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9,898,709 | 9,898,768 | 1 | 2 | 9,898,502 | train | <story><title>Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-cannot-let-the-internet-trolls-win/2015/07/16/91b1a2d2-2b17-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html?postshare=7391437061068212</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lhnz</author><text>Does anybody remember when trolling was a term used to describe an activity in which users wielding enough understanding of other&#x27;s perspectives would attempt to give other&#x27;s cognitive dissonance?<p>It seems that one of the most powerful online political classes have lumped hatred and abuse in with disagreement, mockery and satire.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s good for the conversation between the group of user&#x27;s that dislike where Reddit and other big social media sites are headed and the people that are taking them there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lcswi</author><text>It is really easy to define the meaning of terms if you are the easy-to-agree-with side of a conflict. And now you cannot even mention the elephant in the room anymore without being immediately flagged, banned or at least called a women hating privileged white boy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ellen Pao: The Trolls Are Winning the Battle for the Internet</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-cannot-let-the-internet-trolls-win/2015/07/16/91b1a2d2-2b17-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html?postshare=7391437061068212</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lhnz</author><text>Does anybody remember when trolling was a term used to describe an activity in which users wielding enough understanding of other&#x27;s perspectives would attempt to give other&#x27;s cognitive dissonance?<p>It seems that one of the most powerful online political classes have lumped hatred and abuse in with disagreement, mockery and satire.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s good for the conversation between the group of user&#x27;s that dislike where Reddit and other big social media sites are headed and the people that are taking them there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ewzimm</author><text>I miss those days when I was proud to be a troll, when it meant tricking people into thinking in ways that they normally wouldn&#x27;t. People used to love trolls! Of course, it didn&#x27;t just mean that. There were also troll raids when friends would get together and make silly comments on every thread they could find, crashing the party but having fun with it. The incendiary ones used to be called flamers, but I think that term is too trollish to use against trolls these days.</text></comment> |
39,079,522 | 39,078,728 | 1 | 2 | 39,078,372 | train | <story><title>Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop</title><url>https://id.uni-lj.si/DigitalnaIdentiteta/PonastavitevGesla?culture=en-GB</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>civilized</author><text>I expect this will attract a lot of criticism, but I actually think it&#x27;s a good idea, at least in some cases.<p>There are a <i>lot</i> of people writing bad code and bad system architectures for their organizations. There are not enough people with the competence, organizational power, and time to catch what&#x27;s bad and force change in those organizations. In the US you are probably forced to do business via many such terribly coded websites, e.g. your local healthcare provider. In such cases, it might be better if we assumed the implementation <i>might</i> be as awful as it commonly <i>is</i>, and recommended mitigations based on that.<p>It&#x27;s also easy for people to test if the website actually allows the nominally prohibited password patterns and complain to some oversight authority if so. Whereas it&#x27;s not so easy to test, from the outside, whether it&#x27;s <i>really</i> been done the right way.<p>It&#x27;s inelegant and tragic, but in the end it might be a good idea to accept that things are often done poorly and without adequate oversight, and consider what mitigations can prevent the worst outcomes in these cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jchw</author><text>I disagree. It may seem good on paper, but it gives you too much of a false sense of security. Security measures like this often seem to work, but they are papering over a deeper problem. Usually this is being done because user input is not being handled carefully, and if so, the assumption that blocking some keywords &quot;defangs&quot; potential exploits is usually easy to prove false. Consider the case of eBay and JSFuck[1].<p>I dislike the mentality that leads to this; WAFs, lazy pentesting and compliance checkboxes have created a substantial body of absolute bullshit security theater and I have absolutely zero doubt that this has convinced companies it&#x27;s &quot;safe&quot; to put insanely poorly written software partially out on the open internet and that they&#x27;ve &quot;done their due diligence&quot; so to speak. And then I get a letter in the mail apologizing that my most confidential information has yet again been leaked by some company I barely or didn&#x27;t have any real choice to give my data to. I&#x27;m sure they all care deeply about my data and that&#x27;s why it was stolen using decades-old Java serialization library vulnerabilities.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.checkpoint.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;ebay-platform-exposed-to-severe-vulnerability&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.checkpoint.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;ebay-platform-exposed-t...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop</title><url>https://id.uni-lj.si/DigitalnaIdentiteta/PonastavitevGesla?culture=en-GB</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>civilized</author><text>I expect this will attract a lot of criticism, but I actually think it&#x27;s a good idea, at least in some cases.<p>There are a <i>lot</i> of people writing bad code and bad system architectures for their organizations. There are not enough people with the competence, organizational power, and time to catch what&#x27;s bad and force change in those organizations. In the US you are probably forced to do business via many such terribly coded websites, e.g. your local healthcare provider. In such cases, it might be better if we assumed the implementation <i>might</i> be as awful as it commonly <i>is</i>, and recommended mitigations based on that.<p>It&#x27;s also easy for people to test if the website actually allows the nominally prohibited password patterns and complain to some oversight authority if so. Whereas it&#x27;s not so easy to test, from the outside, whether it&#x27;s <i>really</i> been done the right way.<p>It&#x27;s inelegant and tragic, but in the end it might be a good idea to accept that things are often done poorly and without adequate oversight, and consider what mitigations can prevent the worst outcomes in these cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>If an organization has such a password policy, that can be interpreted as the person in charge of setting this policy thinks their organization doesn&#x27;t have enough people with the competence and organizational power to prevent SQL injection vulnerabilities. Which would reflect poorly on any institution, but especially a university (which should be a bastion of people with competence and organizational power).<p>As for common password advise, my take on your argument would be that we should all be using these keywords in our passwords to quickly surface these bugs, lest they be hidden and only used by attackers.</text></comment> |
18,310,652 | 18,310,876 | 1 | 3 | 18,299,064 | train | <story><title>The Blu-Ray Reauthoring Project</title><url>http://temporary.directory/blog/10-23-2018.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superflyguy</author><text>YouTube and Netflix stream for me just fine. Are you on 4g&#x2F;fibre?</text></item><item><author>pathartl</author><text>I find this deeply amusing. I see how this could have worked in the DVD era, but these days with all of the options we have it&#x27;s no surprise why most people don&#x27;t have bluray players. It is kinda sad though because as much as streaming gives us options, the quality is always terrible.</text></item><item><author>hlandau</author><text>The Blu-Ray video format is pretty cancerous in terms of DRM; there&#x27;s not really any salvaging it.<p>One of the most nauseating restrictions of all is that replication plants aren&#x27;t even allowed to fabricate Blu-Ray video discs which don&#x27;t have AACS. This means that if you want to get some Blu-Ray video disc fabricated which contains Creative Commons content and you disagree with DRM, for example, you&#x27;re out of luck: AACS is <i>mandatory</i>. Archive Team had issues with this - as I recall, the best compromise they were able to find was to just put video files on a normal Blu-Ray data disc and get that fabbed. I suspect this is enforced using conditions in the patent licences Sony hands out to fabs or DRM in the software used by fabrication plants, or both.<p>You start to realise why this is the case when you research how the production process works. When you send a Blu-Ray video disc to a fab for mass production, you don&#x27;t apply the encryption; the fab does, and you have no control over the process. Moreover, this process involves sending a request for encryption keys to AACS LA, who then issue newly-minted encryption keys for the disc. Yes, this means that all Blu-Ray video discs must be centrally approved by a single organisation in realtime, as an integral part of the AACS application process. Which explains why AACS is mandatory; it lets them catch attempts by commercial pirates to get discs replicated in mass.<p>So I don&#x27;t think Blu-Ray can ever become a non-helldamned format. The fact that the specifications are all secret is just the icing on the cake (this is actually the case for DVD too, open source implementations all had to reverse engineer it). I always found it deeply ironic that by comparison, the AACS specification, which specifies a DRM scheme, a type of thing fundamentally dependent on security by obscurity, is freely available.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jaruzel</author><text>Theoretically, UHD (4k) blu-rays can go from 80 mb&#x2F;s to 120 mb&#x2F;s depending on the authoring of the disc, compared to Netflix&#x27;s maximum of 25 mb&#x2F;s that&#x27;s a massive difference.<p>However... unless you have a UHD projector, or VERY large TV (60&quot;+) then you are unlikely to see the difference under normal viewing.<p>Where I feel streaming typically fails, is in the audio. They may &#x27;say&#x27; it&#x27;s a 5.1 surround sound mix, but if so, why does it sound _so_ flat compared to the same film on blu-ray ? All I can think is that the audio is compression is also 4x as compressed which to our ears is quite significant.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Blu-Ray Reauthoring Project</title><url>http://temporary.directory/blog/10-23-2018.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superflyguy</author><text>YouTube and Netflix stream for me just fine. Are you on 4g&#x2F;fibre?</text></item><item><author>pathartl</author><text>I find this deeply amusing. I see how this could have worked in the DVD era, but these days with all of the options we have it&#x27;s no surprise why most people don&#x27;t have bluray players. It is kinda sad though because as much as streaming gives us options, the quality is always terrible.</text></item><item><author>hlandau</author><text>The Blu-Ray video format is pretty cancerous in terms of DRM; there&#x27;s not really any salvaging it.<p>One of the most nauseating restrictions of all is that replication plants aren&#x27;t even allowed to fabricate Blu-Ray video discs which don&#x27;t have AACS. This means that if you want to get some Blu-Ray video disc fabricated which contains Creative Commons content and you disagree with DRM, for example, you&#x27;re out of luck: AACS is <i>mandatory</i>. Archive Team had issues with this - as I recall, the best compromise they were able to find was to just put video files on a normal Blu-Ray data disc and get that fabbed. I suspect this is enforced using conditions in the patent licences Sony hands out to fabs or DRM in the software used by fabrication plants, or both.<p>You start to realise why this is the case when you research how the production process works. When you send a Blu-Ray video disc to a fab for mass production, you don&#x27;t apply the encryption; the fab does, and you have no control over the process. Moreover, this process involves sending a request for encryption keys to AACS LA, who then issue newly-minted encryption keys for the disc. Yes, this means that all Blu-Ray video discs must be centrally approved by a single organisation in realtime, as an integral part of the AACS application process. Which explains why AACS is mandatory; it lets them catch attempts by commercial pirates to get discs replicated in mass.<p>So I don&#x27;t think Blu-Ray can ever become a non-helldamned format. The fact that the specifications are all secret is just the icing on the cake (this is actually the case for DVD too, open source implementations all had to reverse engineer it). I always found it deeply ironic that by comparison, the AACS specification, which specifies a DRM scheme, a type of thing fundamentally dependent on security by obscurity, is freely available.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>move-on-by</author><text>Comcast’s gigabyte internet still has a 1TB data cap. So while the bandwidth might be available, you’ll quickly cap out and the overage charges can get as high as $200 a month. the ‘unlimited’ data plan is very expensive as well</text></comment> |
28,567,680 | 28,565,900 | 1 | 2 | 28,564,021 | train | <story><title>A Go Package for Building Progressive Web Apps</title><url>https://go-app.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oefrha</author><text>One problem with golang&#x27;s wasm target is that the generated binary is huge. For instance, I checked app.wasm of this documentation site and the four examples listed at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go-app.dev&#x2F;built-with" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go-app.dev&#x2F;built-with</a>:<p>0. This site: 14.9MB, 3.4MB gzipped;<p>1. 13.5MB, 3.2MB gzipped;<p>2. 15.4MB, 3.2MB gzipped;<p>3. 4.7MB, 1.2MB gzipped (this is an extremely bare bones demo);<p>4. 25.0MB, 5.4MB gzipped.<p>You can save a bit more with brotli, but not much more. I built an app with golang wasm last year, but ended up rewriting everything in good old TS since I couldn&#x27;t justify the ~15MB raw, ~2.7MB brotli&#x27;ed payload.<p>I guess you can make some huge savings if tinygo has enough capabilities to cover all your needs. Not sure if it&#x27;s possible with this library, but if it is, they certainly haven&#x27;t explored it, hence the 3.4MB gzipped wasm for a documentation site.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>void_mint</author><text>&gt; but ended up rewriting everything in good old TS since I couldn&#x27;t justify the ~15MB raw, ~2.7MB brotli&#x27;ed payload.<p>What were the size improvements?</text></comment> | <story><title>A Go Package for Building Progressive Web Apps</title><url>https://go-app.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oefrha</author><text>One problem with golang&#x27;s wasm target is that the generated binary is huge. For instance, I checked app.wasm of this documentation site and the four examples listed at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go-app.dev&#x2F;built-with" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go-app.dev&#x2F;built-with</a>:<p>0. This site: 14.9MB, 3.4MB gzipped;<p>1. 13.5MB, 3.2MB gzipped;<p>2. 15.4MB, 3.2MB gzipped;<p>3. 4.7MB, 1.2MB gzipped (this is an extremely bare bones demo);<p>4. 25.0MB, 5.4MB gzipped.<p>You can save a bit more with brotli, but not much more. I built an app with golang wasm last year, but ended up rewriting everything in good old TS since I couldn&#x27;t justify the ~15MB raw, ~2.7MB brotli&#x27;ed payload.<p>I guess you can make some huge savings if tinygo has enough capabilities to cover all your needs. Not sure if it&#x27;s possible with this library, but if it is, they certainly haven&#x27;t explored it, hence the 3.4MB gzipped wasm for a documentation site.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismorgan</author><text>One thing for old-school performance comparers to remember here is that WASM is very significantly cheaper than JavaScript to parse and compile.<p>On an arbitrary fairly weak phone, 15MB of WASM might take two seconds to compile, but it can do that <i>while downloading</i>, so that in practice your network link will probably be the limiting factor. So the transfer size is typically the figure to care about and the uncompressed size actually doesn’t matter all that much.<p>15MB of JavaScript on that same device might take ten seconds or even more to compile, and it largely can’t even start until it’s finished downloading it. Consequently, you need to care about both the transfer size and the uncompressed size, in different ways.<p>(My figures are super dodgy as I can’t find any recent concrete figures, but they should be in vaguely the right ballpark.)<p>This is all about comparing just the cost to the <i>CPU</i>; data transfer costs money too and takes time, and several megabytes transferred is inconvenient to many for reasons of cost or time, and decidedly wasteful.<p>Multiple megabytes even of WASM is still madness and folly for simple stuff like this, severely restricting its potential usefulness. Thank you for deciding not to ship something like that yourself.</text></comment> |
19,979,081 | 19,979,103 | 1 | 2 | 19,978,295 | train | <story><title>A new core playlist for VLC 4</title><url>https://blog.rom1v.com/2019/05/a-new-core-playlist-for-vlc-4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PetitPrince</author><text>&gt; The randomizer stores a single vector containing all the items of the playlist. This vector is not shuffled at once. Instead, steps of the Fisher-Yates algorithm are executed one-by-one on demand.<p>Fisher-Yates is the generalization of what is known as the &quot;7-bag randomizer&quot; in the Tetris community (same problem: you want to distribute 7 pieces randomly but want to avoid repetition). It&#x27;s funny how what you think as inconsequential trivia about your niche hobby can turn out in unexpected places !</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Normal_gaussian</author><text>Fisher-Yates was one of the first algorithms my CS course exposed me to; nicknamed the knuth shuffle, not 100% why but it is in TAOCP.<p>I implement it relatively frequently (~once a year) as it is often quicker to write than find an implementation.<p>Surveying some peers I was very surprised to find they weren&#x27;t aware of it!</text></comment> | <story><title>A new core playlist for VLC 4</title><url>https://blog.rom1v.com/2019/05/a-new-core-playlist-for-vlc-4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PetitPrince</author><text>&gt; The randomizer stores a single vector containing all the items of the playlist. This vector is not shuffled at once. Instead, steps of the Fisher-Yates algorithm are executed one-by-one on demand.<p>Fisher-Yates is the generalization of what is known as the &quot;7-bag randomizer&quot; in the Tetris community (same problem: you want to distribute 7 pieces randomly but want to avoid repetition). It&#x27;s funny how what you think as inconsequential trivia about your niche hobby can turn out in unexpected places !</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vanderZwan</author><text>Looks like he reinvented shuffle vectors on his own. I think a lot of people have over the years, but crazy enough nobody bothered to publish it until February this year! Maybe it felt too intuitive?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;observablehq.com&#x2F;@jobleonard&#x2F;shuffle-vectors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;observablehq.com&#x2F;@jobleonard&#x2F;shuffle-vectors</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1902.04738" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1902.04738</a></text></comment> |
7,915,789 | 7,915,444 | 1 | 3 | 7,914,661 | train | <story><title>Your Company Is Not a Family </title><url>http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/your-company-is-not-a-family/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jordan0day</author><text>It&#x27;s certainly not a family, but a &quot;team&quot; probably isn&#x27;t right, either.<p>If you company wants to use a sports team metaphor, that&#x27;s fine, but just remember that many professional sports have <i>players unions</i> and <i>guaranteed contracts</i>.<p>Oh, what&#x27;s that? Not such a big fan of the sports team metaphor now?</text></comment> | <story><title>Your Company Is Not a Family </title><url>http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/your-company-is-not-a-family/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adwf</author><text>Using sports metaphors is a particularly bad way to go about it in this instance. The average young NFL player is only expecting a career lasting about 5 years, maybe 10 for exceptional guys; The average young office worker is looking for 40 years.<p>If you were fired as frequently as players get traded in NFL, we&#x27;d be living hellish careers!</text></comment> |
15,458,024 | 15,457,621 | 1 | 2 | 15,457,343 | train | <story><title>Go Python, Go: Stream Processing for Python</title><url>https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2017/10/go-python-go-stream-processing-for-python/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dajonker</author><text>What about the use of Pony? I did not hear about it before but I do like some of the ideas of the language I read on their website. However, they also state &quot;Pony is pre-1.0. We regularly have releases that involve breaking changes. This lack of stability is plenty of reason for many projects to avoid using Pony.&quot;
How are you going to deal with that?</text></comment> | <story><title>Go Python, Go: Stream Processing for Python</title><url>https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2017/10/go-python-go-stream-processing-for-python/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>harel</author><text>While the comments about being pythonic are valid, I think this looks fantastic and I&#x27;ll take it for a spin around the block. Are you using this in your production environment already?<p>In regards to the &#x27;name&#x27; being a function - a class attribute might indeed be more correct but a function allows for dynamic computation names where its applicable.</text></comment> |
24,120,324 | 24,119,680 | 1 | 3 | 24,119,024 | train | <story><title>I accidentally built a nudity/porn platform</title><url>https://elazzabi.com/2020/08/11/the-day-i-accidentally-built-a-nudity-porn-platform/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epaga</author><text>&quot;Take a competitor product, remove all features you don’t need, and make it crazy fast.&quot;<p>Seems to me there are hundreds of lifestyle businesses just waiting to happen by following this formula.
So many good ideas out there could be made so much better by reducing them to their essentials, but making them elegant and &quot;crazy fast&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oostevo</author><text>I think you may have just re-discovered Disruptive Innovation (sometimes also called Disruption Theory): incumbents over-serve their customers by adding lots of features, complexity, and cost. Upstarts can attack them by focusing on only a few core features and&#x2F;or low price. The incumbents can&#x27;t respond without annoying their existing customers who have grown accustomed to all the features the incumbent provides.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;what-is-disruptive-innovation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;what-is-disruptive-innovation</a></text></comment> | <story><title>I accidentally built a nudity/porn platform</title><url>https://elazzabi.com/2020/08/11/the-day-i-accidentally-built-a-nudity-porn-platform/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epaga</author><text>&quot;Take a competitor product, remove all features you don’t need, and make it crazy fast.&quot;<p>Seems to me there are hundreds of lifestyle businesses just waiting to happen by following this formula.
So many good ideas out there could be made so much better by reducing them to their essentials, but making them elegant and &quot;crazy fast&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevoski</author><text>Worked for me.<p>That sums up so perfectly what I did with a B2B SaaS product of mine. I never found words so perfectly as this quote does to describe what I was aiming to do.</text></comment> |
20,237,625 | 20,236,546 | 1 | 2 | 20,219,389 | train | <story><title>In Japan, It’s a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home on Time?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/business/japan-work-overtime-tv-show.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>komali2</author><text>&gt;In addition to cultural attitudes about the value of hard work, she said, some employers reduce costs by relying on overtime, and employees work the longer hours for the extra pay and to please the boss — promotions often depend more on time spent at a desk than actual productivity.<p>Agggh hits to home. Arrogant American me rolled into a Taiwanese job expecting to skyrocket up the ladder on results alone. Nope, because I left at 5 sharp to enjoy the beautiful mountains, I was a lazy shit. Never mind my 10x increase in sales. Well, also I was an arrogant prick.<p>I chew on this issue a lot - it&#x27;s bad to work so much. But, it&#x27;s culturally ingrained. Some people are trying to change it... but it&#x27;s happening so slowly. We have our own culturally ingrained things in America that I&#x27;d like to change as well, and that are changing, but so slowly. How do you implement change?<p>I guess that&#x27;s the plot of any good fantasy or political drama, how do leaders convince people that change can be good?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kingkawn</author><text>The same way that all social norms get changed applies here; publicly challenge them and then withstand the viciousness of the backlash without losing your conviction. Then other people will get the courage to agree and it will spread. Not being cowed by the initial furious attacks on you but also not getting dragged into a vengeful battle are the means of social transformation.</text></comment> | <story><title>In Japan, It’s a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home on Time?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/business/japan-work-overtime-tv-show.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>komali2</author><text>&gt;In addition to cultural attitudes about the value of hard work, she said, some employers reduce costs by relying on overtime, and employees work the longer hours for the extra pay and to please the boss — promotions often depend more on time spent at a desk than actual productivity.<p>Agggh hits to home. Arrogant American me rolled into a Taiwanese job expecting to skyrocket up the ladder on results alone. Nope, because I left at 5 sharp to enjoy the beautiful mountains, I was a lazy shit. Never mind my 10x increase in sales. Well, also I was an arrogant prick.<p>I chew on this issue a lot - it&#x27;s bad to work so much. But, it&#x27;s culturally ingrained. Some people are trying to change it... but it&#x27;s happening so slowly. We have our own culturally ingrained things in America that I&#x27;d like to change as well, and that are changing, but so slowly. How do you implement change?<p>I guess that&#x27;s the plot of any good fantasy or political drama, how do leaders convince people that change can be good?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m463</author><text>&gt; how do leaders convince people that change can be good?<p>Showing the idea to a broad audience on tv is actually one way to do this.<p>(although there are ways this can backfire)</text></comment> |
27,820,702 | 27,819,607 | 1 | 3 | 27,818,895 | train | <story><title>Inventor harvests methane gas from ditches and ponds to power his moped</title><url>https://www.notechmagazine.com/2021/07/inventor-harvests-methane-gas-from-ditches-and-ponds-to-power-his-moped.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>&gt; Eight hours of hoeing in a ditch supplies him with enough fuel to ride his vehicle for 20 km<p>Hmm, this is an art project but you can cycle 20km fairly leisurely in an hour.<p>8 hours of toiling in the ditches probably might be better used growing vegetables so your food isn’t being driven in?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>I know HN comments have a knack for trying to min&#x2F;max and optimize something posted, but honestly that&#x27;s not the point here. He&#x27;s proving that it&#x27;s possible to harvest methane from ponds, enough to power a moped.<p>OF COURSE there&#x27;s more efficient ways to get around, this isn&#x27;t an attack on anyone&#x27;s intellect or common sense and there&#x27;s no need to react to getting nerdsniped by going &quot;well ackchyually&quot; and reinventing combustion engines and fuel from first principles.<p>It&#x27;s fine to just go &quot;that&#x27;s cool&quot; and move on with your life. The guy that made this knows it&#x27;s not the most efficient use of his time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inventor harvests methane gas from ditches and ponds to power his moped</title><url>https://www.notechmagazine.com/2021/07/inventor-harvests-methane-gas-from-ditches-and-ponds-to-power-his-moped.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>&gt; Eight hours of hoeing in a ditch supplies him with enough fuel to ride his vehicle for 20 km<p>Hmm, this is an art project but you can cycle 20km fairly leisurely in an hour.<p>8 hours of toiling in the ditches probably might be better used growing vegetables so your food isn’t being driven in?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Broken_Hippo</author><text>Maybe, maybe not. It isn&#x27;t like most folks can live off of a garden plot of a normal house, if you even have a garden plot.<p>I cannot cycle 20km fairly leisurely in an hour: I live in a mountainous area, but lived most of my life on flat ground and going uphill is freaking difficult, even if I&#x27;m going at a leisurely speed - and sometimes, downhill is brakes all the way down.<p>And I don&#x27;t know how much this person drives. Most places I go to are within walking distance, and I&#x27;m pretty sure 8 hours of ditches would be less work than an entire summer of gardening (where I&#x27;d have to rent a plot, since I&#x27;m an apartment dweller). The majority of my foodstuffs are going to still be driven in, too.</text></comment> |
8,646,838 | 8,646,511 | 1 | 3 | 8,645,251 | train | <story><title>Startup creates VetiGel, a plant based polymer that seals wounds in seconds</title><url>http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-startup-vetigel-based-polymer-wounds.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robbiep</author><text>So a few people mention that this is a really revolutionary product and someone suggests that it should be in every first aid kit.<p>It&#x27;s certainly cool. But apart from a few specialised applications this is not really a game changer.
This is because the best defence against bleeding is tamponade. As in, a finger applying pressure.
