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36,548,115 | 36,544,024 | 1 | 2 | 36,543,284 | train | <story><title>Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/52/526D2E781AC9EBBB13346BDF7693E1BB_CHOMSKY_Noam_-_Necessary_Illusions.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dotsam</author><text>I read this some years ago, and one of the things I took away was that there is great power in being able to focus attention and debate in one direction rather than another. Permit debate so long as it works within premises that align with your narrative. Direct attention away from questioning the questions themselves.<p>&gt; The most effective device is the bounding of the thinkable, achieved by tolerating debate, even encouraging it, though only within proper limits.<p>An example given in the book is focusing attention on how best to &#x27;contain&#x27; the Soviet Union.<p>&gt; In short, what is essential is the power to set the agenda. If controversy over the Cold War can be focused on containment of the Soviet Union -- the proper mix of force, diplomacy, and other measures -- then the propaganda system has already won its victory, whatever conclusions are reached. The basic assumption has already been established: the Cold War is a confrontation between two superpowers, one aggressive and expansionist, the other defending the status quo and civilized values. Off the agenda is the problem of containing the United States, and the question whether the issue has been properly formulated at all</text></comment> | <story><title>Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/52/526D2E781AC9EBBB13346BDF7693E1BB_CHOMSKY_Noam_-_Necessary_Illusions.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>esafak</author><text>This is just part of Bin Laden&#x27;s files, seized during the Abbottabad raid.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cia.gov&#x2F;library&#x2F;abbottabad-compound&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cia.gov&#x2F;library&#x2F;abbottabad-compound&#x2F;index.html</a></text></comment> |
26,157,534 | 26,156,911 | 1 | 3 | 26,154,509 | train | <story><title>Why Is Esbuild Fast?</title><url>https://esbuild.github.io/faq/#why-is-esbuild-fast</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>filleokus</author><text>Esbuild looks amazing. It seems to have been written almost exclusively by one guy (evanw) during 2020. Just the main JS parser file [0] is 12k lines. According to the Github stats he has committed 280k lines, that&#x27;s almost 1000 lines per day every day since he started. Amazingly productive.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evanw&#x2F;esbuild&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;internal&#x2F;js_parser&#x2F;js_parser.go" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evanw&#x2F;esbuild&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;internal&#x2F;js_par...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lhorie</author><text>&gt; Just the main JS parser file [0] is 12k lines<p>While that is impressive, I think this is also an indication of a problem: the grammar is becoming unwieldy. For example, even for someone as prolific as Evan, he must decide between feature depth (e.g. bundle splitting) and feature breadth (e.g. implementing the equivalent to @babel&#x2F;preset-flow, which is used by both flow and hegel[0] type systems)[1]<p>Esbuild supporting Typescript and JSX is undoubtedly a byproduct of these grammar extensions having become popular. But supporting extra grammar extensions does add to complexity, sometimes in non-trivial ways. In Typescript, for example, you can import types using runtime import syntax, making it ambiguous whether running side-effects from a library is intentional or not. This gets problematic once you consider treeshaking and not-really-standard things like conditional resolution via package.json&#x27;s `browser` field.<p>It gets even more fun when you realize that module resolution isn&#x27;t even specified, meaning that as far as a bundler is concerned, something like `import &#x27;lodash&#x27;` means completely different things for a browser vs a project installed via npm vs one installed via yarn v2...<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hegel.js.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hegel.js.org&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evanw&#x2F;esbuild&#x2F;issues&#x2F;79" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evanw&#x2F;esbuild&#x2F;issues&#x2F;79</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why Is Esbuild Fast?</title><url>https://esbuild.github.io/faq/#why-is-esbuild-fast</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>filleokus</author><text>Esbuild looks amazing. It seems to have been written almost exclusively by one guy (evanw) during 2020. Just the main JS parser file [0] is 12k lines. According to the Github stats he has committed 280k lines, that&#x27;s almost 1000 lines per day every day since he started. Amazingly productive.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evanw&#x2F;esbuild&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;internal&#x2F;js_parser&#x2F;js_parser.go" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evanw&#x2F;esbuild&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;internal&#x2F;js_par...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucideer</author><text>Just to put the 280k lines into perspective, deletion rate seems close to addition rate[0]; measuring the number of changes made to code is also a poor proxy for productivity, but is at least not quite as bad as the pure &quot;lines added&quot; metric.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evanw&#x2F;esbuild&#x2F;graphs&#x2F;code-frequency" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;evanw&#x2F;esbuild&#x2F;graphs&#x2F;code-frequency</a></text></comment> |
28,709,258 | 28,708,692 | 1 | 2 | 28,708,078 | train | <story><title>Things Unlearned</title><url>https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/things-unlearned/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nineplay</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s ok to think that things have flaws or could be improved. But it&#x27;s a trap to believe that solutions are trivial and everyone else is just too enfeebled of character to push the miracle button.<p>I feel this so much. I&#x27;ve worked on products which many people insist could be done just as well by spreadsheets. I&#x27;ve worked in areas which people believe are overcomplicated - which they are - and therefore could be replaced with something simple. It is never that easy.<p>I see it all the time in other fields and I just shake my head. If you ever find yourself saying &quot;Why don&#x27;t they just..?&quot; you almost certainly don&#x27;t understand the problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Things Unlearned</title><url>https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/things-unlearned/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coyotespike</author><text>As a new programmer, I was also seduced by the FP hype, and learned web development in ClojureScript without knowing JavaScript.<p>This was a really hard way to learn, and once I finally went mainstream I found that the messaging about how bad other languages were was much exaggerated.<p>In general I think the ecosystem trumps the language quality, and the senior developers who think otherwise generally underestimate the difficulty for a junior developer of working on the bleeding edge. Pragmatism over purity (while keeping enough purity-focus to keep the codebase clean).<p>I also think JS is absolutely fine as a language and its warts are not that hard to work around.</text></comment> |
41,052,377 | 41,050,867 | 1 | 2 | 41,049,399 | train | <story><title>How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/motor-doping-cycling</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmckeon</author><text>&gt; promoting bike brands and riding bikes provided by their sponsors<p>Therein lies an answer - change the disincentives - instead of banning cheating riders, ban all of the sponsors of those riders for a time. Now the onus is on the sponsors to discourage cheating.</text></item><item><author>notatoad</author><text>The olympics don&#x27;t really set the protocol for any of this. the rules and procedures for each sport are set by their respective international sport organization. for cycling that&#x27;s the UCI.<p>the olympics is only one event, and only happens once every four years. the rest of the season, that happens every year, is much more important and doesn&#x27;t have an olympic host to provide bikes. so there needs to be some procedure that catches motor doping at all the races, not just one infrequent race. The olympics is just going to follow the same procedures that are used for all the rest of the worldtour level races. and while the olympics might not care about keeping the rider&#x27;s bike sponsors happy, the rest of the races do.<p>if riders weren&#x27;t out there promoting bike brands and riding bikes provided by their sponsors, pro bike racing wouldn&#x27;t be a thing.</text></item><item><author>etimberg</author><text>Why not just have the Olympic host supply the same bike model to every participant rather than having each rider bring their own bike?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scosman</author><text>The sponsors aren&#x27;t partners who are tuning up the bikes. It&#x27;s companies who cut a cheque and expect logos everywhere.<p>Individual riders&#x2F;teams are motivated to win and get sponsor dollars, so may resort to cheating. They know they will lose sponsors forever and be banned if caught, so they try to hide it from sponsors and officials. Basically: the same disincentives exist today. They just need to catch folks. It&#x27;s just doping v2.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/motor-doping-cycling</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmckeon</author><text>&gt; promoting bike brands and riding bikes provided by their sponsors<p>Therein lies an answer - change the disincentives - instead of banning cheating riders, ban all of the sponsors of those riders for a time. Now the onus is on the sponsors to discourage cheating.</text></item><item><author>notatoad</author><text>The olympics don&#x27;t really set the protocol for any of this. the rules and procedures for each sport are set by their respective international sport organization. for cycling that&#x27;s the UCI.<p>the olympics is only one event, and only happens once every four years. the rest of the season, that happens every year, is much more important and doesn&#x27;t have an olympic host to provide bikes. so there needs to be some procedure that catches motor doping at all the races, not just one infrequent race. The olympics is just going to follow the same procedures that are used for all the rest of the worldtour level races. and while the olympics might not care about keeping the rider&#x27;s bike sponsors happy, the rest of the races do.<p>if riders weren&#x27;t out there promoting bike brands and riding bikes provided by their sponsors, pro bike racing wouldn&#x27;t be a thing.</text></item><item><author>etimberg</author><text>Why not just have the Olympic host supply the same bike model to every participant rather than having each rider bring their own bike?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OtherShrezzing</author><text>Surely this just moves the incentive from the sportsperson&#x2F;team to the sponsor - who have significantly deeper financial resources to undermine WADA&#x27;s testing regimes.<p>WADA&#x27;s budget is something like $50m. The likes of Ineos &amp; Red Bull have sports marketing budgets well into the billions.</text></comment> |
16,080,344 | 16,079,590 | 1 | 3 | 16,078,059 | train | <story><title>The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf]</title><url>https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp2017-25.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandover</author><text>Take a quick look at a graph of population growth from 1870-2015. It has an incredibly steep curve. Now think about how that graph will look from 2015-2100. Likely, it will be drastically flatter.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t this have a huge effect on real estate -- indeed, isn&#x27;t that population graph the primary driver of what happens in the real estate market?<p>I&#x27;m not sure the last century provides a meaningful guide here.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf]</title><url>https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp2017-25.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>placeybordeaux</author><text>IPFS mirror:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gateway.ipfs.io&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;QmZ1y9U9KRuGBVUisc1YbXrjp8tDXGe8Ca2URfXBKvZqrD" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gateway.ipfs.io&#x2F;ipfs&#x2F;QmZ1y9U9KRuGBVUisc1YbXrjp8tDXGe...</a></text></comment> |
26,897,915 | 26,897,931 | 1 | 2 | 26,897,186 | train | <story><title>Manhattan DA says his office to stop prosecuting prostitution</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/04/21/989588072/a-relic-and-burden-manhattan-district-attorney-to-stop-prosecuting-prostitution</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pcbro141</author><text>Is anyone knowledgeable about European countries where prostitution has become fully legal (clients won&#x27;t be arrested)? Specifically the countries where pimping is illegal, but an individual sex worker and client transacting is legal.<p>Is there reliable data either way about legalization increasing human trafficking?</text></comment> | <story><title>Manhattan DA says his office to stop prosecuting prostitution</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/04/21/989588072/a-relic-and-burden-manhattan-district-attorney-to-stop-prosecuting-prostitution</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>temp8964</author><text>Prosecutors can choose which law to enforce or not. This doesn&#x27;t sound good to me at all.</text></comment> |
14,243,493 | 14,242,988 | 1 | 3 | 14,242,581 | train | <story><title>Angie's List Acquired for $500M by IAC</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-01/iac-to-acquire-angie-s-list-in-deal-valued-at-about-500-million</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>narrator</author><text>I think this is why TripAdvisor is better, in my experience, for restaurants than Yelp. If I&#x27;m not mistaken, TripAdvisor makes most of its money off of hotel booking referrals.</text></item><item><author>dhd415</author><text>Not specifically apropos of the buyout, but my experience with Angie&#x27;s List has been similar to that of Yelp, that is, businesses that paid to advertise on AL were better able to maintain high rankings. The top-rated companies were not the best from either a quality or price perspective. While it&#x27;s a great idea to crowd-source referrals for contractors like that, it&#x27;s unfortunate that that model falls prey to the same impulse to increase revenue by soliciting advertising contracts with the firms that it purports to rank impartially.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nunez</author><text>ANYTHING is better than Yelp. It literally does everything in the book to get you to download the app (to collect your user data, presumably) and is literally designed from the ground up to promote businesses that pay them to
be higher on the index.<p>Their sales tactics are borderline abusive, too. They will hunt you down forever until you sign a package with them, and they give you zero time to think about whether their ad package (which only works on their site and has a super high CPC compared to AdWords) is right for your business.<p>They need to go away</text></comment> | <story><title>Angie's List Acquired for $500M by IAC</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-01/iac-to-acquire-angie-s-list-in-deal-valued-at-about-500-million</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>narrator</author><text>I think this is why TripAdvisor is better, in my experience, for restaurants than Yelp. If I&#x27;m not mistaken, TripAdvisor makes most of its money off of hotel booking referrals.</text></item><item><author>dhd415</author><text>Not specifically apropos of the buyout, but my experience with Angie&#x27;s List has been similar to that of Yelp, that is, businesses that paid to advertise on AL were better able to maintain high rankings. The top-rated companies were not the best from either a quality or price perspective. While it&#x27;s a great idea to crowd-source referrals for contractors like that, it&#x27;s unfortunate that that model falls prey to the same impulse to increase revenue by soliciting advertising contracts with the firms that it purports to rank impartially.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>covercash</author><text>Foursquare is my secret weapon whenever I need to impress with restaurant selection.</text></comment> |
22,459,378 | 22,459,472 | 1 | 2 | 22,457,748 | train | <story><title>Microsoft is retiring its MCSA, MCSD and MCSE certifications</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-retiring-its-mcsa-mcsd-and-mcse-certifications-in-june-2020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasoneckert</author><text>As an IT college teacher for 21 years, I can tell you that educational institutions are very angry about this change. We often have courses that map to Microsoft certificaion. Students write them, and employers want them. They are a general benchmark that allows organizations to narrow the list of candidates they interview for a job related to one or more technologies. Most college grads get jobs in small-to-medium organizations where Azure is not a common requirement. Moreover, many small organizations that moved their stuff to Azure at the request of an MSP are current moving it back on premises to save cost now that they realize it&#x27;s much cheaper to do so. Together with Microsoft&#x27;s abrupt replacement of the Win10 certifications last year (they gave no notice to colleges or publishers), it looks like the trust colleges have placed in the Microsoft certification program is disappearing fast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peterkelly</author><text>I think industry certifications are a mostly pointless idea. If I&#x27;m looking at learning something, my criteria is &quot;will this information still be relevant 10 years from now?&quot; If the answer is no, I either don&#x27;t bother with it, or I invest the minimum necessary effort to learn what I need to do to solve the problem at hand.<p>Technologies that certifications focus on tend to have a limited lifespan. I place <i>far</i> more value on more general, conceptual knowledge that will be applicable to a multitude of implementations, mixed with some practical hands-on stuff. I&#x27;ve gotten far more out of learning about things like relational databases, compilers, multi-threaded and message passing programming, distributed systems, and experience with a range of different programming paradigms than I believe could ever be gained from certifications. Focusing on generic topics like this is going to be far more valuable to your career in the long run.<p>If I see a company specifically looking for someone with a certification or experience with a particular library&#x2F;framework, I take that as a sign that they don&#x27;t fully appreciate the value that a well-rounded engineer can bring to the table. Furthermore, certifications have the effect of tying your advertised skill set to a specific vendor&#x27;s products, and expect you to keep up to date every three years or so as they change the specifics of their training and certification requirements.<p>My company, a contracting firm, recently ran some AWS training sessions and offered to cover the costs of the exams for employee who wanted to do them. I went along to a couple of sessions but ultimately concluded it wasn&#x27;t a good use of my time, relative to other things I could be doing to advance my career. While I&#x27;m fortunate to mostly work for clients who understand that, I wish there were a wider appreciation of general knowledge rather than people investing themselves so heavily into skills that have a short lifespan and are tied so heavily to specific vendors and the current flavor of the month.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft is retiring its MCSA, MCSD and MCSE certifications</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-retiring-its-mcsa-mcsd-and-mcse-certifications-in-june-2020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasoneckert</author><text>As an IT college teacher for 21 years, I can tell you that educational institutions are very angry about this change. We often have courses that map to Microsoft certificaion. Students write them, and employers want them. They are a general benchmark that allows organizations to narrow the list of candidates they interview for a job related to one or more technologies. Most college grads get jobs in small-to-medium organizations where Azure is not a common requirement. Moreover, many small organizations that moved their stuff to Azure at the request of an MSP are current moving it back on premises to save cost now that they realize it&#x27;s much cheaper to do so. Together with Microsoft&#x27;s abrupt replacement of the Win10 certifications last year (they gave no notice to colleges or publishers), it looks like the trust colleges have placed in the Microsoft certification program is disappearing fast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gerdesj</author><text>As an employer (IT consultancy), I in particular do not mark up for MS qualis. I generally drop those to the bottom of the stack for lacking originality if that is nearly all that is shown in support. I want to see things like engineering, maths and science degrees, actually any degree will do that shows critical thinking.<p>I&#x27;ll take a HND in palaeontology in preference to a MS fellowship with a signed photo of Bill G over their headboard any day. At least I&#x27;ll get someone who has legendary attention to detail and the ability to follow a chain of inferences and gather clues. They&#x27;ll also be able to completely piss on anyone who starts going on about their first PC or programming language as though that is some sort of ancient history.<p>Please Mr IT teacher: Give me critical thinkers, not drones.</text></comment> |
16,977,094 | 16,977,067 | 1 | 2 | 16,976,459 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Skor – Drop-in microservice to get Postgres changes as JSON webhooks</title><url>https://github.com/hasura/skor</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>odammit</author><text>Looks cool. Seems like a good alternative if you can’t use listen&#x2F;notify for some reason.<p>I’ve used listen&#x2F;notify with triggers for a while with good success. The flexibility of my apps controlling what they want to listen for instead of having that config elsewhere.<p>Downside to l&#x2F;n is that if you aren’t listening you aren’t getting changes. Seems like the same is true if the webhook fails here since there isn’t a retry.<p>If you want to check out another cool alternative see Debezium[1]. It’s uses PGs logical decoding feature to stream changes. Supports protobufs and JSON output.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;debezium.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;connectors&#x2F;postgresql&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;debezium.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;connectors&#x2F;postgresql&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Skor – Drop-in microservice to get Postgres changes as JSON webhooks</title><url>https://github.com/hasura/skor</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pfooti</author><text>Interesting. A quick look at the code indicates you&#x27;re just doing a notify on the whole row. Have you tested with large rows? The postgres notify function fails with a payload larger than 8000 bytes, and that limit cannot be changed at runtime, last I looked.<p>I wrote a similar thing to notify on changes, but had to just fire notifies on what changed (id, column names) and there was a second step in the listening code to fetch the full details.</text></comment> |
6,897,858 | 6,897,726 | 1 | 2 | 6,897,417 | train | <story><title>Free Games: Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics</title><url>http://www.gog.com/news/free_games_fallout_fallout_2_and_fallout_tactics</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sounds</author><text>Work fine under linux (using wine):<p>Fallout: <a href="http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&amp;iId=70" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;appdb.winehq.org&#x2F;objectManager.php?sClass=application...</a><p>Fallout 2: <a href="http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&amp;iId=194" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;appdb.winehq.org&#x2F;objectManager.php?sClass=application...</a><p>Fallout Tactics: <a href="http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&amp;iId=602" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;appdb.winehq.org&#x2F;objectManager.php?sClass=application...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Free Games: Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics</title><url>http://www.gog.com/news/free_games_fallout_fallout_2_and_fallout_tactics</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>I&#x27;ve bought these games several times before (at discount) for the various OSes and computers I&#x27;ve had. I haven&#x27;t played many modern RPGs (including Fallout 3+) but have any RPGs since Fallout surpassed it in allowing the player to <i>truly</i> embody an actual path? Not only could you play through making good&#x2F;evil moral choices, but you could actually win the first game, IIRC, without even firing a single shot (by talking your enemies to death), or you could play as a total moron whose complete dialogue tree consisted of &quot;UGHR?&quot; as the NPCs treated you like the adult-child you were. I think you could even succeed as some of the specialty skillsets, such as being a pure scientist or lockpicking thief.<p>Anyway, a fun game in terms of mechanics go, but still (in my mind) unsurpassed in writing</text></comment> |
23,451,493 | 23,451,647 | 1 | 3 | 23,451,076 | train | <story><title>Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband police department</title><url>https://theappeal.org/minneapolis-city-council-members-announce-intent-to-disband-the-police-department-invest-in-proven-community-led-public-safety/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikekhusid</author><text>The Camden thing is going around a lot but to me it seems like they did a reorg and actually ended up hiring more police.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tapinto.net&#x2F;towns&#x2F;camden&#x2F;sections&#x2F;law-and-justice&#x2F;articles&#x2F;camden-sees-crime-drop-over-past-decade" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tapinto.net&#x2F;towns&#x2F;camden&#x2F;sections&#x2F;law-and-justic...</a></text></item><item><author>TrevorAustin</author><text>&quot;Dissolve the organization and start over from scratch&quot; is an under-used solution in American life, even in the private sector.<p>Apparently Camden, NJ did a version of this in 2013 with a fair amount of success: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-06-04&#x2F;how-camden-new-jersey-reformed-its-police-department" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-06-04&#x2F;how-camde...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>limelight</author><text>Realistically, that&#x27;s what will come from &quot;abolishing&quot; the police.<p>That&#x27;s not necessarily a bad thing! A big problem with existing departments is decades of corruption, poor leadership, and entrenched policies. Tearing the department down and rebuilding it from scratch—even if you end up with a similar size as before—gives you the opportunity to remove the excesses&#x2F;abuse. You can also do things like hiring more specialized positions and firing all the bad officers (because if the department is gone, the union can&#x27;t protect them).</text></comment> | <story><title>Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband police department</title><url>https://theappeal.org/minneapolis-city-council-members-announce-intent-to-disband-the-police-department-invest-in-proven-community-led-public-safety/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikekhusid</author><text>The Camden thing is going around a lot but to me it seems like they did a reorg and actually ended up hiring more police.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tapinto.net&#x2F;towns&#x2F;camden&#x2F;sections&#x2F;law-and-justice&#x2F;articles&#x2F;camden-sees-crime-drop-over-past-decade" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tapinto.net&#x2F;towns&#x2F;camden&#x2F;sections&#x2F;law-and-justic...</a></text></item><item><author>TrevorAustin</author><text>&quot;Dissolve the organization and start over from scratch&quot; is an under-used solution in American life, even in the private sector.<p>Apparently Camden, NJ did a version of this in 2013 with a fair amount of success: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-06-04&#x2F;how-camden-new-jersey-reformed-its-police-department" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-06-04&#x2F;how-camde...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dcposch</author><text>They did a more than just a reorg.<p>Disbanding and replacing a PD eliminates the old police union contracts.<p>Those lopsided contracts are at the root of the impunity and violence we&#x27;ve seen over the past week.<p>Many cities have made extraordinary contractual concessions, including:<p>- Secrecy clauses. Officer Bob might have 31 excessive force complaints against him, but the city is contractually forbidden from making that information public, or in some cases even retaining the records after X months.<p>- Arbitration for firing. Those clauses can be shockingly strong. The Philadelphia PD fired an officer for having Nazi tattoos. They were forced to reinstate him after arbitration. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dburbach&#x2F;status&#x2F;1269638494466514955" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dburbach&#x2F;status&#x2F;1269638494466514955</a><p>Those clauses and more often add up to police that are effectively unfireable and therefore not under meaningful civilian control. Witness the head of a NYC police union taunting the mayor and openly flaunting the Right to Know Act &#x2F; announcing that officers will be covering up their badge numbers.<p>Camden got a start fresh with no pre-existing police contract. For many cities, that&#x27;s potentially worth a lot.</text></comment> |
28,721,746 | 28,717,561 | 1 | 3 | 28,716,979 | train | <story><title>DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/defi-protocol-compound-mistakenly-gives-away-millions-to-users.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qeternity</author><text>Headline is misleading: the founder has threatened to doxx and report them to the IRS if they don&#x27;t return funds which according to the Compound protocol, they rightfully own anyway.<p>Notch it up to another first for crypto.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dathinab</author><text>&gt; which according to the Compound protocol, they rightfully own<p>And that is one of the biggest misconceptions of crypto stuff.<p>Law and contracts (1) determine who owns what, not who happens to currently hold it.<p>That&#x27;s why the founder can threaten them with the IRS, because they (likely(1)) do not rightfully (as defined per law) own it.<p>This is also why NFTs are kinds stupid, because you totally can sell someone a NFT which &quot;claims ownership rights&quot; without selling them any ownership rights legally seen. Sure it&#x27;s most likely fraud as you deceived people, but only if. So telling people you sell them the NFT but not the think behind the NFT would make that pretty legal. Like you can sell a certificate about the correctness&#x2F;quality of a picture without selling (or even having) that picture.<p>(1): Smart contracts are not contracts, they are computer programs. They might also <i>contain</i> contracts, but that doesn&#x27;t mean that just because something is done in a certain way in a smart contract it is legally binding, legal, or anything (Well, that&#x27;s also true for contracts themself).</text></comment> | <story><title>DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/defi-protocol-compound-mistakenly-gives-away-millions-to-users.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qeternity</author><text>Headline is misleading: the founder has threatened to doxx and report them to the IRS if they don&#x27;t return funds which according to the Compound protocol, they rightfully own anyway.<p>Notch it up to another first for crypto.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ed_elliott_asc</author><text>Can’t the people who have the money just pay the tax themselves? Seems like the easiest way to keep the money and stay on the right side of the threat?</text></comment> |
