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12,486,837 | 12,486,833 | 1 | 2 | 12,486,525 | train | <story><title>Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/sugar-industry-harvard-research/?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Odin78</author><text>What prevents people from withdrawing all their money in 500€ notes from the bank, trading them in for 550€, exchanging the money for 500€ notes at the bank and repeating this until they&#x27;re filthy rich?</text></item><item><author>wazoox</author><text>In some Paris suburbs, a 500€ note can be sold for 550€ or more. I&#x27;m pretty confident this is not for its legal uses.</text></item><item><author>jcbrand</author><text>Makes you wonder how many other studies are bought and paid for, such as the recent studies highlighting the evils of allowing cash (or at least high denomination notes) in our society.<p>For example, from this Guardian article:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2016&#x2F;feb&#x2F;15&#x2F;crime-terrorism-and-tax-evasion-why-banks-are-waging-war-on-cash" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2016&#x2F;feb&#x2F;15&#x2F;crime-t...</a><p>&gt; Calls for the eradication of cash have been bolstered by evidence that high-value notes play a major role in crime, terrorism and tax evasion. In a study for the Harvard Business School last week, former bank boss Peter Sands called for global elimination of the high-value note.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chki</author><text>Well, maybe there is a certain Risk attached to selling 500€ notes to a total foreigner in a shady suburb of Paris. Might be that you lose a 500€ notes every five transactions if you are just a casual guy.<p>On top of that it is not that easy to acquire 500€ notes: going to your regular ATM will not work because nobody has a use for these large notes except to store money.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/sugar-industry-harvard-research/?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Odin78</author><text>What prevents people from withdrawing all their money in 500€ notes from the bank, trading them in for 550€, exchanging the money for 500€ notes at the bank and repeating this until they&#x27;re filthy rich?</text></item><item><author>wazoox</author><text>In some Paris suburbs, a 500€ note can be sold for 550€ or more. I&#x27;m pretty confident this is not for its legal uses.</text></item><item><author>jcbrand</author><text>Makes you wonder how many other studies are bought and paid for, such as the recent studies highlighting the evils of allowing cash (or at least high denomination notes) in our society.<p>For example, from this Guardian article:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2016&#x2F;feb&#x2F;15&#x2F;crime-terrorism-and-tax-evasion-why-banks-are-waging-war-on-cash" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2016&#x2F;feb&#x2F;15&#x2F;crime-t...</a><p>&gt; Calls for the eradication of cash have been bolstered by evidence that high-value notes play a major role in crime, terrorism and tax evasion. In a study for the Harvard Business School last week, former bank boss Peter Sands called for global elimination of the high-value note.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalore</author><text>These suburbs where you can sell your 500 eur note aren&#x27;t probably the ones you want to go to carrying a stack of 500 eur notes.<p>You might end up selling them for 0.</text></comment> |
11,545,162 | 11,545,233 | 1 | 3 | 11,544,510 | train | <story><title>Virtual Weapons Are Turning Gamers into Serious Gamblers</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-virtual-guns-counterstrike-gambling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>levemi</author><text>This story isn&#x27;t about Valve but the author sure made it seem like it was. A third party site uses Valve&#x27;s API to enable users to bet skins on esport competitions. This third party site uses Valve&#x27;s API. Valve is in no way involved in betting. The only thing they haven&#x27;t done is turn off access to the API for this third party company.<p>This is probably more because of Valve&#x27;s management structure than it is about any policy. Valve is a flat company with no managers. People work on what they want to work on. Jobs like customer support and policing API use are akin to taking out the trash, nobody wants to do it but someone has to. It just isn&#x27;t a priority.<p>Anyway, ignorant article with a dishonest attempt at trying to spin two things together &quot;illegal betting!&quot; &quot;valve&quot; and failing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thrubbery</author><text>No, Valve sells scratch-off tickets. Or if you like, they give you the ticket (&quot;case&quot;) and sell you the coin to scratch it with (&quot;key&quot;). Same thing.<p>They&#x27;re not directly involved in the sports betting aspect, but they&#x27;d be running an illegal lottery without the fiction that their digital goods have no real world value, which is the same fiction maintained by the betting houses.<p>It stretches credibility to say they aren&#x27;t <i>very</i> involved.</text></comment> | <story><title>Virtual Weapons Are Turning Gamers into Serious Gamblers</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-virtual-guns-counterstrike-gambling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>levemi</author><text>This story isn&#x27;t about Valve but the author sure made it seem like it was. A third party site uses Valve&#x27;s API to enable users to bet skins on esport competitions. This third party site uses Valve&#x27;s API. Valve is in no way involved in betting. The only thing they haven&#x27;t done is turn off access to the API for this third party company.<p>This is probably more because of Valve&#x27;s management structure than it is about any policy. Valve is a flat company with no managers. People work on what they want to work on. Jobs like customer support and policing API use are akin to taking out the trash, nobody wants to do it but someone has to. It just isn&#x27;t a priority.<p>Anyway, ignorant article with a dishonest attempt at trying to spin two things together &quot;illegal betting!&quot; &quot;valve&quot; and failing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Goronmon</author><text>&gt;Anyway, ignorant article with a dishonest attempt at trying to spin two things together &quot;illegal betting!&quot; &quot;valve&quot; and failing.<p>How is a system where you spend real money in the hopes of receiving a valuable item by random chance not considered betting&#x2F;gambling? Because that&#x27;s effectively what system like the skins in CS:GO is at its core.</text></comment> |
28,243,361 | 28,242,562 | 1 | 2 | 28,218,174 | train | <story><title>Performance Improvements in .NET 6</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-6/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smackeyacky</author><text>I&#x27;m going to pile in too late and sing the virtues of .NET core or whatever its called now. Deployment of web apps to containers is a breeze, the language is modern feeling. Roslyn is about the most awesome thing I have played with. Razor pages are a breeze compared to the giant piles of dependency hell that client side SPAs or node have become. It feels lean and mean and I can be sitting at a debian box or a windows laptop and the experience in VSCode is identical including deploying code to production on AWS.<p>But like everybody has said, the desktop UI story is garbage. Fingers crossed Maui turns out to be useful because winforms and UWP are hot garbage. Such a shame from the guys who revolutionised gui development with Visual Basic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Performance Improvements in .NET 6</title><url>https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-6/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>foepys</author><text>WinForms and its Visual Studio designer are still broken, WPF is still riddled with bugs and was declared obsolete in ~2017 in favor of UWP, UWP is marked obsolete in favor of WinUI, and WinUI&#x27;s OSS release was postponed just two days ago because it&#x27;s not ready.<p>Microsoft is marketing .NET 6 as the replacement for .NET Framework but you still cannot properly do desktop UI with it. I honestly don&#x27;t understand why they are pushing more and more features when they cannot complete the ones they started years ago. Not to mention that porting WinForms from .NET Framework to .NET 6 requires a rewrite for anything more complex than a Hello World.</text></comment> |
9,706,798 | 9,706,187 | 1 | 2 | 9,705,780 | train | <story><title>Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS by default</title><url>https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/12/securing-wikimedia-sites-with-https/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chatmasta</author><text>User generated content sites are some of the most important that need to implement HTTPS.<p>Consider reddit for example. The entire site is HTTP. That means your ISP can pull up a list of your entire reddit browsing history. They can see every post you read, every comment you wrote, etc. Collectively this data could form quite an accurate picture of a person&#x27;s mental makeup. Is that the kind of data you want floating around?<p>HTTPS encrypts query strings so upstream providers cannot see which specific pages you browse.<p>Of course, HTTPS still shows domain names... but it&#x27;s a start. Next step is DNSSEC for everybody!<p>p.s. Anyone interested going down the rabbithole exploring mass tracking of individuals, should google &quot;entity mapping llc&quot; and poke around the results...</text></comment> | <story><title>Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS by default</title><url>https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/12/securing-wikimedia-sites-with-https/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buro9</author><text>This is a great move and has inspired me to think of how I can do this for the sites I run.<p>The problem I have is that I run forums which accept user generated content, and the links in the content are then parsed and embeds are put in.<p>For example, YouTube links have the embedded video put below to the link.<p>YouTube support https, but a lot of smaller sites that offer really useful tools don&#x27;t yet support https. An example is something like <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bikely.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bikely.com</a> which does not support https at all, and yet the embedded maps are common enough on the cycling forums I run.<p>I cannot just proxy via a https domain as these sites usually have JavaScript that require permission to talk to their own domains.<p>I&#x27;ve decided to start emailing all of the 3rd parties to ask that they add https to their site.<p>Almost 40% of my traffic is now over https, and it&#x27;s harder to increase that as every time I try to I receive support complaints about mixed-content warnings, missing content, etc.<p>If you also run a site that has embeds in user generated content, please consider emailing the 3rd parties and explaining why they should move to https.<p>There are only a few things holding back a lot of sites and it&#x27;s no longer the cost of a cert and SSL termination:<p>1) Embedded widgets that are http only today<p>2) Advert widgets&#x2F;scripts that are http only today<p>Those things hold the vast majority of news sites back too. I even checked the Guardian yesterday and no https available. The only news site that was https was The Verge, but I&#x27;m not sure tech news is really news.</text></comment> |
16,639,041 | 16,638,456 | 1 | 2 | 16,636,872 | train | <story><title>Why I Don't Sign Non-Competes</title><url>https://penguindreams.org/blog/why-i-dont-sign-non-competes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmkg</author><text>(IANAL)<p>Not signing the contract is one thing. Misrepresenting your position is something else. If you <i>gave the impression</i> that you agreed to the terms provided, then it&#x27;s possible you could be held to those terms.<p>A contract isn&#x27;t defined by a signature. A contract is defined by a &quot;meeting of the minds.&quot; The signature is commonly-accepted evidence that such a thing occurred, but it&#x27;s not essential.<p>By pocketing the contract rather than pointing it out to them, you&#x27;ve arguably violated the &quot;meeting of the minds.&quot; The company was under the impression that was part of the agreement. You can dither about &quot;due diligence&quot; and say it was there responsibility to check, but in some cases that can be seen as an intentional misrepresentation on your part, for which there are consequences.<p>I will concede that this is unlikely to come back to bite you in practice. But others should be aware that it is technically playing with fire. And personally, I consider it unethical.</text></item><item><author>tomohawk</author><text>I&#x27;ve had non-compete agreements provided to me to sign in the past, usually as part of a packet of things to sign. In each case I just pocketed them without signing them. I&#x27;ve never had a company come back later and demand that I sign the thing. If they don&#x27;t do their diligence, I don&#x27;t see why I should do it for them.<p>In other words, just because someone puts something in front of you to sign doesn&#x27;t mean you have to sign it, or even comment or push back on it. You can just ignore it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boomlinde</author><text>If the employer wants the NDA to be part of the agreement, they should include it in the conditions of the employment contract.<p>If they offer me a separate contract to sign for their non-disclosure terms and I agree neither verbally nor in ink, I think it&#x27;s a stretch to call it a misrepresentation of my position. Given that this type of contract usually offers absolutely nothing in exchange, it would be more reasonable to assume that I <i>don&#x27;t</i> agree, if I don&#x27;t sign it or express agreement otherwise.<p>Also IANAL, but at the very least I don&#x27;t think that this is unethical.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I Don't Sign Non-Competes</title><url>https://penguindreams.org/blog/why-i-dont-sign-non-competes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lmkg</author><text>(IANAL)<p>Not signing the contract is one thing. Misrepresenting your position is something else. If you <i>gave the impression</i> that you agreed to the terms provided, then it&#x27;s possible you could be held to those terms.<p>A contract isn&#x27;t defined by a signature. A contract is defined by a &quot;meeting of the minds.&quot; The signature is commonly-accepted evidence that such a thing occurred, but it&#x27;s not essential.<p>By pocketing the contract rather than pointing it out to them, you&#x27;ve arguably violated the &quot;meeting of the minds.&quot; The company was under the impression that was part of the agreement. You can dither about &quot;due diligence&quot; and say it was there responsibility to check, but in some cases that can be seen as an intentional misrepresentation on your part, for which there are consequences.<p>I will concede that this is unlikely to come back to bite you in practice. But others should be aware that it is technically playing with fire. And personally, I consider it unethical.</text></item><item><author>tomohawk</author><text>I&#x27;ve had non-compete agreements provided to me to sign in the past, usually as part of a packet of things to sign. In each case I just pocketed them without signing them. I&#x27;ve never had a company come back later and demand that I sign the thing. If they don&#x27;t do their diligence, I don&#x27;t see why I should do it for them.<p>In other words, just because someone puts something in front of you to sign doesn&#x27;t mean you have to sign it, or even comment or push back on it. You can just ignore it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhacker</author><text>Oh no this is not true - if they can&#x27;t find the signed paper work it is Absolutely on them. I&#x27;ve been square in this situation before - the company&#x27;s legal &quot;person&quot; is absolutely in charge and responsible for collecting whatever signatures they want and which ones are optional and required. I absolutely disagree with this post.</text></comment> |
30,222,010 | 30,221,580 | 1 | 3 | 30,220,208 | train | <story><title>A distributed peer to peer list of bad actor IP addresses and phone numbers</title><url>https://sentrypeer.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>To give a good example of why something like this matters...<p>I spent a bit more than a year as the most senior dev on the team that owned the sign up page for a cloud computing company. We faced bot attacks constantly. They had a variety of reasons to attack, but International revenue sharing fraud (IRSF) was a major one. In short, bots would convince our sign up flow to make verification phone calls to numbers that charge a lot of money but don&#x27;t actually exist. (Note: whatever &quot;why don&#x27;t you just&quot; you&#x27;re about to reply with, we had an entire team of people doing nothing but trying to stop this for months and years- we tried that and it didn&#x27;t succeed, or there were business reasons it was not feasible.)<p>I switched companies. In my new role, I happened to be on a team in the same org as their sign up page. Chatting with them, I learned that they were not facing <i>similar</i> attacks, but <i>identical</i> ones. The countries involved, the patterns of the attack, everything- this was the same attacker, going up against two completely unrelated companies.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this system is the right implementation- I need to do a deeper dive on this- but I do know that something like this is needed so that companies can coordinate their defenses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsnell</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked on a large federated IP reputation system. It sounds like a great idea, but does not work in practice.<p>The main problem is that it&#x27;s just too hard to map different kinds of abusive&#x2F;non-abusive actions to a shared scale. The model here seems to be basically a boolean OR: if anyone flagged an IP as bad, it&#x27;s marked as bad in the data set. Let&#x27;s say that you&#x27;re running a shop and detect a bunch of fraudulent transactions for expensive items, and add the IPs to the list. What can somebody else using this list for say spam-filtering comments to a web forum do with your data points in isolation? Not much, because the action you&#x27;re protecting is rare, high impact, and unlikely to have FPs so the threshold where you&#x27;d mark the IP as abusive would be very different than for the spam-filter use case.<p>At a minimum you&#x27;d need all the client of the IP reputation signal to also share the positive reputation signals, not just the negative, and to export some forms of volumes or ratios of good and bad traffic. But it&#x27;ll still be really hard to combine those reports to a single verdict that&#x27;s generally useful.<p>A secondary problem is that different kinds of abuse don&#x27;t even correlate particularly well. Let&#x27;s say that you&#x27;ve got an IP address sending SMTP spam; the odds are that this IP will not be doing ssh credential stuffing, credit card fraud, mass-scraping, traffic pumping, warez distribution, or DDOS attacks.<p>The classic SMTP IP blocklists work only because everyone using them is using them for the same purpose, and is as such on a shared scale, and there is a high likelihood of the same abusive actor attacking multiple different organizations. Your example would fit that as well, and doing reputation for that one domain would actually tractable unlike federated cross-domain IP reputation.</text></comment> | <story><title>A distributed peer to peer list of bad actor IP addresses and phone numbers</title><url>https://sentrypeer.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>To give a good example of why something like this matters...<p>I spent a bit more than a year as the most senior dev on the team that owned the sign up page for a cloud computing company. We faced bot attacks constantly. They had a variety of reasons to attack, but International revenue sharing fraud (IRSF) was a major one. In short, bots would convince our sign up flow to make verification phone calls to numbers that charge a lot of money but don&#x27;t actually exist. (Note: whatever &quot;why don&#x27;t you just&quot; you&#x27;re about to reply with, we had an entire team of people doing nothing but trying to stop this for months and years- we tried that and it didn&#x27;t succeed, or there were business reasons it was not feasible.)<p>I switched companies. In my new role, I happened to be on a team in the same org as their sign up page. Chatting with them, I learned that they were not facing <i>similar</i> attacks, but <i>identical</i> ones. The countries involved, the patterns of the attack, everything- this was the same attacker, going up against two completely unrelated companies.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this system is the right implementation- I need to do a deeper dive on this- but I do know that something like this is needed so that companies can coordinate their defenses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shirly88</author><text>Oh good, mob justice on the networks. Surely this IP system itself can never be manipulated to cut off people by mistake or for revenge.<p>Humans always investigate thoroughly before serving themselves.<p>None of these IPs could be zombies; here come internet Supermen to save us!</text></comment> |
38,524,480 | 38,524,228 | 1 | 2 | 38,523,704 | train | <story><title>YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in prison for obstructing probe into plane crash</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/santa-barbara-county-man-sentenced-6-months-prison-obstructing-federal-probe-plane</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Critically, he is <i>not</i> going to jail for intentionally crashing the plane. He is being jailed &quot;for obstructing a federal investigation by deliberately destroying the wreckage of an airplane.&quot;<p>Had he cooperated, it&#x27;s plausible to see him getting away with a license revocation and fine. Instead he did this:<p>&quot;In the weeks following the plane crash, Jacob lied to investigators that he did not know the wreckage’s location. In fact, on December 10, 2021, Jacob and a friend flew by helicopter to the wreckage site. There, Jacob used straps to secure the wreckage, which the helicopter lifted and carried to Rancho Sisquoc in Santa Barbara County, where it was loaded onto a trailer attached to Jacob’s pickup truck.<p>Jacob drove the wreckage to Lompoc City Airport and unloaded it in a hangar. He then cut up and destroyed the airplane wreckage and, over the course of a few days, deposited the detached parts of the wrecked airplane into trash bins at the airport and elsewhere, which was done with the intent to obstruct federal authorities from investigating the November 24 plane crash.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101b</author><text>&gt; <i>Had he cooperated, it&#x27;s plausible to see him getting away with a license revocation and fine.</i><p>Reminder of the quotation from Howard Baker (R-TN): <i>“It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.”</i><p>Though some would disagree:<p>&gt; <i>There&#x27;s this old line the wise folks in Washington have that &#x27;it&#x27;s not the crime, but the cover-up.&#x27;</i><p>&gt; <i>But only fools believe that. It&#x27;s</i> always about the crime. <i>The whole point of the cover-up is that a full revelation of the underlying crime is not survivable. Let me repeat that, the whole point of the cover-up is a recognition that a full revelation of the underlying bad act is not survivable. Indeed, the cover-ups are usually successful. And that&#x27;s why they&#x27;re tried so often. Just look at this administration [in 2007]. They&#x27;re the ultimate example of this truth.</i><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20071026022311&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talkingpointsmemo.com&#x2F;archives&#x2F;013271.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20071026022311&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talkingpo...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in prison for obstructing probe into plane crash</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/santa-barbara-county-man-sentenced-6-months-prison-obstructing-federal-probe-plane</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Critically, he is <i>not</i> going to jail for intentionally crashing the plane. He is being jailed &quot;for obstructing a federal investigation by deliberately destroying the wreckage of an airplane.&quot;<p>Had he cooperated, it&#x27;s plausible to see him getting away with a license revocation and fine. Instead he did this:<p>&quot;In the weeks following the plane crash, Jacob lied to investigators that he did not know the wreckage’s location. In fact, on December 10, 2021, Jacob and a friend flew by helicopter to the wreckage site. There, Jacob used straps to secure the wreckage, which the helicopter lifted and carried to Rancho Sisquoc in Santa Barbara County, where it was loaded onto a trailer attached to Jacob’s pickup truck.<p>Jacob drove the wreckage to Lompoc City Airport and unloaded it in a hangar. He then cut up and destroyed the airplane wreckage and, over the course of a few days, deposited the detached parts of the wrecked airplane into trash bins at the airport and elsewhere, which was done with the intent to obstruct federal authorities from investigating the November 24 plane crash.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duskwuff</author><text>Note, however, that this doesn&#x27;t mean that he would have gotten away with it if he&#x27;d cooperated. It means that the federal prosecutor decided that the act of obstruction would be easier to prove, since the intentional nature of those acts is much more self-evident.</text></comment> |
15,287,767 | 15,286,991 | 1 | 2 | 15,286,783 | train | <story><title>Twitter Suspends 300k Accounts Tied to Terrorism in 2017</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-19/twitter-suspends-300-000-accounts-in-2017-for-terrorism-content</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ohsnapman</author><text>Saw a lot of speculation about what ISIS does or does not do without actual links. Here are a few good ones I&#x27;ve seen in the past:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;isis-opsec-encryption-manuals-reveal-terrorist-group-security-protocols&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;isis-opsec-encryption-manuals-...</a><p>This podcast was pretty good. ISIS were using a Turkish Dropbox like service to move files ... except the service was actually based in France, something a whois <i>on the domain</i> could have easily detected. Fighters have also geotagged tweets&#x2F;instagram&#x2F;Facebook posts, which led to a drone strike:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gimletmedia.com&#x2F;episode&#x2F;62-decoders&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gimletmedia.com&#x2F;episode&#x2F;62-decoders&#x2F;</a><p>So ... they&#x27;re both more sophisticated than you think when it comes to opsec. And less sophisticated than you think when it comes to opsec.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter Suspends 300k Accounts Tied to Terrorism in 2017</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-19/twitter-suspends-300-000-accounts-in-2017-for-terrorism-content</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrissnell</author><text>I understand why Twitter might not want ISIS accounts on their service but from a national security standpoint, it seems better to have the communication happening on a U.S.-based service like Twitter than some darknet or crypto-centric app.</text></comment> |
7,153,759 | 7,153,869 | 1 | 2 | 7,153,671 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-30/microsoft-said-to-be-preparing-to-make-satya-nadella-ceo.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedmeyers</author><text>My personal opinion is that for Microsoft this is a much better solution than to hire an external CEO with an MBA and no background in software&#x2F;technology. If the news are true then I wish all the luck to Mr. Nadella.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-30/microsoft-said-to-be-preparing-to-make-satya-nadella-ceo.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Observations:<p>⚫ This spot&#x27;s proving very difficult to fill. Both in terms of finding the right person, and in getting them to accept. It&#x27;s been 160 days from the initial announcement of Ballmer&#x27;s retirement.<p>⚫ Given Ballmer&#x27;s long-standing deficiencies and publicly-voiced dissatisfaction with his performance, this also speaks to very poor succession planning on the part of the Board. This would be they: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/exec/bod.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;news&#x2F;exec&#x2F;bod.aspx</a><p>⚫ Enterprise + cloud is probably a safe pick for now. It suggests a de-emphasis of consumer and mobile, and a retrenchment to core strengths, if not enduring ones.<p>⚫ I&#x27;m not sold that bringing in external talent solves problems that insiders can&#x27;t tackle. The insiders will be well aware of strengths and weaknesses, the challenge is in acting on them given existing internal relationships and politics.</text></comment> |
22,268,200 | 22,268,065 | 1 | 2 | 22,267,547 | train | <story><title>Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75</title><url>https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/issues/683#issuecomment-583113382</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Ajedi32</author><text>Chrome used to rely on fixed synthetic benchmarks like this for guiding their performance optimizations, but quickly realized they aren&#x27;t a great indicator of real world performance and ditched them in favor of instead evaluating Chrome&#x27;s performance against a collection of popular, real-world websites. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v8.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;real-world-performance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;v8.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;real-world-performance</a> for a discussion of their bench marking methodology.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75</title><url>https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/issues/683#issuecomment-583113382</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hastes</author><text>Been on Firefox since Quantum came out and I have to say I don&#x27;t miss Chrome one bit. The only honest to god thing that I wish Firefox had was the rounded edges of the top bar design like Chrome..<p>Devtools are great, performance is great, battery life on MacBook 16in is great, Nightly is awesome (has its ups and downs).<p>I honestly only ever use Chrome to double-check if my CSS styling is cross-browser. Although I have been using Edge a lot more for this use case, because I can&#x27;t stand Google.</text></comment> |
7,455,623 | 7,455,504 | 1 | 3 | 7,454,553 | train | <story><title>Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not To Hire Apple Workers</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/emails-eric-schmidt-sergey-brin-hiring-apple-2014-3?utm_content=buffer7d246&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>firstOrder</author><text>&gt; Meg called to talk about our hiring practices. Here is what she said. Google is the talk of the valley because we are driving salaries up across the board.
Then Eric Schmidt says:
&gt; I would prefer Omid do it verbally since I don&#x27;t want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later<p>So Silicon Valley execs were illegally conspiring to drive down wages, and who knows how much more was done outside of the paper trail mentioned.<p>Then we have an article discussion yesterday and blog posts etc. in the past few weeks about how companies can&#x27;t find great engineers, and how we need immigration law changes that blocks Mexicans etc. but brings in more engineers to drive down engineer wages etc.<p>Maybe if CEO&#x27;s weren&#x27;t illegally conspiring to drive wages below their market value, there wouldn&#x27;t be a so-called &quot;engineer shortage&quot;?<p>I mean it&#x27;s risible. They conspire illegally to drive down wages, then whine that not enough people want to work in this field where wages have been artificially and illegally deflated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CamperBob2</author><text><i>Then Eric Schmidt says: &gt; I would prefer Omid do it verbally since I don&#x27;t want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later</i><p>How does someone this stupid rise to such a high position of wealth and influence? Are we talking luck here, or are Faustian bargains involved? Where do <i>I</i> get some of that action?<p>I&#x27;m only being half-facetious; this is <i>weapons</i> grade stupid. &quot;Let&#x27;s take this conversation offline because we&#x27;ll get sued or indicted if it gets out.&quot; Yeah, that will <i>totally</i> work in a grand jury room.<p>If low IQ isn&#x27;t the explanation, and I don&#x27;t see how it could be -- given the respect and reputation we all accord Eric Schmidt for his other achievements -- what is? Drugs? Mental illness? Distraction? Forgery? Did he fail a saving throw versus reality distortion on one of his walks on the beach with Jobs? What?</text></comment> | <story><title>Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not To Hire Apple Workers</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/emails-eric-schmidt-sergey-brin-hiring-apple-2014-3?utm_content=buffer7d246&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>firstOrder</author><text>&gt; Meg called to talk about our hiring practices. Here is what she said. Google is the talk of the valley because we are driving salaries up across the board.
