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22,582,148 | 22,581,061 | 1 | 2 | 22,577,432 | train | <story><title>Working from home – things no one talks about</title><url>https://www.timo-zimmermann.de/2020/03/working-from-home-things-no-one-talks-about/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yurlungur</author><text>You know, last week when we were starting to WFH I thought of it as a blessing in disguise since I always liked staying indoors and often take a day or two to WFH per week to focus on docs etc.<p>However, once everyone is WFH the experience turned out to be less than ideal to say the least. I found that I worked more, worked more at overtime hours and have been more stressed out than usual.<p>I think it really had nothing to do with my habits and preparedness. I already had everything set up (multiple displays, standing desk etc which I&#x27;ve had for a long time) and had almost no productivity drop on my side. However, now all my colleagues are pinging me, the video meetings take longer to finish since people are talking over each other and now I&#x27;m asked to write much more documentation and communications for rather trivial matters instead of just talking to someone face to face for a couple of minutes. People (management) also have less respect for normal work hours.<p>In the end I think if your company doesn&#x27;t have the preparedness and more importantly the systems ready for remote work, you won&#x27;t be ready for full remote work either.<p>I just hope people will begin to adjust to the new normal better as time goes on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonkester</author><text><i>&gt; I found that I worked more, worked more at overtime hours and have been more stressed out than usual.</i><p>Here&#x27;s how I deal with this:<p>The work computer lives in my office, which I close up and leave at the end of the work day. None of my other devices have access to work email, and none of them receive any form of work related notification ever.<p>If you ping me about something after I&#x27;ve signed off for the evening, you&#x27;ll get a response in the morning after I&#x27;ve had my coffee.<p>Everybody else is free to work around the clock if they like. If they need me, they can catch me while I&#x27;m at work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Working from home – things no one talks about</title><url>https://www.timo-zimmermann.de/2020/03/working-from-home-things-no-one-talks-about/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yurlungur</author><text>You know, last week when we were starting to WFH I thought of it as a blessing in disguise since I always liked staying indoors and often take a day or two to WFH per week to focus on docs etc.<p>However, once everyone is WFH the experience turned out to be less than ideal to say the least. I found that I worked more, worked more at overtime hours and have been more stressed out than usual.<p>I think it really had nothing to do with my habits and preparedness. I already had everything set up (multiple displays, standing desk etc which I&#x27;ve had for a long time) and had almost no productivity drop on my side. However, now all my colleagues are pinging me, the video meetings take longer to finish since people are talking over each other and now I&#x27;m asked to write much more documentation and communications for rather trivial matters instead of just talking to someone face to face for a couple of minutes. People (management) also have less respect for normal work hours.<p>In the end I think if your company doesn&#x27;t have the preparedness and more importantly the systems ready for remote work, you won&#x27;t be ready for full remote work either.<p>I just hope people will begin to adjust to the new normal better as time goes on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SoulMan</author><text>Exactly my situation. I am used to working from home and earlier I did only when I had independent work to focus on and not many meetings scheduled on that day. Now it does not work as it seems (it has always been) the other side is not prepared. I know for some people documentation (even simple MOM or writing description in the story ) is an overhead for them. Even some architect level folk love to just talk for an hour in random topics in meetings without any conclusive decision jotted down in notes for future reference. Later after implementation there is always confusion what had we decided to be the behaviour like. Junior engineers do not respond to email or public chat as they think something as to be serious and escalated to do so else just ignore. Overall it seems my family has ben more supporting and confortable than the team while working from home. I don&#x27;t have dogs and my kinds are happy to be engaged with their grand parents as schools are closed (One of the advantage of traditional Indian famly)</text></comment> |
22,335,117 | 22,333,072 | 1 | 2 | 22,332,133 | train | <story><title>RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rcmp-cra-telephone-scam-fraud-investigation-1.5463838</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jemm</author><text>Thanks you CBC Marketplace for getting the RCMP to finally do something.<p>Marketplace has been exposing these scam companies for years. They even traced their location in India multiple times.<p>Canada needs to secure our telephone systems. It is way too easy for a scammer to get a Canadian VOIP number or to spoof phone numbers. Scam calls lately are have been spoofing my number to call me.</text></comment> | <story><title>RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rcmp-cra-telephone-scam-fraud-investigation-1.5463838</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mysterypie</author><text>How about putting a small tariff on every phone call originating from countries that do not shut down these fraudulent call centers? The tariff perhaps could be as small as 2 or 10 cents per call to make these operations unprofitable. I&#x27;m sure that the telecom operators in the foreign country could easily track down (or already know precisely where to find) the call centers. Once the fraud falls below a threshold the tariff can be removed.<p>Punitive tariffs, quotas, bans get applied to every kind of product -- counterfeits, contaminated foods, polluting vehicles. I never heard any government agency suggest applying it to countries that are the overwhelming source of scam calls.</text></comment> |
4,036,607 | 4,036,127 | 1 | 3 | 4,035,516 | train | <story><title>Why cheap customers cost more</title><url>http://sachagreif.com/why-cheap-customers-cost-more/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>For Appointment Reminder, approximate per-account customer support incidents per month. I've taken the liberty of scaling them to X, where X represents the number for the highest publicly available account plan.<p><pre><code> Personal ($9): 7X
Professional ($29): 4X
Small Business ($79): 3X
Office ($199): X
</code></pre>
The character of the questions is also different at the various plan levels. Most common question for Office: "What's the timeframe on integrating this with ..." followed by "Our $TITLE would like a report saying $NEEDS, can you make that happen?" Most common question for Personal: "How do I schedule appointments?" followed by "The system is working exactly the way it says it does on the screen. Can you please tell me why that is happening? I thought it would work in a way completely opposite to the way described on the screen. It would be convenient if you could fix that. No, I didn't read the 'If you want this to work in the opposite fashion...' text on the screen to change that setting, I have more important things to do than worry about computers."<p>Your mileage may vary. If I were doing the math based on phone calls waking me up in the middle of the night, the numbers get skewed due to one pathological customer in the $29 bucket, who has literally called me more than every other customer combined.<p>P.S. I have fairly exact privileged information regarding this question at a handful of companies and anecdotal evidence from dozens of my software buddies. It is our universal experience that the support load for cheap/free customers crushes the support load for the higher plans, both on an absolute and per-customer basis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>speleding</author><text>I noticed a similar pattern in my business (I run an appointment scheduling web site). An additional insight was that when you provide a quick reply to the "dummies" they will start asking even more questions instead of trying to find stuff out themselves.<p>Here's what works for me: on the second "silly" support request they send I put them in a "cool down" queue that gets answered a day later. If they keep asking simple questions they move into the two day wait queue. (Obviously, this only works if your support is by email.)<p>I worked as a consultant for a company once where they would go even one step further and would actively encourage customers that used too much customer support to switch to another provider. The trick is doing this in such a way that the customer does not realize he's being told to leave lest you get a bad reputation. I'm not going to divulge all my trade secrets here, but I've found a way to do something similar for my business, perhaps you can think of one for yours too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why cheap customers cost more</title><url>http://sachagreif.com/why-cheap-customers-cost-more/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>For Appointment Reminder, approximate per-account customer support incidents per month. I've taken the liberty of scaling them to X, where X represents the number for the highest publicly available account plan.<p><pre><code> Personal ($9): 7X
Professional ($29): 4X
Small Business ($79): 3X
Office ($199): X
</code></pre>
The character of the questions is also different at the various plan levels. Most common question for Office: "What's the timeframe on integrating this with ..." followed by "Our $TITLE would like a report saying $NEEDS, can you make that happen?" Most common question for Personal: "How do I schedule appointments?" followed by "The system is working exactly the way it says it does on the screen. Can you please tell me why that is happening? I thought it would work in a way completely opposite to the way described on the screen. It would be convenient if you could fix that. No, I didn't read the 'If you want this to work in the opposite fashion...' text on the screen to change that setting, I have more important things to do than worry about computers."<p>Your mileage may vary. If I were doing the math based on phone calls waking me up in the middle of the night, the numbers get skewed due to one pathological customer in the $29 bucket, who has literally called me more than every other customer combined.<p>P.S. I have fairly exact privileged information regarding this question at a handful of companies and anecdotal evidence from dozens of my software buddies. It is our universal experience that the support load for cheap/free customers crushes the support load for the higher plans, both on an absolute and per-customer basis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Smerity</author><text>Thanks for providing the rough figures, it's quite rare to see numbers on things like support requests broken down to pricing tier but quite fascinating. Do you have any insights or intuitions as to the varying number of support requests?<p>Is it that the Personal plans are done by small businesses where the owner is trying to run their shop and do IT work whilst larger businesses tend to have a knowledgeable sole-purpose "tech guy"?<p>Edit: Ah, I hadn't seen that you've written so much about it previously. Thanks! For others, this seems like a good overview of low tier pathological customers by patio11 -- <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3186111" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3186111</a><p>(for more see patio11's suggested hnsearch.com [patio11 pathological customers] at <a href="http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&#38;q=+patio11+pathological+customers" rel="nofollow">http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&#38;q=+patio11+pa...</a>)</text></comment> |
28,822,065 | 28,820,353 | 1 | 3 | 28,819,927 | train | <story><title>3D Printing Sex Toys</title><url>https://www.billieruben.info/post/3d-printing-sex-toys-a-quick-easy-and-safe-method</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dTal</author><text>The core of this technique is the use of beeswax to act as both a filler&#x2F;smoothing agent and mould release. A clever hack - but I&#x27;m confused by some things:<p>- the assertion that 3d printed materials are not body safe; PLA (the most common 3d printing material) is nontoxic and used for utensils (although agreed that the layer lines are a hygiene hazard)<p>- the description of the &quot;traditional&quot; method as printing a positive shape, then casting a negative in silicone, and then casting a positive <i>also</i> in silicone (with release agent, presumably because silicone bonds to itself). Why would you not just print a negative directly - as indeed she later does? Is it because she considers the concave surface difficult to sand smooth?<p>- Why is release agent &quot;$$$&quot;? There are a variety of extremely cheap household items that work as release agent, notably dish soap.<p>- Pouring 100C beeswax into a print. This is <i>well</i> above the glass point of PLA. She doesn&#x27;t say what material she&#x27;s printing with, which may explain the earlier remark about not being body safe.<p>- The need for any sort of release agent. Silicone does not bond to thermoplastic, at all. She&#x27;s not casting silicone in silicone, so what&#x27;s the problem?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BillieRuben</author><text>- PLA as a material is at least food safe (though food safe and body safe aren&#x27;t the same). But! The material passes through nozzles which probably have lead in them etc. even if that&#x27;s of negligible consequence though the main issue with making something body safe is the layer lines, which retain moisture and breed bacteria.<p>- yes, concave surfaces are dang near impossible to smooth.<p>- plenty of household release agents don&#x27;t work in a silicone to silicone mould, or impede the cure of platinum cure silicone (the body safe kind), and if you bugger it up you&#x27;re just wasted the mould and the dildo&#x27;s worth of silicone which is $$$.<p>- I just used PLA. the beeswax doesn&#x27;t touch it for long, you literally pour it in and immediately back out. Because the print is hollow on the inside and because beeswax has such a low specific heat capacity it cools instantly, and this all works, my pics are proof.<p>- silicone doesn&#x27;t bond to PLA, no, but you need to smooth the layer lines, which brings us back to point 1....</text></comment> | <story><title>3D Printing Sex Toys</title><url>https://www.billieruben.info/post/3d-printing-sex-toys-a-quick-easy-and-safe-method</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dTal</author><text>The core of this technique is the use of beeswax to act as both a filler&#x2F;smoothing agent and mould release. A clever hack - but I&#x27;m confused by some things:<p>- the assertion that 3d printed materials are not body safe; PLA (the most common 3d printing material) is nontoxic and used for utensils (although agreed that the layer lines are a hygiene hazard)<p>- the description of the &quot;traditional&quot; method as printing a positive shape, then casting a negative in silicone, and then casting a positive <i>also</i> in silicone (with release agent, presumably because silicone bonds to itself). Why would you not just print a negative directly - as indeed she later does? Is it because she considers the concave surface difficult to sand smooth?<p>- Why is release agent &quot;$$$&quot;? There are a variety of extremely cheap household items that work as release agent, notably dish soap.<p>- Pouring 100C beeswax into a print. This is <i>well</i> above the glass point of PLA. She doesn&#x27;t say what material she&#x27;s printing with, which may explain the earlier remark about not being body safe.<p>- The need for any sort of release agent. Silicone does not bond to thermoplastic, at all. She&#x27;s not casting silicone in silicone, so what&#x27;s the problem?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>h2odragon</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t fear a PLA thing first use; but cleaning it thoroughly enough to re-use is going to be a challenge without special effort applied to finishing it after printing.<p>Beeswax temp: Thermal mass of the print is probably high enough that it sucks the heat out of the wax before melting much surface feature. in this case, smoothing bumps is beneficial.</text></comment> |
21,972,041 | 21,971,587 | 1 | 3 | 21,970,779 | train | <story><title>Store the proof of a webpage saved with SingleFile in Bitcoin</title><url>https://blog.woleet.io/woleet-singlefile-extension-bitcoin-proof/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kwantam</author><text>Since there&#x27;s little technical detail it&#x27;s hard to be certain, but I doubt this is useful as a proof in the way one might wish (that is, proving that a web server delivered content X at date Y). The reason is, it does not appear that anything prevents the user from modifying the web page and then generating a &quot;proof&quot; about the modified version.<p>TLSNotary (tlsnotary.org) is an example of a project that attempts to use a (modified) TLS connection for non-repudiation (which is roughly the property that we would want here), but it requires a trusted third party to act as the notary.<p>It&#x27;s possible this project is taking a similar approach (which would be fine, for those who trust the trusted third party). But given the lack of technical detail, and reading between the lines, I don&#x27;t see a reason to believe this is the case.<p>(Happy to be wrong, though! Maybe a more detailed description would help us understand what&#x27;s going on.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmeyer2k</author><text>&gt; I doubt this is useful as a proof in the way one might wish (that is, proving that a web server delivered content X at date Y). The reason is, it does not appear that anything prevents the user from modifying the web page and then generating a &quot;proof&quot; about the modified version.<p>The point of this service is to prove data <i></i>existed<i></i> at a certain time. It can&#x27;t prove the authenticity of the data.</text></comment> | <story><title>Store the proof of a webpage saved with SingleFile in Bitcoin</title><url>https://blog.woleet.io/woleet-singlefile-extension-bitcoin-proof/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kwantam</author><text>Since there&#x27;s little technical detail it&#x27;s hard to be certain, but I doubt this is useful as a proof in the way one might wish (that is, proving that a web server delivered content X at date Y). The reason is, it does not appear that anything prevents the user from modifying the web page and then generating a &quot;proof&quot; about the modified version.<p>TLSNotary (tlsnotary.org) is an example of a project that attempts to use a (modified) TLS connection for non-repudiation (which is roughly the property that we would want here), but it requires a trusted third party to act as the notary.<p>It&#x27;s possible this project is taking a similar approach (which would be fine, for those who trust the trusted third party). But given the lack of technical detail, and reading between the lines, I don&#x27;t see a reason to believe this is the case.<p>(Happy to be wrong, though! Maybe a more detailed description would help us understand what&#x27;s going on.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregable</author><text>Another possible solution to what you want to solve is to use a signed exchange signature: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wicg.github.io&#x2F;webpackage&#x2F;draft-yasskin-http-origin-signed-responses.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wicg.github.io&#x2F;webpackage&#x2F;draft-yasskin-http-origin-...</a><p>The publisher server must support it, but this results in the document being signed with the publisher&#x27;s certificate. This won&#x27;t &quot;date&quot; the signature, but combined with a blockchain solution like this could prove that a web server delivered content X at date Y.</text></comment> |
27,682,151 | 27,680,923 | 1 | 3 | 27,675,603 | train | <story><title>How to Work Hard</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/hwh.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devchix</author><text>&gt; I can hardly sit through an entire two-hour movie or play a video game without feeling like I should be doing something else.<p>One summer we rented a beach house, I had delusions of lazing on the beach under a big umbrella, drinks, books, dogs, netflix, music, a endless orgy of entertainment and sunny weather. I went stir-crazy in about half a day, there&#x27;s only so much lazing about I can do, after 2 movies I thought meh, I&#x27;m wasting this day. I envy the people who say they&#x27;re going on vacation and do nothing for a week, two weeks even. I can&#x27;t seem to do that, and I don&#x27;t know whether that&#x27;s something intrinsic to who I am, or that&#x27;s a toxic thought pattern I need to get rid of. When I&#x27;m back at home and at work I am so busy I have a tendency say &quot;I wish I had some more time to unwind&quot; a lot.<p>At the present, I&#x27;m trying to have <i>focused and purposeful</i> idle time. With intent, sit through a movie, read something, play a game, whatever, for a chunk of time, or deliberately do nothing at all. The last one is very hard for me, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve managed 15 minutes of it.</text></item><item><author>nonbirithm</author><text>I feel the same. I can hardly sit through an entire two-hour movie or play a video game without feeling like I should be doing something else. I <i>cannot</i> feel good about myself if I cannot sense that I&#x27;m making progress learning a skill, and am stuck for hours looking down at a blank page as a result.<p>But what&#x27;s dangerous for me is that this alarm system does not trigger consistently. I might spend too much time on HN, for example, because my impression is that HN is a place to have intellectual discoveries. I might spend too much time on YouTube because I can&#x27;t think of anything else to do. Ironically there is a wealth of knowledge contained in some games that would be more worthwhile than a bunch of highlights on YouTube, but YouTube is just too easy to go back to.<p>When I work on some of my programming projects, I come out with the feeling that I&#x27;m just using the act of constantly working on them as an excuse to not have to worry about the fact that my life outside of them is one-dimensional and currently stagnating. I work way too hard on such non-work projects and burn out only to stop and instead spend weeks anxious that because I&#x27;m not doing anything, I am not growing as a person. I still believe this is true; I don&#x27;t think I am much different from the me of two years ago, except that I&#x27;ve made some progress on programming projects.<p>But it&#x27;s weird because I enjoy programming. I think it is because I enjoy programming so much that I become blinded to things that I should have seen as more important. I think I am already good enough at programming to not need much more to learn, and am only applying the skills that I happen to have built up for years.<p>But when I turn back to the other hobbies I always told myself I wanted to spend my life doing, all I find is a void of interest, and I ultimately accomplish little.<p>I also believe this was a result of how I was raised and the coping mechanisms my upbringing&#x2F;college ingrained in me.</text></item><item><author>helen___keller</author><text>When I was an undergrad at CMU, I learned how to work hard. Really hard. After having coasted through too-easy high school, I spent all day every day at CMU either programming, doing mathematics, or thinking about one of those things (to great effect: often the trick to prove a theorem would pop into my head while showering or while taking a walk). I would fall asleep while programming in the middle of the night, dream about programming, then wake up and continue programming just where I left off.<p>One thing from this essay really stuck out to me:<p>&gt; The most basic level of which is simply to feel you should be working without anyone telling you to. Now, when I&#x27;m not working hard, alarm bells go off.<p>One thing that always happened at the end of a semester is we&#x27;d have a few days after exams but before flights back home. On these days I&#x27;d typically try playing a video game (my hobby before college) and every time I would stop playing after just an hour with deep feeling of unease at the pit of my stomach. &quot;Alarm bells&quot; is exactly how I would describe it - a feeling at the core of my psyche that I have been wasting time and there must be <i>something</i> productive I should be doing or thinking about.<p>Years later, having tackled anxiety problems that had plagued me most of my life, I came to recognize that my relationship with hard work during my college years was not healthy and that this deep seated desire to do more work is not a positive thing, at least not for me.<p>I&#x27;ve since reformed my ambitions, instead of looking to start a company or get a PhD in mathematics, I&#x27;ve decided that hard work is not the love of my life and instead I should focus on my hobbies while looking for a career path that can be simultaneously fulfilling but laid back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wfme</author><text>I had a very similar experience a few years ago after travelling to Rarotonga for a holiday. There was little reception for mobile data without a new sim - this turned out to be an absolute blessing. The first day or so was easy, but the next few were restless. We had explored the island, snorkelled, swam in the pool, and tried lots of the local food. We had run out of things to do.<p>The funny thing is, it took there being nothing to do, no phone to idly turn to, to truly start to unwind and relax. I didn&#x27;t initially realise it at the time, but my body and mind had been in this constant state of stress. After pushing through that initial restlessness and that constant need to be actively doing or reading about something productive, my whole body began to feel noticeably more relaxed. The invisible state of constant stress was finally parting. Waking up later than usual, grabbing some tropical fruits and enjoying them around the pool with a light fictional book at the ready started to feel more natural and enjoyable. It started to feel like I could truly enjoy doing &quot;nothing&quot; and just bathe in the relaxation.<p>After returning home, there were many noticeable improvements to my creative thinking, productivity, and my general feeling of wellbeing.<p>My take away from this experience is that it is so incredible difficult to fully disconnect from day-to-day life when your phone can provide constant access to information. It&#x27;s oh so easy to go on holiday but still turn to your phone and hn or reddit when idle. I highly highly recommend taking a holiday either without your phone, or without any easy access to the internet.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Work Hard</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/hwh.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devchix</author><text>&gt; I can hardly sit through an entire two-hour movie or play a video game without feeling like I should be doing something else.<p>One summer we rented a beach house, I had delusions of lazing on the beach under a big umbrella, drinks, books, dogs, netflix, music, a endless orgy of entertainment and sunny weather. I went stir-crazy in about half a day, there&#x27;s only so much lazing about I can do, after 2 movies I thought meh, I&#x27;m wasting this day. I envy the people who say they&#x27;re going on vacation and do nothing for a week, two weeks even. I can&#x27;t seem to do that, and I don&#x27;t know whether that&#x27;s something intrinsic to who I am, or that&#x27;s a toxic thought pattern I need to get rid of. When I&#x27;m back at home and at work I am so busy I have a tendency say &quot;I wish I had some more time to unwind&quot; a lot.<p>At the present, I&#x27;m trying to have <i>focused and purposeful</i> idle time. With intent, sit through a movie, read something, play a game, whatever, for a chunk of time, or deliberately do nothing at all. The last one is very hard for me, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve managed 15 minutes of it.</text></item><item><author>nonbirithm</author><text>I feel the same. I can hardly sit through an entire two-hour movie or play a video game without feeling like I should be doing something else. I <i>cannot</i> feel good about myself if I cannot sense that I&#x27;m making progress learning a skill, and am stuck for hours looking down at a blank page as a result.<p>But what&#x27;s dangerous for me is that this alarm system does not trigger consistently. I might spend too much time on HN, for example, because my impression is that HN is a place to have intellectual discoveries. I might spend too much time on YouTube because I can&#x27;t think of anything else to do. Ironically there is a wealth of knowledge contained in some games that would be more worthwhile than a bunch of highlights on YouTube, but YouTube is just too easy to go back to.<p>When I work on some of my programming projects, I come out with the feeling that I&#x27;m just using the act of constantly working on them as an excuse to not have to worry about the fact that my life outside of them is one-dimensional and currently stagnating. I work way too hard on such non-work projects and burn out only to stop and instead spend weeks anxious that because I&#x27;m not doing anything, I am not growing as a person. I still believe this is true; I don&#x27;t think I am much different from the me of two years ago, except that I&#x27;ve made some progress on programming projects.<p>But it&#x27;s weird because I enjoy programming. I think it is because I enjoy programming so much that I become blinded to things that I should have seen as more important. I think I am already good enough at programming to not need much more to learn, and am only applying the skills that I happen to have built up for years.<p>But when I turn back to the other hobbies I always told myself I wanted to spend my life doing, all I find is a void of interest, and I ultimately accomplish little.<p>I also believe this was a result of how I was raised and the coping mechanisms my upbringing&#x2F;college ingrained in me.</text></item><item><author>helen___keller</author><text>When I was an undergrad at CMU, I learned how to work hard. Really hard. After having coasted through too-easy high school, I spent all day every day at CMU either programming, doing mathematics, or thinking about one of those things (to great effect: often the trick to prove a theorem would pop into my head while showering or while taking a walk). I would fall asleep while programming in the middle of the night, dream about programming, then wake up and continue programming just where I left off.<p>One thing from this essay really stuck out to me:<p>&gt; The most basic level of which is simply to feel you should be working without anyone telling you to. Now, when I&#x27;m not working hard, alarm bells go off.<p>One thing that always happened at the end of a semester is we&#x27;d have a few days after exams but before flights back home. On these days I&#x27;d typically try playing a video game (my hobby before college) and every time I would stop playing after just an hour with deep feeling of unease at the pit of my stomach. &quot;Alarm bells&quot; is exactly how I would describe it - a feeling at the core of my psyche that I have been wasting time and there must be <i>something</i> productive I should be doing or thinking about.<p>Years later, having tackled anxiety problems that had plagued me most of my life, I came to recognize that my relationship with hard work during my college years was not healthy and that this deep seated desire to do more work is not a positive thing, at least not for me.<p>I&#x27;ve since reformed my ambitions, instead of looking to start a company or get a PhD in mathematics, I&#x27;ve decided that hard work is not the love of my life and instead I should focus on my hobbies while looking for a career path that can be simultaneously fulfilling but laid back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d0m3</author><text>Going on vacation doesn&#x27;t mean doing nothing.
Like you I don&#x27;t understand how&#x2F;why people do this.
