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37,582,968 | 37,582,221 | 1 | 2 | 37,580,141 | train | <story><title>FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones</title><url>https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-authorizes-zipline-deliver-commercial-packages-beyond-line-sight</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bnegreve</author><text>The size of these vehicles is certainly absurd, but flying packages with drones that consume most of their energy to fight gravity does not seem particularly efficient either, (e.g. compared to small road electric vehicles with the same payload, which would have its own practical problems).</text></item><item><author>nomilk</author><text>&gt; when your lunch only weighs a few ounces, delivering it in 2-ton gas powered vehicles is wildly inefficient<p>Seems absurd when it&#x27;s put like that. This is possibly something we&#x27;ll look back on and struggle to comprehend how it was ever the go-to solution.</text></item><item><author>Flockster</author><text>A video from Mark Rober about Zipline, to get an idea. I was very impressed when I first heard of them.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DOWDNBu9DkU" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DOWDNBu9DkU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcims</author><text>Sure but there&#x27;s a tradeoff with ground transport. A drone can make the trip with much shorter traveled distance and potentially higher speed, resulting in higher utilization per vehicle. It also doesn&#x27;t interfere with road traffic, which could have externalities in longer idle time for other vehicles at intersections and whatnot.<p>Both are better than Garret in his 2007 Ford Explorer driving around town all day delivering timbits and tacos.</text></comment> | <story><title>FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones</title><url>https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-authorizes-zipline-deliver-commercial-packages-beyond-line-sight</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bnegreve</author><text>The size of these vehicles is certainly absurd, but flying packages with drones that consume most of their energy to fight gravity does not seem particularly efficient either, (e.g. compared to small road electric vehicles with the same payload, which would have its own practical problems).</text></item><item><author>nomilk</author><text>&gt; when your lunch only weighs a few ounces, delivering it in 2-ton gas powered vehicles is wildly inefficient<p>Seems absurd when it&#x27;s put like that. This is possibly something we&#x27;ll look back on and struggle to comprehend how it was ever the go-to solution.</text></item><item><author>Flockster</author><text>A video from Mark Rober about Zipline, to get an idea. I was very impressed when I first heard of them.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DOWDNBu9DkU" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DOWDNBu9DkU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reacweb</author><text>The existence of migratory birds proves that the loss of energy due to the Earth&#x27;s gravitational pull is not so catastrophic. A vehicle in motion also loses energy because of the friction of the wheels. Above a certain speed, air friction becomes the most significant loss. The comparison of the energy balance of a vehicle on the road compared with a vehicle in the air is not as clear-cut. Vehicles on wheels are much heavier and require infrastructure (roads) that must be taken into account.</text></comment> |
5,344,072 | 5,344,055 | 1 | 2 | 5,343,807 | train | <story><title>Runnable – Edit, run, and share code in your browser</title><url>http://runnable.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ebbv</author><text>At the risk of giving away a million dollar idea; nobody's gonna wanna really edit things in the browser. Too risky and missing features of whatever their favorite editor is.<p>But how about letting people push their code up via git? So you could have a runnable browser window open, push your changes up to your runnable repo and then hit run?<p>If this does turn out to be the key that breaks this open please remember it was my idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bmuon</author><text>Here's another idea. JSBin is doing something pretty awesome: it uses the HTML5 File API so that you can select a file from your computer and it syncs to different instances of the same bin while you edit it in your favorite editor. Check it out: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY56fNmn2cE" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY56fNmn2cE</a> (keep in mind the video was taken during development, now it's pretty stable).<p>BTW some people like editing in the browser and that's why Cloud9IDE is alive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Runnable – Edit, run, and share code in your browser</title><url>http://runnable.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ebbv</author><text>At the risk of giving away a million dollar idea; nobody's gonna wanna really edit things in the browser. Too risky and missing features of whatever their favorite editor is.<p>But how about letting people push their code up via git? So you could have a runnable browser window open, push your changes up to your runnable repo and then hit run?<p>If this does turn out to be the key that breaks this open please remember it was my idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>creativename</author><text>Soooort of off-topic, but I've actually had a lot of success using Cloud9 IDE (<a href="https://c9.io/" rel="nofollow">https://c9.io/</a>) as an in-browser editor. It really closely mirrors Sublime Text 2 as far as default functionality and appearance goes. Of course, I'm coming from a Visual Studio IDE background rather than a Vim/Emacs background, so I can't vouch for its usefulness for users more accustomed to that type of work environment.<p>Note: not affiliated with Cloud 9</text></comment> |
17,787,081 | 17,785,979 | 1 | 2 | 17,785,616 | train | <story><title>U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-encryption-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-government-seeks-facebook-help-to-wiretap-messenger-sources-idUSKBN1L226D</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjevans</author><text>I think it has become abundantly clear that a fully peer to peer, encryption required (non-optional), no single central server infrastructure solution is the answer.<p>No points to tap.<p>No point in tapping the data.<p>If they want to capture conversations it&#x27;s time to go back to the proper old ways of actually spying on high-value targets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apatters</author><text>This discussion should never be framed as a choice between legal solutions and technical solutions. They are complementary.<p>The legal approach is correct and easy for the public to understand. Explained correctly it is also popular. The government used to have to do things like get a warrant and investigate specific crimes. They couldn&#x27;t listen to everyone&#x27;s phone conversations all the time and they shouldn&#x27;t be able to do this on the Internet either. Digital dragnets are illegal and unconstitutional.<p>The technical approach is also correct. If you&#x27;re building something that makes it harder for criminals inside the government to commit more crimes, you&#x27;re doing work that is profound and in the best interests of society. Anyone with passion and technical skill can participate in this work. It&#x27;s the right thing to do.<p>Both efforts help each other. Keep the government in line and accountable to the people. Make it harder for people inside the government to do the wrong thing. All approaches deserve support and should leverage each other&#x27;s work. They should cooperate with law-abiding, constitutionally empowered government authorities as well. There are good guys in the government too.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-encryption-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-government-seeks-facebook-help-to-wiretap-messenger-sources-idUSKBN1L226D</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjevans</author><text>I think it has become abundantly clear that a fully peer to peer, encryption required (non-optional), no single central server infrastructure solution is the answer.<p>No points to tap.<p>No point in tapping the data.<p>If they want to capture conversations it&#x27;s time to go back to the proper old ways of actually spying on high-value targets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomatotomato37</author><text>This is a case of the government trying to force Facebook to essentially strip out their technology; saying technology is the solution here is kinda ignorant of the actual issue</text></comment> |
14,789,163 | 14,789,200 | 1 | 3 | 14,788,620 | train | <story><title>CoinDash’s ICO Website Has Been Hacked</title><url>http://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/breaking-coindashs-token-sale-ico-website-hacked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davnicwil</author><text>Just to pick up on this one small point: as I understand it, the cashback you get with a credit card is more or less taken straight from the card processing fee charged to the vendor, which of course, raises prices overall and is therefore not really cashback at all. Without the fee, you would likely have just paid a lower price in the first place.<p>The only party benefitting from the cashback scheme is, of course, the middleman. By offering it, they give you an incentive to use the card more, which in turn gives the vendors more incentive to accept it. More card use equates directly to more money for them.<p>One of the hugely compelling benefits of cryptocurrencies is they entirely eliminate the necessity for such middlemen taking a cut and driving up costs for the parties actually partaking in the transaction.</text></item><item><author>nikolay</author><text>Where&#x27;s the news?! Why do people continue to bang heads against the wall with this madness? Unless you&#x27;re a thief, how is the craptocurrency thing better than my credit card that&#x27;s insured from unauthorized use and gives me a cash back?! Yeah, you can&#x27;t speculate with credit cards, and get rich quick, because $1 = $1 like forever, but isn&#x27;t that what the real investment tools are for?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>That&#x27;s the definition of insurance. The problem with bitcoin, if you think that&#x27;s a problem, is that there&#x27;s no obvious way to implement this scheme. You&#x27;d have to insure your coins to a third party but then you&#x27;d probably have to give them some control over your wallet so that you can&#x27;t just &quot;steal&quot; your own coins and make a claim.<p>But clearly people want this type of guarantee so I think the cryptopunk dream of having every human being owning a bitcoin wallet aligns poorly with what real world human beings want.<p>Everytime I read about long term adoption of cryptocurrency by the masses I always end up asking myself the same question: &quot;Why would a random person for whom money is not a political statement care about any of that? What&#x27;s the added value?&quot; As far as I&#x27;m concerned I still haven&#x27;t found a satisfactory answer to this question.</text></comment> | <story><title>CoinDash’s ICO Website Has Been Hacked</title><url>http://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/breaking-coindashs-token-sale-ico-website-hacked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davnicwil</author><text>Just to pick up on this one small point: as I understand it, the cashback you get with a credit card is more or less taken straight from the card processing fee charged to the vendor, which of course, raises prices overall and is therefore not really cashback at all. Without the fee, you would likely have just paid a lower price in the first place.<p>The only party benefitting from the cashback scheme is, of course, the middleman. By offering it, they give you an incentive to use the card more, which in turn gives the vendors more incentive to accept it. More card use equates directly to more money for them.<p>One of the hugely compelling benefits of cryptocurrencies is they entirely eliminate the necessity for such middlemen taking a cut and driving up costs for the parties actually partaking in the transaction.</text></item><item><author>nikolay</author><text>Where&#x27;s the news?! Why do people continue to bang heads against the wall with this madness? Unless you&#x27;re a thief, how is the craptocurrency thing better than my credit card that&#x27;s insured from unauthorized use and gives me a cash back?! Yeah, you can&#x27;t speculate with credit cards, and get rich quick, because $1 = $1 like forever, but isn&#x27;t that what the real investment tools are for?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsurmanski</author><text>But do they eliminate the middleman? At least for Bitcoin, it takes an hour for any confidence that a transaction is truly valid. I&#x27;m not going to wait around for an hour just to grab my morning coffee.<p>So obviously there&#x27;s going to need to be a credit backed middle man to guarantee your transaction so the seller doesn&#x27;t get screwed by a double spend.<p>Eth is slightly better, but it still takes something on the order of 10m to confirm a transaction, and it doesn&#x27;t look like it can get anywhere near the speed needed for a coffee purchase.</text></comment> |
20,343,497 | 20,343,037 | 1 | 2 | 20,341,809 | train | <story><title>Apple reveals App Store takedown demands by governments</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/02/apple-app-government-takedowns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arijun</author><text>An interesting contrast is the story on the front page about Chinese border patrol installing spyware [1]. There, the fact that every app needs to be signed by Apple meant that the surveillance app could only be installed on Android phones. So I guess, yes, nobody can dictate what apps you can install, but also nobody can dictate what apps others can install.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20342063" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20342063</a></text></item><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>This is the №1 reason I choose Android - nobody can dictate what apps I can install.<p>I always knew you can only install apps from the store on Apple devices and strongly disliked this (I already use some apps which even Google won&#x27;t approve, e.g. an open-source YouTube downloader only available on GitHub) but once I&#x27;ve found out you can&#x27;t get some apps (and books) in particular countries (e.g. a book I wanted was only available in the US store) and a government can ban something from the store I facepalmed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mirimir</author><text>&gt; also nobody can dictate what apps others can install<p>That&#x27;s one of the main reason why I don&#x27;t use smartphones: I wouldn&#x27;t be in control of my own device. With iOS, Apple is in control. With Android, apparently nobody is in control.<p>But on my Linux machines, I&#x27;m arguably in control. If I can find stuff somewhere, I can install it. And nobody else can, unless they root them. It happens, I know. But with LUKS FDE, even booting is arguably hard unless they could read the key from RAM.<p>So how come we got this smartphone crap, instead of actual portable computers that could, among other things, work as cellphones?</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple reveals App Store takedown demands by governments</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/02/apple-app-government-takedowns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arijun</author><text>An interesting contrast is the story on the front page about Chinese border patrol installing spyware [1]. There, the fact that every app needs to be signed by Apple meant that the surveillance app could only be installed on Android phones. So I guess, yes, nobody can dictate what apps you can install, but also nobody can dictate what apps others can install.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20342063" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20342063</a></text></item><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>This is the №1 reason I choose Android - nobody can dictate what apps I can install.<p>I always knew you can only install apps from the store on Apple devices and strongly disliked this (I already use some apps which even Google won&#x27;t approve, e.g. an open-source YouTube downloader only available on GitHub) but once I&#x27;ve found out you can&#x27;t get some apps (and books) in particular countries (e.g. a book I wanted was only available in the US store) and a government can ban something from the store I facepalmed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tushar-r</author><text>From the article:<p>&quot;The iPhones are plugged into a reader that scans them, while Android phones have the app installed to do the same job.&quot;<p>Yes, they cannot install an app, but that doesn&#x27;t make your data secure from being taken.</text></comment> |
32,185,333 | 32,182,632 | 1 | 3 | 32,181,153 | train | <story><title>Negative incentives in academic research</title><url>https://lemire.me/blog/2022/07/21/negative-incentives-in-academic-research/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quantum_mcts</author><text>I generally disagree with the premise that scientists are becoming less productive. (To me, the complaints that there are no more grand fundamental discoveries is alike to complaining that we are not discovering any new continents on Earth...)<p>On the subject of incentives in academia - reflecting on my academia run, I&#x27;ve noticed that I was the most creatively productive when I had a longer planning horizon in front of me. It was either at the beginning of a several-years position. Or at the very end when I knew that I&#x27;m leaving and didn&#x27;t care anymore. The least productive was the sequence of one-year postdocs - when I was constantly worrying about the next one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elashri</author><text>My supervisor told me recently that it is very risky to focus on breakthrough topics except when you are doing PhD or if your are tenured. probably less true for PhD if you don&#x27;t have ambitious PI. The demand for publications and results that is mainly the way to evaluate you starting from postdoc until tenure promotion is very tense. People usually try to do many things and stretch themselves. sometimes this even lead to burnout and many people leave academia for that adding to the very competitive and low gain opportunities available in most academic field.<p>To be honest, I really think that we have wrong metric. Most importantly, if you try to ignore them even if you get some local support within your group. Good luck getting any fund because funding agencies evaluation have the same problems.</text></comment> | <story><title>Negative incentives in academic research</title><url>https://lemire.me/blog/2022/07/21/negative-incentives-in-academic-research/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quantum_mcts</author><text>I generally disagree with the premise that scientists are becoming less productive. (To me, the complaints that there are no more grand fundamental discoveries is alike to complaining that we are not discovering any new continents on Earth...)<p>On the subject of incentives in academia - reflecting on my academia run, I&#x27;ve noticed that I was the most creatively productive when I had a longer planning horizon in front of me. It was either at the beginning of a several-years position. Or at the very end when I knew that I&#x27;m leaving and didn&#x27;t care anymore. The least productive was the sequence of one-year postdocs - when I was constantly worrying about the next one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>commandlinefan</author><text>&gt; the most creatively productive when I had a longer planning horizon<p>I feel the same way. I&#x27;ve never been in academia, but everything he said matches the negative incentive structures I&#x27;ve always seen in the corporate world. For the most part, the incentive structures are designed to catch cheaters (or &quot;slackers&quot;), but since actually discovering and creating something is virtually indistinguishable from &quot;slacking&quot;, it just doesn&#x27;t get done.</text></comment> |
39,161,517 | 39,160,672 | 1 | 3 | 39,159,188 | train | <story><title>Topaz Unicode</title><url>https://gitlab.com/Screwtapello/topaz-unicode#topaz-unicode</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pcherna</author><text>Nice. I worked at Commodore and was responsible (ish) for the new Topaz for OS 2.0. We had been told to replace Topaz with a sans-serif font, and we replaced it with a font originally called &quot;Clear&quot; that was on one of the Fred Fish disks.<p>There was a big argument over the lower-case L. It has a rightward curl at the base even though it&#x27;s sans-serif. This is widely seen now, but we had a lot of pushback at the time.<p>Topaz shipped in an 8-point and 9-point version. As I mentioned, we used Clear, maybe with a few mods (ampersand maybe), but that only existed in 8-point. I drew Topaz 9 sans-serif by starting with Topaz 9, and shaving off the serifs, and making minor tweaks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Topaz Unicode</title><url>https://gitlab.com/Screwtapello/topaz-unicode#topaz-unicode</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kstrauser</author><text>Nitpick: Topaz shipped with the Amiga 1000 in 1985.</text></comment> |
19,977,664 | 19,977,579 | 1 | 2 | 19,977,357 | train | <story><title>Antergos Linux Project Ends</title><url>https://antergos.com/blog/antergos-linux-project-ends/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>subway</author><text>Does that mean part of your infrastructure saw no kernel patches in 4 years?<p>OS uptime gave me pride in the 90s. Today it&#x27;s usually a bad sign.</text></item><item><author>axaxs</author><text>This makes me sad, but not completely unexpected. I worked on Antergos a while early on and had a lot of fun. That said, at least 2 of the core devs went more or less MIA for months at a time as they got busy with life, counting myself. My hats off to the team but specifically Gustau and Dustin, who trudged along the entire journey through the years. Seriously great developers to work with.<p>As an aside, I just checked the geolocation server I&#x27;d setup for the installer.<p>03:14:51 up 1357 days, 3:43, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05<p>It&#x27;s been up 4 years continuously on a Scaleway ARM box. I can&#x27;t recommend them enough for such projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>buildzr</author><text>Unless you have untrusted users with SSH you can get away with a lot. I&#x27;ve reviewed many major Linux patches for the past several years and found we weren&#x27;t actually impacted by most of them.<p>For example, I don&#x27;t need Zombieload&#x2F;MDS patches as I don&#x27;t have anyone running untrusted code on the servers, I didn&#x27;t need the rds_tcp vulnerability patch from last week because I don&#x27;t have RDS modules loaded on any of my servers. I didn&#x27;t need client side OpenSSH patches on these servers either, nor OpenSSL patches for UDP SSL. Typically a quick check with ansible is all it takes to confirm if these things are or aren&#x27;t real risks for you.<p>EDIT:
Just looking at some CVE lists... It looks like assuming that the entire attack surface is the kernel and pre-auth openssh you may be in the clear running stock Ubuntu Server Minimal 14.04, a 5 year old OS today.<p>Kernel vulnerabilities resulting in code execution in the TCP stack or related code resulting in code execution are few and far between. OpenSSH vulnerabilities... well, the last pre-auth OpenSSH vulnerability, one of the two in it&#x27;s entire lifetime had the severe consequence of... being able to check usernames too fast.<p>Please let me know if I&#x27;ve missed a big one, but I don&#x27;t see anything that could even be used to do more than DoS a system like this running an old kernel and openssh server.</text></comment> | <story><title>Antergos Linux Project Ends</title><url>https://antergos.com/blog/antergos-linux-project-ends/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>subway</author><text>Does that mean part of your infrastructure saw no kernel patches in 4 years?<p>OS uptime gave me pride in the 90s. Today it&#x27;s usually a bad sign.</text></item><item><author>axaxs</author><text>This makes me sad, but not completely unexpected. I worked on Antergos a while early on and had a lot of fun. That said, at least 2 of the core devs went more or less MIA for months at a time as they got busy with life, counting myself. My hats off to the team but specifically Gustau and Dustin, who trudged along the entire journey through the years. Seriously great developers to work with.<p>As an aside, I just checked the geolocation server I&#x27;d setup for the installer.<p>03:14:51 up 1357 days, 3:43, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05<p>It&#x27;s been up 4 years continuously on a Scaleway ARM box. I can&#x27;t recommend them enough for such projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>axaxs</author><text>If by &#x27;part of your infrastructure&#x27; you mean a single API that emits geo coordinates based on client address, then yes.</text></comment> |
36,722,714 | 36,722,678 | 1 | 2 | 36,720,573 | train | <story><title>Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model (2019)</title><url>https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mpweiher</author><text>&gt; in a meeting-heavy agile environment<p>Everytime I see that, I cringe. But sadly, you&#x27;re not wrong.<p><i>Agile</i> is anti-meeting, anti-heavy and definitely anti-meeting-heavy.<p>I really don&#x27;t know what to call this weird thing that was created.<p>Just as an example: why are there standups? Because in XP, meetings are <i>frowned upon</i>. So the idea is not to have meetings whenever humanly possible (better to pair up, talk to individuals etc.).<p>And if there&#x27;s a meeting you really really can&#x27;t avoid or eliminate, let&#x27;s at the very least incentivise everyone to keep it as short and meaningful as possible. By having everyone stand and thus be slightly uncomfortable.<p>How that fun, focused, no-nonsense, get-things-done approach got turned into ... whatever that &quot;meeting-heavy&quot; thing is ... is in some senses fascinating.<p>And terrifying.<p>&gt; I&#x27;m currently in a no-jira, no-meeting, get-it-done environment<p>AKA, an <i>agile</i> environment. ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯</text></item><item><author>steveBK123</author><text>Another factor here is in a meeting-heavy agile environment, many engineers can&#x27;t even give a good forward estimate of the number of &quot;in the zone&quot; hours they will have in the coming week.<p>Will I be on 0 outage calls or 5? Doesn&#x27;t matter if I am on pager duty rotation or not..<p>Will I get pulled into 3 calls this afternoon or 0?<p>Is my boss gonna come bother me with some urgent non-ticket task tomorrow morning? Etc.<p>I&#x27;m currently in a no-jira, no-meeting, get-it-done environment and I find myself getting tremendous amounts of work done for the first time in nearly a decade. I would not have estimated my ability to get 1&#x2F;4 of what I have gotten done, done. My last 2 jobs were basically the opposite. Everything took 4x as long as it should..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Frost1x</author><text>&gt;I really don&#x27;t know what to call this weird thing that was created.<p>Micromanagement.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Micromanagement" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Micromanagement</a><p>It&#x27;s not a new concept, agile and project management tools around it decided to break things into small enough components that they essentially just streamlined and concretized micromanagement as a normal accepted daily business process. That&#x27;s all &quot;agile&quot; is in practice in most case. If you see &quot;agile&quot; substitute &quot;micromanagement&quot; and everything that happens will make complete sense.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model (2019)</title><url>https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mpweiher</author><text>&gt; in a meeting-heavy agile environment<p>Everytime I see that, I cringe. But sadly, you&#x27;re not wrong.<p><i>Agile</i> is anti-meeting, anti-heavy and definitely anti-meeting-heavy.<p>I really don&#x27;t know what to call this weird thing that was created.<p>Just as an example: why are there standups? Because in XP, meetings are <i>frowned upon</i>. So the idea is not to have meetings whenever humanly possible (better to pair up, talk to individuals etc.).<p>And if there&#x27;s a meeting you really really can&#x27;t avoid or eliminate, let&#x27;s at the very least incentivise everyone to keep it as short and meaningful as possible. By having everyone stand and thus be slightly uncomfortable.<p>How that fun, focused, no-nonsense, get-things-done approach got turned into ... whatever that &quot;meeting-heavy&quot; thing is ... is in some senses fascinating.<p>And terrifying.<p>&gt; I&#x27;m currently in a no-jira, no-meeting, get-it-done environment<p>AKA, an <i>agile</i> environment. ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯</text></item><item><author>steveBK123</author><text>Another factor here is in a meeting-heavy agile environment, many engineers can&#x27;t even give a good forward estimate of the number of &quot;in the zone&quot; hours they will have in the coming week.<p>Will I be on 0 outage calls or 5? Doesn&#x27;t matter if I am on pager duty rotation or not..<p>Will I get pulled into 3 calls this afternoon or 0?<p>Is my boss gonna come bother me with some urgent non-ticket task tomorrow morning? Etc.<p>I&#x27;m currently in a no-jira, no-meeting, get-it-done environment and I find myself getting tremendous amounts of work done for the first time in nearly a decade. I would not have estimated my ability to get 1&#x2F;4 of what I have gotten done, done. My last 2 jobs were basically the opposite. Everything took 4x as long as it should..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orra</author><text>Don&#x27;t get me started. The agile manifesto says “individuals and interactions over processes”. So, <i>of course</i> a whole industry popped up of managers (and agile consultants) prescribing scrum.<p>In practice, it&#x27;s not unlike waterfall, because requirements and timetables are prescribed from above. But hey, the team has a sprint kickoff meeting every two weeks, so we call it agile.</text></comment> |
33,099,795 | 33,099,713 | 1 | 2 | 33,097,113 | train | <story><title>Over 50% of CEOs say they’re considering cutting jobs over the next 6 months</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/more-than-half-of-ceos-consider-workforce-reductions-over-the-next-6-months-and-remote-workers-may-be-the-first-go-to-11664907913</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fishtoaster</author><text>Ugh, I hate stats like this.<p>WHAT&#x27;S THE BASELINE?!<p>It could well be that 50% of CEOs are <i>always</i> &quot;considering&quot; cutting jobs in the next 6 months. I mean, I suspect that this number is higher than usual because, well, it <i>does</i> look like we&#x27;re heading into a recession. But if I&#x27;m interpreting this number based on my perception of the recession, then this number is useless at the main point of this article: informing me on whether we&#x27;re heading into a recession or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kodah</author><text>Honestly I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;ll get good faith considerations on whether we&#x27;re heading into a recession. Anecdotally, I&#x27;m trying to buy a house in Portland. I stopped being so aggressive as I watched prices start falling by tens of thousands. I got a call from Rocket Mortgage the other day where they tried to convince me that market prices won&#x27;t change and I should buy <i>now</i> at a rate of 6.5%. This is an incredible departure from reality and similar to what I hear from real estate agents.<p>This is a company that I know previously to be quite ethical, yet here they are doing dirty tricks. Market falls can be a threat to companies, but by engaging with propaganda trolls can influence the market and make money. Read any mortgage or real estate propaganda and you&#x27;ll see they&#x27;re all using the same words, false comparisons, etc. Maybe the true signal of a recession is the defiance of admitting there is a recession.</text></comment> | <story><title>Over 50% of CEOs say they’re considering cutting jobs over the next 6 months</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/more-than-half-of-ceos-consider-workforce-reductions-over-the-next-6-months-and-remote-workers-may-be-the-first-go-to-11664907913</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fishtoaster</author><text>Ugh, I hate stats like this.<p>WHAT&#x27;S THE BASELINE?!<p>It could well be that 50% of CEOs are <i>always</i> &quot;considering&quot; cutting jobs in the next 6 months. I mean, I suspect that this number is higher than usual because, well, it <i>does</i> look like we&#x27;re heading into a recession. But if I&#x27;m interpreting this number based on my perception of the recession, then this number is useless at the main point of this article: informing me on whether we&#x27;re heading into a recession or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>f1shy</author><text>The whole article seems full of it.<p>&gt; Nine in ten CEOs in the U.S. (91%) believe a recession will arrive in the coming 12 months, while 86% of CEOs globally feel the same way<p>- So what? Most CEOs I know cannot foresee what they will eat tomorrow. No offence, but being CEO makes you no better at predicting the future as the janitor. &quot;They have, more info, experience&quot; yada yada... I knew just too many incompetent CEOs.<p>Also, what does it mean, cutting jobs... how many? why? which ones?<p>Seems like content, but completely empty.</text></comment> |
16,916,840 | 16,915,289 | 1 | 2 | 16,914,764 | train | <story><title>A more privacy-friendly blog</title><url>https://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2018-more-privacy-blog</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cagrimmett</author><text>Awesome! I dumped Disqus and Google Analytics earlier this year, too. I hadn&#x27;t thought about Google Fonts, so I&#x27;ll dump that soon, too.<p>Since you are using CloudFront, I highly recommend <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3stat.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3stat.com</a> for analytics. It grabs CloudFront&#x27;s (or S3&#x27;s) server access logs and visualizes them.<p>For search, I like this method Mat Hayward uses for Jekyll: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mathaywarduk&#x2F;jekyll-search" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mathaywarduk&#x2F;jekyll-search</a>
Dump the site contents out into a JSON file with the titles and links accessible, crawl through the JSON file with javascript whenever someone runs a search, then display the results. I know you use Hyde instead of Jekyll, but you can port over the general idea.</text></comment> | <story><title>A more privacy-friendly blog</title><url>https://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2018-more-privacy-blog</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>&gt; As it is unlikely that more than three people will use the search engine in a year, this seems a good idea to not spend too much time on this non-essential feature.<p>I disagree. When I want to remember something, I blog about it. When I implemented a search feature on my site, it was a godsend, and wondered why I had overlooked it for so long. Finding something I had blogged about years ago wasn&#x27;t a pain anymore, since a box is right there.</text></comment> |
30,930,999 | 30,930,128 | 1 | 2 | 30,926,834 | train | <story><title>From Belonging to Burnout, Five Years at Airbnb</title><url>https://news.techworkerscoalition.org/2022/04/05/issue-5/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thundergolfer</author><text>Dan Luu also elsewhere makes the argument that most of the impactful engineering work done in large companies is performed by a small percentage of the engineering group.</text></item><item><author>quanticle</author><text>From Dan Luu&#x27;s excellent blog post on the value of in-house expertise [1]:<p><i>Another reason to have in-house expertise in various areas is that they easily pay for themselves, which is a special case of the generic argument that large companies should be larger than most people expect because tiny percentage gains are worth a large amount in absolute dollars. If, in the lifetime of the specialist team like the kernel team, a single person found something that persistently reduced TCO by 0.5%, that would pay for the team in perpetuity, and Twitter’s kernel team has found many such changes.</i><p>If removing a blinking cursor has a 1% chance to increase the booking rate by even 0.1%, , then it&#x27;s worth it for AirBNB to pay an engineer to implement the change.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;in-house&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;in-house&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>Spoiler alert: we mostly are.<p>Engineers with 5 YOE are making $500k+ a year at these companies because they are generating much more than that in revenues and profits for the companies. Airbnb is worth $110B.<p>It&#x27;s not all blinking cursors, there are thousands of little experiments going on all the time. Increasing the number of bookings by 2% here, 3% there. Increasing the average price of bookings. Random extra features here and there to close that one whale of a client. Expanding into corporate accounts. Improving performance by 5% to take a big chunk out of the tens of millions of dollars infrastructure bill.<p>From a 10,000 foot view looking at the product, it always looks like it&#x27;s 90% done in the first couple of years and then things just coast along lazily. But from a profit point of view, that last 10% can generate hugely outsized returns. It&#x27;s the power of exponential growth, all those extra late nights and tiny improvements that move the needle just a little bit all compound over time.</text></item><item><author>mindwok</author><text>Am I crazy to think there’s something wrong with the amount of engineering effort going into these startups? When you have engineers working into the wee hours of the morning because you don’t want a cursor to blink on a text field, I can’t help but feel that’s an enormous waste of energy and effort.<p>Since I first used Airbnb 7 years ago, the only real change I can think of is when they added experiences (which is awesome don’t get me wrong), surely at some point you begin to wonder if we are utilising this talent effectively.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaetzleesser</author><text>“most of the impactful engineering work done in large companies is performed by a small percentage of the engineering group.”<p>That is probably true. But we shouldn’t forget that these people can do these things often because they are supported by a large number of people who do the mundane tasks that need to be done.</text></comment> | <story><title>From Belonging to Burnout, Five Years at Airbnb</title><url>https://news.techworkerscoalition.org/2022/04/05/issue-5/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thundergolfer</author><text>Dan Luu also elsewhere makes the argument that most of the impactful engineering work done in large companies is performed by a small percentage of the engineering group.</text></item><item><author>quanticle</author><text>From Dan Luu&#x27;s excellent blog post on the value of in-house expertise [1]:<p><i>Another reason to have in-house expertise in various areas is that they easily pay for themselves, which is a special case of the generic argument that large companies should be larger than most people expect because tiny percentage gains are worth a large amount in absolute dollars. If, in the lifetime of the specialist team like the kernel team, a single person found something that persistently reduced TCO by 0.5%, that would pay for the team in perpetuity, and Twitter’s kernel team has found many such changes.</i><p>If removing a blinking cursor has a 1% chance to increase the booking rate by even 0.1%, , then it&#x27;s worth it for AirBNB to pay an engineer to implement the change.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;in-house&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;in-house&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>Spoiler alert: we mostly are.<p>Engineers with 5 YOE are making $500k+ a year at these companies because they are generating much more than that in revenues and profits for the companies. Airbnb is worth $110B.<p>It&#x27;s not all blinking cursors, there are thousands of little experiments going on all the time. Increasing the number of bookings by 2% here, 3% there. Increasing the average price of bookings. Random extra features here and there to close that one whale of a client. Expanding into corporate accounts. Improving performance by 5% to take a big chunk out of the tens of millions of dollars infrastructure bill.<p>From a 10,000 foot view looking at the product, it always looks like it&#x27;s 90% done in the first couple of years and then things just coast along lazily. But from a profit point of view, that last 10% can generate hugely outsized returns. It&#x27;s the power of exponential growth, all those extra late nights and tiny improvements that move the needle just a little bit all compound over time.</text></item><item><author>mindwok</author><text>Am I crazy to think there’s something wrong with the amount of engineering effort going into these startups? When you have engineers working into the wee hours of the morning because you don’t want a cursor to blink on a text field, I can’t help but feel that’s an enormous waste of energy and effort.<p>Since I first used Airbnb 7 years ago, the only real change I can think of is when they added experiences (which is awesome don’t get me wrong), surely at some point you begin to wonder if we are utilising this talent effectively.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fivea</author><text>&gt; Dan Luu also elsewhere makes the argument that most of the impactful engineering work done in large companies is performed by a small percentage of the engineering group.<p>The keyword &quot;impactful engineering&quot; needs some clarification though.<p>It does not mean there&#x27;s a 100x guy walking around the office while everyone is slacking off.<p>A specific proof of concept hacked together by a guy in a week might eventually become the company&#x27;s flagship product. That&#x27;s impact. However, the thing needs to be rewritten from scratch to become production ready or even deployable, and that takes far more work that does not fit the definition of &quot;impactful&quot;.<p>I personally know a principal engineer of a FANG which single-handedly wrote the proof of concepts of more than a few projects that thousands of users use every single day. From his own words following one of his recent presentations, &quot;this needs to be rewritten from scratch as this would get me rejected from our job interviews&quot;.</text></comment> |