I work in an emergency department and recently we had a trauma patient that was bleeding. The trauma fellow was doing his assessment and a emergency consultant was getting very anxious and stating that the patient had to go to theatre right now as he was bleeding out. The trauma fellow was trying to complete his primary survey and wanted the emergency specialist to shut up so he stuck his finger in the wound, the patient stopped bleeding, and he turned around and got on with the rest of the survey.<p>The point is that bleeding is very rarely life threatening, and te couple of applications where is would be are military and intra operative.<p>The intra operative application would be particularly useful when a patient had a lacerated spleen or liver or when these organs are operated on. Currently we use a product called geloseal to stop bleeding on these organs - it works pretty well. But if this product works as suggested it may be better.<p>No-one needs this in their first aid kit, and until it is approved for use in surgery I don&#x27;t think we will save any lives with it, but it is still a very cool product.</text></comment> | <story><title>Startup creates VetiGel, a plant based polymer that seals wounds in seconds</title><url>http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-startup-vetigel-based-polymer-wounds.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>astazangasta</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this what cyanoacrylate (crazy glue) was invented for? Battlefield wound stitching?</text></comment> |
25,578,236 | 25,577,220 | 1 | 3 | 25,573,327 | train | <story><title>Do You Love Me? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>Lots of commments on military applications, but bipedal robots are inferior to wheel vehicles, planes, and aerial drones, in terms of speed and maneuverability.<p>Everyone&#x27;s so afraid of Terminators hunting them down, when in reality, mostly invisible , and mostly silent, Predator drones from a mile away that will kill you with precisely targeted missiles should be your real fear. Or commercial quad-copters carrying anti-personnel mines.<p>The expense, complexity, power, etc to build bipedal assassins is higher than wheeled RC vehicles, quad copters, and missiles.<p>The weapons that exist today are much more scary than these robots.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheresmycraisin</author><text>IIRC the humanoid Terminators in the movie are infiltrator units. Skynet will definitely have more conventional aircrafts and wheeled vehicles to hunt us down.</text></comment> | <story><title>Do You Love Me? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>Lots of commments on military applications, but bipedal robots are inferior to wheel vehicles, planes, and aerial drones, in terms of speed and maneuverability.<p>Everyone&#x27;s so afraid of Terminators hunting them down, when in reality, mostly invisible , and mostly silent, Predator drones from a mile away that will kill you with precisely targeted missiles should be your real fear. Or commercial quad-copters carrying anti-personnel mines.<p>The expense, complexity, power, etc to build bipedal assassins is higher than wheeled RC vehicles, quad copters, and missiles.<p>The weapons that exist today are much more scary than these robots.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ROARosen</author><text>A swarm of these can fan out over a house and target very specifically anyone hiding there. Without killing the human shields.</text></comment> |
6,426,869 | 6,426,858 | 1 | 3 | 6,426,838 | train | <story><title>BackgroundCheck</title><url>http://www.kennethcachia.com/background-check/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MarcScott</author><text>I&#x27;ll start by saying that I think this is pretty cool and clever, and pretty useful for text. It works great on Safari.<p>I should however add, that while moving the elements over the picture, I didn&#x27;t once lose sight of my cursor, as it is black with a white outline, which seems to be a much simpler solution to the problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>BackgroundCheck</title><url>http://www.kennethcachia.com/background-check/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matthuggins</author><text>Didn&#x27;t seem to do anything. I&#x27;m on Chrome 29.0.1547.65.<p><i></i>Edit<i></i>: I tried again, this time releasing the elements. It sounded like it should be live updating as I&#x27;m dragging in the description, but it&#x27;s only when you DROP the elements, not DRAG the elements.</text></comment> |
24,951,697 | 24,951,804 | 1 | 2 | 24,951,157 | train | <story><title>Sean Connery has died</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54761824</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arpa</author><text>I will be forced to modify my long running bad joke: &quot;How did Sir Sean Connery use to shave? CTRL+Sh!&quot;. Rest in peace, sir.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sean Connery has died</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54761824</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mellosouls</author><text>Great old school macho screen presence; still a heart throb well into advanced years.<p>Defined Bond on and <i>off</i> the screen - Bond&#x27;s Scottish origins are allegedly due to Ian Fleming seeing his portrayal and adding them in subsequently.</text></comment> |
27,454,246 | 27,454,113 | 1 | 2 | 27,431,627 | train | <story><title>Kelly Criterion – how to calculate optimal bet sizes</title><url>https://fhur.github.io/notes/articles/the-kelly-criterion/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>YossarianFrPrez</author><text>It&#x27;s well worth implementing and testing out the Kelly Criterion. It&#x27;s super simple to code up in a Jupyter Notebook so that you get to enter an amount to bet each time. When I tried it, I found my own psychology changing as the bets continued, even when I knew the coin&#x27;s bias. It&#x27;s a really great demonstration of the difference between a) intellectually knowing the optimal strategy, and b) what actually happens.<p>A bet on a biased coin paradigm was actually tried in the real world with finance professionals, with a cap on the maximum payout. The results are described here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1701.01427.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1701.01427.pdf</a>
It&#x27;s pretty interesting. (Note though that the &quot;average returns&quot; reported hide a lot of variation.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Kelly Criterion – how to calculate optimal bet sizes</title><url>https://fhur.github.io/notes/articles/the-kelly-criterion/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zucker42</author><text>I wonder how professional gamblers approach bet sizing. It seems to me that for most applications the Kelly Criterion is not the right choice. The utility of money is asymmetric; gaining $25000 is worse than not losing $25000. Relatedly, most actual gamblers want to ensure good returns while not going broke, so minimizing risk of ruin is often more important than maximizing return rate. Further complicating the matter is that in real life you don&#x27;t know your actual probability of success, but you may have an estimation. And finally, though this is less commonly significant, your rate of return in a given game might depend on your the amount you bet.<p>From what I&#x27;ve seen in the poker community, no one has really approached this type of bet sizing from a rigorous perspective beyond the relatively simple Kelly Criterion.</text></comment> |
13,585,257 | 13,580,872 | 1 | 2 | 13,578,525 | train | <story><title>FCC rescinds claim that AT&amp;T and Verizon violated net neutrality</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/fcc-rescinds-claim-that-att-and-verizon-violated-net-neutrality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>equalarrow</author><text>This only matters - voting in the presidential elections - in the red states. If you&#x27;re a liberal, progressive, futurist, etc, and you&#x27;re living in states like CA or NY or OR, then statistically speaking, those states are pretty much gonna go democrat regardless. So your vote counts &#x27;less&#x27; there.<p>What is needed is a bunch of these people to move to swing states where the vote really matters. Places like OH, FL, etc.<p>But, the blue states people have built their own little comfortable enclaves in their respective states and there&#x27;s little chance they&#x27;ll be moving to places like AK, TN, or MS.<p>Now, why does this matter? Well, because it&#x27;s clear the republicans are pro big business and in the case of net neutrality, pro locking up the internet for the few (the few being, big media&#x2F;telecom companies). There will never be a pro-citizen net neutrality policy as long as the republicans&#x2F;big-business types are running the show.<p>So, living in CA, for instance, doesn&#x27;t matter much in this case. Having a progressive, pro-net mentality will make much more difference in swing states.</text></item><item><author>e40</author><text>Yeah, I wonder how all those people feel that didn&#x27;t vote because <i>it doesn&#x27;t matter, they&#x27;re both the same</i>?</text></item><item><author>shatteredvisage</author><text>I fear we can&#x27;t stop what&#x27;s happening. I miss days when I could afford political ignorance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrnichols</author><text>There&#x27;s also the fact that voting Dev or living in California don&#x27;t always equal &quot;good for the net.&quot;<p>We&#x27;re very aware of how much Hollywood and the RIAA&#x2F;MPAA want their claws in as much of the internet as they can to &quot;protect the entertainment industry.&quot; They were drooling over SOPA&#x2F;PIPA&#x2F;COICA&#x2F;etc.<p>The democrats will happily lock up the internet in favor of their own big media&#x2F;telecom interests too. That&#x27;s something I think people often forget. Remember, one of the first things Obama did was hire <i>five</i> former RIAA lawyers to the DOJ.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC rescinds claim that AT&amp;T and Verizon violated net neutrality</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/fcc-rescinds-claim-that-att-and-verizon-violated-net-neutrality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>equalarrow</author><text>This only matters - voting in the presidential elections - in the red states. If you&#x27;re a liberal, progressive, futurist, etc, and you&#x27;re living in states like CA or NY or OR, then statistically speaking, those states are pretty much gonna go democrat regardless. So your vote counts &#x27;less&#x27; there.<p>What is needed is a bunch of these people to move to swing states where the vote really matters. Places like OH, FL, etc.<p>But, the blue states people have built their own little comfortable enclaves in their respective states and there&#x27;s little chance they&#x27;ll be moving to places like AK, TN, or MS.<p>Now, why does this matter? Well, because it&#x27;s clear the republicans are pro big business and in the case of net neutrality, pro locking up the internet for the few (the few being, big media&#x2F;telecom companies). There will never be a pro-citizen net neutrality policy as long as the republicans&#x2F;big-business types are running the show.<p>So, living in CA, for instance, doesn&#x27;t matter much in this case. Having a progressive, pro-net mentality will make much more difference in swing states.</text></item><item><author>e40</author><text>Yeah, I wonder how all those people feel that didn&#x27;t vote because <i>it doesn&#x27;t matter, they&#x27;re both the same</i>?</text></item><item><author>shatteredvisage</author><text>I fear we can&#x27;t stop what&#x27;s happening. I miss days when I could afford political ignorance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>balabaster</author><text>Perhaps someone needs to organize a movement of large populations of progressive future thinking utopian philosophers moving to different states to more effectively rig elections in the way of a more enlightened future.<p>Alas, I don&#x27;t think there are enough of these types to actually effectively hack elections like that.</text></comment> |
19,372,091 | 19,372,059 | 1 | 3 | 19,371,847 | train | <story><title>Silence is golden, especially when you need to say something important</title><url>https://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=3310318</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hathawsh</author><text>This advice is certainly correct for public speaking, but for conversation, I&#x27;ve observed that saying &quot;uh&quot; and &quot;um&quot; is actually a good habit for most people. They convey clearly that you intend to speak soon. Without them, others interrupt or assume you&#x27;re not listening. It&#x27;s quite understandable that people would bring that good habit to a new context where it&#x27;s surprisingly counterproductive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Silence is golden, especially when you need to say something important</title><url>https://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=3310318</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cimmanom</author><text>This is very different in oratory vs. conversation, especially depending on the conversation style of the people you&#x27;re speaking with. In some conversations, if you don&#x27;t put in an &quot;uh&quot; or &quot;um&quot; when you pause, you&#x27;ll immediately be assumed to be done speaking and will be interrupted.</text></comment> |
13,027,363 | 13,027,287 | 1 | 2 | 13,027,031 | train | <story><title>Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ekdy9/the_admins_are_suffering_from_low_energy_have/dad5sf1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwertyuiop924</author><text>Yeah. That would be great. I&#x27;d go so far as to say that it would be a really <i>Use</i>ful <i>net</i>work. If you catch my drift.</text></item><item><author>ErikAugust</author><text>Would be good to have some distributed model (like Bitcoin, etc.) for message platforms like Reddit?</text></item><item><author>wvenable</author><text>The fact is anything digital can be modified this way; it&#x27;s probably <i>good</i> that it happens and there are public examples so people learn not to trust it.</text></item><item><author>JorgeGT</author><text>And without an &quot;edited&quot; mark, which means that any comment of any user can be covertly modified by an admin. Very concerning since Reddit comments have provoked even Congress hearings: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;national-security&#x2F;296680-house-panel-probes-web-rumor-on-clinton-emails" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;national-security&#x2F;296680-house-pan...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DonHopkins</author><text>It might even develop its own alt.right community.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ekdy9/the_admins_are_suffering_from_low_energy_have/dad5sf1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwertyuiop924</author><text>Yeah. That would be great. I&#x27;d go so far as to say that it would be a really <i>Use</i>ful <i>net</i>work. If you catch my drift.</text></item><item><author>ErikAugust</author><text>Would be good to have some distributed model (like Bitcoin, etc.) for message platforms like Reddit?</text></item><item><author>wvenable</author><text>The fact is anything digital can be modified this way; it&#x27;s probably <i>good</i> that it happens and there are public examples so people learn not to trust it.</text></item><item><author>JorgeGT</author><text>And without an &quot;edited&quot; mark, which means that any comment of any user can be covertly modified by an admin. Very concerning since Reddit comments have provoked even Congress hearings: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;national-security&#x2F;296680-house-panel-probes-web-rumor-on-clinton-emails" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;national-security&#x2F;296680-house-pan...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjbwork</author><text>Please, tell me more about this wonderful futuristic technology.</text></comment> |
4,478,124 | 4,476,992 | 1 | 3 | 4,476,397 | train | <story><title>What's a $4000 Suit Worth?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/magazine/whats-a-4000-suit-worth.html?pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Yet another submarine: <a href="http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html" rel="nofollow">http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html</a><p>The suit is dead for any number of reason, dittos bespoke clothing.<p>$4000 is several times what I spend on clothes in a year. It's several times what I spend on clothes in <i>several</i> years. There's a far less expensive option that's highly satisficing. Suits, once an inexpensive, practical, standardized alternative to more ornate and expensive clothing, are now the expensive, frequently impractical attire. The lead time to purchase is too long. And a far lower grade of tailoring is more than sufficient for virtually any occasion. That's basic facts.<p>There are exceptions -- people for whom the expense is neither extravagent nor unneccessary. It's a pretty small crowd, well within the top 1%, and probably more like the top 0.01%. Then divide by two, because, well, very few women wear suits (though women's fashion is its own discussion).<p>As TFA notes, bespoke tailoring doesn't scale. And it strongly suggests a rather fragile relationship between the garment and the wearer -- I can change in multiple of 25 separate measurements within a few months to a years time -- does this render a suit poor-fitting?<p>The made-to-measure alternative exists, and for many or most, it's a more-than-acceptable alternative for either formal or casual clothing. With correctly chosen measuring points, and if necessary, some additional tailoring, garments can be made to fit quite well. Cloth is pretty fungible. Sticking to conservative fashions, styles, and cuts means you'll have something that will wear well for years. And in a world in which off-the-rack sizing is increasingly problematic (aggressively styled cuts with little sizing leeway result in more frustrated customers), it's increasingly an option. There are a few vendors in the space, though I feel it's still waiting for its true visionary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pinaceae</author><text>If you get out of your tech-bubble, you'll notice this as very far from the truth.<p>Suits are the work dress in consulting, financial services, pretty much anything where you're clients demand respect and are not in IT (IT and personal visual aestethics have an inverse relationship, in any big company you can easily tell who is in IT).<p>Try to attend a management meeting in Europe, China, Japan without a suit.<p>Within the suit world people from the US are also highly visible as the art of fashion seems to have been lost. While the rest of the world went with tighter forms, US men still wear balloon shaped trousers, as if the 80s never stopped. And the number one tell are the shoes. Italians shape the shoe world, pointy and long have been the way to go for some time now - but US men go in with big black round things, often not even polished properly. This goes up to CEO level.<p>There are certain elements of a push-back right now in the US as well, the first one being the success of the tv-series Mad Med which is a big advertisement for fashion and representative clothing. The second being a resurgence of elegant, masculine fashion - see blogs like the Sartorialist for a glimpse into that: <a href="http://www.thesartorialist.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thesartorialist.com/</a><p>A well-fitted suit does not signal money, it signals TASTE. Which is very hard to talk about in tech circles. Like looking at a well set up VIM instance, it tells you about the owner's habits.</text></comment> | <story><title>What's a $4000 Suit Worth?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/magazine/whats-a-4000-suit-worth.html?pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Yet another submarine: <a href="http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html" rel="nofollow">http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html</a><p>The suit is dead for any number of reason, dittos bespoke clothing.<p>$4000 is several times what I spend on clothes in a year. It's several times what I spend on clothes in <i>several</i> years. There's a far less expensive option that's highly satisficing. Suits, once an inexpensive, practical, standardized alternative to more ornate and expensive clothing, are now the expensive, frequently impractical attire. The lead time to purchase is too long. And a far lower grade of tailoring is more than sufficient for virtually any occasion. That's basic facts.<p>There are exceptions -- people for whom the expense is neither extravagent nor unneccessary. It's a pretty small crowd, well within the top 1%, and probably more like the top 0.01%. Then divide by two, because, well, very few women wear suits (though women's fashion is its own discussion).<p>As TFA notes, bespoke tailoring doesn't scale. And it strongly suggests a rather fragile relationship between the garment and the wearer -- I can change in multiple of 25 separate measurements within a few months to a years time -- does this render a suit poor-fitting?<p>The made-to-measure alternative exists, and for many or most, it's a more-than-acceptable alternative for either formal or casual clothing. With correctly chosen measuring points, and if necessary, some additional tailoring, garments can be made to fit quite well. Cloth is pretty fungible. Sticking to conservative fashions, styles, and cuts means you'll have something that will wear well for years. And in a world in which off-the-rack sizing is increasingly problematic (aggressively styled cuts with little sizing leeway result in more frustrated customers), it's increasingly an option. There are a few vendors in the space, though I feel it's still waiting for its true visionary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>This article doesn't read like a subtle "the suit is back!" pitch to me. It's a pretty interesting look at the economics of a couple of different ways of making better-fitting suits.<p>I agree that the interesting changes will come out of the made-to-measure world. Considering the difference in comfort (not to mention look!) that properly-fitting clothing provides, I'd be extremely interested in getting a nice made-to-measure suit if I had the sort of job or social calendar that would give me opportunities to wear it... and while I don't expect to ever be in the sort of job or circles that would require a suit regularly, I definitely look forward to an economical, quick(ish) way of getting a nice-fitting suit. Last time I bought a suit I had to wait over a month for alterations to be done at the department store anyway, so if someone can come up with a way of reducing made-to-measure turnaround to a month...<p>And then let me gets khakis and less-formal shirts made that way too... I buy a lot more of those than suits.</text></comment> |
15,439,680 | 15,435,921 | 1 | 2 | 15,435,838 | train | <story><title>First detection of the missing half of normal matter in our universe</title><url>https://www.newscientist.com/article/2149742-half-the-universes-missing-matter-has-just-been-finally-found/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iheartmemcache</author><text>Dang I read the first paragraph of the article and immediately went searching for the real papers since I didn&#x27;t expect any media outlet to include them at the bottom, but here they are for anyone who made the same mistake I did! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1709.05024" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1709.05024</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1709.10378" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1709.10378</a><p>Not a cosmologist but here&#x27;s my go at the de Graff paper. (Let&#x27;s get this out of the way, the title is click-bait and the paper&#x2F;researchers makes no such claims as to anything near 50%. New Scientist is trolling for hits with the word &quot;half&quot; or the journalist is fundamentally misunderstanding the work.) In de Graff, et al, they claim 30% of &quot;90% of the missing baryonic matter [that composes the ~25% of our total universe observable from within our light cone]&quot; has been found in the CMB structured as filaments between galaxies. They claim there&#x27;s effectively a planar network layered on top of Minkowski space composed this baryonic matter. The temperature was at this &quot;Goldilocks&quot; midrange no one had previously analyzed (ranging from 10^5-10^7K). This wasn&#x27;t previously found because people were searching &quot;only the lower and higher temperature end of the warm-hot baryons, leaving the majority of the baryons still unobserved(9)&quot;. [See &quot;Warm-hot baryons comprise 5-10 percent of filaments in the cosmic web.&quot;, <i>Nature</i>, Eckert et al for more about baryons of this composition.]<p>Additionally, these baryons have 10x the density of what we observe (so this could potentially be evidence for the first stable baryonic matter composed of second generation quarks, or more likely the binding energies are different from our standard uud&#x2F;udd nucleon quarks) permeating the universe, and where the roads in the network meet (&quot;dark matter haloes&quot;), you have embedded galaxies and galaxy clusters. They continue with their analytic methods of the CMASS data, and claim within the framework 30% of the total baryonic content (which, again, all analytical methods put this into no more than ~25%) is composed of this form of this matter. I skimmed their methods and it seemed to at least logically hold -- they are using the appropriate data (SDSS 12) and didn&#x27;t cherry-pick their galaxy pairs (so, no p-hacking here!).</text></comment> | <story><title>First detection of the missing half of normal matter in our universe</title><url>https://www.newscientist.com/article/2149742-half-the-universes-missing-matter-has-just-been-finally-found/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lacksconfidence</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;space&#x2F;comments&#x2F;75944s&#x2F;half_the_universes_missing_matter_has_just_been&#x2F;do4mfjx&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;space&#x2F;comments&#x2F;75944s&#x2F;half_the_univ...</a><p>&gt; The approximate distribution in the Universe is 5% regular matter, 25% Dark Matter, and 70% Dark Energy. Half of that 5% was missing, and now found.<p>&gt; Regular matter makes stars and visible galaxies, so it is &quot;bright&quot;. Dark Matter is so named because it does not make things we can see with telescopes directly - it is &quot;dark&quot;. We can see the effects it makes with gravity, such as the rotation curves of galaxies, and gravitational lensing. So we know something is there, just not what it is made of. Dark Energy was invented to solve a couple of mysteries. One is the geometrical &quot;flatness&quot; of the Universe, and the other is the apparent acceleration of the Universe&#x27;s expansion. Like Dark Matter, we don&#x27;t yet know what it is. But something is causing the flatness and acceleration, so we gave it a name as a place-holder for theories.<p>&gt; A similar situation happened a century ago, with the precession (shift) of Mercury&#x27;s orbit with time. We thought it was caused by a planet inside of Mercury&#x27;s orbit that we hadn&#x27;t found yet. It was named Vulcan, after the Roman god of fire (not Spock&#x27;s home planet). It turns out relativity was the right answer - the Suns gravity bends space near it, and causes the orbit to shift. Vulcan was just &quot;a name we gave to whatever causes the observed effect&quot;.<p>&gt; Dark Matter and Dark Energy could turn out to be something entirely different than types of matter and energy, but in the mean time it gives them names we can attach theories about them to.</text></comment> |
25,142,141 | 25,140,728 | 1 | 3 | 25,138,341 | train | <story><title>Almost 60 percent of business closures are now permanent, new Yelp data shows</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/almost-60-percent-business-closures-are-now-permanent-new-yelp-n1240209</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caeril</author><text>This reflects my personal view of the &quot;real&quot; economy. Nearly everyone around me is absolutely destitute. Meanwhile, equities are trading at all time highs. There is an enormous disconnect, at least in my specific area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eulers_secret</author><text>I&#x27;m with you. I live in a very inexpensive apartment, where most people are low-income or on gov&#x27;t subsidy, or both. I also walk my dog daily and interact with 3-5 different neighbors each day - so I have a view into their lives.<p>It&#x27;s bad here. I&#x27;d say at least 1&#x2F;3 have lost their jobs and are having a really hard time finding work. More uber&#x2F;lyft signs have popped up in cars in the parking lot. One of my neighbors had to move their family of 3 from an already-small 2br to a 1br (2 kids). I don&#x27;t know how they can make it work. There&#x27;s more people who sit on the sidewalk curb and drink cheap beer and chain smoke. They&#x27;re nice folks (I talk to them), but they can&#x27;t find work.<p>On the flips side, anyone who can WFH is doing better than ever before. They save money by not driving, eating out, or doing the other things they&#x27;d normally do. I&#x27;ve also seen A LOT of brand new cars show up, presumably buying because of low interest rates. WFH folks seem happier than before.<p>The disparity between the haves and have-nots looks like it&#x27;s been rapidly accelerating. If you always stay in the HN bubble, you won&#x27;t see these people. They&#x27;re &#x27;invisible&#x27;, but I assure you they are real. They need help, and they&#x27;re not getting it. It&#x27;s honestly very, very sad - it makes me sad. My empathy is on overdrive because it&#x27;s so easy to see myself in that position. If I hadn&#x27;t chosen tech, I&#x27;d be right there with them with a 6-pack, Marlboros, and no hope.</text></comment> | <story><title>Almost 60 percent of business closures are now permanent, new Yelp data shows</title><url>https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/almost-60-percent-business-closures-are-now-permanent-new-yelp-n1240209</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caeril</author><text>This reflects my personal view of the &quot;real&quot; economy. Nearly everyone around me is absolutely destitute. Meanwhile, equities are trading at all time highs. There is an enormous disconnect, at least in my specific area.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x86_64Ubuntu</author><text>The government a while back injected TRILLIONS into the stock market in a bid to keep the stock market afloat. Acts like that have gone far to increase the difference in fortunes between main street and wall street.</text></comment> |
5,967,694 | 5,967,545 | 1 | 3 | 5,966,837 | train | <story><title>No free trade agreement if charges of espionage are true, warns EU Commissioner</title><url>http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=da&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr.dk%2FNyheder%2FUdland%2F2013%2F06%2F30%2F0630185422.htm&act=url</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wazoox</author><text>Frankly, I can&#x27;t see a single good reason for this trade agreement, and a lot of good reasons against, starting with that I (and all other Europeans) don&#x27;t want GM food, hormone beef and chlorinated chicken in my plate any day soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Trade openness is one of the strongest predictor of peace [1] (also see: <i>Better Angels of our Nature</i> [2]).<p>Free trade would also be an economic boon to Europe and the U.S. A study by the Bertelsmann Foundation together with the Munich-based Center for Economic Studies found that &quot;if the United States and the European Union are able to come together on a far-reaching free trade agreement, Germany would be one of the greatest beneficiaries. Fully 181,000 new jobs could be expected and per-capita income would spike by 4.68 percent.&quot; GDP&#x2F;capita could rise &quot;by 13.4 percent in the US and by 9.7 percent in the UK. More than a million new jobs would result in America. That number would be 400,000 in Britain.&quot; [3]<p>The benefits of free trade are one of the points economists have found consensus on.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.yale.edu/leitner/resources/docs/HORJune09.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yale.edu&#x2F;leitner&#x2F;resources&#x2F;docs&#x2F;HORJune09.pdf</a> &quot;Trade Does Promote Peace:
New Simultaneous Estimates of the Reciprocal Effects of Trade and Conflict&quot; (Hegre, O&#x27;Neal, &amp; Russett, 2009)<p>[2] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Better-Angels-Our-Nature/dp/0143122010/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1372634338&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=better+angels+of+our+nature" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;The-Better-Angels-Our-Nature&#x2F;dp&#x2F;014312...</a> <i>The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined</i> by Steven Pinker<p>[3] <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/study-on-trans-atlantic-trade-sees-huge-benefits-for-germany-a-906407.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spiegel.de&#x2F;international&#x2F;business&#x2F;study-on-trans-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>No free trade agreement if charges of espionage are true, warns EU Commissioner</title><url>http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=da&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr.dk%2FNyheder%2FUdland%2F2013%2F06%2F30%2F0630185422.htm&act=url</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wazoox</author><text>Frankly, I can&#x27;t see a single good reason for this trade agreement, and a lot of good reasons against, starting with that I (and all other Europeans) don&#x27;t want GM food, hormone beef and chlorinated chicken in my plate any day soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oellegaard</author><text>AFAIK we have laws against this kind of food in EU, but the free trade agreement will give us e.g. Apple, Microsoft, Dell and other products without having to pay a high fee every time it goes through customs. Same goes for European products being sold in the US. It is expected to lead to BNP growth of around 1% in the EU region.</text></comment> |
23,779,436 | 23,778,819 | 1 | 2 | 23,777,128 | train | <story><title>Full Employment</title><url>https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andyjohnson0</author><text>Reading the economic and tech-fix discussion here, it strikes me again that we&#x27;re trapped in a system that doesn&#x27;t provide workable means to solve our pressing problems. Yet we continue to treat it (economics, the global financial system) as some kind of inevitable force of nature, rather than as something that we invented and (to some degree) chose. I wish I knew why that is.<p>I don&#x27;t know how we get from here to a place where these problems become solvable (or even what that place looks like) and from there to a world that is actually going to sustain us again. So its hard to have much confidence that we have much of a future beyond the later part of this century. My children will by my age then and I don&#x27;t envy them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>setgree</author><text>&gt; we&#x27;re trapped in a system that doesn&#x27;t provide workable means to solve our pressing problems<p>Generalization: most of those problems are political rather than technical, and unlike with technical problems, if you make a wrong guess about how to solve a political problem, the costs might be unboundedly catastrophic (e.g. world war).<p>I personally believe that the best response to global warming is open borders, because it would mean that all the people who:<p>* are living in the global south could relocate somewhere colder and further inland, if they wanted;<p>* are subsistence farming, but who would be great engineers, scientists, etc. given the right opportunities, would be more likely to get those opportunities.<p>Most people think that open borders would be bad, and I don&#x27;t think I will be able to persuade them otherwise in my lifetime.<p>In general, alternatives to persuasion in politics amount to seizing power and&#x2F;or changing the rules of the game. Even if I thought I <i>could</i> do that, which I don&#x27;t, I wouldn&#x27;t, because all too often in history, the cure is worse than the disease.<p>That&#x27;s why I think these problems are hard -- and why I&#x27;m scared of people who propose grand solutions to them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Full Employment</title><url>https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andyjohnson0</author><text>Reading the economic and tech-fix discussion here, it strikes me again that we&#x27;re trapped in a system that doesn&#x27;t provide workable means to solve our pressing problems. Yet we continue to treat it (economics, the global financial system) as some kind of inevitable force of nature, rather than as something that we invented and (to some degree) chose. I wish I knew why that is.<p>I don&#x27;t know how we get from here to a place where these problems become solvable (or even what that place looks like) and from there to a world that is actually going to sustain us again. So its hard to have much confidence that we have much of a future beyond the later part of this century. My children will by my age then and I don&#x27;t envy them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hhjinks</author><text>What makes you so sure that economics is entirely constructed? Things like supply and demand are clearly natural consequences of resource scarcity, and doesn&#x27;t only apply to economics. While we do have certain frameworks that are man-made that prop up and support the economy, AN economy of some description just seems like a natural consequence of things being perceived as having value. We even see this in animals.</text></comment> |
24,654,226 | 24,650,248 | 1 | 2 | 24,649,770 | train | <story><title>YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop</title><url>https://www.wired.co.uk/article/history-colourisation-controversy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedberg10</author><text>&quot;The colours that suddenly flood into the streets of 1910s New York aren’t drawn from the celluloid itself; that information was never captured there.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve tried to make that point, but I failed many times. Let&#x27;s try this crowd: We know what colors human faces have, so we can nail those, but coloring a film from, say, the 1950s the way photos from that era looked, is not what the colors back then actually looked like. That&#x27;s just how camera technology was able to capture them at the time.<p>So even if you captured color back then, it probably wasn&#x27;t very realistic.<p>I don&#x27;t think people should stop experimenting, I find these videos fascinating and loved Peter Jacksons film, but the past didn&#x27;t look like you think it did. You&#x27;re just used to it because all the photographs from the era look a certain way but they were limited.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TylerE</author><text>It absolutely was <i>possible</i>, although certainly not readily available.<p>Most notably the work of Russian chemist Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, who took absolutely stunning color photos around 1910.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD-%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop</title><url>https://www.wired.co.uk/article/history-colourisation-controversy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedberg10</author><text>&quot;The colours that suddenly flood into the streets of 1910s New York aren’t drawn from the celluloid itself; that information was never captured there.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve tried to make that point, but I failed many times. Let&#x27;s try this crowd: We know what colors human faces have, so we can nail those, but coloring a film from, say, the 1950s the way photos from that era looked, is not what the colors back then actually looked like. That&#x27;s just how camera technology was able to capture them at the time.<p>So even if you captured color back then, it probably wasn&#x27;t very realistic.<p>I don&#x27;t think people should stop experimenting, I find these videos fascinating and loved Peter Jacksons film, but the past didn&#x27;t look like you think it did. You&#x27;re just used to it because all the photographs from the era look a certain way but they were limited.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srtjstjsj</author><text>People didn&#x27;t look like books either, and didn&#x27;t look like pottery&#x2F;statue fragments with the paint washed off, but historians aren&#x27;t trying to ban that.<p>There are whole pseudo-intellectual cultures like Objectivists who think that peak of culture are statues with the paint worn off and reading scripts of plays meant to be experienced in live performance.</text></comment> |
6,846,676 | 6,846,564 | 1 | 2 | 6,846,428 | train | <story><title>Valve joins the Linux Foundation</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/12/04/valve-joins-linux-foundation-prepares-linux-powered-steam-os-steam-machines/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>Also of note, at the end:<p><i>&quot;The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation [1], a nonprofit consortium founded by AMD, ARM, Qualcomm and Samsung, among others to develop open-standard specifications for parallel computing, and startup Cloudius Systems are also joining the Linux Foundation today.&quot;</i><p>[1]:<a href="http://hsafoundation.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hsafoundation.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Valve joins the Linux Foundation</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/12/04/valve-joins-linux-foundation-prepares-linux-powered-steam-os-steam-machines/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>casca</author><text>It will be interesting to see whether Valve can encourage the move to Linux gaming. Their biggest asset at this time is the distribution model of Steam, but that&#x27;s not sufficient to get the big publishers to develop for OSX, never mind Linux.<p>Edit: Valve&#x27;s game list: <a href="http://www.valvesoftware.com/games/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.valvesoftware.com&#x2F;games&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
5,623,982 | 5,623,989 | 1 | 3 | 5,623,663 | train | <story><title>Get that job at Facebook (2012)</title><url>http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/get-that-job-at-facebook/10150964382448920%22</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ritchiea</author><text>I hope this doesn't sound facetious, but what I hear over and over again is that places like Facebook have difficult technical interviews that are algorithm focused to create more false negatives than false positives because they work on hard problems.<p>What are some concrete examples of hard problems tech companies face that require novel solutions and why are algorithms problems the best way to find the people qualified to solve them?<p>I know these seem like a naive questions, but these two things seem to be taken for granted in every interview discussion (or even if someone argues against them it's mostly a "this is how I find good people" argument). I think it's pretty clear this isn't the only way to find good people, I'd just love to hear more about the thinking behind this interview style and what it really means to these companies when they say "we deal with hard problems." The only concrete example I've ever been given is someone at another big Valley company speaking about difficulty of master-master writes between data centers at a large scale. Which certainly qualifies but I'd love to hear what other "hard problems" are out there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text><i>What are some concrete examples of hard problems tech companies face that require novel solutions and why are algorithms problems the best way to find the people qualified to solve them?</i><p>This is best answered by awesome example. See <a href="http://research.google.com/people/jeff/" rel="nofollow">http://research.google.com/people/jeff/</a> for a list of some the problems that one Google programmer met, and solved. Many of said problems were novel at the time, though many have now learned the answers that Jeff came up with.<p>These kinds of problems and answers are simply not understandable to people who don't understand algorithms. And you can tell people without a deep understanding of algorithms how to solve those problems, and they will consistently get it wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>Get that job at Facebook (2012)</title><url>http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/get-that-job-at-facebook/10150964382448920%22</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ritchiea</author><text>I hope this doesn't sound facetious, but what I hear over and over again is that places like Facebook have difficult technical interviews that are algorithm focused to create more false negatives than false positives because they work on hard problems.<p>What are some concrete examples of hard problems tech companies face that require novel solutions and why are algorithms problems the best way to find the people qualified to solve them?<p>I know these seem like a naive questions, but these two things seem to be taken for granted in every interview discussion (or even if someone argues against them it's mostly a "this is how I find good people" argument). I think it's pretty clear this isn't the only way to find good people, I'd just love to hear more about the thinking behind this interview style and what it really means to these companies when they say "we deal with hard problems." The only concrete example I've ever been given is someone at another big Valley company speaking about difficulty of master-master writes between data centers at a large scale. Which certainly qualifies but I'd love to hear what other "hard problems" are out there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>svachalek</author><text>In my experience, I've seen 3 kinds of jobs that demand engineers who can solve "hard" problems:<p>1. Obviously hard, and needs no explanation e.g. self-driving cars.
2. Basic problems done at ridiculous scale. Quickly matching keywords to web pages is not a hard problem; quickly matching keywords to every web page on the internet is a hard problem.