I think it&#x27;s about doing something different. Travel, visit, explore, camp, hike, do sport, meet new people, share that with family&#x2F;friends or not.</text></comment> |
13,503,765 | 13,503,430 | 1 | 2 | 13,502,627 | train | <story><title>Google, in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/technology/google-in-post-obama-era-aggressively-woos-republicans.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alphonsegaston</author><text>I&#x27;m not optimistic, but I hope that the Trump era finally puts an end to the illusions people had about tech giants as a vehicle for social progress. We&#x27;re stepping into an era of extreme inequality, authoritarianism, and intolerance, all borne on the back of their rise. They may not be the origin of these trends, but they certainly rode them to tremendous wealth without anything besides the most superficial concerns for their social consequences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twblalock</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m not optimistic, but I hope that the Trump era finally puts an end to the illusions people had about tech giants as a vehicle for social progress.<p>I hope so too. Even if corporations really were sincerely pursuing social progress, that would be bad. In a democratic society, social progress should not be determined by a small group of unaccountable organizations.<p>Say what you will about governments pursuing social progress -- at least they are somewhat accountable and need to be elected. (Another potential upside of Trump&#x27;s election: hopefully fewer people who believe that voting never changes anything because the establishment always wins.) Nobody outside of a corporation&#x27;s board has control over who ends up in charge.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google, in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/technology/google-in-post-obama-era-aggressively-woos-republicans.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alphonsegaston</author><text>I&#x27;m not optimistic, but I hope that the Trump era finally puts an end to the illusions people had about tech giants as a vehicle for social progress. We&#x27;re stepping into an era of extreme inequality, authoritarianism, and intolerance, all borne on the back of their rise. They may not be the origin of these trends, but they certainly rode them to tremendous wealth without anything besides the most superficial concerns for their social consequences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r00fus</author><text>You&#x27;re blaming tech giants for the rise in inequality, authoritarianism and intolerance?<p>It&#x27;s like blaming Apple or Spotify that your favorite artists aren&#x27;t as good as they used to be.<p>Fine, be happy the veil is off (tech giants are corporations and when push comes to shove are about money), but honestly you need to look at the petroleum industry, security &amp; prison industrial complexes and their bought politicians to see the worst.</text></comment> |
37,562,170 | 37,562,108 | 1 | 2 | 37,561,668 | train | <story><title>Update on KDP Title Creation Limits</title><url>https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/Update-on-KDP-Title-Creation-Limits?language=en_US&forum=KDP%20Forum</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>japhyr</author><text>It&#x27;ll be interesting to see where this goes. Amazon has had ML-generated garbage books for years now, and I assume they haven&#x27;t taken them down because they make money even when they sell garbage.<p><i>Maybe</i> there&#x27;s so much garbage coming in now that they finally have to do something about it? I feel for people trying to learn about technical topics, who aren&#x27;t aware enough of this issue to avoid buying ML-generated books with high ratings from fake reviews. The intro programming market is full of these scam books.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m463</author><text>I was thinking about buying an air fryer. My search came up with cookbooks specific to that air fryer, and I was intrigued. I found a good 5-star book, but then I found that ALL the 5-star reviews were submitted the same day.<p>I complained, but Amazon defended the book as legitimate, and since I hadn&#x27;t purchased it, they would not take any action. (to be honest, I assume frontline customer service reps don&#x27;t have much experience or power)<p>So I purchased it, complained, got a refund and then they were able to accept my complaint (after passing the complaint higher in the food chain).<p>Seriously, how hard was it amazon? I guess they&#x27;re starting to notice.<p>Take a look at air fryer cookbooks - there are books specific to most makes and models. But everything is ML copypasta all the way up and down - the title, the recipes and the reviews all seem to be generated garbage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Update on KDP Title Creation Limits</title><url>https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/Update-on-KDP-Title-Creation-Limits?language=en_US&forum=KDP%20Forum</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>japhyr</author><text>It&#x27;ll be interesting to see where this goes. Amazon has had ML-generated garbage books for years now, and I assume they haven&#x27;t taken them down because they make money even when they sell garbage.<p><i>Maybe</i> there&#x27;s so much garbage coming in now that they finally have to do something about it? I feel for people trying to learn about technical topics, who aren&#x27;t aware enough of this issue to avoid buying ML-generated books with high ratings from fake reviews. The intro programming market is full of these scam books.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>miohtama</author><text>Garbage books are used for money laundering.<p>You buy books using stolen credit cards and such.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;2018&#x2F;apr&#x2F;27&#x2F;fake-books-sold-amazon-money-laundering" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;2018&#x2F;apr&#x2F;27&#x2F;fake-books-sol...</a></text></comment> |
25,286,347 | 25,283,235 | 1 | 3 | 25,281,164 | train | <story><title>A Japanese shop is 1,020 years old</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/business/japan-old-companies.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agar</author><text>A colleague took me to Tamahide restaurant in Tokyo, which opened in 1760 and is known for creating oyakodon, a chicken and egg rice bowl. (Oyakadon translates to &quot;parent and child donburi&quot; which somehow makes eating a combination of chicken and egg a little less appealing).<p>Looking at reviews today, people apparently see the food as a mixed bag - some are clearly disappointed. In my opinion, it was excellent, with the signature dish having balanced flavors that seem to have been refined for generations. I found it endlessly fascinating that a humble lunch place with a simple dish could survive for 250+ years - but it also makes perfect sense that simple things last.<p>My colleague (a local in our Japan office) told me that emperors of old had ordered the dish to be delivered to them, well before Japan had even been &quot;opened&quot; to the world. Perhaps the stories were apocryphal (he was a sales guy after all), but still entertaining and gave a sense of the history behind the meal.<p>Tokyo is an amazing city, though it can be very lonely for an expat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drak0n1c</author><text>Oyakodon is one of the blandest dishes in Japanese cuisine (typically made with no sauces or spices - or just a tiny dash of shichimi), so I&#x27;m not surprised foreign travelers found it disappointing. Growing up with the context of the dish helps - and so does a sensitive tongue!</text></comment> | <story><title>A Japanese shop is 1,020 years old</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/business/japan-old-companies.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agar</author><text>A colleague took me to Tamahide restaurant in Tokyo, which opened in 1760 and is known for creating oyakodon, a chicken and egg rice bowl. (Oyakadon translates to &quot;parent and child donburi&quot; which somehow makes eating a combination of chicken and egg a little less appealing).<p>Looking at reviews today, people apparently see the food as a mixed bag - some are clearly disappointed. In my opinion, it was excellent, with the signature dish having balanced flavors that seem to have been refined for generations. I found it endlessly fascinating that a humble lunch place with a simple dish could survive for 250+ years - but it also makes perfect sense that simple things last.<p>My colleague (a local in our Japan office) told me that emperors of old had ordered the dish to be delivered to them, well before Japan had even been &quot;opened&quot; to the world. Perhaps the stories were apocryphal (he was a sales guy after all), but still entertaining and gave a sense of the history behind the meal.<p>Tokyo is an amazing city, though it can be very lonely for an expat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>herodoturtle</author><text>This was really cool to read, thanks for sharing.<p>I had a similar experience in Greece, where some locals recommended an out of town Gyro shop (&quot;Gyro&quot; is a popular Greek dish, simply put, it&#x27;s your choice of meat, wrapped or stuffed in a pita, along with ingredients such as tomato, onion, and tzatziki sauce).<p>At a measly 2 euros, it was vastly cheaper than the Gyro shops dotted around the popular hot-spots of the island.<p>And yet it had been open for a very long time indeed.</text></comment> |
22,037,790 | 22,021,528 | 1 | 3 | 22,011,798 | train | <story><title>Uber stops upfront ride pricing in response to California worker law</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-california/uber-stops-upfront-ride-pricing-in-response-to-california-worker-law-idUSKBN1Z731Z</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimmaswell</author><text>So now people not in a city center will never get rides. Wonderful outcome, very progressive.</text></item><item><author>blendergeek</author><text>I am an Uber Driver. I have been wanting changes like this ever since I started driving. I saw people asking, &#x27;how does this make drivers less employee like?&#x27; I&#x27;ll tell you this. It makes us feel less like employees when we actually have enough information to choose whether or not we want to take a ride. Now we will be able to see the estimated fare before we take a specific ride. There will be no more driving 20 minutes to a ride only to discover that it will be a half mile ride that wastes another twenty minutes at a convenience store netting us $3 for 40 minutes of our time. I will simply skip any ride like that. We feel less like employees and more like the contractors we are supposed to be when we know why Uber gets a certain percentage of the fare. I wholeheartedly agree with the changes Uber is making.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Can you please not post in the snarky or flamewar style to HN? It&#x27;s against the rules, and evokes worse from others, as demonstrated below.<p>We&#x27;re trying for thoughtful conversation here. If you wouldn&#x27;t mind reviewing <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a> and taking that spirit to heart, we&#x27;d be grateful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber stops upfront ride pricing in response to California worker law</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-california/uber-stops-upfront-ride-pricing-in-response-to-california-worker-law-idUSKBN1Z731Z</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimmaswell</author><text>So now people not in a city center will never get rides. Wonderful outcome, very progressive.</text></item><item><author>blendergeek</author><text>I am an Uber Driver. I have been wanting changes like this ever since I started driving. I saw people asking, &#x27;how does this make drivers less employee like?&#x27; I&#x27;ll tell you this. It makes us feel less like employees when we actually have enough information to choose whether or not we want to take a ride. Now we will be able to see the estimated fare before we take a specific ride. There will be no more driving 20 minutes to a ride only to discover that it will be a half mile ride that wastes another twenty minutes at a convenience store netting us $3 for 40 minutes of our time. I will simply skip any ride like that. We feel less like employees and more like the contractors we are supposed to be when we know why Uber gets a certain percentage of the fare. I wholeheartedly agree with the changes Uber is making.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matchbok</author><text>What a great attitude. What, are you entitled to subsidized taxi rides even if you live 50 miles away? Geez.</text></comment> |
591,096 | 591,117 | 1 | 2 | 590,993 | train | <story><title>VPS Comparison between Slicehost and Prgmr: is an $8 instance as good as a $20 one?</title><url>http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-comparison-between-slicehost-and-prgmr</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asb</author><text>Linode seems to occupy a good middle-ground. You get much more for your money than Slicehost and it's a fairly large, well-established host with multiple locations. A $20 Linode for instance gives you 360mb of of RAM, 16gb storage and 200gb transfer. They also use more powerful CPUs than the Athlon's listed for Slicehost/prgmr - my Linode is on a quad-core Xeon L5420 (2.5ghz, 6mb cache).<p>Just guessing, but I'd expect disk access is a bigger bottleneck on highly loaded VPS servers than the CPU, so the worst and average case disk performance are probably what would concern me the most. I think prgmr is a fantastic deal - I certainly haven't seen anybody else offering so much RAM at that price point. I'd be a customer if they were located on the east coast.<p>Finally, for those who don't know, prgmr is owned and run by lsc who's a member here:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lsc" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lsc</a></text></comment> | <story><title>VPS Comparison between Slicehost and Prgmr: is an $8 instance as good as a $20 one?</title><url>http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-comparison-between-slicehost-and-prgmr</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>s3graham</author><text>I do feel like slicehost "must" be overpriced these days, just based on the fact that their prices haven't decreased that I can remember. (At least ~2 years, maybe more?)<p>Not sure if prgmr is where I'd end up, but can't be all bad when "figlet prgmr.com" was all the time they spent on logo design. ;)</text></comment> |
36,473,891 | 36,474,108 | 1 | 2 | 36,473,217 | train | <story><title>How the most popular cars in the US track drivers</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/car-data-privacy-toyota-honda-ford/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bnjmn</author><text>Are there any <i>new</i> cars &#x2F; car brands that credibly promise not to track their drivers?<p>Any car with a network connection for software updates seems likely to be harvesting driver data, or is at least capable of doing so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlotOfReading</author><text>Essentially, no. Your best bets are the German manufacturers, some of whom (e.g. Porsche) have data opt outs for all services and exist within a legislative framework that&#x27;s at least mildly protective of consumer privacy. Even then you should be wary about cars built for export to other markets like the US. It&#x27;s common for the regional manufacturer to be a separate legal entity, with separate backend services, delivering cars with different configurations and software.<p>For American, Japanese, and Korean manufacturers? You should just assume they&#x27;re harvesting all the data they can get on you. GM&#x27;s recent decision to ditch Android auto and Carplay was motivated in large part by their desire to better control and monetize user data collection.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the most popular cars in the US track drivers</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/car-data-privacy-toyota-honda-ford/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bnjmn</author><text>Are there any <i>new</i> cars &#x2F; car brands that credibly promise not to track their drivers?<p>Any car with a network connection for software updates seems likely to be harvesting driver data, or is at least capable of doing so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OneLeggedCat</author><text>Your can pull a fuse (I think it&#x27;s marked DCM?) in some Toyotas if you don&#x27;t care about the entertainment&#x2F;navigation system ever contacting a cell tower again. I pulled the one in my 2021 Tundra.</text></comment> |
27,791,341 | 27,791,283 | 1 | 2 | 27,789,910 | train | <story><title>HTTrack Website Copier – Offline browser</title><url>https://www.httrack.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boulos</author><text>Ahh, the good ole days. I used httrack nearly 20 years ago to make the CD copies of the osha.gov site (e.g., [1]). Back then, for ADA and internet access compliance, government websites had to also be made available for offline use if possible.<p>I haven’t followed httrack since, but it seems like scrapy and similar are much better replacements.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.httrack.com&#x2F;readmsg&#x2F;3556&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.httrack.com&#x2F;readmsg&#x2F;3556&#x2F;index.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>HTTrack Website Copier – Offline browser</title><url>https://www.httrack.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wilsonfiifi</author><text>I’v recently been using Monolith[0] and I find it’s creation of a single html file much more convenient. It’s also written in Rust so I’m sure that will make the source code a bit more accessible for some.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Y2Z&#x2F;monolith" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Y2Z&#x2F;monolith</a></text></comment> |
27,978,183 | 27,975,018 | 1 | 2 | 27,973,512 | train | <story><title>Docker in Production: A History of Failure (2016)</title><url>https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-history-of-failure/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>user5994461</author><text>Original author from 5 years ago. Surprised to see this here 5 years later.<p>Docker really used to crash a lot back in the days, mostly due to buggy storage drivers. If you were on Debian or CentOS it&#x27;s very likely that you experienced crashes (though a lot of developers didn&#x27;t care or didn&#x27;t understand the reasons the system went unresponsive).<p>There was notably a new version of Debian (with a newer kernel) published the year after my experience. It&#x27;s a lot more stable now.<p>My experience is that by 2018-2019, Docker had mostly vanished as a buzzword, people were only talking about Kubernetes and looking for kubernetes experience.<p>edit: at that time Docker didn&#x27;t have a way to clear images&#x2F;containers, it was added after the article and follow up articles, I will never know if it was a coincidence but I like to think there is a link. I think writing the article was worth it if only for this reason.</text></comment> | <story><title>Docker in Production: A History of Failure (2016)</title><url>https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-history-of-failure/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pbecotte</author><text>Even in 2016, I had been running production services in Docker successfully. Its interesting to me that they see the problem &quot;Docker isn&#x27;t designed to store data&quot; without also seeing the solution &quot;the docker copy-on-write filesystem isn&#x27;t designed to be written to production- but volume mounts are&quot;. I hadn&#x27;t seen docker crashing hosts (still haven&#x27;t) - but I&#x27;m guessing that was caused by using the storage drivers.<p>The complaints about their development practices are valid (and haven&#x27;t really improved), but even then the technology worked well so long as you understood its limitations.</text></comment> |
15,093,287 | 15,093,194 | 1 | 2 | 15,092,139 | train | <story><title>Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-push-to-build-a-self-driving-car-sparks-dissent-among-its-engineers-1503593742</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Tesla&#x27;s system doesn&#x27;t have enough sensors. Musk forced his engineers to try to do this almost entirely with vision processing, and that was a terrible decision. Vision processing isn&#x27;t that good yet. Everybody else uses LIDAR.<p>I&#x27;ve been saying for years that the right approach was to take the technology from Advanced Scientific Concepts&#x27; flash LIDAR and get the cost down. I first saw that demonstrated in 2004 on an optical bench in Santa Monica. It became an expensive product, mostly sold to DoD. It&#x27;s expensive because the units require exotic InGaAs custom silicon and aren&#x27;t made in quantity. Space-X uses one of their LIDAR units to dock the Dragon spacecraft with the space station.<p>Last year, Continental, the big century-old German auto parts maker, bought the technology from Advanced Scientific Concepts and started getting the cost down.[1] Volume production in 2020. Interim LIDAR products are already shipping in volume. Continental is quietly making all the parts needed for self-driving. LIDAR. Radar. Computers. Actuators. Cameras. Software for sensor integration into an &quot;environment model&quot;. They design and make all the parts needed, and provide some of the system integration.<p>Apple and Google were trying to avoid becoming mere low-margin Tier I auto parts suppliers. Continental, though, is quite successful as a Tier I auto parts supplier. Revenue of €40 billion in 2016. Earnings about €2.8 billion. Dividend of €850 million. They can make money on low-margin parts.<p>Continental may end up quietly ruling automatic driving.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.continental-automotive.com&#x2F;en-gl&#x2F;Passenger-Cars&#x2F;Chassis-Safety&#x2F;Advanced-Driver-Assistance-Systems&#x2F;Lidars&#x2F;High-Resolution-3D-Flash-Lidar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.continental-automotive.com&#x2F;en-gl&#x2F;Passenger-Cars&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ccorda</author><text>Interesting research on Continental. FWIW, looks like Tesla started using Continental&#x27;s radar to replace Bosch just this week:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teslamotorsclub.com&#x2F;tmc&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2266769&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teslamotorsclub.com&#x2F;tmc&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2266769&#x2F;</a><p>I suspect that if&#x2F;when LIDAR is cheap enough, Tesla will use it.<p>In the meantime they outfit every single car with the best hardware that is realistic from a cost standpoint today, instead of waiting til 2020.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-push-to-build-a-self-driving-car-sparks-dissent-among-its-engineers-1503593742</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Tesla&#x27;s system doesn&#x27;t have enough sensors. Musk forced his engineers to try to do this almost entirely with vision processing, and that was a terrible decision. Vision processing isn&#x27;t that good yet. Everybody else uses LIDAR.<p>I&#x27;ve been saying for years that the right approach was to take the technology from Advanced Scientific Concepts&#x27; flash LIDAR and get the cost down. I first saw that demonstrated in 2004 on an optical bench in Santa Monica. It became an expensive product, mostly sold to DoD. It&#x27;s expensive because the units require exotic InGaAs custom silicon and aren&#x27;t made in quantity. Space-X uses one of their LIDAR units to dock the Dragon spacecraft with the space station.<p>Last year, Continental, the big century-old German auto parts maker, bought the technology from Advanced Scientific Concepts and started getting the cost down.[1] Volume production in 2020. Interim LIDAR products are already shipping in volume. Continental is quietly making all the parts needed for self-driving. LIDAR. Radar. Computers. Actuators. Cameras. Software for sensor integration into an &quot;environment model&quot;. They design and make all the parts needed, and provide some of the system integration.<p>Apple and Google were trying to avoid becoming mere low-margin Tier I auto parts suppliers. Continental, though, is quite successful as a Tier I auto parts supplier. Revenue of €40 billion in 2016. Earnings about €2.8 billion. Dividend of €850 million. They can make money on low-margin parts.<p>Continental may end up quietly ruling automatic driving.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.continental-automotive.com&#x2F;en-gl&#x2F;Passenger-Cars&#x2F;Chassis-Safety&#x2F;Advanced-Driver-Assistance-Systems&#x2F;Lidars&#x2F;High-Resolution-3D-Flash-Lidar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.continental-automotive.com&#x2F;en-gl&#x2F;Passenger-Cars&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyrw</author><text>It depends on what you&#x27;re optimizing for. Others using LIDAR are optimizing for speed to market, while potentially sacrificing ability to solve the problem as fully. Musk&#x27;s argument is that we know for certain that the entire road system can be navigated by visual cues, because that&#x27;s how humans do it. We do not know for certain that this is possible with LIDAR.</text></comment> |
6,136,968 | 6,136,365 | 1 | 2 | 6,135,579 | train | <story><title>The Door To The FISA Court Doesn't Even Have A Sign On It</title><url>http://konklone.com/post/the-door-to-the-fisa-court</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>speeder</author><text>Kinda off-topic:<p>Why cameras are banned on courtrooms? I remember the last US trial news all of them had sketches like this instead of photos and videos...<p>EDIT about the argument below about google: I always search Google first, but I found lots of random answers, and I don&#x27;t have enough domain knowledge to know what one (or ones) are correct or resemble how things really are, asking here usually spark people to post very interesting information, that sometimes are obscure even, and hard to find on Google.<p>Instead of telling people to use Google, why not wonder: If the person CAN have that information, and is asking anyway, what the person wants to know, that is not easy to find on Google?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zikes</author><text>I would have loved to have a device to record the pre-trial banter in a state court prior to a recent case involving a family member. The prosecutor was going on at length about a recent event where they had driven to Florida for a vacation and got pulled over for speeding, but was soon let go after they told them who they were and who they worked for.<p>I wanted very much to stand and ask what other laws did not apply to them, if they were free to ignore those pertaining to automobiles, or even if they felt they should be held responsible if they were to break the same law they were charging my family member for.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Door To The FISA Court Doesn't Even Have A Sign On It</title><url>http://konklone.com/post/the-door-to-the-fisa-court</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>speeder</author><text>Kinda off-topic:<p>Why cameras are banned on courtrooms? I remember the last US trial news all of them had sketches like this instead of photos and videos...<p>EDIT about the argument below about google: I always search Google first, but I found lots of random answers, and I don&#x27;t have enough domain knowledge to know what one (or ones) are correct or resemble how things really are, asking here usually spark people to post very interesting information, that sometimes are obscure even, and hard to find on Google.<p>Instead of telling people to use Google, why not wonder: If the person CAN have that information, and is asking anyway, what the person wants to know, that is not easy to find on Google?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stonemetal</author><text>The standard reason given is privacy for the victim and jury, less jury poisoning if there needs to be a retrial, people can be a little more or at ease, etc.<p>It definitely depends on the court, OJ&#x27;s trial was on TV.</text></comment> |
7,280,167 | 7,280,222 | 1 | 2 | 7,279,965 | train | <story><title>America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (1998)</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/09/business/america-online-to-buy-internet-chat-service-for-287-million.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>I assume the motivation for pulling this out of the archive is the WhatsApp purchase. However, I don&#x27;t think this comparison is truly fair. Not only is WhatsApp monthly adding over twice the userbase ICQ had at the time of purchase, but it is also actually collecting revenue from them. WhatsApp is a real company with real monetization strategies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alaskamiller</author><text>To contextualize requires relativity.<p>ICQ in 1999 had about 45 million users. There were only 248 million internet users back in 1999. That&#x27;s 18% of mostly international users.<p>AOL was optimistic. So much so this is the actual response when they beat the street during their earning reports.<p><i>&quot;(ICQ is) growing like a weed,&quot; said AOL President Bob Pittman. &quot;Monetizing it&quot; will be &quot;relatively easy,&quot; he added.</i><p>WhatsApp has 450 million users where there are 2.7 billion internet users. 16%. Of mostly international users. Where, again, monetizing it, should be relatively easy.<p>But then again, why does any of this matter?<p>Genie&#x27;s out of the bottle. The game has changed. We&#x27;re playing a game of scaling now. Less than a hundred dedicated folks can change the world.<p>That 19 billion is a clarion call to attract even more people to what it is most of us here have been doing for decades.<p>If there is to be a singularity moment for the generation that grew up remembering the difference between real life and internet life, we have arrived at the internet life.<p>10593577</text></comment> | <story><title>America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (1998)</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/09/business/america-online-to-buy-internet-chat-service-for-287-million.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>I assume the motivation for pulling this out of the archive is the WhatsApp purchase. However, I don&#x27;t think this comparison is truly fair. Not only is WhatsApp monthly adding over twice the userbase ICQ had at the time of purchase, but it is also actually collecting revenue from them. WhatsApp is a real company with real monetization strategies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ama729</author><text>&gt; WhatsApp is a real company with real monetization strategies.<p>Yes and no, they only got 20 millions in <i>revenue</i> last year, not even profit:<p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/02/19/exclusive-inside-story-how-jan-koum-built-whatsapp-into-facebooks-new-19-billion-baby/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;parmyolson&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;19&#x2F;exclusive-...</a></text></comment> |
4,976,249 | 4,975,963 | 1 | 2 | 4,975,828 | train | <story><title>OS X emulation layer for Linux</title><url>http://darling.dolezel.info/en/Darling</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saurik</author><text>A) This was discussed by a bunch of people already two weeks ago.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4893022" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4893022</a><p>B) Apparently this is a better-marketed expansion of the long-established maloader, which already works for many of the use cases that people bring up when they hear about this project (such as running parts of Xcode).</text></comment> | <story><title>OS X emulation layer for Linux</title><url>http://darling.dolezel.info/en/Darling</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bengl3rt</author><text>This is of great interest to me because I've always wanted to run this...<p><a href="http://cycling74.com/whatismax/" rel="nofollow">http://cycling74.com/whatismax/</a><p>On one of these:<p><a href="http://www.museresearch.com/products/receptor-vip.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.museresearch.com/products/receptor-vip.php</a><p>Designing live performance environments in Max is awesome, but laptops just are not designed for the rigors of the road. They are delicate creatures that stand in awkwardly, at best, for musical instruments. Max running on the Receptor would be incredible, and hopefully not too challenging considering the environment is largely self-contained with very few external dependencies.</text></comment> |
36,769,583 | 36,768,871 | 1 | 3 | 36,766,556 | train | <story><title>Statistical Arbitrage – An Easy Walkthrough</title><url>https://dm13450.github.io/2023/07/15/Stat-Arb-Walkthrough.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mg</author><text>The unintuitive thing about the stock market is that you are not trying to predict a system unrelated to yourself. But you are trying to predict other people&#x27;s behavior. People who are just like you.<p>So when you notice a pattern - say &quot;Stock S trades lower on Tuesdays and higher on Fridays&quot;, what do you do?<p>Do you buy on Tuesday to exploit the pattern?<p>Or do you buy on Friday because you are not a unique snowflake and others will notice the same historical pattern and therefore reverse it in the future?<p>There is no way to decide. Because even if you see long-running patterns in the history of the stock market, those patterns might have reverted just at that moment when people like you noticed them.<p>This holds for all patterns. Even if they are as complex as the ones described in the article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>Or do you buy on Friday because you are not a unique snowflake and others will notice the same historical pattern and therefore reverse it in the future?</i><p>Well, as you said, you&#x27;re not a unique snowflake. Many people will make that extra thinking step too.<p>You can try and make another step, try to account for people aiming for the trend reversal. But you&#x27;re not a unique snowflake - some people will think about it too, and account for those people the same way.<p>If this starts to look like infinite series, it is, and it converges to something, and I suppose there are some mathematical truths to be said about it. But the practical truth is, any pattern that becomes noticed will not end up <i>reversed</i>. It will be <i>driven back down to random noise</i>. This is the anti-inductive nature of phenomena like stock markets: once a pattern becomes known, it disappears.</text></comment> | <story><title>Statistical Arbitrage – An Easy Walkthrough</title><url>https://dm13450.github.io/2023/07/15/Stat-Arb-Walkthrough.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mg</author><text>The unintuitive thing about the stock market is that you are not trying to predict a system unrelated to yourself. But you are trying to predict other people&#x27;s behavior. People who are just like you.<p>So when you notice a pattern - say &quot;Stock S trades lower on Tuesdays and higher on Fridays&quot;, what do you do?<p>Do you buy on Tuesday to exploit the pattern?<p>Or do you buy on Friday because you are not a unique snowflake and others will notice the same historical pattern and therefore reverse it in the future?<p>There is no way to decide. Because even if you see long-running patterns in the history of the stock market, those patterns might have reverted just at that moment when people like you noticed them.<p>This holds for all patterns. Even if they are as complex as the ones described in the article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pharmakom</author><text>My favourite explanation is a contest to guess how many jelly beans are in the jar.<p>How can you win?<p>- Get lucky<p>- Have a data advantage (maybe you can measure the dimensions of the jar accurately from afar<p>- Have a modelling advantage (maybe you have a 3D model of a jar in a computer simulation)</text></comment> |
10,436,530 | 10,436,440 | 1 | 2 | 10,436,123 | train | <story><title>OAuth Has Ruined Everything</title><url>http://developer.telerik.com/featured/oauth-has-ruined-everything/?imm_mid=0dac54&cmp=em-web-na-na-newsltr_20151021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickbauman</author><text>Agree. SAML is crazy complicated.</text></item><item><author>broodbucket</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is a good critique of OAuth at all.<p>First of all, the majority of complaints aren&#x27;t even about OAuth, they&#x27;re about (a specific implementation of consuming) OpenID Connect, which it doesn&#x27;t seem like the author realises he&#x27;s using. JWTs aren&#x27;t in OAuth 2.0.<p>If the author had realised this, surely when looking for libraries to assist with the project he would&#x27;ve looked for an OIDC or JWT library instead of something specific to Google. There are plenty of library recommendations on the JWT website[1], including .NET.<p>It&#x27;s not like OAuth 2.0 or OIDC are trivial to use, but these aren&#x27;t easy problems to solve. OpenID Connect is young, and there&#x27;s still a lot lacking in terms of library support and (probably more importantly) documentation.<p>I&#x27;d rather deal with the rough edges of OIDC than use SAML any day of the week.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jwt.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jwt.io</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>volkadav</author><text>The entire spec, yes, is big, but the part you actually <i>need</i> is not that complicated. I implemented the IdP for the new york times (there&#x27;s quite a bit of third party shit plugged into the nytimes.com web experience that we wanted to be transparent to users) in a few weeks as I recall, and I&#x27;m not some coding super-genius. (It was kinda hacktified and minimalistic, but it worked at scale. ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯) Most of our counter-parties were up and running in a week or so. Compared to the abysmal quagmire that was our ecommerce code, SAML implementation was a total milk run.</text></comment> | <story><title>OAuth Has Ruined Everything</title><url>http://developer.telerik.com/featured/oauth-has-ruined-everything/?imm_mid=0dac54&cmp=em-web-na-na-newsltr_20151021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickbauman</author><text>Agree. SAML is crazy complicated.</text></item><item><author>broodbucket</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is a good critique of OAuth at all.<p>First of all, the majority of complaints aren&#x27;t even about OAuth, they&#x27;re about (a specific implementation of consuming) OpenID Connect, which it doesn&#x27;t seem like the author realises he&#x27;s using. JWTs aren&#x27;t in OAuth 2.0.<p>If the author had realised this, surely when looking for libraries to assist with the project he would&#x27;ve looked for an OIDC or JWT library instead of something specific to Google. There are plenty of library recommendations on the JWT website[1], including .NET.<p>It&#x27;s not like OAuth 2.0 or OIDC are trivial to use, but these aren&#x27;t easy problems to solve. OpenID Connect is young, and there&#x27;s still a lot lacking in terms of library support and (probably more importantly) documentation.<p>I&#x27;d rather deal with the rough edges of OIDC than use SAML any day of the week.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jwt.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jwt.io</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notwhereyouare</author><text>Yep. Spent basically 2 months trying to implement saml manually. We had kinda a working implementation for something else. Tried to use it. Didn&#x27;t work. Ended up finding a solution that somebody published. Modified and got working for my situation. It sucked and put me really behind schedule. Doesn&#x27;t matter. The other members of the project were ever further behind</text></comment> |
37,325,081 | 37,324,218 | 1 | 3 | 37,324,202 | train | <story><title>2023 Paid VPN Relationship and Corporate VPN Ownership Map</title><url>https://windscribe.com/vpnmap</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beauHD</author><text>&gt; However, the worst case situation is that they lie about not tracking users and then they get hit with a LEO request they bow down to.<p>That&#x27;s within reason though. A VPN is another ISP afterall, so they have to &#x27;bow down&#x27; to law enforcement requests. What LEAs can get depends on how zero knowledge the VPN setup is. OVPN[0] for example has been &#x27;court tested&#x27; and Mullvad had nothing to give to authorities[1] since they don&#x27;t collect it in the first place (apart from payment metadata).<p>I&#x27;m not affiliated with OVPN or Mullvad, just a happy paying customer.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ovpn.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;ovpn-wins-court-order" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ovpn.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;ovpn-wins-court-order</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mullvad.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;4&#x2F;20&#x2F;mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mullvad.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;4&#x2F;20&#x2F;mullvad-vpn-was-subjec...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>2023 Paid VPN Relationship and Corporate VPN Ownership Map</title><url>https://windscribe.com/vpnmap</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>askura</author><text>An update to the 2022 VPN affiliate relationship map. A handy reference for who is owned by who - including their status or whether they&#x27;re actually part of a bigger corporation.<p>The reference article for the map itself with key updates &amp; findings: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.windscribe.com&#x2F;the-vpn-relationship-map-2023&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.windscribe.com&#x2F;the-vpn-relationship-map-2023&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
5,165,417 | 5,164,543 | 1 | 2 | 5,164,293 | train | <story><title>Massive glacier collapse</title><url>http://unofficialnetworks.com/collapse-video-glacial-size-city-116670/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelGG</author><text>Can anyone recommend a good book (preferably on Kindle) that explains climate change and our actual scientific knowledge? The issue seems to be so politicized that all sources seem incredibly biased. Sure, there might changes happening, but from history, isn't that what the climate does? It seems that one side portrays it as no big deal, and the other says we'll all die in a few decades.<p>I'm not looking for something telling me how to behave or react, just something that covers how/what we know for certain. Or is the science and understanding required too far out of reach for laymen?</text></comment> | <story><title>Massive glacier collapse</title><url>http://unofficialnetworks.com/collapse-video-glacial-size-city-116670/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptoz</author><text>I saw Chasing Ice at the cinema a couple of weeks ago. I went with friends who study adaptation to climate change in the Arctic communities, and all of them, and I too, came out of the movie in a state of minor shock. It's truly incredible how much these intense visuals make this strike home, even for those who are already environmentally aware and focused. It's the kind of movie that solidifies the thoughts I've been having recently: my life absolutely must be about working to mitigate and slow global climate change. Any other career path or choice would be so morally wrong I would have great difficultly living with that decision.<p>Everyone should see this movie.</text></comment> |
35,921,368 | 35,921,267 | 1 | 3 | 35,920,336 | train | <story><title>The .zip TLD sucks</title><url>https://financialstatement.zip/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SimonPStevens</author><text>Not sure it matters that much.<p>Most non-technical people I know wouldn&#x27;t have a clue what a .zip was. Windows has hidden file extensions by default now for decades. And having a phishing link in an email that says something.zip but links to somethingelse.com is a basic scammer 101 level technique. Why would it matter if the .zip was a real part of the URL or not.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I dislike all of the generic TLDs, and the registration process behind them. But of all the points to argue on them, this seems like the weakest and least relevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ricktdotorg</author><text>&gt; Most non-technical people I know wouldn&#x27;t have a clue what a .zip was<p>perhaps i am getting mussed up by the definition of &quot;non-technical people&quot; but i&#x27;ve worked directly with many, many non-technical people over many years who definitely knew what a zip file was and what it was for. they might not all have necessarily known how to _create_ a zip file, and sure i had to coach&#x2F;train a few here and there who legitimately didn&#x27;t have a clue, but i think if you&#x27;re talking about anyone who has used a computer for a large-ish piece of their work (whether it is &quot;technical&quot; work or not) in the last 10 years or so, the chance of them having more than no clue about what a zip file is, is higher than you think it is.<p>i can think of multiple instances each of accountants, graphics&#x2F;media&#x2F;designer folks, scriptwriters, admin&#x2F;executive assistants, chauffeurs, playwrights, stagehands, light&#x2F;rope riggers, costume designers&#x2F;tailors, HR folks, security guards, painters, writers etc who have had to deal with .zips.<p>would a 20-years-exp industrial lathe engineer&#x2F;specialist know what to do with a zip? maybe? maybe not? depends if they like to mess around with computers after hours or does their company distribute work orders via email? if so, maybe they&#x27;ve dealt with a zip.<p>if a &quot;non-technical person&quot; is someone who doesn&#x27;t use a computer very much, then yeah, i&#x27;m with you. i personally wouldn&#x27;t consider a junior graphic designer to be &quot;technical&quot; but i&#x27;d bet you all the money in my wallet that 95&#x2F;100 of junior graphic designers know what to do with a .zip file.<p>BTW everything else you said, i 100% agree.</text></comment> | <story><title>The .zip TLD sucks</title><url>https://financialstatement.zip/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SimonPStevens</author><text>Not sure it matters that much.<p>Most non-technical people I know wouldn&#x27;t have a clue what a .zip was. Windows has hidden file extensions by default now for decades. And having a phishing link in an email that says something.zip but links to somethingelse.com is a basic scammer 101 level technique. Why would it matter if the .zip was a real part of the URL or not.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I dislike all of the generic TLDs, and the registration process behind them. But of all the points to argue on them, this seems like the weakest and least relevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grishka</author><text>By the way, Windows hiding file extensions by default must&#x27;ve contributed to people getting scammed more than anything. The classic technique of getting someone to download and open what <i>looks like</i> a benign file but is actually an .exe with that file type&#x27;s icon would&#x27;ve not worked nearly as well if file extensions were shown by default.</text></comment> |
22,837,198 | 22,836,981 | 1 | 2 | 22,834,959 | train | <story><title>Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-and-google-partner-on-covid-19-contact-tracing-technology/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>The_Double</author><text>There is surprisingly little discussion about the actual spec here. It looks really good to me!<p>- Advertisements change every 15 minutes, are not trackable unless keys are shared.<p>- The only central bit is a repository of &quot;infected&quot; daily keys.<p>- No knowledge about contacts is shared with a central authority.<p>Nothing is shared unless you are infected and decide to share your keys, which are only valid for one day. I don&#x27;t see how you could have a real argument against this unless you are a privacy extremist. It also seems more privacy friendly than the Singapore or German apps.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jka</author><text>In widely distributed and important spec like this it may be useful to look for what is conspicuously absent or unstated, rather than simply reading the precise positive language.<p>To my mind this phrase under &#x27;Privacy Considerations&#x27; in the Cryptography Specification stands out:<p>&quot;A server operator implementing this protocol does not learn who users have been in proximity with or users’ location unless it also has the unlikely capability to scan advertisements from users who recently reported Diagnosis Keys.&quot;<p>That phrase explicitly mentions that <i>server operators</i> cannot learn about user proximities.<p>What I reckon may be unstated there is that it could be possible for adversaries with sidechannel &#x2F; network monitoring capability to learn those kind of details about users (i.e. internet, cell data, and other data network operators).<p>If such a side door did exist, it would seem in the public interest to be aware of the scope of the availability of that data, especially given the potential (physical, social) vulnerability and risk of those users.<p>I&#x27;d also like to be proven wrong about the possibility of such sidechannel attacks by anyone who understands the spec in more detail.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covid19-static.cdn-apple.com&#x2F;applications&#x2F;covid19&#x2F;current&#x2F;static&#x2F;contact-tracing&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;ContactTracing-CryptographySpecification.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covid19-static.cdn-apple.com&#x2F;applications&#x2F;covid19&#x2F;cu...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-and-google-partner-on-covid-19-contact-tracing-technology/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>The_Double</author><text>There is surprisingly little discussion about the actual spec here. It looks really good to me!<p>- Advertisements change every 15 minutes, are not trackable unless keys are shared.<p>- The only central bit is a repository of &quot;infected&quot; daily keys.<p>- No knowledge about contacts is shared with a central authority.<p>Nothing is shared unless you are infected and decide to share your keys, which are only valid for one day. I don&#x27;t see how you could have a real argument against this unless you are a privacy extremist. It also seems more privacy friendly than the Singapore or German apps.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FartyMcFarter</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t see how you could have a real argument against this unless you are a privacy extremist.<p>The authors of DP-3T (which seems quite similar to this spec) have a huge list of privacy caveats in their whitepaper [1], in section &quot;5.4 Summary of centralised&#x2F;decentralised design trade-offs&quot;.<p>I haven&#x27;t seen any analysis on how the Apple&#x2F;Google spec prevents those problems.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DP-3T&#x2F;documents&#x2F;raw&#x2F;master&#x2F;DP3T%20White%20Paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DP-3T&#x2F;documents&#x2F;raw&#x2F;master&#x2F;DP3T%20White%2...</a></text></comment> |
