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24,877,517 | 24,877,477 | 1 | 2 | 24,872,661 | train | <story><title>Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away</title><url>https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/thread/62843644?hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>01100011</author><text>&gt; I honestly don&#x27;t know why Google&#x27;s Product Team has any positive reputation at this point.<p>They have a positive reputation?<p>I&#x27;ve been a loyal Googler for about 20 years. Nexus, Pixel, Chromecasts, GMail, Fi, Android TV, Google Domains...<p>I&#x27;m about done. It seems like every month they do something to make it more apparent that they&#x27;re just an advertising company. Products fail to get maintained, they get upgrades that make them less useful, or they&#x27;re outright cancelled.<p>I&#x27;m planning on de-Googling a bit soon. I may stick with Android, although iPhones or FOSS options are tempting. I feel like I can&#x27;t stomach supporting Google when they continue to make misstep after misstep.</text></item><item><author>s3r3nity</author><text>&gt;The migration was super botched by the product team because of this.<p>I honestly don&#x27;t know why Google&#x27;s Product Team has any positive reputation at this point.<p>I can count on one hand the number of positive launches from that company that didn&#x27;t involve buying another company or product.<p>It&#x27;s almost as if they&#x27;re so good at playing politics and &quot;the game&quot; that people can&#x27;t see the actual track record is shit.</text></item><item><author>ElijahLynn</author><text>And FWIW, the migration doesn&#x27;t work. The &quot;thumbs up&quot; playlist goes into YT Music &quot;Liked music&quot; which includes all sorts of other YouTube &quot;music-ish&quot; videos that we have liked over the years and the order is all jacked up, plus mixed with all that other stuff.<p>So your &quot;Liked Music&quot; is now, not what you intended. The migration was super botched by the product team because of this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josteink</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve been a loyal Googler for about 20 years. Nexus, Pixel, Chromecasts, GMail, Fi, Android TV, Google Domains...<p>It was the same for me. But when Google seriously started botching the Nexus line and I bought three almost unusable products in a row (Nexus 9, Nexus Player, Nexus 5X), I was fed up and left.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away</title><url>https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/thread/62843644?hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>01100011</author><text>&gt; I honestly don&#x27;t know why Google&#x27;s Product Team has any positive reputation at this point.<p>They have a positive reputation?<p>I&#x27;ve been a loyal Googler for about 20 years. Nexus, Pixel, Chromecasts, GMail, Fi, Android TV, Google Domains...<p>I&#x27;m about done. It seems like every month they do something to make it more apparent that they&#x27;re just an advertising company. Products fail to get maintained, they get upgrades that make them less useful, or they&#x27;re outright cancelled.<p>I&#x27;m planning on de-Googling a bit soon. I may stick with Android, although iPhones or FOSS options are tempting. I feel like I can&#x27;t stomach supporting Google when they continue to make misstep after misstep.</text></item><item><author>s3r3nity</author><text>&gt;The migration was super botched by the product team because of this.<p>I honestly don&#x27;t know why Google&#x27;s Product Team has any positive reputation at this point.<p>I can count on one hand the number of positive launches from that company that didn&#x27;t involve buying another company or product.<p>It&#x27;s almost as if they&#x27;re so good at playing politics and &quot;the game&quot; that people can&#x27;t see the actual track record is shit.</text></item><item><author>ElijahLynn</author><text>And FWIW, the migration doesn&#x27;t work. The &quot;thumbs up&quot; playlist goes into YT Music &quot;Liked music&quot; which includes all sorts of other YouTube &quot;music-ish&quot; videos that we have liked over the years and the order is all jacked up, plus mixed with all that other stuff.<p>So your &quot;Liked Music&quot; is now, not what you intended. The migration was super botched by the product team because of this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pkulak</author><text>I&#x27;m the same way, except that photos is still amazing.</text></comment> |
22,743,764 | 22,743,597 | 1 | 2 | 22,741,887 | train | <story><title>Amazon struggles to find its coronavirus footing</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-struggles-to-find-its-coronavirus-footing-its-a-time-of-great-stress-11585664987</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crispyporkbites</author><text>That would not be very efficient though, instead of a chilled single truck carrying a days worth of deliveries targeting one geographic area you’d have 20 times as many uber drivers turning up at random times. All of whom have to be paid, not to mention the burning of fuel.<p>I don’t think uber have the right setup for this and even if they did I can’t see how they have a competitive edge.</text></item><item><author>somethoughts</author><text>I&#x27;m curious if Lyft and Uber will attempt to work with national grocery store chains to handle delivery. Most grocery stores have some sort of pick-up at store. It seems like Lyft&#x2F;Uber could be used to then convert that pick-up at store into grocery delivery if they were integrated into the grocery stores checkout process.<p>That way Lyft and Uber wouldn&#x27;t have to necessarily create their own storefronts like Instacart has and the grocery chains would be less worried about being commoditized since the grocery chains would control the customer relationship.<p>I would definitely like to use multiple grocery delivery services so as to keep multiple grocery stores in business to avoid having Amazon&#x2F;Whole Foods be a single point of failure, but the grocery chains&#x27; delivery is backlogged.<p>It seems counter intuitive for Lyft and Uber to not be finding ways to keep their drivers. Otherwise they will end up working for Amazon doing Whole Foods delivery. In fact, IIRC Lyft was actively encouraging them to go work for Amazon&#x2F;WF [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;3&#x2F;27&#x2F;21197699&#x2F;lyft-amazon-coronavirus-ridership-decline-job-referral-warehouse-grocery-delivery" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;3&#x2F;27&#x2F;21197699&#x2F;lyft-amazon-coro...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dan_quixote</author><text>We don&#x27;t need efficiency right now, we need resiliency. Stock is inconsistent and smaller suppliers&#x2F;grocers are at serious risk. I don&#x27;t care if necessities cost a little more or take a little longer to show up. I do care that my family stays fed and healthy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon struggles to find its coronavirus footing</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-struggles-to-find-its-coronavirus-footing-its-a-time-of-great-stress-11585664987</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crispyporkbites</author><text>That would not be very efficient though, instead of a chilled single truck carrying a days worth of deliveries targeting one geographic area you’d have 20 times as many uber drivers turning up at random times. All of whom have to be paid, not to mention the burning of fuel.<p>I don’t think uber have the right setup for this and even if they did I can’t see how they have a competitive edge.</text></item><item><author>somethoughts</author><text>I&#x27;m curious if Lyft and Uber will attempt to work with national grocery store chains to handle delivery. Most grocery stores have some sort of pick-up at store. It seems like Lyft&#x2F;Uber could be used to then convert that pick-up at store into grocery delivery if they were integrated into the grocery stores checkout process.<p>That way Lyft and Uber wouldn&#x27;t have to necessarily create their own storefronts like Instacart has and the grocery chains would be less worried about being commoditized since the grocery chains would control the customer relationship.<p>I would definitely like to use multiple grocery delivery services so as to keep multiple grocery stores in business to avoid having Amazon&#x2F;Whole Foods be a single point of failure, but the grocery chains&#x27; delivery is backlogged.<p>It seems counter intuitive for Lyft and Uber to not be finding ways to keep their drivers. Otherwise they will end up working for Amazon doing Whole Foods delivery. In fact, IIRC Lyft was actively encouraging them to go work for Amazon&#x2F;WF [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;3&#x2F;27&#x2F;21197699&#x2F;lyft-amazon-coronavirus-ridership-decline-job-referral-warehouse-grocery-delivery" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;3&#x2F;27&#x2F;21197699&#x2F;lyft-amazon-coro...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>somethoughts</author><text>As far as I know Instacart shoppers are using personal cars for their deliveries. I don&#x27;t believe they require refrigerated trucks.<p>Agreed Uber&#x2F;Lyft might not be setup for groceries just yet but it seems like it&#x27;d be pretty easy to provide Kroger and Safeway with an API hook to schedule an Uber&#x2F;Lyft driver for pick-up and delivery (versus setting up a store front and sync&#x27;ing up all the inventory with Kroger and Safeway like Instacart did&#x2F;does).</text></comment> |
2,190,492 | 2,190,124 | 1 | 2 | 2,189,907 | train | <story><title>"You've angered the hive"</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-to-security-firm-working-with-fbi-youve-angered-the-hive.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smbwrs</author><text>What interests me most about Anonymous is the fact that it's actually two groups: the small group of technically-competent individuals, and the LOIC script-kiddie griefer minions who can be dispatched at will. The griefers get the media attention and do it "for the lulz", while the folks with actual skills penetrate systems and expose private information. If I had to guess, I'd say that HBGary got a little information on a bunch of the griefers, and near nothing on the people who can do real damage.<p>If I were a hacker, Anonymous - that is, the 4chan script-kiddie bunch - would make for incredible front line. They generate an unbelievable amount of noise, and a very particular kind of hacker-ish noise, which I'd imagine is fantastic for redirecting attention and covering tracks as necessary. The recent FBI raids, for example. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110128/tc_afp/britainarrestwikileaksinternetanonymous" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110128/tc_afp/britainarrestwik...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>"You've angered the hive"</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-to-security-firm-working-with-fbi-youve-angered-the-hive.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JonnieCache</author><text><i>"So why can't you sell this information to the FBI like you intended? Because we're going to give it to them for free."</i><p>As ill advised as messing with the FBI may be, this is a masterstroke. Hats off.</text></comment> |
9,021,012 | 9,020,878 | 1 | 3 | 9,020,592 | train | <story><title>Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009)</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aHURVoSUqpho</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tormeh</author><text>&gt;“When the banks did well, their employees were paid well. When the banks did poorly, their employees were paid well,” Cuomo’s office said in the 22-page report. “When the banks did very poorly, they were bailed out by taxpayers and their employees were still paid well. Bonuses and overall compensation did not vary significantly as profits diminished.”<p>Waaat. I think the government should stop bailing out businesses. Either you let the company go bankrupt or you nationalize.<p>Also I clearly need a job in banking...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quaffapint</author><text>I work in banking as just another cog. We suffered wage stagnation and no bonuses. The executives on the other hand still got at least a 10% bonus each year, because they had contracts. So, please keep that in mind when it says &#x27;employees&#x27;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009)</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aHURVoSUqpho</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tormeh</author><text>&gt;“When the banks did well, their employees were paid well. When the banks did poorly, their employees were paid well,” Cuomo’s office said in the 22-page report. “When the banks did very poorly, they were bailed out by taxpayers and their employees were still paid well. Bonuses and overall compensation did not vary significantly as profits diminished.”<p>Waaat. I think the government should stop bailing out businesses. Either you let the company go bankrupt or you nationalize.<p>Also I clearly need a job in banking...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomp</author><text>I don&#x27;t mean to detract from your point, but you have to keep in mind the fact that those were loans, and the government actually made money on those loans (AFAIK). Also, if the damage to the economy would be greater than the taxpayer loss of the bail-outs, they still make sense, as long as they are accompanied by legislation that makes hem less likely in the future (which, sadly, hasn&#x27;t happened yet).<p>&gt; Also I clearly need a job in banking...<p>If you want to become a good cook, get a cooking job. If you want to earn good money, get a money (banking) job :)</text></comment> |
21,187,608 | 21,187,377 | 1 | 3 | 21,186,916 | train | <story><title>South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China”</title><url>https://twitter.com/SouthPark/status/1181273539799736320</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sorenn111</author><text>I&#x27;m amazed at how South Park after 23 seasons can make me laugh out loud repeatedly while combining classic south parkisms with hilarious satire of current events.<p>I&#x27;m a big south park fan and these 2 episodes so far have been on point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I&#x27;m not saying they don&#x27;t have a political leaning, but they often focus their energy and 22 minutes on showing just how wildly absurd a situation is. For me, that&#x27;s a big ingredient in why they&#x27;ve stayed so entertaining.</text></comment> | <story><title>South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China”</title><url>https://twitter.com/SouthPark/status/1181273539799736320</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sorenn111</author><text>I&#x27;m amazed at how South Park after 23 seasons can make me laugh out loud repeatedly while combining classic south parkisms with hilarious satire of current events.<p>I&#x27;m a big south park fan and these 2 episodes so far have been on point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hsavit1</author><text>Trey and Matt manage to stay relevant in ways that other shows can&#x27;t. I appreciate their work.</text></comment> |
16,067,260 | 16,059,093 | 1 | 2 | 16,055,037 | train | <story><title>Apple acquires Buddybuild</title><url>https://www.buddybuild.com/blog/buddybuild-is-now-part-of-apple</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjeaff</author><text>In my opinion the new logic is build in React Native (unless your app fits in the 10% of use cases that won&#x27;t work well with RN), then deploy to both at once. We have had excellent results.</text></item><item><author>sebleon</author><text>The logic still applies.<p>1. Start with platform you&#x27;re most comfortable with.
2. Iterate on product until you have a winning formula
3. Replicate on 2nd platform to double revenues<p>Building is a lot easier than identifying what to build, better to speedily experiment on one platform.</text></item><item><author>Pharaoh2</author><text>This may have been historically true, but our internal data shows us that starting early 2017, people in tier 1 countries were equally likely to pay and have comparable LTV on both platforms.<p>And if you also going to launch in EU&#x2F;Australia&#x2F;Canada, you will have a nearly 50-50 split of ios and android users on a platform neutral app.<p>So the classical logic of implementing on iOS first doesn&#x27;t really apply anymore. Now its more, implement first on the platform you are comfortable with but don&#x27;t forget about the other platform because there is a equal amount of money to be made there...<p>PS: Data excludes low end iOS and android devices. (&lt; SE, old iPads&#x2F;iPods, old and cheap android devices). These devices have extremely low conversion on both platforms anyway.</text></item><item><author>sidlls</author><text>If I were to seriously attempt to commercialize the toy apps I build for my kids&#x2F;family I&#x27;d go iOS first easily. People with Apple devices are far likelier to pay, and Android development is, in my view, an inferior experience (although Kotlin makes it marginally less so these days).</text></item><item><author>mullingitover</author><text>And just like that, by dropping Android support, Buddybuild goes from viable solution to total non-starter. Does any serious mobile app development these days really go all-in on one platform?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sebleon</author><text>My take is that RN is great for demo apps or simple UIs, but I would not choose it for a production app where performance matters (ie. using camera, audio, custom controls, platform-specific SDKs, multi-threading, etc). You&#x27;re definitely going to do heavy lifting in native code, and a hybrid app quickly becomes a mess. Dealing with multiple environments and super slow build times in Xcode will seriously slow down development cycles.<p>IMO RN is no exception to the Simple vs Easy trade-off [1] Not to mention using RN gives FB a legal blank check from your company [2]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrisfrost.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;SimpleVsEasy-478x512.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrisfrost.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;SimpleVsEasy-478x51...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@raulk&#x2F;if-youre-a-startup-you-should-not-use-react-reflecting-on-the-bsd-patents-license-b049d4a67dd2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@raulk&#x2F;if-youre-a-startup-you-should-not-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Apple acquires Buddybuild</title><url>https://www.buddybuild.com/blog/buddybuild-is-now-part-of-apple</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjeaff</author><text>In my opinion the new logic is build in React Native (unless your app fits in the 10% of use cases that won&#x27;t work well with RN), then deploy to both at once. We have had excellent results.</text></item><item><author>sebleon</author><text>The logic still applies.<p>1. Start with platform you&#x27;re most comfortable with.
2. Iterate on product until you have a winning formula
3. Replicate on 2nd platform to double revenues<p>Building is a lot easier than identifying what to build, better to speedily experiment on one platform.</text></item><item><author>Pharaoh2</author><text>This may have been historically true, but our internal data shows us that starting early 2017, people in tier 1 countries were equally likely to pay and have comparable LTV on both platforms.<p>And if you also going to launch in EU&#x2F;Australia&#x2F;Canada, you will have a nearly 50-50 split of ios and android users on a platform neutral app.<p>So the classical logic of implementing on iOS first doesn&#x27;t really apply anymore. Now its more, implement first on the platform you are comfortable with but don&#x27;t forget about the other platform because there is a equal amount of money to be made there...<p>PS: Data excludes low end iOS and android devices. (&lt; SE, old iPads&#x2F;iPods, old and cheap android devices). These devices have extremely low conversion on both platforms anyway.</text></item><item><author>sidlls</author><text>If I were to seriously attempt to commercialize the toy apps I build for my kids&#x2F;family I&#x27;d go iOS first easily. People with Apple devices are far likelier to pay, and Android development is, in my view, an inferior experience (although Kotlin makes it marginally less so these days).</text></item><item><author>mullingitover</author><text>And just like that, by dropping Android support, Buddybuild goes from viable solution to total non-starter. Does any serious mobile app development these days really go all-in on one platform?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ewjordan</author><text>React Native is great for apps, and if it&#x27;s a game, just use Unity. They&#x27;re building up their internal CI infrastructure and it works better every month.<p>Tbh, I&#x27;m not sure how many use cases don&#x27;t fit either React Native or Unity, I&#x27;d practically never choose to do an app another way these days.</text></comment> |
12,394,930 | 12,394,836 | 1 | 2 | 12,394,303 | train | <story><title>Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials Warn</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/30/491969011/u-n-health-officials-warn-gonorrhea-is-becoming-untreatable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>memracom</author><text>Here is a place to start
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.discovermagazine.com&#x2F;d-brief&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;29&#x2F;the-race-to-reverse-antibiotic-resistance&#x2F;#.V8YW15MrLOQ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.discovermagazine.com&#x2F;d-brief&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;29&#x2F;the-rac...</a><p>And given that you can use sugar to help heal wounds <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drwhitaker.com&#x2F;sugar-on-wounds-for-healing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drwhitaker.com&#x2F;sugar-on-wounds-for-healing&#x2F;</a>
what if you inject a sugar syrup into the bladder every time after you pee. Might work. Research is needed.</text></item><item><author>Mz</author><text>Antibiotic resistance in biofilms can be reversed. It isn&#x27;t sexy. It isn&#x27;t dramatic enough for the news. People don&#x27;t like focusing on it. But we already have research into how to do that.<p>If you are genuinely worried, you can look up such info.</text></item><item><author>coldtea</author><text>So, basically, nothing to worry, technology will save us in the end.<p>And it might -- long term.<p>Only, as things are now, between an antibiotic stopping working and finding a replacement, there could be tens of millions of deaths...<p>Aside from wishful thinking there&#x27;s nothing that guarantees that we&#x27;ll find the next cure as soon as an old one becomes obsolete.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>And then there are these stories : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medicalnewstoday.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;287745.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medicalnewstoday.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;287745.php</a> talking about how there are all sorts of Antibiotics we don&#x27;t even know about (yet). Or drugs that also kill bacteria (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016-02-major-breakthrough-antibiotic-resistance.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016-02-major-breakthrough-antibiotic-r...</a>) or even this (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2015&#x2F;nov&#x2F;20&#x2F;antibiotics-apocalypse-research-resistance-threat-breakthrough" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2015&#x2F;nov&#x2F;20&#x2F;antibi...</a>)<p>Basically as we get to understand exactly how cells work and how bacteria do what they do, and how they change. We won&#x27;t need to scrounge around in the dirt to find something, hopefully, that will kill bacteria. We&#x27;ll engineer what ever we need to kill what ever cells we want to kill.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dogma1138</author><text>Sugar doesn&#x27;t &quot;heal wounds&quot; like salt it creates an environment that prevents bacteria from surviving if the concentration is high enough.
Honey, Sugar, Salt all have been used on wounds but this can also go pretty damn wrong easily.<p>You however do not want to inject sugar or anything like that into the bladder.<p>P.S.<p>As a general rule of thumb you should probably avoid using &quot;home remedies&quot; from imadoctor.com sites.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials Warn</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/30/491969011/u-n-health-officials-warn-gonorrhea-is-becoming-untreatable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>memracom</author><text>Here is a place to start
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.discovermagazine.com&#x2F;d-brief&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;29&#x2F;the-race-to-reverse-antibiotic-resistance&#x2F;#.V8YW15MrLOQ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.discovermagazine.com&#x2F;d-brief&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;29&#x2F;the-rac...</a><p>And given that you can use sugar to help heal wounds <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drwhitaker.com&#x2F;sugar-on-wounds-for-healing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drwhitaker.com&#x2F;sugar-on-wounds-for-healing&#x2F;</a>
what if you inject a sugar syrup into the bladder every time after you pee. Might work. Research is needed.</text></item><item><author>Mz</author><text>Antibiotic resistance in biofilms can be reversed. It isn&#x27;t sexy. It isn&#x27;t dramatic enough for the news. People don&#x27;t like focusing on it. But we already have research into how to do that.<p>If you are genuinely worried, you can look up such info.</text></item><item><author>coldtea</author><text>So, basically, nothing to worry, technology will save us in the end.<p>And it might -- long term.<p>Only, as things are now, between an antibiotic stopping working and finding a replacement, there could be tens of millions of deaths...<p>Aside from wishful thinking there&#x27;s nothing that guarantees that we&#x27;ll find the next cure as soon as an old one becomes obsolete.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>And then there are these stories : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medicalnewstoday.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;287745.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medicalnewstoday.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;287745.php</a> talking about how there are all sorts of Antibiotics we don&#x27;t even know about (yet). Or drugs that also kill bacteria (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016-02-major-breakthrough-antibiotic-resistance.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016-02-major-breakthrough-antibiotic-r...</a>) or even this (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2015&#x2F;nov&#x2F;20&#x2F;antibiotics-apocalypse-research-resistance-threat-breakthrough" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2015&#x2F;nov&#x2F;20&#x2F;antibi...</a>)<p>Basically as we get to understand exactly how cells work and how bacteria do what they do, and how they change. We won&#x27;t need to scrounge around in the dirt to find something, hopefully, that will kill bacteria. We&#x27;ll engineer what ever we need to kill what ever cells we want to kill.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mz</author><text>Um, not a fan of your sugar syrup in the bladder idea.<p>Stuff I have read indicates that antibiotic resisatant infections basically terraform the body, like an alligator making swamps in the American South. One of the things they typically do is making the body more acid. So, if you can reverse the acidity, the biofilm starts breaking up and the infection becomes treatable again.</text></comment> |
20,691,918 | 20,690,013 | 1 | 2 | 20,685,950 | train | <story><title>Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt</title><url>https://engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2019/three-kinds-of-good-tech-debt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheLastPass</author><text>One important difference between tech debt and financial debt, is that if the project you accrued a bunch of tech debt in gets killed for unrelated reasons before it&#x27;s completed, your debt is forgiven. You never pay it off, and you never have to.<p>When you&#x27;re validating an idea, don&#x27;t worry about making everything perfect. Worry about validating the idea. Once you&#x27;re more confident that you&#x27;re actually gonna do it long-term, then it starts being more beneficial to pay off the tech debt.</text></item><item><author>davnicwil</author><text>The article links tech debt to financial debt early on, and this is exactly what the analogy is - it is best to be as literal as possible about it.<p>What is good debt? It&#x27;s taking money from someone, promising to pay them back more money in the future, and using the original money to make <i>even more money than that</i>, so both you and the lender profit.<p>Good tech debt is just the same. It&#x27;s taking shortcuts now to save time and get something shipped, knowing that it will cost you more time than you&#x27;re saving now to fix it later. But by shipping now, you ensure there is a later, with a product that&#x27;s out there and being used, a bigger team and therefore adequate time and then some to fix the debt <i>and</i> keep improving the product. Everyone wins.<p>That&#x27;s the theory anyway. I think mostly where it goes awry in the wild is people forgetting the paying it off part. Part of this deal is you have to pay back your lender - they have to win too. It&#x27;s just easily forgotten because <i>you&#x27;re</i> the lender, so the incentives get a bit conflicted, and you&#x27;ll keep giving yourself more time. But if the lender ultimitely doesn&#x27;t get paid back and loses, you lose, and it&#x27;s a bad debt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cactus2093</author><text>I think what you&#x27;re saying is the more common use of &quot;tech debt&quot;, basically just using it as a synonym for &quot;bad code&quot;. Don&#x27;t worry about code quality, figure it out later.<p>It ignores the stronger debt analogy -- sure, there is a high chance that the idea fails. But if it succeeds and, all else being equal, you have taken on a less tech debt to get there, you will be able to iterate on and grow it more efficiently. So to the extent you&#x27;re taking on debt, it should be an explicit trade-off to increase your chances of proving out the idea. Which is not the same as &quot;don&#x27;t worry about bad code at all.&quot;<p>From what I&#x27;ve seen, when it comes to talking about tech debt from an early prototype, it&#x27;s often an excuse&#x2F;euphamism to be considerate to the people that wrote it. The truth is often that it&#x27;s just bad code due to them being inexperienced or lacking the skill or discipline to write better code. Which I don&#x27;t mean as an insult, it seems like there&#x27;s a strong inverse correlation between the kind of person who&#x27;s passionate enough about product over tech, and is creative&#x2F;naive enough to build and validate a brand new product, and the kind of person who understands enough to architect a great system and make the best tech debt trade-offs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt</title><url>https://engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2019/three-kinds-of-good-tech-debt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheLastPass</author><text>One important difference between tech debt and financial debt, is that if the project you accrued a bunch of tech debt in gets killed for unrelated reasons before it&#x27;s completed, your debt is forgiven. You never pay it off, and you never have to.<p>When you&#x27;re validating an idea, don&#x27;t worry about making everything perfect. Worry about validating the idea. Once you&#x27;re more confident that you&#x27;re actually gonna do it long-term, then it starts being more beneficial to pay off the tech debt.</text></item><item><author>davnicwil</author><text>The article links tech debt to financial debt early on, and this is exactly what the analogy is - it is best to be as literal as possible about it.<p>What is good debt? It&#x27;s taking money from someone, promising to pay them back more money in the future, and using the original money to make <i>even more money than that</i>, so both you and the lender profit.<p>Good tech debt is just the same. It&#x27;s taking shortcuts now to save time and get something shipped, knowing that it will cost you more time than you&#x27;re saving now to fix it later. But by shipping now, you ensure there is a later, with a product that&#x27;s out there and being used, a bigger team and therefore adequate time and then some to fix the debt <i>and</i> keep improving the product. Everyone wins.<p>That&#x27;s the theory anyway. I think mostly where it goes awry in the wild is people forgetting the paying it off part. Part of this deal is you have to pay back your lender - they have to win too. It&#x27;s just easily forgotten because <i>you&#x27;re</i> the lender, so the incentives get a bit conflicted, and you&#x27;ll keep giving yourself more time. But if the lender ultimitely doesn&#x27;t get paid back and loses, you lose, and it&#x27;s a bad debt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caymanjim</author><text>&gt; One important difference between tech debt and financial debt, is that if the project you accrued a bunch of tech debt in gets killed for unrelated reasons before it&#x27;s completed, your debt is forgiven. You never pay it off, and you never have to.<p>This happens with financial debt as well. It&#x27;s the risk that drives interest rates. Financial debt is abandoned (or restructured) when people or companies file for bankruptcy, when homes are foreclosed on, etc. Sure, it might ding your personal credit history in some cases, but financial debt is constantly abandoned at little or no cost to the borrower.</text></comment> |
37,026,338 | 37,025,504 | 1 | 2 | 37,021,481 | train | <story><title>This code smells of desperation</title><url>https://www.os2museum.com/wp/this-code-smells-of-desperation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Izkata</author><text>&gt; But the code in WIN87EM.DLL looks very much like the result of changes made in desperation until it worked somehow, even though the changes made little or no sense.<p>This is how the characters in <i>Coding Machines</i> realized something was up, assembly instructions involving carry bits that made no sense, that they later realized was how an AI writes code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teamten.com&#x2F;lawrence&#x2F;writings&#x2F;coding-machines&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teamten.com&#x2F;lawrence&#x2F;writings&#x2F;coding-machines&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; It took us the rest of the afternoon to pick through the convoluted jump targets and decode four consecutive instructions. That snippet, it turns out, was finding the sign of an integer. Anyone else would have done a simple comparison and a jump to set the output register to -1, 0, or 1, but the four instructions were a mess of instructions that all either set the carry bit as a side-effect, or used it in an unorthodox way.</text></comment> | <story><title>This code smells of desperation</title><url>https://www.os2museum.com/wp/this-code-smells-of-desperation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>layer8</author><text>This sounds like the kind of thing where Raymond Chen would write up a historically completely sensible rationale for why that code is the way it is.</text></comment> |
26,167,629 | 26,164,439 | 1 | 2 | 26,162,115 | train | <story><title>Command Line Shell for SQLite</title><url>https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pampa</author><text>For everybody using sqlite cli from a terminal window, check out litecli [1]. It has some nice features like syntax color, better completion and query editing etc. It is part of the dbcli [2] family of database terminal clients. There are cli for mysql, postgres, redis and other databases.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;litecli.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;litecli.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dbcli.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dbcli.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leonim</author><text>My favorite terminal based client to explore SQLite databases and many other data formats is the TUI VisiData[1].<p>It has a spreadsheet-like interface and makes it very easy to explore a SQLite database in the terminal<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.visidata.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.visidata.org&#x2F;</a><p>[2] tutorial: VisiData in 60 Seconds(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsvine.github.io&#x2F;intro-to-visidata&#x2F;the-big-picture&#x2F;visidata-in-60-seconds&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsvine.github.io&#x2F;intro-to-visidata&#x2F;the-big-picture&#x2F;v...</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Command Line Shell for SQLite</title><url>https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pampa</author><text>For everybody using sqlite cli from a terminal window, check out litecli [1]. It has some nice features like syntax color, better completion and query editing etc. It is part of the dbcli [2] family of database terminal clients. There are cli for mysql, postgres, redis and other databases.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;litecli.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;litecli.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dbcli.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dbcli.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JNRowe</author><text>I&#x27;ve been really enjoying the litecli experience. Having been a ptpython¹ user I already knew about prompt_toolkit², but somehow had missed litecli.<p>This comment is just a general recommendation for Python users to have a poke around the GitHub organisation³, as the packages are awesome.<p>¹ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;ptpython&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;ptpython&#x2F;</a><p>² <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;prompt-toolkit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;prompt-toolkit&#x2F;</a><p>³ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;prompt-toolkit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;prompt-toolkit</a></text></comment> |
33,761,107 | 33,760,920 | 1 | 2 | 33,760,607 | train | <story><title>No cure for loneliness</title><url>https://compactmag.com/article/no-cure-for-loneliness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reillyse</author><text>So, while every country in the world has issues with social isolation and loneliness I think the US seems to have a particularly large problem with it. I have no evidence to back this up but it seems to me that family structures in the US are less solid than they are in other countries. And for the people who say &quot;I&#x27;m from X immigrant community and we have very strong familial bonds&quot;, imagine how much stronger they would be had you not come to the US, and will the next generations bonds be as strong or stronger than your generations bonds?<p>There is a self-reliance in the US which when it works seems to work ok (although even &quot;successful&quot; people can be very lonely), but when it breaks down very quickly leaves people with no where to turn. People often travel long distances from their families. Often relocating across the country again for work breaking whatever bonds they formed in University. People see their families once or twice a year (because the distances are so great). People prioritize economic needs over family and societal needs and this weakening of familial and societal bonds is the result. Often you end up living far from your family with a spouse and kids. If that doesn&#x27;t work out - say you break up - you can find yourself alone very fast.<p>I feel that the homeless problem in the US is a symptom of this - although it also has many other causes. In societies with much stronger societal bonds, people don&#x27;t let people live on the streets.<p>I don&#x27;t have a solution for it, it&#x27;s just something I&#x27;ve noticed and think about a lot when I listen to stories like this one. And don&#x27;t get me wrong. Every country has problems like this. It&#x27;s very easy to get isolated in large crowds of people, I just think the US has a pronounced case of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>No cure for loneliness</title><url>https://compactmag.com/article/no-cure-for-loneliness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>I&#x27;ve gotten into watching a few travel vloggers. One of the best IMHO is Eva Zu Beck. She&#x27;s not without some minor controversy, but who really isn&#x27;t? What I enjoy about her channel is her contemplations on the beauty of the world and the difference between loneliness and solitude.<p>It was a recent video where she said something to the effect of &quot;solitude is something you choose, loneliness is something inflicted on you by others.&quot;<p>I thought this was rather profound and changed my perspective on what loneliness was in terms of giving power over yourself to others. You can&#x27;t cure loneliness because you have to fix the world first. What you can do is to refuse to give that power to others.<p>If you find yourself alone, it&#x27;s okay. You still have your power. If you stay calm you can find peace in solitude.</text></comment> |
36,728,881 | 36,726,100 | 1 | 2 | 36,725,105 | train | <story><title>COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros</title><url>https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-skies-of-a-colorado-july-2023/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ugh123</author><text>One thing i&#x27;ve seen desktop Linux struggle with, or rather the kernel or some other subsystem&#x2F;drivers, is mouse and trackpad handling.<p>On OSX (and possibly Windows although its been a long time), its soooooo silky smooth. But on multiple Linux distros i&#x27;ve used, including Pop and Ubuntu, it just doesn&#x27;t feel right even after adjusting all sorts of settings.<p>This is one thing thats kept me from full time Linux DE usage :(<p>Edit: i&#x27;m using an Apple trackpad.</text></comment> | <story><title>COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros</title><url>https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-skies-of-a-colorado-july-2023/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WD-42</author><text>This is the first time in recent memory that a company&#x27;s software has made me want to buy their hardware. They are doing such cool stuff with Pop_OS, figure my next laptop will be from System76.</text></comment> |