Then Eric Schmidt says:
&gt; I would prefer Omid do it verbally since I don&#x27;t want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later<p>So Silicon Valley execs were illegally conspiring to drive down wages, and who knows how much more was done outside of the paper trail mentioned.<p>Then we have an article discussion yesterday and blog posts etc. in the past few weeks about how companies can&#x27;t find great engineers, and how we need immigration law changes that blocks Mexicans etc. but brings in more engineers to drive down engineer wages etc.<p>Maybe if CEO&#x27;s weren&#x27;t illegally conspiring to drive wages below their market value, there wouldn&#x27;t be a so-called &quot;engineer shortage&quot;?<p>I mean it&#x27;s risible. They conspire illegally to drive down wages, then whine that not enough people want to work in this field where wages have been artificially and illegally deflated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vardhan</author><text>It&#x27;s all propaganda. There&#x27;s no engineering shortage. They&#x27;re all just trying to flood the market with more engineers from all around the world.<p>It&#x27;s all propaganda plastered with a nice marmalade of feel goody &quot;let&#x27;s help the immigrants&quot;, or &quot;everything great about our country came from immigrants&quot;, or other such variants of rhetoric. It&#x27;s actually very smart, because it plays to the tune that people dance to.<p>That said immigration policies do need to change, and immigration is indeed a good thing for this country. Attracting talent is a lot of what makes this country great, but we need to be careful with the fine print of such policies as to not destroy our own economy.</text></comment> |
8,904,483 | 8,903,540 | 1 | 3 | 8,902,071 | train | <story><title>What Doesn't Seem Like Work?</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/work.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stegosaurus</author><text>As an addition to this, I&#x27;ve struggled a lot with the concept of working for pay and only recently could I really begin to explain why.<p>Some people would probably call it &#x27;entitlement&#x27;, but I&#x27;m not really sure that&#x27;s an accurate description.<p>As an employee, your role is essentially a permanent state of brown nosing. First of all you must convince a rich person&#x2F;company that you are worthy. Then you must convince them that you want to work for them, that they&#x27;re special, and so on. And then later, you must defer, every single day. Ill? According to policy document AED, page 5, section b, one of your eight sick days will be deducted, worker drone!<p>It&#x27;s not enough to simply perform a valuable function for society. You need to be subservient and defer to authority - you are worth less than your betters (those with wealth) and must please them in order to eat, in order to shelter.<p>There are a few ways left in which you can directly serve other humans and profit via such - private entrepreneurial services such as window cleaning, antique dealing, etcetera - but these make up a small portion of the employment market today and are often subject to ridiculously overbearing regulation. The vast majority of &#x27;jobs&#x27; in the Western world involve being directly, by rank, inferior to another human being.<p>Other people seem much more capable of dealing with this than I do. Often I find myself resenting others for putting up with the more ridiculous aspects - it feels like a betrayal, that if only people were better human beings and less likely to defer to authority we could all have a better experience.<p>This is the struggle I face, really. Physical trauma I find very simple - the emotional aspect of actively taking part in a system that I despise is much more difficult.</text></item><item><author>stegosaurus</author><text>What if the idea of work itself is what you dislike?<p>There are plenty of activities I can enjoy, and some, quite a few of them in fact, are profitable.<p>Once you shoe-horn them into the power dynamic situation of a traditional job (with the bureaucracy that entails unless you&#x27;re dealing with Actual People as opposed to corporations), suddenly a lot of the luster disappears.<p>As a ridiculous example - I enjoy reading. It&#x27;s not really work at all, right?<p>Ask me to read 9am-5pm and I&#x27;d start to find it frustrating. Or add in a commute, or very low pay.<p>The actual job itself is very rarely the issue for me. It&#x27;s what you miss out on, and also the fact that it invariably involves submission, acceptance of being subordinate, etc.<p>edit: To be clear here; I&#x27;m not talking about work ethic in the sense of &#x27;pushing through something you find difficult&#x27;.<p>More the general idea of not wanting to be a part of a machine, a construct that you don&#x27;t agree with. Large corporations and their &#x27;policy documents&#x27;, for example. I don&#x27;t want to work for a company in which my boss doesn&#x27;t have the autonomy to speak to me as a human being - this stands regardless of whether my job is backbreaking labour or eating chocolate bars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jusben1369</author><text>I definitely wouldn&#x27;t call it a sense of entitlement. What you say though is disturbing and unfortunate and I wish I had a good answer. Imagine you buy a plane ticket and fly to somewhere exotic. Passenger in seat 11a is thinking &quot;flying is horrible. It is a huge polluter. You&#x27;re all crammed in like sardines. The airline is owned by wealthy fat cats and I had to pay $1500 for the &#x27;honor&#x27; of being stuck with horrible food, crying babies and long lines at the toilets&quot; passenger 11b has a constant smile on his face &quot;I can&#x27;t believe that one weeks salary + 12 hours of flying is all it takes to be in a completely different part of the world starting an adventure with unknown possibilities and tremendous learning to be had&quot;<p>The thing is I guess they&#x27;re both right! But now you know why you dont need to worry about why your coworker is grinning in the seat next to you. He&#x2F;she is viewing the same circumstance very differently. Maybe over time your view can change to (mainly because you seem so unhappy with how it currently is)</text></comment> | <story><title>What Doesn't Seem Like Work?</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/work.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stegosaurus</author><text>As an addition to this, I&#x27;ve struggled a lot with the concept of working for pay and only recently could I really begin to explain why.<p>Some people would probably call it &#x27;entitlement&#x27;, but I&#x27;m not really sure that&#x27;s an accurate description.<p>As an employee, your role is essentially a permanent state of brown nosing. First of all you must convince a rich person&#x2F;company that you are worthy. Then you must convince them that you want to work for them, that they&#x27;re special, and so on. And then later, you must defer, every single day. Ill? According to policy document AED, page 5, section b, one of your eight sick days will be deducted, worker drone!<p>It&#x27;s not enough to simply perform a valuable function for society. You need to be subservient and defer to authority - you are worth less than your betters (those with wealth) and must please them in order to eat, in order to shelter.<p>There are a few ways left in which you can directly serve other humans and profit via such - private entrepreneurial services such as window cleaning, antique dealing, etcetera - but these make up a small portion of the employment market today and are often subject to ridiculously overbearing regulation. The vast majority of &#x27;jobs&#x27; in the Western world involve being directly, by rank, inferior to another human being.<p>Other people seem much more capable of dealing with this than I do. Often I find myself resenting others for putting up with the more ridiculous aspects - it feels like a betrayal, that if only people were better human beings and less likely to defer to authority we could all have a better experience.<p>This is the struggle I face, really. Physical trauma I find very simple - the emotional aspect of actively taking part in a system that I despise is much more difficult.</text></item><item><author>stegosaurus</author><text>What if the idea of work itself is what you dislike?<p>There are plenty of activities I can enjoy, and some, quite a few of them in fact, are profitable.<p>Once you shoe-horn them into the power dynamic situation of a traditional job (with the bureaucracy that entails unless you&#x27;re dealing with Actual People as opposed to corporations), suddenly a lot of the luster disappears.<p>As a ridiculous example - I enjoy reading. It&#x27;s not really work at all, right?<p>Ask me to read 9am-5pm and I&#x27;d start to find it frustrating. Or add in a commute, or very low pay.<p>The actual job itself is very rarely the issue for me. It&#x27;s what you miss out on, and also the fact that it invariably involves submission, acceptance of being subordinate, etc.<p>edit: To be clear here; I&#x27;m not talking about work ethic in the sense of &#x27;pushing through something you find difficult&#x27;.<p>More the general idea of not wanting to be a part of a machine, a construct that you don&#x27;t agree with. Large corporations and their &#x27;policy documents&#x27;, for example. I don&#x27;t want to work for a company in which my boss doesn&#x27;t have the autonomy to speak to me as a human being - this stands regardless of whether my job is backbreaking labour or eating chocolate bars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heurist</author><text>I&#x27;m with you. The only options I&#x27;ve thought of are independent employment or escaping society, both come with significant tradeoffs and neither are simple to accomplish, especially without personal guidance... I guess you could find a job you&#x27;re overqualified for too, make things easy at least even if you don&#x27;t get to own your time. I&#x27;m not sure that would be fulfilling either.</text></comment> |
26,154,974 | 26,154,658 | 1 | 2 | 26,153,149 | train | <story><title>Comma.ai, self-driving cars and indefinite optimism</title><url>https://mleverything.substack.com/p/commaai-flying-cars-and-indefinite</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atty</author><text>I think the author is guilty of exactly what he’s accusing everyone else of. The major car companies are delivering relatively high quality products at scale (we have decent certainty it’s high quality because the presence of many of these driver assist features correlate with reduced accidents). And they’re rolling out slowly without a ton of stories of cars going haywire and flying off the road. And of course certain cars will only have certain features (addressing his Ford complaint) because those features require the correct mix of sensors and compute that is not yet present on every vehicle. That’s how technology that can affect personal safety should be rolled out. Slowly, carefully, and very boringly.<p>Releasing “alpha” level software and saying essentially “lol have fun idk” when it can significantly impact customer safety is childish, bad business, morally wrong, and something we as an industry need to move away from. It doesn’t matter if your customer base are early adopters, hackers, or open source supporters. You still owe them their safety and a reasonable and coherent privacy policy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Comma.ai, self-driving cars and indefinite optimism</title><url>https://mleverything.substack.com/p/commaai-flying-cars-and-indefinite</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bri3d</author><text>Python straw man aside, Comma could improve their safety dramatically, today, by documenting their safety systems, requiring a specific, audited checklist for new vehicles to be introduced, producing a real change management and detailed test result report for each release, utilizing a real safety processor in their &quot;Panda&quot; CAN intercept product, and working to reduce their use of bus effects like message-stuffing or first-in-wins racing with CAN control messages where possible.<p>But there&#x27;s no way I would bring this up in their GitHub, for example, because it isn&#x27;t the culture of the project - and that&#x27;s the problem. For example, their &quot;leader&quot; shows up and makes commits to their safety code like &quot;WTF WHY WAS THIS SHIT EVERYWHERE.&quot;<p>To Comma&#x27;s credit, they have made great strides in safety since the first two years of their product - since 2018, they&#x27;ve introduced safety checks that (while undocumented), seem to be somewhat consistent (or trying to be) across vehicles, are written in MISRA C which is at least something that&#x27;s actually used in the field, and exist at the low level of the system. Commits are signed now, and their founder seems to make fewer non-documenting troll commits to the product. These are all signs that the company is growing up (and, if we look at the history of the company and their leadership, we certainly see some signs as to why this may be the case...).<p>But, these are things that should have been in place since day one, and the founders and company were certainly not unaware. It is absolutely fair to judge products and companies for the decisions they make, ESPECIALLY when their product is purportedly &quot;world-changing,&quot; and in the case of Comma, safety does not seem ingrained into the decision-making process.<p>As an aside, this blog post is killing me, between extensive Peter Thiel quotes, random jabs at California&#x27;s COVID policy, Elon worship, and a lionization of a startup company with an immature founder building safety-related hardware.</text></comment> |
12,707,206 | 12,706,852 | 1 | 2 | 12,705,851 | train | <story><title>A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03452</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ivarious</author><text>It&#x27;s rather disappointing that the authors didn&#x27;t talk about the biggest thing that has reshaped discussion in 4chan since years.<p>The reply indicator.<p>For people who don&#x27;t go to 4chan, you can read it on <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&#x2F;memes&#x2F;you-here-s-your-you" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&#x2F;memes&#x2F;you-here-s-your-you</a>. Basically, if someone else replied to your post, the post pointer will show a (You) word, showing that the poster replied to a post that you wrote.<p>Moreover, the post number of posts that replied&#x2F;quoted you will be attached to your own posts. Much-replied post will have a lot of link to the posts that replied them, and very visible when you skip through the thread.<p>This one simple feature has changed 4chan. Before, posts are similar and anonymous since they don&#x27;t have visual distinction between each other. You have to actually read their content to know what&#x27;s inside. The reply indicator make controversial posts very visible and &quot;famous&quot; in the thread.<p>Much like Reddit&#x27;s voting system and Facebook likes or Twitter&#x27;s retweets&#x2F;favorites, 4chan now has its own post rating system. The difference is that Facebook likes and Reddit&#x27;s vote system rewards popular posts that people agree with and liked. 4chan&#x27;s &quot;rating system&quot; rewards controversial posts that people rebuke or laugh at.<p>The presence of this reply indicator make people try to post controversial contents, and to be controversial by 4chan standards, your post have to be very, very controversial.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03452</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dogma1138</author><text>&quot;9. RARE PEPES
In this Section we display some of our rare Pepe collection.&quot;<p>Things that you have never thought would appear on a bonafide research paper for 800$.<p>EDIT: 4Chan thread regarding this paper, this is worth the read on it&#x27;s own.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boards.4chan.org&#x2F;pol&#x2F;thread&#x2F;92612923&#x2F;a-longitudinal-measurement-study-of-4chans" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boards.4chan.org&#x2F;pol&#x2F;thread&#x2F;92612923&#x2F;a-longitudinal-m...</a></text></comment> |
4,450,376 | 4,450,204 | 1 | 3 | 4,449,680 | train | <story><title>37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady</title><url>http://www.fastcompany.com/3000852/37signals-earns-millions-each-year-its-ceo%E2%80%99s-model-his-cleaning-lady</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jd</author><text>"To me that’s far more interesting than a tech company that’s hiring a bunch of people, just got their fourth round of financing for 12 million dollars, and they’re still losing money. That’s what everyone talks about as being exciting, but I think that’s an absolutely disgusting scenario when it comes to business."<p>Hilarious given that Jason Fried was on the board of directors of Groupon (his comments on this "disgusting scenario" here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617160" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617160</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klochner</author><text>Jason made it pretty clear that he was joining the Groupon board:<p><pre><code> * as a personal favor to Andrew Mason
* to get some board experience
</code></pre>
He emphasized:<p><pre><code> * he had not changed his stance on bootstrapping companies
* his board involvement was not an endorsement of groupon
* he sold his shares when given the chance
</code></pre>
So I guess I'm missing the hilarity, other than seeing you try to pick another fight with Jason Fried.</text></comment> | <story><title>37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady</title><url>http://www.fastcompany.com/3000852/37signals-earns-millions-each-year-its-ceo%E2%80%99s-model-his-cleaning-lady</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jd</author><text>"To me that’s far more interesting than a tech company that’s hiring a bunch of people, just got their fourth round of financing for 12 million dollars, and they’re still losing money. That’s what everyone talks about as being exciting, but I think that’s an absolutely disgusting scenario when it comes to business."<p>Hilarious given that Jason Fried was on the board of directors of Groupon (his comments on this "disgusting scenario" here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617160" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617160</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twelvedigits</author><text>I think you're overestimating the influence of board members. You can judge him based on how he runs his company, not how he participates on one company's board. That's "do as I do."</text></comment> |
39,026,464 | 39,026,334 | 1 | 3 | 38,994,457 | train | <story><title>Some memories of Niklaus Wirth</title><url>https://odersky.github.io/blog/2024-01-04-post.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mjburgess</author><text>I remember having just left a scala event I was running in a cab, and seeing Martin on a london bridge with a gaggle of guys following him. I wasnt aware he was the student of Nikalus Wirth -- but it makes a lot of sense.<p>It&#x27;s a shame though, that Wirth&#x27;s philosophy was, imv, ditched from 90s-00s (where we get: python, js, ruby, ...scala).<p>It seems now language design is rediscovering Wirth and his techniques (see, eg., google&#x27;s carbon which iirc, seeks to be ast-free single-pass).</text></comment> | <story><title>Some memories of Niklaus Wirth</title><url>https://odersky.github.io/blog/2024-01-04-post.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>santiagobasulto</author><text>For the unaware: Odersky himself is a “modern day Wirth”. Amazing language designer. He’s responsible for generics in Java and the Scala language.</text></comment> |
14,818,233 | 14,818,123 | 1 | 2 | 14,817,671 | train | <story><title>“We currently have no plans to support Xwayland”</title><url>https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/925605/linux/nvidia-364-12-release-vulkan-glvnd-drm-kms-and-eglstreams/post/5188874/#5188874</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shmerl</author><text><i>&gt; Gaming enthusiasts aren&#x27;t running Linux.</i><p>More and more do today.</text></item><item><author>cthalupa</author><text>A company that is wholly reliant on Linux to sell quite a few of their products?<p>Gaming enthusiasts aren&#x27;t running Linux. The HPC&#x2F;GPU compute market don&#x27;t care about Wayland. Android devices aren&#x27;t using Wayland.<p>What part of their target market runs Linux?<p>What portion of the desktop market runs Linux?<p>If it wasn&#x27;t for Linux, I&#x27;d be in a very different profession, so I&#x27;m a huge fan. But I don&#x27;t understand where you guys that act like the Linux desktop is a big enough market that this will make a material affect on nvidia&#x27;s bottom line is so weird to me.</text></item><item><author>posguy</author><text>For a company that is wholly reliant on Linux to sell quite a few of their products, the lack of support from Nvidia continues to be impressive.<p>Intel is actively trying to kill off lowend and mid-range GPUs in the desktop, and has locked them out in the mobile space, leaving Nvidia with just the high end GPU market and their ventures into the ARM SOC space.<p>By not treating Linux end user devices as first class citizens, I don&#x27;t see how Nvidia intends to have a viable business long term. Who wants a tablet, phone or desktop GPU without drivers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextlevelwizard</author><text>Not to pile on, but every few years I decide to see if Linux is ready for gaming. I use it every day to get my work done, so why not double dip and not have to deal with Windows?<p>However it&#x27;s never been good enough. At first there just were no drivers, so I couldn&#x27;t get acceptable performance from any game. Then came drivers, but I had to fight for days to get them to work on handful of games and even then performance was sub par compared to Windows. Last time drivers installed without any problems, but still from the games I tend to play only couple had native Linux support (in this case, they could be downloaded straight from Steam), but still most required Wine and that sucked the performance right out. Then there were bunch of games that didn&#x27;t even work with Wine.<p>I&#x27;m first to admit that I do not have high end gaming PC, but 16GB of middle of the road RAM, i5 2500K, and nVidia GTX 970 serve me well on Windows side. Frankly, I see no reason to spend more money to get the same performance on Linux.<p>If you can get acceptable performance from your Linux PC while gaming then more power to you, but from my point of view we are still long way and I mean really long way from gaming being &quot;viable&quot; on Linux.</text></comment> | <story><title>“We currently have no plans to support Xwayland”</title><url>https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/925605/linux/nvidia-364-12-release-vulkan-glvnd-drm-kms-and-eglstreams/post/5188874/#5188874</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shmerl</author><text><i>&gt; Gaming enthusiasts aren&#x27;t running Linux.</i><p>More and more do today.</text></item><item><author>cthalupa</author><text>A company that is wholly reliant on Linux to sell quite a few of their products?<p>Gaming enthusiasts aren&#x27;t running Linux. The HPC&#x2F;GPU compute market don&#x27;t care about Wayland. Android devices aren&#x27;t using Wayland.<p>What part of their target market runs Linux?<p>What portion of the desktop market runs Linux?<p>If it wasn&#x27;t for Linux, I&#x27;d be in a very different profession, so I&#x27;m a huge fan. But I don&#x27;t understand where you guys that act like the Linux desktop is a big enough market that this will make a material affect on nvidia&#x27;s bottom line is so weird to me.</text></item><item><author>posguy</author><text>For a company that is wholly reliant on Linux to sell quite a few of their products, the lack of support from Nvidia continues to be impressive.<p>Intel is actively trying to kill off lowend and mid-range GPUs in the desktop, and has locked them out in the mobile space, leaving Nvidia with just the high end GPU market and their ventures into the ARM SOC space.<p>By not treating Linux end user devices as first class citizens, I don&#x27;t see how Nvidia intends to have a viable business long term. Who wants a tablet, phone or desktop GPU without drivers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WillPostForFood</author><text>Looking at the most recent Steam Hardware &amp; Software Survey, Linux share is at 0.72% and shrinking (a year ago it was 0.81% two years ago it was 0.89%).</text></comment> |
38,208,215 | 38,208,225 | 1 | 3 | 38,206,333 | train | <story><title>Las Vegas Sphere reports $98.4M loss; CFO quits</title><url>https://lasvegassun.com/news/2023/nov/08/las-vegas-sphere-reports-984-million-loss-cfo-quit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>It was open for 2 days of the fiscal quarter. The CFO quit after being yelled at by the notoriously combative CEO. The news has been running with this headline because it&#x27;s drawing clicks but it&#x27;s not really painting an accurate picture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alephnerd</author><text>&gt; notoriously combative CEO<p>Understatement of the year. Dolan successfully destroyed 2 major sports franchises (Knicks and Rangers) he spent millions on acquiring and managing.<p>He is also using facial recognition to ban all employees of law firms suing MSG (his company) from going to any of their properties, and NY State is considering pulling his liquor license as a result.<p>The only reason he&#x27;s solvent is because the Madison Square Garden is basically el dorado (financially speaking) and he inherited a bunch of money from his father (the founder of HBO and Cablevision)<p>Imagine if GOB Bluth became CEO. That&#x27;s Dolan.</text></comment> | <story><title>Las Vegas Sphere reports $98.4M loss; CFO quits</title><url>https://lasvegassun.com/news/2023/nov/08/las-vegas-sphere-reports-984-million-loss-cfo-quit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>It was open for 2 days of the fiscal quarter. The CFO quit after being yelled at by the notoriously combative CEO. The news has been running with this headline because it&#x27;s drawing clicks but it&#x27;s not really painting an accurate picture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdjon</author><text>This was my confusion seeing the headline, there is no way the people building this did not realize that this was an &quot;investment&quot; and would take time to make money?!?<p>Even once it&#x27;s built you have some logistical things to figure out to start making profit day by day before taking into account the investment.<p>The real story is apparently the asshole CEO, not the loss.</text></comment> |
20,905,640 | 20,903,553 | 1 | 2 | 20,902,881 | train | <story><title>Toy Stories: Children around the world with their most prized possessions</title><url>http://www.gabrielegalimberti.com/toy-stories/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trykondev</author><text>This is a beautiful project. I still remember the night before a &quot;show and tell&quot; event at my school when I was eight years old. I laid out all my toys on my bed and tried to choose which one to bring to school the next day. I felt such excitement at the prospect of telling my friends all about the games I played with them.<p>I remember having such love for my toys and when I think of them I can still feel the joy they brought me. I admit that scrolling through these pictures today has me feeling pretty emotional.</text></comment> | <story><title>Toy Stories: Children around the world with their most prized possessions</title><url>http://www.gabrielegalimberti.com/toy-stories/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Fnoord</author><text>This reminded me of an older series of &quot;Daily Bread: What Kids Eat Around the World&quot;. I had to look it up and submitted it here [1]<p>Also, the author has more series on her website [2]. One is called &quot;The Heavens&quot; about tax havens. One is called &quot;Fathers&quot; it is about fathers (as a father myself, I enjoyed it). There&#x27;s one about &quot;couchsurfers&quot; (does not interest me, YMMV) and there&#x27;s the one already linked.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20903532" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20903532</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gabrielegalimberti.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gabrielegalimberti.com</a></text></comment> |
27,118,530 | 27,116,755 | 1 | 2 | 27,114,718 | train | <story><title>Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?</title><url>https://babeljs.io/blog/2021/05/10/funding-update.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>&gt; we settled on $11,000 per month as a baseline salary for working full-time on open source.<p>&gt; For now, Nicolò, Henry, and Jùnliàng will all be paid a temporary rate of $6,000 per month. This doesn&#x27;t solve the problem,<p>I used to donate to Babel, before they made it apparent they are just interested in funneling the money to one developer. 11K per month?! That is absolutely bananas and same reaction I had the last time this came up, but this time I cannot do anything as a reaction as I&#x27;ve already pulled my funding.<p>But my guess is that a lot of people feel the same way, as the donations seems to be going down. 11K per month could pay for many developers if you hire people outside of Sillicon Valley, which since you&#x27;re doing open source, you should really really consider.<p>Open source is not &quot;VC fueled develoment&quot; and I don&#x27;t think we should go that way either. Make your operation nimble and survive on little, otherwise you&#x27;ll soon disappear. Optimize for sustainability, not for paying the one of the highest salary in the world (minus SV bubble of course).<p>It&#x27;s not wonder Babel is going the way it&#x27;s going, as the economy you&#x27;ve setup for yourself is nowhere near sustainable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ianbutler</author><text>On the flip side, Silicon Valley isn&#x27;t the only expensive place and 132k was well below my full time salary in New York as a senior eng before I jumped into my own work. Actually I don&#x27;t think I know any full time engineers right now in my personal network making lower than 150k and they&#x27;re all very talented people who wouldn&#x27;t be able to hop on something like this for various reasons related to that being too low.<p>My point is without high pay a whole class of very good engineers is unavailable to you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?</title><url>https://babeljs.io/blog/2021/05/10/funding-update.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>&gt; we settled on $11,000 per month as a baseline salary for working full-time on open source.<p>&gt; For now, Nicolò, Henry, and Jùnliàng will all be paid a temporary rate of $6,000 per month. This doesn&#x27;t solve the problem,<p>I used to donate to Babel, before they made it apparent they are just interested in funneling the money to one developer. 11K per month?! That is absolutely bananas and same reaction I had the last time this came up, but this time I cannot do anything as a reaction as I&#x27;ve already pulled my funding.<p>But my guess is that a lot of people feel the same way, as the donations seems to be going down. 11K per month could pay for many developers if you hire people outside of Sillicon Valley, which since you&#x27;re doing open source, you should really really consider.<p>Open source is not &quot;VC fueled develoment&quot; and I don&#x27;t think we should go that way either. Make your operation nimble and survive on little, otherwise you&#x27;ll soon disappear. Optimize for sustainability, not for paying the one of the highest salary in the world (minus SV bubble of course).<p>It&#x27;s not wonder Babel is going the way it&#x27;s going, as the economy you&#x27;ve setup for yourself is nowhere near sustainable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisRR</author><text>Exactly, I thought the reason that US developers are so highly paid compared to everywhere else in the world was to offset the high cost of living in silicon valley.<p>$132,000 is almost double my salary is the UK. They could easily get 2 full time UK devs for that, or even more in many EU countries with lower cost of living</text></comment> |
24,374,101 | 24,373,793 | 1 | 2 | 24,371,703 | train | <story><title>Digital pregnancy tests have an internal paper test</title><url>https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301707401024827392</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leto_ii</author><text>Going over the conversation here I&#x27;m a bit surprised by how many people seem to prefer an unnecessarily complicated and obfuscating solution to the straight-forward one.<p>The Twitter thread clearly points out that the electronics serve strictly as an intermediary layer between the paper test and the user. They just binarize the paper reading. This in turn gives a false psychological sense of security (&quot;it&#x27;s the computer that says it, not me&quot;), without any credible benefit.<p>Why should I trust the people who calibrated the electronic device more than my own eyes?<p>More generally, why are people so eager to discount the reliability of their own senses? You have eyes and a mind which are the product of billions of years of evolutionary refinement. If you&#x27;re not sure whether it&#x27;s || or |+, pee again on a different test and compare; or wait a few days. If the lighting in your bathroom is bad, take the test in natural light or a better lit room.<p>My personal instinct is to rely first and foremost on my own mind and senses. It&#x27;s of course important to defer to expert knowledge, but we need to use our critical thinking when deciding if something is the result of expert knowledge, or simply a marketing gimmick.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davewritescode</author><text>I actually saw this last night and initially had the same reaction but had some time to think on it. Remember, for a lot of people taking a pregnancy test is incredibly stressful. Reducing the complexity of reading by outputting a less ambiguous result has a lot of value to some people.</text></comment> | <story><title>Digital pregnancy tests have an internal paper test</title><url>https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301707401024827392</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leto_ii</author><text>Going over the conversation here I&#x27;m a bit surprised by how many people seem to prefer an unnecessarily complicated and obfuscating solution to the straight-forward one.<p>The Twitter thread clearly points out that the electronics serve strictly as an intermediary layer between the paper test and the user. They just binarize the paper reading. This in turn gives a false psychological sense of security (&quot;it&#x27;s the computer that says it, not me&quot;), without any credible benefit.<p>Why should I trust the people who calibrated the electronic device more than my own eyes?<p>More generally, why are people so eager to discount the reliability of their own senses? You have eyes and a mind which are the product of billions of years of evolutionary refinement. If you&#x27;re not sure whether it&#x27;s || or |+, pee again on a different test and compare; or wait a few days. If the lighting in your bathroom is bad, take the test in natural light or a better lit room.<p>My personal instinct is to rely first and foremost on my own mind and senses. It&#x27;s of course important to defer to expert knowledge, but we need to use our critical thinking when deciding if something is the result of expert knowledge, or simply a marketing gimmick.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shawnz</author><text>&gt; Why should I trust the people who calibrated the electronic device more than my own eyes?<p>Do you as a layperson know how sensitive the test strip is, or how blue it needs to turn to have a reasonable guarantee against false positives? It seems like the engineers of the device would have a much better perspective on those things.</text></comment> |
17,627,049 | 17,627,061 | 1 | 3 | 17,626,020 | train | <story><title>The last thing libraries need is Silicon Valley “disruption.”</title><url>https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/7/26/17616516/amazon-silicon-valley-libraries-forbes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>romaniv</author><text>This is a very important point. Libraries do more than just lend books. They are institutions that preserve and promote knowledge and have certain values &quot;built in&quot;. They also often serve as local community centers of sorts. Having cheap books available in Kindle store does not fully replace functionality of a library.</text></item><item><author>geebee</author><text>I&#x27;m largely in agreement with this Vox piece, but I think there&#x27;s much more to say in defense of libraries as well.<p>I have a friend who found a red envelope with some money in it in a book that he&#x27;d checked out of the library. He figured it belonged to whoever had checked the book out earlier, so he went into the branch and mentioned it. They said that they could find out the last person to read the book, but no more than that, because by and large, librarians (at least in that system) deliberately avoided keeping long term records of what people are reading, to safeguard privacy rights.<p>Can you imagine Netflix or Amazon, Google or Facebook behaving this way? Could be that I&#x27;m from an older generation, but there was a time when people considered the idea of an institution having a long and complete list of everything you&#x27;ve read more than creepy, it was terrifying. Add in cell phone tracking devices that show where we are, map apps that show where we go at what time and what routes we take, commence sites that show what we buy and consider buying. You know for a while there it was impossible to remove a film from your recently watched list on Netflix? (the tech advice was to just select a bunch of stuff randomly and bury it deep if you didn&#x27;t want it sitting there for everyone else to see the next day).<p>Libraries don&#x27;t play nearly as much of a role in making sure that people can access information privately as they used to, they&#x27;ve been shoved out of the way, but they were far more principled guardians of it than tech companies (I mean, night and day, they were guardians, tech companies are rapacious violators of this principle).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rainbowmverse</author><text>A newspaper interviewed a local librarian. The interviewer pointed out a lot of people use the free wifi from the parking lot after hours, and asked if that was a problem.<p>&quot;That&#x27;s the whole point.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>The last thing libraries need is Silicon Valley “disruption.”</title><url>https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/7/26/17616516/amazon-silicon-valley-libraries-forbes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>romaniv</author><text>This is a very important point. Libraries do more than just lend books. They are institutions that preserve and promote knowledge and have certain values &quot;built in&quot;. They also often serve as local community centers of sorts. Having cheap books available in Kindle store does not fully replace functionality of a library.</text></item><item><author>geebee</author><text>I&#x27;m largely in agreement with this Vox piece, but I think there&#x27;s much more to say in defense of libraries as well.<p>I have a friend who found a red envelope with some money in it in a book that he&#x27;d checked out of the library. He figured it belonged to whoever had checked the book out earlier, so he went into the branch and mentioned it. They said that they could find out the last person to read the book, but no more than that, because by and large, librarians (at least in that system) deliberately avoided keeping long term records of what people are reading, to safeguard privacy rights.<p>Can you imagine Netflix or Amazon, Google or Facebook behaving this way? Could be that I&#x27;m from an older generation, but there was a time when people considered the idea of an institution having a long and complete list of everything you&#x27;ve read more than creepy, it was terrifying. Add in cell phone tracking devices that show where we are, map apps that show where we go at what time and what routes we take, commence sites that show what we buy and consider buying. You know for a while there it was impossible to remove a film from your recently watched list on Netflix? (the tech advice was to just select a bunch of stuff randomly and bury it deep if you didn&#x27;t want it sitting there for everyone else to see the next day).<p>Libraries don&#x27;t play nearly as much of a role in making sure that people can access information privately as they used to, they&#x27;ve been shoved out of the way, but they were far more principled guardians of it than tech companies (I mean, night and day, they were guardians, tech companies are rapacious violators of this principle).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sedachv</author><text>Not to mention that libraries have curated collections, which unlike the Kindle store are not filled with bot-generated scammer garbage: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;davidgaughran.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;03&#x2F;amazon-has-a-fake-book-problem&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;davidgaughran.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;03&#x2F;amazon-has-a-fake-book-p...</a></text></comment> |