4,232,752 | 4,232,632 | 1 | 2 | 4,232,044 | train | <story><title>Viacom pulls “The Daily Show” offline as a result of contract dispute</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/07/viacom-pulls-the-daily-show-offline-as-a-result-of-contract-dispute/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>S201</author><text>The networks aren't "double-dipping". Your cable bill pays the cable provider and ads pay the content provider; different organizations, different sources of revenue. A much better explanation from a reddit commenter: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/pz8kz/til_cable_did_not_have_commercials_until_around/c3tgl2g?context=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/pz8kz/til_cab...</a></text></item><item><author>jrockway</author><text>I find this "double-dipping" nature of TV networks somewhat offensive. First, 50% of the programming is advertising (20 minutes content, 10 minutes ads). Then, they make someone pay for the privilege of delivering that advertising to my house? It's completely nonsensical because DirectTV is providing Viacom with a valuable service: fucking satellites orbiting the earth! And then Viacom wants DirectTV to <i>pay them</i>. I just don't get it.<p>(My bank started doing the "double dip" thing too. Every item in my Bank of America statement now contains a "relevant" ad. I don't know why this bothers me, but it does. I already pay transaction fees and interest. Must you also try to show me irrelevant ads?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>This is like the archetypical great long-form Reddit comment. Reddit has a lot of pointless craziness, but their highest highs are also way better than HN's.<p>I'm long since past the point where the words "Great comment explaining this on Reddit" will get me to automatically click something.</text></comment> | <story><title>Viacom pulls “The Daily Show” offline as a result of contract dispute</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/07/viacom-pulls-the-daily-show-offline-as-a-result-of-contract-dispute/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>S201</author><text>The networks aren't "double-dipping". Your cable bill pays the cable provider and ads pay the content provider; different organizations, different sources of revenue. A much better explanation from a reddit commenter: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/pz8kz/til_cable_did_not_have_commercials_until_around/c3tgl2g?context=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/pz8kz/til_cab...</a></text></item><item><author>jrockway</author><text>I find this "double-dipping" nature of TV networks somewhat offensive. First, 50% of the programming is advertising (20 minutes content, 10 minutes ads). Then, they make someone pay for the privilege of delivering that advertising to my house? It's completely nonsensical because DirectTV is providing Viacom with a valuable service: fucking satellites orbiting the earth! And then Viacom wants DirectTV to <i>pay them</i>. I just don't get it.<p>(My bank started doing the "double dip" thing too. Every item in my Bank of America statement now contains a "relevant" ad. I don't know why this bothers me, but it does. I already pay transaction fees and interest. Must you also try to show me irrelevant ads?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>The disagreement is that DirectTV isn't paying Viacom enough money. ``Viacom wants more money, specifically, "a fee increase of more than 30 percent, amounting to more than $1 billion in additional costs over five years," according to Bloomberg.''<p>I'm not complaining about DirectTV charging customers, I'm complaining about Viacom charging DirectTV. If anything, DirectTV should be charging Viacom!</text></comment> |
24,497,511 | 24,497,705 | 1 | 3 | 24,491,839 | train | <story><title>Kirc – A tiny IRC client written in POSIX C99</title><url>https://github.com/mcpcpc/kirc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stingraycharles</author><text>&gt; malloc() return isn&#x27;t checked<p>small digression, but I thought that at least on Linux, malloc() never returns an error because the actual allocation happens lazily, when the memory is first used?</text></item><item><author>knorker</author><text>A little sloppy with the error handling, but pretty neat.<p>E.g. log_append() doesn&#x27;t check fopen return value, malloc() return isn&#x27;t checked, and a write() can return a partial write, thus needs a loop. fcntl().<p>Also write() should check for EINTR&amp;EAGAIN.<p>And also there&#x27;s no handling for nonblocking write.<p>If the user types too much while the network glitches it seems that this could cause the client to exit().<p>Probably the correct way is to not read from stdin unless poll() returns that writing to the socket is safe, and vice versa.<p>connect() errors should print where they failed to connect.<p>And:
$ .&#x2F;kirc
Nick not specified: Success<p>And in my first test I got:
Write to socket: Resource temporarily unavailable<p>And I see a lot of NULL pointers being printed when I connect to e.g. freenode.<p>And so on, and so on…<p>For these things I recommend re-reading the manpage for every libc and syscall you call, and check how they can fail, and consider how you can handle that failure.<p>307 lines of pure C is a pretty neat minimal actually usable client, so I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s not well done. But that thing about &quot;… and do it well&quot; (from the readme) means doing all of the above.<p>The problem, of course, is that fixing these problems <i>well</i> is &quot;the other 90% of the work&quot;, especially when coding in C.<p>And this is the main reason I avoid C when I can. You can&#x27;t just call &quot;write()&quot;. You have to write a 5-10 line wrapper function, and then all callers need a few lines of error handling. And so it goes for everything, until your program is no longer the nice 300 line neat thing you can almost write from memory.<p>So it&#x27;s a good start. But it&#x27;s pretty fragile in its current form.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fulafel</author><text>Cases where memory allocations fail on linux include: hitting memory resource limits (ulimit), overcommit behaviour is set to stricter than the default via sysctl, kernel heuristics with the default overcommit settings end up failing allocation, container &#x2F; cgroups limits, 32-bit virtual address space is exhausted - i&#x27;m sure there are more.<p>The default overcommit-within-reason algorithm is designed to deny allocations that are obviously unrealistic I think.<p>Using semi conservative ulimit settings is pretty common in interactive use to catch runaway &#x2F; swapped to death situations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kirc – A tiny IRC client written in POSIX C99</title><url>https://github.com/mcpcpc/kirc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stingraycharles</author><text>&gt; malloc() return isn&#x27;t checked<p>small digression, but I thought that at least on Linux, malloc() never returns an error because the actual allocation happens lazily, when the memory is first used?</text></item><item><author>knorker</author><text>A little sloppy with the error handling, but pretty neat.<p>E.g. log_append() doesn&#x27;t check fopen return value, malloc() return isn&#x27;t checked, and a write() can return a partial write, thus needs a loop. fcntl().<p>Also write() should check for EINTR&amp;EAGAIN.<p>And also there&#x27;s no handling for nonblocking write.<p>If the user types too much while the network glitches it seems that this could cause the client to exit().<p>Probably the correct way is to not read from stdin unless poll() returns that writing to the socket is safe, and vice versa.<p>connect() errors should print where they failed to connect.<p>And:
$ .&#x2F;kirc
Nick not specified: Success<p>And in my first test I got:
Write to socket: Resource temporarily unavailable<p>And I see a lot of NULL pointers being printed when I connect to e.g. freenode.<p>And so on, and so on…<p>For these things I recommend re-reading the manpage for every libc and syscall you call, and check how they can fail, and consider how you can handle that failure.<p>307 lines of pure C is a pretty neat minimal actually usable client, so I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s not well done. But that thing about &quot;… and do it well&quot; (from the readme) means doing all of the above.<p>The problem, of course, is that fixing these problems <i>well</i> is &quot;the other 90% of the work&quot;, especially when coding in C.<p>And this is the main reason I avoid C when I can. You can&#x27;t just call &quot;write()&quot;. You have to write a 5-10 line wrapper function, and then all callers need a few lines of error handling. And so it goes for everything, until your program is no longer the nice 300 line neat thing you can almost write from memory.<p>So it&#x27;s a good start. But it&#x27;s pretty fragile in its current form.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>It&#x27;s sloppy coding and not portable. If you really don&#x27;t want to check for malloc() return value because you consider that it shouldn&#x27;t fail (or that you won&#x27;t be able to recover from it anyway) just implement an xmalloc() that just aborts on failure and do that. At least it&#x27;ll crash &quot;cleanly&quot; this way.</text></comment> |
37,250,738 | 37,250,744 | 1 | 3 | 37,248,781 | train | <story><title>Rust 1.72.0</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/24/Rust-1.72.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>queuebert</author><text>The question is why do newer versions of Windows break compatibility so badly?</text></item><item><author>veber-alex</author><text>The tier 3 Windows XP target is no_std only, which makes it useless for the vast majority of developers.<p>For all intents and purposes Rust is dropping support for anything below Windows 10.<p>It is suggested in the MCP that a new target can be created for older versions of Windows if members of the community will step up to support it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;compiler-team&#x2F;issues&#x2F;651">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;compiler-team&#x2F;issues&#x2F;651</a></text></item><item><author>pie_flavor</author><text>Rust platform support is tiered[0]. Tier 1 targets are automatically tested, tier 2 targets are automatically built, and tier 3 targets are best-effort. Windows 7 is tier 1 and Windows XP is tier 3; what they&#x27;re going to do is change the tier 1 Windows build to 10, but the Windows XP support isn&#x27;t going anywhere.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;nightly&#x2F;rustc&#x2F;platform-support.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;nightly&#x2F;rustc&#x2F;platform-support.htm...</a></text></item><item><author>vbezhenar</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why compilers drop old Windows compatibility. It makes no sense to me. They emit executable code which looks the same on Windows XP or on Windows 11.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacoblambda</author><text>It&#x27;s not that new versions break compatibility. It&#x27;s that old versions are missing features that new versions have.<p>Windows is actually astonishingly backwards compatible but the older you want to support in Windows, the more jank your code has to be.<p>Like for example, in the zulip chat (linked in the issue for this change) they mention that the next versions they may drop are those Windows 10 releases prior to May 2019 as that release finally made UTF-8 the standard text encoding and being able to generally assume UTF-8 simplifies a lot of things for developers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust 1.72.0</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/24/Rust-1.72.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>queuebert</author><text>The question is why do newer versions of Windows break compatibility so badly?</text></item><item><author>veber-alex</author><text>The tier 3 Windows XP target is no_std only, which makes it useless for the vast majority of developers.<p>For all intents and purposes Rust is dropping support for anything below Windows 10.<p>It is suggested in the MCP that a new target can be created for older versions of Windows if members of the community will step up to support it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;compiler-team&#x2F;issues&#x2F;651">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;compiler-team&#x2F;issues&#x2F;651</a></text></item><item><author>pie_flavor</author><text>Rust platform support is tiered[0]. Tier 1 targets are automatically tested, tier 2 targets are automatically built, and tier 3 targets are best-effort. Windows 7 is tier 1 and Windows XP is tier 3; what they&#x27;re going to do is change the tier 1 Windows build to 10, but the Windows XP support isn&#x27;t going anywhere.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;nightly&#x2F;rustc&#x2F;platform-support.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;nightly&#x2F;rustc&#x2F;platform-support.htm...</a></text></item><item><author>vbezhenar</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why compilers drop old Windows compatibility. It makes no sense to me. They emit executable code which looks the same on Windows XP or on Windows 11.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TillE</author><text>You can still write code that targets Windows XP and it will run on Windows 11 just fine. There&#x27;s no compatibility break.<p>The problem is that newer versions of Windows offer plenty of features which make library implementation simpler and&#x2F;or give better performance. Someone else mentioned some threading&#x2F;synchronization APIs, which is also the most common non-XP feature I&#x27;ve found in use in various C++ libraries.</text></comment> |
28,645,856 | 28,643,806 | 1 | 3 | 28,640,636 | train | <story><title>Cryptocurrency is something people tell lies about in hopes of getting richer</title><url>https://defector.com/cryptocurrency-bad-and-weird/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cfup</author><text>I was involved in a blockchain (DeFi) startup. All the blockchain companies are mostly a huge pyramid scheme. The company I worked for has a lot of big claims, raised millions, wanted to solve world hunger, prioritized partnership, marketing, while having no working implementation. Others in the eco system are the same.<p>The NFT scene is even more BS. It could destroyed uninformed people&#x27;s life, just like gambling. However, this kind of gambling is public on the internet with little regulations.<p>I hope more tech people speak about this instead of just ignoring them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xur17</author><text>&gt; I was involved in a blockchain (DeFi) startup. All the blockchain companies are mostly a huge pyramid scheme. The company I worked for has a lot of big claims, raised millions, wanted to solve world hunger, prioritized partnership, marketing, while having no working implementation. Others in the eco system are the same.<p>I agree that there are lots of scammy &quot;blockchain&quot; startups, but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s fair to paint them all with that brush. There are also plenty that are actually building cool projects, without pumping their coin, and announcing light interactions with a company as partnerships.<p>If you have 20% of companies being scummy, but churning out 80% of the news, your assumption will be that all of the companies are scummy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cryptocurrency is something people tell lies about in hopes of getting richer</title><url>https://defector.com/cryptocurrency-bad-and-weird/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cfup</author><text>I was involved in a blockchain (DeFi) startup. All the blockchain companies are mostly a huge pyramid scheme. The company I worked for has a lot of big claims, raised millions, wanted to solve world hunger, prioritized partnership, marketing, while having no working implementation. Others in the eco system are the same.<p>The NFT scene is even more BS. It could destroyed uninformed people&#x27;s life, just like gambling. However, this kind of gambling is public on the internet with little regulations.<p>I hope more tech people speak about this instead of just ignoring them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dotlog</author><text>Was is literally a pyramid scheme that recruited people and paid people for getting new recruits? Or just a scheme?</text></comment> |
20,888,127 | 20,888,132 | 1 | 2 | 20,887,641 | train | <story><title>A critique of the claim that passive investing is a bubble</title><url>https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/09/debunking-the-silly-passive-is-a-bubble-myth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>talolard</author><text>I think this article really misses the point that Burry was making, which is that if the indexs see a sell off they won&#x27;t find the liquidity in the market to cash out their positions and will drive the market down.<p>This article seems to focus on all of the upsides of indexing, which are all true. However, those upsides don&#x27;t negate the risk that is being pointed to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sambe</author><text>These sections seem to address the point to me:<p>* &quot;The tail is not wagging the dog&quot; - index funds are a relatively small percentage of total share ownership.<p>* &quot;Benchmark huggers have always been around&quot; - owning ~the index was not started with index funds.<p>* &quot;Active funds literally own the market&quot; - the sum of portfolios of non-index funds ends up having the same profile.<p>* &quot;Price discovery is a cop-out&quot; - relatively small part of the trading volume.<p>* &quot;Liquidity is not a huge problem for index funds&quot; -no market impact to sell (v dubious if you ask me), unlevered.<p>* &quot;Humans matter more than fund structures&quot; - the absence of index funds did not prevent bubbles&#x2F;crashes.<p>You can disagree with those points (I do with some of them) but that&#x27;s a large part of the article.</text></comment> | <story><title>A critique of the claim that passive investing is a bubble</title><url>https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/09/debunking-the-silly-passive-is-a-bubble-myth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>talolard</author><text>I think this article really misses the point that Burry was making, which is that if the indexs see a sell off they won&#x27;t find the liquidity in the market to cash out their positions and will drive the market down.<p>This article seems to focus on all of the upsides of indexing, which are all true. However, those upsides don&#x27;t negate the risk that is being pointed to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perspective1</author><text>Exactly. The article, starting with the title, is pompous and overconfident. Burry made the unanswered point that in a sell-off large index funds will have to dump their smaller holdings at large discounts. We have never had a market crash with passive holdings this large (and consolidated in a small handful of funds)-- we&#x27;re in unprecedented times. Burry&#x27;s point is entirely plausible. And although that it wouldn&#x27;t immediately cause a problem for investors who don&#x27;t sell (price is not value), the newly discount-price firms may struggle immensely in terms of raising new capital and financing.</text></comment> |
7,985,487 | 7,985,227 | 1 | 2 | 7,984,826 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Show HN</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/show</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rickhanlonii</author><text>Great work! I love when organic user behaviors are recognized and made first class features.<p>Allow me to emphasize something from the Show HN Guidelines[1]:<p>&gt; <i>Be respectful. Anyone sharing creative work is making a contribution, however modest.</i><p>&gt; <i>Ask questions out of curiosity. Don&#x27;t cross-examine.</i><p>&gt; <i>Instead of &quot;you&#x27;re doing it wrong&quot;, suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more.</i><p>&gt; <i>When something isn&#x27;t good, you needn&#x27;t pretend that it is. But in that case, consider saying nothing.</i><p>The comments section of Show HN posts are not an invitation for you to tear someone apart for your own self-aggrandizing glory. If you want to be helpful, be constructive. If you don&#x27;t want to be helpful, don&#x27;t bother.<p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;showhn.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arjuna</author><text>I agree 100%.<p>In addition, a friendly reminder to us all...<p>When you see a Show HN, assume that whoever created it, perhaps not unlike you, is working to drive his or her dreams into existence. Each post represents a dream, a personal story, a literal piece of their Life.<p>For many of us, perhaps the majority of us, that means grinding at the mine during the day, returning home after perhaps a long commute, spending time with and cooking for our family, our significant other, etc... then, clocking back in at 9:00pm or 10:00pm to bring it for the next several, precious hours, working to make the dream real... then catching some sleep, waking up and turning around and dropping the hammer all over again.<p>It&#x27;s just something to remember as you comment to someone about their work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Show HN</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/show</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rickhanlonii</author><text>Great work! I love when organic user behaviors are recognized and made first class features.<p>Allow me to emphasize something from the Show HN Guidelines[1]:<p>&gt; <i>Be respectful. Anyone sharing creative work is making a contribution, however modest.</i><p>&gt; <i>Ask questions out of curiosity. Don&#x27;t cross-examine.</i><p>&gt; <i>Instead of &quot;you&#x27;re doing it wrong&quot;, suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more.</i><p>&gt; <i>When something isn&#x27;t good, you needn&#x27;t pretend that it is. But in that case, consider saying nothing.</i><p>The comments section of Show HN posts are not an invitation for you to tear someone apart for your own self-aggrandizing glory. If you want to be helpful, be constructive. If you don&#x27;t want to be helpful, don&#x27;t bother.<p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;showhn.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>Absolutely agree on these guidelines. It takes a lot of bravery to put yourself out there in public. It should take just as much class to offer advice and constructive criticism instead of tearing somebody else&#x27;s work down.<p><i>edit</i> also, is it just me or is the front page plastered with Show HN links? Does anybody else think that&#x27;s <i>awesome</i>?</text></comment> |
10,354,076 | 10,353,355 | 1 | 3 | 10,352,189 | train | <story><title>'Extreme poverty' to fall below 10% of world population for first time</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/05/world-bank-extreme-poverty-to-fall-below-10-of-world-population-for-first-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devinhelton</author><text>Yes, exactly. The numbers I would like to see measured would be:<p>- percent of people who can afford 2,500 calories of food and 60 grams of animal protein a day (where afford has some standard definition, such as can pay for the consumption using less than half of their income).<p>- percent of people who have access to clean water<p>- percent of people with indoor plumbing<p>- percent of people with access to electricity in the home.<p>- percent of people who can access and afford 500MB of internet data a month<p>It is impossible to know what &quot;$2 a day&quot; actually means. The number gets adjusted for purchasing power, but there is an infinite amount of room in that calculation for governments to fudge the data. Many people in the third world can afford a cell phone, but not afford enough protein in their diet, does that mean they are richer or poorer than someone one hundred years ago without a cell phone but who can afford meat? There is no objective way to answer that question. Since I do not know all the subjective decisions made in doing the purchasing power adjustment, the ultimate number tells me nothing.</text></item><item><author>ctdonath</author><text>For all the discussion (i.e.: heated biased arguing) about poverty, seems nobody has addressed an objective definition of what constitutes &quot;poor&quot;. Why is the world poverty line at $1.25&#x2F;day, but the US poverty line is 20x that? We need a quantitative analysis, starting with basic caloric&#x2F;nutritional&#x2F;BTU&#x2F;water&#x2F;power&#x2F;data&#x2F;etc needs (independent of arbitrary numbers imputed by fiat&#x2F;floating currencies) for cost of bare sustenance, then work from there recognizing that varying geography, demographics, et al adjusts that cost, then admitting that different cultures further adjust those basic costs.<p>Without such objective analysis of basic sustenance, fudging numbers is trivial.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sanxiyn</author><text>&gt; percent of people who have access to clean water<p>This number is actually measured, because it is target 7.C of MDG(Millennium Development Goals). Lots of data at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mdgs.un.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mdgs.un.org&#x2F;</a>.<p>Summary is that we are doing very well on this number. In 1990 it was 76%, now it is 91%. In the absolute number, 2.6 billion people gained access to clean water in the period.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Extreme poverty' to fall below 10% of world population for first time</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/05/world-bank-extreme-poverty-to-fall-below-10-of-world-population-for-first-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devinhelton</author><text>Yes, exactly. The numbers I would like to see measured would be:<p>- percent of people who can afford 2,500 calories of food and 60 grams of animal protein a day (where afford has some standard definition, such as can pay for the consumption using less than half of their income).<p>- percent of people who have access to clean water<p>- percent of people with indoor plumbing<p>- percent of people with access to electricity in the home.<p>- percent of people who can access and afford 500MB of internet data a month<p>It is impossible to know what &quot;$2 a day&quot; actually means. The number gets adjusted for purchasing power, but there is an infinite amount of room in that calculation for governments to fudge the data. Many people in the third world can afford a cell phone, but not afford enough protein in their diet, does that mean they are richer or poorer than someone one hundred years ago without a cell phone but who can afford meat? There is no objective way to answer that question. Since I do not know all the subjective decisions made in doing the purchasing power adjustment, the ultimate number tells me nothing.</text></item><item><author>ctdonath</author><text>For all the discussion (i.e.: heated biased arguing) about poverty, seems nobody has addressed an objective definition of what constitutes &quot;poor&quot;. Why is the world poverty line at $1.25&#x2F;day, but the US poverty line is 20x that? We need a quantitative analysis, starting with basic caloric&#x2F;nutritional&#x2F;BTU&#x2F;water&#x2F;power&#x2F;data&#x2F;etc needs (independent of arbitrary numbers imputed by fiat&#x2F;floating currencies) for cost of bare sustenance, then work from there recognizing that varying geography, demographics, et al adjusts that cost, then admitting that different cultures further adjust those basic costs.<p>Without such objective analysis of basic sustenance, fudging numbers is trivial.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GordonS</author><text>&gt; percent of people who can access and afford 500MB of internet data a month<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d include Internet access in any definition of &#x27;extreme poverty&#x27;.</text></comment> |
9,382,056 | 9,382,211 | 1 | 3 | 9,380,635 | train | <story><title>The Cult of Work You Never Meant to Join</title><url>https://medium.com/@jlengstorf/the-cult-of-work-you-never-meant-to-join-cd965fb9ea1a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scottious</author><text>It has always bothered me that it&#x27;s so common for people (including me) to say something like, &quot;Man I&#x27;ve been working since 7:30 this morning&quot; as a way of bragging &quot;oh look at me I have such good work ethic, I&#x27;m so much better than people who work less than me.&quot;<p>But what really bothers me about it is that it&#x27;s so hard to NOT work that much when other people ARE working that much. Like sometimes I&#x27;ll come into work in the morning and there will be pages upon pages of conversation from the night before on HipChat. I have to now read all that stuff and try to understand the context or I&#x27;ll fall behind just because I didn&#x27;t want to stay up until midnight working.<p>I recently took a vacation. Only 4 days. I had a lot of fun but I couldn&#x27;t help but feel regret for taking a vacation when I got back and realized how far behind I was because of how much stuff has moved on in just 4 days.<p>So am I part of this cult? Yes, absolutely. Luckily for me I&#x27;m not super deep into it: I still go to the gym and play piano. But I know I have a problem because every time I think about having kids, this resentment wells up inside of me because I know having a kid will make me less competitive at work. That can&#x27;t be healthy... but I&#x27;m competitive and I fear getting left behind because my co-workers might choose NOT to start a family and instead stay up until midnight working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Loughla</author><text>I&#x27;ve been there. I&#x27;m officially topped out in my career field for the next 20(ish) years because of children. Anyone who moves past my current point either has no obligations, or have children who are out of the house as adults already. I made the choice to not let that stuff bother me. I miss out on some choice assignments. I miss out on some really interesting work. I miss many late-night brainstorming sessions and conversations with coworkers that are intellectually and professionally stimulating.<p>But I also got to take my kid to the circus for the first time last fall, I took two weeks&#x27; vacation this spring to just monkey around with the 2 year old for a while because the weather was supposed to be nice and trees were starting to leaf out, and tonight we have a play-date at a local jungle-gym while I know some of the other individuals at my level will be here until 8 or 9 working on a new center (and big-time resume boost).<p>As with everything, it&#x27;s all about identifying and sticking to your priorities. You&#x27;ll lose in some aspects professionally, but work isn&#x27;t everything.<p>What did it for me was volunteering at a nursing home. Listen to the folks in those places. Do they talk about the choice work assignments they had? Do they talk fondly about the long hours they worked? The money they made? The stuff they bought?<p>Nope. They talk about travel, family and friends.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Cult of Work You Never Meant to Join</title><url>https://medium.com/@jlengstorf/the-cult-of-work-you-never-meant-to-join-cd965fb9ea1a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scottious</author><text>It has always bothered me that it&#x27;s so common for people (including me) to say something like, &quot;Man I&#x27;ve been working since 7:30 this morning&quot; as a way of bragging &quot;oh look at me I have such good work ethic, I&#x27;m so much better than people who work less than me.&quot;<p>But what really bothers me about it is that it&#x27;s so hard to NOT work that much when other people ARE working that much. Like sometimes I&#x27;ll come into work in the morning and there will be pages upon pages of conversation from the night before on HipChat. I have to now read all that stuff and try to understand the context or I&#x27;ll fall behind just because I didn&#x27;t want to stay up until midnight working.<p>I recently took a vacation. Only 4 days. I had a lot of fun but I couldn&#x27;t help but feel regret for taking a vacation when I got back and realized how far behind I was because of how much stuff has moved on in just 4 days.<p>So am I part of this cult? Yes, absolutely. Luckily for me I&#x27;m not super deep into it: I still go to the gym and play piano. But I know I have a problem because every time I think about having kids, this resentment wells up inside of me because I know having a kid will make me less competitive at work. That can&#x27;t be healthy... but I&#x27;m competitive and I fear getting left behind because my co-workers might choose NOT to start a family and instead stay up until midnight working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themoonbus</author><text>One of my favorite articles on the social custom of bragging about how busy you are
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;the-busy-trap&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;the-busy-tra...</a><p>&quot;Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.&quot;</text></comment> |
18,588,362 | 18,588,219 | 1 | 2 | 18,587,612 | train | <story><title>AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/alphafold/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cybiote</author><text>The blog is light on details but it appears <i>Alpha</i> is being used for branding here. AlphaFold seems to depart in a significant way from the perfect information game playing agent&#x27;s architecture. A few questions spring to mind:<p>1) What is the architecture of the generative network and where exactly does it fit in the pipeline?<p>2) What is the interaction with the database? Is there an encoder being trained with real sequences further augmented with variations using the generative network?<p>3) What is the structure of the neural network that encodes the sequence? Is it a graph network, LSTM or simple conv-net?<p>4) The gradient descent step is very vague. Is it a physically based differentiable model (not a neural network) whose parameters are being optimized with gradient descent using automatic differentiation? Or something else? In short, there&#x27;s some detail on scoring but how are the proposals being generated?<p>Questions aside, the results speak for themselves and are head and shoulders above all other showings. I wonder what it feels like for someone whose been in the field for years.<p>Despite the high score, there&#x27;s still a long way to go before results reach real world utility. It&#x27;s also worth keeping in mind that from a systems biology perspective, protein folding is only a small part of what makes getting clinically useful results difficult.<p>I might have missed something but I could not find anywhere indications of an intention to publish further details. That would be disappointing if such were indeed the case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hmartiniano</author><text>I&#x27;m not really &quot;in the field&quot; but I did some computational work on protein folding in the past.<p>I have a hunch on how they are doing this.<p>From the blog post it appears that the network is using angles and distances of aminoacids in a given sequence in know structures to predict good starting point(s) for regular molecular dynamics-based structural optimization (what is called the &quot;gradient descent step&quot; in the post).<p>If I&#x27;m wrong then I&#x27;ll just have to try this approach myself one day...</text></comment> | <story><title>AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery</title><url>https://deepmind.com/blog/alphafold/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cybiote</author><text>The blog is light on details but it appears <i>Alpha</i> is being used for branding here. AlphaFold seems to depart in a significant way from the perfect information game playing agent&#x27;s architecture. A few questions spring to mind:<p>1) What is the architecture of the generative network and where exactly does it fit in the pipeline?<p>2) What is the interaction with the database? Is there an encoder being trained with real sequences further augmented with variations using the generative network?<p>3) What is the structure of the neural network that encodes the sequence? Is it a graph network, LSTM or simple conv-net?<p>4) The gradient descent step is very vague. Is it a physically based differentiable model (not a neural network) whose parameters are being optimized with gradient descent using automatic differentiation? Or something else? In short, there&#x27;s some detail on scoring but how are the proposals being generated?<p>Questions aside, the results speak for themselves and are head and shoulders above all other showings. I wonder what it feels like for someone whose been in the field for years.<p>Despite the high score, there&#x27;s still a long way to go before results reach real world utility. It&#x27;s also worth keeping in mind that from a systems biology perspective, protein folding is only a small part of what makes getting clinically useful results difficult.<p>I might have missed something but I could not find anywhere indications of an intention to publish further details. That would be disappointing if such were indeed the case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nopinsight</author><text>It looks like some details might be published in the CASP13 conference.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.predictioncenter.org&#x2F;casp13&#x2F;index.cgi" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.predictioncenter.org&#x2F;casp13&#x2F;index.cgi</a><p>For such a breakthrough, there is a good chance they are writing another article for Nature or Science, even aiming for another cover feature.</text></comment> |
15,061,211 | 15,061,239 | 1 | 2 | 15,060,604 | train | <story><title>The rich are hoarding economic growth</title><url>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/8/16112368/piketty-saez-zucman-income-growth-inequality-stagnation-chart</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg_bot</author><text>Why is there no talk about the dramatic increase in the supply of workers over the last 40 years? Globalization has brought millions out of poverty and those people are now competing with Americans when they wouldn&#x27;t before. It makes sense from an economic standpoint that the price of labor would not rise when the supply is increased and is likely the cause of income inequality in the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Camillo</author><text>Wealth concentration was the goal, globalization was the means. The rich saw a great arbitrage opportunity in the fact that the price of labor (and its legal rights) in the developing world was much lower than in the first world.<p>In the late 90s, there was a big political struggle over globalization.
The pro-globalists (the economic establishment and the Clinton administration) argued that it would (A) grow the economy (based on comparative advantage), (B) enrich the developing world, and (C) push them towards liberal democracy, as a consequence of having a richer middle class.
The anti-globalists (mainly left-wing opposition) argued that it would (D) destroy the working class in the first world, (E) shift the balance of power enormously in the favor of corporations, (F) destroy the developing world too.<p>The pro-globalization side won the fight completely: the WTO was established, China was brought into the global trade system, etc.<p>Twenty years on, it is clear that both sides were partially right. The pro-global side was right about A and B, and wrong about C. The anti-global side was right about D and E, and wrong about F.<p>Strangely, the anti-global side disappeared <i>entirely</i> from the public discussion; in fact, that entire period of history seems to have been memory-holed with incredible rapidity. Even as D (the destruction of the working class in the developed world) was brought into the 2016 presidential campaign as one of the main issues (by Sanders and, surprisingly, by Trump), nobody seemed to recall the anti-globalization protests of the 90s. None of the activists from back then came out of the woodwork to say &quot;we were right!&quot;; no journalists went to look for them.<p>This should give pause to those who put trust in the media, even (especially?) the self-proclaimed progressive ones, like Vox.</text></comment> | <story><title>The rich are hoarding economic growth</title><url>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/8/16112368/piketty-saez-zucman-income-growth-inequality-stagnation-chart</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg_bot</author><text>Why is there no talk about the dramatic increase in the supply of workers over the last 40 years? Globalization has brought millions out of poverty and those people are now competing with Americans when they wouldn&#x27;t before. It makes sense from an economic standpoint that the price of labor would not rise when the supply is increased and is likely the cause of income inequality in the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaptheimpaler</author><text>Because the rich are getting richer, and hoarded money is useless to the rest of society. Regardless of why they get richer, the economy exists to serve society. Large amounts of money lying in investments hoping to outpace inflation is not useful to society - there are practical limits on how much money can be invested usefully at all, determined by how many capital intensive tasks businesses take on as a whole.<p>Perhaps in older times when there were railways to build, factories and assembly lines to setup, power grids and communication networks to build, there was more room for investment in the sense of spending money now to gain rewards later.<p>Now that businesses have little trouble raising capital, we may be getting closer to the point where new technology&#x2F;ideas are scarcer than capital. In that climate, money may be more useful to society in the hands of government or regular people than the beneficiaries of investments like entrepreneurs.<p>Concretely, when $1B is better used to build housing or improve healthcare, than invested into 10 &quot;Uber for X&quot; startups, it makes sense to tax more and let the government use the money for just that.</text></comment> |
10,629,053 | 10,627,944 | 1 | 2 | 10,621,795 | train | <story><title>The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps</title><url>https://medium.com/better-humans/the-secret-power-of-read-it-later-apps-6c75cc37ef42#.dy1vpda8b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pdkl95</author><text>The &quot;secret power&quot; of Pocket is that someone is making money off selling detailed information on what people red, probably including when, where, probably how long a given document is read. They aren&#x27;t offering their bandwidth and storage as some sort of charity; those server costs are obviously being covered by surveillance-as-a-business-model.<p>The database Pocket is building is an incredibly tempting target for many different groups (governments, insurance companies, etc). Even if Pocket isn&#x27;t using that data (unlikely), the probability of leaks&#x2F;theft is high.<p>Building a better bookmark system is a good idea. Such a system doesn&#x27;t need network access. If for some reason you need to share between devices, a socially responsible bookmark&#x2F;read-it-later tool would be encrypting at the endpoints so an opaque encrypted blob is the only thing stored remotely. (prior art: the original Firefox &quot;sync&quot;)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Secret Power of ‘Read It Later’ Apps</title><url>https://medium.com/better-humans/the-secret-power-of-read-it-later-apps-6c75cc37ef42#.dy1vpda8b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>The unmentioned perk of &#x27;Read it Later&#x27; apps that I haven&#x27;t seen mentioned: downloading the articles ahead of time while you&#x27;re on home wifi.<p>On my phone it&#x27;s really not a big deal, since the data consumption is minimal. But I like to do longform reading on my Nexus 7, which is a wi-fi only model, and the places where I&#x27;m liable to sit around for an hour (i.e. the doctor&#x27;s office, the gym, a lo-fi coffee shop, etc.) usually don&#x27;t have accessible wi-fi. The ability for the tablet to sync with Pocket while it&#x27;s on wifi and have everything cached when I&#x27;m off is extremely useful.</text></comment> |
28,534,525 | 28,531,988 | 1 | 3 | 28,530,433 | train | <story><title>Indian researchers create a Raspberry-Pi-based device to monitor health</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/rural-blood-test-analyser</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CptFribble</author><text>This is actually how existing diagnostic machines work generally - mix blood or plasma with a reagent, incubate at body temp for some time, measure how the light properties of the sample (color, turbidity, depends on the test) change over time. Some tests measure 1 point at the end of the test, some measure several and construct a non-linear function.<p>The interesting part is that they&#x27;re building a machine that can get accurate results with low-cost off-the-shelf components. State-of-the-art systems typically cost somewhere between 50k and 500k, which may or may not include service agreements (they break down all the time - wet chemistry) and ongoing costs for supplies.<p>I imagine the main wins in this area would be:<p>- built with low-cost&#x2F;commodity components (done)<p>- small physical size for transport (done)<p><pre><code> -- systems come in a variety of sizes from bedside to the size of a small car, depending on where you want to run them (operating suite&#x2F;doctor&#x27;s office vs central lab) and the volume you need.
</code></pre>
- expanded operating temperature and humidity<p><pre><code> -- existing systems have fairly tight tolerances on humidity especially, all the systems I worked with had environmental sensors installed nearby.
