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29,019,392 | 29,011,288 | 1 | 2 | 29,008,910 | train | <story><title>Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/news/91937-bitcoin-largely-controlled-small-group-investors-miners-study.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qeternity</author><text>&gt; the problem is not missing regulation, the problem is the rich decide on regulation and this regulation helps keep them rich.<p>Ok - so the rich have decided on regulations which are not the ones that are best for everyone. So…missing regulations? By definition, if we have the wrong regulations, then we’re missing the correct ones.<p>Capital gains taxes are lower for a specific reason: the capital that was initially invested was already taxed. These laws benefit average people much more than they do the rich on a relative basis. Go model out a retirement portfolio that is taxed&#x2F;compounded at ordinary rates vs capital gains rates.<p>What people really want is higher capital gains for rich people which is fine, but you fundamentally misunderstand why they’re lower in the first place, which is double taxation.</text></item><item><author>blatchcorn</author><text>I am not who you are asking but I want to chime in: the problem is not missing regulation, the problem is the rich decide on regulation and this regulation helps keep them rich.<p>Specific examples: UK capital gains tax is lower than income taxes. This means if you are born in to a wealthy family and given a £1MM index fund, you will pay less yearly tax on your capital gains while chilling at home all day than someone with a £50K job working hard and contributing to society</text></item><item><author>qeternity</author><text>Please elaborate. Which regulations do you think are missing?</text></item><item><author>krageon</author><text>&gt; highly regulated<p>Regulated by them, so in practice not all that regulated</text></item><item><author>qeternity</author><text>Yes, we know who those 50 are, and the wealth they own is in highly regulated markets. We know what they own, how much they own, when they buy&#x2F;sell. We also dictate that they cannot trade on insider info and must generally play fair.<p>Say all you want about the efficacy of the above measures, they are absolutely not perfect. But it&#x27;s completely different to bitcoin where none of the above applies, and often the opposite occurs.</text></item><item><author>robocat</author><text>“The 50 richest Americans now hold almost as much wealth as half of the U.S.” - Bloomberg - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;25Bz4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;25Bz4</a><p>Is there any reason to think bitcoin is that much different from ownership ratios of other financial assets?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Capital gains taxes are lower for a specific reason: the capital that was initially invested was already taxed.<p>That is not a sensible reason for capital gains (which apply only to gains) to be taxed lower, since the <i>gains</i> have not already been taxed.<p>It also doesn&#x27;t explain why the reduced rate (compared to “regular” income) applies to long-term gains, since the original capital was taxed regardless of whether the gain is long or short term.<p>The <i>best</i> fairness-grounded argument I’ve seen for reduced LTCG taxes is that, in a progressive annual income tax system treating gains earned over multiple years but realized at the end as single-year income at full tax rates overtaxes compared to what would have occurred if the income was spread out over the time it took to accumulate before realization, unless the recipient would already have been at the max marginal rate every year before the gains at issue were considered.<p>This is a valid point, but allowing free voluntary advance tax recognition of income and deferring tax recognition after realization for windfalls (say, spreading amounts above the middle actual realized income of the last three years over up to ten subsequent years) deals with that problem more comprehensively (not just for capital income) without <i>undertaxing</i> those who would be at the maximum marginal rate even without the particular long-term gain, or who are continuously rolling out long-term gains year after year repeatedly.<p>Favorable LTCG rates are a way to use a poor approximation of fairness for middle-class earners with occasional long-term gains to sneak in wildly favorable treatment forn the super-rich, instead of just treating income fairly all around.<p>(There&#x27;s also a trickle-down economics argument for low capital gains rates, that is <i>not</i> fairness-grounded: “we want to encourage the already rich to invest and make more money, because positive side effects of this will trickle-down on the lower socioeconomic classes”.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/news/91937-bitcoin-largely-controlled-small-group-investors-miners-study.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qeternity</author><text>&gt; the problem is not missing regulation, the problem is the rich decide on regulation and this regulation helps keep them rich.<p>Ok - so the rich have decided on regulations which are not the ones that are best for everyone. So…missing regulations? By definition, if we have the wrong regulations, then we’re missing the correct ones.<p>Capital gains taxes are lower for a specific reason: the capital that was initially invested was already taxed. These laws benefit average people much more than they do the rich on a relative basis. Go model out a retirement portfolio that is taxed&#x2F;compounded at ordinary rates vs capital gains rates.<p>What people really want is higher capital gains for rich people which is fine, but you fundamentally misunderstand why they’re lower in the first place, which is double taxation.</text></item><item><author>blatchcorn</author><text>I am not who you are asking but I want to chime in: the problem is not missing regulation, the problem is the rich decide on regulation and this regulation helps keep them rich.<p>Specific examples: UK capital gains tax is lower than income taxes. This means if you are born in to a wealthy family and given a £1MM index fund, you will pay less yearly tax on your capital gains while chilling at home all day than someone with a £50K job working hard and contributing to society</text></item><item><author>qeternity</author><text>Please elaborate. Which regulations do you think are missing?</text></item><item><author>krageon</author><text>&gt; highly regulated<p>Regulated by them, so in practice not all that regulated</text></item><item><author>qeternity</author><text>Yes, we know who those 50 are, and the wealth they own is in highly regulated markets. We know what they own, how much they own, when they buy&#x2F;sell. We also dictate that they cannot trade on insider info and must generally play fair.<p>Say all you want about the efficacy of the above measures, they are absolutely not perfect. But it&#x27;s completely different to bitcoin where none of the above applies, and often the opposite occurs.</text></item><item><author>robocat</author><text>“The 50 richest Americans now hold almost as much wealth as half of the U.S.” - Bloomberg - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;25Bz4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;25Bz4</a><p>Is there any reason to think bitcoin is that much different from ownership ratios of other financial assets?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krageon</author><text>The original capital is not taxed, capital <i>gains</i> is.</text></comment> |
18,318,674 | 18,316,821 | 1 | 2 | 18,315,327 | train | <story><title>Systemd is bad parsing</title><url>https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/10/systemd-is-bad-parsing-and-should-feel.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ambrop7</author><text>Yes the code is bad but does not need to be completely rewritten. It should interpret the data as an array uint8_t (no casting to structure&#x2F;integer pointers!), use simple helper functions to read out (u)int(8&#x2F;16&#x2F;32) values (there was a post on HN about this recently, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commandcenter.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;byte-order-fallacy.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commandcenter.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;byte-order-fallac...</a>), and be careful to check things like sizes.<p>The code is also wrong because of strict aliasing. This is a real problem, your program can in fact exhibit undefined behavior because of this (it happened to me).<p>Some time ago I wrote some code to make these things simpler in C++. It allows you to define &quot;structures&quot; (which however are not real structs, it&#x27;s an abstraction) and then directly access an arbitrary buffer through setters&#x2F;getters. The code is here with documentation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ambrop72&#x2F;aipstack&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;aipstack&#x2F;infra&#x2F;Struct.h" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ambrop72&#x2F;aipstack&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;aipstac...</a> . In fact this is part of my own TCP&#x2F;IP stack and it includes DHCP code (here are my DHCP structure definitions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ambrop72&#x2F;aipstack&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;aipstack&#x2F;proto&#x2F;DhcpProto.h" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ambrop72&#x2F;aipstack&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;aipstac...</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moefh</author><text>Interestingly (and pedantically), the code from the otherwise excellent &quot;Byte order fallacy&quot; article technically contains undefined behavior in C on machines where int is 32 bits wide (which is almost everything nowadays).<p>Consider this example of extracting a 32-bit int encoded as little endian:<p><pre><code> #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
int main(void)
{
unsigned char data[4] = { 0, 0, 0, 128 };
unsigned int i;
&#x2F;&#x2F; the line of code from the article:
i = (data[0]&lt;&lt;0) | (data[1]&lt;&lt;8) | (data[2]&lt;&lt;16) | (data[3]&lt;&lt;24);
printf(&quot;%x\n&quot;, i);
}
</code></pre>
Compiling this with either gcc or clang using &quot;-fsanitize=undefined&quot; triggers this runtime error:<p><pre><code> test.c:9:61: runtime error: left shift of 128 by 24 places cannot be represented in type &#x27;int&#x27;
</code></pre>
That happens because, even though the bytes are unsigned as the article requires (using uint8_t instead of unsigned char has the same problem), they are promoted to (signed) int before the left shift as part of automatic integer promotion. When the left shift by 24 happens, it puts an 1 into the sign bit of the int, which is undefined behavior. Later the int is converted to unsigned (using implementation-defined behavior, which luckily is sane on all popular compilers), but by then it&#x27;s already too late.<p>The solution is to change the code slightly:<p><pre><code> i = (data[0]&lt;&lt;0) | (data[1]&lt;&lt;8) | (data[2]&lt;&lt;16) | ((unsigned)data[3]&lt;&lt;24);
</code></pre>
This prevents the promotion from unsigned char (or uint8_t) to int by explicitly casting it to an unsigned int, which can then be safely shifted left by 24.</text></comment> | <story><title>Systemd is bad parsing</title><url>https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/10/systemd-is-bad-parsing-and-should-feel.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ambrop7</author><text>Yes the code is bad but does not need to be completely rewritten. It should interpret the data as an array uint8_t (no casting to structure&#x2F;integer pointers!), use simple helper functions to read out (u)int(8&#x2F;16&#x2F;32) values (there was a post on HN about this recently, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commandcenter.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;byte-order-fallacy.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commandcenter.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;byte-order-fallac...</a>), and be careful to check things like sizes.<p>The code is also wrong because of strict aliasing. This is a real problem, your program can in fact exhibit undefined behavior because of this (it happened to me).<p>Some time ago I wrote some code to make these things simpler in C++. It allows you to define &quot;structures&quot; (which however are not real structs, it&#x27;s an abstraction) and then directly access an arbitrary buffer through setters&#x2F;getters. The code is here with documentation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ambrop72&#x2F;aipstack&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;aipstack&#x2F;infra&#x2F;Struct.h" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ambrop72&#x2F;aipstack&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;aipstac...</a> . In fact this is part of my own TCP&#x2F;IP stack and it includes DHCP code (here are my DHCP structure definitions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ambrop72&#x2F;aipstack&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;aipstack&#x2F;proto&#x2F;DhcpProto.h" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ambrop72&#x2F;aipstack&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;aipstac...</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>camgunz</author><text>Yeah casting to struct pointers is a bright red flag. It also rarely saves you anything since packed structs are slow, and you still have to validate the contents.<p>You&#x27;re right, these streams should be interpreted as uint8_t to avoid undefined behavior when shifting, masking, and ORing, and anyone doing this should tuck it behind some abstraction layer. It should never bleed into parsing.</text></comment> |
38,303,096 | 38,300,787 | 1 | 3 | 38,273,043 | train | <story><title>What Meta learned from Galactica, the doomed model</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/ai/what-meta-learned-from-galactica-the-doomed-model-launched-two-weeks-before-chatgpt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>I think the reason is because expectations were different. ChatGPT was released to the general public for general use. Galactica was really only noticed by the egg head press and egg head professionals (like myself) who rightly identified the failure of these statistical language models to have a grounding in facts. People whose job it is to notice details are going to push your model to the limit.<p>But it’s not like ChatGPT was better. If I recall, RLHF actually made hallucinations slightly worse. Even today OpenAI wouldn’t claim to be able to accurately summarize papers. It’s just that there was an endless supply of “write X in the style of Y” that was like catnip for journalists and kept them busy for months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blihp</author><text>Meta&#x2F;Yann LeCun were generating the hype around Galactica that caused expectations to be different. You can&#x27;t say things like &#x27;Type a text and Galactica will generate a paper with relevant references, formulas, and everything&#x27;[1] and expect your LLM not to make you look foolish. It wasn&#x27;t about pushing the model to the limit, it was about setting realistic expectations of what it could do.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;23&#x2F;bigshot-chief-scientist-of-major-corporation-cant-handle-criticism-of-the-work-he-hypes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;23&#x2F;bigshot-ch...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What Meta learned from Galactica, the doomed model</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/ai/what-meta-learned-from-galactica-the-doomed-model-launched-two-weeks-before-chatgpt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janalsncm</author><text>I think the reason is because expectations were different. ChatGPT was released to the general public for general use. Galactica was really only noticed by the egg head press and egg head professionals (like myself) who rightly identified the failure of these statistical language models to have a grounding in facts. People whose job it is to notice details are going to push your model to the limit.<p>But it’s not like ChatGPT was better. If I recall, RLHF actually made hallucinations slightly worse. Even today OpenAI wouldn’t claim to be able to accurately summarize papers. It’s just that there was an endless supply of “write X in the style of Y” that was like catnip for journalists and kept them busy for months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>otabdeveloper4</author><text>ChatGPT relies very much on confirmation bias to do its magic. You ask something trivial you already know (and could have probably Googled in 15 seconds), you get back something glib and smooth in reply and you are wowed by how smart GPT seems to be.<p>It is significantly less impressive when you ask something you don&#x27;t already know and can&#x27;t Google easily.</text></comment> |
34,204,244 | 34,202,349 | 1 | 2 | 34,201,366 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Happy New Year</title><text>Either I&#x27;m late or I missed it but just in case, Happy 2023 to all of you and yours.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>olalonde</author><text>Happy New Year from the Dominican Republic. My New Year&#x27;s resolution is to drink less frequently, exercise more and learn to surf. How about yours?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjrbrennan</author><text>I’m 32, took my first surf lesson in November and absolutely loved it, bought a board that weekend. I’ve gone out whenever I can since then, about once a week at the moment and still loving it even though my stand-up count is still not that high. It’s such a unique and challenging sport, I’m so glad I tried it, good luck out there!</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Happy New Year</title><text>Either I&#x27;m late or I missed it but just in case, Happy 2023 to all of you and yours.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>olalonde</author><text>Happy New Year from the Dominican Republic. My New Year&#x27;s resolution is to drink less frequently, exercise more and learn to surf. How about yours?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eulers_secret</author><text>I’m planning to smoke weed less frequently (daily -&gt; weekly), get a job, exercise more, and learn to sail!<p>Happy New Year!</text></comment> |
40,359,819 | 40,359,677 | 1 | 3 | 40,356,751 | train | <story><title>Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/femtosecond-lasers-create-3d-midair-plasma-displays-you-can-touch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyberax</author><text>I have a slight eye damage in one eye from working with lasers that were just a bit outside the safe limits. And I realized that only years after getting it.<p>So the last thing I want, is to be near unconfined lasers powerful enough to ionize the air.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rolandog</author><text>&gt; So the last thing I want, is to be near unconfined lasers powerful enough to ionize the air.<p>I wholeheartedly agree. Just thinking about how the potentially-unregulated cheaply-manufactured knock-off projectors will result in having to wear welding glasses when walking around the street to avoid being blinded by the 3D advertisements that are being shot at your face...</text></comment> | <story><title>Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/femtosecond-lasers-create-3d-midair-plasma-displays-you-can-touch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyberax</author><text>I have a slight eye damage in one eye from working with lasers that were just a bit outside the safe limits. And I realized that only years after getting it.<p>So the last thing I want, is to be near unconfined lasers powerful enough to ionize the air.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solardev</author><text>Warning: Do not touch laser with remaining hand.</text></comment> |
38,876,557 | 38,875,897 | 1 | 2 | 38,875,422 | train | <story><title>Don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64</title><url>https://gist.github.com/FeepingCreature/5dff669aad380a123b15659e195fb96c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>The cost of argument passing is rarely well-understood, and I&#x27;m glad someone wrote this. People routinely pass 24-byte objects by value in places like Google, and the cost of that practice doesn&#x27;t show up on a profiler because it&#x27;s spread out on every function.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cloudef</author><text>Pass by value &#x2F; pass by ref is quite a bit of mental overhead as it effectively affects your ABI&#x2F;API. Zig tries to not force this so as long as you &quot;pass by value&quot;, the compiler can actually decide to pass it by reference. It does expose this kind of footgun though <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ziglang&#x2F;zig&#x2F;issues&#x2F;5973#issuecomment-1330743975">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ziglang&#x2F;zig&#x2F;issues&#x2F;5973#issuecomment-1330...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64</title><url>https://gist.github.com/FeepingCreature/5dff669aad380a123b15659e195fb96c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>The cost of argument passing is rarely well-understood, and I&#x27;m glad someone wrote this. People routinely pass 24-byte objects by value in places like Google, and the cost of that practice doesn&#x27;t show up on a profiler because it&#x27;s spread out on every function.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elromulous</author><text>&quot;in places like Google&quot;.<p>Are you speaking from experience?<p>As a former googler, I can say with certainty that the guidelines for passing any non primitive is pointer or ref.<p>string_view might be the only exception I can think of.</text></comment> |
14,207,113 | 14,206,501 | 1 | 3 | 14,205,997 | train | <story><title>The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/04/26/heres-the-fccs-plan-to-undo-its-own-net-neutrality-rules</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ficho</author><text>&quot;“Two years ago, I warned that we were making a serious mistake,” Pai said. “It’s basic economics: The more heavily you regulate something, the less of it you’re likely to get.”<p>Just reading this makes me angry. Has he ever heard of monopolies &#x2F; oligopolies, or simply the place of government in regulating public utilities.<p>Apply his quote to water supplies and see what happens.</text></comment> | <story><title>The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/04/26/heres-the-fccs-plan-to-undo-its-own-net-neutrality-rules</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>&gt; Pai&#x27;s proposal is set for a vote at the FCC&#x27;s May 18 open meeting. If it is approved, Pai will begin seeking public feedback on the plan, which calls for regulating ISPs more lightly and asks Americans for ways to preserve the core principles of net neutrality, such as the idea that blocking or slowing traffic should be off-limits.<p>Well, the obvious way to &quot;preserve the core principles of net neutrality, such as the idea that blocking or slowing traffic should be off-limits&quot; is to not get rid of the regulation that prohibits blocking or slowing traffic.</text></comment> |
39,334,335 | 39,333,497 | 1 | 2 | 39,324,956 | train | <story><title>Cloud Egress Costs</title><url>https://getdeploying.com/reference/data-egress</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zer00eyz</author><text>No.<p>Everyone knew what the costs were going in.<p>AWS, cloud was NEVER the cheaper solution. It was never faster, it was never better.<p>It was easier, and easier came with a price. Like lambs to the slaughter lots of people embraced it. Amazon is a profitable company because of it.</text></item><item><author>quickthrower2</author><text>So an anticompetitive practice.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>&gt; other than: it makes migrating to competitors cost-prohibitive in a subset of cases<p>My theory: it forces third party services into the same cloud.<p>Suppose you use AWS and you want to pay a third party SaaS provider for some service involving moderate-to-large amounts of data. Here’s one of many examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snowflake.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;data-cloud&#x2F;pricing-options&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snowflake.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;data-cloud&#x2F;pricing-options&#x2F;</a><p>And look at this remarkable choice: you get to pick AWS, Azure, or GCP! Snowflake is paying a <i>lot</i> of money to host on those clouds, and they’re passing those costs on to customers.<p>Snowflake is big. They have lots of engineers. They are obviously cloud-agnostic: they already support three clouds. It would surely be <i>much</i> cheaper to operate a physical facility, and they could plausibly offer better performance (because NVMe is amazing), and they could split the cost savings with customers. But they don’t, and my theory is that egress from customers to Snowflake would negate any cost savings, and the <i>variable</i> nature of the costs would scare away customers.<p>So my theory is that the ways that customers <i>avoid</i> egress fees makes the major clouds a lot of money. IMO regulators should take a very careful look at this, but it’s an excellent business decision on the parts of the clouds.</text></item><item><author>PreInternet01</author><text>The cost of egress traffic is a <i>very</i> good reason for many organizations to not fully migrate to a cloud provider anytime soon. And since, unlike with storage costs, there doesn&#x27;t seem to be an actual <i>reason</i> (other than: it makes migrating to competitors cost-prohibitive in a subset of cases), that seems kind of... weird?<p>Small example: an actual company I do some work for is in the business of delivering creative assets to distributors. This results in an egress of around 180TB per month, which is, on average just, around 500Mb&#x2F;s.<p>So, this company currently operates 2 racks in commercial data centers, linked via 10Gb&#x2F;s Ethernet-over-DWDM, with 2x512Mb&#x2F;s and 1x1Gb&#x2F;s Internet uplinks per DC. Each rack has 2 generic-OEM servers with ~64 AMD Zen cores, 1&#x2F;2TB RAM, ~8TB NVMe and ~100TB SAS RAID6 storage per node.<p>Just the cost-savings over egress on AWS is enough to justify that setup, including the cost of an engineer to keep it all up and running (even though the effort required for that turns out to be minimal).<p>So, are cloud providers ignoring a significant market here, or is the markup on their current customers lucrative enough?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morningsam</author><text>There have been other instances in which exit fees, which is what this amounts to, were considered anticompetitive, e.g. [1] (although this was settled so there is no ruling).
Google itself has started to waive egress costs for GCP customers leaving the platform last month, which, according to some sources, is simply a direct consequence of new EU legislation (Data Act) [2], but according to others is in anticipation of wider-reaching EU antitrust investigations [3].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.agriculturedive.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;koch-foods-antitrust-chicken-poultry-termination-fee-doj&#x2F;699592&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.agriculturedive.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;koch-foods-antitrust-ch...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computerweekly.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;366566360&#x2F;Googles-data-egress-offer-no-such-thing-as-a-free-migration" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computerweekly.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;366566360&#x2F;Googles-data-e...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.min.io&#x2F;googles-new-egress-policy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.min.io&#x2F;googles-new-egress-policy&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Cloud Egress Costs</title><url>https://getdeploying.com/reference/data-egress</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zer00eyz</author><text>No.<p>Everyone knew what the costs were going in.<p>AWS, cloud was NEVER the cheaper solution. It was never faster, it was never better.<p>It was easier, and easier came with a price. Like lambs to the slaughter lots of people embraced it. Amazon is a profitable company because of it.</text></item><item><author>quickthrower2</author><text>So an anticompetitive practice.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>&gt; other than: it makes migrating to competitors cost-prohibitive in a subset of cases<p>My theory: it forces third party services into the same cloud.<p>Suppose you use AWS and you want to pay a third party SaaS provider for some service involving moderate-to-large amounts of data. Here’s one of many examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snowflake.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;data-cloud&#x2F;pricing-options&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snowflake.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;data-cloud&#x2F;pricing-options&#x2F;</a><p>And look at this remarkable choice: you get to pick AWS, Azure, or GCP! Snowflake is paying a <i>lot</i> of money to host on those clouds, and they’re passing those costs on to customers.<p>Snowflake is big. They have lots of engineers. They are obviously cloud-agnostic: they already support three clouds. It would surely be <i>much</i> cheaper to operate a physical facility, and they could plausibly offer better performance (because NVMe is amazing), and they could split the cost savings with customers. But they don’t, and my theory is that egress from customers to Snowflake would negate any cost savings, and the <i>variable</i> nature of the costs would scare away customers.<p>So my theory is that the ways that customers <i>avoid</i> egress fees makes the major clouds a lot of money. IMO regulators should take a very careful look at this, but it’s an excellent business decision on the parts of the clouds.</text></item><item><author>PreInternet01</author><text>The cost of egress traffic is a <i>very</i> good reason for many organizations to not fully migrate to a cloud provider anytime soon. And since, unlike with storage costs, there doesn&#x27;t seem to be an actual <i>reason</i> (other than: it makes migrating to competitors cost-prohibitive in a subset of cases), that seems kind of... weird?<p>Small example: an actual company I do some work for is in the business of delivering creative assets to distributors. This results in an egress of around 180TB per month, which is, on average just, around 500Mb&#x2F;s.<p>So, this company currently operates 2 racks in commercial data centers, linked via 10Gb&#x2F;s Ethernet-over-DWDM, with 2x512Mb&#x2F;s and 1x1Gb&#x2F;s Internet uplinks per DC. Each rack has 2 generic-OEM servers with ~64 AMD Zen cores, 1&#x2F;2TB RAM, ~8TB NVMe and ~100TB SAS RAID6 storage per node.<p>Just the cost-savings over egress on AWS is enough to justify that setup, including the cost of an engineer to keep it all up and running (even though the effort required for that turns out to be minimal).<p>So, are cloud providers ignoring a significant market here, or is the markup on their current customers lucrative enough?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DeathArrow</author><text>&gt;It was easier, and easier came with a price.<p>I kind of doubt it&#x27;s easier. If you use your own servers you need some stuff to manage them. If you use cloud, you need some cloud engineers to manage your cloud infrastructure. On top of that, if your developers use cloud APIs and frameworks, they have to learn that.</text></comment> |
18,356,065 | 18,353,216 | 1 | 3 | 18,351,891 | train | <story><title>Sales mistakes that software engineers make</title><url>https://www.pipelinedb.com/blog/three-sales-mistakes-software-engineers-make</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bambax</author><text>&gt; <i>Sales Mistake #1 - Building Before you Start Selling (...) If you’re wrong, you’ll save time and money by not building something people don’t want.</i><p>I fell into this trap often, so I know it well. The reason why we don&#x27;t ask first is, we want to build <i>something</i>. Anything. If we&#x27;re &quot;wrong&quot;, we won&#x27;t &quot;save&quot; time and money, we will delay the moment we start making, maybe indefinitely. What if we never find something people want?<p>The worst outcome is not to build something nobody wants -- it&#x27;s not to build anything. We don&#x27;t ask not because we forget about it, but because we&#x27;re afraid of the answer.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s irrational, and probably stupid (because, what&#x27;s the point of building something nobody wants?) but the desire to build is the driving force, and finding an audience first, is perceived as an impediment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fergi</author><text>(Jeff from PipelineDB &amp; post author here)<p>Thanks for this comment. I think you articulated the thought process that this post aims to speak to beautifully. Builders do want to build, and finding an audience first and doing the type of tedious customer development work described in this post IS an impediment to building, which is precisely the point I wanted to make.<p>Assuming that the goal of building a product is to ultimately generate revenue, having a temporary impediment between conceptualizing a product idea and building the product is a good thing. This impediment allows for the builder to pause and objectively scrutinize his own idea, using feedback from potential customers as data about the extent to which the product hypothesis is correct.<p>You&#x27;re right that stagnation is the worst outcome. And the inverse of stagnation is momentum, which will exist to the extent that people want what we&#x27;re making for them, something that can be determined in advance of building simply by talking to potential users and customers.<p>I&#x27;ll also add here that the process mentioned in this post in no way inhibits the type of creative and inspired thinking that developers use to envision game-changing products. It&#x27;s quite the opposite - rigorous and merciless scrutiny of our own ideas is the distillation process that allows us to refine our ideas into their essence, then confidently build things with conviction, and be right.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sales mistakes that software engineers make</title><url>https://www.pipelinedb.com/blog/three-sales-mistakes-software-engineers-make</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bambax</author><text>&gt; <i>Sales Mistake #1 - Building Before you Start Selling (...) If you’re wrong, you’ll save time and money by not building something people don’t want.</i><p>I fell into this trap often, so I know it well. The reason why we don&#x27;t ask first is, we want to build <i>something</i>. Anything. If we&#x27;re &quot;wrong&quot;, we won&#x27;t &quot;save&quot; time and money, we will delay the moment we start making, maybe indefinitely. What if we never find something people want?<p>The worst outcome is not to build something nobody wants -- it&#x27;s not to build anything. We don&#x27;t ask not because we forget about it, but because we&#x27;re afraid of the answer.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s irrational, and probably stupid (because, what&#x27;s the point of building something nobody wants?) but the desire to build is the driving force, and finding an audience first, is perceived as an impediment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeremyjh</author><text>This is all very true and relevant, yet still its also true that we see lots of stories from founders regretting that they never established market fit before sinking years into development. This is probably the pattern for 90% of indie game developers, but it crops up in other contexts as well. Once they finally know they are at the end of that road to nowhere, they do have regrets, and they have had other ideas in the meantime that they <i>did not pursue</i> because they were dedicated to the current project.<p>All this aside, I have a side-project, and I&#x27;m not looking for any validation of it, just classic &quot;build it and they will come&quot; type thinking.</text></comment> |
35,507,807 | 35,507,777 | 1 | 3 | 35,505,239 | train | <story><title>Ideas That Changed My Life</title><url>https://perell.com/essay/50-ideas-that-changed-my-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flappyeagle</author><text>We would all benefit from remembering this one<p>&gt; 23. Gall’s Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ranting-moth</author><text>Let me present the Paige Compositor. A typesetting machine if you like, made from 18,000 precision made parts in 1877. Well, 1877 is the start year of the contract. The project went on for about 15 years. 6 machines were ever made (out of 4,000 ordered). They kept failing.<p>Meanwhile, a much more limited (initially) machine arrived on the scene, the Linotype machine. It was successfull and did run the world&#x27;s news and magazine press for the next 100 years.<p>It&#x27;s really a fascinating read: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.todayifoundout.com&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;the-machine-that-bankrupted-mark-twain&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.todayifoundout.com&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;2023&#x2F;03&#x2F;the-machine...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ideas That Changed My Life</title><url>https://perell.com/essay/50-ideas-that-changed-my-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flappyeagle</author><text>We would all benefit from remembering this one<p>&gt; 23. Gall’s Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>discarded1023</author><text>Indeed! Gall&#x27;s SYSTEMANTICS [1] is worth a read in its entirety.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Systemantics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Systemantics</a></text></comment> |
6,025,431 | 6,025,237 | 1 | 3 | 6,024,968 | train | <story><title>How to permanently delete a Facebook account</title><url>http://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>To all the skeptics in threads like these: asking that Facebook actually, entirely, erase all your data isn&#x27;t a reasonable demand.<p>Unless, if course, you&#x27;re also OK with Facebook&#x27;s walled-garden, Facebook-is-the-Internet, Compuserve-wasn&#x27;t-so-bad strategy.<p>Anyone who ever tried to delete content from the internet knows this: The Internet Archive has long since made a copy of what you&#x27;re trying to delete. Anything you post on the internet, the real, open internet, is forever.<p>If you don&#x27;t want that, then you&#x27;ll need to accept that a single entity has full control over what happens with your content, locks it behind a log in so that it can&#x27;t be easily mined, and does with it what it pleases.<p>I&#x27;m not willing to accept that. I&#x27;d rather that my content belongs to everybody than that it belongs to Facebook. But you can&#x27;t have it both ways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>300bps</author><text>I agree with your general point but your example is not correct<p>The Internet Archive makes it very easy to remove content from their site. I had a family web site accessible to the public for 12 years with about 25,000 pictures on it. For various reasons I took the site down but archive.org still showed the pictures. A quick change to robots.txt stopped that though. Basically, even if the archive grabbed the files at a point in time they periodically check to make sure they still have the right to those files in robots.txt. If they don&#x27;t, they won&#x27;t display them. I was vey impressed with them when I learned this.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to permanently delete a Facebook account</title><url>http://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>To all the skeptics in threads like these: asking that Facebook actually, entirely, erase all your data isn&#x27;t a reasonable demand.<p>Unless, if course, you&#x27;re also OK with Facebook&#x27;s walled-garden, Facebook-is-the-Internet, Compuserve-wasn&#x27;t-so-bad strategy.<p>Anyone who ever tried to delete content from the internet knows this: The Internet Archive has long since made a copy of what you&#x27;re trying to delete. Anything you post on the internet, the real, open internet, is forever.<p>If you don&#x27;t want that, then you&#x27;ll need to accept that a single entity has full control over what happens with your content, locks it behind a log in so that it can&#x27;t be easily mined, and does with it what it pleases.<p>I&#x27;m not willing to accept that. I&#x27;d rather that my content belongs to everybody than that it belongs to Facebook. But you can&#x27;t have it both ways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Joeboy</author><text>Not sure I understand. If Facebook were federated, it would not be reasonable to expect it to delete your data for the practical reasons you mention. Facebook is not federated, so they presumably are able to delete your data. Maybe it&#x27;s naive to expect them to behave in an honest or considerate manner, but not it&#x27;s not unreasonable to ask it as far as I can see.<p>Edit: Of course there&#x27;s nothing they can do if somebody&#x27;s screenshotted your post or stored its contents in their brain, but that&#x27;s not what we&#x27;re talking about.</text></comment> |
16,039,306 | 16,038,813 | 1 | 2 | 16,035,721 | train | <story><title>Facebook Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the US and Israeli Governments</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2017/12/30/facebook-says-it-is-deleting-accounts-at-the-direction-of-the-u-s-and-israeli-governments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prove_np</author><text>I encourage you to come over and see how things actually go by. People are getting killed by terrorists who happen to be 16 years old kid brain-washed by the same news you and I are having an argument over. My point was that we&#x27;ve never demonstrated the same approach to the so-called beef. We do not go out to the streets, gun blazing, and start killing. I&#x27;m sure some of you will hop and go say &quot;Right, you prefer to do it in the fields, with soldiers bullying and taking lands they don&#x27;t own.&quot; For fuck sake, give me a break. For all I care, my neighbor could be Arab and we can be BFFs as long as the killing-spree stops.
I&#x27;m not against Palesintians, nor any Arabs. I care for my family and friends being slaughtered in our fucking streets and we have nothing to do about it.</text></item><item><author>pwaai</author><text>&gt; I live in Israel and not once I&#x27;ve been shown some horrible video of Palestinians attacking locals.<p>Well, if you bury your head in the sand on a hot summer afternoon and proceed to claim its night, it&#x27;s hard to take further claims seriously.<p>I will agree that there is extremists on both ends that just furthers their own political&#x2F;economic interests and muddies the water.<p>...but my analysis of the conflict over there is that it is much deeper than politics or economics, spanning millenias of beef.</text></item><item><author>prove_np</author><text>It sad to see such an article in the top posts at HW... I wouldn&#x27;t even bother to reply if not for good people getting the wrong picture on what&#x27;s going on. Yes, Facebook does delete posts (Nothing new so far), though only ones which violate Facebook&#x27;s rules. I live in Israel and not once I&#x27;ve been shown some horrible video of Palestinians attacking locals. I&#x27;m not here to blame, nor generalize. I&#x27;m saying that this case is nothing special, but rather any other case of posts violating Facebook&#x27;s rules only in a larger scale and at a specific target, Israel. For what it&#x27;s worth, the hatred being published about Israel does not go the other way around. I, and many others, do respect and have no hate for Palestinians. We do have some radicals though, but just like in any other society. The sad part of the story is we get casualties on a daily-basis. Almost every week you hear of a terror attack in any part of the country. Most of the attackers are of young age, some of them even take advantage of their youth for lighter punishments. Both sides are losing people, no doubt. But at the end of the day, what&#x27;s happening is chaos in our streets being done by &#x2F;any person&#x2F; from the other side who feels like it and go on a killing-spree and yet we get slandered over false accusations on the Internet which pictures a wrong description of the situation. I&#x27;ve yet to witness the same brutality being manifested against us the Israelis but to Palestinians on the streets. I wouldn&#x27;t go talking about IDF besides saying you would laugh if you knew how many restrictions an IDF solider has in any situations &#x2F;even if his life is in danger&#x2F;.
TLDR; Do not believe &#x2F;everything&#x2F; you read on the internet. Regardless of the publisher&#x27;s reputation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jancsika</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m sure some of you will hop and go say &quot;Right, you prefer to do it in the fields, with soldiers bullying and taking lands they don&#x27;t own.&quot; For fuck sake, give me a break. For all I care, my neighbor could be Arab and we can be BFFs as long as the killing-spree stops.<p>I think there must be a premise hidden somewhere behind that expletive.<p>What is the nature of the sentence between the quotation marks? Is that a hypothetical counterargument of someone who is misrepresenting (or misunderstanding) what Israeli soldiers are doing? Or is it supposed to be an accurate account of what Israeli soldiers are doing, and you mean to say that people wrongly think you agree with what the soldiers are doing?</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the US and Israeli Governments</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2017/12/30/facebook-says-it-is-deleting-accounts-at-the-direction-of-the-u-s-and-israeli-governments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prove_np</author><text>I encourage you to come over and see how things actually go by. People are getting killed by terrorists who happen to be 16 years old kid brain-washed by the same news you and I are having an argument over. My point was that we&#x27;ve never demonstrated the same approach to the so-called beef. We do not go out to the streets, gun blazing, and start killing. I&#x27;m sure some of you will hop and go say &quot;Right, you prefer to do it in the fields, with soldiers bullying and taking lands they don&#x27;t own.&quot; For fuck sake, give me a break. For all I care, my neighbor could be Arab and we can be BFFs as long as the killing-spree stops.
I&#x27;m not against Palesintians, nor any Arabs. I care for my family and friends being slaughtered in our fucking streets and we have nothing to do about it.</text></item><item><author>pwaai</author><text>&gt; I live in Israel and not once I&#x27;ve been shown some horrible video of Palestinians attacking locals.<p>Well, if you bury your head in the sand on a hot summer afternoon and proceed to claim its night, it&#x27;s hard to take further claims seriously.<p>I will agree that there is extremists on both ends that just furthers their own political&#x2F;economic interests and muddies the water.<p>...but my analysis of the conflict over there is that it is much deeper than politics or economics, spanning millenias of beef.</text></item><item><author>prove_np</author><text>It sad to see such an article in the top posts at HW... I wouldn&#x27;t even bother to reply if not for good people getting the wrong picture on what&#x27;s going on. Yes, Facebook does delete posts (Nothing new so far), though only ones which violate Facebook&#x27;s rules. I live in Israel and not once I&#x27;ve been shown some horrible video of Palestinians attacking locals. I&#x27;m not here to blame, nor generalize. I&#x27;m saying that this case is nothing special, but rather any other case of posts violating Facebook&#x27;s rules only in a larger scale and at a specific target, Israel. For what it&#x27;s worth, the hatred being published about Israel does not go the other way around. I, and many others, do respect and have no hate for Palestinians. We do have some radicals though, but just like in any other society. The sad part of the story is we get casualties on a daily-basis. Almost every week you hear of a terror attack in any part of the country. Most of the attackers are of young age, some of them even take advantage of their youth for lighter punishments. Both sides are losing people, no doubt. But at the end of the day, what&#x27;s happening is chaos in our streets being done by &#x2F;any person&#x2F; from the other side who feels like it and go on a killing-spree and yet we get slandered over false accusations on the Internet which pictures a wrong description of the situation. I&#x27;ve yet to witness the same brutality being manifested against us the Israelis but to Palestinians on the streets. I wouldn&#x27;t go talking about IDF besides saying you would laugh if you knew how many restrictions an IDF solider has in any situations &#x2F;even if his life is in danger&#x2F;.
