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1,309,966 | 1,309,990 | 1 | 2 | 1,309,576 | train | <story><title>John Resig inducted into the RIT Innovation Hall of Fame</title><url>http://www.rit.edu/alumni/ihf/inductee.php?inductee=10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gkoberger</author><text>The coolest thing about John is how much stuff he does- he has his full time job at Mozilla, works on jQuery (he plays a huge part in the code, community and conferences) and has posted over 100 projects (<a href="http://ejohn.org/projects/" rel="nofollow">http://ejohn.org/projects/</a>). And, he mentioned yesterday he now spends a lot of his time doing art.<p>I was lucky enough to have dinner with him last night. He said he cares more about making stuff people can use than he does about money- and it definitely shows in all the work he puts into projects.<p>If anyone deserves this award, it's John. He's really made RIT proud.</text></comment> | <story><title>John Resig inducted into the RIT Innovation Hall of Fame</title><url>http://www.rit.edu/alumni/ihf/inductee.php?inductee=10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>j79</author><text>Congrats John. You've made the web a better place!</text></comment> |
31,228,248 | 31,227,405 | 1 | 3 | 31,226,100 | train | <story><title>90% of software engineering done today is integrating poorly documented APIs</title><url>https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1520792630853918722</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jseban</author><text>90% of my software engineering is fighting with incomprehensible framework magic to automates simple tasks that don&#x27;t need to be automated, to &quot;save me&quot; from just writing some simple code. It&#x27;s literally rube goldberg all the way, the most over complex contraptions to achieve the simplest of tasks.<p>&quot;You don&#x27;t want to write &quot;raw&quot; html&#x2F;js&#x2F;sql&#x2F;Java&quot; Uhm I thought that was my job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twblalock</author><text>&gt; &quot;You don&#x27;t want to write &quot;raw&quot; html&#x2F;js&#x2F;sql&#x2F;Java&quot; Uhm I thought that was my job.<p>It&#x27;s not your job, any more than a firefighter&#x27;s job is to be a hose operator, or a nurse&#x27;s job is to be a syringe operator.<p>Your job is to produce software that meets the requirements of the business, as a member of a larger engineering organization which needs to be able to function well enough to deliver that software.<p>Why are frameworks popular? Because they provide a standardized way for multiple engineers, and multiple engineering teams, to collaborate effectively on the same product -- and they make it easy to hire people who already know the frameworks.<p>If everyone is writing &quot;raw&quot; JS&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;SQL&#x2F;Java&#x2F;whatever, they are actually building their own individual, unstandardized frameworks.<p>That&#x27;s not good for supporting software when the author leaves, and it raises the barrier enormously for onboarding new people. Above a certain scale it&#x27;s just not workable.<p>You can be cynical about this and say that it reduces engineers to interchangeable cogs in a machine. Or, you can understand why things are the way they are, understand how to succeed in this reality, and build a fulfilling career path for yourself by providing value that a mere cog cannot. I&#x27;ve worked with a lot of successful, happy engineers who are not cogs, and what separates them from the others is not coding skill -- it&#x27;s that they all understand this reality.</text></comment> | <story><title>90% of software engineering done today is integrating poorly documented APIs</title><url>https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1520792630853918722</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jseban</author><text>90% of my software engineering is fighting with incomprehensible framework magic to automates simple tasks that don&#x27;t need to be automated, to &quot;save me&quot; from just writing some simple code. It&#x27;s literally rube goldberg all the way, the most over complex contraptions to achieve the simplest of tasks.<p>&quot;You don&#x27;t want to write &quot;raw&quot; html&#x2F;js&#x2F;sql&#x2F;Java&quot; Uhm I thought that was my job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ecshafer</author><text>This is what I have always really disliked about many web development frameworks. Their goal is to either a) do things magically in a specific way or b) do so with a bunch of configuration files. Spring comes to mind as a particularly egregious case that does both. Spring does things automatically, until you need to add a configuration file for every change. You need to add this wrapper and this library for this other case. I have always wanted a web development framework that works more like a game development framework. Where you still code everything you need but it doesn&#x27;t hide the part where you make a window or add a listener. Which makes it a lot easier to find where things are going wrong and how to change the configuration as opposed to go to stack overflow and learn you need to add this dependency which then does things behind the scenes.</text></comment> |
9,228,145 | 9,227,885 | 1 | 3 | 9,226,456 | train | <story><title>Evidence for nuclear explosions on Mars [pdf]</title><url>http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/pdf/2660.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>I heard an interview with Brandenburg a while back. He sounded sane, smart, and his understanding of physics seemed sound.<p>I can&#x27;t stand this secular inquisition bullshit of cherry picking any sign of possible &#x27;out there&#x27;-ness and using it to completely trash peoples&#x27; entire bodies of thought and work. It&#x27;s anti-scientific. Please point out a problem with Brandenburg&#x27;s actual published work, or go away. Even if he does hold non-traditional or strange religious beliefs, it&#x27;s not relevant. Roman Catholicism is no more rational than Eastern mystic cults, so do we throw out all scientific papers by Roman Catholics?<p>I&#x27;m not much of a fan of PZ Myers either. I read him a bit back during the mid-2000s &#x27;intelligent design&#x27; creationist PR offensive, but stopped reading him as he got more and more shrill and irritating. IMHO Myers is as much a shrill fundamentalist as the religious bozos he constantly wars with.<p>One interesting thing Brandenburg did say was that when he came to believe himself that Mars had been nuked, possibly in act of &quot;biosphere genocide,&quot; the realization that this might have actually happened plunged him into a bit of a metaphysical crisis. He immediately thought of the Fermi Paradox, and that maybe the reason we&#x27;re not hearing&#x2F;seeing anything is because there are big nasty genocidal intelligences out there that &#x27;cull&#x27; anything interesting from the universe. He said he actually got very depressed, and got deeper into religious&#x2F;mystical stuff as part of this.<p>That doesn&#x27;t sound crazy to me, just human. Around here we&#x27;ve seen some IMHO irrational fears of super-human dangerous AIs circulating recently, and it seems to have led to a similar amount of metaphysical anxiety among some very brilliant and notable people in the CS field.<p>I&#x27;m very skeptical of Brandenburg&#x27;s thesis here, but I have to admit that the evidence he puts forward is very interesting. It either points to what he says -- some kind of incredibly ancient use of a nuclear device -- or an as yet undiscovered natural phenomenon that can yield a similar signature.<p>One possibility (other than &#x27;reaper&#x27; aliens) I can think of would be a natural nuclear reactor that actually went fully supercritical and detonated. Another would be a hypervelocity object, possibly traveling at some significant fraction of the speed of light, that impacted Mars and went thermonuclear in the atmosphere on kinetic energy alone. Maybe an asteroid or comet that got flung by a high-gravity body (black hole? neutron star?) or supernova debris could do that?</text></item><item><author>huxley</author><text>Brandenburg&#x27;s been focused on this for a while, here is his 2011 theory that it was a natural fission reactor:<p>EVIDENCE FOR A LARGE, NATURAL, PALEO-NUCLEAR REACTOR ON MARS. J. E. Brandenburg<p><a href="http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2011/pdf/1097.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lpi.usra.edu&#x2F;meetings&#x2F;lpsc2011&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1097.pdf</a><p>However, over time he has been getting deeper and deeper into pseudoscience. It was covered in Pharyngula a while back:<p><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/11/22/the-two-faces-of-je-brandenburg/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scienceblogs.com&#x2F;pharyngula&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;22&#x2F;the-two-faces-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huxley</author><text>&gt; &quot;One interesting thing Brandenburg did say was that when he came to believe himself that Mars had been nuked, possibly in act of &quot;biosphere genocide,&quot; the realization that this might have actually happened plunged him into a bit of a metaphysical crisis. He immediately thought of the Fermi Paradox, and that maybe the reason we&#x27;re not hearing&#x2F;seeing anything is because there are big nasty genocidal intelligences out there that &#x27;cull&#x27; anything interesting from the universe. He said he actually got very depressed, and got deeper into religious&#x2F;mystical stuff as part of this.<p>&gt; That doesn&#x27;t sound crazy to me, just human.&quot;<p>I linked to a reasonable article by him to establish that he wasn&#x27;t just a nut, but we&#x27;ll have to agree to disagree on his metaphysical crisis, because the speculation that anomalous levels of radiation in parts of Mars is due to &quot;big nasty genocidal intelligences,&quot; that sounds Dianetics-level bonkers to me.<p>I think he&#x27;s drawn attention to some very interesting data, but that&#x27;s where I get off the bus.<p>Update: I actually watched the video he did with Supreme Master TV, give it a look and judge it for yourself: <a href="http://youtu.be/NBuN3uHnjYY" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;NBuN3uHnjYY</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Evidence for nuclear explosions on Mars [pdf]</title><url>http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/pdf/2660.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>api</author><text>I heard an interview with Brandenburg a while back. He sounded sane, smart, and his understanding of physics seemed sound.<p>I can&#x27;t stand this secular inquisition bullshit of cherry picking any sign of possible &#x27;out there&#x27;-ness and using it to completely trash peoples&#x27; entire bodies of thought and work. It&#x27;s anti-scientific. Please point out a problem with Brandenburg&#x27;s actual published work, or go away. Even if he does hold non-traditional or strange religious beliefs, it&#x27;s not relevant. Roman Catholicism is no more rational than Eastern mystic cults, so do we throw out all scientific papers by Roman Catholics?<p>I&#x27;m not much of a fan of PZ Myers either. I read him a bit back during the mid-2000s &#x27;intelligent design&#x27; creationist PR offensive, but stopped reading him as he got more and more shrill and irritating. IMHO Myers is as much a shrill fundamentalist as the religious bozos he constantly wars with.<p>One interesting thing Brandenburg did say was that when he came to believe himself that Mars had been nuked, possibly in act of &quot;biosphere genocide,&quot; the realization that this might have actually happened plunged him into a bit of a metaphysical crisis. He immediately thought of the Fermi Paradox, and that maybe the reason we&#x27;re not hearing&#x2F;seeing anything is because there are big nasty genocidal intelligences out there that &#x27;cull&#x27; anything interesting from the universe. He said he actually got very depressed, and got deeper into religious&#x2F;mystical stuff as part of this.<p>That doesn&#x27;t sound crazy to me, just human. Around here we&#x27;ve seen some IMHO irrational fears of super-human dangerous AIs circulating recently, and it seems to have led to a similar amount of metaphysical anxiety among some very brilliant and notable people in the CS field.<p>I&#x27;m very skeptical of Brandenburg&#x27;s thesis here, but I have to admit that the evidence he puts forward is very interesting. It either points to what he says -- some kind of incredibly ancient use of a nuclear device -- or an as yet undiscovered natural phenomenon that can yield a similar signature.<p>One possibility (other than &#x27;reaper&#x27; aliens) I can think of would be a natural nuclear reactor that actually went fully supercritical and detonated. Another would be a hypervelocity object, possibly traveling at some significant fraction of the speed of light, that impacted Mars and went thermonuclear in the atmosphere on kinetic energy alone. Maybe an asteroid or comet that got flung by a high-gravity body (black hole? neutron star?) or supernova debris could do that?</text></item><item><author>huxley</author><text>Brandenburg&#x27;s been focused on this for a while, here is his 2011 theory that it was a natural fission reactor:<p>EVIDENCE FOR A LARGE, NATURAL, PALEO-NUCLEAR REACTOR ON MARS. J. E. Brandenburg<p><a href="http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2011/pdf/1097.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lpi.usra.edu&#x2F;meetings&#x2F;lpsc2011&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1097.pdf</a><p>However, over time he has been getting deeper and deeper into pseudoscience. It was covered in Pharyngula a while back:<p><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/11/22/the-two-faces-of-je-brandenburg/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scienceblogs.com&#x2F;pharyngula&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;22&#x2F;the-two-faces-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>This is very much the same place I came too with regard to Brandenburg. Regardless of the speculation, the sites look to be interesting places to explore on future missions.<p>In hypothesizing possible causes, I wonder about the relative size of the ejecta of a type 2 super nova. Given that the Uranium, on the planet originated in such events at some point, and the 4.7 billion year half life, one could imagine perhaps a modestly dense fragment cloud of U235 which was traveling at relativistic velocity away from a Type II supernova, and it collides with the atmosphere of a planet in a far away star system. If the pieces were small enough they might simply heat up and impact the ground, however if they were massive enough, the shockwave of hitting the atmosphere might be sufficent to compress them into a supercritical mass. At which point the meteor would undergo rapid, and energetic, disassembly.</text></comment> |
29,823,135 | 29,819,817 | 1 | 2 | 29,818,589 | train | <story><title>The cruel, ridiculous reality of 'virtual learning'</title><url>https://www.macleans.ca/society/the-cruel-ridiculous-reality-of-virtual-learning/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcrosby95</author><text>Yeah well my 7 year old hates wearing pants but I still manage to get her clothed for the classroom.<p>The only kids I know that have a problem with masks are kids with parents that have a problem with masks. It&#x27;s not a kid problem its an adult problem. Kids are adaptable but adults are whiny little assholes that are set in their ways.</text></item><item><author>nradov</author><text>Mask mandates are collective punishment of children for no real benefit. I absolutely condemn them and they are not a system that works. Most European countries don&#x27;t require young children to wear masks in schools.<p>And don&#x27;t presume to claim that masking children is necessary to protect adults. The adults who want to be vaccinated have been for months.</text></item><item><author>codefreakxff</author><text>What you are describing is anecdotal and the same problem we have with Facebook - social group isolation. You have a large number of Catholic schools in your area because you have a large number of Catholics in your area. They are operating under different principles, and so attract people who want those rules. If I went to a Sushi restaurant and proclaimed that nobody wanted Pizza anymore, or to live under the tyranny of tomato sauce and cheese, because nobody in the Sushi restaurant wanted pizza it wouldn&#x27;t make sense to anyone else.<p>I know teachers who are very supportive of mask mandates and that the schools and teachers are generally doing ok, and people who I work with who send their kids to schools with masks are very happy for the kids to have socializing opportunities.<p>Your friends and community are free to find a solution that works for them. But it is not the only way, and it does not make sense to condemn a system that works for the vast majority of people.</text></item><item><author>mbg721</author><text>I live in an area that has a large number of Catholic elementary and high-schools; they generally have fewer restrictions than the local public schools, and enrollment demand from non-Catholics is through the roof. Nobody wants remote learning, few people even want masks or any restrictions at all; parents hate it, students hate it, teachers hate it--as far as I can tell, nobody wants the outcome we&#x27;ve got, and yet somehow there&#x27;s this resignation to &quot;Well, this is how it has to be.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Just because kids aren’t actively complaining doesn’t mean it’s not bothering them. My kid is a conformist Asian like me, and we’ve been going along with masking this whole time because her private school is full of democrats. But she broke down crying last fall when she found out that we’d be doing another year of masking. It’s not just the inconvenience of the masks, or the eating outside on the ground, but the whole exercise of disrupting normal life for these kids: no field trips, no birthday parties, etc. We’re into the third year of this reduced childhood.</text></comment> | <story><title>The cruel, ridiculous reality of 'virtual learning'</title><url>https://www.macleans.ca/society/the-cruel-ridiculous-reality-of-virtual-learning/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcrosby95</author><text>Yeah well my 7 year old hates wearing pants but I still manage to get her clothed for the classroom.<p>The only kids I know that have a problem with masks are kids with parents that have a problem with masks. It&#x27;s not a kid problem its an adult problem. Kids are adaptable but adults are whiny little assholes that are set in their ways.</text></item><item><author>nradov</author><text>Mask mandates are collective punishment of children for no real benefit. I absolutely condemn them and they are not a system that works. Most European countries don&#x27;t require young children to wear masks in schools.<p>And don&#x27;t presume to claim that masking children is necessary to protect adults. The adults who want to be vaccinated have been for months.</text></item><item><author>codefreakxff</author><text>What you are describing is anecdotal and the same problem we have with Facebook - social group isolation. You have a large number of Catholic schools in your area because you have a large number of Catholics in your area. They are operating under different principles, and so attract people who want those rules. If I went to a Sushi restaurant and proclaimed that nobody wanted Pizza anymore, or to live under the tyranny of tomato sauce and cheese, because nobody in the Sushi restaurant wanted pizza it wouldn&#x27;t make sense to anyone else.<p>I know teachers who are very supportive of mask mandates and that the schools and teachers are generally doing ok, and people who I work with who send their kids to schools with masks are very happy for the kids to have socializing opportunities.<p>Your friends and community are free to find a solution that works for them. But it is not the only way, and it does not make sense to condemn a system that works for the vast majority of people.</text></item><item><author>mbg721</author><text>I live in an area that has a large number of Catholic elementary and high-schools; they generally have fewer restrictions than the local public schools, and enrollment demand from non-Catholics is through the roof. Nobody wants remote learning, few people even want masks or any restrictions at all; parents hate it, students hate it, teachers hate it--as far as I can tell, nobody wants the outcome we&#x27;ve got, and yet somehow there&#x27;s this resignation to &quot;Well, this is how it has to be.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbg721</author><text>If pants had been invented in 2018 in order to cure horniness, I&#x27;d treat them with the same gravitas that I give to graham crackers. One person&#x27;s &quot;set in one&#x27;s ways&quot; is another person&#x27;s &quot;doesn&#x27;t change with the wind&quot;.</text></comment> |
31,911,724 | 31,910,638 | 1 | 2 | 31,909,183 | train | <story><title>Some Assembly Required: An approachable introduction to assembly</title><url>https://github.com/hackclub/some-assembly-required</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jessicard</author><text>It was so fun working with Hack Clubbers on this project!<p>Hack Club is a group of teenagers from all over the world, and we decided to learn assembly together from scratch and see what happened.<p>We ended up making this guide as we learned, since a lot of the resources we were working with weren&#x27;t the easiest to parse.<p>Happy to answer any questions :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamal-kumar</author><text>I gotta say, it&#x27;s pretty cool how nice young people have it these days with what&#x27;s available in terms of stuff like Hack Club. The whole scene has become WAY more inclusive as a result of things like that, and the acerbic hacker archetype who snaps at you for not knowing things the way they do is so dead as a result - that to me is great, I don&#x27;t miss those guys and their gatekeeping.<p>If you want to check out some fun assembly code in a larger program, I suggest checking out the leaked furby source code. [1] The assembly for the lunar landing modules from the 1960s is also pretty wild [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seanriddle.com&#x2F;furbysource.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seanriddle.com&#x2F;furbysource.pdf</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chrislgarry&#x2F;Apollo-11" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chrislgarry&#x2F;Apollo-11</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Some Assembly Required: An approachable introduction to assembly</title><url>https://github.com/hackclub/some-assembly-required</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jessicard</author><text>It was so fun working with Hack Clubbers on this project!<p>Hack Club is a group of teenagers from all over the world, and we decided to learn assembly together from scratch and see what happened.<p>We ended up making this guide as we learned, since a lot of the resources we were working with weren&#x27;t the easiest to parse.<p>Happy to answer any questions :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mixedmath</author><text>This is really wonderful. And I like how simple and clean the pages look, even through markdown+github. Cheers.</text></comment> |
3,680,156 | 3,680,230 | 1 | 2 | 3,680,018 | train | <story><title>What being on the front page of Hacker News does for our bottom line</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3131-what-being-on-the-front-page-of-hacker-news-does-for-our-bottom-line</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bullseye</author><text><i>Upvote us, downvote us, ignore us – I don’t care</i><p>I think this is a good attitude to have, but I have to point out that obviously it matters a little. Otherwise, this post wouldn't exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robgough</author><text>Personally I like their posts, and it certainly doesn't bother me when they reach the front page of HN. The only thing I'm tired of is all the predictable hate that goes their way. In fact, I find it a little petty and embarrassing for HN.</text></comment> | <story><title>What being on the front page of Hacker News does for our bottom line</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3131-what-being-on-the-front-page-of-hacker-news-does-for-our-bottom-line</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bullseye</author><text><i>Upvote us, downvote us, ignore us – I don’t care</i><p>I think this is a good attitude to have, but I have to point out that obviously it matters a little. Otherwise, this post wouldn't exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>veyron</author><text>I think the accusations that they are trying to game HN is what they care about, and that doesn't fit within those 3 options.</text></comment> |
28,711,002 | 28,709,047 | 1 | 3 | 28,692,612 | train | <story><title>When listeners pay attention to stories, their heart rates rise and fall in sync</title><url>http://blog.pnas.org/2021/09/journal-club-when-listeners-pay-close-attention-to-stories-their-heart-rates-synchronize/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ramblenode</author><text>&gt; This correlation of heart rates, described this month in Cell Reports, could one day lead to new tools for measuring attentiveness, both in the classroom and the clinic.<p>Shame such interesting science inspires such dystopian machinations.<p>&quot;People synchronize their bodies when absorbed in attention.&quot; --&gt; &quot;How can schools use this to make sure students are paying attention?&quot;<p>Please don&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>I&#x27;m reminded of Snow Crash:<p><i>Y.T.&#x27;s mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes. Later, when Marietta does her end-of-day statistical roundup, sitting in her private office at 9:00 P.M., she will see the name of each employee and next to it, the amount of time spent reading this memo...</i><p><i>Y.T.&#x27;s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading the memo. It&#x27;s better for younger workers to spend too long, to show that they&#x27;re careful, not cocky. It&#x27;s better for older workers to go a little fast, to show good management potential. She&#x27;s pushing forty. She scans through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading. It&#x27;s a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really shows up on your work-habits summary.</i><p>(Text copied from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17067951" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17067951</a> . Neat that googling for the quote brought me right back to HN.)</text></comment> | <story><title>When listeners pay attention to stories, their heart rates rise and fall in sync</title><url>http://blog.pnas.org/2021/09/journal-club-when-listeners-pay-close-attention-to-stories-their-heart-rates-synchronize/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ramblenode</author><text>&gt; This correlation of heart rates, described this month in Cell Reports, could one day lead to new tools for measuring attentiveness, both in the classroom and the clinic.<p>Shame such interesting science inspires such dystopian machinations.<p>&quot;People synchronize their bodies when absorbed in attention.&quot; --&gt; &quot;How can schools use this to make sure students are paying attention?&quot;<p>Please don&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UncleOxidant</author><text>Exactly my thought. Instead of saying &quot;hey, isn&#x27;t this a really interesting finding and maybe we could use it to help people get over anxiety&quot; or something like that, they go the dystopian route.<p>But I do wonder if they go that direction because they&#x27;re interested in corporate funding for their research and that could be a way to get it.</text></comment> |
30,581,521 | 30,581,685 | 1 | 3 | 30,580,444 | train | <story><title>Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it</title><url>https://0ut3r.space/2022/03/06/windows-defender/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alibert</author><text>Hello,<p>Anything being worked on the IO performance side of Defender? I’m still using a paid third party AV for this sole reason. The impact is so huge with NPM packages as an example…</text></item><item><author>inglor</author><text>Hey, sorry for all the name changes of Microsoft Defender. I work at MSec (Microsoft&#x27;s security org).<p>We ended up absorbing and acquiring a few companies to provide a better offering and a lot of re-branding happened. For example Security Center&#x27;s old portal for active threat protection, automatic remediation, incident investigation etc is all now absorbed into (the better) security.microsoft.com which is (to my understanding, just an engineer) the current and last (for the foreseeable future) rebrand. The team I work at started as one person working on the frontend for MDE (Microsoft Defender for Endpoint) and now has hundreds of people working on the security portal across India, Israel and the US (as well as a few other smaller sites contributing).<p>Also, as an engineer I have to say the offering is good. The anti-virus and the telemetry is worked on by some really smart people. Client information is sacred, logging into production takes multiple audits and PII is scrubbed (heavily) any time logs are needed. We still have a lot of room to improve but I am confident in Microsoft both delivering a good product and acting in good faith (and there is a clear business incentive in the enterprise security space to do so rather than benevolence).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bob1029</author><text>IO impact is why I disable it on all my dev machines.<p>Microsoft really needs to make this easier to turn off too. Right now, I have to use an undisclosed privilege escalation hack-around to force things my way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it</title><url>https://0ut3r.space/2022/03/06/windows-defender/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alibert</author><text>Hello,<p>Anything being worked on the IO performance side of Defender? I’m still using a paid third party AV for this sole reason. The impact is so huge with NPM packages as an example…</text></item><item><author>inglor</author><text>Hey, sorry for all the name changes of Microsoft Defender. I work at MSec (Microsoft&#x27;s security org).<p>We ended up absorbing and acquiring a few companies to provide a better offering and a lot of re-branding happened. For example Security Center&#x27;s old portal for active threat protection, automatic remediation, incident investigation etc is all now absorbed into (the better) security.microsoft.com which is (to my understanding, just an engineer) the current and last (for the foreseeable future) rebrand. The team I work at started as one person working on the frontend for MDE (Microsoft Defender for Endpoint) and now has hundreds of people working on the security portal across India, Israel and the US (as well as a few other smaller sites contributing).<p>Also, as an engineer I have to say the offering is good. The anti-virus and the telemetry is worked on by some really smart people. Client information is sacred, logging into production takes multiple audits and PII is scrubbed (heavily) any time logs are needed. We still have a lot of room to improve but I am confident in Microsoft both delivering a good product and acting in good faith (and there is a clear business incentive in the enterprise security space to do so rather than benevolence).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cptskippy</author><text>I&#x27;ve been forced to use a number of products over the years at work from Trend Micro to McAfee. They all need curated exclusion lists and we have to ask developers to put all source controlled files under an excluded path common for all devs.<p>McAfee is by far the worst offender IMO when it comes to file IO. We eventually dropped it in part to it&#x27;s insistence on locking files in App Data which is a common scratch space for almost every Windows App.</text></comment> |
37,689,211 | 37,687,441 | 1 | 2 | 37,682,859 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Please don't print –-help to stderr in your CLI tools</title><text>Imagine you get a lengthy help description which then you pipe to less.. and you only get (END) in your terminal. Turns out the author decided to print help message to stderr instead of stdout. I assume newcomers will be as confused as I was when it happened to me for the first time. GNU utils use stdout for help texts, and so should you.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>dingosity</author><text>This is going to sound snotty, and I&#x27;m not really trying to be, but... Unix and its derivatives were made for people who sort of knew what they were doing. The reason you pipe exceptional events to STDERR is so the STDOUT output, if it exists, can flow into the next command in the pipe. Asking for help is an exceptional event. If you want the error output of a Unixish (linux, macos, solaris, etc.) machine running bash to be lessable, re-direct it to STDOUT with `2&gt;&amp;1`. You probably shouldn&#x27;t be touching the shell if you don&#x27;t know what that does. These tools were developed assuming the users would have a basic understanding of the system they were running on.<p>The GNU Project has published tools of varying quality, based on who was around to write the tool, debug it, give feedback, etc. It is not the exemplar of high quality software. (But it&#x27;s far from crap.) The important bit about GNU (and any other software) is that it was written to adhere to their uses. Other people have different requirements. Telling people to &quot;write your software like GNU writes their software&quot; is to misunderstand personal agency and one of the major points of open source software.<p>Your comments sound like you&#x27;re saying &quot;Software freedom means you&#x27;re free to write software the way I want you to write software.&quot;<p>No thank you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>figmert</author><text>Sure, but adding --help to a command means that the output of help is <i>not</i> exceptional, thus you&#x27;re expecting it in stdout. If on the other hand you invoke the command incorrectly, and the author decides the best thing to do is print out the help in such cases, then yes, it should be stderr.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Please don't print –-help to stderr in your CLI tools</title><text>Imagine you get a lengthy help description which then you pipe to less.. and you only get (END) in your terminal. Turns out the author decided to print help message to stderr instead of stdout. I assume newcomers will be as confused as I was when it happened to me for the first time. GNU utils use stdout for help texts, and so should you.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>dingosity</author><text>This is going to sound snotty, and I&#x27;m not really trying to be, but... Unix and its derivatives were made for people who sort of knew what they were doing. The reason you pipe exceptional events to STDERR is so the STDOUT output, if it exists, can flow into the next command in the pipe. Asking for help is an exceptional event. If you want the error output of a Unixish (linux, macos, solaris, etc.) machine running bash to be lessable, re-direct it to STDOUT with `2&gt;&amp;1`. You probably shouldn&#x27;t be touching the shell if you don&#x27;t know what that does. These tools were developed assuming the users would have a basic understanding of the system they were running on.<p>The GNU Project has published tools of varying quality, based on who was around to write the tool, debug it, give feedback, etc. It is not the exemplar of high quality software. (But it&#x27;s far from crap.) The important bit about GNU (and any other software) is that it was written to adhere to their uses. Other people have different requirements. Telling people to &quot;write your software like GNU writes their software&quot; is to misunderstand personal agency and one of the major points of open source software.<p>Your comments sound like you&#x27;re saying &quot;Software freedom means you&#x27;re free to write software the way I want you to write software.&quot;<p>No thank you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unflxw</author><text>&gt; This is going to sound snotty<p>The word you’re looking for is “condescending”.<p>Regardless, there is no argument about software freedom to be made here.<p>You’re allowed, be it open or close source, to write and publish software that defies common, well-established conventions.<p>You can pretend that it’s some sort of first amendment right to do so if you like, and attempt to deflect your unwillingness to write software that behaves properly as incompetence on the users’ end.<p>But whether anyone will be convinced by that is a separate question, and those who aren’t convinced certainly have the right to tell you, in turn, that your software sucks. This does not inflige on your rights to write broken software.</text></comment> |
14,269,115 | 14,268,114 | 1 | 2 | 14,266,713 | train | <story><title>Why Are There So Many 17th Century Paintings of Monkeys Getting Drunk?</title><url>https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2017/05/why-are-there-so-many-17th-century.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_yvjs</author><text>I like the following anecdote of Darwin&#x27;s (though it&#x27;s from quite a bit later in time):<p>Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee, and spiritous liquors: they will also, as I have myself seen, smoke tobacco with pleasure. (6. The same tastes are common to some animals much lower in the scale. Mr. A. Nichols informs me that he kept in Queensland, in Australia, three individuals of the Phaseolarctus cinereus [koalas]; and that, without having been taught in any way, they acquired a strong taste for rum, and for smoking tobacco.) Brehm asserts that the natives of north-eastern Africa catch the wild baboons by exposing vessels with strong beer, by which they are made drunk. He has seen some of these animals, which he kept in confinement, in this state; and he gives a laughable account of their behaviour and strange grimaces. On the following morning they were very cross and dismal; they held their aching heads with both hands, and wore a most pitiable expression: when beer or wine was offered them, they turned away with disgust, but relished the juice of lemons. An American monkey, an Ateles, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus was wiser than many men. These trifling facts prove how similar the nerves of taste must be in monkeys and man, and how similarly their whole nervous system is affected.<p>- &quot;The Descent of Man&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Are There So Many 17th Century Paintings of Monkeys Getting Drunk?</title><url>https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2017/05/why-are-there-so-many-17th-century.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pnathan</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.artandarchitecture.org.uk&#x2F;insight&#x2F;cutler_monkey&#x2F;cutler_monkey01.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.artandarchitecture.org.uk&#x2F;insight&#x2F;cutler_monkey&#x2F;c...</a><p>a little understanding of art history would indicate that the appropriate thing to do is understand the context for monkeys at the time of painting.<p>e: I don&#x27;t mean to be <i>overly</i> snarky here, but most Renaissance&#x2F;Enlightenment art is done in a symbolic language, and objects depicted are words, with the arrangement often in a particular grammar, with the context serving as part of the message. It&#x27;s not particularly difficult to learn this or to access basic symbolic meanings. I don&#x27;t think the author (hi there), has done enough due diligence. Sorry, Author.</text></comment> |
27,872,613 | 27,872,288 | 1 | 2 | 27,872,116 | train | <story><title>GitHub Copilot: First Impressions</title><url>https://vladiliescu.net/github-copilot-first-impressions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blunte</author><text>The AI coding approach is solving the wrong problem. The problem isn&#x27;t with the low level detailed work. That problem should be solved by building composable, tested, audited libraries. Legos, if you will.<p>If the problem is trivial enough that you can completely trust the AI coded solution, then you could have either done it yourself very easily or used a premade solution from a good library or toolkit.<p>If the problem is not trivial, then you have the outsourcing challenges (which apply to a lot more scenarios than using AI to help you code).<p>If you are not personally capable of judging the outsourced work, then whether you use AI or type it yourself, you will end up with errors or misfeatures.<p>If you are capable of judging, then you must pay attention and read&#x2F;review. So your job shifts from defining the problem and programming a solution to defining the problem and reviewing potential solution(s). Either way, you must focus and think. But again, perhaps you would be better off building a solution composed of known good blocks. &lt;- This should be the future of software development...<p>Sadly, I think that open source and freedom to (re)invent has worked against us in the long run. If instead of each of us going off and thinking, &quot;I can make a better language&#x2F;framework&quot;, we had built on existing technologies, I daresay we would be further along. To be fair of course, some level of dissatisfaction and divergence would be necessary or we would still be using assembly.<p>Github does have one thing right though (from a business perspective) - they are making a remedy to a symptom, and in that they can expect longer term revenue than if they actually solved the core problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub Copilot: First Impressions</title><url>https://vladiliescu.net/github-copilot-first-impressions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>obviyus</author><text>I very recently got access to Copilot, while I was in the middle of learning and playing around with Clojure.<p>It’s surprisingly useful when you’re not sure about how you want to proceed. E.g. While I was trying to make a simple function for printing all palindromic numbers under 10,000, Copilot inferred from the function name what I was trying and suggested a function using threading macros (something I hadn’t yet come across in Clojure). The result was a much neater affair than what I came up with on my own. I feel it could be a fantastic way to build familiarity with a new language.</text></comment> |