34,756,974 | 34,756,970 | 1 | 2 | 34,755,970 | train | <story><title>Silurian Hypothesis</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonh</author><text>It’s true that only very few individuals would be fossilised and fewer if they found. Nevertheless we do generally find multiple fossils of the same or closely related species. We also find fossils of multiple stages in the evolution of many species. So it seems unlikely to me that we would find zero fossils of a species advanced enough to colonise the entire planet, as we have, nor any of their ancestral species.<p>It also seems likely that technological artefacts would leave fossil-like impressions, or for mineral objects like ceramics simply straight up survive in strata. Such artefacts would massively exceed the number of individuals and trash has a tendency to get widely distributed so it seems extremely unlikely none would be found.<p>One idea is that they might have only lived in a small geographic region such as an island, and if that location happened to subduct and not reach the surface we’d never find them. Well yes, but the major advantage of technology is that it allows you to overcome geographic and climatic barriers, which is why us hairless tropical plains apes have colonised every region on the planet, and did so everywhere except Antarctica but including the arctic with Stone Age technology. An industrial society would also create demand for resources, prompting global expansion.<p>So it’s an interesting thought experiment, but I just don’t see how the hypothesis is really viable. Not impossible perhaps, but extremely low likelihood to the point of implausibility IMHO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drewrv</author><text>I do agree that a society capable of nuclear power or space travel can be considered implausible. A similar thought experiment might be, &quot;how technological could a prior species have become before we&#x27;d notice?&quot;<p>Animals today, from dolphins to chimps, can be found using tools. Is there any reason to believe this didn&#x27;t happen in the age of the dinosaurs? Then you can expand beyond simple sticks and stones to other primitive technologies. Maybe we weren&#x27;t the first to figure out fire, or agriculture, or animal husbandry.<p>Or maybe any brain capable of fire + agriculture + animal husbandry will eventually be so successful that nuclear power and space travel are inevitable.<p>I&#x27;m not arguing in favor of any of this: it&#x27;s just fun to think about.</text></comment> | <story><title>Silurian Hypothesis</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonh</author><text>It’s true that only very few individuals would be fossilised and fewer if they found. Nevertheless we do generally find multiple fossils of the same or closely related species. We also find fossils of multiple stages in the evolution of many species. So it seems unlikely to me that we would find zero fossils of a species advanced enough to colonise the entire planet, as we have, nor any of their ancestral species.<p>It also seems likely that technological artefacts would leave fossil-like impressions, or for mineral objects like ceramics simply straight up survive in strata. Such artefacts would massively exceed the number of individuals and trash has a tendency to get widely distributed so it seems extremely unlikely none would be found.<p>One idea is that they might have only lived in a small geographic region such as an island, and if that location happened to subduct and not reach the surface we’d never find them. Well yes, but the major advantage of technology is that it allows you to overcome geographic and climatic barriers, which is why us hairless tropical plains apes have colonised every region on the planet, and did so everywhere except Antarctica but including the arctic with Stone Age technology. An industrial society would also create demand for resources, prompting global expansion.<p>So it’s an interesting thought experiment, but I just don’t see how the hypothesis is really viable. Not impossible perhaps, but extremely low likelihood to the point of implausibility IMHO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeDaDude</author><text>In my will, I&#x27;m going to ask that I be buried in soft mud in a river delta, or some similar place likely to become sedimentary rock in the far future. But I also want to be buried with some relic that proves I was a member of a technically literate civilization. I surmise something like a wooden abacus. The wooden abacus would fossilize along with my remains. I hope my fossil, and the fossilized object I carry, will be found in the far future.</text></comment> |
32,662,313 | 32,662,238 | 1 | 2 | 32,661,638 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-abuse-policies-and-approach/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammyhavoc</author><text>If this is in response to Kiwi Farms, I would say this is very disappointing.<p>Love CloudFlare, think they are amazingly innovative, huge amount of respect for the people who work there.<p>I see where they&#x27;re coming from, but I don&#x27;t see how KF is defensible whilst 8chan et al aren&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>It&#x27;s a really tricky situation.<p>On the one hand, websites like KF and the like are utterly reprehensible. On the other hand, Cloudflare taking it upon themselves to police the Internet is a nightmare in its own, given their bot-prevention services are effectively mandatory in order to even keep any sort of larger interactive website running.<p>What is permitted to say is something for the courts, not for the whims of private businesses, to decide.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-abuse-policies-and-approach/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammyhavoc</author><text>If this is in response to Kiwi Farms, I would say this is very disappointing.<p>Love CloudFlare, think they are amazingly innovative, huge amount of respect for the people who work there.<p>I see where they&#x27;re coming from, but I don&#x27;t see how KF is defensible whilst 8chan et al aren&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>judge2020</author><text>They&#x27;re effectively saying they were wrong then:<p>&gt; To be clear, just because we did it in a limited set of cases before doesn’t mean we were right when we did. Or that we will ever do it again.</text></comment> |
24,421,103 | 24,420,128 | 1 | 3 | 24,419,441 | train | <story><title>Kubernetes YAML Generator</title><url>https://k8syaml.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tn890</author><text>I wonder what the need for tools such as this or other &quot;Kubernetes-by-example&quot; type pages tell us about the complexity of configuring Kubernetes resources.<p>Do we need a better layer of abstraction, i.e. better adoption and tighter integration for something like kustomize? Have we fucked up completely with Kubernetes due to it being outrageously complicated for simple tasks? How we redesign this to be simpler? Is the complexity even a problem for the target audience?<p>I&#x27;ve no idea. I just know I&#x27;m a kubernetes admin and I can&#x27;t write a deployment yaml without googling or copy&#x2F;pasting.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kubernetes YAML Generator</title><url>https://k8syaml.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>1ba9115454</author><text>We&#x27;re using Pulumi <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pulumi.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pulumi.com&#x2F;</a> to do our K8 configuration.<p>We can use TypeScript interfaces (which give us nice ide code completion) to define our yaml.<p>we can then create functions where we would normally duplicate Yaml. Really nice. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pulumi.com&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pulumi.com&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
9,553,958 | 9,553,633 | 1 | 2 | 9,553,203 | train | <story><title>Atom's autocomplete just got better</title><url>http://blog.atom.io/2015/05/15/new-autocomplete.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mildbow</author><text>I gave atom a shot ~6months back (ooh pretty), but gave up due to just how slow it was. I just downloaded it and it&#x27;s still much slower than sublime text3.<p>SublimeText3 works great, so why are people willing to jump that ship onto this? Surely paying ~$70 is ok, laudable even, for a daily tool (notwithstanding the fact that it&#x27;s supporting a indie dev).<p>Do people use this for day-to-day coding or is this like installing linux back in the day?<p>Maybe my coding style (bunch of microservices projects open in multiple windows at the same time with multiple tabs) just doesn&#x27;t work with atom yet?</text></comment> | <story><title>Atom's autocomplete just got better</title><url>http://blog.atom.io/2015/05/15/new-autocomplete.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joefitzgerald</author><text>A huge thanks to the Atom team (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;benogle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;benogle</a> in particular) for embracing a community package and bringing it back into the core of Atom.<p>This is the killer feature of Atom in my mind: the community around it, and the rate with which contributions can be made and then absorbed into the core.</text></comment> |
25,195,550 | 25,195,491 | 1 | 2 | 25,194,988 | train | <story><title>TCP Performance problems related to Nagle’s Algorithm and Delayed ACK (2005)</title><url>http://www.stuartcheshire.org/papers/NagleDelayedAck/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>I hadn&#x27;t seen that paper before. So someone at Apple documented this in 2005, and it still didn&#x27;t get fixed. Sigh.</text></comment> | <story><title>TCP Performance problems related to Nagle’s Algorithm and Delayed ACK (2005)</title><url>http://www.stuartcheshire.org/papers/NagleDelayedAck/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chenglou</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25133127" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25133127</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24785405" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24785405</a><p>Nagle himself: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9048947" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9048947</a></text></comment> |
20,983,620 | 20,983,826 | 1 | 2 | 20,983,186 | train | <story><title>Banks are getting back into the business of building mortgage bonds</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/banks-warm-to-mortgage-bonds-that-burned-them-in-2008-11568626202?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lefstathiou</author><text>Have any two financial crises happened for the same reasons ?<p>I’m in my early 30s and can recall the following in the US. All for different reasons which would lead me to believe that government regulation post crisis can be effective at avoiding the same crisis from repeating (while arguably could cause a new one):<p>- mortgage crisis 07
- dot com 00
- savings and loans late 80s
- oil crisis late 70s</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gpetrium</author><text>The answer is yes and I always point to the Financial Crisis of 33 AD in Rome which was mainly caused by a mass issuance of unsecured loans by the Roman banking house.[1]<p>Some of the major reasons why financial recessions happen are: abnormal leveraging, liquidity mismatches, wars, taxes, subsidies, governance.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;qe-in-the-financial-crisis-of-33-ad-2013-10?r=US&amp;IR=T&amp;IR=T" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;qe-in-the-financial-crisis-o...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Banks are getting back into the business of building mortgage bonds</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/banks-warm-to-mortgage-bonds-that-burned-them-in-2008-11568626202?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lefstathiou</author><text>Have any two financial crises happened for the same reasons ?<p>I’m in my early 30s and can recall the following in the US. All for different reasons which would lead me to believe that government regulation post crisis can be effective at avoiding the same crisis from repeating (while arguably could cause a new one):<p>- mortgage crisis 07
- dot com 00
- savings and loans late 80s
- oil crisis late 70s</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SkyMarshal</author><text><i>&gt;Have any two financial crises happened for the same reasons?</i><p>This book by two economists seeks to answer that question:<p><i>This Time It’s Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reinhartandrogoff.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reinhartandrogoff.com&#x2F;</a><p>Hint: yes.</text></comment> |
23,645,056 | 23,645,217 | 1 | 3 | 23,644,253 | train | <story><title>Olympus quits camera business after 84 years</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53165293</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akersten</author><text>Sad to see them go - photography&#x27;s such a great hobby and having competition in the space is healthy. There&#x27;s a few brands out there still, but there is a noticable stigma in the professional community around equipment that isn&#x27;t Canon. If you&#x27;re not using L-glass, it feels like you get the same kind of judgement that Android users experience when they show up with green texts in iMessage.<p>As a matter of principle, I&#x27;ve been buying exclusively Nikon for almost my entire time in the hobby. I always saw Canon as a large conglomerate who tacked on photography as another arm of their company, where to me Nikon feels more focused on optics as a primary business line. Honestly, I should almost start buying more Pentax gear.<p>I worry we&#x27;re slowly approaching a monoculture in photography, but it&#x27;s hard to convince folks outside of the hobby to care.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ISL</author><text>To me, the big monoculture risk is Sony&#x27;s image-sensor fab. As I understand it, Sony, Fuji, Nikon and many others all rely upon the output of one company&#x27;s manufacturing process.<p>There&#x27;s a good reason for it -- they appear to make the very best sensors (edit: in terms of dynamic range and noise) in the commercial-camera market. Canon makes their own sensors, which are good in absolute but not relative terms, which appears to hold them back in performance. I don&#x27;t know if it is patent-related or process-related.<p>While I use Canon imaging systems, I don&#x27;t see the choice to use other brands as better or worse. Each manufacturer&#x27;s line has strengths and weaknesses; you pick the best tool for the job. Essentially every camera and optical system on the market, in absolute terms, is a wonderful instrument for imaging.<p>This reality is intensely freeing -- it means you can focus more on the image and less on the instrumentation. &quot;f&#x2F;8 and be there&quot; is still wonderful advice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Olympus quits camera business after 84 years</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53165293</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akersten</author><text>Sad to see them go - photography&#x27;s such a great hobby and having competition in the space is healthy. There&#x27;s a few brands out there still, but there is a noticable stigma in the professional community around equipment that isn&#x27;t Canon. If you&#x27;re not using L-glass, it feels like you get the same kind of judgement that Android users experience when they show up with green texts in iMessage.<p>As a matter of principle, I&#x27;ve been buying exclusively Nikon for almost my entire time in the hobby. I always saw Canon as a large conglomerate who tacked on photography as another arm of their company, where to me Nikon feels more focused on optics as a primary business line. Honestly, I should almost start buying more Pentax gear.<p>I worry we&#x27;re slowly approaching a monoculture in photography, but it&#x27;s hard to convince folks outside of the hobby to care.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben7799</author><text>Pros love Canon cause their service stomps all over everyone else, the equipment is just the cherry on top. They&#x27;re more like a partner in someone&#x27;s business than just a retailer.<p>Seriously.. their service is so fantastic &amp; easy to work with it puts you at ease shooting with their expensive stuff.<p>I think this has more to do with it than anything to do with sensors or almost anything else when it comes to really serious photography and especially anyone who&#x27;s running a business.<p>No one is happy to see another option disappear though. I agree with the sentiment that the biggest risk is too many cameras having Sony sensors inside though. Too much of that and at some point they&#x27;re all Sony, even though the design of the exterior of the camera &amp; the ergonomics can still be major differentiators.</text></comment> |
16,505,984 | 16,505,266 | 1 | 2 | 16,504,996 | train | <story><title>A Supreme Court Case That Could Give Tech Giants More Power</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/opinion/the-supreme-court-case-that-could-give-tech-giants-more-power.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway8995</author><text>I don’t want to detract too much from this discussion, but I can provide insight into what kind of bullying company AmEx truly is, and how their ethos permeates throughout everything they do.<p>I worked for AmEx for about 5 years. Everything was going great, and they announced a 5-month paternity leave program. I’m not going to lie, but it made it a lot easier to decide on having a child. Long story short, my son was born, I took paternity leave, and got laid off after 2 months into my paternity.<p>I get that I’m an at will employee, which is what lawyers keep telling me. It’s true that large companies, not just tech companies exert a lot of power, especially when it comes to swaying what’s ethical and what’s not. That’s a whole separate discussion, but AmEx clearly used me to send a message- don’t act on our gesture... or else. Influencing future behavior is what AmEx is really good at. Not credit cards.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Supreme Court Case That Could Give Tech Giants More Power</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/opinion/the-supreme-court-case-that-could-give-tech-giants-more-power.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>laser</author><text>In the case being tried, why is it not straightforward to demonstrate that higher costs for the merchants due to anti-competitive practices by credit card companies leads to higher costs for consumers, and therefore meets the two-sided market standard that the author fears?<p>I&#x27;m not sure on the edges whether the concept of harming competition for the benefit of consumers is just, but at least in the example case I don&#x27;t see how this is an issue.<p>Are the standards for demonstrating harm so high that you can&#x27;t make a strong legal case that higher costs for merchants gets passed to consumers?</text></comment> |
17,648,770 | 17,648,645 | 1 | 3 | 17,647,149 | train | <story><title>MH370 Was ‘Manipulated’ Off Course to Its End, Report Says</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/mh370-investigation-unable-to-determine-cause-of-disappearance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>froindt</author><text>I think there are a couple orders of magnitude difference between your idea and what it&#x27;d take to process.<p>My googling shows 148.94 trillion square meters, with 18.6 trillion<p>We&#x27;ll being generous to say &quot;good enough to spot a car&quot; is 2 pixels with 1 meter pixel size.<p>To be moderately confident it&#x27;s a car, I&#x27;d guesstimate we&#x27;d need quite a bit higher resolution.<p>With no compression and RGB 24 bit encoding, that&#x27;s 3 bytes&#x2F;pixel, or 446 TB of data per &quot;frame&quot; of our realtime recording. Of course that could be compressed down a TON, but regardless it&#x27;s a staggeringly large quantity of data to work with.<p>&gt; some machine learning it should be possible to skip most of oceans forests and deserts (unless some unusual object appears in that area).<p>As far as I can think through, you&#x27;d need to process the data in the oceans, forests, and deserts if you want to find unusual objects. We can&#x27;t do a shortcut and say only 1&#x2F;8 of the world is inhabited&#x2F;developed in some way and that&#x27;s all we&#x27;re going to monitor. Perhaps you take 1&#x2F;4 or 1&#x2F;8 of the data from the vast amounts of uninteresting data and look for larger anomalies.<p>No matter how you look at it, there&#x27;d be a ridiculous amount of data and processing required to do object detection on that scale.</text></item><item><author>comboy</author><text>I wonder when are we going to have some low resolution (good enough to spot a car) realtime recording of the full globe. I know it&#x27;s tons of data but with some machine learning it should be possible to skip most of oceans forests and deserts (unless some unusual object appears in that area).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staticfloat</author><text>This is actually a pretty good argument for sparse data handling; push some intelligence out to the edges of your network (e.g. the spy satellites or what have you) that are collecting the data in the first place, and then only store &quot;interesting&quot; pixels. E.g. regions where there are movement; regions already determined to be of interest (densely populated areas, war zones, trading vessel corridors, etc....)<p>There is research going on right now to build native camera systems that emit data (at the hardware level) that is not dense but rather sparse; information is transmitted as &quot;blocks of pixels that changed between frame two and three&quot; rather than &quot;here is the state of all pixels at frame two, and here is the state of all pixels at frame three&quot;. In essence, doing a small amount of delta compression within the hardware itself.<p>This seems like a really natural fit for an application such as this one; and could potentially cut the amount of data needed to be paid attention to down by orders of magnitude.<p>Many of these ideas are similar to what is used to compress video down in the first place; it would be interesting to see a combination of video compression technology and &quot;region of interest&quot; ML pruning, where the ML models are applied only to interesting regions, as identified by the compression codec. The codec already has done the analysis to figure out which portions of the video have changed, which portions of the video are simply shifted versions of information from the last frame, etc.... You could significantly speed up ML analysis by making use of that kind of information.</text></comment> | <story><title>MH370 Was ‘Manipulated’ Off Course to Its End, Report Says</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/mh370-investigation-unable-to-determine-cause-of-disappearance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>froindt</author><text>I think there are a couple orders of magnitude difference between your idea and what it&#x27;d take to process.<p>My googling shows 148.94 trillion square meters, with 18.6 trillion<p>We&#x27;ll being generous to say &quot;good enough to spot a car&quot; is 2 pixels with 1 meter pixel size.<p>To be moderately confident it&#x27;s a car, I&#x27;d guesstimate we&#x27;d need quite a bit higher resolution.<p>With no compression and RGB 24 bit encoding, that&#x27;s 3 bytes&#x2F;pixel, or 446 TB of data per &quot;frame&quot; of our realtime recording. Of course that could be compressed down a TON, but regardless it&#x27;s a staggeringly large quantity of data to work with.<p>&gt; some machine learning it should be possible to skip most of oceans forests and deserts (unless some unusual object appears in that area).<p>As far as I can think through, you&#x27;d need to process the data in the oceans, forests, and deserts if you want to find unusual objects. We can&#x27;t do a shortcut and say only 1&#x2F;8 of the world is inhabited&#x2F;developed in some way and that&#x27;s all we&#x27;re going to monitor. Perhaps you take 1&#x2F;4 or 1&#x2F;8 of the data from the vast amounts of uninteresting data and look for larger anomalies.<p>No matter how you look at it, there&#x27;d be a ridiculous amount of data and processing required to do object detection on that scale.</text></item><item><author>comboy</author><text>I wonder when are we going to have some low resolution (good enough to spot a car) realtime recording of the full globe. I know it&#x27;s tons of data but with some machine learning it should be possible to skip most of oceans forests and deserts (unless some unusual object appears in that area).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DrJokepu</author><text>I don’t disagree with anything you said here, but it reminds me an argument about IRC privacy from the ’90s. People frequently accused IRC networks of secretly logging private conversations, and the usual argument was that this would require such an immense amount of storage that any such effort would be astronomically expensive and entirely infeasible.<p>I don’t know if that was really true even back then, but today it’s completely doable and done all the time (think Google Chat or Facebook Chat).<p>My point is, times change, it’s entirely possible that in 20 years storing that much data will be completely possible.</text></comment> |
28,601,131 | 28,600,793 | 1 | 3 | 28,574,627 | train | <story><title>Laziness does not exist (2018)</title><url>https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dustintrex</author><text>The title is clickbaity and the content a bit overboard, but this statement resonates:<p>&gt; <i>If a person’s behavior doesn’t make sense to you, it is because you are missing a part of their context.</i><p>Working in a large company with lots of stakeholders pulling in different directions, I&#x27;ve lost count of how many times I&#x27;ve heard X complain that Y is an idiot and what they&#x27;re doing makes no sense, and then talked to Y directly and realized that from <i>their</i> point of view Y&#x27;s actions are entirely rational.</text></comment> | <story><title>Laziness does not exist (2018)</title><url>https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sdwr</author><text>Human problems can always be redefined. This reminds me of something on (the old) SSC, about how new psychological frameworks for treatment always look promising at discovery, then tail off in effectiveness down to the rest of the pack as they&#x27;re adopted more widely. The author here has something to give: enthusiasm, understanding, compassion, and it&#x27;s not surprising that he is finding outsized results.<p>My own experience with procrastination is one of failing to clear mental hurdles. I always did assignments at the last minute, and relied on adrenaline and unconscious skill to carry me over the finish line. The bar eventually got high enough that I couldn&#x27;t clear it in one late-night coffee-fueled panic, and I started balking at the line.</text></comment> |
1,884,356 | 1,883,935 | 1 | 2 | 1,883,443 | train | <story><title>Full CSS3 Lightbox - Absolutely no JavaScript</title><url>http://playground.deaxon.com/css/lightbox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aw3c2</author><text>So I will get lightboxed even with my no-javascript browsing habits? I liked that most sites simply serve the direct image url to me. Lightbox is an annoying eye-candy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lwhi</author><text>A lightbox is really just an implementation of a 'modal dialog / window' - which is useful, because it demands the user's attention before it can be dismissed.<p>Being able to produce such a window in web applications could be useful in many situations - we don't need to limit them to image display.<p>The fact that 'lightboxes' have been abused / over-used, isn't a reason to dismiss the technology.</text></comment> | <story><title>Full CSS3 Lightbox - Absolutely no JavaScript</title><url>http://playground.deaxon.com/css/lightbox/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aw3c2</author><text>So I will get lightboxed even with my no-javascript browsing habits? I liked that most sites simply serve the direct image url to me. Lightbox is an annoying eye-candy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyro</author><text>I don't mind it if it's snappy and the image loads almost instantaneously, which is what I got when viewing this demo. Typically, with javascript, I'd have to wait a few seconds for the loading-wheel to spin until the image finally loads. Not that I can't wait a few seconds; it's just annoying.</text></comment> |
29,785,171 | 29,784,278 | 1 | 3 | 29,778,990 | train | <story><title>Power, frequency, management: how M1 E cores win</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/03/power-frequency-management-how-m1-e-cores-win/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baxtr</author><text>And all Apple haters are like: <i>&quot;Apple is just a design and marketing company!&quot;</i><p>Yes, exactly. They design chips and market them. They do both things like no other company on this planet.</text></item><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I love this guy!<p>This also keeps me gobsmacked by what a good job Apple has done, designing these bad boys.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fguerraz</author><text>Apple hater here: I just don&#x27;t like their software, ecosystem and negative influence on democracy.
Their hardware is the best, I will admit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Power, frequency, management: how M1 E cores win</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/03/power-frequency-management-how-m1-e-cores-win/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baxtr</author><text>And all Apple haters are like: <i>&quot;Apple is just a design and marketing company!&quot;</i><p>Yes, exactly. They design chips and market them. They do both things like no other company on this planet.</text></item><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I love this guy!<p>This also keeps me gobsmacked by what a good job Apple has done, designing these bad boys.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gime_tree_fiddy</author><text>I think it is their software philosophy that I find objectionable, mainly in iOS and OSX. But their design and hardware is great enough to for someone like me to own a MB Pro, and iPad Pro.</text></comment> |
1,237,355 | 1,237,294 | 1 | 3 | 1,237,078 | train | <story><title>Daring Fireball: The Kids Are All Right</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/kids_are_all_right</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DannoHung</author><text>Sorry, but how do you qualify negative events?<p>First, let's take a look at what I suspect you think are negative events:<p>1) iTunes Music Store has DRM encumbered music<p>2) iTunes Video Store has DRM encumbered video<p>3) iPhone App Store has closed ecosystem with infuriating approval process<p>Now, let's peel back the bullshit and look at the reality of the situations:<p>1) Before the iTunes music store, the only way you could get music legally on the internet was a $10 a month subscription to the Real Player music store. You did not own your music and you could only play it on a number of devices. Concurrently, many music publishers were trying to develop technological means to prevent users from taking music from CDs they had purchased and ripping them to MP3's.<p>Overall, I rate that as a win for consumers. A double win considering the later removal of DRM from iTunes music.<p>2) Before the iTunes video store, you could buy a few DRM encumbered videos from Amazon (pretty sure they were the only game in town at that time). Some of the current stores for digital video don't even allow you to view video on a device different from the one you purchased it on. There is still not a really great source of High Def video.<p>Overall, I rate that as a neutral to slight win for consumers.<p>3) Before the iPhone App store, the only way you could get an application was through a carrier approved store. The apps themselves were 99% garbage and if you changed phones, good luck transferring them. With the iPhone App store, there has been a cambrian explosion of mobile software. Despite the denial of apps in several specific categories and contentious policies regarding duplication of built in software, for the most part there is an app for that. The best part though is that applications do not depend on carrier approval for the most part and handsets are free to transfer across networks provided they are hardware compatible. I would like to remind you again that before June 2007, this shit was fantasy.<p>Overall, I rate that as a win for consumers.</text></item><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>Things have never been better for kids and technology than they are today, and I agree with Gruber that it's a bit myopic to suggest otherwise.<p>But, it is dangerous to ignore negative events, just because the overall trend has been positive for the past 30 years. Apple has been responsible for a number of very negative events in the past few years. Going back to more closed systems is not a good thing, even if the iPad is awesome and seems like magic and kids love it (and I'm sure they do). The iPad and iPhone are more closed, more hostile to tinkerers, more hostile to adventurous users, than most other similar devices. This is a <i>bad</i> thing. One shouldn't apologize for a company doing bad things, just because things in the industry as a whole are better than they were ten or fifteen or twenty years ago.<p>Open Source software has made dramatic improvements in the landscape for kids learning technology today. Apple is fighting those improvements, and they <i>should</i> be called out for that bad behavior. Apple is behaving in ways that are bad for developers, and bad for kids who might become hackers. Just because they also happen to build awesome products, and do happen to provide an approved relief valve for their closed ecosystem, doesn't make it OK to be hostile to developers and would-be hackers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SwellJoe</author><text><i>1) Before the iTunes music store, the only way you could get music legally on the internet was a $10 a month subscription to the Real Player music store. You did not own your music and you could only play it on a number of devices. Concurrently, many music publishers were trying to develop technological means to prevent users from taking music from CDs they had purchased and ripping them to MP3's.</i><p>This is simply, and provably, untrue. I had an eMusic account several years before iTunes existed. It has always distributed DRM-free MP3s.<p><i>2) Before the iTunes video store, you could buy a few DRM encumbered videos from Amazon (pretty sure they were the only game in town at that time).</i><p>I don't know about this, as I'm not a big movie/TV watcher. I'll leave it for someone else to debunk.<p><i>3) Before the iPhone App store, the only way you could get an application was through a carrier approved store.</i><p>Demonstrably untrue. There was a thriving and open application market for Palm devices, Windows mobile devices, and others, long before the App Store. The Sidekick had a similar marketplace model to the App Store and a similar approval process, and it was in place for many years before the iPhone. Pretty much all smart phones allowed installation of applications from third parties before the iPhone and App Store. The success of the App Store, for Apple's bottom line, was the primary motivation for several other vendors introducing similar markets.<p>But, I wasn't talking about iTunes (though there are probably things to say about iTunes, I don't really know enough about it; as I mentioned, I've been an eMusic user for many years, and have never wanted anything iTunes had to offer; besides that iTunes doesn't run under Linux, so I can't use it). I'm talking about specific negative things Apple has done for openness and creativity in the technology world with the iPhone and the iPad, which is the subject of all of these rants.<p>The iPhone and iPad are the most tightly controlled ecosystems in their respective niches (if we count netbooks and other tablets as in the iPad niche, which I kinda think we have to, for now). This is a <i>bad</i> thing.<p>And, I was saying that the kind of apologia you're using is enabling Apple to do these bad things. One shouldn't apologize for bad things Apple has done by presenting the good or neutral things Apple has done. We know that the closed nature of the iPhone/iPad and the App Store ecosystem is bad for developers and bad for tinkerers and would-be hackers. We should call them on that bad behavior.<p>Praise them all you want for other behaviors, but don't use it as an excuse for the bad things they do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Daring Fireball: The Kids Are All Right</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/kids_are_all_right</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DannoHung</author><text>Sorry, but how do you qualify negative events?<p>First, let's take a look at what I suspect you think are negative events:<p>1) iTunes Music Store has DRM encumbered music<p>2) iTunes Video Store has DRM encumbered video<p>3) iPhone App Store has closed ecosystem with infuriating approval process<p>Now, let's peel back the bullshit and look at the reality of the situations:<p>1) Before the iTunes music store, the only way you could get music legally on the internet was a $10 a month subscription to the Real Player music store. You did not own your music and you could only play it on a number of devices. Concurrently, many music publishers were trying to develop technological means to prevent users from taking music from CDs they had purchased and ripping them to MP3's.<p>Overall, I rate that as a win for consumers. A double win considering the later removal of DRM from iTunes music.<p>2) Before the iTunes video store, you could buy a few DRM encumbered videos from Amazon (pretty sure they were the only game in town at that time). Some of the current stores for digital video don't even allow you to view video on a device different from the one you purchased it on. There is still not a really great source of High Def video.<p>Overall, I rate that as a neutral to slight win for consumers.<p>3) Before the iPhone App store, the only way you could get an application was through a carrier approved store. The apps themselves were 99% garbage and if you changed phones, good luck transferring them. With the iPhone App store, there has been a cambrian explosion of mobile software. Despite the denial of apps in several specific categories and contentious policies regarding duplication of built in software, for the most part there is an app for that. The best part though is that applications do not depend on carrier approval for the most part and handsets are free to transfer across networks provided they are hardware compatible. I would like to remind you again that before June 2007, this shit was fantasy.<p>Overall, I rate that as a win for consumers.</text></item><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>Things have never been better for kids and technology than they are today, and I agree with Gruber that it's a bit myopic to suggest otherwise.<p>But, it is dangerous to ignore negative events, just because the overall trend has been positive for the past 30 years. Apple has been responsible for a number of very negative events in the past few years. Going back to more closed systems is not a good thing, even if the iPad is awesome and seems like magic and kids love it (and I'm sure they do). The iPad and iPhone are more closed, more hostile to tinkerers, more hostile to adventurous users, than most other similar devices. This is a <i>bad</i> thing. One shouldn't apologize for a company doing bad things, just because things in the industry as a whole are better than they were ten or fifteen or twenty years ago.<p>Open Source software has made dramatic improvements in the landscape for kids learning technology today. Apple is fighting those improvements, and they <i>should</i> be called out for that bad behavior. Apple is behaving in ways that are bad for developers, and bad for kids who might become hackers. Just because they also happen to build awesome products, and do happen to provide an approved relief valve for their closed ecosystem, doesn't make it OK to be hostile to developers and would-be hackers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vorador</author><text>You're not answering the question : where is the win for the tinkerers ?</text></comment> |
15,639,842 | 15,637,923 | 1 | 2 | 15,637,630 | train | <story><title>Untangling the WebRTC Flow</title><url>https://www.pkcsecurity.com/untangling-webrtc-flow.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moron4hire</author><text>&gt; Step 9 · failure. Just log the error to console and call it a day.<p>There is not a single WebRTC guide that says anything else on the matter of error handling. There is zero guidance on how to handle fail over, what parts are recoverable, how to sequence multiple users joining a session at the same time, what to do if the signal process hangs--basically anything other the default one-to-one successful scenario. All we ever get is the same rehashing of the signalling process, for the last 5 years now. It&#x27;s ridiculously bad.<p>I think once you understand the handshake, it make a lot of sense. But the success case is just one. And we don&#x27;t need 20 guides on it with 0 on any error cases.<p>I&#x27;ve probably read 90% of the available literature, including several full length books. They pad their length with code listings, like people copy code out of books anymore. You are on your own if you are trying to develop a good app using WebRTC.</text></comment> | <story><title>Untangling the WebRTC Flow</title><url>https://www.pkcsecurity.com/untangling-webrtc-flow.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>I&#x27;ve found this[0] chapter has a great overview of WebRTC communication. I do wish the transports were a bit more pluggable so I could use, say, an onion service to bust NAT for me.<p>In general I believe WebRTC, as a set of multiple protocols, has too few full implementations (i.e. w&#x2F; the stun&#x2F;turn&#x2F;ice server AND client sides, media extensions, etc). I think with more implementations, WebRTC will become a decent p2p standard even without the browser. I personally am starting to toy w&#x2F; a Rust impl of some of the RFCs.<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hpbn.co&#x2F;webrtc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hpbn.co&#x2F;webrtc&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
18,880,398 | 18,879,067 | 1 | 2 | 18,876,759 | train | <story><title>High Performance Numeric Programming with Swift: Explorations and Reflections</title><url>https://www.fast.ai/2019/01/10/swift-numerics/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone</author><text>One thing to look out for is that Swift Arrays aren’t really arrays. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raywenderlich.com&#x2F;1172-collection-data-structures-in-swift" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raywenderlich.com&#x2F;1172-collection-data-structure...</a>:<p><i>”1. Accessing any value at a particular index in an array is at worst O(log n), but should usually be O(1).<p>2. Searching for an object at an unknown index is at worst O(n (log n)), but will generally be O(n).<p>3. Inserting or deleting an object is at worst O(n (log n)) but will often be O(1).