TLDR; Do not believe &#x2F;everything&#x2F; you read on the internet. Regardless of the publisher&#x27;s reputation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tek-cyb-org</author><text>You have nothing to do about it? How about stop building government sponsored settlements inside of Palestinian territory, Stop blocking the free movement of Palestinians by putting checkpoints outside of every village. Stop treating these human beings as animals where they are not allowed to walk on &quot;Jewish only&quot; paths. Stop demolishing Palestinian homes in what the IDF calls &quot;Collective Punishment&quot;.<p>Those are just some suggestions if you are looking for peace.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=mF30AjvvusI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=mF30AjvvusI</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=19jRZ2BIFqc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=19jRZ2BIFqc</a></text></comment> |
19,727,652 | 19,727,613 | 1 | 2 | 19,727,156 | train | <story><title>I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money</title><url>https://www.bennettnotes.com/post/making-money-out-of-every-hobby/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amrrs</author><text>Does it have to be mutually exclusive? I mean, Can a hobby that we enjoy to have fun not also make money?<p>Here&#x27;s the relationship is unidirectional - do something for fun and if it makes money then it&#x27;s well and good. Why to drop that just because it makes money (which isn&#x27;t the original motive).</text></item><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>Social pressure on this is also ridiculous. Every time you start doing things, even if you actually stick to it as a hobby to make you happy, people, inc. family, will go &quot;but you could make money out of this&quot;.<p>Don&#x27;t fall for it. Most of us will not be able to do money from art, from photography, from aikido. Enjoy it, do it for your own sake, to balance your life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>The article highlights how trying to make money can quickly and thoroughly poison your hobby. The golden quote:<p>&gt; <i>“Hmm…I want to write a book. I would really love to write a sappy romance novel because I think they’re so fun to write. But I need to turn it into profit, so I should do market research and see what’s trending and build off that. Self-help is big, let’s try to focus on that, even though I personally hate self-help books.”</i><p>Note the change. &quot;I really want to write a romance novel. I did market research. Self-help sells better. I&#x27;ll write self-help then.&quot;<p>Following this thinking, you&#x27;ll end up doing something you hate (and probably produce a barely sellable garbage). Hobby is about a thing (&quot;I want to write a romance novel&quot;). Making money is about money, and the thing is only means to an end (&quot;I&#x27;ll write whatever sells best, and maybe I should reconsider whether I can do something else than writing for even more money.&quot;).<p>I&#x27;d argue that even in professional life, this kind of thinking taken to the extreme is poison, and part of what ruins our societies and the planet. That is, companies which are really indifferent to what they&#x27;re doing, and only focused on whether they can make money on it.<p>(One could argue that this is how market economy is supposed to work - don&#x27;t think for yourself, don&#x27;t feel for yourself, just do what the Market tells you to. We can see both good and bad consequences of that thinking all around us.)</text></comment> | <story><title>I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money</title><url>https://www.bennettnotes.com/post/making-money-out-of-every-hobby/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amrrs</author><text>Does it have to be mutually exclusive? I mean, Can a hobby that we enjoy to have fun not also make money?<p>Here&#x27;s the relationship is unidirectional - do something for fun and if it makes money then it&#x27;s well and good. Why to drop that just because it makes money (which isn&#x27;t the original motive).</text></item><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>Social pressure on this is also ridiculous. Every time you start doing things, even if you actually stick to it as a hobby to make you happy, people, inc. family, will go &quot;but you could make money out of this&quot;.<p>Don&#x27;t fall for it. Most of us will not be able to do money from art, from photography, from aikido. Enjoy it, do it for your own sake, to balance your life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bad_user</author><text>Because by sharing your work, especially if you charge money, you’ll start feeling the pressure ... to improve, to support your customers, to react to your competition.<p>This is actually the reason for why many open source developers burn out, even if they aren’t making any money, which is tragic.<p>And you might say that you’ll not fall for it. Well good luck with that.<p>In my experience the minute you share your work with others, that’s when it becomes slightly less fun and it’s all downhill from there.</text></comment> |
28,805,034 | 28,805,158 | 1 | 3 | 28,804,093 | train | <story><title>Byzantine warrior with gold-threaded jaw unearthed in Greece</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/byzantine-warrior-fractured-jaw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolverine876</author><text>Let&#x27;s not be completely shocked by capable, ingenious ancestors. Even in the ~190K years before we settled down, those people had brains identical to yours and mine.<p>And on the other hand, if you read some pre-Enlightenment things, it&#x27;s apparent just how powerful (actual, accurate) knowledge and reason are. Imagine that nobody figured out the truth about gravity until Newton. Imagine that the very basics of what we know and how we think today were out there, and we had the brains, but the knowledge was mostly undeveloped for ~199,000 of the 200,000 years of humanity&#x27;s existence.<p>So it takes more than brains. (Yes, I&#x27;m simplifying a very great deal.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelZuo</author><text>Anatomically modern vocal chords only developed sometime between ~80000 to ~40000 BCE. So although that’s still quite a lot of time, it’s less than what is implied with cranial structure.<p>It’s actually surprising how late and relatively sudden vocal chords developed compared to the rest of the body, as what ‘humans’ had prior was totally incapable of modern speech. It’s an unresolved mystery I believe.</text></comment> | <story><title>Byzantine warrior with gold-threaded jaw unearthed in Greece</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/byzantine-warrior-fractured-jaw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolverine876</author><text>Let&#x27;s not be completely shocked by capable, ingenious ancestors. Even in the ~190K years before we settled down, those people had brains identical to yours and mine.<p>And on the other hand, if you read some pre-Enlightenment things, it&#x27;s apparent just how powerful (actual, accurate) knowledge and reason are. Imagine that nobody figured out the truth about gravity until Newton. Imagine that the very basics of what we know and how we think today were out there, and we had the brains, but the knowledge was mostly undeveloped for ~199,000 of the 200,000 years of humanity&#x27;s existence.<p>So it takes more than brains. (Yes, I&#x27;m simplifying a very great deal.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>streamofdigits</author><text>&gt; So it takes more than brains.<p>yep, it takes society. Newton&#x27;s law is not Newton&#x27;s law, its a mental state of a bunch of communicating homo sapiens. Had he died of a pandemic somebody else would have &quot;discovered&quot; it in a decade or two.</text></comment> |
30,026,943 | 30,026,985 | 1 | 2 | 30,025,276 | train | <story><title>G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1, 2022</title><url>https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?passive=1209600&continue=https://apps.google.com/supportwidget/articlehome?hl%3Den%26article_url%3Dhttps://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl%253Den%26product_context%3D2855120%26product_name%3DUnuFlow%26trigger_context%3Da&followup=https://apps.google.com/supportwidget/articlehome?hl%3Den%26article_url%3Dhttps://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl%253Den%26product_context%3D2855120%26product_name%3DUnuFlow%26trigger_context%3Da&hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anthropodie</author><text>I mentioned below comment in another thread[0] some time back and I think it&#x27;s relevant here too<p>Three months ago I picked up new hobby: Self Hosting. It has been an amazing ride. I learned a lot and I also get peace of mind knowing I am in control of my data. I understand that there is no self-hosted alternative for certain SaaS services but I think that will change as more and more people choose to be in control of their data.<p>A good place to start [1]<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30021404" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30021404</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;selfhosted" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;selfhosted</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaywalk</author><text>Self-hosting is great, but self-hosting email is generally nothing but a world of hurt. That&#x27;s the one thing I would always leave to an established company.</text></comment> | <story><title>G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1, 2022</title><url>https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?passive=1209600&continue=https://apps.google.com/supportwidget/articlehome?hl%3Den%26article_url%3Dhttps://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl%253Den%26product_context%3D2855120%26product_name%3DUnuFlow%26trigger_context%3Da&followup=https://apps.google.com/supportwidget/articlehome?hl%3Den%26article_url%3Dhttps://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl%253Den%26product_context%3D2855120%26product_name%3DUnuFlow%26trigger_context%3Da&hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anthropodie</author><text>I mentioned below comment in another thread[0] some time back and I think it&#x27;s relevant here too<p>Three months ago I picked up new hobby: Self Hosting. It has been an amazing ride. I learned a lot and I also get peace of mind knowing I am in control of my data. I understand that there is no self-hosted alternative for certain SaaS services but I think that will change as more and more people choose to be in control of their data.<p>A good place to start [1]<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30021404" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30021404</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;selfhosted" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;selfhosted</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endisneigh</author><text>Self hosting is great, but ultimately most people don&#x27;t necessarily have time to do all that.<p>Ideally your phones could be the web servers, and a new class of apps could be created that run on your phone, acting as both client and server.</text></comment> |
20,396,810 | 20,395,710 | 1 | 3 | 20,392,853 | train | <story><title>C. Hoare and Co., a British banking dynasty in business for more than 300 years</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-07-03/the-british-banking-dynasty-that-s-even-older-than-the-rothschilds</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frereubu</author><text>If you&#x27;re ever in the south west of England, you can visit Stourhead, their incredible country estate with huge landscaped gardens surrounding a lake, dotted with Palladian follies. It&#x27;s now one of the flagship properties of the National Trust: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationaltrust.org.uk&#x2F;stourhead" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationaltrust.org.uk&#x2F;stourhead</a></text></comment> | <story><title>C. Hoare and Co., a British banking dynasty in business for more than 300 years</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-07-03/the-british-banking-dynasty-that-s-even-older-than-the-rothschilds</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JorgeGT</author><text><i>My bankers are Hoares</i>, one of the recurrent puns in Jack Aubrey novels.</text></comment> |
6,517,575 | 6,515,636 | 1 | 2 | 6,514,843 | train | <story><title>Think piracy is killing the music industry? This chart suggests otherwise</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/07/think-piracy-is-killing-the-music-industry-this-chart-suggests-otherwise/?tid=rssfeed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apalmer</author><text>Are you claiming that music is a dying art form? Really?<p>The music industry is at best a 100 year old historical anomaly compared to the at least 4000 year history of music. The life of musician has pretty much always been extremely unlikely to be financially rewarding. Even at the height of the modern music industry maybe 1 in 1000 aspiring musicians ended up being signed to a major label. Musicians by and large have always made the bulk of their income based on in person performances. The only difference now is music companies now are losing out on record sales and starting to design contracts where artists have to split show and endorsement money with the label as well as record sales.<p>Honestly its a moot point, the technology has changed, and the music industry has to change with it or die. The whole music industry was created by the technology of the record, and will change or die with the advent of easily copyable media.</text></item><item><author>williamcotton</author><text>These articles are pointless. This guy knows nothing about being a professional musician.<p>The investment money is gone. Record labels functioned as venture capital firms. Their bread and butter, the physical audio disc, is no longer. No other entity has yet stepped in to provide mentorship and investment capital for young, bootstrapped musicians.<p>The schedules of musicians do not align with the modern working world. Employers do not look highly on people who take 8 weeks off to tour. In order to make money touring, you have to be pretty well established.<p>Also, unlike software development, there is no &#x27;day job&#x27; that musicians can work while saving to bootstrap their own venture. Their only option is are low-paying temp jobs, mainly in the service industry, that they must frequently quit in order to work on their craft.<p>And if concerts and not recorded albums are their craft, they will need to spend lots of time on the road perfecting it. But how? Practice does not make you a good stage performer. And you can&#x27;t play 10 times a month in your home city and expect fans, promoters, or clubs to think nicely af you.<p>Sure, there are still new music artists that emerge, but nowhere in the numbers that they have in the past. It is ultimately a dying art form and those that don&#x27;t see that and in fact argue the opposite, don&#x27;t have any inkling of what is actually going on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CWuestefeld</author><text>Amplifying this point...<p>Even the greatest of musicians through history have had to struggle to survive, it wasn&#x27;t always about rock supergroups skipping across the world in private jets, screaming groupies ready to service their every desire.<p>I&#x27;m reminded of Bach&#x27;s Brandenburg Concertos, which are some of the greatest works by one of the greatest musicians that ever lived. These works were not a platinum hit at the top of Billboard&#x27;s charts. Heck, Bach didn&#x27;t even get <i>paid</i> for them! These compositions were sent <i>on spec</i> to the mayor of Brandenburg (hence the name) in the hope of stirring up some sponsorship so Bach could continue his work.<p>If you&#x27;re like me, you picture the hopeful rock star as struggling along, trying to supplement his income by giving guitar lessons to locals. This also describes Beethoven - he was frequently hunting for commissions to keep himself afloat, and had to earn money by giving piano lessons.<p>The idea that musicians should somehow be above all this stuff is a modern invention. Most of the greatest works in history were not done by people enjoying easy financial prospects.</text></comment> | <story><title>Think piracy is killing the music industry? This chart suggests otherwise</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/07/think-piracy-is-killing-the-music-industry-this-chart-suggests-otherwise/?tid=rssfeed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apalmer</author><text>Are you claiming that music is a dying art form? Really?<p>The music industry is at best a 100 year old historical anomaly compared to the at least 4000 year history of music. The life of musician has pretty much always been extremely unlikely to be financially rewarding. Even at the height of the modern music industry maybe 1 in 1000 aspiring musicians ended up being signed to a major label. Musicians by and large have always made the bulk of their income based on in person performances. The only difference now is music companies now are losing out on record sales and starting to design contracts where artists have to split show and endorsement money with the label as well as record sales.<p>Honestly its a moot point, the technology has changed, and the music industry has to change with it or die. The whole music industry was created by the technology of the record, and will change or die with the advent of easily copyable media.</text></item><item><author>williamcotton</author><text>These articles are pointless. This guy knows nothing about being a professional musician.<p>The investment money is gone. Record labels functioned as venture capital firms. Their bread and butter, the physical audio disc, is no longer. No other entity has yet stepped in to provide mentorship and investment capital for young, bootstrapped musicians.<p>The schedules of musicians do not align with the modern working world. Employers do not look highly on people who take 8 weeks off to tour. In order to make money touring, you have to be pretty well established.<p>Also, unlike software development, there is no &#x27;day job&#x27; that musicians can work while saving to bootstrap their own venture. Their only option is are low-paying temp jobs, mainly in the service industry, that they must frequently quit in order to work on their craft.<p>And if concerts and not recorded albums are their craft, they will need to spend lots of time on the road perfecting it. But how? Practice does not make you a good stage performer. And you can&#x27;t play 10 times a month in your home city and expect fans, promoters, or clubs to think nicely af you.<p>Sure, there are still new music artists that emerge, but nowhere in the numbers that they have in the past. It is ultimately a dying art form and those that don&#x27;t see that and in fact argue the opposite, don&#x27;t have any inkling of what is actually going on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>williamcotton</author><text>Of course music will still be around. I&#x27;m saying that music as we know it, music that has been made as a result of the industry and technologies of the 20th century, is dying.<p>Claims that it isn&#x27;t are false and misinformed.<p>What is ALWAYS missing from the &quot;new solutions&quot; is the investment in emerging artists.<p>Sure, you see companies like Live Nation&#x2F;Roc Nation setting up these 360 deals. There is definitely some promise to these new approaches, but the investment money is WAY lower than what it was. I don&#x27;t know the figures, I can&#x27;t find the numbers online, but I will talk to people I know in music to see if I can track down some facts and write an article on the subject.<p>My point stands, however. The author of this article doesn&#x27;t know what he&#x27;s talking about and the data he presented is useless and doesn&#x27;t contain enough information to come close to accurately representing the music industry.<p>BTW, there is a great opportunity for &quot;music venture capitalists&quot;.</text></comment> |
30,852,246 | 30,851,119 | 1 | 2 | 30,850,416 | train | <story><title>Ubiquiti is suing Brian Krebs for his reporting on their breach</title><url>https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1508965090019577856</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austinkhale</author><text>Really a poor decision to come after Brian Krebs. The crossover between Ubiquiti customers and people that support Krebs, I would venture to guess, is quite high. What a way to incinerate a pile of goodwill.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sofixa</author><text>Ubiquiti have almost no goodwill left. They have abandoned a few lines of ( well-liked) products, have introduced replacements which are inferior, buggy and try to entice you to pay for their cloud &quot;solution&quot; ( which as we&#x27;ve seen, is a dumpster fire). Then there were product upgrade ads in the UI. Then there&#x27;s the generic lack of QA. And the fact they have multiple competing lines of products most of which are abandoned and the rumours are that it&#x27;s basically shipping the org chart where the abandoned parts are due to teams leaving.<p>On the homelab subreddit, they&#x27;re no longer the go-to recommendation they were a few years ago.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ubiquiti is suing Brian Krebs for his reporting on their breach</title><url>https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1508965090019577856</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austinkhale</author><text>Really a poor decision to come after Brian Krebs. The crossover between Ubiquiti customers and people that support Krebs, I would venture to guess, is quite high. What a way to incinerate a pile of goodwill.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>technion</author><text>There&#x27;s a really interesting statement about mindsets here.<p>Everyone I know in tech would probably agree with you, and consider suing reporters to be a bad approach. But everyone I speak to in business management seems to take the view that this strengthens their view of Ubiquiti.</text></comment> |
40,710,438 | 40,710,309 | 1 | 2 | 40,708,963 | train | <story><title>Correlation between fecal microplastics and inflammatory bowel disease (2021)</title><url>https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.1c03924</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>As an engineer that relies on plastics in my product design, I’ve been wondering more and more if we’re creating the next global environmental disaster after climate change with our use of plastics.<p>I recently saw a video of someone restoring a 100 year old vegetable shredder, and with some rust removal and fresh paint the thing was good as new. Of course it was all metal. Then I looked at Amazon for vegetable shredders and they’re almost all plastic.<p>We could make our products out of more metal or all metal. Even so-called exotic metals like titanium are relatively abundant, and new manufacturing processes are lowering the cost of those parts.<p>But we use so many plastic films that get used once and can’t be recycled, as have so many plastic products that fall apart and get sent to landfills because recycling is kind of a lie anyway. If you go to a big box store like Target, right at the entrance you see shelves of cheap plastic junk meant as some sort of novelty to be used once or twice and then forgotten and thrown out. Companies like Shien sell the cheapes polyester clothing possible which falls apart in to pieces which quickly become microplastics. EVs are supposed to save us from climate change but in doing so they’re delivering us faster wearing tires releasing more microparticles in to our environment.<p>And I suspect that if we look at production, it’s accelerating.<p>So just like when atmospheric carbon passed 300ppm and we said “what happens at 400ppm and higher”, what happens when ambient microplastics double, triple, or quadruple current levels?<p>What would it look like to cut plastic production today? How could we even prepare to do that?</text></comment> | <story><title>Correlation between fecal microplastics and inflammatory bowel disease (2021)</title><url>https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.1c03924</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Discussed at the time:<p><i>Microplastics in food and drink may be fueling a dramatic rise in bowel diseases</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29742132">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29742132</a> - Dec 2021 (13 comments)</text></comment> |
26,620,857 | 26,620,692 | 1 | 2 | 26,620,116 | train | <story><title>The Deno Company</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/the-deno-company</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elisee</author><text>Happy to see Deno get some financial backing!<p>I&#x27;ve been building my new multiplayer games website [1] with Deno over the last 4 months and apart from some minor growing pains, it&#x27;s been a joy to use.<p>The lack of unnecessary package management, and the TypeScript-by-default approach makes Web dev much nicer. We&#x27;re also using TypeScript on the client-side, relying on VSCode for error reporting. We use sucrase to strip the types just as we&#x27;re serving the script files, so that there is no extra build time, it feels like TypeScript is Web-native and we can share typed code with the server.<p>[1] Not yet launched but we ran a preview past weekend with hundreds of players over WebSockets: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;MasterOfTheGrid&#x2F;status&#x2F;1375758300717973508" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;MasterOfTheGrid&#x2F;status&#x2F;13757583007179735...</a> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sparks.land" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sparks.land</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iends</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sparks.land" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sparks.land</a> doesn&#x27;t load properly on mobile (iOS, Firefox)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Deno Company</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/the-deno-company</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elisee</author><text>Happy to see Deno get some financial backing!<p>I&#x27;ve been building my new multiplayer games website [1] with Deno over the last 4 months and apart from some minor growing pains, it&#x27;s been a joy to use.<p>The lack of unnecessary package management, and the TypeScript-by-default approach makes Web dev much nicer. We&#x27;re also using TypeScript on the client-side, relying on VSCode for error reporting. We use sucrase to strip the types just as we&#x27;re serving the script files, so that there is no extra build time, it feels like TypeScript is Web-native and we can share typed code with the server.<p>[1] Not yet launched but we ran a preview past weekend with hundreds of players over WebSockets: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;MasterOfTheGrid&#x2F;status&#x2F;1375758300717973508" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;MasterOfTheGrid&#x2F;status&#x2F;13757583007179735...</a> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sparks.land" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sparks.land</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbarre</author><text>Peeking at sparks.land I see that you&#x27;re serving .ts files, I assume that&#x27;s what you mean by using sucrase, you&#x27;re transpiling &quot;live&quot; instead of building&#x2F;deploying bundles offline?<p>I notice your script files are all pretty small, have you run into any upper limits on performance or scalability so far with this approach?</text></comment> |
15,865,643 | 15,865,596 | 1 | 2 | 15,865,195 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Effects of House and Senate Bill on California Residents</title><url>http://flu.io/2018-tax-bills/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monocasa</author><text>I guess this sort of misses the main point, IMO.<p>Sure, my taxes will go down, but I have grad student friends that may have to drop out because they now have to treat waived tuition as income, and pay ~10k tax on it somehow with their 20k-30k stipend they get. And I&#x27;ve got friends with kids that are going to see their tax burden go up by thousands.<p>Meanwhile with all of this &#x27;simplification&#x27; and &#x27;getting rid of subsidies&#x27;, we&#x27;re not doing the same for corporate or high income &#x27;subsidies&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xyzzyz</author><text><i>I have grad student friends that may have to drop out because they now have to treat waived tuition as income</i><p>If this happens, this will be a huge failure on their institution part. The only reason their tax bill might be affected is due to creative accounting practices of universities, who use the tuition waiver as a way to skim more money from the grants. Universities will just start offering education for free instead of waiving the tuition, and will find a new accounting trick to take money from federal science grants in &quot;overhead&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Effects of House and Senate Bill on California Residents</title><url>http://flu.io/2018-tax-bills/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monocasa</author><text>I guess this sort of misses the main point, IMO.<p>Sure, my taxes will go down, but I have grad student friends that may have to drop out because they now have to treat waived tuition as income, and pay ~10k tax on it somehow with their 20k-30k stipend they get. And I&#x27;ve got friends with kids that are going to see their tax burden go up by thousands.<p>Meanwhile with all of this &#x27;simplification&#x27; and &#x27;getting rid of subsidies&#x27;, we&#x27;re not doing the same for corporate or high income &#x27;subsidies&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koolba</author><text>Mortgage interest, local property taxes, and state taxes deductions are the biggest high income subsidies.</text></comment> |
5,411,970 | 5,411,964 | 1 | 3 | 5,411,230 | train | <story><title>The Ruby on Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 (beta)</title><url>http://news.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-rails-4-beta/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mhartl</author><text>Even with an explicit Ruby line in the Gemfile, I get this error:<p><pre><code> $ heroku logs
.
.
.
heroku[slugc]: Slug compilation failed: unrecognized error
</code></pre>
Here's the Gemfile:<p><pre><code> source 'https://rubygems.org'
ruby '2.0.0'
gem 'rails', '4.0.0.beta1'
group :development do
gem 'sqlite3', '1.3.7'
end
group :assets do
gem 'sass-rails', '4.0.0.beta1'
gem 'coffee-rails', '4.0.0.beta1'
gem 'uglifier', '1.0.3'
end
gem 'jquery-rails', '2.2.1'
gem 'turbolinks', '1.0.0'
gem 'jbuilder', '1.0.1'
group :production do
gem 'pg', '0.14.1'
end
</code></pre>
The app is the "first_app" from the book, which is basically the result of running "rails new first_app" plus a slightly modified Gemfile. The full repo is here: <a href="https://github.com/mhartl/first_app" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mhartl/first_app</a>. Any help in getting it to work on Heroku would be much appreciated.</text></item><item><author>sync</author><text><p><pre><code> Finally, as far as I can tell Rails 4 doesn’t yet work on Heroku,
so all the deployment examples currently fail.
</code></pre>
Rails 4 definitely works on heroku, what problems are you seeing?<p>Edit: You may be missing "ruby '2.0.0'" or "ruby '1.9.3'" in your Gemfile, as seen in: <a href="https://gist.github.com/speedmanly/d15a3a5f8d0971bc0c92" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/speedmanly/d15a3a5f8d0971bc0c92</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sync</author><text>Interesting.<p>Without making any modifications to your app I have it working on heroku: <a href="http://safe-harbor-9177.herokuapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://safe-harbor-9177.herokuapp.com</a><p>Here's the full output: <a href="https://gist.github.com/speedmanly/1099b37338745ccb5a26" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/speedmanly/1099b37338745ccb5a26</a><p>Adding a Procfile is generally recommended (although heroku will add a default one)<p><pre><code> web: bundle exec rails server thin -p $PORT -e $RACK_ENV
</code></pre>
Setting your rails env is a good idea too:<p><pre><code> heroku config:add RAILS_ENV=production
</code></pre>
Note I didn't perform those steps to get the app running, they are just recommended.<p>Edit: Actually I do see this line in my heroku logs:<p><pre><code> 2013-03-21T00:50:21+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Starting process with command `bin/rails server -p 32752 -e $RAILS_ENV`
2013-03-21T00:50:22+00:00 app[web.1]: bash: bin/rails: No such file or directory
</code></pre>
Adding a Procfile should fix that. Listing 'thin' (or another rails server, e.g. unicorn,puma) in your Gemfile is a good practice as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Ruby on Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 (beta)</title><url>http://news.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-rails-4-beta/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mhartl</author><text>Even with an explicit Ruby line in the Gemfile, I get this error:<p><pre><code> $ heroku logs
.
.
.
heroku[slugc]: Slug compilation failed: unrecognized error
</code></pre>
Here's the Gemfile:<p><pre><code> source 'https://rubygems.org'
ruby '2.0.0'
gem 'rails', '4.0.0.beta1'
group :development do
gem 'sqlite3', '1.3.7'
end
group :assets do
gem 'sass-rails', '4.0.0.beta1'
gem 'coffee-rails', '4.0.0.beta1'
gem 'uglifier', '1.0.3'
end
gem 'jquery-rails', '2.2.1'
gem 'turbolinks', '1.0.0'
gem 'jbuilder', '1.0.1'
group :production do
gem 'pg', '0.14.1'
end
</code></pre>
The app is the "first_app" from the book, which is basically the result of running "rails new first_app" plus a slightly modified Gemfile. The full repo is here: <a href="https://github.com/mhartl/first_app" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mhartl/first_app</a>. Any help in getting it to work on Heroku would be much appreciated.</text></item><item><author>sync</author><text><p><pre><code> Finally, as far as I can tell Rails 4 doesn’t yet work on Heroku,
so all the deployment examples currently fail.
</code></pre>
Rails 4 definitely works on heroku, what problems are you seeing?<p>Edit: You may be missing "ruby '2.0.0'" or "ruby '1.9.3'" in your Gemfile, as seen in: <a href="https://gist.github.com/speedmanly/d15a3a5f8d0971bc0c92" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/speedmanly/d15a3a5f8d0971bc0c92</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ninthfrank07</author><text>Try following these instructions: <a href="https://gist.github.com/peter/3025502" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/peter/3025502</a>.</text></comment> |
29,219,218 | 29,219,334 | 1 | 2 | 29,217,929 | train | <story><title>Colorado 'solar garden' is a farm under solar panels</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/11/14/1054942590/solar-energy-colorado-garden-farm-land</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glogla</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen a lot of suggestions that solar can be used as the only energy source for humanity, that we don&#x27;t need anything else, just build more solar!<p>That&#x27;s not realistic. Of course, the limitations that solar has are very much solvable, and having solar is better than not having it. Solar is important, and it is our future.<p>But the solutions to solar&#x27;s limitations seem to be in their infancy (new types of storage), hard to scale (battery storage), not really helpful (just build more coal and gas peakers!) or not considered at all. Which does not inspire confidence.</text></item><item><author>cedilla</author><text>Solar is hardly over-hyped. It has always over-delivered since the first panels were built in the 19th century. No one predicted such a success and so incredibly low prices even 20 years ago.<p>Could you explain what you mean by &quot;hyped in a marginalist way&quot;?</text></item><item><author>Ericson2314</author><text>The key part is:<p>&gt; But he soon discovered that the shade from the towering panels above the soil actually helped the plants thrive. That intermittent shade also meant a lot less evaporation of coveted irrigation water. And in turn the evaporation actually helped keep the sun-baked solar panels cooler, making them more efficient.<p>Solar panels are still way over hyped in a stupid marginalist way, but polyculture has always been a good idea :).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colechristensen</author><text>You see this quite a lot. There does come a point where adding more solar … when a certain percentage of your production is already solar … there comes a point where more solar is a whole lot more expensive and less reasonable.<p>But that’s really more of a “80% of our power is solar” problem and the US isn’t even at 3%. The percentage of usage which could be handled by solar is usually far underestimated.<p>We don’t need to care about limitations of solar for a long long time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Colorado 'solar garden' is a farm under solar panels</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/11/14/1054942590/solar-energy-colorado-garden-farm-land</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glogla</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen a lot of suggestions that solar can be used as the only energy source for humanity, that we don&#x27;t need anything else, just build more solar!<p>That&#x27;s not realistic. Of course, the limitations that solar has are very much solvable, and having solar is better than not having it. Solar is important, and it is our future.<p>But the solutions to solar&#x27;s limitations seem to be in their infancy (new types of storage), hard to scale (battery storage), not really helpful (just build more coal and gas peakers!) or not considered at all. Which does not inspire confidence.</text></item><item><author>cedilla</author><text>Solar is hardly over-hyped. It has always over-delivered since the first panels were built in the 19th century. No one predicted such a success and so incredibly low prices even 20 years ago.<p>Could you explain what you mean by &quot;hyped in a marginalist way&quot;?</text></item><item><author>Ericson2314</author><text>The key part is:<p>&gt; But he soon discovered that the shade from the towering panels above the soil actually helped the plants thrive. That intermittent shade also meant a lot less evaporation of coveted irrigation water. And in turn the evaporation actually helped keep the sun-baked solar panels cooler, making them more efficient.<p>Solar panels are still way over hyped in a stupid marginalist way, but polyculture has always been a good idea :).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>Yes, you could run a civilization entirely on solar if you had a robust storage, conversion and distribution system.<p>After all, the entire fossil fuel reserves of planet Earth were generated over time by photosynthesis, i.e. the solar-powered capture of atmospheric carbon and its reduction to the hydrocarbon state from the carbon dioxide state.<p>The problem is the scale of the effort needed to replace current generation with solar generatioin. Practically, it would take decades and a vast amount of work. However, there are no technological barriers, and if the world had exhausted its fossil fuel reserves in say, 1970 then we&#x27;d already have much of the solar infrastructure in place.<p>As far as storage solutions, you can find dozens of strategies. My favorite is using solar energy to capture carbon for carbon fiber building materials, &#x27;aerochemical&#x27; products (as opposed to petrochemical) for industrial needs (dyes, solvents, etc.) and of course RP1 jet&#x2F;rocket production. Clearly such an approach will be needed for interplanetary travel as well (Mars seems to have enough CO2 and H2O to make this viable).<p>It&#x27;s not surprising that people are so poorly informed, however, as the fossil fuel sector runs massive propaganda operations targeting childhood education onwards.</text></comment> |
2,210,852 | 2,210,365 | 1 | 3 | 2,210,045 | train | <story><title>Continuous Deployment </title><url>http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/02/continuous-deployment.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fleaflicker</author><text><i>I asked how to roll back the changes. He said "we don't roll back, we fix the code."</i><p>Not the best idea. I don't debug as well under the extreme pressure of my site being broken with the clock ticking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neilk</author><text>It's not always like that. John Allspaw's answer is correct in the sense that actual rollbacks aren't done -- the fix will be a new push -- but sometimes, before you do that, you will just turn the new feature off in production.<p>This is possible because many new behaviour is controlled by "feature flags" which are associated with the server configuration. So you have the benefit of everybody, developers and production, staying very close to trunk, but still being able to have radically different behavior on development machines versus production.<p>That said, I have participated in debugging sessions on a product which used continuous deployment, and they can indeed be nerve-wracking. Personally I wouldn't want to use CD by itself, without a good culture of code review and a great test suite.</text></comment> | <story><title>Continuous Deployment </title><url>http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/02/continuous-deployment.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fleaflicker</author><text><i>I asked how to roll back the changes. He said "we don't roll back, we fix the code."</i><p>Not the best idea. I don't debug as well under the extreme pressure of my site being broken with the clock ticking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdotdub</author><text>When you know you can't really rollback, I'm sure you're helluva lot more sure that your code won't take down the site</text></comment> |
16,835,353 | 16,835,141 | 1 | 2 | 16,834,509 | train | <story><title>European Copyright Law Could Soon Get Worse</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/european-copyright-law-isnt-great-it-could-soon-get-lot-worse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IAmEveryone</author><text>That&#x27;s a strange interpretation, and I say it doesn&#x27;t seem like you&#x27;re trying too hard to assume good faith.<p>The EU is worried about publishers both big and small. Currently, investing half a year&#x27;s worth of a journalist&#x27;s work into investigations is a rather bad business decision, because everyone can freely reuse the facts you uncovered: spend a year finding corruption, write it up in a day, 10 minutes later it&#x27;s on AP.<p>Ther &#x27;inalienable&#x27; is to ensure you&#x27;re not pressured into giving those rights away by a stronger actor such as Google. The principle is the same that makes it impossible for you to agree to buy something new without warranty.<p>Your idea also doesn&#x27;t make much sense because the current crisis of journalism has hit smaller publishers hardest. The New York Times will survive. The Bodunken Tribune is probably long dead already. And the major players for centralization are obviously Google and Facebook, the two largest targets of this legislation.<p>All this DOES NOT mean I believe this proposal to be a good idea! I think it&#x27;s too much beaurocracy for too little effect, plus probably unintended consequences.<p>But it&#x27;s hard to completely disregard the true motivation and ascribe malice.</text></item><item><author>mattsfrey</author><text>&quot;The biggest and most worrisome changes are to the &quot;link tax&quot; proposal, which would establish a special copyright-like fee to be paid by websites to news publishers, in exchange for the privilege of using short snippets of quoted text as part of a link to the original news article. Voss&#x27;s latest amendments would make the link tax an inalienable right, that news publishers cannot waive even if they choose to.&quot;<p>&quot;...that news publishers cannot waive even if they choose to.&quot;<p>This is horrendous.<p>I generally favor: &quot;Do not ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.&quot;<p>However this seems like a blatant attempt to shut down any interpretive or third party news sites in favor of centralized media control.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whatshisface</author><text>Appearing 10 minutes later on AP would have nothing to do with the link tax, as AP would be able to paraphrase your results. In fact, it&#x27;s currently Google that favors the smaller investigator (over what the situation would be without Google): the smaller page would get a pagerank boost from all of the very important websites linking to it. Without Google, AP would have traffic from people who check it manually and nobody else would get anything. Being the first to publish comes with a small advantage in Google&#x27;s world and no advantage outside.</text></comment> | <story><title>European Copyright Law Could Soon Get Worse</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/european-copyright-law-isnt-great-it-could-soon-get-lot-worse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IAmEveryone</author><text>That&#x27;s a strange interpretation, and I say it doesn&#x27;t seem like you&#x27;re trying too hard to assume good faith.<p>The EU is worried about publishers both big and small. Currently, investing half a year&#x27;s worth of a journalist&#x27;s work into investigations is a rather bad business decision, because everyone can freely reuse the facts you uncovered: spend a year finding corruption, write it up in a day, 10 minutes later it&#x27;s on AP.<p>Ther &#x27;inalienable&#x27; is to ensure you&#x27;re not pressured into giving those rights away by a stronger actor such as Google. The principle is the same that makes it impossible for you to agree to buy something new without warranty.<p>Your idea also doesn&#x27;t make much sense because the current crisis of journalism has hit smaller publishers hardest. The New York Times will survive. The Bodunken Tribune is probably long dead already. And the major players for centralization are obviously Google and Facebook, the two largest targets of this legislation.<p>All this DOES NOT mean I believe this proposal to be a good idea! I think it&#x27;s too much beaurocracy for too little effect, plus probably unintended consequences.<p>But it&#x27;s hard to completely disregard the true motivation and ascribe malice.</text></item><item><author>mattsfrey</author><text>&quot;The biggest and most worrisome changes are to the &quot;link tax&quot; proposal, which would establish a special copyright-like fee to be paid by websites to news publishers, in exchange for the privilege of using short snippets of quoted text as part of a link to the original news article. Voss&#x27;s latest amendments would make the link tax an inalienable right, that news publishers cannot waive even if they choose to.&quot;<p>&quot;...that news publishers cannot waive even if they choose to.&quot;<p>This is horrendous.<p>I generally favor: &quot;Do not ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.&quot;<p>However this seems like a blatant attempt to shut down any interpretive or third party news sites in favor of centralized media control.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ubernostrum</author><text>If a newspaper in a town of 1,000 people was devoting half a year of a reporter&#x27;s work to a single investigation, that newspaper was already going to fail as a business. Even if every link to the eventual story required the linker to pay €100, because in that case people would just refuse to link.<p>There is nothing good about link taxes. And sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.<p>Meanwhile, this cannot help even responsibly-run small news organizations, because it will just direct all the large aggregators and large news companies to make deals with each other, and the small news companies will get zero links and collect zero &quot;link tax&quot;, and small&#x2F;new aggregators will not be able to afford to operate. Result: large organizations stay large, small ones continue going out of business.<p>Someone on Twitter earlier was saying journalism has a history of relying on rich people who don&#x27;t mind losing money (the modern example being Bezos and the Washington Post), and that we&#x27;re trending back that way. Anyone who can&#x27;t find a patron is probably going to go out of business no matter what.<p>(unless you&#x27;d like to have news organizations be funded by government, which can work but has its own set of problems)</text></comment> |
6,018,188 | 6,018,074 | 1 | 2 | 6,017,748 | train | <story><title>Valve's flat management structure 'like high school'</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/09/valve-management-jeri-ellsworth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zarkonnen</author><text>Ah, the tyranny of structurelessness: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessnes...</a><p>Seriously - in the absence of formal power structures, informal ones will always form, and they are often less accountable and fair than formal ones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msutherl</author><text>Almost all of the jobs I&#x27;ve had have been with small &quot;non-hierarchical&quot; groups. In all of them, the founders have insisted that there was no hierarchy where clearly there was. When I&#x27;ve tried to explain this to them, they&#x27;ve been incapable of perceiving it.<p>Even at my current corporate job, it&#x27;s the same situation, but by now I&#x27;ve learned that you just need to <i></i>take power<i></i>. The one source of legitimate power you do have as an employee, especially in our industry, is the power to leave.<p>These days I cultivate a kind &quot;I don&#x27;t give a shit&quot; attitude that works pretty well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Valve's flat management structure 'like high school'</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/09/valve-management-jeri-ellsworth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zarkonnen</author><text>Ah, the tyranny of structurelessness: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessnes...</a><p>Seriously - in the absence of formal power structures, informal ones will always form, and they are often less accountable and fair than formal ones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tfgg</author><text>Was Valve ever &quot;structureless&quot;? My impression from reading the handbook was that power structures were recognised but not enforced, i.e. if you wanted someone on your project, you had to persuade them. This is not great if you can&#x27;t get people to work on your pet project, but that doesn&#x27;t mean the system isn&#x27;t working.<p>Personally, having seen Jeri&#x27;s AR project video, I wouldn&#x27;t have joined it. It seemed like a rather weak and non-transferable technology that didn&#x27;t solve fundamental problems with AR and that had limited gameplay possibilities.</text></comment> |
39,100,605 | 39,100,616 | 1 | 2 | 39,099,759 | train | <story><title>The Hawai’i Seaglider Initiative: A new approach to travel between the islands</title><url>https://www.hawaiiseaglider.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>It&#x27;s an ekranoplan. The USSR made several.
