Google.<p>There's competition, and then there's anti-competitive behaviour. Apple would do better to stick with the former, since the company is obviously very good at designing, building and marketing highly competitive products.</text></comment> | <story><title>Another Way Apple's Fight With Google Is Hurting Users</title><url>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/another-way-apples-fight-with-google-is-hurting-users.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adriand</author><text>The actual title of this article is "Another Way Apple's Fight With Google Is Hurting Users", which casts less blame than the modified title here on HN, "Another Way Apple's Fight Against Google Is Hurting Users".<p>It is unfair to present this ongoing situation as a war on Google by Apple. It is a competition <i>between</i> the two companies. Not to beat a long dead horse, but the war between the two companies started when Google entered the mobile device space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>warfangle</author><text>If you flip the players around, could you see Google allowing Siri on the Google Play market?<p>I could. (Siri would even be able to launch apps, etc, due to Android's more robust API)</text></comment> |
6,072,043 | 6,071,708 | 1 | 2 | 6,071,596 | train | <story><title>House of Lords debates pardon for Alan Turing</title><url>http://bbc.co.uk/democracylive/house-of-lords-23378209</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pinchyfingers</author><text>The bigger issue here is that people look to governments and religions for pardons, permission and other validation. People that see some kind of meaning in empty gestures like a posthumous pardon (after shaming and chemically castrating the man) are grossly mislead.<p>Buying into the hype of government is what gives governments the power to commit senseless crimes like what was done to Alan Turing and many, many crimes that are much worse. The correct answer to &quot;should the UK government pardon Alan Turing?&quot; is &quot;fuck off&quot;.<p>I view the gay marriage issue in the same light. I have gay friends that care deeply about marriage equality, but as much as I love them and they are my friends, I simply cannot sympathize. My answer to them is: &quot;Live your life, do want you want to do, don&#x27;t ask the government or anyone else for permission&quot;.<p>If worried about my status as defined by the U.S. government and the fairness I can expect from U.S. government, I would just kill myself now. Thankfully I realize that government is just another scam for me to avoid to the best of my ability.</text></comment> | <story><title>House of Lords debates pardon for Alan Turing</title><url>http://bbc.co.uk/democracylive/house-of-lords-23378209</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>taybin</author><text>They should pardon all the people convicted under that law. Not just the famous, useful ones.</text></comment> |
10,948,824 | 10,948,663 | 1 | 3 | 10,940,455 | train | <story><title>Why Are Corporations Hoarding Trillions?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/magazine/why-are-corporations-hoarding-trillions.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-0&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>There is a school of economics, sometimes called the &quot;freshwater school&quot; (from the Chicago School and Milton Friedman) which claims you can&#x27;t run out of demand. This is a classic position. But productivity is now so good that we <i>can</i> run out of demand. Classically, countries ran out of land, labor, capital, or management before they ran out of demand. There were occasional recessions, but that wasn&#x27;t a permanent condition. That&#x27;s over in the US. Plenty of land outside NY and SF, lots of workers (some might need retraining, but it&#x27;s not like the real labor shortage of WWII), oceans of capital, and lots of experienced managers. But nothing to do with it, because the demand isn&#x27;t there.<p>This is an alien concept to many people and economic policy makers. See the parent article. They report on a capital glut, but are puzzled that it exists. The Fed keeps pumping capital into the economy in hopes it will fuel growth. But pumping capital into a capital glut doesn&#x27;t do much.<p>Look at Japan since 1989. Japan hit this about two decades before the US did. They never really figured out what to do about it. That&#x27;s discouraging, because if Japan had a solution, we&#x27;d have a success to look at.<p>So nobody really knows what to do about a capital glut and a demand shortage.</text></item><item><author>partiallypro</author><text>That&#x27;s not &quot;trickle down&quot; economics, which is not actually a real thing at all. That&#x27;s a nonsensical political term that the Democrats seized upon during Reagan&#x27;s &quot;supply side&quot; economic policy; which has beginnings much earlier than Reagan, and likely older than Jean-Baptiste Say&#x27;s formulation.<p>There isn&#x27;t an idea that alone &quot;capital drives growth,&quot; that&#x27;s an idea that Keynes came up with by misreading Jean-Baptiste Say. Paraphrasing him to say that &quot;supply creates its own demand,&quot; which we all know is nonsensical, but that&#x27;s not what Jean-Baptiste Say was saying. The idea is far more complicated than your simple explanation offers, though I sympathize with your view (though, at least the second paragraph is almost entirely wrong), it is narrow in its scope to the study of economics.</text></item><item><author>jandrese</author><text>This is the ultimate problem with &quot;trickle down&quot; economics. Capital doesn&#x27;t drive growth. Lack of capital limits growth, but excess capital doesn&#x27;t generate additional growth. Demand drives growth and 35 years of stagnant wages (wages are basically where they were in 1981) have put a chokehold on growth.<p>This is why you have the seemingly incongruous effect of high taxes encouraging growth and low taxes stifling it. Ultimately &quot;high taxes&quot; tend to effect the rich a lot more than the poor, and the money ends up being redistributed somewhat equally, spurring demand as the poor can suddenly afford a lot more good and services.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>The US is out of demand. Workers are spent out. Thus, there&#x27;s no need to increase output, because nobody has the money to buy it. The US has huge excess manufacturing capacity, thousands of malls which could handle more traffic (&quot;there&#x27;s always parking at Sears&quot;, a rather pathetic ad), and services which could handle more business. There&#x27;s a glut of capital, plenty of available unemployed or underemployed workers, no shortage of commercial real estate outside of a few cities, but no way to use it.<p>The CEO of WalMart has mentioned this. They have a direct view into the spent-out economy - same-store sales data. Sales decline each week after payday, then recover after payday. Sales move to necessities later in the month.<p>That&#x27;s why companies aren&#x27;t investing in capacity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>secstate</author><text>Not claiming I have a panacea here, but wouldn&#x27;t either a more aggressive minimum wage or a basic minimum income raise the ability for more people to act on the <i>desire</i> to buy? I assure you the demand for tons of stuff exists, but the means to buy it does not.<p>Back in 2013, HuffPost ran an article pointing out that had minimum wage kept up with inflation, it would be $10.50&#x2F;hr and actually more like $21 if it had kept up with productivity growth [0]. That, of course, assumes that the original minimum wage rate was set reasonably, but I can promise you that few people, save some well-educated counter-cutlurists, can live on $7.50&#x2F;hr these days. And even if they could, they wouldn&#x27;t really be spurring demand in the greater economy.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;minimum-wage-productivity_n_2680639.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;minimum-wage-produc...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why Are Corporations Hoarding Trillions?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/magazine/why-are-corporations-hoarding-trillions.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-0&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>There is a school of economics, sometimes called the &quot;freshwater school&quot; (from the Chicago School and Milton Friedman) which claims you can&#x27;t run out of demand. This is a classic position. But productivity is now so good that we <i>can</i> run out of demand. Classically, countries ran out of land, labor, capital, or management before they ran out of demand. There were occasional recessions, but that wasn&#x27;t a permanent condition. That&#x27;s over in the US. Plenty of land outside NY and SF, lots of workers (some might need retraining, but it&#x27;s not like the real labor shortage of WWII), oceans of capital, and lots of experienced managers. But nothing to do with it, because the demand isn&#x27;t there.<p>This is an alien concept to many people and economic policy makers. See the parent article. They report on a capital glut, but are puzzled that it exists. The Fed keeps pumping capital into the economy in hopes it will fuel growth. But pumping capital into a capital glut doesn&#x27;t do much.<p>Look at Japan since 1989. Japan hit this about two decades before the US did. They never really figured out what to do about it. That&#x27;s discouraging, because if Japan had a solution, we&#x27;d have a success to look at.<p>So nobody really knows what to do about a capital glut and a demand shortage.</text></item><item><author>partiallypro</author><text>That&#x27;s not &quot;trickle down&quot; economics, which is not actually a real thing at all. That&#x27;s a nonsensical political term that the Democrats seized upon during Reagan&#x27;s &quot;supply side&quot; economic policy; which has beginnings much earlier than Reagan, and likely older than Jean-Baptiste Say&#x27;s formulation.<p>There isn&#x27;t an idea that alone &quot;capital drives growth,&quot; that&#x27;s an idea that Keynes came up with by misreading Jean-Baptiste Say. Paraphrasing him to say that &quot;supply creates its own demand,&quot; which we all know is nonsensical, but that&#x27;s not what Jean-Baptiste Say was saying. The idea is far more complicated than your simple explanation offers, though I sympathize with your view (though, at least the second paragraph is almost entirely wrong), it is narrow in its scope to the study of economics.</text></item><item><author>jandrese</author><text>This is the ultimate problem with &quot;trickle down&quot; economics. Capital doesn&#x27;t drive growth. Lack of capital limits growth, but excess capital doesn&#x27;t generate additional growth. Demand drives growth and 35 years of stagnant wages (wages are basically where they were in 1981) have put a chokehold on growth.<p>This is why you have the seemingly incongruous effect of high taxes encouraging growth and low taxes stifling it. Ultimately &quot;high taxes&quot; tend to effect the rich a lot more than the poor, and the money ends up being redistributed somewhat equally, spurring demand as the poor can suddenly afford a lot more good and services.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>The US is out of demand. Workers are spent out. Thus, there&#x27;s no need to increase output, because nobody has the money to buy it. The US has huge excess manufacturing capacity, thousands of malls which could handle more traffic (&quot;there&#x27;s always parking at Sears&quot;, a rather pathetic ad), and services which could handle more business. There&#x27;s a glut of capital, plenty of available unemployed or underemployed workers, no shortage of commercial real estate outside of a few cities, but no way to use it.<p>The CEO of WalMart has mentioned this. They have a direct view into the spent-out economy - same-store sales data. Sales decline each week after payday, then recover after payday. Sales move to necessities later in the month.<p>That&#x27;s why companies aren&#x27;t investing in capacity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmorrow977</author><text>Instead of injecting money top-down through the Federal Reserve and large banks, they could inject it bottom-up in selected industries. Invest $1 trillion in biotech. Some will succeed and produce amazing advances. Most will fail, but they&#x27;ll still drive employment, education, services, etc. targeting that industry, driving down the cost of inputs to the biotech sector for decades.<p>Of course, this can be done not completely blindly, by investing 10 to 1 with existing investors, or providing a guarantee to return 50% of lost capital, or having milestones companies need to hit, or have experts in the field provide &quot;votes&quot; toward getting higher levels of funding after examining their progress so far.</text></comment> |
32,556,093 | 32,555,857 | 1 | 2 | 32,555,441 | train | <story><title>YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech</title><url>https://netblocks.org/reports/youtube-disrupted-in-pakistan-as-former-pm-khan-streams-speech-XADMq6Bg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbirer</author><text>The damage control by the Pakistani army is pretty crazy right now. Pakistan is on the verge of devolving into mass riots as Imran Khan has a massive fanbase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>For those people who haven&#x27;t studied Pakistan extensively, the army has <i>always</i> run things, the politicians are just the thin veneer of pretense at democracy as a public face.<p>The Army and the military forces in general are the people who really control the country.<p>Pakistan makes a public show of having a parliamentary democracy with elected MPs and such but it&#x27;s all a farce.<p>Doesn&#x27;t particularly matter whether Bhutto, Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Imran Khan or anyone else.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech</title><url>https://netblocks.org/reports/youtube-disrupted-in-pakistan-as-former-pm-khan-streams-speech-XADMq6Bg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbirer</author><text>The damage control by the Pakistani army is pretty crazy right now. Pakistan is on the verge of devolving into mass riots as Imran Khan has a massive fanbase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chamanbuga</author><text>It certainly looks like this from the outside. The establishment has always kept control over Pakistan even when such social change was in the air. I expect the same to happen. Also I&#x27;m expecting IK to start dialling it back given the recent riots.</text></comment> |
4,941,079 | 4,940,704 | 1 | 3 | 4,939,902 | train | <story><title>AWS: the good, the bad and the ugly</title><url>http://blog.awe.sm/2012/12/18/aws-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blantonl</author><text>This is a great writeup and is completely on target for realistic deployments on AWS.<p>We're a big user of AWS (well, relative, but we run about $10K/month in costs through AWS), so I'd like to supplement this outstanding blog post:<p>* I cannot emphasize enough how awesome Amazon's cost cuts are. It is really nice to wake up in the morning and see that 40% of your costs are now going to drop 20% next month going forward. (Like: Recent S3 cost cuts). In Louisiana, we call this Lagniappe (A little something extra.) We don't plan for it, nor budget for it, so it is a nice surprise every time it happens.<p>* We've also completely abandoned EBS in favor of ephemeral storage except in two places: some NFS and MySQL slaves that function as snapshot/backup hosts only.<p>* If the data you are storing isn't super critical, consider Amazon S3's reduced redundancy storage. When you approach the 30-50TB level, it makes a difference in costs.<p>* RDS is still just a dream for us, since we still don't have a comfort level with performance.<p>* Elasticache has definitely been a winner and allowed us to replace our dedicated memcache instances.<p>* We're doing some initial testing with Route 53 (Amazon's DNS services) and so far so good, with great flexibility and a nice API into DNS.<p>* We're scared to death of AWS SNS - we currently use SendGrid and a long trusted existing server for email delivery. Twillo will is our first choice for an upcoming SMS alerting project.<p>* If you are doing anything with streaming or high bandwidth work, AWS bandwidth is VERY expensive. We've opted to go with unmetered ports on a cluster of bare metal boxes with 1000TB.com. That easily saves us $1000's a month in bandwidth costs, and if we need overflow or have an outage there we can spin up temporary instances on AWS to provide short term coverage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghshephard</author><text>I don't get the 100tb.com model. Checking out their website, I see:<p>Intel E3-12303.2 GHz8GB2 x 1TB100 TB$201.15
1Gbit Dedicated Port<p>So, for $200/month, they'll give me 100 Terabytes/bandwidth on this server.<p>250 megabit/second at 30 days in terabytes = 81 Terabytes. A decently peered/connected Pipe costs, at this volume, around $5-$7/megabit @95th, or $1250.month.<p>So either:<p><pre><code> A) Their connectivity isn't hot.
B) If you actually use that 100 Terabytes per server,
they start to curtail/rate limit/traffic shape you.
C) Some other option I haven't considered? Maybe they
just rely on the vast majority of their customers not
using that bandwidth, and subsidizing (significantly)
those that do?
</code></pre>
blantonl, appreciate any insight you can provide - sounds like you've got great control over your environment. From the sounds of it, 100tb.com provides bandwidth @$0.33/megabit.</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS: the good, the bad and the ugly</title><url>http://blog.awe.sm/2012/12/18/aws-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blantonl</author><text>This is a great writeup and is completely on target for realistic deployments on AWS.<p>We're a big user of AWS (well, relative, but we run about $10K/month in costs through AWS), so I'd like to supplement this outstanding blog post:<p>* I cannot emphasize enough how awesome Amazon's cost cuts are. It is really nice to wake up in the morning and see that 40% of your costs are now going to drop 20% next month going forward. (Like: Recent S3 cost cuts). In Louisiana, we call this Lagniappe (A little something extra.) We don't plan for it, nor budget for it, so it is a nice surprise every time it happens.<p>* We've also completely abandoned EBS in favor of ephemeral storage except in two places: some NFS and MySQL slaves that function as snapshot/backup hosts only.<p>* If the data you are storing isn't super critical, consider Amazon S3's reduced redundancy storage. When you approach the 30-50TB level, it makes a difference in costs.<p>* RDS is still just a dream for us, since we still don't have a comfort level with performance.<p>* Elasticache has definitely been a winner and allowed us to replace our dedicated memcache instances.<p>* We're doing some initial testing with Route 53 (Amazon's DNS services) and so far so good, with great flexibility and a nice API into DNS.<p>* We're scared to death of AWS SNS - we currently use SendGrid and a long trusted existing server for email delivery. Twillo will is our first choice for an upcoming SMS alerting project.<p>* If you are doing anything with streaming or high bandwidth work, AWS bandwidth is VERY expensive. We've opted to go with unmetered ports on a cluster of bare metal boxes with 1000TB.com. That easily saves us $1000's a month in bandwidth costs, and if we need overflow or have an outage there we can spin up temporary instances on AWS to provide short term coverage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pearkes</author><text>&#62; We're scared to death of AWS SNS - we currently use SendGrid and a long trusted existing server for email delivery. Twillo will is our first choice for an upcoming SMS alerting project.<p>Can you elaborate on this a bit? Why are you scared of SNS? Data loss / latency etc?</text></comment> |
8,446,231 | 8,446,070 | 1 | 2 | 8,445,724 | train | <story><title>Scenes from Google Street View</title><url>http://9-eyes.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petercooper</author><text>A real shame you can&#x27;t click on the images to get to the location. But.. this, and the general quality of some of the shots, makes me wonder.. are these all from Google Street View or is it an art project that includes photos doctored to look like Google Street View? (Which wouldn&#x27;t necessarily detract from it, IMHO.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Scenes from Google Street View</title><url>http://9-eyes.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thathonkey</author><text>It would be nice if they&#x27;d list the location but this is a great collection nevertheless. Looks like Google Car drove into some fairly hostile territory at times...<p>That one of the injured cow (appears to have been struck by a vehicle and had its legs broken in several places) trying desperately to make it off the road is heartbreaking.</text></comment> |
32,858,858 | 32,859,066 | 1 | 2 | 32,857,555 | train | <story><title>Senators introduce bill to thin out the 900k pieces of orbiting junk</title><url>https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2022/9/cantwell-hickenlooper-lummis-wicker-introduce-bill-to-thin-out-the-900-000-pieces-of-orbiting-junk-that-endanger-the-future-of-space-exploration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Veedrac</author><text>Debris removal is less an R&amp;D problem than a market problem. The highest impact thing a government can do is put a price on debris removal, and then guarantee that price for existing debris for an extended period of time.<p>Flight volume is an easily solved problem with the near future market, and that cost is the main reason junk isn&#x27;t deorbited already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>progbits</author><text>&gt; The highest impact thing a government can do is put a price on debris removal<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Perverse_incentive#The_original_cobra_effect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Perverse_incentive#The_origina...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Senators introduce bill to thin out the 900k pieces of orbiting junk</title><url>https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2022/9/cantwell-hickenlooper-lummis-wicker-introduce-bill-to-thin-out-the-900-000-pieces-of-orbiting-junk-that-endanger-the-future-of-space-exploration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Veedrac</author><text>Debris removal is less an R&amp;D problem than a market problem. The highest impact thing a government can do is put a price on debris removal, and then guarantee that price for existing debris for an extended period of time.<p>Flight volume is an easily solved problem with the near future market, and that cost is the main reason junk isn&#x27;t deorbited already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Or combine it with a fine for creating debris?</text></comment> |
32,312,983 | 32,312,896 | 1 | 2 | 32,311,245 | train | <story><title>Introduction to Apple Silicon</title><url>https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Introduction-to-Apple-Silicon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Teknoman117</author><text>There is a huge difference between not physically locking people out of running custom software and legitimately being able to claim you support other operating systems. Requiring that a community exist that is willing to spend many years of collective time reverse engineering your products when you could have just released documentation is still a massive middle finger to everyone.<p>The problem with these 100% vertically integrated stacks is that every hardware release could be completely different and it&#x27;ll take years to catch up with just that release. In the intervening time more hardware generations were released - It&#x27;s been 18 months since the M1 release. Asahi doesn&#x27;t have 3D acceleration, video encode&#x2F;decode acceleration, or support for many of the things that make Apple Silicon any good (i.e. the fixed function &#x2F; low power consumption hardware for the majority of user tasks). At this rate it&#x27;s going to be years before it&#x27;s &quot;done&quot; and we already have a successor generation of hardware.<p>I&#x27;ll leave you with a quote from the Asahi docs<p>&gt; Development for an undocumented platform is a treadmill of work. Every new feature requires reverse engineering the relevant hardware, writing drivers, testing those drivers, then getting them upstreamed. Even after a driver is upstreamed, maintenance and optimisation is sometimes required, for example if Apple introduce a breaking change to any firmware we are required to interface with. For developers the work is never really done<p>It&#x27;s the same reason we don&#x27;t have third-party images for most Android phones that are anything beyond tweaks of existing Android images.</text></item><item><author>macintux</author><text>The overview document makes for an interesting read. Definitely worth referencing next time someone on HN or elsewhere claims Apple&#x27;s trying to lock down their computers to running macOS only.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;docs&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Introduction-to-Apple-Silicon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;docs&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Introduction-to-Appl...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iasay</author><text>It&#x27;s difficult to have an opinion here as I&#x27;ve seen both sides. While compatibility is nice, if you start kicking out reference hardware documentation you instantly open up several additional cans of worms from upstream IP licensing to crappy clone repair parts appearing on the market.<p>But realistically with Apple you don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s going to happen. They could be silent forever. They could suddenly dump a whole pack of documentation out tomorrow. An official position would be nice.<p>Switching it round though, 99.99% of customers are buying a toaster. I put bread in. It makes toast. I eat toast. Does it make commercial sense to support the 0.01% use case? That&#x27;s their equivalent model of supporting the iPhone 5&#x27;s market share for example.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introduction to Apple Silicon</title><url>https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Introduction-to-Apple-Silicon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Teknoman117</author><text>There is a huge difference between not physically locking people out of running custom software and legitimately being able to claim you support other operating systems. Requiring that a community exist that is willing to spend many years of collective time reverse engineering your products when you could have just released documentation is still a massive middle finger to everyone.<p>The problem with these 100% vertically integrated stacks is that every hardware release could be completely different and it&#x27;ll take years to catch up with just that release. In the intervening time more hardware generations were released - It&#x27;s been 18 months since the M1 release. Asahi doesn&#x27;t have 3D acceleration, video encode&#x2F;decode acceleration, or support for many of the things that make Apple Silicon any good (i.e. the fixed function &#x2F; low power consumption hardware for the majority of user tasks). At this rate it&#x27;s going to be years before it&#x27;s &quot;done&quot; and we already have a successor generation of hardware.<p>I&#x27;ll leave you with a quote from the Asahi docs<p>&gt; Development for an undocumented platform is a treadmill of work. Every new feature requires reverse engineering the relevant hardware, writing drivers, testing those drivers, then getting them upstreamed. Even after a driver is upstreamed, maintenance and optimisation is sometimes required, for example if Apple introduce a breaking change to any firmware we are required to interface with. For developers the work is never really done<p>It&#x27;s the same reason we don&#x27;t have third-party images for most Android phones that are anything beyond tweaks of existing Android images.</text></item><item><author>macintux</author><text>The overview document makes for an interesting read. Definitely worth referencing next time someone on HN or elsewhere claims Apple&#x27;s trying to lock down their computers to running macOS only.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;docs&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Introduction-to-Apple-Silicon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;docs&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Introduction-to-Appl...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iseanstevens</author><text>It’s been 18 months on an entirely new platform and a small team of (BRILLIANT) people did such a good job discovering and porting to undocumented hardware that it worked on the M2 hardware essentially before it started shipping.<p>I don’t think Apple is trying to get in their way.<p>Also… developing for documented hardware is also an endless treadmill of work as it evolves&#x2F;new products are released.<p>It just has much less uncertainty.<p>I 100% agree it would be awesome if Apple released full documentation. Broadcom too. Probably others.<p>(All IMHO)</text></comment> |
16,446,943 | 16,446,685 | 1 | 3 | 16,446,020 | train | <story><title>Finding Pwned Passwords with 1Password</title><url>https://blog.agilebits.com/2018/02/22/finding-pwned-passwords-with-1password/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Bud</author><text>Yet another new service that 1Password is doling out only to those who buy into their new subscription model. Users who, like me, paid <i>three times</i> to buy the app for all their devices are left out in the cold.<p>I still love 1Password, but this treatment makes me unhappy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Finding Pwned Passwords with 1Password</title><url>https://blog.agilebits.com/2018/02/22/finding-pwned-passwords-with-1password/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grinsekatze</author><text>I still don’t get why someone using a password manager would make up passwords themselves instead of randomly generating long and strong passwords...<p>The way they implemented this is nice, but seems a bit pointless to me.</text></comment> |
1,225,818 | 1,225,630 | 1 | 2 | 1,225,482 | train | <story><title>Don’t be a Grin Fucker</title><url>http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/28/dont-be-a-grin-fucker/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trjordan</author><text>I'll bite, and take the counterpoint.<p>Most people aren't grin fucking you because of some inherent moral instability. They're doing it because fighting you over your idea that you're in love with isn't worth it to them. First example he gives, where Manager Bob is getting ignored -- what if the executive simply doesn't need or respect Bob's opinion? He doesn't need to prove to every non-exec that he thinks his idea is good. Unfortunate, but a fact of life in a hierarchical organization.<p>I like to think of myself as direct and honest, but the overwhelming social norm (at least from what I've seen, on the East Coast of the US) is to pick your battles. If you push back on everything you disagree with, you surprise people and quickly pick up a reputation as argumentative. This is especially true if you engage on issues outside your area of expertise. Programmers telling accounting how to fund benefits? HR telling programmers which hours are "proper" to work? Organizational grunts telling execs which markets to expand into? Even if the outsider is right, it's not worth the time of the expert to fight it, and they'll smile, nod, and hope you go away quickly so they can continue being productive.<p>By all means, you should stand up and call out the obvious bullshit, but the world is not black and white.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don’t be a Grin Fucker</title><url>http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/28/dont-be-a-grin-fucker/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tjic</author><text>That was a stunning long post with which to deliver the message "don't bullshit people; live up to your commitments".</text></comment> |
37,685,832 | 37,685,035 | 1 | 2 | 37,673,127 | train | <story><title>Uiua: A minimal stack-based, array-based language</title><url>https://www.uiua.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kaikalii</author><text>Oh hey, I made this.
Cool to see it at the top of HN!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fyzix</author><text>The arrows that iterate through the steps is great UX. I&#x27;m new to both array and stack based programming and it was pretty intuitive.<p>How would I go about file i&#x2F;o and parsing json? I have a data processing benchmark[1] that I&#x27;d like to use this for.<p>[1] : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jinyus&#x2F;related_post_gen">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jinyus&#x2F;related_post_gen</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Uiua: A minimal stack-based, array-based language</title><url>https://www.uiua.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kaikalii</author><text>Oh hey, I made this.
Cool to see it at the top of HN!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>I want to suggest an alternative encoding&#x2F;notation where instead of single (very nicely chosen) Unicode codepoints, the operators are single (perhaps less well-suited) printable ASCII characters. This would make the language into its own, human-authorable, bytecode!</text></comment> |
14,531,964 | 14,530,446 | 1 | 3 | 14,529,797 | train | <story><title>Hunter S Thompson: A Man Has to BE Something</title><url>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2016/07/your-type-is-dime-dozen.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Arun2009</author><text>These sentences capture my takeaway from this article.<p><i>Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes.</i><p><i>So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle every day?</i><p><i>...to put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES.</i><p><i>I don&#x27;t mean that we can&#x27;t BE firemen, bankers, or doctors—but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal.</i><p><i>...beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.</i><p><i>In doing this... he avoids frustrating his potential (choosing a path which puts no limit on his self-development), and he avoids the terror of seeing his goal wilt or lose its charm as he draws closer to it</i><p>Summary: rather than fixating on specific goals, find a way of life that maximizes your potential for self-development and lets you be your most authentic self.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hunter S Thompson: A Man Has to BE Something</title><url>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2016/07/your-type-is-dime-dozen.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ShabbosGoy</author><text>“No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your (old) age. Relax — This won&#x27;t hurt.”<p>Really struck me in the feels. Rest In Peace.</text></comment> |
4,528,607 | 4,528,129 | 1 | 2 | 4,527,506 | train | <story><title>Bill Gates: Books I Read this Summer</title><url>http://www.thegatesnotes.com/GatesNotesV2/Personal/Books-I-Read-This-Summer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacques_chester</author><text>I'm finding that writing reviews, even very surface-level reviews, of books I am reading is helping me to derive a lot more value from them.<p>Firstly, while reading, I find myself reflecting more on the book. After all -- I will be writing a review, I need to be an active participant.<p>Secondly, I find that books will often spark some thinking on a topic and the review will essentially morph into an essay. I wrote a 3000-word review of one book[1] that diverged into fuzzy logic, theories of jurisprudence and a few other areas in order to properly explain my reaction. Right now I'm writing a review of <i>Waltzing with Bears</i> that will diverge into financial accounting and a pet theory of mine about how tools create paradigms that shape entire bodies of knowledge.<p>Third, books can often be connected to one another. I find that my reviews tend to link to each other. Not because I am trying to drive internal link traffic (I'm basically a nobody in internet terms, it's not worth the bother). But book A will have tangentially touched on the topic of book B; or perhaps book C illuminates something only poorly discussed in book D. To the point where I refer to books from before I started reviewing with an "unreviewed" annotation.<p>Finally, some people find my reviews useful. My hobby is Olympic-style weightlifting and I do a lot of reading both on it directly and on allied subjects (eg, anatomy). Fellow strength nerds have found my reviews useful in helping them select books for their own libraries. It's nice when people give you positive feedback on something like that.<p>[1] <a href="http://chester.id.au/2012/04/09/review-drift-into-failure/" rel="nofollow">http://chester.id.au/2012/04/09/review-drift-into-failure/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Bill Gates: Books I Read this Summer</title><url>http://www.thegatesnotes.com/GatesNotesV2/Personal/Books-I-Read-This-Summer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BadassFractal</author><text>Any thoughts on that Moonwalking With Einstein book? I'd love to improve information retention in my day to day life, especially in software. I'm not so much interested in remembering the to-do list as retaining broader concepts for long periods of time. I'm lucky enough to get to learn a ton of things every day, but my long term retention of them is terrible unless I spend considerable time applying these ideas in practice, which is often not practically possible. This leads to a lot of wasted time, it's as if I never even read the darn thing.<p>Often, and this is the sad part, I won't even bother reading something because I know I'll forget it almost immediately, unless I have a block of time available to dedicate to trying it out in practice.<p>For example, I'm really fond of the underpinnings of programming language design and compilers, and it's thousands over thousands of pages of information (most of it very interesting and useful to me), but I fail to retain the vast majority of the great info and need to continuously go back to the texts whenever I'm in doubt about something. There were a couple of valuable techniques recommended in Pragmatic Bookshelf's Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, such as "now pretend you have to teach this concept to your former self who knows nothing about this", which supposedly helps with retention and internalization into the brain's "web of known facts".<p>Is there anything like that in the book? Would it be of any help?</text></comment> |
7,581,773 | 7,581,758 | 1 | 2 | 7,581,404 | train | <story><title>Trapperkeeper is a new Clojure framework for long-running applications, services</title><url>http://puppetlabs.com/blog/new-era-application-services-puppet-labs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SmileyKeith</author><text>I&#x27;ve been looking at Clojure a lot lately. It&#x27;s a really cool looking language that appears pretty powerful. As an outsider I&#x27;d really like to see some more &quot;ramping up&quot; kind of posts to get my head around all the basics of the tooling (leiningen) and how to actually structure a program.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlwaysBCoding</author><text>Clojure is a great language that has an achilles heel right now. The community doesn&#x27;t treat the lack of learning resources &#x2F; documentation as a serious problem. I&#x27;ve heard prominent members of the community say this exactly, &quot;Clojure is such a great language that the lack of learning resources doesn&#x27;t constitute a real problem in the grand scheme of things.&quot; I know what they&#x27;re trying to communicate, but to beginners it comes off like &quot;We&#x27;ve created the greatest thing since sliced bread - but we&#x27;re not going to tell you how to use it - and if you would just take our word for it and blindly follow with no guidance you&#x27;ll be a better developer&quot;. Which is really frustrating to hear, because it&#x27;s like this thing seems so great, and smart people are all about it, but the only way to learn it is absolute misery. It&#x27;s a tough perspective to have when you&#x27;re only a couple years in to your dev career.<p>Clojure gives you massive benefits, but god it&#x27;s a brutal road to competence. Things that should be simple like setting up a web server, adding user authentication, making JSON API&#x27;s, trying to find the best libraries, it&#x27;s all a time-consuming trudge through pain and suffering. And after some months when you get somewhat competent with the language, you realize that in order to get the full power of Clojure you need to not only learn the Clojure language, but the entire Clojure ecosystem. So you need Clojure, Clojurescript, Datomic, Edn, Core.async etc... And each piece of that puzzle is equally horribly documented and has no beginner resources so you have to struggle at each point in the process, praying to god that it&#x27;s ultimately worth it.<p>It&#x27;s frustrating as hell, but it really is rewarding, because you have to learn every little piece at a low-level to ever make anything happen. There&#x27;s no Rails-like framework that makes things &#x27;just-work&#x27; waiting for you. I find that using Clojure is awesome, but learning Clojure is awful. I&#x27;m hoping to play a role in fixing that second part pretty soon, but really wish the community would be more active in helping to remedy the problem. The first step is admitting that the problem exists and it matters, and not sure that we&#x27;re there yet.</text></comment> | <story><title>Trapperkeeper is a new Clojure framework for long-running applications, services</title><url>http://puppetlabs.com/blog/new-era-application-services-puppet-labs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SmileyKeith</author><text>I&#x27;ve been looking at Clojure a lot lately. It&#x27;s a really cool looking language that appears pretty powerful. As an outsider I&#x27;d really like to see some more &quot;ramping up&quot; kind of posts to get my head around all the basics of the tooling (leiningen) and how to actually structure a program.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>siscia</author><text>You can follow planet clojure [1] on twitter[2] or even facebook[3].<p>[1]: <a href="http://planet.clojure.in/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;planet.clojure.in&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://twitter.com/planetclojure" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;planetclojure</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/clojurian" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;clojurian</a></text></comment> |
34,201,502 | 34,198,003 | 1 | 2 | 34,196,381 | train | <story><title>Cached Chrome Top Million Websites</title><url>https://github.com/zakird/crux-top-lists</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mg</author><text>Top level domains by popularity:<p><pre><code> grep -oP &#x27;\.[a-z]+(?=,)&#x27; current.csv | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
...