17,904,855 | 17,904,309 | 1 | 3 | 17,898,112 | train | <story><title>A man who was raised by wolves</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/28/how-to-be-human-the-man-who-was-raised-by-wolves</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text><i>Janer says the young boy would have projected his social needs on to the animals and imagined relationships with them. “When Pantoja says the fox laughed at him, or that he had to tell off the snake, he gives us a version of the true reality, what he believes happened – or how, at least, he explained the reality to himself,” Janer told me. “Marcos’s mind was desperate for social acceptance,” he told me, “so instead of understanding the animals’ presence as incentivised by the food, he thought they were trying to make friends.”</i><p>I continue to be perplexed as to why otherwise intelligent people deny the possibility of personality and social relations among other species, or that of interspecies communication. Then again this is just the mildest example in this story of people&#x27;s capacity for being awful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nkoren</author><text>Yeah, I think that Rodríguez absolutely has the right of it here. Animal communication is &quot;simple&quot; in human terms, but is quite rich on its own terms. To anybody who spends quality time with animals in their own comfort zones, it is utterly damned obvious that many animals experience and are entirely competent at communicating love, friendship, curiosity, jealousy, covetousness, and many other thoughts&#x2F;feelings -- and, also, that they are just as able to blur species boundaries as we are. There are varying levels of complexity to this: snakes are too simple-minded to have a sense of humour, for example, but foxes <i>definitely</i> do. Fox humour isn&#x27;t the same as human humour, but when you anthropomorphize them, and they foxopomorphize you, there&#x27;s enough overlap for an intersubjectively meaningful exchange to take place.<p>I think that science&#x27;s unwillingness to acknowledge this has multiple roots.<p>The first is a religious relict of wanting to put Man at the centre of the universe. Descartes, deeply religious, believed that humans were the only beings endowed with a soul, and that therefore animals were necessarily mere automata. This became the default &quot;scientific&quot; dogma, to be considered true unless proven otherwise. But it really is just dogma, with no basis in either rationality or observation.<p>The second is the scientific requirement for experimental controls and reproducibility, which is easiest to do in a laboratory. If animals really were automata, running on instinct, then that would be fine. But they&#x27;re (mostly) social creatures, formed through interaction as much as we are. If your understanding of human psychology was formed wholly through the observation of humans who spent their lives trapped in Skinner boxes, you&#x27;d form some rigorously incorrect notions of what humans are capable of. Ultimately, there&#x27;s no way to to get a proper understanding of humans in a non-subjective capacity. Same goes for animals.</text></comment> | <story><title>A man who was raised by wolves</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/28/how-to-be-human-the-man-who-was-raised-by-wolves</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text><i>Janer says the young boy would have projected his social needs on to the animals and imagined relationships with them. “When Pantoja says the fox laughed at him, or that he had to tell off the snake, he gives us a version of the true reality, what he believes happened – or how, at least, he explained the reality to himself,” Janer told me. “Marcos’s mind was desperate for social acceptance,” he told me, “so instead of understanding the animals’ presence as incentivised by the food, he thought they were trying to make friends.”</i><p>I continue to be perplexed as to why otherwise intelligent people deny the possibility of personality and social relations among other species, or that of interspecies communication. Then again this is just the mildest example in this story of people&#x27;s capacity for being awful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carapace</author><text>That exact passage struck me too.<p>The word &quot;com-pan-ion&quot; literally means sharing food together.</text></comment> |
17,201,149 | 17,199,398 | 1 | 3 | 17,198,610 | train | <story><title>Gnome has moved to GitLab</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2018/05/31/welcome-gnome-to-gitlab/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matttproud</author><text>… and closed about a bazillion bugs I filed over the years in the process without (apparently) migrating them, too.<p>… though I am pretty sure they left the bugs in the source intact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>audidude</author><text>Everyone on the CC list for each bugzilla bug was notified 6 months ago that any bug without action in over a year would be frozen instead of migrated.<p>(Do keep in mind that GNOME, unlike corporate projects, is largely volunteer based and time, resources, and contributors are limited)<p>As the email said, you just needed to ACK a comment on the bug to keep it alive and ensure its migration.<p>Given the nearly 900,000 bugs filed in the life-span of bugzilla, I think that was an acceptable trade-off given the very small workforce.<p>Hopefully, the gitlab tooling will allow us to track things going forward much better.<p>Personally, I think a lot of bugs in Bugzilla were just left open instead of closed due to a difference of opinion&#x2F;vision but different maintainers have different triage styles.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gnome has moved to GitLab</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2018/05/31/welcome-gnome-to-gitlab/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matttproud</author><text>… and closed about a bazillion bugs I filed over the years in the process without (apparently) migrating them, too.<p>… though I am pretty sure they left the bugs in the source intact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>numeromancer</author><text>Don&#x27;t worry, those&#x27;ll be cleared up in the next rewrite.</text></comment> |
3,995,541 | 3,994,930 | 1 | 3 | 3,994,748 | train | <story><title>The story of the ‘secret’ room at Pixar, frequented by Steve Jobs</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/05/18/the-story-of-the-secret-room-at-pixar-frequented-by-steve-jobs-and-many-other-celebrities/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwr</author><text>This is a story from TheNextWeb. Isn't that the same outfit that has been recently exposed for Plagiarism: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972651" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972651</a> while their CEO defended their behavior?<p>The story made it to the top of HN and earned an insane number of upvotes.<p>Is our memory really that short? Do we trust this story? Do we even want to read it?</text></comment> | <story><title>The story of the ‘secret’ room at Pixar, frequented by Steve Jobs</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/05/18/the-story-of-the-secret-room-at-pixar-frequented-by-steve-jobs-and-many-other-celebrities/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryguytilidie</author><text>I'm always surprised I've never heard anything about the similar room at Facebook's old California ave. hq. There was a secret door in the basement to a small "situation room" type place.</text></comment> |
31,117,597 | 31,116,561 | 1 | 2 | 31,116,303 | train | <story><title>Meta COO Sandberg reportedly tried to block story about Activision CEO Kotick</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/21/meta-coo-sandberg-reportedly-tried-to-block-news-story-about-activision-ceo-kotick.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gordon_freeman</author><text>I don’t get it - Article says Meta is reviewing her conduct [0] but then the same article mentions the spokesperson statement essentially saying she didn’t do it. [1] So is Meta done reviewing?<p>[0] Facebook is now reviewing whether Sandberg violated company rules, unnamed sources told the Journal.<p>[1] “Sheryl Sandberg never threatened the MailOnline’s business relationship with Facebook in order to influence an editorial decision,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement. “This story attempts to make connections that don’t exist.”</text></comment> | <story><title>Meta COO Sandberg reportedly tried to block story about Activision CEO Kotick</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/21/meta-coo-sandberg-reportedly-tried-to-block-news-story-about-activision-ceo-kotick.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GauntletWizard</author><text>This article gives so little detail it&#x27;s hard to see what&#x27;s been said. It&#x27;s reporting on a report that Sandberg involved meta employees with a coordinated PR campaign with Activision, but doesn&#x27;t actually say what they said to the mail or even hint at it. Sandberg giving a personal reference to her boyfriend of &quot;He&#x27;s never hit me&quot; would probably have been partially Facebook&#x27;s problem, given her position as COO. On the other hand, she could have used that position to make threats at the mail, the article hints but refuses to state.<p>You can probably infer all you need to about Sheryl&#x27;s personal ethics from &quot;Works at Meta&quot;, so any involvement with Kotick is mere icing.</text></comment> |
25,539,474 | 25,539,657 | 1 | 2 | 25,539,319 | train | <story><title>New Linux port for the Nintendo 64</title><url>https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/[email protected]/T/#m0862c3484e0da7195dc8989421d30f01b3b1c63a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rvz</author><text>&gt; &quot;But why&quot;, I hear from the back. Having Linux available makes it easier to port emulators and fb or console games.<p>&gt; Most importantly, because I can.<p>Good. All I can say is at least it is something different to what I keep seeing on HN. (React, Rust, Kubernetes, JAMstack, JavaScript, etc.)<p>Probably present this somewhere in a conference (CCC, FOSDEM, etc). Who knows who could be looking at this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rubicon33</author><text>Yes, I love seeing this stuff over the standard JavaScript lib of the month.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Linux port for the Nintendo 64</title><url>https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/[email protected]/T/#m0862c3484e0da7195dc8989421d30f01b3b1c63a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rvz</author><text>&gt; &quot;But why&quot;, I hear from the back. Having Linux available makes it easier to port emulators and fb or console games.<p>&gt; Most importantly, because I can.<p>Good. All I can say is at least it is something different to what I keep seeing on HN. (React, Rust, Kubernetes, JAMstack, JavaScript, etc.)<p>Probably present this somewhere in a conference (CCC, FOSDEM, etc). Who knows who could be looking at this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Causality1</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget the many ways in which Machine Learning will revolutionize X.</text></comment> |
30,199,608 | 30,199,084 | 1 | 2 | 30,173,965 | train | <story><title>An 8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/01/31/library-book-idaho-dillon-helbig/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>schoen</author><text>My elementary school had a unit (I think in third or fourth grade) where each student made and illustrated a book, which was then bound by the librarians and temporarily added to the school library&#x27;s collection, on a special shelf (for books by current students). Other students could check it out during the school year, and I think there was even an assignment where you were expected to check out one other student&#x27;s book and give some kind of report or presentation about it!<p>At the end of the year, you got your own book back to keep.<p>This was a really great school project.</text></comment> | <story><title>An 8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/01/31/library-book-idaho-dillon-helbig/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tacLog</author><text>This reminds me of how instrumental just going to the library was as a kid for my love of reading. It was the only place that was like a store to me at the time where I could have anything I wanted. It felt like a fun challenge to find as many books that I might want to read as possible.<p>I wonder how we can create this experience more easily remotely. There are tons of library eBook apps that are all pretty awesome, but discovery of new content just isn&#x27;t the same. I find myself going to the library still. Or even to book stores to write down interesting looking titles.<p>I know this seems like a boring problem because you can just go in person then put a hold on the eBook version while you are there. But there has to be a way to present a curated selection of books that inspires children to:<p>- enjoy the adventure of finding a good book<p>- fosters the idea that reading unlocks knowledge or stories about anything they want<p>- makes the process of sampling a book as easy as it is on Amazon, or in person<p>Why? When schools are remote, or to serve children that don&#x27;t have a local anything nearby.<p>Does anyone know of services that provide this now or have any ideas for how this would best work as an enhanced UI over say Libby or overdrive, or even hoopla all of which are great for if you already know what you want to read.</text></comment> |
4,101,885 | 4,101,778 | 1 | 2 | 4,100,630 | train | <story><title>Where the Heat and the Thunder Hit Their Shots</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/11/sports/basketball/nba-shot-analysis.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>marknutter</author><text>Not sure how many of you are basketball fans, but if you have even a cursory interest in the sport I suggest you check out this year's NBA finals. It is widely regarded as one of the most anticipated match-ups in many years. OKC's stars are all under the age of 24 which means they should dominate for years to come. We have literally watched these guys grow up before our eyes and they finally get their shot at the title this year.<p>LeBron James has been lambasted for leaving his hometown team to try to win a championship with the Heat which has evaded him so far. The Heat are the most hated team in the league. By contrast, the Thunder is led by the league's leading scorer Kevin Durant who's appears to be one of the most humble superstars in the league. It's the ultimate good guys vs. bad guys matchup. LeBron, likely fueled by all the criticisms about his ability to perform in the clutch and his will to win, appears to be on a mission to prove everybody wrong and finally win his first championship. To put it in perspective, facing elimination in game 5 versus the Celtics, LeBron put on one of the best playoff performances in history scoring nearly half his team's points (<a href="http://www.nba.com/games/20120607/MIABOS/gameinfo.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nba.com/games/20120607/MIABOS/gameinfo.html</a>).<p>The series will be on ABC so you don't need cable to watch it. Catch at least one game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>achompas</author><text>It's worth pointing out that Erik Spolestra and Scott Brooks are also two brilliant tacticians.<p>Examples:<p>1. Kevin Garnett of the Celtics had been troubling the Miami Heat's inside game during the Eastern Conference Finals (partially due to the absence of Chris Bosh). Bosh is fully healthy for Game 7, and he has a great jumper for a big man, so Spolestra plants him in the corner during the crucial 4th quarter of Game 7. Bosh hits three 3-pointers, forcing KG out of the paint to cover him. This is perfect for the Heat's isolation offense, as it rotates 6'7" Paul Pierce into the paint. Lebron/Wade spend the rest of the game driving on Pierce, while Bosh and KG hang out in the corner. Game over.<p>2. Serge Ibaka is an excellent shooter given his playing style (big shot-blocking men often shoot poorly unless your name is "Kevin Garnett" or, to a lesser extent, "Tim Duncan.") Brooks knows he shoots well, and runs both Ibaka and Perkins for extended minutes during Game 4 of the West Finals against the Spurs. The Spurs only have an aging Tim Duncan defending the paint, and his focus on Perkins means Ibaka makes all 11 of his shots, many in that troublesome midrange area. The Thunder take Game 4 before taking two more to advance.<p>This series will be incredible. Two teams equally matched in skill and coaching acumen. Can't wait.</text></comment> | <story><title>Where the Heat and the Thunder Hit Their Shots</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/11/sports/basketball/nba-shot-analysis.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>marknutter</author><text>Not sure how many of you are basketball fans, but if you have even a cursory interest in the sport I suggest you check out this year's NBA finals. It is widely regarded as one of the most anticipated match-ups in many years. OKC's stars are all under the age of 24 which means they should dominate for years to come. We have literally watched these guys grow up before our eyes and they finally get their shot at the title this year.<p>LeBron James has been lambasted for leaving his hometown team to try to win a championship with the Heat which has evaded him so far. The Heat are the most hated team in the league. By contrast, the Thunder is led by the league's leading scorer Kevin Durant who's appears to be one of the most humble superstars in the league. It's the ultimate good guys vs. bad guys matchup. LeBron, likely fueled by all the criticisms about his ability to perform in the clutch and his will to win, appears to be on a mission to prove everybody wrong and finally win his first championship. To put it in perspective, facing elimination in game 5 versus the Celtics, LeBron put on one of the best playoff performances in history scoring nearly half his team's points (<a href="http://www.nba.com/games/20120607/MIABOS/gameinfo.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nba.com/games/20120607/MIABOS/gameinfo.html</a>).<p>The series will be on ABC so you don't need cable to watch it. Catch at least one game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lotharbot</author><text>It's even got a bit of "who's the real villain", due to the manner in which the Sonics/Thunder left Seattle. While those who weren't Sonics fans tend to enjoy the way the Thunder play and the humility of KD, a lot of Sonics fans who watched the Clay Bennett saga and read the leaked e-mails are quite bitter. It was similar in heart-wrenching status in Seattle to "The Decision" in Cleveland.</text></comment> |
26,955,494 | 26,955,301 | 1 | 2 | 26,954,694 | train | <story><title>Fedora Linux 34 is officially here</title><url>https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-34/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>viraptor</author><text>While pipewire still needs a lot of work and some people will see regressions in their workflow, this change is so much better than the pulseaudio disaster.<p>It already enables things like more reasonable Bluetooth access, BT codec&#x2F;profile switching, close to real-time audio, etc. With updated pipewire you can run jack applications like guitarix and ardour and they just work. With pipewire updated from copr repositories and iRig I can use guitarix OOTB and the delay is low enough to ignore.<p>I can also watch movies with audio going over Bluetooth - pulseaudio had 400+ms delay, pipewire is pretty much synced up. (That&#x27;s on standard codecs, not aptx) It&#x27;s better than what either windows or Mac can achieve here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fedora Linux 34 is officially here</title><url>https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-34/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>r6203</author><text>Release notes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedoraproject.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Releases&#x2F;34&#x2F;ChangeSet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedoraproject.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Releases&#x2F;34&#x2F;ChangeSet</a></text></comment> |
26,073,719 | 26,073,798 | 1 | 3 | 26,072,659 | train | <story><title>The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes</title><url>https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/the-us-is-seeing-a-massive-spike-in-anti-asian-hate-crimes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>babesh</author><text>There is semi-hidden animosity between the black and some Asian communities.<p>Chinese immigrants are often the ones first moving into and then buying out people in black neighborhoods.<p>Asian kids do disproportionately well in urban schools. Lowell High School is moving from a scoring based system to a lottery. Asian parents see this as unfair while black parents see the previous system as unfair.<p>Chinese are traditionally not seen as fighting back. Some criminals see elderly as easy marks due to the tendency to carry cash and due to their frailty.<p>The trade war with China has spread to demonization of Asians.<p>BLM riots and the lack of persecution and then the defund the police emboldened criminal activity including physical attacks.<p>This cycle of animosity and violence last occurred roughly 30 years ago.<p>I’m getting a gun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ipqk</author><text>Semi-hidden? Tensions between black &amp; korean-americans was a huge part of the 1992 LA Riots.</text></comment> | <story><title>The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes</title><url>https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/the-us-is-seeing-a-massive-spike-in-anti-asian-hate-crimes.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>babesh</author><text>There is semi-hidden animosity between the black and some Asian communities.<p>Chinese immigrants are often the ones first moving into and then buying out people in black neighborhoods.<p>Asian kids do disproportionately well in urban schools. Lowell High School is moving from a scoring based system to a lottery. Asian parents see this as unfair while black parents see the previous system as unfair.<p>Chinese are traditionally not seen as fighting back. Some criminals see elderly as easy marks due to the tendency to carry cash and due to their frailty.<p>The trade war with China has spread to demonization of Asians.<p>BLM riots and the lack of persecution and then the defund the police emboldened criminal activity including physical attacks.<p>This cycle of animosity and violence last occurred roughly 30 years ago.<p>I’m getting a gun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refurb</author><text>Pretty reasonable take overall.<p>People shouldn’t forget about the African-American and Korean animosity during the LA riots. This stuff goes way back.</text></comment> |
10,828,938 | 10,828,389 | 1 | 2 | 10,825,438 | train | <story><title>Gas Theft Gangs Fuel Pump Skimming Scams</title><url>http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/gas-theft-gangs-fuel-pump-skimming-scams/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superdude</author><text>What service or cards offer SMS alerts for any transaction? The best I have it American Express which will alert me only when I have a transaction over $10. V.me by Visa used to offer an alert service for any amount and it was great, but unfortunately that service got shut down.</text></item><item><author>skeuo</author><text>The real solution here is to have contactless chip &amp; pin systems at the pump, but apparently that is years away because of cost. In the meantime I find the best way to monitor my CC expenses is to enable SMS&#x2F;Push alerts for any transaction above $0. This way I always expect to get an alert at the point of sale for any transaction. Anything unknown is a red flag and it also works well for subscriptions that I may forget about and want to cancel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bonestamp2</author><text>When I added my American Express card to Apple Pay, it started sending me push notifications for every transaction. It&#x27;s crazy how fast it is, before I can even put my card back in my pocket my phone buzzes. You see pre-authorizations too, so when you swipe at a gas pump it usually shows a $100 authorization check.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gas Theft Gangs Fuel Pump Skimming Scams</title><url>http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/gas-theft-gangs-fuel-pump-skimming-scams/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superdude</author><text>What service or cards offer SMS alerts for any transaction? The best I have it American Express which will alert me only when I have a transaction over $10. V.me by Visa used to offer an alert service for any amount and it was great, but unfortunately that service got shut down.</text></item><item><author>skeuo</author><text>The real solution here is to have contactless chip &amp; pin systems at the pump, but apparently that is years away because of cost. In the meantime I find the best way to monitor my CC expenses is to enable SMS&#x2F;Push alerts for any transaction above $0. This way I always expect to get an alert at the point of sale for any transaction. Anything unknown is a red flag and it also works well for subscriptions that I may forget about and want to cancel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thrownaway2424</author><text>Does it have to be SMS? My Simple card notifies me every time the card is used. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.simple.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.simple.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
17,202,530 | 17,201,241 | 1 | 2 | 17,199,860 | train | <story><title>How Not to Negotiate a $6.1B Deal</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-24/how-not-to-negotiate-a-6-1-billion-deal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avs733</author><text>It seems like it would be an all around benefit to the economy to disrupt the model that hedge funds use to invest in companies. Obviously access to capital is important. Obviously there are companies that benefit from more efficient operations (e.g., the Olive Garden drama of years past...BREADSTICKS). However, I cannot seem to find any benefit in allowing a hedge fund to charge for services to a company it has taken over. To buy a company with the pure goal of extracting any short term value with the intent of destroying it seems to be a long term societal ill that should be regulated out of existence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>computator</author><text>&gt; Olive Garden drama of years past<p>Ahh, Olive Garden. I hope you won&#x27;t mind a slight tangent involving Olive Garden, one of Paul Graham&#x27;s essays, and a sneaky business deal:<p>In one of his essays[1], Paul Graham wrote, &quot;I think most businesses that fail do it because they don&#x27;t give customers what they want. Look at restaurants. A large percentage fail, about a quarter in the first year. But can you think of one restaurant that had really good food and went out of business?&quot;<p>Yes, I can name a restaurant that had really good food and went out of business -- it was all of the Olive Garden locations in Ontario, Canada, about 15 years ago. They were always busy, <i>always</i> had a line-up to get in, and pretty much everyone I knew liked the food a lot. Then suddenly, without explanation, all of the Olive Gardens in Ontario shut down.<p>Much later I learned that Olive Garden USA had shifted some large debts to its Olive Garden Canada subsidiary, and allowed the Canadian subsidiary to go bankrupt, freeing the parent corporation of the debts. (So businesses fail for odd reasons even when they have excellent products and masses of loyal customers.)<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;start.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;start.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Not to Negotiate a $6.1B Deal</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-24/how-not-to-negotiate-a-6-1-billion-deal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avs733</author><text>It seems like it would be an all around benefit to the economy to disrupt the model that hedge funds use to invest in companies. Obviously access to capital is important. Obviously there are companies that benefit from more efficient operations (e.g., the Olive Garden drama of years past...BREADSTICKS). However, I cannot seem to find any benefit in allowing a hedge fund to charge for services to a company it has taken over. To buy a company with the pure goal of extracting any short term value with the intent of destroying it seems to be a long term societal ill that should be regulated out of existence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bcoates</author><text>Lots of companies with lots of value are dead or irreversibly dying (that is, saving them would cost more than the entire value of the saved company).<p>There&#x27;s nothing wrong or strange about firms specializing in extracting what can be salvaged out of the these. It&#x27;s not more short-term or long-term specific than any other decision owners make about companies -- carving out viable business units that can be spun off and sold is a fundamentally long-term proposition (for the buyer and society). It&#x27;s not all Michael Douglas defrauding overfunded pensions.</text></comment> |
9,855,536 | 9,854,935 | 1 | 3 | 9,854,408 | train | <story><title>Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem in Go 1.5</title><url>https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gophercon2015/123574706480</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexbock</author><text>&gt; ...there has been a virtuous cycle between software and hardware development. CPU hardware improves, which enables faster software to be written, which in turn...<p>This is the exact opposite of the experience I&#x27;ve had with (most) software. A new CPU with a higher clock speed makes existing software faster, but most new software written for the new CPU will burn all of the extra CPU cycles on more layers of abstraction or poorly written code until it runs at the same speed that old code ran on the old CPU. I&#x27;m impressed that hardware designers and compiler authors can do their jobs well enough to make this sort of bloated software (e.g. multiple gigabytes for a word processor or image editor) succeed in spite of itself.<p>There are of course CPU advancements that make a huge performance difference when used properly (e.g. SSE, multiple cores in consumer machines) and some applications will use them to great effect, but these seem to be few and far between.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>It&#x27;s probably fair to call that a reasonable characterization of the Go&#x27;s &quot;home problem domain&quot;, though. Contrary to popular belief that &quot;cloud&quot; means you can just write crappy code and throw cheap hardware at it, when you are truly working at cloud scale you actually try to write software as lean and mean as possible, because everybody cares about 10x and 100x differences in the amount of hardware that a particular cloud service takes.<p>Yes, desktops continue to be gluttonous hogs, because you&#x27;d rather have your software now than glorious software three years from now (which you can&#x27;t have anyhow because the company went out of business trying to polish it instead of releasing it). Lately &quot;mobile&quot; is really pushing it, I think. But in Go&#x27;s wheelhouse, efficiency has actually manifested.<p>I&#x27;ve often thought that the there is less difference than you&#x27;d think between embedded programming and cloud programming; both groups of programmers may literally be counting cycles and watching their L1 caches. It&#x27;s those in the middle who have more power sitting around than they know what to do with who can afford to be a bit &quot;lazy&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem in Go 1.5</title><url>https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gophercon2015/123574706480</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexbock</author><text>&gt; ...there has been a virtuous cycle between software and hardware development. CPU hardware improves, which enables faster software to be written, which in turn...<p>This is the exact opposite of the experience I&#x27;ve had with (most) software. A new CPU with a higher clock speed makes existing software faster, but most new software written for the new CPU will burn all of the extra CPU cycles on more layers of abstraction or poorly written code until it runs at the same speed that old code ran on the old CPU. I&#x27;m impressed that hardware designers and compiler authors can do their jobs well enough to make this sort of bloated software (e.g. multiple gigabytes for a word processor or image editor) succeed in spite of itself.<p>There are of course CPU advancements that make a huge performance difference when used properly (e.g. SSE, multiple cores in consumer machines) and some applications will use them to great effect, but these seem to be few and far between.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retra</author><text>It&#x27;s just far easier to write bloated software than it is to write efficient software. Particularly in the &quot;just get it done&quot; atmosphere most programmers operate under.</text></comment> |
31,154,882 | 31,154,631 | 1 | 2 | 31,153,857 | train | <story><title>Long-term risks of surgery: ‘It gives people’s brains a hard time’</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/24/the-hidden-long-term-risks-of-surgery-it-give-peoples-brains-a-hard-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nicolas_t</author><text>My father had a significant cognitive decline after two surgeries within 6 months of each other (Cardiac Ablation). The second surgery resulted in septicimia so the inflammation is definitely a factor but both me and my mother also noted decline after the first surgery.<p>It was very obvious in term of decline, my father had trouble with doing some tasks on his computer (when he never did before having been an early adopter and programming some educational software for schools in the 80s), he no longer could concentrate enough when reading and became more extreme in his politics (he went from voting from the parti socialiste and being mostly center left to being very left wing). He also had less control over his emotions and would sometimes explode in a rage unlike anything he had before.<p>He himself felt diminished mentally and that greatly bothered him during the last years of his life.<p>On my side, I&#x27;ve refused general anaesthesia as much as I can because it scares me deeply. When I was a kid, I had an operation under general anaesthesia and I woke up with a very strong asthma attack, completely unable to breathe. Reading this, it does give argument towards my stance to asking for local anaesthesia as much as possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Long-term risks of surgery: ‘It gives people’s brains a hard time’</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/24/the-hidden-long-term-risks-of-surgery-it-give-peoples-brains-a-hard-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snek_case</author><text>This article suggests that inflammation in response to the surgery is the problem, but as far as I know, anesthesia itself is very dangerous. It can reduce the amount of oxygen the brain is getting for several hours, and if the brain doesn&#x27;t get enough oxygen, neurons can die. Some of the cognitive changes following anesthesia could be brain tissue death due to the anesthesia itself. Careful dosage and monitoring is required, and you should probably get local anesthesia if possible.<p>Anesthesia kills brain cells, but what does it mean?