The actual vehicle is from a company called Regent.[1] They do have a quarter-scale prototype, and a video. This web site is from some group trying to get funding for a service.<p>The current Regent ekranoplan, not yet shipping, is a 12 passenger model. That seems small for an inter-island ferry. It would be faster than a ferry, but since the existing inter-island ferry routes only run about an hour, more speed may not be worth the trouble.<p>Probably just a tourist attraction.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;CkcJI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;CkcJI</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noduerme</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure where you&#x27;re getting this. There are no inter-island ferries anymore in Hawaii, except for the short tourist hops from Maui to Lanai and Molokai. Much longer trips between the big island, Maui and Oahu were possible for a couple years up until 2009 on the Superferry, but it closed after years of legal wrangling over environmental issues.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Hawai’i Seaglider Initiative: A new approach to travel between the islands</title><url>https://www.hawaiiseaglider.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>It&#x27;s an ekranoplan. The USSR made several.
The actual vehicle is from a company called Regent.[1] They do have a quarter-scale prototype, and a video. This web site is from some group trying to get funding for a service.<p>The current Regent ekranoplan, not yet shipping, is a 12 passenger model. That seems small for an inter-island ferry. It would be faster than a ferry, but since the existing inter-island ferry routes only run about an hour, more speed may not be worth the trouble.<p>Probably just a tourist attraction.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;CkcJI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;CkcJI</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bruce511</author><text>&gt;&gt; Probably just a tourist attraction.<p>Yes and no. One the one hand, absolutely a tourist attraction. Its projected to be cheaper than flying, and hopes to be a lot less hassle. (Expect pushback from the airlines. )<p>However small capacity, cheap, accessible transport is a boon for islanders living in archipelago. For starters you&#x27;re not bound to islands big enough for an airport.<p>Given that the vehicle is electric, and hawaii has abundant solar energy, it could end up being very cost effective.<p>So what starts small, and touristy, might end up being mainstream and useful in lots of similar (ie island) contexts.<p>On the environmental front I expect the usual &quot;complain about anything new&quot; crowd, coupled with push-back from existing operators. But it&#x27;s hard to see how this does more environmental harm than planes or boats.</text></comment> |
33,253,289 | 33,252,821 | 1 | 3 | 33,247,335 | train | <story><title>An Accident at SpaceX</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/10/18/2022/space-x-technician-accident</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>happyopossum</author><text>The idea that every accident can be prevented by delight is a ridiculous and utopian trope, and to demonize an entire corporate culture and group of 12k employees without any background information is the height of hubris.<p>Nobody would ever design a ladder that cannot be climbed without a safety harness being properly worn, but many people are injured or killed in ladder accidents at workplaces every year. In your world that&#x27;s a design failure, but out here in reality it&#x27;s often carelessness or sheer bad luck.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>The key question that everyone, especially SpaceX, should be asking is why was it even possible to run the test while Cabada was in an unsafe place?<p>System and safety design- a topic that a rocketry company should be deeply familiar with- should lead us to solutions where bad things are exceedingly impossible. Where you have to be <i>trying</i> to cause an accident for it to happen. This should extend beyond the product being built itself, to the factory, to the R&amp;D, to every part of the organization where danger exists.<p>And when failure occurs, it behooves you to shout from the rooftop that you messed up, and show the world how you&#x27;re making changes so it can&#x27;t happen again. Being quiet about the failure of your system makes it sound a lot like you aren&#x27;t planning to make any changes to it.<p>It&#x27;s a bad culture to start in a rocketry company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>knome</author><text>&gt;but out here in reality<p>This, I expect, is exactly the kind of bad cultural attitude that @mabbo was referring to. You&#x27;re advocating for accidents as being an unavoidable cost of business while preemptively hand-waving them as being the fault of careless employees or fate.<p>As @P5fRxh5kUvp2th points out, there are established industry safety measures to avoid exactly these kinds of accidents when working around dangerous machinery, in the lockout&#x2F;tagout system.<p>If tests are locked out while employees are tagged into an area, you can&#x27;t accidentally smack them into a coma with an over-pressurized part blowing out. By requiring tag ins to access dangerous areas, you don&#x27;t have to have employees remember someone is out there, or that a test is coming, or worry about anyone getting confused on either front.<p>Blaming the employee for being where they shouldn&#x27;t be or the other for running tests when someone was nearby is a cop out. It shouldn&#x27;t even be possible for it to happen at all.<p>Design your systems and processes to expect that humans are fallible.</text></comment> | <story><title>An Accident at SpaceX</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/10/18/2022/space-x-technician-accident</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>happyopossum</author><text>The idea that every accident can be prevented by delight is a ridiculous and utopian trope, and to demonize an entire corporate culture and group of 12k employees without any background information is the height of hubris.<p>Nobody would ever design a ladder that cannot be climbed without a safety harness being properly worn, but many people are injured or killed in ladder accidents at workplaces every year. In your world that&#x27;s a design failure, but out here in reality it&#x27;s often carelessness or sheer bad luck.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>The key question that everyone, especially SpaceX, should be asking is why was it even possible to run the test while Cabada was in an unsafe place?<p>System and safety design- a topic that a rocketry company should be deeply familiar with- should lead us to solutions where bad things are exceedingly impossible. Where you have to be <i>trying</i> to cause an accident for it to happen. This should extend beyond the product being built itself, to the factory, to the R&amp;D, to every part of the organization where danger exists.<p>And when failure occurs, it behooves you to shout from the rooftop that you messed up, and show the world how you&#x27;re making changes so it can&#x27;t happen again. Being quiet about the failure of your system makes it sound a lot like you aren&#x27;t planning to make any changes to it.<p>It&#x27;s a bad culture to start in a rocketry company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karlmdavis</author><text>To extend that line of argument a bit, what about a more professional tool&#x2F;system, e.g. cherry pickers?<p>Doesn’t it seem reasonable to you to design and engineer cherry pickers such that the bucket can’t be moved unless a safety harness is attached?</text></comment> |
5,166,650 | 5,166,013 | 1 | 2 | 5,164,293 | train | <story><title>Massive glacier collapse</title><url>http://unofficialnetworks.com/collapse-video-glacial-size-city-116670/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>run4yourlives</author><text>The problem is that nobody really "knows" what is going on. Climate science is still very much a work in progress. This is the sad truth of the matter.<p>Trying to figure out whether or not humans are a direct cause of climate change is like trying to figure out if exposure to a certain household product gives you cancer. People get cancer all the time from various sources, and while certain folk can point directly to said chemical being a carcinogen, even if that agreement exists it starts to open up a whole new debate about whether or not there is <i>enough</i> of a link to matter.<p>From what I can tell, ignoring the single idiots on either side, we've got:<p>1. A general consensus that the world is warming;<p>2. A slightly less strong consensus that humans are contributing to this warming;<p>3. A majority (but not a consensus, IMO) extending that to humans being the most direct and primary cause of warming;<p>4. A strong consensus that we should reduce our overall carbon emissions (for obvious reasons), regardless;<p>5. A small but significant <i>scientific</i> group arguing that we are not the primary cause of warming, even though we may be a contributing factor;<p>6. A large contingent of non-science laymen that feel that because 5 may be a valid opinion, the entire study of climate science is bunk;<p>That's basically the best I've found. There are zealots in every camp above. There are also those that feel that each individual point being right means we should either ignore everything else, be it science or consequence.<p>Given how complex the earth's climate is, and how little we know about things like the sun, earth's climate history, and the long term effects of particular chemical compositions in our atmosphere, I feel we won't progress much past our current stage in enough time to make much a difference overall. IMHO, if we believe that climate change is real, we should be focusing all efforts on dealing with it as best we can.</text></item><item><author>MichaelGG</author><text>Can anyone recommend a good book (preferably on Kindle) that explains climate change and our actual scientific knowledge? The issue seems to be so politicized that all sources seem incredibly biased. Sure, there might changes happening, but from history, isn't that what the climate does? It seems that one side portrays it as no big deal, and the other says we'll all die in a few decades.<p>I'm not looking for something telling me how to behave or react, just something that covers how/what we know for certain. Or is the science and understanding required too far out of reach for laymen?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justsee</author><text>&#62; 3. A majority (but not a consensus, IMO) extending that to humans being the most direct and primary cause of warming;<p>That's just flat out wrong. There is a scientific consensus that humans are responsible for global warming. To elaborate: "That humans are causing global warming is the position of the Academies of Science from 19 countries plus many scientific organizations that study climate science. More specifically, around 95% of active climate researchers actively publishing climate papers endorse the consensus position." [0]<p>This is based on models that have been refined over decades, and data and analysis from multiple separate scientific disciplines that agree with each other.<p>Your resignation that we don't 'know' (which alludes to an unscientific requirement for 100% certainty), and that climate science is 'still very much a work in progress' betrays a lack of knowledge about scientific models in general. It is worth reading this section on climate models to understand their purpose, value, and reliability [1].<p>[0] <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus-intermediate.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-co...</a><p>[1] <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-models-intermediate.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-models-intermediate....</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Massive glacier collapse</title><url>http://unofficialnetworks.com/collapse-video-glacial-size-city-116670/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>run4yourlives</author><text>The problem is that nobody really "knows" what is going on. Climate science is still very much a work in progress. This is the sad truth of the matter.<p>Trying to figure out whether or not humans are a direct cause of climate change is like trying to figure out if exposure to a certain household product gives you cancer. People get cancer all the time from various sources, and while certain folk can point directly to said chemical being a carcinogen, even if that agreement exists it starts to open up a whole new debate about whether or not there is <i>enough</i> of a link to matter.<p>From what I can tell, ignoring the single idiots on either side, we've got:<p>1. A general consensus that the world is warming;<p>2. A slightly less strong consensus that humans are contributing to this warming;<p>3. A majority (but not a consensus, IMO) extending that to humans being the most direct and primary cause of warming;<p>4. A strong consensus that we should reduce our overall carbon emissions (for obvious reasons), regardless;<p>5. A small but significant <i>scientific</i> group arguing that we are not the primary cause of warming, even though we may be a contributing factor;<p>6. A large contingent of non-science laymen that feel that because 5 may be a valid opinion, the entire study of climate science is bunk;<p>That's basically the best I've found. There are zealots in every camp above. There are also those that feel that each individual point being right means we should either ignore everything else, be it science or consequence.<p>Given how complex the earth's climate is, and how little we know about things like the sun, earth's climate history, and the long term effects of particular chemical compositions in our atmosphere, I feel we won't progress much past our current stage in enough time to make much a difference overall. IMHO, if we believe that climate change is real, we should be focusing all efforts on dealing with it as best we can.</text></item><item><author>MichaelGG</author><text>Can anyone recommend a good book (preferably on Kindle) that explains climate change and our actual scientific knowledge? The issue seems to be so politicized that all sources seem incredibly biased. Sure, there might changes happening, but from history, isn't that what the climate does? It seems that one side portrays it as no big deal, and the other says we'll all die in a few decades.<p>I'm not looking for something telling me how to behave or react, just something that covers how/what we know for certain. Or is the science and understanding required too far out of reach for laymen?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moultano</author><text>Your post is unsupported by evidence, and seems to be just lazily taking the middle road in an attempted to appear enlightened. The two sides of the "debate" are not equal. There is not substantial disagreement that the climate is changing and that humans are directly responsible.<p>See the consensus report here for the net effects of different factors on the climate. The net effect from human activity is the largest component.
<a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/spmsspm-human-and.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/spmsspm-...</a></text></comment> |
23,583,452 | 23,583,268 | 1 | 3 | 23,577,746 | train | <story><title>Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/823352/ea717c1e49390505/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kelnos</author><text>One of the comments mentioned that there was a suggestion (presumably rejected) to &quot;rotate&quot; the first character of the hex string for the SHA256 hashes by 16 characters, so 0 becomes g, 1 becomes h, etc. (that way the SHA256 hashes would be unambiguously not SHA1 hashes, even when abbreviated).<p>This made me think... why are we using long, unwieldy base-16 hex strings at all? Why not use an alphabetic (non-numeric) base-46 string: 20 lowercase letters ([g-z]), 26 capital letters ([A-Z])? Then the new SHA256 hash strings end up being <i>shorter</i> than the old SHA1 strings, and there is no overlap with the [0-9a-f] range of the base-16 strings.<p>If you wanted to even it out to 64 characters, you could create a &quot;modified base-64&quot; that doesn&#x27;t use [0-9a-f] and instead uses more special characters (though for convenience you&#x27;d want to choose characters that are shell-safe and possibly even URL-safe, which might make this not work). Alternatively you could use a subset for a base-32 representation.<p>The downside -- perhaps a significant one? -- is that you can&#x27;t use standard tools like `sha256sum` or the representation conversion functions into the stdlib of many languages to generate these hashes; it would require custom code. Not sure if that&#x27;s a concern, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkl</author><text>&gt; This made me think... why are we using long, unwieldy base-16 hex strings at all? Why not use an alphabetic (non-numeric) base-46 string: 20 lowercase letters ([g-z]), 26 capital letters ([A-Z])? Then the new SHA256 hash strings end up being shorter than the old SHA1 strings, and there is no overlap with the [0-9a-f] range of the base-16 strings.<p>Are you sure? SHA1 hashes are 40 hex digits, and SHA256 hashes are 64 hex digits. But in base 46, 2^256-1 = 3ZS4A7V5Ki0LWg1f3Of06YNfgQXCA2P0Q6RACKhEIWQXe07, which is 47 base-46 digits long, so still longer than SHA1. (This is not your base 46, since it&#x27;s using 0..9, A..Z, a..j.)<p><pre><code> import gmpy2
gmpy2.digits(2**256-1, 46)
-&gt; &#x27;3ZS4A7V5Ki0LWg1f3Of06YNfgQXCA2P0Q6RACKhEIWQXe07&#x27;
gmpy2.digits(gmpy2.mpz(&#x27;f&#x27;*64, 16), 46) #same, but more clearly the &quot;maximum&quot; hash
</code></pre>
edit: more code to try kelnos&#x27;s proposed digits:<p><pre><code> gmpy_digits = &#x27;0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&#x27;
new_digits = &#x27;ghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ&#x27;
&#x27;&#x27;.join(new_digits[gmpy_digits.index(d)] for d in gmpy2.digits(gmpy2.mpz(&#x27;f&#x27;*64, 16), 46))
-&gt; &#x27;jPIkqnLlAYgBMWhVjEVgmODVWGNsqiFgGmHqsAXuyMGNUgn&#x27;
</code></pre>
I think hex strings are probably still better, as there&#x27;s less ambiguity, and 47 characters isn&#x27;t much shorter than 64 for practical purposes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/823352/ea717c1e49390505/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kelnos</author><text>One of the comments mentioned that there was a suggestion (presumably rejected) to &quot;rotate&quot; the first character of the hex string for the SHA256 hashes by 16 characters, so 0 becomes g, 1 becomes h, etc. (that way the SHA256 hashes would be unambiguously not SHA1 hashes, even when abbreviated).<p>This made me think... why are we using long, unwieldy base-16 hex strings at all? Why not use an alphabetic (non-numeric) base-46 string: 20 lowercase letters ([g-z]), 26 capital letters ([A-Z])? Then the new SHA256 hash strings end up being <i>shorter</i> than the old SHA1 strings, and there is no overlap with the [0-9a-f] range of the base-16 strings.<p>If you wanted to even it out to 64 characters, you could create a &quot;modified base-64&quot; that doesn&#x27;t use [0-9a-f] and instead uses more special characters (though for convenience you&#x27;d want to choose characters that are shell-safe and possibly even URL-safe, which might make this not work). Alternatively you could use a subset for a base-32 representation.<p>The downside -- perhaps a significant one? -- is that you can&#x27;t use standard tools like `sha256sum` or the representation conversion functions into the stdlib of many languages to generate these hashes; it would require custom code. Not sure if that&#x27;s a concern, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>user5994461</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; This made me think... why are we using long, unwieldy base-16 hex strings at all?<p>Surprised you got ten answers to this comment and nobody was able to explain.<p>Hexadecimal encoding is widely used because computers work with bytes (8 bits). An hexadecimal character is 4 bits, so every byte is two hex characters.<p>It&#x27;s trivial to encode (even by hand), it has no issue of padding. It can truly transit through anything that accepts alphanumeric characters. It&#x27;s awesome.<p>edit: The most common alternative is base64 that encodes blocks of 3 bytes to 4 characters. Base64 has a bazillion issues due to padding and special characters +&#x2F;=. If I had a dollar for every system I&#x27;ve seen using broken base64, I could buy a car. Saving a bit of space (200% in hex VS 134% size in base64) is almost never worth an order of magnitude more complexity. Do not invent your own encoding algorithm.</text></comment> |
22,475,055 | 22,474,008 | 1 | 2 | 22,472,836 | train | <story><title>Coronavirus Spike Protein Binder Design</title><url>https://fold.it/portal/node/2008926</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>natch</author><text>Strange site. The heading implies that they are attempting to design things that help science, but if you drill in to the pages for &quot;new to fold.it&quot; and FAQ, it never actually says that any of the results are used by anyone. Instead it says that it&#x27;s all a game and the only science goal is to prove that humans are capable (just like computers) of doing this.<p>I wonder if this is really all it is, or if the writers of the FAQ are just myopic about the fact that newcomers don&#x27;t have the big picture, so they just forget to mention whether the results are ever used or not, or even potentially used, or even potentially looked at by anyone who might use them.<p>Reminds me of how a lot of open source packages, when you go to their about page, just have a list of recent updates in highly technical language that assumes the reader is already familiar with the goals of the project.<p>Sites should not assume that the reader already knows what is going on. In this case, the &quot;new to fold.it&quot; page is just a bunch of steps for getting started, with absolutely no overview that makes clear how any of it is all used. Under &quot;goals&quot; the stated science goal is just to prove that humans can solve this kind of puzzles. Really odd that teams would give time to this if it&#x27;s not having any real effect though, so I suspect I&#x27;m missing something?</text></comment> | <story><title>Coronavirus Spike Protein Binder Design</title><url>https://fold.it/portal/node/2008926</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hditorkeif</author><text>This is what antibodies do, right?<p>How exactly does the body figure out how to configure the variable part of the antibody so that it binds? Does it just try countless variations until it finds a match?<p>Can we take an antibody from a healed person and reverse engineer the binding protein?</text></comment> |
29,005,453 | 29,003,972 | 1 | 2 | 29,000,137 | train | <story><title>Former Facebook staffers launch Integrity Institute</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/policy/integrity-institute</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sayhar</author><text>Oh hi! That’s me! (And a bunch of other folks). Happy to answer any questions.<p>I also really like this founders note that we wrote. It’s in our own words, etc: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;integrityinstitute.org&#x2F;founders-letter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;integrityinstitute.org&#x2F;founders-letter</a><p>We are recruiting new members! If you work on integrity &#x2F; trust and safety &#x2F; antispam &#x2F; content quality &#x2F; etc, let’s talk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dogman144</author><text>Many PMs and engineers and laymen knew FB was a rotten product for a long time. I also assume a lot of people at this institute didn’t take the Alex Stamos (ex, short term FB CISO) U-turn either. So…<p>How is this effort not a virtue signaling by people that
made their fortune on the back of this generation’s cigarettes, and now hoping to get traction on being listened to for fixing the mess they created?</text></comment> | <story><title>Former Facebook staffers launch Integrity Institute</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/policy/integrity-institute</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sayhar</author><text>Oh hi! That’s me! (And a bunch of other folks). Happy to answer any questions.<p>I also really like this founders note that we wrote. It’s in our own words, etc: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;integrityinstitute.org&#x2F;founders-letter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;integrityinstitute.org&#x2F;founders-letter</a><p>We are recruiting new members! If you work on integrity &#x2F; trust and safety &#x2F; antispam &#x2F; content quality &#x2F; etc, let’s talk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rajin444</author><text>Are there any examples of sticking to your principles by standing up for socially and morally reprehensible groups? My initial impression is this is just another group pushing left leaning elite American values as &quot;integrity&quot;.<p>Things like this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;other&#x2F;aclu-history-taking-stand-free-speech-skokie" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;other&#x2F;aclu-history-taking-stand-free-sp...</a> go a long way.</text></comment> |
16,788,033 | 16,788,173 | 1 | 3 | 16,786,929 | train | <story><title>Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is</title><url>https://baekdal.com/strategy/publishers-havent-realized-just-how-big-a-deal-gdpr-is/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>In fact, I think the author is underestimating the impact, right here: &quot;Of course, making this change will have a dramatic impact on your revenue for single-visit traffic, because you basically have to design your ad model to work completely differently from how it works today.&quot;<p>No, it will basically make a newsmedia site unprofitable. I think it is the EU that has not fully thought this through. Most of the news industry is already sickly, financially, and they mostly have no model other than advertising (with a very few exceptions). The reason all this data got collected, was to try to make the advertising valuable enough that they could sell it. It may be that it never really worked, but it sure won&#x27;t work without it. I think either the EU will backtrack on this once they see that Google and Facebook can easily force people to consent (because people consider those websites too valuable to do without), but most other advertising-supported media cannot; or they will see that the long-term impact of this is that it accelerates the current death spiral of newsmedia, as all ad spending goes to Google and Facebook and almost no one else.<p>I leave it as an open question as to whether this would be a good or bad thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beojan</author><text>&gt; No, it will basically make a newsmedia site unprofitable. I think it is the EU that has not fully thought this through. Most of the news industry is already sickly, financially, and they mostly have no model other than advertising (with a very few exceptions).<p>We have publicly funded broadcasters in most EU countries. The ad-supported news sites, on the other hand, are generally doing more harm than good.<p>News outlets existed before the web, so they&#x27;re not going to be threatened by breaking the ad-supported website model. If anything, the traditional newspapers will be saved by this, because if free online news disappears, people will start buying newspaper subscriptions again.<p>&gt; I think either the EU will backtrack on this once they see that Google and Facebook can easily force people to consent<p>They can&#x27;t. The consent has to be for a specific purpose.</text></comment> | <story><title>Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is</title><url>https://baekdal.com/strategy/publishers-havent-realized-just-how-big-a-deal-gdpr-is/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>In fact, I think the author is underestimating the impact, right here: &quot;Of course, making this change will have a dramatic impact on your revenue for single-visit traffic, because you basically have to design your ad model to work completely differently from how it works today.&quot;<p>No, it will basically make a newsmedia site unprofitable. I think it is the EU that has not fully thought this through. Most of the news industry is already sickly, financially, and they mostly have no model other than advertising (with a very few exceptions). The reason all this data got collected, was to try to make the advertising valuable enough that they could sell it. It may be that it never really worked, but it sure won&#x27;t work without it. I think either the EU will backtrack on this once they see that Google and Facebook can easily force people to consent (because people consider those websites too valuable to do without), but most other advertising-supported media cannot; or they will see that the long-term impact of this is that it accelerates the current death spiral of newsmedia, as all ad spending goes to Google and Facebook and almost no one else.<p>I leave it as an open question as to whether this would be a good or bad thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arqu</author><text>I completely disagree with this. Firstly, the media currently are too lucrative for my taste and thats why we have everyone being a journalist and publisher. By cutting down on the easy money, only those worth surviving will probably stand. This will seriously cut down on more than just ads, ie fake news and unverified sources. An alternative I&#x27;d love to see is sponsored articles as the main source of income for these. Let the corporations have to pay bigger bucks to have their posts published. This will hopefully reduce the clutter, force the media outlets to provide quality content to keep a certain level of trust and quality to attract businesses as well as a good targeted audience.<p>Personally I&#x27;d live to have most media completely in the dark about visitors to solely speculate on the quality of their own content. Only metric they need is daily visitor count. Everything else can be shaped by type and quality of content. A great example is HN where we have a very targeted audience due to the content it serves. It obviously also has some sponsored articles but also the indirect benefits it has on new startups and so on. Just treat it as TV marketing and not a per person customized monetization strategy.</text></comment> |
27,915,787 | 27,914,915 | 1 | 2 | 27,913,273 | train | <story><title>The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-votes-to-enforce-right-to-repair/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gchamonlive</author><text>&gt; Short of warranty stickers, what are Microsoft to do?<p>Make opening their products accessible so that people can do it without damaging what they own. PCs are like that. Car parts have no such warranty stickers (that I am aware of).<p>Stickers are much more cultural than actually preventing damage. Furthermore, you can have stickers that decay over time and void your warranty without you even touching them (those nefarious apple humidity stickers for instance). It is entertaining to see Steve from gamer&#x27;s nexus bashing warranty stickers at every opportunity.</text></item><item><author>AussieWog93</author><text>&gt;I am absolutely going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear<p>I sell video games and consoles for a living, and probably repair about 20-30 of them each month.<p>Based on my experience, the reasons that Microsoft don&#x27;t want you poking around in your Xbox when it&#x27;s under warranty are completely valid.<p>For any console that hasn&#x27;t been tampered with, the fault is almost always one of only two or three things that can be diagnosed nearly instantly and repaired in around 15-30 minutes with a near-100% success rate.<p>For a console that has been tampered with by an end-user, suddenly the list of things that could have gone wrong multiplies by an order of magnitude. The diagnostic procedure goes from a simple 1:1 mapping of symptom to fix to a broad tree of debugging steps. The total process can easily take multiple hours and end up nowhere, depending on how many YouTube videos and Reddit threads the previous owner followed blindly.<p>Of course, the consumer is not going to admit that they&#x27;re an idiot who transformed their console from a simple fix to something that&#x27;s beyond economic repair, so either Microsoft has to provide them with a brand new machine or they will face legal action&#x2F;scathing reviews online.<p>Short of warranty stickers, what are Microsoft to do?</text></item><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>See the section titled “What the Magnuson-Moss Act Does Not Require” of the FTC’s “Businessperson’s Guide to Federal Warranty Law”[1] to understand why this is not even <i>close</i> to “enforcing right to repair”. Aside from the fact that the FTC can’t enforce a right to repair law that doesn’t exist, the promise to enforce the Magnuson-Moss Act doesn’t even scratch the surface of what right to repair aims to accomplish. For example, farmers who have famously campaigned for right to repair for years (decades?) aren’t covered by the Act because their equipment is for commercial, not consumer, use.<p>Edit: Even though I think it’s beyond ridiculous to paint this as “right to repair” I am <i>absolutely</i> going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;tips-advice&#x2F;business-center&#x2F;guidance&#x2F;businesspersons-guide-federal-warranty-law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;tips-advice&#x2F;business-center&#x2F;guidance&#x2F;bus...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dint</author><text>Further, provide documentation and support for, and sell spare parts to, users who want to fix their consoles (at least, in the case of procedures that a user could reasonably perform)<p>I&#x27;m a home bicycle mechanic, and all manufacturers of bike components do this.</text></comment> | <story><title>The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-votes-to-enforce-right-to-repair/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gchamonlive</author><text>&gt; Short of warranty stickers, what are Microsoft to do?<p>Make opening their products accessible so that people can do it without damaging what they own. PCs are like that. Car parts have no such warranty stickers (that I am aware of).<p>Stickers are much more cultural than actually preventing damage. Furthermore, you can have stickers that decay over time and void your warranty without you even touching them (those nefarious apple humidity stickers for instance). It is entertaining to see Steve from gamer&#x27;s nexus bashing warranty stickers at every opportunity.</text></item><item><author>AussieWog93</author><text>&gt;I am absolutely going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear<p>I sell video games and consoles for a living, and probably repair about 20-30 of them each month.<p>Based on my experience, the reasons that Microsoft don&#x27;t want you poking around in your Xbox when it&#x27;s under warranty are completely valid.<p>For any console that hasn&#x27;t been tampered with, the fault is almost always one of only two or three things that can be diagnosed nearly instantly and repaired in around 15-30 minutes with a near-100% success rate.<p>For a console that has been tampered with by an end-user, suddenly the list of things that could have gone wrong multiplies by an order of magnitude. The diagnostic procedure goes from a simple 1:1 mapping of symptom to fix to a broad tree of debugging steps. The total process can easily take multiple hours and end up nowhere, depending on how many YouTube videos and Reddit threads the previous owner followed blindly.<p>Of course, the consumer is not going to admit that they&#x27;re an idiot who transformed their console from a simple fix to something that&#x27;s beyond economic repair, so either Microsoft has to provide them with a brand new machine or they will face legal action&#x2F;scathing reviews online.<p>Short of warranty stickers, what are Microsoft to do?</text></item><item><author>elliekelly</author><text>See the section titled “What the Magnuson-Moss Act Does Not Require” of the FTC’s “Businessperson’s Guide to Federal Warranty Law”[1] to understand why this is not even <i>close</i> to “enforcing right to repair”. Aside from the fact that the FTC can’t enforce a right to repair law that doesn’t exist, the promise to enforce the Magnuson-Moss Act doesn’t even scratch the surface of what right to repair aims to accomplish. For example, farmers who have famously campaigned for right to repair for years (decades?) aren’t covered by the Act because their equipment is for commercial, not consumer, use.<p>Edit: Even though I think it’s beyond ridiculous to paint this as “right to repair” I am <i>absolutely</i> going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;tips-advice&#x2F;business-center&#x2F;guidance&#x2F;businesspersons-guide-federal-warranty-law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;tips-advice&#x2F;business-center&#x2F;guidance&#x2F;bus...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AussieWog93</author><text>Fair point with the car example.