35,502,057 | 35,501,214 | 1 | 3 | 35,500,528 | train | <story><title>Perseus – NextJS alternative in Rust</title><url>https://framesurge.sh/perseus/en-US/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbandela1</author><text>I went down this Rust front end route with my trivia web app [0], but ended up abandoning it.<p>There were just too many points of friction.<p>* The tooling is not nearly as good as JavaScript for the front end.<p>* Every time you want to use a front end library, you have to figure it out yourself as there won’t be any documentation for how to use it with your framework.<p>* Rust compile times really break your flow when working on front end code. At least for me, for front end coding, there is a lot of interactive development where you look at the web app on desktop&#x2F;mobile and adjust element size&#x2F;spacing etc to make sure things look nice. Doing this in real-time with JavaScript&#x2F;html&#x2F;css is nice. Having a Rust compile between each step is a pain.<p>* For front-end code, Rust’s borrow checker really gets in the way. The JavaScript garbage collector works really well front front-end code. Rust’s borrow checker is not bringing any performance advantages for this use case and brings a lot of complexity. On the backend, you can justify the complexity of Rust with appeals to efficiency&#x2F;scalability&#x2F;server cost. With front end code which is running on the client, you lose that justification.<p>I ended up going with React&#x2F;TailwindCSS and have been happy so far.<p>0. triviarex.com</text></comment> | <story><title>Perseus – NextJS alternative in Rust</title><url>https://framesurge.sh/perseus/en-US/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pachico</author><text>I have this feeling that I am wasting my time by not learning Rust.<p>I am a proficient Go programmer but I have this sensation I cannot really describe about that not being enough.<p>I feel something similar with Zig.<p>Am I the only one?</text></comment> |
22,253,677 | 22,253,681 | 1 | 3 | 22,251,076 | train | <story><title>macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/support/kernel-extensions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>The source is what professional musicians get to use.<p>They don&#x27;t have to customise their kernel on the newly bought Window&#x2F;macOS laptop.</text></item><item><author>phonethrowaway</author><text>&gt; Regarding performance, on the other hand Linux&#x2F;BSD still don&#x27;t match macOS real time audio capabilities.<p>Got a source for that? I use a Debian machine for an audio workstation. I moved there from OSX and am using the same DAW and get less latency now. Especially because I can run a real-time kernel...</text></item><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>Yes, WWDC video<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;play&#x2F;wwdc2019&#x2F;702&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;play&#x2F;wwdc2019&#x2F;702&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;driverkit?language=objc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;driverkit?language...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;system-extensions&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;system-extensions&#x2F;</a><p>Regarding performance, on the other hand Linux&#x2F;BSD still don&#x27;t match macOS real time audio capabilities.</text></item><item><author>drewg123</author><text>I wonder if this is the end of drivers for 3rd party PCIe&#x2F;thunderbolt high performance NICs? I imagine that this may make Macs less viable for situations where having a reasonably high performance 3rd party NIC is important (eg, video editing).<p>Are there any details about DriverKit that are available?<p>I used to be a Mac driver developer ~10 years ago or so. I did one of the first 10G drivers for Macos, and MacOS performance was always terrible compared to Linux or BSD, but I can&#x27;t imagine that moving it into userspace is going to help anything. MacOS boundary crossing (eg, syscall, ioctl, and Mach traps) performed even worse than their network stack as compared to Linux&#x2F;BSD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bestham</author><text>Your statement was that audio latency is lower on OSX compared to Linux, and you cannot back that up. We all know that the prevalence of Linux DAWs in the studios are low. But that would only be related to OSX having the lowest latency if latency was the only thing that ever mattered to professional studios. Which it’s not.</text></comment> | <story><title>macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/support/kernel-extensions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>The source is what professional musicians get to use.<p>They don&#x27;t have to customise their kernel on the newly bought Window&#x2F;macOS laptop.</text></item><item><author>phonethrowaway</author><text>&gt; Regarding performance, on the other hand Linux&#x2F;BSD still don&#x27;t match macOS real time audio capabilities.<p>Got a source for that? I use a Debian machine for an audio workstation. I moved there from OSX and am using the same DAW and get less latency now. Especially because I can run a real-time kernel...</text></item><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>Yes, WWDC video<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;play&#x2F;wwdc2019&#x2F;702&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;play&#x2F;wwdc2019&#x2F;702&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;driverkit?language=objc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;driverkit?language...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;system-extensions&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;system-extensions&#x2F;</a><p>Regarding performance, on the other hand Linux&#x2F;BSD still don&#x27;t match macOS real time audio capabilities.</text></item><item><author>drewg123</author><text>I wonder if this is the end of drivers for 3rd party PCIe&#x2F;thunderbolt high performance NICs? I imagine that this may make Macs less viable for situations where having a reasonably high performance 3rd party NIC is important (eg, video editing).<p>Are there any details about DriverKit that are available?<p>I used to be a Mac driver developer ~10 years ago or so. I did one of the first 10G drivers for Macos, and MacOS performance was always terrible compared to Linux or BSD, but I can&#x27;t imagine that moving it into userspace is going to help anything. MacOS boundary crossing (eg, syscall, ioctl, and Mach traps) performed even worse than their network stack as compared to Linux&#x2F;BSD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monocasa</author><text>There&#x27;s def a crowd using Ubuntu studio.</text></comment> |
17,905,826 | 17,905,517 | 1 | 2 | 17,904,752 | train | <story><title>Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/business/media/amazon-digital-ads.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scarface74</author><text>All of that data is still just based on Google trying to “infer” interests which is not as accurate as people <i>telling</i> them about themselves. For instance, Facebook knows your relationship status as soon as it changes because most people <i>tell them</i>. Facebook knows where people like to eat because people check in. They know which events you are going to that are advertised on FB because you tell them “that you are interested”.<p>Do you know how many people check in <i>every single time they work out</i>?<p>People don’t use Google Maps when they know where they are going, but they will check in.<p>As far as adblockers blocking contents “in the DOM”, that doesn’t help if you’re using the FB app - one of the most popular apps in the store and most people aren’t going to install network based ad blockers.<p>Only geeks use Google’s DNS. Most people use whatever DNS the DHCP settings on thier router tell them. If you are using cellular data can you even change your DNS?</text></item><item><author>manigandham</author><text>Absolutely not the case. The Google machine includes:<p>Google Analytics, Adwords&#x2F;Adsense, Doubleclick network, Android and store, Chrome Browser, Chrome OS, Maps&#x2F;Streetview, Gmail, G-Suite, Youtube, Google Play, Google Fiber, Google Fi, Public DNS, all the various websites with 1st party cookies, connections to Salesforce CRM, and the recently announced Mastercard purchase data.<p>Facebook and Amazon are nowhere close this level of exposure from hardware devices to internet protocols to the biggest websites around, and anyone with experience in adtech will tell you the same thing. Also adblockers can trivially block any network request or DOM component on a page, including Facebook and Amazon ads.</text></item><item><author>scarface74</author><text>This is my bear case for Google. Google offers the least precise targeting compared to Facebook and Amazon.<p>Facebook knows more about its users because users tell it about themselves and Amazon knows more about purchasing habits of its users because of thier purchase and search history.<p>If I’m searching for something with the intention on buying it, I am going to go to the specific site - like Priceline, hotels.com, Zillow, etc.<p>Besides, ad blockers don’t work with Facebook or Amazon embedded ads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manigandham</author><text>What&#x27;s Google known for? Search.<p>This means people tell it exactly what they want. Who cares what your relationship status is when I can see you type in &quot;wedding ring&quot; into a search box? Who cares where you like to eat in the past when you searched for &quot;chinese food&quot; on maps, and potentially even clicked on an ad for a restaurant?<p>This is called &quot;intent&quot; and it&#x27;s incredibly powerful because you can advertise for exactly what a person is actually looking for at that moment. Inference (like Facebook likes and profile details) will never be as good for real-time targeting.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/business/media/amazon-digital-ads.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scarface74</author><text>All of that data is still just based on Google trying to “infer” interests which is not as accurate as people <i>telling</i> them about themselves. For instance, Facebook knows your relationship status as soon as it changes because most people <i>tell them</i>. Facebook knows where people like to eat because people check in. They know which events you are going to that are advertised on FB because you tell them “that you are interested”.<p>Do you know how many people check in <i>every single time they work out</i>?<p>People don’t use Google Maps when they know where they are going, but they will check in.<p>As far as adblockers blocking contents “in the DOM”, that doesn’t help if you’re using the FB app - one of the most popular apps in the store and most people aren’t going to install network based ad blockers.<p>Only geeks use Google’s DNS. Most people use whatever DNS the DHCP settings on thier router tell them. If you are using cellular data can you even change your DNS?</text></item><item><author>manigandham</author><text>Absolutely not the case. The Google machine includes:<p>Google Analytics, Adwords&#x2F;Adsense, Doubleclick network, Android and store, Chrome Browser, Chrome OS, Maps&#x2F;Streetview, Gmail, G-Suite, Youtube, Google Play, Google Fiber, Google Fi, Public DNS, all the various websites with 1st party cookies, connections to Salesforce CRM, and the recently announced Mastercard purchase data.<p>Facebook and Amazon are nowhere close this level of exposure from hardware devices to internet protocols to the biggest websites around, and anyone with experience in adtech will tell you the same thing. Also adblockers can trivially block any network request or DOM component on a page, including Facebook and Amazon ads.</text></item><item><author>scarface74</author><text>This is my bear case for Google. Google offers the least precise targeting compared to Facebook and Amazon.<p>Facebook knows more about its users because users tell it about themselves and Amazon knows more about purchasing habits of its users because of thier purchase and search history.<p>If I’m searching for something with the intention on buying it, I am going to go to the specific site - like Priceline, hotels.com, Zillow, etc.<p>Besides, ad blockers don’t work with Facebook or Amazon embedded ads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AznHisoka</author><text>“which is not as accurate as people telling them about themselves.”<p>I’d argue Google’s data is 100x more accurate of who I am as a person than the data I provide FB. As a theoretical example, based on my search history, Google knows I have hemorrhoids, am paranoid about pancreatic cancer, looking for a SMS API provider, am a borderline gambler (because i check betting odds every day), and pondering the benefits of a divorce.<p>FB on the other hand has all the “shallow” information. It knows I like Game of Thrones, NBA basketball and paintball. It knows I like to eat ramen. It doesnt know all the other stuff because I dont tell my friends I have hemorrhoids. I dont tell my friends I might be getting a divorce.<p>Does FB know the needs&#x2F;wants&#x2F;fears of me as a person compared to google? I think not.</text></comment> |
17,245,985 | 17,245,323 | 1 | 3 | 17,245,246 | train | <story><title>Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub</title><url>https://gitea.io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fuzzy2</author><text>Notable previous discussions:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17006503" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17006503</a> (has a lot on why it was forked from Gogs and whether using the fork is still a good idea)<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13451783" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13451783</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13296717" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13296717</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Gitea – Alternative to GitLab and GitHub</title><url>https://gitea.io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulRobinson</author><text>Entertainingly the code is hosted on github. :-)<p>I&#x27;d have more confidence in it if it could self-host and I was able to see gitea inside of a gitea instance and that was the main workflow. Like this, it feels like maintainers aren&#x27;t prepared to eat their own dog food just yet. That&#x27;s fine, but I&#x27;ll take a pass until that&#x27;s fixed.</text></comment> |
36,830,501 | 36,829,071 | 1 | 2 | 36,823,605 | train | <story><title>Putting the “You” in CPU</title><url>https://cpu.land/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>archmaster</author><text>Hi! I&#x27;m the person who made this thing!<p>Thanks for reading and thanks for all the corrections, in glorious Hacker News fashion. It&#x27;s definitely a pleasant surprise to see my project here. Putting the &quot;You&quot; in CPU is still <i>very much</i> a work in progress — I was hoping to polish it a lot more and even add some more content before posting on HN later next week :)<p>Some backstory on me: I&#x27;m 17 and left high school a year ago to work full-time at Hack Club (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackclub.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackclub.com&#x2F;</a>). I&#x27;ve been programming for as long as I can remember, and started homeschooling about 6 years ago to focus more on that (and my other interests).<p>Since I&#x27;m entirely self-taught, I <i>haven&#x27;t</i> taken any college systems classes — and while I had picked up a lot, I wasn&#x27;t happy with my answer to &quot;what happens when you run a thing.&quot; So I let myself spend a shit ton of time actually learning as much as possible. What I found was that:<p>1. Operating systems and hardware are really fun to learn about!<p>2. Wow, online resources on this stuff are terrible.<p>A decent portion of my research ended up at PDFs of lecture slides from 2014, or StackOverflow answers that were, in fact, incorrect or vastly oversimplified.<p>So, I wrote Putting the &quot;You&quot; in CPU to hopefully provide a better resource to people who wanted to start teaching themselves all this stuff! While I don&#x27;t provide perfect coverage (still need to write a couple paragraphs on SMP), it&#x27;s a lot better than most of what I&#x27;ve seen. I also had fun drawing and making diagrams for the first time, I think I definitely got progressively better and I&#x27;m really proud of some of the drawings in the latter few chapters.<p>P.S. The whole thing is open source on GitHub if you want to look under the hood: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hackclub&#x2F;putting-the-you-in-cpu">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hackclub&#x2F;putting-the-you-in-cpu</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gary_0</author><text>&gt; Wow, online resources on this stuff are terrible.<p>I&#x27;ve been thinking this a lot lately, searching for things like: a detailed block diagram of the Linux kernel, how page tables work, a comparison of function call ABIs on different platforms, details about low-level network protocols, reserved Linux PID numbers, etc.<p>Occasionally I would find a Reddit thread with an answer, but it was mixed in with the usual Reddit dross, and I doubt that Reddit is a reliable place to store knowledge. StackOverflow was particularly unhelpful, as the questions are mostly oriented around accomplishing particular tasks, and the answers are necessarily brief.<p>Nowadays, for general knowledge, I skip Google&#x27;s enshittified search and go straight to Wikipedia, but Wikipedia has limits on how much detail it will go into about technical topics.<p>I wonder if there&#x27;s a need for a comprehensive wiki for all the details of computer guts? There are lots of scattered resources, but having them all compiled in one place would be awesome.</text></comment> | <story><title>Putting the “You” in CPU</title><url>https://cpu.land/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>archmaster</author><text>Hi! I&#x27;m the person who made this thing!<p>Thanks for reading and thanks for all the corrections, in glorious Hacker News fashion. It&#x27;s definitely a pleasant surprise to see my project here. Putting the &quot;You&quot; in CPU is still <i>very much</i> a work in progress — I was hoping to polish it a lot more and even add some more content before posting on HN later next week :)<p>Some backstory on me: I&#x27;m 17 and left high school a year ago to work full-time at Hack Club (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackclub.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackclub.com&#x2F;</a>). I&#x27;ve been programming for as long as I can remember, and started homeschooling about 6 years ago to focus more on that (and my other interests).<p>Since I&#x27;m entirely self-taught, I <i>haven&#x27;t</i> taken any college systems classes — and while I had picked up a lot, I wasn&#x27;t happy with my answer to &quot;what happens when you run a thing.&quot; So I let myself spend a shit ton of time actually learning as much as possible. What I found was that:<p>1. Operating systems and hardware are really fun to learn about!<p>2. Wow, online resources on this stuff are terrible.<p>A decent portion of my research ended up at PDFs of lecture slides from 2014, or StackOverflow answers that were, in fact, incorrect or vastly oversimplified.<p>So, I wrote Putting the &quot;You&quot; in CPU to hopefully provide a better resource to people who wanted to start teaching themselves all this stuff! While I don&#x27;t provide perfect coverage (still need to write a couple paragraphs on SMP), it&#x27;s a lot better than most of what I&#x27;ve seen. I also had fun drawing and making diagrams for the first time, I think I definitely got progressively better and I&#x27;m really proud of some of the drawings in the latter few chapters.<p>P.S. The whole thing is open source on GitHub if you want to look under the hood: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hackclub&#x2F;putting-the-you-in-cpu">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hackclub&#x2F;putting-the-you-in-cpu</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ccrush</author><text>I had the same questions when I was about your age and found a lot of intersting answers in the Linux source code. of course it was a lot simpler back then. what really got me going was the osdev community (much smaller back then) and Intels system architecture documentation. iirc part 3a or 3b was where the good stuff is. it tells you a lot less about how things are and a lot more about how things could be. you also get to learn plenty of fun things in OSDEV too like how 32bit processors did 36bit addressing with PAE or how 64bit processors did 52bit addressing to squeeze money out of people. how computers start in 16bit mode and you have to learn systems level assembly code gymnastics to make it to long mode, why there&#x27;s an 8bit mode around, and more. if you liked learning about loading binaries, you&#x27;ll love how many surprises still exist. like 64bit mode still including memory segmentation but forcing it to flat mapping for lonh mode</text></comment> |
40,418,177 | 40,418,371 | 1 | 2 | 40,417,624 | train | <story><title>Lumina's legal threats and my about-face</title><url>https://trevorklee.substack.com/p/luminas-legal-threats-and-my-about</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jawns</author><text>Former journalist here. I spent lots of time in college learning about libel law, and then applying it in my professional life as an editor.<p>One thing about libel that many people don&#x27;t understand is that retraction and editing of the content isn&#x27;t a defense. So where it says &quot;note the libel-friendly phrasing&quot; and &quot;now edited to avoid any possible threats of libel&quot; and &quot;[editor’s note: removed a possibly incorrect claim]&quot; he could still be found guilty of libel if previously published assertions contained non &quot;libel-friendly&quot; phrasing. As long as a defamatory assertion was published <i>at some point</i>, you can still be found guilty of libel.<p>It probably goes without saying, but it is also not a defense to libel to say that you asserted something to be true merely because there was no evidence to the contrary. Absent a contractual or legal obligation, Lumina had no duty to engage with him and answer his questions. So if Lumina can provide evidence that Trevor asserted things that are demonstrably false, and they damaged Lumina&#x27;s business, then Trevor can&#x27;t argue as a defense that he merely had no way of knowing that they were false.<p>Finally, Trevor seems to be saying in his update that he was merely asking questions -- but it&#x27;s possible for a court to find that merely phrasing false, defamatory assertions in the form of a question is not an absolute protection against a libel claim.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lumina's legal threats and my about-face</title><url>https://trevorklee.substack.com/p/luminas-legal-threats-and-my-about</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ai_what</author><text>I don&#x27;t have any skin in this game but this is confusing to me because in the article that he put back up it (still) says:<p>&gt; Lumina likely aren’t following the Best Practices Guidelines for Probiotics, which require you to state how much of each strain in CFUs is in each batch that you send out on your packaging.<p>But in the new article it says:<p>&gt; Lumina’s manufacturing process follows legally mandated GMP protocols, if not the probiotic trade association’s voluntary best practices.<p>Because that does sound to me like the original claim was wrong?<p>I understand that it&#x27;s weird that it didn&#x27;t get revealed until he was pressed on it but then so is stating that he likely wasn&#x27;t following the best practices, right?<p>Furthermore, the first article doesn&#x27;t mention that it&#x27;s voluntary to follow the best practices guidelines but the second one does. To me that sounds kind of like &quot;okay fine you were right, but it&#x27;s voluntary anyway, so whatever&quot;. Why not mention that in the original claim?<p>In fairness, the original article also has some great points, like the concerns about this particular BCS3L-1 strain that Lumina uses. I wish he had focused more on that.<p>I feel like both of them could have gone about this in a better way.</text></comment> |
4,201,374 | 4,201,243 | 1 | 3 | 4,200,931 | train | <story><title>Everything you need to know about Machine Learning in 30 minutes or less</title><url>http://www.hilarymason.com/presentations-2/devs-love-bacon-everything-you-need-to-know-about-machine-learning-in-30-minutes-or-less/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>monk_the_dog</author><text>If you already have a little exposure to machine learing, let me recomend an interesting review paper [1] on random forests: <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/155552/decisionForests_MSR_TR_2011_114.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/155552/decisionForests_MS...</a><p>It isn't everything you need know in 30 minutes, but it's a concrete coverage of lots of topics in machine learning in under 150 pages. Here's why I'm recomending this paper:<p>* The algoritm is easy to understand.<p>* It can handle classification, regression, semi-supervised learning, manifold learning, and density estimation. The paper gives an introduction to each of these topics as well as a unified framework to implement each algorithm.<p>* It can handle categorical data and missing data [2]<p>* It gives as good results as other state of the art algorithms.<p>* The paper is well-written and easy to understand for someone without a deep background in machine learning.<p>[1] It's mostly a review paper. Using random forests for density estimation is new.<p>[2] This review paper doesn't cover categorical data or missing data.</text></comment> | <story><title>Everything you need to know about Machine Learning in 30 minutes or less</title><url>http://www.hilarymason.com/presentations-2/devs-love-bacon-everything-you-need-to-know-about-machine-learning-in-30-minutes-or-less/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marcelsalathe</author><text>Nice talk. The example of google translate is not a good one though. Say you translate from language A to language B with 99% accuracy, and vice versa, which would be pretty awesome, you'd still have a substantial quality decay after only a few back and forth translations (0.99^x where x is the number of translation steps).</text></comment> |
4,950,284 | 4,950,100 | 1 | 2 | 4,949,981 | train | <story><title>Adobe acquires Behance</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/20/adobe-acquires-behance/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonathanmoore</author><text>As one of the first 100 on the Behance platform, I think this is a fantastic acquisition for both sides. When a large corporation acquires a company you love there is often concern, but seeing how the Adobe + Typekit relationship played out I'm expecting great things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Adobe acquires Behance</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/20/adobe-acquires-behance/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tannerc</author><text>This is great for Behance and Adobe both, I think. Adobe has immensely powerful capabilities and Behance has a great network of creatives. Combined they could go far (I hope).<p>It's good to see a company in my same industry make it this far.</text></comment> |
40,272,288 | 40,271,688 | 1 | 2 | 40,263,711 | train | <story><title>A company is building a giant compressed-air battery in the Australian outback</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/hydrostor-compressed-air-battery-california-australia-energy-climate/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greenbit</author><text>I must have missed something. Why not just use the water without the compressed air, i.e., pumped hydro? There must be some advantage, but they didn&#x27;t seem to say. I&#x27;d guess maybe if your lower reservoir were underground, the water-only would require the generator systems to be down there, too, which would mean access for people as well, and being down a mine with a small lake&#x27;s worth of water overhead seems pretty hazardous. Whereas by forcing air down to push water up, that whole below ground aspect can be almost entirely passive. Maybe?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hydrox24</author><text>The short answer is that pumped hydro is mature technology with a pretty wide range of places it can be implemented (at least in Australia[0], which has a mountain range going down the east coast where everyone lives). A-CAES has three advantages, which are in my opinion aren&#x27;t very fundamental:<p>1. It takes up less space on the surface than most PHES. This... is almost always a marginal benefit.<p>2. It doesn&#x27;t require building a reservoir or dam. These are very well regulated in Australia and elsewhere, and the downsides are known so they are quite slow to get approval.<p>3. It&#x27;s a bit quicker at 2.5 - 3.5 years as opposed to 3-7 years.[1] This is a bigger advantage than it looks if you have some tricky renewable energy targets to hit by 2030 (see our 42% emissions reductions target as well as an 82% renewable energy target)<p>I can&#x27;t see this gaining traction outside of a few locations in Australia, at least. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if A-CAES is only briefly viable as a result of subsidies and cheap government financing.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;re100.anu.edu.au&#x2F;#share=g-fa5a20c9c63f6ed6343a7e7573a05fe4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;re100.anu.edu.au&#x2F;#share=g-fa5a20c9c63f6ed6343a7e7573...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csiro.au&#x2F;-&#x2F;media&#x2F;Do-Business&#x2F;Files&#x2F;Futures&#x2F;23-00033_SER-FUT_REPORT_RenewableEnergyStorageRoadmap_WEB_230310.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csiro.au&#x2F;-&#x2F;media&#x2F;Do-Business&#x2F;Files&#x2F;Futures&#x2F;23-00...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A company is building a giant compressed-air battery in the Australian outback</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/hydrostor-compressed-air-battery-california-australia-energy-climate/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greenbit</author><text>I must have missed something. Why not just use the water without the compressed air, i.e., pumped hydro? There must be some advantage, but they didn&#x27;t seem to say. I&#x27;d guess maybe if your lower reservoir were underground, the water-only would require the generator systems to be down there, too, which would mean access for people as well, and being down a mine with a small lake&#x27;s worth of water overhead seems pretty hazardous. Whereas by forcing air down to push water up, that whole below ground aspect can be almost entirely passive. Maybe?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foota</author><text>I think you can store energy here not just in the gravitational potential energy of the water, but also in the compression of the air. I _think_ this means that you can get away with a smaller cavern than you could for just pumped hydro.<p>You might think that you&#x27;d need a large amount of water to make the energy release work, but I think it works like this. The force of the water on the air&#x2F;water interface is dependent not on the reservoir volume, but on the weight of the water in the column (which depends only on the height of the shaft).<p>By digging a very deep shaft, you can have a very large force of water on the interface, and moving that interface an equal distance hence releases more energy than it would with a shorter shaft.<p>This way, you can store an arbitrary (up to your ability to compress air to a sufficient pressure, dig a deep shaft, and keep everything from blowing up) amount of energy.<p>I think if you have a 1 square meter cross section of shaft, and the shaft is 1 kilometer deep, then at the bottom the force of the water above is the weight of 1 square meter * 1 kilometer, or 1000 cubic meters of water, or 1 million kg.<p>The force then is 9.8×10^6 newtons.<p>Pressure is force&#x2F;area, or 9.8×10^6 newtons&#x2F;square meter here (since we have a unit area).<p>There&#x27;s a formula for the energy in compressed air, it&#x27;s... involved. I downloaded an excel file from here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ehs.berkeley.edu&#x2F;publications&#x2F;calculating-stored-energy-pressurized-gas-vessel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ehs.berkeley.edu&#x2F;publications&#x2F;calculating-stored-ene...</a><p>It says under this pressure, a 1000 cubic meter tank of air at this pressure stores ~5000 KWh.<p>The one planned in California is supposed to store 4000 MWh, so I guess they have a tank that is ~a million cubic meters.<p>A water tank of the same size would store ~2700 MWh of energy (e.g., pumping that much water up a 1KM shaft requires that much energy), so it does seem to be more efficient.<p>It may also be that hot air turbines are cheaper and easier to maintain than hydropower turbines, but I&#x27;m not certain.</text></comment> |
3,678,195 | 3,678,111 | 1 | 2 | 3,677,393 | train | <story><title>Pinterest, We Have a Problem</title><url>http://whatblag.com/2012/03/07/pinterest-we-have-a-problem/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>js2</author><text>Recently, I wanted to make some picture postcards of various locations around the US for personal use, so I went looking for images. I found many on Flickr. I wanted to compensate the original photographer. There is no easy way to do this.<p>At best, some photographs have a "request to license" link that bounces you to a third party (typically Getty Images) which offers to "Review the photo to determine if it's a good fit for licensing through us; Contact the photographer; Handle the details like releases and pricing" and takes "between two and seven days to arrange licensing." with prices typically around $100 for usable resolution for a postcard.<p>At worst, you have to sign in to Yahoo so that you can send the photographer a message about wanting to use their photo. You may or may not get a reply, and you have to arrange how to pay the photographer, if at all.<p>This may make sense for images which are to be used in a commercial context, but for personal use like how I wanted to use the images, it's way too expensive and much too much friction.<p>The vast majority of images will never be used commercially. There should be an easier way to remunerate the photographer, and at more reasonable prices. A "Pix Store" if you will. Maybe that's what the stock photo sites are supposed to be, but they don't have nearly the inventory.<p>Sorry for the tangent.</text></item><item><author>OneBytePerGreen</author><text>Pinterest has a market valuation of &#62; 200 million dollars...<p>30%+ of its images are flickr images...<p>... 99%+ of which are "All Rights Reserved".<p>How many<p>... page views,<p>... new subscribers,<p>... and $$$<p>have the most-pinned flickr images generated for pinterest, with the author not seeing a single cent... not even having the satisfaction of seeing their popularity on pinterest reflect in their flickr stats?<p>And: Pinterest does not even have the decency to display the author name and license info next to the image.<p>Pinterest's business model is flawed; it is based on systematic violation of copyright. At some point, someone will start a class-action lawsuit and invite flickr photographers whose works got "pinned" to sign up, to reclaim part of that &#62;$200 million pie.<p>In fact, this seems like a valid startup idea to me: Create a one-page website explaining to flickr users what has been going on. Do a systematic reverse image search to find out which authors have been affected and invite them to join.
Arrange with an interested lawfirm to get a % of their fee in exchange for delivering the list of potential plaintiffs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terretta</author><text>"This may make sense for images which are to be used in a commercial context, but for personal use like how I wanted to use the images, it's way too expensive and much too much friction."<p>That's why Flickr lets you search for Creative Commons images, for which the photographer gives you that personal use permission in advance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pinterest, We Have a Problem</title><url>http://whatblag.com/2012/03/07/pinterest-we-have-a-problem/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>js2</author><text>Recently, I wanted to make some picture postcards of various locations around the US for personal use, so I went looking for images. I found many on Flickr. I wanted to compensate the original photographer. There is no easy way to do this.<p>At best, some photographs have a "request to license" link that bounces you to a third party (typically Getty Images) which offers to "Review the photo to determine if it's a good fit for licensing through us; Contact the photographer; Handle the details like releases and pricing" and takes "between two and seven days to arrange licensing." with prices typically around $100 for usable resolution for a postcard.<p>At worst, you have to sign in to Yahoo so that you can send the photographer a message about wanting to use their photo. You may or may not get a reply, and you have to arrange how to pay the photographer, if at all.<p>This may make sense for images which are to be used in a commercial context, but for personal use like how I wanted to use the images, it's way too expensive and much too much friction.<p>The vast majority of images will never be used commercially. There should be an easier way to remunerate the photographer, and at more reasonable prices. A "Pix Store" if you will. Maybe that's what the stock photo sites are supposed to be, but they don't have nearly the inventory.<p>Sorry for the tangent.</text></item><item><author>OneBytePerGreen</author><text>Pinterest has a market valuation of &#62; 200 million dollars...<p>30%+ of its images are flickr images...<p>... 99%+ of which are "All Rights Reserved".<p>How many<p>... page views,<p>... new subscribers,<p>... and $$$<p>have the most-pinned flickr images generated for pinterest, with the author not seeing a single cent... not even having the satisfaction of seeing their popularity on pinterest reflect in their flickr stats?<p>And: Pinterest does not even have the decency to display the author name and license info next to the image.<p>Pinterest's business model is flawed; it is based on systematic violation of copyright. At some point, someone will start a class-action lawsuit and invite flickr photographers whose works got "pinned" to sign up, to reclaim part of that &#62;$200 million pie.<p>In fact, this seems like a valid startup idea to me: Create a one-page website explaining to flickr users what has been going on. Do a systematic reverse image search to find out which authors have been affected and invite them to join.