21,157,084 | 21,156,314 | 1 | 3 | 21,154,719 | train | <story><title>Paralysed man moves in mind-reading exoskeleton</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49907356</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pweezy</author><text>It must feel odd and incredibly difficult to control an exoskeleton (or any motion restoring device) without any proprioceptive or tactile feedback. I imagine it&#x27;s like having someone else move your limbs, or for a paraplegic, like using your arms to move your legs.<p>If we find a way to trigger those sensations, perhaps with separate brain implants, it would be a huge breakthrough and make learning to control the device much faster.<p>I&#x27;m sure that&#x27;s far from an easy task, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>velox_io</author><text>It&#x27;s not so different from an electric wheelchair, the major difference is that your eye-line isn&#x27;t crotch height. Plus, there&#x27;s no reason they cannot add some type of haptic feedback. It doesn&#x27;t even need to be natural or realistic as the body&#x2F; brain will adjust.<p>I&#x27;m a disabled person myself (I prefer to use crutches as the world isn&#x27;t built for wheelchairs, that&#x27;s another topic). I&#x27;ve been injured since 2012 and they now feel like an extension of myself (a little like having really long arms, I use them to push buttons&#x2F; switches and grab stuff). Now trying to walk without them feels VERY alien (and I often fall over if I put too much weight on my injured leg). With crutches; I walk faster than most people (they have suspension!), can climb stairs easier than somebody who is obese, even on days I can&#x27;t even put my foot on the ground let alone weight-bear. The biggest limitation is the lack of hands to carry stuff.<p>The point I was making is that while aids&#x2F; devices may seem primitive and a poor substitute for what they&#x27;re trying to replace, the difference they can make to an individual can be huge!<p>Repairing nerve damage is one of the last frontiers of modern medicine, but it is advancing, slowly...</text></comment> | <story><title>Paralysed man moves in mind-reading exoskeleton</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49907356</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pweezy</author><text>It must feel odd and incredibly difficult to control an exoskeleton (or any motion restoring device) without any proprioceptive or tactile feedback. I imagine it&#x27;s like having someone else move your limbs, or for a paraplegic, like using your arms to move your legs.<p>If we find a way to trigger those sensations, perhaps with separate brain implants, it would be a huge breakthrough and make learning to control the device much faster.<p>I&#x27;m sure that&#x27;s far from an easy task, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yomly</author><text>Dunno - we&#x27;re very good at filling in the gaps<p>I remember when playing the original PS3 my brain was imaging vibrations in the controller when the screen rumbled (back when the original controllers had no haptic feedback)<p>Obviously it would be better to provide more feedback but I am bullish on humans being able to adapt and the brain finding means of &quot;faking&quot; feedback or finding second order proxies</text></comment> |
21,363,418 | 21,363,405 | 1 | 2 | 21,363,141 | train | <story><title>Tesla’s new Solar Roof costs less than a new roof plus solar panels</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/25/teslas-new-solar-roof-costs-less-than-a-new-roof-plus-solar-panels-aims-for-install-rate-of-1k-per-week/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aphextron</author><text>&gt; Cheaper than traditional roof plus solar.<p>I find that really hard to believe. A new roof runs between 5-10k, and a 3kw solar system can be had for ~5k + labor. Even if they are including a power wall in that price it&#x27;s still pretty steep.<p>Edit: It looks like they are actually quoting a 10kw system with 3 power walls (~40kwH storage) included, which at that point sounds about right at $40k. Still far beyond the reach of anyone but the wealthy, but not necessarily a bad deal if you&#x27;re in the market.</text></item><item><author>the8472</author><text>Cheaper than traditional roof <i>plus solar</i>.</text></item><item><author>wil421</author><text>&gt; Tesla’s Solar Roof website now includes a pricing estimator, which lists $42,500 as the total price for the average 2,000 square-foot home, with 10kW solar panels. It also lists $33,950 as the price after an $8,550 federal tax incentive. You can also enter your address and get an updated estimate that takes into account local costs and incentives, and add on any Powerwalls (with three as the default for a 2,000 square-foot roof).<p>$42k does not sound like the solar roof is cheaper than a traditional roof. What kind of roof are they comparing it to? A mini-mansion with terra-cotta shingles or asphalt shingles?<p>A quick google search and home advisor suggests it’s about half the price.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rco8786</author><text>&gt; new roof runs between 5-10k,<p>That is <i>incredibly</i> cheap if so. That would be a roof on a small barn around here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla’s new Solar Roof costs less than a new roof plus solar panels</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/25/teslas-new-solar-roof-costs-less-than-a-new-roof-plus-solar-panels-aims-for-install-rate-of-1k-per-week/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aphextron</author><text>&gt; Cheaper than traditional roof plus solar.<p>I find that really hard to believe. A new roof runs between 5-10k, and a 3kw solar system can be had for ~5k + labor. Even if they are including a power wall in that price it&#x27;s still pretty steep.<p>Edit: It looks like they are actually quoting a 10kw system with 3 power walls (~40kwH storage) included, which at that point sounds about right at $40k. Still far beyond the reach of anyone but the wealthy, but not necessarily a bad deal if you&#x27;re in the market.</text></item><item><author>the8472</author><text>Cheaper than traditional roof <i>plus solar</i>.</text></item><item><author>wil421</author><text>&gt; Tesla’s Solar Roof website now includes a pricing estimator, which lists $42,500 as the total price for the average 2,000 square-foot home, with 10kW solar panels. It also lists $33,950 as the price after an $8,550 federal tax incentive. You can also enter your address and get an updated estimate that takes into account local costs and incentives, and add on any Powerwalls (with three as the default for a 2,000 square-foot roof).<p>$42k does not sound like the solar roof is cheaper than a traditional roof. What kind of roof are they comparing it to? A mini-mansion with terra-cotta shingles or asphalt shingles?<p>A quick google search and home advisor suggests it’s about half the price.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>t34543</author><text>Roofs in my area are 20k for 1200 sq ft. Asphalt shingles. I would love to live in an area where it’s 5-10k.</text></comment> |
11,933,036 | 11,932,618 | 1 | 3 | 11,932,241 | train | <story><title>E.W. Dijkstra Archive: The Humble Programmer</title><url>https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevindeasis</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to imagine what Djikstra would&#x27;ve accomplished if he instead decided to focus on theoretical physics. Conversely, imagine what we would&#x27;ve lost if we didn&#x27;t have Djikstra as a programmer.<p>I&#x27;d like to point out that Dijkstra&#x27;s writing might arguably the best writing I&#x27;ve seen from a programmer. English is not my first language and his writing is inspiring; if possible I&#x27;d like to request if anyone can point me to a resource (apps, software, etc) so I can learn to write, speak, and converse like Dijkstra in this lecture?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gizmo</author><text>Dijkstra writes directly and with and air of authority, but his writing is not great. His style is pretentious and obfuscatory. Even worse, he uses his authoritative style to get away with tons of unsubstantiated assertions. Let&#x27;s look at a passage from the linked lecture:<p><i>Those who want really reliable software will discover [authority!] that they must find means of avoiding the majority of bugs to start with [unsubstantiated!], and as a result the programming process will become cheaper [unsubstantiated!]. If you want more effective programmers, you will discover [authority!] that they should not waste their time debugging [repeated assertion!], they should not introduce the bugs to start with [repeated assertion!].</i><p>He could just say:<p><i>When creating reliable software debugging takes up much time. If we develop techniques that prevent these bugs from being introduced in the first place then programmers will become much more effective. </i><p>Good writing is terse and easy to understand. It should lead the reader from the premises to the conclusions. Good writing shouldn&#x27;t contain pretentious detours. I don&#x27;t think you should emulate Dijkstra.</text></comment> | <story><title>E.W. Dijkstra Archive: The Humble Programmer</title><url>https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevindeasis</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to imagine what Djikstra would&#x27;ve accomplished if he instead decided to focus on theoretical physics. Conversely, imagine what we would&#x27;ve lost if we didn&#x27;t have Djikstra as a programmer.<p>I&#x27;d like to point out that Dijkstra&#x27;s writing might arguably the best writing I&#x27;ve seen from a programmer. English is not my first language and his writing is inspiring; if possible I&#x27;d like to request if anyone can point me to a resource (apps, software, etc) so I can learn to write, speak, and converse like Dijkstra in this lecture?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hga</author><text>I suppose, but unless he felt a true calling to become a theoretical physicist, as is partly outlined in this piece, his decision was clearly right, for the previous golden age of physics was well over by late &#x27;50s, and progress since then has been minimal compared to the <i>Thirty Years that Shook Physics</i> (quantum theory: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Thirty-Years-that-Shook-Physics&#x2F;dp&#x2F;048624895X" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Thirty-Years-that-Shook-Physics&#x2F;dp&#x2F;04...</a>), General Relatively (still our best theory of gravity), and the revelations of the secrets of the nucleus. Maybe also Feynman and company&#x27;s development of the first quantum field theory.<p>There were of course a lot of things of smaller scope to be done, and the unification of EM and the weak nuclear force was in the future, as well as the imperfect Standard Model that adds the strong nuclear force, and we still haven&#x27;t unified gravity and the other three fundamental forces, but programming was <i>wide open</i>, and what you could do was rapidly improving as the machines were rapidly becoming faster and bigger. ADDED: For example, the Electrologica X1 he did his Ph.D. thesis on was solid state, as in completely transistorized (no vacuum tubes) and had magnetic core memory, both major advances in the &#x27;50s.<p>Heck, my calling was science, and I was strongly on that track as of 1968, but computers nonetheless gained a lot of my attention starting in the mid-late &#x27;70s, as they did for Feynman starting with the Manhattan Project when &quot;computers&quot; were the operators of 10 digit electromechanical scientific calculators.</text></comment> |
17,819,192 | 17,818,333 | 1 | 2 | 17,817,162 | train | <story><title>The Workman Keyboard Layout Philosophy (2010)</title><url>http://workmanlayout.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deno</author><text>Sit up straight (fix your posture) and stop gluing your wrists to the desk or wrist “support” and the layout doesn’t matter unless you’re going for typing records.<p>There is no magical layout that can eliminate the tension you’re artificially creating by stretching your fingers into unnatural positions instead of just moving the entire hand.<p>What healthy typing looks like (on a horrible keyboard no less): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Vs2B5XRtr6k" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Vs2B5XRtr6k</a><p>Imagine you tried playing a piano the way you type on your keyboard: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=InqmH-o1cX0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=InqmH-o1cX0</a><p>The pain is letting you know you’re doing something wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brandonmenc</author><text>Agree with you in general - that adjusting your body, and not your keyboard, is the fix - but not necessarily the specifics.<p>The most important fixes imo are:<p>- Neutral angle wrists (elbows flared so that it&#x27;s a straight line from the elbow to the fingertips, i.e. no wrist &quot;yaw&quot;)<p>- Monitor at eye-level<p>- Forearms parallel to the ground<p>- Feet planted on the floor<p>afaik slouching takes pressure of the lumbar vertebrae, but neither that nor sitting up straight is uncomfortable for me, and I arbitrarily alternate between the two. Also, arms resting on the desk doesn&#x27;t bother me.<p>I find it nearly impossible to work on a laptop for any length of time, mostly because of the monitor-at-eye-level requirement. Speaking of, an adjustable monitor arm is the best investment you can make. I use the Humanscale M2.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Workman Keyboard Layout Philosophy (2010)</title><url>http://workmanlayout.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deno</author><text>Sit up straight (fix your posture) and stop gluing your wrists to the desk or wrist “support” and the layout doesn’t matter unless you’re going for typing records.<p>There is no magical layout that can eliminate the tension you’re artificially creating by stretching your fingers into unnatural positions instead of just moving the entire hand.<p>What healthy typing looks like (on a horrible keyboard no less): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Vs2B5XRtr6k" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Vs2B5XRtr6k</a><p>Imagine you tried playing a piano the way you type on your keyboard: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=InqmH-o1cX0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=InqmH-o1cX0</a><p>The pain is letting you know you’re doing something wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tjoff</author><text>It is natural to statically lift your arms like that for hours upon hours?<p>Where one places the support is important, but I&#x27;ve seen conflicting statements whether lifting your arms would be beneficial.<p>I have not yet seen the piano video but a piano is much bigger than a keyboard and I see tons of reasons as to why whatever works for one doesn&#x27;t necessarily have to work for the other.</text></comment> |
38,683,084 | 38,683,133 | 1 | 2 | 38,681,353 | train | <story><title>EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-opens-proceedings-against-x-over-its-efforts-combat-information-manipulation-2023-12-18/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lhnz</author><text>Apparently the dissemination of illegal content refers to the October 7th videos of the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel that galvanized American support for Israel [0].<p>I personally don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s in people&#x27;s interest to have this kind of thing hidden from them and I really dislike the EU for attempting to censor this.<p>Musk is really under a lot of financial pressure and it might be a losing battle to try to fight the EU over this in court. To be honest, I hope he is able to pull out from the EU without cratering the company, but he is now being pulled into lawfare with multiple actors across the globe so Twitter might have no choice but to accept is role as a conduit of censorship for state-level actors.<p><pre><code> [0] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;prestonjbyrne&#x2F;status&#x2F;1736707341070860689</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>The previous iteration of Twitter under @jack already learned this lesson. Once you say yes to stuff beyond warrants&#x2F;criminally illegal stuff it&#x27;s just an ever increasing set of demands until it&#x27;s borderline automatic between gov requests-&gt;deletions. With low level agencies sending lists of a 1000 tweets to be flagged or accounts with tenuous connections to current bad thing (ie Russia) to be banned etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-opens-proceedings-against-x-over-its-efforts-combat-information-manipulation-2023-12-18/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lhnz</author><text>Apparently the dissemination of illegal content refers to the October 7th videos of the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel that galvanized American support for Israel [0].<p>I personally don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s in people&#x27;s interest to have this kind of thing hidden from them and I really dislike the EU for attempting to censor this.<p>Musk is really under a lot of financial pressure and it might be a losing battle to try to fight the EU over this in court. To be honest, I hope he is able to pull out from the EU without cratering the company, but he is now being pulled into lawfare with multiple actors across the globe so Twitter might have no choice but to accept is role as a conduit of censorship for state-level actors.<p><pre><code> [0] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;prestonjbyrne&#x2F;status&#x2F;1736707341070860689</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vinnl</author><text>&quot;Apparently&quot; means some guy on Twitter says he seems to remember that those videos were the reason? Would be great to see a real source for the footage of the attacks themselves being the problem.</text></comment> |
4,464,089 | 4,463,709 | 1 | 2 | 4,463,579 | train | <story><title>Members of Congress Demand Answers for the Unjust Domain Name Seizures</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/members-congress-demand-answers-homeland-securitys-unjust-domain-name-seizures</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>It used to be that if you wanted to corrupt your government so that you could gain a business advantage, it took a while. You met some politicians, you made some donations, you "entertained" folks. Legislation was introduced. It might take several tries before it was passed.<p>What I see now is that the system has granted itself so much <i>administrative</i> discretion that you can use government as a direct agent in trying to kill your competitors. The threshold for getting the big stick of the government out and whacking your competition is so low that you're presented with multiple choices: go for their domain name. Find a violation of the thousands of various codes they must comply with. Use your patents to start a patent war. And so on.<p>The beauty of this way of doing things is that the more you either screw somebody else over or get screwed over, the more you end up doing all the corruption activity that you used to have to do on the front end -- but this time it's to be left alone. So in this case we have people pleading with their Congressmen to try to get the system to work correctly. We've switched from corrupting a somewhat honest system for your own purposes to paying off a somewhat corrupt system in order to be left alone. Based on this, I predict political campaigns will continue to draw exponentially more money as things progress.<p>Interesting times to live in. We obviously need a secure, private, P2P domain name system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Members of Congress Demand Answers for the Unjust Domain Name Seizures</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/members-congress-demand-answers-homeland-securitys-unjust-domain-name-seizures</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jballanc</author><text>There's a well known technique used by cops (relayed to me by a handful of retired NYC cops that worked security at a former job): you let the small time offenders go, so that they are more willing to help you with the big problems down the line.<p>One cop explained it like this: "We'd find guys smoking dope on their stoop, say hello, and just keep walking," he told me. "But we'd remember their names and faces. Then, when there was a murder or rape in the neighborhood, we would drive around, pick them up, and say 'Remember when you were smoking dope and we didn't say anything? Well, now we need you to repay the favor. Give me some names...'"<p>In one sense, it was a way to coerce inside intelligence contacts. In another sense, it was cops recognizing that in a city like NYC, there are bigger problems than someone smoking pot on their doorstep.<p>Now the internet is the city, and these cops are arresting every jaywalker and litterer they can find. Somehow, I doubt it will turn out well in the long run...</text></comment> |
27,356,577 | 27,353,928 | 1 | 2 | 27,353,255 | train | <story><title>A virtual machine for microcontrollers</title><url>https://blog.toit.io/why-doesnt-v8-fit-on-my-microcontroller-71dc6e2d8f5c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adunk</author><text>I have been in the embedded domain for many years. I really like the approach taken by the team here. Particularly since this team is really well-versed in developing virtual machines and programming languages. But I am very much biased in their favor.<p>Embedded development is tricky, and anything that can help improve the productivity is useful.<p>The problem is that there have been many, many attempts at doing this exact same thing over the years. And they all have to fight the same fight: to get some serious traction for their particular approach.<p>Back in the 00&#x27;s, Sentilla did a Java VM for the MSP430. This got a lot of traction - they even
had James Gosling himself vouch for the project.<p>More recently, Electric Imp and Particle.io have taken similar approaches, but with other languages.<p>Micropython and a variety of mini-JS engines are also around. Espruino, Tessel.io, and many more.<p>In a technical sense, running a virtual machine on a microcontroller is a really good way to go. You remove a lot of low-level friction that you otherwise have to deal with. And you get a lot of things almost for free, such as Over-The-Air (OTA) updates, and more control over security.<p>But when you get down to actually doing the work, you frequently end up <i>wanting</i> to have all that low-level access, even if you have to endure a bit of pain. Sometimes you don&#x27;t even want to have an operating system with a hardware abstraction layer. You kinda want the bare metal.<p>So Toit are in a tricky situation. They may have a really good product. But they will have to get some serious traction. Developing a rock solid programming language and virtual machine is hard. Really hard. But it is way easier than to get that sweet, sweet traction.</text></comment> | <story><title>A virtual machine for microcontrollers</title><url>https://blog.toit.io/why-doesnt-v8-fit-on-my-microcontroller-71dc6e2d8f5c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vajrabum</author><text>Kaspar Lund of V8 and Dart fame and Toit.io have brought an IOT platform to market based around a purpose designed dynamic language with a bytecode VM optimized for use in MCUs. That VM engine is hosted in FreeRTOS which together with the VM and a deployment API provide a reliable and crash resistant platform for deploying apps to your IOT fleet. In their words &quot;deploy a long-lived Toit application on your device, as if it was a mobile app being installed on your smart phone.&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.toit.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.toit.io</a>)<p>The server end of their platform provides the management and app deployment infrastructure. It&#x27;s claimed that the RTOS and VM environment makes deployment reliable even in the presence of failing apps. And that one app on a IOT device will not prevent other apps from running compromise management or brick the device.<p>Toit.io, the company makes $$ by charging you .10&#x2F;MB after the first 100MB&#x2F;mo for use of their management and app deployment and you are left free to choose your own data platform. What I don&#x27;t have feel for is what sort of utilization per device I can expect for the management and instrumentation traffic.<p>*Edit I dug around the website and the tooling including the language looks like it is mostly closed source.</text></comment> |
18,401,651 | 18,401,897 | 1 | 3 | 18,401,108 | train | <story><title>In Tuesday's Vote, California Opts for Year-Round Daylight Saving</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/in-tuesdays-absolute-worst-vote-california-opts-for-yea-1830275687</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>singingboyo</author><text>From [1], which is much better and more on-point, if still short: &quot;Opponents of the proposition argue [...] the sun wouldn’t rise until 8 a.m. during some winter months, forcing children to walk to school or buses in darkness&quot;<p>Maybe school shouldn&#x27;t start so early then? Starting at 8:30-9 would reduce a lot of that, though not all of it. Also, as a Canadian and Vancouverite... so what? Darkness is a fact of life, get over it.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sacramento.cbslocal.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;06&#x2F;proposition-7-passes-daylight-saving-time&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sacramento.cbslocal.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;06&#x2F;proposition-7-pas...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>npunt</author><text>Agree, sending kids to school in the dark is a pretty weak &#x27;think of the children&#x27; argument. If we REALLY cared about children, we&#x27;d start school later as numerous studies show a later start is better for learning and health. See the CDC&#x27;s guidelines for optimal school start times, which is 8:30am or later: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;features&#x2F;school-start-times&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;features&#x2F;school-start-times&#x2F;index.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>In Tuesday's Vote, California Opts for Year-Round Daylight Saving</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/in-tuesdays-absolute-worst-vote-california-opts-for-yea-1830275687</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>singingboyo</author><text>From [1], which is much better and more on-point, if still short: &quot;Opponents of the proposition argue [...] the sun wouldn’t rise until 8 a.m. during some winter months, forcing children to walk to school or buses in darkness&quot;<p>Maybe school shouldn&#x27;t start so early then? Starting at 8:30-9 would reduce a lot of that, though not all of it. Also, as a Canadian and Vancouverite... so what? Darkness is a fact of life, get over it.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sacramento.cbslocal.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;06&#x2F;proposition-7-passes-daylight-saving-time&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sacramento.cbslocal.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;06&#x2F;proposition-7-pas...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Impossible</author><text>Overall it would be better for the students and it fixes safety concerns, which I agree is a weak argument but &#x27;for the children&#x27; is always a great political card to play. The issue is I don&#x27;t think making the school day start later will ever get support from teachers, so it won&#x27;t be considered for most school districts even if its better for the students.</text></comment> |
16,660,706 | 16,656,649 | 1 | 3 | 16,654,698 | train | <story><title>Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA</title><url>https://www.craigslist.org/about/FOSTA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>safety1st</author><text>The &quot;scorched earth&quot; approach only gets support when the nature and scope of the issues are distorted. What are the real issues in play?<p>One is prostitution, a form of sex work which is illegal in most of the United States. The American public have varying feelings about its legal status, how enforcement should be carried out, etc. Public opinion doesn&#x27;t support measures which endanger sex workers (which FOSTA does), because they&#x27;re already an at-risk group.<p>A separate issue is human trafficking, which is moving people across borders for the purpose of slavery&#x2F;forced labor, including sex slavery. Public opinion is rightly massively against slavery in any form.<p>What I would like to know is, how much slavery was taking place through the Craigslist personals section? How much of it goes on in America? Can we get some real data injected into this discussion about the nature and the extent of actual forced sex labor? Scorched earth tactics might be appropriate if America has developed a serious <i>slavery</i> problem (again), but they need to be justified with facts.<p>I&#x27;ve run across people who want to take a scorched earth approach to eradicating <i>prostitution</i> (which will not work any more than the war on drugs did). They refer to all prostitution as trafficking in order to conflate the two issues, mislead the public and build support for their radical policies. There is also a class of people who have used FOSTA as an opportunity to expand government power. Neither of these agendas reflect public opinion.</text></item><item><author>SeeDave</author><text>In defense of the &quot;scorched earth approach or nothing&quot; folks: from my perspective... it&#x27;s a completely and totally human response to faceless, blameless, unapproachable (from their perspective) perpetrators and facilitators of systematic abuse and exploitation of innocent and vulnerable people.<p>If you&#x27;ve ever felt frustrated at an IVR system for routine tasks such as banking, restaurant reservations, canceling a gym membership, checking a gift card balance, etc. then you may understand where the &quot;scorched earth&quot; people are coming from when it comes to advocating for dozens, if not hundreds, of innocent victims who have been raped, exploited, and brutalized.<p>That said, I really wish that I could come forward with a solution to the online sex trafficking problem.</text></item><item><author>DannyBee</author><text>This is not surprising, but sad.
Years ago, i was dragged (i was the only engineer in the local office) into a whitehouse (or maybe it was state department, i can&#x27;t remember) sponsored working group on online sex trafficking.<p>The non-profits dedicated to fighting this, while seemingly well-intentioned, were completely and totally unwilling to see any other perspective or try to find shared ground. It was scorched earth approach or nothing. Literally to the tune of &quot;we should be burning down craigslist entirely, and yahoo, google, microsoft, etc should be required to be scanning your search history and reporting you to the police if they suspect you might be sex trafficking&quot;.<p>It was frustrating enough that two of the other participants literally walked out.<p>The only thing mildly surprising to me here is that it took them ~10 years to get the house to do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; A separate issue is human trafficking, which is moving people across borders for the purpose of slavery&#x2F;forced labor, including sex slavery. Public opinion is rightly massively against slavery in any form.<p>The thing is, while some people see it as a separate issue, there is a <i>very common</i> opinion (deliberately fostered by the anti-prostitution lobby) that prostitution is <i>inherently and inalterably</i> human trafficking, and invocation of the <i>term</i> &quot;human trafficking&quot; is now very commonly used as a cover for policies that are directed generally against prostitution, and not at either the place where human trafficking overlaps with prostitution and not at human trafficking unconnected to prostitution.</text></comment> | <story><title>Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA</title><url>https://www.craigslist.org/about/FOSTA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>safety1st</author><text>The &quot;scorched earth&quot; approach only gets support when the nature and scope of the issues are distorted. What are the real issues in play?<p>One is prostitution, a form of sex work which is illegal in most of the United States. The American public have varying feelings about its legal status, how enforcement should be carried out, etc. Public opinion doesn&#x27;t support measures which endanger sex workers (which FOSTA does), because they&#x27;re already an at-risk group.<p>A separate issue is human trafficking, which is moving people across borders for the purpose of slavery&#x2F;forced labor, including sex slavery. Public opinion is rightly massively against slavery in any form.<p>What I would like to know is, how much slavery was taking place through the Craigslist personals section? How much of it goes on in America? Can we get some real data injected into this discussion about the nature and the extent of actual forced sex labor? Scorched earth tactics might be appropriate if America has developed a serious <i>slavery</i> problem (again), but they need to be justified with facts.<p>I&#x27;ve run across people who want to take a scorched earth approach to eradicating <i>prostitution</i> (which will not work any more than the war on drugs did). They refer to all prostitution as trafficking in order to conflate the two issues, mislead the public and build support for their radical policies. There is also a class of people who have used FOSTA as an opportunity to expand government power. Neither of these agendas reflect public opinion.</text></item><item><author>SeeDave</author><text>In defense of the &quot;scorched earth approach or nothing&quot; folks: from my perspective... it&#x27;s a completely and totally human response to faceless, blameless, unapproachable (from their perspective) perpetrators and facilitators of systematic abuse and exploitation of innocent and vulnerable people.<p>If you&#x27;ve ever felt frustrated at an IVR system for routine tasks such as banking, restaurant reservations, canceling a gym membership, checking a gift card balance, etc. then you may understand where the &quot;scorched earth&quot; people are coming from when it comes to advocating for dozens, if not hundreds, of innocent victims who have been raped, exploited, and brutalized.<p>That said, I really wish that I could come forward with a solution to the online sex trafficking problem.</text></item><item><author>DannyBee</author><text>This is not surprising, but sad.
Years ago, i was dragged (i was the only engineer in the local office) into a whitehouse (or maybe it was state department, i can&#x27;t remember) sponsored working group on online sex trafficking.<p>The non-profits dedicated to fighting this, while seemingly well-intentioned, were completely and totally unwilling to see any other perspective or try to find shared ground. It was scorched earth approach or nothing. Literally to the tune of &quot;we should be burning down craigslist entirely, and yahoo, google, microsoft, etc should be required to be scanning your search history and reporting you to the police if they suspect you might be sex trafficking&quot;.<p>It was frustrating enough that two of the other participants literally walked out.<p>The only thing mildly surprising to me here is that it took them ~10 years to get the house to do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Illniyar</author><text>Actually prostitution is legal in Nevada (but not in the big cities). So even that isn&#x27;t so clear cut.</text></comment> |
39,662,908 | 39,662,185 | 1 | 3 | 39,662,079 | train | <story><title>PaperMC/Paper: The most widely used, high performance Minecraft server</title><url>https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tadhunt</author><text>I run a company that provides Minecraft server hosting for businesses (i.e. after school programs, summer camps, Code Ninjas, E-Sports leagues etc) and produces fun and educational events using Minecraft (i.e. 10-15 elementary school kids in an event space at a library learning physics by building roller coasters in the game).<p>We&#x27;ve switched entirely over to Paper for everything because it works so much better than vanilla, and it also enables us to put it behind a Velocity proxy (Minecraft Java Application layer proxy also developed by the same group that develops Paper) for better scalability, more secure infrastructure, and some cool features like enabling any version of Java edition to join the same server (mad props to the ViaVersion &amp; ViaBackwards plugin teams that make this possible!). This is impossible to do with Vanilla. We do all of our own content development creating the activities the kids do during the events, and the plugin ecosystem that someone else mentioned is hugely helpful for this. I especially want to call out how awesome the Geyser and Floodgate plugins are — they make it possible for Java and Bedrock clients to play together in the same world, which makes our customers lives so much easier.<p>We&#x27;re hiring part time &#x2F; contract developers, event hosts, and technical support personnel. If this sounds interesting, please reach out. My contact info is in my profile.</text></comment> | <story><title>PaperMC/Paper: The most widely used, high performance Minecraft server</title><url>https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>caladin</author><text>Are there any recommended open source projects for handling the management of a Minecraft server? So maybe some kind of control panel, automated backups, etc.?<p>I specifically mean some kind of all-in-one solution rather than a hodgepodge of tools and bash scripts.<p>Something that gets one close to the Minecraft Java Realms experience + mods, which one can just provision on their EC2 instance or wherever they may run the Minecraft server.</text></comment> |
26,536,347 | 26,536,327 | 1 | 3 | 26,536,135 | train | <story><title>The Internet has been cut in Myanmar for the 36th consecutive night</title><url>https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1373707854876663808</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matthewmorgan</author><text>It is said by some Burmese people that George Orwell wrote three books about Burma; Burmese days, Animal Farm, and 1984</text></comment> | <story><title>The Internet has been cut in Myanmar for the 36th consecutive night</title><url>https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1373707854876663808</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>They&#x27;re not stupid. Lenin showed them the way: Telephone Telegraph, Radio and Newspapers (and today TV, Internet and GSM&#x2F;Cellular networks).</text></comment> |
19,865,631 | 19,865,639 | 1 | 2 | 19,864,994 | train | <story><title>Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/facebook-algorithms-are-making-it-harder/588931/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leshokunin</author><text>The problem is that we&#x27;ve equated some platforms with a certain kind of media. Youtube is video, Twitter is news, Facebook is.. reality tv, I dunno. It&#x27;s pretty debatable whether those platforms are the right place for the coverage of war crimes.<p>I&#x27;m not going to start an argument about the media not doing their job right. However, this discussion would be moot if there was a news platform on par with the above, and I don&#x27;t mean Twitter. I&#x27;d love to see someone build or modernize a news outlet that isn&#x27;t driven by attention or clicks as a currency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrepew</author><text>These platforms aren’t being used to cover war crimes by an entity consciously trying to deliver news.<p>These posts are first hand accounts of individuals currently living an event. It is as raw as it gets. I don’t think you can very easily direct where content like that gets created. People will use the platform they’re already using for the other parts of their life.<p>I understand the desire to not traumatize people by causing them to accidentally view horrible events. But at the same time I think deleting the content is a disservice to humanity in the long run for a lot of reasons this article highlights.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/facebook-algorithms-are-making-it-harder/588931/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leshokunin</author><text>The problem is that we&#x27;ve equated some platforms with a certain kind of media. Youtube is video, Twitter is news, Facebook is.. reality tv, I dunno. It&#x27;s pretty debatable whether those platforms are the right place for the coverage of war crimes.<p>I&#x27;m not going to start an argument about the media not doing their job right. However, this discussion would be moot if there was a news platform on par with the above, and I don&#x27;t mean Twitter. I&#x27;d love to see someone build or modernize a news outlet that isn&#x27;t driven by attention or clicks as a currency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>intended</author><text>We would all love to see that but it is - within the context of the current economy - impossible for the majority of people.<p>This is a scenario where the regular incentives of the market result in perverse outcomes.<p>Firstly - it’s not tech which did this. Tech mutated and accelerated a pre existing trend for the worse.<p>The news cycle effect was well known, driving more and more sensational news reporting till at the cost of reason.<p>At the same time newspapers were constantly going under or being bought up.<p>With information distribution at scale, describing reality increasingly became the playground of nations (BBC, and lately various government owned news channels) or major firms (the Murdoch emptier.)<p>There’s a deep problem at the nexus of human behavior, factual reporting and income.<p>Attention and fear are easier and more reliable levers to pull in the human consumer.<p>Humans are easily distracted by sex, violence, gossip and easy to consume content - our brains are wired that way for some of those things, and it’s always pleasing to consume mental sugar than mental vegetables.<p>The only model which survives this is paying lots of money for specific information - usually linked to your profession.<p>However general news reporting It is unlikely to recover because of the news cycle effect which creates a tendency to compete on attention, a race to the bottom.</text></comment> |
12,827,180 | 12,827,249 | 1 | 2 | 12,826,088 | train | <story><title>Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Avishai Abrahami</title><url>http://www.wix.com/blog/2016/10/dear-matt-mullenweg-an-open-letter-from-wix-coms-ceo-avishai-abrahami/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text><i>&quot;Yes, we did use the WordPress open source library for a minor part of the application (that is the concept of open source right?), and everything we improved there or modified, we submitted back as open source ...&quot;</i><p>That is not the concept of the GPL though. They need to release the source for the entire derived work, not just that one component. It&#x27;s not Wix&#x27;s choice -- it&#x27;s required by the license, and the act of incorporating code under that license makes them bound by it.<p>For a letter written by a CEO, this one seems strangely oblivious to the real issues. Did he run it through the legal department at all? (Presumably not, since it&#x27;s the weekend.)<p>Abrahami writes: &quot;If you believe that we need to give you credit&quot; -- but that&#x27;s not the issue at hand. It gives the impression that he doesn&#x27;t understand the differences between open source licenses, and that can be a serious liability for a company that builds so heavily on other people&#x27;s code.<p>[Edit] I actually wish the GPL were finally tested in court, because that would resolve a long-standing question around its enforceability. The CEO of Wix admitted that the derived work in this case contains &quot;more than 3 million lines of code&quot;... The copyright owner of the GPL&#x27;d module could sue them to have all that released under the GPL, and (assuming Wix wouldn&#x27;t comply) then we would finally know if the license holds up in court or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>&gt; The CEO of Wix admitted that the derived work in this case contains &quot;more than 3 million lines of code&quot;... The copyright owner of the GPL&#x27;d module could sue them to have all that released under the GPL, and (assuming Wix wouldn&#x27;t comply) then we would finally know if the license holds up in court or not.<p>The copyright owner would win, but all they would likely get out of the court is an injunction stopping Wix from distributing the infringing product and monetary damages. They would probably not be able to force Wix to release source code.<p>If the GPL code is just a wrapper around MIT licensed code, as has been claimed, Wix should be able to quickly change their code to use that MIT code directly instead of using WordPress&#x27; GPL wrapper.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Avishai Abrahami</title><url>http://www.wix.com/blog/2016/10/dear-matt-mullenweg-an-open-letter-from-wix-coms-ceo-avishai-abrahami/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text><i>&quot;Yes, we did use the WordPress open source library for a minor part of the application (that is the concept of open source right?), and everything we improved there or modified, we submitted back as open source ...&quot;</i><p>That is not the concept of the GPL though. They need to release the source for the entire derived work, not just that one component. It&#x27;s not Wix&#x27;s choice -- it&#x27;s required by the license, and the act of incorporating code under that license makes them bound by it.<p>For a letter written by a CEO, this one seems strangely oblivious to the real issues. Did he run it through the legal department at all? (Presumably not, since it&#x27;s the weekend.)<p>Abrahami writes: &quot;If you believe that we need to give you credit&quot; -- but that&#x27;s not the issue at hand. It gives the impression that he doesn&#x27;t understand the differences between open source licenses, and that can be a serious liability for a company that builds so heavily on other people&#x27;s code.<p>[Edit] I actually wish the GPL were finally tested in court, because that would resolve a long-standing question around its enforceability. The CEO of Wix admitted that the derived work in this case contains &quot;more than 3 million lines of code&quot;... The copyright owner of the GPL&#x27;d module could sue them to have all that released under the GPL, and (assuming Wix wouldn&#x27;t comply) then we would finally know if the license holds up in court or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caseysoftware</author><text>No, they could sue to bring them <i>in compliance with the license</i>.<p><i>ONE</i> of the options to be in compliance may be to release the entire project GPL.<p>Another option may be to simply remove the offending code.<p>And the losing side (or settlement) may include attorney&#x27;s fees.<p>There is no clause to the GPL that says &quot;if you break our license even once, we get your project!&quot;</text></comment> |
37,502,480 | 37,502,435 | 1 | 3 | 37,478,341 | train | <story><title>86Box v4.0</title><url>https://86box.net/2023/08/26/86box-v4-0.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Related. Others?<p><i>86Box 4.0 Released</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37278672">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37278672</a> - Aug 2023 (2 comments)<p><i>Try RetroBox (for 86Box) to play with old PC systems</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36386175">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36386175</a> - June 2023 (1 comment)<p><i>86Box – Low level x86 emulator that runs older operating systems and software</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34144479">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34144479</a> - Dec 2022 (33 comments)<p><i>86Box: Why Not Pentium III?</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30940639">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30940639</a> - April 2022 (98 comments)<p><i>The Starter&#x27;s Guide to PCem and 86Box</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23649244">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23649244</a> - June 2020 (1 comment)</text></comment> | <story><title>86Box v4.0</title><url>https://86box.net/2023/08/26/86box-v4-0.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snvzz</author><text>&gt;Added serial port passthrough to real ports and named pipes<p>Finally.<p>Hopefully RFC2217[0] next? This is supported by pySerial, as well as some emulators (like winuae).<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc2217.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datatracker.ietf.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc2217.html</a></text></comment> |
24,408,847 | 24,408,595 | 1 | 2 | 24,406,366 | train | <story><title>PandaDoc employees arrested in Belarus after founders protest against violence</title><url>https://savepandadoc.org/en/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hippich</author><text>A few facts about these events:<p>- Based on data collected by from only some polling places, there is a huge discrepancies in results comparing to official ones. Most poling places refused to post results. People, who demanded to post results (as the law requires), were arrested. You can read more about it at belarus2020.org<p>- A lot of journalists left state media. Replacements were brought from Russia&#x27;s state&#x27;s propaganda media.<p>- While police is involved in some cases, the bulk of arrests, beating, torture is done by special forces where most of them wear full head covering at all times. In the few episodes when such head covering is removed during the altercation, these enforces were running away hiding their faces with hands 1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zspZj5wPtaQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zspZj5wPtaQ</a> ; 2) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vj5cV8Dl7jA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vj5cV8Dl7jA</a><p>- Often, special forces use plain clothes and act like criminals. The only suggestion that they are law enforcement - they often have a baton and full head covering. They never tell you their names, departments, etc.<p>- Last Sunday Belarus saw its first business glass door shattered as a result of protests (protests started on Aug 9th). That door was broken by special forces because some protesters tried to hide from beating there. People donated to the business owner to buy a new door and were standing in the line next day to buy a coffee from that place - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Z3I8dxAwybE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Z3I8dxAwybE</a><p>- To avoid beating by special forces, some running away protesters had to jump into the river. Water is quite cold. They were saved by the rescue team worked on the river, who brought them to the other bank of it. As a result, the whole rescue team was arrested - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=sqA3deW_-Yg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=sqA3deW_-Yg</a><p>There is a lot more going on, just wanted to share a few things to explain the atmosphere of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>PandaDoc employees arrested in Belarus after founders protest against violence</title><url>https://savepandadoc.org/en/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>newbelarus</author><text>Hi Folks,<p>We ran the Belarus&#x27; post-election survey. Over 10,000+ respondents.<p>Here are the results:<p>- Результат опроса «День Выборов Президента Беларуси» — <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;surveymonkey.com&#x2F;results&#x2F;SM-W9PZGD9B7&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;surveymonkey.com&#x2F;results&#x2F;SM-W9PZGD9B7&#x2F;</a>