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- low-power enough to run on batteries or small generators easily in remote environments<p>That these women are working their way down the list is impressive and much needed. As mentioned in the article, reagents are available commercially so that part is relatively &quot;solved,&quot; although depending on the test they can be quite expensive and have their own cold-storage and transport problems for remote areas. The other big problem is affordable control material to ensure the systems are still accurate, and calibration material to adjust system constants when they inevitably drift (same cost&#x2F;storage&#x2F;transport problems as reagents). Still though, I&#x27;m glad they&#x27;re making progress.<p>I look forward to more!<p>Source: worked in lab diagnostics for a while</text></comment> | <story><title>Indian researchers create a Raspberry-Pi-based device to monitor health</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/rural-blood-test-analyser</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>OJFord</author><text>With titles like this, I always think it must either be trivial nonsense, or (more likely!) the journalist just really missed the point.</text></comment> |
28,479,051 | 28,479,119 | 1 | 3 | 28,468,223 | train | <story><title>Those who witnessed Castle Bravo looked into Armageddon</title><url>https://medium.com/war-is-boring/those-who-witnessed-castle-bravo-looked-into-armageddon-fa7610578413</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Andrew_nenakhov</author><text>Hm. That&#x27;s strange, because USSR&#x27;s 57 Megaton Tzar-bomb had a negligible amount of radiation:<p>&quot;Radioactive contamination of the experimental field with a radius of 2–3 km (1.2–1.9 mi) in the epicenter area was no more than 1 milliroentgen &#x2F; hour, the testers appeared at the explosion site 2 hours later, radioactive contamination posed practically no danger to the test participants&quot; [1].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tsar_Bomba#Test_results" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tsar_Bomba#Test_results</a></text></item><item><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>This was really when people started figuring out how bad fallout from thermonuclear bombs could be. General Fields described it most lucidly:<p>&quot;If Bravo had been detonated in Washington, D.C., instead of Bikini, Fields illustrated with a diagram, that lifetime dose in the Washington-Baltimore area would have been 5,000 roentgens; in Philadelphia, more than 1,000 roentgens; in New York City, more than 500, or enough to result in death for half the population if fully exposed to all the radiation delivered. This diagram was classified secret and received very little distribution beyond the Commissioners.&quot; [1]<p>Image reproduced here [2].<p>Thermonuclear bombs are really terrifying. If one goes off and you&#x27;re in the fallout zone do not go outside for at least 2 weeks. If you survive the initial blast you have about 10 minutes to get inside where you must stay. If you&#x27;re still outside and it&#x27;s &#x27;snowing&#x27; ash you&#x27;re already dead. More tips and tricks in [3].<p>Though these days, they say it&#x27;s likely that a single individual or small group can have even worse impact from a basement bioterror lab.<p>[1] Hewlett and Holl - Atoms for Peace and War around pg 181 (free pdf history book) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;management&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;hewlett-and-holl-atoms-peace-and-war" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;management&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;hewlett-and-holl...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatisnuclear.com&#x2F;img&#x2F;castle-bravo-if-on-dc.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatisnuclear.com&#x2F;img&#x2F;castle-bravo-if-on-dc.png</a><p>[3] Nuclear War Survival Skills (free pdf book) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oism.org&#x2F;nwss&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oism.org&#x2F;nwss&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Teknoman117</author><text>One of the main differences is what the tamper is made out of (the casing). You need a material that is reflective to the X-rays used to compress the fusion fuel. In Castle Bravo, this was made out of uranium-238, in the Tsar bomb, it was made from lead. Using uranium boosted the power output by about 2x, at the expense of making the bombs far, far dirtier. The extreme heat and the high neutron radiation from the primary (a fission device) detonating would cause the uranium to decay into more unstable isotopes (U-235, Pu-239, etc.) which would then fission themselves.<p>The ideology at the time was that a larger blast was more important, since at the time nuclear weapons were still to be dropped by bombers (No ICBMs for another decade). You wanted the bomb to take out the target even if you couldn&#x27;t quite reach it.<p>The Soviets estimated that using the same technique would have produced a yield of 100 Mt, but for testing, lead was used to limit the fallout to something they deemed manageable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Those who witnessed Castle Bravo looked into Armageddon</title><url>https://medium.com/war-is-boring/those-who-witnessed-castle-bravo-looked-into-armageddon-fa7610578413</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Andrew_nenakhov</author><text>Hm. That&#x27;s strange, because USSR&#x27;s 57 Megaton Tzar-bomb had a negligible amount of radiation:<p>&quot;Radioactive contamination of the experimental field with a radius of 2–3 km (1.2–1.9 mi) in the epicenter area was no more than 1 milliroentgen &#x2F; hour, the testers appeared at the explosion site 2 hours later, radioactive contamination posed practically no danger to the test participants&quot; [1].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tsar_Bomba#Test_results" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tsar_Bomba#Test_results</a></text></item><item><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>This was really when people started figuring out how bad fallout from thermonuclear bombs could be. General Fields described it most lucidly:<p>&quot;If Bravo had been detonated in Washington, D.C., instead of Bikini, Fields illustrated with a diagram, that lifetime dose in the Washington-Baltimore area would have been 5,000 roentgens; in Philadelphia, more than 1,000 roentgens; in New York City, more than 500, or enough to result in death for half the population if fully exposed to all the radiation delivered. This diagram was classified secret and received very little distribution beyond the Commissioners.&quot; [1]<p>Image reproduced here [2].<p>Thermonuclear bombs are really terrifying. If one goes off and you&#x27;re in the fallout zone do not go outside for at least 2 weeks. If you survive the initial blast you have about 10 minutes to get inside where you must stay. If you&#x27;re still outside and it&#x27;s &#x27;snowing&#x27; ash you&#x27;re already dead. More tips and tricks in [3].<p>Though these days, they say it&#x27;s likely that a single individual or small group can have even worse impact from a basement bioterror lab.<p>[1] Hewlett and Holl - Atoms for Peace and War around pg 181 (free pdf history book) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;management&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;hewlett-and-holl-atoms-peace-and-war" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;management&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;hewlett-and-holl...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatisnuclear.com&#x2F;img&#x2F;castle-bravo-if-on-dc.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatisnuclear.com&#x2F;img&#x2F;castle-bravo-if-on-dc.png</a><p>[3] Nuclear War Survival Skills (free pdf book) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oism.org&#x2F;nwss&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oism.org&#x2F;nwss&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>That&#x27;s only because it was airburst and the fallout dispersed in air.<p>Tsar Bomba was very clean relative to the yield.<p>Even then, it release more radionucleonides than any bomb before it (airburst). They limited the yield to 50 megatons, because fallout in Europe would have been catastrophic from a bigger 100 mt bomb that was allowed by the design.</text></comment> |
34,500,792 | 34,500,739 | 1 | 3 | 34,476,909 | train | <story><title>Letter to Sundar Pichai from TCI Fund Management [pdf]</title><url>https://www.tcifund.com/files/corporateengageement/alphabet/20th%20January%202023.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MR4D</author><text>&gt; when the company is taken over by MBAs and activist investors<p>I really get tired of this sentiment because it’s become a lazy stereotype.<p>Activist investors come around because of bad management. Bad management is irrespective of the MBA.<p>Satya Nadella of Microsoft is a much better CEO than Sundar Pichai, and both happen to have an MBA.<p>For reference, over the last 5 years, Microsoft stock has grown over 150% (not counting dividends) while Google has grown about 70%.<p>Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco, has a degree in Math with a concentration in CS, but no MBA and has only grown the stock by about 12% before dividends.<p>Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, studied CS at Harvard, but Never graduated. He has lost about 25% for investors over the past 5 years.<p>I choose stock returns because they are what fund most people’s retirement accounts (usually via a mutual fund owning them). The companies are all significant tech companies of roughly $200 billion or greater.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Keep an eye on the smaller tech companies that are snapping up all the laid off talent right now. They will be the next Google&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;Amazon, while all of those will eventually shift to the IBM&#x2F;Cisco&#x2F;Oracle tier over the next decade. That&#x27;s exactly what happens when the company is taken over by MBAs and activist investors while engineering is just a replaceable resource.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>015a</author><text>&gt; Bad management is irrespective of the MBA.<p>It sure is, but just as &quot;googling something&quot; means searching it, the zeitgeist doesn&#x27;t care. I think this should severely worry MBA programs, and those with the degree.<p>People quote the successful leaders who hold MBAs, while simultaneously ignoring the many who don&#x27;t, or the many who have it but have failed. It&#x27;s almost like it doesn&#x27;t matter; because it genuinely isn&#x27;t correlative beyond &quot;I&#x27;m interested in business, let&#x27;s get an MBA&quot; (meaning, there is a pipeline bias in the statistics, but that doesn&#x27;t independently validate the incremental impact of the degree).</text></comment> | <story><title>Letter to Sundar Pichai from TCI Fund Management [pdf]</title><url>https://www.tcifund.com/files/corporateengageement/alphabet/20th%20January%202023.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MR4D</author><text>&gt; when the company is taken over by MBAs and activist investors<p>I really get tired of this sentiment because it’s become a lazy stereotype.<p>Activist investors come around because of bad management. Bad management is irrespective of the MBA.<p>Satya Nadella of Microsoft is a much better CEO than Sundar Pichai, and both happen to have an MBA.<p>For reference, over the last 5 years, Microsoft stock has grown over 150% (not counting dividends) while Google has grown about 70%.<p>Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco, has a degree in Math with a concentration in CS, but no MBA and has only grown the stock by about 12% before dividends.<p>Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, studied CS at Harvard, but Never graduated. He has lost about 25% for investors over the past 5 years.<p>I choose stock returns because they are what fund most people’s retirement accounts (usually via a mutual fund owning them). The companies are all significant tech companies of roughly $200 billion or greater.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Keep an eye on the smaller tech companies that are snapping up all the laid off talent right now. They will be the next Google&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;Amazon, while all of those will eventually shift to the IBM&#x2F;Cisco&#x2F;Oracle tier over the next decade. That&#x27;s exactly what happens when the company is taken over by MBAs and activist investors while engineering is just a replaceable resource.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ROTMetro</author><text>How much growth has Facebook stock had from the first day Zuck was in charge until now? I mean you need to take people&#x27;s entire tenure not random periods of your choosing.</text></comment> |
13,653,415 | 13,653,244 | 1 | 2 | 13,652,626 | train | <story><title>Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz</title><url>https://www.ghostery.com/blog/ghostery-news/ghostery-acquired-cliqz/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ar0</author><text>I&#x27;m writing this using the Cliqz browser and I have to say I have been a very happy user for a couple of weeks now. I like the search bar (I don&#x27;t search in German that often but still get quite relevant &quot;instant&quot; results in my experience), the integrated tracking protection and just the overall look-and-feel.<p>Personally, I also find it important that Cliqz is based on Firefox, other than almost all the other new browser projects out there which are based on Chromium. There is nothing wrong with Chromium, but I believe some choice &#x2F; friendly competition in rendering and JavaScript engines is important for the overall well-being of the web.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz</title><url>https://www.ghostery.com/blog/ghostery-news/ghostery-acquired-cliqz/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kayoone</author><text>Cliqz is run by a great team, the founder Jean-Paul Schmetz is an amazing software engineer with a lot of experience (has been CTO of Burda Digital since the mid-90ies and later went to Stanford to study CS) and they have very high standards for software engineering and computer science.</text></comment> |
27,390,747 | 27,389,608 | 1 | 3 | 27,388,587 | train | <story><title>The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins</title><url>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arrosenberg</author><text>It&#x27;s not a conflict of interest because Dr. Fauci wasn&#x27;t gaining anything. The agency he is head of is specifically interested in infectious disease and has a large budget for grants. $120K per year pays for a couple plate of genetic samples and tech time to run them. Maybe in China you can run a few more for that cost, I don&#x27;t know.<p>As head of that agency, it&#x27;s also his job to share his professional opinion with the public. For this, his reward is a public servant&#x27;s salary. Seriously, what&#x27;s he getting here for his supposed &quot;deception&quot;?</text></item><item><author>harryf</author><text>I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s shady to provide that funding. What I&#x27;m saying is it demonstrates conflict of interest. Last year in May 5 2020 Fauci dismissed the idea that the virus came from a lab that his own organisation was providing funds to - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;anthony-fauci-wuhan-lab-coronavirus-source-dismissal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;anthony-fauci-wuhan-lab-coronav...</a><p>Whether or not anything shady was happening, the conflict of interest is clear.</text></item><item><author>arrosenberg</author><text>You are getting downvoted because it&#x27;s muckraking. There is nothing shady about NIAID giving a (verrrry small for this type of research) grant to a foreign research lab, which is doing research about a topic of interest. That&#x27;s how you ensure the U.S. government gets a copy of the results.</text></item><item><author>harryf</author><text>It gets worse - gain of function research was banned under Obama until the ban was lifted in 2017 under Trump - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;laninf&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS1473-3099(18)30006-9&#x2F;fulltext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;laninf&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS1473-3...</a><p>I can’t find sources for this right now but apparently Dr Anthony Fauci played a key role in getting the ban lifted. He’s also the head of the NIAID ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anthony_Fauci" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anthony_Fauci</a> ) which (apparently) is the ultimate source for all funding on gain of function research.<p>So the lead guy we’ve been listening to (and still are) for scientific advice on this pandemic is entangled in a massive conflict of interest.<p>Edit: I assume this is getting down-voted either because is sounds like conspiracy theory or just everyone has already heard it and it&#x27;s not news. Fauci has already admitted having been involved in funding Wuhan - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;25&#x2F;fauci-admits-nih-funding-of-wuhan-lab-denies-gain-of-function&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;25&#x2F;fauci-admits-nih-funding-of-wu...</a> - that on it&#x27;s own should not have been something he first admitted to in May 2021, while holding such a responsible position. Looking for more sources right now...<p>Edit 2: In this article from December 2011 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;a-flu-virus-risk-worth-taking&#x2F;2011&#x2F;12&#x2F;30&#x2F;gIQAM9sNRP_story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;a-flu-virus-risk-wor...</a> - you have Fauci making the case for creating viruses in a lab;<p>&gt; &quot;Given these uncertainties, important information and insights can come from generating a potentially dangerous virus in the laboratory.&quot;<p>It doesn&#x27;t explicitly mention gain of function but - while raising the concerns, it&#x27;s arguing for research which would include gain of function. Meanwhile listening to this panel discussion which included Fauci from Nov 2017 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.c-span.org&#x2F;video&#x2F;?437187-1&#x2F;johns-hopkins-forum-explores-pandemic-preparedness-response" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.c-span.org&#x2F;video&#x2F;?437187-1&#x2F;johns-hopkins-forum-e...</a> ... again he&#x27;s arguing for more aggressive types of research</text></item><item><author>bartart</author><text>This is the most shocking article I have ever read in my life. I&#x27;d ask everyone to please read it because it is incredible.<p>One thing I did not realize is that US researchers who conducted gain of function research tried to downplay and discredit the possibility of the virus originating from the wuhan lab. There was an anti-lab theory Lancet statement signed by scientists, and &quot;Daszak had not only signed but organized the influential Lancet statement, with the intention of concealing his role and creating the impression of scientific unanimity.&quot;<p>Plus there&#x27;s all the stuff about the miners shoveling bat poop for weeks and then dying of coronaviruses, and the Wuhan institute collecting and doing gain of function research on these similar-to-SARS samples. And then several of the lab&#x27;s gain of function researchers became ill in late 2019. And there&#x27;s the weird renaming of samples to hide the unmatched closeness of the mine samples and covid. This is just the absolute surface of the article. There&#x27;s too much to list here<p>Edit: here&#x27;s another amazement for the list: &quot;Shi Zhengli herself had publicly acknowledged that, until the pandemic, all of her team’s coronavirus research — some involving live SARS-like viruses — had been conducted in less secure BSL-3 and even BSL-2 laboratories.&quot; And the article says &quot;BSL-2 [is] roughly as secure as an American dentist’s office.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baryphonic</author><text>A conflict of interest does not depend on whether a person actually gains (or prevents himself from losing) anything, but whether he has some personal interest (such as fame, money, even gifts for a family member, etc.) that coexists with some duty-bound interest to some other party&#x2F;society (e.g. fiduciary duty, professional ethical duties, etc.), and the person is entrusted with making a decision that implicated either interest depending on the outcome. Conflicts of interest are usually resolved either by disclosure or isolation from the adverse interest.<p>In this case, Fauci has sort of a small, debatable conflict. His personal stake is not money per se, but his reputation and clear preference for gain-of-function research. If it came out that gain-of-function research caused the pandemic, and Fauci was one of the leading cheerleaders for that since the early aughts AND Fauci may have provided some of the funding for this particular research, then Fauci would stand to lose quite a bit of reputation and standing. That&#x27;s a real adverse incentive to determine that lab leak of a gain-of-function virus is not possible.<p>If his job is to share his opinion to the public, then he has a conflict of interest with respect to that decision, since the public doesn&#x27;t know if Fauci-the-expert is talking or Fauci-the-reputation-seeking-bureaucrat. If he had merely disclosed any of his involvement with restarting funding of gain-of-function research in 2017 or his past advocacy for gain-of-function research, that would significantly resolve the conflict.<p>In my opinion, Fauci is simply an opportunistic bureaucrat and a liar (I repeat myself), and the conflict of interest claim against him is weak. Peter Daszam has much, much more problematic conflicts of interest. This is a guy who (1) discredited fellow scientists in the Lancet for considering an alternative hypothesis and (2) led a sham WHO investigation into the WIV lab, all while funneling NIH grant money to WIV, not complying with disclosure and review requirements and standing to lose his career if gain-of-function were to be seriously discredited. It would be hard for him to be more conflicted.<p>Also, for what it&#x27;s worth, Fauci is the highest paid federal employee. He makes more than the president. Most &quot;public servants&quot; make $150k&#x2F;year or less. Not to mention, Fauci had also made a book deal as a result of his celebrity.</text></comment> | <story><title>The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins</title><url>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arrosenberg</author><text>It&#x27;s not a conflict of interest because Dr. Fauci wasn&#x27;t gaining anything. The agency he is head of is specifically interested in infectious disease and has a large budget for grants. $120K per year pays for a couple plate of genetic samples and tech time to run them. Maybe in China you can run a few more for that cost, I don&#x27;t know.<p>As head of that agency, it&#x27;s also his job to share his professional opinion with the public. For this, his reward is a public servant&#x27;s salary. Seriously, what&#x27;s he getting here for his supposed &quot;deception&quot;?</text></item><item><author>harryf</author><text>I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s shady to provide that funding. What I&#x27;m saying is it demonstrates conflict of interest. Last year in May 5 2020 Fauci dismissed the idea that the virus came from a lab that his own organisation was providing funds to - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;anthony-fauci-wuhan-lab-coronavirus-source-dismissal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;anthony-fauci-wuhan-lab-coronav...</a><p>Whether or not anything shady was happening, the conflict of interest is clear.</text></item><item><author>arrosenberg</author><text>You are getting downvoted because it&#x27;s muckraking. There is nothing shady about NIAID giving a (verrrry small for this type of research) grant to a foreign research lab, which is doing research about a topic of interest. That&#x27;s how you ensure the U.S. government gets a copy of the results.</text></item><item><author>harryf</author><text>It gets worse - gain of function research was banned under Obama until the ban was lifted in 2017 under Trump - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;laninf&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS1473-3099(18)30006-9&#x2F;fulltext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;laninf&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS1473-3...</a><p>I can’t find sources for this right now but apparently Dr Anthony Fauci played a key role in getting the ban lifted. He’s also the head of the NIAID ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anthony_Fauci" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anthony_Fauci</a> ) which (apparently) is the ultimate source for all funding on gain of function research.<p>So the lead guy we’ve been listening to (and still are) for scientific advice on this pandemic is entangled in a massive conflict of interest.<p>Edit: I assume this is getting down-voted either because is sounds like conspiracy theory or just everyone has already heard it and it&#x27;s not news. Fauci has already admitted having been involved in funding Wuhan - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;25&#x2F;fauci-admits-nih-funding-of-wuhan-lab-denies-gain-of-function&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;05&#x2F;25&#x2F;fauci-admits-nih-funding-of-wu...</a> - that on it&#x27;s own should not have been something he first admitted to in May 2021, while holding such a responsible position. Looking for more sources right now...<p>Edit 2: In this article from December 2011 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;a-flu-virus-risk-worth-taking&#x2F;2011&#x2F;12&#x2F;30&#x2F;gIQAM9sNRP_story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;a-flu-virus-risk-wor...</a> - you have Fauci making the case for creating viruses in a lab;<p>&gt; &quot;Given these uncertainties, important information and insights can come from generating a potentially dangerous virus in the laboratory.&quot;<p>It doesn&#x27;t explicitly mention gain of function but - while raising the concerns, it&#x27;s arguing for research which would include gain of function. Meanwhile listening to this panel discussion which included Fauci from Nov 2017 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.c-span.org&#x2F;video&#x2F;?437187-1&#x2F;johns-hopkins-forum-explores-pandemic-preparedness-response" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.c-span.org&#x2F;video&#x2F;?437187-1&#x2F;johns-hopkins-forum-e...</a> ... again he&#x27;s arguing for more aggressive types of research</text></item><item><author>bartart</author><text>This is the most shocking article I have ever read in my life. I&#x27;d ask everyone to please read it because it is incredible.<p>One thing I did not realize is that US researchers who conducted gain of function research tried to downplay and discredit the possibility of the virus originating from the wuhan lab. There was an anti-lab theory Lancet statement signed by scientists, and &quot;Daszak had not only signed but organized the influential Lancet statement, with the intention of concealing his role and creating the impression of scientific unanimity.&quot;<p>Plus there&#x27;s all the stuff about the miners shoveling bat poop for weeks and then dying of coronaviruses, and the Wuhan institute collecting and doing gain of function research on these similar-to-SARS samples. And then several of the lab&#x27;s gain of function researchers became ill in late 2019. And there&#x27;s the weird renaming of samples to hide the unmatched closeness of the mine samples and covid. This is just the absolute surface of the article. There&#x27;s too much to list here<p>Edit: here&#x27;s another amazement for the list: &quot;Shi Zhengli herself had publicly acknowledged that, until the pandemic, all of her team’s coronavirus research — some involving live SARS-like viruses — had been conducted in less secure BSL-3 and even BSL-2 laboratories.&quot; And the article says &quot;BSL-2 [is] roughly as secure as an American dentist’s office.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>warlog</author><text>But it could be perceived as a conflict of interest, and that of itself is the reason to at least declare it (for transparency). This is how it works in ethics.</text></comment> |
16,038,295 | 16,036,950 | 1 | 2 | 16,035,120 | train | <story><title>LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting call to Wichita police</title><url>http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192281169.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TillE</author><text>&gt; &quot;well, he shouldn&#x27;t have had a knife in his hand&quot;<p>Right. German cops, for example, are trained to shoot people in the leg in that scenario. It happens quite frequently and successfully.<p>American cops seem like they&#x27;re all on a hair trigger to kill at the slightest hint of danger, rather than as a last resort when they&#x27;re truly threatened.</text></item><item><author>dboreham</author><text>I don&#x27;t see anyone here asking this: how many people are police killing who are not 100% innocent bystanders like in this case, but still didn&#x27;t need to be killed? I mean, we&#x27;re all outraged because they shot &quot;some dude in his PJs&quot; but doesn&#x27;t that imply they must be shooting 10, 100x as many folks where we&#x27;d be thinking &quot;well, he shouldn&#x27;t have had a knife in his hand&quot; or &quot;he shouldn&#x27;t have been high&quot;?<p>Where I live, small town in the middle of the US, to my knowledge the cops have killed at least two people who were no real threat to them in the past few years. If that death density is consistent across the country there must be hundreds of events like this every year.<p>I get the impression somehow we&#x27;ve been brain washed into seeing this like unlucky folks being hit by a drunk driver.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doktrin</author><text>As others have said, police in the US are trained to shoot for center mass, and even then they don&#x27;t have a great track record for accuracy. I don&#x27;t have the statistics in front of me, but the book &#x27;On Combat&#x27; describes several cases where police empty their clips and mainly hit air. Adrenaline is a bitch, but most cops also have (in)famously little actual weapons training and a more robust regimen would undoubtedly help - including but not limited to helping them not discharge their weapons in the first place.</text></comment> | <story><title>LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting call to Wichita police</title><url>http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192281169.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TillE</author><text>&gt; &quot;well, he shouldn&#x27;t have had a knife in his hand&quot;<p>Right. German cops, for example, are trained to shoot people in the leg in that scenario. It happens quite frequently and successfully.<p>American cops seem like they&#x27;re all on a hair trigger to kill at the slightest hint of danger, rather than as a last resort when they&#x27;re truly threatened.</text></item><item><author>dboreham</author><text>I don&#x27;t see anyone here asking this: how many people are police killing who are not 100% innocent bystanders like in this case, but still didn&#x27;t need to be killed? I mean, we&#x27;re all outraged because they shot &quot;some dude in his PJs&quot; but doesn&#x27;t that imply they must be shooting 10, 100x as many folks where we&#x27;d be thinking &quot;well, he shouldn&#x27;t have had a knife in his hand&quot; or &quot;he shouldn&#x27;t have been high&quot;?<p>Where I live, small town in the middle of the US, to my knowledge the cops have killed at least two people who were no real threat to them in the past few years. If that death density is consistent across the country there must be hundreds of events like this every year.<p>I get the impression somehow we&#x27;ve been brain washed into seeing this like unlucky folks being hit by a drunk driver.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kipari</author><text>I remember a tidbit from the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive loading screen saying that the federal GSG-9 group only has fired shots on five missions throughout their existence. Wikipedia seems to back this up with some reportedly true information[1].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GSG_9#Publicly_known_missions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GSG_9#Publicly_known_missions</a></text></comment> |
33,035,671 | 33,035,649 | 1 | 3 | 33,034,534 | train | <story><title>Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer</title><url>https://www.gamesradar.com/red-dead-redemption-2-fan-with-nearly-6000-hours-on-stadia-begs-rockstar-for-character-transfer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cruano</author><text>Yeah but isn&#x27;t that a single player game ? Even if it had 100+ hours of gameplay, you&#x27;d have to repeat that so many times to get to 6000 hours<p>Very different from someone that plays video games a few hours every day</text></item><item><author>dmix</author><text>You can&#x27;t measure an addiction just by total hours invested in something.<p>That equals 2.4hrs&#x2F;day, 16hrs&#x2F;week since the game was released, which might be more indicative but still depends on the reset of their life obligations and what else they seek value from.</text></item><item><author>martincmartin</author><text>At what point does a hobby turn into an addition? People who have spent 6k hours in a casino, for example, would probably be happier if they could figure out why they&#x27;re doing it, and find a more productive way to address that need. Same might be true of someone who has spent 6k hours in a single video game.<p>[I&#x27;ve spent 450 hours in Factorio, but stopped soon after my partner nick named it Divorcio.]</text></item><item><author>Entinel</author><text>&gt; Although the angle of: Losing his characters is the best thing that&#x27;s happening for him due to wasting a very significant part of his life in video games has some merit<p>It has no merit. Do you look at your hobbies as wasting your life? I certainty don&#x27;t. My alone time playing video games is just as important to me as when I&#x27;m going hiking or camping with friends.</text></item><item><author>PedroBatista</author><text>Although the angle of: Losing his characters is the best thing that&#x27;s happening for him due to wasting a very significant part of his life in video games has some merit (but could be worded differently), this is yet another example on why you shouldn&#x27;t depend on these platforms for anything of value, specially Google.<p>The immense pressure to transform&#x2F;re-frame everything as a service, aka: &quot;You&#x27;ll own nothing and be happy&quot; leads to these situations. Now it&#x27;s &quot;just a video game&quot;, but this is starting to happen to most walks of life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imdsm</author><text>This is entirely dependent on the person. Some people have to have something new every single day, and some people like to enjoy the same stuff. Some people try new beers every time they go out, and some people drink their favourite.<p>Years back, I spent roughly 20,000 hours in WoW, starting 2006 and the last time I played, a year or two ago. 20,000 hours doing the same stuff, one could argue, but those hours have brought me joy, relaxation, excitement, and friendship.<p>Downtime is important — how you choose to decompress is up to you, but it&#x27;s important, especially with high stress or high pressure jobs. Some months you&#x27;ll be putting in 80 hours a week, weekends included, and other times you&#x27;ll lower it, to take a bit of a breather, 40 hours a week with some games or TV.<p>We shouldn&#x27;t be calling people addicts because they go fishing every Sunday, or watch TV every evening, or, play RDR2 every day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer</title><url>https://www.gamesradar.com/red-dead-redemption-2-fan-with-nearly-6000-hours-on-stadia-begs-rockstar-for-character-transfer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cruano</author><text>Yeah but isn&#x27;t that a single player game ? Even if it had 100+ hours of gameplay, you&#x27;d have to repeat that so many times to get to 6000 hours<p>Very different from someone that plays video games a few hours every day</text></item><item><author>dmix</author><text>You can&#x27;t measure an addiction just by total hours invested in something.<p>That equals 2.4hrs&#x2F;day, 16hrs&#x2F;week since the game was released, which might be more indicative but still depends on the reset of their life obligations and what else they seek value from.</text></item><item><author>martincmartin</author><text>At what point does a hobby turn into an addition? People who have spent 6k hours in a casino, for example, would probably be happier if they could figure out why they&#x27;re doing it, and find a more productive way to address that need. Same might be true of someone who has spent 6k hours in a single video game.<p>[I&#x27;ve spent 450 hours in Factorio, but stopped soon after my partner nick named it Divorcio.]</text></item><item><author>Entinel</author><text>&gt; Although the angle of: Losing his characters is the best thing that&#x27;s happening for him due to wasting a very significant part of his life in video games has some merit<p>It has no merit. Do you look at your hobbies as wasting your life? I certainty don&#x27;t. My alone time playing video games is just as important to me as when I&#x27;m going hiking or camping with friends.</text></item><item><author>PedroBatista</author><text>Although the angle of: Losing his characters is the best thing that&#x27;s happening for him due to wasting a very significant part of his life in video games has some merit (but could be worded differently), this is yet another example on why you shouldn&#x27;t depend on these platforms for anything of value, specially Google.<p>The immense pressure to transform&#x2F;re-frame everything as a service, aka: &quot;You&#x27;ll own nothing and be happy&quot; leads to these situations. Now it&#x27;s &quot;just a video game&quot;, but this is starting to happen to most walks of life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>williamscales</author><text>No, there is very much an online multiplayer side to the game</text></comment> |
36,758,713 | 36,753,872 | 1 | 2 | 36,746,274 | train | <story><title>A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database</title><url>https://github.com/justinclift/docker-pgautoupgrade</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekidd</author><text>RDS is very useful for companies which are big enough to employ, say, 2 programmers, but still too small to employ a DBA.<p>The hard part of running a database, in my experience, isn&#x27;t setting up or running it. The hard part isn&#x27;t even configuring backups.<p>The hard part is noticing that your backups have been broken for years, <i>before</i> you actually need to restore from them. Yes, yes, you know how to do this correctly. But you delegated it to the sysadmin, the sysadmin subtly broke the backup scripts, the scripts have been silently doing nothing for 18 months, and then the sysadmin got a new job.<p>This is the main value proposition of RDS: Your data will be backed up, your backups will be restorable, and most of your normal admin tasks can be performed by pushing a button.</text></item><item><author>neilv</author><text>&gt; <i>It&#x27;s whole purpose in life is to automatically detect the version of PostgreSQL used in the existing PostgreSQL data directory, and automatically upgrade it (if needed) to the latest version of PostgreSQL.</i><p>In a small startup...<p>* If the data is mission-critical and constantly changing, PostgreSQL is a rare infra thing for which I&#x27;d use a managed service like AWS RDS, rather just Debian Stable EC2 or my own containers. The first time I used RDS, the company couldn&#x27;t afford to lose an hour of data (could destroy confidence in enterprise customer&#x27;s pilot project), and without RDS, I didn&#x27;t have time&#x2F;resources to be nine-9s confident that we could do PITR if we ever needed to.<p>* If the data is less-critical or permits easy sufficient backups, and I don&#x27;t mind a 0-2 year-old stable version of PG, I&#x27;d probably just use whatever PG version Debian Stable has locked in. And just hold my breath during Debian security updates to that version.<p>(Although I think I saw AWS has a cheaper entry level of pricing for RDS now, which I&#x27;ll have to look into next time I have a concrete need. AWS pricing varies from no-brainers to lunacy, depending on specifics, and specifics can be tweaked with costs in mind.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>Exactly, on the backups. There was off-the-shelf open source PITR software that I looked at and could&#x27;ve configured, but I couldn&#x27;t justify spending all the time to test that setup, given that (supposedly) RDS was rock-solid turn-key. There were other engineering and ops things that needed my time more.</text></comment> | <story><title>A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database</title><url>https://github.com/justinclift/docker-pgautoupgrade</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekidd</author><text>RDS is very useful for companies which are big enough to employ, say, 2 programmers, but still too small to employ a DBA.<p>The hard part of running a database, in my experience, isn&#x27;t setting up or running it. The hard part isn&#x27;t even configuring backups.<p>The hard part is noticing that your backups have been broken for years, <i>before</i> you actually need to restore from them. Yes, yes, you know how to do this correctly. But you delegated it to the sysadmin, the sysadmin subtly broke the backup scripts, the scripts have been silently doing nothing for 18 months, and then the sysadmin got a new job.<p>This is the main value proposition of RDS: Your data will be backed up, your backups will be restorable, and most of your normal admin tasks can be performed by pushing a button.</text></item><item><author>neilv</author><text>&gt; <i>It&#x27;s whole purpose in life is to automatically detect the version of PostgreSQL used in the existing PostgreSQL data directory, and automatically upgrade it (if needed) to the latest version of PostgreSQL.</i><p>In a small startup...<p>* If the data is mission-critical and constantly changing, PostgreSQL is a rare infra thing for which I&#x27;d use a managed service like AWS RDS, rather just Debian Stable EC2 or my own containers. The first time I used RDS, the company couldn&#x27;t afford to lose an hour of data (could destroy confidence in enterprise customer&#x27;s pilot project), and without RDS, I didn&#x27;t have time&#x2F;resources to be nine-9s confident that we could do PITR if we ever needed to.<p>* If the data is less-critical or permits easy sufficient backups, and I don&#x27;t mind a 0-2 year-old stable version of PG, I&#x27;d probably just use whatever PG version Debian Stable has locked in. And just hold my breath during Debian security updates to that version.<p>(Although I think I saw AWS has a cheaper entry level of pricing for RDS now, which I&#x27;ll have to look into next time I have a concrete need. AWS pricing varies from no-brainers to lunacy, depending on specifics, and specifics can be tweaked with costs in mind.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KingOfCoders</author><text>In my startup (until our exit) I&#x27;ve run Postgres on my own, with streaming backups, daily backup tests (automatic restores and checks), offsite backups and (slow) upgrades.<p>Data wasn&#x27;t mission critical and customers could live with 5min downtimes for upgrades once a year.<p>No problem for years. When we had hosted Mongo, we had more problems.<p>If I have the money I&#x27;ll use a managed database. But running Postgres in a startup up to $10m ARR &#x2F; ~1TB data seems not like a problem.</text></comment> |
31,800,077 | 31,799,575 | 1 | 3 | 31,798,006 | train | <story><title>Text consoles and framebuffer consoles in Linux</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/TextAndFramebufferConsoles</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GekkePrutser</author><text>Yes I remember Minix in particular being so fast on my old 386sx. If I would run something that output a lot it would come through so fast there was hardly any scrolling. It was like it just output the last page only. But everything was in the output buffer so this wasn&#x27;t the case. I&#x27;ve never seen another OS so fast even with a terminal emulator known for speed like kitty.<p>I didn&#x27;t have time to read the article yet but I assume those DOS era display cards were just hella optimised for text output.</text></comment> | <story><title>Text consoles and framebuffer consoles in Linux</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/TextAndFramebufferConsoles</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Aardwolf</author><text>How can going from native 80x25 character mode to graphical mode cause any noticeable slowdown?<p>It&#x27;s just text, small textures for the fixed width characters I assume.<p>Computer games were rendering millions of triangles a second over 20 years ago, even in software rendering engines.<p>If it&#x27;s noticeably slow, there must be some unnecessary inefficiencies in there.<p>I use graphical VTE&#x27;s like konsole though, which have way more than the in the article mentioned 128x40 characters, on a 4K screen, and I don&#x27;t notice any slowdown in there at least, it can scroll as fast as you want, with full RGB color codes and unicode characters and 100K lines of scroll history.</text></comment> |