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5119529" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5119529</a></text></comment> |
16,712,377 | 16,712,527 | 1 | 2 | 16,710,891 | train | <story><title>Notice of Data Breach</title><url>https://content.myfitnesspal.com/security-information/notice.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>borne0</author><text>Hi, even if a data breach hadn&#x27;t happened, did you have any concerns about people within the company having access to those photos? I also use myfitnesspal and strava but I have a strong aversion to sharing that kind of info with anyone, period.<p>I&#x27;m 36, is this a generational thing?</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>Somebody is about to come across 250 pictures of me in my boxers standing in front of a dirty mirror with my belly popping out. I only hope they don&#x27;t judge me for the size of my belly not really changing over those 250 days...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>I&#x27;m 34, and I don&#x27;t care. I also tend to walk around naked, without much care if someone spots me through a window - though I try not to obviously flash the neighbors through the kitchen window, which is the only real direct easy sightline.<p>I used to be really insecure about being nude - I requested, and got permission to, change somewhere besides the locker room in middle school - but I think I don&#x27;t care anymore, and I don&#x27;t really know when this change came about.</text></comment> | <story><title>Notice of Data Breach</title><url>https://content.myfitnesspal.com/security-information/notice.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>borne0</author><text>Hi, even if a data breach hadn&#x27;t happened, did you have any concerns about people within the company having access to those photos? I also use myfitnesspal and strava but I have a strong aversion to sharing that kind of info with anyone, period.<p>I&#x27;m 36, is this a generational thing?</text></item><item><author>komali2</author><text>Somebody is about to come across 250 pictures of me in my boxers standing in front of a dirty mirror with my belly popping out. I only hope they don&#x27;t judge me for the size of my belly not really changing over those 250 days...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enobrev</author><text>I&#x27;m almost 40 and this sort of thing doesn&#x27;t bother me whatsoever. If someone wants to spend months flipping through billions of photos of strangers who are trying to lose weight, I couldn&#x27;t possibly be bothered by it.<p>In most cases, when I send _anything_ to anyone, I do so accepting the fact that it may one-day end up as public knowledge. That hasn&#x27;t stopped me from the occasional drunk tweet, but I won&#x27;t send naked photos of myself to anyone, even privately. If I hadn&#x27;t regained the 25 lbs I lost last year using MyFitnessPal, I might not mind as much.<p>That said, I also do my banking online, so I&#x27;m not exactly strict about it.</text></comment> |
26,040,897 | 26,040,855 | 1 | 3 | 26,040,525 | train | <story><title>iPhone's Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything 'Asian'</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/your-iphones-adult-content-filter-blocks-anything-asian-1846200028</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elil17</author><text>It literally blocks &quot;Asian restaurants near me.&quot; The fact that someone at Apple made a simple word based filter and didn&#x27;t think of the possibility that words have different meanings in different contexts is absolutely astounding to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>iPhone's Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything 'Asian'</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/your-iphones-adult-content-filter-blocks-anything-asian-1846200028</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>renewiltord</author><text>I could have sworn I&#x27;ve seen a headline like this repeatedly over the years. Maybe its sporadic reoccurrence reveals that people don&#x27;t really use the Adult Content Filter because this is such an obviously nonsensical thing to have, especially in the Bay Area, where these guys have their HQ.<p>Like there are so many reasons you&#x27;d use the word Asian here.</text></comment> |
17,236,272 | 17,236,317 | 1 | 3 | 17,236,039 | train | <story><title>Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44360273</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hellofunk</author><text>Apple is putting itself in an entertaining position in the industry. Most big tech firms have a business model that depends on user data. By explicitly taking the other side of that model, a fascinating new conflict is emerging between tech giants. And Apple is at least positioning itself on the sympathetic side of billions of users in this arena. This conflict will not die down -- the entire FB and Google business models cannot suddenly change to move away from user data collection, so this tech war will only get more pronounced and dramatic as time passes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text><i>the entire FB and Google business models cannot suddenly change to move away from user data collection</i><p>They can though - they can go back to untargetted advertising based on page content as they were doing 10 years ago. All the personal tracking data is a layer on top of that tech aiming to improve the &#x27;targettedness&#x27; of adverts. Nothing in the online ad industry really <i>needs</i> any of that personal data, and arguably it doesn&#x27;t actually make many ads more effective anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44360273</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hellofunk</author><text>Apple is putting itself in an entertaining position in the industry. Most big tech firms have a business model that depends on user data. By explicitly taking the other side of that model, a fascinating new conflict is emerging between tech giants. And Apple is at least positioning itself on the sympathetic side of billions of users in this arena. This conflict will not die down -- the entire FB and Google business models cannot suddenly change to move away from user data collection, so this tech war will only get more pronounced and dramatic as time passes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tannhaeuser</author><text>It might seem like that, but Apple doesn&#x27;t do it for the good of mankind, but to push their own ad channels.<p>It&#x27;s the same thing with Google et al:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;We&#x27;re penalizing non-https sites to protect users&quot;</i><p>... to push our own ad channels rather than theirs<p>&gt; <i>&quot;We&#x27;re disabling insecure MMS on Android phones</i> (Stagefreight bug 2015)<p>... to eliminate the last remaining open channel for payed content downloads with carrier billing outside of app stores</text></comment> |
24,517,131 | 24,517,265 | 1 | 3 | 24,516,345 | train | <story><title>Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for DNC emails – lawyer</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-assange/trump-offered-to-pardon-assange-if-he-provided-source-for-democratic-emails-lawyer-says-idUSKBN2691VW</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tootie</author><text>Both Muller report as well as the House and Senate investigations all concluded that Russia was the source. Assange&#x27;s denials are about as credible as Roger Stone&#x27;s denials.</text></item><item><author>dleslie</author><text>For those making quips about Russia: Assange has already claimed the source was _not_ Russia.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foxnews.com&#x2F;transcript&#x2F;julian-assange-our-source-is-not-the-russian-government" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foxnews.com&#x2F;transcript&#x2F;julian-assange-our-source...</a><p>Edit: oh wow, to -2 in less than 2 minutes.<p>It&#x27;s a point of information, not an endorsement.<p>Double-edit: Ha, ok, colour me shocked. The discussion thread is excellent and I thank everyone involved for remaining civil.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imphatic</author><text>This is what blows my mind. For a group of people who supposedly rely on institutional knowledge about topics like science and tech, suddenly on this topic its one guys claim against literally dozens of institutions counter claims.</text></comment> | <story><title>Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for DNC emails – lawyer</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-assange/trump-offered-to-pardon-assange-if-he-provided-source-for-democratic-emails-lawyer-says-idUSKBN2691VW</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tootie</author><text>Both Muller report as well as the House and Senate investigations all concluded that Russia was the source. Assange&#x27;s denials are about as credible as Roger Stone&#x27;s denials.</text></item><item><author>dleslie</author><text>For those making quips about Russia: Assange has already claimed the source was _not_ Russia.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foxnews.com&#x2F;transcript&#x2F;julian-assange-our-source-is-not-the-russian-government" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foxnews.com&#x2F;transcript&#x2F;julian-assange-our-source...</a><p>Edit: oh wow, to -2 in less than 2 minutes.<p>It&#x27;s a point of information, not an endorsement.<p>Double-edit: Ha, ok, colour me shocked. The discussion thread is excellent and I thank everyone involved for remaining civil.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>Like the weapons on mass destruction in Iraq...<p>I don&#x27;t believe anything the state says and so far every leak Asange has provided has been proven to be true. At this time he has more credibility than the government.</text></comment> |
12,921,848 | 12,921,476 | 1 | 2 | 12,921,389 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Backblaze via a Single API</title><url>https://cloudrail.com/enterprise-cloud-storage-interface/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jameshart</author><text>Do all these services provide equivalent or abstractable guarantees? Amazon S3, for example, provides &#x27;read-after-write&#x27; consistency, meaning once you&#x27;ve received a positive response to a put operation, you can expect to be immediately able to retrieve that object. But it used to be &#x27;eventually consistent&#x27;, meaning it was possible to receive a positive response to a put, but then not be able to read the object immediately after.<p>Similar guarantees are needed around how soon after deleting something can readers expect to get 404s.<p>If these guarantees differ, you might find abstracting over the stores doesn&#x27;t work the way you&#x27;d like...</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Backblaze via a Single API</title><url>https://cloudrail.com/enterprise-cloud-storage-interface/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0xmohit</author><text>Open source alternative: Rclone -- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rclone.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rclone.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
34,074,553 | 34,073,228 | 1 | 2 | 34,066,527 | train | <story><title>The Fermi paradox revisited: Technosignatures and the contact era</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16505</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlbertCory</author><text>Well said. The &quot;Drake Equation&quot; is complete and utter garbage. There is no such thing as a &quot;probability&quot; of any of those terms, in the way we normally understand probability, i.e. dice or card games.<p>That said, there probably <i>are</i> intelligent civilizations somewhere in the universe, but we have that pesky problem of distance and the speed of light, as you said. People like to imagine that eventually civilizations find a way around it, but in all likelihood they don&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>The Fermi paradox is good for a nice chat at a party.<p>But it&#x27;s not a paradox at all.<p>Imagine there&#x27;s an alien civilization in our galactic neighbor Proxima Centauri. How would we know they are there?<p>To make it more plausible. Let&#x27;s say we figure out a way to send a space probe to Proxima Centauri. How do we communicate with that probe? Easy, you say, just like we communicate with the Voyagers: they point a reasonably large parabolic antenna at us, we point a point a much larger one at them, and we chat all day long.<p>Except that Proxima Centauri is 2000 times farther that Voyager. And signals decrease with the square of the distance. By the time Voyager gets to be 4.25 light years away from Earth, their puny 22W antenna will send us a signal that&#x27;s 4 million times weaker than what they send us now (when we get less than 200 bits&#x2F;second).<p>It&#x27;s actually worse than that, of course. If Voyager were to send a signal from some arbitrary place 4.25 light years away, we&#x27;d get it as something 4 million times weaker. But if that place is in the solar system of Proxima Centauri, it&#x27;s like us looking straight at the headlights of an incoming car. That very weak signal will need to be extracted from the extraordinarily bright noise coming from the star that&#x27;s roughly speaking about 1 second of arc away from it.<p>Now imagine that instead of Voyager, it&#x27;s just some aliens that are not pointing an antenna straight at us, but just minding their own business. They could be launching rockets, watching satellite TV, waging wars, and from time to time lobbing Himars at each others, and even nukes. How would we know they are there?<p>And now finally imagine that there are no aliens in the Proxima Centauri system, by the luck of the draw, but there are in 5% of all the star systems in the galaxy. Only the closest ones to us are 40 light years away, instead of 4. That&#x27;s another reduction in signal by a factor of 100.<p>The only question is not why we didn&#x27;t &quot;see&quot; any aliens so far. It&#x27;s why we wasted so much money on SETI. Was Carl Sagan not able to do the back of the envelope calculation I just did here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nobody9999</author><text>&gt;Well said. The &quot;Drake Equation&quot; is complete and utter garbage. There is no such thing as a &quot;probability&quot; of any of those terms, in the way we normally understand probability, i.e. dice or card games.<p>I&#x27;d say that any <i>result</i> you try to pull from the Drake Equation is &quot;complete and utter garbage.&quot;<p>The value in the Drake Equation isn&#x27;t in any calculation we might do with it. Rather, it&#x27;s a way to categorize both the variables necessary for the development of technological civilizations, and our ignorance as to both the value of such variables and variables we don&#x27;t even know exist (which can be added as we learn more).<p>In fact, the Drake equation[0] was never intended to be useful <i>as an equation</i>:<p><pre><code> The equation was formulated in 1961 by Frank Drake, not for purposes of
quantifying the number of civilizations, but as a way to stimulate scientific
dialogue at the first scientific meeting on the search for extraterrestrial
intelligence (SETI)
</code></pre>
[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Drake_equation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Drake_equation</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Fermi paradox revisited: Technosignatures and the contact era</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16505</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlbertCory</author><text>Well said. The &quot;Drake Equation&quot; is complete and utter garbage. There is no such thing as a &quot;probability&quot; of any of those terms, in the way we normally understand probability, i.e. dice or card games.<p>That said, there probably <i>are</i> intelligent civilizations somewhere in the universe, but we have that pesky problem of distance and the speed of light, as you said. People like to imagine that eventually civilizations find a way around it, but in all likelihood they don&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>The Fermi paradox is good for a nice chat at a party.<p>But it&#x27;s not a paradox at all.<p>Imagine there&#x27;s an alien civilization in our galactic neighbor Proxima Centauri. How would we know they are there?<p>To make it more plausible. Let&#x27;s say we figure out a way to send a space probe to Proxima Centauri. How do we communicate with that probe? Easy, you say, just like we communicate with the Voyagers: they point a reasonably large parabolic antenna at us, we point a point a much larger one at them, and we chat all day long.<p>Except that Proxima Centauri is 2000 times farther that Voyager. And signals decrease with the square of the distance. By the time Voyager gets to be 4.25 light years away from Earth, their puny 22W antenna will send us a signal that&#x27;s 4 million times weaker than what they send us now (when we get less than 200 bits&#x2F;second).<p>It&#x27;s actually worse than that, of course. If Voyager were to send a signal from some arbitrary place 4.25 light years away, we&#x27;d get it as something 4 million times weaker. But if that place is in the solar system of Proxima Centauri, it&#x27;s like us looking straight at the headlights of an incoming car. That very weak signal will need to be extracted from the extraordinarily bright noise coming from the star that&#x27;s roughly speaking about 1 second of arc away from it.<p>Now imagine that instead of Voyager, it&#x27;s just some aliens that are not pointing an antenna straight at us, but just minding their own business. They could be launching rockets, watching satellite TV, waging wars, and from time to time lobbing Himars at each others, and even nukes. How would we know they are there?<p>And now finally imagine that there are no aliens in the Proxima Centauri system, by the luck of the draw, but there are in 5% of all the star systems in the galaxy. Only the closest ones to us are 40 light years away, instead of 4. That&#x27;s another reduction in signal by a factor of 100.<p>The only question is not why we didn&#x27;t &quot;see&quot; any aliens so far. It&#x27;s why we wasted so much money on SETI. Was Carl Sagan not able to do the back of the envelope calculation I just did here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gcanyon</author><text>&gt; There is no such thing as a &quot;probability&quot; of any of those terms...<p>&gt; That said, there probably are intelligent civilizations somewhere in the universe<p>...pick one :-)</text></comment> |
20,391,904 | 20,391,289 | 1 | 3 | 20,375,207 | train | <story><title>Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing</title><url>https://pixelfed.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rohan1024</author><text>This is how we probably should proceed with decentralization.<p>The problem that I see currently with this approach is not many are willing to host there own servers. Even people who are fairly tech savy won&#x27;t host any server because of the costs involved. I am not going to host a server unless I get benefit out of it or its dirt cheap to host them.<p>The solution I think is instead of hosting it on cloud we host it at home. This way we have control over the cost. Again, if I can choose the kind of content that I am hosting then that would be great. I like to save images on certain topics. I don&#x27;t mind serving them from my home since I already have unlimited data connection. Running a server on Raspberry PI would be ideal. There are already millions of PIs out there and they can be used for decentralization of apps. In the end, we might even be able to convince general population to host there own content. We will have to provide them tools and utilities to make hosting as easy as possible.<p>The major problem I think is NAT which is preventing direct hosting of content from home. Solve that and you most probably have solved decentralization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MadWombat</author><text>&gt; The major problem I think is NAT<p>NAT is not a problem. All you have to do is configure port forwarding on your router correctly. Dynamic IP assignment is a bit more of a problem, but it can be overcome by using dynamic DNS services. All of this is fairly trivial.<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t mind serving them from my home<p>I do. And I think it goes for a lot of people. My connection is residential, so somewhere in the ToS it says that I cannot run public servers off of it. Besides, there is no guaranteed uptime, I would need to deal with things like backups, hardware replacements and whatever other maintenance myself. Whereas with a service like Instagram, I just take pictures on my phone and upload. There is no overhead, my stuff is always available and I don&#x27;t have to worry about backups.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing</title><url>https://pixelfed.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rohan1024</author><text>This is how we probably should proceed with decentralization.<p>The problem that I see currently with this approach is not many are willing to host there own servers. Even people who are fairly tech savy won&#x27;t host any server because of the costs involved. I am not going to host a server unless I get benefit out of it or its dirt cheap to host them.<p>The solution I think is instead of hosting it on cloud we host it at home. This way we have control over the cost. Again, if I can choose the kind of content that I am hosting then that would be great. I like to save images on certain topics. I don&#x27;t mind serving them from my home since I already have unlimited data connection. Running a server on Raspberry PI would be ideal. There are already millions of PIs out there and they can be used for decentralization of apps. In the end, we might even be able to convince general population to host there own content. We will have to provide them tools and utilities to make hosting as easy as possible.<p>The major problem I think is NAT which is preventing direct hosting of content from home. Solve that and you most probably have solved decentralization.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashleyn</author><text>A major obstacle to your proposal is the near-universal blocking of port 80 inbound on residential ISPs.</text></comment> |
36,894,471 | 36,892,835 | 1 | 2 | 36,859,614 | train | <story><title>Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66238618</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>consumer451</author><text>This rule applies to any water near land. You get runoff from dog, cat, bird defecation among whatever chemicals may be found on land. This is even if storm water sewage does not overflow.<p>I lived in Key West for half of my life. I got addicted to swimming daily and would always go, no matter what. Now I have sinusitis caused cluster headaches. When I trace back events, the first one happened about a year into the swimming. Now they are truly debilitating.<p>I would even add not swimming during an out-going tide if the water passes by nasty land. (nasty = like seemingly lovely mangroves where birds live or bird poo covered rocks)<p>Now I always check water quality reports to find the cleanest water on vacation as well. Most places do them, even if not advertised.</text></item><item><author>konschubert</author><text>Is this general advice or specific to Paris?<p>And what is the background here?</text></item><item><author>consumer451</author><text>&gt; we don’t go in the water after heaving rains.<p>I cannot emphasize enough how important this part is. I have a major incurable health issue from ignoring this rule.</text></item><item><author>wdavidw</author><text>I live on a boat on the seine river in meudon, facing boulogne, just outide of paris downhill, about 15mn biking from eiffel towel. Me and our neighboors enjoy swiming and padding on hot days, many friends are fishing just outside our windows. Like mentioned in the article, we don’t go in the water after heaving rains. It is a wonderful environment with trees and fresh air.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conductr</author><text>Are you sure it was related to the pollution&#x2F;run off? Or is that just a guess?<p>It could possibly and simply be the fact you swam every day. A few years ago I bought my first house with a pool and have had a pool since. I swam every day for a couple years (~8 months&#x2F;year), then this year I&#x27;m having a ton of swimmer&#x27;s ear &amp; sinusitis issues. My pool water is about as clean as it gets for outdoor swimming. And for me at least has been more correlated with frequency of contact with water than anything else. If my ears or sinuses act up, I take a week off from the pool and it gets better.</text></comment> | <story><title>Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66238618</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>consumer451</author><text>This rule applies to any water near land. You get runoff from dog, cat, bird defecation among whatever chemicals may be found on land. This is even if storm water sewage does not overflow.<p>I lived in Key West for half of my life. I got addicted to swimming daily and would always go, no matter what. Now I have sinusitis caused cluster headaches. When I trace back events, the first one happened about a year into the swimming. Now they are truly debilitating.<p>I would even add not swimming during an out-going tide if the water passes by nasty land. (nasty = like seemingly lovely mangroves where birds live or bird poo covered rocks)<p>Now I always check water quality reports to find the cleanest water on vacation as well. Most places do them, even if not advertised.</text></item><item><author>konschubert</author><text>Is this general advice or specific to Paris?<p>And what is the background here?</text></item><item><author>consumer451</author><text>&gt; we don’t go in the water after heaving rains.<p>I cannot emphasize enough how important this part is. I have a major incurable health issue from ignoring this rule.</text></item><item><author>wdavidw</author><text>I live on a boat on the seine river in meudon, facing boulogne, just outide of paris downhill, about 15mn biking from eiffel towel. Me and our neighboors enjoy swiming and padding on hot days, many friends are fishing just outside our windows. Like mentioned in the article, we don’t go in the water after heaving rains. It is a wonderful environment with trees and fresh air.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjzzleep</author><text>I had never heard about this rule, so thank you for the write up. It&#x27;s one of those things that should be in a random stupid things not to do in your like rulebook that should exist.<p>I have a few of these rules, that I picked up at random points in my life that either saved my life later on or caused permanent damage because I was young and stupid and didn&#x27;t bother listening to my elders experiences.</text></comment> |
25,669,322 | 25,664,688 | 1 | 2 | 25,663,729 | train | <story><title>A Look at the CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3-years-specmelt&num=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tux</author><text>So can someone please explain to me if its better to use &quot;mitigations=off&quot; with Linux Kernel 5.10 or have the default from kernel with &quot;AMD Phenom II X4 955 Processor&quot;? By running &quot;lscpu&quot; I see only two lines in default mode (not using &quot;mitigations=off&quot; right now), everything else &quot;Not affected&quot;;<p><pre><code> Vulnerability Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy&#x2F;swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Vulnerability Spectre v2: Mitigation; Full AMD retpoline, STIBP disabled, RSB filling
</code></pre>
By having those it will affect my CPU perferomance? Will applying &quot;mitigations=off&quot; help with perfermance? Also by having &quot;mitigations=off&quot; what are the real security implications? Thank you for your help!</text></comment> | <story><title>A Look at the CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=3-years-specmelt&num=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pstrateman</author><text>The context switching thing is the biggest.<p>If you have something that&#x27;s just making a huge number of syscall&#x27;s in a tight loop the mitigations absolutely dumpster performance.</text></comment> |
31,386,241 | 31,385,086 | 1 | 3 | 31,383,665 | train | <story><title>Cognitive psychology findings that passed a stringent replicability test (2017)</title><url>https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/06/05/these-nine-cognitive-psychology-findings-all-passed-a-stringent-test-of-their-replicability/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tgv</author><text>The findings may hold, but the conclusions? E.g., take the blurb about the Flanker task:<p>&gt; The task shows how we can’t help but process irrelevant information to a certain degree.<p>No, it doesn&#x27;t. Not with the given information. At best, it shows that we don&#x27;t blank out the area around the target. Is that &quot;irrelevant information&quot;? No. In this particular experiment perhaps, but if that&#x27;s what the conclusion is based on, then that conclusion is limited to one specific artificial task. And while that is relevant for other research, it is not a general conclusion about our cognitive system.<p>But basically what most of these experiments show is that the influence of priming&#x2F;recency on reaction times is real, and it&#x27;s not surprising: everybody finds it, although there is ample evidence that in some conditions slows down reaction. But that&#x27;s it. There&#x27;s no evidence in this list that priming extends to other parts of our behavior. Don&#x27;t forget that the next time someone tries to draw far-reaching conclusions from e.g. the Implicit Association Test.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cognitive psychology findings that passed a stringent replicability test (2017)</title><url>https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/06/05/these-nine-cognitive-psychology-findings-all-passed-a-stringent-test-of-their-replicability/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chapulin</author><text>The distracting stimuli finding—and the fact that processing irrelevant info—slows us down is interesting to think about in the context of trying to make decisions under stress</text></comment> |
1,568,721 | 1,568,770 | 1 | 3 | 1,568,575 | train | <story><title>Tips for Noogler Engineers (Noogler = New at Google)</title><url>http://piaw.blogspot.com/2010/08/tips-for-noogler-engineers.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>I love the ending line:<p>&#62; Finally, if you get fed up of working for a big company, consider joining a startup.<p>This one posting probably did more damage to google hiring from the HN ranks than all the others that I've seen to date. With friends like that who needs enemies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tips for Noogler Engineers (Noogler = New at Google)</title><url>http://piaw.blogspot.com/2010/08/tips-for-noogler-engineers.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alain94040</author><text>I was expecting one more "google is great" love-post. It was anything but.<p>If you are dreaming of joining Google, this is the article to read. Really.</text></comment> |
27,581,701 | 27,581,566 | 1 | 2 | 27,580,946 | train | <story><title>We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons</title><url>https://blog.davidtate.org/we-cant-let-people-work-from-home-for-stupid-reasons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>system16</author><text>I have a ridiculous sounding but very important to me reason for my preference to work at home: bowel movements.<p>I worked with a small team in a small office. Everybody is typically at their desk in silence with the occasional manager or sales person on the phone. At predictable intervals throughout the day, someone will get up and be gone extra long.<p>You know, and everybody else knows, they&#x27;ve gone for a number 2.<p>Occasionally a manager will say &quot;where&#x27;s X&quot; and someone will respond they stepped out. Nobody cares, and yes I&#x27;m being neurotic, but it is still slightly embarrassing that everybody _knows_.<p>Again, nothing is devastating here, it&#x27;s just... awkward.<p>The fact that I can have my morning coffee and then when the urge comes, march off to my porcelain throne without anyone knowing better, answer Slack messages from my phone, etc. is one of the great joys of no longer being in an office for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pram</author><text>Yeah no joke. I have IBS and I’m self conscious in the same way. It just adds a lot of unpleasant stress to my life over something so dumb.<p>Not to mention I’ve worked in places with two bathrooms total for like 300+ males lol. Always a pleasure to be standing in line after lunch.</text></comment> | <story><title>We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons</title><url>https://blog.davidtate.org/we-cant-let-people-work-from-home-for-stupid-reasons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>system16</author><text>I have a ridiculous sounding but very important to me reason for my preference to work at home: bowel movements.<p>I worked with a small team in a small office. Everybody is typically at their desk in silence with the occasional manager or sales person on the phone. At predictable intervals throughout the day, someone will get up and be gone extra long.<p>You know, and everybody else knows, they&#x27;ve gone for a number 2.<p>Occasionally a manager will say &quot;where&#x27;s X&quot; and someone will respond they stepped out. Nobody cares, and yes I&#x27;m being neurotic, but it is still slightly embarrassing that everybody _knows_.<p>Again, nothing is devastating here, it&#x27;s just... awkward.<p>The fact that I can have my morning coffee and then when the urge comes, march off to my porcelain throne without anyone knowing better, answer Slack messages from my phone, etc. is one of the great joys of no longer being in an office for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WFHRenaissance</author><text>This, and being able to shower whenever I want, and being able to put on presentable clothing for a Zoom call but then return to my sweatpants or even go topless... these sort of things are the reason I want to work from home. Maybe I&#x27;m crazy , or maladjusted, or maybe this is just the optimal way for me to work.</text></comment> |
33,630,232 | 33,626,765 | 1 | 2 | 33,623,402 | train | <story><title>Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons</title><url>https://evernote.com/blog/evernote-next-move-joining-bending-spoons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>offtotheraces</author><text>This is going to be a disaster - Bending Spoons is not a good actor:<p>“let’s talk about Bending Spoons’ business model. The basic concept is very simple:<p>- Find a solid app that someone else built and buy it from them (see Splice (acquired from GoPro) and 30 Day Fitness)<p>- Optimize the monetization of said app (by implementing from scratch or fine-tuning existing subscriptions), thereby driving higher lifetime value (LTV)<p>- Take that higher LTV and use it to bid on expensive ad inventory (on Google, Facebook, Apple Search) where you can acquire more users (aka drive more downloads) - i.e. leverage performance marketing for growth<p>- Convert those new downloads to paying users<p>- Massively ramp revenues and cash flow by combining the new users + the better monetization<p>- Use the new cash flow - plus the debt from those lovely Italian banks - to fund the next acquisition<p>- Lather, rinse, repeat<p>There is absolutely nothing wrong with this business model. What differentiates Bending Spoons, though, is how they do it.<p>Remini - Bending Spoons’ new app that the press is gushing over - is $10 a WEEK. And Splice, the app that started it all? That’ll set you back a cool $5&#x2F;week.<p>Does anyone really think it’s appropriate to pay $10 a week for a photo editing app?”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.substack.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;impassionedmoderate&#x2F;p&#x2F;ryan-reynolds-didnt-pay-close-enough?utm_source=direct&amp;r=1ix542&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.substack.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;impassionedmoderate&#x2F;p&#x2F;ryan-rey...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>None of what you wrote makes them sound like a &quot;bad actor&quot;. All of these are <i>good things</i> for a failing business. Why shouldn&#x27;t a photo editing app be $10&#x2F;week? If you don&#x27;t think you are getting that much value out of it then don&#x27;t subscribe. Yet there is probably a group of power users who will gladly pay that amount. Evernote needs to be catering to them, not the millions of users who will endlessly complain but never spend an actual dollar on their services.</text></comment> | <story><title>Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons</title><url>https://evernote.com/blog/evernote-next-move-joining-bending-spoons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>offtotheraces</author><text>This is going to be a disaster - Bending Spoons is not a good actor:<p>“let’s talk about Bending Spoons’ business model. The basic concept is very simple:<p>- Find a solid app that someone else built and buy it from them (see Splice (acquired from GoPro) and 30 Day Fitness)<p>- Optimize the monetization of said app (by implementing from scratch or fine-tuning existing subscriptions), thereby driving higher lifetime value (LTV)<p>- Take that higher LTV and use it to bid on expensive ad inventory (on Google, Facebook, Apple Search) where you can acquire more users (aka drive more downloads) - i.e. leverage performance marketing for growth<p>- Convert those new downloads to paying users<p>- Massively ramp revenues and cash flow by combining the new users + the better monetization<p>- Use the new cash flow - plus the debt from those lovely Italian banks - to fund the next acquisition<p>- Lather, rinse, repeat<p>There is absolutely nothing wrong with this business model. What differentiates Bending Spoons, though, is how they do it.<p>Remini - Bending Spoons’ new app that the press is gushing over - is $10 a WEEK. And Splice, the app that started it all? That’ll set you back a cool $5&#x2F;week.<p>Does anyone really think it’s appropriate to pay $10 a week for a photo editing app?”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.substack.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;impassionedmoderate&#x2F;p&#x2F;ryan-reynolds-didnt-pay-close-enough?utm_source=direct&amp;r=1ix542&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.substack.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;impassionedmoderate&#x2F;p&#x2F;ryan-rey...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nneonneo</author><text>The really key bit is right afterwards:<p>“There is absolutely nothing wrong with this business model… What differentiates Bending Spoons, though, is how they do it.<p>Remini - Bending Spoons’ new app that the press is gushing over - is $10 a WEEK. And Splice, the app that started it all? That’ll set you back a cool $5&#x2F;week.”<p>In short, they buy apps, add aggressive and practically exploitative monetization, and ride the revenue stream until it dries up.</text></comment> |
15,917,270 | 15,917,302 | 1 | 3 | 15,916,121 | train | <story><title>We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change</title><url>https://blog.patreon.com/not-rolling-out-fees-change/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajkjk</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but, I think it&#x27;s <i>so fucking stupid</i> that it costs money (which goes to private businesses) to spend money in the modern world.<p>(and no, bitcoin doesn&#x27;t fix that at all)<p>I think if we were in an alternate universe where the government managed a free utility for digital payments no one would find it strange for a second.</text></item><item><author>sgdread</author><text>I understand why they do it: they trying to bring down transaction costs with payment processors. These fees on small amounts is death by thousand cuts.<p>But, I believe, there is a way: they can introduce wallets for $1-2 patrons: put $10 in a single transaction, then charge the wallet once it is a time to pay to creator. This should aggregate small transactions into larger ones and significantly cut the costs.</text></item><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>This is a remarkably direct and appropriate apology, along with an appropriate response, a rare thing indeed.<p>If not for their <i>initial</i> response to the first round of feedback, namely to put a &quot;we&#x27;re still doing it&quot; at the bottom of their original blog post (with completely unreasonable and unjustified explanations for <i>why</i>), I&#x27;d give them full credit for responding appropriately. As it is, though, at least they fixed this. They&#x27;re still going to need to deal with the giant pile of patrons they drove off; many people lost a significant fraction of their support because of this change, and that won&#x27;t necessarily come back.<p>Between 1 and 2 years ago, I talked to some folks at Patreon about an unrelated topic (namely, trying to use Patreon for registered charities). They mentioned at that time that they had a change in the works to shift processing fees from creators to patrons, which they said at the time would be &quot;better for creators&quot; for various reasons, but that didn&#x27;t want to talk about the details yet. (Since the issue is now public, I don&#x27;t see any issue with saying that now.) That discussion naturally didn&#x27;t include any information about fee structure or un-aggregation of charges with associated additional fees, e.g. the &quot;$1 costs $1.37&quot; problem, since that wasn&#x27;t the topic; the impression they gave at the time was that the only change was to pass on the (presumably still aggregated) fees to the patrons, which wouldn&#x27;t have been as serious a problem, and wouldn&#x27;t have killed Patreon&#x27;s suitability as a wildly successful microtransaction platform the way this change did. So, they&#x27;ve been thinking about this for a <i>long</i> time, and yet they sprung it on people without warning and without running the <i>full</i> details by anyone.<p>Update: there&#x27;s now a survey from Patreon asking for feedback: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Patreon&#x2F;status&#x2F;941010263385374720" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Patreon&#x2F;status&#x2F;941010263385374720</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spookthesunset</author><text>It has always costed money to to spend money and there are pros and cons to each method. All that stuff isn&#x27;t free even if it isn&#x27;t directly measurable most of the time.<p>Cash costs money too--you have to count it, handle it, deposit it, protect it from theft, verify it&#x27;s authenticity, make sure you have enough change, spend time counting change, etc. As a consumer, if a merchant fucks you over you have little recourse besides suing. Cash takes no time to clear so you can spend it right after getting it, it is anonymous, it is hard to trace so you can skip on taxes, etc.<p>Checks can bounce, you have to deposit them, they take time to clear, they take forever to write, they can be fake, etc. However, it is hard for your cashiers to skim off the top, it uses exact amounts so no change to keep, it is a single slip of paper to carry around instead of a pocket of paper currency, as a consumer you can stop payment on a check if the merchant fucks you over, etc...<p>Credit cards are super quick to use at the register. They don&#x27;t require any change (unless handing cash back). As a consumer, if a merchant fucks you over you can issue a chargeback. It is easy to track your spending as a consumer because all transactions are recorded electronically. As a merchant you don&#x27;t have to handle change or cash, your cashiers can&#x27;t easily skim off the top, etc...<p>It&#x27;s all trade offs and I&#x27;ll bet if you did an NPV on all the different methods taking into consideration all their pros and cons, they&#x27;d all wind up &quot;costing&quot; similar amounts.</text></comment> | <story><title>We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change</title><url>https://blog.patreon.com/not-rolling-out-fees-change/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajkjk</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but, I think it&#x27;s <i>so fucking stupid</i> that it costs money (which goes to private businesses) to spend money in the modern world.<p>(and no, bitcoin doesn&#x27;t fix that at all)<p>I think if we were in an alternate universe where the government managed a free utility for digital payments no one would find it strange for a second.</text></item><item><author>sgdread</author><text>I understand why they do it: they trying to bring down transaction costs with payment processors. These fees on small amounts is death by thousand cuts.<p>But, I believe, there is a way: they can introduce wallets for $1-2 patrons: put $10 in a single transaction, then charge the wallet once it is a time to pay to creator. This should aggregate small transactions into larger ones and significantly cut the costs.</text></item><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>This is a remarkably direct and appropriate apology, along with an appropriate response, a rare thing indeed.<p>If not for their <i>initial</i> response to the first round of feedback, namely to put a &quot;we&#x27;re still doing it&quot; at the bottom of their original blog post (with completely unreasonable and unjustified explanations for <i>why</i>), I&#x27;d give them full credit for responding appropriately. As it is, though, at least they fixed this. They&#x27;re still going to need to deal with the giant pile of patrons they drove off; many people lost a significant fraction of their support because of this change, and that won&#x27;t necessarily come back.<p>Between 1 and 2 years ago, I talked to some folks at Patreon about an unrelated topic (namely, trying to use Patreon for registered charities). They mentioned at that time that they had a change in the works to shift processing fees from creators to patrons, which they said at the time would be &quot;better for creators&quot; for various reasons, but that didn&#x27;t want to talk about the details yet. (Since the issue is now public, I don&#x27;t see any issue with saying that now.) That discussion naturally didn&#x27;t include any information about fee structure or un-aggregation of charges with associated additional fees, e.g. the &quot;$1 costs $1.37&quot; problem, since that wasn&#x27;t the topic; the impression they gave at the time was that the only change was to pass on the (presumably still aggregated) fees to the patrons, which wouldn&#x27;t have been as serious a problem, and wouldn&#x27;t have killed Patreon&#x27;s suitability as a wildly successful microtransaction platform the way this change did. So, they&#x27;ve been thinking about this for a <i>long</i> time, and yet they sprung it on people without warning and without running the <i>full</i> details by anyone.<p>Update: there&#x27;s now a survey from Patreon asking for feedback: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Patreon&#x2F;status&#x2F;941010263385374720" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Patreon&#x2F;status&#x2F;941010263385374720</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>syshum</author><text>I would, I in no way want to give that kind of power to government.<p>I would 100% opposes to a government run digital payment system, the government is too closing integrated to todays electronic systems as it is, I in no way want them to own and directly control it</text></comment> |
7,871,260 | 7,870,214 | 1 | 2 | 7,869,771 | train | <story><title>The Story Of Mel</title><url>http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acqq</author><text>The wikipedia entry (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Story_of_Mel</a>) has even the link to the picture of Mel, whose name is discovered from the preface to the manuals for the Royal McBee LGP-30 ACT 1 (Algebraic Compiler and Translator) compiler (dated 1959). Then somebody discovered the group picture in <a href="http://www.librascopememories.com/Librascope_Memories/1950_-_1959_files/560800%20Librazette.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.librascopememories.com&#x2F;Librascope_Memories&#x2F;1950_-...</a><p>and there it is:<p><a href="http://zappa.brainiac.com/MelKaye.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zappa.brainiac.com&#x2F;MelKaye.png</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acuozzo</author><text>I was first to find that image of Mel in the Librazette archives. In fact, the following post was my first on HN: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3110883" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3110883</a><p>More context: <a href="http://librascopememories.blogspot.com/2012/03/59-mel-kaye-legendary-lgp-30-programmer.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;librascopememories.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;03&#x2F;59-mel-kaye-l...</a><p>I did eventually manage to get in contact with Mel, but I scared him away, unfortunately. That&#x27;s a story for another day... :-&#x2F;</text></comment> | <story><title>The Story Of Mel</title><url>http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acqq</author><text>The wikipedia entry (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Story_of_Mel</a>) has even the link to the picture of Mel, whose name is discovered from the preface to the manuals for the Royal McBee LGP-30 ACT 1 (Algebraic Compiler and Translator) compiler (dated 1959). Then somebody discovered the group picture in <a href="http://www.librascopememories.com/Librascope_Memories/1950_-_1959_files/560800%20Librazette.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.librascopememories.com&#x2F;Librascope_Memories&#x2F;1950_-...</a><p>and there it is:<p><a href="http://zappa.brainiac.com/MelKaye.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zappa.brainiac.com&#x2F;MelKaye.png</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yellowapple</author><text>He looks much younger - and less bearded - than I&#x27;d imagined when reading The Story of Mel countless times. This changes my whole perspective on the story; the character of Mel transitions from a scruffy and disillusioned veteran to something of a youthful and rebellious hotshot.<p>Thanks for the Librazette link and photo; that&#x27;s awesome.</text></comment> |
6,777,431 | 6,776,319 | 1 | 2 | 6,775,871 | train | <story><title>Debugging Python Like a Boss</title><url>https://zapier.com/engineering/debugging-python-boss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>A good list of libraries, but please, don&#x27;t use this in the middle of your code to set a break point:<p><pre><code> import pdb; pdb.set_trace();
</code></pre>
There&#x27;s a chance you forget this, check-in, and it ends in production. Use pdb facilities instead:<p><pre><code> $ python -m pdb &lt;myscript&gt;
</code></pre>
Then set a breakpoint and continue:<p><pre><code> (Pdb) break &lt;filename.py&gt;:&lt;line&gt;
(Pdb) c
</code></pre>
This is trivial to automate from any editor or command line, so you don&#x27;t even have to guess the path to the file.<p>EDIT: For the lazy, here&#x27;s a script to set breakpoints from the command line and run your scripts:<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/hcarvalhoalves/7587621" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;hcarvalhoalves&#x2F;7587621</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lewaldman</author><text>Here is my setup:<p>- I have a ~&#x2F;.python&#x2F;sitecustomize.py file with the following:<p># Start debug on Exception<p>import bdb
import sys<p>def info(type, value, tb):<p><pre><code> if hasattr(sys, &#x27;ps1&#x27;) \
or not sys.stdin.isatty() \
or not sys.stdout.isatty() \
or not sys.stderr.isatty() \
or issubclass(type, bdb.BdbQuit) \
or issubclass(type, SyntaxError):
# we are in interactive mode or we don&#x27;t have a tty-like
# device, so we call the default hook
sys.__excepthook__(type, value, tb)
else:
import traceback, ipdb
# we are NOT in interactive mode, print the exception...
traceback.print_exception(type, value, tb)
print
# ...then start the debugger in post-mortem mode.
ipdb.pm()
</code></pre>
sys.excepthook = info<p>It will start ipdb automatically in case of any exception on command line called scripts.<p>- I use the awesome pdb emacs package for debug interactivelly during bigger bug hunts (Also for dev too... It&#x27;s very a nice tool)<p>- Buutt... I still find the &quot;print dance&quot; to be my first-to-use quick tool.<p>edit: Fixed pasted code</text></comment> | <story><title>Debugging Python Like a Boss</title><url>https://zapier.com/engineering/debugging-python-boss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>A good list of libraries, but please, don&#x27;t use this in the middle of your code to set a break point:<p><pre><code> import pdb; pdb.set_trace();
</code></pre>
There&#x27;s a chance you forget this, check-in, and it ends in production. Use pdb facilities instead:<p><pre><code> $ python -m pdb &lt;myscript&gt;
</code></pre>
Then set a breakpoint and continue:<p><pre><code> (Pdb) break &lt;filename.py&gt;:&lt;line&gt;
(Pdb) c
</code></pre>
This is trivial to automate from any editor or command line, so you don&#x27;t even have to guess the path to the file.<p>EDIT: For the lazy, here&#x27;s a script to set breakpoints from the command line and run your scripts:<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/hcarvalhoalves/7587621" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;hcarvalhoalves&#x2F;7587621</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cjg_</author><text>If miss a line like that which is very easy to spot in a diff, which other things end up in your production environement?<p>And obviously any test covering that line will fail&#x2F;hang.</text></comment> |
30,658,524 | 30,655,351 | 1 | 2 | 30,653,366 | train | <story><title>What things cost in Ancient Rome (2007)</title><url>https://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/edict/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mbil</author><text>I forget where I read this, but haircut cost can be used as a reasonable reference point for translating old prices into today&#x27;s dollars. Modern basic haircutting is quite similar to what it always has been, and takes about the same amount of time. So saying a haircut costs $50 in a big city now, and it was 2 denarii communes in Ancient Rome: 1 d.c. == $25.<p>Here is general labor data in today&#x27;s dollars<p><pre><code> | labor | $USD | d.c. |
|:-----------------------------------------------------------------------|:-----|:-----|
| brick maker, for every 4 fired bricks and preparation of the clay | 50 | 2 |
| brick maker, for every 8 sun dried bricks, and preparation of the clay | 50 | 2 |
| clerk (based on specified bath attendant wage) | 625 | 25 |
| farm laborer, with maintenance | 625 | 25 |
| lime burner, with maintenance | 1250 | 50 |
| mule driver, camel driver, with maintenance | 625 | 25 |
| sewer cleaner, working a full day, with maintenance | 625 | 25 |
| shepherd, with maintenance | 625 | 25 |
| water carrier, working a full day, with maintenance | 625 | 25 |
| all other general labor | 625 | 25 |
I put the whole set in a file here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matthewbilyeu.com&#x2F;what-things-cost-ancient-rome.txt</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>What things cost in Ancient Rome (2007)</title><url>https://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/edict/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Ralfp</author><text>As a slav I find it amusing how free grain from gov was called by &quot;dole&quot; by Romans where we have concept of &quot;dola&quot; which used to be your patron spirit quietly influencing your life but in modern times its basically something you&#x27;ve got that you&#x27;ve deserved (according to higher force or destiny), be it thing, health, wealth or life experience.</text></comment> |
8,978,413 | 8,978,144 | 1 | 2 | 8,977,119 | train | <story><title>Dirty lens article</title><url>http://kurtmunger.com/dirty_lens_articleid35.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_paulc</author><text>Long time since I did any optics but this basically just convolution. The impact at the output plane of dust&#x2F;imperfections on the lens is (approximately) a 2D fourier transform of the dust&#x2F;imperfections. If you have a single dust particle (essentially an impulse) on the lens this will be convolved into a dc response at the focal plane.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_optics#Fourier_transforming_property_of_lenses" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fourier_optics#Fourier_transfor...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Dirty lens article</title><url>http://kurtmunger.com/dirty_lens_articleid35.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nakedrobot2</author><text>The wider the lens, the more dust on the front element affects the picture. Especially specular light (bright light sources, especially the sun).<p>If you have a very wide-angle or fisheye lens (e.g. gopro) then you will most certainly have lots of nastiness in your photo from having a dirty lens.<p>You&#x27;ll notice that in this person&#x27;s test shots, he has no specular light or sunlight in the images. If he did, the test would have had completely different results.<p>If you have a gopro, try it yourself. Have a dusty or greasy lens and take a picture with&#x2F;without the sun in it and the photo will certainly be worse.<p>Same with my mobile phone - if the front glass is greasy, well, of course the photo looks much, much worse.<p>I&#x27;m a professional photographer specializing in 360º imagery shot with fisheye lenses, so I know this stuff very well from experience.</text></comment> |
24,457,953 | 24,454,476 | 1 | 2 | 24,449,883 | train | <story><title>Emacs-Helm development is now stalled</title><url>https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/2386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikorym</author><text>A lot of mathematicians are oddities that by some stroke of luck, or perhaps by consistent switching of hobbies, somehow figure out that they understood the basic premises of mathematics.<p>After all, the issue is that mathematics is <i>simple</i>. Humans don&#x27;t like simple things. And when humans think they have found simple things they start wars or some novel iteration of discrimination against others.</text></item><item><author>patrec</author><text>I find it pretty amazing that someone who&#x27;s been working for 20 years as a mountain guide and spends as much time as possible outdoors picks up an obscure piece of niche software like Emacs, learns to program in his 40ies and then becomes one of the most significant package contributors, all as a side hobby to his outdoor interests.</text></item><item><author>submeta</author><text>The Emacs package `Helm&#x27; is&#x2F;was maintained by one guy alone named Thierry Volpiatto who is not even a developer. He is 57, and a mountain guide in the Alps!<p>See this rare interview from 2018: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sachachua.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;interview-with-thierry-volpiatto&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sachachua.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;interview-with-thierry-vo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>floatingatoll</author><text>Humans like simple things when they have social signaling value.<p>Creating new complex things is easy, because you can assemble them from existing simple things. Creating new simple things is more difficult, because you must go beyond assembling existing simple things.<p>Simple things lose their signaling value when they become well-known. Complex things lose their signaling value when they are replaced by simple things.<p>Therefore, it makes perfect sense that humans attack simple things: they threaten the signaling value of the easier to create complex things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Emacs-Helm development is now stalled</title><url>https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/2386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikorym</author><text>A lot of mathematicians are oddities that by some stroke of luck, or perhaps by consistent switching of hobbies, somehow figure out that they understood the basic premises of mathematics.<p>After all, the issue is that mathematics is <i>simple</i>. Humans don&#x27;t like simple things. And when humans think they have found simple things they start wars or some novel iteration of discrimination against others.</text></item><item><author>patrec</author><text>I find it pretty amazing that someone who&#x27;s been working for 20 years as a mountain guide and spends as much time as possible outdoors picks up an obscure piece of niche software like Emacs, learns to program in his 40ies and then becomes one of the most significant package contributors, all as a side hobby to his outdoor interests.</text></item><item><author>submeta</author><text>The Emacs package `Helm&#x27; is&#x2F;was maintained by one guy alone named Thierry Volpiatto who is not even a developer. He is 57, and a mountain guide in the Alps!<p>See this rare interview from 2018: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sachachua.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;interview-with-thierry-volpiatto&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sachachua.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;interview-with-thierry-vo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nomoreservices</author><text>&gt; Humans don&#x27;t like simple things.<p>It&#x27;s amazing how true this is. You can see it very clearly in your day-to-day as a software engineer. The vast majority of people you will encounter in your career favor fancy, complicated solutions to problems that could be easily solved with fewer resources. And yet when you float those ideas, you&#x27;re laughed at.</text></comment> |
18,912,350 | 18,912,052 | 1 | 2 | 18,911,216 | train | <story><title>EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/internet-facing-catastrophe-free-expression-and-competition-only-europeans-can</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BlackFly</author><text>I wish that the EFF would include links to the updated directive. The latest I can find is the language as of 2018-05-25 (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consilium.europa.eu&#x2F;media&#x2F;35373&#x2F;st09134-en18.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consilium.europa.eu&#x2F;media&#x2F;35373&#x2F;st09134-en18.pdf</a>) which doesn&#x27;t contain the terms &quot;commercial platforms&quot;, &quot;news site&quot; or link. It does leave the definition of &quot;unsubstantial parts&quot; up to member states, which is indeed worrying from a single market perspective.<p>Furthermore, that wording contradicts EFF&#x27;s assertion for article 13 that unlicensed content is not allowed to appear, &quot;even for an instant.&quot; Since all that is needed to avoid liability is to perform effective and proportionate efforts to prevent availability and to react expeditiously upon notification. Proportionality and effectiveness explicitly depend on the size of the content provider: a new streaming video service would explicitly need to do less than YouTube. Has the updated documentation explicitly removed the provision about expeditious action upon notification? Because the exception proves the rule (the rule being that unlicensed content is indeed allowed to appear for more than an instant).<p>So... links to spam commissioners but no links to verify that EFF is presenting a fair reading of the updated documents.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/internet-facing-catastrophe-free-expression-and-competition-only-europeans-can</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>It&#x27;s alarming that there appears to be no provision for fair use of copyrighted materials. I&#x27;m not in the EU, but that would seem to be a grave oversight.<p>One can imagine an image or any copyrightable material which might become offensive or embarrassing might get copyrighted so as to in effect censor the material.</text></comment> |
40,772,080 | 40,771,389 | 1 | 3 | 40,763,931 | train | <story><title>Words you can spell with a calculator (2005)</title><url>https://paperlined.org/apps/wikipedia/offsite_content/Calculator_spelling.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>probably_wrong</author><text>First, I think &quot;is&quot; should be added to that list.<p>Assuming punctuation is allowed, here&#x27;s my masterpiece:<p>Big slob Ohio Bob sees Zoe boil his sole beige goose egg, sighs. She giggles. He sees his egg sizzle, sobs.<p>He looses his hell bees.</text></item><item><author>chriscbr</author><text>I was curious if the words could be used to form any sentences -- here&#x27;s the corpus organized by part-of-speech. (Many words are missing due to gaps in the corpus I used):<p>NOUN 147
slob, Ellie, silo, bile, sell, Gil, belles, highs, Bessie, losses, giggles, Liz, hobo, Leslie, Bob, lies, bellies, soil, Hess, hells, Isis, Gog, Hiss, boogie, holes, bliss, oils, gel, leg, lobes, globes, Gill, Leigh, geese, bogies, bilge, Lizzie, Leo, boil, legs, shoe, shells, Ozzie, giggle, ooze, size, eel, high, bill, gob, hole, hog, soles, libel, Hill, bee, shills, ills, Lois, glee, Bess, lobe, gig, Beebe, sizes, Gogol, sloe, hiss, Ellis, Sol, boos, Ohio, bees, HBO, bobbles, ill, lie, sobs, booze, bibles, Gibbs, hobbies, sighs, shell, isle, bib, Hegel, hills, Zoe, Eloise, Giles, sill, Elsie, Bill, bells, loss, egg, eggshell, bills, hoses, Shiloh, siege, Bible, solos, sigh, Hillel, logs, hose, lobbies, hill, log, hob, bell, shoes, Lee, gloss, heels, Hobbes, bosses, soils, solo, Oslo, hoes, goose, oil, Bell, blob, goggles, Eli, sole, ego, silos, hogs, lilies, Billie, gibes, ell, hell, shill, globe, oblige, loose, eggs, gibe, boss, heel, Bobbie<p>VERB 34
sells, loses, Lie, boil, sell, ebb, lob, seize, solo, begs, see, ebbs, sizzle, beg, lie, besiege, ooze, size, goes, hole, lies, hobble, bog, obsesses, soil, boils, loose, bless, solos, sigh, gobbles, shies, lose, sees<p>ADJ 9
sole, loose, ill, high, less, glib, big, beige, eligible<p>ADV 5
loose, ill, less, high, else<p>PRT 4
gosh, hello, see, hell<p>X 3
his, Les, les<p>DET 1
his<p>PRON 2
his, she</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IggleSniggle</author><text>This is the most perfect thing I&#x27;ve read in awhile well done. I salute you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Words you can spell with a calculator (2005)</title><url>https://paperlined.org/apps/wikipedia/offsite_content/Calculator_spelling.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>probably_wrong</author><text>First, I think &quot;is&quot; should be added to that list.<p>Assuming punctuation is allowed, here&#x27;s my masterpiece:<p>Big slob Ohio Bob sees Zoe boil his sole beige goose egg, sighs. She giggles. He sees his egg sizzle, sobs.<p>He looses his hell bees.</text></item><item><author>chriscbr</author><text>I was curious if the words could be used to form any sentences -- here&#x27;s the corpus organized by part-of-speech. (Many words are missing due to gaps in the corpus I used):<p>NOUN 147
slob, Ellie, silo, bile, sell, Gil, belles, highs, Bessie, losses, giggles, Liz, hobo, Leslie, Bob, lies, bellies, soil, Hess, hells, Isis, Gog, Hiss, boogie, holes, bliss, oils, gel, leg, lobes, globes, Gill, Leigh, geese, bogies, bilge, Lizzie, Leo, boil, legs, shoe, shells, Ozzie, giggle, ooze, size, eel, high, bill, gob, hole, hog, soles, libel, Hill, bee, shills, ills, Lois, glee, Bess, lobe, gig, Beebe, sizes, Gogol, sloe, hiss, Ellis, Sol, boos, Ohio, bees, HBO, bobbles, ill, lie, sobs, booze, bibles, Gibbs, hobbies, sighs, shell, isle, bib, Hegel, hills, Zoe, Eloise, Giles, sill, Elsie, Bill, bells, loss, egg, eggshell, bills, hoses, Shiloh, siege, Bible, solos, sigh, Hillel, logs, hose, lobbies, hill, log, hob, bell, shoes, Lee, gloss, heels, Hobbes, bosses, soils, solo, Oslo, hoes, goose, oil, Bell, blob, goggles, Eli, sole, ego, silos, hogs, lilies, Billie, gibes, ell, hell, shill, globe, oblige, loose, eggs, gibe, boss, heel, Bobbie<p>VERB 34
sells, loses, Lie, boil, sell, ebb, lob, seize, solo, begs, see, ebbs, sizzle, beg, lie, besiege, ooze, size, goes, hole, lies, hobble, bog, obsesses, soil, boils, loose, bless, solos, sigh, gobbles, shies, lose, sees<p>ADJ 9
sole, loose, ill, high, less, glib, big, beige, eligible<p>ADV 5
loose, ill, less, high, else<p>PRT 4
gosh, hello, see, hell<p>X 3
his, Les, les<p>DET 1
his<p>PRON 2
his, she</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joebob42</author><text>This is such a wonderful bit of creative writing.</text></comment> |
29,512,555 | 29,512,670 | 1 | 2 | 29,510,616 | train | <story><title>Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year</title><url>https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boc</author><text>The BLS has a very well-documented method [1] of measuring core consumer inflation. The basket of goods they track likely does not reflect your personal consumption patterns.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;opub&#x2F;hom&#x2F;cpi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;opub&#x2F;hom&#x2F;cpi&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>wonderwonder</author><text>Based on my anecdotal experience this seems to very much understate inflation.
How is housing up only 3.8%? This site says over 17% rent increase nationally over the last year: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apartmentlist.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;national-rent-data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apartmentlist.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;national-rent-data</a> which seems to be more accurate. Anyone with a web browser knows that home prices have experienced a monumental increase.<p>Also a trip to the grocery store appears to cost me 50% more now for essentially the same goods. Every trip to the store pre-covid cost me around $100, now its $150. I do buy primarily proteins so that is the source of the increase but to ignore that seems ill advised.<p>Not generally a conspiracy theorist but unless the people that built this report are using some accepted formula that is very different than the real world this report seems to be intentionally underselling inflation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msandford</author><text>Core inflation excludes food and energy. So as long as you&#x27;re dead, you only experience core inflation! Everyone else who is alive is exposed to core inflation and also the one that takes food and fuel into account. Perhaps that&#x27;s why people don&#x27;t &quot;buy&quot; the numbers. Because the numbers aren&#x27;t representative of the reality that alive human beings experience.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year</title><url>https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boc</author><text>The BLS has a very well-documented method [1] of measuring core consumer inflation. The basket of goods they track likely does not reflect your personal consumption patterns.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;opub&#x2F;hom&#x2F;cpi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;opub&#x2F;hom&#x2F;cpi&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>wonderwonder</author><text>Based on my anecdotal experience this seems to very much understate inflation.
How is housing up only 3.8%? This site says over 17% rent increase nationally over the last year: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apartmentlist.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;national-rent-data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apartmentlist.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;national-rent-data</a> which seems to be more accurate. Anyone with a web browser knows that home prices have experienced a monumental increase.<p>Also a trip to the grocery store appears to cost me 50% more now for essentially the same goods. Every trip to the store pre-covid cost me around $100, now its $150. I do buy primarily proteins so that is the source of the increase but to ignore that seems ill advised.<p>Not generally a conspiracy theorist but unless the people that built this report are using some accepted formula that is very different than the real world this report seems to be intentionally underselling inflation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MrPowers</author><text>Some notable &quot;adjustments&quot; that are made when computing the CPI:<p>* using &quot;owners equivalent rent&quot; rather than house prices: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;cpi&#x2F;factsheets&#x2F;owners-equivalent-rent-and-rent.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;cpi&#x2F;factsheets&#x2F;owners-equivalent-rent-an...</a><p>* factoring in technology as deflationary. yea, your phone is 20% more expensive, but it has twice the computation power, so it&#x27;s actually a deflationary component<p>* substituting goods to account for substitution bias (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.frbsf.org&#x2F;economic-research&#x2F;publications&#x2F;economic-letter&#x2F;1999&#x2F;february&#x2F;a-better-cpi&#x2F;#:~:text=Substitution%20bias%20occurs%20because%20the,changes%20of%20goods%20and%20services" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.frbsf.org&#x2F;economic-research&#x2F;publications&#x2F;economi...</a>.). Substituting chicken for beef was heavily criticized.</text></comment> |
20,965,674 | 20,965,685 | 1 | 2 | 20,965,145 | train | <story><title>U.S. to leave global postal union next month barring last-minute action</title><url>https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-to-leave-global-postal-union-next-month</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AimForTheBushes</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure what the unintended consequences are but I believe this is the right move. It is completely unfair that it&#x27;s cheaper to ship from China to the United States than it is to ship from Chicago to New York. It naturally puts American businesses at a disadvantage. There is always the argument of semantics of what makes a developing country a developing country, but I think being the second largest economy on Earth isn&#x27;t afforded that label.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wbl</author><text>The traditional US way to change the rules: get other countries together to back up your position, suggest a principled approach, be willing to make concessions in other areas. The new way: flip the table over.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. to leave global postal union next month barring last-minute action</title><url>https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-to-leave-global-postal-union-next-month</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AimForTheBushes</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure what the unintended consequences are but I believe this is the right move. It is completely unfair that it&#x27;s cheaper to ship from China to the United States than it is to ship from Chicago to New York. It naturally puts American businesses at a disadvantage. There is always the argument of semantics of what makes a developing country a developing country, but I think being the second largest economy on Earth isn&#x27;t afforded that label.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elicash</author><text>If this is about China, then why wouldn&#x27;t other countries want to join us in changing the fee structure? Better to team up with other nations than pull out and be all alone on a framework that&#x27;s far bigger than China and relates to all global shipping, no?<p>Genuinely asking because I am unfamiliar with these issues.</text></comment> |
15,709,501 | 15,708,893 | 1 | 3 | 15,707,800 | train | <story><title>All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-totally-dominates-supercomputers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zanny</author><text>I don&#x27;t think its so much a shame that Linus isn&#x27;t a billionaire than it is we have billionaires at all.<p>There is limited rational or ethical reason for one human being to accumulate so much centralized wealth. There is being rewarded for hard work &#x2F; skill &#x2F; innovation and there is exploiting people to become rich, and the line between those is very hard to distinguish when talking about individuals making more than 9 figures off of the endeavor.<p>It is also worth considering you don&#x27;t make billions operating a nonprofit or making a valuable software product (or any product, in general). You make billions founding or investing early into a multinational corporation that amasses more wealth than many nations.<p>And that is where I think the conversation breaks down - people take personal offense to conversations about wealth and equality but we aren&#x27;t talking about people wielding the influence of themselves <i>as</i> individuals, we are talking about people who control more assets than some nations, that can potentially have financial influence on the world stage greater than the combined influence of millions of fellow humans.</text></item><item><author>b_emery</author><text>A win for open source. I was just thinking the other day that it&#x27;s a shame that Linus is not a billionaire. Seems he&#x27;s doing just fine however:<p>&quot;Finnish-American software engineer and hacker Linus Torvalds has as estimated net worth of $150 million and an estimated annual salary of $10 million. He earned his net worth as the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel.&quot;<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.therichest.com&#x2F;celebnetworth&#x2F;celebrity-business&#x2F;tech-millionaire&#x2F;linus-torvalds-net-worth&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.therichest.com&#x2F;celebnetworth&#x2F;celebrity-business&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>&gt; There is limited rational or ethical reason for one human being to accumulate so much centralized wealth<p>First: yes, there <i>are</i> ethical reasons to accumulate so many <i>resources</i>: because some problems are incredibly hard to solve and need a lot of resources to even start to solve.<p>Second, it is not on the people who have earned something to prove why they should be &quot;permitted&quot; to keep it; it&#x27;s on the people who believe it should be taken away from them to justify <i>that</i>. Saying &quot;it&#x27;s a shame that there are billionaires&quot; is a complaint that some people are wildly successful and shouldn&#x27;t be, or that they shouldn&#x27;t be permitted to keep what they earn. There is justifiable resentment and offense to a conversation that starts with a thinly veiled demand for justification, rather than a presentation of justification. The burden of proof is approached the wrong way, and nobody seems to discuss <i>that</i>.<p>(I&#x27;m not interested in quibbles over the word &quot;earn&quot; here.)<p>It&#x27;s not a shame that there exist billionaires. It&#x27;s a shame that there exist people with nothing. The former doesn&#x27;t need fixing; the latter absolutely does.</text></comment> | <story><title>All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-totally-dominates-supercomputers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zanny</author><text>I don&#x27;t think its so much a shame that Linus isn&#x27;t a billionaire than it is we have billionaires at all.<p>There is limited rational or ethical reason for one human being to accumulate so much centralized wealth. There is being rewarded for hard work &#x2F; skill &#x2F; innovation and there is exploiting people to become rich, and the line between those is very hard to distinguish when talking about individuals making more than 9 figures off of the endeavor.<p>It is also worth considering you don&#x27;t make billions operating a nonprofit or making a valuable software product (or any product, in general). You make billions founding or investing early into a multinational corporation that amasses more wealth than many nations.<p>And that is where I think the conversation breaks down - people take personal offense to conversations about wealth and equality but we aren&#x27;t talking about people wielding the influence of themselves <i>as</i> individuals, we are talking about people who control more assets than some nations, that can potentially have financial influence on the world stage greater than the combined influence of millions of fellow humans.</text></item><item><author>b_emery</author><text>A win for open source. I was just thinking the other day that it&#x27;s a shame that Linus is not a billionaire. Seems he&#x27;s doing just fine however:<p>&quot;Finnish-American software engineer and hacker Linus Torvalds has as estimated net worth of $150 million and an estimated annual salary of $10 million. He earned his net worth as the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel.&quot;<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.therichest.com&#x2F;celebnetworth&#x2F;celebrity-business&#x2F;tech-millionaire&#x2F;linus-torvalds-net-worth&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.therichest.com&#x2F;celebnetworth&#x2F;celebrity-business&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sien</author><text>The problem is that the realistic alternative is that there is effectively even more centralized wealth, or wealth control with governments.<p>It would be neat if money was spread even more evenly. But the costs of the intervention to try and wangle it would probably outweigh the benefits.<p>That isn&#x27;t to say that taxes shouldn&#x27;t be higher or benefits higher. But even Sweden and France have billionaires. They just have their wealth in foundations and in Luxembourg.</text></comment> |
27,976,412 | 27,976,347 | 1 | 3 | 27,975,543 | train | <story><title>TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability</title><url>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3982/ECTA17674</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammock</author><text>There is a fundamental misunderstanding (intentional or not) with these types of studies and claims.<p>Limited-time promotions, e.g. a 10% off sale, work on short timescales that are easily measured. You can easily say what the ROI is of an advertised promotion, and it is often positive. (Side note, these promotions have a more-difficult-to-measure detrimental effect on your long-term profitability, closely related to the point I am about to make below)<p>Brand advertising, in contrast, works on a spread-out scale of years or decades. When Coca-Cola runs a polar bear ad at Christmastime they don&#x27;t do it to increase sales of Coke that week, nor should it be measured that way.<p>The actual effect that a brand advertisement has, is to add PENNIES (not dollars) to their sales every day, for the next 100 YEARS. It&#x27;s a long-term investment. And for these reasons hard if not impossible to measure or control for confounders - but that doesn&#x27;t mean it doesn&#x27;t work!!<p>And without that brand investment, their brand value is continuously eroding away, at a rate of pennies (or more) per day.<p>Source: Been on the leading edge of marketing and advertising for over 12 years</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>&gt;Brand advertising, in contrast, works on a spread-out scale of years or decades...The actual effect that a brand advertisement has, is to add PENNIES (not dollars) to their sales every day, for the next 100 YEARS. It&#x27;s a long-term investment. And for these reasons hard if not impossible to measure or control for confounders - but that doesn&#x27;t mean it doesn&#x27;t work!!<p>Car brands are the obvious example of brand advertising. They are among the most common TV advertisers but they don&#x27;t expect people to immediately go out and spend $50k on a new Mercedes-Benz after watching a 30 second commercial. They just want to establish Mercedes-Benz as a brand of luxury, performance, technology, etc. That way the next time you are in the market to buy a car you already have an ingrained positive perception of Mercedes-Benz that might help sway your decision.</text></comment> | <story><title>TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability</title><url>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3982/ECTA17674</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammock</author><text>There is a fundamental misunderstanding (intentional or not) with these types of studies and claims.<p>Limited-time promotions, e.g. a 10% off sale, work on short timescales that are easily measured. You can easily say what the ROI is of an advertised promotion, and it is often positive. (Side note, these promotions have a more-difficult-to-measure detrimental effect on your long-term profitability, closely related to the point I am about to make below)<p>Brand advertising, in contrast, works on a spread-out scale of years or decades. When Coca-Cola runs a polar bear ad at Christmastime they don&#x27;t do it to increase sales of Coke that week, nor should it be measured that way.<p>The actual effect that a brand advertisement has, is to add PENNIES (not dollars) to their sales every day, for the next 100 YEARS. It&#x27;s a long-term investment. And for these reasons hard if not impossible to measure or control for confounders - but that doesn&#x27;t mean it doesn&#x27;t work!!<p>And without that brand investment, their brand value is continuously eroding away, at a rate of pennies (or more) per day.<p>Source: Been on the leading edge of marketing and advertising for over 12 years</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mihaaly</author><text>If you cannot measure then you are just bluffing that it works! You cannot know yourself for god&#x27;s sake!<p>&quot;Been on the leading edge of marketing and advertising for over 12 years &quot;<p>Aaaaaah, I see! It is your personal interest to be payed very well for unsubstantiated claims! Fishing in troubled waters. We will consider your !!opinion!! accordingly....</text></comment> |
38,201,116 | 38,199,762 | 1 | 2 | 38,195,509 | train | <story><title>Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine</title><url>https://www.404media.co/voters-overwhelmingly-pass-car-right-to-repair-law-in-maine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kube-system</author><text>&gt; Any external network connection must be disclosed to the user. The car must come with instructions how to disable it<p>&gt; All functions of the car must remain permanently operable<p>I think this needs to be refined a bit. As phrased, you&#x27;re just making any features that use network connections illegal.</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>The next law I want passed:<p>The &quot;Cars can&#x27;t require a network connection&quot; law: Any external network connection must be disclosed to the user. The car must come with instructions how to disable it, (which must be a user serviceable physical hardware switch, fuse, jumper, etc). All functions of the car must remain permanently operable with no nagging of the user to reconnect, other than an optional initial prompt to inform the user of the change. 0 repercussions may be brought on the user for disabling the network connection, such as &#x27;we can&#x27;t diagnose&#x2F;fix your steering because it can&#x27;t connect to the network&#x27; or &#x27;we can&#x27;t update your infotainment system with your network connection disabled&#x27;, as those updates could easily be done via the OBDII port.<p>Hell while we&#x27;re at it, pass this same thing for robot vacuums, garage door openers, and 1000 other &quot;smart&quot; devices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zerbinxx</author><text>You could rephrase it as:<p>All functions that a consumer could reasonably expect a car to perform without an internet connection must be operable without an internet connection. All features related to driving the vehicle, including but not limited to steering, braking, using traffic signals, starting&#x2F;stopping, toggling locks or lights, opening or closing doors or compartments, and other standard features of a non-connected car must not require a network connection.<p>I think it’s probably OK if automakers want to onboard and support network features like maps or outsourced computation&#x2F;diagnostics, but bricking everything because the company wants to collect user data and they want to opt out is obviously unethical. It’s important for these regulations to include the fact that they cannot be worked around or stapled on by the auto company post-hoc via firmware upgrades or the like.</text></comment> | <story><title>Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine</title><url>https://www.404media.co/voters-overwhelmingly-pass-car-right-to-repair-law-in-maine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kube-system</author><text>&gt; Any external network connection must be disclosed to the user. The car must come with instructions how to disable it<p>&gt; All functions of the car must remain permanently operable<p>I think this needs to be refined a bit. As phrased, you&#x27;re just making any features that use network connections illegal.</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>The next law I want passed:<p>The &quot;Cars can&#x27;t require a network connection&quot; law: Any external network connection must be disclosed to the user. The car must come with instructions how to disable it, (which must be a user serviceable physical hardware switch, fuse, jumper, etc). All functions of the car must remain permanently operable with no nagging of the user to reconnect, other than an optional initial prompt to inform the user of the change. 0 repercussions may be brought on the user for disabling the network connection, such as &#x27;we can&#x27;t diagnose&#x2F;fix your steering because it can&#x27;t connect to the network&#x27; or &#x27;we can&#x27;t update your infotainment system with your network connection disabled&#x27;, as those updates could easily be done via the OBDII port.<p>Hell while we&#x27;re at it, pass this same thing for robot vacuums, garage door openers, and 1000 other &quot;smart&quot; devices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&gt; As phrased, you&#x27;re just making any features that use network connections illegal.<p>Just as planned.</text></comment> |