3. The problem is that (forgivably or not, depending on circumstances) we have no idea what we're trying to do.</text></comment> |
27,848,235 | 27,848,594 | 1 | 2 | 27,846,969 | train | <story><title>Valve Steam Deck</title><url>https://www.steamdeck.com/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modeless</author><text>That is a great link. Perhaps even more interesting is this: Valve is working with anti-cheat vendors for Linux (Proton) support. So one of the biggest remaining obstacles to Linux gaming may soon be addressed as a side effect of this.</text></item><item><author>css</author><text>From the FAQ [0]:<p>- What OS is Steam Deck running?<p>SteamOS 3.0, a new version of SteamOS based on Arch Linux.<p>- Will people be able to install Windows, or other 3rd party content?<p>Yes. Steam Deck is a PC, and players will be able to install whatever they like, including other OSes.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;partner.steamgames.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;steamdeck&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;partner.steamgames.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;steamdeck&#x2F;faq</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkdbejwi383</author><text>I hope they put some effort into anticheat on Linux for their own games. Team Fortress 2 has been barely playable for the past year because of cheaters running bots using widely available software which Valve seemingly can’t detect on Linux.</text></comment> | <story><title>Valve Steam Deck</title><url>https://www.steamdeck.com/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modeless</author><text>That is a great link. Perhaps even more interesting is this: Valve is working with anti-cheat vendors for Linux (Proton) support. So one of the biggest remaining obstacles to Linux gaming may soon be addressed as a side effect of this.</text></item><item><author>css</author><text>From the FAQ [0]:<p>- What OS is Steam Deck running?<p>SteamOS 3.0, a new version of SteamOS based on Arch Linux.<p>- Will people be able to install Windows, or other 3rd party content?<p>Yes. Steam Deck is a PC, and players will be able to install whatever they like, including other OSes.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;partner.steamgames.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;steamdeck&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;partner.steamgames.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;steamdeck&#x2F;faq</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CodesInChaos</author><text>I expect the anti-cheats to require an unmodified SteamOS.<p>Though the FAQ says the following, so it might not be quite as bad as I feared:<p>&gt; We recommend using user-space anti-cheat components for best results, as they can typically run in the Wine environment and provide the same level of functionality. Kernel-space solutions are not currently supported and are not recommended.</text></comment> |
26,323,320 | 26,323,250 | 1 | 2 | 26,322,765 | train | <story><title>Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair Home Page</title><url>https://tinaja.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>computator</author><text>I don’t know if people are upvoting this page because of the cool retro look of his home page, but I’ll mention that he’s well known for his TTL Cookbook and CMOS Cookbook. Everybody who was into digital electronics in the early 1980s had them. More than once visitors to my place took the “cookbooks” from my shelf expecting to see some delicious recipes and were sorely disappointed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koalahedron</author><text>&gt; delicious recipes<p>Ha ha<p>He also did the TV typewriter:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TV_Typewriter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TV_Typewriter</a><p>which allowed people to have something to hook their bare board micro to.<p>I had money to buy his green book, but not the computer or the TV. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair Home Page</title><url>https://tinaja.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>computator</author><text>I don’t know if people are upvoting this page because of the cool retro look of his home page, but I’ll mention that he’s well known for his TTL Cookbook and CMOS Cookbook. Everybody who was into digital electronics in the early 1980s had them. More than once visitors to my place took the “cookbooks” from my shelf expecting to see some delicious recipes and were sorely disappointed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>Also notable for his library of hand-coded PostScript used to manually generate his newsletters.</text></comment> |
5,489,644 | 5,489,648 | 1 | 3 | 5,489,039 | train | <story><title>If the Earth were 100 pixels wide</title><url>http://www.distancetomars.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohazi</author><text>Is anyone else a little bothered by the fact that the reported speed was 1/5 the speed of light, yet the flyby necessarily increased to well over the speed of light in order to actually get you to Mars before you got bored and closed the tab? Traveling <i>at</i> the speed of light would have taken 5-20 minutes. Traveling slower than that would have taken even longer...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aqme28</author><text>Travelling <i>at</i> the speed of light would have taken 0 seconds for you, the traveller, but 5-20 minutes for your observer.<p>However, the Lorentz factor at 20% of the speed of light is ~1.02. This means the distance you travel is only about 2% shorter, so relativistic effects aren't the reason for the discrepancy.</text></comment> | <story><title>If the Earth were 100 pixels wide</title><url>http://www.distancetomars.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohazi</author><text>Is anyone else a little bothered by the fact that the reported speed was 1/5 the speed of light, yet the flyby necessarily increased to well over the speed of light in order to actually get you to Mars before you got bored and closed the tab? Traveling <i>at</i> the speed of light would have taken 5-20 minutes. Traveling slower than that would have taken even longer...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aetherson</author><text>Yeah, I hadn't realized that they were doing that, and it does bother me. I don't mind the idea that we're going FTL, but they should explain that in the text, not just report 20% of the speed of light. Ironically, it makes the distances seem shorter than they are, in a thing that seems designed to make you understand how long they are.</text></comment> |
22,596,304 | 22,596,357 | 1 | 3 | 22,595,311 | train | <story><title>Canada to bar entry to non-residents (except US)</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbsa-border-airports-screening-trudeau-covid19-coronavirus-1.5498866</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>There&#x27;s a school district in Washington where the children have to take a bus through Canada to get to school.<p>That is, if Washington State schools are still open.<p>Still, there are a number of U.S. towns that can only be accessed through Canada.<p>Also, my relatives in Minnesota say that most of the retail sales in their town is Canadians who don&#x27;t have anywhere else to shop.</text></item><item><author>wolco</author><text>Reading between the lines I get the feeling we can&#x27;t close the border and we&#x27;re all in it together. There are towns where the border runs through the middle of town. Indian tribes that run through both. It would be extremely difficult to close the entire border.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danudey</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s a school district in Washington where the children have to take a bus through Canada to get to school.<p>In case anyone is curious, they&#x27;re referring to Point Roberts, a town whose primary economic drivers are, as far as I&#x27;ve been able to tell, Canadians coming down to pick up packages to avoid cross-border shipping, and providing gas and restaurant meals to those same Canadians.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Point_Roberts,_Washington" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Point_Roberts,_Washington</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Canada to bar entry to non-residents (except US)</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbsa-border-airports-screening-trudeau-covid19-coronavirus-1.5498866</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>There&#x27;s a school district in Washington where the children have to take a bus through Canada to get to school.<p>That is, if Washington State schools are still open.<p>Still, there are a number of U.S. towns that can only be accessed through Canada.<p>Also, my relatives in Minnesota say that most of the retail sales in their town is Canadians who don&#x27;t have anywhere else to shop.</text></item><item><author>wolco</author><text>Reading between the lines I get the feeling we can&#x27;t close the border and we&#x27;re all in it together. There are towns where the border runs through the middle of town. Indian tribes that run through both. It would be extremely difficult to close the entire border.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>techsupporter</author><text>&gt; That is, if Washington State schools are still open.<p>All public schools in Washington State are closed, FWIW.</text></comment> |
37,891,107 | 37,887,791 | 1 | 2 | 37,887,184 | train | <story><title>Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions</title><url>https://github.com/navorite/sessionic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>breadchris</author><text>I really like the idea of mining your own browsing history for insight. I think that the value of our browsing history is completely lost to us because the lack of tooling to make saving and searching more accessible.<p>It&#x27;s still WIP but I&#x27;ve been building a browser extension for this on GitHub here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunabrain-ai&#x2F;lunabrain">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lunabrain-ai&#x2F;lunabrain</a><p>My goal is to be able to use the Internet as normal, but have the extension automatically index and rank content I find important. For example, if I spend 5 minutes on a page that I went to after Hackernews, odds are I found that important so it should be considered in my history differently than other things.<p>The network effect of this data is pretty interesting too. It would be really cool to see what my friends, or other high trust, high signal, groups i am in find interesting. Being on a page where my mentor has stared, annotated, shared this before will probably give me pause and make me consider this page more deeply.<p>I&#x27;m curious if anybody else has any notes to share.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions</title><url>https://github.com/navorite/sessionic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrtksn</author><text>Safari is doing this great with profiles and tab groups. The profiles help you have multiple workspaces where different sessions are start so you don’t have to sign out and sign in for different accounts all the time. And every profile has a tab group which is a collection of tabs. All that synced across all of your iDevices.<p>However tab groups have a bug that hasn’t been fixed since almost 2 years now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apple.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;436025&#x2F;safari-keeps-closing-newly-opened-tabs-re-opening-the-tabs-that-i-just-closed-o&#x2F;444083?noredirect=1#comment687887_444083" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apple.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;436025&#x2F;safari-keep...</a></text></comment> |
40,857,346 | 40,854,401 | 1 | 3 | 40,847,963 | train | <story><title>Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-capitol-riot-immunity-2dc0d1c2368d404adc0054151490f542</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulddraper</author><text>&gt; This ruling seems to open the door to a president being immune from, say, commanding SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival.<p>Immune from judicial prosecution.<p>Not immune from Congressional prosecution.<p>---<p>This isn&#x27;t a unique concept.<p>For example, if SEAL Team 6 improperly kills someone on a mission, they aren&#x27;t prosecuted in criminal court; they are court-martialed.<p>There is accountability, but due to the unique nature of the profession, it has a specialized venue.</text></item><item><author>adriand</author><text>This ruling seems to open the door to a president being immune from, say, commanding SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival.<p>“In its ruling, the Supreme Court decided there was no question that Mr. Trump enjoyed immunity from being prosecuted for one of those methods: his efforts to strong-arm the Justice Department into validating his false claims that the election had been marred by widespread fraud. That was because the justices determined that Mr. Trump’s interactions with top officials in the department were clearly part of his official duties as president.” [1]<p>One of the president’s official duties is to direct the military to take actions that protect the country. Biden can reasonably claim Trump is a threat to democracy, and can officially request him to be killed. Right? If not why not?<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;supreme-court-immunity-trump-jan-6.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;supreme-court...</a></text></item><item><author>kemotep</author><text>My limited understanding of the ruling:<p>The ruling states that the President is immune from prosecution while exercising official duties of the office of President but can be investigated by a special counsel that is appointed by an act of Congress, and if successfully impeached and convicted can then be charged with said crimes. “Unofficial” acts are not protected by this immunity but a special counsel is still required to be appointed by an act of Congress to investigate and then bring forward charges.<p>Out of context this is quite reasonable and level headed. In context of the hyper partisan landscape US politics are today, doesn’t seem likely without a supermajority opposition to be able to bring charges against a president, for official or unofficial acts that are crimes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geekraver</author><text>Which they can avoid by resigning. So the worst penalty for almost any crime is they might have to step down,</text></comment> | <story><title>Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-capitol-riot-immunity-2dc0d1c2368d404adc0054151490f542</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulddraper</author><text>&gt; This ruling seems to open the door to a president being immune from, say, commanding SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival.<p>Immune from judicial prosecution.<p>Not immune from Congressional prosecution.<p>---<p>This isn&#x27;t a unique concept.<p>For example, if SEAL Team 6 improperly kills someone on a mission, they aren&#x27;t prosecuted in criminal court; they are court-martialed.<p>There is accountability, but due to the unique nature of the profession, it has a specialized venue.</text></item><item><author>adriand</author><text>This ruling seems to open the door to a president being immune from, say, commanding SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival.<p>“In its ruling, the Supreme Court decided there was no question that Mr. Trump enjoyed immunity from being prosecuted for one of those methods: his efforts to strong-arm the Justice Department into validating his false claims that the election had been marred by widespread fraud. That was because the justices determined that Mr. Trump’s interactions with top officials in the department were clearly part of his official duties as president.” [1]<p>One of the president’s official duties is to direct the military to take actions that protect the country. Biden can reasonably claim Trump is a threat to democracy, and can officially request him to be killed. Right? If not why not?<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;supreme-court-immunity-trump-jan-6.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;supreme-court...</a></text></item><item><author>kemotep</author><text>My limited understanding of the ruling:<p>The ruling states that the President is immune from prosecution while exercising official duties of the office of President but can be investigated by a special counsel that is appointed by an act of Congress, and if successfully impeached and convicted can then be charged with said crimes. “Unofficial” acts are not protected by this immunity but a special counsel is still required to be appointed by an act of Congress to investigate and then bring forward charges.<p>Out of context this is quite reasonable and level headed. In context of the hyper partisan landscape US politics are today, doesn’t seem likely without a supermajority opposition to be able to bring charges against a president, for official or unofficial acts that are crimes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kaba0</author><text>And they can be pardoned by the president after the fact.</text></comment> |
4,677,570 | 4,677,235 | 1 | 2 | 4,676,854 | train | <story><title>Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, and what I learned.</title><url>http://www.sultansolutions.com/google-voice-lost-number/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>silverbax88</author><text>This week I had an epiphany when dealing with both Google and Microsoft on support issues. The issues are this: when you need an answer to a question about something from your bank, such as, say, a fee that suddenly appears on your statement, you can pick up the phone and find someone at the company who will at least give you slow service to answer your question.<p>But with Google and Microsoft, there is no support department. You need to know how a specific service is charged? Good luck. You need to know why a needed parameter is missing on their API documentation? Forget it.<p>Basically companies like Google and Microsoft want to toss their products out into the wild and then go back behind closed doors to noodle on something else. It baffles me as to why enterprise businesses are able to do this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qeorge</author><text>Microsoft has always provided <i>amazing</i> support for our Office 365 account (hosted Exchange, like Google Apps). Its a paid service though ($6/user/month), so perhaps that's the difference in our experiences.<p>Most recently, I filed a support ticket online and my phone rang a few minutes later. On the other end was an MS support rep who stayed on the phone with me for 40 minutes, including a screen share, until my issue was resolved. At the end of the call he left me with his direct # and email, and said that I could contact him directly with any future inquiries.<p>Really can't ask for much more than that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, and what I learned.</title><url>http://www.sultansolutions.com/google-voice-lost-number/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>silverbax88</author><text>This week I had an epiphany when dealing with both Google and Microsoft on support issues. The issues are this: when you need an answer to a question about something from your bank, such as, say, a fee that suddenly appears on your statement, you can pick up the phone and find someone at the company who will at least give you slow service to answer your question.<p>But with Google and Microsoft, there is no support department. You need to know how a specific service is charged? Good luck. You need to know why a needed parameter is missing on their API documentation? Forget it.<p>Basically companies like Google and Microsoft want to toss their products out into the wild and then go back behind closed doors to noodle on something else. It baffles me as to why enterprise businesses are able to do this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tallanvor</author><text>Let's be honest here. It's not that Google and Microsoft don't have support departments. It's that the price you're paying for the product is too low for them to provide general support on an individual basis.<p>Of course, that doesn't mean they shouldn't be working on ways to identify those very rare issues that need manual intervention and provide ways to get the support you need at that point, but that may only be 1 case in 100,000 or so.</text></comment> |
14,490,556 | 14,490,550 | 1 | 2 | 14,490,292 | train | <story><title>iPad Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/ipad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dyarosla</author><text>What&#x27;s new about this is that Apple is <i></i>FINALLY<i></i> listening to its power iPad users!<p>Apple introduced a Files app that essentially works like the Finder app on Mac. Moreover it even allows you to sync with third party cloud providers besides just iCloud. Lastly, it&#x27;s putting in an actual dock, multiple window layouts, easy copy paste.<p>I think it&#x27;s a real game changer and all of these are features that I&#x27;ve been truly looking forward to. It&#x27;s almost like a turning point in my mind. It&#x27;s crossed the threshold to where iOS can indeed act as a laptop&#x2F;desktop replacement for a huge number of people.<p>Also, in response to a sibling comment on this thread; I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;ll be too long now before we see full blown app development on iPads as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BatFastard</author><text>Wow, give them 5 more years and they will catch up to where the Surface is now!</text></comment> | <story><title>iPad Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/ipad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dyarosla</author><text>What&#x27;s new about this is that Apple is <i></i>FINALLY<i></i> listening to its power iPad users!<p>Apple introduced a Files app that essentially works like the Finder app on Mac. Moreover it even allows you to sync with third party cloud providers besides just iCloud. Lastly, it&#x27;s putting in an actual dock, multiple window layouts, easy copy paste.<p>I think it&#x27;s a real game changer and all of these are features that I&#x27;ve been truly looking forward to. It&#x27;s almost like a turning point in my mind. It&#x27;s crossed the threshold to where iOS can indeed act as a laptop&#x2F;desktop replacement for a huge number of people.<p>Also, in response to a sibling comment on this thread; I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;ll be too long now before we see full blown app development on iPads as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SmellTheGlove</author><text>&gt; Apple introduced a Files app that essentially works like the Finder app on Mac, and even allows it to now sync with third party cloud providers besides just iCloud. I think it&#x27;s a real gamechanger and something I&#x27;ve been personally waiting on.<p>We&#x27;ll see how well it works, I suppose. Remember that Apple thought this was a dumb, backwards feature (paraphrasing) when people were asking for it years ago.<p>&gt; Also, in response to a sibling comment on this thread; it won&#x27;t be too long now before we see full blown app development on iPads as well.<p>What are you basing the &quot;won&#x27;t be long&quot; sentiment on?<p>I don&#x27;t mean to get on you, but there&#x27;s a lot of optimism in your post, and I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s entirely warranted just yet. Yeah the hardware is a lot better, but it&#x27;s yet to be seen if it&#x27;s still just a giant iPhone from a software perspective. Of course, you may think my cynicism is unwarranted, that&#x27;s fair too.</text></comment> |
28,127,533 | 28,125,629 | 1 | 2 | 28,113,201 | train | <story><title>What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017)</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/why-we-can-stop-worrying-and-love-the-particle-accelerator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>How do you get the particle out of a vacuum area into a non-vacuum area?</text></item><item><author>changoplatanero</author><text>I knew that particle accelerarors require a vacuum to operate so at first I didn&#x27;t understand how you could stick your head in one without releasing the vacuum and stopping the accelerator. It turns out that the vacuum is only needed to accelerate the particles and then after that they can pass through normal air as they make their way to the sensors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azalemeth</author><text>Very thin, very expensive, very low atomic mass number beryllium windows.</text></comment> | <story><title>What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017)</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/why-we-can-stop-worrying-and-love-the-particle-accelerator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>How do you get the particle out of a vacuum area into a non-vacuum area?</text></item><item><author>changoplatanero</author><text>I knew that particle accelerarors require a vacuum to operate so at first I didn&#x27;t understand how you could stick your head in one without releasing the vacuum and stopping the accelerator. It turns out that the vacuum is only needed to accelerate the particles and then after that they can pass through normal air as they make their way to the sensors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>changoplatanero</author><text>I&#x27;m not an expert but I believe that the particles are traveling so fast and with so much energy that they just blast through the walls of the vacuum chamber</text></comment> |
34,846,798 | 34,845,442 | 1 | 2 | 34,844,334 | train | <story><title>Named Booleans prevent C++ bugs and save you time</title><url>https://raymii.org/s/blog/Named_Booleans_prevent_bugs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>The only problem with this approach is that you evaluate all the conditions, even if you don&#x27;t need to. Sometimes that&#x27;s inefficient, and sometimes it&#x27;s invalid, as in<p><pre><code> char *p = NULL;
...
if (p &amp;&amp; *p != &#x27; &#x27;) { ... }
</code></pre>
If you write<p><pre><code> bool p_non_null = (p != NULL);
bool char_non_space = (*p != &#x27; &#x27;);
if p_non_null &amp;&amp; char_ non_space { ... }
</code></pre>
Oops.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wruza</author><text>Back in mid-00s I was thinking about languages and features. One of the keywords I still miss in mainstream is “alias”. Alias is a symbol that only evaluates lazily.<p><pre><code> alias not_null = (bool)p;
alias not_space = (*p != &#x27; &#x27;);
if (not_null &amp;&amp; not_space) {
</code></pre>
This may bite you in another way, but living in a world where everything gets evaluated asap-y isn’t syntactically easy either.<p>Would be also nice to have this:<p><pre><code> alias __cache foo = &lt;heavy(expr())&gt;;
if (foo &amp;&amp; foo.length &amp;&amp; foo[0].x) {
</code></pre>
`foo` only evaluates once.</text></comment> | <story><title>Named Booleans prevent C++ bugs and save you time</title><url>https://raymii.org/s/blog/Named_Booleans_prevent_bugs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>The only problem with this approach is that you evaluate all the conditions, even if you don&#x27;t need to. Sometimes that&#x27;s inefficient, and sometimes it&#x27;s invalid, as in<p><pre><code> char *p = NULL;
...
if (p &amp;&amp; *p != &#x27; &#x27;) { ... }
</code></pre>
If you write<p><pre><code> bool p_non_null = (p != NULL);
bool char_non_space = (*p != &#x27; &#x27;);
if p_non_null &amp;&amp; char_ non_space { ... }
</code></pre>
Oops.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bandika</author><text>The correct rewriting would be:<p><pre><code> bool char_non_space = p_non_null &amp;&amp; (*p != &#x27; &#x27;);</code></pre></text></comment> |
22,826,613 | 22,825,933 | 1 | 3 | 22,825,344 | train | <story><title>Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes</title><url>https://uk.pcmag.com/security-5/125569/messaging-app-signal-threatens-to-dump-us-market-if-anti-encryption-bill-passes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djaque</author><text>If you haven&#x27;t already, please take the time to email your federal representatives. The EFF&#x27;s tool [1] only takes a few clicks to use.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;act.eff.org&#x2F;action&#x2F;protect-our-speech-and-security-online-reject-the-graham-blumenthal-bill" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;act.eff.org&#x2F;action&#x2F;protect-our-speech-and-security-o...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ipsin</author><text>I was going to contact my senators. One of them is Dianne Feinstein, and... ugh, why is she always on the worst side when it comes to privacy? She&#x27;s actually a sponsor of this thing.<p>I&#x27;ve written her enough that I can already write my own reply from her office. Shorter Feinstein: &quot;Thank you for your concerns, but you&#x27;re wrong.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes</title><url>https://uk.pcmag.com/security-5/125569/messaging-app-signal-threatens-to-dump-us-market-if-anti-encryption-bill-passes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djaque</author><text>If you haven&#x27;t already, please take the time to email your federal representatives. The EFF&#x27;s tool [1] only takes a few clicks to use.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;act.eff.org&#x2F;action&#x2F;protect-our-speech-and-security-online-reject-the-graham-blumenthal-bill" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;act.eff.org&#x2F;action&#x2F;protect-our-speech-and-security-o...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yingw787</author><text>I just filled it out! I didn&#x27;t realize from the previous HN post Signal was threatening to leave the U.S. market altogether! I don&#x27;t recall if they have ever done that before. So I&#x27;m taking this seriously.</text></comment> |
11,343,951 | 11,343,830 | 1 | 3 | 11,342,968 | train | <story><title>An administrator accidentally deleted the production database</title><url>http://support.gliffy.com/entries/98911057--Gliffy-Online-System-Outage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arethuza</author><text>My very first job - ~25 years ago.<p>Destroyed the production payroll database for a customer with a bug in a shell script.<p>No problem - they had 3 backup tapes.<p>First tape - read fails.<p>Second tape - read fails.<p>Third tape - worked.... (very nervous at this point).<p>I think most people have an equivalent educational experience at some point in their careers.<p>Edit: Had a project cancelled for one customer because they lost the database of test results..... 4 months work! Their COO (quite a large company) actually apologised to me in person!<p>Edit: Also had someone from Oracle break a financial consolidation system for a billion dollar company - his last words were &quot;you need to restore from tape&quot; and then he disappeared. I was <i>not</i> happy as it was his attempts at &quot;improving&quot; things were the cause of the incident! Wouldn&#x27;t have been angry if he had admitted he had made a mistake and worked with us to fix it - simply saying &quot;restore from tape&quot; and running away was not a good approach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roflc0ptic</author><text>A coworker of mine used to say &quot;It&#x27;s not the backup, it&#x27;s the restore.&quot; Meaning your backup process isn&#x27;t meaningful unless you have a tested and effective means for recreating your system from that backup. It has stuck with me.</text></comment> | <story><title>An administrator accidentally deleted the production database</title><url>http://support.gliffy.com/entries/98911057--Gliffy-Online-System-Outage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arethuza</author><text>My very first job - ~25 years ago.<p>Destroyed the production payroll database for a customer with a bug in a shell script.<p>No problem - they had 3 backup tapes.<p>First tape - read fails.<p>Second tape - read fails.<p>Third tape - worked.... (very nervous at this point).<p>I think most people have an equivalent educational experience at some point in their careers.<p>Edit: Had a project cancelled for one customer because they lost the database of test results..... 4 months work! Their COO (quite a large company) actually apologised to me in person!<p>Edit: Also had someone from Oracle break a financial consolidation system for a billion dollar company - his last words were &quot;you need to restore from tape&quot; and then he disappeared. I was <i>not</i> happy as it was his attempts at &quot;improving&quot; things were the cause of the incident! Wouldn&#x27;t have been angry if he had admitted he had made a mistake and worked with us to fix it - simply saying &quot;restore from tape&quot; and running away was not a good approach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oolongCat</author><text>Now that&#x27;s terrifying. Glad it worked out for you.<p>My tifu is when I first started working for an actual client, I thought I was a genius running my own git server on my own computer. Also I had the ssh key for my server on the same computer.<p>When my hdd failed, I lost everything.<p>Now the funny thing was, while my server was running I had no way to gain access to the server, the customer had already started using it, and they had inserted around 400-500 records already.<p>Now there I was, locked out of my own server, no source code I was working on for around 3-4 months.<p>Lucky for me, someone online had mentioned about a way to gain access to an aws server if you lost the ssh key.<p>I created a new instance, and mapped the old storage to the new instance. Lucky for me this worked.<p>Also, 2 weeks(ish) before this blunder I had sent a copy of my code to a friend who was helping me with some issues I had.<p>So my email saved me.<p>Now I backup regularly, use github(recent projects gitlab) and I have my ssh keys on 3 separate pen-drives and this <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oakalleyit.com&#x2F;node&#x2F;4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oakalleyit.com&#x2F;node&#x2F;4</a>
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10,400,472 | 10,398,721 | 1 | 3 | 10,398,476 | train | <story><title>Apache 2.4.17 with HTTP/2 support</title><url>https://icing.github.io/mod_h2/howto.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrause</author><text>No mention of server push, so I assume it&#x27;s not supported?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mholt</author><text>Here&#x27;s a blog post I wrote about why this probably isn&#x27;t implemented in most servers yet: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caddyserver.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;implementing-http2-isnt-trivial" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caddyserver.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;implementing-http2-isnt-trivial</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Apache 2.4.17 with HTTP/2 support</title><url>https://icing.github.io/mod_h2/howto.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrause</author><text>No mention of server push, so I assume it&#x27;s not supported?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dtech</author><text>Reading the page it seems like it is still in quite an early state, I expect they have higher priorities.</text></comment> |
39,810,783 | 39,808,815 | 1 | 2 | 39,806,746 | train | <story><title>ARM64EC (and ARM64X) Explained</title><url>http://www.emulators.com/docs/abc_arm64ec_explained.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PreInternet01</author><text>This is pretty cool: basically, recent ARM extensions make emulation of just about anything <i>a lot</i> easier.<p>Which got me to wonder: what if Apple were able to introduce a &quot;MacOS subsystem for Windows&quot;, which could run most x64 binaries for the latter platform?<p>The only app that keeps me from switching to my M3 MacBook full-time is Visual Studio (and Mikrotik WinBox, to some extent, but that runs just fine under Wine).<p>If I could run VS without tanking battery life, that would be sort-of huge...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone</author><text>&gt; what if Apple were able to introduce a &quot;MacOS subsystem for Windows”<p>Where would they get the ‘for Windows’ part? They would eiher have to use Wine (which isn’t 100% compatible), license Windows from Microsoft ($$$), or write their own Wine (takes time)<p>&gt; If I could run VS without tanking battery life<p>There’s no guarantee emulating Windows would be as energy-efficient as running MacOS.<p>Also, if it did, that would open the door for third parties abandoning MacOS (it runs fine &quot;MacOS subsystem for Windows”, so why would we spend time on a Mac port?), just as happened with “OS&#x2F;2 subsystem for Windows” (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OS&#x2F;2#OS&#x2F;2_2.1_and_Windows_compatibility_(1993)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OS&#x2F;2#OS&#x2F;2_2.1_and_Windows_comp...</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>ARM64EC (and ARM64X) Explained</title><url>http://www.emulators.com/docs/abc_arm64ec_explained.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PreInternet01</author><text>This is pretty cool: basically, recent ARM extensions make emulation of just about anything <i>a lot</i> easier.<p>Which got me to wonder: what if Apple were able to introduce a &quot;MacOS subsystem for Windows&quot;, which could run most x64 binaries for the latter platform?<p>The only app that keeps me from switching to my M3 MacBook full-time is Visual Studio (and Mikrotik WinBox, to some extent, but that runs just fine under Wine).<p>If I could run VS without tanking battery life, that would be sort-of huge...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cesaref</author><text>Two approaches that spring to mind would be to run VSCode on the Mac rather than Visual Studio - you might find it&#x27;s decent enough and does what you need.<p>If you need the full Visual Studio experience, then another option would be the Windows&#x2F;Arm64 build of Visual Studio, and run that on a virtual box.</text></comment> |
19,334,432 | 19,332,327 | 1 | 3 | 19,329,208 | train | <story><title>Diving into Technical SEO Using Cloudflare Workers</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/diving-into-technical-seo-cloudflare-workers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stavros</author><text>Cloudflare Workers sound cool, but their pricing is, to me, all wrong. I&#x27;d like to try them out on some of my low-volume side-projects to see if I&#x27;ll find them useful and like them, but $5 per month per site is more than I pay for the entire server for <i>all the sites combined</i>.<p>I don&#x27;t like being that guy who asks for free stuff, but a free tier would at least mean that I get to spend an hour or two trying the feature out. Not that $5 is a prohibitive cost, but Workers haven&#x27;t sounded good enough to take my credit card out for.</text></comment> | <story><title>Diving into Technical SEO Using Cloudflare Workers</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/diving-into-technical-seo-cloudflare-workers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>krn</author><text>Am I right thinking, that there are no viable alterneratives to Cloudflare Workers on the market at the moment?<p>And if you decide to move from Cloudflare to another major CDN provider, you will have to change how your product works?<p>Because that&#x27;s what StackOverflow and Reddit did. They are not using Cloudflare anymore.<p>So, does using Cloudflare Workers create a serious vendor lock-in, that makes changing a CDN provider much more costly in the future?<p>EDIT: I am thinking primarily about Fastly, as it&#x27;s where the majority of large players move from Cloudflare. Also, about KeyCDN, which can be a much more cost-efficient alternative to the Cloudflare&#x27;s Enterprise plan.</text></comment> |
16,746,458 | 16,745,979 | 1 | 3 | 16,741,867 | train | <story><title>Reddit’s Redesign</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-redesign/?mbid=synd_digg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dorkwood</author><text>What sort of future do companies like Reddit envision for the internet, exactly? One where I have an app on my phone for every website I visit?</text></item><item><author>onli</author><text>I think a big issue with the new design is the trust issue I&#x2F;people have that stem from Reddit&#x27;s other design efforts. Take the mobile website. It looks a lot nicer than the desktop site, but is completely unuseable on a lower end (but current) android device - because instead of showing content immediately it does some javascript client rendering and shows some loading screen, and that regularly takes 10-20 seconds on bigger comment threads. At the same time there is still i.reddit.com, an ugly mobile site seemingly from way back when sites started to make dedicated iPhone-targeting mobile variants, and that one is as fast as a site can be. Actually usable.<p>On mobile, if you visit the reddit site, they push a &quot;use the app&quot;-banner in your face. Every goddamn time.<p>When they redesigned the profiles recently there was a lot of pushback. I did not necessarily agree with that, I thought and think the new profile sites are fine in general. But what definitely was an issue was the performance. Again some javascript client rendering leading to loading indicators, even on the desktop. They improved loading times after that, but still.<p>So one big point of the new design is not actually &quot;how will it look&quot;, but whether they will get the functionality&#x2F;UX right. HN does, without client side rendering and redesigns...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crysin</author><text>Personally, I prefer apps over websites almost always unless the app is just a dedicated browser window to the company&#x27;s website. I feel like the mobile experience on almost all websites is absolutely terrible when compared to a dedicated mobile app offering. Unless companies start investing more money into making their websites feel as good and snappy as their apps do, I know I&#x27;ll default to the app over the website, always.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit’s Redesign</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-redesign/?mbid=synd_digg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dorkwood</author><text>What sort of future do companies like Reddit envision for the internet, exactly? One where I have an app on my phone for every website I visit?</text></item><item><author>onli</author><text>I think a big issue with the new design is the trust issue I&#x2F;people have that stem from Reddit&#x27;s other design efforts. Take the mobile website. It looks a lot nicer than the desktop site, but is completely unuseable on a lower end (but current) android device - because instead of showing content immediately it does some javascript client rendering and shows some loading screen, and that regularly takes 10-20 seconds on bigger comment threads. At the same time there is still i.reddit.com, an ugly mobile site seemingly from way back when sites started to make dedicated iPhone-targeting mobile variants, and that one is as fast as a site can be. Actually usable.<p>On mobile, if you visit the reddit site, they push a &quot;use the app&quot;-banner in your face. Every goddamn time.<p>When they redesigned the profiles recently there was a lot of pushback. I did not necessarily agree with that, I thought and think the new profile sites are fine in general. But what definitely was an issue was the performance. Again some javascript client rendering leading to loading indicators, even on the desktop. They improved loading times after that, but still.<p>So one big point of the new design is not actually &quot;how will it look&quot;, but whether they will get the functionality&#x2F;UX right. HN does, without client side rendering and redesigns...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tootie</author><text>This is Apple&#x27;s vision because Google owns the browser market. PWAs could replace at least half the apps people are using. Reddit absolutely doesn&#x27;t need native apps but there are a bunch because their mobile experience is so bad.</text></comment> |