- Панель индикаторов «День Выборов Президента Беларуси» — <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.surveymonkey.com&#x2F;stories&#x2F;SM-RKSGN36D&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.surveymonkey.com&#x2F;stories&#x2F;SM-RKSGN36D&#x2F;</a><p>Here are the results for pre-election survey:<p>- «Кандидаты на пост президента Беларуси» — начать опрос — <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;surveymonkey.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;IMBELARUS-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;surveymonkey.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;IMBELARUS-5</a>
- Результат опроса «Кандидаты на пост президента Беларуси» — <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.surveymonkey.com&#x2F;results&#x2F;SM-VRQR539G7&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.surveymonkey.com&#x2F;results&#x2F;SM-VRQR539G7&#x2F;</a>
- Панель индикаторов «Кандидаты на пост президента Беларуси» — <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.surveymonkey.com&#x2F;stories&#x2F;SM-VMNFBZ3D&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.surveymonkey.com&#x2F;stories&#x2F;SM-VMNFBZ3D&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
33,694,137 | 33,693,130 | 1 | 3 | 33,686,168 | train | <story><title>AWS and Blockchain</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/19/AWS-Blockchain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TimJRobinson</author><text>You&#x27;re still missing the forest for the trees. All of this was created in the last 2-3 years and already it&#x27;s replicated most of what&#x27;s in traditional finance. It&#x27;s the rate of innovation that is important, not the current y-intercept.<p>Furthermore this is a global system that anyone can contribute to. How hard do you think it is for I as an Australian to build a financial firm that interfaces with Bank of America or the NYSE? It&#x27;s almost impossible. In DeFi I can spin up my own app in days.<p>Aave is used for being able to borrow against your crypto assets, so if you need a loan you don&#x27;t have to sell, this isn&#x27;t a service any bank offers. You can also just deposit your assets and earn interest on them.<p>In 2009 most of my colleagues similarly dismissed AWS &quot;Oh it&#x27;s just some easy storage with a way to spin up servers, big deal. Bare metal is cheaper and easier&quot;. It wasn&#x27;t until most business components were automated that it became an obvious choice.<p>Now imagine you&#x27;re starting a new financial firm and want to offer an exchange, options, perpetuals, savings accounts, loans etc. You <i>could</i> build all these pieces yourself for a few million dollars and a few years work. Or you could use DeFi protocols, build a nice easy to use front-end and be up and running in a few months.</text></item><item><author>super256</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s similar to AWS where it got exponentially more valuable as each new service was added<p>But... I have yet to see a service which really <i>adds value</i>. All I&#x27;ve seen so far are:<p>A) collection games, which are not different from collecting Pokémon for real money.<p>B) liquidity PvP, where users open leveraged bets to hunt other market participants&#x27; stops&#x2F;liquidations, so the hunter can reduce their position for cheap, which the hunted takes a loss (this is not different from tradfi).<p>I am looking at Aave right now, and all I see is a speculation platform with tokens instead of currencies. So basically, you guys are re-inventing what tradfi had years ago, just with worthless(?) tokens instead of debt backed assets. I am assuming they are worthless because every project you have mentioned is optimized for USD cash inflow, as you have &quot;buy crypto with fiat&quot;-buttons on almost every project[1][2][3], but no way to cash out to fiat. Furthermore, the staking feature from AAVE seems to only artificially decrease supply, so prices rise. What&#x27;s the value proposition here?<p>Anyway, I don&#x27;t really think that this stuff is even remotely comparable to AWS.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.aave.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.aave.com&#x2F;</a> (press &quot;more&quot; on the nav bar)<p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zerion.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zerion.io&#x2F;</a> (FAQ &gt; &quot;just tap the blue button in the center of your screen, select ‘Buy’, and you will be taken to the dialogue window where you can buy crypto with a credit or debit card.&quot;)<p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.1inch.io&#x2F;transak-fiat-on-ramp-provider-is-integrated-into-the-1inch-wallet-19934e710506" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.1inch.io&#x2F;transak-fiat-on-ramp-provider-is-integ...</a></text></item><item><author>TimJRobinson</author><text>I used to think this, but working with DeFi on Ethereum for a while I&#x27;ve realized the killer feature is actually permissionless composability. Which is why enterprise block chains make little sense.<p>Having one neutral platform, controlled by no one, with standardized API&#x27;s and immutable open programs that anyone can permissionlessly build on - is amazing.<p>We&#x27;ve never had this before, and it&#x27;s incredible how fast the DeFi space is moving because of it. I work for a platform (Balancer) that has had over 20 different companies (Aave, Element, CopperLaunch, Gyro, Aura, Hidden Hand) build financial applications on top of our tech stack in the last 2 years.<p>Then there are different wallets (Metamask, Rainbow, Ledger), aggregators (1inch, Matcha, 0x), portfolio management tools (Zapper, Zerion, DeFi Saver).<p>All of these work with each other mostly out of the box and without any formal partnerships between anyone. This is a radical new way of building finance and it&#x27;s the fastest paced industry I&#x27;ve ever been a part of.<p>It&#x27;s similar to AWS where it got exponentially more valuable as each new service was added - but the entire world can contribute to it. Like AWS people didn&#x27;t understand the value initially, but over time they realized how big of a deal it was as more and more components were added.</text></item><item><author>runeks</author><text>Blockchain was invented to solve one particular problem: distributed consensus on a sequence of transactions, where the choice of which transaction to include from a set of conflicting transactions is irrelevant.<p>The latter property here is key to understanding where blockchain is useful. It was created to solve the &quot;double spend problem&quot;, ie. two transitions that spend the same coin but send it to different recipients (and so they conflict and cannot both be included in the canonical list of transactions). A double spend is the result of the sender either (a) making a mistake, or (b) attempting fraud. In both cases the important property is that as long as only a single of these conflicting transactions is included, the systems works.<p>Only if your problem exhibits the above property (<i>and</i> it&#x27;s a distributed system) does using a blockchain make sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markdestouches</author><text>&gt;&gt; You&#x27;re still missing the forest for the trees. All of this was created in the last 2-3 years and already it&#x27;s replicated most of what&#x27;s in traditional finance.<p>Making a copy of an existing technology while repeating every historical mistake on the way is not innovation but rather poor learning ability. It&#x27;s been 13 years since the advent of blockchain and we are yet to see anything actually useful. Yet all we see is smuggling, money laundering and fraud. With stories like FTX we also see incredible ineptitude, incompetence and ignorance. I am so tired of seeing these same groundless arguments over and over again, especially now, once money got dear and all of the crypto started crashing down.</text></comment> | <story><title>AWS and Blockchain</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/19/AWS-Blockchain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TimJRobinson</author><text>You&#x27;re still missing the forest for the trees. All of this was created in the last 2-3 years and already it&#x27;s replicated most of what&#x27;s in traditional finance. It&#x27;s the rate of innovation that is important, not the current y-intercept.<p>Furthermore this is a global system that anyone can contribute to. How hard do you think it is for I as an Australian to build a financial firm that interfaces with Bank of America or the NYSE? It&#x27;s almost impossible. In DeFi I can spin up my own app in days.<p>Aave is used for being able to borrow against your crypto assets, so if you need a loan you don&#x27;t have to sell, this isn&#x27;t a service any bank offers. You can also just deposit your assets and earn interest on them.<p>In 2009 most of my colleagues similarly dismissed AWS &quot;Oh it&#x27;s just some easy storage with a way to spin up servers, big deal. Bare metal is cheaper and easier&quot;. It wasn&#x27;t until most business components were automated that it became an obvious choice.<p>Now imagine you&#x27;re starting a new financial firm and want to offer an exchange, options, perpetuals, savings accounts, loans etc. You <i>could</i> build all these pieces yourself for a few million dollars and a few years work. Or you could use DeFi protocols, build a nice easy to use front-end and be up and running in a few months.</text></item><item><author>super256</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s similar to AWS where it got exponentially more valuable as each new service was added<p>But... I have yet to see a service which really <i>adds value</i>. All I&#x27;ve seen so far are:<p>A) collection games, which are not different from collecting Pokémon for real money.<p>B) liquidity PvP, where users open leveraged bets to hunt other market participants&#x27; stops&#x2F;liquidations, so the hunter can reduce their position for cheap, which the hunted takes a loss (this is not different from tradfi).<p>I am looking at Aave right now, and all I see is a speculation platform with tokens instead of currencies. So basically, you guys are re-inventing what tradfi had years ago, just with worthless(?) tokens instead of debt backed assets. I am assuming they are worthless because every project you have mentioned is optimized for USD cash inflow, as you have &quot;buy crypto with fiat&quot;-buttons on almost every project[1][2][3], but no way to cash out to fiat. Furthermore, the staking feature from AAVE seems to only artificially decrease supply, so prices rise. What&#x27;s the value proposition here?<p>Anyway, I don&#x27;t really think that this stuff is even remotely comparable to AWS.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.aave.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.aave.com&#x2F;</a> (press &quot;more&quot; on the nav bar)<p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zerion.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zerion.io&#x2F;</a> (FAQ &gt; &quot;just tap the blue button in the center of your screen, select ‘Buy’, and you will be taken to the dialogue window where you can buy crypto with a credit or debit card.&quot;)<p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.1inch.io&#x2F;transak-fiat-on-ramp-provider-is-integrated-into-the-1inch-wallet-19934e710506" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.1inch.io&#x2F;transak-fiat-on-ramp-provider-is-integ...</a></text></item><item><author>TimJRobinson</author><text>I used to think this, but working with DeFi on Ethereum for a while I&#x27;ve realized the killer feature is actually permissionless composability. Which is why enterprise block chains make little sense.<p>Having one neutral platform, controlled by no one, with standardized API&#x27;s and immutable open programs that anyone can permissionlessly build on - is amazing.<p>We&#x27;ve never had this before, and it&#x27;s incredible how fast the DeFi space is moving because of it. I work for a platform (Balancer) that has had over 20 different companies (Aave, Element, CopperLaunch, Gyro, Aura, Hidden Hand) build financial applications on top of our tech stack in the last 2 years.<p>Then there are different wallets (Metamask, Rainbow, Ledger), aggregators (1inch, Matcha, 0x), portfolio management tools (Zapper, Zerion, DeFi Saver).<p>All of these work with each other mostly out of the box and without any formal partnerships between anyone. This is a radical new way of building finance and it&#x27;s the fastest paced industry I&#x27;ve ever been a part of.<p>It&#x27;s similar to AWS where it got exponentially more valuable as each new service was added - but the entire world can contribute to it. Like AWS people didn&#x27;t understand the value initially, but over time they realized how big of a deal it was as more and more components were added.</text></item><item><author>runeks</author><text>Blockchain was invented to solve one particular problem: distributed consensus on a sequence of transactions, where the choice of which transaction to include from a set of conflicting transactions is irrelevant.<p>The latter property here is key to understanding where blockchain is useful. It was created to solve the &quot;double spend problem&quot;, ie. two transitions that spend the same coin but send it to different recipients (and so they conflict and cannot both be included in the canonical list of transactions). A double spend is the result of the sender either (a) making a mistake, or (b) attempting fraud. In both cases the important property is that as long as only a single of these conflicting transactions is included, the systems works.<p>Only if your problem exhibits the above property (<i>and</i> it&#x27;s a distributed system) does using a blockchain make sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>likeabbas</author><text>&gt; How hard do you think it is for I as an Australian to build a financial firm that interfaces with Bank of America or the NYSE? It&#x27;s almost impossible. In DeFi I can spin up my own app in days<p>This sounds nice in theory, but aren&#x27;t most of the guard rails of the financial institutions for complying with government regulation? If anyone could interface with these companies then it would be too easy for abuse. USG is not going to let that happen, which is why these DeFi applications will be limited to unregulated cryptocurrencies where the user will have to trust the &quot;bank&quot; that has no Federal Reserve backing.<p>&gt; Aave is used for being able to borrow against your crypto assets... You can also just deposit your assets and earn interest on them.<p>Why would any crypto supporter want to hold their decentralized currency in a centralized exchange after the FTX fiasco</text></comment> |
28,855,052 | 28,852,884 | 1 | 2 | 28,851,911 | train | <story><title>Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated</title><url>https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-trusting-the-science-is-complicated/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>Skepticism is the driving engine behind science. It works well so long as people keep asking questions until they get satisfactory answers. Science is anti-fragile. The harder you attack it, the sturdier it becomes. So this is fine.<p>The only time it really stops working is if people start treating it as doctrine, and demanding that you accept it on faith, and take any questions as evidence that you are an enemy of science. If anything destroys science, it is this line of reasoning.<p>Skepticism does not require a degree or a license from the government. The only intellectually honest thing is to admit to yourself that you do not know until you are convinced otherwise. Whether other people say they are convinced is honestly quite irrelevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cronix</author><text>&gt; The only time it really stops working is if people start treating it as doctrine, and demanding that you accept it on faith, and take any questions as evidence that you are an enemy of science. If anything destroys science, it is this line of reasoning.<p>I wonder where we&#x27;d be today in science&#x2F;physics if the Catholic Church (<i>the</i> authority of the day) was successful in stopping Galileo Galilei, in 1615, from &quot;spreading misinformation&#x2F;disinformation&quot; that the Earth circled the sun, and pushing back against the prevailing &quot;science&quot; of the day.<p>If he were alive in 2021 and pushing something that went against &quot;current wisdom,&quot; of that magnitude, he would be banned from media, ridiculed, and cancelled.<p>It was a lesson I had thought the West had learned. It appears not. Censor and treat science as a religion at your (our) own peril.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated</title><url>https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-trusting-the-science-is-complicated/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>Skepticism is the driving engine behind science. It works well so long as people keep asking questions until they get satisfactory answers. Science is anti-fragile. The harder you attack it, the sturdier it becomes. So this is fine.<p>The only time it really stops working is if people start treating it as doctrine, and demanding that you accept it on faith, and take any questions as evidence that you are an enemy of science. If anything destroys science, it is this line of reasoning.<p>Skepticism does not require a degree or a license from the government. The only intellectually honest thing is to admit to yourself that you do not know until you are convinced otherwise. Whether other people say they are convinced is honestly quite irrelevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethbr0</author><text>&gt; <i>Science is anti-fragile. The harder you attack it, the sturdier it becomes.</i><p>This is true for the subset of <i>&quot;scientific professionals, devoting significant amounts of time to their field&quot;</i>. That&#x27;s not all of the public. That&#x27;s not even all of most scientific disciplines.<p>The scientific <i>method</i> is perfect.<p>The scientific method <i>as practiced by fallible and irrational humans</i> is subject to starts and stops, groupthink and cargo culting, and politics ad nauseam.<p>The even more common case of <i>&quot;laypeople, with limited technical background knowledge, devoting limited amounts of time to understanding issues, who want to appear informed and intelligent about issues&quot;</i> is significantly more fraught with danger. And the source of most ineffective outcomes.</text></comment> |
25,970,425 | 25,970,087 | 1 | 2 | 25,967,382 | train | <story><title>University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty</title><url>https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1355184163020804099</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inglor_cz</author><text>I wonder if the end game of higher education looks like purely administrative bodies with enormous tuition that just provide the students with leisure, varsity sports and regular events on the currently hot social justice topics.<p>I studied pure math in the Czech Rep. between 1996 and 2003. The administrative staff was about 10 per cent of the entire body of employees.<p>Reading that administrators actually outnumber teaching staff at some American universities today, I cannot help but ask what went wrong. This kind of bureaucratic bloat would make late Soviet Union blush and professor Parkinson rewrite his books.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtontimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2013&#x2F;feb&#x2F;28&#x2F;teachers-outnumbered-schools-administrators-suppor&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtontimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2013&#x2F;feb&#x2F;28&#x2F;teachers-ou...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jancsika</author><text>&gt; events on the currently hot social justice topics.<p>Namespace collision detected:<p>1. a lecture series or seminar by a researcher specializing in social justice movements, civil rights leaders, abolitionists, etc. Possibly focusing on insights from newly discovered primary documents.<p>2. events hosted by any political college organization whose participants may be painted with the derisive term &quot;social justice warrior&quot;<p>Definition #1 isn&#x27;t an edge case-- most universities are chock full of such events and seminars. Shit like this: a linguist who was tasked with helping a Northern California tribe fill in the blanks in the documentation of their dead language so they could revive it. If your curiosity isn&#x27;t peaked by that concept and it&#x27;s associated practical challenges and sets of choices, I&#x27;m not sure what you&#x27;re doing on HN.<p>Definition #2 is like HN&#x27;s version of cheating celebrity stories in the Enquirer. If you wanted to spend the rest of your life enumerating each case, you certainly wouldn&#x27;t run out of bona fide material. But if <i>all</i> you talk about 99% of the time is that-- to the extent that you forget definition #1 even exists-- you have to admit at least <i>part</i> of your outrage is due not to your own free will but due to people clicking upvote buttons as if nudging trays of junk food close to where you&#x27;re sitting.<p>Edit: typo</text></comment> | <story><title>University of Leicester firing all pure math faculty</title><url>https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1355184163020804099</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inglor_cz</author><text>I wonder if the end game of higher education looks like purely administrative bodies with enormous tuition that just provide the students with leisure, varsity sports and regular events on the currently hot social justice topics.<p>I studied pure math in the Czech Rep. between 1996 and 2003. The administrative staff was about 10 per cent of the entire body of employees.<p>Reading that administrators actually outnumber teaching staff at some American universities today, I cannot help but ask what went wrong. This kind of bureaucratic bloat would make late Soviet Union blush and professor Parkinson rewrite his books.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtontimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2013&#x2F;feb&#x2F;28&#x2F;teachers-outnumbered-schools-administrators-suppor&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtontimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2013&#x2F;feb&#x2F;28&#x2F;teachers-ou...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mola</author><text>I think the current mindset of american universities is commodification of the concept of higher education.
Teaching, scholastic tradition and enlightment values are sidelined by values like customer satisfaction, marketing, and money making optimization.</text></comment> |
13,844,767 | 13,844,810 | 1 | 3 | 13,844,389 | train | <story><title>What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/03/11/technology/ap-us-tec-wikileaks-cia-tech-encryption.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dingaling</author><text>It&#x27;s not just that they&#x27;re performing encryption, but also assurance that (1) they&#x27;re using the keys they declare and (2) they aren&#x27;t sending other data over unannounced side-channels.<p>You can&#x27;t just insert yourself in the message stream since the client and server use pinned, mutual certificate authentication. So you have to start from first-principles and step through decompiled code.</text></item><item><author>mjg59</author><text>It&#x27;s not hard to demonstrate that apps are performing end-to-end encryption even if you don&#x27;t have access to the source code. Reverse engineering this stuff is really pretty straightforward.</text></item><item><author>dromenkoning</author><text>The article mentions WhatsApp multiple times as a service that successfully made the transition to end-to-end encryption, but it always seemed to me that this claim is rather meaningless when we don&#x27;t have the possibility of auditing their source code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjg59</author><text>&gt; they&#x27;re using the keys they declare<p>I&#x27;m not sure what you mean here. It&#x27;s easy to identify where the key comes from and whether the ciphertext is what you&#x27;d expect it to be in that case.<p>&gt; they aren&#x27;t sending other data over unannounced side-channels.<p>It&#x27;s not straightforward to determine that even if you <i>do</i> have the source - you could imagine an implementation that deliberately leaks information through timing details without that being obvious from the code. At some point you have to trust that authors aren&#x27;t doing something awful.<p>&gt; So you have to start from first-principles and step through decompiled code.<p>Well no, because the first thing you can do there is just disable certificate pinning. But really, the difficulty of stepping through decompiled code is vastly overrated.</text></comment> | <story><title>What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/03/11/technology/ap-us-tec-wikileaks-cia-tech-encryption.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dingaling</author><text>It&#x27;s not just that they&#x27;re performing encryption, but also assurance that (1) they&#x27;re using the keys they declare and (2) they aren&#x27;t sending other data over unannounced side-channels.<p>You can&#x27;t just insert yourself in the message stream since the client and server use pinned, mutual certificate authentication. So you have to start from first-principles and step through decompiled code.</text></item><item><author>mjg59</author><text>It&#x27;s not hard to demonstrate that apps are performing end-to-end encryption even if you don&#x27;t have access to the source code. Reverse engineering this stuff is really pretty straightforward.</text></item><item><author>dromenkoning</author><text>The article mentions WhatsApp multiple times as a service that successfully made the transition to end-to-end encryption, but it always seemed to me that this claim is rather meaningless when we don&#x27;t have the possibility of auditing their source code.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>7952</author><text>This is actually an area where web apps have some advantage. You can inspect the network traffic using developer tools. You have cross domain rules that restrict traffic. And the encryption is performed by the browser rather than in the apps black box.</text></comment> |
41,647,110 | 41,645,799 | 1 | 3 | 41,642,969 | train | <story><title>Insights after 11 years with Datomic [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSgTQzHYeLU</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>clusterhacks</author><text>Several comments mention the data immutability of Datomic as a plus and I just wanted to say you can totally make a plain-old-RDBMS table append-only and get those benefits. I&#x27;m sure this is commonly done.<p>I did it with a timestamp on the tables that was captured at insert time. All reads were against views of the tables that were defined such that the only tuples returned were the &quot;most recent&quot; tuples by appropriate data fields and max(timestamp). &quot;Deleted&quot; records were just indicated by a flag.<p>This preserved the ability see the full history for a tuple from creation, all mutations, all the way to deletion. This scaled reasonable well up to low millions of tuples on a normal, single database server. But it was for an internal project, so the number of clients hammering at it was quite low.</text></comment> | <story><title>Insights after 11 years with Datomic [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSgTQzHYeLU</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geokon</author><text>Relevant blog I found interesting: (Datalevin)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yyhh.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2024&#x2F;09&#x2F;competing-for-the-job-with-a-triplestore&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yyhh.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2024&#x2F;09&#x2F;competing-for-the-job-with-a-t...</a><p>From the perspective of someone not familiar with the topic. And I touches on performance</text></comment> |
41,490,285 | 41,490,274 | 1 | 2 | 41,489,267 | train | <story><title>Nobody Cares About Security</title><url>https://www.adatosystems.com/2024/09/09/nobody-cares-about-security/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>y-c-o-m-b</author><text>I&#x27;ve been saying this since at least 2009 when the company I worked for was sending credit card info from card readers across the network in plain text and they dragged their feet to fix it even though they knew we were violating some serious SOX policies.<p>At another company in 2015, I discovered we were sending user credentials for a large hospitals in plain text across the network and need to fix this ASAP. When I brought this up to management, they shrugged and said &quot;it&#x27;s been this way for years and we have other priorities&quot;. After a large New York hospital was breached, I suddenly had management show up to my desk in panic asking how we can fix the issue immediately. I came up with a nice write-up for both our company and the hospital IT groups on how to secure our infrastructure with certs and whatnot and they still half-assed it with self-signed certificates.<p>In 2018 I worked for a fin-tech company in charge of some A-list celebrity 401K portfolios. We had a default admin password for our production database. ZERO encryption on the data; including SSN, birth-date, phone numbers, addresses, beneficiaries info, etc.<p>Last year one of the leading payroll providers in the country (USA) I used to work for started aggressively out-sourcing the software and allegedly had a really nasty security breach due to a back-door inserted by one of the out-sourced team members. It&#x27;s alleged that leadership threatened employees if they disclosed the incident to anyone outside a key group of members.<p>Nobody give a damn about security until their identity is stolen and they have to spend hours&#x2F;days&#x2F;weeks&#x2F;months putting their lives back together from the fallout.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nobody Cares About Security</title><url>https://www.adatosystems.com/2024/09/09/nobody-cares-about-security/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elliottkember</author><text>Remember: nobody likes the safety inspector, everybody loves the fireman!</text></comment> |
29,756,394 | 29,755,653 | 1 | 3 | 29,754,120 | train | <story><title>Don't Waste the Good Days</title><url>https://seths.blog/2021/12/dont-waste-the-good-days/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nightowl_games</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;d have played fewer video games, traveled less, and relaxed on the beach less.<p>This seems totally opposite of what old people say on their death bed. You sound so obsessed with money here. My guess is your probably very wealthy relative to the average peer and your too naive to realize it. You have to keep telling yourself this philosophy to justify not wind surfing in Bali.<p>You think your gonna wind surf when your 60? You think it&#x27;s smart to spend your &#x27;non arthritis&#x27; fingers on coding?</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>I feel like there is wisdom in &quot;Make hay while the sun shines.&quot; When you&#x27;re young and unencumbered by responsibility and family, when your cognitive abilities are at their peak, when your energy is endless, when your body is strong and healthy, when your knees work, and your fingers can type without arthritis: that&#x27;s the optimal time to work and earn. Min-max that salary and stay healthy. Due to compounding interest, a dollar made in your 20&#x27;s is far, far more valuable than a dollar made in your 60&#x27;s. Every morsel you make and save early means your retirement comes earlier. There will never be a more efficient time to earn those days of leisure that will come later if you stay healthy.<p>Take that vacation to Bali when you&#x27;re young, and you are wasting your prime, strongest days that could be making you financially secure and&#x2F;or independent. Go windsurfing for a year in Ibiza after college, and you&#x27;re adding 5 years to your working life--retiring at 62 instead of 57. It didn&#x27;t sound like much time when I was young, but today, as I turn elderly, I&#x27;m counting down the years until I can finally retire, and kicking myself for goofing around when I was younger. If I could do it all again, I&#x27;d have tried harder to get into big tech early, I&#x27;d have taken comp and 401(k)s and advancement more seriously. I&#x27;d have played fewer video games, traveled less, and relaxed on the beach less.<p>Life isn&#x27;t short--it&#x27;s LONG, and you have a brief moment in that life to maximize your preparation for the rest of it. Use it wisely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staticassertion</author><text>Lots of people I know in a generation or two above me regret not saving when they were younger. Now they&#x27;re nervous about being 70 and having to retire soon but not feeling stable, or feeling that they may financially burden their children.<p>Compounding interest on money means, as previously mentioned, money you earn at 20 will be 10x as valuable compared to money earned towards a typical retirement age. With tech having strong early salaries and heavy stock compensation I think this is even more the case.<p>&gt; You think your gonna wind surf when your 60? You think it&#x27;s smart to spend your &#x27;non arthritis&#x27; fingers on coding?<p>How about 40? Because if you start working at 21 in tech and you&#x27;re aggressive about your career <i>that&#x27;s</i> when you can retire.<p>Do experiences compound? Will I enjoy an experience more at 25 than 45? Maybe, and there&#x27;s always some balance, of course. No one should work themselves to death.<p>But I worked obscene hours for my first 4 years of my career, lived with many roommates, and saved a <i>lot</i> of money. And I started years later than most, as I entered the market at 24 instead of 21.<p>It buys me great peace of mind to know that I am financially stable and independent, that I can take care of friends and family who are not, and that I have bought myself decades of retirement.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't Waste the Good Days</title><url>https://seths.blog/2021/12/dont-waste-the-good-days/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nightowl_games</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;d have played fewer video games, traveled less, and relaxed on the beach less.<p>This seems totally opposite of what old people say on their death bed. You sound so obsessed with money here. My guess is your probably very wealthy relative to the average peer and your too naive to realize it. You have to keep telling yourself this philosophy to justify not wind surfing in Bali.<p>You think your gonna wind surf when your 60? You think it&#x27;s smart to spend your &#x27;non arthritis&#x27; fingers on coding?</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>I feel like there is wisdom in &quot;Make hay while the sun shines.&quot; When you&#x27;re young and unencumbered by responsibility and family, when your cognitive abilities are at their peak, when your energy is endless, when your body is strong and healthy, when your knees work, and your fingers can type without arthritis: that&#x27;s the optimal time to work and earn. Min-max that salary and stay healthy. Due to compounding interest, a dollar made in your 20&#x27;s is far, far more valuable than a dollar made in your 60&#x27;s. Every morsel you make and save early means your retirement comes earlier. There will never be a more efficient time to earn those days of leisure that will come later if you stay healthy.<p>Take that vacation to Bali when you&#x27;re young, and you are wasting your prime, strongest days that could be making you financially secure and&#x2F;or independent. Go windsurfing for a year in Ibiza after college, and you&#x27;re adding 5 years to your working life--retiring at 62 instead of 57. It didn&#x27;t sound like much time when I was young, but today, as I turn elderly, I&#x27;m counting down the years until I can finally retire, and kicking myself for goofing around when I was younger. If I could do it all again, I&#x27;d have tried harder to get into big tech early, I&#x27;d have taken comp and 401(k)s and advancement more seriously. I&#x27;d have played fewer video games, traveled less, and relaxed on the beach less.<p>Life isn&#x27;t short--it&#x27;s LONG, and you have a brief moment in that life to maximize your preparation for the rest of it. Use it wisely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randallsquared</author><text>Old people on their death bed are telling us what they want to do now, couched as what they would have wanted to do. But they made the decisions they did for reasons that seemed good at the time, and it might well be that they&#x27;d make the same ones. Wishing things were different is not the same as a plan to make them different.<p>Or, as I&#x27;ve said about this before: why worry about what death-bed you wants? That person literally has no future, but you do have a future to worry about!</text></comment> |
41,644,631 | 41,644,720 | 1 | 3 | 41,644,315 | train | <story><title>New California law requires one-click subscription cancellations</title><url>https://thedesk.net/2024/09/california-one-click-subscription-cancellation-law/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JusticeJuice</author><text>While I&#x27;m a bit dubious of how they&#x27;ll define a &#x27;one click&#x27; flow, this is a great move. Maybe auto-subscribing free trials can be banned next?<p>I live in France, and they do everything possible to make subscriptions hard to cancel - I signed up to my gym online, but if I want to cancel it I need to send their headquarters a physical letter in the post, and expect a 4-6 week processing time haha.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>There are a few services in Germany that you can use to cancel a wide range of things. They use exactly the right wording and channels with each of them. They&#x27;ll send faxes, snail mail, etc. Take care of escalating, etc. Whatever needs doing. Kind of hilarious and sad at the same time that that is a thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>New California law requires one-click subscription cancellations</title><url>https://thedesk.net/2024/09/california-one-click-subscription-cancellation-law/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JusticeJuice</author><text>While I&#x27;m a bit dubious of how they&#x27;ll define a &#x27;one click&#x27; flow, this is a great move. Maybe auto-subscribing free trials can be banned next?<p>I live in France, and they do everything possible to make subscriptions hard to cancel - I signed up to my gym online, but if I want to cancel it I need to send their headquarters a physical letter in the post, and expect a 4-6 week processing time haha.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dexterdog</author><text>It is only required if you also have a 1 click sign up which is not that common.</text></comment> |
7,106,055 | 7,105,929 | 1 | 2 | 7,105,815 | train | <story><title>We recently awarded our biggest bug bounty payout</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/BugBounty/posts/778897822124446?stream_ref=10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>XXE&#x27;s are awful. You wouldn&#x27;t think that simply by parsing an XML file --- something so simple people are tempted to do it with regexes --- you&#x27;d be invoking machinery that translates the XML language and binds it to, in effect, scripting language features. But that&#x27;s what you&#x27;re doing when you use common XML libraries!<p>For applications on mainstream stacks, if you accept XML inputs (explicitly accept them, that is; as in, invoke the XML parser yourself) and haven&#x27;t taken the time to make sure you&#x27;re not expanding entities, the safest bet is to assume that your XML parser has a &quot;let inbound XML run shell commands&quot; feature embedded into it. That&#x27;s an oversimplification, but maybe not much of one.<p>This is a great, subtle finding. And Reginaldo handled it like a pro. Let the feeding frenzy for hiring Reginaldo Silva... commence! :)</text></comment> | <story><title>We recently awarded our biggest bug bounty payout</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/BugBounty/posts/778897822124446?stream_ref=10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reginaldo</author><text>Hi HN, I&#x27;m the one who found the bug. My writeup is at <a href="http://www.ubercomp.com/posts/2014-01-16_facebook_remote_code_execution" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ubercomp.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2014-01-16_facebook_remote_cod...</a>. I&#x27;d be glad to answer any questions. I won&#x27;t disclose the amount for now because I want to know what people think this would be worth, but eventually it will be disclosed. If you run an OpenID-enabled server now it&#x27;s a great time to make sure your implementation is patched.</text></comment> |
7,594,711 | 7,593,035 | 1 | 2 | 7,591,094 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Super Planet Crash</title><url>http://www.stefanom.org/spc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>todayiamme</author><text>I am usually quite resistant to games - even 2048 bounced off of me with little affect - but something about the idea of creating solar systems and playing around with nature&#x27;s laws is deeply appealing and I just spent 15 minutes figuring out how to construct a system which can get as many points as possible without imploding. (hint: large multipliers. Here&#x27;s an initial attempt that I intend to refine once I&#x27;m done with work; <a href="http://www.stefanom.org/spc/?view=2823906" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stefanom.org&#x2F;spc&#x2F;?view=2823906</a> )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stefanom</author><text>Thank you!<p>I should add that the entirety of the code will be published on GitHub, like my other projects (<a href="http://github.com/stefano-meschiari/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stefano-meschiari&#x2F;</a>), so people should feel free to fork, make pull requests, etc.<p>If anyone likes what I do, I will be available soon for freelancing. I have a small portfolio of applications I built here:
<a href="http://www.stefanom.org/devel/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stefanom.org&#x2F;devel&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Super Planet Crash</title><url>http://www.stefanom.org/spc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>todayiamme</author><text>I am usually quite resistant to games - even 2048 bounced off of me with little affect - but something about the idea of creating solar systems and playing around with nature&#x27;s laws is deeply appealing and I just spent 15 minutes figuring out how to construct a system which can get as many points as possible without imploding. (hint: large multipliers. Here&#x27;s an initial attempt that I intend to refine once I&#x27;m done with work; <a href="http://www.stefanom.org/spc/?view=2823906" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stefanom.org&#x2F;spc&#x2F;?view=2823906</a> )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradleysmith</author><text>Got you beat[0] just barely, with only the addition of a dwarf star. The speed multiplier is certainly the key. It also seems your initial planet placement is random, so it&#x27;s getting something that allows use of the dwarf star.<p>[0] - <a href="http://www.stefanom.org/spc/?view=2974678" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stefanom.org&#x2F;spc&#x2F;?view=2974678</a></text></comment> |
15,065,992 | 15,065,650 | 1 | 3 | 15,065,075 | train | <story><title>How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine</title><url>https://blog.sessionstack.com/how-javascript-works-inside-the-v8-engine-5-tips-on-how-to-write-optimized-code-ac089e62b12e</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Veedrac</author><text>&gt; How to write optimized JavaScript<p>This is all sensible advice if you&#x27;re interested in writing fast-enough code, but I do find there&#x27;s a lack of material for people who want to write <i>fast</i> Javascript. Pretty much the only thing I&#x27;ve found is the post by Oz[1], though I really don&#x27;t want to have to compile Chrome.<p>For an example, I have a method in Javascript that does a mix of (integer) arithmetic and typed array accesses; no object creation or other baggage. I want it to go faster, and with effort I managed to speed it up a factor of 5. One of the things that helped was inlining the {data, width, height} fields of an ImageData object; just moving them to locals dropped time by ~40%.<p>Yet after all this effort, mostly based on educated guesses since Chrome&#x27;s tooling doesn&#x27;t expose the underlying JIT code for analysis, the code is still suboptimal. There&#x27;s a pair of `if`s that if I swap their order, that part of the code allocates. How do people deal with these issues? A large fraction of this code is still allocating, and I haven&#x27;t a clue where or why.<p>Perhaps I&#x27;m asking too much from a language without value types (srsly tho, every fast language has value types), but what I want is clearly possible: ASM.js does it! I don&#x27;t <i>really</i> want to handwrite that, though.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.html5rocks.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;performance&#x2F;mystery&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.html5rocks.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;performance&#x2F;mystery&#x2F;</a> (E: This link is actually written from a different perspective than the one I read, but the content is the same.)</text></comment> | <story><title>How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine</title><url>https://blog.sessionstack.com/how-javascript-works-inside-the-v8-engine-5-tips-on-how-to-write-optimized-code-ac089e62b12e</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cm2187</author><text>I was wondering, given that 90% of the javascript in browsers must be standard libraries (jquery, bootstrap &amp; co) wouldn&#x27;t it make sense for google to hash the source code for every published version of these libraries, compile those statically using full optimisation and ship the binaries as part of their updates to the browser, so that you only have to compile the idiosyncratic part of the code?</text></comment> |
29,450,999 | 29,450,896 | 1 | 2 | 29,448,494 | train | <story><title>New EC2 Instance Types of re:Invent 2021</title><url>https://aws-native.com/new-ec2-instance-types-of-reinvent-2021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twoodfin</author><text>I’ve been curious for a while: Has anyone done the envelope math to estimate how much of the Graviton price advantage offered by AWS is a reflection of true price&#x2F;performance vs. AWS taking a short term margin hit to encourage growth of a CPU platform they control?</text></item><item><author>hectormalot</author><text>The specific designation of Intel with the ‘i’ suffix is interesting. I’m surprised how fast this went from “everything is Intel” to “only take intel if you need something like SAP”.<p>I remember the first AMD instances a few years back and the 10% price&#x2F;performance was nice, but at the same time didn’t feel like it would convince enterprise users to switch. Now with Graviton2&amp;3, they’re apparently at 30-40% advantage and any big user would be crazy not to explore moving workloads over.<p>I expect the Intel-AWS negotiations today are _very_ different vs 5 years ago. This new naming is just one of many signals of a further downhill trend to Intel, and it’s likely to gain momentum in the next few years as the experience and ecosystem around ARM grows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>&gt; by AWS is a reflection of true price&#x2F;performance<p>I assume you mean cost &#x2F; performance as in Cost to amazon and not price as in price paid by consumers? Because Graviton is both faster and cheaper per vCPU. ( Amazon unit for a single thread )<p>&gt;AWS taking a short term margin hit<p>It is hard because even if you can reliably extrapolate the cost of Graviton chip by wafer price. You will never know how they put the R&amp;D into accounting. Do you have NRE cost in every single one those chips? ( which is what most people assume but not necessarily true ) Or do you move the whole R&amp;D of Graviton into whole AWS R&amp;D budget? And then you will have to calculate the power usage per workload to work out the power saving which gives you the TCO. Since 30%+ of Operating cost are going to energy usage. Being power efficient is also extremely important at the scale of AWS.<p>All in all I do not believe that Amazon is takin a short term margin hit ( and I dont understand where this narrative came from ), it is cheaper to produce, it uses less energy, and Amazon is pricing it as such, slightly cheaper than Intel and AMD&#x27;s counterpart. Just like they did with the first generation of ARM. Graviton actually being faster per core just happens to be a bonus.<p>One has to remember. Moving to ARM &#x2F; Graviton instances isn&#x27;t free. You have to do your own testing and benchmarks to make sure it is indeed faster for your Apps. And that isn&#x27;t always the case. You also have to make sure every part of your stack compile and works 100% on ARM. It just happens the cost saving is so gigantic lots of companies are spending time to move, which create a positive feedback loop in both open source and proprietary software to move towards ARM.</text></comment> | <story><title>New EC2 Instance Types of re:Invent 2021</title><url>https://aws-native.com/new-ec2-instance-types-of-reinvent-2021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twoodfin</author><text>I’ve been curious for a while: Has anyone done the envelope math to estimate how much of the Graviton price advantage offered by AWS is a reflection of true price&#x2F;performance vs. AWS taking a short term margin hit to encourage growth of a CPU platform they control?</text></item><item><author>hectormalot</author><text>The specific designation of Intel with the ‘i’ suffix is interesting. I’m surprised how fast this went from “everything is Intel” to “only take intel if you need something like SAP”.<p>I remember the first AMD instances a few years back and the 10% price&#x2F;performance was nice, but at the same time didn’t feel like it would convince enterprise users to switch. Now with Graviton2&amp;3, they’re apparently at 30-40% advantage and any big user would be crazy not to explore moving workloads over.<p>I expect the Intel-AWS negotiations today are _very_ different vs 5 years ago. This new naming is just one of many signals of a further downhill trend to Intel, and it’s likely to gain momentum in the next few years as the experience and ecosystem around ARM grows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lizthegrey</author><text>Intel charges a much larger markup per chip than AWS can get from their own silicon + licensing ARM IP; the power consumption of Intel chips is also terrible (it&#x27;s been cited that it&#x27;s 60% lower power consumption for c7g instances compared to c6i instances, for instance, in the latest reinvent talk...) -- and power is what predominates operating cost day to day once the chip is fabbed&#x2F;installed.</text></comment> |