8,610,346 | 8,610,236 | 1 | 2 | 8,609,203 | train | <story><title>Philae status, a day later</title><url>http://elakdawalla.tumblr.com/post/102544296955/philae-status-a-day-later</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Osmium</author><text>These are the original photos from which 67P&#x2F;Churyumov-Gerasimenko was discovered back in 1969:<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/15398150830/in/set-72157638315605535" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;europeanspaceagency&#x2F;1539815083...</a><p>I find it amazing how we&#x27;ve gone from a dim blur on a photographic plate (which was found by accident when trying to photograph a different comet entirely) to what we see now.<p>I also find it fascinating to think how close we were to landing on an entirely different comet if the original launch window had been hit. There&#x27;s just so much out there. What was on that other comet (46P&#x2F;Wirtanen) that we might never get to see?</text></comment> | <story><title>Philae status, a day later</title><url>http://elakdawalla.tumblr.com/post/102544296955/philae-status-a-day-later</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Osmium</author><text>Looks like COSAC data is coming in! <a href="https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/533387528376942592" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;esaoperations&#x2F;status&#x2F;533387528376942592</a><p>This is an instrument that does analysis on whatever samples the drill picks up. We know the drill successfully deployed earlier, so hopefully that means it picked up <i>something</i> and we now have the data from that!<p>Looks like that&#x27;s pretty much it for the battery though, unless last minute manoeuvrings result in the potential for a recharge in the future:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Philae2014/status/533403430489178112" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Philae2014&#x2F;status&#x2F;533403430489178112</a><p>Edit: CONSERT data now coming in! CONSERT is an instrument to detect a radar pulse sent out by Rosetta that travels <i>through</i> the centre of the comet to tell us something about its internal structure. Also another ROLIS image (panorama) has been taken, though it&#x27;s not clear to me if it&#x27;s been transmitted yet. Very low battery now.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONSERT" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CONSERT</a><p>Edit: I missed this before, but it looks like Ptolemy data has been received too! This is another instrument that&#x27;s supplied with samples from the drill.<p><a href="http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/31445-instruments/?fbodylongid=896" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci.esa.int&#x2F;rosetta&#x2F;31445-instruments&#x2F;?fbodylongid=89...</a></text></comment> |
6,317,287 | 6,316,760 | 1 | 3 | 6,316,516 | train | <story><title>Progressive Enhancement Is Dead</title><url>http://tomdale.net/2013/09/progressive-enhancement-is-dead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glesica</author><text>&quot;And most importantly: Don’t be ashamed to build 100% JavaScript applications. You may get some incensed priests vituperating you in their blogs. But there will be an army of users (like me) who will fall in love with using your app.&quot;<p>This statement needs a huge, HUGE caveat that you should only be building 100% JavaScript apps in situations where doing so <i>makes sense</i>. For example, I find the new Blogger &quot;web app&quot; infuriating. I shouldn&#x27;t have to stare at a loading screen to read a half-dozen paragraphs of text, that&#x27;s just stupid. Just serve the HTML. No one is going to &quot;fall in love&quot; with your app if your app shouldn&#x27;t exist in the first place because the old-school solution provided a superior experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>npsimons</author><text>Exactly; those of us &quot;vituperating priests&quot; who rail against JavaScript abuse are mostly complaining about things like plain text (or even text plus photos) <i>requiring</i> JavaScript. You want to create some whiz bang new thing that needs Turing completeness? Go to town with JavaScript. You want to require enabling a possible malware vector and chew through computer resources like they&#x27;re candy just to read a few paragraphs of text? Forget you, I&#x27;ll keep browsing. And so will crawlers, so you&#x27;ll never get linked. Attention is scarce, information is not - do the math.</text></comment> | <story><title>Progressive Enhancement Is Dead</title><url>http://tomdale.net/2013/09/progressive-enhancement-is-dead/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glesica</author><text>&quot;And most importantly: Don’t be ashamed to build 100% JavaScript applications. You may get some incensed priests vituperating you in their blogs. But there will be an army of users (like me) who will fall in love with using your app.&quot;<p>This statement needs a huge, HUGE caveat that you should only be building 100% JavaScript apps in situations where doing so <i>makes sense</i>. For example, I find the new Blogger &quot;web app&quot; infuriating. I shouldn&#x27;t have to stare at a loading screen to read a half-dozen paragraphs of text, that&#x27;s just stupid. Just serve the HTML. No one is going to &quot;fall in love&quot; with your app if your app shouldn&#x27;t exist in the first place because the old-school solution provided a superior experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diminish</author><text>i m still opening a dozen tabs and reading them whenever i want, unfortunately most newer js only web blogs such as inc mobile, end up having a lot of errors and white pages..<p>i understand your newly found js excitement with your full ember.js app, but do&#x27;nt forget the lessons from java the browser plugin and flash.<p>1. ok you re real time, but don&#x27;t assume i m watching your site like a tv<p>2. dont consume my precious cpu power.. otherwise app throttling will come to browser tabs..<p>3. dont end up in lots of clientside errors due to various problems, including local storage.. twitter mobile client is an abysmal example where tweets are lost on screen and inc mobile is another with empty ehite pages</text></comment> |
17,406,867 | 17,406,566 | 1 | 3 | 17,399,884 | train | <story><title>Going IPv6 Only [pdf]</title><url>https://pc.nanog.org/static/published/meetings/NANOG73/1645/20180625_Lagerholm_T-Mobile_S_Journey_To_v1.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>singularity2001</author><text>Is it reasonable to hate and avoid IPv6 for fears of further privacy erosion (easier tracking than with IPv4)?<p>With IPv4 my ISP has to shuffle IPs with every reconnect. With IPv6 you could get one IP for lifetime?<p>While ISP that hand out a static IPv4 <i>can</i> exist, it&#x27;s much more unlikely, whereas with IPv6 it will become the norm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pilif</author><text><i>&gt; Is it reasonable to hate and avoid IPv6 for fears of further privacy erosion (easier tracking than with IPv4)?</i><p>no. If an ISP assigns you a dynamic prefix and the various machines in your network use any one of the various privacy features like temporary addresses then the only additional information you leak is some information about how many devices are in your LAN, but as the devices make up additional addresses, it&#x27;s very fuzzy.<p><i>&gt; With IPv4 my ISP has to shuffle IPs with every reconnect. With IPv6 you could get one IP for lifetime?</i><p>Your ISP can hand out a new prefix whenever you connect, or even while you are connected. Most of them do this by default.<p><i>&gt;While ISP that hand out a static IPv4 can exist, it&#x27;s much more unlikely, whereas with IPv6 it will become the norm.</i><p>it doesn&#x27;t look like it - at least here in Switzerland, all providers that do provide v6 addresses hand out dynamic prefixes by default and most don&#x27;t even offer the option of getting a static prefix.</text></comment> | <story><title>Going IPv6 Only [pdf]</title><url>https://pc.nanog.org/static/published/meetings/NANOG73/1645/20180625_Lagerholm_T-Mobile_S_Journey_To_v1.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>singularity2001</author><text>Is it reasonable to hate and avoid IPv6 for fears of further privacy erosion (easier tracking than with IPv4)?<p>With IPv4 my ISP has to shuffle IPs with every reconnect. With IPv6 you could get one IP for lifetime?<p>While ISP that hand out a static IPv4 <i>can</i> exist, it&#x27;s much more unlikely, whereas with IPv6 it will become the norm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>No, it&#x27;s not reasonable.<p>Allocation of IPv4 address by your ISP is not a secure process; if your privacy depends on it your privacy is already compromised. And address allocation policy is independent of which protocol you&#x27;re using anyway.</text></comment> |
29,497,350 | 29,495,324 | 1 | 3 | 29,470,565 | train | <story><title>How to run a small social network site for your friends</title><url>https://runyourown.social/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drorco</author><text>This has been like that with many multiplayer games to some extent before the age of matchmaking. Someone sets up a dedicated server with certain mods&#x2F;game configuration, and that would be yours and other randoms favorite server. Over time, you&#x27;d actually become a community.<p>I&#x27;ve gone back to play Unreal Tournament 2004 this past year in such dedicated servers, and it made me realize how badly matchmaking ruined the sense of community in MP games.</text></item><item><author>hemloc_io</author><text>I have what I think is a unique perspective on this.<p>Private small self run social media already exists. It&#x27;s personal Minecraft servers.<p>When I was younger I ran a Minecraft server out of my toaster of a PC. Friends hopped on, made their own little houses, built stuff and talked. Friends would pass in and out and in order to get in you had to be invited! I&#x27;d say max there were 10-20 people on there somewhat consistently.<p>It was great, and better than social media or even game for hanging out with your friends IMO because it emulated synchronous human interaction instead of just setting up feeds where everything has to be &quot;perfect&quot;.<p>It was easy enough for a 14 year old to setup, and administer. Mods made it hackable and fun.<p>I guess the metaverse was already a thing back then huh?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>np-</author><text>That’s actually interesting—I used to really be into multiplayer games when I was a teenager into my early 20s, and have some great memories of virtual hangs with friends both real and offline. My interest in online gaming basically dropped to zero (or even negative) after that, which seems to coincidence with when matchmaking started becoming a thing. I think it was it Halo 2 that was the first big matchmaking game that I played and I just really couldn’t get into it at all, I just more or less assumed I was just getting older and losing interest in childhood hobbies but never connected it to the loss of community in my head. Thinking about all those multiplayer lobbies from yesteryear gives me pangs of nostalgia.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to run a small social network site for your friends</title><url>https://runyourown.social/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drorco</author><text>This has been like that with many multiplayer games to some extent before the age of matchmaking. Someone sets up a dedicated server with certain mods&#x2F;game configuration, and that would be yours and other randoms favorite server. Over time, you&#x27;d actually become a community.<p>I&#x27;ve gone back to play Unreal Tournament 2004 this past year in such dedicated servers, and it made me realize how badly matchmaking ruined the sense of community in MP games.</text></item><item><author>hemloc_io</author><text>I have what I think is a unique perspective on this.<p>Private small self run social media already exists. It&#x27;s personal Minecraft servers.<p>When I was younger I ran a Minecraft server out of my toaster of a PC. Friends hopped on, made their own little houses, built stuff and talked. Friends would pass in and out and in order to get in you had to be invited! I&#x27;d say max there were 10-20 people on there somewhat consistently.<p>It was great, and better than social media or even game for hanging out with your friends IMO because it emulated synchronous human interaction instead of just setting up feeds where everything has to be &quot;perfect&quot;.<p>It was easy enough for a 14 year old to setup, and administer. Mods made it hackable and fun.<p>I guess the metaverse was already a thing back then huh?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brnt</author><text>Perhaps it isn&#x27;t surprising that when interaction is designed to be disposable and replaceable, i.e. matchmaking, no real community can form.</text></comment> |
30,917,702 | 30,917,549 | 1 | 3 | 30,915,923 | train | <story><title>Missing Darwin Notebooks Returned to Cambridge University Library</title><url>https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/TreeOfLife</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cillian64</author><text>Trying to identify the thief using evidence from their return of the notebooks seems like it would discourage people in future from returning similar stolen objects. But I can understand not wanting the return of a stolen object to indemnify the thief, otherwise you’re encouraging “borrowing” things. Is there a general policy or thought on how to deal with this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OscarCunningham</author><text>The logical policy would be to not use any evidence from the return, but to continue to allow investigation using the evidence from the theft. Of course most existing law enforcement agencies aren&#x27;t trustworthy enough to credibly commit to this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Missing Darwin Notebooks Returned to Cambridge University Library</title><url>https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/TreeOfLife</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cillian64</author><text>Trying to identify the thief using evidence from their return of the notebooks seems like it would discourage people in future from returning similar stolen objects. But I can understand not wanting the return of a stolen object to indemnify the thief, otherwise you’re encouraging “borrowing” things. Is there a general policy or thought on how to deal with this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mannykannot</author><text>My guess is that, to a person on the verge of stealing such an artifact, whether there is a policy of no investigation on safe return is near the last thing on their mind. A person acting on impulse isn&#x27;t putting much effort at all into thinking it through, and the motivations and attention of someone who has planned the heist in advance are all focused in the opposite direction - they have already chosen on an action in which return plays no part. Therefore, I would lean towards there being no investigation, or at least no public investigation.<p>The much trickier problem, not uncommon in art theft, is when the thief attempts to ransom the artifact.</text></comment> |
17,804,333 | 17,802,504 | 1 | 2 | 17,802,080 | train | <story><title>OpenAI Five: Goals and Progress</title><url>https://openai.com/five/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shawn</author><text>As someone who was once semi-pro in dota (4400 MMR, get rekt), it&#x27;s <i>freaky</i> watching these bots play. It&#x27;s uncanny. Little things... Like, when the bots are taking a tower, one of them will stand in front of the tower and tank the creep wave, so that their creeps do more damage on the tower. They had to learn this.<p>Insta-TPing right when an enemy wastes their stun and can&#x27;t cancel their TP.<p>Grouping up as 5 at the beginning of the game and pushing into the enemy jungle. <i>Pubs never do this.</i><p>The most interesting part is that OpenAI appears to be discovering new knowledge in the dota scene. For example, they always take the ranged barracks first, never the melee. This is exactly the opposite of what the pro scene does. Therefore, the smartest pro team should study what the bot is doing and trust that on average it&#x27;s a better idea to always focus on the ranged barracks first. After all, if it was a bad idea, they probably wouldn&#x27;t do that.<p>The most hilarious part was when OpenAI paused the game, then resumed it. This illustrates that there is still some unexplainable randomness.<p>Question for OpenAI: Is it more accurate to think of the bots as 5 separate minds, or a single mind controlling 5 heroes?<p>EDIT: By the way, TI is going on right now! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;dota2ti" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;dota2ti</a> If you&#x27;re new to the scene, take a peek. TI is always so high energy -- even if it&#x27;s hard to follow what&#x27;s going on, listening to Tobi (the shoutcaster) go nuts during the game is always a highlight.<p>And of course, &#x2F;r&#x2F;dota2 has the best memes anywhere, hands-down. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;DotA2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;DotA2&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zawerf</author><text>&gt; Question for OpenAI: Is it more accurate to think of the bots as 5 separate minds, or a single mind controlling 5 heroes?<p>They released their architecture: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;MachineLearning&#x2F;comments&#x2F;9533g8&#x2F;n_openai_five_benchmark_results&#x2F;e3q0f9l&#x2F;?context=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;MachineLearning&#x2F;comments&#x2F;9533g8&#x2F;n_o...</a><p>In the above thread, a reddit user noted that 512 out of the 2048 unit input into the LSTM of each bot is shared (max pooled across players).<p>This means they are telepathically linked and never need to worry about communicating, disagreeing, etc. They know how the others are interpreting their local inputs because it&#x27;s explicitly shared. So it&#x27;s not really fair to call it 5 separate minds.<p>You can&#x27;t really call it a single mind either because if you assume the LSTM is the &quot;mind&quot; (since it&#x27;s the only place that has memory of previous state), that state isn&#x27;t read by any other bots.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenAI Five: Goals and Progress</title><url>https://openai.com/five/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shawn</author><text>As someone who was once semi-pro in dota (4400 MMR, get rekt), it&#x27;s <i>freaky</i> watching these bots play. It&#x27;s uncanny. Little things... Like, when the bots are taking a tower, one of them will stand in front of the tower and tank the creep wave, so that their creeps do more damage on the tower. They had to learn this.<p>Insta-TPing right when an enemy wastes their stun and can&#x27;t cancel their TP.<p>Grouping up as 5 at the beginning of the game and pushing into the enemy jungle. <i>Pubs never do this.</i><p>The most interesting part is that OpenAI appears to be discovering new knowledge in the dota scene. For example, they always take the ranged barracks first, never the melee. This is exactly the opposite of what the pro scene does. Therefore, the smartest pro team should study what the bot is doing and trust that on average it&#x27;s a better idea to always focus on the ranged barracks first. After all, if it was a bad idea, they probably wouldn&#x27;t do that.<p>The most hilarious part was when OpenAI paused the game, then resumed it. This illustrates that there is still some unexplainable randomness.<p>Question for OpenAI: Is it more accurate to think of the bots as 5 separate minds, or a single mind controlling 5 heroes?<p>EDIT: By the way, TI is going on right now! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;dota2ti" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;dota2ti</a> If you&#x27;re new to the scene, take a peek. TI is always so high energy -- even if it&#x27;s hard to follow what&#x27;s going on, listening to Tobi (the shoutcaster) go nuts during the game is always a highlight.<p>And of course, &#x2F;r&#x2F;dota2 has the best memes anywhere, hands-down. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;DotA2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;DotA2&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdoliner</author><text>I&#x27;m also very excited about what these bots can tell us about DOTA but I think a certain degree of skepticism is necessary due to the bots not actually having been trained truly tabula rasa. The training contained lots of little &quot;nudges&quot; to reward the bots for things that lead to winning. I.e. there are nudges to get them to go to lane to start, there are nudges to get them to buy the right items. I don&#x27;t know for sure but I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if they kill the ranged barracks first because there&#x27;s a built in reward for killing barracks that&#x27;s the same for both melee and ranged barracks but the ranged ones have less health so they value that a little bit higher since it&#x27;s a more consistent reward than trying to get the melee one. I hope that someday they get to a point where they can truly train from scratch with no human nudges, I&#x27;m not sure how much more impressive of an ML result that would be (I&#x27;d imagine meaningfully so but I&#x27;m not an AI researcher) but it would certainly be a much more interesting result in terms of our understanding of DOTA.</text></comment> |
4,291,960 | 4,291,563 | 1 | 3 | 4,290,187 | train | <story><title>Recycled Cardboard Bicycles For $9?</title><url>http://nocamels.com/2012/07/recycled-cardboard-bicycles-for-9/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>patdennis</author><text><i>The primary use, like any bicycle, is to prevent pollution while encouraging physical activity and exercise.</i><p>I don't know about other people, but my primary use for my bicycle is transportation.<p>Edit: Also, does anyone else think that disposable bikes are a step backwards, not forwards, in terms of environmental responsibility?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freiheit</author><text>For a "real" bike (the kind you buy for $500 US or more from a shop that basically just does bikes, or buy used): yes<p>For a "department store" bike aka "bicycle shaped object" (the kind you buy for $100-$300 from Walmart, Sears, Costco or another store that doesn't actually have anybody that knows how to properly assemble a bike): no.<p>Those department store bikes are estimated to average something like 75 miles of use in their lifetime (showroom floor to landfill) and are generally not made to be very serviceable.<p>So if we assume that a $60 cardboard bike is intended to compete with $100 disposable bikes, it's probably still a good step forwards.</text></comment> | <story><title>Recycled Cardboard Bicycles For $9?</title><url>http://nocamels.com/2012/07/recycled-cardboard-bicycles-for-9/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>patdennis</author><text><i>The primary use, like any bicycle, is to prevent pollution while encouraging physical activity and exercise.</i><p>I don't know about other people, but my primary use for my bicycle is transportation.<p>Edit: Also, does anyone else think that disposable bikes are a step backwards, not forwards, in terms of environmental responsibility?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmduke</author><text>Agreed.<p>I still think there's a lot of room for improvement in modern bikeshare paradigms. The most common time I tell myself 'man, I wish I had a bike' is when I want to get to a convenience store/lunch spot one-three miles away, where walking isn't really feasible but driving seems exorbitant.<p>I wish there was a system where I could pay fifty cents at a bike station and get the use of a bike for an hour, or something similar. That's my ideal system.</text></comment> |
5,616,340 | 5,615,716 | 1 | 3 | 5,614,872 | train | <story><title>Triple Gear</title><url>http://www.shapeways.com/model/779258/triple-gear.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frankus</author><text>Seems like it could have applications for something like a rope climbing device, since all of the internal edges converge (or diverge) as the parts are rotated.</text></comment> | <story><title>Triple Gear</title><url>http://www.shapeways.com/model/779258/triple-gear.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xijuan</author><text>That looks like a piece of artwork!</text></comment> |
4,339,924 | 4,338,947 | 1 | 3 | 4,338,404 | train | <story><title>Apple's Secrets Revealed During Trial</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443687504577567421840745452.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsz0</author><text>I think double-tap-to-zoom is a perfect example of something that should be patentable. It's a huge improvement over existing systems that often used a zoom box you would position with cursor keys. To work properly it has to take into account the major design elements on a web page and make intelligent choices based on the user's tap target. Web browsing before double-tap-to-zoom and multi-touch zoom was a nightmare. These two features reinvented web browsing on small displays. This was clearly one of the killer features of the original iPhone.</text></item><item><author>jasonkester</author><text><i>Mr. Forstall said he invented a patent for double-tapping on Web pages because as he had been using a prototype of the iPhone to surf the web, he realized he was spending a lot of time pinching and zooming the page to fit text perfectly on the screen.<p>"I realized I have this incredibly powerful device, why can't it figure out the right size for me?" he said. So, he challenged his team to make the software automatically size the text into the center of the screen when he double-tapped around a webpage."</i><p>This is why we're in such a sad state with regard to software patents. This guy genuinely believes that he "<i>invented</i>" something. And that it should be patentable.<p>Of course, anybody who has actually built anything knows that what he actually did was "decide how something should work". You do this dozens of times when putting out a new product, and it's not in any way a big deal. Certainly not something you should call "inventing", and absolutely not something that you should consider patenting.<p>It's just one of thousands of design decisions you make. It's just sad to watch people who don't understand that making things worse for everybody.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forrestthewoods</author><text>I couldn't possibly disagree more.<p>Technology has and continues to advance at ridiculous pace. Many software developments are dependent on hardware. Until the hardware exists no one can even try to solve the problem. I don't want a company which has first access to hardware to automatically get all the software patents that derive from it.<p>Google is hard at work on their glasses. Lots of companies are. The hardware isn't there yet. We're getting there though. Eventually someone is going to have hardware that enables all kinds of cool things to be done that have never been done before. Our culture / society / economy doesn't need to compound their reward of being first with a 20 year exclusive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple's Secrets Revealed During Trial</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443687504577567421840745452.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsz0</author><text>I think double-tap-to-zoom is a perfect example of something that should be patentable. It's a huge improvement over existing systems that often used a zoom box you would position with cursor keys. To work properly it has to take into account the major design elements on a web page and make intelligent choices based on the user's tap target. Web browsing before double-tap-to-zoom and multi-touch zoom was a nightmare. These two features reinvented web browsing on small displays. This was clearly one of the killer features of the original iPhone.</text></item><item><author>jasonkester</author><text><i>Mr. Forstall said he invented a patent for double-tapping on Web pages because as he had been using a prototype of the iPhone to surf the web, he realized he was spending a lot of time pinching and zooming the page to fit text perfectly on the screen.<p>"I realized I have this incredibly powerful device, why can't it figure out the right size for me?" he said. So, he challenged his team to make the software automatically size the text into the center of the screen when he double-tapped around a webpage."</i><p>This is why we're in such a sad state with regard to software patents. This guy genuinely believes that he "<i>invented</i>" something. And that it should be patentable.<p>Of course, anybody who has actually built anything knows that what he actually did was "decide how something should work". You do this dozens of times when putting out a new product, and it's not in any way a big deal. Certainly not something you should call "inventing", and absolutely not something that you should consider patenting.<p>It's just one of thousands of design decisions you make. It's just sad to watch people who don't understand that making things worse for everybody.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwg</author><text>&#62; To work properly it has to take into account the major design elements on a web page and make intelligent choices based on the user's tap target.<p>And that is what should be patentable, if anything at all should be patentable. The algorithm to account for design elements and make intelligent choices.<p>Not "tap twice to zoom".</text></comment> |
18,628,937 | 18,628,861 | 1 | 2 | 18,628,295 | train | <story><title>Nginx on Wasmjit</title><url>https://www.wasmjit.org/blog/nginx-on-wasmjit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gok</author><text>Sounds like the big idea from Singularity (run everything in the same hardware security ring, use static analysis for memory safety) is going mainstream, incrementally. Unfortunate that this is happening right as it becomes clear that such a design is fundamentally unsound on modern hardware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zimbatm</author><text>+1 for pointing at the irony but it&#x27;s not really true.<p>1. Hardware design flaws are not irremediable and will be fixed in time.<p>2. It&#x27;s still very useful to run software that is trusted to not be malicious and&#x2F;but not trusted to be void of memory bugs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nginx on Wasmjit</title><url>https://www.wasmjit.org/blog/nginx-on-wasmjit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gok</author><text>Sounds like the big idea from Singularity (run everything in the same hardware security ring, use static analysis for memory safety) is going mainstream, incrementally. Unfortunate that this is happening right as it becomes clear that such a design is fundamentally unsound on modern hardware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_wmd</author><text>The big news this year was that the majority of hardware isolation designs in existence were fundamentally unsound, this is a software sandbox. Are you referring to the recent discovery of a new hardware bug class here?</text></comment> |
27,056,481 | 27,056,495 | 1 | 2 | 27,056,008 | train | <story><title>As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy</title><url>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/as-amazon-deforestation-hits-12-year-high-france-rejects-brazilian-soy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wombatmobile</author><text>What percentage of its old growth forests does France retain?<p>If the answer is a very small number, doesn&#x27;t that make historical France guilty of what these measures seek to prevent happening in Brazil?<p>To the extent this is a moral argument, shouldn&#x27;t France atone for its misdeeds by regenerating wild forests, to be left unmolested in perpetuity?<p>If nobody is advocating any such thing, perhaps this isn&#x27;t a moral argument, or even an environmental argument. Perhaps it&#x27;s an economic initiative from the people who stand to gain from the French production of soy beans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notafraudster</author><text>Your framing:<p>- France cuts its own forests down, lectures other people about cutting their forests down, what hypocrites.<p>Result of taking framing to conclusion:<p>- Everyone should be able to cut their forests down with impunity, then when we have no forests, we should try to figure out a solution now that we&#x27;re no longer hypocrites.<p>My framing:<p>- France, having (as most of Europe did) extensively deforested for ship timber hundreds of years ago, witnesses the devastating effects of deforestation locally, and tries to mitigate future deforestation. They try to recover local forests, though they will never recover to levels from, say, 1200AD. Although the cat is out of the bag in many places, we now understand this to be a global problem, which should be solved globally<p>Result of taking framing to its logical conclusion:<p>- No one should engage in aggressive deforestation, and we should look at mechanisms of economic compensation to help countries whose growth is limited because of this from countries who benefited from it before we understood it to be wrong. OECD countries should aggressively support and fund reforestation of the Rainforest and African Green Belt.<p>I dunno what to say, man.</text></comment> | <story><title>As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy</title><url>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/as-amazon-deforestation-hits-12-year-high-france-rejects-brazilian-soy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wombatmobile</author><text>What percentage of its old growth forests does France retain?<p>If the answer is a very small number, doesn&#x27;t that make historical France guilty of what these measures seek to prevent happening in Brazil?<p>To the extent this is a moral argument, shouldn&#x27;t France atone for its misdeeds by regenerating wild forests, to be left unmolested in perpetuity?<p>If nobody is advocating any such thing, perhaps this isn&#x27;t a moral argument, or even an environmental argument. Perhaps it&#x27;s an economic initiative from the people who stand to gain from the French production of soy beans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rbtprograms</author><text>I think it&#x27;s generally easy to point the finger at others while ignoring our own short comings. I feel the same way about the USA pointing the finger at other countries human rights violations while simultaneously struggling to come to terms with our own treatment of minorities and indigenous people in the past.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s a mix of hypocrisy and political gain. I just hope there comes a time where we can all do better.</text></comment> |