16,223,394 | 16,220,520 | 1 | 2 | 16,218,333 | train | <story><title>Car insurers accused of discriminating against people with Hotmail accounts</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2018/jan/23/a-sign-that-youre-not-keeping-up-the-trouble-with-hotmail-in-2018</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>razorunreal</author><text>If you can explain why it is OK for car insurance to charge differently by gender, but by race is not OK, I will be impressed.</text></item><item><author>discoursism</author><text>I&#x27;d say there&#x27;s a one really important difference between being Black and using Hotmail, and that difference is the same reason why one is a protected class and one isn&#x27;t.<p>The real concern here isn&#x27;t discriminating against people with Hotmail accounts. On the surface level, there&#x27;s nothing wrong with that. This does become an issue if the property of having a Hotmail account is used as an avenue to discriminate against people based on their membership in a protected class -- a sort of actuarial parallel construction, if you will. At that point, we do have a bit of a problem.<p>&gt; We need regulation in place to stop any punitive decision making, public and private, which can be found in court to be based on correlation instead of causation.<p>So, young men could not be charged more for insurance than young women? In fact, young people in general would have to get the same price as everyone else? People in New York would have to pay the same as someone in rural Alaska? Someone who&#x27;s been driving a year gets charged the same as someone who has been driving fifteen, etc.? Even being in an accident doesn&#x27;t <i>cause</i> you to get in another accident. It&#x27;s just correlated with that outcome. Throw out the entire actuarial aspect of insurance? These &quot;punitive&quot; charges are all based on correlation. I don&#x27;t see this happening.<p>----<p>That said, as a non-statistician, I&#x27;m interested in what kinds of tests can be run on signals to verify that they&#x27;re not proxies for selecting and discriminating against protected classes. Is there a way to modify a signal using its correlation with membership in these classes such that you can marginalize the attributes you&#x27;re not allowed to discriminate based on?<p>For example, it seems reasonable to believe that hotmail use is correlated with age, race, gender, etc. As an insurance company, I would have information on hand to inform me as to the extent of this correlation, at least among my customer base, and I would in turn know the correlations of those factors with risk. Could I somehow remove the racial, gender, and age components of the Hotmail risk signal to obtain a signal that only conveys the portion of the risk correlation that is not based on those classes? If so, what is that statistical technique called?</text></item><item><author>013a</author><text>Its obvious why this is happening; some form of statistical modeling or AI correlated having a hotmail account with being higher risk.<p>This is a serious problem with all AI that makes decisions like this. Having a Hotmail account is a symptom of a problem which could lead to higher risk, but it is judging that symptom as if it is a cause which leads to risk.<p>Its exactly similar to the supposition that black people statistically commit more crime, and thus should pre-emptively receive harsher bail or be profiled. Unless you can scientifically prove that ethnicity causes crime to happen, its disgusting. This is obvious to us.<p>In year&#x27;s past, correlation fallacies might have meant that black people were profiled by police more. Today, it means that we build AIs which make life-ending decisions like determining repeat offender risk, visa status, employment decisions, all of which predetermines an unknown outcome by correlating your known qualities with the known outcome of people with similar qualities to you.<p>We need regulation in place to stop any punitive decision making, public and private, which can be found in court to be based on correlation instead of causation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tantalor</author><text>Because they are different things (in the US).<p>Racial discrimination requires &quot;strict scrutiny&quot; to be legal.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Strict_scrutiny" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Strict_scrutiny</a><p>Sex discrimination requires &quot;intermediate scrutiny&quot; to be legal.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Intermediate_scrutiny" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Intermediate_scrutiny</a><p>This podcast gives a wonderful history:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wnyc.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;sex-appeal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wnyc.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;sex-appeal&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Car insurers accused of discriminating against people with Hotmail accounts</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2018/jan/23/a-sign-that-youre-not-keeping-up-the-trouble-with-hotmail-in-2018</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>razorunreal</author><text>If you can explain why it is OK for car insurance to charge differently by gender, but by race is not OK, I will be impressed.</text></item><item><author>discoursism</author><text>I&#x27;d say there&#x27;s a one really important difference between being Black and using Hotmail, and that difference is the same reason why one is a protected class and one isn&#x27;t.<p>The real concern here isn&#x27;t discriminating against people with Hotmail accounts. On the surface level, there&#x27;s nothing wrong with that. This does become an issue if the property of having a Hotmail account is used as an avenue to discriminate against people based on their membership in a protected class -- a sort of actuarial parallel construction, if you will. At that point, we do have a bit of a problem.<p>&gt; We need regulation in place to stop any punitive decision making, public and private, which can be found in court to be based on correlation instead of causation.<p>So, young men could not be charged more for insurance than young women? In fact, young people in general would have to get the same price as everyone else? People in New York would have to pay the same as someone in rural Alaska? Someone who&#x27;s been driving a year gets charged the same as someone who has been driving fifteen, etc.? Even being in an accident doesn&#x27;t <i>cause</i> you to get in another accident. It&#x27;s just correlated with that outcome. Throw out the entire actuarial aspect of insurance? These &quot;punitive&quot; charges are all based on correlation. I don&#x27;t see this happening.<p>----<p>That said, as a non-statistician, I&#x27;m interested in what kinds of tests can be run on signals to verify that they&#x27;re not proxies for selecting and discriminating against protected classes. Is there a way to modify a signal using its correlation with membership in these classes such that you can marginalize the attributes you&#x27;re not allowed to discriminate based on?<p>For example, it seems reasonable to believe that hotmail use is correlated with age, race, gender, etc. As an insurance company, I would have information on hand to inform me as to the extent of this correlation, at least among my customer base, and I would in turn know the correlations of those factors with risk. Could I somehow remove the racial, gender, and age components of the Hotmail risk signal to obtain a signal that only conveys the portion of the risk correlation that is not based on those classes? If so, what is that statistical technique called?</text></item><item><author>013a</author><text>Its obvious why this is happening; some form of statistical modeling or AI correlated having a hotmail account with being higher risk.<p>This is a serious problem with all AI that makes decisions like this. Having a Hotmail account is a symptom of a problem which could lead to higher risk, but it is judging that symptom as if it is a cause which leads to risk.<p>Its exactly similar to the supposition that black people statistically commit more crime, and thus should pre-emptively receive harsher bail or be profiled. Unless you can scientifically prove that ethnicity causes crime to happen, its disgusting. This is obvious to us.<p>In year&#x27;s past, correlation fallacies might have meant that black people were profiled by police more. Today, it means that we build AIs which make life-ending decisions like determining repeat offender risk, visa status, employment decisions, all of which predetermines an unknown outcome by correlating your known qualities with the known outcome of people with similar qualities to you.<p>We need regulation in place to stop any punitive decision making, public and private, which can be found in court to be based on correlation instead of causation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>discoursism</author><text>I can&#x27;t say for certain, because I wasn&#x27;t involved in the decision. ;) My gut reaction is that it only ends up being seen as OK because the group being penalized has historically been at an advantage in most other areas financially. I am aware that some European countries are moving to do away with charging by gender.</text></comment> |
32,467,195 | 32,467,358 | 1 | 2 | 32,436,203 | train | <story><title>Copyright infringement in AI art</title><url>https://www.technollama.co.uk/copyright-infringement-in-artificial-intelligence-art</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avian</author><text>&gt; ML revolutionized translation a long time ago and the demand and pay for translators went down.<p>ML translation also caused a noticeable drop in the average quality of translated text in my experience. Companies now ship machine-translated manuals for minor languages that are often little more than gibberish. Human translators weren&#x27;t perfect - for example, often you could see that the translator didn&#x27;t know the terminology of the field. But at least the rest of the text was usually intelligible.<p>If this is where we&#x27;re heading to with visual art as well I&#x27;m not looking forward to the future. Imagine an instruction manual where illustrations are machine-created. Everything looks kind of weird and inconsistent. If you quickly flip through the book it looks like all the important points are shown on the pictures, but looking closely shapes don&#x27;t match with reality and the details are all wrong. The number of bolts changes from picture to picture. It&#x27;s all there just to check a mark on someone&#x27;s list, but doesn&#x27;t really help you in servicing the thing.</text></item><item><author>olladecarne</author><text>ML revolutionized translation a long time ago and the demand and pay for translators went down. It also used the works of thousands of humans who translated text and they never saw a dime. Copyright applies to translations so we&#x27;ve already gone through something similar. The same will happen with art and every other medium that ML touches. I have a love&#x2F;hate relationship with ML because of this. It seems that there will be a painful transition period as many humans are displaced, probably even average coders like me. In a way, it&#x27;s no different than what a human does but humans can&#x27;t scale like computers. I hope someone can engineer a new economic system that works for what&#x27;s coming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>martopix</author><text>I disagree with the first part, I remember home appliances made in Asia in the 90s that came with completely ridiculous manuals, possibly translated with a dictionary and little else. Machine translation can really be good if used properly. Of course I wouldn&#x27;t use it to translate literature.</text></comment> | <story><title>Copyright infringement in AI art</title><url>https://www.technollama.co.uk/copyright-infringement-in-artificial-intelligence-art</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avian</author><text>&gt; ML revolutionized translation a long time ago and the demand and pay for translators went down.<p>ML translation also caused a noticeable drop in the average quality of translated text in my experience. Companies now ship machine-translated manuals for minor languages that are often little more than gibberish. Human translators weren&#x27;t perfect - for example, often you could see that the translator didn&#x27;t know the terminology of the field. But at least the rest of the text was usually intelligible.<p>If this is where we&#x27;re heading to with visual art as well I&#x27;m not looking forward to the future. Imagine an instruction manual where illustrations are machine-created. Everything looks kind of weird and inconsistent. If you quickly flip through the book it looks like all the important points are shown on the pictures, but looking closely shapes don&#x27;t match with reality and the details are all wrong. The number of bolts changes from picture to picture. It&#x27;s all there just to check a mark on someone&#x27;s list, but doesn&#x27;t really help you in servicing the thing.</text></item><item><author>olladecarne</author><text>ML revolutionized translation a long time ago and the demand and pay for translators went down. It also used the works of thousands of humans who translated text and they never saw a dime. Copyright applies to translations so we&#x27;ve already gone through something similar. The same will happen with art and every other medium that ML touches. I have a love&#x2F;hate relationship with ML because of this. It seems that there will be a painful transition period as many humans are displaced, probably even average coders like me. In a way, it&#x27;s no different than what a human does but humans can&#x27;t scale like computers. I hope someone can engineer a new economic system that works for what&#x27;s coming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vintermann</author><text>That sort of translation always had a lemon problem. How do you know if the translation to Portuguese is any good, if you don&#x27;t speak Portuguese and don&#x27;t know anyone who does? You can pay the expensive translator company, or the dodgy cheaper translator company that claims to be equally good.<p>Did you choose the responsible expensive option? Sucks, because they have been competing with the bad&#x2F;automated translators so long that they squeeze their human translators so hard, they produce bad translations anyway.<p>Also, it didn&#x27;t help that you didn&#x27;t give them any context, but just sent them one sentence at a time, extracted from the strings in your program. Because we&#x27;ve all done that, haven&#x27;t we?</text></comment> |
33,464,129 | 33,463,471 | 1 | 2 | 33,419,089 | train | <story><title>‘Date me’ Google Docs and the hyper-optimized quest for love</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/date-me-google-docs-and-the-hyper-optimized-quest-for-love/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>type-r</author><text>People like to rag on dating apps -- they&#x27;re shallow, promote surface-level judgements &#x2F; interactions. But I think this is simply mirroring how things works in the real world (in very early considerations of who to approach). Getting this person out of the app into an in-person conversation should be the goal.<p>A &#x27;date me&#x27; profile feels like the opposite -- trying to get a bunch of data on someone before actually interacting with them in person. I think this is completely backwards and we need to lean in far more into IRL experiences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stared</author><text>Things IRL work differently. I mean, if you are into picking people at bars just by their looks, then yeah, dating apps go in that line. If you have long conversations with a friend of a friend at a party (or on some special interest groups), then dating apps are nothing like that. OK, maybe OkCupid, but back in the good old days.<p>I often hear from women dating men that they would have swiped left their partner on Tinder.</text></comment> | <story><title>‘Date me’ Google Docs and the hyper-optimized quest for love</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/date-me-google-docs-and-the-hyper-optimized-quest-for-love/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>type-r</author><text>People like to rag on dating apps -- they&#x27;re shallow, promote surface-level judgements &#x2F; interactions. But I think this is simply mirroring how things works in the real world (in very early considerations of who to approach). Getting this person out of the app into an in-person conversation should be the goal.<p>A &#x27;date me&#x27; profile feels like the opposite -- trying to get a bunch of data on someone before actually interacting with them in person. I think this is completely backwards and we need to lean in far more into IRL experiences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Philip-J-Fry</author><text>The issue with dating apps is that your discoverability is locked behind how much you pay.<p>I used to get lots of Tinder matches. Then I went about 2 months of nothing. I felt like it must be holding matches back. So I paid for a Tinder boost, where you become seen by more people for 30 minutes (or so they say). Within a few minutes I had like 2 new matches, within 30 minutes I had 6.<p>Now, if Tinder was doing what they claimed, why aren&#x27;t they showing me to these people? Why don&#x27;t they show me to people who have the same interests? Clearly there&#x27;s more people that would match with me but they can only find them when you pay up money.<p>From a cynical business POV it&#x27;s in a dating app&#x27;s best interest to not let you find a relationship and keep you spending money&#x2F;watching ads.<p>You could say they want you to have a relationship so you spread good words and bring in new users, but all my experiences go against that.</text></comment> |
20,814,831 | 20,813,868 | 1 | 3 | 20,812,636 | train | <story><title>Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1550-4131%2819%2930429-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kace91</author><text>Are you fit? as in, do you lift weights or are active in sports that require strength?<p>I ask because I wonder about the effects of extended fasts on muscle loss&#x2F;retention, a big problem cutting weight for some people is that they get rid of some muscle mass along with the calories they wanted to eliminate.</text></item><item><author>dvt</author><text>I fast, on average, once a week. At least once a month, I try to do an extended fast (2-5 days) to force ketosis. I also do intermittent fasting basically daily (I only eat between 12-8). Been doing this for about 4 years now. Some anecdata:<p>- Fasting &gt; 24 hrs paradoxically gives you an extreme boost of energy and mental focus. I especially love how my olfactory sense is <i>extremely</i> heightened. It&#x27;s pretty cool and even after all these years doesn&#x27;t get old.<p>- Fasting is not a panacea. Depriving yourself of nutrients or eating garbage is still a bad idea even if you fast or do IF. Unfortunately, eating healthy is hard and kinda&#x27; sucks. Egg whites and chicken + broccoli gets old pretty fast.<p>- Fasting &gt;7 days is a bad idea unless you know what you&#x27;re doing. This is when your muscles and vital organs start contributing as an energy source (e.g. they also start breaking down).<p>- Your body is clever, so extended fasts will start putting you into &quot;starvation mode&quot; and you&#x27;ll lose some of the benefits.<p>- There have been NO STUDIES on long-term fasting (e.g. over the course of an adult lifetime). This is a big warning sign to just be careful and not overdo it. Different people have different tolerances. Talk to your doctor.<p>- Even on fast days, make sure you take vitamins (I take Fish Oil, Zinc, a Multivitamin and Magnesium)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jniedrauer</author><text>I can speak to this a bit. I practiced intermittent fasting (eating once per day) for nearly a decade, while maintaining a very low activity level. My resting metabolic rate dropped significantly during this time (down to about 1300 kcal&#x2F;day).<p>About a year ago, I increased my activity level significantly (distance running, hiking, strength training, cycling) and quickly found that:<p>a) I wasn&#x27;t recovering quickly enough<p>b) It was extremely difficult to take in enough calories for a day in a single meal<p>c) I had very low energy when in ketosis<p>Eventually I gave up and just started eating on a typical 3-4 meal a day schedule. My RMR steadily increased back to baseline, I got a lot more explosive energy, my body began responding much more rapidly to training, and my recovery speed improved significantly.<p>Personally I think that intermittent fasting is not a good idea if you are very physically active. That&#x27;s just my opinion from my own experience.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1550-4131%2819%2930429-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kace91</author><text>Are you fit? as in, do you lift weights or are active in sports that require strength?<p>I ask because I wonder about the effects of extended fasts on muscle loss&#x2F;retention, a big problem cutting weight for some people is that they get rid of some muscle mass along with the calories they wanted to eliminate.</text></item><item><author>dvt</author><text>I fast, on average, once a week. At least once a month, I try to do an extended fast (2-5 days) to force ketosis. I also do intermittent fasting basically daily (I only eat between 12-8). Been doing this for about 4 years now. Some anecdata:<p>- Fasting &gt; 24 hrs paradoxically gives you an extreme boost of energy and mental focus. I especially love how my olfactory sense is <i>extremely</i> heightened. It&#x27;s pretty cool and even after all these years doesn&#x27;t get old.<p>- Fasting is not a panacea. Depriving yourself of nutrients or eating garbage is still a bad idea even if you fast or do IF. Unfortunately, eating healthy is hard and kinda&#x27; sucks. Egg whites and chicken + broccoli gets old pretty fast.<p>- Fasting &gt;7 days is a bad idea unless you know what you&#x27;re doing. This is when your muscles and vital organs start contributing as an energy source (e.g. they also start breaking down).<p>- Your body is clever, so extended fasts will start putting you into &quot;starvation mode&quot; and you&#x27;ll lose some of the benefits.<p>- There have been NO STUDIES on long-term fasting (e.g. over the course of an adult lifetime). This is a big warning sign to just be careful and not overdo it. Different people have different tolerances. Talk to your doctor.<p>- Even on fast days, make sure you take vitamins (I take Fish Oil, Zinc, a Multivitamin and Magnesium)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvt</author><text>I did for a few months this year, but I&#x27;ve been lazy over the summer. I&#x27;m 155lb, 6&#x27;0, so fairly skinny, maybe at around ~15% BF. I noticed that fasting doesn&#x27;t help with BF at all unless I eat very clean and lift. I was at 170lb, around ~28% BF earlier this year and had to work my ass off to get my body fat percentage down.</text></comment> |
24,522,840 | 24,521,620 | 1 | 3 | 24,520,014 | train | <story><title>CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT</title><url>https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>enclosure_guy</author><text>Big fan of Cadquery! I used it to generate circuit board enclosures in an old project of mine[1]. Once you have it set up it is much nicer to use than Openscad and you have the ability to export STEP files, which is pretty huge. I haven&#x27;t played with it in a while but the new improvements look great. The maintainers are also very welcoming&#x2F;helpful to newcomers. Overall a great open source project.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enclosuregenerator.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;enclosuregenerator.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>CadQuery: A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT</title><url>https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>6d65</author><text>This almost made me stop working on my own openscad inspired system in lua. It has almost everything that I think is missing from openscad:
* A full programming language
* Fillet and chamfer support
* A better viewer<p>The thing that I&#x27;m planning to add to my lua cad is materials and PBR in the viewer. Also, I&#x27;m still thinking if native bom support is a good idea.<p>But this looks slick, will definitely give it a try. Python models should be shorter than lua. But I like the lua dsl so far.<p>Also I&#x27;m attempting to write my own cad kernel, which is a dubious choice. But will see where that gets me.</text></comment> |
25,735,895 | 25,735,038 | 1 | 2 | 25,726,453 | train | <story><title>Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55615214</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlkuester7</author><text>&gt; not everything is a slippery slope<p>From a risk management perspective, this does not seem like a safe assumption to make. The DailyStormer got &quot;canceled&quot; by vendors for not even trying to moderate content that actively promoted violence (among other horrible things). Now Parlor gets &quot;canceled&quot; by vendors for not doing a good enough job trying to moderate content promoting violence. The bar for getting &quot;canceled&quot; is already moving down and honestly any company that is hosting user-driven content needs to have a plan for how to make sure they stay below that bar. Part of that plan should be projected scenarios about how low the bar will go....<p>Part of what is really dicey here too is that the result of getting this calculation wrong is basically annihilation for your service (unless you think you can operate without &quot;every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers&quot;). The stakes are really high!<p>(Edited to fix my &#x27;raise-the-bar&#x27; analogy)</text></item><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>&gt; What are the best mitigations here, both technical and social? Vocally side with the popular issues, or try to stay completely out of them, to try to avoid becoming a target (e.g., social media presence)?<p>For now, don&#x27;t attempt to overturn a fair democratic election and install an illegitimate government. Seems like a pretty easy thing to stay clear of.<p>I get the concern you&#x27;re expressing, but not everything is a slippery slope. This went so far beyond a &quot;popular social issue of the day&quot;, as you admitted in your comment. IMO it&#x27;s worth saving this outrage &amp; concern for if and when something that is more genuinely a popular social issue causes AWS to take down sites. There were surely lots candidates for that earlier this year with a lot of the other protests that went on, were there any instances of sites taken down then? (I&#x27;m genuinely asking btw, I didn&#x27;t hear of any but if there were then I think that is a much more appropriate place to start this conversation from. Certainly people have been fired from their jobs due to cancel culture but I don&#x27;t know of anyone being shut off of all tech platforms).</text></item><item><author>zmb_</author><text>I&#x27;m struggling to try to understand what this means for the risks of running a business in the cloud going forward. It was not just AWS dropping them, but many of their other vendors dropped them too, essentially killing their business overnight.<p>Granted, for this first case the bar was extremely high. You needed literal storming of the Capitol and a platform seemingly specifically targeted at those people for this to happen. However, now that the precedent is set, I would expect the bar to be lowered going forward. That creates risks that need to somehow be mitigated (and reflected in valuations).<p>Even for businesses that are not in such politically charged areas, I can easily imagine getting inadvertently tangled up in some popular issue and having vendors become targets of online activist (whether it&#x27;s your own vendors, or whether you are a vendor to a target).<p>What are the best mitigations here, both technical and social? Vocally side with the popular issues, or try to stay completely out of them, to try to avoid becoming a target (e.g., social media presence)? Try to reduce dependence on cloud providers and vendors by building more in-house? How far would you have to go, since a colo or an ISP can drop you just as AWS can?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>The result of doing nothing is that in 15 years, the US becomes Germany, pre-WW2.<p>You can think of it as vendors getting &#x27;canceled&#x27; for progressively less severe offenses.<p>Or.<p>You can think of it as people waking up to offenses that have been allowed to go unchallenged for way too fucking long. People &#x27;waking up&#x27; or no longer keeping their heads down being the result of the current administration transitioning to a Lame Duck status.<p>The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. Yes, you should absolutely be actively paying attention. No static rule will allow you, or me, or that guy over there to go back to not paying attention.</text></comment> | <story><title>Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55615214</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlkuester7</author><text>&gt; not everything is a slippery slope<p>From a risk management perspective, this does not seem like a safe assumption to make. The DailyStormer got &quot;canceled&quot; by vendors for not even trying to moderate content that actively promoted violence (among other horrible things). Now Parlor gets &quot;canceled&quot; by vendors for not doing a good enough job trying to moderate content promoting violence. The bar for getting &quot;canceled&quot; is already moving down and honestly any company that is hosting user-driven content needs to have a plan for how to make sure they stay below that bar. Part of that plan should be projected scenarios about how low the bar will go....<p>Part of what is really dicey here too is that the result of getting this calculation wrong is basically annihilation for your service (unless you think you can operate without &quot;every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers&quot;). The stakes are really high!<p>(Edited to fix my &#x27;raise-the-bar&#x27; analogy)</text></item><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>&gt; What are the best mitigations here, both technical and social? Vocally side with the popular issues, or try to stay completely out of them, to try to avoid becoming a target (e.g., social media presence)?<p>For now, don&#x27;t attempt to overturn a fair democratic election and install an illegitimate government. Seems like a pretty easy thing to stay clear of.<p>I get the concern you&#x27;re expressing, but not everything is a slippery slope. This went so far beyond a &quot;popular social issue of the day&quot;, as you admitted in your comment. IMO it&#x27;s worth saving this outrage &amp; concern for if and when something that is more genuinely a popular social issue causes AWS to take down sites. There were surely lots candidates for that earlier this year with a lot of the other protests that went on, were there any instances of sites taken down then? (I&#x27;m genuinely asking btw, I didn&#x27;t hear of any but if there were then I think that is a much more appropriate place to start this conversation from. Certainly people have been fired from their jobs due to cancel culture but I don&#x27;t know of anyone being shut off of all tech platforms).</text></item><item><author>zmb_</author><text>I&#x27;m struggling to try to understand what this means for the risks of running a business in the cloud going forward. It was not just AWS dropping them, but many of their other vendors dropped them too, essentially killing their business overnight.<p>Granted, for this first case the bar was extremely high. You needed literal storming of the Capitol and a platform seemingly specifically targeted at those people for this to happen. However, now that the precedent is set, I would expect the bar to be lowered going forward. That creates risks that need to somehow be mitigated (and reflected in valuations).<p>Even for businesses that are not in such politically charged areas, I can easily imagine getting inadvertently tangled up in some popular issue and having vendors become targets of online activist (whether it&#x27;s your own vendors, or whether you are a vendor to a target).<p>What are the best mitigations here, both technical and social? Vocally side with the popular issues, or try to stay completely out of them, to try to avoid becoming a target (e.g., social media presence)? Try to reduce dependence on cloud providers and vendors by building more in-house? How far would you have to go, since a colo or an ISP can drop you just as AWS can?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Daishiman</author><text>No, parlor wasn&#x27;t even doing a &quot;good enough job&quot;. It wasn&#x27;t doing _anything_. It&#x27;s financial backers supported everything with regards to its users going into a violent frenzy.<p>There really is nothing contentious here, unless you feel that if you know that a group is organizing in your platform with the intent of staging a coup then you&#x27;re in your right to just let them go about it.</text></comment> |
26,901,250 | 26,898,534 | 1 | 2 | 26,897,550 | train | <story><title>SolarBatteryBitcoin</title><url>https://github.com/ARKInvest/SolarBatteryBitcoin</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>The premise is that there no more worthier causes than bitcoin beyond the grid needs. That premise is simply false. You can use excess grid capacity for lots of useful things including water desalination, charging cars at off peak hours, producing hydrogen. These are all applications that can flexibly use clean&#x2F;cheap power when it is available instead of putting a constant load on the grid. This solution would compete with all of that. Excess grid energy is a resource that we need to use more effectively. Wasting it on bitcoin is pointless. Nobody really needs bitcoin except those living on hoarding it; which is pretty much the only thing you can do with it.<p>In the same way a lot carbon capture schemes use clean energy to slightly reduce (but not completely solve) the amount of CO2 added to our atmosphere. A better use of that clean energy is to completely remove the need for adding more CO2 to our energy (rather than just partially) through alternatives that make better&#x2F;more efficient use of the clean energy that these capture schemes take.</text></comment> | <story><title>SolarBatteryBitcoin</title><url>https://github.com/ARKInvest/SolarBatteryBitcoin</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>barathr</author><text>I&#x27;d like to believe that something like this is possible, but I just don&#x27;t get how this gets around the fact that every Joule that is used for bitcoin mining is a Joule that wasn&#x27;t used somewhere else. Even if many Joules of renewable power get wasted during periods of overproduction (mid-day in the summer in California), other more worthwhile loads could be shifted to use that power, because today it&#x27;s negative-priced during such periods. If bitcoin soaks up that power, it won&#x27;t be negative-priced, and other loads won&#x27;t be moved to use it, and they&#x27;ll use power from non-renewable sources during some other time of day.<p>There&#x27;s all sorts of demand shifting that can be done. Most articles talk about washers and dryers, and certainly that&#x27;s one smaller load, but also EV charging, pre-cooling of buildings during the summer (run the AC in houses full blast during the middle of the day so there&#x27;s no need to run it in the early evening), etc.</text></comment> |
15,359,559 | 15,358,146 | 1 | 2 | 15,347,067 | train | <story><title>Anthony Levandowski, self driving car whiz who fell from grace</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levandowski-is-his-messenger</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valuearb</author><text>&quot;But Larry Page is no longer convinced that Levandowski was key to Chauffeur’s success. In his deposition to the court, Page said, “I believe Anthony’s contributions are quite possibly negative of a high amount.” At Uber, some engineers privately say that Levandowski’s poor management style set back that company’s self-driving effort by a couple of years.&quot;<p>So does this mean Waymo owes Uber damages, or payment for taking the problem off their hands?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>I could see Page saying that. Urmson seems to have been the one who took the Waymo technology from &quot;sort of works&quot; to &quot;works reliably&quot;. There&#x27;s a long, slow grind phase of testing, logging, and dealing with more unusual situations before the technology is ready for deployment. Levandowski tends to skip that part, as with the Otto demo. One can see why he got along with Kalanick.<p>Levandowski comes out of this fine. Google can&#x27;t sue him. Google has an employee contract which forces employee disputes into arbitration. That arbitration has already happened and can&#x27;t be reopened. The settlement terms are not public.<p>The LIDAR design is a side issue. There will be lots of good, low-cost LIDAR units as soon as someone is able to order a few hundred thousand of them. Continental&#x27;s flash LIDAR will probably be the first successful mass-market flash LIDAR. Quanergy made a lot of noise, but never shipped. Now they seem to be pivoting from automotive to border security. (They want to make Trump&#x27;s border wall a virtual one.) Tetraview has funding but no products. Velodyne has been making flash LIDAR noises but hasn&#x27;t demoed yet. Innoviz has demoed an experimental unit and claims to be selling it. Meanwhile, Velodyne is trying to get their rotating devices down to $500 in quantity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Anthony Levandowski, self driving car whiz who fell from grace</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levandowski-is-his-messenger</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valuearb</author><text>&quot;But Larry Page is no longer convinced that Levandowski was key to Chauffeur’s success. In his deposition to the court, Page said, “I believe Anthony’s contributions are quite possibly negative of a high amount.” At Uber, some engineers privately say that Levandowski’s poor management style set back that company’s self-driving effort by a couple of years.&quot;<p>So does this mean Waymo owes Uber damages, or payment for taking the problem off their hands?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehsankia</author><text>The stuff he stole wasn&#x27;t necessarily his own work. Page is saying that not only Levandowski didn&#x27;t help, he also stole the hard work of the other engineers.</text></comment> |