Arrange with an interested lawfirm to get a % of their fee in exchange for delivering the list of potential plaintiffs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>briandon</author><text>The Getty Images process doesn't sound too terrible to me.<p>Is the up-to-a-week wait partly a consequence of GI giving the photog a chance to approve/deny the request? That would be reasonable -- they might not want, for example, a Neo-Nazi group licensing their photo of blonde, blue-eyed kids for some sort of racist poster campaign.<p>Also, $100 licensing for a photo that you really love is cheap as chips.<p>By personal use, do you mean that you were literally going to produce one copy of each postcard and keep them all yourself? You weren't going to make multiple copies and give/send any to anyone else?</text></comment> |
23,213,802 | 23,213,775 | 1 | 2 | 23,212,620 | train | <story><title>Lomuto's Comeback</title><url>https://dlang.org/blog/2020/05/14/lomutos-comeback/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I think one example of extremely unsorted data is <i>random data</i> in Monte Carlo simulations, in particular if you need to compute statistical summaries that need the data to be sorted - e.g. percentiles. So you may end up repeatedly sorting million-long random arrays many time a second.<p>Then again, maybe there are algorithms letting you compute percentiles without sorting?</text></item><item><author>repsilat</author><text>Maybe?<p>Lots of people replaced their sorting algorithms with Tim-Sort because runs of alrealdy-sorted data are empirically common (at least in some workloads). I&#x27;ve seen it myself, in use-cases where sort keys change slightly from iteration to iteration in some larger algorithm, and sort items need to be dynamically kept in order. It no doubt also happens when grabbing data from multiple places, each of which is theoretically ordered arbitrarily but is in practice ordered predictably.<p>So yeah, the author picked the use-cases where this algorithm is going to show in its best light. But that&#x27;s not bad either, right? Data is often <i>not</i> well-ordered -- if you&#x27;re counting occurrences of words, and want to get an ordered list (and never mind that you wouldn&#x27;t use a comparison-based sort for that) you wouldn&#x27;t expect much order. Likewise sorting any keys&#x2F;values from a decent hash table.<p>One worry that <i>I</i> would have applies specifically to C++ and D: sometimes values are big, and copies are expensive. But I guess users can always choose to sort pointers like other languages do, if the standard library uses a copy-heavy, branch-light algorithm.</text></item><item><author>mehrdadn</author><text>Notice that this is on <i>random longs</i>. Of <i>course</i> branch misprediction and memory bandwidth is going to crush you for a branchy sort... you&#x27;ll be wrong like half the time, and the comparisons and swapping are trivial! Real world data isn&#x27;t random, so I&#x27;d expect branch predictors to do much better with recognizing patterns. And your sorting isn&#x27;t going to be as simple as sorting integers according to their values all that often. It&#x27;s a neat exercise, but absent more realistic benchmarking to the contrary, I wouldn&#x27;t assume I&#x27;ll get a faster program by just substituting even a typical quicksort with this...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leni536</author><text>If you need k percentile values then I think you could do it in O(n log(k)) with introselect. You most definitely don&#x27;t need O(n log(n)).</text></comment> | <story><title>Lomuto's Comeback</title><url>https://dlang.org/blog/2020/05/14/lomutos-comeback/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I think one example of extremely unsorted data is <i>random data</i> in Monte Carlo simulations, in particular if you need to compute statistical summaries that need the data to be sorted - e.g. percentiles. So you may end up repeatedly sorting million-long random arrays many time a second.<p>Then again, maybe there are algorithms letting you compute percentiles without sorting?</text></item><item><author>repsilat</author><text>Maybe?<p>Lots of people replaced their sorting algorithms with Tim-Sort because runs of alrealdy-sorted data are empirically common (at least in some workloads). I&#x27;ve seen it myself, in use-cases where sort keys change slightly from iteration to iteration in some larger algorithm, and sort items need to be dynamically kept in order. It no doubt also happens when grabbing data from multiple places, each of which is theoretically ordered arbitrarily but is in practice ordered predictably.<p>So yeah, the author picked the use-cases where this algorithm is going to show in its best light. But that&#x27;s not bad either, right? Data is often <i>not</i> well-ordered -- if you&#x27;re counting occurrences of words, and want to get an ordered list (and never mind that you wouldn&#x27;t use a comparison-based sort for that) you wouldn&#x27;t expect much order. Likewise sorting any keys&#x2F;values from a decent hash table.<p>One worry that <i>I</i> would have applies specifically to C++ and D: sometimes values are big, and copies are expensive. But I guess users can always choose to sort pointers like other languages do, if the standard library uses a copy-heavy, branch-light algorithm.</text></item><item><author>mehrdadn</author><text>Notice that this is on <i>random longs</i>. Of <i>course</i> branch misprediction and memory bandwidth is going to crush you for a branchy sort... you&#x27;ll be wrong like half the time, and the comparisons and swapping are trivial! Real world data isn&#x27;t random, so I&#x27;d expect branch predictors to do much better with recognizing patterns. And your sorting isn&#x27;t going to be as simple as sorting integers according to their values all that often. It&#x27;s a neat exercise, but absent more realistic benchmarking to the contrary, I wouldn&#x27;t assume I&#x27;ll get a faster program by just substituting even a typical quicksort with this...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loeg</author><text>&gt; Then again, maybe there are algorithms letting you compute percentiles without sorting?<p>I think you may be able to do so probabilistically, which is often good enough? Additionally, one observation about percentiles is that you don&#x27;t need to sort all of the data; you can just hold on to the top N results in something like a Heap.</text></comment> |
6,362,594 | 6,362,345 | 1 | 2 | 6,361,558 | train | <story><title>Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/10/apple-unveils-the-iphone-5s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pilif</author><text>Yes. And how exactly do we check this? Why is it that we can still trust Apple? For all we know, the data gets sent directly to the NSA or, if it doesn&#x27;t, there might be some secret backdoor that will make the device send the data at a later point. The last round of leaks was specifically talking about backdoors with all bigger US companies in order to circumvent encryption.<p>That&#x27;s what I means by &quot;we have to consider the iPhones backdoored&quot;. Once you can&#x27;t trust the device any more, all bets are off and thus we can&#x27;t be sure that what Apple says they do with that fingerprint is what they actually are doing.<p>(edit: regarding jailbreaking, I seriously doubt that a sufficiently well-hidden backdoor would be found by a jailbreaker. Or have we found the backdoors in OSX or Windows yet? Since the latest leak, we know they are there)</text></item><item><author>cwilson</author><text>Apple specifically stated that your fingerprint is stored and encrypted only on the A7 chip, and not iCloud or anywhere else.<p>It&#x27;s mentioned in the video as well: <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone-5s/videos/#video-touch" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;iphone-5s&#x2F;videos&#x2F;#video-touch</a></text></item><item><author>pilif</author><text>Now that we have to consider the iPhones to be backdoored by the NSA, I wonder whether I really want to give them my fingerprint together with the rest of my data. I&#x27;m also not so sure whether a fingerprint can&#x27;t still be easily faked (like it was possible on that Mythbusters episode for example).<p>Personally, I think I&#x27;d rather stay with my passcode.<p>Did you btw know that you can turn off &quot;simple passcode&quot; and then use a purely numeric longer passcode? In that case the iPhone will still show the big easy-to-hit numeric keyboard allowing you to type in the arbitrary length numeric code.<p>Yes. It&#x27;s not as safe as a long alphanumeric password, but this gets annoying SO quickly, I&#x27;d rather type in my 8 digits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>comex</author><text>This is incorrect - we do not know any particular products which are backdoored.<p>edit: Also, there is a difference between a subtle crypto vulnerability and sending data to a server that, according to the announcement, is designed to be protected in its own enclave and never sent anywhere. The latter would be far more obvious in the code and easier to spot.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/10/apple-unveils-the-iphone-5s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pilif</author><text>Yes. And how exactly do we check this? Why is it that we can still trust Apple? For all we know, the data gets sent directly to the NSA or, if it doesn&#x27;t, there might be some secret backdoor that will make the device send the data at a later point. The last round of leaks was specifically talking about backdoors with all bigger US companies in order to circumvent encryption.<p>That&#x27;s what I means by &quot;we have to consider the iPhones backdoored&quot;. Once you can&#x27;t trust the device any more, all bets are off and thus we can&#x27;t be sure that what Apple says they do with that fingerprint is what they actually are doing.<p>(edit: regarding jailbreaking, I seriously doubt that a sufficiently well-hidden backdoor would be found by a jailbreaker. Or have we found the backdoors in OSX or Windows yet? Since the latest leak, we know they are there)</text></item><item><author>cwilson</author><text>Apple specifically stated that your fingerprint is stored and encrypted only on the A7 chip, and not iCloud or anywhere else.<p>It&#x27;s mentioned in the video as well: <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone-5s/videos/#video-touch" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;iphone-5s&#x2F;videos&#x2F;#video-touch</a></text></item><item><author>pilif</author><text>Now that we have to consider the iPhones to be backdoored by the NSA, I wonder whether I really want to give them my fingerprint together with the rest of my data. I&#x27;m also not so sure whether a fingerprint can&#x27;t still be easily faked (like it was possible on that Mythbusters episode for example).<p>Personally, I think I&#x27;d rather stay with my passcode.<p>Did you btw know that you can turn off &quot;simple passcode&quot; and then use a purely numeric longer passcode? In that case the iPhone will still show the big easy-to-hit numeric keyboard allowing you to type in the arbitrary length numeric code.<p>Yes. It&#x27;s not as safe as a long alphanumeric password, but this gets annoying SO quickly, I&#x27;d rather type in my 8 digits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drinchev</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure, when they jailbreak it the truth will come out. And I doubt Apple would take the risk for lying about that.</text></comment> |
37,676,487 | 37,676,026 | 1 | 3 | 37,658,208 | train | <story><title>My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards</title><url>https://jackevansevo.github.io/my-unhealthy-relationship-with-keyboards.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pr0zac</author><text>Do you not know how to touch type without looking at the keyboard at all or have you just not learned where the numbers are? Shouldn&#x27;t you take the time to learn to type correctly instead of relying on moving your entire hand just to type a number?<p>I truly do not mean to be insulting or anything, but I read comments like this a lot and they really confuse me. I don&#x27;t need a numpad because I know how to touch type and don&#x27;t have trouble putting in numbers with the number row without looking, I never used the numpad even when I had a keyboard that had one.<p>For why I got a board without it, ergonomics. My mouse is where the numpad would&#x27;ve been. Having a shorter keyboard reduces the distance between my hands at the points where I need to use a mouse to about shoulder width, keeping my arms aligned with my shoulders and greatly reduces shoulder impinging issues I was having.</text></item><item><author>frameset</author><text>I really don&#x27;t understand the numpad-less trend of fashionable keyboards. Doing any kind of number entry beyond one or two digits is very annoying without one.<p>They also don&#x27;t take up that much space really.<p>If your keyboard is a portable one you pack with you on trips, I get it. If it lives on a desk, why not splash out the small amount extra to make number entry much easier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kedean</author><text>For me personally, the number row is far enough away from the home row that my fingers become inaccurate. It&#x27;s not unlikely that when I reach for 7 I&#x27;ll hit 6 instead. That&#x27;s easy enough to correct in normal operation, less so for entering lots of numbers.<p>Another issue is when doing data entry or 2fa codes, one hand tends to be busy holding something. The number row is basically unusable one-handed as far as I&#x27;m concerned.<p>And for me, mouse distance from the keyboard has never been an issue, because I use them in different scenarios. It&#x27;s not often that I&#x27;m dual wielding them to the point shoulder angles are a concern. If I&#x27;m spending hours coding, the amount of mouse usage is going to be minimal.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards</title><url>https://jackevansevo.github.io/my-unhealthy-relationship-with-keyboards.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pr0zac</author><text>Do you not know how to touch type without looking at the keyboard at all or have you just not learned where the numbers are? Shouldn&#x27;t you take the time to learn to type correctly instead of relying on moving your entire hand just to type a number?<p>I truly do not mean to be insulting or anything, but I read comments like this a lot and they really confuse me. I don&#x27;t need a numpad because I know how to touch type and don&#x27;t have trouble putting in numbers with the number row without looking, I never used the numpad even when I had a keyboard that had one.<p>For why I got a board without it, ergonomics. My mouse is where the numpad would&#x27;ve been. Having a shorter keyboard reduces the distance between my hands at the points where I need to use a mouse to about shoulder width, keeping my arms aligned with my shoulders and greatly reduces shoulder impinging issues I was having.</text></item><item><author>frameset</author><text>I really don&#x27;t understand the numpad-less trend of fashionable keyboards. Doing any kind of number entry beyond one or two digits is very annoying without one.<p>They also don&#x27;t take up that much space really.<p>If your keyboard is a portable one you pack with you on trips, I get it. If it lives on a desk, why not splash out the small amount extra to make number entry much easier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>z500</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s because I learned to type in chat rooms and never bothered with the home row thing, but I guess I just don&#x27;t type enough numbers to have muscle memory for the number row. But the numpad is stupid easy to develop muscle memory for.</text></comment> |
38,525,546 | 38,525,093 | 1 | 2 | 38,523,704 | train | <story><title>YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in prison for obstructing probe into plane crash</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/santa-barbara-county-man-sentenced-6-months-prison-obstructing-federal-probe-plane</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avar</author><text>&gt; [...]this doesn&#x27;t mean that he would have gotten away with it if he&#x27;d cooperated[...]<p>If he&#x27;d stuck to the story that he just had an engine mishap would they have been able to prove that it was intentional?<p>They&#x27;d almost certainly have revoked his license to ever fly again, but filming everything you&#x27;re doing isn&#x27;t illegal.<p>Nor is wearing a parachute because you know you&#x27;re a crappy pilot that&#x27;ll bail out at the first sign of trouble.</text></item><item><author>duskwuff</author><text>Note, however, that this doesn&#x27;t mean that he would have gotten away with it if he&#x27;d cooperated. It means that the federal prosecutor decided that the act of obstruction would be easier to prove, since the intentional nature of those acts is much more self-evident.</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Critically, he is <i>not</i> going to jail for intentionally crashing the plane. He is being jailed &quot;for obstructing a federal investigation by deliberately destroying the wreckage of an airplane.&quot;<p>Had he cooperated, it&#x27;s plausible to see him getting away with a license revocation and fine. Instead he did this:<p>&quot;In the weeks following the plane crash, Jacob lied to investigators that he did not know the wreckage’s location. In fact, on December 10, 2021, Jacob and a friend flew by helicopter to the wreckage site. There, Jacob used straps to secure the wreckage, which the helicopter lifted and carried to Rancho Sisquoc in Santa Barbara County, where it was loaded onto a trailer attached to Jacob’s pickup truck.<p>Jacob drove the wreckage to Lompoc City Airport and unloaded it in a hangar. He then cut up and destroyed the airplane wreckage and, over the course of a few days, deposited the detached parts of the wrecked airplane into trash bins at the airport and elsewhere, which was done with the intent to obstruct federal authorities from investigating the November 24 plane crash.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksherlock</author><text>General Aviation airplanes require an annual inspection (from an IA A&amp;P mechanic -- that&#x27;s airframe &amp; powerplant with inspection authorization). My understanding is that the plane was out of annual (ie, bought as parts) and he fixed it up enough to fly. There are strict limits on what repairs you can do yourself without involving a licensed A&amp;P mechanic. FAA actually does ramp checks on occasion to verify that your bug smasher has up to date registration and annual inspection. Regardless of how the flight ended, the flight shouldn&#x27;t have happened in the first place and his PPL could be revoked for that alone.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in prison for obstructing probe into plane crash</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/santa-barbara-county-man-sentenced-6-months-prison-obstructing-federal-probe-plane</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avar</author><text>&gt; [...]this doesn&#x27;t mean that he would have gotten away with it if he&#x27;d cooperated[...]<p>If he&#x27;d stuck to the story that he just had an engine mishap would they have been able to prove that it was intentional?<p>They&#x27;d almost certainly have revoked his license to ever fly again, but filming everything you&#x27;re doing isn&#x27;t illegal.<p>Nor is wearing a parachute because you know you&#x27;re a crappy pilot that&#x27;ll bail out at the first sign of trouble.</text></item><item><author>duskwuff</author><text>Note, however, that this doesn&#x27;t mean that he would have gotten away with it if he&#x27;d cooperated. It means that the federal prosecutor decided that the act of obstruction would be easier to prove, since the intentional nature of those acts is much more self-evident.</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Critically, he is <i>not</i> going to jail for intentionally crashing the plane. He is being jailed &quot;for obstructing a federal investigation by deliberately destroying the wreckage of an airplane.&quot;<p>Had he cooperated, it&#x27;s plausible to see him getting away with a license revocation and fine. Instead he did this:<p>&quot;In the weeks following the plane crash, Jacob lied to investigators that he did not know the wreckage’s location. In fact, on December 10, 2021, Jacob and a friend flew by helicopter to the wreckage site. There, Jacob used straps to secure the wreckage, which the helicopter lifted and carried to Rancho Sisquoc in Santa Barbara County, where it was loaded onto a trailer attached to Jacob’s pickup truck.<p>Jacob drove the wreckage to Lompoc City Airport and unloaded it in a hangar. He then cut up and destroyed the airplane wreckage and, over the course of a few days, deposited the detached parts of the wrecked airplane into trash bins at the airport and elsewhere, which was done with the intent to obstruct federal authorities from investigating the November 24 plane crash.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>If he&#x27;d stuck to the story that he just had an engine mishap would they have been able to prove that it was intentional?</i><p>In a normal setting, probably not. General-aviation aircraft don&#x27;t have flight recorders. Helpfully for the investigators, however, this numpty decked his plane out in cameras. And then posted the video online. <i>After</i> he&#x27;d executed the cover-up.</text></comment> |
14,282,059 | 14,280,423 | 1 | 2 | 14,279,532 | train | <story><title>When sexual selection can lead to a decline in the capacity for survival</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/opinion/sunday/are-these-birds-too-sexy-to-survive.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinalexbrown</author><text>I remember once from undergrad the saying &#x27;&quot;obvious&quot; is the most dangerous word in mathematics.&#x27; Seeing how something <i>could be</i> true is dramatically different from identifying and defending that it <i>is</i> true.<p>It&#x27;s dangerously easy to say &quot;oh yea, makes sense, natural selection happens by mating so if mates choose club wings, I get it. Obvious.&quot; But Prum&#x27;s trying to go a step further, and test just how far out of balance and arbitrary the mate selection part can be from the direct do-not-die part of evolutionary fitness.<p>He proposes that we can differentiate between these two by considering that the club wings aren&#x27;t actually indicators of higher direct fitness, because they hurt the ability to fly, even among females that have no need for such shenanagins. I&#x27;m not sure I totally agree with or grasp that, but at least it&#x27;s an attempt to further understand and test the idea.<p>I&#x27;m frankly surprised by comments accusing a well established evolutionary biologist of severely misunderstanding natural selection. The author has spent his career, among other things, investigating mechanisms of evolution, and identifying and performing tests to assess their relative importance to a particular species (here&#x27;s an example: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prumlab.yale.edu&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;prum_1997_phylogenetic_tests.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prumlab.yale.edu&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;prum_1997_phylog...</a>).<p>You might consider whether your objections are addressed in his work not aimed at the lay population, and that your criticism really just amounts to &quot;He wrote this at not exactly the right level of sophistication for me.&quot; Maybe that&#x27;s true, but it&#x27;s a pretty boring claim.</text></comment> | <story><title>When sexual selection can lead to a decline in the capacity for survival</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/opinion/sunday/are-these-birds-too-sexy-to-survive.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skywhopper</author><text>I will just echo the other posts here that the author of this article or his sources severely misunderstand natural selection and the special case of sexual selection. The most important thing to understand about evolution is that natural selection can only work with the existing traits of an organism, the current environment in which the organism exists, and what random changes happen. Furthermore, every change in the phenotype of an organism has a number of sometimes disparate impacts on its likelihood of reproductive success within its own environment. Given all of that, we should _expect_ to see seeming contradictions like this example.<p>Most birds can fly because their parents could fly. The genes for flying stick around because so many other traits of birds have evolved to benefit or rely on the ability to fly. But that doesn&#x27;t mean flying itself is some magical end goal. Flying is only useful for natural selection insasmuch as it grants the organism a better likelihood of reproducing.<p>Why would natural selection necessarily prefer birds that are ideally designed for flying in what we perceive as a graceful manner? In fact, we know that it doesn&#x27;t. Ostriches, emus, and penguins can&#x27;t fly, though their ancestors were able to. That is not evidence that they are evolutionary dead ends. The huge variety of penguin species that have evolved since the ancestor of penguins lost the ability to fly proves the opposite, in fact.<p>This bird clearly flies well enough to continue to survive. If the traits that work against it flying gracefully grant it more reproductive success than flying slightly better would, then natural selection will favor those traits.<p>Natural selection is often treated far too preciously. Sure, it took a genius in Darwin to identify and clearly describe the phenomenon, but the process itself is tautological. It comes down to, &quot;the things that reproduce better reproduce better&quot;. This bird exists, therefore natural selection favored its traits. If we don&#x27;t understand why, the failure is ours, not natural selection.</text></comment> |
8,867,845 | 8,867,751 | 1 | 2 | 8,867,575 | train | <story><title>Io language</title><url>http://iolanguage.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>talkingquickly</author><text>This is one of the languages covered in the excellent Prag Prog book &quot;7 Languages in 7 Weeks&quot; (<a href="https://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragprog.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;btlang&#x2F;seven-languages-in-seven-we...</a>).<p>It wasn&#x27;t until I went through that books section on io and how prototypal inheritance works that I felt like I really started to get a handle on JavaScript.</text></comment> | <story><title>Io language</title><url>http://iolanguage.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wiremine</author><text>IO has been around for a while now, I remember it got some press back when _why was still active:<p><a href="http://viewsourcecode.org/why/hackety.org/2008/01/05/ioHasAVeryCleanMirror.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;viewsourcecode.org&#x2F;why&#x2F;hackety.org&#x2F;2008&#x2F;01&#x2F;05&#x2F;ioHasAV...</a><p>I&#x27;ve played around with it a bit over the years: it is a fun little language.<p>Edit: fixed typo.</text></comment> |
33,832,169 | 33,830,775 | 1 | 2 | 33,809,377 | train | <story><title>FCC Broadband Map</title><url>https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffdubin</author><text>It&#x27;s hard for me to take this data seriously when I enter an address that I know to be problematic for cellular coverage and receive &quot;100% coverage&quot; on the mobile broadband tab, and listed with carriers I know to have zero outdoor coverage at the location.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eganist</author><text>That&#x27;s the whole point of the map. It&#x27;s using data reported by telcos.<p>They opened up the map so that individuals could challenge the coverage they&#x27;re reportedly getting. My data was largely accurate other than SpaceX reporting coverage for addresses that are still waitlisted, so I challenged those.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC Broadband Map</title><url>https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffdubin</author><text>It&#x27;s hard for me to take this data seriously when I enter an address that I know to be problematic for cellular coverage and receive &quot;100% coverage&quot; on the mobile broadband tab, and listed with carriers I know to have zero outdoor coverage at the location.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gabereiser</author><text>Same. This map isn’t accurate. Areas I know have no cell phone coverage are marked as 100% covered. Areas I know that don’t have cable broadband show 100% covered. It’s complete BS.</text></comment> |
30,875,362 | 30,875,451 | 1 | 2 | 30,871,775 | train | <story><title>The singularity is close?</title><url>https://mkaic.substack.com/p/the-singularity-is-very-close</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idontwantthis</author><text>I will continue dismissing AGI until someone can tell me what GI is.
I don&#x27;t believe that it&#x27;s just statistical inferences run in parallel (Machine Learning).<p>If we don&#x27;t know what GI is, then I don&#x27;t know how we are supposed to replicate it.<p>It&#x27;s like if we wanted to produce power on Earth the same way as the Sun does, but without knowing that was fusion. So we were just trying to make things look like the Sun. Someone says &quot;Look, I made a ball so hot you can&#x27;t look at it, we must be close!&quot;<p>I believe we will have fusion eventually because it is a process that we deeply understand, it&#x27;s just hard to do.<p>I don&#x27;t believe we are on a path to AGI right now because know one understands even a little bit of GI.</text></item><item><author>jtuple</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised by the number of &quot;is AGI even possible&quot; comments here and would love to hear more.<p>I personally think AGI is far off, but always assumed it was an inevitability.<p>Obviously, humans are sentient with GI, and various other animals range from close-ish to humans to not-even-close but still orders of magnitude more than any machine.<p>Ie. GI is a real thing, in the real world. It&#x27;s not time travel, immortality, etc.<p>I certainly understand the religious perspective. If you believe humans&#x2F;life is special, created by some higher power, and that the created cannot create, then AGI is not possible. But, given the number of &quot;is AGI possible?&quot; comments I assume not all are religious based (HN doesn&#x27;t seem to a highly religious cohort to me).<p>What are the common secular arguments against AGI?<p>Are people simply doubting the more narrow view that AGI is possible via ML implemented on existing computing technology? Or the idea in general?<p>While the article does focus on current ML trajectory and &quot;digital&quot; solutions, its core position is mostly focused on a &quot;new approach&quot; and AI creating AGI.<p>I&#x27;d consider a scenario where highly advanced but non-sentient ML algorithms figure out to devise a new technology (be that digital or analog, inorganic or organic) that leads to AGI as an outcome that is consistent with this article.<p>Is that viable in 20 years time? No idea, but given an infinite timescale it certainly seems more possible than not to me given that we all already exist as blackbox MVPs that just haven&#x27;t been reverse engineered yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xcelerate</author><text>&gt; I will continue dismissing AGI until someone can tell me what GI is<p>Here&#x27;s a rather famous recommendation for a definition of general intelligence: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;0712.3329.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;0712.3329.pdf</a><p>Very loosely paraphrasing their paper, general intelligence is the ability to adapt to novel situations and predict the future better than any other algorithm could do.<p>Personally, I think of perfect AGI as this: given that our universe is capable of approximation to arbitrary precision using a universal Turing machine (and infinite time and memory), AGI is the best* computable approximation to Solomonoff induction.<p>*&quot;best&quot; being some mathematical notion of optimality.</text></comment> | <story><title>The singularity is close?</title><url>https://mkaic.substack.com/p/the-singularity-is-very-close</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idontwantthis</author><text>I will continue dismissing AGI until someone can tell me what GI is.
I don&#x27;t believe that it&#x27;s just statistical inferences run in parallel (Machine Learning).<p>If we don&#x27;t know what GI is, then I don&#x27;t know how we are supposed to replicate it.<p>It&#x27;s like if we wanted to produce power on Earth the same way as the Sun does, but without knowing that was fusion. So we were just trying to make things look like the Sun. Someone says &quot;Look, I made a ball so hot you can&#x27;t look at it, we must be close!&quot;<p>I believe we will have fusion eventually because it is a process that we deeply understand, it&#x27;s just hard to do.<p>I don&#x27;t believe we are on a path to AGI right now because know one understands even a little bit of GI.</text></item><item><author>jtuple</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised by the number of &quot;is AGI even possible&quot; comments here and would love to hear more.<p>I personally think AGI is far off, but always assumed it was an inevitability.<p>Obviously, humans are sentient with GI, and various other animals range from close-ish to humans to not-even-close but still orders of magnitude more than any machine.<p>Ie. GI is a real thing, in the real world. It&#x27;s not time travel, immortality, etc.<p>I certainly understand the religious perspective. If you believe humans&#x2F;life is special, created by some higher power, and that the created cannot create, then AGI is not possible. But, given the number of &quot;is AGI possible?&quot; comments I assume not all are religious based (HN doesn&#x27;t seem to a highly religious cohort to me).<p>What are the common secular arguments against AGI?<p>Are people simply doubting the more narrow view that AGI is possible via ML implemented on existing computing technology? Or the idea in general?<p>While the article does focus on current ML trajectory and &quot;digital&quot; solutions, its core position is mostly focused on a &quot;new approach&quot; and AI creating AGI.<p>I&#x27;d consider a scenario where highly advanced but non-sentient ML algorithms figure out to devise a new technology (be that digital or analog, inorganic or organic) that leads to AGI as an outcome that is consistent with this article.<p>Is that viable in 20 years time? No idea, but given an infinite timescale it certainly seems more possible than not to me given that we all already exist as blackbox MVPs that just haven&#x27;t been reverse engineered yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VladimirGolovin</author><text>Here&#x27;s a definition from Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter:<p>Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;0712.3329" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;0712.3329</a></text></comment> |
22,975,533 | 22,975,256 | 1 | 2 | 22,974,380 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Help Me Decide Please</title><url>http://helpmedecideplease.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>I absolutely thought I could enter a question and have the site&#x27;s users decide for me like a strawpoll.<p>I can&#x27;t even decide what to put in the choices list. Man.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taneq</author><text>&gt; I can&#x27;t even decide what to put in the choices list. Man.<p>&quot;what question should I ask? and what should the answers be?&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Help Me Decide Please</title><url>http://helpmedecideplease.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>I absolutely thought I could enter a question and have the site&#x27;s users decide for me like a strawpoll.<p>I can&#x27;t even decide what to put in the choices list. Man.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoofusOfDeath</author><text>Perhaps it&#x27;s an object lesson in existential philosophy?</text></comment> |
13,638,943 | 13,636,920 | 1 | 2 | 13,635,433 | train | <story><title>YubiKey 4C</title><url>https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4c/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>Until these things work well with phones, I can&#x27;t buy into them. I have a U2F key that I use as a shortcut for accessing things like Google&#x27;s services. But I am sticking to always using either Google Authenticator or SMS, if it&#x27;s available, as a primary option. When I am looking at a website in bed on my phone, and my YubiKey is in my laptop downstairs, I can&#x27;t say I am happy that I can&#x27;t access my account.<p>I think the form factor for these things is just wrong. I don&#x27;t always have my keys with me. I do have my phone much more frequently. Even more frequently I have things like my Pebble. Maybe some kind of NFC interface with a wrist watch would be a better alternative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>herpderperator</author><text>I use the Yubikey Neo with my phone via NFC to unlock my master password database which I use KeePass for. I wear my Yubikey on my necklace, tucked under my shirt and never remove it (it&#x27;s waterproof, I shower with it.) I type my master password and just tap my phone to my chest to unlock.</text></comment> | <story><title>YubiKey 4C</title><url>https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4c/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IgorPartola</author><text>Until these things work well with phones, I can&#x27;t buy into them. I have a U2F key that I use as a shortcut for accessing things like Google&#x27;s services. But I am sticking to always using either Google Authenticator or SMS, if it&#x27;s available, as a primary option. When I am looking at a website in bed on my phone, and my YubiKey is in my laptop downstairs, I can&#x27;t say I am happy that I can&#x27;t access my account.<p>I think the form factor for these things is just wrong. I don&#x27;t always have my keys with me. I do have my phone much more frequently. Even more frequently I have things like my Pebble. Maybe some kind of NFC interface with a wrist watch would be a better alternative.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lorenzhs</author><text>On Android, the Google Authenticator app handles U2F via NFC. Sadly not possible on iOS.</text></comment> |
39,586,254 | 39,582,408 | 1 | 2 | 39,581,627 | train | <story><title>AI-generated content, other unfavorable practices get CNET on Wikipedia banlist</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-content-and-other-unfavorable-practices-have-put-longtime-staple-cnet-on-wikipedias-blacklisted-sources</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smittywerben</author><text>Wait, you&#x27;re telling me their malware-infested downloader isn&#x27;t a reliable source for news, either?</text></comment> | <story><title>AI-generated content, other unfavorable practices get CNET on Wikipedia banlist</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-content-and-other-unfavorable-practices-have-put-longtime-staple-cnet-on-wikipedias-blacklisted-sources</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisArchitect</author><text>[dupe]<p>Some more discussion here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39556041">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39556041</a></text></comment> |
2,438,397 | 2,438,240 | 1 | 3 | 2,437,944 | train | <story><title>The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle</title><url>http://www.humblebundle.com/?frozenbyte</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JonnieCache</author><text>I find it interesting that the linux crew are paying over twice as much as windows/mac users on average. Higher average age and therefore disposable income do you suppose?</text></comment> | <story><title>The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle</title><url>http://www.humblebundle.com/?frozenbyte</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ultrasaurus</author><text>I think I'm going to have to break my no-game-buying pledge for this bundle, another comment [1] pointed out Trine is local co-operative and I want to show my support for that type of gameplay.<p>[1] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438072" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438072</a> (in a dead thread)</text></comment> |
22,174,754 | 22,174,157 | 1 | 2 | 22,173,776 | train | <story><title>How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03949-8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mtm7</author><text>There are a few comments about how to decrease stress. From personal experience, asking &quot;How can I be less stressed?&quot; is like asking &quot;How can I be happy?&quot; There&#x27;s not really a great answer... but you can look at the things that would make you _unhappy_ and avoid them. So here&#x27;s &quot;How can I become MORE stressed?&quot;<p>1. Buy as much nice stuff as you can – it&#x27;s okay if you go into debt because it&#x27;ll persuade you to work harder!<p>2. Since you&#x27;re so busy, accept that you don&#x27;t have time to exercise. You can get around to it in the future (once you&#x27;re rich!)<p>3. Stay up as late as you can. After all, you can sleep when you&#x27;re dead. Caffeine is your friend.<p>4. Be too lazy to make todo lists or mark anything on your calendar.<p>5. At least once per week, compare yourself to everyone else. It&#x27;s the only way to judge how you&#x27;re doing.<p>6. Do everything yourself. You don&#x27;t need to hire that tax accountant. You don&#x27;t need to ask for help.<p>7. Sell your time to [Company Name Here]. Yeah, they&#x27;re hard to work for, but they might make you rich.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03949-8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baby</author><text>I’ve heard that stress can cause a lot of issues in one’s body. Grey hair, diabetes, even cancer?<p>What should I do? Should I drop everything to live a stress-free life in Thailand? Should I do meditation everyday? What are the ways for someone to live a stress-free life :)?</text></comment> |
14,490,293 | 14,490,297 | 1 | 3 | 14,489,607 | train | <story><title>Apple Announces macOS High Sierra</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/apple-announces-macos-high-sierra/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristianc</author><text>Safari is free.</text></item><item><author>pdog</author><text>Apple products are more expensive, but you know the saying: if you&#x27;re not paying, you are the product.</text></item><item><author>clumsysmurf</author><text>&quot;Safari also now blocks auto-playing videos and will use machine learning to identify trackers and segregate the cross-site trackers so advertisers won’t be able to easily track you across sites.&quot;<p>Finally, I feel a corporation is using ML to project me, rather than sell me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pm90</author><text>I think this is kinda misleading. Sure Safari is free, but is ONLY available on OSX&#x2F;iOS which can only be obtained by purchasing apple devices. This is unlike Chrome, which is free for anyone, across any platform.<p>One of my coworkers once told me he preferred Apple products over any other vendor if only because he believes that by paying higher for apple products, he is paying for the privacy&#x2F;security aspects of having his data secure and personal. I&#x27;m not sure how much this is true, but this datapoint does seem to confirm that theory.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Announces macOS High Sierra</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/apple-announces-macos-high-sierra/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristianc</author><text>Safari is free.</text></item><item><author>pdog</author><text>Apple products are more expensive, but you know the saying: if you&#x27;re not paying, you are the product.</text></item><item><author>clumsysmurf</author><text>&quot;Safari also now blocks auto-playing videos and will use machine learning to identify trackers and segregate the cross-site trackers so advertisers won’t be able to easily track you across sites.&quot;<p>Finally, I feel a corporation is using ML to project me, rather than sell me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmg</author><text>You have to* purchase an Apple product to use Safari.<p>*We&#x27;re going to ignore the minuscule hackintosh community for a minute.</text></comment> |