25,204,587 | 25,200,491 | 1 | 2 | 25,199,499 | train | <story><title>Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop</title><url>https://expanscape.com/the-aurora-7-prototype/the-story-of-the-aurora-7/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WesolyKubeczek</author><text>The memo initially said to design a 7&quot; screen laptop, but the &quot; character got lost in communication.<p>This is how this monstrosity was born.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ndarilek</author><text>Funny you should say that. I&#x27;m a blind screen reader user, and assumed this was some new 7-inch laptop. Since I don&#x27;t need a huge screen, I&#x27;m always on the lookout for small, performant laptops. Seems this one is anything but. :) Glad I read the comments first.</text></comment> | <story><title>Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop</title><url>https://expanscape.com/the-aurora-7-prototype/the-story-of-the-aurora-7/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WesolyKubeczek</author><text>The memo initially said to design a 7&quot; screen laptop, but the &quot; character got lost in communication.<p>This is how this monstrosity was born.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meowster</author><text>A manager left a note for another manager to pay me .25 hours of overtime. I received 25 hours of OT pay. That&#x27;s why you lead decimals with a zero. (I reported the discrepancy which is how I found out.)</text></comment> |
20,353,574 | 20,353,326 | 1 | 2 | 20,353,062 | train | <story><title>Two Billion Records Exposed in 'Smart Home' Breach</title><url>https://secalerts.co/article/two-billion-records-exposed-in-smart-home-breach/5e204721</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>m34</author><text>(tech) people tend to laugh at me&#x2F;pull the tinfoil hat card for putting my dlink&#x2F;iot stuff behind a very restrictive, dedicated, iptables filtered, hostapd based custom network running on my pi zero w that isn’t allowed to talk to the home network or internet at all.<p>As mentioned by others, I guess it really needs severe identity theft&#x2F;abuse with vital services until people realize that today‘s IoT &#x27;plug &amp; play&#x27; is worse than than the level of &#x27;plug &amp; pray&#x27; we‘ve seen in the early PCI&#x2F;USB&#x2F;Win98 era (that only impacted your local device functionality).</text></comment> | <story><title>Two Billion Records Exposed in 'Smart Home' Breach</title><url>https://secalerts.co/article/two-billion-records-exposed-in-smart-home-breach/5e204721</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>OJFord</author><text>&gt; a misconfigured and Internet-facing Elasticsearch database without a password.&quot; If this wasn&#x27;t bad enough, a Kibana web-based app, there to make navigating through the data easier, had no password protection.<p>That&#x27;s not even really &#x27;exposed in breach&#x27;, that&#x27;s just &#x27;exposed&#x27;.</text></comment> |
19,211,582 | 19,211,460 | 1 | 2 | 19,210,727 | train | <story><title>Linux Kernel Through 4.20.10 Found Vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution</title><url>https://coocoor.com/advisory/cve/CVE-2019-8912</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doctorpangloss</author><text>Is there a reason the kernel style doesn&#x27;t always require curly braces after &quot;if&quot; statements?</text></item><item><author>ptrincr</author><text>Looks like this is the fix:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;linux&#x2F;commit&#x2F;9060cb719e61b685ec0102574e10337fa5f445ea" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;linux&#x2F;commit&#x2F;9060cb719e61b685ec0...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gvb</author><text>Note that the problem was not missing curly braces, it was the missing line<p><pre><code> sock-&gt;sk = NULL;
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The curly braces were added as well because the single statement &quot;if&quot; turned into a two statement block.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux Kernel Through 4.20.10 Found Vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution</title><url>https://coocoor.com/advisory/cve/CVE-2019-8912</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doctorpangloss</author><text>Is there a reason the kernel style doesn&#x27;t always require curly braces after &quot;if&quot; statements?</text></item><item><author>ptrincr</author><text>Looks like this is the fix:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;linux&#x2F;commit&#x2F;9060cb719e61b685ec0102574e10337fa5f445ea" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;linux&#x2F;commit&#x2F;9060cb719e61b685ec0...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>a-wu</author><text>&quot;Do not unnecessarily use braces where a single statement will do.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kernel.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;v4.10&#x2F;process&#x2F;coding-style.html#placing-braces-and-spaces" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kernel.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;html&#x2F;v4.10&#x2F;process&#x2F;coding-style.h...</a></text></comment> |
3,757,355 | 3,757,324 | 1 | 2 | 3,757,185 | train | <story><title>Create your own programming language in JavaScript</title><url>http://nathansuniversity.appspot.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>emeraldd</author><text>I ran through something like this a couple of years ago and found it to be one of the most entertaining side projects I had worked on in a long while.<p>Scheme from Scratch - <a href="http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introduction" rel="nofollow">http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introdu...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Create your own programming language in JavaScript</title><url>http://nathansuniversity.appspot.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanI-S</author><text>I love the idea of offering your own mini-course. Teaching is by far the fastest way of cementing your knowledge of a subject. It would be great if someone could create a platform /'app store' for providing stuff like this, free or otherwise.</text></comment> |
38,915,321 | 38,914,751 | 1 | 2 | 38,913,857 | train | <story><title>Peregrine moon lander suffers anomaly after launch</title><url>https://spacenews.com/peregrine-lander-suffers-anomaly-after-launch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janice1999</author><text>Aside from scientific instruments it contains a variety of payloads, including cryptocurrency and human remains packaged by 2 private companies [0] . I think the latter is rather distasteful and turning the moon into a celebrity cemetery should be banned by international agreement.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Peregrine_Mission_One" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Peregrine_Mission_One</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heliodor</author><text>What does it mean to have cryptocurrency on the spacecraft, <i>physically</i>?<p>Sounds like a marketing falsehood to me.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine what a statement like, &quot;there was 1 bitcoin on board the spacecraft&quot; would mean. It is nonsensical given what bitcoin is, and cryptocurrency in general.<p>You can have the keys printed on paper and placed onboard but that does not mean there was 1 bitcoin onboard.</text></comment> | <story><title>Peregrine moon lander suffers anomaly after launch</title><url>https://spacenews.com/peregrine-lander-suffers-anomaly-after-launch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janice1999</author><text>Aside from scientific instruments it contains a variety of payloads, including cryptocurrency and human remains packaged by 2 private companies [0] . I think the latter is rather distasteful and turning the moon into a celebrity cemetery should be banned by international agreement.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Peregrine_Mission_One" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Peregrine_Mission_One</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orbital-decay</author><text>Why stop at this? Let&#x27;s internationally ban poor taste and kitsch in general. I&#x27;m sure it would go well.</text></comment> |
20,134,775 | 20,133,498 | 1 | 2 | 20,133,003 | train | <story><title>I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project</title><url>https://github.com/TrillCyborg/onefraction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>&gt; Assuming that your contract leaves you with copyright until you’re paid<p>Why would this matter? If he&#x27;s not paid, what validity does the contract have?</text></item><item><author>olliej</author><text>Have you ever seen mike monteiro’s “fuck you pay me” talk?<p>Assuming that your contract leaves you with copyright until you’re paid you could always have dmca’d them when they deployed. But that’s the vindictive side of me :D</text></item><item><author>trillcyborg</author><text>Hey guys its cool to see that you like my project. Unfortunately these types of things happen to independent contractors often and theres not a whole lot you can do about it but learn from mistakes. I used some awesome tech for the first time in this one like react-native-web which is now in Expo and react-spring for those sexy animations. Im happy for any of you guys to use this project as a boilerplate, learn some stuff from it or make fun of my code</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lawtalkinghuman</author><text>You have a contract at the point of agreement, not at the point of payment.<p>The question is really whether it is IP transfer on final payment or not. If the contract specifies IP is transferred only on final payment, then the developer keeps all IP until that point.<p>Now, something like building a website, it doesn&#x27;t really make a whole lot of sense why this matters. If the person doesn&#x27;t pay, they may not get the source code you&#x27;ve written, and they may not have the technical chops to deploy or use it. But think about a design agency instead.<p>Client hires a design agency to come up with a brand identity, logo etc. Client agrees to their standard terms - 50% upfront, remaining 50% on completion. They start work and come up with a few ideas. Client asks for a few changes, but they soon broadly settle on a design style. Before the agency gets to the point of completing all the deliverables, the client cuts off contact and does not pay. They&#x27;re now in breach.<p>But, they think, we&#x27;ve got the logo, we don&#x27;t need all the other stuff the agency were going to do. We&#x27;re fine with the logo, and we&#x27;re not going to pay. They can go to court, and the court might say &quot;well, you paid 50%, you are entitled to the part performance before the breach&quot;. They might look at the design agency and conclude &quot;they&#x27;re not going to sue us, they&#x27;re tiny and lawyers are expensive&quot; and decide the risk of the breach makes it worthwhile.<p>There&#x27;s also completely innocent scenarios you could imagine that lead to the breach: perhaps the working relationship breaks down. Perhaps the design agency don&#x27;t answer the client&#x27;s emails for a week and they refuse to pay.<p>But if the agency had 50% upfront AND IP transfer only on final payment, then if the company decide to reuse the work, they can&#x27;t try and argue &quot;well, part payment entitles us to part performance&quot;, plus you have a viable cause of action against them for breach of copyright violation in addition to breach of contract.<p>IP transfer on completion makes it clear what happens in the case of breach (which reduces legal uncertainty), and it increases the cost to the client of breaching, which hopefully has something of a deterrent effect.</text></comment> | <story><title>I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project</title><url>https://github.com/TrillCyborg/onefraction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>&gt; Assuming that your contract leaves you with copyright until you’re paid<p>Why would this matter? If he&#x27;s not paid, what validity does the contract have?</text></item><item><author>olliej</author><text>Have you ever seen mike monteiro’s “fuck you pay me” talk?<p>Assuming that your contract leaves you with copyright until you’re paid you could always have dmca’d them when they deployed. But that’s the vindictive side of me :D</text></item><item><author>trillcyborg</author><text>Hey guys its cool to see that you like my project. Unfortunately these types of things happen to independent contractors often and theres not a whole lot you can do about it but learn from mistakes. I used some awesome tech for the first time in this one like react-native-web which is now in Expo and react-spring for those sexy animations. Im happy for any of you guys to use this project as a boilerplate, learn some stuff from it or make fun of my code</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>camjohnson26</author><text>The expectation of payment is legally binding</text></comment> |
29,320,574 | 29,320,741 | 1 | 3 | 29,296,130 | train | <story><title>Arcane director of animation on how they did it</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/netflix-arcane-league-of-legends-animation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>For those who haven’t seen it yet, Arcane really is beautiful to look at even if you don’t like LoL. It’s worth a watch just for the sheer level of art that went into many of the shots.<p>Unfortunately this article doesn’t provide much actual detail on the production process. From the descriptions here and watching the series, it seems to be what I’ll call “Borderlands on Steroids”. 3D camera, characters, and elements, but 2D matte paintings for backgrounds and hand-painted textures on everything to look pseudo-2D. The added 2D explosions and random elements are probably done in post. Great composition overall and very satisfying to watch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slx26</author><text>Seconding this. I&#x27;ve never played LoL, and it has to be clearly said that the show is perfectly enjoyable without having any background. In fact, the plot twists will be more enjoyable if you know nothing about the game. So if anyone has doubts, seriously go watch this one. It&#x27;s breathtakingly beautiful, but the story doesn&#x27;t fall behind.</text></comment> | <story><title>Arcane director of animation on how they did it</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/netflix-arcane-league-of-legends-animation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>For those who haven’t seen it yet, Arcane really is beautiful to look at even if you don’t like LoL. It’s worth a watch just for the sheer level of art that went into many of the shots.<p>Unfortunately this article doesn’t provide much actual detail on the production process. From the descriptions here and watching the series, it seems to be what I’ll call “Borderlands on Steroids”. 3D camera, characters, and elements, but 2D matte paintings for backgrounds and hand-painted textures on everything to look pseudo-2D. The added 2D explosions and random elements are probably done in post. Great composition overall and very satisfying to watch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>calibas</author><text>Borderlands really shouldn&#x27;t be the one getting credit for this art style. Codehunters was first: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;7432584" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;7432584</a></text></comment> |
19,123,499 | 19,123,527 | 1 | 3 | 19,121,882 | train | <story><title>Reddit's user uprising against China because Tencent will invest in the platform</title><url>https://china-underground.com/2019/02/09/reddit-is-experiencing-a-user-uprising-against-china-because-tencent-will-invest-heavily-in-the-platform/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>intopieces</author><text>&gt;The CEO edited the post of a user because they criticized him or something. I can&#x27;t believe how quickly that&#x27;s been forgotten.<p>The CEO changed a single post from &quot;fuck &lt;his username&gt;&quot; to &quot;fuck &lt;username of the moderators of the specific sub-board&gt;&quot; for an hour. While certainly this action was not received well, the drama it caused is way overblown and isn&#x27;t evidence of being &#x27;plagued with censorship.&#x27;<p>If anything it&#x27;s plagued with shills from governments and corporations.</text></item><item><author>jumbopapa</author><text>Reddit has long been plagued with censorship. The CEO edited the post of a user because they criticized him or something. I can&#x27;t believe how quickly that&#x27;s been forgotten.<p>The Reddit situation reminds me of the post about failing to build a billion dollar company a few days ago. Reddit is trying to make VCs happy and continue to grow the business, but a platform like Reddit is best as a less reliant on growth, but stable platform. That allows the most ideas to be shared and the most natural interaction between users. I really think there is space for a competitor, but the switching costs will be high.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>save_ferris</author><text>It wasn&#x27;t just censorship in the traditional sense, Huffman changed someone else&#x27;s content that was posted. What an insane and unbelievably poor decision by the CEO of a major company.<p>Sure, the size of Huffman&#x27;s change was small and limited in scope, but the injustice that it represented combined with the incredible lack of judgment by the Chief Executive rightfully rightfully caused a loud response.<p>He absolutely should&#x27;ve been fired for it, or permanently lost DB access at a bare minimum.<p>&gt; If anything it&#x27;s plagued with shills from governments and corporations.<p>Again, accountability for that behavior ultimately rests on the executive team, no? If content generation or interaction, the core of Reddit&#x27;s business, is being manipulated, who bears responsibility to correct it?</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit's user uprising against China because Tencent will invest in the platform</title><url>https://china-underground.com/2019/02/09/reddit-is-experiencing-a-user-uprising-against-china-because-tencent-will-invest-heavily-in-the-platform/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>intopieces</author><text>&gt;The CEO edited the post of a user because they criticized him or something. I can&#x27;t believe how quickly that&#x27;s been forgotten.<p>The CEO changed a single post from &quot;fuck &lt;his username&gt;&quot; to &quot;fuck &lt;username of the moderators of the specific sub-board&gt;&quot; for an hour. While certainly this action was not received well, the drama it caused is way overblown and isn&#x27;t evidence of being &#x27;plagued with censorship.&#x27;<p>If anything it&#x27;s plagued with shills from governments and corporations.</text></item><item><author>jumbopapa</author><text>Reddit has long been plagued with censorship. The CEO edited the post of a user because they criticized him or something. I can&#x27;t believe how quickly that&#x27;s been forgotten.<p>The Reddit situation reminds me of the post about failing to build a billion dollar company a few days ago. Reddit is trying to make VCs happy and continue to grow the business, but a platform like Reddit is best as a less reliant on growth, but stable platform. That allows the most ideas to be shared and the most natural interaction between users. I really think there is space for a competitor, but the switching costs will be high.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m-p-3</author><text>It&#x27;s the incident that we know of. How many times was this done in the past without oversight and without the generic public being aware? They can literally put words in your mouth without being able to disprove it.</text></comment> |
28,074,340 | 28,073,888 | 1 | 3 | 28,072,750 | train | <story><title>Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship</title><url>https://www.axios.com/wealthy-people-are-renouncing-american-citizenship-67fbada4-e2e4-4699-b106-c986839f209d.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larrysalibra</author><text>As a former American who lived abroad for about 11 years before renouncing, “cartoonishly cruel” is a pretty accurate description of the system. It’s even worse an American entrepreneur abroad because that makes things even more complicated.<p>I gave up jumping through the hoops in 2018 and the self-torture and renounced. I shared my story in case anyone is interested: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;larrysalibra.com&#x2F;goodbye-usa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;larrysalibra.com&#x2F;goodbye-usa&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>academia_hack</author><text>It&#x27;s so irritating to be an American that has moved overseas. Basically the only country in the world that charges taxes on money you make and spend somewhere else, just because of where you were born. Thanks to IRS regulations, 90% of investment firms will just reject me outright rather than deal with the paperwork. Getting someone to help file my inordinately complex taxes costs thousands of dollars more than I actually pay in tax. I can&#x27;t have a proper retirement account here since America doesn&#x27;t recognize the local pension providers, so my government mandated pension is deducted from my salary here and then also taxed as income in the USA. If I ever want to leave, the IRS charges a small fortune for the privilege of not being a citizen too.<p>I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s a small number of rich people gaming the system, but for the vast majority of expats the citizenship-based taxation system is almost cartoonishly cruel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsomers</author><text>I feel for you. My grandparents were apart of the Italian diaspora too, but they ended up in Canada. I often thought how difficult it would be if I had to choose because both countries are close to my heart. I’ve seen a number of American friends that are also duel citizens have to deal with the stress and unfairness that you have. I just feel really lucky and privileged that I don’t have to be in the position to choose even though I no longer live in Canada or Italy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship</title><url>https://www.axios.com/wealthy-people-are-renouncing-american-citizenship-67fbada4-e2e4-4699-b106-c986839f209d.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larrysalibra</author><text>As a former American who lived abroad for about 11 years before renouncing, “cartoonishly cruel” is a pretty accurate description of the system. It’s even worse an American entrepreneur abroad because that makes things even more complicated.<p>I gave up jumping through the hoops in 2018 and the self-torture and renounced. I shared my story in case anyone is interested: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;larrysalibra.com&#x2F;goodbye-usa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;larrysalibra.com&#x2F;goodbye-usa&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>academia_hack</author><text>It&#x27;s so irritating to be an American that has moved overseas. Basically the only country in the world that charges taxes on money you make and spend somewhere else, just because of where you were born. Thanks to IRS regulations, 90% of investment firms will just reject me outright rather than deal with the paperwork. Getting someone to help file my inordinately complex taxes costs thousands of dollars more than I actually pay in tax. I can&#x27;t have a proper retirement account here since America doesn&#x27;t recognize the local pension providers, so my government mandated pension is deducted from my salary here and then also taxed as income in the USA. If I ever want to leave, the IRS charges a small fortune for the privilege of not being a citizen too.<p>I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s a small number of rich people gaming the system, but for the vast majority of expats the citizenship-based taxation system is almost cartoonishly cruel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vertis</author><text>This is a really interesting read. I&#x27;m not a US citizen (AU &amp; NZ) and don&#x27;t face the same problems when being overseas, but I definitely relate to it not really feeling like home now that I&#x27;ve been away for several years.<p>Thankfully, it&#x27;s not as hard to not pay AU&#x2F;NZ taxes, it&#x27;s still a little bit painful to prove you&#x27;re not living there, but not even in the same league as the US.</text></comment> |
20,732,911 | 20,732,929 | 1 | 3 | 20,732,438 | train | <story><title>Leaked Brexit Document Predicts 'Catastrophic Collapse' of U.K. Infrastructure</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/08/18/752173091/leaked-brexit-document-depicts-government-fears-of-gridlock-food-shortages-unres</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>&gt;and does not reflect the preparations spearheaded by Johnson that are now underway.<p>All the more reason to be alarmed. The guy seems like a complete loose cannon - more likely to cause additional chaos that help.<p>Really starting to wonder whether this isn&#x27;t one big geopolitical campaign to short an entire country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>Jacob Rees-Mogg&#x27;s father actually wrote a book called <i>&quot;The Sovereign Individual: The Coming Economic Revolution and How to Survive and Prosper in It&quot;</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Leaked Brexit Document Predicts 'Catastrophic Collapse' of U.K. Infrastructure</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/08/18/752173091/leaked-brexit-document-depicts-government-fears-of-gridlock-food-shortages-unres</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>&gt;and does not reflect the preparations spearheaded by Johnson that are now underway.<p>All the more reason to be alarmed. The guy seems like a complete loose cannon - more likely to cause additional chaos that help.<p>Really starting to wonder whether this isn&#x27;t one big geopolitical campaign to short an entire country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>persistent</author><text>Ever read &quot;The Shock Doctrine&quot;? It lays out how the rich cause and exploit catastrophe to consolidate and strengthen their holdings.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0312427999" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitali...</a></text></comment> |
29,089,765 | 29,089,138 | 1 | 3 | 29,088,418 | train | <story><title>Stop spending so much time being trolled by billionaire corps</title><url>https://lemire.me/blog/2021/11/02/stop-spending-so-much-time-being-trolled-by-billionaire-corporations/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tinalumfoil</author><text>I really like the core idea here: media used to be a push model, social media turned it into a pull model but they&#x27;re trying to wrest it back. I always hated the push model of social media, which is why most of the online content I consume is via rss, including Twitter [0].<p>But I never thought of traditional news media media as being a push model. It makes so much intuitive sense when you say it: the reason I read newspapers is, at least in part, I want and trust them to tell me what&#x27;s happening that&#x27;s important. That&#x27;s different than my programming blog subscriptions: I follow them because <i>I&#x27;ve</i> decided what they write is important to me.<p>It&#x27;s a subtle difference but very impact-full, and seems correct.<p>[0] not sure of they actually have rss feeds but my rss reader supports them</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop spending so much time being trolled by billionaire corps</title><url>https://lemire.me/blog/2021/11/02/stop-spending-so-much-time-being-trolled-by-billionaire-corporations/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GhettoComputers</author><text>I first used a tool to change the fb feed when they stopped allowing me to sort by chronological order, now my account is deleted and I don&#x27;t use it at all. They assume you are their cash cow, their captured audience. Prove them wrong. If you doomscroll you&#x27;re probably bored by it but stuck as their prisoner.<p>I see tiktok as more of flipping through the channel on TV but finding something good randomly, usually but I don&#x27;t spend much time on it.</text></comment> |
35,480,184 | 35,479,055 | 1 | 3 | 35,473,422 | train | <story><title>Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/04/05/europe-drastically-cut-its-energy-consumption-this-winter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>florbnit</author><text>&gt; The world has a lot of potential to be more efficient.<p>This winter wasn’t “efficient” it was cold as hell because we all turned the heating as low as it could go without causing building damage[1] because the price of natural gas more than 10x’ed.<p>It’s not an example of a sustainable reduction in consumption.<p>[1] though a lot of people didn’t think things through and set the temperature too low or even turned off the gas and now have mold and other problems in their basements.</text></item><item><author>locallost</author><text>A lot of people are saying it&#x27;s because of the mild winter, but here e.g. Germany and natural gas use by consumers (used for heating): down even temperature adjusted. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;LionHirth&#x2F;status&#x2F;1639608305696886785" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;LionHirth&#x2F;status&#x2F;1639608305696886...</a><p>The world has a lot of potential to be more efficient. Look no further than energy consumption per capita in the US. It&#x27;s drastically higher than in other developed countries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben_w</author><text>I don&#x27;t know where you&#x27;re based, but you are mentioning prices in dollars in another comment, so I&#x27;m assuming most likely US.<p>Continental Europe&#x27;s got much better housing than the bits of the US which I&#x27;ve visited. East coast more relevant here than the West, given exactly where I went, but Boston, Providence, etc., were <i>awful</i> build quality, the &quot;middle class&quot; places around there were even worse than the &quot;working class&quot; Victorian terraces and post-War council houses in the UK.</text></comment> | <story><title>Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/04/05/europe-drastically-cut-its-energy-consumption-this-winter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>florbnit</author><text>&gt; The world has a lot of potential to be more efficient.<p>This winter wasn’t “efficient” it was cold as hell because we all turned the heating as low as it could go without causing building damage[1] because the price of natural gas more than 10x’ed.<p>It’s not an example of a sustainable reduction in consumption.<p>[1] though a lot of people didn’t think things through and set the temperature too low or even turned off the gas and now have mold and other problems in their basements.</text></item><item><author>locallost</author><text>A lot of people are saying it&#x27;s because of the mild winter, but here e.g. Germany and natural gas use by consumers (used for heating): down even temperature adjusted. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;LionHirth&#x2F;status&#x2F;1639608305696886785" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;LionHirth&#x2F;status&#x2F;1639608305696886...</a><p>The world has a lot of potential to be more efficient. Look no further than energy consumption per capita in the US. It&#x27;s drastically higher than in other developed countries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>locallost</author><text>I was probably not clear enough, my point was that even in normal times, energy use im some countries can be almost double per capita than other similar countries. But even in the more energy efficient countries there&#x27;s room for improvement - better insulation, more efficient appliances on the individual level, and better urban planning etc. on the society level.</text></comment> |
27,023,527 | 27,023,404 | 1 | 3 | 27,022,075 | train | <story><title>Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers</title><url>https://github.com/255kb/stack-on-a-budget</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_duke</author><text>Free is great, and you can get a decent mileage out of cobbling together a few services.<p>But I&#x27;d personally be way too stressed and annoyed by worrying about the often very restrictive free tier limits. You can very easily blow through the network egress, for example.<p>For things I want to be cheap I&#x27;ve started hosting a lot of things on Hetzner Cloud [1].<p>Even their cheapest instance (1vCPU&#x2F;2GB RAM&#x2F;20TB traffic) at 2.5 Euro&#x2F;month can run a k3s Kubernetes cluster with Traefik ingress, loki logging, their own CSI driver, cert-manager, Grafana and a 2 or 3 light weight Go&#x2F;Rust services. With their Terraform provider I can easily scale up the cluster in less than a minute.<p>And since it&#x27;s Kubernetes I can also always move things to GC or AWS if required.<p>That&#x27;s incredibly cheap, and you don&#x27;t have to worry about limits or free tier periods ending, etc. It&#x27;s a long-term solution.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are some other similar providers out there.<p>edit: to be clear, I also have clients with sizable production workloads on the same infrastructure, it&#x27;s not just for tiny toy deployments. Above is just an example how far you can go for <i>almost</i> no money.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hetzner.com&#x2F;cloud" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hetzner.com&#x2F;cloud</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>I didn&#x27;t know Hetzner Cloud, an first thought, &quot;wow, it&#x27;s even cheaper than OVH, which is already a bargain&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ovhcloud.com&#x2F;fr&#x2F;vps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ovhcloud.com&#x2F;fr&#x2F;vps&#x2F;</a>).<p>But then I realized you are limited in bandwithd to 20 TB, while OVH provides, for barely more €, unmetered traffic. It&#x27;s huge because you never have to worry about a random spike day, a bot doing something stupid, an attack, or a use case switch (ex: video streaming).</text></comment> | <story><title>Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers</title><url>https://github.com/255kb/stack-on-a-budget</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_duke</author><text>Free is great, and you can get a decent mileage out of cobbling together a few services.<p>But I&#x27;d personally be way too stressed and annoyed by worrying about the often very restrictive free tier limits. You can very easily blow through the network egress, for example.<p>For things I want to be cheap I&#x27;ve started hosting a lot of things on Hetzner Cloud [1].<p>Even their cheapest instance (1vCPU&#x2F;2GB RAM&#x2F;20TB traffic) at 2.5 Euro&#x2F;month can run a k3s Kubernetes cluster with Traefik ingress, loki logging, their own CSI driver, cert-manager, Grafana and a 2 or 3 light weight Go&#x2F;Rust services. With their Terraform provider I can easily scale up the cluster in less than a minute.<p>And since it&#x27;s Kubernetes I can also always move things to GC or AWS if required.<p>That&#x27;s incredibly cheap, and you don&#x27;t have to worry about limits or free tier periods ending, etc. It&#x27;s a long-term solution.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are some other similar providers out there.<p>edit: to be clear, I also have clients with sizable production workloads on the same infrastructure, it&#x27;s not just for tiny toy deployments. Above is just an example how far you can go for <i>almost</i> no money.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hetzner.com&#x2F;cloud" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hetzner.com&#x2F;cloud</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trinovantes</author><text>How&#x27;s the latency from NA to their German datacenters? Their offerings seem much better than my current Digital Ocean setup at the $10 bracket<p>(as a side note, is there an NA-equivalent of Hetzner?)</text></comment> |
34,363,288 | 34,362,776 | 1 | 2 | 34,360,010 | train | <story><title>The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early galaxies</title><url>https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-finding-too-many-early-galaxies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Buttons840</author><text>At this point in the thread, I&#x27;m wondering if we do a disservice to physics students by making it appear we have it all figured out.</text></item><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>My favourite example of the intractabilities of some theories is that magnetohydronamics apparently can&#x27;t predict the formation of streamer jets when you put your finger on a kid&#x27;s plasma ball – i.e. the main point of the toy is beyond the most advanced theory that lies behind NIF, JET, ITER, etc...</text></item><item><author>sebzim4500</author><text>I think this says less about cosmology and more about the incredibly effectiveness of the standard model in the regime we can test directly on earth.<p>If we compare ΛCDM to most other scientific theories it doesn&#x27;t look so bad in terms of discrepancies. Certainly there are many unexplained effects in solid state physics, there isn&#x27;t even an accepted explanation for why rubbing a balloon on your head makes it stick to a wall and that&#x27;s an experiment you probably did as a child.</text></item><item><author>college_physics</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if this instance qualifies as one, but I think its fair to say that cosmology is the one domain of &quot;fundamental&quot; physics where &quot;discrepancies&quot; or question marks keep piling up and not really resolving.<p>It the pattern of previous science revolutions repeats, there could come a point where reinterpreting the large existing body of knowledge using a different paradigm would explain an number of &quot;oddities&quot; in a more economical way.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this generation of telescopes will get us there but it feels that this is a plausible outcome over the next 1-2 decades. Which would be <i>very exciting</i> :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zinclozenge</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever, out of all my physics classes up to grad seminars, been given the impression we have everything figured out. In fact, it was hammered into us that all we have are &quot;effective&quot; theories, at least when it comes to high energy physics, and that&#x27;s not even talking about grand unification (electroweak + strong force unification), let alone Theory of Everything (electroweak + strong + gravity).</text></comment> | <story><title>The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early galaxies</title><url>https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-finding-too-many-early-galaxies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Buttons840</author><text>At this point in the thread, I&#x27;m wondering if we do a disservice to physics students by making it appear we have it all figured out.</text></item><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>My favourite example of the intractabilities of some theories is that magnetohydronamics apparently can&#x27;t predict the formation of streamer jets when you put your finger on a kid&#x27;s plasma ball – i.e. the main point of the toy is beyond the most advanced theory that lies behind NIF, JET, ITER, etc...</text></item><item><author>sebzim4500</author><text>I think this says less about cosmology and more about the incredibly effectiveness of the standard model in the regime we can test directly on earth.<p>If we compare ΛCDM to most other scientific theories it doesn&#x27;t look so bad in terms of discrepancies. Certainly there are many unexplained effects in solid state physics, there isn&#x27;t even an accepted explanation for why rubbing a balloon on your head makes it stick to a wall and that&#x27;s an experiment you probably did as a child.</text></item><item><author>college_physics</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if this instance qualifies as one, but I think its fair to say that cosmology is the one domain of &quot;fundamental&quot; physics where &quot;discrepancies&quot; or question marks keep piling up and not really resolving.<p>It the pattern of previous science revolutions repeats, there could come a point where reinterpreting the large existing body of knowledge using a different paradigm would explain an number of &quot;oddities&quot; in a more economical way.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this generation of telescopes will get us there but it feels that this is a plausible outcome over the next 1-2 decades. Which would be <i>very exciting</i> :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maegul</author><text>So much this! There’s surely a huge argument that all of scientific education is a massive disservice.<p>The point should be to learn and appreciate the method or process of scientific investigation of uncertain and mysterious or hard to understand phenomena.<p>Instead we get dogma as a proxy of measuring intelligence with little regard for what the fundamental tools are of being a scientist.<p>I’ve gone all the way through to Grad School and came out astounded at just how little commitment to or a sense of the essence of scientific investigation and what’s expected of the investigator there is in the system. They don’t prepare you for it because they themselves weren’t prepared. You can try to leverage some meta understanding of the “process” in conversation or debate, but so often the conversation falls flat because few are prepared or accustomed to it. Research is often done, IMO, in philosophical poverty by people eking out a living in the gutters of novelty and paradigmatic safety, averting their gazes from the sky (flourishes aside, you get my point).<p>Putting aside the health of actual research. If the general public is to benefit from education and pass that benefit into their society (that’s the point right), it needs to be more than soon to be forgotten and often useless fallacies.</text></comment> |
26,569,450 | 26,563,075 | 1 | 2 | 26,560,498 | train | <story><title>The End of AMP?</title><url>https://www.lafoo.com/the-end-of-amp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>Usually the answer is &quot;no&quot; to any question in a headline. My answer is &quot;I sure hope so&quot;.<p>AMP launched in 2015. At that time, Larry Page was CEO, Eric Schmidt was Chairman and David Drummond was the Chief Legal Officer. I don&#x27;t know how any of them signed off on AMP.<p>Giving advantageous ranking (including, but not limited to, showing AMP content in Top Stories) is the very definition of using your market power in one area (search) to force publishers to adopt something else you created.<p>For a company that is (or should be) very careful about attracting antitrust attention from the US&#x2F;EU, this seems completely reckless.<p>And what is the upside for Google here? Fast pages? That seems like one hell of a gamble.<p>And on the user side? I, as a user, absolutely hate AMP and wish I could opt out.<p>I have poor vision so use larger fonts on iOS. AMP pages routinely render with the edge of pages cropped off and you can&#x27;t scroll so here so this happens to me way too often:<p>1. Click on a link<p>2. Get an AMP page<p>3. Can&#x27;t read the page, click back<p>4. Force touch the link to bring up the preview of the page, which is the non-AMP version<p>5. Click on that preview to get the non-AMP page.<p>Why is this still an issue? Why can&#x27;t I just get this version of the page always? It&#x27;s ludicrous.<p>But I honestly don&#x27;t know why Google pushed so hard on AMP.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majani</author><text>The gamble was higher engagement on the Google app and Chrome. Google have been trying to turn Chrome and their app into news portals to squeeze some more monetization avenues out of them as search revenue growth begins to max out.</text></comment> | <story><title>The End of AMP?</title><url>https://www.lafoo.com/the-end-of-amp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>Usually the answer is &quot;no&quot; to any question in a headline. My answer is &quot;I sure hope so&quot;.<p>AMP launched in 2015. At that time, Larry Page was CEO, Eric Schmidt was Chairman and David Drummond was the Chief Legal Officer. I don&#x27;t know how any of them signed off on AMP.<p>Giving advantageous ranking (including, but not limited to, showing AMP content in Top Stories) is the very definition of using your market power in one area (search) to force publishers to adopt something else you created.<p>For a company that is (or should be) very careful about attracting antitrust attention from the US&#x2F;EU, this seems completely reckless.<p>And what is the upside for Google here? Fast pages? That seems like one hell of a gamble.<p>And on the user side? I, as a user, absolutely hate AMP and wish I could opt out.<p>I have poor vision so use larger fonts on iOS. AMP pages routinely render with the edge of pages cropped off and you can&#x27;t scroll so here so this happens to me way too often:<p>1. Click on a link<p>2. Get an AMP page<p>3. Can&#x27;t read the page, click back<p>4. Force touch the link to bring up the preview of the page, which is the non-AMP version<p>5. Click on that preview to get the non-AMP page.<p>Why is this still an issue? Why can&#x27;t I just get this version of the page always? It&#x27;s ludicrous.<p>But I honestly don&#x27;t know why Google pushed so hard on AMP.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wayneftw</author><text>Here&#x27;s the solution I&#x27;ve been using on my phone for a long while now: Permanently put Google into desktop mode on my phone.<p>My only real issue with this workaround is image search where I have to turn my phone sideways to see the images.</text></comment> |