6,307,251 | 6,307,275 | 1 | 3 | 6,306,906 | train | <story><title>Largest Homeless Camp In US is in Silicon Valley</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/the-jungle-largest-homeless-camp-in-us-2013-8?op=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>milkshakes</author><text>are you saying that there is simply no way to improve the circumstances of these people, or that they&#x27;re just not worth the effort because they refuse to help themselves?</text></item><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>I did not mean to suggest the problem was purely economical - the individuals I&#x27;m referring to have also been receiving professional help for, when necessary, prior addictions, career training and mental health problems (although such cases happen to have been the minority in my specific experience). I understand there&#x27;s always more that can be done, but I do believe there exist people (in a tiny minority) who do want to lower the amount of responsibility in their life to the point that they are homeless, and that there&#x27;s nothing that can be done to actually help said individuals, and I also believe that it&#x27;s pointless to criticize society at large for not doing enough unless you can suggest specific, actionable things we could all do better. I don&#x27;t say that with a defiant attitude - honestly, if you think I&#x27;m missing some action I can personally take to improve things, I&#x27;m all ears.</text></item><item><author>StandardFuture</author><text>That&#x27;s because it is absolutely foolish to think that this problem is purely economical.<p>There are much deeper and more complex problems PER INDIVIDUAL that you don&#x27;t know about. Personality traits, undiagnosed mental disorders, a horrible upbringing, etc., etc., etc.<p>To summarize all these people&#x27;s problems as stemming from a singular cause does nothing for anyone. I think we can show that helping a particular individual does way more good than trying to solve a whole &quot;group of people&#x27;s&quot; &quot;problems&quot;.<p>That&#x27;s why when you read stories about a single guy helping a single homeless person&#x2F;person in straits it truly does mean more for us as individuals than just a charity wanting us to throw money at them.<p>Case in point: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/york-city-programmer-homeless-man-software-coding-classes/story?id=20042021" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;abcnews.go.com&#x2F;Technology&#x2F;york-city-programmer-homele...</a></text></item><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>I know my experience is entirely anecdotal, so even I take it with a grain of salt, but unbiased, verified data on this topic is hard to come by at a large scale. I spend between 10 - 20% of both my income and time working through a charitable organization, and since moving to Silicon Valley a couple of years ago, I have been disappointed to see that most of the people who I&#x27;ve worked with who have become homeless recently enough for me to know the circumstances well (or who have become homeless while I have known them), and most of the people who have had long-term welfare dependencies, have not shown any initiative or drive to seize opportunities. They have rejected job offers for silly reasons, they have soured their relationships with those willing to help them over silly issues, and they have in some cases outright rejected offers of assistance. Now, I don&#x27;t say this to suggest that all homeless people deserve to live in camps like this, but I would like to suggest that the existence of homeless camps is not a sign that our society is beyond &quot;common decency and civilization... so far beyond that it&#x27;s obscene&quot;, as one commenter has described it. I don&#x27;t doubt that there are many who are or who have been in those camps that had fallen on hard times and did not get a fair second chance - but likewise I personally know some who have simply been beyond help, and I don&#x27;t know why. Clearly there are places that have more or less homelessness, so there must be some cause involved that may not be obvious - all I wish to say as that as a &quot;hacker&quot; in Silicon Valley, I have spent my efforts in this direction far enough that my wife asked me to cut back for the sake of our family - and I was simply unable to get most people to accept the help they needed. I am skeptical of suggestions that all that is needed is for the 1% to stop being so 1%-ish. (I apologize - I have made several small edits while organizing my thoughts that aren&#x27;t convenient to label explicitly as edits...)<p>edit: (Yes - another one) For the record, I agree with most of the suggestions that have been provided in responses. I think these are avenues worth further investment and exploration. My only point here is that it&#x27;s not just a case of the 1% in Silicon Valley being selfish.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>I&#x27;m not saying that either is always the case, but that I have seen example of both. I also wouldn&#x27;t want to agree with the phrase &quot;not worth the effort&quot;. It&#x27;s not that I think anyone&#x27;s &quot;not worth it&quot; - it&#x27;s that current methods simply aren&#x27;t going to work all the time, no matter how much people&#x27;s attitudes or resources change. The GP comment pointed out personality issues and upbringing, and I think that&#x27;s spot-on - I don&#x27;t think we yet understanding issues like that to really be effective at helping people overcome them, and there&#x27;s certainly work to be done in that area. As I said - I continue my own charitable efforts, and I&#x27;m only saying that it&#x27;s not just an issue of &quot;boo, Silicon Valley, how could you let this happen?&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Largest Homeless Camp In US is in Silicon Valley</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/the-jungle-largest-homeless-camp-in-us-2013-8?op=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>milkshakes</author><text>are you saying that there is simply no way to improve the circumstances of these people, or that they&#x27;re just not worth the effort because they refuse to help themselves?</text></item><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>I did not mean to suggest the problem was purely economical - the individuals I&#x27;m referring to have also been receiving professional help for, when necessary, prior addictions, career training and mental health problems (although such cases happen to have been the minority in my specific experience). I understand there&#x27;s always more that can be done, but I do believe there exist people (in a tiny minority) who do want to lower the amount of responsibility in their life to the point that they are homeless, and that there&#x27;s nothing that can be done to actually help said individuals, and I also believe that it&#x27;s pointless to criticize society at large for not doing enough unless you can suggest specific, actionable things we could all do better. I don&#x27;t say that with a defiant attitude - honestly, if you think I&#x27;m missing some action I can personally take to improve things, I&#x27;m all ears.</text></item><item><author>StandardFuture</author><text>That&#x27;s because it is absolutely foolish to think that this problem is purely economical.<p>There are much deeper and more complex problems PER INDIVIDUAL that you don&#x27;t know about. Personality traits, undiagnosed mental disorders, a horrible upbringing, etc., etc., etc.<p>To summarize all these people&#x27;s problems as stemming from a singular cause does nothing for anyone. I think we can show that helping a particular individual does way more good than trying to solve a whole &quot;group of people&#x27;s&quot; &quot;problems&quot;.<p>That&#x27;s why when you read stories about a single guy helping a single homeless person&#x2F;person in straits it truly does mean more for us as individuals than just a charity wanting us to throw money at them.<p>Case in point: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/york-city-programmer-homeless-man-software-coding-classes/story?id=20042021" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;abcnews.go.com&#x2F;Technology&#x2F;york-city-programmer-homele...</a></text></item><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>I know my experience is entirely anecdotal, so even I take it with a grain of salt, but unbiased, verified data on this topic is hard to come by at a large scale. I spend between 10 - 20% of both my income and time working through a charitable organization, and since moving to Silicon Valley a couple of years ago, I have been disappointed to see that most of the people who I&#x27;ve worked with who have become homeless recently enough for me to know the circumstances well (or who have become homeless while I have known them), and most of the people who have had long-term welfare dependencies, have not shown any initiative or drive to seize opportunities. They have rejected job offers for silly reasons, they have soured their relationships with those willing to help them over silly issues, and they have in some cases outright rejected offers of assistance. Now, I don&#x27;t say this to suggest that all homeless people deserve to live in camps like this, but I would like to suggest that the existence of homeless camps is not a sign that our society is beyond &quot;common decency and civilization... so far beyond that it&#x27;s obscene&quot;, as one commenter has described it. I don&#x27;t doubt that there are many who are or who have been in those camps that had fallen on hard times and did not get a fair second chance - but likewise I personally know some who have simply been beyond help, and I don&#x27;t know why. Clearly there are places that have more or less homelessness, so there must be some cause involved that may not be obvious - all I wish to say as that as a &quot;hacker&quot; in Silicon Valley, I have spent my efforts in this direction far enough that my wife asked me to cut back for the sake of our family - and I was simply unable to get most people to accept the help they needed. I am skeptical of suggestions that all that is needed is for the 1% to stop being so 1%-ish. (I apologize - I have made several small edits while organizing my thoughts that aren&#x27;t convenient to label explicitly as edits...)<p>edit: (Yes - another one) For the record, I agree with most of the suggestions that have been provided in responses. I think these are avenues worth further investment and exploration. My only point here is that it&#x27;s not just a case of the 1% in Silicon Valley being selfish.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lutusp</author><text>&gt; are you saying that there is simply no way to improve the circumstances of these people, or that they&#x27;re just not worth the effort because they refuse to help themselves?<p>The issue is deeper than you&#x27;re acknowledging. Evolution by natural selection works only because of perpetual shortage, and because nature doesn&#x27;t waste anything. If we artificially remove any appearance of shortage, of a need to struggle, we remove the incentive to work. So we need to imitate nature at least in some respects. But that goal cannot be achieved if we &quot;improve the circumstances&quot; of everyone in need.<p>In short, if we try to fix the problem of poverty, we will make everyone poor. That&#x27;s history&#x27;s lesson.</text></comment> |
18,394,231 | 18,393,656 | 1 | 2 | 18,392,655 | train | <story><title>Impostor syndrome strikes men just as hard as women in technical interviews</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/impostor-syndrome-strikes-men-just-as-hard-as-women-and-other-findings-from-thousands-of-technical-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>There&#x27;s another similar problem that I&#x27;m seeing that I don&#x27;t think has been pointed out before.<p>Recently, I&#x27;ve been applying for web developer positions and am coming across applications with these sorts of questions:<p>- What&#x27;s the coolest thing you&#x27;ve done both in life and at work?<p>- What are your dreams?<p>- Where do you see yourself in 10 years?<p>I certainly do have answers for these questions, but I can&#x27;t tell if they&#x27;re the ones that employers want to hear. And are these things for other random people to know?<p>There are things I&#x27;ve done that <i>I</i> think are cool, but that doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean that most people will think they are cool. Honestly, there really isn&#x27;t anything about my life that is conventionally cool, even by the standards of the nerdiest nerds. Should my life have been more unique and exciting by this point?<p>The same can basically be said of my dreams, although I do not aspire for big dreams. I haven&#x27;t made enough money yet to even think about anything more grandiose than simply living comfortably. Do my dreams need to be more exciting? Should I be shooting the moon? I feel like any honest answer I give to the question will sound disappointing to any startup.<p>Should I see myself anywhere in particular in 10 years? Beyond making more money and taking on more responsibilities in my career, where should I be in 10 years? My field evolves so rapidly that I can&#x27;t honestly predict that far ahead, let alone 5 years into the future. But maybe I&#x27;m not cut out for what I do if I can&#x27;t see that far ahead?<p>I could very well be what&#x27;s wrong in the picture, but it seems to me like we are culturally intolerant of &quot;normal&quot; people who have a skill and want to make a living. Everyone needs to have dreams, grand aspirations, and a little clairvoyance. I tend to have pretty high confidence, but seeing this kind of language when applying for jobs does stir up that feeling of imposterhood in me.</text></item><item><author>twoquestions</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t help that job ads are wanting &quot;Top 3% only!&quot; or &quot;Only top 1% Ninja Rockstars need apply!&quot;. Kind of reminds me of the market for singers or concert pianists, you <i>absolutely need</i> to be the best, even imperceptibly worse makes you unemployable.<p>Should those of us who aren&#x27;t top 5%&#x2F;didn&#x27;t go to a top school just find another industry, one where sub-perfect work doesn&#x27;t actively make other people&#x27;s jobs harder?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alxlaz</author><text>I&#x27;ve made a point for myself to never ask questions like &quot;what are your dreams&quot; or &quot;where do you see yourself in 10 years&quot; in an interview, ever. For a long time, I&#x27;ve used these as a filter, too. Getting this kind of question in an interview is a big red flag for me and a huge disappointment.<p>Let me elaborate a little.<p>My dreams are none of an interviewer&#x27;s bloody business. I&#x27;m here to work not share the things that give me hope in my darkest moments or the aspirations that shaped my adulthood. I find this question very creepy and extremely unprofessional.<p>I could maybe figure out a &quot;lesser dream&quot; to share, but then what&#x27;s the point of this question? To find out the most intimate thing that I&#x27;d be willing to share?<p>Where I see myself in ten years is a meaningless question to ask after I&#x27;ve had, what, fifteen minutes of exposure to a company&#x27;s culture? Maybe I&#x27;m the kind of person who sees themselves in management over ten years, but you&#x27;ve got such an amazing working culture that you could convince the most ambitious career builder to stick to engineering instead. Or vice-versa. Or do you really want to hire the kind of people who get an idea in their head, and then <i>do it</i>, even if it takes them ten years and it&#x27;s really, really, really bad idea?<p>I&#x27;ve heard all sorts of ways to justify these things. That it&#x27;s a way to see if a candidate can relate to you and evaluate their empathy -- if anything, this will say more about an interviewer&#x27;s biases than about anything else. To see if a candidate can communicate about abstract matters -- as if there are not countless questions about ethics, aesthetics and epistemology in our profession that you need to start prying into personal things. That it&#x27;s a way to see if they&#x27;re &quot;career-oriented&quot;, whatever that means, as if someone who writes amazing code but wouldn&#x27;t hustle for a promotion is a bad hire.<p>So far, it hasn&#x27;t turned out to be a bad idea.</text></comment> | <story><title>Impostor syndrome strikes men just as hard as women in technical interviews</title><url>http://blog.interviewing.io/impostor-syndrome-strikes-men-just-as-hard-as-women-and-other-findings-from-thousands-of-technical-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>There&#x27;s another similar problem that I&#x27;m seeing that I don&#x27;t think has been pointed out before.<p>Recently, I&#x27;ve been applying for web developer positions and am coming across applications with these sorts of questions:<p>- What&#x27;s the coolest thing you&#x27;ve done both in life and at work?<p>- What are your dreams?<p>- Where do you see yourself in 10 years?<p>I certainly do have answers for these questions, but I can&#x27;t tell if they&#x27;re the ones that employers want to hear. And are these things for other random people to know?<p>There are things I&#x27;ve done that <i>I</i> think are cool, but that doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean that most people will think they are cool. Honestly, there really isn&#x27;t anything about my life that is conventionally cool, even by the standards of the nerdiest nerds. Should my life have been more unique and exciting by this point?<p>The same can basically be said of my dreams, although I do not aspire for big dreams. I haven&#x27;t made enough money yet to even think about anything more grandiose than simply living comfortably. Do my dreams need to be more exciting? Should I be shooting the moon? I feel like any honest answer I give to the question will sound disappointing to any startup.<p>Should I see myself anywhere in particular in 10 years? Beyond making more money and taking on more responsibilities in my career, where should I be in 10 years? My field evolves so rapidly that I can&#x27;t honestly predict that far ahead, let alone 5 years into the future. But maybe I&#x27;m not cut out for what I do if I can&#x27;t see that far ahead?<p>I could very well be what&#x27;s wrong in the picture, but it seems to me like we are culturally intolerant of &quot;normal&quot; people who have a skill and want to make a living. Everyone needs to have dreams, grand aspirations, and a little clairvoyance. I tend to have pretty high confidence, but seeing this kind of language when applying for jobs does stir up that feeling of imposterhood in me.</text></item><item><author>twoquestions</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t help that job ads are wanting &quot;Top 3% only!&quot; or &quot;Only top 1% Ninja Rockstars need apply!&quot;. Kind of reminds me of the market for singers or concert pianists, you <i>absolutely need</i> to be the best, even imperceptibly worse makes you unemployable.<p>Should those of us who aren&#x27;t top 5%&#x2F;didn&#x27;t go to a top school just find another industry, one where sub-perfect work doesn&#x27;t actively make other people&#x27;s jobs harder?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>i_cant_speel</author><text>Imagining coming up with an answer to something cool that has happened in my life makes me feel anxious. I have lived a pretty happy and fulfilling life up until this point but I can&#x27;t think of one thing that I&#x27;ve done that would be <i>super cool</i> to talk about. I hope I never have to answer that question.</text></comment> |
7,262,648 | 7,262,512 | 1 | 2 | 7,262,274 | train | <story><title>I Am A Ukrainian, This Needs To Go Viral</title><url>http://thoughtcatalog.com/danielle-ryan/2014/02/i-am-a-ukrainian-this-needs-to-go-viral/#QzliZ6qPVHYTmH2o.01</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>memracom</author><text>This is a pure propaganda piece that shows nothing other than some skill in video editing and constructing a sound track.<p>Think, people, think.<p>Do you want to spread this message in your countries? This summer when there is an Occupy or 99% demonstration in your country, do you want young men in helmets and masks carrying baseball bats and molotov cocktails to take charge of it? Will you carry a pistol with you at the demonstration to shoot police officers?<p>If not, then do not distribute this video.<p>Nothing good comes from the kind of violence that these idiots in Kyiv have started. They sit there at the Maidan with a 24 hour diet of patriotic songs and exhortations to valor and courage. If you wanted to set up a camp to train suicide bombers, this is exactly the kind of propaganda barrage that you would use. These people are brainwashed zombies and they are trying to use YOU to infect everyone else in preparation for the REAL zombie apocalypse.<p>This is no joke. Just say no to mindless propaganda and learn to THINK FOR YOURSELF. It wouldn&#x27;t hurt to read some history and learn how much can be achieved by tireless negotiation and compromise to build a common ground and a political party. The Hitler style of party building never ends well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>balladeer</author><text>Honestly memracom, you come across as someone who has never seen it, or worse still, never known it or even tried. What&#x27;s more shocking is your comment is on the top.<p>&gt; Nothing good comes from the kind of violence that these idiots in Kyiv have started.<p>Pick any revolution and you&#x27;ll know how any good came out of it. This is the last resort and this is the only way.<p>You know why this is the only way? Because the dictators or the tyrants didn&#x27;t grab the power as a result of some misunderstanding. It was well planned for years and then executed with precision. Later, once they had it, they made sure, for decades, that the power stays with them and it goes further and further from the people. Now, I have no love for communism, I consider this best for romantic intellectualism on paper but the worst policy in real life. It&#x27;s not even about that. It&#x27;s not even anarchy. It&#x27;s like fighting for your life, you hit with what you got, and what you can.<p>So no, dialogue is not going to work. They know they are corrupt, they know they are tyrants, they know they are evil. What are you gonna negotiate with them? All they want is to remain in power (unchecked) and that is exactly what you don&#x27;t want. Where does that leave you?</text></comment> | <story><title>I Am A Ukrainian, This Needs To Go Viral</title><url>http://thoughtcatalog.com/danielle-ryan/2014/02/i-am-a-ukrainian-this-needs-to-go-viral/#QzliZ6qPVHYTmH2o.01</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>memracom</author><text>This is a pure propaganda piece that shows nothing other than some skill in video editing and constructing a sound track.<p>Think, people, think.<p>Do you want to spread this message in your countries? This summer when there is an Occupy or 99% demonstration in your country, do you want young men in helmets and masks carrying baseball bats and molotov cocktails to take charge of it? Will you carry a pistol with you at the demonstration to shoot police officers?<p>If not, then do not distribute this video.<p>Nothing good comes from the kind of violence that these idiots in Kyiv have started. They sit there at the Maidan with a 24 hour diet of patriotic songs and exhortations to valor and courage. If you wanted to set up a camp to train suicide bombers, this is exactly the kind of propaganda barrage that you would use. These people are brainwashed zombies and they are trying to use YOU to infect everyone else in preparation for the REAL zombie apocalypse.<p>This is no joke. Just say no to mindless propaganda and learn to THINK FOR YOURSELF. It wouldn&#x27;t hurt to read some history and learn how much can be achieved by tireless negotiation and compromise to build a common ground and a political party. The Hitler style of party building never ends well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sgift</author><text>&gt; Do you want to spread this message in your countries? This summer when there is an Occupy or 99% demonstration in your country, do you want young men in helmets and mass carrying baseball bats and molotov cocktails to take charge of it? Will you carry a pistol with you at the demonstration to shoot police officers?<p>Depends: Will the police by the time the next big Occupy protests start already have shot people without reason? Tortured others to make them give up? Well, then I may consider these things if I still have the bravery to be part of such a protest.</text></comment> |
14,304,875 | 14,304,640 | 1 | 2 | 14,304,088 | train | <story><title>President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/comey-misstated-key-clinton-email-evidence-at-hearing-say-people-close-to-investigation/2017/05/09/074c1c7e-34bd-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sacheendra</author><text>Why does he use language like &quot;We did not include any evidence in our report&quot;?<p>Does this imply that there was evidence and he did not include it?</text></item><item><author>jayess</author><text>James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Monday that he still has not seen any evidence of any kind of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian foreign nationals.<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-N.C., asked if Clapper&#x27;s prior statement was correct, when he said on NBC that there was &quot;no evidence&#x27; of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. When asked if that is still accurate, Clapper said Monday, &quot;it is.&quot;<p>On NBC weeks earlier, Clapper said, &quot;We did not include any evidence in our report, and I say, &#x27;our,&#x27; that&#x27;s NSA, FBI and CIA, with my office, the Director of National Intelligence, that had anything, that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians. There was no evidence of that included in our report.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;james-clapper-still-no-evidence-of-any-russian-collusion-with-trump-campaign&#x2F;article&#x2F;2622452" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;james-clapper-still-no-evi...</a></text></item><item><author>TheBiv</author><text>&quot;Trump just fired the man leading a counterintelligence investigation into his campaign, on the same day that the Senate Intelligence commitee requested financial documents relating to Trump&#x27;s business dealings from the treasury department that handles money laundering.&quot; -Comment from reddit that sums up how strange this is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neuronexmachina</author><text>It&#x27;s more-or-less a Glomar response, crafted to neither confirm or deny that evidence exists. This is frankly the right thing to say when there&#x27;s an ongoing investigation and the results aren&#x27;t made available to the speaker.</text></comment> | <story><title>President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/comey-misstated-key-clinton-email-evidence-at-hearing-say-people-close-to-investigation/2017/05/09/074c1c7e-34bd-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sacheendra</author><text>Why does he use language like &quot;We did not include any evidence in our report&quot;?<p>Does this imply that there was evidence and he did not include it?</text></item><item><author>jayess</author><text>James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Monday that he still has not seen any evidence of any kind of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian foreign nationals.<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-N.C., asked if Clapper&#x27;s prior statement was correct, when he said on NBC that there was &quot;no evidence&#x27; of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. When asked if that is still accurate, Clapper said Monday, &quot;it is.&quot;<p>On NBC weeks earlier, Clapper said, &quot;We did not include any evidence in our report, and I say, &#x27;our,&#x27; that&#x27;s NSA, FBI and CIA, with my office, the Director of National Intelligence, that had anything, that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians. There was no evidence of that included in our report.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;james-clapper-still-no-evidence-of-any-russian-collusion-with-trump-campaign&#x2F;article&#x2F;2622452" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;james-clapper-still-no-evi...</a></text></item><item><author>TheBiv</author><text>&quot;Trump just fired the man leading a counterintelligence investigation into his campaign, on the same day that the Senate Intelligence commitee requested financial documents relating to Trump&#x27;s business dealings from the treasury department that handles money laundering.&quot; -Comment from reddit that sums up how strange this is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cli</author><text>I watched that NBC interview here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;politics-news&#x2F;former-dni-james-clapper-i-can-deny-wiretap-trump-tower-n729261" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;politics-news&#x2F;former-dni-jam...</a>. Right after Clapper answered, the interviewer asked him whether the information exists, and Clapper answered that it does not to his knowledge, but he does not know whether more information has come to light since he left office.</text></comment> |
31,919,286 | 31,918,965 | 1 | 2 | 31,918,156 | train | <story><title>Humans can't endure temperatures and humidities as high as previously thought</title><url>https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/humans-cant-endure-temperatures-and-humidities-high-previously-thought/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jokoon</author><text>At +3 or +4 degrees celsius, expect people to die in India, Amazonia, Nigeria, parts of Pacific Islands.<p>There will be a lot of climatic migrants, I guess many more than the ones caused by the Syrian civil war or the invasion of Ukraine. Just imagine people fleeing the heat.<p>I live in the south of france, and I already want to move out to a colder place. Summers are too long.<p>Maybe there is a taboo about heat, because heatwaves are just not bearable, at least for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>During any heatwave, people with heart and blood pressure issues suffer extra. Usually heat waves result in extra deaths especially among elderly people or obese people. High temperatures combined with high humidity are particularly dangerous even before they get lethal for healthy people.<p>Increasing frequency and severity of heat waves are definitely a noticeable thing. My parents actually lived in the South of France for a few years after their retirement. They were there in the last few weeks for a brief vacation and temperatures went well over 40 degrees in June. That used to be unusual even in the hottest month (July) and is now a yearly recurring thing. Luckily, humidity tends to be quite low in that particular area. But still, 40-45 degrees is a lot to deal with for people.<p>I think migration will be more an indirect consequence of local economies collapsing when e.g. agriculture becomes hard&#x2F;impossible due to rising temperatures. People tend to move for economic reasons. Any mass casualties in a wet bulb heat event might of course cause people to panic. But richer countries would be able to compensate with technology by e.g. desalinating water and having buildings with AC. It&#x27;s poor countries that lack the means for this that are going to suffer most.<p>Neal Stephenson has some nice perspective on this in his latest novel Termination Shock where people in e.g. Texas are dealing with temperatures that are basically not survivable without a so-called earth suit, which is a battery powered cooling solution people wear to be able to be outside in 50 degree+ Celsius heat. Those might become an actual thing people would need to own pretty soon in some places.</text></comment> | <story><title>Humans can't endure temperatures and humidities as high as previously thought</title><url>https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/humans-cant-endure-temperatures-and-humidities-high-previously-thought/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jokoon</author><text>At +3 or +4 degrees celsius, expect people to die in India, Amazonia, Nigeria, parts of Pacific Islands.<p>There will be a lot of climatic migrants, I guess many more than the ones caused by the Syrian civil war or the invasion of Ukraine. Just imagine people fleeing the heat.<p>I live in the south of france, and I already want to move out to a colder place. Summers are too long.<p>Maybe there is a taboo about heat, because heatwaves are just not bearable, at least for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sph</author><text>I&#x27;m in the market for a house and friends make fun of me when I say I do not want to live in Southern Europe because of climate change, even though I miss it.<p>Whenever I&#x27;ll buy, I have to consider that in 30 years it&#x27;s going to be hotter and I&#x27;ll be 65 years old.<p>I used to live in Italy, it&#x27;s going to be up to 39C in Rome the next two weeks.<p>I&#x27;ll miss the sea and the food by staying north, though we&#x27;ll be planting cantaloupes and prickly pears here in England in 3 decades.</text></comment> |
41,559,020 | 41,556,603 | 1 | 2 | 41,551,084 | train | <story><title>Nothing: Simply Do Nothing</title><url>https://usenothing.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InDubioProRubio</author><text>? Go for a walk. Walking is what our ancestors did, to go into &quot;finding&quot; modus. Find a route to water, find prey, find adversaries to find you and find out. Or at least find the way home.<p>All senses get stimulated, a moving mind in a moving body. The great outdoors, fresh air, i shite being Scottish.<p>If you have a problem you need to solve, but don&#x27;t know how, just walk up to a overview point and look down on the problem every day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>331c8c71</author><text>Maybe walking will work for me when I am older but it is not intense enough now. Cycling seems to be perfect as the scenery changes much faster and there is more opportunity to challenge myself (;</text></comment> | <story><title>Nothing: Simply Do Nothing</title><url>https://usenothing.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InDubioProRubio</author><text>? Go for a walk. Walking is what our ancestors did, to go into &quot;finding&quot; modus. Find a route to water, find prey, find adversaries to find you and find out. Or at least find the way home.<p>All senses get stimulated, a moving mind in a moving body. The great outdoors, fresh air, i shite being Scottish.<p>If you have a problem you need to solve, but don&#x27;t know how, just walk up to a overview point and look down on the problem every day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hnuser123456</author><text>I think the intention is to not even try to identify solutions, or even identify problems. If you&#x27;re opening this page on your computer or phone, presumably, you have nothing 100% critical pressing right now. Now take it to the extreme, and see if you can quiet your brain for a minute or so. Walking is not as &quot;pure nothing&quot; as sitting and letting your brain wander anywhere as long as it&#x27;s not reminding you of obligation stress. You might even start to daydream a pleasant setting.</text></comment> |
15,025,880 | 15,025,109 | 1 | 2 | 15,007,942 | train | <story><title>Selection bias is the most powerful force in education</title><url>https://fredrikdeboer.com/2017/03/29/why-selection-bias-is-the-most-powerful-force-in-education/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fragsworth</author><text>I think the network is overrated. Everyone I&#x27;ve known has had the same experience - immediately after graduating, everyone gets a job, moves far away from one another, and slowly drifts apart from the friends they met in college.<p>You&#x27;ll get a similar network working at your first job. And then your second job. The group you met in college is of little consequence in the end.</text></item><item><author>calebl</author><text>Loved this article. It presents a compelling case that most colleges are providing near-equivalent <i>education</i>, and that the variance is mostly in selection bias. My only objection: at the end, the author takes issue with the fact that it&#x27;s nearly impossible to get people to take selection bias into account when choosing where to send their kids. However, there&#x27;s another possible factor that I think parents might be considering: the network of connections that I build when I go to school X. Even if Harvard gives my daughter the same educational quality that, say, Florida State gives her... if she&#x27;s likely to form a network of friends that are all approximately 100x higher in net worth, then if I care about her long-term economic outcomes, I&#x27;d still try hard to send her to Harvard, no?<p>I&#x27;m not saying that&#x27;s ideal, and it&#x27;s most certainly an outcome of the exact selection bias you&#x27;re talking about... just that it&#x27;s a semi-rational choice for the parents, because school choices can often be about non-educational effects.<p>Just my two cents, though... I could be way off. And regardless, thanks for the article.. definitely made me think about the topic more than I had.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zeta0134</author><text>Speak for yourself. My current career in systems administration, a pleasant improvement over my retail start during college, was gained through my network of college friends. I don&#x27;t keep in touch with them often, but we went to the same programming classes, and know each other&#x27;s relative strengths. One of my buddies took me to lunch with his friends that work here, and one thing led to another. I still had to apply and go through the technical screening just like anyone else, but just like that I had an &quot;in&quot; and was able to perform a class jump.<p>Is my experience anecdotal? Absolutely! I didn&#x27;t even finish my degree, which makes this a weird exception story. On paper, college got me nothing, but in reality, the network of contacts and the life experiences I earned were far more useful to me than the degree I never obtained.</text></comment> | <story><title>Selection bias is the most powerful force in education</title><url>https://fredrikdeboer.com/2017/03/29/why-selection-bias-is-the-most-powerful-force-in-education/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fragsworth</author><text>I think the network is overrated. Everyone I&#x27;ve known has had the same experience - immediately after graduating, everyone gets a job, moves far away from one another, and slowly drifts apart from the friends they met in college.<p>You&#x27;ll get a similar network working at your first job. And then your second job. The group you met in college is of little consequence in the end.</text></item><item><author>calebl</author><text>Loved this article. It presents a compelling case that most colleges are providing near-equivalent <i>education</i>, and that the variance is mostly in selection bias. My only objection: at the end, the author takes issue with the fact that it&#x27;s nearly impossible to get people to take selection bias into account when choosing where to send their kids. However, there&#x27;s another possible factor that I think parents might be considering: the network of connections that I build when I go to school X. Even if Harvard gives my daughter the same educational quality that, say, Florida State gives her... if she&#x27;s likely to form a network of friends that are all approximately 100x higher in net worth, then if I care about her long-term economic outcomes, I&#x27;d still try hard to send her to Harvard, no?<p>I&#x27;m not saying that&#x27;s ideal, and it&#x27;s most certainly an outcome of the exact selection bias you&#x27;re talking about... just that it&#x27;s a semi-rational choice for the parents, because school choices can often be about non-educational effects.<p>Just my two cents, though... I could be way off. And regardless, thanks for the article.. definitely made me think about the topic more than I had.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taneq</author><text>To give an opposing anecdote, I&#x27;ve landed more than half of my full time permanent positions through personal recommendations or references from people I know from university. And these jobs have by far been more interesting and&#x2F;or better for my career than ones I found through recruiters or vacancy ads.</text></comment> |
18,044,480 | 18,044,220 | 1 | 2 | 18,044,105 | train | <story><title>The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel business model</title><url>https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/09/22/the-fed-stalls-the-creation-of-a-bank-with-a-novel-business-model</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dannyw</author><text>In a competitive market, if the Fed is paying out 1.95% to bank reserves, there is no reason why my savings account shouldn&#x27;t pay me that figure minus a spread for expenses and a profit spread.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel business model</title><url>https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/09/22/the-fed-stalls-the-creation-of-a-bank-with-a-novel-business-model</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>User23</author><text>There is the usual misinformation in this article. Banks don’t loan out deposits. Originating loans expands their balance sheet. Deposits are useful to satisfy reserve requirements, when they exist[1], but if the loan is profitable the bank can always borrow the reserves at a lower rate on the interbank market.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.federalreserve.gov&#x2F;monetarypolicy&#x2F;reservereq.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.federalreserve.gov&#x2F;monetarypolicy&#x2F;reservereq.htm</a></text></comment> |
16,708,143 | 16,708,268 | 1 | 3 | 16,707,421 | train | <story><title>Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets reality</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-banks-fintech-blockchain/wall-street-rethinks-blockchain-projects-as-euphoria-meets-reality-idUSKBN1H32GO</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hudon</author><text>I think the fundamental assumption is that &quot;Satoshi invented a useful solution to decentralized consensus&quot;.<p>What people don&#x27;t realize is that Satoshi&#x27;s solution only works if two assumptions hold true:<p>1. Mining is decentralized: If mining is centralized than relying on proof-of-work for consensus is waste since the centralized entity controls the blockchain anyway.<p>2. Consensus rules don&#x27;t change: If you see the threat of #1 and so take power away from miners (like Bitcoin has done), then you cannot ever change the consensus ruleset because aside from proof-of-work, Satoshi did not give any solution to the problem of choosing between 2 chains that have slightly different consensus rules. If you change the consensus ruleset (ie. make any changes where 2 nodes disagree on if a block is valid or not), then you need an oracle to tell you which chain to choose. We&#x27;ve seen this when Core developers chose the 0.7 Bitcoin chain in 2013 and when Vitalik chose the forked Ethereum chain in 2016.<p>At the end of the day, the blockchain&#x27;s decentralization is a myth because it relies on false assumptions. Satoshi invented a Rube Goldberg machine that is currently using as much electricity as a medium-sized country (and also enabling things like money laundering, drug trafficking, etc.).</text></item><item><author>nwah1</author><text>It is interesting that even in an article like this that they still say things like &quot;for all its potential, blockchain is still in its early days.&quot; It is sticking with the unfounded assumption that it will be a success in the future, if only it is given more time. In technological terms, it is old. Innumerable efforts have been attempted, yielding almost no fruit.<p>At what point are the fundamental assumptions going to be questioned?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>Mining is decentralized</i><p>Cryptocurrency mining is as close as one can get to a theoretical free market in the real world. Free markets have known modes of failure [1]. One of these is where first-mover advantage and economies of scale combine to produce a barrier to entry; the result is oligopoly or monopoly.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Market_failure" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Market_failure</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets reality</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-banks-fintech-blockchain/wall-street-rethinks-blockchain-projects-as-euphoria-meets-reality-idUSKBN1H32GO</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hudon</author><text>I think the fundamental assumption is that &quot;Satoshi invented a useful solution to decentralized consensus&quot;.<p>What people don&#x27;t realize is that Satoshi&#x27;s solution only works if two assumptions hold true:<p>1. Mining is decentralized: If mining is centralized than relying on proof-of-work for consensus is waste since the centralized entity controls the blockchain anyway.<p>2. Consensus rules don&#x27;t change: If you see the threat of #1 and so take power away from miners (like Bitcoin has done), then you cannot ever change the consensus ruleset because aside from proof-of-work, Satoshi did not give any solution to the problem of choosing between 2 chains that have slightly different consensus rules. If you change the consensus ruleset (ie. make any changes where 2 nodes disagree on if a block is valid or not), then you need an oracle to tell you which chain to choose. We&#x27;ve seen this when Core developers chose the 0.7 Bitcoin chain in 2013 and when Vitalik chose the forked Ethereum chain in 2016.<p>At the end of the day, the blockchain&#x27;s decentralization is a myth because it relies on false assumptions. Satoshi invented a Rube Goldberg machine that is currently using as much electricity as a medium-sized country (and also enabling things like money laundering, drug trafficking, etc.).</text></item><item><author>nwah1</author><text>It is interesting that even in an article like this that they still say things like &quot;for all its potential, blockchain is still in its early days.&quot; It is sticking with the unfounded assumption that it will be a success in the future, if only it is given more time. In technological terms, it is old. Innumerable efforts have been attempted, yielding almost no fruit.<p>At what point are the fundamental assumptions going to be questioned?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brightball</author><text>But one of the biggest selling points of Bitcoin itself was mathematically limited supply. A new cryptocurrency appearing every day fundamentally undermines the value proposition.<p>Blockchain may have value as a decentralized ledger in other areas, but “lots of blockchain based currencies” aren’t really one of them since it’s self-sabotaging.</text></comment> |