32,331,014 | 32,331,336 | 1 | 2 | 32,326,846 | train | <story><title>Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new car prices</title><url>https://www.themanual.com/auto/markup-exposes-car-dealership-greed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zachshefska</author><text>The market is SO inefficient. While you’re right in describing the principles of supply and demand, the reality is that buying a car should be 10x simpler and the price should just be the price. No games, no haggling, no BS add-ons that increase dealer profits. Retail auto is due for a wake up call, and I sense it’s happening right now. You wouldn’t need markups to make extra profit if the cost infrastructure associated with selling cars was lower than it currently is.</text></item><item><author>atestu</author><text>Based on all other comments I have an unpopular opinion: I think this is fine. If 10 people want to buy 1 car, how do you choose which person gets it? You raise the price until there&#x27;s only 1 person. How else would you do it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradfa</author><text>Tesla is leading the way today (somewhat painfully in some areas) but they&#x27;re not the first to try fixing this. GM&#x27;s Saturn tried to make buying simpler in the 1990s and surely there were other previous examples, too.<p>Ford seems to be testing the waters about how to simplify the car purchase process: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fordauthority.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;ford-dealers-will-likely-switch-over-to-new-business-model-by-2023&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fordauthority.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;ford-dealers-will-likely-s...</a><p>There&#x27;s plenty of dealerships who have historically had simple purchase processes with standard no haggle pricing but often buyers have to do extensive research in order to find such dealerships.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new car prices</title><url>https://www.themanual.com/auto/markup-exposes-car-dealership-greed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zachshefska</author><text>The market is SO inefficient. While you’re right in describing the principles of supply and demand, the reality is that buying a car should be 10x simpler and the price should just be the price. No games, no haggling, no BS add-ons that increase dealer profits. Retail auto is due for a wake up call, and I sense it’s happening right now. You wouldn’t need markups to make extra profit if the cost infrastructure associated with selling cars was lower than it currently is.</text></item><item><author>atestu</author><text>Based on all other comments I have an unpopular opinion: I think this is fine. If 10 people want to buy 1 car, how do you choose which person gets it? You raise the price until there&#x27;s only 1 person. How else would you do it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kspacewalk2</author><text>The market is inefficient because dealerships form a cartel, divvy up the geographical areas where they operate and don&#x27;t allow any competition there. If it was an actual market, carmakers would sell off cars to dealers (e.g. at mega-auctions), who can set up wherever they want (or sell online), and all the games, haggling etc. would disappear.</text></comment> |
36,263,651 | 36,261,600 | 1 | 2 | 36,244,509 | train | <story><title>You can't reach the brain through the ears</title><url>https://www.experimental-history.com/p/you-cant-reach-the-brain-through</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmbche</author><text>&quot;A final obstacle that stops us from filling each other’s buckets with wisdom: it might kill us.<p>If you’re on a Mac, you can open up a program called Terminal and, with just a few lines of code, ruin your computer. You’re not supposed to screw around in there unless you really know what you’re doing.<p>The human brain does not have Terminal, for good reason. If you could muck around with your own source code, you could suddenly make your lungs stop working, or destroy your ability to see blue, or get yourself sexually attracted to birds. That’s why you have to wall it off, so that neither you nor anyone else can break your brain.&quot;<p>I like this idea - reminds me of hearing of sci-fi stories where even cursory communication with aliens is catastroohic because they share knowledge we are not meant to know and destroy ourselves because of it.<p>And the comment of someone(?) on TV being bad for children because it gives them answers to questions they wouldn&#x27;t have asked.<p>Talk is cheap, but maybe we should be a little careful, and most of all careful of what we listen to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qawwads</author><text>&gt;If you’re on a Mac, you can open up a program called Terminal and, with just a few lines of code, ruin your computer. You’re not supposed to screw around in there unless you really know what you’re doing.<p>This is what they told us in computer class back then to make sure we don&#x27;t learn anything wortwhile. Reading it on HN of all place makes me very sad.</text></comment> | <story><title>You can't reach the brain through the ears</title><url>https://www.experimental-history.com/p/you-cant-reach-the-brain-through</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmbche</author><text>&quot;A final obstacle that stops us from filling each other’s buckets with wisdom: it might kill us.<p>If you’re on a Mac, you can open up a program called Terminal and, with just a few lines of code, ruin your computer. You’re not supposed to screw around in there unless you really know what you’re doing.<p>The human brain does not have Terminal, for good reason. If you could muck around with your own source code, you could suddenly make your lungs stop working, or destroy your ability to see blue, or get yourself sexually attracted to birds. That’s why you have to wall it off, so that neither you nor anyone else can break your brain.&quot;<p>I like this idea - reminds me of hearing of sci-fi stories where even cursory communication with aliens is catastroohic because they share knowledge we are not meant to know and destroy ourselves because of it.<p>And the comment of someone(?) on TV being bad for children because it gives them answers to questions they wouldn&#x27;t have asked.<p>Talk is cheap, but maybe we should be a little careful, and most of all careful of what we listen to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joelfried</author><text>If you haven&#x27;t read it, the book you haven&#x27;t realized you&#x27;re looking for is Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.</text></comment> |
16,092,054 | 16,089,895 | 1 | 2 | 16,089,435 | train | <story><title>Hacking a Google Interview (2009)</title><url>http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/interview/index.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csnewb</author><text>All I do at work is fix bugs by changing a few lines of code and glue together API&#x27;s to send data from A to B. I don&#x27;t regularly search BST&#x27;s using DFS&#x2F;BFS algorithms or find the kth shortest string in a merged unsorted linked list or some shit like that. Preparing for these technical interviews is like a part-time job after my full-time job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>somethingsimple</author><text>I understand what you&#x27;re saying and I generally agree that algorithmic&#x2F;coding interviews are broken. But you know what? Sometimes you need the fancy stuff.<p>I once stumbled upon a problem at work that, after some thinking, I realized could be modeled as a graph problem and solved by performing a topological sort. It was a good and elegant solution to the problem. But what if it hadn&#x27;t landed on my plate, and instead on someone who didn&#x27;t know a thing about graphs? The problem might not have been solved (which would mean great pain for our customers, since it was on a feature that customers directly interfaced with), or worse, someone else might have turned up with a horribly messy, spaghetti-like solution.<p>So I think companies should actually hire people who know their CS fundamentals, even if 80% of the time they&#x27;ll be doing trivial work that someone less qualified could do. What matters though is having people that are ready for the hairy stuff when it comes up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hacking a Google Interview (2009)</title><url>http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/interview/index.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csnewb</author><text>All I do at work is fix bugs by changing a few lines of code and glue together API&#x27;s to send data from A to B. I don&#x27;t regularly search BST&#x27;s using DFS&#x2F;BFS algorithms or find the kth shortest string in a merged unsorted linked list or some shit like that. Preparing for these technical interviews is like a part-time job after my full-time job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarmig</author><text>If it makes you feel any better, changing a few lines of code and glueing together APIs to send data from A to B is what 80% of Google engineers do each day too.</text></comment> |
34,972,765 | 34,971,106 | 1 | 2 | 34,970,917 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Crul – Query Any Webpage or API</title><url>https://www.crul.com/</url><text>Hi HN, we’re Carl and Nic, the creators of crul (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com</a>), and we’ve been hard at work for the last year and a half building our dream of turning the web into a dataset. In a nutshell crul is a tool for querying and building web and api data feeds from anywhere to anywhere.<p>With crul you can crawl and transform web pages into csv tables, explore and dynamically query APIs, filter and organize data, and push data sets to third party data lakes and analytics tools. Here’s a demo video, we’ve been told Nic sounds like John Mayer (lol) (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com&#x2F;demo-video" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com&#x2F;demo-video</a>)<p>We’ve personally struggled wrangling data from the web using puppeteer&#x2F;playwright&#x2F;selenium, jq or cobbling together python scripts, client libraries, and schedulers to consume APIs. The reality is that shit is hard, doesn’t scale (classic blocking for-loop or async saturation), and comes with thorny maintenance&#x2F;security issues. The tools we love to hate.<p>Crul’s value prop is simple: Query any Webpage or API for free.<p>At its core, crul is based on the foundational linked nature of Web&#x2F;API content. It consists of a purpose built map&#x2F;expand&#x2F;reduce engine for hierarchical Web&#x2F;API content (kind of like postman but with a membership to Gold&#x27;s Gym) with a familiar parser expression grammar that naturally gets the job done (and layered caching to make it quick to fix when it doesn’t on the first try). There’s a boatload of other features like domain policies, scheduler, checkpoints, templates, REST API, Web UI, vault, OAuth for third parties and 20+ stores to send your data to.<p>Our goal is to open source crul as time and resources permit. At the end of the day it’s just the two of us trying to figure things out as we go! We’re just getting started.<p>Crul is one bad mother#^@%*&amp; and the web is finally yours!<p>Download crul for free as a Mac OS desktop application or as a Docker image (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com</a>) and let us know if you love it or hate it. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forms.gle&#x2F;5BXb5bLC1D5QG7i99" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forms.gle&#x2F;5BXb5bLC1D5QG7i99</a>) And come say hello to us on our slack channel - we’re a friendly bunch! (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crulinc.slack.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crulinc.slack.com&#x2F;</a>)<p>Nic and Carl (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com&#x2F;early-days" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com&#x2F;early-days</a>)</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jensneuse</author><text>Hey, just watched the video. This looks super useful! I&#x27;m the founder of WunderGraph (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wundergraph.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wundergraph.com</a>) and we allow our users to easily integrate multiple data sources into a virtual graph, which they can then access using GraphQL. You can add various data sources, like GraphQL, Federation, OpenAPI, Databases, etc... I was just thinking, wouldn&#x27;t it be cool if we could find an easy way to add a &quot;Crul&quot; datasource? If you&#x27;re interested, please DM me in our discord (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wundergraph.com&#x2F;discord" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wundergraph.com&#x2F;discord</a>). I&#x27;d love to have a conversation!</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Crul – Query Any Webpage or API</title><url>https://www.crul.com/</url><text>Hi HN, we’re Carl and Nic, the creators of crul (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com</a>), and we’ve been hard at work for the last year and a half building our dream of turning the web into a dataset. In a nutshell crul is a tool for querying and building web and api data feeds from anywhere to anywhere.<p>With crul you can crawl and transform web pages into csv tables, explore and dynamically query APIs, filter and organize data, and push data sets to third party data lakes and analytics tools. Here’s a demo video, we’ve been told Nic sounds like John Mayer (lol) (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com&#x2F;demo-video" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com&#x2F;demo-video</a>)<p>We’ve personally struggled wrangling data from the web using puppeteer&#x2F;playwright&#x2F;selenium, jq or cobbling together python scripts, client libraries, and schedulers to consume APIs. The reality is that shit is hard, doesn’t scale (classic blocking for-loop or async saturation), and comes with thorny maintenance&#x2F;security issues. The tools we love to hate.<p>Crul’s value prop is simple: Query any Webpage or API for free.<p>At its core, crul is based on the foundational linked nature of Web&#x2F;API content. It consists of a purpose built map&#x2F;expand&#x2F;reduce engine for hierarchical Web&#x2F;API content (kind of like postman but with a membership to Gold&#x27;s Gym) with a familiar parser expression grammar that naturally gets the job done (and layered caching to make it quick to fix when it doesn’t on the first try). There’s a boatload of other features like domain policies, scheduler, checkpoints, templates, REST API, Web UI, vault, OAuth for third parties and 20+ stores to send your data to.<p>Our goal is to open source crul as time and resources permit. At the end of the day it’s just the two of us trying to figure things out as we go! We’re just getting started.<p>Crul is one bad mother#^@%*&amp; and the web is finally yours!<p>Download crul for free as a Mac OS desktop application or as a Docker image (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com</a>) and let us know if you love it or hate it. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forms.gle&#x2F;5BXb5bLC1D5QG7i99" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forms.gle&#x2F;5BXb5bLC1D5QG7i99</a>) And come say hello to us on our slack channel - we’re a friendly bunch! (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crulinc.slack.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crulinc.slack.com&#x2F;</a>)<p>Nic and Carl (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com&#x2F;early-days" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crul.com&#x2F;early-days</a>)</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dishwishy</author><text>I just started playing with CRUL recently to try to map out different media download links on various websites, in an effort to avoid clicking around looking for hidden content. The language is very robust, but just the `filter` command alone is crazy powerful for just exploring things quickly and intuitively.</text></comment> |
15,592,302 | 15,591,354 | 1 | 3 | 15,590,476 | train | <story><title>Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology</title><url>https://www.kapwing.com/blog/skipping-our-paywall-with-an-apology</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aloha</author><text>Online micropayments is still a woefully untouched market, it was supposed to be the wave of the future some years ago, but never went anywhere.<p>I won&#x27;t pay 10 dollars a month (each) to the NYT (LAT, WaPo, et al) for a subscription I might quite happily pay 5 to 20 cents for an article though. I can see a service that functions a lot like EZPass, you load your account with 5-10 bucks, you agree to pay by clicking a payment button on a landing page on a website, the rest is mostly automatic, require more than just a click thru for anything larger than say, 25 cents. You could even set it up so it doesn&#x27;t prompt you to pay until you&#x27;re more than half way thru too.<p>Yes, It&#x27;d take some doing to build infrastructure and get content providers online, but it would eliminate a lot of the mechanics of paying for news, information, online media and other like content (as well as many of the privacy and practical concerns of ad based content payment).<p>The big thing is to make it content agnostic, it can&#x27;t be part of apple, google, facebook, whatever, it needs to be something that functions just as a payment&#x2F;escrow service, not part of some other media empire - part of the utility of such a service is universality. I&#x27;d also steer clear of person to person payments, large transactions, pretty much just be a one-trick-pony (at least until you have wide penetration), and only go after small payments - all of those other markets are well served by a multitude of providers, and would serve as a distraction from the primary product.</text></item><item><author>shash7</author><text>Don&#x27;t think of it as asking for 1 dollar. Think like this:<p>Say if you walk up to me irl and ask for a dollar, I&#x27;ll be like, sure here&#x27;s your change and open up my wallet.<p>Online, asking for one dollar is too much mental overhead. Its not like people don&#x27;t want to pay, but you need to make it easy for them to pay you.<p>Personally, I would stick with ad revenue instead of 1 dollar payments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tome</author><text>&gt; I won&#x27;t pay 10 dollars a month (each) to the NYT (LAT, WaPo, et al) for a subscription<p>What about a Spotify model for articles where you pay a monthly subscription to access all articles from the NYT, WaPo, LAT, Guardian, Independent, Telegraph, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, The Economist, Nature, National Geographic, Scientific American, London Review of Books ... ?<p>EDIT: I guess this is what Blendle is, as mentioned in a sibling comment, except Blendle seems to be pay-per-view and I&#x27;m suggesting monthly subscription. Presumably Blendle could also offer monthly subscription.</text></comment> | <story><title>Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology</title><url>https://www.kapwing.com/blog/skipping-our-paywall-with-an-apology</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aloha</author><text>Online micropayments is still a woefully untouched market, it was supposed to be the wave of the future some years ago, but never went anywhere.<p>I won&#x27;t pay 10 dollars a month (each) to the NYT (LAT, WaPo, et al) for a subscription I might quite happily pay 5 to 20 cents for an article though. I can see a service that functions a lot like EZPass, you load your account with 5-10 bucks, you agree to pay by clicking a payment button on a landing page on a website, the rest is mostly automatic, require more than just a click thru for anything larger than say, 25 cents. You could even set it up so it doesn&#x27;t prompt you to pay until you&#x27;re more than half way thru too.<p>Yes, It&#x27;d take some doing to build infrastructure and get content providers online, but it would eliminate a lot of the mechanics of paying for news, information, online media and other like content (as well as many of the privacy and practical concerns of ad based content payment).<p>The big thing is to make it content agnostic, it can&#x27;t be part of apple, google, facebook, whatever, it needs to be something that functions just as a payment&#x2F;escrow service, not part of some other media empire - part of the utility of such a service is universality. I&#x27;d also steer clear of person to person payments, large transactions, pretty much just be a one-trick-pony (at least until you have wide penetration), and only go after small payments - all of those other markets are well served by a multitude of providers, and would serve as a distraction from the primary product.</text></item><item><author>shash7</author><text>Don&#x27;t think of it as asking for 1 dollar. Think like this:<p>Say if you walk up to me irl and ask for a dollar, I&#x27;ll be like, sure here&#x27;s your change and open up my wallet.<p>Online, asking for one dollar is too much mental overhead. Its not like people don&#x27;t want to pay, but you need to make it easy for them to pay you.<p>Personally, I would stick with ad revenue instead of 1 dollar payments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalfonso</author><text>Saw <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blendle.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blendle.com&#x2F;</a> posted on HN a while back. Works exactly like that.</text></comment> |
34,238,366 | 34,238,430 | 1 | 2 | 34,238,204 | train | <story><title>A16Z is the “worst and largest” scammer of all, says CEO of Swan Bitcoin (2022)</title><url>https://bitnation.co/a16z-is-the-worst-and-largest-scammer-of-all/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thegjp210</author><text>Not to support A16 - but this reads as classic PR&#x2F;SEO for the extensively quoted “CEO”. Below the quality of what I expect on HN</text></comment> | <story><title>A16Z is the “worst and largest” scammer of all, says CEO of Swan Bitcoin (2022)</title><url>https://bitnation.co/a16z-is-the-worst-and-largest-scammer-of-all/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawayjan3</author><text>I&#x27;ve enjoyed reading a YC founder named Liron Shapira&#x27;s Twitter threads on a16z Crypto&#x27;s blatant scams. E.g.<p>- On Helium: Received $365M in investment, convinced regular people to spend $250M buying hotspot nodes in hopes of earning passive income. The result? Helium&#x27;s total revenue is $6.5k&#x2F;month. Link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;liron&#x2F;status&#x2F;1551738599254773765?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;liron&#x2F;status&#x2F;1551738599254773765?lang=en</a><p>- On Axie Infinity: blatant Ponzi scheme disguised as &quot;play-to-earn&quot;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;liron&#x2F;status&#x2F;1554941450697179136?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;liron&#x2F;status&#x2F;1554941450697179136?lang=en</a><p>- On a16z&#x27;s scams in general: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;liron&#x2F;status&#x2F;1565214131942146051?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;liron&#x2F;status&#x2F;1565214131942146051?lang=en</a></text></comment> |
23,198,874 | 23,198,120 | 1 | 3 | 23,189,959 | train | <story><title>So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/14/so-much-of-academia-is-about-connections-and-reputation-laundering/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kbos87</author><text>So much of everything is about connections and reputation. Tech in particular holds up a guise that people are chosen and ascend because they are “good”, meaning, they are good at what they do. That’s part of it, but it’s an insufficient part, and you can do pretty well in a career being solidly average at what you do.<p>The real currency in my experience is one thing - relationships. Do I think this person likes, respects, and would vouch for me? Everything else aside, that’s what people optimize for when they choose who to promote, respond to reference requests, and generally in who they engage with at work.<p>Oftentimes It seems like it may not even be a conscious behavior, they just know that’s who they have a gut feeling about.<p>I definitely wish this wasn’t the way of the world, as someone who isn’t a natural when it comes to building relationships in a professional setting. But I also don’t let it get me down. It’s an element of human nature that’s hidden many layers deep in the workplace.<p>When I finally faced this fact and started devoting some of the time I previously spent on hard skills, I realized it was far and away the more impactful way to allocate my resources.</text></comment> | <story><title>So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/14/so-much-of-academia-is-about-connections-and-reputation-laundering/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisseaton</author><text>Very difficult to understand what&#x27;s going here, through the snark, personal abuse, name calling, and political bias. Everyone&#x27;s trying to communicate through increasingly scathing Tweets and declaring each time that the previous Tweet is yet another new low point. Not a useful way for anyone to get a point across. Everyone should be embarrassed.</text></comment> |
39,603,621 | 39,600,437 | 1 | 3 | 39,598,903 | train | <story><title>Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)</title><url>https://www.fundablestartups.com/blog/half-a-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justinlloyd</author><text>I am currently working with a start-up where the company is incapable of meeting its capex obligations. The founder raised a good amount of capital from investors a few years ago, and that provided a decent runway, but there&#x27;s no traction, no KPIs, and whilst we&#x27;ve built some impressive technology, impressive technology does not bring in revenue. One of the problems (amongst many) is that the primary stakeholder has a perfectionist attitude to the user experience. Which in a start-up is deadly.<p>Now, as I said, the start-up cannot meet its capex obligations and the current funding round is looking grim. It is definitely going to be a down round and it ain&#x27;t going to be pretty should a term sheet get thrust under our collective noses. To get the developers motivated to stick around a little longer, &quot;generous&quot; equity packages are on offer, with a request to convert over-due back pay and future payments too, into equity .<p>When I sought transparency - &quot;Can I see the cap table?&quot; - &quot;Can I see the terms of the investors?&quot; - &quot;Can I see anything?&quot; - the answer was invariably &quot;no.&quot; Essentially, they&#x27;re asking me to make a nominal investment of over $200K in the company, accepting common stock in lieu of pay without any insight into the financials or the terms provided to other investors.<p>It&#x27;s worth noting that I had previously given the start-up a sweetheart deal, significantly discounting my usual rate and offering generous payment terms, in the spirit of support and belief in the project. This makes the current scenario even more disheartening. Compound that with what has become an overall toxic environment that I have euphemistically called &quot;challenging&quot; when asked to sum it up, and the future isn&#x27;t bright enough to wear shades.<p>Now this isn&#x27;t exactly my first rodeo. I&#x27;ve seen the beautiful side of start-ups and liquidity events. And I&#x27;ve seen the dreadfully ugly side too. Hard lessons learned. And the ugly side shows up way more than the pretty one.<p>I swear, some entrepreneurs must think I stepped off the boat yesterday.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eschneider</author><text>If they owe you back pay and they&#x27;re not being transparent about their &quot;equity offer&quot; you need to take steps to get in line for your money NOW. Talk to a lawyer. Assuming this is the US since you&#x27;re quoting dollars: if you&#x27;re an employee, a complaint to the state Dept of Labor about back pay usually puts you first in line for money. If you&#x27;re on contract, you might be able to get a lein on...something of value. Seriously, don&#x27;t wait on this if you expect to ever get paid.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)</title><url>https://www.fundablestartups.com/blog/half-a-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justinlloyd</author><text>I am currently working with a start-up where the company is incapable of meeting its capex obligations. The founder raised a good amount of capital from investors a few years ago, and that provided a decent runway, but there&#x27;s no traction, no KPIs, and whilst we&#x27;ve built some impressive technology, impressive technology does not bring in revenue. One of the problems (amongst many) is that the primary stakeholder has a perfectionist attitude to the user experience. Which in a start-up is deadly.<p>Now, as I said, the start-up cannot meet its capex obligations and the current funding round is looking grim. It is definitely going to be a down round and it ain&#x27;t going to be pretty should a term sheet get thrust under our collective noses. To get the developers motivated to stick around a little longer, &quot;generous&quot; equity packages are on offer, with a request to convert over-due back pay and future payments too, into equity .<p>When I sought transparency - &quot;Can I see the cap table?&quot; - &quot;Can I see the terms of the investors?&quot; - &quot;Can I see anything?&quot; - the answer was invariably &quot;no.&quot; Essentially, they&#x27;re asking me to make a nominal investment of over $200K in the company, accepting common stock in lieu of pay without any insight into the financials or the terms provided to other investors.<p>It&#x27;s worth noting that I had previously given the start-up a sweetheart deal, significantly discounting my usual rate and offering generous payment terms, in the spirit of support and belief in the project. This makes the current scenario even more disheartening. Compound that with what has become an overall toxic environment that I have euphemistically called &quot;challenging&quot; when asked to sum it up, and the future isn&#x27;t bright enough to wear shades.<p>Now this isn&#x27;t exactly my first rodeo. I&#x27;ve seen the beautiful side of start-ups and liquidity events. And I&#x27;ve seen the dreadfully ugly side too. Hard lessons learned. And the ugly side shows up way more than the pretty one.<p>I swear, some entrepreneurs must think I stepped off the boat yesterday.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munchler</author><text>Working without pay is the reddest of red flags in any company. It’s not even a business at that point - it’s a volunteer gig.</text></comment> |
22,978,905 | 22,979,055 | 1 | 2 | 22,975,299 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/24/21234170/microsoft-word-two-spaces-period-error-correction-great-space-debate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielKehoe</author><text>We debated this in 1993 on the www-talk mailing list [1]. Terry Allen (an editor at O&#x27;Reilly) wanted rendered HTML documents to follow Tex conventions with extra space after a period. Marc Andreessen (still at NCSA in 1993) pointed out browser developers couldn’t do the syntactic analysis required to distinguish the end of sentences from inter-sentence periods. Guido van Rossum (working on Python version 1.0 at the time) weighed in on the whitespace issue and complained “it’s mostly propaganda by Knuth and Kernighan (TeX and troff) that makes people want this.” We ended up with browsers collapsing spaces between sentences for the web. Most style guides [2] seem to have settled the issue in favor of a single space but debate rages, eh?<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;1997.webhistory.org&#x2F;www.lists&#x2F;www-talk.1993q3&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;1997.webhistory.org&#x2F;www.lists&#x2F;www-talk.1993q3&#x2F;index.h...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sentence_spacing_in_language_and_style_guides" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sentence_spacing_in_language_a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gaussian</author><text>A-ha! Another consequential web outcome decided in Urbana-Champaign. As an engineer and a writer, I have monitored this debate for some time. Editors of mine have usually lobbied for two spaces, while engineers I’ve worked with say, simply and reasonably, browsers reading HTML deprecate the extra space, so why bother? Now we know why. Thank you for the fascinating inside story. The traditionalist in me, however, the part that still enjoys a paper newspaper, will always prefer the luxuriousness of the double space.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/24/21234170/microsoft-word-two-spaces-period-error-correction-great-space-debate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielKehoe</author><text>We debated this in 1993 on the www-talk mailing list [1]. Terry Allen (an editor at O&#x27;Reilly) wanted rendered HTML documents to follow Tex conventions with extra space after a period. Marc Andreessen (still at NCSA in 1993) pointed out browser developers couldn’t do the syntactic analysis required to distinguish the end of sentences from inter-sentence periods. Guido van Rossum (working on Python version 1.0 at the time) weighed in on the whitespace issue and complained “it’s mostly propaganda by Knuth and Kernighan (TeX and troff) that makes people want this.” We ended up with browsers collapsing spaces between sentences for the web. Most style guides [2] seem to have settled the issue in favor of a single space but debate rages, eh?<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;1997.webhistory.org&#x2F;www.lists&#x2F;www-talk.1993q3&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;1997.webhistory.org&#x2F;www.lists&#x2F;www-talk.1993q3&#x2F;index.h...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sentence_spacing_in_language_and_style_guides" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sentence_spacing_in_language_a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>svat</author><text>One of the comments there concisely summarizes history better than modern typographers do:<p>&gt; <i>I think most books don&#x27;t do this any more</i> [have wider spaces between sentences]. <i>Newspapers certainly don&#x27;t. It&#x27;s way too much trouble escaping out all the abbreviations.</i><p>If you need wider spaces between sentences you also don&#x27;t want them indiscriminately after every period, so you need to exercise more care and indicate them differently in the input markup. For example, using two spaces:<p><pre><code> This is a sentence. This is another. Dr. Smith wrote in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. about NASA. It was good.
</code></pre>
Or in TeX, which makes the typical case easier by using the heuristic that a period after a lowercase letter ends a sentence, you need to indicate wherever this heuristic fails (you can also use ~ to prevent a line-break):<p><pre><code> This is a sentence. This is another. Dr.~Smith wrote in Proc.\ Amer.\ Math.\ Soc. about NASA\null. It was good.
</code></pre>
Having to keep track of which periods are ends of sentences is a bit inconvenient in the general case, which explains why wider inter-sentence spacing was given up first in newspapers, then low-quality mass-publishing, then finally high-quality printing as well (almost). But typographers today (see my other comment) make it seem like this has always been the case and wider spaces was just a quirk from typewriters somehow!</text></comment> |
41,734,505 | 41,733,672 | 1 | 3 | 41,732,335 | train | <story><title>Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims</title><url>https://www.starlink.com/support/article/58126733-e4d2-db62-b919-9da261a4e096</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jagtstronaut</author><text>Despite the hate on the promo the tech they offer is still pretty cool. Only way I knew my in-laws were safe near Asheville was because one of their neighbors had starlink and a generator. Took a week for them to get power and cell phone service back and there is no way to get to them without a helicopter so if it wasn&#x27;t for the product we would have just learned that they were alright.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RowanH</author><text>In New Zealand we&#x27;re very much natural disaster prone. I run a SaaS working out of home - we wired the house for generator backup and have a starlink unit that sits in a box exactly for this reason, even if the proverbial hits the fan for a week I can still keep on top of the business.<p>Every couple of months the geny gets sparked up and everything tested. For a very small investment it&#x27;s very comforting to know we&#x27;ve always got power&#x2F;internet, regardless of what happens.</text></comment> | <story><title>Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims</title><url>https://www.starlink.com/support/article/58126733-e4d2-db62-b919-9da261a4e096</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jagtstronaut</author><text>Despite the hate on the promo the tech they offer is still pretty cool. Only way I knew my in-laws were safe near Asheville was because one of their neighbors had starlink and a generator. Took a week for them to get power and cell phone service back and there is no way to get to them without a helicopter so if it wasn&#x27;t for the product we would have just learned that they were alright.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matthewdgreen</author><text>To ask a tech question: how much capacity does Starlink have? If every single person in US rural areas switches to Starlink, can the system handle it? What&#x27;s the bandwidth&#x2F;customers&#x2F;capacity limit for the service? (I&#x27;m obviously not talking about emergencies, where degraded bandwidth is acceptable.)</text></comment> |
32,101,858 | 32,100,000 | 1 | 2 | 32,098,016 | train | <story><title>Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust? (2021)</title><url>https://surma.dev/things/js-to-asc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wylie</author><text>A group of smart WebAssembly experts tried to start a company around the idea of incrementally porting to WebAssembly, and wrote an excellent post-mortem of why that didn&#x27;t work: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zaplib.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;blog_post_mortem.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zaplib.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;blog_post_mortem.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust? (2021)</title><url>https://surma.dev/things/js-to-asc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dktoao</author><text>Looking to get the perspective of some HN&#x27;ers here. I am primarily an embedded engineer working with C. Our (small) software team also has a few web people that work on the web UI of our embedded Linux product. Obviously, there is a ton of potential for shared code between the two products utilizing WASM. I recently ported one of our C libraries to WASM as an experiment with emscripten and was blown away by how easy it was. I can&#x27;t run the unit tests in the browser yet but it seems to have worked perfectly. However, the JS &quot;glue&quot; code that is produced by the emscripten compiler is really scary looking, and as I understand is basically an abridged C runtime that needs to run in the browser. My questions are therefore:<p>1) Is it too early to adopt WASM for production use in a small company with limited resources?<p>2) If we did decide to go all in on WASM, what sort of gotchas might we be dealing with?<p>Thanks everyone!</text></comment> |
38,133,331 | 38,133,293 | 1 | 2 | 38,133,287 | train | <story><title>GitHub was down</title><url>https://www.githubstatus.com/</url><text>The status page shows stuff about slack https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com but it seems authentication is down hard, can&#x27;t pull, comment, or even view public repositories when logged in.<p>Edit: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com is updated as of 19:08 UTC and everything is on fire</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ezekg</author><text>Possibly related? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.blog&#x2F;changelog&#x2F;2023-11-03-multi-account-support-on-github-com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.blog&#x2F;changelog&#x2F;2023-11-03-multi-account-suppo...</a><p>Implementing that type of multi-account support likely had some big authz changes (I&#x27;ve done a couple of those projects before), and GitHub defaults to a 404 for authz errors instead of leaking information with a 403. Just a wild guess.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub was down</title><url>https://www.githubstatus.com/</url><text>The status page shows stuff about slack https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com but it seems authentication is down hard, can&#x27;t pull, comment, or even view public repositories when logged in.<p>Edit: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.githubstatus.com is updated as of 19:08 UTC and everything is on fire</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>athorax</author><text>Getting 404 on all github.com repos, oh boy lol</text></comment> |
33,501,647 | 33,501,228 | 1 | 2 | 33,500,710 | train | <story><title>If you die in the game, you die in real life</title><url>https://palmerluckey.com/if-you-die-in-the-game-you-die-in-real-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>You can always tell great satire by how many people take it seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trgn</author><text>These are the words from the artist himself:<p>&gt; At this point, it is just a piece of office art, a thought-provoking reminder of unexplored avenues in game design. It is also, as far as I know, the first non-fiction example of a VR device that can actually kill the user. It won’t be the last.<p>It&#x27;s not satire. He&#x27;s creating shock art.<p>The fact that he took a suicide helmet beyond a literary invention and into the real world is unsettling. It&#x27;s an inability to distinguish what is wholesome from what is depraved. At the root is the artist&#x27;s failure of imagination; an inability to imagine how completely revolting such a thing of fiction would be if it were real. The man spend likely hundreds of hours of thinking on it, ruminating on it, like suckling on a candy, and then, rather than being turned away, giving it shape, willing it into the world with the same zeal. That is why people find this skeevy.<p>It is fascinating, and I&#x27;m not sure if in isolation it may mean all that much. But people will respond very different to the morbid obsessions of an eccentric crackpot like say HR Giger than that of a tech suit with a history of monetizing VR and AI-weaponry.<p>You become what you behold. This man is becoming machine, willingly.</text></comment> | <story><title>If you die in the game, you die in real life</title><url>https://palmerluckey.com/if-you-die-in-the-game-you-die-in-real-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>You can always tell great satire by how many people take it seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tschwimmer</author><text>At risk of sounding obtuse, what is being satirized here? Or he’s just proposing an absurd scenario?</text></comment> |
17,601,252 | 17,601,422 | 1 | 3 | 17,599,861 | train | <story><title>Why I published Venmo users’ “drug” deals on Twitter</title><url>https://blog.usejournal.com/why-i-blasted-your-drug-deals-on-twitter-f8c517de1256</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cphoover</author><text>To me this brings into discussion the distinction between legal privacy and ethical privacy. If I&#x27;m walking down the street and tell my SO something in confidence (perhaps a medical diagnosis), and you are walking behind me and overhear, legally it&#x27;s your right to spread what you hear to anyone you want. Ethically... it would be wrong to do so.<p>I do think people view online privacy through that same lens... We have community bubbles, that are technically public, but we feel confident speaking within them for whatever reason.<p>Yes people need to be more conscious of where communication take place, but it does not excuse unethical, legal, abuse of privacy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I published Venmo users’ “drug” deals on Twitter</title><url>https://blog.usejournal.com/why-i-blasted-your-drug-deals-on-twitter-f8c517de1256</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nxc18</author><text>Even on cash I rarely put the real purpose in the memo field...<p>Coming from cash, and finding that the world has apparently settled on venmo, has me supremely disappointed. What the hell were they thinking? Payments is not a social network. I hope venmo feels blowback for this, but I know they won&#x27;t.<p>Can any venmo engineers comment on their ridiculous system? Do any users actually find value in sharing their drug deals (and other transactions) with the public?</text></comment> |
3,898,619 | 3,898,631 | 1 | 3 | 3,898,294 | train | <story><title>European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon</title><url>http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tdr</author><text>Great hosters!<p><pre><code> - cheap prices for lots of power
- everything "just works" (only contacted for questions)
- quick, friendly &#38; to the point support service
- great uptime
- they are eco
- 14 days money back (for root servers)
</code></pre>
Drawbacks<p><pre><code> - bigger latency for US/Asia/...