I guess Microsoft could just suck it up and refuse to repair consoles under warranty if the user FUBARs them through bad repairs. They wouldn&#x27;t be happy, but car people seem to be able to live with it.</text></comment> |
40,767,760 | 40,767,462 | 1 | 3 | 40,763,931 | train | <story><title>Words you can spell with a calculator (2005)</title><url>https://paperlined.org/apps/wikipedia/offsite_content/Calculator_spelling.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chriscbr</author><text>I was curious if the words could be used to form any sentences -- here&#x27;s the corpus organized by part-of-speech. (Many words are missing due to gaps in the corpus I used):<p>NOUN 147
slob, Ellie, silo, bile, sell, Gil, belles, highs, Bessie, losses, giggles, Liz, hobo, Leslie, Bob, lies, bellies, soil, Hess, hells, Isis, Gog, Hiss, boogie, holes, bliss, oils, gel, leg, lobes, globes, Gill, Leigh, geese, bogies, bilge, Lizzie, Leo, boil, legs, shoe, shells, Ozzie, giggle, ooze, size, eel, high, bill, gob, hole, hog, soles, libel, Hill, bee, shills, ills, Lois, glee, Bess, lobe, gig, Beebe, sizes, Gogol, sloe, hiss, Ellis, Sol, boos, Ohio, bees, HBO, bobbles, ill, lie, sobs, booze, bibles, Gibbs, hobbies, sighs, shell, isle, bib, Hegel, hills, Zoe, Eloise, Giles, sill, Elsie, Bill, bells, loss, egg, eggshell, bills, hoses, Shiloh, siege, Bible, solos, sigh, Hillel, logs, hose, lobbies, hill, log, hob, bell, shoes, Lee, gloss, heels, Hobbes, bosses, soils, solo, Oslo, hoes, goose, oil, Bell, blob, goggles, Eli, sole, ego, silos, hogs, lilies, Billie, gibes, ell, hell, shill, globe, oblige, loose, eggs, gibe, boss, heel, Bobbie<p>VERB 34
sells, loses, Lie, boil, sell, ebb, lob, seize, solo, begs, see, ebbs, sizzle, beg, lie, besiege, ooze, size, goes, hole, lies, hobble, bog, obsesses, soil, boils, loose, bless, solos, sigh, gobbles, shies, lose, sees<p>ADJ 9
sole, loose, ill, high, less, glib, big, beige, eligible<p>ADV 5
loose, ill, less, high, else<p>PRT 4
gosh, hello, see, hell<p>X 3
his, Les, les<p>DET 1
his<p>PRON 2
his, she</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>probably_wrong</author><text>First, I think &quot;is&quot; should be added to that list.<p>Assuming punctuation is allowed, here&#x27;s my masterpiece:<p>Big slob Ohio Bob sees Zoe boil his sole beige goose egg, sighs. She giggles. He sees his egg sizzle, sobs.<p>He looses his hell bees.</text></comment> | <story><title>Words you can spell with a calculator (2005)</title><url>https://paperlined.org/apps/wikipedia/offsite_content/Calculator_spelling.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chriscbr</author><text>I was curious if the words could be used to form any sentences -- here&#x27;s the corpus organized by part-of-speech. (Many words are missing due to gaps in the corpus I used):<p>NOUN 147
slob, Ellie, silo, bile, sell, Gil, belles, highs, Bessie, losses, giggles, Liz, hobo, Leslie, Bob, lies, bellies, soil, Hess, hells, Isis, Gog, Hiss, boogie, holes, bliss, oils, gel, leg, lobes, globes, Gill, Leigh, geese, bogies, bilge, Lizzie, Leo, boil, legs, shoe, shells, Ozzie, giggle, ooze, size, eel, high, bill, gob, hole, hog, soles, libel, Hill, bee, shills, ills, Lois, glee, Bess, lobe, gig, Beebe, sizes, Gogol, sloe, hiss, Ellis, Sol, boos, Ohio, bees, HBO, bobbles, ill, lie, sobs, booze, bibles, Gibbs, hobbies, sighs, shell, isle, bib, Hegel, hills, Zoe, Eloise, Giles, sill, Elsie, Bill, bells, loss, egg, eggshell, bills, hoses, Shiloh, siege, Bible, solos, sigh, Hillel, logs, hose, lobbies, hill, log, hob, bell, shoes, Lee, gloss, heels, Hobbes, bosses, soils, solo, Oslo, hoes, goose, oil, Bell, blob, goggles, Eli, sole, ego, silos, hogs, lilies, Billie, gibes, ell, hell, shill, globe, oblige, loose, eggs, gibe, boss, heel, Bobbie<p>VERB 34
sells, loses, Lie, boil, sell, ebb, lob, seize, solo, begs, see, ebbs, sizzle, beg, lie, besiege, ooze, size, goes, hole, lies, hobble, bog, obsesses, soil, boils, loose, bless, solos, sigh, gobbles, shies, lose, sees<p>ADJ 9
sole, loose, ill, high, less, glib, big, beige, eligible<p>ADV 5
loose, ill, less, high, else<p>PRT 4
gosh, hello, see, hell<p>X 3
his, Les, les<p>DET 1
his<p>PRON 2
his, she</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dahart</author><text>How did they end up out of alphabetical order? It might be worth alphabetizing and collecting singular+plural into single entries; s and es are available, so you can pluralize most nouns (or singularize most verbs). The list has some pairs but not all, for no particular reason.<p>I’d suggest dropping the capitalization too, it adds duplicates, and can often be used in both senses, e.g., bill, bell, hill, hiss…<p>Also note there are plenty of nouns here that can be used as verbs and verbs than can be used as nouns.</text></comment> |
3,128,849 | 3,128,844 | 1 | 3 | 3,128,166 | train | <story><title>Programming Language Development: The Past 5 Years</title><url>http://blog.fogus.me/2011/10/18/programming-language-development-the-past-5-years/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hammerdr</author><text>I spent some time doing several small programming exercises in Ioke. I've also done similar exercises in several programming languages ranging from C to Java to Haskell to Ioke.<p>Ioke was ridiculously clean in almost every scenario. The only part I missed was that I didn't delve deep enough to really use the macros to their fullest extent. Something that would take 50 lines of idiomatic Ruby took 10 lines of Ioke. Ruby is already a very expressive language and yet Ioke could express the same thing in half the amount of code.<p>The author of this post is not kidding when he says that Ola designed the language with no regard for performance. The language is slow.<p>However, Ola is working on a language that learns from the expressiveness of Ioke but is a bit more practical. It's called Seph and is at <a href="http://www.seph-lang.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.seph-lang.org</a><p>And, finally, a small story: I was spending a few nights a week writing Ioke and trying it out about a year ago. Ola spoke about Ioke at an internal company presentation (sort of a mini-conference) and afterwards I started to talk about the language with him and Brian Guthrie. We talked about the language constructions and how we solved problems in the language, etc. etc. Finally, I get around to asking the question, "So, after writing Ioke for these past few weeks, I feel like I have no idea if I'm writing idiomatic Ioke!" Both of them look at me as if I'm a crazy person and finally Ola smiles and says, "There need to be more than 10 developers writing in a language for there to be idiomatic anything." Playing with these languages are fun but messy! Don't be afraid to make mistakes and just dive in.</text></comment> | <story><title>Programming Language Development: The Past 5 Years</title><url>http://blog.fogus.me/2011/10/18/programming-language-development-the-past-5-years/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ehsanu1</author><text>fogus mentions OMeta, which is amazing in my own humble opinion. You can, extremely concisely, create a parser for a language you dream up. The author of OMeta has an example of parsing JavaScript in 200 lines of OMeta. OMeta can also parse itself in about 40 LOC. This conciseness is the reason Alan Kay's Viewpoints Research Institute is using it for their STEPS project (attempting a full GUI system from "scratch" in 20k LOC). They use it to compile all the languages in the project, and even make use of it in their 200 LOC TCP implementation.<p>The example gist provided really doesn't do it justice (partly because there's a variant with slightly lighter syntax). Check out the sandbox for OMeta/JS (there are several OMetas, each for its own host language), which has several projects you can check out: <a href="http://tinlizzie.org/ometa-js/#Sample_Project" rel="nofollow">http://tinlizzie.org/ometa-js/#Sample_Project</a></text></comment> |
35,232,713 | 35,232,951 | 1 | 2 | 35,231,159 | train | <story><title>Who is still inside the metaverse?</title><url>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>irrational</author><text>Has anyone actually met anyone who has visited the metaverse? Admittedly, I don’t live in SV (or CA), but I do know a lot of developers, tech people, nerds, etc. and none of them have visited the metaverse. I keep assuming it doesn’t actually exist yet. It’s like a story of this far off land that people have heard of, but nobody has actually visited.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>explaininjs</author><text>There is no <i>the</i> metaverse currently, but there are many metaverses. The definition itself is shaky and contradictory across sources. But to summarize, a metaverse is a &quot;set of digital spaces that you can move seamlessly between&quot;, it will include &quot;familiar 2D experiences, as well as ones projected into the physical world and fully immersive 3D ones too&quot;. It can be accessed via your phone or computer, or a VR reset for &quot;full immersion&quot;. Fortnite is a metaverse, but some say Roblox and Minecraft aren&#x27;t. I couldn&#x27;t tell you how that distinction was drawn.<p>My favorite metaverse is RuneScape, but I unfortunately haven&#x27;t visited in a decade or more. Steam might also be considered a metaverse. Which would imply Xbox Online and all that are too.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&#x2F;words-at-play&#x2F;meaning-of-metaverse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&#x2F;words-at-play&#x2F;meaning-of-met...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.meta.com&#x2F;what-is-the-metaverse&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.meta.com&#x2F;what-is-the-metaverse&#x2F;</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;paultassi&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;fortnites-epic-games-makes-a-metaverse-investment-to-scale-up-even-further&#x2F;?sh=3a9105d2cfd0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;paultassi&#x2F;2022&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;fortnites-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Who is still inside the metaverse?</title><url>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>irrational</author><text>Has anyone actually met anyone who has visited the metaverse? Admittedly, I don’t live in SV (or CA), but I do know a lot of developers, tech people, nerds, etc. and none of them have visited the metaverse. I keep assuming it doesn’t actually exist yet. It’s like a story of this far off land that people have heard of, but nobody has actually visited.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tfandango</author><text>One day in the middle of the day I visited the &quot;Soapstone comedy club&quot; world in Horizon Worlds. People were actually taking turns going on stage and telling jokes. Then in the course of general conversation, one person said she wrote and sang songs and someone asked her to get on the stage and sing. She did, and it was beautiful, almost a magic moment of discovery. Afterward she told us that she was a twin who recently met her brother and both were into music so they formed a band. The band is called Cave Twins and the song was &quot;A Little Longer&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s the one redeeming moment in Horizon Worlds that I have had. I continue to check in once a month or so but have had no other meaningful interactions since.</text></comment> |
5,320,145 | 5,320,371 | 1 | 3 | 5,319,434 | train | <story><title>Ubuntu will switch from X window server to Mir</title><url>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kunai</author><text>&#62; <i>What I like about the GNU/Linux ecosystem is that a lot of distros share a lot of common underpinnings, and everyone benefits from a large community fixing bugs and improving those underpinnings</i><p>Exactly. Standards exist in the GNU/Linux world for reason. Mir, Unity, etc. all don't seem to play too well with other distros and are very tightly integrated with Ubuntu; if this continues Ubuntu might turn into a slightly more open OS X, which isn't good at all.</text></item><item><author>acabal</author><text>Maybe this is a good idea, I don't know about X/Wayland enough to say. But it worries me that Ubuntu is increasingly striking out on its own. What I like about the GNU/Linux ecosystem is that a lot of distros share a lot of common underpinnings, and everyone benefits from a large community fixing bugs and improving those underpinnings. It's also less knowledge to have to keep in your head for system administration stuff. (Which is still necessary in Ubuntu, regardless of what the "it just works for me" people say.)<p>Maybe this is the kick in the pants Linux needs to increase adoption. But I would much rather know <i>GNU/Linux</i>, not <i>Ubuntu</i>. Now Ubuntu is standing alone with Compiz, Unity, Upstart, Launchpad, and Mir, all pretty fundamental pieces of the core system. In a decade, will switching from Ubuntu to Debian be as big of a culture shock as switching from Windows to Linux?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjcm</author><text>Standards are great and all, but holding on to those standards is what's keeping back the UX of linux. Gnome3 is familiar, but very dated. X is supported by all, but it's a tangled mess that everyone hates.<p>Yes Ubuntu is straying from the pack, but I'd rather have them stray and the rest follow when they find something good then have the entire linux community sit in the same place they have been for years. Regardless of what path Ubuntu takes, I think it will be good for the linux community to have that diversity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ubuntu will switch from X window server to Mir</title><url>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kunai</author><text>&#62; <i>What I like about the GNU/Linux ecosystem is that a lot of distros share a lot of common underpinnings, and everyone benefits from a large community fixing bugs and improving those underpinnings</i><p>Exactly. Standards exist in the GNU/Linux world for reason. Mir, Unity, etc. all don't seem to play too well with other distros and are very tightly integrated with Ubuntu; if this continues Ubuntu might turn into a slightly more open OS X, which isn't good at all.</text></item><item><author>acabal</author><text>Maybe this is a good idea, I don't know about X/Wayland enough to say. But it worries me that Ubuntu is increasingly striking out on its own. What I like about the GNU/Linux ecosystem is that a lot of distros share a lot of common underpinnings, and everyone benefits from a large community fixing bugs and improving those underpinnings. It's also less knowledge to have to keep in your head for system administration stuff. (Which is still necessary in Ubuntu, regardless of what the "it just works for me" people say.)<p>Maybe this is the kick in the pants Linux needs to increase adoption. But I would much rather know <i>GNU/Linux</i>, not <i>Ubuntu</i>. Now Ubuntu is standing alone with Compiz, Unity, Upstart, Launchpad, and Mir, all pretty fundamental pieces of the core system. In a decade, will switching from Ubuntu to Debian be as big of a culture shock as switching from Windows to Linux?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mseebach</author><text>There are very few standards in the GNU/Linux world. GNU and Linux has, by themselves, <i>become</i> standards through ubiquity. POSIX is one, yes, but it's woefully inadequate when you've gotten used to all the bells and whistles any modern GNU/Linux distro puts on top of it by default.<p>And what about the BSDs? They certainly doesn't play well with Linux, or vice versa, but that's hardly an argument for calling either an agent for closedness.</text></comment> |
32,630,392 | 32,628,780 | 1 | 2 | 32,628,768 | train | <story><title>Fissure: The RF and Reverse Engineering Framework for Everyone</title><url>https://github.com/ainfosec/FISSURE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jjeaff</author><text>This is really cool. And it has such a great readme with screenshots and everything.<p>One thing I can&#x27;t figure out from a cursory reading is what type of RF hardware would be needed to use this?<p>I was just thinking about finding some software like this is because I have lost one of the keyless entry key fobs for our car and I was thinking if I could record and replay the signal from the car, I might be able to narrow down the fob location.<p>I suspect it is in the house somewhere. But we have a 1 year old who loves to pick things up and insert them into any slot or box he can find.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fissure: The RF and Reverse Engineering Framework for Everyone</title><url>https://github.com/ainfosec/FISSURE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>04rob</author><text>Video overview: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AGHbxXXmnms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AGHbxXXmnms</a></text></comment> |
13,007,557 | 13,007,391 | 1 | 2 | 13,005,484 | train | <story><title>98% of sites on Cloudflare now use IPv6</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/98-percent-ipv6/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Symbiote</author><text>Why are Cloudflare still sharing IPv6 addresses, when there should easily be enough for one per website? (And then with correct reverse DNS.)<p>The linked site [1] has a download of 134k hostnames. Filtering for the Cloudflare prefix, 2400:cb00:2048, there are still plenty of sites sharing an IP. For example, www.monolith.agency (a design agency) is on the same IP as www.bobshouseofporn.com (porn).<p>Maybe the same company hosts both websites, and it&#x27;s not Cloudflare&#x27;s issue, but that seems unlikely for a US porn site, Quebec design agency, Brazilian health site and Spanish programming site.<p>Google have 13,000 sites on the same IP, 2607:f8b0:4005:808::2013, looks like Blogger.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.employees.org&#x2F;~dwing&#x2F;aaaa-stats&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.employees.org&#x2F;~dwing&#x2F;aaaa-stats&#x2F;</a><p>Something like:<p><pre><code> egrep --only-matching &#x27;IPv6.+? &#x27; ips | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | grep 2400:cb00:2048</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>98% of sites on Cloudflare now use IPv6</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/98-percent-ipv6/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>franciscop</author><text>Cloudflare, you have my login token cookie but you are still asking me to prove I&#x27;m not a robot. Please make using a VPN not to be a punishment since all the sites that use your SSL show me the &quot;I&#x27;m not a robot&quot;, no matter how often I verify it. I am most times under an insecure WIFI so no VPN is not an option for security. Possible steps:<p>1. Make me solve it only once every X minutes&#x2F;hours.<p>2. Make the defaults to be one step down in security, probably most webmasters don&#x27;t want to block legitimate people using VPN.<p>3. Make it dynamic, so only those under suspicion have to do it. And consider being using a VPN NOT to be enough suspicion for it.<p>Right now I have to choose either to:<p>- Compromise my security: don&#x27;t like it now, cannot do it when I start working with the new company I&#x27;m going to work<p>- Solve hundreds of &quot;I&#x27;m not a robot&quot; per day</text></comment> |
33,112,510 | 33,112,643 | 1 | 3 | 33,110,973 | train | <story><title>The Future of the Web Is on the Edge</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/the-future-of-web-is-on-the-edge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>naiv</author><text>I would even say that for 99% of the existing websites a free oracle cloud instance with 4 cores and 24GB ram + cdn is more than enough.</text></item><item><author>jensneuse</author><text>Instead of &quot;edge&quot;, a lot of websites should just have 3 locations (us,eu,apac) with a non geo replicated Serverless database in each region. At least that&#x27;s what we&#x27;re building at WunderGraph (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wundergraph.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wundergraph.com&#x2F;</a>). Edge sounds super cool, but if you take state and consistency into consideration, you just can&#x27;t have servers across the globe that also replicate their state consistently with low latency. TTFB doesn&#x27;t matter as much as correctness. And if stale content is acceptable, then we can also just push it to a CDN. Most importantly, you&#x27;d want to have low latency between server and storage. So if your servers are on the &quot;edge&quot;, they are close to the user, but (randomly) further away from the database. Durable objcets might solve this, but they are nowhere near a postgres database. I think the &quot;edge&quot; is good for some stateless use cases, like validating auth and inputs, etc., but it won&#x27;t make &quot;boring&quot; services, even serverless in &quot;non-edge&quot; Locations obsolete. You can see this on Vercel. Serverless for functions, server side rendering, etc. and cloudflare workers for edge middleware. But they explicitly say that your serverless functions should be close to a database if you&#x27;re using one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>systemvoltage</author><text>Here is my golden setup: Cloudflare Tunnels + All ports closed (except ssh) + bare metal server. You can scale to the moon with like a million active users on a couple of 16 core servers (1 primary, 1 hot failover). You don&#x27;t need AWS. You don&#x27;t need Terraform. You don&#x27;t need kubernetes. Hell, you don&#x27;t need docker because you know apriori what the deployment environment is. Just run systemd services.<p>99% of the startsup will <i>never</i> need anything more. They&#x27;ll fail before that. The ones that succeed have a good problem on hand to actually Scale™.<p>What we&#x27;re seeing is premature-optimi...errr scaling.<p>Edit more context:<p>For Postgres, setup streaming replication between postgres and hot standby. You need a remote server somewhere to check health of your primary and run promote to your hot standby if it fails. It is not that difficult. Have cron jobs to back up your database with pgdumpall in addition somewhere on Backblaze or S3. Use your hot standby to run Grafana&#x2F;Prometheus&#x2F;Loki stack. For extra safety, run both servers on ZFS raid (mirror or raidz2) on nvme drives. You&#x27;ll get like 100k IOPS which would be 300x of base RDS instance on AWS. Ridiculous savings and performance would be just astonishing. Run your app to call postgres on localhost, it will be the fastest web experience your customers will ever experience, on edge or not.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Future of the Web Is on the Edge</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/the-future-of-web-is-on-the-edge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>naiv</author><text>I would even say that for 99% of the existing websites a free oracle cloud instance with 4 cores and 24GB ram + cdn is more than enough.</text></item><item><author>jensneuse</author><text>Instead of &quot;edge&quot;, a lot of websites should just have 3 locations (us,eu,apac) with a non geo replicated Serverless database in each region. At least that&#x27;s what we&#x27;re building at WunderGraph (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wundergraph.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wundergraph.com&#x2F;</a>). Edge sounds super cool, but if you take state and consistency into consideration, you just can&#x27;t have servers across the globe that also replicate their state consistently with low latency. TTFB doesn&#x27;t matter as much as correctness. And if stale content is acceptable, then we can also just push it to a CDN. Most importantly, you&#x27;d want to have low latency between server and storage. So if your servers are on the &quot;edge&quot;, they are close to the user, but (randomly) further away from the database. Durable objcets might solve this, but they are nowhere near a postgres database. I think the &quot;edge&quot; is good for some stateless use cases, like validating auth and inputs, etc., but it won&#x27;t make &quot;boring&quot; services, even serverless in &quot;non-edge&quot; Locations obsolete. You can see this on Vercel. Serverless for functions, server side rendering, etc. and cloudflare workers for edge middleware. But they explicitly say that your serverless functions should be close to a database if you&#x27;re using one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soperj</author><text>Nothing from Oracle is ever free.</text></comment> |
31,063,814 | 31,062,644 | 1 | 3 | 31,061,138 | train | <story><title>What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?</title><url>https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/what-does-shitty-job-mean-in-the</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rnikander</author><text>So rent a room and&#x2F;or don’t live in the best part of the city. That’s what I did near Boston a few years ago. My rent was well under $1000. Do people think they’re entitled to private apartments in the most expensive cities in the world?</text></item><item><author>abxytg</author><text>Cynically untrue. Amazon is not even close to bottom of the barrel. And it&#x27;s clear you haven&#x27;t paid market rent in a major city since you bought that starter home back in the 90s - 42k is a joke when your rent is close to $2500 and you get no benefits.</text></item><item><author>mrjangles</author><text>&gt;how modern work for a lot of jobs has become de facto indentured servitude...The average worker can&#x27;t afford anything without taking on debt.<p>For people from other countries wondering about the veracity of these claims, let&#x27;s take an example: The typical shitty job everyone on here complains about is working at an amazon warehouse. This is a job people with no skills take on. They pay 15 USD an hour. In other currencies that is 42k a year AUD or 2390 Euros a month. (the cost of living is roughly the same in these places).<p>I&#x27;ll leave you to decide whether this is &quot;slavery&quot; and whether they &quot;can&#x27;t afford anything&quot; or whether Americans are just so rich they are out of touch with reality.</text></item><item><author>alexfromapex</author><text>I think this article starts to touch on a topic area I don&#x27;t hear much about but am extremely frustrated by: how modern work for a lot of jobs has become de facto indentured servitude. In the &quot;When They Know They&#x27;ve Got You&quot; section, they mention the real challenges of not being able to obtain a lawyer if things truly aren&#x27;t fair. The average worker can&#x27;t afford anything without taking on debt. Insurance is a scam in a lot of cases but if a worker is sick it will only hurt the worker not the company a lot of the time. To make matters much worse, the corporations lobby the government and fund all candidates and have seemingly captured the government so no changes are being made. Healthcare, extremely high rent, and things like property tax where failure to pay sends you to prison are used as the means of coercion. If the United States continues on the current political course, nothing will ever change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>screye</author><text>Boston is actually an amazing example of things the US needs to do to enable affordable living.<p>The expansive public transport network allows you to live far from the city without incurring huge commute times. That paired with the density means that car ownership is discouraged, which takes away another expense. Lastly, the city continues building multi-family middle housing in the city outskirts which keeps housing availability high.<p>High density and walking&#x2F;public space culture comes with many other advantages. High footraffic means restaurants can run low-margin, high-volume food that poor can afford. The public spaces mean that restaurants can operate low-overhead businesses out of food trucks and holes in the wall.<p>Speaking if public spaces, they&#x27;ve generally (idk how, it is more localized there) managed to avoid the violent homelessness problem of the other major cities. Violent homelessness disproportionally affects poor people as they are more reliant on public spaces and safety in numbers. This has helped the city avoid an SF&#x2F;Portland&#x2F;Seattle-esque deterioration of entire neighborhoods.<p>Most American cities don&#x27;t have any of these pros, which leads to skyrocketing costs associated with city living.</text></comment> | <story><title>What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?</title><url>https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/what-does-shitty-job-mean-in-the</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rnikander</author><text>So rent a room and&#x2F;or don’t live in the best part of the city. That’s what I did near Boston a few years ago. My rent was well under $1000. Do people think they’re entitled to private apartments in the most expensive cities in the world?</text></item><item><author>abxytg</author><text>Cynically untrue. Amazon is not even close to bottom of the barrel. And it&#x27;s clear you haven&#x27;t paid market rent in a major city since you bought that starter home back in the 90s - 42k is a joke when your rent is close to $2500 and you get no benefits.</text></item><item><author>mrjangles</author><text>&gt;how modern work for a lot of jobs has become de facto indentured servitude...The average worker can&#x27;t afford anything without taking on debt.<p>For people from other countries wondering about the veracity of these claims, let&#x27;s take an example: The typical shitty job everyone on here complains about is working at an amazon warehouse. This is a job people with no skills take on. They pay 15 USD an hour. In other currencies that is 42k a year AUD or 2390 Euros a month. (the cost of living is roughly the same in these places).<p>I&#x27;ll leave you to decide whether this is &quot;slavery&quot; and whether they &quot;can&#x27;t afford anything&quot; or whether Americans are just so rich they are out of touch with reality.</text></item><item><author>alexfromapex</author><text>I think this article starts to touch on a topic area I don&#x27;t hear much about but am extremely frustrated by: how modern work for a lot of jobs has become de facto indentured servitude. In the &quot;When They Know They&#x27;ve Got You&quot; section, they mention the real challenges of not being able to obtain a lawyer if things truly aren&#x27;t fair. The average worker can&#x27;t afford anything without taking on debt. Insurance is a scam in a lot of cases but if a worker is sick it will only hurt the worker not the company a lot of the time. To make matters much worse, the corporations lobby the government and fund all candidates and have seemingly captured the government so no changes are being made. Healthcare, extremely high rent, and things like property tax where failure to pay sends you to prison are used as the means of coercion. If the United States continues on the current political course, nothing will ever change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iamdbtoo</author><text>Yeah, that&#x27;s kind of how this country markets itself. Being able to afford a home and a family on a regular worker&#x27;s pay is literally part of &quot;The American Dream.&quot;</text></comment> |
35,408,181 | 35,407,794 | 1 | 3 | 35,403,726 | train | <story><title>What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-03-27/swedish-housing-market-crash-exposes-economic-divisions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erur</author><text>It&#x27;s definitely not every city in Germany that has this problem.<p>You&#x27;re trying to live in one of the objectively best parts of Germany by a lot of stats and thus you&#x27;re competing with a lot of folks.<p>I&#x27;m honestly sick of this whining about rent in top-tier areas.
Living there is a luxury, given the major move to cities and scarcity, driven by insane regulations and basic logic.<p>There are plenty of cities in Germany with very cheap rent, where apartment buildings get torn down because they&#x27;re vacant.<p>But of course the entitlement seems stronger than the willingness to compromise.</text></item><item><author>watrami</author><text>It seems like it&#x27;s the same story everywhere I look. Housing is the main driver of inequality and there is little change happening. We have the same problem here in Germany.<p>I am currently living in Munich to finish my CS Master&#x27;s at TUM and build a startup, and it is absolutely impossible to find anything remotely affordable. I am supported by two startup scholarships and make enough to get by, but no landlord even gives me the chance in the first place after they see my income and plans. Right now I am paying 940€ for ~20sqm, and only because my mom co-signed my contract - which is incredibly humiliating as a 24 year old guy.<p>And even with high-paying jobs it&#x27;s impossible to get anything remotely affordable. My girlfriend just finished her degree and makes 75k straight out of college and still gets rejected either for her financial situation or because the rental contract is already set to increase 8% each year - which we simply cannot afford. And it&#x27;s not just Munich. Every city in Germany has this problem.<p>How the hell are we ever supposed to build up some savings, settle down and have a comfortable life? It really feels like being born 15 years too late for this.<p>Germany paid a lot for our education but offers us little reason to stay. We are already looking to move to other places and created a university-wide google sheet where we compare different countries and cities around the world for those kinds of categories.<p>Sorry for the rant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>somedude895</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m honestly sick of this whining about rent in top-tier areas.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this applies to GP, but we certainly get this in Zurich, Switzerland. We have a fantastic public transport system, and you can get fairly affordable apartments that are &lt;30mins away from the city center of Zurich by train. But people somehow feel they have a right to live dead center in one of the most expensive cities in the world right after graduation.</text></comment> | <story><title>What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-03-27/swedish-housing-market-crash-exposes-economic-divisions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erur</author><text>It&#x27;s definitely not every city in Germany that has this problem.<p>You&#x27;re trying to live in one of the objectively best parts of Germany by a lot of stats and thus you&#x27;re competing with a lot of folks.<p>I&#x27;m honestly sick of this whining about rent in top-tier areas.
Living there is a luxury, given the major move to cities and scarcity, driven by insane regulations and basic logic.<p>There are plenty of cities in Germany with very cheap rent, where apartment buildings get torn down because they&#x27;re vacant.<p>But of course the entitlement seems stronger than the willingness to compromise.</text></item><item><author>watrami</author><text>It seems like it&#x27;s the same story everywhere I look. Housing is the main driver of inequality and there is little change happening. We have the same problem here in Germany.<p>I am currently living in Munich to finish my CS Master&#x27;s at TUM and build a startup, and it is absolutely impossible to find anything remotely affordable. I am supported by two startup scholarships and make enough to get by, but no landlord even gives me the chance in the first place after they see my income and plans. Right now I am paying 940€ for ~20sqm, and only because my mom co-signed my contract - which is incredibly humiliating as a 24 year old guy.<p>And even with high-paying jobs it&#x27;s impossible to get anything remotely affordable. My girlfriend just finished her degree and makes 75k straight out of college and still gets rejected either for her financial situation or because the rental contract is already set to increase 8% each year - which we simply cannot afford. And it&#x27;s not just Munich. Every city in Germany has this problem.<p>How the hell are we ever supposed to build up some savings, settle down and have a comfortable life? It really feels like being born 15 years too late for this.<p>Germany paid a lot for our education but offers us little reason to stay. We are already looking to move to other places and created a university-wide google sheet where we compare different countries and cities around the world for those kinds of categories.<p>Sorry for the rant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theshrike79</author><text>&gt; There are plenty of cities in Germany with very cheap rent, where apartment buildings get torn down because they&#x27;re vacant.<p>There are plenty of cities in Finland like this too.<p>But the problem is that the jobs aren&#x27;t there. I could buy a huge house with a big yard from one of those cities, but then my commute would be over 300km every day. Not really worth it.<p>Or I would have to quit my job and start working in the local paper factory or sawmill.</text></comment> |
24,007,004 | 24,007,035 | 1 | 2 | 24,006,697 | train | <story><title>Monitoring demystified: A guide for logging, tracing, metrics</title><url>https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/monitoring-demystified-guide-logging-tracing-metrics</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buro9</author><text>A lot of excellent information in that blog post and linked from it... but if you&#x27;re wondering where to start:<p>1. Write good logs... not too noisy when everything is running well, meaningful enough to let you know the key state or branch of code when things deviate from the good path. Don&#x27;t worry about structured vs unstructured too much, just ensure you include a timestamp, file, log level, func name (or line number), and that the message will help you debug.<p>2. Instrument metrics using Prometheus, there are libraries that make this easy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prometheus.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;instrumenting&#x2F;clientlibs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prometheus.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;instrumenting&#x2F;clientlibs&#x2F;</a> . Counts get you started, but you probably want to think in aggregation and to ask about the rate of things and percentiles. Use histograms for this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prometheus.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;practices&#x2F;histograms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;prometheus.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;practices&#x2F;histograms&#x2F;</a> . Use labels to create a more complex picture, i.e. A histogram of HTTP request times with a label of HTTP method means you can see all reqs, just the POST, or maybe the HEAD, GET together, etc... and then create rates over time, percentiles, etc. Do think about cardinality of label values, HTTP methods is good, but request identifiers are bad in high traffic environments... labels should group not identify.<p>Start with those things, tracing follows good logging and metrics as it takes a little more effort to instrument an entire system whereas logging and metrics are valuable even when only small parts of a system are instrumented.<p>Once you&#x27;ve instrumented... Grafana Cloud offers a hosted Grafana, Prometheus metrics scraping and storage, and Log tailing and storage (via Loki) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grafana.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;cloud&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grafana.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;cloud&#x2F;</a> so you can see the results of your work immediately.<p>If it&#x27;s a big project, you have a lot of options and I assume you know them already, this is when you start looking at Cortex and Thanos, Datadog and Loki, tracing with Jaegar.</text></comment> | <story><title>Monitoring demystified: A guide for logging, tracing, metrics</title><url>https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/monitoring-demystified-guide-logging-tracing-metrics</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>KaiserPro</author><text>A few things I have learnt along the way:<p>Logs are great, but only once you&#x27;ve identified the problem. If you are searching through logs to _find_ a problem, its far too late.<p>Processing&#x2F;streaming logs to get metrics is a terrible waste of time, energy and money. Spend that producing high quality metrics directly from the apps you are looking after&#x2F;writing&#x2F;decomming (example: dont use access logs to collect 4xx&#x2F;5xx and make a graph, collate and push the metrics directly)<p>Raw metrics are pretty useless. They need to be manipulated into buisness goals: service x is producing 3% 5xx errors vs % of visitors unable to perform action x<p>Alerts must be actionable.<p>Alerts rules must be based on sensible clear cut rules: service x&#x27;s response time is breeching its SLA not service x&#x27;s response time is double its average for this time in may.</text></comment> |
15,143,155 | 15,142,217 | 1 | 2 | 15,141,958 | train | <story><title>Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Attraction</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28853645?dopt=Abstract</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tunesmith</author><text>It&#x27;s also so timing-dependent. My wife and I are not sure we would have been attracted to each other if we had met during quite a few other times in our past lives. There have to be some factors about a person that are about timing and emotional state, beyond simply just being single and available.<p>EDIT: &quot;past lives&quot; refers to the past of each of our lives, not reincarnation. :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Attraction</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28853645?dopt=Abstract</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>make3</author><text>... They should run convnets on pictures on the subjects, would be much more accurate, I&#x27;m sure. Speed dating is a first impressions thing. Physical attractiveness is huge, I&#x27;m sure. I don&#x27;t know if the convnet would have time to learn what attractiveness means, but that&#x27;s more of a technical (albeit important) detail. Meta learning (including transfer learning) and more data could help a lot with this</text></comment> |
20,923,925 | 20,922,328 | 1 | 3 | 20,921,271 | train | <story><title>Why Positive Cashflow Matters</title><url>https://avc.com/2019/09/why-positive-cashflow-matters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>H8crilA</author><text>One sign of a bubble: traditional valuation principles are abandoned because &quot;this time it&#x27;s different&quot;. See Nifty Fifty, 2000 dotcom, 1920&#x27;s crash, 2015 Chinese A shares, ... . It usually requires a new generation of people to enter the market because most people learn only on their own mistakes, not on other people mistakes.<p>This article talks about what negative cash flow means for the company. But what does it mean for the investor? A company that cannot go cash flow positive is worth zero - the value of the company is max(all future cash flows discounted by the interest rate curve, 0). The max(, 0) comes from the concept of the limited liability company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rgoldste</author><text>I catch your drift, but this isn’t technically true. A company with negative discounted cash flows might have a positive expected value because it can undertake a risky project that has a negative expected value. Usually this project will bankrupt the company, but occasionally it will provide a windfall. During bankruptcy, the company might not pay off all of its debts, but it can’t be worth less than 0 due to limited liability. During the unlikely event of success, the company is worth something.<p>If you want to know more, look up “moral hazard” and “real options”.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Positive Cashflow Matters</title><url>https://avc.com/2019/09/why-positive-cashflow-matters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>H8crilA</author><text>One sign of a bubble: traditional valuation principles are abandoned because &quot;this time it&#x27;s different&quot;. See Nifty Fifty, 2000 dotcom, 1920&#x27;s crash, 2015 Chinese A shares, ... . It usually requires a new generation of people to enter the market because most people learn only on their own mistakes, not on other people mistakes.<p>This article talks about what negative cash flow means for the company. But what does it mean for the investor? A company that cannot go cash flow positive is worth zero - the value of the company is max(all future cash flows discounted by the interest rate curve, 0). The max(, 0) comes from the concept of the limited liability company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gizmo686</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t said company still have assets? At some point, the company can just dissolve and liquidate its assets. Assuming the assets are worth more then the companies debt, this leaves something to distribute to shareholders.</text></comment> |
29,288,315 | 29,288,281 | 1 | 2 | 29,282,824 | train | <story><title>The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless</title><url>https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-unfulfilled-promise-of-serverless/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gerbilly</author><text>I have a theory that even though the serverless trend is sold as a technical revolution, it&#x27;s mostly due to accounting practices.<p>Serverless is purely about CAPEX, vs OPEX.<p>Companies are so loath to make capital expenditures (CAPEX) that they will willingly let their employees waste thousands of extra hours learning a new development model so they can pay Amazon using operating expenses instead.<p>And it&#x27;s funny because even though amazon has no choice but to use capital expenditures to
populate their datacentres with machines, they are offering lambda as a way to monetize the unused cycles.<p>So lambdas are being twice used as a kind of compromise to fill in the gaps on an accounting sheet.<p>I believe the joke is on us as technical people. We twist ourselves into knots to promote this new development model as a <i>technical</i> innovation, which it really isn&#x27;t.<p>We have just made the time-sharing service (they used to have them in the 60s and 70s) fashionable again. (Along with the long feedback cycle which makes working on these systems so frustrating.)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless</title><url>https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-unfulfilled-promise-of-serverless/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I couldn&#x27;t disagree with this article more. We&#x27;ve built an entire architecture running our Series A startup on serverless technologies, and it&#x27;s been fantastically successful. We have a small team, so I specifically <i>knew</i> I didn&#x27;t have the team capacity to do a lot of server management. Here are our general components:<p>1. We have a bunch of services running on App Engine NodeJS Flexible version. We have extremely minimal lock-in because we basically just have a normal Express app serving GraphQL.<p>2. In fact, we migrated some of our services to Cloud Run for lower costs. Cloud Run is basically serverless Docker containers, and the migration was very easy. Again, our apps are for the most part platform agnostic apps on Node.<p>3. We also make use of Google Cloud Functions for our asynchronous event handling. This has also been a great choice.<p>Going with serverless tech has <i>easily</i> saved us ~2 FTEs in a team of fewer than 10 engineers.</text></comment> |
31,243,170 | 31,243,274 | 1 | 2 | 31,243,022 | train | <story><title>Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>threatofrain</author><text>States <i>ought not</i> ban medical procedures which are mainstream in major countries around the world on the basis of religious ideology, but unfortunately that&#x27;s what&#x27;s happening in states like Texas.<p>This is a private matter between any individual and their doctor.<p>Of course rich individuals will still be able to fly to countries like UK or Germany to receive mainstream medicine backed by mainstream science.</text></comment> | <story><title>Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>t-3</author><text>Abortion is absolutely an issue of personal autonomy which deserves Constitutional protection. I hope this ruling can help serve as an impetus for reform. We really need a Constitutional Convention, but an amendment would be progress.</text></comment> |