16,873,586 | 16,873,141 | 1 | 3 | 16,872,657 | train | <story><title>Shortest bit sequence that's never been sent over the Internet (2017)</title><url>https://www.seancassidy.me/whats-the-length-of-shortest-bit-sequence-thats-never-been-sent-over-the-internet.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>panic</author><text><i>&gt; We&#x27;re looking for a specific sequence, though, not a specific number of heads in a row. We don&#x27;t even know what the sequence is since it hasn&#x27;t been sent yet. Is that a problem? Not at all! We&#x27;re looking for some sequence of length n, and given that both 0 and 1 are equally likely, the sequence 00110 is equally likely as 11111.</i><p>Interestingly enough, this isn&#x27;t true!<p>First, let&#x27;s test on a small example: how likely are the substrings &quot;11&quot; and &quot;10&quot; to appear in binary strings of length 3? Here&#x27;s a table with the matches marked.<p><pre><code> &quot;11&quot; &quot;10&quot;
000
001
010 *
011 *
100 *
101 *
110 * *
111 *
</code></pre>
&quot;10&quot; can appear in four ways, but &quot;11&quot; can only appear in three. Why is this?<p>Say you&#x27;re scanning through a bit string, looking for &quot;11111&quot;. You&#x27;ve seen &quot;111&quot; so far -- that&#x27;s three matches. Now you encounter a &quot;0&quot;. Your counter resets to zero matches until you see a &quot;1&quot; again.<p>Now say you&#x27;re looking for &quot;00110&quot;. You&#x27;ve seen &quot;001&quot; so far. Just like before, you encounter a &quot;0&quot;. You still need to reset your counter, but this time the &quot;0&quot; may actually be the start of a <i>new</i> &quot;00110&quot;. So your counter resets to one, not zero. This means &quot;00110&quot; matches are easier to find, and happen more frequently!</text></comment> | <story><title>Shortest bit sequence that's never been sent over the Internet (2017)</title><url>https://www.seancassidy.me/whats-the-length-of-shortest-bit-sequence-thats-never-been-sent-over-the-internet.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>x1798DE</author><text>I like this general approach, but presumably you don&#x27;t want the point where 50% of the sequences have never been transmitted (on average, assuming randomly distributed data), you want the first point where at least 1 hasn&#x27;t been transmitted, so you should be solving for the point where the probability of a sequence of that length not appearing times the number of sequences of that length is equal to 1.<p>That said it&#x27;s a logarithmic scale so the length is probably not that much shorter than the one he came up with.</text></comment> |
20,033,579 | 20,033,571 | 1 | 3 | 20,033,164 | train | <story><title>Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Purge of Small Wholesale Suppliers</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-28/amazon-is-poised-to-unleash-long-feared-purge-of-small-suppliers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>To bypass the pay&#x2F;nag wall: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outline.com&#x2F;9mHK5d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outline.com&#x2F;9mHK5d</a><p>Important to note that this &quot;purge&quot; is only for wholesale suppliers, not for marketplace sellers like the title implies. Amazon is basically only going to purchase products for resale from large suppliers, and will shove the rest into the normal marketplace operations where they have to compete with everyone else on actually selling and shipping their products direct to consumers. Also of note is that this won&#x27;t do anything to address the criticisms of rampant counterfeit and&#x2F;or garbage quality products on the marketplace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Goronmon</author><text><i>Also of note is that this won&#x27;t do anything to address the criticisms of rampant counterfeit and&#x2F;or garbage quality products on the marketplace.</i><p>If anything it will only make it worse, as many of shrinking number of items sold by Amazon will now be tossed into the garbage pile along with everything else in the marketplace.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Purge of Small Wholesale Suppliers</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-28/amazon-is-poised-to-unleash-long-feared-purge-of-small-suppliers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>To bypass the pay&#x2F;nag wall: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outline.com&#x2F;9mHK5d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outline.com&#x2F;9mHK5d</a><p>Important to note that this &quot;purge&quot; is only for wholesale suppliers, not for marketplace sellers like the title implies. Amazon is basically only going to purchase products for resale from large suppliers, and will shove the rest into the normal marketplace operations where they have to compete with everyone else on actually selling and shipping their products direct to consumers. Also of note is that this won&#x27;t do anything to address the criticisms of rampant counterfeit and&#x2F;or garbage quality products on the marketplace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rinze</author><text>I&#x27;ve always found this extension pretty useful against &#x27;cookie-walls&#x27;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Cookie-AutoDelete&#x2F;Cookie-AutoDelete" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Cookie-AutoDelete&#x2F;Cookie-AutoDelete</a>. Also, general cookie hygiene.</text></comment> |
26,014,885 | 26,014,795 | 1 | 2 | 26,014,455 | train | <story><title>How The Expanse went from game concept to blockbuster TV series</title><url>https://andrewliptak.substack.com/p/the-expanse-james-sa-corey-syfy-amazon</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BlameKaneda</author><text>My SO and I were looking for a show to watch last November, so I did a search of &quot;highest rated shows on X platform&quot; and The Expanse was one of the frontrunners. There were some reviews that said it was slow to start, with lots of confusing world-building, but it picked up straight after.<p>We didn&#x27;t get the sense that it was slow and hard to follow, at all. In fact, one of my favorite things about it is the amount of world-building that you&#x27;re presented with, especially in the beginning.<p>We marathoned the first four seasons in a few weeks, and luckily Season 5 started less than a week after we ended. It&#x27;s easily one of the best shows I&#x27;ve seen in a long time, and one that I&#x27;ve been recommending to people left and right.</text></comment> | <story><title>How The Expanse went from game concept to blockbuster TV series</title><url>https://andrewliptak.substack.com/p/the-expanse-james-sa-corey-syfy-amazon</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>I&#x27;m kind of surprised how many nerdy people I know who have never watched this show. It is by far the best (maybe only?) hard sci-fi TV show ever, and almost every episode is better than any hard sci-fi <i>movie</i> ever made.<p>If AC Clarke and Stanley Kubrick were alive they&#x27;d be heaping praise on this show for getting so many of the technical details exactly right.</text></comment> |
16,317,576 | 16,317,482 | 1 | 3 | 16,317,124 | train | <story><title>Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly</title><url>https://github.com/jpmorganchase/perspective</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dman</author><text>I wrote the C++ part of this codebase, would be happy to answer any questions about it here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stupidcar</author><text>Did you experiment with doing it JS-only prior to the C++ version? If so, what kind of performance increase did you see with WebAssembly?</text></comment> | <story><title>Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly</title><url>https://github.com/jpmorganchase/perspective</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dman</author><text>I wrote the C++ part of this codebase, would be happy to answer any questions about it here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jarpineh</author><text>Briefly in the animation I see there&#x27;s hierachical (or multi-dimensional) data used. Could you tell me about what sort of data (statistics, monitoring) this supports?<p>Also, what methods are available for getting data streamed [into Perspective]? I&#x27;m skimming through the docs, but am not quite getting it...<p>[edited for clarity]</text></comment> |
35,595,388 | 35,594,629 | 1 | 2 | 35,592,847 | train | <story><title>I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog</title><url>https://www.shruggingface.com/blog/how-i-used-stable-diffusion-and-dreambooth-to-create-a-painted-portrait-of-my-dog</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quadcore</author><text>From what I read on the internet, people assume AI generated art is a difficult question legaly speaking. Some literally assume artists complain only because there are out competed.<p>I disagree - I think that AI generative art is an easy case of copyright infrigement and an easy win for a bunch of good lawyers.<p>That&#x27;s because you can&#x27;t find an artist for a generated picture other than the ones in the training set. If you can&#x27;t find a new artist, then the picture belongs to the old ones, so to speak. I really dont see what&#x27;s difficult with that case. I think the internet assume a bit to quickly it&#x27;s a difficult question and a grey area when maybe it just isnt.<p>It&#x27;s noteworthy that Adobe did things differently than the others and the way they did things goes in the direction im describing here. Maybe it&#x27;s just confirmation bias.</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>I love how much work went into this.<p>There&#x27;s a great deal of pushback against AI art from the wider online art community at the moment, a lot of which is motivated by a sense of unfairness: if you&#x27;re not going to put in the time and effort, why do you deserve to create such high equality imagery?<p>(I do not share this opinion myself, but it&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve seen a lot)<p>This is another great counter-example showing how much work it takes to get the best, deliberate results out of these tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; I disagree - I think that AI generative art is an easy case of copyright infrigement and an easy win for a bunch of good lawyers.<p>&gt; That’s because you can’t find an artist for a generated picture other than the ones in the training set.<p>First, that’s clearly not true when you are using ControlNet with the input being human generated, or even img2img with a human generated image, but second and more importantly…<p>&gt; If you can’t find a new artist, then the picture belongs to the old ones, so to speak.<p>That’s not how copyright law works. The clearest example (not particularly germane to the computer generation case, but clearly illustrative of the fact that “can’t find another artist” is far from dispositive) is Fair Use noncommercial timeshifting of an existing work: it is extremely clear there is no artist but that of the original work, and yet it is not copyright infringement.<p>&gt; I really dont see what’s difficult with that case.<p>You’ve basically invented a rule of thumb out of thin air, and observed that it would not be a difficult case if your rule of thumb was how copyright law works.<p>Your observation seems correct to that extent, the problem is that it has nothing to do with copyright law.<p>&gt; I think the internet assume a bit to quickly it’s a difficult question and a grey area when maybe it just isn’t.<p>IP law experts have said that the Fair Use argument is hard to resolve.<p>Assuming the lawsuits currently ongoing aren’t settled, we’ll know when they are resolved what the answer is.</text></comment> | <story><title>I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog</title><url>https://www.shruggingface.com/blog/how-i-used-stable-diffusion-and-dreambooth-to-create-a-painted-portrait-of-my-dog</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quadcore</author><text>From what I read on the internet, people assume AI generated art is a difficult question legaly speaking. Some literally assume artists complain only because there are out competed.<p>I disagree - I think that AI generative art is an easy case of copyright infrigement and an easy win for a bunch of good lawyers.<p>That&#x27;s because you can&#x27;t find an artist for a generated picture other than the ones in the training set. If you can&#x27;t find a new artist, then the picture belongs to the old ones, so to speak. I really dont see what&#x27;s difficult with that case. I think the internet assume a bit to quickly it&#x27;s a difficult question and a grey area when maybe it just isnt.<p>It&#x27;s noteworthy that Adobe did things differently than the others and the way they did things goes in the direction im describing here. Maybe it&#x27;s just confirmation bias.</text></item><item><author>simonw</author><text>I love how much work went into this.<p>There&#x27;s a great deal of pushback against AI art from the wider online art community at the moment, a lot of which is motivated by a sense of unfairness: if you&#x27;re not going to put in the time and effort, why do you deserve to create such high equality imagery?<p>(I do not share this opinion myself, but it&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve seen a lot)<p>This is another great counter-example showing how much work it takes to get the best, deliberate results out of these tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>circuit10</author><text>It’s not as simple as that though because the algorithm does learn by itself and mostly just uses the training data to score itself against, it doesn’t directly copy it as some people seem to think. It can end up learning to copy things if it sees them enough times though<p>“you can&#x27;t find an artist for a generated picture other than the ones in the training set. If you can&#x27;t find a new artist, then the picture belongs to the old ones, so to speak”<p>I don’t think that’s valid on its own as a way to completely discount considering how directly it’s using the data. As an extreme example, what if I averaged all the colours in the training data together and used the resulting colour as the seed for some randomly generated fractal or something? You could apply the same arguments - there is no artist except the original ones in the training set - and yet I don’t think any reasonable person would say that the result obviously belongs to every single copyright owner from the training set</text></comment> |
1,615,823 | 1,615,542 | 1 | 2 | 1,615,182 | train | <story><title>Why Clojure?</title><url>http://thecleancoder.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-clojure.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Raphael_Amiard</author><text>Î really love clojure, but this article is <i>not</i> a good plaidoyer, for a lots of reasons, the first and most pregnant being the ability of the author to vastly traverse subject he is probably not an expert about.<p>&#62; Functional programming, of the kind shown in SICP, is a way to write code that does not manage the state of variables, and could therefore be partitioned to run in parallel on as many processors as you like<p>This is kind of true, but totally misleading, because very few tasks are actually easily paralelizable this way. When you stumble on one, you know it, and replacing map with pmap certainly <i>is</i> a joyful exercise, but this kind of parallelization are easy to do in <i></i>any<i></i> languages. The hard parts are those when you need to access shared state across threads. The facilities that clojure provide in this respect, while innovative and enlightening , have benefits that largely remain to be proven.<p>&#62; languages like F# and Scala which have a complexity and "quirkiness" reminiscent of C++<p>Erm, sorry, what, F# reminiscent of C++, did you even try to read some code written in F# ? F# has one of the tersest syntax you're likely to find in any language. As an ML descendant it does already have a very clean syntax, and the addition of significant whitespace only adds to that.<p>&#62; You can write Clojure code that derives from Java classes and overrides Java methods. In short, if you can do it in Java, you can do it in Clojure.<p>Yeah sure, but in practice, most people that says that didn't ever had to <i>really</i> handle a non trivial project with java interaction in it. I did. And frankly it can get ugly. It's good to have it, but ideally, all should be encapsulated in idiomatic clojure wrappers. While this is not that hard because java interaction is very well thought, it's a long and boring process, and when you're in the middle of a project and just needs some bit of functionnality that isn't in a clojure lib (and trust me there are still a lot of those), you tend to just use the java interop in place. And then you get back and read your code, and you cry.<p>In short, this is just a rehashing of what you usually hear about clojure, but with no insight of real use. My (uninformed) guess, is that the author probably didn't use clojure a lot, and frankly, this kind of stereotyped talk gets old.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Clojure?</title><url>http://thecleancoder.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-clojure.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cageface</author><text>You know, I really <i>want</i> to like Clojure, but so far I'm finding it a bit of a slog, for the following reasons:<p>1. stack traces are very hard to decipher<p>2. ubiquitous laziness can lead to some really subtle bugs<p>3. the syntax can be extremely obtuse, moreso than other lisps<p>4. the basic ADT is just a keyed map, which provides a lot of flexibility but also can make data modeling very opaque, even compared to other dynamic languages<p>5. immutable and recursive as a default takes a lot of getting used to. things I could dash out in minutes in ruby take me hours sometimes<p>6. other languages have caught up enough that Lisp macros are not as game changing as they might have been ten years ago<p>I embarked on a project recently to explore machine learning algorithms, implementing them in both Scala and Clojure at the same time. I expected this to be an easy win for Clojure but, to my surprise, I'm <i>much</i> more productive in Scala, my code has fewer bugs, and I can refactor it much more aggressively. I realize that this isn't an either/or thing and it may be entirely my shortcomings at play here, but my instinct is that although Clojure is a superb lisp, it's still a lisp, and it's going to be a niche that most programmers won't choose to occupy.</text></comment> |
6,962,559 | 6,961,485 | 1 | 3 | 6,961,248 | train | <story><title>Essays from the funniest man in Microsoft Research</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/12/24/10484402.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chetanahuja</author><text>My personal favorite passage (no comment on HN&#x27;s favorite obsessions <i>at all</i>)<p><i>&quot;GUIs are useful. Spell-checkers are useful. I’m glad that people are working on new kinds of bouncing icons because they believe that humanity has solved cancer and homelessness and now lives in a consequence-free world of immersive sprites. That’s exciting, and I wish that I could join those people in the 27th century.&quot;</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Essays from the funniest man in Microsoft Research</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/12/24/10484402.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seiji</author><text>You <i>must</i> read his The Slow Winter: <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/theslowwinter.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;people&#x2F;mickens&#x2F;theslowwi...</a> — It deserves to be made into a movie.</text></comment> |
4,660,820 | 4,660,691 | 1 | 2 | 4,660,184 | train | <story><title>Today is Ada Lovelace Day</title><url>http://findingada.com/ald-2012/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgrahamc</author><text>My choice for an inspirational woman pioneer in the computing field would be Grace Hopper. Here she is on Letterman: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZOxtURhfEU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZOxtURhfEU</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Today is Ada Lovelace Day</title><url>http://findingada.com/ald-2012/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crntaylor</author><text>It's worth reading JGC's blog post about Ada Lovelace [1]. He argues that she shouldn't be famous for being "the first computer programmer" (in fact it's not clear that she ever really understood the difference engine/analytical engine at all).<p>Instead, he says that she should be remembered for being the first person to realize that calculating machines weren't limited just to problems of arithmetic - that they might eventually be applied to music, art and other areas. Very prophetic!<p>[1] <a href="http://blog.jgc.org/2011/09/lovelaces-leap.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.jgc.org/2011/09/lovelaces-leap.html</a></text></comment> |
37,795,006 | 37,795,110 | 1 | 2 | 37,785,416 | train | <story><title>How will AI learn next?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/how-will-ai-learn-next</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rented_mule</author><text>Anyone who has iterated on trained models for long enough knows that feedback loops can be a serious problem. If your models are influencing the generation of data that they are later retrained on, it gets harder and harder to even maintain model performance. The article mentions one experiment in this direction: &quot;With each generation, the quality of the model actually degraded.&quot; This happens whenever there aren&#x27;t solid strategies to avoid feedback loop issues.<p>Given this, the problem isn&#x27;t just that there&#x27;s not enough new content. It&#x27;s that an ever-increasing fraction of the content in the public sphere will be generated by these models. And can the models detect that they are ingesting their own output? If they get good enough, they probably can&#x27;t. And then they&#x27;ll get worse.<p>This could have a strange impact on human language &#x2F; communication as well. As these models are increasingly trained on their own output, they&#x27;ll start emulating their own mistakes and more of the content we consume will have these mistakes consistently used. You can imagine people, sometimes intentionally and sometimes not, starting to emulate these patterns and causing shifts in human languages. Interesting times ahead...</text></comment> | <story><title>How will AI learn next?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/how-will-ai-learn-next</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robbrown451</author><text>AlphaZero demonstrates that more human-generated data isn&#x27;t the only thing that makes an AI smarter. It uses zero human data to learn to play Go, and just iterates. As long as it has a way of scoring itself objectively (which it obviously does with a game like Go), it can keep improving with literally no ceiling to how much it can improve.<p>Pretty soon ChatGPT will be able to do a lot of training by iterating on its own output, such as by writing code and analyzing the output (including using vision systems).<p>Here&#x27;s an interesting thing I noticed last night. I have been making a lot of images that have piano keyboards in them. DALL-E 3 makes some excellent images otherwise (faces and hands mostly look great), but it always messes up the keyboards, as it doesn&#x27;t seem to get how black keys are in alternating groups of two and three.<p>But I tried getting chatgpt to analyze an image, using its new &quot;vision&quot; capabilities, and the first thing it noticed was that the piano keys were not properly clustered. I said nothing about that, I just asked it &quot;what is wrong with this image&quot; and it immediately found that. What if it could feed this sort of thing back in, using similar logic to Alpha Zero?<p>That&#x27;s just a tiny hint of what is to come. Sure, it typically needs human generated data for most things. It&#x27;s already got thousands of times more than any human has looked at. It will also be able to learn from human feedback, for instance a human could tell it what it got wrong in a response (whether regular text, code, or image), and explain in natural language where it deviated from what was expected. It can learn which humans are reliable, so it can minimize the number of paid employees doing RLHF, using them mostly to rate (unpaid) humans who choose to provide feedback. Even if most users opt out of giving this sort of feedback, there will be plenty to give it new, good information.</text></comment> |
26,326,126 | 26,326,158 | 1 | 3 | 26,325,090 | train | <story><title>DJI FPV</title><url>https://www.dji.com/dji-fpv</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dave_Rosenthal</author><text>There has been a huge divide in the drone world between high performance first person view (FPV) drones capable of acrobatics and the &quot;tripod in the sky&quot; type drones that companies like DJI have popularized. The former has been very DIY and the latter have attracted companies to build integrated solutions.<p>This new drone from DJI brings an truly staggering amount of innovation and integration to the FPV space:<p>- Low res analog video -&gt; high res digital video<p>- Modest transmission range -&gt; long range<p>- Integrated simulation to learn to fly<p>- &quot;Bail out&quot; button that almost instantly nulls drone movement and puts it in a stationary hover<p>- ~5 minutes fly time -&gt; ~20 minutes fly time<p>- Adjustable camera tilt on the fly to maintain level horizon at a variety of drone speeds (drone tilts more with speed)<p>Extremely impressive first offering in this category.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Naomarik</author><text>DJI digital video has been out for quite awhile now for hobbyists to include in their custom builds. Transmission range is not a valid point because a clean analog video signal and Crossfire outpaces DJI enormously.<p>The 20 min flight time is a lie, Joshua Bardwell measured 10 minutes hovering. That&#x27;s extremely easy to surpass on typical light weight 5 inch freestyle drone with a 1300mah battery that cost a fifth of the price of the DJI ones.<p>It is an impressive drone, but for experienced FPV pilots it&#x27;s very limiting.</text></comment> | <story><title>DJI FPV</title><url>https://www.dji.com/dji-fpv</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dave_Rosenthal</author><text>There has been a huge divide in the drone world between high performance first person view (FPV) drones capable of acrobatics and the &quot;tripod in the sky&quot; type drones that companies like DJI have popularized. The former has been very DIY and the latter have attracted companies to build integrated solutions.<p>This new drone from DJI brings an truly staggering amount of innovation and integration to the FPV space:<p>- Low res analog video -&gt; high res digital video<p>- Modest transmission range -&gt; long range<p>- Integrated simulation to learn to fly<p>- &quot;Bail out&quot; button that almost instantly nulls drone movement and puts it in a stationary hover<p>- ~5 minutes fly time -&gt; ~20 minutes fly time<p>- Adjustable camera tilt on the fly to maintain level horizon at a variety of drone speeds (drone tilts more with speed)<p>Extremely impressive first offering in this category.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magnat</author><text>&gt; Low res analog video -&gt; high res digital video<p>Major benefit of analog video is a progressive degradation of quality as a signal gets weaker and almost instant reacquisition after a complete dropout. I&#x27;m curious to see how DJI competes with that on a digital video.<p>&gt; ~5 minutes fly time -&gt; ~20 minutes fly time<p>For FPV racing that&#x27;s rather a downgrade. Ideally you&#x27;d like to land with almost empty battery right after finishing the course. Any leftover charge is a dead weight that only slows you down. But then again - I don&#x27;t think this drone will be used in competitive FPV racing.</text></comment> |
19,869,227 | 19,868,882 | 1 | 3 | 19,867,907 | train | <story><title>When Engineers Become Whistleblowers</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/when-engineers-become-whistleblowers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VengefulCynic</author><text>Within the financial services industry, there are significant monetary incentives for whistleblowers to come forward with evidence of malfeasance. The SEC offers something like 0.5% of recovered funds, which can amount to millions of dollars... which is important because even with the protections afforded by Dodd-Frank, it&#x27;s a very real possibility that you won&#x27;t work in the finance industry again.<p>By contrast, while it might not be a permanent career-ending event for an engineer to blow the whistle at an engineering company, it holds the significant risk of ending the engineer&#x27;s career at that company. Not to mention lawsuits and the cost of finding a new job. Most every engineer I know wants to do the right thing... but those are powerful headwinds. So on the mere suspicion of misfeasance or malfeasance, the prospect of losing a job and being embroiled in a lawsuit serves as a powerful deterrent.<p>People will point out (correctly) that adding financial incentives will inevitably lead to a combination of malicious compliance and misreporting, so there&#x27;s a line that has to be drawn. Also, protections in private sector are either toothless or come with expensive oversight, but it&#x27;s clear that if the government wants more whistleblowing from the ranks of normal engineers (and that&#x27;s a big &#x27;if&#x27;), they probably need to do something more to cause it to happen besides just keep asking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrep</author><text>It actually ranges from 10 percent to 30 percent of the money collected when the monetary sanctions exceed $1 million [0]. In the linked case, 2 whistle blowers shared a 50 million dollar reward. Now that is an incentive.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;2018-44" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;2018-44</a></text></comment> | <story><title>When Engineers Become Whistleblowers</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/when-engineers-become-whistleblowers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VengefulCynic</author><text>Within the financial services industry, there are significant monetary incentives for whistleblowers to come forward with evidence of malfeasance. The SEC offers something like 0.5% of recovered funds, which can amount to millions of dollars... which is important because even with the protections afforded by Dodd-Frank, it&#x27;s a very real possibility that you won&#x27;t work in the finance industry again.<p>By contrast, while it might not be a permanent career-ending event for an engineer to blow the whistle at an engineering company, it holds the significant risk of ending the engineer&#x27;s career at that company. Not to mention lawsuits and the cost of finding a new job. Most every engineer I know wants to do the right thing... but those are powerful headwinds. So on the mere suspicion of misfeasance or malfeasance, the prospect of losing a job and being embroiled in a lawsuit serves as a powerful deterrent.<p>People will point out (correctly) that adding financial incentives will inevitably lead to a combination of malicious compliance and misreporting, so there&#x27;s a line that has to be drawn. Also, protections in private sector are either toothless or come with expensive oversight, but it&#x27;s clear that if the government wants more whistleblowing from the ranks of normal engineers (and that&#x27;s a big &#x27;if&#x27;), they probably need to do something more to cause it to happen besides just keep asking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emilecantin</author><text>This is the point of having Professional Engineers and a very strict deontological code; it tips the incentive scale towards doing the right thing.<p>When asked to do something unethical, the P.E. has a choice: they can refuse, in which case they might lose their job; or they can comply, in which case they might lose their license altogether (and thus their job).</text></comment> |
18,708,121 | 18,708,088 | 1 | 2 | 18,706,193 | train | <story><title>Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46604625</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>This needs careful consideration if you ever decide to do it. Depending on the local criminal culture they could exact revenge. Then also know where you live and can do a lot worse things than taking a package. Police might later be involved but it might not be worth it. You are dealing with people who have no qualms stealing so it&#x27;s not too crazy to expect other rash and illegal acts from them.<p>I can also see some intrepid crooks suing for glitter damaging their eyesight permanently or some other bullshit claim. Some attorney or DA might decide to get free publicity and see if they can swing a &quot;injured by booby trap&quot; case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kawfey</author><text>I learned from Nextdoor, that a neighbor of mine put cat litter in an amazon box, and later found out her car&#x27;s driver side window busted in and the litter dumped on the seat. I now just have packages sent to lockers and UPS&#x2F;FedEX access points, and I know a few who have packages delivered to their office.<p>The crappy part is that she captured clear detail of both events but police couldn&#x27;t be bothered. Nest and Ring have been doing their part to fight back, allowing people to publicly post and set up neighborhood watches against porch pirates et al, but there&#x27;s still a ways to go before security camera footage can be sent to the PD and automatically identify the offender via facial analysis.</text></comment> | <story><title>Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46604625</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>This needs careful consideration if you ever decide to do it. Depending on the local criminal culture they could exact revenge. Then also know where you live and can do a lot worse things than taking a package. Police might later be involved but it might not be worth it. You are dealing with people who have no qualms stealing so it&#x27;s not too crazy to expect other rash and illegal acts from them.<p>I can also see some intrepid crooks suing for glitter damaging their eyesight permanently or some other bullshit claim. Some attorney or DA might decide to get free publicity and see if they can swing a &quot;injured by booby trap&quot; case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>move-on-by</author><text>&gt; You are dealing with people who have no qualms stealing, it&#x27;s not too crazy to expect other rash and illegal acts from them.<p>In more then one instance the thief opened the package at their house. So its fair to say he knows where they live too. Also, very clear HD video of their faces and vehicles. And there is no way all the glitter is going to get cleaned up - so more evidence of who they are. And home security cameras with more images of them. Not to say these idiots are smart enough to let things be at this point - but if they do retaliate, there is a very high chance they would be caught.<p>As for your comments about liability. Yeah, that sounds entirely plausible.</text></comment> |
2,927,646 | 2,927,046 | 1 | 2 | 2,926,932 | train | <story><title>Max Levchin to Leave Google As Slide Is Shut Down</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20110825/max-levchin-to-leave-google-as-slide-is-shut-down/?mod=tweet</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dts</author><text>"After being acquired, Slide had operated as an independent unit out of Google’s San Francisco office, maintaining existing apps like SuperPoke Pets and experimenting with new ones such as messaging app Disco and photo-sharing app Photovine, which was released only last week.
The apps, none of which were extremely popular, will be sunsetted over the next few months."<p>If Google is going to "sunset" apps which are being judged as successful after only a couple of weeks, why bother with the bait and switch? Why don't they just tell everybody that they were acquired purely for talent, there wasn't really interest in certain developing products, and that here is your new "just as exciting and fun" project at Google? Seems like a waste of everyone's time, money, and trust to lead people along as if their idea in development actually mattered.</text></comment> | <story><title>Max Levchin to Leave Google As Slide Is Shut Down</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20110825/max-levchin-to-leave-google-as-slide-is-shut-down/?mod=tweet</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PanMan</author><text>Interesting, Google shutting down new services like photovine (just launched last week!) this fast. To me Slide seemed quite sucessfull in trying to get some startup speed back into google.