30,301,143 | 30,301,005 | 1 | 2 | 30,298,474 | train | <story><title>Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00400-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uwuemu</author><text>A probe based on nuclear pulse propulsion could do it in around 50 years, with today&#x27;s technology. It&#x27;s not that we can&#x27;t do it fast (within one average human lifespan), it&#x27;s that the project would be very expensive and something like Nasa has a relatively tight budget.<p>I mean we, as humanity, have to have an eccentric billionaire start a Martian fire (SpaceX Starship) under our lazy asses to even start to think about getting to Mars in a reasonable timeframe and in reasonable numbers (to start a colony). We are not funding making our species multiplanetary for the last few decades because we were too lazy, how can anyone expect us sending anything to the closest star (other than the sun)... You can&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>NeoTar</author><text>Another point for anyone considering whether we should send a space-probe there...<p>The current fastest man-man object is the Helios 2 space-probe, reaching something like 25 000 kilometres per hour. Proxima Centauri is 1.3020 parsecs away from Earth.<p>So, just diving one by the other, we&#x27;d looking at something like 18 000 years as a rough order of magnitude for sending something from Earth to Proxima Centauri.<p>You&#x27;d be much better off waiting, well, even a thousand years for technology to improve rather than sending something now.<p>Note: this is a <i>very</i> dodgy line of reasoning. The Helios probe got a massive speed boost from a close encounter with the sun. But even if the speed is wrong by a factor of ten, we&#x27;re still looking at somewhere between a thousand and a hundred-thousand years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaetzleesser</author><text>Going to Mars seems pretty useless to me at this time. It’s a super hostile environment and we don’t have the technology yet to have a self sustaining base there. Give it a few decades and progress in robotics will make a Mars base much easier. There is plenty of work to be done on Earth. We have to solve clean energy production and in general reduce pollution. These are massive technological challenges that deserve massive funding.</text></comment> | <story><title>Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00400-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uwuemu</author><text>A probe based on nuclear pulse propulsion could do it in around 50 years, with today&#x27;s technology. It&#x27;s not that we can&#x27;t do it fast (within one average human lifespan), it&#x27;s that the project would be very expensive and something like Nasa has a relatively tight budget.<p>I mean we, as humanity, have to have an eccentric billionaire start a Martian fire (SpaceX Starship) under our lazy asses to even start to think about getting to Mars in a reasonable timeframe and in reasonable numbers (to start a colony). We are not funding making our species multiplanetary for the last few decades because we were too lazy, how can anyone expect us sending anything to the closest star (other than the sun)... You can&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>NeoTar</author><text>Another point for anyone considering whether we should send a space-probe there...<p>The current fastest man-man object is the Helios 2 space-probe, reaching something like 25 000 kilometres per hour. Proxima Centauri is 1.3020 parsecs away from Earth.<p>So, just diving one by the other, we&#x27;d looking at something like 18 000 years as a rough order of magnitude for sending something from Earth to Proxima Centauri.<p>You&#x27;d be much better off waiting, well, even a thousand years for technology to improve rather than sending something now.<p>Note: this is a <i>very</i> dodgy line of reasoning. The Helios probe got a massive speed boost from a close encounter with the sun. But even if the speed is wrong by a factor of ten, we&#x27;re still looking at somewhere between a thousand and a hundred-thousand years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>Maybe an unpopular opinion, but Musk is just plain wrong when he thinks there is any urgency to Mars exploration (or it&#x27;s just vicarious arguments because rockets are cool).<p>Basically, the tech you need to make a Mars colony truly self sufficient is something like a compact fusion powerplant.<p>Before we have that, no point in worrying about using Mars as a &quot;backup plan&quot;, because if Earth was screwed, Mars would have a couple of years to live at most.<p>And obviously it would be vastly better for humanity if Musk spent money on zero-emission large scale energy production, than on rockets.</text></comment> |
12,824,264 | 12,824,261 | 1 | 3 | 12,815,514 | train | <story><title>Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (2012)</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-it-took-so-long-to-inv/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Houshalter</author><text>One of the most fascinating books I ever picked up from the library was <i>Ancient Inventions</i> (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Ancient-Inventions-Peter-James&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0345401026" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Ancient-Inventions-Peter-James&#x2F;dp&#x2F;034...</a>), which goes over the details of stuff like this.<p>The historical figure that strikes me as &quot;most likely to be a time traveller&quot; is Archimedes, who designed incredibly advanced machines that destroyed the Roman fleet and protected his home city. Sadly he was accidentally killed during the war. The Romans wanted to capture him and use him for their own purposes. It&#x27;s possible that could have changed history quite a bit.<p>Heron of Alexandria is another candidate that gets a lot of space in that book. He invented the first steam engine <i>way</i> before his time. But also many other insanely elaborate mechanical devices. Including an entirely mechanical little theater, with mechanical puppets and music.<p>Unfortunately almost all his inventions were for entertainment value only. Sometimes I wonder if the greatest inventor of our time might be applying his work to video game engines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kartan</author><text>&gt; Unfortunately almost all his inventions were for entertainment value only.<p>I read somewhere that one of the problems in antiquity to develop useful machines was the abundance of slave&#x2F;captive labor. Why do you want to create a complicated inefficient first version of a machine when you have cheap humans being to do the task?</text></comment> | <story><title>Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (2012)</title><url>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-it-took-so-long-to-inv/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Houshalter</author><text>One of the most fascinating books I ever picked up from the library was <i>Ancient Inventions</i> (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Ancient-Inventions-Peter-James&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0345401026" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Ancient-Inventions-Peter-James&#x2F;dp&#x2F;034...</a>), which goes over the details of stuff like this.<p>The historical figure that strikes me as &quot;most likely to be a time traveller&quot; is Archimedes, who designed incredibly advanced machines that destroyed the Roman fleet and protected his home city. Sadly he was accidentally killed during the war. The Romans wanted to capture him and use him for their own purposes. It&#x27;s possible that could have changed history quite a bit.<p>Heron of Alexandria is another candidate that gets a lot of space in that book. He invented the first steam engine <i>way</i> before his time. But also many other insanely elaborate mechanical devices. Including an entirely mechanical little theater, with mechanical puppets and music.<p>Unfortunately almost all his inventions were for entertainment value only. Sometimes I wonder if the greatest inventor of our time might be applying his work to video game engines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dleslie</author><text>Entertainment is fertile soil for creative invention; it is often an environment which eschews rigid, pattern-based development in favor of creative expression.<p>I&#x27;ve spent a fair amount of time in video game development and in enterprise software; without a doubt, my experience reflects that creative developers are drawn to video games, whereas the few that found their way elsewhere have a sense of being exotic caged animals.</text></comment> |
32,243,126 | 32,240,263 | 1 | 2 | 32,240,230 | train | <story><title>LiteFS a FUSE-based file system for replicating SQLite</title><url>https://github.com/superfly/litefs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ctur</author><text>If a &quot;FUSE to replicate SQLite&quot; solution came from anywhere else, I&#x27;d be quite skeptical, but there is a lot of very interesting tech coming out of fly.io these days and Ben certainly knows this space well. It still feels a little like a hack and piercing of layers of abstraction (less so than, say, litestream).<p>I love it when at first glance it isn&#x27;t clear if a project is a crazy idea from someone just goofing around vs a highly leveraged crazy idea that will be a foundational part of a major technology shift.<p>I suspect it&#x27;s the latter and the strategy though is to layer this on top of litestream to create an easy way to use sqlite transparently in a widely distributed multi-node environment (litestream providing the backups and&#x2F;or readonly replication to remote sites, with LiteFS handling low latency local access in a cluster, POP, or data center).<p>Cool stuff. It will be fun to see where fly takes this :)</text></comment> | <story><title>LiteFS a FUSE-based file system for replicating SQLite</title><url>https://github.com/superfly/litefs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>benbjohnson</author><text>LiteFS author here (also Litestream author). I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions folks have about how it works or what&#x27;s on the roadmap.</text></comment> |
14,292,475 | 14,292,743 | 1 | 2 | 14,290,608 | train | <story><title>Traceroute Mapper – Show Your Traceroute on a Map</title><url>https://stefansundin.github.io/traceroute-mapper/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iamdave</author><text>Neat. Just curious, why do I need to turn off ublock for this to work?</text></comment> | <story><title>Traceroute Mapper – Show Your Traceroute on a Map</title><url>https://stefansundin.github.io/traceroute-mapper/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ElijahLynn</author><text>Love this!<p>&quot;ipinfo.io ratelimit exhausted. Please try again tomorrow, or run the script from your own server.&quot;<p>Needs a port to Linux (from .bat).</text></comment> |
39,999,413 | 39,999,567 | 1 | 2 | 39,998,849 | train | <story><title>AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License</title><url>https://suno.com/song/da6d4a83-1001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0a/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epaga</author><text>I have to say, I completely lost it at the whisper &#x27;(The &quot;Software&quot;)&#x27; (0:18)... give this tech another year or two and it will be better quality than your average radio song.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cedws</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I can endure much more AI slop seeping its way into my life.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License</title><url>https://suno.com/song/da6d4a83-1001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0a/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epaga</author><text>I have to say, I completely lost it at the whisper &#x27;(The &quot;Software&quot;)&#x27; (0:18)... give this tech another year or two and it will be better quality than your average radio song.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>What I find most amazing is how the music changes at the start of the all caps section. Is this a completely new interpretation of what all caps means or could it have been learned from examples?</text></comment> |
12,305,569 | 12,305,658 | 1 | 2 | 12,304,314 | train | <story><title>Writing Less Code</title><url>http://www.heydonworks.com/article/on-writing-less-damn-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeveb</author><text>&gt; Do you remember ever enjoying using&#x2F;reading a website with more than two columns? I don’t.<p>Another one of the things I really miss about the pre-JavaScript, pre-CSS, document-oriented (as opposed to the current experience-oriented) web is being able to make my browser window half or a third of my screen, and having documents be eminently readable. That was really, <i>really</i> nice. Try it now, though, and nothing really works correctly. Which is weird, because a third-width window on a laptop or desktop has roughly the same proportions as a phone in vertical layout.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeryan</author><text><i>Another one of the things I really miss about the pre-JavaScript, pre-CSS, document-oriented (as opposed to the current experience-oriented) web is being able to make my browser window half or a third of my screen, and having documents be eminently readable.</i><p>Man what I remember was doing multiple columns using Tables in HTML which never worked in anything under a 700px resolution.<p>Case in point this beast:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20010503213654&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techtv.com&#x2F;techtv&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20010503213654&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techtv...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Writing Less Code</title><url>http://www.heydonworks.com/article/on-writing-less-damn-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeveb</author><text>&gt; Do you remember ever enjoying using&#x2F;reading a website with more than two columns? I don’t.<p>Another one of the things I really miss about the pre-JavaScript, pre-CSS, document-oriented (as opposed to the current experience-oriented) web is being able to make my browser window half or a third of my screen, and having documents be eminently readable. That was really, <i>really</i> nice. Try it now, though, and nothing really works correctly. Which is weird, because a third-width window on a laptop or desktop has roughly the same proportions as a phone in vertical layout.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RUG3Y</author><text>I started designing web pages in 1995. While they weren&#x27;t works of art, I really miss the simplicity and utility of the internet back then. Also, most content seemed to be really enthusiastic and less economically motivated. I wish we could get back to that.</text></comment> |
24,701,211 | 24,700,858 | 1 | 2 | 24,697,965 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Essential skill needed to be a programmer?</title><text>In the book Coders at Work by Peter Siebel, he asks peter norvig this question:<p>&quot;So is there any essential skill needed to be a programmer? Different domains obviously have different requirements but ultimately is there some commonality to writing code regardless of domain?&quot;<p>Peters answer to this _really_ resonated with me - his first two sentences were &quot;You&#x27;ve got to be able to make progress and then improve on it. That&#x27;s all you need to be able to do in life.&quot;<p>How would you answer this question?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Apreche</author><text>To simply be a programmer, one must only write a program, nothing more. The essential skill I guess would be literacy, knowing how to read and follow directions, knowing how to use a keyboard, not much.<p>To be a good programmer, if I have to pick only one &quot;skill&quot; I would pick systemic thinking&#x2F;understanding. This starts with the ability to learn and eventually understand how a system works. The next level is the ability to create a working model of that system in ones mind. Someone who can do that will be very successful at programming anything in any language on any platform given sufficient documentation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ezoe</author><text>Yes. Literacy.<p>I saw many beginners who treat a compiler like a black box and attempting hand fuzzing until it happened to match the well-formed syntax and behaviour they wanted, while they literally holding a paper text book or opening a browser tab for a tutorial which clearly explain how it works and what they should write in a plain natural and native language of theirs.<p>One time, I was told by a beginner who copied an example code from a text book that it doesn&#x27;t work. I looked at it. It was a fizzbuzz code, less than 10 lines. And she typed it wrong. Not just an ordinary typo. She conjured up really strange ill-formed syntax she believe it works somehow. There is a parse error message but she ignored. I pointed out the place on display with a finger and she still didn&#x27;t get it. I place a text book beside the display but it requires a considerable effort convincing her the cause of the error.<p>Other time, I was asked why for(;;) ; else ; doesn&#x27;t work in JavaScript. I kept saying because there is no syntax like that in JavaScript. You have to accept it as is or create your own language.<p>Sometimes, I wonder some people read natural language text by simple keyword pattern matching. People like above example weren&#x27;t dumb. Far from it. They are smarter in their field than me. Yet, they failed at this basic literacy level.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Essential skill needed to be a programmer?</title><text>In the book Coders at Work by Peter Siebel, he asks peter norvig this question:<p>&quot;So is there any essential skill needed to be a programmer? Different domains obviously have different requirements but ultimately is there some commonality to writing code regardless of domain?&quot;<p>Peters answer to this _really_ resonated with me - his first two sentences were &quot;You&#x27;ve got to be able to make progress and then improve on it. That&#x27;s all you need to be able to do in life.&quot;<p>How would you answer this question?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Apreche</author><text>To simply be a programmer, one must only write a program, nothing more. The essential skill I guess would be literacy, knowing how to read and follow directions, knowing how to use a keyboard, not much.<p>To be a good programmer, if I have to pick only one &quot;skill&quot; I would pick systemic thinking&#x2F;understanding. This starts with the ability to learn and eventually understand how a system works. The next level is the ability to create a working model of that system in ones mind. Someone who can do that will be very successful at programming anything in any language on any platform given sufficient documentation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethbr0</author><text>&gt; <i>systemic thinking &#x2F; understanding</i><p>I was going to phrase it as &quot;simultaneously seeing the forest and the trees.&quot;<p>The vast majority of my programming career has involved (1) taking a huge amount of information (specs, code), (2) building a mental model of it at 2+ levels of detail (high-level to fit a simplified holistic system in my mental swap space, and detail to have all the details about <i>this</i> problem at hand), (3) identifying the needle in the haystack, &amp; (4) coming up with a simple solution.<p>As the parable goes [1], it&#x27;s knowing <i>which</i> bolt to turn &amp; how far.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;know-where-man&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;know-where-man&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
11,342,517 | 11,342,407 | 1 | 2 | 11,341,990 | train | <story><title>Package managers should be immutable, distributed and decentralized</title><url>https://evertpot.com/npm-revoke-breaks-the-build/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mithaldu</author><text>Asking for Immutable &#x2F; Append-only is insanity, due to the fact that eventually someone WILL clutter the hell out of it, which all of your mirrors will hate you for, as well as downstream ecosystem toolchains. The only viable way to allow it is by vetting every upload, and uh, good luck finding volunteers for that.<p>Decentralized &#x2F; Distributed is a good thing to have and prior art already exists.<p>Source: Experience with the grand daddy CPAN.</text></comment> | <story><title>Package managers should be immutable, distributed and decentralized</title><url>https://evertpot.com/npm-revoke-breaks-the-build/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sorpaas</author><text>Nix (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;nix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;nix</a>), probably?</text></comment> |
26,612,723 | 26,608,526 | 1 | 3 | 26,607,182 | train | <story><title>Images from a ‘Day of Shame’ in Myanmar, with Scores Shot Dead Image</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/world/asia/myanmar-protests-military-pictures.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tim333</author><text>It&#x27;s getting to the stage where a bit of gunboat diplomacy might be in order? Like the US could ask them to respect human rights and democracy while parking a couple of aircraft carriers near Yangon.</text></comment> | <story><title>Images from a ‘Day of Shame’ in Myanmar, with Scores Shot Dead Image</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/world/asia/myanmar-protests-military-pictures.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>imwillofficial</author><text>I see Myanmar fighting for independence from outside influences (read Soros puppets) as noble.</text></comment> |
8,167,826 | 8,167,858 | 1 | 2 | 8,167,576 | train | <story><title>We got our first Delaware tax bill: $74,018.74</title><text>We are Imaginary Number, a small educational games startup with 3 founders, zero employees, and a handful of paying customers. I finally opened the letter from CSC, the Delaware agent responsible for collecting taxes. Here&#x27;s what they sent:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathbreakers.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;img&#x2F;csc_delaware_tax.jpg<p>After 10 minutes of mounting panic, I came across some information which relieved me. Apparently Delaware likes to use the maximum method for calculating taxes for startups, when we actually only owe a tiny fraction of the amount they claim we owe (and they offer a hefty interest of $525.56 on this supposed balance as well!)<p>Here&#x27;s the article, if you&#x27;re a C-Corp in Delaware and at the seed stage, you&#x27;ll need to see this.
http:&#x2F;&#x2F;capgenius.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;03&#x2F;02&#x2F;de-franchise-tax&#x2F;<p>Any other startups here gotten a nice &quot;tax surprise&quot;? Would love to hear about it!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chao-</author><text>Quite the opposite. In Texas, until a certain point in revenue, they really don&#x27;t want to waste any time and resources on you. They ask &quot;Did you make at least $1,000,000 last year? No? Well, please move along peasant, we have <i>real businesses</i> to deal with who might actually be worth auditing.&quot;<p>Makes sense, somewhat. Even in the case of minor fraud, they would likely spend more in manpower than they could possibly reclaim from such a low-earning outfit. You still have to file, of course, but it&#x27;s properly simple if you didn&#x27;t earn a significant amount.<p><i>EDIT: corrected from $200,000 to one million.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>We got our first Delaware tax bill: $74,018.74</title><text>We are Imaginary Number, a small educational games startup with 3 founders, zero employees, and a handful of paying customers. I finally opened the letter from CSC, the Delaware agent responsible for collecting taxes. Here&#x27;s what they sent:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathbreakers.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;img&#x2F;csc_delaware_tax.jpg<p>After 10 minutes of mounting panic, I came across some information which relieved me. Apparently Delaware likes to use the maximum method for calculating taxes for startups, when we actually only owe a tiny fraction of the amount they claim we owe (and they offer a hefty interest of $525.56 on this supposed balance as well!)<p>Here&#x27;s the article, if you&#x27;re a C-Corp in Delaware and at the seed stage, you&#x27;ll need to see this.
http:&#x2F;&#x2F;capgenius.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;03&#x2F;02&#x2F;de-franchise-tax&#x2F;<p>Any other startups here gotten a nice &quot;tax surprise&quot;? Would love to hear about it!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>awad</author><text>At previous company incorporated in New York (oh, to be young and naive) with just 3 technical co-founders we were slapped with a ~30kish fine for not having worker&#x27;s compensation. When trying to explain the situation to the state, that the only 3 employees were the owners who typed in front of a computer all day but were still interested in resolving the issue, we were no less threatened by the official on the other end that we had no leverage and they were going to go after our personal assets. Quite a terrifying time for a 21 year old to be honest.</text></comment> |
8,839,355 | 8,839,113 | 1 | 2 | 8,838,578 | train | <story><title>Google broke telephony for many Nexus users</title><url>https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82949</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edent</author><text>I work for a telco (I don&#x27;t speak for them, usual disclaimers apply).<p>Everyone gets <i>really</i> ranty when operators delay firmware updates. Yeah, some of them delay to force you to buy a new phone, or to stuff the ROM full of bloatware. Most, however, do extensive testing to make sure that customers don&#x27;t ring up call centres making angry complaints.<p>Carriers (by and large) test the phone to make sure that the network portion operates correctly. They make sure that it complies with local regulations and that it&#x27;s not going to interfere with the network. They also test that basic cellular functionality works. Many go further and check all standard operations of the handset.<p>It&#x27;s been several years since I was responsible for device testing, but here&#x27;s a list of problems that I remember from big name manufacturers (Nokia, HTC, Sagem) on their &quot;final&quot; firmware.<p>- 999&#x2F;112&#x2F;911 features not working.<p>- Reboots when receiving a text starting with a 0.<p>- Factory reset when receiving an MMS with more than one attachment.<p>- Inability to switch from 3G to 2G on handover.<p>- Caller ID always picking the first name from the SIM.<p>It was, frankly, an unending parade of shoddy workmanship. We&#x27;d file reports, wait for an updated firmware, test it again, see that it had more bugs, refuse to ship it.<p>Frankly, a few &quot;enthusiasts&quot; whining that they don&#x27;t have a 0.1 firmware upgrade is a sensible price to pay compared to millions of customers storming your shops and demanding refunds.<p>Google has an atrocious attitude to customer service - it&#x27;s part of their business model <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/02/googles-customer-contempt-conundrum/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shkspr.mobi&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;googles-customer-contempt-c...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google broke telephony for many Nexus users</title><url>https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82949</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ansible</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen this issue too on my Nexus 4. Rebooting fixes the problem, at least temporarily.<p>Since I had just used the OTA updates for stock 5.0 and 5.0.1, another redditor suggested that I do a factory wipe. I haven&#x27;t seen the problem recur yet, but it has only been a couple days.<p>Because of this and other problems (random crashes), if I see any issue again, then I&#x27;ll downgrade to 4.4.4. My typical uptime for that release was measured in months, and for 5.0.1 the uptime is measured in days. I&#x27;ve been severely disappointed with this release. I don&#x27;t see how the new look and feel provides any significant usability benefit.</text></comment> |
2,108,938 | 2,108,287 | 1 | 2 | 2,107,618 | train | <story><title>Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS</title><url>http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwatzman</author><text>Stylistically, there are a huge number of things wrong with this. The idea is good, but if you actually write code this way you'll have a slow, unmaintainable mess of a kernel.<p>The biggest issues that jump out at me are the horrible overuse of magic numbers (#define is your friend, especially when working with the GDT and IDT) and the disabling of interrupts and paging when copying an address space (the latter of which is slow and the former of which prevents concurrency -- imagine how well Linux would work if every fork() were terribly slow and stopped the world -- doing this in even a halfway reasonable way is not hard). Inline assembly is also a really bad idea for portability and maintainability, the latter of which you at least care about for a toy kernel. I'm also not sure why they are disabling interrupts so much in general... and on and on.<p>Again, a very interesting read for kernel-development-n00bs, I'm sure, but a lot of their code is very, very, terrifyingly wrong even for a toy kernel. Our OS class has students write a kernel somewhat like this one; the class provides a list of things which you are not to ever do, ever, oh god, or you will fail. This article does a staggering number of those things.</text></comment> | <story><title>Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS</title><url>http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tseabrooks</author><text>My Op Sys class in school was designed around compiling your own toy 'unix' kernel and rewriting large portions of it from scratch for educational reasons. We used the Tanenbaum book and his "Minix" system. It was far and away the most informative class I had in school.</text></comment> |
11,792,796 | 11,792,535 | 1 | 2 | 11,791,284 | train | <story><title>How to Worry Less About Being a Bad Programmer</title><url>http://www.stilldrinking.org/how-to-worry-less-about-being-a-bad-programmer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zippergz</author><text>I&#x27;ve found my career to be a continuous ebb and flow of feeling incompetent.<p>Very early on, I started out by learning Perl programming on the job, writing CGI scripts for basic interactive websites. I had no clue what I was doing when I started, but after a while I was pretty good at it (and felt relatively competent). Then I got a job where most of the code was C, which I had done only a little of. After a few years of that, I think I was pretty solid, but then it was time to start learning about Java and its ecosystem. Later, I wanted to do some iOS work, so I had to dive head first into Objective-C and Cocoa - I was pretty lost to begin with, but eventually I got the hang of it. Somewhere along the lines I picked up Python. I struggled for a while (and it took me longer than I&#x27;d like to admit to get comfortable with significant whitespace), but I got there.<p>Now I&#x27;m working on updating my web dev skills by learning about React and all of the surrounding technologies. Once again, nearly 20 years into my career, I&#x27;m feeling pretty lost and incompetent. I&#x27;ve been through this enough times to know that I&#x27;ll figure it out, but it can still be pretty frustrating and demoralizing to struggle to even get something basic working.<p>I think this is just a fundamental part of software development, and of continuing to learn and expand your skillset. It&#x27;s good to remind ourselves that no one out there knows everything, everyone struggles from time to time, and if we&#x27;re hitting speedbumps it means we&#x27;re learning and improving.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Worry Less About Being a Bad Programmer</title><url>http://www.stilldrinking.org/how-to-worry-less-about-being-a-bad-programmer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>somethingsimple</author><text>Currently what&#x27;s making me worry about being a bad programmer is a coworker. I have no idea what I did to him but the guy clearly has some kind of grudge against me. He questions my competence (sometimes subtly, sometimes outright) and doesn&#x27;t want me changing the code even if I submit a 1-line code review removing an unused variable. He&#x27;s a lot more lenient with other people and sometimes it&#x27;s me who catches errors in code changes he&#x27;s already put a &quot;lgtm&quot; on.<p>Going to work and having to sit next to someone like that every day is quickly making me think of jumping ship.</text></comment> |
7,614,424 | 7,614,287 | 1 | 2 | 7,613,543 | train | <story><title>Delphi – why won't it die? (2013)</title><url>http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/2013/05/delphi-why-wont-it-just-die.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Joeri</author><text>My employer has a multi-million line codebase in Delphi which is still under active development. I mostly do web development, but every once in a while I go back in to build a feature on the Delphi side of the fence.<p>The IDE itself is dated and no longer competitive with the best of the modern IDE&#x27;s. The language and API however is updated and productive. You just need to get over Pascal-style syntax instead of C-style, and you are just as productive in it as if you were using C#.<p>Why is delphi still hanging on?<p>1. It delivers executables that need no dependencies. No VM&#x27;s, no runtimes, no add-on dll&#x27;s. Underneath it only needs x86 and win32 (unless you&#x27;re building for mac, android or iOS, which it also supports). I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if our software still ran on windows 2000. Since the code is native, performance is never a problem even with wildly inefficient code.<p>2. It lets you build GUI software <i>really</i> quickly. Productivity in delphi for someone used to it matches any &quot;modern&quot; GUI development platform. Sure, the IDE misses a few features that competing IDE&#x27;s have, but on the plus side it compiles ridiculously fast (a full build of 2 million lines takes less than a minute on a single core).<p>3. Delphi is the easiest platform by far to have legacy code on, because the maintenance cost is very low. Delphi&#x27;s contemporaries (classic VB, MFC) have all gone through major upheavals. Delphi has managed to modernize the API&#x27;s without breaking legacy code too badly (they even managed to elegantly retrofit unicode into the platform). This is why codebases that are based on Delphi somehow never get ported away from it.<p>Delphi&#x27;s competitive with other desktop and mobile development platforms, even at what they&#x27;re charging for it. What they&#x27;re charging for it is the problem though. Only people already using delphi buy delphi, and so the perception is maintained that delphi is effectively dead, even when it isn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Svip</author><text>I am not entirely convinced that unicode has been retrofitted <i>elegantly</i> into Delphi. A lot of legacy functions using string (read: what is now AnsiString) have been modified to still support string; so AnsiPos() for instance takes string, unless you use AnsiStrings unit. And that&#x27;s just confusing.<p>In a code base like the one I work with all the way back to Delphi 3, there are other legacy issues as well; such as the late arrival of TBytes, which meant that in olden days you had to handle binary data in strings. Now suddenly they are unicode strings are far less reliable for unicode.<p>Of course, the compiler doesn&#x27;t warn you about that, because it isn&#x27;t clear what you were doing back then. Still, took us a year to get our code from Delphi 2007 to XE3.<p>I am not saying Delphi is the worst thing ever, but I wouldn&#x27;t say its legacy support is as elegant as you put it. There are issues, that are not noted by the compiler (unlike the deprecated flag for old functions and the like).<p>Also the fact that it used to have both {$ENDIF} and {$IFEND} is amusing, but at least now they only want one; but you cannot change it because then it would break code that needs to be compiled in an older version of Delphi.<p>Edit: But I will say this: I do believe unicode was introduced into Delphi as elegantly <i>as possible</i>. It&#x27;s very hard to do truly elegantly, I&#x27;d imagine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Delphi – why won't it die? (2013)</title><url>http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/2013/05/delphi-why-wont-it-just-die.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Joeri</author><text>My employer has a multi-million line codebase in Delphi which is still under active development. I mostly do web development, but every once in a while I go back in to build a feature on the Delphi side of the fence.<p>The IDE itself is dated and no longer competitive with the best of the modern IDE&#x27;s. The language and API however is updated and productive. You just need to get over Pascal-style syntax instead of C-style, and you are just as productive in it as if you were using C#.<p>Why is delphi still hanging on?<p>1. It delivers executables that need no dependencies. No VM&#x27;s, no runtimes, no add-on dll&#x27;s. Underneath it only needs x86 and win32 (unless you&#x27;re building for mac, android or iOS, which it also supports). I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if our software still ran on windows 2000. Since the code is native, performance is never a problem even with wildly inefficient code.<p>2. It lets you build GUI software <i>really</i> quickly. Productivity in delphi for someone used to it matches any &quot;modern&quot; GUI development platform. Sure, the IDE misses a few features that competing IDE&#x27;s have, but on the plus side it compiles ridiculously fast (a full build of 2 million lines takes less than a minute on a single core).<p>3. Delphi is the easiest platform by far to have legacy code on, because the maintenance cost is very low. Delphi&#x27;s contemporaries (classic VB, MFC) have all gone through major upheavals. Delphi has managed to modernize the API&#x27;s without breaking legacy code too badly (they even managed to elegantly retrofit unicode into the platform). This is why codebases that are based on Delphi somehow never get ported away from it.<p>Delphi&#x27;s competitive with other desktop and mobile development platforms, even at what they&#x27;re charging for it. What they&#x27;re charging for it is the problem though. Only people already using delphi buy delphi, and so the perception is maintained that delphi is effectively dead, even when it isn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coliveira</author><text>The great thing about Object Pascal is that, unlike C or C++, it was designed to compile really fast. Pascal units completely remove the burden of C++ header files. In the end, you are almost as productive as with a dynamic language and you still have compiled code. I haven&#x27;t seen another language to get even close to the balance achieved by Delphi in this respect.</text></comment> |
12,250,140 | 12,249,991 | 1 | 2 | 12,245,909 | train | <story><title>Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)</title><url>https://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>It&#x27;s a step backwards that distribution is being dealt with at the application level. Tandem Computers [1] had distribution at the OS and database level working well in the 1980s. The technology is still available from HP.<p>Tandem&#x27;s NonStop OS is fundamentally different from UNIX-like OSs. UNIX is a time-sharing system with a file system. NonStop is a transaction system with a database system. There&#x27;s very little state outside the database.
Programs are started, do one transaction, and exit. If there&#x27;s a problem during a transaction, the entire transaction aborts and does not commit.<p>Tandem was running an average system uptime of about 10 years across their installed base, with the main cause of failure being human errors during hardware maintenance. One of their people wrote a paper on how to get the uptime up to 50 years. Tandem&#x27;s own hardware had heavy self-checking. The goal was to detect errors and abort, not fix them. Failing a transaction would result in a fallover to the paired backup machine, which would result in a retry and recovery.<p>Tandem&#x27;s main problem was high hardware cost; you needed several of anything. Also, because of a series of acquisitions, the system had to be ported from Tandem to MIPS to Alpha to HP-RISC to Itanium to, finally, x86. X86 lacks the checking hardware, so it&#x27;s not as good for this.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tandem_Computers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tandem_Computers</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>The tricky thing about that is that most highly-reliable distributed systems these days evolve from startups that are not-at-all-reliable.<p>Tandem&#x27;s technology is incredible, even by today&#x27;s standards and certainly by the standards of 1974. But they were designed for a world where you sold computers (hardware + software) to big established companies for millions of dollars. Once you saturate that market (which Tandem, Stratus, DEC, IBM, etc. did by the late 80s), what&#x27;s next?<p>Since the mid-90s, most tech innovation has been driven by creating <i>new</i> companies, <i>new</i> networks, and <i>new</i> value chains to replace the old incumbents. This process is inherently experimental, and requires that you start out with a small system that grows into a large system. Buying a Tandem computer for the sharing-economy company you&#x27;re starting out of your apartment is a non-starter; even if you could afford it, it couples you too tightly to a set of applications that probably isn&#x27;t relevant for what you want to do.<p>That&#x27;s why most of the interest in distributed systems today is in taking clutzy single-box programs that used to be Rails or Node apps and then turning them into robust, fault-tolerant systems that serve billions of users and never go down. That&#x27;s where the money is. The market of existing big companies that will pay a lot for software is largely tapped-out; the upcoming growth is in working for small companies that are rapidly becoming big by replacing those incumbents.</text></comment> | <story><title>Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013)</title><url>https://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-young-bloods/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>It&#x27;s a step backwards that distribution is being dealt with at the application level. Tandem Computers [1] had distribution at the OS and database level working well in the 1980s. The technology is still available from HP.<p>Tandem&#x27;s NonStop OS is fundamentally different from UNIX-like OSs. UNIX is a time-sharing system with a file system. NonStop is a transaction system with a database system. There&#x27;s very little state outside the database.