12,184,344 | 12,184,212 | 1 | 2 | 12,183,898 | train | <story><title>Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/microsoft-to-cut-2-850-more-jobs-in-exit-from-phone-business</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtrip</author><text>The best part, Nokia gets shafted in all of this. Nokia got dragged along in this clown show and we lose out on getting great hardware. Not to mention the software side of things that drowned as Nokia got torpedoed. Here&#x27;s hoping they can rise from the ashes again. Maybe their spin off services like here maps are a sign of life.<p>Edit: Maybe I speak from a position of ignorance about the industry. But I also remember thinking how greatly awesome it would have been if I could run Android on the new Lumia hardware. I also remember the fact that Nokia was worth 30 bn before the new ceo, ex microsoft employee, came in and within years it was left worth 9 bn; pop culture facts I suppose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavlov</author><text>Nokia didn&#x27;t get shafted. They got $7.2 billion USD for the phone unit that was losing money at an incredible rate in 2013. They used that money to buy Alcatel-Lucent and now they&#x27;re a major force in networks.<p>I honestly believe Nokia would have been bankrupt by now if Microsoft hadn&#x27;t bailed them out. And if Nokia hadn&#x27;t adopted Windows Phone, they wouldn&#x27;t have had Ballmer&#x27;s ear to convince him to sign on such a bad deal. Elop deserves more recognition for this manoeuvre than he gets.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft to Cut 2,850 More Jobs in Exit from Phone Business</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/microsoft-to-cut-2-850-more-jobs-in-exit-from-phone-business</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtrip</author><text>The best part, Nokia gets shafted in all of this. Nokia got dragged along in this clown show and we lose out on getting great hardware. Not to mention the software side of things that drowned as Nokia got torpedoed. Here&#x27;s hoping they can rise from the ashes again. Maybe their spin off services like here maps are a sign of life.<p>Edit: Maybe I speak from a position of ignorance about the industry. But I also remember thinking how greatly awesome it would have been if I could run Android on the new Lumia hardware. I also remember the fact that Nokia was worth 30 bn before the new ceo, ex microsoft employee, came in and within years it was left worth 9 bn; pop culture facts I suppose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>megablast</author><text>You can&#x27;t blame Microsoft for Nokia, Nokia screwed themselves over. They never considered the importance off software, hardware was always number one for Nokia. Even when the iPhone came out they laughed and didn&#x27;t change tack.<p>They had all the money, all the opportunity, and they thought if they keep pumping out the same stuff, people will stay with them.</text></comment> |
4,637,540 | 4,637,357 | 1 | 3 | 4,637,196 | train | <story><title>Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/q/11227809/399268</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Modern architectures really are quite complex, and it's important to keep your internal machine model up to date with what's happening. Examples: It used to be on a 486 even correctly-predicted taken branches had a two-cycle penalty. It used to be important whether you arranged your code so the most commonly taken code was on the fall through path or not. Today, correctly predicted branches are free--the processor stitches together the current path and the new path so there are no bubbles in the pipeline. Virtual function calls also used to be more expensive back in the day, because CPU's didn't try to predict the target address of the branch. Today, CPU's have a buffer that maps from a program counter to a target address, so if your virtual function call predictably hits the same target each time, the only overhead will be the extra memory accesses to indirect through the v-table.<p>At the same time, things that are expensive today may not be so in the near future. Haswell is supposed to make uncontended synchronization operations almost free. It'll make a lot of algorithms, particularly lock-free algorithms, much more practical than they are today. For example, C++ smart pointers are slow in multi-threaded situations because the reference count manipulation needs to be done under a lock. But the lock is almost never needed (except when it is). Cheap synchronization should make it much more practical to use reference counting more pervasively in C++ programs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/q/11227809/399268</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Bakkot</author><text>Several months old, but still worth a read - especially for the end of Mystical's comment, where he discusses the different optimizations performed by different compilers. Particularly interesting is the Intel Compiler, which effectively optimizes out the benchmark itself: something to keep in mind when testing your own code, if you want your results to make sense.</text></comment> |
37,908,207 | 37,908,361 | 1 | 2 | 37,907,901 | train | <story><title>BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin [pdf]</title><url>https://bitvm.org/bitvm.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>troymc</author><text>The second sentence of the abstract says, &quot;Rather than executing computations on Bitcoin, they are merely verified...&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin [pdf]</title><url>https://bitvm.org/bitvm.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kelseyfrog</author><text>Definitely opens the possibility of a Bitcoin-on-Bitcoin implementation.</text></comment> |
37,826,729 | 37,826,523 | 1 | 2 | 37,826,357 | train | <story><title>DSLinux – Linux for the Nintendo DS</title><url>https://www.dslinux.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erik</author><text>I made a few small contributions to this a long time ago. Nice to see that the website is still up!<p>Probably the most interesting feature of this project was how it handled memory. The DS only has 4mb of ram. And there is no MMU, so swap isn&#x27;t an option. But the gameboy cartridge port has 32mb of address space mapped to the bus. And there are homebrew&#x2F;piracy cartridges that fill that space with 32mb of ram. Which is great, except that the DS can only write to the cartridge port on 16-bit aligned addresses. And almost all software will assume that 8-bit aligned writes will work. To make use of the expansion memory the developers ended up creating a patched GCC that would convert any writes to unaligned locations to an appropriate read, 16-bit write, and set of shift operations.</text></comment> | <story><title>DSLinux – Linux for the Nintendo DS</title><url>https://www.dslinux.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikhael28</author><text>I recently did a deep dive into DS homebrew. Some cool stuff - a Yugioh calculator, mp3 player, port of Doom. In particular, I just love the hardware of the DS Lite or the DsI - it feels great in 2023, and the symmetrical screens are amazing when holding in vertical mode reading an ebook or playing Hotel Dusk. It also has one of the best pieces of software ever for learning Chinese, ‘My Chinese Coach’ - there are additionally two more (at least) homebrew software packages that focus on Chinese, such as DS Zhongwhen.<p>DS is very underrated - so many great games, and it’s an emulation dream. All without being too powerful, and having ‘realistic’ graphics that just drain battery life.</text></comment> |
13,738,228 | 13,737,781 | 1 | 2 | 13,736,763 | train | <story><title>The rise of AI is creating new variety in the chip market, and trouble for Intel</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/business/21717430-success-nvidia-and-its-new-computing-chip-signals-rapid-change-it-architecture</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>friedman23</author><text>&gt; Instead of making ASICS or FPGAs, Intel focused in recent years on making its CPU processors ever more powerful<p>If only, intel has been abusing their market position and pushing out &quot;upgrades&quot; that barely have a performance improvement over the previous generation.<p>AI is not going to eat intel&#x27;s lunch, all those computers still require cpus. AMD on the other hand may eat intel&#x27;s lunch by releasing powerful multicore processors for half the price all because they don&#x27;t waste space on the die for things like integrated graphics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>If only, intel has been abusing their market position and pushing out &quot;upgrades&quot; that barely have a performance improvement over the previous generation.</i><p>And why is that because of &quot;abusing their market position&quot;, as opposed to plainly and clearly being more difficult to get faster processors at 14 nm and lower resolutions (and with the low power requirements of today)?<p>Besides, the trend the article points to is a BS fad as I see it (and I&#x27;ve seen 5-6 of those play out in the last 30 years). ASICS and FPGAs wont even come close to bringing in as much cash as general purpose CPUs do for Intel.</text></comment> | <story><title>The rise of AI is creating new variety in the chip market, and trouble for Intel</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/business/21717430-success-nvidia-and-its-new-computing-chip-signals-rapid-change-it-architecture</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>friedman23</author><text>&gt; Instead of making ASICS or FPGAs, Intel focused in recent years on making its CPU processors ever more powerful<p>If only, intel has been abusing their market position and pushing out &quot;upgrades&quot; that barely have a performance improvement over the previous generation.<p>AI is not going to eat intel&#x27;s lunch, all those computers still require cpus. AMD on the other hand may eat intel&#x27;s lunch by releasing powerful multicore processors for half the price all because they don&#x27;t waste space on the die for things like integrated graphics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petra</author><text>ASIC&#x2F;FPGA or even GPU&#x27;s aren&#x27;t the future of neural computing. The future is analog(orders of magnitude perf&#x2F;watt and perf&#x2F;$). That require older fabs, optimized for analog, and having good embedded flash, which TSMC has and Intel mostly hasn&#x27;t got.<p>And that same future applies not only for neural computing, but for a field called approximate-computing, i.e. computing where results aren&#x27;t accurate.Some&#x2F;many signal and image processing work well with that. I&#x27;ve also seen some research about doing scientific computing on approximate hardware and correcting errors.</text></comment> |
958,365 | 958,070 | 1 | 2 | 957,936 | train | <story><title>Can I talk to that William fellow? He was so helpful.</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/11/23/9927055.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spudlyo</author><text>This story is mostly true, although it's not quite how I remember it. In 1989 I was a product support services intern working at Microsoft's Lincoln Plaza campus. I worked for the 'System Languages' team, or SysLang as we called ourselves. We supported Micorosft C 5.x, QuickC, and their Pascal product and associated tools like the M editor and CodeView. One day (I don't remember if it was November or not) Bill came through on a tour of PSS. I mentioned to another intern, Nadine, that it would be cool if Bill took a call from a customer. When he came by our area with a group of other management types she bounded up to him with a huge smile on her face and asked if he'd like to see how things worked for himself, and take a call from a customer. The people he was with tried to dissuade him of this idea, saying something about schedules and the like, but Bill liked the idea and wanted to do it. At the time, I was a real clean freak, and my cube was very clean and devoid of clutter, so I suggested he sit down at my desk. I explained to him how the Aspect phone system worked and how to look up things in our STARS knowledge base using an OS/2 terminal program connected to a DEC minicomputer. He got settled in, and eventually took a call, greeting the customer like:<p>"Hello, Product Support Services, this is William, how may I help you?"<p>Just about everyone who wasn't currently on a call with a customer was gathered around my cube listening. I seem to remember the customer having a problem with the linker. Bill queried the knowledge base, which was normally painfully slow, but this time it was snappy and responsive. The first result looked like it might have addressed the customer's problem, and Bill went with it. I of course only heard one side of the conversation, but it sounded like the customer wasn't satisfied with the answer. Bill was firm yet polite, reassuring the customer that we had seen this problem before and that his solution was correct, and the customer eventually agreed to try the solution mentioned in the STARS article. An hour or so later, my friend Tad got that customer again, and he mentioned that William had helped him with his problem earlier but his solution didn't work. Tad let the customer know that he had in fact talked to Bill Gates, and helped him with his problem. I don't remember how/if it got solved though.<p>That was quite a big day for me. For years I had saved the yellow pad that had Bill's notes from the call.</text></comment> | <story><title>Can I talk to that William fellow? He was so helpful.</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/11/23/9927055.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sunir</author><text>The best thing you can ever do for your company is to put every employee in front of customers. One of the things that attracted me to FreshBooks was that they rotate everyone through customer support continuously. As a (former) developer who was tired of consistently building the wrong thing because sales and marketing jealously guarded the customer, this was very refreshing.<p>This isn't a novel idea. Many companies with customer service orientations have done this. If you're selling Software-as-a-<i>Service</i>, that ought to include you!</text></comment> |
8,318,557 | 8,318,567 | 1 | 3 | 8,318,321 | train | <story><title>Canon printer hacked to run Doom</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29203776</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coldpie</author><text>The linked-through blog article describing the decryption process was interesting:<p><a href="http://www.contextis.co.uk/resources/blog/hacking-canon-pixma-printers-doomed-encryption/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.contextis.co.uk&#x2F;resources&#x2F;blog&#x2F;hacking-canon-pixm...</a><p>What I especially liked is that this was literally one of the challenges from the Matasano crypto challenges:<p><a href="http://cryptopals.com/sets/1/challenges/6/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cryptopals.com&#x2F;sets&#x2F;1&#x2F;challenges&#x2F;6&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s fun when theory meets practice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Canon printer hacked to run Doom</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29203776</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wesley</author><text>I&#x27;d like someone to make custom firmware to stop these new canon pixma&#x27;s from cleaning themselves at every start, and generally taking minutes before even starting to print. It&#x27;s ludicrous.</text></comment> |
9,668,490 | 9,667,956 | 1 | 2 | 9,666,701 | train | <story><title>Visual Studio Online Supports Cross-Platform Development</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2015/06/05/visual-studio-online-supports-true-cross_2d00_platform-development-_2200_team-explorer-everywhere_2200_-tee-jenkins-git-xcode-mac-tfs-vso-_2200_visual-studio-online_2200_.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>integraton</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;</a> have free unlimited private repositories. Both are excellent.</text></item><item><author>ohitsdom</author><text>Love the new Microsoft. For small side projects&#x2F;prototypes, I have tended to not use version control (I know, the horror). I just stumbled across their free private repo storage this morning, and it&#x27;s going to be a huge improvement in my at-home workflow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amyjess</author><text>It&#x27;s also a pretty good use for a VPS, too. I mostly just use local version control for my stuff, but I enjoy being able to just push to the Mercurial repo on my Linode whenever I want to back stuff up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Visual Studio Online Supports Cross-Platform Development</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2015/06/05/visual-studio-online-supports-true-cross_2d00_platform-development-_2200_team-explorer-everywhere_2200_-tee-jenkins-git-xcode-mac-tfs-vso-_2200_visual-studio-online_2200_.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>integraton</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;</a> have free unlimited private repositories. Both are excellent.</text></item><item><author>ohitsdom</author><text>Love the new Microsoft. For small side projects&#x2F;prototypes, I have tended to not use version control (I know, the horror). I just stumbled across their free private repo storage this morning, and it&#x27;s going to be a huge improvement in my at-home workflow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>M8</author><text>Never had any problems with BitBucket over a few years. Using Mercurial though, which helps.</text></comment> |
16,126,112 | 16,125,969 | 1 | 2 | 16,125,320 | train | <story><title>House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Limits</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-congress-trump.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rektide</author><text>As Wyden[1] points out, Congress has nearly no information on what impact the FISA program has. How many Americans are targeted already? The military refuses to answer Congress. How many emails &amp; other collections are swept up? The military refuses to answer to Congress.<p>This bill explicitly allows it&#x27;s use directly against Americans and declares which circumstances the FBI &amp; other agencies need to use warrants and where these agencies will now be permitted warrantless access to FISA collections.<p>&quot;Abouts&quot; collection has a direct means to being permitted again. Ever use the word Benghazi in an email? Ok, all your communication might be wiretapped from now on. If the FBI ever wants to investigate you for something non terrorism related, something totally unrelated to Benghazi? No problem. Maybe- in some cases- they MIGHT need a warrant.<p>Just Security had a great writeup[2]. This bill is a travesty, especially given that Congress has again and again asked for some information to inform them about how FISA is being used already, and the military has stonewalled and stonewalled and stonewalled. That congress would radically expand these powers, let them now directly target Americans, and would allow the FBI &amp; others access to this program, after being continually rebuffed, AND would make this program unable to be challenged in court- it&#x27;s the pinnacle of madness. It&#x27;s complete dereliction of duty by congress, and one of the saddest moments of cowardice in the US Governments history that we&#x27;d stoop so low.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thecipherbrief.com&#x2F;column_article&#x2F;dont-pass-surveillance-legislation-dark#.WlX-vO2BQqo.twitter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thecipherbrief.com&#x2F;column_article&#x2F;dont-pass-surv...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justsecurity.org&#x2F;50801&#x2F;house-intelligence-committees-section-702-bill-wolf-sheeps-clothing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justsecurity.org&#x2F;50801&#x2F;house-intelligence-commit...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Limits</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-congress-trump.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bgentry</author><text>55 House Democrats, including Pelosi, voted against the USA Rights Act amendment that would have substantially limited the surveillance against US citizens. 65 House Democrats ultimately voted in favor of this bill and giving the Trump admin more unchecked surveillance powers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;gzornick&#x2F;status&#x2F;951501089047764992" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;gzornick&#x2F;status&#x2F;951501089047764992</a>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;clerk.house.gov&#x2F;evs&#x2F;2018&#x2F;roll016.xml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;clerk.house.gov&#x2F;evs&#x2F;2018&#x2F;roll016.xml</a></text></comment> |
2,644,439 | 2,644,480 | 1 | 3 | 2,644,338 | train | <story><title>Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB VPS</title><url>http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddrager</author><text>Why not just 18... why not 48 or 128 or 1024? Questions like this are always loaded. First of all:<p>- This assumes the end user is familiar with command line usage. The typical consumer of VPSes aren't, in my experience, and rely on something like cPanel to do all administration. Which is why you can't really run on 64MB.<p>- The site itself doesn't take up RAM, just disk space. If you have 1024 static sites the only thing taking up ram is the configuration of the sites sitting in Apache's memory. As long as there isn't a lot of traffic on the site, it doesn't really matter how many there are.<p>- You could have 1 static site that has a medium amount of traffic and it would bring the 64MB instance to its knees as soon as you have more than a few concurrent connections.<p>Anyway, from this hoster's experience, when I get a question like "What can I run on a 64MB VPS" the easy answer is "Not much" because usually the type of person that wants to spend $3/mo on 64MB VPS instead of $7/mo for a 1GB VPS doesn't really have their priorities in place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>St-Clock</author><text>"This assumes the end user is familiar with command line usage. The typical consumer of VPSes aren't"?<p>What? I thought it was the opposite, i.e., that typical VPS customers were familiar with a command line or had to get familiar pretty quickly :-) Do you have any data or experience to back this claim (I ask because I don't have any data to back my perception)? Maybe you are referring to managed VPS as opposed to unmanaged VPS?<p>Btw, the article is 2 yrs old so (should have been in the summary...).</text></comment> | <story><title>Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB VPS</title><url>http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddrager</author><text>Why not just 18... why not 48 or 128 or 1024? Questions like this are always loaded. First of all:<p>- This assumes the end user is familiar with command line usage. The typical consumer of VPSes aren't, in my experience, and rely on something like cPanel to do all administration. Which is why you can't really run on 64MB.<p>- The site itself doesn't take up RAM, just disk space. If you have 1024 static sites the only thing taking up ram is the configuration of the sites sitting in Apache's memory. As long as there isn't a lot of traffic on the site, it doesn't really matter how many there are.<p>- You could have 1 static site that has a medium amount of traffic and it would bring the 64MB instance to its knees as soon as you have more than a few concurrent connections.<p>Anyway, from this hoster's experience, when I get a question like "What can I run on a 64MB VPS" the easy answer is "Not much" because usually the type of person that wants to spend $3/mo on 64MB VPS instead of $7/mo for a 1GB VPS doesn't really have their priorities in place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duskwuff</author><text>&#62; If you have 1024 static sites the only thing taking up ram is the configuration of the sites sitting in Apache's memory. As long as there isn't a lot of traffic on the site, it doesn't really matter how many there are.<p>And if you're smart about the setup, you don't even necessarily have to have a separate configuration for each site. See mod_vhost_alias for Apache, for instance. With that in place, memory is no longer an issue at all.</text></comment> |
6,371,119 | 6,370,276 | 1 | 3 | 6,369,084 | train | <story><title>My Quest for a New Browser</title><url>http://spolu.github.io/exo_browser/2013/09/11/my-quest-for-a-new-browser.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>negativity</author><text>Yeah, a lot of this is about personal preferences, and preserving them across time and space. It&#x27;s not always a bad thing. There&#x27;s always a trade-off between convenience, automation, predictability and security.<p>Another good point spolu brings up:<p><pre><code> The chrome&#x2F; subdirectory of the chromium project (all
that makes up the Google Chrome experience: tabs, settings,
sync, omnibox) is made up of 5,343 C++ implementation files,
adding up to 1,449,451 lines of C++ code (as of 2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;11).
It&#x27;s hardly tractable by one person, and hints to the fact
that it&#x27;s probably impossible for a one guy to modify it
alone to come up with a profoundly different experience.
</code></pre>
This detail doesn&#x27;t get a lot of discussion, but I think it&#x27;s sometimes an essential fallacy of the very premise of the open source concept, that having the <i>ability</i> to audit source code, doesn&#x27;t necessarily make it a realistic option.<p>Lots of modern contraptions are simply too complex for any individual to ever claim a hope of gaining an honest understanding of their inner workings, nevermind an unskilled layman. At least, not without living like a cleric, cloistered away in the library of some convent or monastery for most of one&#x27;s life. Sometimes I feel that the real hazard is that we gloss over the idea that we&#x27;re trying to exert control over a massive arrangement of billions of transistors, however small they may be. If we were confronted with an elaborate array of ordinary light switches, and told to conquer the same tasks, I think it&#x27;d be easier to realize the true scale of some of the things we fiddle with on an everyday basis.</text></item><item><author>__david__</author><text>&gt; This is a bad thing, not a good thing.<p>For you, perhaps. <i>I</i> use my open browser tabs as a current &quot;state&quot; of my mind. My todo list, if you will. You might use a different method for keeping track of what you have to do. Maybe you have a good memory.<p>At least the browser tabs come back after the browser quits. My main reason I never reboot is my terminal tabs. Each one is cd-ed to a project directory and each has command line history and scrollback history that are potentially important reminders of where I am on that particular project. I go for weeks without rebooting (even in the face of OS updates) because I don&#x27;t want to lose my terminal tabs.<p>Powering off machines is a detail. They should go into low power mode and switch themselves off when they are not being used. Why should I have to remember to do it? They are machines, they&#x27;re built to remember things like that. As long as they save their state, it doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>State is good. I like state.</text></item><item><author>negativity</author><text><p><pre><code> Today, our computers are always on, never restarted,
always connected.
</code></pre>
This is a bad thing, not a good thing.<p>My personal machines and devices are not high-availability servers, and don&#x27;t need to be powered on all the time. I close my browser windows, and power off my machines frequently, and deliberately. I generally don&#x27;t gain very much from the practice of leaving the room for an hour, with my machine powered on.<p>I&#x27;d like to dissent from this echo chamber of constantly advocating promiscuous systems, that tend to do things for us without asking us first, and promote biased decisions in favor of permissiveness. I pretty much hate that you can&#x27;t remove the battery from an iPhone.<p>That said, there was an time when client&#x2F;server computing delivered a lot of the kind of functionality, via a fragmented industry of proprietary &quot;enterprise&quot; applications, that has, lately, been re-cast as the broad ecosystem of &quot;mobile apps&quot; (which are essentially the same thing, only smaller and portable). Also, since HTTP is a stateless protocol, &quot;rich web applications&quot; (aka: HTML5+ &amp; JS), have been able to fill in a lot of gaps in web browser behavior with asynchronous requests. I tend to think that JavaScript will become the open version of the once proprietary non-interoperable model of native binaries and client&#x2F;server computing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bithive123</author><text>It&#x27;s more than just the ability to audit, it&#x27;s the ability to fix specific problems so you can focus on your business requirements. This happened to me recently -- I was using Apache in a rather unusual reverse proxy configuration and was unable to suppress (using the usual directives) certain headers which were causing problems upstream. I could have spent a long time researching other solutions or coming up with clean workarounds but at the end of the day it was quick and effective to simply edit mod_proxy_http.c and fix the problem directly. Now that the service is up again, I have time to come up with better solutions if I desire.<p>When our closed systems misbehave, my only option is to shrug and ask if we have a support contract.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Quest for a New Browser</title><url>http://spolu.github.io/exo_browser/2013/09/11/my-quest-for-a-new-browser.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>negativity</author><text>Yeah, a lot of this is about personal preferences, and preserving them across time and space. It&#x27;s not always a bad thing. There&#x27;s always a trade-off between convenience, automation, predictability and security.<p>Another good point spolu brings up:<p><pre><code> The chrome&#x2F; subdirectory of the chromium project (all
that makes up the Google Chrome experience: tabs, settings,
sync, omnibox) is made up of 5,343 C++ implementation files,
adding up to 1,449,451 lines of C++ code (as of 2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;11).
It&#x27;s hardly tractable by one person, and hints to the fact
that it&#x27;s probably impossible for a one guy to modify it
alone to come up with a profoundly different experience.
</code></pre>
This detail doesn&#x27;t get a lot of discussion, but I think it&#x27;s sometimes an essential fallacy of the very premise of the open source concept, that having the <i>ability</i> to audit source code, doesn&#x27;t necessarily make it a realistic option.<p>Lots of modern contraptions are simply too complex for any individual to ever claim a hope of gaining an honest understanding of their inner workings, nevermind an unskilled layman. At least, not without living like a cleric, cloistered away in the library of some convent or monastery for most of one&#x27;s life. Sometimes I feel that the real hazard is that we gloss over the idea that we&#x27;re trying to exert control over a massive arrangement of billions of transistors, however small they may be. If we were confronted with an elaborate array of ordinary light switches, and told to conquer the same tasks, I think it&#x27;d be easier to realize the true scale of some of the things we fiddle with on an everyday basis.</text></item><item><author>__david__</author><text>&gt; This is a bad thing, not a good thing.<p>For you, perhaps. <i>I</i> use my open browser tabs as a current &quot;state&quot; of my mind. My todo list, if you will. You might use a different method for keeping track of what you have to do. Maybe you have a good memory.<p>At least the browser tabs come back after the browser quits. My main reason I never reboot is my terminal tabs. Each one is cd-ed to a project directory and each has command line history and scrollback history that are potentially important reminders of where I am on that particular project. I go for weeks without rebooting (even in the face of OS updates) because I don&#x27;t want to lose my terminal tabs.<p>Powering off machines is a detail. They should go into low power mode and switch themselves off when they are not being used. Why should I have to remember to do it? They are machines, they&#x27;re built to remember things like that. As long as they save their state, it doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>State is good. I like state.</text></item><item><author>negativity</author><text><p><pre><code> Today, our computers are always on, never restarted,
always connected.
</code></pre>
This is a bad thing, not a good thing.<p>My personal machines and devices are not high-availability servers, and don&#x27;t need to be powered on all the time. I close my browser windows, and power off my machines frequently, and deliberately. I generally don&#x27;t gain very much from the practice of leaving the room for an hour, with my machine powered on.<p>I&#x27;d like to dissent from this echo chamber of constantly advocating promiscuous systems, that tend to do things for us without asking us first, and promote biased decisions in favor of permissiveness. I pretty much hate that you can&#x27;t remove the battery from an iPhone.<p>That said, there was an time when client&#x2F;server computing delivered a lot of the kind of functionality, via a fragmented industry of proprietary &quot;enterprise&quot; applications, that has, lately, been re-cast as the broad ecosystem of &quot;mobile apps&quot; (which are essentially the same thing, only smaller and portable). Also, since HTTP is a stateless protocol, &quot;rich web applications&quot; (aka: HTML5+ &amp; JS), have been able to fill in a lot of gaps in web browser behavior with asynchronous requests. I tend to think that JavaScript will become the open version of the once proprietary non-interoperable model of native binaries and client&#x2F;server computing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fallse7en</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the studious hermit going over every line of open source code was how it was supposed to work either though.<p>It&#x27;s more just that you have lots of groups exercising the code and looking into various portions of the code - if every group decides &quot;Yep, the portion we use&#x2F;looked at is solid&quot;, then you gain <i>some</i> confidence that the code does what it&#x27;s supposed to. The more groups using&#x2F;perusing the code, the more confidence you gain.</text></comment> |
21,625,953 | 21,625,949 | 1 | 2 | 21,625,592 | train | <story><title>The Fall of WeWork</title><url>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/inside-the-fall-of-wework</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>The real question is, why is the Saudi Arabia sovereign wealth fund such a huge source of dumb money? They propped up WeWork. They propped up Uber. To some end, or just through sheer dumbness?<p>None of this could happen without a huge source of dumb money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tracer4201</author><text>Diversification.<p>I don’t mean to generalize, but there’s a aspect to Saudi culture where they look at down upon people who work - regardless of whether you’re a doctor or a rocket scientist - they look down upon folks who work for a living as if they’re lesser people.<p>In that micro culture, you cannot rely on your own population for economic output. You rely on foreigners or you directly invest in foreign companies and hope to find the next Amazon, Microsoft, or something like that.<p>Source - I married right after high school and my first husband (15 years older) worked in Saudi Arabia. I went there to live with him. We lived together there for 3 years. I eventually left him because I didn’t want to be in a cage (at least that’s what it was like to live there as a female) and wanted to go to school and have my own career and freedom.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Fall of WeWork</title><url>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/inside-the-fall-of-wework</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>The real question is, why is the Saudi Arabia sovereign wealth fund such a huge source of dumb money? They propped up WeWork. They propped up Uber. To some end, or just through sheer dumbness?<p>None of this could happen without a huge source of dumb money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seibelj</author><text>Investing $10 billion responsibly across a lot of private companies is hard work. Gotta find the companies, negotiate, join the board, monitor them, be apprised of the goings-ons. Then you find a company that can plausibly take $10billion in one go and return the same as any other tech company, plus by giving them so much capital they can destroy the competition.<p>It really comes down to easy-money policies of central bankers combined with the laziness of investors. So much money to invest and doing hard work is for suckers who don’t have the connections to get the capital to invest.</text></comment> |
13,238,502 | 13,238,652 | 1 | 3 | 13,233,901 | train | <story><title>The Architecture of Evil: Dystopian Megacorps in Speculative Fiction Films</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/article/architecture-evil-dystopian-megacorps-speculative-fiction/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vtange</author><text>Back in my days of architecture school we threw around terms such as &quot;human scale&quot; and &quot;typology&quot; in classes.<p>The article demonstrates well the idea of &quot;typology&quot; - how we came to associate Brutalist structures with FBI-style surveillance states. Did you know we also associate stuff like Greek Columns with government in general?<p>The &quot;human scale&quot; term refers to how a building&#x27;s shape and texture should be broken up to break up any notion of the building being looming&#x2F;threatening to tiny humans by comparison - kind of like how a person would prefer wearing different colors as opposed to a monocolor jumpsuit.<p>Almost all &quot;evil&quot; architecture fails human scale design on purpose by making oversized elements or using the same material everywhere - the idea is to make the organization seem greater than the individual or even society, and make it seem impossible to challenge. This is also seen in architecture built or designed by fascist Germany and Italy back in the 1930s, for exactly this reason. Look up <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fascist_architecture" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fascist_architecture</a> if you want more.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Architecture of Evil: Dystopian Megacorps in Speculative Fiction Films</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/article/architecture-evil-dystopian-megacorps-speculative-fiction/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Declanomous</author><text>This article really nails this topic. Architecture and film theory are two of my favorite topics, because visual symbolism is so integral in both. Both disciplines have a lot of domain-specific language that it&#x27;s really easy to write an article that is inaccessible to most readers. Most articles by 99% invisible really hit the sweet spot where they are entertaining and accessible introduction to the subject, but are still interesting to people familiar with the topics being reported. This article could easily have been &quot;Five real buildings that housed Evil Megacorporations, #4 will surprise you!&quot;<p>Speaking of dystopian megacorps and their architecture, I bought <i>Invisible Inc</i> during the Klei sale on Steam. I&#x27;d highly recommend it. It&#x27;s a turn-based stealth rougelike based based in a cyber-punk world run by dystopian megacorporations. You control a team of technologically augmented spies who infiltrate these megacorps. The levels are all procedurally generated, which works really well for the inhuman sameness that corporations have in science fiction.<p>The gameplay is well thought out, and the story mode is well written. It deconstructs a lot of themes typically present in cyberpunk, but the deconstruction doesn&#x27;t upstage the gameplay (I feel like game designers sometimes try to be &#x27;clever&#x27; when deconstructing tropes, to the detriment of fun.) The story mode isn&#x27;t very long, but it has good replayability due to the roguelike nature and the procedurally generated levels. There is also an endless mode, which adds a lot of replay value, and is something that I miss in other roguelikes, such as FTL.<p>I played it on Linux, and it runs well. It&#x27;s $20 normally. I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s a must-buy at $10 or below if you enjoy roguelikes or stealth games. I&#x27;d say take a pass if you don&#x27;t enjoy turn based games or cyberpunk. You can probably get a pretty good idea of the gameplay from watching a video on youtube, but I&#x27;d definitely try to avoid spoilers.</text></comment> |
15,037,656 | 15,037,302 | 1 | 2 | 15,037,058 | train | <story><title>Peer-to-Peer Communication Across Network Address Translators (2005)</title><url>http://www.brynosaurus.com/pub/net/p2pnat/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jmartrican</author><text>We been doing this at Vonage since 2001. This was our &quot;secrete sauce&quot;, since at the time there wasn&#x27;t a well documented or an industry standard on how to do this. Eventually SIP through NAT papers and RFC&#x27;s did appear, but we already had our way of doing it that was just as effective.<p>We found that renewing the NAT entry at a rate of once per 20 seconds was good enough. This made it work through all the routers and gateways we came across.<p>EDIT: SIP is short for Session Initiation Protocol. Its the protocol used to connect VOIP phone calls. We used UDP. SIP&#x27;s standard port is 5060 and 5061. We had to switch to port 10,000 (any port other than the standard) because too many high end routers and gateways would manipulate our packets. These routers were trying to implement SIP through NAT on their own. I applauded their efforts but it caused problems for us. I still remember the day that I took it upon myself to change production to use port 10,000. I was really scared I was going to break something but everything worked out in the end.</text></comment> | <story><title>Peer-to-Peer Communication Across Network Address Translators (2005)</title><url>http://www.brynosaurus.com/pub/net/p2pnat/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesblonde</author><text>Strange to see this relatively old article appear. NATs are still with us. The main progress has been WebRTC. Otherwise, researcher who looked at TCP at the time (e.g., stunt) for simiulataneous TCP Syn packets failed. It was too hard to synchronize timing.