These guarantees subtly deviate from the simple “ideal” array that you might expect from a computer science textbook or the C language, where an array is always a sequence of items laid out contiguously in memory”</i><p>If you want a more traditional data structure, use ContiguousArray, which <i>is</i> an array. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;swift&#x2F;contiguousarray" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;swift&#x2F;contiguousar...</a>:<p><i>”The ContiguousArray type is a specialized array that always stores its elements in a contiguous region of memory. This contrasts with Array, which can store its elements in either a contiguous region of memory or an NSArray instance if its Element type is a class or @objc protocol”</i></text></comment> | <story><title>High Performance Numeric Programming with Swift: Explorations and Reflections</title><url>https://www.fast.ai/2019/01/10/swift-numerics/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>byt143</author><text>Thanks for writing up your thoughts!<p>I find Julia&#x27;s core design to be excellent for general purpose programming, better than python in fact since it essentially solves the expression problem with it&#x27;s type system and multiple dispatch.<p>It&#x27;s external program interop is also more pleasant than Python&#x27;s :<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.julialang.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;v1&#x2F;manual&#x2F;running-external-programs&#x2F;#Running-External-Programs-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.julialang.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;v1&#x2F;manual&#x2F;running-external-pro...</a><p>Sure, it doesn&#x27;t have the same general library ecosystem, but even that is being remedied for core areas like web programming: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;genieframework.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;genieframework.com&#x2F;</a> (a full MVC framework), <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JuliaGizmos&#x2F;WebIO.jl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JuliaGizmos&#x2F;WebIO.jl</a> (write front end code without javascript) and
I&#x27;m particularly excited for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Keno&#x2F;julia-wasm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Keno&#x2F;julia-wasm</a>, which will allow Julia programs to be compiled for the browser.<p>For any packages than are python only, it has excellent python interop using the pycall.jl package, which even allows users to write custom python classes in Julia.<p>With regards to numerical programming, it&#x27;s obviously already far ahead of swift, and IMO much better placed to beat it in the long run. For example the WIP zyogte package is able to hook into Julia&#x27;s compiler to zero overhead diff arbitrary code. Using Cassette.jl, package authors can write custom compiler passes outside the main repo and in pure Julia: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;julialang.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;ml-language-compiler" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;julialang.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;12&#x2F;ml-language-compiler</a><p>In addition, it&#x27;s macro system, introspection, dynamic typing and value types through abstract typing approach allows for natural development of advanced probabilistic programming languages: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TuringLang&#x2F;Turing.jl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TuringLang&#x2F;Turing.jl</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;probcomp&#x2F;Gen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;probcomp&#x2F;Gen</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zenna&#x2F;Omega.jl&#x2F;pulse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zenna&#x2F;Omega.jl&#x2F;pulse</a></text></comment> |
4,896,868 | 4,896,086 | 1 | 3 | 4,896,012 | train | <story><title>160 Mac Minis, One Rack</title><url>http://hackaday.com/2012/12/09/160-mac-minis-one-rack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alanctgardner2</author><text>It's very cool, but is anyone actually tied to OS X as a server platform? Couldn't they move to FreeBSD and save a ton of money in an application like this? I'm wondering if there's a real business case for this, or it's just a fun hack.<p>edit: I guess lumped into this is the small market that seems to exist for colocated Mac Minis. Is there something about them that is better than renting commodity x64 hardware?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hugs</author><text>&#62; anyone actually tied to OS X as a server platform?<p>Yes, if you make software that runs on OS X (or iOS and you want to test on iOS Simulators) you need OS X machines for your build and test process. You need lots of machines so you and your fellow developers can run speed things up and run tests in parallel.</text></comment> | <story><title>160 Mac Minis, One Rack</title><url>http://hackaday.com/2012/12/09/160-mac-minis-one-rack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alanctgardner2</author><text>It's very cool, but is anyone actually tied to OS X as a server platform? Couldn't they move to FreeBSD and save a ton of money in an application like this? I'm wondering if there's a real business case for this, or it's just a fun hack.<p>edit: I guess lumped into this is the small market that seems to exist for colocated Mac Minis. Is there something about them that is better than renting commodity x64 hardware?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nbpoole</author><text>First idea that comes to mind: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3837043/best-practice-for-setting-up-an-automated-build-server-for-iphone-apps" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3837043/best-practice-for...</a></text></comment> |
40,714,116 | 40,712,673 | 1 | 2 | 40,711,484 | train | <story><title>Getting 50% (SoTA) on Arc-AGI with GPT-4o</title><url>https://redwoodresearch.substack.com/p/getting-50-sota-on-arc-agi-with-gpt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeknoop</author><text>(ARC Prize co-founder here).<p>Ryan&#x27;s work is legitimately interesting and novel &quot;LLM reasoning&quot; research! The core idea:<p>&gt; get GPT-4o to generate around 8,000 python programs which attempt to implement the transformation, select a program which is right on all the examples (usually there are 3 examples), and then submit the output this function produces when applied to the additional test input(s)<p>Roughly, he&#x27;s implemented an outer loop and using 4o to sample reasoning traces&#x2F;programs from training data and test. Hybrid DL + program synthesis approaches are solutions we&#x27;d love to see more of.<p>A couple important notes:<p>1. this result is on the public eval set vs private set (ARC Prize $).<p>2. the current private set SOTA ~35% solution also performed ~50% on the public set. so this new result <i>might</i> be SOTA but hasn&#x27;t been validated or scrutinized yet.<p>All said, I do expect verified public set results to flow down to the private set over time. We&#x27;ll be publishing all the SOTA scores and open source reproductions here once available: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arcprize.org&#x2F;leaderboard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arcprize.org&#x2F;leaderboard</a><p>EDIT: also, congrats and kudos to Ryan for achieving this and putting the effort in to document and share his approach. we hope to inspire more frontier AI research sharing like this</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refreshingdrink</author><text>Also worth nothing that Ryan mentions<p>&gt; In addition to iterating on the training set, I also did a small amount of iteration on a 100 problem subset of the public test set<p>and<p>&gt; it&#x27;s unfortunate that these sets aren’t IID: it makes iteration harder and more confusing<p>It’s not unfortunate: generalizing beyond the training distribution is a crucial part of intelligence that ARC is trying to measure! Among other reasons, developing with test-set data is a bad practice in ML because it hides the difficulty this challenge. Even worse, writing about a bunch of tricks that help results on this subset is extending the test-set leakage the blog post&#x27;s readers. This is why I&#x27;m glad the ARC Prize has a truly hidden test set</text></comment> | <story><title>Getting 50% (SoTA) on Arc-AGI with GPT-4o</title><url>https://redwoodresearch.substack.com/p/getting-50-sota-on-arc-agi-with-gpt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeknoop</author><text>(ARC Prize co-founder here).<p>Ryan&#x27;s work is legitimately interesting and novel &quot;LLM reasoning&quot; research! The core idea:<p>&gt; get GPT-4o to generate around 8,000 python programs which attempt to implement the transformation, select a program which is right on all the examples (usually there are 3 examples), and then submit the output this function produces when applied to the additional test input(s)<p>Roughly, he&#x27;s implemented an outer loop and using 4o to sample reasoning traces&#x2F;programs from training data and test. Hybrid DL + program synthesis approaches are solutions we&#x27;d love to see more of.<p>A couple important notes:<p>1. this result is on the public eval set vs private set (ARC Prize $).<p>2. the current private set SOTA ~35% solution also performed ~50% on the public set. so this new result <i>might</i> be SOTA but hasn&#x27;t been validated or scrutinized yet.<p>All said, I do expect verified public set results to flow down to the private set over time. We&#x27;ll be publishing all the SOTA scores and open source reproductions here once available: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arcprize.org&#x2F;leaderboard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arcprize.org&#x2F;leaderboard</a><p>EDIT: also, congrats and kudos to Ryan for achieving this and putting the effort in to document and share his approach. we hope to inspire more frontier AI research sharing like this</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refibrillator</author><text>Do you have any perspectives to share on Ryan&#x27;s observation of a potential scaling law for these tasks and his comment that &quot;ARC-AGI will be one benchmark among many that just gets solved by scale&quot;?</text></comment> |
28,451,560 | 28,451,338 | 1 | 2 | 28,449,162 | train | <story><title>My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day</title><url>https://mark.mcnally.je/blog/post/My%20%C2%A34%20a%20month%20server%20can%20handle%204.2%20million%20requests%20a%20day</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mynameisash</author><text>What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away.[0]<p>I&#x27;m more than a little annoyed that so much data engineering is still done in Scala Spark or PySpark. Both suffer from pretty high memory overhead, which leads to suboptimal resource utilization. I&#x27;ve worked with a few different systems that compile their queries into C&#x2F;C++ (which is transparent to the developer). Those tend to be significantly faster or can use fewer nodes to process.<p>I get that quick &amp; dirty scripts for exploration don&#x27;t need to be super optimized, and that throwing more hardware at the problem _can_ be cheaper than engineering time, but in my experience, the latter ends up costing my org tens of millions of dollars annually -- just write some code and allocate a ton of resources to make it work in a reasonable amount of time.<p>I&#x27;m hopeful that Ballista[1], for example, will see uptake and improve this.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Andy_and_Bill%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Andy_and_Bill%27s_law</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apache&#x2F;arrow-datafusion&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;ballista" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apache&#x2F;arrow-datafusion&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;balli...</a></text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>People tend to severely underestimate how fast modern machines are and overestimate how much you need to spend on hardware.<p>Back in my last startup, I was doing a crypto market intelligence website that subscribed to full trade &amp; order book feeds from the top 10 exchanges. It handled about 3K incoming messages&#x2F;second (~260M per day), including all of the message parsing, order book update, processing, streaming to websocket connections on any connected client, and archival to PostGres for historical processing. Total hardware required was 1 m4.large + 1 r5.large AWS instances, for a bit under $200&#x2F;month, and the boxes would regularly run at about 50% CPU.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>I get a kick out of stuff like this - I’m mostly an exec these days, but I recently prototyped a small database system to feed a business process in SQLite on my laptop.<p>To my amusement, my little SQLite prototype smoked the “enterprise” database. Turns out that a MacBook Pro SSD performs better than the SAN, and the query planner needs more tlc. We ended up running the queries off my laptop for a few days while the DBAs did their thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day</title><url>https://mark.mcnally.je/blog/post/My%20%C2%A34%20a%20month%20server%20can%20handle%204.2%20million%20requests%20a%20day</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mynameisash</author><text>What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away.[0]<p>I&#x27;m more than a little annoyed that so much data engineering is still done in Scala Spark or PySpark. Both suffer from pretty high memory overhead, which leads to suboptimal resource utilization. I&#x27;ve worked with a few different systems that compile their queries into C&#x2F;C++ (which is transparent to the developer). Those tend to be significantly faster or can use fewer nodes to process.<p>I get that quick &amp; dirty scripts for exploration don&#x27;t need to be super optimized, and that throwing more hardware at the problem _can_ be cheaper than engineering time, but in my experience, the latter ends up costing my org tens of millions of dollars annually -- just write some code and allocate a ton of resources to make it work in a reasonable amount of time.<p>I&#x27;m hopeful that Ballista[1], for example, will see uptake and improve this.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Andy_and_Bill%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Andy_and_Bill%27s_law</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apache&#x2F;arrow-datafusion&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;ballista" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apache&#x2F;arrow-datafusion&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;balli...</a></text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>People tend to severely underestimate how fast modern machines are and overestimate how much you need to spend on hardware.<p>Back in my last startup, I was doing a crypto market intelligence website that subscribed to full trade &amp; order book feeds from the top 10 exchanges. It handled about 3K incoming messages&#x2F;second (~260M per day), including all of the message parsing, order book update, processing, streaming to websocket connections on any connected client, and archival to PostGres for historical processing. Total hardware required was 1 m4.large + 1 r5.large AWS instances, for a bit under $200&#x2F;month, and the boxes would regularly run at about 50% CPU.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>What reminded me of this the other day is how MacOS will grow your cursor if you “shake” it to help you find it on a big screen.<p>I was thinking about how they must have a routine that’s constantly taking mouse input, buffering history, and running some algorithm to determine when user input is a mouse “shake”.<p>And how many features like this add up to eat up a nontrivial amount of resources.</text></comment> |
6,448,003 | 6,447,897 | 1 | 2 | 6,447,517 | train | <story><title>Move over Bootstrap and Foundation, welcome Semantic UI</title><url>https://coderwall.com/p/ham3gg</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dntrkv</author><text>I don&#x27;t see any benefit to using this framework to Bootstrap. The author lists the following pros and cons:<p>Pros:<p>- Published under the incredibly permissive MIT License (sure, I don&#x27;t know enough about the different licenses to comment on this)<p>- Very well documented (bootstrap is very well documented, and has a huge community behind it)<p>- Seems to be easier to learn&#x2F;use (that&#x27;s subjective, but I think bootstrap is plenty easy to use)<p>- Has a Grid layout (yes... who doesn&#x27;t use a grid layout?)<p>- Uses LESS (so does bootstrap)<p>- A very nice implementation of buttons, modals, &amp; progress bars (again, subjective, but bootstrap has a great, and simple, button and modal implementation, haven&#x27;t used the progress bars. also, &lt;button class=&quot;btn&quot;&gt; is much better than &lt;div class=&quot;button&quot;&gt;, especially if you&#x27;re going for semantics)<p>- Uses an Icon font for many of it&#x27;s features (k, sure)<p>- Has some very useful extras such as the inverted class (so does bootstrap)<p>- Open to community contribution (so is bootstrap)<p>Cons:<p>- No image slider (bootstrap has this)<p>- No thumbnail classes (bootstrap also has this)<p>- No visibility classes (bootstrap has this)<p>- No SASS (does have LESS) (not really a con but ok)<p>- Not at a release &gt;1.0<p>I&#x27;m not trying to dis the framework (I haven&#x27;t use it), but the author is claiming that it is somehow superior to bootstrap and foundation and does not present any evidence supporting this claim.</text></comment> | <story><title>Move over Bootstrap and Foundation, welcome Semantic UI</title><url>https://coderwall.com/p/ham3gg</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ealexhudson</author><text>Interesting definition of &quot;semantic&quot;. In terms of the code, I&#x27;d take &lt;button&gt; over &lt;div&gt; every day of the week. Similarly lists, &lt;nav&gt;, and all that other lovely html5 stuff.<p>I really don&#x27;t like stuff like &lt;div class=&quot;right floated text&quot;&gt; - specifying the layout with class like that is pretty gruesome.<p>But then, I suppose &quot;semantic&quot; has a different meaning for this project than the one that I&#x27;m used to in the HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;etc. world...</text></comment> |
32,411,459 | 32,410,790 | 1 | 3 | 32,410,355 | train | <story><title>“Autistic people can’t acknowledge when they’re wrong”</title><url>https://the.scapegoat.dev/autistic-people-cant-acknowledge-when-they-are-wrong/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larve</author><text>Author here, thanks for reading.<p>I didn’t give much information about my life, but I am pretty adept at playing all these games. So much so that I thought there was no way I could be autistic because of how many friends and business relationships I had. Until it hit me that I spent my 20ies doing what you suggest, which is studying the heck out of these things.<p>But it stops at engineering, where I try to be very open-minded and learn as much as I can. I have to readily accept I am wrong on most of my assumptions because I just couldn’t be a good engineer otherwise. I can be perfectly suave and agreeable discussing anything else. That means I probably know how to play the “acquiesce when you should” game quite well.<p>But I’m at work because I am blessed to have a job where I get to do what I care about: good engineering. I deliver great value when people understand my way of thinking, and thankfully I have plenty of colleagues that get it.</text></item><item><author>dusted</author><text>I read this as being strongly opinionated and egocentric..<p>I want to call it &quot;ausplaining&quot;, this tendency to go &quot;no no, YOU don&#x27;t understand ME (because I&#x27;m special, not because I&#x27;m wrong)&quot; whenever we get ourselves into situations like the exemplified.<p>I do this A LOT as well, and when people do stick with me for long enough, I often find that I&#x27;m either getting my point across by re-framing my explanation, or discover that what I&#x27;m pursuing as oh_so_important is in fact not important for the question at hand (then I feel even more stupid, because, not only did I find this of paramount importance, but everyone else didn&#x27;t even consider it (because it so clearly didn&#x27;t matter)).<p>&gt; Because I value learning, I read about 50 technical books every year<p>If the author reads this, I&#x27;d congratulate them on finding the time to do that, but also advice them to maybe read 40 technical books every year, and then read 10 about the topics they clearly do struggle with (social interactions, politics, negotiation, psychology)..<p>The opinion reads as &quot;I&#x27;m right and the world is wrong&quot; to me, maybe because I can strongly relate (except the parts about reading tons of books and being really smart).<p>I think the author would benefit from realizing that these things they dismiss as irrelevant (mind games&#x2F;politics) are actually important and beneficial to understand and master (I am not saying it should be that way, but merely point out that it is, in fact that way).<p>The author may also benefit from investing some of their mental capital (I&#x27;m not being sarcastic, they&#x27;re obviously very intelligent) into learning how to play the games, to figure out neurotypicals enough to communicate with them on their level&#x2F;terms.<p>Yes, workplaces need to be accommodating, but in the end, no matter who we are, it&#x27;s our ultimate responsibility, to ourselves, to learn how to function in this world.<p>As for the situation where the other party is factually wrong.. Well, yes.. I always imagine this situation, where I have the right of way on my bicycle, and it&#x27;s the semi-truck that must yield.. There are a fair number of times where being right does not matter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rendall</author><text>Given the headline, I thought it would be an article about what it looks like when you acknowledge that you are wrong and why people might not understand that you are, in fact, acknowledging when you are wrong.<p>Instead, it was an entire article that not once acknowledged that you could be wrong, nor what it looks like when you do acknowledge it. It detailed about how, actually, you&#x27;re not usually wrong.<p>This article appears to underscore the accusation.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Autistic people can’t acknowledge when they’re wrong”</title><url>https://the.scapegoat.dev/autistic-people-cant-acknowledge-when-they-are-wrong/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larve</author><text>Author here, thanks for reading.<p>I didn’t give much information about my life, but I am pretty adept at playing all these games. So much so that I thought there was no way I could be autistic because of how many friends and business relationships I had. Until it hit me that I spent my 20ies doing what you suggest, which is studying the heck out of these things.<p>But it stops at engineering, where I try to be very open-minded and learn as much as I can. I have to readily accept I am wrong on most of my assumptions because I just couldn’t be a good engineer otherwise. I can be perfectly suave and agreeable discussing anything else. That means I probably know how to play the “acquiesce when you should” game quite well.<p>But I’m at work because I am blessed to have a job where I get to do what I care about: good engineering. I deliver great value when people understand my way of thinking, and thankfully I have plenty of colleagues that get it.</text></item><item><author>dusted</author><text>I read this as being strongly opinionated and egocentric..<p>I want to call it &quot;ausplaining&quot;, this tendency to go &quot;no no, YOU don&#x27;t understand ME (because I&#x27;m special, not because I&#x27;m wrong)&quot; whenever we get ourselves into situations like the exemplified.<p>I do this A LOT as well, and when people do stick with me for long enough, I often find that I&#x27;m either getting my point across by re-framing my explanation, or discover that what I&#x27;m pursuing as oh_so_important is in fact not important for the question at hand (then I feel even more stupid, because, not only did I find this of paramount importance, but everyone else didn&#x27;t even consider it (because it so clearly didn&#x27;t matter)).<p>&gt; Because I value learning, I read about 50 technical books every year<p>If the author reads this, I&#x27;d congratulate them on finding the time to do that, but also advice them to maybe read 40 technical books every year, and then read 10 about the topics they clearly do struggle with (social interactions, politics, negotiation, psychology)..<p>The opinion reads as &quot;I&#x27;m right and the world is wrong&quot; to me, maybe because I can strongly relate (except the parts about reading tons of books and being really smart).<p>I think the author would benefit from realizing that these things they dismiss as irrelevant (mind games&#x2F;politics) are actually important and beneficial to understand and master (I am not saying it should be that way, but merely point out that it is, in fact that way).<p>The author may also benefit from investing some of their mental capital (I&#x27;m not being sarcastic, they&#x27;re obviously very intelligent) into learning how to play the games, to figure out neurotypicals enough to communicate with them on their level&#x2F;terms.<p>Yes, workplaces need to be accommodating, but in the end, no matter who we are, it&#x27;s our ultimate responsibility, to ourselves, to learn how to function in this world.<p>As for the situation where the other party is factually wrong.. Well, yes.. I always imagine this situation, where I have the right of way on my bicycle, and it&#x27;s the semi-truck that must yield.. There are a fair number of times where being right does not matter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dusted</author><text>Thank you for answering.<p>I very much relate.. I&#x27;ve been so bitter as to keep a small list of &quot;told you so&#x27;s&quot; that I&#x27;d update when my rejected ideas were finally proven to be the better path (though it may have been months or even years after the fact (most agonizing when someone else suggested exactly the same thing, but explained it in other terms,focusing on things I didn&#x27;t find central to the point).<p>In the end I deleted the file. Some of the &quot;told you so&#x27;s&quot; were petty things anyway, and.. Now I try and take it as part of my responsibility to work a bit harder at finding arguments against my point of view, as well as work a bit more politically to get it through when I&#x27;m ready to put my head on the line that I&#x27;m right and everyone else are wrong.<p>P.S. I&#x27;m closing in on the big 4-o and I&#x27;m still working on myself, still trying to learn politics, how to talk with nontechnical superiors and how to accept that sometimes, we go with the wrong solution because someone else tells so.</text></comment> |
38,931,400 | 38,928,191 | 1 | 2 | 38,925,802 | train | <story><title>AI Toolkit: Give a brain to your game's NPCs, a header-only C++ library</title><url>https://github.com/linkdd/aitoolkit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikhmha</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working on a multiplayer (MMO-ish) game. Currently at the point where most of the core stuff is in place and now I&#x27;m implementing the A.I. Recently there have been some great links posted on HN regarding Game A.I, and I&#x27;m very grateful for it! Implementing A.I has been a ton of fun and not as overwhelming as I thought it&#x27;d be. I think my game will be dependent on &quot;smart&quot; A.I behavior so I&#x27;m really trying to get this part down.<p>The language i&#x27;m using - Elixir - also has some very interesting features that make it easy to integrate async a.i planning + a.i to a.i group communication. Ahh, I find it so exciting. The main simulation loop is never blocked. Meanwhile the A.I planner just chugs along as a separate process, spawning and despawning new agents in the world, creating and merging control groups, and setting new goals.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI Toolkit: Give a brain to your game's NPCs, a header-only C++ library</title><url>https://github.com/linkdd/aitoolkit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klaussilveira</author><text>That is a very clean GOAP implementation.<p>FYI, GOAP was what made F.E.A.R such a cool game: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PaOLBOuyswI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PaOLBOuyswI</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;GDC2006Orkin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;GDC2006Orkin</a></text></comment> |
32,408,334 | 32,407,919 | 1 | 2 | 32,407,873 | train | <story><title>Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)</title><url>https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-tables/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>withinboredom</author><text>I worked at a startup (now fairly popular in the US) where we had tables for each thing (users, companies, etc) and a “relationship” table that described each relationship between things. There were no foreign keys, so making changes were pretty cheap. It was actually pretty ingenious (the two guys who came up with the schema went on to get paid to work on k8s).<p>It was super handy to simply query that table to debug things, since by merely looking for a user, you’d discover everything. If Mongo was more mature and scalable back then (2012ish), I wonder if we would have used it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)</title><url>https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-tables/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>senttoschool</author><text>They were using it like a NoSQL database back in 2010, just one year after MongoDB started. So there were no options.<p>In 2022, there are so many more mature, reliable, battle-tested NoSQL options that could have solved their problem more elegantly.<p>But even today, if I were to build Reddit as a startup, I&#x27;d start with a Postgres database and go as far as I can. Postgres allows me to use relations when I want to enforce data integrity and JSONB when I just want a key&#x2F;value store.</text></comment> |
21,640,152 | 21,640,177 | 1 | 2 | 21,639,200 | train | <story><title>Vinod Khosla Wins Ruling Threatening Public Beach Access</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-26/billionaire-khosla-wins-ruling-threatening-public-beach-access</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wil421</author><text>The concept of property being sacred is what drew a lot of people to America in the beginning. Instead of paying a Lord you could literally come to America and be given free land by the Federal government. It was a huge reason we rebelled against England in the first place.<p>In this situation is sucks for regular people but in a lot more situations it benefits everyone else.</text></item><item><author>happytoexplain</author><text>The concept that property is so religiously sacred that simply owning of a thing entitles one to cause external harm using that thing, even passively, is sickening.</text></item><item><author>baggy_trough</author><text>He is literally entitled, because he owns the land.</text></item><item><author>cjensen</author><text>The law is not implemented like that. Basically if there is a property which does not provide through-access to the beach, the law does not require them to provide it. If any change is made to the property, including improvements, then as part of the permitting process a requirement will be made to provide the access.<p>This is why at California beach areas and piers, old buildings have no access, but all remodeled ones do.<p>That all said, still amazingly entitled behavior by Khosla.</text></item><item><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>&gt; the three-judge panel upheld a trial judge’s ruling in Khosla’s favor, finding there was substantial evidence that the previous owners didn’t intend to dedicate the road for public use because they charged fees.<p>Why does it matter what the previous owner(s) did? The law states there must be public access to the beach. This is an 89 acre parcel of land, providing not even a single access point sounds like the owner could be blocking an appreciable amount of ocean frontage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CharlesColeman</author><text>&gt; The concept of property being sacred is what drew a lot of people to America in the beginning.<p>That&#x27;s not what you describe below.<p>&gt; Instead of paying a Lord [sic] you could literally come to America and be given free land by the Federal government. It was a huge reason we rebelled against England in the first place.<p>I think the most important thing here is the <i>free land</i> aspect. Property ownership has never been &quot;sacred&quot; and was always subject to things like squatter&#x27;s rights and other practical exceptions:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adverse_possession" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adverse_possession</a><p>&gt; The principles of homesteading and squatter&#x27;s rights embody the most basic concept of property and ownership, which can be summarized by the adage &quot;possession is nine-tenths of the law,&quot; meaning the person who uses the property effectively owns it. Likewise, the adage, &quot;use it or lose it,&quot; applies. The principles of homesteading and squatter&#x27;s rights predate formal property laws; to a large degree, modern property law formalizes and expands these simple ideas.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vinod Khosla Wins Ruling Threatening Public Beach Access</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-26/billionaire-khosla-wins-ruling-threatening-public-beach-access</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wil421</author><text>The concept of property being sacred is what drew a lot of people to America in the beginning. Instead of paying a Lord you could literally come to America and be given free land by the Federal government. It was a huge reason we rebelled against England in the first place.<p>In this situation is sucks for regular people but in a lot more situations it benefits everyone else.</text></item><item><author>happytoexplain</author><text>The concept that property is so religiously sacred that simply owning of a thing entitles one to cause external harm using that thing, even passively, is sickening.</text></item><item><author>baggy_trough</author><text>He is literally entitled, because he owns the land.</text></item><item><author>cjensen</author><text>The law is not implemented like that. Basically if there is a property which does not provide through-access to the beach, the law does not require them to provide it. If any change is made to the property, including improvements, then as part of the permitting process a requirement will be made to provide the access.<p>This is why at California beach areas and piers, old buildings have no access, but all remodeled ones do.<p>That all said, still amazingly entitled behavior by Khosla.</text></item><item><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>&gt; the three-judge panel upheld a trial judge’s ruling in Khosla’s favor, finding there was substantial evidence that the previous owners didn’t intend to dedicate the road for public use because they charged fees.<p>Why does it matter what the previous owner(s) did? The law states there must be public access to the beach. This is an 89 acre parcel of land, providing not even a single access point sounds like the owner could be blocking an appreciable amount of ocean frontage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>You aren&#x27;t quite getting it. Lords controlling the land <i>is</i> property being sacred. A lot of people came to America because less property was already locked down by the rich. But if we treat &quot;my great-grandfather stole this fair and square&quot; as sacred, we&#x27;ll end up in the same boat.</text></comment> |