Suprising move..</text></comment> |
41,126,143 | 41,126,065 | 1 | 3 | 41,125,630 | train | <story><title>How Does OpenAI Survive?</title><url>https://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sweettea</author><text>A well reasoned article that fundamentally downplays both the pace of innovation and the exponential increase in capabilities per dollar happening over time. AI is rapidly accelerating its improvement rate, and I do believe its capabilities will continue growing exponentially.<p>In particular, GPT-2 to GPT-4 spans an increase from &#x27;well read toddler&#x27; to &#x27;average high school student&#x27; in just a few years, while simultaneously the computational cost of training less capable models goes down similarly.<p>Also worth noting: the article claims Stripe, another huge money raiser, had an obviously useful product. gdb, sometime-CTO of stripe and its fourth employee, is now president of OpenAI. And, most of all, the author doesn&#x27;t remember how nonobvious Stripe&#x27;s utility was in its early days, even in the tech scene: there were established ways to take people&#x27;s money and it wasn&#x27;t clear why Stripe had an offering worth switching to.<p>For an alternate take, I think <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;situational-awareness.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;situational-awareness.ai</a> provides a well reasoned argument for the current status of AI innovation and growth rate, and addresses all of the points here on a general (though not OpenAI specific) way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lolinder</author><text>It&#x27;s too early to say for sure if LLM capabilities are on an exponential growth function or a sigmoid, but my money is on sigmoid, and my suspicion is that we&#x27;re plateauing already.<p>GPT-4 was released 16+ months ago. In that time OpenAI made a cheaper model (which it teased extensively and the media was sure was GPT-5) and its competitors caught up but have not yet exceeded them. OpenAI&#x27;s now saying that GPT-5 is in progress, but we don&#x27;t know what it looks like yet and they&#x27;re not making any promises.<p>What I&#x27;m seeing right now suggests that we&#x27;re in the optimization stage of the tech as it is currently architected. I expect it to get cheaper and to be used more widely, but barring another breakthrough on the same order as transformers I don&#x27;t expect it to see the kind of substantial gains in abilities we&#x27;ve hitherto been seeing. If I&#x27;m right, OpenAI will quickly be just one of many dealers in commodity tech.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Does OpenAI Survive?</title><url>https://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sweettea</author><text>A well reasoned article that fundamentally downplays both the pace of innovation and the exponential increase in capabilities per dollar happening over time. AI is rapidly accelerating its improvement rate, and I do believe its capabilities will continue growing exponentially.<p>In particular, GPT-2 to GPT-4 spans an increase from &#x27;well read toddler&#x27; to &#x27;average high school student&#x27; in just a few years, while simultaneously the computational cost of training less capable models goes down similarly.<p>Also worth noting: the article claims Stripe, another huge money raiser, had an obviously useful product. gdb, sometime-CTO of stripe and its fourth employee, is now president of OpenAI. And, most of all, the author doesn&#x27;t remember how nonobvious Stripe&#x27;s utility was in its early days, even in the tech scene: there were established ways to take people&#x27;s money and it wasn&#x27;t clear why Stripe had an offering worth switching to.<p>For an alternate take, I think <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;situational-awareness.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;situational-awareness.ai</a> provides a well reasoned argument for the current status of AI innovation and growth rate, and addresses all of the points here on a general (though not OpenAI specific) way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashconnor</author><text>OpenAI is depending on a *breakthrough* in order to produce a product that will provide a return on investment.<p>This &quot;breakthrough&quot; is often touted as AGI or something similar to it which to me is even more risky than a nuclear fusion startup as:<p>1. Fusion has had some recent breakthroughs that could result in a commercially viable reactor eventually.<p>2. Fusion has a fundamentally sound theoretical basis unlike producing AGI (or something like it).</text></comment> |
34,084,438 | 34,083,271 | 1 | 2 | 34,080,419 | train | <story><title>We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom (2021)</title><url>https://realizeengineering.blog/2021/01/20/we-are-drowning-in-information-while-starving-for-wisdom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>This article is totally ignoring the existence of academic &quot;handbooks&quot;, which is where the wisdom lies.<p>The whole idea is that individual papers are <i>supposed</i> to be exploratory, throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. They&#x27;re <i>supposed</i> to be a deluge of information.<p>But then every decade or so a team of academics take it upon themselves to serve as editors to a handbook, which attempts to survey the field in terms of history, where the most value has been found so far (and what hasn&#x27;t panned out), and current promising directions. Usually something like 20-50 chapters, each contributed by a different author.<p>If you want to get into the wisdom of a field, the first thing you do is pull out the most recent 800-page handbook, read the first few chapters, and then drill down in your area of interest on the remaining part.<p>To say there &quot;are no prizes for wisdom&quot; is absurd, when being selected to publish in a handbook (or being an editor) is prestigious, a mark that you&#x27;ve very much &quot;made it&quot; in the field.<p>And of course there are plenty of other things that serve similar roles, such as literature review papers or similar. (In philosophy you can write a Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article, for instance.)<p>If you aren&#x27;t finding wisdom anywhere, it means you&#x27;re simply not looking right.<p>(And this isn&#x27;t even to mention the fact that at some point somebody will popularize major progress in a field in a general-audience book, e.g. when Daniel Goleman wrote the book &quot;Emotional Intelligence&quot; or Stephen Hawking wrote &quot;A Brief History of Time&quot;.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>earthicus</author><text>I agree with you that academic summary works are probably the best way for a non-researcher to learn what exists, what&#x27;s known (and what isn&#x27;t). Since i&#x27;ve never seen them discussed or referenced on this website, let me also point out the existence of academic encyclopedias, such as the Springer encyclopedia of algoriths[1] (each entry is essentially a slightly more pedagogical review article about a subfield or important problem in CS, along with loads of references to the literature for digging deeper), and the delightful encyclopedia of distances [2](800 pages long!). A couple others i&#x27;ve seen that may be of interest to this audience are the encyclopedia of systems and control[3], and the encyclopedia of unconventional computing[4]<p>Unfortunately some of these are absurdly expensive, so if you don&#x27;t want to go the piracy route the cheapest way to access them is to get a membership to your local public university&#x27;s library system, which in the US typically costs like $100 a year or something.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;referencework&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;978-1-4939-2864-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;referencework&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;978-1-4939-2...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;978-3-662-52844-0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;978-3-662-52844-0</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;referencework&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;978-3-030-44184-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;referencework&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;978-3-030-44...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;referencework&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;978-1-4939-6883-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;referencework&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;978-1-4939-6...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom (2021)</title><url>https://realizeengineering.blog/2021/01/20/we-are-drowning-in-information-while-starving-for-wisdom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>This article is totally ignoring the existence of academic &quot;handbooks&quot;, which is where the wisdom lies.<p>The whole idea is that individual papers are <i>supposed</i> to be exploratory, throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. They&#x27;re <i>supposed</i> to be a deluge of information.<p>But then every decade or so a team of academics take it upon themselves to serve as editors to a handbook, which attempts to survey the field in terms of history, where the most value has been found so far (and what hasn&#x27;t panned out), and current promising directions. Usually something like 20-50 chapters, each contributed by a different author.<p>If you want to get into the wisdom of a field, the first thing you do is pull out the most recent 800-page handbook, read the first few chapters, and then drill down in your area of interest on the remaining part.<p>To say there &quot;are no prizes for wisdom&quot; is absurd, when being selected to publish in a handbook (or being an editor) is prestigious, a mark that you&#x27;ve very much &quot;made it&quot; in the field.<p>And of course there are plenty of other things that serve similar roles, such as literature review papers or similar. (In philosophy you can write a Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article, for instance.)<p>If you aren&#x27;t finding wisdom anywhere, it means you&#x27;re simply not looking right.<p>(And this isn&#x27;t even to mention the fact that at some point somebody will popularize major progress in a field in a general-audience book, e.g. when Daniel Goleman wrote the book &quot;Emotional Intelligence&quot; or Stephen Hawking wrote &quot;A Brief History of Time&quot;.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aiwv</author><text>Not only have I never heard of this kind of &quot;handbook&quot; (in spite of having an advanced degree), it isn&#x27;t clear to me how they actually would be a reliable source of wisdom. It sounds like they are supposed to be a meta-analysis of the current state field, but to take it up a meta-level, who is analyzing the meta-analysis? How do I know the editors didn&#x27;t just select their friends who have similar viewpoints? In the abstract, a handbook seems as likely to send me wildly astray as it is to send me down the right path. Almost by design, I&#x27;d naively expect handbooks to amplify the status quo and discourage more radical ideas (as most institutions are wont to do). This might be good or bad depending on the status quo but either way I&#x27;m likely only going to get out wisdom proportional to what I bring in.</text></comment> |
37,561,058 | 37,560,236 | 1 | 2 | 37,559,005 | train | <story><title>The joys of maintenance programming (2011)</title><url>https://typicalprogrammer.com/the-joys-of-maintenance-programming</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnBooty</author><text>Maintenance programming for pay can be rewarding <i>iffffffffffffffff</i> management has a deep understanding of and appreciation for the task. There can be a lot of joy and satisfaction in adding tests, fixing edge cases, fulfilling user needs, &quot;quality of life&quot; improvements, optimizing. <i>Honing.</i><p>My experience is that this is almost never the case.<p>Generally, management does not understand or appreciate why it&#x27;s a slog, why you might want to refactor this or that, etc.<p>Obviously a lot of this falls upon the engineer. It&#x27;s your job to communicate and demonstrate. Helps if you have other engineers backing you up and presenting a unified message. Also helps if management is technical enough to understand what you&#x27;re saying instead of simply believing -- or <i>not</i> believing -- you.<p>But maaaan. Uphill battle! I&#x27;m burnt out on it. I&#x27;ve decided I need to seek greenfield stuff. Maybe forever. But definitely for now.</text></comment> | <story><title>The joys of maintenance programming (2011)</title><url>https://typicalprogrammer.com/the-joys-of-maintenance-programming</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jebarker</author><text>I&#x27;m currently on a sort of sabbatical from greenfield research projects. I&#x27;m doing maintenance programming on a large widely used open source project. It&#x27;s been really refreshing. I didn&#x27;t realize how much I was feeling the pressures of 15+ years of greenfield research. By contrast the maintenance programming is clearly defined, easier to put down at the end of the day and unambiguously useful. I&#x27;m also rapidly improving in my debugging, code understanding, profiling and optimizing skills which will make me a better programmer when I do return to writing new code.</text></comment> |
27,616,283 | 27,616,288 | 1 | 2 | 27,614,580 | train | <story><title>‘Vegan spider silk’ provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics</title><url>https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/vegan-spider-silk-provides-sustainable-alternative-to-single-use-plastics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pizza234</author><text>Something I don&#x27;t fully understand is why single-use plastics are still in use. Every once in a while, a replacement is advertised, but still not used.<p>The reasons I can think of are:<p>1. cost - this could be an very simple reason;<p>2. conflictual requirement - the supposition that chemical indestructibility is what makes plastic at the same time necessary but problematic.<p>Is there any other factor&#x2F;complexity I&#x27;m missing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Synaesthesia</author><text>The plastics&#x2F;oil industry mislead the public and government about how recyclable plastic is (it&#x27;s not) to prevent legislation from passing which would reduce unnecessary plastics.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;11&#x2F;897692090&#x2F;how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;11&#x2F;897692090&#x2F;how-big-oil-misled-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>‘Vegan spider silk’ provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics</title><url>https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/vegan-spider-silk-provides-sustainable-alternative-to-single-use-plastics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pizza234</author><text>Something I don&#x27;t fully understand is why single-use plastics are still in use. Every once in a while, a replacement is advertised, but still not used.<p>The reasons I can think of are:<p>1. cost - this could be an very simple reason;<p>2. conflictual requirement - the supposition that chemical indestructibility is what makes plastic at the same time necessary but problematic.<p>Is there any other factor&#x2F;complexity I&#x27;m missing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hannob</author><text>A lot of bioplastics turn out not to be so green if you run a full lifecycle analysis.<p>Appart from that: Plastic has this somewhat unique property that nobody is really held responsible for its emissions, even in places where emissions are regulated. E.g. the chemical companies are usually only considered responsible for the emissions of their plants, while the bulk of emissions happens on landfills or in incinerators. Waste-to-Energy-Incinerators on the other hand are in many places even considered &quot;green&quot; energy, because they say we&#x27;re only using waste that&#x27;s already there.</text></comment> |
30,372,654 | 30,372,356 | 1 | 2 | 30,370,852 | train | <story><title>WebGL 2.0 Achieves Pervasive Support from All Major Web Browsers</title><url>https://www.khronos.org/blog/webgl-2-achieves-pervasive-support-from-all-major-web-browsers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skywal_l</author><text>To be clear, this article is triggered by the fact that Safari, the only major browser that did not support WebGL2, has landed support a few months ago.<p>This was the major roadblock for WebGL2 acceptance of developpers looking to support all major browsers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrspeaker</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s actually happening - I was resigned to the fact it was dead.<p>I once (4 years ago, sheesh) made a &quot;Pure-JS, no-build-step-required Minecraft Thing&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mrspeaker&#x2F;webgl2-voxels" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mrspeaker&#x2F;webgl2-voxels</a><p>When I made it I needed to specify it &quot;Requires ES6 modules and WebGL2 support.&quot; At the time I was <i>sure</i> WebGL2 was going to be widely available soon and that ES6 modules would probably never be supported!</text></comment> | <story><title>WebGL 2.0 Achieves Pervasive Support from All Major Web Browsers</title><url>https://www.khronos.org/blog/webgl-2-achieves-pervasive-support-from-all-major-web-browsers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skywal_l</author><text>To be clear, this article is triggered by the fact that Safari, the only major browser that did not support WebGL2, has landed support a few months ago.<p>This was the major roadblock for WebGL2 acceptance of developpers looking to support all major browsers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eole666</author><text>This is excellent news.
For years it was the only major browser with no WebGL 2 support : Chrome and Firefox support WebGl 2 since 2017 ...
Most WebGL libraries have WebGL 1 fallbacks only to make apps run on Safari.</text></comment> |
2,759,522 | 2,758,784 | 1 | 2 | 2,758,443 | train | <story><title>Man counterhacks paypal phisher, deletes data, warns other victims via phone</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/io76r/i_received_a_scam_paypal_verification_email_this/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yaix</author><text>I was a little surprised that the legality of this was questioned, so looked it up. In Roman Law tradition this kind of action would apparently be called "periculum in mora". An example would be that you enter another person's apartment without consent, because you noticed a strong smell of gas on the other side of the door.<p>The OP in the linked article had strong reasons to believe that the people who submitted their credit card data were in imminent danger of large financial damages if he did not stop the fraud quickly.<p>Apparently (and to my surprise), in the US the idea of "periculum in mora" only applies to law enforcement agents (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exigent_circumstance_in_United_States_law" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exigent_circumstance_in_United_...</a>), though. Does that mean you would have to let the apartment explode if the police is too slow to show up and stop the gas leak?</text></comment> | <story><title>Man counterhacks paypal phisher, deletes data, warns other victims via phone</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/io76r/i_received_a_scam_paypal_verification_email_this/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonkester</author><text>I haven't been over to Reddit in a while. Is this really what it's like now?<p>I remember when I left, /r/programming read pretty much like HN does now, with an occasional mean comment or joke thread left alive to get in the way. The linked thread, though, has no actual discussion. It's just a bunch of people making silly jokes. Sad to see it go that way.</text></comment> |
4,189,048 | 4,189,101 | 1 | 2 | 4,188,815 | train | <story><title>Mozilla Gains Global Support For a Firefox Mobile OS</title><url>http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/07/02/firefox-mobile-os/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicpottier</author><text>To me this is one of the most exciting projects coming up. it is still in early, early days, but it seems to pose the most realistic sane alternative to Android and iOS.<p>Android is great in that they are open, but their UI library is really just a mess, anybody who uses it for any amount of time yearns for the days of laying things out using HTML. iOS is much better in this respect but has the problem of limited devices and of being a closed platform.<p>I have no idea how they B2G (Boot2Gecko) will navigate the patent minefield, but I hope they do. I'm picking up another Galaxy Nexus just so I can have a phone dedicated to hacking on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text><i>Android is great in that they are open, but their UI library is really just a mess</i><p>Historically, HTML has hardly been much better in enforcing UI consistency. Mozilla may have some tricks up their sleeve, I don't know.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla Gains Global Support For a Firefox Mobile OS</title><url>http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/07/02/firefox-mobile-os/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicpottier</author><text>To me this is one of the most exciting projects coming up. it is still in early, early days, but it seems to pose the most realistic sane alternative to Android and iOS.<p>Android is great in that they are open, but their UI library is really just a mess, anybody who uses it for any amount of time yearns for the days of laying things out using HTML. iOS is much better in this respect but has the problem of limited devices and of being a closed platform.<p>I have no idea how they B2G (Boot2Gecko) will navigate the patent minefield, but I hope they do. I'm picking up another Galaxy Nexus just so I can have a phone dedicated to hacking on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dochtman</author><text>I find B2G very cool, I just hope the underlying stuff for the hardware (drivers; what's called a device tree in the Android world) is all open source or at the very least easily available so that people can easily do their own words.<p>In other words, I hope Mozilla can strong-arm the hardware partners into actual community-minded open source, rather than whatever the hell Android is doing. (I don't doubt Mozilla here, but their partners.)</text></comment> |
15,978,587 | 15,977,585 | 1 | 3 | 15,976,161 | train | <story><title>How Cuts in Basic Subway Upkeep Can Make NYC Commutes Miserable</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/nyregion/system-failure-new-york-subway-maintenance-misery.html?mabReward=CTM3&recid=0y1C7Vbd7V6qb02UQ5zYHiw4x64&recp=3&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CaptainZapp</author><text><p><pre><code> I live in Europe and to me it seems that its a general American mentality of everybody having a car
</code></pre>
New York is different. Car ownership is extremely low and the subway is a vital part of the city&#x27;s transportation infrastructure.<p>The problem seems more attitude wise. We want great infrastrure while paying low taxes. This contradiction, of course, isn&#x27;t really solvable as can be seen in the generally pretty rotten state of infrastructure in the US.</text></item><item><author>concerned_user</author><text>I live in Europe and to me it seems that its a general American mentality of everybody having a car, dislike of mass transit in any form (except planes) and as a result mass transit is meh and makes people even more miserable.</text></item><item><author>delackner</author><text>While automation sounds elegant, it has nothing to do with the problems or solutions here. The core problem with the NYC subway system is a management culture that does not value long term problem solving, instead preferring quick fixes and short term band aids.<p>Many modern subway systems have similarly huge networks with far higher traffic than NYC but manage to maintain low failure rates and CLEAN tracks simply because they value and prioritize maintenance and quality of service. Some are private, some are public.<p>It truly baffles me why NYC and actually the SF BART both fail so utterly to even attempt to provide quality service.</text></item><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>Other major cities around the world are moving to automated light rail. Singapore and Kula Lumpar both have fully automated trains, London has several of their lines automated with plans on slowly replacing rolling stock to eventually go driver-less on more of its above ground lines.<p>American cities are so far behind. D.C. is probably one of the best metros, but NYC and Chicago, while having quite extensive systems for very large cities, have no budget to expand or move them into the future.<p>For cities that large, these systems have to be maintained. They cannot afford to cut train lines, unless they want to end up with grueling traffic like you have in LA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twobyfour</author><text>Of course, part of the problem is that our subway system is run not by the city but by a state government dominated by car culture types. And heck, even our current mayor gets driven around in a black SUV all day and didn&#x27;t know when questioned last week that less than half of New York households own cars.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Cuts in Basic Subway Upkeep Can Make NYC Commutes Miserable</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/nyregion/system-failure-new-york-subway-maintenance-misery.html?mabReward=CTM3&recid=0y1C7Vbd7V6qb02UQ5zYHiw4x64&recp=3&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CaptainZapp</author><text><p><pre><code> I live in Europe and to me it seems that its a general American mentality of everybody having a car
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New York is different. Car ownership is extremely low and the subway is a vital part of the city&#x27;s transportation infrastructure.<p>The problem seems more attitude wise. We want great infrastrure while paying low taxes. This contradiction, of course, isn&#x27;t really solvable as can be seen in the generally pretty rotten state of infrastructure in the US.</text></item><item><author>concerned_user</author><text>I live in Europe and to me it seems that its a general American mentality of everybody having a car, dislike of mass transit in any form (except planes) and as a result mass transit is meh and makes people even more miserable.</text></item><item><author>delackner</author><text>While automation sounds elegant, it has nothing to do with the problems or solutions here. The core problem with the NYC subway system is a management culture that does not value long term problem solving, instead preferring quick fixes and short term band aids.<p>Many modern subway systems have similarly huge networks with far higher traffic than NYC but manage to maintain low failure rates and CLEAN tracks simply because they value and prioritize maintenance and quality of service. Some are private, some are public.<p>It truly baffles me why NYC and actually the SF BART both fail so utterly to even attempt to provide quality service.</text></item><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>Other major cities around the world are moving to automated light rail. Singapore and Kula Lumpar both have fully automated trains, London has several of their lines automated with plans on slowly replacing rolling stock to eventually go driver-less on more of its above ground lines.<p>American cities are so far behind. D.C. is probably one of the best metros, but NYC and Chicago, while having quite extensive systems for very large cities, have no budget to expand or move them into the future.<p>For cities that large, these systems have to be maintained. They cannot afford to cut train lines, unless they want to end up with grueling traffic like you have in LA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AznHisoka</author><text>New York has one of the highest state tax rates, 2nd to only California. It is absurdly high given the quality of public transportation. They cant have it both ways.</text></comment> |
28,701,334 | 28,700,709 | 1 | 3 | 28,699,637 | train | <story><title>When users never use the features they asked for</title><url>https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/featurestheywanted.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>I once spent a week working on a fairly complex feature for a product that the users were demanding almost daily updates on. I delivered it and, by coincidence, happened to be where the users were a couple of weeks later and I stopped by to say hello and saw that the user who had been asking for the feature every day was still using the product the &quot;old way&quot;. I asked why and he didn&#x27;t seem to follow what I meant, so I reached over and showed him the <i>feature that he had been demanding I add</i> and he said, &quot;oh, wow, that&#x27;s awesome, that&#x27;s going to be such a huge timesaver for us!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olivierlacan</author><text>This is why changelogs and release notes are not optional or tucked away in a dark corner. And users who request features need to be notified (actively, specifically) that something they requested or a bug they hit was resolved or addressed.<p>I know, that&#x27;s a lot of work. But what&#x27;s the point of fixing things if you never tell someone it&#x27;s fixed.</text></comment> | <story><title>When users never use the features they asked for</title><url>https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/featurestheywanted.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>I once spent a week working on a fairly complex feature for a product that the users were demanding almost daily updates on. I delivered it and, by coincidence, happened to be where the users were a couple of weeks later and I stopped by to say hello and saw that the user who had been asking for the feature every day was still using the product the &quot;old way&quot;. I asked why and he didn&#x27;t seem to follow what I meant, so I reached over and showed him the <i>feature that he had been demanding I add</i> and he said, &quot;oh, wow, that&#x27;s awesome, that&#x27;s going to be such a huge timesaver for us!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quickthrower2</author><text>You did the customer success role.</text></comment> |
27,579,445 | 27,577,937 | 1 | 3 | 27,576,120 | train | <story><title>Turn your old, cracked Android phone into a backup server</title><url>https://www.hannahtech.co/post/turn-your-old-cracked-android-phone-into-a-backup-server-urbackup-linux-deploy-tutorial-part-i</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>techrat</author><text>Probably unnecessary at this point.<p>Nearly every phone today is sold with a USB C port.<p>&quot;But this phone is older than...&quot;<p>My Moto Z Play was released in 2016. That phone is now 5 years old. It came with Nougat... and I can mirror the screen with a USB C hub with Built in HDMI. Plug in a mouse and you&#x27;re done.<p>No need to leave adb enabled, which is a security hole that can be exploited by unsafe USB ports and bad actors. (Also, police.)</text></item><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>The lesson of the cracked screen is: always pair you phone for adb as one of the first steps in setting it up, and if possible, root it.<p>You might need it if the screen cracks and you want to save data off it.<p>Sometimes there are ways around it by dirty booting a recovery image, but it&#x27;s not as simple as it sounds, and you&#x27;d need an unlocked bootloader to do so: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;petermolnar.net&#x2F;article&#x2F;save-files-from-a-dead-screen-android&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;petermolnar.net&#x2F;article&#x2F;save-files-from-a-dead-scree...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fulafel</author><text>A lot of phones don&#x27;t have video over the USB C port (eg Google Pixels).</text></comment> | <story><title>Turn your old, cracked Android phone into a backup server</title><url>https://www.hannahtech.co/post/turn-your-old-cracked-android-phone-into-a-backup-server-urbackup-linux-deploy-tutorial-part-i</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>techrat</author><text>Probably unnecessary at this point.<p>Nearly every phone today is sold with a USB C port.<p>&quot;But this phone is older than...&quot;<p>My Moto Z Play was released in 2016. That phone is now 5 years old. It came with Nougat... and I can mirror the screen with a USB C hub with Built in HDMI. Plug in a mouse and you&#x27;re done.<p>No need to leave adb enabled, which is a security hole that can be exploited by unsafe USB ports and bad actors. (Also, police.)</text></item><item><author>pmlnr</author><text>The lesson of the cracked screen is: always pair you phone for adb as one of the first steps in setting it up, and if possible, root it.<p>You might need it if the screen cracks and you want to save data off it.<p>Sometimes there are ways around it by dirty booting a recovery image, but it&#x27;s not as simple as it sounds, and you&#x27;d need an unlocked bootloader to do so: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;petermolnar.net&#x2F;article&#x2F;save-files-from-a-dead-screen-android&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;petermolnar.net&#x2F;article&#x2F;save-files-from-a-dead-scree...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmlnr</author><text>Moto E series doesn&#x27;t have MHL.<p>No, adb is still needed.</text></comment> |
30,051,012 | 30,051,158 | 1 | 3 | 30,050,276 | train | <story><title>Sex Differences in Friendship Preferences</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S109051382100074X</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snarf21</author><text>It is definitely hard to make friends as an adult male. Most of mine at this point are ex-coworkers. I think the one under appreciated place is in a hobby. I design and play board games. There are lots of meaningful ways to build relationships around that. Most other hobbies are the same, however you have to really get into the hobby, not go once a month. Running clubs, photography groups, cooking classes, hiking clubs.... just find something and dive in until you find the right thing for you.<p>Also, When Harry Met Sally was right. Men and women can&#x27;t be friends. <i>Eventually</i> the sex gets in the way. Speaking for my self, men tend to confuse all closeness with romantic intimacy. I&#x27;ve never seen even explicitly sex buddies work either, sooner or later someone gets jealous or serious.</text></item><item><author>d4nt</author><text>I’m a 42 year old male and have found it very hard, my whole life, to establish meaningful friendships with other men.<p>I have many acquaintances, I’m not shy or socially awkward. E.g. When I was running a business I would often go to business networking events alone, start conversations with people, establish a rapport and spend hours chatting, but all those interactions have essentially left me with one good friend.<p>I’ve often found it easier to establish friendships with women, but (being straight) they get complicated. Either I develop feelings, or they do, or there’s a suspicion from someone’s parter about the real nature of our relationship. It’s just too problematic.<p>I think the female “model” of friendships outlined in the abstract just makes more sense to me. “emotional support, intimacy, and useful social information” is what I want from a friendship.<p>I suspect there are other men in this position and that the dominant male “model” of friendship that we have (and which is outlined in this article) is more cultural than biological. But I have no proof. What do you think?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yojo</author><text>I (straight male) have several close friends that are women, some going back two decades. I’ve been happily married for 12 years, they’ve all been in stable relationships, and our partners get along.<p>It is possible that <i>some</i> men or women cannot be just friends with the opposite sex, but I have at least one counterfactual for the universal claim.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sex Differences in Friendship Preferences</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S109051382100074X</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snarf21</author><text>It is definitely hard to make friends as an adult male. Most of mine at this point are ex-coworkers. I think the one under appreciated place is in a hobby. I design and play board games. There are lots of meaningful ways to build relationships around that. Most other hobbies are the same, however you have to really get into the hobby, not go once a month. Running clubs, photography groups, cooking classes, hiking clubs.... just find something and dive in until you find the right thing for you.<p>Also, When Harry Met Sally was right. Men and women can&#x27;t be friends. <i>Eventually</i> the sex gets in the way. Speaking for my self, men tend to confuse all closeness with romantic intimacy. I&#x27;ve never seen even explicitly sex buddies work either, sooner or later someone gets jealous or serious.</text></item><item><author>d4nt</author><text>I’m a 42 year old male and have found it very hard, my whole life, to establish meaningful friendships with other men.<p>I have many acquaintances, I’m not shy or socially awkward. E.g. When I was running a business I would often go to business networking events alone, start conversations with people, establish a rapport and spend hours chatting, but all those interactions have essentially left me with one good friend.<p>I’ve often found it easier to establish friendships with women, but (being straight) they get complicated. Either I develop feelings, or they do, or there’s a suspicion from someone’s parter about the real nature of our relationship. It’s just too problematic.<p>I think the female “model” of friendships outlined in the abstract just makes more sense to me. “emotional support, intimacy, and useful social information” is what I want from a friendship.<p>I suspect there are other men in this position and that the dominant male “model” of friendship that we have (and which is outlined in this article) is more cultural than biological. But I have no proof. What do you think?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdpi</author><text>I’m a straight man, one of my best friends is a straight woman, and we’ve known each other for 20 years. By best friend, I mean we talk almost daily, go to each other for advice and emotional support, and are comfortable discussing <i>very</i> intimate details about our personal lives.<p>The idea of a sexual relationship with her is just gross, though, in the “I’m screwing my sister” sort of way.</text></comment> |
31,796,192 | 31,794,097 | 1 | 3 | 31,793,030 | train | <story><title>Cold Showers</title><url>https://github.com/hwayne/awesome-cold-showers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloogshicer</author><text>&gt; Static Typing reduces bugs.<p>At least to me, the big advantage of static typing is not that it (allegedly) reduces bugs, but that it aids my understanding and helps in navigating the program. It&#x27;s a tool for thinking and communicating.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fifticon</author><text>I&#x27;m not against studies and research - I have a computer science degree myself - but I&#x27;m a little tired of being told my personal anecdotal evidence is not sufficient to conclude that water is wet.
As a professional software developer of 30+ years, the doubts on static types puzzle me.