Most middleware still ignores NATs and hopes it will go away (it won&#x27;t). NATs are the reason REST won over CORBA et al.</text></comment> |
37,811,701 | 37,811,786 | 1 | 2 | 37,810,052 | train | <story><title>Indoor wood burning raises women’s lung cancer risk by 43%</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412023004014</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>Half the comments here are just providing an implementation of the fizzbuzz instead of addressing the article’s point.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samharris.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-fireplace-delusion" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samharris.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-fireplace-delusion</a><p>&gt; <i>Once they have exited your chimney, the toxic gases (e.g. benzene) and particles that make up smoke freely pass back into your home and into the homes of others. (Research shows that nearly 70 percent of chimney smoke reenters nearby buildings.) Children who live in homes with active fireplaces or woodstoves, or in areas where wood burning is common, suffer a higher incidence of asthma, cough, bronchitis, nocturnal awakening, and compromised lung function. Among adults, wood burning is associated with more-frequent emergency room visits and hospital admissions for respiratory illness, along with increased mortality from heart attacks. The inhalation of wood smoke, even at relatively low levels, alters pulmonary immune function, leading to a greater susceptibility to colds, flus, and other respiratory infections. All these effects are borne disproportionately by children and the elderly.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dathinab</author><text>&gt; and into the homes of others.<p>I really wish indoor wood burning, especially if not used for heating but luxury, would be banned at least in cities<p>like wtf. is it legal to harass your neighbors with smell and toxic fumes every day just because you want to feel a bit comfy (to clarify: I mean comfy by having a fancy looking fire place you use additional to your normal heating system because you like how it looks)<p>sure there are countries and areas in countries where for various sociology economical reasons banning it isn&#x27;t acceptable at all and should not be done<p>but a ~4 million city where one of the _most costly ways to heat_ is by burning wood logs it&#x27;s a bit of a different story ;)<p>and I know some parts of the city are poor and use very old ovens, but funnily they have less of an smell issue (I can&#x27;t judge the toxicity) because they tend to burn preprocessed pellets for heating instead of not necessary well suited or fully dry wood for the looks</text></comment> | <story><title>Indoor wood burning raises women’s lung cancer risk by 43%</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412023004014</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>Half the comments here are just providing an implementation of the fizzbuzz instead of addressing the article’s point.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samharris.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-fireplace-delusion" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samharris.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-fireplace-delusion</a><p>&gt; <i>Once they have exited your chimney, the toxic gases (e.g. benzene) and particles that make up smoke freely pass back into your home and into the homes of others. (Research shows that nearly 70 percent of chimney smoke reenters nearby buildings.) Children who live in homes with active fireplaces or woodstoves, or in areas where wood burning is common, suffer a higher incidence of asthma, cough, bronchitis, nocturnal awakening, and compromised lung function. Among adults, wood burning is associated with more-frequent emergency room visits and hospital admissions for respiratory illness, along with increased mortality from heart attacks. The inhalation of wood smoke, even at relatively low levels, alters pulmonary immune function, leading to a greater susceptibility to colds, flus, and other respiratory infections. All these effects are borne disproportionately by children and the elderly.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grecy</author><text>&gt; <i>Once they have exited your chimney, the toxic gases (e.g. benzene) and particles that make up smoke</i><p>Keep in mind that modern wood stoves have catalytic combustors that burn the wood, then the smoke, then usually the smoke again.<p>They extract vastly more heat from the wood, and they emit vastly less toxic gasses out the stovepipe.<p>Also note they are legally required in many, many places now.<p>(Older stoves and fireplaces are grandfathered in, but you can&#x27;t install a new &quot;old&quot; stove in many towns around the world)</text></comment> |
9,369,676 | 9,369,734 | 1 | 3 | 9,369,309 | train | <story><title>First 26 pages of Neal Stephenson's new novel Seveneves</title><url>http://www.nealstephenson.com/news/2015/04/13/seveneves-excerpt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MagicWishMonkey</author><text>Anathem was kind of a slog for the first 200-250 pages, but then it started to get good, and then awesome, by the end of the book my mind was thoroughly blown.</text></item><item><author>ceequof</author><text>It seems like my first knee-jerk impression of every Stephenson novel of the last decade has been &quot;ugh, terrible&quot;, gradually replaced by a retrospective fondness after finishing it.<p>The first couple pages of Seveneves certainly does not impress, but maybe I&#x27;ll like it better after reading the whole thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imglorp</author><text>Vonnegut spoke at my convocation. His advice for fiction writers was to write your whole work and then throw away the first chapter, thus dumping your reader into the action. He despised setup.</text></comment> | <story><title>First 26 pages of Neal Stephenson's new novel Seveneves</title><url>http://www.nealstephenson.com/news/2015/04/13/seveneves-excerpt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MagicWishMonkey</author><text>Anathem was kind of a slog for the first 200-250 pages, but then it started to get good, and then awesome, by the end of the book my mind was thoroughly blown.</text></item><item><author>ceequof</author><text>It seems like my first knee-jerk impression of every Stephenson novel of the last decade has been &quot;ugh, terrible&quot;, gradually replaced by a retrospective fondness after finishing it.<p>The first couple pages of Seveneves certainly does not impress, but maybe I&#x27;ll like it better after reading the whole thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>I don&#x27;t write fiction but when I write longer-form articles, whitepapers, and so forth I find that a good percentage of the time I end up going back and chopping out a good bit of what a former boss described as &quot;throat clearing&quot; at the beginning. Not always; sometimes by chance I hit on a good metaphor or story or some other lead-in that works. But at least as often it&#x27;s way too much digression and backstory and setup in advance of getting to the actual topic at hand.<p>With respect to Anathem in particular a lot of the problem is you didn&#x27;t really understand what was going on for quite a while and I found that made it a bit of an effort to keep going.</text></comment> |
28,849,186 | 28,849,114 | 1 | 2 | 28,848,858 | train | <story><title>Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts</title><url>https://sixtyfps.io/blog/showing-guis-from-shell-scripts.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abdusco</author><text>I usually add bottle.py[0] in my project (it&#x27;s single file!) and add a simple HTML form with a submit button. When I need to show a UI, I start a server, open up the URL and when the form is submitted, I shutdown the server and continue executing the script.<p>Using HTML means I can start off with plain HTML and no style (except user-agent) and keep building on it (change font, center it in the page, etc.). I can keep HTML, JS, CSS on the same page, add AlpineJS[1] if I need a reactive UI and so on.<p>The only thing missing is that I can&#x27;t close the tab using JavaScript when it&#x27;s finished, so the user (usually me) has to close it himself.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bottlepy.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bottlepy.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;dev&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alpinejs.dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alpinejs.dev</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts</title><url>https://sixtyfps.io/blog/showing-guis-from-shell-scripts.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djrockstar1</author><text>Related: Gooey[1] for turning python scripts into GUIs<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chriskiehl&#x2F;Gooey" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chriskiehl&#x2F;Gooey</a></text></comment> |
22,779,329 | 22,779,340 | 1 | 2 | 22,779,026 | train | <story><title>What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?</title><url>https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/strategic-petroleum-reserve1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Curious, does anyone know if the US govt is filling the reserve now, or even adding capacity? With oil so incredibly cheap right now, now is the absolute best time to be building and expanding our reserves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arbuge</author><text>$3B was allocated to precisely this purpose in the stimulus proposal before it passed, but it was later dropped over opposition:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;energy&#x2F;bailout-for-big-oil-democrats-eliminate-3b-strategic-petroleum-reserve-purchase-in-pandemic-relief-package" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;policy&#x2F;energy&#x2F;bailout-for...</a><p>I agree with your assessment and this was a serious mistake in my opinion.<p>There is now however an alternative plan to monetize the remaining open space by leasing it to oil companies that need storage space:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-global-oil-usa-reserve&#x2F;us-to-lease-space-for-initial-30-million-barrels-of-oil-in-emergency-reserve-idUSKBN21K33E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-global-oil-usa-reserve&#x2F;us...</a><p>Storage space is in very high demand at this point - to the extent that oil tankers are being used as floating storage:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-04-04&#x2F;the-most-profitable-trade-oil-all-over-the-oceans-right-now" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-04-04&#x2F;the-most-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?</title><url>https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/strategic-petroleum-reserve1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Curious, does anyone know if the US govt is filling the reserve now, or even adding capacity? With oil so incredibly cheap right now, now is the absolute best time to be building and expanding our reserves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>H8crilA</author><text>It&#x27;s not just the best time to build reserves; there&#x27;s so much oil out there that prices dipped to negative values in some spots (yes, they would pay you to just come and collect the oil; if only you could). Oil is energy, this is similar to the occasional negative electrical energy prices in renewables-rich countries like Germany.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-04-02&#x2F;negative-oil-prices-are-already-here-as-storage-fills-up" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-04-02&#x2F;negati...</a></text></comment> |
8,838,254 | 8,837,086 | 1 | 3 | 8,836,734 | train | <story><title>Apple has lost the functional high ground</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bushido</author><text><i>&gt; This discussion is just going around in circles with nobody adding real useful commentary to the discussion other than &quot;I perceive Apple&#x27;s software quality to be worse based on my own anecdotal experience.&quot; This opinion is being perpetuated by a few people and it&#x27;s just going everywhere.</i><p>You quoted the unreliability of anecdotal experience and then went ahead and added your own anecdotal immediately in the next paragraph:<p><pre><code> I don&#x27;t think the software quality dropped
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<i>&gt; Those who want to experience a lower &quot;functional high ground&quot; should switch to Ubuntu and discover how much further ahead OS X is.</i><p>I am sure most would agree with you that OS X at it worst is way ahead of Ubuntu, except that&#x27;s not really the benchmark the users who are going around in circles are using, it quite evident in almost each one of these anecdotal commentary that <i></i>an older version of OS X is the Benchmark<i></i><p>I think the real complaint people have is that a lot of these people switched to Apple for superior well tested hardware and software, thus avoiding problems that they would not need to wait six months to be fixed.<p>The key take away I think is NOT that recently OS X has some bugs, rather that the seemingly increasing in occurrence of bugs that more advanced users are experiencing is perceived as a sign on discarding their Test Everything Well Before Shipping culture that important to these people.<p><i>&gt; To the everyday user, there is no drop in software quality.</i><p>The core market for Apple until quite recently was not the everyday user but developers, designers and the more tech savvy.<p>-----<p>I am unsure if your comment was designed to substantiate your thought that &quot;This discussion is just going around in circles with nobody adding real useful commentary to the discussion&quot;, if it was, at that you succeeded.</text></item><item><author>owenwil</author><text>This discussion is just going around in circles with nobody adding real useful commentary to the discussion other than &quot;I perceive Apple&#x27;s software quality to be worse based on my own anecdotal experience.&quot; This opinion is being perpetuated by a few people and it&#x27;s just going everywhere.<p>I don&#x27;t think the software quality dropped, it&#x27;s all about perception. Just a few years ago, everyone was moaning about software quality with Lion but nobody remembers that now, because bad headlines are easier to create than good ones. Yosemite has some bugs, yes, but so do almost every other major releases of Operating Systems.<p>Apple <i>does</i> have some bugs to iron out, but in six month&#x27;s time when they&#x27;re fixed, everyone will forget and start complaining about something else. Perhaps a few happened around the same time, but that&#x27;s no indication that things are getting worse. People just like to complain.<p>Those who want to experience a lower &quot;functional high ground&quot; should switch to Ubuntu and discover how much further ahead OS X is.<p>To the everyday user, there is no drop in software quality. They wouldn&#x27;t have even noticed unless articles like this continued to circulate. People are just noisier these days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>&gt;The key take away I think is NOT that recently OS X has some bugs, rather that the seemingly increasing in occurrence of bugs that more advanced users are experiencing is perceived as a sign on discarding their Test Everything Well Before Shipping culture that important to these people.<p>Apple products are <i>clearly</i> becoming less stable and usable, in ways that are very basic and obvious. Extreme computing skills are not required. I can think of the following bugs without trying too hard:<p>iCloud Notes fail to sync between my Mac, iPad and iPhone. (I&#x27;ve tried everything I can to fix this. Nothing worked.)<p>iPhoto makes two copies of all my photos when I download them from them my iPhone&#x2F;iPad.<p>Windows&#x2F;OS X networked file sharing seems deliberately broken, possibly at the Apple end. (You have to install the previous version of Samba to get it to kind-of work some of the time.)<p>I can&#x27;t use FaceTime on my Mac because some weird sample rate issue makes everyone sound like a chipmunk.<p>Incoming FaceTime calls don&#x27;t always ring on all devices, and some are simply ignored on all devices. (This is particularly unhelpful, especially for business calls.)<p>iTunes is an outstanding example of terrible software design. (Why is it still impossible to access app content directories from iTunes in any useful way? Why is the app icon layout editor so crufty and clumsy? And so on...)<p>All these features Just Don&#x27;t Work[tm]. And it&#x27;s not as a result of god-mode tweaking. They&#x27;ve simply never worked.<p>tl:dr; - Apple really needs to improve its software game.<p>I think the actual problem is complacency and a culture that favours style-over-substance marketing over solid UX engineering.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of interest in trivia like flat icons, but clearly no one in or near the C-Suite cares about more basic usability issues.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple has lost the functional high ground</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bushido</author><text><i>&gt; This discussion is just going around in circles with nobody adding real useful commentary to the discussion other than &quot;I perceive Apple&#x27;s software quality to be worse based on my own anecdotal experience.&quot; This opinion is being perpetuated by a few people and it&#x27;s just going everywhere.</i><p>You quoted the unreliability of anecdotal experience and then went ahead and added your own anecdotal immediately in the next paragraph:<p><pre><code> I don&#x27;t think the software quality dropped
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<i>&gt; Those who want to experience a lower &quot;functional high ground&quot; should switch to Ubuntu and discover how much further ahead OS X is.</i><p>I am sure most would agree with you that OS X at it worst is way ahead of Ubuntu, except that&#x27;s not really the benchmark the users who are going around in circles are using, it quite evident in almost each one of these anecdotal commentary that <i></i>an older version of OS X is the Benchmark<i></i><p>I think the real complaint people have is that a lot of these people switched to Apple for superior well tested hardware and software, thus avoiding problems that they would not need to wait six months to be fixed.<p>The key take away I think is NOT that recently OS X has some bugs, rather that the seemingly increasing in occurrence of bugs that more advanced users are experiencing is perceived as a sign on discarding their Test Everything Well Before Shipping culture that important to these people.<p><i>&gt; To the everyday user, there is no drop in software quality.</i><p>The core market for Apple until quite recently was not the everyday user but developers, designers and the more tech savvy.<p>-----<p>I am unsure if your comment was designed to substantiate your thought that &quot;This discussion is just going around in circles with nobody adding real useful commentary to the discussion&quot;, if it was, at that you succeeded.</text></item><item><author>owenwil</author><text>This discussion is just going around in circles with nobody adding real useful commentary to the discussion other than &quot;I perceive Apple&#x27;s software quality to be worse based on my own anecdotal experience.&quot; This opinion is being perpetuated by a few people and it&#x27;s just going everywhere.<p>I don&#x27;t think the software quality dropped, it&#x27;s all about perception. Just a few years ago, everyone was moaning about software quality with Lion but nobody remembers that now, because bad headlines are easier to create than good ones. Yosemite has some bugs, yes, but so do almost every other major releases of Operating Systems.<p>Apple <i>does</i> have some bugs to iron out, but in six month&#x27;s time when they&#x27;re fixed, everyone will forget and start complaining about something else. Perhaps a few happened around the same time, but that&#x27;s no indication that things are getting worse. People just like to complain.<p>Those who want to experience a lower &quot;functional high ground&quot; should switch to Ubuntu and discover how much further ahead OS X is.<p>To the everyday user, there is no drop in software quality. They wouldn&#x27;t have even noticed unless articles like this continued to circulate. People are just noisier these days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heyts</author><text>I agree with you on many points and it seems obvious that apple is spread too thin these days and tries to do too much.<p>I dont think this statement is true however:<p>&gt; <i>The core market for Apple until quite recently was not the everyday user but developers, designers and the more tech savvy.</i><p>Historically the core market of Apple Computer has been graphic-designers, journalists and the education market. Developers have only been on the platform post OS X because of unix.</text></comment> |
3,206,605 | 3,206,433 | 1 | 2 | 3,206,277 | train | <story><title>The Darknet Project: netroots activists dream of global mesh network</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/11/the-darknet-plan-netroots-activists-dream-of-global-mesh-network.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>giberson</author><text>I remember hearing about China usurping 15% of western internet traffic for 18 minutes. This was accomplished by having nodes report as being the next closest hop in the network path to the packet destination. In a decentralized darknet project, I imagine such an issue being much more widespread. In fact, I would imagine a darknet project would actually play in to the hands of the government. It would be perfectly plausible to infest the darknet with millions of your own nodes reporting as the next best hops thus inserting themselves in the middle of all darknet traffic able to analyze data as it flows through the system. Obviously, a darknet would utilize encryption for traffic but all bets are off when you potentially have a constant man in the middle and no centralized authority on trusts. What's worse, and more to the point of playing into the hands of the government is that a darknet would give them (the government) a concentrated focus area. If I were to categorize the percentage of traffic that was "interesting" for regular internet traffic vs. the percentage of "interesting" traffic of all darknet traffic then I would imagine the darknet having a much higher ratio of noteworthy to junk traffic. If I had a limited amount of resources to invest in analyzing and decoding secure traffic I would obviously point my tools at the most richly dense data source.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Darknet Project: netroots activists dream of global mesh network</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/11/the-darknet-plan-netroots-activists-dream-of-global-mesh-network.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>conanite</author><text>"The US State Department seems to view decentralized darknets as an important area of research for empowering free expression <i>abroad</i>."<p>(my emphasis). Depressing!</text></comment> |
41,614,749 | 41,613,998 | 1 | 2 | 41,613,628 | train | <story><title>WP Engine is not WordPress</title><url>https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bastawhiz</author><text>Am I missing something? This feels like such a bizarre hill to die on. He&#x27;s upset that a company offers hosting of his software with a default setting changed. I guess, don&#x27;t have that setting then?<p>There&#x27;s no mention of the source code being changed or custom patches being applied. So the allegation that it&#x27;s &quot;something that they’ve chopped up, hacked, butchered to look like WordPress&quot; is maximally overblown. Unless, again, I&#x27;m completely missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>safety1st</author><text>He owns a competitor, Wordpress.com.<p>That said, his point is valid. WPEngine is one of the most expensive hosts in the industry yet they meddle with the behavior of WP as well as the underlying PHP and web server and disable a lot of things. Anyone who would like to build a website on WPEngine is advised to read:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wpengine.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;platform-settings&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wpengine.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;platform-settings&#x2F;</a><p>And that&#x27;s just the stuff they admit to.<p>The revisions being pulled out are the most egregious I would say. Revisions are an insanely important feature for some publishers, we&#x27;ve had enterprise customers who had to fight tooth and nail to get this turned back on and paid an arm and a leg for it, this would not have been a problem on any other WP host I&#x27;m aware of.<p>Their &#x27;long query governor&#x27; can be very frustrating and in my experience, contrary to this document it cannot be fully disabled.<p>All these restrictions have crept in over the last few years. WP Engine pulled the usual trick of finding ways to lock people in, and then reducing service to increase margins.</text></comment> | <story><title>WP Engine is not WordPress</title><url>https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bastawhiz</author><text>Am I missing something? This feels like such a bizarre hill to die on. He&#x27;s upset that a company offers hosting of his software with a default setting changed. I guess, don&#x27;t have that setting then?<p>There&#x27;s no mention of the source code being changed or custom patches being applied. So the allegation that it&#x27;s &quot;something that they’ve chopped up, hacked, butchered to look like WordPress&quot; is maximally overblown. Unless, again, I&#x27;m completely missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kye</author><text>Automattic&#x27;s own managed WordPress platform severely restricts features all the way up to the top plan. I guess it&#x27;s okay for them to do it.<p>edit: I am referring to WordPress.com which is the offering comparable to WP Engine.</text></comment> |
27,392,409 | 27,388,981 | 1 | 3 | 27,388,134 | train | <story><title>Elixir at Ramp</title><url>https://engineering.ramp.com/elixir-at-ramp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickjj</author><text>The author wrote:<p><i>&gt; My hot take about most dynamic languages is that they are a poor fit for startups who have intentions of being long-term businesses</i><p>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s fair to say. There&#x27;s plenty of long term businesses running at scale using dynamic languages. That&#x27;s employee and load scale too.<p>Dropbox is ~13 years old, has ~4 million lines of Python and operate at crazy scale. I ended up talking to one of their ex-engineers last month about how they build and deploy their set up at: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;runninginproduction.com&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;82-dropbox-gives-you-secure-access-to-all-of-your-files" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;runninginproduction.com&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;82-dropbox-gives-you...</a><p>Then there&#x27;s Basecamp which is one of the oldest SAAS apps around using Rails and GitHub too which isn&#x27;t quite as old but definitely falls into the long term business category.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elixir at Ramp</title><url>https://engineering.ramp.com/elixir-at-ramp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jklm</author><text>To preface, I share a lot of the same sentiments as the author. My Elixir was Scala - learned it inside and out, then picked up Akka which taught me a lot of neat Erlang-derived principles. My favorite quote is &quot;Make it work, make it right, make it fast,&quot; which is very close to the Armstrong comic.<p>Having said that, I would not recommend Elixir or Scala or anything similar for startups. The 3 main reasons:<p>1) It&#x27;s a hiring problem.<p>There aren&#x27;t enough qualified people who can fill these roles. Expect a lot of on-the-job training that&#x27;s more challenging than you&#x27;d think since these languages&#x2F;frameworks are different paradigms. Famously, the complaint I heard in Scala circles was &quot;There are too many ways to shoot yourself in the foot.&quot; I worked at a well-known everyday consumer tech company where the payments platform went down for the better part of a day as people scrambled to figure out what went wrong. Noone had read the de-facto Scala bible which warned that catching `Throwable` could break your code.[1]<p>2) You really, really don&#x27;t need to get things perfectly right from the get-go.<p>&gt; My hot take about most dynamic languages is that they are a poor fit for startups who have intentions of being long-term businesses: you’ve created an environment that’s optimized for your founding engineers to build something quickly in the first 7 months, but the price is a set of recurring obstacles which your engineers will pay down over the next 7 years.<p>With rare exceptions, most companies throw away or rewrite their initial infra once they hit scaling issues. Having these scaling issues means you&#x27;ve likely hit product-market fit, secured more funding, and hired a badass team to solve said scaling issues.<p>3) The ecosystem is smaller.<p>Because the language&#x2F;framework is deeper, it requires more investment to learn. In turn, fewer production-level libraries get built on top of it. That&#x27;s when you end up needing to build a lot of things yourself. At which point - you&#x27;ve slowed down _even more_ vs. DynamicLang where you can run `dynamic-package add audit-trail` or something and get the 80&#x2F;20 solution in 5 minutes.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tzavellas.com&#x2F;techblog&#x2F;2010&#x2F;09&#x2F;20&#x2F;catching-throwable-in-scala&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tzavellas.com&#x2F;techblog&#x2F;2010&#x2F;09&#x2F;20&#x2F;catching-throwa...</a></text></comment> |
30,394,072 | 30,391,483 | 1 | 2 | 30,389,905 | train | <story><title>Facebook Shadow Profiles [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cesifo.org/en/publikationen/2022/working-paper/facebook-shadow-profiles</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kibwen</author><text>In the grim darkness of the near future, nobody leaves their house without painting their faces with CSAM in order to prevent cloud services from storing their images.</text></item><item><author>tacotacotaco</author><text>I was told by a friend that when they uploaded a picture with me in it Facebook auto tagged me. I have never created a Facebook or Instagram account. I want no business with that company. I am annoyed that I am still profiled by them.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>Facebook also has shadow profiles for non-users that connect directly to name, email address, and&#x2F;or phone number. At the very least these seem to be populated when people share their contact list with Facebook.<p>I have long wondered whether they can match these two kinds of shadow profiles together. One profile with personally identifiable information. The other profile with detailed browsing history. That would raise a huge privacy concern especially since these are non-Facebook users and therefore people who have not opted into this at any level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikolay</author><text>People can be identified by way too many things - if you&#x27;re Facebook and you buy all data available for sale and correlate and enrich it, then you&#x27;re known forever and every step you make is also recorded and analyzed. Worst of all, they are those idiots who take pictures all the time and you eventually end up in pictures from many angles (all timestamped and geolocated). Combined with &quot;anonymized&quot; data from, say, carriers, you&#x27;re no secret to anyone. But the biggest problem is that even if Facebook doesn&#x27;t trace you, the governments will, and they have a lot more sources. Privacy is extinct!</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Shadow Profiles [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cesifo.org/en/publikationen/2022/working-paper/facebook-shadow-profiles</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kibwen</author><text>In the grim darkness of the near future, nobody leaves their house without painting their faces with CSAM in order to prevent cloud services from storing their images.</text></item><item><author>tacotacotaco</author><text>I was told by a friend that when they uploaded a picture with me in it Facebook auto tagged me. I have never created a Facebook or Instagram account. I want no business with that company. I am annoyed that I am still profiled by them.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>Facebook also has shadow profiles for non-users that connect directly to name, email address, and&#x2F;or phone number. At the very least these seem to be populated when people share their contact list with Facebook.<p>I have long wondered whether they can match these two kinds of shadow profiles together. One profile with personally identifiable information. The other profile with detailed browsing history. That would raise a huge privacy concern especially since these are non-Facebook users and therefore people who have not opted into this at any level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>namrog84</author><text>Too late. And even if did that. that could likely be deanonyimized with little effort.<p>For those who don&#x27;t already know, it takes very few data points to deanonyimize someone&#x27;s data.<p>With greater effort and efficiency you can have even less data points.</text></comment> |
22,070,132 | 22,067,610 | 1 | 2 | 22,066,177 | train | <story><title>Unofficial Apple Archive</title><url>https://www.applearchive.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>I love the early 2000&#x27;s Apple aesthetic. I&#x27;m not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life.<p>I still have an iTunes playlist with all of the music from the dancing silhouette iPod commercials, and I get the warm and fuzzies when I listen to it.<p>I wish there was a high-quality archive of these commercials online to relive some of those memories. Unfortunately, every time I look for them on YouTube, they&#x27;re incomplete copies of over-compressed copies of watermarked copies of cropped copies of altered copies of something someone recorded off what looks like low-grade Betamax.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hoorayimhelping</author><text>I think 2004 - 2007 OS X was the most beautiful, enjoyable and usable operating system that ever existed. For me, it had just the right amount of stability and features without being bloated or goofy. Aqua was just so freaking beautiful to look at, it still gives me a <i>coupe de cour</i> when I look at it. I loved the pinstripes before they went to brushed aluminum.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unofficial Apple Archive</title><url>https://www.applearchive.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>I love the early 2000&#x27;s Apple aesthetic. I&#x27;m not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life.<p>I still have an iTunes playlist with all of the music from the dancing silhouette iPod commercials, and I get the warm and fuzzies when I listen to it.<p>I wish there was a high-quality archive of these commercials online to relive some of those memories. Unfortunately, every time I look for them on YouTube, they&#x27;re incomplete copies of over-compressed copies of watermarked copies of cropped copies of altered copies of something someone recorded off what looks like low-grade Betamax.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lostgame</author><text>&gt;&gt; I&#x27;m not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life.<p>I am a collector of Macs from around this time. I just picked up an orange G3 Clamshell iBook, and I absolutely adore my &#x27;pixar lamp&#x27; iMac G4.<p>I&#x27;m considering internal hardware mod projects to get these two up to a reasonable speed.</text></comment> |
11,430,232 | 11,428,737 | 1 | 2 | 11,427,542 | train | <story><title>Echo – Golang micro web framework</title><url>https://labstack.com/echo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dudus</author><text>Go already has a few microframeworks. What I think it needs is a fat one. It seems the idea of fat frameworks doesn&#x27;t resonate well with go developers but I don&#x27;t understand why.<p>Django is the only reason I stick with python today for anything that will have more than five pages. I want form handling, security features such as XSS, CSRF baked in, debug tools such as debug-toolbar and I want to have a basic login feature done for me.<p>Admin would be a plus but is not required.<p>Someone needs to write a good rails&#x2F;django clone for go.</text></comment> | <story><title>Echo – Golang micro web framework</title><url>https://labstack.com/echo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>njpatel</author><text>Have been using this for quite some time - it has a nice API and is solid in production. I love the simplicity and it&#x27;s small enough a codebase to quickly read and start hacking around.</text></comment> |
32,759,443 | 32,757,931 | 1 | 2 | 32,755,009 | train | <story><title>New technical analysis confirms the evidence against Billy Mitchell</title><url>https://perfectpacman.com/2022/09/06/new-technical-analysis/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>6502nerdface</author><text>So basically, the smoking guns are the TV being tilted the wrong way (oops!) and certain frames of video, especially in the transitions between levels, appearing as only MAME would output them, not real hardware (because MAME is framebuffer based, rather than actually simulating the electron beam, which produces some differences in timing). There&#x27;s also evidence of v-sync tearing, which could only happen in MAME. Fascinating!</text></comment> | <story><title>New technical analysis confirms the evidence against Billy Mitchell</title><url>https://perfectpacman.com/2022/09/06/new-technical-analysis/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>darepublic</author><text>King of Kong focused on Billy as the bad guy and Steve as the protagonist. Of course a Wikipedia check shows that all the top scores were taken by new blood to the field and neither Steve nor Billy are in the mix anymore. Kind of reminds me of Tetris, there was the old generation putzing around some imaginary glass ceiling and suddenly after the game received some spotlight the existing records were swept away by young blood</text></comment> |
10,209,750 | 10,209,278 | 1 | 3 | 10,209,249 | train | <story><title>What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell</title><url>http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skimpycompiler</author><text>What I still do not know and always wished to know when I learned Haskell was how to write efficient code easily. I wrote huge projects with thousands of lines knowing nothing about C++ execution model and had insanely fast code (that could have been made even faster - but I was not that kind of expert) but with Haskell I have to be an expert to really write code that is as performant as something that would take me much less time to write in C&#x2F;C++.<p>Just writing simple efficient matrix multiplication is a pain. It took me a couple of days to write a working quicksort.<p>I couldn&#x27;t find any resources that provide a very serious introduction to optimizing Haskell code.<p>I found out way too late in my adventures with Haskell that Monad Transformers and similar abstractions have a significant runtime overhead and aren&#x27;t free, I thought I was just playing with types that won&#x27;t get in the way when the code compiles.<p>No one seems to cover this aspect of Haskell.</text></comment> | <story><title>What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell</title><url>http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>greenyoda</author><text>Readers may be interested in the extensive comments from when this article was posted in previous years:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;new-hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?experimental&amp;sort=byDate&amp;prefix&amp;page=0&amp;dateRange=all&amp;type=story&amp;query=What%20I%20Wish%20I%20Knew%20When%20Learning%20Haskell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;new-hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?experimental&amp;sort=byDate&amp;prefix&amp;...</a></text></comment> |
4,113,837 | 4,111,625 | 1 | 2 | 4,111,519 | train | <story><title>Raganwald's Nifty Fifty</title><url>http://raganwald.posterous.com/raganwalds-nifty-fifty</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>Here's a little story for you, as a birthday present.<p>About four years ago, I was a game programmer at EA in Florida. I liked games, but I was burned out on EA, and on coding in general. I didn't feel like I was learning anything, and the people around me didn't seem enthusiastic about coding. My formerly exciting job was a grind.<p>Around that time, I stumbled onto this weird site called "reddit". There, I found all these articles where people were blogging about how awesome coding was. They were excited about programming languages, and techniques and just generally seeing how far they could push being a coder. Moreso, the comment threads were filled with super smart people having these amazing discussions around the articles (and also some puns).<p>One of the blogs, and one of the commenters who always stood out for me as being thoughtful, positive, and an excellent writer was this "raganwald" character. With him and the rest of the reddit community, I felt like I had found My People, and it completely reignited my love of programming, programming languages, and writing.<p>I got more into programming languages, started blogging, and started coding a lot more in my free time. While I wasn't learning much at work, I was learning a ton of new stuff about interpreters, compilers, algorithms, data structures, and just about everything I could glean from blog posts, wikipedia articles and journal papers that weren't behind academic paywalls.<p>My blogging led to me getting a book deal (which alas I had to back out on because of the time commitment). All this stuff about data structures and algorithms was enough to get me out of Florida and past Google's fiery hiring gauntlet, and my newfound interest in programming languages landed me my absolute dream project.<p>So now I'm here in a city I adore, at a job I love, on a project that I'm excited to be on every single day. And, in a strange way, you helped make it happen.<p>Thanks, and happy birthday.</text></comment> | <story><title>Raganwald's Nifty Fifty</title><url>http://raganwald.posterous.com/raganwalds-nifty-fifty</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Splines</author><text>Happy Birthday!<p>Thanks for writing :)<p>I have to say, A Woman's Story[1] is a favorite of mine. It's incredible to hear about a woman overcoming such odds in an industry that still, 60 years later, has a gender gap. To discover that it's about your mother is just delightful.<p>[1] <a href="http://raganwald.posterous.com/a-womans-story" rel="nofollow">http://raganwald.posterous.com/a-womans-story</a></text></comment> |
12,905,594 | 12,905,662 | 1 | 3 | 12,905,265 | train | <story><title>Live Presidential Forecast</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/elections/forecast/president?1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>Jitter is a visualization of uncertainty. Rather than display a range, it displays a needle moving within that range.<p>It&#x27;s only misleading developers, who will think that data is being streamed rather than fetched once. Other than that it&#x27;s a clever (and yes, entertaining) way of displaying margins of error.<p>Can I offer that, of all the things in news and dataviz to shit on, this isn&#x27;t one of them? I mean, really, an &quot;abuse of our attention&quot; - what?</text></item><item><author>yankyou</author><text>I&#x27;d venture further to say it&#x27;s a perversion of &quot;news&quot; for a news site to be injecting garbage into the data for entertainment purposes.</text></item><item><author>the_duke</author><text>I just checked.<p>They gauges moving around is definitely random.<p>The updates are done with a &quot;president.json&quot; file, fetched every 15 seconds, but the timestamp in the json data only changes every 30-180 seconds.<p>So all of the movement is just random jitter to make it engaging.<p>Maybe a bit disingenuous.<p>(Note: I first thought they might be using websockets, but no WS connection is made on the page. Only a ajax fetch of president.json)</text></item><item><author>Rexxar</author><text>Nice but the three top gauges are moving suspiciously fast. Do they add a little random the the real number to give a sort of error margin visualisation ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_duke</author><text>Yeah, I thought about it a little, and I guess you are right.<p>Only a dev would think about the possibility of a statistical model updated with a second(s) granularity.<p>And be disappointed (I was) that it&#x27;s actually just updated every few minutes with a fetched JSON file, rather than some fancy instant updates pushed down via a websocket connection. :D</text></comment> | <story><title>Live Presidential Forecast</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/elections/forecast/president?1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>Jitter is a visualization of uncertainty. Rather than display a range, it displays a needle moving within that range.<p>It&#x27;s only misleading developers, who will think that data is being streamed rather than fetched once. Other than that it&#x27;s a clever (and yes, entertaining) way of displaying margins of error.<p>Can I offer that, of all the things in news and dataviz to shit on, this isn&#x27;t one of them? I mean, really, an &quot;abuse of our attention&quot; - what?</text></item><item><author>yankyou</author><text>I&#x27;d venture further to say it&#x27;s a perversion of &quot;news&quot; for a news site to be injecting garbage into the data for entertainment purposes.</text></item><item><author>the_duke</author><text>I just checked.<p>They gauges moving around is definitely random.<p>The updates are done with a &quot;president.json&quot; file, fetched every 15 seconds, but the timestamp in the json data only changes every 30-180 seconds.<p>So all of the movement is just random jitter to make it engaging.<p>Maybe a bit disingenuous.<p>(Note: I first thought they might be using websockets, but no WS connection is made on the page. Only a ajax fetch of president.json)</text></item><item><author>Rexxar</author><text>Nice but the three top gauges are moving suspiciously fast. Do they add a little random the the real number to give a sort of error margin visualisation ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yankyou</author><text>&gt; Other than that it&#x27;s a clever (and yes, entertaining) way of displaying margins of error.<p>No dispute that it&#x27;s clever and entertaining. These are undesirable qualities in a reliable source of information.<p>Can you imagine reading a scientific journal in which the data narrative was deliberately engineered to keep you guessing until the conclusion? You would be right to raise eyebrows at a publication that is investing in your attention rather than its own accuracy.<p>There&#x27;s no dire consequence here, it&#x27;s just slightly dystopian that US presidential elections are unapologetically leveraged as a vehicle for mass entertainment by the press itself.</text></comment> |