Programs are started, do one transaction, and exit. If there&#x27;s a problem during a transaction, the entire transaction aborts and does not commit.<p>Tandem was running an average system uptime of about 10 years across their installed base, with the main cause of failure being human errors during hardware maintenance. One of their people wrote a paper on how to get the uptime up to 50 years. Tandem&#x27;s own hardware had heavy self-checking. The goal was to detect errors and abort, not fix them. Failing a transaction would result in a fallover to the paired backup machine, which would result in a retry and recovery.<p>Tandem&#x27;s main problem was high hardware cost; you needed several of anything. Also, because of a series of acquisitions, the system had to be ported from Tandem to MIPS to Alpha to HP-RISC to Itanium to, finally, x86. X86 lacks the checking hardware, so it&#x27;s not as good for this.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tandem_Computers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tandem_Computers</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GauntletWizard</author><text>That&#x27;s not moving it to an OS level, that&#x27;s rethinking everything to deal with the problem you think you have, but don&#x27;t.<p>Making every subprocess transactional is a good idea, in theory. It makes it simple to clear and retry in case of failure. But by the time you&#x27;ve gotten to that point, you&#x27;re already halfway through the problem of distributed systems, dividing your program into small, transactional slices.<p>Once you&#x27;re there, though, the Tandem architecture paints you into a corner. These database-oriented architectures do not scale to having large numbers of useful-sized transactions running at once. The bottlenecks of the OS and Database layer become insurmountable. Your architecture is a classic case of a local optimum.</text></comment> |
38,516,502 | 38,514,273 | 1 | 3 | 38,513,347 | train | <story><title>D Programming Language</title><url>https://dlang.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nindalf</author><text>D is a niche language that didn&#x27;t quite manage becoming mainstream. I came across an excellent article <i>Why your F# evangelism isn&#x27;t working</i> (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericsink.com&#x2F;entries&#x2F;fsharp_chasm.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ericsink.com&#x2F;entries&#x2F;fsharp_chasm.html</a>) that explains why this didn&#x27;t happen for F#, but the insights generalise to other languages. Here&#x27;s my summary:<p>- Adoption of any technology is by a normal distribution.<p>- The segments are early adopters, pragmatists, late adopters and laggards.<p>- If you want a technology to become mainstream, you need to make the pragmatists adopt it.<p>- This is rational behaviour and there&#x27;s no use trying to convince the pragmatists otherwise. They will choose &quot;predictably disappointing&quot; over &quot;excellent and unproven&quot; every time.<p>- Technology is merely a tool to them. They don&#x27;t care if it&#x27;s fun or not, as long as it gets the job done.<p>- Mainstream success is impossible without getting the pragmatists on board. Until then you have a curiosity used only be early adopters.<p>- How to cross the chasm? He recommends finding a pragmatist in pain and solving their problems. Gradually convert pragmatists one by one.<p>I don&#x27;t think D was ever able to articulate to the pragmatists why they should adopt D over C++ or other languages. Fixing a few warts with C++ wasn&#x27;t enough.<p>Meanwhile Rust managed to appeal to the pragmatists by saying &quot;we know you use C and C++ because of the performance despite the issues with it. Why don&#x27;t you try a language with the same performance, which also fixes some of the issues (buffer overflows above all) at compile time&quot;.<p>Rust was far from perfect when it started seeing adoption by pragmatists, and it remains far from perfect today. But perfection isn&#x27;t the goal, nor is a &quot;fun&quot; language for early adopters. What matters is solving a problem that pragmatists face and then convincing them to give you a shot. In practice this is a bar that is high enough that most languages never cross it.</text></comment> | <story><title>D Programming Language</title><url>https://dlang.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lf-non</author><text>The nim language appears to have better gc and metaprogramming support while also offering most of the other advantages that D touts.<p>If someone more experienced in D could offer any insights around why someone should prefer D over nim for a new application outside low level applications where gc is absolutely undesirable, I&#x27;d really appreciate that. I am not an expert in either.</text></comment> |
11,838,077 | 11,837,942 | 1 | 2 | 11,837,501 | train | <story><title>Cloud.gov</title><url>https://cloud.gov/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bmogilefsky</author><text>I&#x27;m the product lead on cloud.gov... Thanks for noticing us! There are other Cloud Foundry deployments, but what makes cloud.gov special is the focus on ensuring federal agencies are actually able to use it. Federal compliance for a cloud service provider is a tough bar to clear, and without it most agencies are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world now takes for granted. That in turn impedes improvements in the many services the government has to offer. We&#x27;ve just reached the &quot;FedRAMP Ready&quot; status, which is a signifier of confidence that cloud.gov will make it through the exhaustive auditing process to come. Best of all, everything were doing is open source, including all the compliance work, so others will be able to follow in our footsteps. AMA!</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloud.gov</title><url>https://cloud.gov/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>verst</author><text>I&#x27;m about to join 18F (in a few weeks), working on cloud.gov.<p>I worked on the Google Cloud Platform team around the time Compute Engine and Big Query were launched (but spent most of my time on App Engine).<p>A few weeks ago at the Cloud Foundry Summit the folks from cloud.gov.au gave a keynote. Cloud.gov got some nice shoutouts - the Australian counterparts reused a lot of the cloud.gov work, thanks to the transparent open-source approach.<p>Listing of cloud.gov related Github repos:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.cloud.gov&#x2F;ops&#x2F;repos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.cloud.gov&#x2F;ops&#x2F;repos&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
5,161,703 | 5,161,614 | 1 | 2 | 5,160,065 | train | <story><title>Hacker News Karma Tracker</title><url>http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zalzane</author><text>&#62;My highest rated comments aren't what I would consider my best. Instead, they are ones that appeal to a wide audience with some kind of emotional (rather than technical) insight.<p>I definitely feel you here. This is a trend I see absolutely everywhere; hell, I was surprised to find out it even extends into video games that implement this kind of voting system.<p>This problem feels like it could be solvable by changing the "meaning" of the upvote. Right now, the upvote is a tool that allows you to make a comment more visible and to throw a bone to the author in the form of karma. People probably feel inclined to "tip" someone who makes a clever or witty comment with the karma from the upvote. On top of that, people making witty comments who get upvoted are now encouraged to make more witty and unproductive comments because they know that they will get karma for it.<p>The issue is that the upvote represents general approval of a comment, rather than a nod of the head that a comment is productive or insightful.<p>Just throwing around ideas - maybe the elimination of the user-karma-tracking system altogether is a reasonable solution?</text></item><item><author>Xcelerate</author><text>This is a cool website. I was wondering about some kind of ranking system like this.<p>&#62; Speed percentile: 98.82%<p>While I have to acknowledge that some instinctive/animalistic part of me is excited at being in this percentile, it also prompts me to remember that karma is effectively worthless and I really need to get busy on class work and research...<p>It's really strange the impact something silly like karma has, because I tell myself I'm above accumulating imaginary points on the internet, but obviously, I don't seem to be.<p>In some ways, it's curious. My highest rated comments aren't what I would consider my best. Instead, they are ones that appeal to a wide audience with some kind of emotional (rather than technical) insight. My last comment, a quip about about how every programmer thinks they're the best, was worth 64 points. However, a detailed post I wrote on molecular dynamics simulation where I fact-checked and reviewed the literature was only worth 3 points. Go figure.<p>EDIT: After thinking about it some more, I've decided karma isn't entirely worthless in real life. It is a metric that lets you know how well other people like your written work. Over time, I've slowly come to realize what will get upvoted and what will not. This ability could have interesting repercussions in the way I write about my research, or the way that I craft something like grant or fellowship applications. Every person is different, but posting on HN reveals to me that, in the aggregate, there are certain things you can say that have a certain appeal to others, and the capacity to recognize this could in fact be useful in many life situations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anthonyb</author><text>This is why I was against hiding karma on posts. I suspect that it drives the points reward up for one liners, since there's no way to balance things downwards, ie. not upvote or downvote if you think a post has too many points.<p>And I think the upvote is pretty much set in stone now. It's essentially "I like this post" or "I don't like this post", there's not much nuance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hacker News Karma Tracker</title><url>http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zalzane</author><text>&#62;My highest rated comments aren't what I would consider my best. Instead, they are ones that appeal to a wide audience with some kind of emotional (rather than technical) insight.<p>I definitely feel you here. This is a trend I see absolutely everywhere; hell, I was surprised to find out it even extends into video games that implement this kind of voting system.<p>This problem feels like it could be solvable by changing the "meaning" of the upvote. Right now, the upvote is a tool that allows you to make a comment more visible and to throw a bone to the author in the form of karma. People probably feel inclined to "tip" someone who makes a clever or witty comment with the karma from the upvote. On top of that, people making witty comments who get upvoted are now encouraged to make more witty and unproductive comments because they know that they will get karma for it.<p>The issue is that the upvote represents general approval of a comment, rather than a nod of the head that a comment is productive or insightful.<p>Just throwing around ideas - maybe the elimination of the user-karma-tracking system altogether is a reasonable solution?</text></item><item><author>Xcelerate</author><text>This is a cool website. I was wondering about some kind of ranking system like this.<p>&#62; Speed percentile: 98.82%<p>While I have to acknowledge that some instinctive/animalistic part of me is excited at being in this percentile, it also prompts me to remember that karma is effectively worthless and I really need to get busy on class work and research...<p>It's really strange the impact something silly like karma has, because I tell myself I'm above accumulating imaginary points on the internet, but obviously, I don't seem to be.<p>In some ways, it's curious. My highest rated comments aren't what I would consider my best. Instead, they are ones that appeal to a wide audience with some kind of emotional (rather than technical) insight. My last comment, a quip about about how every programmer thinks they're the best, was worth 64 points. However, a detailed post I wrote on molecular dynamics simulation where I fact-checked and reviewed the literature was only worth 3 points. Go figure.<p>EDIT: After thinking about it some more, I've decided karma isn't entirely worthless in real life. It is a metric that lets you know how well other people like your written work. Over time, I've slowly come to realize what will get upvoted and what will not. This ability could have interesting repercussions in the way I write about my research, or the way that I craft something like grant or fellowship applications. Every person is different, but posting on HN reveals to me that, in the aggregate, there are certain things you can say that have a certain appeal to others, and the capacity to recognize this could in fact be useful in many life situations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>In a previous comment on karma systems I suggested a scheme where there was a voting 'diamond' up, down, left, right, and center. Where up was "good comment/submission" and down was "not-good comment/submission", left was "less like this", and right was "more like this" and center was perfect.<p>That allows you to establish both what you like the site to have in it, and how you much you liked this instance of it. Perfect would mean simply that "spot on" or "this."<p>The second part of the system would then adjust the presentation of your karma (to you and others) unscaled vector along the line to the 'perfect' site in the context of the viewer.<p>To use a simple example, lets say HN was over run with cat pictures, and I thought they were the <i>best</i> so I vote like this and "+1" (up and to the right), You the reader <i>hate</i> cat pictures so you always vote down/less like this.<p>So we've created virtual root nodes at +loves cat pictures and one at +hates cat pictures. Now I can plot your karma as negative with respect to mine if we assume that the center point between your root nexus and mine is 0. Now do this with enough topics and you get multiple consituencies all in the same discussion space where your view of their karma will inform you how likely it is you'll like to read what they wrote :-)</text></comment> |
17,894,685 | 17,894,665 | 1 | 3 | 17,893,865 | train | <story><title>Carlo Rovelli on challenging our common-sense notion of time</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/forget-everything-you-think-you-know-about-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jnurmine</author><text>I am not really skilled in physics and have never understood why time would be a tangible dimension like, say, width or height, instead of a mathematical construction to argue about change.<p>I get it that it is convenient to talk of change in something, like movement from state a to state b, under the guise of wrapping it in &quot;time&quot;, but is there some physical argument in support of time in general? Honest question.<p>Living beings getting older is their cells becoming more and more inefficient in division and cell repair. One could likely achieve the same effects with chemicals, but doing so would not mean time has run faster.<p>The concept of time for humans seems to be all about observable change, which needs an observer with a memory to compare the current state with previous state to be able to say: time has passed.<p>A rock changes via erosion and such, but it has no memory, and cannot observe anything. Does a rock feel time? Of course not. Does it exist &quot;in time&quot;? Does it, without an observer that somehow measures the flow of time (via changes in Cesium atoms or something)? Or is the rock just existing and under the whims of all forces of nature that might impact it and change it into smaller pieces and eventually to sand, and so on.<p>I guess my question is: what exactly is time, physically, and why should it have to exist as some sort of a physical process in the first place.</text></comment> | <story><title>Carlo Rovelli on challenging our common-sense notion of time</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/forget-everything-you-think-you-know-about-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gtrubetskoy</author><text>Would it be fair to say that the second law of thermodynamics is only &quot;a law&quot; given our human perspective of the direction of time? If time has no &quot;arrow&quot;, but a memory is only possible in non-decreasing entropy which is our perspective, there can be another perspective in which the big bang is the future and our future is the past, only we cannot comprehend it because a memory is not possible in decreasing entropy?</text></comment> |
33,917,513 | 33,917,492 | 1 | 2 | 33,895,066 | train | <story><title>What it's like to live in Monaco</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/what-its-like-to-live-in-monaco/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scirpaceus</author><text>Born and raised in Monaco here. The article paints a very incomplete picture, told from the minority standpoint of mostly wealthy socialites and residents. There are also about 50K people commuting into Monaco daily from neighboring cities (Nice, Cannes, La Turbie, Beausoleil, etc.) who are just middle-class wage workers, and who form the bulk of Monaco&#x27;s active population. In the daytime, Monaco is mostly alive from their presence, as they outnumber residents. At night, well, Monaco isn&#x27;t very much alive at all.<p>Many if not most of the wealthy residents who can afford the insane real estate prices also own multiple properties worldwide (London, NYC, Lugano, Singapore, etc.), and shuttle between them all year round, so they aren&#x27;t even there permanently. Monaco is only a fiscal residence for many of them.<p>Beyond the surface-level glitz, e.g. the Formula 1 and the fancy cars parked in front of the Casino, what&#x27;s interesting is that the little old unassuming lady in sweatpants walking her dog in the morning may actually be a multi-billionaire, and you wouldn&#x27;t be able to tell. Lot of old money that likes to keep to itself, as opposed to nouveaux riches who like to flaunt.</text></comment> | <story><title>What it's like to live in Monaco</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/what-its-like-to-live-in-monaco/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>charles_f</author><text>&gt; around 8,000 of the people who live in Monaco are Monegasque citizens<p>I have the luck of being friends with one of the precious few citizens of Monaco, who chose to leave in BC. There are fun trivia about citizenship in such a small city-nation, especially abroad. First of which is that the Monegasque consul to Canada is not Monegasque himself, and has very, very few citizens to tend to (by cheer luck it turns out I also know that person&#x27;s son! ). When my friend needed to renew his passport, he just called the consul, who told him &quot;oh, I need to figure out how to get you one&quot;, which process was effectively more or less having my friend to drop an email to the person in Monaco who prints passports. Same thing when he got kids.<p>We went to the US together once, and had to get through immigration because as a Monegasque he can&#x27;t get dual citizenship. The immigration agent kept us longer, asking all sorts of questions because that was the first time he saw a passport.<p>Interestingly his kids can have both citizenships, his wife could technically acquire it but it would be subject to remaining married with him and thus she would be allowed to keep her citizenship in case they would ever divorce.<p>He can get a French id card and a French passport and work in France without a visa, but can&#x27;t vote in the French presidential elections.</text></comment> |
5,237,016 | 5,235,790 | 1 | 2 | 5,235,589 | train | <story><title>Write Yourself a Haskell in Lisp</title><url>http://gergo.erdi.hu/blog/2013-02-17-write_yourself_a_haskell..._in_lisp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tikhonj</author><text>If you're interested in something similar but a little more theoretical, take a look at "Simply Easy"[1], a little paper on implementing a couple of variations on the lambda calculus. The main idea is to demonstrate how to evaluate a dependently typed language.<p>It starts by looking at how to evaluate the simply typed lambda calculus and then going from that to a dependently typed lambda calculus. Surprisingly, the transformation is not all that complicated!<p>The actual code is in Haskell.<p>[1]: <a href="http://strictlypositive.org/Easy.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://strictlypositive.org/Easy.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Write Yourself a Haskell in Lisp</title><url>http://gergo.erdi.hu/blog/2013-02-17-write_yourself_a_haskell..._in_lisp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saosebastiao</author><text>Cool. Does it qualify as some sort of mutual recursion if you use haskell to build a lisp which builds haskell?</text></comment> |
26,590,753 | 26,590,659 | 1 | 2 | 26,588,607 | train | <story><title>The Drivers Cooperative</title><url>https://www.drivers.coop/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;Ride-hailing apps always seemed like a model that was extremely conducive to a cooperative, worker-owned model.</i><p>It&#x27;s only the surface-level of an ride-hailing app that seems easy for worker-owned cooperatives to create. In reality, the extra expensive programming dollars required to tame the hidden complexity so that the app can <i>present a seamless experience to the customers&#x2F;passengers</i> is a huge factor that works against co-ops.<p>E.g. see the famous Uber comment on the complexity of the app: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25376346" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25376346</a><p>Real-life customers don&#x27;t want to enter their credit-card details into City_X_driver_coop and then re-enter their financial details multiple times again into City_Y_driver_coop. Even if you imagine a hypothetical <i>national</i> co-op to consolidate multiple cities, customers would still then have inconvenience of Country_X_coop and Country-Y_coop.<p>It takes a lot of <i>capital</i> to pay programmer salaries for desirable features that customers want and since co-ops are capital-constrained (by definition because they can&#x27;t take millions in investors money), the app will always have less features compared to Uber&#x2F;Lyft.<p>That&#x27;s the financial constraint that causes co-ops to more easily organize in <i>lower complexity</i> businesses such as local grocery co-op or a farming coop. But a high-tech complexity business that&#x27;s expensive to build is inherently too costly for a pool of drivers&#x27; savings to fund.<p>Whenever you see the phrase <i>&quot;worker-owned&quot;</i>, mentally substitute <i>&quot;capital-constrained&quot;</i> -- and it starts to make sense why many businesses domains don&#x27;t have any coops rising up to compete with VC-fueled startups.<p>EDIT to reply: <i>&gt;Driver co-ops or smaller operators simply don’t need to worry about half the nonsense in the comment you linked</i><p>Sure, the driver co-ops can <i>choose</i> to not spend capital on &quot;useless&quot; features but this leaves out the fact that <i>customers can also choose not to use the co-ops because of the lower quality app experience</i>. Keep in mind the <i>behavior of customers</i> who prioritize <i>conveniences</i>.<p>E.g. the non-profit RideAustin app fails customers even after Uber&#x2F;Lyft left Austin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;austin-is-fine-without-uber-and-lyft-until-it-isnt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;austin-is-fine-without-ube...</a><p>It takes <i>capital</i> to build tech solutions that deal with peak load. And RideAustin later shuts down in 2020: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=rideaustin+shuts+down" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=rideaustin+shuts+down</a><p>Well, one might say RideAustin was hampered by coronavirus lockdowns. That&#x27;s true, but it also takes <i>capital</i> to get past an economic downturn of low revenue. Uber&#x2F;Lyft got hurt by COVID as well but they had more capital reserves to deal with it.</text></item><item><author>zxexz</author><text>I hope this takes off. Ride-hailing apps always seemed like a model that was extremely conducive to a cooperative, worker-owned model. I would gladly (and will try to next time I&#x27;m in NYC) use this service over Uber or Lyft. Power to the drivers!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>The overwhelming vast majority of reasons I&#x27;ve heard people give for preferring Uber&#x2F;Lyft over regular taxis are (1) regular taxis could not be summoned via an app or web page, instead requiring a phone call or curbside hailing, and (2) their credit card terminals were often broken so that you had to pay cash.<p>Both of those specific problem are solvable for most rides without going anywhere near the level of complexity described in that post you linked to that details why the Uber app is so complicated.<p>Most of the Uber app complexity that post gives is because they want one app that works nearly everywhere and does a lot more than just let you summon a ride from A to B and pay via credit card.<p>For most US cities you could cover the payment needs of most riders with something from Square installed in the car. That gets rid of a huge amount of complexity (or rather, pushes it to someone else).<p>That should be good enough to make them a viable alternative to Uber&#x2F;Lyft for probably 95% or more of the rides in a US city.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Drivers Cooperative</title><url>https://www.drivers.coop/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;Ride-hailing apps always seemed like a model that was extremely conducive to a cooperative, worker-owned model.</i><p>It&#x27;s only the surface-level of an ride-hailing app that seems easy for worker-owned cooperatives to create. In reality, the extra expensive programming dollars required to tame the hidden complexity so that the app can <i>present a seamless experience to the customers&#x2F;passengers</i> is a huge factor that works against co-ops.<p>E.g. see the famous Uber comment on the complexity of the app: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25376346" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25376346</a><p>Real-life customers don&#x27;t want to enter their credit-card details into City_X_driver_coop and then re-enter their financial details multiple times again into City_Y_driver_coop. Even if you imagine a hypothetical <i>national</i> co-op to consolidate multiple cities, customers would still then have inconvenience of Country_X_coop and Country-Y_coop.<p>It takes a lot of <i>capital</i> to pay programmer salaries for desirable features that customers want and since co-ops are capital-constrained (by definition because they can&#x27;t take millions in investors money), the app will always have less features compared to Uber&#x2F;Lyft.<p>That&#x27;s the financial constraint that causes co-ops to more easily organize in <i>lower complexity</i> businesses such as local grocery co-op or a farming coop. But a high-tech complexity business that&#x27;s expensive to build is inherently too costly for a pool of drivers&#x27; savings to fund.<p>Whenever you see the phrase <i>&quot;worker-owned&quot;</i>, mentally substitute <i>&quot;capital-constrained&quot;</i> -- and it starts to make sense why many businesses domains don&#x27;t have any coops rising up to compete with VC-fueled startups.<p>EDIT to reply: <i>&gt;Driver co-ops or smaller operators simply don’t need to worry about half the nonsense in the comment you linked</i><p>Sure, the driver co-ops can <i>choose</i> to not spend capital on &quot;useless&quot; features but this leaves out the fact that <i>customers can also choose not to use the co-ops because of the lower quality app experience</i>. Keep in mind the <i>behavior of customers</i> who prioritize <i>conveniences</i>.<p>E.g. the non-profit RideAustin app fails customers even after Uber&#x2F;Lyft left Austin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;austin-is-fine-without-uber-and-lyft-until-it-isnt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;12&#x2F;austin-is-fine-without-ube...</a><p>It takes <i>capital</i> to build tech solutions that deal with peak load. And RideAustin later shuts down in 2020: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=rideaustin+shuts+down" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=rideaustin+shuts+down</a><p>Well, one might say RideAustin was hampered by coronavirus lockdowns. That&#x27;s true, but it also takes <i>capital</i> to get past an economic downturn of low revenue. Uber&#x2F;Lyft got hurt by COVID as well but they had more capital reserves to deal with it.</text></item><item><author>zxexz</author><text>I hope this takes off. Ride-hailing apps always seemed like a model that was extremely conducive to a cooperative, worker-owned model. I would gladly (and will try to next time I&#x27;m in NYC) use this service over Uber or Lyft. Power to the drivers!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethanbond</author><text>That Uber eng comment reads like list of features and approaches that are necessitated <i>by</i> an overstaffed engineering department than stuff that necessitates it.<p>Yeah if you have 40-50 (!!) “product teams” fiddling with the Rider app, it’ll get complex and sure it’s impressive it works. But uh... why are there 40-50 product teams working on the Rider app?</text></comment> |
31,925,796 | 31,924,938 | 1 | 2 | 31,923,429 | train | <story><title>Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part I)</title><url>https://blog.plover.com/2022/06/29/#tips</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Fwiw a branch isn&#x27;t a named sequence of commits, it&#x27;s just a label that points to a single commit. It&#x27;s exactly the same as a tag except that git moves it when you make a new commit.<p>Mercurial calls these bookmarks which IMO is a much better name because it works exactly like real bookmarks (in books, not browsers). A git branch <i>feels</i> a little bit like a branch of a tree because each commit points to their parent. Therefore, you don&#x27;t need to track the entire sequence of commits in the branch but just the commit at the tip. I think if they&#x27;d had named only this concept better, Git would&#x27;ve been way easier to grok.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t usually nitpick like this but given that the entire point of this article is it matters to get the basic concepts right, I figured the author might want to get this basic concept right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HWR_14</author><text>Am I the only one sad that Git beat out Mercurial as the industry standard?<p>And am I also the only one who still knows how to do things in Mercurial but not how to take the corresponding action in Git? I mean, they&#x27;re things I haven&#x27;t had a reason to do in years, but it has some psychological cost to feel like I&#x27;m using a system I&#x27;m worse at.</text></comment> | <story><title>Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part I)</title><url>https://blog.plover.com/2022/06/29/#tips</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Fwiw a branch isn&#x27;t a named sequence of commits, it&#x27;s just a label that points to a single commit. It&#x27;s exactly the same as a tag except that git moves it when you make a new commit.<p>Mercurial calls these bookmarks which IMO is a much better name because it works exactly like real bookmarks (in books, not browsers). A git branch <i>feels</i> a little bit like a branch of a tree because each commit points to their parent. Therefore, you don&#x27;t need to track the entire sequence of commits in the branch but just the commit at the tip. I think if they&#x27;d had named only this concept better, Git would&#x27;ve been way easier to grok.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t usually nitpick like this but given that the entire point of this article is it matters to get the basic concepts right, I figured the author might want to get this basic concept right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsmith45</author><text>This is exactly the point the author plans to address under &quot;Branches are fictitious&quot;, in the outline at the top.</text></comment> |
37,733,286 | 37,733,341 | 1 | 3 | 37,701,884 | train | <story><title>OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools</title><url>https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/CommunityServer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_atreeonmyhouse</author><text>There is some confusion here.<p>The linked GitHub repo clearly says Apache License, but their commercial website does say AGPL. They&#x27;re not even remotely similar.<p>The AGPL is regarded as so toxic that nearly all companies where office suites matter, place it on a &quot;do not use&quot; list. It&#x27;s a good way to artificially limit your potential customers. It doesn&#x27;t matter that they have a page saying &quot;sure go ahead and use it internally&quot; - most places won&#x27;t touch it with a 10m pole, by policy.</text></item><item><author>gjsman-1000</author><text>I’m surprised ONLYOFFICE isn’t more popular in more distributions. It’s AGPL, open source, and almost infinitely more intuitive than LibreOffice to anyone coming from Microsoft Office.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>2Gkashmiri</author><text>Totally bollocks.<p>This is pure fud. Nothing else.<p>AGPL DOES NOT restrict ability to be used internally.
Agpl does NOT restrict selling software as it is.<p>Agpl does not restrict using agpl software with proprietary software.<p>Only thing that agpl prevent is, IF YOU MODIFY AGPL SOFTWARE, YOU HAVE TO GIVE SOURCE CODE TO USERS.
Your modifications. Thats it.<p>AGPL DOES NOT MANDATE upstreaming modifications. You can do it or you cannot. Your choice. Others can choose to upstream or fork or Downstream your modifications<p>What you are confusing with is the fud google spreads about agpl. They dont touch it because if they modify code they have to release it but they don&#x27;t for reasons known to them.<p>Again, AGPL is NOT viral like SSPL which is like AGPL but on steroids.</text></comment> | <story><title>OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools</title><url>https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/CommunityServer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_atreeonmyhouse</author><text>There is some confusion here.<p>The linked GitHub repo clearly says Apache License, but their commercial website does say AGPL. They&#x27;re not even remotely similar.<p>The AGPL is regarded as so toxic that nearly all companies where office suites matter, place it on a &quot;do not use&quot; list. It&#x27;s a good way to artificially limit your potential customers. It doesn&#x27;t matter that they have a page saying &quot;sure go ahead and use it internally&quot; - most places won&#x27;t touch it with a 10m pole, by policy.</text></item><item><author>gjsman-1000</author><text>I’m surprised ONLYOFFICE isn’t more popular in more distributions. It’s AGPL, open source, and almost infinitely more intuitive than LibreOffice to anyone coming from Microsoft Office.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>&gt; The AGPL is regarded as so toxic that nearly all companies where office suites matter, place it on a &quot;do not use&quot; list. It&#x27;s a good way to artificially limit your potential customers.<p>Then it&#x27;s no worse than any proprietary software; if they pay for a commercial license then it&#x27;s fine. Of course, if they use it internally then AGPL is <i>also</i> fine.</text></comment> |
20,939,834 | 20,939,576 | 1 | 3 | 20,924,667 | train | <story><title>It’s not just p=0.048 vs. p=0.052</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/09/06/__trashed-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Symmetry</author><text>Put a Number on It! did a piece a while ago going through some psychology pieces that were part of a replication effort. They found that half failed to replicate but that people in a betting market could often tell which ones were going to replicate or not. The author also did a blind test himself and was also able to guess which ones would replicate. He laid out several rules of thumb, most significantly to the article <i>Jacob’s Rule of Anti-Significance: A result with a p-value just above 0.05 could well be true. A result with a p-value just below 0.05 is almost certainly false.</i><p><i>More importantly, p=0.06 means that the researchers are honest. They could have easily p-hacked the results below 0.05 but chose not to. The opposite is true when p=0.049.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;putanumonit.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;07&#x2F;the-scent-of-bad-psychology&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;putanumonit.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;07&#x2F;the-scent-of-bad-psycholo...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>It’s not just p=0.048 vs. p=0.052</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/09/06/__trashed-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twelfthnight</author><text>I think the problem with p-values is that it trains us to think about uncertainty without nuance. It hides the inherent trade off between the cost of taking on risk and the cost of reducing uncertainty, since it sets the threshold at p=0.05. Taken to the extreme, with a large enough sample we can nearly always find significant differences between populations, the difference will just be very small and n size will be enormous.<p>Recently I worked with a client to interpret results from an A&#x2F;B test where A performed better than B with 85% confidence (based on credible intervals, accounting for multiple comparisons). We therefore recommended A. In a group phone call, the client told her colleagues that our company doesn&#x27;t know what we&#x27;re talking about because 85% confidence of a difference isn&#x27;t statistically significant (i.e. isn&#x27;t 95% confident). We lost their business.<p>This was a shame because gathering the data for the experiment was expensive and the downside of making the wrong choice was low. It is often the case that taking on more risk makes more sense than hitting diminishing returns on shrinking p-values with extra sample.</text></comment> |
10,387,419 | 10,387,389 | 1 | 2 | 10,387,194 | train | <story><title>Running Swift code on Android</title><url>http://romain.goyet.com/articles/running_swift_code_on_android/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>e28eta</author><text>A coworker showed me this project, which does the same but also includes .NET and regular Java: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elementscompiler.com&#x2F;elements&#x2F;silver&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elementscompiler.com&#x2F;elements&#x2F;silver&#x2F;</a><p>Looking at their github, they appear to be making progress against re-implementing the Swift core library by binding to native classes with similar functionality. Like Arrays: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;remobjects&#x2F;SwiftBaseLibrary&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Source&#x2F;Array.swift" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;remobjects&#x2F;SwiftBaseLibrary&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;S...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Running Swift code on Android</title><url>http://romain.goyet.com/articles/running_swift_code_on_android/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jevinskie</author><text>Have you thought about extracting the XAR archive of LLVM bitcode from Xcode 7.0+&#x27;s libswiftCore.dylib&#x27;s __LLVM,__bundle section and linking your NDK project against that? You&#x27;ll probably quickly run into linking dependencies outside of libswiftCore but perhaps you could A) stub out those missing dependencies B) build them from opensource.apple.com&#x27;s CF, libobjc, etc projects or C) try and extract the __LLVM,__bundle&#x27;s of the dependencies themselves. Rinse and repeat until everything works? :)</text></comment> |
3,037,032 | 3,036,297 | 1 | 2 | 3,036,079 | train | <story><title>Enrollment for Stanford's online DB class now open</title><url>http://www.db-class.org/course/auth/welcome</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pbh</author><text>To answer a few of the database questions that keep popping up in this thread:<p>1. Is it worth understanding relational algebra? Yes. Definitely. It's not that hard, there's more or less a one-to-one mapping of relational algebra to SQL. Relational algebra is both a useful mathematical tool and indispensable when trying to understand query optimization. Relational algebra is also necessary to be able to read pretty much any of the database literature, if that's one of your goals. (Just be thankful you don't have to learn Relational Calculus or Datalog.)<p>2. Is it worth learning XML features like XML DTDs, XPath, XML Schema, and XQuery? Yes, definitely. I don't like XML, but there are tons of places where you can use XPath. (The most interesting thing about XQuery is probably how similar it is to SQL, though.)<p>3. Is it worth learning about SQL triggers? Probably. Ultimately, the web development world is split between people for whom separation of concerns means doing more in the database, and those for whom separation of concerns means doing less in the database. If you think doing validation and transactions in the database is sensible, triggers are also a sensible thing to learn about. However, people like DHH disagree and want validation in your app server with a dumber backend.<p>4. Is this vocational training? Well, this is the first in a three class sequence at Stanford. This class is mostly about schema and query languages, so in some sense, it's the most useful to practitioners (or at least, non-DBA practitioners). The second class is about systems and implementation (on-disk layout, indexing structures, query optimization). In the third class, students either learn about distributed databases or actually build their own from scratch. However, schema and query languages have enough theory behind them, and enough generality, that I wouldn't consider it any more vocational training than a class on compilers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Enrollment for Stanford's online DB class now open</title><url>http://www.db-class.org/course/auth/welcome</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skymt</author><text>As are the AI and ML classes.<p><a href="http://www.ai-class.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ai-class.com/</a>
<a href="http://www.ml-class.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ml-class.org/</a></text></comment> |
3,710,380 | 3,710,479 | 1 | 2 | 3,710,183 | train | <story><title>My Git Habits</title><url>http://blog.plover.com/prog/git-habits.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Osiris</author><text>I'm fairly new to git. I've only been using it for about two months. It seems like this is a lot of work with the end result only being that the commit log is cleaner and perhaps makes cherry-picking a feature/fix a bit easier.<p>I can understand the need for this kind of cleanup when pushing a fix to an open-source repository that needs pull requests to be self-contained, but for an internal company repo, how important is it to keep the commit history this clean?<p>If I have changes I'm not ready to commit and need to switch branches to work on another issue, I find that doing a STASH is an easier way to go. I can just stash my working copy changes, switch branches, then come back and apply the stash and keep going and then make one final commit with just the final changes I want to commit.<p>Other DVCS actually believe that being able to modify commit history is a bad thing and lean toward immutable commit history (e.g., Veracity). Git makes it pretty easy to modify commit history which is ok for local branches but can be easily misunderstood to break your branch if you're trying to modify commits that have already been pushed to a remote repo.<p>I like the idea of keeping the commit history clean but I'm not sure that it's worth the effort that it takes to manage the process. In the end, only your final good code is going to be merged into an integration or master branch anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Git Habits</title><url>http://blog.plover.com/prog/git-habits.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mdehaan</author><text>Maybe it's just me, but using short lived topic/feature branches and squash merges seems much easier than remembering all of these steps to "fix up" all these things.<p>I think it becomes some what of a game to use all the more obscure corners of git when a good 20-30% of it goes a long way.<p>Using less commands is more.</text></comment> |
1,656,261 | 1,654,503 | 1 | 2 | 1,654,082 | train | <story><title>Google releases its own Javascript Lint tool </title><url>http://closuretools.blogspot.com/2010/08/introducing-closure-linter.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stevelosh</author><text>Here's a couple of lines to let you use this with :make (on a single file) and the QuickFix window in Vim:<p><pre><code> au BufNewFile,BufRead *.js set makeprg=gjslint\ %
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.js set errorformat=%-P-----\ FILE\ \ :\ \ %f\ -----,Line\ %l\\,\ E:%n:\ %m,%-Q,%-GFound\ %s,%-GSome\ %s,%-Gfixjsstyle%s,%-Gscript\ can\ %s,%-G
</code></pre>
If any experts in Vim's makeprg/errorformat want to clean this up, that would be awesome. I just hacked it together and it seems to work well enough.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google releases its own Javascript Lint tool </title><url>http://closuretools.blogspot.com/2010/08/introducing-closure-linter.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maw</author><text>The installation instructions tell you to run "easy_install <a href="http://closure-linter.googlecode.com/files/closure_linter-latest.tar.gz" rel="nofollow">http://closure-linter.googlecode.com/files/closure_linter-la...</a>. All well and good, but install instructions that don't reference specific version numbers freak me out. I might have gotten a little too much reproducibility religion, with all that that entails, but it seems better than being so cavalier when setting up environments.</text></comment> |