15840 .pl
17914 .it
20182 .de
21690 .in
27812 .ru
29194 .jp
30359 .org
35741 .br
36675 .net
406052 .com
</code></pre>
.com domains by popularity:<p><pre><code> grep -oP &#x27;[a-z0-9-]+\.com(?=,)&#x27; current.csv | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
...
365 tistory.com
370 fc2.com
408 skipthegames.com
489 online.com
515 wordpress.com
707 uptodown.com
880 schoology.com
2570 fandom.com
2651 instructure.com
3244 blogspot.com</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azeemba</author><text>It might be worth updating this comment and explaining your second query.<p>People seem to think it is somehow measuring visits to those origins. But it&#x27;s measuring how many unique subdomains are listed for those domains</text></comment> | <story><title>Cached Chrome Top Million Websites</title><url>https://github.com/zakird/crux-top-lists</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mg</author><text>Top level domains by popularity:<p><pre><code> grep -oP &#x27;\.[a-z]+(?=,)&#x27; current.csv | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
...
15840 .pl
17914 .it
20182 .de
21690 .in
27812 .ru
29194 .jp
30359 .org
35741 .br
36675 .net
406052 .com
</code></pre>
.com domains by popularity:<p><pre><code> grep -oP &#x27;[a-z0-9-]+\.com(?=,)&#x27; current.csv | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
...
365 tistory.com
370 fc2.com
408 skipthegames.com
489 online.com
515 wordpress.com
707 uptodown.com
880 schoology.com
2570 fandom.com
2651 instructure.com
3244 blogspot.com</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>egman_ekki</author><text>Rather amazing seeing almost abandoned blogspot.com there at the top.<p>Also interesting I haven’t heard about half of them. Some are nsfw, apparently.</text></comment> |
37,503,769 | 37,503,686 | 1 | 2 | 37,503,351 | train | <story><title>Game Development Post-Unity</title><url>https://www.computerenhance.com/p/game-development-post-unity</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>This blog post points out something really interesting:<p>&gt; Less than half their revenue comes from game engines. Over half comes from advertising.<p>That is to say, Unity makes most of its money from people PLAYING games made with Unity. The sales to the developers are secondary. Unity had to change their model, and that meant either making the engine cheaper to acquire more games to get more ads, or it meant raising the price of the engine at the likely cost of ads, and for some reason they chose option 2, which seems like a dumb idea.<p>The best explanation for that I can think of is that almost all of the advertising money should be coming from smaller mobile games, and so this is a move to try and make more money from the desktop games and the mobile games that don&#x27;t use Unity&#x27;s ad networks, which probably look like big, untapped sources of income to dumber product managers.<p>But now imagine that they did the opposite: they raise the maximum revenue requirements and &quot;must show splash screen&quot; requirements and generally make Unity more available for less. Engine revenue goes down a bit, but ad revenue goes up, which probably works out even better in the long run, but also solidifies the user base, garners good will, and generally leaves everybody feeling great about Unity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Game Development Post-Unity</title><url>https://www.computerenhance.com/p/game-development-post-unity</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aschearer</author><text>Didn&#x27;t find this article especially helpful. Author admits to having no special knowledge so literally polls Twitter and shares the results. Doesn&#x27;t really add much to the discussion.<p>I&#x27;d really like to see how alternatives handle stuff such as:<p>- Editor tools for non-artists<p>- Editor API for customization&#x2F;automation<p>- Profiling CPU&#x2F;memory<p>- Integration with things like FMOD, Spine, whatever else<p>- Tools for debugging<p>- How does level editing work, what tools are present to assist with visualization, organization, construction</text></comment> |
37,140,496 | 37,140,321 | 1 | 2 | 37,137,110 | train | <story><title>We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x</title><url>https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>I read their post and honestly it’s not really that much different than just materialized views in a regular database plus async jobs to do the long running tasks.<p>It’s a ridiculous amount of fluff to describe that. Not to mention it’s proprietary and only supports the JVM and doesn’t integrate with the tons of tooling designed about RDBMS unless you stream everything to them, defeating the purpose.<p>What really irks me is that they go on and on bragging about the low LoC count and literally show nothing complete. They should’ve held on this post and released it simultaneously with the code.</text></item><item><author>sdwr</author><text>In a typical architecture, the DB stores data, and the backend calls the DB to make updates and compile views.<p>Here, the &quot;views&quot; are defined formally (the P-states), and incrementally, automatically updated when the underlying data changes.<p>Example problem:<p>Get a list of accounts that follow account 1306<p>&quot;Classic architecture&quot;:<p>- Naive approach. Search through all accounts follow lists for &quot;1306&quot;. Super slow, scales terribly with # of accounts.<p>- Normal approach. Create a &quot;followed by&quot; table, update it whenever an account follows &#x2F; unfollows &#x2F; is deleted &#x2F; is blocked.<p>Normal sounds good, but add 10x features, or 1000x users, and it gets trickier. You need to make a new table for each feature, and add conditions to the update calls, and they start overlapping... Or you have to split the database up so it scales, but then you have to pay attention to consistency, and watch which order stuff gets updated in.<p>Their solution is separating the &quot;true&quot; data tables from the &quot;view&quot; tables, formally defining the relationship between the two, and creating the &quot;view&quot; tables magically behind the scenes.</text></item><item><author>dataangel</author><text>I do C++ backend work in a non-web industry and this entire post is Greek to me. Even though this is targeted at developers, you need a better pitch. I get &quot;we did this 100x faster&quot; but the obvious followup question is &quot;how&quot; but then the answer seems to be a ton of flow diagrams with way too many nodes that tell me approximately nothing and some handwaving about something called P-States that are basically defined to be entirely nebulous because they are any kind of data structure.<p>I&#x27;m not saying there&#x27;s nothing here, but I am adjacent to your core audience and I have no idea whether there is after reading your post. I think you are strongly assuming a shared basis where everybody has worked on the same kind of large scale web app before; I would find it much more useful to have an overview of, &quot;This what you would usually do, here are the problems with it, here is what we do instead&quot; with side by side code comparison of Rama vs what a newbie is likely to hack together with single instance postgres.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nathanmarz</author><text>We are very open in the post that the core concepts are not new:<p><pre><code> Individually, none of these concepts are new. I’m sure you’ve seen them all before. You may be tempted to dismiss Rama’s programming model as just a combination of event sourcing and materialized views. But what Rama does is integrate and generalize these concepts to such an extent that you can build entire backends end-to-end without any of the impedance mismatches or complexity that characterize and overwhelm existing systems.
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Indexes as arbitrary data structures that you shape to perfectly meet your use cases, a powerful computation API that&#x27;s like a &quot;distributed programming language&quot;, and everything being so integrated make a world of difference.<p>I understand the desire to see all the code, and that&#x27;s coming in two weeks. That said, the code in the post isn&#x27;t trivial as it&#x27;s showing almost the complete implementations of two major parts of Mastodon: the social graph and timeline fanout.<p>Next week you&#x27;ll be able to play with Rama when we release a build of it, and the documentation will help with that.</text></comment> | <story><title>We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x</title><url>https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>I read their post and honestly it’s not really that much different than just materialized views in a regular database plus async jobs to do the long running tasks.<p>It’s a ridiculous amount of fluff to describe that. Not to mention it’s proprietary and only supports the JVM and doesn’t integrate with the tons of tooling designed about RDBMS unless you stream everything to them, defeating the purpose.<p>What really irks me is that they go on and on bragging about the low LoC count and literally show nothing complete. They should’ve held on this post and released it simultaneously with the code.</text></item><item><author>sdwr</author><text>In a typical architecture, the DB stores data, and the backend calls the DB to make updates and compile views.<p>Here, the &quot;views&quot; are defined formally (the P-states), and incrementally, automatically updated when the underlying data changes.<p>Example problem:<p>Get a list of accounts that follow account 1306<p>&quot;Classic architecture&quot;:<p>- Naive approach. Search through all accounts follow lists for &quot;1306&quot;. Super slow, scales terribly with # of accounts.<p>- Normal approach. Create a &quot;followed by&quot; table, update it whenever an account follows &#x2F; unfollows &#x2F; is deleted &#x2F; is blocked.<p>Normal sounds good, but add 10x features, or 1000x users, and it gets trickier. You need to make a new table for each feature, and add conditions to the update calls, and they start overlapping... Or you have to split the database up so it scales, but then you have to pay attention to consistency, and watch which order stuff gets updated in.<p>Their solution is separating the &quot;true&quot; data tables from the &quot;view&quot; tables, formally defining the relationship between the two, and creating the &quot;view&quot; tables magically behind the scenes.</text></item><item><author>dataangel</author><text>I do C++ backend work in a non-web industry and this entire post is Greek to me. Even though this is targeted at developers, you need a better pitch. I get &quot;we did this 100x faster&quot; but the obvious followup question is &quot;how&quot; but then the answer seems to be a ton of flow diagrams with way too many nodes that tell me approximately nothing and some handwaving about something called P-States that are basically defined to be entirely nebulous because they are any kind of data structure.<p>I&#x27;m not saying there&#x27;s nothing here, but I am adjacent to your core audience and I have no idea whether there is after reading your post. I think you are strongly assuming a shared basis where everybody has worked on the same kind of large scale web app before; I would find it much more useful to have an overview of, &quot;This what you would usually do, here are the problems with it, here is what we do instead&quot; with side by side code comparison of Rama vs what a newbie is likely to hack together with single instance postgres.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sixo</author><text>The difference is that the materialized-view logic lives naturally in the application code; there&#x27;s no step where they go out of the DB to do computations and then reinsert.<p>Once SQL materialized views aren&#x27;t enough, you might do this by replicating your database into Kafka, implementing logic in Flink or something, and reinserting into the same DB&#x2F;Elasticsearch&#x2F;etc. Very common architecture. (Writ small, could also use a queue processor like RabbitMQ.)<p>Their approach is to instead--apparently--make all of these first-class elements of the same ecosystem, not by &quot;putting it all in the database&quot;, but by putting the database into the application code. Which seems wild, but colocates data, transformation, and view.<p>Seems like it would open up a lot of cans of worms, but if you solve those, sounds great.</text></comment> |
27,426,049 | 27,426,346 | 1 | 2 | 27,423,611 | train | <story><title>Apple shut down my iCloud account for five days, no warning, no explanation</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-shut-down-my-icloud-account-for-four-days-no-warning-no-explanation-no-excuse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>I&#x27;ve been in the other side of this...<p>You build a new data backend for a service, you test it a million ways, and finally you migrate all the user&#x27;s over.<p>Except it goes wrong. 999,999,999 user accounts migrated. 1 account failed.<p>Leaving the old infrastructure up for that one user is costing millions of dollars a day, hurting performance reliability and failover and holding up hundreds of other engineers projects.<p>Turns out the failure is because the user managed to create a filename with 67000 byte order marks in and nothing else, and it trips up some parser in the new system. They probably did it using a custom client or some kind of exploit checking tool. It&#x27;s probably some security vulnerability researchers test account, but we can&#x27;t be sure because we can&#x27;t look into the account for privacy reasons.<p>Yet fixing the bug for that 1 user account is going to take a while - a quick bodge solution breaks other user accounts, and the proper fix is part of Jane&#x27;s project due next quarter.<p>The decision is made. We&#x27;re going to treat the needs of the many over the few. We&#x27;re going to disable this one user account and move on. That user will have to re-upload their data, and this time they won&#x27;t manage to upload a file with 67000 byte order marks in the filename.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>InitialLastName</author><text>In that case, if your system leaves you with no way to contact that user and say &quot;Hey, there&#x27;s an issue with your account that is causing a problem that we need your help to solve, get back to us within 3 days or else we&#x27;re going to need to reset your account&quot;, you&#x27;ve failed at customer service.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple shut down my iCloud account for five days, no warning, no explanation</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-shut-down-my-icloud-account-for-four-days-no-warning-no-explanation-no-excuse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>I&#x27;ve been in the other side of this...<p>You build a new data backend for a service, you test it a million ways, and finally you migrate all the user&#x27;s over.<p>Except it goes wrong. 999,999,999 user accounts migrated. 1 account failed.<p>Leaving the old infrastructure up for that one user is costing millions of dollars a day, hurting performance reliability and failover and holding up hundreds of other engineers projects.<p>Turns out the failure is because the user managed to create a filename with 67000 byte order marks in and nothing else, and it trips up some parser in the new system. They probably did it using a custom client or some kind of exploit checking tool. It&#x27;s probably some security vulnerability researchers test account, but we can&#x27;t be sure because we can&#x27;t look into the account for privacy reasons.<p>Yet fixing the bug for that 1 user account is going to take a while - a quick bodge solution breaks other user accounts, and the proper fix is part of Jane&#x27;s project due next quarter.<p>The decision is made. We&#x27;re going to treat the needs of the many over the few. We&#x27;re going to disable this one user account and move on. That user will have to re-upload their data, and this time they won&#x27;t manage to upload a file with 67000 byte order marks in the filename.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ska</author><text>&gt; We&#x27;re going to disable this one ...<p>All pretty reasonable; The only thing wrong with your suggestion is it&#x27;s missing the part where you contact that user and let them know what you are doing and why...</text></comment> |
14,575,791 | 14,575,719 | 1 | 2 | 14,575,056 | train | <story><title>Aerospace companies find engineers at a college race-car competition</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-formula-sae-recruiting-20170618-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onesun</author><text>I was heavily involved in solar car racing during college, so much so that my grades suffered because of it. But for the most part that didn&#x27;t matter. Most recruiters I spoke to ended up being much more interested in the stories I could tell about all the challenges we had as a team and the novel solutions we invented to overcome them. I knew that if I talked to a recruiter and they only focused on my GPA, then that was a good sign I didn&#x27;t want to work there. After my first job, GPA became irrelevant. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn&#x27;t change a thing. Fifteen years later, I still count my teammates as some of my best friends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>humanrebar</author><text>This is partly why we should be more open to non traditional educations. I don&#x27;t see why someone needs an entire four year degree to be able to contribute to these kinds of engineering problems. There are certainly &quot;university level&quot; subjects that need to be covered, but that could easily be taken as needed. Or in a more condensed form.</text></comment> | <story><title>Aerospace companies find engineers at a college race-car competition</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-formula-sae-recruiting-20170618-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onesun</author><text>I was heavily involved in solar car racing during college, so much so that my grades suffered because of it. But for the most part that didn&#x27;t matter. Most recruiters I spoke to ended up being much more interested in the stories I could tell about all the challenges we had as a team and the novel solutions we invented to overcome them. I knew that if I talked to a recruiter and they only focused on my GPA, then that was a good sign I didn&#x27;t want to work there. After my first job, GPA became irrelevant. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn&#x27;t change a thing. Fifteen years later, I still count my teammates as some of my best friends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isatty</author><text>I&#x27;m heavily involved in one of the AUVSI&#x27;s autonomous vehicle competitions where recruiters from SpaceX etc show up frequently. I&#x27;m a senior now and my grades have suffered as well. I wouldn&#x27;t say it was purely because of the competition - but I&#x27;ve a similar experience to yours where recruiters love stories from the competition and about how we managed to achieve our goals. I&#x27;ve learnt a LOT of stuff that I wouldn&#x27;t have managed to in class.<p>Similar to you, if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn&#x27;t change a thing.</text></comment> |
26,810,728 | 26,810,817 | 1 | 2 | 26,807,738 | train | <story><title>Instructions around the usage of meta robot tags and robots.txt files</title><url>https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide/commit/bc8e96e5467202ea8f78f50582adfd221b91a948</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mimsee</author><text>Why are they banning the methods instead of saying how the pricing should be displayed. E.g. why say you cannot have &quot;noindex&quot; instead of saying &quot;the pricing information needs to be in plain-text, human-readable, accessible, indexable...&quot; and so on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmkg</author><text>They are doing that as well. They are posting general requirements, as well as providing details on specific situations. From the main project @ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CMSgov&#x2F;price-transparency-guide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CMSgov&#x2F;price-transparency-guide</a><p>Section: Overview<p>&gt; <i>All machine-readable files must [...] made available to the public without restrictions that would impede the re-use of that information.</i><p>Section: Public Discoverability<p>&gt; <i>These machine-readable files post made available to the public without restrictions that would impede the re-use of that information.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Instructions around the usage of meta robot tags and robots.txt files</title><url>https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide/commit/bc8e96e5467202ea8f78f50582adfd221b91a948</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mimsee</author><text>Why are they banning the methods instead of saying how the pricing should be displayed. E.g. why say you cannot have &quot;noindex&quot; instead of saying &quot;the pricing information needs to be in plain-text, human-readable, accessible, indexable...&quot; and so on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmah</author><text>They do both. As well as provide a description of the regulation&#x27;s goals, context and examples. This is how regulation works. It typically starts with a rather vague law, then the regulatory agencies make up general rules to implement said law. Then they create a bunch of more detailed rules. Then as times change, they amend those rules. You can even ask them about novel situations and get a (non-binding) &quot;opinion&quot; from government agency. In my experience, the federal gov regulatory apparatus is not as inept as most people seem to think.</text></comment> |
13,441,388 | 13,440,473 | 1 | 2 | 13,437,431 | train | <story><title>Most Winning A/B Test Results Are Illusory [pdf]</title><url>http://www.qubit.com/sites/default/files/pdf/mostwinningabtestresultsareillusory_0.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ted_dunning</author><text>This is yet another article that ignores the fact that there is a MUCH better approach to this problem.<p>Thompson sampling avoids the problems of multiple testing, power, early stopping and so on by starting with a proper Bayesian approach. The idea is that the question we want to answer is more &quot;Which alternative is nearly as good as the best with pretty high probability?&quot;. This is very different from the question being answered by a classical test of significance. Moreover, it would be good if we could answer the question partially by decreasing the number of times we sample options that are clearly worse than the best. What we want to solve is the multi-armed bandit problem, not the retrospective analysis of experimental results problem.<p>The really good news is that Thompson sampling is both much simpler than hypothesis testing can be done in far more complex situations. It is known to be an asymptotically optimal solution to the multi-armed bandit and often takes only a few lines of very simple code to implement.<p>See <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tdunning.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;02&#x2F;bayesian-bandits.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tdunning.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;02&#x2F;bayesian-bandits.html</a> for an essay and see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tdunning&#x2F;bandit-ranking" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tdunning&#x2F;bandit-ranking</a> for an example applied to ranking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>Thompson sampling is a great tool. I&#x27;ve used it to make reasonably large amounts of money. But it does not solve the same problem as A&#x2F;B testing.<p>Thompson Sampling (at least the standard approach) assumes that conversion rates do not change. In reality they vary significantly over a week, and this fundamentally breaks bandit algorithms.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chrisstucchio.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;dont_use_bandits.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chrisstucchio.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;dont_use_bandits.htm...</a><p>Furthermore, you do not need to use Thompson Sampling to have a proper Bayesian approach. At VWO we also use a proper Bayesian approach, but we use A&#x2F;B testing in to avoid the various pitfalls that Thompson Sampling has. Google Optimize uses an approach very similar to ours, (although it may be flawed [1]) and so does A&#x2F;B Tasty (probably not flawed).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn2.hubspot.net&#x2F;hubfs&#x2F;310840&#x2F;VWO_SmartStats_technical_whitepaper.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn2.hubspot.net&#x2F;hubfs&#x2F;310840&#x2F;VWO_SmartStats_technic...</a><p>Note: I&#x27;m the Director of Data Science at VWO. Obviously I&#x27;m biased, etc. However my post critiquing bandits was published before I took on this role. It was a followup to a previous post of mine which led people to accidentally misuse bandits: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chrisstucchio.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2012&#x2F;bandit_algorithms_vs_ab.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chrisstucchio.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2012&#x2F;bandit_algorithms_vs...</a><p>[1] The head of data science at A&#x2F;B Tasty suggests Google Optimize counts <i>sessions</i> rather than <i>visitors</i>, which would break the IID assumption. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abtasty.com&#x2F;uk&#x2F;blog&#x2F;data-scientist-hubert-google-optimize&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abtasty.com&#x2F;uk&#x2F;blog&#x2F;data-scientist-hubert-google...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Most Winning A/B Test Results Are Illusory [pdf]</title><url>http://www.qubit.com/sites/default/files/pdf/mostwinningabtestresultsareillusory_0.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ted_dunning</author><text>This is yet another article that ignores the fact that there is a MUCH better approach to this problem.<p>Thompson sampling avoids the problems of multiple testing, power, early stopping and so on by starting with a proper Bayesian approach. The idea is that the question we want to answer is more &quot;Which alternative is nearly as good as the best with pretty high probability?&quot;. This is very different from the question being answered by a classical test of significance. Moreover, it would be good if we could answer the question partially by decreasing the number of times we sample options that are clearly worse than the best. What we want to solve is the multi-armed bandit problem, not the retrospective analysis of experimental results problem.<p>The really good news is that Thompson sampling is both much simpler than hypothesis testing can be done in far more complex situations. It is known to be an asymptotically optimal solution to the multi-armed bandit and often takes only a few lines of very simple code to implement.<p>See <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tdunning.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;02&#x2F;bayesian-bandits.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tdunning.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;02&#x2F;bayesian-bandits.html</a> for an essay and see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tdunning&#x2F;bandit-ranking" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tdunning&#x2F;bandit-ranking</a> for an example applied to ranking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>developer2</author><text>This ignores what I have seen in my experience, which is that marketing teams - composed of the people who dictate what A&#x2F;B tests the business should run - have little to no background in statistics, let alone any interest whatsoever in actually performing legitimate A&#x2F;B tests.<p>It&#x27;s often the case that the decision maker has <i>already decided</i> to move ahead with option A, but performs a minimal &quot;fake&quot; A&#x2F;B test to put in their report as a way to justify their choice. I&#x27;ve seen A&#x2F;B tests deployed at 10am in the morning, and taken down at 1pm with less than a dozen data points collected. The A&#x2F;B test &quot;owner&quot; is happy to see that option A resulted in 7 conversions, with option B only having 5. Not statistically significant whatsoever, but hey let&#x27;s waste developers&#x27; time and energy for two days implementing an A&#x2F;B test in order to help someone else try to nab their quarterly marketing bonus.</text></comment> |
9,000,995 | 8,999,863 | 1 | 2 | 8,998,269 | train | <story><title>Why Learning to Code Is So Damn Hard</title><url>http://www.vikingcodeschool.com/posts/why-learning-to-code-is-so-damn-hard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bad_user</author><text>Here&#x27;s where I disagree with other people - software development is special in that it requires focus, relentlessness, intelligence, creativity and I also find it interesting that many software developers tend to suffer conditions from the autistic spectrum. To me that&#x27;s a clear sign that software development requires the mind to be hardwired in a certain way.<p>And the thing is - I never needed handholding, which is why I have mixed feelings about such educational efforts. For me that desert of despair was fun and nothing could have stopped me. For me entering a couple of lines of code that made the computer do something was like a game and felt like magic, with each piece of knowledge learned increasing my skill, in a sort of real-life RPG game. This started before high-school, I remember begging my parents for a PC and I started reading books on hardware and one on BASIC before having that PC, so that&#x27;s how desperate I was.<p>And my story is very similar to others. It&#x27;s undeniable that some people have an inclination towards software development, like a deep internal urge that must be satisfied, much like a drug addiction. This is why you&#x27;ll find many developers saying that even if they wouldn&#x27;t need to work, they&#x27;d do it for free.<p>To me educational efforts for adults are misplaced. If you want more people to become software developers, you need to show them the magic while they are young. As for most adults, I believe that the ship has sailed already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tokenrove</author><text>I disagree, and I disagree because I used to think this way (having lived and breathed programming since age five), until I started to meet people who had started to program in university (which I considered _way_ too late) and who had become excellent programmers. Not adequate-for-a-job programmers, but best-of-breed programmers.<p>In fact, often better programmers than &quot;naturals&quot; because along the way they had learned a lot of discipline that isn&#x27;t necessary when programming is fun -- but as every &quot;born programmer&quot; turned professional finds out, programming isn&#x27;t always fun.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Learning to Code Is So Damn Hard</title><url>http://www.vikingcodeschool.com/posts/why-learning-to-code-is-so-damn-hard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bad_user</author><text>Here&#x27;s where I disagree with other people - software development is special in that it requires focus, relentlessness, intelligence, creativity and I also find it interesting that many software developers tend to suffer conditions from the autistic spectrum. To me that&#x27;s a clear sign that software development requires the mind to be hardwired in a certain way.<p>And the thing is - I never needed handholding, which is why I have mixed feelings about such educational efforts. For me that desert of despair was fun and nothing could have stopped me. For me entering a couple of lines of code that made the computer do something was like a game and felt like magic, with each piece of knowledge learned increasing my skill, in a sort of real-life RPG game. This started before high-school, I remember begging my parents for a PC and I started reading books on hardware and one on BASIC before having that PC, so that&#x27;s how desperate I was.<p>And my story is very similar to others. It&#x27;s undeniable that some people have an inclination towards software development, like a deep internal urge that must be satisfied, much like a drug addiction. This is why you&#x27;ll find many developers saying that even if they wouldn&#x27;t need to work, they&#x27;d do it for free.<p>To me educational efforts for adults are misplaced. If you want more people to become software developers, you need to show them the magic while they are young. As for most adults, I believe that the ship has sailed already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pm90</author><text>I don&#x27;t really agree with the notion that software development is something that others cannot learn if they try to do it; that seems like a very harsh perspective which, from my anecdotal experience, is far from the truth. Any skill can be learned if you have the discipline to put in regular effort: that&#x27;s just the way the human mind works. I do agree that for a lot of people, Software Engineering is <i>easier</i> because they have a certain kind of brain, just like Mathematics or Physics or Music is easier or &quot;makes sense&quot; for some people more than others.<p>If anything, we need to promote education among adults, give them the choice to possibly check out any vocation that they would want to try. Liberate them from the notion that they are &quot;stuck&quot; doing what they chose to do earlier in their life. I&#x27;m not saying that its easy; you have to start small and take baby steps. And its not something that can be done in a day or a week or a month. But if modern society has provided us one great benefit, it is of making knowledge accessible very inexpensively.</text></comment> |
15,889,999 | 15,890,082 | 1 | 2 | 15,888,827 | train | <story><title>Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2017/12/09/568797388/recycling-chaos-in-u-s-as-china-bans-foreign-waste</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oppositelock</author><text>I&#x27;ve had the pleasure (joking here) of living in some very poor countries, and people there waste little. Why waste a perfectly good glass or plastic bottle by throwing it away, instead of refilling?<p>Generally, when the cost of a bottle or bag is statistically significant, people care for them. Stores sell more bulk stuff, refill bottles, and offer little in the way of their own packaging. It&#x27;s all a lot less convenient.<p>In the US, various bulk stores have tried to introduce the packaging reuse notion, but all have gone out of business because we take convenience over reuse.<p>This will only change when reuse is equally convenient. If I knew how to accomplish that, I wouldn&#x27;t be pontificating here, but running my own business doing just that.</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>Instead of finding better ways to sell ads it would be great if the smart people in SV worked on finding better ways for recycling. This would truly benefit mankind.</text></item><item><author>oppositelock</author><text>Good for China, they&#x27;ve got an environmental nightmare to deal with, and part of it comes from the US offloading lots of &quot;recycling&quot; operations there, and I use that term loosely, particularly for electronics. We also &quot;export&quot; pollution to China by buying cheaper products that would be more expensive if they didn&#x27;t externalize their pollution costs, and it&#x27;s sure better to externalize that pollution abroad than domestically. The US, in my opinion, has been burying its head in the sand about the pollution which occurs when manufacturing everything that we use.<p>Recycling, save for very specific things, is neither environmentally beneficial nor economically viable. We recycle so many things because the operations are subsidized, and we feel good because we assume the recycling bin doesn&#x27;t end up in the dump.<p>Sorting refuse for recycling is a time consuming, tedious process. I hope that automation can actually make recycling more things viable. Reuse is best, but lots of things can be recycled for raw materials, particularly metals. Plastics don&#x27;t recycle very well, glass requires more energy to reprocess than making new glass, and paper can be allowed to biodegrade or mixed into existing paper process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tempestn</author><text>I would love to see Amazon take the lead on this. They should be in a great position to do so as they move to doing more of their own distribution. Ditch the cardboard boxes and bubble envelopes and replace them with reusable bins and pouches that are picked up when the next order is delivered. (And to start with, at least get rid of those horrible bubble mailers that can&#x27;t even be recycled, and replace them with an all-paper padded envelope...)</text></comment> | <story><title>Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2017/12/09/568797388/recycling-chaos-in-u-s-as-china-bans-foreign-waste</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oppositelock</author><text>I&#x27;ve had the pleasure (joking here) of living in some very poor countries, and people there waste little. Why waste a perfectly good glass or plastic bottle by throwing it away, instead of refilling?<p>Generally, when the cost of a bottle or bag is statistically significant, people care for them. Stores sell more bulk stuff, refill bottles, and offer little in the way of their own packaging. It&#x27;s all a lot less convenient.<p>In the US, various bulk stores have tried to introduce the packaging reuse notion, but all have gone out of business because we take convenience over reuse.<p>This will only change when reuse is equally convenient. If I knew how to accomplish that, I wouldn&#x27;t be pontificating here, but running my own business doing just that.</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>Instead of finding better ways to sell ads it would be great if the smart people in SV worked on finding better ways for recycling. This would truly benefit mankind.</text></item><item><author>oppositelock</author><text>Good for China, they&#x27;ve got an environmental nightmare to deal with, and part of it comes from the US offloading lots of &quot;recycling&quot; operations there, and I use that term loosely, particularly for electronics. We also &quot;export&quot; pollution to China by buying cheaper products that would be more expensive if they didn&#x27;t externalize their pollution costs, and it&#x27;s sure better to externalize that pollution abroad than domestically. The US, in my opinion, has been burying its head in the sand about the pollution which occurs when manufacturing everything that we use.<p>Recycling, save for very specific things, is neither environmentally beneficial nor economically viable. We recycle so many things because the operations are subsidized, and we feel good because we assume the recycling bin doesn&#x27;t end up in the dump.<p>Sorting refuse for recycling is a time consuming, tedious process. I hope that automation can actually make recycling more things viable. Reuse is best, but lots of things can be recycled for raw materials, particularly metals. Plastics don&#x27;t recycle very well, glass requires more energy to reprocess than making new glass, and paper can be allowed to biodegrade or mixed into existing paper process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dazc</author><text>In the UK, back in the 70&#x27;s we had a deposit scheme for glass bottles. And if you couldn&#x27;t be bothered taking your bottles back to the store for a few pennies each you could be sure some local kid would be more than happy to do it for you.</text></comment> |