26,808,023 | 26,808,093 | 1 | 2 | 26,807,397 | train | <story><title>Space junk removal is not going smoothly</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-junk-removal-is-not-going-smoothly/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xoa</author><text>While I know Scientific American is a fairly mainstream targeted and softer science publication, this<p>&gt;<i>And the problem is now poised to get much worse because of the rise of satellite “mega constellations” requiring thousands of spacecraft, such as SpaceX’s Starlink, a broadband Internet network.</i><p>really could have used a LOT more qualification particularly since it&#x27;s become a major recent talking point. There is one ultimate sure-fire way to reduce space junk: <i>launch stuff to very low orbits</i>. There is still some atmosphere (varying with heating and other factors) up a long ways in &quot;space&quot;, and it&#x27;s only above 600km or so that orbital drag becomes negligible enough that lifetimes really stretch out. The ISS for example requires regular reboosts or it would decay back into the atmosphere.<p>SpaceX focusing on economics has made it feasible to start planning constellations of comm sats that are low and very low earth orbit, with the understanding that inherently their lifetimes will be measured in single digit years. But that&#x27;s ok since they can be replaced so cheaply. This is much better, not worse. Even if they go offline or got hit, the debris would have a very restricted lifetime. The media should do a better job of conveying how cheaper $&#x2F;kg to LEO opens up a lot of new possibilities in what regulations are feasible and how we think about the basics of satellite design. A simple &quot;Mega constellation bad!&quot; is all wrong, and that&#x27;s not necessarily going to be intuitive to everyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Space junk removal is not going smoothly</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-junk-removal-is-not-going-smoothly/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>All I had to do is play a little Kerbal Space Program to understand how difficult it would be to clean up space junk in orbit. Orbit isn&#x27;t like some 3D grid where you stick a roomba up there, and have it go back and forth until you get everything. Even if you have the technology that lets you grab anything you encounter, you first have to reach something. And then burn some fuel to match its orbit. And then burn some fuel to get to the next thing. And then burn some fuel to match that thing&#x27;s orbit (more than before because you are now carrying more mass around).<p>It might be better to keep everything up there. Assuming the junk is re-usable in some way: If one day, we do manage to build some kind of industry in orbit, it will need to consume raw materials, and having all this scrap in orbit already means you saved most of the energy cost it would have taken to get all that mass up there.</text></comment> |
29,772,831 | 29,771,589 | 1 | 2 | 29,770,238 | train | <story><title>Faster TypedArrays: Vector Addition in WebAssembly</title><url>https://jott.live/markdown/wasm_vector_addition</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>IvanK_net</author><text>BTW. you can unwrap loops in pure Javascript too, and it also makes the code several times faster.<p>4x unwrap: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsfiddle.net&#x2F;49j7htdz&#x2F;1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsfiddle.net&#x2F;49j7htdz&#x2F;1&#x2F;</a><p>8x unwrap: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsfiddle.net&#x2F;49j7htdz&#x2F;2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsfiddle.net&#x2F;49j7htdz&#x2F;2&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Faster TypedArrays: Vector Addition in WebAssembly</title><url>https://jott.live/markdown/wasm_vector_addition</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Matheus28</author><text>If we&#x27;re not counting the time to zero out the array, it seems that typed arrays are slower than plain javascript because it&#x27;s converting to &amp; from floats&#x2F;doubles back and forth. Try the same with Float64Array. My microbenchmark says f32 is 15% slower than f64 on chrome: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsbench.me&#x2F;gnkxxkjag8&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsbench.me&#x2F;gnkxxkjag8&#x2F;1</a></text></comment> |
35,393,013 | 35,391,995 | 1 | 3 | 35,389,797 | train | <story><title>Groupon, which has lost 99.4% of its value since its IPO, names a new CEO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/31/groupon-which-has-lost-99-4-of-its-value-since-its-ipo-names-a-new-ceo-based-in-czech-republic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newaccount74</author><text>Groupon felt a bit like a multi-level-marketing scheme to me. They hired lots and lots of sales people, whose job it was to convince unsuspecting businesses to offer a groupon.<p>A restaurant owner I worked with agreed to run a Groupon. They offered a 40€ dinner for two at a 50% discount for 20€. That was already a fantastic deal. But Groupon took 50%, so the restaurant owner got only 10€ per sale. They sold a <i>lot</i> of them.<p>The Groupon sales person promised them that this would be great advertising, that people would bring their friends, and that they could sell fancy drinks and cocktails to the guests, so they would make a lot of money.<p>So over the next 6 months or so, every day a few people would show up, redeem their Groupon to get their 40€ meal, order no drinks, and never come back again.<p>It was a really shitty deal for the restaurant, but it was a fantastic deal for groupon -- they got a 50% cut for selling a ridiculously cheap meal.<p>Of course, no business owner in their right mind would ever agree to such a crappy deal a second time. So the success of Groupon was based on finding new, unsuspecting businesses who could be talked into offering such a sweet deal.<p>In the beginning, with all the hype, that was an easy task. So they saw huge growth at the beginning. But it wasn&#x27;t sustainable growth. Groupon was exploiting hapless business owners that haven&#x27;t yet been burned by sleazy marketers.<p>As soon as the too-good-to-be-true deals became less frequent, Groupons customers also started leaving.<p>I don&#x27;t understand how anybody who knew anything about the business could think that this was sustainable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>88913527</author><text>Price-conscious consumers will absolutely take a good deal but build no brand loyalty. They&#x27;ll hop from sale to sale. Businesses live and die by customer acquisition costs. You&#x27;re better off offering deals to customers who&#x27;ve already demonstrated a willingness to pay near-MSRP regularly, and offer deals if they start dropping off, to get them buying again.<p>Groupon just proved, at a larger scale, what was always present in consumer behavior. Of course it wasn&#x27;t going to be sustainable just like click-through rates for ads dropped off once people got used to their placement at a particular location in the search results. In this case, Groupon capitalized on small-business owners who had a poor grasp of how consumers work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Groupon, which has lost 99.4% of its value since its IPO, names a new CEO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/31/groupon-which-has-lost-99-4-of-its-value-since-its-ipo-names-a-new-ceo-based-in-czech-republic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newaccount74</author><text>Groupon felt a bit like a multi-level-marketing scheme to me. They hired lots and lots of sales people, whose job it was to convince unsuspecting businesses to offer a groupon.<p>A restaurant owner I worked with agreed to run a Groupon. They offered a 40€ dinner for two at a 50% discount for 20€. That was already a fantastic deal. But Groupon took 50%, so the restaurant owner got only 10€ per sale. They sold a <i>lot</i> of them.<p>The Groupon sales person promised them that this would be great advertising, that people would bring their friends, and that they could sell fancy drinks and cocktails to the guests, so they would make a lot of money.<p>So over the next 6 months or so, every day a few people would show up, redeem their Groupon to get their 40€ meal, order no drinks, and never come back again.<p>It was a really shitty deal for the restaurant, but it was a fantastic deal for groupon -- they got a 50% cut for selling a ridiculously cheap meal.<p>Of course, no business owner in their right mind would ever agree to such a crappy deal a second time. So the success of Groupon was based on finding new, unsuspecting businesses who could be talked into offering such a sweet deal.<p>In the beginning, with all the hype, that was an easy task. So they saw huge growth at the beginning. But it wasn&#x27;t sustainable growth. Groupon was exploiting hapless business owners that haven&#x27;t yet been burned by sleazy marketers.<p>As soon as the too-good-to-be-true deals became less frequent, Groupons customers also started leaving.<p>I don&#x27;t understand how anybody who knew anything about the business could think that this was sustainable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saiya-jin</author><text>There are many variants out there, ie what we have here in Switzerland (buyclub, mostly Geneva) has mandatory drink per person, 5$ minimum, and also usually discount is often 40% and not 50%, no cashback. When we use it we always paid quite a bit on top already-paid discount, happily (starters, cakes, drinks, coffee all ads up). Often same places keep reappearing on the offer, so it doesn&#x27;t seem to be bad deal for them. Deals don&#x27;t come very frequently, have strict limit on total coupons count (ie 200, 500), how many per user, timeout etc.<p>Another variant of the concept is ie La fourchette (the fork), where you can get similar deals, but they are either permanent deals or stay around for longer, so if you don&#x27;t have anything specific in mind you just search what is available around. Similar rules for drinks.</text></comment> |
23,187,865 | 23,187,250 | 1 | 2 | 23,176,327 | train | <story><title>Building a subsea cable to better connect Africa</title><url>https://engineering.fb.com/connectivity/2africa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcaa7f3a8bbc</author><text>Note to other readers: It requires 2 hours to read.<p>This is a timeless classic from Wired, written by Neal Stephenson in 1996. I love this article not only because of the article itself, but its enthusiasm and energy from the age it was written in. It was an age with a bright future where everything seems possible. Back at that time, Wired represented the avant-garde of Silicon Valley (including the fact that Neal Stephenson being the author) that was going to revolutionize everything through computing and the Internet, the free and fast flow of information enables decentralization, and would liberate us from all the old forms of political control.<p>In particular, this article had a clear techno-libertarian overtone, about how authoritarianism and monopoly would be defeated through disruptive innovation. One goal of constructing FLAG (the cable) was explicitly to reduce the reliance of the infrastructure of the United States and to challenge the role played by traditional ISP over the control. The article even mentioned the early cypherpunk movement (in the mid of the first Crypto War), and acknowledged &quot;Virtually all communications between countries take place through a very small number of bottlenecks, and the available bandwidth simply isn&#x27;t that great. Even outfits like FLAG don&#x27;t really grok the Internet.&quot; But FLAG was still seen as a step moving towards the correct direction and the beginning of the new network order.<p>The dream eventually came to an end. Wired-inspired DotCom bubble busted. Although FLAG was the first move to break U.S. and traditional ISP&#x27;s monopoly, future projects in the next 10 years didn&#x27;t quite accomplish this goal. Silicon Valley became the new giant establishment and monopoly (the critics say massive deregulation was partially responsible). Authoritarian regimes have done a good job preventing the information flowing online to bring liberal political changes. And the Internet has been seized as the means of mass surveillance.<p>Nevertheless, the late 90s was a great age to be alive with that dream.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t directly have to do with this article, but in case some people have not seen it before:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;1996&#x2F;12&#x2F;ffglass&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;1996&#x2F;12&#x2F;ffglass&#x2F;</a> &quot;Mother Earth Mother Board&quot;<p>This is a good hour-long read, one of the most interesting descriptions I ever read of all that goes into funding, building, operating subsea fiber optic cables that connect us around the world. It&#x27;s a couple years out of date, but very entertaining. Goes from the physics of transmission all the way to the ships and people who lay the cable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gz5</author><text>well worth the time to read. multiple times.<p>&gt;the free and fast flow of information enables decentralization<p>i was a believer. big time. starting in 99, was helping democratize telecom via VoIP. ate up long tail theory like candy.<p>but now i think we were incorrect in thinking the problem was only on the supply side - the monopolies (of that day) control of the supply side. that was a problem, but there are two sides of the hose.<p>the other side of the hose is us. 24 hours in a day. 1440 minutes. minutes increasingly bombarded as the supply side of the hose has widened, and the hose now lives in our pockets instead of on a piece of furniture.<p>i still believe decentralization will occur - simply because things do usually balance over time (or at least the pendulum moves back and forth) - but won&#x27;t it take more than &#x27;fixing&#x27; the supply side?</text></comment> | <story><title>Building a subsea cable to better connect Africa</title><url>https://engineering.fb.com/connectivity/2africa/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bcaa7f3a8bbc</author><text>Note to other readers: It requires 2 hours to read.<p>This is a timeless classic from Wired, written by Neal Stephenson in 1996. I love this article not only because of the article itself, but its enthusiasm and energy from the age it was written in. It was an age with a bright future where everything seems possible. Back at that time, Wired represented the avant-garde of Silicon Valley (including the fact that Neal Stephenson being the author) that was going to revolutionize everything through computing and the Internet, the free and fast flow of information enables decentralization, and would liberate us from all the old forms of political control.<p>In particular, this article had a clear techno-libertarian overtone, about how authoritarianism and monopoly would be defeated through disruptive innovation. One goal of constructing FLAG (the cable) was explicitly to reduce the reliance of the infrastructure of the United States and to challenge the role played by traditional ISP over the control. The article even mentioned the early cypherpunk movement (in the mid of the first Crypto War), and acknowledged &quot;Virtually all communications between countries take place through a very small number of bottlenecks, and the available bandwidth simply isn&#x27;t that great. Even outfits like FLAG don&#x27;t really grok the Internet.&quot; But FLAG was still seen as a step moving towards the correct direction and the beginning of the new network order.<p>The dream eventually came to an end. Wired-inspired DotCom bubble busted. Although FLAG was the first move to break U.S. and traditional ISP&#x27;s monopoly, future projects in the next 10 years didn&#x27;t quite accomplish this goal. Silicon Valley became the new giant establishment and monopoly (the critics say massive deregulation was partially responsible). Authoritarian regimes have done a good job preventing the information flowing online to bring liberal political changes. And the Internet has been seized as the means of mass surveillance.<p>Nevertheless, the late 90s was a great age to be alive with that dream.</text></item><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t directly have to do with this article, but in case some people have not seen it before:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;1996&#x2F;12&#x2F;ffglass&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;1996&#x2F;12&#x2F;ffglass&#x2F;</a> &quot;Mother Earth Mother Board&quot;<p>This is a good hour-long read, one of the most interesting descriptions I ever read of all that goes into funding, building, operating subsea fiber optic cables that connect us around the world. It&#x27;s a couple years out of date, but very entertaining. Goes from the physics of transmission all the way to the ships and people who lay the cable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrepd</author><text><i>&gt; the free and fast flow of information enables decentralization, and would liberate us from all the old forms of political control.</i><p>Of course, it turned out precisely the opposite.</text></comment> |
14,615,482 | 14,615,090 | 1 | 3 | 14,612,171 | train | <story><title>Truckers Working Alongside Coders Trying to Make Driverless Trucks</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-22/these-truckers-work-alongside-the-coders-trying-to-eliminate-their-jobs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ben_jones</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget what happens when people find out they can abuse driverless vehicles. Cutting them off, getting closer to them, slowing down in front of them, etc. God knows what commuters will do to them in the Boston area.</text></item><item><author>thatwebdude</author><text>&gt; Most people in Silicon Valley subscribe to either the first or second school. Much of the rest of the country, including many truckers, favor the third. &quot;I can tell the difference between a dead porcupine and a dead raccoon, and I know I can hit a raccoon, but if I hit a porcupine, I’m going to lose all the tires on the truck on that side,&quot; says Tom George, a veteran driver who now trains other Teamsters for the union’s Washington-Idaho AGC Training Trust. &quot;It will take a long time and a lot of software to program that competence into a computer.&quot;<p>Driverless trucks are a very interesting concept. Once they&#x27;re on the freeway, I would think most automation would work (relatively) well. But getting through traffic congestions, busy multi-turn-lane intersections, and making sure you don&#x27;t sideswipe someone who&#x27;s hugging the line seems rather complex given the different trailer dimensions and blind spots, (un)marked lanes and everything else it takes to <i>get</i> to the highway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paganel</author><text>&gt; Cutting them off, getting closer to them, slowing down in front of them, etc.<p>My brother is a lorry driver who frequently crosses the Turkish - Bulgarian border with his truck (as in once every 2 weeks). Once or twice he caught refugees (or whatever you want to call them) trying to get inside his trailer by cutting through the thick textile material that covers it, while he was awaiting at the border. You generally do not whant people mixing with your industrial equipment while the truck drives at 90-100 km&#x2F;h. In other cases it happened to him that other people had stolen diesel gas from his tank while he was asleep during the mandatory break (this happened somewhere in Western Europe, I forget where).<p>And leaving aside all this, assuming that bad people won&#x27;t suddenly stop stealing and generally doing bad stuff to unattended expensive material (like trucks and the things that the trucks carry), being a truck driver you&#x27;re also doing lots, and lots of bureaucracy work. I once shared the cabin with him as a passenger during one of his routes, while we passed two European borders. The amount of paperwork he had to fill in was mind-blogging, I half-jokingly told him that his job looks more like a clerk-job than being an actual driver. Now, lots of clerk jobs have already been automated, I know that, but it mostly happened in the private sector, inside private companies doing business with other private companies. But once your clerk-like job involves having to do business with several State-like entities things become a lot more complicated, with legislation changing once every 6 months, being very diverse from State to State etc.<p>What I&#x27;m trying to say is that theoretically the self-driving problem looks achievable for trucks, but once you get into the messy details things become a lot more complicated.</text></comment> | <story><title>Truckers Working Alongside Coders Trying to Make Driverless Trucks</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-22/these-truckers-work-alongside-the-coders-trying-to-eliminate-their-jobs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ben_jones</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget what happens when people find out they can abuse driverless vehicles. Cutting them off, getting closer to them, slowing down in front of them, etc. God knows what commuters will do to them in the Boston area.</text></item><item><author>thatwebdude</author><text>&gt; Most people in Silicon Valley subscribe to either the first or second school. Much of the rest of the country, including many truckers, favor the third. &quot;I can tell the difference between a dead porcupine and a dead raccoon, and I know I can hit a raccoon, but if I hit a porcupine, I’m going to lose all the tires on the truck on that side,&quot; says Tom George, a veteran driver who now trains other Teamsters for the union’s Washington-Idaho AGC Training Trust. &quot;It will take a long time and a lot of software to program that competence into a computer.&quot;<p>Driverless trucks are a very interesting concept. Once they&#x27;re on the freeway, I would think most automation would work (relatively) well. But getting through traffic congestions, busy multi-turn-lane intersections, and making sure you don&#x27;t sideswipe someone who&#x27;s hugging the line seems rather complex given the different trailer dimensions and blind spots, (un)marked lanes and everything else it takes to <i>get</i> to the highway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluGill</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget that the driverless vehicle will have tracking. Expect to get a ticket complete with video if you do things like that. If you are costing the trucking company money they might be willing to send people to court against you as well (taking you to court might not be worth it, but the teach people a lesson aspect might make it worth it anyway)</text></comment> |
12,921,359 | 12,921,458 | 1 | 2 | 12,919,683 | train | <story><title>Apple’s First Phone, from 1983, Never Made It to Market (2014)</title><url>http://lowendmac.com/2014/apples-first-phone-from-1983-never-made-it-to-market/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smpetrey</author><text>This was not before the Macintosh as the author points out.<p>Hartmut Esslinger prototyped the &quot;MacPhone&quot; in a study in 1984 after the success of the Macintosh. [1] Other prototypes in this series were part of the Snow White project. [2]<p>Information sourced from &quot;Keep It Simple: The Early Design Years of Apple&quot; by Hartmut Esslinger. [3]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;MMYDogd" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;MMYDogd</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Snow_White_design_language" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Snow_White_design_language</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Keep-Simple-Early-Design-Years&#x2F;dp&#x2F;3897904071" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Keep-Simple-Early-Design-Years&#x2F;dp&#x2F;389...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Apple’s First Phone, from 1983, Never Made It to Market (2014)</title><url>http://lowendmac.com/2014/apples-first-phone-from-1983-never-made-it-to-market/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>underwater</author><text>Is this legitimate? All references to the phone lead back to the same website.<p>I&#x27;m surprised that the technology existed to do touch-based signatures. That would have required precise touch input and a decent amount of computing power in a tiny form factor.<p>The screen is surprisingly large, slim and doesn&#x27;t have the LCD look most laptops had at the time. It also is glossy, which really only became popular when Apple had its resurgence.</text></comment> |
32,752,946 | 32,753,219 | 1 | 2 | 32,751,603 | train | <story><title>Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packaging</title><url>https://pypi.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>at_a_remove</author><text>I have a terrible admission to make: one of the reason I like Python is its huge standard library, and I like that because I just ... despise looking for libraries, trying to install them, evaluating their fitness, and so on.<p>I view dependencies outside of the standard library as a kind of technical debt, not because I suffer from Not Invented Here and want to code it myself, no, I look and think, &quot;Why isn&#x27;t this in the standard library with a working set of idioms around it?&quot;<p>I haven&#x27;t developed anything with more than five digits of code to it, which is fine for me, but part of it is just ... avoidance of having to screw with libraries. Ran into a pip issue I won&#x27;t go into (it requires a lot of justification to see how I got there) and just ... slumped over.<p>This has been a bad spot in Python for a long, long time. While people are busy cramming their favorite feature from their last language into Python, this sort of thing has languished.<p>Sadly, I have nothing to offer but encouragement, I don&#x27;t know the complexities of packaging, it seems like a huge topic that perhaps nobody really dreamed Python would have to seriously deal with twenty years ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>&gt; despise looking for libraries, trying to install them, evaluating their fitness, and so on.<p>This is exactly why I prefer the larger opinionated web frameworks (Django, Vue.js) to the smaller more composable frameworks (Flask, React). I don’t what to make decisions every time I need a new feature, I want something that “just works”.<p>Python and Django just work, and brilliantly at that!</text></comment> | <story><title>Pypi.org is running a survey on the state of Python packaging</title><url>https://pypi.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>at_a_remove</author><text>I have a terrible admission to make: one of the reason I like Python is its huge standard library, and I like that because I just ... despise looking for libraries, trying to install them, evaluating their fitness, and so on.<p>I view dependencies outside of the standard library as a kind of technical debt, not because I suffer from Not Invented Here and want to code it myself, no, I look and think, &quot;Why isn&#x27;t this in the standard library with a working set of idioms around it?&quot;<p>I haven&#x27;t developed anything with more than five digits of code to it, which is fine for me, but part of it is just ... avoidance of having to screw with libraries. Ran into a pip issue I won&#x27;t go into (it requires a lot of justification to see how I got there) and just ... slumped over.<p>This has been a bad spot in Python for a long, long time. While people are busy cramming their favorite feature from their last language into Python, this sort of thing has languished.<p>Sadly, I have nothing to offer but encouragement, I don&#x27;t know the complexities of packaging, it seems like a huge topic that perhaps nobody really dreamed Python would have to seriously deal with twenty years ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manuelabeledo</author><text>This is one of the reasons why I don&#x27;t quite like Node. It feels like <i>everything</i> is a dependency.<p>It seems ridiculous to me that there isn&#x27;t a native method for something as simple and ubiquitous as putting a thread to sleep, or that there is an external library (underscore) that provides 100+ methods that seem to be staples in any modern language.<p>Python is nice in that way. It is also opinionated in a cohesive and community driven manner, e.g. PEP8.</text></comment> |
5,072,600 | 5,072,119 | 1 | 3 | 5,071,477 | train | <story><title>SSH client in Google Chrome</title><url>https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwr</author><text>This is exactly what I've been waiting for!<p>The ability to take my critical secret information into a huge, buggy, extensible, unaudited, complex and constantly changing browser environment! Who could resist?<p>This will also inspire innovators world-wide. Look at it this way: we can now find novel ways to steal passwords, secret keys, log sessions, access servers, sneak in trojans.<p>Count me in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eliben</author><text>I'm saddened by the recent shift of HN discussions to Reddit-isms. For Reddit, we have Reddit. Please, stop wasting others' time.</text></comment> | <story><title>SSH client in Google Chrome</title><url>https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwr</author><text>This is exactly what I've been waiting for!<p>The ability to take my critical secret information into a huge, buggy, extensible, unaudited, complex and constantly changing browser environment! Who could resist?<p>This will also inspire innovators world-wide. Look at it this way: we can now find novel ways to steal passwords, secret keys, log sessions, access servers, sneak in trojans.<p>Count me in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickaljord</author><text>Chromium is open source, the extension is open source and it runs on nativeclient which itself is open source and was designed and audited to be secure and sandboxed. Making it secure and sandboxed was part of the initial goal of both Chromium and nativeclient, and again, they and the extension are all open source and audited daily by Google engineers and tons of security companies.</text></comment> |
15,752,768 | 15,751,879 | 1 | 3 | 15,749,150 | train | <story><title>FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/21/the-fcc-has-unveiled-its-plan-to-rollback-its-net-neutrality-rules/?utm_term=.dd07b903b6a7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>niftich</author><text>Repealing net neutrality would only make sense if the layer underneath (the PHY consisting of fiber&#x2F;copper&#x2F;coax&#x2F;wireless&#x2F;whatever infrastucture including last-mile connections between every node) were subject to net neutrality instead [1], such that &quot;anyone&quot; could start an ISP that offers differentiated services on top of the same infra. Of course, today the last-mile infra and the ISP on top are tightly coupled, and many states have enacted laws and regulations that restrict or forbid municipalities&#x27; efforts to build out a neutral infra [2].<p>I find it absurd that some politicians support both the repeal of net neutrality and the restricting of willing communities to build out their own infra at the same time. I could intellectually entertain either option but never both simultaneously. For a political cohort whose brand has long included local self-determination and rural self-reliance, it&#x27;s bizarre to me to see them take positions that don&#x27;t even appear to be logically consistent. It&#x27;s difficult to accept that they truly have the best interest of their constituents in mind.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muninetworks.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;competition" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muninetworks.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;competition</a> [2]. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muninetworks.org&#x2F;communitymap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muninetworks.org&#x2F;communitymap</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomanybeersies</author><text>That&#x27;s what we ended up with in New Zealand, the underlying infrastructure is owned by companies that lease it to the ISPs, so anyone with enough cash can rent some cabinet space and start an ISP.<p>Before the unbundling, Telecom NZ basically had a monopoly on ADSL connections, connections cost a lot of money and had comically small caps (like 10 GB, which even in 2006 was not a lot). Now, in straight dollar terms, plans are cheaper, and uncapped plans are standard.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/21/the-fcc-has-unveiled-its-plan-to-rollback-its-net-neutrality-rules/?utm_term=.dd07b903b6a7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>niftich</author><text>Repealing net neutrality would only make sense if the layer underneath (the PHY consisting of fiber&#x2F;copper&#x2F;coax&#x2F;wireless&#x2F;whatever infrastucture including last-mile connections between every node) were subject to net neutrality instead [1], such that &quot;anyone&quot; could start an ISP that offers differentiated services on top of the same infra. Of course, today the last-mile infra and the ISP on top are tightly coupled, and many states have enacted laws and regulations that restrict or forbid municipalities&#x27; efforts to build out a neutral infra [2].<p>I find it absurd that some politicians support both the repeal of net neutrality and the restricting of willing communities to build out their own infra at the same time. I could intellectually entertain either option but never both simultaneously. For a political cohort whose brand has long included local self-determination and rural self-reliance, it&#x27;s bizarre to me to see them take positions that don&#x27;t even appear to be logically consistent. It&#x27;s difficult to accept that they truly have the best interest of their constituents in mind.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muninetworks.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;competition" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muninetworks.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;competition</a> [2]. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muninetworks.org&#x2F;communitymap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muninetworks.org&#x2F;communitymap</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awj</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s difficult to accept that they truly have the best interest of their constituents in mind.<p>Then ... don&#x27;t. If someone&#x27;s actions contradict their words, don&#x27;t believe their words.</text></comment> |
11,671,785 | 11,670,505 | 1 | 2 | 11,670,162 | train | <story><title>Redis Loadable Modules System</title><url>http://www.antirez.com/news/106</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>educar</author><text>The docs explain the module system (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;antirez&#x2F;redis&#x2F;blob&#x2F;unstable&#x2F;src&#x2F;modules&#x2F;INTRO.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;antirez&#x2F;redis&#x2F;blob&#x2F;unstable&#x2F;src&#x2F;modules&#x2F;I...</a>) but it doesn&#x27;t quiet explain what the system is for. I couldn&#x27;t quite get that from reading the blog post or the doc page. Specifically:<p>What kind of modules did you have in mind when designing this? Are any of the below possible?<p>* ldap backend login system<p>* multi-tenant redis<p>* alternate db format&#x2F;file system.<p>* implement a new redis data type. say built-in date support<p>* can i implement new commands and operators on said data types<p>An of course, thanks for this fantastic software. We use it everyday. Will read in more detail about this over the weekend :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>Redis Loadable Modules System</title><url>http://www.antirez.com/news/106</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>astrodust</author><text>There&#x27;s been a lot of unusual features I&#x27;ve been hoping Redis will support but obviously given their edge-case nature it&#x27;s unlikely that they&#x27;d ever be implemented.<p>This is great to see. Instead of cluttering up the core engine with junk people can mix in their own functionality.</text></comment> |
13,344,313 | 13,344,091 | 1 | 3 | 13,341,638 | train | <story><title>Fix for Golang runtime memory corruption bug</title><url>https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/34835/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsdetector</author><text>I feel this kind of thing should be remembered when people say they&#x27;re going to reinvent decades-old technology.<p>This bug exists because they wanted to reinvent threading so you could have millions of threads, except when you actually use millions of threads for anything non-trivial it doesn&#x27;t actually work out so well. To do that they couldn&#x27;t use the standard since-1970 fixed stacks so they needed movable&#x2F;growable stacks. They reinvented exceptions in a way that broke selinux. They reinvented the memory allocator in a way that breaks ulimit. They reinvented a javadoc&#x2F;doxygen that&#x27;s less useful.<p>It&#x27;s great to try to improve things, but a lot of times there&#x27;s actually very good reasons for the old ways.</text></item><item><author>LukeShu</author><text>Indeed, the only actual code change is:<p><pre><code> - sellock(scases, lockorder)
+ systemstack(func() {
+ sellock(scases, lockorder)
+ })
</code></pre>
The rest of the patch is adding&#x2F;changing comments explaining everything.</text></item><item><author>obstinate</author><text>Much of it is reproduced in the comment in the patch.</text></item><item><author>idank</author><text>You weren&#x27;t joking, it is a story. Isn&#x27;t it kind of unfortunate that all this information is in a commit message, that 1) needs to be discovered through git blame, 2) at risk of requiring code archeology if enough lines change, e.g. by moving code around, and 3) is immutable so parts of it cannot be edited in the future?<p>I see this habit in a lot of commit messages and while it is important to convey intent, there are better ways to document your code (either inline, or in this particular case, a wiki page).</text></item><item><author>morecoffee</author><text>One thing I like about rsc (and Austin) is that they have these well explained commit logs that let&#x27;s people follow along at home. The changes seem like they are well justified and made for posterity. This change in particular is a story more than it is a 3 LOC fix.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sfifs</author><text>A lot of the choices for Go become clearer when you realize it was primarily built to solve problems of servers and code base at scale.<p>It supports millions of co-routines, not threads. There&#x27;s typically one thread per CPU or so. The key insight is a lot of server type workloads primarily are constrained on I&#x2F;O and multiplexing virtually unlimited co-routines on a thread automatically by the runtime makes for much simpler concurrent server code.<p>Implementing high concurrency server code in almost any other mainstream language is non-trivial. Indeed I originally switched from Python to Go primarily because of that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fix for Golang runtime memory corruption bug</title><url>https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/34835/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsdetector</author><text>I feel this kind of thing should be remembered when people say they&#x27;re going to reinvent decades-old technology.<p>This bug exists because they wanted to reinvent threading so you could have millions of threads, except when you actually use millions of threads for anything non-trivial it doesn&#x27;t actually work out so well. To do that they couldn&#x27;t use the standard since-1970 fixed stacks so they needed movable&#x2F;growable stacks. They reinvented exceptions in a way that broke selinux. They reinvented the memory allocator in a way that breaks ulimit. They reinvented a javadoc&#x2F;doxygen that&#x27;s less useful.<p>It&#x27;s great to try to improve things, but a lot of times there&#x27;s actually very good reasons for the old ways.</text></item><item><author>LukeShu</author><text>Indeed, the only actual code change is:<p><pre><code> - sellock(scases, lockorder)
+ systemstack(func() {
+ sellock(scases, lockorder)
+ })
</code></pre>
The rest of the patch is adding&#x2F;changing comments explaining everything.</text></item><item><author>obstinate</author><text>Much of it is reproduced in the comment in the patch.</text></item><item><author>idank</author><text>You weren&#x27;t joking, it is a story. Isn&#x27;t it kind of unfortunate that all this information is in a commit message, that 1) needs to be discovered through git blame, 2) at risk of requiring code archeology if enough lines change, e.g. by moving code around, and 3) is immutable so parts of it cannot be edited in the future?<p>I see this habit in a lot of commit messages and while it is important to convey intent, there are better ways to document your code (either inline, or in this particular case, a wiki page).</text></item><item><author>morecoffee</author><text>One thing I like about rsc (and Austin) is that they have these well explained commit logs that let&#x27;s people follow along at home. The changes seem like they are well justified and made for posterity. This change in particular is a story more than it is a 3 LOC fix.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemothekid</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure what you are implying here. Should we give up on creating a language that can have millions of threads because we might break selinux? Should we give up on programs with millions of threads because someone in the 1970&#x27;s never foresaw that use case?</text></comment> |
31,861,168 | 31,861,063 | 1 | 3 | 31,859,653 | train | <story><title>A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017)</title><url>https://www.masswerk.at/misc/wealth/2.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>Ok, let&#x27;s permit ourselves to think the unthinkable through to the conclusion rather than immediately withdraw: Why can&#x27;t there just be civil unrest?</text></item><item><author>drekipus</author><text>&gt; Well let me be the devil&#x27;s advocate here and ask why.<p>because there&#x27;s civil unrest otherwise.</text></item><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>&gt; If you have the benefit of this inequality, you should use it to ensure the availability of life’s necessities so that any else with a similar inequality can provide the maximum benefit regardless of the circumstances they’re born into.<p>Well let me be the devil&#x27;s advocate here and ask why.</text></item><item><author>imgabe</author><text>The only rational thing to is to work towards a post scarcity society.<p>There will always be inequality of talent , of effort, what have you.<p>If you have the benefit of this inequality, you should use it to ensure the availability of life’s necessities so that anyone else with a similar inequality can provide the maximum benefit regardless of the circumstances they’re born into.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UncleMeat</author><text>The devil has enough advocates. Is it really necessary to argue against the very idea of goodness itself?</text></comment> | <story><title>A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017)</title><url>https://www.masswerk.at/misc/wealth/2.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>Ok, let&#x27;s permit ourselves to think the unthinkable through to the conclusion rather than immediately withdraw: Why can&#x27;t there just be civil unrest?</text></item><item><author>drekipus</author><text>&gt; Well let me be the devil&#x27;s advocate here and ask why.<p>because there&#x27;s civil unrest otherwise.</text></item><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>&gt; If you have the benefit of this inequality, you should use it to ensure the availability of life’s necessities so that any else with a similar inequality can provide the maximum benefit regardless of the circumstances they’re born into.<p>Well let me be the devil&#x27;s advocate here and ask why.</text></item><item><author>imgabe</author><text>The only rational thing to is to work towards a post scarcity society.<p>There will always be inequality of talent , of effort, what have you.<p>If you have the benefit of this inequality, you should use it to ensure the availability of life’s necessities so that anyone else with a similar inequality can provide the maximum benefit regardless of the circumstances they’re born into.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malnourish</author><text>I would personally rather live in a safe society with happy and comfortable people, to the fullest extent possible.</text></comment> |
15,299,674 | 15,296,030 | 1 | 3 | 15,294,742 | train | <story><title>MindWeb – A Computer Science Bachelor Curriculum</title><url>https://mindweb.network/board/computer-science-a-full-bachelor-curriculum</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>opportune</author><text>The problem with a website such as this one is that they just compile a list of content, each of which is quite large&#x2F;involved, and throw it at you. Not only is this kind of overwhelming, but I wonder how many people <i>actually</i> use a page like this to construct a curriculum for themselves. I doubt it&#x27;s very many at all. There&#x27;s too much friction: you have to continue revisiting the page after you complete all of these multi-week courses. And each course will probably have its own suggested next steps, which might be different from those in the original resource, which you might have already forgotten about by now.<p>I&#x27;ve had a different idea for a while. What I&#x27;ve always wanted to do, and would do if I had unlimited time, is create a kind of tech-tree of various computer science concepts, organized into subjects&#x2F;tracks&#x2F;courses, with each vertex in the tree being a clear and concise 4-7 minute youtube video (with accompanying downloadable code if applicable). Note this wouldn&#x27;t necessarily need to be a real tree as things such as e.g. machine learning would need backgrounds in both linear algebra and statistics.<p>Then you could learn from scratch by simply traversing down the tree. If you wanted to learn something, you could search it and determine where in the tree to start watching about it by where you feel like your knowledge ends. So if you&#x27;re looking up np-completeness, but feel you don&#x27;t understand the concepts of p and np, you can watch those videos first.<p>It would take a long time, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>MindWeb – A Computer Science Bachelor Curriculum</title><url>https://mindweb.network/board/computer-science-a-full-bachelor-curriculum</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Thrasolt</author><text>Hi guys. MindWeb is the project of a friend and me. I just wanted to apologize for the loading time. We just launched our beta and we were not prepared for this much traffic!</text></comment> |