8 years ago, I started dabbling more in javascript, for one of my continuous pet projects. I had it running and grew it to a considerable size, but after a year or two, I lost patience with debugging runtime issues, hunting for where I had forgot to update or initialize or remove stuff, during refactoring. I swore an oath never to use raw javascript again, and rewrote it from scratch in typescript. I am still working on it to this day, and I don&#x27;t remember being angry at typescript a single day in the intervening 7 years.<p>My working day jobs have been mostly C++, and these days C#.
Periodically, I will temporarily inherit some of my younger colleagues&#x27; projects, if they move on to greener pastures in different companies, with the charter of &quot;can you do something about the long-running issues this software has been having?&quot;
My go-to solution is to go through their typescript and add return types to their functions, and replace their anys with interfaces.
After having done that, I fix the bugs that revealed,
and then I&#x27;m usually done.
Recently when I did that, I came across a central class&#x2F;data structure, which turned out to exist in no less than 5 slightly different variants. i.e. different parts of their code adhered to 5 different assumptions about what fields would exist and be populated (but all expressed on the blank canvas of &#x27;any&#x27;).</text></comment> | <story><title>Cold Showers</title><url>https://github.com/hwayne/awesome-cold-showers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloogshicer</author><text>&gt; Static Typing reduces bugs.<p>At least to me, the big advantage of static typing is not that it (allegedly) reduces bugs, but that it aids my understanding and helps in navigating the program. It&#x27;s a tool for thinking and communicating.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OJFord</author><text>Allegedly? Have you ever written code in a dynamically typed language? I&#x27;m forever fixing TypeErrors and AttributeErrors and the like.<p>I suppose it&#x27;s not even necessary to argue about experience fixing them or not, just the fact that those are runtime errors rather than compile-time (and so we presume not shipped) shows it reduces bugs doesn&#x27;t it?</text></comment> |
10,656,919 | 10,657,011 | 1 | 2 | 10,655,853 | train | <story><title>Leaving the Mac App Store</title><url>http://blog.sketchapp.com/post/134322691555/leaving-the-mac-app-store</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>relaxatorium</author><text>The thing that&#x27;s craziest about the MAS to me is how bad the actual application is.<p>It&#x27;s super slow, constantly hangs, and is just such a bad experience from the consumer side that it undermines the (very real) benefits of having a centralized store of applications you&#x27;ve purchased and installed.<p>It&#x27;d be one thing (and a fairly standard Apple move) if the customer experience was good and they didn&#x27;t care about trampling developers to get it that way, but the actual customer facing software that is the App Store is a shockingly bad piece of software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>to3m</author><text>I dread ever having to run the Mac App Store to get an upgrade. (Luckily, I only have to do it for Xcode and OS X.)<p>It asks for my password literally every 15-20 seconds. Once I tell it to upgrade everything, it selects only one upgrade, and keeps telling me there are upgrades. While the upgrades are going, it keeps asking me for my password.<p>At that point I go off and watch TV. When I come back, it&#x27;s actually downloaded all of the upgrades, and there&#x27;s a message about how there are more. After I&#x27;ve entered my password a few more times, it tells me I&#x27;m up to date.<p>Then it asks me whether I&#x27;d like to upgrade.<p>I guess once their work experience students get bored working on Xcode they put them on this instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Leaving the Mac App Store</title><url>http://blog.sketchapp.com/post/134322691555/leaving-the-mac-app-store</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>relaxatorium</author><text>The thing that&#x27;s craziest about the MAS to me is how bad the actual application is.<p>It&#x27;s super slow, constantly hangs, and is just such a bad experience from the consumer side that it undermines the (very real) benefits of having a centralized store of applications you&#x27;ve purchased and installed.<p>It&#x27;d be one thing (and a fairly standard Apple move) if the customer experience was good and they didn&#x27;t care about trampling developers to get it that way, but the actual customer facing software that is the App Store is a shockingly bad piece of software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makecheck</author><text>It&#x27;s funny, too, that Apple feels there is enough development time to do things like implement completely non-standard UI components but not enough time to fix a growing list of real problems.<p>To this day, I click on things and assume my click just didn&#x27;t &quot;take&quot; because nothing seems to be happening. Sometimes that&#x27;s true, and other times it&#x27;s because the Mac decided to display progress in the least obvious places.<p>Ironically the <i>one thing</i> that doesn&#x27;t update cleanly through the App Store is the OS itself, even though I suspect that was Apple&#x27;s main reason for creating all this. When El Capitán came out, at first I thought it wasn&#x27;t even available because it wasn&#x27;t structured as an &quot;update&quot; to anything (in direct contrast to the way <i>every other upgrade works</i>, including the minor 10.x.x updates!).</text></comment> |
25,860,030 | 25,858,549 | 1 | 3 | 25,852,438 | train | <story><title>The Apgar Score helped decrease the infant mortality rate</title><url>https://massivesci.com/articles/virginia-apgar-score-anesthesiologist-our-science-heroes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bomdo</author><text>Having recently had a child, I learned about APGAR and marveled how the emotional &quot;is my baby ok&quot; was put into a super easy process. The chart from the article can be followed by absolutely anyone and babies can be sent to specialists as needed - or not. As the article mentions, it may not get everything 100% right, but it&#x27;s useful enough - and more importantly easy enough - to save a lot of lives.<p>I can highly recommend anyone to read about the process of medical emergency triage in general. It drastically reduces the knowledge needed to solve complex situations and gives you something to hold on to when things get hot. Seeing these stressful problems reduced to if-else flows was very inspirational for me for designing ways to tackle urgent issues in other areas of life, e.g. tech support, service requests or HR.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monkmartinez</author><text>The ABC&#x27;s are helpful for just about any emergent medical situation. From first responders to paramedics, we are hammered to remember and implement the ABC&#x27;s. You can do a lot with very basic knowledge.<p>Correcting problems with the systems associated with the ABC&#x27;s is more knowledge and experienced based. A good basic first aid and CPR class will get you a lot of that knowledge. From there, staying calm and calling 911 is vital if you are US based.<p>A - Airway &#x2F; B - Breathing &#x2F; C - Circulation</text></comment> | <story><title>The Apgar Score helped decrease the infant mortality rate</title><url>https://massivesci.com/articles/virginia-apgar-score-anesthesiologist-our-science-heroes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bomdo</author><text>Having recently had a child, I learned about APGAR and marveled how the emotional &quot;is my baby ok&quot; was put into a super easy process. The chart from the article can be followed by absolutely anyone and babies can be sent to specialists as needed - or not. As the article mentions, it may not get everything 100% right, but it&#x27;s useful enough - and more importantly easy enough - to save a lot of lives.<p>I can highly recommend anyone to read about the process of medical emergency triage in general. It drastically reduces the knowledge needed to solve complex situations and gives you something to hold on to when things get hot. Seeing these stressful problems reduced to if-else flows was very inspirational for me for designing ways to tackle urgent issues in other areas of life, e.g. tech support, service requests or HR.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marsvin</author><text>It was great to hear him being 8&#x2F;10 and soon up to 9&#x2F;10. So comforting and removing all that unnecessary fear. Days and hours right before that moment were so exhausting that simple number was easy to process.</text></comment> |
10,875,624 | 10,875,319 | 1 | 2 | 10,873,257 | train | <story><title>San Francisco Office Rents Pass Manhattan as Most Expensive in Country</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/san-francisco-office-rents-pass-manhattan-as-most-expensive-in-country/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raldi</author><text>SF has a law (1986&#x27;s Prop M) that restricts the supply of new office space:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;bayarea&#x2F;article&#x2F;S-F-law-blocks-tech-boom-expansion-5652707.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;bayarea&#x2F;article&#x2F;S-F-law-blocks-tech-bo...</a><p>One saving grace of the law is that in years when nobody wants to build, the city &quot;banks&quot; the excess for years when construction is over the limit. But we&#x27;ve just about exhausted those savings, and are now hitting the cap.<p>The developers and the owners of existing office space know that the carryover is about to run dry, and that the cap is going to be in full effect every year for many years to come, and are pricing their long-term leases accordingly. And companies, knowing the same thing, are signing them.<p>Did you hear that the Sierra Club is going to have to leave the San Francisco headquarters they&#x27;ve occupied since the 1800s, because the rent is now too high for them to afford? (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfexaminer.com&#x2F;sierra-club-moving-headquarters-from-sf-to-oakland-due-to-rising-rents&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfexaminer.com&#x2F;sierra-club-moving-headquarters-fr...</a>) The irony is that those rising rents are due in no small part to their acting against their stated mission when it comes to allowing tall buildings in this city. They&#x27;d rather sprawl people out into the suburbs and beyond, where they&#x27;ll bulldoze swaths of nature to build their buildings, and the people living and working there will have much larger carbon footprints.</text></comment> | <story><title>San Francisco Office Rents Pass Manhattan as Most Expensive in Country</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/san-francisco-office-rents-pass-manhattan-as-most-expensive-in-country/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; The chart-topping office rents in San Francisco are also a testament to the city’s geographic constraints, crammed as it is into 47 square miles at the top of a peninsula<p>It&#x27;s more of a testament to the city&#x27;s anti-development attitude. Manhattan has twice the people with half the land area, <i>on an island</i>.</text></comment> |
15,314,775 | 15,314,332 | 1 | 2 | 15,312,755 | train | <story><title>Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/21/container-full-of-cash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bedros</author><text>I don&#x27;t get it, from the video, they say brokers make 3-5 billion a year, yet, they value the company at 800 million?<p>I&#x27;ve never seen a startup valued at this large percentage of market size<p>please correct me if I&#x27;m wrong</text></item><item><author>fireworks10</author><text>Congrats. I remember watching Flexport get pitched to PG and Sam Altman during open &#x27;Office Hours&#x27; at Startup School in 2013.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;syoqjYLDs48?t=19m30s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;syoqjYLDs48?t=19m30s</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwayit</author><text>The value of a company is not equal to it&#x27;s revenue - that doesn&#x27;t make sense. To give an example, let&#x27;s say someone offered to sell you a magic bean which caused $10 to appear magically every year. Would the bean grower sell it to you for $10? Probably not unless they needed cash immediately, since they could make $50 from the bean in 5 years.<p>Instead value of a company is the perpetual value of the cash flows to the buyer. The problem is for startups we have very little idea what their cash flows will be in the future. Their revenues could be anywhere, we have no idea what their costs will be (how many sales people do you need, how much R&amp;D, etc.), etc. So because of that valuation becomes a very imprecise art.<p>Outside of the cash flow approach, another approach for valuing a company is to consider future buyers. Suppose you have a magic bean that returns 50 cents each year in perpetuity. However, the magic bean is called MagicBeanAI and since AI is hot you know you can sell that bean for $50 to someone else. In this case you would be willing to buy it for &lt;$50 regardless of MagicBeanAI&#x27;s cash flows. This is what happens when markets start to behave irrationally. Eventually people realize they don&#x27;t have any more suckers to sell to and their MagicBeanAIs value goes to almost nothing. This is essentially a market crashl; google &quot;tulip mania&quot; for more examples.</text></comment> | <story><title>Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/21/container-full-of-cash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bedros</author><text>I don&#x27;t get it, from the video, they say brokers make 3-5 billion a year, yet, they value the company at 800 million?<p>I&#x27;ve never seen a startup valued at this large percentage of market size<p>please correct me if I&#x27;m wrong</text></item><item><author>fireworks10</author><text>Congrats. I remember watching Flexport get pitched to PG and Sam Altman during open &#x27;Office Hours&#x27; at Startup School in 2013.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;syoqjYLDs48?t=19m30s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;syoqjYLDs48?t=19m30s</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gricardo99</author><text>He also says he sees the broker business as a foot-in-the-door for a much bigger, broader logistics business.
If you go to flexport, it certainly seems they&#x27;re pushing more a global logistics solution.
I&#x27;m guessing the valuation is based on more than just the broker business.</text></comment> |
6,660,641 | 6,660,471 | 1 | 3 | 6,660,162 | train | <story><title>OpenPGP Best Practices</title><url>https://we.riseup.net/riseuplabs+paow/openpgp-best-practices</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>malandrew</author><text>So one thing I don&#x27;t get about PGP keys: If they are such a great solution, why isn&#x27;t PGP built into Linux as a core service? I&#x27;m not talking about simply having it available as one of the standard packages. Instead I&#x27;m talking about making it standard in tons of normal interactions. For example, the setup process for any new machine should require the creation of a PGP key specific to that machine. By adding this step, ever other application or service on the machine can go ahead and assume the existence of a private&#x2F;public keypair specific to that machine. This opens up the opportunity for people to create applications that use public key exchange with the outside world as a given and therefore a reasonable default before passwords.<p>I would love it if the .ssh folder was also protected by default so that I would know if any application every accessed it, I would be notified. I know they are supposed to have permission 600 and normally won&#x27;t be trusted if they don&#x27;t. Because of this, I&#x27;ve always thought it odd that they aren&#x27;t created with the correct permissions by default, instead of requiring you to explicitly change it. I&#x27;ve also always thought it odd the .ssh folder and files just as the .netrc file are not encrypted secure files by default that always require a password to access or at least require a password to access at least once every 5 minutes or so (like is sometimes required when running another sudo command past a certain threshold.<p>If one of the Linux distros never take the lead here, it would be sweet if OS X were one of the first ones to lead the way on legitimizing public&#x2F;private key generation and exchange by making it much easier, but still secure.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenPGP Best Practices</title><url>https://we.riseup.net/riseuplabs+paow/openpgp-best-practices</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pankkake</author><text>And submit your key to Phuctor: <a href="http://nosuchlabs.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nosuchlabs.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
4,790,034 | 4,790,021 | 1 | 2 | 4,789,747 | train | <story><title>Engineers suck at finding the right jobs</title><url>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/11/14/engineers-suck-at-finding-right-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ricardobeat</author><text>The issue of seniority always bugs me. If a 26 year old guy who writes "good enough" code can be a Senior, which I see very often, what's left?<p>Personally I wouldn't feel right with a title including "senior" until I've got at least 10y experience, generated millions in revenue and lead a team of &#62;10. And I'd still prefer not having a title. Unless the only way to increase a salary is by taking the title, which seems to be the problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vampirechicken</author><text>Titles were more about pay bands then skill.<p>I know several hundred Vice Presidents at JP Morgan Chase.<p>And really, if your business card tells me that you're a Programmer/Analyst 3, then you're either doing something wrong, or you're a robot, and you probably work between Programmer/Analysts 2 and 4.</text></comment> | <story><title>Engineers suck at finding the right jobs</title><url>http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2012/11/14/engineers-suck-at-finding-right-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ricardobeat</author><text>The issue of seniority always bugs me. If a 26 year old guy who writes "good enough" code can be a Senior, which I see very often, what's left?<p>Personally I wouldn't feel right with a title including "senior" until I've got at least 10y experience, generated millions in revenue and lead a team of &#62;10. And I'd still prefer not having a title. Unless the only way to increase a salary is by taking the title, which seems to be the problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hippich</author><text>On the other hand how I can differentiate myself without using "senior" from others developers of my age, who took this job as a result of additional course during their college time and who as result produce quite ad-hoc code without any interest in technology and what lies below job they do?<p>That's the only reason I am using senior in title. Because I do not agree that all 20-something devs bring same value to the team.</text></comment> |
32,569,620 | 32,569,107 | 1 | 3 | 32,568,138 | train | <story><title>The gathering crisis in the UK</title><url>https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/08/the-gathering-crisis.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reggieband</author><text>I am reminded of the story of the fat cat that I recently read in a Brothers Grimm collection. In case it is not familiar to you:<p>A cat and a mouse decide to team up and store up some surplus food for hard times. They agree during abundant times to both put a little extra fat into a shared pot. They then store the pot in a safe place. The cat, however, is overcome by hunger even in the abundant times. Every few weeks the cat sneaks to the pot and takes just a little bit, maybe just a few licks at a time. Over the course of a couple of years of sneaking and small stealing the cat manages to completely deplete the pot. Then hard times hit, as both expected. The cat and the mouse both go to the pot together to divide their savings. But when they lift the lid they both gasp in surprise that the pot is empty. The mouse slowly realizes what must have happened. The cat is guilty but won&#x27;t stand being accused and so it turns on the mouse and eats it.<p>My whole life I had heard of the rich upper-classes described as &quot;fat cats&quot; but I didn&#x27;t really understand the message until I read the story. From at least 2008 we were supposed to be saving for the next crisis. Yet here we are at the next crisis and low and behold the pot is empty.<p>The reason we fall for this over and over again is that the short-term memory of civilization is shorter than the cycles these things happen over.</text></comment> | <story><title>The gathering crisis in the UK</title><url>https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/08/the-gathering-crisis.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klelatti</author><text>I think Brexit has allowed a sort of nihilism to creep into U.K. politics. If you can live with a policy that has such a demonstrable adverse effect on the economy and so many other things then why worry about the impact of other policies.<p>The standard approach for the government now seems to be to look for short term wins in the tabloids and ignore the long term.<p>And this is on top of the huge distraction that Brexit has been.</text></comment> |
5,965,840 | 5,965,600 | 1 | 3 | 5,965,220 | train | <story><title>Secret Documents: NSA monitored 500 million connections in Germany</title><url>http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fnetzwelt%2Fnetzpolitik%2Fnsa-ueberwacht-500-millionen-verbindungen-in-deutschland-a-908517.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>This would be a good opportunity for Germany&#x2F;EU to give Snowden asylum, if only to show US that they screwed up so much, it&#x27;s EU itself, their ally, who will give him asylum.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tobiasu</author><text>You are operating under the assumption that our politicians didn&#x27;t know about this before. There&#x27;s a really really low chance this is true.<p>It&#x27;s much more plausible that everyone has been spying on everyone else and countries with restrictions regarding spying on their own citizens have backroom deals to get access to intelligence via other nations.<p>To give an example how tight the relations are between the US and Germany, start reading how our secret service came to be: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehlen_Organization" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gehlen_Organization</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Secret Documents: NSA monitored 500 million connections in Germany</title><url>http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fnetzwelt%2Fnetzpolitik%2Fnsa-ueberwacht-500-millionen-verbindungen-in-deutschland-a-908517.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>This would be a good opportunity for Germany&#x2F;EU to give Snowden asylum, if only to show US that they screwed up so much, it&#x27;s EU itself, their ally, who will give him asylum.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phxql</author><text>As a german citizen, i would love to see this!</text></comment> |
25,399,627 | 25,398,459 | 1 | 2 | 25,370,822 | train | <story><title>Lenovo seeks to render Nokia's H.264 patents unenforceable</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/lenovo_seeks_to_render_nokias/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dzdt</author><text>The public interest is that interoperability standards should not require patented technology <i>at all</i> to implement. The point of an interoperability standard is to allow a broad ecosystem with many producers and many consumers. Here many producers of videos, many producers of video-processing and video-displaying technology, many consumers of these videos and associated technology. The public interest is that the ecosystem should be vibrant, with easy access to new participants and low barriers to entry.<p>So, in the public interest, go Lenovo! Especially considering the slime-ball tactics that Nokia apparently used here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>These standards aren’t just “plug C is 0.25 inches wide.” They are intimately tied to the compression technology itself. Developing new standards involves developing new compression technology, building and testing reference implementations, iterating, etc. All that costs money to develop. <i>That will get paid for one way or the other.</i> What way that happens affects the public interest analysis.<p>Look what happened with web standards. Developing and testing new web standards requires building reference implementations in browsers. Browsers are expensive to develop, so the standards are controlled by a handful of companies like Google and Apple. But the standards are free to implement. Is that better for the public? Maybe, but the public interest analysis is more complex than “free to implement.”<p>There is no such thing as “free.” R&amp;D will be monetized somehow—the question is how. Different monetization approaches have different and non-obvious impacts on the public interest. Consider for example the shift away from paying for software to giving it away “free.” You used to pay Symbian $5-10 bucks per phone for an OS. Android you can get for free. But Symbian didn’t build an advertising platform into the core of each phone. Monetization matters.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lenovo seeks to render Nokia's H.264 patents unenforceable</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/lenovo_seeks_to_render_nokias/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dzdt</author><text>The public interest is that interoperability standards should not require patented technology <i>at all</i> to implement. The point of an interoperability standard is to allow a broad ecosystem with many producers and many consumers. Here many producers of videos, many producers of video-processing and video-displaying technology, many consumers of these videos and associated technology. The public interest is that the ecosystem should be vibrant, with easy access to new participants and low barriers to entry.<p>So, in the public interest, go Lenovo! Especially considering the slime-ball tactics that Nokia apparently used here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>room500</author><text>AV1 is an open codec that I hope will be the industry standard soon. It already has the support of the ecosystem (apple, google, qualcomm, netflix, etc). Unfortunately, it just takes a while to build that momentum<p>So there is light at the end of the tunnel</text></comment> |
7,086,181 | 7,086,172 | 1 | 2 | 7,085,662 | train | <story><title> What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend?</title><url>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/what-happens-when-the-poor-receive-a-stipend/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jusben1369</author><text>This is really interesting stuff. I know they touched upon it but these studies, if they really want to change things, need to do a much better job of showing an &quot;ROI&quot;. Too often these studies seem goaled around showing that poverty has a negative impact and assume the logical next step is so we&#x27;ll address that. However, many people don&#x27;t have an issue with others being in poverty; particularly if they believe they&#x27;re being asked to have to take anything out of their pocket to solve that problem.<p>Generalizing; those that are against wealth redistribution aren&#x27;t going to be convinced otherwise based on the decrease in mental illness amongst the poor or higher grades in school. The numbers around the cost of someone spending a year or more incarcerated is well known. The cost of a transfer is well known. <i>IF</i> you can show &quot;You really want to ensure that a family of 4 has this much coming into the household to ensure it doesn&#x27;t cost <i>you</i> much more later&quot; then you could go a long way to bringing new supporters into the fray.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_delirium</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure that is really the best group to target though. The people who are simply against any redistribution, full stop, even if it works, are a minority in most countries and probably not necessary to a political coalition to do something about poverty.<p>A pretty large group, however, are people who think that poverty-fighting schemes would be good in principle, but they are skeptical whether such schemes work in practice. A common criticism is that what seems like a good idea ends up backfiring, is abused, produces dependency, etc. Many economists are in that group, of people who would support a poverty-reduction scheme if they thought it worked and didn&#x27;t cause larger problems. I see that as the class of objections that these studies are looking to corroborate or refute.</text></comment> | <story><title> What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend?</title><url>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/what-happens-when-the-poor-receive-a-stipend/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jusben1369</author><text>This is really interesting stuff. I know they touched upon it but these studies, if they really want to change things, need to do a much better job of showing an &quot;ROI&quot;. Too often these studies seem goaled around showing that poverty has a negative impact and assume the logical next step is so we&#x27;ll address that. However, many people don&#x27;t have an issue with others being in poverty; particularly if they believe they&#x27;re being asked to have to take anything out of their pocket to solve that problem.<p>Generalizing; those that are against wealth redistribution aren&#x27;t going to be convinced otherwise based on the decrease in mental illness amongst the poor or higher grades in school. The numbers around the cost of someone spending a year or more incarcerated is well known. The cost of a transfer is well known. <i>IF</i> you can show &quot;You really want to ensure that a family of 4 has this much coming into the household to ensure it doesn&#x27;t cost <i>you</i> much more later&quot; then you could go a long way to bringing new supporters into the fray.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chc</author><text>No. Most staunch opponents of wealth redistribution oppose it on principle, not practical terms. You can tell them in very concrete terms that their tax dollars will benefit them more than it would hurt them and their reply will be, &quot;Well, then you should let me distribute my money that way instead of taking it and doing it yourself.&quot;</text></comment> |
17,752,658 | 17,752,629 | 1 | 2 | 17,751,599 | train | <story><title>Original Source code for the Furby [pdf]</title><url>http://www.seanriddle.com/furbysource.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>js2</author><text>Furby was recently discussed in the middle third of this Radiolab episode:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wnycstudios.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;more-or-less-human" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wnycstudios.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;more-or-less-human</a><p>If you turn a Furby upside down, it will start saying that it&#x27;s scared after a bit. So they do an experiment where they ask kids to hold a barbie doll, a Furby, and a hamster upside down to see how long the kid will hold the item upside down before the kid becomes uncomfortable and turns it right side up.<p>The show goes on to interview the guy who designed Furby (Caleb Chung). He defends the Furby as being alive. He then talks about a dinosaur toy he designed (Pleo) that a review site posted a video of the reviewers beating up the dinosaur till it stops functioning[0]. That left him very uncomfortable. He&#x27;s now working on designing an animatronic baby doll and is cognizant about how to design it so that it discourages (or at least won&#x27;t encourage) any type of sociopathic behavior.<p>This part starts 20 minutes in and is 20 minutes long. The first third of the episode is about the Turing test. The last third of the episode talks about using VR to allow someone to put themselves in another person&#x27;s body.<p>I enjoyed the whole episode. Radiolab doesn&#x27;t publish transcripts, so you&#x27;ll need to make an hour to listen.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pQUCd4SbgM0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pQUCd4SbgM0</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>albertgoeswoof</author><text>&gt; you&#x27;ll need to make an hour to listen.<p>Listen on 2x speed and it only takes 30 minutes :)<p>If you can&#x27;t handle 2x, start with 1.25x and slowly ramp up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Original Source code for the Furby [pdf]</title><url>http://www.seanriddle.com/furbysource.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>js2</author><text>Furby was recently discussed in the middle third of this Radiolab episode:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wnycstudios.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;more-or-less-human" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wnycstudios.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;more-or-less-human</a><p>If you turn a Furby upside down, it will start saying that it&#x27;s scared after a bit. So they do an experiment where they ask kids to hold a barbie doll, a Furby, and a hamster upside down to see how long the kid will hold the item upside down before the kid becomes uncomfortable and turns it right side up.<p>The show goes on to interview the guy who designed Furby (Caleb Chung). He defends the Furby as being alive. He then talks about a dinosaur toy he designed (Pleo) that a review site posted a video of the reviewers beating up the dinosaur till it stops functioning[0]. That left him very uncomfortable. He&#x27;s now working on designing an animatronic baby doll and is cognizant about how to design it so that it discourages (or at least won&#x27;t encourage) any type of sociopathic behavior.<p>This part starts 20 minutes in and is 20 minutes long. The first third of the episode is about the Turing test. The last third of the episode talks about using VR to allow someone to put themselves in another person&#x27;s body.<p>I enjoyed the whole episode. Radiolab doesn&#x27;t publish transcripts, so you&#x27;ll need to make an hour to listen.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pQUCd4SbgM0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pQUCd4SbgM0</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshmarlow</author><text>Here&#x27;s a negative path that I <i>hope</i> doesn&#x27;t occur - we build toys that are more lifelike, communicative and designed to invoke empathy, and some children will just become desensitized to empathy triggers.<p>I wonder if there&#x27;s any research to prove&#x2F;disprove something like that? Is empathy desensitization a thing?</text></comment> |
22,119,791 | 22,119,859 | 1 | 2 | 22,116,914 | train | <story><title>Pledge() and Unveil() in SerenityOS</title><url>https://awesomekling.github.io/pledge-and-unveil-in-SerenityOS/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>icandoit</author><text>I really enjoy the craftsmanship in project like the SerenityOs operating system, the Zig programming language, and similar projects in the HandMade network (games and debuggers).<p>I hope this is only the beginning of a renaissance in quality independent software.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pledge() and Unveil() in SerenityOS</title><url>https://awesomekling.github.io/pledge-and-unveil-in-SerenityOS/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway8879</author><text>The SerenityOS author makes fairly regular videos related to the OS, bug fixes, and other dev and life things. It&#x27;s cool and inspiring to see a highly productive hacker do their thing on stream, kind of like watching Steve Gadd do a drum solo.</text></comment> |
25,650,687 | 25,650,262 | 1 | 2 | 25,644,709 | train | <story><title>The Now Habit</title><url>https://www.2uo.de/the-now-habit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eitland</author><text>One of my favorite books.<p>Particularly the example with a person who should walk on a beam between two skyskrapers.<p>IIRC it goes like this:<p>- A beam lies ok the ground. Everyone can dare to walk on it.<p>- Now the beam gets lifted up between two skyscrapers.<p>- Now almost no sane person would walk across it.<p>- If it starts burning in the building, at some point one will cross, if necessary by sitting and sliding yourself across: embarrassing but better than the alternative.<p>- If however there was a reliable safety net right underneath the beam a good number of us would enjoy crossing between even if there was no fire.<p>I think this example speaks volumes about how to get oneself and others to get past certain fears by making sure there are known, reliable safety nets.<p>FWIW: I found out a while ago that the example with the beam (or rather a plank) probably comes from Coué. (There&#x27;s a reference here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;radical-spirits&#x2F;the-man-who-helped-the-beatles-admit-its-getting-better-3ddcf1afbbb3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;radical-spirits&#x2F;the-man-who-helped-the-...</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Now Habit</title><url>https://www.2uo.de/the-now-habit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codemac</author><text>The Now Habit really helped me let go of procrastination being my fault, and just seeing it as a systemic side effect of my approach. Brilliant book, on the order of GTD or the Effective Executive in terms of how true everything has held up over the years. Recommend reading it for anyone, any single tip from the book is likely to be worth your time.<p>However, the best for addressing procrastination for me was a coach. They really worked through things with me to give names to the bad habits I&#x27;d developed, and the tools to recognize emotions as they occurred. It reminds me a lot of the &quot;noting&quot; practice in meditation.<p>For example:<p>&quot;foldering&quot; - once, I decided that I needed to make folders and put all the documents I needed to create &amp; review in various states (e.g. incubation, pre-review writing, published for review, reviewed, complete, etc). This is not effective, as what I needed to know was &quot;what should I work on today&quot; or &quot;how aligned are my projects with the business&quot;. Instead I was making sure all my documents and folders were right. Now whenever I do this over-organization-as-avoidance, the word &quot;foldering&quot; occurs to me before I even notice I&#x27;m doing it.<p>One of the hardest things is that the best coaches come through recommendations from others. If you don&#x27;t have a social or professional network where people have worked with coaches, it can become very hard to find a good one. Many friends according to their instagrams are &quot;coaches&quot; now who have never been near a stadium.</text></comment> |
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