18,279,883 | 18,277,630 | 1 | 2 | 18,275,061 | train | <story><title>Facebook adding “fbclid” parameter to outbound links</title><url>http://thisinterestsme.com/facebook-fbclid-parameter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>Engineer here: I used to be completely anti-tracking.<p>Then, I started needing analytics for my own business. Without analytics, I wouldn&#x27;t be able to sell with efficiency, and therefore, I wouldn&#x27;t have a business. Granted, the anti-consumerist in me thinks maybe as a society we shouldn&#x27;t be so concerned with our efficiency to sell. But, we live in a capitalist world, and I don&#x27;t see that changing any time soon.<p>The way I see it now, I&#x27;m less concerned about tracking than I am about how big some businesses are -- especially in this space.<p>At every start up I know, they use analytics, and no one is doing anything spooky. But, I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s plenty of spooky stuff going on at the FAANGAMUs.</text></item><item><author>pipermerriam</author><text>There are a number of comments here who seem genuinely happy about this. This is a perspective that is hard for me to understand, largely because I&#x27;m strongly in the pro-privacy, anti-tracking ideology.<p>So if you are part of the group who sees this as a good thing, I&#x27;m genuinely interested to understand why you see this as a good thing and whether you view the mass surveillance of the general public by advertising companies as bad?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BLKNSLVR</author><text>&quot;Sell with efficiency&quot; sounds a bit vampiric to me; a bit growth-at-all-costs or refusing to accept the normal costs of doing business (although I can sympathise with that mindset).<p>Where do you draw the line? This is parallel to the discussion around government surveillance. Just be cause they &#x2F; you can, doesn&#x27;t mean they &#x2F; you should.<p>If Internet tracking had no potential use to governments then they&#x27;d be regulating the shit out of it. The problem is that governments want their own noses in the same trough, and so all these privacy-invasive technologies continue to be developed. The fact that it&#x27;s not illegal means that anyone with the ability to implement it can, as long as they can sleep at night.<p>As to solutions that could help with &quot;selling efficiency&quot;, maybe some kind of agreed tiers of analytics from benign to spooky that users can opt-in &#x2F; opt-out of when visiting a website or using an app. Which GDPR is a bit of a kludgy solution for. The problem is that it only takes one bad advertiser to break agreed rules and the trust is gone again for all advertisers.<p>One bad apple.<p>Analytics are unquestionably useful. Collecting the data without user consent is what potentially should be regulated.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook adding “fbclid” parameter to outbound links</title><url>http://thisinterestsme.com/facebook-fbclid-parameter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>Engineer here: I used to be completely anti-tracking.<p>Then, I started needing analytics for my own business. Without analytics, I wouldn&#x27;t be able to sell with efficiency, and therefore, I wouldn&#x27;t have a business. Granted, the anti-consumerist in me thinks maybe as a society we shouldn&#x27;t be so concerned with our efficiency to sell. But, we live in a capitalist world, and I don&#x27;t see that changing any time soon.<p>The way I see it now, I&#x27;m less concerned about tracking than I am about how big some businesses are -- especially in this space.<p>At every start up I know, they use analytics, and no one is doing anything spooky. But, I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s plenty of spooky stuff going on at the FAANGAMUs.</text></item><item><author>pipermerriam</author><text>There are a number of comments here who seem genuinely happy about this. This is a perspective that is hard for me to understand, largely because I&#x27;m strongly in the pro-privacy, anti-tracking ideology.<p>So if you are part of the group who sees this as a good thing, I&#x27;m genuinely interested to understand why you see this as a good thing and whether you view the mass surveillance of the general public by advertising companies as bad?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8ytecoder</author><text>I&#x27;d be completely ok with intent based advertising - I search for $X you show ads that are related to $X. And I&#x27;m ok with measuring what percentage of those who click the ad that converts as well. However, that&#x27;s not where we are today. The appetite for marketing and advertisement has grown to such a level that companies like Facebook want to know every aspect of your life so they can satisfy that appetite. Clearly a) there&#x27;s a demand from companies big and small and b) it&#x27;s working. Companies can still be ethical about it - like why should Facebook track every URL I visit (via the Like button)? Or, why not provide an option to opt-out of targeted ads - I don&#x27;t like them and I do have friends who like them. I get it but provide an option to opt out.<p>The general retort I hear is what do you have to hide? Like the only thing that people want to hide are the bad and evil stuff.</text></comment> |
24,077,883 | 24,077,678 | 1 | 2 | 24,077,359 | train | <story><title>Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>That employee argued that people, such as people like me, were inherently less competent than others due to aspects of their gestation. Frankly I wouldn’t want to work with someone with such an attitude, and based on his writing vice versa.<p>If he actually cannot get a job due to his stated opinions, well, frankly I’m not surprised. Why would you hire someone who publically says up front he scorns many of his potential coworkers?</text></item><item><author>smart_jackal</author><text>A google employee had also similarly pointed out evidence in an internal company memo few years ago. That employee was promptly fired and last I heard, he is struggling to make a living and ends meet in the US.</text></item><item><author>fach</author><text>&gt; This smells like sour apples from an employee who focused more on their plans to take down their employer than their actual job.<p>The story didn&#x27;t read as &quot;sour apples&quot; to me but rather an employee pointing out evidence that contradicts the &quot;two strikes&quot; policy Zuckerberg explained at the company Q&amp;A. It&#x27;s tough to write that off as &quot;Facebook isn&#x27;t perfect&quot;.</text></item><item><author>wiredone</author><text>“Potential” Political bias.<p>Can we just acknowledge for a moment what it’d be like to have a colleague who’s desperately trying to prove that your work is a “big conspiracy” when you’re honestly all just trying to do your best.<p>I see so many of these stories of weirdly rogue political activist type employees recently surprised when they their employer doesn’t like that they’re purposely trying to undermine them and their employees work. I’m sure Facebook isn’t perfect, but I know enough good people who work there to know they’re not all out to “get” us.<p>This smells like sour grapes* from an employee who focused more on their plans to take down their employer than their actual job.<p>*ed: previously written as “sour apples”...it’s been a long day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcims</author><text>edit: you&#x27;ve already been lumped on, no need to reply to more of the same here.<p>Now that the dust has settled a bit on the memo, I&#x27;m curious about this take:<p>&gt;That employee argued that people, such as people like me, were inherently less competent than others due to aspects of their gestation.<p>I didn&#x27;t get that much of a dichotomy from the memo. To me he focused much more on interests than competency or capability, and he went through some effort to indicate that the effect was limited, including this summary at the top:<p>&gt;Many of these differences are small and there&#x27;s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.<p>Then followed with a little chart showing two distributions with a lot of overlap.<p>I felt like the story of the memo overtook the memo itself, which seemed to be a ham-fisted attempt at exploring how we prioritize various metrics with diversity and inclusion. It was obviously premature as well, based on his own charts the effects he was discussing wouldn&#x27;t come into play until we&#x27;re approaching something much more even than we have today.<p>Ultimately the way Google handled it seemed rather cowardly. Damore&#x27;s personal story adds a little complexity to the situation and I really feel that he touched a third rail that might not have been as obvious to him at the time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>That employee argued that people, such as people like me, were inherently less competent than others due to aspects of their gestation. Frankly I wouldn’t want to work with someone with such an attitude, and based on his writing vice versa.<p>If he actually cannot get a job due to his stated opinions, well, frankly I’m not surprised. Why would you hire someone who publically says up front he scorns many of his potential coworkers?</text></item><item><author>smart_jackal</author><text>A google employee had also similarly pointed out evidence in an internal company memo few years ago. That employee was promptly fired and last I heard, he is struggling to make a living and ends meet in the US.</text></item><item><author>fach</author><text>&gt; This smells like sour apples from an employee who focused more on their plans to take down their employer than their actual job.<p>The story didn&#x27;t read as &quot;sour apples&quot; to me but rather an employee pointing out evidence that contradicts the &quot;two strikes&quot; policy Zuckerberg explained at the company Q&amp;A. It&#x27;s tough to write that off as &quot;Facebook isn&#x27;t perfect&quot;.</text></item><item><author>wiredone</author><text>“Potential” Political bias.<p>Can we just acknowledge for a moment what it’d be like to have a colleague who’s desperately trying to prove that your work is a “big conspiracy” when you’re honestly all just trying to do your best.<p>I see so many of these stories of weirdly rogue political activist type employees recently surprised when they their employer doesn’t like that they’re purposely trying to undermine them and their employees work. I’m sure Facebook isn’t perfect, but I know enough good people who work there to know they’re not all out to “get” us.<p>This smells like sour grapes* from an employee who focused more on their plans to take down their employer than their actual job.<p>*ed: previously written as “sour apples”...it’s been a long day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xupybd</author><text>I don&#x27;t think he argued that anyone was inherently less competent.<p>From what I understand it was about preferences not competencies.</text></comment> |
31,767,273 | 31,766,347 | 1 | 3 | 31,762,778 | train | <story><title>Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform</title><url>https://isdotnetopen.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>.NET is the most open, non-trivial ecosystem I have ever participated in.<p>I experienced 2 different problems with .NET (back in 2.x&#x2F;3.x days), and was able to have interaction with the actual MS developers on their Github issue page without <i>any</i> sort of bullshit overhead process.<p>Within days, I saw traction on my comments and within months I saw PRs that ultimately resolved the issue I presented. The following year, I was deploying framework code to my customers&#x27; instances which incorporated fixes to my concerns.<p>Perhaps I am unaware of just <i>how much better</i> it is with the other ecosystems, but for me this is enough interaction with my framework vendor.<p>Are we upset that we have to pay money for the privilege of using other peoples&#x27; intellectual property? Or are we asserting that Microsoft is stealing other peoples&#x27; IP? I am trying to find the actual crime here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tinco</author><text>You are unaware of how much better it is with the other ecosystems. Probably <i>all</i> of them except the ones controlled by Apple, Oracle and IBM.<p>You want to know what&#x27;s better than having actual MS developers interact with your issue on GH? Being able to submit a MR yourself and actually have that MR be merged in within days of it being good to go.<p>That&#x27;s not just a dream, that&#x27;s the standard way of operating for most large open source ecosystems. If you solve a known issue with a clear well considered merge request, and you&#x27;ve gone through all the prescribed steps your MR will get merged.<p>From personal experience I&#x27;ve landed MR&#x27;s in the Ruby interpreter, in the Rust compiler and in the Rails framework. All as a complete outsider with no prior introductions to the team. Just be polite, follow the rules, solve something that&#x27;s real with no architectural impact and it&#x27;ll get merged (just mentioning these because they&#x27;re ecosystems, I&#x27;ve had MR&#x27;s merged in for dozens of smaller projects in the same manner).</text></comment> | <story><title>Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform</title><url>https://isdotnetopen.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>.NET is the most open, non-trivial ecosystem I have ever participated in.<p>I experienced 2 different problems with .NET (back in 2.x&#x2F;3.x days), and was able to have interaction with the actual MS developers on their Github issue page without <i>any</i> sort of bullshit overhead process.<p>Within days, I saw traction on my comments and within months I saw PRs that ultimately resolved the issue I presented. The following year, I was deploying framework code to my customers&#x27; instances which incorporated fixes to my concerns.<p>Perhaps I am unaware of just <i>how much better</i> it is with the other ecosystems, but for me this is enough interaction with my framework vendor.<p>Are we upset that we have to pay money for the privilege of using other peoples&#x27; intellectual property? Or are we asserting that Microsoft is stealing other peoples&#x27; IP? I am trying to find the actual crime here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>We are not upset. MS can do as they wish.<p>We are warning people to not consider this platform the same way they consider fully free ones, despite the obvious wish of MS that they do so.<p>This platform comes with invisible strings attached, some of them will likely turn into chains in the future.<p>And it&#x27;s MS new marketting strat to say they are open now for everything, so it&#x27;s only fair we point out that the player matters. You are not dealing with the LSF or the PSF, but with MS.</text></comment> |
7,594,676 | 7,594,702 | 1 | 3 | 7,594,474 | train | <story><title>How Being a Doctor Became the Most Miserable Profession</title><url>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/14/how-being-a-doctor-became-the-most-miserable-profession.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tdees40</author><text>The biggest problem is just the AMA. They limit the number of doctors in America, so there are just too few. This drives up the salaries for the few doctors who live the tell the tale (but certainly don&#x27;t want to go into primary care, when other more lucrative jobs are on offer), and drives up the hours for everyone.<p>Making it easier to become a doctor would improve things immediately (especially given the recent research that makes it clear that nurse practitioners do just fine).</text></comment> | <story><title>How Being a Doctor Became the Most Miserable Profession</title><url>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/14/how-being-a-doctor-became-the-most-miserable-profession.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eldavido</author><text>This is completely a story of industry structure and bad incentives, and how people react to them.<p>Currently, in the United States, we believe all of the following things: (1) Human physicians, are the only qualified parties to diagnose, treat, and&#x2F;or recommend courses of action related to health (not nurses, physician&#x27;s assistants, computer programs, etc.), (2) everyone has a fundamental right to healthcare, (3) health professionals must undergo expensive, lengthy, difficult courses of study and training, and (4) we reimburse for procedures, not pay for outcomes.<p>Given these incentives, it&#x27;s not hard to see why doctors are some of the most overworked, stressed-out, and generally miserable professionals out there. They&#x27;re at the nexus of a crushing conflict between keeping people healthy, a management system that demands more revenue (and remember that revenue=procedures, because we reimburse for procedures, so the only way to increase &quot;productivity&quot; is to do more, faster, with fewer breaks and longer shifts), and a legal regime which mandates DOCTORS perform procedures, and only after a lengthy course of study.<p>I believe the way forward is to shift the discussion away from procedures and more toward outcomes, and give medical professionals more operational and financial freedom to run their practices using tried-and-true free-market principles. I believe this outcome is inevitable, but will take a decade or more to surface, because it requires major shifts in how doctors and insurance companies think about billing, greater human trust in computers and recommendation systems, and a collective realization that the current state of healthcare is untenable.</text></comment> |
30,702,429 | 30,702,004 | 1 | 3 | 30,701,451 | train | <story><title>How our free plan stays free</title><url>https://tailscale.com/blog/free-plan/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aborsy</author><text>For me it’s the opposite: I actually don’t mind paying for a great product such as Tailscale (which I really like), but have security and privacy concerns!<p>Mesh VPNs have substantial control over networks that they manage (they bypass firewalls by having users instal agents from within). They could add hidden nodes to networks, which is a major security concern, and see who is taking to who, how long, what service they are running, etc, which can be a privacy concern. They are targets.<p>Is there a way to address these concerns, and make them “really” (not just on website) zero trust or at least minimal trust? Will Wireguard preshared keys as an option help (a maliciously added public key lacks a secret key exchanged among peers out of band)?<p>What are the implications of the substantial control that Tailscale has?<p>Or we have no way, but to trust someone? Looking at events of the past decade, I don’t have a good feeling about this!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>They&#x27;re the same as the implications for using something like Okta as your source of truth for authentication, and Okta is ubiquitous in large enterprises.<p>It&#x27;s not <i>not</i> a concern, it is something you can think about and work out how to mitigate, but the benefits to their product of Tailscale hosting the control plane are going to outweigh the objections.</text></comment> | <story><title>How our free plan stays free</title><url>https://tailscale.com/blog/free-plan/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aborsy</author><text>For me it’s the opposite: I actually don’t mind paying for a great product such as Tailscale (which I really like), but have security and privacy concerns!<p>Mesh VPNs have substantial control over networks that they manage (they bypass firewalls by having users instal agents from within). They could add hidden nodes to networks, which is a major security concern, and see who is taking to who, how long, what service they are running, etc, which can be a privacy concern. They are targets.<p>Is there a way to address these concerns, and make them “really” (not just on website) zero trust or at least minimal trust? Will Wireguard preshared keys as an option help (a maliciously added public key lacks a secret key exchanged among peers out of band)?<p>What are the implications of the substantial control that Tailscale has?<p>Or we have no way, but to trust someone? Looking at events of the past decade, I don’t have a good feeling about this!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tmikaeld</author><text>There is also Cloudflare Zero Trust (Teams), which is free for 50 users and accomplish the same thing (Wireguard = Tunnels), with a lot more years of &quot;trust&quot; and security behind it.<p>However, it&#x27;s very cumbersome to setup, nowhere near as easy as Tailscale.</text></comment> |
24,132,383 | 24,132,481 | 1 | 2 | 24,119,122 | train | <story><title>A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist</title><url>https://bojanvidanovic.com/posts/a-keyboard-with-blank-keycaps-made-me-an-expert-typist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>triangleman</author><text>More accurately: &quot;Learning to touch type made me an expert typist. Also I bought a keyboard with blank keycaps.&quot;<p>I get that you could cheat if you had a regular keyboard, but if you&#x27;re learning to type, why would you do that? And even if you do cheat and look, you could still practice the hand movements.<p>With that said, I learned to touch type in 1-2 weeks with _The Typing of the Dead_ on a Sega Dreamcast and this keyboard:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computinghistory.org.uk&#x2F;det&#x2F;39589&#x2F;Dreamcast-Keyboard-(UK)&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computinghistory.org.uk&#x2F;det&#x2F;39589&#x2F;Dreamcast-Keybo...</a><p>You can find the game on Steam today (updated with new crowd sourced text options)<p>w&#x2F;r&#x2F;t HHKB: I have the &quot;Lite&quot; version and I could never get into it. Fn-keys, other key placements were too unnatural. Anyone want it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benglish11</author><text>&gt;but if you&#x27;re learning to type, why would you do that<p>Sometimes people don&#x27;t try hard if there is no fear of failure. Removing the key labels makes it harder to cheat and forces you to do it the right way. Some people will rationalize in their head (&quot;oh it&#x27;s just this one email I am typing, I am so far behind I can&#x27;t afford to be slowed down&quot;). I can see this method being effective by &quot;forcing&quot; people to learn to touch type.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Keyboard with Blank Keycaps Made Me an Expert Typist</title><url>https://bojanvidanovic.com/posts/a-keyboard-with-blank-keycaps-made-me-an-expert-typist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>triangleman</author><text>More accurately: &quot;Learning to touch type made me an expert typist. Also I bought a keyboard with blank keycaps.&quot;<p>I get that you could cheat if you had a regular keyboard, but if you&#x27;re learning to type, why would you do that? And even if you do cheat and look, you could still practice the hand movements.<p>With that said, I learned to touch type in 1-2 weeks with _The Typing of the Dead_ on a Sega Dreamcast and this keyboard:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computinghistory.org.uk&#x2F;det&#x2F;39589&#x2F;Dreamcast-Keyboard-(UK)&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computinghistory.org.uk&#x2F;det&#x2F;39589&#x2F;Dreamcast-Keybo...</a><p>You can find the game on Steam today (updated with new crowd sourced text options)<p>w&#x2F;r&#x2F;t HHKB: I have the &quot;Lite&quot; version and I could never get into it. Fn-keys, other key placements were too unnatural. Anyone want it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>someone7x</author><text>&gt; I get that you could cheat if you had a regular keyboard, but if you&#x27;re learning to type, why would you do that?<p>I think for some folks it’s a real cognitive challenge to willingly ignore useful information.<p>I know it was for me; I needed a das keyboard to make the learn-to-type “metagame” have sufficiently imperfect information to become “playable” enough for me to stick with it.</text></comment> |
20,194,093 | 20,193,896 | 1 | 3 | 20,193,239 | train | <story><title>Only 37 dogs of each breed can have the same name</title><url>https://twitter.com/leftoblique/status/1139737041162272768</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>systemtrigger</author><text>This part:<p><pre><code> They&#x27;re:
Spot I
Spot II
...
</code></pre>
is not quite correct. The AKC does not assign a number to the first one.<p>Open the Dog Name Check [1]. Pick a breed, enter a unique dog name, and the page will report it is available. Now pick a semi-unique combination (&quot;Shih Tzu&quot; + &quot;King&quot;) and the page will say &quot;The name chosen has been used previously, but may be used with the following change: King XXXVII.&quot; This implies the first person to pick &quot;King&quot; got &quot;King&quot; and the second person got &quot;King II.&quot;<p>One dog per breed can have the name Spot&#x2F;King&#x2F;etc. But the AKC is a rent-seeking monopoly and 6 Roman numerals is short enough to still appear somewhat exclusive.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apps.akc.org&#x2F;apps&#x2F;reg&#x2F;namecheck&#x2F;index.cfm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apps.akc.org&#x2F;apps&#x2F;reg&#x2F;namecheck&#x2F;index.cfm</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Only 37 dogs of each breed can have the same name</title><url>https://twitter.com/leftoblique/status/1139737041162272768</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>function_seven</author><text>What problems would arise if they skipped numbers that exceed the 6 characters? Like, go from 37 to 39 (XXXIX). Then you have a solid run until you run into 78.<p>And 78 ought to be enough for anyone.</text></comment> |
6,820,852 | 6,820,809 | 1 | 2 | 6,820,547 | train | <story><title>Why are software development estimates regularly off by a factor of 2-3?</title><url>http://michaelrwolfe.com/2013/10/19/50/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kronholm</author><text>Been going at it for a couple years now with consulting and freelancing. I&#x27;ve finally gotten good at hitting my estimates. What worked for me was to keep strict time of everything (shoutout to toggl.com, love it!), so I could learn from my mistakes.<p>The trouble is now though, my competition seems to be underbidding me, but in reality they&#x27;re providing those ~33% estimates they will never realistically keep, while I&#x27;m at ~100% estimates. Not really sure how to relay that to clients. One of the many reasons people like me need a salesperson in front, I guess.</text></item><item><author>_wwz4</author><text>So the article tries to describe the hidden complexity of software with a hiking analogy but then it leaves a huge part missing. Let&#x27;s extend the analogy somewhat... this isn&#x27;t your first hiking trip. In fact, you&#x27;ve been on dozens and dozens of hiking trips. You&#x27;re an experienced hiker. Yet, why do you continue to give meaningless as-the-crow-flies estimates of how long it will take you to get to your destination? The reason is that if you miss your estimate, it probably won&#x27;t matter. Your sherpas will be there at every stop with your food, water, and tent. You have nowhere to be any time soon, so estimating your time just isn&#x27;t important enough to worry about.<p>Developer estimates are regularly off because they seldom impact the developer directly. Experienced development managers will pad the hell out of the developers who give them the worst estimates. Most developers will explain all the complexity of what threw their estimate off without acknowledging the huge mistake of not anticipating extra complexity in the first place.<p>My estimates in my early career were no better than anyone else&#x27;s, ie way off -- especially for more complex projects. I&#x27;d explain what happened to my managers and soldier on. The very next task that came up, I&#x27;d give my manager some best-case estimate of how long something would take and the cycle would begin again.<p>That all changed once I started to do consulting for myself using &quot;not-to-exceed&quot; pricing. The first multi-month project I did killed me. My effective hourly rate went down to sub McDonalds levels and took much longer to deliver than I had expected. After that project, I did a post-mortem on the project to figure out where I went wrong. I came up with several spreadsheet templates and checklists to run through before giving any more estimates.<p>Mostly I just concerned myself with getting a hell of a lot better at estimating project duration and difficulty. Like most things, when you really pay attention to it and practice it, you get better at it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanZAG</author><text>You&#x27;re probably losing more business than you think - customers have no idea who is accurate or who is just faster, etc. They will generally go with the lowest quote regardless of other factors unless they&#x27;ve been burned before multiple times. Most people haven&#x27;t.<p>I don&#x27;t have a solution here though other than noticing that underbidding and then getting skilled at convincing clients to do paid extensions later actually appears to make the most money at the cost of your ethics. I&#x27;d avoid that approach, but it does seem to work for a lot of companies.<p>My personal approach is to quote for very bare projects with only the bare essentials (eg, poor UI design, minimum possible feature for the client to see what they&#x27;re asking for, etc). This can usually be done a lot cheaper than most people think as 90% of the work is in the last 20% of the features. Then once the client has something, you can give them a quote to touch up the parts they need. Basically you split the project up into many small projects each with their own quote which helps you to estimate tasks as they appear and helps your client to minimize costs by leaving off features that are more expensive than they initially appear.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why are software development estimates regularly off by a factor of 2-3?</title><url>http://michaelrwolfe.com/2013/10/19/50/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kronholm</author><text>Been going at it for a couple years now with consulting and freelancing. I&#x27;ve finally gotten good at hitting my estimates. What worked for me was to keep strict time of everything (shoutout to toggl.com, love it!), so I could learn from my mistakes.<p>The trouble is now though, my competition seems to be underbidding me, but in reality they&#x27;re providing those ~33% estimates they will never realistically keep, while I&#x27;m at ~100% estimates. Not really sure how to relay that to clients. One of the many reasons people like me need a salesperson in front, I guess.</text></item><item><author>_wwz4</author><text>So the article tries to describe the hidden complexity of software with a hiking analogy but then it leaves a huge part missing. Let&#x27;s extend the analogy somewhat... this isn&#x27;t your first hiking trip. In fact, you&#x27;ve been on dozens and dozens of hiking trips. You&#x27;re an experienced hiker. Yet, why do you continue to give meaningless as-the-crow-flies estimates of how long it will take you to get to your destination? The reason is that if you miss your estimate, it probably won&#x27;t matter. Your sherpas will be there at every stop with your food, water, and tent. You have nowhere to be any time soon, so estimating your time just isn&#x27;t important enough to worry about.<p>Developer estimates are regularly off because they seldom impact the developer directly. Experienced development managers will pad the hell out of the developers who give them the worst estimates. Most developers will explain all the complexity of what threw their estimate off without acknowledging the huge mistake of not anticipating extra complexity in the first place.<p>My estimates in my early career were no better than anyone else&#x27;s, ie way off -- especially for more complex projects. I&#x27;d explain what happened to my managers and soldier on. The very next task that came up, I&#x27;d give my manager some best-case estimate of how long something would take and the cycle would begin again.<p>That all changed once I started to do consulting for myself using &quot;not-to-exceed&quot; pricing. The first multi-month project I did killed me. My effective hourly rate went down to sub McDonalds levels and took much longer to deliver than I had expected. After that project, I did a post-mortem on the project to figure out where I went wrong. I came up with several spreadsheet templates and checklists to run through before giving any more estimates.<p>Mostly I just concerned myself with getting a hell of a lot better at estimating project duration and difficulty. Like most things, when you really pay attention to it and practice it, you get better at it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crusso</author><text><i>What worked for me was to keep strict time of everything (shoutout to toggl.com, love it!), so I could learn from my mistakes</i><p>Right, that was part of my method as well. I learned to keep really good notes of each part of the project. At the end of each project, I compared my &quot;what I thought it would take&quot; with &quot;what it actually took&quot;. In subsequent projects, I tried to match up similar complexity items with &quot;what it actually took&quot; notes to remind myself of the pain.</text></comment> |
35,180,739 | 35,180,484 | 1 | 2 | 35,177,167 | train | <story><title>Best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds</title><url>https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/dungeons-and-dragons-5e/best-games/best-dnd-map-makers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>A_D_E_P_T</author><text>Okay, this is probably the right place to say this: You can&#x27;t play D&amp;D with GPT-3&#x2F;3.5, but you absolutely can with GPT-4. GPT-4 is a solid DM.<p>GPT-3 couldn&#x27;t remember what it said 30 minutes ago, and was basically incapable of planning, so unless you want a simple dungeon rougelike-esque adventure, it&#x27;ll lose track of things and start hallucinating. It will also sometimes forget the rules.<p>My initial impressions are that GPT-4 is nearly as competent as a human DM, and much faster and more flexible. Also, unlike GPT-3, it will roll dice for you, and it knows the rules just as well as most players.<p>These maps + GPT-4 could = infinite campaigns.<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s just a matter of time -- and just a few years, at that -- before generative text and graphic AIs merge, and games like Baldur&#x27;s Gate can quite literally be made on the fly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zug_zug</author><text>Played a solo-campgain with GPT4 for 1-2 hours yesterday, summary:<p>- Created character sheet for me, at desired level with spells and abilities<p>- Was able to add a cat to the game upon request<p>- Took hints.<p>- Was an <i>outstanding</i> writer, far better than any DM in terms of sensory descriptions and articulation<p>- Had to ask it to only tell 5 paragraphs at a time<p>- Performed combat rolls and math, all apparently correctly for a long while<p>- The first 20 rolls were all greater than 10, asked it give more random rolls and it seemingly did for a while<p>- Added elements on the fly consistently without losing track mostly<p>- Used puzzles and challenges and created a sense of danger. Adapted well on the fly to unusual character behavior (guessing an unreasonable answer for a puzzle solution).<p>- After a few hours it started confusing classes in my party (I think there is some context window). It forgot I had agonizing blast after a few hours.<p>- Sometimes fudged distances<p>Overall for a DM with infinite patience and an entirely customizable campaign on the fly with no need to plan&#x2F;recover it seems promising at first. But some sort of prompt engineering will eventually prove necessary i think.</text></comment> | <story><title>Best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds</title><url>https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/dungeons-and-dragons-5e/best-games/best-dnd-map-makers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>A_D_E_P_T</author><text>Okay, this is probably the right place to say this: You can&#x27;t play D&amp;D with GPT-3&#x2F;3.5, but you absolutely can with GPT-4. GPT-4 is a solid DM.<p>GPT-3 couldn&#x27;t remember what it said 30 minutes ago, and was basically incapable of planning, so unless you want a simple dungeon rougelike-esque adventure, it&#x27;ll lose track of things and start hallucinating. It will also sometimes forget the rules.<p>My initial impressions are that GPT-4 is nearly as competent as a human DM, and much faster and more flexible. Also, unlike GPT-3, it will roll dice for you, and it knows the rules just as well as most players.<p>These maps + GPT-4 could = infinite campaigns.<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s just a matter of time -- and just a few years, at that -- before generative text and graphic AIs merge, and games like Baldur&#x27;s Gate can quite literally be made on the fly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>When you think of the content of the books in Baldur&#x27;s Gate and the sheer amount of human hours poured into something just to give background to the game, this is going to save indeed a lot of time.<p>But on the other hand, just like open world was a terrible curse with hundred of games feeling empty, I&#x27;m afraid we will see a wave of games with a lot of generated but eventually uninteresting content because this is so easy to do.<p>After all, good content is coherent, and filtered. It&#x27;s not just about producing a lot, it&#x27;s what you don&#x27;t put in the game, and what you do to glue things together.<p>I sure GPT will eventually be better at it than humans, but for now, having a human veto is necessary to have a good noise&#x2F;signal ratio and because GPT is &quot;good enough&quot;, being lazy is tempting.<p>But yeah, I can confirm GPT4 is already quite good at it and will only improve from this point.<p>This is going to be very interesting years.<p>Edit: I just made it write a full video game scenario, using BG as a competitor for basis. At first it was average, but with directions, it refined it and became quite good. Some kind of steam punk guild called the Navigators reading the wind, living in floating islands and a girl rediscovering the earth bellow the clouds and rebuilding old aliances with lost civilizations, plus a politician leader trying to prevent that and even a mentor to help her. Not bad.<p>I would play this, and even read it.<p>You can see the inspiration from &quot;The Pillars of the Earth&quot;, &quot;Gunnm&quot;, &quot;Baldur&#x27;s Gate&quot; and &quot;nausica&quot; proving again it&#x27;s mostly assembling known stuff.<p>But a cake is mostly assembling known stuff and it&#x27;s still good. The &quot;last of us&quot; is just a good take on something that has been done a thousand times.<p>So why not?</text></comment> |
31,493,282 | 31,488,681 | 1 | 2 | 31,487,079 | train | <story><title>The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/23/the-future-of-the-gitlab-web-ide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crabmusket</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to me that GitLab is adopting a Microsoft product (VS Code) and Microsoft owns a significant competitor in GitHub. Nothing intelligent to say about that other than to wish I&#x27;d been a fly on the wall for the discussions about that.<p>&gt; Next, we asked ourselves the question: Do we want to continue to invest in implementing custom features for the Web IDE that ultimately deliver the same value as those already available in VS Code? Or do we embrace VS Code inside GitLab, and invest in extending the experience to more tightly integrate with GitLab and the DevOps workflow?<p>I feel like if asking myself those questions I&#x27;d have come to the same answer, but it&#x27;s certainly an interesting position. It&#x27;s not necessarily that I think Microsoft will leverage this open-source project against GitLab. Maybe it just says something about Microsoft&#x27;s increasingly-dominant position in developer tooling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eschurter</author><text>GitLab PM and author of the OP here.<p>It is an interesting position we find ourselves in and we had some lively discussions about it! I would like to note, though, that Monaco (which powers our current Web IDE) is ALSO a Microsoft project. So this isn&#x27;t a change in strategy as it relates to using open source projects maintained by those that may be seen as competitors.<p>We have faith in the future of VS Code as an open source project but I&#x27;ll also say that this isn&#x27;t a one-way door. If things change in the future, we&#x27;re not so heavily leveraged that we couldn&#x27;t replace the Web IDE&#x27;s underlying editor again.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/23/the-future-of-the-gitlab-web-ide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crabmusket</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to me that GitLab is adopting a Microsoft product (VS Code) and Microsoft owns a significant competitor in GitHub. Nothing intelligent to say about that other than to wish I&#x27;d been a fly on the wall for the discussions about that.<p>&gt; Next, we asked ourselves the question: Do we want to continue to invest in implementing custom features for the Web IDE that ultimately deliver the same value as those already available in VS Code? Or do we embrace VS Code inside GitLab, and invest in extending the experience to more tightly integrate with GitLab and the DevOps workflow?<p>I feel like if asking myself those questions I&#x27;d have come to the same answer, but it&#x27;s certainly an interesting position. It&#x27;s not necessarily that I think Microsoft will leverage this open-source project against GitLab. Maybe it just says something about Microsoft&#x27;s increasingly-dominant position in developer tooling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zarzavat</author><text>Microsoft may have a dominant position in developer tooling, but they don’t have a monopoly. A well-funded team could create a compelling competitor to VS Code.<p>The issue is that there’s no money to be made duplicating the effort that has gone into VS Code when VS Code is open source. Even Google doesn’t seem to care about entering that space.</text></comment> |
25,043,194 | 25,040,126 | 1 | 3 | 25,039,713 | train | <story><title>Slimium: Debloating the Chromium Browser with Feature Subsetting</title><url>https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3372297.3417866</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lifthrasiir</author><text>That reminds me of .kkrieger, a 96KB FPS developed by the demoscene group Farbrausch which was aggressively subsetted in the same fashion at the very last minute [1]. This approach worked very well... until it didn&#x27;t. It is interesting to see the history repeating itself---with the same caveat!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fgiesen.wordpress.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;08&#x2F;metaprogramming-for-madmen&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fgiesen.wordpress.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;04&#x2F;08&#x2F;metaprogramming-for...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Slimium: Debloating the Chromium Browser with Feature Subsetting</title><url>https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3372297.3417866</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nikisweeting</author><text>Would love to use this for ArchiveBox so we can get smaller Docker image sizes while still including Chromium headless.<p>Is there a docker POC anywhere I can check out?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cxreet&#x2F;chromium-debloating" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cxreet&#x2F;chromium-debloating</a> seems empty at the moment.</text></comment> |
20,166,322 | 20,165,885 | 1 | 3 | 20,165,054 | train | <story><title>Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/hong-kong-protest-debate-postponed-on-extradition-bill-as-crowds-swell-in-opposition-11560309637</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeristor</author><text>How is this being reported in mainland China?<p>If it starts to spark copycat riots there things could escalate.</text></item><item><author>zeristor</author><text>Since this has been declared a riot, and that a riot is punishable with up to 10 years in prison, and the legislation their protesting about is about extraditing people with more than a seven year sentence...<p>It’s coming to the point where they’ve got nothing to lose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>larrysalibra</author><text>This is how it&#x27;s being reported if it&#x27;s reported at all: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chinadaily.com.cn&#x2F;hkedition&#x2F;2019-06&#x2F;10&#x2F;content_37478727.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chinadaily.com.cn&#x2F;hkedition&#x2F;2019-06&#x2F;10&#x2F;content_37...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/hong-kong-protest-debate-postponed-on-extradition-bill-as-crowds-swell-in-opposition-11560309637</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeristor</author><text>How is this being reported in mainland China?<p>If it starts to spark copycat riots there things could escalate.</text></item><item><author>zeristor</author><text>Since this has been declared a riot, and that a riot is punishable with up to 10 years in prison, and the legislation their protesting about is about extraditing people with more than a seven year sentence...<p>It’s coming to the point where they’ve got nothing to lose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anewguy9000</author><text>i suspect its not being reported at all.</text></comment> |
16,959,683 | 16,959,351 | 1 | 3 | 16,958,797 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Create your own crapcoin in 3 minutes</title><url>https://crapcoin.solutions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gargarplex</author><text>&quot;The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind&#x27;s flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality — without exploiting them for fun and profit&quot; -Taleb<p>OP: If you want to make some money with this, send me an email.<p>I get about 3 requests a week from get-rich-quick-minded people who want their own crypto.<p>Not serious players, not credible businesspeople, just average Joes who want to get in while the getting&#x27;s good.<p>They would probably pay $500 or more.<p>We could make this work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nck4222</author><text>Interesting to see this comment here, and upvoted. I think it shows just how divergent the news.ycombinator community has diverged from ycombinator (the incubator). Or maybe the community is simply a reflection of what the incubator has become.<p>If you look at ycombinator&#x27;s about or principles page, it&#x27;s filled with words like helping, teaching, advise, benevolence. I for one, disagree wholeheartedly with the spirit of that quote, and find it disappointing to see it here.<p>I&#x27;ll finish with a couple quotes found on other pages on this site that I hope still reflect the the purpose of this community&#x2F;incubator:<p>&quot;The most successful founders are motivated less by money than by a consuming interest in what they’re building.&quot;<p>&quot;...empirically the benefits of benevolence are greater than the costs&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;principles&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;principles&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Create your own crapcoin in 3 minutes</title><url>https://crapcoin.solutions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gargarplex</author><text>&quot;The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind&#x27;s flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality — without exploiting them for fun and profit&quot; -Taleb<p>OP: If you want to make some money with this, send me an email.<p>I get about 3 requests a week from get-rich-quick-minded people who want their own crypto.<p>Not serious players, not credible businesspeople, just average Joes who want to get in while the getting&#x27;s good.<p>They would probably pay $500 or more.<p>We could make this work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sharemywin</author><text>Their might be personalized vanity angle to it. Why wouldn&#x27;t my friend and family want to trade Bob Coins...</text></comment> |