36,958,511 | 36,958,470 | 1 | 2 | 36,954,159 | train | <story><title>IronOS: Open-source soldering iron firmware</title><url>https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Etheryte</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is a good idea at all. This is like saying you should buy lifting shoes, a belt, a pair of gloves and bands before you go to the gym for the first time. Literally any setup that does the job is fine when you&#x27;re just getting into it — you don&#x27;t know what you don&#x27;t know and having a cheap entry point is a good way to figure out if you like it at all, what kind of a workflow works for you, etc.</text></item><item><author>kayson</author><text>If you want to get into soldering, do yourself a favor and invest in a good station, iron, and tips. If you want to de-solder, good quality soldering wick is also really important (I use chemtronics).<p>I was lucky enough to snag an old Metcal from work for free, and it&#x27;s fantastic. The way they work is really cool too: it sends a high power RF signal (i.e. AC voltage) to the coil in the tip. Because of the skin effect and curie point, it will heat up until the point where the coil loses it&#x27;s magnetism, resulting in a self-regulating tip temperature that doesn&#x27;t need a thermo couple! [1] It responds very quickly to thermal loads, too. It&#x27;s an expensive system to be sure, but totally worth it especially if you can find it used. They&#x27;re also great about support even for older units, and you can get the entire schematics online if you need to make any repairs.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metcal.com&#x2F;hand-soldering&#x2F;how-smartheat-technology-works-a-tutorial-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metcal.com&#x2F;hand-soldering&#x2F;how-smartheat-technolo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rex_lupi</author><text>Absolutely. I can personally attest to the fact that $5 soldering iron is good enough for most common (non-smd) jobs. I&#x27;ve seen people do smd soldering with a big chisel tip, even a soldering gun, but it takes training. But I get OP&#x27;s point. It&#x27;s extremely frustrating if not impossible to do the job if the iron is super bad, if the flux or soldrr is bad etc.<p>For a beginner, a soldering station or a high-tech iron is absolutely not necessary. You just need a non-garbage iron, some decent quality lead-rosin solder and a decent amount of flux (cheap rosin would do). Nevertheless, having high-end tools will make things much, much easier and simpler. But at the same time, I believe you&#x27;ll get a great training if you learn things the hard way.</text></comment> | <story><title>IronOS: Open-source soldering iron firmware</title><url>https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Etheryte</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is a good idea at all. This is like saying you should buy lifting shoes, a belt, a pair of gloves and bands before you go to the gym for the first time. Literally any setup that does the job is fine when you&#x27;re just getting into it — you don&#x27;t know what you don&#x27;t know and having a cheap entry point is a good way to figure out if you like it at all, what kind of a workflow works for you, etc.</text></item><item><author>kayson</author><text>If you want to get into soldering, do yourself a favor and invest in a good station, iron, and tips. If you want to de-solder, good quality soldering wick is also really important (I use chemtronics).<p>I was lucky enough to snag an old Metcal from work for free, and it&#x27;s fantastic. The way they work is really cool too: it sends a high power RF signal (i.e. AC voltage) to the coil in the tip. Because of the skin effect and curie point, it will heat up until the point where the coil loses it&#x27;s magnetism, resulting in a self-regulating tip temperature that doesn&#x27;t need a thermo couple! [1] It responds very quickly to thermal loads, too. It&#x27;s an expensive system to be sure, but totally worth it especially if you can find it used. They&#x27;re also great about support even for older units, and you can get the entire schematics online if you need to make any repairs.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metcal.com&#x2F;hand-soldering&#x2F;how-smartheat-technology-works-a-tutorial-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metcal.com&#x2F;hand-soldering&#x2F;how-smartheat-technolo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>15155</author><text>Maybe when you recommend a $20 Saturday night special to a newcomer, they get it, think soldering is hard, and then hate it?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aliexpress.us&#x2F;item&#x2F;3256803576447342.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aliexpress.us&#x2F;item&#x2F;3256803576447342.html</a><p>This blows everything sold at Microcenter or at this price point out of the water - ~$100 is a pretty cheap entrypoint compared to the FX888 that has been touted for decades.<p>&#x2F;Metcal owner</text></comment> |
39,520,136 | 39,520,094 | 1 | 2 | 39,517,760 | train | <story><title>Wax: The Word Processor for the Web</title><url>https://waxjs.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lewisjoe</author><text>I see this is built on top of the amazing Prosemirror richtext toolkit. I&#x27;m a huge fan of Prosemirror&#x27;s architecture which powers extremely customizable editors like this one.<p>But to call this component a word-processor - is a bit overkill. Why? To call an editor a word-processor it should support pagination &amp; page layouts - as in Google Docs &amp; Zoho Writer. Given the limited graphics capabilties of DOM, it is near impossible to build a paginated editor on top of the DOM.<p>Both Gdocs and Zoho Writer, do a tremendous amount of plumbing and keeps rendering logic out of browser&#x27;s control to achieve a proper word processing experience on the web. Something like that can never be built upon contenteditable augumented frameworks like Prosemirror.<p>There are other players in this category that are building extensible editors without pagination - like Tiptap, Froala, CKEditor, etc. Except CKeditor, every other project is built on top of Prosemirror too!</text></comment> | <story><title>Wax: The Word Processor for the Web</title><url>https://waxjs.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>imiric</author><text>Seems interesting, we definitely need more advanced open source editors.<p>However, this gives off very unpolished vibes.<p>The demo renders poorly on mobile, with the textarea on the first page squished horizontally. The &quot;Basic Editors&quot; demo has the opposite problem, and there is horizontal scrolling with elements out of view. It&#x27;s not clear if this is a fault of wax.js or of the demo page, but it&#x27;s a bad first impression.<p>There is also a typo on the Features page:<p>&gt; Select text and add a comment or particpate [...]</text></comment> |
37,013,210 | 37,013,355 | 1 | 2 | 37,012,347 | train | <story><title>The Dome: A simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics (2005)</title><url>https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Dome/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kergonath</author><text>It’s frustrating as the text does not go anywhere near demonstrating any “simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics”. The core issue of the discussion linked in the story is that there are mathematical solutions to Newton’s second law that are inconsistent with other bits of classical physics (in this case that a particle at rest in a given Galilean frame of reference cannot just start moving without something else applying some force to it). That is entirely true, interesting, and there is nothing wrong with this.<p>What this does not tell us is how it somehow violates any kind of determinism.<p>&gt; Then there are many solutions of Newton’s law F = ma. In one the ball remains at rest on top of the dome. But in others, it starts to roll down the dome in some arbitrary direction! Moreover it can start rolling at any time.<p>That is just not going to happen in (classical) reality, though. Because once you properly set the initial state of the ball (force=velocity=0, or any other values), then the solution becomes unique and that’s it, there is one possible trajectory. The ball starting to move without anything acting on it would violate other principles of classical mechanics. It’s not going to happen regardless of whether that trajectory is consistent with Newton’s second law.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Dome: A simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics (2005)</title><url>https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Dome/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tylerneylon</author><text>The article is pointing out that, if we think of Newtonian mechanics as a set of math equations, then there exist simple systems in which the future of the system has multiple equally-valid solutions to those equations.<p>Mathematically, it’s possible to have a differential equation with an initial condition, and still have multiple different solutions. That’s what the author creates as well.<p>I don’t think this article is about continuous vs discrete physics, as some commenters suggest - nor about reality at all (not directly). Rather, this is pointing out a surprising property of the model of Newtonian mechanics.</text></comment> |
13,781,945 | 13,780,225 | 1 | 2 | 13,779,165 | train | <story><title>Jennifer Widom Named Dean of Stanford School of Engineering</title><url>http://news.stanford.edu/2017/02/27/computer-scientist-jennifer-widom-named-dean-stanford-school-engineering/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orsenthil</author><text>She is a wonderful teacher. When the very first MOOCs were introduced, I took AI taught by Sebastian Thrun, Peter Norvig and Databases taught by Jennifer Widom. I could contrast the teaching style of these experts. Jennifer Widom is approachable, methodical, breaks down complex topics into easily manageable chunks and pushes you hard with attainable goals. The other two geniuses (Norvig and Thrun) will present something that you will have struggle (with frustrations because denial isn&#x27;t an option with them) to get it. I loved her way of teaching and I am glad she taking on responsible roles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>denzil_correa</author><text>In these sets of MOOCs, there was also Machine Learning taught by Andrew Ng and I had your same Widom like experience with Andrew Ng. After taking so many courses in life - physically and remotely - I can safely say that Andrew Ng is the best teacher I&#x27;ve come across. The best part was how we actually gave insights in Machine Learning rather than leaving it like something esoteric. It changed my perspective and added a lot of value to my professional career.<p>Recently, I tried to take the Neural Networks from Jeff Hinton and I realized how much I missed Ng&#x27;s lectures.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jennifer Widom Named Dean of Stanford School of Engineering</title><url>http://news.stanford.edu/2017/02/27/computer-scientist-jennifer-widom-named-dean-stanford-school-engineering/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orsenthil</author><text>She is a wonderful teacher. When the very first MOOCs were introduced, I took AI taught by Sebastian Thrun, Peter Norvig and Databases taught by Jennifer Widom. I could contrast the teaching style of these experts. Jennifer Widom is approachable, methodical, breaks down complex topics into easily manageable chunks and pushes you hard with attainable goals. The other two geniuses (Norvig and Thrun) will present something that you will have struggle (with frustrations because denial isn&#x27;t an option with them) to get it. I loved her way of teaching and I am glad she taking on responsible roles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rz2k</author><text>I agree with you about the exceptional quality of that course. I did not take the other two earliest large online courses, but I have taken few dozen since then. Compared to MOOCs at different schools, I found her teaching style more similar to those offered by instructors at MIT than those offered by instructors at Stanford.<p>I think your description is right, too. Methodical and easily manageable without a loss in rigor.</text></comment> |
17,735,695 | 17,735,899 | 1 | 2 | 17,734,877 | train | <story><title>You Cannot Serve Two Masters: The Harms of Dual Affiliation</title><url>http://www.argmin.net/2018/08/09/co-employment/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wanderfowl</author><text>Just a quick note: &#x27;Dual Affiliation&#x27; is being used here differently than in most academic contexts, so the headline&#x27;s a bit odd.<p>Normally, it means having a joint appointment in two academic departments (e.g. Linguistics and Cognitive Science at State U, or in the Department of Linguistics at State U, with an appointment at the Head-and-Neck surgery program at the local med school). This is a well-known and common practice, and although it can be tricky (particularly with even splits, where there&#x27;s not one true home), it&#x27;s not a &#x27;harmful&#x27; thing.<p>As the author explains in the article per se, he&#x27;s talking about an industry&#x2F;academic split. This is <i>much</i> harder, for the reasons he&#x27;s outlined, and as an academic, I too am skeptical. It could be a nice idea in moderation, and it&#x27;d be great to have more bridges between Academia and industry, particularly given the brutality of the Academic Job Market.<p>But I can easily see that a professional administrator somewhere deciding that it&#x27;s cheaper to stock departments with 20% appointees than to actually hire career professors and educators. And as any adjunct-heavy institution will tell you, a department full of moonlighters is no place to make a life. Perhaps more damning, 20% of anybody&#x27;s life isn&#x27;t enough to support all but the weakest of teaching, even for a single course, so over-reliance on this will just further damage the instructional core of universities.<p>So, one or two in a department could be nice, but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a great model for the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>You Cannot Serve Two Masters: The Harms of Dual Affiliation</title><url>http://www.argmin.net/2018/08/09/co-employment/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bvc35</author><text>The bulk of academic work is chasing grants, not &quot;curiosity driven research&quot;. If universities want professors not to leave in droves to tech companies that will consistently give them funding and cut away the bullshit that eats up the majority of a professor&#x27;s time, they should try competing, rather than bemoaning that professors are no longer following the sacred path of academic asceticism.</text></comment> |
21,777,677 | 21,777,724 | 1 | 2 | 21,777,401 | train | <story><title>Httpserver.h: Single header library for writing non-blocking HTTP servers in C</title><url>https://github.com/jeremycw/httpserver.h</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>Question: I thought any given C code could go in either headers or c files (or rather, split between headers and c files), and that the difference was only a build concern. So why wouldn&#x27;t a given library be available in both forms, unless one of them just makes no sense at all? Put differently: why isn&#x27;t this just &quot;Minimal library for writing non-blocking HTTP servers in C&quot; which people understand to mean &quot;this might make sense to put in a header&quot;?</text></comment> | <story><title>Httpserver.h: Single header library for writing non-blocking HTTP servers in C</title><url>https://github.com/jeremycw/httpserver.h</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maxk42</author><text>h2o [1] is a web server and C library that not only supports http 1 &amp; 2, but also usually tops the TechEmpower benchmarks [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;h2o&#x2F;h2o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;h2o&#x2F;h2o</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
6,928,406 | 6,928,232 | 1 | 3 | 6,927,905 | train | <story><title>RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis</title><url>http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wrongc0ntinent</author><text>The single coolest thing in the paper (other than Shamir&#x27;s name): &quot;On many laptops (e.g., most Lenovo ThinkPad models), the chassis potential can be easily reached by a
human hand, through metal connectors and conductive coating on metal surfaces. Thus, an attacker can
measure the chassis potential by merely touching the laptop chassis with his hand. Surreptitiously,
the attacker can simultaneously measure his own body potential relative to the room’s ground potential,
e.g., by having a concealed differential probe touching both his body and some nearby conductive
grounded surface in the room. Perhaps surprisingly, even this circuitous measurement offers sufficient
signal-to-noise ratio for the key extraction attack.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis</title><url>http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>r0muald</author><text>Important stuff:<p>&gt; Q9 How vulnerable is GnuPG now?
We have disclosed our attack to GnuPG developers under CVE-2013-4576, suggested suitable countermeasures, and worked with the developers to test them. New versions of GnuPG 1.x and of libgcrypt (which underlies GnuPG 2.x), containing these countermeasures and resisting our current key-extraction attack, were released concurrently with the first public posting of these results. Some of the effects we found (including RSA key distinguishability) remain present.</text></comment> |
20,690,158 | 20,690,192 | 1 | 2 | 20,689,050 | train | <story><title>China Is Waging a Disinformation War Against Hong Kong Protesters</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-china.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jammygit</author><text>I wonder if there was a way to help the protestors. They have shown amazing resolve and discipline so far</text></comment> | <story><title>China Is Waging a Disinformation War Against Hong Kong Protesters</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-china.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text>&quot;Just send a few tanks over to clean them up.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s ironic that this was written by someone whose government has made it illegal for him to learn what happened the last time his government cleaned up some protestors with tanks.</text></comment> |
38,660,103 | 38,655,898 | 1 | 3 | 38,652,892 | train | <story><title>The emergence of full-body Gaussian Splat deepfake humans</title><url>https://blog.metaphysic.ai/the-emergence-of-full-body-gaussian-splat-deepfake-humans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>People will have to learn that nothing can be believed no matter the medium unless there is a verifiable chain of custody to the information.<p>This is the way it always was back when our primary means of communication was verbal and hand written. Everyone knew anyone could lie. We then had this bizarre period of time when you had certain types of media, especially photographs and video, that were extremely hard to fake convincingly. That period is now over and we have returned to the norm: you can&#x27;t believe it unless the provenance of the information is known and the chain of custody is trustworthy.<p>This needs to be drilled into people starting in elementary school.</text></item><item><author>dzink</author><text>Political deep faking may be seen during elections, but imagine if someone faked corporate executives acting poorly to subvert&#x2F;short stock prices. The sky is the limit on abuse.</text></item><item><author>hugh-avherald</author><text>I had a friend who worked in the Treasury Department and got access to government decisions and statistics releases before the general public did. He and his team would often make paper trades to try to guess the effect of these decisions. They were surprised how often they lost money.<p>I suspect in the upcoming election, deepfaking the candidates doing something out-of-character would have a similar surprising effect.</text></item><item><author>andyjohnson0</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m sure the primary use case of this technology is in film. (e.g. Disney populating background extras)<p>If the recent history of tech is anything to go by, the most popular in-practice use case will be porn. All it will need is a corpus of training data: which it&#x27;s safe to assume already exists.<p>After that, deepfaking $WorldLeader$ doing something embarrassing is probably #2 or #3. Just in time for the US elections...</text></item><item><author>elif</author><text>I&#x27;m sure the primary use case of this technology is in film. (e.g. Disney populating background extras)<p>But I would LOVE to see this transformed into a game engine&#x2F;game dev IDE. Imagine if anyone with a smartphone could create photorealistic character models in under a minute. Hell, players could even provide themselves as character models ad-hoc without involving any devs.<p>It would be a renaissance moment for game development speed and accessibility, and make things like &#x27;asset store games&#x27; irrelevant.<p>Imagine an LLM built to understand a base game engine template code, and also able to perform gaussian splat transformation on frames of input video.<p>It also seems like it could be the missing link for AR&#x2F;VR crossing the uncanny valley.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skissane</author><text>&gt; This is the way it always was back when our primary means of communication was verbal and hand written. Everyone knew anyone could lie. We then had this bizarre period of time when you had certain types of media, especially photographs and video, that were extremely hard to fake convincingly. That period is now over and we have returned to the norm: you can&#x27;t believe it unless the provenance of the information is known and the chain of custody is trustworthy.<p>Which will result in different groups of people living in different realities - if what evidence you accept comes down to whom you trust as reliable, different societies (or sections thereof) will choose to trust different people<p>Which in itself is maybe a return to the historical norm - the truth of Catholicism was obvious to all in 12th century Rome, while the truth of Islam was equally obvious in 12th century Mecca</text></comment> | <story><title>The emergence of full-body Gaussian Splat deepfake humans</title><url>https://blog.metaphysic.ai/the-emergence-of-full-body-gaussian-splat-deepfake-humans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>People will have to learn that nothing can be believed no matter the medium unless there is a verifiable chain of custody to the information.<p>This is the way it always was back when our primary means of communication was verbal and hand written. Everyone knew anyone could lie. We then had this bizarre period of time when you had certain types of media, especially photographs and video, that were extremely hard to fake convincingly. That period is now over and we have returned to the norm: you can&#x27;t believe it unless the provenance of the information is known and the chain of custody is trustworthy.<p>This needs to be drilled into people starting in elementary school.</text></item><item><author>dzink</author><text>Political deep faking may be seen during elections, but imagine if someone faked corporate executives acting poorly to subvert&#x2F;short stock prices. The sky is the limit on abuse.</text></item><item><author>hugh-avherald</author><text>I had a friend who worked in the Treasury Department and got access to government decisions and statistics releases before the general public did. He and his team would often make paper trades to try to guess the effect of these decisions. They were surprised how often they lost money.<p>I suspect in the upcoming election, deepfaking the candidates doing something out-of-character would have a similar surprising effect.</text></item><item><author>andyjohnson0</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m sure the primary use case of this technology is in film. (e.g. Disney populating background extras)<p>If the recent history of tech is anything to go by, the most popular in-practice use case will be porn. All it will need is a corpus of training data: which it&#x27;s safe to assume already exists.<p>After that, deepfaking $WorldLeader$ doing something embarrassing is probably #2 or #3. Just in time for the US elections...</text></item><item><author>elif</author><text>I&#x27;m sure the primary use case of this technology is in film. (e.g. Disney populating background extras)<p>But I would LOVE to see this transformed into a game engine&#x2F;game dev IDE. Imagine if anyone with a smartphone could create photorealistic character models in under a minute. Hell, players could even provide themselves as character models ad-hoc without involving any devs.<p>It would be a renaissance moment for game development speed and accessibility, and make things like &#x27;asset store games&#x27; irrelevant.<p>Imagine an LLM built to understand a base game engine template code, and also able to perform gaussian splat transformation on frames of input video.<p>It also seems like it could be the missing link for AR&#x2F;VR crossing the uncanny valley.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tivert</author><text>&gt; People will have to learn that nothing can be believed no matter the medium unless there is a verifiable chain of custody to the information.<p>How are &quot;people&quot; <i>actually</i> supposed to know there&#x27;s &quot;a verifiable chain of custody to the information&quot;?<p>I think this case is instructive to the workability of that idea: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Killian_documents_controversy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Killian_documents_controversy</a>. A major news organization was fooled by a forged document <i>that was later identified as such by amateurs</i>. How is any organization supposed to have &quot;a verifiable chain of custody to the information&quot; for leaked information? That&#x27;s the avenue for a lot of important information, and without it you&#x27;ll just have a lot more reporting on press releases.</text></comment> |
35,626,038 | 35,626,220 | 1 | 2 | 35,611,925 | train | <story><title>What it's like to go blind (2015)</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2015/4/10/8365853/blind-vision-loss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UnknownBanana</author><text>Definitely not as bad as the author, but slowly losing quality of vision is a nightmare for me. I&#x27;m very sensitive to any kind of changes and ~4 years ago my eyesight began to rapidly decline. It&#x27;s still in very low numbers, but it already affected the comfort of how I live. Without glasses everything is blurry and gives me nausea, with glasses I can see, but it&#x27;s not the same as having perfect vision. Myopia + Presbyopia, 30yo. It&#x27;s been ~8 months since last prescription and I already need it updated. Every morning putting on glasses make my eyes hurt for first half hour or so, getting used to &quot;focusing distance&quot; readjustment still. Some days eyes simply feel tired and refuse to focus, yet after doing all the tests, nothing extraordinary was found about my eye issues...<p>Sigh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pushswap</author><text>I had an eye doctor assure me that my discomfort with my new glasses was normal and that I&#x27;d just have to get used to it. After several months of nausea and discomfort, I finally went to a new eye doctor that fixed the problem immediately with a different frame and fit. It turned out that the prescription was correct, but the fit was wrong.<p>Before accepting daily discomfort and nausea as a new norm, you may want to try having more than one eye doctor look at it, if you haven&#x27;t already, for alternate opinions for tests and on all the parameters of fit. There&#x27;s alot that goes into getting your vision corrected and a few tiny adjustments off can end up causing persistent nausea and discomfort similar to what you are describing.</text></comment> | <story><title>What it's like to go blind (2015)</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2015/4/10/8365853/blind-vision-loss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UnknownBanana</author><text>Definitely not as bad as the author, but slowly losing quality of vision is a nightmare for me. I&#x27;m very sensitive to any kind of changes and ~4 years ago my eyesight began to rapidly decline. It&#x27;s still in very low numbers, but it already affected the comfort of how I live. Without glasses everything is blurry and gives me nausea, with glasses I can see, but it&#x27;s not the same as having perfect vision. Myopia + Presbyopia, 30yo. It&#x27;s been ~8 months since last prescription and I already need it updated. Every morning putting on glasses make my eyes hurt for first half hour or so, getting used to &quot;focusing distance&quot; readjustment still. Some days eyes simply feel tired and refuse to focus, yet after doing all the tests, nothing extraordinary was found about my eye issues...<p>Sigh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryba1967</author><text>I would expect doctors to check your retina too. It doesn&#x27;t sound right. There are incurable diagnoses, but there should be one.</text></comment> |
10,834,855 | 10,833,121 | 1 | 2 | 10,831,940 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What are you currently building?</title><text>During my christmas break I started building an automatic investment system.<p>What did you start?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>charlieirish</author><text>I&#x27;ve been having fun the last few months by creating and launching! The latest of which seems to have struck a chord: MailScope<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mailscope.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mailscope.io</a> adds profile data to your existing mailing list. Why? Well, if you don&#x27;t ask for firstname and lastname on signup, you&#x27;ll get increased conversion. But if you then want to get increased open and click rates when you actually send email, you should start personalizing (one way is to use firstnames in the body) and segmenting. That&#x27;s where MailScope comes in. Each new subscriber you get, MailScope will automatically add firstname, lastname (and other profile data).<p>It&#x27;s just the start and I&#x27;ve been having great fun expanding the possibilities - alerting you when an &#x27;influencer&#x27; signs up so that you can reach out directly; auto-following subscribers on twitter when they signup. I&#x27;ve already got a dozen or so paying customers who use MailScope to enrich their mailing lists and increase their revenues. It&#x27;s awesome to have learnt so much here on HN and finally be able to start offering something of real value back to business owners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BjoernKW</author><text>Interesting product. Good luck.<p>I had similar ideas about automatically enriching subscriber &#x2F; profiler data but ended up not following them any further because behaviour like this is slightly creepy and might put subscribers off.<p>From your experience how do you alleviate such concerns? Is there a target audience? For instance, people subscribing to industry newsletters professionally might be less privacy-minded than say people interested in information technology subjects.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What are you currently building?</title><text>During my christmas break I started building an automatic investment system.<p>What did you start?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>charlieirish</author><text>I&#x27;ve been having fun the last few months by creating and launching! The latest of which seems to have struck a chord: MailScope<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mailscope.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mailscope.io</a> adds profile data to your existing mailing list. Why? Well, if you don&#x27;t ask for firstname and lastname on signup, you&#x27;ll get increased conversion. But if you then want to get increased open and click rates when you actually send email, you should start personalizing (one way is to use firstnames in the body) and segmenting. That&#x27;s where MailScope comes in. Each new subscriber you get, MailScope will automatically add firstname, lastname (and other profile data).<p>It&#x27;s just the start and I&#x27;ve been having great fun expanding the possibilities - alerting you when an &#x27;influencer&#x27; signs up so that you can reach out directly; auto-following subscribers on twitter when they signup. I&#x27;ve already got a dozen or so paying customers who use MailScope to enrich their mailing lists and increase their revenues. It&#x27;s awesome to have learnt so much here on HN and finally be able to start offering something of real value back to business owners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arrmn</author><text>Interesting idea how do you get the names? My initial idea would be to crawl some social networks for the name.</text></comment> |
13,021,742 | 13,021,791 | 1 | 2 | 13,020,601 | train | <story><title>Microsoft and Linux and Patents and Tweets</title><url>https://meshedinsights.com/2016/11/22/microsoft-linux-patents-tweets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simula67</author><text>This suggestion is a good one, but I have a better proposal.<p>The problem here is that Microsoft is free to cherry pick the best innovation that is coming out of the open source community while the reverse not being true. If Linux reinvents some feature already published by Windows, Linux vendors could get sued for patent infringement and have to settle with hefty license fees. Windows, on the other hand can and do copy improvements coming out of Linux community. See for example : containers.<p>For people to use a piece of technology, it should provide something that no other piece of technology provides. Linux community can patent serious improvements and give a world-wide license to anyone who wants to publish an open source version of the technology. Microsoft gets locked out ( totally fair, since the reverse is already true ), and Linux has a killer feature worth switching for.<p>If Microsoft wants to implement the feature, they can license it from Linux foundation. Linux foundation can redistribute this money back to corporations which paid license fee to Microsoft. Or they can put that money into Core Infrastructure Initiative</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft and Linux and Patents and Tweets</title><url>https://meshedinsights.com/2016/11/22/microsoft-linux-patents-tweets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>All the rest of the post seems good, except this: <i>A trade association should not permit its members to fight among themselves.</i><p>Surely a trade association which prevents &quot;fighting&quot; between its members is a cartel? Whatever you think about software patents, MSFT is not doing anything illegal. The real problem is (yet again) the existence of overbroad, non-specific, long-duration software patents.</text></comment> |
18,588,533 | 18,586,862 | 1 | 2 | 18,586,289 | train | <story><title>UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released</title><url>https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.17.4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WeAreGoingIn</author><text>The first plugin I install on a freshly installed system with Firefox is uBO. After that I harden the browser by changing stuff in about:config.<p>Chrome has never been an option for us with privacy in focus.<p>The guys behind uBO should get some price or something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ctnb</author><text>I don&#x27;t see anyone mentioning the ability to store about:config settings in a user.js file.<p>Unless you have some reason not to use it, it&#x27;s much easier than changing about:config on each computer, you just copy over the user.js file.<p>Here&#x27;s a hardened option (no affiliation): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pyllyukko&#x2F;user.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pyllyukko&#x2F;user.js</a><p>And a relaxed version: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pyllyukko&#x2F;user.js&#x2F;tree&#x2F;relaxed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pyllyukko&#x2F;user.js&#x2F;tree&#x2F;relaxed</a></text></comment> | <story><title>UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released</title><url>https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.17.4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WeAreGoingIn</author><text>The first plugin I install on a freshly installed system with Firefox is uBO. After that I harden the browser by changing stuff in about:config.<p>Chrome has never been an option for us with privacy in focus.<p>The guys behind uBO should get some price or something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edoceo</author><text>You can (and should) give them money if you find value. Do it, feels good.</text></comment> |
29,388,294 | 29,384,193 | 1 | 3 | 29,382,006 | train | <story><title>Free public domain audiobooks</title><url>https://librivox.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JZL003</author><text>For a technical audience, I would look at some TTS (text to speech) programs especially by google and IBM.<p>It&#x27;s definitely robotic and nothing like a nice narrator but audiobooks are amazing regardless. And your mind actually starts filling in the emotional blanks. It can also be really cool to use like internet archive&#x27;s scanned book&#x27;s OCR -&gt; TTS and make an audiobook from a cool old book that would never be professionally narrated<p>And for anyone who listens to a lot of audio, I&#x27;d look into using an audio equalizer. Pulling down the high frequencies (especially for some woman narrators) makes it more comfortable after many hours of listening. On android the &quot;Smart audiobook&quot; app has this and it&#x27;s really nice. Maybe some headphones&#x2F;android phones can do this globally</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Eelongate</author><text>&gt; <i>And your mind actually starts filling in the emotional blanks.</i><p>I&#x27;ve listened to numerous books (mostly but not exclusively fiction) using TTS and I&#x27;d like to confirm this experience. It&#x27;s kind of remarkable, once I became accustomed to the sound of the TTS program the weirdness just sort of evaporated and I was left with an experience that feels very similar to reading visually.</text></comment> | <story><title>Free public domain audiobooks</title><url>https://librivox.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JZL003</author><text>For a technical audience, I would look at some TTS (text to speech) programs especially by google and IBM.<p>It&#x27;s definitely robotic and nothing like a nice narrator but audiobooks are amazing regardless. And your mind actually starts filling in the emotional blanks. It can also be really cool to use like internet archive&#x27;s scanned book&#x27;s OCR -&gt; TTS and make an audiobook from a cool old book that would never be professionally narrated<p>And for anyone who listens to a lot of audio, I&#x27;d look into using an audio equalizer. Pulling down the high frequencies (especially for some woman narrators) makes it more comfortable after many hours of listening. On android the &quot;Smart audiobook&quot; app has this and it&#x27;s really nice. Maybe some headphones&#x2F;android phones can do this globally</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Simorgh</author><text>I&#x27;ve been playing around with the IBM TTS for audiozing research papers. I think that research should be more accessible and I think that the audioform is the way forward.<p>The comprehension of powerful ideas should be easy, effortless and intuitive. Listening to content has the double benefit of ensuring that talking about complex subjects is all the more familiar. If you&#x27;ve been introduced to a topic through speech, talking about it is all the more natural.</text></comment> |
41,697,335 | 41,696,724 | 1 | 3 | 41,696,434 | train | <story><title>New research on anesthesia and microtubules gives new clues about consciousness</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240905120923.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>n4r9</author><text>This looks like it&#x27;s related to the &quot;Orchestrated objective reduction&quot; theory of consciousness [0], which is a brainchild of physicist Roger Penrose and an anesthesiologist named Stuart Hameroff. After 30 years it continues to have very serious problems and is generally rejected by physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and philosophers.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Orchestrated_objective_reduction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Orchestrated_objective_reducti...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>Rejected by other experts who also have no idea how to explain consciousness.</text></comment> | <story><title>New research on anesthesia and microtubules gives new clues about consciousness</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240905120923.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>n4r9</author><text>This looks like it&#x27;s related to the &quot;Orchestrated objective reduction&quot; theory of consciousness [0], which is a brainchild of physicist Roger Penrose and an anesthesiologist named Stuart Hameroff. After 30 years it continues to have very serious problems and is generally rejected by physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and philosophers.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Orchestrated_objective_reduction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Orchestrated_objective_reducti...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulHoule</author><text>If it wasn&#x27;t too old to be the case I&#x27;d think that article was just A.I. Slop or charitably something like technobabble from the Sternbach and Okuda era of <i>Star Trek</i>. &quot;I can do math because I&#x27;m a thetan&quot; shows that emotionally true stories can beat out factually true stories in science as well as politics.</text></comment> |
27,384,746 | 27,384,872 | 1 | 2 | 27,383,847 | train | <story><title>NFT sales plummet nearly 90% from their peak as collectibles market cools</title><url>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/nft-sales-plummet-nearly-90-25-from-their-peak-as-collectibles-market-cools/ar-AAKFw68</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chime</author><text>As someone who doesn&#x27;t collect anything, NFT for collectibles doesn&#x27;t interest me personally. But I still think NFTs have a future as digitally signed proof of ownership of media assets.<p>Long ago, back in my web designer days, I bought a CD from CompUSA full of clip arts and stock photos and used them on my clients&#x27; websites. I moved on to web development and out of nowhere 5 years later I got a panicked call from an old client who said Getty is threatening to sue them for using copyrighted images on the website I made for them. Try as I might, I could not convince either my ex-client or Getty reps that I legally (and most likely naively) bought a stock photo CD but did not have that in my possession any longer. Cost me a month&#x27;s rent out of pocket to get the matter resolved as I did not have the resources to fight either of them.<p>I can imagine a (non-physical-media) future where all commercial stock media is signed upon download, with the NFT signature embedded in the file itself like EXIF data. Editors can be made to respect the source file NFTs and include them in the exported files. YouTube could easily identify the NFT for the audio track you used in your video and if you had licensed it legally, it would not even run the fingerprint algo on it. Now it doesn&#x27;t matter if the original seller or vendor goes out of business. The history is in the blockchain forever (or as long as the license permits).<p>I&#x27;m not saying I support going all NFT for ownership&#x2F;copyright. I&#x27;m saying I can imagine it happening as a valid use-case for NFT&#x2F;blockchain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danudey</author><text>For what it&#x27;s worth, there&#x27;s no way you can force every image manipulation tool and library to respect the NFTs, and the NFT can&#x27;t necessarily point to a specific item itself (since the location it points to could move), so there&#x27;s no permanent effective way to actually make those two connect.<p>As far as I can tell, the only thing that NFTs might be useful for is uniquely identifiable assets whose unique identification can be embedded in the NFT itself; for example, a car&#x27;s VIN number or a property&#x27;s address or lot number. Unfortunately, we already have much more effective and well-regulated systems to handle both of those situations, and I&#x27;m at a loss for any circumstance in which an NFT would be better and also guaranteed effective.</text></comment> | <story><title>NFT sales plummet nearly 90% from their peak as collectibles market cools</title><url>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/nft-sales-plummet-nearly-90-25-from-their-peak-as-collectibles-market-cools/ar-AAKFw68</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chime</author><text>As someone who doesn&#x27;t collect anything, NFT for collectibles doesn&#x27;t interest me personally. But I still think NFTs have a future as digitally signed proof of ownership of media assets.<p>Long ago, back in my web designer days, I bought a CD from CompUSA full of clip arts and stock photos and used them on my clients&#x27; websites. I moved on to web development and out of nowhere 5 years later I got a panicked call from an old client who said Getty is threatening to sue them for using copyrighted images on the website I made for them. Try as I might, I could not convince either my ex-client or Getty reps that I legally (and most likely naively) bought a stock photo CD but did not have that in my possession any longer. Cost me a month&#x27;s rent out of pocket to get the matter resolved as I did not have the resources to fight either of them.<p>I can imagine a (non-physical-media) future where all commercial stock media is signed upon download, with the NFT signature embedded in the file itself like EXIF data. Editors can be made to respect the source file NFTs and include them in the exported files. YouTube could easily identify the NFT for the audio track you used in your video and if you had licensed it legally, it would not even run the fingerprint algo on it. Now it doesn&#x27;t matter if the original seller or vendor goes out of business. The history is in the blockchain forever (or as long as the license permits).<p>I&#x27;m not saying I support going all NFT for ownership&#x2F;copyright. I&#x27;m saying I can imagine it happening as a valid use-case for NFT&#x2F;blockchain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lottin</author><text>&gt; But I still think NFTs have a future as digitally signed proof of ownership of media assets.<p>NFTs are not proof of ownership, because anyone can create an NFT of anything. I can create an NFT of my neighbour&#x27;s car.</text></comment> |
13,769,464 | 13,769,157 | 1 | 3 | 13,768,066 | train | <story><title>Dodging S3 Downtime with Nginx and HAProxy</title><url>https://blog.sentry.io/2017/03/01/dodging-s3-downtime-with-nginx-and-haproxy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newobj</author><text>Alternate title: &quot;Replacing S3 downtime for vastly greater amounts of your own downtime&quot;<p>What is the name for this phenomenon where folks think they can out-available a thing that has multiple engineers singularly dedicated to nothing more than its availability &#x2F;and&#x2F; operation? It it just hubris? Surely there must be a more clinical name.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sanddancer</author><text>Caching proxies are old hat. Things like squid have existed pretty much the entire lifespan of the web. Keeping things close to your servers means you don&#x27;t have the inherent delay of pulling things from a remote server, regardless of how fast amazon makes things.<p>Additionally, not keeping all your eggs in Amazon&#x27;s basket means you&#x27;re not SOL when they have a datacenter hosting all your content go down. It also means that if and when a service that better fits your needs comes along, you are more readily able to migrate without problems.<p>Finally, site reliability is not something that takes a team the size of Amazon&#x27;s. A lot of the things that are required for availability on AWS -- redundant systems providing services, standbys, etc -- are things that sysadmins were doing before AWS was extant. AWS&#x27; biggest gift to reliability is that its instances are less stable than most dedicated servers; you&#x27;re taught from day one not to rely on a single server, so you build it right the first time.<p>So no, it&#x27;s not hubris. It&#x27;s calculating price&#x2F;performance, it&#x27;s applying things you&#x27;re probably already doing to a new problem, and figuring out what the best solution really is, which rarely involves just throwing money at Amazon.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dodging S3 Downtime with Nginx and HAProxy</title><url>https://blog.sentry.io/2017/03/01/dodging-s3-downtime-with-nginx-and-haproxy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newobj</author><text>Alternate title: &quot;Replacing S3 downtime for vastly greater amounts of your own downtime&quot;<p>What is the name for this phenomenon where folks think they can out-available a thing that has multiple engineers singularly dedicated to nothing more than its availability &#x2F;and&#x2F; operation? It it just hubris? Surely there must be a more clinical name.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Klathmon</author><text>I don&#x27;t necessarily agree with it, but the common response to this is all about timing.<p>With AWS you don&#x27;t have any control over &quot;higher risk&quot; times. If you have a massive launch coming up, or you are nearing peak usage for the year, or your clients need you to be stable for the next few months, you can&#x27;t put updates on hold, you don&#x27;t know to get a few more people on standby, you can&#x27;t choose to not make changes to your system, because it&#x27;s not your system.<p>With an in house solution you can choose to lock it down for a month, or do the risky upgrades&#x2F;changes at your lowest traffic time, or even give your customers a heads up if needed. Hell even just being able to mak e sure that your best sysadmin isn&#x27;t out getting hammered when you go to make changes could go a long way.<p>There is some merit to that idea, but I personally feel the track record of many of these services is so near perfect that the chances of unexpected downtime is still smaller than most could realistically manage.</text></comment> |
30,931,604 | 30,928,475 | 1 | 2 | 30,925,459 | train | <story><title>40% of California's small businesses died in the last two years</title><url>https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1511454374165291009</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eigenrick</author><text>&gt; The fact of the matter is most small businesses are crap businesses.<p>&gt; They also abuse their workers in ways big business can&#x27;t get away with, both illegally and legally.<p>Really? You know this to be a fact?<p>It appears that the only thing you know about small business comes from what you read on &#x2F;r&#x2F;antiwork<p>The fact of the matter is that 47% of Americans are employed by small businesses. That percentage keeps dropping, not because the owners are assholes, but because mega corporations keep getting larger and more monopolistic.<p>Most small businesses run on razor thin margins because they don&#x27;t have the economies of scale that the larger corps enjoy.<p>My friend owns a cidery. The cost of his raw materials (juice concentrate and sugar) have gone up over 300% in the last 18 months, thanks to supply chain issues and worker shortages due to Covid. The prices are due to get even worse this year.<p>His total burdened cost for a case of goods has gone up 170%.