3,085,334 | 3,085,388 | 1 | 3 | 3,085,004 | train | <story><title>Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/exclusive-computer-virus-hits-drone-fleet.ars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonnieCache</author><text>If I'm ever in charge of a PC capable of firing guns at people, then at a bare minimum I would disable the USB bus entirely, I probably wouldn't fit a NIC either. I'd also definitely install some of that software that makes the HDD read only and transparently passes through all writes to RAM. Fuckit, if I'm the US military I'd develop such a device in hardware. Send the recorded video/telemetry data to a write-only volume.<p>It's not that hard.<p>But anyway, my point was that I don't for a second believe that they're this incompetent, there must be other factors at play.</text></item><item><author>rdl</author><text>There are hundreds of thousands of machines and millions of removable drives. Tracking down every last instance of a piece of malware and then dealing with it is quite hard at that scale. Usually they fall back on policy ("no usb/removable drives")<p>They're handicapped by a need AND compulsion to use contractors for everything. Actual government employees didn't build drones; they were all developed and in many cases largely maintained and even operated by private contractors, working to government requirements (which themselves are structured to make the contractors inefficient, compared to normal commercial companies). Same thing with networks.</text></item><item><author>JonnieCache</author><text>Like hugh says, this doesn't add up at all.<p><i>“We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. “We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.”</i><p>C'mon. You're the <i>military.</i> "It just keeps coming back?" So you decide to do a press release about it? Please.<p>I wouldn't have whined like that when I was de-malwareing neighbourhood PCs at age 13, I would have <i>fixed it</i>. If I can successfully keep malware off the PCs of middle aged parents with teenaged children, then the government capable of developing and operating fleets of <i>unmanned military drones</i> can certainly isolate a network and disable the USB bus.<p>There is definitely some high level shit going on right here. I doubt we'll know about it for many years, if ever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghshephard</author><text>"I would disable the USB bus entirely"
So how would you support Mice, Keyboards and Joysticks? And how long would it take you to retrofit all of the some 100K+ PCs rated "secret" or above in the Government?</text></comment> | <story><title>Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/exclusive-computer-virus-hits-drone-fleet.ars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonnieCache</author><text>If I'm ever in charge of a PC capable of firing guns at people, then at a bare minimum I would disable the USB bus entirely, I probably wouldn't fit a NIC either. I'd also definitely install some of that software that makes the HDD read only and transparently passes through all writes to RAM. Fuckit, if I'm the US military I'd develop such a device in hardware. Send the recorded video/telemetry data to a write-only volume.<p>It's not that hard.<p>But anyway, my point was that I don't for a second believe that they're this incompetent, there must be other factors at play.</text></item><item><author>rdl</author><text>There are hundreds of thousands of machines and millions of removable drives. Tracking down every last instance of a piece of malware and then dealing with it is quite hard at that scale. Usually they fall back on policy ("no usb/removable drives")<p>They're handicapped by a need AND compulsion to use contractors for everything. Actual government employees didn't build drones; they were all developed and in many cases largely maintained and even operated by private contractors, working to government requirements (which themselves are structured to make the contractors inefficient, compared to normal commercial companies). Same thing with networks.</text></item><item><author>JonnieCache</author><text>Like hugh says, this doesn't add up at all.<p><i>“We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. “We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.”</i><p>C'mon. You're the <i>military.</i> "It just keeps coming back?" So you decide to do a press release about it? Please.<p>I wouldn't have whined like that when I was de-malwareing neighbourhood PCs at age 13, I would have <i>fixed it</i>. If I can successfully keep malware off the PCs of middle aged parents with teenaged children, then the government capable of developing and operating fleets of <i>unmanned military drones</i> can certainly isolate a network and disable the USB bus.<p>There is definitely some high level shit going on right here. I doubt we'll know about it for many years, if ever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>khafra</author><text>How does the PC make the drone 10,000 miles away fire the missiles once you take the NIC out?</text></comment> |
22,251,575 | 22,251,524 | 1 | 3 | 22,251,329 | train | <story><title>0day vulnerability in firmware for HiSilicon-based DVRs, NVRs and IP cameras</title><url>https://habr.com/en/post/486856/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>When you see how small some of these devices are it makes you realize how easy it would be for a malicious actor to bug just about anything you own. A simple cell phone charger becomes a listening device that could have an LTE modem hiding in it.<p>People are worried when they find a raspberry pi sitting in the network rack - and rightfully so - but fail to realize that you can achieve pretty much the same thing by hiding in plain sight.<p>Imagine how much you could fit into a 6-port commodity surge protector.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>&gt; A simple cell phone charger becomes a listening device that could have an LTE modem hiding in it.<p>You can already get USB cables that have a hidden mic and sim, so if powered you can phone up and listen in. Those a very cheap and google shows this, but this is more adventurous.<p>As for targeting hardware and security - how many people would question a fancy free mouse or keyboard arriving in the internal post as it happened to of been dropped of at reception. Great pentesting trick btw.<p>As for chips with `hidden&#x2F;undocumented` remote activated features. If it was documented, would it be bad or something you can use or actively block off. When they are undocumented, well - hard not to think the worst. But then, CPU&#x27;s today, not fully documented when you can&#x27;t hack away at the microcode and management and whatever else is DRM&#x27;d out of your reach.<p>If Intel was a Chinese company instead of American - how would Americans feel about Intel chips? That is an interesting thought exercise.</text></comment> | <story><title>0day vulnerability in firmware for HiSilicon-based DVRs, NVRs and IP cameras</title><url>https://habr.com/en/post/486856/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>When you see how small some of these devices are it makes you realize how easy it would be for a malicious actor to bug just about anything you own. A simple cell phone charger becomes a listening device that could have an LTE modem hiding in it.<p>People are worried when they find a raspberry pi sitting in the network rack - and rightfully so - but fail to realize that you can achieve pretty much the same thing by hiding in plain sight.<p>Imagine how much you could fit into a 6-port commodity surge protector.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r00fus</author><text>Without ruining the main use case - is there some way to sterilize or nuke things like a basic cell phone charger when it should have no radio-frequency capability?</text></comment> |
19,152,834 | 19,150,249 | 1 | 2 | 19,148,976 | train | <story><title>Amazon, GM in talks to invest in electric pickup truck maker Rivian: sources</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rivian-electric-amazon-com-gm-exclusi/amazon-gm-in-talks-to-invest-in-electric-pickup-truck-maker-rivian-sources-idUSKCN1Q12PV</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jschwartzi</author><text>The only thing I really take issue with on this truck is that the spare tire is accessed through the top of the bed. There are two reasons you don&#x27;t want to do this in a truck:<p>1.) The bed needs to be very strong because people routinely put weight on dunnage in the bed, and the door doesn&#x27;t appear to be corrugated to withstand load.<p>2.) If you want to change your flat tire you need to unload everything in the bed, which will be a huge pain in the ass on the side of the road.<p>Otherwise thank god someone is actually trying to capture this market. I really want one of these and can&#x27;t wait until they&#x27;re closer to market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leetcrew</author><text>&gt; If you want to change your flat tire you need to unload everything in the bed, which will be a huge pain in the ass on the side of the road.<p>aren&#x27;t you already supposed to unload your vehicle before you jack it up on one side? maybe it&#x27;s different for &quot;work vehicles&quot;, but my car comes with a puny little jack that&#x27;s only strong enough to support the weight of the car when there are no people or heavy items inside. I suspect the hardpoint on the car itself isn&#x27;t designed with much more headroom than the jack.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon, GM in talks to invest in electric pickup truck maker Rivian: sources</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rivian-electric-amazon-com-gm-exclusi/amazon-gm-in-talks-to-invest-in-electric-pickup-truck-maker-rivian-sources-idUSKCN1Q12PV</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jschwartzi</author><text>The only thing I really take issue with on this truck is that the spare tire is accessed through the top of the bed. There are two reasons you don&#x27;t want to do this in a truck:<p>1.) The bed needs to be very strong because people routinely put weight on dunnage in the bed, and the door doesn&#x27;t appear to be corrugated to withstand load.<p>2.) If you want to change your flat tire you need to unload everything in the bed, which will be a huge pain in the ass on the side of the road.<p>Otherwise thank god someone is actually trying to capture this market. I really want one of these and can&#x27;t wait until they&#x27;re closer to market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yyyymmddhhmmss</author><text><i>&gt;you need to unload everything in the bed, which will be a huge pain in the ass on the side of the road.</i><p>Who says that’s even going to be possible? It sounds like a complete design flop to me.</text></comment> |
23,811,236 | 23,811,077 | 1 | 3 | 23,810,519 | train | <story><title>IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration</title><url>https://intellijobs.ai/job/IBMCloud-Native-Infrastructure-Engineer-Architect-bvJJ6yraexfWOk1nMRKP-bvJJ6yraexfWOk1nMRKP</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>juped</author><text>&gt; I saw a job post the other day.<p>&gt; It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI.<p>&gt; I couldn&#x27;t apply as I only have 1.5+ years of experience since I created that thing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;tiangolo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1281946592459853830" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;tiangolo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1281946592459853830</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jarym</author><text>This happened to me - got a call from a recruiter who said client needed 10 years. I replied &#x27;I was a teenager back then&#x27; to which she said &#x27;so you don&#x27;t have enough experience?&#x27;. I responded &#x27;Well I helped create the thing, it hasn&#x27;t been around 10 years&#x27;. Silence followed, I was thoroughly dis-interested after that.</text></comment> | <story><title>IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration</title><url>https://intellijobs.ai/job/IBMCloud-Native-Infrastructure-Engineer-Architect-bvJJ6yraexfWOk1nMRKP-bvJJ6yraexfWOk1nMRKP</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>juped</author><text>&gt; I saw a job post the other day.<p>&gt; It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI.<p>&gt; I couldn&#x27;t apply as I only have 1.5+ years of experience since I created that thing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;tiangolo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1281946592459853830" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;tiangolo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1281946592459853830</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pythonwizz</author><text>If I were you I would have applied with exactly this sentence, even if I were not looking for a job.</text></comment> |
19,058,294 | 19,058,034 | 1 | 3 | 19,054,358 | train | <story><title>EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/eu-and-japan-create-worlds-biggest-free-trade-zone/a-47319521</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeroname</author><text>&gt; Free trade is great when applied evenly.<p>Free trade is great even when applied unevenly.</text></item><item><author>drak0n1c</author><text>For those interested in why - Japan always had very high tariffs on cheese (40% on WTO, 37.5% on EU). In comparison, the US has a general tariff of 10% on cheese, with many exceptions making it 0%.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.customs.go.jp&#x2F;english&#x2F;tariff&#x2F;2019_2&#x2F;data&#x2F;e_04.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.customs.go.jp&#x2F;english&#x2F;tariff&#x2F;2019_2&#x2F;data&#x2F;e_04.htm</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hts.usitc.gov&#x2F;?query=cheese" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hts.usitc.gov&#x2F;?query=cheese</a><p>Similarly high tariffs across the board on most imports has been the norm in Japan for decades, with many agricultural products also having quota limits. This led to potato shortages in 2017.<p>Free trade is great when applied evenly. If it takes reciprocative pressure from the US to cause others think differently and change the status quo, so be it.</text></item><item><author>TorKlingberg</author><text>Japan has avoided the madness of tariffs and trade wars that has affected the west recently. Instead they have been quietly negotiating trade deals with everyone and generally getting along. Good on them!<p>Also it includes cheese, which will make westerners in Japan very happy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FabHK</author><text>Here&#x27;s one thing I find funny though about this argument (Econ 101, yet correct, yet complicated):<p>The argument for free trade is an efficiency argument (comparative advantage, Ricardo, Hecksher-Ohlin yada yada) that it&#x27;s unambiguously better, but it&#x27;s predicated on redistribution: The reason that free trade is unambiguously better is that you can compensate all the &quot;losers&quot; of free trade so that they&#x27;re as well off as before, and you still have extra income left (to distribute, in theory, as desired politically).<p>Economics mostly shies away from inter-personal utility comparisons (they&#x27;re hard to grapple with) and prefers the notion of &quot;pareto improvements&quot; (where at least someone is better off without anyone being worse of). Trade theory uses this device of redistribution to show that a free trade is a pareto improvement.<p>But then, in the real world, many advocates of free trade suddenly forget about this part of the argument, and when some sectors of society profit handsomely and many (often workers) end up on the street, they suddenly remember their free-market credentials and argue that no, one cannot redistribute, the free market is optimal and fair and pays everyone their marginal product and yada yada yada.<p>Funny, that amnesia in the middle.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/eu-and-japan-create-worlds-biggest-free-trade-zone/a-47319521</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeroname</author><text>&gt; Free trade is great when applied evenly.<p>Free trade is great even when applied unevenly.</text></item><item><author>drak0n1c</author><text>For those interested in why - Japan always had very high tariffs on cheese (40% on WTO, 37.5% on EU). In comparison, the US has a general tariff of 10% on cheese, with many exceptions making it 0%.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.customs.go.jp&#x2F;english&#x2F;tariff&#x2F;2019_2&#x2F;data&#x2F;e_04.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.customs.go.jp&#x2F;english&#x2F;tariff&#x2F;2019_2&#x2F;data&#x2F;e_04.htm</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hts.usitc.gov&#x2F;?query=cheese" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hts.usitc.gov&#x2F;?query=cheese</a><p>Similarly high tariffs across the board on most imports has been the norm in Japan for decades, with many agricultural products also having quota limits. This led to potato shortages in 2017.<p>Free trade is great when applied evenly. If it takes reciprocative pressure from the US to cause others think differently and change the status quo, so be it.</text></item><item><author>TorKlingberg</author><text>Japan has avoided the madness of tariffs and trade wars that has affected the west recently. Instead they have been quietly negotiating trade deals with everyone and generally getting along. Good on them!<p>Also it includes cheese, which will make westerners in Japan very happy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monetus</author><text>This &#x27;great&#x27; only applies to society as a super-organism. Are you really suggesting uneven trade has no casualties on the individual level?</text></comment> |
21,673,380 | 21,672,846 | 1 | 3 | 21,672,696 | train | <story><title>Dutch antennas unfolded behind the moon</title><url>https://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/news/vm/imapp/astrophysics/2019/dutch-antennas-unfolded-behind-moon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>emirp</author><text>Why would you put antennas behind the moon?<p>I read the article: these antennas are radio telescopes (or perhaps just do the same job). So they&#x27;re using the moon to block interfering radio signals from Earth.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dutch antennas unfolded behind the moon</title><url>https://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/news/vm/imapp/astrophysics/2019/dutch-antennas-unfolded-behind-moon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mirimir</author><text>I wonder how the antennas &quot;unfold&quot;.<p>Are they perhaps nested rolled cones of thin metal?</text></comment> |
32,629,972 | 32,628,473 | 1 | 2 | 32,626,218 | train | <story><title>Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes?</title><url>https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2022/why-are-d-sharp-and-e-flat-considered-to-be-two-different-notes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>evrydayhustling</author><text>Now that we can have electronic instruments that &quot;tune&quot; themselves, could we compute song-optimal tunings that preserve the intervals used most in that song? Does this have a name?<p>As a guitarist we often swap guitars or retune to make certain songs easier to play, or to be able to get a certain tamber put of the note. But I never considered it as a way to address temperament.<p>It&#x27;s interesting to think how much of music theory emerges out of reconciliation with available instruments, as opposed to reconciliation with the ear.</text></item><item><author>perihelions</author><text>The paradox is that you can&#x27;t create a theory of music whose notes are both (a) evenly spaced and (b) contain the integer ratios.<p>You want (a) because it you gives you nice algebraic properties (the music structure is invariant under frequency shifts). You want (b) because small-integer ratios are pleasant sounding -- partly culturally-acquired taste, partly because physics gives musical instruments acoustic spectra in integral multiples of a fundamental frequency: f, 2f, 3f ... nf. Small-integer ratios are naturally occurring and very recognizable.<p>Modern tuning (C-f &quot;12-TET&quot; in the article) almost, approximately satisfies (a) and (b) simultaneously. &quot;12&quot; means there&#x27;s twelve tones between f and 2f; the ratio between adjacent tones is defined to be 2^{1&#x2F;12}. This tuning can&#x27;t contain both f and 3f (so it fails (b)), but it *can* contain f and 2^{19&#x2F;12}f ~ 2.9966f, which is actually close enough to 3f to be indistinguishable. (Almost works!) But as you build ratios out of larger integers, it audibly falls apart. The closest you can get to (5&#x2F;3)f is 2^{9&#x2F;12}f = ~1.6818f, which is already 10% of the way to the next note. And it rapidly gets worse.<p>This is why two on-paper-identical notes can end up audibly different, depending on what key you&#x27;re starting with (and hence how they are approached). There&#x27;s tension internal to music theory itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xhevahir</author><text>You might like to hear this proprietary algorithm: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hermode.com&#x2F;index_en.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hermode.com&#x2F;index_en.html</a><p>Since you&#x27;re a guitarist, there&#x27;s also this Swedish guitar, which purports to solve the tuning problem (which I tend to think is not a problem but an essential part of the instrument&#x27;s sound) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;-penQWPHJzI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;-penQWPHJzI</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes?</title><url>https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2022/why-are-d-sharp-and-e-flat-considered-to-be-two-different-notes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>evrydayhustling</author><text>Now that we can have electronic instruments that &quot;tune&quot; themselves, could we compute song-optimal tunings that preserve the intervals used most in that song? Does this have a name?<p>As a guitarist we often swap guitars or retune to make certain songs easier to play, or to be able to get a certain tamber put of the note. But I never considered it as a way to address temperament.<p>It&#x27;s interesting to think how much of music theory emerges out of reconciliation with available instruments, as opposed to reconciliation with the ear.</text></item><item><author>perihelions</author><text>The paradox is that you can&#x27;t create a theory of music whose notes are both (a) evenly spaced and (b) contain the integer ratios.<p>You want (a) because it you gives you nice algebraic properties (the music structure is invariant under frequency shifts). You want (b) because small-integer ratios are pleasant sounding -- partly culturally-acquired taste, partly because physics gives musical instruments acoustic spectra in integral multiples of a fundamental frequency: f, 2f, 3f ... nf. Small-integer ratios are naturally occurring and very recognizable.<p>Modern tuning (C-f &quot;12-TET&quot; in the article) almost, approximately satisfies (a) and (b) simultaneously. &quot;12&quot; means there&#x27;s twelve tones between f and 2f; the ratio between adjacent tones is defined to be 2^{1&#x2F;12}. This tuning can&#x27;t contain both f and 3f (so it fails (b)), but it *can* contain f and 2^{19&#x2F;12}f ~ 2.9966f, which is actually close enough to 3f to be indistinguishable. (Almost works!) But as you build ratios out of larger integers, it audibly falls apart. The closest you can get to (5&#x2F;3)f is 2^{9&#x2F;12}f = ~1.6818f, which is already 10% of the way to the next note. And it rapidly gets worse.<p>This is why two on-paper-identical notes can end up audibly different, depending on what key you&#x27;re starting with (and hence how they are approached). There&#x27;s tension internal to music theory itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>&gt; Now that we can have electronic instruments that &quot;tune&quot; themselves, could we compute song-optimal tunings that preserve the intervals used most in that song?<p>We&#x27;ve had self-tuning instruments for thousands of years. Vocal harmony has almost always been perfectly tuned for its key. Likewise orchestral strings are fretless and can produce perfect intervals. Equitemperment was an innovation in the 17th century because it approximated the perfect intervals very well (&quot;sounded good&quot;) but also permitted the ability to simultaneously represent scales based on every note in the circle of fifths (&quot;sounded interesting&quot;). But the &quot;real&quot; chords were always (well, since the late middle ages) understood to be integer ratios.</text></comment> |
2,443,319 | 2,442,749 | 1 | 2 | 2,442,663 | train | <story><title>Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript</title><url>https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/9333ca7...23aa7da</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>Normally, I'm skeptical of "change the syntax and your life will magically get better, no matter how headachey interacting with the rest of the world will become", but then Thomas showed me Sass and it was lifechanging. (After you've gotten around Sass, CSS looks like Assembly code to a web programmer. I mean, sure, you could write it... but you'd need a damn good reason to. If you haven't tried it yet, make yourself an excuse for a weekend project -- it will make your life better.) Has anyone found CoffeeScript to be lifechanging?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KrisJordan</author><text>After a few months of CoffeeScript development I vastly prefer it to JavaScript. Jeremy, et. al., have done a beautiful job with it. I've used Sass/Less as well and believe the JavaScript/CoffeeScript divide is even more valuable.<p>Edit: I wrote about some of my favorite features of CoffeeScript when we added CoffeeScript support to our CMS app HiFi... <a href="http://www.gethifi.com/blog/hosted-cms-coffeescript-support" rel="nofollow">http://www.gethifi.com/blog/hosted-cms-coffeescript-support</a><p>tl;dr:<p>1) Lightweight function declarations (with default values!)<p>2) Implicit Returns<p>3) Everything is an Expression<p>4) Object Literal YAML-like syntax<p>5) Simple, Classical OO Features (you don't have to use them and can still directly access prototypal features, too)<p>6) (Not in the post) Binding 'this' to the scope's 'this' using =&#62; is awesome.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript</title><url>https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/9333ca7...23aa7da</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>Normally, I'm skeptical of "change the syntax and your life will magically get better, no matter how headachey interacting with the rest of the world will become", but then Thomas showed me Sass and it was lifechanging. (After you've gotten around Sass, CSS looks like Assembly code to a web programmer. I mean, sure, you could write it... but you'd need a damn good reason to. If you haven't tried it yet, make yourself an excuse for a weekend project -- it will make your life better.) Has anyone found CoffeeScript to be lifechanging?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icey</author><text>Yes, CoffeeScript is amazing. No more headaches over missing semi-colons, callbacks feel significantly less "spaghetti-like". Syntactically it feels much cleaner and I've found that I end up staying much nearer to the left margin than I did with JavaScript.<p>Debugging has not been a problem for me yet, the generated JavaScript is very clean and easy to navigate.<p>That being said, I'm a Python fan, so I consider significant whitespace to be a feature, not an irritant.</text></comment> |
2,032,174 | 2,032,231 | 1 | 3 | 2,032,007 | train | <story><title>VirtualBox 4.0 released (link to changelog)</title><url>http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnthedebs</author><text>It's great to see VirtualBox being actively developed, even after Oracle took over control from Sun. This is a fantastic piece of software.</text></comment> | <story><title>VirtualBox 4.0 released (link to changelog)</title><url>http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>inovica</author><text>I love VirtualBox. Its allowed me to test on various platforms all from my Mac. Kudos also to Oracle for continuing with its development - I was concerned that it wouldn't be, so I'm pleased to have been proved wrong!</text></comment> |
2,905,966 | 2,905,753 | 1 | 2 | 2,905,686 | train | <story><title>Women are rejecting marriage in Asia. The social implications are serious.</title><url>http://www.economist.com/node/21526350?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/asiasloneyhearts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lionhearted</author><text>I have a theory that I haven't found expounded before. It came from a combination of travel through 60+ countries, living and working and interacting with local people on a pretty intimate level sometimes, and study of <i>lots</i> of history.<p>It's going to be controversial and maybe even shocking, so brace yourself for a moment before reacting please.<p>I think peaceful societies self-destruct.<p>With a few notable exceptions that require a geography suitable to isolationism, long term peace has historically been achieved through your country or one of your ally's having military supremacy over the rest of your neighbors.<p>Obviously, diplomacy can keep the peace for long periods of time, even human lifetimes, but eventually incidents happen when there's a hothead in one government, and then that's when the military supremacy determines whether you get attacked or not.<p>Anyways, I've found the more a country renounces war and gets further away from it, the more birth rates go down. You get an explosion of commerce and art for ~30 to ~70 years, and then the society self-destructs.<p>No longer forced to confront mortality and with no externally unifying cause, people start living for luxury, pleasure, and consumption. They stop having children. Birth rates fall off.<p>Eventually, this destroys a country's economy, the military supremacy fades, and one of their neighbors comes in and cleans house, and the cycle begins anew.<p>This has happened many times through history. It's happening in Japan right now. If I became an advisor to anyone in the Japanese government, I'd advocate two things as chief priorities - (1) exceedingly good relations with China, and (2) re-militarize.<p>Then join the next war they can on America's or China's side. Combined with some standard messages of nationalism/strength/growth/unity, birth rates would almost certainly increase.</text></comment> | <story><title>Women are rejecting marriage in Asia. The social implications are serious.</title><url>http://www.economist.com/node/21526350?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/asiasloneyhearts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>burgerbrain</author><text>Good for them. More people need to reject this archaic sexist tradition. Legal enforcement of the fantasy notion of "true love for life" is damn near barbaric.<p>If you and your partner can swing it, more power to you, but social pressure on <i>others</i> to place themselves into <i>legally binding situations</i> revolving around this notion is something that need to die.<p>In the west (at least the states) these are legally binding arrangements that are <i>heavily</i> biased against males, but if women are rejecting that in Asia then all the better.</text></comment> |
6,239,533 | 6,239,368 | 1 | 2 | 6,238,990 | train | <story><title>Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19/mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-page-was-hacked-by-an-unemployed-web-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>short_circut</author><text>Dismissive and ignored? Did you read what he submitted to them? It made no sense. He vaguely stated that there was a bug and his education. His bug report was nonsensical. I am not even slightly surprised they ignored it. And he violated the TOS before he even ever tried to post to Zuckerberg&#x27;s wall.</text></item><item><author>chrisacky</author><text>Although this is blogspam, it&#x27;s a blogspam that I can actually support...<p>This is being covered a lot more widely because FB didn&#x27;t just pay the guy. I know it wasn&#x27;t about money for FB, but this is easily done a lot more damage then they would have expected and because of their inadequate handling of a single bug report, I can only feel satisfied as I think this will go down as a good case study of how not to be so dismissive with critical bugs.<p>(I still think they should pay the guy, and it should be double the $5k he would have expected to receive).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>efuquen</author><text>Having dealt with fellow developers that don&#x27;t have perfect english or thick accents I think it&#x27;s quite unprofessional to dismiss someone&#x27;s complaint without even trying to understand them. It&#x27;s great for us native English speakers that it&#x27;s such a dominant language but I think we should all give a little more respect for others where it&#x27;s clearly not their first language and they&#x27;re the ones having to go out of their way to communicate with us. I for one am glad I don&#x27;t have to deal with the bilingualism, with a bit more empathy and less dismissiveness the whole thing could have been avoided.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19/mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-page-was-hacked-by-an-unemployed-web-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>short_circut</author><text>Dismissive and ignored? Did you read what he submitted to them? It made no sense. He vaguely stated that there was a bug and his education. His bug report was nonsensical. I am not even slightly surprised they ignored it. And he violated the TOS before he even ever tried to post to Zuckerberg&#x27;s wall.</text></item><item><author>chrisacky</author><text>Although this is blogspam, it&#x27;s a blogspam that I can actually support...<p>This is being covered a lot more widely because FB didn&#x27;t just pay the guy. I know it wasn&#x27;t about money for FB, but this is easily done a lot more damage then they would have expected and because of their inadequate handling of a single bug report, I can only feel satisfied as I think this will go down as a good case study of how not to be so dismissive with critical bugs.<p>(I still think they should pay the guy, and it should be double the $5k he would have expected to receive).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcphilip</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it is as cut and dry as that. The reply that &#x27;this is not a bug&#x27; showed a lack of concern that the reporter may have been having difficulties correctly submitting information about what would be a very significant defect, if true.<p>A community member taking the time and interest to try and go through proper channels to submit a vulnerability should, IMO, be given more respect than was shown by FB.</text></comment> |
9,893,332 | 9,893,118 | 1 | 2 | 9,892,810 | train | <story><title>Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input</title><url>http://geoff.greer.fm/vim/#realwaitforchar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joosters</author><text>But the code works. It supports lots of platforms through choice. Yes, you could make the code prettier if you dropped some platforms. Yes, you could refactor it to use some abstracting libraries that now exist. But <i>the code works</i>. If you rewrote the code, the best result you could end up with is the same functionality that still works. All other possible results are bad. There is nothing to be gained.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ggreer</author><text>I made the page as a companion piece to a blog post[1]. The code works, but it&#x27;s quite buggy. Also, it is almost certainly broken on outdated OSes. It&#x27;s just that nobody uses the latest Vim on IRIX or VMS, so no bug reports get filed.<p>A quick glance shows some obvious errors in RealWaitForChar(). For example: with typical preprocessor defines, it uses gettimeofday() in a select() loop. This will break if the system clock changes, either from user intervention or ntpd. The correct solution is to use a monotonically-increasing timer, such as Linux&#x27;s clock_gettime() or OS X’s mach_absolute_time().<p>Vim&#x27;s UI is powerful, but its codebase is a nightmare. My blog post explains why in more detail.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;geoff.greer.fm&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;15&#x2F;why-neovim-is-better-than-vim&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;geoff.greer.fm&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;15&#x2F;why-neovim-is-better-than-v...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input</title><url>http://geoff.greer.fm/vim/#realwaitforchar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joosters</author><text>But the code works. It supports lots of platforms through choice. Yes, you could make the code prettier if you dropped some platforms. Yes, you could refactor it to use some abstracting libraries that now exist. But <i>the code works</i>. If you rewrote the code, the best result you could end up with is the same functionality that still works. All other possible results are bad. There is nothing to be gained.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chadgeidel</author><text>I am reminded of the old Joel on Software article &quot;Things you should never do part 1&quot;: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;fog0000000069.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;fog0000000069.html</a><p>From the article:<p>&quot;The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they&#x27;ve been fixed. There&#x27;s nothing wrong with it. It doesn&#x27;t acquire bugs just by sitting around on your hard drive.&quot;<p>EDIT: Joel isn&#x27;t actually recommending &quot;do nothing&quot; - on the contrary - the article goes into some depth on ways one can improve software without throwing everything away and starting from scratch.</text></comment> |