1,031,425 | 1,031,451 | 1 | 2 | 1,031,384 | train | <story><title>The software fixed the hardware</title><url>http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/roomba.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djcapelis</author><text>This type of thing happens all the time with embedded platforms. Software fixes for hardware defects are common. When we were building robots invariably the electronics team would always wire some motor backwards. Since the motors had similar power in both directions they would always ask me to just write the code to run motors they wired the wrong way backwards.<p>It was simple enough to do, but it always feels a bit wrong.<p>Other types of software workarounds are possible though too. I once modified the acceleration curve of the robot (clamped down the jerk) so that there would be reduced stress on the poorly made drive train and under many failure modes this changed the robot from essentially dead in the water to workable.<p>It seems surprising how many issues you can solve with code if you aren't used to it. But these hacks are actually everywhere in a lot of embedded systems and allow teams to continue to quick, cheap and dirty work when needed that can get patched up later.</text></comment> | <story><title>The software fixed the hardware</title><url>http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/roomba.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>HeyLaughingBoy</author><text>Meh! If I had a dime for every time that I was told to fix a hardware problem in software, or provide a "limp home" mode if software detected a hardware fault, well... I'd have a lot of dimes. It's pretty standard behavior for electromechanical embedded systems.<p>The really important take home here is that the manufacturer sent out a software fix <i>to a consumer product that is not online!</i> That's a huge leap forward and is something the industry has been pondering for a long time.</text></comment> |
30,320,715 | 30,319,411 | 1 | 2 | 30,318,079 | train | <story><title>What we lost</title><url>https://randsinrepose.com/archives/what-we-lost/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tolmasky</author><text>I don&#x27;t buy it. I remember real meetings. They were <i>far</i> more exhausting than any zoom call. Completely draining.<p>I guess the novelty of shuffling rooms every 45 minutes is enough to keep some people feeling &quot;active&quot;. Or perhaps some people find it &quot;exciting&quot; to frantically have everyone check if there are any other nearby conference rooms with space since we&#x27;re getting kicked out of this one because, unlike with a video call, the fact that everyone was &quot;running 5 minutes late&quot; cut into an actually scarce physical resource.<p>But here&#x27;s my hot take: that feeling you have in video calls? It&#x27;s you realizing for the first time what a meeting actually is: a waste of time. Without the chit chat and running across the hall, or the sky-high concentrated CO2 clouding your judgement, the meeting is distilled to its purest form. Since you&#x27;re at home, &quot;going to the meeting&quot; isn&#x27;t an excuse to escape your current surroundings. And since you&#x27;re not walking there, the calories being burned aren&#x27;t there to make you feel artificially productive when nothing <i>meaningful</i> took place. You&#x27;re just finally seeing those 45 minutes slotted haphazardly into the middle of your day for what they really are. A waste of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d4nt</author><text>I’m reminded of this article: Why didn&#x27;t electricity immediately change manufacturing? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-40673694" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;business-40673694</a><p>In the same way that swapping steam engines for electric motors didn’t yield much benefit. Just swapping real meetings for zoom meetings feels like a backwards step. But the real benefits come when you _reorganise_ your production processes around the new technology. Sadly for many middle managers, their role is disappearing and their income is dependent on them not understanding this.</text></comment> | <story><title>What we lost</title><url>https://randsinrepose.com/archives/what-we-lost/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tolmasky</author><text>I don&#x27;t buy it. I remember real meetings. They were <i>far</i> more exhausting than any zoom call. Completely draining.<p>I guess the novelty of shuffling rooms every 45 minutes is enough to keep some people feeling &quot;active&quot;. Or perhaps some people find it &quot;exciting&quot; to frantically have everyone check if there are any other nearby conference rooms with space since we&#x27;re getting kicked out of this one because, unlike with a video call, the fact that everyone was &quot;running 5 minutes late&quot; cut into an actually scarce physical resource.<p>But here&#x27;s my hot take: that feeling you have in video calls? It&#x27;s you realizing for the first time what a meeting actually is: a waste of time. Without the chit chat and running across the hall, or the sky-high concentrated CO2 clouding your judgement, the meeting is distilled to its purest form. Since you&#x27;re at home, &quot;going to the meeting&quot; isn&#x27;t an excuse to escape your current surroundings. And since you&#x27;re not walking there, the calories being burned aren&#x27;t there to make you feel artificially productive when nothing <i>meaningful</i> took place. You&#x27;re just finally seeing those 45 minutes slotted haphazardly into the middle of your day for what they really are. A waste of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>odonnellryan</author><text>I agree completely. And often more frequent.<p>It is great that people don&#x27;t like online meetings. It means less meetings.<p>I have had very enjoyable online meetings, when the meeting is useful.<p>If you are having meetings all day, if that is your job, I can see how it is annoying. But that isn&#x27;t most people.</text></comment> |
9,318,744 | 9,318,078 | 1 | 2 | 9,317,916 | train | <story><title>New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Udo</author><text>One of the most negative habits is in my opinion the failure to read a comment charitably (to make an effort to interpret it in the best possible light). Instead, people often tend to misread or miserunderstand what&#x27;s being said, only to use the opportunity to write a &quot;correction&quot; based on that false impression. A worse flavor of the same problem is a misunderstanding that is then used to justify outrage or personal annoyance.<p>That&#x27;s what I find worthy of being changed, and I will certainly make an effort to read comments more charitably as well.<p>Overall though, and I realize this is quite anecdotal, rampant negativity - especially about things other members of the community have created - seems to have gotten less common recently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wamatt</author><text>This comment brings to mind the concept of the the steel man <i>[1][2]</i>.<p>Steelmanning an argument means to go one step further. In addition to selecting the most charitable parts of another person&#x27;s argument, one seeks to improve on it, by making it the best possible representation of the other persons position.<p>From there, one can offer their own counterpoint, to this improved version.<p><i>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;themerelyreal.wordpress.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;07&#x2F;steelmanning&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;themerelyreal.wordpress.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;07&#x2F;steelmanning&#x2F;</a> </i><p><i>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lesswrong.com&#x2F;lw&#x2F;85h&#x2F;better_disagreement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lesswrong.com&#x2F;lw&#x2F;85h&#x2F;better_disagreement&#x2F;</a> </i></text></comment> | <story><title>New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Udo</author><text>One of the most negative habits is in my opinion the failure to read a comment charitably (to make an effort to interpret it in the best possible light). Instead, people often tend to misread or miserunderstand what&#x27;s being said, only to use the opportunity to write a &quot;correction&quot; based on that false impression. A worse flavor of the same problem is a misunderstanding that is then used to justify outrage or personal annoyance.<p>That&#x27;s what I find worthy of being changed, and I will certainly make an effort to read comments more charitably as well.<p>Overall though, and I realize this is quite anecdotal, rampant negativity - especially about things other members of the community have created - seems to have gotten less common recently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staunch</author><text>I think you nailed the real problem, which is that people have become so quick to write off anyone who ruffles their feathers at all.<p>Drew Houston describes the HN feedback he received for Dropbox as all the motivation he needed to keep going. He also explained that he knew it was a hit because of how many people were saying negative things.<p>Today though, any truly critical comment means you&#x27;re either a hater or a troll. Every person is either a friend or an enemy. Inside the club or outside the club. You can&#x27;t sincerely like something, and also be very critical about aspects of it, without instantly transforming into a jealous hater.<p>Assuming the worst about other people is probably the most negative thing you can do. Everyone is a mixed bag.</text></comment> |
30,299,020 | 30,298,553 | 1 | 3 | 30,291,135 | train | <story><title>France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/france-to-build-6-new-nuclear-reactors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>immmmmm</author><text>For living in a neighboring country, speaking their language and following their policy quite a bit, i can tell you that, no, they are nowhere near serious.<p>Just as an example, the best performing company this year is Total with 15B and which is happily feeding the government with petrodollars and the other people with lies about &quot;Net Zero &quot; etc.<p>&quot;Énergie Nucléaire&quot; as they call it is a thing there because De Gaulle wanted a bomb after WW2, so they pushed the industry (which is btw in pretty bad shape).<p>There is exactly ONE person in France who is pro nuclear and say accurate things about climate and it&#x27;s Jancovici. All the rest of the crowd is like in most countries corrupt by petrodollars or other polluting industry, and is saying crap about climate. and the rare times they are not saying crap they are lying about their intentions.<p>No, France is nowhere near serious about climate, like most countries they bet on a +5 degree futur. I think i have read enough papers to tell you that 5 degrees will be very very hot and a very very sad point in human history.</text></item><item><author>ike0790</author><text>Looks like a G20 country is serious about the impending &quot;climate emergency&quot;. Regardless of the motives and timing behind this, I think its great to see a country is actually being serious and practical. Anyone going on about the climate and refuses to put nuclear energy at the forefront of the conversation is unserious and is only interested in virtual signaling in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yamrzou</author><text>Jancovici is a legend. Listenening to him and reading his latest comic book (<i>Le monde sans fin</i>) made me very aware of climate issues and directly influenced my behavior.<p>He deserves to be better known by international audiences. Here are some of his talks in english:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=wGt4XwBbCvA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=wGt4XwBbCvA</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=s254IPHXgVA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=s254IPHXgVA</a></text></comment> | <story><title>France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/france-to-build-6-new-nuclear-reactors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>immmmmm</author><text>For living in a neighboring country, speaking their language and following their policy quite a bit, i can tell you that, no, they are nowhere near serious.<p>Just as an example, the best performing company this year is Total with 15B and which is happily feeding the government with petrodollars and the other people with lies about &quot;Net Zero &quot; etc.<p>&quot;Énergie Nucléaire&quot; as they call it is a thing there because De Gaulle wanted a bomb after WW2, so they pushed the industry (which is btw in pretty bad shape).<p>There is exactly ONE person in France who is pro nuclear and say accurate things about climate and it&#x27;s Jancovici. All the rest of the crowd is like in most countries corrupt by petrodollars or other polluting industry, and is saying crap about climate. and the rare times they are not saying crap they are lying about their intentions.<p>No, France is nowhere near serious about climate, like most countries they bet on a +5 degree futur. I think i have read enough papers to tell you that 5 degrees will be very very hot and a very very sad point in human history.</text></item><item><author>ike0790</author><text>Looks like a G20 country is serious about the impending &quot;climate emergency&quot;. Regardless of the motives and timing behind this, I think its great to see a country is actually being serious and practical. Anyone going on about the climate and refuses to put nuclear energy at the forefront of the conversation is unserious and is only interested in virtual signaling in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inter_netuser</author><text>Do you have a link to their models w.r.t +5 degrees?<p>seems like an extraordinary number</text></comment> |
36,103,484 | 36,103,247 | 1 | 3 | 36,100,992 | train | <story><title>About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library</title><url>https://imaginationlibrary.com/about-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pyrelight</author><text>She&#x27;s able to do all this and still live comfortably and live her dreams. I wonder why more wealthy don&#x27;t do things like this. It seems most just write a check to Charity X for the tax break and the ego boost.<p>The things Dolly does seem to lend themselves to legacy, and what could a rich man&#x2F;woman want more than their name immortalized in a social program that helps people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LocalH</author><text>Dolly Parton embodies everything <i>good</i> about the Southern US, in an age where there&#x27;s not really much in this area that gets the public eye for being a good, wholesome thing. I have a lot of respect for her, quite honestly in my mind she&#x27;s up there with people like Fred Rogers and Bob Ross.</text></comment> | <story><title>About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library</title><url>https://imaginationlibrary.com/about-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pyrelight</author><text>She&#x27;s able to do all this and still live comfortably and live her dreams. I wonder why more wealthy don&#x27;t do things like this. It seems most just write a check to Charity X for the tax break and the ego boost.<p>The things Dolly does seem to lend themselves to legacy, and what could a rich man&#x2F;woman want more than their name immortalized in a social program that helps people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmorici</author><text>Not to detract anything from her contribution but she isn’t funding the whole thing. The way it works is a local nonprofit for a geographic area partners with the Imagination library and funds them to offer the program in that area.<p>Their website explains how you can become a partner for your area and the costs involved.<p>In some places it is government funded. The program in Baltimore City for example appears to be largely funded by Maryland State government via a yearly grant to a nonprofit.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imaginationlibrary.com&#x2F;usa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imaginationlibrary.com&#x2F;usa&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goccp.maryland.gov&#x2F;the-governors-young-readers-program&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goccp.maryland.gov&#x2F;the-governors-young-readers-progr...</a></text></comment> |
41,621,332 | 41,620,831 | 1 | 3 | 41,620,304 | train | <story><title>Uber charges more if you have credits in your account</title><url>https://viewfromthewing.com/uber-caught-overcharging-how-having-credits-in-your-account-might-be-costing-you/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlund-molfese</author><text>Probably false, like the urban legend that Uber charges more when a device&#x27;s battery is low [0].<p>Claims like this go viral because they&#x27;re practically unfalsifiable (It isn&#x27;t in Uber&#x27;s best interest to make their pricing algorithms public) and generate clicks. But when you take a closer look, it&#x27;s always some anecdote that can be explained by people selecting different pricing tiers, or by multiple phones looking at the same route implying increased demand (the latter search might display a higher price). A proper experiment would involve dozens of phones under different scenarios making searches in a random order, then trying to correlate the variables with the prices. But for whatever reason, nobody ever does those experiments.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, I checked the price of an Uber with credits in my account against Lyft to the airport just now, and Uber was slightly cheaper.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wkyc.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;news&#x2F;verify&#x2F;verify-does-uber-charge-you-more-if-your-battery-is-low&#x2F;507-3b1c0166-0d82-4f91-9d96-c4aa01921b12" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wkyc.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;news&#x2F;verify&#x2F;verify-does-uber-ch...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acdha</author><text>&gt; Probably false, like the urban legend that Uber charges more when a device&#x27;s battery is low [0].<p>That article certainly doesn’t prove that was an urban legend. Uber built an entire system to serve fake data to government officials<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;resources&#x2F;idt-f2971465-73d2-4932-a889-5c63778e273d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;resources&#x2F;idt-f2971465-73d2-4932-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;03&#x2F;technology&#x2F;uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;03&#x2F;technology&#x2F;uber-greyball-...</a><p>They were almost kicked out of the App Store for building a system to deceive Apple’s employees, too:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;financialpost.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;personal-tech&#x2F;uber-was-almost-kicked-off-the-app-store-by-tim-cook-for-breaking-rules-and-deceiving-apple-about-it" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;financialpost.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;personal-tech&#x2F;uber-was-...</a><p>Given the other ways they tried to intimidate journalists, anything like this which is conducted with the journalists’ own phones or near places they frequent is inadequate to say whether this actually happened — especially after it was going viral and all they’d have to do is flip the switch and lie about it until the attention dissipated.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber charges more if you have credits in your account</title><url>https://viewfromthewing.com/uber-caught-overcharging-how-having-credits-in-your-account-might-be-costing-you/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlund-molfese</author><text>Probably false, like the urban legend that Uber charges more when a device&#x27;s battery is low [0].<p>Claims like this go viral because they&#x27;re practically unfalsifiable (It isn&#x27;t in Uber&#x27;s best interest to make their pricing algorithms public) and generate clicks. But when you take a closer look, it&#x27;s always some anecdote that can be explained by people selecting different pricing tiers, or by multiple phones looking at the same route implying increased demand (the latter search might display a higher price). A proper experiment would involve dozens of phones under different scenarios making searches in a random order, then trying to correlate the variables with the prices. But for whatever reason, nobody ever does those experiments.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, I checked the price of an Uber with credits in my account against Lyft to the airport just now, and Uber was slightly cheaper.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wkyc.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;news&#x2F;verify&#x2F;verify-does-uber-charge-you-more-if-your-battery-is-low&#x2F;507-3b1c0166-0d82-4f91-9d96-c4aa01921b12" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wkyc.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;news&#x2F;verify&#x2F;verify-does-uber-ch...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asdasdsddd</author><text>As usual, the real story is buried beneath garbage anecdotes like this. The multiple elephants in the room include<p>- positional pricing, certain geocodes command what is called pricing elasticity, aka. people going to the hospital dont care about the price. Time based pricing elasticity is also exploited, for example, people leaving the concert at 12am likely dont have other options<p>- driver bonuses and rider coupons optimizing for marginal rides. The riders and drivers at the margins of pricing are typically switchers, which mean that if you are loyal to any particular app, you will likely never get see these coupons or bonuses</text></comment> |
12,578,115 | 12,577,145 | 1 | 2 | 12,576,093 | train | <story><title>Object Spreadsheets</title><url>http://sdg.csail.mit.edu/projects/objsheets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattmccutchen</author><text>Hi! I&#x27;m one of the developers of Object Spreadsheets and will do my best to answer the substantive questions in this thread. Thanks to richardboegli for notifying us.</text></comment> | <story><title>Object Spreadsheets</title><url>http://sdg.csail.mit.edu/projects/objsheets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>necrodome</author><text>Demo video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;open?id=0B8oi3hbhFCrpZEhtMEZSSm9wLVU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;open?id=0B8oi3hbhFCrpZEhtMEZSSm9wLV...</a></text></comment> |
36,911,146 | 36,911,110 | 1 | 3 | 36,910,256 | train | <story><title>Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis</title><url>https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/the-play-deficit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caesil</author><text>I wonder if this doesn&#x27;t have a lot to do with cars.<p>In surrendering utterly to the preeminence of streets, we have essentially taken our open, free world and overlain it with an immense grid of electric fences -- thick lines all over the map that, if children wander across them, might easily lead to their deaths.<p>So &quot;hold hands everywhere&quot; and &quot;don&#x27;t let your children run free outside&quot; become the norms. The only safe place is locked inside or behind fences; the wider world is a death trap for children.<p>Play inherently requires a degree of freedom, but children have none. We are just prison guards eternally transferring them from one captivity to another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexpetralia</author><text>Routinely in New York City at least, you can kill someone using a motor vehicle almost with complete impunity.<p>The driver who led to Sammy&#x27;s Law (which still hasn&#x27;t passed) only received a 180 day license suspension a year and a half after the accident, even though he sped past a stopped vehicle on the righthand side (the vehicle had stopped for the child). Death by car is often considered acceptable.<p>There is really no disincentive to dangerous driving, to say nothing of the preeminence of driving more generally.</text></comment> | <story><title>Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis</title><url>https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/the-play-deficit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>caesil</author><text>I wonder if this doesn&#x27;t have a lot to do with cars.<p>In surrendering utterly to the preeminence of streets, we have essentially taken our open, free world and overlain it with an immense grid of electric fences -- thick lines all over the map that, if children wander across them, might easily lead to their deaths.<p>So &quot;hold hands everywhere&quot; and &quot;don&#x27;t let your children run free outside&quot; become the norms. The only safe place is locked inside or behind fences; the wider world is a death trap for children.<p>Play inherently requires a degree of freedom, but children have none. We are just prison guards eternally transferring them from one captivity to another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pj_mukh</author><text>Absolutely, and America has double problem where denser neighborhoods are seen as unsafe due to crime. And less dense neighborhoods means kids can’t go anywhere without having an adult drive them.<p>So kids are stuck at home, miles from a playmate.</text></comment> |
20,863,868 | 20,863,891 | 1 | 3 | 20,863,465 | train | <story><title>FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad</title><url>https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/t480-freebsd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gen3</author><text>Would this be considered the standard amount of things someone would need to work out to get a bsd laptop up and useable?(or are there more preconfigured images?) Are Thinkpads best for support?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simcop2387</author><text>Can&#x27;t say anything about support, but the x11 settings for hidpi and all that are all because of his choice of window manager. i3 is a very hands off, only manages windows kind of thing. Using a full desktop environment will make forgoing all the editing of files.<p>The rest seems to be normal bsd setup stuff, but I know little of that beyond setting up a few virtual machines to test things</text></comment> | <story><title>FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad</title><url>https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/t480-freebsd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gen3</author><text>Would this be considered the standard amount of things someone would need to work out to get a bsd laptop up and useable?(or are there more preconfigured images?) Are Thinkpads best for support?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zenlot</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using FreeBSD since version 4.3 on and off. Most of the time I&#x27;ve used it with variants of ThinkPads, recent ones were T530i and E480. The longest period I&#x27;ve spent as my main OS was long time ago on Sony Vaio VGN-FS550. In a sense it has improved a lot, but also managed to remain complicated for someone who just want to test things without prior knowledge. But yes, this is typical amount of things you need to undergo when starting with FreeBSD. And it remained pretty much the same for the past 19 years. I&#x27;ve switched to Linux as my main OS, just because I wanted things to work out of the box.</text></comment> |
25,781,698 | 25,781,729 | 1 | 3 | 25,779,681 | train | <story><title>Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner</title><url>https://landreport.com/2021/01/bill-gates-americas-top-farmland-owner/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksdale</author><text>It&#x27;s <i>kind of</i> his money that he controls. He can do a lot with it, but he can&#x27;t buy a yacht with it... You don&#x27;t get the favorable tax treatment without a ton of restrictions on how you can spend the money.</text></item><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>There&#x27;s another issue, which constantly bothered me back when &quot;Jeff Bezos is richer than Bill Gates&quot; was a big news item.<p>These comparisons never take the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation into account. Bill Gates put about half his money into a financial structure with favorable tax treatment. But it&#x27;s still his money that he controls. There&#x27;s no reason to ignore it if you&#x27;re trying to assess how wealthy he is.</text></item><item><author>chadash</author><text>Bill Gates is the wealthiest person in the world (or arguably Arnault).<p>You might say, no, Musk and Bezos are worth 50% (or ~60 billion) more. On paper yes, but that&#x27;s not a great metric. When I think of wealth, I think of what you can reasonably acquire.<p>If you multiply Musk&#x27;s shares in Tesla times the current share price, sure you get 180 billion. But if he tried to sell a large number those shares, they&#x27;d <i>plummet</i> in value as he was selling them. Without Musk, I&#x27;d be surprised if Tesla is worth 20% of its current valuation. To a lesser extent, this is true of Bezos too, although Amazon without him is still a very valuable company.<p>On the other hand, Bill Gates owns 1.6% of Microsoft, which I believe is his biggest holding, followed by Berkshire Hathaway stock. I&#x27;d bet he can sell both of those holdings completely without a huge hit to either stock price (but definitely <i>some</i> hit). Same with his farmland and other alternative assets. On top of that, having already sold his Microsoft shares, he&#x27;s not subject to as much capital gains tax as Bezos or Musk, each of whom pretty much owe 20% of their total net worth the second they want to sell.<p>So on paper, Musk and Bezos are wealthier, but if all of them decided to Scrooge McDuck it and put all their money into a gold filled vault tomorrow, Bill Gates&#x27; vault would be the fullest.<p>EDIT: typo above... Originally said that Musk owns 180 bn in Amazon stock :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smt88</author><text>He can&#x27;t buy a yacht with his Foundation money, but he already has a yacht.<p>Think of it this way: Gates has a certain list of things he wants to spend money on. The government likes some of those things and forgoes taxes on them.<p>That doesn&#x27;t change the fact that Gates is spending his money on exactly what he wants to. The restrictions are essentially irrelevant to him.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner</title><url>https://landreport.com/2021/01/bill-gates-americas-top-farmland-owner/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksdale</author><text>It&#x27;s <i>kind of</i> his money that he controls. He can do a lot with it, but he can&#x27;t buy a yacht with it... You don&#x27;t get the favorable tax treatment without a ton of restrictions on how you can spend the money.</text></item><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>There&#x27;s another issue, which constantly bothered me back when &quot;Jeff Bezos is richer than Bill Gates&quot; was a big news item.<p>These comparisons never take the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation into account. Bill Gates put about half his money into a financial structure with favorable tax treatment. But it&#x27;s still his money that he controls. There&#x27;s no reason to ignore it if you&#x27;re trying to assess how wealthy he is.</text></item><item><author>chadash</author><text>Bill Gates is the wealthiest person in the world (or arguably Arnault).<p>You might say, no, Musk and Bezos are worth 50% (or ~60 billion) more. On paper yes, but that&#x27;s not a great metric. When I think of wealth, I think of what you can reasonably acquire.<p>If you multiply Musk&#x27;s shares in Tesla times the current share price, sure you get 180 billion. But if he tried to sell a large number those shares, they&#x27;d <i>plummet</i> in value as he was selling them. Without Musk, I&#x27;d be surprised if Tesla is worth 20% of its current valuation. To a lesser extent, this is true of Bezos too, although Amazon without him is still a very valuable company.<p>On the other hand, Bill Gates owns 1.6% of Microsoft, which I believe is his biggest holding, followed by Berkshire Hathaway stock. I&#x27;d bet he can sell both of those holdings completely without a huge hit to either stock price (but definitely <i>some</i> hit). Same with his farmland and other alternative assets. On top of that, having already sold his Microsoft shares, he&#x27;s not subject to as much capital gains tax as Bezos or Musk, each of whom pretty much owe 20% of their total net worth the second they want to sell.<p>So on paper, Musk and Bezos are wealthier, but if all of them decided to Scrooge McDuck it and put all their money into a gold filled vault tomorrow, Bill Gates&#x27; vault would be the fullest.<p>EDIT: typo above... Originally said that Musk owns 180 bn in Amazon stock :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>criley2</author><text>&gt;It&#x27;s kind of his money that he controls. He can do a lot with it, but he can&#x27;t buy a yacht with it... You don&#x27;t get the favorable tax treatment without a ton of restrictions on how you can spend the money.<p>Bill Gates would never need to buy a yacht with his foundation money because he would buy a yacht before he made it foundation money.<p>It&#x27;s like saying I can&#x27;t buy a new TV with my retirement funds, but, I can certainly buy a new TV and contribute less to my retirement funds -- the end result is the exact same dollars went to the exact same end, I just organized them differently.<p>A version of this is that every kid who got scholarship money or loans knows how to bucket expenses to use your &quot;limited use&quot; dollars on qualifying expenses that would otherwise be paid by general funds, freeing up general funds for things. The net result is that the loans paid for nonqualified expenses, but they were organized appropriately.</text></comment> |
23,545,131 | 23,545,243 | 1 | 2 | 23,544,749 | train | <story><title>‘Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over’: Records police interaction, sends location</title><url>https://www.fox29.com/news/hey-siri-im-getting-pulled-over-iphone-feature-will-record-police-interaction-send-location</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gkoberger</author><text>This title makes it feel like it&#x27;s an Apple feature, but really it&#x27;s just a Shortcut someone put together.<p>It basically just turns down the volume, texts your location to an emergency contact, and opens your camera. It doesn&#x27;t upload the footage in realtime to a central server as other apps do.</text></comment> | <story><title>‘Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over’: Records police interaction, sends location</title><url>https://www.fox29.com/news/hey-siri-im-getting-pulled-over-iphone-feature-will-record-police-interaction-send-location</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bb123</author><text>This is cool - I think smartphones are are best defence against violent police oversteps. Now everyone has a camera with them and we are seeing the results. Democratisation of surveillance.</text></comment> |
17,440,760 | 17,438,125 | 1 | 2 | 17,435,671 | train | <story><title>How to get kids to pay attention</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/21/621752789/a-lost-secret-how-to-get-kids-to-pay-attention</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jinfiesto</author><text>I often wonder whether this has a lot to do with how we treat our kids. I often catch myself acting uninterested in my daughter&#x27;s interests (she&#x27;s two and often wants to show me things for the 50th time that were pretty boring in the first place.) She doesn&#x27;t have any attention or behavioral issues in general, but I was amazed when a friend of mine came to visit who is an early music educator. They didn&#x27;t do anything music related, but watching her interact with my daughter was eye-opening. She was very present and respectful with regards to my daughter&#x27;s interests and what my daughter wanted to do. I guess more or less she treated my daughter more or less like an adult. Thinking about it, it&#x27;s so easy to be flippant or dismissive about what our kids are doing or are interested in without even noticing.<p>I was really amazed to see how much my daughter reciprocated the attention and my friend was able to get her to pay attention to this or that or be much more engaged than I usually can.<p>This is obviously a very small sample, but it really made me think about the ways that we don&#x27;t treat our children like adults (and how maybe they act like children because we treat them that way.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>An indirect way of encouraging this is including kids in what <i>you</i> are doing, as opposed to engineering activities for them.<p>A lot of kids&#x27; world these days is an artificial reality, made for them. School, soccer, art class, play dates. The reason the activity exists is to give kids an experience. We&#x27;re not interested in it, because it&#x27;s kid stuff.<p>When I was a kid, some of the most formative activities were fishing, sheep farming &amp; vegetables gardening (grandparents on a farm), home repair jobs like painting or brickwork.<p>When I was very small (2-4), if my parents were painting a room, I was also in old clothes with a paintbrush &quot;helping&quot;. Same with spring cleaning or whatnot. I had a little hammer I could bang, to help my dad assemble IKEA furniture.<p>You don&#x27;t have to conciously &quot;engage&quot; in their stuff, just let them engage in your stuff.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to get kids to pay attention</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/21/621752789/a-lost-secret-how-to-get-kids-to-pay-attention</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jinfiesto</author><text>I often wonder whether this has a lot to do with how we treat our kids. I often catch myself acting uninterested in my daughter&#x27;s interests (she&#x27;s two and often wants to show me things for the 50th time that were pretty boring in the first place.) She doesn&#x27;t have any attention or behavioral issues in general, but I was amazed when a friend of mine came to visit who is an early music educator. They didn&#x27;t do anything music related, but watching her interact with my daughter was eye-opening. She was very present and respectful with regards to my daughter&#x27;s interests and what my daughter wanted to do. I guess more or less she treated my daughter more or less like an adult. Thinking about it, it&#x27;s so easy to be flippant or dismissive about what our kids are doing or are interested in without even noticing.<p>I was really amazed to see how much my daughter reciprocated the attention and my friend was able to get her to pay attention to this or that or be much more engaged than I usually can.<p>This is obviously a very small sample, but it really made me think about the ways that we don&#x27;t treat our children like adults (and how maybe they act like children because we treat them that way.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icc97</author><text>&gt; I often catch myself acting uninterested in my daughter&#x27;s interests<p>I read a book that talk about how to improve on this [0], when ever my 5yo daughter shows me some of her drawings I try to take notice of some detail and comment on it, not just say &#x27;that&#x27;s nice dear&#x27;. She draws masses and masses of pictures of stick girls in dresses, but I always try to find some detail that she&#x27;s done different.<p>We often draw or paint together, maybe once or twice a week. The last time we did it, I painted a picture of a boat on the sea, she painted a space portal that takes you to another world.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;show&#x2F;769016.How_to_Talk_So_Kids_Will_Listen_Listen_So_Kids_Will_Talk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;show&#x2F;769016.How_to_Talk_So_Ki...</a></text></comment> |
27,272,496 | 27,272,450 | 1 | 2 | 27,271,366 | train | <story><title>Researchhub: GitHub for Science</title><url>https://www.researchhub.com/about</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SilverRed</author><text>What does &quot;GitHub for Science&quot; even mean?<p>* Does it use git?<p>* Does it have any version control?<p>* Does it have community contributions to projects?<p>* Does it let people open issues on projects?<p>After clicking around for a bit, I&#x27;m not sure what parallels can be drawn between this site and github. Almost none of the core features of GitHub exist here. The site seems to be a PDF file upload site with a comment section.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ankaios</author><text><i>What does &quot;GitHub for Science&quot; even mean?</i><p>Personally, I think it means that the site is an attempt to centralize something that is currently decentralized.</text></comment> | <story><title>Researchhub: GitHub for Science</title><url>https://www.researchhub.com/about</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SilverRed</author><text>What does &quot;GitHub for Science&quot; even mean?<p>* Does it use git?<p>* Does it have any version control?<p>* Does it have community contributions to projects?<p>* Does it let people open issues on projects?<p>After clicking around for a bit, I&#x27;m not sure what parallels can be drawn between this site and github. Almost none of the core features of GitHub exist here. The site seems to be a PDF file upload site with a comment section.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joycesticks</author><text>Hi there,<p>My name&#x27;s Pat and I&#x27;m on the ResearchHub team. Thanks for taking a look at our site and sharing these questions.<p>&quot;Github for science&quot; is a phrase that describes our long term vision for what ResearchHub can become.<p>As a poster below mentioned, today&#x27;s product could be much better described as Reddit for science. It is a v1 designed to test a few hypotheses and bootstrap a community of early adopters who believe in our mission of open scientific communication.<p>Overtime we plan to add more Github-esque (for lack of a better word) features. Next in the pipeline is a science-specific collaborative text editor that will help teams of scientists publish any kind of research output directly to ResearchHub.<p>We are still in very early days and have not yet found product market fit. The more critical thinkers we have the better, so if you have any interest in helping us improve ResearchHub I can share a link to our community slack channel.<p>Thanks again for your interest in our project!</text></comment> |
174,600 | 174,461 | 1 | 2 | 174,410 | train | <story><title>Gin, Television, and Social Surplus</title><url>http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phaedrus</author><text>We should remember that not all time is interchangeable; just because you're up to spending 4 hours zonked out watching TV in bed does not mean you are up for spending 4 hours doing useful cognitive work. Maybe you're tired, hung over, sick, not feeling it, etc. However, even given this caveat, the author's point still stands. Because even if 4 hours of TV watching only translates to 1 hour of useful creative work and 3 hours of blah, that's still a huge amount of cognitive surplus.<p>But I think that it is like exercise - just because you watch TV for 4 hours, doesn't mean you could have jogged or rode a bike for 4 hours straight instead; your body isn't up to it. Why isn't it up to it? Because you're used to watching TV. So even if we only get a very poor 4:1 conversion rate at first, as we exercise our minds or bodies at doing other things besides TV, as a society we'll improve that exchange rate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gin, Television, and Social Surplus</title><url>http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pauljonas</author><text>&#62;So I tell her all this stuff, and I think, "Okay, we're going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever." That wasn't her question. She heard this story and she shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years."<p>Odd, I had a moment like this about a year ago or so…<p>I had just recently revamped an organizational website and made it more interactive, more user-participatory, and had made a remark to an office assistant on how great it was that new "editors" were jumping in and adding all this content, citing one in particular. Her response was the same as the TV person Shirky described - "it must be nice to have all that free time"…<p>Irony being that unlike me (that I rarely watch TV and basically live on the net, work time and a good bit of off time too…), most of these folks can rattle about endlessly all the TV programs they watch and how much they love their DVR…</text></comment> |