But he can&#x27;t just mark his stuff up 170% now can he? He has to settle for a 10% bump in price and hope his distributors don&#x27;t freak out.<p>BTW, he has 8 employees and pays health insurance. Afaik, he didn&#x27;t suffer any employee churn during Covid, cause he&#x27;s not an asshole.<p>In most sectors except for maybe fast food, small businesses have suffered not from employee churn, but from the Covid policies over the last two years combined with ridiculous price increases.</text></item><item><author>xxpor</author><text>Except this is the opposite of the actual problem. There&#x27;s plenty of cash floating around right now: it&#x27;s why inflation is high. We&#x27;re finally hitting real supply limits. It&#x27;s the hottest job market in most people&#x27;s lifetimes.<p>The fact of the matter is most small businesses are crap businesses. They also abuse their workers in ways big business can&#x27;t get away with, both illegally and legally. If you work for an employer with &lt;30 employees and they don&#x27;t provide health insurance, why would you stick around right now?</text></item><item><author>russdpale</author><text>Not surprising, I see so many downtown areas still closed in the SJ area. It&#x27;s tough to open a business when the people in the area don&#x27;t have the money to buy your products.<p>When 2&#x2F;3rd&#x27;s of the nation are paycheck to paycheck, even in an affluent area like SJ, if your business is not providing something extremely essential, then you are effectively marketing to just 1&#x2F;3rd of the population with money.<p>This tautology that has been spread through out our society that &quot;rich people create jobs&quot; is absurd, demand creates jobs, and decent paychecks create demand. So when paychecks have been stagnant for 40 years, what do people expect is going to happen?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ladyattis</author><text>As someone who&#x27;s worked between big corporations and family owned businesses, I&#x27;d say the family owned and small businesses are worse, especially in entry level jobs, than working for a big corporation. At least with a big corporation, they&#x27;re more likely to leave your branch or location alone if you at least hit their targets for revenue. There&#x27;s not much in the way of micro management in a job at the bottom rung with respect to big corporations whereas I&#x27;ve had &#x27;the owners&#x27; of family owned businesses always pestering folks when most times they have no clue what they&#x27;re doing, especially their kids who they think they can trust with running day-to-day operations.</text></comment> | <story><title>40% of California's small businesses died in the last two years</title><url>https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1511454374165291009</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eigenrick</author><text>&gt; The fact of the matter is most small businesses are crap businesses.<p>&gt; They also abuse their workers in ways big business can&#x27;t get away with, both illegally and legally.<p>Really? You know this to be a fact?<p>It appears that the only thing you know about small business comes from what you read on &#x2F;r&#x2F;antiwork<p>The fact of the matter is that 47% of Americans are employed by small businesses. That percentage keeps dropping, not because the owners are assholes, but because mega corporations keep getting larger and more monopolistic.<p>Most small businesses run on razor thin margins because they don&#x27;t have the economies of scale that the larger corps enjoy.<p>My friend owns a cidery. The cost of his raw materials (juice concentrate and sugar) have gone up over 300% in the last 18 months, thanks to supply chain issues and worker shortages due to Covid. The prices are due to get even worse this year.<p>His total burdened cost for a case of goods has gone up 170%.
But he can&#x27;t just mark his stuff up 170% now can he? He has to settle for a 10% bump in price and hope his distributors don&#x27;t freak out.<p>BTW, he has 8 employees and pays health insurance. Afaik, he didn&#x27;t suffer any employee churn during Covid, cause he&#x27;s not an asshole.<p>In most sectors except for maybe fast food, small businesses have suffered not from employee churn, but from the Covid policies over the last two years combined with ridiculous price increases.</text></item><item><author>xxpor</author><text>Except this is the opposite of the actual problem. There&#x27;s plenty of cash floating around right now: it&#x27;s why inflation is high. We&#x27;re finally hitting real supply limits. It&#x27;s the hottest job market in most people&#x27;s lifetimes.<p>The fact of the matter is most small businesses are crap businesses. They also abuse their workers in ways big business can&#x27;t get away with, both illegally and legally. If you work for an employer with &lt;30 employees and they don&#x27;t provide health insurance, why would you stick around right now?</text></item><item><author>russdpale</author><text>Not surprising, I see so many downtown areas still closed in the SJ area. It&#x27;s tough to open a business when the people in the area don&#x27;t have the money to buy your products.<p>When 2&#x2F;3rd&#x27;s of the nation are paycheck to paycheck, even in an affluent area like SJ, if your business is not providing something extremely essential, then you are effectively marketing to just 1&#x2F;3rd of the population with money.<p>This tautology that has been spread through out our society that &quot;rich people create jobs&quot; is absurd, demand creates jobs, and decent paychecks create demand. So when paychecks have been stagnant for 40 years, what do people expect is going to happen?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eek2121</author><text>Funny enough, I&#x27;m in a position to be friends with many small business owners (I&#x27;ve done work for them over the years, and it has involved into friendships)<p>The folks that are successful don&#x27;t look at pennies. They produce or sell their products for a healthy price and focus on delivering a quality experience. I went to dinner with the owner of a small business last week that just closed on 30mm in revenue across 15 employees. The company has a profit-sharing plan that pays most of the profit into a pension. It has been in business for well over 15 years. They aren&#x27;t the cheapest, but they have excellent customer service, sell great products, and ship those products to you in the fastest way possible.<p>If, as a small business owner, and your primary concern is undercutting the other guy, you are going to go out of business. That has been the rule since capitalism was basically invented. Very few businesses can make their money by undercutting the other guy. Notice the most successful companies such as Starbucks and Apple, and even nonprofit companies such as the YMCA (in the US) don&#x27;t focus on the bottom dollar. Instead, they focus on standing out.<p>Even if you look at bottom dollar chains like McDonalds, companies have tried to do it cheaper. Shoot, you can STILL do it cheaper. The reason they don&#x27;t exist anymore is because, at the end of the day, McDonalds did a better job of providing food of consistent (shit, erm, sorry, not a McDonald&#x27;s fan) quality, quickly, and at an affordable price.</text></comment> |
11,990,192 | 11,989,951 | 1 | 2 | 11,988,913 | train | <story><title>There are now more Americans working for online-only outlets than newspapers</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/06/there-are-now-more-americans-working-for-online-only-outlets-than-newspapers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valine</author><text>The relatively consistent number of jobs in broadcast television is surprising to me. I would have imagined video streaming would cut into broadcast television the same way online publications cut into newspapers. Services like Netflix have made watching broadcast television almost unbearable due to the obscene amount of advertising.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superuser2</author><text>What do you think they are streaming? For the most part, it seems to be content produced and monetized by the traditional broadcast houses.</text></comment> | <story><title>There are now more Americans working for online-only outlets than newspapers</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/06/there-are-now-more-americans-working-for-online-only-outlets-than-newspapers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valine</author><text>The relatively consistent number of jobs in broadcast television is surprising to me. I would have imagined video streaming would cut into broadcast television the same way online publications cut into newspapers. Services like Netflix have made watching broadcast television almost unbearable due to the obscene amount of advertising.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; I would have imagined video streaming would cut into broadcast television the same way online publications cut into newspapers.<p>Newspapers were declining through consolidation, scaling back local newsrooms in favor of wire-service and syndicated content, etc., long (as in, consistently for decades) before online publications stepped in to fill the gaps newspapers were leaving as they contracted and collapsed.</text></comment> |
26,976,335 | 26,976,503 | 1 | 3 | 26,974,998 | train | <story><title>The United States needs to learn how to learn</title><url>https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/04/28/the-united-states-needs-to-learn-how-to-learn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sokoloff</author><text>I’m not convinced that bringing in European managers will solve the distances between cities, the fact that the rails and right-of-ways are almost entirely privately owned, and the fact that Americans are generally comfortable with an auto and airplane model of transportation.<p>I use rail when I visit multiple European cities. It’s great. I also don’t see a reasonable path that is “we need better managers” but instead “we either need to pour gigantic piles of money into buying railroads, which is either an eminent domain taking or a massive giveaway to freight companies who own the rails now, only to find that no one wants to spend every bit of a whole damn day getting from Boston to Las Vegas and so will fly anyway.”</text></comment> | <story><title>The United States needs to learn how to learn</title><url>https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/04/28/the-united-states-needs-to-learn-how-to-learn/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tims33</author><text>There is no doubt that America needs to get much better at rail and other mass transit and that there is a lot to be learned from the rest of the world. The challenge is that America is not Europe in many ways, but particularly in geography. And yet there is a certain condescension that America has to do it like Europe. That is a message that will never be well received delivered in that way.</text></comment> |
17,379,788 | 17,378,779 | 1 | 2 | 17,371,616 | train | <story><title>Postmates Wins New York Ruling Finding Couriers Not Employees</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/postmates-wins-new-york-ruling-finding-couriers-not-employees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>save_ferris</author><text>&gt; And if everyone did their research, they wouldn&#x27;t accept it either at current rates.<p>This would be true if there were better-paying alternatives out there that were accessible to most people, but there just aren&#x27;t for many.<p>One thing that gig companies have going for them is the (relatively) low barrier for workers to earn money in an economy that hasn&#x27;t seen significant and consistent wage growth in years.<p>If you&#x27;re struggling to get a job in the first place, doing all of the planning you&#x27;ve outlined could feel like premature optimization.</text></item><item><author>test6554</author><text>People need to do more research when they think about taking on these gig economy jobs full time. The first couple gigs you accept, you should log all your hours, even the hours you were on standby between gigs.<p>You need to know what your cost of living is including rent, food, insurance, taxes, etc. It should include all of your life goals like possible homeownership or a family as well as a decent amount toward retirement.<p>Then you need to know what your income and expenses (like vehicle maintenance, etc.) are projected to be and ensure that they meet your cost of living needs. If they don&#x27;t meet this, then that path is not one you can accept.<p>And if everyone did their research, they wouldn&#x27;t accept it either at current rates. You almost need a business plan since you are a contractor of unskilled labor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstanley</author><text>&gt; This would be true if there were better-paying alternatives out there that were accessible to most people, but there just aren&#x27;t for many.<p>Exactly this. People like to complain about low-paying jobs as if they&#x27;re exploiting the workers, but the workers aren&#x27;t stupid. If there were better options available they would take them.<p>Trying to crack down on low-paying jobs is just cracking down on the only work available at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Postmates Wins New York Ruling Finding Couriers Not Employees</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/postmates-wins-new-york-ruling-finding-couriers-not-employees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>save_ferris</author><text>&gt; And if everyone did their research, they wouldn&#x27;t accept it either at current rates.<p>This would be true if there were better-paying alternatives out there that were accessible to most people, but there just aren&#x27;t for many.<p>One thing that gig companies have going for them is the (relatively) low barrier for workers to earn money in an economy that hasn&#x27;t seen significant and consistent wage growth in years.<p>If you&#x27;re struggling to get a job in the first place, doing all of the planning you&#x27;ve outlined could feel like premature optimization.</text></item><item><author>test6554</author><text>People need to do more research when they think about taking on these gig economy jobs full time. The first couple gigs you accept, you should log all your hours, even the hours you were on standby between gigs.<p>You need to know what your cost of living is including rent, food, insurance, taxes, etc. It should include all of your life goals like possible homeownership or a family as well as a decent amount toward retirement.<p>Then you need to know what your income and expenses (like vehicle maintenance, etc.) are projected to be and ensure that they meet your cost of living needs. If they don&#x27;t meet this, then that path is not one you can accept.<p>And if everyone did their research, they wouldn&#x27;t accept it either at current rates. You almost need a business plan since you are a contractor of unskilled labor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ummonk</author><text>The economy has seen substantial wage growth at the low end. The local McDonald&#x27;s was advertising pay of $13-$17 an hour - significantly above minimum wage.</text></comment> |
10,523,605 | 10,523,424 | 1 | 2 | 10,517,175 | train | <story><title>Why Childcare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Childcare Costs So Much</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/childcare-workers-cant-afford-childcare/414496/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ef4</author><text>There is a basic assumption that people aren&#x27;t questioning: that older children are useless in helping teach and supervise younger children.<p>This flies in the face of historical experience, and it robs everyone involved of opportunities for learning and growth. It is <i>nuts</i> that we segregate children by birth year, all the way from preschool until college.<p>In a mixed-age setting, the older kids can do enough teaching, entertaining, and watching to significantly amplify a single adult&#x27;s capabilities. To the point where much higher kid-to-adult ratios work just fine.<p>And far from taking something away from older kids by engaging them in this work, you actually give them valuable learning opportunities. You give them real responsibility to be proud of, an immediate motivation to master the things they&#x27;ll be asked to teach, and a longer-term perspective on their own growth and life trajectory.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Childcare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Childcare Costs So Much</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/childcare-workers-cant-afford-childcare/414496/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>meric</author><text>Taxes. A person staying home looking after the kids and cleaning after them is not taxed. If that person goes to work instead and leaves their kids with a carer, the person has to pay income taxes, the carer will also have to pay income tax, the business have to pay sales tax, the premise the business is staying at will also pay tax on the collected rent. As soon as you outsource caring kids there are 3-4 more sets of taxes to pay. 20% from the person, 20% from the carer, 10% for the business sales tax and perhaps an additional 5% on the tax on rent. Every dollar spent on childcare, 50% goes to the government. The benefit of going to work has to be twice as good as staying home with the kids, as determined by economics. I haven&#x27;t even begun to mention the intrinsic benefits of spending time with your children...</text></comment> |
40,223,536 | 40,222,289 | 1 | 3 | 40,220,851 | train | <story><title>Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19737</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xcelerate</author><text>Do LLMs not consider the probability distribution over all combinations of tokens up to a certain output length with regard to sequence prediction? I assumed they did that already.<p>If they don’t, I’m amazed they work as well as they do. Consider 2-bit sequence prediction with the following possible outcomes and associated probabilities:<p><pre><code> 00: p=0.36
01: p=0.04
10: p=0.30
11: p=0.30
</code></pre>
So the most likely 2-bit sequence is 00. But on the basis of predicting the next token (bit) alone, we have:<p><pre><code> 0: p=0.40
1: p=0.60
</code></pre>
which suggests that 1 is the next bit and leads to a suboptimal starting point for predicting the bit after that. The error is even more prominent with longer sequences as the joint probability distribution becomes more unfactorizable into marginal distributions (as I would expect any minimal algorithmic description of real-world data to be).<p>Edit: now that I think about this a bit more, a cool research project that would be really simple to carry out might be to modify the cross-entropy loss function to consider <i>only</i> the nth future token in the text training data, and then plot LLM performance vs n, assuming that for all current LLM models we just have n=1.<p>My hypothesis is that you can mostly bypass all of the resource blow-up involved in predicting the joint probability distribution over the next 1 through n tokens (which scales as x^n) by just predicting the nth token directly, since doing so would implicitly require a better data model (at least for human-generated text; this wouldn’t be the case for all types of data).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elcomet</author><text>I think you&#x27;re not looking at this from the right perspective. A LLM is designed to sample text, that follows the training distribution. It is not designed to tell you the &quot;most likely&quot; text that follows, and we don&#x27;t actually want that. This would mean you have no diversity in your outputs.<p>In your example, sampling a 0 in 40% of cases and a 1 in 60% of cases does make sense for chat applications.<p>For applications where we <i>do</i> care about the most likely sentence (e.g. question answering), then beam search helps, as others have mentioned.<p>Another thing to consider is that the model can &quot;look ahead&quot; and precompute what the future tokens might be. And it can then use this to predict the current token. In fact, some work have been investigating this, such as [1].<p>And a final note, predicting one token at a time is what we are doing as humans when we speak, so clearly it is not a <i>wrong</i> approach. We are doing this &quot;look ahead&quot; in our mind before speaking.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2404.00859" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2404.00859</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Better and Faster Large Language Models via Multi-Token Prediction</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19737</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xcelerate</author><text>Do LLMs not consider the probability distribution over all combinations of tokens up to a certain output length with regard to sequence prediction? I assumed they did that already.<p>If they don’t, I’m amazed they work as well as they do. Consider 2-bit sequence prediction with the following possible outcomes and associated probabilities:<p><pre><code> 00: p=0.36
01: p=0.04
10: p=0.30
11: p=0.30
</code></pre>
So the most likely 2-bit sequence is 00. But on the basis of predicting the next token (bit) alone, we have:<p><pre><code> 0: p=0.40
1: p=0.60
</code></pre>
which suggests that 1 is the next bit and leads to a suboptimal starting point for predicting the bit after that. The error is even more prominent with longer sequences as the joint probability distribution becomes more unfactorizable into marginal distributions (as I would expect any minimal algorithmic description of real-world data to be).<p>Edit: now that I think about this a bit more, a cool research project that would be really simple to carry out might be to modify the cross-entropy loss function to consider <i>only</i> the nth future token in the text training data, and then plot LLM performance vs n, assuming that for all current LLM models we just have n=1.<p>My hypothesis is that you can mostly bypass all of the resource blow-up involved in predicting the joint probability distribution over the next 1 through n tokens (which scales as x^n) by just predicting the nth token directly, since doing so would implicitly require a better data model (at least for human-generated text; this wouldn’t be the case for all types of data).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>faabian</author><text>Language models factor the joint probability p(y, x) as p(y, x) = p(y|x) p(x) which is exact. I.e. if you train a language model on your distribution <i>and sample with temperature 1</i>, you will get the exact same distribution out. If you sample at lower temperature or even greedily, evidently, you will get other distributions.</text></comment> |
25,768,359 | 25,768,102 | 1 | 2 | 25,766,736 | train | <story><title>I believe US could see rolling series of “Ireland events” over next 2 months</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-ireland-event-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>salmon30salmon</author><text>Thank you. I honestly believe that there is a non-trivial percentage of the population that _likes_ the COVID world and wants to keep it going as long as possible. Some may like working remotely, others may like the wider acceptance of meal and grocery delivery, others may prefer the reduction in greenhouse gases. That is the only way I can rationalize the insistence of lockdowns here on HN and elsewhere.<p>Either that or COVID is another social issue that is being exploited by nefarious actors to divide western nations.<p>Or both.</text></item><item><author>drcross</author><text>I&#x27;m Irish in Ireland, I&#x27;ve been following the matter closely.<p>Ireland had one of the strictest lockdowns in most of Europe since March, no pubs, nightclubs, limited restaurants, churches, limited sports, 5km travel restrictions were on and off. We masked up early and our national broadcaster was constantly warning everyone non-stop. Schools were open however.<p>We were the poster boy for lockdown success up until at least November. Other nations were commenting on our achievements. You can see what has happened since.<p>The WHO warns that lockdown should only be treated as a last resort, to truly flatten the curve and no more. We ignored that.<p>It&#x27;s my sincere opinion that we&#x27;ve tried to push back a virus through our lockdown measures and social distancing that eventually cannot be controlled.<p>Holding back a virus is like holding back a damn, eventually something will burst and typically at the wrong time.<p>If we had listened to the WHO by not locking down, gaining natural immunity during the summer (when coronaviruses aren&#x27;t as prevalent) we wouldn&#x27;t be in the mess that we are in now.<p>The median age of death of this virus is 82. Please conceptualise this. Less than 20 people under the age of 44 died from covid in 2020. With our current technology dying is a part of life that cannot be avoided. The people who are dying from covid at the moment are people who were going to die this year, remember, people have to die, most of them have already made peace with this idea.<p>If we didn&#x27;t try so hard to prevent these aged people from dying we wouldn&#x27;t have our resources stretched thin which is compounding the death rate further.<p>I&#x27;m sorry to be the person to tell you this but we all have to die, we shouldn&#x27;t be stopping the living from enjoying their days on earth. Lockdowns are hurting the young and middle age to a drastic degree. You may not care because you work from home and are still guaranteed a paycheck. It&#x27;s easy to virtue signal that you want to save everyone from the comfort of your keyboard. You aren&#x27;t impacted by business closures but if you had any shed of humanity you would disagree to these lockdowns because they are causing more harm than good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mediterraneo10</author><text>&gt; I honestly believe that there is a non-trivial percentage of the population that _likes_ the COVID world and wants to keep it going as long as possible.<p>I believe two factors at play can be identified:<p>1) Among ordinary internet users, the “stay home and save lives” recommendation in spring of last year became highly memetic, and although the median age of death is now there for anyone to learn, the blanket admonishment continues to be rather unthinkingly repeated across society even though in many countries the lockdown is really starting to bite the economy. It is not that people consciously like the COVID world, they are simply perpetuating the social pressures that formed at the outbreak of the epidemic a year ago. (It doesn’t help that often one cannot public take an anti-lockdown stance and participate in street protests, because then one risks being lumped in with the anti-vaxxers and 5G crazies that tend to be so visible at those protests.)<p>2) Elected officials cannot ease off the restrictions, because the opposition will immediately accuse them of killing grandma or whatever. In this case, the opposition may in fact be acting much like a “concern troll”; they might not really care about the elderly (and deep down, they themselves might be thirsting for an end to lockdown), but they cannot ignore the political point-scoring that they could do with such a position.</text></comment> | <story><title>I believe US could see rolling series of “Ireland events” over next 2 months</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-ireland-event-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>salmon30salmon</author><text>Thank you. I honestly believe that there is a non-trivial percentage of the population that _likes_ the COVID world and wants to keep it going as long as possible. Some may like working remotely, others may like the wider acceptance of meal and grocery delivery, others may prefer the reduction in greenhouse gases. That is the only way I can rationalize the insistence of lockdowns here on HN and elsewhere.<p>Either that or COVID is another social issue that is being exploited by nefarious actors to divide western nations.<p>Or both.</text></item><item><author>drcross</author><text>I&#x27;m Irish in Ireland, I&#x27;ve been following the matter closely.<p>Ireland had one of the strictest lockdowns in most of Europe since March, no pubs, nightclubs, limited restaurants, churches, limited sports, 5km travel restrictions were on and off. We masked up early and our national broadcaster was constantly warning everyone non-stop. Schools were open however.<p>We were the poster boy for lockdown success up until at least November. Other nations were commenting on our achievements. You can see what has happened since.<p>The WHO warns that lockdown should only be treated as a last resort, to truly flatten the curve and no more. We ignored that.<p>It&#x27;s my sincere opinion that we&#x27;ve tried to push back a virus through our lockdown measures and social distancing that eventually cannot be controlled.<p>Holding back a virus is like holding back a damn, eventually something will burst and typically at the wrong time.<p>If we had listened to the WHO by not locking down, gaining natural immunity during the summer (when coronaviruses aren&#x27;t as prevalent) we wouldn&#x27;t be in the mess that we are in now.<p>The median age of death of this virus is 82. Please conceptualise this. Less than 20 people under the age of 44 died from covid in 2020. With our current technology dying is a part of life that cannot be avoided. The people who are dying from covid at the moment are people who were going to die this year, remember, people have to die, most of them have already made peace with this idea.<p>If we didn&#x27;t try so hard to prevent these aged people from dying we wouldn&#x27;t have our resources stretched thin which is compounding the death rate further.<p>I&#x27;m sorry to be the person to tell you this but we all have to die, we shouldn&#x27;t be stopping the living from enjoying their days on earth. Lockdowns are hurting the young and middle age to a drastic degree. You may not care because you work from home and are still guaranteed a paycheck. It&#x27;s easy to virtue signal that you want to save everyone from the comfort of your keyboard. You aren&#x27;t impacted by business closures but if you had any shed of humanity you would disagree to these lockdowns because they are causing more harm than good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drcross</author><text>I agree. I think it&#x27;s a combination of factors-<p>The people who are currently on a good WFH salary are seeing their savings grow thinking they are doing well for themselves because <i>soon they will buy a house</i> but what they don&#x27;t realise is that eventually they will have to pay for the 400k people on the pandemic unemployment payment, the 5 billion that was lost this year in tourism, the 10 million we are spending weekly on PCR testing. This all adds up and with only 2.3 million wage earners in Ireland they are going to be stung for a lot of tax to pay for this.<p>There are people with short term or part time jobs who are happier to be paid 350 per week for staying at home. Why would you want to work a menial job if you didnt need to?<p>Like Prof. Johan Giesecke from Sweden said, the western countries got themselves into a lockdown without thinking of a plan on how to get out of it and no one wants to be seen as the person who made the decision to kill loads of people.<p>There&#x27;s also the vaccine angle which is sure to make those companies lots of money this year.</text></comment> |
40,411,992 | 40,410,737 | 1 | 3 | 40,408,515 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?</title><text>Can anyone help me understand the economics of video streaming platforms?<p>Streaming, encoding, and storage demands enormous costs -- especially at scale (e.g., on average each 4k video with close to 1 million views).
Yet YouTube seems to charge no money for it.<p>I know advertisements are a thing for YT, but is it enough?<p>If tomorrow I want to start a platform that is supported with Advert revenues, I know I will likely fail. However, maybe at YT scale (or more specifically Google Advert scale) the economics works?<p>ps: I would like this discussion to focus on the absolute necessary elements (e.g., storing, encoding, streaming) and not on other factors contributing to latency&#x2F;cost like running view count algorithms.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>foota</author><text>If they&#x27;re not significant, then why does youtube build ASICs for doing video encoding? See e.g., <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;youtube-is-now-building-its-own-video-transcoding-chips&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;youtube-is-now-build...</a></text></item><item><author>timr</author><text>Encoding and storage aren&#x27;t significant, relative to the bandwidth costs. Bandwidth is the high order bit.<p>The primary difference between live and static video is the bursts -- get to a certain scale as a static video provider, and you can roughly estimate your bandwidth 95th percentiles. But one big live event can blow you out of the water, and push you over into very expensive tiers that will kill your economics.</text></item><item><author>foota</author><text>I&#x27;m guessing live video looks a lot different from a more static video site. I think encoding and storage are both quite expensive. You want to encode videos that are likely to be watched in the most efficient ways possible to reduce network bandwidth usage, and every video needs at least some encoding.<p>Based on some power laws etc., I would guess most videos have only a handful of views, so storing them forever and the cost to encode them initially is probably significant.</text></item><item><author>xivzgrev</author><text>Disclaimer: I used to work at a live video streaming company as a financial analyst so quite familiar with this<p>The biggest cost is as you imagine the streaming - getting the video to the viewer. It was a large part of our variable cost and we had a (literal) mad genius dev ops person holed up in his own office cave that managed the whole operation.<p>Ive long forgotten the special optimizations he did but he would keep finding ways to improve margin &#x2F; efficiency.<p>Encoding is a cost but I don’t recall it being significant<p>Storage isnt generally expensive. Think about how cheap you as a consumer can go get 2 TB of storage, and extrapolate.<p>The other big expense - people! All those engineers to build back and front end systems. That’s what ruined us - too many people were needed and not enough money coming in so we were burning cash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djtango</author><text>If you make a billion, a 1% saving is 10 million. You can hire and fund a lot of activity with 10 million.<p>If you make 1 million, 10k isn&#x27;t going to go very far towards paying devs to save you 1%</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?</title><text>Can anyone help me understand the economics of video streaming platforms?<p>Streaming, encoding, and storage demands enormous costs -- especially at scale (e.g., on average each 4k video with close to 1 million views).