25,426,209 | 25,426,032 | 1 | 2 | 25,425,718 | train | <story><title>Being good at coding competitions correlates negatively with job performance</title><url>https://catonmat.net/programming-competitions-work-performance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcolkitt</author><text>Simple analogy. There is no correlation between height and salary across NBA players.[1]<p>The naive conclusion would be that height has nothing to do with basketball ability. The real answer is that markets are efficient and are already correcting one important feature against other predictors. Steph Curry wouldn&#x27;t even be in the NBA if had the shooting ability of Gheorghe Mureșan.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rpubs.com&#x2F;msluggett&#x2F;189114" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rpubs.com&#x2F;msluggett&#x2F;189114</a></text></item><item><author>jaredtn</author><text>This is Berkson&#x27;s Paradox. Even if coding competition performance correlates positively with job performance in the general population (which it certainly does, given that most people can&#x27;t code), selecting for this attribute in the hiring process leads to a negative correlation <i></i>among those hired<i></i>.<p>Great write-up by Erik Bernhardsson, CTO of Better, here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;erikbern.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;13&#x2F;how-to-hire-smarter-than-the-market-a-toy-model.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;erikbern.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;13&#x2F;how-to-hire-smarter-than-the...</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_qulr</author><text>It should be mentioned that Steph Curry was drafted behind Hasheem Thabeet, Tyreke Evans, Ricky Rubio, and Jonny Flynn, among others.<p>Hiring is always a crapshoot. Pro sports teams spend a lot more time and money on talent evaluation than tech companies and still get it hilariously wrong all the time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Being good at coding competitions correlates negatively with job performance</title><url>https://catonmat.net/programming-competitions-work-performance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcolkitt</author><text>Simple analogy. There is no correlation between height and salary across NBA players.[1]<p>The naive conclusion would be that height has nothing to do with basketball ability. The real answer is that markets are efficient and are already correcting one important feature against other predictors. Steph Curry wouldn&#x27;t even be in the NBA if had the shooting ability of Gheorghe Mureșan.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rpubs.com&#x2F;msluggett&#x2F;189114" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rpubs.com&#x2F;msluggett&#x2F;189114</a></text></item><item><author>jaredtn</author><text>This is Berkson&#x27;s Paradox. Even if coding competition performance correlates positively with job performance in the general population (which it certainly does, given that most people can&#x27;t code), selecting for this attribute in the hiring process leads to a negative correlation <i></i>among those hired<i></i>.<p>Great write-up by Erik Bernhardsson, CTO of Better, here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;erikbern.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;13&#x2F;how-to-hire-smarter-than-the-market-a-toy-model.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;erikbern.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;01&#x2F;13&#x2F;how-to-hire-smarter-than-the...</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CapmCrackaWaka</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that this is the conclusion I would come to. Height is not something that can be changed, therefore it cannot be used as an adjustable variable to make that market efficient. You can&#x27;t train to be taller like you can train at coding competitions.<p>I would say that height is an advantage up to a certain point in basketball, but tall people are not especially rare. Within the market of basketball players, you can find tall people who also have other skills, sometimes you find short people (Steph Curry) who have exceptional skills.</text></comment> |
31,648,565 | 31,648,069 | 1 | 2 | 31,647,033 | train | <story><title>RFC 9114 – HTTP/3</title><url>https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9114</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nateberkopec</author><text>Why does HTTP3 still support server push? When Chrome dropped it from their HTTP&#x2F;2 implementation, I thought it was dead.<p>Cloudflare has also said they’re not implementing server push in their HTTP&#x2F;3 support and will instead encourage Early Hints.</text></comment> | <story><title>RFC 9114 – HTTP/3</title><url>https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9114</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akshayshah</author><text>This is great! Despite how little the draft has changed over the last year, many communities seemed reluctant to work on an implementation until the RFC was published. Go definitely fell into this camp. Kudos to .NET for shipping HTTP&#x2F;3 support in Kestrel already!<p>I have to say that I&#x27;m most excited for RFC 9110 (HTTP semantics), though :)</text></comment> |
8,038,482 | 8,038,411 | 1 | 3 | 8,036,707 | train | <story><title>PHP 5.7 now nearly twice as fast as PHP 5.6</title><url>http://ckon.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/php-5-7-twice-as-fast/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mfonda</author><text>Some clarification here about PHP versioning: the next minor version of will be PHP 5.6, which is still under development and has not yet been released. What is referred to as PHP 5.7 here is phpng, a <i>proposed</i> next major version of PHP. There&#x27;s a lot of confusion about version naming of PHP, so it would be great if the author and HN could fix the title of this post (i.e. s&#x2F;PHP 5.7&#x2F;phpng&#x2F;) as soon as possible to prevent spreading any further misinformation.</text></comment> | <story><title>PHP 5.7 now nearly twice as fast as PHP 5.6</title><url>http://ckon.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/php-5-7-twice-as-fast/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drakaal</author><text>The author doesn&#x27;t seem to say anything accurate. This isn&#x27;t going to be 5.7. My understanding is that since there is something that is not this that is 6.x and that since this would be a major rev that this is more likely to be 7.x than 5.7<p>Then there is the magic &quot;100% faster&quot; but there isn&#x27;t an explanation of what makes it faster, or what types of things will be faster. Is it faster for Computation? Faster for String manipulation? Is this mostly just memory access? Will Wordpress be faster? or things build on Zend? Or Drupal? Who will see this be faster?<p>I want to be excited. I don&#x27;t really like PHP but I support a lot of it, and speed and stability would be great things to have improved, but I want a &quot;why&quot; that goes beyond, &quot;The secret to this performance increase is that nearly 60% of cpu instructions have been “retired” by more efficient code&quot;</text></comment> |
25,720,343 | 25,718,845 | 1 | 3 | 25,716,581 | train | <story><title>Algorithms for Decision Making</title><url>http://algorithmsbook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_zhqs</author><text>I can also recommend &quot;Algorithms to Live By&quot;, by Brian Christian &amp; Tom Griffiths. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Decisions&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1627790365" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Deci...</a><p>Super accessible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aiprof</author><text>I recommend that one to my students. I also recommend Brian&#x27;s new book titled &quot;The Alignment Problem&quot; and it is cited in the book.</text></comment> | <story><title>Algorithms for Decision Making</title><url>http://algorithmsbook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_zhqs</author><text>I can also recommend &quot;Algorithms to Live By&quot;, by Brian Christian &amp; Tom Griffiths. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Decisions&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1627790365" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Deci...</a><p>Super accessible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OkGoDoIt</author><text>Yeah, that was a really great book. Also has a well-produced narration available on Audible that I listened to. I recommend it.</text></comment> |
31,661,754 | 31,661,825 | 1 | 2 | 31,661,464 | train | <story><title>'Old white guy' can move forward with workplace bias suit against AT&T</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/old-white-guy-can-move-forward-with-workplace-bias-suit-against-att-2022-06-07/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yieldcrv</author><text>&gt; Employees who have historically been entrenched in the majority are also entitled to protection under laws that were intended to assure equal treatment for women and racial minorities.<p>To me this is obvious. A plain reading of EOCC employment discrimination regulations make this obvious.<p>The mere fact that this is deemed as &quot;novel&quot; or newsworthy or intriguing is a poor reflection of society itself. Fortunately the judges all understand it, even if this diverges so heavily from the general population (including employer&#x27;s) understanding of race and sex inclusion&#x2F;discrimination.<p>But it kind of reminds me of academia, when all the students get it wrong, then maybe its the teacher! Leaving everyone to their own devices to implement an abstract concept of DEI and Affirmative Action keeps leading to the same implementation flaws and polarizing resentment over and over and over again.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Old white guy' can move forward with workplace bias suit against AT&T</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/old-white-guy-can-move-forward-with-workplace-bias-suit-against-att-2022-06-07/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MontyCarloHall</author><text>&gt;The complaint recounts an incident, for instance, about Johnson telling DiBenedetto in 2020 that he expected to retire in a couple of years. DiBenedetto said he was interested in applying for his boss’ job. Johnson allegedly noted DiBenedetto’s short &quot;runway.&quot; According to DiBenedetto, the boss said, “In these roles, you know, you&#x27;ve got to be able to adapt and move, and I&#x27;m not saying you can&#x27;t, but a 58-year-old white guy, I don&#x27;t know if that&#x27;s going to happen.”<p>Oof. Seems like an open and shut case if that last quote (or others of its ilk) can be proven to have been said.</text></comment> |
38,837,041 | 38,834,913 | 1 | 3 | 38,833,747 | train | <story><title>Writing a TrueType font renderer</title><url>https://axleos.com/writing-a-truetype-font-renderer/</url><text>Hi HN, happy new year!<p>TrueType is really a neat and fun format, packed with esoterica. This post gives some background on the problem of text rendering in general, explains how TrueType works under the hood, and contains lots of tidbits that I hope will be interesting.<p>There’s also a bunch of screenshots of the in-progress renderer stumbling over itself. I hope you enjoy the read!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sokoloff</author><text>The first startup I worked at was a TrueType font specialist. We had one of the best auto-hinters and decent manual tooling for improving the auto-hinting.<p>Ultimately, we ran out of traction and money as the CDs full of 100 fonts for $10 came out, but we did some of the original System 7 and Win 3.1 fonts.<p>It is a cool format and stack-based language and was an enjoyable and educational time in my career.</text></comment> | <story><title>Writing a TrueType font renderer</title><url>https://axleos.com/writing-a-truetype-font-renderer/</url><text>Hi HN, happy new year!<p>TrueType is really a neat and fun format, packed with esoterica. This post gives some background on the problem of text rendering in general, explains how TrueType works under the hood, and contains lots of tidbits that I hope will be interesting.<p>There’s also a bunch of screenshots of the in-progress renderer stumbling over itself. I hope you enjoy the read!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevingadd</author><text>I really appreciate that you provided a bunch of screenshots of the in-progress development. Graphics programming is very challenging, and it can be frustrating to feel like you&#x27;ve spent multiple days just rendering glitch art. It&#x27;s always good to show others how much we struggle even if we&#x27;re experts :)<p>Having recently implemented a subset of opentype kerning, I can only imagine how stressful it was to implement the whole core truetype spec...</text></comment> |
8,463,879 | 8,463,840 | 1 | 2 | 8,463,471 | train | <story><title>How Google Works</title><url>http://www.slideshare.net/ericschmidt76/how-google-works-final-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DonPellegrino</author><text>I was under the impression that the work load at Google is so heavy that it is almost impossible to get &quot;20% time&quot; anymore. During what time did you work on your idea? Are they freeing you of all responsibilities to build your prototype or do they expect you to do it in your free time and then donate it to the company?<p>Thanks, I&#x27;m very curious about this aspect of Google&#x27;s culture.</text></item><item><author>q_revert</author><text>I started work at google pretty recently, and expressed an interest in working on a particular project. I made some notes about some of my ideas, and was putting some stuff together to show to one of the teams, to get some input before prototyping.<p>I asked a senior team member to have a look at the notes I had made, and see if they were ready to show to the wider team.<p>His advice?<p>&quot;Go build something, then we can have meetings&quot;<p>Coming from an academic background I find this type of thinking very refreshing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cromwellian</author><text>I think it depends. If you&#x27;re working on something with a hard upcoming deadline, chances are you have no 20% time. If you&#x27;re working on a launched product in incremental&#x2F;maintenance mode, chances are you have extra time.<p>Sometimes greenfield projects or rewrites also permit lots of 20% time, because you&#x27;ve got existing implementations, so you can have some people maintain the old one and some people go work on the new rewrite using new tech.<p>I&#x27;m one of the unlucky ones with very little free time at the moment. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>How Google Works</title><url>http://www.slideshare.net/ericschmidt76/how-google-works-final-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DonPellegrino</author><text>I was under the impression that the work load at Google is so heavy that it is almost impossible to get &quot;20% time&quot; anymore. During what time did you work on your idea? Are they freeing you of all responsibilities to build your prototype or do they expect you to do it in your free time and then donate it to the company?<p>Thanks, I&#x27;m very curious about this aspect of Google&#x27;s culture.</text></item><item><author>q_revert</author><text>I started work at google pretty recently, and expressed an interest in working on a particular project. I made some notes about some of my ideas, and was putting some stuff together to show to one of the teams, to get some input before prototyping.<p>I asked a senior team member to have a look at the notes I had made, and see if they were ready to show to the wider team.<p>His advice?<p>&quot;Go build something, then we can have meetings&quot;<p>Coming from an academic background I find this type of thinking very refreshing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mgraczyk</author><text>I joined Google a few months ago and have not had this experience. The company is gigantic so everybody&#x27;s situation is a little bit different, but plenty of people still have 20% projects. The culture strongly emphasizes a &quot;build first and ask questions later&quot; attitude.</text></comment> |
37,900,744 | 37,900,037 | 1 | 2 | 37,897,113 | train | <story><title>Bootstrapping a SaaS Business in Germany: How I did it</title><url>https://lukashermann.dev/writing/bootstrapping-a-saas-business-in-germany/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>muhaaa</author><text>Why a GmbH in Germany? Sorry, that was not a good idea and will costs you money and nerves to fix that. Now you are locked into Germany even if your business can be operated from everywhere around the globe. If you move the GmbH out of Germany you have to pay GmbH fair value ; fair value according to German Tax Authority! Do a Holding GmbH + Operative GmbH to accumulate wealth tax efficiently. You could have your company on your name (Personengesellschaft) and operate from across the globe, especially with cheaper taxes and living expenses OR even found a GmbH-like company in a cheap tax haven and do vacation in Germany.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bootstrapping a SaaS Business in Germany: How I did it</title><url>https://lukashermann.dev/writing/bootstrapping-a-saas-business-in-germany/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>epups</author><text>This is a great resource, thank you very much! I have friends who opened small tech companies in Germany, and the prevalent feeling is fear. Fear of doing something wrong, not declaring the correct taxes, misunderstanding profitability, etc. This type of article makes the process much more understandable. I like the strategy of detailing which problems to ignore or push for later, this is very useful advice.</text></comment> |
8,968,607 | 8,968,518 | 1 | 3 | 8,968,172 | train | <story><title>Reddit transparency report, 2014</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/wiki/transparency/2014</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ipsum2</author><text>&quot;As of January 29, 2015, reddit has never received a National Security Letter, an order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or any other classified request for user information. If we ever receive such a request, we would seek to let the public know it existed.&quot;<p>Is this the warrant canary? Has this been around before?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danielweber</author><text><a href="https://github.com/WhisperSystems/whispersystems.org/issues/34#issuecomment-49910725" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WhisperSystems&#x2F;whispersystems.org&#x2F;issues&#x2F;...</a><p>Moxie saying &quot;Every lawyer we&#x27;ve spoken to has confirmed that [having a warrant canary] would not work.&quot; Which isn&#x27;t surprising. When the government tells you not to communicate something, you aren&#x27;t allowed to communicate it. Not not not not communicating it isn&#x27;t some clever loophole.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit transparency report, 2014</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/wiki/transparency/2014</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ipsum2</author><text>&quot;As of January 29, 2015, reddit has never received a National Security Letter, an order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or any other classified request for user information. If we ever receive such a request, we would seek to let the public know it existed.&quot;<p>Is this the warrant canary? Has this been around before?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thesimon</author><text>Nope <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/2fser0/shouldnt_reddit_have_a_warrant_canary_or_a_dead/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;TheoryOfReddit&#x2F;comments&#x2F;2fser0&#x2F;shou...</a></text></comment> |
3,944,145 | 3,944,151 | 1 | 2 | 3,943,406 | train | <story><title>The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/the-avengers-why-pirates-failed-to-prevent-a-box-office-record-120508/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tseabrooks</author><text>Torrentfreak's articles seem to get better and better. They note the ways in which piracy is hurting films (foreign sales) and show some numbers indicating that in the US it doesn't appear to be hurting sales much at all. While obviously torrentfreak can't ever be considered objective in regards to piracy, they seem to be getting closer each time.<p>Back on topic then, Does anyone have the background necessary to know if someone (anyone) is working towards disrupting the complicated publishing mess that keeps films from being available overseas for so long.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcampbell1</author><text>I am perplexed by your comment about overseas release dates. There has been an absolutely massive compression in release dates in the past 5 years. Most obvious blockbusters are now globally released, and the spread for smaller films has also been contracting.<p>Avengers was released overseas <i>prior</i> to the US release. A film like The Descendants was released 4 weeks early in NY/LA, and then foreign releases were only 6 weeks after the US release. That is insanely fast for a movie that could potentially have never made it out of NY/LA.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/the-avengers-why-pirates-failed-to-prevent-a-box-office-record-120508/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tseabrooks</author><text>Torrentfreak's articles seem to get better and better. They note the ways in which piracy is hurting films (foreign sales) and show some numbers indicating that in the US it doesn't appear to be hurting sales much at all. While obviously torrentfreak can't ever be considered objective in regards to piracy, they seem to be getting closer each time.<p>Back on topic then, Does anyone have the background necessary to know if someone (anyone) is working towards disrupting the complicated publishing mess that keeps films from being available overseas for so long.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcr</author><text>I certainly do not qualify for "have the background" but I do have some
information. One part is cost of reproduction; it's rumored to cost
$1,500 for each reproduced film reel set. The current work (that <i>I</i>
know about) is the move towards digital distribution.<p><a href="http://singularityhub.com/2012/04/27/movie-theaters-ramp-up-for-the-next-big-thing-satellite-delivery-of-digital-films/" rel="nofollow">http://singularityhub.com/2012/04/27/movie-theaters-ramp-up-...</a><p>Another part is translation. Though language barriers have been
decreasing during the last two decades, they still exist, and most
people prefer to watch movies in their native language, or at least have
subtitles in a language they know well.<p>Various "fan groups" release subtitled versions of their favorite anime,
and at least to some degree, this addresses the time delay of
translation. More importantly, the entertainment industry has been
slowly learning from the fan subbing groups. A good example would be the
partnership between entertainment companies (read: investors) and groups
like CrunchyRoll which does and distributes officially sanctioned,
subtitled (re)releases a short time after the programs have originally
aired.<p><a href="http://www.crunchyroll.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.crunchyroll.com/</a><p>Though the former could easily be considered just cost cutting, the
latter is undoubtedly due to pressure from alternate distribution
channels.</text></comment> |
24,337,395 | 24,336,329 | 1 | 2 | 24,334,731 | train | <story><title>Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/829858/281103f9c6fd0dc2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonhansel</author><text>I&#x27;m concerned about the gradual move from GCC to LLVM. The lack of copyleft protections on LLVM means that it&#x27;s much more dependent on corporate sponsorship, and means that there&#x27;s a risk that major improvements to LLVM compilers will only become available as proprietary products.<p>People underestimate the role of copyleft licenses in preserving long-running FOSS products like GCC, Linux, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/829858/281103f9c6fd0dc2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cbmuser</author><text>If we get the Rust backend for gcc finalized and merged first, it would be much easier to get Rust code into the kernel:<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;philberty&#x2F;gccrs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;philberty&#x2F;gccrs&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
30,547,713 | 30,546,705 | 1 | 3 | 30,545,680 | train | <story><title>One Humanity – DOOM 2 Level</title><url>https://romero.com/shop/p/onehumanity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jvolkman</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what it is about the original DOOM games, but I just haven&#x27;t felt the same joy playing any more modern shooters. Maybe it&#x27;s the experience created by Doomguy&#x27;s ridiculous running speed, or the sheer number of stupid monsters, or just nostalgia.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stared</author><text>It is not (only) nostalgia. I replayed Doom 1 &amp; 2 a few years ago. To my big surprise, it is still a masterpiece. It did not age much, similarly to Terminator 2, The Matrix, or The Lord of the Rings.<p>No talk, all action. Weapon and monster balance; each time you get plasma, you are happy; you muster all of your attention each time you encounter an archvile. Level design, mixing unsettling sceneries with mazes and puzzles. And you feel the frenzy of hell, with armies fighting with you and infighting each other.<p>For years the only remotely close thing to that was The Painkiller series. Recently we got Doom 2016 (which is beautiful, pace-wise, and atmosphere-wise) and Doom Eternal (mechanically faster, cartoony, and somewhat cheap story).</text></comment> | <story><title>One Humanity – DOOM 2 Level</title><url>https://romero.com/shop/p/onehumanity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jvolkman</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what it is about the original DOOM games, but I just haven&#x27;t felt the same joy playing any more modern shooters. Maybe it&#x27;s the experience created by Doomguy&#x27;s ridiculous running speed, or the sheer number of stupid monsters, or just nostalgia.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rvba</author><text>It is thr dynamism.<p>Also Doom had monstet infighting, that seems to exist mostly in other ID games and engines based on their games (half life has this great AI).</text></comment> |
21,591,590 | 21,590,549 | 1 | 2 | 21,589,647 | train | <story><title>Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible</title><url>https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2019/11/20/slack-rich-text-box/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tbabb</author><text>This reminds me of Atlassian&#x27;s god-awful WYSIWYG editor.<p>In both cases, I get that some users can&#x27;t or don&#x27;t like to use a machine grammar&#x2F;markup, however simple. For some people markup <i>is</i> bad UX. Give them a WYSIWYG; that&#x27;s fine.<p>But don&#x27;t <i>remove</i> the markup editor if your WYSIWYG editor is anything but a <i>perfect</i> one-two-one replacement for markup (and I have never seen one that satisfies that).<p>IIRC there was a time when Confluence axed their markup, and inevitably a table or a template would get completely screwed, and there was nothing you could do but recreate it. <i>TERRIBLE</i> design.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bartread</author><text>&gt; This reminds me of Atlassian&#x27;s god-awful WYSIWYG editor.<p>Oh my goodness: triggered.<p>I&#x27;ve barred the use of Confluence at our company specifically because of this.<p>&quot;But, but, we used it at blah company.&quot;<p>&quot;Yes, so did I at blahblah company, and it was unbelievably crappy and made me angry every time I had to edit a document: we&#x27;re not using it.&quot;<p>I <i>DO NOT</i> want to have to use what amounts to an extremely buggy, capricious, and neutered version of Microsoft Word 6 to edit the contents of a web page.<p>I will become extremely displeased with you if you waste my time by trying to persuade me it&#x27;s a good idea. It&#x27;s not.</text></comment> | <story><title>Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible</title><url>https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2019/11/20/slack-rich-text-box/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tbabb</author><text>This reminds me of Atlassian&#x27;s god-awful WYSIWYG editor.<p>In both cases, I get that some users can&#x27;t or don&#x27;t like to use a machine grammar&#x2F;markup, however simple. For some people markup <i>is</i> bad UX. Give them a WYSIWYG; that&#x27;s fine.<p>But don&#x27;t <i>remove</i> the markup editor if your WYSIWYG editor is anything but a <i>perfect</i> one-two-one replacement for markup (and I have never seen one that satisfies that).<p>IIRC there was a time when Confluence axed their markup, and inevitably a table or a template would get completely screwed, and there was nothing you could do but recreate it. <i>TERRIBLE</i> design.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Twirrim</author><text>&gt; IIRC there was a time when Confluence axed their markup, and inevitably a table or a template would get completely screwed, and there was nothing you could do but recreate it. TERRIBLE design.<p>There was. I was using Confluence at the time, and it broke a lot of things. There was a wonderful filed bug at the time with a lot of angry people on it, where they promised to bring the old mechanism back as an option, and they never did. That told me everything I needed to know about Atlassian.</text></comment> |
12,590,186 | 12,589,830 | 1 | 2 | 12,588,449 | train | <story><title>Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/technology/whatsapp-facebook-germany.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corndoge</author><text>This is false. Market dominance does not transform a proprietary product into a basic utility. What I mean is that simply because a proprietary product has a large mass of users does not mean the users have the right to demand that it be regulated like a public utility.</text></item><item><author>logn</author><text>&gt; Using the messaging service is a voluntary decision<p>Once a critical mass uses a messaging service, it&#x27;s not a completely voluntary decision, especially when there is no open standard with interoperable competing apps.</text></item><item><author>0xmohit</author><text>Quoting from the link:<p><pre><code> Facebook said on Tuesday, after the order had been issued, that
it had complied with Europe’s privacy rules and that it was
willing to work with the German regulator to address its
concerns.
</code></pre>
Two Indian students challenged Facebook on WhatsApp privacy policy changes [0]. The following is what WhatsApp counsel told [1]:<p><pre><code> Using the messaging service is a voluntary decision, we have
not forced anybody to use it. Users have an option of opting
out of it.
</code></pre>
Disclaimer: I don&#x27;t have an account on either Facebook or WhatsApp.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2016-09-20&#x2F;facebook-faces-indian-court-challenge-on-whatsapp-privacy-policy" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2016-09-20&#x2F;facebook-f...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;india-delhi-high-court-whatsapp-facebook&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;india-delhi-high-court-whatsa...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>I imagine the electric companies made similar arguments at the start of the 20th century.<p>&gt; Market dominance does not transform a proprietary product into a basic utility<p>Agreed. Isn&#x27;t it more that it becomes so ubiquitous and expected that it starts to be considered a basic utility by the public? In the case of social and IM it&#x27;s the network effect that matters - where are family and friends.<p>Once a certain tipping point was reached you&#x27;d be hard pushed to find many willing to live without mains water or electric. These days you&#x27;d be hard pushed to find many willing to live without internet, social networking, and IM chat. They&#x27;re becoming utilities, and quotes like from their counsel &quot;well just don&#x27;t use it, it&#x27;s optional&quot; ring, for the majority of the public, increasingly hollow.<p>Just as our definition of essentials, poverty, minimum income and inflation (in the UK at least) have all been adjusted to reflect the internet age and provide for internet connections, mobile phones etc, our defnition of utilities should too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/technology/whatsapp-facebook-germany.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corndoge</author><text>This is false. Market dominance does not transform a proprietary product into a basic utility. What I mean is that simply because a proprietary product has a large mass of users does not mean the users have the right to demand that it be regulated like a public utility.</text></item><item><author>logn</author><text>&gt; Using the messaging service is a voluntary decision<p>Once a critical mass uses a messaging service, it&#x27;s not a completely voluntary decision, especially when there is no open standard with interoperable competing apps.</text></item><item><author>0xmohit</author><text>Quoting from the link:<p><pre><code> Facebook said on Tuesday, after the order had been issued, that
it had complied with Europe’s privacy rules and that it was
willing to work with the German regulator to address its
concerns.
</code></pre>
Two Indian students challenged Facebook on WhatsApp privacy policy changes [0]. The following is what WhatsApp counsel told [1]:<p><pre><code> Using the messaging service is a voluntary decision, we have
not forced anybody to use it. Users have an option of opting
out of it.
</code></pre>
Disclaimer: I don&#x27;t have an account on either Facebook or WhatsApp.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2016-09-20&#x2F;facebook-faces-indian-court-challenge-on-whatsapp-privacy-policy" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2016-09-20&#x2F;facebook-f...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;india-delhi-high-court-whatsapp-facebook&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mashable.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;india-delhi-high-court-whatsa...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmytidey</author><text>Natural monopolies are very often regulated because of the negative side effects of not doing so.<p>Which is to say, market dominance has transformed products into utilities in the past.<p>You can argue that should not be the case, but, historically, it very much has been.<p>There&#x27;s surely a balance to be struck between incentivising firms to innovate by allowing them to earn profits when they develop a good product and allowing a firms to lock-in economic rents forever.<p>How you strike that balance is a value judgement about the kind of society you want to live in.</text></comment> |
20,372,509 | 20,372,548 | 1 | 2 | 20,357,995 | train | <story><title>Paul Graham's Keynote at Pycon 2003: The Hundred-Year Language</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>People typically don&#x27;t use Java for performance-sensitive real-time-ish applications. Most modern games are written in C++ still. Operating system kernels are written in C. When I think Java, what comes to my mind is something like LibreOffice.</text></item><item><author>wbl</author><text>Where is this consensus stated? The JVM seems to do quite well.</text></item><item><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>Why managed memory? The consensus seems to be that this gets in the way of predictable performance. GC is also non-trivial to parallelize.</text></item><item><author>kris-s</author><text>I think with the slowing progress of single threaded performance modern languages require three essential features if they want to be &quot;main branches&quot; of the language evolutionary tree.<p>1. easy parallelism<p>2. easy networking<p>3. managed memory</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>People typically don&#x27;t use Java for performance-sensitive real-time-ish applications. Most modern games are written in C++ still. Operating system kernels are written in C.</i><p>Those are 1&#x2F;100th or less of the type of code people write everyday, in startups, enterprise, cloud apps, even regular desktop and mobile apps...<p>&gt;<i>When I think Java, what comes to my mind is something like LibreOffice.</i><p>That&#x27;s written in C++</text></comment> | <story><title>Paul Graham's Keynote at Pycon 2003: The Hundred-Year Language</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>People typically don&#x27;t use Java for performance-sensitive real-time-ish applications. Most modern games are written in C++ still. Operating system kernels are written in C. When I think Java, what comes to my mind is something like LibreOffice.</text></item><item><author>wbl</author><text>Where is this consensus stated? The JVM seems to do quite well.</text></item><item><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>Why managed memory? The consensus seems to be that this gets in the way of predictable performance. GC is also non-trivial to parallelize.</text></item><item><author>kris-s</author><text>I think with the slowing progress of single threaded performance modern languages require three essential features if they want to be &quot;main branches&quot; of the language evolutionary tree.<p>1. easy parallelism<p>2. easy networking<p>3. managed memory</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zmmmmm</author><text>You put &quot;real time&quot; in there but that&#x27;s an extreme edge case. Modern GC in the JVM is now able to guarantee around 10 millisecond maximum pauses.<p>&gt; When I think Java, what comes to my mind is something like LibreOffice.<p>You should probably revise that thinking, since it is not written (at least in substantial ways) in Java. Moreover, desktop applications are probably not really the main use case for it (or any language other than web technologies) these days.<p>Java running on server processes or any long-lived computation sits in the top tier of performance. Not as fast as C&#x2F;C++ but in the same ball-park.</text></comment> |
37,797,435 | 37,797,430 | 1 | 2 | 37,796,863 | train | <story><title>SlowLlama: Finetune llama2-70B and codellama on MacBook Air without quantization</title><url>https://github.com/okuvshynov/slowllama</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SillyUsername</author><text>So I keep getting told &quot;Macs don&#x27;t use memory like Windows&quot;, &quot;8GB is fine for everything on Mac&quot; (with quotes from people who use it to Photoshop) and &quot;the SSD is so fast if you use virtual memory anyway it&#x27;s not noticeable&quot;...
Is 8GB suitable for LLM use like this, and has anybody actually used it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>LLMs are notoriously RAM-hungry. It’s not fair to judge what a MacBook comes with against what LLaMa2 needs. That is not normal use of a MacBook.</text></comment> | <story><title>SlowLlama: Finetune llama2-70B and codellama on MacBook Air without quantization</title><url>https://github.com/okuvshynov/slowllama</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SillyUsername</author><text>So I keep getting told &quot;Macs don&#x27;t use memory like Windows&quot;, &quot;8GB is fine for everything on Mac&quot; (with quotes from people who use it to Photoshop) and &quot;the SSD is so fast if you use virtual memory anyway it&#x27;s not noticeable&quot;...