14,259,948 | 14,259,162 | 1 | 2 | 14,257,982 | train | <story><title>How to ship production-grade Go</title><url>https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/how-to-ship-production-grade-go</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedsuo</author><text>Oh god, there is some terrible advice in that article.<p>1. Don’t wrap errors, log.<p>Errors have two purposes - control flow for your application, and information for the developer and operator. If you are already logging the flow of your program, there is no need to wrap an error and create a call stack - you already have the call stack. If you cannot follow the control flow from your logs, you need to improve your logging, because you will also need to debug production problems that do not produce a literal error object.<p>And if you want more causality than you can get out of your logging, consider upgrading from logging to tracing. I contribute to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentracing.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentracing.io</a> so naturally that’s the tracing API I would suggest you look at.<p>2. Do not do anything with panics except recover from them or exit.<p>If you have a panic that you cannot recover from (and in general, that should be all of them), then it means your application is in a unknowable state. While Go is not as unsafe as C, any and all state in your program could be bad, and it is completely unclear what is still working and what is not. Nothing you do at this point is safe. For the love of god, do not hang your application and prevent it from exiting by trying to send a Slack message. Your goal should be to restart your program from a fresh clean state as quickly as possible, not to tie it up on the way out. Let the program exit and have an external monitoring program, whose state is NOT corrupted because its in a separate process, do all of the triage and reporting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>(1) I see this all the time.<p>An error is logged and propogated, then logged and propogated, then logged and propogated, then pretty soon your logs are 50x copies of themselves and the flood of logging sweeps you away.<p>You either (a) know what you to do about an error and log it or (b) you don&#x27;t know what to do and propogate it.<p>An error should be logged eventually, but it shouldn&#x27;t be logged 20 times.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to ship production-grade Go</title><url>https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/how-to-ship-production-grade-go</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedsuo</author><text>Oh god, there is some terrible advice in that article.<p>1. Don’t wrap errors, log.<p>Errors have two purposes - control flow for your application, and information for the developer and operator. If you are already logging the flow of your program, there is no need to wrap an error and create a call stack - you already have the call stack. If you cannot follow the control flow from your logs, you need to improve your logging, because you will also need to debug production problems that do not produce a literal error object.<p>And if you want more causality than you can get out of your logging, consider upgrading from logging to tracing. I contribute to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentracing.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentracing.io</a> so naturally that’s the tracing API I would suggest you look at.<p>2. Do not do anything with panics except recover from them or exit.<p>If you have a panic that you cannot recover from (and in general, that should be all of them), then it means your application is in a unknowable state. While Go is not as unsafe as C, any and all state in your program could be bad, and it is completely unclear what is still working and what is not. Nothing you do at this point is safe. For the love of god, do not hang your application and prevent it from exiting by trying to send a Slack message. Your goal should be to restart your program from a fresh clean state as quickly as possible, not to tie it up on the way out. Let the program exit and have an external monitoring program, whose state is NOT corrupted because its in a separate process, do all of the triage and reporting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigdubs</author><text>(1) is entirely debatable. imho your prescription is bad advice. it is very helpful to have []uint call stack pointers (i.e. not a ton of data) associated with errors for the 1 in 10 chance you&#x27;ll need that information, especially when dealing with libraries you don&#x27;t control that generate errors (which for most programs is the majority, things like lib&#x2F;pq etc.)</text></comment> |
21,724,571 | 21,724,626 | 1 | 2 | 21,722,532 | train | <story><title>Freedom of expression is at a ten-year low globally, study says</title><url>https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/freedom-of-expression-study.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bilbo0s</author><text>Yeah, but at the same time you need to understand that you&#x27;re devaluing the rights on the other side of that. The guy whose company you work for, or the company whose platform you&#x27;re using, or whatever the case may be, shouldn&#x27;t be obliged to have their revenue take a hit solely in support of your right. I mean, if it&#x27;s not going to cost your boss&#x27; company any money? Yeah OK, I can see where they should probably keep you. But if it is, well now you&#x27;re putting who knows how many other jobs at risk.<p>You only have the right to inconvenience yourself in support of your rights. Just like me or any other person. I don&#x27;t have the right to put all of my coworkers at risk so that I can call some black guy the N word for instance. That&#x27;s kind of the way rights work. You have rights, but everyone else does as well.</text></item><item><author>oefrha</author><text>When you have your career destroyed by voicing a non-pc opinion, it’s a lot more complicated than finding another Twitter to post 140 character posts.</text></item><item><author>manifestsilence</author><text>It&#x27;s such an important distinction though. When people do it, it&#x27;s just dissenting voices. When a platform removes someone, they can just find another platform. Twitter doesn&#x27;t owe anyone a voice on it.<p>But when the government says you can&#x27;t talk about a thing, they can make you take it down everywhere. Only this is protected, and this line needs to not be crossed.<p>I little sympathy for people getting upset at being deplatformed - they can go elsewhere, and their cries of freedom of expression cry wolf to the constitutional issue of those in power doing actual oppression.</text></item><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>Even when governments don’t limit freedom of expression we do it to ourselves as can be seen with all the Twitter mobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>umvi</author><text>More like:<p>- You have a successful GitHub project.<p>- One of your key contributors voted for Trump<p>- PC police come and demand you kick said contributor off of your project for violating CoC because they went digging through his Twitter history and found a tweet with him wearing a MAGA hat<p>- You disagree and say it&#x27;s his right to vote for whoever he wants<p>- PC police do everything they can do destroy you and your project because you have run afoul of their wishes</text></comment> | <story><title>Freedom of expression is at a ten-year low globally, study says</title><url>https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/freedom-of-expression-study.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bilbo0s</author><text>Yeah, but at the same time you need to understand that you&#x27;re devaluing the rights on the other side of that. The guy whose company you work for, or the company whose platform you&#x27;re using, or whatever the case may be, shouldn&#x27;t be obliged to have their revenue take a hit solely in support of your right. I mean, if it&#x27;s not going to cost your boss&#x27; company any money? Yeah OK, I can see where they should probably keep you. But if it is, well now you&#x27;re putting who knows how many other jobs at risk.<p>You only have the right to inconvenience yourself in support of your rights. Just like me or any other person. I don&#x27;t have the right to put all of my coworkers at risk so that I can call some black guy the N word for instance. That&#x27;s kind of the way rights work. You have rights, but everyone else does as well.</text></item><item><author>oefrha</author><text>When you have your career destroyed by voicing a non-pc opinion, it’s a lot more complicated than finding another Twitter to post 140 character posts.</text></item><item><author>manifestsilence</author><text>It&#x27;s such an important distinction though. When people do it, it&#x27;s just dissenting voices. When a platform removes someone, they can just find another platform. Twitter doesn&#x27;t owe anyone a voice on it.<p>But when the government says you can&#x27;t talk about a thing, they can make you take it down everywhere. Only this is protected, and this line needs to not be crossed.<p>I little sympathy for people getting upset at being deplatformed - they can go elsewhere, and their cries of freedom of expression cry wolf to the constitutional issue of those in power doing actual oppression.</text></item><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>Even when governments don’t limit freedom of expression we do it to ourselves as can be seen with all the Twitter mobs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aianus</author><text>This would be fine if we had basic income but since your survival is tied to employment, employers should not be allowed to discriminate based on political opinion any more than they can discriminate against pregnant women or seniors.</text></comment> |
21,879,853 | 21,878,769 | 1 | 3 | 21,878,179 | train | <story><title>Ruby 2.7</title><url>https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/12/25/ruby-2-7-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmccann</author><text>I had wondered why most recent Ruby releases were on Christmas Day and recently found out why. The Ruby creator Matz is religious (LDS), and he considers it a Christmas gift to the community. I thought that was really cool.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ruby 2.7</title><url>https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/12/25/ruby-2-7-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>burlesona</author><text>&gt; Calling a private method with a literal self as the receiver is now allowed.<p>Oof. Call me old fashioned, but I liked the consistency of not being able to call private methods with an explicit receiver. Oh well!<p>The rest of this looks great, thanks Ruby team!</text></comment> |
2,393,630 | 2,393,722 | 1 | 3 | 2,392,542 | train | <story><title>How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+to+damage+your+brand+in+one+smooth+shot+Way+to+GoDaddy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tnorthcutt</author><text>I'd encourage you to avoid 1and1. Horrendous customer service, crippled control panels, etc.</text></item><item><author>elliottcarlson</author><text>Transfer to:<p>Gandi: <a href="https://www.gandi.net/domain/transfer" rel="nofollow">https://www.gandi.net/domain/transfer</a><p>1and1: <a href="http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/DomaininfoMove" rel="nofollow">http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/DomaininfoMove</a><p>NameCheap: <a href="http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/" rel="nofollow">http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/</a><p>Basically go to any registrars home page and either search for "Transfer" on the page itself or in their search box if provided. They will all offer it together with easy how to steps - and I am sure their support team will help as well. They want your business and will make it as easy as possible.</text></item><item><author>malvim</author><text>I've been thinking of moving for some time now (even before I watched this video). My question is: how?<p>They kind of own my domain names now, how can I simply change registrars?</text></item><item><author>run4yourlives</author><text>Wow. Just wow.<p>Having been to Africa and seen elephants in the wild up close, among other animals, I simply can't stomach that I'm supporting a bunch of fat white Americans flying half way around the world to destroy a magnificent animal simply because they can.<p>I'll be moving my domains away from GoDaddy asap.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lwhi</author><text>1and1 are quite simply the <i>WORST</i> company I have ever done business with. Avoid them like the plague.<p>I've been using namecheap for a couple of years, and I'm very happy with them.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+to+damage+your+brand+in+one+smooth+shot+Way+to+GoDaddy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tnorthcutt</author><text>I'd encourage you to avoid 1and1. Horrendous customer service, crippled control panels, etc.</text></item><item><author>elliottcarlson</author><text>Transfer to:<p>Gandi: <a href="https://www.gandi.net/domain/transfer" rel="nofollow">https://www.gandi.net/domain/transfer</a><p>1and1: <a href="http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/DomaininfoMove" rel="nofollow">http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/DomaininfoMove</a><p>NameCheap: <a href="http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/" rel="nofollow">http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/</a><p>Basically go to any registrars home page and either search for "Transfer" on the page itself or in their search box if provided. They will all offer it together with easy how to steps - and I am sure their support team will help as well. They want your business and will make it as easy as possible.</text></item><item><author>malvim</author><text>I've been thinking of moving for some time now (even before I watched this video). My question is: how?<p>They kind of own my domain names now, how can I simply change registrars?</text></item><item><author>run4yourlives</author><text>Wow. Just wow.<p>Having been to Africa and seen elephants in the wild up close, among other animals, I simply can't stomach that I'm supporting a bunch of fat white Americans flying half way around the world to destroy a magnificent animal simply because they can.<p>I'll be moving my domains away from GoDaddy asap.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Smrchy</author><text>100% agree on that. I had a DSL contract with them in Germany and moved to another town where i had internet via cable included. They insisted that i have to keep paying for another 18 months with no way to cancel the contract early.<p>I paid and will avoid 1and1 for the rest of my life.</text></comment> |
5,849,996 | 5,849,882 | 1 | 2 | 5,849,772 | train | <story><title>Rand Paul wants to lead a Supreme Court challenge to Feds' tracking of Americans</title><url>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/09/paul-wants-to-lead-supreme-court-challenge-to-fed-tracking-americans-calls/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>_delirium</author><text>Since he&#x27;s a member of the Senate, a more direct route than the judicial branch would be to pursue legislative-branch solutions, such as introducing a bill to amend the FISA statute in a more civil-liberties-friendly manner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wl</author><text>A supreme court case has benefits that legislation doesn&#x27;t. If he can get a favorable decision for civil liberties, he could bind future congresses that may not be as friendly to civil liberties as he is. This also could be accomplished through a constitutional amendment, but a court case is far easier.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rand Paul wants to lead a Supreme Court challenge to Feds' tracking of Americans</title><url>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/09/paul-wants-to-lead-supreme-court-challenge-to-fed-tracking-americans-calls/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>_delirium</author><text>Since he&#x27;s a member of the Senate, a more direct route than the judicial branch would be to pursue legislative-branch solutions, such as introducing a bill to amend the FISA statute in a more civil-liberties-friendly manner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vivtek</author><text>That wouldn&#x27;t be in the spirit of empty grandstanding at all! You, sir, simply don&#x27;t understand Ron Paul&#x27;s strategy.</text></comment> |
29,201,564 | 29,201,599 | 1 | 2 | 29,200,103 | train | <story><title>How not to sort by average rating (2009)</title><url>https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hwbehrens</author><text>While I agree with the author in principle, I think there is an implicit criteria they ignore, which is the intuitive correctness from the perspective of the user.<p>Imagine a user chooses &quot;Sort by rating&quot;, and they subsequently observe an item with an average 4.5 ranking above a score of 5.0 because it has a higher Wilson score. Some portion of users will think &quot;Ah, yes, this makes sense because the 4.5 rating is based on many more reviews, therefore its Wilson score is higher.&quot; and the vast, vast majority of users will think &quot;What the heck? This site is rigging the system! How come this one is ranked higher than that one?&quot; and erode confidence in the rankings.<p>In fact, these kinds of black-box rankings* frequently land sites like Yelp into trouble, because it is natural to assume that the company has a finger on the scale so to speak when it is in their financial interests to do so. In particular, entries with a higher Wilson score are likely to be more expensive because their ostensibly-superior quality commands (or depends upon) their higher cost, exacerbating this effect due to perceived-higher margins.<p>So the next logical step is to present the Wilson score directly, but this merely shifts the confusion elsewhere -- the user may find an item they&#x27;re interested in buying, find it has one 5-star review, and yet its Wilson score is &lt;&lt; 5, producing at least the same perception and possibly a worse one.<p>Instead, providing the statistically-sound score but de-emphasizing or hiding it, such as by making it accessible in the DOM but not visible, allows for the creation of alternative sorting mechanisms via e.g. browser extensions for the statistically-minded, without sacrificing the intuition of the top-line score.<p>* I assume that most companies would choose not to explain the statistical foundations of their ranking algorithm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dfabulich</author><text>In another article, the author (Evan Miller) recommends not showing the average unless there are enough ratings. You would say &quot;2 ratings&quot; but not show the average, and just sort it wherever it falls algorithmically.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.evanmiller.org&#x2F;ranking-items-with-star-ratings.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.evanmiller.org&#x2F;ranking-items-with-star-ratings.h...</a><p>In that article, he even includes a formula for how many ratings you&#x27;d need:<p>&gt; <i>If you display average ratings to the nearest half-star, you probably don’t want to display an average rating unless the credible interval is a half-star wide or less</i><p>In my experience, the second article is more generally useful, because it&#x27;s more common to sort by star rating than by thumb-up&#x2F;thumb-down ranking, which is what the currently linked article is about.<p>And the philosophical &quot;weight on the scale&quot; problem isn&#x27;t as bad as you&#x27;d think when using these approaches. If you see an item with a perfect 5-star average and 10 reviews ranked below an item with a 4.8-star average and 1,000 reviews, and you call the sort ranking &quot;sort by popularity,&quot; it&#x27;s pretty clear that the item with 1,000 reviews is &quot;more popular.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>How not to sort by average rating (2009)</title><url>https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hwbehrens</author><text>While I agree with the author in principle, I think there is an implicit criteria they ignore, which is the intuitive correctness from the perspective of the user.<p>Imagine a user chooses &quot;Sort by rating&quot;, and they subsequently observe an item with an average 4.5 ranking above a score of 5.0 because it has a higher Wilson score. Some portion of users will think &quot;Ah, yes, this makes sense because the 4.5 rating is based on many more reviews, therefore its Wilson score is higher.&quot; and the vast, vast majority of users will think &quot;What the heck? This site is rigging the system! How come this one is ranked higher than that one?&quot; and erode confidence in the rankings.<p>In fact, these kinds of black-box rankings* frequently land sites like Yelp into trouble, because it is natural to assume that the company has a finger on the scale so to speak when it is in their financial interests to do so. In particular, entries with a higher Wilson score are likely to be more expensive because their ostensibly-superior quality commands (or depends upon) their higher cost, exacerbating this effect due to perceived-higher margins.<p>So the next logical step is to present the Wilson score directly, but this merely shifts the confusion elsewhere -- the user may find an item they&#x27;re interested in buying, find it has one 5-star review, and yet its Wilson score is &lt;&lt; 5, producing at least the same perception and possibly a worse one.<p>Instead, providing the statistically-sound score but de-emphasizing or hiding it, such as by making it accessible in the DOM but not visible, allows for the creation of alternative sorting mechanisms via e.g. browser extensions for the statistically-minded, without sacrificing the intuition of the top-line score.<p>* I assume that most companies would choose not to explain the statistical foundations of their ranking algorithm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tablespoon</author><text>&gt; Imagine a user chooses &quot;Sort by rating&quot;, and they subsequently observe an item with an average 4.5 ranking above a score of 5.0 because it has a higher Wilson score. Some portion of users will think &quot;Ah, yes, this makes sense because the 4.5 rating is based on many more reviews, therefore its Wilson score is higher.&quot; and the vast, vast majority of users will think &quot;What the heck? This site is rigging the system! How come this one is ranked higher than that one?&quot; and erode confidence in the rankings.<p>It also erodes confidence in ratings when something with one fake 5 star review sorts above something else with 1000 reviews averaging 4.9.<p>I think you&#x27;re mainly focusing on the very start of a learning curve, but eventually people get the hang of the new system. Especially if it&#x27;s named correctly (e.g. &quot;sort by review-count weighted score&quot;).</text></comment> |
35,097,414 | 35,097,413 | 1 | 2 | 35,092,998 | train | <story><title>What a good debugger can do</title><url>https://werat.dev/blog/what-a-good-debugger-can-do/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sebastianconcpt</author><text><p><pre><code> a good debugger supports different kinds of breakpoints, offers rich data visualization capabilities, has a REPL for executing expressions, can show the dependencies between threads and control their execution, can pick up changes in the source code and apply them without restarting the program, can step through the code backward and rewind the program state to any point in history, and can even record the entire program execution and visualize control flow and data flow history.
I should mention that the perfect debugger doesn’t exist.
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People pretends Smalltalk doesn&#x27;t exist?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shadowofneptune</author><text>Smalltalk images offered introspection, debugging of running processes, etc., but some of the later features listed seem quite impractical to add to the language. &quot;Record the entire program execution,&quot; for instance.<p>That&#x27;s more or less the point the author makes on the next line: &quot;Different tools support different features and have different limitations.&quot; The ideal debugger does not necessarily make for the most ideal programming environment, just as a plane made out of steel is great for structural stability but may not be a good plane.</text></comment> | <story><title>What a good debugger can do</title><url>https://werat.dev/blog/what-a-good-debugger-can-do/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sebastianconcpt</author><text><p><pre><code> a good debugger supports different kinds of breakpoints, offers rich data visualization capabilities, has a REPL for executing expressions, can show the dependencies between threads and control their execution, can pick up changes in the source code and apply them without restarting the program, can step through the code backward and rewind the program state to any point in history, and can even record the entire program execution and visualize control flow and data flow history.
I should mention that the perfect debugger doesn’t exist.
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People pretends Smalltalk doesn&#x27;t exist?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>draegtun</author><text>&gt;&gt; People pretends Smalltalk doesn&#x27;t exist?<p>And Factor and many implementations of Lisp too!</text></comment> |
32,027,310 | 32,027,324 | 1 | 3 | 32,026,637 | train | <story><title>Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/rogers-communications-services-down-thousands-users-downdetector-2022-07-08/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomComb</author><text>People in other countries probably don&#x27;t understand just how powerful - and depended upon - the big telecoms are here in Canada.<p>They have no presence outside the country - they are so bloated and inefficient they couldn&#x27;t compete - but they are omnipresent here.<p>There are lots of people who depend on Rogers for home Internet, home phone, mobile phone, TV, and home security, not to mention business services that consumers also depend on, like the payment networks that are down.<p>Plus their media properties, which probably come in useful when the government starts to think about allowing more competition or decreasing the taxpayer money being funneled to them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>I work in telecom and tell this to nearly everyone who asks me about Canada, and its ISP&#x2F;telecom market and competition...<p>&quot;Canada is an endangered species protection wildlife reserve park for dinosaur telecoms&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a travesty that the government is actually going to let Shaw and Rogers merge to even further concentrate power in the hands of a few families and reduce market competition.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/rogers-communications-services-down-thousands-users-downdetector-2022-07-08/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomComb</author><text>People in other countries probably don&#x27;t understand just how powerful - and depended upon - the big telecoms are here in Canada.<p>They have no presence outside the country - they are so bloated and inefficient they couldn&#x27;t compete - but they are omnipresent here.<p>There are lots of people who depend on Rogers for home Internet, home phone, mobile phone, TV, and home security, not to mention business services that consumers also depend on, like the payment networks that are down.<p>Plus their media properties, which probably come in useful when the government starts to think about allowing more competition or decreasing the taxpayer money being funneled to them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gsatic</author><text>Most people also don&#x27;t realize telcos rake in more revenue than the entire tech sector. And that it is no where close to enough to maintain or upgrade the pipes. Cloud has been built on lot of assumptions that are close to breaking point.</text></comment> |
23,093,333 | 23,091,039 | 1 | 2 | 23,089,817 | train | <story><title>Running a full IBM System/370 Mainframe on a Raspberry Pi Zero</title><url>https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1257832168455208963</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Harvesterify</author><text>This is apparently greatly over-hyped (or a complete lie, depending on your interpretation) :<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mainframed767&#x2F;status&#x2F;1258018826823729154" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mainframed767&#x2F;status&#x2F;125801882682...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>floren</author><text>And the login screen is just taken from the manual for the MVS TK-4 system: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mainframed767&#x2F;status&#x2F;1258028638617796608" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mainframed767&#x2F;status&#x2F;125802863861...</a><p>So the pictures are: a stock photo of a mainframe, a stock photo of a Raspberry Pi, and a cropped screenshot from an MVS installation manual. Looking at OP&#x27;s other tweets he appears to be a pretty shamelessly self-promoting &quot;thought leader&quot; type so I would be pretty unsurprised if it&#x27;s bullshit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Running a full IBM System/370 Mainframe on a Raspberry Pi Zero</title><url>https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1257832168455208963</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Harvesterify</author><text>This is apparently greatly over-hyped (or a complete lie, depending on your interpretation) :<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mainframed767&#x2F;status&#x2F;1258018826823729154" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mainframed767&#x2F;status&#x2F;125801882682...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>It&#x27;s possible the original tweet poster was running a much newer mainframe OS on his Hercules emulator, but didn&#x27;t want to say it directly, since he might get a license bill for that.<p><i>&quot;7 times faster than System&#x2F;370&quot;</i> is an odd claim though. There&#x27;s several models and 19 years of upgrades.</text></comment> |
8,412,599 | 8,412,318 | 1 | 3 | 8,411,762 | train | <story><title>Zen Buddhism and Alan Watts</title><url>http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/tim-lott-zen-buddhism-alan-watts/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yoodenvranx</author><text>So how else do I do Zen?<p>(That is a serious question!)</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>&quot;Well, there is Sitting Zen (zazen, meditation), there is Walking Zen. Oh, and then, of course, especially in the West, there is Talking Zen. No good.&quot;<p>Many Zen practitioners have received their first contact with zen trough Alan Watts. He was really good writer. But eventually you must realize that he was philosopher, alcoholic and religions scholar who looked Zen from the outside. Talking and thinking about Zen is like talking and thinking about physical exercise. Philosophical thinking about koan is like treating bench press as a philosophical problem. You can&#x27;t lift it with your toughs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>Zen is meditation first school of Buddhism. You must learn to do zazen (zen meditation). In other words, sit down and shut up. If you want to become Buddha, do what Buddha did and don&#x27;t just listen and think about what he said.<p>I&#x27;m myself a Zen Buddhist, I train with a teacher and have spend time zen training in a zen temple and attend sesshins regularly. I&#x27;m also very secular and atheist person who don&#x27;t like organized religion. It&#x27;s miracle that I can coexist with religious setting, but I do it because I see Buddhsit Zen teachers as experienced coaches and temple as training facility. I also know that he is not going to indoctrinate me for anything superstitions despite his own beliefs that are different from mine (there are number of rotten zen teachers though).<p>If I were to describe what zazen meditation[1] is using as scientific terms as possible, I would say that it&#x27;s developing and directing your attention towards higher temporal resolution and developing the ability of keeping it there (always below 1s and it can go as low as ~40 Hz). You can put your poet hat on and call it &quot;living in this moment&quot;, &quot;looking at the reality&quot;, &quot;awakening to reality&quot;, &quot;seeing the world as it really is&quot;, &quot;impermanence&quot; or &quot;looking into yourself&#x2F;mind&quot;, but that&#x27;s what it really is in my opinion. You can&#x27;t have complex philosophical toughs in such a short time. You can only see &#x27;thoughtlets&#x27; (small incomplete toughs) forming and fading away in fractions of second. It&#x27;s like using low level debugger into the functioning of yor mind (debugger being directed attention).<p>---<p>[1] Same thing with most other awareness style Buddhist meditation traditions. You learn to see similarities with other traditions when you practice. Zazen is often more spartan and simplified and vital (not for everyone).<p>Nice description of the differences between Zen and Vipassana styles by Shinzen Young <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WiM-w5qqmE" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7WiM-w5qqmE</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Zen Buddhism and Alan Watts</title><url>http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/tim-lott-zen-buddhism-alan-watts/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yoodenvranx</author><text>So how else do I do Zen?<p>(That is a serious question!)</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>&quot;Well, there is Sitting Zen (zazen, meditation), there is Walking Zen. Oh, and then, of course, especially in the West, there is Talking Zen. No good.&quot;<p>Many Zen practitioners have received their first contact with zen trough Alan Watts. He was really good writer. But eventually you must realize that he was philosopher, alcoholic and religions scholar who looked Zen from the outside. Talking and thinking about Zen is like talking and thinking about physical exercise. Philosophical thinking about koan is like treating bench press as a philosophical problem. You can&#x27;t lift it with your toughs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemo</author><text>It&#x27;s a practice more than an analysis, so to do it you practice Zen exercises. The central exercise is meditation. Thinking about meditation is like thinking about push-ups. A little analysis helps to refine the form, but it&#x27;s not the point.</text></comment> |
7,301,269 | 7,301,206 | 1 | 2 | 7,300,061 | train | <story><title>Consumer Reports Calls Tesla Model S The Best Car Of 2014</title><url>http://business.time.com/2014/02/25/tesla-model-s-consumer-reports/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tlb</author><text>I&#x27;ve got nearly 20,000 miles on mine. One thing I just discovered is that the tires, 21&quot; super-soft compound high-performance Michelins, only last 20,000 miles and cost $2900 to replace. This works out to $0.145 &#x2F; mile, which is 3x more per mile than electricity costs me. And about what you would spend on gas for a 25 MPG car.<p>I didn&#x27;t really buy it for the savings, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bri3d</author><text>You could easily switch to a high (but not quite extreme) performance tire like Continental ExtremeContact DW in the stock 245&#x2F;35R21 size, which would run you only a little over $1000&#x2F;set for a much better cost per mile without compromising performance to a high degree.<p>Or you could switch (maybe another Tesla owner would trade) down to a rim size with a more reasonable sidewall profile. I frankly don&#x27;t understand the trend towards lower and lower profiles for street cars. The improved cornering characteristics are offset by the substantially harsher ride and propensity towards rim damage, and on the performance Tesla I believe even 19&quot; wheels will easily clear the brakes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Consumer Reports Calls Tesla Model S The Best Car Of 2014</title><url>http://business.time.com/2014/02/25/tesla-model-s-consumer-reports/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tlb</author><text>I&#x27;ve got nearly 20,000 miles on mine. One thing I just discovered is that the tires, 21&quot; super-soft compound high-performance Michelins, only last 20,000 miles and cost $2900 to replace. This works out to $0.145 &#x2F; mile, which is 3x more per mile than electricity costs me. And about what you would spend on gas for a 25 MPG car.<p>I didn&#x27;t really buy it for the savings, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangrossman</author><text>Buying another set of high-cost low-life performance tires isn&#x27;t a <i>requirement</i> of any Model S trims, is it? You could replace them with some ordinary all-season tires when the included ones wear out?</text></comment> |
37,635,401 | 37,634,990 | 1 | 2 | 37,634,713 | train | <story><title>Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria</title><url>https://www.lanternbioworks.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>This is certainly an interesting idea, but there&#x27;s absolutely no way for anyone to judge whether the claim on this page is bulletproof true, something plausible worth researching more, or just total nonsense.<p>But the fact that there isn&#x27;t a single link to any scientific paper or evidence whatsoever, or even a single person&#x27;s name linked to the site (or source of funding or <i>anything</i>), makes me assume this is just spam or a scam.<p>Apsec112, why did you submit this? How did you find it? Can you give us any context to suggest that anything about this is legit?<p>And anybody else -- are there actual published results from legit scientists on this? Is this a real thing, or just make-believe?<p>Because this is an extraordinary claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Not just 11 sentences.<p>Edit: I missed that at the very bottom of the page there&#x27;s a link to a... Google Drive folder? [1] But it&#x27;s disorganized and not exactly, well, professional. I can&#x27;t make heads or tails of anything in it, or find anything that suggests credibility.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;drive&#x2F;u&#x2F;0&#x2F;folders&#x2F;18ZDSe92LgLmS0sUbosvNxByii_1kjnEj" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;drive&#x2F;u&#x2F;0&#x2F;folders&#x2F;18ZDSe92LgLmS0sUb...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgotpwd16</author><text>&gt;are there actual published results from legit scientists on this?<p>The main papers referenced by document on the page are by JD Hillman on 1987[0] (et al) and 2002[1]. A layman review was done few years later by PopSci[2]. This specific site and company appear to have no relation to Hillman or Oragenics (co-founded by Hillman) that holds a patent on this[3,4].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.sagepub.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;abs&#x2F;10.1177&#x2F;00220345870660060101" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.sagepub.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;abs&#x2F;10.1177&#x2F;002203458706600...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1023&#x2F;A:1020695902160" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1023&#x2F;A:1020695902160</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.popsci.com&#x2F;scitech&#x2F;article&#x2F;2008-01&#x2F;germ-could-save-your-life&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.popsci.com&#x2F;scitech&#x2F;article&#x2F;2008-01&#x2F;germ-could-sa...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oragenics.com&#x2F;news-media&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;detail&#x2F;35&#x2F;oragenics-receives-new-patent-for-improved-replacement" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oragenics.com&#x2F;news-media&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;detail&#x2F;3...</a><p>[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US9260488B2&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US9260488B2&#x2F;en</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria</title><url>https://www.lanternbioworks.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>This is certainly an interesting idea, but there&#x27;s absolutely no way for anyone to judge whether the claim on this page is bulletproof true, something plausible worth researching more, or just total nonsense.<p>But the fact that there isn&#x27;t a single link to any scientific paper or evidence whatsoever, or even a single person&#x27;s name linked to the site (or source of funding or <i>anything</i>), makes me assume this is just spam or a scam.<p>Apsec112, why did you submit this? How did you find it? Can you give us any context to suggest that anything about this is legit?<p>And anybody else -- are there actual published results from legit scientists on this? Is this a real thing, or just make-believe?<p>Because this is an extraordinary claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Not just 11 sentences.<p>Edit: I missed that at the very bottom of the page there&#x27;s a link to a... Google Drive folder? [1] But it&#x27;s disorganized and not exactly, well, professional. I can&#x27;t make heads or tails of anything in it, or find anything that suggests credibility.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;drive&#x2F;u&#x2F;0&#x2F;folders&#x2F;18ZDSe92LgLmS0sUbosvNxByii_1kjnEj" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;drive&#x2F;u&#x2F;0&#x2F;folders&#x2F;18ZDSe92LgLmS0sUb...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apsec112</author><text>Hi! These are friends of mine. There is much more detail in the Google Drive (linked from the About page): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;drive&#x2F;u&#x2F;2&#x2F;folders&#x2F;18ZDSe92LgLmS0sUbosvNxByii_1kjnEj" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drive.google.com&#x2F;drive&#x2F;u&#x2F;2&#x2F;folders&#x2F;18ZDSe92LgLmS0sUb...</a></text></comment> |
24,841,690 | 24,841,871 | 1 | 3 | 24,840,972 | train | <story><title>Julia GPU</title><url>https://notamonadtutorial.com/julia-gpu-98a461d33e21</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MayeulC</author><text>I was really confused for a moment, because the article mention CUDA a lot, which is a nvidia-specific API&#x2F;framework&#x2F;language. I guess that&#x27;s mainly to appeal to the CUDA crowd? However, Julia being seemingly based on LLVM, interfacing it with AMD GPUs should be quite doable:<p>&gt; Much of the initial work focused on developing tools that make it possible to write low-level code in Julia. For example, we developed the LLVM.jl package that gives us access to the LLVM APIs. Recently, our focus has shifted towards generalizing this functionality so that other GPU back-ends, like AMDGPU.jl or oneAPI.jl can benefit from developments to CUDA.jl. Vendor-neutral array operations, for examples, are now implemented in GPUArrays.jl whereas shared compiler functionality now lives in GPUCompiler.jl. That should make it possible to work on several GPU back-ends, even though most of them are maintained by only a single developer.<p>This is the takeaway to me. First-class access to GPU accelerators using the same syntax, regardless of the vendor :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Julia GPU</title><url>https://notamonadtutorial.com/julia-gpu-98a461d33e21</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Athas</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I understand the bounds checking example. Can someone shed some light on how CUDA.jl does bounds checking? It&#x27;s not entirely straightforward to do on a GPU.</text></comment> |
6,867,185 | 6,867,167 | 1 | 2 | 6,866,652 | train | <story><title>A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe</title><url>http://profoundlydisconnected.com/cnn-viewer-has-questions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quaunaut</author><text>&gt; Think about it. Universities get to decide how much money to charge their students. Likewise, parents and students decide if they can afford to pay it. It’s a pretty simple proposition. But when the government suddenly makes hundreds of billions of dollars in student loans readily available — under the popular (and voter-friendly) theory that “everyone should go to college” — we see an unintended consequence.<p>Well that&#x27;s also ignoring the point that colleges used to get the majority of their funding from States, and almost every major University now has the majority(and sometimes a &gt;90% majority) of its funding coming from other sources. College used to be subsidized by society, and now it just isn&#x27;t subsidized, and in his argument that entire position is ignored.<p>Like most subjects this is a much more complex problem than either side lets on, but just because Mike Rowe is eloquent in his response doesn&#x27;t mean that it isn&#x27;t ignoring rather large portions of the facts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjn</author><text>I looked into this a bit for the University of California system, and that did indeed seem to be the issue in that case. Tuition has gone up, but <i>less</i> than state funding has gone down. In other words, the university is getting cheaper to operate on a per-student basis, but nonetheless getting more expensive to attend, because of a large shift in who pays (from taxpayers to students). The historical public funding levels were around $25k-$30k per student, in present-day dollars, while today the state kicks in a bit under $13k per student: <a href="http://www.kmjn.org/misc/uc_funding.txt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kmjn.org&#x2F;misc&#x2F;uc_funding.txt</a><p>It&#x27;s not entirely due to the increase in student population, either, although that&#x27;s part of it. If you look at just the total funding column, it&#x27;s gone down since the &#x27;80s, despite the state&#x27;s increasing population and GDP. Someone should double-check my numbers, but last time I looked into this I remember a back-of-the-envelope calculation that California used to put ~0.3% of state GDP into the UC system, and now puts in only about 0.1%.</text></comment> | <story><title>A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe</title><url>http://profoundlydisconnected.com/cnn-viewer-has-questions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quaunaut</author><text>&gt; Think about it. Universities get to decide how much money to charge their students. Likewise, parents and students decide if they can afford to pay it. It’s a pretty simple proposition. But when the government suddenly makes hundreds of billions of dollars in student loans readily available — under the popular (and voter-friendly) theory that “everyone should go to college” — we see an unintended consequence.<p>Well that&#x27;s also ignoring the point that colleges used to get the majority of their funding from States, and almost every major University now has the majority(and sometimes a &gt;90% majority) of its funding coming from other sources. College used to be subsidized by society, and now it just isn&#x27;t subsidized, and in his argument that entire position is ignored.<p>Like most subjects this is a much more complex problem than either side lets on, but just because Mike Rowe is eloquent in his response doesn&#x27;t mean that it isn&#x27;t ignoring rather large portions of the facts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pachydermic</author><text>Also, because the US has an increasingly unequal income distribution, that makes a college degree relatively more valuable. In addition to the social-status factor it certainly still seems to pay off despite the increased tuition (<a href="http://priceonomics.com/is-college-worth-it/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;priceonomics.com&#x2F;is-college-worth-it&#x2F;</a>).<p>My point is simply that maybe college costs so much more now because it&#x27;s just worth it. It used to be that you could still do alright without a college degree, but a ton of manufacturing jobs have moved overseas and there&#x27;s a ton of downward pressure on peoples&#x27; wages who don&#x27;t have engineering and computer jobs.<p>Just to be clear, I&#x27;m not saying that this is <i>the</i> reason why college is so expensive these days, but I think that it&#x27;s a point which isn&#x27;t brought up enough.<p>I think there&#x27;s a tendency to say: &quot;oh well not everyone can have these high-paying jobs&quot;, &quot;college isn&#x27;t right for everyone&quot;, etc. which Rowe also says. Maybe that&#x27;s true, but we certainly seem to have a shortage of qualified people in this country. Seems to me to be a failure of the educational system and while it makes sense not to saddle yourself with tons of debt for a degree if that degree won&#x27;t help you pay off the debt, I don&#x27;t think encouraging people not to get a higher education is a good idea either. Now I&#x27;m just rambling - I just wanted to point out that that attitude is a sign that something is wrong.</text></comment> |