24,520,202 | 24,520,437 | 1 | 3 | 24,519,684 | train | <story><title>The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)</title><url>https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/691462?journalCode=jacr</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>I get the same thing by A) not watching the news B) turning off notifications for almost all apps C) the real magic key to keeping control of your smart phone, instead of letting it control you is<p>&lt;buzz&gt; &lt;buzz&gt;<p>hang on<p>Hello?<p>Look I&#x27;m right in the middle of something I&#x27;ll... yeah. I know I ... I KNOW. Look, I gotta go.<p>Anyway, as I was saying... uh... well anyway. Phones suck.</text></item><item><author>perlgod</author><text>Getting rid of my smartphone was without a doubt the most positive thing I ever did for myself.<p>I&#x27;m sure some people have the self-control to use it sparingly. But for me, not having to constantly fight the urge to check my always-connected magic pocket internet portal has freed up a huge amount of my mental willpower, which I can now redirect to other more important things.<p>Now that everything is closed, I don&#x27;t even miss having the convenience of Uber&#x2F;Google Maps. Additionally, without social media, I remain blissfully unaware of whatever corona hysteria or political drama is consuming the minds of my peers.<p>These devices have a veritable legion of engineers working to make the smartphone experience as addictive as possible. For some people, the only winning move it not to play.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DiffEq</author><text>I have had my office phone on Do Not Disturb for 5 years and my cell phone has all notifications turned off and the ringer is set to off. The only time i turn it on is if I am expecting a call - which is hardly ever. Same with my PC - no notifications...it helps a great deal to keep the tool a tool instead of letting it become your master.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)</title><url>https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/691462?journalCode=jacr</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>I get the same thing by A) not watching the news B) turning off notifications for almost all apps C) the real magic key to keeping control of your smart phone, instead of letting it control you is<p>&lt;buzz&gt; &lt;buzz&gt;<p>hang on<p>Hello?<p>Look I&#x27;m right in the middle of something I&#x27;ll... yeah. I know I ... I KNOW. Look, I gotta go.<p>Anyway, as I was saying... uh... well anyway. Phones suck.</text></item><item><author>perlgod</author><text>Getting rid of my smartphone was without a doubt the most positive thing I ever did for myself.<p>I&#x27;m sure some people have the self-control to use it sparingly. But for me, not having to constantly fight the urge to check my always-connected magic pocket internet portal has freed up a huge amount of my mental willpower, which I can now redirect to other more important things.<p>Now that everything is closed, I don&#x27;t even miss having the convenience of Uber&#x2F;Google Maps. Additionally, without social media, I remain blissfully unaware of whatever corona hysteria or political drama is consuming the minds of my peers.<p>These devices have a veritable legion of engineers working to make the smartphone experience as addictive as possible. For some people, the only winning move it not to play.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thelean12</author><text>...What? In what situation does this happen?<p>If I&#x27;m busy then I&#x27;ll let it go to voicemail and call back.</text></comment> |
28,918,232 | 28,917,932 | 1 | 2 | 28,917,152 | train | <story><title>Deleting an S3 Bucket Costs Money</title><url>https://cloudcasts.io/article/deleting-an-s3-bucket-costs-money</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CSDude</author><text>You can use lifecycle policies to delete it for free, but its best to confirm it via support. Not saying this is the great way, maybe its intentionally hidden, but at least there is a way.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;59170391&#x2F;s3-lifecycle-expiration-do-object-expiry-deletes-cost-money-for-sia-objects" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;59170391&#x2F;s3-lifecycle-ex...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>treesknees</author><text>Yes, this was mentioned as the preferred method in the article. As the article states, it&#x27;s free for objects in the standard storage tier but will incur a Transition cost for other tiers. It&#x27;s not hidden, but it&#x27;s not exactly advertised as a way to empty a bucket.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deleting an S3 Bucket Costs Money</title><url>https://cloudcasts.io/article/deleting-an-s3-bucket-costs-money</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CSDude</author><text>You can use lifecycle policies to delete it for free, but its best to confirm it via support. Not saying this is the great way, maybe its intentionally hidden, but at least there is a way.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;59170391&#x2F;s3-lifecycle-expiration-do-object-expiry-deletes-cost-money-for-sia-objects" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;59170391&#x2F;s3-lifecycle-ex...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>There&#x27;s some caveats to that...<p><i>&quot;If you create an S3 Lifecycle expiration rule that causes objects that have been in S3 Standard-IA or S3 One Zone-IA storage for less than 30 days to expire, you are charged for 30 days&quot;</i><p>It goes on to say 90 days for Glacier and 180 days for Glacier Deep.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;AmazonS3&#x2F;latest&#x2F;userguide&#x2F;lifecycle-expire-general-considerations.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;AmazonS3&#x2F;latest&#x2F;userguide&#x2F;lifecy...</a></text></comment> |
23,635,637 | 23,635,276 | 1 | 2 | 23,634,138 | train | <story><title>iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes</title><url>https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1275896482433040386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedivm</author><text>From my perspective it seems like Apple keeps releasing new privacy features and Android keeps being forced to catch up. What are the major privacy enhancements that Google has put out first?</text></item><item><author>patrickyeon</author><text>I&#x27;ve only ever been an Android user, but for a while I was paying a lot of attention to iOS too. It seems to me like they&#x27;ve been back and forthing, as one side figures out some improvements, the other side more-or-less re-implements them on their next release with their own unrelated improvements.<p>Seems like a good thing, really.</text></item><item><author>shawnz</author><text>Android similarly has been continually improving the privacy&#x2F;permissions model of the OS when it comes to third party apps. I am not sure that Apple has any obvious advantage in that department specifically.</text></item><item><author>alfalfasprout</author><text>People love to hate on Apple but the fact is, they continue to release features to better showcase or restrict developers that abuse your privacy. The &quot;walled garden&quot; also ensures they apply a ton of checks to apps to better restrict abuses. Sometimes it&#x27;s overly sensitive and bad things happen, but in general it&#x27;s awesome that over time it becomes harder and harder to get away with apps blatantly spying on you.</text></item><item><author>SirensOfTitan</author><text>It seems like a ton of apps are abusing this feature:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo</a><p>I categorize this as another reason why &quot;just trust us,&quot; just isn&#x27;t acceptable enough when it comes to data privacy and ownership. Companies just cannot be trusted to treat their users&#x27; data with respect given the option of: profit or privacy.<p>(sourced from reddit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;apple&#x2F;comments&#x2F;hejb9i&#x2F;ios14_catches_apps_spying_on_your_clipboard&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;apple&#x2F;comments&#x2F;hejb9i&#x2F;ios14_catches...</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>platinumrad</author><text>Android blocked background clipboard access in 2019.</text></comment> | <story><title>iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes</title><url>https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1275896482433040386</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tedivm</author><text>From my perspective it seems like Apple keeps releasing new privacy features and Android keeps being forced to catch up. What are the major privacy enhancements that Google has put out first?</text></item><item><author>patrickyeon</author><text>I&#x27;ve only ever been an Android user, but for a while I was paying a lot of attention to iOS too. It seems to me like they&#x27;ve been back and forthing, as one side figures out some improvements, the other side more-or-less re-implements them on their next release with their own unrelated improvements.<p>Seems like a good thing, really.</text></item><item><author>shawnz</author><text>Android similarly has been continually improving the privacy&#x2F;permissions model of the OS when it comes to third party apps. I am not sure that Apple has any obvious advantage in that department specifically.</text></item><item><author>alfalfasprout</author><text>People love to hate on Apple but the fact is, they continue to release features to better showcase or restrict developers that abuse your privacy. The &quot;walled garden&quot; also ensures they apply a ton of checks to apps to better restrict abuses. Sometimes it&#x27;s overly sensitive and bad things happen, but in general it&#x27;s awesome that over time it becomes harder and harder to get away with apps blatantly spying on you.</text></item><item><author>SirensOfTitan</author><text>It seems like a ton of apps are abusing this feature:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo</a><p>I categorize this as another reason why &quot;just trust us,&quot; just isn&#x27;t acceptable enough when it comes to data privacy and ownership. Companies just cannot be trusted to treat their users&#x27; data with respect given the option of: profit or privacy.<p>(sourced from reddit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;apple&#x2F;comments&#x2F;hejb9i&#x2F;ios14_catches_apps_spying_on_your_clipboard&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;apple&#x2F;comments&#x2F;hejb9i&#x2F;ios14_catches...</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickyeon</author><text>Sorry, I don&#x27;t have a history of this here. I&#x27;m running off my sense of a fair portion of the time when I hear &quot;this new privacy feature coming to iOS&quot; I think &quot;oh I&#x27;ve had that for a little while&quot;, and the rest of the time something equivalent shows up later for Android.</text></comment> |
17,403,934 | 17,398,772 | 1 | 3 | 17,395,033 | train | <story><title>The F-106A That Flew Itself – After the Pilot Ejected, Landing Gently in a Field</title><url>https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/plane-flew-pilot-ejected-f-106a-flew-miles-landing-gently-field.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thecopy</author><text>Am i the only one who is irritated by sentences like &quot;In 1970, a plane got fed up with its pilot so it hatched an audacious plan. First, get rid of the pilot. Second: land. Third: enter history. The result was amazing.&quot;<p>Especially irritating the the last sentence &quot;The result was amazing&quot;.<p>Is there a word for describing this type of writing in English?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanchoi</author><text>To me it generally came across as &quot;self-indulgent&quot; where authors write for themselves more than the readers. Cynically I can just imagine the author thinking &quot;oh yes that&#x27;s clever&quot; while writing this part... And with AI in the media these days, it may just confuse readers. And for what, to fit in some fancy anthropomorphism?<p>But I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m using the term quite right, this seems to be a more specific issue in fiction.</text></comment> | <story><title>The F-106A That Flew Itself – After the Pilot Ejected, Landing Gently in a Field</title><url>https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/plane-flew-pilot-ejected-f-106a-flew-miles-landing-gently-field.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thecopy</author><text>Am i the only one who is irritated by sentences like &quot;In 1970, a plane got fed up with its pilot so it hatched an audacious plan. First, get rid of the pilot. Second: land. Third: enter history. The result was amazing.&quot;<p>Especially irritating the the last sentence &quot;The result was amazing&quot;.<p>Is there a word for describing this type of writing in English?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>YeGoblynQueenne</author><text>&quot;Tongue in cheek&quot;?</text></comment> |
17,741,507 | 17,741,386 | 1 | 2 | 17,741,179 | train | <story><title>Advocates say paper ballots are safest</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-10/advocates-say-paper-ballots-are-safest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fareesh</author><text>Can Americans explain why voter ID is seen to be disenfranchising or sometimes inarticulately simplified as &quot;racist&quot;?<p>Voter ID is mandatory in so many parts of the world. What are the rest of us missing?<p>Edit: Not that it matters, but I live in India, so &quot;poor people can&#x27;t get ID&quot; confuses me even further.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colemannugent</author><text>Surprised nobody&#x27;s mentioned this yet: The most common form of ID in the US is a driver&#x27;s license. To get one you need to meet a bunch of requirements and then take a driving test at a local branch of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). If you are ever looking for a great example of government inefficiency it&#x27;s the DMV offices [1]. All of them run horribly, most have massive wait times for simple procedures, and the employees have a reputation for not giving a shit. Not to say all of them run like this, but in California it&#x27;s so bad that the government officials have their own secret DMV office to avoid waits [2].<p>If you were a poor person who really only has the value of their physical labor to feed your family you might not want to waste spend hours and hours of your incredibly (relatively) valuable time for something you can make do without. Since these poor people are often minorities voter ID laws disproportionately affect them.<p>The question of racism being a factor for supporters of voter ID is kinda muddied. Voter ID laws seem to make a ton of sense on the surface, but a little bit of knowledge about the American election system makes it clear that voter fraud is really not a big problem. There&#x27;s no doubt that racists would support voter ID laws as they do suppress the election turnout of the poor, but I haven&#x27;t seen any evidence that racial factors contribute to the majority of people&#x27;s support for voter ID laws. Like every topic in US politics, it has become hyper-polarized to the point where both sides talk past each other to try to demonize their opponents.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Why-is-DMV-so-slow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Why-is-DMV-so-slow</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sacbee.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics-government&#x2F;capitol-alert&#x2F;article216408570.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sacbee.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics-government&#x2F;capitol-aler...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Advocates say paper ballots are safest</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-10/advocates-say-paper-ballots-are-safest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fareesh</author><text>Can Americans explain why voter ID is seen to be disenfranchising or sometimes inarticulately simplified as &quot;racist&quot;?<p>Voter ID is mandatory in so many parts of the world. What are the rest of us missing?<p>Edit: Not that it matters, but I live in India, so &quot;poor people can&#x27;t get ID&quot; confuses me even further.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>detaro</author><text>Not American, but from my understanding it is because US citizens don&#x27;t have mandatory ID documents. If getting documents necessary to vote is voluntary but requires time and money, going to an office in the next bigger town, bringing documents not everyone might have, ..., disadvantaged people have a harder time to obtain them and are less likely to have them.<p>If you get ID automatically or are required to hold it in other parts of life, it&#x27;s less of a hurdle.</text></comment> |
11,658,288 | 11,658,140 | 1 | 2 | 11,657,250 | train | <story><title>Rust by Example</title><url>http://rustbyexample.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>killercup</author><text>If you want something like this but a little bit shorter that easily fits on 3 printed pages: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnxinyminutes.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;rust&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnxinyminutes.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;rust&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rust by Example</title><url>http://rustbyexample.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sambe</author><text>I found this to be okay as a relatively speedy intro. It&#x27;s quite disorganised though - some concepts and terms appear to be assumed but then introduced properly later on. I was wondering if this was intentional or not (maybe you are supposed to be patient?).</text></comment> |
6,012,729 | 6,012,723 | 1 | 2 | 6,012,525 | train | <story><title>HTTP 2.0</title><url>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-04</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>steveklabnik</author><text>There were so many people just calling for rubber-stamping SPDY as HTTP 2.0 without any changes that frankly, I feel lucky that we&#x27;re getting revisions at all. The editor of the draft is a good guy, and I trust him to make good changes.<p>I think it&#x27;s pretty ludicrous that so many people are willing to let an advertising company basically re-write the way that every computer on the web talks to each other with very little questioning, but this is the place that we&#x27;re at nowadays. For better or worse, the big vendors guide the standards process. I&#x27;d like to see more involvement from the little guys, but that has its own set of challenges.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>I understand the motivation to going to a binary protocol for a SPDY inspired HTTP 2.0 but I would have liked to see an ascii based protocol similar to what jgrahamc proposed last year [0]. I thought it was a much cleaner protocol to read and understand, and much more in tune with what the web is supposed to be. Why not keep the clever binary stuff separate in SPDY, endorse it though the IETF and keep HTTP ascii?<p>[0] <a href="http://blog.jgc.org/2012/12/speeding-up-http-with-minimal-protocol.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jgc.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;speeding-up-http-with-minimal-pr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>What does Google&#x27;s involvement in advertising have to do with the design of the SPDY protocol? Can you make a substantive criticism of SPDY based on Google&#x27;s advertising incentives, or is this just innuendo?</text></comment> | <story><title>HTTP 2.0</title><url>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-04</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>steveklabnik</author><text>There were so many people just calling for rubber-stamping SPDY as HTTP 2.0 without any changes that frankly, I feel lucky that we&#x27;re getting revisions at all. The editor of the draft is a good guy, and I trust him to make good changes.<p>I think it&#x27;s pretty ludicrous that so many people are willing to let an advertising company basically re-write the way that every computer on the web talks to each other with very little questioning, but this is the place that we&#x27;re at nowadays. For better or worse, the big vendors guide the standards process. I&#x27;d like to see more involvement from the little guys, but that has its own set of challenges.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>I understand the motivation to going to a binary protocol for a SPDY inspired HTTP 2.0 but I would have liked to see an ascii based protocol similar to what jgrahamc proposed last year [0]. I thought it was a much cleaner protocol to read and understand, and much more in tune with what the web is supposed to be. Why not keep the clever binary stuff separate in SPDY, endorse it though the IETF and keep HTTP ascii?<p>[0] <a href="http://blog.jgc.org/2012/12/speeding-up-http-with-minimal-protocol.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jgc.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;speeding-up-http-with-minimal-pr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aroch</author><text>&gt;I think it&#x27;s pretty ludicrous that so many people are willing to let an advertising company basically re-write the way that every computer on the web talks to each other with very little questioning<p>I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s very little questioning...in anycase, Google&#x27;s goal is to deliver ads to you in the most efficient and fastest way possible. The <i>more</i> you browse the web the <i>more</i> Google makes; it&#x27;s in their interest to develop SPDY&#x2F;HTTP2.0. So what is wrong with them doing it? IEFT spec drafts are public and they&#x27;re audited (as SPDY has been).<p>Also, most of the specs that we love and rely on today came from &quot;big vendors&quot;, its nice and all to say you want the little guy to be a part (and they should be) but it takes quite a bit of man power to develop, draft and finally get ratified a spec.</text></comment> |
3,389,704 | 3,389,665 | 1 | 3 | 3,389,594 | train | <story><title>GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA </title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/npair/godaddy_has_not_withdrawn_its_official/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sidww2</author><text>While boycotting companies supporting SOPA is important, I feel the excessive focus on GoDaddy is distracting the community from the important issue of actually defeating SOPA/PIPA. The tech community really does not have the size and influence to be able to force even a fifth of the companies to withdraw their support of SOPA.<p>The overwhelming majority of the effort should be going to calling/sending (physical) letters to one's respective representatives, maybe setting up some sort of a fund to oppose SOPA/PIPA, urging tech companies like Google to spend more on lobbying (They can and should be spending more to lobby against the act), etc.<p>Edit: I was under the incorrect impression that OPEN act would end nonsense like SOPA/PIPA. Edited comment to reflect that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danilocampos</author><text>People, and movements, need victories. GoDaddy may not be anything close to the final blow against this nonsense, but that isn't important.<p>Here's the thing: it's the week of Christmas. People, including elected officials and their constituents, are traveling and distracted. The likelihood of a letter-writing campaign either getting off the ground of making an impressive impact is much slimmer than usual.<p>Meanwhile, a very particular company is identified as supportive of the legislation. It happens that their product is broadly used by the Internet community and that said product provides recurring revenue. The loss of numerous customers, as a result, has lasting impact.<p>And so the community responds and makes an example of this company. Do angels sing, heralding the end of bad legislation? No. But tech news outlets, which would have had nothing substantial to print, now get to focus their full attention again on SOPA, on how a company who supports it is brutally punished, and how the Internet business community is maybe something not to be fucked with after all. So now this is part of the story: Internet folk have teeth, there are consequences for supporting bad law. The best part is that GoDaddy doesn't even have to be wounded in any real sense – the story is enough to change the tone of the conversation. This is mostly a war of perceptions, so it's good to make the bad guys look like scheming clowns.<p>This strikes me as an incredible deal during an otherwise dead week. What would you have preferred in its place? How would the season impact such a proposal?<p>&#62; The overwhelming majority of the effort should be going to calling/sending (physical) letters to one's respective representatives, maybe setting up some sort of a fund to oppose SOPA/PIPA and support the OPEN act, urging tech companies like Google to spend more on lobbying (They can and should be spending more to lobby against the act), etc<p>I'm sure you don't need me to point out the multitude of wonderful, free publishing platforms you're going to be able to use to make your case for just this course of action. Meanwhile, while you're putting that all together, let's see a little gratitude for the good luck of GoDaddy's incompetence and for the time and money spent by the many domain holders who made their point so clearly.<p>This is gonna be hard. We, the people, are way outgunned in terms of cash and lobbying. We need every victory we can get to keep the logs rolling.</text></comment> | <story><title>GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA </title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/npair/godaddy_has_not_withdrawn_its_official/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sidww2</author><text>While boycotting companies supporting SOPA is important, I feel the excessive focus on GoDaddy is distracting the community from the important issue of actually defeating SOPA/PIPA. The tech community really does not have the size and influence to be able to force even a fifth of the companies to withdraw their support of SOPA.<p>The overwhelming majority of the effort should be going to calling/sending (physical) letters to one's respective representatives, maybe setting up some sort of a fund to oppose SOPA/PIPA, urging tech companies like Google to spend more on lobbying (They can and should be spending more to lobby against the act), etc.<p>Edit: I was under the incorrect impression that OPEN act would end nonsense like SOPA/PIPA. Edited comment to reflect that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>What evidence do you have that the number of letters has been negatively affected by the GoDaddy coverage?<p>This GoDaddy coverage has been perfect. If anything, <i>more</i> people know about SOPA than would have done otherwise. If anything, the number of letters being sent will have increased, not decreased.</text></comment> |
26,610,538 | 26,610,455 | 1 | 2 | 26,609,900 | train | <story><title>Canadian property bubble nears systemic failure</title><url>https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-property-bubble-nears-systemic-failure-and-not-even-a-big-crash-can-fix-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DeBraid</author><text>Not saying what is &#x2F; isn&#x27;t a bubble, but enjoyed this discussion here on Aussie &#x2F; Canadian RE bubble. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;2MLZxJuzT5E?t=2802" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;2MLZxJuzT5E?t=2802</a><p>Joe Walker: &quot;Sydney and Melbourne are 2 of the most expensive cities in the world...&quot;<p>Tyler Cowen: &quot;AND THEY SHOULD BE! Great food, great views, relatively competent government. Are there 2 nicer places to live on Earth? Maybe these places are actually undervalued?&quot;<p>Turns out really great places to live are extremely rare (Toronto, Vancouver) and expensive for good reason.</text></item><item><author>gonzo41</author><text>As an Australian, every single problem you have, we also have. It sucks.<p>I&#x27;m starting to come to the view that you should only be able to own one house, and you&#x27;ve got to live in it otherwise you pay full market rent on the vacancy.<p>I think about the housing situation as an almost existential economic threat. With the scale &#x27;money&#x27; sitting in housing the banking sector is acting like a parasite starving potential capitol from growth opportunities.<p>It&#x27;s really grim.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>There&#x27;s so many articles about the Canadian property bubble popping that I&#x27;m starting to feel like it&#x27;s some sort of concerted effort by the real estate industry to cool down the market.<p>It was just about to pop 6 years ago when I bought my condo. It was about to pop when values stopped increasing so dramatically 3 or 4 years ago. It was about to pop when the COVID-19 pandemic halted most sales. It&#x27;s about to pop now because everyone is leaving the cities because of WFH rule changes.<p>But it never does. Prices are still high because demand is high and supply isn&#x27;t keeping up. Demand is high because our financial laws allow criminals to launder money through housing, and because we&#x27;re a desirable country for wealthy immigrants. Supply is low because cities have too many NIMBY politicians that are against density increases.<p>I wish it would just pop so we can all get on with fixing the root problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gonzo41</author><text>I got a day trip on Sydney harbour on a yacht a few years back. It was really nice. I can imagine a very expensive day for the host. I wish it was my yacht, because it was a real indulgence. Personally, I would have been pretty happy to just take the manly ferry a few times and have a sandwich.<p>Anyway, as we were boating about the proper harbour side mansions that sit close to the water. I noticed a few things. A lot of them were empty. I asked about this and the finance guys with us mentioned that most of them were land banking assets for Chinese money which isn&#x27;t safe in CCP banks. I&#x27;m not sure how real this is, but if I owned a home on the waterfront in Sydney, I&#x27;d never leave the balcony.<p>Anyway, the effect is that rich foreigners own the places where our rich countrymen used to live. So now they&#x27;ve moved a street back and pushed all the upper middle class into the inner suburbs and now the regular professional folk our on the outer rim. And if you aren&#x27;t rich, then your over mortgaged and live in a flood plain. Which just flooded.<p>Sydney is nice, but it&#x27;s getting less nice, we generally need more cities in Australia. But what we really need is people to treat the family home as that. A place for families to grow and not some asset class.</text></comment> | <story><title>Canadian property bubble nears systemic failure</title><url>https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-property-bubble-nears-systemic-failure-and-not-even-a-big-crash-can-fix-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DeBraid</author><text>Not saying what is &#x2F; isn&#x27;t a bubble, but enjoyed this discussion here on Aussie &#x2F; Canadian RE bubble. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;2MLZxJuzT5E?t=2802" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;2MLZxJuzT5E?t=2802</a><p>Joe Walker: &quot;Sydney and Melbourne are 2 of the most expensive cities in the world...&quot;<p>Tyler Cowen: &quot;AND THEY SHOULD BE! Great food, great views, relatively competent government. Are there 2 nicer places to live on Earth? Maybe these places are actually undervalued?&quot;<p>Turns out really great places to live are extremely rare (Toronto, Vancouver) and expensive for good reason.</text></item><item><author>gonzo41</author><text>As an Australian, every single problem you have, we also have. It sucks.<p>I&#x27;m starting to come to the view that you should only be able to own one house, and you&#x27;ve got to live in it otherwise you pay full market rent on the vacancy.<p>I think about the housing situation as an almost existential economic threat. With the scale &#x27;money&#x27; sitting in housing the banking sector is acting like a parasite starving potential capitol from growth opportunities.<p>It&#x27;s really grim.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>There&#x27;s so many articles about the Canadian property bubble popping that I&#x27;m starting to feel like it&#x27;s some sort of concerted effort by the real estate industry to cool down the market.<p>It was just about to pop 6 years ago when I bought my condo. It was about to pop when values stopped increasing so dramatically 3 or 4 years ago. It was about to pop when the COVID-19 pandemic halted most sales. It&#x27;s about to pop now because everyone is leaving the cities because of WFH rule changes.<p>But it never does. Prices are still high because demand is high and supply isn&#x27;t keeping up. Demand is high because our financial laws allow criminals to launder money through housing, and because we&#x27;re a desirable country for wealthy immigrants. Supply is low because cities have too many NIMBY politicians that are against density increases.<p>I wish it would just pop so we can all get on with fixing the root problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Clewza313</author><text>Toronto isn&#x27;t exactly a match for Sydney when it comes to climate or scenery though, and while Australian politics has its warts, the mayor of Sydney has yet to be caught on camera smoking crack.</text></comment> |
8,594,106 | 8,592,876 | 1 | 2 | 8,589,835 | train | <story><title>Foobar</title><url>https://www.google.com/foobar/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rikverc</author><text>It is irritating because the &quot;puzzle&quot; involves having a history of searching for stuff that Google Foobar has tagged as relevant.<p>If your Google searches are not linked with your Google account or if you search using different search engines, you&#x27;re out of the game.</text></item><item><author>1945795</author><text>Why is this irritating? Google won&#x27;t hire you iff you solve the puzzle, this is nothing more than a very popular way for institutions to generate free PR.</text></item><item><author>bshimmin</author><text>I think this is very clever. Assuming this is something to do with recruitment (as the other comments suggest), then of course I find it intensely irritating and it confirms my pre-existing notion that I would never want to work for a company like Google. But, on the other hand, the people who devised this puzzle are clearly people who would be enticed by a puzzle like it, and would therefore think it was a good way to find like-minded people - and they are probably correct in that assumption.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asuffield</author><text>Disclaimer: my opinions are my own and not representing those of my employer or co-workers. I have no direct relationship to this project and haven&#x27;t looked it up internally.<p>Has it occurred to any of you that we might do these things for <i>sheer fun</i>, because doing that is not only allowed but celebrated?</text></comment> | <story><title>Foobar</title><url>https://www.google.com/foobar/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rikverc</author><text>It is irritating because the &quot;puzzle&quot; involves having a history of searching for stuff that Google Foobar has tagged as relevant.<p>If your Google searches are not linked with your Google account or if you search using different search engines, you&#x27;re out of the game.</text></item><item><author>1945795</author><text>Why is this irritating? Google won&#x27;t hire you iff you solve the puzzle, this is nothing more than a very popular way for institutions to generate free PR.</text></item><item><author>bshimmin</author><text>I think this is very clever. Assuming this is something to do with recruitment (as the other comments suggest), then of course I find it intensely irritating and it confirms my pre-existing notion that I would never want to work for a company like Google. But, on the other hand, the people who devised this puzzle are clearly people who would be enticed by a puzzle like it, and would therefore think it was a good way to find like-minded people - and they are probably correct in that assumption.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jen729w</author><text>Once again a reminder that Google is, er, a company, whose aim is to, er, make money.<p>I&#x27;m not signed in to Google as a matter of course, and I block their ads, so I provide them very little value. As a result, I won&#x27;t be able to use &quot;foobar&quot;, whatever the hell it is.<p>Seems fair. Isn&#x27;t really <i>that</i> irritating, is it? :-)</text></comment> |
20,461,056 | 20,460,341 | 1 | 2 | 20,458,493 | train | <story><title>Zelda Screen Transitions Are Undefined Behaviour</title><url>https://gridbugs.org/zelda-screen-transitions-are-undefined-behaviour/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yc-kraln</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I would call this undefined behavior... the behavior is defined by what happens on the hardware when it&#x27;s executed!<p>There are many, many classical effects on raster hardware which are accomplished by changing registers within the horizontal blanking period... copper bars, mode 7, certain paralax scrolling. When you&#x27;re on a resource limited system it becomes an art to get the most out of the platform. Look at the difference between Mario 64 and Conker&#x27;s Bad Fur Day... or Genji: Days of the Blade (PS3) vs Persona 5 (PS3) Even with modern consoles, there is a marked improvement in the apparent visual quality over the lifetime of the device, as developers learn how to squeeze more and more out of the platform.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zelda Screen Transitions Are Undefined Behaviour</title><url>https://gridbugs.org/zelda-screen-transitions-are-undefined-behaviour/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daniel5151</author><text>I actually had to wrestle with this exact effect while working on wideNES [1]. By saving a screenshot of the screen at each frame alongside with it&#x27;s PPUSCROLL value, it&#x27;s possible to gradually build-up a map of the level as it&#x27;s explored. Moreover, on subsequent playthroughs of the same level, it&#x27;s possible to sync the map with the on-screen action, effectively enabling a &quot;widescreen&quot; mode for old NES games (with certain limitations).<p>Lots of games used funky scrolling mechanics, typically to create status bars, but of all the different games I tested with, TLOZ was by-far the weirdest, requiring an entire special case to get working!<p>I don&#x27;t have any screenshots of my own, but some japanese website recently covered wideNES, posting screenshots of it working with the original Legent of Zelda.[2]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prilik.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;24&#x2F;wideNES.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prilik.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;24&#x2F;wideNES.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;emulog.net&#x2F;fc-nes-emulator-anese-how-to-use-widenes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;emulog.net&#x2F;fc-nes-emulator-anese-how-to-use-widenes&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
35,773,616 | 35,773,446 | 1 | 2 | 35,772,005 | train | <story><title>Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical</title><url>https://prism-break.org/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graderjs</author><text>But if your phone OS &#x2F; cellular firmware is compromised then e2e or even at-rest encryption won&#x27;t matter. Anything you can see on your phone can be seen.<p>I think a more rational alternative is to consider that everything except your unexpressed thoughts and emotions is already logged. At some point, this will become true (if it ain&#x27;t already), so....then you at least will be ahead of that curve.<p>So if everything you do is monitored, how do you achieve privacy in such a world? That is the question, I think.<p>In fact, it&#x27;s similar to how a corporation or nation needs to think about protecting their own secrets. They have to assume compromise (of people, systems, etc)...how do you confuse and compartmentalize what you want to protect?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freedomben</author><text>Don&#x27;t let perfect be the enemy of good. The likelihood and prevalence of deeply low level monitoring is orders of magnitude less than the likelihood of using modern apps and saas where is virtually guaranteed. It&#x27;s an additive game and you can dramatically reduce invasions, even if you can&#x27;t eliminate them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical</title><url>https://prism-break.org/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graderjs</author><text>But if your phone OS &#x2F; cellular firmware is compromised then e2e or even at-rest encryption won&#x27;t matter. Anything you can see on your phone can be seen.<p>I think a more rational alternative is to consider that everything except your unexpressed thoughts and emotions is already logged. At some point, this will become true (if it ain&#x27;t already), so....then you at least will be ahead of that curve.<p>So if everything you do is monitored, how do you achieve privacy in such a world? That is the question, I think.<p>In fact, it&#x27;s similar to how a corporation or nation needs to think about protecting their own secrets. They have to assume compromise (of people, systems, etc)...how do you confuse and compartmentalize what you want to protect?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>htag</author><text>1. It&#x27;s completely possible to treat your phone as an insecure device. Maybe I&#x27;m naive, but I think it&#x27;s possible to run a daily Linux system with a reasonable assumption of privacy.<p>2. When you act as if you are being monitored and judged for your words&#x2F;actions, you begin to self govern them to be more acceptable to the presumed omnipresent agent. Sometimes the fear of being surveilled is as powerful as actual surveillance.</text></comment> |
29,136,761 | 29,136,346 | 1 | 3 | 29,123,674 | train | <story><title>Trading cards are cool again</title><url>https://www.tradingcardsarecoolagain.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pram</author><text>Absolutely everything is frothy right now. I wouldn’t make any long term conclusions from the markets today, since this seems like an exceptional time. That is to say, I think the “bull case” for many things atm are heavily tainted by irrational exuberance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dQw4w9WgXcQ</author><text>Thing is everything <i>feels</i> frothy because people haven&#x27;t reset their mental model on what the dollar is actually worth. Over the past year or so the Fed took every pre-pandemic dollar in your pocket and made it worth about 70-80 cents. PPIA (Post-Pandemic Inflation Adjusted) the values on a lot of things are just fine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Trading cards are cool again</title><url>https://www.tradingcardsarecoolagain.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pram</author><text>Absolutely everything is frothy right now. I wouldn’t make any long term conclusions from the markets today, since this seems like an exceptional time. That is to say, I think the “bull case” for many things atm are heavily tainted by irrational exuberance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whatshisface</author><text>It&#x27;s never going to be easy to distinguish between irrational overall exuberance, and enormous focused pessimism about currencies.</text></comment> |
2,251,551 | 2,251,568 | 1 | 2 | 2,251,445 | train | <story><title>How HackerNews ruined my morning</title><url>http://swanson.github.com/blog/2011/02/22/how-hackernews-ruined-my-morning.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>Here's an idea: find <i>someone else</i> with a problem and work on that. This works especially well if the someone else is in business, very busy, and has some money. Chances are better that your solution to their problem won't have much competition: if it did, they would have already gone with it.<p>I know this is the opposite of "scratch your own itch", but I always found that advice overrated. I have always been much more successful scratching other people's itches.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>1000x this. The Internet doesn't mean every idea you have will be built by 10 other people first; it means that every idea you have that serves 20-something geeks will be built by 10 other people first. Build for other people. Added bonus: other people tend to actually spend money for solutions to their problems.</text></comment> | <story><title>How HackerNews ruined my morning</title><url>http://swanson.github.com/blog/2011/02/22/how-hackernews-ruined-my-morning.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>Here's an idea: find <i>someone else</i> with a problem and work on that. This works especially well if the someone else is in business, very busy, and has some money. Chances are better that your solution to their problem won't have much competition: if it did, they would have already gone with it.<p>I know this is the opposite of "scratch your own itch", but I always found that advice overrated. I have always been much more successful scratching other people's itches.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swanson</author><text>I think that approach would work better for a startup company, but for a side project, it doesn't seem that feasible.<p>It is good advice, but when I want something to hack on in the evening or on the weekends, setting up a business meeting isn't exactly crossing my mind.<p>I work on other peoples problems at the day job so it's nice to have a break :)</text></comment> |
11,857,169 | 11,856,967 | 1 | 2 | 11,856,491 | train | <story><title>An unofficial WWDC app for OS X</title><url>https://github.com/insidegui/WWDC</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Longhanks</author><text>So refreshing to see a nice desktop app built without Electron.<p>A well defined interface, designed specifically for the platform the author targeted. Major props to the author!</text></comment> | <story><title>An unofficial WWDC app for OS X</title><url>https://github.com/insidegui/WWDC</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>egwynn</author><text>I mis-parsed the headline as “WWDC for (OS X 4.0)” instead of “(WWDC for OS X) 4.0”. I was confused until I clicked.</text></comment> |
2,313,702 | 2,313,691 | 1 | 2 | 2,313,324 | train | <story><title>Unconfirmed reports that Yahoo has sold Delicious for $5 Million+</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/03/11/unconfirmed-reports-that-delicious-has-been-sold-for-5-million/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNextWeb+%28The+Next+Web+All+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Reader</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pclark</author><text>Google Search killed bookmarks, it's faster and easier to simply Google a vague string you remember from the page, rather than type a tag into a different service, or trawl through six hundred sites you have incoherently organised.</text></item><item><author>polynomial</author><text>&#62;Strange that no other company takes bookmarks seriously.<p>Cannot uparrow enough. Anyone care to shed some light on this?</text></item><item><author>movingahead</author><text>I have been sticking with Delicious in the hope that Yahoo will sell it off to a good team, who can revive Delicious. Strange that no other company takes bookmarks seriously. Google Bookmarks is a joke - it doesn't even sync with Chrome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>That was true five years ago maybe, but these days Google is pretty much a cesspool. It often takes me over an hour just to find something vaguely related to what I'm looking for, even if I remember three or four different strings from the page.<p>Especially for things like academic journal articles, if you don't bookmark it then it's pretty much gone forever.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unconfirmed reports that Yahoo has sold Delicious for $5 Million+</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/03/11/unconfirmed-reports-that-delicious-has-been-sold-for-5-million/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNextWeb+%28The+Next+Web+All+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Reader</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pclark</author><text>Google Search killed bookmarks, it's faster and easier to simply Google a vague string you remember from the page, rather than type a tag into a different service, or trawl through six hundred sites you have incoherently organised.</text></item><item><author>polynomial</author><text>&#62;Strange that no other company takes bookmarks seriously.<p>Cannot uparrow enough. Anyone care to shed some light on this?</text></item><item><author>movingahead</author><text>I have been sticking with Delicious in the hope that Yahoo will sell it off to a good team, who can revive Delicious. Strange that no other company takes bookmarks seriously. Google Bookmarks is a joke - it doesn't even sync with Chrome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruseom</author><text>True, but I use Delicious for grouping things that I don't remember, so it saves me not a one-off search but an entire search session on a topic. Also, the graph aspect of seeing who else bookmarked a page, then what else they've bookmarked and tagged, is still a killer feature (if it weren't so slow) after all these years. Given how rarely I'm the first to add any page, for me Delicious is basically a database of <i>everything interesting on the web</i>. That just has to be valuable. If only some deep thinkers and hard workers would do something with it.</text></comment> |