17,954,609 | 17,954,606 | 1 | 2 | 17,954,025 | train | <story><title>Why Rust closures are somewhat hard</title><url>https://stevedonovan.github.io/rustifications/2018/08/18/rust-closures-are-hard.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glittery</author><text>One thing that&#x27;s always concerned me about Rust is that everyone mononorphizes everything (e.g. closures are always unboxed except in the rare cases where dynamic dispatch is necessary). Hopefully this is a baseless fear, but isn&#x27;t this a recipe for executable bloat?</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Rust decides at compile time how long the data stored in a closure must live. You can create situations where that&#x27;s hard to define, and the compiler, properly, won&#x27;t permit that. It&#x27;s very clever.<p>(Rust tends to use closures heavily, in places other languages don&#x27;t. So they need all the performance they can get.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>withoutboats</author><text>It can be! And arguably people have leaned too hard on the decisions made in the std as an example: in std, everything is generic so that it can be inlined well, because std APIs underlie everything. At the application layer, this is not obviously what you want.<p>However, in many cases, a well designed generic API will be able take a trait object in the place of `T`. That way, at the application layer, you can decide to pass trait objects around, reducing code size and - maybe more importantly to you - compile times. cargo does this for example in some places where the performance regression is insignificant but it saves noticeable compile time.<p>Sometimes libraries accidentally don&#x27;t set things up so that you can pass either a concrete `T` or a dynamically dispatched trait object to their APIs; we&#x27;re hoping to find a way of making it less likely for this to go wrong in the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Rust closures are somewhat hard</title><url>https://stevedonovan.github.io/rustifications/2018/08/18/rust-closures-are-hard.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glittery</author><text>One thing that&#x27;s always concerned me about Rust is that everyone mononorphizes everything (e.g. closures are always unboxed except in the rare cases where dynamic dispatch is necessary). Hopefully this is a baseless fear, but isn&#x27;t this a recipe for executable bloat?</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Rust decides at compile time how long the data stored in a closure must live. You can create situations where that&#x27;s hard to define, and the compiler, properly, won&#x27;t permit that. It&#x27;s very clever.<p>(Rust tends to use closures heavily, in places other languages don&#x27;t. So they need all the performance they can get.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chc4</author><text>Yes, and there have been some cases of people hitting very large binaries and having to put effort into slimming them down.<p>In most of those cases it&#x27;s due to either wanting to run in very constrained space or distribution size, and then the problem is due to some blanket impl for a bunch of types that can safely be removed though. There are a few cargo submodules that will do executable size analysis with regard to monomorphization to show the outliers.<p>There&#x27;s not really a good solution for this. Having your code be fast by default in exchange for more space seems like the trivially correct choice to make when most people have hundreds of gigabytes of free hard drive space and binaries don&#x27;t get above a few megas, while CPU speed has stagnated. If they want runtime type matching instead, they can still do it.</text></comment> |
29,299,206 | 29,296,946 | 1 | 2 | 29,296,321 | train | <story><title>Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters</title><url>https://thehustle.co/why-thieves-love-to-steal-catalytic-converters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djanogo</author><text>Texas recently passed bill(House Bill 4110) making this crime a felony, I wonder if this will make it easier for owners to be covered under Sec. 9.42 code which will let owners use deadly force against anybody who is under your car or running away with your converter during night time.<p>Texas is 2nd highest in US for this crime, somebody is gonna pay with their life for this crime.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiscan.com&#x2F;TX&#x2F;text&#x2F;HB4110&#x2F;id&#x2F;2408113" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiscan.com&#x2F;TX&#x2F;text&#x2F;HB4110&#x2F;id&#x2F;2408113</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statutes.capitol.texas.gov&#x2F;SOTWDocs&#x2F;PE&#x2F;htm&#x2F;PE.9.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statutes.capitol.texas.gov&#x2F;SOTWDocs&#x2F;PE&#x2F;htm&#x2F;PE.9.htm</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seer</author><text>Huh only in America it might be considered OK to execute a person for a theft of an automative part.<p>Its like - there is someone committing a nonviolent felony of stealing a minor part from your car, and now you are deputized to be judge jury and executioner and can perform a quick public execution, for your convenience…<p>I mean I get it sucks very hard to have something being stolen from you _in front of your eyes_ but does this justify an execution? Isn’t that why we have monopoly on violence and for that matter insurance?<p>I’ve had stuff like that stolen from me, by a member of my country’s repressed minority, and it was in front of my eyes, I was sleeping when the act was committed, right next to me, so I guess my life was also in danger. I woke up just as they were making their escape. I did have the urge to chase them down true, but never in my dreams have I thought these lives were beyond redemption and I have the right to execute them then and there, and I would live happy afterwards…<p>How does the moral calculous work for Americans? Genuinely curious. Is it “something bad is being done to me, I am therefore justified to use any means necessary” kind of thing, or there is something else&#x2F;more?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters</title><url>https://thehustle.co/why-thieves-love-to-steal-catalytic-converters/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djanogo</author><text>Texas recently passed bill(House Bill 4110) making this crime a felony, I wonder if this will make it easier for owners to be covered under Sec. 9.42 code which will let owners use deadly force against anybody who is under your car or running away with your converter during night time.<p>Texas is 2nd highest in US for this crime, somebody is gonna pay with their life for this crime.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiscan.com&#x2F;TX&#x2F;text&#x2F;HB4110&#x2F;id&#x2F;2408113" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiscan.com&#x2F;TX&#x2F;text&#x2F;HB4110&#x2F;id&#x2F;2408113</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statutes.capitol.texas.gov&#x2F;SOTWDocs&#x2F;PE&#x2F;htm&#x2F;PE.9.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;statutes.capitol.texas.gov&#x2F;SOTWDocs&#x2F;PE&#x2F;htm&#x2F;PE.9.htm</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>Catalytic converter theft is obnoxious, and I&#x27;m fine with it being a felony (in particular as the cost of repairs is substantial higher than the &quot;raw cost&quot; of the stolen converter itself).<p>That being said: It isn&#x27;t a capital crime and shouldn&#x27;t be. If people can <i>legally</i> justify deadly force without self-defense (e.g. finding someone under their vehicle and shooting them) then the law itself is a problem.<p>If the state wants to make things a capital crime they should just do so directly, because at least then you get your day in court, a jury who could nullify, and lawmakers have to suffer the political ramifications of killing a bunch of petty thieves.</text></comment> |
13,324,095 | 13,323,357 | 1 | 3 | 13,322,951 | train | <story><title>Rust at OneSignal</title><url>https://onesignal.com/blog/rust-at-onesignal/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chamakits</author><text>First, I have to comment on that diagram:<p>That diagram is the most interesting representation of a diagram I have ever seen. Do you have a tool to generate these for you, or was it hand crafted for this post? If it&#x27;s a tool, is it available anywhere? If this is a built out tool, I would use this tool all the time.<p>On the article itself:<p>This is the most interesting type of posts about choosing Rust. Very balanced and aware that Rust gives a lot of upsides, but compared to other alternatives there are measurable downsides as well.<p>I think the biggest trade-off that they identified (and I&#x27;ve also gotten the impression from writing Rust on my own time, not for work) is the relative immaturity of the ecosystem, in as far as libraries available, and amount of developers supporting some of these libraries. What makes me hopeful, is that as a stable language (post 1.0) Rust is still relatively young. And you can definitely see things improving, with the community growing, more libraries propping up, and also gathering around specific libraries.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust at OneSignal</title><url>https://onesignal.com/blog/rust-at-onesignal/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>staticassertion</author><text>This is an excellent blog post - thanks a lot for writing it up. Solid use cases defined, I particularly enjoyed how you dealt with the shortcomings of joining a relatively young language.<p>The &#x27;belligerent refactoring&#x27; resonated with me - I have worked on untyped and statically typed codebases of varying sizes and when making huge changes there is no better tool for me personally than an expressive type system.</text></comment> |
20,964,642 | 20,964,436 | 1 | 3 | 20,962,780 | train | <story><title>The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving</title><url>https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RobertRoberts</author><text>&gt;&quot;Morning weight&quot; == fasted and somewhat dehydrated weight.<p>I was tracking weight loss over time, so it&#x27;s not just water loss. I tracked weight multiple times a day to see when weight loss actually happens.<p>If it was simple dehydration then sleeping would be irrelevant, but sleep is when something is processed, an action occurs that expels the waste&#x2F;water.</text></item><item><author>specialp</author><text>It is more of the effect of not eating or drinking for ~8 hours. 1 pint of water weighs around 500g. Also the average human exhales 1kg of CO2 a day which about a quarter of that is carbon weight. You will lose weight if you do not drink or eat for 8 hours awake. &quot;Morning weight&quot; == fasted and somewhat dehydrated weight.</text></item><item><author>RobertRoberts</author><text>I did tests for weight loss. I found that you don&#x27;t lose weight until you sleep. (stay up all night and weigh your self repeatedly, in the morning, no loss, but after you sleep and wake, your weight goes back to &quot;morning weight&quot;)<p>I found that if you don&#x27;t sleep well, you don&#x27;t lose as much. If you eat too late before going to bed, you don&#x27;t lose as much.<p>If you adjust your diet (however you want is my experience) to always be hungry for around an hour before every meal, you will lose weight. (no exercise at all)<p>What these guys are doing seems to be actual &quot;work&quot;, I don&#x27;t think stress alone makes you lose weight. With the anecdotal data I have observed over the years &quot;stress eating&quot; is more common that &quot;stress based weight loss&quot;.<p>Maybe the activity that causes the stress directly relates to it&#x27;s effect? And not all stress is equal in this way? (tournament stress vs paying the bills stress)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kerkeslager</author><text>I&#x27;m going to try to reiterate more clearly what your parent comment was saying:<p>Your experimental methodology is flawed because it fails to control for water loss. This isn&#x27;t negligible: in the summer when it&#x27;s hot and I sweat a lot, I can easily drink a 1 liter Nalgene bottle in the morning, about 2 pounds of water. It&#x27;s likely that what you&#x27;ve measured is simply the slow loss of water through perspiration and exhalation throughout the night.<p>I guess technically this <i>is</i> weight loss because you do weigh less when dehydrated, but it&#x27;s not loss of fat weight, which is what I think most people mean when they say weight loss.<p>Weight fluctuations throughout the day due to water&#x2F;food intake and waste excretion&#x2F;water loss dwarf any actual fat loss, so I don&#x27;t think weighing yourself throughout the day is a viable method of determining when fat weight is lost during the day.</text></comment> | <story><title>The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving</title><url>https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RobertRoberts</author><text>&gt;&quot;Morning weight&quot; == fasted and somewhat dehydrated weight.<p>I was tracking weight loss over time, so it&#x27;s not just water loss. I tracked weight multiple times a day to see when weight loss actually happens.<p>If it was simple dehydration then sleeping would be irrelevant, but sleep is when something is processed, an action occurs that expels the waste&#x2F;water.</text></item><item><author>specialp</author><text>It is more of the effect of not eating or drinking for ~8 hours. 1 pint of water weighs around 500g. Also the average human exhales 1kg of CO2 a day which about a quarter of that is carbon weight. You will lose weight if you do not drink or eat for 8 hours awake. &quot;Morning weight&quot; == fasted and somewhat dehydrated weight.</text></item><item><author>RobertRoberts</author><text>I did tests for weight loss. I found that you don&#x27;t lose weight until you sleep. (stay up all night and weigh your self repeatedly, in the morning, no loss, but after you sleep and wake, your weight goes back to &quot;morning weight&quot;)<p>I found that if you don&#x27;t sleep well, you don&#x27;t lose as much. If you eat too late before going to bed, you don&#x27;t lose as much.<p>If you adjust your diet (however you want is my experience) to always be hungry for around an hour before every meal, you will lose weight. (no exercise at all)<p>What these guys are doing seems to be actual &quot;work&quot;, I don&#x27;t think stress alone makes you lose weight. With the anecdotal data I have observed over the years &quot;stress eating&quot; is more common that &quot;stress based weight loss&quot;.<p>Maybe the activity that causes the stress directly relates to it&#x27;s effect? And not all stress is equal in this way? (tournament stress vs paying the bills stress)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>specialp and johnmaguire2013 are correct. &#x27;real&#x27; weight loss occurs very slowly in comparison to the ways your body can shed or accumulate water. In a week you&#x27;re not likely to lose more than a &#x27;real&#x27; pound unless you&#x27;re being pretty extreme about your calorie intake or expenditure, but you can fluctuate by easily 5 pounds of water&#x2F;food weight in a day.<p>Source: tracking my calories and weight for the better part of a decade and having lost and kept off 150+lbs.</text></comment> |
21,996,995 | 21,997,181 | 1 | 3 | 21,989,967 | train | <story><title>Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler</title><url>https://www.snowpack.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simplecto</author><text>I really enjoyed react when it first came out and there was little fussing with browserify (3-4 years ago).<p>But now this tooling is out of hand. I threw up my hands and found sanity again in simplicity (my username namesake).<p><pre><code> * Django
* jquery
* intercoolerjs (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intercoolerjs.org)
* plain old docker
</code></pre>
It is like war-games. The only winning move is not to play.<p>Now I deploy apps with no more than 100 lines of JS.<p>Again, not prescriptive, just my own journey.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cr0sh</author><text>I was once working on a small tool that I tried different iterations of using a small variety of approaches; I tried implementing it in bash, perl, python, ES6 JS (classes and more), and a few other methods (I think at one point I even tried a LibreOffice spreadsheet).<p>But I kept getting mired and &quot;stuck&quot; in how I should architect things, or what framework to use, or this or that. I eventually decided that I wanted it to be a browser-based app of some sort (thus the road of ES6) - but then I started to wonder what tooling to use there. Lots of questions, etc - and I never got that far with it.<p>I eventually wised up and realized that it didn&#x27;t matter what I chose - what I needed was the application to work. Who cares about frameworks, requirejs, css frameworks, etc - I just wanted something working. So I stepped back...and decided to chuck all of that away.<p>I ended up with a basic webpage, with a script tag and the code inside that - nothing fancy, purely procedural, old-school javascript functions, tied to events. Bare bones, basic.<p>...and I made real progress for the first time.<p>Basically, by regressing to the relative simplicity of Javascript back from the 1990s, I was able to get my tool finally going, without having to worry about the last two decades of cruft around that language. Now, I could have also done it using Python or anything else, in the same manner - but again, I wanted it to be browser based.<p>As you note, my own journey, and not something I&#x27;d tell anyone else to do (and certainly not something meant for a production environment!) - but for myself, and my need, this fit the bill. I&#x27;m still working on it; I figure when I complete it proper-like, I can go back and refactor it to something more respectable. Or maybe not.<p>After all, if it works, why try to break it? In the end, I want the results from the tool - who cares what it looks like under the hood, so long as it works.</text></comment> | <story><title>Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler</title><url>https://www.snowpack.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simplecto</author><text>I really enjoyed react when it first came out and there was little fussing with browserify (3-4 years ago).<p>But now this tooling is out of hand. I threw up my hands and found sanity again in simplicity (my username namesake).<p><pre><code> * Django
* jquery
* intercoolerjs (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intercoolerjs.org)
* plain old docker
</code></pre>
It is like war-games. The only winning move is not to play.<p>Now I deploy apps with no more than 100 lines of JS.<p>Again, not prescriptive, just my own journey.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vmsp</author><text>If you&#x27;re a fan of this type of libs, you should also check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stimulusjs.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stimulusjs.org&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;umbrellajs.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;umbrellajs.com&#x2F;</a>.</text></comment> |
35,321,300 | 35,321,010 | 1 | 2 | 35,320,571 | train | <story><title>BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4</title><url>https://github.com/gd3kr/BlenderGPT</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warent</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is &quot;terrifying&quot; to 3D artists any more than github copilot is terrying to us haha, I&#x27;m not sure why we engineers have this tendency of imagining every other industry as being populated by superstitious peasants from the dark ages who fear new tools.<p>In my experience the vast majority of people are excited about GPT including artists.</text></item><item><author>bigbassroller</author><text>I know this tech is terrifying to actual 3D artist who don’t want be a “prompt engineer”, but as someone who has never used Blender, I think its cool that I can create something using tools like this and use them in my projects, ex background animation on a website hero section.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I don&#x27;t know, maybe I am one of those &quot;superstitious peasants from the dark ages who fear new tools&quot;, but I&#x27;m increasingly terrified of GPT-4 and future iterations of it as applied to the industry I work with (i.e. software). It does seem to threaten to suddenly eliminate all the interesting parts of the job, a good chunk of openings, <i>and</i> to significantly reduce salaries for the openings that remain - all at the same time, and rather suddenly.</text></comment> | <story><title>BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4</title><url>https://github.com/gd3kr/BlenderGPT</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warent</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is &quot;terrifying&quot; to 3D artists any more than github copilot is terrying to us haha, I&#x27;m not sure why we engineers have this tendency of imagining every other industry as being populated by superstitious peasants from the dark ages who fear new tools.<p>In my experience the vast majority of people are excited about GPT including artists.</text></item><item><author>bigbassroller</author><text>I know this tech is terrifying to actual 3D artist who don’t want be a “prompt engineer”, but as someone who has never used Blender, I think its cool that I can create something using tools like this and use them in my projects, ex background animation on a website hero section.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>I think it&#x27;s because if you&#x27;re not in that particular industry you have a super simplified model of what the person does - something like &quot;writing code&quot; as the only activity a developer does.<p>You don&#x27;t understand the difficulties and problems that people in the profession face, which I think is also why so many developers are convinced they can replace&#x2F;&quot;disrupt&quot; other people&#x27;s jobs with software.</text></comment> |
34,520,755 | 34,521,058 | 1 | 3 | 34,520,355 | train | <story><title>Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggregator</title><url>https://www.jetnet.com/news/jetnet-acquires-ads-b-exchange.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmd</author><text>Did their acquisition price factor in the % of people who will stop feeding because of this? It&#x27;s one thing to feed a free open source project it&#x27;s another to give free labor to Silversmith Capital.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text>I mean, if I were providing one of these feeds, I&#x27;d probably shut it down and look for (or create) a new community-driven alternative.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggregator</title><url>https://www.jetnet.com/news/jetnet-acquires-ads-b-exchange.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmd</author><text>Did their acquisition price factor in the % of people who will stop feeding because of this? It&#x27;s one thing to feed a free open source project it&#x27;s another to give free labor to Silversmith Capital.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>I might feel similarly, especially given my distaste for private equity. But in the AIS (ship tracking) space, commercial versions seem to do ok. MarineTraffic runs its own blatantly commercial effort. And AIShub.net is not commercial itself, but it is run by Astra Paging, which definitely is.<p>I run a receiver that feeds into both networks, and in both cases I look at it as a value-for-value exchange.</text></comment> |
36,619,486 | 36,617,653 | 1 | 2 | 36,603,163 | train | <story><title>Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/mid-1990s-sega-document-leak-shows-how-it-lost-the-second-console-war-to-sony/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dumpsterdiver</author><text>Yeah, N64 was weirdly devoid of memorable RPGs. Surprising considering that both before and after that generation the RPGs rained from the sky. Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, Chronotrigger... the greats.</text></item><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>Sega had plenty of great games. In fact, despite being a Nintendo household growing up, I&#x27;m actually quite impressed in hindsight by the degree to which Sega as a 1st party made games to scratch every conceivable itch you might have as a gamer.<p>32&#x2F;64-bit Nintendo really didn&#x27;t make games of every genre. They made the games they wanted to make, and if you wanted a Sports game, or a Fighter, or a JRPG, they expected third parties to fill in that gap. It didn&#x27;t always work (the N64, had, what? Like 4 RPGs across the entire console lifespan?).<p>In contrast, if you had a Sega Saturn, you had nearly every genre covered by a direct 1st-party game. There&#x27;s something commendable about that--that you can feel like Sega would take care of you if you bought the system. I can see why it generated a certain level of passion among Sega fans while we in the Nintendo households were resigned to, &quot;Yeah, if we want more RPGs other than Paper Mario or Ogre Battle 64, we&#x27;re gonna buy a PlayStation.&#x27;</text></item><item><author>snarfy</author><text>It&#x27;s the games. It always was the games.<p>I got the NES for Super Mario Bros. I got the Playstation for Tekken. Many others got it for Final Fantasy VII.<p>If the only game the Playstation had was Tekken I still would have bought it. Sega just never had a hit game that I wanted. Marketing and the hardware didn&#x27;t matter to me. It was the games.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisco255</author><text>Playstation became the RPG console back then. Square was the king of the genre, and they wanted to create cinematic experiences with pre-rendered graphics. Only the CD format was large enough to support that.<p>The N64 also suffered from a margin problem. Game cartridges were sometimes $10-$20 wholesale for producers, while CDs were probably about 10-25 cents. And then they had to pay a hefty licensing fee to Nintendo on top of that.<p>What&#x27;s odd to me, is that almost no one on the N64 chose to simply recreate 2D graphics from the SNES era with improved quality. A quality JRPG built with SNES-like graphics would have still sold just fine, but I think the belief back then was that everything had to be 3D and cutting edge to sell.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/mid-1990s-sega-document-leak-shows-how-it-lost-the-second-console-war-to-sony/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dumpsterdiver</author><text>Yeah, N64 was weirdly devoid of memorable RPGs. Surprising considering that both before and after that generation the RPGs rained from the sky. Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, Chronotrigger... the greats.</text></item><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>Sega had plenty of great games. In fact, despite being a Nintendo household growing up, I&#x27;m actually quite impressed in hindsight by the degree to which Sega as a 1st party made games to scratch every conceivable itch you might have as a gamer.<p>32&#x2F;64-bit Nintendo really didn&#x27;t make games of every genre. They made the games they wanted to make, and if you wanted a Sports game, or a Fighter, or a JRPG, they expected third parties to fill in that gap. It didn&#x27;t always work (the N64, had, what? Like 4 RPGs across the entire console lifespan?).<p>In contrast, if you had a Sega Saturn, you had nearly every genre covered by a direct 1st-party game. There&#x27;s something commendable about that--that you can feel like Sega would take care of you if you bought the system. I can see why it generated a certain level of passion among Sega fans while we in the Nintendo households were resigned to, &quot;Yeah, if we want more RPGs other than Paper Mario or Ogre Battle 64, we&#x27;re gonna buy a PlayStation.&#x27;</text></item><item><author>snarfy</author><text>It&#x27;s the games. It always was the games.<p>I got the NES for Super Mario Bros. I got the Playstation for Tekken. Many others got it for Final Fantasy VII.<p>If the only game the Playstation had was Tekken I still would have bought it. Sega just never had a hit game that I wanted. Marketing and the hardware didn&#x27;t matter to me. It was the games.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>Square and Enix (before they became one) both jumped ship to PlayStation because they deemed the N64 cartridge&#x27;s memory capacity far too small for the kind of games they wanted to make. And to that extent, they&#x27;re probably right--Final Fantasy VII took three CDs as it was. A game across three cartridges would&#x27;ve cost a fortune, and that&#x27;s assuming you somehow got a 1:1 rate between them. The RE2 N64 port is the only game that got close, and that was with a ton of clever compression and massive downsizing of audio and video. More likely it would&#x27;ve taken 5-10 carts.</text></comment> |
28,461,373 | 28,460,656 | 1 | 2 | 28,456,484 | train | <story><title>20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?</title><url>https://www.ocregister.com/2021/09/07/20-years-after-9-11-will-we-ever-stop-taking-our-shoes-off-at-airports/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>&gt; We should have some kind of dashboard tracking how many people die from terrorism, car crashes, heart disease, COVID, etc., and how much time and money we spend trying to prevent these deaths<p>It would be a highly controversial dashboard, I guarantee it, likely unpopular with both political parties.<p>The problem is that assuaging fear is often more important (to irrational people) than saving lives.<p>For example, guns. <i>Very</i> few people die because of mass shootings. Your chances of dying in a mass shooting are virtually nil. Yet, every time one happens there&#x27;s a big frenzy to enact anti-gun policies. So you have all this talk of &quot;bump stocks&quot; and &quot;ghost guns&quot; and &quot;assault weapons&quot; and whatnot, but it&#x27;s all just smoke and mirrors to assuage fears. The goal isn&#x27;t to save lives. The goal is to assuage fears. I don&#x27;t take any gun policy seriously that purports to save lives if it isn&#x27;t focused on handguns and suicides.</text></item><item><author>GhostVII</author><text>We should have some kind of dashboard tracking how many people die from terrorism, car crashes, heart disease, COVID, etc., and how much time and money we spend trying to prevent these deaths. We are just so terrible at evaluating risk, for some reason it is OK to waste everyone&#x27;s time with over the top security to stop a tiny portion of terrorism deaths, while still being OK with high speed limits that kill thousands of people per year. Not that I&#x27;m advocating for lower speed limits, just that there is a contradiction here.<p>I bet that if instead of having people go through security at sporting events, you had them all do 20 push ups, you&#x27;d save more people from dying of heart disease than would die of terrorism.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&gt; So you have all this talk of &quot;bump stocks&quot; and &quot;ghost guns&quot; and &quot;assault weapons&quot; and whatnot, but it&#x27;s all just smoke and mirrors to assuage fears. The goal isn&#x27;t to save lives. The goal is to assuage fears. I don&#x27;t take any gun policy seriously that purports to save lives if it isn&#x27;t focused on handguns and suicides.<p>It&#x27;s also politics. If you actually wanted to solve the problem, well, like two thirds of US firearms fatalities are suicides. So a real solution is going to look like &quot;improve mental health&quot; and not &quot;restrict who can buy a gun&quot; or else you&#x27;re only going to be diverting people to other methods of suicide, or keeping people &quot;alive&quot; but still in such a precarious mental state that the only thing preventing them from taking their own life is access to an effective means. Neither of which is actually acceptable.<p>But from a political perspective, proposing useless gun restrictions makes the other team have to spend political capital to oppose them, because even if they&#x27;re completely ineffective at their stated purpose, they upset or inconvenience the other team&#x27;s constituents. Which seems to be the goal of modern US politics.</text></comment> | <story><title>20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?</title><url>https://www.ocregister.com/2021/09/07/20-years-after-9-11-will-we-ever-stop-taking-our-shoes-off-at-airports/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>&gt; We should have some kind of dashboard tracking how many people die from terrorism, car crashes, heart disease, COVID, etc., and how much time and money we spend trying to prevent these deaths<p>It would be a highly controversial dashboard, I guarantee it, likely unpopular with both political parties.<p>The problem is that assuaging fear is often more important (to irrational people) than saving lives.<p>For example, guns. <i>Very</i> few people die because of mass shootings. Your chances of dying in a mass shooting are virtually nil. Yet, every time one happens there&#x27;s a big frenzy to enact anti-gun policies. So you have all this talk of &quot;bump stocks&quot; and &quot;ghost guns&quot; and &quot;assault weapons&quot; and whatnot, but it&#x27;s all just smoke and mirrors to assuage fears. The goal isn&#x27;t to save lives. The goal is to assuage fears. I don&#x27;t take any gun policy seriously that purports to save lives if it isn&#x27;t focused on handguns and suicides.</text></item><item><author>GhostVII</author><text>We should have some kind of dashboard tracking how many people die from terrorism, car crashes, heart disease, COVID, etc., and how much time and money we spend trying to prevent these deaths. We are just so terrible at evaluating risk, for some reason it is OK to waste everyone&#x27;s time with over the top security to stop a tiny portion of terrorism deaths, while still being OK with high speed limits that kill thousands of people per year. Not that I&#x27;m advocating for lower speed limits, just that there is a contradiction here.<p>I bet that if instead of having people go through security at sporting events, you had them all do 20 push ups, you&#x27;d save more people from dying of heart disease than would die of terrorism.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vowelless</author><text>&gt; For example, guns. Very few people die because of mass shootings.<p>Adjusted for how armed Americans are, gun violence in this country is tiny. And seeing what an armed citizenry can do against the full American force (Afghanistan), an armed population is a necessity against tyranny in America.</text></comment> |
12,890,378 | 12,889,499 | 1 | 2 | 12,877,012 | train | <story><title>Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human drivers were the fear</title><url>https://timeline.com/forget-self-driving-car-anxiety-in-the-early-days-human-drivers-were-the-fear-55a770262c10#.vf6ekg4kz</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edblarney</author><text>Eventually - maybe in 20 years - humans won&#x27;t be even allowed to drive.<p>I&#x27;ll bet they even ban hobbyist driving - like those who &#x27;still have old cars&#x27; and want to drive on those &#x27;old car roads&#x27;.<p>Statistically too dangerous. Far more dangerous than anything else we really do - certainly more than smoking. And when it&#x27;s no longer a &#x27;necessity&#x27; ...<p>Do you remember those movies before the 1960&#x27;s when they get in cars and they don&#x27;t even have seat-belts - and we &#x27;gasp&#x27; ... &#x27;OMG&#x27; ...<p>I think our grandchildren will gasp when we tell them we drove cars. They will think we were crazy and uncivilized, we&#x27;ll call them wimps.<p>You&#x27;ll want to teach your grandson to drive, your daughter in law will be upset and call you a crazy old man :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human drivers were the fear</title><url>https://timeline.com/forget-self-driving-car-anxiety-in-the-early-days-human-drivers-were-the-fear-55a770262c10#.vf6ekg4kz</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sshine</author><text>Just this morning on my bicycle ride to work, I was nearly run down by a taxi making a blind entry into a large road and doored by a 10-year-old. The fear of cars is not &quot;old school&quot; but very much real. This is not to mention the aggression that drivers go and build up in their small bubbles. I am always prepared to get off my bike and take them up on their threatening offers. I look forward to less aggressive, more responsive computer-controlled vehicles.</text></comment> |
31,299,405 | 31,298,648 | 1 | 3 | 31,284,664 | train | <story><title>Seed-firing drones are planting 40k trees every day to fight deforestation</title><url>https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/05/04/this-australian-start-up-wants-to-fight-deforestation-with-an-army-of-drones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dymk</author><text>It’s not credible. I know people that work at this kind of company. None of the countermeasures have been successful and the germination rate is less than 1%.</text></item><item><author>xg15</author><text>I mean, they at least claim that solving this problem constitutes the <i>actual</i> secret sauce of their project:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;The niche really lies in our biotech, which is the support system for the seed once it&#x27;s on the ground,&quot; says Walker.<p>“It protects the seed from different types of wildlife, but also supports the seed once it germinates and really helps deliver all of those nutrients and mineral sources that it needs, along with some probiotics to really boost early-stage growth.&quot;</i><p>No idea how credible this is of course.</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I very much doubt many of these seeds will be successful.<p>They say that it&#x27;s more efficient to use a drone than to manually plant a tree or seed. Yes, blasting seeds out of a potato cannon would also be much more efficient if the goal is to spread unsuccessful seeds. If the goal is to get to a mature tree or forest, then I doubt it&#x27;s more efficient at all.<p>Forrests are self-sustaining. But recreating a clear-cut forrest usually requires a bit more care than just chucking seeds around.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brundozer</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what the germination rate is when you plant the seeds by hand, but it seems that aerial seeding requires 1.5 to 2 times more seeds. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;efotg.sc.egov.usda.gov&#x2F;references&#x2F;public&#x2F;IL&#x2F;AgronomyTechNote21.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;efotg.sc.egov.usda.gov&#x2F;references&#x2F;public&#x2F;IL&#x2F;Agronomy...</a><p>This does not seem excessive in regards of the time it saves.</text></comment> | <story><title>Seed-firing drones are planting 40k trees every day to fight deforestation</title><url>https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/05/04/this-australian-start-up-wants-to-fight-deforestation-with-an-army-of-drones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dymk</author><text>It’s not credible. I know people that work at this kind of company. None of the countermeasures have been successful and the germination rate is less than 1%.</text></item><item><author>xg15</author><text>I mean, they at least claim that solving this problem constitutes the <i>actual</i> secret sauce of their project:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;The niche really lies in our biotech, which is the support system for the seed once it&#x27;s on the ground,&quot; says Walker.<p>“It protects the seed from different types of wildlife, but also supports the seed once it germinates and really helps deliver all of those nutrients and mineral sources that it needs, along with some probiotics to really boost early-stage growth.&quot;</i><p>No idea how credible this is of course.</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I very much doubt many of these seeds will be successful.<p>They say that it&#x27;s more efficient to use a drone than to manually plant a tree or seed. Yes, blasting seeds out of a potato cannon would also be much more efficient if the goal is to spread unsuccessful seeds. If the goal is to get to a mature tree or forest, then I doubt it&#x27;s more efficient at all.<p>Forrests are self-sustaining. But recreating a clear-cut forrest usually requires a bit more care than just chucking seeds around.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bostonsre</author><text>They claim 80% germination rate at this company.</text></comment> |
39,801,969 | 39,802,171 | 1 | 2 | 39,801,088 | train | <story><title>A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates</title><url>https://www.audioholics.com/news/a-return-to-blu-ray-as-streaming-value-evaporates</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>screamingninja</author><text>Do you watch those movies &#x2F; series more than once? I have always thought of Blu-ray disks like books. You consume it and then lend it to a friend. I get that this is not what the media companies would want, but purchasing media&#x2F;books and not using them more than once just feels wrong.</text></item><item><author>tombert</author><text>I have a pretty extensive blu-ray collection (almost 500 movies now, about 40 complete series). I almost never <i>watch</i> blu-rays directly, because I don&#x27;t want to muck with physical discs. Immediately after buying a movie, I remove the DRM with MakeMKV, and put it onto a Jellyfin server.<p>I know it&#x27;s (probably) not strictly legal for me to break the DRM of my movies, but I think I&#x27;m ethically in the clear; I&#x27;m not distributing the movies on ThePirateBay or anything, I just watch them within my home network...I think it would be pretty hard for anyone to demonstrate any <i>damages</i> from my habits.<p>Streaming is absolutely more convenient than physical discs, but it&#x27;s also objectively horrible for a company to be able to arbitrarily remove my media. With my discs, I always have a physical copy, so it&#x27;s more failure-proof.<p>That said, maintaining a server is a huge pain in the ass, and it&#x27;s something that really is limited to geeky people. Sure, as a software engineer I know enough to install NixOS and Jellyfin and I even get some kind of masochistic enjoyment from fixing things when they inevitably break, but I cannot imagine my mom going through anything like this, so for her the media landscape has gotten <i>only worse</i>.<p>Blu-rays really aren&#x27;t being produced anymore, so I suspect that the only sustainable preservation effort will end up being piracy, and this has been an issue long enough that the large media companies cannot pretend to not understand that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tombert</author><text>My rule of thumb has generally been &quot;if there&#x27;s any chance I&#x27;ll want to watch the movie more than once, I&#x27;ll buy the blu-ray.&quot;<p>Until about two years ago, I was happy enough to pay for two streaming services (HBO Max and Hulu), along with Amazon Prime, and I treated that like my &quot;rental store&quot;. The first viewing would be to see if I like the movie, and if I did then I would immediately order the blu-ray.<p>Now I&#x27;ve canceled all my streaming services because I don&#x27;t want to pay for a million of them.<p>Just a note, I will very frequently put a movie or TV series on in the background while I work on other things, probably even more frequently than I turn on music. I just like having noise from a movie or show that&#x27;s familiar for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates</title><url>https://www.audioholics.com/news/a-return-to-blu-ray-as-streaming-value-evaporates</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>screamingninja</author><text>Do you watch those movies &#x2F; series more than once? I have always thought of Blu-ray disks like books. You consume it and then lend it to a friend. I get that this is not what the media companies would want, but purchasing media&#x2F;books and not using them more than once just feels wrong.</text></item><item><author>tombert</author><text>I have a pretty extensive blu-ray collection (almost 500 movies now, about 40 complete series). I almost never <i>watch</i> blu-rays directly, because I don&#x27;t want to muck with physical discs. Immediately after buying a movie, I remove the DRM with MakeMKV, and put it onto a Jellyfin server.<p>I know it&#x27;s (probably) not strictly legal for me to break the DRM of my movies, but I think I&#x27;m ethically in the clear; I&#x27;m not distributing the movies on ThePirateBay or anything, I just watch them within my home network...I think it would be pretty hard for anyone to demonstrate any <i>damages</i> from my habits.<p>Streaming is absolutely more convenient than physical discs, but it&#x27;s also objectively horrible for a company to be able to arbitrarily remove my media. With my discs, I always have a physical copy, so it&#x27;s more failure-proof.<p>That said, maintaining a server is a huge pain in the ass, and it&#x27;s something that really is limited to geeky people. Sure, as a software engineer I know enough to install NixOS and Jellyfin and I even get some kind of masochistic enjoyment from fixing things when they inevitably break, but I cannot imagine my mom going through anything like this, so for her the media landscape has gotten <i>only worse</i>.<p>Blu-rays really aren&#x27;t being produced anymore, so I suspect that the only sustainable preservation effort will end up being piracy, and this has been an issue long enough that the large media companies cannot pretend to not understand that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nox101</author><text>I am slightly embarrassed to say that yes, I watch movies over and over. All of them off of a shared hard drive using Kodi on an Apple TV to watch.<p>I recently through away all my CDs, DVDs, and BluRay after carrying them from apartment to apartment for years (in notebooks) and never once opening them during those years.<p>As for the embarrassment. I get from some POV it&#x27;s a waste of time but I easily have a list of ~400 movies all of which I&#x27;ve watched 3-20 times each. Examples might be a movie like The Matrix I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;ve watch 10+ times. A movie like Harvey, 2 or 3.</text></comment> |