32,768,214 | 32,764,188 | 1 | 2 | 32,761,930 | train | <story><title>I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018)</title><url>https://jacksoncunningham.medium.com/digital-exile-how-i-got-banned-for-life-from-airbnb-615434c6eeba</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bambax</author><text>AirBnb seem to have a different policy now: they simply delete the bad reviews. In June I had my first bad experience. The owner was nice but the property was absolutely awful (yet it was a &quot;superhost&quot; with glowing reviews).<p>I left a bad review (my first). Two days later I received a convoluted message from support, telling me that my review was incorrect and wouldn&#x27;t be published, because it pointed out &quot;things the property owner couldn&#x27;t change&quot;.<p>This is sinister, but funny at the same time. If the property is dirty it can be cleaned. But if, for example, it has walls so thin you can hear the neighbors breathing, or the slope of the bathroom is in the wrong direction and water flows into the bedroom every time one takes a shower, you can&#x27;t say that in a review! Because it &quot;can&#x27;t be changed&quot;.<p>I learned from that experience that AirBnb reviews can&#x27;t be trusted, and &quot;superhost&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean anything (except the power to kill bad reviews).<p>I haven&#x27;t been to an AirBnb since; the best properties are very often on Booking.com as well, and those which aren&#x27;t, are questionable.</text></item><item><author>SLWW</author><text>I learned back in 2008 that you never, ever attach a review to your real name.<p>Any review, negative or neutral, runs the risk of damaging AirBnB, too many negative reviews might have the effect where AirBnB has to address the allegations, when it&#x27;s much easier to just keep making money off of the bad host and ignoring negative experiences.<p>I feel less likely to rent an AirBnB because of this article, simply by the fact that there is more than one negative review placed off-site.<p>They don&#x27;t want to deal with it; you are just a number, always have been. DO NOT post negative reviews with your real name</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mancerayder</author><text>&gt;I left a bad review (my first). Two days later I received a convoluted message from support, telling me that my review was incorrect and wouldn&#x27;t be published, because it pointed out &quot;things the property owner couldn&#x27;t change&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ve been shouting that from the rooftops for a couple of years. I discovered that same thing happened to me, but without the support comment above. Then I discovered in the Airbnb subreddit, hosts telling each other that to remove a bad review it&#x27;s easy, just show something in the review you can&#x27;t change. Bingo.<p>You know what, F Airbnb. Anyway the cleaning and service fee add ons make it more expensive than a hotel, and with 0 flexibility to cancel or reschedule.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018)</title><url>https://jacksoncunningham.medium.com/digital-exile-how-i-got-banned-for-life-from-airbnb-615434c6eeba</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bambax</author><text>AirBnb seem to have a different policy now: they simply delete the bad reviews. In June I had my first bad experience. The owner was nice but the property was absolutely awful (yet it was a &quot;superhost&quot; with glowing reviews).<p>I left a bad review (my first). Two days later I received a convoluted message from support, telling me that my review was incorrect and wouldn&#x27;t be published, because it pointed out &quot;things the property owner couldn&#x27;t change&quot;.<p>This is sinister, but funny at the same time. If the property is dirty it can be cleaned. But if, for example, it has walls so thin you can hear the neighbors breathing, or the slope of the bathroom is in the wrong direction and water flows into the bedroom every time one takes a shower, you can&#x27;t say that in a review! Because it &quot;can&#x27;t be changed&quot;.<p>I learned from that experience that AirBnb reviews can&#x27;t be trusted, and &quot;superhost&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean anything (except the power to kill bad reviews).<p>I haven&#x27;t been to an AirBnb since; the best properties are very often on Booking.com as well, and those which aren&#x27;t, are questionable.</text></item><item><author>SLWW</author><text>I learned back in 2008 that you never, ever attach a review to your real name.<p>Any review, negative or neutral, runs the risk of damaging AirBnB, too many negative reviews might have the effect where AirBnB has to address the allegations, when it&#x27;s much easier to just keep making money off of the bad host and ignoring negative experiences.<p>I feel less likely to rent an AirBnB because of this article, simply by the fact that there is more than one negative review placed off-site.<p>They don&#x27;t want to deal with it; you are just a number, always have been. DO NOT post negative reviews with your real name</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>captainbland</author><text>You&#x27;d think that it is somewhat within the owner&#x27;s control because they could disclose whatever this apparently immutable fact of the property is and then people could reasonably factor this in when deciding whether to stay or not.<p>But presumably this is not something which is policy because it would lower the price of relevant properties which presumably affects airbnb&#x27;s revenue as well.<p>This kind of behaviour should somehow be regulated in a similar way to advertising - if they&#x27;re intentionally hiding negative information while posing as a place to reliably inform you about your stay based on the experiences of others (which is what &quot;review&quot; implies) then they&#x27;re misleading you for profit. What they&#x27;re actually running is a mislabelled testimonials section. It distorts the market by actively preventing people from accurately assessing the property&#x27;s utility to them.</text></comment> |
4,189,490 | 4,189,255 | 1 | 2 | 4,189,010 | train | <story><title>FSF recommendations for free OS distributions considering Secure Boot</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/whitepaper-web</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>&#62; Their stated concern is that someone might ship an Ubuntu Certified machine with Restricted Boot (where the user cannot disable it). In order to comply with GPLv3, Ubuntu thinks it would then have to divulge its private key so that users could sign and install modified software on the restricted system.<p>&#62; This fear is unfounded and based on a misunderstanding of GPLv3. We have not been able to come up with any scenario where Ubuntu would be forced to divulge a private signing key because a third-party computer manufacturer or distributor shipped Ubuntu on a Restricted Boot machine.<p>That's because like pretty much everyone who is not the FSF, Ubuntu has not actually carefully read the part of GPLv3 that deals with software that requires signing in order to install. Almost everyone just seems to skim through that section, sees something about having to provide keys, and then moves on. They don't read the definitions that define the terminology used in that section, and so have no clue whatsoever about what they have just read means.<p>I can kind of excuse it when it is just random end users or individual software developers who don't understand the license they are using...but one of the leading Linux companies!?<p>Another place you see this problem is in discussion of the incompatibility between Apple's App Store and GPLv3. There are people who still think the signing requirements have something to do with it. They do not. The problem is Apple's terms and conditions, which Apple requires end users to agree to before being allowed to use the store, count as additional terms under GPL (both v2 and v3) that are incompatible with GPL. The GPLv3 restrictions on distributing signed code without the signing keys would only apply to GPLv3 code that Apple ships bundled with iOS devices.</text></comment> | <story><title>FSF recommendations for free OS distributions considering Secure Boot</title><url>https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/whitepaper-web</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdl</author><text>I would prefer not to be "protected by a GPL licensed bootloader" from having a machine actually boot successfully under default conditions.<p>Pretty much ok with Fedora and Ubuntu making the best of a somewhat bad situation. I wish they'd just fix the standard to allow multiple signatures on code and extensions, though. With that, Secure Boot would be basically all positive.</text></comment> |
14,804,489 | 14,804,748 | 1 | 2 | 14,803,468 | train | <story><title>Things I’ve Learned from Reading IndieHackers</title><url>http://www.toomas.net/2017/07/18/reverse-engineering-a-successful-lifestyle-business-heres-everything-ive-learned-from-reading-indiehackers-com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>donmatito</author><text>What I find interesting with Indie Hackers is that it covers a wide range a personal&#x2F;business situations. It goes from real lifestyle business, to beer-money-making side-projects.<p>I feel that there is a world of difference between a side-project that is free, to one where you ask customers for their credit cards. Of all professional experiences, I have never learnt as much as I did taking a side-project idea from idea to MVP, then to beta users, then to paying customers, scaling server issues, and marketing strategies. It&#x27;s not so much about the money, than the fact that you learn so much on so many dimensions.<p>Sincere thanks + shameless plug, the interview about Smooz was fun, a good self-reflection exercise, and a good source of traffic too (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&#x2F;businesses&#x2F;smooz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&#x2F;businesses&#x2F;smooz</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Things I’ve Learned from Reading IndieHackers</title><url>http://www.toomas.net/2017/07/18/reverse-engineering-a-successful-lifestyle-business-heres-everything-ive-learned-from-reading-indiehackers-com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ThomPete</author><text>In other words. Reading about success to become successful is like reading the autobiography of lotterywinners. There are no secrets to success other than luck, timing and actually shipping your product (or play the lottery).<p>Contrary to the lottery though much fewer people ship and there are much more winning lottery coupons.<p>There is nothing to learn about how to build a successful product.<p>If you want to read anything read about specific obstacles you get into.<p>Great read!</text></comment> |
26,378,225 | 26,378,032 | 1 | 2 | 26,376,549 | train | <story><title>FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversight of Boeing’s 737 Max</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-safety-engineer-goes-public-to-slam-the-agencys-oversight-of-boeings-737-max/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zevis</author><text>&gt; Michael Teal, 737 MAX chief engineer, testified to Congress that he first learned only after the Lion Air crash that MCAS relied on a single sensor<p>Uh, what. How does something like this even happen?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rurban</author><text>That cannot be. It was widely reported that the complete South Western Airlines MAX fleet insisted on the second sensor being installed. And so they did. They bypassed the FAA rubber-stamp approval.
The FAA not knowing about this is not plausible. Everybody knew that. It was a major criticism on the FAA ability to control air safety.</text></comment> | <story><title>FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversight of Boeing’s 737 Max</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-safety-engineer-goes-public-to-slam-the-agencys-oversight-of-boeings-737-max/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zevis</author><text>&gt; Michael Teal, 737 MAX chief engineer, testified to Congress that he first learned only after the Lion Air crash that MCAS relied on a single sensor<p>Uh, what. How does something like this even happen?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>temac</author><text>If he really is the chief engineer and that has any meaning, for ex if he signed off the design, should he not maybe be jailed for his failure to know what he signed?</text></comment> |
8,075,648 | 8,075,359 | 1 | 3 | 8,074,724 | train | <story><title>Sense – Wake up when it's right for you</title><url>http://hello.is</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philbarr</author><text>What affects my sleep isn&#x27;t me setting my alarm for the wrong time, it&#x27;s my 13 week old baby.<p>I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;ve seen a few things like this in the past. I wonder if they could adopt it for use as a baby monitor? We do currently have a sleep monitor but that just sets off an alarm if she hasn&#x27;t moved in 20 seconds (or I pick her up and forget to turn the damn thing off, grrrr).<p>I could see this being a really useful baby monitor that:<p>- sets off an alarm if no movement in 20 seconds (important one this, obviously)<p>- lets you know if your baby is drifting off into sleep or is basically just messing about and still wide awake. Like, are you going to be able to go to bed now or should you just make a brew?<p>- a recording of and detailed description of sleep patterns during the night, so you&#x27;ve got an idea of how to organise your nights; like maybe you could work out when she&#x27;s more likely to wake up at?<p>- a history and some kind of comparison chart, because with babies it changes all the time, so you might be able to predict and adapt in advance.<p>- an advance warning of when she&#x27;s coming out of sleep. Babies go from slightly peckish to screaming their head off hungry in a couple of minutes, and it takes 5 minutes to warm a bottle. Having a &quot;she&#x27;s gonna need feeding soon alarm&quot; would be really handy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>YZF</author><text>Babies need to eat&#x2F;nurse frequently. We&#x27;ve evolved to be highly dependent on our parents until a fairly old age. The solution that worked for us was for the baby to sleep in our bed next to mom. Then this whole wake&#x2F;nurse cycles basically happens without fully waking up. I realize some people are concerned about rolling on the baby but this is extremely rare&#x2F;improbable for normal&#x2F;healthy people. It&#x27;s a somewhat controversial topic but do your own research... As a dad that had to go to work I also took some breaks and slept in another room (mom would also sleep during the day when the baby was sleeping). YMMV. Good luck and enjoy!</text></comment> | <story><title>Sense – Wake up when it's right for you</title><url>http://hello.is</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philbarr</author><text>What affects my sleep isn&#x27;t me setting my alarm for the wrong time, it&#x27;s my 13 week old baby.<p>I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;ve seen a few things like this in the past. I wonder if they could adopt it for use as a baby monitor? We do currently have a sleep monitor but that just sets off an alarm if she hasn&#x27;t moved in 20 seconds (or I pick her up and forget to turn the damn thing off, grrrr).<p>I could see this being a really useful baby monitor that:<p>- sets off an alarm if no movement in 20 seconds (important one this, obviously)<p>- lets you know if your baby is drifting off into sleep or is basically just messing about and still wide awake. Like, are you going to be able to go to bed now or should you just make a brew?<p>- a recording of and detailed description of sleep patterns during the night, so you&#x27;ve got an idea of how to organise your nights; like maybe you could work out when she&#x27;s more likely to wake up at?<p>- a history and some kind of comparison chart, because with babies it changes all the time, so you might be able to predict and adapt in advance.<p>- an advance warning of when she&#x27;s coming out of sleep. Babies go from slightly peckish to screaming their head off hungry in a couple of minutes, and it takes 5 minutes to warm a bottle. Having a &quot;she&#x27;s gonna need feeding soon alarm&quot; would be really handy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josefresco</author><text>While a gadget would be fun to help with your new-baby concerns, a bunch of your issues are simply fixed by caring for, and observing your child (aka <i>parenting</i>)<p>Also, a good deal of &quot;training&quot; or learning has to be done for your child to understand when it&#x27;s sleep time, and when it&#x27;s time to eat. Just because your baby thinks he&#x2F;she is hungry, or not tired does not mean you should accommodate 100%.<p>It&#x27;s a constant give and take. You need to care for and console an upset child, but at the same time educate them so that they are able to sleep&#x2F;eat at times that benefit them overall.<p>Sometimes that means letting them cry in their crib, sometimes that means picking them up and rocking them back to sleep.<p>The kicker is eat child is different, so no gadget can help with your particular child&#x27;s tendencies.<p>Source: Have 2 kids.</text></comment> |
39,528,325 | 39,524,944 | 1 | 3 | 39,522,770 | train | <story><title>Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist (2021)</title><url>https://erikbern.com/2021/04/19/software-infrastructure-2.0-a-wishlist.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>015a</author><text>Here&#x27;s something very specific I&#x27;ve been thinking about recently.<p>I think Google Cloud Cloud Run is obscenely ahead of its time. Its a product that&#x27;s adjacent to so many competitors, yet has no direct competitor, and has managed to drive a stake into that niche in a way that makes it such a valuable product.<p>Its serverless, but not &quot;Lambda Serverless&quot; or &quot;Vercel Serverless&quot; which forces you to adopt an entirely different programming model. Its just docker containers. But its also not serverless in the way Fargate or ACS is &quot;serverless&quot;; its still Scale to Zero.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of competition in the managed infrastructure space right now (Railway, Render, Fly, Vercel, etc). But I haven&#x27;t seen anyone trying to do what Cloud Run does. Cloud Run has its disadvantages (cold starts are bad; it also could be a great fit for background workers&#x2F;queue consumers&#x2F;etc, but Google hasn&#x27;t added any way to scale replicas beyond incoming HTTP requests yet).<p>But the model is so perfect that I wish more companies would explore that space more, rather than retreating to &quot;how things have always been done&quot; (&quot;pay us $X&#x2F;mo to run a process&quot;) or retreating to the much more boring &quot;custom serverless runtime&quot;, &quot;your app is now only a &#x27;AWS Lambda app&#x27; and cant run anywhere else congrats&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist (2021)</title><url>https://erikbern.com/2021/04/19/software-infrastructure-2.0-a-wishlist.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>socketcluster</author><text>I built a serverless SaaS no-code&#x2F;low-code platform which could be of interest: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;saasufy.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;saasufy.com&#x2F;</a><p>You can build your entire app inside a plain HTML file which can be deployed online with something like GitHub pages.<p>I&#x27;ve built a few apps with it including a real-time chat app which supports both group chat, private 1-on-1 chat with an account system (with access control), OAuth via GitHub... The entire app is only 260 lines of HTML markup and fully serverless (no custom back end code). Access controls are defined via the control panel. All the app&#x27;s code is in this file: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Saasufy&#x2F;chat-app&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;index.html">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Saasufy&#x2F;chat-app&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;index.html</a><p>You can try the app here (use the &#x27;Log in with GitHub&#x27; link): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;saasufy.github.io&#x2F;chat-app&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;saasufy.github.io&#x2F;chat-app&#x2F;index.html</a><p>Saasufy comes with around 20 generic declarative HTML components which can be assembled in complex ways: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Saasufy&#x2F;saasufy-components?tab=readme-ov-file#saasufy-components">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Saasufy&#x2F;saasufy-components?tab=readme-ov-...</a><p>There is a bit of a learning curve to figure out how the components work but once you understand it, you can build apps very quickly. The chat app only took me a few hours to build.<p>I&#x27;ve also been helping a friend to build an application related to HR with Saasufy and I managed to get the basic search functionality working with only 160 lines of HTML markup.</text></comment> |
11,765,253 | 11,763,755 | 1 | 3 | 11,761,583 | train | <story><title>Coming soon: express even more in 140 characters</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/express-even-more-in-140-characters?hn20160524</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonathansizz</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why Twitter never implemented some sort of categorization feature. There are many individuals that I&#x27;d follow if I could just get a subset of their tweets in my feed.<p>For example, I might want to follow scientists&#x27; tweets on science, but not their political or favourite sport team tweets. Right now it&#x27;s either all or nothing, but why can&#x27;t people categorize their tweets so only people interested in them see them? This would be better for both parties.</text></item><item><author>FiloSottile</author><text>&gt; New Tweets that begin with a username will reach all your followers. (That means you’ll no longer have to use the ”.@” convention, which people currently use to broadcast Tweets broadly.) If you want a reply to be seen by all your followers, you will be able to Retweet it to signal that you intend for it to be viewed more broadly.<p>This is terrible. They are introducing a way to broadcast mentions without using .@, which is great. So why also making non-reply mentions forcefully broadcasted, with no way to hide them!?<p>I don&#x27;t want my @ThreeUKSupport tweets to go to all my followers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1024core</author><text>This is why I can&#x27;t bear to open the Twitter app. I signed up, and followed a few of the emergency agencies in SF, hoping to catch tweets about fires, accidents, etc. But these numbskulls keep blabbing away about awards, charity events, dinners, promotions, etc. etc. that it&#x27;s basically useless. So I uninstalled the app a few days later.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coming soon: express even more in 140 characters</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/express-even-more-in-140-characters?hn20160524</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonathansizz</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why Twitter never implemented some sort of categorization feature. There are many individuals that I&#x27;d follow if I could just get a subset of their tweets in my feed.<p>For example, I might want to follow scientists&#x27; tweets on science, but not their political or favourite sport team tweets. Right now it&#x27;s either all or nothing, but why can&#x27;t people categorize their tweets so only people interested in them see them? This would be better for both parties.</text></item><item><author>FiloSottile</author><text>&gt; New Tweets that begin with a username will reach all your followers. (That means you’ll no longer have to use the ”.@” convention, which people currently use to broadcast Tweets broadly.) If you want a reply to be seen by all your followers, you will be able to Retweet it to signal that you intend for it to be viewed more broadly.<p>This is terrible. They are introducing a way to broadcast mentions without using .@, which is great. So why also making non-reply mentions forcefully broadcasted, with no way to hide them!?<p>I don&#x27;t want my @ThreeUKSupport tweets to go to all my followers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psychometry</author><text>Same goes for Facebook. They surely have the ability to discern political posts from non-political ones, but the only control over what appears on our news feeds is follow&#x2F;unfollow.</text></comment> |
31,589,376 | 31,580,059 | 1 | 2 | 31,580,045 | train | <story><title>Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)</title><url>https://github.com/git-noter/gitnoter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atleta</author><text>I&#x27;m still looking for the note taking app that can replace Tomboy. Not because Tomboy is great (it isn&#x27;t), but because it&#x27;s actually a note taking app. Most apps seem to be this huge convoluted editors, with a UI resembling an IDE. Which I&#x27;m sure is pretty nice for creating a nice hierarchical structure, writing long documents and crosslinking them but, for me at least, note taking is about taking random short or ad hoc notes. Be it during a meeting or just collecting information or organizing thoughts about a specific topic but not necessarily for the long term and then using those while working in other apps (e.g. writing code, creating a blog post, etc.)<p>And for that I need something that&#x27;s lightweight on the screen. Just the text and none of the tools that take up extra space. Also, I&#x27;d have multiple notes (in <i>separate</i> windows) and have the app running all the time so that creating a new note is just a few clicks. (A global keyboard shortcut would be even better.)<p>Now the major shortcoming of Tomboy (besides the lack of real markdown support, though the bullet point handling is pretty much OK) is that it gets stuck at this lightweight level and there is no UI for the aforementioned organization. (Though it does create links semi-automatically, which is not bad, though I don&#x27;t use it a lot.) So it seems that one can have either end of the spectrum, but most documents, at least for me, would start as lightweight notes and then some of them may turn out to be something more convoluted and for the long term. So it would be nice to have an app that covers both. (Unfortunately, copy-pasting from Tomboy doesn&#x27;t work well, so the bullet point hierarchy gets lost. Also, it would be nice to have it based on markdown and plain text files, but it uses xml, IIRC.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)</title><url>https://github.com/git-noter/gitnoter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vivekweb2013</author><text>Hi Friends, I&#x27;m the author of GitNoter. I&#x27;d love to answer any questions you have</text></comment> |
9,715,185 | 9,715,156 | 1 | 3 | 9,714,985 | train | <story><title>I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss</title><url>http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hartator</author><text>Finally, the most accurate reactions come from the web itself: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.bodybuilding.com&#x2F;showthread.php?t=166912491" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.bodybuilding.com&#x2F;showthread.php?t=166912491</a><p>&gt; study invalid. no control for calories at all.<p>&gt; Why are calories not counted on any of the individuals?<p>&gt; Free reign is not a way to go about doing a study. They might very well have, we don&#x27;t know. We all know cocoa has weight loss properties (Theobromine), but to do such a poorly constructed study was pointless.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss</title><url>http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seszett</author><text>By the way, this is the documentary for which this was done:<p>In French: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arte.tv&#x2F;guide&#x2F;fr&#x2F;052711-000&#x2F;pour-maigrir-mangez-du-chocolat" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arte.tv&#x2F;guide&#x2F;fr&#x2F;052711-000&#x2F;pour-maigrir-mangez-d...</a><p>And in German: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arte.tv&#x2F;guide&#x2F;de&#x2F;052711-000&#x2F;schlank-durch-schokolade" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arte.tv&#x2F;guide&#x2F;de&#x2F;052711-000&#x2F;schlank-durch-schokol...</a></text></comment> |
33,038,213 | 33,038,051 | 1 | 2 | 33,037,151 | train | <story><title>Neovim 0.8 Released</title><url>https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.8.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dyingkneepad</author><text>Neovim is one of those things that seem maybe cool, but I just can&#x27;t find a reason to switch. Vim works just fine for me, I don&#x27;t know what I would be getting by switching, and I&#x27;d probably waste some time porting my config and workflow to whatever the differences are (I&#x27;m a heavy user of :terminal).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cupprum</author><text>I switched to neovim because of LSP (Language server protocol) support. I know there are libraries (or whatever cool kids call it these days), which brings this functionality to og vim, but the lsp integration in neovim just works so nicely out of the box.</text></comment> | <story><title>Neovim 0.8 Released</title><url>https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.8.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dyingkneepad</author><text>Neovim is one of those things that seem maybe cool, but I just can&#x27;t find a reason to switch. Vim works just fine for me, I don&#x27;t know what I would be getting by switching, and I&#x27;d probably waste some time porting my config and workflow to whatever the differences are (I&#x27;m a heavy user of :terminal).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qudat</author><text>Plugins built with lua, lsp, treesitter for syntax highlighting are the big ones.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neovimcraft.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neovimcraft.com</a> — For neovim specific plugins</text></comment> |
37,196,411 | 37,194,877 | 1 | 3 | 37,194,272 | train | <story><title>Cellebrite asks cops to keep its technology secret</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/19/cellebrite-asks-cops-to-keep-its-phone-hacking-tech-hush-hush/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foooorsyth</author><text>&gt;“We’re suppose to take some ‘hacking company’’s word for it that they’re doing everything forensically correctly, and the prosecution expects us to just trust them?”<p>You&#x27;d be surprised. The courts are not scientific debate arenas. Burn forensics? Pseudoscience. Bite mark forensics? Pseudoscience. Lots of DNA-based forensics? Totally unreliable. Firearms ballistics forensics? Laughable pseudoscience. Polygraph tests? Laughable pseudoscience. Field sobriety tests &#x2F; &quot;drug recognition expert&quot; certifications? Lol, lmao even.<p>All of this nonsense has been successfully used to convict people in court. Turns out, putting someone with PhD after their name or a white lab coat or a phony certification on the stand tends to work for prosecutors.</text></item><item><author>kstrauser</author><text>I’d think defense attorneys would be all over that. “We’re suppose to take some ‘hacking company’’s word for it that they’re doing everything forensically correctly, and the prosecution expects us to just trust them?”<p>Were I such an attorney, I’d campaign to taint the reputation of Cellebrite and make the evidence it generates completely untrustworthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AmVess</author><text>You are right on the money. Many of the tools law enforcement uses are straight up hocus pocus, and they lack the training or ability to question their methods.<p>New York&#x27;s main crime lab completely blew DNA testing, and thus rendered all of their results worthless. This went on for many years. Instead of rectifying their mistakes, they swept it under the rug and forgot about it. To this day, thousands of people are in jail based upon wildly incorrect &quot;science&quot;.<p>It is rather unsettling to know that nearly everything the criminal justice system uses is no better than voodoo, and you are not far away from getting thrown behind bars for little more than the whimsy of people who are empowered to do so.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cellebrite asks cops to keep its technology secret</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/19/cellebrite-asks-cops-to-keep-its-phone-hacking-tech-hush-hush/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foooorsyth</author><text>&gt;“We’re suppose to take some ‘hacking company’’s word for it that they’re doing everything forensically correctly, and the prosecution expects us to just trust them?”<p>You&#x27;d be surprised. The courts are not scientific debate arenas. Burn forensics? Pseudoscience. Bite mark forensics? Pseudoscience. Lots of DNA-based forensics? Totally unreliable. Firearms ballistics forensics? Laughable pseudoscience. Polygraph tests? Laughable pseudoscience. Field sobriety tests &#x2F; &quot;drug recognition expert&quot; certifications? Lol, lmao even.<p>All of this nonsense has been successfully used to convict people in court. Turns out, putting someone with PhD after their name or a white lab coat or a phony certification on the stand tends to work for prosecutors.</text></item><item><author>kstrauser</author><text>I’d think defense attorneys would be all over that. “We’re suppose to take some ‘hacking company’’s word for it that they’re doing everything forensically correctly, and the prosecution expects us to just trust them?”<p>Were I such an attorney, I’d campaign to taint the reputation of Cellebrite and make the evidence it generates completely untrustworthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alsetmusic</author><text>Polygraph is inadmissible in court. It’s used for interrogation as a prop.</text></comment> |
38,467,507 | 38,465,428 | 1 | 2 | 38,461,121 | train | <story><title>Deno Cron</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/cron</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phoe-krk</author><text>The AI-generated imagery at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;cron&#x2F;cover.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;cron&#x2F;cover.png</a> is actually painful the longer you look at it. The multiple watch hands might be an artistic effect, but the clock lacks the tenth hour and has two elevenths, the dinosaur&#x27;s legs make absolutely no sense, and the water reflections show a different pattern on the dinosaur legs and a completely different set of clock hands than what is visible above.<p>I know that displaying artwork is not the point of the article, but please, at least make it believable when you look at it for more than one second.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pseudosavant</author><text>Yes, by all means, make sure that the dinosaur wearing a clock around his neck looks believable. I&#x27;d hate to see something ridiculous.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deno Cron</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/cron</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phoe-krk</author><text>The AI-generated imagery at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;cron&#x2F;cover.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;cron&#x2F;cover.png</a> is actually painful the longer you look at it. The multiple watch hands might be an artistic effect, but the clock lacks the tenth hour and has two elevenths, the dinosaur&#x27;s legs make absolutely no sense, and the water reflections show a different pattern on the dinosaur legs and a completely different set of clock hands than what is visible above.<p>I know that displaying artwork is not the point of the article, but please, at least make it believable when you look at it for more than one second.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>handsaway</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to ignore when it takes up my entire screen and I have to scroll to see anything else. AI artwork is popping up everywhere and I don&#x27;t think it looks as cool as people seem to think. It comes off incredibly tacky.</text></comment> |