3,056,252 | 3,055,619 | 1 | 3 | 3,054,085 | train | <story><title>Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox</title><url>http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220396/Chrome_poised_to_take_No._2_browser_spot_from_Firefox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KevinMS</author><text>Doesn't it bother anybody that Chrome is made by ad company?<p>The way I see it, if everybody started using ad blockers like I do, google would implode almost instantly. So how would they combat that? Control the platform for viewing the web and be positioned to kill ad blockers if it ever became a problem.<p>Would you buy a DVR controlled by a television network? That would be insane, as soon as DVRs ate too much into their revenues they would just
kill the skipping feature.<p>But because of the abundance of chrome fanboys, this is just what is happening, and everybody is looking the other way.<p>A little while ago we had a big company doing everything they could to control the "personal computer" platform, even evil things, and illegal things, and now there's another company trying to control the internet as a platform and a lot of you hackers are eating it up, I'm just baffled.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chalst</author><text><i>Doesn't it bother anybody</i><p>A little, but do be aware that (i) Mozilla is 83% financed [<i>] by search royalties from that same ad company, and (ii) Chromium has a somewhat independent developer community<p>Making money from ads is also not evil: you are probably served by a local newspaper which is probably both good for your neighbourhood and financed mostly or entirely by ads. This stream of revenue comes with conflicts of interest, but these can be handled better or worse. I think Google has done pretty well in this; at least my criticisms of Google mostly do not lie here.<p>[</i>] <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92558-how-browsers-make-money-or-why-google-needs-firefox?print" rel="nofollow">http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92558-how-browsers-make-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox</title><url>http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220396/Chrome_poised_to_take_No._2_browser_spot_from_Firefox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KevinMS</author><text>Doesn't it bother anybody that Chrome is made by ad company?<p>The way I see it, if everybody started using ad blockers like I do, google would implode almost instantly. So how would they combat that? Control the platform for viewing the web and be positioned to kill ad blockers if it ever became a problem.<p>Would you buy a DVR controlled by a television network? That would be insane, as soon as DVRs ate too much into their revenues they would just
kill the skipping feature.<p>But because of the abundance of chrome fanboys, this is just what is happening, and everybody is looking the other way.<p>A little while ago we had a big company doing everything they could to control the "personal computer" platform, even evil things, and illegal things, and now there's another company trying to control the internet as a platform and a lot of you hackers are eating it up, I'm just baffled.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gst</author><text>I don't care at all.<p>If google does something like that it wouldn't take long until someone forks Chrome.</text></comment> |
2,215,932 | 2,214,558 | 1 | 2 | 2,213,225 | train | <story><title>Nerd Fort</title><url>http://nerdfort.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>I registered geekbeach.org (no site there) a few years back with the hope of one day doing this same thing in some random tropical setting.<p>I wonder how many people (aside from me of course) would be happy to know about a spot on Nusa Lembongan with guaranteed fast internet, reliable power, a nice slice of white sand and a really nice reef break just outside the lagoon.<p>Would anybody here take the effort to weasel a working holiday to such a place? Any SV startups that would pick up the whole shop and set up on the beach for a month or so?<p>It's been raining here in the North of England for six months straight. If I get enough love for the idea here, I might just have to book a flight and start scouting locations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pault</author><text>You have to be careful, as most places will have strict regulations against working while on a tourist visa. Thailand won't even let you volunteer, and they will deport you if they catch you. If you have anything that looks like an office, and you have "tourists" in there hacking, you could get in a lot of trouble. Don't know what the rules are in Indonesia, but you should definitely talk to a lawyer first.<p>Having said that, I've been in Thailand for a while, and the same idea keeps popping into my head. If I were bootstrapping a company, I would much rather fly with my partners out here for 6 months than try to rent an office in SF. I can see one major problem with the execution though: people are going to get beach fever for the first month or so, so don't expect productivity to be very high. You might want to schedule a few weeks of partying in, just to get it out of their systems.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nerd Fort</title><url>http://nerdfort.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>I registered geekbeach.org (no site there) a few years back with the hope of one day doing this same thing in some random tropical setting.<p>I wonder how many people (aside from me of course) would be happy to know about a spot on Nusa Lembongan with guaranteed fast internet, reliable power, a nice slice of white sand and a really nice reef break just outside the lagoon.<p>Would anybody here take the effort to weasel a working holiday to such a place? Any SV startups that would pick up the whole shop and set up on the beach for a month or so?<p>It's been raining here in the North of England for six months straight. If I get enough love for the idea here, I might just have to book a flight and start scouting locations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drinian</author><text>Yes, I've done this. I would add that it's also very easy to get at least unlimited 2G Internet access in Thailand or Malaysia, especially Thailand. Bali/Indonesia seem to suck for connectivity as there's a serious bandwidth shortage out of the country. There was a previous attempt on HN at doing this in an organized fashion that didn't take off a few years back.<p>Also, there's this, in Central America: <a href="http://www.cocovivo.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cocovivo.com/</a><p>My best advice is that you just book a ticket to Bangkok or Singapore, and start hanging out with people in hostels. It's excellent.</text></comment> |
25,647,873 | 25,647,482 | 1 | 2 | 25,644,926 | train | <story><title>How I learned to love and fear the Riemann Hypothesis</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-i-learned-to-love-and-fear-the-riemann-hypothesis-20210104/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>There is a sense in which that is a great idea, and a sense in which it is a not so great idea. If AlphaProof could prove theorems as superhumanly as AlphaGo wins at Go, that would really be something, they might be able to claim all of the millennium prizes. However, the longterm usefulness to mathematics may be somewhat limited. Mathematicians are interested in proofs not so much because of the statements, but because of what those proofs add to our knowledge of the way math fits together. It isn&#x27;t just about &quot;true&quot; or &quot;false,&quot; it&#x27;s about why. If AlphaProof generated a long and unreadable proof with no discernible structure, it would not be such a large contribution to mathematics as if a human figured out &quot;why&quot; and wrote it in a way other humans could understand.<p>Of course, it is possible that clever users could tease useful information out of the black box truth oracle. Perhaps by modifying the statement of the conjecture and checking each modification, they could discover some parts of the structure of the problem, which would help inspire a useful proof. Furthermore, it would be helpful to never again waste time trying to prove a false conjecture.</text></item><item><author>Santosh83</author><text>Distantly related question. It was claimed that Alpha Zero taught itself to play incredibly high level chess from the very basic point of playing with itself millions of times after having been fed the basic building block rules of chess and nothing else.<p>Now I&#x27;m wondering if something like this can be made to work for discovering new mathematical relationships or solving existing hypothesis by training a neural network with what we know of maths so far and then letting it &quot;play&quot; with the equations?<p>Am I being too naive here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idolaspecus</author><text>Your comment inspired an interesting (to me at least) thought. I&#x27;m imagining a world where mathematics becomes too advanced for even the brightest human being, but progress is preserved by proof-generating programs running in data centers. The data centers churn out exabytes of mathematical proofs, and humanity employs an army of what are effectively philologists&#x2F;semioticians to dissect, mine, and excavate these proofs for meaning.</text></comment> | <story><title>How I learned to love and fear the Riemann Hypothesis</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-i-learned-to-love-and-fear-the-riemann-hypothesis-20210104/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>There is a sense in which that is a great idea, and a sense in which it is a not so great idea. If AlphaProof could prove theorems as superhumanly as AlphaGo wins at Go, that would really be something, they might be able to claim all of the millennium prizes. However, the longterm usefulness to mathematics may be somewhat limited. Mathematicians are interested in proofs not so much because of the statements, but because of what those proofs add to our knowledge of the way math fits together. It isn&#x27;t just about &quot;true&quot; or &quot;false,&quot; it&#x27;s about why. If AlphaProof generated a long and unreadable proof with no discernible structure, it would not be such a large contribution to mathematics as if a human figured out &quot;why&quot; and wrote it in a way other humans could understand.<p>Of course, it is possible that clever users could tease useful information out of the black box truth oracle. Perhaps by modifying the statement of the conjecture and checking each modification, they could discover some parts of the structure of the problem, which would help inspire a useful proof. Furthermore, it would be helpful to never again waste time trying to prove a false conjecture.</text></item><item><author>Santosh83</author><text>Distantly related question. It was claimed that Alpha Zero taught itself to play incredibly high level chess from the very basic point of playing with itself millions of times after having been fed the basic building block rules of chess and nothing else.<p>Now I&#x27;m wondering if something like this can be made to work for discovering new mathematical relationships or solving existing hypothesis by training a neural network with what we know of maths so far and then letting it &quot;play&quot; with the equations?<p>Am I being too naive here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>virgil_disgr4ce</author><text>True, and important. However, I suppose it could be argued that if the only results AlphaProof could obtain were long and unreadable proof(s) with no discernible structure, it might suggest something about the epistemic assumptions we tend to make about Occam&#x27;s Razor and the (so-called) beauty and parsimony.<p>On that angle, it could be further argued that humans are biased towards &#x27;readable&#x27; proofs and that there are many undiscovered &#x27;unreadable&#x27; proofs that we simply have no way of obtaining without automation of some kind.<p>Anyway I assume there are volumes already written on this subject...</text></comment> |
11,697,933 | 11,697,509 | 1 | 2 | 11,697,122 | train | <story><title>How Elon Musk exposed billions in questionable Pentagon spending</title><url>http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/elon-musk-rocket-defense-223161?href</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>schiffern</author><text>&gt;When ULA was formed, Boeing and Lockheed were not only battling each other for launch contracts, they were also locked in a legal battle over rocket technology. For the Pentagon, the joint-venture was a way to settle the bad blood between its top contractors and make sure that both could remain in the space launch business. ...<p>&gt; In his remarks, Tobey referred to that payment — about $800 million per year — as a carrot to “sweeten the deal” for the “shotgun wedding” the Pentagon forced on Boeing and Lockheed. ...<p>&gt; Shelby continues to defend the original concept of ULA, noting that Boeing and Lockheed were battling each other in court over rocket technology before the merger.<p>&gt;“There was a lot of trouble at one time between Boeing and Lockheed,” Shelby noted in a brief interview.<p>Strange that the article never comes out and says it: Boeing committed industrial espionage and bribed Air Force procurement officials.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;boeing-probe-intensifies-over-secret-lockheed-papers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;boeing-probe-intensifie...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;query.nytimes.com&#x2F;gst&#x2F;fullpage.html?res=9802E2D9103BF937A35751C0A9639C8B63" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;query.nytimes.com&#x2F;gst&#x2F;fullpage.html?res=9802E2D9103BF...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;archive&#x2F;opa&#x2F;pr&#x2F;2006&#x2F;June&#x2F;06_civ_412.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;archive&#x2F;opa&#x2F;pr&#x2F;2006&#x2F;June&#x2F;06_civ_412....</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Elon Musk exposed billions in questionable Pentagon spending</title><url>http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/elon-musk-rocket-defense-223161?href</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ianai</author><text>Wasn&#x27;t one of the primary motivations for privatising the space industry to cut costs? So player A wound up having significantly higher costs than later player B. Oh, but mind you, player B (spacex) has had some very serious accidents along the way. I don&#x27;t remember hearing about such with ULA. I don&#x27;t necessarily read this as a story of corruption and waste, full stop. Unless I missed something...</text></comment> |
23,336,436 | 23,334,891 | 1 | 3 | 23,333,891 | train | <story><title>The use of `class` for things that should be simple free functions</title><url>https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2020/05/28/oo-antipattern/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amw-zero</author><text>None of these situations require an object to do. You can always have a function that takes in an extra ‘state’ argument. You can then do everything you said by passing in the corresponding state values.</text></item><item><author>dataflow</author><text>Counter-point: while in many situations this isn&#x27;t the right approach, it&#x27;s worth recognizing when this <i>is</i> the right approach, because they can look awfully similar. An example of this is graph searching, e.g. BFS or Dijkstra&#x27;s algorithm. The typical implementation is a function. But if you make Dijkstra a class, with (say) a function to iterate through nodes, it lets you do several things that would be difficult with a function: (a) you can now re-use the same object for computing distances to multiple vertices, which allows incremental search, (b) you can now fork&#x2F;copy the object and continue searching on <i>different</i> extensions of the original graph, (c) you can now save &amp; restore the searcher state to pause the search &amp; continue it later, (d) you can do multiple searches across one or more graphs <i>in lockstep</i>. IMHO these are very much <i>not</i> obvious, and to someone who doesn&#x27;t recognize what&#x27;s going on, a class for something like BFS will look <i>exactly</i> like an &quot;OO antipattern&quot;, when in reality it&#x27;s actually providing significant additional functionality for more complicated situations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Sure, you can build your own object and pass the &#x27;this&#x27; pointer around manually. You could use C for everything, and tediously do everything again that objects do for free.<p>But why?<p>There&#x27;s a lot of object-hating going around. Its silly. Use objects to encapsulate functionality, they are good at that and everybody understands what it means.</text></comment> | <story><title>The use of `class` for things that should be simple free functions</title><url>https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2020/05/28/oo-antipattern/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amw-zero</author><text>None of these situations require an object to do. You can always have a function that takes in an extra ‘state’ argument. You can then do everything you said by passing in the corresponding state values.</text></item><item><author>dataflow</author><text>Counter-point: while in many situations this isn&#x27;t the right approach, it&#x27;s worth recognizing when this <i>is</i> the right approach, because they can look awfully similar. An example of this is graph searching, e.g. BFS or Dijkstra&#x27;s algorithm. The typical implementation is a function. But if you make Dijkstra a class, with (say) a function to iterate through nodes, it lets you do several things that would be difficult with a function: (a) you can now re-use the same object for computing distances to multiple vertices, which allows incremental search, (b) you can now fork&#x2F;copy the object and continue searching on <i>different</i> extensions of the original graph, (c) you can now save &amp; restore the searcher state to pause the search &amp; continue it later, (d) you can do multiple searches across one or more graphs <i>in lockstep</i>. IMHO these are very much <i>not</i> obvious, and to someone who doesn&#x27;t recognize what&#x27;s going on, a class for something like BFS will look <i>exactly</i> like an &quot;OO antipattern&quot;, when in reality it&#x27;s actually providing significant additional functionality for more complicated situations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>If you&#x27;re at the point where you&#x27;d rather pass a state argument around rather than use an object you&#x27;ve thrown out OO categorically and there&#x27;s no point to even discuss anything. The article in question talks about when it makes sense to use functions <i>within</i> the OO paradigm instead of classes.<p>Generally using classes when modelling persistent state is not an anti-pattern, because that&#x27;s what classes are for.</text></comment> |
6,944,119 | 6,944,252 | 1 | 2 | 6,943,469 | train | <story><title>Google Bus blocked, window smashed in West Oakland </title><url>https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/12/20/18748143.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>9999</author><text>Re: The port shutdown:<p>The longshoremen&#x27;s union supported the Occupy shutdown, but were contractually obligated not to participate in the protest. Source:<p><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/occupy-oakland-shuts-down-port/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;occupy-oakland-shuts-down-port&#x2F;</a><p>Since almost everything else you said is anecdotal, it&#x27;s hard for me to respond to, but your statement about the longshoremen, that&#x27;s certainly wrong.<p>In general, the people that you are deriding and caricaturing represent the first wave of gentrification, and those people actually do make meaningful contributions to the areas they move into. Think of the excellent restaurants, concert venues, boutiques, bars, etc. that exist in Oakland now--that&#x27;s first wave gentrification. Those people are also historically more aware of their surroundings and the culture that they are moving into and tend to show solidarity with the lower income residents that they are paving the way towards displacement for. On the other hand, the second wave of gentrifiers tends to dramatically increase the cost of living, rate of displacement, and tends to care very little about the plight of their fellow citizens.<p>The Google buses are a convenient symbol for economic disparity though, and I often wonder why Google doesn&#x27;t try to do a real public works project instead of simply creating a segregated system of buses. Why not add wi-fi to public buses? Why not extend the light rail system into the valley? Why not donate a whole lot of money to a public mental health project so there aren&#x27;t so many deranged lunatics screaming on public transit? If they did that, then they will have created a more comfortable environment not only for their own employees, but for the entire community.</text></item><item><author>jessedhillon</author><text><i>West Oakland is a traditionally black neighborhood that surrounds the Port of Oakland. It has been heavily gentrified, developed, and restructured over the past three decades. Now there is an upper class enclave that has been established near the West Oakland BART station, in Jack London, and in the city of Emeryville.</i><p>Oh fuck you and your dreadlocks.<p>There are only two photos on that page, so I don&#x27;t definitively <i>know</i> who these protesters were (although there are no &quot;traditional&quot; blacks in those photos) -- but I know (I have a strong suspicion, I don&#x27;t factually know) that the protesters were not drawn from the group mentioned above. These are Burning Man hippies, self-styled artists, people who graduated from great schools with useless majors, and the usual constituent of the Bay Area&#x27;s overprivileged poverty tourists: 20-30 y&#x2F;o white kids from middle class families.<p>The actual, <i>working</i>, poor people in West Oakland were at their first of the two or three jobs they hold. Or they were spending a few rare moments resting, or with their kids. Or they were lining up to get a meal at community kitchen. Actual <i>black</i> people were not part of this protest, because a mob of black people attacking a bus would be getting wall-to-wall coverage on every channel. It would have been responded to with a swift and overwhelming police presence.<p>The same thing happened a few years ago when these same non-workers shut down the Port of Oakland in the name of workers. The people who actually work the port asked that they not disrupt the port, but in the end these dreadlocked, shiftless complainers cost those longshoremen a day in wages -- <i>Viva El Proletariado!</i><p>What we have today is a group of young, electively poor white kids who are upset that the price of unheated lofts and dingy Victorians are being driven up by people who have the means and motivation to actually own and improve them. That they wrap themselves up in the image of the poor (and yes, mostly black) -- whom they <i>themselves</i> displaced by rushing in to bid up rents with mom and dad&#x27;s money -- makes this appeal all the more ludicrous. At least the tech gentrifiers will actually improve the fucking place, unlike these leeches!<p>(Source: I live and own property in Oakland)<p>Edited as suggested below by bonemachine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jessedhillon</author><text><i>...but your statement about the longshoremen, that&#x27;s certainly wrong.</i><p>No, it&#x27;s right. ILWU (the union) leadership has made statements such as<p><i>&quot;Organization from outside groups attempting to co-opt our struggle in order to advance a broader agenda is quite another and one that is destructive to our democratic process and jeopardizes our over two year struggle in Longview.&quot;</i> [1]<p>So I may not have been right about them speaking out specifically against the Oakland shut down, but in general the union leadership is against strikes. Although, of course, they take great pains to not alienate potential ideological allies while rejecting calls to shut down ports.<p>The sentiment is at least mixed, as you can see from other coverage: [2]<p><i>&quot;Leaders of the ILWU, which represents thousands of longshoremen, spoke out in recent weeks against the coordinated effort by Occupy protesters to blockade ports from Anchorage to San Diego&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;This is joke. What are they protesting?&quot; Christian Vega, 32, who sat in his truck carrying a load of recycled paper from Pittsburg said Monday morning. He said the delay was costing him $600.</i><p><i>&quot;It only hurts me and the other drivers. We have jobs and families to support and feed. Most of them don&#x27;t,&quot; Vega said.</i><p>[1] <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/12/occupy-oakland-west-coast-port-shutdown" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.motherjones.com&#x2F;mojo&#x2F;2011&#x2F;12&#x2F;occupy-oakland-west-...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/occupy-oakland-ports_n_1144476.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huffingtonpost.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;12&#x2F;12&#x2F;occupy-oakland-port...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google Bus blocked, window smashed in West Oakland </title><url>https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/12/20/18748143.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>9999</author><text>Re: The port shutdown:<p>The longshoremen&#x27;s union supported the Occupy shutdown, but were contractually obligated not to participate in the protest. Source:<p><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/occupy-oakland-shuts-down-port/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;occupy-oakland-shuts-down-port&#x2F;</a><p>Since almost everything else you said is anecdotal, it&#x27;s hard for me to respond to, but your statement about the longshoremen, that&#x27;s certainly wrong.<p>In general, the people that you are deriding and caricaturing represent the first wave of gentrification, and those people actually do make meaningful contributions to the areas they move into. Think of the excellent restaurants, concert venues, boutiques, bars, etc. that exist in Oakland now--that&#x27;s first wave gentrification. Those people are also historically more aware of their surroundings and the culture that they are moving into and tend to show solidarity with the lower income residents that they are paving the way towards displacement for. On the other hand, the second wave of gentrifiers tends to dramatically increase the cost of living, rate of displacement, and tends to care very little about the plight of their fellow citizens.<p>The Google buses are a convenient symbol for economic disparity though, and I often wonder why Google doesn&#x27;t try to do a real public works project instead of simply creating a segregated system of buses. Why not add wi-fi to public buses? Why not extend the light rail system into the valley? Why not donate a whole lot of money to a public mental health project so there aren&#x27;t so many deranged lunatics screaming on public transit? If they did that, then they will have created a more comfortable environment not only for their own employees, but for the entire community.</text></item><item><author>jessedhillon</author><text><i>West Oakland is a traditionally black neighborhood that surrounds the Port of Oakland. It has been heavily gentrified, developed, and restructured over the past three decades. Now there is an upper class enclave that has been established near the West Oakland BART station, in Jack London, and in the city of Emeryville.</i><p>Oh fuck you and your dreadlocks.<p>There are only two photos on that page, so I don&#x27;t definitively <i>know</i> who these protesters were (although there are no &quot;traditional&quot; blacks in those photos) -- but I know (I have a strong suspicion, I don&#x27;t factually know) that the protesters were not drawn from the group mentioned above. These are Burning Man hippies, self-styled artists, people who graduated from great schools with useless majors, and the usual constituent of the Bay Area&#x27;s overprivileged poverty tourists: 20-30 y&#x2F;o white kids from middle class families.<p>The actual, <i>working</i>, poor people in West Oakland were at their first of the two or three jobs they hold. Or they were spending a few rare moments resting, or with their kids. Or they were lining up to get a meal at community kitchen. Actual <i>black</i> people were not part of this protest, because a mob of black people attacking a bus would be getting wall-to-wall coverage on every channel. It would have been responded to with a swift and overwhelming police presence.<p>The same thing happened a few years ago when these same non-workers shut down the Port of Oakland in the name of workers. The people who actually work the port asked that they not disrupt the port, but in the end these dreadlocked, shiftless complainers cost those longshoremen a day in wages -- <i>Viva El Proletariado!</i><p>What we have today is a group of young, electively poor white kids who are upset that the price of unheated lofts and dingy Victorians are being driven up by people who have the means and motivation to actually own and improve them. That they wrap themselves up in the image of the poor (and yes, mostly black) -- whom they <i>themselves</i> displaced by rushing in to bid up rents with mom and dad&#x27;s money -- makes this appeal all the more ludicrous. At least the tech gentrifiers will actually improve the fucking place, unlike these leeches!<p>(Source: I live and own property in Oakland)<p>Edited as suggested below by bonemachine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pslam</author><text>&gt; &quot;Think of the excellent restaurants, concert venues, boutiques, bars, etc. that exist in Oakland now--that&#x27;s first wave gentrification. Those people are also historically more aware of their surroundings and the culture that they are moving into and tend to show solidarity with the lower income residents that they are paving the way towards displacement for. On the other hand, the second wave of gentrifiers tends to dramatically increase the cost of living, rate of displacement, and tends to care very little about the plight of their fellow citizens.&quot;<p>First wave? Only if you define &quot;first wave&quot; to coincide with the current discussion. There was a wave of bio-tech (e.g Genentech) shortly before the &quot;tech&quot; (e.g Google) wave.<p>This goes back all the way to the founding of California, the state. The &#x27;49ers were the first wave. Since then there has been a sadly repeating history of picking on a group to blame for any ill in society - usually racist - but it appears this time around it&#x27;s a soft target.</text></comment> |
7,295,932 | 7,295,684 | 1 | 2 | 7,295,190 | train | <story><title>MtGox.com is offline</title><url>https://www.mtgox.com/?dead</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>panarky</author><text>There is no fucking way 700,000 BTC disappears with nobody noticing. This must have been building for a long time.<p>Was there never any attempt to compare BTC in wallets to customer balances?<p>Or did MtGox know about this problem, and hope to cover it up over time?<p>Either case is at least gross negligence if not criminal fraud.<p>Yes, we all fuck up at some point. But I don&#x27;t pretend to be a surgeon and perforate a patient&#x27;s aorta. Pretending to be competent to gain people&#x27;s trust is fraud.<p>I sympathize with those who lost money in this clusterfuck.<p>No sympathy for Karpeles.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>It&#x27;s really easy in all of this to pile a bunch of hatred on Mark Karpeles, but please, everybody remember that he is a human being, with real human emotions, and that those things really do hurt.<p>--<p>MtGox was (past tense is <i>probably</i> appropriate here, but for the sake of anybody who had coins there, I hope not) a startup that failed <i>spectacularly</i>, and publicly, and took a TON of peoples&#x27; money with it.<p>The transaction malleability thing was poor programming on the part of gox. Remember that we have ALL fucked up at some point, just luckily for most of us, &quot;fucking up&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean losing than much of other peoples&#x27; money.<p>Mark, I doubt you read hacker news, but if you do: it&#x27;s alright, dude. You bastard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dobbsbob</author><text>Most people who&#x27;ve been around bitcointalk and bitcoin-otc know not to use MtGox since circa 2011 when their stunning incompetence was at it&#x27;s height. Sadly there were plenty of media shill articles when Btc skyrocketed to $1,000 last year who were promoting them as the &quot;Biggest Bitcoin exchange&quot; without pointing people to relevant bitcointalk threads on what a nightmare that site has been over the years.<p>If you read MagicalTux&#x27;s personal blog you&#x27;d know to never trust anything he&#x27;s coded too. <a href="http://blog.magicaltux.net/2010/06/27/php-can-do-anything-what-about-some-ssh/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.magicaltux.net&#x2F;2010&#x2F;06&#x2F;27&#x2F;php-can-do-anything-wh...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>MtGox.com is offline</title><url>https://www.mtgox.com/?dead</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>panarky</author><text>There is no fucking way 700,000 BTC disappears with nobody noticing. This must have been building for a long time.<p>Was there never any attempt to compare BTC in wallets to customer balances?<p>Or did MtGox know about this problem, and hope to cover it up over time?<p>Either case is at least gross negligence if not criminal fraud.<p>Yes, we all fuck up at some point. But I don&#x27;t pretend to be a surgeon and perforate a patient&#x27;s aorta. Pretending to be competent to gain people&#x27;s trust is fraud.<p>I sympathize with those who lost money in this clusterfuck.<p>No sympathy for Karpeles.</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>It&#x27;s really easy in all of this to pile a bunch of hatred on Mark Karpeles, but please, everybody remember that he is a human being, with real human emotions, and that those things really do hurt.<p>--<p>MtGox was (past tense is <i>probably</i> appropriate here, but for the sake of anybody who had coins there, I hope not) a startup that failed <i>spectacularly</i>, and publicly, and took a TON of peoples&#x27; money with it.<p>The transaction malleability thing was poor programming on the part of gox. Remember that we have ALL fucked up at some point, just luckily for most of us, &quot;fucking up&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean losing than much of other peoples&#x27; money.<p>Mark, I doubt you read hacker news, but if you do: it&#x27;s alright, dude. You bastard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sheetjs</author><text>&gt; There is no fucking way 700,000 BTC disappears with nobody noticing.<p>The history of Barings Bank is interesting, primarily because the main trader Nick Leeson was in the position to mask hundreds of millions of pounds of losses. In that case, no one noticed the roughly $1.3B loss because he was in a position where the internal controls didn&#x27;t apply</text></comment> |
26,960,779 | 26,960,452 | 1 | 2 | 26,957,215 | train | <story><title>Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster</title><url>https://www.mightyapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>suhail</author><text>Fwiw, we had 5 customers pay $30&#x2F;mo in the last 12 hours who have been trying Mighty for a few weeks.<p>Believe me, I was skeptical too. I remember sitting in a car driving back up from YC with Michael Siebel asking him: &quot;Hey man, do you think I am absolutely nuts thinking people would pay for a browser that&#x27;s FREE? That&#x27;s an idiotic idea right?&quot; and, of course, he encouraged me and I am still feeling pretty encouraged based on talking to users and seeing the revenue&#x2F;usage&#x2F;praise 18 mo later.<p>We have a lot of work to do and I am pretty embarrassed of what we&#x27;ve got still but it felt right to get public about it.</text></item><item><author>andrewguenther</author><text>$30-50&#x2F;month is a wild price point for this. Who is going to pay that? It feels too expensive both for enterprise (existing remote desktop solutions run about half the cost) and for end-users.<p>I worked on a similar solution to this and we had a price point of $5&#x2F;month per user...<p>EDIT: 16GB of RAM and 16vCPUs. What a weird balancing of resources. Chrome is typically memory bound, not CPU bound. This also explains why it would be so wildly expensive compared to anything else out there.<p>EDIT2: A lot of the replies I&#x27;m getting seem to think my implication here is that no one would pay for this or it would be easier for people to build this themselves. I&#x27;m not saying that at all, I&#x27;m just critiquing the price point. There&#x27;s huge market demand for browser isolation, I&#x27;ve worked on products in that field, I just haven&#x27;t encountered any customers willing to pay $30-50&#x2F;month for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mosr</author><text>Really interesting service.<p>Why might I use this instead of &#x2F; in addition to Shadow (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shadow.tech" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shadow.tech</a>)? I&#x27;m a Shadow user, and they seem to give you beefier hardware at half the price, and it&#x27;s a general purpose OS that will let you run any app (as opposed to &quot;just&quot; a browser).</text></comment> | <story><title>Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster</title><url>https://www.mightyapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>suhail</author><text>Fwiw, we had 5 customers pay $30&#x2F;mo in the last 12 hours who have been trying Mighty for a few weeks.<p>Believe me, I was skeptical too. I remember sitting in a car driving back up from YC with Michael Siebel asking him: &quot;Hey man, do you think I am absolutely nuts thinking people would pay for a browser that&#x27;s FREE? That&#x27;s an idiotic idea right?&quot; and, of course, he encouraged me and I am still feeling pretty encouraged based on talking to users and seeing the revenue&#x2F;usage&#x2F;praise 18 mo later.<p>We have a lot of work to do and I am pretty embarrassed of what we&#x27;ve got still but it felt right to get public about it.</text></item><item><author>andrewguenther</author><text>$30-50&#x2F;month is a wild price point for this. Who is going to pay that? It feels too expensive both for enterprise (existing remote desktop solutions run about half the cost) and for end-users.<p>I worked on a similar solution to this and we had a price point of $5&#x2F;month per user...<p>EDIT: 16GB of RAM and 16vCPUs. What a weird balancing of resources. Chrome is typically memory bound, not CPU bound. This also explains why it would be so wildly expensive compared to anything else out there.<p>EDIT2: A lot of the replies I&#x27;m getting seem to think my implication here is that no one would pay for this or it would be easier for people to build this themselves. I&#x27;m not saying that at all, I&#x27;m just critiquing the price point. There&#x27;s huge market demand for browser isolation, I&#x27;ve worked on products in that field, I just haven&#x27;t encountered any customers willing to pay $30-50&#x2F;month for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewguenther</author><text>I&#x27;m not skeptical at all the people would pay for this. I worked on a cloud browser for seven years, there&#x27;s a bunch of different market needs for this stuff. But $30-50 feels really high. We got feedback from enterprise customers that they were looking in the $5-15 range per user per month. That said, we pushed the security angle much more than performance, so the dynamics are a bit different.<p>Congrats on all the work here. Browser streaming isn&#x27;t easy stuff!</text></comment> |
33,476,359 | 33,476,184 | 1 | 3 | 33,475,530 | train | <story><title>Lawsuit against Meta invokes modern portfolio theory to protect shareholders</title><url>https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/11/04/lawsuit-against-meta-invokes-modern-portfolio-theory-to-protect-diversified-shareholders/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flanflan</author><text>I&#x27;m just a two-bit software engineer and not a lawyer but I&#x27;ll go against the general flow of the rest of the posts here and say &quot;this is interesting.&quot; Whether or not it will work is another question, but it seems like they are trying to establish some precedent that companies need to consider the downstream impacts of the things they do.<p>I see posters here brushing off talk about mental health and political impacts from decisions corporate directors make. Well if there is a measurable harm that can be traced back to a given company why shouldn&#x27;t they be sued?<p>It&#x27;s a meme, but we live in a society. Companies don&#x27;t exist in isolation, neither do profits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>&gt; Well if there is a measurable harm that can be traced back to a given company why shouldn&#x27;t they be sued<p>They can be sued if there is a specific, measurable harm. And there are plenty of existing laws which facilitate this.<p>Not aware of any evidence this applies to Meta.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lawsuit against Meta invokes modern portfolio theory to protect shareholders</title><url>https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/11/04/lawsuit-against-meta-invokes-modern-portfolio-theory-to-protect-diversified-shareholders/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flanflan</author><text>I&#x27;m just a two-bit software engineer and not a lawyer but I&#x27;ll go against the general flow of the rest of the posts here and say &quot;this is interesting.&quot; Whether or not it will work is another question, but it seems like they are trying to establish some precedent that companies need to consider the downstream impacts of the things they do.<p>I see posters here brushing off talk about mental health and political impacts from decisions corporate directors make. Well if there is a measurable harm that can be traced back to a given company why shouldn&#x27;t they be sued?<p>It&#x27;s a meme, but we live in a society. Companies don&#x27;t exist in isolation, neither do profits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IncRnd</author><text>&gt; Well if there is a measurable harm that can be traced back to a given company why shouldn&#x27;t they be sued?<p>Say I overhear my neighbors talking with each other. Despite my not knowing them, if based on listening to their conversation I decid to go kill some people at my place of employment - that is on me. My neighbors do not bear any responsibility. At some point there is the concept of personal responsibility. Honestly, this should be obvious.</text></comment> |
9,508,353 | 9,508,258 | 1 | 2 | 9,507,085 | train | <story><title>Why Lisp?</title><url>http://blog.rongarret.info/2015/05/why-lisp.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xophmeister</author><text>Could someone please explain the difference between Lisp macros and, say, languages that have first-class functions? I get that a Lisp macro will be expanded into the respective code, while a function&#x27;s execution is different. However, at the practical (i.e., developer&#x27;s) level, are there any additional benefits?<p>Can, say, a Lisp macro be &#x27;partially formed&#x27;, in the sense that it can expand into some boilerplate that represents an incomplete syntax tree? (Whereas a higher-order-function is necessarily complete.) I can see that being useful, but not inasmuch a it&#x27;s made out.</text></item><item><author>WalterGR</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t discuss macros, which is one of the answers to &quot;Why Lisp?&quot;<p>I didn&#x27;t &quot;get&quot; macros until I read a footnote in the (freely available) book <i>Practical Common Lisp</i>. In chapter 7, it introduces the `dolist` macro.<p><pre><code> DOLIST loops across the items of a list, executing the loop
body with a variable holding the successive items of the list.
This is the basic skeleton (leaving out some of the more
esoteric options):
(dolist (var list-form)
body-form*)
...For instance:
CL-USER&gt; (dolist (x &#x27;(1 2 3))
(print x))
1
2
3
NIL
</code></pre>
Buried in a footnote is this:<p>&quot;DOLIST is similar to Perl&#x27;s `foreach` or Python&#x27;s `for`. Java added a similar kind of loop construct with the &#x27;enhanced&#x27; for loop in Java 1.5, as part of JSR-201.<p>Notice what a difference macros make. A Lisp programmer who notices a common pattern in their code can write a macro to give themselves a source-level abstraction of that pattern. A Java programmer who notices the same pattern has to convince Sun that this particular abstraction is worth adding to the language. Then Sun has to publish a JSR and convene an industry-wide &quot;expert group&quot; to hash everything out. That process--according to Sun--takes an average of 18 months. After that, the compiler writers all have to go upgrade their compilers to support the new feature. And even once the Java programmer&#x27;s favorite compiler supports the new version of Java, they probably still can&#x27;t use the new feature until they&#x27;re allowed to break source compatibility with older versions of Java.<p>So an annoyance that Common Lisp programmers can resolve for themselves within five minutes plagues Java programmers for years.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gigamonkeys.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;macros-standard-control-constructs.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gigamonkeys.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;macros-standard-control-cons...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snikeris</author><text>My favorite example for this is the lame idiom you see in Java code:<p><pre><code> if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug(&quot;expensive&quot; + debug + message);
}
</code></pre>
This is &quot;better&quot; than just log.debug(...) because with the latter, your expensive log message argument needs to be evaluated even if debug is disabled.<p>However, in a language w&#x2F; macros, you just say:<p><pre><code> (debug (str &quot;expensive&quot; debug message))
</code></pre>
and these considerations are already taken care of for you:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;clojure&#x2F;tools.logging&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;main&#x2F;clojure&#x2F;clojure&#x2F;tools&#x2F;logging.clj#L91" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;clojure&#x2F;tools.logging&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;mai...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why Lisp?</title><url>http://blog.rongarret.info/2015/05/why-lisp.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xophmeister</author><text>Could someone please explain the difference between Lisp macros and, say, languages that have first-class functions? I get that a Lisp macro will be expanded into the respective code, while a function&#x27;s execution is different. However, at the practical (i.e., developer&#x27;s) level, are there any additional benefits?<p>Can, say, a Lisp macro be &#x27;partially formed&#x27;, in the sense that it can expand into some boilerplate that represents an incomplete syntax tree? (Whereas a higher-order-function is necessarily complete.) I can see that being useful, but not inasmuch a it&#x27;s made out.</text></item><item><author>WalterGR</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t discuss macros, which is one of the answers to &quot;Why Lisp?&quot;<p>I didn&#x27;t &quot;get&quot; macros until I read a footnote in the (freely available) book <i>Practical Common Lisp</i>. In chapter 7, it introduces the `dolist` macro.<p><pre><code> DOLIST loops across the items of a list, executing the loop
body with a variable holding the successive items of the list.