- you do your own backups
- they bill only after the end of month. had problems when card expired</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WA</author><text>I'm also a customer for quite some time with various servers.<p>Pros:<p>- virtual private servers (VPS) have a tun/tap device so that you can use the VPS as a VPN server. this is not necessarily common with all hosters<p>- good speed/connection/reliability<p>- good hardware for a fair price<p>Cons:<p>- I usually don't need to talk to customer support often, but I rent a managed server and once in a while, they shut it down for a major update. This is totally fine and they even try to do this in the night, but it happened already twice that they couldn't tell me the exact time (in a range of minutes) in advance when they shut it down and they just said something like "server is offline sometime between 7am and 11am". I have paying customers on my server and I want to put the website in maintenance mode to prevent data loss. "Sometime between 7am and 11am" is NOT an acceptable answer. The downtime itself is a matter of 5 minutes, but I would expect an accurate time to shorten the maintenance period.<p>- They announced a server downtime for "Tuesday night" once. So what is "Tuesday night"? Is it the night from Monday to Tuesday or Tuesday to Wednesday? Guess what, I put my website in maintenance mode in the wrong night. I hope, next time they'll get that straight and announce the correct date and time.<p>- They stored passwords for their managed server customers in plaintext until September 2011 and got hacked. I hope they learned from that, but still, extremely stupid.</text></comment> | <story><title>European server provider Hetzner now offers a 64GB RAM box for 109€/mon</title><url>http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tdr</author><text>Great hosters!<p><pre><code> - cheap prices for lots of power
- everything "just works" (only contacted for questions)
- quick, friendly &#38; to the point support service
- great uptime
- they are eco
- 14 days money back (for root servers)
</code></pre>
Drawbacks<p><pre><code> - bigger latency for US/Asia/...
- you do your own backups
- they bill only after the end of month. had problems when card expired</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hates_</author><text>The only issue we've had with Hetzner was related to billing. Our payment failed on a Friday afternoon, and even after updating the details, payment wasn't taken and the server resumed until Monday morning.<p>Apart from that one hicup, it's been very reliable so far.</text></comment> |
21,513,716 | 21,513,783 | 1 | 2 | 21,513,310 | train | <story><title>PeerTube v2</title><url>https://framablog.org/2019/11/12/peertube-has-worked-twice-as-hard-to-free-your-videos-from-youtube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikece</author><text>The peer-to-peer storage and sharing of video files isn&#x27;t the hard part: it&#x27;s the ability to search for and discover content that makes YouTube compelling in my opinion. Are any of these p2p YouTube replacements presenting a compelling way to search&#x2F;discover content in a distributed way? Or if the search index is centralized, do any of them have a compelling model for staying funded without selling everyone&#x27;s search&#x2F;catalog information to data brokers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt; Are any of these p2p YouTube replacements presenting a compelling way to search&#x2F;discover content in a distributed way?</i><p>Being &quot;distributed&quot; over p2p&#x2F;federated architecture <i>opposes</i> the end-user convenience of search&#x2F;discovery&#x2F;ranking&#x2F;recommendations because of <i>speed-of-light</i> limitations. I wrote a previous comment about this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17578332" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17578332</a><p>Also, the previous last reply by <i>posting2fast</i> of a partial-centralized server doesn&#x27;t really replace Youtube because his proposed idea creates <i>new problems</i> of spam videos and untrusted&#x2F;fake videos. E.g. the central index of metadata says &quot;www.johndoehomeserver.com&quot; has a tutorial video for Algebra but when you actually stream the video from &quot;johndoehomeserver.com&quot;, you get a spam video for Viagra instead of math instruction. Therefore, users will naturally gravitate toward the centralized servers that have <i>both the metadata and the actual video content.</i> This emergent group behavior of preferences would end up recreating another &quot;Youtube&quot;-like clone.<p>p2p architecture and torrents works well for things like pirated Photoshop or ripped Marvel Avengers movies because the users <i>already have the content&#x27;s title _preloaded_ in their brain</i> and therefore a centralized index for discovery&#x2F;serendipity of unknown content isn&#x27;t necessary.</text></comment> | <story><title>PeerTube v2</title><url>https://framablog.org/2019/11/12/peertube-has-worked-twice-as-hard-to-free-your-videos-from-youtube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikece</author><text>The peer-to-peer storage and sharing of video files isn&#x27;t the hard part: it&#x27;s the ability to search for and discover content that makes YouTube compelling in my opinion. Are any of these p2p YouTube replacements presenting a compelling way to search&#x2F;discover content in a distributed way? Or if the search index is centralized, do any of them have a compelling model for staying funded without selling everyone&#x27;s search&#x2F;catalog information to data brokers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arkh</author><text>&gt; discover content<p>Discover heavily sponsored content from content farms. As an experiment, even with an old account, start just browsing the content Youtube highlights. You will soon end with a recommendation page full of shit with 500K+ views using the same template.</text></comment> |
9,842,698 | 9,842,602 | 1 | 2 | 9,841,911 | train | <story><title>IPv6 Exhaustion Counter</title><url>https://samsclass.info/ipv6/exhaustion.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vanzard</author><text>This counter is completely inaccurate. I used to work for a company that was doing email marketing (I quit because I disagreed with their practices). My employer was buying about one &#x2F;48 per week. What does this mean? We alone exhausted 2^80 ip addresses per week, or 2e18 addresses per second (that&#x27;s 2 quintillion!). So this counter showing 2 addresses exhausted per second is wrong by an order of 1 quintillion.<p>In fact, with the proper paperwork you can still relatively easily buy an entire &#x2F;40 or maybe even &#x2F;32. With these practices, IPv6 WILL run out of addresses within the next 100 years. Well, to be pedantic, it will run out of allocatable subnets, but the vast majority of their addresses will remain unused.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>byuu</author><text>I&#x27;ve wondered about that. My ISP gives me a &#x2F;64.<p>On the one hand, it seems cheap to give me one-four-billionth of the relative amount of space as the one IPv4 address they give me.<p>On the other hand, I can&#x27;t possibly imagine which consumer home network needs four billion times more IP addresses than <i>all of IPv4 combined</i>. (EUI-64 notwithstanding.)<p>It would seem like &#x2F;112 would be way more than enough for home use (131,072 unique IPs), even for complex setups with lots of subnetting, and &#x2F;96 for small business use.<p>I understand that giving out &#x2F;64s will still take 4 billion times longer to exhaust all IPs than IPv4, but ... it still feels like they&#x27;re being overly generous. 64-bit IPs would have more than enough to outlast our sun going supernova if we were smarter about allocating them.</text></comment> | <story><title>IPv6 Exhaustion Counter</title><url>https://samsclass.info/ipv6/exhaustion.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vanzard</author><text>This counter is completely inaccurate. I used to work for a company that was doing email marketing (I quit because I disagreed with their practices). My employer was buying about one &#x2F;48 per week. What does this mean? We alone exhausted 2^80 ip addresses per week, or 2e18 addresses per second (that&#x27;s 2 quintillion!). So this counter showing 2 addresses exhausted per second is wrong by an order of 1 quintillion.<p>In fact, with the proper paperwork you can still relatively easily buy an entire &#x2F;40 or maybe even &#x2F;32. With these practices, IPv6 WILL run out of addresses within the next 100 years. Well, to be pedantic, it will run out of allocatable subnets, but the vast majority of their addresses will remain unused.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>worklogin</author><text>While others are asking &quot;Why is CompanyA buying a &#x2F;48 a week?&quot;, my question is &quot;Why isn&#x27;t ISP-A asking CompanyA why they need a &#x2F;48 a week?&quot;<p>IPv6 operates in several of these hierarchical subnets. A &#x2F;64 is the smallest, and is usually for customers and edges. A &#x2F;48 or &#x2F;52 is reasonable for a datacenter, as it provides up to 2^12 subnets.<p>But even then, doing a &#x2F;48 per DC, there is no reason for not-Huge-Cloud-Provider to be gathering that much IP.</text></comment> |
30,392,833 | 30,392,449 | 1 | 2 | 30,391,724 | train | <story><title>Why We Banned Legos (2006)</title><url>https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/cover-story-why-we-banned-legos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I feel visceral disgust reading this article. It seems like the kids were playing with each other in a healthy way and the teachers interposed themselves to change how the kids were playing for political and ideological reasons. This is disgusting to me because I think it&#x27;s analogous to physical abuse.<p>A teacher hitting a child is bad not just because it&#x27;s a violent crime, but also because children are especially vulnerable. They are smaller, weaker, and don&#x27;t know what options are available to them. Hitting an adult is bad, but not as bad, because an adult is more capable of defending themselves and&#x2F;or reacting appropriately to seek justice via other means (e.g. retreating and calling the police).<p>The teachers aren&#x27;t physically abusing the children, but they are psychologically hurting the children by taking away their toys and forcing them to play the way the teachers want rather than the way the kids want. If the teachers think their politics are important, they should discuss politics with consenting adults, not prey upon children who won&#x27;t really understand what&#x27;s happening or what they can and should do about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>&gt; <i>the builders began excluding other children. Occasionally, Legotown leaders explicitly rebuffed children, telling them that they couldn’t play. Typically the exclusion was more subtle, growing from a climate in which Legotown was seen as the turf of particular kids. [...] These negotiations gave rise to heated conflict [...] Kendra suggested a big cleanup of the loose Legos on the floor. The Legotown builders were fierce in their opposition. They explained that particular children “owned” those pieces and it would be unfair to put them back in the bins where other children might use them.</i><p>Or to paraphrase: “A few of the kids were being jerks and it was making the other kids feel bad, and despite teachers repeatedly asking them to stop, they wouldn’t, so we decided (edit: after a lot of thought and discussion with the class) to take away the toy causing the trouble.”<p>This is hardly “indoctrination” any more than it is indoctrination to break up kids’ physical fights or stop kids from taking&#x2F;breaking each-others’ stuff.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why We Banned Legos (2006)</title><url>https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/cover-story-why-we-banned-legos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I feel visceral disgust reading this article. It seems like the kids were playing with each other in a healthy way and the teachers interposed themselves to change how the kids were playing for political and ideological reasons. This is disgusting to me because I think it&#x27;s analogous to physical abuse.<p>A teacher hitting a child is bad not just because it&#x27;s a violent crime, but also because children are especially vulnerable. They are smaller, weaker, and don&#x27;t know what options are available to them. Hitting an adult is bad, but not as bad, because an adult is more capable of defending themselves and&#x2F;or reacting appropriately to seek justice via other means (e.g. retreating and calling the police).<p>The teachers aren&#x27;t physically abusing the children, but they are psychologically hurting the children by taking away their toys and forcing them to play the way the teachers want rather than the way the kids want. If the teachers think their politics are important, they should discuss politics with consenting adults, not prey upon children who won&#x27;t really understand what&#x27;s happening or what they can and should do about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notriddle</author><text>Intervening when some of the kids are hogging all the pieces doesn&#x27;t seem all that unreasonable, especially since, in this case, the adults noticed it was mostly older kids not letting any of the younger kids play with any of the pieces.<p>That&#x27;s not a healthy environment. That&#x27;s literally the big man screwing over the little man.</text></comment> |
39,337,649 | 39,337,472 | 1 | 2 | 39,336,239 | train | <story><title>Popcorn Time 0.5.0</title><url>https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/releases/tag/v0.5.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>me551ah</author><text>My biggest gripe with Popcorn Time is that it doesn&#x27;t run on my TV. I use a cloud server instead and Radarr&#x2F;Sonarr combined with Real-Debrid(to download torrents) and Usenet to download content. I have a 16TB server on which I have downloaded all movies with IMDB rating &gt; 6 and a good number of votes.<p>This allows me to run Plex&#x2F;Jellyfin on my TV and stream. Bonus points is that it even works on my mobile phone when I&#x27;m on the move!</text></comment> | <story><title>Popcorn Time 0.5.0</title><url>https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/releases/tag/v0.5.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>STRiDEX</author><text>Really interesting mix of npm packages, gulpfiles, jshint, both underscore and lodash, backbone.js, some stuff i&#x27;ve never really heard of like nedb which is probably because its more specific to electron. It actually uses node-webkit NW.js instead of electron.<p>It&#x27;s an interesting mix of new and old things as a project that likely has changed hands many times. Like dayjs is pretty new.</text></comment> |
6,326,317 | 6,323,970 | 1 | 2 | 6,322,998 | train | <story><title>Tiny $45 cubic mini-PC runs Android and Linux</title><url>http://linuxgizmos.com/tiny-cubic-mini-pc-runs-android-and-linux-on-freescale-arm-cpu/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>X-Istence</author><text>The downside is that the ethernet controller is run over USB. This is what kills performance drastically on the raspberry pi as well. USB is simply not a good protocol to run high speed network traffic over with low latency. The protocol is extremely chatty!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cnvogel</author><text>The Freescale i.MX6 has &quot;native&quot; Gigabit Ethernet: <a href="http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=i.MX6S" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freescale.com&#x2F;webapp&#x2F;sps&#x2F;site&#x2F;prod_summary.jsp?co...</a> (that&#x27;s the single-core part)<p>The block diagram for the &quot;Tiny cubic mini pc&quot; shows a AR8030&#x2F;AR8035 between the CPU core and the outside world, that&#x27;s a Gigabit PHY, not a Gigabit to USB chip, so indeed the native ethernet is used.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tiny $45 cubic mini-PC runs Android and Linux</title><url>http://linuxgizmos.com/tiny-cubic-mini-pc-runs-android-and-linux-on-freescale-arm-cpu/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>X-Istence</author><text>The downside is that the ethernet controller is run over USB. This is what kills performance drastically on the raspberry pi as well. USB is simply not a good protocol to run high speed network traffic over with low latency. The protocol is extremely chatty!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makomk</author><text>Are you sure about that? The block diagram shows an Ethernet PHY connected directly to the SoC, and it appears the i.MX6 has a built-in Ethernet controller.</text></comment> |
11,847,929 | 11,848,033 | 1 | 2 | 11,847,526 | train | <story><title>End Geoblocking</title><url>https://endgeoblocking.eu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tobltobs</author><text>Please do not make another law. Most of the laws produced by the EU in regards to the internet do usually not help anything, but just place another burden on the shoulders of small to midsized companies. Look at the VATmess or the stupid cookie law.<p>Some possible outcome could be that you are forced to offer your service in the whole EU, even if you are just a small, online fan shop for a second liga soccer club.<p>All those EU laws usually just help the big multinational companies to keep startups out of the market.<p>The EU should stop producing any laws at all and concentrate on harmonising the endless supply of inconsistent laws in their member states.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zanny</author><text>This. The answer to geoblocking is to just pirate the content if its unavailable to you. Don&#x27;t <i>whine</i> that international corporations cannot profit off you. If you are somewhere they decide not to support paying them, you were never a part of the decision to make the content for profit in the first place.<p>They <i>have</i> economic pressure on them <i>right now</i> to broadly accept payments from as many places online as possible, because its effectively free money. We don&#x27;t need legislation when the market is already set up to correct for the behavior.</text></comment> | <story><title>End Geoblocking</title><url>https://endgeoblocking.eu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tobltobs</author><text>Please do not make another law. Most of the laws produced by the EU in regards to the internet do usually not help anything, but just place another burden on the shoulders of small to midsized companies. Look at the VATmess or the stupid cookie law.<p>Some possible outcome could be that you are forced to offer your service in the whole EU, even if you are just a small, online fan shop for a second liga soccer club.<p>All those EU laws usually just help the big multinational companies to keep startups out of the market.<p>The EU should stop producing any laws at all and concentrate on harmonising the endless supply of inconsistent laws in their member states.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>izacus</author><text>Or you know, those &quot;stupid&quot; laws that let you live anywhere in EU, study anywhere in EU, work anywhere in EU and buy things anywhere in EU and carry them anywhere else in EU.<p>The utter stupidity of the fact, that you can drive 20km over Austrian&#x2F;German border, buy a DVD, then drive back (which EU demands to be allowed) and then be denied streaming that exact same content is staggering.</text></comment> |
21,030,871 | 21,030,125 | 1 | 3 | 21,028,770 | train | <story><title>Statement Regarding Repurchase Operations</title><url>https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/opolicy/operating_policy_190920</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ww520</author><text>One thing to note is that $100B is created everyday but the $100B is destroyed the next day. It&#x27;s not like $100B created everyday for the next month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheAlchemist</author><text>That&#x27;s true. But another way to look at it (not necessarily good), it&#x27;s like the water in desert. You are in the middle of the desert and you need water - you ask a guy - lend me some water please, I will buy you back the same amount once we are home. Technical speaking, the amount you get and the amount you give back is the same.<p>What happened during the last crisis is also a great illustration - many banks took taxpayers money during the &#x27;dark hours&#x27; then paid it back easily some time later, when the air cleared. Some went as far as to suggest it wasn&#x27;t necessary at all. Well, the truth is, the banking system as we know it survived only thanks to governments stepping in - otherwise <i>none</i> of the banks we know would exist today. There was 0 trust during the crisis - and all the banking system is build on trust.<p>That&#x27;s why the FED is &quot;taking a sledgehammer to squash a bug&quot;. That&#x27;s also why it&#x27;s a very disturbing signal. My gut tells me shit is about to hit the fan.<p>PS. But don&#x27;t try to time the market and short it - as the saying goes, the market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent.</text></comment> | <story><title>Statement Regarding Repurchase Operations</title><url>https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/opolicy/operating_policy_190920</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ww520</author><text>One thing to note is that $100B is created everyday but the $100B is destroyed the next day. It&#x27;s not like $100B created everyday for the next month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LocalTrust</author><text>I guess that&#x27;s a fair point. Sorry for oversimplified explanation. So, to attempt to improve on your further clarification: technically it is $75b per night created and destroyed each morning. And 3 separate cycles of $30b will be created for 2 weeks and then destroyed. Therefore $90b injected for 2-weeks then destroyed. Point is this is being injected to help banks cover their overnight exposures with the hope that they won&#x27;t need the help anymore after Oct 10.</text></comment> |
6,705,788 | 6,704,963 | 1 | 3 | 6,704,661 | train | <story><title>Stop the NSA "Fake Fix" Bill</title><url>https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9437</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MBlume</author><text>As a Californian I am never not ashamed to have Senator Feinstein representing me. Is there a &quot;tech lobby&quot;? If there is, why is its number one priority not fielding a decent primary challenger to oust this authoritarian disgrace to our state?</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop the NSA "Fake Fix" Bill</title><url>https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9437</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eridius</author><text>Crap. Senator Feinstein is my senator. I&#x27;m pretty sure sending her a letter isn&#x27;t going to help.</text></comment> |
8,852,089 | 8,851,877 | 1 | 3 | 8,850,763 | train | <story><title>How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store</title><url>https://medium.com/@carlosribas/how-hourstracker-earns-five-figures-a-month-on-the-app-store-85a20bb972eb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>debacle</author><text>One thing that I really notice a lot as I get older is that so many people say it isn&#x27;t possible to make money anymore, early adopters had it easy, etc. People say this about apps and startups and the like.<p>I tell myself these same things sometimes, but then I have to check myself - it is actually easier to make <i>way</i> more money on an app these days than ever before. What is bigger is the risk proposition, which is why people tell themselves that success is entirely about luck - if your own skill doesn&#x27;t matter, there&#x27;s no reason to try, and if you try and don&#x27;t succeed it isn&#x27;t your fault.<p>This is a very real trap and I think in the reddit age (where if you aren&#x27;t a cynic by 15 you&#x27;re behind the curve) it is a mental virus. The world still rewards value, even if it takes some time. The people clamoring that it doesn&#x27;t are doing so because they want to believe that it isn&#x27;t their fault they didn&#x27;t succeed.<p>You need to be willing to emotionally and mentally invest yourself in something with a reasonable chance of failure or you will never, ever succeed. The people that you see who you are smarter than that have succeeded haven&#x27;t gotten there because of luck - they&#x27;ve gotten there because they tried. Luck just helped.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>serve_yay</author><text>It&#x27;s partially a problem of silent evidence. For this time tracking app there are hundreds mouldering in some corner of the App Store. And the people who made them aren&#x27;t gonna write any blog posts, and we wouldn&#x27;t read them if they did. It&#x27;s a blockbuster model, sure it&#x27;s possible to make money but unlikely. It&#x27;s possible to make money acting, but you probably won&#x27;t. That&#x27;s just how it works out. I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s so cynical.<p>Those who succeed in such a scenario are often insensitive to the unlikelihood of their success - so are those who fail.</text></comment> | <story><title>How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store</title><url>https://medium.com/@carlosribas/how-hourstracker-earns-five-figures-a-month-on-the-app-store-85a20bb972eb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>debacle</author><text>One thing that I really notice a lot as I get older is that so many people say it isn&#x27;t possible to make money anymore, early adopters had it easy, etc. People say this about apps and startups and the like.<p>I tell myself these same things sometimes, but then I have to check myself - it is actually easier to make <i>way</i> more money on an app these days than ever before. What is bigger is the risk proposition, which is why people tell themselves that success is entirely about luck - if your own skill doesn&#x27;t matter, there&#x27;s no reason to try, and if you try and don&#x27;t succeed it isn&#x27;t your fault.<p>This is a very real trap and I think in the reddit age (where if you aren&#x27;t a cynic by 15 you&#x27;re behind the curve) it is a mental virus. The world still rewards value, even if it takes some time. The people clamoring that it doesn&#x27;t are doing so because they want to believe that it isn&#x27;t their fault they didn&#x27;t succeed.<p>You need to be willing to emotionally and mentally invest yourself in something with a reasonable chance of failure or you will never, ever succeed. The people that you see who you are smarter than that have succeeded haven&#x27;t gotten there because of luck - they&#x27;ve gotten there because they tried. Luck just helped.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>placebo</author><text>Yes, it is still possible to make money, even a lot of money, writing an app but that doesn&#x27;t mean early adopters didn&#x27;t have a big advantage. Market vacuums will always be filled and the later you arrive at the scene, the higher the probability you will have to rely on hard marketing work to be noticed and stand out in the overcrowded application markets.<p>The good news is that:<p>a) Persistence and hard work will usually pay off in the long run (assuming your product does indeed provide some sort of value)<p>b) There will always be new vacuums. If keep you a close watch on developing trends you might be able to climb on the tree when it&#x27;s still young and sit back while it grows, instead of spending your resources building giant ladders...</text></comment> |
15,348,136 | 15,346,557 | 1 | 3 | 15,346,269 | train | <story><title>Chrome OS KVM - A component written in Rust</title><url>https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zaxcellent</author><text>There is a somewhat expanded README that has yet to be reviewed and checked in here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&#x2F;chromiumos&#x2F;platform&#x2F;crosvm&#x2F;+&#x2F;837b59f2d97b005ef84ac36efa97530c1bbf2a79&#x2F;README.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&#x2F;chromiumos&#x2F;platform&#x2F;crosvm...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome OS KVM - A component written in Rust</title><url>https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>indy</author><text>Is Rust an officially sanctioned language at Google?</text></comment> |
6,117,657 | 6,117,484 | 1 | 2 | 6,117,117 | train | <story><title>Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy</title><url>http://antonyloewenstein.com/2013/07/29/chomsky-praises-snowden-and-condemns-us-hypocrisy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OldSchool</author><text>Chomsky is one of the greatest intellectuals of our time. The man has nothing to lose and nothing to gain by voicing his thoughts. Too bad he is getting up there in age but hopefully we will enjoy his presence for many more years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>galois17</author><text>&quot;Chomsky is one of the greatest intellectuals of our time&quot;<p>This is undoubtedly true. He is one of the most cited authors of all time.<p>It is unfortunate that the american media does not give him the attention he deserves. In fact, in Europe Noam Chomsky and his opinions are very highly regarded and his writings are taught in schools. I am Greek (living in the U.S for the last 5 years) and I was first introduced to Noam Chomsky during a writing class in my (public) high school.<p>I guess the fact that he is an anarchist and very often criticizes the U.S government and foreign policy does not make him popular within the U.S.<p>Btw, some of us, no matter what country we are from, need to understand that when someone criticizes our country&#x27;s government and its actions, it does not mean automatically that they are criticizing us. I honestly find it very naive when someone defends their government&#x27;s policies just because they feel somehow they have to do so.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chomsky praises Snowden and condemns US hypocrisy</title><url>http://antonyloewenstein.com/2013/07/29/chomsky-praises-snowden-and-condemns-us-hypocrisy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OldSchool</author><text>Chomsky is one of the greatest intellectuals of our time. The man has nothing to lose and nothing to gain by voicing his thoughts. Too bad he is getting up there in age but hopefully we will enjoy his presence for many more years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fixxer</author><text>Agreed. He is so very adept at reducing a complicated system into simple relationships of cause and effect.<p>No government is to be trusted not to manipulate the population through fear. That should be taught in grade school.</text></comment> |
39,088,274 | 39,088,354 | 1 | 3 | 39,087,274 | train | <story><title>Kayak's new flight filter allows you to exclude aircraft models</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/kb3WBpHMFL</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2187</author><text>I don’t think it makes sense for passengers to worry about the plane model. I haven’t done the math but conceptually it’s like being paranoid about taking plane A that has a 99.99998 safety vs plane B that has a 99.99999 safety.<p>For the crew, things are a little different given that they are all day long, all year long in the same plane model, so those minuscule risks compound.<p>People are bad at conceptualising low probabilities. That’s why they play lottery!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stringsandchars</author><text>&gt; I don’t think it makes sense for passengers to worry about the plane model.<p>Why do you think we should surrender the tiny amount of agency that we still have, in the face of corporate profit-driven deterioration?<p>For me, this isn&#x27;t about a measured risk in relation to other known risks in my life (crossing the road, cycling, drinking alcohol). It&#x27;s about removing a totally unnecessary risk caused by greed and corporate heedlessness.<p>A similar case: I stopped eating British Beef when a British minister fed his daughter a beefburger[0] to &#x27;prove&#x27; it was &quot;totally safe&quot;, during the &#x27;Mad Cow Disease&#x27; (BSE) crisis in 1990. I wasn&#x27;t significantly worried about contracting BSE at the time, but the lengths and efforts that the government went to, to convince people to eat more beef for &#x27;patriotic&#x27; reasons, when the farmers had fed their cows on ground-up carcasses for economic gain, meant that my boycott was a small but meaningful expression of my own agency when faced by this sort of appalling behavior.<p>I feel the same way about Boeing, and about the greed of airlines (like RyanAir), that think only about profit and see passenger safety as an irritating distraction that is only important in terms of &#x27;brand perception&#x27;.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.devonlive.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;devon-news&#x2F;bse-crisis-john-selywn-gummer-2122969" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.devonlive.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;devon-news&#x2F;bse-crisis-john-se...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Kayak's new flight filter allows you to exclude aircraft models</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/kb3WBpHMFL</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2187</author><text>I don’t think it makes sense for passengers to worry about the plane model. I haven’t done the math but conceptually it’s like being paranoid about taking plane A that has a 99.99998 safety vs plane B that has a 99.99999 safety.<p>For the crew, things are a little different given that they are all day long, all year long in the same plane model, so those minuscule risks compound.<p>People are bad at conceptualising low probabilities. That’s why they play lottery!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ldoughty</author><text>I agree that people are bad with probability like you explain<p>However, I think the issue with the 737 MAX is that it&#x27;s been involved in several high profile catastrophic mistakes while only being in service for a few years. It&#x27;s expected that a page in service for 20 years might have wear and tear that leads to issues... But brand new planes crashing back to back shortly after being released..<p>The stats on the Wikipedia page state that the MAX has 4 fatalities per 1 million flights, while the prior generation has 0.2 fatalities per million flights [1]. Of course, some if this is due to the two crashes right out the door, and if excluded, perhaps they are similar... But then this new door blowout issue occured... And after investigation multiple planes had the same issue (so it likely is a production issue, not an individual worker screwing up one time).<p>Overall I agree plane model should mean little to travelers... But the MAX is trying very hard to prove it&#x27;s a lemon.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Boeing_737_MAX" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Boeing_737_MAX</a></text></comment> |
3,044,534 | 3,043,339 | 1 | 2 | 3,043,146 | train | <story><title>Trader: I dream of another recession (and Goldman Sachs rules the world)</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15059135</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Construct</author><text>This man is described as an "independent market trader" in the attached article. His twitter profile ( <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/alessiorastani" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/#!/alessiorastani</a> ) describes him as a "Keynote speaker" and a "Mentor and dedicated to helping others succeed". That doesn't exactly inspire much confidence. In fact, it is pretty obvious that he has set out to make a name for himself through this controversy.<p>Furthermore, he has obviously bet heavily on a near-term market crash. He's now financially and emotionally invested in a market crash, so of course he will be confident that it's going to happen. And if his doomsday video circulates the internet and makes a dent, however tiny, in investor sentiment then he has also effectively pushed the market (in a very tiny way) toward his goal.<p>Take a look at one of his recent tweets: "I've been waiting for this stock market crash for 3 years. #finance #economy"<p>The world economy is in trouble, no doubt, but let's remain reasonable and rational here. Spend enough time around financial types, and you can always find a doomsayer like this man in any sort of economy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leverage</author><text>This guy is an independent trader because no one would hire him. He's misguided in his understanding of the markets. Goldman Sachs is an investment bank. When he says "anyone can make money from a crash", he's right: any INDEPENDENT investor/fund. Such as a hedge fund or himself, an "independent trader". These people are referred to as the "buy side". However, Goldman Sachs, as well as all the other banks he probably thinks "rules the world" is on the sell-side. The sell-side provides "prime" brokerage services to the buy-side clients -- that is they connect buyers and sellers via the exchanges. In fact, with the upcoming Volker rule, no investment banks will be allowed to engage in proprietary trading (trading for profit with the firms money), which is what the buy-side does.<p>Investment banks might actually lose money in recessions because they might take illiquid, toxic assets onto their books to service demand (point and case: the mortgage crisis). And securities is only a part of the investment bank business model. Advisory services, largely driven by M&#38;A and IPO volume, provide a decent chunk of profits for banks. Capital markets dry up during recessions, which will completely stifle M&#38;A and IPO activity and therefore revenue on that side of the bank.<p>This guy is full of shit. When asked what to invest in when the market goes down, his best advice is bonds and "hedging strategies". Bonds do indeed rise in value during bear markets, however hedging has almost nothing to do with profit or loss. Hedging is risk management: covering your ass in case of an unexpected move. For example, if I expect a downward market turn, as per his advice, I might buy up treasuries. But, to "hedge" the possibility that the market moves UPWARDS instead, I might buy an index tracking the Dow, which will increase in value as the market moves up. In this case, hedging is actually DECREASING my profits in the case of a downward movement in the markets. There are much more intuitive ways to play a downward market.</text></comment> | <story><title>Trader: I dream of another recession (and Goldman Sachs rules the world)</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15059135</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Construct</author><text>This man is described as an "independent market trader" in the attached article. His twitter profile ( <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/alessiorastani" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/#!/alessiorastani</a> ) describes him as a "Keynote speaker" and a "Mentor and dedicated to helping others succeed". That doesn't exactly inspire much confidence. In fact, it is pretty obvious that he has set out to make a name for himself through this controversy.<p>Furthermore, he has obviously bet heavily on a near-term market crash. He's now financially and emotionally invested in a market crash, so of course he will be confident that it's going to happen. And if his doomsday video circulates the internet and makes a dent, however tiny, in investor sentiment then he has also effectively pushed the market (in a very tiny way) toward his goal.<p>Take a look at one of his recent tweets: "I've been waiting for this stock market crash for 3 years. #finance #economy"<p>The world economy is in trouble, no doubt, but let's remain reasonable and rational here. Spend enough time around financial types, and you can always find a doomsayer like this man in any sort of economy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>silverbax88</author><text>This is an extremely valid point. If you look at the stories that are posted daily on Yahoo! Finance, nearly all of them are market predictions by people with a vested interest in their predictions (beyond simply trying to be correct).<p>I think this is still lost on most consumers; most people think stock analysts are the same as economists, and that's completely wrong. A good economist will tell you that they can't predict the stock market, but they can tell you what the economy will do. That's enough to let you know that the direction of the economy and the stock market are not directly linked.</text></comment> |