20,758,276 | 20,756,551 | 1 | 3 | 20,755,506 | train | <story><title>Libspng – C library for reading and writing PNG files</title><url>https://libspng.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>I gotta say, it’s great that someone is making this attempt, however it turns out. PNG has been in a uniquely bad position re: “monoculture”, with libpng being not just the “reference implementation”, but the <i>only</i> implementation anyone bothers to use.<p>But libpng was intended as <i>only</i> a reference implementation—a rigid adherent to the PNG standard, for the sake of having a “runnable version” of the PNG standard—and was never particularly optimized for production use-cases, or code readability&#x2F;maintainability&#x2F;low attack surface, or any other criteria you might like to have. Libpng is optimized for one thing only: allowing other PNG implementations to build spec-compatibility test suites by testing against libpng behaviour.<p>Because of this rigid adherence, libpng doesn’t implement—and will never implement—any features that <i>aren’t</i> in the base PNG spec, like APNG.<p>And since everyone <i>uses</i> libpng as their PNG implementation (for <i>some</i> reason), nobody ends up adopting these extra features. (Sure, all the major browsers except Edge support APNG, but does your image editor? Does your IoT thermostat whose OS uses PNG image assets? Does your game console? Nah. Because these all just compile in libpng. And <i>this</i> is what kills support for features like APNG in the crib.)<p>That was never the PNG Working Group’s intent, of course. They don’t want to restrict the development of extra PNG features (yes, even though they developed MNG and might see features like APNG as “competing” with MNG, they don’t really care.) They keep libpng the way it is, not for ideological reasons, but simply because they don’t care about doing anything with libpng that moves it away from “reference implementation of the base PNG spec” territory. (And why would they? Their job as the PNG Working Group is to produce the PNG base spec. It’s supposed to be everyone <i>else’s</i> job, in the ecosystem, to produce conformant implementations. They even gave you libpng to make that easier!)<p>So, like I said, I’m glad someone is finally writing an alternative implementation (in C), such that the projects that currently use libpng could reasonably choose to switch to libspng. It’s the same feeling I get from seeing LibreSSL and BoringSSL: that an ecosystem that was essentially “dead” and stuck in a set of bad choices due to everyone sticking with one unchanging reference impl, is now coming alive again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Libspng – C library for reading and writing PNG files</title><url>https://libspng.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>floor_</author><text>I find stb_image single file format and lack of dependencies to be extremely convenient.</text></comment> |
17,016,942 | 17,016,747 | 1 | 2 | 17,016,427 | train | <story><title>How We Found New Patterns in LA’s Homeless Arrest Data</title><url>https://source.opennews.org/articles/how-we-found-new-patterns-la-homeless-arrest/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robotkdick</author><text>A link in the OPs article that supposedly supports the conclusions derived from the data says:<p><i>...from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Homeless population in the city of LA is up 48% just since 2013. The reporters data shows a 31% increase in the amount of arrests of homeless people. So, per-capita arrests have gone down. That&#x27;s basic statistics.</i><p>That would indicate that the headline of the article supported by the data...<p><i>Huge increase in arrests of homeless in L.A. — but mostly for minor offenses</i><p>..is misleading.<p>I lived in Santa Monica during the same time period. The homeless population has skyrocketed along with homeless crime. We moved further south because of the problem. The LA Times is a joke.<p>The LAPD are not the best police department in the country, but I do believe they&#x27;re doing their best with a complex problem the rest of our society has chosen to ignore since the 1980s.<p>The homeless problem is not due to the police, but they are the ones we unfairly expect to deal with it.</text></comment> | <story><title>How We Found New Patterns in LA’s Homeless Arrest Data</title><url>https://source.opennews.org/articles/how-we-found-new-patterns-la-homeless-arrest/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>&quot;An XLSX file is just a zip of xml files&quot; is definitely a useful tidbit I will keep in my toolbox. I have clients at my day-job who send us Excel files all the time, even after explicitly cautioning them that the software only works with CSV.</text></comment> |
14,746,570 | 14,746,598 | 1 | 3 | 14,746,115 | train | <story><title>SAFEs are not bad for entrepreneurs</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/safes-are-not-bad-for-entrepreneurs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anotherfounder</author><text>So, for founders raising let&#x27;s say, a seed round (with a Series A 18 months down the line), is the recommendation still raise on SAFE (with some cap and&#x2F;or discount), and then price it at A?<p>It would be useful for the founder community (especially outside YC network) to have examples of how different recent startups have done it - offered discount or cap or both, how they determined the cap, the experience at A, experience with SAFE when dealing with angels&#x2F;micro VCs, etc.<p>Any founder willing to share that here?</text></comment> | <story><title>SAFEs are not bad for entrepreneurs</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/safes-are-not-bad-for-entrepreneurs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djrogers</author><text>For everyone who had no idea what a safe is (beyond the big metal thing you put valuables in), I eventually found this with some digging:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;documents&#x2F;#safe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;documents&#x2F;#safe</a></text></comment> |
41,285,518 | 41,285,320 | 1 | 3 | 41,284,235 | train | <story><title>Debugging operating systems with time-traveling virtual machines (2005) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix05/tech/general/king/king.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fatcunt</author><text>Microsoft has, or had, a similar technology they use internally, called TKO: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;security&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;04&#x2F;mitigating-vulnerabilities-endpoint-network-stacks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;security&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;04&#x2F;mitigatin...</a><p>It&#x27;s written in Rust and is based around a version of Bochs modified for deterministic execution. It&#x27;s got time-travel debugging (with WinDbg), which works by replaying forward from the nearest snapshot to the point at which the user is asking to move backwards to.<p>The primary author of this software wanted to open source it, but the higher-ups at MSFT refused. He&#x27;s been working on similar projects in a personal capacity though, e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamozolabs.github.io&#x2F;fuzzing&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;fuzzos.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamozolabs.github.io&#x2F;fuzzing&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;06&#x2F;fuzzos.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Debugging operating systems with time-traveling virtual machines (2005) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix05/tech/general/king/king.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Veserv</author><text>A history of other time traveling debugging papers and products (including this one):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jakob.engbloms.se&#x2F;archives&#x2F;1554" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jakob.engbloms.se&#x2F;archives&#x2F;1554</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jakob.engbloms.se&#x2F;archives&#x2F;1564" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jakob.engbloms.se&#x2F;archives&#x2F;1564</a></text></comment> |
6,361,426 | 6,361,450 | 1 | 2 | 6,361,037 | train | <story><title>Documents Shed Light on Border Laptop Searches</title><url>https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-immigrants-rights-national-security/documents-shed-light-border-laptop</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grey-area</author><text>Is the best strategy here to leave your devices at home and just bring a burner phone on holiday or other travels and no other devices?<p>It&#x27;s strange as an ordinary citizen who might choose to contribute to someone like Manning&#x27;s defence fund, or post statements supportive of Snowden online, to have to consider that GCHQ or the Homeland Security might put your name on a list for questioning and confiscation at the border, requiring drastic action like this.<p>Given the abuse of them in many countries including the US and UK (which was inevitable), I can&#x27;t see any case for these powers of arbitrary detainment and confiscation to be given to the police in any country.</text></comment> | <story><title>Documents Shed Light on Border Laptop Searches</title><url>https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-immigrants-rights-national-security/documents-shed-light-border-laptop</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>salmonellaeater</author><text>EFF guide to defending your privacy at border crossings:<p><a href="https://www.eff.org/wp/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-travelers-carrying-digital-devices" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;wp&#x2F;defending-privacy-us-border-guide-tra...</a></text></comment> |
32,915,576 | 32,913,272 | 1 | 2 | 32,912,584 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare Beta (2009)</title><url>https://www.projecthoneypot.org/cloudflare_beta.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>benzible</author><text>Unspam, Prince&#x27;s company before Cloudflare, which created Project Honeypot, had a slightly unsavory (to me, at least) business model of lobbying state legislatures to pass laws requiring &quot;no-contact&quot; registries with requirements that were tailored for Unspam. Looks like they succeeded in 2 states and some version of the company exists: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unspam.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unspam.com</a> Prince gave up on it and got an MBA at Harvard but he&#x27;s still listed on the company website.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare Beta (2009)</title><url>https://www.projecthoneypot.org/cloudflare_beta.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgrahamc</author><text>Huh. Oddly enough I&#x27;d never read this.</text></comment> |
12,180,278 | 12,180,059 | 1 | 3 | 12,179,795 | train | <story><title>UAE introduces federal law banning the use of VPNs to access blocked services</title><url>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/if-you-get-caught-using-vpn-uae-you-will-face-fines-545000-1572888</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>794CD01</author><text>The headline is sensationalized and inaccurate.<p>The actual law reads:<p>&gt;“Whoever uses a fraudulent computer network protocol address (IP address) by using a false address or a third-party address by any other means for the purpose of committing a crime or preventing its discovery, shall be punished by temporary imprisonment and a fine of no less than Dhs 500,000 and not exceeding Dhs 2,000,000, or either of these two penalties.”<p>Key point being &quot;for the purpose of committing a crime or preventing its discovery&quot;. It&#x27;s a way to throw the book at people already committing crimes. Rather than being outraged at this, it would be more appropriate to focus on the things that are crimes and should not be, like their moronic VoIP laws.</text></comment> | <story><title>UAE introduces federal law banning the use of VPNs to access blocked services</title><url>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/if-you-get-caught-using-vpn-uae-you-will-face-fines-545000-1572888</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jswny</author><text>Does anyone know how this affects foreigners? A relative of mine is a pilot and flies to Dubai a few times a month usually. She always uses a VPN to watch Netflix while she&#x27;s there. Is she at risk?</text></comment> |
25,822,228 | 25,822,246 | 1 | 3 | 25,821,718 | train | <story><title>That XOR Trick (2020)</title><url>https://florian.github.io/xor-trick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>As mentioned in this article, x ^ x == 0. Fun fact, this is frequently used by compilers as a &quot;cheap&quot; way to zero out a register.<p>In addition, there are comparatively few cases in programming where we XOR. Sure, it happens in things like games quite a lot, but the main use is actually _cryptography_.<p>Between these two facts (more like hints really), I managed to reverse engineer the bulk of a piece of malware I was given to analyse in a an internship. I was handed the malware, a copy of IDA Pro, and given a few days to see what I could find. All I could remember when presented with a wall of hex encoded machine code were the hints above. I looked for XORs of different values, assumed it was crypto, and extrapolated from there. Found a routine happening three times in quick succession and guessed it was triple-DES. Then I guessed that writing your own 3DES from scratch was unlikely, so googled for crypto libraries and happened to find one that nearly matched (I think an earlier&#x2F;unmodified version), and worked my way up tagging the operations until I got to the purpose, exfiltrating various registry keys and browser history to [somewhere].<p>It was a fun exercise, and therefore these facts will stay with me for far longer than they are accurate I&#x27;m sure!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickelpro</author><text>Xor&#x27;ing registers isn&#x27;t a compiler trick or arcane piece of lore, it&#x27;s the canonical way to zero a register on most architectures. It&#x27;s the only universally recommended way for both Intel and AMD x86 and x64 processors.</text></comment> | <story><title>That XOR Trick (2020)</title><url>https://florian.github.io/xor-trick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>As mentioned in this article, x ^ x == 0. Fun fact, this is frequently used by compilers as a &quot;cheap&quot; way to zero out a register.<p>In addition, there are comparatively few cases in programming where we XOR. Sure, it happens in things like games quite a lot, but the main use is actually _cryptography_.<p>Between these two facts (more like hints really), I managed to reverse engineer the bulk of a piece of malware I was given to analyse in a an internship. I was handed the malware, a copy of IDA Pro, and given a few days to see what I could find. All I could remember when presented with a wall of hex encoded machine code were the hints above. I looked for XORs of different values, assumed it was crypto, and extrapolated from there. Found a routine happening three times in quick succession and guessed it was triple-DES. Then I guessed that writing your own 3DES from scratch was unlikely, so googled for crypto libraries and happened to find one that nearly matched (I think an earlier&#x2F;unmodified version), and worked my way up tagging the operations until I got to the purpose, exfiltrating various registry keys and browser history to [somewhere].<p>It was a fun exercise, and therefore these facts will stay with me for far longer than they are accurate I&#x27;m sure!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mytailorisrich</author><text><i>xor reg, reg</i> is indeed the standard way to zero out a register in x86 assembly (it&#x27;s not just a compiler trick) as it is both shorter and faster than loading the register with zero via a <i>mov</i>.<p>Apart from that, I&#x27;d say that a common use of XOR operations in general are interactions with hardware peripherals where manipulating bit fields are needed.</text></comment> |
13,070,929 | 13,070,722 | 1 | 2 | 13,070,421 | train | <story><title>U.S. To Forgive at Least $108B in Student Debt in Coming Years</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-forgive-at-least-108-billion-in-student-debt-in-coming-years-1480501802</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Chuckalucky89</author><text>Having a reasonable discussion about student loans with an age group that attended college 20-30 years ago isn&#x27;t reasonable. The costs increased exponentially compared to what it was. The reasonable solution is to educate high school students on the affordable options of in-state universities and community college.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; The costs increased exponentially compared to what it was.<p>The cost increased due to government intervention. They wanted more people to go to college so they told lenders they&#x27;d guarantee loans for education. They do that by having the ability to take it out of your paycheck for the rest of your life if you don&#x27;t pay. Anyway, with the flood of money instantly available, schools were able to jack tuition by double digits every year for as long as the want. The place I went has been on a building spree for the last 20 years - it&#x27;s a whole different place now. Part of that was needed since the number of students has about doubled, so it&#x27;s not entirely wasteful. But the bottom line is that the &quot;free&quot; money is what caused the rates to rise. I feel bad for that entire generation - they got fucked from all angles financially.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. To Forgive at Least $108B in Student Debt in Coming Years</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-forgive-at-least-108-billion-in-student-debt-in-coming-years-1480501802</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Chuckalucky89</author><text>Having a reasonable discussion about student loans with an age group that attended college 20-30 years ago isn&#x27;t reasonable. The costs increased exponentially compared to what it was. The reasonable solution is to educate high school students on the affordable options of in-state universities and community college.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pc86</author><text>Who isn&#x27;t being educated about these options? I was in HS 00-04 and teachers and guidance counselors constantly extolled cheap state school options (which even today are in the $6-8k&#x2F;yr range including room and board) and community colleges.<p>Prestige and pride have a lot to do with it. Two degrees from the same school are worth the same if one person was there for four years and one went to community college for two first, but ask the 17 year old HS student who just has to sign a promissory note which one they want to do, and they&#x27;re going to pick the first option 9 times out of 10.</text></comment> |
3,467,926 | 3,467,955 | 1 | 3 | 3,467,550 | train | <story><title>Alexis Ohanian vs NBC - Debating SOPA</title><url>http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/15/10161056-debating-sopa</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cal5k</author><text>That was absolutely frustrating to watch. Alexis is a well-spoken guy with cogent points to make, but I think he was outmatched in that debate by a guy with way more media experience. Richard Cotton stuck to his deceptive, populist talking points ("jobs", "wholesale theft", "will not affect a single US site") to great effect.<p>Alexis will get better as he continues to appear in the media, and I'm sure he's getting media coaching, but he needs to be more aggressive in, for example, telling Richard Cotton to shove it when he rudely interrupts.<p>It's as simple as "Richard, Richard... I let you speak, now let me finish my point. The problem with..."<p>Still, props to Alexis for actively fighting against these awful, awful bills!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chernevik</author><text>Alexis never said why anyone should object to the bill. So what if it's completely circumventable? Saying stuff like "what concerns me most is it won't work" doesn't make sense -- isn't the most concerning thing DNS breakage? [EDIT: Concerning to everyday users. Me, I'm most worried about censorship -- but that is not the catchiest argumet.] And when Cotton says stuff like "that's wrong" -- twice -- Alexis has to explain how "that's right", quickly and unambiguously. Or the viewer will begin to presume that Cotton is right on the facts. Whereas if he's refuted, or has to explain the sense in which he's right, he's the one on the defensive.<p>Cotton knew his brief, and the presentation of that brief, much better than Alexis did his. Add in decades of political and rhetorical training and this isn't even a fair fight.<p>Guys like Cotton can be beaten, but only with 1) a much better case on the facts and 2) a complete mastery of the presentation of that case. This is a long way from home.<p>EDIT: One of the hardest things in what Alexis is doing is having people criticize how he's doing it. I congratulate him for putting himself out there for his principles and his community. He's up against people who have spent their entire lives training in interested (as opposed to principled) advocacy. He can be a lot better at this, and he can win -- after all, he's right! But he has to get a lot better at the execution.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alexis Ohanian vs NBC - Debating SOPA</title><url>http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/15/10161056-debating-sopa</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cal5k</author><text>That was absolutely frustrating to watch. Alexis is a well-spoken guy with cogent points to make, but I think he was outmatched in that debate by a guy with way more media experience. Richard Cotton stuck to his deceptive, populist talking points ("jobs", "wholesale theft", "will not affect a single US site") to great effect.<p>Alexis will get better as he continues to appear in the media, and I'm sure he's getting media coaching, but he needs to be more aggressive in, for example, telling Richard Cotton to shove it when he rudely interrupts.<p>It's as simple as "Richard, Richard... I let you speak, now let me finish my point. The problem with..."<p>Still, props to Alexis for actively fighting against these awful, awful bills!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcrites</author><text>It didn't seem to me that Alexis was outclassed by Cotton -- it seemed simply that Cotton was making points which Alexis didn't even attempt to oppose.<p>Cotton said "this only applies to foreign sites which are wholesale devoted to copyright infringement". Is that true or not? If it's false, why didn't Alexis say so?</text></comment> |
17,832,833 | 17,832,846 | 1 | 2 | 17,831,914 | train | <story><title>IRC turns thirty</title><url>http://www.oulu.fi/university/node/54247</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbjs</author><text>I tried it before and it&#x27;s not as easy as it sounds. There is no one spec, it&#x27;s a handful of RFCs and other ad hoc extensions that are barely documented anywhere. I think there&#x27;s at least a dozen different documents you have to refer to.</text></item><item><author>donatj</author><text>If you&#x27;ve never poked the IRC protocol directly, Google how to connect to IRC with Telnet.<p>You can pretty reasonably use IRC just by writing to a socket - by hand. It&#x27;s all human readable and understandable. It&#x27;s incredible. It&#x27;s what an open protocol should be.<p>Writing a simple IRC client is a breeze!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sshine</author><text>For most of the client protocol, it&#x27;s just RFC 1459 and RFC 2812. Then there&#x27;s CTCP, DCC, server-to-server protocols and the 005 numeric.<p>I&#x27;m not sure you need any of these for communicating via telnet or writing a small bot that will answer back.</text></comment> | <story><title>IRC turns thirty</title><url>http://www.oulu.fi/university/node/54247</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbjs</author><text>I tried it before and it&#x27;s not as easy as it sounds. There is no one spec, it&#x27;s a handful of RFCs and other ad hoc extensions that are barely documented anywhere. I think there&#x27;s at least a dozen different documents you have to refer to.</text></item><item><author>donatj</author><text>If you&#x27;ve never poked the IRC protocol directly, Google how to connect to IRC with Telnet.<p>You can pretty reasonably use IRC just by writing to a socket - by hand. It&#x27;s all human readable and understandable. It&#x27;s incredible. It&#x27;s what an open protocol should be.<p>Writing a simple IRC client is a breeze!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindslight</author><text>I&#x27;ve toyed with many protocols via reading RFCs, but in this case just run tcpdump on an existing client and you&#x27;ll be set.</text></comment> |
16,847,859 | 16,847,606 | 1 | 3 | 16,836,006 | train | <story><title>‘Moderate’ drinking guidelines are too loose, study says</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/moderate-drinking-guidelines-are-too-loose-study-says/2018/04/12/da73d89c-3e64-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrleiter</author><text>This is a good opportunity to point out that alcoholism is much more prevalent in young people than it is generally thought. Especially with students and young employees who like to &quot;party&quot;, it must be taken seriously. The fact that alcohol is not frowned upon by society in general, hides the devastating effects it can have.<p>What starts as drinking on weekends and getting wasted maybe once a week, turns into drinking 3-4 times a week, than maybe 4-5 times a week. When you start to feel alone and &quot;need a drink&quot;, when you want to have fun, but you &quot;need a drink&quot;, when you are under lots of stress and &quot;you need a drink&quot;, those are signs that you are becoming an alcoholic.<p>Please seek help and talk about it. Alcoholism is dangerous and kills you, makes you an outsider and loner over time. Please don&#x27;t feel ashamed. Seek help, talk to friends&#x2F;family.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teekert</author><text>&quot;The fact that alcohol is not frowned upon by society in general, hides the devastating effects it can have.&quot; Not only is it not frowned upon, in every single movie or series people grab a bottle when they emotionally have a a bad time, every time. It&#x27;s so normal and cool. Bad experience: Numb yourself with alcohol! All the cool kids do it!<p>Exactly how ingrained alcohol is in our culture really only starts to hit you when you know someone with an alcohol problem. Try to not drink for a couple of months, the reactions can be pretty strange, &quot;you must be ill or something&quot;... I really see alcohol as Soma from Brave New World. But unlike with tobacco, we still have our heroes use it on the telly all the time.<p>Yesterday I had a 16 y&#x2F;o tell me that she doesn&#x27;t like to drink and she&#x27;s a bit of an outcast at school now. In fact she says, many kids don&#x27;t like it but they do it anyway to be part of the group. Sure, that is normal for kids, but that used to be normal for smoking and that (at least here in the Netherlands) is in my experience quickly losing it&#x27;s coolness by lack of commercials and government crackdown.</text></comment> | <story><title>‘Moderate’ drinking guidelines are too loose, study says</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/moderate-drinking-guidelines-are-too-loose-study-says/2018/04/12/da73d89c-3e64-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrleiter</author><text>This is a good opportunity to point out that alcoholism is much more prevalent in young people than it is generally thought. Especially with students and young employees who like to &quot;party&quot;, it must be taken seriously. The fact that alcohol is not frowned upon by society in general, hides the devastating effects it can have.<p>What starts as drinking on weekends and getting wasted maybe once a week, turns into drinking 3-4 times a week, than maybe 4-5 times a week. When you start to feel alone and &quot;need a drink&quot;, when you want to have fun, but you &quot;need a drink&quot;, when you are under lots of stress and &quot;you need a drink&quot;, those are signs that you are becoming an alcoholic.<p>Please seek help and talk about it. Alcoholism is dangerous and kills you, makes you an outsider and loner over time. Please don&#x27;t feel ashamed. Seek help, talk to friends&#x2F;family.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walshemj</author><text>Not sure I would totally agree with you in all European countries having say a beer or a glass of wine with lunch is normal.<p>I recall discussing with some one who did training for mangers to deal with &quot;serious substance abuse&quot; and there comment was when you started finding multiple hidden stashes of spirits that was when you know they had a problem.</text></comment> |
10,561,005 | 10,560,939 | 1 | 2 | 10,560,781 | train | <story><title>Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death</title><url>http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2015/11/13/urgent-reports-.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corndoge</author><text>I hate feeling completely powerless in these kinds of situations. All I can do short of flying to Syria and taking up arms against such tyranny is upvoting this post. Absolutely pathetic.<p>Update: The least we can do:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amnestyusa.org&#x2F;get-involved&#x2F;take-action-now&#x2F;syria-release-bassel-khartabil-ua-22015" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amnestyusa.org&#x2F;get-involved&#x2F;take-action-now&#x2F;syria...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omarish</author><text>I&#x27;m probably going to get downvoted a lot for this, but this is probably the exact feeling people on the other side get that causes them to go to Syria and take up arms and join isil.<p>Edit: To be 100% clear, I&#x27;m by no means sympathizing. Rather, I believe that understanding an adversary&#x27;s motivations can help resolve a conflict.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death</title><url>http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2015/11/13/urgent-reports-.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corndoge</author><text>I hate feeling completely powerless in these kinds of situations. All I can do short of flying to Syria and taking up arms against such tyranny is upvoting this post. Absolutely pathetic.<p>Update: The least we can do:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amnestyusa.org&#x2F;get-involved&#x2F;take-action-now&#x2F;syria-release-bassel-khartabil-ua-22015" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amnestyusa.org&#x2F;get-involved&#x2F;take-action-now&#x2F;syria...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DiabloD3</author><text>Yeah, honestly, its shit like this other countries should go to war over. The United States was founded on free speech, not just having it, but spreading that ideal everywhere. FOSS is free speech.<p>We dropped bombs on Iraq for non-existant WMDs, and invaded Afghanistan over a CIA agent that was living in Pakistan, yet we won&#x27;t do anything to an out of control government bent on destroying what little society it has left and is a legitimate threat to national security.<p>Fuck that.</text></comment> |
31,230,399 | 31,230,122 | 1 | 2 | 31,229,642 | train | <story><title>Fonoster: The open-source alternative to Twilio</title><url>https://github.com/fonoster/fonoster</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xrd</author><text>I&#x27;m using twilio to forward text messages. At first glance I thought this could replace it but it doesn&#x27;t look like it does sms.<p>Is anyone aware of a similar open source project for text messaging? And, would I use the same voip provider gateway?</text></comment> | <story><title>Fonoster: The open-source alternative to Twilio</title><url>https://github.com/fonoster/fonoster</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atonse</author><text>Even though I actually worked for a telecom company in 1999 as my first programming job, the telecom stuff has always been mysterious.<p>Even with everything being voIP now it still feels mysterious.<p>So I still can’t wrap my head around what happens when you go from a Twilio api call to the cell tower and ultimately the handset.<p>Are these guys claiming that the software does all that?<p>In which case, how do I hook into the carriers and telecom infrastructure?<p>Would Verizon give me an IP to connect to? Which protocol?</text></comment> |
33,105,520 | 33,104,578 | 1 | 2 | 33,102,582 | train | <story><title>So you're using a weird language</title><url>https://morepablo.com/2022/09/so-you-re-using-a-weird-language.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pharmakom</author><text>There seems to be a weird version of the Efficient Market Hypothesis going on in the comments:<p>If niche lang is so much better, then why is no one using it?<p>Well, quality doesn&#x27;t necessarily lead to popularity. I would encourage talented solo devs to seek work in niche languages, at least once in their career. You can deliver more value, work with interesting people and solve more interesting problems.<p>Life is too short for Java CRUD.</text></comment> | <story><title>So you're using a weird language</title><url>https://morepablo.com/2022/09/so-you-re-using-a-weird-language.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>girvo</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m the last person on Earth to tell someone to be patient, but if you actually want to ship a company&#x27;s production code in Gleam or Crystal, I highly suggest you put up 2-4 small projects first<p>As someone who has used Nim in-anger and production at a couple companies now (and am currently using it to build our firmware for our industrial IoT sensor platform), I can wholeheartedly agree with this.<p>The first couple things I built in it at previous positions were small internal tools. They went well, team members contributed to them as well, things were good. It was that, plus the unique constraints of this firmware project that allowed us to have the confidence that it would work well -- and it has.<p>Of course, Nim is sort of cheating, as it being able to be compiled-to-C-sources means we have an out at any point we want, both in terms of being able to easily bind and use driver code from vendors, to wrapping up a Nim object file with a nice C header to call from some C&#x2F;C++ code if need be.<p>Now: our backend is Java, and our front-end is Typescript and React. Pick your battles! If we were swinging for the fences with some other niche server side, and Elm or something (as much as I enjoy playing with it) for the client-side, as <i>well</i> as trying to use something non-standard for the firmware itself, I&#x27;m sure we would&#x27;ve failed immediately.<p>But we have our devices out in the wild in rural Papua New Guinea where no one&#x27;s going to be flashing our boards for us, and they&#x27;re working fantastically :)</text></comment> |
20,277,603 | 20,277,377 | 1 | 2 | 20,275,705 | train | <story><title>I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/063525ef84</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>busterbenson</author><text>I’m the creator of the site in question and am just seeing this thread. Happy to answer questions about motivations, costs, etc if you give me a minute to finish lunch and get back to my computer!</text></comment> | <story><title>I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/063525ef84</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vbsteven</author><text>One of the main takeaways is that it’s still running on a very old version of Rails and JQuery.<p>Maybe not great from a security standpoint but it shows that you do not need a Kubernetes cluster and a big HA setup and a modern language&#x2F;framework for a profitable project.<p>Btw, the site does not load past the initial splash quote in Firefox on iOS with Tracking Protection enabled. Disabling tracking protection fully loads the page.</text></comment> |
9,081,026 | 9,080,861 | 1 | 2 | 9,080,567 | train | <story><title>Who Can Save the Grand Canyon?</title><url>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/who-can-save-the-grand-canyon-180954329/?no-ist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>japhyr</author><text>A gondola ride to the bottom of the Grand Canyon would be like a gondola ride to the top of Everest.<p>These projects are deeply frustrating because all the developers have to do is get them built once - they can essentially fail as many times as they need to in order to get their project built. If you oppose this kind of project, you have to succeed in your efforts over and over again. If you fail once, the wild nature of the place is lost.<p>We need to preserve wild places, and this is one of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danielweber</author><text>In high school, every Monday my geology teacher Mr. Weinle would show slides from a national park he visited. One of them -- I don&#x27;t remember which -- had an asphalt sidewalk running through it. He said &quot;I was mad as hell when I saw this. This is nature! You should protect it!&quot;<p>Then he switched slides to the next picture he took: it showed a man with leg braces walking through the park. He held up his fingers and said &quot;at this point I felt about this tall.&quot;<p>These parks don&#x27;t just exist in a vacuum. They exist so that people can enjoy them.<p>I&#x27;m not necessarily endorsing this modification to the Grand Canyon. There is value in preserving it for the future as is, and there is also value in making it accessible. It&#x27;s a trade-off. Some parks -- and I don&#x27;t just mean the flat ones, since the amazing geology generally happens where there is significant vertical distance involved -- should be accessible even to those with special needs. Maybe enough are already. Maybe not.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who Can Save the Grand Canyon?</title><url>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/who-can-save-the-grand-canyon-180954329/?no-ist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>japhyr</author><text>A gondola ride to the bottom of the Grand Canyon would be like a gondola ride to the top of Everest.<p>These projects are deeply frustrating because all the developers have to do is get them built once - they can essentially fail as many times as they need to in order to get their project built. If you oppose this kind of project, you have to succeed in your efforts over and over again. If you fail once, the wild nature of the place is lost.<p>We need to preserve wild places, and this is one of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raldi</author><text><i>&gt; A gondola ride to the bottom of the Grand Canyon would be like a gondola ride to the top of Everest.</i><p>Yeah! Oh wait, you mean bad.<p>Counterpoint: I once rode a sled down a shiny metal track to get down from the Great Wall of China, instead of walking back down the equivalent of 20 flights of steps. It was great!<p><a href="http://kiplingandclark.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/mutianyu_toboggan_flickr_ianz.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kiplingandclark.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;mutian...</a><p>If they&#x27;d also had a gondola to ride up in, I would&#x27;ve been able to spend that much more time and energy exploring the top. And imagine the impact it would have on the less able-bodied.</text></comment> |