13,418,995 | 13,418,873 | 1 | 2 | 13,417,037 | train | <story><title>Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)</title><url>https://www.quora.com/Pixar-company/Did-Pixar-accidentally-delete-Toy-Story-2-during-production/answer/Oren-Jacob</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woliveirajr</author><text>The biggest difference, I think, was leaving the hunting for a head for a second moment, or even not doing it at all.<p>Commitment would be very different if people were being asked to help while some heads were rolling. Because you&#x27;re a real team when everybody is going in the same direction. Any call on &quot;people, work hard do recover while we&#x27;re after the moron who deleted everything&quot; wouldn&#x27;t have done it.<p>You just commit to something when you know that you won&#x27;t be under the fire if you do something wrong without knowing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lokedhs</author><text>I never understood the attitude of some companies to fire an employee immediately if they make a mistake such as accidentally deleting some files. If you keep this employee, then you can e pretty sure he&#x27;ll never made that mistake again. If you fire him and hire someone else, that person might not have had the learning experience of completely screwing up a system.<p>I think that employees actually makes less mistakes and are more productive if they don&#x27;t have be worried about being fired for making a mistake.</text></comment> | <story><title>Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)</title><url>https://www.quora.com/Pixar-company/Did-Pixar-accidentally-delete-Toy-Story-2-during-production/answer/Oren-Jacob</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woliveirajr</author><text>The biggest difference, I think, was leaving the hunting for a head for a second moment, or even not doing it at all.<p>Commitment would be very different if people were being asked to help while some heads were rolling. Because you&#x27;re a real team when everybody is going in the same direction. Any call on &quot;people, work hard do recover while we&#x27;re after the moron who deleted everything&quot; wouldn&#x27;t have done it.<p>You just commit to something when you know that you won&#x27;t be under the fire if you do something wrong without knowing it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FabHK</author><text>Very good point. Aviation is awesome in that sense - accident investigations are focused on understanding what happened, and preventing re-occurence. Allocating blame or punishment are not part of it, at least in enlightened jurisdictions.<p>Furthermore, a lot of individual error&#x27;s are seen in an institutionalised &quot;systems&quot; framework - given that people invariably will make mistakes, how can we set up the environment&#x2F;institutions&#x2F;systems so that errors are not catastrophic.<p>Not sure how that applies to movie animation, to be honest, but not primarily looking for whom to blame was certainly a very good move.</text></comment> |
21,637,998 | 21,637,150 | 1 | 3 | 21,632,338 | train | <story><title>The Birth of Legacy Software – How Change Aversion Feeds on Itself</title><url>https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/11/25/the-birth-of-legacy-software-how-change-aversion-feeds-on-itself/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seren</author><text>In my open office next door, people have been refactoring a cpp98 monolith into more interdependent components to be able to have a better test suite, better CI integration, better deployment story. That sounds about right.<p>Well, the issue is that they have done it a bit sneakily, they removed all the legacy code they haven&#x27;t understood. So the code is much more elegant, it has been moved to cpp11 or 14, it ticks every good practice. There is only one slight issue : it does not work. It somewhat work, but is not reliable and fails regularly in unexpected ways. And they&#x27;ve started 5 years ago, and haven&#x27;t been delivering any business value since then.<p>At the beginning, it was okay because they had some leeway but now they are blocking the release of new products, and our market share is in free fall.<p>Heads have started to roll.<p>To be fair, a few years down the line, their team will likely be more productive and efficient, but I am still not sure that the cost of the rewrite was justified. Still the article is very on point on the risk of not paying your technical debt.</text></item><item><author>vearwhershuh</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen plenty of projects blown up with massive, fearless refactors to do thing &quot;the right way&quot;.<p>Careful with that axe, Eugene.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matwood</author><text>&gt; they removed all the legacy code they haven&#x27;t understood.<p>This is exactly why rewrites or huge refactors typically fail. The new programmer sees code and doesn&#x27;t understand why the code is there and thinks the last programmer was an idiot and deletes said code. Unknown to the new programmer is that code handles some weird edge case.<p>A rewrite should spend 80% of the time understanding the old code and 20% writing the new. But, that&#x27;s no fun for most programmers who just want to code in the latest shiny so the new code ends up broken.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Birth of Legacy Software – How Change Aversion Feeds on Itself</title><url>https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/11/25/the-birth-of-legacy-software-how-change-aversion-feeds-on-itself/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seren</author><text>In my open office next door, people have been refactoring a cpp98 monolith into more interdependent components to be able to have a better test suite, better CI integration, better deployment story. That sounds about right.<p>Well, the issue is that they have done it a bit sneakily, they removed all the legacy code they haven&#x27;t understood. So the code is much more elegant, it has been moved to cpp11 or 14, it ticks every good practice. There is only one slight issue : it does not work. It somewhat work, but is not reliable and fails regularly in unexpected ways. And they&#x27;ve started 5 years ago, and haven&#x27;t been delivering any business value since then.<p>At the beginning, it was okay because they had some leeway but now they are blocking the release of new products, and our market share is in free fall.<p>Heads have started to roll.<p>To be fair, a few years down the line, their team will likely be more productive and efficient, but I am still not sure that the cost of the rewrite was justified. Still the article is very on point on the risk of not paying your technical debt.</text></item><item><author>vearwhershuh</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen plenty of projects blown up with massive, fearless refactors to do thing &quot;the right way&quot;.<p>Careful with that axe, Eugene.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianN</author><text>Deleting legacy code you don&#x27;t understand is the best way to remove fixes for bugs you didn&#x27;t know you had.</text></comment> |
945,212 | 945,080 | 1 | 2 | 945,009 | train | <story><title>Coin-operated Borgocrat goes to Google, acquires whole new set of opinions</title><url>http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/11/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-borgocrat-scorned.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jfager</author><text>Clicking through to the cited posts:<p>1. <a href="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/12/options_on_goog.html" rel="nofollow">http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/12/optio...</a> - Most of this post is praising Google for their TSO program. Microsoft is mentioned almost as an afterthought, to show that they also have good employee benefits (not exactly a secret).<p>2. <a href="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2005/11/google_data_cen.html" rel="nofollow">http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2005/11/googl...</a> - This was written in 2005, and is pretty much exactly in line with the predominant sentiment of that time. It's hard to make the case even today that Google has yet really attacked MS directly (no desktop OS, a much lighter office suite, etc).<p>3. <a href="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/10/office_20_free_.html" rel="nofollow">http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/10/offic...</a> - Again, mostly in praise of Google, talking specifically about how online office suites are a potentially disruptive technology that MS is scrambling to get a slice of like everyone else. And, feature-for-feature, um, of course MS Office wins. But if you don't care about feature count, so what?<p>4. <a href="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/12/google-vs-micro.html" rel="nofollow">http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/12/googl...</a> - He specifically says Google is to today's MS as Toyota was to Ford or MS was to IBM 30 years ago. The whimper about MS having smart folks who have played disruptor themselves doesn't exactly equate to "Google won't disrupt MS".<p>5. <a href="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/02/google_apps_tak.html" rel="nofollow">http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/02/googl...</a> - Alright, Fake Steve has this one pretty spot on.<p>6. <a href="http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/05/windows_live_ho.html" rel="nofollow">http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/05/windo...</a> - It's a product blurb, followed by the drooling endorsement of pointing out that people usually don't completely abandon their old email addresses even if they move on to something else.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coin-operated Borgocrat goes to Google, acquires whole new set of opinions</title><url>http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/11/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-borgocrat-scorned.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ewanmcteagle</author><text>I think this deserved pointing out. I'm not sure where this Don Dodge is great stuff comes from or what it's based on but these few posts about him do make him seem coin-operated. The best developer evangelists are able to be sincere, thoughtful and helpful. Without those qualities it's a job that tends to make you into a shill.</text></comment> |
25,946,637 | 25,945,955 | 1 | 2 | 25,941,431 | train | <story><title>Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop</title><url>https://twitter.com/KHOUStephanie/status/1354781130021609478</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whimsicalism</author><text>I&#x27;m just not really sure I understand the narratives being thrown around right now, and I&#x27;d like to think I understand the economy somewhat<p>Melvin Capital closed out their short position yesterday with a large loss - and Citadel helped cover that loss.<p>As far as I know, Citadel and Melvin Capital no longer are holding any short positions in Gamestop. So what do they have to gain, by your narrative, from suppressing the price?<p>Citadel is probably making bank off of this actually, like a lot of other sell-side firms.</text></item><item><author>beachwood23</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this was Robinhood&#x27;s choice.<p>Robinhood doesn&#x27;t actually execute any trades. They sell user&#x27;s trade orders to Citadel, a trade executor. Citadel then buys the shares on the market, and sells them to Robinhood for a slight markup. It&#x27;s how Robinhood offers trades for $0 fees. You pay pennies more per share, but don&#x27;t have to spend $5 per trade.<p>Citadel, and other trade executors, are refusing to buy shares for retail traders. Coincidentally, Citadel also bailed out Melvin fund for their short position in GME. So, Citadel has an interest in not letting the price go up any further. And citadel controls trade execution for dozens of firms.<p>This is definitely illegal. But Citadel is betting that the resulting SEC fines from this illegal manipulation will be less than the loss they would get if they didn&#x27;t suppress the price.</text></item><item><author>wyldfire</author><text>Can someone help me understand Robinhood&#x27;s POV? This just seems so outrageous that there must be some sane rationale that I&#x27;m not seeing.<p>Why do Robinhood, Reddit, Discord, etc feel like they have to respond to this? Whether the investments being made are responsible or not, it doesn&#x27;t seem like it should be their place to intervene.<p>If the hedge funds over-shorted GME and WSB recognized that and traded against that bad analysis, then that&#x27;s great! If the pendulum swung the other direction and WSB is trading into some momentum, how is that any different than the hedge funds doing the same with shorts? Why should Robinhood pick a winner (siding <i>against</i> their own customers)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beachwood23</author><text>Yesterday, there was a 140% short position on Gamestop.<p>Today, there is still a 122% short position on Gamestop. There are still many funds hedged against GME. Melvin might have had one of the larger positions, but there are many more funds with this position. Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finviz.com&#x2F;quote.ashx?t=GME" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finviz.com&#x2F;quote.ashx?t=GME</a><p>As you say, they would make money by running the orders, regardless if GME goes up or down. So - why would they stop? It is most likely that Citadel is still exposed to other funds holding short positions in GME.</text></comment> | <story><title>Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop</title><url>https://twitter.com/KHOUStephanie/status/1354781130021609478</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whimsicalism</author><text>I&#x27;m just not really sure I understand the narratives being thrown around right now, and I&#x27;d like to think I understand the economy somewhat<p>Melvin Capital closed out their short position yesterday with a large loss - and Citadel helped cover that loss.<p>As far as I know, Citadel and Melvin Capital no longer are holding any short positions in Gamestop. So what do they have to gain, by your narrative, from suppressing the price?<p>Citadel is probably making bank off of this actually, like a lot of other sell-side firms.</text></item><item><author>beachwood23</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this was Robinhood&#x27;s choice.<p>Robinhood doesn&#x27;t actually execute any trades. They sell user&#x27;s trade orders to Citadel, a trade executor. Citadel then buys the shares on the market, and sells them to Robinhood for a slight markup. It&#x27;s how Robinhood offers trades for $0 fees. You pay pennies more per share, but don&#x27;t have to spend $5 per trade.<p>Citadel, and other trade executors, are refusing to buy shares for retail traders. Coincidentally, Citadel also bailed out Melvin fund for their short position in GME. So, Citadel has an interest in not letting the price go up any further. And citadel controls trade execution for dozens of firms.<p>This is definitely illegal. But Citadel is betting that the resulting SEC fines from this illegal manipulation will be less than the loss they would get if they didn&#x27;t suppress the price.</text></item><item><author>wyldfire</author><text>Can someone help me understand Robinhood&#x27;s POV? This just seems so outrageous that there must be some sane rationale that I&#x27;m not seeing.<p>Why do Robinhood, Reddit, Discord, etc feel like they have to respond to this? Whether the investments being made are responsible or not, it doesn&#x27;t seem like it should be their place to intervene.<p>If the hedge funds over-shorted GME and WSB recognized that and traded against that bad analysis, then that&#x27;s great! If the pendulum swung the other direction and WSB is trading into some momentum, how is that any different than the hedge funds doing the same with shorts? Why should Robinhood pick a winner (siding <i>against</i> their own customers)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tsdlts</author><text>They didn&#x27;t tell you how much of the position they closed out on. They can say &quot;they closed their position&quot; even if they only closed out on 1% of it.</text></comment> |
11,448,912 | 11,448,551 | 1 | 2 | 11,444,941 | train | <story><title>The Sugar Conspiracy</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sirtastic</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t always work. Many people, myself included can fail to lose weight on a restricted calorie diet. I spent 12 months eating below 1200 while working out religiously (4-6 days a week with 30sh mins of cardio followed by 45sh mins of weight lifting). In the beginning I lost weight and fast. At 5&#x27;9 I went from 240 down to 148 lbs in 7 months. At 148 I still had excess fat on my body and no matter how hard I worked out it went nowhere. I was borderline starving myself and everything I read said &quot;it&#x27;s simple calorie in vs out&quot;. It became obvious to me that wasn&#x27;t always true. It&#x27;s frustrating to hear people spew that when I&#x27;m weighing chicken breasts with 110% certainty of what my caloric intake is vs my out and here I was, not losing a damn pound.<p>I wish I could say I know what was going on. I have theories as I spent months of my life trying to turn the tables. I eventually gave up and just continued to lift weights and eat normal. Now 4 years later I still have that fat I couldn&#x27;t lose but I&#x27;m a lot bigger (muscle). That fat hasn&#x27;t gone anywhere and in the 4 years I&#x27;ve yo-yo&#x27;d with different attempts to get rid of it. The fat I have is not normal.</text></item><item><author>funkyy</author><text>Very few public, true fitness instructors and dietitians are following the simplest rule ever - decrease calories to lose weight.
This method is not that popular, its to tricky since it requires for person to calculate foods, which makes it unpopular for lazy. But it is absolutely the best method to lose weight fast, decrease calorie intake and create shortage.</text></item><item><author>asadkn</author><text>It&#x27;s typical how most people really want to immediately buy into the simple fixes and religiously believe them without knowing why it worked. Overweight? Must be the fructose (recently) &#x2F; carbs (a while back) &#x2F; fats (further back). Same old story. Somebody makes rounds in media and makes a lot of money after publishing a book with something &quot;new&quot; - a simple fix.<p>Fortunately we have people like Lyle McDonald, Alan Aragon, Guyenet out there talking some sanity. Unfortunately, they never make it to mainstream media.<p>Some Resources:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;weightology.net&#x2F;weightologyweekly&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;free-content&#x2F;free-content&#x2F;volume-1-issue-7-insulin-and-thinking-better&#x2F;insulin-an-undeserved-bad-reputation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;weightology.net&#x2F;weightologyweekly&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;free-cont...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wholehealthsource.blogspot.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;testing-insulin-model-response-to-dr.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wholehealthsource.blogspot.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;testing-insuli...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@lylemcdonald&#x2F;highly-processed-carbohydrates-cause-more-insulin-secretion-calorie-for-calorie-than-any-other-38f907ae75d1#.p38cx0qc2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@lylemcdonald&#x2F;highly-processed-carbohydra...</a> (A comment by Lyle on the rhetoric posted by Ludwig)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Goronmon</author><text><i>This doesn&#x27;t always work. Many people, myself included can fail to lose weight on a restricted calorie diet.</i><p><i>I spent 12 months eating below 1200 while working out religiously (4-6 days a week with 30sh mins of cardio followed by 45sh mins of weight lifting). In the beginning I lost weight and fast. At 5&#x27;9 I went from 240 down to 148 lbs in 7 months.</i><p>You just described an example showing that a restricted calorie diet can be wildly successful. The former quote seems provably false using the latter.<p>Honestly, this is what I just read from your post.<p><i>I can&#x27;t lose weight on a restricted calorie diet. Here is an example of how I lost a huge amount of weight on a restricted calorie diet.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>The Sugar Conspiracy</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sirtastic</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t always work. Many people, myself included can fail to lose weight on a restricted calorie diet. I spent 12 months eating below 1200 while working out religiously (4-6 days a week with 30sh mins of cardio followed by 45sh mins of weight lifting). In the beginning I lost weight and fast. At 5&#x27;9 I went from 240 down to 148 lbs in 7 months. At 148 I still had excess fat on my body and no matter how hard I worked out it went nowhere. I was borderline starving myself and everything I read said &quot;it&#x27;s simple calorie in vs out&quot;. It became obvious to me that wasn&#x27;t always true. It&#x27;s frustrating to hear people spew that when I&#x27;m weighing chicken breasts with 110% certainty of what my caloric intake is vs my out and here I was, not losing a damn pound.<p>I wish I could say I know what was going on. I have theories as I spent months of my life trying to turn the tables. I eventually gave up and just continued to lift weights and eat normal. Now 4 years later I still have that fat I couldn&#x27;t lose but I&#x27;m a lot bigger (muscle). That fat hasn&#x27;t gone anywhere and in the 4 years I&#x27;ve yo-yo&#x27;d with different attempts to get rid of it. The fat I have is not normal.</text></item><item><author>funkyy</author><text>Very few public, true fitness instructors and dietitians are following the simplest rule ever - decrease calories to lose weight.
This method is not that popular, its to tricky since it requires for person to calculate foods, which makes it unpopular for lazy. But it is absolutely the best method to lose weight fast, decrease calorie intake and create shortage.</text></item><item><author>asadkn</author><text>It&#x27;s typical how most people really want to immediately buy into the simple fixes and religiously believe them without knowing why it worked. Overweight? Must be the fructose (recently) &#x2F; carbs (a while back) &#x2F; fats (further back). Same old story. Somebody makes rounds in media and makes a lot of money after publishing a book with something &quot;new&quot; - a simple fix.<p>Fortunately we have people like Lyle McDonald, Alan Aragon, Guyenet out there talking some sanity. Unfortunately, they never make it to mainstream media.<p>Some Resources:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;weightology.net&#x2F;weightologyweekly&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;free-content&#x2F;free-content&#x2F;volume-1-issue-7-insulin-and-thinking-better&#x2F;insulin-an-undeserved-bad-reputation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;weightology.net&#x2F;weightologyweekly&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;free-cont...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wholehealthsource.blogspot.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;testing-insulin-model-response-to-dr.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wholehealthsource.blogspot.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;testing-insuli...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@lylemcdonald&#x2F;highly-processed-carbohydrates-cause-more-insulin-secretion-calorie-for-calorie-than-any-other-38f907ae75d1#.p38cx0qc2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@lylemcdonald&#x2F;highly-processed-carbohydra...</a> (A comment by Lyle on the rhetoric posted by Ludwig)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chillingeffect</author><text>How tall are you? What&#x27;s your build? Yours sounds like a pretty damn successful story, congrats!<p>Calorie in vs. calorie out <i>is</i> a simplistic way of looking at it. It is certainly true for a first-order approach, though. There is much more to it, such as timing, consumption of fiber with sugar, metabolism, etc. etc. However, the most important factor which should be taken on first for the largest immediate changes is calorie in&#x2F;out.<p>I&#x27;m curious how much fat you have now? In my experience: With effort I was able to get to about 90% of my goals, but the last 10% is extremely stubborn and I haven&#x27;t been able to get past it. From what I understand, it would require extreme tactics, such as 10 hours of sleep nightly, eliminating all stress and amino acid accounting to eliminate.<p>I might suggest reducing the cardio greatly and replacing it with briefer, higher-intensity cardio, btw. The body seems to adjust intake demands very well in response to cardio. Also, what supplements do you use? Finally, I&#x27;m a little concerned when you say the fat you have is not normal - you may be straying into the unrealistic psychological zone, but obviously I can&#x27;t tell much from here. I just don&#x27;t want you to be obsessing over a physique that is already quite acceptable. Congrats again, your discipline should be inspiring to lots of people... hope you comment doesn&#x27;t stay gray long.</text></comment> |
22,418,496 | 22,418,596 | 1 | 3 | 22,416,420 | train | <story><title>Federal safety official slams Tesla, regulators for misuse of its Autopilot tech</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-02-25/tesla-autopilot-crash-hearing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eaurouge</author><text>&gt; You are no longer concerned with minute adjustments to the wheel, and you no longer have to maintain a constant high priority task of staying centered in the lines. Now, instead, you perform higher order functions of route planning, estimating traffic flow, observing other drivers and whether they are paying attention or drifting toward you, etc.<p>Staying centered in the lane should be muscle memory for an experienced driver. The higher order functions you mentioned are all things you should be doing regardless, with or without autopilot. I can perform those tasks just fine while driving a stick shift, most drivers can.<p>The other side of the coin is that reduced engagement in the driving process can lead to lapses in concentration. That&#x27;s not just my experience, it&#x27;s the same opinion expressed by F1 drivers tasked with bringing the lead car home in an unchallenging grand prix.</text></item><item><author>zaroth</author><text>It&#x27;s actually less exhausting than manual driving.<p>With manual driving you have to focus predominantly on one specific task - keeping your car between the lines. Bends in the road, poorly drawn lines, irregularities in the road surface, gusts of wind, all conspire to make this task require constant attention. Look in the rear view mirror for a couple seconds and then look back ahead and you might find that you&#x27;ve drifted, etc.<p>With AutoPilot the task has changed. You are no longer concerned with minute adjustments to the wheel, and you no longer have to maintain a constant high priority task of staying centered in the lines. Now, instead, you perform higher order functions of route planning, estimating traffic flow, observing other drivers and whether they are paying attention or drifting toward you, etc.<p>So by no means are you passive at all. It&#x27;s actually extremely engaging, but significantly less monotonous form of driving. I find it quite pleasant, and not at all hard to stay engaged.<p>If I&#x27;m going to play a game on my phone, it&#x27;s because I&#x27;m choosing to risk my life and the lives of the drivers&#x2F;passengers around me, not because I couldn&#x27;t handle looking out the window to pay attention.</text></item><item><author>allovernow</author><text>&gt;With autopilot engaged, I am monitoring everything - probably with more accuracy then if I was driving, due to the decreased cognitive load.<p>This sounds like a false sense of security. I find it extremely difficult to believe that a typical human can maintain their attention glued to the road in a purely passive manner for hours on end. Even if you were paying attention, without your hands constantly on the steering wheel you would have a slowed reaction time where milliseconds matter.<p>More importantly this kind of vigilance defeats the purpose of autopilot. I&#x27;m not necessarily saying you&#x27;re doing anything dangerous since the autopilot function seems to be fairly safe, but your apologism comes across a bit like like an alcoholic claiming they drive better when drunk.</text></item><item><author>tristanb</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree with many of the points here. My partner bought a Tesla, I had little interest in them. I now would buy no other car. The autopilot has changed how I drive forever. We regularly take long three hour drives to get to a scenic spot that I would never consider doing in another car. With autopilot engaged, I am monitoring everything - probably with more accuracy then if I was driving, due to the decreased cognitive load. I don&#x27;t get tired, like I do in an other car, with all the negative effects that come with that.<p>Im a safe driver, and autopilot makes me better at driving. I am not surprised that if you don&#x27;t follow the instructions bad things can happen. (I believe statistically less than meat powered driving). That is on the human, not the technology.<p>The guy in the article was playing a phone game. He crashed into a barrier he had had problems with before.<p>Same guy, playing a phone game, whilst on cruise control in a BMW. Should we regulate that? No, we should regulate idiots in cars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>I&#x27;ve driven about 250,000 miles in the last 10 years (a lot of trips for work, coupled with a 50-mile commute for all but the last 2). 2 of 3 personal vehicles and 2 of the 5 work trucks were manual transmission.<p>Apparently it takes more than that to be an &quot;experienced driver&quot;, because lanekeeping and speed control leave me very fatigued after a 3 hour drive. I became accustomed to eating in at lunch diners and sitting down for dinner halfway home but other co-workers were not fatigued and could go through the drive through and eat in the truck.<p>It&#x27;s definitely easier than it was, and I don&#x27;t have to think about the mechanics much at all anymore when backing up a 5th wheel or controlling a truck sliding in the snow, but this human doesn&#x27;t have a chunk of my brain that can do lane centering automatically. That is not a universal brain function, every human can drive but it takes a lot more energy and concentration for some of us. My stress levels have gotten lower and my life has gotten a lot better since I realized that and cut my commute down to a 2.5 mile trip with ~monthly travel instead...</text></comment> | <story><title>Federal safety official slams Tesla, regulators for misuse of its Autopilot tech</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-02-25/tesla-autopilot-crash-hearing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eaurouge</author><text>&gt; You are no longer concerned with minute adjustments to the wheel, and you no longer have to maintain a constant high priority task of staying centered in the lines. Now, instead, you perform higher order functions of route planning, estimating traffic flow, observing other drivers and whether they are paying attention or drifting toward you, etc.<p>Staying centered in the lane should be muscle memory for an experienced driver. The higher order functions you mentioned are all things you should be doing regardless, with or without autopilot. I can perform those tasks just fine while driving a stick shift, most drivers can.<p>The other side of the coin is that reduced engagement in the driving process can lead to lapses in concentration. That&#x27;s not just my experience, it&#x27;s the same opinion expressed by F1 drivers tasked with bringing the lead car home in an unchallenging grand prix.</text></item><item><author>zaroth</author><text>It&#x27;s actually less exhausting than manual driving.<p>With manual driving you have to focus predominantly on one specific task - keeping your car between the lines. Bends in the road, poorly drawn lines, irregularities in the road surface, gusts of wind, all conspire to make this task require constant attention. Look in the rear view mirror for a couple seconds and then look back ahead and you might find that you&#x27;ve drifted, etc.<p>With AutoPilot the task has changed. You are no longer concerned with minute adjustments to the wheel, and you no longer have to maintain a constant high priority task of staying centered in the lines. Now, instead, you perform higher order functions of route planning, estimating traffic flow, observing other drivers and whether they are paying attention or drifting toward you, etc.<p>So by no means are you passive at all. It&#x27;s actually extremely engaging, but significantly less monotonous form of driving. I find it quite pleasant, and not at all hard to stay engaged.<p>If I&#x27;m going to play a game on my phone, it&#x27;s because I&#x27;m choosing to risk my life and the lives of the drivers&#x2F;passengers around me, not because I couldn&#x27;t handle looking out the window to pay attention.</text></item><item><author>allovernow</author><text>&gt;With autopilot engaged, I am monitoring everything - probably with more accuracy then if I was driving, due to the decreased cognitive load.<p>This sounds like a false sense of security. I find it extremely difficult to believe that a typical human can maintain their attention glued to the road in a purely passive manner for hours on end. Even if you were paying attention, without your hands constantly on the steering wheel you would have a slowed reaction time where milliseconds matter.<p>More importantly this kind of vigilance defeats the purpose of autopilot. I&#x27;m not necessarily saying you&#x27;re doing anything dangerous since the autopilot function seems to be fairly safe, but your apologism comes across a bit like like an alcoholic claiming they drive better when drunk.</text></item><item><author>tristanb</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree with many of the points here. My partner bought a Tesla, I had little interest in them. I now would buy no other car. The autopilot has changed how I drive forever. We regularly take long three hour drives to get to a scenic spot that I would never consider doing in another car. With autopilot engaged, I am monitoring everything - probably with more accuracy then if I was driving, due to the decreased cognitive load. I don&#x27;t get tired, like I do in an other car, with all the negative effects that come with that.<p>Im a safe driver, and autopilot makes me better at driving. I am not surprised that if you don&#x27;t follow the instructions bad things can happen. (I believe statistically less than meat powered driving). That is on the human, not the technology.<p>The guy in the article was playing a phone game. He crashed into a barrier he had had problems with before.<p>Same guy, playing a phone game, whilst on cruise control in a BMW. Should we regulate that? No, we should regulate idiots in cars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BluePen7</author><text>&gt; Staying in your lane should be muscle memory for an experienced driver<p>The amount of effort needed for this can vary wildly depending on the vehicle, it’s mechanical condition, and the speed it’s being driven at. Some vehicles are more prone to being bothered by wind, or grooves in the road, or require more constant adjustments to maintain lane position.<p>My tiredness is dependant on the vehicle.<p>I’ve had cars I’m exhausted from driving just after a 1 hour commute, and I’ve had a luxury sedan I could drive basically indefinitely (once did 3000 miles in 3 days, I didn’t mind it at all).<p>I wonder if the person you’re replying to previously drive a much less refined car, and would see most of the same benefits even when driving the Tesla manually.<p>Honestly the second part of their focus, simply being aware of their surroundings, should also be muscle memory for any experienced driver. That’s probably why they find driving so tiring, because they don’t plan ahead enough to keep a peaceful flow, rather than slightly too late scramble to gather information when they have to change lanes or something.</text></comment> |
10,474,938 | 10,474,779 | 1 | 3 | 10,474,161 | train | <story><title>Facebook Blocks Internet Pioneer “R.U. Sirius”</title><url>http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2015/10/ru-sirius-facebook-ken-goffman.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>habith</author><text>Excuse the poor pun but.. are you serious?<p>Facebook excluded several of your friends based on their terrible name policy. They run their walled garden however they want to. Your participation in it makes you (in your own words) a &quot;peasant&quot;.<p>Yet, you&#x27;re not trying to go all RMS about it and you continue to use it daily to give them more money&#x2F;power?<p>Do you see anything wrong with this picture?<p>Say what you want about RMS, but at least he&#x27;s principled and does&#x2F;says what he thinks instead of conforming to social norms.</text></item><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>Facebook has kinda chosen a path that sets them apart from, and often in active opposition to, the Internet RU Sirius envisioned. Facebook is antithetical to what a lot of folks wanted to see the Internet become, so it shouldn&#x27;t be surprising that the early visionaries of the Internet find themselves being excluded from participation in facebook on their own terms. Participation in facebook is on facebook&#x27;s terms, always, and it&#x27;s not surprising when they&#x27;re dicks who wield that power arbitrarily.<p>I&#x27;ve had several transgender friends excluded from participation in facebook based on this name policy, and I&#x27;ve known a wide variety of other people who use odd names for a wide variety of reasons (some silly, some deadly serious like trying to hide from an abusive ex) who&#x27;ve also been excluded from participation. Facebook makes pleasant noises about the policy and its implementation, but the reality is they&#x27;re not doing this for us, for the good of the world, or for the good of the open Internet.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to go all RMS about facebook; I have a facebook account, and I use it daily. But, facebook isn&#x27;t the Internet I envisioned, either. It is just another petty little walled garden where we&#x27;re all peasants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>It&#x27;s not reasonable to expect people to &quot;just not use facebook&quot;. Not that it&#x27;s not possible - it is (and I don&#x27;t use it), but it doesn&#x27;t mean facebook can just do whatever. Reposting an old comment of mine:<p>For a lot of people, Facebook <i>is</i> &quot;The Web&quot;. That&#x27;s all or almost all they use. The less tech-literate ones don&#x27;t even know &quot;the web&quot;, they connect to Facebook. They get their news from Facebook. They communicate on Facebook. Everything they do online, they do on Facebook.<p>Like someone mentioned above, when you get big enough you start to have responsibilities. When your actions affect and your voice is heard by billions of people, you&#x27;re no longer &quot;some random privately-owned website&quot;... you&#x27;re a supergiant with the ability to affect the entire world.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Blocks Internet Pioneer “R.U. Sirius”</title><url>http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2015/10/ru-sirius-facebook-ken-goffman.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>habith</author><text>Excuse the poor pun but.. are you serious?<p>Facebook excluded several of your friends based on their terrible name policy. They run their walled garden however they want to. Your participation in it makes you (in your own words) a &quot;peasant&quot;.<p>Yet, you&#x27;re not trying to go all RMS about it and you continue to use it daily to give them more money&#x2F;power?<p>Do you see anything wrong with this picture?<p>Say what you want about RMS, but at least he&#x27;s principled and does&#x2F;says what he thinks instead of conforming to social norms.</text></item><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>Facebook has kinda chosen a path that sets them apart from, and often in active opposition to, the Internet RU Sirius envisioned. Facebook is antithetical to what a lot of folks wanted to see the Internet become, so it shouldn&#x27;t be surprising that the early visionaries of the Internet find themselves being excluded from participation in facebook on their own terms. Participation in facebook is on facebook&#x27;s terms, always, and it&#x27;s not surprising when they&#x27;re dicks who wield that power arbitrarily.<p>I&#x27;ve had several transgender friends excluded from participation in facebook based on this name policy, and I&#x27;ve known a wide variety of other people who use odd names for a wide variety of reasons (some silly, some deadly serious like trying to hide from an abusive ex) who&#x27;ve also been excluded from participation. Facebook makes pleasant noises about the policy and its implementation, but the reality is they&#x27;re not doing this for us, for the good of the world, or for the good of the open Internet.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to go all RMS about facebook; I have a facebook account, and I use it daily. But, facebook isn&#x27;t the Internet I envisioned, either. It is just another petty little walled garden where we&#x27;re all peasants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SwellJoe</author><text>I am human, and my flaws are many.</text></comment> |
28,752,340 | 28,752,407 | 1 | 2 | 28,748,203 | train | <story><title>Facebook-owned sites were down</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cududa</author><text>I remember my first time having a meeting at Facebook and observing none of the doors had keyholes and thinking &quot;hope their badge system never goes down&quot;</text></item><item><author>okwubodu</author><text>I don’t know how true it is but a few reports claim employees can’t get into the building with their badges.</text></item><item><author>kiernanmcgowan</author><text>My suspicion is that since a lot of internal comms runs through the FB domain and since everyone is still WFH, then its probably a massive issue just to get people talking to each other to solve the problem.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>There&#x27;s still no connectivity to Facebook&#x27;s DNS servers:<p><pre><code> &gt; traceroute a.ns.facebook.com
traceroute to a.ns.facebook.com (129.134.30.12), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 dsldevice.attlocal.net (192.168.1.254) 0.484 ms 0.474 ms 0.422 ms
2 107-131-124-1.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net (107.131.124.1) 1.592 ms 1.657 ms 1.607 ms
3 71.148.149.196 (71.148.149.196) 1.676 ms 1.697 ms 1.705 ms
4 12.242.105.110 (12.242.105.110) 11.446 ms 11.482 ms 11.328 ms
5 12.122.163.34 (12.122.163.34) 7.641 ms 7.668 ms 11.438 ms
6 cr83.sj2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.158.9) 4.025 ms 3.368 ms 3.394 ms
7 * * *
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So they&#x27;re hours into this outage and still haven&#x27;t re-established connectivity to their own DNS servers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tablespoon</author><text>&gt; I remember my first time having a meeting at Facebook and observing none of the doors had keyholes and thinking &quot;hope their badge system never goes down&quot;<p>Every internet-connected physical system needs to have a sensible offline fallback mode. They should have had physical keys, or at least some kind of offline RFID validation (e.g. continue to validate the last N badges that had previously successfully validated).</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook-owned sites were down</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cududa</author><text>I remember my first time having a meeting at Facebook and observing none of the doors had keyholes and thinking &quot;hope their badge system never goes down&quot;</text></item><item><author>okwubodu</author><text>I don’t know how true it is but a few reports claim employees can’t get into the building with their badges.</text></item><item><author>kiernanmcgowan</author><text>My suspicion is that since a lot of internal comms runs through the FB domain and since everyone is still WFH, then its probably a massive issue just to get people talking to each other to solve the problem.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>There&#x27;s still no connectivity to Facebook&#x27;s DNS servers:<p><pre><code> &gt; traceroute a.ns.facebook.com
traceroute to a.ns.facebook.com (129.134.30.12), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 dsldevice.attlocal.net (192.168.1.254) 0.484 ms 0.474 ms 0.422 ms
2 107-131-124-1.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net (107.131.124.1) 1.592 ms 1.657 ms 1.607 ms
3 71.148.149.196 (71.148.149.196) 1.676 ms 1.697 ms 1.705 ms
4 12.242.105.110 (12.242.105.110) 11.446 ms 11.482 ms 11.328 ms
5 12.122.163.34 (12.122.163.34) 7.641 ms 7.668 ms 11.438 ms
6 cr83.sj2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.158.9) 4.025 ms 3.368 ms 3.394 ms
7 * * *
...