17,335,086 | 17,334,632 | 1 | 3 | 17,332,969 | train | <story><title>We Should Teach Music History Backwards</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-we-should-teach-music-history-backwards-180955053/?no-ist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>c3534l</author><text>There was a great essay a while back that I can no longer find that summarized Guns, Germs, and Steel by continually asking the question &quot;why?&quot; It start with &quot;Why is Western Europe and America so dominant culturally and economically?&quot; Then regressed back to questions like &quot;why did Europeans colonize the Americas instead of the other way around&quot; to &quot;why did the Europeans have steel, disease, and gunpowder but the Native Americans didn&#x27;t?&quot; down to &quot;Why did agriculture develop in the fertile crescent and spread to Europe earlier than corn spread to the Americas?&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a wonderful rhetorical device. Human nature is to pay attention to conflict and we like to see how it&#x27;s resolved. By asking a series of &quot;why&quot; you broadly expand a person&#x27;s view and they understand why you&#x27;re talking about, at some point, the minutia of zoological diversity in the middle east. I never did well in school because I always want to know the &quot;why are we talking about this&quot; up front, and teacher&#x27;s answers were always just &quot;it&#x27;s in the syllabus.&quot; I like programming because it asks the problem first, then I have to solve it.</text></item><item><author>bambax</author><text>Not just music history, but history in general.<p>History told forwards is superstition: trying to show that what came after was inevitable, when in fact it was one future among an infinite number of different possible futures.<p>History told backwards makes sense: look for the seeds of post events, in the past.<p>However the human mind loves nothing more than causation; we see cause and effect everywhere even where it&#x27;s not, we like &quot;stories&quot;, we don&#x27;t understand, don&#x27;t believe in, and outright reject chance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcranmer</author><text>The problem with that approach is that you can end up begging the question and not realizing that your proposed answers start to deviate wildly from evidence.<p>For Jared Diamond, the answer to the question of European domination is solely that Eurasia won the agricultural jackpot [1] and the Americas lost it, and anything that happened in the intervening 10,000 years doesn&#x27;t factor into it. But... the Americas won the agricultural jackpot (there&#x27;s a reason why potatoes became a staple crop in much of the world). And the European conquest of the Americas was anything but preordained: the Spanish only conquered Tenochtitlan (which was a larger city, it should be noted, than likely any of the Spanish had ever seen before) with the help of their 20,000 Tlaxcala allies.<p>[1] The astute will notice that there&#x27;s a related question that Diamond 100% completely ignores... why didn&#x27;t China dominate?</text></comment> | <story><title>We Should Teach Music History Backwards</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-we-should-teach-music-history-backwards-180955053/?no-ist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>c3534l</author><text>There was a great essay a while back that I can no longer find that summarized Guns, Germs, and Steel by continually asking the question &quot;why?&quot; It start with &quot;Why is Western Europe and America so dominant culturally and economically?&quot; Then regressed back to questions like &quot;why did Europeans colonize the Americas instead of the other way around&quot; to &quot;why did the Europeans have steel, disease, and gunpowder but the Native Americans didn&#x27;t?&quot; down to &quot;Why did agriculture develop in the fertile crescent and spread to Europe earlier than corn spread to the Americas?&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a wonderful rhetorical device. Human nature is to pay attention to conflict and we like to see how it&#x27;s resolved. By asking a series of &quot;why&quot; you broadly expand a person&#x27;s view and they understand why you&#x27;re talking about, at some point, the minutia of zoological diversity in the middle east. I never did well in school because I always want to know the &quot;why are we talking about this&quot; up front, and teacher&#x27;s answers were always just &quot;it&#x27;s in the syllabus.&quot; I like programming because it asks the problem first, then I have to solve it.</text></item><item><author>bambax</author><text>Not just music history, but history in general.<p>History told forwards is superstition: trying to show that what came after was inevitable, when in fact it was one future among an infinite number of different possible futures.<p>History told backwards makes sense: look for the seeds of post events, in the past.<p>However the human mind loves nothing more than causation; we see cause and effect everywhere even where it&#x27;s not, we like &quot;stories&quot;, we don&#x27;t understand, don&#x27;t believe in, and outright reject chance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vanderZwan</author><text>&gt; <i>It&#x27;s a wonderful rhetorical device.</i><p>It is very appealing, for sure, but it runs the risk of falling into the same trap of <i>&quot;trying to show that what came after was inevitable, when in fact it was one future among an infinite number of different possible futures&quot;</i>.</text></comment> |
16,939,664 | 16,939,539 | 1 | 3 | 16,938,423 | train | <story><title>Intel's 10nm Is Broken, Delayed Until 2019</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-cpu-10nm-earnings-amd,36967.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codemusings</author><text>Can someone explaing why it&#x27;s important to increase the density instead of increasing the size of a CPU?<p>Knowing nothing about chip design I&#x27;m probably thinking about this the wrong way but socket backwards compatability aside is it not feasible to simply increase the chip size? Is a higher density more rewarding?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nokinside</author><text>Power, heat and the speed of electrical signal.<p>Power use increases quadratically with voltage. You want small transistors to keep the voltage and power use from getting out of hand. You also need to increase voltage if you want to increase clock speed.<p>Electric signal travels in a conductor roughly 15 cm&#x2F;nsec. With 3 GHz clock speed the electric signal travels travels roughly 50 mm in one clock cycle. Largest microchips are 30 mm across. You can&#x27;t double the dimensions without dealing with the signal lag. Delivering the clock signal to every part of the chip in sync is already a problem. Modern microchips use lots of extra circuitry just to deliver the clock signal properly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel's 10nm Is Broken, Delayed Until 2019</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-cpu-10nm-earnings-amd,36967.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codemusings</author><text>Can someone explaing why it&#x27;s important to increase the density instead of increasing the size of a CPU?<p>Knowing nothing about chip design I&#x27;m probably thinking about this the wrong way but socket backwards compatability aside is it not feasible to simply increase the chip size? Is a higher density more rewarding?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dizzystar</author><text>I asked someone who worked on chips a similar question. The density helps connecting the parts. If the nodes aren&#x27;t near each other, they have to move through other nodes to get from one to the other, and that process is &quot;slow&quot; in the world of chips.<p>I guess it&#x27;s like trying to get from LA to SF. You could get to SF of you 10x&#x27;d the size of earth, but it would still more than 10x as long despite having the same connections because you&#x27;d need to stop for some extra connections to even make it.</text></comment> |
20,154,813 | 20,154,951 | 1 | 2 | 20,154,529 | train | <story><title>Should the police be able to investigate your genetic family tree for any crime?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/opinion/police-dna-warrant.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LurkersWillLurk</author><text>I&#x27;m reminded of parallels between cell phone location privacy and genetic tracking. The average person does not understand that they are creating a record of everywhere they go when they have their cell phone on. The same is true with your DNA - while it&#x27;s true that you do in fact leave a literal trace of your genes, you don&#x27;t expect that you could be identified later on simply by the fact that you had lunch.<p>What we really need is a legislative solution, but unfortunately I have low expectations for Congress, seeing that Carpenter v. United States even had to happen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redm</author><text>I like your analogy, I&#x27;d add that DNA search&#x2F;collection is akin to scanning cell phone records to see who was in the area at the time of the crime. Which typically requires a warrant.</text></comment> | <story><title>Should the police be able to investigate your genetic family tree for any crime?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/opinion/police-dna-warrant.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LurkersWillLurk</author><text>I&#x27;m reminded of parallels between cell phone location privacy and genetic tracking. The average person does not understand that they are creating a record of everywhere they go when they have their cell phone on. The same is true with your DNA - while it&#x27;s true that you do in fact leave a literal trace of your genes, you don&#x27;t expect that you could be identified later on simply by the fact that you had lunch.<p>What we really need is a legislative solution, but unfortunately I have low expectations for Congress, seeing that Carpenter v. United States even had to happen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>decoyworker</author><text>What would you legislate?<p>Your location is not private information and never has been. Not sure how you could even legislate to make your DNA protected private information- under HIPPA for instance, considering you leave it everywhere you go. Your fingerprint is not private, your face is not private, and your DNA is not private. I&#x27;m not sure how they could be.</text></comment> |
15,609,308 | 15,609,384 | 1 | 3 | 15,608,435 | train | <story><title>Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)</title><url>https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guardian5x</author><text>Just curious, why print it out?</text></item><item><author>szemet</author><text>What a fine piece of literate programming!<p>I&#x27;ve just printed it out, and it literally contains 100 page of explanation and context for that 500 lines of code. Great work!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>Printed out works are less distracting, you can also write on them with a pencil or highlight things you like. Also if the page ever disappears &#x2F; becomes inaccessible you have a backup of it. Not something I do, but I can see the uses. A coworker did it to analyze someone else&#x27;s code. Also it doesn&#x27;t drain your eyes as much. I sometimes wish I could have a Kindle that just showed me code (with some syntax highlighting) so I could look at code on an e-reader type of display but never drain my eyes doing so.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)</title><url>https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guardian5x</author><text>Just curious, why print it out?</text></item><item><author>szemet</author><text>What a fine piece of literate programming!<p>I&#x27;ve just printed it out, and it literally contains 100 page of explanation and context for that 500 lines of code. Great work!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>protomyth</author><text>Because viewing things on a LCD is hard on the eyes after a while. E-ink is great, but paper is easier for most.<p>This is one thing I hate about Apple these days. They once had pdf versions of all the developer documents but now they only have web pages and Xcode. For a company so concerned about users, they sure don’t seem to care about developer’s eye strain.</text></comment> |
2,005,638 | 2,005,443 | 1 | 3 | 2,005,155 | train | <story><title>Aza Raskin Leaving Mozilla</title><url>http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/leaving-mozilla/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baran</author><text>Aza is correct. The fundamental problem inhibiting good personal health is lack of timely feedback. In healthcare, feedback always happens too late. The beer I drink tonight doesn't affect me until my liver fails. Overeating doesn't become a problem until your are stuck in a vicious cycle.<p>With that said, for the majority of the healthy population, the main indicator of health is weight. Thus for the personal health space, the holy grail is a device which automatically measures the caloric input/output. When I say automatic, I really mean automatic. No writing/taking pictures/tweeting about your food or exercise. Think a watch that tells you how many more calories you can eat in the day. Anything more complicated will fail.<p>Aza does point out an example population which would be assisted by better technology - individuals with chronic health problems. These people are faced with their disease everyday, whether they want to think about it or not, so they have the most to gain from new technology. There is a niche in improving the "diabetes diary", but in my mind the real power comes from a complete feedback loop. One which encourages care providers (physicians, nurses, etc.) to be more involved in managing their conditions. Think about giving your diabetes diary to your physician. Patterns would emerge for the physicians that would not be seen by the patient. This data could then be the catalyst for change in how the patient manages their disease.<p>The problem right now is that no personal health system exists with connects patients and providers. The data which resides in your medical record is locked into proprietary systems which are vary reluctant to "open" data. However, the landscape is beginning to change. Industry is realizing a the game-changing health applications need the underlying data which is being housed in clinical institutions to function optimally. Check out SMArt Platforms if your interested in this push.<p>Summary<p>Be very careful in the personal health space. Two things I've learned after being in the industry for a while (1) it's very difficult to get people to care enough about their health to take action on it and (2) the most useful applications are the ones which connect patients and care providers which is difficult due to lack of data liquidity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Aza Raskin Leaving Mozilla</title><url>http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/leaving-mozilla/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nodata</author><text>The Massive Health logo is the Fedora Project logo.</text></comment> |
27,225,855 | 27,224,692 | 1 | 3 | 27,223,604 | train | <story><title>U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/20/us-treasury-calls-for-stricter-cryptocurrency-compliance-with-irs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>Yea, what I don&#x27;t understand is how something like using ETH to buy another coin should be taxed? I totally get converting it back to dollars and calling that capital gains but trying to tax conversions from one to another seems nutty to me.</text></item><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>As someone with a decent amount of money in crypto, I welcome this. I want to pay taxes on crypto capital gains in a way that makes sense instead of trying to guess my way through it, and I also want clear rules for exchanges, pools, etc. to follow to make reporting easy at tax time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>retrac</author><text>Forex is often subject to such taxes. If the USD and CAD were trading 1:1 then if I buy 1000 USD with 1000 CAD in cash I have right now, and then immediately buy 1000 CAD worth of products with those USD, there are no taxes due.<p>If I buy 1000 of USD with 1000 CAD, with the expectation CAD will fall, then since my taxes are due in CAD in my case, when I sell those USD for 1500 CAD I&#x27;ve realized a gain of 500 CAD that would be considered taxable income. But if CAD goes up and I have to sell those USD for only 500 CAD, then I&#x27;ve realized a loss of 500 CAD and I could deduct it on my taxes.<p>Seems reasonable enough to tax currencies like investments when they&#x27;re used as investments. Any asset held in that manner usually would be taxed like that.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/20/us-treasury-calls-for-stricter-cryptocurrency-compliance-with-irs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>Yea, what I don&#x27;t understand is how something like using ETH to buy another coin should be taxed? I totally get converting it back to dollars and calling that capital gains but trying to tax conversions from one to another seems nutty to me.</text></item><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>As someone with a decent amount of money in crypto, I welcome this. I want to pay taxes on crypto capital gains in a way that makes sense instead of trying to guess my way through it, and I also want clear rules for exchanges, pools, etc. to follow to make reporting easy at tax time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mancerayder</author><text>The bigger problem is that the automation behind sufficient tracking to make it easier to report is missing - or was. I bought stuff from Bittrex years ago, and I was forced to buy BTC to convert it to buy something else, Bittrex went away (and never cared anyway), so now I have some headaches to report. I&#x27;m glad my holdings were small.<p>All this goes away if there&#x27;s automation and agreement among the exchanges. Of course, for those with wallets, I&#x27;m not sure what the solution there is. I&#x27;m guessing there should be some software one can use to track transfer times + prices and aggregate that, based on address... or something.</text></comment> |
8,606,493 | 8,606,453 | 1 | 2 | 8,605,818 | train | <story><title>Smartphones versus DSLRs versus film: A look at how far we've come</title><url>http://connect.dpreview.com/post/5533410947/smartphones-versus-dslr-versus-film/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vanderZwan</author><text>There&#x27;s two things I care about in a digital camera: low light performance, and dynamic range. I don&#x27;t care about how much megapixels you can cram in there - if your lens is pixel-perfect, 6 is enough for most purposes anyway. The only reason I might want to upgrade from my Canon 40D is a drastically improved dynamic range, a compacter size and the ability to shoot movies. So far it&#x27;s all not quite there yet to be worth it, from my point of view.<p>Plus, I&#x27;m having more fun developing my pictures taken with my Nikon FM2 anyway.<p>Ironically, recenty the Nokia approach with supersampling seems to have paid off most regarding low-light and dynamic range performance of phone cameras (especially dynamic range, which this article didn&#x27;t address). I hope the others will catch up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ars</author><text>And shutter lag. There is nothing worse than missing every single shot (or having them all blurry) because the shutter took too long.</text></comment> | <story><title>Smartphones versus DSLRs versus film: A look at how far we've come</title><url>http://connect.dpreview.com/post/5533410947/smartphones-versus-dslr-versus-film/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vanderZwan</author><text>There&#x27;s two things I care about in a digital camera: low light performance, and dynamic range. I don&#x27;t care about how much megapixels you can cram in there - if your lens is pixel-perfect, 6 is enough for most purposes anyway. The only reason I might want to upgrade from my Canon 40D is a drastically improved dynamic range, a compacter size and the ability to shoot movies. So far it&#x27;s all not quite there yet to be worth it, from my point of view.<p>Plus, I&#x27;m having more fun developing my pictures taken with my Nikon FM2 anyway.<p>Ironically, recenty the Nokia approach with supersampling seems to have paid off most regarding low-light and dynamic range performance of phone cameras (especially dynamic range, which this article didn&#x27;t address). I hope the others will catch up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>higherpurpose</author><text>I doubt super-sampling beats Google&#x27;s HDR+ [1] in either range or <i>speed</i> (the 1020 takes about <i>4 seconds</i> per &quot;normal&quot; picture). The 1020 does have much better details and such, but that&#x27;s most likely due to a 4x bigger sensor and higher quality lens.<p>[1] - <a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/10/hdr-low-light-and-high-dynamic-range.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleresearch.blogspot.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;hdr-low-light-and...</a></text></comment> |
31,730,151 | 31,730,087 | 1 | 3 | 31,728,350 | train | <story><title>FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/06/ftc-acts-protect-pet-owners-private-equity-firms-anticompetitive-acquisition-veterinary-services</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>It&#x27;s not capitalism because a licensing cartel artificially keeps the supply of vets low by keeping out qualified PAs and nurses who could handle easy cases.</text></item><item><author>Avicebron</author><text>what do you mean? That&#x27;s exactly capitalism, it favors inequality heavily. The Vet made it to the top of the heap, and is now utilizing the PA as an exploitable workforce.<p>Tech example, BigCo A gets first mover advantage, equally good BiggishCo B is a bit behind (for whatever reason), BigCo A leverages their position to prevent B from being able to compete long term - usually by acquisition, they work for us now.</text></item><item><author>IG_Semmelweiss</author><text>A veterinarian cannot open a practice without doing a bunch of licensing and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in education.<p>Meanwhile, the PA next to him has what it takes from years of training but she will never open a vet clinic of his&#x2F;her own.<p>Thats not capitalism.</text></item><item><author>banannaise</author><text>The inevitable march of capitalism: experts in every field are gradually relieved of their decision-making power by experts in finance, until finance guys control everything.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>I worked with people who did (human) clinic roll ups.<p>Part of the issue at hand is that doctors and physicians are notoriously bad businesspeople. So once they build up a big enough practice, a lot of them will jump on the chance to sell the side of the business that they hate to a management firm.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Vet clinics became very popular private equity targets recently.<p>One of the people I know in PE described their profit margins as being surprisingly high even before PE roll-ups. They said that some PE firms were on a mission to acquire all of the vet firms in metro areas and then drive prices up even further because the demand is so inelastic. There was a secondary rush where people were trying to acquire vet clinics in anticipation of flipping them to PE roll-ups later.<p>My local vet seems to have gone down this slide. A long time ago it felt like a staff that really just cared about animals and had good prices. On my last visit it felt like I was bombarded with practiced pitches for different products and services at every step of the process. They even added some expensive vitamin product to my bill despite me declining it during the service. They removed it when I caught it on the bill before walking out the door, but only after a last attempt at pitching me on it. I could tell they were heavily incentivized to sell as much as possible. I didn&#x27;t go back, but at this point I don&#x27;t know where else to go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stefan_</author><text>You have just realized that most actors in capitalism prefer to the rig the game rather than compete.</text></comment> | <story><title>FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/06/ftc-acts-protect-pet-owners-private-equity-firms-anticompetitive-acquisition-veterinary-services</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>It&#x27;s not capitalism because a licensing cartel artificially keeps the supply of vets low by keeping out qualified PAs and nurses who could handle easy cases.</text></item><item><author>Avicebron</author><text>what do you mean? That&#x27;s exactly capitalism, it favors inequality heavily. The Vet made it to the top of the heap, and is now utilizing the PA as an exploitable workforce.<p>Tech example, BigCo A gets first mover advantage, equally good BiggishCo B is a bit behind (for whatever reason), BigCo A leverages their position to prevent B from being able to compete long term - usually by acquisition, they work for us now.</text></item><item><author>IG_Semmelweiss</author><text>A veterinarian cannot open a practice without doing a bunch of licensing and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in education.<p>Meanwhile, the PA next to him has what it takes from years of training but she will never open a vet clinic of his&#x2F;her own.<p>Thats not capitalism.</text></item><item><author>banannaise</author><text>The inevitable march of capitalism: experts in every field are gradually relieved of their decision-making power by experts in finance, until finance guys control everything.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>I worked with people who did (human) clinic roll ups.<p>Part of the issue at hand is that doctors and physicians are notoriously bad businesspeople. So once they build up a big enough practice, a lot of them will jump on the chance to sell the side of the business that they hate to a management firm.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Vet clinics became very popular private equity targets recently.<p>One of the people I know in PE described their profit margins as being surprisingly high even before PE roll-ups. They said that some PE firms were on a mission to acquire all of the vet firms in metro areas and then drive prices up even further because the demand is so inelastic. There was a secondary rush where people were trying to acquire vet clinics in anticipation of flipping them to PE roll-ups later.<p>My local vet seems to have gone down this slide. A long time ago it felt like a staff that really just cared about animals and had good prices. On my last visit it felt like I was bombarded with practiced pitches for different products and services at every step of the process. They even added some expensive vitamin product to my bill despite me declining it during the service. They removed it when I caught it on the bill before walking out the door, but only after a last attempt at pitching me on it. I could tell they were heavily incentivized to sell as much as possible. I didn&#x27;t go back, but at this point I don&#x27;t know where else to go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shakes_mcjunkie</author><text>Licensing can be used to monopolize markets and consolidate private ownership. Licensing isn&#x27;t inherently bad but it can be used in a capitalist system to increase profits and drive out competition.</text></comment> |
24,836,805 | 24,836,969 | 1 | 2 | 24,836,422 | train | <story><title>America's True Unemployment Rate</title><url>https://www.axios.com/americas-true-unemployment-rate-6e34decb-c274-4feb-a4af-ffac8cf5840d.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>I agree that there is no &quot;true&quot; measure, just different measures.<p>That said, the standard unemployment measure the author is objecting to is just as (more really) disingenuous in practice. It also stacks confusion. &quot;Unemployment&quot; used as a primary barometer for the labour economy.<p>People (including journalists, politicians... high stakes stuff) assume that unemployment captures most unemployment. They don&#x27;t consider that most unemployed 58 year olds are not counted because they &quot;retired,&quot; stopped seeking work or receive a disability benefit. When&#x2F;if these become substantial, the measure means very little.<p>Every time a journalist note record high&#x2F;low unemployment of X%, it&#x27;s probably just as deceptive or (more likely) misleading. The measure itself means something different in 2020 than it did in 1980, or in a different country&#x2F;region.<p>At least the &quot;true&quot; appendage makes clear that there are differing and divergent ways to measure unemployment, and that these cn result in huge differences.</text></item><item><author>mountainb</author><text>This is phrased in a very deceptive way. There are lots of issues with the &#x27;Unemployment&#x27; metric. It is indeed a deceptive metric. However, it is deliberately misleading to append &#x27;True&#x27; to &#x27;Unemployment Rate&#x27; with a custom definition intended to make an argument. You are stacking confusion on confusion instead of clarifying. If you want to create a different metric around a &#x27;living wage,&#x27; then it should be defined in a way that makes that more clear.<p>There are also serious regional differences in what such a wage might be. $2000&#x2F;month is enough to live comfortably with a personal car in low cost of living regions. In NYC it means you are probably stacked into a decaying apartment with many other people with no car.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>itsoktocry</author><text>&gt;<i>They don&#x27;t consider that most unemployed 58 year olds are not counted because they &quot;retired,&quot; stopped seeking work or receive a disability benefit.</i><p>Why <i>should</i> any of these people be considered &quot;unemployed&quot;?<p>Every time there&#x27;s a discussion of unemployment, or inflation, people bring up the measurements as &quot;misleading&quot;. The BLS tracks this stuff because people in the real world need to use it, not because there&#x27;s some disingenuous political purpose. There are a ton of different metrics to get a broad picture of the labour market, as defined, and they put them out there, free to use. The idea that the army of economists at the BLS don&#x27;t understand things like people being retired is just wrong.<p>We spend a lot of time criticizing journalists and politicians, but how many people bother to look at the data themselves if interested?</text></comment> | <story><title>America's True Unemployment Rate</title><url>https://www.axios.com/americas-true-unemployment-rate-6e34decb-c274-4feb-a4af-ffac8cf5840d.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>I agree that there is no &quot;true&quot; measure, just different measures.<p>That said, the standard unemployment measure the author is objecting to is just as (more really) disingenuous in practice. It also stacks confusion. &quot;Unemployment&quot; used as a primary barometer for the labour economy.<p>People (including journalists, politicians... high stakes stuff) assume that unemployment captures most unemployment. They don&#x27;t consider that most unemployed 58 year olds are not counted because they &quot;retired,&quot; stopped seeking work or receive a disability benefit. When&#x2F;if these become substantial, the measure means very little.<p>Every time a journalist note record high&#x2F;low unemployment of X%, it&#x27;s probably just as deceptive or (more likely) misleading. The measure itself means something different in 2020 than it did in 1980, or in a different country&#x2F;region.<p>At least the &quot;true&quot; appendage makes clear that there are differing and divergent ways to measure unemployment, and that these cn result in huge differences.</text></item><item><author>mountainb</author><text>This is phrased in a very deceptive way. There are lots of issues with the &#x27;Unemployment&#x27; metric. It is indeed a deceptive metric. However, it is deliberately misleading to append &#x27;True&#x27; to &#x27;Unemployment Rate&#x27; with a custom definition intended to make an argument. You are stacking confusion on confusion instead of clarifying. If you want to create a different metric around a &#x27;living wage,&#x27; then it should be defined in a way that makes that more clear.<p>There are also serious regional differences in what such a wage might be. $2000&#x2F;month is enough to live comfortably with a personal car in low cost of living regions. In NYC it means you are probably stacked into a decaying apartment with many other people with no car.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>While this may be true, the article&#x27;s premise that the BLS was somehow cooked up to hide the &quot;true&quot; unemployment rate rings hollow, mainly because the BLS <i>also</i> tracks and reports tons of other labor-related statistics, including for example &quot;discouraged&quot; workers, those working part-time but want to work full-time, overall labor force participation rate, etc.<p>These days I even see mainstream media outlets report lots of different numbers beyond the &quot;baseline&quot; unemployment rate, so I just feel like this whole article is written from the &quot;you&#x27;re not considering my preferred statistic as the &#x27;true&#x27; one so you&#x27;re wrong&quot; angle.</text></comment> |
22,420,196 | 22,419,747 | 1 | 2 | 22,419,424 | train | <story><title>San Francisco declares state of emergency to prepare for coronavirus</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-state-of-emergency-coronavirus-covid19-outbreak-2020-2#the-citys-tech-conference-scene-has-also-taken-a-hit-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>I feel like the debate between the &quot;don&#x27;t panic&quot; crowd and the &quot;preppers&quot; is a useless semantic debate between extremists.<p>You want to react the <i>appropriate</i> amount. For the time being, you should go about your normal routine, but like the CDC said today, you should <i>prepare</i> for some major lifestyle disruptions.</text></item><item><author>fluxsauce</author><text>While the sensationalist headline is technically accurate, both the headline and the linked article bury the intent and context of the declaration. In short, don&#x27;t panic.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;bayarea&#x2F;article&#x2F;SF-mayor-London-Breed-declares-state-of-emergency-15083811.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;bayarea&#x2F;article&#x2F;SF-mayor-London-...</a><p>&gt; There have been no confirmed coronavirus cases in San Francisco to date, but as infections continue to rise across the world, “we need to allocate more resources to make sure we are prepared,” Breed said at a press conference announcing the emergency declaration.<p>&gt; “To be clear, this declaration of emergency is all about preparedness. By declaring a state of emergency we are prioritizing the safety of our communities by being prepared.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iliveinchina</author><text>I can comment on a couple unexpected shortages we&#x27;ve seen in Asia: toilet paper, due to panic buying, and hand sanitizer.<p>There are also some concerns about medicines unrelated to the virus because many meds are produced in China and the supply chain here is all screwed up. So some might consider getting medicine refills for 30 days (or however long your insurance will let you) in advance. You also might not want to have to go wait in line at a pharmacy during a pandemic.<p>In terms of work: it may make sense to start thinking about what kind of work can be done efficiently remotely vs. on-site.<p>You also may want to think about finances in case the world sees a significant economic contraction. If lots of countries replicate what has happened in China, the world economy will be highly disrupted for at least a couple months.</text></comment> | <story><title>San Francisco declares state of emergency to prepare for coronavirus</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-state-of-emergency-coronavirus-covid19-outbreak-2020-2#the-citys-tech-conference-scene-has-also-taken-a-hit-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>I feel like the debate between the &quot;don&#x27;t panic&quot; crowd and the &quot;preppers&quot; is a useless semantic debate between extremists.<p>You want to react the <i>appropriate</i> amount. For the time being, you should go about your normal routine, but like the CDC said today, you should <i>prepare</i> for some major lifestyle disruptions.</text></item><item><author>fluxsauce</author><text>While the sensationalist headline is technically accurate, both the headline and the linked article bury the intent and context of the declaration. In short, don&#x27;t panic.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;bayarea&#x2F;article&#x2F;SF-mayor-London-Breed-declares-state-of-emergency-15083811.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;bayarea&#x2F;article&#x2F;SF-mayor-London-...</a><p>&gt; There have been no confirmed coronavirus cases in San Francisco to date, but as infections continue to rise across the world, “we need to allocate more resources to make sure we are prepared,” Breed said at a press conference announcing the emergency declaration.<p>&gt; “To be clear, this declaration of emergency is all about preparedness. By declaring a state of emergency we are prioritizing the safety of our communities by being prepared.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chipperyman573</author><text>Out of curiosity, have you done anything to prepare for any major lifestyle disruptions?</text></comment> |
4,807,492 | 4,806,922 | 1 | 3 | 4,806,452 | train | <story><title>Color Labs And Bill Nguyen Sued By Ex-Employee Alleging Retaliation</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/19/color-labs-and-bill-nguyen-sued-by-ex-employee-alleging-retaliation-emotional-distress/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coffeemug</author><text><i>In or around late 2011, [then Color CFO Alyssa] Solomon began noticing discrepancies in Color’s finances. Upon information and belief, Defendant Nguyen was spending corporate funds on numerous personal items, such as charging personal items on Color’s American Express card and putting his family’s nanny, Sally Orr, and his family’s Lake Tahoe‐based ski instructor, Hillary Governer, on Color’s payroll.</i><p>If this is actually true, this is a Really Big Deal (tm). The IRS (and relevant legislation) is very serious about these things, and I can't imagine anyone running a high profile company who has a career at stake actually doing this of their own accord.<p>This isn't just about ethics. It's an allegation of embezzlement, which carries a penalty of imprisonment for up to twenty years(!) Doing that to save some money on a nanny seems absolutely insane to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Color Labs And Bill Nguyen Sued By Ex-Employee Alleging Retaliation</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/19/color-labs-and-bill-nguyen-sued-by-ex-employee-alleging-retaliation-emotional-distress/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nlh</author><text>A fascinating read, for sure, but do take the accusations with a hefty grain of salt. As an employer who has dealt with his share of totally-irrational employees in the past, I've learned never to believe everything you read in an employee complaint/lawsuit -- especially when there is so much personal animosity/family stuff going on here.<p>That being said - I emphasize that I've learned never to believe _everything_ you read. Not anything :) I'd be willing to bet at least parts of this are based in truth.</text></comment> |
20,317,105 | 20,315,966 | 1 | 3 | 20,314,690 | train | <story><title>How to pick a random number from 1-10</title><url>https://torvaney.github.io/projects/human-rng</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justinpombrio</author><text>...or just add up the answers mod 10.<p>This has the property that if even a <i>single person</i> answers uniformly at random, then the final number you compute will be uniformly random, regardless of how everyone else answers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>testplzignore</author><text>Paradoxically, this may be the best answer because it is not the best answer.<p>In a room of 8500 people, it is likely that there is someone in the room smarter than you and knows a better way to pick random numbers. Come into the room and tell everyone that your objective is to pick a random number from 1-10. Maybe even go as far as to tell them your mod 10 idea. Wait a bit to let them to think about it, then start asking for the random numbers. It is likely that someone will have come up with a better way to pick a random number than your mod 10 solution, and thus their answer will be more uniformly random that what your solution can produce. And thus your solution becomes at least as uniformly random as theirs.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to pick a random number from 1-10</title><url>https://torvaney.github.io/projects/human-rng</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justinpombrio</author><text>...or just add up the answers mod 10.<p>This has the property that if even a <i>single person</i> answers uniformly at random, then the final number you compute will be uniformly random, regardless of how everyone else answers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moultano</author><text>I&#x27;d love to see something written up about how quickly this converges, assuming the variables are i.i.d and distributed according to the distribution in the article.</text></comment> |