31,232,096 | 31,230,242 | 1 | 2 | 31,226,663 | train | <story><title>Jump Trading sues 79-year-old Carl Sagan fan over wormhole.com domain</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/jump-trading-sues-over-wormholecom-domain-crypto-blockchain-carl-sagan-2022-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NovemberWhiskey</author><text>A quote is not a necessary element to formation of a contract.<p>If you&#x27;re holding a yard sale, and I point at some knickknack and ask &quot;how much for that?&quot;, and you say &quot;it&#x27;s a dollar&quot; and I say &quot;that&#x27;s a deal&quot;, that&#x27;s a contract.</text></item><item><author>323</author><text>Seems that Jump is wrong here, no binding contract was made according to article facts. Acceptance from the seller part seems required:<p>&gt; Contract law says that a quote is not considered an offer and only acceptance of offers makes for a legally binding contract, according to Cornell Law School.<p>&gt; Here’s what needs to happen for a quote to turn into a contract:<p>&gt; - Supplier submits the quote to the client<p>&gt; - The client accepts the quote and issues an order<p>&gt; - The supplier accepts the order<p>&gt; For example, a wedding photographer emails a written quote to a client for $2500 for 10 hours of photography. The client emails back saying they accept the quote and want to proceed with the order. The wedding photographer emails the client again to thank them and confirm that they will do 10 hours of work on a certain date for $2500. A legally enforceable contract has now been established.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freshbooks.com&#x2F;hub&#x2F;estimates&#x2F;is-quote-contract" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freshbooks.com&#x2F;hub&#x2F;estimates&#x2F;is-quote-contract</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>Can you reverse that. A sale person ask a customer &quot;are you interested in buying that car with the sticker price of $10,000&quot;, the customer says &quot;yes&quot;, the sale person says &quot;We have a deal&quot;. Is this a contract, meaning that the customer can no longer walk out of the store?</text></comment> | <story><title>Jump Trading sues 79-year-old Carl Sagan fan over wormhole.com domain</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/jump-trading-sues-over-wormholecom-domain-crypto-blockchain-carl-sagan-2022-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NovemberWhiskey</author><text>A quote is not a necessary element to formation of a contract.<p>If you&#x27;re holding a yard sale, and I point at some knickknack and ask &quot;how much for that?&quot;, and you say &quot;it&#x27;s a dollar&quot; and I say &quot;that&#x27;s a deal&quot;, that&#x27;s a contract.</text></item><item><author>323</author><text>Seems that Jump is wrong here, no binding contract was made according to article facts. Acceptance from the seller part seems required:<p>&gt; Contract law says that a quote is not considered an offer and only acceptance of offers makes for a legally binding contract, according to Cornell Law School.<p>&gt; Here’s what needs to happen for a quote to turn into a contract:<p>&gt; - Supplier submits the quote to the client<p>&gt; - The client accepts the quote and issues an order<p>&gt; - The supplier accepts the order<p>&gt; For example, a wedding photographer emails a written quote to a client for $2500 for 10 hours of photography. The client emails back saying they accept the quote and want to proceed with the order. The wedding photographer emails the client again to thank them and confirm that they will do 10 hours of work on a certain date for $2500. A legally enforceable contract has now been established.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freshbooks.com&#x2F;hub&#x2F;estimates&#x2F;is-quote-contract" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freshbooks.com&#x2F;hub&#x2F;estimates&#x2F;is-quote-contract</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Supermancho</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s a contract you want to engage in. There are no terms for timing. A dollar today or in 10 years? It will be difficult to prove these details were known or that the offer took place at all, which is why you want things in writing - which is the case for wormhole.com. It&#x27;s also interesting to note that a verbal contract is not sufficient to form a contract at price points over a few hundred dollars.<p>Take from this what you will.</text></comment> |
28,305,192 | 28,305,112 | 1 | 3 | 28,300,833 | train | <story><title>My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs</title><url>https://pqvst.com/2021/08/24/my-macbook-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pier25</author><text>It&#x27;s absolutely ridiculous that Macs don&#x27;t come with a 3 year warranty by default.<p>I&#x27;ve bought maybe a dozen macs in the last 15 years (for myself and the family) and while some have lasted many years without issues, some have died on me on the second or third year.<p>Because the initial investment is so high you&#x27;re practically forced to add extra Apple Care to protect it because there&#x27;s a 20-30% chance you will have problems during those first years.<p>And don&#x27;t get me started on design issues and recalls which take years. When my 2011 MBP died because of Radeongate it took Apple 2 years to start a recall and replace the GPU. The honest thing to do would have been to take the machine and offer 60% of its value in credit towards a new Mac. Instead, Apple replaced the GPU on a machine that was already a couple of gens behind and I couldn&#x27;t sell without practically giving it away because (rightfully) nobody wanted the 15&#x27;&#x27; 2011 models. That MBP was probably the worst investment of my life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>It&#x27;s absolutely ridiculous that Macs don&#x27;t come with a 3 year warranty by default.</i><p>Government should mandate that, as in does in other countries.<p>But many american consumers don&#x27;t believe in government rules about consumer protection, lest some of this &quot;innovation&quot; we&#x27;ve witnessed is discouraged...</text></comment> | <story><title>My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs</title><url>https://pqvst.com/2021/08/24/my-macbook-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pier25</author><text>It&#x27;s absolutely ridiculous that Macs don&#x27;t come with a 3 year warranty by default.<p>I&#x27;ve bought maybe a dozen macs in the last 15 years (for myself and the family) and while some have lasted many years without issues, some have died on me on the second or third year.<p>Because the initial investment is so high you&#x27;re practically forced to add extra Apple Care to protect it because there&#x27;s a 20-30% chance you will have problems during those first years.<p>And don&#x27;t get me started on design issues and recalls which take years. When my 2011 MBP died because of Radeongate it took Apple 2 years to start a recall and replace the GPU. The honest thing to do would have been to take the machine and offer 60% of its value in credit towards a new Mac. Instead, Apple replaced the GPU on a machine that was already a couple of gens behind and I couldn&#x27;t sell without practically giving it away because (rightfully) nobody wanted the 15&#x27;&#x27; 2011 models. That MBP was probably the worst investment of my life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sombremesa</author><text>&gt; Because the initial investment is so high you&#x27;re practically forced to add extra Apple Care to protect it because there&#x27;s a 20-30% chance you will have problems during those first years.<p>Here&#x27;s the inverse argument: it&#x27;s absolutely ridiculous I have to pay 20-30% extra for my Macbook even though I don&#x27;t care about the mandatory 3-year warranty. They should let me opt out for a discount!<p>Well, they do.<p>&gt; you&#x27;re practically forced to add extra Apple Care<p>Are you really pro-freedom (see argument above), or just anti-Apple?</text></comment> |
27,475,801 | 27,472,385 | 1 | 2 | 27,470,136 | train | <story><title>Plan2Scene: Converting Floorplans to 3D Scenes</title><url>https://3dlg-hcvc.github.io/plan2scene/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>madhawav</author><text>I&#x27;m the first author of this, happy to answer any questions. It&#x27;s great to see this on HN.<p>PS. I&#x27;ll be graduating this July with my masters.</text></comment> | <story><title>Plan2Scene: Converting Floorplans to 3D Scenes</title><url>https://3dlg-hcvc.github.io/plan2scene/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrfusion</author><text>You know it would also be useful to work in reverse. I get frusterated when house listings don’t include a floor plan. How cool if a program could go through the photos and guess a floor plan. Obviously a hard problem.</text></comment> |
10,409,037 | 10,408,543 | 1 | 2 | 10,408,130 | train | <story><title>The Dynamic Def – abusing Ruby's def statement</title><url>http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2015/10/17/dynamic-def.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bascule</author><text>Defining instance-specific behavior of any kind is catastrophic to method caching. JRuby has a hierarchical method cache so it can clear only what&#x27;s needed, but MRI does not:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamesgolick.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;4&#x2F;14&#x2F;mris-method-caches.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamesgolick.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;4&#x2F;14&#x2F;mris-method-caches.html</a><p>The late, great James Golick had a patch to add one once, but it never got merged upstream.<p>If you care about performance even the tiniest bit at all whatsoever, please don&#x27;t use the techniques discussed in the OP in production code or in your gems. It may make your memos 30% faster on a microbenchmark... while causing the rest of your program to run considerably slower.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Dynamic Def – abusing Ruby's def statement</title><url>http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2015/10/17/dynamic-def.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wdewind</author><text>Cool article about the craziness of Ruby. Ruby is a frustrating language. The oauth gem, for instance, redefines &#x27;==(val)&#x27; on the AccessToken to &#x27;Base64.encode(self.signature) == Base64.encode(val).&#x27;<p>This stuff feels really dangerous and unnecessary. I spend a lot of time on code reviews pointing out bad features of Ruby (and Rails) that we shouldn&#x27;t be using because they break application flow and make it significantly harder to reason about the code for the small benefit of decreasing a few lines. But it&#x27;s certainly fun to talk about :)</text></comment> |
9,485,296 | 9,484,981 | 1 | 2 | 9,484,757 | train | <story><title>PHP: md5('240610708') == md5('QNKCDZO')</title><url>http://3v4l.org/tT4l8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dietrichepp</author><text>I&#x27;m not exactly clear on how PHP == works, but you can see the MD5 for yourself:<p><pre><code> $ echo -n 240610708 | md5sum
0e462097431906509019562988736854 -
$ echo -n QNKCDZO | md5sum
0e830400451993494058024219903391 -
$ echo -n aabg7XSs | md5sum
0e087386482136013740957780965295 -
</code></pre>
All of them start with 0e, which makes me think that they&#x27;re being parsed as floats and getting converted to 0.0. This is why &quot;magic&quot; operators like == in PHP and JavaScript never should have existed in the first place. Operators like == should be, by default, extremely boring. PHP&#x27;s just happens to be a bit more magical even than JavaScript&#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoubleMalt</author><text>Once I wrote a little PHP application to manage a clan in a browser game. I used an MD5 hash as session id that I checked with
if(session_id)<p>When users started reporting that their logins would sometimes not work at the first time, I found out that strings that start with zero are coerced to 0 and then interpreted as false.<p>Never used PHP for anything important since.</text></comment> | <story><title>PHP: md5('240610708') == md5('QNKCDZO')</title><url>http://3v4l.org/tT4l8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dietrichepp</author><text>I&#x27;m not exactly clear on how PHP == works, but you can see the MD5 for yourself:<p><pre><code> $ echo -n 240610708 | md5sum
0e462097431906509019562988736854 -
$ echo -n QNKCDZO | md5sum
0e830400451993494058024219903391 -
$ echo -n aabg7XSs | md5sum
0e087386482136013740957780965295 -
</code></pre>
All of them start with 0e, which makes me think that they&#x27;re being parsed as floats and getting converted to 0.0. This is why &quot;magic&quot; operators like == in PHP and JavaScript never should have existed in the first place. Operators like == should be, by default, extremely boring. PHP&#x27;s just happens to be a bit more magical even than JavaScript&#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lars</author><text>This, combined with the fact that you can increment strings gives some &#x27;interesting&#x27; results:<p><pre><code> $a = &quot;2d9&quot;;
$a++;
echo $a . &quot;\n&quot;;
$a++;
echo $a . &quot;\n&quot;;
</code></pre>
Output<p><pre><code> 2e0
3</code></pre></text></comment> |
17,086,490 | 17,086,156 | 1 | 2 | 17,085,538 | train | <story><title>The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/moviepass-economy-startups.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>&gt; The king of money-losers, of course, is Amazon, which went years without turning a profit. Instead, it plowed billions of dollars back into its business<p>The key difference with Amazon is that Amazon could choose to be profitable at any time- just raise prices ever so slightly, reducing growth in customer demand, and the stop building out its enormous logistics empire and new businesses. Amazon could have had profits for a very long time, but Bezos understands that re-investing money in the company grows the value quickly. Plus, you only pay taxes on profits.<p>MoviePass can&#x27;t really do that. They don&#x27;t have potential profits that they can just stop re-investing. They aren&#x27;t spending money on investments- they just don&#x27;t have income high enough to cover the costs of their product. And lots of other start-ups have the same problem right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djrogers</author><text>No, I think the key difference with Amazon is that they aren&#x27;t losing money on each individual transaction - ie selling everything at a loss. Amazon&#x27;s non-profits were due to aggressive reinvestment, not pricing.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/moviepass-economy-startups.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>&gt; The king of money-losers, of course, is Amazon, which went years without turning a profit. Instead, it plowed billions of dollars back into its business<p>The key difference with Amazon is that Amazon could choose to be profitable at any time- just raise prices ever so slightly, reducing growth in customer demand, and the stop building out its enormous logistics empire and new businesses. Amazon could have had profits for a very long time, but Bezos understands that re-investing money in the company grows the value quickly. Plus, you only pay taxes on profits.<p>MoviePass can&#x27;t really do that. They don&#x27;t have potential profits that they can just stop re-investing. They aren&#x27;t spending money on investments- they just don&#x27;t have income high enough to cover the costs of their product. And lots of other start-ups have the same problem right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tribune</author><text>Plus Amazon is Amazon. They&#x27;ve essentially been saying to investors for years &quot;sure, we could make more money for YOU, or give YOU dividends, but WE can do better with your money than YOU could.&quot; It&#x27;s worked, of course, enabling them to grow into the gargantuan enterprise they are today. A smaller company without that proven track record wouldn&#x27;t get such a license from investors for long.</text></comment> |
34,996,244 | 34,995,673 | 1 | 2 | 34,993,823 | train | <story><title>EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/europe-dma-apple-imessage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>willyt</author><text>If everyone&#x27;s messaging has to be compatible with everyone else&#x27;s then maybe we will finally only need one messaging app on our phones again instead of 5. Sounds great. I just want to be able to send messages without thinking about which app I need to go into to communicate with a particular person; that really breaks my flow when I&#x27;m trying to get something done. I don&#x27;t give a shit about any features apart from pictures, groups and emojis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdfghswe</author><text>You don&#x27;t care about any features, apart from the features you care about. Just like everyone else.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)</title><url>https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/europe-dma-apple-imessage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>willyt</author><text>If everyone&#x27;s messaging has to be compatible with everyone else&#x27;s then maybe we will finally only need one messaging app on our phones again instead of 5. Sounds great. I just want to be able to send messages without thinking about which app I need to go into to communicate with a particular person; that really breaks my flow when I&#x27;m trying to get something done. I don&#x27;t give a shit about any features apart from pictures, groups and emojis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guestbest</author><text>I thought email already did all of this</text></comment> |
10,968,659 | 10,968,774 | 1 | 3 | 10,968,416 | train | <story><title>A small 2009 car demolishes a 1959 Chevy in a crash test [video]</title><url>http://kottke.org/16/01/a-small-2009-car-demolishes-a-1959-chevy-in-a-crash-test</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Amorymeltzer</author><text>My wife and I recently finished an introductory auto mechanics class — which was an incredibly fun time and an excellent experience — and one of the recurring themes of the class was just how miserable, unreliable, and dangerous cars were ~50 years ago. This video is a good example of that; it&#x27;s not just mileage or seat belts or airbags, it&#x27;s everything from tires to engines to brakes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>Wish I could find an adult intro to auto mechanics class around here. That would be massively useful for everyone to learn but it seems like all anyone who already knows basic auto repair says is &quot;YOU DON&#x27;T KNOW HOW TO DO THAT?!&quot; with a sarcastic condescending tone, and I guess that attitude filters down to lack of education since it is <i>obvious</i> or whatever.<p>But on the positive note there is a 101 to gun safety class every two city blocks so I have that going for me...</text></comment> | <story><title>A small 2009 car demolishes a 1959 Chevy in a crash test [video]</title><url>http://kottke.org/16/01/a-small-2009-car-demolishes-a-1959-chevy-in-a-crash-test</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Amorymeltzer</author><text>My wife and I recently finished an introductory auto mechanics class — which was an incredibly fun time and an excellent experience — and one of the recurring themes of the class was just how miserable, unreliable, and dangerous cars were ~50 years ago. This video is a good example of that; it&#x27;s not just mileage or seat belts or airbags, it&#x27;s everything from tires to engines to brakes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chiph</author><text>Growing up, we had a late 60&#x27;s Dodge station wagon. It was pretty much the definition of &quot;unsafe&quot; - the interior was made of hard metal surfaces, loose steering &amp; suspension, and no crash engineering at all. But it was the first family car that came with disc brakes, and that&#x27;s why Dad bought it.<p>Later, they bought a mid 80&#x27;s Pontiac 6000, and while it had disc brakes, GM hadn&#x27;t increased the size of the brake rotors to accommodate the change from asbestos brake pad material, so it had huge brake fade and panic stops really did result in driver panic. Not a fun car to drive.</text></comment> |
20,721,192 | 20,721,076 | 1 | 2 | 20,720,513 | train | <story><title>U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-13/u-s-farmers-stung-by-tariffs-now-face-a-3-5-billion-corn-loss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thereisnospork</author><text>The problem is that these natural market corrections, when they occur with farming, have historically resulted in famine.<p>Natural, self-correcting famine maybe, but all the same allowing it to occur is understandably undesirable.</text></item><item><author>tryptophan</author><text>&gt;What farmers need are a way to restore profits in a sustainable fashion. Simply growing more corn&#x2F;soybeans&#x2F;rice&#x2F;wheat isn&#x27;t going to cut it anymore.<p>The way this is done in other industries, except for farming, is that half of the producers go bankrupt, production is reduced, and the survivors are able to be self-sustaining and profitable. We really do not need this much soy&#x2F;corn. The market is screaming &quot;stop making it&quot; and perhaps it is time we listen.</text></item><item><author>acconrad</author><text>I work in agtech and I&#x27;m not surprised by this at all.<p>The major corn and soy producers have faced downward pressure for the last 4 years. It now costs more to plant the crop than to pick and sell it.<p>And yet, the government pushes and incentivizes farmers to just grow more.<p>Read <i>This Blessed Earth</i> or <i>Omnivore&#x27;s Dilemma</i> if you want a primer on how messed up this system has become.<p>What farmers need are a way to restore profits in a sustainable fashion. Simply growing more corn&#x2F;soybeans&#x2F;rice&#x2F;wheat isn&#x27;t going to cut it anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikepurvis</author><text>One way of alleviating the boom&#x2F;bust effect is some form of supply management, such as what exists for diary products in Canada: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Supply_management_(Canada)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Supply_management_(Canada)</a><p>It&#x27;s effectively a subsidy, but the subsidy is provided by the actual consumers of the goods (via government price fixing) rather than out of the general revenue pot. Individual farmers get grouchy that they&#x27;re no allowed to have more cattle than their quota, but the reality is that those limitations protect a commons— if there were no restrictions and every farmer took on a few more cattle, there&#x27;d be oversupply, the price would crash, and they&#x27;d all be headed to Ottawa for a bailout. Yay free markets.<p>Note that this whole system is an interesting bit of political football in Canada, because the party that you&#x27;d expect to oppose it ideologically (the Conservatives) in fact do not, because their support base includes the rural farmers who benefit from it. The farmers are also well organized and well funded in terms of their lobbying operation. There was a recent mini-scandal about their presence at the Conservative party&#x27;s national convention, see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nationalpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;full-text-the-dairy-lobby-briefing-binder-found-on-the-floor-of-the-conservative-convention" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nationalpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;canada&#x2F;full-text-the-dairy-lob...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-13/u-s-farmers-stung-by-tariffs-now-face-a-3-5-billion-corn-loss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thereisnospork</author><text>The problem is that these natural market corrections, when they occur with farming, have historically resulted in famine.<p>Natural, self-correcting famine maybe, but all the same allowing it to occur is understandably undesirable.</text></item><item><author>tryptophan</author><text>&gt;What farmers need are a way to restore profits in a sustainable fashion. Simply growing more corn&#x2F;soybeans&#x2F;rice&#x2F;wheat isn&#x27;t going to cut it anymore.<p>The way this is done in other industries, except for farming, is that half of the producers go bankrupt, production is reduced, and the survivors are able to be self-sustaining and profitable. We really do not need this much soy&#x2F;corn. The market is screaming &quot;stop making it&quot; and perhaps it is time we listen.</text></item><item><author>acconrad</author><text>I work in agtech and I&#x27;m not surprised by this at all.<p>The major corn and soy producers have faced downward pressure for the last 4 years. It now costs more to plant the crop than to pick and sell it.<p>And yet, the government pushes and incentivizes farmers to just grow more.<p>Read <i>This Blessed Earth</i> or <i>Omnivore&#x27;s Dilemma</i> if you want a primer on how messed up this system has become.<p>What farmers need are a way to restore profits in a sustainable fashion. Simply growing more corn&#x2F;soybeans&#x2F;rice&#x2F;wheat isn&#x27;t going to cut it anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asdfasgasdgasdg</author><text>The decline of famine in the developed world long predates the massive farm subsidies that exist in the United States. The last time there was a major famine in England, for example, was in the 1650s. There has never been a major famine in the USA, yet the subsidies we now think of as the Farm Bill only really started in the 1920s.</text></comment> |
4,304,352 | 4,304,394 | 1 | 2 | 4,304,018 | train | <story><title>NBCOlympics’ Opening Ceremony Tape Delay: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/27/nbc-olympic-opening-ceremony/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>My problem isn't just the delay, it's the fact that they were pretending the rest of the world does not exist.<p>The NBC "newscasters" were <i>lying</i> on air, saying things like "the big question now is who will be lighting the olympic torch," "the opening ceremony <i>will begin</i> in 2 hours" (when it was already over!), "in three hours time, the debate will be on as to whether the London or Beijing ceremony was nicer, we have the world has no idea what surprises are in store," and so on and so forth. They're deliberately misleading their viewers, and it's disgusting.</text></comment> | <story><title>NBCOlympics’ Opening Ceremony Tape Delay: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/27/nbc-olympic-opening-ceremony/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>It is stupider than that.<p>Anyone who wants can get access to their streaming web. Just give them who your cable provider is, and your user name and password to that account so that they can verify that it is you.<p>OK. What about people like me? I wouldn't mind seeing some of the Olympics. I would like to show it to my son. But I never watch TV, and I do not have a subscription to any TV cable service. Can't I, I don't know, PAY THEM to get access to this 2 week event? Or maybe they can MAKE ME SIT THROUGH ADS to get it?<p>Apparently not. There is no such option. I'll just have to track down a friend who trusts me and has a cable account to login on my computer so that I can watch. Or else find an illegal stream. Or else just not watch.</text></comment> |
12,488,676 | 12,488,482 | 1 | 3 | 12,487,112 | train | <story><title>GitLab Master Plan</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2016/09/13/gitlab-master-plan/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulRobinson</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to me how much effort is being spent on adding tools like issue tracking, build pipelines, deploy management, etc. vs just providing good hooks for standalone tools that do all those things.<p>We have discussions about Jenkins vs Concourse, where to keep ansible vault passwords, should documentation live in Github wiki or in Confluence (apparently &quot;tech&quot; documentation in the form, &quot;business&quot; documentation in the latter - what if it&#x27;s both? Who decides?), and so on.<p>There is something nice about being able to go to a single place and saying &quot;OK, it&#x27;s all here in this box&quot;. Github has made inroads with some of this stuff, but not quite enough. Gitlab could try and do all this, but then people will moan (&quot;I prefer JIRA&#x2F;Trello&#x2F;whatever&quot;).<p>Most of the pain around developer&#x2F;business workflow around us at the moment actually comes down to the fact that nobody has _really_ thought about providing a great unified UX for all of this.<p>Part of the concern is people want to be &quot;flexible&quot;. No, dictate, just make sure what you dictate is a better solution to what people have.<p>If GitLab get it right, github could be a minor player (unless they keep up) in a few years time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sytse</author><text>I used to think that a collection of standalone tools was better and that we should focus on code hosting and review. When Dmitriy started with GitLab CI I was dismissive but of course as the author he could do as he pleased. It turned out that having a CI tool that closely works together with the main product was a better experience, especially behind the firewall&#x2F;single-tenant&#x2F;on-premises.<p>Then Dmitriy and Kamil (our CI lead) proposed integrating the CI coordinated into GitLab the main program instead of a standalone Ruby on Rails app. Again I was sceptical. But this has been a great success.<p>We have all the API&#x27;s (webhooks, commit status API, etc.) to integrate well with Jenkins (and we&#x27;ll make sure that we&#x27;ll always play well with that, JIRA, Slack, and others). But having everything in one interface and one datastore makes for a much better user experience.<p>We&#x27;ve since doubled-down on this strategy. Bringing the entire software development lifecycle under one roof <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;direction&#x2F;#scope" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;direction&#x2F;#scope</a> During the webinar we&#x27;ll show a demo video of how these components will soon work together. We think it is an amazing experience and everyone on our team is focussed to get it right.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitLab Master Plan</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2016/09/13/gitlab-master-plan/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulRobinson</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to me how much effort is being spent on adding tools like issue tracking, build pipelines, deploy management, etc. vs just providing good hooks for standalone tools that do all those things.<p>We have discussions about Jenkins vs Concourse, where to keep ansible vault passwords, should documentation live in Github wiki or in Confluence (apparently &quot;tech&quot; documentation in the form, &quot;business&quot; documentation in the latter - what if it&#x27;s both? Who decides?), and so on.<p>There is something nice about being able to go to a single place and saying &quot;OK, it&#x27;s all here in this box&quot;. Github has made inroads with some of this stuff, but not quite enough. Gitlab could try and do all this, but then people will moan (&quot;I prefer JIRA&#x2F;Trello&#x2F;whatever&quot;).<p>Most of the pain around developer&#x2F;business workflow around us at the moment actually comes down to the fact that nobody has _really_ thought about providing a great unified UX for all of this.<p>Part of the concern is people want to be &quot;flexible&quot;. No, dictate, just make sure what you dictate is a better solution to what people have.<p>If GitLab get it right, github could be a minor player (unless they keep up) in a few years time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solatic</author><text>The market will show that all-in-one box solutions are the best solutions for new companies.<p>When you&#x27;re a new startup and you&#x27;re trying to race to an MVP and being default-alive, what do you really want to do? Do you really want to spend time getting all of your ALM and build pipeline and production environments up and running? Or do you want to start iterating on business features as quickly as possible?<p>The truth is that providing 80% of the features is going to be good enough for 80% of new companies. When companies figure out that they need one of the 20% of the features that are missing, they can then migrate to get the feature that they positively identified a need for. Putting in much more effort in the beginning for ALM&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;environment features you may not even need is a form of premature optimization.</text></comment> |
13,981,155 | 13,981,068 | 1 | 3 | 13,980,600 | train | <story><title>I’m Not “Black Enough” for Inc. Magazine</title><url>https://facesoffounders.org/im-not-black-enough-for-inc-magazine-337569d54a6b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway_45</author><text>67% of black kids have a single parent so if you randomly picked a black person they would likely have been raised by a single parent home. He states that he came from a dual parent household from the suburbs. So he isn&#x27;t an average black person just from statistical point of view. He got really lucky. I think if you give black kids two parents some money and a good school they would probably do as well as everyone else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dcole2929</author><text>Serious question. What is the average black person? You can&#x27;t just pick a single statistic and use that to define what average is. You certainly can&#x27;t pick something as benign as coming from a dual family home. The average AA male is 5&#x27;10. Is he not an average black person if he is shorter or taller?<p>I think overall you missed his entire point, which is basically that it is at best disingenuous to categorize every black person in America as having lived a life of struggle and hardship and at worst racist. His being an entrepreneur is certainly exceptional but his upbringing really isn&#x27;t. Yet the publication in question basically made the decision that his &quot;blackness&quot; wasn&#x27;t good material because it didn&#x27;t contain that element of struggle. That&#x27;s fine from a narrative perspective I guess but I think he is certainly within his rights to be offended by it.</text></comment> | <story><title>I’m Not “Black Enough” for Inc. Magazine</title><url>https://facesoffounders.org/im-not-black-enough-for-inc-magazine-337569d54a6b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway_45</author><text>67% of black kids have a single parent so if you randomly picked a black person they would likely have been raised by a single parent home. He states that he came from a dual parent household from the suburbs. So he isn&#x27;t an average black person just from statistical point of view. He got really lucky. I think if you give black kids two parents some money and a good school they would probably do as well as everyone else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>merpnderp</author><text>They&#x27;re no thinking about it. Black kids with two parents who finished high school do statistically slighter better than similar white parents. There&#x27;s a lot to being said to finishing high school, hopefully going to college, and definitely getting married, to ensure your kids do as well or better than yourself.</text></comment> |
28,778,792 | 28,774,669 | 1 | 3 | 28,769,098 | train | <story><title>Choosing the Right Wall Anchors</title><url>https://www.finewoodworking.com/2021/07/19/choosing-the-right-wall-anchors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>Not all plugs are created equal.<p>I&#x27;ve found loads are total garbage. The only brand I have found that reliably works into brick and plaster are Fischer plugs. If I buy something that already comes with plugs, they go <i>straight into the bin</i> and I use my own screws and matching plugs.<p>Fischer has a lot of technical information freely and publicly available on their website for their screws too (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fiproductmedia.azureedge.net&#x2F;media&#x2F;Certification%20Documents&#x2F;DOP%20Documents&#x2F;fischer&#x2F;ZD_DOP_POWER-FAST-II-1_F_SEN_AIP_V1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fiproductmedia.azureedge.net&#x2F;media&#x2F;Certification%20D...</a>). This is pleasing when you are mounting something that needs to take a lot of weight (shelves, large mirrors etc) and you want piece of mind.<p>Highly recommended - I&#x27;ve basically chucked everything else out and now have 3 different sized Fischer plugs and a variety of matching screws (pan head, counter sunk etc) to meet all my needs.<p>I am not a pro - just a DIYer who has had multiple failures in the past from cheap-ass plugs and screws who initially blamed themselves. Turns out you CAN blame the tools (well - fixings in this case) since quality fixings solved my problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>car</author><text>A bit of an aside, but Fischer also makes wonderful toys under the fischertechnik brand.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fischertechnik.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fischertechnik.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Choosing the Right Wall Anchors</title><url>https://www.finewoodworking.com/2021/07/19/choosing-the-right-wall-anchors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>Not all plugs are created equal.<p>I&#x27;ve found loads are total garbage. The only brand I have found that reliably works into brick and plaster are Fischer plugs. If I buy something that already comes with plugs, they go <i>straight into the bin</i> and I use my own screws and matching plugs.<p>Fischer has a lot of technical information freely and publicly available on their website for their screws too (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fiproductmedia.azureedge.net&#x2F;media&#x2F;Certification%20Documents&#x2F;DOP%20Documents&#x2F;fischer&#x2F;ZD_DOP_POWER-FAST-II-1_F_SEN_AIP_V1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fiproductmedia.azureedge.net&#x2F;media&#x2F;Certification%20D...</a>). This is pleasing when you are mounting something that needs to take a lot of weight (shelves, large mirrors etc) and you want piece of mind.<p>Highly recommended - I&#x27;ve basically chucked everything else out and now have 3 different sized Fischer plugs and a variety of matching screws (pan head, counter sunk etc) to meet all my needs.<p>I am not a pro - just a DIYer who has had multiple failures in the past from cheap-ass plugs and screws who initially blamed themselves. Turns out you CAN blame the tools (well - fixings in this case) since quality fixings solved my problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>parhamn</author><text>Are you in the US? There is usually a stud every 16 inches or so here, which obviates the need for too many anchors. Excluding small picture frames, I can&#x27;t think of a use case where I&#x27;d rely on an anchor (you usually bridge studs for anything smaller but heavy).</text></comment> |
32,650,136 | 32,650,007 | 1 | 2 | 32,648,131 | train | <story><title>AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3</title><url>https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-mv3.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ameshkov</author><text>All true, and we (content blockers devs) were saying this all for years, since MV3 was first announced. MV3 brings very little (if any) privacy and security enhancements, this is for the future MV4 when extensions will be dumbed down to sets of declarative rules.<p>We&#x27;ll now need to rely on Chrome team for implementing what we need. But they do it painfully slow or not do at all.<p>Also, where will we get the new ideas if every browser follows that path? Take Safari for example, every little improvement that we requested [1] was inspired by what we already did in other browsers long ago.<p>Anyways, a working content blocker on MV3 is possible. I even think a casual user won&#x27;t feel much difference. But there is a big difference under the hood and to feel the consequences we have to wait a few years.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.webkit.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.webkit.org&#x2F;</a> (search for those reported by @adguard.com). Just a very small part of what we requested was implemented, content blocking is not a priority I guess, and it won&#x27;t be a priority for Chrome.</text></item><item><author>gorhill</author><text>One of the stated goal of MV3 by Google[1] was to avoid extensions with broad permissions:<p>&gt; our new declarativeNetRequest API is designed to be a privacy-preserving method for extensions to block network requests without needing access to sensitive data<p>This MV3-based AdGuard extension still requires a broad permission to &quot;read or modify host data&quot; on all sites[2]:<p><pre><code> &quot;host_permissions&quot;: [
&quot;&lt;all_urls&gt;&quot;
],
</code></pre>
So what you have now is the same required permission to &quot;read or modify host data&quot; as with MV2, but with a network filtering engine capabilities gated by Google (an advertising company).<p>We can&#x27;t innovate anymore the filtering capabilities of our content blocker engines as we have been constantly doing over the years.<p>For a recent example, there has been discussions lately with filter list maintainers of whether uBO should support AdGuard&#x27;s proposed capability of being able to support pattern-matching for `domain=` filtering option[3] (uBO supports AdGuard lists).<p>That sort of proposition is not possible to entertain with MV3 since only Google get to decide how the filtering engine will evolve, if at all. All content blocking issues will have to be resolved with the Google-controlled filtering engine, and left unaddressed if the solution can&#x27;t be shoehorned in the declarativeNetRequest API.<p>* * *<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;manifest-v3-now-available-on-m88-beta.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;manifest-v3-now-available-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Mozilla&#x2F;Add-ons&#x2F;WebExtensions&#x2F;manifest.json&#x2F;host_permissions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Mozilla&#x2F;Add-ons&#x2F;Web...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AdguardTeam&#x2F;CoreLibs&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1550" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AdguardTeam&#x2F;CoreLibs&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1550</a><p>* * *<p>Edit: removed stray `[` character.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cycomanic</author><text>How about simply not supporting chrome. I believe some responsibility for this lies with us developers. It was developers who made extensions for chrome. We as technologists recommended chrome to our friends and families. Without us chrome would likely not be in the position it is today and google could not dictate the terms like they do. Maybe it is time that extension authors abandon ship, and we recommend alternative browsers?<p>To those who argue that chrome is faster and therefore you prefer using it. You should ask yourself, what is more important to you, to see a website a few ms faster or preventing Google to to dictate how the Internet of the future works (apart from the fact that in my experience browser&#x27;s are so close in performance, that I don&#x27;t think anyone can consistently pick which browser their on).</text></comment> | <story><title>AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3</title><url>https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-mv3.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ameshkov</author><text>All true, and we (content blockers devs) were saying this all for years, since MV3 was first announced. MV3 brings very little (if any) privacy and security enhancements, this is for the future MV4 when extensions will be dumbed down to sets of declarative rules.<p>We&#x27;ll now need to rely on Chrome team for implementing what we need. But they do it painfully slow or not do at all.<p>Also, where will we get the new ideas if every browser follows that path? Take Safari for example, every little improvement that we requested [1] was inspired by what we already did in other browsers long ago.<p>Anyways, a working content blocker on MV3 is possible. I even think a casual user won&#x27;t feel much difference. But there is a big difference under the hood and to feel the consequences we have to wait a few years.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.webkit.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.webkit.org&#x2F;</a> (search for those reported by @adguard.com). Just a very small part of what we requested was implemented, content blocking is not a priority I guess, and it won&#x27;t be a priority for Chrome.</text></item><item><author>gorhill</author><text>One of the stated goal of MV3 by Google[1] was to avoid extensions with broad permissions:<p>&gt; our new declarativeNetRequest API is designed to be a privacy-preserving method for extensions to block network requests without needing access to sensitive data<p>This MV3-based AdGuard extension still requires a broad permission to &quot;read or modify host data&quot; on all sites[2]:<p><pre><code> &quot;host_permissions&quot;: [
&quot;&lt;all_urls&gt;&quot;
],
</code></pre>
So what you have now is the same required permission to &quot;read or modify host data&quot; as with MV2, but with a network filtering engine capabilities gated by Google (an advertising company).<p>We can&#x27;t innovate anymore the filtering capabilities of our content blocker engines as we have been constantly doing over the years.<p>For a recent example, there has been discussions lately with filter list maintainers of whether uBO should support AdGuard&#x27;s proposed capability of being able to support pattern-matching for `domain=` filtering option[3] (uBO supports AdGuard lists).<p>That sort of proposition is not possible to entertain with MV3 since only Google get to decide how the filtering engine will evolve, if at all. All content blocking issues will have to be resolved with the Google-controlled filtering engine, and left unaddressed if the solution can&#x27;t be shoehorned in the declarativeNetRequest API.<p>* * *<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;manifest-v3-now-available-on-m88-beta.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;manifest-v3-now-available-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Mozilla&#x2F;Add-ons&#x2F;WebExtensions&#x2F;manifest.json&#x2F;host_permissions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Mozilla&#x2F;Add-ons&#x2F;Web...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AdguardTeam&#x2F;CoreLibs&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1550" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AdguardTeam&#x2F;CoreLibs&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1550</a><p>* * *<p>Edit: removed stray `[` character.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avhception</author><text>I just wanted to say that you (content blocker devs) have been heard, maybe not by the majority of browser users but at least people like me are championing Firefox over webkit-based browsers precisely because to do otherwise would be to loose control of the web to FAANG, especially Google.
I&#x27;ve been telling everyone who would listen about how Google leverages Chrom(e&#x2F;ium) against user interests and have deployed Firefox to every friend &amp; family user whose machines I support.</text></comment> |
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