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So they&#x27;re hours into this outage and still haven&#x27;t re-established connectivity to their own DNS servers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>Breaking the glass to get in to fix the service is totally a good business move.<p>A few hundred bucks of glass Vs a billion wiped off the share price if the service is down for a day and all the user&#x27;s go find alternatives.</text></comment> |
22,932,343 | 22,932,144 | 1 | 2 | 22,930,965 | train | <story><title>A theory of Zoom fatigue</title><url>https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/a-theory-of-zoom-fatigue</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostdog</author><text>Lots of normal things about human interaction are broken in Zoom meetings.<p>* You can&#x27;t have a normal conversation with that much delay. Every time you talk you&#x27;re probably interrupting someone, and that starts to wear on you.<p>* You can&#x27;t have any side chats with your neighbors before and after the meeting, making everyone seem less like a person.<p>* You can&#x27;t tell who&#x27;s looking at you, so you always feel like you have to remain presentable and vigilant.<p>* There&#x27;s no sense of space. You can&#x27;t look over at person if whomever is talking just teleports to the center of the screen. Or if the layout is fixed, sound isn&#x27;t coming from anywhere in particular, so you need to search around for who&#x27;s talking. And everyone on screen is looking a random direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>So why the fixation on a video call? I&#x27;m probably just an old curmudgeon, but to me the benefits do not out weigh the oddities being discussed. Everyone wearing their pieces of flair with their &quot;personalized&quot; backgrounds are tiresome.<p>I can see the benefits of a screen share&#x2F;presentation, but I really don&#x27;t need to see the other people involved. I don&#x27;t care about tone of voice. I get sarcasm. For the people that don&#x27;t, then even if they can see them, the sarcasm isn&#x27;t more&#x2F;less because it&#x27;s a video call.<p>Video calls to me are just another version of &quot;Hey look at me!!!! I&#x27;m special&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>A theory of Zoom fatigue</title><url>https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/a-theory-of-zoom-fatigue</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lostdog</author><text>Lots of normal things about human interaction are broken in Zoom meetings.<p>* You can&#x27;t have a normal conversation with that much delay. Every time you talk you&#x27;re probably interrupting someone, and that starts to wear on you.<p>* You can&#x27;t have any side chats with your neighbors before and after the meeting, making everyone seem less like a person.<p>* You can&#x27;t tell who&#x27;s looking at you, so you always feel like you have to remain presentable and vigilant.<p>* There&#x27;s no sense of space. You can&#x27;t look over at person if whomever is talking just teleports to the center of the screen. Or if the layout is fixed, sound isn&#x27;t coming from anywhere in particular, so you need to search around for who&#x27;s talking. And everyone on screen is looking a random direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xioxox</author><text>In our (academic) meetings, people generally default to switching off their camera when there&#x27;s more than a handful of participants. I find this much less stressful. I can also do some physical activity which helps concentration if I&#x27;m just listening.</text></comment> |
22,940,853 | 22,940,618 | 1 | 3 | 22,938,901 | train | <story><title>Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/duo/4-new-google-duo-features-help-you-stay-connected/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Polylactic_acid</author><text>Everyone is commenting on the product but what I want to know is how on earth they are able to encode AV1 in real time. I tried AV1 encoding a few months ago and was getting about 0.3fps encoding 1080p video on an i7 4770k. I&#x27;m guessing the default settings on the av1 encoder are more focused on size over speed but still, how could they be getting 30fps video encoded in real time on a phone..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>The speed of an encoder really comes down to how many optimizations it&#x27;s searching through. The AV1 format allows a lot more options when encoding, so encoder writers kinda feel obligated to try a bunch of them out to see if they save bandwidth. But if instead a codec just picked a few optimizations and ignored the rest, it could be pretty fast. Maybe Google just found a set that worked well for an average video chat.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/duo/4-new-google-duo-features-help-you-stay-connected/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Polylactic_acid</author><text>Everyone is commenting on the product but what I want to know is how on earth they are able to encode AV1 in real time. I tried AV1 encoding a few months ago and was getting about 0.3fps encoding 1080p video on an i7 4770k. I&#x27;m guessing the default settings on the av1 encoder are more focused on size over speed but still, how could they be getting 30fps video encoded in real time on a phone..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plorkyeran</author><text>I&#x27;m going to boldly guess that you were encoding at a significantly higher bitrate than the 30kbps they mention on the page. The lossless bitstream compression part of video encoding can be a very significant portion of the encoding time on faster speed settings, so lower bitrate means faster encodes.<p>It also probably isn&#x27;t 30 fps.</text></comment> |
17,896,259 | 17,896,104 | 1 | 2 | 17,894,664 | train | <story><title>Time Series Prediction Using LSTM Deep Neural Networks</title><url>https://www.altumintelligence.com/articles/a/Time-Series-Prediction-Using-LSTM-Deep-Neural-Networks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jarym</author><text>Why does everyone naively try to predict price? No ‘traders’ are interested in predicting it - what traders do is identify good locations to enter or exit the market.<p>I.e. places with defined risk where you will know if you’re wrong if it goes against you by x% while you expect a y% gain if you’re right AND y&gt;x is worth more than the number of times you’re wrong.<p>The types of Algos that work well for this are edge identification ones - I know this because I am (not as well as I’d like) successfully doing it.<p>LSTMs haven’t performed so well for me in this task but non-NN algos have. CNNs however were promising but didn’t match what I’d come up with - still searching for the holy grail that’ll make me rich!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beagle3</author><text>.. because you buy at the price, and sell at the price (spread and fees ignored for now).<p>Which means, regardless of your philosophy, you are predicting a price change - a long signal is a prediction for positive price change; a short signal is a prediction for a negative price change. If that wasn’t true, your system would not be able to profit.<p>Predicting price change and predicting price are semantically equivalent, although a specific algorithm might be better at one than the other.</text></comment> | <story><title>Time Series Prediction Using LSTM Deep Neural Networks</title><url>https://www.altumintelligence.com/articles/a/Time-Series-Prediction-Using-LSTM-Deep-Neural-Networks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jarym</author><text>Why does everyone naively try to predict price? No ‘traders’ are interested in predicting it - what traders do is identify good locations to enter or exit the market.<p>I.e. places with defined risk where you will know if you’re wrong if it goes against you by x% while you expect a y% gain if you’re right AND y&gt;x is worth more than the number of times you’re wrong.<p>The types of Algos that work well for this are edge identification ones - I know this because I am (not as well as I’d like) successfully doing it.<p>LSTMs haven’t performed so well for me in this task but non-NN algos have. CNNs however were promising but didn’t match what I’d come up with - still searching for the holy grail that’ll make me rich!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmroanirgo</author><text>&gt; Why does everyone naively try to predict price? No ‘traders’ are interested in predicting it - what traders do is identify good locations to enter or exit the market.<p>I agree.<p>I&#x27;ve built many systems in this area, but it wasn&#x27;t until I started working in the Indian market (&gt;10 yrs ago) that it became abundantly clear that trying to calculate the long&#x2F;shorts signals using historical (&#x2F;time series) data was a waste of time. (And yet my primary role was to provide tools that did exactly that).<p>Back then, in the indian market, you could see that most of the stocks, although skyrocketing upwards, all followed the slow vs fast moving averages to buy and sell! Back then, they weren&#x27;t looking at RSI, stochastics, support lines, etc, etc. It was crazily predictable...but over time it was really interesting to see it become more haphazard and like western stocks. That is, the fundamentals came into play and as you say, the traders began to use other metrics to buy and sell.</text></comment> |
12,044,776 | 12,044,533 | 1 | 2 | 12,044,127 | train | <story><title>Later Stage Advice for Startups</title><url>http://themacro.com/articles/2016/07/later-stage-advice-for-startups/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hacknat</author><text>I think really good advice to late stage companies, before any of this stuff, is, &quot;Have you actually found product&#x2F;market fit?&quot; If so, what is the product, what is the market?<p>I have spent a lot of time with startups (as an employee), and I have never seen this question answered properly, at least up close.<p>Very often product&#x2F;market fit becomes &quot;We&#x27;ve solved all these peoples&#x27; problems and they pay us money.&quot; The problem? The problems and the people are all different. I&#x27;ve witnessed so many companies turn themselves into specialized consulting companies thinking they&#x27;ve built the product that&#x27;s going to take them to the finish line, when all they&#x27;ve really done is networked their way into solving a bunch of separate business problems for their network. A product should be so good that your users are almost embarrassed to file support tickets.<p>IMO, sama is wrong to suggest founders take their eye off the product ball at all (even just a little) until they are 1000% sure they&#x27;ve built a machine that will scale, and now all they have to do is scale it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Later Stage Advice for Startups</title><url>http://themacro.com/articles/2016/07/later-stage-advice-for-startups/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RKoutnik</author><text>sama, if you&#x27;re reading this, I&#x27;d love to hear more about<p>&gt; Senior People: In the early days, hiring senior people is usually a mistake.<p>I know a lot of folks (including myself) are of the opposite opinion - it&#x27;s a mistake to hire non-seniors to build the first round. Senior folks can often see pitfalls ahead of time and dodge them, saving valuable time while the company is pre-product&#x2F;market fit. I can think of plenty of definitions of &quot;Senior&quot; that I _wouldn&#x27;t_ hire (overspecialized, &#x27;senior&#x27; in years only) though. Our disagreement may only be one of definitions [0].<p>I have seen startups die due to lack of talent early on (I worked at a startup that died due to technical debt, but that&#x27;s another story). What scenarios have you seen that were caused by senior folks that causes you to see hiring them as a mistake?<p>[0] More on my opinions on what &#x27;senior&#x27; should mean: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rkoutnik.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;21&#x2F;implementers-solvers-and-finders.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rkoutnik.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;21&#x2F;implementers-solvers-and-fin...</a></text></comment> |
32,227,676 | 32,227,401 | 1 | 2 | 32,226,910 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours?</title><text>I&#x27;m a technical writer in his late 20&#x27;s working remotely for a company based in New York. My background is in software development, but I took this job because at the time it was easier for me to find work as a technical writer than as a software engineer (and because I saw technical writing as close enough in spirit). I started the job this past fall.<p>In a nutshell, I&#x27;m dissatisfied with how my life is going. I can&#x27;t galvanize myself to do anything. I&#x27;m on the clock right now, and here I am complaining about my life instead.<p>I don&#x27;t give a damn about my employer, or the product it makes. I can&#x27;t get interested in it. I can&#x27;t get excited about the tedious parts of my work, and I can&#x27;t even get excited about _automating and eliminating_ the tedious parts of my work.<p>And it&#x27;s not just my day job. I&#x27;m ostensibly working on a game on the side, but I haven&#x27;t touched it in months. I&#x27;m not even sure I want to continue it, as I&#x27;ve been working on it for years without being able to fulfill my goals for it. And this is coming from someone who got into computer science _because_ of video games.<p>Things that used to bring me joy...don&#x27;t, any more. All I really look forward to these days is getting high and playing video games or watching Seinfeld reruns each weekend. And even that barely tickles my fancy these days! There&#x27;s a game coming out this week that I <i>should</i> be excited for (because I love the series it&#x27;s part of), yet I can&#x27;t even galvanize myself to purchase it.<p>I can barely even open my IDE at work, as it greets me with dread where I once found joy and ambition.<p>Also, I have ADHD. This is probably relevant, but I haven&#x27;t quite figured out how.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure I&#x27;m not the only person here who&#x27;s ever felt like this, so my question is this: *if you&#x27;ve ever been in this kind of rut, what was the nature of that rut and what did you do about it?*<p>Also, one thing I&#x27;d like to clarify: I&#x27;m not suicidal.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>&gt; All I really look forward to these days is getting high and playing video games or watching Seinfeld reruns each weekend<p>Not saying it&#x27;s the only cause of your problems, but you shouldn&#x27;t underestimate the affect that getting high can have on how you feel when you&#x27;re not high (especially if it&#x27;s an every day or most days thing). Consider a (say 3-6 month) detox.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asauce</author><text>I really recommend everyone to listen to Andrew Huberman&#x27;s podcast [0] on Dopamine and how it affects motivation, focus, and satisfaction.<p>Many people see Dopamine as just a pleasure chemical, but it actually directly influences motivation and focus. We also all have a somewhat set amount of dopamine in a day, so participating in activities that release a short peak of dopamine (drugs, masturbation, etc) means that we have less dopamine, and therefore less motivation for the rest of the day.<p>I was also recently in a low motivation rut, however after making some lifestyle changes I feel much more motivated throughout the day. I stopped getting high, cut out all porn, and added 2 min of a cold water at the end of my regular shower. It was tough to start, but 100% worth it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QmOF0crdyRU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QmOF0crdyRU</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours?</title><text>I&#x27;m a technical writer in his late 20&#x27;s working remotely for a company based in New York. My background is in software development, but I took this job because at the time it was easier for me to find work as a technical writer than as a software engineer (and because I saw technical writing as close enough in spirit). I started the job this past fall.<p>In a nutshell, I&#x27;m dissatisfied with how my life is going. I can&#x27;t galvanize myself to do anything. I&#x27;m on the clock right now, and here I am complaining about my life instead.<p>I don&#x27;t give a damn about my employer, or the product it makes. I can&#x27;t get interested in it. I can&#x27;t get excited about the tedious parts of my work, and I can&#x27;t even get excited about _automating and eliminating_ the tedious parts of my work.<p>And it&#x27;s not just my day job. I&#x27;m ostensibly working on a game on the side, but I haven&#x27;t touched it in months. I&#x27;m not even sure I want to continue it, as I&#x27;ve been working on it for years without being able to fulfill my goals for it. And this is coming from someone who got into computer science _because_ of video games.<p>Things that used to bring me joy...don&#x27;t, any more. All I really look forward to these days is getting high and playing video games or watching Seinfeld reruns each weekend. And even that barely tickles my fancy these days! There&#x27;s a game coming out this week that I <i>should</i> be excited for (because I love the series it&#x27;s part of), yet I can&#x27;t even galvanize myself to purchase it.<p>I can barely even open my IDE at work, as it greets me with dread where I once found joy and ambition.<p>Also, I have ADHD. This is probably relevant, but I haven&#x27;t quite figured out how.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure I&#x27;m not the only person here who&#x27;s ever felt like this, so my question is this: *if you&#x27;ve ever been in this kind of rut, what was the nature of that rut and what did you do about it?*<p>Also, one thing I&#x27;d like to clarify: I&#x27;m not suicidal.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>&gt; All I really look forward to these days is getting high and playing video games or watching Seinfeld reruns each weekend<p>Not saying it&#x27;s the only cause of your problems, but you shouldn&#x27;t underestimate the affect that getting high can have on how you feel when you&#x27;re not high (especially if it&#x27;s an every day or most days thing). Consider a (say 3-6 month) detox.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gedy</author><text>Yeah it&#x27;s interesting to me how little this gets talked about now days, but back in the 80s teenagers called it &quot;antimotivational syndrome&quot;[0] to describe what happens to stoners.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Amotivational_syndrome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Amotivational_syndrome</a></text></comment> |
36,212,203 | 36,211,186 | 1 | 2 | 36,208,568 | train | <story><title>Why SQLite is so great for the edge</title><url>https://blog.turso.tech/why-sqlite-is-so-great-for-the-edge-ee00a3a9a55f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jgrahamc</author><text>This no need to compile SQLite into your Cloudflare Worker. We provide it native on our platform as D1. And it gives you replication. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;d1-turning-it-up-to-11&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;d1-turning-it-up-to-11&#x2F;</a><p>Also, I think the idea of “edge” doesn’t make a ton of sense. What we really need is code and data that move around as needed for the best performance. See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;announcing-workers-smart-placement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;announcing-workers-smart-placeme...</a><p>What people call “edge” is a single optimization bringing code near the user. I think we should go far beyond that. Sure, use something like Cloudflare Workers for your “edge” needs (ie bringing your React app close to the end user&#x2F;doing server side rendering). But don’t stop there because where data resides, what APIs you call are all going to matter.<p>That&#x27;s the vision of something I called the &quot;Supercloud&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;welcome-to-the-supercloud-and-developer-week-2022&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;welcome-to-the-supercloud-and-de...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>haolez</author><text>How&#x27;s D1 meant to be used, since it has a very small maximum size (100mb I believe)? Should I create one database per user, for example? Genuine question.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why SQLite is so great for the edge</title><url>https://blog.turso.tech/why-sqlite-is-so-great-for-the-edge-ee00a3a9a55f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jgrahamc</author><text>This no need to compile SQLite into your Cloudflare Worker. We provide it native on our platform as D1. And it gives you replication. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;d1-turning-it-up-to-11&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;d1-turning-it-up-to-11&#x2F;</a><p>Also, I think the idea of “edge” doesn’t make a ton of sense. What we really need is code and data that move around as needed for the best performance. See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;announcing-workers-smart-placement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;announcing-workers-smart-placeme...</a><p>What people call “edge” is a single optimization bringing code near the user. I think we should go far beyond that. Sure, use something like Cloudflare Workers for your “edge” needs (ie bringing your React app close to the end user&#x2F;doing server side rendering). But don’t stop there because where data resides, what APIs you call are all going to matter.<p>That&#x27;s the vision of something I called the &quot;Supercloud&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;welcome-to-the-supercloud-and-developer-week-2022&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;welcome-to-the-supercloud-and-de...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dgellow</author><text>Thank for sharing this, that makes lot of sense to me. The focus on running everything on edge has been confusing to me for a while due to the increased db latency. That makes so much sense to dynamically move processing to the best location in the current network instead of the binary choice “close to db”, “close to users”.</text></comment> |
11,160,234 | 11,159,857 | 1 | 2 | 11,154,294 | train | <story><title>Map of battles fought since 2500 B.C</title><url>http://battles.nodegoat.net/viewer.p/23/385/scenario/3/geo/fullscreen</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tallanvor</author><text>The creator&#x27;s definition of a &quot;battle&quot; is very different than how most people would define them. A just one example: this site considers the 1980 siege at the Iranian Embassy in London as a battle, which I doubt most people would agree with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frandroid</author><text>It&#x27;s missing lots of rap battles though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Map of battles fought since 2500 B.C</title><url>http://battles.nodegoat.net/viewer.p/23/385/scenario/3/geo/fullscreen</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tallanvor</author><text>The creator&#x27;s definition of a &quot;battle&quot; is very different than how most people would define them. A just one example: this site considers the 1980 siege at the Iranian Embassy in London as a battle, which I doubt most people would agree with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dtparr</author><text>Yep, it describes accidentally loading nuclear cruise missiles on a bomber as a battle:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dbpedia.org&#x2F;page&#x2F;2007_United_States_Air_Force_nuclear_weapons_incident" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dbpedia.org&#x2F;page&#x2F;2007_United_States_Air_Force_nuclear...</a></text></comment> |
6,215,840 | 6,215,162 | 1 | 2 | 6,213,885 | train | <story><title>Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists</title><url>http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/08/14/211945779/is-there-a-giant-life-form-lurking-in-our-solar-system-possibly-say-scientists</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>dm2</author><text>I&#x27;m still having a hard time contemplating the fact that WE exist.<p>Sitting in front of our flat monitors with access to nearly all information which is stored all around planet Earth.<p>Phones that connect us to billions of people.<p>Brains large enough to hypothesize the creation of the universe.<p>We can create rockets that send probes to other planets and even the edge of our solar system.<p>We regularly travel around in amazing personal vehicles that allow us to travel at over 100 mph in about 10 seconds.<p>The fact that each one of us had about one quadrillionth percent chance of even being born, yet here we are.<p>The fact that we can even talk and communicate effectively is amazing.<p>We can imagine future technologies and have goals to work towards such as immortality, brain-computer interfaces, teleportation, and mining asteroids.<p>We have so much to be thankful for. Everything is amazing.<p>WTF. [0]<p>I have a dog that can&#x27;t do anything but eat, pee, poop, and play fetch. What kind of activities do other organisms do that humans can&#x27;t do? Other than telepathy, and flight, and breathing without oxygen, and energy creation through sunlight.<p>Yet we still make fellow humans and animals suffer daily. We eat shit food and get depressed and some people even try to kill themselves. We have concepts like good and evil and actually hate other humans just because they are not exactly like our culture or have more stuff than we do. We have enough nuclear missiles in the ocean to eradicate life on earth.<p>Terraforming mars will be fun. I hope that I live to see the start of that adventure. The next 100 years in general will be very fun. I&#x27;m extremely glad that I get to be a part of this awesome world at this extraordinary time in human history. Please, nobody fuck it up too bad.<p>My point is, regarding the article, ANYTHING is possible. God is possible, ghosts are possible, flying spaghetti monsters are possible but until I see a video with convincing explanation or accredited scientists agree that something is very likely, is there really any point of just making up stuff?<p>Mars having a thriving self-sustaining human-like civilization underground is possible. Aliens living among us for several years is possible. No scientist will say that either of those hypothesis are absolutely impossible, but there is no point in proposing it unless you&#x27;re writing a science fiction novel&#x2F;movie&#x2F;comic book.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inportb</author><text>Meanwhile, <i>this</i> dog is doing science. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAKS7mQTw0k" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=fAKS7mQTw0k</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists</title><url>http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/08/14/211945779/is-there-a-giant-life-form-lurking-in-our-solar-system-possibly-say-scientists</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>dm2</author><text>I&#x27;m still having a hard time contemplating the fact that WE exist.<p>Sitting in front of our flat monitors with access to nearly all information which is stored all around planet Earth.<p>Phones that connect us to billions of people.<p>Brains large enough to hypothesize the creation of the universe.<p>We can create rockets that send probes to other planets and even the edge of our solar system.<p>We regularly travel around in amazing personal vehicles that allow us to travel at over 100 mph in about 10 seconds.<p>The fact that each one of us had about one quadrillionth percent chance of even being born, yet here we are.<p>The fact that we can even talk and communicate effectively is amazing.<p>We can imagine future technologies and have goals to work towards such as immortality, brain-computer interfaces, teleportation, and mining asteroids.<p>We have so much to be thankful for. Everything is amazing.<p>WTF. [0]<p>I have a dog that can&#x27;t do anything but eat, pee, poop, and play fetch. What kind of activities do other organisms do that humans can&#x27;t do? Other than telepathy, and flight, and breathing without oxygen, and energy creation through sunlight.<p>Yet we still make fellow humans and animals suffer daily. We eat shit food and get depressed and some people even try to kill themselves. We have concepts like good and evil and actually hate other humans just because they are not exactly like our culture or have more stuff than we do. We have enough nuclear missiles in the ocean to eradicate life on earth.<p>Terraforming mars will be fun. I hope that I live to see the start of that adventure. The next 100 years in general will be very fun. I&#x27;m extremely glad that I get to be a part of this awesome world at this extraordinary time in human history. Please, nobody fuck it up too bad.<p>My point is, regarding the article, ANYTHING is possible. God is possible, ghosts are possible, flying spaghetti monsters are possible but until I see a video with convincing explanation or accredited scientists agree that something is very likely, is there really any point of just making up stuff?<p>Mars having a thriving self-sustaining human-like civilization underground is possible. Aliens living among us for several years is possible. No scientist will say that either of those hypothesis are absolutely impossible, but there is no point in proposing it unless you&#x27;re writing a science fiction novel&#x2F;movie&#x2F;comic book.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuiA</author><text>&gt; WTF. [0]<p>Did you forget a footnote? :)</text></comment> |
37,758,633 | 37,755,881 | 1 | 3 | 37,754,489 | train | <story><title>Honey, I shrunk the NPM package</title><url>https://jamiemagee.co.uk/blog/honey-i-shrunk-the-npm-package/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>What to cut total NPM traffic by 50% or more overall? Easy:<p>Create a shared Brotli dictionary (or zstandard or whatever) based on the top NPM packages by download bandwidth and then have all npm packages compressed using it.<p>I think this can be done server side by npmjs.org, where NPM packages are recompressed in this fashion after upload using the shared dictionary, thus it is an optional feature and fully backwards compatible.<p>Riffing on this idea because of this new chrome feature, which does this in a flexible fashion:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromestatus.com&#x2F;feature&#x2F;5124977788977152" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromestatus.com&#x2F;feature&#x2F;5124977788977152</a><p>EDIT: This recompression of packages may be insecure as the digital signature of the package no longer aligns, but then the trick is to sign the contents of the package rather than package itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shanemhansen</author><text>It would be a fun test to run. But I&#x27;m not encouraged by the fact that the existing brotli dictionary already contains a bunch of javascript specific stuff:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;klauspost&#x2F;2900d5ba6f9b65d69c8e" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;klauspost&#x2F;2900d5ba6f9b65d69c8e</a><p>brotli literally already has a tokens for function&#x2F;return&#x2F;throw&#x2F;indexOf(&#x2F;.match&#x2F;.length&#x2F;etc.<p>Also verify after decompress is not without tradeoffs. On one hand we have folks like github who can&#x27;t change the version of zlib because people rely on identical .tar.gz. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34586917">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34586917</a><p>On the other hand we have a whole lot of iffy stuff you can do to make programs decompressing content use large amounts of resources <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Zip_bomb" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Zip_bomb</a> which makes &quot;decompress this potentially untrusted file so that I can validate it&#x27;s safe to use&quot; hard.</text></comment> | <story><title>Honey, I shrunk the NPM package</title><url>https://jamiemagee.co.uk/blog/honey-i-shrunk-the-npm-package/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>What to cut total NPM traffic by 50% or more overall? Easy:<p>Create a shared Brotli dictionary (or zstandard or whatever) based on the top NPM packages by download bandwidth and then have all npm packages compressed using it.<p>I think this can be done server side by npmjs.org, where NPM packages are recompressed in this fashion after upload using the shared dictionary, thus it is an optional feature and fully backwards compatible.<p>Riffing on this idea because of this new chrome feature, which does this in a flexible fashion:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromestatus.com&#x2F;feature&#x2F;5124977788977152" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromestatus.com&#x2F;feature&#x2F;5124977788977152</a><p>EDIT: This recompression of packages may be insecure as the digital signature of the package no longer aligns, but then the trick is to sign the contents of the package rather than package itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IshKebab</author><text>50%? I doubt that, unless your dictionary is <i>literally</i> the top NPM packages, in which case you&#x27;re not saving much bandwidth by sending them all in advance...<p>Maybe a small dictionary would save you 20% though.</text></comment> |
35,300,256 | 35,297,451 | 1 | 2 | 35,297,074 | train | <story><title>We ran a phone check at a Y Combinator event in SF</title><url>https://blog.getclearspace.com/we-ran-a-phone-check-at-a-ycombinator-event-in-san-francisco-heres-how-it-went-fb920a54c755</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>I’m just not inclined to surrender my phone to anyone for any reason. Maybe my sense of security is out of date, but it was drummed into me over years and years that physical access was a big deal.<p>That said, I fully support the idea of being phoneless in personal conversations. I was having lunch earlier this week with someone I hadn’t seen in a long time, and was determined to keep my phone in my pocket. It definitely took some willpower to ignore it when I felt it buzzing a few times.<p>I heavily curate my alerts so I knew these were messages from someone important to me. But sure enough, when I checked them after lunch it was all things that were totally fine to wait for an hour or so. And it was nice to be fully present for lunch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>version_five</author><text>Working in some (tbh mostly theatrical) high security environments, I&#x27;ve had to surrender my phone before going into a room. In the organizations that do this, they have lock boxes outside the room for this purpose. You lock your phone in and take the key with you. Still requires some trust but better than just leaving it with a couple guys, and is common practice in some places.</text></comment> | <story><title>We ran a phone check at a Y Combinator event in SF</title><url>https://blog.getclearspace.com/we-ran-a-phone-check-at-a-ycombinator-event-in-san-francisco-heres-how-it-went-fb920a54c755</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>I’m just not inclined to surrender my phone to anyone for any reason. Maybe my sense of security is out of date, but it was drummed into me over years and years that physical access was a big deal.<p>That said, I fully support the idea of being phoneless in personal conversations. I was having lunch earlier this week with someone I hadn’t seen in a long time, and was determined to keep my phone in my pocket. It definitely took some willpower to ignore it when I felt it buzzing a few times.<p>I heavily curate my alerts so I knew these were messages from someone important to me. But sure enough, when I checked them after lunch it was all things that were totally fine to wait for an hour or so. And it was nice to be fully present for lunch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mey</author><text>Considering the amount of MFA attached to my phone plus communication access, my phone is a potentially more useful thing to steal than my wallet. Then again I rarely have cash on hand any more.</text></comment> |
34,206,218 | 34,205,038 | 1 | 2 | 34,191,749 | train | <story><title>Raspberry Pi security alarm – the basics</title><url>https://blog.cavelab.dev/2022/12/rpi-security-alarm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>This is an excellent article, detailed and thoughtful. Thanks.<p>Got me thinking about some business things, and apologies if this goes
off topic....<p>50 years ago there were a wealth of books for electronic hobbyists to
build things like this - home automation, home security, plant
irrigation systems and suchlike.<p>Later an industry sprang up to make products for this market which was
initially niche and geeky. Small companies became big companies. Big
companies became shitty, extractive, exploitative monopoly companies
as the author describes.<p>Today we lament an apparent choice between &quot;convenience&quot; and &quot;too much
work to do yourself&quot;. The cynics and naysayers are always keen to
point out just how few people can accomplish anything like this - and
that is indeed true.<p>But between the lonely hobbyist with soldering iron in hand, and the
big technology company was an era that seems almost dead today (for
many reasons like customer support and reliable sourcing). It was the
kit movement. Many of the early microcomputers were in fact kits.
Clive Sinclair first offered the ZX80 as a &quot;solder it yourself&quot; job.
Heathkit hifi and music synthesisers were a big thing for a while.<p>Many people who couldn&#x27;t build a home system like this might be
interested in a DIY solution if they had a big helping hand up. I
wonder what happened to the kit economy and why it doesn&#x27;t work as a
business model any more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>I see quite the opposite happening...<p>&quot;back in the day&quot;, it was hard to get anything, computers were expensive, electronics (except very basic) were hard to source, and prebuilt software (for whatever custom use) was non-existant.<p>Now, a microcontroller with wifi and bluetooth is &lt;$5, a computer&#x2F;server for running code is ~$50 (if you manage to find a raspberrypi, or a bit more for a micro pc), wireless interfaces (zigbee, bluetooth) are cheap, prebuilt code for sensors (tasmota, esphome,...) is very mature and stable, central management systems (home assistant,...) are stable and support pretty much everything...<p>The only problem I see is, that a lot of people have lost their tinkering capabilities and don&#x27;t want to get their hands dirty compared to &quot;back then&quot; when a lot of stuff needed getting your hands dirty and more people went along the DIY path.</text></comment> | <story><title>Raspberry Pi security alarm – the basics</title><url>https://blog.cavelab.dev/2022/12/rpi-security-alarm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>This is an excellent article, detailed and thoughtful. Thanks.<p>Got me thinking about some business things, and apologies if this goes
off topic....<p>50 years ago there were a wealth of books for electronic hobbyists to
build things like this - home automation, home security, plant
irrigation systems and suchlike.<p>Later an industry sprang up to make products for this market which was
initially niche and geeky. Small companies became big companies. Big
companies became shitty, extractive, exploitative monopoly companies
as the author describes.<p>Today we lament an apparent choice between &quot;convenience&quot; and &quot;too much
work to do yourself&quot;. The cynics and naysayers are always keen to
point out just how few people can accomplish anything like this - and
that is indeed true.<p>But between the lonely hobbyist with soldering iron in hand, and the
big technology company was an era that seems almost dead today (for
many reasons like customer support and reliable sourcing). It was the
kit movement. Many of the early microcomputers were in fact kits.
Clive Sinclair first offered the ZX80 as a &quot;solder it yourself&quot; job.