Yet YouTube seems to charge no money for it.<p>I know advertisements are a thing for YT, but is it enough?<p>If tomorrow I want to start a platform that is supported with Advert revenues, I know I will likely fail. However, maybe at YT scale (or more specifically Google Advert scale) the economics works?<p>ps: I would like this discussion to focus on the absolute necessary elements (e.g., storing, encoding, streaming) and not on other factors contributing to latency&#x2F;cost like running view count algorithms.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>foota</author><text>If they&#x27;re not significant, then why does youtube build ASICs for doing video encoding? See e.g., <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;youtube-is-now-building-its-own-video-transcoding-chips&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;youtube-is-now-build...</a></text></item><item><author>timr</author><text>Encoding and storage aren&#x27;t significant, relative to the bandwidth costs. Bandwidth is the high order bit.<p>The primary difference between live and static video is the bursts -- get to a certain scale as a static video provider, and you can roughly estimate your bandwidth 95th percentiles. But one big live event can blow you out of the water, and push you over into very expensive tiers that will kill your economics.</text></item><item><author>foota</author><text>I&#x27;m guessing live video looks a lot different from a more static video site. I think encoding and storage are both quite expensive. You want to encode videos that are likely to be watched in the most efficient ways possible to reduce network bandwidth usage, and every video needs at least some encoding.<p>Based on some power laws etc., I would guess most videos have only a handful of views, so storing them forever and the cost to encode them initially is probably significant.</text></item><item><author>xivzgrev</author><text>Disclaimer: I used to work at a live video streaming company as a financial analyst so quite familiar with this<p>The biggest cost is as you imagine the streaming - getting the video to the viewer. It was a large part of our variable cost and we had a (literal) mad genius dev ops person holed up in his own office cave that managed the whole operation.<p>Ive long forgotten the special optimizations he did but he would keep finding ways to improve margin &#x2F; efficiency.<p>Encoding is a cost but I don’t recall it being significant<p>Storage isnt generally expensive. Think about how cheap you as a consumer can go get 2 TB of storage, and extrapolate.<p>The other big expense - people! All those engineers to build back and front end systems. That’s what ruined us - too many people were needed and not enough money coming in so we were burning cash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cebert</author><text>Doing so wouldn’t hurt and would make a sizable impact at the scale of Google?</text></comment> |
5,044,617 | 5,044,381 | 1 | 2 | 5,043,388 | train | <story><title>I want the world to scroll this way</title><url>http://www.magicscroll.net/ScrollTheWeb.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>Your alternate solution gets annoying if the page has a header overlaying the text. Like Google+ does. Then you scroll a page, and have to scroll back a little.<p>That said, this solution will also break in that situation. But it will break worse since there will be no way to get the text at the top to scroll into view.</text></item><item><author>munificent</author><text>This seems to result in a large number of cases where the visual experience is pointless. The line separating the previous and next page is tiny and easy to miss, and I don't see the use in two torn half-pages on screen.<p>I agree that smooth scrolling long text is hard to read and trips up line scanning, but this UX seems be like playing an cruel game where I have to drag just enough to scroll a whole page. Any more or less and I get a torn page that's even harder to read than normal scrolling.<p>I have an alternate solution to this problem: <i>just hit space or page down</i> when you're reading a long web page. It scrolls a whole page, with just enough animation to help you track where you are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iSnow</author><text>Good news is that the issue is recognized by the Mozilla team at the very least:<p>&#62;Pages with position:fixed banners/headers are all the rage these days. But when I try to read content inside one of these pages and hit Page Down or Spacebar, firefox calculates the page length relative to the whole browser window, not just the part visible underneath the position:fixed header. So it scrolls too much, and the first few lines of the next page end up hidden<p>&#62;Status: RESOLVED FIXED<p><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780345" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780345</a></text></comment> | <story><title>I want the world to scroll this way</title><url>http://www.magicscroll.net/ScrollTheWeb.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>Your alternate solution gets annoying if the page has a header overlaying the text. Like Google+ does. Then you scroll a page, and have to scroll back a little.<p>That said, this solution will also break in that situation. But it will break worse since there will be no way to get the text at the top to scroll into view.</text></item><item><author>munificent</author><text>This seems to result in a large number of cases where the visual experience is pointless. The line separating the previous and next page is tiny and easy to miss, and I don't see the use in two torn half-pages on screen.<p>I agree that smooth scrolling long text is hard to read and trips up line scanning, but this UX seems be like playing an cruel game where I have to drag just enough to scroll a whole page. Any more or less and I get a torn page that's even harder to read than normal scrolling.<p>I have an alternate solution to this problem: <i>just hit space or page down</i> when you're reading a long web page. It scrolls a whole page, with just enough animation to help you track where you are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acabal</author><text>That's why I utterly loath the stupid new trend of having fixed headers. They mess up my reading experience and honestly I thought we all ditched iframes a decade ago because even then we realized that putting frames everywhere isn't usable.</text></comment> |
22,800,562 | 22,800,449 | 1 | 3 | 22,797,729 | train | <story><title>New test of the gravitational 1/r2 law at separations down to 52μm</title><url>https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.101101</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ISL</author><text>A couple of us from the Eot-Wash group are active on HN. Happy to answer questions.<p>Hopefully the lead author (an HN-lurker, as far as I know) will jump in to bask in the limelight and answer your questions :).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mirimir</author><text>This seems like the key result:<p>&gt; We find that any gravitational-strength Yukawa interaction must have λ &lt; 38.6 μm. This implies that the dilaton or heavy graviton mass and the radion unification mass must be greater than 5.1 meV and 7.1 TeV, respectively, and that the largest extra dimension must have a toroidal radius less than 30 μm. These are the tightest existing lab constraints on “string inspired” new gravitational phenomena.<p>But the key words in it mean ~nothing to me :(<p>So do they do anything more than constrain parameters?</text></comment> | <story><title>New test of the gravitational 1/r2 law at separations down to 52μm</title><url>https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.101101</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ISL</author><text>A couple of us from the Eot-Wash group are active on HN. Happy to answer questions.<p>Hopefully the lead author (an HN-lurker, as far as I know) will jump in to bask in the limelight and answer your questions :).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raverbashing</author><text>Cool!<p>Here&#x27;s my question: Isn&#x27;t the 1&#x2F;r^2 just a consequence of Gauss&#x27; theorem or are you trying to look at possible extra dimensional effects here?</text></comment> |
36,995,826 | 36,995,460 | 1 | 2 | 36,973,736 | train | <story><title>If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch</title><url>https://jakeseliger.com/2023/08/02/if-youre-involved-in-drug-development-and-have-first-hand-knowledge-of-the-fdas-torpor-get-in-touch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>The government admitted it too:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hhs.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;covid-19-unapproved-drugs-initiative.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hhs.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;covid-19-unapproved-...</a><p>The root problem is US taxpayers should be directly paying for these studies to prove and disprove medicines, but apparently, the budget for that is not politically possible, and instead we have politicians giving away monopoly rights so the burden of the study will fall mostly on afflicted people who need the medicine.<p>It is crazy how there is so much crowing about high medicine prices, when the US already has world class research in the form of higher education facilities, and it could just officially research and develop medicines and put them in the public domain.</text></item><item><author>MilStdJunkie</author><text>I remember in the early aughts I could get a bottle of Colchicine for four bucks. Thanks to that walleyed expression of human avarice, the 2006 United States Unapproved Drugs Initiative, it became someone&#x27;s IP and - presto! - went to sixty bucks. So, well, sorry, guess you just gotta grunt your way through a crippling weeklong gout attack. Thanks a bundle. Lord knows, it&#x27;s good to be made safe from a pharmaceutical invented three thousand years ago from a goddamn flower.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whimsicalism</author><text>And that’s just because we have a clear comparison point for how much these drugs cost before the FDA intervention.<p>For the other drugs, we have no clue how much FDA rules are raising the prices by. That’s scary.</text></comment> | <story><title>If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch</title><url>https://jakeseliger.com/2023/08/02/if-youre-involved-in-drug-development-and-have-first-hand-knowledge-of-the-fdas-torpor-get-in-touch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>The government admitted it too:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hhs.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;covid-19-unapproved-drugs-initiative.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hhs.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;covid-19-unapproved-...</a><p>The root problem is US taxpayers should be directly paying for these studies to prove and disprove medicines, but apparently, the budget for that is not politically possible, and instead we have politicians giving away monopoly rights so the burden of the study will fall mostly on afflicted people who need the medicine.<p>It is crazy how there is so much crowing about high medicine prices, when the US already has world class research in the form of higher education facilities, and it could just officially research and develop medicines and put them in the public domain.</text></item><item><author>MilStdJunkie</author><text>I remember in the early aughts I could get a bottle of Colchicine for four bucks. Thanks to that walleyed expression of human avarice, the 2006 United States Unapproved Drugs Initiative, it became someone&#x27;s IP and - presto! - went to sixty bucks. So, well, sorry, guess you just gotta grunt your way through a crippling weeklong gout attack. Thanks a bundle. Lord knows, it&#x27;s good to be made safe from a pharmaceutical invented three thousand years ago from a goddamn flower.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonhohle</author><text>Not politically possible == pharma has plenty of money to line politician’s pockets and poor college students do not</text></comment> |
39,631,846 | 39,631,835 | 1 | 3 | 39,631,135 | train | <story><title>"AI, no ads please": 4 words to wipe out $1T</title><url>https://12challenges.substack.com/p/ai-no-ads-please-4-words-to-wipe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noodlesUK</author><text>If anything, I think GenAI is going to do the opposite. It will be able to mix the content and advertisements much more naturally (and deceptively) than is currently possible at scale.<p>Instead of seeing: content -- ad -- content -- ad<p>You will see: just-in-time content which you asked for, which is skewed to inform you about particular products and hide information about competitors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tempodox</author><text>That&#x27;s exactly what I expect to happen. The opportunity to collect intelligence and behavioral data on each user that you can bring to bear for this purpose is just too seductive. The user profiles that e.g. Facebook has now will pale in comparison. If I were a betting person…</text></comment> | <story><title>"AI, no ads please": 4 words to wipe out $1T</title><url>https://12challenges.substack.com/p/ai-no-ads-please-4-words-to-wipe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noodlesUK</author><text>If anything, I think GenAI is going to do the opposite. It will be able to mix the content and advertisements much more naturally (and deceptively) than is currently possible at scale.<p>Instead of seeing: content -- ad -- content -- ad<p>You will see: just-in-time content which you asked for, which is skewed to inform you about particular products and hide information about competitors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gofreddygo</author><text>Totally my thoughts.<p>Imagine an AI tool, that given a video and some products can intertwine products in the video content itself !<p>All this can be done post production. (already is to some extent, but costs $$$).<p>This extends to a lot more than video too. AI is _the_ magic tool of dreams for mass spammers.</text></comment> |
4,700,490 | 4,700,487 | 1 | 2 | 4,700,160 | train | <story><title>The Future of Markdown</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blasdel</author><text>John Gruber's original Markdown.pl is one of the worst small programs I have ever read, completely riddled with outright bugs and misfeatures that continually bite its users in the ass. It's awful even by the already low standards of hand-written many-pass regex-based spaghetti-parsers.<p>Nobody should be using the original script, and unfortunately many of the other implementations out there are direct transliterations that replicate all of its absurd errors, like where if you mention the MD5 hash of another token in the document, the hash will be replaced with the token, because it uses that as an inline escaping mechanism! Reddit got hit with a XSS virus that got through their filters because of it: <a href="http://blog.reddit.com/2009/09/we-had-some-bugs-and-it-hurt-us.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.reddit.com/2009/09/we-had-some-bugs-and-it-hurt-...</a><p>See the changelog for what started as a PHP transliteration and turned into a rewrite that squashed 125 (!) unacknowledged bugs: <a href="http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/" rel="nofollow">http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/</a><p>The worst part is that he outright refuses to either disclaim or fix his implementation, and so far he's repudiated everyone else's attempts to do so. He's a terrible programmer and a worse maintainer, he really still thinks the documentation on his site is comprehensive and canonical. As much as Jeff Atwood leaps at every chance to play the fool, there's no way his directorship can be anything but an improvement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dandelany</author><text>I'm so tired of this mentality that says basically, if you release something for free on the internet, you are obligated to maintain and support it for the rest of your life. Gruber created this program, for free. You are under no obligation to use it. Don't like it? Here's your money back. It may be true that the code is shit. If you think so, don't use it.<p>Like other responders, I worry that this mentality causes fewer coders to release their projects, for fear of backlash like this post. Think about it: Your feelings toward Gruber are incredibly negative and hostile, and in fact, you would have better feelings toward him if he had kept Markdown to himself and never released it at all. Does that seem fair to you? If the ill will generated by people like yourself outweighs the good will generated by those who appreciate the code I release, or if I fear that it might, what motivation do I have to release my code?</text></comment> | <story><title>The Future of Markdown</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blasdel</author><text>John Gruber's original Markdown.pl is one of the worst small programs I have ever read, completely riddled with outright bugs and misfeatures that continually bite its users in the ass. It's awful even by the already low standards of hand-written many-pass regex-based spaghetti-parsers.<p>Nobody should be using the original script, and unfortunately many of the other implementations out there are direct transliterations that replicate all of its absurd errors, like where if you mention the MD5 hash of another token in the document, the hash will be replaced with the token, because it uses that as an inline escaping mechanism! Reddit got hit with a XSS virus that got through their filters because of it: <a href="http://blog.reddit.com/2009/09/we-had-some-bugs-and-it-hurt-us.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.reddit.com/2009/09/we-had-some-bugs-and-it-hurt-...</a><p>See the changelog for what started as a PHP transliteration and turned into a rewrite that squashed 125 (!) unacknowledged bugs: <a href="http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/" rel="nofollow">http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/</a><p>The worst part is that he outright refuses to either disclaim or fix his implementation, and so far he's repudiated everyone else's attempts to do so. He's a terrible programmer and a worse maintainer, he really still thinks the documentation on his site is comprehensive and canonical. As much as Jeff Atwood leaps at every chance to play the fool, there's no way his directorship can be anything but an improvement.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>What an embarrassing post to be occupying the top of this thread. Blaming Markdown.pl for security flaws? I suppose the memory corruption bugs in the "optimized" C Markdown parsers are somehow his fault too?<p>He wrote a text-to-HTML parser with a particularly elegant little language design and got on with his life, which involves writing more than keeping up with bug reports in Perl scripts. Get over yourself; comments like this make us all look bad.</text></comment> |
18,074,000 | 18,073,128 | 1 | 2 | 18,070,183 | train | <story><title>Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking</title><url>https://twitter.com/jonathanmayer/status/1044300922149588993</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hylianwarrior</author><text>Why on earth would you think Google would sell its most valuable asset? Google does not sell user data, it builds on it. The more data they get, the better and better their AI will develop.<p>Looking back, when they announced they were going to become an AI-first company these sort of drastic data-grabs and privacy issues should have been apparent. But hindsight is 20&#x2F;20...</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>In a way stuff like this and the recent news that they don&#x27;t delete their own cookies from Chrome when deleting all cookies could be good news. It seems to become clearer and clearer that Google is getting desperate to squeeze more and more data out of people in order to sell that data. Hope they will lose their good guy image because now they are just another big greedy company like all others. Nothing wrong with that though. It&#x27;s just good for people to realize that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pluma</author><text>%s&#x2F;sell&#x2F;monetise&#x2F;g<p>You know what they meant. Google is milking users for all data they can derive from their activity and creating value from that. It&#x27;s not so much the use of the data that&#x27;s the problem as the lengths they go to to create that data.<p>I recall someone from one of the major tech companies talking about how their users &quot;emit data&quot;, implying the data just happens and their role is purely passive with the users practically handing them that data. That&#x27;s a perverse way of looking at it when you contrast it with e.g. the GDPR&#x27;s premise that data belongs to the user and companies need (withdrawable) consent to collect and process it.<p>In the US tech companies don&#x27;t collect user data, users &quot;emit&quot; it -- even if the only reason the data is &quot;emitted&quot; is because the tech is actively spying on its users&#x27; every move.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking</title><url>https://twitter.com/jonathanmayer/status/1044300922149588993</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hylianwarrior</author><text>Why on earth would you think Google would sell its most valuable asset? Google does not sell user data, it builds on it. The more data they get, the better and better their AI will develop.<p>Looking back, when they announced they were going to become an AI-first company these sort of drastic data-grabs and privacy issues should have been apparent. But hindsight is 20&#x2F;20...</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>In a way stuff like this and the recent news that they don&#x27;t delete their own cookies from Chrome when deleting all cookies could be good news. It seems to become clearer and clearer that Google is getting desperate to squeeze more and more data out of people in order to sell that data. Hope they will lose their good guy image because now they are just another big greedy company like all others. Nothing wrong with that though. It&#x27;s just good for people to realize that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnchristopher</author><text>I believe it&#x27;s now common to use &quot;sell your data&quot; as a synonym of &quot;make profit off data&quot; or &quot;sell a service that gives anonymized data&quot;.</text></comment> |
3,830,548 | 3,827,955 | 1 | 3 | 3,827,332 | train | <story><title>This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57412225-281/this-internet-provider-pledges-to-put-your-privacy-first-always/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdl</author><text>I like the idea, and I especially like the idea of a 501c3 (which subsidizes the added costs over commercial baseline) coupled with a commercial company (which charges normal rates for service.<p>You can go a reasonably long way with just best practice privacy policy (requiring court orders, keeping minimal records, locking down configs, obfuscating IPs, not intentionally compromising privacy), but there are a couple issues. One, a lot of big ISPs (from what I've read) are only profitable due to selling clickstreams or other privacy-invading things. So a privacy-protecting ISP will cost more for the same service (or, will offer crappier bandwidth).<p>Second, once you move beyond this level of security, you're trying to defeat traffic analysis, and then targeted attacks. Targeted attacks are probably out of scope (and really expensive to defend against), but defending against traffic analysis usually requires burning a lot of bandwidth, or scheduling or routing communications in strange ways (which adds latency in various ways). This makes things REALLY expensive, and especially for wireless systems, uses up the finite spectrum capacity.<p>Ultimately the best way to really protect privacy is to structure applications to be message based, tolerant of latency on the order of hours, and basically non-interactive. This is the opposite of how ~everything is done on the web -- email is probably the only widely deployed application which works like this, and that's why email has the best anti-traffic-analysis systems out there (mixmaster/mixminion remailers).<p>Plus, there's a big problem with declaring yourself "<i>the</i> ISP for people who want to be anonymous" -- it self-selects, especially if it's a small pool of users due to higher cost, into a great target. Either the organization itself is evil and secretly monitoring, or just becomes a hacker/government target (which could involve monitoring on the perimeter/upstream). The best model is some combination of making privacy protection a default feature of protocols, having a bunch of different vendors (which may advertise better privacy) to choose from, and having technical systems which can provably protect your secrets against various kinds of threats.<p>It's a bunch of medium and hard problems. The biggest problem is that 99.99% of users totally don't care, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57412225-281/this-internet-provider-pledges-to-put-your-privacy-first-always/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>megamark16</author><text>I would love to see this as a Kickstarter project. This is the kind of movement that I feel could really benefit from having a community behind it, and I for one would love to be a part of that community. Shoot, I'd even offer to donate my services to help see it become a reality.</text></comment> |
23,094,442 | 23,094,681 | 1 | 3 | 23,090,393 | train | <story><title>No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/no-cookie-consent-walls-and-no-scrolling-isnt-consent-says-eu-data-protection-body/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>The EU cookie legislation is still mind blowing to me. In terms of widely used protocols with terrible designs it&#x27;s up there with US payment card processing (want to make a $5 payment? Hand over the secret that gives the other party the ability to take an unlimited amount of money from you at any time in the next 4 years, and hope they don&#x27;t misuse it).<p>Did no one involved in the cookie legislation think to run the idea by a technical expert before passing it? Why wouldn&#x27;t they have done something like introduce an X-Allow-Tracking header in the http spec, and make the law require that sites respect that header instead of every site making their own cookie popup. Browsers could make that privacy setting as detailed as they want as far as which requests they included it with, and the EU could strongly recommend that everyone use browsers that they&#x27;ve approved as supporting that setting (or even force it in various ways, like require any OEM browser that ships with a device in the EU support that setting).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Rexxar</author><text>The law itself is perfectly sane. The problem is that everybody try to apply it in the worst possible way.<p>Let&#x27;s imagine a world where a government force car builder to add speed limiter to cars. The car builders all decides to just cut the engine if you go over the limit. Will you say the law is bad or that car makers are trolling everybody ?<p>It&#x27;s the same for this law. But curiously everybody is prompt to say that the law is bad. The reality is that a majority of internet actors are bad and are just trolling us.</text></comment> | <story><title>No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/no-cookie-consent-walls-and-no-scrolling-isnt-consent-says-eu-data-protection-body/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>The EU cookie legislation is still mind blowing to me. In terms of widely used protocols with terrible designs it&#x27;s up there with US payment card processing (want to make a $5 payment? Hand over the secret that gives the other party the ability to take an unlimited amount of money from you at any time in the next 4 years, and hope they don&#x27;t misuse it).<p>Did no one involved in the cookie legislation think to run the idea by a technical expert before passing it? Why wouldn&#x27;t they have done something like introduce an X-Allow-Tracking header in the http spec, and make the law require that sites respect that header instead of every site making their own cookie popup. Browsers could make that privacy setting as detailed as they want as far as which requests they included it with, and the EU could strongly recommend that everyone use browsers that they&#x27;ve approved as supporting that setting (or even force it in various ways, like require any OEM browser that ships with a device in the EU support that setting).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gsich</author><text>&gt;Did no one involved in the cookie legislation think to run the idea by a technical expert before passing it? Why wouldn&#x27;t they have done something like introduce an X-Allow-Tracking header in the http spec, and make the law require that sites respect that header instead of every site making their own cookie popup. Browsers could make that privacy setting as detailed as they want as far as which requests they included it with, and the EU could strongly recommend that everyone use browsers that they&#x27;ve approved as supporting that setting (or even force it in various ways, like require any OEM browser that ships with a device in the EU support that setting).<p>Like with DNT? Nobody cares about that. Defaults matter too and DNT is default off. So it probably adds more entropy if you enable it.<p>Besides that: Technical cookies (or any other storage in your browser) that are required for your site to work do not require consent. Tracking from ads are obviously not included in that definition.</text></comment> |
15,073,769 | 15,073,804 | 1 | 2 | 15,070,244 | train | <story><title>Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly (2016)</title><url>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40354978/why-is-this-c-code-faster-than-my-hand-written-assembly-for-testing-the-collat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>payne92</author><text>tl;dr -- the asm author used DIV to divide by a constant 2<p>More fundamentally: it&#x27;s theoretically possible to at least match compiled code performance with assembly, because you could just write the code the compiler generates.<p>BUT, it requires a LOT of experience.<p>Modern compilers &quot;know&quot; a lot of optimizations (e.g. integer mult by fixed constant --&gt; shifts, adds, and subtracts). Avoiding pipeline stalls requires a lot of tedious register bookkeeping, and modern processors have very complicated execution models.<p>It&#x27;s almost always better to start with a compiler-generated critical section and see if there are possible hand optimizations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradford</author><text>In University computer architecture courses, we were challenged to write a quicksort routine in assembly. We were also asked to compare the assembly that we authored with assembly that was compiled from C++ (after we authored our own solutions, of course).<p>It was an amazing crash-course on just how good compilers have become at optimizing. Not a single student could hand craft assembly that was faster than the compiler output. The teacher of the course was able to generate assembly that was slightly faster, and he stated that in order to do so, he had to greatly exploit his in-depth knowledge of the processor&#x27;s pipeline system. That was roughly year 2000, and I&#x27;m sure compilers have only become better at their job since then.<p>All in all, excellent learning experience. I&#x27;ve since encountered several instances where developers assert superior assembly skills, and by default I&#x27;m silently skeptical of their claims.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly (2016)</title><url>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40354978/why-is-this-c-code-faster-than-my-hand-written-assembly-for-testing-the-collat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>payne92</author><text>tl;dr -- the asm author used DIV to divide by a constant 2<p>More fundamentally: it&#x27;s theoretically possible to at least match compiled code performance with assembly, because you could just write the code the compiler generates.<p>BUT, it requires a LOT of experience.<p>Modern compilers &quot;know&quot; a lot of optimizations (e.g. integer mult by fixed constant --&gt; shifts, adds, and subtracts). Avoiding pipeline stalls requires a lot of tedious register bookkeeping, and modern processors have very complicated execution models.<p>It&#x27;s almost always better to start with a compiler-generated critical section and see if there are possible hand optimizations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krylon</author><text>In a prior job I worked as a C programmer, and once I tried to rewrite a few heavily used utility function in assembly.<p>I measured, but it did not run any faster. Damnit, this is assembly, I said, it <i>has</i> to be faster. So I looked at the assembly code generated by the compiler: Turned out it was pretty much identical to the code I had written. At that point, I felt brief surge of pride (because I was as clever as the compiler) and then disappointment (because I was not more clever than the compiler), and I figured trying to be smarter than the compiler was a waste of my time.</text></comment> |
9,086,147 | 9,085,957 | 1 | 2 | 9,085,750 | train | <story><title>Google undeleted whocalled.us after a front page article on Hacker News</title><text>Last week I posted on HN that &#x27;Google deleted whocalled.us for “Pure Spam” and replaced it with spam&#x27; (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9050343).<p>I appreciated reading your thoughts, and it made me feel better because the worst part of it all was feeling like nobody could hear my protests that they made a mistake.<p>I made 8 reconsideration requests, which are messages you send Google to ask for a human to manually review the penalty. All of them were denied with the same automated response.<p>It did not feel like any humans actually read or thought about the situation, so I felt voiceless.<p>As usual, if you make a public scene, a large corporation will often notice, and look closer at that individual&#x27;s issue. I think that&#x27;s what happened in this case.<p>I happened to notice today that whocalled.us was back in Google, and the &quot;Pure Spam&quot; manual action had disappeared. There was no notice or explanation, and it feels like someone at Google saw my post, and quietly fixed it.<p>I thought it was important to notify HN about this.<p>I don&#x27;t know how to feel about this. I already removed AdSense from the site, and gave up on it. From a shortsighted view, I should be happy, and thank Google.<p>But this experience showed me that Google has more power over my website than I do.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>compbio</author><text>I saw your previous post and could not find egregious blackhat SEO stuff. The backlink profile was not too healthy though, with around 250 domains responsible for over 7000 backlinks. You said you got a spam warning on Google Webmaster Tools: These penalties are hardly ever permanent.<p>&gt; As usual, if you make a public scene, a large corporation will often notice, and look closer at that individual&#x27;s issue. I think that&#x27;s what happened in this case.<p>&gt; I made 8 reconsideration requests .. all of them were denied.<p>Probably because you did not show a good will effort to clean up your act. At least you do not tell us what were the contents of these reconsideration requests. For all we know it was: &quot;Reconsider me!&quot;<p>From your previous post I gather that you were heavily annoyed with the unnatural links actions and warnings. Instead of cleaning up your act for Google you focused on a suggested unnatural link to claim it was all BS.<p>&gt; As usual, if you make a public scene, a large corporation will often notice, and look closer at that individual&#x27;s issue. I think that&#x27;s what happened in this case.<p>I do think that the people at Google notice a prominent post on HackerNews. But I do not think that they manually removed a spam penalty to avoid bad publicity. If anything: allowing spammy sites in the index without even a slap on the wrist is not good for publicity at all (and very visible to the users). I think the pre-set penalty period was over, or a recrawl found a cleaner site.<p>&gt; But this experience showed me that Google has more power over my website than I do.<p>Google has more power over their search engine index than you do. You are free to do whatever you want to do with your website.<p>I do have a question: The DuckDuckGo widget you had on your site (now changed to a general link), was that an official widget? Did money exchange hands for placing such a widget&#x2F;link on every page of your site? I am wondering why a site-wide link to a commercial page is not &#x27;nofollow&#x27;-ed, and if that may have brought you unwanted quality guidelines attention.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google undeleted whocalled.us after a front page article on Hacker News</title><text>Last week I posted on HN that &#x27;Google deleted whocalled.us for “Pure Spam” and replaced it with spam&#x27; (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9050343).<p>I appreciated reading your thoughts, and it made me feel better because the worst part of it all was feeling like nobody could hear my protests that they made a mistake.<p>I made 8 reconsideration requests, which are messages you send Google to ask for a human to manually review the penalty. All of them were denied with the same automated response.<p>It did not feel like any humans actually read or thought about the situation, so I felt voiceless.<p>As usual, if you make a public scene, a large corporation will often notice, and look closer at that individual&#x27;s issue. I think that&#x27;s what happened in this case.<p>I happened to notice today that whocalled.us was back in Google, and the &quot;Pure Spam&quot; manual action had disappeared. There was no notice or explanation, and it feels like someone at Google saw my post, and quietly fixed it.<p>I thought it was important to notify HN about this.<p>I don&#x27;t know how to feel about this. I already removed AdSense from the site, and gave up on it. From a shortsighted view, I should be happy, and thank Google.<p>But this experience showed me that Google has more power over my website than I do.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geetee</author><text>Fixing mistakes without accepting blame or acknowledging the error always bothers me. Does it stem from the fear of a lawsuit-happy society, or embarrassment?</text></comment> |
9,288,277 | 9,288,319 | 1 | 3 | 9,288,084 | train | <story><title>Amazon Home Services</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/services/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MCRed</author><text>Remember Amazon Menus? (Scanned menus of local restaurants)
Remember Amazon Movie Listings?
Remember the &quot;drone delivery&quot;? (It makes no sense on the face of it, and will never happen. But it was a big press release.)
Remember Amazon scanned catalogs (eg: Mail order catalogs selling things in competition with Amazon, that you could search)
Remember A9? (Amazon&#x27;s answer to google, biggest mainstream mention was being used as a verb once on The OC in 2006ish.)<p>Amazon makes dozens of &quot;products&quot; every year, to do press releases, to sell more Amazon stock&#x2F;keep the stock price high. Most of these products never become real.<p>Even AWS was a fake product-- they claimed it was &quot;the infrastructure that ran Amazon.com&quot;, which was a straight up lie. (I worked for the company at the time.) All they had was S3. This product stuck to the wall and grew and became a real product over time, and so they backfilled.<p>This strategy works for them because when something disappears (remember google glass? Yeah, it really is gone, it made no sense to begin with, but they won&#x27;t admit it) .... nobody remembers it.<p>Amazon wasted so much time on nonsense. We had 4 reorgs a year and a lot of chaos because they were constantly spinning up random teams for BS initiatives -- many of whome were nothing more than a press release.<p>I&#x27;m not saying this is wrong (except the dishonesty about AWS)...just that Amazon announcing a product doesn&#x27;t mean Amazon will be providing that product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkyc</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised to see this framed so negative. What they do is essentially being the <i>lean huge startup</i>. They launch a product, gather initial feedback, and if it turns out promising (like AWS) they double-down. If it doesn&#x27;t work, they kill it. I think it&#x27;s actually nice to see such a rapid-iteration product development done by a company with that many resources and talent.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Home Services</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/services/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MCRed</author><text>Remember Amazon Menus? (Scanned menus of local restaurants)
Remember Amazon Movie Listings?
Remember the &quot;drone delivery&quot;? (It makes no sense on the face of it, and will never happen. But it was a big press release.)