Is 8GB suitable for LLM use like this, and has anybody actually used it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jzelinskie</author><text>Apple really shouldn&#x27;t sell Macs with less than 16GiB of RAM. The first set of M1s got some bad press because so many folks were plagued by pop-ups saying they were out of memory -- from heavy browser usage not even intense workloads.</text></comment> |
15,421,789 | 15,418,877 | 1 | 2 | 15,410,762 | train | <story><title>I was in the MAPS MDMA for PTSD study</title><url>https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/maps-mdma-ptsd-study-freed-childhood-abuse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corporateslave3</author><text>Was the threat to the traditional American way of life really the reason they were made illegal? It seems more likely that it was due to the unknown and possibly dangerous nature of the drugs. As a society we have always outlawed drugs that can drastically alter perception (aside from alcohol).</text></item><item><author>TheAdamAndChe</author><text>On one hand, I understand that psychedelics should be more studied than they currently are. On the other hand, I understand why they were originally banned. In a country that valued a monoculture and having a single way of life, psychedelics spurred a complete revolution with regards to social and cultural norms. It was seen as destabilizing, and a threat to the American way of life.<p>Nowadays, our country is very different. There is a widespread sense that there is no right or wrong way to live your life, and anyone who goes against multiculturalist viewpoints is labeled as ignorant or a racist. I think in this environment, the introspective, antiauthoritarian thought processes that psychedelic use brings about wouldn&#x27;t have nearly the kind of social impact that they had in the 70&#x27;s.</text></item><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>For decades, there has been a near complete effective block on medical research for certain classes of drugs. Timothy Leary and that kind of 60’s stuff chilled legitimate science. Only recently have small changes started to happen, to the point the government, the flipping FDA, has started to think Ectasy (MDMA) might be a viable treatment for some of our most horrible mental illnesses.<p>So many people wonder when science will let us do things. When will we land on the moon, when will we cure cancer (most cancer anyway, a handful have been effectively cured), when will all of mankind benefit from the next great insights? We ask this yet in a lot of ways, we won’t even open our minds enough to give it our best shot.<p>How much can x, mushrooms, ketamine et al really change devastated lives for the better under the right conditions? We may never know.<p>I fully respect the opinion of people who say these drugs shouldn’t ever be used, or that disagree with me on any issue in general. But I will never respect someone who doesn’t want to know the answers and the data.<p>It happens with drugs, gun control, so many political issues, people actually do not want, and even work against collection of, objective data. Of course of any given data set can be biased or flawed, and that has nothing to do with getting the best data you can, iterating, and improving it.<p>If we are opposed to something, it’s ostensibly for a reason right? Why would we ever not want to strengthen our argument, or discard it, based on better understanding of our “reason”?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>betterunix2</author><text>&quot;As a society we have always outlawed drugs that can drastically alter perception&quot;<p>Actually, in America nationwide drug laws began in the 20th century, and it had nothing to do with health or unknown effects. Opium was outlawed as part of a general effort to &quot;protect America&quot; from Chinese immigrants. Heroin was outlawed because a German company held a patent on it. Cocaine was outlawed because, according to the people in Congress at the time, it drove black men crazy and made it impossible to kill them with standard police-issue sidearms (also, according to an article from the New York Times just before cocaine was banned, Jews were selling it). Marijuana prohibition was principally driven by racism and as a form of regulatory capture by industries that competed with hemp.<p>LSD was discovered decades before it was outlawed and the effects were well understood before it was banned. LSD happens to be one of the safest recreational drugs; in fact, the biggest danger is the poorly regulated supply chain i.e. most &quot;LSD&quot; on the market today is not actually LSD (as with most drugs, the ban poses a greater health risk than the drug itself). The government conducted its own extremely unethical LSD study to determine if it could be used as a mind control drug (it cannot) and knew the safety profile long before the ban. LSD was banned because of concerns that it was contributing to the <i>moral</i> corruption of American youth (i.e. think of all those white teenagers out partying with hippies); in other words, it was viewed as a threat to the prevailing social order (probably not a coincidence that this coincided with the civil rights movement, which was a direct challenge to that social order).</text></comment> | <story><title>I was in the MAPS MDMA for PTSD study</title><url>https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/maps-mdma-ptsd-study-freed-childhood-abuse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corporateslave3</author><text>Was the threat to the traditional American way of life really the reason they were made illegal? It seems more likely that it was due to the unknown and possibly dangerous nature of the drugs. As a society we have always outlawed drugs that can drastically alter perception (aside from alcohol).</text></item><item><author>TheAdamAndChe</author><text>On one hand, I understand that psychedelics should be more studied than they currently are. On the other hand, I understand why they were originally banned. In a country that valued a monoculture and having a single way of life, psychedelics spurred a complete revolution with regards to social and cultural norms. It was seen as destabilizing, and a threat to the American way of life.<p>Nowadays, our country is very different. There is a widespread sense that there is no right or wrong way to live your life, and anyone who goes against multiculturalist viewpoints is labeled as ignorant or a racist. I think in this environment, the introspective, antiauthoritarian thought processes that psychedelic use brings about wouldn&#x27;t have nearly the kind of social impact that they had in the 70&#x27;s.</text></item><item><author>WhitneyLand</author><text>For decades, there has been a near complete effective block on medical research for certain classes of drugs. Timothy Leary and that kind of 60’s stuff chilled legitimate science. Only recently have small changes started to happen, to the point the government, the flipping FDA, has started to think Ectasy (MDMA) might be a viable treatment for some of our most horrible mental illnesses.<p>So many people wonder when science will let us do things. When will we land on the moon, when will we cure cancer (most cancer anyway, a handful have been effectively cured), when will all of mankind benefit from the next great insights? We ask this yet in a lot of ways, we won’t even open our minds enough to give it our best shot.<p>How much can x, mushrooms, ketamine et al really change devastated lives for the better under the right conditions? We may never know.<p>I fully respect the opinion of people who say these drugs shouldn’t ever be used, or that disagree with me on any issue in general. But I will never respect someone who doesn’t want to know the answers and the data.<p>It happens with drugs, gun control, so many political issues, people actually do not want, and even work against collection of, objective data. Of course of any given data set can be biased or flawed, and that has nothing to do with getting the best data you can, iterating, and improving it.<p>If we are opposed to something, it’s ostensibly for a reason right? Why would we ever not want to strengthen our argument, or discard it, based on better understanding of our “reason”?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>09bjb</author><text>I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a firm consensus on the reasoning, but it&#x27;s generally acknowledged that the Sch. 1 classification of the psychedelics was motivated to 1) quell their threat of cultural and political destabilization and 2) to keep hippies and blacks in check. The 60s were similar to Occupy Wall Street: there&#x27;s major (valid) fear on the part of the establishment when a radically different movement picks up steam. Psychedelics were (rightly) considered a partial fuel to the new movement.<p>I also agree that the U.S. is much less of a monoculture now and people generally agree that others should be able to live, think, and believe whatever and however they want.</text></comment> |
15,351,940 | 15,351,987 | 1 | 3 | 15,343,559 | train | <story><title>Programmers who want to change how we code before catastrophe strikes</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valuearb</author><text>&quot;For Lamport, a major reason today’s software is so full of bugs is that programmers jump straight into writing code. “Architects draw detailed plans before a brick is laid or a nail is hammered,” he wrote in an article. “But few programmers write even a rough sketch of what their programs will do before they start coding.”<p>I almost always dive in, but I almost always write my code twice. Essentially the first round is my rough sketch, the second is written when I fully understand the problem, which for me only occurs once I&#x27;ve tried to code it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Latty</author><text>Exactly. This is ignoring the fact that code is a more useful blueprint than anything else for programs.<p>I&#x27;m sure if architects had the ability to magically conjure building materials out of thin air and try things in real life for free, architecture would involve a lot more trying and a lot less planning.<p>Of course, I&#x27;m sure the article is talking about people just rushing into production code without thought, and I get that is a problem. It&#x27;s just when people make comparisons like that it can imply this horrendous future where we whiteboard program for months, which is just a terrible idea.</text></comment> | <story><title>Programmers who want to change how we code before catastrophe strikes</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valuearb</author><text>&quot;For Lamport, a major reason today’s software is so full of bugs is that programmers jump straight into writing code. “Architects draw detailed plans before a brick is laid or a nail is hammered,” he wrote in an article. “But few programmers write even a rough sketch of what their programs will do before they start coding.”<p>I almost always dive in, but I almost always write my code twice. Essentially the first round is my rough sketch, the second is written when I fully understand the problem, which for me only occurs once I&#x27;ve tried to code it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KirinDave</author><text>I feel like maybe they simplified Lamport&#x27;s sentiment here, because Lamport&#x27;s on record as pointing out that often times the minimal specification of code is the code itself, and that&#x27;s a very big difference from the architectural world.</text></comment> |
4,450,376 | 4,450,173 | 1 | 2 | 4,449,680 | train | <story><title>37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady</title><url>http://www.fastcompany.com/3000852/37signals-earns-millions-each-year-its-ceo%E2%80%99s-model-his-cleaning-lady</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jd</author><text>"To me that’s far more interesting than a tech company that’s hiring a bunch of people, just got their fourth round of financing for 12 million dollars, and they’re still losing money. That’s what everyone talks about as being exciting, but I think that’s an absolutely disgusting scenario when it comes to business."<p>Hilarious given that Jason Fried was on the board of directors of Groupon (his comments on this "disgusting scenario" here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617160" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617160</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klochner</author><text>Jason made it pretty clear that he was joining the Groupon board:<p><pre><code> * as a personal favor to Andrew Mason
* to get some board experience
</code></pre>
He emphasized:<p><pre><code> * he had not changed his stance on bootstrapping companies
* his board involvement was not an endorsement of groupon
* he sold his shares when given the chance
</code></pre>
So I guess I'm missing the hilarity, other than seeing you try to pick another fight with Jason Fried.</text></comment> | <story><title>37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady</title><url>http://www.fastcompany.com/3000852/37signals-earns-millions-each-year-its-ceo%E2%80%99s-model-his-cleaning-lady</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jd</author><text>"To me that’s far more interesting than a tech company that’s hiring a bunch of people, just got their fourth round of financing for 12 million dollars, and they’re still losing money. That’s what everyone talks about as being exciting, but I think that’s an absolutely disgusting scenario when it comes to business."<p>Hilarious given that Jason Fried was on the board of directors of Groupon (his comments on this "disgusting scenario" here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617160" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617160</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endtwist</author><text>I don't know if it's really that odd. Jason's feelings about the way a company <i>should</i> be run may have been at odds with the way Groupon was run. However, that wasn't what Andrew asked Jason to provide guidance on.</text></comment> |
26,316,260 | 26,315,750 | 1 | 3 | 26,315,039 | train | <story><title>3500 packages uploaded to PyPI, pointing to a malicious URL</title><url>https://twitter.com/DataNerdery/status/1366263351685226499</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>macksd</author><text>One of the things that the recent Python cryptography debate has highlighted to me is how much we depend on this distribution of libraries like this. In that case, it&#x27;s normal to just automatically get updates from a product and then one day, a whole bunch of software projects suddenly notice and, luckily, break (lucky, as opposed to being compromised). In this case, it&#x27;s normal to just type a project name in install software, with very little vetting done by many people. I want to work on someone&#x27;s web app, npm suddenly downloads the world. Who&#x27;s actually audited all that? I know I haven&#x27;t.<p>Not sure how we could fix it without slowing way down and doing a lot more work.</text></comment> | <story><title>3500 packages uploaded to PyPI, pointing to a malicious URL</title><url>https://twitter.com/DataNerdery/status/1366263351685226499</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CapriciousCptl</author><text>Here’s cupy’s postmortem—
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cupy&#x2F;cupy&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4787" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cupy&#x2F;cupy&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4787</a><p>Salient points being that cupy releases a new named package for each cuda version, so future package names are of course predictable. Since PyPi doesn’t allow namespacing, cupy’s plan is to register new names ASAP when cuda releases a new version and monitor and report other packages purporting to be cupy that get uploaded.</text></comment> |
34,385,603 | 34,385,136 | 1 | 2 | 34,384,936 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Robyn – A fast, extensible async Python web server with a Rust runtime</title><url>https://github.com/sansyrox/robyn</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thethirdone</author><text>It is a big red flag to me if a project claims &quot;fast&quot;, but does not prominently show benchmarks. Previously I have seen projects that claim to be the fastest which are 10x slower than alternative popular projects.<p>There are two major benefits I can see from making public benchmarks: 1. showing which other projects you are competing with and 2. having a benchmark suite you keep an eye on helps you actually make your project fast.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Robyn – A fast, extensible async Python web server with a Rust runtime</title><url>https://github.com/sansyrox/robyn</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>benreesman</author><text>Good bindings between Python and Rust are a win all around.</text></comment> |
30,386,892 | 30,384,256 | 1 | 2 | 30,377,931 | train | <story><title>Lessons Learned after $5B of M&A</title><url>https://tomtunguz.com/what-ive-learned-ma/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>These are the lessons from the selling side. From the buying side there&#x27;s a different set of lessons, like: they sold us junk that doesn&#x27;t really work, their people are leaving to another start-up the founder created, nightmarish regulatory violations that only pop up after the merger, having to re-build their entire tech stack&#x2F;accounts from scratch because it was all built by hand and held together with masking tape, contracts not discovered until after the merger, vetting all software licenses and use cases, the product not being able to integrate with your product like they claimed, 10 years of tech debt. Then there&#x27;s how much time and money you lose and risk you gain from not doing enough due diligence or not having an efficient onboarding&#x2F;integration process. I&#x27;ve been at large companies that were M&amp;A masters, and companies that have done dozens of M&amp;As and still can&#x27;t get a single one right.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lessons Learned after $5B of M&A</title><url>https://tomtunguz.com/what-ive-learned-ma/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tmcz26</author><text>We sold our 8-year-old startup last year, and boy do a lot of these bullet points ring true. We were very lucky that one of the founders was skilled at the M&amp;A game, or we would have underpriced it dramatically.<p>If you’re thinking about selling, I’d recommend hiring an advisor firm. They charge a 2-8% fee, but they are worth it. You get better valuations and help with the tricky clauses.<p>The one about losing leverage after term sheet, it depends. Our acquirer was a public company, so they had to announce the signing to the market. It would look really bad if the acquisition didn’t go through (stock jumped when TS was announced), so I’d say we had even more leverage then.<p>Edit: typo</text></comment> |
27,434,995 | 27,434,225 | 1 | 2 | 27,432,326 | train | <story><title>IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rascul</author><text>Who is richer? Forbes says he&#x27;s #1.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;billionaires&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;billionaires&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>Richest from running a public company [holding stocks] not necessarily the richest overall.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>He&#x27;s literally the richest man in the world. If the leaker&#x27;s purported motive is to expose tax avoidance by the ultrawealthy, it would be very strange for Bezos to <i>not</i> be in the leaked data.<p>I don&#x27;t think ProPublica describes in exact specificity the scope of the data, other than it contains &quot;the tax returns of thousands of the nation&#x27;s wealthiest people, covering more than 15 years&quot;. And it includes Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Mike Bloomberg, Carl Icahn, and Elon Musk — a group of guys who, along with Bezos, are not considered to be politically aligned.</text></item><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s any coincidence that Jeff Bezos specifically was leaked.<p>He has been straying into politics in DC very very heavily, and it looks like he&#x27;s making enemies. I suspect that is also the reason we see near-daily anti-Amazon posts on social media.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>&gt; <i>It&#x27;s everything we&#x27;ve already known.</i><p>&gt; <i>A more interesting question is how did ProPublica get a copy of Jeff Bezos&#x27; tax returns. Seems like a leak at the IRS?</i><p>Yes the actual tax records are what make the story interesting, even if the data only confirms what “everyone knows” — at least there’s actual data and empirical analysis of the scope.<p>According to this accompanying explainer, the leak is anonymous:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;why-we-are-publishing-the-tax-secrets-of-the-001" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;why-we-are-publishing-the...</a><p>&gt; <i>A second question certain to arise is the motives and identity of the source who has provided this data to ProPublica. We live in an age in which people with access to information can copy it with the click of a mouse and transmit it in a variety of ways to news organizations. Many years ago, ProPublica and other news organizations set up secure systems that allow whistleblowers to transmit information to us without revealing their identity.</i><p>&gt; <i>We do not know the identity of our source. We did not solicit the information they sent us. The source says they were motivated by our previous coverage of issues surrounding the IRS and tax enforcement, but we do not know for certain that is true. We have considered the possibility that information we have received could have come from a state actor hostile to American interests. In particular, a number of government agencies were compromised last year by what the U.S. has said were Russian hackers who exploited vulnerabilities in software sold by SolarWinds, a Texas-based information technology company. We do note, however, that the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration wrote in December that, “At this time, there is no evidence that any taxpayer information was exposed” in the SolarWinds hack.</i></text></item><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>Summary:<p>1. Capital Gain taxes are delayed until you actually sell the stock.<p>2. Corporate taxes are being reduced because companies are moving profits to foreign jurisdictions.<p>3. Estate taxes &amp; income taxes are being avoided by the creation of charitable foundations.<p>The 2nd and 3rd points are very valid, and I wish the author had spent more time on them. Unfortunately instead, the author spends much more time on point 1, conflating wealth with income, and avoiding the obvious argument that capital gains are <i>eventually</i> taxed - the rich are not escaping that.<p>...unless point 3 (foundation) occurs. And that should be the main story.<p>Squabbling over a wealth tax is not useful. The real issue is that the super rich create these personal &quot;foundations&quot; that act as never-taxed income holes, and then use them as personal and political tools.<p>In total, there&#x27;s nothing very revealing about this article. It&#x27;s everything we&#x27;ve already known. IMO, we need to curb foreign tax havens, and severely limit tax exemptions for charitable donations.<p>A more interesting question is how did ProPublica get a copy of Jeff Bezos&#x27; tax returns. Seems like a leak at the IRS?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michael1999</author><text>Forbes ranks public, acknowledged wealth. Regents, oligarchs, gangsters, opaque family trusts, etc. are out of scope.</text></comment> | <story><title>IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rascul</author><text>Who is richer? Forbes says he&#x27;s #1.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;billionaires&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;billionaires&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>Richest from running a public company [holding stocks] not necessarily the richest overall.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>He&#x27;s literally the richest man in the world. If the leaker&#x27;s purported motive is to expose tax avoidance by the ultrawealthy, it would be very strange for Bezos to <i>not</i> be in the leaked data.<p>I don&#x27;t think ProPublica describes in exact specificity the scope of the data, other than it contains &quot;the tax returns of thousands of the nation&#x27;s wealthiest people, covering more than 15 years&quot;. And it includes Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Mike Bloomberg, Carl Icahn, and Elon Musk — a group of guys who, along with Bezos, are not considered to be politically aligned.</text></item><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s any coincidence that Jeff Bezos specifically was leaked.<p>He has been straying into politics in DC very very heavily, and it looks like he&#x27;s making enemies. I suspect that is also the reason we see near-daily anti-Amazon posts on social media.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>&gt; <i>It&#x27;s everything we&#x27;ve already known.</i><p>&gt; <i>A more interesting question is how did ProPublica get a copy of Jeff Bezos&#x27; tax returns. Seems like a leak at the IRS?</i><p>Yes the actual tax records are what make the story interesting, even if the data only confirms what “everyone knows” — at least there’s actual data and empirical analysis of the scope.<p>According to this accompanying explainer, the leak is anonymous:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;why-we-are-publishing-the-tax-secrets-of-the-001" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;why-we-are-publishing-the...</a><p>&gt; <i>A second question certain to arise is the motives and identity of the source who has provided this data to ProPublica. We live in an age in which people with access to information can copy it with the click of a mouse and transmit it in a variety of ways to news organizations. Many years ago, ProPublica and other news organizations set up secure systems that allow whistleblowers to transmit information to us without revealing their identity.</i><p>&gt; <i>We do not know the identity of our source. We did not solicit the information they sent us. The source says they were motivated by our previous coverage of issues surrounding the IRS and tax enforcement, but we do not know for certain that is true. We have considered the possibility that information we have received could have come from a state actor hostile to American interests. In particular, a number of government agencies were compromised last year by what the U.S. has said were Russian hackers who exploited vulnerabilities in software sold by SolarWinds, a Texas-based information technology company. We do note, however, that the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration wrote in December that, “At this time, there is no evidence that any taxpayer information was exposed” in the SolarWinds hack.</i></text></item><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>Summary:<p>1. Capital Gain taxes are delayed until you actually sell the stock.<p>2. Corporate taxes are being reduced because companies are moving profits to foreign jurisdictions.<p>3. Estate taxes &amp; income taxes are being avoided by the creation of charitable foundations.<p>The 2nd and 3rd points are very valid, and I wish the author had spent more time on them. Unfortunately instead, the author spends much more time on point 1, conflating wealth with income, and avoiding the obvious argument that capital gains are <i>eventually</i> taxed - the rich are not escaping that.<p>...unless point 3 (foundation) occurs. And that should be the main story.<p>Squabbling over a wealth tax is not useful. The real issue is that the super rich create these personal &quot;foundations&quot; that act as never-taxed income holes, and then use them as personal and political tools.<p>In total, there&#x27;s nothing very revealing about this article. It&#x27;s everything we&#x27;ve already known. IMO, we need to curb foreign tax havens, and severely limit tax exemptions for charitable donations.<p>A more interesting question is how did ProPublica get a copy of Jeff Bezos&#x27; tax returns. Seems like a leak at the IRS?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bidirectional</author><text>People whose wealth cannot be calculated as known equity valuation * disclosed equity held. That doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean anyone is richer, but they very well could be.</text></comment> |
17,470,824 | 17,469,789 | 1 | 2 | 17,467,498 | train | <story><title>Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?</title><url>https://www.eater.com/2018/7/3/17531192/vertical-farming-agriculture-hydroponic-greens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikro2nd</author><text>The &quot;breakthrough tech&quot; I&#x27;m NOT seeing:<p>There&#x27;s all the excitement over electric cars and electrical trucks, and I, for one, can&#x27;t wait to get an electrically powered car I don&#x27;t have to drive. But the thing I&#x27;m not seeing is electrically powered farm machinery. I think people underestimate just how hard that problem is. These machines, when they&#x27;re working at peak times of the year (planting time, harvest) are required to work 24 hours a day for weeks on end. There&#x27;s no time to stop for a recharge, and something like a harvester or large tractor pulling ploughs or a planter uses a &#x2F;hell&#x2F; of a lot of power. Even assuming some sort of swap-out battery system, I&#x27;d guess that each machine would need something on the order of three to five battery packs in order to keep up with the work demand. And at the busy times of year even a moderately sized farm will have at least three to five machines working at the same time.<p>Is anyone aware of companies developing real (not prototype&#x2F;PoC) large-scale farm machinery?</text></item><item><author>rmason</author><text>In a word no. I spent twenty years as a fertilizer agronomist and I&#x27;m very familiar with the costs of producing a crop.<p>The numbers simply do not work. Even when they tried in Detroit and got buildings for five cents on the dollar they couldn&#x27;t make it work.<p>The investors funding these enterprises do not understand agricultural economics. I keep investigating these stories looking for some kind of &#x27;breakthrough tech&#x27; that would dramatically reduce costs or increase yields. I&#x27;ve been tracking these vertical greenhouses for fifteen years, they open and a couple of years later they&#x27;re gone.<p>I think what could change things for produce is solar cells and electric trucks. It would isolate producers transportation costs from oil prices and lower the cost of getting produce to the cities. I know technology is quickly improving in both battery technology and solar cells.</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of misunderstanding of agriculture in this thread.<p>1) No, land is not expensive. In agricultural areas, land is quite cheap. Organizing shelves of crops vertically solves for a problem that isn&#x27;t actually a problem.<p>2) The sun is free and electricity isn&#x27;t cheap. Putting plants indoors and then buying electricity to create light is going to be expensive compared to using the free sun. (The absurdity of putting solar panels on a roof to make electricity to beam LEDs on plants, losing 90% of the energy along the way, shouldn&#x27;t be lost on anyone.)<p>3) Shipping is cheap. It may make us feel good that a salad&#x27;s greens were created on a roof-top in Brooklyn, but using some of the most expensive real-estate on Earth to save a few cents on shipping is beyond economically irrational.<p>I actually love the idea of hydroponics for another reason entirely: it saves a ton of water. Water is a real problem worth solving, particularly in the dry west. Focus on this and forget about all of these other non-benefits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>audunw</author><text>Is this really that important though? I haven&#x27;t numbers that indicate that farming machinery is such a big share of the oil consumption.<p>My thoughts on these things is, if we can cut 90% of gasoline&#x2F;diesel use with BEVs and PHEVs, then the last 10% could feasibly be fueld by renewable hydrocarbons. The development after that is up to the markets.. probably pure BEV will be preferred over time as batteries get better and we develop new solutions.<p>Why would you need three to five packs? A pack can generally charge as fast as it can discharge.. you should only need two if you have a fast charging system.<p>The problem is if the machines is only used part of the year. For the cost of a battery pack to make sense, it should be used as much as possible. If it&#x27;s idle for large parts of the year and it can&#x27;t be used for anything else, it&#x27;ll be hard to justify the cost. Maybe they can double as grid storage?</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?</title><url>https://www.eater.com/2018/7/3/17531192/vertical-farming-agriculture-hydroponic-greens</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikro2nd</author><text>The &quot;breakthrough tech&quot; I&#x27;m NOT seeing:<p>There&#x27;s all the excitement over electric cars and electrical trucks, and I, for one, can&#x27;t wait to get an electrically powered car I don&#x27;t have to drive. But the thing I&#x27;m not seeing is electrically powered farm machinery. I think people underestimate just how hard that problem is. These machines, when they&#x27;re working at peak times of the year (planting time, harvest) are required to work 24 hours a day for weeks on end. There&#x27;s no time to stop for a recharge, and something like a harvester or large tractor pulling ploughs or a planter uses a &#x2F;hell&#x2F; of a lot of power. Even assuming some sort of swap-out battery system, I&#x27;d guess that each machine would need something on the order of three to five battery packs in order to keep up with the work demand. And at the busy times of year even a moderately sized farm will have at least three to five machines working at the same time.<p>Is anyone aware of companies developing real (not prototype&#x2F;PoC) large-scale farm machinery?</text></item><item><author>rmason</author><text>In a word no. I spent twenty years as a fertilizer agronomist and I&#x27;m very familiar with the costs of producing a crop.<p>The numbers simply do not work. Even when they tried in Detroit and got buildings for five cents on the dollar they couldn&#x27;t make it work.<p>The investors funding these enterprises do not understand agricultural economics. I keep investigating these stories looking for some kind of &#x27;breakthrough tech&#x27; that would dramatically reduce costs or increase yields. I&#x27;ve been tracking these vertical greenhouses for fifteen years, they open and a couple of years later they&#x27;re gone.<p>I think what could change things for produce is solar cells and electric trucks. It would isolate producers transportation costs from oil prices and lower the cost of getting produce to the cities. I know technology is quickly improving in both battery technology and solar cells.</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of misunderstanding of agriculture in this thread.<p>1) No, land is not expensive. In agricultural areas, land is quite cheap. Organizing shelves of crops vertically solves for a problem that isn&#x27;t actually a problem.<p>2) The sun is free and electricity isn&#x27;t cheap. Putting plants indoors and then buying electricity to create light is going to be expensive compared to using the free sun. (The absurdity of putting solar panels on a roof to make electricity to beam LEDs on plants, losing 90% of the energy along the way, shouldn&#x27;t be lost on anyone.)<p>3) Shipping is cheap. It may make us feel good that a salad&#x27;s greens were created on a roof-top in Brooklyn, but using some of the most expensive real-estate on Earth to save a few cents on shipping is beyond economically irrational.<p>I actually love the idea of hydroponics for another reason entirely: it saves a ton of water. Water is a real problem worth solving, particularly in the dry west. Focus on this and forget about all of these other non-benefits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cjrp</author><text>This may be a stupid idea, but is there any reason that this kind of heavy machinery needs a battery and couldn&#x27;t just be connected to a power source via a (admittedly, very long) cable?</text></comment> |
3,285,877 | 3,285,846 | 1 | 3 | 3,285,742 | train | <story><title>50% of neuroscience papers suffer from a major statistical error.</title><url>http://www.badscience.net/2011/10/what-if-academics-were-as-dumb-as-quacks-with-statistics/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>polyfractal</author><text>In academic biology, statistics is routinely considered an afterthought. In the eyes of many labs/PIs, their results are already real. You just have to do those damn statistical tests so the editor will get off your back.<p>Most biologists don't understand statistics either. To the majority, the unpaired T-Test is the only test that is needed. Ever. Doesn't matter if you have one or two tails, paired or unpaired trials, normally distributed population or skewed. Most biologists don't take proper statistics classes and most just don't care. I doubt most biologists would even be able to name alternative statistical tests.</text></comment> | <story><title>50% of neuroscience papers suffer from a major statistical error.</title><url>http://www.badscience.net/2011/10/what-if-academics-were-as-dumb-as-quacks-with-statistics/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gizmo</author><text>Not to nitpick, but the headline "50% of neuroscience papers suffer from a major statistical error." is false. Out of a sample of 513 papers 78 contained this specific mistake.</text></comment> |
13,057,754 | 13,057,636 | 1 | 3 | 13,056,007 | train | <story><title>Visualizing How Developers Rate Their Own Programming Skills</title><url>http://minimaxir.com/2016/07/stack-overflow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edblarney</author><text>&quot;I used to be a lot better at clever algorithmic stuff. Now my focus is on clean maintainable code and getting the higher level architecture right, so that I don&#x27;t need clever algorithmic stuff.&quot;<p>This.<p>&#x27;Clever&#x27; is BS.<p>There&#x27;s way too much &#x27;clever&#x27; going on in high tech, and way too many people interviewing for the wrong skills.<p>I used to be very clever as well, today, I don&#x27;t think I could get a job at Google (not that I care) - but I think those interview styles are upside down.<p>These days I look at Eng. more like construction or plumbing: most of it is not rocket science, really. You don&#x27;t want new or fancy anything unless you have to.<p>Good code should be <i>boring</i> and read like English. There should be nothing special about it, unless the problem space really calls for it.<p>The paradox is - simple code is not psychologically impressive, at least to some people.<p>I&#x27;m actually trying to develop an interview method that will allow me to measure this.<p>Clever is expensive, dangerous, and usually not worth it.<p>In fact - if you&#x27;re trying to do something clever, it might be a sign that something is wrong. There is probably a library for that.<p>One caveat: it&#x27;s good to have done a bunch of clever but not-so-useful things in the past, because when I use a library for something, I know what&#x27;s going on - that&#x27;s worth something.<p>Sometimes I feel that first 2 years in dev is basically &#x27;training&#x27; - and I wonder if someone with &lt; 2 years experience should even be writing production code.</text></item><item><author>collyw</author><text>Move jobs a few times, inherit some crappy application and look at the code that others write, that has done the opposite for me.<p>Though a lot depends on what you define as being a good programmer. I used to be a lot better at clever algorithmic stuff. Now my focus is on clean maintainable code and getting the higher level architecture right, so that I don&#x27;t need clever algorithmic stuff.</text></item><item><author>ivanhoe</author><text>My own perceived rating significantly lowered with the rise of social networks. As you start to follow more closely some really great programmers out there, you stop comparing yourself with your peers and start comparing against the best in the game... and that is self-confidence killer :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lacampbell</author><text>I must admit I am wary of this attitude. I&#x27;ve worked at places where lambdas are clever, or generics are clever, or writing constructors that take arguments is clever, using LINQ on collections is clever, refactoring copy-pasted code into methods is super clever, etc etc.<p>One mans clever is another mans blindingly obvious. Should we always work to a lowest common denominator?</text></comment> | <story><title>Visualizing How Developers Rate Their Own Programming Skills</title><url>http://minimaxir.com/2016/07/stack-overflow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edblarney</author><text>&quot;I used to be a lot better at clever algorithmic stuff. Now my focus is on clean maintainable code and getting the higher level architecture right, so that I don&#x27;t need clever algorithmic stuff.&quot;<p>This.<p>&#x27;Clever&#x27; is BS.<p>There&#x27;s way too much &#x27;clever&#x27; going on in high tech, and way too many people interviewing for the wrong skills.<p>I used to be very clever as well, today, I don&#x27;t think I could get a job at Google (not that I care) - but I think those interview styles are upside down.<p>These days I look at Eng. more like construction or plumbing: most of it is not rocket science, really. You don&#x27;t want new or fancy anything unless you have to.<p>Good code should be <i>boring</i> and read like English. There should be nothing special about it, unless the problem space really calls for it.<p>The paradox is - simple code is not psychologically impressive, at least to some people.<p>I&#x27;m actually trying to develop an interview method that will allow me to measure this.<p>Clever is expensive, dangerous, and usually not worth it.<p>In fact - if you&#x27;re trying to do something clever, it might be a sign that something is wrong. There is probably a library for that.<p>One caveat: it&#x27;s good to have done a bunch of clever but not-so-useful things in the past, because when I use a library for something, I know what&#x27;s going on - that&#x27;s worth something.<p>Sometimes I feel that first 2 years in dev is basically &#x27;training&#x27; - and I wonder if someone with &lt; 2 years experience should even be writing production code.</text></item><item><author>collyw</author><text>Move jobs a few times, inherit some crappy application and look at the code that others write, that has done the opposite for me.<p>Though a lot depends on what you define as being a good programmer. I used to be a lot better at clever algorithmic stuff. Now my focus is on clean maintainable code and getting the higher level architecture right, so that I don&#x27;t need clever algorithmic stuff.</text></item><item><author>ivanhoe</author><text>My own perceived rating significantly lowered with the rise of social networks. As you start to follow more closely some really great programmers out there, you stop comparing yourself with your peers and start comparing against the best in the game... and that is self-confidence killer :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koja86</author><text>This! So much this! (Unfortunately my single up-vote is not enough to help you sir.)<p>Unnecessary complexity is god-mother of all evil (premature optimization included). The goal is to use as simple (to understand and to maintain) means, code, idioms etc. as the problem you are solving allows. I know fancy stuff and I know when not to use it (i. e. almost always) and value simple robust code much more than fancy fragile crap.<p>Seems like more people are trying to solve easy problems by complex means than people trying to solve difficult problems by any means. Sad thing is by using unnecessary complex means even the simplest problem can be obscured beyond mental capacity of anyone. Welcome legacy spaghetti mess.</text></comment> |
39,161,517 | 39,161,467 | 1 | 2 | 39,159,188 | train | <story><title>Topaz Unicode</title><url>https://gitlab.com/Screwtapello/topaz-unicode#topaz-unicode</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pcherna</author><text>Nice. I worked at Commodore and was responsible (ish) for the new Topaz for OS 2.0. We had been told to replace Topaz with a sans-serif font, and we replaced it with a font originally called &quot;Clear&quot; that was on one of the Fred Fish disks.<p>There was a big argument over the lower-case L. It has a rightward curl at the base even though it&#x27;s sans-serif. This is widely seen now, but we had a lot of pushback at the time.<p>Topaz shipped in an 8-point and 9-point version. As I mentioned, we used Clear, maybe with a few mods (ampersand maybe), but that only existed in 8-point. I drew Topaz 9 sans-serif by starting with Topaz 9, and shaving off the serifs, and making minor tweaks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Topaz Unicode</title><url>https://gitlab.com/Screwtapello/topaz-unicode#topaz-unicode</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daneel_w</author><text>This is the version of Topaz that came with KS (Kickstart) version 1.x. Commodore revised the font for KS 2.x: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;csdb.dk&#x2F;gfx&#x2F;releases&#x2F;121000&#x2F;121035.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;csdb.dk&#x2F;gfx&#x2F;releases&#x2F;121000&#x2F;121035.png</a></text></comment> |
23,285,675 | 23,285,703 | 1 | 3 | 23,279,160 | train | <story><title>Netflix stops charging customers who never watch</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52777365</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan62</author><text>Netflix impressed me recently with how easy they made it for me to cancel my subscription. It means I will have no hesitation to re-subscribe in future, should I feel the urge.<p>I just wonder how long it will last. It sometimes feels like all the big successful consumer companies become accountancy-driven scumbags sooner or later. Fingers crossed Netflix can buck the trend and stay a nice company to deal with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devmunchies</author><text>I recently interview with netflix and talked with the director that manages the subscribe&#x2F;cancel flows. He said it&#x27;s an absolute priority to keep the cancel experience as easy as possible. He even talked down an idea to add an extra content or modals before the cancel experience.<p>I was impressed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Netflix stops charging customers who never watch</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52777365</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan62</author><text>Netflix impressed me recently with how easy they made it for me to cancel my subscription. It means I will have no hesitation to re-subscribe in future, should I feel the urge.<p>I just wonder how long it will last. It sometimes feels like all the big successful consumer companies become accountancy-driven scumbags sooner or later. Fingers crossed Netflix can buck the trend and stay a nice company to deal with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asdf123wtf</author><text>A lot of print publications will require a phone call or email to cancel even though you can manage all other aspects of your account digitally.<p>It&#x27;s a great way to ensure I&#x27;ll never return as a customer.<p>On the other hand, the &quot;pause subscription&quot; feature that many services are implementing pretty much guarantees that I&#x27;ll resubscribe (even if just for a little while) in the future - because inevitably, they&#x27;ll have something exclusive that I want to watch.</text></comment> |
6,403,979 | 6,403,993 | 1 | 2 | 6,403,852 | train | <story><title>The iPhone 5S and 5C</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2013/09/the_iphone_5s_and_5c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrmaddog</author><text>I really enjoy Gruber&#x27;s holistic reviews of Apple&#x27;s new devices. He doesn&#x27;t attempt to be Anandtech (whose reviews I found thoroughly engrossing and well written), but rather he paints a picture of how the device <i>feels</i> and how it fits into Apple&#x27;s larger strategy, which I find equally important.<p>One interesting thing I&#x27;ve discovered about Gruber&#x27;s columns is that you often have to read between the lines and get accustomed to how he presents his narrative. Praise for Apple is freely handed out, weaknesses are noted, and praise for other companies is guarded (when said company is in competition with Apple). For example, he notes the weaknesses of Siri in a generally positive sentence, and states that &quot;Google Now is faster.&quot; I think he would agree that Google Now is not only faster, but also provides better results with better comprehension, and really the only downside is that you can&#x27;t access it with a long-hold on the home button. That&#x27;s not something I&#x27;d expect Gruber to say. However, once I recognized how he couches his concerns, I&#x27;ve found that he has some of the most insightful, nuanced and thoroughly processed views about Apple overall.</text></comment> | <story><title>The iPhone 5S and 5C</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2013/09/the_iphone_5s_and_5c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>r0h1n</author><text>Gruber gets my goat like very few other writers do.<p>Not because he&#x27;s wrong, because he&#x27;s usually right.<p>Not because he&#x27;s shallow, because he&#x27;s usually very deep and insightful.<p>Not because he&#x27;s rude, because he&#x27;s polite even when dismissing other&#x27;s stupid observations.<p>It&#x27;s in spite of all this.<p>I think it&#x27;s because I know <i>before</i> reading a Gruber piece what <i>its conclusion will be</i>, namely &quot;Apple did something great, amazing and innovative. Here&#x27;s how and why.&quot;<p>There&#x27;s no surprise in his conclusions. If it&#x27;s about an Apple product or decision, I know what the ending will be.<p>P.S. Sure there may be a few times when Gruber has criticized Apple, but to me they feel statistically insignificant.</text></comment> |
40,439,963 | 40,431,641 | 1 | 3 | 40,431,145 | train | <story><title>How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default</title><url>https://tenbluelinks.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shombaboor</author><text>literally, how does anyone find this acceptable? It makes me feel dumb that I find this outrageous, like the emperor&#x27;s new clothes: y&#x27;all can see this too right?</text></item><item><author>jsheard</author><text>Your loss, I will keep expanding my brain with the wisdom of Googles powerful AI<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;g4qOU9a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;g4qOU9a</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsynnott</author><text>My strong suspicion is that, for, say, the CEO of Google, this is less about &quot;this will improve the product&quot;, or even &quot;LLMs are the future, so we should use them in the present even though they don&#x27;t work&quot;, and more &quot;this is what the markets, which are collectively kinda dumb, have decided they will reward this year, so we will appease them until such time as they move onto a new toy.&quot;<p>See Our Lord and Saviour the Blockchain; for a year or so practically every company was announcing some sort of blockchain thing. Did any of these come to anything? Of course not, but that was, when it comes to it, hardly the point.<p>LLMs are a particularly dramatic example, but I suspect the dynamic is, in reality, more or less the same as metaverses, blockchains, the _previous_ AI bubble (remember the year or so when everyone was announcing chatbots, until Microsoft Tay kinda scared everyone off it abruptly?), and so on.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default</title><url>https://tenbluelinks.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shombaboor</author><text>literally, how does anyone find this acceptable? It makes me feel dumb that I find this outrageous, like the emperor&#x27;s new clothes: y&#x27;all can see this too right?</text></item><item><author>jsheard</author><text>Your loss, I will keep expanding my brain with the wisdom of Googles powerful AI<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;g4qOU9a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;g4qOU9a</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>add-sub-mul-div</author><text>The retrospectives of this decade are going to be gloriously stupid.</text></comment> |
8,514,947 | 8,514,735 | 1 | 3 | 8,514,398 | train | <story><title>KDE makes Qt</title><url>http://pusling.com/blog/?p=362</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>istoica</author><text>I love KDE,I like QT, why is GTK the preferred toolkit on Linuxes these days ?