Heathkit hifi and music synthesisers were a big thing for a while.<p>Many people who couldn&#x27;t build a home system like this might be
interested in a DIY solution if they had a big helping hand up. I
wonder what happened to the kit economy and why it doesn&#x27;t work as a
business model any more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minimalist</author><text>I think the software dimension adds some fuzziness to what can be considered a complete &#x27;kit&#x27;. For instance, I&#x27;ve been able to piece together a voice assistant using a Matrix Creator [0] and a home alarm retrofit using Konnected [1] that is more tailored to my needs than any commercial offering could be. Both projects can be thought of as kits, but one can take any number of paths toward setting up and maintaining the software behind the system. Furthermore, the pace of development is so quick that a particular system may lose development interest to a newer sexier project, and if your system connects with third-party APIs, that is always a moving target.<p>So, I think the spirit of kits lives on, just in a different way :)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.matrix.one&#x2F;products&#x2F;creator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.matrix.one&#x2F;products&#x2F;creator</a>
[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;konnected.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;konnected.io&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
10,637,759 | 10,637,782 | 1 | 3 | 10,636,818 | train | <story><title>The Triumph of Stupidity (1933)</title><url>http://russell-j.com/0583TS.HTM</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hoorayimhelping</author><text>&gt;<i>There is a large chunk of society who&#x27;re easily swayed by purely emotional rhetoric based on in-groups and out-groups</i><p>I think this sentence is the biggest indicator of the problem. The Problem being not that there are large parts of society swayed by emotional rhetoric, but that to most people, the emotional swaying happens to <i>others</i>. It&#x27;s never me who&#x27;s swayed by emotions, it&#x27;s always less rational people, and if only those people could get their shit together, <i>like me</i>, we&#x27;d be in a much better place.<p>You&#x27;re just as swayed by emotion as those non nerds, you&#x27;re just swayed on different values. Pretending like you&#x27;re above it gets us nowhere, because it perpetuates an unhelpful me vs everyone else mentality. It&#x27;s very satisfying to the ego but it just serves to further drive a wedge between you and everyone else.</text></item><item><author>jasim</author><text>In &quot;How to Make Wealth&quot;, pg points out that the emergence of the rule of law made the modern economy as we know it possible. It did - social progress has made institutions like democracy and ideas like liberty and rationalism more popular than it has ever been in history.<p>This used to give me a dangerously false sense of optimism - that the modern society is a stable scientific one, where good intelligent people are in charge, and that the state of affairs are always improving. This notion partly came from the privilege of never having lived in a war-zone. The life of chaos of those who are unfortunate to be in one is even now beyond my understanding.<p>I think that the idea that humanity is always marching forward to better days is something implicit among people who live in peaceful affluent societies. But if you look at history, the world has always gone through cycles. No matter how much we improve socially, a regression seems almost inevitable. The Roman Empire did fall, and was followed by the Dark Ages.<p>Even in the most democratic countries of the world, fascism is only just around the corner. There is a large chunk of society who&#x27;re easily swayed by purely emotional rhetoric based on in-groups and out-groups, and likes to follow leaders who make a show of macho masculinity. The status-quo is pretty fragile. The nerds aren&#x27;t safe. Those with warrior tendencies always have upper-hand over those with nation-building tendencies, and that reads like a tautology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcguire</author><text>That&#x27;s what struck me most about the article, as well. Russell&#x27;s essay is very flattering, until you realize the <i>we</i> that he terms &quot;the best men of the present day&quot; are probably not the <i>we</i> of Hacker News.<p>In particular, when Russell writes about &quot;the philosophical radicals ... who were just as sure of themselves as the Hitlerites are[, who] dominated politics and ... advanced [the world] rapidly both in intelligence and in material well-being,&quot; he is very likely writing about people who would definitely be a Hacker News <i>they</i>, given what I know about his politics and given statements like &quot;if at any future time there should be danger of a Labour Government that meant business, [the British Fascists] would win the support of most of the governing classes.&quot;<p>So, if this essay leaves you with a warm and fuzzy feeling about your &quot;wider and truer outlook&quot; and the feeling that you are being oppressed because of your &quot;skepticism and intellectual individualism&quot;, well, congratulations! You&#x27;ve discovered the power of emotional rhetoric.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Triumph of Stupidity (1933)</title><url>http://russell-j.com/0583TS.HTM</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hoorayimhelping</author><text>&gt;<i>There is a large chunk of society who&#x27;re easily swayed by purely emotional rhetoric based on in-groups and out-groups</i><p>I think this sentence is the biggest indicator of the problem. The Problem being not that there are large parts of society swayed by emotional rhetoric, but that to most people, the emotional swaying happens to <i>others</i>. It&#x27;s never me who&#x27;s swayed by emotions, it&#x27;s always less rational people, and if only those people could get their shit together, <i>like me</i>, we&#x27;d be in a much better place.<p>You&#x27;re just as swayed by emotion as those non nerds, you&#x27;re just swayed on different values. Pretending like you&#x27;re above it gets us nowhere, because it perpetuates an unhelpful me vs everyone else mentality. It&#x27;s very satisfying to the ego but it just serves to further drive a wedge between you and everyone else.</text></item><item><author>jasim</author><text>In &quot;How to Make Wealth&quot;, pg points out that the emergence of the rule of law made the modern economy as we know it possible. It did - social progress has made institutions like democracy and ideas like liberty and rationalism more popular than it has ever been in history.<p>This used to give me a dangerously false sense of optimism - that the modern society is a stable scientific one, where good intelligent people are in charge, and that the state of affairs are always improving. This notion partly came from the privilege of never having lived in a war-zone. The life of chaos of those who are unfortunate to be in one is even now beyond my understanding.<p>I think that the idea that humanity is always marching forward to better days is something implicit among people who live in peaceful affluent societies. But if you look at history, the world has always gone through cycles. No matter how much we improve socially, a regression seems almost inevitable. The Roman Empire did fall, and was followed by the Dark Ages.<p>Even in the most democratic countries of the world, fascism is only just around the corner. There is a large chunk of society who&#x27;re easily swayed by purely emotional rhetoric based on in-groups and out-groups, and likes to follow leaders who make a show of macho masculinity. The status-quo is pretty fragile. The nerds aren&#x27;t safe. Those with warrior tendencies always have upper-hand over those with nation-building tendencies, and that reads like a tautology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>decayza</author><text>This is why liberal intelectuals are so paralyzed. Yes of course we&#x27;re emotional too. And yes we can be swayed. But life is not black and white. The best of us has managed to develop a resistance to this kind of rhetoric by a life of study, debate, examining common rhetorical tricks etc. And it&#x27;s not just different values that drives us. It&#x27;s values that has carried us through a century of carnage into a much better life. We need to stop apologising and invoking bullshit relativistic cultural arguments and show some pride in basic values like equality for women, freedom of speech etc. I kind of think that&#x27;s the central point that Bertrand Russell is making we paralyze each other by focusing on any potential error instead of realising that the things we value is mostly aligned and has been refined over a long time. We can trust most of our values.</text></comment> |
41,322,732 | 41,323,002 | 1 | 2 | 41,312,335 | train | <story><title>GPU utilization can be a misleading metric</title><url>https://trainy.ai/blog/gpu-utilization-misleading</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SnowflakeOnIce</author><text>&gt; you can get 100% GPU utilization by just reading&#x2F;writing to memory while doing 0 computations<p>Indeed! Utilization is a proxy for what you actually want (which is good use of available hardware). 100% GPU utilization doesn&#x27;t actually indicate this.<p>On the other hand, if you <i>aren&#x27;t</i> getting 100% GPU utilization, you aren&#x27;t making good use of the hardware.</text></comment> | <story><title>GPU utilization can be a misleading metric</title><url>https://trainy.ai/blog/gpu-utilization-misleading</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antognini</author><text>When understanding the performance of your model it&#x27;s very helpful to look at a roofline plot [1]. The roofline plot will show you the floating-point performance as a function of arithmetic intensity for the various ops in your model. The plot has two regimes: a memory-bound regime on the left and a compute-bound regime on the right. This can help to identify memory-bound ops that are taking a significant fraction of compute time.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Roofline_model" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Roofline_model</a></text></comment> |
38,974,908 | 38,974,250 | 1 | 3 | 38,951,347 | train | <story><title>Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos (2021)</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2021/11/reverse-engineering-yamaha-dx7.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ajxs</author><text>I wrote the article mentioned by Ken: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ajxs.me&#x2F;blog&#x2F;Yamaha_DX7_Technical_Analysis.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ajxs.me&#x2F;blog&#x2F;Yamaha_DX7_Technical_Analysis.html</a><p>I&#x27;ve unwittingly become a bit of a Yamaha FM Synth historian!<p>Here are some other contributions to reverse-engineering the DX7:<p>A fully documented disassembly of the DX7 ROM: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ajxs&#x2F;yamaha_dx7_rom_disassembly">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ajxs&#x2F;yamaha_dx7_rom_disassembly</a><p>A new firmware ROM that makes the DX9 function more like a DX7:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ajxs&#x2F;yamaha_dx97">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ajxs&#x2F;yamaha_dx97</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos (2021)</title><url>http://www.righto.com/2021/11/reverse-engineering-yamaha-dx7.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dvas</author><text>This is great! What a lovely read.<p>Reminds me back of my teenage years mesmerised by software&#x2F;hardware synths, daws and everything and anything related to audio tech. Hours spent trying to understand different waves, oscillations, LFOs, modulation, AM, FM and so on and so forth. I could go on all day. Great memories.<p>Anyhow, would be interesting to go down a rabbit hole reading up on the waveform representation for the DX7. Now that I remember, I will go ahead and look for SH-101.</text></comment> |
37,880,846 | 37,880,507 | 1 | 2 | 37,874,587 | train | <story><title>Histotripsy – a technique that harnesses soundwaves to attack cancer</title><url>https://news.engin.umich.edu/2023/10/these-bubbles-kill-cancer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0xcb0</author><text>Sounds interesting. I can only imagine what can be done if they can increase the resolution further so one can target tiny cell patches in the human body&#x2F;living organism. Maybe even stop internal bleeding or more.
Feels like Enterprise on the medical station. Being able to do this always reminds me I&#x27;m old and this is the future :D</text></comment> | <story><title>Histotripsy – a technique that harnesses soundwaves to attack cancer</title><url>https://news.engin.umich.edu/2023/10/these-bubbles-kill-cancer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xivzgrev</author><text>This is great news. My mom in law has lung cancer that has spread to her liver. I will pass along to ask her doctor!</text></comment> |
17,317,305 | 17,317,260 | 1 | 2 | 17,317,127 | train | <story><title>Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from competitor Jawbone</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/14/6-fitbit-employees-charged-with-stealing-trade-secrets-from-competitor-jawbone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; Six current and former Fitbit employees were charged in a federal indictment Thursday filed in San Jose for allegedly being in possession of trade secrets stolen from competitor Jawbone, according to information from the Department of Justice.<p>Wht makes this a criminal matter as opposed to a civil one?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>em3rgent0rdr</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why you are being downvoted. That is a very legitimate question. I would think that since trade secret theft is really simply a violation of a private <i>contract</i>, that it should therefore simply be a civil offense. However, it seems that the people who made the U.S. Economic Espionage Act of 1996 [1] (which is what made theft of a trade secret a federal crime) and of The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 [2] (which strengthened that) believe otherwise. From the title of those acts, I&#x27;d guess they argued it should be a federal crime because of the risk of foreign entities gaining US company knowledge and&#x2F;or harm to US economy in general.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economic_Espionage_Act_of_1996" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economic_Espionage_Act_of_1996</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Defend_Trade_Secrets_Act" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Defend_Trade_Secrets_Act</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from competitor Jawbone</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/14/6-fitbit-employees-charged-with-stealing-trade-secrets-from-competitor-jawbone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; Six current and former Fitbit employees were charged in a federal indictment Thursday filed in San Jose for allegedly being in possession of trade secrets stolen from competitor Jawbone, according to information from the Department of Justice.<p>Wht makes this a criminal matter as opposed to a civil one?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>williamscales</author><text>Theft of trade secrets is a specific criminal offense: 18 U.S. Code § 1832 - Theft of trade secrets (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;18&#x2F;1832" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;uscode&#x2F;text&#x2F;18&#x2F;1832</a>)</text></comment> |
18,366,731 | 18,366,642 | 1 | 3 | 18,366,321 | train | <story><title>Despite concerns, FDA approves new opioid 10x more powerful than Fentanyl</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2018/11/02/fda-dsuvia-fentanyl-approval/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>esotericn</author><text>This article seems pretty low on detail. Almost all of it seems to be talking about, well, not the drug in question.<p>What, exactly, does &quot;10x more powerful&quot; mean?<p>Potency? Presumably it&#x27;d then be prescribed in lower doses?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DevX101</author><text>Here is an image comparing the lethal dose of heroin vs fentanyl.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statnews.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;Heroin-Fentanyl-vials-NHSPFL-1024x576.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statnews.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;Heroin-F...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Despite concerns, FDA approves new opioid 10x more powerful than Fentanyl</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2018/11/02/fda-dsuvia-fentanyl-approval/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>esotericn</author><text>This article seems pretty low on detail. Almost all of it seems to be talking about, well, not the drug in question.<p>What, exactly, does &quot;10x more powerful&quot; mean?<p>Potency? Presumably it&#x27;d then be prescribed in lower doses?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dogma1138</author><text>It’s the the binding strength which has direct impact on addiction and withdrawal which is a bit scary since Fentanyl is 100 times stronger than morphine already, heroine is only 5 times as strong for comparison.</text></comment> |
5,665,038 | 5,664,885 | 1 | 2 | 5,664,261 | train | <story><title>Tesla Hires Aston Martin's Vehicle Engineering Leader</title><url>http://ir.teslamotors.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=762317</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmfrk</author><text>As someone who's anything but a greasemonkey, how good are Aston Martin from an engineering standpoint compared to the competition?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nlh</author><text>So here's the thing - they're not actually that good. Let me preface this by saying that a) my perspective isn't a normal consumer one -- my business has put tens of thousands of miles on various Aston Martin models (we rent them) and b) the last model I've dealt with extensively is an '06 DB9, so things may have changed a lot in the past few years.<p>But that being said, despite being IMHO the most gorgeous cars on the road, Astons are not particularly well-engineered.<p>First, we had an '02 Vanquish and an '03 Vanquish, both of which had a very fundamental and deeply expensive flaw in the transmission design. Without getting too deep into it, they used a "auto manual" style transmission, which was basically a 6-speed manual combined with hydrolic actuators to shift automatically. No manual clutchwork required (same design, basically, as BMWs SMG). On just about all similar cars, after a while (i.e. 12k - 15k miles) the clutch needs to be replaced. On Ferraris and Lamborghinis, it's a simple job that costs a few $thousand - drop the transmission, replace clutch and flywheel, and you're good. On both the Vanquishes, the way in which the clutch would fail would literally destroy the entire transmission, and we TWICE had to spend $15,000 to rebuild the entire transmission after a failed clutch (one on each car). I've never seen another car with design like that, and since it happened the exact same way on two different cars, we're pretty sure it's endemic to the design.<p>Move to the later models - we had a bunch of 05 &#38; 06 DB9s, and they just weren't great. The brakes were notoriously bad, the bodyflex was particularly bad on the convertibles, and they suffered repeated electrical gremlins.<p>So from my purely technical perspective as a heavy user of Astons, I'd say I'm not impressed with their engineering.<p>NOW - that all being said, I'm not going to make any judgment about this guy and his work at Tesla and what this means about that. There is far too much that goes into the production of a car to make any real judgment call about things to come -- Astons could have been beautifully engineered and then ruined with bad supplier decisions, that were outside this guy's control. Etc. etc.<p>So them's my $0.02.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Hires Aston Martin's Vehicle Engineering Leader</title><url>http://ir.teslamotors.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=762317</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmfrk</author><text>As someone who's anything but a greasemonkey, how good are Aston Martin from an engineering standpoint compared to the competition?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guimarin</author><text>Aston Martin engineers good cars for their production volume. Since they are more or less in the same production volume as where tesla wants to be in the medium term, I would say his experience will bring a lot to Tesla. It was probably one of the best pick-ups they could have made.</text></comment> |
23,931,137 | 23,931,083 | 1 | 2 | 23,925,664 | train | <story><title>I am a model and I know that artificial intelligence will take my job</title><url>https://www.vogue.com/article/sinead-bovell-model-artificial-intelligence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HumblyTossed</author><text>Cashiers are on their way out. You can walk into any Walmart and see two people in line for 10 minutes because of the 50 available registers only 2 are open. Walmart wants to drive people to use the self checkout. I hate it because invariably something goes wrong and you have to compete for the sole person manning that section.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>Just earlier this week, I was talking with a colleague about all the hidden jobs that no longer exist because of software. And these are not jobs that dramatically went away all at once, like a team of longshoremen being cut in the movies.<p>Think of all the teams of bookkeepers (yes, actual people who penciled numbers in books) who were obsoleted by Excel being able to let a store owner do a calculation&#x2F;scenario by himself that would take accountants a week to do.<p>Think of all the secretaries whose work disappeared (or were no longer needed in proportion to the growing economy) as soon as personal calendar software and meeting invites became common.<p>Graphic designers &#x2F; publication layout experts you would pay because you didn&#x27;t have desktop publishing software.<p>There are more jobs lost silently to these kinds of developments than any factory being shut down dramatically. (for the US at least)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dimitrios1</author><text>Self-checkout only stores is exactly what hell looks like. I hate self checkouts with a burning passion, if not for the sake that I got duped as a consumer to work for the company, while paying the same price on my goods, but for the fact that they aren&#x27;t faster, they certainly aren&#x27;t friendlier, and generally cause a certain level of frustration or anxiety for the consumer.<p>If you care about accessibility and not being ageist, they are terrible for people with disabilities or the elderly. You will almost see no old or disabled person using a self checkout line.<p>As a show of more anecdotal evidence, a recent large grocery store chain in my large populated city of 2+ million people experiment with going self-checkout only failed so bad (lost so many customers and people were complaining), they hired cashiers again to basically scan people&#x27;s groceries for them at the self-checkout line. Now they are stuck with the worst of both worlds.</text></comment> | <story><title>I am a model and I know that artificial intelligence will take my job</title><url>https://www.vogue.com/article/sinead-bovell-model-artificial-intelligence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HumblyTossed</author><text>Cashiers are on their way out. You can walk into any Walmart and see two people in line for 10 minutes because of the 50 available registers only 2 are open. Walmart wants to drive people to use the self checkout. I hate it because invariably something goes wrong and you have to compete for the sole person manning that section.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>Just earlier this week, I was talking with a colleague about all the hidden jobs that no longer exist because of software. And these are not jobs that dramatically went away all at once, like a team of longshoremen being cut in the movies.<p>Think of all the teams of bookkeepers (yes, actual people who penciled numbers in books) who were obsoleted by Excel being able to let a store owner do a calculation&#x2F;scenario by himself that would take accountants a week to do.<p>Think of all the secretaries whose work disappeared (or were no longer needed in proportion to the growing economy) as soon as personal calendar software and meeting invites became common.<p>Graphic designers &#x2F; publication layout experts you would pay because you didn&#x27;t have desktop publishing software.<p>There are more jobs lost silently to these kinds of developments than any factory being shut down dramatically. (for the US at least)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vangelis</author><text>Cashiers at least know how to bag. Most people using self checkouts move at speed of a sloth on ketamine.</text></comment> |
15,445,546 | 15,444,152 | 1 | 2 | 15,440,955 | train | <story><title>Will automation put an end to the American trucker?</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/10/american-trucker-automation-jobs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>The long haul stuff should go on rails anyway. It&#x27;s very wasteful to run it on the interstates. The majority of the fatigue damage to the highways comes from trucks, then there&#x27;s all the rubber dust, fuel inefficiency, etc.<p>The trailers should just be picked up and dropped on flatcars, and trucks used for intracity last mile stuff.</text></item><item><author>didgeoridoo</author><text>The approach that Starsky (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;starsky.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;starsky.io&#x2F;</a>) is taking seems to be a promising one. They employ truck drivers as remote pilots for the &quot;first and last mile&quot;, i.e. the local roads and loading dock work that autonomous vehicles struggle with most. Other advantages include lower fuel costs (driving slower because AVs aren&#x27;t subject to operator-hour limits) and probably also lower labor costs (you don&#x27;t need to pay truckers as much if the job is safe and nearby to home).<p>If the Starsky model ends up dominating, this <i>could</i> all add up to a case where the price of truck transportation drops so much that demand for truck drivers actually increases, possibly even counterbalancing the pressure of individual truckers being able to manage multiple vehicles at once. This would be an example of the &quot;Jevons Effect&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jevons_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jevons_paradox</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stefan8r</author><text>This is Stefan, from Starsky Robotics.<p>I hear this all the time, and honestly in many cases a truck is the transportation of last resort. If you need 5 shipping containers of goods going from A-&gt;B all arriving at Time X; it&#x27;s probably going by train.<p>An issue with rail (as pointed out by others) is how to haul the freight from the rail head (rail yard) to the end warehouses, and the extra time it takes to have goods go on two trucks and one train instead of just one truck. The other issue is that in the US it&#x27;s really hard to hire and retain long haul truck drivers (it turns out most people want to go home each night after a hard day’s work).<p>Competition to hire drivers is fierce, and driver turnover can be 100%&#x2F;yr...which means sometimes your drivers don&#x27;t show up to pull your freight. Rail is also generally cheaper so if you can put your goods on the train you do.<p>As far as wear and tear on the highway: that&#x27;s what weigh stations are for. They not only assign usage taxes, they also make sure weight is evenly distributed across the axles to limit damage to the road.<p>&#x2F;SSA</text></comment> | <story><title>Will automation put an end to the American trucker?</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/10/american-trucker-automation-jobs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>The long haul stuff should go on rails anyway. It&#x27;s very wasteful to run it on the interstates. The majority of the fatigue damage to the highways comes from trucks, then there&#x27;s all the rubber dust, fuel inefficiency, etc.<p>The trailers should just be picked up and dropped on flatcars, and trucks used for intracity last mile stuff.</text></item><item><author>didgeoridoo</author><text>The approach that Starsky (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;starsky.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;starsky.io&#x2F;</a>) is taking seems to be a promising one. They employ truck drivers as remote pilots for the &quot;first and last mile&quot;, i.e. the local roads and loading dock work that autonomous vehicles struggle with most. Other advantages include lower fuel costs (driving slower because AVs aren&#x27;t subject to operator-hour limits) and probably also lower labor costs (you don&#x27;t need to pay truckers as much if the job is safe and nearby to home).<p>If the Starsky model ends up dominating, this <i>could</i> all add up to a case where the price of truck transportation drops so much that demand for truck drivers actually increases, possibly even counterbalancing the pressure of individual truckers being able to manage multiple vehicles at once. This would be an example of the &quot;Jevons Effect&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jevons_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jevons_paradox</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zspade</author><text>This comment invariably pops up in these threads; If it was going to, it already would have.. It&#x27;s too late now.<p>Would it have been a better solution? Probably, but the investment required (laying down the rails, land buyouts, copious use of emanate domain, political greasing of the wheels, etc...) has always been prohibitive. The gains would be shared between many disparate groups that would need to fund this together, taking years to decades for any ROI - certainly a longer time-frame than most publicly traded, quarterly measured, corporations can afford. At the least this would have required some government subsidization.<p>With driver-less tech around the corner, returns on this investment for any one company become even more dubious, and thus make it less likely to happen. I think the parent comment here will always get some up-votes, but that is as far as I see this going anymore. Maybe it&#x27;d go farther if we threw in words like &#x27;Hyperloop&#x27; ;)</text></comment> |
36,333,149 | 36,332,774 | 1 | 2 | 36,328,433 | train | <story><title>Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’t be trusted</title><url>https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/yel-review-fraud-kay-dean-18150617.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>telchior</author><text>I despise Google Maps for this. I can know that a restaurant exists, zoom in on its block, search &#x27;restaurants&#x27; -- nothing. It&#x27;ll zoom out the map and show other stuff. Worse, I can max my zoom and hunt for it on the map and it will outright show a blank space. Only searching for the restaurant&#x27;s actual name will bring it up.<p>But there&#x27;s not really any alternative. Apple Maps can&#x27;t show me things because it&#x27;s missing the entries entirely. Yelp became useless years ago. I feel like we&#x27;re going back in time because the best way to find local restaurants has become walking &#x2F; driving around the neighborhood to see what&#x27;s there, or getting word of mouth recommendations.</text></item><item><author>Guest9081239812</author><text>Google Maps is terrible for hiding results. I&#x27;ll use the filter to show restaurants with a 4.5+ star rating, and it hides dozens of places 4.5+ stars while instead showing results 4.0 - 4.4 stars and even some that have no reviews at all. I find the arrogance insulting. You want to see 4.5+ star Japanese food restaurants? Well, I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s best for you, and I&#x27;m going to replace some of those results with 4.1 star Caribbean food restaurants that you&#x27;ll like instead.</text></item><item><author>majormajor</author><text>Good for her. Yelp&#x27;s business model seems to work best if they can pick winners, which is unfortunate.<p>If I search for &quot;dinner&quot; on Yelp for &quot;current location&quot; and look at the map, it leaves out an astonishing number of places that I can see within a mile if I drive down the street.<p>And if your business model is centered around hiding all but the winners - who might pay for placement + reviews both - then you have to try to keep people from talking about it, and the moral interests just get worse and worse.<p>Google Maps isn&#x27;t any better; OpenTable seems the &quot;least bad&quot; of options I&#x27;ve looked at recently, at least for fancier reservation-having places, in terms of <i>actually showing my options</i>.<p>(It&#x27;s a broader internet problem in general - &quot;trending&quot; algorithmic reinforcement stuff will push everyone towards the ONE TRUE BEST HOTTEST MOST POPULAR bbq&#x2F;ramen&#x2F;whatver place, when probably there&#x27;s half a dozen other options within 10% of taste and quality, that some people very well could legitimately like better if they heard about them too.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chinchilla2020</author><text>Internet search in general has severely declined in 2023. I was trying to figure out the syntax for putting a URL in slack the other day and couldn&#x27;t find a proper article anywhere in the top 10 results.<p>I think they are trying to integrate their bard UI into search and it is killing the results.<p>At this point, I use google to search reddit in order to find organic results. Unfortunately, that will probably be taken over by spammers soon enough.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’t be trusted</title><url>https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/yel-review-fraud-kay-dean-18150617.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>telchior</author><text>I despise Google Maps for this. I can know that a restaurant exists, zoom in on its block, search &#x27;restaurants&#x27; -- nothing. It&#x27;ll zoom out the map and show other stuff. Worse, I can max my zoom and hunt for it on the map and it will outright show a blank space. Only searching for the restaurant&#x27;s actual name will bring it up.<p>But there&#x27;s not really any alternative. Apple Maps can&#x27;t show me things because it&#x27;s missing the entries entirely. Yelp became useless years ago. I feel like we&#x27;re going back in time because the best way to find local restaurants has become walking &#x2F; driving around the neighborhood to see what&#x27;s there, or getting word of mouth recommendations.</text></item><item><author>Guest9081239812</author><text>Google Maps is terrible for hiding results. I&#x27;ll use the filter to show restaurants with a 4.5+ star rating, and it hides dozens of places 4.5+ stars while instead showing results 4.0 - 4.4 stars and even some that have no reviews at all. I find the arrogance insulting. You want to see 4.5+ star Japanese food restaurants? Well, I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s best for you, and I&#x27;m going to replace some of those results with 4.1 star Caribbean food restaurants that you&#x27;ll like instead.</text></item><item><author>majormajor</author><text>Good for her. Yelp&#x27;s business model seems to work best if they can pick winners, which is unfortunate.<p>If I search for &quot;dinner&quot; on Yelp for &quot;current location&quot; and look at the map, it leaves out an astonishing number of places that I can see within a mile if I drive down the street.<p>And if your business model is centered around hiding all but the winners - who might pay for placement + reviews both - then you have to try to keep people from talking about it, and the moral interests just get worse and worse.<p>Google Maps isn&#x27;t any better; OpenTable seems the &quot;least bad&quot; of options I&#x27;ve looked at recently, at least for fancier reservation-having places, in terms of <i>actually showing my options</i>.<p>(It&#x27;s a broader internet problem in general - &quot;trending&quot; algorithmic reinforcement stuff will push everyone towards the ONE TRUE BEST HOTTEST MOST POPULAR bbq&#x2F;ramen&#x2F;whatver place, when probably there&#x27;s half a dozen other options within 10% of taste and quality, that some people very well could legitimately like better if they heard about them too.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karaterobot</author><text>&gt; I feel like we&#x27;re going back in time because the best way to find local restaurants has become walking &#x2F; driving around the neighborhood to see what&#x27;s there, or getting word of mouth recommendations.<p>Let&#x27;s face it, that never stopped being the best way. There have always been problems with internet reviews, if only the ones inherent in the 1-5 star mechanism. But, it is very inconvenient to ask around for recommendations when you&#x27;re (for example) hungry and passing through an unknown town or something. So I get why we need a source that isn&#x27;t completely unreliable.</text></comment> |
27,248,224 | 27,247,069 | 1 | 3 | 27,246,755 | train | <story><title>Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power</title><url>https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kodah</author><text>I think it&#x27;s fairly clear that rasengan does not respect any kind of authority that derives from a framework, so you can&#x27;t expect that he&#x27;s going to magically adhere to Freenodes community rules.<p>There&#x27;s a fair mention of &quot;IRC drama&quot; in these comments and I&#x27;ll say this: IRC has drama in the same way that HN does. The volume of people that call this place &quot;the orange site&quot; or refer to &quot;HN&#x27;s culture&quot; while chiding about certain comments is orthogonal to the drama that happens in IRC. The difference is that you don&#x27;t have dang as a mediator. Freenode (and now Libera) leave much of the operation up to channel owners, even if they want to put in place ridiculous rules. These operators are held to very little, it takes a large margin of abuse for them to be relieved of their channels. There&#x27;s also a non-insignificant amount of people that believe bans are mostly earned, even if they&#x27;re for ridiculous rules.<p>So, while I get this drama looks pathetic, it&#x27;s the same kind of drama that occurs here that outside observers would like <i>also</i> declare pathetic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power</title><url>https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hirundo</author><text>rasengan, this is coherent, credible and serious enough to deserve a response from you, and this is an excellent place for it. I don&#x27;t wish to draw conclusions from this without hearing your side. I hope you have time for that.</text></comment> |
6,378,071 | 6,377,879 | 1 | 2 | 6,376,934 | train | <story><title>Twitter Files For IPO</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20130912/twitter-files-for-ipo/?mod=atdtweet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sheri</author><text>Advertising.<p>Three of the largest, most influential and defining technology companies of our lifetime (Google, Facebook, Twitter) make money pretty much solely through advertising. Is there no other way companies can use this data to generate revenue other than to sell ads?
I don&#x27;t have anything against ads, but I&#x27;m just trying to understand how (if at all) this could change in the near future. What is the future of advertising? Will it continue to remain relevant 10 or 20 years down the line in its current form, allowing so many massive companies to be built on its back?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zanny</author><text>My personal impression is that the rise of advertising has emerged from the collapse of disposable income. In a world where everyone has wealth to spend, it is better to just make more goods people want to buy as efficiently as possible. In a world where everyone is poor, and losing money to capital siphoning through the rich (who do not evenly reinvest this capital into the economy, and expect reliable returns meaning more long term concentration of money), advertising becomes more relevant because you compete over scarce dollars and more so need to motivate purchases through psychological breaking down of a targets resistance to splurge buy something of yours.<p>When actually making more goods doesn&#x27;t make you more money (at least commodity goods, there is a growing market for the absurd luxury goods targeting those that own dividend stocks and have multiple houses and personal chefs) your alternative is to use psychological manipulation to drive the limited dollars towards your goods, even if it means the per-unit cost is higher. You make the gambit - persuade someone to buy, or don&#x27;t sell at all because your product isn&#x27;t really that competitve anymore when you are spending upwards of 30% of your budget on ads.<p>Look no further than the evolution of the video game industry - since it is so new, it also shows this effect strongly, where the biggest titles like the CoD games can see 80% of their budget spent on advertising (cursory google search to get these numbers on the latest title, Black Ops 2, turned up nothing citeable). If you spend $28 million making a game, and $120 - 200 million on ads, your economic model must be fucked.<p>So because you compete for scarce dollars, customers aren&#x27;t coming to you, you need to manipulate customers into spending money they don&#x27;t have. Hence why advertising is so huge, even with 1% click-through rates. All that concentrated wealth getting reinvested has limited alternative options of where to go, so you just try to pry more money out of people through bombardment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter Files For IPO</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20130912/twitter-files-for-ipo/?mod=atdtweet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sheri</author><text>Advertising.<p>Three of the largest, most influential and defining technology companies of our lifetime (Google, Facebook, Twitter) make money pretty much solely through advertising. Is there no other way companies can use this data to generate revenue other than to sell ads?
I don&#x27;t have anything against ads, but I&#x27;m just trying to understand how (if at all) this could change in the near future. What is the future of advertising? Will it continue to remain relevant 10 or 20 years down the line in its current form, allowing so many massive companies to be built on its back?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nashequilibrium</author><text>&quot;Three of the largest, most influential and defining technology companies of our lifetime (Google, Facebook, Twitter) make money pretty much solely through advertising.&quot;<p>lol, a couple weeks ago i got into real deep thought about this and realized the same thing. The question i asked was what spurred this, companies relevant from the eighties and nineties like apple, amazon, microsoft all sell something. Then i realized that it may have been the huge success of google and adwords that spurred this. Since every entrepreneur would use this excuse about how google just focused on product and thought about revenue later, yet implicitly these entrepreneurs already know that they will focus on ad revenue. All the companies making headlines today are or will be ad focused, snapchat, tumblr, vine, frontback, instagram etc.<p>This has also created a situation where users expect a product for free and if you charge someone will make a clone with a slight twist and offer it for free, so developers rather offer it for free and not attempt charging. I find this phenomena mainly with social products but this is what VC&#x27;s and guys like Mike Arrington find exciting. They find enterprise boring because you have to be methodical, know the business and sell! The one thing modern tech can take from wall street is the excitement in sales. I believe snapchat is worth around 800mill if this is the case then we should take TV series model for creating companies because we are in the business of making entertainment shows to last a few seasons.<p>I am very excited when i hear about companies like nest, jawbone, pebble, nike fit, etc!</text></comment> |
41,521,442 | 41,521,574 | 1 | 3 | 41,519,623 | train | <story><title>SpaceX Astronauts Begin Spacewalk, Putting New Spacesuits to Test</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/spacex-launch-polaris-dawn-space-walk-bfed7f84</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baseballdork</author><text>I can believe it. Dunno how reasonable it would be to risk having someone in an altered state of mind on the ISS. What do you do if someone has a bad trip or decides to make poor decisions?</text></item><item><author>brandall10</author><text>Esp. on longer ISS trips. I can&#x27;t believe this hasn&#x27;t already been a sanctioned experiment.</text></item><item><author>jMyles</author><text>&gt; the first one to drop acid in space<p>Seems unlikely we&#x27;ll ever definitely now, but I suspect that whomever does it next won&#x27;t be the first (or second, or third).</text></item><item><author>stef25</author><text>&gt; If you have enough money you can ring them up and say &quot;I want to go into space&quot; and they can make that happen.<p>To whoever wants to be the first one to drop acid in space, the doors are open</text></item><item><author>noneeeed</author><text>The interesting thing for me is how this mission underscore the difference between SpaceX and other space companies. SpaceX have become an entire commercial space agency, able to supply everything from the rockets and capsules, to the ground operations and even the space suites and to do that in a complete package.<p>If you have enough money you can ring them up and say &quot;I want to go into space&quot; and they can make that happen. That is a pretty big deal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KineticLensman</author><text>&gt; What do you do if someone has a bad trip or decides to make poor decisions<p>The space shuttle had a hatch that could be opened to vacuum and was actually padlocked shut on some flights where the mission specialists weren&#x27;t trusted by the commander [0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;space&#x2F;2024&#x2F;01&#x2F;solving-a-nasa-mystery-why-did-space-shuttle-commanders-lock-the-hatch&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;space&#x2F;2024&#x2F;01&#x2F;solving-a-nasa-mystery...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX Astronauts Begin Spacewalk, Putting New Spacesuits to Test</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/spacex-launch-polaris-dawn-space-walk-bfed7f84</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baseballdork</author><text>I can believe it. Dunno how reasonable it would be to risk having someone in an altered state of mind on the ISS. What do you do if someone has a bad trip or decides to make poor decisions?</text></item><item><author>brandall10</author><text>Esp. on longer ISS trips. I can&#x27;t believe this hasn&#x27;t already been a sanctioned experiment.</text></item><item><author>jMyles</author><text>&gt; the first one to drop acid in space<p>Seems unlikely we&#x27;ll ever definitely now, but I suspect that whomever does it next won&#x27;t be the first (or second, or third).</text></item><item><author>stef25</author><text>&gt; If you have enough money you can ring them up and say &quot;I want to go into space&quot; and they can make that happen.<p>To whoever wants to be the first one to drop acid in space, the doors are open</text></item><item><author>noneeeed</author><text>The interesting thing for me is how this mission underscore the difference between SpaceX and other space companies. SpaceX have become an entire commercial space agency, able to supply everything from the rockets and capsules, to the ground operations and even the space suites and to do that in a complete package.<p>If you have enough money you can ring them up and say &quot;I want to go into space&quot; and they can make that happen. That is a pretty big deal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BurningFrog</author><text>I&#x27;m not denying that intoxication leads to more bad decisions.<p>But sober people also make many bad decisions. A space ship needs to be resilient to bad decisions, and I assume&#x2F;hope the ISS already is well fortified in that respect.</text></comment> |
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