39,089,908 | 39,089,772 | 1 | 2 | 39,088,991 | train | <story><title>What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/solving-a-nasa-mystery-why-did-space-shuttle-commanders-lock-the-hatch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wantsanagent</author><text>If you hate the format of these kinds of article let me summarize:<p>Guy builds an experiment, flies it, it doesn&#x27;t work, requests more time to get it working, is denied, threatens &#x27;not to come back&#x27;, goes into a depression, worries crew that he&#x27;ll open the door to space, eventually granted more time to work on the experiment, gets it working.<p>There are consequences for letting this kind of person fly and dealing with mental health while on a mission, but that&#x27;s the basic plot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GeoAtreides</author><text>&gt; If you hate the format of these kinds of article<p>You mean long-form articles? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Long-form_journalism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Long-form_journalism</a><p>I don&#x27;t think the problem is with the format, but with your expectations. Somehow you were expecting a straight answer to the question in the title; instead, it&#x27;s a detailed look into the incident and the context around it.</text></comment> | <story><title>What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/solving-a-nasa-mystery-why-did-space-shuttle-commanders-lock-the-hatch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wantsanagent</author><text>If you hate the format of these kinds of article let me summarize:<p>Guy builds an experiment, flies it, it doesn&#x27;t work, requests more time to get it working, is denied, threatens &#x27;not to come back&#x27;, goes into a depression, worries crew that he&#x27;ll open the door to space, eventually granted more time to work on the experiment, gets it working.<p>There are consequences for letting this kind of person fly and dealing with mental health while on a mission, but that&#x27;s the basic plot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misnome</author><text>And “They added a lock to the exit hatch”<p>For a good portion of this article I thought the answer was “We don’t know”. It ambles around so leisurely and stop-start that it feels like reading ChatGPT output.</text></comment> |
25,923,776 | 25,921,070 | 1 | 3 | 25,900,461 | train | <story><title>The No-Order File System (2012)</title><url>http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~vijayc/nofs.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>That&#x27;s progress.<p>I&#x27;ve previously suggested that operating systems should have stronger file integrity guarantees. &quot;Unit&quot; files (rewriting replaces the whole file atomically, no reader ever sees a partially written file). That&#x27;s the default. &quot;Log&quot; files (always end at a clean end point, don&#x27;t tail off into junk). &quot;Temp&quot; files (disappear on reboot). And, for databases, &quot;Managed&quot; files.<p>Managed files have more I&#x2F;O functions. In particular, you get two completion events on writes - &quot;copy complete&quot; (the caller can reuse the buffer) and &quot;safely stored&quot; (the data has reached its final resting place, all links are complete, etc.). Programs like databases would use that. Those are the semantics databases want, and struggle to get by flushing, waiting, and various workarounds.<p>When I mention this, what usually happens is that people get lost in complicated workarounds for simulating unit files. Different approaches are needed for Linux, Windows, NTFS, and various VM systems. This should Just Work.<p>This isn&#x27;t my invention; it&#x27;s from Popek&#x27;s kernel in 1985 at UCLA, later seen as UCLA-Locus and as an IBM product. They had explicit commit and revert functions for file systems. I&#x27;d suggest having the default be commit on normal close or normal program exit, but if the program aborts or crashes or is killed, unit files don&#x27;t commit and remain unchanged.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KMag</author><text>For the temp file issue, there&#x27;s the common pattern of creating a file and unlinking it right away while keeping an open file handle. It&#x27;s unfortunate that there&#x27;s not a version of creat() that takes a path to a directory (for determining on which fs to create) but doesn&#x27;t link the file, plus a version of link() that takes a source file descriptor instead of a source file.<p>If extended to support non-file fds, the link function might also do some interesting things, like have TCP connections show up in the virtual file system, similar to Unix pipes.</text></comment> | <story><title>The No-Order File System (2012)</title><url>http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~vijayc/nofs.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>That&#x27;s progress.<p>I&#x27;ve previously suggested that operating systems should have stronger file integrity guarantees. &quot;Unit&quot; files (rewriting replaces the whole file atomically, no reader ever sees a partially written file). That&#x27;s the default. &quot;Log&quot; files (always end at a clean end point, don&#x27;t tail off into junk). &quot;Temp&quot; files (disappear on reboot). And, for databases, &quot;Managed&quot; files.<p>Managed files have more I&#x2F;O functions. In particular, you get two completion events on writes - &quot;copy complete&quot; (the caller can reuse the buffer) and &quot;safely stored&quot; (the data has reached its final resting place, all links are complete, etc.). Programs like databases would use that. Those are the semantics databases want, and struggle to get by flushing, waiting, and various workarounds.<p>When I mention this, what usually happens is that people get lost in complicated workarounds for simulating unit files. Different approaches are needed for Linux, Windows, NTFS, and various VM systems. This should Just Work.<p>This isn&#x27;t my invention; it&#x27;s from Popek&#x27;s kernel in 1985 at UCLA, later seen as UCLA-Locus and as an IBM product. They had explicit commit and revert functions for file systems. I&#x27;d suggest having the default be commit on normal close or normal program exit, but if the program aborts or crashes or is killed, unit files don&#x27;t commit and remain unchanged.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcranmer</author><text>POSIX filesystem semantics are one of the things where POSIX just plain got stuff wrong. And it isn&#x27;t helped by the fact that a lot of people want to game benchmarks by slightly lying about their durability compliance, so you really have to jump through hoops to make sure you actually achieve durability.<p>I do agree with you that we need a better way to interact with the filesystem with regards to integrity and durability, although I&#x27;m not sure we entirely agree on how that would look. The idea of multiple modes makes a lot of sense:<p>* File-atomic mode. This is I believe trivial to implement in the filesystem layer for all filesystems, and the basic idea of this mode has existed for decades. When a reader opens a file for reading, it will never see any other writes to the file. A writer will only update the file when it closes the file [1], at which point any <i>new</i> reader will see only the new file created. The code is intrinsically safe in the face of multiple processes interacting with the file, and is probably the semantics most people would prefer in that situation.<p>* Append-only transactional files. Here, you can&#x27;t random-access write into the file (but you can random-access read), only write at the end or truncate the file. A writer designates the text to append to the file as atomic blocks: the reader will only atomically see or not see the block [2]. If the file is truncated, all readers see the original contents of the file until they close.<p>* Raw files. Don&#x27;t pretend that a file is a stream of bytes. Instead, expose it as a set of blocks that can be atomically updated (including atomically adding or removing blocks from the file at different places). I don&#x27;t know filesystem semantics to give any good details here, but my understanding is that databases basically try to get these semantics today, and that getting good guarantees on fully random-access read&#x2F;write semantics is effectively impossible anyways.<p>There does feel to me to be a bit of a hole here, where you basically get no multiprocess interactions via files unless you completely change how your code works, but I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s entirely feasible to have a middle ground here. You can probably get close enough for most needs with a way to be notified and reopen the file in file-atomic mode, and anything where that&#x27;s not sufficient probably needs you to go to raw files to really get the guarantees you want.<p>In addition to the basic file I&#x2F;O issues, there also needs to be a way to be more transactional with directories, I think. Using paths as the basis for filesystem issues is already opening up programmers to time-of-check-time-of-use attacks today, and moving to a file descriptor-based approach for directory manipulation would solve that while opening up the possibility for better transactional support on the directory level.<p>The other issue is durability. Most applications in the first two modes would probably be fine with an optional durability: the result of an unexpected power outage would be a file that is out of date, but not corrupt. The filesystem could provide an optional callback on commit that returns when it is durability committed, which would handle those cases where you do actually need to make sure that the data will be committed on unexpected power outage. And the simple semantics of the first two modes means that providing durability reliably should be easy for filesystems.<p>[1] This also suggests that there should be a way to abort the write.<p>[2] You can also see how a file-atomic reader can interact with an append-only writer: the filesystem layer needs to remember the size the reader first saw and pretend that&#x27;s the EOF, but otherwise there&#x27;s no issue. And append-only readers will act as a file-atomic reader with respect to a file-atomic writer. The interactions make sense, that&#x27;s a good sign for the model!</text></comment> |
13,124,324 | 13,124,374 | 1 | 2 | 13,123,802 | train | <story><title>Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/06/reddit-overhauls-upvote-algorithm-to-thwart-cheaters-and-show-the-sites-true-scale/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rm999</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty clear to me that Reddit has always lacked a solid experienced science-driven data person. Someone who can pinpoint an issue, formulate the issue into a product-driven concrete problem, come up with hypotheses on how to fix the problem, then use their vast wealth of data and users to test and&#x2F;or implement them.<p>It&#x27;s not just the ad hoc unintuitive &quot;solution&quot; they came up with to mask votes (which most people agreed was a user-antagonist step in the wrong direction). It&#x27;s a lot of things: their inept response to spam&#x2F;vote brigading&#x2F;other abuse; their lack of personalized content discovery (state of the art from 10-15 years ago would probably suffice). I could go on, as a product-driven data scientist who has been on reddit since the early days, I&#x27;m constantly struck by how little they do with the amazing data they have.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/06/reddit-overhauls-upvote-algorithm-to-thwart-cheaters-and-show-the-sites-true-scale/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>Since I can&#x27;t really say more than this: there&#x27;s a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding in these comments. Don&#x27;t believe everything you read on the internet and don&#x27;t believe the conspiracy theories that this has anything to do with censorship or surpressing political (or any other) discourse.<p>It&#x27;s really just making the math less complicated.</text></comment> |
26,079,333 | 26,078,802 | 1 | 2 | 26,078,301 | train | <story><title>Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55998588</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nextgrid</author><text>I&#x27;m no Facebook fan but the reasons behind the lawsuit are bad and could set a bad precedent.<p>Cambridge Analytica used the Facebook API to ask users to share data about them &amp; their friends. Stupid users agreed to that.<p>The argument here isn&#x27;t that Facebook is playing fast and loose with tracking &amp; user data (which would be a legitimate argument), it&#x27;s that Facebook is allowing people to grant access to their data to third-parties and Facebook should somehow be faulted for that. Facebook is a neutral carrier here, and they acted on behalf of the user - he decided that Cambridge Analytica should have had access to his data. Facebook should not be forced to somehow be the arbiter of this.<p>This lawsuit will give even more reasons to platforms to restrict API access which would impact legitimate usage much more than nefarious abuse (stupid people will always find a way to screw up, API or not - if the API is gone they&#x27;d happily enter their Facebook credentials directly instead).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dfxm12</author><text><i>Cambridge Analytica used the Facebook API to ask users to share data about them &amp; their friends. Stupid users agreed to that.</i><p>According to Facebook, this is not what happened and CA&#x27;s collection of this data represented a breach in their platform policies [0]:<p><i>In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL&#x2F;Cambridge Analytica ... He also passed that data to Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies, Inc.</i><p><i>[Kogan] did not subsequently abide by our rules. By passing information on to a third party, including SCL&#x2F;Cambridge Analytica and Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies, he violated our platform policies.</i><p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.fb.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;suspending-cambridge-analytica&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.fb.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;suspending-cambridge-analy...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55998588</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nextgrid</author><text>I&#x27;m no Facebook fan but the reasons behind the lawsuit are bad and could set a bad precedent.<p>Cambridge Analytica used the Facebook API to ask users to share data about them &amp; their friends. Stupid users agreed to that.<p>The argument here isn&#x27;t that Facebook is playing fast and loose with tracking &amp; user data (which would be a legitimate argument), it&#x27;s that Facebook is allowing people to grant access to their data to third-parties and Facebook should somehow be faulted for that. Facebook is a neutral carrier here, and they acted on behalf of the user - he decided that Cambridge Analytica should have had access to his data. Facebook should not be forced to somehow be the arbiter of this.<p>This lawsuit will give even more reasons to platforms to restrict API access which would impact legitimate usage much more than nefarious abuse (stupid people will always find a way to screw up, API or not - if the API is gone they&#x27;d happily enter their Facebook credentials directly instead).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ginko</author><text>&gt;The argument here isn&#x27;t that Facebook is playing fast and loose with tracking &amp; user data (which would be a legitimate argument), it&#x27;s that Facebook is allowing people to grant access to their data to third-parties and Facebook should somehow be faulted for that.<p>Even so you wrote yourself that users shared data about their friends. Why does Facebook allow people to share the data of others who didn&#x27;t agree to this?</text></comment> |
38,981,775 | 38,981,635 | 1 | 3 | 38,978,503 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare Termination Video: A Master Class in How Not to Terminate Someone</title><url>https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/viral-cloudflare-termination-video-masterclass-how-not-terminate.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barbazoo</author><text>&gt; as that can tank a person&#x27;s entire career trajectory<p>Plus the act of career suicide by publishing company meeting recordings on social media.</text></item><item><author>JustLurking2022</author><text>Saw a variation of this during the recent bout of tech layoffs. Shortly before end of year eval time, a senior executive sent out emails questioning whether it was even possible for new hires to have made sufficient impact and suggesting they should consequently be given a poor rating as the default.<p>It&#x27;s amazing that leaders at these companies which, for years, acted as though they had all the answers and were more successful than other industries because they worked smarter. And then, at the first sign of headwinds, they want no accountability for their decisions and can&#x27;t figure out a principles as simple as being honest and treating people fairly.<p>I&#x27;m honestly curious how CloudFlare will handle reference checks for these people, given they are calling these performance based dismissals. Will they say they are &quot;not eligible for rehire&quot; (the HR way of saying they were terminated for cause)? If so, I hope they get sued, as that can tank a person&#x27;s entire career trajectory.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abadpoli</author><text>I think it’s interesting how subjective this can apparently be. What I saw in the video was someone standing up for themselves and fighting against perceived wrongdoing in an articulate way. That’s exactly the type of person I want on my team. I’d hire them in a heartbeat.<p>Recording and posting company videos is bad in the general sense, but not in this case. There’s nothing sensitive or confidential in the video that was posted. The fact that she posted this specific video doesn’t make me assume that she would go and post other videos that do have confidential information, and if a company is embarrassed by their actions in this situation, that says more about the company than it does this employee.<p>I doubt this is career suicide. It might even do the opposite by getting this person’s name and situation out there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare Termination Video: A Master Class in How Not to Terminate Someone</title><url>https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/viral-cloudflare-termination-video-masterclass-how-not-terminate.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barbazoo</author><text>&gt; as that can tank a person&#x27;s entire career trajectory<p>Plus the act of career suicide by publishing company meeting recordings on social media.</text></item><item><author>JustLurking2022</author><text>Saw a variation of this during the recent bout of tech layoffs. Shortly before end of year eval time, a senior executive sent out emails questioning whether it was even possible for new hires to have made sufficient impact and suggesting they should consequently be given a poor rating as the default.<p>It&#x27;s amazing that leaders at these companies which, for years, acted as though they had all the answers and were more successful than other industries because they worked smarter. And then, at the first sign of headwinds, they want no accountability for their decisions and can&#x27;t figure out a principles as simple as being honest and treating people fairly.<p>I&#x27;m honestly curious how CloudFlare will handle reference checks for these people, given they are calling these performance based dismissals. Will they say they are &quot;not eligible for rehire&quot; (the HR way of saying they were terminated for cause)? If so, I hope they get sued, as that can tank a person&#x27;s entire career trajectory.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stateofinquiry</author><text>I think two things can be true at the same time in this situation:<p>1) The employee made a poor choice posting meeting recording publicly.
2) The company did an appallingly poor job terminating her.<p>Certainly this video makes me believe that cloudflare is likely a poorly managed company that treats its employees badly. As for Ms. Pietsch, she may be a low performing employee who made a bad choice to post this video.</text></comment> |
13,104,673 | 13,103,415 | 1 | 2 | 13,102,897 | train | <story><title>The Last Diplomat</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-last-diplomat-1480695454</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tjic</author><text>I&#x27;ve got multiple thoughts about this story, but the biggest one is that Robin Raphel answered FBI questions for quite a while BEFORE thinking that she should get a lawyer.<p>For anyone who&#x27;s not as politically connected as she is (say, if you&#x27;re Martha Stewart, or - God help you - a mere mortal like any of us), this is a sure fire way to end up locked in a cage. ...and make no mistake: if you read the article carefully, it&#x27;s clear that the one thing that kept her out of jail is the fact that she was heavily connected to DC elites and worked a campaign of back-channel pressure.<p>Never, ever, EVER answer police or FBI questions.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Last Diplomat</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-last-diplomat-1480695454</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leodeid</author><text>That was a rather entertaining article, both for the story, but also for the subtext about the dangers of SIGINT-only intelligence gathering. The NSA hoovers up everything it can get automatically, but that data is used without context. In this story, the context of being a diplomat, the context of being in Pakistan, and the context of being conversational partners with a HUMINT source.<p>I&#x27;m sure the NSA is (at this point) aware of this problem, and trying to make the collected data more context-aware. I wonder to what extent the content of just phone calls, texts, emails, and facebook posts can be used to learn small-group dynamics. (Like the fact that the people of E-7 in the story consider talks of a Pakistani coup to be normal idle dinner talk.)</text></comment> |
19,961,494 | 19,960,575 | 1 | 3 | 19,959,814 | train | <story><title>Tesla: Insane or Clever</title><url>https://mondaynote.com/tesla-insane-or-clever-b7a8e1479f6b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdkhadsj</author><text>&gt; and every day I get into my car and watch the onboard computer struggle to handle bluetooth properly.<p>I hate &quot;me too&quot; posts, but this gives me so much rage that I can&#x27;t help it. My car has a touch screen interface and I am puzzled why car manufacturers even bother. Who thinks the interface they made is even remotely good. It actively degrades the otherwise fine experience of my car. It is ugly, poorly made, and fails at even basic functionality.<p>I am truly puzzled why these car manufacturers released such terrible user facing features. Maybe it&#x27;s better these days <i>(my car is ~5 years old)</i>, but it&#x27;s just impressively bad in my car at least.</text></item><item><author>pwinnski</author><text>Software is eating the world, automobiles included.<p>I&#x27;m a huge skeptic when it comes to Tesla, but JLG raises a good point here. Apple had <i>all sorts</i> of problems in 2007, so many that established phone manufacturers largely brushed them off. A focus on software rewrote the mobile phone industry, and every day I get into my car and watch the onboard computer struggle to handle bluetooth properly.<p>I need to look beyond the obvious inanity of Musk and remember this shift: software will eat this part of the world too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaroth</author><text>I totally agree with you, having also had to deal with rental cars with batshit crazy touchscreens that barely functioned, lagged like crazy, and were obviously not fit for the purpose for which they were built.<p>My last car was a 2006 G35 with no screens as all, and a nice analog clock. I loved that about it <i>so much</i>.<p>I never understood why manufacturers tried to reinvent the wheel and not just use the phone for all things entertainment and navigation. I would never want GPS in my car, because they all were so horrifically bad.<p>Until I got the Model 3.<p>It take less than 1 second, literally two taps in almost exactly the same location on the screen, to activate GPS to my ‘Work’ or ‘Home’ presents. And if I do need to dial in an address it has a full keyboard, full POIs, and autocomplete which is as fast as Google Maps on my iPhone X. Traffic aware navigation which appears to use the same feed as Google Maps (estimates and routes seem to always match). The GPS on Model 3 is a <i>joy</i> to use, actually, truly.<p>The best part is that it implements very good interpolation when GPS drops out using compass and velocity, so going through tunnels tracks almost perfectly compared to Google Maps on iPhone which gets hopelessly stuck.<p>The interface is very reminiscent of an iPad, just as quick and responsive, and has a bunch of cool touches.<p>For example you can drag the media player to be hidden, to be just showing key info, or to nearly full screen, based on the level of interaction you need in it. The drag is a quick flick of the finger and doesn’t require precise targeting at all. It’s amazingly natural to navigate. While driving all the media control you need (volume and skip) is on the steering wheel. You get free Slacker and free LTE and I’ve really enjoyed the streaming music and have actually been introduced to some new artists I didn’t know before.<p>I never wanted a touchscreen in my car. Full stop. Until now. The fact that it’s all touch with consistent OTA upgrades give me confidence that it has staying power to remain functional, relevant, and looking elegant.<p>Particularly with the way Tesla designs their cars, I would be surprised if Model 3 wasn’t essentially the same interior design 10 years from now. I know they designed 3 in particular to have as little as possible that might look “dated” in the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla: Insane or Clever</title><url>https://mondaynote.com/tesla-insane-or-clever-b7a8e1479f6b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdkhadsj</author><text>&gt; and every day I get into my car and watch the onboard computer struggle to handle bluetooth properly.<p>I hate &quot;me too&quot; posts, but this gives me so much rage that I can&#x27;t help it. My car has a touch screen interface and I am puzzled why car manufacturers even bother. Who thinks the interface they made is even remotely good. It actively degrades the otherwise fine experience of my car. It is ugly, poorly made, and fails at even basic functionality.<p>I am truly puzzled why these car manufacturers released such terrible user facing features. Maybe it&#x27;s better these days <i>(my car is ~5 years old)</i>, but it&#x27;s just impressively bad in my car at least.</text></item><item><author>pwinnski</author><text>Software is eating the world, automobiles included.<p>I&#x27;m a huge skeptic when it comes to Tesla, but JLG raises a good point here. Apple had <i>all sorts</i> of problems in 2007, so many that established phone manufacturers largely brushed them off. A focus on software rewrote the mobile phone industry, and every day I get into my car and watch the onboard computer struggle to handle bluetooth properly.<p>I need to look beyond the obvious inanity of Musk and remember this shift: software will eat this part of the world too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tashoecraft</author><text>It&#x27;s not any better. This past year I&#x27;ve driven something like 2 dozen rentals from a variety of manufactures, they all suck. The only saving grace is sometimes I can use CarPlay and I&#x27;m much happier for it.<p>The fact that I have to struggle to adjust the climate control while driving to click through their terrible interface is just insane.</text></comment> |
2,843,832 | 2,843,749 | 1 | 2 | 2,843,615 | train | <story><title>Google: Patently Absurd</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/google_patently_absurd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joebadmo</author><text>It's weird to me that Gruber claims, like he did in a recent episode of his podcast with Dan Benjamin, that he's not anti-Google. I mean, why deny something that's so self-evident?<p>His arguments here are just so disingenuous.<p>"So if Google had acquired the rights to these patents, that would have been OK."<p>Yes, because Google isn't forming a cartel to stifle competition.<p>"It’s OK for Google to undermine Microsoft’s for-pay OS licensing business by giving Android away for free, but it’s not OK for Microsoft to undermine Google’s attempts to give away for free an OS that violates patents belonging to Microsoft?"<p>Yes, because Google isn't using an artificial barrier (the patent system). And because those patents are bogus. Because most, if not all, software patents are bogus. That's pretty clearly Google's stated position.<p>"First, the “estimate” of $1 billion was partially set by Google itself."<p>But there's no denying that this is by several times the largest amount ever paid for a patent portfolio.<p>"They’re effectively arguing against the idea of the patent system itself, simply because Android violates a bunch of patents held by Google’s competitors."<p>Yes they are arguing against the patent system, at least for software, as do many in the industry. There's nothing hypocritical about that.<p>"Google supporters claim that Google only wants to use patents defensively. But what exactly does Google need to defend against, if not actual patents Android actually violates?"<p>This argument betrays either a very weak understanding of how defensive patents work or a deep dishonesty of argumentation. Maybe both. This argument can be applied to the very idea of defensive patents.<p>It's conflicting that someone who's so obviously intelligent and often terribly insightful (not to mention witty) can be so willfully dishonest.<p>I'm going to back to only reading Gruber's writing on Apple, and ignoring his writing on anything else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danilocampos</author><text>"Yes, because Google isn't forming a cartel to stifle competition."<p>Hmm. I'm not so sure. There's a way to see Google's behavior where what they're doing is <i>precisely</i> that.<p>Predatory pricing exists when you try to take over a market by selling something so cheap, other competitors are driven out – or prevented from entering, since they couldn't recoup the costs involved in developing a product.<p>In league with their manufacturing partners, Google has their own cartel, attempting to homogenize the smartphone landscape under a single, free OS.<p>The incentives are obvious: it's much easier for Google to make its ad money if it controls the next big platform.<p>They may have dressed it up as pious and open – but for their purposes, it's a land grab. Is it anticompetitive? I'm not sure. My antitrust scholarship began and ended with <i>The Microsoft File</i> back in the 90's. But I'm also not sure it's any better than whatever satanic pact they are intimating has been formed by Apple and Microsoft.<p>Google's argument here is summed up as "You could trust <i>us</i> with those patents. But we didn't get them. You can't trust the guys who did get them." I'm pretty sure at this scale, with this much cash on the line, business just doesn't work that way. Google will run over anyone to keep their ad money flowing, just as Microsoft will run over anyone to keep their license money flowing. Why should we side with one cause over the other?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google: Patently Absurd</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/google_patently_absurd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joebadmo</author><text>It's weird to me that Gruber claims, like he did in a recent episode of his podcast with Dan Benjamin, that he's not anti-Google. I mean, why deny something that's so self-evident?<p>His arguments here are just so disingenuous.<p>"So if Google had acquired the rights to these patents, that would have been OK."<p>Yes, because Google isn't forming a cartel to stifle competition.<p>"It’s OK for Google to undermine Microsoft’s for-pay OS licensing business by giving Android away for free, but it’s not OK for Microsoft to undermine Google’s attempts to give away for free an OS that violates patents belonging to Microsoft?"<p>Yes, because Google isn't using an artificial barrier (the patent system). And because those patents are bogus. Because most, if not all, software patents are bogus. That's pretty clearly Google's stated position.<p>"First, the “estimate” of $1 billion was partially set by Google itself."<p>But there's no denying that this is by several times the largest amount ever paid for a patent portfolio.<p>"They’re effectively arguing against the idea of the patent system itself, simply because Android violates a bunch of patents held by Google’s competitors."<p>Yes they are arguing against the patent system, at least for software, as do many in the industry. There's nothing hypocritical about that.<p>"Google supporters claim that Google only wants to use patents defensively. But what exactly does Google need to defend against, if not actual patents Android actually violates?"<p>This argument betrays either a very weak understanding of how defensive patents work or a deep dishonesty of argumentation. Maybe both. This argument can be applied to the very idea of defensive patents.<p>It's conflicting that someone who's so obviously intelligent and often terribly insightful (not to mention witty) can be so willfully dishonest.<p>I'm going to back to only reading Gruber's writing on Apple, and ignoring his writing on anything else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lewisham</author><text>I used to really like Gruber, but he's become a very twisted orator, who seems to bend everything to Apple's favor. Maybe he was always that way, and when Apple was the underdog, it felt more like cheerleading than dishonesty.<p>I felt a decent amount of relief when I dropped him from my RSS reader.</text></comment> |
28,134,237 | 28,134,356 | 1 | 3 | 28,133,772 | train | <story><title>A Message to Our Customers (2016)</title><url>https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>firebaze</author><text>I&#x27;ll never buy anything from Apple again. Apple was to me the walled but good-willed garden, caring about their profits by respecting their customers and taking a stance against widespread anti-democratic tendencies. I own an iWatch, two iPhones and two MacBook Pros (one privately owned, one from my current employer).<p>The selling points of apple to me were to provide excellent hardware combined with excellent software, combined with a guarantee to protect my privacy.<p>The first point still holds true, the 2nd not so much anymore, and the 3rd was destroyed by the most recent move.<p>My stance will cause a ripple effect, I convinced quite a few people to use apple if they can afford it due to their general stance and their commitment to democratic values. Not all of them will listen if I now tell the opposite story, but most will. I hope Apple feels the effects of this decision in one of the upcoming stock-holder meetings.<p>Of course, I don&#x27;t believe this helps against child abuse or any crime at all, in fact I believe the opposite effect happens: criminals probably know about moves like this one far earlier than the general public and react accordingly.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Message to Our Customers (2016)</title><url>https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>idunnoman</author><text>It is remarkable that Tim so clearly understood the problem in 2016.<p>With that one post, Apple and Tim earned trust from a group of people that trust very few. And in an instance, both Apple and Tim have now burned all of it.</text></comment> |
28,203,943 | 28,204,067 | 1 | 2 | 28,197,355 | train | <story><title>U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-opens-formal-safety-probe-into-tesla-autopilot-crashes-2021-08-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>postmeta</author><text>As this reddit post pointed out, this appears to be a common problem with radar TACC.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;teslamotors&#x2F;comments&#x2F;p5ekci&#x2F;us_agency_opens_formal_probe_into_tesla_autopilot&#x2F;h95fpr9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;teslamotors&#x2F;comments&#x2F;p5ekci&#x2F;us_agen...</a><p>&quot;&quot;&quot;
These events occur typically when a vehicle is partially in a lane and radar has to ignore a stationary object. This is pretty standard and inherent with TACC + radar.<p>The faster Tesla pushes the vision only stack to all cars after they’ve validated the data, the faster this topic becomes moot. Andrej Karpathy talks and shows examples of what that would do here. Minutes 23:00-28:00
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;a510m7s_SVI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;a510m7s_SVI</a><p>Older examples from manuals of other TACC systems which use radar:<p>Volvo’s Pilot Assist regarding AEB&#x2F;TACC.<p>According to Wired, Volvo’s Pilot Assist system is much the same. The vehicles’ manual explains that not only will the car fail to brake for a sudden stationary object, it may actually race toward it to regain its set speed:<p>“Pilot Assist will ignore the stationary vehicle and instead accelerate to the stored speed. The driver must then intervene and apply the brakes.”<p>Cadillac Super Cruise - Page 252<p>Stationary or Very Slow-Moving Objects<p>ACC may not detect and react to stopped or slow-moving vehicles ahead of you. For example, the system may not brake for a vehicle it has never detected moving. This can occur in stop-and-go traffic or when a vehicle suddenly appears due to a vehicle ahead changing lanes. Your vehicle may not stop and could cause a crash. Use caution when using ACC. Your complete attention is always required while driving and you should be ready to take action and apply the brakes.<p>BMW Driving Assistant Plus - Page 124<p>A warning may not be issued when approaching a stationary or very slow-moving obstacle. You must react yourself; otherwise, there is the danger of an accident occurring.<p>If a vehicle ahead of you unexpectedly moves into another lane from behind a stopped vehicle, you yourself must react, as the system does not react to stopped vehicles.
&quot;&quot;&quot;</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Right. As I&#x27;ve pointed out previously, Tesla seems to be unable to detect sizable stationary obstacles that are partly blocking a lane, especially if they don&#x27;t look like the rear end of a car. In addition to emergency vehicles, Teslas on autopilot have plowed into freeway barriers and a street sweeper. That&#x27;s the usual situation for first responders, who usually try to block as little of the road as possible but often don&#x27;t have enough shoulder space.<p>It&#x27;s clear what Tesla really has - a good lane follower and cruise control that slows down for cars ahead. That&#x27;s a level 2 system. That&#x27;s useful, but, despite all the hype about &quot;full self driving&quot;, it seems that&#x27;s all they&#x27;ve got.<p>&quot;Full self driving&quot; just adds some lane-changing assistance and hints from the nav system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pkulak</author><text>I’ll believe it when I see it. From what I can tell, Tesla has made no progress at all in three years. I just drove my buddy’s 3, and it was still diving to the right when a lane merges and the line disappears. This drove me nuts when I test drove years ago. Other cars do lane keeping so much better than Tesla at this point.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-opens-formal-safety-probe-into-tesla-autopilot-crashes-2021-08-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>postmeta</author><text>As this reddit post pointed out, this appears to be a common problem with radar TACC.
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These events occur typically when a vehicle is partially in a lane and radar has to ignore a stationary object. This is pretty standard and inherent with TACC + radar.<p>The faster Tesla pushes the vision only stack to all cars after they’ve validated the data, the faster this topic becomes moot. Andrej Karpathy talks and shows examples of what that would do here. Minutes 23:00-28:00
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;a510m7s_SVI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;a510m7s_SVI</a><p>Older examples from manuals of other TACC systems which use radar:<p>Volvo’s Pilot Assist regarding AEB&#x2F;TACC.<p>According to Wired, Volvo’s Pilot Assist system is much the same. The vehicles’ manual explains that not only will the car fail to brake for a sudden stationary object, it may actually race toward it to regain its set speed:<p>“Pilot Assist will ignore the stationary vehicle and instead accelerate to the stored speed. The driver must then intervene and apply the brakes.”<p>Cadillac Super Cruise - Page 252<p>Stationary or Very Slow-Moving Objects<p>ACC may not detect and react to stopped or slow-moving vehicles ahead of you. For example, the system may not brake for a vehicle it has never detected moving. This can occur in stop-and-go traffic or when a vehicle suddenly appears due to a vehicle ahead changing lanes. Your vehicle may not stop and could cause a crash. Use caution when using ACC. Your complete attention is always required while driving and you should be ready to take action and apply the brakes.<p>BMW Driving Assistant Plus - Page 124<p>A warning may not be issued when approaching a stationary or very slow-moving obstacle. You must react yourself; otherwise, there is the danger of an accident occurring.<p>If a vehicle ahead of you unexpectedly moves into another lane from behind a stopped vehicle, you yourself must react, as the system does not react to stopped vehicles.
&quot;&quot;&quot;</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Right. As I&#x27;ve pointed out previously, Tesla seems to be unable to detect sizable stationary obstacles that are partly blocking a lane, especially if they don&#x27;t look like the rear end of a car. In addition to emergency vehicles, Teslas on autopilot have plowed into freeway barriers and a street sweeper. That&#x27;s the usual situation for first responders, who usually try to block as little of the road as possible but often don&#x27;t have enough shoulder space.<p>It&#x27;s clear what Tesla really has - a good lane follower and cruise control that slows down for cars ahead. That&#x27;s a level 2 system. That&#x27;s useful, but, despite all the hype about &quot;full self driving&quot;, it seems that&#x27;s all they&#x27;ve got.<p>&quot;Full self driving&quot; just adds some lane-changing assistance and hints from the nav system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>These have different causes.<p>The problem with radar on the ground is that most of what comes to a radar detector is reflections from a stationary world, with relative delays so small as to be undetectable. So the first step in processing is to filter out everything at the speed of that motionary world. All fixed objects therefore disappear, and you are left sorting out moving objects. Which means you now can&#x27;t detect stationary objects at all.<p>Tesla has a different problem. They probably don&#x27;t have depth perception. They therefore have to classify objects, and make educated guesses about where they are relative to the car. Unexpected kinds of objects, or objects in unexpected configurations, fail to be classified and therefore fail to be analyzed.<p>In principle, Tesla can succeed. After all we don&#x27;t have binocular vision past 6 meters either. Tesla is improving.<p>But they haven&#x27;t yet.</text></comment> |
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