This is the basic skeleton (leaving out some of the more
esoteric options):
(dolist (var list-form)
body-form*)
...For instance:
CL-USER&gt; (dolist (x &#x27;(1 2 3))
(print x))
1
2
3
NIL
</code></pre>
Buried in a footnote is this:<p>&quot;DOLIST is similar to Perl&#x27;s `foreach` or Python&#x27;s `for`. Java added a similar kind of loop construct with the &#x27;enhanced&#x27; for loop in Java 1.5, as part of JSR-201.<p>Notice what a difference macros make. A Lisp programmer who notices a common pattern in their code can write a macro to give themselves a source-level abstraction of that pattern. A Java programmer who notices the same pattern has to convince Sun that this particular abstraction is worth adding to the language. Then Sun has to publish a JSR and convene an industry-wide &quot;expert group&quot; to hash everything out. That process--according to Sun--takes an average of 18 months. After that, the compiler writers all have to go upgrade their compilers to support the new feature. And even once the Java programmer&#x27;s favorite compiler supports the new version of Java, they probably still can&#x27;t use the new feature until they&#x27;re allowed to break source compatibility with older versions of Java.<p>So an annoyance that Common Lisp programmers can resolve for themselves within five minutes plagues Java programmers for years.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gigamonkeys.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;macros-standard-control-constructs.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gigamonkeys.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;macros-standard-control-cons...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beeworker</author><text>One difference is flow control. When you call a function, all the arguments are evaluated before being passed into the function. If you want to delay evaluation, you have to wrap the argument values in a function. When you call a macro, the text forms get passed with no evaluation.<p>Say Clojure forgot to ship with the boolean &quot;or&quot;. &quot;or&quot; should evaluate its arguments one at a time (to allow for short circuiting) and return the first non-false value. You could do this with functions, but you have the source-level overhead of manually wrapping everything, and performance overhead of defining and passing an anonymous function for each argument. With a macro, at compile time you just translate the &quot;or&quot; macro into a simpler form that uses &quot;if&quot;. This is how Clojure actually implements &quot;or&quot;:<p><pre><code> (defmacro or
&quot;Evaluates exprs one at a time, from left to right. If a form
returns a logical true value, or returns that value and doesn&#x27;t
evaluate any of the other expressions, otherwise it returns the
value of the last expression. (or) returns nil.&quot;
{:added &quot;1.0&quot;}
([] nil)
([x] x)
([x &amp; next]
`(let [or# ~x]
(if or# or# (or ~@next)))))</code></pre></text></comment> |
37,017,512 | 37,017,399 | 1 | 2 | 37,016,842 | train | <story><title>E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters</title><url>https://abolish.social/@_/110828271798284741</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samtho</author><text>This would be hilariously satirical if it were not true and it highlights much of what is wrong with tech.<p>A benture capital subsidized micro mobility startup pulls out of a major city ostensibly because threshold for potential profit has been crossed and they’ve determined they cannot adjust their pricing to get the right numbers on their spreadsheet (note: this likely part of the reason why so many of these companies have trouble converting people to yearly plans, why bother if your market can be dropped with such swift indifference?). After pulling out of the market they leave their trash, that were assets a few days previous, scattered amongst the city as technological blight strewn across the landscape, left to rust. When opportunists go to crack them open, they find a raspberry pi, an SBC created for educational and hobby purposes but has been infamously out of stock because larger companies want to vacuum them all up to use in their own products. Then you wonder where all the engineering cost for these scooters went. After the presumably thousands of hours of labor that went into designing this, they went with a consumer grade, off the shelf product for an application that would have required a fraction of the power it was capable of? Not to mention that Spin can be identified as one of offenders of why the raspberry pi is so goddamn hard to find.<p>This all makes me irrationally irritated.</text></comment> | <story><title>E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters</title><url>https://abolish.social/@_/110828271798284741</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nyanpasu64</author><text>I&#x27;m still upset that Raspberry Pi was focused on ensuring institutional customers (like these electric scooters) could order thousands of Pis, while leaving hobbyists trying to order single-digit quantities scrambling through years-long waiting lists and listings which get snapped up in seconds (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-_aL9V0JsQQ&amp;t=564s">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-_aL9V0JsQQ&amp;t=564s</a>).</text></comment> |
31,094,855 | 31,094,072 | 1 | 2 | 31,093,499 | train | <story><title>Double ridge formation over shallow water sills on Jupiter’s moon Europa</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29458-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>The interesting question is that since water is such a fantastic medium for earth-based life, how can we make sure that any probe sent from here to say, sample the water on Europa won&#x27;t contaminate it. It&#x27;s my understanding that even though all planetary landers are sanitized it&#x27;s almost impossible to make sure no life survives on them. Which I guess isn&#x27;t too much of an issue on the moon or Mars, but any microbes would have much better chances of surviving in the water environment of Europa.</text></item><item><author>thinkingkong</author><text>The implication is that there’s liquid water right under the surface if Europa. That would be fairly exciting if confirmed. Im not sure theres a single place on earth with water but not without life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twic</author><text>This is the job of the space agencies&#x27; planetary protection officers:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sma.nasa.gov&#x2F;sma-disciplines&#x2F;planetary-protection" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sma.nasa.gov&#x2F;sma-disciplines&#x2F;planetary-protection</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.esa.int&#x2F;Science_Exploration&#x2F;Human_and_Robotic_Exploration&#x2F;Exploration&#x2F;Planetary_protection" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.esa.int&#x2F;Science_Exploration&#x2F;Human_and_Robotic_Ex...</a><p>There&#x27;s a handbook and everything:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ec.europa.eu&#x2F;research&#x2F;participants&#x2F;documents&#x2F;downloadPublic&#x2F;NHY0a2o4bVRJQWhPQkpRajBuRWNXWTgxdS9RWEFXdXJBUzVVeDA1WXYzbXpBeGJ5dWZyd3N3PT0=&#x2F;attachment&#x2F;VFEyQTQ4M3ptUWRBd1IwZnoramRydVNQZlNYQUplalA=" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ec.europa.eu&#x2F;research&#x2F;participants&#x2F;documents&#x2F;downloa...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Double ridge formation over shallow water sills on Jupiter’s moon Europa</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29458-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>The interesting question is that since water is such a fantastic medium for earth-based life, how can we make sure that any probe sent from here to say, sample the water on Europa won&#x27;t contaminate it. It&#x27;s my understanding that even though all planetary landers are sanitized it&#x27;s almost impossible to make sure no life survives on them. Which I guess isn&#x27;t too much of an issue on the moon or Mars, but any microbes would have much better chances of surviving in the water environment of Europa.</text></item><item><author>thinkingkong</author><text>The implication is that there’s liquid water right under the surface if Europa. That would be fairly exciting if confirmed. Im not sure theres a single place on earth with water but not without life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>Makes me wonder if even a probe never landing would &#x27;shed&#x27; some biological material that eventually makes its way onto the surface.<p>Then again, there&#x27;s plenty of theories that asteroids and other impacts have caused enough of a splash to throw trace life bearing materials into space and eventually onto other planets or moons.<p>My current theory is that we will find traces of e.g. bacteria all over our solar system, but it&#x27;ll be genetically traceable back to Earth. That said, if it turns out life as we know actually started on e.g. Mars, that would be huge and probably a big accelerator for more missions there.</text></comment> |
6,072,102 | 6,072,082 | 1 | 2 | 6,071,596 | train | <story><title>House of Lords debates pardon for Alan Turing</title><url>http://bbc.co.uk/democracylive/house-of-lords-23378209</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pinchyfingers</author><text>The bigger issue here is that people look to governments and religions for pardons, permission and other validation. People that see some kind of meaning in empty gestures like a posthumous pardon (after shaming and chemically castrating the man) are grossly mislead.<p>Buying into the hype of government is what gives governments the power to commit senseless crimes like what was done to Alan Turing and many, many crimes that are much worse. The correct answer to &quot;should the UK government pardon Alan Turing?&quot; is &quot;fuck off&quot;.<p>I view the gay marriage issue in the same light. I have gay friends that care deeply about marriage equality, but as much as I love them and they are my friends, I simply cannot sympathize. My answer to them is: &quot;Live your life, do want you want to do, don&#x27;t ask the government or anyone else for permission&quot;.<p>If worried about my status as defined by the U.S. government and the fairness I can expect from U.S. government, I would just kill myself now. Thankfully I realize that government is just another scam for me to avoid to the best of my ability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>Nobody is asking for permission. We are asking for equal protection under the law.<p>There are dozens of boring issues that are bundled with this issue. For me, repeal of DOMA means that if I got hit by a bus tomorrow, my husband would be able to continue to live in our home and not have to sell it to pay taxes on his &quot;windfall&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>House of Lords debates pardon for Alan Turing</title><url>http://bbc.co.uk/democracylive/house-of-lords-23378209</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pinchyfingers</author><text>The bigger issue here is that people look to governments and religions for pardons, permission and other validation. People that see some kind of meaning in empty gestures like a posthumous pardon (after shaming and chemically castrating the man) are grossly mislead.<p>Buying into the hype of government is what gives governments the power to commit senseless crimes like what was done to Alan Turing and many, many crimes that are much worse. The correct answer to &quot;should the UK government pardon Alan Turing?&quot; is &quot;fuck off&quot;.<p>I view the gay marriage issue in the same light. I have gay friends that care deeply about marriage equality, but as much as I love them and they are my friends, I simply cannot sympathize. My answer to them is: &quot;Live your life, do want you want to do, don&#x27;t ask the government or anyone else for permission&quot;.<p>If worried about my status as defined by the U.S. government and the fairness I can expect from U.S. government, I would just kill myself now. Thankfully I realize that government is just another scam for me to avoid to the best of my ability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>commandar</author><text>&gt; &quot;Live your life, do want you want to do, don&#x27;t ask the government or anyone else for permission&quot;<p>That&#x27;s what Turing was trying to do. It resulted in:<p>&gt;shaming and chemically castrating the man<p>&gt;If worried about my status as defined by the [UK] government and the fairness I can expect from [UK] government, I would just kill myself now.<p>The issue goes a bit deeper than superficial validation.</text></comment> |
11,905,632 | 11,898,782 | 1 | 3 | 11,895,750 | train | <story><title>OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/13/os-x-is-now-macos-and-gets-support-for-siri-auto-unlock-and-more/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snuxoll</author><text>I swear, I must be the only person on the planet satisfied with the current state of systemd and GNOME 3. Fedora 23 is my main workstation OS and I have the <i>least</i> amount of friction getting my work done on it compared to either Windows or macOS these days. Then again, I mostly spend my day in IntelliJ, DataGrip, PyCharm, Firefox, a terminal, and a Windows VM for when I&#x27;m forced to open Visual Studio.</text></item><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>&gt; Linux, please take off.<p>Sorry, no can do. We have to complete the process of breaking everything with systemd, then as soon as that&#x27;s done rewrite KDE and Gnome from scratch <i>again</i>.</text></item><item><author>nothis</author><text>I like Apple&#x27;s mobile devices but ever since the iPad turned out to be a giant iPhone instead of a true desktop&#x2F;mobile hybrid, I&#x27;m scared as hell that they will lock down their desktop&#x2F;laptop ecosystem the way they do with mobile. It&#x27;s clear now that iOS is absorbing everything Mac.<p>Now I&#x27;m trapped between MacOS, Windows 10 and maybe Google&#x27;s Chrome environment. Linux, please take off. I wished the open source community had good interface&#x2F;usability designers.</text></item><item><author>bobbyi_settv</author><text>It seems like more and more of the work on MacOS is dedicated to propping up iOS instead of simply making a great desktop OS. As someone who does not use or want Apple&#x27;s mobile devices, it&#x27;s been hard to get excited about these last few releases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyphar</author><text>I&#x27;m a maintainer of runC and long-term contributor to Docker. From my perspective, systemd has been nothing but a huge pain from a development perspective. Not because of the UX (which is okay, there&#x27;s lots of odd stuff there too) but because systemd sets up the system in a way that is ridiculously frustrating for people using low-level kernel primitives directly.<p>If you want to use cgroups and don&#x27;t want systemd to start messing around with your setup, then you have to go through systemd (which is bad, but it gets worse when you find out that systemd doesn&#x27;t support all cgroups). Also, systemd has ridiculous defaults. I wrote the pids cgroup code in the kernel, and was surprised when systemd set the default limit for all system services to be <i></i>512<i></i> tasks and <i></i>4096<i></i> for all user tasks. Then there&#x27;s the binary logging format which is such a brain-dead idea, that I&#x27;m not even sure how someone actually went through the process of writing the code without ever considering that it was a bad idea.<p>That&#x27;s just one example of the things that annoy me with systemd. Things mostly work with it, but if you actually want to do something, using it is such a pain. If systemd had stayed as what was promised (a replacement for init scripts) and hadn&#x27;t gone beyond that (managing your bootloader, binary logging, abusing cgroups and changing the kernel plans for what cgroupv2 should look like, messing around with coredumps, misusing &#x2F;dev&#x2F;kmem to actually spam people who are trying to debug kernel issues, an-almost-but-not-quite reimplementation of ntpd, etc).<p>If they didn&#x27;t have such strong views that they were entitled to be the owners of <i>my</i> system, it might actually have turned out as a good project. Too bad that the management of the project has decided that they should &quot;rewrite all the things, but badly&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/13/os-x-is-now-macos-and-gets-support-for-siri-auto-unlock-and-more/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snuxoll</author><text>I swear, I must be the only person on the planet satisfied with the current state of systemd and GNOME 3. Fedora 23 is my main workstation OS and I have the <i>least</i> amount of friction getting my work done on it compared to either Windows or macOS these days. Then again, I mostly spend my day in IntelliJ, DataGrip, PyCharm, Firefox, a terminal, and a Windows VM for when I&#x27;m forced to open Visual Studio.</text></item><item><author>Analemma_</author><text>&gt; Linux, please take off.<p>Sorry, no can do. We have to complete the process of breaking everything with systemd, then as soon as that&#x27;s done rewrite KDE and Gnome from scratch <i>again</i>.</text></item><item><author>nothis</author><text>I like Apple&#x27;s mobile devices but ever since the iPad turned out to be a giant iPhone instead of a true desktop&#x2F;mobile hybrid, I&#x27;m scared as hell that they will lock down their desktop&#x2F;laptop ecosystem the way they do with mobile. It&#x27;s clear now that iOS is absorbing everything Mac.<p>Now I&#x27;m trapped between MacOS, Windows 10 and maybe Google&#x27;s Chrome environment. Linux, please take off. I wished the open source community had good interface&#x2F;usability designers.</text></item><item><author>bobbyi_settv</author><text>It seems like more and more of the work on MacOS is dedicated to propping up iOS instead of simply making a great desktop OS. As someone who does not use or want Apple&#x27;s mobile devices, it&#x27;s been hard to get excited about these last few releases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digi_owl</author><text>Well Fedora is basically systemd central, so no surprises there. Frankly if it continues the way it has, every distro becomes Fedora with the serial numbers filed off...</text></comment> |
22,033,822 | 22,033,705 | 1 | 2 | 22,033,341 | train | <story><title>EU: Call to introduce common charger for all mobile phones</title><url>https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/agenda/briefing/2020-01-13/13/call-to-introduce-common-charger-for-all-mobile-phones</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Renaud</author><text>Apple really dropped the ball on this and the argument they make (thing about all of the old accessories!) is pretty moot for the consumer.<p>I want all phone to standardise on USB-C. No adapter for Apple, no exception.<p>The point is not just about charging: accessory manufacturers have to develop 2 physical versions of their equipment, for Apple devices and for Android devices.
This increases development and manufacturing costs and restricts the use of the accessory to a single system.<p>Having more USB-C accessories would also force Apple to increase compatibility with a broader range of accessories. For instance it&#x27;s impossible to use an off-the-shelf USB drive and connect it to an iPhone to, say, dump pictures to it.<p>If the iPhone had a standard USB plug, it would be harder for Apple to ignore the perfectly reasonable expectation that plugging in a drive should allow you to do something useful with it.<p>Today the fact that lighting is not a common port means that you have to buy a &#x27;special&#x27; USB drive with a lighting port and then have to find some app that takes advantage of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU: Call to introduce common charger for all mobile phones</title><url>https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/agenda/briefing/2020-01-13/13/call-to-introduce-common-charger-for-all-mobile-phones</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fierarul</author><text>Why stop at mobile phones? Is there a reason laptops need so many different connectors? I am willing to bet many random connectors are just planned obsolescence or a secondary revenue stream for producers.<p>Also, let&#x27;s take this further. Any reason laptop displays can&#x27;t internally have a rather standardised connector? We are throwing away perfectly good displays on broken laptops. What if I could buy a $20 adaptor and use that laptop display as an external screen?<p>The amount of anti-consumer and anti-reuse measures the hardware industry does is baffling.</text></comment> |
37,287,545 | 37,287,016 | 1 | 2 | 37,270,007 | train | <story><title>Japan's abandoned villages</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/08/18/japan/society/exploring-the-eerie-beauty-of-japans-abandoned-villages/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rgrieselhuber</author><text>When I first started traveling in Japan, the dilapidated countryside was very disconcerting to me, almost felt like I&#x27;d stumbled into some sort of back room. The more time I spent there, however, the more I came to appreciate the aesthetics of the lonely restaurants, the rusted steel-sided buildings, almost abandoned shrines, etc. Hard to say what exactly is so appealing about it, but it sticks with you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>opportune</author><text>I think the word “ennui” was almost invented to describe rural Japan. There is a mesmerizing, eerily graceful sense of decline.<p>In a lot of other rural places on Earth, even if they are in poverty, there is usually a decent amount of activity even if some buildings are abandoned. There are families (often very large ones with many kids), drunk hooligans, outgoing salt of the earth types.<p>Rural Japan in contrast is quiet, mostly elderly, and more culturally “refined” at least on its face. And if you go wandering around, even as a very conspicuous foreigner, because of the language barrier and general cultural introversion, the few people you do see will mostly politely ignore you or not initiate conversation. Similarly while buildings may be abandoned and overgrown with plants there is usually very little trash (not counting what was simply left there, think more like plastic bags and empty beer bottles from teens hanging out) and no graffiti.<p>Other places that may be obviously in decline have evidence of a future and continued habitation, even if bleak, from young people vandalizing abandoned places, families going about their day, and confused middle aged folks trying to ask why you are even visiting their place and if you’re lost. In rural Japan, especially if you don’t speak Japanese, it’s more like you are a ghost wandering around a place resigned to evaporate, whose remaining inhabitants stoically continue on their peaceful day to day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Japan's abandoned villages</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/08/18/japan/society/exploring-the-eerie-beauty-of-japans-abandoned-villages/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rgrieselhuber</author><text>When I first started traveling in Japan, the dilapidated countryside was very disconcerting to me, almost felt like I&#x27;d stumbled into some sort of back room. The more time I spent there, however, the more I came to appreciate the aesthetics of the lonely restaurants, the rusted steel-sided buildings, almost abandoned shrines, etc. Hard to say what exactly is so appealing about it, but it sticks with you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>resolutebat</author><text>There&#x27;s an amazing (and depressing) blog called Spike Japan that&#x27;s all about this aesthetic, with a special focus on the Bubble of the 80s and the detritus it left behind:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spikejapan.wordpress.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spikejapan.wordpress.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
15,239,846 | 15,239,958 | 1 | 3 | 15,235,854 | train | <story><title>Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-measure-infinities-find-theyre-equal-20170912/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abnry</author><text>I am having trouble grasping the result.<p>As far as I understand it, any proof of any result has to be with respect to some axiom system. The continuum hypothesis result is that you cannot prove a infinity exists between the naturals and the real numbers under the usual axiom system A.<p>How that was proved, I don&#x27;t know, and I also don&#x27;t know what axiom system was used in that proof. If the axiom system was also A, then it seems to me that it follows we cannot have p&lt;t, and hence p=t, because otherwise by staying in the same axiom system A you violate the unprovability of the continuum hypothesis in A. This supplies a proof in A that p=t. But this seems trivial.<p>So the axiom system used to prove that &quot;the continuum hypothesis is unsolvable in A&quot; must be a larger system A+.<p>I think in A+ we again have p=t. The question this paper answers is whether we can prove &quot;you cannot prove p=t using A&quot; or &quot;you can prove p=t using A&quot;. The latter means there is a straight up proof.<p>Any people who really know this stuff can you comment if I got the gist right?</text></comment> | <story><title>Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-measure-infinities-find-theyre-equal-20170912/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arstin</author><text>I only had one one set theory course so can&#x27;t vouch for the details, but this seemed like a well done article on a subject that could easily have been more eyeglazingly superficial or obscure.</text></comment> |
26,904,089 | 26,904,050 | 1 | 3 | 26,902,821 | train | <story><title>Green vs. Brown Programming Languages</title><url>https://earthly.dev/blog/brown-green-language/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gameswithgo</author><text>&gt;Go was built explicitly to solve the real everyday problems of working in a large code base, largely driven directly by experience of several industry titans.<p>So have all languages, with wildly different philosophies about how to do that. We collectively just don&#x27;t have any idea what we are doing. Clearly nobody has stumbled on a big win or one particular language would start dominating the industry due to the productivity bump.</text></item><item><author>Laremere</author><text>It seems reasonable to argue the exact opposite: (edit: for clarification, I think this argument is roughly equal in strength to the parent. My bias is definitely showing, but my main point is that knowing which will be true is hard.)<p>Go was built explicitly to solve the real everyday problems of working in a large code base, largely driven directly by experience of several industry titans. It mostly remixes what has proven to work into a cohesive package. It&#x27;s only as large as it absolutely needs to be (so new devs can learn it quickly), and has a strong focus on developer UX (gofmt, build speed, godoc).<p>Rust on the other hand is a far more ambitious language. It&#x27;s trying to statically solve many types of problems which are typically solved through testing and experience. Using Rust productively requires much more Rust specific learning. With how Rust is changing and having multiple approaches to things as the language is defined, long living code bases are going to accrue different methodologies from whatever was popular when each component was written.<p>I think in 10 years a few experienced devs will do to Rust what Go did to C: Take the bits that obviously worked well, add a few ideas from other languages to soften some rough corners, and present it is a smaller, easy to use package. Though I also in general hope old languages are being replaced by new languages, as that must happen if as an industry we are getting better at building software. But also because I&#x27;m making a programming language and I have to believe I&#x27;ve found room for improvement for that to be a good idea.</text></item><item><author>brundolf</author><text>I think there&#x27;s a lot of truth to this, but I&#x27;m going to make an additional suggestion that I&#x27;ll readily admit is biased by my own feelings:<p>I think Go is in a honeymoon phase and people will hate it in 10 years; I think Rust will continue to be liked even when it&#x27;s a legacy language (perhaps no language can continue being <i>loved</i> once it becomes &quot;brown&quot;, but I think Rust will be a lot less dreaded than others).<p>Go, like Ruby (mentioned at the end of the article), is optimized for <i>building</i>. You can do things quickly and easily with minimal ceremony. Some people love that. But that&#x27;s exactly the trait that&#x27;s starting to weigh on Ruby, and it&#x27;s exactly the trait that has put PHP and Perl in the &quot;dread&quot; category over time (remember when people were in love with those?).<p>Rust on the other hand is optimized for <i>maintaining</i> (it&#x27;s right there in the name: software should be allowed to become old and &quot;collect rust&quot;). Rust APIs are very hard to misuse, everything is constrained and specified very explicitly. Documentation and testing live inline with your code. You know exactly what a piece of code can and can&#x27;t do - you even know whether it&#x27;s allowed to mutate an object you&#x27;re passing it. And of course certain mistakes are impossible to make at all without (again, explicitly) dipping into unsafe { }.<p>This kind of forethought is what makes a language that survives the honeymoon phase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemo1618</author><text>I actually don&#x27;t think this is true, which is kind of nuts. Programming languages generally fall into two categories:<p>1) They were either designed by one or two eccentrics, and thus contain a few great guiding principles and many questionable ideas, which invariably come back to bite large projects; or,<p>2) They were designed by a committee who tried to make the Final Universal Language that would solve every possible problem, resulting in a kitchen-sink mess of a language with a 400-page specification that no one reads.<p>Most mainstream languages made <i>some</i> attempt to serve software-at-scale; for example, OO used to be the obvious thing that would make software more maintainable, so most languages support it at least in part. But if you look at a language like C++, it&#x27;s obvious that many of its features were added simply because they were cool or increased expressiveness (e.g. operator overloading) without regard for long-term maintainability. Even things as mundane as &quot;implicit &#x27;this&#x27;&quot; are <i>clearly</i> harmful to readability, with specious benefit.<p>AFAIK, Go is the only language that really takes engineering seriously: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talks.golang.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;splash.article" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talks.golang.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;splash.article</a>
If there are similar articles for other mainstream languages, I&#x27;m certainly curious to read them and see how they hold up today!</text></comment> | <story><title>Green vs. Brown Programming Languages</title><url>https://earthly.dev/blog/brown-green-language/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gameswithgo</author><text>&gt;Go was built explicitly to solve the real everyday problems of working in a large code base, largely driven directly by experience of several industry titans.<p>So have all languages, with wildly different philosophies about how to do that. We collectively just don&#x27;t have any idea what we are doing. Clearly nobody has stumbled on a big win or one particular language would start dominating the industry due to the productivity bump.</text></item><item><author>Laremere</author><text>It seems reasonable to argue the exact opposite: (edit: for clarification, I think this argument is roughly equal in strength to the parent. My bias is definitely showing, but my main point is that knowing which will be true is hard.)<p>Go was built explicitly to solve the real everyday problems of working in a large code base, largely driven directly by experience of several industry titans. It mostly remixes what has proven to work into a cohesive package. It&#x27;s only as large as it absolutely needs to be (so new devs can learn it quickly), and has a strong focus on developer UX (gofmt, build speed, godoc).<p>Rust on the other hand is a far more ambitious language. It&#x27;s trying to statically solve many types of problems which are typically solved through testing and experience. Using Rust productively requires much more Rust specific learning. With how Rust is changing and having multiple approaches to things as the language is defined, long living code bases are going to accrue different methodologies from whatever was popular when each component was written.<p>I think in 10 years a few experienced devs will do to Rust what Go did to C: Take the bits that obviously worked well, add a few ideas from other languages to soften some rough corners, and present it is a smaller, easy to use package. Though I also in general hope old languages are being replaced by new languages, as that must happen if as an industry we are getting better at building software. But also because I&#x27;m making a programming language and I have to believe I&#x27;ve found room for improvement for that to be a good idea.</text></item><item><author>brundolf</author><text>I think there&#x27;s a lot of truth to this, but I&#x27;m going to make an additional suggestion that I&#x27;ll readily admit is biased by my own feelings:<p>I think Go is in a honeymoon phase and people will hate it in 10 years; I think Rust will continue to be liked even when it&#x27;s a legacy language (perhaps no language can continue being <i>loved</i> once it becomes &quot;brown&quot;, but I think Rust will be a lot less dreaded than others).<p>Go, like Ruby (mentioned at the end of the article), is optimized for <i>building</i>. You can do things quickly and easily with minimal ceremony. Some people love that. But that&#x27;s exactly the trait that&#x27;s starting to weigh on Ruby, and it&#x27;s exactly the trait that has put PHP and Perl in the &quot;dread&quot; category over time (remember when people were in love with those?).<p>Rust on the other hand is optimized for <i>maintaining</i> (it&#x27;s right there in the name: software should be allowed to become old and &quot;collect rust&quot;). Rust APIs are very hard to misuse, everything is constrained and specified very explicitly. Documentation and testing live inline with your code. You know exactly what a piece of code can and can&#x27;t do - you even know whether it&#x27;s allowed to mutate an object you&#x27;re passing it. And of course certain mistakes are impossible to make at all without (again, explicitly) dipping into unsafe { }.<p>This kind of forethought is what makes a language that survives the honeymoon phase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bccdee</author><text>&gt; Clearly nobody has stumbled on a big win or one particular language would start dominating the industry due to the productivity bump.<p>This is what happened with Python. It provided a distinct productivity advantage over C &amp; C++, and now no one writes web apps in C++ anymore. Granted, it&#x27;s not just Python anymore, but newer languages learned from Python&#x27;s success.</text></comment> |
28,186,099 | 28,186,051 | 1 | 2 | 28,166,737 | train | <story><title>On Digital Minimalsim (2016)</title><url>https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2016/12/18/on-digital-minimalism/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gordon_freeman</author><text>I totally agree and understand what you&#x27;ve said but sometimes I have this urge to let other friends and family members know which books I&#x27;ve been reading or places I am traveling to etc. I used to do this on FB and IG before I did digital cleansing. Have you figured it out how to suppress this urge to post things like that?</text></item><item><author>weezin</author><text>I skimmed through deep work and bought digital minimalism, mostly because I had already subscribed to the idea mostly due to the vitriol that has developed on social media, and the constant dopamine hits that come with constant notifications.
I&#x27;ve deleted IG, Twitter, and FB with Hacker News and Reddit being my only vices left. I would say that I&#x27;m a lot happier.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that we really need to know all the worlds problems at our finger tips and avoiding the most disingenuous of these interactions is healthy, although I&#x27;m thinking about deleting reddit for this reason and leaving HN as my only bastion left.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weezin</author><text>I don&#x27;t have much self-discipline, but if I did I would disable notifications and time box a couple hours for sharing things&#x2F; replying. I think a lot of the issues are from consumption more than sharing.<p>That being said I use to have a lot of engagement on my twitter account and I got to the point that posting would give me anxiety because of the possibility of negative replies despite whatever I said being mundane. Also watching others get &quot;exposed&quot; for certain behaviors gave me anxiety as a somewhat popular person in my social network. I wanted the engagement, but after I got it I found out it wasn&#x27;t what I was expecting&#x2F;wanted and stopped.<p>I guess I didn&#x27;t really have a secret as much as just learned the hard way.<p>edit: couple hours per week*</text></comment> | <story><title>On Digital Minimalsim (2016)</title><url>https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2016/12/18/on-digital-minimalism/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gordon_freeman</author><text>I totally agree and understand what you&#x27;ve said but sometimes I have this urge to let other friends and family members know which books I&#x27;ve been reading or places I am traveling to etc. I used to do this on FB and IG before I did digital cleansing. Have you figured it out how to suppress this urge to post things like that?</text></item><item><author>weezin</author><text>I skimmed through deep work and bought digital minimalism, mostly because I had already subscribed to the idea mostly due to the vitriol that has developed on social media, and the constant dopamine hits that come with constant notifications.
I&#x27;ve deleted IG, Twitter, and FB with Hacker News and Reddit being my only vices left. I would say that I&#x27;m a lot happier.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that we really need to know all the worlds problems at our finger tips and avoiding the most disingenuous of these interactions is healthy, although I&#x27;m thinking about deleting reddit for this reason and leaving HN as my only bastion left.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>villasv</author><text>Substitute it with a less impersonal medium. Send them emails or given them a call to chat about latest stuff. For friends you can have WhatsApp&#x2F;Signal&#x2F;Whatever.<p>Replace broadcasting with a duplex channel.</text></comment> |
38,364,641 | 38,364,484 | 1 | 2 | 38,363,133 | train | <story><title>NY Federal Court: There's a Right to Record Police, Also Inside Station Lobbies</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/20/ny-federal-court-theres-a-right-to-record-police-officers-and-state-law-says-that-includes-inside-station-lobbies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>While I support freedom of speech, I cannot bring myself to support these auditors. They all act like entitled jerks bent on provoking confrontation to generate clicks. I&#x27;m ashamed that these jerks are at the forefront of anything. In the past it was Hustler magazine fighting against a religious-political system styming freedom of speech. Today it is losers with cellphones fighting over their right to shout at people in libraries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jawns</author><text>There are many First Amendment auditors out there, and I agree with you that a good number of them purposefully attempt to provoke a reaction or get under people&#x27;s skin.<p>But I&#x27;ve watched dozens of Reyes&#x27; videos, and that is not his style. If he enters a public space, he doesn&#x27;t call attention to himself and typically doesn&#x27;t speak to anyone unless spoken to. Most often, he films the walls of public buildings, and if he points a camera at anyone in particular, it&#x27;s only because they&#x27;ve approached him to ask him what he&#x27;s doing. He is cordial in his responses and will generally politely explain to anyone who inquires that he&#x27;s an independent journalist gathering content for a story.<p>On the flip side, police and other government officials routinely treat him with contempt and hostility from the moment they see him, barking unlawful orders at him and attempting to suppress conduct that the law explicitly protects. He&#x27;s been assaulted, had his camera equipment destroyed, and been unlawfully arrested multiple times, as he was by the NYPD. If he comes off a little salty as a result of that mistreatment, it&#x27;s at least understandable.<p>But even in the case where First Amendment auditors are not being respectful and are acting like jerks ... it&#x27;s worth noting that the First Amendment is not designed to protect content and actions that others approve of, or that make others feel comfortable. It is explicitly designed to protect speech that others would rather we not speak, religions that others would rather we not practice, journalism that others would rather we not publish. So even if they are being jerks, as long as their conduct is legally protected, it at least allows us to determine whether the First Amendment is being respected.</text></comment> | <story><title>NY Federal Court: There's a Right to Record Police, Also Inside Station Lobbies</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/20/ny-federal-court-theres-a-right-to-record-police-officers-and-state-law-says-that-includes-inside-station-lobbies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>While I support freedom of speech, I cannot bring myself to support these auditors. They all act like entitled jerks bent on provoking confrontation to generate clicks. I&#x27;m ashamed that these jerks are at the forefront of anything. In the past it was Hustler magazine fighting against a religious-political system styming freedom of speech. Today it is losers with cellphones fighting over their right to shout at people in libraries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>Larry Flynt was definitely a jerk bent on provoking confrontation.<p>Cops who can&#x27;t handle a jerk without committing a clear violation of the Constitution <i>shouldn&#x27;t be cops</i>.</text></comment> |
34,076,374 | 34,073,784 | 1 | 2 | 34,071,820 | train | <story><title>Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture</title><url>https://jorzel.github.io/deep-work-essentialism-in-asynchronous-culture/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gorgoiler</author><text>Your level as an engineer should be based on how much deep work you can do without screwing the pooch. The best engineers can be left alone for months and be sure to return with something cogent. The most junior will be required to have daily design check ins and regular code reviews as they go from start to finish on a project whose problem space needs to be well understood and mapped out before any deep work begins.<p>It is very damaging to an organisation when someone who cannot create understandable solutions is given the deep work breathing space to go crazy. It is a difficult but important thing to find out about candidates &#x2F; probationary employees sooner rather than later. It’s important to keep a stash of pre-baked project ideas on hand so that you can use them to assess newcomers to the team, especially if you only have three months to figure out if they are able to meet your expectations before being confirmed as a full time employee.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture</title><url>https://jorzel.github.io/deep-work-essentialism-in-asynchronous-culture/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>psteitz</author><text>I agree with the main point here, but one thing that has always puzzled me is how to think about what might be called deep collaborative work. Most meetings, especially the status-y kind, are manifestly not &quot;deep&quot; but some of the most intense work that I have ever done has been with one or a small handful of collaborators.</text></comment> |
7,929,836 | 7,929,573 | 1 | 2 | 7,928,992 | train | <story><title>The Worst SaaS Cancellation Policy on the Internet</title><url>http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/blog/the-worst-cancellation-policy-on-the-internet</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>File an FTC complaint about them, and a BBB one, and send a complaint to Dun &amp; Bradstreet while you are at it, and post something on ripoffreport if they are still around. Then change your credit card # ( get a new number &#x2F; card )<p>Sounds like these guys are exploiting the same flaw in CC payments that a number of phone services, domain name registrars, buyer protection services, etc exploit which is that there is no way to &#x27;pre-decline&#x27; a charge to your credit card. They will keep charging your card (regardless of your cancellation) and when you complain they will send the CC company a copy of your <i>initial</i> signup &#x2F; agreement and won&#x27;t include any follow up documentation. You will have to send your email as documentation as &#x27;proof&#x27; month after month. Many people just give up and pay the the money. The local news station has a consumerist segment they run now and then, this sort of scam comes up frequently.<p>Clearly you are not alone: <a href="http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/directory/1and1-internet" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ripoffreport.com&#x2F;reports&#x2F;directory&#x2F;1and1-internet</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Worst SaaS Cancellation Policy on the Internet</title><url>http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/blog/the-worst-cancellation-policy-on-the-internet</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nate</author><text>This is a tangent, but I had a similar reaction to Honest company (baby products) and cancelling. My wife signed up to their trial subscription delivery thing for diaper for our newborn. This is Jessica Alba&#x27;s company.<p>We sign up for the trial online. The diapers were fine, but we still liked the indicator strip on the Pampers better. So my wife goes to the website to cancel. Can&#x27;t cancel online. Great.<p>So she has to call. But then she&#x27;s on hold for 10 minutes, at which point being a brand new parent, she needs to nurse the newborn and can&#x27;t be on hold any longer. So she emails to cancel, no response.<p>A second call, another 10 minute hold time, and almost giving up again, she finally gets through to someone to cancel and she has to go through a series of questions before cancelling.<p>Honest seems to be preying on new parents who simply don&#x27;t have the willpower or time to deal with cancelling. Checking out reviews, it seems a lot of people have this 10 minute &quot;hold time&quot;. I&#x27;m suspicious it&#x27;s just an automated wait time, and their representatives aren&#x27;t really that busy.</text></comment> |
23,643,757 | 23,643,518 | 1 | 2 | 23,642,484 | train | <story><title>DHH: The HEY stack Vanilla Ruby on Rails, MySQL, redis, stimulus, elastic search</title><url>https://m.twitter.com/dhh/status/1275901955995385856</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ch4s3</author><text>&gt; the UX is fairly laggy<p>I don&#x27;t really find that to be the case. All of the actions seem to be done for me in under 400ms which is to say under the Doherty Threshold. That mean&#x27;s that they are largely imperceptible. Sure it doesn&#x27;t have fancy animations, but there isn&#x27;t really any time for them.<p>Can you cite an example of a popular React SPA that is less &quot;laggy&quot; in your opinion? I&#x27;m curious to compare the UX.</text></item><item><author>piazz</author><text>Noteworthy how they tout the success of their &quot;magic&quot; frontend stack made with vanilla JS, lack of a trendy framework, etc. But if you use the app, the UX is fairly laggy, requires frequent refreshes, all the animations and interactions are off - the list goes on and on. It&#x27;s noticeably subpar (and I <i>like</i> Hey).<p>Seems to me that the proof is in the pudding wrt their stack, but it&#x27;s probably not what they wanted to prove. I would take a well tuned React SPA over this any day of the week.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JamesSwift</author><text>Ive never heard of the Doherty Threshold, but looking it up, it seems that its actually saying &gt; 400 ms &quot;is painful&quot;, not that its &quot;imperceptible&quot;. And that aligns with previous rules of thumb I&#x27;ve used for mobile UX -- you generally want things to be &lt; 100ms, and ideally &lt; 50ms. If something results from user interaction the bar is much closer to the 50ms side of the range.</text></comment> | <story><title>DHH: The HEY stack Vanilla Ruby on Rails, MySQL, redis, stimulus, elastic search</title><url>https://m.twitter.com/dhh/status/1275901955995385856</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ch4s3</author><text>&gt; the UX is fairly laggy<p>I don&#x27;t really find that to be the case. All of the actions seem to be done for me in under 400ms which is to say under the Doherty Threshold. That mean&#x27;s that they are largely imperceptible. Sure it doesn&#x27;t have fancy animations, but there isn&#x27;t really any time for them.<p>Can you cite an example of a popular React SPA that is less &quot;laggy&quot; in your opinion? I&#x27;m curious to compare the UX.</text></item><item><author>piazz</author><text>Noteworthy how they tout the success of their &quot;magic&quot; frontend stack made with vanilla JS, lack of a trendy framework, etc. But if you use the app, the UX is fairly laggy, requires frequent refreshes, all the animations and interactions are off - the list goes on and on. It&#x27;s noticeably subpar (and I <i>like</i> Hey).<p>Seems to me that the proof is in the pudding wrt their stack, but it&#x27;s probably not what they wanted to prove. I would take a well tuned React SPA over this any day of the week.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>piazz</author><text>Sure, a fairly best in class example would probably be Notion. Switch between pages, move some elements around, etc. There&#x27;s a level of interactivity and responsiveness that I just don&#x27;t see with Hey.</text></comment> |
20,905,395 | 20,899,932 | 1 | 2 | 20,899,863 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2019 – Show and tell</title><text>It seems this question hasn&#x27;t been asked for some time, so I&#x27;d be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matt_the_bass</author><text>I’m almost there. Hopefully that will be the case by 2020. But mine is not a Saas or app. I actually make things as a hobby and sell them in low volume.<p>A few years ago, I started making word clocks as presents for people. After a while I started teaching a workshop on how to make a simple clock at a local maker space. Now I have a refined design that my wife and I are producing in our basement and starting to sell at low volume: www.finewordclocks.com
Making clocks is also a great excuse to buy cool tools. We have a probotix asteroid cnc in the basement. I have a 3yo and 6yo. It’s been fun getting them involved in making things. Most of the presents for their friends’ birthday parties are home made (mostly by me but with the kids’ participation) and are REALLY well received.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2019 – Show and tell</title><text>It seems this question hasn&#x27;t been asked for some time, so I&#x27;d be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>synack</author><text>Running <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;diskprices.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;diskprices.com</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;battprices.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;battprices.com</a>, I&#x27;ve been consistently making &gt;$500 in Amazon affiliate fees each month for the last couple of years. It&#x27;s still growing, slowly. I&#x27;m working on some improvements to the software to add more metadata about the drives like warranty and advertised performance numbers.</text></comment> |