34,040,674 | 34,039,574 | 1 | 3 | 34,038,582 | train | <story><title>Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars</title><url>https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/winter-ev-range-loss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>Your car doesn&#x27;t feel wind chill.<p>I drive an EV in Canadian winter all the time. Not at all an issue. Range loss is a thing but it&#x27;s not like the car stops working. In fact it starts more reliably and heats up more quickly for me. And I start mine remotely while it&#x27;s still plugged in, so the cabin is warm and ready to go without wasting battery energy. And can do this safely in the garage without concerns of carbon monoxide poisoning or stinking up the garage.<p>Aside: I wish people in this country would stop reporting wind chill temps as if they&#x27;re some sort of accurate measure of anything. They&#x27;re only useful as a relatively subjective measure for people who aren&#x27;t dressed properly.</text></item><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>As I’m sitting here reading this, it is -35 C after windchill. The reason we didn’t get an ev is because we are getting the sense that the companies that make them do not take Canadaian weather into account<p>It looks like some of those manufacturers only lose 3% of their range in weather like this, but that’s estimated. The verified numbers are far lower?</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I find it strange that the charts only go down to 20°F, when for example at the moment I write this comment, it&#x27;s -5°F (-21°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota.<p>And sub-zero Fahrenheit temperatures are pretty common in the winter across the Northeast, especially at night. &quot;Normal&quot; driving conditions extend way below just 20°F.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>&gt; <i>They&#x27;re only useful as a relatively subjective measure for people who aren&#x27;t dressed properly.</i><p>That&#x27;s a bizarre thing to say when to dress properly, you need to know the wind chill.<p>If it&#x27;s 25°F out no wind, vs. 25°F out but it&#x27;s 5°F with wind chill, that&#x27;s an entire additional layer I need to put on during my morning walk.<p>Wind chill is a <i>very</i> accurate measure for judging what to wear. How do you think it&#x27;s not accurate? It&#x27;s literally an equation that accounts for the fact that wind makes you colder. You can scientifically, objectively measure the faster cooling effect of wind on an object. (Granted there are marginal differences in its effect on a human body depending on one&#x27;s height and weight, but that still doesn&#x27;t make it <i>subjective</i>.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars</title><url>https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/winter-ev-range-loss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>Your car doesn&#x27;t feel wind chill.<p>I drive an EV in Canadian winter all the time. Not at all an issue. Range loss is a thing but it&#x27;s not like the car stops working. In fact it starts more reliably and heats up more quickly for me. And I start mine remotely while it&#x27;s still plugged in, so the cabin is warm and ready to go without wasting battery energy. And can do this safely in the garage without concerns of carbon monoxide poisoning or stinking up the garage.<p>Aside: I wish people in this country would stop reporting wind chill temps as if they&#x27;re some sort of accurate measure of anything. They&#x27;re only useful as a relatively subjective measure for people who aren&#x27;t dressed properly.</text></item><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>As I’m sitting here reading this, it is -35 C after windchill. The reason we didn’t get an ev is because we are getting the sense that the companies that make them do not take Canadaian weather into account<p>It looks like some of those manufacturers only lose 3% of their range in weather like this, but that’s estimated. The verified numbers are far lower?</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I find it strange that the charts only go down to 20°F, when for example at the moment I write this comment, it&#x27;s -5°F (-21°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota.<p>And sub-zero Fahrenheit temperatures are pretty common in the winter across the Northeast, especially at night. &quot;Normal&quot; driving conditions extend way below just 20°F.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolfram74</author><text>Might be more accurate to describe it as cars generate more windchill from driving than the weather station is likely to experience from wind?</text></comment> |
13,461,082 | 13,460,818 | 1 | 3 | 13,459,847 | train | <story><title>Trident whistleblower: nuclear 'disaster waiting to happen' (2015)</title><url>https://wikileaks.org/trident-safety/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dingaling</author><text>But the test and its result was orthogonal to the issue before Parliament.<p>It&#x27;s like an executive team discussing whether to adopt a mobile-first strategy and then someone blurts &#x27;but Galaxy 7 phones caught fire!&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>fidget</author><text>It was before the vote to renew, and was not disclosed to people making that vote.</text></item><item><author>misnome</author><text>I&#x27;ve read a couple of articles, and as I understand it a missile veered off course. During a test. Which is kind of the point of a test.<p>Oh, except apparently it &#x27;veered&#x27; towards the US. And this was before the vote to renew, so naturally people are trying to call it a cover up.</text></item><item><author>cylinder</author><text>The reason this is posted here again is that there was recently a Trident &quot;accident&quot; which May did not disclose to Parliament.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text><i>It&#x27;s like an executive team discussing whether to adopt a mobile-first strategy and then someone blurts &#x27;but Galaxy 7 phones caught fire!&#x27;.</i><p>It&#x27;s more like an executive team discussing whether or not to equip the entire company with Galaxy Note 7 phones, and the CEO not mentioning the fires.</text></comment> | <story><title>Trident whistleblower: nuclear 'disaster waiting to happen' (2015)</title><url>https://wikileaks.org/trident-safety/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dingaling</author><text>But the test and its result was orthogonal to the issue before Parliament.<p>It&#x27;s like an executive team discussing whether to adopt a mobile-first strategy and then someone blurts &#x27;but Galaxy 7 phones caught fire!&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>fidget</author><text>It was before the vote to renew, and was not disclosed to people making that vote.</text></item><item><author>misnome</author><text>I&#x27;ve read a couple of articles, and as I understand it a missile veered off course. During a test. Which is kind of the point of a test.<p>Oh, except apparently it &#x27;veered&#x27; towards the US. And this was before the vote to renew, so naturally people are trying to call it a cover up.</text></item><item><author>cylinder</author><text>The reason this is posted here again is that there was recently a Trident &quot;accident&quot; which May did not disclose to Parliament.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lostlogin</author><text>It&#x27;s more like discussing the Galaxy 7 strategy whist hiding that they are malfunctioning.</text></comment> |
21,456,833 | 21,456,290 | 1 | 2 | 21,452,266 | train | <story><title>Backcountry.com sues anyone who uses its namesake</title><url>https://coloradosun.com/2019/10/31/backcountry-com-sues-anyone-who-uses-its-namesake-is-it-bullying-or-just-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>How much engineering staff do you need to make some walking sticks?</text></item><item><author>notadoc</author><text>&gt; Don&#x27;t forget, Black Diamond laid off much of the Utah engineering staff and their climbing cams will now be made in China...<p>That might be why</text></item><item><author>wsinks</author><text>I recently bought a set of collapsable climbing poles from Black Diamond.<p>They broke on my first really long hike. 1&#x2F;3 of the way into a 72 mile route..</text></item><item><author>dgzl</author><text>I chatted with a rep last night and they were very responsive, said &quot;our managers are listening to customer feedback.&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t forget, Black Diamond laid off much of the Utah engineering staff and their climbing cams will now be made in China... Not sure what other gear is taking that fate. Looks like it&#x27;s Metolious Master Cams for me now.</text></item><item><author>crikli</author><text>I’m a climber &#x2F; skier &#x2F; runner etc based out of Colorado and between my wife and we’ve spent a small fortune with backcountry.com. I didn’t know about any of this. Suing a maker of backcountry skis? Well, fuck you too, private equity jerkoffs. I’m going to light up my rep on this and let them know my spend and my recommendations are going elsewhere.<p>---<p>Edit3: GoFundMe for the legal costs of one of their targets:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gofundme.com&#x2F;f&#x2F;legal-defense-to-fight-backcountrycom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gofundme.com&#x2F;f&#x2F;legal-defense-to-fight-backcountr...</a><p>Edit2: A follow-up article with more details on just how predatory and unreasonable BC (by proxy through their attorneys) have become:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coloradosun.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;05&#x2F;backcountry-com-trademark-lawsuits-boycotts-backlash&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coloradosun.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;05&#x2F;backcountry-com-trademark...</a><p>Edit, @skierjerry, et, al, here&#x27;s what I just sent my rep:<p>Heya &lt;person&gt;,<p>I read an article about Backcountry in the Colorado Sun that really disappointed me. Your employer has adopted ugly business tactics and begun using its size to attack smaller businesses who have the ubiquitous term “backcountry” in their name.<p>Please look at my lifetime spend with Backcountry as well as that of my wife. It is significant. It also stops now, and I’ll be making significant contributions to the legal funds of the boutique makes and businesses that your employer is assaulting.<p>I wish you nothing but the best on a personal level and hope that your employer chooses to take a better path.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Black Diamond makes a lot more than just walking sticks. But even if that&#x27;s all they made ..<p>You&#x27;re seriously underestimating how hard it might to to engineer and test even something as seemingly simple as a walking stick. These are lightweight, high-tech materials we&#x27;re talking about (carbon fiber), which even SpaceX gave up on for their latest spacecraft. They&#x27;re also collapsible&#x2F;foldable. Simply put, this is harder than you think it is.</text></comment> | <story><title>Backcountry.com sues anyone who uses its namesake</title><url>https://coloradosun.com/2019/10/31/backcountry-com-sues-anyone-who-uses-its-namesake-is-it-bullying-or-just-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>How much engineering staff do you need to make some walking sticks?</text></item><item><author>notadoc</author><text>&gt; Don&#x27;t forget, Black Diamond laid off much of the Utah engineering staff and their climbing cams will now be made in China...<p>That might be why</text></item><item><author>wsinks</author><text>I recently bought a set of collapsable climbing poles from Black Diamond.<p>They broke on my first really long hike. 1&#x2F;3 of the way into a 72 mile route..</text></item><item><author>dgzl</author><text>I chatted with a rep last night and they were very responsive, said &quot;our managers are listening to customer feedback.&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t forget, Black Diamond laid off much of the Utah engineering staff and their climbing cams will now be made in China... Not sure what other gear is taking that fate. Looks like it&#x27;s Metolious Master Cams for me now.</text></item><item><author>crikli</author><text>I’m a climber &#x2F; skier &#x2F; runner etc based out of Colorado and between my wife and we’ve spent a small fortune with backcountry.com. I didn’t know about any of this. Suing a maker of backcountry skis? Well, fuck you too, private equity jerkoffs. I’m going to light up my rep on this and let them know my spend and my recommendations are going elsewhere.<p>---<p>Edit3: GoFundMe for the legal costs of one of their targets:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gofundme.com&#x2F;f&#x2F;legal-defense-to-fight-backcountrycom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gofundme.com&#x2F;f&#x2F;legal-defense-to-fight-backcountr...</a><p>Edit2: A follow-up article with more details on just how predatory and unreasonable BC (by proxy through their attorneys) have become:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coloradosun.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;05&#x2F;backcountry-com-trademark-lawsuits-boycotts-backlash&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coloradosun.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;05&#x2F;backcountry-com-trademark...</a><p>Edit, @skierjerry, et, al, here&#x27;s what I just sent my rep:<p>Heya &lt;person&gt;,<p>I read an article about Backcountry in the Colorado Sun that really disappointed me. Your employer has adopted ugly business tactics and begun using its size to attack smaller businesses who have the ubiquitous term “backcountry” in their name.<p>Please look at my lifetime spend with Backcountry as well as that of my wife. It is significant. It also stops now, and I’ll be making significant contributions to the legal funds of the boutique makes and businesses that your employer is assaulting.<p>I wish you nothing but the best on a personal level and hope that your employer chooses to take a better path.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dfcagency</author><text>How much engineering staff do you need to make a search engine?</text></comment> |
32,049,289 | 32,049,285 | 1 | 2 | 32,047,587 | train | <story><title>Russian gas flows to Europe</title><url>https://berthub.eu/gazmon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>igammarays</author><text>It&#x27;s far too late to change this. You cannot restructure the energy sources of a whole continent in a few months or even years. This could&#x27;ve been fixed if the West had understood and reacted appropriately to the magnitude of the Russian threat about 10 years ago, as foreseen by academics like Stephen Cohen and businessmen like Bill Browder, instead of blindly falling for its own hubristic self-delusion (which continues till today), i.e. the delusion of considering the West to be omnipotent and the delusion of considering Russia to be an irrelevant, backward, economically insignificant country (Obama famously called it a &quot;regional power&quot; much to the chagrin of Putin). But the West is too decadent, fat, and blind to see anything but its own narrative of post-cold-war unipolar dominance.<p>The worst part is, this delusion of believing in Western omnipotence continues fuelling bad decisions today. I was in Kharkiv, Ukraine when the war hit -- there were two major delusions prevalent in the weeks and months leading up to the war. 1. People believed the war could not happen because we believed our American superpower ally would somehow magically prevent the war or stop it quickly, or 2. we believed our leaders would have the sense to settle with Russia instead of destroying our country. 4 months later after losing 20% of our territory, both fantasies evaporated quickly, but I&#x27;m astounded at how many people continue to live in the 3rd fantasy of believing Ukraine could somehow &quot;defeat&quot; Russia while still avoiding WW3. Do people understand what a defeat of Russia would look like? Are you trying to bring a global thermonuclear war apocalypse? What is your endgame here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hash872</author><text>1. &#x27;The West&#x27; wasn&#x27;t hubristic, Europe was. The US has been telling Europe to get off of Russian gas &amp; oil for decades, under multiple administrations. Both parties have been extremely clear about this for over two decades now.<p>&#x27;I&#x27;m astounded at how many people continue to live in the 3rd fantasy of believing Ukraine could somehow &quot;defeat&quot; Russia while still avoiding WW3&#x27;<p>2. The US lost in Vietnam without using nukes. Even more relevant, the USSR lost in Afghanistan without using them! I believe Pakistan has lost 3 straight wars to its arch-enemy, with no nuclear weapons being used.<p>If we follow your logic to its conclusion, Russia can annex Poland, Lithuania, Germany, France, and so on, and at every step of the way we&#x27;d say &#x27;well we can&#x27;t defeat Russia or else they&#x27;ll use nukes&#x27;. They&#x27;d be able to conquer.... everything this way. This seems bad? Would you like to live in this world?</text></comment> | <story><title>Russian gas flows to Europe</title><url>https://berthub.eu/gazmon/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>igammarays</author><text>It&#x27;s far too late to change this. You cannot restructure the energy sources of a whole continent in a few months or even years. This could&#x27;ve been fixed if the West had understood and reacted appropriately to the magnitude of the Russian threat about 10 years ago, as foreseen by academics like Stephen Cohen and businessmen like Bill Browder, instead of blindly falling for its own hubristic self-delusion (which continues till today), i.e. the delusion of considering the West to be omnipotent and the delusion of considering Russia to be an irrelevant, backward, economically insignificant country (Obama famously called it a &quot;regional power&quot; much to the chagrin of Putin). But the West is too decadent, fat, and blind to see anything but its own narrative of post-cold-war unipolar dominance.<p>The worst part is, this delusion of believing in Western omnipotence continues fuelling bad decisions today. I was in Kharkiv, Ukraine when the war hit -- there were two major delusions prevalent in the weeks and months leading up to the war. 1. People believed the war could not happen because we believed our American superpower ally would somehow magically prevent the war or stop it quickly, or 2. we believed our leaders would have the sense to settle with Russia instead of destroying our country. 4 months later after losing 20% of our territory, both fantasies evaporated quickly, but I&#x27;m astounded at how many people continue to live in the 3rd fantasy of believing Ukraine could somehow &quot;defeat&quot; Russia while still avoiding WW3. Do people understand what a defeat of Russia would look like? Are you trying to bring a global thermonuclear war apocalypse? What is your endgame here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karpierz</author><text>&gt; 2. we believed our leaders would have the sense to settle with Russia instead of destroying our country.<p>What settlement could Ukraine have with Russia that wouldn&#x27;t be the end of Ukraine? Russia is demanding that Ukraine allow part of its territory to secede and form &quot;independent&quot; nations, as well as have Ukraine avoid bolstering its ability to protect itself from its neighbours. Do you think those countries won&#x27;t try to take more territory from Ukraine, with Russian backing? Do you think Russia will really stop invading Ukraine, after having already done it twice?</text></comment> |
5,973,512 | 5,972,180 | 1 | 2 | 5,971,560 | train | <story><title>How Google is Killing Organic Search</title><url>http://blog.tutorspree.com/post/54349646327/death-of-organic-search</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcampbell1</author><text>The auction model for ads basically ruins internet searches in transactional categories. If you want to win at the &quot;italian restaurant&quot; search game, you have to bid the highest for the ad, which means you must have the highest margin. The best way to win is to open a restaurant with ridiculously high margins (over priced wine and cheap ingredients).<p>Want the &quot;cheapest car insurance&quot;? Google is zero help. It sends you to Geico or a bunch of lead-gen sites, and no matter what, you will end up at an insurance company that makes the biggest margins.<p>If you really want the cheapest car insurance, you need to find a company that doesn&#x27;t advertise, and is non-profit, that way your premium is spent buying insurance, not TV ads and Berkshire Hathaway&#x27;s stock appreciation.<p>Whenever I see a SERP full of ads, I search for something different. When there is nothing but ads, Google is sending you to high-margin crap.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notatoad</author><text>Internet searches in many categories have always been useless. Searching for a restaurant or car insurance has never ever returned anything useful on any search engine, ever. it&#x27;s not as though google used to have incredibly relevant results for a search term like &quot;cheapest car insurance&quot; and now it&#x27;s been replaced by ads. The only thing a search like that has ever gotten you is the websites of the insurance companies who are well established brands.<p>The categories where google is pushing a lot of ads or supplementary features like knowledge graph are the categories where organic results are not a good experience. 9 times out of 10, when i search for something on google i get a traditional SERP with little to no advertising. If you&#x27;re searching for something that doesn&#x27;t necessarily lend itself to a web search, google <i>should</i> be trying to find some way to make that useful to somebody, whether that is a feature that gives you better results or an admission that their organic results for that query are useless, so here have some ads instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Google is Killing Organic Search</title><url>http://blog.tutorspree.com/post/54349646327/death-of-organic-search</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcampbell1</author><text>The auction model for ads basically ruins internet searches in transactional categories. If you want to win at the &quot;italian restaurant&quot; search game, you have to bid the highest for the ad, which means you must have the highest margin. The best way to win is to open a restaurant with ridiculously high margins (over priced wine and cheap ingredients).<p>Want the &quot;cheapest car insurance&quot;? Google is zero help. It sends you to Geico or a bunch of lead-gen sites, and no matter what, you will end up at an insurance company that makes the biggest margins.<p>If you really want the cheapest car insurance, you need to find a company that doesn&#x27;t advertise, and is non-profit, that way your premium is spent buying insurance, not TV ads and Berkshire Hathaway&#x27;s stock appreciation.<p>Whenever I see a SERP full of ads, I search for something different. When there is nothing but ads, Google is sending you to high-margin crap.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>netcan</author><text>It&#x27;s not quite like that.<p>What advertisers can afford to pay is margin X conversion rate. If people search for cheap socks and you have high margin socks, your conversion rate will be lower. In super competitive markets, the conversion rate is usually what makes one win. For something like insurance quotes, that probably means the one with a known brand, supporting advertising in tv &amp; radio, etc.<p>The quality of the sites and the margins will probably be pretty similar among most players.<p>Where the dynamic you&#x27;re describing happens is between product categories where you have a high margin <i>per unit</i> in one product category. Eg. If you want to sell a &#x27;diy divorce kit with a $5 margin&#x27; you will have to outbid divorce lawyers who expect to earn thousands per client. The lawyers will drown everyone else out.</text></comment> |
16,833,437 | 16,833,382 | 1 | 2 | 16,832,106 | train | <story><title>Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3yadk/apple-sued-an-independent-iphone-repair-shop-owner-and-lost</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Techowl</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t car parts be a much more accurate analogy, though? Apple isn&#x27;t suing anyone for not using Apple-branded electricity to power their phone.</text></item><item><author>eesmith</author><text>At Ford™ we care about our brand. We want people who bought a Ford™ car to have the best experience we prepared for them.<p>Other fuels may contain additives which make your Ford™ engine seem imperfect. A few misguided people are tempted by the siren call of the independent fuel suppliers to use something other than the Ford™ fuel specially made for your needs. When things go wrong, they spread rumors that Ford™ vehicles suck, when it was simply their misguided fault.<p>And that&#x27;s why, as the proud owner of a Ford™ vehicle, you must go to a Ford™ gasoline station to buy Ford™ fuel. That&#x27;s Ford™ fuel, available from a Ford™ station somewhere in your state.</text></item><item><author>comboy</author><text>I don&#x27;t think they want to squeeze every cent. I think they just care about the brand. They want people who bought iphone to have the best experience they prepared for them. Even if you buy some used iphone. If somebody buys some used iphone and it acts weird or the build quality seems imperfect because some parts were replaced, then this person may spread opinion that iphones suck.<p>I&#x27;d guess that&#x27;s their reasoning. But I&#x27;m not on their side here. I think they should be allowed to design products to make repairs as hard as possible if they want to, but once I buy it I should be able to do whatever I want with it. Plus there&#x27;s not that much great experience to protect lately..</text></item><item><author>mattsfrey</author><text>&quot;Apple does not ‘own’ the product after they have sold it&quot;<p>I think this is the crux of the issue. The guy was importing refurbished parts with the logos covered even. They weren&#x27;t counterfeits. How does a manufacturer have the right to sue for copyright infringement when it&#x27;s just end users reselling authentic parts? The owner even states he in no way markets them as OEM parts.<p>Frankly I think it&#x27;s pretty obvious apple is just trying to squeeze every cent out of these phones and it&#x27;s a really bad hat to wear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alasdair_</author><text>&gt;Wouldn&#x27;t car parts be a much more accurate analogy, though?<p>Yes. The FCC actually sent out reminders to phone companies two days ago reminding them that use of aftermarket parts cannot void a warranty. This also applies to things like &quot;warranty void if seal removed&quot; stickers etc.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.androidpolice.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;10&#x2F;ftc-reminds-phone-makers-cant-void-warranties-repairs-made-using-unauthorized-parts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.androidpolice.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;10&#x2F;ftc-reminds-phone-m...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Sued an iPhone Repair Shop Owner in Norway and Lost</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3yadk/apple-sued-an-independent-iphone-repair-shop-owner-and-lost</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Techowl</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t car parts be a much more accurate analogy, though? Apple isn&#x27;t suing anyone for not using Apple-branded electricity to power their phone.</text></item><item><author>eesmith</author><text>At Ford™ we care about our brand. We want people who bought a Ford™ car to have the best experience we prepared for them.<p>Other fuels may contain additives which make your Ford™ engine seem imperfect. A few misguided people are tempted by the siren call of the independent fuel suppliers to use something other than the Ford™ fuel specially made for your needs. When things go wrong, they spread rumors that Ford™ vehicles suck, when it was simply their misguided fault.<p>And that&#x27;s why, as the proud owner of a Ford™ vehicle, you must go to a Ford™ gasoline station to buy Ford™ fuel. That&#x27;s Ford™ fuel, available from a Ford™ station somewhere in your state.</text></item><item><author>comboy</author><text>I don&#x27;t think they want to squeeze every cent. I think they just care about the brand. They want people who bought iphone to have the best experience they prepared for them. Even if you buy some used iphone. If somebody buys some used iphone and it acts weird or the build quality seems imperfect because some parts were replaced, then this person may spread opinion that iphones suck.<p>I&#x27;d guess that&#x27;s their reasoning. But I&#x27;m not on their side here. I think they should be allowed to design products to make repairs as hard as possible if they want to, but once I buy it I should be able to do whatever I want with it. Plus there&#x27;s not that much great experience to protect lately..</text></item><item><author>mattsfrey</author><text>&quot;Apple does not ‘own’ the product after they have sold it&quot;<p>I think this is the crux of the issue. The guy was importing refurbished parts with the logos covered even. They weren&#x27;t counterfeits. How does a manufacturer have the right to sue for copyright infringement when it&#x27;s just end users reselling authentic parts? The owner even states he in no way markets them as OEM parts.<p>Frankly I think it&#x27;s pretty obvious apple is just trying to squeeze every cent out of these phones and it&#x27;s a really bad hat to wear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianN</author><text>Don&#x27;t give them ideas.</text></comment> |
3,716,590 | 3,716,558 | 1 | 2 | 3,716,458 | train | <story><title>Why we didn't use a bloom filter</title><url>http://dr-josiah.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-we-didnt-use-bloom-filter.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text><i>"Have you ever used the STL? I did for about 6 months professionally, and I'm glad that I could go back to C and Python. More seriously, object orientation in C++ doesn't come for free. Aside from the pain of the syntax of using C++ templates (and difficult to parse error messages), all of that object orientation hides the complexity of method dispatch in what are known as vtables. If your system has to call them to dispatch, you are wasting time in that processing when you could be doing something else."</i><p>This fragment made me WTF, so either I missed something in the C++ development of last few years, or...<p>a) How can you make standard-OOP-like method dispatch <i>faster</i> than vtables?<p>b) Since when STL uses so much of virtual functions anyway? Last time I checked, it avoided any kind of polymorphism at all, for speed reasons. (and it doesn't really need to use much; C++ templates are nice tools that can make a pointer to function and a function object work in the same place <i>just because</i> you can stick "()" to the right of the passed parameter and it will compile, no run-time work needed).<p>c) (it seems to be implied, though not explicitly stated). Going faster than STL... in Python?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why we didn't use a bloom filter</title><url>http://dr-josiah.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-we-didnt-use-bloom-filter.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>Really an unfair article. The premise, title, and bulk have nothing to do with what actually happened.<p>With his <i>custom software</i> he's solving a completely different problem with a different algorithm that was only possible based on observations unique to his dataset:<p><i>I originally started with code very similar to the C++ STL set intersection code and was dissatisfied with the results. By observing that the longer sequences will skip more items than the shorter sequences, I wrote a 2-level loop that skips over items in the longer sequence before performing comparisons with the shorter sequence. That got me roughly a 2x performance advantage over the STL variant.</i><p>Let's call this apples. Then he talks about how using C++ STL wouldn't do the trick since he doesn't care about the data, only the count (oranges). And how bloom filters applied naïvely to the raw data would still take longer (zebras).<p>He's solving a completely different problem, and lambasting perfectly viable technologies for taking longer <i>to solve a completely different problem</i>.<p>Now obviously there's a good blog post and moral in there: don't solve the wrong problem. Generic algorithms can't be both generic and special at once - they're not always going to give you what you're looking for and only what you're looking for, and that's a cost to be taken into consideration at any time that you're trying to choose a solution. But don't criticize them for being slow, and then in a postscript say "and I don't need the actual results of this algorithm, anyway."</text></comment> |
32,384,413 | 32,383,761 | 1 | 2 | 32,382,365 | train | <story><title>Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them</title><url>https://lucasfcosta.com/2022/08/07/how-to-improve-daily-standups.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>We have been to all ends of the earth on this sort of thing. The final conclusion I have arrived at:<p>The amount of process and ceremony required is inversely proportional to the trust level on the team.<p>Once we had some difficult conversations and realigned expectations, we found our daily standup was extremely redundant. Team members began to realize that others would simply reach out as needed. Everything is much more async now. Only 3rd party interactions require explicit scheduling these days. Prod down, vendor integrations, etc.<p>Other observations: We seem to somehow spend more time on adhoc calls than our prior scheduled calls, but A Lot More (tm) is getting done regardless. Stress levels seem down as well. Weird how you can have cake and eat it too sometimes.<p>I don’t know if I would sit here and proclaim that process is exclusively a bandaid for lack of trust, but it certainly seems like one indicator of this condition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>i_am_proteus</author><text>Process has value specifically when one should assume a lower level of trust. This is not always a bad thing. A few examples:<p>Larger organizations with significant turnover, such as government bureaucracies. Sub-groups of the organization rely on process to interface with each other.<p>Guild-like organizations that work on individual projects with changes in team composition. Showing up to a new jobsite with people you haven&#x27;t worked with before means less trust than you&#x27;d have on a team that&#x27;s been together for a while. Process is the glue that keeps things functioning.<p>I&#x27;d rather work on a small team in a high-trust environment, but such a thing doesn&#x27;t often scale well to large projects in every industry.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them</title><url>https://lucasfcosta.com/2022/08/07/how-to-improve-daily-standups.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>We have been to all ends of the earth on this sort of thing. The final conclusion I have arrived at:<p>The amount of process and ceremony required is inversely proportional to the trust level on the team.<p>Once we had some difficult conversations and realigned expectations, we found our daily standup was extremely redundant. Team members began to realize that others would simply reach out as needed. Everything is much more async now. Only 3rd party interactions require explicit scheduling these days. Prod down, vendor integrations, etc.<p>Other observations: We seem to somehow spend more time on adhoc calls than our prior scheduled calls, but A Lot More (tm) is getting done regardless. Stress levels seem down as well. Weird how you can have cake and eat it too sometimes.<p>I don’t know if I would sit here and proclaim that process is exclusively a bandaid for lack of trust, but it certainly seems like one indicator of this condition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woutr_be</author><text>I&#x27;ve had a similar impression in my previous company, this was a large multi-national bank who proclaimed they want to go agile. Spared no expense in hiring agile coaches and scrum masters.<p>It even went as far as some people having two standups a day, one with their own scrum team, and another with the &quot;leaders&quot; of other scrum teams.<p>Our scrum ceremonies were always stretched and highly moderator, except for the one that mattered, the retrospective. This was always hijacked by the agile coach, who pushed his agile believes and wouldn&#x27;t listen to the actual developers who were trying to improve the process.<p>Obviously following agile to the letter, caused a lot of frustration amongst developers, and lead to almost every project failing. But at least the coaches got paid well.</text></comment> |
31,771,304 | 31,771,352 | 1 | 2 | 31,756,451 | train | <story><title>The Beautiful Network of Ancient Roman Roads (2015)</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-beautiful-network-of-ancient-roman-roads</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>We have many in the South of England. As a kid I walked and biked
them. Most are dirt trails now, grown over. But if you look on maps
it&#x27;s clear they are the shortest, straight path between major towns.