I would really like to see an objective analysis, I am not in the camp of KDE&#x2F;QT against Gnome&#x2F;GTK, but in modern times, what makes GTK a better goto choice in respect to other frameworks(QT, FOX, FLTK)?
Is it inertia, is it philosophy, is it technical details, is it licensing policy ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmsaksida</author><text>Just a thought: maybe KDE is the reason why GTK is so popular.<p>I&#x27;ve been a Linux user for roughly 14 years, and every time I try KDE, I can&#x27;t seem to give it more than 5 minutes. The KDE UX is like kryptonite to me. I feel like a senile old lady when I use it, unable to grasp what the hell is going on.<p>I briefly tried KDE again when GNOME 2 was killed, and I uncomfortably went back to GNOME. I deeply disliked GNOME 3, but at least I found it usable. (I eventually switched to XFCE).<p>I know KDE is a mature, large, beautiful project, but ultimately a desktop environment is about user experience, and KDE&#x27;s doesn&#x27;t click with me. I&#x27;m aware my experience is entirely subjective, but I suspect there are others like me who just can&#x27;t get used to the K. So we end up in GNOME, and by inertia resort to using and developing GTK applications.<p>I think it&#x27;d be very cool if there was something like XFCE for Qt. Maybe LXQt will play this role in the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>KDE makes Qt</title><url>http://pusling.com/blog/?p=362</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>istoica</author><text>I love KDE,I like QT, why is GTK the preferred toolkit on Linuxes these days ?
I would really like to see an objective analysis, I am not in the camp of KDE&#x2F;QT against Gnome&#x2F;GTK, but in modern times, what makes GTK a better goto choice in respect to other frameworks(QT, FOX, FLTK)?
Is it inertia, is it philosophy, is it technical details, is it licensing policy ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yoz-y</author><text>I think one of the main points is the language. GTK is a C framework, Qt is C++. A lot of people in Linux community prefer to use old school C. Also licensing was certainly an issue at some point. The open source project I was working on made the choice to use GTK because it was Free. If we had to make the choice now, again, we would choose Qt. But it is too late to rewrite years worth of code.</text></comment> |
13,822,843 | 13,822,669 | 1 | 3 | 13,821,109 | train | <story><title>Repairing My Tesla Model S Has Been a Nightmare</title><url>https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/07/repairing-my-tesla-model-s-has-been-an-utter-night.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeash</author><text>As far as I can tell, it&#x27;s a myth that manufacturers are required to continue making replacement parts for any particular period of time. A manufacturer needs to be able to fulfill its warranty obligations, which they usually do by manufacturing spare parts for at least as long as their customers have warranties, but that&#x27;s it.<p>This is definitely something Tesla needs to fix and soon. It shouldn&#x27;t be hard, so either I&#x27;m missing something or they&#x27;re doing as you describe in (2) and prioritizing new production over spares.</text></item><item><author>vkou</author><text>A few observations:<p>1. This is precisely why it&#x27;s important to legislate right-to-repair. This is why auto manufacturers are required, by law, to continue to manufacture replacement parts for their cars, long after they have stopped being sold. Hopefully, Tesla can get this figured out.<p>2. Soviet auto manufacturers had this exact same problem. They were incentivized to sell cars, not spare parts - so finding parts for repairing your broken Lada (Which was just as likely as not to be broken as it rolled off the assembly line) took a breads-and-fishes miracle.<p>3. What does this have to do with stock picks... Oh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>batmansmk</author><text>Having worked for several European manufacturers, I can tell you the R&amp;D division producing cars is small compared to the the aftermarket.<p>A few of the challenges:
- which parts to produce and when
- how many
- how to ensure there is stock everywhere (shipping is not an option on a large market, as it is too costly)
- how to make sure everybody knows how to mount the part
- how to guarantee that your official spare parts are used<p>Saying it is &quot;hard to keep up with the demand&quot; is a marketing way of saying &quot;we are not good at manufacturing&quot;.<p>Like software, it is easier to design the right car than fixing it after. But fixing defects or accidents is a necessity that no good design can prevent.</text></comment> | <story><title>Repairing My Tesla Model S Has Been a Nightmare</title><url>https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/07/repairing-my-tesla-model-s-has-been-an-utter-night.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeash</author><text>As far as I can tell, it&#x27;s a myth that manufacturers are required to continue making replacement parts for any particular period of time. A manufacturer needs to be able to fulfill its warranty obligations, which they usually do by manufacturing spare parts for at least as long as their customers have warranties, but that&#x27;s it.<p>This is definitely something Tesla needs to fix and soon. It shouldn&#x27;t be hard, so either I&#x27;m missing something or they&#x27;re doing as you describe in (2) and prioritizing new production over spares.</text></item><item><author>vkou</author><text>A few observations:<p>1. This is precisely why it&#x27;s important to legislate right-to-repair. This is why auto manufacturers are required, by law, to continue to manufacture replacement parts for their cars, long after they have stopped being sold. Hopefully, Tesla can get this figured out.<p>2. Soviet auto manufacturers had this exact same problem. They were incentivized to sell cars, not spare parts - so finding parts for repairing your broken Lada (Which was just as likely as not to be broken as it rolled off the assembly line) took a breads-and-fishes miracle.<p>3. What does this have to do with stock picks... Oh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stcredzero</author><text><i>This is definitely something Tesla needs to fix and soon. It shouldn&#x27;t be hard...</i><p>Ensuring that people get competent service and a good experience one step removed, remotely, is hard. That could be helped by fostering a customer culture of &quot;do it yourself&quot; then super-enabling customers and local service providers with great access to information, along with good logistics&#x2F;fulfillment.</text></comment> |
19,903,706 | 19,901,688 | 1 | 2 | 19,900,022 | train | <story><title>U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-23/u-s-farmers-need-a-better-way-to-fix-their-tractors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bricej13</author><text>Disclaimer: My father worked as an engineer for John Deere for 35 years. I interned at John Deere writing code that runs on the tractor controllers.<p>Discussions on this topic always end up one-sided and simplistic. Hopefully I can shed some light on the more nuanced reasoning behind John Deere&#x27;s position.<p>Having the DRM in place allows Deere to reduce manufacturing expense and increase platform flexibility. There is a very wide array of needs that farmers have based on what they do. Deere allows buyers to customize tractors to their needs for everything from engine horsepower, to wheel count, size, and type, cab quality-of-life, to hydraulic hookups for implements. Some of these changes are just a software change, while others are a software + hardware change.<p>Engine horsepower, for example, can be increased by a software update. Techincally, this is pretty cool. Designing and manufacturing engines is expensive. This allows them to manufacture fewer different engines that can cover a wider variety of use cases. It also allows farmers the flexibility to upgrade their engine horsepower at a future date. If I remember correctly each extra 50hp above the base costs ~10k, so the large configurations subsidize the cost of the base configurations.<p>With that understanding, think of how this can apply to Deere&#x27;s obligations to the EPA or to warranties.
Years ago, farmers found a hack where they could put a resister in-line between the diesel temperature sensor and the ECU and increase their horsepower. The hack spread like wildfire. This made the engines run in a configuration that had not been tested by Deere or approved by the EPA. Who would the EPA go after if it had caused emissions issues? Should Deere honor the warranty in this case of those who did the hack? How would Deere know if someone did the hack, borked the engine, then removed the resistor?<p>Liability is the enemy of automation. Deere has added some automation over the years, allowing the tractors to drive straight down the field without intervention, and executing perfect turns at the push of a button. This is functionality that no companies would let end users change. Much like my dad, a tractor is not a cell phone. Installing a custom rom on a cell phone is one thing, updating the autonomous driving of a 10 ton tractor is quite another.<p>There&#x27;s got to be some middle ground, but I don&#x27;t know what it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zelon88</author><text>&gt; Engine horsepower, for example, can be increased by a software update.<p>How do you see this as an asset? Deere designed a part that&#x27;s capable of doing something and your software chokes that back unless they poney up.<p>In manufacturing we have the same thing. You buy a CNC machine that comes equipped with 16mb of memory, but only 2mb is usable. If you want all 16mb (which already exists soldered to your motherboard) you need to pony up thousands of dollars for a 16 digit code that unlocks the added memory.<p>And you&#x27;re trying to tell me that by requiring the manufacturer to share that code is bad for the consumer? Yeah, you don&#x27;t sound like a shill or anything.<p>And no, Deere shouldn&#x27;t fix that under warranty. It&#x27;s the same with cars. You can do that trick to a Honda with a resistor in-line to the MAF sensor and it will run the car lean, giving the illusion of more performance while wearing out the engine and burning the combustion chamber way too hot. Should Honda fix that? No way! Should Honda let the customer do it anyway? Of course they should! Should Honda share the schematics with the customer so they not only realize that it&#x27;s a bad idea, but also know WHY it&#x27;s a bad idea? Yes.<p>Your argument is straw man. If you didn&#x27;t have secrets you wouldn&#x27;t need DRM. DRM doesn&#x27;t protect anyone except the edge-case of idiots who shouldn&#x27;t mess with the tractor even if you gave them the repair manual anyway. It&#x27;s strictly to protect Deere.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-23/u-s-farmers-need-a-better-way-to-fix-their-tractors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bricej13</author><text>Disclaimer: My father worked as an engineer for John Deere for 35 years. I interned at John Deere writing code that runs on the tractor controllers.<p>Discussions on this topic always end up one-sided and simplistic. Hopefully I can shed some light on the more nuanced reasoning behind John Deere&#x27;s position.<p>Having the DRM in place allows Deere to reduce manufacturing expense and increase platform flexibility. There is a very wide array of needs that farmers have based on what they do. Deere allows buyers to customize tractors to their needs for everything from engine horsepower, to wheel count, size, and type, cab quality-of-life, to hydraulic hookups for implements. Some of these changes are just a software change, while others are a software + hardware change.<p>Engine horsepower, for example, can be increased by a software update. Techincally, this is pretty cool. Designing and manufacturing engines is expensive. This allows them to manufacture fewer different engines that can cover a wider variety of use cases. It also allows farmers the flexibility to upgrade their engine horsepower at a future date. If I remember correctly each extra 50hp above the base costs ~10k, so the large configurations subsidize the cost of the base configurations.<p>With that understanding, think of how this can apply to Deere&#x27;s obligations to the EPA or to warranties.
Years ago, farmers found a hack where they could put a resister in-line between the diesel temperature sensor and the ECU and increase their horsepower. The hack spread like wildfire. This made the engines run in a configuration that had not been tested by Deere or approved by the EPA. Who would the EPA go after if it had caused emissions issues? Should Deere honor the warranty in this case of those who did the hack? How would Deere know if someone did the hack, borked the engine, then removed the resistor?<p>Liability is the enemy of automation. Deere has added some automation over the years, allowing the tractors to drive straight down the field without intervention, and executing perfect turns at the push of a button. This is functionality that no companies would let end users change. Much like my dad, a tractor is not a cell phone. Installing a custom rom on a cell phone is one thing, updating the autonomous driving of a 10 ton tractor is quite another.<p>There&#x27;s got to be some middle ground, but I don&#x27;t know what it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rfrey</author><text>These are all benefits for John Deere. I don&#x27;t think anybody thinks there is no incentive for JD to do this.<p>Reduced manufacturing expense - Yup, DRM and platform lock-down (machinery is a platform??) increases profits. Tractors sure aren&#x27;t getting cheaper on account of these &quot;improvements&quot;.<p>&quot;Platform flexibility&quot; is nothing more than the ability for JD to lock out capabilities of the machinery that the farmer supposedly bought, and sell it as an add-on later. Again, no doubt this is advantageous for JD, just as locking out portions of a game until later payment is advantageous for EA. It is still terrible for the farmer.</text></comment> |
36,508,020 | 36,506,833 | 1 | 2 | 36,500,935 | train | <story><title>Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66028773</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>camhart</author><text>CSAM is a real problem. Its not merely emotional weight.</text></item><item><author>grrywlsn</author><text>I’d argue their attempts at having a plan for CSAM were preempting these exact types of arguments being made in bad faith by governments like the UK, who are actively engaging children’s charities to give their goal of breaking e2ee have some emotional societal weight.</text></item><item><author>apexalpha</author><text>Didn&#x27;t apple also recommend on-device scanning for these kind of pictures as well a while ago?<p>Glad to see they now oppose it but it&#x27;s hard to gauge how sincere it is given their history of trying to implement it themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnFen</author><text>Of course. But that emotional weight is very often cynically used in order to get people to go along with things they consider unacceptable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66028773</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>camhart</author><text>CSAM is a real problem. Its not merely emotional weight.</text></item><item><author>grrywlsn</author><text>I’d argue their attempts at having a plan for CSAM were preempting these exact types of arguments being made in bad faith by governments like the UK, who are actively engaging children’s charities to give their goal of breaking e2ee have some emotional societal weight.</text></item><item><author>apexalpha</author><text>Didn&#x27;t apple also recommend on-device scanning for these kind of pictures as well a while ago?<p>Glad to see they now oppose it but it&#x27;s hard to gauge how sincere it is given their history of trying to implement it themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BLKNSLVR</author><text>&gt; give their goal of breaking e2ee have some emotional societal weight.<p>Breaking E2EE is their goal. CSAM is the McGuffin.</text></comment> |
3,921,880 | 3,921,254 | 1 | 3 | 3,920,918 | train | <story><title>Passwords For Your Facebook Account</title><url>http://www.labnol.org/internet/facebook-account-passwords/21241/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x0</author><text>You don't even need that. When you receive the password, you can compare the stored hash against:<p><pre><code> hash(password)
hash(password-inverted)
hash(password-first-upper-case)
</code></pre>
This way it'll work with an inverted password even on the first attempt (after this feature was implemented)<p>Edit: Going by my gut feeling only, this feels slightly more secure too... If the hashed password database is ever leaked, it feels like it would be easier to crack a password given the three related hashes, compared to just the one.</text></item><item><author>raquo</author><text>You don't need to store the password in plaintext, you can just capture the password from a successful login attempt and generate new acceptable hashes from different variations of it. That way you'd gradually add this feature for most of the active accounts.</text></item><item><author>tomkinstinch</author><text>This raises several questions:<p>Have they always done this, or is this new?<p>For those of us who haven't changed our Facebook password in years, does this mean that we don't get this option, or do we? And if we do, is Facebook storing our passwords in plaintext?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluesnowmonkey</author><text>I don't think that is correct. They'll need to generate and store hashes of all three variations on the plaintext password before discarding it. For example, given a password of "AaAaAa", where the user attempts to log in with "AAAAAA" (doh, capslock!), how would they guess which characters you intended to be uppercase and which not?</text></comment> | <story><title>Passwords For Your Facebook Account</title><url>http://www.labnol.org/internet/facebook-account-passwords/21241/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x0</author><text>You don't even need that. When you receive the password, you can compare the stored hash against:<p><pre><code> hash(password)
hash(password-inverted)
hash(password-first-upper-case)
</code></pre>
This way it'll work with an inverted password even on the first attempt (after this feature was implemented)<p>Edit: Going by my gut feeling only, this feels slightly more secure too... If the hashed password database is ever leaked, it feels like it would be easier to crack a password given the three related hashes, compared to just the one.</text></item><item><author>raquo</author><text>You don't need to store the password in plaintext, you can just capture the password from a successful login attempt and generate new acceptable hashes from different variations of it. That way you'd gradually add this feature for most of the active accounts.</text></item><item><author>tomkinstinch</author><text>This raises several questions:<p>Have they always done this, or is this new?<p>For those of us who haven't changed our Facebook password in years, does this mean that we don't get this option, or do we? And if we do, is Facebook storing our passwords in plaintext?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joejohnson</author><text>Given hash(password), how do they get hash(password-inverted)? That requires going from hash(password) -&#62; password -&#62; password-inverted -&#62; hash(password-inverted), right?<p>I think that first step (un-hashing) is impossible for a cryptographically secure hashing algorithm.<p>Edit: archivator explained it me :)</text></comment> |
25,909,558 | 25,908,929 | 1 | 2 | 25,906,339 | train | <story><title>Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell on North Carolina</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2021/01/remembering-night-two-atomic-bombs-dropped-on-north-carolina/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>Interesting story.<p>There&#x27;s also one missing off the coast of GA:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;templates&#x2F;story&#x2F;story.php?storyId=18587608" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;templates&#x2F;story&#x2F;story.php?storyId=185876...</a><p>&quot;On Feb. 5, 1958, a B-47 bomber dropped a 7,000-pound nuclear bomb into the waters off Tybee Island, Ga., after it collided with another Air Force jet. Fifty years later, the bomb -- which has unknown quantities of radioactive material -- has never been found.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yabones</author><text>There&#x27;s also the Damascus incident, where a Titan II missile silo exploded during a fuelling accident and sent a 9 megaton thermonuclear warhead out of the silo and several hundred meters away. They don&#x27;t officially say whether or not the core was inside the weapon, or if it was armed at the time... Either way, it&#x27;s terrifying. Humans don&#x27;t deserve these weapons.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_ex...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell on North Carolina</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2021/01/remembering-night-two-atomic-bombs-dropped-on-north-carolina/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>Interesting story.<p>There&#x27;s also one missing off the coast of GA:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;templates&#x2F;story&#x2F;story.php?storyId=18587608" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;templates&#x2F;story&#x2F;story.php?storyId=185876...</a><p>&quot;On Feb. 5, 1958, a B-47 bomber dropped a 7,000-pound nuclear bomb into the waters off Tybee Island, Ga., after it collided with another Air Force jet. Fifty years later, the bomb -- which has unknown quantities of radioactive material -- has never been found.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobarian</author><text>Another scary event off the coast of Spain: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1966_Palomares_B-52_crash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1966_Palomares_B-52_crash</a><p>Two of the four bombs exploded due to conventional fuses detonating, spreading radioactive material over land.</text></comment> |
15,763,472 | 15,763,056 | 1 | 2 | 15,762,530 | train | <story><title>How to Stop Advertising Notifications from the Google Photo App</title><url>https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/qwJMmOiAvZY;context-place=forum/photos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dingo_bat</author><text>&gt; The reason why I bought a Pixel from Google directly is because I do not like the adware and bloatware that comes pre-installed on phones from other carriers.<p>Bloatware mandated by google on all android phones:<p>1. Google+<p>2. Google Duo<p>3. Google hangout<p>4. Gmail<p>5. Google play music<p>6. Google play games<p>7. Google play movies<p>8. Google play newsstand<p>9. Google drive<p>10. Google sheets<p>11. Google chrome<p>12. Google maps<p>13. Google assistant<p>14. Google app<p>15. Google photos<p>16. Youtube<p>Seems like the author made a decision diametrically opposite to his desire. I literally use 4 of these 16 pre-installed apps. Keep in mind that these are non-removable too. You can disable them, but they will forever sit in the flash storage you paid for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daxfohl</author><text>It&#x27;s surreal to me that Microsoft faced years of legal repercussions worldwide for including a browser in their OS.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Stop Advertising Notifications from the Google Photo App</title><url>https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/qwJMmOiAvZY;context-place=forum/photos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dingo_bat</author><text>&gt; The reason why I bought a Pixel from Google directly is because I do not like the adware and bloatware that comes pre-installed on phones from other carriers.<p>Bloatware mandated by google on all android phones:<p>1. Google+<p>2. Google Duo<p>3. Google hangout<p>4. Gmail<p>5. Google play music<p>6. Google play games<p>7. Google play movies<p>8. Google play newsstand<p>9. Google drive<p>10. Google sheets<p>11. Google chrome<p>12. Google maps<p>13. Google assistant<p>14. Google app<p>15. Google photos<p>16. Youtube<p>Seems like the author made a decision diametrically opposite to his desire. I literally use 4 of these 16 pre-installed apps. Keep in mind that these are non-removable too. You can disable them, but they will forever sit in the flash storage you paid for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Larrikin</author><text>The silliest part of this is that Google phones specifically do not have removable storage so you&#x27;re forced to use a cloud service, most likely Google&#x27;s, for extra storage. Before the removal of the headphone jack this was one of my main reasons for avoiding the Nexus&#x2F;Pixel line.</text></comment> |
7,342,817 | 7,342,937 | 1 | 2 | 7,341,750 | train | <story><title>Going Through Y Combinator (YC S13): Lessons Learned</title><url>http://blog.zactownsend.com/going-through-y-combinator-s13-nine-lessons-learned</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minimax</author><text><i>Kirsty Nathoo spends the second half of the day describing the basics of corporate setup. She goes over all of the associated paperwork, the YC investment, the YCVC notes, and advice on what to spend money on. It was a fast, expert primer on corporate law, corporate finance, startup financing, benefits, payroll, and more.</i><p>Can anyone recommend a good book on VC finance? It&#x27;s hard to find anything that goes into much depth on the web.</text></comment> | <story><title>Going Through Y Combinator (YC S13): Lessons Learned</title><url>http://blog.zactownsend.com/going-through-y-combinator-s13-nine-lessons-learned</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alain94040</author><text>* In order to think through this, Dan and I walked around the same block in Mountain View several hundred times<p>Don&#x27;t. If your startup is trying to sell to small businesses, stop asking the business owners on Castro St. They already have more pitches than the VCs on Sand Hill road. They are bombarded with half-baked ideas on how to get more customers, make more money from existing customers, etc.<p>Long distance calls have been free for a while now: call some other state with no startup culture and pitch to those business owners. They&#x27;ll be both more receptive and more representative of the overall business population.</text></comment> |
36,974,545 | 36,974,638 | 1 | 2 | 36,971,826 | train | <story><title>Many people in finance, sales and management feel their jobs are pointless</title><url>https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2023/Jobs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JimtheCoder</author><text>&quot;I hope we can ask them to go play checkers with the elderly, read to children, hold hands with dying people in hospice, and mentor the formerly-incarcerated.&quot;<p>I think a large portion would choose video games over this...</text></item><item><author>bonniemuffin</author><text>Instead of telling people to play video games or go kayaking, I hope we can ask them to go play checkers with the elderly, read to children, hold hands with dying people in hospice, and mentor the formerly-incarcerated. These are &quot;jobs&quot; that I would argue robots cannot meaningfully fill, but which society would benefit from a lot more of.</text></item><item><author>chongli</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s going to be in any way easy to convince people that it&#x27;s okay not to be useful. No matter how times we care to repeat it, people will still feel dejected and hollow. &quot;What is the meaning of my life?&quot; is a difficult enough question to answer when you&#x27;re a philosopher who has studied the problem academically and you&#x27;re surrounded by other people going about their productive lives and overcoming various challenges in order to survive.<p>Now we&#x27;re supposed to have millions of people face the question and at the same time tell them &quot;no, there&#x27;s nothing useful for you to do, robots can already do it faster, cheaper, and more efficiently than you will ever manage.&quot; So, what? Do we tell everyone &quot;just go smoke weed and play video games&quot;? Or &quot;go kayaking and hiking and rockclimbing and find yourself in nature&quot;? The latter will not scale. Many natural places are already overcrowded and we don&#x27;t even have a post-work economic system in place.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>The &quot;Bullshit Jobs&quot; phenomenon was identified decades ago by Buckminster Fuller:<p>&quot;We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.&quot;<p>As more and more work becomes automated or done by robots, we have less and less to actually do, but with a growing population. So we make up all this work and have 1&#x2F;2 the population digging holes so the other 1&#x2F;2 can fill them in. I fully expect that by the time my [eventual] grandchildren enter the workforce, more than 50% (maybe more than 75%) of jobs will be make-work that just serves to employ people so that society doesn&#x27;t fall apart.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fugalfervor</author><text>What about &quot;video games with the elderly, video games with children, video games with dying people in hospice, and mentor the formerly-incarcerated in speedrunning&quot;?</text></comment> | <story><title>Many people in finance, sales and management feel their jobs are pointless</title><url>https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2023/Jobs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JimtheCoder</author><text>&quot;I hope we can ask them to go play checkers with the elderly, read to children, hold hands with dying people in hospice, and mentor the formerly-incarcerated.&quot;<p>I think a large portion would choose video games over this...</text></item><item><author>bonniemuffin</author><text>Instead of telling people to play video games or go kayaking, I hope we can ask them to go play checkers with the elderly, read to children, hold hands with dying people in hospice, and mentor the formerly-incarcerated. These are &quot;jobs&quot; that I would argue robots cannot meaningfully fill, but which society would benefit from a lot more of.</text></item><item><author>chongli</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s going to be in any way easy to convince people that it&#x27;s okay not to be useful. No matter how times we care to repeat it, people will still feel dejected and hollow. &quot;What is the meaning of my life?&quot; is a difficult enough question to answer when you&#x27;re a philosopher who has studied the problem academically and you&#x27;re surrounded by other people going about their productive lives and overcoming various challenges in order to survive.<p>Now we&#x27;re supposed to have millions of people face the question and at the same time tell them &quot;no, there&#x27;s nothing useful for you to do, robots can already do it faster, cheaper, and more efficiently than you will ever manage.&quot; So, what? Do we tell everyone &quot;just go smoke weed and play video games&quot;? Or &quot;go kayaking and hiking and rockclimbing and find yourself in nature&quot;? The latter will not scale. Many natural places are already overcrowded and we don&#x27;t even have a post-work economic system in place.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>The &quot;Bullshit Jobs&quot; phenomenon was identified decades ago by Buckminster Fuller:<p>&quot;We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.&quot;<p>As more and more work becomes automated or done by robots, we have less and less to actually do, but with a growing population. So we make up all this work and have 1&#x2F;2 the population digging holes so the other 1&#x2F;2 can fill them in. I fully expect that by the time my [eventual] grandchildren enter the workforce, more than 50% (maybe more than 75%) of jobs will be make-work that just serves to employ people so that society doesn&#x27;t fall apart.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Those who &quot;play checkers with the elderly, read to children, hold hands with dying people in hospice&quot; will likely have more successful encounters with the opposite sex than those who choose video games.</text></comment> |
15,021,902 | 15,022,083 | 1 | 2 | 15,021,427 | train | <story><title>Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/ask-a-female-engineer-thoughts-on-the-google-memo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedivm</author><text>Lets assume that we&#x27;re in an alternative universe where the document was never leaked.<p>The document <i>still</i> did harm. Just read this quote from the posted article-<p>&gt; When I walk into my job at a tech company, how do I know which of my colleagues thinks I’m an outlier among women versus someone who was hired because I’m female that doesn’t deserve the job they have? How do I prove myself to people one way or another? The additional mental and emotional burden on me just to do my job is not negligible at all, and it’s also a pretty crappy way to start every day thinking: “Will the team&#x2F;manager&#x2F;VC I talk with today realize I’m qualified, or will they be making stereotypical assumptions about my abilities and therefore make it harder for me to do my job?” To me, that absolutely makes for a hostile work environment, and it’s an unequal burden my male coworkers don’t have to deal with every day.<p>That quote wasn&#x27;t caused by this going public in the way it did, it was caused by it being posted in the first place. There is real harm done if women who work at a company don&#x27;t feel they are welcome there.</text></item><item><author>rpiguy</author><text>I really enjoyed the well reasoned discussion. I think a lot more constructive dialog is happening now that people have calmed down.<p>Of all the sentiments expressed in the article, I mainly disagree with the comment that Damore did the company harm.<p>He posted his thoughts on an internal discussion board and someone else leaked this internal document to the press. The leaker did harm to Google not Damore. In fact, I think the memo had been posted for a week or two before it was leaked. If your argument for firing Damore is that he did the company harm, you should look at the person who took an internal company document and made it public.<p>There are many people who believe he should have been fired anyway for offending his female coworkers and perhaps making them feel unsafe, but that is a different argument all together with its own merits and faults depending strongly on your stance on what constitutes tolerable speech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mizzack</author><text>From your quote:<p>&gt; When I walk into my job at a tech company, how do I know which of my colleagues thinks I’m an outlier among women versus someone who was hired because I’m female that doesn’t deserve the job they have?<p>Your perspective is that this is harmful because the memo caused self doubt, so the memo was the problem.<p>From Damore&#x27;s perspective, if there were no quota&#x2F;diversity hiring programs at that place of employment, the woman in question would have no reason to suspect the latter. The hiring policy was the problem.<p>Totally different interpretations of cause and effect.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/ask-a-female-engineer-thoughts-on-the-google-memo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedivm</author><text>Lets assume that we&#x27;re in an alternative universe where the document was never leaked.<p>The document <i>still</i> did harm. Just read this quote from the posted article-<p>&gt; When I walk into my job at a tech company, how do I know which of my colleagues thinks I’m an outlier among women versus someone who was hired because I’m female that doesn’t deserve the job they have? How do I prove myself to people one way or another? The additional mental and emotional burden on me just to do my job is not negligible at all, and it’s also a pretty crappy way to start every day thinking: “Will the team&#x2F;manager&#x2F;VC I talk with today realize I’m qualified, or will they be making stereotypical assumptions about my abilities and therefore make it harder for me to do my job?” To me, that absolutely makes for a hostile work environment, and it’s an unequal burden my male coworkers don’t have to deal with every day.<p>That quote wasn&#x27;t caused by this going public in the way it did, it was caused by it being posted in the first place. There is real harm done if women who work at a company don&#x27;t feel they are welcome there.</text></item><item><author>rpiguy</author><text>I really enjoyed the well reasoned discussion. I think a lot more constructive dialog is happening now that people have calmed down.<p>Of all the sentiments expressed in the article, I mainly disagree with the comment that Damore did the company harm.<p>He posted his thoughts on an internal discussion board and someone else leaked this internal document to the press. The leaker did harm to Google not Damore. In fact, I think the memo had been posted for a week or two before it was leaked. If your argument for firing Damore is that he did the company harm, you should look at the person who took an internal company document and made it public.<p>There are many people who believe he should have been fired anyway for offending his female coworkers and perhaps making them feel unsafe, but that is a different argument all together with its own merits and faults depending strongly on your stance on what constitutes tolerable speech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpiguy</author><text>The thoughts of one twenty-something engineer posted to an internal message board (for these kinds of discussions I might add) does not create a hostile workplace or harm Google in any way.<p>Basically, in any other context we expect people who have vastly differing views to be able to put them aside and work together. The only exception to this rule seems to be around leftist issues, where if you disagree you are out of luck.<p>You would expect, for example, the Jewish people and the Islamic people at a company to work together.<p>The idea that toleration for one memo form a nobody employee marks an entire company as unwelcome is insane. This zero tolerance attitude is a recipe for disaster.</text></comment> |
22,186,250 | 22,186,568 | 1 | 3 | 22,185,987 | train | <story><title>Tesla Financial Results 2019 Q4</title><url>https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/b3cf7f5e-546a-4a65-9888-c928b914b529</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>new_realist</author><text>The Y will mostly cannibalize 3 sales, but will be good for a few quarters’ pop.</text></item><item><author>dgritsko</author><text>Model Y production ramp started in January, ahead of schedule. Deliveries expected to start before the end of Q1. Exciting stuff!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text>That Model A is going to cannibalize Model T sales, but it will be good for a few quarters&#x27; pop. Ford is doomed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Financial Results 2019 Q4</title><url>https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/b3cf7f5e-546a-4a65-9888-c928b914b529</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>new_realist</author><text>The Y will mostly cannibalize 3 sales, but will be good for a few quarters’ pop.</text></item><item><author>dgritsko</author><text>Model Y production ramp started in January, ahead of schedule. Deliveries expected to start before the end of Q1. Exciting stuff!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>damon_c</author><text>It will ~cannibalize~ eat Toyota Rav 4 and Ford Escape sales as well.</text></comment> |
30,478,433 | 30,477,420 | 1 | 2 | 30,477,039 | train | <story><title>Twitter restricted in Russia amid conflict with Ukraine</title><url>https://netblocks.org/reports/twitter-restricted-in-russia-amid-conflict-with-ukraine-JBZrogB6</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antattack</author><text>Title should be:
Twitter restricted in Russia amid invasion of Ukraine. What&#x27;s happening is far from &#x27;conflict&#x27;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter restricted in Russia amid conflict with Ukraine</title><url>https://netblocks.org/reports/twitter-restricted-in-russia-amid-conflict-with-ukraine-JBZrogB6</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Andrew_nenakhov</author><text>Twitter is blocked in Russia, can confirm. I wonder how long my VPN and general internet connectivity will remain...</text></comment> |
17,348,821 | 17,347,846 | 1 | 3 | 17,346,307 | train | <story><title>Bootstrapping an Online Fabric Shop and Growing to $20k per month</title><url>https://www.starterstory.com/stories/fridays-off-fabric-shop</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fabricexpert</author><text>I run an almost identical fabric shop online. 20k&#x2F;month revenue is great but remember this is not a SaaS with unlimited scale and low costs. It&#x27;s actually a very traditional business model, and margins here are only going to about 20-30%, potentially a lot less if you have to pay for your storage space.<p>You buy the fabric, typically you&#x27;ll double the price when selling to customers. Then you take off additional postage fees&#x2F;packaging (note the flat fees on postage), payment fees (3-4%), discounts, returns, shopify monthly fees, accounting software etc.<p>You&#x27;ll spend about 50% of your day cutting &amp; packing orders, taking them to the post office etc. (or you can employ someone to help) and the rest of the time taking shots for instagram, sourcing new suppliers, working on SEO&#x2F;blogging and doing admin.<p>If you&#x27;re good at marketing you can shift quite a lot of fabric, but it will take you about a year to get your stock levels up to a sustainable amount to pay yourself a wage. If you want a real shop front you will generate most of your profit from running classes as the costs for a high street store are significantly higher than shopify and you gain little in terms of footfall vs online traffic.<p>This isn&#x27;t a get rich quick model but over time it works well and is replicable at scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fridaysoff</author><text>Thanks for your insight. You&#x27;re not too far off, but my margins are much higher - thank goodness. I&#x27;ve been at this for 5 years and also have an employee who helps with all the cutting, packaging and shipping. I offer a flat rate shipping fee for small price orders anything under $45. Sales above $45 ship with a Canada Post calculated shipping rate. Good luck with your business :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Bootstrapping an Online Fabric Shop and Growing to $20k per month</title><url>https://www.starterstory.com/stories/fridays-off-fabric-shop</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fabricexpert</author><text>I run an almost identical fabric shop online. 20k&#x2F;month revenue is great but remember this is not a SaaS with unlimited scale and low costs. It&#x27;s actually a very traditional business model, and margins here are only going to about 20-30%, potentially a lot less if you have to pay for your storage space.<p>You buy the fabric, typically you&#x27;ll double the price when selling to customers. Then you take off additional postage fees&#x2F;packaging (note the flat fees on postage), payment fees (3-4%), discounts, returns, shopify monthly fees, accounting software etc.<p>You&#x27;ll spend about 50% of your day cutting &amp; packing orders, taking them to the post office etc. (or you can employ someone to help) and the rest of the time taking shots for instagram, sourcing new suppliers, working on SEO&#x2F;blogging and doing admin.<p>If you&#x27;re good at marketing you can shift quite a lot of fabric, but it will take you about a year to get your stock levels up to a sustainable amount to pay yourself a wage. If you want a real shop front you will generate most of your profit from running classes as the costs for a high street store are significantly higher than shopify and you gain little in terms of footfall vs online traffic.<p>This isn&#x27;t a get rich quick model but over time it works well and is replicable at scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anoncoward111</author><text>Nice, thanks for the numbers! At a certain point you start competing with Home Depot, Michaels, Walmart, Amazon, whoever. You are in the product retail business, rather than the manufacturing or services business.<p>I think if you get really good at streamlining your marketing (Instagram photos and landing pages) as well as your pick&#x2F;pack&#x2F;ship operations (i.e running a warehouse), then you can expand into multiple niches. Fabrics, clothes, prints, whatever is super niche and high margin and can&#x27;t be found on the shelves of a big box store.</text></comment> |
41,211,482 | 41,211,533 | 1 | 2 | 41,211,235 | train | <story><title>Apple. Apple Please</title><url>https://digipres.club/@misty/112927898002214724</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>judofyr</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit of a strange choice, but if you read the full documentation (man codesign) it&#x27;s not too confusing actually:<p><pre><code> NAME
codesign — Create and manipulate code signatures
SYNOPSIS
codesign -s identity [-i identifier] [-r requirements] [-fv] path ...