17,952,491 | 17,952,631 | 1 | 2 | 17,951,133 | train | <story><title>In Math Cram Sessions, Solving for Why</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/well/family/in-math-cram-sessions-solving-for-why.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unpythonic</author><text>As much as the Common Core standards are criticized here in California, I have to say that the emphasis on the &quot;why&quot; behind every operation is really fantastic. It&#x27;s usually in the last section of each homework, but it provides a good discussion point when going over the homework each night.<p>Asking students to answer questions like the following are easy to zip through, but they provide a good place to pause and find a way to connect the physical mechanics of a solution to the reasoning behind it: &quot;How would you explain to someone else why the fraction 1&#x2F;2 greater than 1&#x2F;4?&quot; or &quot;Why doesn&#x27;t angle-angle-angle show congruence but angle-side-angle does?&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve also noticed that the Common Core brings in advanced topics earlier without announcing to the student that it is an advanced topic. Ideas from algebra are brought in at natural points of the discussion rather than making a big deal of it. By the time that they realize they&#x27;re learning algebra, they are already into many of the &quot;rules&quot; that would have otherwise been taught by rote. If you understand why you have to multiply both sides 5 to find out x&#x2F;5 = 30, it feels much less arbitrary when the rules are made more explicit later.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdenton4</author><text>I haven&#x27;t worked in an american classroom, but as a math educator, thought the CommonCore looked great when it was first rolling out.<p>Math education is (kind of strangely) a bit of a battlefield in the US (maybe not so strangely, when everything else seems to be, too)... I think a big part of it is prevalent math anxiety - perhaps embarrassment at seeing unfamiliar things on the kid&#x27;s homework. Along with this, there&#x27;s still lingering bad PR from the &#x27;New Math&#x27; of the seventies, which made it somehow acceptable to make the argument that we should stick to teaching math the same way forever. (Especially for people who believe that math hasn&#x27;t changed since Newton.)</text></comment> | <story><title>In Math Cram Sessions, Solving for Why</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/well/family/in-math-cram-sessions-solving-for-why.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unpythonic</author><text>As much as the Common Core standards are criticized here in California, I have to say that the emphasis on the &quot;why&quot; behind every operation is really fantastic. It&#x27;s usually in the last section of each homework, but it provides a good discussion point when going over the homework each night.<p>Asking students to answer questions like the following are easy to zip through, but they provide a good place to pause and find a way to connect the physical mechanics of a solution to the reasoning behind it: &quot;How would you explain to someone else why the fraction 1&#x2F;2 greater than 1&#x2F;4?&quot; or &quot;Why doesn&#x27;t angle-angle-angle show congruence but angle-side-angle does?&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve also noticed that the Common Core brings in advanced topics earlier without announcing to the student that it is an advanced topic. Ideas from algebra are brought in at natural points of the discussion rather than making a big deal of it. By the time that they realize they&#x27;re learning algebra, they are already into many of the &quot;rules&quot; that would have otherwise been taught by rote. If you understand why you have to multiply both sides 5 to find out x&#x2F;5 = 30, it feels much less arbitrary when the rules are made more explicit later.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threatofrain</author><text>There&#x27;s so much misinformation on the Common Core that many people don&#x27;t realize how much of a modest adjustment it was from before. Another way of summarizing the changes made by the Common Core, aside from your note that it focuses more on why, is that it advances the math curriculum by about half a year.</text></comment> |
6,751,538 | 6,751,499 | 1 | 2 | 6,750,898 | train | <story><title>Amazon bares its computers</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/amazon-bares-its-computers/?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsnk</author><text>&gt;“All of our engineers are focused” on reducing the costs of computing<p>If this is so, how is it that a startup like Digital Ocean that&#x27;s only 2 years old find a way to provide $5&#x2F;month plan that&#x27;s running on SSD while m1.small on EC2 which is slower than DO costing me around $40&#x2F;month? At this rate, I should probably buy a server myself and run it at home.<p>I like AWS and its ecosystem, but I am tired of Amazon continuing to provide shitty service for a ridiculous cost.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chaz</author><text>I use DO and AWS for different projects because they meet different needs. Of course there are going to be places where one is better suited than the other in both performance and price.<p>For example, one of my projects requires 1TB of drive space. At DO, I have no choice but to go to the $960&#x2F;mo 1 TB plan. But I don&#x27;t need the SSD speed, 96 GB of RAM, 24 cores, or the 10 TB of monthly transfer. But with EC2, I can just use EBS @ $100&#x2F;mo&#x2F;TB and pair it with the right-size EC2 instance for the jobs at hand. As an aside, the real question for me is to decide whether I want to invest in a proper dedicated server where I can get good performance and online storage at a lower cost.<p>DO has done a fantastic job at finding a spot in the VPS market, which is why I&#x27;m one of their customers. It doesn&#x27;t mean Amazon is doing it wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon bares its computers</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/amazon-bares-its-computers/?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsnk</author><text>&gt;“All of our engineers are focused” on reducing the costs of computing<p>If this is so, how is it that a startup like Digital Ocean that&#x27;s only 2 years old find a way to provide $5&#x2F;month plan that&#x27;s running on SSD while m1.small on EC2 which is slower than DO costing me around $40&#x2F;month? At this rate, I should probably buy a server myself and run it at home.<p>I like AWS and its ecosystem, but I am tired of Amazon continuing to provide shitty service for a ridiculous cost.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattbillenstein</author><text>Cloud is great when you&#x27;re in the discovery phase as it provides loads of flexibility for a small startup to try stuff out without investing in hardware, but at the point you&#x27;re spending $50k&#x2F;month in the cloud, racking servers and building a private cloud can give you better performance at 20-30% of the cloud cost... The main problem here is most startups don&#x27;t have the expertise in house to make it happen.<p>Everyone thinks cloud is cheaper, but it&#x27;s more about flexibility and avoiding capex, but at a certain scale, it makes sense to host it yourself - or pay someone to build it out for you.<p>I&#x27;m working in this cloud -&gt; private-cloud migration space currently if anyone is interested in discussing.</text></comment> |
6,847,683 | 6,847,935 | 1 | 2 | 6,846,705 | train | <story><title>Evading Airport Security</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/12/evading_airport.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>The original 9&#x2F;11 attack showed how simple traditional weapons could be used to leverage using four whole airplanes as nontraditional weapons, three of them with devastating effect, all of them with lethal effect. I think Schneier&#x27;s point is correct that spending the same amount of money on intelligence, investigations, and emergency response would keep us safer than screening what innocent passengers bring on to airplanes, but current procedures for airport security are still a reaction to 9&#x2F;11 as it happened then. I look forward to the day when we dial back airport security procedures to the new reality of reinforced cockpit doors and passengers who will fight would-be hijackers to save their lives.</text></item><item><author>pkfrank</author><text>I fundamentally don&#x27;t understand the danger of &quot;traditional&quot; (box cutters, etc.) weapons getting through airport security. I understand that we need to continue testing for bombs and anything that can actually bring a plane down.<p>It would obviously be tragic and damaging for someone to attack &quot;defenseless&quot; passengers with &quot;traditional&quot; weapons, but -- in my eyes -- it&#x27;s not terribly different from a random attack in the street or a shopping mall.<p>Airline personnel and the typical cohort of passengers would simply never let a terrorist take the cockpit, which effectively removes that entire element of danger. The only super-substantial potential damage stems from an explosive of some sort, not a box-cutter, knife, or anything of the sort.<p>The cost of TSA (direct and indirect through delays, etc.) is immense, and truly does feel like security theater at this point. I&#x27;d be all-for doubling down on bomb-sniffing dogs, behavior analysts, and all that; but this apparent focus on &quot;traditional&quot; weapons seems totally asymmetric to the risk it presents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ArbitraryLimits</author><text>&gt; The original 9&#x2F;11 attack showed how simple traditional weapons could be used to leverage using four whole airplanes as nontraditional weapons, three of them with devastating effect, all of them with lethal effect.<p>Right, but the GP&#x27;s point is that it was only possible to do that _once_, because the success of the 9&#x2F;11 attacks depended on the passengers cooperating with the hijackers. That was a reasonable assumption because for the previous 30 years, &quot;in the event of a hijacking just cooperate until we can negotiate your release&quot; was the standard advice. Now it isn&#x27;t.<p>Even in 9&#x2F;11, 25% of the passengers figured out on their own that they shouldn&#x27;t cede the cockpit. Today the figure would be 100%, plus the cockpit is sealed off for the duration of the flight anyway. So I really don&#x27;t see a scenario where box-cutters would take out the whole plane any more.</text></comment> | <story><title>Evading Airport Security</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/12/evading_airport.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tokenadult</author><text>The original 9&#x2F;11 attack showed how simple traditional weapons could be used to leverage using four whole airplanes as nontraditional weapons, three of them with devastating effect, all of them with lethal effect. I think Schneier&#x27;s point is correct that spending the same amount of money on intelligence, investigations, and emergency response would keep us safer than screening what innocent passengers bring on to airplanes, but current procedures for airport security are still a reaction to 9&#x2F;11 as it happened then. I look forward to the day when we dial back airport security procedures to the new reality of reinforced cockpit doors and passengers who will fight would-be hijackers to save their lives.</text></item><item><author>pkfrank</author><text>I fundamentally don&#x27;t understand the danger of &quot;traditional&quot; (box cutters, etc.) weapons getting through airport security. I understand that we need to continue testing for bombs and anything that can actually bring a plane down.<p>It would obviously be tragic and damaging for someone to attack &quot;defenseless&quot; passengers with &quot;traditional&quot; weapons, but -- in my eyes -- it&#x27;s not terribly different from a random attack in the street or a shopping mall.<p>Airline personnel and the typical cohort of passengers would simply never let a terrorist take the cockpit, which effectively removes that entire element of danger. The only super-substantial potential damage stems from an explosive of some sort, not a box-cutter, knife, or anything of the sort.<p>The cost of TSA (direct and indirect through delays, etc.) is immense, and truly does feel like security theater at this point. I&#x27;d be all-for doubling down on bomb-sniffing dogs, behavior analysts, and all that; but this apparent focus on &quot;traditional&quot; weapons seems totally asymmetric to the risk it presents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aestra</author><text>9&#x2F;11 was different. People cooperated because that was protocol at the time for a plane hijacking. Nobody expected them to use the plane as a weapon with no regard to their own lives. This was an unprecedented attack.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Aircraft_hijacking</a><p>&quot;Before the September 11, 2001 attacks, most hijackings involved the plane landing at a certain destination, followed by the hijackers making negotiable demands. Pilots and flight attendants were trained to adopt the &quot;Common Strategy&quot; tactic, which was approved by the FAA. It taught crew members to comply with the hijackers&#x27; demands, get the plane to land safely and then let the security forces handle the situation. Crew members advised passengers to sit quietly in order to increase their chances of survival. They were also trained not to make any &#x27;heroic&#x27; moves that could endanger themselves or other people. The FAA realized that the longer a hijacking persisted, the more likely it would end peacefully with the hijackers reaching their goal.[12] The September 11 attacks presented an unprecedented threat because it involved suicide hijackers who could fly an aircraft and use it to delibrately crash the airplane into buildings for the sole purpose to cause massive casualties with no warning, no demands or negotiations, and no regard for human life. The &quot;Common Strategy&quot; approach was not designed to handle suicide hijackings, and the hijackers were able to exploit a weakness in the civil aviation security system. Since then, the &quot;Common Strategy&quot; policy in the USA and the rest of the world to deal with airplane hijackings has no longer been used.&quot;<p>There was also a change in protocol after the Columbine High School massacre. In that attack the two were able to shoot victims while the police were outside setting up a perimeter. Now as a direct result of that attack police actively charge an active shooter, this is called Immediate Action Rapid Deployment. This is said to have saved dozens of lives in Virgina Tech alone.</text></comment> |
41,014,580 | 41,011,581 | 1 | 3 | 40,977,927 | train | <story><title>We created a fake delivery company to get a job</title><url>https://blog.kashevko.com/we-created-a-fake-delivery-company-3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BadHumans</author><text>This is everything I hate about the internet in one story. Using ads to target people, using AI to clone someones&#x27; voice and identity, dogs. The person who said they were excited, confused, scared but curious sums up how I feel about this although I&#x27;m not curious because I know where it leads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stratocumulus0</author><text>I already find it disturbing enough that I&#x27;m getting targeted by all those run-of-the-mill AI entrpreneurs matching the ML part of my job title and auto-generating my work email in order to try to sell me their barely strung together ChatGPT wrappers because they were &quot;impressed by my AI experience&quot; (I have none). If I got physical advertisement material using my likeness and delivered in person, I would straight up call the police on whoever brought me that.</text></comment> | <story><title>We created a fake delivery company to get a job</title><url>https://blog.kashevko.com/we-created-a-fake-delivery-company-3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BadHumans</author><text>This is everything I hate about the internet in one story. Using ads to target people, using AI to clone someones&#x27; voice and identity, dogs. The person who said they were excited, confused, scared but curious sums up how I feel about this although I&#x27;m not curious because I know where it leads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcculley</author><text>I think we can all agree about the evil of the adtech ecosystem. But what do you have against dogs?</text></comment> |
4,722,353 | 4,722,148 | 1 | 2 | 4,721,751 | train | <story><title>Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/ByVPmsSeSEG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robgough</author><text>Obviously if you're working with massive datasets or many many VM's this may not be true, but everyone I know who has 16GB RAM has claimed that it's more than enough. I've got 8GB, and haven't any complaints. I even know people with 32GB who say that with hindsight they'd have been perfectly happy with only 16GB.<p>An SSD however, is incredible. I originally wrote "essential", though I guess it's not... but it certainly feels like it is once you have one. The downside is that it will make working with non-SSD desktop machines irritating-as-hell.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>For years, the things I have cared about in terms of computing have been, roughly:<p>1) Internet connectivity. Without it I'm mostly dead in the water.<p>2) Screen resolution. I want as much code/information on the screen as possible. I currently have a 1920x1200 Dell myself, and am I bit scared/saddened that I won't be able to replace it.<p>3) Memory. Always good.<p>After that come processor speed and storage space. I suspect my next machine will have SSD, because I've heard that it's such a dramatic improvement.<p>I completely agree with Linus though - I <i>very</i> much want a high resolution laptop screen.</text></item><item><author>staunch</author><text>I'm so damn happy people are starting to realize how awesome resolution is. I've been buying 1920x1200 15" Dell laptops for 10 years now, and never bought a Mac because they've always had terrible resolution. I run Linux anyway, but I'm going buy Mac hardware next, unless a PC maker creates a competitive display (which I assume they will).<p>Next up: IPS LCDs <i>everywhere</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hippich</author><text>RAM is so cheap today, I just maxed it out on my laptop. Granted, I have seen only probably 22GB out of 32GB used when I had YACY (P2P search network written in Java) running, but I still expect having system use rest of RAM for caches which in theory should speedup access to file system (on my SSD drive)</text></comment> | <story><title>Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/ByVPmsSeSEG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robgough</author><text>Obviously if you're working with massive datasets or many many VM's this may not be true, but everyone I know who has 16GB RAM has claimed that it's more than enough. I've got 8GB, and haven't any complaints. I even know people with 32GB who say that with hindsight they'd have been perfectly happy with only 16GB.<p>An SSD however, is incredible. I originally wrote "essential", though I guess it's not... but it certainly feels like it is once you have one. The downside is that it will make working with non-SSD desktop machines irritating-as-hell.</text></item><item><author>davidw</author><text>For years, the things I have cared about in terms of computing have been, roughly:<p>1) Internet connectivity. Without it I'm mostly dead in the water.<p>2) Screen resolution. I want as much code/information on the screen as possible. I currently have a 1920x1200 Dell myself, and am I bit scared/saddened that I won't be able to replace it.<p>3) Memory. Always good.<p>After that come processor speed and storage space. I suspect my next machine will have SSD, because I've heard that it's such a dramatic improvement.<p>I completely agree with Linus though - I <i>very</i> much want a high resolution laptop screen.</text></item><item><author>staunch</author><text>I'm so damn happy people are starting to realize how awesome resolution is. I've been buying 1920x1200 15" Dell laptops for 10 years now, and never bought a Mac because they've always had terrible resolution. I run Linux anyway, but I'm going buy Mac hardware next, unless a PC maker creates a competitive display (which I assume they will).<p>Next up: IPS LCDs <i>everywhere</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>Hell, I had 2 GB RAM before and it seemed ok, 8 GB now is more than I need. I had to send the SSD for replacement, though, and it was easily the most frustrating week in recent memory.</text></comment> |
12,255,143 | 12,254,921 | 1 | 3 | 12,254,680 | train | <story><title>Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-will-force-advertising-on-ad-blocking-users-1470751204</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Leynos</author><text>uBlock can already do this (I use it for hiding the Twitter &quot;while you were away&quot; nonsense), although I suspect that the next step is Facebook scrambling DOM classes and ids with no discernable pattern.</text></item><item><author>SEJeff</author><text>Good luck. I suspect in no time uBlock Origin will have found a way to remove the ad elements from the DOM, even if they are served directly with the html of facebook and not a 3rd party domain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gorhill</author><text>&gt; scrambling DOM classes and ids with no discernable pattern<p>That&#x27;s why I have been beefing up the DOM filtering code in the latest versions -- there are already sites doing this.<p>There is a lot of untapped potential with the new operators, I am waiting for opportunities to put them to test, and fine-tune them if needed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-will-force-advertising-on-ad-blocking-users-1470751204</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Leynos</author><text>uBlock can already do this (I use it for hiding the Twitter &quot;while you were away&quot; nonsense), although I suspect that the next step is Facebook scrambling DOM classes and ids with no discernable pattern.</text></item><item><author>SEJeff</author><text>Good luck. I suspect in no time uBlock Origin will have found a way to remove the ad elements from the DOM, even if they are served directly with the html of facebook and not a 3rd party domain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ruste</author><text>Then we can possibly block them by matching structural elements?</text></comment> |
16,727,867 | 16,726,438 | 1 | 2 | 16,722,331 | train | <story><title>Biologist E.O. Wilson suggests ‘moon shot’ conservation effort</title><url>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/03/biologist-e-o-wilson-suggests-moon-shot-conservation-effort/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spodek</author><text>The challenge isn&#x27;t coming up with moon shot ideas, the challenge is implementation -- putting the bell on the cat.<p>Legislation without popular support is authoritarian, which people resist, even if they like the law. They claim there is an environmental crisis, but when voting, Americans don&#x27;t see it that way.<p>You&#x27;ll find no greater fan of science and education than me, but we need to get to the next level of conservation isn&#x27;t more facts nor moon shot ideas from scientists who know that these things can work in principle.<p>We need people with the social and emotional skills of leadership -- not likely forefront scientists, though basic scientific knowledge would help.<p>What works?<p>Speaking of successful moon shots, JFK wasn&#x27;t a rocket scientist. He was a skilled leader. He led and motivated people based on the situation of the times using social and emotional leadership skills.</text></comment> | <story><title>Biologist E.O. Wilson suggests ‘moon shot’ conservation effort</title><url>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/03/biologist-e-o-wilson-suggests-moon-shot-conservation-effort/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp</author><text>A good idea if only because the natural world contains technology far beyond what humans are capable of engineering today. I use the word technology loosely here. Plants and animals are self-sustaining, self-replicating, intelligent, et cetera. We depend on this natural technology to survive.<p>However, it&#x27;s a tough political sell for many people (and many powerful people). The more of us who put up money, the closer to the goal we are.<p>Charities such as the Nature Conservancy finance nature preserves... I&#x27;m curious about other organizations and philanthropists who do too.</text></comment> |
10,011,529 | 10,010,955 | 1 | 2 | 10,010,395 | train | <story><title>It Just Works</title><url>http://www.danielandrews.com/2015/08/05/it-just-works/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>planetjones</author><text>It&#x27;s really frustrating for me just how many bugs Apple software has. Let&#x27;s look at a simple one - the icons on iOS safari for frequently visited websites. They &quot;randomly&quot; assign the wrong favicon e.g. I click the Facebook icon and it loads Hacker News. This has been present since iOS 8. Yesterday I pulled down the notification screen and it occupies only 50% of my screen. Cue another reboot of the iPhone.<p>My iMac. Upgrading to Yosemite was the worst mistake ever. Now I have to use a cheap mouse and keyboard, as Apple&#x27;s Bluetooth versions no longer wake the sleeping iMac. I have tried every solution on the Internet to this and none fix it. The beachball is becoming ever more prominent on the iMac too. Very disappointing for a machine which isn&#x27;t 3 years old.<p>My Macbook Air. It&#x27;s better, but the power button no longer does anything when I press it.<p>Apple products have a huge premium and the quality of the software is not matching the price tag. I am not surprised to see the stock falling; usually when IBM buy your products en masse you know something is wrong :)<p>I don&#x27;t know what the culture at Apple is. But I don&#x27;t think their software developers can be anything other than the &quot;norm&quot; - and I am extremely worried about their automated testing culture. Maybe someone can comment.<p>EDIT: I just remembered my Apple Cr*p folder home to Podcasts, Tips, Apple Watch, Calendar, Health, Apple Store, Apple Maps, Videos, Reminders and Newstand. Podcasts actually cost me money when it started downloaded podcasts over 3G despite me saying wifi only. I think that bug got fixed, but I&#x27;ll never trust it again. I also forgot about the white elephant that is the Apple Time capsule I purchased. It&#x27;s slow over wifi from the iMac and was one of the causes of my beachball, but the main issue was it kept saying it couldn&#x27;t back up because the disk was locked. For a company like Apple who should supposedly simplify backup, the product is a shambles. Maybe this is better now, but I won&#x27;t be upgrading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plug</author><text>&quot;Very disappointing for a machine which isn&#x27;t 3 years old&quot;. This really resonates with me, sitting at a similarly aged iMac that frequently displays bafflingly poor performance, displaying what I like to call the &quot;psychedelic jelly-tot of death&quot;.<p>Sort of off-topic, but another thing that <i>really</i> frustrates me with Apple products is when something goes wrong with the hardware. I have a 3+ year old Macbook Air. The &#x27;t&#x27; key - specifically the little contact button under the key - stopped working consistently. Very frustrating when you start to realise just how much &#x27;t&#x27; shows up in the English language.<p>Anyway, I made some calls enquiring about how much a repair would cost: around €300. They just replace the entire aluminium top plate because it&#x27;s impossible to replace a single contact button, and unfeasible to replace the whole keyboard array - this involves complete disassembly, and a bunch of other delicate steps, which look incredibly daunting.<p>I know that this is probably the trade-off for having such a small form factor, but between this, a defective SSD, a locked-in battery and periodically replacing chargers at €80 a pop, I am distinctly less enthusiastic about purchasing Apple products in the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>It Just Works</title><url>http://www.danielandrews.com/2015/08/05/it-just-works/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>planetjones</author><text>It&#x27;s really frustrating for me just how many bugs Apple software has. Let&#x27;s look at a simple one - the icons on iOS safari for frequently visited websites. They &quot;randomly&quot; assign the wrong favicon e.g. I click the Facebook icon and it loads Hacker News. This has been present since iOS 8. Yesterday I pulled down the notification screen and it occupies only 50% of my screen. Cue another reboot of the iPhone.<p>My iMac. Upgrading to Yosemite was the worst mistake ever. Now I have to use a cheap mouse and keyboard, as Apple&#x27;s Bluetooth versions no longer wake the sleeping iMac. I have tried every solution on the Internet to this and none fix it. The beachball is becoming ever more prominent on the iMac too. Very disappointing for a machine which isn&#x27;t 3 years old.<p>My Macbook Air. It&#x27;s better, but the power button no longer does anything when I press it.<p>Apple products have a huge premium and the quality of the software is not matching the price tag. I am not surprised to see the stock falling; usually when IBM buy your products en masse you know something is wrong :)<p>I don&#x27;t know what the culture at Apple is. But I don&#x27;t think their software developers can be anything other than the &quot;norm&quot; - and I am extremely worried about their automated testing culture. Maybe someone can comment.<p>EDIT: I just remembered my Apple Cr*p folder home to Podcasts, Tips, Apple Watch, Calendar, Health, Apple Store, Apple Maps, Videos, Reminders and Newstand. Podcasts actually cost me money when it started downloaded podcasts over 3G despite me saying wifi only. I think that bug got fixed, but I&#x27;ll never trust it again. I also forgot about the white elephant that is the Apple Time capsule I purchased. It&#x27;s slow over wifi from the iMac and was one of the causes of my beachball, but the main issue was it kept saying it couldn&#x27;t back up because the disk was locked. For a company like Apple who should supposedly simplify backup, the product is a shambles. Maybe this is better now, but I won&#x27;t be upgrading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ino</author><text>&gt; My Macbook Air. It&#x27;s better, but the power button no longer does anything when I press it.<p>Press and hold. It&#x27;s this way to prevent accidental logouts which were frequent in my case when it was just a press.</text></comment> |
6,373,962 | 6,372,434 | 1 | 3 | 6,371,932 | train | <story><title>"I have come to find out what it's like to be dumb."</title><url>http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2013/09/stupid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hellyeasa</author><text>Good god. What is this pretentious bullshit? This tone of this post was so incredibly ridiculous I had to create an account to ask why it was posted here or taken seriously.<p>This self proclaimed smart person, with heavy emphasis on the self proclaimed part (check out the incredibly smug About page) apparently needs Lyme disease to feel the plight of the oh so pitiful stupid people. News flash, half the population is dumber than average, stop acting like Lyme disease is a cute self reflection on intelligence.<p>I am not attacking your smartness, and please get well soon, but don&#x27;t be a pretentious asshole. God. South Park&#x27;s &quot;Smug Alert!&quot; episode perfectly encapsulates the culture of this place sometimes.<p>Over and out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toretore</author><text>I don&#x27;t see anything pretentious about it. He&#x27;s not bragging about being smart, just stating that he is what most people would call intelligent.<p>Intelligence can mean many things, but I like to think of it in terms of &quot;brain power&quot;; the amount of abstract thought you can hold and process, your brain&#x27;s RAM and CPU power so to speak.<p>The term depression is very broad and probably encompasses numerous as-yet-undefined sub-categories, but his description is very much like my own experience: A dulling of the mind. It&#x27;s like downclocking the brain&#x27;s CPU and emotional coprocessor from 2Ghz to 200Mhz. Thinking became slow and required more effort, analytical capabilities pretty much went away and I didn&#x27;t have the spare capacity to really enjoy anything. A song or a movie I knew I liked just didn&#x27;t register because my brain wasn&#x27;t capable of processing it the way it used to. Learning became uninteresting and a chore and problem solving became near impossible. In short, I felt really dumb. I knew I wasn&#x27;t, but I couldn&#x27;t &quot;smarten up&quot; however much I tried. Knowing this, not being able to enjoy learning, problem solving or experiencing something was the worst terror of depression.<p>The experience left me wondering about the immutability or genetic predeterminism of &quot;intelligence&quot;. If we broadly define intelligence as &quot;brain power&quot;, I know now that it can vary a great deal. I wonder how much of this brain power is predetermined through genetics and how much is affected by the environment. We know that diet plays a large role and that certain diseases affect the brain in this way. How much of a person&#x27;s &quot;dumbness&quot; can be removed by changing the external factors? In addition, I think broader aspects of intelligence such as analytical abilities, memory and &quot;abstract capacity&quot; can be taught or improved through training. I know my own &quot;intelligence&quot; certainly has required lots of training through the years, not to mention the knowledge that plays a large part of it that had to be acquired.</text></comment> | <story><title>"I have come to find out what it's like to be dumb."</title><url>http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2013/09/stupid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hellyeasa</author><text>Good god. What is this pretentious bullshit? This tone of this post was so incredibly ridiculous I had to create an account to ask why it was posted here or taken seriously.<p>This self proclaimed smart person, with heavy emphasis on the self proclaimed part (check out the incredibly smug About page) apparently needs Lyme disease to feel the plight of the oh so pitiful stupid people. News flash, half the population is dumber than average, stop acting like Lyme disease is a cute self reflection on intelligence.<p>I am not attacking your smartness, and please get well soon, but don&#x27;t be a pretentious asshole. God. South Park&#x27;s &quot;Smug Alert!&quot; episode perfectly encapsulates the culture of this place sometimes.<p>Over and out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pgsandstrom</author><text>Cut him some slack, he did write it while having Lyme disease...</text></comment> |
41,073,707 | 41,073,518 | 1 | 2 | 41,065,326 | train | <story><title>Apple Maps on the web launches in beta</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/07/apple-maps-on-the-web-launches-in-beta/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>standardUser</author><text>Launching a web app that doesn&#x27;t work on the web? I guess that&#x27;s what we should expect from a company that makes a messaging app that magically only works on one piece of hardware. Apple has a knack for finding restrictions where they would otherwise never exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>Assuming you&#x27;re referring to the fact that it doesn&#x27;t work on all browsers, it&#x27;s literally a <i>beta</i>.<p>It clearly states that it&#x27;s for Chrome&#x2F;Edge&#x2F;Safari only, and not for mobile. But it also says at the bottom:<p>&gt; <i>Support for additional languages, browsers, and platforms will be expanded over time.</i><p>I think it&#x27;s totally fair that a <i>beta</i> has support for limited browsers, in order to get it out faster. Just like it&#x27;s only in English for now as well, although that will obviously expand too.<p>If it&#x27;s not available for Firefox or Android when it leaves beta, then yes it&#x27;s a problem. But an English-only beta with limited compatibility is one of the things betas are <i>for</i>. It&#x27;s an appropriate setting of expectations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Maps on the web launches in beta</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/07/apple-maps-on-the-web-launches-in-beta/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>standardUser</author><text>Launching a web app that doesn&#x27;t work on the web? I guess that&#x27;s what we should expect from a company that makes a messaging app that magically only works on one piece of hardware. Apple has a knack for finding restrictions where they would otherwise never exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CamperBob2</author><text>Not super impressed. It has the same problem as Google in that street names are displayed much too sparsely, making it hard to orient yourself. Additionally, the satellite view is too dark, at least in my area.<p>The imagery looks clean but the minimum altitude is much higher than what Google offers, so it&#x27;s hard to evaluate. (Helpful tip to mapping providers: you don&#x27;t need more resolution, just let me zoom in on your existing imagery! There is no reason whatsoever to stop at 1:1.)<p>No street-view functionality appears to be present. Not sure if it&#x27;s supposed to be, but it&#x27;s certainly a dealbreaker if not.<p>And then, yes, there&#x27;s the matter of failing to support commonly-used browsers, even though it works fine in those browsers when appending a bogus subdirectory name as someone else pointed out.<p>Bottom line, if there&#x27;s any reason to use this over Google Maps I&#x27;m not seeing it.</text></comment> |
3,589,853 | 3,589,676 | 1 | 2 | 3,589,633 | train | <story><title>Rediscovering the Rsync Algorithm</title><url>http://blog.incubaid.com/2012/02/14/rediscovering-the-rsync-algorithm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mitchty</author><text>As cool as the rsync algorithm is, i'd much rather we had the dsync utility outlined in this usenix 08 paper.
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix08/tech/full_papers/pucha/pucha.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix08/tech/full_papers/pucha/...</a><p>An adaptive protocol that matches to the systems load dynamically whether its cpu/disk/network. Anyone know of what happened to this?</text></comment> | <story><title>Rediscovering the Rsync Algorithm</title><url>http://blog.incubaid.com/2012/02/14/rediscovering-the-rsync-algorithm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rlpb</author><text>There is a Better Way. Instead of using fixed sized blocks, use variable sized blocks. Decide the block boundaries using the data in the blocks themselves. This will reduce your search from O(n^2) to O(n).<p>Tarsnap does this. My project (ddar) does the same.</text></comment> |
18,854,285 | 18,853,974 | 1 | 2 | 18,853,607 | train | <story><title>How LinkedIn detects browser extensions</title><url>https://github.com/dandrews/nefarious-linkedin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author></author><text></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guitarbill</author><text>I&#x27;m failing to see how these extensions &quot;circumvent the privacy of our members&quot;, but normal use of the website doesn&#x27;t. Either you&#x27;re safeguarding the information properly, or you aren&#x27;t.<p>I am fine with huge GDPR fines to teach companies that data is a liability as well as an asset, and needs to be protected appropriately (which this measure doesn&#x27;t seem to do, since it is trivial to bypass).<p>I&#x27;m not so sure I&#x27;m OK with you probing my browser to detect ToS violations&#x2F;scraping, but not transparently mentioning it makes it worse.</text></comment> | <story><title>How LinkedIn detects browser extensions</title><url>https://github.com/dandrews/nefarious-linkedin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author></author><text></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robin_reala</author><text>Could you explain what holes these extensions are using to extract the hidden personal data? Or is it that the personal data is already in plain view and these extensions are just collating it?</text></comment> |
2,493,161 | 2,492,447 | 1 | 2 | 2,491,908 | train | <story><title>Eating Healthily for $3 a Day</title><url>http://www.miketuritzin.com/writing/eating-healthily-for-3-a-day/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmaunder</author><text>My wife and I tried to do this recently on $1.70 per person per day. We didn't last our intended 28 days. A few observations we found:<p>Meat and organic food was too expensive.<p>Fruit is crazy expensive so we bought OJ from concentrate with no additives as a cheap source of Vitamin C.<p>Eggs were are very expensive, but we needed the protein and nutrients, so rationed ourselves to 3 each per week.<p>We had to remove all sugar to save on cost and sugar crashed badly.<p>We decided that Costco was cheating due to the $70 membership fee and so we alternated between Safeway and Walmart.<p>You quickly learn the difference between broccoli florets and stems. [Stems are cheaper]<p>Baking your own bread is incredibly cheap and if you're using a sourdough starter you just need flour, salt and water. It's a great staple and adds taste to the meal. I scraped the unused flour off the work bench and dumped it back in the sourdough starter to save on cost.<p>Lentils are the most complete non-meat protein source.<p>Combining beans and rice give you a complete protein.<p>Cheese is too expensive and you can't make cheese from regular organic off-the-shelf homogenized ultra-pasteurized milk. It just doesn't set when you add the rennet.<p>You can buy coffee for $1 for a months worth of ground coffee at walmart. It's called Master Chef and it tastes like a used catbox.<p>Before we did our experiment we found a few "living on a dollar a day" blogs, but every single one bought in bulk and then calculated the cost of each scoop they took out of the bin. They also didn't care about nutritional completeness and basically starved themselves for the period.<p>After trying to do this on $1.70 and failing, I think Mike's budget of $3 is probably a realistic per person budget if you're going to stay healthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danssig</author><text>Good lord, is the point of this kind of thing to see how much money you can move from your food budget into your health care budget?<p>Of all the places to save money, food is the absolute last on my list.</text></comment> | <story><title>Eating Healthily for $3 a Day</title><url>http://www.miketuritzin.com/writing/eating-healthily-for-3-a-day/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmaunder</author><text>My wife and I tried to do this recently on $1.70 per person per day. We didn't last our intended 28 days. A few observations we found:<p>Meat and organic food was too expensive.<p>Fruit is crazy expensive so we bought OJ from concentrate with no additives as a cheap source of Vitamin C.<p>Eggs were are very expensive, but we needed the protein and nutrients, so rationed ourselves to 3 each per week.<p>We had to remove all sugar to save on cost and sugar crashed badly.<p>We decided that Costco was cheating due to the $70 membership fee and so we alternated between Safeway and Walmart.<p>You quickly learn the difference between broccoli florets and stems. [Stems are cheaper]<p>Baking your own bread is incredibly cheap and if you're using a sourdough starter you just need flour, salt and water. It's a great staple and adds taste to the meal. I scraped the unused flour off the work bench and dumped it back in the sourdough starter to save on cost.<p>Lentils are the most complete non-meat protein source.<p>Combining beans and rice give you a complete protein.<p>Cheese is too expensive and you can't make cheese from regular organic off-the-shelf homogenized ultra-pasteurized milk. It just doesn't set when you add the rennet.<p>You can buy coffee for $1 for a months worth of ground coffee at walmart. It's called Master Chef and it tastes like a used catbox.<p>Before we did our experiment we found a few "living on a dollar a day" blogs, but every single one bought in bulk and then calculated the cost of each scoop they took out of the bin. They also didn't care about nutritional completeness and basically starved themselves for the period.<p>After trying to do this on $1.70 and failing, I think Mike's budget of $3 is probably a realistic per person budget if you're going to stay healthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dilap</author><text>I'm surprised you found eggs to be expensive. Where I'm at (Eugene, OR), you can find eggs for $7 for 5 dozen -- an incredible deal per nutrient dollar, even on your extreme budget. (This is at the Red Apple, if any Eugene locals are curious.)</text></comment> |
39,504,440 | 39,504,561 | 1 | 3 | 39,501,982 | train | <story><title>Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers</title><url>https://www.kolaayonrinde.com/blog/2024/02/11/mamba.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Straw</author><text>The SSMs papers and blogs always have unnecessarily complicated explanations. At this point I almost wonder if its to hide how simple the underlying algorithms are, or to make them seem fancy.<p>SSMs are doing exponentially weighted moving averages (EMA). That&#x27;s it- to summarize the past, you take an EMA of a variable output at each time step. Mamba changes one key thing- instead of decaying the past by a fixed amount each step as in a constant-time EMA, we have another output which decides how much to forget, or equivalently, how much &#x27;time&#x27; has passed since the last observation in our EMA.<p>All of the matrix equations, continuous time, discretization, etc, will end up with a dynamic-forgetting EMA as I describe above. This also makes the benefits and limitations clear- finite state size, has to decide at a given layer what to forget before it sees the past at that layer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>Are there any fundamental differences between Mamba, Retnet and RWKV, or are they all variants of this same architecture?</text></comment> | <story><title>Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers</title><url>https://www.kolaayonrinde.com/blog/2024/02/11/mamba.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Straw</author><text>The SSMs papers and blogs always have unnecessarily complicated explanations. At this point I almost wonder if its to hide how simple the underlying algorithms are, or to make them seem fancy.<p>SSMs are doing exponentially weighted moving averages (EMA). That&#x27;s it- to summarize the past, you take an EMA of a variable output at each time step. Mamba changes one key thing- instead of decaying the past by a fixed amount each step as in a constant-time EMA, we have another output which decides how much to forget, or equivalently, how much &#x27;time&#x27; has passed since the last observation in our EMA.<p>All of the matrix equations, continuous time, discretization, etc, will end up with a dynamic-forgetting EMA as I describe above. This also makes the benefits and limitations clear- finite state size, has to decide at a given layer what to forget before it sees the past at that layer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>binarymax</author><text>I hadn’t heard of Mamba before reading this article, and I was wondering if anyone has tried setting importance of a token as a TF-IDF or BM25 lookup. Requires a first pass to construct the token index but otherwise it seems like it would address the big issue that all these architectures have - they don’t know how “important” a token is. Interestingly this seems to be the crux of Mamba - deciding what tokens to forget! EMA other treats all tokens equally at sequence time. What if the tokens were weighted beforehand and the weights were passed as an attention mechanism? I wonder if anyone has tried something like this.</text></comment> |
26,542,971 | 26,541,869 | 1 | 3 | 26,539,495 | train | <story><title>The absolute worst scenario happened</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ma4mwl/the_absolute_worst_case_scenario_happened_what</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>I actually don&#x27;t see any issue that isn&#x27;t simply a matter of money.<p>Everything they list that&#x27;s an issue seems to revolve around the fact that the employees with domain knowledge for the system have left the company.<p>Reach out to them and hire them on as contractors. If they left under bad terms because the business was a bunch of dicks, expect to pay 10x market rate. If this is truly &quot;fix this or the business is out of business&quot; - then it shouldn&#x27;t be a tough decision to make.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwthescene</author><text>Throwaway purely so that I can comment. I&#x27;ve had this happen before.<p>Years ago I left a rather awful company - I left on great terms with my boss, though I hated the company. I was the last person who knew how to release X product. While I documented everything, after I left, the wiki lost its mind, backups apparently weren&#x27;t a thing, and the director of IT moved to Bermuda.<p>Fast forward 6 months.. a contractual obligation existed to release the software. They still hadn&#x27;t successfully built (yup autoconf, make and friends), let alone know where to build it. I got the call you always dream about, 30 days prior to the release being due.<p>My boss asked me to do him a favour - I reminded him that I quit due to a lack of promotion and raises. He asked what I want, and I asked for 125K, which clearly he scoffed at. Then I reminded him that it was a 10M deal they&#x27;d signed, because we had an all hands. The CEO got involved and screamed at me for &#x27;torpedoing the company&#x27;. I walked out and calmly informed them both along the way the price was now 250K, non negotiable.<p>I ignored every single mail (and legal letter) sent me way. With 10 days left, they agreed. I had the company deposit a cheque in escrow with lawyers of my choosing. We signed contracts, and I did my thing. Four days of work. It was well worth it.<p>Dougie, if you&#x27;re reading this I hope your cringing.</text></comment> | <story><title>The absolute worst scenario happened</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ma4mwl/the_absolute_worst_case_scenario_happened_what</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>I actually don&#x27;t see any issue that isn&#x27;t simply a matter of money.<p>Everything they list that&#x27;s an issue seems to revolve around the fact that the employees with domain knowledge for the system have left the company.<p>Reach out to them and hire them on as contractors. If they left under bad terms because the business was a bunch of dicks, expect to pay 10x market rate. If this is truly &quot;fix this or the business is out of business&quot; - then it shouldn&#x27;t be a tough decision to make.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Accujack</author><text>It&#x27;s slightly more complicated than that, depending on how much time has passed since the creators of the system left, but you&#x27;re correct in general.<p>Usually, since admitting that they were stupid to let all the knowledge of the system walk out the door requires more emotional and intellectual flexibility than managers who let this sort of thing happen possess, the biggest obstacle isn&#x27;t even the money... it&#x27;s getting the managers to admit they&#x27;re idiots.</text></comment> |
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