Remember Amazon scanned catalogs (eg: Mail order catalogs selling things in competition with Amazon, that you could search)
Remember A9? (Amazon&#x27;s answer to google, biggest mainstream mention was being used as a verb once on The OC in 2006ish.)<p>Amazon makes dozens of &quot;products&quot; every year, to do press releases, to sell more Amazon stock&#x2F;keep the stock price high. Most of these products never become real.<p>Even AWS was a fake product-- they claimed it was &quot;the infrastructure that ran Amazon.com&quot;, which was a straight up lie. (I worked for the company at the time.) All they had was S3. This product stuck to the wall and grew and became a real product over time, and so they backfilled.<p>This strategy works for them because when something disappears (remember google glass? Yeah, it really is gone, it made no sense to begin with, but they won&#x27;t admit it) .... nobody remembers it.<p>Amazon wasted so much time on nonsense. We had 4 reorgs a year and a lot of chaos because they were constantly spinning up random teams for BS initiatives -- many of whome were nothing more than a press release.<p>I&#x27;m not saying this is wrong (except the dishonesty about AWS)...just that Amazon announcing a product doesn&#x27;t mean Amazon will be providing that product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flyinglizard</author><text>Amazon drone delivery WILL happen. This will be completely disruptive to how stuff is consumed. Amazon being able to reach any point in an urban environment from its outskirts, at any time of day, within minutes and at a cost of just cents, will completely change consumption patterns (at least for existing Amazon users).<p>Once something has such a strong financial implication, any other obstacle in its way is going to crumble (not to mention that the technology is mature enough today to perform this; the barrier is regulation, and that can change with enough money at stake).</text></comment> |
19,776,298 | 19,776,148 | 1 | 2 | 19,775,197 | train | <story><title>Unauthorized access to Docker Hub database</title><url>https://success.docker.com/article/docker-hub-user-notification</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rlt</author><text>I&#x27;ve found Docker&#x27;s communication about this incident to be pretty poor.<p>1. The email they sent out didn&#x27;t specify whether your account was included in the 5% of compromised users, or whether you had linked GitHub or BitBucket accounts that they unlinked. The only way to know seems to be if you still have a linked GH&#x2F;BB account then you&#x27;re (probably?) ok.<p>2. They mention you should &quot;check security logs to see if any unexpected actions have taken place&quot; and linked to GH&#x2F;BB security audit log pages, but I don&#x27;t believe that&#x27;s sufficient, you also need to check for rogue commits.<p>3. They haven&#x27;t said when the breach occurred, so there&#x27;s no way of knowing how far back to look. They &quot;discovered&quot; it on Thursday, and say it was a &quot;brief period&quot;, but that&#x27;s meaningless.<p>4. They downplayed it as &quot;brief&quot;, &quot;non-financial user data&quot;, and &quot;less than 5%&quot; of users. I care more about the integrity of source code and builds than any financial information I might have given to Docker.<p>I can sometimes forgive companies for breaches like this, <i>if</i> they own up to it and do an excellent job of communicating what happened, how, when, what the impact and mitigations are, both internally and for their customers. That was not the case here.<p>EDIT: they discovered the breach Thursday, but still haven&#x27;t given a timeframe for when it may have first occurred.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tie_</author><text>I also find it frustrating that they are not stating <i>when</i> exactly did the breach occur. The message implies that they know, due to the &quot;brief period&quot; claim, but they are not explicitly stating one of the most important facts. No mention in the FAQ either.<p>I&#x27;m guessing that they are either not quite certain about the exact timing and duration, or that the brief period was actually embarrassingly long. Otherwise, that&#x27;s one of the most important facts that anyone would communicate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unauthorized access to Docker Hub database</title><url>https://success.docker.com/article/docker-hub-user-notification</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rlt</author><text>I&#x27;ve found Docker&#x27;s communication about this incident to be pretty poor.<p>1. The email they sent out didn&#x27;t specify whether your account was included in the 5% of compromised users, or whether you had linked GitHub or BitBucket accounts that they unlinked. The only way to know seems to be if you still have a linked GH&#x2F;BB account then you&#x27;re (probably?) ok.<p>2. They mention you should &quot;check security logs to see if any unexpected actions have taken place&quot; and linked to GH&#x2F;BB security audit log pages, but I don&#x27;t believe that&#x27;s sufficient, you also need to check for rogue commits.<p>3. They haven&#x27;t said when the breach occurred, so there&#x27;s no way of knowing how far back to look. They &quot;discovered&quot; it on Thursday, and say it was a &quot;brief period&quot;, but that&#x27;s meaningless.<p>4. They downplayed it as &quot;brief&quot;, &quot;non-financial user data&quot;, and &quot;less than 5%&quot; of users. I care more about the integrity of source code and builds than any financial information I might have given to Docker.<p>I can sometimes forgive companies for breaches like this, <i>if</i> they own up to it and do an excellent job of communicating what happened, how, when, what the impact and mitigations are, both internally and for their customers. That was not the case here.<p>EDIT: they discovered the breach Thursday, but still haven&#x27;t given a timeframe for when it may have first occurred.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rlt</author><text>Oh, and if anyone with write access to your repositories had <i>their GH&#x2F;BB account</i> linked to <i>their DockerHub account</i>, your source code could be compromised.<p>AFAIK the only way to check is to ask every person who has write access and hope they tell the truth.<p>Honestly, <i>everyone</i> should probably check their repos for recent activity &#x2F; commits.<p>We need more fine-grained permissions for things like this. Principle of Least Authority, people.<p>Now is a good time to review authorized application <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;settings&#x2F;installations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;settings&#x2F;installations</a> and if you&#x27;re part of a GitHub organization I highly recommend setting up OAuth application restrictions <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;articles&#x2F;about-oauth-app-access-restrictions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;articles&#x2F;about-oauth-app-access-r...</a></text></comment> |
39,401,269 | 39,398,325 | 1 | 2 | 39,397,942 | train | <story><title>The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)</title><url>https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/emacsen/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shadowgovt</author><text>I think I fell in love with emacs when I realized that individual key presses could be scripted. Or possibly when I wrapped my head around macro injection. Hard to say, this thing grew on me from being an absolute space alien of an architecture to the first tool in the toolbox I reach for if I&#x27;ve got a new project to tackle.<p>My advice to people when editor wars come up is that going deep on something is more important than going deep on the right thing. emacs versus vi? No strong opinion. I happened to learn emacs first and would be repeating a lot of labor to go as deep on vi.<p>(... But I do tend to give a slight nudge in the direction of something of that ilk because relative to say, VS code... Those editors have already stood the test of time, they aren&#x27;t beholden to one owner, and while past performance is not proof of future expectations, there&#x27;s a lot of people heavily invested in keeping both of them alive and thriving).</text></comment> | <story><title>The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)</title><url>https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/emacsen/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>heinrichhartman</author><text>Direct Link to &quot;Lem&quot; the Common Lisp based &quot;Emacs&quot; discussed in the talk.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lem-project.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lem-project.github.io&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lem-project&#x2F;lem">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lem-project&#x2F;lem</a></text></comment> |
7,929,687 | 7,929,597 | 1 | 2 | 7,929,160 | train | <story><title>My Critique of HealthKit as Both iOS Dev and Registered Nurse</title><url>http://blog.jaredsinclair.com/post/89292422325/healthy-skepticism-my-critique-of-healthkit-as-both</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abalone</author><text><i>for stored medical data to be of any significant use to healthcare providers, it can’t be limited to just A) patients who own iPhones and use HealthKit apps and B) providers with EHRs configured to access those apps</i><p>That&#x27;s really not true. Just gathering sensor data and showing it to your doctor at your next visit could be <i>extremely</i> useful, even with zero EHR integration.<p>If some healthcare providers have apps that serve as an API into their backend EHR system, that&#x27;s a bonus. But it&#x27;s super-useful just for a doctor to be able to look a hyper-detailed health log book that patients bring with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macspoofing</author><text>The way I understand HealthKit, it is EHR agnostic. Apple doesn&#x27;t really want to directly compete in health-care. It&#x27;s a mess, and it would be incredibly defocusing for them, and frankly, the upside just isn&#x27;t there. What they want is for other companies to do the leg work and take on the regulatory risk by going through any relevant certifications and clinical trials. They simply want them to use iOS as a platform.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Critique of HealthKit as Both iOS Dev and Registered Nurse</title><url>http://blog.jaredsinclair.com/post/89292422325/healthy-skepticism-my-critique-of-healthkit-as-both</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abalone</author><text><i>for stored medical data to be of any significant use to healthcare providers, it can’t be limited to just A) patients who own iPhones and use HealthKit apps and B) providers with EHRs configured to access those apps</i><p>That&#x27;s really not true. Just gathering sensor data and showing it to your doctor at your next visit could be <i>extremely</i> useful, even with zero EHR integration.<p>If some healthcare providers have apps that serve as an API into their backend EHR system, that&#x27;s a bonus. But it&#x27;s super-useful just for a doctor to be able to look a hyper-detailed health log book that patients bring with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MBCook</author><text>That&#x27;s kind of my thought on this. Thanks to my FitBit I have a log of most things I ate, how much I excersized, and how much I weighted going back over a year. It&#x27;s not perfectly accurate (forgetting to weigh in, choosing to slack off on food entry, forgetting my FitBit) but it&#x27;s a hell of a lot better than I would do otherwise.<p>I can see, objectively, if I seem to be getting more or less exercise, or if I&#x27;m gaining or losing weight. Having every measurement of someone&#x27;s glucose if they are diabetic has got to be very useful.<p>Not everyone will keep records, not everyone who does will use it. But in the cases where someone does it seems like it should be beneficial in more than a few cases.</text></comment> |
34,004,144 | 34,003,690 | 1 | 2 | 34,001,347 | train | <story><title>NIST is announcing that SHA-1 should be phased out by Dec. 31, 2030</title><url>https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/12/nist-retires-sha-1-cryptographic-algorithm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>SHA-256 is used for Bitcoin mining, which serves as an enormous bug bounty for both full and partial breaks (if you can efficiently find inputs where the output has lots of leading zeroes that&#x27;s a partial break, and lets you mine bitcoin more efficiently). That&#x27;s worth a lot of trust. I don&#x27;t see any particular reason to think SHA-3 is better (though I&#x27;m not an expert) and unless I hear some indication that a problem has been found with SHA-2, I&#x27;ll probably stick with it forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>Bitcoin mining uses double SHA-256. It tends to be harder to break doubled hash functions, since you don&#x27;t have tools like length-extension attacks on the second round of hashing. For example, HMAC-SHA-1 is still secure (despite SHA-1 being pretty much broken), and it also uses a two-round hashing construction.</text></comment> | <story><title>NIST is announcing that SHA-1 should be phased out by Dec. 31, 2030</title><url>https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/12/nist-retires-sha-1-cryptographic-algorithm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>SHA-256 is used for Bitcoin mining, which serves as an enormous bug bounty for both full and partial breaks (if you can efficiently find inputs where the output has lots of leading zeroes that&#x27;s a partial break, and lets you mine bitcoin more efficiently). That&#x27;s worth a lot of trust. I don&#x27;t see any particular reason to think SHA-3 is better (though I&#x27;m not an expert) and unless I hear some indication that a problem has been found with SHA-2, I&#x27;ll probably stick with it forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anderskaseorg</author><text>SHA-256 is vulnerable to a length extension attack. This is well-known to cryptographers; it doesn’t matter for some applications and can be worked around in others. But it still catches some developers unaware.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Length_extension_attack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Length_extension_attack</a></text></comment> |
33,981,673 | 33,980,332 | 1 | 3 | 33,975,082 | train | <story><title>How to rebuild social media on top of RSS</title><url>https://tfos.co/p/rebuild-social-media/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dado3212</author><text>RSS has got to be the thing that Hacker News loves the most that every non-tech person on Earth doesn&#x27;t care about. So many techies love this model of designing their feed and collating what content they consume, while the quickest growing social network&#x27;s <i>entire pitch</i> (TikTok) is &quot;we&#x27;ll deliver you what you want without you having to follow anyone&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randomdata</author><text>Podcasts seem quite popular among non-tech people. The national over-the-air radio station in this country even has an entire weekly show dedicated to helping people find new podcasts to subscribe to. It appears non-tech folk do actually enjoy this model of designing their feed as much as anyone else.<p>Indeed, non-techies don&#x27;t actually care that it is RSS under the hood, but I&#x27;m not sure techies really care either. It is the high level concept of what RSS embodies that is really being talked about. RSS merely gets suggested because it is an already defined standard that gets us there. No need for a 15th competing standard.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to rebuild social media on top of RSS</title><url>https://tfos.co/p/rebuild-social-media/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dado3212</author><text>RSS has got to be the thing that Hacker News loves the most that every non-tech person on Earth doesn&#x27;t care about. So many techies love this model of designing their feed and collating what content they consume, while the quickest growing social network&#x27;s <i>entire pitch</i> (TikTok) is &quot;we&#x27;ll deliver you what you want without you having to follow anyone&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dasil003</author><text>Another Hacker News thing is the middle-brow dismissal.<p>It&#x27;s not really a fair comparison between a centralized product optimized for engagement and a distributed protocol that can be used in lots of different ways. Sure, the world doesn&#x27;t care about RSS, that&#x27;s pretty much the easiest strawman to come up with. On the other side though, it&#x27;s not a foregone conclusion that what the world wants is to be mindlessly entertained by the algorithm of a faceless corporation. At this point TikTok is the new hot, but there is a long history of youth culture rebelling against corporate tastemakers, so it doesn&#x27;t seem outrageous to assume that the next big thing will involve some measure of curation.</text></comment> |
19,299,592 | 19,298,640 | 1 | 3 | 19,297,401 | train | <story><title>The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times</title><url>https://twitter.com/rqou_/status/1101331385632022528</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilamont</author><text>For the unfamiliar, &quot;ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ&quot; is an example of &quot;bopomofo&quot; script, the phonetic system used to teach kids reading and pronunciation in Taiwan, and adapted to Chinese keyboard input (zhuyin). I learned it in the 1990s studying Mandarin in Taipei. It maps closely to pinyin romanization used in China (i.e., &quot;ㄨㄛˇ&quot; = &quot;wo3&quot; which is the sound in the Mandarin dialect for &quot;我&quot; and potentially other characters with the same pronunciation and tone. &quot;我&quot; means &quot;I&quot; or &quot;me&quot;).<p>I am wondering if it was modeled after Hiragana&#x2F;Katakana during Taiwan&#x27;s colonial period?</text></item><item><author>swang</author><text>This is using the zhuyin keyboard which most likely means Taiwanese users since Taiwan is probably the sole user of the zhuyin keyboard.<p>Typing that out on a zhuyin keyboard gets you:
ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ<p>In Pinyin that is
wo3 de mi4ma3<p>Or in English
&quot;my password&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tanilama</author><text>Zhuyin is indeed inspired&#x2F;influenced by hiragana&#x2F;katakana<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zh.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;zh&#x2F;%E6%B3%A8%E9%9F%B3%E7%AC%A6%E8%99%9F" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zh.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;zh&#x2F;%E6%B3%A8%E9%9F%B3%E7%AC%A6%E8...</a><p>But it wasn’t created by&#x2F;for Taiwanese specifically, by that time Taiwan was under Japan’s rule and they were learning Japanese at the schools. Indeed it was imported back into Taiwan when KMT fled there.<p>PRC then went on its own jounery of inventing its own
Romanization scheme for Chinese. They once almost chose Cyrillic alphabet because its ideological alliance with Soviets, but Latin script still won at the end of day, because the scholars were convicned it is more widely used and more useful.</text></comment> | <story><title>The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times</title><url>https://twitter.com/rqou_/status/1101331385632022528</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilamont</author><text>For the unfamiliar, &quot;ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ&quot; is an example of &quot;bopomofo&quot; script, the phonetic system used to teach kids reading and pronunciation in Taiwan, and adapted to Chinese keyboard input (zhuyin). I learned it in the 1990s studying Mandarin in Taipei. It maps closely to pinyin romanization used in China (i.e., &quot;ㄨㄛˇ&quot; = &quot;wo3&quot; which is the sound in the Mandarin dialect for &quot;我&quot; and potentially other characters with the same pronunciation and tone. &quot;我&quot; means &quot;I&quot; or &quot;me&quot;).<p>I am wondering if it was modeled after Hiragana&#x2F;Katakana during Taiwan&#x27;s colonial period?</text></item><item><author>swang</author><text>This is using the zhuyin keyboard which most likely means Taiwanese users since Taiwan is probably the sole user of the zhuyin keyboard.<p>Typing that out on a zhuyin keyboard gets you:
ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ<p>In Pinyin that is
wo3 de mi4ma3<p>Or in English
&quot;my password&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrischen</author><text>I thought hiragana&#x2F;katakana come from Chinese character radicals?</text></comment> |
36,497,869 | 18,913,357 | 1 | 3 | 18,911,317 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Crowdsourced freelance contract template, written in plain language</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20190116003031/https://plainfreelancecontract.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>(4-1&#x2F;2 years later: The submitted URL was <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plainfreelancecontract.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plainfreelancecontract.com&#x2F;</a>, but it links to malware now, so I&#x27;ve replaced it with an archive.org link.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Crowdsourced freelance contract template, written in plain language</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20190116003031/https://plainfreelancecontract.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ruairidhwm</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen quite a few of these and whilst I love the idea, they usually have a ton of problems in them.<p>As tptacek pointed out - there is no chance that this document would survive first contact with a sophisticated party and any qualified lawyer would likely rip this to shreds.<p>Firstly there is no regard to the potential jurisdiction that the user chooses. If I were to put in England then that would mean there are different contractual implications to choosing Scotland. Ditto for states in the USA. A layperson won&#x27;t know this, and a lawyer would need to review the provisions.<p>There are also a ton of generalised terms in this document where things like &#x27;intellectual property rights&#x27; aren&#x27;t defined. These aren&#x27;t generic terms and in the event of a dispute, language really matters. There is a reason why contracts are much longer when professionally written.<p>This isn&#x27;t to attack the idea, I&#x27;m hugely in favour of open access to legal documentation, but people need to realise that most legal work is bespoke - even if law firms do it on a &#x27;churn&#x27; basis. This is a great effort to further open law but it&#x27;s dangerous for people to rely on this.<p>Source: I&#x27;m a software engineer and a qualified lawyer</text></comment> |
32,075,638 | 32,074,706 | 1 | 2 | 32,066,453 | train | <story><title>ISO name change for Türkiye</title><url>https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:TR</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonathankoren</author><text>Reminds me of Ivory Coast insisting that everyone call it Côte d&#x27;Ivoire, or even the &quot;Republic of Côte d&#x27;Ivoire&quot;.<p>Sure, fine, whatever. Everyone deserves to be called by their preferred name. I find it weird though, because every country has a respectful exonym, so a direct translation doesn&#x27;t seem wrong, and mixing languages seems even weirder.<p>I don&#x27;t know why personal names don&#x27;t typically get translated, but country names do, so this is not a hill worth dying on. It&#x27;s just odd to me, especially since they are sticking with the colonial name instead of changing to some indigenous name.</text></item><item><author>robga</author><text>The UK government is changing the full name (&#x27;State Title&#x27;) only, not the short name (&#x27;Country Name&#x27;). The UK gov follows the standards set by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use. This body includes the BBC, Royal Geographical Society, etc. So I suppose the BBC will continue to use Turkey.<p>&quot;Turkey; Republic of Turkey changed to Turkey; Republic of Türkiye&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;publications&#x2F;country-names&#x2F;country-name-changes-in-hmg-use-1919-to-2020" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;publications&#x2F;country-names&#x2F;cou...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;groups&#x2F;the-permanent-committee-on-geographical-names" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;groups&#x2F;the-permanent-committee...</a><p>There is the precedent of Burma&#x2F;Myanmar, &quot;Country name remains Burma reflecting common British English usage&quot;. Similarly for Cabo Verde, &quot;Cape Verde had circulated a request for this form to be used, though UK has retained the common English usage for the country name&quot;.<p>However, it did recently change Swaziland to Eswatini and I know which one I&#x27;d vote for as being common usage.<p>The ISO codes are not always adopted verbatim. e.g. The UK gov list does not include Taiwan. ISO plays both sides, giving it a country code but calling it a province of China. On the other hand the UK does include Kosovo which is not an ISO country but is recognised as one by approx 50% of nations including the UK.<p>Other countries have similar national naming committees to the UK&#x27;s PCGN, you can see a list here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unstats.un.org&#x2F;unsd&#x2F;ungegn&#x2F;nna&#x2F;nna-committees&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unstats.un.org&#x2F;unsd&#x2F;ungegn&#x2F;nna&#x2F;nna-committees&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stingraycharles</author><text>City names also get translated, but not regions &#x2F; provinces. It’s all so arbitrary, probably mostly for historical reasons.<p>My own nationality (and perhaps yours, judging by your username?) comes to mind, Dutch, which doesn’t even vaguely resemble the way we refer to ourselves (“Nederlands”), but is close to a very old naming of a region in our country (“Diets”, ca. 1200 - 1550), how we call Germans (“Duits”), who call themselves different as well (“Deutsch”), where the word “German” probably stems from Germanic, which refers to a historical group of people in Central and Scandinavian Europe, comparable to “Latin”.</text></comment> | <story><title>ISO name change for Türkiye</title><url>https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:TR</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonathankoren</author><text>Reminds me of Ivory Coast insisting that everyone call it Côte d&#x27;Ivoire, or even the &quot;Republic of Côte d&#x27;Ivoire&quot;.<p>Sure, fine, whatever. Everyone deserves to be called by their preferred name. I find it weird though, because every country has a respectful exonym, so a direct translation doesn&#x27;t seem wrong, and mixing languages seems even weirder.<p>I don&#x27;t know why personal names don&#x27;t typically get translated, but country names do, so this is not a hill worth dying on. It&#x27;s just odd to me, especially since they are sticking with the colonial name instead of changing to some indigenous name.</text></item><item><author>robga</author><text>The UK government is changing the full name (&#x27;State Title&#x27;) only, not the short name (&#x27;Country Name&#x27;). The UK gov follows the standards set by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use. This body includes the BBC, Royal Geographical Society, etc. So I suppose the BBC will continue to use Turkey.<p>&quot;Turkey; Republic of Turkey changed to Turkey; Republic of Türkiye&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;publications&#x2F;country-names&#x2F;country-name-changes-in-hmg-use-1919-to-2020" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;publications&#x2F;country-names&#x2F;cou...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;groups&#x2F;the-permanent-committee-on-geographical-names" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;government&#x2F;groups&#x2F;the-permanent-committee...</a><p>There is the precedent of Burma&#x2F;Myanmar, &quot;Country name remains Burma reflecting common British English usage&quot;. Similarly for Cabo Verde, &quot;Cape Verde had circulated a request for this form to be used, though UK has retained the common English usage for the country name&quot;.<p>However, it did recently change Swaziland to Eswatini and I know which one I&#x27;d vote for as being common usage.<p>The ISO codes are not always adopted verbatim. e.g. The UK gov list does not include Taiwan. ISO plays both sides, giving it a country code but calling it a province of China. On the other hand the UK does include Kosovo which is not an ISO country but is recognised as one by approx 50% of nations including the UK.<p>Other countries have similar national naming committees to the UK&#x27;s PCGN, you can see a list here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unstats.un.org&#x2F;unsd&#x2F;ungegn&#x2F;nna&#x2F;nna-committees&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unstats.un.org&#x2F;unsd&#x2F;ungegn&#x2F;nna&#x2F;nna-committees&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>Personal names will sometimes be translated - depending on when the person moved or decided to present as.<p>I know of Indian colleagues who go by an English-sounding name that is at least somewhat close to their actual name. Others have anglicized a spelling that is phonetically close.<p>The main difference is that you can ask them what they prefer as they’re right there.<p>It’s harder to ask an entire country.</text></comment> |
15,437,604 | 15,437,640 | 1 | 2 | 15,436,943 | train | <story><title>Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/climate/tokyo-floods.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=climate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>Nah, the problem is self-limiting. If global warming reduces the carrying capacity of the environment, people will die. Dead people don&#x27;t use resources; their bodies are returned to the environment by decomposers, where they will provide fertilizer for trees and other plants, which will grow even more abundantly because of the enhanced CO2 levels. Eventually the earth reaches a new equilibrium at a somewhat higher temperature.<p>Most people don&#x27;t want to die, and so we have a self-interested argument for not destroying our environment. But we&#x27;re at the top of the food chain - well before there&#x27;s a lasting impact on the earth&#x27;s ability to sustain life, we&#x27;ll all be dead. It&#x27;s the height of hubris to believe we have the ability to effect lasting change on the earth&#x27;s environment that won&#x27;t disappear once we do.</text></item><item><author>blondie9x</author><text>Adaptation without mitigation will not be effective as the impacts worsen. Uncapped emissions and business as usual scenarios will cause outcomes that we will not be able to build ourselves out of.<p>We must reduce emissions and push for sustainable infrastructure and solutions, now.<p>We must adapt and we must also mitigate. Only through the combination of both efforts and through our determination and willingness to lead sustainable lifestyles will we be able to beat climate change. We must push for renewable energy, and technological solutions to efficiently use resources.<p>The policy coming out of the White House is against these efforts and we need to find a way to prevent them from hurting us and our posterity by postponing the efforts to transition to clean energy.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;climate&#x2F;clean-power-plan.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;climate&#x2F;clean-power-plan....</a></text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>It&#x27;s very likely that local band-aids are the most effective way to deal with this.<p>Your train example is a pretty good one, but you&#x27;ve mixed up the metaphor. Here, &quot;stepping out of the way&quot; = mass migrations out of coastal cities. &quot;A mechanized winch that temporarily lifts us over the train&quot; = flood control projects like in Tokyo, Houston, Venice, or the Netherlands. &quot;Calling the train company and asking them to stop running trains&quot; = stopping global warming by addressing carbon emissions.<p>If you had a train barreling down on you, which one would you choose? I&#x27;d bet it wouldn&#x27;t be calling the train company and asking them to stop running trains, because a.) they are unlikely to anyway and b.) even if they were willing, by the time you got through to someone with the power to stop the trains you&#x27;ll probably be dead anyway.<p>I&#x27;d argue that the actual solution to global warming will be more akin to &quot;stepping out of the way&quot;: people will evacuate from major cities, major cities will be destroyed, and people will pick up the pieces of their lives elsewhere. If they&#x27;re proactive, they might evacuate before the city is actually destroyed, and we&#x27;ll see mass migrations of people (as have been happening for the last several hundred years anyway) away from areas that will face greater climate risks and toward areas that benefit from global warming.<p>That&#x27;s what humans do: we adapt to our environment. Only in particularly hubristic times (like now) have we expected to adapt our environment to us.</text></item><item><author>acabal</author><text>It&#x27;s so crazy to me that everyone in vulnerable places--Tokyo and Houston in the article for example--are happy to spend hundreds of millions, even billions, to put a bandaid on their local climate change problems.<p>It seems like they all acknowledge the reality and danger of climate change and are willing to spend money on it.<p>In TFA Houston wants $400 million to build a reservoir. They seem to acknowledge that things are only going to get worse for them as the years go on. And yet everyone there still drives everywhere spewing carbon into their own air with every trip, public transit is in a poor state, and oil exploitation continues apace. Everyone&#x27;s OK with spending money and manpower on huge public works projects, but they&#x27;re not OK with addressing habits and addictions that make the projects necessary in the first place.<p>It&#x27;s as if our eyes can see the oncoming train just a mile away, but instead of stepping out of the way we want to build a mechanized winch that will temporarily lift us over the train, and hopefully we&#x27;ll be done building it before the train hits us, and oh yeah, never mind how we&#x27;re supposed to get down, or the taller train after that one.<p>Why can&#x27;t we put that money, effort, manpower, and will into actually <i>addressing climate change</i> and make crazy projects like vast man-made Mines-of-Moria-style underground tunnels and huge artificial reservoirs unnecessary?<p>Yes it&#x27;s a global problem, but solutions to global problems start at home. Throwing our hands up and saying it&#x27;s pointless until the other guy does something too can&#x27;t be the way to progress on this issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trophycase</author><text>It&#x27;s not true that a stable equilibrium is always reached. It&#x27;s also possible that irreversible changes are set into motion which shift the equilibrium so far away from livability that humans cannot survive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/climate/tokyo-floods.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=climate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>Nah, the problem is self-limiting. If global warming reduces the carrying capacity of the environment, people will die. Dead people don&#x27;t use resources; their bodies are returned to the environment by decomposers, where they will provide fertilizer for trees and other plants, which will grow even more abundantly because of the enhanced CO2 levels. Eventually the earth reaches a new equilibrium at a somewhat higher temperature.<p>Most people don&#x27;t want to die, and so we have a self-interested argument for not destroying our environment. But we&#x27;re at the top of the food chain - well before there&#x27;s a lasting impact on the earth&#x27;s ability to sustain life, we&#x27;ll all be dead. It&#x27;s the height of hubris to believe we have the ability to effect lasting change on the earth&#x27;s environment that won&#x27;t disappear once we do.</text></item><item><author>blondie9x</author><text>Adaptation without mitigation will not be effective as the impacts worsen. Uncapped emissions and business as usual scenarios will cause outcomes that we will not be able to build ourselves out of.<p>We must reduce emissions and push for sustainable infrastructure and solutions, now.<p>We must adapt and we must also mitigate. Only through the combination of both efforts and through our determination and willingness to lead sustainable lifestyles will we be able to beat climate change. We must push for renewable energy, and technological solutions to efficiently use resources.<p>The policy coming out of the White House is against these efforts and we need to find a way to prevent them from hurting us and our posterity by postponing the efforts to transition to clean energy.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;climate&#x2F;clean-power-plan.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;climate&#x2F;clean-power-plan....</a></text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>It&#x27;s very likely that local band-aids are the most effective way to deal with this.<p>Your train example is a pretty good one, but you&#x27;ve mixed up the metaphor. Here, &quot;stepping out of the way&quot; = mass migrations out of coastal cities. &quot;A mechanized winch that temporarily lifts us over the train&quot; = flood control projects like in Tokyo, Houston, Venice, or the Netherlands. &quot;Calling the train company and asking them to stop running trains&quot; = stopping global warming by addressing carbon emissions.<p>If you had a train barreling down on you, which one would you choose? I&#x27;d bet it wouldn&#x27;t be calling the train company and asking them to stop running trains, because a.) they are unlikely to anyway and b.) even if they were willing, by the time you got through to someone with the power to stop the trains you&#x27;ll probably be dead anyway.<p>I&#x27;d argue that the actual solution to global warming will be more akin to &quot;stepping out of the way&quot;: people will evacuate from major cities, major cities will be destroyed, and people will pick up the pieces of their lives elsewhere. If they&#x27;re proactive, they might evacuate before the city is actually destroyed, and we&#x27;ll see mass migrations of people (as have been happening for the last several hundred years anyway) away from areas that will face greater climate risks and toward areas that benefit from global warming.<p>That&#x27;s what humans do: we adapt to our environment. Only in particularly hubristic times (like now) have we expected to adapt our environment to us.</text></item><item><author>acabal</author><text>It&#x27;s so crazy to me that everyone in vulnerable places--Tokyo and Houston in the article for example--are happy to spend hundreds of millions, even billions, to put a bandaid on their local climate change problems.<p>It seems like they all acknowledge the reality and danger of climate change and are willing to spend money on it.<p>In TFA Houston wants $400 million to build a reservoir. They seem to acknowledge that things are only going to get worse for them as the years go on. And yet everyone there still drives everywhere spewing carbon into their own air with every trip, public transit is in a poor state, and oil exploitation continues apace. Everyone&#x27;s OK with spending money and manpower on huge public works projects, but they&#x27;re not OK with addressing habits and addictions that make the projects necessary in the first place.<p>It&#x27;s as if our eyes can see the oncoming train just a mile away, but instead of stepping out of the way we want to build a mechanized winch that will temporarily lift us over the train, and hopefully we&#x27;ll be done building it before the train hits us, and oh yeah, never mind how we&#x27;re supposed to get down, or the taller train after that one.<p>Why can&#x27;t we put that money, effort, manpower, and will into actually <i>addressing climate change</i> and make crazy projects like vast man-made Mines-of-Moria-style underground tunnels and huge artificial reservoirs unnecessary?<p>Yes it&#x27;s a global problem, but solutions to global problems start at home. Throwing our hands up and saying it&#x27;s pointless until the other guy does something too can&#x27;t be the way to progress on this issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>It seems that we could be headed for a mass extinction, whether or not humans manage to survive thousands of years longer.<p>We aren’t going to entirely destroy life on the planet, which will eventually recover great diversity (speciation to fill new ecological niches in some new stable equilibrium) within a few million years after we’re gone, but it will look significantly different than what we are familiar with.<p>That’s not much consolation to people who feel attached to what human societies and cultures we have all spent a lot of effort developing.</text></comment> |
14,023,560 | 14,023,489 | 1 | 2 | 14,022,863 | train | <story><title>Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/03/statcounter-android-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JBReefer</author><text>On one hand, this is a truly incredible accomplishment for Google, and in so little time! On the other, it&#x27;s sort of amazing this hadn&#x27;t happened already - so, so many people in the developing world are entirely reliant on mobile, and mostly use low-end Android phones.<p>I use a Moto G4 and the experience is shockingly good for a device that costs less than a bar tab. It&#x27;s no wonder that low-end Android&#x27;s are winning, based on my experience with it. It&#x27;s not the same caliber of phone as a new iPhone or a Pixel, but the difference is not worth $800.<p>And all of this is mostly open source, runs on Linux using Java, and can be developed on for free. This seems like a good timeline! (even if the API isn&#x27;t that great)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psy-q</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget that the proprietary Google Play Services are required by more and more apps and that Google is doing everything it can to push these services to the largest number of devices by weaving some sort of web of interdependency.</text></comment> | <story><title>Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/03/statcounter-android-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JBReefer</author><text>On one hand, this is a truly incredible accomplishment for Google, and in so little time! On the other, it&#x27;s sort of amazing this hadn&#x27;t happened already - so, so many people in the developing world are entirely reliant on mobile, and mostly use low-end Android phones.<p>I use a Moto G4 and the experience is shockingly good for a device that costs less than a bar tab. It&#x27;s no wonder that low-end Android&#x27;s are winning, based on my experience with it. It&#x27;s not the same caliber of phone as a new iPhone or a Pixel, but the difference is not worth $800.<p>And all of this is mostly open source, runs on Linux using Java, and can be developed on for free. This seems like a good timeline! (even if the API isn&#x27;t that great)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digi_owl</author><text>AOSP may be open, but on its own it is a skeleton of a OS.<p>Most of the magic in Android today is housed in Play Services, one of two things Google can push an update for (the other being the Play store app) without any dialog or concent from the device user.</text></comment> |
3,731,078 | 3,730,876 | 1 | 3 | 3,730,028 | train | <story><title>From YC Rejection to 10,000 Users in 1 Month (with stats)</title><url>http://blog.codiqa.com/2012/03/from-yc-rejection-to-10000-users-in-1-month/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Believe it or not I like this being the top story. We know there are lots of bugs in our process and we want to hear the bug reports.<p>I went back to look at the application. It fell immediately below the threshold for invitation to interviews. I.e. if even one of us had given them a grade one step better, they would have made it to interviews.<p>When we make mistakes, it's usually in this phase. Most of the time when we screw up it's by not inviting a group to interviews, rather than by interviewing them and turning them down. So this startup is exactly where a mistake would be most likely to occur: in the applications that fell just short of the cutoff for interviews.<p>The good news is, we'd already decided to fix this problem. We're going to do 3 interview tracks for s2012, which will let us interview 270 groups instead of the 180 we did last time.<p>If we'd done that last time, we would have interviewed these guys. But last batch was the first time we did parallel interview tracks at all, and we needed to test whether it worked for 2 before we went to 3.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bambax</author><text>I don't know if I'm going to be able to express what I feel but I'll try.<p>YC "bugs" are<p>- startups that are accepted and fail<p>- startups that are rejected and fail, <i>but would have thrived had they been accepted</i><p>(Of course this last kind of bug is extremely difficult to track down.)<p>But if a startup makes a killing after being rejected by YC it means they didn't need you.<p>If you consider this a bug, there's some kind of moral problem because it means YC is trying to siphon every promising team in order to maximize YC's success, independently of who YC is likely to help more.<p>You're not just betting on horses, you're also training them: it seems what you should want to maximize is YC's impact...?</text></comment> | <story><title>From YC Rejection to 10,000 Users in 1 Month (with stats)</title><url>http://blog.codiqa.com/2012/03/from-yc-rejection-to-10000-users-in-1-month/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Believe it or not I like this being the top story. We know there are lots of bugs in our process and we want to hear the bug reports.<p>I went back to look at the application. It fell immediately below the threshold for invitation to interviews. I.e. if even one of us had given them a grade one step better, they would have made it to interviews.<p>When we make mistakes, it's usually in this phase. Most of the time when we screw up it's by not inviting a group to interviews, rather than by interviewing them and turning them down. So this startup is exactly where a mistake would be most likely to occur: in the applications that fell just short of the cutoff for interviews.<p>The good news is, we'd already decided to fix this problem. We're going to do 3 interview tracks for s2012, which will let us interview 270 groups instead of the 180 we did last time.<p>If we'd done that last time, we would have interviewed these guys. But last batch was the first time we did parallel interview tracks at all, and we needed to test whether it worked for 2 before we went to 3.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AdamFernandez</author><text>I don't think much explanation is necessary. YC is never going to catch every potentially successful startup. The process can be refined, but you will never recognize all of them. Averages being what they are, I think YC has done very well. The Codiqa team showed tenacity, and when YC didn't work out for them, they found another route. They are a great example for other startups. None of this should put YC in a negative light.</text></comment> |
8,665,805 | 8,665,675 | 1 | 3 | 8,665,581 | train | <story><title>Twitter Is Tracking Users’ Installed Apps for Ad Targeting</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/11/26/twitter-is-tracking-users-installed-apps-for-ad-targeting/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanworl</author><text>URL schemes are not the most comprehensive (and likely, in my opinion) way of accomplishing this tracking. Most apps do not have any kind of URL scheme.<p>Here&#x27;s how you do it for any app on the system, with or without a URL scheme:<p>1. Use sysctl to get the list of active processes.<p>2. Filter out all system processes<p>3. Upload to the server for further processing.<p>Combine this with a silent background refresh push notification, and you can have this run ~3 times per hour without Apple throttling you!<p>Source: I have shipped an iOS app for a client that does exactly this, although not Twitter.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter Is Tracking Users’ Installed Apps for Ad Targeting</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/11/26/twitter-is-tracking-users-installed-apps-for-ad-targeting/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>100k</author><text>Can any iOS developers comment on whether or not Twitter required special permission from Apple or this is simply something any iOS app can do? I&#x27;v read conflicting comments online.<p>If it&#x27;s the latter, I guess we should be thankful they bothered to tell us, because there are surely other apps that aren&#x27;t.</text></comment> |
34,387,083 | 34,386,664 | 1 | 2 | 34,385,223 | train | <story><title>‘Excuuuuse me, Princess ’: An oral history of The Legend of Zelda cartoon</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/zelda/23540526/legend-of-zelda-cartoon-oral-history-zeldathon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msla</author><text>&quot;The Legend of Beavis&quot;: <i>Beavis and Butthead</i> audio dubbed onto an episode of <i>The Legend of Zelda</i> cartoon:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;the-legend-of-beavis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;the-legend-of-beavis</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KVFinn</author><text>I had only ever seen the Beavis version.<p>&quot;Looking good princess, especially from this angle!&quot; is the original line. Beavis version is, &quot;Nice boobs, honey!&quot;<p>I assumed the Beavis redub was a subversion of the original cartoon but it&#x27;s basically just the same. Wild.</text></comment> | <story><title>‘Excuuuuse me, Princess ’: An oral history of The Legend of Zelda cartoon</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/zelda/23540526/legend-of-zelda-cartoon-oral-history-zeldathon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msla</author><text>&quot;The Legend of Beavis&quot;: <i>Beavis and Butthead</i> audio dubbed onto an episode of <i>The Legend of Zelda</i> cartoon:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;the-legend-of-beavis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;the-legend-of-beavis</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omginternets</author><text>I love how you can see Beavis in the mirror. This is incredible.</text></comment> |
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