codesign -v [-R requirement] [-v] [path|pid ...]
codesign -d [-v] [path|pid ...]
codesign -h [-v] [pid ...]
codesign --validate-constraint path ...
</code></pre>
The first argument to codesign <i>has</i> to be one of -s, -v, -d, -h, --validate-constraint and in reality it&#x27;s closer to a subcommand (similar to how git as pull, push, merge etc). After that &quot;-v&quot; works as a regular option.<p>EDIT: I read the man page even further, and I was slightly wrong: It appears to be possible to pass regular options <i>before</i> the operation, but you&#x27;re required to have one (and only) one operation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple. Apple Please</title><url>https://digipres.club/@misty/112927898002214724</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>I hate Apple products, but I just hate Windows more and am willing to give Linux a pass more.<p><pre><code> Why are core util programs different?
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Seriously! I know it&#x27;s BSD based, but let&#x27;s be real, you _should_ be able to use a command one-to-one from linux to OSX. That should be the goal. These are __core utils__! And you&#x27;re gonna tell me that flags are different?<p><pre><code> Brittle AI features with obviously insufficient testing
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I&#x27;ll be fair, Apple isn&#x27;t alone in this. But have you all heard about augmentations? Do you all dogfood? Seriously, I&#x27;ll consult because when my partner is on the train I don&#x27;t want her voice suppressed and the train sounds amplified, I want the opposite. This is a solvable issue... But your features are doing the opposite of what they are intended to. To all AI production people: augment the shit out of your data, scrutinize the shit out of your data, don&#x27;t throw it at the wall and see what sticks.<p>Apple has been good at design, and due that the &quot;Apple way or the high way&quot; was acceptable. Because at least the &quot;Apple way&quot; made some sense. But now the Apple way isn&#x27;t about making the product better, it is about making it thinner. I know that&#x27;s easier, but that&#x27;s the cost at being on top. Don&#x27;t abandon what got you there.</text></comment> |
9,056,109 | 9,056,079 | 1 | 2 | 9,055,869 | train | <story><title>Megaupload programmer goes to prison for one year</title><url>http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/member-megaupload-conspiracy-pleads-guilty-copyright-infringement-charges-and-sentenced-one</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackjeff</author><text>I really dislike the extra-territorial aspect of it.<p>From what I understand the Netherlands copyright law is more lenient than the US law. For instance downloading copyrighted material was legal until very recently. So downloading something from Megaupload was hardly a crime there...
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/downloading-pirate-material-finally-becomes-illegal-in-the-netherlands/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;downloading-pirate-material-fin...</a><p>So you could do something which is legal, or illegal but not criminal offense (civil) in the country where you live, but if it displeases the US, then suddenly they can throw you in jail in a foreign country (the US) where you have no ties.<p>I break Chinese laws on a daily basis (Tank Man!). Why should I care about US law, since I do not live there, nor am I a citizen? It&#x27;s not like I can vote for these laws...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jepper</author><text>The United States can request an extradition for crimes committed by an individual(as argued under the US law). However this does not mean that the Netherlands has to comply. If a Dutch person committed a crime in the Netherlands according to the US, but its legal here, he&#x2F;she will NOT be extradited. The same is true if the punishment is unreasonably severe according to Dutch law (death penalty.). For the latter there is a clause in our Dutch-US extradition agreements however you can still argue against this in court. (trias politica). It also stated in the treaty that the Dutch convicted can serve their jail time in the Netherlands. The punishment is then even converted to Dutch punishment standards.<p>There have been cases where it was argued that US electronic law (hacking and piracy cases) is not fair to the accused. This however does not always help.<p>This will however not help if you refuse a hearing on this. The article states: &quot;Nomm agreed to waive his extradition hearing in the Netherlands&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Megaupload programmer goes to prison for one year</title><url>http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/member-megaupload-conspiracy-pleads-guilty-copyright-infringement-charges-and-sentenced-one</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackjeff</author><text>I really dislike the extra-territorial aspect of it.<p>From what I understand the Netherlands copyright law is more lenient than the US law. For instance downloading copyrighted material was legal until very recently. So downloading something from Megaupload was hardly a crime there...
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/downloading-pirate-material-finally-becomes-illegal-in-the-netherlands/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;downloading-pirate-material-fin...</a><p>So you could do something which is legal, or illegal but not criminal offense (civil) in the country where you live, but if it displeases the US, then suddenly they can throw you in jail in a foreign country (the US) where you have no ties.<p>I break Chinese laws on a daily basis (Tank Man!). Why should I care about US law, since I do not live there, nor am I a citizen? It&#x27;s not like I can vote for these laws...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>Imagine if it worked the other way around.....if one day a US court got a request from Saudi Arabia asking to jail one of US citizens because they broke Saudi law on the internet(even though they have never been to Saudi Arabia). US would politely tell them to fuck off. Yet, when US does this to another country,they comply? It&#x27;s disgusting.</text></comment> |
15,553,879 | 15,553,967 | 1 | 2 | 15,553,205 | train | <story><title>I have no side code projects to show you</title><url>https://www.codementor.io/ezekielbuchheit/no-i-have-no-side-code-projects-to-show-you-cz1tyhgdz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sidlls</author><text>Only if you believe software development is neither engineering nor science, and is purely creative.<p>It isn&#x27;t, though, and demanding a portfolio is almost as terrible a practice as <i>Cracking the Coding Interview</i> style interviews.</text></item><item><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>Side projects are for software what a portfolio is for other creative industries. You don&#x27;t hire a designer sight unseen -- usually you ask for a sample. It makes perfect sense to expect the same of technology.</text></item><item><author>shortsightedsid</author><text>It&#x27;s funny that the tech industry is so insistent on side projects. I mean - would you hire a marketing person based on their &#x27;side projects&#x27; or a corporate lawyer purely based on their pro-bono work? Likewise, who on earth asks a building contractor if they have any side projects? You would ask for references or find a contractor via someone you know. What about recruiters themselves? How does one judge if a person is going to be good recruiter or not? What about sales guys? Does anyone ask them - do you sell stuff on the side - Y&#x27;know maybe you just do door-to-door selling as a hobby. Or what about other engineering disciplines? Does one really ask a Mechanical Engineer or a Civil Engineer about their side projects?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>&gt; Only if you believe software development is neither engineering nor science, and is purely creative.<p>I have to believe it &quot;is neither engineering nor science, and is purely creative&quot;? Only those extremes? I believe it is some of all 3 and I don&#x27;t think requesting (i.e. not &quot;demanding&quot;) a portfolio or prior work is any more unreasonable than not asking for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>I have no side code projects to show you</title><url>https://www.codementor.io/ezekielbuchheit/no-i-have-no-side-code-projects-to-show-you-cz1tyhgdz</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sidlls</author><text>Only if you believe software development is neither engineering nor science, and is purely creative.<p>It isn&#x27;t, though, and demanding a portfolio is almost as terrible a practice as <i>Cracking the Coding Interview</i> style interviews.</text></item><item><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>Side projects are for software what a portfolio is for other creative industries. You don&#x27;t hire a designer sight unseen -- usually you ask for a sample. It makes perfect sense to expect the same of technology.</text></item><item><author>shortsightedsid</author><text>It&#x27;s funny that the tech industry is so insistent on side projects. I mean - would you hire a marketing person based on their &#x27;side projects&#x27; or a corporate lawyer purely based on their pro-bono work? Likewise, who on earth asks a building contractor if they have any side projects? You would ask for references or find a contractor via someone you know. What about recruiters themselves? How does one judge if a person is going to be good recruiter or not? What about sales guys? Does anyone ask them - do you sell stuff on the side - Y&#x27;know maybe you just do door-to-door selling as a hobby. Or what about other engineering disciplines? Does one really ask a Mechanical Engineer or a Civil Engineer about their side projects?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>In traditional engineering disciplines like civil engineering, organizing bodies and licensure communicate competency, applicability, and ethical awareness. Software development has no industry-wide equivalent. There are small certifications for Cisco et al but for the general practice there&#x27;s no standard.</text></comment> |
41,553,999 | 41,551,588 | 1 | 2 | 41,547,405 | train | <story><title>Open Source security camera on Raspberry Pi</title><url>https://github.com/TzuHuanTai/RaspberryPi_WebRTC</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bityard</author><text>A while back, I had the need to remotely monitor a house while it was under renovation. A few friends of mine recommended a particular brand of highly-advertised security system. It was not cheap. As I was setting it up, I found out that most of the features that I wanted required broadband internet. This was not disclosed in ANY of the marketing materials. This house didn&#x27;t have Internet and I wasn&#x27;t going to purchase it because it would have been $60 minimum on top of the $40 or so the security system was going to cost.<p>What I did instead: I bought a Raspberry Pi camera, hooked it up to a RPi Zero 2W that I already had, bought an LTE hotspot and a $5&#x2F;mo prepaid SIM from T-Mobile. On the software side, I used imgcomp (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Matthias-Wandel&#x2F;imgcomp">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Matthias-Wandel&#x2F;imgcomp</a>) to take a photo every second and save it to a RAM disk. If the two pictures differed (modulo noise), the Pi would upload the changed picture to a directory on my VPS, which would then trigger a notification to my phone via Gotify containing the link to the picture.<p>It was all very Rube Goldbergian but it worked quite flawlessly for a couple of years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stavros</author><text>I&#x27;m having trouble squaring &quot;the security system was not cheap&quot; with &quot;the $40 the system was going to cost&quot;. How cheap were you looking for a security system to be?</text></comment> | <story><title>Open Source security camera on Raspberry Pi</title><url>https://github.com/TzuHuanTai/RaspberryPi_WebRTC</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bityard</author><text>A while back, I had the need to remotely monitor a house while it was under renovation. A few friends of mine recommended a particular brand of highly-advertised security system. It was not cheap. As I was setting it up, I found out that most of the features that I wanted required broadband internet. This was not disclosed in ANY of the marketing materials. This house didn&#x27;t have Internet and I wasn&#x27;t going to purchase it because it would have been $60 minimum on top of the $40 or so the security system was going to cost.<p>What I did instead: I bought a Raspberry Pi camera, hooked it up to a RPi Zero 2W that I already had, bought an LTE hotspot and a $5&#x2F;mo prepaid SIM from T-Mobile. On the software side, I used imgcomp (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Matthias-Wandel&#x2F;imgcomp">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Matthias-Wandel&#x2F;imgcomp</a>) to take a photo every second and save it to a RAM disk. If the two pictures differed (modulo noise), the Pi would upload the changed picture to a directory on my VPS, which would then trigger a notification to my phone via Gotify containing the link to the picture.<p>It was all very Rube Goldbergian but it worked quite flawlessly for a couple of years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptero</author><text>Very cool! This is, IMO, perfectly in the spirit of all tinkerers and hackers, building their own solutions when they need from what they have. There is nothing Rube Goldbergian about this. My 2c.</text></comment> |
40,779,263 | 40,773,472 | 1 | 2 | 40,772,224 | train | <story><title>US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication</title><url>https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/312oqvretg7yyhfx0ohx4/AGZduVXs0_1geqIyi0NA9nE?e=1&preview=2024_04_30_RCRA_Insp_Report_REPORT_Apple_3250_Scott_Redacted.pdf&rlkey=3aa2tw15ek3trqlbdh7pw9erh&st=4b364mkx&dl=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lurking_swe</author><text>I&#x27;m still looking into this and forming my opinion. It&#x27;s very curious how at the end of her YouTube video she mentions other residents in her building came forward and said they too were sick (numerous ER visits over 2 years), and they DIDN&#x27;T KNOW WHY, until they saw her expose in the newspaper. That seems to counter your hypochondria theory, no?<p>see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;pGK4_sR1CvY?si=KEK9xh0mUEStV76-&amp;t=2680" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;pGK4_sR1CvY?si=KEK9xh0mUEStV76-&amp;t=2680</a></text></item><item><author>murderfs</author><text>The author of this has been on a crusade against Apple for years, stemming from an incident that was probably hypochondria. They&#x27;ve outright lied about multiple incidents (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;shantinix&#x2F;status&#x2F;1433297575914971136" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;shantinix&#x2F;status&#x2F;1433297575914971136</a>), and I would very strongly doubt any new claims made. For example, a spot check of one of the claims has them currently saying &quot;Still, Gjovik’s limited testing returned results showing a number of the chemicals in use by Apple at ARIA including Acetone, Acetonitrile, Acetaldehyde, Benzene, 1,2-Dichloroethane, Ethanol, Ethylbenzene, Hexane, Isopropanol, Isopropyl toluene, Methylene Chloride, Toluene, and Xylene.&quot;<p>But, in 2021 (at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfbayview.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;i-thought-i-was-dying-my-apartment-was-built-on-toxic-waste&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfbayview.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;i-thought-i-was-dying-my-apart...</a>), &quot;I wanted to get some formal data in the brief time before I moved out, so I hired an industrial hygienist to sample the indoor air and some of the topsoil. Despite the $1,555 I had to pay for it, the results were inconclusive.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>There are many situations where people assign causality when there is no true evidence or mechanism. One of the best examples are cancer clusters. There have been examples of well-understood (almost certainly causal) cancers caused by industrial occupation, but cancer is common enough that some things that look causal are purely coincidental. For example, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radium_Girls" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radium_Girls</a> was almost certainly causal, while &quot;high voltage electrical lines cause cancer&quot; probably is not (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;01&#x2F;health&#x2F;long-after-an-80s-scare-suspicion-of-power-lines-prevails.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;01&#x2F;health&#x2F;long-after-an-80s-...</a>)<p>So no, it doesn&#x27;t counter the hypochondria theory.</text></comment> | <story><title>US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication</title><url>https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/312oqvretg7yyhfx0ohx4/AGZduVXs0_1geqIyi0NA9nE?e=1&preview=2024_04_30_RCRA_Insp_Report_REPORT_Apple_3250_Scott_Redacted.pdf&rlkey=3aa2tw15ek3trqlbdh7pw9erh&st=4b364mkx&dl=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lurking_swe</author><text>I&#x27;m still looking into this and forming my opinion. It&#x27;s very curious how at the end of her YouTube video she mentions other residents in her building came forward and said they too were sick (numerous ER visits over 2 years), and they DIDN&#x27;T KNOW WHY, until they saw her expose in the newspaper. That seems to counter your hypochondria theory, no?<p>see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;pGK4_sR1CvY?si=KEK9xh0mUEStV76-&amp;t=2680" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;pGK4_sR1CvY?si=KEK9xh0mUEStV76-&amp;t=2680</a></text></item><item><author>murderfs</author><text>The author of this has been on a crusade against Apple for years, stemming from an incident that was probably hypochondria. They&#x27;ve outright lied about multiple incidents (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;shantinix&#x2F;status&#x2F;1433297575914971136" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;shantinix&#x2F;status&#x2F;1433297575914971136</a>), and I would very strongly doubt any new claims made. For example, a spot check of one of the claims has them currently saying &quot;Still, Gjovik’s limited testing returned results showing a number of the chemicals in use by Apple at ARIA including Acetone, Acetonitrile, Acetaldehyde, Benzene, 1,2-Dichloroethane, Ethanol, Ethylbenzene, Hexane, Isopropanol, Isopropyl toluene, Methylene Chloride, Toluene, and Xylene.&quot;<p>But, in 2021 (at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfbayview.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;i-thought-i-was-dying-my-apartment-was-built-on-toxic-waste&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfbayview.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;i-thought-i-was-dying-my-apart...</a>), &quot;I wanted to get some formal data in the brief time before I moved out, so I hired an industrial hygienist to sample the indoor air and some of the topsoil. Despite the $1,555 I had to pay for it, the results were inconclusive.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>42lux</author><text>You can’t really use a questionable source to verify the same source.</text></comment> |
40,681,223 | 40,681,285 | 1 | 3 | 40,679,809 | train | <story><title>Posix.1-2024 is published</title><url>https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10555529</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>susam</author><text>I am hoping this appears at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.opengroup.org&#x2F;onlinepubs&#x2F;9699919799&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.opengroup.org&#x2F;onlinepubs&#x2F;9699919799&#x2F;</a> soon. This is the link I use most often to go through the specification. In fact, I owe a lot of my shell scripting skills to this online resource.<p>As a specific example, the seemingly simple matter of when the shell decides to split a string based on $IFS and when it does not were quite confusing to me until I went through the specification here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.opengroup.org&#x2F;onlinepubs&#x2F;9699919799&#x2F;utilities&#x2F;V3_chap02.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.opengroup.org&#x2F;onlinepubs&#x2F;9699919799&#x2F;utilities&#x2F;V...</a><p>For example, if<p><pre><code> a=&quot;foo bar&quot;
</code></pre>
then<p><pre><code> ls $a
</code></pre>
will split the value into two fields (thus two arguments to ls). Of course we should surround $a with double-quotes to avoid the field splitting. However the following is fine:<p><pre><code> case $a in
</code></pre>
No field splitting occurs here. However, to be kind to your code reviewer, you might want to double-quote this anyway for the sake of simplicity and consistency. Behaviour like this is specified in sections &quot;Field Splitting&quot; and &quot;Case Conditional Construct&quot; of the aforementioned link. Specification documents like this were formative in in my journey toward learning to write shell scripts confidently.</text></comment> | <story><title>Posix.1-2024 is published</title><url>https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10555529</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dveeden2</author><text>Where is POSIX actually useful today?<p>Is it mostly for shell scripts? Aren&#x27;t people targetting bash or basic bourne shell features intead of posix? Is shellcheck checking for best practices instead of POSIX compliance?<p>And for other applications (GUI, servers, etc) strict POSIX compliance might be too restrictive?<p>And with many things being Linux (or Linux-like like WSL) the need for this might be less?<p>Are Android and&#x2F;or iOS fully POSIX compliant?<p>Any good blog or presentation describing the current state of POSIX?</text></comment> |
2,064,261 | 2,064,334 | 1 | 3 | 2,064,060 | train | <story><title>Google Will Become an AI Company</title><url>http://mattmaroon.com/2011/01/03/google-will-become-an-ai-company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>This is a great article. Every now and then Matt can really knock one out of the park.<p>Of all the tech that we talk about on here, there are only a few items that really catch my attention. Christmas tree machines are one of them. Auto-drive cars is the other.<p>These two inventions, when complete, will massively change things. Good luck guessing when they'll be complete, though. Could be a decade. Could be a couple of hundred years.<p>If cars could become more like rooms that automatically go places, instead of complex machines that require constant care and oversight, vast amounts of productivity and leisure opportunities would open up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mquander</author><text>It's a little strange, because another trend directly competing with automatic cars is telecommunications. If it were possible and culturally acceptable for all white-collar workers to telecommute full-time, all of a sudden there would be half as many cars on the streets. If there were efficient, cost-effective, and prompt delivery systems for local goods like groceries, there would be half as many again. It's conceivable that there won't be much private driving for reasons besides pure leisure 15 years from now.<p>So it's not clear to me whether automatic cars or "rooms that go places" will always remain as useful as they sound today.<p>(Practically speaking, though, I'd bet on it, since cars are pretty ingrained into American culture and since the auto industry is large and very committed to keeping individuals on the road.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Will Become an AI Company</title><url>http://mattmaroon.com/2011/01/03/google-will-become-an-ai-company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>This is a great article. Every now and then Matt can really knock one out of the park.<p>Of all the tech that we talk about on here, there are only a few items that really catch my attention. Christmas tree machines are one of them. Auto-drive cars is the other.<p>These two inventions, when complete, will massively change things. Good luck guessing when they'll be complete, though. Could be a decade. Could be a couple of hundred years.<p>If cars could become more like rooms that automatically go places, instead of complex machines that require constant care and oversight, vast amounts of productivity and leisure opportunities would open up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgflynn</author><text>The time-frame for auto driving cars is actually more difficult to predict than that for general adaptive robotics because of the regulatory and social issues involved. I'm sure it will be decades not centuries though.<p>My prediction is that robotic servants will be common place in homes by the 2020's and that almost all manual occupations will be replaced with automation during that decade. I have no idea how society and the economy are going to adapt to that reality however.</text></comment> |
30,900,851 | 30,900,820 | 1 | 2 | 30,895,331 | train | <story><title>CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/31/student-mental-health-decline-cdc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spookthesunset</author><text>&gt; From my perspective in the US the lockdowns were about managing hospital capacity<p>And yet there is scant evidence hospitals ever were at risk. We should have relaxed our approach to all this when cities across the country were closing their unused field hospitals. Instead of celebrating the fact that covid wasn&#x27;t nearly as lethal as the earliest models predicted, governors across the country doubled down on their covid restrictions. Two years later, they are finally almost gone.<p>Did any of these restrictions provide enough benefit to justify their immense social cost? It will probably take much cooler heads to find out. It troubles me that we went into this mess with little understanding if the measures even worked. In effect, we took millions and millions of people and had them partake in a massive uncontrolled experiment without anybody&#x27;s consent.</text></item><item><author>after_care</author><text>From my perspective in the US the lockdowns were about managing hospital capacity. While this might disproportionally benefited older folks, hospitals are a service anyone could need at any time for a wide range of reasons.</text></item><item><author>sva_</author><text>There was a discussion on here, about how the Covid pandemic may have been one of the, or even <i>the</i> biggest transfers of wealth from &quot;the poor&quot; to &quot;the rich&quot; in the history of our civilization. Somebody remarked, that it has also been the biggest transfer of lifetime from the young to the old, as the lockdowns were mostly to protect the old. The measures taken against the pandemic undoubtedly had a huge impact on young people&#x27;s mental health, but the effects of it will only really unfold in the coming years, and are probably not measurable. People who deny this must be willfully ignorant.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>It astonishes me to see people defending the idea that the pandemic is not a notable component of this. I agree that social media, internet porn, competitive school environment, economic conditions, etc., are all negative influences on teenage mental health. However, to propose that forcing (or, at the least, very strongly encouraging) an entire populace into self-isolation would not have negative impacts for a group in one of the most social and formative times of life, is absurd.<p>Imagine you spent half the time you were in high school, alone. I cannot imagine any rational person is capable of believing this to not be a major factor to their mental health.<p>Anecdotally, I am a reasonably strong introvert, and I switched teams at my job during the pandemic after nine months of work from home because it did not feel healthy to my mental state to not have interacted with anyone in so long. I felt that my social abilities had atrophied, and that I had lost sight of a lot of the important things in life that derive from social interaction. I can only imagine that the impact is far greater to someone who can&#x27;t choose to change their life to obtain the social interaction they are missing, and who (I am generalizing a bit here) probably requires mental&#x2F;emotional guidance and support from their peers, elders, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hh3k0</author><text>&gt; And yet there is scant evidence hospitals ever were at risk.<p>What? Omicron absolutely crushed U.S. hospitals -- with some having to set up temporary emergency rooms in their parking structures. Many U.S. hospitals had to put off essential procedures and ran out of practically _everything_ (syringes, saline products, blood, etc.) during the last wave.</text></comment> | <story><title>CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/31/student-mental-health-decline-cdc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spookthesunset</author><text>&gt; From my perspective in the US the lockdowns were about managing hospital capacity<p>And yet there is scant evidence hospitals ever were at risk. We should have relaxed our approach to all this when cities across the country were closing their unused field hospitals. Instead of celebrating the fact that covid wasn&#x27;t nearly as lethal as the earliest models predicted, governors across the country doubled down on their covid restrictions. Two years later, they are finally almost gone.<p>Did any of these restrictions provide enough benefit to justify their immense social cost? It will probably take much cooler heads to find out. It troubles me that we went into this mess with little understanding if the measures even worked. In effect, we took millions and millions of people and had them partake in a massive uncontrolled experiment without anybody&#x27;s consent.</text></item><item><author>after_care</author><text>From my perspective in the US the lockdowns were about managing hospital capacity. While this might disproportionally benefited older folks, hospitals are a service anyone could need at any time for a wide range of reasons.</text></item><item><author>sva_</author><text>There was a discussion on here, about how the Covid pandemic may have been one of the, or even <i>the</i> biggest transfers of wealth from &quot;the poor&quot; to &quot;the rich&quot; in the history of our civilization. Somebody remarked, that it has also been the biggest transfer of lifetime from the young to the old, as the lockdowns were mostly to protect the old. The measures taken against the pandemic undoubtedly had a huge impact on young people&#x27;s mental health, but the effects of it will only really unfold in the coming years, and are probably not measurable. People who deny this must be willfully ignorant.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>It astonishes me to see people defending the idea that the pandemic is not a notable component of this. I agree that social media, internet porn, competitive school environment, economic conditions, etc., are all negative influences on teenage mental health. However, to propose that forcing (or, at the least, very strongly encouraging) an entire populace into self-isolation would not have negative impacts for a group in one of the most social and formative times of life, is absurd.<p>Imagine you spent half the time you were in high school, alone. I cannot imagine any rational person is capable of believing this to not be a major factor to their mental health.<p>Anecdotally, I am a reasonably strong introvert, and I switched teams at my job during the pandemic after nine months of work from home because it did not feel healthy to my mental state to not have interacted with anyone in so long. I felt that my social abilities had atrophied, and that I had lost sight of a lot of the important things in life that derive from social interaction. I can only imagine that the impact is far greater to someone who can&#x27;t choose to change their life to obtain the social interaction they are missing, and who (I am generalizing a bit here) probably requires mental&#x2F;emotional guidance and support from their peers, elders, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinventullo</author><text><i>there is scant evidence hospitals ever were at risk</i><p>I know several people who had to delay surgeries and other medical procedures because of hospital capacity due to COVID.</text></comment> |
15,465,105 | 15,465,050 | 1 | 3 | 15,464,423 | train | <story><title>Clojure/Conj 2017 – Opening Keynote by Rich Hickey [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hellofunk</author><text>No one in this thread is yet talking about the content of this talk, which I think is interesting. Rich is doubling down on dynamic typing. As the world is gradually moving to more statically-typed languages (Rust, Swift, Go, Elm, Purescript, Typescript are all popular tools that come to mind), Clojure remains in the embrace of dynamic typing, and this talk is an interesting look at the perspective of why that is, and adds perhaps a little bit to the debate between static and dynamic typing.<p>I admire Rich a lot, but I also admire John Carmack, and it is apropos that yesterday another comment was shared on another post here [0] about <i>his</i> opinions on static typing, and how in just a few years (his talk was in 2013), the industry as a whole has made considerable changes in its opinions of static typing; according to his talk, in 2013 most of the industry was still not convinced of the benefits of static typing.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15460604" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15460604</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kenshi</author><text>I think its a mistake to directly compare the experiences (and conclusions) of these two exceptional programmers.<p>Rich Hickey explains at the start of his talk where he is coming from, what the context of his development work, and he calls it &quot;Situated Software&quot;. His background and the context for his development is building information systems in organisations where the rules are messy and no doubt change often. One of the things he calls out explicitly in his talk is the messiness of dealing with the &quot;Two for Tuesday&quot; rule in one of the systems he worked on. He also spoke about how different working in that domain was, to doing compiler development.<p>John Carmack&#x27;s experience and domain expertise is building high performance game engines. I&#x27;d argue this is closer to compiler writing in the sense that it is a much more rigid problem than say having to serve the needs of an organisation whose requirements may change often and in seemingly arbitrary ways, and usually on a tight deadline.<p>I am not trying to elevate one domain over the other. They are different kinds of problems, and have different kinds of limitations and constraints applied to them. As such I don&#x27;t think its any surprise that the priorities for each of these developers is different.<p>Choosing between more dynamic or more static approaches without considering the context in which you are working in, is a mistake.</text></comment> | <story><title>Clojure/Conj 2017 – Opening Keynote by Rich Hickey [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hellofunk</author><text>No one in this thread is yet talking about the content of this talk, which I think is interesting. Rich is doubling down on dynamic typing. As the world is gradually moving to more statically-typed languages (Rust, Swift, Go, Elm, Purescript, Typescript are all popular tools that come to mind), Clojure remains in the embrace of dynamic typing, and this talk is an interesting look at the perspective of why that is, and adds perhaps a little bit to the debate between static and dynamic typing.<p>I admire Rich a lot, but I also admire John Carmack, and it is apropos that yesterday another comment was shared on another post here [0] about <i>his</i> opinions on static typing, and how in just a few years (his talk was in 2013), the industry as a whole has made considerable changes in its opinions of static typing; according to his talk, in 2013 most of the industry was still not convinced of the benefits of static typing.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15460604" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15460604</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jach</author><text>I think it&#x27;s important to note Carmack also tried Racket after that, even wrote a server that was in production for a while. As I recall from his twitter feed he really likes it especially for beginners (got his son to make games with it) and especially for getting things done as a beginner to the language. Later he discovered Typed Racket and appreciated it, I remember something about with proper types at least at the interface level he found some design flaws to fix.<p>Just like some people think dynamic types are limited to the subset of static types with Any type for everything and think JavaScript is a great example of its utility and power instead of e.g. Common Lisp, a lot of people think static types are limited to what you get in C++98 instead of e.g. Haskell. The type flame threads would be a lot more interesting if people had tried using more than the most popular representatives of each side before forming opinions...</text></comment> |