31,785,724 | 31,782,206 | 1 | 2 | 31,778,909 | train | <story><title>Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire</title><url>https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-warehouses-hiring-shortage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>&gt; employees will naturally want to leave within four years<p>That also explains why the <i>breadth</i> of AWS services keep growing, but the <i>depth</i> of the existing ones remains the same. Seems they would, every 4 years, lose a bunch of people with deep knowledge in the existing ones, the ones who&#x27;d be able to add new and deep features.</text></item><item><author>madrox</author><text>This isn&#x27;t a secret. Engineers are treated this way as well. At my time at Amazon, it was explained to me that this is why their comp structure is so wrapped up in stock and salaries are so low. Unless you keep getting promoted and get more stock, employees will naturally want to leave within four years.</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>&gt; Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos saw his warehouse workforce as necessary but replaceable, and feared that workers who remained at the company too long would turn complacent or, worse, disgruntled, according to reporting by the New York Times.<p>Wow. Think about what this is really saying: Amazon adopts the <i>explicit policy</i> of <i>not wanting</i> their workers to stay on long enough to figure out that they are getting a bad deal.<p>So it&#x27;s not that they are running out of people to hire, it&#x27;s that they are running out of people who have not yet figured out that working for Amazon is a bad deal.<p>Now I understand why I&#x27;ve been seeing so many commercials lately about how great it is to work for Amazon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glenngillen</author><text>Ex-Amazonian here, so take what I say however you will.<p>The back-ended equity structure (i.e., you only vest 5% of your equity grant in the first 12mo) isn’t great when you’re comparing it with a standard vesting schedule as an employee. As an employee if you’re given two identical grants for two identical companies with the same future prospects then you take the one that gives you that equity sooner. But the rhetoric is usually that equity is meant to be an employee retention tool. So from that perspective the AMZN vesting structure makes much more sense to me than what is common elsewhere.<p>As for the service dynamic: the whole “2 pizza team” thing is both a blessing and a curse IMO. Once you launch a service at AWS’s scale you’ve immediately got tens of thousands of users. And AWS takes stability&#x2F;availability&#x2F;scalability incredibly seriously. I think it’s more likely that team is now in a permanent operations mode fixing weird edge cases you find at scale and keeping the lights on.<p>If it was a staff retention issue like you suggest then you’d see the platform plagued with reliability issues and services being shut down. But that doesn’t happen. Even SimpleDB is still available for use (though well hidden).</text></comment> | <story><title>Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire</title><url>https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-warehouses-hiring-shortage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>&gt; employees will naturally want to leave within four years<p>That also explains why the <i>breadth</i> of AWS services keep growing, but the <i>depth</i> of the existing ones remains the same. Seems they would, every 4 years, lose a bunch of people with deep knowledge in the existing ones, the ones who&#x27;d be able to add new and deep features.</text></item><item><author>madrox</author><text>This isn&#x27;t a secret. Engineers are treated this way as well. At my time at Amazon, it was explained to me that this is why their comp structure is so wrapped up in stock and salaries are so low. Unless you keep getting promoted and get more stock, employees will naturally want to leave within four years.</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>&gt; Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos saw his warehouse workforce as necessary but replaceable, and feared that workers who remained at the company too long would turn complacent or, worse, disgruntled, according to reporting by the New York Times.<p>Wow. Think about what this is really saying: Amazon adopts the <i>explicit policy</i> of <i>not wanting</i> their workers to stay on long enough to figure out that they are getting a bad deal.<p>So it&#x27;s not that they are running out of people to hire, it&#x27;s that they are running out of people who have not yet figured out that working for Amazon is a bad deal.<p>Now I understand why I&#x27;ve been seeing so many commercials lately about how great it is to work for Amazon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>That seems like a good (albeit cynical) strategy to be honest. 80% of your users only care about 20% of the features, and by offering as many different services as possible, you minimize the number of purchasing decisions that customers need to make. Are all your offerings just OK or even mediocre compared to the competition? Yes. Do most customers care? No, as long as it&#x27;s adequate and doesn&#x27;t actively cause problems. I can think of many purchase&#x2F;usage decisions of my own where I prioritize convenience over optimization, because the apparent return from optimization exceeds the apparent cost.<p>I mean, just look at the Amazon retail operation - everyone agrees that the website is tired, ugly, and slow, but lots of people still do all their shopping from there because they&#x27;re used to it and it&#x27;s easier than maintaining accounts with 15 different retailers with 15 different websites. Amazon&#x27;s bottom line seems to indicate that breadth-first algorithms work well on problems involving human populations.</text></comment> |
5,462,049 | 5,460,754 | 1 | 2 | 5,460,184 | train | <story><title>ZFS on Linux 0.6.1 released: Ready for wide scale deployment</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/zfsonlinux.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/zfs-announce/ZXADhyOwFfA</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kev009</author><text>Btrfs is actually a sordid state of affairs. It's been "two years out" for five years, which seems very disingenuous looking back. Groundbreaking FS development follows a pretty regular formula. 10 years seems to be the magic number. Major functionality (i.e RAID 5) is still just landing and has glaring issues. It's just now a couple years out.<p>Meanwhile, ZFS has over 10 years of history, stably implements most of Btrfs _planned_ features, and has battle tested deployments. Granted, the SPL for Linux adds variables, but there are some big users of this particular project.<p>So I approach Btrfs with the exact opposite mindset. It's guilty until innocent despite some FUD from the Linux camp early on that has settled down a bit since Oracle now has it's hands on both.</text></item><item><author>dkhenry</author><text>So the two things I don't see are a comparison with BTRFS in terms of speed, and stability. I know ZFS is cool, but while we were waiting for it BTRFS got pretty darn good. I know ZFS has some additional features that BRTFS doesn't have, but If I have to use a unstable or slow filesystem to get those features when I could use by perfectly stable and fast filesystem while I wait for a few nice features I am going to say ZFS has missed its oppertuinity</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattbee</author><text>We have deployed ZFS for the last few years on some large backup servers (Solaris and FreeBSD) and our experience has been pretty rotten - the command line is slow at managing a few hundred volumes, it becomes unusable during a rebuild, and it has / had a rotten bug where if you fill a volume up to 100%, you need to allocate more space before you can delete it.<p>It's been a multi-year mistake for us and we're busy changing these servers back to nice simple XFS volumes.</text></comment> | <story><title>ZFS on Linux 0.6.1 released: Ready for wide scale deployment</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/zfsonlinux.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/zfs-announce/ZXADhyOwFfA</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kev009</author><text>Btrfs is actually a sordid state of affairs. It's been "two years out" for five years, which seems very disingenuous looking back. Groundbreaking FS development follows a pretty regular formula. 10 years seems to be the magic number. Major functionality (i.e RAID 5) is still just landing and has glaring issues. It's just now a couple years out.<p>Meanwhile, ZFS has over 10 years of history, stably implements most of Btrfs _planned_ features, and has battle tested deployments. Granted, the SPL for Linux adds variables, but there are some big users of this particular project.<p>So I approach Btrfs with the exact opposite mindset. It's guilty until innocent despite some FUD from the Linux camp early on that has settled down a bit since Oracle now has it's hands on both.</text></item><item><author>dkhenry</author><text>So the two things I don't see are a comparison with BTRFS in terms of speed, and stability. I know ZFS is cool, but while we were waiting for it BTRFS got pretty darn good. I know ZFS has some additional features that BRTFS doesn't have, but If I have to use a unstable or slow filesystem to get those features when I could use by perfectly stable and fast filesystem while I wait for a few nice features I am going to say ZFS has missed its oppertuinity</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkhenry</author><text>This is why people think BTRFS isn't any good, because someone waltses up and says yeah well it doens't have XXX feature which only _one_ other filesystem has so its clearly lacking and immature. The truth it it works great its sufficently fast and has been stable for years. Yes it doesn't have Raid5 or Raid Z if you would like and I can't import and export pools the way I can in ZFS, but honestly if you jumping on a FS that has been marked stable for all of two days on Linux and your reasoning is you can't do software raid on the other one then best of luck to you.</text></comment> |
36,017,950 | 36,016,720 | 1 | 2 | 36,013,783 | train | <story><title>We will be shutting down neeva.com</title><url>https://neeva.com/blog/may-announcement</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kovac</author><text>Hello, I looked at Kagi and found it too expensive. I&#x27;m a paying user for many software I use: vpn, email, git to list a few. And i am willing to pay a reasonable price for a search service. To put it in to perspective, my vpn costs less than $9 a month and I use it for high speed multimedia streaming, video games with no limits on usage. I hope you can come up with more reasonable pricing plans or consider open-sourcing the software. In which case I&#x27;ll support it as a matter of principle.</text></item><item><author>freediver</author><text>There is an all out war for search supremacy right now between two trillion dollar companies, with one having everything to win and the other everything to lose. In those circumstances a standard VC model of buying growth does not work even if you have a huge war chest, as you will be outspent no matter how big your investors are.<p>As a founder of a startup in the same space (Kagi) we feel these challenges. We face difficult decisions every day. It is hard but I am cautiously optimistic about our approach. All I know is that when the dust settles in two years, we still plan to be around.<p>Big props to the Neeva team for educating the market about the existence of ad-free search and paving the way for bootstrapped companies like ours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freediver</author><text>We are trying to find a way to return to $10&#x2F;mo unlimited searches. It is not for the lack of trying that we are not there already and we are trying to ensure Kagi&#x27;s long term sustainability. Very grateful to all our customers supporting us in this period.</text></comment> | <story><title>We will be shutting down neeva.com</title><url>https://neeva.com/blog/may-announcement</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kovac</author><text>Hello, I looked at Kagi and found it too expensive. I&#x27;m a paying user for many software I use: vpn, email, git to list a few. And i am willing to pay a reasonable price for a search service. To put it in to perspective, my vpn costs less than $9 a month and I use it for high speed multimedia streaming, video games with no limits on usage. I hope you can come up with more reasonable pricing plans or consider open-sourcing the software. In which case I&#x27;ll support it as a matter of principle.</text></item><item><author>freediver</author><text>There is an all out war for search supremacy right now between two trillion dollar companies, with one having everything to win and the other everything to lose. In those circumstances a standard VC model of buying growth does not work even if you have a huge war chest, as you will be outspent no matter how big your investors are.<p>As a founder of a startup in the same space (Kagi) we feel these challenges. We face difficult decisions every day. It is hard but I am cautiously optimistic about our approach. All I know is that when the dust settles in two years, we still plan to be around.<p>Big props to the Neeva team for educating the market about the existence of ad-free search and paving the way for bootstrapped companies like ours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Daunk</author><text>This is a bit off-topic, but sadly, I have to agree. I AM a paying Kagi user, but the new limits have hit me extremely hard. I&#x27;m now paying twice as much per month and still almost hitting my monthly limit. I really don&#x27;t want Kagi to go away but I think they have to adjust their prices if they want to keep thier customers around, me included</text></comment> |
22,176,782 | 22,176,796 | 1 | 3 | 22,176,458 | train | <story><title>Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silence and lack of support</title><url>https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/357269/Stadia_owners_on_Reddit_are_blasting_Google_over_radio_silence_and_lack_of_support.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tmpz22</author><text>1) The reddit post this article is based on is titled &quot;Stadia has officially gone 40 days without a new game announcement&#x2F;release, feature update, or real community update&quot; [1]. Presumably the Stadia team is US-based and took a 2 week holiday during this time, meaning they didn&#x27;t release right before their holiday and had nothing to deliver immediately after. Not an excuse, especially because other industry competitors are really active during the Christmas season because thats when so many sales are, but you see other studios like Dice&#x27;s Battlefield V go utterly dark during this time.<p>2) reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;stadia is pretty bullish on the tech otherwise<p>3) reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;stadia has Google employees as moderators which is against &quot;reddiquette&quot; but pretty common on product-oriented subs. Take that as you will.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Stadia&#x2F;comments&#x2F;eusxgc&#x2F;stadia_has_officially_gone_40_days_without_a_new&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Stadia&#x2F;comments&#x2F;eusxgc&#x2F;stadia_has_o...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Stadia owners on Reddit blasting Google over radio silence and lack of support</title><url>https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/357269/Stadia_owners_on_Reddit_are_blasting_Google_over_radio_silence_and_lack_of_support.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kristofferR</author><text>In a world where even Valve can manage to start communicating properly, like they&#x27;ve recently done with Half-Life: Alyx, it shouldn&#x27;t be impossible for Google to do so too.<p>They deserve all the flak they get, they need to stop treating their paying costumers so badly.</text></comment> |
1,964,459 | 1,964,343 | 1 | 3 | 1,964,060 | train | <story><title>Code Fearlessly</title><url>http://cam.ly/blog/2010/12/code-fearlessly/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moron4hire</author><text>Absolutely. Your code is a delusion. You think it does one thing. It does another. Do not care about what the code actually is. Care about what it does. If the code does not meet your needs, then the code is dead (long live the code). Delete it without fear.<p>It's one thing that drives me nuts about working on teams: coming in to a version-controlled section of code that has had bug fix work done on it with large sections of old code commented out. "This didn't work, so here is the new stuff." So why keep the old stuff? "Well, I was worried I'd forget XYZ". Then address it when you find it. Throw away that old code.<p>I would even go so far as to say that out-of-version-controlled code should be discarded with great haste. If you can't rewrite the code from scratch, then you don't understand it. Code lies, cheats, and steals. How do I know it's the code that is at fault? Because it's not the person, and people have needs, and those needs still need to be filled, regardless of whether or not the code does what it says it does.</text></comment> | <story><title>Code Fearlessly</title><url>http://cam.ly/blog/2010/12/code-fearlessly/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Aaronontheweb</author><text>I struggle with perfectionism, which is a major productivity killer for developers and a death knell for startups.<p>I've adopted a specific mindset in order to push my perfectionistic tendencies aside - I call it "ship shit" - which means the focus is on shipping something out the door even if it is complete and utter shit; ship it with the understanding that you can make it better later.</text></comment> |
36,826,969 | 36,824,070 | 1 | 2 | 36,823,605 | train | <story><title>Putting the “You” in CPU</title><url>https://cpu.land/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>archmaster</author><text>Hi! I&#x27;m the person who made this thing!<p>Thanks for reading and thanks for all the corrections, in glorious Hacker News fashion. It&#x27;s definitely a pleasant surprise to see my project here. Putting the &quot;You&quot; in CPU is still <i>very much</i> a work in progress — I was hoping to polish it a lot more and even add some more content before posting on HN later next week :)<p>Some backstory on me: I&#x27;m 17 and left high school a year ago to work full-time at Hack Club (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackclub.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackclub.com&#x2F;</a>). I&#x27;ve been programming for as long as I can remember, and started homeschooling about 6 years ago to focus more on that (and my other interests).<p>Since I&#x27;m entirely self-taught, I <i>haven&#x27;t</i> taken any college systems classes — and while I had picked up a lot, I wasn&#x27;t happy with my answer to &quot;what happens when you run a thing.&quot; So I let myself spend a shit ton of time actually learning as much as possible. What I found was that:<p>1. Operating systems and hardware are really fun to learn about!<p>2. Wow, online resources on this stuff are terrible.<p>A decent portion of my research ended up at PDFs of lecture slides from 2014, or StackOverflow answers that were, in fact, incorrect or vastly oversimplified.<p>So, I wrote Putting the &quot;You&quot; in CPU to hopefully provide a better resource to people who wanted to start teaching themselves all this stuff! While I don&#x27;t provide perfect coverage (still need to write a couple paragraphs on SMP), it&#x27;s a lot better than most of what I&#x27;ve seen. I also had fun drawing and making diagrams for the first time, I think I definitely got progressively better and I&#x27;m really proud of some of the drawings in the latter few chapters.<p>P.S. The whole thing is open source on GitHub if you want to look under the hood: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hackclub&#x2F;putting-the-you-in-cpu">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hackclub&#x2F;putting-the-you-in-cpu</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Putting the “You” in CPU</title><url>https://cpu.land/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dwrodri</author><text>Love resources like this. I’m getting my feet wet in the RISC-V world, and it’s clear that people who want to push FOSS forward are going to need knowledge like this to get software working well on all of the SBCs that are coming out.</text></comment> |
29,265,737 | 29,265,887 | 1 | 3 | 29,264,770 | train | <story><title>German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice</title><url>https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/11/18/german-state-planning-to-switch-25000-pcs-to-libreoffice/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nivenkos</author><text>Now switch to Linux too.<p>The more we invest together, the easier it becomes. German states can help Spanish states, and Finnish schools, Danish universities, and French businesses, etc. - collaboratively investing so that everyone benefits and Europe can build its own Tech industry and have some independence from the US.<p>This is absolutely critical to move away from the dominance of &quot;Big Tech&quot; to FOSS solutions that independent, small co-operatives can maintain together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>formerly_proven</author><text>Munich did that a few years ago, which got rolled back after they elected the dude mayor who got Microsoft to move their German headquarters to Munich. Completely unrelated events, of course.<p>There were of course some technical problems as well, e.g. because a number of administrative tasks can only be performed using Excel 2003 with VBS macros enabled and stuff like that, as well as &quot;technical problems&quot;, like &quot;users can&#x27;t install software themselves&quot; (i.e. users don&#x27;t have root on the clients).</text></comment> | <story><title>German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice</title><url>https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/11/18/german-state-planning-to-switch-25000-pcs-to-libreoffice/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nivenkos</author><text>Now switch to Linux too.<p>The more we invest together, the easier it becomes. German states can help Spanish states, and Finnish schools, Danish universities, and French businesses, etc. - collaboratively investing so that everyone benefits and Europe can build its own Tech industry and have some independence from the US.<p>This is absolutely critical to move away from the dominance of &quot;Big Tech&quot; to FOSS solutions that independent, small co-operatives can maintain together.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>Too little too late. Most “office collab” is going cloud. Neither Google nor MS are threatened by free&#x2F;open thick client alternatives. Users will still need their onedrive googledrive for collab.<p>Admittedly some work is non collab but more and more of that gets pushed to SaaS.</text></comment> |
30,838,253 | 30,838,191 | 1 | 2 | 30,836,756 | train | <story><title>UN Bans Mercury Satellite Propellants Under New Minamata Treaty Provisions</title><url>https://peer.org/un-bans-mercury-satellite-propellants-under-new-minamata-treaty-provisions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmpman</author><text>How much Mercury does satellite propellant contribute to global airborne mercury, compared to coal fired power plant emissions? My first thought is that this is about 7 orders of magnitude less, and thus a ridiculous thing for these technocrats to focus on… but I’m happy to be educated. Or is there some other concern about mercury in satellite propellant?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>windsurfer</author><text>With the satellite megaconstellations being launched it seems important to ban it before it becomes common. Mercury-based fuels are cheaper than alternatives.<p>Coal as being burned for electricity has an industry standard of scrubbing 90% of mercury emissions, but is moving towards 99% using newer technologies.</text></comment> | <story><title>UN Bans Mercury Satellite Propellants Under New Minamata Treaty Provisions</title><url>https://peer.org/un-bans-mercury-satellite-propellants-under-new-minamata-treaty-provisions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmpman</author><text>How much Mercury does satellite propellant contribute to global airborne mercury, compared to coal fired power plant emissions? My first thought is that this is about 7 orders of magnitude less, and thus a ridiculous thing for these technocrats to focus on… but I’m happy to be educated. Or is there some other concern about mercury in satellite propellant?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ars</author><text>The article claims &quot;one proposed communications network using the technology could result in hundreds of metric tons of additional mercury&quot;<p>And searching for mercury released by coal burning comes up with 50 tons in the US, and around 250 tons&#x2F;year worldwide from all sources.<p>I have a hard time believing that figure for the satellite, but if true, it&#x27;s actually significant.<p>Edit: Seems like an ion engine uses around 1 ton of propellant. So, yah, I guess banning mercury for this, really is significant.</text></comment> |
28,146,022 | 28,145,846 | 1 | 3 | 28,145,247 | train | <story><title>1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults</title><url>https://1password.community/discussion/comment/601917/#Comment_601917</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FreezerburnV</author><text>I guess I’m the outlier in being very happy with 1Password and fine with paying for the subscription service. Not only is 1Password the best password manager I’ve used, but it makes it seamless to share stuff with my wife. I don’t care if 8 is an Electron app either, considering I usually interact with it via the browser anyway with their extension. (Also I know that the majority of what they wrote for it is Rust and fast, and I generally trust the engineers to do a good job since they’ve done a good job with it in the past) Also they make a CLI tool for accessing passwords allowing you to integrate password management there: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1password.com&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;command-line&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1password.com&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;command-line&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>I come at it from a slightly different angle. I got in when it was syncing via Dropbox and iCloud, and it worked perfectly fine.<p>The switch to a subscription service is a forced downgrade for me; it&#x27;s putting functionality I already have behind a subscription.<p>This is particularly an issue since the old versions (versions I paid for, mind you) are slowly going away (typically as a recompilation and submission is required to keep them available on iOS devices).</text></comment> | <story><title>1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults</title><url>https://1password.community/discussion/comment/601917/#Comment_601917</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FreezerburnV</author><text>I guess I’m the outlier in being very happy with 1Password and fine with paying for the subscription service. Not only is 1Password the best password manager I’ve used, but it makes it seamless to share stuff with my wife. I don’t care if 8 is an Electron app either, considering I usually interact with it via the browser anyway with their extension. (Also I know that the majority of what they wrote for it is Rust and fast, and I generally trust the engineers to do a good job since they’ve done a good job with it in the past) Also they make a CLI tool for accessing passwords allowing you to integrate password management there: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1password.com&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;command-line&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1password.com&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;command-line&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runlevel1</author><text>I&#x27;d be ok with paying an annual fee for the app.<p>What I have zero interest in is increasing my attack surface solely for their bottom line.<p>I&#x27;m also increasingly uncomfortable with the company handling my passwords engaging in the sort of spin and dark patters we&#x27;ve seen from AgileBits in the past few years.</text></comment> |
31,046,492 | 31,044,912 | 1 | 3 | 31,044,510 | train | <story><title>The History of Franz and Lisp</title><url>https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9740557</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>That was a fun read. Franz is a good company. My consulting customer a while back also hired them for a while - really smart people. Jans Aasman, mentioned in the interview, gave me funding to write a book that was partially on AllegroGraph (that book, very indirectly, led to my being invited to work on a knowledge graph project at Google).<p>For those interested, I recommend downloading the free version of AllegroGraph as a docker image, and the free version of their Common Lisp IDE. Their latest IDE is web based, with a background Lisp app. Neat idea.</text></comment> | <story><title>The History of Franz and Lisp</title><url>https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9740557</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>usr1106</author><text>I used Franz Lisp on our student VAX 11&#x2F;750 at university, maybe in 1985. I have no idea what kind of license the university had and how much they had paid for it. That wasn&#x27;t a question you would ask yourself those days, all computers were worth millions.<p>Around those days the university also bought a Symbolics. But its capacity was well below the VAX so students didn&#x27;t get to use it without working on any very specific project in just that Lisp group.</text></comment> |
20,357,257 | 20,356,922 | 1 | 2 | 20,356,141 | train | <story><title>Apple iCloud Experiencing Issues</title><url>https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Meekro</author><text>For those out of the loop, this week has seen an outage from a bunch of major US internet companies: Cloudflare, Slack, Google Cloud, Azure, Facebook (including Instagram and WhatsApp), and now iCloud.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcqueenjordan</author><text>Interns join at the beginning of summer. \o&#x2F;</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple iCloud Experiencing Issues</title><url>https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Meekro</author><text>For those out of the loop, this week has seen an outage from a bunch of major US internet companies: Cloudflare, Slack, Google Cloud, Azure, Facebook (including Instagram and WhatsApp), and now iCloud.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>There&#x27;s been a few major office365 outages that coincided with the Azure ones, we&#x27;ve taken to calling it office364 internally.</text></comment> |
38,074,430 | 38,074,782 | 1 | 3 | 38,072,756 | train | <story><title>Autism and responding to authority (2019)</title><url>https://neuroclastic.com/autism-and-responding-to-authority/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>digging</author><text>I suspect the author meant something more like, &quot;neurotypical people live contented lives holding the belief that arbitrary authority actually exists.&quot; But I can&#x27;t truly speak for them.<p>Even before I fully reasoned it out, growing up I always knew that arbitrary authority doesn&#x27;t exist for me. Sure a SME should be given more weight discussing their subject, and a parent understands dangers of the world that their young child literally can&#x27;t comprehend. But many of us experienced &quot;listen to me because I said so&quot; as children, and continue to experience that in school and into adulthood in the workplace. It&#x27;s meaningless, but many neurotypical people neither notice that it&#x27;s wrong or understand why it&#x27;s wrong, perhaps because their brains aren&#x27;t wired a way to unconsciously detect those red flags.</text></item><item><author>JohnBooty</author><text>This article is a bit maddening. I find the beginning encouraging....<p><pre><code> I’ve written before about how autistic people often
struggle to know how to act around authority figures.
Actually, that’s not true– we don’t seem to *care* how
we act around authority.
</code></pre>
I like the distinction between unknowing and uncaring. I like the level of personal responsibility that this suggests and I wish the rest of the article continued in this vein.<p><pre><code> It makes us *really weird* to neurotypical people,
who seem to accept authority happily.
</code></pre>
This is not correct at all in my experience. I don&#x27;t think anybody loves submitting to authority just for the fun of it.<p>Certainly there is a lot of personal calculus that goes into whether or not we accept a given authority. Cost vs. benefit. Whether we see a reason to respect the authority. Whether we see value in it. Social pressure. Of course this calculus will be different from person to person and from situation to situation, and of course neurotypicals and folks on the spectrum will tend to have a different view.<p>But, &quot;seem to accept authority happily?&quot; Yeesh. It seems to imply an absence of thought rather than different criteria weights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dEnigma</author><text>I don&#x27;t like this trend of using the label &quot;neurotypical&quot; to describe one&#x27;s idea of the most boring, unimaginative person one can think of, and then applying it to pretty much everyone that isn&#x27;t on the spectrum. &quot;Neurotypical&quot; people range from absolute rebels who reject any kind of authority to people happily working for and supporting a fascist regime, and then everything in-between. There is no less of a variety of opinion and thought in them than in &quot;neurodivergent&quot; people.</text></comment> | <story><title>Autism and responding to authority (2019)</title><url>https://neuroclastic.com/autism-and-responding-to-authority/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>digging</author><text>I suspect the author meant something more like, &quot;neurotypical people live contented lives holding the belief that arbitrary authority actually exists.&quot; But I can&#x27;t truly speak for them.<p>Even before I fully reasoned it out, growing up I always knew that arbitrary authority doesn&#x27;t exist for me. Sure a SME should be given more weight discussing their subject, and a parent understands dangers of the world that their young child literally can&#x27;t comprehend. But many of us experienced &quot;listen to me because I said so&quot; as children, and continue to experience that in school and into adulthood in the workplace. It&#x27;s meaningless, but many neurotypical people neither notice that it&#x27;s wrong or understand why it&#x27;s wrong, perhaps because their brains aren&#x27;t wired a way to unconsciously detect those red flags.</text></item><item><author>JohnBooty</author><text>This article is a bit maddening. I find the beginning encouraging....<p><pre><code> I’ve written before about how autistic people often
struggle to know how to act around authority figures.
Actually, that’s not true– we don’t seem to *care* how
we act around authority.
</code></pre>
I like the distinction between unknowing and uncaring. I like the level of personal responsibility that this suggests and I wish the rest of the article continued in this vein.<p><pre><code> It makes us *really weird* to neurotypical people,
who seem to accept authority happily.
</code></pre>
This is not correct at all in my experience. I don&#x27;t think anybody loves submitting to authority just for the fun of it.<p>Certainly there is a lot of personal calculus that goes into whether or not we accept a given authority. Cost vs. benefit. Whether we see a reason to respect the authority. Whether we see value in it. Social pressure. Of course this calculus will be different from person to person and from situation to situation, and of course neurotypicals and folks on the spectrum will tend to have a different view.<p>But, &quot;seem to accept authority happily?&quot; Yeesh. It seems to imply an absence of thought rather than different criteria weights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hotnfresh</author><text>&gt; But many of us experienced &quot;listen to me because I said so&quot; as children, and continue to experience that in school and into adulthood in the workplace. It&#x27;s meaningless, but many neurotypical people neither notice that it&#x27;s wrong or understand why it&#x27;s wrong<p>This would not be perhaps <i>the</i> most-universal example of arbitrary authority, played with in countless pieces of mainstream media, if neurotypicals were as you suppose they are.<p>I think you need to go back to the drawing board on this one.</text></comment> |
17,508,969 | 17,502,196 | 1 | 3 | 17,501,970 | train | <story><title>iPhone crashing bug likely caused by code added to appease Chinese government</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/iphone-crashing-bug-likely-caused-by-code-added-to-appease-chinese-govt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>The original blog post is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;objective-see.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;blog_0x34.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;objective-see.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;blog_0x34.html</a> and has more technical information.</text></comment> | <story><title>iPhone crashing bug likely caused by code added to appease Chinese government</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/iphone-crashing-bug-likely-caused-by-code-added-to-appease-chinese-govt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koops</author><text>Sure, companies have to adapt to markets. But inserting code like this, buggy or not, is a cowardly act by Apple. They should be ashamed, and apologize.</text></comment> |
35,701,834 | 35,701,363 | 1 | 3 | 35,684,808 | train | <story><title>Heavy particles don’t explain gravitational lensing oddities</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/gravitational-lensing-may-point-to-lighter-dark-matter-candidate/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jvanderbot</author><text>Sticking to TFA, and not ancillary information, I found this frustrating:<p>&gt; Instead, the research team ran 75 different models with the initial conditions chosen at random. By chance, some of these created distortions similar to the ones seen in the real-world data, typically affecting only one of the four lensed images. So, the researchers conclude that the distortions in the lensed images are consistent with a dark matter halo structured by the quantum interference of axions.<p>Essentially the best contender aside from WIMPs is, as subject of TFA, axions. And axions have near-random interference and standing waves, which essentially scatters about light bent by gravitational lensing due to uneven gravity in the lensing object.<p>Essentially, if you randomize the field enough, you can eventually find, after enough trials, something that seems to match reality. And it just so happens axions are the nice random variables we needed to inject.<p>That&#x27;s where we&#x27;re at: Just randomly select some parameters until the data fits, and lo and behold, it fits.</text></comment> | <story><title>Heavy particles don’t explain gravitational lensing oddities</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/gravitational-lensing-may-point-to-lighter-dark-matter-candidate/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Zamicol</author><text>I&#x27;d like to see more work done with investigating field self-interaction.<p>This 2020 paper by Alexandre Deur is very interesting. &quot;[W]e find that relativistic corrections to the rotation curves of disk galaxies are significant at large galactic radii.&quot;<p>&quot;Relativistic corrections to the rotation curves of disk galaxies&quot; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2004.05905.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2004.05905.pdf</a><p>And a blog covering the paper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astrobites.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;17&#x2F;the-alternative-to-dark-matter-may-be-general-relativity-itself&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astrobites.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;17&#x2F;the-alternative-to-dark-ma...</a></text></comment> |
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