Modern roads twist and turn around them.<p>I am showing my embarrassing ignorance of history here, but I don&#x27;t
know why that happened. Maybe something to do with land rights, and
the &quot;enclosures&quot;? Anyway something important was lost in the
communication systems of England between the Roman era and today.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Beautiful Network of Ancient Roman Roads (2015)</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-beautiful-network-of-ancient-roman-roads</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>polycaster</author><text>Somewhat related to the topic:
ORBIS – The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbis.stanford.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbis.stanford.edu&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
3,620,246 | 3,619,217 | 1 | 2 | 3,618,550 | train | <story><title>Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/google-to-sell-terminator-style-glasses-by-years-end/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pshc</author><text>Not saying this is what they're selling, but: Real-time overlays are still impractical, right? My intuition is--without a really high speed camera and high fidelity environmental cues--the overlay will have a lag and high uncertainty wrt where you're actually looking... or has the state of the art moved on? Or are their labs advancing the state of the art?<p>Any idea how they're making the screen usable at that focal length? Don't VR headsets usually need optics much more bulky than sunglasses for comfortable viewing?<p>Anyway, even if it's smartphone-like functionality in a more convenient form factor, I'm looking forward to being an early adopter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnyzee</author><text>The current state of camera based AR is not compelling, primarily due to unimpressive displays (low resolution and small field of vision), but also because of lag as you mentioned. Most solutions are based on Kopin display components which are really screens for handycam viewfinders.<p>Vuzix is doing something really interesting with transparent displays using waveguide technology (<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/12/vuzix-augmented-reality-smart-glasses-prototype-hands-on-video/" rel="nofollow">http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/12/vuzix-augmented-reality-s...</a>). This, to me, is the future of HUD glasses. A solution with a screen blocking one eye, as it seems Google is doing - I can't see that working out, unless they are sitting on some breakthrough display technology.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/google-to-sell-terminator-style-glasses-by-years-end/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pshc</author><text>Not saying this is what they're selling, but: Real-time overlays are still impractical, right? My intuition is--without a really high speed camera and high fidelity environmental cues--the overlay will have a lag and high uncertainty wrt where you're actually looking... or has the state of the art moved on? Or are their labs advancing the state of the art?<p>Any idea how they're making the screen usable at that focal length? Don't VR headsets usually need optics much more bulky than sunglasses for comfortable viewing?<p>Anyway, even if it's smartphone-like functionality in a more convenient form factor, I'm looking forward to being an early adopter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joezydeco</author><text><i>"Real-time overlays are still impractical, right?"</i><p>Word Lens seems to be doing it just fine on an iPhone:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs</a><p>Seriously, foreign language translation would be a natural for a product like this.</text></comment> |
13,024,466 | 13,024,437 | 1 | 2 | 13,023,954 | train | <story><title>Breitbart news site blocked by ad exchange</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38076579</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloakandswagger</author><text>Headlines like this along with the MSM&#x27;s latest push to define &quot;fake news&quot; is pretty worrisome.<p>Even if you don&#x27;t agree with Breitbart or other outlets, it&#x27;s frightening to think we could soon be in a world where entire stories are categorically dismissed or accepted based on their source, rather than their individual content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pfhreak</author><text>This phenomena is called &#x27;Reputation&#x27;. It&#x27;s not a replacement for evaluating the value of opinions, but it is a short cut.<p>If Breitbart et al have earned a reputation of being white nationalists, and others use that reputation to evaluate whether they want to consume their media, that seems totally reasonable. If Breitbart wants to eliminate that reputation, they can by regularly pushing content that discredits it.<p>Consider Buzzfeed, who is slowly turning their reputation around. It takes work, and more than one article with good individual content. You have to show a commitment to change, regularly, before that reputation changes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Breitbart news site blocked by ad exchange</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38076579</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloakandswagger</author><text>Headlines like this along with the MSM&#x27;s latest push to define &quot;fake news&quot; is pretty worrisome.<p>Even if you don&#x27;t agree with Breitbart or other outlets, it&#x27;s frightening to think we could soon be in a world where entire stories are categorically dismissed or accepted based on their source, rather than their individual content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_delirium</author><text>Haven&#x27;t we always lived in that world? Nobody really treats all sources exactly equally, and many people dismiss certain categories of sources as not worth looking into. Depending on the person, this might be outlets they think of as mainly peddling conspiracy theories (Infowars, etc.), it could be outlets they see as too right-wing to be worth looking into (e.g. Breitbart), outlets they see as too left-wing to be worth looking into (e.g. World Socialist Web), etc.</text></comment> |
23,161,181 | 23,159,953 | 1 | 2 | 23,153,255 | train | <story><title>Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of Logic Pro X</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/05/apple-unveils-biggest-update-to-logic-since-the-launch-of-logic-pro-x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Apple is not in a monopoly position, so it&#x27;s a perfectly legal move.<p>As long as they didn&#x27;t become a monopoly in any specific creative field, it would be fine too.</text></item><item><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>They would probably be sued for being anti competitive if they bought out all the DAW companies and did that.</text></item><item><author>pier25</author><text>Apple could buy all DAW companies (Steinberg, Ableton, etc) for peanuts and destroy music production on Windows if they wanted. Heck they could even buy Adobe without much effort and make it mac exclusive too.<p>They don&#x27;t do it probably because that would be considered a below the belt move and not worth the trouble since the mac is only 10% of its revenue.</text></item><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;But yeah, AVID Pro Tools works on Windows so it doesn&#x27;t do anything for Apple. </i><p>Before Apple bought it, Emagic&#x27;s Logic ran on <i>both</i> Windows and Mac. After Apple acquired Logic, they immediately discontinued the Windows version. Can&#x27;t Apple hypothetically run the same playbook and discontinue Pro Tools for Windows?</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>To be more specific, and in response to your reply:<p>Together with Final Cut Pro, Apple wants to have <i>Mac-only exclusive software</i> that is aimed <i>specifically at cool creative professionals</i> to build up the image that trendy creatives use Macs (and you therefore have <i>no choice</i> but to use a Mac, otherwise you won&#x27;t have the software you need).<p>Aperture couldn&#x27;t really compete with Adobe&#x27;s whole workflow (since Apple didn&#x27;t have a full-fledged Photoshop competitor). But also, movies and music are &quot;sexier&quot; in a way.<p>AVID Pro Tools works on Windows so it doesn&#x27;t do anything for Apple. The whole point is awesome software that works <i>only</i> on Macs.<p>The day that every single program creatives use runs as Windows as well as Macs, is the day it becomes a lot harder for a lot of people to justify buying a Mac. It&#x27;s that simple.<p>(So it&#x27;s certainly not about any profit from the software <i>directly</i>, and it&#x27;s also not <i>just</i> a marketing &quot;halo&quot;.)</text></item><item><author>jasode</author><text>I own Apple Logic and thus I&#x27;m grateful for the continuous updates. On the other hand, I&#x27;m mystified why Apple continues its investment in this audio program.<p>Yes, when Steve Jobs bought Logic from Emagic in 2002, it made strategic sense to fortify Apple&#x27;s &quot;software portfolio&quot; to make Mac hardware more attractive. But that was before the surprising massive success of iPhones in 2007. Now, it seems like sales of Logic would be a insignificant rounding error in Apple&#x27;s revenue. If Mac software portfolio was that big a deal, I&#x27;m not sure why they discontinued Aperture instead of Logic. It seems like there&#x27;s a bigger market of customers that would catalog and modify photos rather than record music.<p>Intuit sold off Quicken to a private equity firm and yet Apple continues to own and develop Logic. I like Apple&#x27;s stewardship of Logic but I can&#x27;t understand its strategic value to today&#x27;s Apple.<p>Anybody have any thoughts on what Logic does for Apple that Aperture didn&#x27;t?<p>EDIT to several replies about &quot;enhancing brand image&quot;: That&#x27;s plausible but AVID Pro Tools is even more prestigious than Logic and AVID&#x27;s market cap is only $250 million[0]. Apple could acquire AVID easily with their ~$200 billion cash on hand to <i>&quot;strengthen Apple&#x27;s brand among the professionals&quot;</i>. People have been speculating this possible acquisition for years but I don&#x27;t think it will happen. So not sure what Logic does for Apple that AVID Pro Tools doesn&#x27;t.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasdaq.com&#x2F;market-activity&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;avid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasdaq.com&#x2F;market-activity&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;avid</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>totalZero</author><text>Being a monopoly is neither necessary nor sufficient for an anticompetitive business practice to be illegal.<p>A literal monopoly is not necessary for a court to determine that a firm can exert significant and durable market power over its competitors and customers.<p>If a firm is able to achieve and maintain a monopoly solely through lawful and reasonable means, such as producing and offering a superior product at a lower price, it is free to reap the benefits of that fairly-attained monopoly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of Logic Pro X</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/05/apple-unveils-biggest-update-to-logic-since-the-launch-of-logic-pro-x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Apple is not in a monopoly position, so it&#x27;s a perfectly legal move.<p>As long as they didn&#x27;t become a monopoly in any specific creative field, it would be fine too.</text></item><item><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>They would probably be sued for being anti competitive if they bought out all the DAW companies and did that.</text></item><item><author>pier25</author><text>Apple could buy all DAW companies (Steinberg, Ableton, etc) for peanuts and destroy music production on Windows if they wanted. Heck they could even buy Adobe without much effort and make it mac exclusive too.<p>They don&#x27;t do it probably because that would be considered a below the belt move and not worth the trouble since the mac is only 10% of its revenue.</text></item><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;But yeah, AVID Pro Tools works on Windows so it doesn&#x27;t do anything for Apple. </i><p>Before Apple bought it, Emagic&#x27;s Logic ran on <i>both</i> Windows and Mac. After Apple acquired Logic, they immediately discontinued the Windows version. Can&#x27;t Apple hypothetically run the same playbook and discontinue Pro Tools for Windows?</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>To be more specific, and in response to your reply:<p>Together with Final Cut Pro, Apple wants to have <i>Mac-only exclusive software</i> that is aimed <i>specifically at cool creative professionals</i> to build up the image that trendy creatives use Macs (and you therefore have <i>no choice</i> but to use a Mac, otherwise you won&#x27;t have the software you need).<p>Aperture couldn&#x27;t really compete with Adobe&#x27;s whole workflow (since Apple didn&#x27;t have a full-fledged Photoshop competitor). But also, movies and music are &quot;sexier&quot; in a way.<p>AVID Pro Tools works on Windows so it doesn&#x27;t do anything for Apple. The whole point is awesome software that works <i>only</i> on Macs.<p>The day that every single program creatives use runs as Windows as well as Macs, is the day it becomes a lot harder for a lot of people to justify buying a Mac. It&#x27;s that simple.<p>(So it&#x27;s certainly not about any profit from the software <i>directly</i>, and it&#x27;s also not <i>just</i> a marketing &quot;halo&quot;.)</text></item><item><author>jasode</author><text>I own Apple Logic and thus I&#x27;m grateful for the continuous updates. On the other hand, I&#x27;m mystified why Apple continues its investment in this audio program.<p>Yes, when Steve Jobs bought Logic from Emagic in 2002, it made strategic sense to fortify Apple&#x27;s &quot;software portfolio&quot; to make Mac hardware more attractive. But that was before the surprising massive success of iPhones in 2007. Now, it seems like sales of Logic would be a insignificant rounding error in Apple&#x27;s revenue. If Mac software portfolio was that big a deal, I&#x27;m not sure why they discontinued Aperture instead of Logic. It seems like there&#x27;s a bigger market of customers that would catalog and modify photos rather than record music.<p>Intuit sold off Quicken to a private equity firm and yet Apple continues to own and develop Logic. I like Apple&#x27;s stewardship of Logic but I can&#x27;t understand its strategic value to today&#x27;s Apple.<p>Anybody have any thoughts on what Logic does for Apple that Aperture didn&#x27;t?<p>EDIT to several replies about &quot;enhancing brand image&quot;: That&#x27;s plausible but AVID Pro Tools is even more prestigious than Logic and AVID&#x27;s market cap is only $250 million[0]. Apple could acquire AVID easily with their ~$200 billion cash on hand to <i>&quot;strengthen Apple&#x27;s brand among the professionals&quot;</i>. People have been speculating this possible acquisition for years but I don&#x27;t think it will happen. So not sure what Logic does for Apple that AVID Pro Tools doesn&#x27;t.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasdaq.com&#x2F;market-activity&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;avid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasdaq.com&#x2F;market-activity&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;avid</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>Acquiring all of your competitors is a good way to become a monopoly.</text></comment> |
9,702,800 | 9,702,756 | 1 | 2 | 9,702,064 | train | <story><title>Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/11/twitter-announces-ceo-dick-costolo-stepping-down-jack-dorsey-named-interim-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>binxbolling</author><text>Which is wildly successful and doesn&#x27;t cost us taxpayers a dime. If our &quot;leaders&quot; stopped actively sabotaging the USPS, it could be doing even better.</text></item><item><author>larrys</author><text>Then you end up with the &quot;postal service&quot;.</text></item><item><author>Kalium</author><text>Sometimes, I think it would be for the best if the USG had a way to acqui-hire companies that are best suited to be public services.</text></item><item><author>pyre</author><text>&gt; I always wanted Twitter to be more like a public utility<p>Twitter is a business, how were you expecting this to work? For the USG to aqui-hire them?</text></item><item><author>wyclif</author><text>The problem with this, as an early Twitter user (summer 2006), is that I don&#x27;t really want Twitter to significantly change. The minimalism is a feature. It was SMS on the web. I always wanted Twitter to be more like a public utility, but that&#x27;s impossible now because it&#x27;s been &quot;monetized.&quot;</text></item><item><author>austenallred</author><text>Having a founder and product visionary (Jack) in the driver&#x27;s seat at Twitter is <i>absolutely</i> the right move. Sure, Jack has his quirks, and seems a little bit crazy and minimalistic, but that&#x27;s exactly what makes him the right person for the job.<p>Twitter is executing on its vision now just fine, but that&#x27;s just the problem: There hasn&#x27;t been any vision left in the company. No truly big moves have been made, and the product has remained almost entirely the same (with the exception of fonts and colors constantly moving around the screen and a lot more ads).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>It was only wildly successful until our leaders &quot;sabotaged&quot; it by forcing it to obey standard actuarial practices. (Unlike the rest of the govt, the USPS is now required to fully fund it&#x27;s pension plans.)<p>See this comment for a more detailed explanation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6710602" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6710602</a><p>Also, it&#x27;s pretty hard not to be &quot;wildly successful&quot; when you get a legally enforced monopoly. Comcast is also &quot;wildly successful&quot;, but we certainly don&#x27;t want to expand that model.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/11/twitter-announces-ceo-dick-costolo-stepping-down-jack-dorsey-named-interim-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>binxbolling</author><text>Which is wildly successful and doesn&#x27;t cost us taxpayers a dime. If our &quot;leaders&quot; stopped actively sabotaging the USPS, it could be doing even better.</text></item><item><author>larrys</author><text>Then you end up with the &quot;postal service&quot;.</text></item><item><author>Kalium</author><text>Sometimes, I think it would be for the best if the USG had a way to acqui-hire companies that are best suited to be public services.</text></item><item><author>pyre</author><text>&gt; I always wanted Twitter to be more like a public utility<p>Twitter is a business, how were you expecting this to work? For the USG to aqui-hire them?</text></item><item><author>wyclif</author><text>The problem with this, as an early Twitter user (summer 2006), is that I don&#x27;t really want Twitter to significantly change. The minimalism is a feature. It was SMS on the web. I always wanted Twitter to be more like a public utility, but that&#x27;s impossible now because it&#x27;s been &quot;monetized.&quot;</text></item><item><author>austenallred</author><text>Having a founder and product visionary (Jack) in the driver&#x27;s seat at Twitter is <i>absolutely</i> the right move. Sure, Jack has his quirks, and seems a little bit crazy and minimalistic, but that&#x27;s exactly what makes him the right person for the job.<p>Twitter is executing on its vision now just fine, but that&#x27;s just the problem: There hasn&#x27;t been any vision left in the company. No truly big moves have been made, and the product has remained almost entirely the same (with the exception of fonts and colors constantly moving around the screen and a lot more ads).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austenallred</author><text>&gt;Which is wildly successful and doesn&#x27;t cost us taxpayers a dime<p>You might want to double check your info on that one. The US Postal Service lost $32 Billion over the past four years.<p>USPS losses:<p>* 2011: $5.1 Billion<p>* 2012: $15.9 Billion<p>* 2013: $5.5 Billion<p>* 2014: $5.5 Billion<p>2011&#x2F;2012: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.cnn.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;news&#x2F;economy&#x2F;postal-service-record-losses&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.cnn.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;news&#x2F;economy&#x2F;postal-service-...</a><p>2013: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.usps.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national-releases&#x2F;2013&#x2F;pr13_087.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.usps.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national-releases&#x2F;2013&#x2F;pr13_087....</a><p>2014: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.usps.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national-releases&#x2F;2014&#x2F;pr14_059.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.usps.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national-releases&#x2F;2014&#x2F;pr14_059....</a></text></comment> |
39,061,066 | 39,057,658 | 1 | 3 | 39,056,733 | train | <story><title>Canadian man stuck in triangle of e-commerce fraud</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/01/canadian-man-stuck-in-triangle-of-e-commerce-fraud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcv</author><text>This sounds extraordinarily poorly handled by the RCMP. He could show that he purchased it from his own credit card and on Amazon, so that&#x27;s pretty good evidence that he&#x27;s the victim of fraud, not the perpetrator of it. Weird how extremely aggressive the RCMP is.<p>That this is allowed to exist in legal limbo is ridiculous. He should be able to demand rectification and damages. And the real problem here is of course Amazon for enabling such scams. They should be on the hook for this, not some unsuspecting customer. And the real fraudster should be easy to track down through Amazon if they&#x27;ve done their due diligence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pixelcloud</author><text>In terms of the RCMP and their aggressive behaviour. It makes perfect sense. First Nations people have not been treated well by the RCMP or LE for a very long time in Canada... This still persists to this day, systematic discrimination and all that stuff.</text></comment> | <story><title>Canadian man stuck in triangle of e-commerce fraud</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/01/canadian-man-stuck-in-triangle-of-e-commerce-fraud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcv</author><text>This sounds extraordinarily poorly handled by the RCMP. He could show that he purchased it from his own credit card and on Amazon, so that&#x27;s pretty good evidence that he&#x27;s the victim of fraud, not the perpetrator of it. Weird how extremely aggressive the RCMP is.<p>That this is allowed to exist in legal limbo is ridiculous. He should be able to demand rectification and damages. And the real problem here is of course Amazon for enabling such scams. They should be on the hook for this, not some unsuspecting customer. And the real fraudster should be easy to track down through Amazon if they&#x27;ve done their due diligence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bparsons</author><text>The RCMP, particularly in small towns are very bad at these types of investigations. The truly shocking thing is that they followed up on it at all.</text></comment> |
18,524,728 | 18,524,808 | 1 | 2 | 18,523,630 | train | <story><title>The Devil's Hair Dryer: Hell is other people, with leaf blowers (2016)</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/life/2016/11/the-case-against-neighbors-with-leaf-blowers/506324/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grawprog</author><text>As someone who has worked landscaping on commercial sites and large apartment buildings and been yelled at or treated like shit for using a leaf blower to do it. You go try raking a truck full of leaves without one, making sure you get every corner and crevice underneath bushes and back corners so you don&#x27;t get yelled at by customers or the boss. Not that you don&#x27;t have to rake it all after anyway into large tarps or garbage cans that you then drag and carry by hand. Now do this in pouring rain, or snow, or when the leaves are frozen.<p>Trust me it&#x27;s not fun.<p>Now personally myself. I think it&#x27;s stupid to remove leaves from a site rather than let them decay naturally and add their nutrients back into the soil. But when you&#x27;re being paid to do something and you need to make money to keep living in a house. That leaf blower is really handy.</text></item><item><author>uptime</author><text>Sign me up for the blower hater brigade. I can almost forgive these during leaf season. I hate them being used in place of brooms for landscaping.<p>A ton of noise to move a very small mass of clippings, etc, creating a cloud for 30 minutes to do a less complete job, often just blowing it all into the street without concentrating it and picking it up. Maddening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bunderbunder</author><text>When I was younger, my mom had a house with a large house full of oak trees.<p>We had to rake the leaves, because, if they were allowed to decay on the ground, it would kill most the other plants.<p>There was a leaf blower, but we didn&#x27;t use it for long - personally, I thought the rakes got the job done more quickly and thoroughly, even with that obnoxiously large yard. But then, I suppose I wasn&#x27;t doing it professionally. Maybe with practice I&#x27;d have gotten better at it. The leaf blower was new; rakes are something I grew up with.<p>It was certainly more work to use a rake. I see that as an upside, though - it&#x27;s always struck me as odd that people will spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars to make it so everyday tasks require minimal physical effort, and then spend even more money on home fitness equipment and gym memberships in order to artificially replace all the physical activity they were ostensibly trying to avoid in the first place. Again, though, that&#x27;s personal use, not professional.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Devil's Hair Dryer: Hell is other people, with leaf blowers (2016)</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/life/2016/11/the-case-against-neighbors-with-leaf-blowers/506324/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grawprog</author><text>As someone who has worked landscaping on commercial sites and large apartment buildings and been yelled at or treated like shit for using a leaf blower to do it. You go try raking a truck full of leaves without one, making sure you get every corner and crevice underneath bushes and back corners so you don&#x27;t get yelled at by customers or the boss. Not that you don&#x27;t have to rake it all after anyway into large tarps or garbage cans that you then drag and carry by hand. Now do this in pouring rain, or snow, or when the leaves are frozen.<p>Trust me it&#x27;s not fun.<p>Now personally myself. I think it&#x27;s stupid to remove leaves from a site rather than let them decay naturally and add their nutrients back into the soil. But when you&#x27;re being paid to do something and you need to make money to keep living in a house. That leaf blower is really handy.</text></item><item><author>uptime</author><text>Sign me up for the blower hater brigade. I can almost forgive these during leaf season. I hate them being used in place of brooms for landscaping.<p>A ton of noise to move a very small mass of clippings, etc, creating a cloud for 30 minutes to do a less complete job, often just blowing it all into the street without concentrating it and picking it up. Maddening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>everdrive</author><text>If it&#x27;s any consolation, I think we all agree this is a general human problem instead of a problem with the men doing the labor. Why does the company require this service? Why do customers request it? How can people think a few leaves are bad? Etc.<p>People have very strange ideas about landscaping, and that usually means bad things for the environment. eg: &quot;I&#x27;m a fully functioning adult, but I couldn&#x27;t bear to see two kinds of grass so I had to cover the whole lawn with a neurotoxin.&quot;</text></comment> |
32,833,042 | 32,830,890 | 1 | 2 | 32,828,669 | train | <story><title>Increase: Banking API</title><url>https://increase.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Yes, but when your script splits money into random amounts and puts things like &quot;pizza money&quot;, &quot;rent&quot; and &quot;happy birthday&quot; into the reference field, across thousands of accounts, most of whom also have a real user doing real transactions intermingled, suddenly it gets a lot harder for the bank to filter.<p>The bank typically has a rather simplistic set of rules to decide to investigate transactions (because they need to be able to explain how the rules work in a meeting with the government whenever their rules miss someone). Things like &quot;Transaction was over $1000 to a new payee or the reference contained the word &#x27;bitcoin&#x27;&quot;. The investigation will typically involve a human calling the customer, and sometimes asking for more evidence of what the transfer was for - for example, please send us the receipt for the car you said you bought. It&#x27;s quite an expensive process for the bank.<p>So, when someone via the API sends tens of thousands of transfers, the bank is spending lots of human hours verifying some&#x2F;all of those. &quot;My script sent $55 to some stranger because I won a fully automated bet on the weather&quot; is far harder to verify with documentation too. And when some slip through the cracks, they get in trouble with the regulator.</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; You know what makes money laundering super easy... a banking API so you can split the million dollars you want to launder into 1 million 1 dollar payments.<p>That would be noticed. It&#x27;s called &quot;structuring&quot; and is itself illegal. Banks watch for this stuff.</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>I made an API for a bank... I was a third party and made the API by screen scraping their webUI. I sent their devs a link and initially there were positive messages going back and forth.<p>The API allowed you to see balance, transaction history, and make payments.<p>Before long, the API got quite popular, and lots of people were using it to make lots of payments automatically.<p>You know what makes money laundering super easy... a banking API so you can split the million dollars you want to launder into 1 million 1 dollar payments. And an API client which lets you treat each login cookie and account as an object in python.<p>Before long, the API and all users who had ever used it were perma-banned from the bank, because it was determined they posed too high a fraud&#x2F;money-laundering risk.<p>I&#x27;m still salty because, after spending a week of my life building and refining that API, they banned me and <i>6 years later</i> still claim they can&#x27;t return the $350 that was in the account because they are still &#x27;investigating&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yellowapple</author><text>This is why every time I send money via Venmo I label it &quot;drugs&quot; (or a specific drug, like &quot;pure Colombian cocaine&quot; or &quot;crystal meth&quot;).</text></comment> | <story><title>Increase: Banking API</title><url>https://increase.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Yes, but when your script splits money into random amounts and puts things like &quot;pizza money&quot;, &quot;rent&quot; and &quot;happy birthday&quot; into the reference field, across thousands of accounts, most of whom also have a real user doing real transactions intermingled, suddenly it gets a lot harder for the bank to filter.<p>The bank typically has a rather simplistic set of rules to decide to investigate transactions (because they need to be able to explain how the rules work in a meeting with the government whenever their rules miss someone). Things like &quot;Transaction was over $1000 to a new payee or the reference contained the word &#x27;bitcoin&#x27;&quot;. The investigation will typically involve a human calling the customer, and sometimes asking for more evidence of what the transfer was for - for example, please send us the receipt for the car you said you bought. It&#x27;s quite an expensive process for the bank.<p>So, when someone via the API sends tens of thousands of transfers, the bank is spending lots of human hours verifying some&#x2F;all of those. &quot;My script sent $55 to some stranger because I won a fully automated bet on the weather&quot; is far harder to verify with documentation too. And when some slip through the cracks, they get in trouble with the regulator.</text></item><item><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; You know what makes money laundering super easy... a banking API so you can split the million dollars you want to launder into 1 million 1 dollar payments.<p>That would be noticed. It&#x27;s called &quot;structuring&quot; and is itself illegal. Banks watch for this stuff.</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>I made an API for a bank... I was a third party and made the API by screen scraping their webUI. I sent their devs a link and initially there were positive messages going back and forth.<p>The API allowed you to see balance, transaction history, and make payments.<p>Before long, the API got quite popular, and lots of people were using it to make lots of payments automatically.<p>You know what makes money laundering super easy... a banking API so you can split the million dollars you want to launder into 1 million 1 dollar payments. And an API client which lets you treat each login cookie and account as an object in python.<p>Before long, the API and all users who had ever used it were perma-banned from the bank, because it was determined they posed too high a fraud&#x2F;money-laundering risk.<p>I&#x27;m still salty because, after spending a week of my life building and refining that API, they banned me and <i>6 years later</i> still claim they can&#x27;t return the $350 that was in the account because they are still &#x27;investigating&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jtbayly</author><text>How do the launderers have access to thousands of accounts? And why wouldn&#x27;t the actual owners of the accounts report the transactions?</text></comment> |