29,020,654 | 29,020,723 | 1 | 2 | 29,019,808 | train | <story><title>Tim Sweeney: Tax bill would likely end founder control of independent companies</title><url>https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1453484672827240457</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>This is simply nonsense.<p>All companies once they reach a certain size (including Tesla, SpaceX) have a Senior Leadership Team which decides on the critical decisions affecting the company.<p>This personality obsession is really only perpetuated by people who haven&#x27;t worked in business and don&#x27;t realise just how much of a team effort it is.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>I doubt SpaceX or Tesla would exist if they were controlled by a committee. Doing great things usually requires control by a single person who is able to say &quot;screw it, we&#x27;re going for X&quot;.</text></item><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Well, one workaround would be to treat securitization of shares (eg for a loan) as a taxable event. This is a common (and currently legal) tax avoidance strategy.<p>Another consideration is that maybe having sole control of a massive pot of cash or financial instruments by an individual is just a Bad Thing. Consider how Zuckerberg structured FB so that while he it&#x27;s a public company, the bulk of the stock is non-voting so he has <i>de facto</i> sole control of the firm. No matter how destructive of shareholder value or public goods his executive decisions, it&#x27;s virtually impossible for anyone else to overturn them barring some novel legal line of attack.<p>I have no particular feelings about Tim Sweeney&#x2F;Epic, but would the economy or the gaming world be worse off if he no longer had founder control? If he&#x27;s great at his job I presume shareholders would want to keep him on as CEO and would compensate him handsomely in cash money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsj_hn</author><text>The thing is, it&#x27;s really critical to have that &lt;strike&gt;dictator&lt;&#x2F;strike&gt;CEO in charge of the company to reign in the senior leadership, otherwise what happens is the creation of fiefdoms and &lt;strike&gt;intra-oligarchic&lt;&#x2F;strike&gt;turf battles at the expense of overall success.<p>Someone on this site mentioned Pournelle&#x27;s Iron Law of Bureaucracy:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle&#x27;s_iron_law_of_bureaucracy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle&#x27;s_ir...</a><p>And the CEO is the counterweight to that oligarchic rule. You see this, for example, in the constant battles that kings wage against the nobility.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tim Sweeney: Tax bill would likely end founder control of independent companies</title><url>https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1453484672827240457</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>This is simply nonsense.<p>All companies once they reach a certain size (including Tesla, SpaceX) have a Senior Leadership Team which decides on the critical decisions affecting the company.<p>This personality obsession is really only perpetuated by people who haven&#x27;t worked in business and don&#x27;t realise just how much of a team effort it is.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>I doubt SpaceX or Tesla would exist if they were controlled by a committee. Doing great things usually requires control by a single person who is able to say &quot;screw it, we&#x27;re going for X&quot;.</text></item><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Well, one workaround would be to treat securitization of shares (eg for a loan) as a taxable event. This is a common (and currently legal) tax avoidance strategy.<p>Another consideration is that maybe having sole control of a massive pot of cash or financial instruments by an individual is just a Bad Thing. Consider how Zuckerberg structured FB so that while he it&#x27;s a public company, the bulk of the stock is non-voting so he has <i>de facto</i> sole control of the firm. No matter how destructive of shareholder value or public goods his executive decisions, it&#x27;s virtually impossible for anyone else to overturn them barring some novel legal line of attack.<p>I have no particular feelings about Tim Sweeney&#x2F;Epic, but would the economy or the gaming world be worse off if he no longer had founder control? If he&#x27;s great at his job I presume shareholders would want to keep him on as CEO and would compensate him handsomely in cash money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>&gt; nonsense<p>May I present Steve Jobs, another obvious example? Ray Croc who built McDonald&#x27;s from a single location into a world empire.</text></comment> |
35,716,237 | 35,715,229 | 1 | 2 | 35,713,042 | train | <story><title>The Role of Diet on the Gut Microbiome, Mood and Happiness</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36993403/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runlaszlorun</author><text>&gt; I think most of us would agree that makes sense? Eat like crap, feel like crap?<p>I’m just an average joe trying to figure out how to improve a diet, but I haven’t found much of a consensus regarding fats vs proteins vs carbohydrates.</text></item><item><author>blakesterz</author><text><p><pre><code> &quot;After the diet change, we observed significant changes in measures of anxiety, well-being and happiness, and without changes in gut microbiome diversity. We found strong correlations between greater consumption of fat and protein to lower anxiety and depression, while consuming higher percentages of carbohydrates was associated with increased stress, anxiety, and depression.&quot;
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I think most of us would agree that makes sense? Eat like crap, feel like crap?<p><pre><code> &quot;We also found strong negative correlations between total calories and total fiber intake with gut microbiome diversity without correlations to measures of mental health, mood or happiness.... inversely correlated with gut microbiome diversity.&quot;
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I kept reading this second paragraph trying to understand the &quot;without correlations&quot; part. And also the negative correlations part. And then the full-text has this, which helped I think:<p><pre><code> &quot;Furthermore, total calories and fiber had a negative correlation with gut microbiome diversity, and anxiety and depression decrease as the gut diversity increases.&quot;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>Minimize saturated fat (by replacing it with unsaturated fat). Get enough protein. Eat healthy carbs*.<p>* On HN and other social media, &quot;carbs&quot; is a euphemism for sugar and cake rather than beans and vegetables, so people will talk about how carbs made them fat when you know they&#x27;re not talking about slamming back-to-back cans of garbanzos.<p>And don&#x27;t take any nutrition advice seriously that doesn&#x27;t break fat apart into saturated and unsaturated.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Role of Diet on the Gut Microbiome, Mood and Happiness</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36993403/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runlaszlorun</author><text>&gt; I think most of us would agree that makes sense? Eat like crap, feel like crap?<p>I’m just an average joe trying to figure out how to improve a diet, but I haven’t found much of a consensus regarding fats vs proteins vs carbohydrates.</text></item><item><author>blakesterz</author><text><p><pre><code> &quot;After the diet change, we observed significant changes in measures of anxiety, well-being and happiness, and without changes in gut microbiome diversity. We found strong correlations between greater consumption of fat and protein to lower anxiety and depression, while consuming higher percentages of carbohydrates was associated with increased stress, anxiety, and depression.&quot;
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I think most of us would agree that makes sense? Eat like crap, feel like crap?<p><pre><code> &quot;We also found strong negative correlations between total calories and total fiber intake with gut microbiome diversity without correlations to measures of mental health, mood or happiness.... inversely correlated with gut microbiome diversity.&quot;
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I kept reading this second paragraph trying to understand the &quot;without correlations&quot; part. And also the negative correlations part. And then the full-text has this, which helped I think:<p><pre><code> &quot;Furthermore, total calories and fiber had a negative correlation with gut microbiome diversity, and anxiety and depression decrease as the gut diversity increases.&quot;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stronglikedan</author><text>I improved mine significantly by just cutting out processed foods. Almost everything I eat is made from whole ingredients, and no artificial or &quot;diet&quot; anything. I&#x27;m in much better shape, both mentally and physically, because of it. It also helps with portion control, since I&#x27;m getting the maximum amount of nutrients from my food, so I don&#x27;t &quot;feel hungry later&quot;.</text></comment> |
20,366,277 | 20,366,267 | 1 | 2 | 20,365,770 | train | <story><title>Boeing engineer breaks silence on MAX 737</title><url>https://kuow.org/stories/boeing-engineers-break-silence-on-max-737-read-this-letter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ltbarcly3</author><text>This comment from a &#x27;boeing engineer&#x27; has basically no information content.<p>- He&#x27;s not a Boeing engineer, he&#x27;s &#x27;a senior member of the union&#x27;. Apparently he was an engineer sometime in the past, now his job is to push anything that will benefit members of the union, which is what he is doing here. He has no specific information about the MAX to offer.<p>- Cost savings is <i>always</i> the root cause of every engineering failure, so long as you have the benefit of hindsight. I mean once you know what the problem is you can spend money to fix it, and they should have spent that money right off the bat, right? I mean, if they knew there was a problem, which they must have or else there is nobody to blame. We need someone to blame! Of course projects that don&#x27;t try to limit costs can&#x27;t fail since they are canceled and never built. Except for the Space Shuttle, which went massively over budget again and again and still had a terrible safety record, which absurdly was blamed on <i>cost cutting</i>. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;to-cut-costs-and-save-time-nasas-taking-more-risks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;to-cut-costs-and-save-time-nas...</a> So no matter how much money you spend, when something fails you are going to be blamed for not spending more. If you budget $1 Billion and then decide to spend $10 Billion to improve safety, whenever something goes wrong they&#x27;ll say you should have spent $11 Billion.<p>- Trying to vilify people and attempting to create an environment to produce massive punitive damages and lawsuits, or to bring political pressure to change staffing decisions dramatically decreases safety. The FAA has spent almost a hundred years building up an environment of cooperation with a shared responsibility to understand failures and enable the changing of the entire aviation industry whenever necessary to promote safety. This has been fabulously successful. Trying to place blame and attack people for past decisions will only lead to a closing of the culture and an attempt to hide information in the future. Compare aviation to the auto industry in how they adapt and improve safety, it&#x27;s night and day for exactly this reason. Creating an environment where companies have to be afraid to admit mistakes does not help us find the root causes of problems and change the system to prevent those problems in the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>Boeing engineer breaks silence on MAX 737</title><url>https://kuow.org/stories/boeing-engineers-break-silence-on-max-737-read-this-letter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>It reminds me of the adage &quot;Workplace culture is what you <i>do</i> not what you <i>say you do</i>.&quot; I have met too many engineering managers over the years who thought they could cleverly have it both ways by exhorting quality is the highest priority while penalizing or criticizing engineers who objected based on quality or design metrics.</text></comment> |
21,762,024 | 21,761,007 | 1 | 2 | 21,760,520 | train | <story><title>Making Games with Kotlin</title><url>https://kotlin.christmas/2019/11</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buremba</author><text>People usually get confused when we tell them that we&#x27;re using Kotlin for our backend APIs. I can&#x27;t blame them because we attended KotlinConf last year and almost 90% of the audience were using Kotlin on the Android platform.<p>Hopefully, it gets more attraction from different platforms because staying in the JVM land and being able to use an expressive &amp; lightweight language is great!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>Sebastian Deleuze who is one of the Kotlin people working on Spring just gave a presentation of the status of Kotlin support in Spring: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoq.com&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;spring-kotlin-boot-kofu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoq.com&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;spring-kotlin-boot-kofu&#x2F;</a>.<p>In short, if you are using Spring and are ignoring Kotlin, you are missing out a lot of good stuff. Or in other words, the same that happened to Java on Android is now happening to backend Java. You can still use it but why would you when things can be so much better with a simple upgrade to Kotlin (I&#x27;ve migrated tens of thousands of lines of code, it&#x27;s easy). And yes Java 9-14 added a bunch of things that are definitely nice&#x2F;useful but it doesn&#x27;t come close to Kotlin in terms of expressiveness and language ergonomics.<p>Also, KotlinConf was on last week. There was a nice presentation about the state of kotlin-js, which is getting some nice updates in the next year including much better dead code elimination resulting in very compact minified code (&lt; 100kb is now feasible for simple stuff), better integration of existing typescript type script defifinitions (i.e. support for most relevant npms out there), better build tooling in the form of an improved gradle plugin. Or put different, Kotlin might start doing to typescript&#x2F;javascript what it already did to Java. IMHO it&#x27;s a more capable language than typescript, which I consider to be pretty nice but it just lacks a bunch of things and comes with a some ugliness that relates to backwards compatibility with js.<p>In related news, Kotlin native is also happening. So, Kotlin is joining a list of full stack languages that used to be really short.</text></comment> | <story><title>Making Games with Kotlin</title><url>https://kotlin.christmas/2019/11</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buremba</author><text>People usually get confused when we tell them that we&#x27;re using Kotlin for our backend APIs. I can&#x27;t blame them because we attended KotlinConf last year and almost 90% of the audience were using Kotlin on the Android platform.<p>Hopefully, it gets more attraction from different platforms because staying in the JVM land and being able to use an expressive &amp; lightweight language is great!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Problem is that thanks to Android (stuck on partial Java 8 support), and JetBrains plans to put Kotlin everywhere as they try to build a business on top of it (Borland Turbo Pascal style), there is only so much that they can access on the JVM while making Kotlin code portable, specially regarding the Valhala, Panama and Loom roadmaps.</text></comment> |
22,382,465 | 22,380,407 | 1 | 2 | 22,378,600 | train | <story><title>FIDO2 security key company publishes results of internal security audit</title><url>https://blog.doyensec.com/2020/02/19/solokeys-audit.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>I see a lot of confusion in this thread (warranted, because it&#x27;s a confusing subject), and I want to clarify a few things:<p>U2F is the old standard, it is only meant be used as a second factor.<p>WebAuthn is the new standard, it has different modes for usage as a second factor, first factor and single factor (usernameless). Only the usernameless mode requires state on the client side.<p>Usernameless strikes me as the holy grail of authentication, where we don&#x27;t need to remember any usernames or passwords (or even have them), but I haven&#x27;t seen any websites that support usernameless authentication, other than demo ones and my own.<p>If you want to see what a usernameless flow looks like, you can visit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deadmansswitch.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deadmansswitch.net&#x2F;</a>. You have to log in with an email link first, and then associate your FIDO2 credential with it. You don&#x27;t need a hardware key, for example on phones you can use your fingerprint reader and it will work fine.<p>The problem with hardware keys, and which is not mentioned anywhere, is that because usernameless requires storage on the key, Yubikeys only support a maximum of 25 sites you can authenticate with.<p>In order to further my goal of some day ditching password managers, I also made a Django library for usernameless logins which you can use today on your Django sites:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;django-webauthin&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;django-webauthin&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FIDO2 security key company publishes results of internal security audit</title><url>https://blog.doyensec.com/2020/02/19/solokeys-audit.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>talkingtab</author><text>I am probably wrong, but I think Fido2 keys should be ubiquitous. They provide a hardened solution for some security situations, certainly they could be a good 2nd factor or 3rd, and hopefully they could reduce the password madness we have. Yubico appears focused on the enterprise and high end users resulting in higher prices. Solokeys seems more focused on individual users with lower prices.<p>Disclaimer I have two Yubico keys, and two Solokeys and they all work for me, but I don&#x27;t need the extra functionality of the more expensive Yubico keys.</text></comment> |
18,989,252 | 18,989,054 | 1 | 2 | 18,988,320 | train | <story><title>Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/microsoft-confirms-bing-is-down-in-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idrios</author><text>This actually surprises me for how much effort Microsoft puts into being compliant with China. Last year China took down Yahoo! too, despite Yahoo&#x27;s relationship with Alibaba.<p>I was an expat last year and with Google (&amp; DuckDuckGo) blocked I already had pretty few options of search engine. Short of learning enough Chinese to manage Baidu, I can&#x27;t imagine how hard it would be to use internet as a foreigner in China now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tryonqc</author><text>I showed a google map to a police officer (border control on the highway) to show where I was going, no problem. Had setup a few VPN on my iphone before going to have options in case one or two got flagged. My uni VPN worked during my entire stay.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/microsoft-confirms-bing-is-down-in-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idrios</author><text>This actually surprises me for how much effort Microsoft puts into being compliant with China. Last year China took down Yahoo! too, despite Yahoo&#x27;s relationship with Alibaba.<p>I was an expat last year and with Google (&amp; DuckDuckGo) blocked I already had pretty few options of search engine. Short of learning enough Chinese to manage Baidu, I can&#x27;t imagine how hard it would be to use internet as a foreigner in China now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arrivance</author><text>&gt; Last year China took down Yahoo! too, despite Yahoo&#x27;s relationship with Alibaba.<p>I mean, by last year that relationship stopped existing (as Yahoo!&#x27;s Ali shares would be with Altaba).</text></comment> |
27,811,174 | 27,805,104 | 1 | 3 | 27,802,242 | train | <story><title>Older job seekers get fewer offers on LinkedIn but a younger profile photo helps</title><url>https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/older-job-seekers-on-linkedin-get-fewer-job-offers-but-younger-profile-photo-helps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seattle_spring</author><text>As an engineer with more than 15 years professional experience, my definition of &quot;junior shit&quot; would be thinking you can hand-roll a foundation or framework better than something that already exists.</text></item><item><author>austincheney</author><text>The most consistent pattern I have observed as an older developer with some years on a resume is absolute utter astonishment when I don&#x27;t want to waste time on a bunch of confused newb shit like sickly bloated frameworks with a million dependencies. Its weird to hear people acknowledge that I have just so much experience on paper and yet be so amazingly dumbfounded surprised that I would be focused on less junior things.<p>I haven&#x27;t yet found the proper words to converse through that, but a team of similarly older developers sharing similar concerns adds tremendous value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OldHand2018</author><text>If the existing framework is so great, why does it keep getting replaced with a new framework? Why aren’t we all still on Angular?<p>And if we all keep hiring only the best candidates, why would we think that they <i>can’t</i> write a better framework? <i>somebody</i> is writing a better framework.</text></comment> | <story><title>Older job seekers get fewer offers on LinkedIn but a younger profile photo helps</title><url>https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/older-job-seekers-on-linkedin-get-fewer-job-offers-but-younger-profile-photo-helps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seattle_spring</author><text>As an engineer with more than 15 years professional experience, my definition of &quot;junior shit&quot; would be thinking you can hand-roll a foundation or framework better than something that already exists.</text></item><item><author>austincheney</author><text>The most consistent pattern I have observed as an older developer with some years on a resume is absolute utter astonishment when I don&#x27;t want to waste time on a bunch of confused newb shit like sickly bloated frameworks with a million dependencies. Its weird to hear people acknowledge that I have just so much experience on paper and yet be so amazingly dumbfounded surprised that I would be focused on less junior things.<p>I haven&#x27;t yet found the proper words to converse through that, but a team of similarly older developers sharing similar concerns adds tremendous value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LAC-Tech</author><text>Backend framework? Fair enough. Frontend framework? I&#x27;m really not so sure anymore.<p><pre><code> user does something -&gt; change state -&gt; modify DOM
</code></pre>
This isn&#x27;t exactly rocket science.</text></comment> |
20,115,018 | 20,113,460 | 1 | 3 | 20,113,174 | train | <story><title>Michelin Rolls Out an Airless Tire That Will Be “Puncture-Proof”</title><url>https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a27728995/michelin-airless-tire-uptis/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nimbius</author><text>speaking as an automotive mechanic for a chain of small midwest shops, this technology has existed for almost a century. What the article should specify is that Michelin intends to offer a motor vehicle version of this technology, which I think is probably going to be disaster for a few reasons:<p>1. weight. anything thats supposed to handle interstate speeds and offer comfort is going to be heavy as it will need to be durable. id be surprised if these tweels show up with the longevity of a standard all-weather radial. Id be even more surprised if drivers dont pull into the service station for more esoteric repairs like CV joints, brakes or idler&#x2F;pitman assembly changeouts as this is common in vehicles that upgrade to more rugged tires.<p>2. partial failure. Most people dont want to spend money on a new tire if its 40% worn and a hole or cut is in the tread. Typically a bubblegum type or kevlar patch is applied for $30 to the tire, which keeps it rolling intil its worn enough to replace. How do you repair a tweel thats received curb strike damage or a sharp object?<p>For those who have pointed out, yes, fork trucks and fork lifts commonly use solid tires, but thats largely due to how they work. Many forklifts can hoist in excess of 40 tons, so it makes sense to have a tire that doesnt readily compress. Its why big trucks have to have more tubeless tires for larger loads. The plastic or rubber tires on forklifts also have a quick re-tread option. The tires often dont even need to be removed, as they have more treads that can be created by pulling out zip-tie like spacers in the worn tread. other models use a hot-iron type re-treader. that being said, forklift tires are very heavy and so are the wheels, and neither last very long at full-speed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Michelin Rolls Out an Airless Tire That Will Be “Puncture-Proof”</title><url>https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a27728995/michelin-airless-tire-uptis/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>I suspect these are going to be much more sensitive to overloading than normal tires since they&#x27;re gonna be specifically matched to the vehicle weight (unlike a pneumatic tire which can carry far more than vehicle but is simply inflated to a specific pressure for NVH&#x2F;handling) you can&#x27;t just air them up by a few pounds. You can&#x27;t add more pressure to a non-pneumatic tire so it&#x27;s simply going to deform more and generate more heat if you add more load. There&#x27;s no good way around that.<p>One of the nice things about a pneumatic tire is that you can air down if you need low ground pressure. I guess that goes out the window too.<p>These will probably work really well in some use cases but barring some massive groundbreaking improvement I wouldn&#x27;t expect to see these replacing conventional pneumatic tires over the next decade or two.<p>Edit: I&#x27;m talking about these tires in the general case, not specifically as they exist on a Bolt.</text></comment> |
11,004,098 | 11,003,765 | 1 | 2 | 11,001,688 | train | <story><title>NSA Chief Hacker Explains How to Avoid NSA Spying</title><url>http://techlog360.com/2016/01/nsa-chief-hacker-explains-how-to-avoid-nsa-spying/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickpsecurity</author><text>He&#x27;s misdirecting people. Sure this is good advice. The problem is they only protect upper layers of the stack. NSA TAO hits the lower ones, too. Some NSA tooling even attacks in ways that require TEMPEST-style shielding. An old enumeration of issues I put together shows more of the places they&#x27;re hitting plus assurance activities that stopped their hackers in the past:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;y3PufJ0V" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;y3PufJ0V</a><p>Suffice it to say, the TAO is going to breach most of what people use. What people in high-assurance security usually did was a combination of airgaps, embedded hardware, micro&#x2F;separation kernels, things like serial ports to avoid DMA risk, and so on. You have to get all the attack surface out of the equation. Then, you make the TCB simple and strong for the rest.<p>It&#x27;s more work than most will do. It also counters the mainstream favorites like Linux&#x2F;BSD, at least usual usage. So, uptake of high-security methods stayed low enough for TAO to have an easy job. Snowden leaks haven&#x27;t changed that: economic and social factors remain for proprietary and FOSS. So, follow this advice or not, they&#x27;ll still probably get in because root problems are still there. Might stop others, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meowface</author><text>Absolutely. His advice is accurate and something everyone should follow, but it really only scratches the surface. Presenting it as &quot;follow these 6 weird tips to keep TAO out!&quot; is an attempt to give a false sense of security.<p>That said, the NSA is technically in charge of defensive information security for the country, so he can&#x27;t be dismissed as wholly disingenuous, either.</text></comment> | <story><title>NSA Chief Hacker Explains How to Avoid NSA Spying</title><url>http://techlog360.com/2016/01/nsa-chief-hacker-explains-how-to-avoid-nsa-spying/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickpsecurity</author><text>He&#x27;s misdirecting people. Sure this is good advice. The problem is they only protect upper layers of the stack. NSA TAO hits the lower ones, too. Some NSA tooling even attacks in ways that require TEMPEST-style shielding. An old enumeration of issues I put together shows more of the places they&#x27;re hitting plus assurance activities that stopped their hackers in the past:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;y3PufJ0V" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;y3PufJ0V</a><p>Suffice it to say, the TAO is going to breach most of what people use. What people in high-assurance security usually did was a combination of airgaps, embedded hardware, micro&#x2F;separation kernels, things like serial ports to avoid DMA risk, and so on. You have to get all the attack surface out of the equation. Then, you make the TCB simple and strong for the rest.<p>It&#x27;s more work than most will do. It also counters the mainstream favorites like Linux&#x2F;BSD, at least usual usage. So, uptake of high-security methods stayed low enough for TAO to have an easy job. Snowden leaks haven&#x27;t changed that: economic and social factors remain for proprietary and FOSS. So, follow this advice or not, they&#x27;ll still probably get in because root problems are still there. Might stop others, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petra</author><text>Great in depth post.<p>One question: What&#x27;s your opinion on Qubes , or it&#x27;s windows brethren Bromium[2] and blueridge Appguard[1] ?<p>Not against TAO , like you said it won&#x27;t work, but maybe it&#x27;s the best a regular person or small company can do ?<p>[1]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blueridge.com&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;products&#x2F;appguard&#x2F;consumer" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blueridge.com&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;products&#x2F;appguard&#x2F;consume...</a><p>[2]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bromium.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bromium.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
40,277,974 | 40,277,143 | 1 | 2 | 40,276,714 | train | <story><title>German public broadcasters open source their streaming platforms</title><url>https://www.heise.de/en/news/ARD-und-ZDF-wollen-ihren-Streaming-Code-als-Open-Source-anbieten-9709177.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aeyes</author><text>Why was the original title changed? They aren&#x27;t open sourcing anything today.<p>They are planning to develop new tech which they might open source. But all this still has to be approved by the regulator and the government.<p>That said, I have seen some of the tech from the inside ~10 years ago. The ARD player was developed by a third party and there was no budget to bring this in house. Things might have changed but redoing everything just to open source it sounds like a waste of money.</text></comment> | <story><title>German public broadcasters open source their streaming platforms</title><url>https://www.heise.de/en/news/ARD-und-ZDF-wollen-ihren-Streaming-Code-als-Open-Source-anbieten-9709177.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drewmcarthur</author><text>public means public, if something is paid for by tax money, it should be licensed for public use</text></comment> |
15,735,278 | 15,735,116 | 1 | 2 | 15,733,339 | train | <story><title>When I use classes, when I don’t, what I do instead and why</title><url>https://blog.kentcdodds.com/classes-complexity-and-functional-programming-a8dd86903747</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nulagrithom</author><text>Understanding &#x27;this&#x27; in JavaScript is simply table stakes at this point. You and anyone else who touches your JS code should have a decent grasp on &#x27;this&#x27;. Citing &quot;complexity of this&quot; while using React is just absurd in my opinion...<p><i>You Don&#x27;t Know JS: this &amp; Object Prototypes</i> cleared it up nicely for me.[0] Love the series in general too.<p>Also -- and I&#x27;m not sure how it&#x27;s typical done when taking a functional approach -- where do these functions &quot;live&quot;? What if we want to use a Person in another module&#x2F;component&#x2F;whatever? Do we basically just have a collection of &quot;static&quot; functions on a helper class that we&#x27;re going to be using? I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s a real gain. Would rather see the functions available on the Person itself (though maybe that&#x27;s just my OOP ways talking).<p>And then there&#x27;s the &quot;pure function&quot; part. Without explicit documentation and no other knowledge of this individual&#x27;s functional predilections, I would be surprised when the setName function actually creates an entirely new Person and then sets it name.<p>I don&#x27;t know. I really do enjoy functional approaches, but I don&#x27;t think avoiding &#x27;this&#x27; is a good reason, and I feel like the example given isn&#x27;t the best scenario to illustrate.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;getify&#x2F;You-Dont-Know-JS&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;this%20%26%20object%20prototypes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;getify&#x2F;You-Dont-Know-JS&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;this%...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>When I use classes, when I don’t, what I do instead and why</title><url>https://blog.kentcdodds.com/classes-complexity-and-functional-programming-a8dd86903747</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acdha</author><text>It seems odd to read something written in 2017 about the confusion from using `this` which only mentions arrow functions briefly in passing. A fairly high percentage of discussion on that issue could be replaced with “use an arrow function, it works the way you expect”, and browser support should be basically the same as ES6 classes – doesn&#x27;t work in IE11 but multiple tools are available for backwards compatibility.</text></comment> |
9,701,149 | 9,700,934 | 1 | 3 | 9,700,468 | train | <story><title>Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship</title><url>http://code.facebook.com/posts/1648953042007882</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guepe</author><text>The types of issues discovered (they mention null pointer access and resource and memory leaks) is much smaller than what a tool like Coverity will find (I use it). And they analyze C and Java, two languages supported by Coverity, a very mature tool...<p>I am not certain of the proposed value, except it&#x27;s free to other than Facebook - but not to Facebook, who pays engineers to develop this...
Is this some kind of NIH syndrom by Facebook, or is there something I missed ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Rezo</author><text>Coverity is great, but for example on the mid-size service (10s but not 100s of kloc) that my team works on the analysis still takes hours. Therefore we only do it for prod releases, not on every commit or CI deployment.<p>If you want to make static analysis part of the everyday development process, it has to be 1) very quick, ideally seconds; minutes at most 2) preferably something the developer can just run locally before pushing a change. If it&#x27;s fast and easy enough, it simply becomes another code hygiene tool like a code formatter that you&#x27;ll run continuously, perhaps even directly integrated into something like IntelliJ.<p>To me Infer sounds like a nice complement to Coverity to catch issues as close to where they are introduced as possible. It might even be Good Enough for many projects to be the only tool, since Coverity is pretty expensive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship</title><url>http://code.facebook.com/posts/1648953042007882</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guepe</author><text>The types of issues discovered (they mention null pointer access and resource and memory leaks) is much smaller than what a tool like Coverity will find (I use it). And they analyze C and Java, two languages supported by Coverity, a very mature tool...<p>I am not certain of the proposed value, except it&#x27;s free to other than Facebook - but not to Facebook, who pays engineers to develop this...
Is this some kind of NIH syndrom by Facebook, or is there something I missed ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alupis</author><text>Findbugs is also very good for Java apps, and is free. (Developed by the University of Maryland)[1]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;findbugs.sourceforge.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;findbugs.sourceforge.net&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
36,650,522 | 36,650,488 | 1 | 2 | 36,650,120 | train | <story><title>Perl first commit: a “replacement” for Awk and sed</title><url>https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611a2f4f5a21059a2804f1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unpythonic</author><text>When perl came out we were living in horrific times. You had the choice of either Bourne, C or Korn shell. Automation was glued together in one of these with a series of grep, awk, sed, ls, test, commands glued together. Anything more complicated was written in C and called from one of these things.<p>Perl in one stroke collapsed the programming of C, text manipulation, the capabilities of all of the Unix utilities, and data structures into one system. For anything which wasn&#x27;t subsumed into the monolith of Perl, you could easy access via backticks. It was very friendly in dealing with text streams, and that&#x27;s what those call-outs in those back ticks spoke.<p>Yes, awk and sed were replaced by Perl, but more importantly, the unmaintainable nightmare that glued all of it together was wiped out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imiric</author><text>&gt; Automation was glued together in one of these with a series of grep, awk, sed, ls, test, commands glued together. Anything more complicated was written in C and called from one of these things.<p>This doesn&#x27;t sound that horrific to me. It&#x27;s the classic Unix approach of building small tools that do one thing well, and composing them in novel ways to solve problems. For any problem that can&#x27;t be solved this way you write another small tool using your programming language of choice. Rinse and repeat.<p>But occasionally Unix attracts users and programmers who reject this approach, and who prefer building a monolithic tool, or in the case of Larry Wall, new programming languages. To be clear, I&#x27;m a fan of Perl and think it has its place, especially in the era it came out. It inspired many modern languages, and its impact is undeniable.<p>Personally, I find solutions you refer to as &quot;unmaintainable nightmare&quot; to be simple and elegant, if used correctly. No, you probably shouldn&#x27;t abuse shell scripts to build a complex system, and beyond a certain level of complexity, a programming language is the better tool. But for most simple processing pipelines, Unix tools are perfectly capable and can be used to build maintainable solutions.<p>The classic Knuth-Mcllroy bout[1] comes to mind. Would you rather maintain Knuth&#x27;s solution or Mcllroy&#x27;s?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matt-rickard.com&#x2F;instinct-and-culture" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matt-rickard.com&#x2F;instinct-and-culture</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Perl first commit: a “replacement” for Awk and sed</title><url>https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611a2f4f5a21059a2804f1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unpythonic</author><text>When perl came out we were living in horrific times. You had the choice of either Bourne, C or Korn shell. Automation was glued together in one of these with a series of grep, awk, sed, ls, test, commands glued together. Anything more complicated was written in C and called from one of these things.<p>Perl in one stroke collapsed the programming of C, text manipulation, the capabilities of all of the Unix utilities, and data structures into one system. For anything which wasn&#x27;t subsumed into the monolith of Perl, you could easy access via backticks. It was very friendly in dealing with text streams, and that&#x27;s what those call-outs in those back ticks spoke.<p>Yes, awk and sed were replaced by Perl, but more importantly, the unmaintainable nightmare that glued all of it together was wiped out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_2z1p</author><text>Not just the language itself but the whole ecosystem it brought with it was revolutionary. CPAN was incredible. There seemed like there was a module for just about anything! Perldoc and a testing framework were built right in. Regexes, backticks to shell out to the system, reporting built in. It really was the whole package.</text></comment> |
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