33,428,402 | 33,427,955 | 1 | 3 | 33,424,607 | train | <story><title>Twitter Blue for $8/Month</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587498907336118274</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>That&#x27;s the core problem with this approach. Elon and others have the idea in their head that Twitter is a social graph where people come to interact with each other, and everyone is relatively equal. So every user paying $X&#x2F;mo to solidify their place in the graph makes some conceptual sense.<p>In reality Twitter is more akin to YouTube than Facebook. A tiny percentage of users are creators while the vast majority are consumers. If you go by the rough count of their currently verified accounts, only ~0.16% of monthly active users are producing content of any real value.<p>An average user (part of the 99.9%) isn&#x27;t going to care about any status or badges – they are only there to look at memes.<p>Creators and influencers on the other hand are going to care, but (1) there are too few of them for their $8&#x2F;mo to make a substantial difference to the company&#x27;s bottom line, and (2) the platform needs them as much as they need platform.<p>So you really want to instead do the exact opposite – ask the consumers to pay and fund your creators with that money.</text></item><item><author>dan-robertson</author><text>The dynamics on Twitter are quite weird. There’s a small number of users with potentially lots of followers for whom Twitter is an important part of their work or life. If you’re a journalist, being on Twitter is basically part of your job so maybe you should have to pay a bit more just like the customer of some business software ($100 pa seems pretty cheap there). Indeed maybe media publications should be paying for the blue checks for their staff. But on the other hand, these people are going to represent a large part of the draw of Twitter and so maybe Twitter should be paying them instead.<p>But other people use Twitter in different ways. If you mostly use it as a social network between your friends you might not care because they’ll presumably see your tweets because they follow you rather than because they found them in search or whatever.<p>If you’re using Twitter as a forum for discussions about some topic of your interest, maybe you’ll end up feeling crowded out in replies by people with the check. But if you’re at risk of being crowded out then maybe Twitter isn’t working so well as a forum. And I think that if eg A follows B and B retweets you, A should see your tweet whether or not you have a check. Maybe that isn’t so true with the non-chronological feed. If people in the community follow you then, depending on the dynamics, your opinions could still be spread via retweet rather than getting lucky in your position in the replies, no?<p>If you’re some reply guy, maybe your tweets should be downranked but then if you’re serious about it then I guess you’ll pay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koonsolo</author><text>&gt; In reality Twitter is more akin to YouTube than Facebook.<p>There is a very big difference between Twitter and YouTube, and it&#x27;s obvious once you know it.<p>Look at the most popular people on twitter: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_most-followed_Twitter_accounts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_most-followed_Twitte...</a><p>All celebrities outside of twitter.<p>Then look at YouTube: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_most-subscribed_YouTube_channels" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_most-subscribed_YouT...</a><p>Almost all made famous by YouTube.<p>Twitter has no real &quot;content creators&quot;, YouTube does.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter Blue for $8/Month</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587498907336118274</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>That&#x27;s the core problem with this approach. Elon and others have the idea in their head that Twitter is a social graph where people come to interact with each other, and everyone is relatively equal. So every user paying $X&#x2F;mo to solidify their place in the graph makes some conceptual sense.<p>In reality Twitter is more akin to YouTube than Facebook. A tiny percentage of users are creators while the vast majority are consumers. If you go by the rough count of their currently verified accounts, only ~0.16% of monthly active users are producing content of any real value.<p>An average user (part of the 99.9%) isn&#x27;t going to care about any status or badges – they are only there to look at memes.<p>Creators and influencers on the other hand are going to care, but (1) there are too few of them for their $8&#x2F;mo to make a substantial difference to the company&#x27;s bottom line, and (2) the platform needs them as much as they need platform.<p>So you really want to instead do the exact opposite – ask the consumers to pay and fund your creators with that money.</text></item><item><author>dan-robertson</author><text>The dynamics on Twitter are quite weird. There’s a small number of users with potentially lots of followers for whom Twitter is an important part of their work or life. If you’re a journalist, being on Twitter is basically part of your job so maybe you should have to pay a bit more just like the customer of some business software ($100 pa seems pretty cheap there). Indeed maybe media publications should be paying for the blue checks for their staff. But on the other hand, these people are going to represent a large part of the draw of Twitter and so maybe Twitter should be paying them instead.<p>But other people use Twitter in different ways. If you mostly use it as a social network between your friends you might not care because they’ll presumably see your tweets because they follow you rather than because they found them in search or whatever.<p>If you’re using Twitter as a forum for discussions about some topic of your interest, maybe you’ll end up feeling crowded out in replies by people with the check. But if you’re at risk of being crowded out then maybe Twitter isn’t working so well as a forum. And I think that if eg A follows B and B retweets you, A should see your tweet whether or not you have a check. Maybe that isn’t so true with the non-chronological feed. If people in the community follow you then, depending on the dynamics, your opinions could still be spread via retweet rather than getting lucky in your position in the replies, no?<p>If you’re some reply guy, maybe your tweets should be downranked but then if you’re serious about it then I guess you’ll pay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xtracto</author><text>I always felt Twitter as &quot;old man yells at cloud&quot; kind of communication. I&#x27;ve never seen proper &quot;content&quot; created (like pinterest, tik tok, etc). Most of the &quot;content&quot; I see are the asinine multi-post threads and text-pictures notices from angry people&#x2F;companies.</text></comment> |
29,947,891 | 29,946,151 | 1 | 2 | 29,945,848 | train | <story><title>Rich: A Python library for rich text and formatting in the terminal</title><url>https://github.com/Textualize/rich</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pedrovhb</author><text>An extremely useful hidden gem in Rich is its `inspect` function [1].<p>When called on an object, it pretty prints a list of its public attributes (though you can also request private and dunder attributes) [2]. It can also be called on a class or function; it&#x27;ll then pretty print the docstrings, parameters with types, methods, etc. It&#x27;s great for debugging and for starting to code with libraries you&#x27;re not familiar with, don&#x27;t have comprehensive documentation, or have some dynamic aspect.<p>In a similar vein, `objexplore` [3] is another library that lets you dive into an object&#x27;s nested attributes to understand how it&#x27;s laid out.<p>In interactive debugging sessions I often find these to be more useful than the IDE&#x27;s features which provide similar functionality.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rich.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;reference&#x2F;init.html#rich.inspect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rich.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;reference&#x2F;init.html#ri...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i2.paste.pics&#x2F;798cff2903f6b3351289a24c839d4f44.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i2.paste.pics&#x2F;798cff2903f6b3351289a24c839d4f44.png</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kylepollina&#x2F;objexplore" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kylepollina&#x2F;objexplore</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rich: A Python library for rich text and formatting in the terminal</title><url>https://github.com/Textualize/rich</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>See also Textual by the same developer. Really impressive work.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Textualize&#x2F;textual" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Textualize&#x2F;textual</a></text></comment> |
6,489,198 | 6,489,213 | 1 | 3 | 6,488,822 | train | <story><title>Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out</title><text>I know these type of lists exist elsewhere. But I wanted to list some of the sites that I know where you can quite easily submit your project to get the word out initially.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>uladzislau</author><text>I like your marketing approach - post a list and include your project <a href="https://www.sideprojectors.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sideprojectors.com</a> right in the middle. Wouldn&#x27;t it be fair to disclose such a thing?</text></item><item><author>sideproject</author><text><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com</a> - (duh), post with Show HN, easy submission, will get listed on <a href="http://showinghn.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;showinghn.com&#x2F;</a> and <a href="http://hnshowcase.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnshowcase.com</a> as well.<p><a href="http://betali.st" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;betali.st</a> - quite well known, moderated, gets a decent amount of traffic if you get featured, not too many form fields to fill out.<p><a href="http://www.kickoffboost.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickoffboost.com</a> - moderated, and relatively new, easy submission<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sideproject</a> - moderated, easy submission<p><a href="https://www.sideprojectors.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sideprojectors.com</a> - relatively new, easy submission<p><a href="http://thestartuppitch.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thestartuppitch.com</a> - moderated, has quite a few more form fields to fill out than others<p><a href="http://www.erlibird.com/startups" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.erlibird.com&#x2F;startups</a> - paid $149, last time checked out<p><a href="http://forrst.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forrst.com</a> - Easy submission, used to be a great community for feedback - not sure now<p><a href="http://www.bootstrappist.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bootstrappist.com</a> - a mailing list of bootstrapped projects - has quite a few subscribers I think.<p><a href="http://angel.co" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;angel.co</a> - Angelist, of course - new startups gets tweeted via various accounts<p><a href="http://crunchbase.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crunchbase.com</a> - Crunchbase - similar to Angelist</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tokenizer</author><text>Why? OP gave you a list and a fairly non bias summary for each. Besides, using their site is completely optional and based on volunteerism. If you think it was of poor character, don&#x27;t use their site.<p>Is mentioning they run the site necessary? Absolutely not IMO.</text></comment> | <story><title>Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out</title><text>I know these type of lists exist elsewhere. But I wanted to list some of the sites that I know where you can quite easily submit your project to get the word out initially.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>uladzislau</author><text>I like your marketing approach - post a list and include your project <a href="https://www.sideprojectors.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sideprojectors.com</a> right in the middle. Wouldn&#x27;t it be fair to disclose such a thing?</text></item><item><author>sideproject</author><text><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com</a> - (duh), post with Show HN, easy submission, will get listed on <a href="http://showinghn.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;showinghn.com&#x2F;</a> and <a href="http://hnshowcase.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnshowcase.com</a> as well.<p><a href="http://betali.st" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;betali.st</a> - quite well known, moderated, gets a decent amount of traffic if you get featured, not too many form fields to fill out.<p><a href="http://www.kickoffboost.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickoffboost.com</a> - moderated, and relatively new, easy submission<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;sideproject</a> - moderated, easy submission<p><a href="https://www.sideprojectors.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sideprojectors.com</a> - relatively new, easy submission<p><a href="http://thestartuppitch.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thestartuppitch.com</a> - moderated, has quite a few more form fields to fill out than others<p><a href="http://www.erlibird.com/startups" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.erlibird.com&#x2F;startups</a> - paid $149, last time checked out<p><a href="http://forrst.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forrst.com</a> - Easy submission, used to be a great community for feedback - not sure now<p><a href="http://www.bootstrappist.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bootstrappist.com</a> - a mailing list of bootstrapped projects - has quite a few subscribers I think.<p><a href="http://angel.co" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;angel.co</a> - Angelist, of course - new startups gets tweeted via various accounts<p><a href="http://crunchbase.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crunchbase.com</a> - Crunchbase - similar to Angelist</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lcasela</author><text>If it&#x27;s useful then who cares?</text></comment> |
22,872,954 | 22,872,701 | 1 | 2 | 22,871,158 | train | <story><title>California’s Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/California-Roadmap-to-Modify-the-Stay-at-Home-Order.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mchusma</author><text>A real plan would look like this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;spemOeG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;spemOeG</a> specifying the levels of restrictions and the metrics we will use to track the metrics. This allows people to understand what to expect the best possible. We already have huge uncertainty, we don&#x27;t need to add uncertainty of government response on top of uncertainty of the virus. I think there is huge room to debate the numbers and what goes in what level, but this is what a real roadmap looks like.<p>This &quot;roadmap&quot; is quite scary as this is not a plan that would pass muster in in YC Boardroom.
(1) The one chart with data is horribly innacurate:
(a) It shows interventions causing worse than no interventions in the short term?
(b) Shows hospitalizations increasing despite the fact that they have not for some time.
(c) Shows &quot;Surge Capacity&quot; as a static value, which you would hope they are increasing if they really think this is the issue.<p>(2) It does not specify in any fashion what the different levels of coming back are.
When can medical procedures resume?
When can non-essential work where social distancing is easy resume (e.g. Los Angeles apparently has banned gardeners, who don&#x27;t need to get near a soul)?<p>(3) If he believes masks work (as I do and as indicated in this presentation), why are masks not required and businesses shut down? Shouldn&#x27;t we do the less painful and restrictive measure first before we shut down businesses?<p>(4) Most importantly there is not an actual goal clearly articulated here. Is he going for suppression? Is he going for mitigation?<p>I like many others are deeply upset by leadership from both parties, at all levels of government.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>charlesju</author><text>The reason why your solution is not good is because it pigeon holes the government into expectations. The government doesn&#x27;t have a crystal ball as to how this all plays out, they need to have the flexibility to change how they want to respond to each situation without having to defend an ultimatum.<p>For example, even in your own example here are several situations you didn&#x27;t account:<p>-- The availability of tests for the public at large<p>-- Whether we&#x27;re doing temperature checks everywhere<p>-- Whether we&#x27;re requiring people to download a contact tracing app<p>-- How much capacity we have in the hospital system even though cases are going down<p>-- If we can find a drug that helps shorten the time people spend in a hospital<p>-- If we find new information like masks don&#x27;t help or they greatly help<p>-- We run out of swabs but cases are low<p>There are a lot of factors that has to go into how the government changes the rules and while it might make it easier for the public to be at ease when the rules are hard, it also makes it a lot harder to adjust the rules.<p>I think being upset at the government is your right, but I also think you should channel your energy into something more productive and thank that at least in California we acted a lot faster than other areas of the country.<p>I think Governor Cuomo said something very interesting the other day, to paraphrase, when he was asked whether he should&#x27;ve started stay at home earlier and if that would&#x27;ve saved lives. Of course it would have, but the interviewer is not taking into account compliance and public sentiment. Likewise, for you, I think you&#x27;re viewing this problem from a very individualistic point of view to get strict rules on what happens when, but you&#x27;re not accounting for the edge cases where the government needs a backdoor to change the rules with new information and to play it close to public sentiment.</text></comment> | <story><title>California’s Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/California-Roadmap-to-Modify-the-Stay-at-Home-Order.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mchusma</author><text>A real plan would look like this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;spemOeG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;spemOeG</a> specifying the levels of restrictions and the metrics we will use to track the metrics. This allows people to understand what to expect the best possible. We already have huge uncertainty, we don&#x27;t need to add uncertainty of government response on top of uncertainty of the virus. I think there is huge room to debate the numbers and what goes in what level, but this is what a real roadmap looks like.<p>This &quot;roadmap&quot; is quite scary as this is not a plan that would pass muster in in YC Boardroom.
(1) The one chart with data is horribly innacurate:
(a) It shows interventions causing worse than no interventions in the short term?
(b) Shows hospitalizations increasing despite the fact that they have not for some time.
(c) Shows &quot;Surge Capacity&quot; as a static value, which you would hope they are increasing if they really think this is the issue.<p>(2) It does not specify in any fashion what the different levels of coming back are.
When can medical procedures resume?
When can non-essential work where social distancing is easy resume (e.g. Los Angeles apparently has banned gardeners, who don&#x27;t need to get near a soul)?<p>(3) If he believes masks work (as I do and as indicated in this presentation), why are masks not required and businesses shut down? Shouldn&#x27;t we do the less painful and restrictive measure first before we shut down businesses?<p>(4) Most importantly there is not an actual goal clearly articulated here. Is he going for suppression? Is he going for mitigation?<p>I like many others are deeply upset by leadership from both parties, at all levels of government.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; I like many others are deeply upset by leadership from both parties, at all levels of government.<p>I&#x27;m sitting at home in Michigan where the governor has closed almost all businesses. Politicians bicker over weather governors or the president have the authority to reopen things. And yet there is no plan as far as I can see. No goals, no criteria to trigger next steps, nothing. Meanwhile the press just snipes at people.</text></comment> |
9,858,261 | 9,858,495 | 1 | 3 | 9,857,678 | train | <story><title>VirtualBox 5.0 officially released</title><url>https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/entry/oracle_vm_virtualbox_5_07</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>As a fun experiment, I do my day-to-day computing entirely in a Virtualbox Windows VM guest that I&#x27;ve given 2 cores, 150GB of storage and 4GB of RAM. I&#x27;m about a year and a half into the experiment and still chugging along.<p>It&#x27;s a surprisingly performant day-to-day system, which I can snapshot to try out things, move to other machines if I need to, make backups etc. About the only thing it doesn&#x27;t do well is really CPU intensive or GPU intensive operations.<p>But it works fine for 2 monitors, web browsing, watching videos, etc.<p>It&#x27;s kind of surprising actually.<p>From time to time I&#x27;ll also spin up some Linux VMs and do various dev activities in a real Linux, which I usually just background and ssh into from my Windows VM. It&#x27;s kind of nice having a virtual rack of machines to monkey around on.<p>Less impressive has been trying to get Ubuntu to not feel terrible, but Centos works fine.<p>If I need better performance, I&#x27;ll dive back to the host OS and do those things, but it&#x27;s mostly just for gaming or music production.<p>Bonus, my host OS has stayed relatively free of junk and stays really snappy, even all this time later.<p>My only recent problem is that the Windows 10 updater won&#x27;t qualify the VM guest for the upgrade. So I&#x27;ll probably have to grab the ISO and try it that way.</text></comment> | <story><title>VirtualBox 5.0 officially released</title><url>https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/entry/oracle_vm_virtualbox_5_07</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>comex</author><text>One of the biggest features here, the virtual USB 3.0 controller, is closed source (as well as USB 2.0!). See:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&#x2F;manual&#x2F;ch01.html#intro-installing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&#x2F;manual&#x2F;ch01.html#intro-installing</a><p>While it&#x27;s available for free, the license only allows personal and educational use. Bleh.</text></comment> |
19,282,108 | 19,280,384 | 1 | 2 | 19,280,131 | train | <story><title>The CEO of RevolutApp on Slack: “Why Aren’t You Working on Weekends?”</title><url>https://twitter.com/phillipcaudell/status/1101081229351415808</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kemiller2002</author><text>Honestly, I can&#x27;t tell if you&#x27;re being sarcastic, but I really think you&#x27;re absolutely right. Some people really like working in that environment. Personally, it&#x27;s not for me, but at least the CEO is upfront about what he expects. Really, he&#x27;s being a good leader in that respect. I wouldn&#x27;t want to work for him, but he&#x27;s clear about what he wants which a lot of people in management miss.<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i><p>Let me explain why this is good. First as your boss, I&#x27;m not your friend. I&#x27;m not your pal. My sole responsibility is to ensure that I communicate clearly and effectively what needs to be done and make sure it happens. That&#x27;s it. Does this mean, I&#x27;m not compassionate? No, of course not, but what it means is that I am tasked having uncomfortable conversations about things that need to be done and to make it understood. Have I asked people to work nights and weekends? Yes. Several times? Yes. Do I like doing it? No. This is the job. If you want to quit over this. No hard feelings. I make it clear that this is what we have to do. Have I fired people for under performing? Yes. Do I feel bad about it? No. That&#x27;s my job. I feel bad, when I have to let someone go, because we don&#x27;t have the money to keep them. When management says, &quot;lose two heads, because we want to cut costs,&quot; and they were good employees. I feel bad then.<p>Working weekends sucks, I agree, but sometimes you have to. If you&#x27;ve never worked for a company that is on the brink of bankruptcy, you really don&#x27;t understand what it&#x27;s like to have to lay things on the line. The CEO is being honest about consequences. We honestly, don&#x27;t know the situation from that blurb. It sounds like he&#x27;s being an ass, but there maybe an underlying reason for it. (Probably not, but you never know.) Whether you choose to keep going is your choice.<p>A previous company I worked for, was on the brink of going out of business. Only a few of us knew (out of 200+ employees). We had a shortfall of money and we didn&#x27;t know if we were going to make payroll that month. They didn&#x27;t want to tell anyone (in fact I was instructed not to), but I knew, because I knew several of the executives. I pushed my staff, and myself for those three weeks, because I knew that if we didn&#x27;t bill, the company could quite possibly go under. People say working weekends crosses a line. Knowing that your co-worker (or employee) may get evicted from the country, lost their house, etc., because you didn&#x27;t do your job for those couple of weeks, I can&#x27;t do that. That&#x27;s crossing a line for me.</text></item><item><author>lohszvu</author><text>I appreciate the CEO being direct. It gives you a chance to find another job before you get fired.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agrippanux</author><text>I don’t know the specifics of your circumstance but I can guarantee anyway that asking people to work the weekends was still an error on your part.<p>I can guarantee the following happened:<p>- your employees made more mistakes during weekend work<p>- at least a few had deteriorated health &#x2F; sleep<p>- your teams morale took a hit<p>- you accomplished less than you would of had you had your employees come in regular weekly hours<p>Required weekend work is always a fault of management to properly plan and execute. Always. The few times I had my teams work the weekend I always admitted how I was at fault and how my poor planning would be the subject of a post mortem.<p>Source: I have been in management and executive positions for 15+ years at startups ranging from super small to rocket ships IPOs.</text></comment> | <story><title>The CEO of RevolutApp on Slack: “Why Aren’t You Working on Weekends?”</title><url>https://twitter.com/phillipcaudell/status/1101081229351415808</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kemiller2002</author><text>Honestly, I can&#x27;t tell if you&#x27;re being sarcastic, but I really think you&#x27;re absolutely right. Some people really like working in that environment. Personally, it&#x27;s not for me, but at least the CEO is upfront about what he expects. Really, he&#x27;s being a good leader in that respect. I wouldn&#x27;t want to work for him, but he&#x27;s clear about what he wants which a lot of people in management miss.<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i><p>Let me explain why this is good. First as your boss, I&#x27;m not your friend. I&#x27;m not your pal. My sole responsibility is to ensure that I communicate clearly and effectively what needs to be done and make sure it happens. That&#x27;s it. Does this mean, I&#x27;m not compassionate? No, of course not, but what it means is that I am tasked having uncomfortable conversations about things that need to be done and to make it understood. Have I asked people to work nights and weekends? Yes. Several times? Yes. Do I like doing it? No. This is the job. If you want to quit over this. No hard feelings. I make it clear that this is what we have to do. Have I fired people for under performing? Yes. Do I feel bad about it? No. That&#x27;s my job. I feel bad, when I have to let someone go, because we don&#x27;t have the money to keep them. When management says, &quot;lose two heads, because we want to cut costs,&quot; and they were good employees. I feel bad then.<p>Working weekends sucks, I agree, but sometimes you have to. If you&#x27;ve never worked for a company that is on the brink of bankruptcy, you really don&#x27;t understand what it&#x27;s like to have to lay things on the line. The CEO is being honest about consequences. We honestly, don&#x27;t know the situation from that blurb. It sounds like he&#x27;s being an ass, but there maybe an underlying reason for it. (Probably not, but you never know.) Whether you choose to keep going is your choice.<p>A previous company I worked for, was on the brink of going out of business. Only a few of us knew (out of 200+ employees). We had a shortfall of money and we didn&#x27;t know if we were going to make payroll that month. They didn&#x27;t want to tell anyone (in fact I was instructed not to), but I knew, because I knew several of the executives. I pushed my staff, and myself for those three weeks, because I knew that if we didn&#x27;t bill, the company could quite possibly go under. People say working weekends crosses a line. Knowing that your co-worker (or employee) may get evicted from the country, lost their house, etc., because you didn&#x27;t do your job for those couple of weeks, I can&#x27;t do that. That&#x27;s crossing a line for me.</text></item><item><author>lohszvu</author><text>I appreciate the CEO being direct. It gives you a chance to find another job before you get fired.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvfjsdhgfv</author><text>On the other hand, there is a lot of toxicity in there. If your bonus is zero no matter how work you hard, and you are encouraged by the CEO to &quot;push&quot; your colleagues (some of which are working on weekends), it&#x27;s a terrible company to work for, no matter what pay they offer (of course it&#x27;s good, otherwise the CEO wouldn&#x27;t have the balls to treat his employees in this way as everybody would just walk out).</text></comment> |
14,973,107 | 14,973,182 | 1 | 2 | 14,972,637 | train | <story><title>Swift 5: start your engines</title><url>https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170807/038645.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>protomyth</author><text>One of the problems I find with Swift is that Apple doesn&#x27;t go back and properly update their sample code at developer.apple.com. They have examples that will not build. If you search you can find folks that have patch sets, but they really need to fix the examples.</text></comment> | <story><title>Swift 5: start your engines</title><url>https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170807/038645.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ssijak</author><text>And just today I was contemplating writing my first native iOS and macOS app... I was looking at the options and decided to go native with Swift. I have never written Objective-C app and never used x-code for dev. But I have ~10 years of dev experience, mostly Java and Python on the backend and front end dev exp mostly with Angular. Some Android, and a little from &lt;input_random_tech_here&gt; because I like to experiment.<p>So, my question is. How hard and enjoyable is for someone like me to write not very complex native iOS&#x2F;macOS app in Swift starting from scratch? Best resource to start with?</text></comment> |
13,256,103 | 13,255,701 | 1 | 2 | 13,254,520 | train | <story><title>LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was</title><url>http://lineageos.org/Yes-this-is-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swiley</author><text>If google wants Android to survive as a platform, they should be directly giving money to projects like this, they are what make it bearable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Qub3d</author><text>google offered to <i>buy</i> Cyanogen.
(<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;google-reportedly-tried-to-buy-cyanogen-inc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;google-reportedly-tri...</a>)
Also, recall that Cyanogen (the company, not the mod) said that they were going to &quot;put a bullet in Google&#x27;s head&quot;. I bet Google has tried to offer support to them and Cyanogen turned it down.</text></comment> | <story><title>LineageOS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was</title><url>http://lineageos.org/Yes-this-is-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swiley</author><text>If google wants Android to survive as a platform, they should be directly giving money to projects like this, they are what make it bearable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TylerE</author><text>Surely the answer to Android&#x27;s woes isn&#x27;t <i>more</i> platform fragmentation.</text></comment> |
24,224,231 | 24,222,946 | 1 | 3 | 24,222,208 | train | <story><title>Foiling Electric Boat</title><url>https://candelaspeedboat.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thatcherc</author><text>This looks like a lot of fun, but I&#x27;m wary of its safety. Foiling boats (at least the sailboats) have a tendency to come down <i>hard</i> off the foils if not sailed exactly right. That&#x27;s why you&#x27;ll see helmets worn by sailors both on big foiling AC72s and F50s as well as a the single-handed Wazsps, Moths, and UFOs.<p>The deep V profile the Candela&#x27;s bow looks like it would handle dropping off the foil or hitting a big wave pretty well, and the 100 Hz foil control loop is reassuring, but my experience on little foiling sailboats would keep me cautious on one of these for a while. However, getting a boat to pop out above the waves is such an amazing feeling that I&#x27;d take a ride on one of these in a heartbeat (just maybe with a helmet!).<p>Some foiling sailboat crashes for reference -<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;875yq0-ogwo?t=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;875yq0-ogwo?t=20</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;frAkDEszgZc?t=26" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;frAkDEszgZc?t=26</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Candelaboat</author><text>You hit the nail on the head here. Safety is a key question that often comes up in discussions that we have with customers, and is of course a key focus in the development of the Candela model range.<p>As you mention, the deep V hull cuts waves pretty well, but we also have algorithms monitoring the position of the boat in 3D space, looking for signals that indicate a treacherous seastate or an unfavorable position of the boat. This means that we won&#x27;t do the nose dives that you see in the sailing videos.<p>Be sure that we have landed unexpectedly quite a few times to get to where we are! :D<p>To sum it up, when you are accustomed to flying with the Seven and you know where the limits are in terms of wave handling, then it&#x27;s no different from riding in a regular boat in choppy seas or high waves. Unruly seas require alert sailors, in all types of boats.<p>We&#x27;re publishing a short video soon, purely focused on running through waves from large passenger ferries. Sub to our youtube to know when.</text></comment> | <story><title>Foiling Electric Boat</title><url>https://candelaspeedboat.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thatcherc</author><text>This looks like a lot of fun, but I&#x27;m wary of its safety. Foiling boats (at least the sailboats) have a tendency to come down <i>hard</i> off the foils if not sailed exactly right. That&#x27;s why you&#x27;ll see helmets worn by sailors both on big foiling AC72s and F50s as well as a the single-handed Wazsps, Moths, and UFOs.<p>The deep V profile the Candela&#x27;s bow looks like it would handle dropping off the foil or hitting a big wave pretty well, and the 100 Hz foil control loop is reassuring, but my experience on little foiling sailboats would keep me cautious on one of these for a while. However, getting a boat to pop out above the waves is such an amazing feeling that I&#x27;d take a ride on one of these in a heartbeat (just maybe with a helmet!).<p>Some foiling sailboat crashes for reference -<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;875yq0-ogwo?t=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;875yq0-ogwo?t=20</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;frAkDEszgZc?t=26" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;frAkDEszgZc?t=26</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darksaints</author><text>I have some experience with foiling sailboats, and I would never expect the problems that foiling sailboats have to impact motorboats at all. Control problems are all well solved for motorboats, but the moment of a sail that is perpendicular to the direction of travel puts a huge kink in the picture that has been hard to tame. Even then, there have been huge strides lately...like the iFly 15, which uses a mechanical active controller which basically relies on two small rods with a float on the ends to measure foiling height and heeling, and mechanically adjust the coils to maintain stability. It works marvellously.</text></comment> |
37,065,417 | 37,065,209 | 1 | 2 | 37,062,820 | train | <story><title>Nintendo filed numerous patents for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom mechanics</title><url>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20230808-20590/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jallen_dot_dev</author><text>&gt; <i>The functionality seems at first glance to be a given for any game with a similar environment, but according to an observation by naoya2k, what makes Nintendo’s solution unique is that there are no physics working between Link and the dynamic object. Since both the character and object use physics, the most straightforward solution would be that Link moves together with the moving objects he is on top of as a result of physics (such as frictional force), but Nintendo apparently decided that what works better game-wise is Link being given the same movement that the object is performing, without any physics working between the two.</i><p>No way this is the first game to ignore the player character in physics calculations. I&#x27;m pretty sure in GTA3 you could climb onto the roof of a car and not slide around as the NPC drives and makes sharp turns.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>That&#x27;s just a trivial parent-child transformation copy, and it&#x27;s one of the <i>oldest</i> tools in 3D digital representation. You would be hard-pressed to find a game engine or even modeling software without this feature. Hell, I&#x27;m sure if you looked through a few geometry or physics books, you could pretty easily find any instance of this that predates computing.<p>We aren&#x27;t even talking about something interesting like inverse kinematics!<p>This patent boils down to nothing more than math, and should have been invalidated as soon as it was read. The fact that it <i>wasn&#x27;t</i> speaks volumes on the failure of our patent system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nintendo filed numerous patents for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom mechanics</title><url>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20230808-20590/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jallen_dot_dev</author><text>&gt; <i>The functionality seems at first glance to be a given for any game with a similar environment, but according to an observation by naoya2k, what makes Nintendo’s solution unique is that there are no physics working between Link and the dynamic object. Since both the character and object use physics, the most straightforward solution would be that Link moves together with the moving objects he is on top of as a result of physics (such as frictional force), but Nintendo apparently decided that what works better game-wise is Link being given the same movement that the object is performing, without any physics working between the two.</i><p>No way this is the first game to ignore the player character in physics calculations. I&#x27;m pretty sure in GTA3 you could climb onto the roof of a car and not slide around as the NPC drives and makes sharp turns.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ncr100</author><text>If I understand the issue correctly:<p>Uncharted 2, (or 3?) on the PlayStation, was widely publicized among game developers as having this kind of technology built into enable for instance the Nathan Drake character to stick appropriately to platforms which were being tossed around in a sinking ship. The ship was filling up with water creating buoyancy for the platform that he was standing on. There were numerous talks about this and I believe also a GDC presentation about it.</text></comment> |
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